skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you so much for catching these! Just deployed a fix for both.
Wikipedia is by definition a reference. If you want to learn something use different material. Trying to make wikipedia articles tutorials is out of scope (not that it isn't nice to get practical examples for concepts, which ime there often are!)
Most people are biased about themselves. In particular famous people often want to hide controversy.
Wikipedia is often okay for science articles.

I find many of the mathematics articles to be difficult to read. I'll look at a mathematics concept that I think I understand (or even use often), and it will be written in jargon that is completely incomprehensible to me.

However, where Wikipedia really has a problem is in contemporary politics. Anything that is even remotely political is probably controlled by one or another clique of editors. There are opposing cliques that battle over every Israel-Palestine article, or over whether to use the Serbian or Croatian name for village X that existed 200 years ago, or about whether hummus is Lebanese or Syrian or Israeli or Levantine. There are also subjects in which one clique has gained complete dominance and is able to completely control a whole topic area. If you start looking at the edit histories and talk pages of articles on one topic, you'll come to realize how influential relatively small numbers of motivated (and sometimes coordinated, though this is against Wikipedia's rules) editors can be.

That's why I'd take anything that's even remotely politically contentious on Wikipedia with an enormous grain of salt.
I got into these back in the late 90s because of the hackable 3Com Audrey "internet appliance" (remember that term?)

I never hear about QNX anymore, so this is def a blast from the past.
I have a panic disorder and I have had daily panic attacks from middle school until about 2 years ago. I have attempted suicide before. If a doctor were to indulge my delusions I would be dead now. That doctor is a monster. I refuse to believe that there was no way she could have found peace. Her doctors gave up on her.
Just build it from source...
Tech-centric positions don't have enough sympathy for email job people. If there aren't meetings all day, then what do they do? They run out of email eventually. To correct poorly set meetings, including "scrum", have someone take notes and review those notes after. If there was constantly nothing to gain, then that meeting is 86'd and whoever set up that meeting gets their meeting setup privileges suspended.
If a person of sound mind wishes to end their life, they should be able to. Forcing someone who is experiencing constant excruciating pain to endure that pain until the natural end of their life is cruel and inhumane.
disclaimer: Yes the grayzone hires RT reporters and has a strongly anti-us take on pretty much everything. Please don't spout "russian propagandist" takes. They've been heard plenty. This is the lack of truth I'm talking about. These are investigative journalists--a dying breed that western propagandists are attempting to make extinct.

https://thegrayzone.com/2020/06/10/wikipedia-formally-censor...
Humans take in a tremendously high bitrate of data via other senses and are able to connect those to the much lower amount of language input such that the language can go much further.

GPT-3 is learning everything it knows about the entire universe just from text.

Imagine we received a 1TB information dump from a civilization that lives in an alternate universe with entirely different physics. How much could we learn just from this information dump?

And from our point of view, it could be absurdly exotic. Maybe their universe doesn't have gravity or electromagnetic radiation. Maybe the life forms in that universe spontaneously merge consciousnesses with other life forms and separate randomly, so whatever writing we have received is in a style that assumes the reader can effortlessly deduce that the author is actually a froth of many consciousnesses. And in the grand spectrum of how weird things could get, this "exotic" universe I have described is really basically identical to our own, because my imagination is limited.

Learning about a whole exotic universe from just an info dump is the task of GPT-3. For instance, tons of our writing takes for granted that solid objects don't pass through each other. I dropped the book. Where is the book? On the floor. Very few bits of GPT-3's training set includes the statements "a book is a solid object", "the floor is a solid object", "solid objects don't pass through each other", but it can infer this principle and others like it.

From this point of view, its shortcomings make a lot of sense. Some things GPT fails at are obvious to us having grown up in this universe. I imagine we're going to see an explosion of intelligence once researchers figure out how to feed AI systems large swaths of YouTube and such, because then they will have a much higher bandwidth way to learn about the universe and how things interact, connecting language to physical reality.
I read over the explanation of the IV strategy to try to capture whether appointment of a business manager was endogenous (we need to cut costs) or exogenous (the predecessor died or retired). I think there's still something missing.

Business managers seem to be more common in older businesses that have saturated their market share. If my observation is true it would confound the finding that revenue does not increase when a business manager is appointed. They may be more likely to be appointed to a role where revenue cannot be increased.

Maybe the authors could use a factor like company age normalized by the median tenure of a company in the S&P 500 at that time to identify younger, more dynamic companies?
Simply limit incoming traffic to users you've whitelisted yourself. Problem solved.
> Every now and then I like to read through Wikipedia pages for things I know more than the average person on. It keeps me skeptical of the things I read on there.

