skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm working on editing my PhD dissertation into a book right now and I'm dealing with this exact problem. I work on Babylonian astrology and the text I studied for my PhD was a complex table of astrological material including "medical" ingredients. Right now I'm finishing off correcting and translating all of the medical ingredients in the text.

I've chosen to rather than try to convert the Sumerian/Babylonian names of ingredients into assumed parallels leave them all in their native language. Identifying ancient ingredients is really hard (for many of the reasons given in the blog post). Most all, how can we sure than any of the descriptive adjectives (especially sensory observations) have modern equivalents that we can relate to. We know for instance that color words can differ quite a bit between languages, and that's thanks to living speakers who can show us what they mean by a certain word. How do we do that for long dead languages? For instance try explaining the scent of cedar wood without using the word cedar... and imagine all the culturally specific adjectives you'd have to use to approximate the smell.

To be sure, it's not a hopeless task. Some ancient names can be identify with modern parallels, but on the whole it's a very fraught task.
Sony to release AI-infused robotic pups in the US
Will Machine Learning AI Make Human Translators an Endangered Species?
"is collected by most every intelligence agency, without a warrant"

This is tinfoil hat stuff. Depending on the data and the situation, they need warrants just like everyone else.
> The iPhone has to reliably connect for emergency calls and provide accurate location.

An iPhone handling an emergency call is an exceptional use case.

A car driving is not an exceptional use case for a car.

A life and death scenario is occurs every few minutes, or continuously for something like a mountain road, if something like brakes, limited throttle, or steering were to fail.

But, I would, naively, assume that the operation of these critical components were in no way related to timing requirements of some process in Linux.
> I read (here) that 10% of liquor stores' customers are half the volume.

Restaurants buy from liquor stores...
Portugal creates more than 24K businesses in First semester
I've been debating with a lot of alt-right people lately on Facebook and have been studying their debating tactics and how they apply them to support q-anon, and pizzagate, and Trump.

It's really fastinating to see all of these strategies played out in the real world.

I use these strategies to identify what they are doing and cut through the sophistry and attempt to reach the truth.

The nice thing about online debating is that you have time to think about and analyze the others argument vs on the spot debate where emotions get involved.
> things like treating immune cells to teach them to attack cancer cell. These efforts have often been disappointing.

I disagree, things like Car-T cell therapy have been some of the most exciting developments in the fight against cancers
It's time to address artificial intelligence's ethical problems
This will often be the case, whether for writing technical docs, books, articles or other matter, unless you have a curated or specifically targeted audience. It's one of the occupational hazards of writing.
What would happen under this proposal if someone receiving food stamps works 5 hours/week at Amazon and 10 hours/week at Walmart? Do they both pay the tax?
Meet “Watsina”: Inside the Making of IBM’s New AI for Debating
You haven't received a print issue this year? That makes me think my story may not be unique.

I ordered a subscription to the physical magazine on May 1st of this year. Liz (managing editor) responded to my two inquiries about shipping. Each time she stated shipping was 2-3 weeks away. Both of those time frames were missed. Liz stated there were issues with the production of one issue (specifically #24).

Nearly four months after ordering, I am still product-less. I asked for a refund earlier this week, and I haven't gotten a response--I have escalated the issue to PayPal at this point. The order is marked as refunded on naultil.us's store page, but I haven't seem any action on the PayPal end.
Just because they make the AK-47, doesn't mean they know anything about mechanical innovation or even vehicular engineering. They definitely don't know anything about marketing from the look of the car.
You can never trust software to block data flows. There is no such thing as "charge-only" as long as the cable still has data wires in it.

> We found that in some cases the "charge-only" USB mode may also fail to block AT commands.
Well, I thought I was the only one with this problem...

I think it is doable, but you have to be very clear on your expectations and Honest about the invoice, etc.

Let's say you came to me and said:

Hello, superflit there is this project it is $xx xxx,00 Euros we split. I do zzz, and you do the web or backend.

Once we agreed we have to set the scope, tech, and deliverables. Because we are looking for the long-term partnership, I had to trust you, and you have to trust me. So we have to be clear what we are charging getting for every project and expectations.

