skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was in high school, I read a lot of the "classics" of my own free will. I could read pretty comfortably into the 18th century, and I could understand most 17th century English.

I remember thinking at the time that I live to be an average 70, then at the rate of change I could see in books from various centuries, I should be able to witness some changes myself in my lifetime. And I mean changes in "real", core language, not merely the rapid churn of local dialects and slang. (Which the Internet has greatly accelerated. I suspect in general it pulls us all together towards a more "core" English, but it also means an incredible proliferation of local slang communities.)

Now that I'm 40, I can say that I'm definitely starting to notice it. It's not a fast process on a day-by-day basis, and it's hard to notice the small differences at first, or assume they're dialect differences (and in some cases they are, after all). But the change is definitely happening. I would be unsurprised within my lifetime that there's only "it's" and it has two distinct meanings, and that it will be officially recognized by dictionaries as such.

The "hacker" style of quoting [1] also seems to be generally accepted. I've on several occasions done something like 'Have you ever said "It's not a tumor!"?' and I'm yet to get jumped by a grammar nazi for the two punctuation marks like that, too. I suspect that'll never quite become the official style (a bit on the complicated side), but it doesn't seem to bother people much.

[1]: http://catb.org/jargon/html/writing-style.html
>But here are some inconvenient truths: Hardin was a racist, eugenicist, nativist and Islamophobe. He is listed by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a known white nationalist. His writings and political activism helped inspire the anti-immigrant hatred spilling across America today.

There's a difference between being anti-immigrant and being anti-illegal-immigrant. The media seems to be desperately trying to merge the two together, with calling illegal immigrants undocumented immigrants, or themselves piling the two together, but there is a major difference.

I don't doubt people are against immigration entirely, but the way this is phrased seems to playing up to today's immigration talks, which are almost entirely having to do with illegal immigration.
What does the age of someone have to do with them downvoting you? You asked a question that you could have easily answered yourself.
Especially if they glide over the target, release the payload with a parachute, and only restart the propeller(s) once they're a ways away.
It's for an alleged "conspiracy to commit computer intrusion" with Chelsea Manning where the US claims he helped Manning get access to a passphrase so they could get some more documents[1]. We found out -- though it was criminally under-reported -- in 2018 that a case had been filed by the DOJ[2], but it's now public.

[1]: https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/wikileaks-founder-julian...
[2]: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/nov/16/julian-assange...
> But the facts are not on Hardin’s side. For one, he got the history of the commons wrong. As Susan Cox pointed out, early pastures were well regulated by local institutions. They were not free-for-all grazing sites where people took and took at the expense of everyone else.

This only goes to further the value of the metaphor! The hypothetical problem of the pasture being overgrazed has a well-documented solution, and intuition is that similarly-shaped solutions (regulation) would help solve metaphorical "overgrazing" in other areas.
I'm sure traffic makes a huge difference. I drive very rarely (once every 2-3 months?) so every time it's pretty exhausting.
Elizabeth Warren Proposes the Real Corporate Profits Tax
CSS Terminology in CSS
Not sure what ugly crossovers have to do with technical progress; where I’m from they are all the rage, except they have internal combustion engines and you have to drive them yourself!
I use Firefox’s content blocking and haven’t had that happen in years except on new installs where I forgot to disable WebM.
>Could be they just saw no reason to bother because there was no possibility of getting him. There is no requirement to indict someone immediately upon collecting evidence, indictment is merely the formal accusation of a felony issued by a grand jury. I don't understand why some of you seem to consider this some wild thing

I don't think you know what you're talking about. It is quite unusual to delay indictment like this, perhaps you can find some other examples to prove me wrong?

>Furthermore, even if they had all this evidence nobody may have sat down and come up with a legal theory sufficiently tailored, and in fact you yourself raise this in the rest of your post:

It's the exact same legal theory they had prepared in 2011
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/national-security/pr...

>Someone could just as well argue that it was Obama making a politically motivated decision not to indict, though I think that'd be a silly argument too.

There's an extreme difference between politically motivated indictment and politically motivated non-indictment. That's not silly, that's asinine.
The author here: I'd be grateful for any feedback (good or bad!)
When did you get a copy of the report?
Probably not.

But still, I don't understand your view. It's six pages, double-spaced, for God's sake! And you can run OCR on it (and republish it).

There are many other things I'd be concerned about first, when it comes to "available to the public".
Would you stop taking HN threads further into political flamewar? This is not helpful. If you can't make your points without going over the top with fiery hyperbole, please don't post here.

I appreciate your positive contributions to this site, but we've had to warn you about breaking the guidelines so often that if you keep doing it we're going to ban you.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19632957 and marked it off-topic.
Powerful/important democrats run the DNC?!

