skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A bit more info, including a test where Google doesn't lose gender information when the English word happens to have it (actor/actress):

https://www.quora.com/Does-Google-Translate-use-English-as-a...

It appears that they have been trying to construct (with ML, not by hand) a universal intermediary language since at least 2016 to avoid this sort of thing, but that it still isn't as good as just using English as the intermediary.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2114748-google-translat...
I've been thinking about something like this years ago. Basically I wanted to implement de Bono's "Six Thinking Hats" as a website that would assist an individual to work through a problem with the help of a community. So a user would not state his problem to wait for complete solutions suggested by others. Instead, s/he'd, for example, try to explain what s/he wants to achieve and ask for strategies. The community would then suggest some options ("yellow hat thinking"). Next, the community could weed out bad options ("black hat thinking"). If there were any ideas left one could ask how everyone feels emotionally about the remaining options ("red hat thinking") and then pick the most popular one. In a next step, they could brainstorm creative ideas to mitigate possible problems with the chosen option ("green hat thinking"). Afterwards the OP could summarize the outcome and state what s/he is going to do. If after a while some more thinking turns out to be required one could continue the process again. For instance, you could discuss how to deal with unforeseen challenges or - if the chosen option turns out to be futile - investigate one of the other suggestions in more detail And so on and so forth ...

However, I worried that most people would not have the time/patience to really get involved with a problem. Furthermore, the process might be to cumbersome and rational for real world problems.
I think selling your identity will become bigger
It's a bit surreal that an advertising based company's browser will now block annoying ads by default while the privacy focused Mozilla corporation's browser is still not implementing any kind of built-in ad blocking.
Check out warden, potentially with sinatra. https://github.com/hassox/warden/wiki/Overview explains warden and https://github.com/jsmestad/sinatra_warden is a basic sinatra wrapper (totally optional).
Must be easier to cheat? Palm another barcode etc.
> because they have to make up the revenue.

I see this all the time when justifying bad business practices. How about you stop doing what you're doing if it isn't profitable?
A job working with AWS is probably better if it is either/or. To put it another way, certificates are not entirely a substitute for workplace experience.

Good luck.
Let's focus a bit at some of the translationd of sentences in my passage:

He had broken his leg and he put blades on him.
Basilica, who is a little bit of mascara with him, got something chocolates and flowers.
Worst you know who it is?
she was Maria, who lost her last year.
Destruction!

All that's absolute gibberish, obviously. The only reson you are able to make some sense out of it is that you have a human-level understanding of language and that you can place the nonsense strings generated by GT into an appropriate context that can give you some information about their intended meaning. Most however are too garbled to make any sense of them- the second string is the most striking one.

This is not "good enough" (as opposed to perfect). That's just terribly bad. If you think it works for you that's only because you're so good at understanding language by dint of your being human (well- I assume).

Of course human translators get it badly wrong. I've read human translations that are not much better than that nonsense above, to be honest. But a reasonably competent human translator will never make the kind of elementary mistakes that automatic translation does. And those elementary mistakes will always escalate to the point that the meaning of longer passages will deteriorate to gibberish.

As to being able to understand basic signs, posters and menus in Greek- you can do that with a good travel guide also. And the travel guide will not claim to be a breakthrough Artificial Intelligence system, like Google claims for GT.
WASM compiled code doesn't improve upon the use of javascript as a scripting language, only javascript as 'bytecode.' I don't think WASM would replace javascript in those cases, unless you could drop another language into a script tag and have it work as easily for basic DOM manipulation, which people still do.
Er, can you characterize which post-Newtonian correction/s is or are of non-negligible order here for Milky-way millisecond pulsars? Where do they enter, if not extremely close to the pulsars themselves? I'm curious, because we use them to test, among other things, |\alpha_3| in the PPN formalism alpha-zeta notation. Along the way you necessarily get a very good characterization of the transforms available on local arrival times in different coordinate systems and can probe other PPN parameters. (cf. Kramer, sec 4 and 5.1 free version: http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0405178v2).

More generally, do you object to systems of coordinates that are in-practice recoverable by a wide variety of observers? We sure aren't Eulerian observers of the Milky Way, but does it really seem parochial or idiosyncratic to take a Eulerian approach to its matter?

> If four observers cannot agree on what was your exact location at time n

Find four observers who see the CMB (and matter in the bulk) as isotropic and homogeneous, who measure the same temperature of the relic photons, and who have a direct line of sight (with improbably good telescopes) into the relevant part of the Milky Way, and they can agree very precisely on your location in a cosmological frame constructed like the standard one used in this tiny patch of spacetime. The tricky part is that the light travel times are long compared to chaotic movements of individual humans, and the choice of gauge has to be agreed and the observations shared.

