skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That would be interesting to try to add word2vec. I wonder if I was successful, and the analogies are biased like you mention, then the book would be flipped but still feel "normal".

So, "the nurse walked in and she said hi" would presumably get translated with word2vec to "the doctor walked in and he said hi".

That's not the effect I was going for, but it would be really interesting to compare the differences like you mention.
From the article title I thought this article would be why FORTRAN, LISP, and COBOL still survive after over 60 years of use. First, these computer languages started with a lot of good ideas and evolved to incorporate ideas from subsequent decades like structured programming and objects. Second, there are massive institutional code bases in these early languages that are too difficult to rewrite.
These languages might even make it into the 22nd century.
Time to economically viable fusion, multiplied by two.
>"Yes, and that model is a universal computer, as stated in the articles I linked to."

This basically says "the model is anything at all". From the first example in the first link, I see the probability in that case is conditional on the binomial model correctly describing the phenomenon (equation 8). This is what I expected is going on.
That's an interesting point. I wonder to what extent it is a zero-sum game in terms of people's attention and capacity to care about problems. I wonder if there were less attention on the sexism problem in the US whether Americans would really turn to other problems or would their attention be caught by, say celebrity news or something useless. I suppose it's somewhere in the middle like most things.
agree. but you can barely get a 2 stroke passed the existing emission laws, and they're not generally in use in motor racing outside of enduro. ¯\(°_o)/¯
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Somebody was reading the Parker Solar Probe link that was posted earlier today :).....
that really makes the most sense. at that point i imagine it would be a more finely controlled compression release. i shouldn't read too much into the wording of what is essentially a marketing statement i suppose :)
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Great, and feel free to leave a comment if you do use it in some interesting way!
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> but inserting new code into the entire Android software stack, or even writing new apps outright, to enable such censorship.

Let's not forget Apple already has done this with iOS. It's just worth mentioning that this isn't Google-specific.
I agree with your thoughts too. If the article speculated on the awful experience if any of those things happened, or if I had just taken that logical step on my own, I should be ashamed or at least contrite. It left those things up to me and I took the bait and just enjoyed the characters in the story that remained. It happens that I'm reading Sapiens right at this moment and it pulls you into a different perspective on the importance of a single human life as compared to the massive extinctions occurring and the incredible sad reality that we humans create for domesticated livestock. It is sad, this man who probably died, indeed.
minor quibble

Farva..

as in "Just get a large Farva" 'No I dont want a large Farva, I want a liter of cola'
Yes, humans cannot synthesize sodium but it also doesn't degrade, its only lost due to excretion. Regardless, it is an essential component of the diet, unlike sugar.

Plants (and every other known form of life) also cannot synthesize minerals.
Creating Connection-Aware Ember Media Components
What's so better about a drink with milk with tons of sugar than a drink without milk with tons of sugar? The drink without milk probably has fewer calories.

This is just an example of a corporation buying out a local government.
Life at a Remote Russian Weather Station(2014)
TRON Acquired Top-Level Domain Name “BlockChain.org”  To-Be Google of Blockchain
Income inequality and violent crime are linked. Absolute poverty is tolerable to the psyche so long as everyone is in the same boat.
When I load that page, all I get is a load of nonsense:

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This could work out. The US Navy needs to expand but the US lacks sufficient shipbuilding capacity.
Seems the only time my home state makes international news is because of some weird death or disappearance:

- Murder of Peter Falconio [1]
- Rod Ansell, inspiration for Crocodile Dundee dies in a police shoot out [2]
- Croc river murders of Darwin sex workers [3]
- Death of Azaria Chamberlain (Dingo ate my baby) [4]
- German backpacker who escaped the Bali bomb blast killed by a crocodile in Kakadu [5]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Peter_Falconio

[2] https://www.tvovermind.com/entertainment-news/tragic-story-r...

