skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For morphology (esp. languages with complicated morphologies, like Berber), the tool that most computational linguists reach for is finite state transducers, particularly those that are built for use in morphology and phonology. An early one of these was the Xerox xfst/ lexc program, which has since been re-implemented in open source form as Foma (https://fomafst.github.io/). The book on xfst/lexc, https://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/F/..., is probably still the best place to go for a tutorial. Other FST programs that have been used for morphology and phonology include the Stuttgart FST (sfst, https://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/forschung/ressourcen/werkze...) and the Helsinki HFST (http://hfst.github.io/). HFST allows the use of weights, which can be useful for spell correction.

I've built built morph parsers with all of these except HFST, although that's next on my list.

I'm not familiar with Delphin, but a quick glance at their website implies that it's for syntax, not so much for morphology. They mention a Japanese grammar implemented in Delphin, but it uses a separate tool for morphology.

In answer to your other question, the last time I looked, machine learning of morph parsers (or stemmers, which are like morph parsers that throw away the affixal information) is reasonably good for "fusional" morphologies, which most modern IndoEuropean languages have. I don't think the state-of-the-art ML would work well for Berber, because of its much more complex morphology.
Vertically, sure, but not really horizontally. Aside from just going through a wall, I'd expect most ethernet runs to be more horizontal than vertical, since you're often running it between rooms?
Is it the beginning of the great/bad crash of 2020? That would be the only way that Trump would loose the 2020 election...
Yea. This is very clearly an attempt to cut into the second-hand market, certainly not recycling.
If the only way to get a decent cron is to run a full blown Jenkins server it is time I quit the tech industry.
Apple already has over the ear headphones. They own Beats.
It was ActionScript (Flash) what did it.
From my point of view, Lisp gives programmers too much power.
No company wants giving a programmer so much concentrated power, they want it distributed around the workforce, and people disposable. Replace them whenever is needed.

With lisp you can modify your development platform to suit your needs, In practice, over time you create your own programming language.

You create your DSP(Domain specific language) with your own systems. This is not standard. You are dependent on the programmer.

Companies prefer to buy "solutions"(packages,environments) from companies and depend on those solutions. They are standard and you can hire people trained on them. Replace them if needed and make people continue the work that someone else left.

That is because "solutions" have open documentation, designed by people that are able to draw beautiful diagrams, lots of books, videos on the Internet, but lisp gurus have all the info in their heads.

Bugs are way easier(orders of magnitude) to find with meta programming. In fact you can create a subsystem that finds all bugs so you don't have to.
Take my money. I've been thinking about this for a long time, just dont have the energy. Implement this well and I think it's a kick ass idea.
Robert Pirsig alludes to his use of this technique in his novel, Lila, but never names it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lila:_An_Inquiry_into_Morals
I remember Harvard defending their race-based admissions policy because of privileges some groups had and disadvantages other groups had. But they never addressed their legacy admissions. After all, who is more advantaged/privileged than the children of harvard grads? If Harvard was truly interested in leveling the playing field, they would also eliminate legacy admissions. If Harvard and other elite schools were consistent, I'd be less annoyed by their admissions policy.

Hopefully this move by Johns Hopkins gets the ball rolling and other schools will soon follow suit.
This is quite cool. I haven't looked too deep into k8s loadbalancers yet, could this be used in combination with metallb? I'd like to expose one service In my cluster like this, but have the others only available on my local network...
Cash, Plastic or Hand? Amazon Envisions Paying with a Wave
They totally destroyed the audiobooks feature. Can't edit ID3, no playlists with Catalina. It's hard to believe how they could destroy it so thoroughly.
His fear is about a self-spreading superplant, which is what's supposed to make GMO a special type of danger. Without self-spreading the worst you can get is a failed product. If it was that easy to make a superplant, evolution would have already figured it out.

The point of GMO is to engineer organisms for artificial environment under human supervision, and humans aren't going to protect harmful plants.
Eg. nitrogen fixing may sound "obvious" but it takes energy, and empirically in most environments such plants were outcompeted by those that didn't spend energy this way. It's only net cheaper for humans, because the cost of manufacturing, transporting etc the fertilizer has to be included.

It's the same story for everything. It's going to take a really, really long time before human genetic engineering can hope to beat evolution on its own turf. By a rough estimate, at any second on Earth there's close to 2^105 ribosomes manufacturing proteins from RNA, only once simulation capabilities start to come close genetically engineered organisms start to become a systemic risk.

Funny story that confirms this view:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-49660-6
>However, it is clear from the data in Garziera et al.6 that the effectiveness of the release program began to break down after about 18 months, i.e., the population which had been greatly suppressed rebounded to nearly pre-release levels.

