skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a handful of other people have said here, the Bible. It changed my life (although who knows what I would have become if I hadn't read it). Eventually, I decided that if it made such a difference in my life, I should be part of making it available to others. So I studied linguistics, and became a member of Wycliffe Bible Translators/ Summer Institute of Linguistics, who translate the Bible into minority languages (usually languages which were previously unwritten). That got me into computational linguistics. While I'm not a WBT/SIL member any more, I am still a Christian, and I do still work in computational linguistics, which I'm pretty sure I would not otherwise have gotten into. And it has been worth it all.
UK address data: a primer and bibliography
Ugh. I meant marginal.
The Human Promise of the AI Revolution
Even people who normally like to be alone tend to break down in various ways whrn they are really isolated for long time.

Needing to be alone after school or work is not quite the same as being alone 24/7 for months.
> We don’t want to be educated with every post or thread.

I completely disagree with this article. It sounds really elitist. Opinions are how we understand the world and the changing situations, complexities and nuances. They (may) help us refine our views and develop newer and/or better mental models that we can relate to and use elsewhere.

To state that topics/threads high on opinions are essentially worthless is a generalization taken too far.
If the area around Fukushima is uninhabitable, then so is Denver. This irrational fear of trivial amounts of ionizing radiation is what prevents us from having abundant energy without emissions of greenhouse gasses. (But I guess that's virtually no benefit.)

> the nuclear waste argument

Can you see what you're doing here? You don't actually argue, you just pretend there is an argument and it's conclusive. If I tried to argue against that, I'd uselessly spend energy making points you don't care about, and you would claim victory.

Oh, that's not what you're doing? The what is the nuclkear waste argument?

> it's not so much about rationality as about fear

You need it to be about fear, because you don't have a rational argument.
> We can do consensus in many (much cheaper) ways.

Agreed, but that's why we're working on proof of stake systems. With BFT algorithms, consensus can also be much faster, on the order of 1 second.

> Most people don't want their transactions or legal agreements published to the world. [...] And [companies] rarely want the public to know about their contracts, let alone their inventory details.

Also agreed, but that's why we're working on systems with better privacy, using tools like ring signatures (Monero), zk-SNARKs (ZeroCash), Bulletproofs (future Monero?), and zk-STARKs.

Private smart contracts are tough, especially if random access is needed, but it's doable with a scheme like TinyRAM.
I will not provide you with a source, I don't have the time. I consider what I said basic, first-principles stuff. We two layers deep discussing an idea that is not feasible, anyway. Here is a source that the pumps will not work: http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/08/28/hurricanes.gates....
Actually i enjoy in depth conversations, if they are refined, condensed and put into PDFs uploaded as papers to the internet, where im free to consume the conversation at my own pace and contribute back to the conversation at my own pace.
The Billion-Dollar Mystery Man and the Wildest Party Vegas Ever Saw
Canada has some imperial remnants (e.g. people commonly measure their colloquial "weight" in lb), but miles isn't one of those remnants.

It's kind of annoying for cars – when the CAD is doing well, there are often significant savings available by purchasing a car in the US and importing it, but the savings have never been enough for me to deal with the unpleasantness of having my car's instruments read in miles.
Battlefield V review: Hands on 20 November, 2018
Citation needed. (Spoiler alert: they weren't.)
Nvidia RTX 20 series on shelf on 20 September, 2018
I have no idea one way or the other, but I wonder how less fragmented the US market is? For some things, sure, an extremely common language and some other things etc etc.

However, having traveled around a lot of the US, and a good portion of EU, my instinct is that the US is pretty fragmented too when it comes to a whole lot of things.

Regional cultural differences in the US can be really strong. Though maybe that doesn't affect markets as much as EU with probably more diverse cultures and certainly more diversity of languages.

Anyway, really interesting to think about! Maybe I'll research it sometime.
This all is really only true west of the Mississippi. Trains are quite widely used in the densely populated Northeast.
Very often conservatives will tell "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" stories that worked for them. But there are literally tens of millions of people in Pakistan who cannot even afford the plane tickets yet along the other costs of moving their entire family internationally. That your family could do that indicates that it had relatively good resources. Also, you didn't mention whether your family had an immigrant community network here that could help you get started and find work. Your case is no doubt an example of hard work and struggle but it is not proof that addiction and mental illness are the primary things keeping people homeless.
Canada uses km.

https://www.authentikcanada.com/holidays/highway-code-canada
Maybe Amazon won't ever be replaced or "obsoleted" by something similar to Amazon, but rather by sth like 3d printers, I mean sth completely different
I use this:

https://macroplant.com/iexplorer

... which allows me to treat everything in my iphone as a filesystem and pull items off / delete them / add them, etc.

