skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry for the late reply.

Regarding whether human evaluations are a good target to optimise for, no, I
certainly don't think so. That's not very different than calculating BLEU
scores, except that instead of comparing a machine generated translation with
one reference text, it's compared with peoples' subjective criteria, which
actually serves to muddle the waters even more -because who knows why
different people thought the same translation was good or bad? Are they all
using the same criteria? Doubtful! But if they're not, then what have we
learned? That a bunch of humans agreed that some translation was good, or bad,
each for their own reasons. So what? It doesn't make any difference when the
human evaluators are blinded, you can make the same experiment with human
translations only and you'll still have not learned anything about the quality
of the translation- just the subjective opinions of a particular group of
humans about it.

See, the problem is not just with machine translation. Evaluating human
translaion results is also very hard to do because translation itself is a
very poorly characterised task. The question "what is a good translation is
very difficult to answer. We don't have, say, a science of translation to tell
us how a text should be translated between two languages. So in machine
translation people try to approximate not only the task of translation, but
also its evaluation- without understanding either. That's a very bad spot to
be in.

In fact, a "science of translation" would be a useful goal for AI research,
but it's the kind of thing that I complain is not done anymore, having been
replaced with beating meaningless benchmarks.

Regarding the fact that neural machine translation "generates value", you mean
that it's useful because it's deployed in production and people use it? Well,
"even a broken clock is right twice a day" so that's really not a good
criterion of quality at all. In fact, as a criterion for an AI approach it's
very disappointing. Look at the promise of AI: "machines that think like
humans!". Look at the reality: "We're generating value!". OK. Or we could make
an app that adds bunny ears and cat noses to peoples' selfies (another
application of AI). People buy the app- so it's "generating value". Or we can
generate value by selling canned sardines. Or selling footballs. Or selling
foot massages. Or in a myriad other ways. So why do we need AI? It's just
another useless trinket that is sold and bought while remaining completely
useless. And that for me is a big shame.
As mentioned below one must look at deaths per million to get any meaningful insight from the data per country. I probably should have left Sweden out to prevent you from jumping on that specific case. Anyway, the measures about quarantine you point out or only just in effect and have no bearing on the spread and then decline, without masks as seen from February/March. Looking at how masks are being used (reused, touched) one could argue they do more harm than good. As was the original story from experts.
In Finland there is a media tax that is taken out of everyone's salary. I don't think it's optional. I've never paid close enough attention to care. I think it subsidises our state broadcaster YLE and perhaps some other things. Maybe a Finn can chip in and explain...

> The public broadcasting tax, also known as the Yle tax, replaced the license fee in 2013. The tax ranges from 50 euros to 140 euros per person and per year, depending on income. Minors and persons with low income are exempt from the tax.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yle#:~:text=Yle%20tax,-Main%20....
It seems on HN, that a lot of people are in favor of municipal owned last mile fiber as opposed to ISPs. However, this case makes me wonder if that becomes the case, would we eventually see more shenanigans like this with cities and towns trying to charge internet services for access to their citizens. Without competition, I could see them becoming even worse than AT&T and Comcast.
I was thinking of a terraformed Mars
Doesn't the parliament set spending? And if you're worried about the parliament not funding it, then why wouldn't you be worried about parliament just changing the law that set up the public broadcaster in the first place?
Real names don't matter to social networks. You are you because your behavior is your behavior no matter what the attached label is, and no one bothers to change that for a “fake” account. However, real names are great at keeping the naive crowds deluded about social networks being tools for “personal” communications with “real” “friends”.

> me reporting their names for being fake

So how does it feel to be in a punitive squad? Do they at least pay you well for all the atrocities?
Based on press, there are already some systems being deployed (Argonne National Labs, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center).
English landowners have stolen our rights. It is time to reclaim them
Very interesting. I did notice that with my input of "Hello, this is some hand written text!", the output of the word "text" consistently looked more like "tent" than text, regardless the style or legibility settings.
I wish it was.

https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/doomsday-luxury-bunker...

https://www.latimes.com/business/real-estate/story/2020-03-2...

By the way, by Mars I meant a terraformed Mars
This is why a I think it is a bad article. He first proposes some far-outlier theories, which need extraordinary proof as he acknowledges himself. He does not give it in the article which propels his theory in the realm of fantasy. His article would be way more honest if he would describe it as pure speculation, instead of shoehorning all kinds of finds or theories into his flight of fancy.

I mean it is a fantastical idea, and if we ever find a laptop from 10000bc I would be stunned, or if we find marsian burial chambers, but the probability just isn’t very high on what we observed sofar.

That isn’t to say a lot is lost to history, which skews our interpretation, especially prehistorical, but that would warrant a different kind of article.
Is the Quest really better than the Vive pro? or the Valve index?
> If bar associations tried to set minimum hourly rates, that would be price fixing too.