Ultimately, it was just a fun, harmless experiment, and as a bonus anyone arrogant enough to expect current human genetic engineering to beat evolution got a lesson in humility.
While I would love for self-driving cars to be a thing, the AI to detect tired, distracted, drunk or sleeping drivers could be in every car way, way before self-driving cars will be a thing.
And many places simply don't accept credit card payments.

I find it interesting, because EFTPOS (like a debit card in the US) seems to be far-and-away the most popular way to pay for small items and is accepted virtually everywhere.
Smaller trains with bimodal traction. Because steel on steel is terrible at spontaneous braking, hence the significantly bigger gaps between consecutive trains compared to the gap between consecutive cars or trucks. And because steel on steel is terrible at the long tail of events that would cause contingency diversion, be it maintenance, disasters or organizational confusion. And because it would neatly solve the last mile (well, dozen miles).

Take an electrified rail network, pave it over to resemble a tramway track and add on/off ramps wherever they might be useful. Figure out an economic mechanical design that would allow a computer to precision-drive along the rail for on the fly mode switching. Which is an extremely limited task scope where computers would excel, very much unlike the almost-AGI requirements of full self driving. Mandate strong requirements for access to that network including a small minimum range of battery-autonomous operation so that you don't have to reach the atrociously high number of availability nines a conventional rail network needs to avoid total schedule collapse.
This is an interesting article, but exposes the Economist's bias and lack of an honest historical accounting. While the it is new, interesting, and important that the world is becoming more skeptical of the dollar, it is kind of laughable that the only reference to Iraq and sanctions is the ones that were in the news recently.

Iraq and many other countries have been subject to crippling US sanctions many times in the past. In the 1990s, sanctions were issued by the Clinton administration that were so severe that hospitals were scrubbing the floors with gasoline (https://theintercept.com/2018/03/21/us-war-iraq-legacy-of-bl...).

https://reliefweb.int/report/iraq/iraq-study-baghdad-hospita...

"In June, 1991, Medicine For Peace medical teams began working in Baghdad pediatric hospitals. The following is a description of what they found:

"The hospital was in darkness. Ventilators, incubators, dialysis machines were not functioning and any patients dependent on these support systems had died. We made ward rounds with Iraqi physicians, many trained in the US and Great Britain, who were despondent and demoralized. No x-rays, lab tests, or possibility of surgery. Worse of all, intravenous fluids and supplemental feedings for the scores of malnourished children were in short supply, the pharmacy had exhausted its store of antibiotics for treatable infections, and there was not one vial of morphine to relieve the pain of children suffering with tumors on the cancer ward."

Outside of the US, economic sanctions of this magnitude are often regarded as war crimes. They are routinely deployed against the populations of official US enemies and have been for some time under the theory that if we make life as bad as possible for the people, maybe they'll overthrow the regime. Hint: It usually doesn't work and the regime uses the sanctions to (correctly) characterize itself as under attack by foreign enemies.

In the modern instance, the case for sanctions in Iraq can only be described as barbarous bullying. The Iraqi government voted to remove US troops in response to an unprovoked assasination on an Iranian top general on their soil while performing what is claimed to be a diplomatic peace mission (another war crime). In response, the US employs sanctions to bully the Iraqis into acquiescing to an unending occupation that they have judged does not serve their interests.

Yanis Varoufakis, the Greek Finance Minister (paraphrased, talking about austerity in Greece) said that where they used to use tanks, they now use banks. In the case of Iraq, sadly, tanks, banks, and aerial bombing have all been used in various combinations at various times.
I wasn't aware of that. I suppose that would count as the car, but doesn't most car hacking occur when the component has access to i.e the CAM bus?
When the most recent ipad refresh came out I bought one after not having used an ios device since I had an ipod touch years and years ago. Coming from Android I was and still am kind of stunned that there is no way to just see an alphabetical list of all the apps on my device. I finally figured out the gesture to bring up the search but it is still not as good as just have a a list.
https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/28337/can-goo...
The point is that the legacy admit will be coddled at the admission stage but will struggle once they’re in. Which, to be honest seems even worse: the kid was praised a year ago for getting into a good college but one year in they bomb out leading to a lot of stress for everyone.
Come on, you know missiles are locked down with way more security than consumer vehicles.
"United States have no geopolitical strategy, but a lot of self proclaimed geopolitical strategists."

I once have heard this position from US ambassador in Kazakhstan on a private reception event.

The guy told people he expected a visit to a *stan country to be like a visit to a warzone.

He was learning martial arts, hostage negotiation, and been mentored by multiple self proclaimed experts on "warlord politics" of the region.

There was no end to his disappointment when he came to understanding that all that geopolitical BS he learned was for nothing, and he came to station the most boring post-Soviet hillbilly town.

