skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the correct conclusion from that study is not that Duolingo is good, but rather that it is not quite as bad as typical college language courses which are truly terrible.
I found the counterweights baffling. Why would they make them protrude like that, creating a hazard when they move.
Yep SQLite is in fact serverless. We based our open source web based IDE on SQLite and it works fantastically. The best part is that you can even take a SQLite database and use sql.js and run it offline in the browser!
If I may quote from the Integer Programming chapter in Vohra's book, "Before proceeding you should convince yourself that no ‘simple’ scheme based on solving the underlying linear program and rounding the resulting solution can find the optimal integer solution."
Now that you are mentioning it I clearly see that as a francophone, I had not realized he/she had written something inconsistent. Thanks. In the meantime I will be upgrading wine to run Photoshop. Thanks wine team.
Wait. How come it wasn't ~280 miles then?

EDIT: Never mind, answered in the FAQ.
>The user should be the focus.

I agree and this is why I said good implementation can exists. I never implemented telemtry but I implemented once crash reporting. Before I added this feature the users had to contact support and tall us what is wrong, then we would send email back and forward asking about OS , application version. asking for screenshots, asking to enable debug mode and try again and then screenshot the error and send it to us. Because i was the one doing the customer support too I noticed this is very repetitive and very demanding for users (even explaing a user to find a log file in %appdata% in windows is a complex process) so I simplified it as much as possible, a crash or the user could open the report a bug popup, you would see exactly the data that is sent to me, it was plain text info like OS and app versions and a stack trace and other logging data and you had the option not to send it to me but if you sent it then I have the stack trace I have the info and I could put an update to fix teh bug in a day rather then we spend time emailing each other questions.
Yes, as I explained in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22157419 you can model literally anything in MIP if it's in NP, but the structure of the problem may or may not peek through enough for your solver to run efficiently. Some MIP solvers are effectively alien technology from the future, so this can be worthwhile, but it isn't always.
Clearview AI sued over facial recognition privacy concerns
Is it possible to tag Medium posts so we can filter them out?
You pay $700/yr in property tax total? Or $700/yr to the library specifically? If the latter, what’s your total property tax? And where do you find info about what amount of it goes to the library?
People Who Walked Away from Their Jobs, Their Religion, Their Relationships
Well, nations seem to be able to agree upon constitutions and laws. It works. We live in unprecedented peace in the western world. So somehow, even with all those different people with their different views, it is, miraculously, possible.

Why would that fundamentally change if we involve tech in that?
Yes, I was talking about the same thing. Also MOTD gets its updates from Ubuntu servers regularly. I just want a MOTD, not a complete status update from a server which probably marks this fetch as another statistic.
http://www.adamponting.com/

Only a few years old, not so much on there yet, but.. Some good things: List of movies/series watched since 2012 (which I consult all the time), huge quotes collection, fav books and writers, some of my maths art, some pages of (basic) maths I was learning, guide to bash, Miles Davis disc-gig-ography, Romance languages compared, etc..
> Signs like those famous Golden Arches can be useful.

I know this is picking on your example rather than your general concept, but this is a great example of how advertising is harmful. McDonald's has done incalculable damage to the health of Americans, and even if you don't go there, seeing the arches sometimes will get your kids yelling in the back seat, "I want to go to McDonald's!" This isn't helpful to us: it's helpful to McDonald's.
This is the first release of Elixir after the Nubank acquisition of the parent company - http://blog.plataformatec.com.br/2020/01/important-informati...
The internet giving rise to new pseudo cultures, does not counter that it is destroying real world cultures
Ethics require an operating model of the world in simulation within the AI, and that operating model needs to include projected hopes and dreams of the beings the AI interacts, as well as a complete operating model of the world the beings exist and the AI. "Ethics" requires general intelligence. Due to artificial general intelligence being potentially out of reach, so too is "ethical software" potentially forever out of reach.
I must confess that the eleven year old me didn't realize it would be a problem to put a screwdriver through the PSU grid to stop the fan from making noise and that it may have been preventing that musheen from working properly at some point.

