skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Follow-up: I think I found some relatively unambiguous claims in the paper to help get a handle on the logic.

After "Theorem 2", there's a "Proof" with multiple lines directly equated. Among those lines were

> = 1 - p(h,eb) - p(e,b) + p(he,b)
> = p(h←e,b) - p(h,eb)

, which can be equated to and reduced to find

1 = p(h←e,b) + p(e,b) - p(he,b)

, and then if we take the condition of "b" as assumed for brevity,

1 = p(h←e) + p(e) - p(he)

, then it appears that the conditions of "h←e" and "e" cover all possibilities, plus an excess overlap of "he".

So, "h←e" refers to NOT(e) plus AND(h,e).

So, "h←e" equals OR(NOT(e), AND(h,e)).

So, the evidence "e" implies the hypothesis "h" when both are true, plus also when evidence "e" is false.

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So, "Theorem 1" claims

p(h←e, e) < p(h←e)

, which we can now parse given the above to

OR(NOT(e), AND(h,e)) when e < OR(NOT(e), AND(h,e))

, and we can reduce the left-hand side to find

h when e < OR(NOT(e), AND(h,e))
h when e < NOT(e) + AND(h,e)
h when e < NOT(e) + (h when e) * e
0 < NOT(e) + (h when e) * e - (h when e)
0 < NOT(e) + (h when e) * (e - 1)
0 < (1 - e) + (h when e) * (e - 1)
e - 1 < (h when e) * (e - 1)
1 - e > (h when e) * (1 - e)
1 > h when e

, or to write that last line out,

p(h | e) < 1

, which matches out with the condition that they attached to "Theorem 1", which requires that p(h|e)!=1.

But to work that out with the sides keeping their values,

h when e < NOT(e) + (h when e) * e
h when e < NOT(e) + (h when e) * (1-NOT(e))
h when e < (h when e) + NOT(e) - (h when e) * NOT(e)
h when e < (h when e) + NOT(e) * (1- (h when e))
h when e < (h when e) + NOT(e) * (NOT(h) when e)

, which appears to be the last line of their "Theorem 2".

So.. I guess that explains the definitions that they were using.

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Anyway, what seems odd to me about that is that "Theorem 1" seems like it's meant to be surprising -- like it's meant to show that finding evidence reduces the meaningfulness of the evidence itself, or something?

However, some things seem off. For example, the expression of "h←e" seems weird to me; it'd seem more sensible for it to be like this:

OR(AND(NOT(e), NOT(h)), AND(h,e)) when e < OR(AND(NOT(e), NOT(h)), AND(h,e))
h when e < OR(AND(NOT(e), NOT(h)), AND(h,e))
h when e < (!h when !e) * !e + (h when e) * e
0 < (!h when !e) * !e + (h when e) * (e - 1)
0 < (!h when !e) * (1 - e) - (h when e) * (1 - e)
0 < (!h when !e) - (h when e)
(h when e) < (!h when !e)

, where the inequity isn't obviously of particular interest.

Because the second thing that seems off is the notion that this matters -- that the evidence, "e", should be a concern for not just figuring out the probabilities in the model, but also retro-actively adjusting the meta-model, or something?

In short, after tracing their math and such, it's unclear what point they might be trying to make, as this doesn't seem surprising or unexpected.
"It doesn’t help that no one wants to be told: “stop what you’re doing, spend a week to learn this other thing, make a tiny change, and then return to your real job”. They’re looking for solutions — preferably quick ones — and not a week’s worth of study."

I've never had a job that would allow me to take a week to solve a production issue.
ASU has an online college program. It's basically a bad port of their in person program. Recorded lectures by whoever is teaching the class this quarter, not a "master teacher", low production values (think webcam, not "myth busters" as someone suggested ), little to no interaction with teachers. (Just recorded videos) and no community at all.

Even my local community college is doing better.