I wrote a dissertation on Conlon Nancarrow's Player Piano Study No. 36.

Skimming the facts in the article on Conlon Nancarrow, everything looks to be both true and relevant to Nancarrow's life and musical output. I could make a few small improvements. E.g., the proportions of tempos among the twelve voices in Study No. 37 are taken from a peculiar tuning system that apparently only appears in Cowell's New Musical Resources. Making that connection would tie in nicely to the previous section that mentions the influence of Cowell's book on Nancarrow. (I believe that connection is made in Kyle Gann's book in case anyone wants to go ahead and make that edit.)

> That doesn't make Wikipedia useless, but the author's best advice is to use Wikipedia as a map to other sources of information.

As an expert on Conlon Nancarrow's music, I approve of using the Wikipedia article about him as a useful and accurate starting point for learning about his life and music.

Until I read a citation on a current Wikipedia article in your area of expertise that has factually inaccurate information in it, I can only reserve judgment on your opinion about Wikipedia's veracity.
Breakthrough battery tech only 8 years away
Except that's not what effective means in the context of the DMCA. If "effective" mechanisms existed in that sense (they don't), there would be no need for the law.

Effective in the DMCA sense means "intended to have the effect of..." it does not mean the mechanisms have to be foolproof.

This is also why the DMCA is a bad law, because it harms legitimate use while doing almost nothing to actual cases of piracy.
You won't see this one on the HN front page. It's not opinion, it's not prediction, it's fact.
Yes I have, cover to cover. And it led me on to reading the original sources and then getting disgusted with Gladwell's shoddy job.

Your example says it all.... gig time as practice is something only a non-musician and/or someone who really doesn't understand practice would say. He gives air time to the idea of deliberate practice and then uses examples that show how that he doesn't get it. AT ALL. I can only assume he came up with the Beatles example and thought it was such a compelling story that he was determined not to let the facts get in the way. Ericsson goes over his criteria for what deliberate practice is.... and nightly gigs are not it in the least!

Read Ericsson and I'll be you will get disillusioned as did I.
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>There is (almost) no such thing as unskilled labor.

That is arguing against a strawman created by an argument that isn't fully specified.

Even walking takes skill. What is meant when people talk about the skill involved in work is how hard is it to train someone to do the job, generally someone with the knowledge and physical skills an adult is expected to have but without any special training beyond that.

Some jobs can be picked up in under a week of training. Other jobs require years of training. Some require physical skills that are quite common among the population even if the average adult doesn't have them (say something like a fitness level 1/3 of adults have).

Discussions of skilled vs. unskilled labor rarely if ever get into where exactly the line is drawn at, but there is a common understanding that jobs can generally be classified as either something an average adult could be taught how to do on the job or not.

Why this matters is that it determines competition for jobs. The more people able to do the job, the less one has to offer to find someone willing to accept. If you can train the average adult to do the job on the job, then you are competing with working adults at large. If you can't, at least reasonably, train someone on the job, then you are competing with far fewer individuals.
A suicidal person is not of sound mind.
Meanwhile a prime number sieve written directly in binary lambda calculus takes no more than 167 bits (under 21 bytes).
Reminds me of tomsrtbt

http://www.toms.net/rb/
Do you have an example where that's not the case? Jumping around on Google maps to random cities the world over shows buildings that look "kinda like" the ones they're near. Every once in awhile you find a immaculate mansion in the middle of a favela but it's rare.
Angular is an option from a high level but I would argue against it on merit.

Vue is off the table. If you’re not prioritizing “ability to hire” with your tech choices you’re in for a bad time. Angular is popular enough that you would get a lot of candidates.
> These principled approaches where you ban a logical human from your product for all eternity don't really work out in practice.

works in korea
I think pedagogical goal is exactly to prevent the act of blindly trusting any source, regardless of source quality. Trust fails without verification, so the idea of a blindly trusted source is self defeating.
It's not necessary to restrict the number of workers - only to refuse to work if the owners allocate too little of the resulting profits back to the workers. This is in fact the whole point of a union.
Is there any good way to play with QNX on a workstation/VM to get familiar with it?
Gcloud storage: Faster data transfers for Cloud Storage
Well, to be fair, the books in question aren't exactly high-brow material.

But I've even seen University Press books get tripped up by Wikipedia. See the "Coati" example on this page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_citogenesis_...

The thing is, this would have been avoidable. If Wikipedia tells you someone called J. Bloggs invented some kind of gadget 100 years ago, you can do a Google Books search to see if there are any 20th-century sources saying so.