In Germany, this is the actual way how lawyers operate - anything that ends up at a civil or criminal court is billed according to the fixed set of the Rechtsanwaltsvergütungsgesetz (RVG), which means there is a base rate and a multiplier based on the monetary value of what is being argued over.

Only stuff that fully happens outside of the court system is excepted and lawyers are free to make their own negotiations.

This ensures a somewhat level playing field in front of courts.
> You have to explicitly refuse any cable service from your ISP in order not to pay it

Legally, you have to pay if you have a television in you home and you are subject to paying the residence tax (which will soon be applicable to less than 20% of homes anyway).

> And it's significant

No, it's not. It's like less than 0.5% of the tax you are paying (considering income tax, social tax, residence/homeowning tax, VAT...). They just keep it because they can rile up /distract people when they increase the TV tax by 5 euros.

And it is a way for the government to pressure public TV/radio into some obedience (since the government can basically cut a large part of their funding of these TV/radio by removing this tax).
I am doing the same thing, additionally I have a cron job running which auto-commits every 5 minutes.

For mobile viewing I use the app GitJournal.

https://gitjournal.io/
How is it eroded at all if you don't install or use those apps? What changes?
From what I understand, after reading through Musk's biography, he is not a typical 'research' oriented person. A typical researcher is focused on refining a body of work that is already at the precipice of cutting edge. This research first mindset is about pushing the boundaries of research and the most efficient way to do that is by publishing papers etc.

Musk, on the other hand is a problem first person and uses research to solve those problems. It's very different from a researchers mindset. For ex, Tesla's self driving car unit is full of researchers but they are not doing the traditional research, i.e pushing the boundaries of machine learning/computer vision. They are not there to win a research competition - ones that gave rise to Resnet etc. They are very focused on using deep learning to solve the problems of self driving.

The end goal for Musk is a product and research is a means of getting there, the end goal for a researcher is .. well research.
So nice to see companies offload their dirty work onto government. Crony capitalism at its finest.
Reachable vulnerabilities: how to effectively prioritize open source security
You could outline it in red with a note.
> And at some point advertisers are going to wake up and realize the premium that broadcast and cable operators are charging per 1000 viewers is not really worth that much more than what YouTube pays Jake Paul.

Tangential: I was watching free to air last night with my 7 year old (we both never watch TV) and she innocently asked “does everyone watching this show see the same ad”. I said yes and the look on her face said it all. Even at 7 she knew that non-targeted ads are stupid
A knowledgebase is for storing thousands of notes and quickly retrieve them when needed. Searching dozens of notebooks for the relevant info is not scalable.
What about org-mode?
I have long suspected this- thank you ...
TL;DR: Reverse SSH using an helper along the way?
Can't edit, but here's an explanation https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/type-safe-builders.htm...
Not an Android developer, but they list Image Capture and Image Capture secure. Wouldn't it make sense for something like Image Capture Secure to be used by those sorts of apps, and for that to use the optionless device default camera rather than breaking all apps?
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This comment just makes me want to do it more.
Of course we don't need full optimality for most problems, that's why RRTs and PRMs have proven useful on practical problems despite (RRTs especially) providing obviously suboptimal solutions. The problem is that really suboptimal solutions are bad (take too long, require too much energy, look scary to humans, etc) and we'd often like "OK-quality" solutions that require some sort of smoothing or optimization on top of an otherwise suboptimal solution.

There is a class of problems where optimality is super-important, where feasibility isn't a binary yes/no and you must minimize some objective. For example, in surgical robotics, you'd like to plan a path that minimizes deformation of tissue, and that requires some sort of optimality.

The perfect solution, of course, is something like A* that is complete and optimal, but that remains out of reach for higher-DoF problems.
Now halfway through ...Kulchur and not sure I'll do more than skim the rest. While ABC had structure, Kulchur is reminiscent of a series of blog posts put into print.

The proximal cause of his support for Fascism is obvious, on p.249:

> "Mussolini has told his people that poetry
is a necessity to the state, and
Carlo Delcroix is convinced that
poets ought to "occupy themselves
with these matters",
namely credit, the nature of money,
monetary issue etc."

and p.250:

> "Civilization becomes admirable
when people begin to prefer a little
of the best to a great deal of the
pasty."

In between he's been a goldbug, railed against "international finance" (which, given his glowing reviews of Charles Coughlin, admiration of the medieval Church, and pining for the use of latin, not in the mass, but in academic publishing, all suggest he's never very far away from antisemitic dog whistles with his rants on usury), is convinced that radio has reshaped politics because it allows the sheeple to learn reality instead of the fake news, notes that the only knowledgable writers on economics are the non-economists (which goes well with his snark on LSE, less well with his rants against "cranks"), considers that the British Empire is decadent (and the US not much better: although they stayed out of the League of Nations, with Pound's approval, they've put Susan B. Anthony on a stamp, to his great disapproval), suggests that taxation is theft, and complains that neither US nor UK academia (people who chatter rather than do) are receptive to free inquiry by independent researchers, etc. all of which may be more distal causes.

