skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the response.

> [BART] is essentially acting as a QA-pair memorizer over the training data, and at test time, it just matches the question onto those seen at training time.

Not super-surprising.

> The T5-11B+SSM model we evaluate in the paper uses a special "Salient span masking" pretraining objective that does this to some extent (only mask words at pretraining time that are likely to be "answers" to factual questions), so in essence the pretraining task becomes pretty standard cloze-question answering

This seems an obvious approach for cloze-type questions, but it seems non-obvious how to extent beyond this.

Are you aware of any work probing the differences in the representation using this style of masking vs a more normal language model objective? It would seem to me that this is the key to significant progress here (and of course one would speculate that a representation that works well for this would also work well for all kinds of KB-related tasks).

Thinking about this for a few minutes things like masking names, colors and numbers (the things that neural representations often confuse) and then asking questions based on them might be interesting. I wonder if bAbI could be extended for this?
I work on that IT side of the fence. You should assume that all activity is being monitored on your work machine and on your work network, because it probably is, and is your job worth testing the odds?

Additionally, modern OSes log and cache stuff all over the filesystem and even though you cleared your browser history and cache, it's highly likely there's still undeleted detritus sitting on your device's storage. I have recovered supposedly-cleared caches many times without having to resort to filesystem forensics tools, simply because of stuff like log rollovers, and routine snapshots of data caches.

Where do I draw the line? If I were subjected to it myself, I'd keep looking for a job where this kind of monitoring didn't happen. Not because I want to goof off on HN all day, but because its creepy, fosters distrust between employer and employee and hinders my tasks.
Sure, but the lure of '1000x gainz' (ie. high volatility) isn't useful to its uptake as a replacement for many types of transaction, and here in the UK/EU many countries have allowed (even if somewhat tenuously) some regulatory legroom, so all we're missing is... an app?

Yet...?

It's a solution wherein principally the currently-invested are the only stakeholders hungry for a problem to solve.
Or at least a conspicuous vane on the leeward/downwind side that makes the whole thing a little more conspicuous to birds.
from importlib import reload
This is what social psychologists call "automation bias," which has been empirically observed in all kinds of situations from all kinds of people: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automation_bias

When we are told that a prediction is from an automated system, most people are more likely to believe it and not subject it to the same skepticism and critical thinking that we do to predictions from humans. Even if there is a human-in-the-loop system that requires a human to confirm it, that's often just laundering the machine's prediction through a human. When we are primed by being told this is what The System predicted, we're more likely to override our normal processes. This is especially the case when The System has worked 99% of the time --- which is still a lot of false positives.

Although this can also be the case with priming from predictions or judgments by other humans. The Asch conformity experiments involved planting fake test subjects in a group activity where subjects had to give answers to a very obvious perception question, and the real test subject could hear everyone else's answers. The fake subjects went first and all gave the blatantly wrong answer. The percent of people who conform varies with how you run the experiment, but typically a majority of the subjects end up giving the obvious wrong answer that everyone else did: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asch_conformity_experiments
Actually, you can: https://github.com/jitsi/jigasi

Needs some setup, but if you are using Jitsi that seems reasonable
Don't forget Telus (on the mobile data side of things).

Robellus as they are colloquially referred to as.
If you are so wise, what commit message should I use if I just changed the filename?
Do you have support for shortcutting of police processes based on skin colour? Like, they arresting officer fills out the 'corroborating evidence' part of the paperwork and says 'none, suspect is black' and that's fine?

Or, you just suppose that to be true?

AIUI certainty of march is much higher for light-skinned people: do officers get data on match certainty?

Forgive my suspicion, but flagrant assumption of racism fuels societal division and strong evidence can avoid unnecessary animosities.
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That's what I use too. It's completely open source and works pretty flawlessly for simple stuff like this.
All of these apologies for setting limits always assume that someone wise will make wise decisions about where to draw the line. The world, though, may not have enough wise people to go around.
Migadu just announced today they're getting rid of the free plan. The next plan up that supports multiple domains is $19/yr and unlimited domains would be $29/mo.

I had been keeping on there my side-project domains, which didn't really need a full gSuite backing them, since only a handful of emails would go in or out per month.

If Migadu's were a more reasonable price, I would have shrugged and upgraded. But going from $0/mo to $29/mo is a stretch.
Looks like "dead code elimination" is what this is generally called in compiler-land - another thing rediscovered in javascript-land and given its own name.
There's no transcript but on the page there are clickable timestamps for every few minutes of content along with a description of what's covered during those few minutes. The audio player also supports 2x playback speeds. Between the 2, hopefully that's enough to let you skim content quickly.

