skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I completely agree with you. The original idea behind copyright was "we'll pretend your intellectual work is scarce for a couple decades so you can turn a profit and then it'll enter the public domain". When was the last time something entered the public domain? Probably the early 20th century. All the great films we grew up with? They were supposed to have entered the public domain a long time ago but Netflix still has to pay for them and as a result they're unavailable. After all these extensions, we'll probably be long dead by the time they become public property. If it ever happens -- I have no doubt they'll try to make their copyrights last forever.

The copyright industry isn't really keeping up their end of the deal. People should respond by voiding the social contract. There is no reason to recognize copyright as a legitimate concept much less lose any sleep over any infringement.
Because we are human beings. Art is just as much about connection as much as it is about technique.
World's first fully electric commercial aircraft takes flight in Canada

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/dec/11/worlds-first-f...

Of course far from intercontinental jet, but it’s a start :)
No, because the art allows me to get to know the person. If an anonymous voice tells me a short story I enjoy, I still get to appreciate the qualities of the person's storytelling (almost a completely lost art these days)
Can confirm, kid three is where it all goes to hell and there's not much you can do about it. I hear the difficulty levels off after that but damned if I plan to find out. No way.
antenna is still my favorite reddit client.

the ui is simple and fast. gestures are intuitive.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/antenna-client-for-reddit/id57...
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First, RaTG13 is not an ancestor, it's a sibling. Next, the evidence is based on ratio of amino acid changes to silent changes, not based on similarity.
So the answer would be the SOTA results are on arxiv but are posted on paperswithcode.com leaderboards only at conference time? Sounds unlikely.
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Allow me to mix it with one of my projects to show you a better way to display:

http://blueboxsw.com/labs/shogun/play.cfm?S_Key_Play=281C436...
I can appreciate the algorithm, and have appreciated in the past, if there are artful qualities to it, but in this case it isn't quite apt to say that as we are talking about the output of the algorithm, not the algorithm itself.
> I don't know, and I'm sure it doesn't either.

Even more pertinently, it doesn't care.
Not being outside enough at a young age probably does give you nearsightedness, so it's kind of related.

The key seems to be exposure to bright sunlight including the UV part so you could watch TV outside and I guess that'd work (modern windows are often UV blocking so cheating and watching in front of a window might not do it)

To be fair, reading or doing anything else indoors while not getting outside much is just as bad, though.
Unfortunately, as an adult, my fantasy I create for myself will only take the enjoyment so far. I need some things to be based in reality at some point.
No, don't stay away. That's not how these things happen, anyway. You don't start a relationship exploring anyone's childhood and family issues, you start by asking:

"So how was our weekend?"

And then if people, and most of them do, say things like "oh cool I took my son to the park / watch the game" or "my parents are in town", then what you do next week is ask:

"So, how's your son?"

And if they start talking, and most of them do because most parents like to talk non-stop about their kids, then you ask:

"What's his name, how old is he?"

That's how it usually works. Now, back to the first question, if they never touch the topic of family, anyway people talk about their hobbies, activities they do, things they learned. It is in fact very hard to meet someone every week and not learn about their life, and most people are open to this.

Just remember, most doesn't mean everybody, so just use some common sense and understand the boundaries. But let me tell you as a manager who had dozens of reports over the years, I never met a single person who has refused to talk about their spouses, children, or hobbies. And if they do, it's alright.
> Next step: remove the silly Korean phone number requirement from your online services.

Never going to happen as long as the Korean nanny state needs to keep tabs on its citizens.
The data does not support the claim breast milk is better than formula for long term outcomes [1]. Given this, it’s appropriate to be angry and frustrated at the way society and modern medicine treats women who do not breast feed. Especially when the woman is struggling to breathe.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/jun/20/is-brea...
Author here. I agree that Duolingo is almost certainly not optimizing for language learning effectiveness, which ends up being somewhat of a side-effect of their business model. However, by using the desktop version and turning off the word bank, you can better optimize for effectiveness for yourself.

Duolingo is certainly a grind, but I don't think that's 100% a bad thing. It's far from perfectly executed, but I think you need a certain amount of grind to really drill some of the vocab and grammatical concepts into you.

As an example, in a classroom you do some homework exercises, and maybe get feedback the next day on however many exercises you do. You don't necessarily get to redo the exercises you miss enough to let the concept sink in, and you might do way too many exercises that do nothing for you as you've already internalized the concept. With Duolingo grinding, you have to repeat your weakest points after you get them wrong and get to drill in all the exercises until they stick.

