skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes you're right, in our NLP course we used Turkish as our example.

But for the book I mentioned Polish due to this paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.10222 . But as you say, now the word "agglutinative" isn't technically correct. I'm actually not sure what the right word is to describe languages that have lots of big compounds with no spaces. (Which is the key issue here, as to why we need subword tokenization techniques).
That sounds awful! On such an otherwise lovely morning, too.

What do you think the correct response by management should have been? 15 minutes after the 1st plane hit, everyone shut down, go home, leave the files and binders?
> The amount of background knowledge you need to understand what’s happening here...

Not a whole lot, actually. You can go from C to this in about a week if you’re focused. (I did this a few years ago when learning C++. Now if you want to talk about initialization, that’s a whole ‘nother story…)
> I really don't get why people get so worried about this. Especially on a science oriented forum like HN.

That is downright obnoxious. Consider the following facts:

1. As another poster pointed out, millions of people in the US don't have health insurance. If they get a mild flu-like illness there is no chance they are getting tested. They'll pass it on to others in their community.

2. Millions in the US also have no paid sick leave, which is why I just roll my eyes when I hear the "stay at home when showing symptoms" advice you give. It's the ultimate oblivious "just let them eat cake" response to the dishwasher who won't be able to make their rent payment if they don't come in to work.

3. The death rate of those over 70 is in the high single to low double digits range. My parents are in their 70s, and otherwise in great health. I would be devastated if they were killed by coronavirus. Equating the significant possibility of them dying if they contracted the disease, something thousands of times higher than them dying in a random accident, to me shows that your line of thought is "Well, I'm in my 20s, 30s or 40s, so I'll be fine."

People are rightfully concerned because they are able to see the future impact the disease will have on others besides themselves.
China has a flu every year, their reaction to the current outbreak is vastly different from a flu. That suggests that they consider it a bigger threat than the flu.
OK, you've mentioned two different measurements: infection rate (I'm guessing you're referring to R0) and mortality (do you mean mortality rate or case fatality rate, because I was referring to the latter one).

The cruise ship had a strict room-based quarantine, so that would not infect the R0 of a general community-based outbreak, unless we institute similar measures (confining people to their houses, which is likely not feasible).

If you're referring to case fatality rate, I'm really interested in that data. Do you have a link? The case fatality rate from the cruise ship is a very small sample, and a very specific population, so it's susceptible to all kinds of bias. It's unlikely to be an accurate reflection of case fatality rate in the general population. Still, I'm interested in those numbers. I've not been able to find them online. Did they test all the people on the cruise ship?
Aren't we saying the same thing..?
it's as if everyone is working towards a quick exit rather than long term sustainability. Few startups seem to care about profitability and bootatrapping, it's all about hypergrowth, mostly using investor money.
Once the book is released there will be a whole website and prebuilt environments and lots more to get started quickly.

We didn't expect the draft to get this much attention, frankly!
Free transport in Luxembourg, but what's the cost?
> My identity has now been stolen 3x in the last 10 years

Something I've been curious about recently that maybe you (or others) can help clarify:

What do people count as having their "identity stolen"?

I've had probably three times where I've had fraudulent purchases made after someone stole our credit card info. Does that count?

In my mind, identity theft is more people taking out loans in your name or something like that.

Which is it?
> not watching crummy VHS tapes: the decline in ownership and reduction in ability to record / remix media.

what do you mean by this exactly? I can agree it's sort of sad that people don't usually own a physical/local copy of whatever movies/music they enjoy, but you can still buy physical copies of most media if you really want. I'm pretty the inflation-adjusted price is lower than it was in the early '00s. you could certainly argue that streaming is so convenient/cheap that it precludes this kind of ownership for most people.

the reduction in ability to record/remix media I completely disagree with. the shittiest smartphone camera records better quality video than a good consumer camcorder from the '90s, and you can edit the footage with free software on any computer.
Perhaps you should consider that your old, $250 billion company is going to be a bit more formal than a young, $50 million company.

If your company really does have a purchasing proces so rigorous that it will reject an "IT" contract signed by the CFO despite it being within their purchasing limit, then there's a reason for that. The reason typically being that in the past there was enough naughtiness by some CxO that they went to all the trouble of putting some heavy bondage into their purchasing rules.

