skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's great!

I don't understand the rather negative introduction in the article. Indaba seems to be about getting people up to speed with the basics of ML, NeurIPS and other ML conferences are about cutting-edge research. Both have an importance place. Why the distinction about Western vs non-Western AI?

This isn't an alternative, it's a way to bootstrap research in Africa. And that's amazing. But the narrative that there's tension between the two and that somehow African AI is "other" and won't find a place in "Western AI" when the research is world-class is totally absurd and does African researchers a massive disservice.

Yes, Africa is under-represented at international AI conferences. But that's a consequence of many things (imperialism, oppression, economics, etc.), not the somewhat-impartial double-blind review system we have.

I wish people would tell a more inclusive and positive story rather than manufacture some conflict where there is none.
The more in-depth description of ENA is not unrelated, controversial, generic, or a tangent.
Look inside your washing-machine, and you'll see there are no std-parts. To make this problem 'go away' for the industry is to charge high prices.
Was the argument about whether the behavior made people uncomfortable? Because I'm thinking that after 10, 20, 50 people told him that it did, it might sink in.
> A better anaology would be if the US implemented extreme Sharia law, how cavalier would people who don't want to live like that be?

That's a very poor analogy. Hong Kong citizens already enjoy the benefit of an independent legal system and don't have to live like mainland citizens.

> They sure as hell didn't choose to lose their rights to a fair trial and freedom of expression either.

They sure didn't. And they sure haven't lost those rights.
The critical portion of TFA for most readers. It's what popped in my mind when I clicked the link. I found it halfway down the article.

>..The Scripps researcher stressed that there was no link between this event and climate change. Satellite data since the 1990s has shown that Amery is roughly in balance with its surroundings, despite experiencing strong surface melt in summer.

"While there is much to be concerned about in Antarctica, there is no cause for alarm yet for this particular ice shelf," Prof Fricker added.
Beoplay smart speaker controller CLI written in Swift
> Animal rights groups tend to elevate my food to having similar rights as humans. I find this to be a minimum facetious at maximum a threat to my life.

It's certainly not facetious (not sure if you're looking for another word here?) and laughable that it's a threat to your life. AR activists look to people to grant non-humans rights based on their interests - the same as we do with humans, but not the same rights. And to be honest, almost every single person I've ever spoken to holds the exact same moral beliefs as any vegan, but are unwilling to consistently apply those beliefs to their actions.

>All higher life on this planet survives by eating another life form.

That's not relevant to this discussion unless you're talking to someone who thinks consuming any life is immoral. Sounds like you're arguing a straw man.
Plastics Are a Global Concern for Everyone
We as a species cause the extinction of other species at such a rate that we’re considered on par with geologic processes (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction). I’m not here to argue that this is a good thing, but instead that, hell, let’s at least turn this terrible ability towards some good. Guinea worms and a. gambiae suck. The former causes pain and suffering without any detectable benefit. The latter is probably the biggest killer of humans, and there’s plenty of other stuff its predators can eat. Screw them.
That may be how you tell yourself the story of your old reading habit, but as a fellow voracious childhood reader I would disagree completely. I think reading is a very active process of imagination, analyzing characters and plots, and forming opinions for oneself. My reading habit I picked up as a child is one of my most cherished possessions and an essential part of who I am.

As vices go, reading is surely not a bad one to get caught up in :)
Isn't it much the same thing as Trump saying something racist that he can kind of get away with?
Johnson can say it, incite some anger in people who won't vote for him anyway, get his name on the news again and appeal to his base. Many of his supporters are the kinds of people that want to "Make Britain Great Again".
There isn't a vast constituency in Britain who love the poem, but there is a vast constituency who are mildly racist and look back to the "good old days".
This shouldn't be seen as an attack on punks ...it's more like a Minor Threat.

(Damn it, I've become my father.)
I wish! All I can contribute is expressing my concerns.
Don't want to be impolite, don't want to complain. Just express my concerns.

I find it quite frustrating that open source/current company projects have no or little documentation. Even for a 12 days project it is frustrating. It is just good habit that documentation is as important as code. I like to say that if it has no documentation, it does not exist (to the user/contributor). I also think that code is a way of communicating with your future self or future developers. So clear code and clear documentation is important. Code is not important to the computer, the computer does not care about naming things.
Even as a pseudonym, it's so specific that I'm sure that a lot of people at Snap and around the area probably know who it is. I mean taking months to work remotely in Florida is something I would totally hear second hand about someone, because it sounds awesome.
I've just realised that another example of this was his momentary diversion on building a bridge between Northern Ireland and Scotland. This reeks of an attempt to divert attention from his failed garden bridge project as London Major. Googling "boris johnson bridge" is filled with articles about he former for me at least.

