skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or simply go to a doctor specializing in it and check with him what they think. If they suggest trying something - try it and see if it works. I was in the same boat. Can't really say it was a miracle, but it definitely helped a bit.
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> Has the idea that Beowulf started as an oral traditional fallen out of favor?

It's hard to imagine that that idea could have fallen out of favor, given the incredibly sparse written record of the Germanic tribes. They didn't produce enough literature to have a non-oral tradition.
I actually really like that idea, constantly scanning logs for hyper-specific red flags. I might start doing this.
Could there not be domain experts who know how to express their general ideas in terms of code (pseudocode, even), paired with coding experts who can architect the overall software system? You'd still need software experts, but you wouldn't have just software experts.
But it seems that there is some growing problems with how FB or Twitter moderate content on their platform (And it's mainly for this reason that mastodon had some success in japan, where culture is different that in eastern countries and law allows some things that US/EU considers illegal).

On the other hand I don't see moderation made by a single enterprise scale to 10B users.
Ask HN: What is the state of the art in text to speech?
With a particular interest in systems that might be run offline on mobiles!
Thus, the standards and procedures that if followed would have prevented the problem.

There is a standard that says automated controls are not allowed "authority" such that the pilot cannot counteract it.

There is a standard that says failure of a single sensor must not cause a critical failure.

Either violation alone makes the design not airworthy, and not certifiable for civil aviation, preventing both crashes.
The reason that these behaviors are undefined typically is that the compiler cannot prove whether or not a program will execute undefined behavior, and needing to account for it would lead to less efficient code. For example if (x+1 > x) can be simplified to if (true) for signed integers only because signed overflow is undefined.

That said, there is UBSan, which is a runtime checker for undefined behavior that can help you to identify if your code is depending on some undefined result.
If I needed to build a quick app that I would feel extremely confident with, I would launch a Digital Ocean droplet running Ubuntu or similar and set up Nginx / MySQL / PHP.

I would use Lumen (~Laravel light) to build the API, probably using JSON web tokens for authentication.

For the front-end, I would spin up a Redux-less Polymer build (web components) with a service worker.

That would probably be my go-to stack, because I know it very well and can develop rapidly in that context.
How is Watson not the butt of jokes in the tech industry by now? Seriously, never heard anything that didn’t end up being smoke and mirrors.
We can find meaningful work for everyone; we cannot necessarily find remunerative work for everyone. We have the economic capacity to provide remunerative work for everyone, but make-work is (almost by definition) not meaningful, especially when it is overtly designated as such. We probably don't have the economic capacity to provide everyone with the opportunity to find their own meaningful work and we certainly don't have the political will. Solving that conundrum is equal parts opportunity and crisis.
They may not have technically won, but the expected damage to them of a long battle would likely have been less than that to Qualcomm.
And my point is that nobody in the present has the insight as to state what "the right side of history" will be.

And "the right side of history" could also change. Consider what "the right side of history" was in regard to Leon Trotsky. For a man who died in 1940, he was on the 'wrong' side of history in the Soviet Union until its end and not formally 'rehabilitated' in Russia until 2001.

If you lived in the Soviet Union in 1950, what would you think "the right side of history" IRT Trotsky would be? How about 1980? Would it have been clear in 2000? Is it even clear today?

And would his contemporaries have been able to predict any of that?
Thanks for the interest! The questions you are asking are very valid. Let me address them one by one:

1. We are evaluating an open source strategy, but currently don't have plans to open source it. There are couple ways we're addressing this. First, in an event of a closure of the platform we commit to open sourcing it, just like Parse did. Second, which is a more immediate one, is that we will be adding features that make 8base fit well into developer workflows as a tool rather than a platform. That way developers don't have to commit to building on 8base right away and can use it as an integration layer that accelerates access to business data and workflows. By focusing on enterprise use cases we believe we can achieve a good value proposition without forcing people to build entire application on 8base. Also, as serverless architecture becomes more pervasive porting business logic comprised of cloud functions should become easier than before (this is a somewhat weaker point).

2. We're still working on the pricing and gathering feedback. If you don't mind, could you share which aspects of pricing concern you specifically? Indeed a SaaS, especially one in the enterprise space, is definitely our target. As a matter of fact, we already have an enterprise SaaS built on 8base that's launching in a few months.
An important ingredient in empathy is having the emotional security to worry about how others are. The author appears to have grown up during a period of economic hope. The 90's and 00's were periods of huge economic anxiety.
You're advocating for taxpayer funded education, aka shifting the cost from one person to another.

