skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You presupposes that a spoken form is primary and a written form is derivative

Not sure how much linguistic knowledge you're putting behind the claim that written forms influence pronunciation, but as far as I gathered from my feeble noob learnings, spoken language utterly dominated word development even with widespread print—contrary to folk etymological intuition. This might be changing only recently, with written communication becoming much more prevalent and especially with English-language web going ubiquitously global. E.g. computer terms may be borrowed into other languages through print first.

You'll notice, however, that even with the web and text messaging around, people keep making mistakes that depend on them grokking language by hearing and speaking instead of writing and reading—e.g. “their/they're/there,” which is baffling for second-language-speakers who had to memorize each word and drill them by reading.
For example:

https://www.cnet.com/news/meet-impossible-foods-lab-grown-ve...

http://www.makery.info/en/2018/05/07/jai-teste-limpossible-b...

I expect with actual lab-grown meat substitutes starting to get attention, people are more precise to distinguish between the substitutes today.
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> pre-wrap: word

they would only need to add this to the CSS, yes? then you get the same four-spaces code block, but it doesn't cause horizontal scrollbars any more.

HN admins, could you please add this?
I’m not questioning Reuters’ journalistic integrity. Even if they do everything right we can’t be sure if the story is true. Their reputable sources are ex-CIA, so they are out of the loop. Any active CIA persons with knowledge of operations in the Middle East are not going to be talking to journalists. Everyone involved in intelligence collection has signed NDAs and can go to jail if they reveal classified information, even after they retire. How many people are willing to risk jail for revealing an intelligence gap? What are the chances that these sources are just guessing or lying instead?

The people talking to journalists after they leave the CIA are looking to profit somehow, or they are disloyal or incompetent (or some combination of the above). They may also be good patriots spreading disinformation on behalf of the CIA.

None of the above scenarios are Reuters’ fault for publishing a story with multiple sources that were willing to go on the record. But that doesn’t mean we should doubt the truth of the sources. Why is this story being published? Who stands to benefit?
But Europe doesn't represent most of the world's population or land area.
I think a good model for technical people is working as a "fractional CTO". I could personally use someone right now who can write code and talk to clients, but would only need them 10-20 hrs/wk (at a market-rate salary). Hard to find that person at the moment.
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After taking premium tier, HomePod to expand in markets Amazon and Google can't
Do you have recommendations for data warehousing? Our data does have a fixed structure at the moment.
You seem to be in the know. What on earth is in a Jack In The Box taco?
In the USA 20% is a span large enough to cover everyone from those who have roof over their heads and get by, to those who never know if today will be the day they get to eat something.
Their bias is patently obvious if you visit their page on abortion:

https://www.justfacts.com/abortion.asp

The entire article is dedicated to repeating typical pro-life talking points. For example, a timeline of when the fetus' heart starts beating, "debunking" cherry-picked statements from Planned Parenthood, and testimonials from people born prematurely.
I am as health and environmentally conscious now as I ever was, only aware that vegetarian & vegan diets in America are atrociously unhealthy. Offering cheap, low quality, fake food is not a technological advancement.

And I am not sure meat consumption is the problem.

Factory farming and industrialized agriculture are the big issues: the greed of the majority of the food supply causes death, destruction, and misery on beings regardless if you are eating kale or cow.

Eat pasture-raised & local if you care about the environment and your own health...
This comment breaks the site guidelines. Can you please review them and use HN as intended?

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

Edit: we've had to ask you multiple times not to do political flamewar on HN. Please don't use this site for political battle, even if other commenters are wrong or annoying. It destroys the intellectual curiosity that HN exists for.
The cost of a movie ticket, or movie rental, or dvd/blu ray purchase is generally fixed within a narrow band. TV series prices vary a little more, but the vast majority is still within a similar range. A compulsory license price could be set that would both fairly compensate rights holders, and also to allow businesses to profitably provide streaming to consumers.

Internet radio, and streaming music companies pay billions in royalties each year. For a variety of reasons about 75% of this does not go to artists and goes instead to record labels and other intermediaries, but this does not mean that creators are not compensated, or that they would be better off without internet radio and streaming.

Spotify becoming profitable amid a competitive industry is a great example of a successful business.
I have an 'L' key. It works well enough for my needs.
yes. and corn and soy production is also subsidized which is fed to livestock.
Healthcare can potentially be a life or death type situation.

I have trouble throwing down questions of ethics on someone who wants to be healthy and live.
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There might be a stigma associated with being close to a railway.

It's a meme in some movies - someone is staying in a run-down apartment or hotel near railway tracks and train will go by at night causing dust to shake loose from the ceiling.

