skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not convinced about the "learning to match the distributions of strings, rather than the full structure of a language" bit. I'm not saying that you can only learn a language in full. For instance, I speak Greek natively and I know a bit of Italian. I don't have to know Italian perfectly to read books (and fumetti) and communicate in it. Then again, I already know a language so the problem of learning a new one is quite a different one from learning the first.

The problem I have with statistical language learning, especially in children, is that, just because you can learn a distribution over strings doesn't mean you should, or that you do, as a human. I'll move the goal posts a bit now (but then again, you started talking about language learning in children) but an important ability of language users is that they can produce coherent utterances in context. Statistical language models can learn some structure and parameters, but I have yet to see any statistical learner that can do what humans do, know what it's saying and what is being said.

This tells me that, although statistical learning may take us even say half-way to language learning, it won't get us all the way. I'm convinced that there's something much simpler, much easier (in terms of computational operations) that children -and adults- do when they learn language. We just haven't found out what it is, yet.

Btw, limited human ability for introspection not withstanding, I can tell that when I try to understand a spoken or written utterance I definitely do something sort of probabilistic- I will sometimes even consciously ask myself what is more likely being said. But that doesn't tell me that language learning, or intelligence itself, is probabilistic- in the same way that just because I can walk I don't think of myself as a pair of legs with stuff on top (accurate as that description might be).

Edit: upvote from me, for being the first person on HN that knows what I'm talking about when I'm talking about Gold's result etc. I was starting to think it was all a dream I had.
I do the same. But with Gnome.
This is also the first Pixar film to be based on an existing, well-established theme.

I'm trying to imagine of an example of what that incongruity might feel like to someone of my Anglo background. The best I could come up with is a Christmas movie with a Romeo&Juliet love interest, where the two lead characters are dead by Christmas morning.

If I didn't know what Christmas was, other than "a large festival for family", then I might think it adds to the tragedy of the story. But, I argue, it's no longer a Christmas movie, but rather a movie which takes place on Christmas.

(Analogously, E.T. partially takes place on Halloween, but it is not a Halloween movie.)

Then to give a sense of "made by and for Anglos", think if this film were filmed in India, as a Bollywood-style musical, and where the two families were, say, stereotypical rich Texas oil families, rather like Bobby Ewing and Pamela Barnes from Dallas.
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Steam measures 98% Windows, 1.56% OSX.
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Thanks.

It's totally cliché, but i was very happy to be there for her.
> Don't eat meat

In some cases, this is a more ideological than practical suggestion. Will necessarily improve the climatic change problem?. Probably not: Agriculture consume and needs a lot of water, and lots of fuel also and require to devoid the production area of other plants (whereas many old and very big oaks are respected and have a place because pigs eat accorns).

Change a truck moving sheeps with the same Kg in Vegetables, nothing changes in term of fuel saved. In fact as vegetables are less dense, you would need to move more Kg for providing enough calories for the same people (because lattices are basically water).
Formula 1 is okay. I am not sure if Liberty Media knows what treasure they bought, at the moment all their minor adjustments were only confusing. Sure, I wouldn't mind if they go back to V12 engines like in 1999. But the current season, and the last few years were fine. A lot better than the Schumacher and Vettel era, that was a boring time. Nowadays 3 teams have competitive cars, and three more teams (or so) drive for the podium and get there occasionally.

Dirt Rally is not for me, it's like Project Cars unrealistic hard while not be very realistic, in contrary to Grandprix Legends and Assetto Corsa. Dirt 3+4 with this Ken Block shit or random generated boring generic tracks - no thanks. DiRT 2 is still the best in presentation (it looks better in 4K on PC than DiRT Rally, see YouTube videos), DiRT 2 has a nice single campaign, a nice menu, great tracks in 8 different regions, a great physics engine and car deformation and so much more - I don't get why their newer games all are a lot less fun to drive and in general build together so lackluster. Maybe they should take a break for a year, not releasing yearly updates to F1, DiRT (and DiRT). A new DiRT 2 and a new GRID 1 and a new DriveClub would be awesome - do it.
Forgot to add a joke: you can judge from my nickname! :-)
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Judging from other replies here, answer to your question is "being behind NAT is most probably safe in terms of random remote ME exploitation".
But since there are other attack vectors, and since NAT can technically be circumvented (due to bugs in router, etc., which are NOT uncommon) - you should definitely disable ME if you can (and now there are tools to do that).
In the absence of both competition and regulation, corporations will never act benevolently toward their customers. One or the other is necessary to keep capitalism ethical.
Many markets are still very much under 10k - https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitcoin/#markets
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http://rubyquiz.com/ is pretty good.
> This is one of those quotes that really make me wonder how markets are ever able to push prices down. I get that people are all trying to make money but almost everyone in the decision making process except for the end consumer seems to be in the "competition is bad" camp.

