skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your reply is misleading, sorry. You didn’t offer any actual evidence of your own to support the memorization claim. You didn’t even do your own arithmetic problem correctly. Since your performance on this task was <100% accurate, I can only assume you do not know the rules of arithmetic.

> How many "x + y" questions can be formulated where x and y are both single-digit numbers? The answer is 2^10, or 100.

Less snarkily, if there’s (10^4)^2 = 100 million combinations of 4 digit addition problems, and GPT-3 is reaching 25.5% accuracy on those problems (vs. 0.4% in the 13B parameter model). For 3 digit problems, it’s even better: 1 million combinations and 80.4% accuracy. Clearly, there is more happening than simple memorization—the training set does not contain 800k 3-digit addition problems. Thus, it’s fair to say that the model has at least a partial grasp of how to perform arithmetic operations (but probably not fair to say that it has synthesized the entire system of arithmetic).

Also, the paper does say that they scrubbed exact examples from the training set to avoid memorization, a fact you left out:

> (pg. 23): ”To spot-check whether the model is simply memorizing specific arithmetic problems, we took the 3-digit arithmetic problems in our test set and searched for them in our training data in both the forms "<NUM1> + <NUM2> =" and "<NUM1> plus <NUM2>". Out of 2,000 addition problems we found only 17 matches (0.8%) and out of 2,000 subtraction problems we found only 2 matches (0.1%), suggesting that only a trivial fraction of the correct answers could have been memorized. In addition, inspection of incorrect answers reveals that the model often makes mistakes such as not carrying a “1”, suggesting it is actually attempting to perform the relevant computation rather than
memorizing a table.”
So do Bukkake films.

I do not see your point.
other cloud storage providers don't care. this appears to be a misunderstanding though, and amazon cloud drive also doesn't care.

rather, the suggested alternative of amazon photos does not allow encrypted data, only photo and video content. which is a totally normal restriction for a photo hosting service.
Technically this is a list of top greatest scientists who never won a Nobel Prize.
Facebook SDK will not adopt Apple’s iOS 14 privacy prompt
A huge part of most doctors' jobs is balancing the risk of bad things with the benefits of procedures, medications, etc. One of the main reasons we have doctors is so that we can trust their educated judgment. For example, mine noted that guidance had changed on when we should test for some cancers (not as early), because the risk of false positive is higher than the risk of actually having the cancer.

In the case of opioids, doctors know they are addictive. They also unfortunately happen to be _extremely effective_ (for most people) at treating severe pains, and have to balance the benefits of pain relief (both in terms of patient happiness and the healing process) versus the risk of harm. I've definitely seen a shift in doctors' prescribing habits in the past fifteen years, in favor of starting with Ibuprofen or other NSAIDs, with the option to ask for a stronger prescription if pain is too much.
It may have meant mentor in ancient greek, but the word Plutarch uses (Lycurgus ch. 17) is ἐρασταὶ.

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%...
How does increased density drive increase prices?

Say we have a city. Currently there are 10,000 old apartments. I decide to go in and build an additional 10,000 new apartments. Why would the price to rent one of the old apartments go up?

I don't understand what the proposed mechanism is at all.
You’ve just removed the relevant context of that quote that they were referring to.
Consider OxyContin, which the makers claimed worked for 12 hours. 2 things should be red flags here: firstly, I haven't seen an extended release formulation of anything that would work over that period; I'm not even sure if it's physically possible given the human digestion system. Secondly, the many, many patients who complained that it only worked for 6-8 hours.

Any doctor with a basic understanding of pharmacology, and basic bedside manner, should have known something was up there.
Sparta was an expansionist state. And it was fairly bad at being expansionist: there's a lovely description of Sparta's abysmal supply line management as opposed to Athens's at the same time. You should really go through that acoup blog: you're falling prey to something known to professional historians as the "Spartan Mirage".

Going through the acoup blog as well as the AskHistorians sources, Sparta's win/loss ratio is just around 0.5. They won as often as they lost battles. Indeed, some of their major victories required Persian/Macedonian help or were actually accomplished by people from outside the agoge. And you forget that while they were the largest power on their patch of Greece, they were only hegemonic over Messania, no other area. Again, as the AskHistorians link points out, Sparta was much larger than the other city-states of its time at the point from where we have evidence. That Sparta was unable to do much from this position is fairly telling about their lack of skill in much other than hoplite fighting.