I would like to add transcripts but this podcast is a labor of love with no sponsors. It would be about $350 / month to get human reviewed transcripts created using a third party service.
Clearly you've never worked at a startup. SSH'ing to the web server and editing code live is horrifyingly common.
In most places dev/prod is a bureaucratic distinction and not a security boundary, because all developers have access to either.
You probably didn't include the algorithm header that defines find directly and it stopped compiling once the standard library maintainers cleaned up their own includes.
The iostreams headers you include define their own stream iterator specific overload of find and that doesn't match.
If only there were organizations that would charge a fee once a month for all content providers on their delivery service and distribute to companies providing content a share of what they charged based on the number of customers...
How Much Will Remote Work Continue After the Pandemic?
It's a bad thing to do for attention, like hacker elite speak using numbers would be, but is that why the author did that? Did you read the article? It's about a file that can be read by all Unix, Windows, and MacOS. Part of how that happens is one OS mistakes some other text for executable code while the other OS doesn't.

Therefore the title of the article written in multiple language letters and somewhat readable in one language despite that is a good introduction.
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How can it ever come, when the few desktops that could provide a full stack developer experience are ostracized in name of having 2020 computers replicating PDP-11s like I used to do in 1993?

Naturally the only ones that succeeded at it only rely on the Linux kernel as an implementation detail, and could actually use any POSIX like kernel.
Ah yes, thanks for the correction - I think they've become synonymous for me as I don't ever see non-'photo interpretation' captchas.
Is there any word on whether this patient is actually symptomatic? How does their re-infection compare to the first?
I doubt there will be an "all of a sudden" event for my industry, if anything it's probably on a decline.
UberEats could be underpaying delivery drivers on 21% of trips
> PostgreSQL is as easy to use as SQLite

Absolutely disagree. One is incredibly secure out of the box, the other is certainly not, they probably shouldn't even be compared. We can check Shodan if you want some empirical evidence for this.
I know this isn't the right forum, but where does one report bugs to Webex? It never lets me enter a full 7 letter tld in an email address, if you care.
Ah, but the laws themselves are unjust. Stealing $5 from your work till is an imprisonable offense, stealing $100 from your employee's paycheck may result in you having to pay it back.
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Thanks for the 'woke' reply and article - I was actually just wanting first hand opinions from the community really...
Really? You didn't find it clever enough to muster a little smile?

The things that bother some people.
Windows for cars has existed for a while! I worked on a project using "Windows Embedded Automotive", I didn't particularly enjoy it.
I'm still pretty impressed by dev-targetted malware like this:
https://securitylab.github.com/research/octopus-scanner-malw...
Could it be that Zoom is just better, in the existing diversity of meeting tools, that makes more people use it? It offers good support for large rooms, is intuitive to use and all in all, "it just works".
Or maybe the modern divorce rate is so high because it's socially acceptable now, and previously people remained in miserable or abusive marriages.
It’s really nuanced. 1. He takes on an implied insult because the servant wasn’t treated properly 2. It was actually Nanni who owed Ea-Nasir a Mina of silver. 3. Comparisons between others who traded with Ea-Nasir..

And finally: [..]Other tablets have been found in the ruins believed to be Ea-nasir's dwelling. These include a letter from a man named Arbituram who complained he had not received his copper yet, while another from Imgur-sin says he was tired of receiving bad copper.[..]

Ea-Nasir seems like a chuckling evil genius ..he kept all the complaint tablets..probably read them and had the last laugh while enjoying a nightcap.

I was very impressed by the stern tone of the complaint while weaving in personal grievances.

Fascinating!!
Ask HN: What do you use Google Sheet or Excel for?
It is often said that where there is a spreadsheet, there is a product waiting to be built.

The more complex the spreadsheet, the more needed is the product.
I find it extremely amusing that your comment has been sufficiently downvoted that it's grey...
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"Android regularly crashes in part because it's very complex, but also in part because there's really not much of a problem if it crashes occasionally. Cars have much stricter requirements."

I don't remember a single Android crash or freezes in recent memory (various Samsung Galaxy S-series). Not that my iPhone crashes either.
I would also add that Skype blew it. This should have been their market.