Not sure why khan academy went with them. They do have infrastructure set up for online. They just manifestly don't know how to design online courses. Maybe khan can help them with that.
Doesn't anyone learn anything. Youth is not an achievement. Experience is. Having to refer to a book, rather than good change management practices, highlights the madness of agile tosh, and ignorance in terms of capacity and performance management. It's also a data breach incident (denial of service, unavailability), I hope they reported this to the UK ICO, and each countries data protection regulator. Amateurish rubbish.
Don't think so it is dead rather a mature and proven technology. The impact of Rails is huge and almost every other web framework has embraced parts of it.

But having worked with Rails code base, it becomes a guess work in a text editor to know what you're getting in a method. The duck typing makes impossible to be sure for text editors unless you resort to some sort of type hinting and that's not Rails's fault, that's ruby.

In 2022, given among all the choices, I'd probably go to either deno + Typescript or golang.
I find that your first paragraph is very negative and has an insular posture.

Dealing and managing with other people who are incompatible with your ethics and morality is an important skill to learn. Not only does it help you learn asseriveness and diplomacy it also allows one to gain an insight into your own personal bias and teaches you how to respond and not react. A lot of grown, so called 'adults' still need to learn this skill set from my observations in day to day life.
This is such a flawed argument that keeps coming up: someone else must of done their due diligence.
Correct, I'm not sure when they added this but you can modify this now in System Preferences>Keyboard>Modifier Keys and you can set different settings for the built-in laptop keyboard vs. an external magic keyboard, e.g.
> I really hope to see online resources develop in such a way that schools can be built around them.

You might be interested to know that Salman Khan has built a physical school

https://www.khanlabschool.org/about/about-kls
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog --> Bad F. FO FRO GRO

Lol
These are generally not available to just buy. You need a prescription, and even if I could buy it myself, the price is in the upper four figures, probably more like five figures if I'd buy all necessary equipment
Define 'specific change'.

A change driven by a business decision? Don't see how it won't work.

A change specific to a component? Try conventional commits with scopes.

Code change? You shouldn't use commit messages. Use e.g. `-G`, `-S`, `-L`, etc. instead.

By the way if you are not using fzf already, you should.
Because the taxi business is a commodity. The returns are ~2%.

Uber doesn't have any geographic or other advantages. "Self driving" is a nonsense claim that doesn't stack up because it's not going to be available for at least another 5+ years. Even when it does happen, Uber doesn't have the capital to establish the necessary fleets of vehicles and is currently "outsourcing" that to the owner/drivers.

There have been any number of articles about Uber's lack of a sustainable business model.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2020/09/09/th...

https://marker.medium.com/end-of-the-line-for-uber-901e3077b...

And the original guy that showed that the emperor has no clothes:

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2021/08/hubert-horan-can-ube...
This is part of the reason I think we need to be able to hire people from the industrial side the arms complex, so that they give us the inside on how the sausage is made. Not CEO but software grunts, engineers, program managers or supply chain people.

Supply chains, development and production methods. With enough industrial experience, one can help design an gov-industrial strategy to avoid this kind of problems. In the current case, having a (sw/hw) upgrade roadmap planned would give incentives not to rely too much on internal stock and to always watch the damn supply chain.

'Finished' products are, sadly, very often, products that have already been rotting for some time...
Agreed. What we might need is a mix of online resources for teaching with offline schools for other aspects of child psychological development.
They had all those things for Ellsberg, he was barred from presenting a defense and the judge admitted the administration attempted to bribe him.

His charges were dropped because the prosecution's gross misconduct and illegal evidence collection had become national news. Without Watergate, Ellsberg would have spent years in prison.
> He has been talking about the future for 20 years right now with little to show for. Tesla accounts for 1.3% of all cars sold in 2021.

Little to show for??? It's kind of hard to completely change the world consumer car purchases. 1.3% of all cars is HUGE. https://www.statista.com/statistics/502208/tesla-quarterly-v... It takes a long long time to get this large, even if you're growing at over 50% to 100% per year which is a ridiculous growth rate.

> In the same timeframe Microsoft put the future™ on every Americans desk, Apple put it in every pocket, Google created it on the web and Amazon delivered it to your door.