The free part you're referring to in other countries, is merely paid for by taxpayers anyway. When trillions of dollars are ultimately involved, it's rather important to never call some of the most expensive welfare services on earth "free."

Who would you say the cost should be shifted from and to? What limits would there be on who benefits from the cost shifting?

Shifting cost doesn't change the cost. US education, much like US healthcare, is wildly expensive due to universities bloating their systems and dramatically over expanding admin. Those costs are not retreating rapidly no matter what we do.

What's your strategy for how much the US can afford to raise taxes to simultaneously pay for hundreds of billions of dollars a year in higher education cost shifting and to meet the epic financial demand for increased socialized healthcare? And I mean in a real scenario, not the one where the US cuts the military budget by hundreds of billions of dollars, because that will never happen.
OpenStreetMap was started before Google Maps was launched and has never really tried to compete in the sense of providing a user portal.

And then the data wasn't there for years and years also. And Google has lots more POI data in much of the world.

(I say this as a contributor to OSM...)
Obviously, it's not that simple. But my suppositions are a response to the statement Just because the features exist does not mean you have to use them.

There is a cost to functionality that exists in a language and you can't just ignore it because someone will use it and you will still need to understand it.

Although I don't personally like the Go language, I can empathize and understand the reasoning behind its strong, opinionated language choices. Go is a perfect example of doing things in a way that not every one likes, but "everyone" can live with, just like gofmt.
Except for the slow-downs.
I think Rails had this issue by default for some time.
Failing != flaking. If your tests interact with any level of randomness (seed data, time based constraints, etc) you're going to find the occasional test that doesn't work and subsequently works on the rebuild.

If something is consistently failing I would assume this tool does not disable it.
How to build your startup products from scratch [video]
>Because management didn't know which direction should be taken... and they kept hiring too! They kept hiring new developers when the ones already at place had absolutely nothing to do!

I think big companies trying to do things like "Capture a market segment that will be a trillion (I made this number up) dollars in 2025" suffer terrible analysis paralysis. The 5 year plan has an extreme revenue ramp up and insane targets. If you combine that with politics, there is a lot of business and financial justification that has to go into every decision, and many decisions will be safe ones that look innovative (we're going to build on Insert Latest Cloud and use AI!) but have no real value to many customers.

The end result is crazy hiring (and firing a few years later) and groups with opposite experiences. Some groups have no work to do and other groups are working 80 hour weeks trying to make it seem like the marketing and growth curves are all true.

It's a comedy (if you are able to stay out of the mess and politics) or a tragedy if you have a manager who feels they want to be the shining star that supports this mad rush.
I played high school football, and my family is a "football family" with Dad and other relatives having played at the college level. I loved the game and had many great experiences. I'm sad to write it, but that tradition ends with me. I will absolutely not allow any children I might have to play this game.

I often wonder how badly my own brain is damaged.

Coincidentally, I also did my undergrad at CU.
I am terrified these days of showing anything that looks like something that works to a project manager or client, without covering it in warning graphics.

Even photoshop mockups of UIs, introduced as, "Here's a photoshop mockup of the UI, what do you think?" will get some people to demand that it be shipped immediately.
John Carmack said it well when he said something to the effect of "everything that is syntactically correct eventually makes it into the codebase".

But I have no opinion of Crystal, just prefer small, concise languages in general.
From my experience I disagree. It's not that we can't do hard things, it's that there's frequently more profitable approaches than taking difficult challenges. This is becoming systemic across our culture as ideas drawn from capitalism begin invading all aspects of our lives (including how we interact in personal relationships), not just business.

Pushing quicker time to market and cost saving solutions to the brink is part of the driving optimization problem businesses aim to do.

This search is done across various contributing costs but inevitably, safety becomes one of factors on the board. I have previous experience with the coal mining industry and I can attest that safety is frequently hit in the name of cost savings.