The thing is, it doesn't have to be completely successful for it to be worth his while doing. It probably serves multiple purposes, like changing the current news cycle.
I’d argue in those days the edges were much much bigger as well.

A good player like Stu would not have experienced that much variance against a weak field like back then
Please see how did we start paying team members according to the location in the first place and why we did it here: https://about.gitlab.com/2019/02/28/why-we-pay-local-rates/
Hope this will change the perception of the behavior of mainland china over HK. Wish them to succeed in being a democratic island.
It's very easy to write yourself out of a job, but if you have specific domain knowledge (art and creativity for the field) then you have a huge advantage. I think ML/AI are incredibly useful tools that still need the guiding hand of human creativity. I suppose it depends on how much entrepreneurs are aware of the benefit of AI (and how realistic that expectation is). You could make a career out of improving existing platforms with AI/ML but also Apple just released some powerful stuff to all App makers that can utilize a Neural Net for recommendations and learning gestures without the need for any complex coding. So, I think an AI/ML expert is like someone with really long arms able to reach fruit at the top of the tree. We can sometimes just bend the whole tree down, tie it, and call it a day. You may have to spend your whole career moving from forest to forest to find more trees to pick fruit off. Ideally, you can turn these skills into some sort of passive income stream and then you can pursue your passion projects full force.
Digital Transformation Changes the Chemical Industry
> software you could run that overlays stats about every player you encounter

Is this allowed?
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This piece of news isn't really visible, to the degree I think it should (at least in my country).

I worry that, if the Chinese government feels that their escalation isn't causing much noise on the international stage, they'll take that as an ok sign to continue...
Yes, but already now they say it's 100 Euros, so they'll just keep on saying that.
> This effect has a name, The Simpsons paradox [0]

No relation to The Simpsons; it is Simpson's paradox, after Edward Simpson (e.g., https://ftp.cs.ucla.edu/pub/stat_ser/r414.pdf).
Does technology empower us? Almost
> you can adjust the pitch and then set the motor to the desired rpm and that's it.

Normal operation of a constant-speed propeller involves setting the desired rpm via the pitch control, and then adjusting the power, via the throttle, according to your purpose (such as level cruise at a specific IAS, or climb at maximum sustainable power), with the propeller govenor maintaining the chosen rpm via pitch changes, and I do not see how electric power changes this relationship. I understand that electric power might simplify making a sort of FADEC for electric airplanes (so that there is only one power control), and that constant-speed propellers could eke out more duration from the batteries, but now you are adding the cost and complexity of a constant-speed prop. I am not sure that it would be justified in a light airplane having a cruise speed not much higher than its best climb speed.
I think we need to see this policy.

Particularly on a Q&A site, avoiding gendered pronouns altogether strikes me as the _most_ practical policy. It's what I (try my best to remember to) do on Hacker News. I don't know what pronouns the GP prefers, and I can't very well ask them right now, so if I have to refer to them, I'll either say "they" or "the GP".
what universe are you living in that you don't have to trust code written by randoms? nobody has the time to evaluate every transitive dependency. you take a small risk of getting hit by a car when you cross the road, and you take a small risk of a bad dependency when you want to create substantive software
Show HN: Dep-Check, a tool to enforce software architecture rules
Yep, there's lots of options. And then the OpenStreetMap tagging isn't really capturing exactly what stores do in all that much detail.

Hopefully OSMAnd eventually implements the Name Suggestion Index, which was built mostly for the online editor (iD). It suggests how to tag brands, so you can map quite a few POIs just by putting in the name.

https://nsi.guide/
If you know better, why didn't you write a better answer in the first place? What's there to "understand", why does it need to be long? Just list the bad things that you know are likely to happen.

Don't do it for me, do it for yourself and posterity. As it stands, your answer is only fit for preaching to the choir.
The pop song "Hit Me Baby One More Time" is in fact so named because the Swedish composer thought "hit me" was American slang for "call me".
Closeup video of the shooting:
https://streamable.com/2hei6

Longer video of the shooting:
https://streamable.com/qtyii
Uber for Babies™
> and have any degree but an Engineer one, you must pay 26%

Why the degree constraint?
If you'd like to do something similar, but for your blog (or any website really) -- I wrote an app that produces segmented videos in both Instagram Story / square aspect ratios. It's called StoryScroll => https://neal.rs/app

Here's a demo video => https://youtu.be/u1k1JZtDzuU
You misunderstood the meaning of my post. Whats funny is the idea that you could somehow "create" money out of nothing by simply printing it, then attempt to balance its value by creating incentives for people to use. The part I think is funny, is that the people that have the prerogative to lend out the recently printed money, don't have to take the same risk as the people who have borrow it to create value. The "unfair" part is the part where money is printed, and given away for "free" to "investors" who don't "deserve" it, but make the argument that without them, the system will collapse because market valuations have been distorted for so long that only prolonged distortion can stabilize it.