Yeah, I am sensible to some sound :/.
Interesting. I strongly dislike Duolingo (because it seems very focused on passive recall, aka multiple choice), but think pretty highly of Rosetta Stone.

I haven't looked at either of Glossika or Pimsleur, but Glossika's page title is "AI-based effective language learning" which immediately reeks of marketing blather. Why do you recommend them?
b), c) & d) for me.

I know I will be disturbed within the next 30 minutes so I put off the deep thinking required to begin coding that oh-so-crucial function or refactoring. Exhaustion is another one - especially exhaustion from emotional disturbance. Double whammy.

Good list btw.
Their services otherwise run flawlessly for me. I appreciate the transparency.
Navy HE Physicist briefly responds patent questions
Some of those recordings are bonkers haha. 得 in particular seemed... Worthy of a double check. And 二 （or 儿？) Had a surprising cadence to it.

Swell idea though. Mobile support is a bit rough but not unusable.
What's wrong with the little popup that asks you if you want to report a problem every time a crash happens? Is there really any problem with letting the user choose on a case-by-case basis?

If it's happening so frequently that the popup becomes annoying, you've got bigger problems.
This actually makes me glad to use ZFS (FreeBSD and ZOL) on all servers, a broken RAID on a different filesystem could have meant complete data-loss.

From all of the cases I've read where people where not idiots (Not using snapshots and overwriting a dataset..), it's by far the safest filesystem I've seen during my 12 years working with it and I've yet to loose a single file.

Sure, performance can suffer and RAM is pricey, but safety of the data is more important.

Considering this is a hardware fault, I think Gandi.net did their best. However, they should offer clients optional ZFS-Replication as an extra measure.
Or probably the genes and proteins are the actual execution of the opcodes in this analogy.
I was going to title, "Navy HE Physicist gives crackpot response to patent questions" but considered that would be too click- or flame- baity.
Would it be possible to backup the precious metadata separately to mitigate the issue?
>But contractually, we don’t provide a backup product for customers. That may have not been explained clearly enough in our V5 documentation.

If you have a single point of failure for data and "snapshots" then you should explain that very clearly to customers. Moreover, as I understand it, competitors like AWS do not have such a single point of failure (ie: EBS Snapshots are on S3 and not EBS) so using the same terminology/workflow is going to cause confusion.
Actually IRIX works with old Adaptec PCI FC cards, but to get it running you need to recompile the kernel with some arcane, undocumented parameters. Back then when I was a regular of comp.sys.sgi.* newsgroups, Alexis Cousein gave me the trick and saved my day when my official SGI card died.
No it's saying it's useful at best and useless at worst.
So much for the forever, then.
I grew up in a house with 1 bathroom for 7 people. It was a living hell. I think that issue alone caused massive strife in my family.

My current house has 4 people and 4 bathrooms.
I use and develop https://tefter.io

I tend to organise links in lists. Some examples:

* https://tefter.io/zorbash/lists/ruby-rails
* https://tefter.io/zorbash/lists/devops
* https://tefter.io/zorbash/lists/elixir-resources
* https://tefter.io/zorbash/lists/web-development
I’d be curious to hear more... often a lot of nonlinear problems can be turned into mixed integer cone programs (MICPs) which are also often fast to approximately or exactly solve in practice.
Xkcd on Nytimes
Ubuntu 19.10 on the HP Dragonfly Elite G1
Many of the fundamental algorithms used were developed during the 1980s and 1990s, as were modeling languages like AMPL. So it's not 1950s math, even if the "simplex algorithm" was discovered in 1947.

