skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm reading the Cambridge Grammar of the English Language at the moment. It has a complex layout with varied typography, examples with subscripts and superscripts, text that's left, center, and right aligned, callout boxes, sidebars, diagrams, tables, multiple heading levels, footnotes and so on. ePub simply can't handle complex layouts or typographic requirements beyond those you'd find in a novel. Also, the justification and hyphenation algorithms in ePub readers are typically complete crap.
Yeah, that's movie-plot silliness.

In many jurisdictions the real method involves human cops making deputized dogs perform ritualized tricks near the car.

In US culture, performing this ritual grants the human cops permission to arrest people.
Google recognizes it now, but it took years. (For a major thoroughfare in the nation’s capital.) Just reinforcing OP’s point that you can’t rely on the map being up to date.
I skipped to the end and watched Alan Edelman’s talk on Julia.

https://youtu.be/rZS2LGiurKY

Alan (co-author of Julia) mentions that only Swift and Julia make the cut for ML, according to Google.

I do like Swift and I’m willing to learn Julia, but most of the ML I see uses Python. Is there any traction for Julia or Swift, or is it mostly aspirational at the moment?
Pontevedra, Spain is one of them.
>put massage chairs in airports //

Do the chairs hack your phone or something, I've never seen anyone pay to use one, only sit on them without paying.

They have them in motorway service stations in UK as well as at airports.
Ask HN: Feature request: Simple tagging system
I read HN so I have an ear to the ground of the software industry. However, probably 70% of the articles lately have nothing to do with software. Probably 50% of them center around corporate power abuse, government overreach, or other dystopian topics. The constant stream of this kind of content has been a marked detriment to my mental health. I'm sure I'm not alone.

I know HN makes a point to remain minimalistic, but the only solution I can think of is a simple tagging/filtering system. HN could hard-code a handful of tags to make things simpler; "software", "science", "philosophy", "geopolitics", and "random points of interest" would probably cover everything. Require that new posts (at least those with URLs) be given exactly one of these tags, and give each of them a separate link at the top of the site, the way "ask" and "show" have their own links right now.

Some requested features on HN can be outsourced to mirror sites or native apps that do scraping, etc. But this one is unique in that it's a data issue. Articles can't be determined to fit into one of these categories without the original poster including that information. I ask you to consider what this would do for reducing the constant inflammation that happens in social media, which HN hasn't been totally immune to.
Dictionary-assisted suffix-stripping morphographemic analyser
Yeah, not really. Papers and scientific books / math books usually are very dependent on layout and PDF is just the better choice here.
From the Verge review I get the impression you only see stuff your friends have placed. They're playing around with ideas on how to let other content in but are well aware of the dong & swastika problem.
There is also the Niven take on cheap immortality where people just become incredibly BORED with life after a few hundreds years, reinventions, and "mid-life" crises. Inevitably they turn to increasingly extreme pursuits as they age and run out of lifestyles to try and an average life expectancy develops organically.

It's interesting to note that he also wrote some about the style of immortality described by Alastair Reynold's and the cheap immortality of his "Known Universe/Ringworld" novels is after that time period in which longevity has become cheap, commoditized, and easily affordable by all.
This will probably be huge. Minecraft is still super popular, and being able to show off cool real-world footage on YouTube will fuel the fire, engaging others.
"Some people who were going to drink and drive anyways had their lives saved. We should be encouraging them to drink and drive, and do it in a Tesla!"
I know it does encoding/decoding for video at least; I don't know how its music features compare.
Yet, AMD looks way better considering all vulnerabilities reported so far. Why downplay this fact?
The planets on the large size of the gap are not gas giants, so that cannot explain it.
May I suggest using NewPipe[1] for a Google-account-free experience to follow channels? You can import them from your current subscription list, and easily export them when you switch phone or for backup purposes.