In short, s/radio/social media/, give him Oakleys and an F-450[1], and he'd be right at home in 2020.

[1] we can imagine him in the cab (safely away from Dorothy, Marcella, and Olga?), stroking his goatee while telling us "[w]hat ultimately counts is the level of civilization. No decent man tortures prisoners. No clean man wd. tolerate the advertising atrocities between here and Genova. No man free of mental lice wd. tolerate the bank racket or the taxing system."
Relativity of simultaneity was definitely a wild concept for me in physics class. The idea that a near-c train is longer than a tunnel to its passengers and hence is never fully inside the tunnel to them but is, after relativistic compression, shorter than the tunnel and hence at one moment entirely inside it to a resting observer blew my mind.
ive always thought this is a very moot argument. if the government decides to remove their backing from this scheme they still can. it really should be a tax, dependent on income. this whole apparatus for hunting people costs millions for nothing really...
Norway switched back to a tax-based model this year, where everybody above a certain income gets deducted between 150€ and 300€ more yearly.
The cost to the average person went down, I assume that is mostly because there will be more total payers now.
They also closed a 70-people office previously responsible for collecting the license fee.
This is horribly depressing but hard to argue against. Do you have further reading?
Yes, the question is (and I won't pretend to know the answer), do the people have the need to be forced to pay to have independent journalism? Is there any country in the world, where free press works just as a product of a free market?

I'm living in Germany and I'm not super happy about the TV tax but I suppose we haven't got a better solution.
Can this be used similar to tmate (https://github.com/tmate-io/tmate) to easily share a shell?

Why I asked for this is because tmate isn't really that secure. You have to trust the relay server.

Maybe tunshell can be combined with tmux directly to open a shared view.
7000 years is pretty modern, it’s almost 3k years after agriculture started being adopted in multiple regions. There are older artifacts than that, intelligent humans have been on the planet for a long time.
There have been, but YC has always funded lots of those. I suspect it's a random cluster in the startup stream. More are coming, too. This is Launch HN season because Demo Day is next week.
I don't understand what value FB gets from VR device data. I have never understood the acquisition, but that point in particular has never been clear.

Or is it just that the end goal is to advertise in VR, and the acquisition was a grasp at a dystopian daydream?
The amount of all nuclear waste ever produced takes up about the space of a football field.
This is a great post, I’ve seen a lot of those patterns before and it’s nice to have them in one place! One criticism I have though is I’m not sure about the advantage of phantom types, it seems like boilerplate to me. I feel like generalized algebraic data types are a strictly better pattern to follow to solve the issue of restricting type variable bindings to specific types.
How Can We Simulate Water Droplets?
org-mode is without a doubt the most comprehensive and powerful note taking software that exists today. It's so good that even non-emacs users should give it a go.
I think this is due to Facebook stance to disallow these kind of accounts without a real name. They can block your account if they think you aren't using your real name and have you submit an official ID card or driving license to unlock, process that may take weeks.

Also, forcing people for no real reason to create (or use) an account on a platform they hate is revolting. No everybody wants to use a social network to share with "friends" their gaming habits, or to play local games.
Is there a similar report for open problems in AI or ML?
So you mean the difference is that it is a website where you may choose the films?

That is a difference (of course) — however from a film makers perspective they are still trying to sell my film to the audience.

I am just sick of modern silicon valley companies doing the same thing as traditional companies while additionally deploying "one crazy trick" that let's them argue they are exempt to all existing regulations.
Why did you report them?
For young people it's not a small minority. Young people have gone off transmitted TV and they havent adapted yet.
To place it in the context of this compressed energy storage, when does the plant expect to be commercial viable through the method of buying energy cheap, storing it, and selling it expensive?

As far as I can find information, this plant is built on 30 millions given from the government. They have also got 17 millions from an equity round and 20 millions from a asset manager that supports building out clean-energy infrastructure.

In order to be commercial viable they need a significant overproduction in the energy grid from wind and solar which enable the company to buy cheap energy during peaks and sell it expensive during lows, and the difference need to be significant enough to pay both the energy loss, the operation cost and the investment costs. Wind and solar will also not over saturate the market beyond what is commercial viable for them, putting a short-term limit on how cheap the price can go during peaks.
> How are traditional TV Station different form Netflix and such?

