skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, the problem is most translations aren’t literal one-to-one translations. Literal translations are usually hard to read so some translators use “dynamic equivalency” while others paraphrase heavily. Unfortunately this can make machine linguistic matching difficult and unreliable. For instance, there are two translations of the Nordic classic Kristin Lavransdatter which both read differently and there are people who will argue passionately about which translation is best.

Statistical machine translation uses curated parallel texts for training, but they tend to match with multiple corpora so the translation is some sort of average I believe. I wonder if matching with just one translation might produce less reliable results?
I haven’t seen many research reports where the quality of outcomes using the Davinci robot is far superior to normal surgery. The idea of a remote operator of that device is scary.

That being said, the hubris of the surgeon who decided to use the device despite having no training with this surgery is remarkable.

Is it customary for British papers to refer to doctors as Mr instead of Dr?
It's stunning to see people debating "ease-of-understanding" of the base 12 imperial system while at the same time happily using a decimal based currency (nearly?) all over the world.

It's easy to understand construction and cooking concepts in imperial? But you just used a decimal based currency to buy the materials for the said uses, and could easily add up the costs of those materials in your head instead of staring blankly at the cashier who was trying to add 77 shillings and 23 half-crowns.
Does using cloud that more expensive, as a share of revenue, in most businesses ?
While I agree that it’s mostly a myth I’d like to add to wongaru; we’re a one car family (my wife works at home). I flirt with the idea of being a two car family but we’d barely use the extra car.

On the other hand, if there was a way for me to get to work with public means, I’d do it (28 miles/day commute) I’d still keep my car and still flirt with the idea of having an extra beater (I.e an extra car for the wife) lying around for weekends [1]

I wor the day that I loose my ICE car though. The ICE car, if terrible, is one of the most important tools for the maintenance d liberty (with no AI, of course). As an example, the pentagon papers would not have been published (and therefore hasten the end of the Vietnam war) if not for the mighty station wagon.

[1] when you have kids having either parent able to take the kid out to an event and maintain the other’s ability to go to stores quickly is a massive increase in flexibility.
Well, there's one more reason not to use that piece of garbage. It's not like it was usable to begin with, so splattering it with ads is sort of like if a tree falls alone in the woods.

It's breathtaking how bad the Windows Store and the apps available there remain, what, four or five years now after the start of this Modern Windows/UWP push. Complete miscalculation.
Real scale at a startup? Yes Come join us at Streak
> "Well, the rate at which we're injecting CO_2 into the atmosphere today, according to our best estimates, is ten times faster than it was during the End-Permian. And rates matter. So today we're creating a very difficult environment for life to adapt, and we're imposing that change maybe ten times faster than the worst events in Earth's history".

Geologist here! That's a good quote. On geologic timescales, a million years is short! Accordingly, a lot of our effects on the environment are scary more because of their rate than their absolute magnitude (so far). I think humanity as a species has been doing a pretty good job of implementing that old facebook motto "move fast and break things". We'll see how that works out for us.
The idea that a country's budget can be compared to a family's budget is a big fallacy. They are fundamentally different.
I’ve found the opposite to be true. I’ve been trying to use Elementary OS for years but it has always turned out to be unusable until 5 which I’ve been using for a couple weeks with only very minor complaints.
Do I detect sarcasm here? I'm pretty sure I detect sarcasm here.
A boy in my class at school was from Scunthorpe. There were a couple of times the IT teacher came to investigate what he was doing, which would usually include the "hometown" on a forum profile.

Around 1999-2001 I think.
It doesn't have anything to do with time travel, does it, like the one in physics?
Have you considered the possibility that youth unemployment is a consequence of belt tightening?
Quite frustrating to see the same stories pop up twice while many good new stories go unseen.
AFAIK, they are not rewriting the browser in Rust. They are instead writing new components in it, so it wouldn't be an apples-to-apples comparison.
Having started with vue, and now playing with react, I’ve found myself often thinking “this is so much simpler”.