> If you're in the middle of nowhere and not moving at relativistic speeds

Where in spacetime is the middle of nowhere?

What's materially different for a relativistic observer moving through the same general curved spacetime (especially if "the middle of nowhere" is, say, a large region of extremely-close-to-Minkowski spacetime) as a non-relativistic one? While you're there, what's different for an accelerated observer in the same region? Are you saying that something more than a Lorentz transform would be needed?
While it is certainly true on some level, I think Carnegie chose not to use "manipulate" for a reason: It's not so much about getting them to do what you want, but to see the issue from all sides and choose a path that is beneficial to you both. He also repeatedly stresses honesty ("honest appreciation").
So even if there is some amount of manipulation, it's still mainly about seeing everybody as a person and working together.
Funny that newspapers compromised by putting all the ads in a separate section. So serious shoppers could read that part when they wanted to, without ruining the paper for everybody. I of course just throw that section in the trash on my way out of the bodega.
Referrer checking is a standard way to avoid CSRF vulnerabilities.

https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Cross-Site_Request_Forgery_(...
Only if you are a humanitarian, I suppose.
I wouldn't trust a burglar to install my security system. I won't trust Google to block ads.
I notice that with Minetest, which is essentially an open-source Minecraft clone. I can go from desktop to walking around ingame in about 3 seconds (and my system is not actually particularly powerful).

As a result, it's sort of become my short-work-break game and I keep on thinking that I would play a "real game", if I ever have the time for it.
Why is it a winner-takes-all market?
Do you happen to sell slippers?

Maybe the problem is not too hard, just that statistical models are not the right way to solve it. Actually it seems like it's THE problem that exemplifies the difference between partial problems that are suitable for stats (bayesian spam filters) and the "true" AI.

Also using English as an intermediate step is a no-no. I doubt anything will improve while there isn't a competitor that tries a fresh approach and gets better results.
I was a vegetarian myself for many years, and now you mention it I don't have any self-declared veg friends or relatives whom I know eat any animal products apart from dairy.

Interestingly some do it for moral/religious reasons and some do it for health reasons, and it does seem the latter are the ones who want to bring it up.
According to the article, this is more about google's competitors strangling them (by being so intrusive that customers consider full ad blockers to be necessary).
Advertising is very seldom information based.

Advertising is primarily about making you buy a product from a particular company, whether it's a good product or not, whether it's right for you or not.

If it were about letting people know your products then 'Nide' would have "if you want these for cross-training the best show are 'Reebob' Cross2" on the advert for their training shoes.

Advertising is almost orthogonal to informative disclosure.
This needs some samples

https://dood.al/oscilloscope/#-0.05,-0.8,0,0,0,0,0.0,3,1,sin(a*t-t/5)*cos(a*t/b)*cos((a+b)*t),sin(a*t+(t/11))*cos(t*t/(b*a)),3,5,0,0.74,125,0,0,0

https://dood.al/oscilloscope/#-0.05,-0.8,1,0,0,0,0.0,3,1,sin(22*a*t-t/15)*cos(a*t+t/12+t/30),sin(a*t+t)*cos(t/a+t/3),2,5,0,0.74,125,0.07,0,0
It might be worth looking into the pidgin languages that tend to emerge when two cultures meet and start to trade without the intervention of a officially appointed/educated class of arbitrators i.e. machine translated text might be seen as a kind of pidgin language thats not really any of the two languages in question.
Maybe the truth is that things don't work as they're "supposed to".

Could it be that the model is wrong?
Why is 0.99999 equal to 1?
This is an old standby, recurring (if you'll excuse the pun) on a regular basis in many, many forums. It never seems to be settled to everyone's satisfaction, so I'd bet there are people here on HN who don't believe that 0.999999... is equal to 1.

I would be interested in engaging with a few, in part to help them see why modern mainstream mathematics says that, in part to try to help me understand their point of view, and in part to test an idea I have about a discussion system.

I'm intending this to take part over a few weeks, and I won't always be able to respond instantly to questions, so it would favour anyone interested in a thoughtful discussion. If you're interested, please feel free to send me an email - details are in my profile.

Thanks.
Accident != homicide
From my standpoint, this is one of the most overrated books of all times.

I stopped reading it somewhere in the middle because it did not tell me anything new at all.