In addition, go through the series to understand the makeup of Spartan society. It's easy to have strong, well-fed warriors when more than 80% of your population is chattel slavery (read helots) who were thought to be badly treated even by the standards of the Ancient Greeks (which, as you can very well imagine, were not very high. Slaves weren't treated well by those societies at all). It's easy to lionise Sparta when you become acquainted with the Theme Park version of it. It's hard to stomach the actual reality of what we do know about Sparta.
It's a matter of principle though. You don't restrict the freedom of individuals to protect them from other individuals that are bad actors. You go hard and strong after the bad actors. What other examples of laws outside of finance can you cite where individuals are restricted in order to protect them from other bad actors? It's absurd and not in the scope of what government should be doing.
> Piracy destroys jobs, opportunity and initiative

It does for some people. But also creates jobs, opportunity and initiative. In my personal case when I was 12 years old in Argentina I was able to access Encarta and Visual Basic 5 thanks to piracy. This let me to get into programming and get better education. If not for piracy, many people would not be able to afford Windows, Photoshop, and other software. In rich countries software might cost 0.5%, 1%, or 2% of your income, while in developing countries costs 20% or 30% of your salary (and you're already very tight with your income).

Also, despite all the piracy of Microsoft products, Bill Gates ended up being the richest person in the world.

Just bringing other points of view to this complex topic.
An aside, but watching old 40s and 50s programming (older silent movies as well) do expose you to a bit of how things were back then -iceboxes in people’s homes, the decor they used, lighting choices, modes of transport, undershirt habits, milkmen, ice blocks, all kinds of incidental things outside of the main thrust of a movie or TV programming.
I think there's a certain amount of risk each artist needs to take, in any medium, where on one side you see the intentionally accessible art of the television show, and on the other side you see art that challenges the audience in some way: be it obscure, or inherently referential, or historically situated. I love challenging art, but without an art history degree I often can't appreciate it fully without also immersing myself in some critical writing on it.

Challenging art almost need to be paired with critics who can provide useful metaphors, historical contexts, or what-have-you to help appreciate the art. Part of my appreciation of challenging works of art comes from reading interesting critical appraisals of them. In those situations I think of the critics and the artists as being somewhat intertwined.

I quite agree on the gatekeeper side of things, e.g. critiques who are mainly concerned with questions of taste and judgement, where art that challenges certain norms is judged poorly.
If the app makers were merely showing an ad , even an intrusive one without selling out my information -- I will be able to tolerate that.

However when app developers include libraries from foursquare or facebook, what they are doing is violating the users' privacy and selling their information to third party aggregators who will apply data analytics to build a full predictive model of your behavior and then they will sell it to anybody who wants to spy on you. Do you remember Cambridge Analytica ?
Yes, this is exactly what I was describing, and it can be the solution. However, I was thinking of a downscaled USB 2.0 version - only has a fraction of its cost, and it doesn't eat all my PCI-E lanes (20 Gbps vs 1.92 Gbps, the latter one only needs a PCI-E x1 Gen 2).
The winrar trial has ads in it that try to load activex controls using embedded IE webview; an obvious security concern. I reported it and they suggested I enable activex.
I was hired pretty quickly and easily with no degree. A degree from a prestigious four year college certainly doesn't hurt, but it's definitely not a requirement.
Oh, they have plenty of users; they're just not the people whose labour they're harvesting.
Why does the future now have a pale blue glow? We're past the pale blue glow of the CRT era.
I think the main reason here is cost since you can’t dedup encrypted data.
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Mind linking that art? I’ve got some 10gb/s boxes I’d love to seed it on.
I went to look at the picture and noticed I'm actually in it! Cool. The pic was taken at RacketCon 2018.
7zip is completely free and OpenSource, and more modern.

I think that they also support more archive formats and they even have their own open format 7z.

Based on their own claims, there are also faster and more efficient than Winrar.
> My point is, it is not possible to deduce any bias from such a list.

Is it? In at least two (three?) of those cases the male colleagues were recognized with the Nobel prize and their female colleagues were not.
People didn't want cars, they wanted what the gov't subsidized. Here in the US cars are subsidized and transit, biking, walking is penalized. These dials are turned differently in different countries.
After 5 years of back and forth, dcommander landed the work in v3 dev to make this happen. A ton of commitment.
My point is that equating art with trolling, and vice-versa, leads to absurdity.

Or not, depending on what you want "art" to encompass.
The only circumstances in which I can see writing tests against HTML directly is if you're doing a move or a migration.

I did exactly this for a hosting company back when Windows Server 2003 was getting EOL'd. They setup on 2012, migrated the sites over, and then my script would pull from both versions and see how much variation there was. Even then it was mostly just a diff.

Otherwise that's the equivalent of testing implementation details.
Lucid is explicitly targeting the very high end of cars; the Air will probably be around $150,000. I'm not sure they care too much about cell price.
The 90's heralded a lot of optimism about the Internet's role in making information ever easier to access. What we've discovered in the 21st century is that it also makes disinformation easier to access. And perhaps more so, since democratization of content generation means there's fewer chances for curators to pull disinformation.