[3] https://www.theage.com.au/national/teens-sentenced-to-life-f...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Azaria_Chamberlain

[5] https://www.smh.com.au/national/crocodile-victim-survived-ba...
I'm in areas and positions to see a lot of data in a trend like that. From my vantage point, the fraud stays happening in all kinds of ways with it going up or down based on both job opportunities (reduces crime) and opportunities for criminals (increases it). There's definitely been more attempts with things like Facebook-based scams, gift cards, and so on. The lower barrier to entry is increasing the number of people doing it. I wouldn't say any technological revolution or transition is causing it, though. The Web and social media already happened. ;) The cryptocurrencies do look like they're trying to push the envelope on theft described as failed investments, though.

I do suggest looking into crime statistics for fraud and how they're determined over time if you want a more objective, representative viewpoint.
> If anyone reading this knows intellectually that they ought to exercise, but just can't, please know that you are not unusual, this is what mood disorders do.

thanks, needed to hear this.
Multilingual Language Processing from Bytes
I love seeing my old stomping grounds show up on HN. The Yoop is a lovely area with loads of history and extremely kind people. It is also sadly filled with crushing poverty and brutal winters. I grew up in a small town very close to Houghton, visiting copper harbor frequently, I didn't realize this site even existed. Another interesting location is the abandoned Calumet Air Force radar station [1][2].

The copper mine is absolutely worth checking out and the tour is pretty great if you are into mining or anything historic. I've taken the tour a few times, you only get to go down a few levels due to the rest of the mine being flooded but it is still very interesting. This mine was a big one but the entire area was dedicated to copper and was extremely rich with the stuff. The mine, and others, actually closed down in 1933 due to low copper prices but reopened a couple shafts in 1937. I forget when they closed back down but I want to say it was in the mid 50s.

Michigan Tech claims that from Quincy alone, up to 756 million pounds of copper were produced from 1856 to 1925 [3]. The mine, with 90 levels, went to a final depth of 6,225 feet with a finial shaft length of 9,260 feet [4]. I'm not sure how reliable it is, I've only ever had my eyes on the Quincy Mining Company financials, but the national park services claim that over 10 billion pounds of copper were produced from the area [5].

Just this summer I was talking to an old timer who worked with the local mines pulling core samples and doing general geologic work. According to him there is still a massive amount of copper in the ground but with regulations and the completely dilapidated infrastructure, there hasn't been development for decades. With the rise in copper prices I have heard rumors of a few people buying up mineral rights in the last year or so but nothing too interesting beyond that. Personally I would love some deep pockets to come into the area to reopen the mines and revitalize the area, not sure I'll ever see that in my lifetime though.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbYbO-my46I

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calumet_Air_Force_Station

[3] http://www.mg.mtu.edu/MINE_SHAFTS/shaft5zd.htm

[4] https://www.uh.edu/engines/mineno2shaftcrosssection.jpg

[5] https://www.nps.gov/kewe/learn/historyculture/copper-mining-...
As a resident, Wichita* :)
Go watch the build videos and you'll understand how he got it done in 5 months. The guy is definitely "special" in the sense that he's incredibly driven, very positive, and a bit scary.

Apparently, he only sleeps a few hours a day.
Aho-Corasick Algorithm
> That dictatorship now has imprisoned close to 1 million people in Xinjiang.

Sources please? Xinjiang is not that big, they have 20mm people in total, 1mm will be fractional big enough to make the street appear more empty...
> 25% of the world's population is illiterate. By accessibility alone, video wins.

I don't think it's as clear cut as that. Literature doesn't have to be written; oral literature exists, and has been around for centuries, and was still fairly common even in living memory of people in the West. You can have literature without writing, basically... and that's always preceded video, and, I'd say, is probably the first form that humans encountered literature (and likely occurred when we first learned to speak, before Homo Sapiens Sapiens was even a thing)
3Q: A bold mission to touch the sun
Scientology 'has branch in every English prison' (2010)
Thirty micrometres a minute: scientists discover the speed of death
Yeah looking at what photos there are the terrain there is pretty open and you'd think you'd find someone, but "rules out" just sorta doesn't sit well with me there.
that makes me unbelievably happy.
AOT implementation in the JDK, that we call the "HotSpot AOT" implements tiered compilation (look for $JAVA_HOME/bin/jaotc). It is also based on Graal, but with a different set of plugins. You get reasonably good startup and re-JITing afterwards. Of course it doesn't give you compactness on the SVM, but it supports regular java code with class loading, reflection, etc.