If there aren't, then Wikipedia is having you on. Alan MacMasters is not the only example: exactly the same thing happened with the inventor of the hair-straightener. See Example 16 here:

https://www.theregister.com/2017/01/16/wikipedia_16_birthday...
Soccer had 5 billion viewers across the world.
How is that a useful or interesting comparison? What matters, as someone downthread referenced, are measures like deaths per unit of electricity produced when compared to other forms of power generation.

Comparing things like this is like saying we shouldn't worry so much about opioid deaths because so many more people die in car crashes.
I agree. However, I believe that there are some within IBM and also at customer mainframe shops who like it this way because they believe there's an additional layer of security through obscurity.
My biggest issue with React is how it mixes HTML in Javascript. Like putting HTML inside strings or whatever they are doing. Without proper tooling and an editor which supports it, you won't get anywhere. At least that's my amateurish feeling on React, my reason for avoiding it. I may very well be wrong, but I wouldn't know.
QNX was (is?) such a great OS. This was my first encounter with a microkernel based OS that actually worked, and well.

If I remember correctly, they were moving towards OSS at some point (or at least toward opening it to a wider community). I had it installed in a VM, did some packaging of open source stuff to QNX (bash and irssi, I think), was fun.

At some point they focused on industry/enterprise and that was the end of that for me, but led me to discover L4 later on, and I still have a soft spot for microkernels.
Barbelling My Knowledge Portfolio
But I think that this is a core difference between an encyclopaedia and a textbook. If you need the topics presented in an order that takes you from a certain level of understanding to the next, you need a textbook.
[taunt]Most things that I hear about natural language processing boil down to a bunch of codemonkeying assumers trying to oversimplify linguistic phenomena that they are completely ignorant about, and yet trying to sell it as if it was the next best thing after sliced bread.[/taunt]

Anyway. There are three things that NLP is notoriously bad at:

1. Using world knowledge to interpret utterances in a given context. The article itself provides a neat example of that with United-Statian presidents.

2. Contextualisation that goes beyond the text that the utterance is found in.

3. Assessing the pragmatic purpose of an utterance.

But of course, "linguistics is useless for NLP!", the codemonkeys say.
I remember reading the agile manifesto around '99 or so (back then it was called XP, "extreme progrmming") and then, after having worked in software for going on 10 years, it was a breath of fresh air. I couldn't believe that logical, rational, sane principles of software development were not just being proposed by influential voices but were actually being considered by managers.

It took about a year for disillusionment to settle in. Everybody seemed to come away from that document with a completely different interpretation and in most cases that interpretation was, "do exactly what we've always been doing that never worked, but add even more meetings on top of it."

One thing that no big-A "Agile" document has ever spelled out clearly is that the sort of agility can't work with fixed delivery dates. (Nor can any other software design methodology, but that won't stop "stakeholders" from insisting that because fixed delivery dates are Very Important, they're not just achievable but easy and you're just stupid).
It's not just old people. It's idle people. If you aren't focusing most of your attention on something outward in your life, you're going to hyper-focus inwardly and let tiny things eat at you all day.
IRC chat logs from historical events like 1991 USSR collapse
Set http_proxy environment variable to a socks proxy that goes through the vpn. Some vpn clients offer a socksproxy built in. That way if the vpn is not connected the proxy address is dead.
And to generalize, I'd say that...

"There is an imperfect existing solution, with a problem, therefore we will ban the existing solution and move to a new, better one"

... should require extraordinary certainty in completeness of ones new solution before banning the previous.

There are very few times when the legacy method should be deprecated, and Google is the poster child of someone who shouldn't be trusted to recognize them.

(Looks pointedly at Chrome mv2/3 hubris and implementation clusterfuck)
The destruction of value is stunning.
Any US person who has interacted with Tornado Cash after the OFAC designation has commited a felony (IEEPA violation). That means all funds tracable to it can be subject to forfeiture, and if you are directly receiving amounts of money from Tornado that substantially exceed your income for the past couple years you make the governments forfeiture case even easier. You are right that they may not be able to charge you with the initial crime. That is why you would want to leave the US for a jurisdiction that doesn’t care about those kind of things and work with people who aren’t regulated.
Just in 10 years South East Asia is full of submarine cables now. These days you can easily get 100mbps fiber optics subscriptions in some village in an island there, which is a huge upgrade considering you can't even get a landline 20 years ago in those remote areas.
Yeah, it's only on the II and 3 pages: https://mortalkombat.plus/mk2 because I guess 1 isn't done yet.

https://mortalkombat.plus/umk3

And it's annoying that it won't even let you "open the PDF in the browser"
This is not what happened. The genesis block is the first publicly mined block, by definition. Nothing which happened before it is part of the blockchain.
Shoelace looks great, thx for posting! If you can think of any more in that vein- that is clean looking vanilla web components without adding a ton of ‘framework’- feel free to share.