It occurs to me that such a "service" could to a significant extent pick winners and losers among transportation companies; whoever they chose to plan for would have lower costs by several percent, and so would have profits several times higher than the competition.
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it happens to me all the time with a colleague that sits in front of me. every time he stand up, my monitor start glitching.
i found that cause a couple of weeks ago, and now i find it hilarious
Thank for your recommendation of Glossika I've never heard of it before but it looks good. I'm a beginner I've been using Pimsluer (for Mandarin) for a while while.

Although it's not perfect. I prefer Pimsluer over Micheal Thomas Method, which I've done previously. I'm just using it as a source of comprehensive input to develope my ability to able to understand spoken Mandarin (which MTM was awful for).

I'm sure I could use other programs similarly. Though Pimsluer probably has the most material. That might not matter if I get good enough to use films without subtitles and podcasts for my sources.

Glossika looks like it's geared more to how I'm trying to learn. I'll probably give it a try at some point.
The 'compiler' is also built from DNA. The amount of epigenetics inheritance is subject to debate AFAIK. In the end look at what's being passed on to carry the information through generations. It's (almost) just the DNA !
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Ships with a non deterministic OS and is labeled for automation?

It looks cool and I want to like it, but it needs a RTOS, if any at all, for automation.
Did China Steal Coronavirus from Canada and Weaponize It?
I'd like to have my laptop read out epubs or articles. Recommendations for speech synthesis (TTS) on the command line?
The separation between type and creator had other beneficial side effects. The Type code told you which apps _could_ open a file (by drag and drop or via the file chooser dialog). The creator code told you which app _would_ be chosen when the file was opened in the Finder (e.g., double-clicked). So HTML documents I had created in some web authoring tool would open in it for editing, whereas those I had saved from a web browser would open in it for viewing.

I don't remember it being possible to change either code using tools that shipped with the OS. I obtained a tool on one of MacFormat's early cover disks...
Yeah, their new branding is a little strange. But the original Glossika method (which the new software still essentially does) is to teach a language only via phrases - not grammar trees, isolated vocabulary words, or anything else.

I’ve found this approach to be more fruitful than the abstract one most books and programs take.
That links to: https://www.fema.gov/media-library/assets/documents/133454

It primarily talks about documents, but does have a bit at the end about valuables: "Think about where you store valuable belongings and ways to better protect
these items. If you have valuable items stored in a basement, you may want
to move them to a higher location and put them in waterproof containers to
avoid water damage. Or you may want to keep small items in a flood/fireproof
home safe. You may also want to secure items that are displayed on shelves
or walls if your home may be subject to high winds or earthquakes."

This also seems pretty sensible to me, and not likely to get you killed?
I would suggest this in order:

1. Figure out what you want to build

2. Read the getting started docs a bit

3. As you figure out which features you want, look up things on a need to know basis

And repeat that loop until your project is done.

As for learning material to help with step #3, assuming it's a web app, personally I found looking at the source code for https://github.com/thechangelog/changelog.com/ to be highly valuable. The Programming Phoenix 1.4 book is great too to fill in some gaps of a "self learner". Also Alchemist Camp is quite good for seeing how to do 1 specific thing or generally look for workflow / implementation ideas.
Huh. I was really confused by GP's statement but that explains it. Never ever have I seen a top loader with a vertical spin axis.
And perhaps python is just glorified assembly, but it seems to me to be a "difference in degree that leads to a difference in kind."
What we still haven't learned from GamerGate
In all irony it will possibly be our quest to impart our understanding of “ethics” to the AI which will ultimately lead to making it evil, as very few people seem to understand that ethics is completely flawed because it is culturally biased and requires a great deal of contextual understanding. It’s more of a political voodoo than a calculation
Didn’t India do this specifically for cities whose names have their origins in British colonialism?

That’s a very different context than a virus originating from a particular area.
I think it's implied that people mean ethical use of A.I. rather than just ethical A.I.
Allegedly Apple supported Codeweavers a bit.
They call it ”Welcome to The Detroit News’s EUROPEAN UNION EXPERIENCE”

https://eu.detroitnews.com/EU-learn-more/ has more info. Apparently, they claim/think they can’t show you a direct URL without setting a cookie.