A talk about HotSpot AOT: https://youtu.be/n5DCg6M2MDM
It seems to be placeholder text taken from the novel Moby Dick.

Pretty sloppy to launch without double-checking the FAQ...
So just how effective is this? What's the resulting yield compared to without it?
Part 2 on using topological data analysis to discern the behavior of neural nets
So she presented an iranian passport and scolded the airport personell and took photos of them

https://www.thenational.ae/uae/courts/swedish-woman-deported...
"Just choose something"

Did you see that South Park episode where they try to pick a name for their startup but all names are taken? It's very, very funny.

So yeah, I want the perfect name for this. What _is_ the perfect name?
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I once knew a fellow who had grown up on a small island in Alaska. He told me there was one man in particular who lived there who was a real piece of work, just a miserable SOB. One day someone shot him and killed him in his home. The guy gave me to understand that everybody on the island knew it was his son but didn't feel that a prosecution would serve any useful purpose. The boy had enough problems.

Can you imagine? The whole fucking island swallowed a fratricide. Who's fit to judge such things?
Ask HN: How to get feedback from customers when validating an idea?
Hi,

I have a preliminary idea that I would like to present to users and get feedback. I would like to know how severe a pain point it is and what would be the best solution from their vantage point. I would also like to know if they will be willing to pay for this. I am also interested in learning about other pain points that they might have.

Some areas I would like to learn about are

* How do I ask the right questions to entice the users to respond?

* How do I elicit their experiences and not be confined to an Yes/No?

* How do I tailor the structure to the medium of interaction? (In my case, email and twitter)

What are some good books/resources, case studies, discussions to learn about this? Is there a dedicated forum where such experiences are shared?
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I assumed that the “Assembly” part of the name would mean that it was a WebAssembly module—that seems quite a reasonable thing to assume given the context. But there doesn’t seem to be any significance in the name at all for Assembly code or WebAssembly.
That's a confusing response. Are you advocating for government bailouts for chaebols and US banks?
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I don't think we will see any industries with mass employment, and in eithet case, there's no reason why it won't be based near the largest cities. The prospect for remote areas is grim, and that includes even large-ish cities. Even if they are afloat you won't see much investment.
Then people need to use these words more carefully. 'server side application' and 'web server' are not even close to being the same thing.
GI 312.
"We're going to set up"
> portraying limitations in other countries in a way that celebrates our own values.

This rings very true to me. Like others have commented in this thread, google is unethical because "they are disrupting the foundations of democracy by abiding by totalitarian rules" as if democracy is the one True form of governance.
Agreed. Excited to try it but I want to know a teensy bit more about why I should switch to this over an in-house DeepSpeech based solution. The custom models part in particular seems like it could be a step forward, but right now there are few details on implementation. I get wanting to keep a competitive edge, but I think you need a little bit more details on what is going on.
I've been thinking that in order to write well, the author has to empathize with their audience. The effect is that the reader is able to empathize with the author.

Math, programming, and writing are verbal skills, but good communication requires empathy, an emotional skill. I realized this was true after I realized I needed to consciously work on empathy because it is so crucial.
A small team of student AI coders beats Google’s machine-learning code
The information density in this post is insane! This is easily the best things I have read on hacker news this year.
I look at Netty as an async IO library. You use Netty to build your own servers. Yes, I know, Netty ships with an HTTP client and server.
If your wonder what really amazing realtime grass might look like in a video game. (Fifa 17) https://youtu.be/WLsPstW0iGQ
> I think the dev's goal has been towards balancing the difficulty not so much towards making difficult puzzles that are rewarding to beat, but towards making reasonably challenging puzzles that become rewarding to revisit and optimize as you get better at the game

That's been my impression as well. TIS-100 is still has a high replay value, because optimize optimize optimize!
Meanwhile, the bandwidth of a single-port 9-pin Atari controller is almost well understood.
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CGA is probably surprisingly easy. Composite out can plug into almost any TV made in the last 15 years, and many monitors. I could see using my Dell 2007FP for something like this; I've already tried it with a C128.
I had the same thought, thinking immediately of "Murder on the Orient Express"
> I'm wondering about an importer for the Frink ones... but https://frinklang.org/frinkdata/units.txt doesn't seem to have a license?)