Personally, I’m of the believe that the bumbled mess that web development has become can only be fixed by peeling away layers (or perhaps starting from scratch) not adding more. I seem to be in the minority on this though…
I wouldn't claim Twitter will shut down soon, but one could argue that mastodon is more robust because it's divirsified.

There's no single person on earth who can shut down Mastodon, so Mastodon dies only if this decision is made massively by many people (or if development stops, but then still nothing will stop the server I run on raspberry pi in my bedroom). Twitter otoh can be shut down by one person for a whole multitude of reasons without any concern for the opinion of users.
Wow, that's gotta be the nicest looking and most functional date picker I've ever seen. Date pickers are normally so hit or miss imo but this one is a hit out of the park.
>Please either follow my example or don't reply to me at all.

I'll do whatever I want, especially when "communicating" (generous verb) with someone capable of writing the epitome of stupidity "the concept of apriori knowledge is crackpipe bullshit".
Wow that is _wild_ and I love it. See this is why I need to buy a house: I need space for the sewing machine I'll inevitably use to wind my pickups haha.

I think it's a super fun hobby, I really loved the process of choosing tone and options and learning what affects what. It made my guitar feel like a real players' instrument, like I made my own tool. I'll almost certainly do it again--maybe yeah make my own pickups, but what you did is next level haha.
It’s a storybook site. It has nothing to do with the hosted components.

Storybook can work fine on mobile so I think they must be doing something to hose the built storybook file.
> Don't you Google answers to questions?

No. I don't use it at all.

> It's what they will be doing most of their life.

Everyday I hate this website and the people on it more.
What’s missing is interaction/causation, and the reason is that we can scale things more easily without interaction in the data gathering loop. Training a model with data gathering in the loop requires gathering more data every time the model takes a learning step. It’s slow and expensive. Training a model on pre-existing data is much simpler, and it’s unclear whether we’ve reached the limits of that yet.

My prediction is we’ll get ‘good enough for prod’ without interactive data, which will let us put interactive systems in the real world at scale, at which point the field’s focus will be able to shift.

One way to look at it is active learning. We all know the game where I think of a number between 0 and 100 and you have to guess it, and I’ll tell you if it’s higher or lower. You’ll start by guessing 50, then maybe 25, and so on, bisecting the intervals. If you want to get within +/-1 of the number I’m thinking of, you need about six data points. On the other hand, if you don’t do this interactively, and just gather a bunch of data before seeing any answers, to get within +/-1, and need 50 data points. The interactivity means you can refine your questions in response to whatever you’ve learned, saving huge amounts of time.

Another way to look at it is like randomized controlled trials. To learn a compact idea (more X means more Y), you can randomize X and gather just enough data on Y to be confident that the relationship isn’t a coincidence. The alternative (observational causal inference) is famously harder. You have to look at a bunch of X’s and Y’s, and also all the Z’s that might affect them, and then get enough data to be confident in this entire structure you’ve put together involving lots of variables.

The way ML has progressed is really a function of what’s easy. If you want a model to learn to speak english, do you want it to be embodied in the real world for two years with humans teaching it full time how the world and language relate? Or is it faster to just show it a terabyte of english?

tl;dr observational learning is much much harder than interactive learning, but we can scale observational learning in ways we can’t scale interactive learning.
Around 2003 there was a demo CD. This brings up a nice system with a GUI and browser.[1][2]

QNX started closed source with a free version, went open source, went closed source, went open source after an acquisition, and then went closed source when RIM (Blackberry) acquired them. Then RIM dropped the GUI to focus on whatever it is Blackberry still does.

As I once told one of their sales execs, "quit worrying about people pirating your system and worry about people ignoring it". During the first free version period, people were porting open source software such as GCC, Eclipse, and browsers to QNX. With all the licensing changes, the open source community got fed up with QNX and stopped making versions for it.

We used QNX for our DARPA Grand Challenge vehicle. All our desktop machines ran QNX, and we could run the real-time program on them as well as the vehicle. The real time features were so good that we could have the entire real-time vehicle system running, at hard real time priority, and run a browser or compile without missing a time check.

[1] http://toastytech.com/guis/qnx621.html

[2] https://archive.org/details/qnx_momentics_6.2.1
Not impossible, but that's definitely not trivial to do.

If it matters to you, you should build it from source.

If it's just out of curiosity... yeah reproducible builds are a thing, but generally that's not super straightforward in practice, I would say.
We should probably not force private companies to spend (or lose, no difference) money to solve societal problems that they are in no way responsible for.

That's like forcing pepboys to change the tires of senior citizens for free because social security isn't paying enough.

Maybe we should put our efforts towards fixing problems instead of asking private companies to put a bandaid on it at their expense.