Well, it _is_ progress relative to “can’t let you in”, but where do these kind of policies come from?
Reminds me of this gem of a comedy sketch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npEwra5344s
Note to all entrepreneurs, curious minds and gurus – STAY FOCUS ON YOUR MISSION
https://www.britannica.com/story/whats-the-difference-betwee...
Yeah, i can do that next time, sorry about that... I can also share the "friend link" so that everyone can view without needing a membership.. thanks for the feedback
> I've also dabbled enough to know that to do so would be really hard.

No, that's not true. Learn Brazilian Portuguese and you'll be 95% there. The major differences are in the voçe vs. tu (second-person singular pronoun). There are other differences (mainly pronunciation), but the core of the language is the same.

Source: I'm from Argentina and learned Brazilian (travel often). I have a few Portuguese friends and I have 0 issues talking and understanding them.
> tracking these changes with GIT works better

That's actually the main selling point I am seeing here.

Is there are any better format (apart from yaml maybe?) to collaborate on datasets, that can also immediately be used with code?
I have a similar issue with my desktop computer: when I suspend or hibernate it, it sometimes wakes up again when I'm standing, getting up from my chair or leaving the room. This also occasionally happens (when hibernated) after I have physically switched off the power of the computer and switch it on again. The issue occurred first a few years after I bought it, but right now I have just given up debugging it, as I have absolutely no idea what the cause could be. It's mildly annoying sometimes as I have to check that it's really staying put, but I can deal with it.
The first flaw with this argument is that consensus ethics are deliberately engineered anyway, usually by people with the money to finance PR and propaganda operations.

So the idea that (e.g.) libertarians have a free choice about what they believe is - ironically - not even close to being true.

The second flaw with this argument is that all of these positions could, in principle, be tested objectively.

The best possible outcome for true general AI - also the least likely in practice, but not impossible in principle - is that it could provide definitive answers to matter-of-opinion ethical questions.

And it could do this not just in terms of incomprehensible statistics, but as comprehensible narratives derived from explicit arguments.

In fact a hyper-AGI would know which arguments to use to be most persuasive and convincing - which isn't particularly reassuring, but it would be an inevitable outcome of hyper-AGI.
My first time. Absolutely hilarious!
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Have you looked at Dialyxir? [1] It makes Elixir feel like a structurally typed language. I use it at work, and it catches a lot of inconsistencies at runtime.

[1]: https://github.com/jeremyjh/dialyxir
Nintendo’s iconic logo escaped an “age-up” remake
Wow, nice find. Although that is not the story I was looking for. Seems like it isn't as unique then.
I used to do this for a few years: https://f5n.org/stack - but my interests have shifted a little and not too many people gave any feedback or indication that they read it.

These days I just save them to Pinboard, like I used to, and sometimes go back and find something I vaguely remember...
⇧ What he said :)
The Rainfall Map That Can Tell You If Your Home Is Doomed
To supplement your anecdata: having used many an old top loader, they do have different fill levels - varying from "small" filling halfway up the drum to "large" as high as it can go. As an individual, even using the "small" setting uses a huge amount of water - no way to wash a few pairs of socks or whatever other small loads you might have.

I've never had an issue with modern front loaders not getting my clothes wet. They are much better at spinning them dry at the end, though.
Warcraft III birthed a genre, changed a franchise, and earned a Reforge-ing
Even the police can't agree to uphold their own laws in this "peaceful western world" - every time I go outside right now, I return home to news of the people I'm living with having been beaten while in police custody, having been arrested for reasons like "your passport proves nothing about your identity". Breaking my friends' arms, kicking them repeatedly in the back of their head and their spine. I'm scared that next time I leave, that will be me.