My email is on my profile enter in touch if you want to.
Yup. I've got an outstanding person TODO item to see if anything in the HASS side of things needs enhancement, since I'm a python dev and have the Doorbird http api docs.
I was able to finish reading the article before the page finished loading. To WebMD: Fix your ad networks and write better articles.
The Future of Noninvasive Blood Sugar Monitoring with AI
>So the lesson probably applies mostly to those 10% who think "one drink a day" is a reasonable thing

That 10% are drinking hugely more than one drink a day.
I suspect they mean that you'll only have one client-server roundtrip for query and response.
Yep, when using an untrusted USB power source, you can use what is called a "USB condom": either an adapter or a USB cable with the data wires cut letting only power go through. You can search the web for tutorial on which wires to cut in your USB cable, or for already made USB condoms to buy for less than $10 a piece.
Bigger medium than Something Awful. Easier to read without all the other people’s replies mixed in. Some additional anonymity for the poster. The content will stay if the original thread is removed.
The sub-millisecond precision ensures they can totally destroy your day with short left turn arrows and yellow lights.
1. transfer to the same registrar

2. cull

actually, 0) cancel, because that cute typo won't make you a million bucks now that com/net/org/info are not the only game in town
AI and machine learning take centre stage at Microsoft competition
Taste is very subjective. I'm glad they don't make cars like that Volvo anymore, it's probably the ugliest looking thing I've ever seen.
what about lions?
You can use something like a PortaPow USB condom to isolate only the charging capability.
Drive-in 'sex boxes' for prostitution are a wild success in Switzerland
This is impossible. We have just been educated in another thread that land is not a zero sum game.
> Using a secret to sign or encrypt a cookie does normally work

If the secret key is not compromised. So you have to ask yourself - why you send to the user some info that is so sensitive that needs signing? Why not just keep this info to yourself and send an opaque ID instead? Yes, I know there are issues with it too, but at least this issue is not there.

> 3 as well I think is unfair. That isn't something facebook implemented

I didn't say it's Facebook fault - though ultimately, of course, it is as much as if you run certain software on your servers and do not configure it properly, it's your fault. So there's a fail in having security key in a place that's so easily accessible that debug mode dumps it without even asking. Not necessarily a direct Facebook fail, but a fail.
>we should starve poor families to death if the mother is sexually active and doesn't use approved birth control.

We also murder people who have expired tags, as long as they don't pay the fine, don't show up in court, resist the police officers enough to get them to shoot them.

In reality essentially everybody stops before it gets to that point, and in your example the women buys (or ideally gets) a bunch of condoms, use them and no more children nobody can afford is brought into the world, and maybe she also avoids some STDs.

Look I don't want to compel her to do it, but at the very least make sure that she understands that the people who pay for her children have certain justifiable expectations.

>people love it because we see drug addicts as being evil and therefore unworthy of help.

If you work hard at a crap job that pays say 22 usd/hr, you don't want to pay for somebodies meth bill.

If you want a system that can help people then you need it so that it is politically palatable enough -- or you won't be able to focus on it at all.
Show HN: SpeakingPuppy – Snapchat-like AR for your dog
Driving to the doctor or hospital, when you need treatment, might on balance be "safe". (You're better off doing so, than not, epidemiologically.)

Perhaps all alcohol consumption is a burden on the body. But having a social life is a positive -- we keep seeing more reporting on the benefits of the latter.

So, where's the balance?

At the same time, I've seen a lot of pretty obviously unbalanced engagement with alcohol. And, it's remained largely segregated from many other drugs -- yes, calling it a drug -- in public perception and policy.

Maybe that will change, for the better.
This is great! Really like the idea of being able to move a lot of manual IDE setup/usage to a Makefile. After using the IDE for 3 years now, has anyone used a different IDE that boasts a lot of the same features but is a bit more... friendly?

edit: I guess we can use any IDE we want with this CLI, and make tooling around the CLI. I meant the question in past tense :)
It's not particularly hard to make an electric car (there are plenty of DIY projects).

It is, however, extremely hard to make an electric car that's safe, ergonomic, attractive - and also performs well.

As much as I admire the original AK-47 design, I don't believe the firm is capable of making electric cars. Or robots.

https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-45282805
Oh. I figure out what it meant, but I thought it was meant to be a ‘polite’ version. Sort of like saying ‘shucks’ or ‘darn’.

Autocorrect didn’t enter my mind as a possibility.
Oh. Sorry. I never meant to say we should kill people. I am simply saying that in the absence of public support for a social net for all, we should at least guarantee a social net for the first born for everyone regardless of their background or social status.

I never meant to imply that we will actively terminate any living being for the mistakes/crimes of its parents. Under the n -- current proposal is n = one -- child policy, it will be a crime to have more than n children and not be able to afford a minimum standard of living for them. You'll have to be really careful should your circumstances change in the future. While this will hurt some people in the short term, I believe people will be better off than they are today.
TLDR the expulsion from the [ utopian giddy visions of pre-first-boom-collapse internet culture ] garden most definitely changed things.