Today, I don’t even have skype installed anywhere.
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Often the POSIX documentation for e.g. utilities is better
than some man pages on Ubuntu. Really underrated document.
Back in January, Steve Winslow from the Linux Foundation (LF) published a blog post https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/2020/01/copyright-notic... that effectively promoted the idea that copyright notices in LF projects should use a format similar to:

* Copyright The XYZ Authors.

* Copyright The XYZ Contributors.

* Copyright Contributors to the XYZ project.

The main characteristics is that (a) no individual copyright holders are named; and (b) no date is present.

By using this format, you skip all the tedious updates of copyright notices every time a new copyright holder touches a file, or every new year.

In his blog post, he also specifies that this is only a recommendation, and if a contributor insist, they can always add another line mentioning their name, for example:

* Copyright (C) 2017-2020 John Doe

How this has anything to do with violations, LF helping serial violators get away, etc.... is beyond my comprehension.
It's probably more virtue signalling than actually being upset. Complaining is a way for the complainer to show off they know the actual pronunciations.
I think your American centric view gave you some blind spots

For once

>As impressive as China's domestic capabilities look, they have an aging population with a huge gender imbalance that will bite them in a few short decades.

Europe is in the same situation, it doesn't mean Europe will disappear

Japan is in a worse situation, but it's still the third economy in the World for GDP

> If the world decouples manufacturing and supply chains from China over this same time period, China is going to have significant problems.

You forgot (or you don't know) that China is practically colonizing Africa, which is gonna be the next big thing and has a lot of younger work force available, not considering that with 1.3 billion population is gonna be one of the largest markets in the World

USA has only 320 million citizen and only 80% of them are American born.

You also forgot that China is the United States' 3rd largest goods export market

It's also the third largest market for Apple devices.

China is also the largest supplier for USA, which means that on one side China get a lot of benefits trading on the US market, but also that USA without China goods is not gonna work the same way.
This article is using a really unusual definition of "Big Tech", isn't it? Isn't AT&T alone the only bad actor here?
Why on Earth would you tell anyone here that?

I'm actually quite amazed at most of the Show HN posts with commercial products. Unless you are actually aiming towards developer or software shop dollars the risk/reward seems incredibly off kilter.
this is the first proven reinfection with genetic sequencing of different strains of the virus in the same individual.
Absolutely nothing, Zimbabwe is a shining beacon of humanity.
Server room is ruled by Linux, on the embedded space there are other better suited RTOS alternatives, alongside the commercial ones, all the beloved FOSS alternatives are MIT/BSD based.

And even on server room, thanks to cloud, managed runtimes and servless, Linux's relevance is going to don't matter in the upcoming decade.
That’s why cryptographic systems where “governments, standard bodies, cryptographers, companies, banks, hw manufacturers and others” need to agree on things don’t tend to be very secure.

[insert link to some of Moxie’s rants]
Compared to Elastic's Cloud offering Apex Logs would be roughly half the cost. I forgot to mention in the post that it's 100% serverless, so there's nothing to maintain and no need to resize clusters as you grow.

Kibana definitely has the edge right now when it comes to charting, but I would say if you're just looking for a simple and clean logging solution Apex Logs would be a nicer experience. If you try it out definitely let me know if you have any feedback!
I sampled a few of those links, and without exception they all touted the true positive matches without any mention of false positives, nor of what consequences were visited upon the innocents who were pipelined in to the criminal system by them.
I Hope You Fail. ️
I have seen software for a unit in a car which had no safety relevant tasks, which was written using a custom, homegrown rtos with half of a standard library reimplemented from scratch for no reason at all.

Their supplier did all of this on purpose, to create lock-in, which worked - now they charge by line of code.

Any old Linux kernel haphazardly patched together to run on the target would be better than this garbage.

Do airplanes still run an emulator for a chip that is no longer produced because nobody wants to port the software? That was a fun story I still hope is an urban myth.
I enjoyed the comments in the smutty fanfic submission too!

Looks like Ea-Nasir has fans!
Wouldn't prioritizing short-term ad revenue be detrimental to the rest of their business model?
File directories, royal/family trees, animal kingdom trees are good starting point.
Nice thanks for the details - I didn't know you were in talks with them about changes to intercooler, too.

Nothing better than a nice pop-up to ruin your day... they're a different kind of plague
They go out of their way to get you to install the app, to the point of misrepresenting your options. (most recently you have to click download zoom in order to get a web zoom client link, and deal with cancelling the download).

They lied about and continue to misrepresent their security.

They keep adding and then removing personally invasive features (eg. the linkedin sharer).

There are more: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com...