Technology first and foremost helps those with the resources to use it. That tends to be the people with power in the first place.
Within the humanities there will probably always be a lot of people who love Freud because he lets them say subversive things about society.

But in the sciences he’s been debunked. Any Psych 101 book will tell you his methods are no longer used. Their most direct descendant, psychodynamics, is very different from its ancestor.

Within the sciences, check out Karl Popper’s work on falsifiability. Freud is his example of pseudoscience: it sounds smart, and it can explain lots of things in retrospect, but if you write down it’s predictions in advance they often don’t match outcomes. Practitioners don’t acknowledge this or try to correct it.
Note as of v1.9, Jose said the language was feature complete.

All subsequent releases will focus on improvements and bug fixes. Not new features.

https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2019/06/24/elixir-v1-9-0-releas...

>> ”As mentioned earlier, releases was the last planned feature for Elixir [v1.9]. We don’t have any major user-facing feature in the works nor planned. I know for certain some will consider this fact the most excing part of this announcement!”

Edit: fixed for clarity
Here's what it looks like:

left-right controls the temperature, up-down controls the flux

The smaller knob controls if the water goes to the showerhead or just out the faucet

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No option for DisplayPort? Currently trying to find a way to run two screens from my 2 port MacBook Pro (Macs don't support display daisy chaining for some reason) and the HDMI dongles I've used before have been so incredibly janky and unreliable.

The two ports on this laptop are an absolute nightmare, this wasn't my choice because it's a work machine but please no one else buy this thing because it's pure suffering, hubs never work reliably only cables that work are the single C to display port cable and the single official Apple C to A cable.

Every hub I try has drives disconnecting on their own, HDMI displays freaking out and so on. This isn't pro level computing if my data and displays don't work reliably.
:) There aren't as many places with ceilings that high. Cool space!

Fingers crossed Atlanta makes good moves on the housing / transportation front in the next 20-30 years.

This part (and the city as a whole) feels like it could go either way.
The top loaders I have seen here in Sweden have just been front loaders except the instead of having a window you load the drum through a hatch in the rim. That design should use exactly as much water as front loaders.
Most of the debate here is around evil use cases for this but I just keep thinking how it will aid in the creation of memes
Not to mention, there's a spectrum of disaster. Wildfire and floods are often not all-destroying, so you will have a life to go back to, and it would certainly be handy if your important documents had been backed up or protected. You could probably do it in a way that meant you don't need to actually think about it or action it during the disaster.
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Check Singapore https://www.apple.com/sg/

UK chargers, US layout, tax-free at the airport.
You’ll have to excuse me because I’m not in front of a windows computer right now, but if you open excel first, there is a data tab on the ribbon and an import data wizard or something like that and you can tell it what the delimiter is. You can also apply types to columns and whatnot before importing. Not the quickest but does help extract the data.
The problem with front loaders are that the rubber gaskets get moldy. You can get lower water use top losers now.
I used to work on a product that these would have been perfect for. At the time (early 2000s) we were using consumer mini-itx stuff in industrialised cases, because the true "industrial" stuff was all decade-old tech, or an absolute fortune (and still at least a couple years out of date).

These tick a lot of useful boxes, in particular the supply voltage, DIN Mount, usb host ability (plug in a PC to be able to field service a dead unit), real-time clock, and isolated IO modules.
I think of it as defense in depth. Civil institutions are indeed the place for disaster preparedness but in an actual disaster there will be transient problems of recognizing the problem, distribution (say) water, etc. in an earthquake immediate first aid may be needed when ambulances may be overloaded or sent to more critical locations etc.

Worrying about managing complete civil breakdown and indefinite self reliance seems absurd to me, especially in an urban setting.
I'd like to see how that's measured, and how it compares to real life usage. Our house came with a high efficiency top loader, but it constantly goes unbalanced if not really carefully loaded (and sometimes even then). Its solution is to try and rebalance itself by filling the drum up with water and agitating, up to three times before quitting with a warning.