I don't think it's easier for an average person in the 2020's to differentiate between investments, risky investments, and outright scams than the 1920's, were all the regulations to be waived away.
What would you trade on in this environment?
That description applies perfectly, in our modern days, to the horrifying gulf cities like Dubai.
Special Interests Destroying America
As I recall Mach 3+ aircraft development stalled with the pivot to stealth technologies in military aviation, and not necessarily due to technical limits.

I'd be curious what research exists for the viability of Mach 3 and hypersonic commercial aircraft.
> Partnership for Responsible Addressable Media

My guess is that this partnership is very similar to a hypothetical
Foxes’ Partnership for Responsible Henhouse Interactions
Yeah, I sort of felt the same. But everyone is going to disagree with another's list so.....
"doctors should have known the manufacturers' claims were bogus" is shifting the blame. The real blame should be focused on the manufacturers making false claims in the first place.
There are a lot of reasons for having a stationary lab under sea - I have seen a lot of experiments for acceleration of coral growth, bringing corals back to life etc that need long term study and sustained help. However, I am a bit confused as to why this project needs an expensive building as opposed to something like a submarine shell with living quarters (and a moon pool, of course).
Is there substantial "no IP whatsoever" constituency somewhere? Is there a movement or party advocating this? Are there jurisdictions with essentially this framework in place?

I'm curious to see what it looks like.

I have trouble imagining the internet tolerating any other configuration 100 years from now.
oh please, this is the programmer version of "if you're reading this blog you're already in the top X% of <insert industry here>".
The series 65 is intended for people who want to manage other people's money. You should still be able to invest your own money as you wish.
Sure they do:

Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) or lateral gene transfer (LGT) is the movement of genetic material between unicellular and/or multicellular organisms other than by the ("vertical") transmission of DNA from parent to offspring (reproduction). HGT is an important factor in the evolution of many organisms

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizontal_gene_transfer
You are comparing smart phones and the development of modern industry and infrastructure with Stalin's purges and the Great Terror of 1936-1938. Results and body counts matter. Not entirely bloodless, indeed.
>1. How to find customers?

>2. How to sell?

>Let me know your experience and how you learned to sell software.

IMHO, you've got this backwards. If you don't know the answers to these questions you shouldn't be writing the software. It means you haven't identified demand or market fit. Do that first and then write your software.
That's one version.

Caro's The Power Broker details how Bob Moses was the agent of the powerful forces behind the automobile.

The only stakeholders not represented, or even consulted, were the average taxpaying citizens. Any dissent was ruthlessly squashed.

Urban planners and normal citizens have been critical since the very beginning. The debate really picked up after WWII, with the resumption of peace time economy.

By the 50s, the experts had enough real world data -- more highways creates more congestion, focus on cars to the exclusion of mass transit physically cannot work -- to invalidate the entire premise.

Eighty years later, here we are still clutching at pearls, trying not to faint. As if there's anything left to debate.

I shouldn't be shocked. But somehow I still am. Or maybe just disappointed.
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There's no talk of "choice" when, as you admit it, the choice is between near-slavery or death.
For reference, YT Premium is $16 on iOS[0] but $12 directly[1].

0: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/ACtC-3dznQemACWzb2tbYfd...

1: https://youtube.com/premium
If you don't want to hear about USB details, beware, clicking often involves USB mice.

More importantly, telling someone there is no right answer, and go into as much detail as they want, and then cutting them off when they do is a bad interview experience. At least guide them on where you want to focus. Or let them take you on an adventure through USB. The point of this as an interview question is to demonstrate broad knowledge as well as some detailed knowledge --- it doesn't particularly matter which knowledge.

If someone can figure out USB, they can figure out TCP, etc. You're looking for people who can figure things out. It's all distributed state management.

Maybe a little different if you're hiring a contractor than a staff member.
A very small connection. Investments aren't exactly just intuitive knowledge one can grasp just by being "smart". It takes specialized training to know what you're doing – and even among those who study finance, you won't find consensus on any single investment.
> Most of those weren't built by starving people...

Indeed, starving people don't make for good builders.

Instead, the starving people were the peasants who had their produce expropriated, which was sold to acquire the imported materials and machinery that the soviets could not yet produce themselves.

> ...and it's humiliating to the amazing architects and builders of these buildings to nullify their achievements like this.

It isn't, unless they had any say in the matter and a view of the big picture, which they didn't, but if they did, all humiliation would be justified.
basic forest mismanagement has nothing to do with climate change. We agressivly suppress the natural fire cycle which leads to excessive loads of dead material that the annual fire cycles would have cleaned out, and then we don’t let anyone go in and prune what the fires would have done naturally.

