skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's definitely something strange with that text.

Maybe it's individual metadata for Sherlock Holmes - when I tried Spanish to English worked on a different book it worked ok.
Ctrl+Backspace is delete word.
So what? You can use React without JSX.
> my 1 off pipeline seems good enough

Not what I was describing. We’ve been using the setup for a while with multiple projects and for the data science end of a clinical trial.

I like building new setups incrementally out of tools I already know, so the question is obviously why is this new tool a radical improvement
Our doctor who delivered our second child some 13 years ago told us he had to deliver (if I recall) 3 babies a week minimum to pay for medical malpractice insurance and he had never payed out on a malpractice lawsuit. The insurance is crazy.
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I'd go more abstract and say that intelligence is about pattern recognition. higher intelligence means increased ability to detect patterns 1) over longer timespans and 2) of increasing complexity/subtlety.
Russia also sells gas, on which we are quite dependant. That is not going to change any time soon.
>Notice how there's an extra sentence at the end about him having an enigmatic personage not present in the French version.

There's no real "paragraph matching". They just took old texts translated in 2 languages and assumed they match paragraph for paragraph.
I just hope you understand that you're not just doing that.

> Even great noodles aren't much better than average noodles. I really can't understand it.

I have no reason to be mad at this, I have literally no reason to be emotionally connected to this, but... it still disappoints me a little bit on the inside to read this.
do tell... what happens? Arguments? Fisticuffs?
>Who do you think will grow your food and look after your open spaces?

Robots, i hope.
How could you get perfect model of music until you have perfect model of brain? Expeirience of music happens there.

You can't just say let's not try to explain sth because previous attempts fell short. If that was what smart humans do we would still be in awe why the fire is burning.
This is super cool, thanks for pointing that out. Is the hard part done by Pachyderm or as some layer over container file systems?
Is there a comparison table of CPU vulnerabilities? I would like to know which CPU has the least vulnerabilities or the best performance after patching.

From what I have read so far is seems that AMD CPUs have had the fewest vulnerabilities/slowdowns? But I can't be sure since I haven't seen a complete comparison (including these new vulnerabilities).
Fair enough but this is definitely not the first project to try and make Linux easy. Without significant internal and third party resources it's still just Linux and you will still run into Linux problems, of which there are many.
I like the idea. Only the (very few) available books require even in my own language a pretty advanced level. I would use this for sure if the reading level of the books available would be more for children so I can learn words and sentences that I can actually use and practice in daily life.
I've been living in Cambodia for a while earlier this year, and seeing the fucking mess they made of the place there... yeah... I'd believe anything of them
Because some people find it useful.
This alleged Pixel 3 Lite has an actual headphone jack
But Google isn't a startup. They have stocks in the stock market.

What's the cumulative effect of this type of project management on their stock ? is it possible it's positive ?
The Bundesnetzagentur does not have the capacity to ban random devices for children.

They banned these devices because they are essentially bugs/covert listening devices and are even marketed as such. Devices that look innocious (such as children's watches or teddy bears) but in reality are covert listening devices are banned in Germany by §90 TKG. [1]

This is why the Bundesnetzagentur banned the smartwatches in question. They even cited cases in which these watches were used to monitor teachers in classrooms. [2]

"Normal" smartwatches are NOT banned. "Normal" smartwatches for children are also NOT banned. Only watches with monitoring functions fall under the §90 TKG law. [3]
Note that using an app to bring covert listening functionality to a phone or watch also converts that device into an illegal listening device.

