skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The eventual babelfish trained using unsupervised alignment may make things like bird->human or octopus->human possible(or mycellial mass, if it turns out to be intelligent).

I have a suspicion that in the future human-centric mono-species intelligence and consciousness assumptions will be tested, and the outcome may be similar to discovering other galaxies in terms of the impact on humanity's collective psyche.
But egregiously violating the TOS and general spirit of reddit seems like not the best way to get a job there.
> Wikipedia would benefit from a policy where a sufficient number of individual complaints against a user who has passed some threshold of number of edits to a single article (say 100) would be automatic grounds to block the user from further edits to the article, regardless of fault

So, let's suppose that some particular expert who has a particular level of knowledge or expertise in a given field, and is an established member of the Wikipedia community, accumulates a few hundred edits to some particular page in his area of interest. But this area of interest is politically controversial, and there is a certain narrative about this area of interest that some group of people would like to push, but this expert is too diligent about keeping the relevant Wikipedia pages neutral, well-sourced, and factual. That policy would basically allow large groups of trolls to basically lock that guy, or any other editor who catches onto their monkeyshines, out of certain Wikipedia pages, so that they are free to inject their biases unchecked.

The problem is that not every bad actor is a single person standing behind a single username. Some of them are coordinated groups of anonymous trolls. Giving the trolls an advantage over single people standing behind a single username that they can be held accountable for is a bad, bad move.

If some editor makes 1000 edits to a single page, and they're doing so in bad faith, you have more than enough evidence to prove that. If 100 trolls each make 10 edits to a single page, in bad faith, you can't even prove that they're working together.
I’m sorry to hear that. Best wishes to you. I don’t know what to say that must be terrifying. I wish you good health and healing.
Naturally occurring salts available as commodity food ingredients at every grocery store? Eating is essentially doping? Brushing your teeth is doping?

Wearing corrective lenses improves performance. Is wearing glasses considered doping too?
You really shouldn't blame the victim just because you've been reading more news stories than him. It's the sort of thing I might have done when I was younger. I grew up trusting authorities and them always being reasonable and I would never have imagined Germany was such a bizarrely brutal place. People often joke with the workers they have to interact with. I've done that before. It's human nature.

I used to have a nazi symbol on my car just to rile people up. Once a neighbor called the police who were completely reasonable and asked me to please not park so close to his house because it's making him angry.
This kind of tech is going to be a critical pick and shovel for driverless cars.
> I’m Kenneth — a nice guy who builds nice tools and takes a lot of pictures.

Written with literally no knowledge of this before:

This killed it for me.
I’ve never lived in Japan, and judging from your username it seems you may have. But, I’d like to point out that on the low interest point you make, this isn’t necessarily a good thing: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/aug/26/japans-deflati....

The interest rate available to consumers is directly related to the rate that banks can borrow from the central bank. The BOJ has had to operate at the ZLB for quite a while: https://www.boj.or.jp/en/announcements/press/koen_2016/data/.... The low interest rates available to consumers are a function of macroeconomic factors and monetary policy, not anything that consumer lending banks themselves do.
What's the invader in the case of keto and fasting diets? Keto would be a pretty natural state on a hunter gatherer diet, no?
If you look at where our gut originated from (requiring cooked food incidentally some think around the time fire was discovered/tamed) then “normal” would be starve/binge. The agricultural revolution would be a very recent development.

Hell we have an unnecessary organ just for binging on fat.
Many people on here advocate for the end of advertising driven internet business models and is easy to see where this desire comes from. The real question though is what is the viable alternative? I have yet to see or hear anything close to a viable alternative.
Do some daily mobility work to compensate for desk job with limited movement.

Also, get a height adjustable desk.

Maybe invent a practical way to code whilst walking/jogging.
But let's be honest: how many people write up a really good documentation for their github project? I mean, something that actually adds substantial value on top of what the source code, code comments and examples programs can provide? And is not outdated, i.e., actually always in sync with the code portion of the project? I'm sure the answer is > 0, but I would be very astonished if the percentage would be a high double-digit number.

Let's just stay realistic: this guy is not selling a product, he's coding up something out of his own interest and is showing it to the world on github. I'm sure his interest in coding this up is much greater than his interest in writing documentation, so why should he focus on the latter? "So that anybody else can use his stuff" comes to mind as a first answer, and that's fair enough. But maybe that hasn't been his foremost interest.

One aspect that I see here is that with all the different language bindings, we're not talking about a documentation that would be trivial to write. I could imagine that an effort like that requires a lot of subtle changes to the API as more functionality is added which makes keeping the documentation up-to-date a tedious and quite hard thing to do -- so something that isn't a lot of fun. And isn't fun the main reason hobby projects get started on github in the first place?