Caltrain stations are subject to these kinds of noise and vibration - during the day the baby bullets bypass stations at 60 mph, and at night endlessly long freight trains barrel past.
Which books? If one of them is The Critique of Pure Reason, or War and Peace, that's going to put a crimp in your throughput.
AFAIK Flagging something should be reserved for spam, not for disagreeable content. So upvotes should really override flags.
Not sure about Divvy, but I use Keyboard Maestro for window management and I don't find it to be clunky. Not sure what would be clunky about it? It's just a shortcut that moves a window?

Regarding the keyboard-focused part, I mentioned that in the post, I don't think there's anything inherent about a tiling window manager that makes it more keyboard-centric than a stacking window manager? Unless I'm missing something? E.g., there are tons of ways to switch between apps and windows with the keyboard on macOS, from fuzzy finders[2][3], to directional ("select the window to the left")[4], to the built-in keys to cycle between apps and windows.

[1]: https://www.keyboardmaestro.com/

[2]: https://obdev.at/products/launchbar/index.html

[3]: https://manytricks.com/witch/

[4]: https://github.com/mjolnirapp/mjolnir
I have a tendency to spend some effort evaluate sources I'm unfamiliar with before I spend time reading their material in detail these days, largely to save time. As such, I glanced around the site and saw they had an article global warming and had a look.

The material looks like it's focused on facts and well-cited, but this rapidly started to feel like a "Merchants of Doubt" kind of product. Feel free to look at the Global Temperature Changes section and make your own assessment - but this feels like politics before (distorted) facts to me, and I'd expect the rest of the site to be similar.

https://www.justfacts.com/globalwarming.asp
> The official programming language of Raspberry Pi is Python.

Huh? In what way exactly?
I don't want to be negative about this article, but reading over it left me with a little bit of disappointment.

I was hoping for an in depth dive into how Swift performed on a RPi compared to other languages (say, C relative to Swift on x86, then the same for ARM), and a little on how well Swift interacts with the Pi's hardware. But it was just a quick guide on setting up a Pi, installing Swift, and making a quick 'Hello, World' program. The only lines of interest came at the very end:

> Now that Swift is installed, there’s so much more that you can do. To control hardware — like LEDs, motors, and relays — you can use the help of a library for hardware projects on Linux/ARM boards called SwiftyGPIO. Have fun experimenting with Swift on the Raspberry Pi!

That said, SwiftyGPIO looks like a fun little library that I think I'm going to look into more and play around with.
>Russian presidents don't usually try to dance awkwardly on stage

Probably not in the case of Yeltsin though, who willingly jumped from the CPSU Olympus once (which was probably the only relatively bright moment in his career) and was fairly eccentric otherwise, especially when drunk.

I was one year short of the voting age back then, but I remember it very well. What you're saying is true, but you're only describing his "Vote or Lose" campaign. My impression was that he won mostly due to the support of the elites (aka oligarchs who owned the media) faced with the possibility of a communist president, not just because he paid the media. Also the support of other candidates, in particular he convinced Chernomyrdin and Nemtsov, fairly popular back then, to abstain from running for presidency in his favor, after they declared they would run for the office.

Regarding the US consultants, I think his only foreign consultant was Tim Bell, who was British, IIRC he didn't design Yeltsin's Vote or Lose since his experience wasn't directly applicable in Russia, it was Malashenko who designed it.
Please don't: when used for code, preserving lines (even when requiring scrolling on mobile) is a good thing. 100% width is fine, no reason it needs to be as narrow as it is.

If a blockquote format is desired, that's great, but don't change the code formatting to make it a slightly-less bad (but still horrible, because of monospacing) way of presenting blockquotes.
It's not my experience. Which countries specifically are you talking about?

Countries in East Europe can have lower quality of life, mostly depends on your income.
I remember having to do this in addition to earthquake drills.
Not unless the reader assumes that money equates directly to quality of life.

America doesn't really have a reputation for wise spending habits and relaxed working habits.
I was told by someone who follows theses things more closely than me that block III GPS would have an inter satellite network that could share clock information independently of ground control. While looking into it the closest I could find was references to OCX, which is ground based controls. So maybe we're not there yet idk.
> Should they count this as "income"?

You certainly could include that in the total government benefits category (including it into income is questionable and probably unnecessary), which is regularly done for example when tabulating individual conditions & resources that segments have access to. That picture gives you a combination of income, entitlements, welfare, etc.

The US jumps off the page in this case however, as the US spends 10x or more per capita on healthcare versus Argentina.

For example it would not make sense in the unusual US system, to ignore that the bottom ~25% get free healthcare (which is an extremely expensive social transfer). You would want to consider their healthcare picture when looking at their total condition. If you don't look at the comprehensive, then you would miss that the US welfare state has vastly expanded and improved over the last 20, 30, 50 years. That is, ignoring these details is only effective if you are dealing with an entirely stagnant system (not likely).

