skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know it's outside of the academic translation studies conversation, but I really enjoyed Douglas Hofstadter's Le Ton Beau de Marot, which contains dozens of translations of a single French poem, to emphasize how difficult a task translation is, how many different ways of doing it there are, and how many different purposes it can serve.
Personally I thought the Feynman lectures were ok but with room for improvement.

Vol 1 was good. Vol 2 was good though overly repetitive, iirc it's 90 percent Maxwell's equations. Vol 3 was unintuitive to me. Still I learned qm from it and made this
http://tropic.org.uk/~crispin/quantum/

I'm fairly confident I get qm now, but most of that understanding came from trying to code it in simulation. Which suggests there are better ways to learn than Feynman 3.
Malware is even more impactful and still technically correct since it is a superset of spyware.
There are some really good suggestions here. I would like to add that learning calculus properly is of the utmost importance. It's no exaggeration when I say that this is unquestionably the single best, most profitable action you can take. Any one of these books can change your life.

1. Spivak Calculus

2. Apostol Calculus vol. I and II

3. Courant and Johns, Introduction to Calculus and Analysis vol. I, IIA and IIB

For the more casual computer science or physics major, I'd go with choice 3 which resembles the Feynmann lectures the most. All the rigour of the other two is there but in a more digestible form. It's hard for someone not accustomed to hard maths to digest long proofs, it could give you a bad case of indigestion. It's more a function of patience. Courant and Johns get to the point much more quickly while Spivak and Apostol take their time to do everything thoroughly. Courant and Johns does do everything thoroughly but they are kinder to the reader and delay lengthy rigoourous proofs as long as possible while giving plenty of motivation and intuition.

Also I strongly recommend any books by Ray Smullyan particularly his introduction to mathematical logic.
"A Beginner's Guide to Mathematical Logic"
Wow. That amazingly beautiful cursive handwriting. Compared to that, mine is like a chicken’s scratching on the dirt, as they say in India.
"you'll be able to put your hands on" ... the million dollar question: When???
The technique you're referring to is aligning sensors over each other, each collecting a different color so you don't have to use a bayer filter (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-CCD_camera). Chroma aligns multiple image sensors next to each other, to scale the resolution without increasing chip complexity. For instance, we can merge 4 4K sensors to create an ultra low cost 8K camera.
I'm not sure if I can agree with you there. Do you really think it's more expensive and slower to build an app with the exact same functionality today than 10 years ago? 15?

I would instead argue that websites today tend to have far more features and functionality than their counterparts of 15 years ago.
>OSes and frameworks have tried to solve this a bazillion ways. Edge WebView, Android WebView, Qt WebView, QtWebkit, whatever the iexplore stuff was in XP, …. Electron might have the opportunity to actually solve this.

That list goes on and on. Don't forget xulrunner. Or heck, even Visix Galaxy! (Ask Jeff Barr about that one some time. ;) )

http://www.ambiencia.com/overviewgalaxytd.php
How does that change anything? Humanity could fit into a small island with the population density of dt Tokyo. There is plenty of land up, down, left and right.
Why Italian?
This really shows the power of habit. Now that it's been 12 years, a whole generation has grown up with the ribbon UI. At 22, I'm one of them. Office 2003 and earlier (+ LibreOffice) feels clunky and arcane to me. 2007 was the first Office version that I seriously used, and I remember being confused as to why my parents complained about the ribbon.

Sometimes I wonder if UI design matters at all beyond what users are already acclimated to.
> I was there... in the 80's...with colourful boxes, acoustic couplers, and pages and pages of phone numbers.

Good times. I still have my red box (modified radio shack tone dialer), although COCOTs have long-since gone the way of the dodo.
Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21338362
Preprint here: https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.07425

NB: OP here, but I didn't write this blog or co-author this preprint.
> They're not really diverging from a view layer, just thinking at a higher level about how a view is engineered and how to provide primitives and abstractions that make it easy to build a good, complete UX (not just layout).

Thank you for this eloquent wording, you've saved me a lot of time and energy in my responses to people who don't get this point.
dumb question: but why is it so hard to create very-secure crypto libraries? i recall NASA's code used during the Apollo missions had like an ungodly low error rate, so surely it's feasible in practice? admittedly, comparing anything to NASA standards is a very high bar to set, but considering the stakes involved with cryptography, you'd imagine a similar scrutiny?
I think you missed his point. Neither china nor russia censor "politically correct" speech. Of course their view of "politically correct" is different from ours and others. Europe, Islamic world, Africa, etc all protect "politically correct" speech and censor "politically incorrect" speech.