This is just a list of facts, no? You can't really copyright such a thing.
As far as I know, facts and information can't be copyrighted, which means at the very least the raw data in units.txt can be used freely with flagrant disregard for licensing.
Ray Tracing: WebAssembly vs. JavaScript
> At the risk of sounding nationalistic, I think companies in the United States and other democratic countries should reconsider any and all business relationships with authoritarian regimes like those in China and Russia.

FWIW, that's the opposite of "nationalistic". Nationalism means that the highest principle is your nation's benefit; people suffering and dying in other nations, including at your hands, is not important. For example, current U.S. nationalists advocate ignoring human rights abuses in other countries in order to make more money for U.S. businesses (former Secretary of State and former Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson openly advocated this policy).

You are advocating the reverse: the U.S. and other democracies should forgo business interests in order to help people in other countries.

I agree, but only when those measures are effective. FWIW, it turns out that using these economic tools is tricky; it's hard to get desired outcomes. First, beware of politicians offering something for nothing - we want to act against this country, but we don't want to pay or risk anything (significant money or the lives of soldiers); there's no free lunch - you'll get out what you put in. North Korea and Cuba, for example, survive under sanctions for generations and the only consequence has been harm to the non-elite in their countries; North Korea even managed to build nuclear weapons and ICBMs; Iran built nukes and is working on the missiles. Second, if you use the 'blunt' tool and eliminate all business activity, then you tend hurt the people you are trying to help: The common people lose jobs, homes, food, etc.; he powerful elite hoard the money for themselves; look at North Korea for an example. One solution is to apply sanctions directly to the elite in ways that won't affect others (e.g., block them from traveling or making financial transactions outside their country, sanction their businesses directly, etc.); this was used against Iran to significant effect, AFAIK, and is used against Russia. Finally, when you use the 'take my ball and go home' tactic, you lose further leverage over the other party - if you aren't doing business with them, why should they care what you think about the problem that arises next year? Staying engaged is very important for diplomatic leverage.

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I think that's a 5100-- almost a decade earlier and much more exotic.
The playlist is here [0], and it's definitely worth watching! The completed plane is just insane, and I was amazed at how much of it he made from carbon fiber.

0: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9OFkVHYEhoEfWmN0lQRZ...
Developing a cross platform RAM meter using Neutralinojs
Dimensional analysis is the original type checking.
Well if those math and physics phd's approach the problem like economists, I'm sure they'll make it such that after year or more without being employed, they'll be classified as no longer looking or in need of a job and thus can be safely excluded from any economic equations.

Won't be too long now before iShares gets the go ahead for a new ETF: EP2PM, where everyone from retail investors to central banks all over the world can buy shares in emerging market p2p securities, we need everyone all over the world to be able to afford the $2k iPhones that will come out in the next 3 years.
This calculator is a little confusing, but it looks like it shows that mining is currently unprofitable (revenue is lower than costs) and will never be profitable. Bitcoin mining with retail hardware and retail electricity has almost never been profitable since ASICs came out.
Show HN: My First “Real” Magic Leap Project: Part 1
Even Vert.x web has no equivalent to Spring which forms the basis of Spring Boot. Spring is a complete application framework that combines dependency injection, AOP and enterprise integration.

To my knowledge Vert.x and Vert.x web have no equivalent to Spring Boots autoconfiguration.

I am not saying Vert.x or Vert.x web are worse than Spring Boot but they do very different things.
Frink is a (Turing complete?) programming language. GNU Units is a program.
It's interesting to me consider why it is that middle management is considered so reviled in our culture. It's kind of like, people want to punch up, but not so far upward to put themselves at risk of angering ownership. I also suppose that in a culture that idolizes both ownership and manual labor, people leadership at the scale of middle management is poorly understood and undervalued.
Wana write a blog post about it?
Congrats, how does this stack against other offerings? Any benchmarks?

Is there a streaming API support like IBM Watson Speech to Text?