I see your point that the current state of the project makes it very hard to use for you. Fair enough. But maybe it can become interesting again in the future when more documentation has been added -- perhaps even though the help of others. After all, it's an open source project.
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Yes you can build custom maps and yes you can do something like tower defense.

0ad comes with atlas, its integrated map editor. Maps also support scripting with Javascript and there are already maps included where waves of enemies get spawned (e.g. Danubis or Jebel Barkal), what you'd probably want for tower defense as well.
Hey mods....if you happen to monitor those of us with warnings, I wonder if you can run a query to determine my top 3 downvoters over time and see if a pattern emerges. This is starting to get rather annoying.
> I used to have a nazi symbol on my car just to rile people up.

No healthy person does this "just to rile people up."

This is profoundly fucked behavior, and in a sane society it does, and should, lead to ostracizing. Actions have consequences.
I must admit you are right, it works again on Linux because the API is stable and you have the source, if you take a Linux binary directly from the 90s, there's very little chance it's going to run properly..
Do you think I'm overestimating or underestimating?
I use (sb-ext:restrict-compiler-policy 'debug 3) in my ~/.sbclrc file to ensure debug is always at least 3.
> It would only be natural for us to take this resource as not-so-reliable

But that is not what the author of the comment did. They regularly messed it up, and then complained that other people didn't clean it up fast enough. It's like throwing out trash every day out of the window, and then feel offended that there's lots of trash on the street. Of course it is, you made it! Stop doing it, and there would be less trash out. Start cleaning up, and there would be even less.

I'm ok if the person just has complaints, but if he has complaints about the thing he himself actively tried to break - no, you should not feel entitled to complain about that.

It is fascinating that some people talk about global topics like climate, evnvironment, etc. and then can't even resist messing up things that is under their nose, given to them completely free and extremely easy no to mess up - just use it as a normal person and enjoy! But no, he needs to vandalize it and then complain it wasn't cleaned up quickly!
>Again, why would I have to be explicit/exact on it

Did I ask you to be "explicit/exact"? I'm just curious for you to describe, at all, the supposed "substantial difference" that you apparently know of between being "not yet born" and being "dead".

>Two stars in the sky have an obvious substantial difference between their existences.

In what way are two stars analogous at all to being not yet born and being dead?
This is how it works in Melbourne (actually, there is now a single company that runs the entire Metropolitan railway). Initially they split it into two companies each running half the city because competition. Because a train line on the east side of the city can compete with a train line on the west side. Now a single company runs both halves. I can't see how this is better than the government just running it.
Why not a cloud facsimile machine startup? Or telegraph?

Printers are ancient technology.
It is to some measure an existing problem (though there are a lot of ways to contribute which are nearly 1005 uncontroversial, especially in more minor spaces - Wikidata, Wikitravel, Wikisource, Wikiversity, etc.) but it's definitely not the problem that the comment author describes. He didn't try to clean up anything. He didn't meet any adversity in doing so. He didn't try to pick up the trash. He threw the trash there and complained why other people - which are volunteers - are so lazy as not to promptly clean it up.
All you need to do to kill someone's belief in the Big Bang theory is tell the entirety of it. You know, a little more than just the very beginning.

Once you get to point out that a part of the theory says that a solar system sized ball of "fire" suddenly expanded to the size of our galaxy in <2 seconds for no reason whatsoever (ie. inflation, or should we say "the second inflation", and yes seriously, that was a pure coincidence according to the accepted-but-don't-ask theory) people start going "what ?". And then go on to explain why it's utterly impossible for space to be 3 dimensional, or for gravity to exist (the standard model argument against gravity) or for gravity to not exist (relativity, as well as obvious experience).

And this is probably the right reaction. There's more, like why weren't the electrical, gravitational, magnetic, ... forces between matter and antimatter in that small ball enough to do lots of things. Create a black hole, for instance. Annihilate for instance.

I mean there's answers for these questions, but I assure you, whilst they work in the equations (sort-of), they will not reduce the WTF-rate.

Just because this is the best theory we have does not mean it's a particularly sensible one. I mean it is, it's just a matter of perspective. When it comes to "intuitive", I contend the actual big bang theory scores pretty damn bad.
Ask HN: What do you consistently hate about your bank?
If I understand it right, the best use-case would be a party or event where I could place the Clips camera pointed at the center/stage. The camera would record for 3 hours and then at the end I could sync it with my phone to get the best clips.