Sadly, in the US, extremists ( particularly the left ) are leading the charge to censor "politically incorrect" speech.
Elizabeth Warren wants to remake American capitalism
And none of those answers are the path that the most people would do, which is to navigate the start menu with only the mouse.
Agreed. Hard for some people to appreciate but so true.
A 100x Investment (Part 1)
It says something that one of the most well known and highly-praised media lab projects is basically a sham. What does that say about the other 99% of projects that aren’t even worth mentioning?
Render functions, to my knowledge, can’t return a promise.

(And you don’t throw a promise, you return and reject it)

The issue at hand is fully synchronous render functions that, e.g., go through a giant list of objects and call a bunch of other render functions on each one synchronously.

This change allows that one function to finish, and interaction to continue before all the children render.
While you struggle there with that computer, I'm naked, clueless and feeling good driving my tiny car!

https://dilbert.com/strip/1994-01-29

Wow, how can that soon be 26 years old ...
The difference here is that bugs generally lack motive and agency. Bugs are often unintentional.

When faced with bad intentions, it is imperative that a community name offenders. It is, as others replied, an important distinction for accountability.
Thanks, we started our retro 3:44pm Pacific, slightly before your post.

We looked into making it public at 4:05pm but by then it already had confidential security information and customer names in it.

There will be multiple lessons, right now we've identified 15 points to evaluate and 9 people contributed to the document.
I'm starting to get the feeling that a large number of industry (Tech & VC, let's say) names with which I'm familiar are just scamming, at least among the "announcement -> vaporware -> incredible journey" publicity pipeline participants. If this is true it would really undergird the possibility that the top of the industry is just a bunch of guys who went to the same kinds of schools, universities, and fraternities, and just keep recycling each other over and over. It's not failing-up, it's the glass-floor.
The premise of this project was that it would allow farmers to run parallel experiments to discover optimal growing conditions. The "food computers" were meant to inform large-scale production, not replace it.

The problem is this sort of matter is of course already studied by agricultural departments around the world, with a lot more competency. There is already a ton of research into, e.g. the effects of soil pH on potato production. Media Lab's food computer seems like a case of NIH, and probably wouldn't have happened if MIT had an agricultural department.
I do struggle with biblical literalism of any stripe, after learning just a little about the construction of it. It's always been a moving target, long before the KJV, with parts added and removed for political reasons at various convocations of bishops. Not to mention the many layers of translation, the inconsistencies from the Old Testament that are quoted when convenient and disavowed when not.

In some ways, I can better sympathize with a Mormon true believer or a Scientologist. Their prophets might be absurd and possibly venal, but Christianity is extensively well-documented as a political construction.
Except AT&T themselves use the phone number as a form of identity verification / 2nd factor so that argument doesn't really hold up.

Also insurance doesn't always hold up in cases like this, especially if the company was aware of the weakness and chose to do nothing about it.
So it’s all the guy’s fault for the problem and AT&T has no fault? Could it be they both made a mistake?
A 100x Investment (Part 2)
Openly adversarial game shows could be interesting
MS has already proven that canvas is faster and better than HTML for text when they converted the terminal to canvas and it got an order of magnitude faster.

I wonder why they haven't expanded on this with Rust and WASM taking events and returning a canvas buffer. This seems like the best of both worlds. They get the responsiveness and performance of native code for the hard bits while retaining the ease and flexibility of HTML for the rest of the UI.
I'm ignorant enough to have only read the first five books (Genesis through Deuteronomy), Ecclesiastes, and a scattering of quotes from other books of the bible. I started reading that piece of the old testament after going through some translated Sumerian/Babylonian works and commentary about the relation of the old testament to other pan-Mesopotamian theology, and I feel like it's pretty interesting from that perspective. Yahweh is clearly Enki/Ea with some aspects of Marduk sprinkled in. The flood stories are funny, because in When The Gods Instead Of Man we have a story about a bunch of gods deciding to kill all humans and one god (Ea) deciding to warn the flood hero (Atrahasis) about the flood; when all the other humans die and Atrahasis is the only one sacrificing food to the gods, the other gods realise their mistake and are thankful. In the old testament version they have to tell the same story with only one god, so the same god who wants to kill everybody also wants to save a specific person/family due to their righteousness, rather than as an act of desperation in the face of other gods' foolish plans. That whole sacrificing-food-by-burning-it thing carries over into the old testament too, with god consuming offerings in the tabernacle via flames. It also struck me how human the Sumerian/Babylonian gods were. Before creating humans they had to grow their own food, one of the gods was in charge of controlling a canal. Like, that's some mundane shit. Then you have the old testament being super unsure of how to portray god. Sometimes he seems abstract, he'll appear as a burning bush if he feels like it, sometimes he seems to consume people/offerings in flames, and a couple of times (Moses looking at his back, Jacob wrestling with him) he appears downright human. The book Who Wrote The Bible? has an interesting take on the first five books of the old testament (the "Torah of Moses") being written by at least five separate people/groups and compiled by Ezra the lawgiver. I know that some people think Ezra is entirely mythical, and there are other objections to some details of that book, but I still think it's an interesting take. It claims that the early books often repeat themselves because they're a blending of two earlier narratives meant to unify the people of Israel after a north/south divide. Since one group said that Noah sent out a dove, and one group said a raven, he just does both. There are a lot more examples of things that look like two versions of the same story spliced together. I place no religious significance in the texts, and I haven't cared enough to read more (though I might read through Jeremiah/Baruch's works at some point), but I think it's a fascinating work just due to the age. Ecclesiastes is legitimagely beautiful, and while I wouldn't say it's unparalleled for it's time (props to Lao Tzu) I think it's one of the few works of that era I've been exposed to which I found that beautiful.
"Duoglot?"
I think there's a big social component, too. I personally would pay rather extra to live here in silicon valley - extra even net additional earnings, just because I fit in ways I don't fit anywhere else I've been. (I mean, I'm not claiming that silicon valley is more inclusive than other places; a lot of people say the opposite and I have seen some evidence corroborating that view. I'm just saying, for me, for who I am, I feel like I fit here; I feel like I'm treated better here because of who I am than I am treated anywhere else. I suppose you could say that I feel like I have 'privilege' here in ways that I don't feel like I do in, say, the place where I spent most of my childhood.)

