skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would beg to differ. The FRP aspect of a spreadsheet is not the aspect that is widely used. It is actually a pretty uncomfortable one for even many programmers, though for really simple cases it is possible to get used to it. Actually, for example imagine how powerful the extent of the FRP in something like Google sheets is, IF it was such a shining beacon of easy learning curve I would bet that it would be a really popular programming tool for at least organizational automation software, which it is not.
>Next we shall take a moment to remember the fallen heros, without whom we would not be where we are today. I am, of course, referring to the RNNs - Recurrent Neural Networks, a concept that became almost synonymous with NLP in the deep learning field.

XLNet (https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.08237) is in essence a recurrent neural network, using a transformer (which is based on neural networks) which recurrently keeps context between different batches. But the gated RNN's, such as AWD-LSTM/GRU, are fading out to the superior transformer architectures, this is true.

That's my only complain though, excellent theoretical introduction.

Although, if anyone wanted to actually implement a transformer, be ware that you want to have a 8+ GB GPU unit available, or be prepared to use cloud computing (Google Colab is free, for now). Training neural networks is quite hardware dependent still.
As a counterpoint, I've lived in the U.K. most of my life and very rarely get spam calls (maybe ~5 a year). When I do it's almost always people trying to sell stuff / services to my startup.
Anecdotally a friend who travelled a lot in India told me that most Rickshaw drivers are take heroin.

It wouldn't really surprise me as it looks like a damn tough life that they have.
I wholeheartedly agree with you. I'm not using another email client because I don't want a dumbed down version. I simply want a less buggy and faster feeling Thunderbird. Just some polish here and there.
When I started reading HN, around 2013, all I can remember is the endless stream of ruby/rails posts. A good rule of thumb, is probably to invest in language that are still growing at HN+5years. Of course, you can always look into it a bit earlier, one of the point of HN is (early) discoverability. (If only I had mined some bitcoins..)
is this a good thing or a bad thing? like is it "The API looked pretty normal and understandable to me..." or is it like "The API does not seem to have anything special at all, why does this exist"?
Sure, have less essay test questions, and start grading them for content not form.

If you want to grade on form to test the ability to write correct rather than coherent sentences, make those separate questions, and mark them so.
It's been replaced by Open Shell which works well: https://github.com/Open-Shell/Open-Shell-Menu
Hey HN, author here.

Previously, I wrote a tutorial called Scaling React Native Apps for Tablets [0] more than a year ago & it got a lot of attention thanks to the user-friendly title which resulted in a lot of organic traffic from Google.

In that tutorial, I used another library called https://github.com/nirsky/react-native-size-matters at that time. It works great.

However, another library called https://github.com/marudy/react-native-responsive-screen came on the horizon at some later time. It is also easy to use. I thought about writing a tutorial on it for a long time & it's finally here.

When I submitted the earlier article, someone on Reddit said that a Tablet should fit in more content than a Phone which I completely did wrong in my previous tutorial because I never used a Tablet before. In this tutorial, I think I've rectified my mistake if you can see from the screenshot.

If you've ever wondered how to do responsive design in React Native, then be sure to check it out. Let me know if you have any questions :)

[0]: https://medium.com/react-native-training/scaling-react-nativ...
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For the +\- problem, do some simple corner detection (2*2 squares where three pixels are black may be too simple, but you may not have to go much further)

It also may help to render the formula in different fonts, and require all renderings to pass your heuristics.
Building more homes is a “necessary but not sufficient” condition. @buss is also campaigning for more funding for affordable housing, but all the funding in the world is not worth squat if it’s not legal to build the homes.
I believe it (should be) my right to have my neighbor Joe do a shoddy repair/replacement with genuine parts on a mass-market device, in exchange for parts cost and a piece of pie.
> It doesn't matter if the battery is original or not

but in your previous post "third party batteries ... literally missing a sensor".

>The point is that the phone can't verify the health of the battery if it's not the first time the battery has been connected to something

because its not crypto paired with Gas Gauge, yet somehow every laptop one the planet has zero problem reading cycle count on multiple batteries despite battery swaps.

Do you have a family member working at Apple by any chance? :)
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I'm not the person you replied to, but I suppose they mean competitors like Samsung, Motorola, Huawei and so on. It depends on whether you see a competitor as someone owning an app store or someone selling a physical device.

I'm not sure "home markets" are really relevant for global entities like multinational companies.
There is probably an even bigger one:

If you take money, you are (in some countries) legally bound to reimburse if shit happens.

