skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
New Zealand’s government drops plans for a capital-gains tax
FWIW, Raleigh has had an independent non-profit pay-what-you-can restaurant for about 16 months now:

https://tableraleigh.org/about

Customers have multiple options to pay and to pay-it-forward.

- Pay the suggested price

- At least half of the suggested price

- By volunteering with us

Pay it Forward

- Tip to fulfill our mission

- Buy a $10 token to hand out yourself in the community

I suspect these may work better as independent establishments as opposed to being part of a chain or large corporation.
I think this is taken word-for-word from this Bloomberg piece: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-10/google-fl...
> There are still undeveloped ways of hyper-performant computing ...

Agreed, but none of the technologies have reached the marketplace, and it's entirely unclear how long it will take for them to develop. If it takes decades, any exponential curve is toast.
Don’t most countries have a minimum required warranty? Seems like fixing devices that were faulty is the least they could do.

I do like that accidental damage is covered, though.
I mean many companies don't care if you have a degree at all, let alone where that degree comes from.
RWBY
Vicious and Virtuous Cycles of Motivation
Vitalik Buterin: Current and Future State of Ethereum
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OSM has impressive geographical data now, but in the meantime Google Maps has gone well beyond "we can help you find that street address."

Their places data, reviews, photos, navigation, and street view are all adding a massive amount of value. They have shifted the goal posts.
Reduce ambient lighting and opt for more red lighting.
There are deterministic finite state machines underneath implemented in lean C++. These automata allow to implement operations with strings optimally or close to that. In the readme file there is a link to how to recompile linguistic resources, if you look inside the makefile that is used for resource compilation you will the steps.
HN can't be wrong, right?
GitHub repo: https://github.com/ines/spacy-course

Might also be interesting to others who have DataCamp courses they'd like to release free.
Oh, don't worry, there's a Bootstrap theme for that:

http://code.divshot.com/geo-bootstrap/
I assume most people read the title and we’re expecting machine vision. I definitely did within the first two seconds of reading.
That's a good point. The rules I described are for Russian, and other Slavic languages may differ. In particular, looks like Polish is pretty similar to Russian here at least in terms of where the category boundaries are, but Czech is different.

As far as the cases used go, 1024 would take the genitive singular in Russian. 1025 would take the genitive plural. 1021 would take the nominative singular. Nominative plural is not used at all when counting things in Russian.
thalassemias. Felt compelled to let you know the correct spelling. I happen to know simply because I know the two Greek words for Thalassocracy.
Qubical Announced 10x Faster Query Engine for Apache Spark
In NLP, tokenization is one of the first steps in the pipeline to break down text into individual words. I don't know about others but for the project I'm doing, the tokenization speed doesn't matter much in the big picture because the following steps take much longer.
Are you trying to imply that Google and/or Google Maps have made the world worse?
The share button simply calls the browser's share API, for example: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Navigator/s...

> The Navigator.share() method invokes the native sharing mechanism of the device as part of the Web Share API.
Why do people support Assange. I mean the guy is clearly and ego-maniac masquerading as a social activist. His conduct in the embassy and toward his host country was abysmal by all accounts. Manning served her time honorably (I would say she shouldn't have served any time) but the coward Assange hid in an embassy costing a middle-income, struggling country 7 million to accommodate him. New info is coming to light that says that he tried to black mail the president of the country that paid the 7 million for him to go on a 7 year vacation in the embassy with free internet access and having bro parties every 4 weeks.
I would have loved to see all the counts of each in piechart form with slices for each color :-)
This is interesting, but it probably works the opposite way. Twitter et al makes celebrities out of people who seek moral outrage. In this way they overplay their righteousness, but the effect is exactly the same as amplifying the offending message itself: more ad revenue. Interesting hack of our society’s moral norms.

