skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's aimed at students, schools etc. Its purpose should be to attract people to science so it has to be less intimidating, hence the choices of the Raspberry PI or the phone app or the Xbox gamepad to control it.
Which says 1731, a few years after 1724.
This is because delta doesn’t want southwest’s ad to show up when people search for delta
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From the article: "Other researchers have explored more noxious ideas to drive animals away from people, including paint balls, rubber bullets, squirt guns, specially trained dogs and park rangers swinging streamers attached to hockey sticks. Some of these are effective, some are not. Some animals learn to avoid human areas but others just learn to avoid rangers with hockey sticks. And “how much does a paintball hurt a 500- or 1,000-pound animal?” asks Robert Found, a wildlife expert at Elk Island National Park in Alberta. “That’s not enough of a stimulus.”"

I think using an unloaded double-barrel shotgun to aim a bottle rocket at a coyote might be successful at scaring them if a paintball didn't do it.
The people who run water systems, food distribution networks, defense systems and similar should be people who would reasonably accept that their responsibility to the system comes before [insert issue].

Every possible opinion is represented out there somewhere, and there will be someone who honestly believes, eg, that shutting down the electricity grid for 24 hours to make a point about Trump is justified. Or a point about immigration. Or a point about socialism, or what have you.

What is usually meant by 'politics' is that the people who are in charge of workspaces should be on the exact other end of the spectrum to these hypothetical activists. If anything even tangentially threatens the safe operation of the system, it should be a priority over political issues.
Cayotes are not endangered, so maybe it’s not a species of concern. I suppose if their pop dwindled it coild be a problem.
> Binaries are available on Github in the firmware repository. They can be uploaded to the system via the serial port, using esptool

Good luck flashing the firmware on this thing over a serial port. I'd much rather emulate the platform on a pi, so that I can repurpose the device for something more useful when I realize how big of a waste of time it is to use BASIC for new projects. Source: I use BASIC at work and it sucks butt.
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Medical schools fill an important role with limited training and teaching resources. I suspect they would be loath to admit someone that was planning to work as an MD for only one year after graduation. Women, of course work as doctors for more that a single year, but on average they do work less over their lifetimes than male physicians.

For a number of reasons, female physicians don’t work as much over their careers as men statistically. I’m guessing that this is why med schools might practice this unsavory discrimination against women. It’s really unfair to individuals that might or might not go on to make more important contributors to the field than the average male doctor.

I was married to a brilliant woman that went to medical school at a time when there was much more overt sexism in the field. Her abilities were unusual; she was always near the top of her class, and in a field like medicine this provided some protection from prejudice. However, women shouldn’t have to be better than their colleagues to simply survive medical training.

Personally, about half my doctors are now female and I’m very happy with them.
I can promise you that's not an attitude limited to Europeans. A million irrelevant comments of "there are two kinds of countries, ones that put a man on the moon and ones that didn't" can stand in testament to that
Bezos throws cash, engineers at rocket program as space race accelerates
> Those jobs wouldn't be there without the US company that is Amazon.

I'm not sure I agree with the implication here that Amazon's services to the UK would not be filled by some other entity in its absence.
It really depends on what dialects of Arabic you are looking at and what your goals are. My starting dataset is very small. I study classical Arabic, so I am only looking at fus-ha or MSA (not quite the same but very close), and I only pulled a small subset of the total number of words because this started out as just a toy project. The total number of fus-ha words in use today is probably in the low millions. But if you extend to all dialects of Arabic and all time periods then you may reach half a billion to a billion words. If you go from written Arabic to spoken Arabic, then there's no telling how big the input set is. Practically infinite at that point.

For the purpose of just using the language, the morphological rules are well-understood. One of the most popular dictionaries (Hans Wehr) is arranged not in alphabetical order, but by root. And there are many online lexicons with morphological metadata as listed in other comments here. So you're right, machine learning is not necessary here (but that's not to say it couldn't be done). This is mainly just for fun and learning.

Now, if you were to add all dialects of Arabic, then you may have a use case for ML...
OpenRouteService[0] also offers this functionality, and it lets you customize the hell out of it too.