I think most Americans, even the most educated ones tend to greatly overthink "geopolitical conspiracies"

Ex-USSR fiefdoms, Russia included, are ran by very simple people, without any geopolitical ambitions.

For them, blackmailing Germany and other wealth nations in Europe by threatening to close the tap has no political story to it at all, just plainly a way to extort some extra bucks, and show the world how big their balls are.
In dense urban and suburban areas that's likely not an issue.

Another possibility is Automaker X partnering with comms / infrastructure Company Y (e.g., Comcast). Put another way, if they can get to the point this is the dealbreaker then it's easy compared to what it took to get here.
"Many of us, are required by employers, law, or a sense of owning the data"
Ahh, interesting. I've never thought about this when it comes to web vs native. It is surely one of my blind spots. Thank you for pointing that out!

We will definitely work towards that, however, at this moment we are quite limited by our development speed. So it is unclear how long it will be until our #1 prioritization becomes creating a native app.

Also, will definitely make the demo vid better, eventually!

Thanks for your feedback, I really appreciate them.
This is sad, but makes sense to me.
Teen who launched eBay business from bedroom with £500 now boss of £1m company
You can get DRM free digital music from Amazon.
Same here, just can spend that much. Heck I can see spending 400 on a reader.
> I can get things done in Lisp with 1/10th the effort it would take in any other language

Should that be read as 1/10th the effort it would take you in any other language (because of your long history with lisp), or do you suppose it would apply to arbitrary other competent people?

Like let's say we could make a few clones of you and start them all out on identical lives except that their early choice of language is different: one gets Haskell, another gets Forth, another Python, Ruby, etc.

In this scenario you're saying you'd bet on the clone who went with Lisp being most productive?
If a US multinational is handling data ostensibly subject to EU regulations, and using employees in developing countries for the lowest possible cost, they may or may not abide by the letter of EU law, but I think they evade the spirit of the law as a matter of course. There are some senseless "fig leaf" procedures that they use.
Though there's the Kurzweil argument that people's intuition doesn't work well with exponential growth. The engineers are probably thinking these systems work terribly and have for decades and so will for decades more but meanwhile GPU performance is doubling every year or two and many people are trying to take advantage of that.

I've been following this stuff casually since about 1980 when I totally failed to write an AI program and since then processor performance has been steadily increasing, first with clock speed and now more with multi cores. Hans Moravec, a robot guy did a reasonable estimate that to get equivalent hardware to the brain you'd need about 100 teraflops and just recently the first 100 teraflop GPU has come out (https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/v100/) which is kinda historic in a way, maybe a billion times faster than a cheap computer in 1980. Of course this will keep going for a while so the situation will flip from we can't do much because processors are much slower than the brain to the other way around.

(update NIDIA may have fudged the numbers a bit but anyway.)
How is is not? Many colleges now have more administration staff than education faculty... I know that at my university they constructed a massive new building to house their growing administrative staff.
The Euro doesn't look great either. The EU's sovereign debt crisis gets worse every year. The economic growth of the region is predicted to lag the US. A rising banking crisis is being swept under the rug. An aging population. The EU proved during the Cyprus banking crisis that they will reach into bank accounts and confiscate deposits.
Moving on from Conference Swag
Yeah I am on the side of the skeptics. We cannot do AI in a fully controlled environment properly. What hope do we have to master a use case where the nature, elements in the physical world, vandals are all throwing all kinds of wrenches into the mix. The vision or dream of a level 5 self driving car is something I will only believe once I see.
Cost zero? That's not free?

My point is, free or cost zero...neither exits. There is no free. There is no zero cost. Those are myths.

There is always a cost. It might not be tangible (i.e., money) but there is always a cost.
You're thinking of fsn, a 3D filesystem browser demo for the Irix operating system :-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fsn_(file_manager)
Genetic engineer here (though I've mostly worked in humans). Cross-kingdom gene transfer has been occurring due to pathogen vectors amongst plants for as long as plants have been around. On a geological time scale the amount of gene-flow is significant, and any tricks that would allow domination and apocalypse would already have come to the fore. Most every change we make to crops weaken them as wild competitors.

If you're looking for Talebian disaster, it has already happened. Seriously: Most of earth's arable land is dominated by a tiny handful of species in the order Poales, with much of the rest dominated by other invasive species brought in for grazing a few animal species. The point of genetic engineering is to help maximize yield and resilience of our intensively worked land so that we have some chance of saving what little is left of the natural world, whatever mistakes we commit now would not be materially worse than what we've already done, and we need every trick in the book to try to preserve what is left.
Acceleration is power intensive, not necessarily energy intensive. You need (1/2)mv^2 to reach a given velocity, regardless of how much time is spent. If rapid acceleration happens to be less efficient, then that's just an engineering problem.
I presume you will be sharing the results of the survey with HN readers.
I'm not sure what's more amusing/depressing: that these people believe any shift on the order of magnitude the book described in the article predicts will permit continued functioning of society in a way that supports these individuals' wealth, or that these individuals believe that their wealth puts them in a "cognitive elite."