I understand we are all different and have our strengths and weaknesses, what is totally obvious to you is probably a new concept to me.
Trading results in price discovery. Accurate prices allow more informed investment decisions and the development of more real wealth. The alternative is something like a centrally planned economy which have generally been unsuccessful.
I think Google is setting itself up for antitrust action. Isn’t this essentially what Microsoft did on the desktop by blocking competitors and priorritizing their own products?
Why would I care about Mikhail Bongard's problems?
Will this work on the mobile versions of Chrome as well (Android, iOS, etc)?

For iOS in particular, there doesn't seem to be any officially supported way to block ads.
Thank you so much for "finally"!
> let me just say this: there is a LOT of what I would call "caricaturized misrepresentation" of Rand and Rand's work out there in the wild.

This cannot be overstated enough. I read Atlas Shrugged (no other Rand books) and seriously feel I must have read a different book than the one that gets such vitriol spat at it on a constant basis.

And that vitriol? It's typically attacking strawmen that I never remotely picked up from the book.

I think the strangest thing about it all is you get plenty of folks saying how the current government are ayn rand acolytes... If they are, they are certainly doing it wrong. Atlas Shrugged basically described and warned about exactly what is going on in government today - regulatory capture, corruption, gains going to the folks who do absolutely nothing vs. those providing value, etc. Essentially exactly what is going on in the government and corporate America today - it's more profitable to play politics than it is to be productive and produce something of value via hard work.

Make no mistake: In Ayn Rand's world Trump is one of the moochers and would be one of the leading villains if he was a character in Atlas Shrugged. It's almost comical how much he would fit right into that plot.

So I really feel I got something out of it that is about the opposite from everyone else. I also don't understand why it rubs people the wrong way at such a fundamental level. I have to say it makes me somewhat suspicious of such people - if they can twist meanings around so effectively to fit their narrative and have such strong feelings about that fabrication I wonder where else in their life and beliefs they are doing the same.

In the end Atlas Shrugged was an overly verbose book that contained some semi-interesting parables and then smacked you with them repeatedly for 1500 pages. I mostly enjoyed it and it certainly made me think - but I wouldn't even put it in my top 10 of "life changing" books out there.
Which is it, the super secret consortium that won't even let you download the full list of bad sites, or Easy List/Privacy? Why don't they just use EasyList and report offenders there instead of this new consortium? The answer to that rhetorical question will let you know why I'll remain on uBO. They didn't need to build this in, but they did and gave the current ad-blocking community the finger instead of support.
> These used to be highlighted in light yellow, clearly marking them as different from organic search results.

The specific shade of yellow was indiscernible from background white on a cheap laptop at almost any angle. I wish I'd taken a photo when I noticed. I knew people who had never even noticed the yellow, at all, let alone understood it was ads.

I know, Never Attribute To Malice and all that, but hot damn, that must have been a massive multi million dollar move of "ignorance".
"It is one of those books that is either complete rubbish or a work of consummate genius, nothing in between! Probably the former, but I'm hedging my bets." - Richard Dawkins
Remember when Google claimed that paid inclusion was one of the worst sins a search engine could commit? One so bad that it made it claim other search engines were evil?
To have an ad network control so much of web traffic and then decide which ads to block is just absurd.

If the chrome team and google’s ad teams were not controlled by the same unit that primarily makes money from ads it would have been ok, but given that they do, what incentive will they have to block their own ads and how much more powerful is it making their own network?

Sadly, chrome is still the easiest browser to use, especially as a developer
I am more than happy to attribute it to malice because that is exactly what Google did with their competitors when they were just starting out.
Instagram is headed in the same way. The main feed used to be a simple linear progression of pleasing photos from only the people you chose to follow.

Now they have all sorts of things cluttering the feed besides just Ads... Recommended Posts, Friend-Invite Recommendations, Mid-feed stories.

The clutter is making it less and less enjoyable to use the app, and I've started considering dropping the only social platform I actively use.
Google may have pushed for this, but the standards were agreed upon by the ad industry:

https://marketingland.com/industry-groups-self-regulatory-pr...
True, but those interfaces are built by adults still stuck in the old paradigm. Kids have astonishing familiarity with tables and phones. The notion that interfaces need to be dumbed down because users are 'stupid' might be true today, but that won't be the case for those raised with smartphones.