I am not sure I could be an iphone user without this tool.
I love this site, the method is very clever. I did a re-implementation of this at one point for fun. One of my favorite things to do with this simulation is to actually plot the path of the photons as they approach the black hole (well, leave the black hole but you reverse time for ray tracing purposes). Conveys the idea pretty well that there's something funky going on with spacetime. E.g. here https://imgur.com/OPHLMJL (just a screen shot from back then, it's much more fun with sliders that led you move things around).
Are Narcissists More Likely to Experience Imposter Syndrome?
Canada does not use mph, at least not Ontario which is the only part I've driven in.
From the article: “full 10 Gbps throughput full-duplex while supporting 10,000 sessions”

Doesn’t sound too impressive if you consider that Netflix has been doing 10-40Gbps with 10,000-40,000 sessions on commodity hardware [1] and is already doing 100Gbps as well [2].

[1] https://openconnect.netflix.com/publications/asiabsd_tls_imp...
[2] https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/serving-100-gbps-from-an...
National economies are very hermetic and their regulations are foreign-hostile (xenophobic?), it's impossible to enter and smoothly operate without some high level "green light", e.g. Polish/Czech direct banks like Fio, mBank, Inteligo couple of years ago were much ahead of what banks in e.g. Germany, UK, or Italy were offering to their individual consumers but had zero chance of launching in these countries. Furniture production in Poland is significant but to sell internationally they're basically submitted to IKEA. Screw those who were selling the "capital has no nationality" mantra in post-Communist countries during the 90s-00s. Flixbus? They spread all over EU with no new value created - the coaches are driving the same as they have always been, quality unchanged, if anything they look like some predatory business sucking in everything into their franchising model.
For me, the biggest warning signs are separating us & them, especially when the them are family outsiders, and punishment for leaving (or other normal behaviors, like associating with outsiders, etc).
> The passenger pigeon only bred in large flocks and by the time everyone realized they were on the decline, there were no more large flocks.

So do penguins, gulls and terns, yet they can be bred in zoos. Also, the big colonies of the passenger pigeon mostly like where a phenomenon of the 19th century (possibly human induced), the effective population size of the species has been shown to have been in the hundreds of thousands range.

Oh, and the Carolina parakeet was bred in zoos, even in Europe. Unfortunately they weren't that consistent back then yet.
I suggest an automated system that identifies ISPs that throttle traffic.

Internet companies ban service to those ISPs.

What use is an ISP if the internet companies refuse to serve it?

It would make any ISP deeply reluctant to be caught throttling.
But with a chaotic system like fluid dynamics, you wont get the same behaviour each time even if you do stuff like pass delta-t to the simulation. Sensitive dependence on initial conditions, and all that chaos theory stuff comes in to play.

That is, two run-throughs with very slightly different delta-t's will give different outcomes.
"Oh here's a new biochemical path connected to exercise."

"Oh sweet I guess I should exercise then."

Except the basis for the decision to exercise or not has already been confirmed in inumerous ways on these grounds, and it is redundant since we should expect massive stress of any sort (exercise included) to result in large cascading changes in the body.

Or the other way around, the body is so intricate that any individual biochemical pathway is unlikely to play a significant role in the whole, and so we should explain things in terms of the whole to actually learn something. The OP mentioned mood. But there are a lot of unnoticed alternative pathways at play here, why wouldn't they also have a connection to mood?

Maybe if you were in particular seeking a way to mimic exercise with drugs this kind of thing becomes more useful.
Every car I've seen in America made in the last 20 years has dual scales on the speedometer. I guess the odometer is often and only in miles, but some cars have an option to switch units..
Yeah but they're working on it:

>The Great Passenger Pigeon Comeback has set ambitious goals to hatch the first generation of new Passenger Pigeons before 2025 and begin trial wild releases in the following 15 years. http://reviverestore.org/projects/the-great-passenger-pigeon...
> you will be working with very talented people

Do you think they are more talented than other companies, like, say, Amazon?
What would be the purpose of this? It seems like an oddly specific thing to exclude.

I'd expect the primary audience for a hardcover conversion would be libraries-- many of the books in my local library have been rebound, probably because the original paperback covers weren't suitable for that level of usage.
Good and bad are metaphysical ideals.
At trillions of times the mass of water, I'd have to suspect that it has its own gravity.

A one kilometer cube starts to approach earth mass, if you just ballpark values based on the orders of magnitude relative to water.
Gauche Scheme ...
even Chicken Scheme could be used for a lot of sysadmin tasks
I'm not participating in the conversation around the moral imperatives for corporations.

I am curious about your statement:

> Government shouldn’t be in the position where their own tax base can manipulate them.