I’m not saying it’s wrong to be offended, but if you are, somebody’s probably getting paid for it.
Fish farms are future superfund sites.
imho the fact that character level language models work mostly just as well as word level or bpe tokenizers makes it clear that the "embedding" view is wrong nowadays, that the meaning is really built (and stored) in the layers, just fine
This is in fact one of several oral histories that Knuth has done over the last few years:

* 2001, 2 hours audio (http://purl.umn.edu/96227), 27-page transcript (https://conservancy.umn.edu/handle/11299/107413) (partial I guess?)

* 2006, Web of Stories, 7.5 hours video in 97 short parts https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVV0r6CmEsFzeNLngr1Jq... , transcript (https://github.com/kragen/knuth-interview-2006)

* 2007, interview by Ed Feigenbaum, 3 hours (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp7GAKLSGnI) + 4 hours (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqPPll3uDa0), 73-page transcript (https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/20...)

* 2018, this one (https://purl.stanford.edu/jq248bz8097), about 4.5 hours, 177-page transcript (but 50 pages of those are Knuth's CV!)

* 2018, by the Computer History Museum, 1.5 hours, specifically about the earliest programs he wrote as an undergrad when he first encountered computers (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9JOrmgHw28): the programs themselves are here: https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/search/?s=X8738.... (in machine language / assembly)

I've watched the Web of Stories one fully (and the others not yet fully)… they are a delight. You can see the way his mind works, and he's someone whose career has spanned basically the entirety of computer science as a separate academic discipline.
By that logic, it is moral to let people starve to death when you have enough not to. I guess some people might think that.
Except one of his criteria for whether or not to count a defect was if it was uniformly costed or not. So now you’re back to the sorting machine with a tumbler or multiple cameras.
Didn't read article - [check]
Speaking about Knuth audiofiles, I recently created a RSS feed for the Knuth's "Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About" audio files (https://j11g.com/knuth.xml). This way you can listen to it in your favorite podcast player. For example, I added the feed to Overcast: https://overcast.fm/p1120847-YM0aS7
Agreed, and if you don't like how the company is being run - sell your stock.

Generally speaking, this idea we have these days that activist shareholders can come in and dictate how a company is run is insane.
Plain-old-caches and even concurrent-aware maps do this too--several are the cases where I've slapped a Guava or Caffeine cache into place for quick 'n dirty concurrency control and key coalescing, even with a short TTL.
Apple has been very slow to expand their service offerings beyond Apple devices. Insane hardware revenues have made them complacent up until now. Their recent moves to start offering their video content on non-Apple platforms indicates that they finally understand that cross platform services are the key to their future growth IMO.
Why should they offer a free maps service? They are a business with shareholder responsibilities, not a charity, and maps must cost them a ton of money to operate.
Tell HN: SV Doublethink
Yesterday I posted an Ask HN, `Why does SV hate Trump?`, and a post, `Tech censorship: Instagram censors pro-Trump cartoonist Ben Garrison.` They were both flagged and removed.

Here's the first comment I got on my Ask HN:

> You would do a better job writing a less charged version of this question; I would happily articulate a reasonable response.
For example, remove "delicate sensibilities" and "triggers the bejesus", then maybe we can have a reasonable discussion. Otherwise you're being insulting.

Taking as a starting point a response to that comment, I take the chance to expand upon some ideas about this.

So you want to make the discussion start form a more balanced viewpoint by removing insulting terms?

Sounds fair.

But at what point does avoiding charged terms, become avoiding the issues? At what point does that become political censorship and then shift over into imposing one ideological perspective on everybody?

If you're an individual, it probably doesn't matter. If you're a corporation, it probably does. If founders are imposing their politics on their business operations isn't that piercing the corporate veil, as it blurs the line between their characters? But more importantly, when a few SV companies control a lot of global social media, how is them imposing a political perspective ok?

If I were in their place, I would do the same thing. Don't get me wrong. I have a politics, and I would censor and suppress those who I disliked or disagreed with. But the difference is, I would own it. I wouldn't do it in secret and pretend I was this "tolerance loving" "progressive". I'd explain my reasons for it, and how shaping the narrative was a good thing.