(because of the things I described above about how california privileges long term residents, I actually don't pay much more here than I would in any other place of similar density, and net earnings, I'm way better off financially here than anywhere else because I have that granfathered housing deal. (of course, my housing here is a lot less flexible.) Nobody else in the world will pay what silicon valley will pay when you have my skills and no degree. But in theory I would pay a premium to live here.)

Before I die, I want to try living in New York, partly 'cause I really enjoy the car-free lifestyle, but also 'cause I think that it's good to sometimes go to a place where you don't fit in as well, where you interact with people who have dramatically different worldviews about what constitutes an interesting problem. But for me, someone who fit in really badly where he grew up? Finding a place where I fit in was supremely important, even if I don't think it's great to spend the entire rest of my life in that place. Just having that experience of fitting in is transformative, I think.

My guess is that actor/entertainer types have similar feelings about LA; I mean, I think there's a lot of stories about that; about young theatre types running off to LA to find themselves (which I assumed meant "find people who value you") I mean, people talk about shared values; and it's not about voting the same way, mostly, or anything like that, at least for me, as it is about finding the same sorts of problems interesting. I mean, acting and entertaining is a deep sort of thing. I certainly don't understand much of it, but I can at least see that there's a lot there to understand, and if that's your bag, it seems like going and living near other people who also find that sort of thing could be important.
this library seems promising: https://github.com/zserge/webview
The new suspense API works by throwing Promises when the data isn't ready yet.
Full self-driving requires artificial general intelligence and I don't think that will be around for at least another 100 years, if ever.

It is truly amazing how much hype FSD has generated, even among smart technically-savvy people.
It's a quote from a popular sci-fi TV series (Red Dwarf) that I'm sure many people immediately thought of upon seeing the title. I doubt offense was intended.

http://www.ladyofthecake.com/rdscripts/season2/Betterth.txt
Possibly that they aren't as overhyped and thus look less impressive.
But as Monty Hall himself notes, the game show rules did not actually require him to open a door.

> Hall clarified that as a game show host he did not have to follow the rules of the puzzle in the vos Savant column and did not always have to allow a person the opportunity to switch (e.g., he might open their door immediately if it was a losing door, might offer them money to not switch from a losing door to a winning door, or might only allow them the opportunity to switch if they had a winning door).

If the host uses an adversarial strategy, such as only offers a switch when the remaining door is a goat, switching is not necessarily wise.
Don’t have the debate; just break out a deck of cards and simulate 30ish rounds. Should be done in 10 minutes, or however small p needs to become for the winds to shift. Then, answer questions.
Unlocking the biochemical treasure chest within microbes
I'm Christian, KJV in all uses I've seen of it is simply the "default" version. It's not treated as more correct than any other version.
> You think a civil war in the US wouldnt have factions getting resources from every other country on the planet

No, I think the pre-breakdown distribution of light civilian arms isn't how you win that fight.
Seriously I read that bug report and I would say the same thing to OP... especially since the issue was largely a duplicate of an already existing issue. He also was hardly lectured.

Also not sure why he feels the constant need to bring up their $50M endowment... OP is no question entitled.
I wish Signal would have a decent desktop client. I spend most of the time on a standard "computer" and not on my phone, and I'm sure others do as well.
The Vatican probably?
Projects that use semantic versioning break compatibility for reasons that aren't any better.
I've used vue by including it. I've used react by including it and babel.