I would like to hope by definition a democratic government is one where the tax base can manipulate the government. Going against that seems like suggesting we move to a model of "Taxation without representation".

I'm bringing it up because I'm sure you didn't intend your statement in this way. It might be worth it to re-think/phrase it.
> one can argue that rather than facing the same law, you actually have 51 legal systems (states + federal government) and 51 different legislatures - most certainly not universally the “same government”.

That's not remotely close to being accurate.

If I start an image sharing service, an Instagram, and I'm based in Ohio, I have extremely few considerations about the state governments of Alabama, Florida, Maine or Arizona as it pertains to launching and operating the service.

For most Internet businesses, you can tilt up a start-up tomorrow morning and access all 50 states and never give a single thought to the individual states. If there's a regulatory issue, it's usually only going to be an issue later with scale.

It's radically easier to launch across the whole of the US than it is the four dozen countries in Europe, or 28 countries of the EU. It's not close to comparable. You do not deal with 51 legal systems to launch start-ups in the US, unless you're operating in a very narrow set of industries with very high amounts of regulations (and even in that case, you're still not dealing with 51 different legal systems, there's overlap and commonality in regulations state to state).
Another recent work that takes advantage of VAEs is World Models:
https://worldmodels.github.io/

It did have an issue where the VAE recreates unnecessary features, as the training did not consider feature saliency.
If you are not using the phone for anything business related, libraries make a good work space. If you live in a city with a university, check to see if their libraries are open to the public. Most are open longer than public libraries and have better environments (although public libraries can be great too)
Haha sorry that went right over my head
>> They represent parts of the UK, and are unlikely to vote as a bloc, representing all sides of political spectrum.

I don't think this changes the fact that UK people voted those MPs and they are expecting to be represented by them in the EU Parliament and vote on laws(i.e. this law) on their behalf.
Low.js – Node.js for embedded devices
Do you think other large tech companies are like this? If so, which ones?
Civilization collapses entirely

oh wow, power is very fluid. it's easy to break into power anywhere now. You don't have these awful elites preventing you from doing whatever you want to do.
And now we have circled back to the question at hand: why does the European tech industry fail to innovate? This kind of attitude exhibited above.
100% agreed with this. In fact, this obsession with adding nofollow to links is likely both why Google results have suffered a bit in recent years and also why Google is apparently starting to ignore the nofollow attribute on some links altogether. Use nofollow where it's relevant, not as some blanket rule for every external link on a website.

https://searchengineland.com/nofollow-links-not-useless-earn...
From what I have heard, there are a number of challenges connected here that have to do that birds are usually not a model organism and we therefore lack certain techniques (and knowledge) on how to handle their cells (especially stem cells) in a laboratory (Not surprising since there is not much medical and therefore financial interest in doing so).

The reason why researchers go for those relatively boring species is their boringness: there are closely related species from which you can borrow cells (and eggs) which you than modify. There is no such thing for a huge (another cost factor) animal with no close relative left.
Havent been in 20 years either! For all I knew it wasnt there anymore :)
Evaluating and Exchanging Machine Learning Models on the Ethereum Blockchain
So, as a side note, the other thing I really like about the UHK is the size. The two halves put together as a sandwich (bottoms facing each other) take up very little space, which makes for convenient carrying around.
Could someone help me understand how "generational indexes" differ from usual indexes? Does this have to do with how you allocate the indexes or with how you use them? Are there run-time tests to check if the index is stale? (For example, check if the generation of the index I am holding matches the generation of the object stored in the entity array).
By materialism I don't mean earning a living. What I mean is the belief the material world is all that exists. We are seeing the belief work itself out in the destruction of the humanities. However, the science and engineering fields are not immune, since they all depend on the humanities for their credibility. I.e. what sense does science make if there is no objective truth? Or, why worry about engineering good quality products if goodness doesn't exist? Then it's just a matter of what everyone can get away with to get the diploma and the high paying job. Hence the high rates of cheating, plagiarism, faking results, etc.

Humanities education made a lot more sense when the subject of the humanities was believed to exist. Then there'd be reason to have many openings for humanities professors, spin off education jobs in public education, private education, etc.
Oh, lol! It just redirects to a github page, and I guess they don't listen on port 443.

http://emscripten.org

So much for https everywhere.
The professional criminals long ago switched to privacy focused coins like Monero and Zcash [0], both for movements and for ransomware/cryptojacking.