I estimate that each lesson of roughly 20 questions, with redoing exercises I got wrong, takes me something like 3-5 minutes, so in an hour of focused effort you might get 300 exercises in. That's far more exercises than I imagine you do in school for example, and you also get to decide if a unit is too easy and you can afford to skip it, or if it's hard enough where you have to repeat it. Plus, each sentence has a discussion page, many of which (especially the tricky ones) have detailed explanations about the concepts within the sentence.

Duolingo is far from perfect, but despite all the criticism it receives (rightly so for what it claims you can do with 5 minutes a day on the mobile app), you can actually make it a surprisingly effective tool.
Totally agree.

I believe there's a difference between "competence" (I know how to say X) and "fluidity" (I can say X as easily as breathing).

You can learn the first on your own. Takes a lot of effort, sure, but it's doable.

I don't think you can learn fluidity outside of actually living in a country. You need to be bombarded daily with questions that you're forced to respond to. Even then, some people just don't make the effort, which is why you get people who have lived in a foreign country for decades and their language skills haven't improved.

My first three months in China were worth more than the preceding three years of self-study.
Some of those kids might be coming up fine but a bunch of them are growing up unable to behave without constantly being entertained by YouTube. It's why their parents give them the devices to begin with—it's work to train them initially, and there's some unpleasantness and inconvenience involved, and giving them your phone works immediately—and why they have to keep giving them to them even when they're older.
I did it myself in the first days that the sequence was available and came to the same conclusion that this is almost certainly natural in origin and it helps to point out that bats are the most genetically diverse among mammals representing around 1 in 5 mammal species. There aren't that many bat genome sequences that have been performed and so it isn't completely unexpected to find that the spike protein has recombined with a sequence that isn't known. You can however do the translation to amino acid sequence and then search just that spike sequence against known proteins in NCBI and find that it is quite close on the protein level to other known bat proteins, at least in part.

I don't think it is engineered, however it still could be a strain that was collected and analyzed at the Wuhan lab. I don't know if we will ever have the full story on that possibility.
Well people have to create the training dataset so we're on that path, should the author choose to continue on it.
The numbers in the range 0-300 do not obey Benford's law. In base 10, a set of numbers that Benford's law if the leading significant digit d (0 < d < 10) occurs with probability log10(1 + 1/d). This isn't the case for the set of numbers between 1 and 300, inclusive.
"ditches" definitely not the word that should describe this (this is towards the article and not the HN submitter since it's the article's title); it could lead those who don't click to think it's another project Google has shut down.

> “We are transferring our Station operations in South Africa to Think WiFi who will now carry out the project independently,” a spokesperson told Business Insider SA.

> “We'll work with Think Wifi on a plan to transition the service to them, and continue to support them until the end of 2020. We remain committed to looking for ways to make the internet more accessible to users around the world.”
Author here. I heavily concentrated on speaking, but you're absolutely right that without that you can get quite far surprisingly quickly if you only care about reading. I mean, look at the millions of language students that can read complex texts in their foreign languages but can't spend 30 seconds discussing their day.
Ah, I supposed so, these things rarely go out. I suggest being upfront about it somewhere up on the site, I couldn't find that info.
Whenever it is approved, 737 MAX is likely going to be the safest aircraft that Boeing would have produced. There has been so much scrutiny after the past 2 crashes that at this point every remote possibility has likely been considered and taken care of.
If I hand my child over to someone else to raise forever, I'm ditching them. :p
If you really don't care about speed, use Zopfli as a replacement for zlib.
I don't really know why Google, a company, is doing what should be done by the government with no clear benefit to the bottom line. This is not to say they shouldn’t do this, but if you look at it that way, it shouldn't be surprising at all.

If they really wanted to help they probably should have teamed up with the government to ensure that there is government buy in to the program.
Many (Most?) Parents pick and drop off before and after work, so around 8:30 to 5:30.

My kid's bedtime is 7:30. So not much time to do anything other than eat and get ready for bed.
They are product and feature names used by the GCP platform (and this article). It's perfectly accurate and descriptive.
Author here. You're absolutely correct. Make that deck 5000 non-cognate words and 50 words a day quickly becomes unsustainable. Not to mention the alphabet(s) required for a language like Japanese. French is a language I think any decently well-read person (so as to recognize many of the cognates) can learn vocabulary in surprisingly quickly, considering how much of English vocabulary is derived from French.
I think you have an opportunity here --- I found myself wondering how much it would cost to get a nice-quality print on canvas or metal. Something I could hang in my office. They look that good. Are they (or could they be) generated in sufficiently high resolution for a large format print?
Yes – sibling, not ancestor. Regardless, the analysis is premised on the RaTG13 genome, and I am somewhat skeptical of analysis based on RaTG13.