[1]: https://newpipe.schabi.org/
I was right with the author until the last line where it was suggested that I just need to live with sharepoint. :(
I’m in the US. My seven month old daughter was born with Spina Bifida. It didn’t show on the ultrasound, and it was a total shock to us. I can’t be sure but it seemed to correlate to a flu my wife had during the period that spina bifida “develops” (rather the spinal cord fails to develop fully).

The worst complication has to do with Chiari malformation, which affects her unconscious breathing. She gets upset or angry, and freezes up, turns purple, passes out, then requires CPR to be resuscitated. Most spina bifida babies do not have this complication.

We were told children with this condition die.

My wife obsessively reviewed the same papers the doctors had, and some others. She carefully googled every term she didn’t know. She discovered children prescribed clonidine had a MUCH improved prognosis. At her insistence and after some initial pushback and a very detailed email to the doctors, it was prescribed and my daughters condition improved substantially. She hasn’t had a single breath holding spell that’s required resuscitation since. It’s made us wary of the doctors recommendations. We feel like we have to be the experts, because if we’d blindly followed the doctors our daughter would likely be gone.

She’s so good natured and friendly, and she’s happy. She’s happy to be here and we’re happy to have her. If we knew there was no hope, or that she’d be permanently mentally disabled, I can’t honestly say that we’d have fought this hard for her.

It’s also taught me who my real friends are, my wife’s family has been so supportive while mine has retreated almost completely. People do NOT like being around tragedy if they can help it. They’ve given us “plenty of space”. My wife’s grandmother, who we weren’t close to before, has given us amazing outpourings of support and her time, visiting our daughter in the hospital almost every day. In the months leading up to our daughters birth grandma had seemed to be deteriorating due to dementia, but she has a new lease on life. I can’t say why this has happened, but it feels like a miracle.

One of the best things that happened to me during all this was a gray beard software engineer overheard me talking about my daughter. He took me aside and told me he had spina bifida, and we talked at length about it, and it was one of the nicest things anyone has ever done for me. It made me have hope when before I had none. I never would have known he had it. He’s lived a long and fulfilling life, a life I want my daughter to have.
Overstock.com CEO hits back at shareholders over personal stock sale
every FPS is a wolfenstein clone
You know what else doesn't have ads, privacy terrors, and algorithms?

Vinyl.

But really, I think the pleasure of vinyl is the pleasure of being fully engaged in the act of listening. The privacy is the privacy of your own experience.
When Holt-Winters Is Better Than Machine Learning
I wouldn’t hesitate to fly on the MAX after the fix
Would it make sense/work to do something like this ?

(a x b )(c x d) => ???

o o o o
\ / \ /
o - o => o
/ \ / \
o o o o

Would the circle in the middle of the cross be a tensor of order 4 then?

Edit: It's been a while since I did that but wouldn't that be the following in sum notation?

eps_ijk a_j b_k eps_ilm c_l d_m = (new tensor)_jklm a_j b_k c_l d_m
I used to be a serious CD holdout, but then a few things happened that changed things for me.

Storage

Look, I'm in my late 40s. I've been buying music on CD since I was about 17. I have LOTS. It's not really sustainable, so when iTunes went DRM-free, I started buying the odd thing there.

I live in a place with a proper record store, so I still buy things there, too, but mostly stuff I know I really want the best experience out of. Random music that I kinda know I'll tire of and probably never revisit, though? Definitely iTunes.

Fucking Sync.

I'm in the Apple ecosystem, because this works best for me and my family, but one thing they never really sorted before Apple Music was whole-family-uses-same-library. It was awkward and vexing, especially to the non-technical members of the household, and so (e.g.) my wife ended up just not really having music with her on her phone.

That's annoying. Plus, even for someone like me, it was annoying that if I bought a CD (or a vinyl record with a download code), getting that music on my phone was a hassle.

So when Apple Music happened, I eventually signed up, and holy cow I haven't really looked back.

What's great about it for my wife is that she never has to bother plugging her phone into a computer to get music at all. She can just add stuff on the fly, from Apple Music. Maybe it's stuff we own already, but that wasn't on the phone yet. Maybe it's new stuff she wants. Doesn't matter; still easy.

