skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It felt like it was so "feature complete" even around 1990. Add a web browser (and networking )and run it on a modern spec machine and I'm sure it would be perfectly usable.
Yes Wikipedia and the link sources are good but it is still ironic. You know Wikipedia could cherry pick their links. They don't, but they could.
If they have an iPhone X, at least 92 percent of those users are the inside of a handbag or suitecase.
The Amiga’s Intuition library, the core engine of the GUI, can draw graphics primitives on “screens”. Because of the Copper co-processor which displays the screen raster line by raster line, these screens can have different resolutions with different numbers of colors - all of them displayed simultaneously on the monitor.
As a man, my watch is the only piece of jewelry I get to wear - I'm keeping mine forever, thanks.
Which means that frequent releases could have fixed the bugs better. Wow, that's a terrible excuse.
The sad thing is that some conspiracy theories contain some true nucleus, that's why nuanced sources are so important.
TED talks are mostly circle jerks now.
People have certainly worked on moving beyond sentence boundaries, although what is meant by understanding is always a bit nebulous. Certainly we need to make sure whatever process we are using has a sufficiently rich internal knowledge representation. One piece of work is this: https://github.com/chardmeier/docent/wiki which is a document level phrases-based statistical machine translation decoder. There have also been special purpose evaluation tasks which include correct pronoun resolution e.g. https://lindat.mff.cuni.cz/repository/xmlui/handle/11372/LRT... .

If you're interested, probably the DiscoMT workshops are a good starting point for some things people have tried.
Don’t be silly. China is not a paragon of free and fair government but it is not North Korea. She will not be “tortured and killed.”
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can someone explain/translate her diplomatic stance to a 5 year old in one sentence?
Smartthings is the platform to beat for Apple. It’s simple, easy and incredibly powerful. I can’t understand why Apple doesn’t apply their magic to the model and just knock it out of the park. They have all of the pieces and the ux experience to make it exceptional.
> An experimental extension to Ansible is included that implements host connections over Mitogen, replacing embedded shell invocations with pure-Python equivalents invoked via highly efficient remote procedure calls tunnelled over SSH. No changes are required to the target hosts.

This approach looks really promising.
By default Ansible opens a ton of SSH connections (to the same host..) and it also spawns a ton of subshells for a typical run.

That is of course really wasteful and inefficient, and this project tries to fix it.

https://mitogen.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ansible.html
> Notch, meanwhile, appears to be miserable, bitter, and directionless.

I don't think that's because of either the money or Notch as a persson. It's because of the incredibly toxic community that came up around such a light hearted and simple game.

There's a shitload of backlash whenever he makes anything that's not Minecraft. See his space game with a programmable 6502 or his game jam games or...

Put Toady or Zachtronics under the same microscope and they'll shut down too. Human beings just aren't made for that.
No, you are not the only one. I cringe every time I read pieces about this. Calling out "fake news" is just the newest variant of placing blame on everyone/thing but ourselves.
How's the touchpad nowadays? I'm probably spoiled by Macbooks, but that's my one bug bear with the older model. It just feels very cheap and unresponsive.
You are not the only one. The thing seemingly appeared out of thin air sometime between the Brexit vote and Trump running for the Whitehouse. That the news organisations are talking about it more and more is tragic. At least Trump twists the terms to make it more relevant to them.

Fact: There was a small case of "troll farms" producing totally click bait content. But the effect was minimal. This is what was originally meant by "fake news".

Now fake news can literally be anything, and the resulting moves to counteract anything will be bad. What also concerns me is that most of the voices against whatever fake news is, reside on the left hand side of the political spectrum.

Okay. Now. lets assume that Fake News is responsible for manipulating and influencing stupid people into voting wrongly. The way to counteract that is by education, by a free press, not by counter propaganda and censorship.
I’m going on the record as not actually liking the name Siri. Pithy though that sounds, it’s the Sharon or Ralph name in digital assistants and I don’t even like saying it. Try saying “hey Siri” in a quiet room sometime and feel the awkward.

Also it doesn’t work.
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I honestly think Jobs thought that no problem is hard enough that you can't cajole or threaten staff into just working harder. You see it all through his career.

We are hitting territory where there are now problems so hard that it will now take time to create the software. He never got that.
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> I don't know how many committers have been on the average project I've worked on, but it's probably 25+, and I've worked on several with 50+ - and I don't know how you'd even make Git work at that sort of scale.

Well, I actually don't understand how you can make it NOT work :) You obviously have to work with branches split per projects/sub-projects and different repositories for different apps. You have to find your branching model that works for you, it doesn't always works with a dev branch (we don't do that, we have bug, feature, release and master branches).