I am shocked! Shocked I tell you!
It's very unlikely that the facts resemble anything like that. What's your friends name? I'll happily pay the Pacer fees to see what the charging document says.
Planting child pornography on a computer they own.
Hey, there's still options for driving fans: https://www.jaguar.com/about-jaguar/jaguar-classic/authentic...
I agree with this as a dream list (at which point electric cars are better than ICE cars in every way), but we don't need all of them for batteries "to not be deemed crappy anymore"

For me personally, if I can get the first two, then I'll gladly give a bit on the third (even though I regularly do a one-day, 1400km drive and 1-hr charging times would slow me down dramatically).

Tesla right now has the range pretty alright, and the charging speed not bad (but not close to your 20 min full charge), but the cost is just too high. I'll keep driving my 7 year old Yaris.
The real differentiation will come from feature engineering. Random forests and boosted trees (the other fire-and-forget model of choice) can tell you a lot about the data set from their validation performance under tuning. It might be that you've got a straightforward situation, but often the next step is to dig into what the model is doing and see if you can better optimize the features.
In case you'd like to read a counterbalance to "Tragedy of the Commons", I highly recommend Nobel laureate Elinor Ostrom's works which describe how commons actually work and regulate themselves in the real world, and how they avoid tragedies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elinor_Ostrom

I remain optimistic about our future.
It is funny to see Cambridge labelled a 'Boston suburb'. That was clearly written by someone who has never visited Cambridge, MA or even the Boston area.
> You can't make that bet. Mathematics is just a language

I surely can make that bet! Calling it "just a language" is seriously understating the implications of language. A language is a structured organization of symbols forming a grammar.

So basically, mathematics is a description of structure. Everything has structure except a true random number generator.

Given the regularity of existence, the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics, and the fact that a form of mathematical monism adequately explains all of these facts in the most parsimonious fashion, either we are in an exceedingly unlikely zone of stability of a random process (13 billion years running!), or I'm making a pretty safe bet.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19629513 for more discussion on this and the original Bloomberg article
Ask HN: Translation Service to Recommend?
Google Translate alike, REST API, low volume (~200 characters), low frequency (50/hour), reliable, not too stringent latency.
Any positive experience to share ?
Large discussion already occurring:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19629513
Seems to me that you are the one emphasizing “biological characteristics”. The article does not. Are you projecting, maybe?
Well said ;)
With the exception of the fact that this is going to sell clicks...
Is this really news? I thought they confirmed this years ago? Same with Google and Apple...
Hmm I skimmed the paper on the algorithm this morning and didn't get the impression they trained the model on other images. I thought they jointly estimated patches that make up the image and penalized deviations from these patches (i.e. estimated a sparse basis). I haven't watched the Ted talk yet though
Discussion here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19629513
Women may be more likely to be driven away from online communities. But it is not because they are more likely to be the victims of harassment. Therefore another root cause must be discovered/presented.
You're pretty quick to assume I don't. Believe me, I understand. I just don't agree that it's a good idea to mix up object lifetimes and execution context by using destructors to "magically" release locks etc. It never was. The mistakes were made years ago.

I'm not quick to judge (in this case). I'm judging after careful consideration, because I know the difference between good and bad patterns. The ones being hasty are those who mistake their own comfort level with something (often because they know nothing else) for actual merit.
That was my point, my apologies for not clarifying: even though I know this site is heavily male-dominated I read each comment from a lens of gender-ambiguity. I do this to preserve my sanity. We also don't know how many here are gay, bi-, gender-fluid, non-cis.. It makes me happy to imagine there is a greater number out there who are not making themselves known because honestly, it's exasperating knowing that I am embedded in a system where a minority has the power to create the technology that powers our diverse world.
already being discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19629513
Fair, but it's at least solved to a degree with they have permission to use it commercially. There could be other standards for what's considered solving the problem, but that seems like a reasonable one.
discussion already exists here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19629513
"Of course, plenty of flawed people have left behind noble ideas. That Hardin’s tragedy was advanced as part of a white nationalist project should not automatically condemn its merits.

But the facts are not on Hardin’s side. For one, he got the history of the commons wrong. As Susan Cox pointed out, early pastures were well regulated by local institutions. They were not free-for-all grazing sites where people took and took at the expense of everyone else"
Am I supposed to be surprised? This is just logical. Of course they employ people to grade the quality of assistants' voice recognition and responses.
We should teach children how a smartphone works
Nobody should be surprised by this. To actually test your voice recognition software in a definitive manner you need to compare you kind of have to compare your software's analysis to human analysis and that requires humans to listen to the audio or at least snippets of it. The software is competing with a human after all, you need to test its performance compared to the humans.
This article really does seem to exemplify what's wrong with modern journalism. It pretends to be attacking the idea, but spends a large portion of the article attacking the man behind it instead.
Is this newsworthy?