For myself I'd say that back in the day, I had the luxury born mostly of historical blind luck of going to that event and seeing it blow up, when for a brief period it really seemed both like we were over a hump, as a civilization, and things were going to get better (for all), and we in SV were right there making it happen.

That naive optimism married to the de rigeur aggressive curiosity, monomanaical focus and work ethic, intelligence, and growing affluence of the boom times, really defined how things scaled up.

Fast forward to today. SF is again in the midst of profound inequality and cultural shift; an industry which collectively seemed headed towards doing no evil is now beset by endless . scandal for ethically dubious behavior; the current boom has been defined publicly, accurately or not, as identified with a cavalier contempt for the interests of the commons...

...and the political moment is much much darker.

Not just in the industry, or the Trump years; also things like Occupy and BLM and our various neocon fabricated military excursions have reminded everyone at some deep level, things are not actually getting inevitably better, have never been getting better for _all_, are really broken in lots of ways; and now we are more divided than ever...

I think all of this inevitably translates through the preconditions into BM as much as anything.

TLDR it's only able to be a distillation of what's brought into it, which has changed.

Today I personally wrestle with whether it is "OK" to go indulge myself in escapism, when [ so much ] is going wrong.

It is, if it makes life worth living; but that's a different thing than not having to even ask the question.

(A wiser older me recognizes those questions were always there, but there was a giddy moment in which they were collectively disregarded in favor of self-serving but well-meaning optimism.)
Examining why Switch games cost more than their PC counterparts
So, the conclusion can be that the elimination of food stamps for anyone capable of working would elevate their, and so by definition, the average of everyone's, wages?
To the first point, good question. I dont know how we could solve that problem writ large.

As to UBI, I am all for it but I have concerns as well. Like a super basic one being what is to stop commodity prices inflating proportionately to the new lowest possible income set by UBI. Say UBI is 20k for every human on Earth. Great, but what's to stop the rise in prices of commodities to essentially UBI adjusted income + original price of commodity? Im genuinely curious what you think.
> It’s legal to use other people’s insider information. It’s only when you’re the source directly or indirectly that it’s illegal.

This is dangerously incorrect in the US.

You may not use ANY material business information that is not available to other traders.

Now, you may do your own analysis of the business or the market and act on that. You can hire private investigators to dig through public trash to monitor pizza consumption and act on that. You can even use public web APIs to calculate actual customer acquisition numbers (shady, but probably just on the technically legal side of the line) and act on that.

But, if you have any information about a company not generally available to the public, you may not act on it.
1. According to this source, the infotainment system arbitrates flashing other ECUs.

2. Apparently people can ssh into the infotainment system.

1 + 2 => someone hacks into the infotainment system and flashes a safety-critical ECU.
I guess/hope there's some protection in place to prevent that.
Just wanted to chime in, OData had basically the same idea, however, from personal observation, somehow just didn't really become so popular, maybe because of its original association with Microsoft, etc. and also partially maybe its implementation. But it was pretty close, and today a lot of products support OData.

I did note recently while reviewing the Microsoft API standard guidelines they share on GitHub [1], that there is a non-OData standard, but OData like recommendation for working with queries across collections, which I find to be pretty good and pretty generic.

It seems like today you can do what you said - a sophisticated RESTish API without the model metadata piece pretty easily - but that metadata piece adds a lot of value.

[1] https://github.com/Microsoft/api-guidelines/blob/vNext/Guide... - see sections on sorting, filtering etc.
I think you're a little over-confident in the Node community; I've seen a lot of Node apps deployed the same as any other (just tar'ed up and deployed via some kind of script or other deployment tool).
Anyone know what's the motivation behind Intel having the FSP closed source? It seems like it would be useless to you without an Intel chipset on your motherboard, so it's not like Intel won't be able to make money if they're open source.
>I dunno, and it doesn't really matter for this conversation.

travis stated pay is based on seniority (implied most, not all). You claimed his sample was too small, then gave a small sample as counter-evidence. So now that I ask you if the majority of people in unions are paid based mostly on seniority you admit you don't even know? And thus claim it's irrelevant?

That's an odd way to demonstrate that your objection has merit.

You can look up the biggest unions in the US, and you will in fact see that a significant component of pay is seniority based for the majority of people in US unions.

If you're going to complain that someone is wrong, at least put in some legwork.
The smartest engineers in the world have been figuring out how to make people click on ads. If they have to figure out how to quell genocidal movements I think that's an improvement.
> Optimization for GDP growth results in an increased global population. If you want a more sustainable human footprint on the world as a whole, what you want to pursue is _global_ negative GDP growth. If you want to see a decreased US ecological footprint you should be against immigration.