I don't think anybody would argue that eg Russia pensions should be ignored when looking at any comprehensive view of their condition as a people. It's a fundamental part of their system, their social contract, and their well-being nationally.
Back in 2007 at Microsoft I saw an 80-core Intel prototype. Didn’t really do much of anything, and there was only 1 of them, but it’s interesting seeing some of these old research projects come to fruition
I guarantee you that people are only doing this by accident when you see it.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/lab-grown-meat/

I, too, used to confuse Memphis Meats with Impossible Food / Beyond Meat.

It's just that news of lab-grown meat and outfits like Impossible Food kinda sprung up at the same time in the news within the last 5 years and it's easy to confuse the endeavors. In fact, I see this misconception enough that I think IF/BM benefit from the confusion.
Poor programming and cryptography by the contract developers is always going to be the biggest weakness of smart contracts. This one was developed by a government entity so the quality issue is not really surprising...

> It was developed in-house by the Moscow Department of Information Technology

The developers claim [1] they were only using a weak private key during a "trial period" which doesn't really make sense. Who releases a different public/private key scheme before launching into production?

If the development team doesn't hire outside security testing or request public review - to test the real software - then it's pretty useless. Their response notes a meetup in Moscow in Sept (which is the same month as the election?) which seems like a strange requirement if they were expecting solid public feedback.

1. https://medium.com/@unassuming_teal_crab_127/dear-julia-7bac...
I was sorry to see it leave Saint Louis. Used to live across the street from the St. Louis County park that housed it for years.

But Saint Louis still has the Bowling Hall of Fame and gained the Chess Museum. Road trip anyone?
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How about a few profile fields where users can customize some aspects of the HN CSS that is used just for them when they are logged in.

You know, like how there is "topcolor" already; just a bit more of the same.
For example, if anyone is curious, check their "facts" on energy: https://www.justfacts.com/energy.asp

There's a giant section on the benefits of fracking, but the environmental impact section is limited to "generally" not being a problem. They use that word "generally" like 10 times, and they don't bother to report the facts that in many cases it has been a direct and obvious problem. That's not neutrality.
Slightly different but I'm worried about Pilgrim by FourSquare which is now being used in increasingly large apps such as SnapChat
The big deal is the fact that being told that the "flavor won't be missed" or that I won't be able to tell the difference is condescending.
Making Transformer networks simpler and more efficient
The xkcd "Standards" comic is always relevant:

https://xkcd.com/927/
> Scientists studying satellite image data from the fires in the Amazon rain forest said that most of the fires are burning on agricultural land where the forest had already been cleared.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/24/world/america...
There's some weird circular referencing within this article. One example is the claim of tax rates disincentivizing work, which references another justfacts article. Following that article, it basically gives a weak "some economists believe" statement without much rigor, and further on even negates the referenced claim with "In general, findings indicate that the labor supply of so called “primary earners” tends to be less responsive to changes in marginal tax rates"

I thought there were some relevant points on improving ways we measure poverty but consumption seems to be a less than ideal metric to me at face value because consumption can be propped up by bad debt. A consumption to debt ratio may be more appropriate.
I think I've pretty directly disagreed with:

> focus on clarity first and only optimize for performance if absolutely necessary

I think that in a lot of very important, very common use cases (take your pick: game engines, embedded programming, OS development, language runtimes, linear algebra libraries, etc. etc. etc.) this is extremely bad advice. It's... probably good advice for enterprise applications; but that's a pretty small subset of all software. I think that if you start with clarity here and do performance optimization after the fact you will build something that can't be used as intended--almost always (of course, not "alwaysly", see Python).

More broadly, I think this is a far too narrow way of looking at "clarity" vs. "performance". I have some idea of what I think clarity is, and I have some idea of what I think performance is, and they're both pretty nuanced and deep topics. I think they're two big bags of variables in an even larger bag of engineering variables, and I think Fowler does us all a huge disservice when he skips that entire discussion with what is your synopsis up top there. Maybe you're writing Python and you need a certain level of dynamic nature in order to reach your desired level of flexibility and clarity. That can be fine! The point here is that these are rich topics, and they deserve better than what I see as a pretty blithe dismissal.
Most hardware was upper-case-only until the '60s — being descended from upper-case-only accounting cards and/or teleprinters.
"generate every possible sequence of notes"

do you have any idea how many songs that would be? your computer won't be finished in this lifetime

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combinatorial_explosion
> In our experiments with Transformers, we observed that not all the attention heads utilize their attention span to the fullest. In fact, in a task of character-level language modeling, most of the heads were using only a small portion of their attention span. If we can take advantage of this property during training, we can reduce the computation time and memory footprint significantly
it actually is cheaper. its just the govt subsidizes meat and livestock feed so real meat is artificially cheaper.
Yes, the title is wrong for click bait purposes I guess.
I'm not saying you shouldn't write them off. McDonalds fries are solid, but everything else there is terrible. And fast food is in general bad, and I don't want to be coming off like I'm saying that people should eat more of it.
BigQuery and Snowflake are the two managed services I'd recommend today if you'd like good performance and cost-effective storage. They both separate compute from storage so that your cold data isn't sitting on expensive SSDs like your Postgres instances are probably using.