[1] https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/tkg_2004/__90.html (Just for reference)

[2] https://www.bundesnetzagentur.de/SharedDocs/Pressemitteilung... (German, but google translate works sufficiently well)

[3] https://www.bundesnetzagentur.de/DE/Sachgebiete/Telekommunik... (German, use a translator)
A USB3 A connector has 9 pins, not 4 like USB2, so there are still 6 left.
Seems like you found a bug, works as expected for the other language combinations, we'll fix it a.s.a.p. Thanks!
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more often it is because of the perceived ubiquity of Python 2.7 installs on the target user's computer

It’s not just “perceived”, it is actual reality e.g. on CentOS. If you need compatibility still the best option is 2, regardless.
Yeah I had the same issue. If my device locale is English the voice reads it like an apathetic 10th grader who refuses to try the accentuate properly while read French aloud in class.
On the bright side it was a trip down memory lane to high school.
Well it proves a lot in my opinion. Feet are really non uniform in length by a lot.
Still cheaper than most Scandinavian countries!
Most look perfectly ordinary thought.
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The German text here is also read by an english voice - http://paralleltext.io/read/?b=de-en-the-picture-of-dorian-g...
I believe this one should be of high priority on the list of things that one should learn.
Why post a link which is not clickable?
That XPS laptop of yours probably isn't great with OS X either. Yet nobody blames Apple for that.

It's a bit of a double standard. If you want a pain free workhorse, go with something that's supported out of the box. Don't buy that Nvidia GPU if you intend to use it for a Linux desktop, where it is unlikely to be of much use anyway (unless you are one of those CAD people in which case you use what your vendor supports).

Personally I settled for Thinkpads many years ago (the T- and X-series, not non-Thinkpads that Lenovo tries to peddle under that brand name) and they haven't given me any trouble yet. Seeing how Windows laptops sometimes doesn't wake from sleep properly makes me suspect that that's not much better tested either. If it boots, ship it.
And is also more resolution than the error warrants
Economy is in a recession. Austerity means that the government is spending _even less_ into the economy.

How do you think that makes the cliff less high?

Not bailing out the banks during 2008 would have been austerity. It would also have made things probably twice as bad (2008 was bad, but the 30s were way worse, like 30% unemployment bad)

There is no actual logical path between austerity and improved short or midterm economic performance. It’s feel good politics, simple and easy to understand but also plain wrong
Has Linux changed a lot? Last I tried installing it years ago, I had to find each driver individually and had to get some stubborn ones working. At the time I thought to myself - no average Joe would figure this out, no wonder nobody uses Linux (and by nobody I meant non-devs)
Yeah, for writing scripts like this - python 2: 0% chance of thinking about Unicode. python 3: 5% chance i have to waste time debugging some random str decoding issue, no benefits. why bother?
Ask HN: What do you use to make product images/screenshots for landing pages?
This is something I've always struggled with and it feels like it takes an inordinate amount of time to create good images of my products for my landing pages. What do you guys use? Are there any good (cheap) tools that help expedite the process?

Here's an excellent example of what I'm talking about: https://marvelapp.com/
I wish you could somehow add a pig-cycle to carbon prices- that way, you could make that industry much less sustainable, giving solar and other renewables a further edge.
Using the createElement structure is more annoying than just doing a es6 template string in Vue.
That's not remotely realistic any time soon.

We can't all move into the cities and leave the countryside as a wasteland. Many people want to live there, and we need people to live there to keep the spaces living and working.

I worry that many people in tech have never spent any time outdoors and have no appreciation of nature at all.
React is pretty advanced under the hood. Just because it's Javascript doesn't mean you can't write advanced tech in it.
Lingq.com is a mature platform to learn languages by reading and listening. The only app I'm not abandoning after few days, because I can read stuff that's really interesting to me (because I can import articles and entire ebooks). This video explains how it works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeqFrO1sbTM
mail on 5.0 is just plain broken when used with gmail. refuses to log in.
Ethiopia to launch its first-ever satellite in 2019
Yeah, the carbon reduction for a life-time reduction- some deals are hard. Imagine the consequences of climate change- and map them to a health affecting thing- how expensive is it?
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“Behave: the biology of humans at our best and worst” by Sapolsky was my favorite. I knew little about neurobiology, and this went a little deeper.
I recently rented some Hyundai car for a trip to Seattle. Driving reasonably, that car got 54Mpg average on that trip.