[0] https://maps.openrouteservice.org/reach
Not quite sure how you arrive at that.

Unlike plastic, glass is inert. Old broken glass tends to revert to pebbles or sand after a little erosion. Sharp edges don't last long at all.
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Remote from Argentina possible?
This issue has been debated at least since the time of Heraclitus (c. 500 BCE) as "The Ship of Theseus".

https://www.utne.com/mind-and-body/ship-of-theseus-identity-...

Doh! I see now that's what reference 2 leads to.
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They did! Although not on the scale as the grand canal, but still impressive. Check out the "snowy mountains scheme", https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowy_Mountains_Scheme

Quote: "The water of the Snowy River and some of its tributaries, much of which formerly flowed southeast onto the river flats of East Gippsland, and into Bass Strait of the Tasman sea, is captured at high elevations and diverted inland ".
Not really if they're getting an hour of OT pay (the cap for this project) for two hours of actual work required.
Verizon or any other ILEC rolling out last mile fiber also removes them from antitrust restrictions on traditional copper, so viewing such actions as 'competitive' in nature should not be assumed.
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I take care over what I do, writing good quality code backed up with automated tests, and documentation where relevant. I am an excellent communicator, I build my own apps in my spare time and also maintain a regular blog: https://rsmith.io/blog.

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There is one: https://app.traveltimeplatform.com/#/search/0_lat=59.34543&0...
I think the formatting on the output is a bit confusing. The input is jumla جملة (sentence) and the output is J-M-L or ج-م-ل, not the word جمل, which yes, is a word for camel. I think it would be easier to read if I just added dashes between each output letter to emphasize that it is not a word, but a collection of letters.
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Everyone seem to agree the generation of a static binary is easy with go. That's not my experience as soon as CGO and the glib is involved. I would gladly pay 100$ to make it work on my open source project using libvips to anyone who can create the static build: https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/nuage
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Hi I'm Robin, I am a true full-stack web developer with over 7 years experience, working at every level of modern web application stacks: frontend, backend, database, server, deployment. I am best used as a flexible, adaptable developer who can quickly get up to speed on new stacks and codebases. I love working remotely.

I take care over what I do, writing good quality code backed up with automated tests, and documentation where relevant. I am an excellent communicator, I build my own apps in my spare time and also maintain a regular blog: https://rsmith.io/blog.
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This rings true to me. I think Google's biggest competitive advantage is not network effects, brand awareness, or eyeballs for advertisers. Their biggest advantage is that no one runs datacenters better than Google. Amazon is a close second but I would be willing to bet that Google is more efficient by potentially as much as an order of magnitude.

Similarly they invest heavily in development and IT tooling. It allows them to scale in ways that very few other companies can.
I have tested taskjuggler, but it fails to schedule tasks when a mixture of with/without deadline (end) tasks is provided.

The only software I am aware of that seems fitting is SkedPal https://www.skedpal.com/

I was so surprised that this isn't easier to find that I posted it on HN just now.

Unfortunately though (for me) there does not seem to be a (paid) self-hosted (privacy aware) version available.
I think what you're not addressing though, is that often the work engineers are doing is political. No one can doubt that Facebook has fundamentally changed politics, no one can doubt that the way they set it up had spectacular effects on politics in this country - and that they're now deliberately modifying their system to have a specific political impact. Maybe if they'd thought about the politics of their system as part of their design stage, they would've thought about what damage they were going to cause. The choice not to has arguably been a massive blow to democracy.
A subtle response to the flat Earthers?
Sadly, all the Mandan earth lodges in the great plains are reconstructions but still worth visiting.
Those Mirvish+Gehry tower plans look hideous. How did such a monstrosity get approved? What an absolute embarrassment for Toronto, lol.
You can have several independent parties that run a server that constantly pings and measures response times.
I’m not sure what this has to do with my comment. But yes, the Chinese government is specifically looking to acquire foreign jet turbine technology for very obvious military reasons. So that will manifest through SOEs or very well connected private companies.
For now bike mode is only available in France. However, if I have enough traffic outside France I will implement it for the rest of the world.
Is there a reason why Chinese smartphone seems to be successfully exported (Xiaomi, Huawei,...) and I have never heard until then of a Chinese console ? Is it an issue with the games available ? A matter of taste ?
From my experience any rules based approach in linguistics may solve the problem at first but it won't scale for too long (it has been tried before, most of old NLP was very rules based I would say) due to many intricacies of languages, corner cases and non-obvious exceptions. It could work — and it fact it does — for simple scenarios, but these are not very real world ones IMHO. I believe a neural model of such cases, over time, will yield better results. I am very skeptical these days about doing computer linguistics without considering some level of AI (so to speak).
> But basically the whole point of doing something in software is to automate things that are labor intensive.