When I tried to include other packages they were only available through npm (some had cdn versions but most did not). You don't get access to the entire ecosystem without the tooling.
>cynical branding exercises that come at the cost of UX

Well put!
$33 pricing is the best feature of the card to me.
I hate to burst your bubble, but fundamentally, all advertising is a "scam". It's to get you to buy stuff you really don't need.

Also, the print newspaper industry isn't as clean as you think.

http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html

You shouldn't be trusting any ad, wherever it is. Actually, the most reputable the platform, the more skeptical you should be since you are more trusting of the platform to begin with. The easier you are to be duped.
I don't think this directly addresses your question, but I do have a thought I just wanted to share. And from a super rough skim of the article, the writer seems to be motivated by his and family members' own experiences, not to make a comment on the amount of overreach, if any, they call for in the means to achieve the ends.

But, if one seeks a consensual compilation by one person, here is a superb one:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17032891

I only bust it out on a super chill, lazy day off and read but a few letters at a time, and I'm still only a fraction of the way through it.

Voyeuristic? Probably. I find it a very rare, direct, and valuable transmission of an external being's perspective and senses, though. Candid but consensual.
It's a very good start. From there I think the most productive thing anyone could do is make a very thorough study of Classical Mechanics. People underestimate how much a thorough knowledge will help them. Start with an easy book and work your way up. Goldstein and Laundau are excellent intermediate level choices. For a beginner I think Jakob Schwichtenbergs "No Nonsense Classical Mechanics" could work or Leonard Susskind's "Theoretical Minimum Classical Mechanics" . Personally, I really liked Jakob's book. You'll need a friend or a study group online to help you when you get stuck. Classical mechanics is very serious physics and I regard a thorough foundation in say Hamiltonian Mechanics as a solid achievement. a sure sign someone could go on and learn E&M, Statistical mechanics, Quantum mechanics, Relativity and Gauge theories. For a semi advanced book if you know some advanced maths try Spivak's Classical Mechanics and anything by V. Arnold.
Great question.

Thought about the study: It may actually measure differences in music-led syncing between groups of autistic and neurotypical people. That is--the autoplaying music might "sync" people up to Schelling point numbers.

How would you accurately distinguish between distributed quorum consciousness and true nonlocal consciousness?
I enjoyed this story of a family that was disconnected from society for 40 years, from 1938 to 1978. When found, the technology that most amazed them was... plastic!

> "Lord, what have they thought up — it is glass, but it crumples!"

The family also noticed "moving stars" (which were of course satellites) starting in the 1950s.

> The Lykovs had noticed them as early as the 1950s, when “the stars began to go quickly across the sky,” and Karp himself conceived a theory to explain this: “People have thought something up and are sending out fires that are very like stars.”

It's a fun read. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/for-40-years-this-rus...
I feel like dressing up like an Indian and throwing whatever Finland's primary export is into a harbor.
It just does not work on an iPhone. 0.00% into men doesn’t mean I’m into men. It just means the camera isn’t centered.
I grew up in a religious family and community and I asked the same question! There was a debate among people about which version to use and anything but the King James version was wrong.

Why?

Because of Revelation 22:18,19

18. For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book:

19. And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.

So my first question was: The King James version is a translation, so it had to be changed at some point. No translations are perfect!

Their responses to the question ranged from: King James didn't experience those plagues, he must have translated it correctly, ... to the King James version is the first one translated into English and since The Living Bible or another version is different, then King James must be right as the change happened between the time of the King James and the subsequent translations.
Show HN: What Lives Behind the Blue Screen (Trailer)
The same way an HTTP[S] proxy works.
Growing My $12K MRR SaaS from Solo Founder to Plus 1 Employee
It's not going to end, the article says why, too:

"To reduce costs, companies have attempted to cram in more people thus creating denser—and louder—environments."
It's a funny tendency that these fake quotes always manage to capture the essence of what they are misquoting.
so, uh, I thought the kjv was... not recognized as valid by the catholic church? Like, the KJV was authorized by the church of England, a, uh, rather different body from the Vatican. I thought a lot of what made the KJV important was that it was early in that split.

I mean, i suppose that the Vatican would probably still have a pretty interesting opinion on it.
I'm getting "Log in or create a free New York Times account to continue reading in private mode.", then click on the "Create a free account button" to be finally faced with "This action is not supported over Onion yet, sorry.".
You also concluded your initial report with a pretty hostile and unnecessary comment about their funding, so I'd say their response was far kinder than you'd get from a lot of other projects.

(I know this is a free product, but you've raised a bunch of money to fund development, and if you're going to require users to be on a recent version, it's not really acceptable for the recent versions to be so buggy...)
I'm aware, I repeated his 'unintentional'. Unintentional overdose deaths on Opium are certainly less common than fentanyl. But they are nowhere near as difficult to achieve as Marijuana, which is basically impossible.