[continued]
> failed due to a removal of a "polymer coating" that essentially looks like a screen protector. This is not supposed to be removed, but several reviewers did (or tried)

I bought a LG TV a year and a half ago, and last week saw some spots on it that looked like a film coating which had air bubbles in it. At the edge of the screen there is a gap where you can fit a nail, and it does feel as if something can be removed.

I tried for a few minutes to peel it (carefully, wondering how I'd possibly missed that for a year and a half). Then I gave up and got a wet cloth, and it turned out it was just a mark on the screen.

It reminds me of shops and bars that have TVs, but leave all the marketing stickers on that are just for when it's displayed in a showroom. Manufacturers should do a better job of marking what should (and shouldn't) be removed.
Code monkey think maybe manager want to write goddamn login page himself

Code monkey not say this out loud

Code monkey not crazy, just proud
I'd say this is true. It wouldn't be UW nor at the same salary he currently has but, idk, Texas Tech, North Dakota State or some such place would think he would be a high profile catch at least in the next two or three years.
[continued]

What I don't like is seeing these so-called liberals (actually fake leftists) in SV, pretending they're so morally grande, and then acting like fascists, with forbidden speech, forbidden thoughts and even their own little band of foot-soldier thugs (antifa). You don't get to cash in twice. They don't get the "moral righteousness" protection of pretending you're good and associated with classical liberalism when you act like this. You don't get to hide it.

And to make it more concrete, it's not just big companies doing it at an abstract level, it's a hubris that leaked in everywhere. I'm not against the censorship and narrative shaping, I'm against the deceptiveness, the "this is about tolerance and inclusiveness" when it's clearly not. At that point, they've become hilarious caricatures of themselves projected in an firmware-updated Orwell's 1984 futurescape.

Case in point, the other day I posted some very tech and hacker related news, how instagram censored pro-Trump cartoonist Ben Garrison. And the organic interest from HN was strong, it was upvoted and got to the front page. And then, the tolerant liberal overlords, acting to protect their delicate sensibilities or narratives, flagged it and it was gone. That's not a fair and balanced discussion. Pretending it is, is doublethink. SV doublethink.

That the biggest tech forum, in the biggest tech city in the "freest country" in the world, can not even talk about their country's President and acknowledge and own how their own tech giants are censoring narratives that support him, reveals the problem.

Maybe in the privileged and rarefied world of SV tech elites and their legions of privileged slaves this is an abstract problem. But these companies and the fascist-fake-leftist attitudes of their people are powerful.

I think people need to see the situation clearly, and ask, what does this mean for the world? What are the second order effects of this doublethink about SV's goodness progressiveness and tolerance?
In the meantime we have Lyft and Uber. I don't think we need fully autonomous vehicles to want to eliminate the need to own a vehicle that needs to be housed and stored for 95% of it's lifetime. Waiting for an L4 transport service is just an excuse.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk's gamble on China could be thwarted by local rivals
Well, TBF, thats the generally normal forum behaviour when you 'know your audience'

For example, know that most HNers are fairly informed individuals in tech. Thus, I trust that I am going to find a good deal of content and insightful comments without reading the article - because I can typically glean the gist of the article and the tidbits that would have interested me anyway, from the HN community.
That's cool, very powerful lib. But I'm not sure if I still have to use other libraries to remove stop words to make the tokenizer simpler.
You have to judge each scare by weighing the evidence yourself. The news business model relies on scaring the snuff out of us for clicks so we are left weigh the evidence ourselves. I think people do a better job at this then we realize. Like Ebola< low concern because its not transmitted by air only with open wound contact very few cases in the US. All people infected are quarantined> Super valcanos..we have a ten percent chance for it to blow up by the end of the century. For me not too worried. But everything i read on fungus infections...this is going to be a problem. This is going to be a huge challenge for this coming decade. These links below explain>

https://today.oregonstate.edu/archives/2010/mar/fungi-can-ch...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5095543/

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/10/061021115712.h...
> So should I not take your DataCamp course anymore? Probably not, no.