My old Honda 2001 gets between 35 and 40Mpg consistently.
>He received an undergraduate degree in mathematics from the University of Cambridge and a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the University of Glasgow.

The title looks a bit misleading.
Pachyderm does it. It's like half of what pachyderm does, manage the versioned data, and schedule workers to run your containered processes against them.

FYI, it's ridiculously easy to get going playing with Pachyderm if you just want to check it out. You can run it on Minikube.
TL;DR: enumerating badness doesn't work, and they're Holding It Wrong.

Right. "If everyone would just bend over backwards, my current self-inflicted problem would be solved."

Now go and tell your thing to all those towns east of 14E named "Horny $X". Never mind that the names are correct, that it means "Upper $X": there's an entitled programmer on HN whose naive filter doesn't match reality - so of course the solution is to bend reality to these arbitrary demands: GET TO WORK LAZY SLOBS!

(After you're done, there's even more travel for you: https://mashable.com/2016/11/22/world-map-rude-place-names/?... . Be warned though: residents of Fucking, Innviertel, Austria have had it up to here with all those English and Merkins being righteously offended about a name that's completely innocuous in the local language.)
I’ve see. Articles suggest that’s 3-4 times smaller than the social cost of abating the societal costs of burning fuel. Pretty sobering to think how different the world would be if that price were charged to the burner of fuel.
as a React developer, SPAs in general are overused. Most LOB apps could (and should) still be written in a backend templated language. SPAs should be reserved for applications (or even individual components) with advanced interactive features, ie a proper web app.
I have a book somewhere that I bought 20 years ago in which the author explained very seriously how the Chinese economy was an illusion and was about to collapse.

There is no doubt that the speed of Chinese emergence means bubbles were created and will be created, and will pop along the way.

But the Chinese economy is not a bubble.

The US did not have a smooth ride to the top, either.
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Surely, that is a solved problem now that Google has "advance[d] the state of the art in natural language technologies and buil[t] systems that learn to understand and use language in context"? [1]

Or, I guess, one can just buy more NVIDIA GPUs, and simply solve the problem using Torch, following their online guide on "understanding Natural Language with Deep Neural Networks Using Torch" [2].

In general, I hear that many language understanding tasks are finally conclusively conquered, as shown by OpenAI with a combination of supervised and unsupervised learning that has led to an ImageNet-class increase in the state-of-the art results in language understanding datasets [3].

Why, these days, we can even build an "AI System [that] Understands Music Like Humans Do"! (NVIDIA, again; [4])

The inhabitants of Scunthorpe and all the Dicks, Pennys and Dikshits of the world can finally rejoice! Machine learning is on the job!

______________

[1] https://ai.google/research/teams/language/

[2] https://devblogs.nvidia.com/understanding-natural-language-d...

[3] https://blog.openai.com/language-unsupervised/

[4] https://news.developer.nvidia.com/ai-system-understands-musi...
I'm from Scunthorpe! Never thought i'd see the day it made it to Hacker News...

To add something relevant to this post - I'm too young to remember this "problem" regarding the AOL filter, and my parent's first ISP was NTL which is now Virgin Media. Of course the use of the town name with emphasis on the aforementioned profanity was common amongst the youth.
> The alternative is primarily: draw blood from your finger every time you want to know where your blood sugar is. (There are other 'continuous' glucose monitors, but you have to keep a needle in you all day, and my understanding is they are inaccurate enough that you still often need to check sugar by drawing blood.)

I have been using Freestyle Libre for the last two years and only picked my fingers a handful of times in that period. It’s very accurate for me, perhaps a few (10-ish) minutes delay at most compared to fingers and toes, on par with measuring in the arm. And it’s a small fibre, not a needle that’s in the arm for two weeks at a time, doesn’t hurt at all.