Its not some nefarious scheme, its just the best way that has arisen to do things thus far. It wasn't "designed" or "planned" and in order to make the system more efficient, a new method of transactions needs to be established, and many groups are working hard to come up with a cryptocurrency to solve this problem.

Regarding interest and "usury" there is no difference, because there is no definition for "unreasonable" interest. I have an irresponsible friend, that I know if I give $100 to, there's a 1% chance that I will get my money back. So than why would I give him money at a rate that would be unprofitable for me when I can do other more useful things with it? Say I have another friend who I have good reason to believe will give me back my money 99% within our agreement. Obviously the second would get a better interest rate because there is less risk and he might be more useful with the money than I could be.

How do you calculate risk? Well let 10,000 other people with money offer him better terms (driving down the interest rate) if they think my judgement is wrong, and if it turns out to be the case they make money, if not they lose money.

Its not for you to say, ALL Investors you have to get involved with the business, for one, the person receiving the money might not want to give up control, nor the investor give it, because that might not be his area of expertise. Then again, maybe it is, and you have specific investors called VC's that do get involved.

Its actually ridiculous that people in the 21st century could consider the usury argument valid and actually praise Dogmatism. The greater concern is actually about creating and maintaining a competitive marketplace of creators and investors, then about the rates they charge -which is determined by simple supply and demand.

Try limiting the rates to your definition of "Fair", see what happens. Hint: Google "the cobra effect".
Sweating Through a Gym’s Gender Barriers
If you were employed by a local company what would you expect they pay for (that includes an office!) or provide as benefits? What would be compulsory by law? (in fact what is the law in any case?) What would that cost you if you had to pay for it by yourself? What would you miss out on as an independent contractor/freelancer?

You need to have answers to these questions so that you can decide what to ask for.
Hopefully it's not just a copy of Powerpoint and Keynote with a slick brand. If they decide to do something radical, like limit the number of text words per slide to something like 10-15, then I will really be interested.
That's exactly the comment that makes me feel validated in leaving the Linux and FOSS worlds behind. Why would you post something like that?
I've done some light editing on OSM and i was surprised by how usable the default web editor is. Uploading GPX tracks and editing them on the map is pretty easy as well. Can recommend to anyone who is even slightly interested in contributing: just start and add a couple of easy points of interest like trashcans, cafes, etcetera.
It's not an island.
Not, is not a disease, is an animal.

An animal that can cause a non lethal and treatable disease in part of its life cicle, and is linked with copepods, frogs and fishes, dogs, baboons and humans.

There is a simple solution in two steps to avoid being infected with guinea worms:

1) don't drink copepods. Provide african people living in the same distribution area as this animal with a modern system of water purification; or teach them to boil the water before drink it, so they will not eat alive water fleas that carry the larvae. Simply filter the water trough a cloth before drinking would be enough to protect you from this parasite (but will not protect against other problems so boiled water technique is much more safe). If not, use chemicals to treat drinking water.

and 2) people infected by the parasite should avoid to bath in drinking water or put their wounded feet in drinking water.

Life cycle stopped and end of the problem in the same year with the magic of parasitology

Why we sould not run to extinct entire species?

We don't know where hides the next cure for cancer, the next cool matherial for engineery or the next modern generations of painkillers. Parasites had helped in the past with some of our problems and could hold the key to a treasure of solutions to our present and future problems.

Even if not, to randomly remove pieces of a machine could lead to unexpected consequences. This animal is the result of million years of evolution and when is gone, is gone forever. If we find in the future that some of those consequences are undesirable, the machine is beyond repair.
Or the police becoming privatized?
Legal Basis for Questions Asked by Officers of UK Border Control
I think when it comes to any technology, it is important to keep the Hype Cycle in mind (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hype_cycle).

Will there be long term career options in ML/AI? Maybe. Most probably for a while. Long term, probably few.

Will those skills be transferable to other technologies? Who knows.
This is an interesting idea but is it possible that in this case the reason the top story has changed is because it’s newer?
haha
> 5131 Move and arrange furniture and turn mattresses
Ada-C++ LTO?
No need to cut down red and processed meat, study says
Elon Musk casual conversation about how he gets stuff done [video]
In tabloid speak "model" has elements of "nudge nudge wink" here.
That's absolute nonsense. We don't have a population problem. We have a resource use problem where the wealthiest humans use incredibly disproportionate amounts of resources. Fewer children will not fix this problem.
Ask HN: Who should I follow on Twitter?
I've had difficulty "getting into" Twitter, but I can see other people in the industry can derive real benefits like learning, getting exposed to new ideas, keeping up to date on industry happenings, etc.