I think accidental release of a naturally evolved virus is still a plausible hypothesis. To discount it as "conspiracy theory" seems to be wishful thinking.

I will continue to monitor findings on this until more conclusive, non-RaTG13 derived evidence is available.
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It sounds like you come from the C++ world, where the compiler is basically an adversary playing gotcha games.

But the web has a different culture where webpage and user agent collaborate. Scripts try to account for browser bugs, and browsers try to render even syntactically invalid pages.
I’m not needed here.

This has no relevance to me.

You know where I sit. Let me know if there is anything you actually need me for.
Not exactly. The BIS is owned by 55 central banks... which implies that it is subordinate to them, not the other way around. It is a way for banks to lend reserves to one another, basically. So it is a ledger, for sure, but a debt-based on that exists only for easy transaction settlement and not as the “scorecard” of wealth that a true ledger would imply.
Would you please stop? This combination of flamebait and pedantry is definitely not helping.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Multi-cluster global load balancing isn't "very basic" and no other cloud is any easier.

AWS requires stacking the Global Accelerator on top of their ALB/ELBs but doesn't have smart routing across clusters and Azure only has Frontdoor which requires completely manual setup and has no backend integration.
Could you shed some light on the sector and infrastructure where TPF, CICS and VASM are used? I've never heard of it and had to google it all[1]. What exactly do you mean by "economy scale transactional stuff"? Is something like central bank clearing house?

[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transaction_Processing_Facilit...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_Storage_Access_Method
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CICS
Minor nitpick:

All works of the _federal_ government are public domain. The works of other governments may, or may not be.
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A 3 month old at that
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I've never been to Japan, but whenever I read these articles, I am reminded of the Japanese word 'Kaizen' which means to continuously improve your work. The way I understand it is to step outside of yourself while working and to see your output as to how it will be perceived over time and from an outsider's point of view and ask from that person's point of view what could be done better. I might be wrong, but to me, as a programmer, it is like seeing the code that I've written and see if it is simple to debug and simple to understand for people who will see it after me. A kind of stepping away from our creation.

Previously, there was another article on this [1]. And the corresponding HN thread [2]. And also a wonderful comment [3].

[0] Kaizen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaizen

[1] https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200114-why-japan-is-so-...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22055867

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22061001
love the retro styling
Human body is complicated - when we think we know something today, it's not uncommon that eventually the evidence will come out proving us wrong. Doctors used to recommend smoking to people for stress release, all based on solid scientific evidence that was available at that time.

So whenever people make a dramatic switch to soy-based diet from a carnivore diet that we evolved with over millions of years, it's always important to acknowledge a possibility of side effects that we don't currently know about.
That's great context, thanks!
Well said. I actually do appreciate many forms of art, but I feel that many artist (that I know) are just a mixture of regurgitators and expert salesmen. They make something random, then come up with a backstory that makes it somewhat interesting. This AI can out perform them, without the need for the ingenuous hook story.
They look great. If you make something where people can pick say paintings/styles they like, and then you generate custom for them until they choose one (and presumably then un-watermark or high res it), you may have a business here.
Site appears to be down at the moment. Some shameless self-promotion since there appears to be some interest in this, I recently trained a StyleGAN model on Fauvist artists:

http://gregorywieber.com/art/a-walk-through-latent-space-mak...
Remind me of this ... from 2003!

http://jcbeck.com/features/compression/
Me to Google: Stop messing with not being evil. It's hurting Everyone.
> however it still could be a strain that was collected and analyzed at the Wuhan lab. I don't know if we will ever have the full story on that possibility.

Exactly. It's possible. Who knows if we'll ever know.

The only thing that bothers me about this whole story is the multitudes suggesting an accidental leak is pure "conspiracy theory", when in fact it's a plausible hypothesis.

It is truly puzzling that so many people are so strongly, and so emotionally, opposed to the idea of an accidental leak.
study conducted in 2005; n=35; p-values vary based on measurements; study conclusion is "[...] soy protein, regardless of isoflavone content, decreased DHT and DHT/testosterone with minor effects on other hormones, providing evidence for some effects of soy protein on hormones."; further study on larger/more diverse populations required.

Read study entirely and in context before judging effect size based on study alone but the data indicates further study is worth pursuing.
Google gets just a little bit shittier, every day. Amazing.
Je suis l'auteur. Je pensais à écrire une version française, mais il y a 9000 mots dans l'article ! Ce serait un tache énorme et probablement pas la meilleure façon de passer mon temps, car j'écris bien moins vite en français qu'en anglais. De plus, j'imagine que la grande majorité de gens qui vont lire cet article sont anglophones.