The development in diabetes treatment have been tremendous the last years, which might be another reason as of why Alphabet is discontinuing this project.
It’s a good observation, and the slug(slug(x)) = slug(x) property means that if you have an x and you’re not sure it’s a slug, it’s always ok to slug it to be sure it is. This property can be really handy in building robust systems, where you might have to attempt a couple of times to complete an operation for sure.
"Victimized by 'austerity'" is heavily overplayed. Even with 'austerity' policies, government spending in Greece is still around 50% of national income. Neither their own citizens (via taxes) nor foreigners (via lending) are willing to finance such spending, so what alternatives to decreasing spending would you suggest?
It went after some specific smartwatches for kids that had illegal features (specifically, covert remote listening) and reminded people that these features are illegal.
> Lol. Writing JS libs is not research.

LOL burnnnnn. That'll show em. Man this is great.
Between installing software, editing configuration files as sudo in vim, partitioning drives, mounting drives, copying files to a directory where you need sudo, etc. any user on a Linux system will spend plenty of time at the command line.

We should do a test and see if it really is a "myth". Get 10 normal users to install 10 programs not already in the repositories and see how well that goes. Just the other day I had to unzip a .tar.xz from the command line.
> to impose stringent austerity on Greece, on people who could not afford it (pensioners etc)

So, if they can't afford austerity what makes you think they will repay debts in the future?

"Pensioners" yes, usually from an inflated public sector. Untouchables. Who pays the price? The youth

What about passing needed reforms? LOL, of course not, that will hurt the inflated public sector and their pensioners, never mind no one wants to invest there anymore.

And the worse thing is, if you turn the tap on, you'll probably get the lovely results of "Abenomics", that is, people investing in BS like (existing or low demand) real estate or on non efficiency improving activities (like buying old computer parts for old systems)

Before the "evil" ECB that lends with few guarantees those countries were paying the real cost of their debts (incl. currency devaluation) But then it was "Evil Germany" that could borrow with low interest rates while they had to pay high rates.
"Recipes in cups are one thing I cannot understand"

??

You drink out of cups every day; this is what humans, even you understand.

'A scale' is inapplicable while you're buying food or reading labels.

Why use a scale when everyone knows what a cup and teaspoon are? They are human measurements.

But it doesn't matter what you use, what matters is what people understand, and they don't understand grams and millilitres.

It's been identified as a health problem: people don't have an intuition for the units on labels - there should be imperial units to help them understand.

As for litre/gallon or pound/kg I don't think it matters ... but consider for a moment that everyone in Canada that I know still uses pounds. And feet/inches for height.

I don't know a single person that can tell you their weight in Kg, maybe heir height in meters but they'd have to think about it.
What on earth do you mean with that? Seems to be around 40k USD in Sweden, and I've never before heard of any rumor that cars would be an unaffordable luxury in Scandinavia.
Don’t let the language of capitalism mystify you. These companies have shareholders and management. The profits they make go directly to these people. They are the ones getting rich at the expense of everyone else, not some abstract legal entity.
I wouldn't class looking at hobby subreddits a hobby.
Actually building, replacing keys, fixing or taking photos of keyboards is the hobby part.
I’m aware of that but I don’t really like it. I’d much prefer the shorter movement of Ctrl-w.

It puts less stress on my right wrist, which suffers RSI a bit and is consistent with terminals on every (unix-like) OS.

On macOS I get this behaviour via Karabiner Elements; on Gnome I mostly get it via Tweaks. Except in Firefox, as mentioned, where I put up with ctrl-backspace and curse.
Regardless of the actual story, which I do feel has merit, there are examples of why it is perilous to rely on one news source:

"whose family couldn’t get school meals in Dumfries, Scotland, because of their immigration status"

Actually they couldn't get free school meals, just like anyone else with a household income over £16k. A subtle omission but one that makes it sound like they were excluded from food entirely:

https://www.mygov.scot/school-meals/
SpaceX gets nod to put 12,000 satellites in orbit
When is this awesomeness set to launch?
it's a real shame that the concept of raising certain taxes in the UK (specifically income tax and corporation tax) has become an anathema to british politicians.