But maybe I just sucked at vue.
Gravity is not a hard thing to understand. If energy is released when two objects are gravitating towards each other, then something must release it. It narrows number of possible options. My current best guess is that we are inside gigantic object (about hundred of order of magnitudes larger than our Visible Universe, made of particles about few dozens order of magnitude smaller than Planck scale) with conditions similar to conditions in neutron star. So gravitation is just Casimir effect at scale.
And then how do you find the software? Google? That’s fine until the top link is a third party that adds adware to the installer.
"A pint's a pound the world around." I never knew whether that came from the fact that both are 16 ounces or because a pint of water weighs a pound (approximately). I prefer to think it's the latter. Makes it so I can remember that a gallon of water is approximately 8 pounds. 5 gallon pail mostly full, probably 35 pounds. Nice.
The lessons of the Great Fire of London still apply. Yet discussion moved on to this idea that 'natural fires' should not be suppressed as this causes too much dead wood to build up on the forest floor meaning that the 'natural fire' burns too intensely.

That massive fire in Yellowstone way back in 1988 was when this new thinking set in. From then on the Forest Service could be blamed for poor management and allowing this kindling to build up, resulting in truly catastrophic fires. It was a seductive way of thinking and whilst everyone was thinking it the basic lessons of The Great Fire of London were ignored.

In The Great Fire of London the problem was the wind and embers being blown across town to start new fires. This overwhelmed the authorities of the time. The solution was to build houses with non-flammable materials. In that way an ember landing on a house would not cause another fire to start up.

The other detail of note was the use of parapets. In London roofs are always behind a parapet, so, if a house or property does go up in flames then the roof will not fall off the house but be contained within the four walls. In this way adjacent properties, e.g. across the street, don't go up in flames too.

Nowadays building codes in London expect a property to not go up in flames even if the adjacent house is fully ablaze. This is buying time, clearly there is expectation that the adjoining fire gets put under control within a few hours. It doesn't seem that in California there is this thinking, which is understandable if you do have lots of garden and some distance to the adjacent house. But I bet that the first people to populate London thought that way too, they never imagined the pasture land next to their house would become a housing estate some centuries later.

Another small matter is that of sprinkler systems. Architects do not like sprinklers even though they do a fantastic job of suppressing fire. They also design atriums with no vents in the roof specifically there to let hot air out if there is a fire. This is considered old fashioned thinking by the entire architecture business, they check the checkboxes on building codes at minimal cost and don't think from first principles about how to make a building work within its environment.
Great, a popular article about "research" that doesn't link to the study itself. Wonderful, we should just totally believe what this person says.
Nobody else answering this question seems to have read the article.

> Like DAL, the OpenIPC library includes a command-line interface (CLI), written in Python and provided as a library for Python as part of Intel System Studio, which can be installed on the system with the help of pip.

Intel System Studio doesn't ship its own python, it depends on the OS' python version. So here we have an industry-infra dependency on python, and these typically seem to still be stuck in 2.7 land.

Python is being used here to actually wrap/coordinate the components that do the JTAG handshake. A neat approach, just using a whole programming language as the REPL. I like it. But this is one situation where I'm going to be very conservative with the tooling, as I don't want to break my system! :)

So, that's the real reason why.

Also; the repo actually has, right in view, a recent commit message of "fix for Python 3 compatibiliy". The authors are clearly just using 2.7 because ISS requires it and considering the bigger picture of tinkering with PoCs, mucking about with multiple Python versions seems like a waste of cycles and unnecessary management+verification of moving parts (I don't savor the idea of figuring out "ok how do I tell ISS where 2.7 is and how do I absolutely make sure it's avoiding 3.0?").

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HN, please endeavor to pursue higher quality discussion. Devolving into meta is an excellent way to encourage stagnation. (I know this sounds a bit of a self-righteous thing to say but it's tricky to objectively articulate.)
How is this not entrapment?
Really? There's some objective reality now in economics and politics? To add insult to injury you also imply that they just haven't been bothered yet to simply fix themselves? I'm sorry, but that's a pathetic reply.
Apple II Disk Copy Protection
yeah, for most web apps that are primarily regular CRUD+routing interfaces, you can/should use SPA tech to progressively enhance your more advanced controls. There are cases where it makes sense to build a whole SPA (I'm working on an in-browser editor that wouldn't work very well as a backend app, for example) but the vast majority of cases where React is used, it just adds complexity and challenge.