When you think about it, you rarely converge on an optimization solution across a search space from one direction, you typically have to cross boundaries to find the an optimum, especially for highly complex problems with many variables. Inevitably in this search, business interests will conflict with their profit motives as costs are cut down tighter and tighter in convergence. If we're lucky, it's a local optimum and some new technology or finding makes cost savings possible outside of cutting safety.
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You would indeed hope. But then again, look at the Toyota ECU issues ... and the subsequent code review as part of the court case ...
And IIRC was largely responsible for getting people to read Beowulf in particular as literature. I mean to appreciate the work of art, as opposed to dissecting it as evidence about language etc.
It's not the logic that's the problem as much as the fact that the systems are meant to work with clean data, and the fact that data could not just be missing, but straight up incorrect was never considered as a valid possibility. This was made worse by the fact that the poorly formulated "solution" was barely communicated to the pilots. I saw somewhere that the plane could be unrecoverable in 40 seconds. You need to have bigger safety margins than that.
Yes! This is great, thank you!
If Xfce works for you, not really. :-) On the other hand, am not sure things like GTK2 etc, would make a good first impression on a new user such as the OP.
> Sweden shut down its immigration flood as one prominent example

Sweden had the third-highest migration count ever in 2018, with ~137.000 people migrating to the country. The second-highest was 2017 (~144.000), the highest 2016 (~163.000). Source: SCB (Statistiska Centralbyrån -> 'Central Bureau for Statistics') report [1]. No borders were closed, not for real. In 2018 Migrationsverket ('Migration authority', responsible for handling migration) expected over half a million people (~5% of the current population) to come to Sweden in the coming 5 years.

Half of the women giving birth in Sweden are now wholly or partly of foreign descent, 35% partly or wholly of non-western descent, this also according to a recent SCB report.

[1] https://www.scb.se/hitta-statistik/sverige-i-siffror/mannisk...
Between Amazon and Walmart, retail is certainly competitive at the moment, but private equity firms seem to have done their best to run companies like Sears and Toys R Us into the ground.
...in the TV adaptation anyway, it is one of the best bits of dark humor.
I don't see it happening. In the past they were able to kill more than 50% of humanity. I don't believe something similar will adapt by itself again. We have internet, full body suits, a lot of technology to defend against them.
I recall this happening with Facebook shares too. It slumped a bit after the IPO and people sued.

Wonder how they feel now with the stock skyrocketing.
I recently went to a presentation by the Arizona Justice Project [0], an organization that works to free the wrongfully convicted. They said something about how the best way to do a lineup is to present photos one at a time, with no prompting whatsoever.

The Department of Justice has various pages about lineups, this one seems informative:
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-announces-...

[0] http://www.azjusticeproject.org/
It seems that repetitive head injuries are really something that has long term consequences. The issue is VERY complex and has a lot of factors. One thing to look at is the complex data on other sports[0]. It turns out that men's rugby and women's ice hockey are also big magnets, along with soccer/futbol. It seems to be that just about any hit to the head can be damaging, regardless of equipment. The 'violence' of American football may be a correlated factor, but not causative.

But we're just beginning to understand these things. More data is needed, unfortunately. It seems that these athletes really are suffering.

[0] https://completeconcussions.com/2018/12/05/concussion-rates-...

P.S. I've also struggled with these issues. I've written on HN before about them and won't bore here. Suffice to say, though I've had deep struggles with concussions, and in the end I'd say I wish I'd not done those sports as a result, it is a hard question to answer. If I could be back out on that pitch once more with my mates and be guaranteed to not get another head injury, I'd do it in a heartbeat. I loved that time and really do miss it everyday, even decades later, I love rugby. I wasn't an easy thing to quit, and it is still not easy to stay away from. The concussion epidemic is not going to be easy to solve.
Chris Harris (author of the linked article) was also banned from reviewing Lambo's too
Shipping is a mere $65, that's value.
> I often see this pattern if I talk about anything controversial: 2 or 3 initial downvotes, followed by more upvotes. It can also just stay at -3 and never go up. Then sometimes, I get 50 or 90 upvotes.

I suspect (based on things some of the mods have said) is that while the number of upvote points is capped, the number of negative points isn't, with the intention of keeping a bad comment from crashing someone's karma. As such, for controversial posts (that a chunk of people feel strongly enough to vote about), the post can quickly hit a negative but then eventually be overwhelmed by positive votes (as long as it isn't flagged for one reason or another).
Well it was a pre-existing law, so it's not like the govt turned round and effectively said "sorry, wrong answer - try again". Anyway in this case it was the government found to have put out misleading information.

Not perfect, but not a bad sanction against achieving a result via disinformation or outrageous advertising claims.
If you play games a lot it will quickly become cheaper to buy a high end PC. But if you're like me and only game a couple hours a week on average, it ends up being cheaper than getting a new top-of-the-line PC every 3 years to continue playing new games on max settings.

Right now it's free.. can't get any cheaper than that. :P
okay let's back up and remember that you can't compete with a plane that crashes all the time. So the reason is clearly not profit, in fact they will lose a big chunk of money from this and that wasn't hard to predict at all.
I will be happy when there are birth control pills for men and in all discussions I have seen around the internet pretty much everyone was positive as well. I also disagree that unwanted pregnancies are caused by men. I think both are to blame.