And this is something I'd like to see for products that make their money less directly: If it would be legally the same if you paid with personal data, by watching ads or paid with money like any other product Facebook and the likes would be forced to quality management AND stuff like random blocking wouldn't be possible bcs of customer rights.
research needs to be done on bias correction. it will then be better than human where you cannot correct the bias
Could it be that it's because the calls would need to come from outside the country(probably outside the EU) and there is disproportionately more English speaking people outside Germany?

It's a problem similar to why there are more viruses for Windows, well, it's why there's more Windows machines in the world.
> Russia is a democracy. The US was a democracy when it genocided the native Americans. askmike is right. Democracy alone won't help Hong Kong. China will not stop. Pacifist Hong Kong will be crushed, regardless the form of government.

I am not claiming that democracy will save Hong Kong from China. What I am saying is that democracy is better than no democracy, and no amount of doublespeak or whatabbautism is going to change that reality. "Eat this poison, it's good for you", it's what the Chinese autocrats are saying. Well, people might indeed have to eat it, but they don't have to believe that it is good for them.

> You've never heard of James Dresnok. Why?

Yes I did, and I'm sure you can probably find a similar case that is actually related to my example. The simple point is that, when you have a wall between a democracy (not a "democracy", like contemporary Russia) and an autocratic regime, the ratio of people making the jump in the direction of the dictatorship against people making the jump in the direction of the democracy is < .00001. It is probably not zero because of people with psychiatric issues, people who are in love with someone on the other side, who left family there... But it is pretty damn close to zero, and this is something you have to explain if you want to insist that democracy or no democracy is the same for people.
The world is full of nutcases, and a lot seem to be from US (think flat earth etc.). I find it highly offensive that you use one crazy wackjob to disprove how people were treated in eastern Europe.
Looks cool but wouldn't it be cheaper and easier to just outlaw robocalling like the rest of the world has?
> Turns out the instructions said the essay would be scored on verbal efficiency; getting the point across clearly with the fewest words. I started playing around and realized that the more words I added, the higher the score, whether they were relevant or grammatical or not.

Frankly, this does not change anything from my experience in school decades ago. The teachers always said that the length does not matter and we should not pad the papers. However students who wrote more pages got better scores every single time.
Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11233769
I started my first programming job using Perl in 2003.

There was talk about Perl 6 being ready soon. It sounded really cool like many people I was quite excited about it.

Sadly the screwing around and refusing to give a real release date really messed things up ("It will be ready by Christmas, we just aren't saying which year"). I moved on to Python - which has been a good move career wise, but its a shame as I enjoyed using Perl and Perl 6 does have a lot of interesting ideas.

Like you say, I have no idea about the release status either.
There are two types of languages, those people complain about and those nobody uses, rust is closer to the later at this point in time. Outside a few filter bubbles like HN rust is virtually unknown or little thought about.

I think the biggest issues are reliance on cargo (the systems language that ignores your system libraries) and lack of a stable ABI, this is why it will never replace C. Many people find the borrow checker aggravating. Even rust fans seem to find the compile times far too long. As with all languages some will find it too high level and others too low level, should it throw exceptions or should it use error codes, etc.

And let's not forget the rust fans brigading any disagreement.

edit - do you mean in general or for this specific issue on the LKML, my reply assumed in general.
Link: https://lexfridman.com/jeremy-howard/ to the podcast episode that I guess you're referring to. Thanks for mentioning it, will check it out.
> But Fiat doubled headcount ... BTW other auto companies are expanding except GM

GM's business is shrinking while most automakers have expanded in the last five years. It makes perfect sense that GM would contract their employee count as sales decline backwards by nearly two decades.

GM sales 2014: $155b | 2018: $147b

Their sales in 2005 were $193b by comparison. Automotive sales were $158b that same year.

Fiat sales 2014: €96b | 2018: €110b

Volkswagen sales 2014: €202b | 2018: €235b

Toyota sales 2015: ¥27.2t | ¥30.2t

Ford sales 2014: $144b | 2018: $160b

Honda sales 2015: ¥13.3t | 2019: ¥15.9t
Please do not forget MIT's Corbató, without who nothing would have happened.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_J._Corbat%C3%B3
Even if a liberal democracy was guilty of the same atrocities as totalitarian, the liberal democracy is still the superior system because. Freedom of press means people can learn about the problems. Democracy means there is some hope of fixing the problem.