I'd like to give it another shot with a curated list of accounts to follow.

I work primarily on web apps but am open to learning about other things in the tech space.

Who would you recommend following?
Probably just volume of traffic rather than the size of the assets. Not everyone's personal site is hosted on auto-scaling could services et al. So often you'll see stuff get "hugged to death" (as it's affectionately known) just due to the site's own popularity.
> If the sum of costs of all parts to assemble a car is above 2x the price of the car, someone is getting ripped off, and we all know who that is.

Not really. The business models are way different and have different costs.

You're paying for someone to store that part, ship it in low volume to and from a parts warehouse, market to you, tie up capital in it, and gamble on the possibility that you'd want to buy it before those models go obsolete.

If you buy 500,000 units via container ship from the factory you could get them for way cheaper too.
My experience is that the internet has drastically increased my use of the library, since now they are all networked (in my region) and affiliated with combined catalogs into a mega-library.

It is easier than ever before to borrow. I see a book recommendation e.g. on HN and I can immediately find it and request it to be delivered to the closest branch.

Since it is just as easy to request several, I'll order an assortment of books on the same topic from as many libraries and they show up in roughly the same time if they are available. Perfect for "syntopical reading" as Mortimer Adler calls it.
The person who controls the world's largest information distribution channel openly admits that electing a specific candidate is a threath to its business.

Facebook can vanish this threath before it becomes a reality. If they get caught after the elections, they'll probably just get fined.
You can look at the source yourself but yes it works like every other modern programming language.
> Normally this means no copying from Google Maps or Google's satellite or street-level imagery.

Just to note for general use that the standard web-editor for OSM pulls in Bing satellite imagery. So one can use satellite imagery without having to rely on Google or risk that type of legal issue.
Stone tools are very arkeological friendly, because they don't rot and because they are not reused later (like iron tools or marble blocks). So the story of stone tools is well documented. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_tool

A few of our ancestor species used the exact same model of stone hand tool (it's like a small axe) for a million years! It was even inherited between a few species.

Something like 1.5 million years ago, someone had the brilliant idea of improving it. It was another of our ancestor species. (I think that Denisovans branched before this but IANAA.) After that there are a few (slow) step of progressing.

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You may be interested to read about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clovis_culture Some theory says that they were the first human to reach America. Other theories says that humans had already come to America but they had older stone technology and the Clovis people just brought the new stone technology that was much better. I can't find a clear report, and I'm not sure if there is a clear evidence of both theories. It's easier to track the use of the new arrow heads than track the users.
>Not sure what you read or why bother commenting when you didn't

Not sure why you felt the need to be rude, when you could omit the above phrase, and just say that the article already covers that (and also be a little humble, in case the grandparent already knew that, but doesn't believe it addresses the core issue).
The saying we always use is "If it is not in 3 places, it doesn't exist."

And another: "3 copies, at least one offsite"
I mean I can disprove the flat earth theory by walking around the world, orbiting around the earth in space, or use something that relies on that, like say GPS. Whether Green Day is punk or not is a matter of peoples opinions. We can discuss what punk meant in the 70s, what it means today, whether its still relevant, how Green Day fits into that, it's pretty much someone's opinion whether they classify them as Punk.

Apparently The Monkees were also written up in Punk, are we calling them punk now?
Create a product people want, push it to market, change it based on customer feedback.

In a way it's really kinda silly, "you don't have product intuition yet" well that's why I'm here for a job, if I had product intuition I'd build my own !$#* product. And when you can do all the stuff they ask you to be able to do on your own, why would you want to come work for them?

Just my thoughts, others have more experience here.
It can't be the only change, but diet is one of the biggest individual contributors to our C02 output. It should absolutely be part of the conversation.
Maybe I'm an old greybeard, but what is "product intuition" in the first place ?
But the judgment was not appropriate punishment for what he said. He said something you disagree with, so what? You should judge people more by their actions than any particular belief they have.
> In the video, the protester who was shot is first seen joining a black-clad mob of people who chase a riot officer and tackle him to the ground. They kick him and beat him with what appear to be metal pipes.

> At one point, the protester approaches a second police officer who is standing nearby with a handgun drawn. Just after the protester hits the officer with the pipe, the officer fires at the man at point-blank range.

I'm just as pro-democracy as the next guy, but I can hardly fault a police officer for shooting someone in the shoulder when they are being hit with a metal pipe.

I hope the pro-democracy movement in HK returns to its origins of peaceful demonstrations. I don't think its good for the movement's long-term sustainability to turn violent.
Some companies are more flexible than others, but it's pretty common that "remote" employees can't just pickup and move anywhere in the world they feel like it. Honestly, if one really wants to have that kind of flexibility they should probably consider consulting.
Is red meat back on the menu?