skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's possible that it's actually serving millions of requests, if most requests happen outside of customer service calls or if they count each individual utterance in a dialog as a separate request (it probably is a separate request to the backend).

On the other hand, maybe someone wrote a description in Chinese that said "several tens of thousands" and someone else had it machine-translated into English. The problem being that "tens of thousands" can also be a symbolic "big number" (like "myriads") and modern English tends to use "millions" as that symbolic number instead.

The existence of symbolic numbers is a common source of translation mistakes. For example, I recently came across a Japanese text [45] where Google Translate will turn 一三 into 13 or a thousand, depending on whether you include 「quotation marks」 or not

[45] Footnote 45 of https://www.aozora.gr.jp/cards/001850/files/57353_57270.html

https://translate.google.com/#view=home&op=translate&sl=auto...
I agree sublime does a good, if GUI kit was available, more cross OS desktop applications can be built.

many electron based apps are big and resource hungry for the features they offer
One doesn't exclude the other. I'm going to let the website owner know, but at the same time I'd expect the browser vendors to take greater care about protecting the private mode.
Missing self-actualization in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs
Improbable is not the same as impossible. We didn't even know about atoms for a huge stretch of science, and now we're smashing them together to break them apart looking for smaller things.

Is it completely out of the question that some discovery will be made that invalidates our current understanding of physics?
Erm, how is there less freedom of travel today compared to 1980?

There was a big cold war with a real iron curtain dividing the world back then.
Only because we removed all the vegetation.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/03/170314111320.h...
I feel you are having this thought process because you are still a student where you can afford to live frugally. Once you get a job, your social status get raised and you would need 100k a year to live comfortably. So even $1MN is not going to take you far if you stop working, i would even suggest $10MN is also a risky bet, unless you invest it wisely as inflation can easily wipe out a large chunk of that value in few years.
I am actually surprised at the way it was done, though. I would not have done it that way... I would have set up a 3 dimensional convolutional net and done training on time reversed melting simulation transitions.
The price in France shows the ongoing sale: 10,56€ instead of 15,09€.
I've had both. The DS was pretty much indestructible, drove it all throughout Europe including the former Eastblock when it was still called that. The occasional repair of the exhaust system with tin cans and steel wire were the only repairs it needed. The CX was a different matter. I had two of these, the first dropped its engine on A4 somewhere between Amsterdam and The Hague, the second one blew a hole in a piston. Both within a few weeks of buying them. So maybe it is not so bad that you don't have a CX, and consider me jealous with your DS, the 74 is the last year they were made iirc, and if you maintain it well will likely outlast you. As comfy a ride as you'll likely ever have, even today very little comes close.
> he has no reason to keep writing about chess

What does that mean?

edit: I mis-read the tone of your message, ignore.
Comparing YouTube to Netflix is like comparing apples to oranges. However, at the end of the day I'm not gonna eat another orange when I already ate a lot of apples.
> They might feel that that's your job.

If a customer isn't committed to the project, then I'd worry about committing to it as well. Even if the contract guaranteed I'll get paid, there are few things as demoralising as a project falling over because, once push came to shove, the customer didn't even have the manpower to deploy your product. Those are usually the same people who would do the evaluation, so with my experience, as an employee, if they're not there, I'm going to look for a project where they are — regardless of how confident sales might be.
I mean it's literally explicity in the privacy policy. They always kept email based targeting separate from broader data and stopped using it at all for ad targetting a year or two ago, seemingly because corporate (gsuite) users were concerned that the data might be used anyway or something, I'm not really sure.

I don't think you can get more explicit than "Consumer Gmail content will not be used or scanned for any ads personalization after this change."

[1]: https://blog.google/products/gmail/g-suite-gains-traction-in...
Elena Ferrante does not exist.
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Totally agree. I don't go near netflix any more and I watch youtube with youtube-dl + VLC.

The only subscription services that actually persists for me is Apple Music. And that's because the catalogue is pretty decent, the price is decent, it mostly just works (unlike Google's offering) and it stops me having to manage my entire family's music which is very time consuming. That has value. Other two, not so much. No more than television.
You don't need to live in terrible poverty to reduce your carbon footprint.
Definitely an out there response, but recreational drugs take you to a place where you build up different views on how 'everything' works. Really gives you a different perspective on what is "difficult" in life.