Free markets are fragile things and it takes a lot of work to keep them competitive. But in fairness this is a relatively new product category.

> I wonder when the anti-trust cases against Uber (especially for dumping) will start rolling in.

Sometimes I wonder whether all VC-funded startups are basically dumping.
Crohns? It can in rare cases affect the nose/throat and fits with the fatigue. However I assume the gastro would have noticed it.

No allergies?
Why use a database then, at all?
Just use plain text files.
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FFS Hacker News, why is this front page?
"He's saying all men who don't dance are schizotypal/avoidant!"

I'm saying that I don't think your statement is diagnostic in any useful sense.

While that might be the reason why some (a perhaps small number) males don't dance, there are cultures where men do dance, and cultures where they do not, and these percentages are quite large.

As such there must a strong cultural effect on why male do/don't dance, with schizotypal/avoidant behavior a far smaller reason.
> and you have no leverage

What leverage do you have in making children do chores in case if you do not motivate them by earnings?
so it seems in general you like GCP more than AWS? What is your opinion?
Can someone explain to me what HUD means in this context? They say HUD is gone, and GNOME developers are strongly against ever having one. The screenshots show something looking like an overlay with global search. To me, that's what a HUD is.
There were similar stories from the warehouse located in Poland.
It all depends on the size of your problem. For some cases, there is no need of a professional advice other than just holding hands... I bet you could represent yourself in a small court claim, diagnose yourself with some OTC medication (or hitting the pub?) and file your tax with turbotax depending on your tax year.
It's a site about accessibility in physical world, not about responsive web design.
We're going through hell right now because the system I inherited uses Mongo for order/transaction/inventory data which benefits HUGELY from being stored in an ACID-compliant database, even when you ignore the fact that the data is highly relational and perfectly suited to a "boring" SQL DB.

Mongo has its place, but its place isn't in most line-of-business applications for SMEs.

"Pick the right tool for the job" has been the biggest casualty in the midst of the schemaless hype we're going through right now.
I don't, partially for that reason.
Finally an article that gives some numbers to quantify Bitcoin market. Transaction fees as P/E analogy seems wrong.
I find myself wanting to do something similar... thanks for the inspiration!
Comment says 'NeXTSTEP wasn't OS of choice in sciences', not what you misread it as.
> * Super + Alt + up/down to switch workspaces

> * Super + Alt + Shift + up/down to move the current window to a different workspace

These are pgup/pgdown, I believe?
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> So what is the non capitalist alternative?

From my understanding, 100% worker owned and operated co-ops that give the average worker more democratic control in the work place.
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They don't always stop realistically. Sometimes they stop exactly right before crashing into another vehicle.
First it is a confusion about the condition of capitalism and democracy. Capitalism can function very well in a dictatorship .

Second , Facebook is able to make compromise about free speech because is just a bussiness . If in a country , the usage of facebook is conditionated by the power ,the company will accept the rules of the power because its interest is to make money in that country. You can see china.
That's Apple and Oranges. We are comparing same lifestyles in different countries. Otherwise the comparison will not hold.

Collecting Government stipend from a wealthy country, living in a rural area, and using nothing but free government services will make life less expensive even for the minimalist lifestyle.

But that's not the point here. The point is, is it cheaper? The answer is obviously: No!. If it was, people will move to "arbitrage" out there money/lifestyle. That's what happened with Thailand. That's what is happening with Cambodia.
What's missing from your thought experiment is concurrency. Imagine there's 100k people connected to the server. If you make the system in Erlang, you can handle each connection in a separate process, which individually monitors its own bitrate and fetches or sends data with synchronous calls. This makes the code very straightforward.

The VM ensures each process won't block the scheduler for more than 1ms or so, so that processes that have short but time critical operations to do (e.g. push a video frame down a socket) get a chance to run quickly, no matter what other processes are doing and whether it's I/O or CPU bound.

Kamaelia, gevent, Node.js, etc. do not provide that guarantee. OS threads do, and there are good frameworks based on them (e.g. Celluloid), but they don't scale to more than a few thousands.
Doh, that’s the link I should have submitted. But still, I feel the title is accurate.
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But it's just as easy and just as safe to allow two schemas to co-exist within the same database. If you follow the necessary steps for a risk-free data migration, having both schemas coexist simultaneously and doing gradual switchovers, both models are going to be comparably difficult.