Here's some context for anyone who's wondering why: https://noamross.github.io/datacamp-sexual-assault/
i broke it. sorry man, was just trying to inject shit in to peoples title-bars up by injecting terminal codes.
It’s a wonder it didn’t take a decade or two to come out!
Is this study then representative with this synthetic blood?
I'm glad California has started clamping down on personal belief exemptions

... but CA has a high propensity of foreign travelers and entrants. The big North Bay school infection stemmed from travelers returning from Vietnam, where all the kids in the family were infected.
You have a 10% chance of success even if you are accepted into YCombinator (honest feedback: I wouldn’t invest in your company). Stay a professor, and don’t regret not wasting time as an entrepreneur. It’s overrated.
Actually my mom almost died from vaccination, her arm got swollen up and she must have been close to some kind of allergic shock. (Must have been in the 60s - one can only speculate for the reasons, obviously hygiene wasn't that far back then/perhaps it was a 'living' vaccine.) So luckily I did get all basic vaccinations as a young child but when my parents divorced, visits to the doctors happened only in case of emergency if you will. There was a deep distrust towards doctors because of this traumatic experience.

And yes, I agree, the discussions have become useless. In fact I would go so far to say that in middle-class society people avoid discussions and at best just agree which is actually meaning a slow death for democracy. Those who still continue to do discussions end up doing these in closed circles apart from public discourse, that's tragic and easy loot for alt-rights/anti-vaxxers who can then claim that discourse isn't working because we didn't practise it properly. From a philosophical standpoint I think foundations of all knowledge must be observed and talked about.
Ahhhh, the good ‘ol days. Love it.
Please see http://www.hakirah.org/Vol13Bush.pdf

There is no basis in Jewish law to object to vaccination.
Look at DataRobot - they are massively successful at this point, and I think the key is that they didn't release the source.

Open sourcing the core solution hugely dilutes your value proposition - I hope that you will reconsider your decision.
Both are incredible!

I guess to explain my comment a bit further: I conjecture (as a pure layman) that a similar process is going on when a chess grandmaster says "I played Nf7 because it looked natural" as when a mathematician says "I expect this statement to be true for aesthetic/intuitive/moral reasons".

I think in this case the mathematician's unconscious mind has correctly identified some pattern that his or her conscious mind is unable to access.

Just like I can't really explain why I know my dad's face is his, and not that of some other man of similar race, age, and build.
It's not an ad¹. A lot of humans navigate that way, for many reasons. Google has done research on that through the years. Landmarks might be easier to spot and are an useful confirmation that you got the turn right. Do you never ask yourself if you just made a mistake? Perhaps you got distracted by a passenger, another vehicle or a pedestrian.

The street name you are turning onto might be not as visible because the sign is small, covered by a large truck or not well lit at night. Key Bank is probably harder to miss.

Or there might be no street name at all, which is often the case in places like India, where Google has been testing this for many years. In that case you have no choice but to use landmarks.

¹Or, at least, one that you can purchase now. It might happen in the future, but of course they'd have to be careful when rolling this out. Imagine if they used a business that is not very distinguishable and thus not a real landmark. That would diminish Maps' utility.
Well, last sentence is obviously critical. Although impressive, a healthy EEG/ECoG signal means all the world for practical purposes.

"We have developed an extracorporeal pulsatile-perfusion system and a haemoglobin-based, acellular, non-coagulative, echogenic, and cytoprotective perfusate that promotes recovery from anoxia, reduces reperfusion injury, prevents oedema, and metabolically supports the energy requirements of the brain. With this system, we observed preservation of cytoarchitecture; attenuation of cell death; and restoration of vascular dilatory and glial inflammatory responses, spontaneous synaptic activity, and active cerebral metabolism in the absence of global electrocorticographic activity."
>This need is so common, that most insurance companies have special advertising just for it (like https://www.priorityhealth.com/individual-family-health-insu.... for example).