Next time you see a post about some terrible thing in a liberal democracy on Weibo, try posting “Well that’s bad, but China has concentration camps for Muslims so therefore the Communist Party’s slogan ‘Serve the People’ is a farce.” I think your post turning grey will be the least of your worries.
It seems this service would allow calls from anonymous numbers to be identified by the receiver. Just routing unknown numbers to voice mail will lose you those calls. For example, my doctor's office always calls from "unknown number".
There is value in the ability to produce correct English 'off the cuff'. You could argue essays are the best way to get students to produce off the cuff written text. Hence, it makes some sense to ask students for essays, and then judge those essays only for form.

However, it is rather important that students know their essays are not judged as essays, but only judged on the content. Otherwise you teach students that form trumps content in essays.

When judging an essay as an essay correct English barely matters. What matters is how convincing you are, and how interesting of a read the essay is. This is a great skill to have, and testing it also makes sense. Really though, we should separate these two forms of testing.
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In Spain is also solved. You register in a free and public service called "Lista Robinson" (Robinson List) and from that time you won't receive commercial phone calls.
Not in some countries, because they have actual enforcement of the law.
That’s true; I had them long, long after too.

All I really mean by the comment is that I ask the possibility be considered to be real.
I live in Germany and got multiple spam calls in a relatively small time frame (days) from spoofed numbers. I am pretty sure this is not allowed and might be fined too if caught. But i also know for sure there is not much telcos do against this if you are already in a position to route calls, probably for technical reasons. That said this was the only occasion i got those calls that i can sharply remember and it happened some years ago already.
Thank you for making a level argument.

I think freedom of speech and press helps to bring abuses to daylight and rule of law is essential in reining them in.

I believe both are more robust (but, not nearly perfect) in western democracies, and are included in this desire for reform.
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>I agree that would be nice, it's just not possible in a free market. Is there any country where everyone lives comfortably working full time at any job?

Yes. In my country (NL) the minimum wage, combined with a progressive tax system makes that everyone can live off one job, have health care for their family and education for their kids.

It's not luxery on minimum wage, but it works.
But you can foresee a mobility scooter that was designed to go 1-20mph comfortably? They take up so much space and weigh so much you could probably make them street legal electric motorbikes.
I can't believe either, it's completely ridiculous. They're basically claiming that they've developed a general AI. It's like some part of population is living in different fantasy worlds and makes policy decisions accordingly.
Have you ever worked at a big 5 US tech company?
i solved the problem in time and got 0 points. not trying again i guess?
> If there is a precursor to an American-style opioid epidemic in India, it is tramadol, a painkiller that became available here in the early 1990s. Drugmakers — often citing studies they had funded — touted tramadol as less addictive than other painkillers.

> “Tramadol information would come to every single clinician,” said Dr. Bobby John, a Delhi-based health expert. “Why? Because there is some drug salesperson sitting outside your door saying, ‘Hey, there’s a new drug. It’s non-addictive.’ Standard playbook.”

It's really important that people have easy access to opioids at the end of their life.

Tramadol is a terrible medication and is almost always the wrong choice of med.

https://emcrit.org/toxhound/tramadont/
People tried. The regulators catch up and fine away all the profits and force the owner to revert the property back to what the law allows.
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/SF-sues-landlord-over...
https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/planning-commission-supervis...

I get the impression that a lot of the innovation that tech companies have been able to create were because the regulators didn’t know what they were doing. No such luck in real estate.
Do you mean auto rickshaw, bicycle rickshaw, or hand rickshaw?
I used to be addicted to heroin and honestly, the drug is amazing. The mental and physical clarity it gives you is downright unbelievable. For me the problem was never heroin itself (I worked harder on it, I was less anxious and happier) but the cost and the risk of it’s illegality. If heroin was the same price per pound as other agricultural products like beans or flour, I don’t think I would ever quit. For me the problem lay entirely in the cost and the difficulty of procurement if I traveled or something. I think people would be surprised by the positive effects of heroin legalization on lifestyles and outcomes of addicted people.

I’m not saying addiction is good or whatever, but opiates taken properly are safer than Tylenol and without money being an issue I think would help a lot of people. People on heroin look kind of shitty not because the drug is hurting them, but because the cost is hurting them.
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Are there circles in nature?
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That's the main reason I still use built-in navigation rather than from my phone.
I am working with reducing the time teachers spend on exams and assessments. I have access to a cleaned and manually scored dataset of 550k essays that is exponentially growing. Looked at creating at a model based on this dataset to automatically score essays with NLP parameters such as grammar, structure, spelling, word complexity, sentiment, relative text length etc.

The problem that I encountered was actually how to apply it in a useful way, since the problems mentioned in the article are quite obvious when you design the model.