I know people who work at Apple. Their job is to listen to recordings taken by Siri, regardless of what the intention is. E.g. they listen to text messages people say to Siri - to send, searches, anything said to Siri.
It's worth bearing in mind the difference between durability and availability. Durability is roughly the chance of losing your data over a given time span (in this case a year), whereas availability is about how reliably you can access the data (and is almost certainly a lot lower than 11 9s). A service can be very durable but have very poor availability.
"Slimvoice - A Webapp Without JavaScript..."

"using as little JavaScript as possible"

Without, and as little as possible are mutually exclusive.
It's Time to Panic About Privacy
HTML/CSS as in the example would indeed be usable, though a similar version of this (with inline labels and checkboxes used for "aside" notes) gets rather messy when used in a textual browser or converted into another format. JS-based expansion doesn't have to get unusable either (it can merely hide bits of a document after loading, with those present in HTML), but perhaps could become unusable more easily.

I'm not arguing for use of JS, by the way (not sure if it was clear), but rather for proper use of HTML.
Isn't it a _bit_ disingenuous to call yourself a "democratic" party and then attempt to subvert (and eventually throw out) your democratic process for selecting a candidate?

Also I found it quite funny how the emails clearly show that Clinton ordered the media to focus on certain people from the Republican side as "credible" leaders and they included (but were not limited to): Ted Cruz and Donald Trump.
This design is clearly inspired by Mainframe I/O design, channel based with intelligent devices, with very little abstraction. It is very simple in that it deals with bytes, memory addresses, and the disk blocks/sectors.

It really is almost a naked I/O KERNAL (to be user friendly another layer of abstraction should have been built over it by the time the C64 came out and memory was cheap).

Still, super impressive what was crammed into the PET disk drives. For 1977 this is very sophisticated stuff. Apple's DOS was easier to use, but less flexible and bound closely to the disk hardware.

I can't comment on the third leg of the Trinity, having never examined TRS-80 DOS in any detail.
US lawmakers to probe algorithm bias
>When I read "battle tested" as a justification for a large abstraction library it sounds like you aren't testing your code thoroughly cross-browser.

Most developers nowadays only develop in and test in Chrome, but things still seem to work. Either cross-browser testing really isn't necessary, or whatever they are using instead of jQuery is doing the same work to patch inconsistencies between browsers.
The Attic and Basement of Apps
>Tesla comes from the brand itself and Elon Musk's persona. The tech itself is nothing special, they are far behind in autonomous driving but the brand is very strong

I swear that this applies to every industry, A "strong" personality in front of the company + avg product = Established brand
They are not mutually exclusive. When a pointer has been set to point to an lvalue, dereferencing it yields that lvalue.
> How do you interpret delayed-choice quantum eraser experiments?

A Bohmian interpretation will suffice to explain how realism tackles it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheeler%27s_delayed-choice_exp...
>Their whole car is a computer that can receive OTA updates

No, the car has a computer that controls the systems in the car like all the modern cars. Receiving software updates to a computer is not a huge tech challenge. And no, you don't receive performance over the internet, you receive a driving configuration that may better utilize the hardware. Can be easily done by any manufacturer.

>Their autonomous is better than everyone

Factually wrong, they are a category down from actual self-driving tech developers. But if you decide to skip the self-driving part and call it driving assistant or something, then yes it's a pretty good driving assistant that can follow lines etc. Some people think that calling the driving assistance software an autopilot is borderline false advertisement.
Blockstack Announces SEC Filing for $50M Regulated Token Offering
Would you please stop using HN for ideological and nationalistic battle? It's not what this site is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
"Borg Backup is mostly the same as Restic (regarding dedup / incremental backup)"

... with one very big difference - you can only point borg at an SSH host. You can't point borg at S3 or B2 or Glacier, etc.

rsync.net supports both borg and restic, but even the heavily discounted plans[1] are much more expensive than "Cold Storage" or Glacier, because they are live, random access UNIX filesystems ...

[1] https://www.rsync.net/products/borg.html
These aren't good analogies to make.

Hydroxyproline is conditionally essential, particularly in older and injured populations, and collagen is a rich source of it. Research has demonstrated that collagen supplementation reduces arthritis symptoms and increases collagen synthesis. That being said, unless you're getting 15+g of collagen (the amount used in one study I recall) in your bone broth it probably isn't doing much.

Protein up to a point improves protein synthesis, and it also has the nice side effect that it is inefficiently stored as fat, both from a thermodynamic and hormonal standpoint. So a random high protein diet is more likely to get someone "ripped" than a random low protein diet.
Consumers Reveal True Feelings About Mobile AR
Ok, but this doesn't fit within my definition of corruption because the DNC is a political party, not the government.