You're comparing a company making real physical large objects to companies selling software. None of those companies even compare to Tesla.

> But of course people take all of that for granted because those companies never tried to substitute themselves to religion, in the sense that hope for the future™ is seen as a product to be pushed in the market to gain synchopants.

Because software, much as people like to tell you, will not solve all our problems. Software plays a key part of every industry and is integrating itself into more and more industries (like with Tesla and SpaceX with software being one of key aspects that make what they do work), but software itself will not change the future.
How to detect dead code in a front end project
Why is the US still trying to prosecute Edward Snowden almost 10 years after his leak? Or is that a conspiracy as well?

Any unethical organization wants to make one thing clear to potential whislteblowers: actually going through with it will mean you will be hounded for your entire life in various ways, legal or illegal.

If it were enough to lay low for one year after leaking sensitive documents, and then all would be forgiven, many more people would leak things. Powerful organizations of any kind (corporations, unions, state agencies) don't want to allow that.

Note: I am not claiming this MUST have been foul play. I'm just claiming it can't be dismissed a priori with such arguments.
This is fantastic! I'd absolutely love it if Discord were also supported, so many communities there that are non-googleable
Actually that's just a common misconception, which I believed too.

The complex compile-time transforms enable almost no performance improvements.

As a proof just take a look at the js-framework-benchmark table [0], my framework (Voby [1]) is faster than both in the benchmark despite having an API very similar to Solid and no requirement for a Babel transform or other compile-time transform (though the basic React-like JSX transform is supported for convenience).

Those transforms actually exist 99% just for providing some convenience features to the developer. If that weren't the case it wouldn't be possible to make something similar without a transform that's faster than both. In fact Svelte is actually quite a bit slower than both Voby and Solid. Svelte is even slower than Inferno, which is a (very optimized) V-DOM framework.

[0]: https://krausest.github.io/js-framework-benchmark/current.ht...

[1]: https://github.com/fabiospampinato/voby/
Ever since he dropped that he has autism I have heard this being used as an excuse, which really frustrates me.

If you don't do that, perfect.
Because the school is an online school in-person presence format, I think compatible time zones play an important role, too. Even though, I can imagine a flexible organization for discussion groups and collaborations.
Yeah, absolutely. Except it's not just a different OS, it's a different physical device. My Mac only gets used for work (and playing around with music visualisation), my iPad only gets used for music, I think of it as a portable studio - the iOS music ecosystem is incredible these days.
I'm not talking about launch companies. I'm talking about all the other space companies, many of which you probably haven't heard of. SpaceX has enabled an entire new generation of startups that are making use of cheaper launch costs.
"I am nothing more than a sentient being
suffering while waiting for the sweet release of death." -> "I won't wait for a living because I don't expect to live from life."

I too don't expect to live from life
> We have very good data

I am not aware of your username, but who has very good data?
Who’s Who in Data Science
I subscribe to this and:

> "The Not Rocket Science Rule Of Software Engineering: automatically maintain a repository of code that always passes all the tests"

https://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/1597.html

Intermediate commits to produce a pretty history while not passing the tests reduce their usefulness to about zero.
At this point I think it is worthwhile to contrast Ruby against Rails. Ruby has fallen behind, if you want great meta programming, you can get all the joy, plus much better speed, by using something like Clojure. That also gives you access to the vast ecosystem of Java libraries.

But Rails is a different story. For jumpstarting a greenfield API or CRUD app, there is nothing quite as good as Rails. Django and Symfony and other frameworks have tried to imitate Rails, but Rails is still way out in front, with better tools, and the marriage of Rails tools with Ruby's advanced meta-programming is something difficult to replicate elsewhere.

If your company needs a custom CRM or CMS, Rails remains the best starting place.
Why Brave and DuckDuckGo are cracking down on Google’s AMP
I don't think you can usefully define what teaching fundamentally is.