Options that I saw:

1. Use it as autonomous grading with optional review by the teacher, see the linked article for the problems with this.

2. Use it as a sanity check on the teachers manual scoring, but it would not reduce the work load and probably just undermine the teacher.

Do you have any suggestions for how such a model could be applied in a practical and ethical way?

Had some thoughts on how to measure actual knowledge about a subject, but that would require a massive knowledge graph which would introduce a huge amount of complexity just to see if it would be a feasible approach.
It doesn't address the core of the article at all, which asks:

> Democracy is hard work. There is always going to be the need to fight corruption and fight for fairness. But how do we even do that if we don’t have a seat at the table? Don’t sell yourself short handing over your privileges and responsibilities to the state. Shouldn’t you be able to voice your opinion when it really matters? Shouldn’t you have a seat at the table?

Saying that it's not always perfect in practice, so it makes no difference if you don't even have it in principle is usually a double standard, because nobody who says that would consider removal of their post or person a valid rebuttal of their argument, which is the democracy vs. totalitarianism dichotomy in a nutshell.

That's an actual double standard. On the other hand, it's rather convenient and arbitrary to claim that people who think totalitarianism is bad and support people who want to be free, think "their shit doesn't stink". It's just an accusation so broad, and against no particular person, that it just lingers there, it doesn't get proven, and cannot be refuted.
Or maybe this is the other way around. If we have mixed feelings about doing this to organoids, why is it okay to do it to mice and chimps?
There's really no evidence that C++ has a higher performance ceiling. From a broad view, both are compiled with no runtime. More specifically, Rust and C/C++ trade the lead constantly in the language benchmarks game. In some cases, Rust can be faster because it makes stack allocating easier. In others, C++ can be faster because of specialization (which Rust doesn't have yet).
I remember an Iris scanner demo from 20 years ago that worked because of the characteristic flutter / vibration of the iris as much as the pattern of the iris itself. As I remember it it didn't work well with high pigment eyes (it worked brilliantly with blue eyes, less well with everyone else).
1. Web assembly has (better) access to the DOM, making it easier to integrate with other web content.

2. With WASM, browser makers are in control of the engine, so they can’t complain/can only complain internally if said engine is slow, buggy, or insecure.
A possibility would be that you might want to make multiple changes in light level at random intervals to make it harder for e.g, a video being presented to the camera that matches the input it would expect.
Except the algorithm being gamed can change suddenly, drastically and without the gamer's knowledge.

When such changes occur, the gamer will be docked until they can reverse-engineer the new algorithm. There's also the risk that all their previous inputs "gaming" the system might be reconsumed to terrible results as well, effectively rewriting their historical performance disasterously.

As always, those with the social standing and power to have insider knowledge or guidance will be in the best position to profit off such systems.
This sounds awful but i would say somewhat believable because many middle class people do coke regularly and apart from usually, picking a few kilos, they still look OK and keep their careers, families and the stuff. For sure it's not nearly as bad as if they were drinking. My ex is a writer and she was mostly writing on coke, she's as far from being a lost in life drug-addicted person as it gets, honestly i'm a lot closer to there with my alcohol abuse.
How hard was it for you to quit? Did you go to rehab?
Good to see this comment. As a European citizen I never understood what this whole robocalling thing was about.

In the Netherlands, there is the 'bel me niet' (don't call me) register. If you have your number put on the list, marketeers are not allowed to call you. If they do, they risk a hefty fine.
>Doesn’t everyone have values they hope to live UP to?

If they don't actively "live UP" to them, and in fact live against them, but have the hypocrisy/arrogance/rudeness to call out people merely for also living against them, then their behavior should be condemned.

What's odd about that?
The addictive and tolerance building effects of opiates are pretty bad. Heroin may make you feel better, but the withdrawal effects are horrific. Heroin legalization would help people get off the addiction. But it should not be done to encourage people take more opiates.
IF it is disabled by default and getting rid of it is not an enterprise feature... sure.
Even though you probably just picked some language design aspects as random examples...

Rust doesn't have recoverable exceptions. It has fancy error codes. It is also quite low level in the same spirit as C++: only pay for what you use, and what you use should not be possible to write more efficiently by hand.
>Imagine a world where you receive a phone call and know exactly who it’s coming from and what they’re calling about before you press the answer button. Crazy, right?

Now realize that it's not you who knows it, but rather a company that is tracking all your phonecalls and decides for you whether you should answer or not.

>Through the programmability of the Twilio platform, businesses will also be able to assign a purpose for each call to give further context.

So a malicious actor can assign a legitimate purpose to his phone call ? No thanks