They're both also significantly faster than Postgres at large scans and aggregations.

Snowflake is the most interesting to me because they offer a semi-structured data type called VARIANT which efficiently encodes semi-structured data in a column-wise format while losing only a tiny bit of performance compared to a fixed schema. This could let your customers send semi-structured or variable size data (like arrays or maps with arbitrary keys) and still keep your dashboards fast.

If you'd like to chat more, I just requested to connect with you on LinkedIn.
In general I agree, because it allows gradual migration of users... but in essentially every case I've seen, removing versioned interfaces is billed as the primary feature of monorepos.
US throws away 3,500 donated kidneys every year with 93,000 on the wait list
>The only truly successful Java domain is Java backends

Java Card runs on 1+ billion devices.
When is using data on people to manipulate their behaviors _not_ inappropriate? That's straight up evil.
> black-and-white monitors

Don't know. But is it similar to DeCSS technology and the MPAA.

B&W Monitors could be argued to have multiple purposes, a side-effect is showing copyrighted images.

I'm not fully informed as to what Amazon is doing, but if their technology is being applied specifically to create digital text versions of Audio Books, then it could be argued in a similar vein as DeCSS, which was argued to be necessary to provide "backups" of physical media.

It could also be argued that Amazon is used legal maneuvering for a future showdown in which they can argue the effort to create digital text books is minuscule and thus drive the market price down

Again, IANAL.
From their website: “Out of courtesy to our neighbors, only service dogs and invited demonstration dogs are allowed in the museum”
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Sorry for my ignorance but G1GC is just perfectly tunable for all of my workloads (including low latency http request handling and high latency data crunching). What is the point of other GCs algos? Is there a specific workload that would benefit from it and it is not possible to use G1GC?
No, it's a crazy metric. We consume vastly more healthcare, for example. Is that wealth? This article is insane, and the site has an extraordinarily clear (and manifest) right-wing bias.
Poor people in the US, the demographic being discussed here, all have access to free medical care at the same clinics middle class people use. This is partly paid for by the government from taxes and partly subsidized by the non-poor users of medical services.

I grew up very poor in the US. We never paid for anything healthcare related, and still have poor relatives receiving excellent free healthcare today.
> Why do American (and presumably westerners) vegetarians want to replace meat

Vegetarians do not want to replace meat. (I mean, they are already vegetarian). Anecdotally, I haven't met a single vegetarian/vegan who is interested in Impossible or Beyond Meat substitutes. Such products are instead very helpful for those who want to reduce read meat in their diet.
On the other hand, nobody wants public housing projects being set up in their nice neighborhoods...often for good reason. The once-safe neighborhood where I grew up once had a grocery store - the lot was bought out by neighborhood housing, a low-income development was planned, locals complained, locals were called racists and NIMBYs, development was built anyway - and now there's no grocery store, no parking, shootings and burglaries are regular occurrences, and kids don't play outside.

The problem isn't solved by spreading poverty and dysfunction around rather than concentrating it - it just makes it everyone's (read: your) problem.
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Ask HN: Legality of using YouTube for training ML model
I've seen this question posed before on other forums but with answers that are flimsy at best.

I've been looking for a dataset that has great examples on YouTube in general but very few quality examples on YouTube-8M (which I recognize can be used for training commercial models). Has anyone dealt with the legality of training a model on YouTube videos?

I'm also curious if someone with more experience with this can comment on how this would be different than the legality of a "reaction" YouTube channel that makes revenue based off reactions to other work that is featured in the video. To me, it seems like if that is a legal use-case then it would be also legal to use that content to train an ML model and use it in a commercial application.
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This is the first time I've actually heard Esperanto spoken aloud ... very cool, thanks for posting.

What drove you to learn Esperanto originally?
If Amazon added an animation to the existing audiobook content - making it a video - and then added captions would that be OK?

As the GP said, there's quite a few youtube videos with a completely static background where the content is the speaker's words.
This particular site is definitely strongly right-leaning. However, the vast majority of its claims are based in objective scientific studies and reporting. It's a pretty rare bird, don't see a lot of sites with its style.