They paid for (read, "bribed politicians to give them", but that's beside the point) exclusive use of particular RF spectrum, which then cannot be used for other purposes. Netflix routes over existing common-carriage infrastructure, and so does not impose any costs on people who don't use Netflix (assuming non-corrupt management of said infrastructure, but y'know, caveats, caveats, caveats...).
Walmart alone opens dozens of new stores every year. Each one is a local story that doesn't get much coverage outside that locality. There are multiple chain stores just in the US. Boom, I just proved the "dozens of stories" part of my claim. :-P

Chain stores aren't the only kinds of businesses that lobby for tax breaks and subsidies. Sports teams are another example. And these are just the industries that get coverage.
"says" => "speculates".

And of course the HTML title and the title that would appear on social media shares of that article is "Secret geiger counter hidden inside iPod by US government".

Long live journalism!
Thanks for the exegesis!
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Hey guys thanks for the insane response! I'll ship out the orders ASAP but please be aware it will take around 5-10 business days to arrive due to Covid.
There's truth behind every joke.

And this really is a decent biz model. I mean, free items, just sell them for 50% and you can make a living.

Scale this up using multiple amazon accounts, multiple addresses.

The market is big enough so that you can make a living out of this, I'm sure.

And your x2 multiplier makes it even easier!
Empirical evidence has shown that all Tesla cars have the same failure mode when a stationary obstacle is on the highway. This is not some fringe failure that happens because of wrong classification, it's how the Tesla Autopilot was designed to function. Tesla has claimed explicitly that it's the driver's responsibility to avoid such a situation.
I think the problem with general notetaking is, you take note and you'll almost forget about it completely in a couple of day.

This style of notetaking software help 'resurface' those information you even forgot you jot down long time ago and make the process of 'discover' new idea much easier, something like that.

Well, I mean it behave like our mind, just more tangible, in software form. Also, people forgot much more nowadays because of information overload...maybe that's why some people need to transcribe it into something and relieve their brain's load.
No, C/C++ is straightforward when you stick to a distribution because there are people who are dedicated to packaging and deal with inconsistencies that individual library developers love to multiply.
Close! And if it had impacted?
Used Evernote for a while, not even paid, but it doesn't offer anything (for me personally) that a flat folder with text or markdown files wouldn't cover. Then looking at the downside, I don't own the data and if Evernote decides they've had enough, all my stuff could be lost.

Tried doing plain files again (via Notable because people said so, but that also doesn't really offer anything an editor with markdown support (cmd + click to open other file) doesn't offer itself), but by then I didn't really need to keep notes anymore (I passed beyond the "research" phase of my current project).
I don't feel you can blame the airlines for this though - they can't justify operating a flight if passenger caps mean they'll loose money.

Also, most states are now charging approx A$3000 for mandatory hotel quarantine, so returning to Australia is super expensive atm!
Even I don't get the idea of mind mapping. Just a gimmick for the productivity nerds imo.
Prefect looks great, but it uses Prefect Community License for parts of it, that has an exclusion:

" Licensee is not granted the right to, and Licensee shall not, exercise the License for an Excluded Purpose. For purposes of this Agreement, "Excluded Purpose" includes, but is not limited to, using the Software, or any derivative works thereof, to make available any software-as-a-service, platform-as-a-service, infrastructure-as-a-service or other similar service that competes with Prefect products or services."

While I'm interested in using Prefect as part of SaaS I'm working on, I'm having trouble defining whether it would compete with their offering or not. In my SaaS Prefect UI will not be exposed, I need an ETL engine "behind the scenes" for parts of the whole workflow (some action, sends an event, and on that event a job is triggered).
In theory Prefect SaaS could be used to do the same, so I guess that would mean I'm competing with them?

On the other hand Flyte looks very young, that could mean it's not mature or hard to use for non-Lyft use cases.
Agreed, and if he would have gotten it from a friend at one of these tables, wouldn't one of those friends have tested positive too?
Fwiw, I've found that working on Java without IntelliJ to be a pain. Imo it's way more feature-rich than VSCode or Eclipse at this point.
> eating up all their local bandwidth.

This is the city governments suing, so I don't think they're concerned about the ISPs' bandwidth being used up. That's not really their problem.
I think it doesn’t. A lot of conspiracy theorists use a technique where they start with something that is true, some facts A and B, and then C is controversial. You let your guard down with A and B, and are more susceptible with C.

He is honest with the extraordinary proof he needs, but his article never much strays from pure speculation. It’s a nice flight of fancy.

A lot is lost to history, no doubt, which skews our understanding greatly, especially prehistorical. But that is Dozens of steps away from finding a laptop from 10000bc or marsial burial chambers and having your advanced civilization theory stick.

The article felt like shoehorning theories / finds to make them stick in his view.
oh wait, decentralized, publicly controlled infra. What was the cloud about exactly?
Also, most of the people do not need freedom of speech directly, but rely on it without knowing. Similar story here. See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came...