What schemaless lets you do is hide your risk better by disguising those steps. "db.table.update({$set: ...}, {multi: true})" looks friendly, but it's the same terrifying operation as running DROP TABLE A the instant you're done generating table B. And it looks easier, but that's because your code's beliefs about which schema it's reading from are hidden and implicit.
> Lots of people complain about how unfair it is that the US has billionaires, but without billionaires would we have SpaceX? I doubt it.

A thousand million-dollar startups can probably do more innovation between them than one billion-dollar startup. Maybe we would've ended up with a different structure - maybe one company would make a better engine and sell it to Boeing or whoever, and another would make better structural components, and another would come up with the landing systems by licensing control systems from yet another... but I think without billionaires (and remember Musk is one billionaire of many, he's by no means the median example) we'd get more value for society overall.
Interesting that this is downvoted.
>> Saudi Arabia viewed cleaning as women's work, sure, just like nearly every country in Europe 100 years ago.

Gender equality is still a big problem in Europe, actually: https://www.oecd.org/inequality.htm#gender
1. Not true. An easy case like this and you can get a lawyer on contingency. I did that when I sued Equifax a few years back — a nice settlement and the lawyer took his cut.

2. Define what being made whole meant? Did he lose money from this photo being used? Did the future value of this photo get harmed? What was the value of the photo? What were the actual damages? As a stock photo, that image wouldn’t be worth much more than $50. Our of court “go-away” settlement would not exceed $5000 — because there aren’t any actual damages.

3. How was he made not whole? What are his actual damages?

I find it interesting that the HN community that hates DRM and thinks torrenting movies is ok seems to care so much about when Netflix effectively downloads an image and makes a derivative work — like a music remix. How many are demanding that DJs who make bootleg remixes and post then on SoundCloud pay the original artists damages? How many get furious when someone gets sued over violating a patent?

This is the same thing. But we are supposed to care differently just based on who is involved?
Because it is in Netflix best interest if he doesn’t get a laywer. He said the images can easily go up to $600 and I believe this is truly what he would have gotten if they asked. Now since he they took it without asking, he probably could get a lot more (it is after all used as promotional material and there are a lot of ads for it). If Netflix wanted the copyright infringement to go away as quickly, and cheaply as possible, they would just pay him without lawyers on his part who would probably advice him to go to court.

You’re analogy with the police office is a bad one for this example. Image you dumped another can without you realizing that. Fortunately for you, the other person does not call the police immediately. Instead, they manage to track you down and send you a letter asking you to pay for the damages. You can assert that this did in fact happen because their paint is on your car. This is in your best interest. You really don’t want to get charged for a hit and run. You are glad he did not go to the police, pay the damages and send a nice apology letter. Netflix probably did not know about the copyright infringement. It probably was made by a design company. Netflix should have know whom the VGA cassette originates from, but they did not and this is unfortunate but can happen. It is in netflix’s best internet to go away silently.

What I believe had happened is that he was sent to the wrong department. That department saw the email and though it was not authentic/a fake to quickly export money or baseless. A company must get a lot of emails: “you owe me money because xyz”.
You can recover using your Live Account, which contains a copy of the key.

But you still have to type it in.

I do this regularly as a recent W10 upgrade broke the SoftTPM in my Ryzen CPU (no longer recognised at boot), so I type it in everytime I boot windows (so once or three times a month).

It's very resilient since it has a built-in Error Detection Code for each 6 digit pair entered, if you make a typo, it likely will immediately complain and prevents entering any more of the code.
Bitcoin could hit $10.000 any moment now. Who is buying and why?
How do you quantify what p/e of a US dollar is?
Doesn't make much sense to me
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Is price compared to transaction fees really a good measure?

Holding them doesn't mean you get the transaction fees, and increasing transaction fees would lower the 'P/E' but make bitcoins obviously worse to have or use.
didn't get your last remark re bandwidth. If 1TB alone costs $90 at both GCP/AWS, how is 3TB + 2 CPU instance for $20 is a poor choice?
The idea is great, but in reality these stupid crypto coins are practically useless and wasting HUGE amounts of resources.

Bitcoin is said to be consuming as much power a some countries, and still rising fast, while the amount of transactions is comically low compared to the power consumption.

Bitcoin in its current state can never be a thing to actually buy something with. I don't see any other long-term use for bitcoin than just making a couple of bucks before it eventually crashes down like the Hindenburg.

I'm not saying that all cryptocoins will suffer that fate, but I truly believe bitcoin specifically will.
Are there any shortcuts on Linux which are different from those on Windows by default?
its going to crash big time, opportunity to buy more
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IPv6 is also pushing towards a more firewall-heavy network rather than a firewall-less network, usually a NAT implies the presence of a firewall though.
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With Sshuttle you got access to all TCP ports. You can add hosts in /etc/hosts, ~/.ssh/ssh_config, /etc/ssh/ssh_config, dnsmasq, or aliases in your favourite shell. If you prefer port 80 and it is being used on local host already you can manually do what ZeroTier does: add a /32 or /128 to an interface and route it.