Also, I would be willing to make a cash-money bet that CxOs shopping outside their domain authority don't get immediately fired for that. Even at your company.
Really cute. :) Liked the article.

That being said, I'm not looking to get back to C++.

Your work is interesting though. I'd like to see things like these upstreamed in Rust.
The Swiss government issued the following guidelines [1] to prevent further spread of the virus. Masks are considered useless unless you are infected.

- Wash your hands thoroughly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvcvvRp3lsY

- Cough and sneeze into a paper tissue/handerchief or the crook of your arm. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3_rFPtQgKE

- If you experience shortness of breath, have a cough or fever: • Stay at home. • Contact a doctor immediately by phone or call the coronavirus infoline. • Avoid contact with those around you. • Do not go directly to the doctor or to a hospital emergency room.

[1] https://www.bag.admin.ch/bag/en/home/krankheiten/ausbrueche-...
Where California has pre-emptively called a state of emergency, the providers themselves are likely taking cancellations.

Just recently it was posted that airlines were accepting cancellations on mention of the virus.
Ask HN: What is better Freedom or Equality
Question says it all. Also think deeply why one is better than the other instead of the first answer that comes to mind.
Have you been to a TJ’s? I’d imagine no experiences were missed. The store is fun, so I’d imagine the founder had a pretty fun life too.
> consume substances

I find this kind of euphemism use really weird. "Substances"? Water is a "substance". A carpet is too. Why not just say what one is actually referring to?
I did wonder about this, due to consumption of ... values / refs (terminology?) ... in Rust.

Thanks for adding this important detail.
They inserted spaces though, between characters and words. In this problem, all spaces are removed.
I have no clue about any of the acronyms yet I recognize all the names.
I’ve seen another user on HN who grew up in the USSR call it “soviet capitalism”.

A friend of mine also recognized it in this 2015 article (see footnote 1): https://reasonandliberty.com/articles/obamacare
There is an app called Urban Trees (https://urbantrees.app/) based on open data of several cities. With the app you get an AR view of the trees around you, with their labels etc.

They currently have data from Barcelona, Bristol, Clark County, Edmonton, Frankfurt, Las Vegas, London, Melbourne, New York, Paris, Portland, Rostock, San Francisco, Santa Monica, Seattle, Vancouver, Washington DC, Vienna and Zurich.
no one gives a ...
I've had induction for over 10 years at my parents place and there are no scratches. I have never even seen scratches on inductions stoves.

Compared this to the residue/grease that piles in hard to reach places when using gas, its completely different.
> (The practical solution for teleconferencing issues is to get people to join a couple minutes early)

If everybody has to join early, then "early" is the new "on time". It's just sacrificing a different n minutes for setup issues.
This has all happened before. This will all happen again.
http://www.paulgraham.com/yahoo.html
who cares about that guy... click bait.

101.6 ?? no one knows what this retard is talking about. Learn SI units!
qntm.org is a website worth browsing, if you've never been here before. Some of my personal favorites:

https://qntm.org/destroy

https://qntm.org/excellent
The Covid-19 Virus: How to stay safe
Also, you could add Amazon AWS to the list of businesses that look profitable now but are making their money off a lot of companies that are not profitable and never will be.
I don't want to be too hand-wavy, but this feels like such a "get off my lawn" type of comment that I can't even start to analyze it. So many of the items listed are 100% nostalgia or personal anecdotes generalized to a whole population.
I think I'd switch to the browser that allows a per-site setting "always open in a private tab"
Good question.

I wish, as in the romantic ideal of science, a consensus would emerge of what “the best” PRNG are, and how to choose among them. Instead, you seem to have many academics promoting their own ones (Vigna with the xoroshiro family, O’Neill with PCG, now this guy Overton with Romu).

And in effect every programming language has to go and make sensible default choices, while the experts in PRNG refuse to make unambiguous recommendations.