This doesn’t even cover pre-existing conditions. So, if you are on medication for high blood pressure, or have diabetes, or are just one of the 55 percent of Americans who take prescription drugs... you are out of luck.

That these plans are even legal is a monumental failure of the American system.
Ask HN: What lightweight apps do you use on your Android phone?
I always seek to install and use apps which consume as less memory and battery as possible, and preferably open-source.

I'm interested to know what the HN community uses?

Might uncover some lesser known but useful apps.
This must be success:

make half-assed trello Cards -> act important -> have meetings -> act important -> never code -> get attitude when asked question about half-assed trello cards -> get promoted.
*throw in a racist remark or two to the dark skinned engineer from India for bonus points

That is what I see from project managers at work.
I find most of the things you list add no value to me. Photos and reviews are of no interest to me in a navigation aid. In my home town at least (London), I frequently find their places data wrong with marked locations being several streets away from where they actually are. Finally, Street view, which previously I've found super useful, is being ruined in London, as the contractors who are providing the latest updates are phoning it in by submitting reams of data with the pictures taken at night, so you can't see anything in them (flash cameras being a super bad idea for mounting to a car).

Edit: I submitted two reports of bad StreetMap pictures a couple of months ago on the issue of the pictures being taken at night. In both cases the bot which handles those reports rejected my categorising them as "of poor quality", and I heard no more about it. But prompted by writing this post, I've just been back to the two locations I reported (on opposite sides of central London, one in Hackney, one in Mayfair), and now find that the StreetMap data is once more pictures taken in daylight. So thanks Google - thanks for telling me I was full of shit, but actually fixing the problem.
This seems positive.

Yet, this article sounded like a PR piece from MS. Is it just me?

Has Reuters had issues in the past accepting work from journalists who are paid flaks?

Is my Spidey sense off here?
Your trove of personal data has monetary value. With a few pieces of info, your identity can be stolen. If a company gets hacked or an employee siphons data, it's sold and used, with you facing severe consequences and maybe them too
I bought 30 for $0.29 each, minor nib adjustment and they're good to go.
The library we have published is a finite state machines manipulation library first of all, also it is developed to support linguistic applications (large number of entries, unicode, compile once use many times, etc.) Tokenization is one of its applications. We needed to start somewhere. In our Deep Learning Era not everything that we have created is relevant, but tokenization is. What we might add to the project is BPE or BPE- variant, support East Asian languages, Multi Word Expressions ("New York" as one token).
pharma companies don't make much or any on vaccines

On many, they do. Look at HPV vaccine marketing, for example.
> Personally, I think Google would be much more competent at designing a good city than the government.

They couldn't even keep fiber wires in the ground for two years before getting bored and losing their attention span. I don't want to see what they would do with more complicated infrastructure.
Or to make a lot of kids happy.
You get some agent to do the heavy lifting in agreement with your parameters.

It’s a solution to the problem of “I continued to choose to live in an environment without health insurance, how do I handle the situation of not being in a position to negotiate?”
Plug Me in Project
No it doesn't. It was the root cause of the Global Financial Crisis in 2008, and will be the root cause of the next financial crisis which is definitely coming. It doesn't work.
Absolutely. I just refurbished old Core 2 Duo desktops. Ubuntu creaked along (it was Disco Beta).

I found Linux Lite, based on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:

https://www.linuxliteos.com
Maps has been awful and getting worse for a long time.

If it's not routing me 25+ miles further to save "1 minute" (really a multi-minute slowdown in the 90th percentile) then its failing to give comprehensible directions in order to interpose business names.

Maybe the monetization is finally makes competing with it attractive enough.
How does demographic momentum account for the fact that Nigeria cannot support that many people?
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