I can imagine having 3-4 of these 'Pick me up and point me at something interesting' cameras for guests at a wedding. Instead of a human having to filter through hours and hours of video, wedding photographers could offer a set of cameras for $100/hour and then use the clips to make a short video with the most interesting clips.
Yes. Small things help. Or at least not making it worse. One doesn't have to be a Greenpeace activist to not throw trash on the street, normal everyday behavior would be enough in this case. If only all other societal problems were so easy to solve!
This group does not know what they are talking about. Mark my words here. It's about advanced distance calculations and engineered feature attributes.
I feel like there would almost definitely be unexpected difficulties with that approach, possibly fundamental ones. Human language is crazy.
Stopping before reaching the process is a big mistake many do when doing RCA. For example: Why did program crash: [Divide by zero]. Why? [Loop iterating array not terminated] Why? [Input arguments not validated] Why? [Developer was "sloppy"] and then they stop there.

The answer to the last question should instead be on or many of: no unit tests, no code reviews, working overtime, no QA before shipping, can't concentrate in open landscape, compiler warnings disabled, using too low-level programming language for high level logic, developers not educated on current tech stack, and so on. With follow up whys on all of those.
>... most philosophers do not have the calculus, let alone the matrix algebra, diff. eqs., Lagrangians, or the stats background (anecdata, so please rebuke!).

While this is certainly true for many philosophers, it is false for philosophers of physics. The best among them (say, Tim Maudlin, Laura Ruetsche, David Wallace and others) have a very sophisticated understanding of their target science and many hold advanced degrees in it.
So, here's the Wikipedia page in question: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Galloway

The revision history is interesting to look through as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=George_Galloway&o...

Many of Cross's revisions seem to revolve around removing unreliable sources (such as RT and Sputnik), integrating edits such that the verbiage flows better, and so forth. I can't find any edits that he's performed that were out of line.

It's also not especially interesting to have a high number of edits. For example, of Cross's most recent 50 edits, the vast majority are to a single article (which is not the George Galloway biography): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Philip_C...

The more I look into this, the more convinced I am that the bad actor isn't this guy, it's the Russian propaganda network who are mad that he's getting in the way of them using Wikipedia as an outlet.
Are you serious? I am from Switzerland and live in Germany for 10 years, even in Switzerland I would not dare to say this to an officer. At worst they will take it as a personal offence, like I'd imply they are like the Gestapo and at best they'll suspect that I am on drugs or mentally handicapped.
How far the entitlement can go? Not only people expect that their vandalism is promptly cleaned up and feel offended when this does not happen, they also feel offended when being reminded of it being vandalism! Yes, I blame individual for individual's action to make the world around them worse. It's not some vague system, it's somebody deciding to do it and doing it. Just don't, and no system would have anything to do with it.
I have a bunch of app ideas if anyone wants to build one with me. I am a UX/UI designer, would need a developer (probably iOS or Android, but web would be helpful too). Reply with contact info if interested.
I should mention that I will be validating these ideas before proceeding so we are not building a junk app. Cheers.
If you take “right to be forgotten” literally it’s actually quite dystopian: the only way to enforce it is to erase peoples’ memories.
They'd be less noticeable as many accounts, and would get more than one voice in discussions.
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> In fact, he is very limited in the sense

That's blasphemy, and you take it upon yourself to interpret and understand His divine will, and second guess Him, despite being warned over and over that His will is beyond your understanding. Your comments are a textbook example of the type of human arrogance that gets Biblical characters unstuck, over and over and over again.

> he is very limited in the sense that there are an infinite number of things that he cannot do

I would be interested to see canonical scriptural references for this statement.
I don't believe that our brains are quantum computers, but I don't think we know enough about how the CNS works to completely rule it out. Quantum effects have been observed in living organisms [1], so the "it's a warm soup" argument is not sufficient.

[1] https://phys.org/news/2014-01-quantum-mechanics-efficiency-p...
I've thought for a while that the right thing, given bulletproof privacy controls anyway, was a wearable camera that just captures 24/7 video/audio with retrospective analysis for significance.

I don't know of anyone I'd trust with such a stream, though. It would have to be on device, as they say.
Don't make calcium supplements (ie Tums) a regular part of your diet:

https://nutritionfacts.org/2018/03/22/if-calcium-supplements...
Most roads already have lean built into their turns, no tilting suspension necessary. And since it's built into the road, it positively impacts traction
It's not just the Klan. Racism is A problem, but far from the only problem. I grew up in the Lansing area and the majority of my extended family still lives in Michigan. When I look back at the state, the entire state government is corrupt and regressive. I see laws passed to restrict voting rights, civil liberties, and environmental protections. I see high school students in towns near where I grew up flaunting signs making fun of slavery for prom. I see no signs of progress, and many of regression. It's not the kind of environment where I'd want to live, much less raise a family. I've had job offers to move back to Michigan, but I have zero interest in it. The cost of living where I am keeps growing, but I'd rather have a lower cost of living here than live like a king in Michigan (not that the tech jobs in Michigan pay "live like a king" wages).
Wikipedia is number one on any Google search, with especially advantageous snippets on every search engine. It it hard coded into things like Siri. It's not hard to imagine the economical value of a bit of inside access to the platform.