SVN is so out of this league that I don't even try to understand why people use it.
sigh I wouldn't have replied to this if you hadn't posted half a dozen comments. When I was 16 I thought special relativity was a hoax and I tried to demonstrate this with triangular diagrams scribbled in pencil in my notebooks. I ended up just rediscovering the Doppler effect. I never showed it to anyone, but when I think back, I still cringe a little. Relativity and time dilation are real things with real theory and real experiments.

You'd do well to do a little more research on the topic before posting so many comments on HN.

There is a ton of evidence for dark matter. We still don't know exactly what it is, but we do know lots about it (e.g. it is not baryonic matter because observation differs from theoretical models of how it would interact with ordinary baryonic matter). As for all that other evidence, the first hit on Google is for laymen:
https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/five-reasons-we-think-...

TLDR: gravitational lensing, missing mass, and three other really good reasons that dark matter is a serious subject of study.

Disclaimer: I am not a physicist. And I'm trying not to represent myself as one on HN.

Talking about this stuff is fun, sure. It's great to learn! But please don't spread ignorance with such high confidence. As for "just" Newtonian physics, there's a whole research field called "Modified Newtonian Dynamics" (MOND). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modified_Newtonian_dynamics

TLDR; there are lots of problems with MOND, and it doesn't explain gravitational lensing and other effects of dark matter that we see.
See my comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16591278 for why I think that's maybe not true.

It's not due to the people involved or the money. I think it's the community around Minecraft.
It's like slapping new functionality onto the existing codebase where it fits. Selection then is your test suite. You slap on until your tests are all green.
Do you have an idea how much Siri sucked and how much people hate(d) her?
What about, we need to pimp up our CVs for HR department drone filters?
What Atari ST palette at $ff8240? That address seems to be in the A500 KickStart 1.2 or 1.3 address space... My interest is piqued.
These are desperately embattled claims at scale. If you lie to the SEC and you are an ass to the government they will crush you. Oldest story in the valley, and certainly beyond... another tale of hubris that ends in classic tragedy.
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Postal service also made passenger rail profitable, and its end (in the 1960s) finally killed the service (along with jet airliners).

The RMS in RMS Titanic stands for Royal Mail Ship. A similar designation.
The license is MIT but not MIT. It’s the MIT license with two additional conditions imposed;

- The one you mentioned about citation.

- “The Software is not used by, in cooperation with, or on behalf of any armed forces, intelligence agencies, reconnaissance agencies, defense agencies, offense agencies or any supplier, contractor, or research associated.”

https://github.com/seemoo-lab/mobisys2018_nexmon_software_de...

Even just the one about citation is problematic but IMO the condition about armed forces and so on is even worse. I kind of see where they are coming from but I wish people just used standard MIT and acknowledged that yes your software might end up being used for something that you do not agree with morally.

And if they are going to impose such restrictions, why stop there? Why not also say that you cannot use the software to transmit for example child pornography? And how about saying that you cannot use it to spread false information, fake news etc?

I would be exaggerating, but not much, if I were to say that as soon as you introduce one or more moral restrictions into a software license, you are implicitly saying that any moral concern not mentioned is ok.

How about terrorism? They didn’t say anything about terrorism so I guess using their software for terror is fine as long as the terrorists are not an “armed force”, an intelligence agency etc.

Technology has infitinite uses, a whole host of which are good, probably as many that are bad, and likewise an uncountable amount of uses that are either neither or both, and very many that will be one thing for some people and the other for other people.

It should in my opinion not be the job of a software license to pass moral judgement. Either you release your software for anyone to use for any purpose under the terms of an unmodified license accepted by the community or you might as well not bother trying to be open source at all.
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Yep, we generally point people at QuickBooks invoices or bill.com, but we have them do the inputting/sending of the invoices via one of those services.
“Rent-seeking” has nothing to do with “renting someone a car”, common term notwithstanding.
Fake News is the media trying to cover up the embarrasment about not doing their background checks before copy-pasting something and publishing it. Now someone has to take the blame.

I'm sure someone is very happily converting this into a chance for control over the censoring.
The mere fact of meeting invite, standing alone (no other information that you had, innocuous subject line, etc), would be non-public, but would probably not be found to be material.