Oh, and meditation and video games surely.
Or could useful be spread on open infected wounds.
Ask HN: How do you back up your large-storage phones?
Nowadays everybody in my family uses 256GB-storage phones, because we hate to run out of space when taking photos or videos. I'm currently doing the manual USB sync of the phones every couple of months, moving data to a NAS. That in itself is painful, it takes hours for the phones to even go through the hundreds of gigs of data over USB. An incremental backup would be far nicer!

But between the backups we have no data backups except using the low-quality free storage provided by Google Photos (yes, even on the iPhones).

I'm afraid of losing the data between the backups if the phones get lost/stop working/etc. What online/sync solutions do you use to incrementally backup your large-storage devices?
Why is there such a complaint? Anonymity is a privilege of the author, isn't it? There are authors who remain anonymous even to this day, one I know is B. Traven, the author of the Treasure of the Sierra Madre. The precise authorship of individual articles in the Federalist papers is unknown. Also, I believe, if you really want to go that far back, the author of Ecclesiastes is not identified.

And then there are known but reclusive authors. J. D. Salinger, and Cormac McCarthy are modern hermits.

Authors are entitled to their privacy. Why should we pry?
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The amount of data you would require to do proper machine learning using current gradient descent techniques are orders of magnitude greater than that done in a drug study.
OAuth 2.0 Servers
60 Minutes Interview with Elon Musk (2008)
Unsurprisingly, very few seem to want to go there (otherwise financial independance would be easily achievable for lots of people).
any action that reduces standard of living will cause deaths

Not really, the US has much higher GDP per capita than Europe but lower life expectancy.
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>You'll need a bigger place to live. You'll want to send the kids to private school. You'll need a bigger car.

Maybe it would be more correct to say You'll want a bigger place and a bigger car too, because there's no real need there.
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(As an aside, we the techies need non-tech hobbies but that's just an opinion.)
+1 to that as well. I've picked cooking and it has been awesome :D
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Why the title change? It was (and still is) accurate according to the vice.com headline.
They pry because breaking the anonymity is a scoop that they just can't resist. It's human nature to be curious, to be curious about something that people don't want you to know brings eyeballs and media and eyeballs go together like cows and manure.
In the UK much the same racket is going on. A couple of years ago I was the target of identity theft, which involved somebody walking into a phone store, and giving for 'security purposes' my full name, address and date of birth, and walking out with a new iPhone on contract. I am a director of a limited company, so all of this information is freely available online.

I eventually got it sorted (the suggested route of contacting Action Fraud did nothing; I had to make numerous proactive calls to the network's fraud team), but in order to prevent it from happening again they suggested I mark myself as high risk with the credit agencies (CIFAS protective registration), which involves paying a £10/year fee to set a boolean on my file.

I'm tempted not to renew it, and if it happens again send a strongly worded letter telling them to cease all communications as there has been an error on their part (maybe GDPR gives more powers in this case?). I'm not a heavy credit user, so the impact on my credit score isn't a concern.

For anyone concerned, the best way I found to monitor this is through free credit score monitoring services such as ClearScore. Through their website I can see any searches on my credit score (unfortunately they don't notify you). If a search appears for a company you don't recognise, it is most likely an indication of something similar going on.
https://github.com/google/open-location-code/wiki/Evaluation...

One of the design decisions was to avoid ambiguous characters, so that cuts out at least 9 (I1L 0OB8).
Or to frame your argument in terms of science rather than engineering, it's a falsifiable hypothesis. The author should go try to test it and then let us know if it works.
> Right now, the average person in Australia is not informed about the changes, and they do not know the impact it will have on them long term. It needs to be brought into sharp focus.

I feel like there has been a decent amount of coverage on this topic as it was a main subject in the final sitting days in the year and you had the labor opposition ceding their "no" position.

Maybe it's not fully explained technically to everyone, but people generally understand that encryption is generally ubiquitous on the internet.

I think in the end alot of people actually don't mind the idea that the government should have some power to snoop on someone they think is doing bad things. They understand to varying degrees what kind of abuse that will lead to, but just don't see the inherit dangers ever applying to them or someone they know.
You might really enjoy this essay. It changed my life.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Ph7Enkr...

I came to terms with ideas like this by changing careers to a profession which, at least abstractly, benefits humanity. I've taken upon myself a modern/global idea of "noblesse oblige". The fortunate have an obligation to use their vast resources in a way that benefits others. We are fortunate to live in the West during this time, but that also means we have access to tremendous knowledge and ability that we are uniquely equipped to make good use of.