There are several types of organizations with a big budget whose job it is to influence public discourse. It wouldn't surprise me if some of them were found to be in control of an editor's account in some way. The easiest way is probably to hire one, but seeing accounts are bought and sold on pretty much every other online service the possibility is there.

You just have to be very careful not to burn them. Sloppiness would probably look like editors working exactly the same hours every day for a decade without ever tiring, vacationing or being sick.
Fix the busted protocol, why is anyone expecting this not to be a problem? Use legitimate warrants to monitor communications on premise at the telco.
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I'm not sure how "having a soft spot" for one of the most notorious mass-murdering warmongers of the 20th century makes someone "anti-war".
Everyone is hearing the same sound, and classifying it as a different word. Just as everyone is seeing the same color, and classifying it differently.
And you get read receipts!
Don't live in California?
1. I don't think there's anything wrong with changing the "mantra" as it were. People learn things, opinions change; do your own research and form your own conclusions/hypotheses.

2. There's no one fixed "mantra" of cryptocurrency. As you point out yourself, there's some people who see BTC as a store of value first and optimize for that, and I'm sure you're aware that that's at least not an uncontroversial decision. Different people have different opinions about a ton of different things like monetary supply policy, the importance of censorship-resistance, immutability, non-currency use-cases, etc.
Is that sarcasm? I mean, the most "efficient" algorithm for distributing surplus money to citizens' bank-accounts would be to transfer the entire sum into the first person you see..
Yes, this is a thing, which is why I called it out for being harsh. I think that it could have been a bit nicer.
I guess the foreach is where each iteration has independent operation, vs a generic for loop where this iteration depends on result of the previous iterations.
The real thing to blame is Consumerism. It rules our sense of aesthetic, results in feelings like "men are dirty and revolting", and bind the right to have sex with wealth.
Likely Bluetooth 5 if I had to guess. Much higher bandwidth
but if it is only on device, (the video) then it is easily possible to get the device damaged, lost, broken, robbed in order to stop that retrospective analysis by a bad actor.
> question-begging in the theories that life is somehow of extraterrestrial origin (where did that life come from?).

I really dislike this paper, but they do address that. The fact that life had to start somewhere doesn't make the question of extraterrestrial origin any less interesting.
The cost should also account for the work put in and the years of experience and know how to pull it off. It cost you $10, but it would cost me several hundreds or even thousands to pay experts to do it for me.
Does it really mean anything? I'm actually a bit surprised that the claim existed as far back as 100 years ago. The US had absolutely nothing to claim about Hawaii whatsoever, yet just marched in, drove out the original king and occupied the place.

Surely any "historical facts" have no importance whatsoever in geopolitical maneuvers.
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A smaller version is useful for storing insulin on the go:

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The justice system in Germany is operating completely different than the US justice system. While in the US precedent is one of the most important factors, German courts try to apply "common sense" (quite literally). Laws take this into account and leave a lot more wiggle room for the courts. Thus the laws in Germany occur strange to Americans that only know "if it's not explicitly forbidden, it's allowed".
I tried to join the discussion earlier but I didn't have enough Soda Credits. So now I'm fresh off of writing 300 social media comments sharing my love for Soda Powders of All Varieties and I just want to say how much I love the opportunity afforded me by being raised during the Third Age of Soda. Truly we are fortunate to see Soda raised to a new height by the lasting and unimpeachable reign of His Sodaness. I believe that all of the inflammations incl. inflammations of heart and gut and mind can be healed by His Remarkable Powders. Even the telling of Untruths regarding Soda Powders is becoming a thing of the past. My family is grateful for these Powders as well
To track who (or at least what devices) are in the immediate vicinity of the embassy and when. Patterns in that could easily be useful for catching physical surveillance at the least, as well as catching placed/planted devices that check in that way.

Edit:
To expand on that, some examples:

If a new device shows up and is always present, particularly if it always has about the same signal strength or doesn't appear to move, that indicates a connected IoT device of some sort, and if you're concerned about espionage you may want to take steps to identify it.

If a particular device shows up for 8-12 hour shifts at varying times, but there are no businesses, etc. that would have that kind of attendance pattern, who's carrying that device? An investigator on-site who's also brought a personal device along?

Heck, if you're in an OnStar-equipped vehicle even if you don't have service, your vehicle may show up as always on, or at least may ping regularly.

I'm sure appropriate data mining techniques could pull a surprising amount of information out of the kind of info gathered from these devices.