However, if you're the Equifax CSO and the CEO is never interested in your work, you might want to sell your shares as soon as they vest anyway.
Sure the macbook with the haptic clicking is likely nicer but I don't feel like the Dell is a massive downgrade personally. The Dell distro clearly has all the right drivers and the touchpad works very well.
Duct tape PhD notebook. These prime examples of "Untitled.ipynb mentality" are what makes me shake my head. No annotations, no exploration of the dataset, no sanity checks, printf debugging, uncaught error messages. But putting just because it doesn't collapse under your feet, put your name upfront and it's good to go.
I see your username is accurate.
The laptop's really quiet in general, no coil whine so far (3 weeks in). Fans rarely kick in loud enough to be heard (for all I'm doing anyway).
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Probably both. The antenna's designed for a specific band, and on top of it the actual frequency synthesis hardware is likely only designed to be capable of generating signals in certain bands, as are all the amplifiers etc.
> Maybe that's the problem with dark matter: objects get heavier when speed increases, so since the speed is 18 orders of magnitude too large, everything is heavier than it ought to be. All because of an incorrectly named function.

Reminded me of "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" by Borges:

> By 1942, Tlönian objects began to inexplicably appear in the real world. One of the first instances in which this occurs is when Princess Faucigny Lucinge received via mail a vibrating compass with a Tlönian scripture. Another instance is witnessed by Borges himself: a drunk man,
shortly after dying, dropped coins among which a small but extremely heavy shining metal cone appeared. It is suggested that these occurrences may be forgeries, but yet products of a secret science and technology.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tl%C3%B6n,_Uqbar,_Orbis_Tertiu...
you can run both side by side quite easily.
How do you die broke sitting on top of a gold mine? Ask the guy who found the Comstock lode. No, his, or rather their, name, wasn't Comstock. Though he died broke too.
Siri: I've notice a massive slowdown in the speed of Siri and an actual deterioration in voice recognition (but I've just assumed that this is just part of the general deterioration of iOS)

I would say that Siri has not only fallen behind but gone backwards.

I'm still running an iPhone 5s ;) because i dont like the direction of Apple have taken certain things (and Android terrifies me with the sheer volume of personal data collection)
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Yep. I had and own many different computers, and the only one which ever came close to my Amiga 1200 in terms of multimedia and multitasking capabilities was a (then) $60,000 USD sgi Indigo2 R10000, which was my main workstation for a while. Meanwhile, my (then) brand new Amiga 1200 cost 800,- DM (Deutschmarks for non-Europeans), which is 400,- €. Later on, I had 34 MB of RAM in it - one couldn’t run out of memory no matter what one did. And the system boots in under three seconds.
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That's just Triangle of Life nonsense.

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

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/triangle-of-life/
> If you want capitalism to work, you need some kind of "homo economicus" that is able to look for their own selfinterest.

Capitalism works just fine. There're plenty of mechanics that punish people for their own stupidity.
I loved the Amiga, sadly I could only make use of it on those demopartys/gaming sessions where we all got together.

At the time my parents thought getting a 386 SX/DR-DOS/Win was a more future proof investment.

Sadly, thanks to Commodore mismanagement, they were right.

The Amiga experience made me always try to search on other platforms for the same experience, and focus part of my career designing UI/UX, also when doing backed end stuff as well.

For a while BeOS seemed it might be it.

GNU/Linux desktop experience (the whole stack) never felt right, nowadays only macOS and Windows kind of come close to those ideas.
The most impressive ML translation tool I've seen so far is DeepL[0].

Sometimes, it manages to translate whole articles without errors.

[0]: https://www.deepl.com/translator
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Hang on, a leveraged buy-out caused this? So basically, someone can borrow more money than the business can ever afford to pay back, and then that business can be taken over and go bankrupt, even though it financially has no issues?
No, it's the Mandela effect. Either that or some weird parallel universe stuff.
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Be careful when reading such claims: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/01/the-s...
Good. We need a substantive competitor for Quickbooks and some real innovation in the space.

You can’t underestimate the complexity and specific requirements of accounting software. Startups in the space begin their journey in a nuclear minefield of customer requirements, and have to navigate not only the professions inane nuances, but also continually evolving bureaucracies and the accounting and tax realities they create. Not. Easy. Stuff.

I wish them luck. Seriously. It’s nice to see entrepreneurs attacking the boring companies. :)
As impressive as it may be, these people should refrain from claiming 'human-like' translation from a system that has no way of 'knowing' anything about context, other than statistical occurrences.

It is certain that, on occasion, the system will make such mistakes as stating the opposite of what is being said in the first place, or attribute one action to the wrong person, and what not. Perhaps on average it's as good as a person, but this system will make mistakes that disqualifies it from being used without a bucket of salt.
How much of Siri's failure is due to the fact that Apple was strangled by the industire's monopolist (Nuance)?
Would be nice to have improved MTL performance for Wuxia/Xanxia webnovels.
Or, let the user name it. Why not?