Fiat is still the largest market for money laundering [1], not Bitcoin. The amount of money described in that article is almost 50% of what Bitcoin's peak market cap was. I also think if Bitcoin was significantly better than existing methods for money laundering, we would see an increase in the proportion of identifiable illegal activity instead of a declining trend which implies the amount of money laundering (and other illegal activities) has at most remained constant [2]. That paper also reinforces the point made in [0] with regards to Monero/Zcash. It should also be noted that the paper found only ~25% of users and ~44% of transactions were involved, which while being large portions are not the majority portions. I would also hazard a guess that the majority of large scale illegal transactions would not be conducted on exchanges in amounts large enough to cause major slippage of price, which is a significant limiting factor in how quickly someone can launder their money (especially since while they don't want to significantly move the price themselves, other entities may not have such restrictions) as well as eliminating those transactions as major price movers.

Not saying no one uses Bitcoin for these things, just that it's highly unlikely those things are the primary factors in the price we see.

Personally, I think the price supports for Bitcoin are speculation, (possibly - I know one enthusiast personally who believes miners would buy up BTC whenever the price falls below break-even for mining) miners, and probably more than a few true believers.

I would also like to point out that Bitcoin, while the dominant factor in the crypto market, is not the ENTIRE cryptomarket. There are several projects that have actual unique use cases - Brave (BAT) and Enjin (ENJ) being two examples that are not explicitly targeting fiat substit, Ethereum, or Stellar. Believe it or not, there are actually people who would rather not have unelected third parties able to exercise control over their wealth and daily lives. Especially when some of those third parties engage in predatory practices and take risks that endanger the economy as a whole [3], and when those third parties are practically unavoidable.

[0] https://www.deepdotweb.com/2017/09/20/dhs-says-darknet-crimi...

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/14/us-examining-danske-bank-ove...

[2] https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/business-law-blog/blog/2018/02/sex-...

[3] https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bank-of-america-charge-...
The humanities are the supply line for society's leadership class. That is why WEB DuBois promoted classical education for the freed slaves, instead of just the job training that Washington Carver endorsed. Of course, the powers that be favored Carver's vision, since it meant the white elite would remain on top, so DuBois' chain of African American run classical education schools has all but disappeared and the NAACP he helped found has only become a special interest lobbying group.
Every thread about high speed rail seems to have this response to an argument no one is making. NY-LA doesn't make sense, but it is nationally embarrassing not to have the BosWash corridor connected.
The web site linked has very few details.

Whenever I read "Ruby on Rails", I can't help but think back to when it was the latest fad and everyone was playing with it, but then every single project would break whenever any of the 82 dependencies needed to be updated due to security issues.

Since this site has no details, I've lost interest since I have no intention of revisiting that shitshow without someone telling me it's somehow different, that the dependency nightmare is now fixed. Pretty or not, projects which require significant energy to just keep up with security updates aren't worth it.
> that’s not remotely close to being accurate

I’d argue it’s damn close to a statement of fact rather than an opinion; there are 51 legal systems and legislatures at work here whether one likes the fact or not - that one State’s statute is not enforceable in another is prima facie evidence of this. Whilst the impact of this is of course variable, there are concrete examples of the issues that can arise. Heck even the income tax we pay as citizens isn’t the same accross all states.
Feminism and anarchy seem to target an entire culture. It really doesn't focus on the individual more than the collective. I think that necessarily manipulates all of these land scapes.

If it becomes transphobic to not date a trans person, purely on the basis of them being transgender, it necessarily affects everyone who interacts with a trans person who hits on them.

If it becomes sexist to watch and produce porn that can be interpreted as degrading to women, it necessarily changes decisions the porn that all people watch. If it is sexist for women to not be represented 50/50 for specifically high paying tech jobs, it necessarily affects that works with women or own a tech company. It almost certainly will make those changes through coercion rather than eliminating sexism in the interview process. People will pretend like all of these changes are justified but deep down it doesn't change the way we think and it only builds resentments against movements which restrict and criticise behaviors which are fair.

Some of the issues that these movements take on simply do not have a place for choice. It affects the entire landscape.

Helping women deal with "unrealistic beauty standards" would not work by ensuring that men don't prioritize or advertise with women that are beautiful (if you raise a bit and glorify images of women who are traditionally considered ugly, it will not work). If a boy is castrated at birth through a medical accident, and is raised as a girl and even given hormones, it still doesn't change traditionally male behaviors and sexual preference. People are not blank slates and I think we need to be careful that we set up a society that fundamentally works against ones nature.

Not that we should give in to every impulse, but I hope you can see what I'm getting at. At a work interview, women should be measured only in merit. Under the law, men and women should not be treated differently, except in manners that can only affect women or men (abortion, circumcision, etc.) In a social system, changing the way that people think about their attraction to women is just twisted.

I think it would be better to work on an individual level to help a person change the way they think about themselves to resolve the self esteem issues that photoshopped advertisements, or cookie cutter models and newscasters produce.
I have Webpass but what do I know? "Webpass by Google Fiber" on their website.