We still need to get the money from somewhere, so instead of fairly increasing progressive taxes, we get lots of little (often unfair) hidden tax rises and huge cuts in public spending.

The weird part is, the british public go along with this. The Conservatives are actively talking about more corporation tax cuts at a time where we still have a large defecit and huge problems with underspending in the public sector.
Could you tell us more about that solution?
Amusingly, in your second link, Google refers to watches as “watches,” “clocks,” and “watchmen.”
Interesting that everyone is all up in arms about net neutrality, but nobody cares that the net is not neutral at all already. The only thing you need to do to get deplatformed on the (supposedly) open internet is have some extremist (or just edgy... sometimes even "nationalist" is enough) political views and you're gone. Payment processors will cut your funding (and good luck finding others with the market share Paypal and Stripe have), social networks will ban you, app store providers will delist you, hosting companies will kick you off (cough, gab, cough) and if you're really lucky, even domain registrars will try to take your domains from you.

We don't need the lack of net neutrality to fuck with the internet, with the monopolistic nature of many core services on the internet , we are fully able to do that now. If there wasn't an example that is not a person before, gab is that example now. A platform which only failing is the fact that they try to police only things that are illegal in the US. Such a social network is now being seen as a threat that needs to be shut down. Yet the same people with the same breath will shout about net neutrality. Funny how that works.
Linux desktop is more like an unpolished trumpet, with a few dents. After a small amount of tuning, it plays the perfect note every time. You can take it apart, and adjust the internals. If you wish, you can turn it into any other type of instrument.

Then you have macOS, perfectly round, so shiny you can see your face, including the insides... the nicest looking trumpet money can buy. But it comes in one piece, only the shop can re-tune it, and has only one button, and sounds exactly the same as the other apple trumpets.

And Windows... average looking a trumpet, which everyone recognises, operated like a kazoo. Sometimes it plays the wrong note, or stop during a performance. You can retune it, but it will de-tune itself randomly. Sometimes it will recommend the shop's other instruments, and report back to the shop what you've been playing. But the shop now wants to rent studios, instead.
I have done exactly that... except it doesn’t work in Firefox, as you mentioned. There Ctrl-w always closes tabs, except in pinned tabs when it jumps to another tab without closing.

It does work as expected in Chrom(e|ium) and most other apps.
In Chrome you can still close tabs with ctrl-w, you just have tab out of a text box first.
Also, in the german text the chapter markers ("Erstes Kapitel", "Zweites Kapitel") have been pulled into the paragraph following them, but they're missing completely in the english text.
it's not so bad if you treat it as a log scale.
Producing electricity still demands oil. Even 100% naturally generated power requires tons of oil to lubricate generators and moving parts.
This was a phone being specifically marketed as unable to recieve unsolicited calls.
It's not even backwards. The voice doesn't match the languages chosen. On a machine with Danish locale it will read the french text with a danish voice. (I chose "learn french/know english")
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What makes you say that? People are actively earning phds researching implementations in different languages. JS is different because it’s useful? Runs in a browser?
> The story about Cambridge Anal. was specifically that they had build a dataset that could infer a lot of information, such as sexual orientation and political affiliation from a small set of apparently harmless information.

Yeah. That story is false. They used magazine subscriptions and car model. Source: talked to the employees.

> The chart & data here are average over 40 different worldwide elections. Unless elections cluster around certain dates, the data should be pretty well spread out over the year.

I’m fairly confident no political advertising is significant after the election in most of them. The big secret here is that US ads still represent the largest share of Facebook’s market and that commercial markets have a strong yearly pattern. I don’t know how they averaged to get a ratio number, but I would compare years with and without elections.

And, yes, elections tend to be around the same date in most countries (except, notoriously, the UK): it doesn’t have to be the same in each country for an aggregated commercial pattern to be prevalent.
Sorry about that. I shall try to do better.