Learning is the anchor, not teaching. Teaching is defined relative to learning. Anything that enables, delivers, structures or otherwise makes learning happen.

For me, classroom teaching was never helpful. I zoned out in classes from first class to university (where I just didn't attend lectures). I had a little private tutoring in 12th class that was very helpful. In college, small group tutorials where we reviewed homework problems also worked for me. The majority of "teaching" hours were entirely irrelevant.

Past very early grades, I would estimate the useless/useful ratio of teaching hours at <10%... maybe <5%. I don't think my experience is unique.

Anyway, I did benefit from educational structure. Essays, exams, teachers nagging. I don't think online-only would have worked for me. I needed eyes on me, and parents wouldn't have been sufficient.

If I were to design an educational system for child me it would have: (1) 0 hours of large class time. (2) 1-2 hours per day of intense small group learning. (3) 1-2 hours per day of private or semi private tuition. (4) self paced learning with a coach encouraging progress.
Yup, we do the same and it works out pretty well this way.
> IIRC the only option at the time for running JS on the server was Rhino (based on Netscape/Mozilla), which for whatever reason never saw the broad adoption of Node.

There was SSJS on NES/iPlanet/whatever before that. I mean, it existed. It was not really useful and few people even noticed it existed at all, but it did exist.
It looks like a good, useful idea but you should explain to your user what it does. Perhaps show some screen-shot animations?
Prompt: The way forward to general AI is to quickly

The way forward to general AI is to quickly get as many neural net models into operation as possible, with each neural net performing a simple and specialized task, and then to quickly connect the neural nets together to work as a coordinated team. By putting more neural nets together we increase their collective understanding and ability to accomplish greater tasks than any one of the nets would be able to achieve alone. But we can't just stack neural nets on top of each other -- a neural net needs to see how its inputs are connected to its outputs. We don't want a single neural net to be dependent on other neural nets to determine how it behaves. Instead we need to connect the neural nets together in an organic way.

Let's say we have two neural nets, one that can recognize cats, and another that can recognize dogs. How do we connect these two neural nets together? One solution might be to make the two networks send their output to some central coordinator that could evaluate the input and come to a decision based on the output from both networks.
Paper seems to actually show things like “If you install the Fitness skill, Amazon shows you fitness ads”, but that’s less sexy, I guess.
Although this will provide highest quality of academic curriculum, the remote only high school also has disadvantages. Being with peers in a physically colocated space is critical for kids to learn social skills that are equally important as academic skills. Being able to have a hybrid model of teachers or volunteers who can drive these interactions in small physical groups will provide the best experience.
Where are all the kids in America
Two things:

- 1-Click used to be patent protected until 2017. It may very well be possible that the news of the patent expiration didn't reach everyone, or that people are still afraid of patent trolls.

- unlike Amazon which has the payment and shipping information on file for every customer (which many people are), a random web shop selling sneakers won't, so the user has to go through the checkout process anyway.
[Speculation] I have been reading comments that the issue is that some of the components are just not produced anymore and replacing those components with more modern ones would require going through the whole certification and testing process for the product. Basically you need to redesign the whole product because some of the components have been lost in time.
Oddpost was before Gmail and functioned almost exactly like native outlook

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oddpost

MS themselves had fairly functional Outlook web interface in 1995 (and was the reason XMLHTTPRequest was introduced
Yeah, I was wondering how many users of this tool are aware of the origin of the name...
Lazy ass humans. Externality - not the victim of your own decisions.
If your designer suggests grey text on a black background, fire them.

Parts are completely unreadable, other parts only hard. Not worth the bother.
Sounds like what Mao did in China 70 years ago lol
They’re all stuck in concrete jungles.
Prompt (gpt-j6b):

Once he put the sunglasses on, he was able to see the world for what it is. And then he uttered the words, they live - we sleep.

Response:

From this experience, he said what changed his life was a sense of awareness.

His life, as with many individuals in our community, started with the question of what is the meaning of life, what makes one choose life over the endless sleep of death. Is the choice made on a random decision?