Do you have an argument as to why this should fit within my definition of corruption?
In the US there is the concept of "Expectation of Privacy" [0] so it depends.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expectation_of_privacy
It's difficult to imagine that this is ok from a privacy standpoint. I mean yes, the claim is that there is a "low-resolution fitted for debugging purposes", but why would Google stop there?

There are now cameras flying around Canberra and there is seemingly not a single way for a civilian to differentiate between a Google delivery done or a fake drone used for spying. There will be no way for people to opt-out of this.

I see this will end up similar to the way people who send emails to Gmail users cannot opt out of Google being able to use their personal information without consent. You will be on camera whether you like it or not.

Canberra also supports large native bird populations, this can't be too healthy for their stress levels as this scales up.
Never been there, could you explain?
"OK, Google it!"
You want my phone number AND "This app does use third party services that may collect information used to identify you."

I'm not so comfortable with that. Can you tell us more?
People have been saying that for centuries. Is it really more true now? Jesus was thrown out of the temple, Hamilton was kicked out of politics, etc.
It's a "done deal", he WILL be extradited.

https://www.exaronews.com/julian-assange-to-be-extradited-wi...
Microservices Hidden Problem: Understanding
I just wanted to check in -- I've been using this for a few days now and love it. I would pay for this.
Developer Roadshow 2019 returns with VR, IoT and all things web
Anyone care to speculate on the technology that allows them to offer the fast retrieval times and low cost per GB?
Yep, they're going to do that too, but they want the antenna because they're mostly set in their ways and want to watch live TV. Netflix was a huge step forward for them.
The title seems like a reference to the 2003 Outkast song Hey Ya!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWgvGjAhvIw

Alright alright alright!
Citing wikipedia because it's not on the article:

"In October 2015, SpaceIL signed a contract for a launch from Cape Canaveral in Florida on a SpaceX Falcon 9 booster, via Spaceflight Industries.[15][40] It was launched on 22 February 2019 at 0145 UTC (20:45 local time on 21 February) as a secondary payload,[4][6][23] along with the telecom satellite PSN-6.[41] Beresheet is being controlled by a command center in Yehud, Israel.[42]

From 24 February to 19 March, the main engine was used four times for orbit raising, putting its apogee close to the Moon's orbital distance.[43] The spacecraft performed maneuvers so as to be successfully captured into an elliptical lunar orbit on 4 April 2019, and has adjusted its flight pattern in a circular orbit around the Moon. Once in the correct circular orbit, it will decelerate for a soft landing on the lunar surface, planned for 11 April 2019.[44] "
> Finding him guilty, District Judge Michael Snow said Mr Assange's behaviour was "the behaviour of a narcissist who cannot get beyond his own selfish interest".

Seems a bit personal for a ruling on a breach of bail conditions.
Did you know that a quarter of startups use 45 SaaS apps on a monthly basis?
Also an android user, also interested :)
I don't mind a few Javascript here and there if it's really needed.

But the JS abominations that were created in recent years it's completely beyond me, ironically those are the same people who insist in killing JQuery because it's "old & bloated" and "we don't need it anymore" but those people only use Chrome.

It's tragically funny.
It is refreshing to see a push towards better user experience by reducing JavaScript overhead. I imagine that many development groups building massive client-side SPA's have convinced themselves and others that the "developer convenience" it provides is worth the cost to the users.

Ironically, there are massive improvements to be made by rewinding back to the "DHTML" days of delivering most of the content traditionally and progressively enhancing with a little JS. Except we have much better JS in the browsers and don't even need things like JQuery any more.

Back-end frameworks like Rails and Symfony really help as well, by separating concerns (such as models, controllers, and templates) and keeping the code clean that produces the bulk of the app.
What's the use case besides delivering to remote areas ?

I can get Zipline's mission [0], but personal deliveries ... ? A UPS truck with hundreds of packages surely is more efficient than an army of drones in urban areas.

https://x.company/projects/wing/

> "Wing is developing a new method of transporting goods that’s faster, cheaper, and more environmentally friendly"

What's the advantage compared to an electric van ?

> 27% of greenhouse gas emissions come from transportation.

I mean, yeah sure, but changing the last 3km of the delivery from van to drone won't change the fact that the coffee beans or new iphone you just bought came from the other side of the world via shipping containers which is 99%+ of the pollution associated to the delivery. [1]

[0] https://flyzipline.com

[1] https://medium.com/@victoria27/heres-how-much-pollution-ship...
> it has also been seen that even though PewDiePie had apologized and claimed that the action won’t be repeated on October 2018 after he posted the first derogatory video, the same was repeated once again in March 2019

As far as I know, he never apologized for making the first video. He did reflect on some lines from it in his regular videos (mainly "i'm blue eyes white dragon, while you're just dark magician") but never made an apology.