Of course, I may just be fooling myself and the resources I consume would still be better spent directly helping others.

I try to be clear that I'm far from a saint in this respect, but it's difficult to discuss these things with others without inducing guilt and defensiveness. I think these kind of things needs to be discussed though, so I'm glad you brought it up.
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sometimes I wonder about people, all quite willing to trust government if they will pick up the tab but never willing to trust them with it inconveniences them.

the little microcosm that is HN is just fun to watch with stories replete with people demanding intervention standing side by side with stories claiming over reach. I am not sure you can have your cake and eat it to.
Must have been made by moderators, as I posted it with the original title.
Well, to be fair, GUIS can be powerful commandlines, to the point that they even satisfy most experts. But it needs more work, and you either end up using textinput anyway, or have a slightly worst performing interface. So at the end most invest into the simple solution.

With the raise of HTML5 & Electron and their simplicity for creating powerful GUIs and AI-Speech-Driven interfaces we might be again reach somewhere in the next decades the point where Keyboard-interfaces are in decline. And if the AI overlords take over whe don't have any need for complicated interfaces anyway.
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>if you weren't worrying about finances at some level why are you going to work today instead of going on holidays in a nice spot ?

I care about my finances. But I don't worry about them. I have a high degree of certainty that, barring getting a disease that prevents me from working for multiple years, I won't have major financial problems for the rest of my life. The fact that I live in a country with good public healthcare (Spain) is a factor here.

>? could you handle, say, your house burning overnight with all your belongings ?

100% yes. My belongings are worth less than $10k. It would be annoying, but completely manageable.
I've literally always felt that Scrum and the Agile Manifesto were at odds due to Scrum's focus on process. I always have trouble communicating this though.
another 200 years
Ask HN: What is your experience with intermittent fasting?
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Even a stopped clock is right twice a day. That's it. Never stop believing!
There aren't enough people who care about it to win the battle so we make sure the victory is pointless.
Not all laws are written, nor do they need to be to be enforced. Robbery was made illegal under common law (in the US, UK, and other common law countries) before it was ever codified or written down, for example. So yes, we actually did jail bank robbers for breaking unwritten laws (although they've since been written down).
Ask HN: How does Airbnb's signup form comply with GDPR?
The signup form as of today:
https://i.stack.imgur.com/z8pLY.png

1. It's an opt-out form

2. The opt-out appears to be a bundling of consents / unclear how I might receive these marketing "messages".

I don't see how this complies with the GDPR, but I can see how this would work well from a business POV. Am I being a mug if my small company requests multiple opt-ins from our customers, knowing full-well that most won't, whilst the big guys just flout the rules (assuming they are)?
Nobody uses UTM? Whaaaat? UTM is widely used in many many geographic endeavours. It was the de-facto standard for almost any analytical work during my master's and I bet still is. When you're dealing with smaller areas than a country or the whole planet, there's a ton of value of using linear units instead of arcs.

Once you try to do any meaningful spatial analysis, you're projecting your lat/lng to a linear unit. And UTM is possibly your first choice of projection depending on context.
there's also a blended style where you start with FDD then perform SDD in the refactoring. This way you're not performing blind architecture - you make the necessary change and you systematise the solution during refactoring, if it is a change in system behaviour. You can use this technique on an ongoing basis at a per-ticket scale and trust that you are 1. not violating YAGNI and 2. always in a state of minimum-viable-well-designed-architecture.
Interesting. This paper takes a different view.

https://ctc.usma.edu/how-terrorists-use-encryption/

I would be very surprised indeed if the intersection of front-line terrorists and users of industrial encryption was an empty set.

I think it's more likely the intersection of caught and prosecuted terrorists and users of industrial encryption is an empty set - or at least a much smaller set than those who use FB Messenger to coordinate attacks.

This is not an argument for backdoors. I suspect the real inefficiencies in monitoring don't come from lack of evidence, but from lack of efficient data processing and flagging.
> i would even suggest $10MN is also a risky bet

If you had to guess, what percentage of people outside HN, outside Silicon Valley, do you think would consider having $10M to be a risky bet? I'm sorry, but I believe that is very, very disconnected from the reality that most people live in.
A worthy thing to note, the guy who invented finfet, Calvin Hu, was a TSMC CTO.

Immersion litho inventor Burn Lin was TSMC's RnD VP.

Full depletion tech - TSMC

Modern metal gate - TSMC

Copper - IBM/TSMC

First EUV initiative at TSMC was started in... surprise, 2000!