> Because, for the precious minutes when they’re penetrating their partner, not wearing a condom gives them more pleasure.

Maybe this must be some American thing. Only a few precious minutes?
More dependable would be tests that inject unique privileged information and then check for that appearing anywhere it shouldn't.
This case is unusual because, rather than a whole series of things that all had to go wrong before the plane would crash, this system has numerous failure modes that individually were almost enough by themselves to cause a crash. It is only astonishing that it took so long for it to happen.

In the Lion Air case, painfully inadequate maintenance contributed.
Thank god. Now I can finally sleep at night.
Isn't the Shay Gueron presentation you're citing talking about cleverly using the CLMUL extensions that Intel basically added as hardware support for GCM? I feel like Intel did a pretty good job documenting how to use PCLMULQDQ to implement GHASH.
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I live in a rural area on the Tennessee River. It's a little more rural than suburban, but not very far out of town. Came out one day and the tree stump (about 1 1/2" around) was cut off at an angle a couple of inches above the ground, sharp enough to puncture a lawn mower tire. That tree was just gone. (The other was a little older and sprouted volunteers, so it's trying to grow back.)
> My assumptions are that brain is something that can be simulated on a computer, there is no soul, and that the people who die and are buried cannot be brought back to life. So my choices are either to become brain in a jar for experiments, or feed earthworms.

I think the same regarding the brain. My point is that we are discussing what if your donated brain is revived to the point of consciousness, but without a body, and perhaps without the experimenters realizing consciousness exists (or realizing it and not considering your consciousness worth the same consideration of a full person).

When reasoning about the possibility of that scenario, which is what this thread is about, I don't think it makes sense to use assumptions about death being the ultimate end, because this is specifically about the case where that is false, because you're a brain in jar with consciousness after death.

> No, because if i am still alive, i can do something more useful for me with my body

Not all live people have bodies that can be used. Not all people with useless bodies are useless. Also, this reasoning leads us to having no consideration for any living beings besides those that can communicate and be of use. Is it okay to torture animals for science, if there is a way to do so without causing pain? Should we not consider the case of a brain in a jar then, and whether it feels pain? It's your choice whether you want to subject yourself to the possibility of a tortured existence after death, but I would rather have some laws in place and information on what to expect (i.e. existing cases where we have reason to believe that the regarding the legal status of after death brain testing than going into the future blind.

There's a possibility of upsides (science advancement without torture, possibly life of a sort after death), but also the possibility of downsides (that life after death might be indefinite mental torture). It's not that I'm against donating my brain, it's that I'm against donating my brain given the minimal amount of information we have on outcomes, and how that relates to the extreme mngative worst case I can imagine.

The question is, if we map out a matrix of possibilities with outcomes of no science advancement, science advancement, second life on one axis, and no consciousness, consciousness but not you (amnesia), your consciousness but impaied, your consciousness close to your current capabilities on the other axis, some of those paired outcomes are what I would consider completely unacceptable, and others would be absolutely wonderful, and then there's various middling levels in between. The problem is there's no idea currently what the chances of any of those are, so am I willing to gamble a completely unacceptable outcome for the chance of a wonderful outcome given no odds?
>And are you seriously arguing that mags like e.g. The New Yorker or The New York Review of Books are not mainstream?

Maybe. Most people read neither nowadays. Unless my understanding of the definition of "mainstream" is flawed, that makes them essentially niche publications.

But that wasn't actually my argument. My argument is that most people don't care about literature beyond anything not tied into a popular media franchise, non-literary books or books by famous authors, and Beowulf is none of those things.
Which app is that? Most of the well known music identification apps like Shazam use acoustic fingerprinting to identify songs. They work well without using neural nets or deep learning. What benefits does your neural net based app offer over this well known approach?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_fingerprint
Boeing was capitalist from the start. Why fail now in such a stupid way?
A misleading experiment: the heavier the feather the quicker it falls is obviously true; steel feathers are useless. The same is true for balls (except for the exceptional situation of a perfect vacuum), it's just that drag and air currents don't influence balls all that much at low speeds.
On two occasions I have been asked, — "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" In one case a member of the Upper, and in the other a member of the Lower, House put this question. I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.

-Charles Babbage, Passages from the Life of a Philosopher, 1864
This is more like off/store brand soda than anything. While not Dr Pepper, it's like Mr Pibb or Dr Thunder, still tastes good, but it's not quite the same.