I see where you're coming from but that's quite an oversimplification, don't you think? Software that drives a computer's graphic card, for example, which in turn gets used to run software that enables a physician to explore a 3D MRI, are just two examples of tasks that do not consist of automating manual labour.

(You could probably pay a lot of painters to paint a lot of pictures but hooking them up to the MRI might be a little difficult).

There's a lot of software that achieves new things, rather than old and well-known things really fast and without involving hands or a human brain.

I prefer to avoid discussing ethics on forums like HN, so I won't comment on whether or not working on software that puts people out of work is "the right thing to do" -- suffice to say that, if you wish to avoid doing that, there's plenty of room to do it while still doing your job as a software engineer.
It becomes an environmental problem when Apple stop offering to fix it, or make the cost of repair uneconomical. I can still buy a replacement keyboard for a 20 year old Thinkpad for ten dollars and pay someone to install it.

Granted, there are some aspects of Apple hardware that can still be repaired/replaced by third-parties, but their trend is away from this.
While there is a "suitesparse-5.2.0" package in conda, I haven't found any documentation. Do you have a link? There doesn't seem to be anything on the project website. I wasn't even quite sure this contains a Python package.
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The problem I see here is that any law to help someone to feel safe is an infringement on someone elses's freedom. We have laws against murder for example, that obviously infringe people's freedom, but we way it up and decide it's definitely better to have such laws. The "unrestricted free speech" arguement tends to have so many exceptions "calling fire" etc. that I feel you can't really argue against this.

Disclaimer: Brit, supporter of reasonable speech
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It's a very cool concept and definitely has its upsides, but I was a bit disappointed about not being able to choose walking distances or periods of less than 1 hour. Also, the distances in my city (Lisbon) were somewhat unrealistic. Dunno if it works better in larger cities.
> ...the toxic "Laoban" culture, an "old boys club" of inept, privileged, people currently running China.

Is this largely a generation-specific culture, that will mostly pass on as the generation dies off, or embedded within the Chinese culture itself, and has a far greater inertial momentum to overcome and thus will take much longer to turn around (perhaps even generations of change)? My gut feel from my general reading is this is an intrinsic part of Chinese culture, though slowly changing starting at the more youth-oriented demographic-populated fringes that interact the most with the outside world.
It’s not Facebook, Google, and the others that worry me; they mostly just want to sell you ads and make your products more convenient. It’s the national military of the place in which those companies (and troves of data) reside, which is known to suspend due process and human rights (including without limitation torturing people, summary executions without trial (google “al awlaki”), and imprisoning people indefinitely without trial) whenever they feel like it, for whatever reason they wish (including simply embarassing them in the media). It’s abso-fucking-lutely terrifying.

I don’t fear Google one bit. I fear the out-of-control US military which has access, at will, to all of Google’s data, with or without a court order, should they ever desire it strongly enough.
a link?
Is there a way to browse available projects on your site? I'm interested in taking a look around, I love to build weird things :)
There is definitely room for improvement among pay in Canada, but it really is an exceptionalist view to base the pay in USD. Especially so because I always see people convert salary in CAD to USD, then not convert the cost of goods and living to USD as well. There are also certain nuances living in Canada that decrease your expenses compared to the US such as decent public transit (unheard of in the west coast), decent healthcare of which health benefits from the company then boost the healthcare quality way higher than what I was able to find in America, and a much more collectivist culture than America which, in my opinion, is the biggest draw to living in Canada.