TSMC does play a very long game. Intel was great at commercialising "latest and greatest tech" quick, but TSMC was always ahead at mastering yields, and delivering more "mature" processes for mass manufacturing.

P.S. Calvin Hu made a hybrid Lambo for his masters back in 1979! https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~hu/Hybrid%20car%20Chronicl...
But why the author focuses a lot on Apple? He clearly forgot about the % of users from Android and Windows platforms, which are at lease 2 orders of magnitude bigger, compared to Apple.
- Take a flight to a random foreign country where you don't know the local language, and where most people don't know English. No hotel reservations in advance, no laptop, no smartphone, minimal budget. Figure out how to survive and visit the city's major landmarks over the following 5 days. Bonus points if it's a developing country

This could result in you being more than just psychologically uncomfortable. Tourists are, broadly speaking, expected to have hotel rooms booked; showing up at immigration without any advance plans is a good way to be denied entry to some countries. (Yes, even countries you don't need a visa to visit: Border officials can deny you entry on the basis of "this person's story doesn't add up".)
What irks me the most is React Native's stability. RN hasn't even reached 1.0 and I have been concerned about the war stories of Udacity[1] and Airbnb[2] moving away from RN.
Last time I checked out Flutter a year ago it was in alpha, now it's reached 1.0 perhaps I might give it try...

Has anyone with experience in React Native tried out Flutter/Dart be willing to share their experience and challenges?

[1] https://engineering.udacity.com/react-native-a-retrospective...

[2] https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/sunsetting-react-nativ...
The Misguided Priorities of Our Educational System
The DS was built all the way into 1975, although considering '74 the last is not far off. As I understand CX reliability, it's generally advised to avoid mid-80s carburettor and diesel models. If you want a CX, they say Prestige, Turbo I or II or GTI. All other models are basically not worth the trouble.

But the TRS I had was also badly maintained by the previous owner, which is why I eventually abandoned it and got a '98 Xantia Activa V6 instead.

That being said, I still want a CX, just a good one. And they do exist (good ones). As for the DS being indestructible, the engine definitely was, but the body work would often erode in northern climates like mine (Denmark). And particularly at 40+ years of age, there are signs of its age. Fortunately, mine runs fine, so I hope to keep it at least for another 20 years.
By referring to structures per PhD, it is clear you are influenced by academia, where that is more true. But academia is more concerned with solving novel structures than industry.

In industry, often we have structures of related proteins, giving a couple advantages:

Template-based modeling is feasible, a category that AlphaFold didn't win because they didn't use templates; using templates gives better structure prediction than what their free modeling can do.

Crystallography conditions are often similar between related proteins and techniques such as molecular replacement make it so we can solve the phasing problem easily, which is often a roadblock as well in academia.
With the insane brightness now possible I wish they had to meet the same light pattern rules car headlights do. I think that would help the flashing being so distracting.
Check out PBS SpaceTime, and you'll quickly lose a day to that amazing content.
Boosting in competitive online video games is like destroying public property for the personal gain.

I don't see where the "stuff about freedom" comes in here.
Listen to Jocko Willink all day...
From observing FB over the years, I am of the view that they are effective problem solvers, and know how to regulate the behaviour of the users on their platform to put sustainability first. E.g. when the notifications were going wild on FB for those annoying games that friends played (Zenga days) FB regulated, when a weaker startup might have said "these metrics are going up and showed off engagement statistics!".

My hope is that FB takes this same approach to it's internal culture if there is an issue, perhaps I will be mistaken.

As a side note, I run a virtual telephone receptionist business. It is a very human focused business, with real life receptionists, and real life people calling them up. This creates troubles!! When real people get together issues occur (rudeness, spelling mistakes, taking down a telephone number instead of an email, etc..). FB is used by people, and people bring mess. So FB will always have disruptive stories because it is used by people. I am of the view that FB will get better at dealing with problematic people related problems, but currently it is the consequence of having a platform that people use to express themselves - it is inherently messy because that is what people interacting generates.
I had no idea time-domain reflectometry existed. TIL.

I agree that I could also think of several ways to implement it and I'm only a software dev.
I haven't been remembering my dreams for almost a decade now. Is this good, is this bad? Does anyone have a similar experience?
Even worse, on Chrome mobile, the bottom section is cut off and unscrollable.

I'm guessing it's to stop the soft paywall workaround of opening in incognito?
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