We still buy records and CDs from our local shop, too -- mostly the same algorithm, between "I want this forever" and "this is probably transient" -- but overall we're both listening to MORE music than we did before. I mean, think about it: I'm paying Apple basically the cost of a CD per month for our family account, but the world is literally our oyster. MANY times since I signed up I've found myself reading a review of some album somewhere, and wanted to hear it. Before, I'd have to make a note to go find it online somewhere, or find a Youtube clip, or whatever. Now I can just have it, almost immediately, on my preferred device and through good headphones. It's pretty great.

Now, I'm really only willing to do this because the vendor is Apple, and I trust them with my listening habit data. I wouldn't trust an ad-driven provider AT ALL, which is why I never signed up for Pandora or Spotify or whatever. But with Apple, all this is easy, and I'm not concerned about the privacy implications.

I still have a shitload of CDs and vinyl, though. It used to be that "hey, pick a record" was a fun party game, because so few folks have big record collections. Now CD has picked up some of that novelty, too, and people enjoy browsing through the CD stacks when we entertain. But that's all a special corner case. ;)
End jobs, make room for work.
I was reading a news story featuring a senior doc in the UK who was castigating about lots of things. One of them was keyhole surgery which he claimed was often undertaken for reasons of vanity by surgeons, when a conventional approach would be more reliable.
Might not apply in this case of course.
I bet he/she's talking about Houten:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFEfr7Amn6U
Anyone who can write code can learn C, and be proficient enough to fix their bug in a few hours - or at least proficient enough to ask the right questions. The biggest barrier is unwillingness to try.

I've seen this played out a dozen times. My projects are often many people's first exposure to C, ever.
I have to disagree that they work fine with graphics, especially in low light conditions. It's downright terrible in my opinion. I have a kindle version of Calculus: Better Explained, and it's unreadable on my Paperwhite. I have to resort to the kindle app on a tablet or PC.
He explicitly says if you don't share hardware with code you don't trust it's fine to disable it. Javascript is not code one trusts...
What actively-developed WebKit browsers still exist for Windows?

FWIW, the assumption that safari and some random WebKit browser will behave the same seems unsafe to me. The release version of safari will probably be on a newer/older WebKit edition and stuff like tracking protection might behave differently.
Notes from the FAQ:

> Minecraft Earth will be free to play.

> Minecraft Earth is coming to iOS and Android this summer on AR-capable devices. We’ll have more to share soon.
Very, very few authors make enough off of their books to live on. They write a book, make a few hundred or a few thousand off of it, the book goes out of print, they're forgotten.

At least re-release it for free after the first two or three years. Then, it serves as an advertisement for your skills or the next book you write.
People seem to have a serious lack of understanding when making requests of others.

- When you send an E-mail, at least imagine that the recipient may have literally hundreds of other messages to dredge through and the time required to respond (and detail of response) may reflect that. Not personal, don’t get mad at them.

- When you send an “instant message”, it may be instant for you but for all you know the recipient is deep in the middle of something and won’t respond for awhile. Not personal, don’t get mad at them.

- The recipient may be on the other side of the planet. Err on the side of extra information so you don’t wait days for a response that just has to ask you for more.

- When you file a bug, “thank you but do some homework”. A person dealing with 1000 other things will not have time to hand-hold you through all the things you’re not telling them yet. Be precise and complete. Be reasonable about when/if to expect a fix.

- And for that matter, in retail, or traffic, or 100 other things in life, you don’t know as much as you think you do about what other people are dealing with. Stop for a second. Imagine their situation. That person not instantly serving you and only you has a dozen other things going on.
We are about to eradicate mosquitos.
Like the Marshrutka in ex-Soviet countries, or the Dolmus in Turkey? I found them to be very convenient and also very cheap. Not sure they would be happy to fit a pram in, though.
The Curious Case of Nvarchar and Varchar in Entity Framework
There's definitely something intentional about picking a record and dropping the needle. We enjoy that.