I don't know why people are so willing to forgive them.
OP here

I wrote this article last May and back then it was unclear whether or not I'd stick with PARA

Here's the update three months later:

The Bad: I’m kinda getting falling behind on some of the proactive archiving/organizing parts of it, especially for my personal notes

The Good: Falling behind where PARA's Just In Time aspects really shine. I can organize just the notes that I’m about to use

The Great: BASB made a night and day difference to my project management style

In the past I organized my notes and todos in a completely different way. I was constantly struggling to find the important bits or would miss important tasks. I'd always be feeling overwhelmed and lost

I still feel like that today, but it's no longer because of my notes. My system is no where near perfect now, but it's waaaaaaay better than what it used to be

I shared more of my thoughts in this tweet thread [1] describing the advice I've been giving to my friends who asked if they should sign up for the Building a Second Brain class (where I learned PARA)

[1] https://twitter.com/ZainRzv/status/1296532147096834048
When reading Wikipedia, always check the talk page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Ubuntu_philosophy

and always go back in time a decade:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ubuntu_philosophy...
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The real missed opportunity here is the one-two combination of reducing avian fatalities and advertising with LEDs:

https://ae01.alicdn.com/kf/HTB15.LQMVXXXXXNXpXXq6xXFXXXZ/GTF...

But seriously, is there a way to illuminate the blades in a low-cost way that's obvious to birds and invisible to locals? Intensity, visible wavelength, frequency?
I took it as attributing education, expertise, or knowledge to him which seemingly would be helpful in running a business. Would it not?
"I remember Salman Khan (of Khan Academy) talking about this a few years ago. He believed that the current accepted method of teaching - students attending lectures and sitting in classrooms getting knowledge from teachers, then later doing homework alone trying to apply it - needs to be inverted. Lectures, presentations, textbooks can all be online and automated. Teaching resources, limited as they are, are much better spent helping students specifically when they are stuck and need more personalized help. Of course this brings us to the more fundamental question - are schools more for learning or daycare?"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24257872
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> Today people too often think that partying, casual sex or other selfish pursuits will make them happy, but I suspect it has the exact opposite effect. Finding someone who isn't perfect but who you can love and dedicate yourself to, or having children and giving everything you can for them, these are things that can bring us true meaning.

That's just some gibberish that married people say; or people who were looking for reasons to live and are later trapped in a marriage trying to explain their existence.

I picked the former and I have a reason to wake up every morning: Doing the former.
Interestingly, the limit the original article was talking about was limiting partisanship and superficiality, which is especially ironic given the issue today. (Remember the really dumb attempt to "cancel" Pinker?) If the original supporters of limits were around today to enforce their limits, they would spend most of their energy on the very same people that are calling for limits today.
Ah good point, not to ditch gmail but to ditch the "@gmail" domain name. That makes sense, thanks.
I loved learning about this phenomenon from Patrick Collision’s blog.

Anecdotally, this makes sense to me. Up until the 3rd grade my mother would work with me every single day on my homework. I was consistently number 1 or number 2 in my class.

This changed when my mother began spending more time with my siblings my homework than with mine. I personally believe simply having someone with you to walk you through problems makes all the differences in the world.
Every conference call or presentation or whatever is held up by the stupidest user with the shittiest laptop from their incompetent IT department.

Zoom had the lowest friction, most idiot proof solution while still being decent quality and having enough useful features for classes and meetings, etc.

(as it turned out, some of those low-friction design choices also had some negative security and integrity consequences)
"This brings us to the most serious difficulty of this problem; namely, the dangers connected with the existence in a democracy of an overwhelming and concentrated public opinion. The tendency of modern democracy is for men to think alike, to feel alike, and to speak alike. Any departure from the conventional standards is apt to be regarded with suspicion. Public opinion is at once the chief safeguard of a democracy, and the chief menace to the real liberty of the individual"

"An inviolable refuge from such tyranny should be found in the university."

So if one professor is a Marxist/capitalist, they are an asset. If all professors are either one, it is a liability to the mission of the university as a refuge of heterogeneous thought.

Yet if we select professors based only on their idiosyncratic opinions we're as likely to fill the roster with well spoken insane people as with strong independent thinkers.

I'd prefer to attend a university filled with insane but unique teachers -- who are otherwise competent in their fields -- than with a homogeneous mass who I happen to agree with. Sure, strong independent thinkers would be better, but if I could pick just one...
well your landing page looks better tbh.
maybe you can team up ;)