That’s how ladder fires happen. Forest mismanagement. NOT climate change. Even if the climate wasn’t changing, we would be in the same situation eventually. Sooner or later the excess material WILL burn up.
>Cheap rockets will make space telescopes way more accessible.

I'm not convinced that's true. If you look at past space telescopes, launch costs are not a large part of the budget. Even if SpaceX gave everyone free launches as a goodwill measure, you'd only make space telescopes maybe 2-5% cheaper. There's very real challenges that space based telescopes have that Earth based ones don't (how do you make a cryocooler that doesn't vibrate your optics? How do you make a machine that can run for years without maintenance? How do you get precise enough positioning to interferometry?). My understanding is that due to adaptive optics, being ground based isn't much of a problem for visual telescopes. And for large radio telescope arrays, I don't see how it's possible at all to move to space
I guess the corollary is that 2500 square feet can be eaten up very quickly if you don't have a good floor plan, which is pretty common.
> the same income is essentially taxed twice

What about if you pay yourself as a W2 employee? Then, isn’t your salary treated as an expense of the corporation and thus only taxed at the personal level?
Is there a reason why the idea suggested just before the "Dumb investment certificate"[1] can't be implemented? It can be implemented like a Roth IRA (ie. a special account type). IRS would be in charge of keeping track of how much "dumb money" was "spent" in total, and all the issuer has to do is ensure the money came from a "dumb money" account.

[1] the paragraph starting with "A better approach might be to lower (or eliminate) the wealth bar for investing in private placements"
That's not really true. I pirated when I was young and couldn't afford things and later when I could afford things I'd purchase from those same creators.

Al la the first hit is free.
> when more kids are dying to malaria every single day or for multitude of other problems.

Not in America.

> US rallies for some causes where it seems to suit US interests.

Yes, we act in support of national interests, like every country.

> There are so many countries that need help but in recent years whether a country gets US presence seems largely dependent on whether there is oil there and US is all too happy to turn their face away if the government of the oil-rich country is collaborating with US.

America is not out to save the world and this is a good thing. There is nothing worse than some outsider coming in to save the poor savages from their own evil selves. It’s not our job to pass judgement on others or to fix every problem in the world, unless it is in the national interest (even then I’d say the US has too many interests but that’s another issue).

> This unfortunately adds fire to the trouble in the Middle East. If you are islamic radical it is extremely easy to recruit people by showing them factual, real, undeniable misbehavior of US.

This is laughable. Compare The US to the regimes in that area in terms of “misbehavior”. America has nothing to be ashamed of there.
This is what gets me to move away from Android. I like the Andoird ecosystem more, but my hate for advertising supercedes all of that.
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Why does it history jack? That makes no sense for a style browser.
I think we are still miscommunicating. I don’t want to ignore present day problems and solely focus on some sort of atonement for past wrongs. We should fix current day problems with a proper understanding of how they can be, taking ownership of our failures as a nation.
The route schedule needs to be routine, constant and predicable to be of any use for the types of people requiring 4 hour trans-oceanic flights. That means having at least one flight to London each day, and one flight back to NY.

Eventually you run out of people willing to pay $10k a seat for this type of travel. Which is what happened to Concorde - after the novelty wore off, all you had was an extremely expensive seat.
It's simple enough. The police primarily operate to preserve the existing social order which prioritizes property over life. The deliberate infliction of economic pain is being used to coerce change, because other avenues have failed. The authorities there could very easily preempt this by arresting the police officer who shot Jacob Blake in the back and charging him with attempted murder. He'll have his day in court and be given ample opportunity to make the argument for why his actions were justified.

In general, rioting is used selectively, targeting official buildings followed by corporate concerns, which extract capital from local communities. Little of the news coverage about Kenosha drew attention to the fact that the largest building burned down Monday night was the WI Dept of Corrections; many commentators prefer to focus your attention on commercial damage in order to push the idea that it's indiscriminate.
I'm on regular opioids for chronic pain, and they have possibly saved my life. But I tried many, many alternatives. For the majority of chronic pain sufferers, there will be a better alternative to opioids.

Part of the problem in the US is that doctors were reaching for opioids as first or second line drugs, when they should be further down the line.
>OK, but right now as a user I have a choice: I can choose an ecosystem supported in part by a 30% tax on apps, or I can choose an ecosystem supported mainly by advertising. If Apple is forced to allow other stores, I lose that choice.

I'm not sure that follows. Can you elaborate on why you would "lose that choice"?
Unless it’s actually the year 2525, and we are all just trying to stay alive, but we are in a virtual reality meant to hide the truth from our eyes. Oh what a time to be alive
It's nice enough...but when you say GUI Framework I think of something like Qt.