Sorry if this question is stupid. I am not an economist. Is global GDP growth non-negotiable?
There are 3cx and Vodia.
It's not a necessity, but it is not unnatural either. A flat emission spectrum of zero energy is the only spectrum that corresponds to zero emissions.
That's so bougouis of you. Believe it or not most people dont work jobs just for kicks. It's their survival. And they can't just get job training to get a new job because they don't have the time or money.

The python of capitalism has cinched itself around their neck.

This is like 50% of America too believe it or not.
Or fiddle with the manual choke to find a setting where the engine would sort of idle. Or wish you had a manual choke, when the automatic choke wouldn't go on -- or off.
> Martha Stewart didn't go to prison for the fun of it-- she was a recipient of insider information three or four degrees removed from the source. It was very much illegal for her to use other people's insider information.

Martha Stewart went to jail for lying to the Feds, not insider trading, IIRC.
Maybe, but it might require more RAM and CPU horsepower than they provide in order to be usable.
There was another thread or part of a thread on gopher, recently. From the OP, I'll cite this bit, because it was also mentioned in that thread and meant, for me, that I didn't have to seek out any additional software (since Firefox dropped gopher support some time ago).

Another good option for using Gopher is Lynx, an old-school text-based browser that was superseded by Netscape, but which is still supported. The completely text-based interface has its own sort of elegance, and I like it when I don’t want to be distracted by all the stuff that yells for your attention on the modern net.

I already had lynx installed. I don't recall explicitly installing it on this particular machine; maybe it comes by default with Ubuntu 16.04?
I really liked a Honda Accord design that I saw several years ago on the road. No picture though.
Different priorities. The goal isn't to make beautiful software. The goal is a system flexible enough to meet the users needs.

I also think it is a cultural. See SAP's blog entry "Why users might think their SAP user interface is crumby" https://blogs.sap.com/2015/09/15/why-users-might-think-their...
You need to buy good ones otherwise the power negotiation doesn't happen and you get a slow charge.
You've been able to do that for years[1]. I've been mostly programming my arduinos through headless rpis, because I don't like the idea of my untested electronic designs having any connection with my desktop. Plus it's really way more handy that way, vim + all my keyboard shortcuts etc.

1. https://github.com/sudar/Arduino-Makefile
What I meant is that you probably would use the same SQL script to fetch from your database the data. GraphQL is not responsible for talk to your database. If you have a SQL database, you must specify the SQL script to fetch the data as well as RESTFUL. Pay attention that GraphQL is not a database technology, Graphql is a query language for APIS.
>To add to your point, nobody actually trolls in person or in real life because 1) the body language gives them away immediately and 2) they're risking getting punched in the face for their effort.

What do you count as trolling? Purposeful inflamatory remarks? Arguments that aren't honestly believed but are politely used to test the extent of some line of reasoning or the limits of a position?

For example, one common line of reasoning used with drugs and abortion is that it will happen anyways so outlawing it only makes it more dangerous. Now imagine someone taking this same argument and applying it to something like FGM or some other extreme position (though an extreme position that some on the planet do hold, just not likely the one presenting the argument). Would this be trolling, and would it depend upon presentation, in which case would someone with poor presentation presenting an argument they believe in not also be trolling?
https://www.npr.org/2012/12/06/166666265/why-some-homeless-c...
And then presumably we could make a machine that's a more accurate and sensitive detector - if there is really something to it.
That sounds really fascinating. Where could an interested layman read more about your (and related) work?

I find it very hard to find material in that space, between the pop-culture "Check out These 10 Things The Ancient Sumerians Did!" (too vacuous) and expert journal articles (too deep, not enough context). In some areas Wikipedia rabbit-hole-trips serve well, but not always.
> Seems to me that it is okay to have a drink a day

What's one drink?

One 125 ml glass of wine at 8% ABV would be 1 UK unit.

One 175 ml glass of wine at 12% ABV would be 2 UK units, nearly double the alcohol. One of those a day and you're drinking at the UK safe limit levels of 14 units a week.
T-Mobile says hackers may have made off with 2M users’ personal data
Agreed it certainly does feel like we are on the highway to some kind of neo-feudalism. My words, not yours, of course. It does frustrate me to no end when these Free Market right-libertarians hark on about personal responsibility and demonize welfare. Like, do they realize the amount of public funding, safety nets, government contracts, and subsidies the private "free" market relies on? Then they have the audacity to call out poor folks asking to be able to go to the doctor, or reliably eat 3 meals a day every day. The cogitative dissonance is real as hell.