Supposedly these devices have low-power chips that can only recognize certain pre-configured names (like "OK, Google"), and then wake up the main CPU to do the rest.
The theoretical support for why capitalism is a good system, assumes people aren't stupid and only make trades and decisions that are rational and good for them though.

Arguing that you're going to take advantage of the weak, the old, the distracted, the powerless and the terrified may be a refreshingly open take on capitalism, but it's not what it's sold on.
Ignorance is bliss. Let's sweep them under the rug.
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The fundamental problem is trusting pieces of information people read on non-authoritative sources like random social network posts being liked or twitted. People are granting such trust, which is bad but not so much. More dangerously, however, we have authoritative sources such as reputed news venues granting more and more trust, or at least, giving credit, to such garbage sources.

I don't know if the government should get involved, but if it is to, then it should only be a educative and preventive job, to warn people that:

* Other than reputed news sources using their Twitter account to spread information, it is to be assumed than information from social networks is garbage

* When a reputed news source is referencing information from Twitter or other social networks, they're doing a bad job
StopZ. Your being too right.
http://www.latimes.com/la-me-disaster17sep17-side-htmlstory....
Seconded, I would be very interested in this paper!

EDIT: Perhaps it's this one ? https://arxiv.org/pdf/1711.09025.pdf
Siri has the best language support. Siri is infinite times better than any competitor in Finnish because nothing else knows Finnish at all!
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Amen to that. I certainly sympathise with the dev, but more power to Apple for supporting hardware for 5 years. Nothing's more annoying that spending lots of money on a device like a phone only for security updates to stop rolling out less than two years later. I want to be able to use the core features for a few years without my phone being a walking security exploit.

This applies even more for watches.
TL;DR I don't find it useful so it must be the same for other people
Imagine Alexa/Siri 20 years from now, running on VR glasses that actually work and look cool. Available today.

That’s what the Amiga felt like in 1985.
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But how can you trust your memory when it tells you that your memory was once better? :>
Wow so much Siri bashing in here. I’m a daily driver and I suppose an outlier working on a now aging 6S+ but Siri has been way reliable and generally fast outside of what I’d call “harsh” environments like outside on a busy street or with poor reception.

I’m able to consistently perform:

- Reminders with or without location tags “add eggs to grocery list” “remind me to check oil when I get home”

- Calendar events “create event about mr Smith tomorrow 2pm” “create meeting with bob March 12 noon” (“with” spawns an invite, I use “about”) “move my 2pm meeting to 4pm” “what’s going on tomorrow”

- weather “what’s the weather like this week” “what’s it going to be like in Manhattan beach on Saturday”

- Calls, by name, number or direct to speaker “call my brother” “call 213-555-1212” “call my dad on speakerphone”

- FaceTime “FaceTime my mom”

- Email “Email my brother” Subject? “take out” Message? “Grab me a burger” ready to send? “Yes”

- Messages, one liner or conversationally “tell my brother I’m running late” ready? “Go” or “message my sister” message? “Call me.” Ready to send it? “Affirmative”

- Math “what’s 128 times 10 million?” “What’s 10 days from next Tuesday?”

- Time “what time is it?” “What time is it in Florida?”

- Location “where is my sister?”

- Automation “living room lights blue” “goodnight”

- Dictation “blah period new line I swear exclamation mark new paragraph furthermore comma open parentheses really close parentheses all caps cats are all caps really all caps really cool question mark” I frequently do complicated technical dictation using Siri, it’s not a problem in fact this particular sentence was composed entirely with Siri with zero post correction.

All of these work consistently and reliably, for me, using either PTT style hold and speak, long-press and wait for the beep, or “Hey Siri” invocation.

Seriously, I use all of this all day every day on an old iPhone, I’m not blind but if I was I’d consider it reliable enough for those purposes.

I don’t do a lot of location, navigation, or searches with Siri because generally, performance is not optimal and you’re not able to focus the intent domain clearly enough with consistent verbiage.
> People like certainty. It's why someone who is 100% reliable is generally perceived as far more valuable than someone who is merely very reliable. People are far happier to follow a leader that has 95% chance of succeeding than someone who has a 75% chance.

I absolutely agree that people like certainty. I would even go so far to say that they actually don't like the '95% chance' of anything. In that case, they would say "I believe this to be 100% correct", which is basically saying that you can't tell for sure, but you believe it to be 100% correct. Not an objective 'real' chance of maybe 90%.

Take for example religion. Nobody can be 100% sure whether there is some sort of god or not. But you won't hear anybody make any % predictions, especially the ones who believe. They believe 100% for sure there is a god. Atheist are on that front the same, and believe 100% there is no god. They are unable to make a % prediction, or really don't want to because it would break something inside of them (their belief). Very strange. I like to work with chances a lot.
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