His sense of awareness awakened him to a sense of oneness with all life. One's life has only meaning when their is a sense of connection and awareness of life. They say there is no one more dead than the man who has no curiosity, for he alone who has curiosity has the key to death.
Thanks for the reply. Let me start of by saying that I'm aware that a good portion of students will require a more direct approach the same way they will require "parental" oversight for homework. Perhaps I should have restricted the question to the kids/students who have enough discipline/drive/habits for more self-study oriented education.
There are many low-quality populist websites which will be more receptive to your cringe one-liners. Someone already mentioned the R word, also suggest you try T.
> nobody in Europe would have trouble

Yeah, I guess if people look at it and parse it, they understand it. But what I notice is, that the IT-bubble I am in has no worries parsing these dates because we use them a lot in IT, even in Europe. But people outside of IT do seem confused about US-formatted dates from time to time, because they rarely encounter them.

More than once did I notice someone struggling to fill in their birthday into an online form because the people making the form decided to use M/D/Y instead of D.M.Y
Of course most can help themselves, but its not like these date formats seem natural or normal to everyone in Europe.
Some Moral and Technical Consequences of Automation
For me 2012 was the year I stopped any frontend work at all. As I remember, things felt very easy and natural when all I had to do was output html using templates, write CSS and add some touches of javascript here and there, either using jquery or mootools. Maybe a websocket to display something coming from a process. Then there was backbone, history push state, more frameworks, client side rendering, meteor, and a lot of impressive stuff. Very impressive stuff that felt needlessly complicated and made me procrastinate every time I tried to learn it.

Nowadays, every time I look at a react codebase I feel certain emotions I can only describe as disgust. Maybe I have only seen bad codebases.
That’s not “not having a proletariat”. The proletariat is a state of being.

It’s a (wilfully and very successfully engineered) absence of class consciousness.
> 27/4-2022 in Danish handwriting

I've never seen a date written like this, interesting.
The minute I found out I could work, and go to a Communty College, instead of going to high school I thought I won the lottery.

Long story short my high school allowed gave credit for working, and going to a Communty College.

Once I got to the CC it was relief. My classmates were a lot older, but that was great. Their was no BS. I made great friends.

I didn't like high school much. I was respected because I was a good athlete, but hated high school. I also got a few brownie points because I survived a fight with the ultimate school bully. I went to the same school that our CA governor went to. He was ahead of me, but only graduated because his parents helped him out along the way. I could go on, but don't have the energy tonight. He is very open about his learning difficulties.

O.k. so back to my high school memories. My acne was so bad, I just wanted to hide. My hormones were crazy. I remember having to get to the school at 7:00 for no reason other than listening to some disenfranchised tenure teacher rattle on about their gripes in life. The only thing I liked about high school was a kind biology teacher, and looking at those cheer leaders.

Even at the time, I thought those four years in high school could have been condensed to two year if properly administrated.

If I had a kid, and they hated high school like myself, I would walk them into a CC admissions office.
I have no idea I'm afraid, I don't work on anything that would ever do something like that. As a real world benchmark, the project I'm working on at the moment (Python / Django) runs the test suite in ~10.2 seconds on my Mac inside Docker, on GitHub CI it takes 35 seconds.
The original commenter obviously meant "systemic" racism, and you're not discussing in good faith if you're trying to misinterpret this. Ditto when you digress about calling people racists when no one in this thread has done that.

As to estate tax exemptions, they aren't nearly as egregious. There can certainly be an argument for reparations of ill-gotten gains to level the playing field, but it's at least possible for me to accumulate wealth myself and pass it on to my children. In contrast, it's simply impossible for me to acquire and pass on the same property tax rate that my white neighbors have.
> To be fair, there are "interactive" teaching methods that scale very well. In old-time schools, it was common for a single teacher to teach a large number of students, who would rote learn a teacher-prepared "lesson" and chant it back word-for-word when prompted.

> […]

> It was not ineffective, though individual tutoring would've been the gold standard even back then.

Then it doesn’t scale very well.