2007 was 11 years ago, in 10 years those iPhone reared people will enter the workplace. They will have instincts you and I do not. I suspect it will push general computing interface design to the 'power user' side.
How are they ruining anything?
Regarding your last point, doesn't 'big auto' comprise some of the largest investors in this technology?
To sneak in Google ads?
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"This should always be a normal Monday" or "This should never be a normal Monday" are both wrong. What matters is that the team is productive.

There's always a give and take, especially with the labor market being tight. All a balance between value_of_happy_employees : value_of_more_work. Because the only thing worse than the current team pissing away time is having to hire a new team...
You can trust a burglar to install a security system that will keep other burglars out, but you can be 100% sure that you will not be able to keep the installer out, in fact you are just about giving them an incentive to rob you blind at the first opportunity. Google will do an amazing job at blocking competitor ads.
You should not see this as a Google vs Mozilla thing but as a Google vs adblockers and Google vs its competing advertising networks issue. Then it makes much more sense.
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Do these standards and this Chrome ad-blocker also solve the issue of advertisers putting crypto-mining scripts into their ads?
Remove the hat from the dog and it seems to lose its sense of style. Is the dog a fashionista?

This is anthropomorphism while being unconscious of it.
I read the article but it doesn't clarify whether or not Google will hardcode a "whitelist" that will ignore EasyList entries for AdSense, DoubleClick, GoogleAnalytics, etc.

A comparable situation would be Windows 10 ignoring users' manually edited HOSTS file that attempts to block telemetry.[1] Microsoft has hardcoded hostname-to-ip resolution inside the networking stack (inside dnsapi.dll).

If Google decides that Chrome will ignore some entries in EasyList, it means EasyList is more of a "suggestions" filter rather than a "user's final authority" filter.

[1] https://www.petri.com/windows-10-ignoring-hosts-file-specifi...
If you want to go read the source yourself, I believe this is the implementation:

https://cs.chromium.org/chromium/src/extensions/browser/api/...

And the code reviews cover the feature are tagged with DNR: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/?polygerrit=0#/q/Dn...

Edit: this may just be the net blocking code.
Often they even load the script from Google, giving Google full code execution control in the web app context.
Wolfram Alpha [1] is another tool from them that's simply phenomenal for a multitude of purposes, including research. It's what I'd really like to see in a search eventually. It tries to actually directly deliver answers instead of correlating searches to a prioritized list of websites which is slowly degenerating search into 'search trendy websites by keyword.' For instance search google for "price of google stock in 2009", and then do the same search on Wolfram Alpha.

As that project evolves, it could eventually be the sort of searchable knowledge database that would render current search obsolete. Google itself could be a literal query of 'list high traffic SEO'd sites that mention [search term]'. Who actually wants that result other than the sites in question, ...and the companies that profit from their advertising, is beyond me.

[1] - https://www.wolframalpha.com/
Fair point. My hunch is that there is in fact some subtle ambiguity associated with your example words, that is not immediately apparent for human spearkers of Japanese and English, simply because they have all sorts of "filters" that wring out the right meaning even for single words, filters that are missing from simple dumb statistical translation.

However, it's often very hard to rev-eng the errors committed by statistical machine translation (and, generally, language processing) systems because they're basically just vectors of numbers that are completely meaningless to us. Which also makes it very hard to identify patterns of errors and correct them.

Another thing that's very wrong with machine translation is the measures of "goodness" of translations. This is usually something like the BLEU score, that work by comparing the words in machine translation to those in human translation. Those are very problematic in all sorts of ways, not least the inability to select a "good" candidate translation among the many possible.

In other words, it's not just that gathering statistics over words in context is not a very good way to model translations. On top of that, the results of such translations are very difficult to evaluate objectively.

In general, machine translation is a very vaguely defined problem- which lets GT claim to be really, really good at it even when it's easy to see it really, really isn't.
Acid test: run Youscope on it. Seems to work relatively well.
So, who wants to bet on the size of the inevitable EU fine for anticompetitive activity? Another €1.2 billion?
The standards should be set by independent consumer watchdogs or the competent (one would hope) authorities, depending on the industry to self regulate has not worked in over 25 years, I see no reason why it would magically start to work now.
I'm a teacher in Asia. My students complain mightily about the sudden deluge of ads. They experience it as being much worse than Facebook.
That is what GP was saying: it is extremely likely that the difficulty level of the scenarios increased.

I wonder if the flattened curve of progress in the metric described by the article (disengagement rate) is actually intentional. Maybe a decision was made to increase difficulty of driving scenarios in such a way to keep that approximately constant.
The main issue with this is discoverability.

How would anyone know what commands are supported?
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