On the other hand, there are expenses that are higher! Taxes are higher for one as well as the cost of goods such as groceries. Although, the groceries case doesn't really hold because I find that groceries in SV or Seattle to be higher than where I am now in Canada.

The main point I'm trying to make is that is that straight up converting salary in another country straight to USD is a bad comparison of wealth.
Whoever did the map really did the list a disservice by putting the South Dakota site on the top. It makes you assume it was the oldest on the list.
Door is closed but not locked.
In terms of security it is more of theater, than actual security
Congrats for such nice non-English project! It is always lovely to see computer linguistics hitting the front page :-)
I find this new trend of trying to predict how technology will be used - and presuming its users will either be evil or too stupid to use it responsibly incredibly patronizing.

Engineers are not philosophers and should not be placed in this role. We do not have the tools to do it. As with any human we have a duty to consider first order effects - but even the most astute philosopher will have trouble anticipating second order effects. This burden should not be placed on those least qualified to perform it.

Edit: Thank you to everyone for your thoughtful replies. I find this topic fascinating to discuss.
OMG, am I still I while all my molecules constantly replace?

(Yes yes, persistent neural structure... but, persistent broom structure?)
The blackbird failed because something else could do its job better and cheaper (satellites). We still don’t have simply means we still don’t need (at the high cost where it is possible).
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The most depressing part of this is, we could have infrastructure in place to accommodate people living in their cars like KOAs and public shower and laundry facilities. Living in your car could be pretty doable. Many do so voluntarily on a temporary basis.

However instead we use zoning restrictions to stop such infrastructure and then punish those who are forced to live in their cars. We then use draconian parking and registrations laws to try and take away the only home these people have. Why?
Then does this give the US free reign to steal from them?
This is what I personally think, and given that I worked in a more serious part of tech industry than running diary websites for a big part of my career, I think my though has truth credit to it.

Though, my career in serious engineering companies is not that long, I don't see a thing in any serious piece of engineering that ever qualifies as non-obvious. And under serious pieces of engineering I mean things from SCADA for Baosteel's main plant, to widgets for Airbus and EADS.

Nor I ever qualify this engineering work as very laborious. Doing "Big engineering" is more about bureaucratic and legal work than doing actual engineering from my own personal impressions.

Moreover, whenever "big engineering" is involved, and you hear names like WW groups, EADS, Siemens, Rheinmetal, you don't "innovate." The cost of screwup is so high, that there are even special people employed to watch that nobody dares to replace existing working parts with their "innovation." In general, when doing such work, you want to use most proven and conservative designs over any improvements.
I imagined just a bit of possibilities that this would enable and found it to be very scary. While this is a dream that most of us have, I think that it opens doors that are better sealed tight.
I'd like to remind the US of the creation of Keep America Beautiful. I was surprised to discover this was an early piece of corporate greenwashing in the 1950s[0]. Funded by Budweiser, Philip Morris, Coke and others to prevent Vermont bringing a mandatory deposit scheme in for single use packaging. How topical!

Now companies can pollute to their heart's content and make it our failure and their externality. Just by advertising at us to recycle and dispose of our (not that we created or requested it) rubbish carefully.

[0] https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/more-recyc...
You can be 100% sure that no python code is on Mars. Not even Common Lisp which is much more secure and performant is on Mars.

The real rover code is all hardcore C. Erann Gat gave a presentation on the Lisp Conference about the JPL rover code and simulation.
Well, Oxford University has been going for 922 years.

Some of the buildings have been updated a bit, however, at Oxford and plenty of other university/school towns in England there are buildings that are still used today for their original teaching purposes, having been built many centuries ago way before the Columbus story of 'discovery' was written.
Consoles were banned in China from 2000 to 2015.
https://sci-hub.tw/10.15252/embj.201899815
Why does this remind me so much of displacement of indigenous people of the Americas where the oppressors rarely acknowledge the pain of the oppressed but with the tables turned, there is so much outcry... Suppose there is a valuable lesson to be learnt. Theft, no matter how it manifests, causes distress.