(FWIW, I’d advocate to have, by default, a cryptographically secure PRNG, and offer a choice of faster ones (like the three mentioned above) that have to be chosen explicitly, maybe naming them InsecureXYZ, for applications where speed is paramount.)
Yes the checkmark should be the solution in theory but it seems from this article that it is not implemented correctly.
Maybe banners, artwork, bio, follow relevant accounts, make some starter tweets with popular hashtags to get some follows back, interaction with some key people. I wouldn’t pay for it personally but someone might.
From what I see, it's less something done by people living somewhere but by people from elsewhere, e.g. when discussing travel plans.
> But there's also a decent chance it is still containable

I mean; I understand why national governments communicate this way; they (sort of) correctly want to avoid "panics", disrupting critical supply chains (food, fuel, medicine, etc).

But seriously speaking.. do you really see a way of this being contained at this point? I simply don't.
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Agree. While the government keeps citizens safe on one side, it is also actively involved in unlawful act of weaponizing pathogens.
The first article in this magazine about mycoplasma gives us a briefing on this topic: http://www.betterhealthguy.com/images/stories/PDF/PHA/2009_0...
That is what the UK estimates for UK alone.
> Worst case, it seems like the virus will mostly harm those who are at risk of death, but healthy people will probably be okay.

Plenty of healthy people have died, and it seems the disease is so aggressive that it can cause significant organ damage in survivors. Most healthy people are likely to be ok, but not all.
I frequently think this when traveling and, if anything, it's probably gotten worse. It used to be a case of giving some cash to someone in a booth. Now it's often about fumbling around with some machine, hoping your credit card works if you're in a different country, figuring out what the appropriate fare type is, etc. Oh, and doing this in a tourist destination like an airport so there's a long line of people doing the same thing. No one who designs these systems gives more than 30 seconds thought to their use by people who don't use them every day.
I like the design, hate the implementation.

Really doesn't work with react.

react + styled components is god mode. This is a step down (aside from the design).

At the end of the day, CSS isn't that hard anymore.

Design it in figma. Put it into zeplin. Copy paste the styles into a styled-component. You're done.

tailwind is only a step up if you're a russian php developer who has been using bootstrap for the last 10 years.
I've solved this problem to my satisfaction at least. YMMV
I use a scanpan on an electric stove, and just throw a tablespoon of garlic butter on top of the steaks and let em cook. Once they are ready to flip the butter has melted off and started cooking the garlic which I use with the butter to baste. I find I don't need to be moving the pan much.

Whilst the steak is resting I usually cook cut french onion in the same pan, when the onions are browned I de-glaze it with a half a glass of wine and let that reduce to get all the fond for an awesome pan sauce.
This looks like the Post Correspondence Problem at first glance: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_correspondence_problem.
Author is Laurie Garrett, author of The Hot Zone and an expert on infectious diseases.

Title modified to reflect current accepted name.

The guide addresses practical measures to be safe whilst continuing to engage in daily activities.

Gloves are far more useful than masks. As is distance (1.5 - 2 meters is generally sufficient).

The author was interviewed in this week's On the Media episode, "Black Swans", addressing these and other points (she specifically mentions this guide).

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/episodes/on-the-med...

Audio: https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/audio.wnyc.org/otm/...

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I think these are great counterpoints, and important to consider.

I would offer that I think we are more worried about dystopia because we are so much more aware of all of the ways the world can turn into a dystopia, but I don't think that necessarily tracks with the actual likelihood of dystopia.

I read a lot of history, and I occasionally find myself wishing I had lived in a... more "exciting" time, or a more authentic time, but then I remember that I would probably just be a normal person in that exciting or authentic time, possibly not even aware of the exciting-ness because I'd be trying not to starve to death or die of cholera.

We feel like a ton of crazy stuff is happening all the time, but history has always been that way. You'd be hard pressed to live for 80 years (period, ha!) in any historical period anywhere in the world and not end up going through at least one or two of wars, famines, disease-outbreaks, oppressive governments, fires, earthquakes, riots, etc. And maybe it'd be easier to deal with because you wouldn't see it coming on twitter for two months before it killed you... but man, reading history, a lot of people die, all the time, often for no reason or really bad reasons. And fewer people die now, but we're a lot more aware of it.
The first question is easily enough; I figured it out. I knew the third question also, but not the second question.

(Unicode is not suitable for all uses, anyways. Unicode is very messy.)
> Given Twitter’s track record though, I’d bet that the threading revolution will not actually unfold on Twitter itself. There’s a 50-50 chance they will do something boneheaded to mess up the potential, and starve out any products that attempt to build anything good on the quicksand of insecure attachment that’s the Twitter API.