React/Redux hasn't been around long enough for its best practices to solidify in the general industry so you'll often find that companies that picked up React have a hodge-podge of incorrectly used technologies included because they didn't know the use case for Thunks vs Sagas, how to use Reselect correctly, whether to store any given state in Redux or a Container, and so on.
And what do you do when coming out of a recession? Reduce spending or hold steady in absolute terms... Like what the British budget has done since the spending peak in the middle of the recession.
My cupboard has cups in all kinds of sizes. Which one is the right one to use as a measurement? And for baking there's quite a big difference if my cups are 150 ml or 350 ml, especially when paired with counted ingredients like eggs. That's the problem with cups.
People on MySpace censored themselves after 9/11? I didn't know middle and high schoolers were so politically aware.
Wait... You have 9 credit cards? Why? How? Isn't that a maintenance burden keeping track of all of them? I've never ever had more than 2 at the same time and it was because I was transitioning from one bank to another...
Aquameta – “datafied” web development stack built entirely in PostgreSQL
I'm so sick of receiving tax cuts I don't need and will literally never notice, alongside cuts to public services that some people really really need being cut, that the Tory party will never win my vote.

Well, I say never; never is a long time, but as long as they keep trying to win my favour by cutting my taxes, they can get bent. I'm not some kind of Pavlovian econo-rational robot, and I object to them treating me as one. These days I tend to vote for the most crazy left-wing party on the ballot, but if there isn't one (there's usually one in local elections, isn't one in nationals), not bother.
I'm amazed at how many places appear to be opposed to steel roofing. Everywhere I look, it's asphalt shingles in new construction. I'm in the northeast, so the main problem here is snow load - which is a PITA with shingles, and you've gotta shovel your roof off - not fire, but still, if you've got swirling embers that land on a steel roof, the worst they'll do is scorch the paint.
Most luminous, and yet effectively invisible in the optical spectrum, to even the best optical telescopes we currently have.

This is one of those cases where the factually correct technical details of hard science really should be modified for the layperson, to express radio, microwave, and infrared/heat detection as the hottest galaxy, since luminosity is generally perceived as visible brightness.
We're ten years from the start of the last recession. Should spending still be high to stimulate the economy, or are they perhaps not in a recession anymore? This isn't a case of a government reducing spending in response to an economic downturn. It's a government INCREASING spending due to that downturn, and then not further increasing it when the economy recovers.
How about the ability to create multiple components in the same .vue file? for instance I need to define a sub-component that will be used only inside my component, this is easy in React but with Vue I have to create another file to define this sub-component, this makes the project management becomes harder as the project grows
> dare not say them because they need grants

Without trying to get into a flame war here, this claim is very iffy. As a scientist myself, there's (for better or worse) nothing better to make a career out of than showing where other scientists have made a mistake.
Sure, but that’s a linguistic trick. That sentence implies a completely different meaning for the word “for”.

When I say JSX was created for React, I mean that it was created to be a part of the design of React. Meaning they both first came into broader public awareness at the same time, together, and have continued to be promoted as two independent parts of a single system.
Indeed, most research projects generally don't.

In general, researchers don't report results of failures. How many academic papers reporting a negative would go through the review process...

So there's a bigger debate here. Negative results would also be useful for the broader community, but do not get published in most cases, because the processes may not scale to accomodate them (given most research experiments don't). What technical solutions can help here, and how would a solution become economically viable?
> how would you static_assert for two's complement, without triggering UB?

Good question, I'm not certain that's possible. A quick google turned up surprisingly little.

The ghastly hack alternative would be to detect which compiler/target we're dealing with and compare against a whitelist.

> I think this sort of thing would need some official blessing to be widely adopted, regardless of whether it's a written spec or a header.

It would certainly help to have it properly branded and given real credibility, yes. I'm reminded of MISRA C, which has a good deal of tooling and documentation.
Steel roofs are three times the price.
Well done! Would love to have audio for pronunciation though.

Maybe the audio can be initiated with a quick highlight on the text or sentence?
Structured design by W.P. Stevens, G.J. Myers, and L.L. Constantine
I’ve been using Elementary for 2-3 weeks and it’s really good. Still far behind MacOS, but it’s the best I’ve felt about a linux distro becoming a mainstream alternative. I’ve used Pop_OS! as well and while it’s good, I wish System76 would have just backed Elementary OS. Elementary is a good base but needs a larger community and more resources to become legit.
Towards the free and open way of learning Spanish
I’m pretty sure it’s a software thing whatever it is because I don’t get the same behaviour in the BIOS pages. The trackpad is pretty choppy there for me but it is sensitive at the edges.

So there’s hope at least it can be fixed.
Would the phrasing "having to be 'the best' at all costs" clear it up? I didn't separate it from cheating, I meant that as an example.

It's perfectly fine to be competitive, but this is in the context of someone who said they don't WANT competition, but a monopoly, and that this would somehow make them the "winner". Being just very competitive and taking personal pride in achievements is not what we're talking about.