I just tried ZeroTier yesterday and it is nice indeed, basically an advanced, open source Hamachi. But it is not rocket science. What I especially like is that you can completely self host.
> I think it’s only a default on RHEL distros?

Since "enabled=always" is the kernel default value, anything that uses a stock kernel (example: Arch family) or has to build its own (Gentoo) will probably have it enabled by default.

I just checked, and my Gentoo and Manjaro systems have it set to "enabled=always".
Sure. Have you heard of this little company called Intel?
Ex-New Yorker here, I've seen my single co-workers spend all their money with expensive rents, gadgets, social life and traveling.
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Old saying: "What's common in every bubble is the belief that this time, it will be different." -> if you invest in cryptocurrencies, make sure not to invest more than you can comfortably lose (probably a few percent of your overall funds).
You don't start with a lawyer. You start with a letter before action, which sets out what they've done wrong and what you want them to do about it.

This is very simple. There are plenty of example online. It would be roughly "I created, and own, these images. You've used them without permission, for a commercial use. You understand the importance of IP and copyright, and you defend your own rights. I'd like you to buy a licence at my standard rate of $X, plus a Y% uplift for commercial use by an organisation that should know better. I expect payment within 28 days."

When you're interacting with big corporations you need to speak their language. We see this in claims of copyright infringement, but also in open source projects that don't get donations from big corps - because they don't offer the "order, invoice, payment" cycle that corporations expect.
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I'm not sure I follow. It may well be that the north had ulterior motives beyond humanitarianism but that doesn't take away from the fact that the explicit reason that a number of states gave for seceding was to preserve slavery.

I'm not sure I get your point about the flag either. Of course, it's not racist per se, it's abstract. But it's almost exclusively flown as a symbol of pride in the confederate institutions that it represents. Those institutions were explicitly racist. As you say, it has direct parallels with the swastika.

> what was the last humanitarian war you witnessed?

And finally, this really doesn't take into account the period. It was not at all unusual, in the mid 19C, for countries to use military action for social aims. Now, I happen to think that an awful lot of it was on behalf of evangelism of "superior" values rather than humanitarianism. This was rife in British establishment thinking at the time and was prevalent in the northern states too.

In other words, I think it's justified to believe that these actions were driven by feelings of moral superiority rather than human equality. But to suggest that they can all be understood as power plays simply doesn't fit the facts.
Personally I wonder if the rise in Bitcoin could be linked to Russian sanctions like the Magninsky act?

Could now blacklisted Oligarchs who were previously using western financial institutions to launder their money now be using Bitcoin instead?
Personally, not professionally, I like GCP more. Feedback cycle is (used to be) faster and it feels (used to feel) less enterprisey. I also liked the idea of a new player on the market, and wanted to make sure I vote for this diversity with dollars.

I think these days GCP and AWS are more or less on par. One thing I learned the hard way: invest time into calculating your expected cloud spend. Your use case, partners you integrate with, your audience. Those impact significantly on cloud pricing.
I think you are making a mistake by only looking at cryptos as "coins".

There are businesses being run on and around public blockchains and the cryptoeconomic incentives will ensure the perpetuation of the network. As long as there is value in maintaining public blockchains, their tokens (BTC, BCH, ETH, etc) will hold monetary value.

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If you can't measure (very well?), how would you know the improvement in a certain use-case exists or not?
> Take dot-com stocks, which were the biggest bubble of the past few decades, and likely the largest in stock market history. At the height of the dot-com stock bubble, the technology-heavy Nasdaq stock index had a price-to-earnings ratio of 175. In the past year, bitcoins have generated transaction fees of nearly $219 million. And at $9,600 a piece, the total value of all bitcoins -- their market cap -- now tops $155 billion. That gives bitcoins the equivalent of a trailing P/E ratio of 708.

What kind of logic is that? Holding bitcoin doesn't give you any earnings. In fact, you need to spend electricity and equipment if you want to collect those fees.

Apples and Oranges.
I think it's amazing how a lot of comments on EFF's resignation from W3C (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15278883) seemed to focus on how they were being unreasonable about EME, and that allowing companies to have DRM is necessary. Yet, both then and now, the EFF keeps making the point that none of the DRM even works! It was never ABOUT the DRM. The companies don't give a shit about "copyright laws" or people "stealing movies". As this article very clearly demonstrates, the companies are using this to crush competition. That's it. There's no other use for this.

The DRM is a legal excuse to sue competitors out of existence. The existing EME-compliant DRM implementations don't even work. This whole thing is a farce.