You can get lots of the same experience with CD, too, though.
You’re telling me that this is not negligence, but at the same time this was probably a known problem they did nothing to fix? I don’t think those two statements are compatible.

My whole point is that the comparison should not be absurd. Giant companies get all the advantages of being treated as a single legal entity but with none of the downsides. They’re giant machines for laundering responsibility. What’s absurd is that you can falsely imprison people and get away with it clean because “everyone is just doing their job.”
the model s with the performance characteristics you mention starts around $90k (or $110 with ludicrous mode option). at this level you can start getting into 911s, BMW m4/m5, or the highest trim American muscle cars. these cars have comparable acceleration figures to the performance model s and the sports cars will thrash it in any situation that doesn't involve 0-60 in a straight line.

edit: I reread your post and realized you are talking about midsize sedans and larger. Mercedes amg e63 is a better counterexample. most of the cars I mentioned don't have 700hp either, but you don't need it when you start with a 500-1000 lb weight advantage.
TL;DR;

FOSS Zeolots: everyone should use FOSS! Micro$oft is evil!

Also FOSS Zeolots: Oh you have a bug? Screw you. You're getting it for free. Stop complaining. I'm busy making a new icon.

OSS is great. But until this attitude is killed, it will continue to hover just above "who gives a shit" for anything other than developers
Then please explain impolitely where you think I'm wrong.

To clarify: “great” is no absolute, an NPP that generates electricity is obviously better than one that explodes. It also depends on the size of the explosion. A Hiroshima-class explosion would be acceptable, the one of a tsar bomb might not be. Also an NPP that fails like that would still kill its operators and perhaps some unlucky farmers. But compared to the actual worst case, that's negligible.
What about registered (buffered) ECC modules?
I was wondering who would’ve already mentioned him, I wasn’t expecting it to be someone else who also used to go to the Carlton. Tech’s a small world sometimes.
Now how much this 25% is in terms of CO2 emissions?
>Warning labels are not an effective way of communicating to people what the limits on a product are. Especially so when the company's CEO heavily implies that those warning labels are exclusively there for regulatory reasons.

emphasis added
Thanks very much for the great feedback! I really appreciate it. This will certainly help me write better articles in the future. ;)
It's amazing to me that people still think iTunes music has DRM.
Banning cars from downtown areas would be a net safety improvement for everyone.
This is way more than a thought experiment. Stable, mature software runs the world.

E.g. the CIP project aims to maintain released kernels for 25 years. https://www.cip-project.org/
With 5 kids myself, this is indeed true. Delegation is important and also a "zone defense" became really important. "man to man" was out of the question.

But if you are already making 2 school lunches, how much longer is 5 really? You are already making breakfast lunch and dinner each day, how hard is it to add more food really. There is cost involved but making the meal isn't that much harder, at least for us.
<philistine-mode>

Some years ago, when Jeff Koons was mixed up in a copyright issue--he made, or directed the making--of a sculpture that looked a lot like a photo--the NY Times ran an obituary of the inventor of the "jackalope", a stuffed jackrabbit with antlers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackalope). One saw them at roadside establishments out west, and perhaps still does. It occurred to me that if Mr. Herrick had chanced to grow up nearer New York City, he might have been a rich artist rather than a moderately prosperous entrepreneur.

</philistine-mode>
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19933274
Part of me is like "this is dope!" and another part of me is like "are we so lazy/poor due to income inequality that actually learning how to build things is out of the picture now?"
I hope it all works out great for your little one.
Nothing they write is actionable, so I'm not sure how changing the language would affect anything. Imho it amounts to little else besides fear mongering, if there isn't actionable advice.
The reaction of CO2 with olivine is mildly exothermic.
Yes, of course you can because the distinction is arbitrary. What people decide to think of as outcome vs opportunity tends to reflect the distinction that benefits them the most.