If everybody played fair and the playing field was level, then winning would mean you're the best. But many people got confused, ignore the uneven playing field, cheat "because everybody does it", and then think winning says anything about them other than that they're needy. They can't "win" that way, and then brag about it, without being "losers" in another way.

When I said I wonder what their parents were like I wasn't being snarky, I meant whether their self-esteem is based on how others estimate their achievements. E.g. were they loved unconditionally, or were they blackmailed and rewarded with pseudo-love?

It seems obvious to me that many people were denied the means to build an inner foundation for themselves, and went from needing to be a certain way to be "loved" by their parents, to needing to be a certain way to be accepted by their peers, to do a certain thing to be considered successful, and so on. Yet a person could own the world without necessarily owning themselves, and not even owning the world can make up for not owning oneself. So many are floating over an abyss they have inside, and the moment they stop moving, consuming and/or subduing, they plummet.

More fortunate people simply have a bedrock of self-esteem, and then ambitions on top of that. They can compete without having to annihilate, they can give credit where it's due, and they build things because they can, not just because their mental floor is lava.
Linux is not ready for mass market. I think, proprietary file formats, vendor lock-in, monopolistic and restrictive trade practices etc. are reasons why users dread switching OSs.

I my opinion, OS itself has very little value to the end user. The end user needs a fertile userland. The end user should be free to trivially switch platforms without disrupting the userland one bit. This is not some pipe dream. It is very much possible.

Open standards and strict adherence to them need to be enforced. Data formats need to be portable not just across platforms, but across competing software. This is our right. No one should deny this no matter how powerful.
> The more data you have, the better user experience you can provide, killing competition, through which they start getting less and less data of their own, eventually dying out.

The more data they have, the better-targeted advertising they can provide, because that data is more or less volunteered by their users even if conpanies don’t know to ask for it.

For most of the big companies, I’d say their UX is stuck in local maxima and can’t really become orders of magnitude better due to risk aversion — you’ll never collect the data that there’s a bigger maximum somewhere else that way. A smaller company willing to take risks can find those bigger maxima much more easily.
It doesn't work well. I use my 2016 MBP with an external monitor and once a month or so I need to hard reboot it after sleeping because it gets confused and won't display anything on the internal screen.
Not really --- in some languages these sayings actually are already in metric units. The SI system is by now over hundred years old, so just by waiting probably will upgrade unit system also there.
The question of tradeoff in software, business, and life
Someone's promotion.
Well, it sort of does: any services the government delivers will be delivered by people being paid UK wages using goods and services paid for at UK prices. We look rich from the outside because we (still) have a strong currency but from the inside the UK is not especially wealthy because you don’t get much for your money here.
Hello, fellow person from Scunthorpe! Where about's are you now? I assume you had to move out of the town to keep in the tech sector.
Yes and no. While it is easy to be a right-wing reactionary party these days, they really appeal to people not as much because they're right wing, but mostly because they appear to talk to the people.

Now, somebody on the left who does this, but genuinely, like Bernie Sanders and Jeremy Corbyn is indeed rather popular, despite a severe disadvantage in media coverage, however neoliberals have unfortunately hijacked the show for the past several decades and are refusing to let go, hindering more Corbyns or Sanders that wish onto the scene.
I only use Vue when I need to alter the data clientside before it gets rendered. For example mark some of the users in the list as friends depending on which friends the user has stored in localStorage.

If the data is ready to render while still on the sever, I do so.
Are you talking about a car that is taking over a bicycle before turning, or a bicycle taking over a car from the right in the same lane (which is not allowed)?
I tried out the english->hungarian and it's pretty hilarious, because hungarian version sound so german that even I can't understand what it says without the text. :D
I felt that was implied and obvious from context, since the entire article was about poverty. (But perhaps also because school meals are always free where I come from.)
Of course! HoloViews does allow infinite customizability, to pull out more and more subtle features, show things more clearly, and just to make it look nice or to match your favorite style. But unlike ggplot2, HoloViews does that in a way that can apply to the _data_, rather than having to recapitulate the process every single time you build an individual plot. That way you and your colleagues can together build up whatever style you find most effective, then keep working with it across the full multidimensional landscape of data that you work with in a particular field. HoloViews is a completely different approach, if you really let the ideas sink in (e.g. from our paper about it at http://conference.scipy.org/proceedings/scipy2015/pdfs/jean-...), and is in no way a second-class citizen compared to ggplot2 or any other approach in R...