(For those who don't (or do) speak French, I tried to write this: "I'm the author. I thought about writing a French version, but there are 9000 words in the article. This would be an enormous task and probably not the best way to spend my time, since I write significantly slower in French than in English. Furthermore, I imagine that most people who are going to read this article are English speakers.")
So the soy boy meme is now backed by a scientific study.

EDIT: I didn’t realize the study was from 2005. In that case the research predates the meme.
It still is... if you're just running a few apps on single server, or 1 load balancer VM in front of a few other servers.

This article is talking about routing traffic from a single IP globally to multiple backend Kubernetes clusters that can be running in any region. Traffic will automatically go to the closest region (with available capacity) or otherwise fallback to other endpoints, while also bypassing much of the Kubernetes network stack to go straight to the running pods via GCP's software-defined network.

The complexity here is warranted if you need the flexibility and features. If you don't then you can just stick with nginx.
This was published in 2005, and the title of the submission should be dated appropriately.
That's big if true - people usually suggest the isoflavones are to blame, rather than the protein itself.
I'm building a competing product over at https://puump.com which can post RSS feeds (automation is still in the works, so its manual for now)
DHT causes hair loss, perhaps you can hope to keep your hair longer with Soy protein
I've noticed that's rather common with NIH studies. Small sample sizes and large conclusions.
More people using web -> more ad revenue for Google
Author here. Thanks for assuring me that these drawbacks aren't so bad! I did want to include these sort of limitations though so that people don't think I can do everything a native speaker can do. In particular, I wanted to avoid giving off the "I GOT FLUENT IN 12 MONTHS USING THIS SECRET TRICK!" vibe.
Levels.fyi is not verified data.
It seems to work worldwide: I watch it from Japan. Interestingly most of the commercials are not displayed from here, instead we get the rolling presentation of the channel.
Author here. I have never configured a website like this so I wasn't aware of these problems. Any tips for fixing this?
Not a pilot but I’ve seen pilots doing a bunch of checks on engine metrics before pushing back from the gate too!
Your assertion that for large ranges every digit has the same chance of appearing is very wrong. Your empirical test is rigged by choosing a very rare max, literally the only one where it would “prove” your assertion.

Benford’s law appears when the max of your range is uniformly distributed
I mean it is certainly the case that the top 5% get to shop at better stores in the USA. And the top 1% even more so.

Now if you’re really concerned with who was authoritarian, I wouldn’t defend them.

But it sure doesn’t seem obvious to me that there was more inequality in soviet Russia than there is today in the USA.
It's pretty cheap and offers branding, data, ad impressions, and the opportunity to upsell other Google services. The government is very ineffectual in these areas, if it even exists beyond a name. These services will never happen without big companies starting them.

At least Google tried, and it looks like they're able to hand it off to another company that can keep it running now.
On one hand: YAY SCIENCE AND DATA!

On the other hand: Ahhhh, figs.

The sample size is incredibly small (n=35), but it appears to be a well-constructed & controlled study. This merits further investigation. And that's exactly what the abstract ends with.

My husband and I switched to soy milk about 15 years ago. Anecdote, he had his testosterone tested recently and it was fairly high [he's completely bald], I have not had mine tested ever. We like soy milk because we get the raw stuff without the gross thickeners like xantham gum or carageenan, everything else seems to add that (oat, rice, hemp, almond, etc.).

But data is data.

Hopefully this isn't one of those "un-reproducable studies" but it was done by the NIH and not a university.
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Author here. You are right, that was a lot of cards, but doing it in French is several times easier and faster than doing it in English due to the massive number of cognates and near-identical alphabet. The 5k deck was also, as you say, a massive time saver, if not less effective than making your own deck.
NTT urges 200k employees to work from home as virus spreads
Not discounting your experience, but we have clients in all three, and our own experience is that Azure support and service is _significantly_ better than AWS and GCP, to the degree that we primarily recommend Azure for that reason.
Thanks for sharing! Your posts are awesome as usual!
I’ve been exploring this space and find myself thinking of Andy Warhol. I would definitely consider him an artist. A great one even. But his work was quite different from Picasso. Warhol had a factory. His silkscreens were often done by assistants. It said something about the Modern Industrial Age. His work raised questions about authorship, authenticity, etc.

I found myself thinking about similar things when I trained a neural net to make art: who’s the artist? Me, or the machine?
The stock market didn't like the news. Perhaps investors don't believe working from home is more productive.
For the record you’re changing the goalposts. The op claimed that his example proves that the digits always have the same chance of appearing, which is clearly false.

When the max is uniformly distributed then Benford’s law emerges. I mean, all you have to do is read the link - where I derive it.

What exactly is the law — please don’t handwave. If the law is those exact point values mentioned in the article then I just showed you how we arrived at them.