Even the definition of merit and earned achievement is largely arbitrary. I'm successful because of the way I was created and raised. It's not a personal accomplishment.

Hard work should be rewarded because it's a basically useful for society to do so, not because it's some kind of absolute moral imperative.

To the extent that this proposal ceases to award hard work, from a societal perspective, it's gone too far. However it doesn't come close to doing that.

Looking at the metrics they're using, the only likely widescale impact on behavior is that people are less likely to move to rich neighborhoods with high scoring schools. I don't see this as a problem.
You don't even need to ask people to change their passwords; when they login, you have a copy of the original password, so you can just store the new hash over the old.
And HN :(
Just implement dong detection.

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-06-01-lego-mmo-devel...
"Unfortunately my son didn't pay his Verizon bill on time, so they cut him off and since his car couldn't get updates it rammed him into a fire truck".
An implementation of the TXR text matching language as a Java library
Is 100 lives that bad? This [1] source says 250,000 workers were estimated to be working on it in 2003 so we could estimate 5 million worker-years for construction. That's an annual death-rate of 0.002%. By comparison this [2] source says the average death rate for 30-34 year old males in the US is about 0.2%, or 100x more likely.

1. http://edition.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/asiapcf/east/06/13/china.t...
2. https://www.statista.com/statistics/241572/death-rate-by-age...
Can anyone comment on how well developed the CUDA support is on Julia? Compared to Python? I'm using Python/Numba for my scripts.
It reminds me of a certain book by Franz Kafka.
Can someone explain this recurring pattern of elaborate art images produced for rinky-dink articles? Is that just to try to keep eyes on the page or something?
Yeah, just noticed. Posted this (even earlier) on Reddit ML it didn't get as much interest
What’s the evidence linking the two?
What about Coke Zero?
What about the imperial units? Are those defined against metric as well?
"I've got all my music ripped to FLAC"

And that's why I won't do it, because there's no way I can rip all my cds, let alone my vinyls... it takes way too much time.
I rip my CDs, store them on my NAS and then burn them back on a CD for playing in my car. The original stays in a closet in case my NAS ever dies and the burnt copy in my car lives as long as it lives, given the hot Florida sun.
The Business Case for Digital Accessibility
Well put. Yes, the government has been weaponized against us. It's only a matter of time until it tips toward a less soft-gloved approach once they realize their control mechanisms can't deter us.

I was on another discussion board last night where the Las Vegas shooting was being discussed and how little transparency there was regarding Paddock's true motives and what really went on there. An important item of note was how unreliable and downright dangerous the FBI has become: In 2015, in Garland, TX, an FBI "handler" influenced two men to go shoot up a "Draw Mohammed" cartoon contest. We know this because the agent was caught fleeing the scene just after the security at the event made short work of the would-be terrorists. The instructions given? "Tear up Texas." An FBI agent actually did this. And here we see the current state of affairs between we the people and our government.
As much as I want to appreciate this story, it's lines like this that reflect poorly on it's authenticity:

> In a video posted online touting MonsterCloud’s services, Pinhasi wears a dark suit and tie and rimless glasses. At lunch, the 43-year-old sported a white long-sleeve T-shirt emblazoned with the logo of teen retailer Abercrombie & Fitch.
> NIH software that they push onto most Linux distributions

This is likely off topic, but can you expand on that if you have a moment? Thanks.
I drove this morning, a new car with adaptive cruise control. Having never experienced this tech before, it was pretty amazing. It makes the cruise control in my own vehicles seem crude and dangerous by comparison. I venture to guess, if standard cruise control was introduced today, it would be rejected by the public as too dangerous. Is there any data on how many accidents occur with standard (non adaptive) cruise activated?
I have no reason to believe that it's minimally different, and I'm curious what reason you do, aside from it's comforting.

When 10 people own as much as half of the population of the country, there's something there. Calling it not "a vast pool of money" might be semantics, because there's definitely something there.
Curious what your source for "make the cut" is. I have my own interpretation, but would like to see the original.