If liberal democracies fall it won't be because they've been replaced by well-functioning corporate city-states; it will be because we've gone Mad Max. And then no amount of bitcoin or "private" land in New Zealand will protect these people.
Well. Old cars - and new ones - can run on the old roads. It’s just as comfortable as a caleche. Changes were way more incremental.
FWIW, self driving trains are a very different problem. With self driving cars, the approach has been to use sensors on the vehicle and make autonomous decisions based on that input. This will never work for trains, because their stopping distances are so long that they cannot use a sensor to detect most oncoming issues.

Self driving trains will require more coordination, with central dispatch to tell them when/where to go. That leaves the intelligence on the train much more basic.
Lot of companies still need to register.

* LinkedIn - Sell your data via Sales Navigator

* ZoomInfo - Scrape your email account and sell the data to other businesses - https://www.zoominfo.com/business/about-zoominfo/privacy-pol...

* DiscoverOrg

* Clearbit - Browser extension scrapes your emails for data and they sell it to others via their "free browser-based add-ons, extensions, or plug-ins" - https://clearbit.com/privacy

* Hunter.io - Scrape people data from your browsing activities to resell.

* Demandbase
It's easy to run horizontally in an attic or basement.

The hard part is getting off your butt and doing it. Like every other side project.
Is there a condensed version of the bill somewhere for lazy people like me?

I am looking to know -

- What the legal obligations of a data broker are.

- What are the legal obligations of sites/services that use them on their pages and enable them to get user data
IDK,

It seems like interested and substantial arguments happen arguments happened around what might or might not 10-30 years from now. Travel to other stars once was considered no more impossible than travel other planets and living on other planets used to be considered not much harder than traveling to them. We now can actually travel to other planets and we know now how dependent on earth-gravity, how hard it is to traverse the distances between stars and so-forth.

Which is to say, no, you're simply wrong, we haven't really progressed from everything impossible to something things possible. Just as technology has progressed very unevenly, our ideas of possibility have gone from a lot of things sort-of possible to something things quite possible and other relatively more unlikely.
I think the best part about the whole thing is that there are so many memes accompanying the investigation.

I'm not sure however, that the internet really helped crack the case. Th article shows that the internet came to similar conclusions as the real MLB investigation.
There's evidence that signal differences in neutrons in the visual cortex is used for object recognition, whose behavior gives rise to some of the optical illusions we experience. Weak evidence for temporal differentiation also having the same underlying mechanism.
On the other hand, lots of other cities in California and elsewhere have similar circumstances. Meanwhile, Copenhagen has very different circumstances but huge bike uptake.

It's fundamentally about policy. Take the steps, and you'll get the results.
I first learned about memory palaces in the book Hannibal, named after the character in Silence of the Lambs [0], but the description there is of a lavish imaginary palace inside your mind you can wander in. I did use this technique to try to remember some physics formulae for an exam once, in my memory palace there was a room with giant equations.

This website is a bit of a let-down for me since it's just a bird's eye view, it would be cool to create a palace using a 3d game engine, with signs that point to things like physics formulae, and then some Sims or Google-Sketchup-like tool to add objects that you want to remember.

[0] The relevant excerpt about Hannibal's memory palace: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/illusion-chasers/hannib... , it describes a painting that he uses to remember the fictional address "3327 Tindal, Arlington VA 22308".
I think it depends on the style. For example, I find this pretty readable:

https://fodor.org/blog/webassembly-hello-world

but for some reason the typical Lisp style looks like Python where someone vomited parentheses on it. Not sure why people choose to style it like that.
I am a customer of M247. The reason I use them, and I imagine a lot of VPN provider use them, is because you can get a dozen points of presence all over Europe while only having to deal with one provider/invoice. I think you are just seeing market effects at work.
I'm not so sure. At $10 there's plenty of "Mary said buy X" or "If Y is good for Bob it's good for me." Ten bucks clears one mental hurdle (is it good enough) but is low enough for "this isn't worth stressing over."
If you own a share of stock whose market price is $10, and someone buys the company for $20, you can't personally refuse to sell for under $50. You will, typically, be cashed out on a certain date without any action on your part. In the past, I've run into people who just won't believe this.
Well yeah, of course. Full self-driving probably requires artificial general intelligence and it is quite possible that humans will never develop artificial general intelligence. The real surprising thing, for me, is how many otherwise intelligent people bought into full self-driving hype.

It's likely that if humans ever developed the sort of AI necessary for full self-driving, this AI technology would radically transform the world. Using it for cars would be one of the least important applications.