Quite on point given Twitter has recently diminished the utility of thread-viewing within their web application. Now when visiting a tweet URL that is part of a thread, the UI displays only a single tweet, though the title says "Thread." Instead of replies, a "More tweets" section follows. The user must click "See replies" to actually see the thread.

The most egregious aspect of this anti-feature is that the URL doesn't change after requesting to see the replies. There is no way, to my knowledge, to avoid linking people to this frustrating interstitial page. Each visitor must individually navigate themselves past the "More Tweets" feature.

Presumably added as a ham-fisted engagement booster, the new interstitial has materially reduced my own interaction with Twitter threads because it adds friction. It's amusing how often engagement boosting tactics end up achieving the opposite.
>Masks are considered useless unless you are infected

Considering there are multiple papers out of china which suggest the virus is aerosolized, I think it's irresponsible for anyone to claim masks are useless PPE. Anything less than n99 or p99 might be useless, but that's a different story.

There's also one paper which claims that treating a mask with saline solution makes it substantially more effective against viruses. I'll see if I can't dig it up.

Governments the world over have already demonstrated that they cannot be trusted to properly handle this virus.
Making a graphics API cross-platform is definitely not where complexity comes from.

Apple wants to have vendor lock-in, but that is not news.
Hahahahaha!
Attention to Details: A Curious Case of Multiple IDORs
There is a great podcast by Stephen Fry, he suggests it's because we are able to store knowledge and share it without needing to be in the same place, i.e writing and other forms of documenting culture, that humans have shot so much further in terms of shared intelligence.

http://www.stephenfry.com/greatleapyears/
Remember when newspapers started printing color photos in them :D
yes and extend that to many governments.
Drivers Feel Abandoned by Uber and Lyft as Coronavirus Pandemic Emerges
That's a good description. I'll also talk about "corporate feudalism", where you have the Duke of Engineering fighting with the Duke of Product, and the King/CEO must mediate the conflicts. The peasants, of course, are basically property of their various nobles.

But I really like "soviet capitalism", as it points at a key contradiction. Somehow, fans of capitalism, which maximizes surplus value by freeing individuals to make economically rational choices, rarely seem to notice that large corporations never make use of the mechanisms of capitalism, instead relying on central planning. And like the soviet era, corporate central planners often do things that are economically irrational, but useful to their careers and their quality of life.
OT, but as the founder of a microISV selling B2B, I'd love to hear something about how you do sales and marketing? It's unquestionably our biggest pain point.
If you're going to bother replying you could at least list a thing or two which are not generalizable. You saying SOMA tent cities are a figment of my imagination, or they existed in the 90s or that air flight is now more easy and pleasant than in the 90s or what?
Some fun history: https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/3540
Too late. It's an interesting problem, he'll have talked about it with his colleagues and they'll have come to the same conclusions, it's a tough nut. They will conclude correctly that the company is full of arrogant assholes that have no idea what they are talking about.
Well...

> not getting lost while frantically driving down a freeway; or anywhere else, for that matter

I had a real "The Machine Stops" moment a few months ago when I was trying to get to a doctor appointment, and I'm running late, so I fire up the map app on my phone, enter the address, and get on the highway... and no internet. And yeah, I hadn't been to this location enough to know how to get there, and it's in a twisty maze of passages, all just enough alike each other to make "hopeful" navigation worthless.

Rebooted the phone, got the internet again, got to the appointment, whew.

And yeah, we have our old bag of maps in the car, but they're old enough that I'm not sure the office is ON those maps...!
It appears to be pretty much all western governments. at least 3 countries in the middle east appear to be pretty transparent, including surprisingly, Iran

The level of censorship around unquestionably authentic videos coming out of China has left me in a deep state of shock
That's more or less what I do: note the paucity of CC stuff released in the 21st century. Movies wise: England and Europe in general release fewer, South Korea releases more (people starting to realize how good South Korean film is). I guess China releases more also, but it's hard to take them seriously. Hollywood though, is bloody awful, and the slope is definitely down.
Beer, wine, rum and maybe some herbal drugs.
It might not be faster, but unfortunately the computer I'm typing this on doesn't support AVX2. :(
I like this because growth and progress of knowledge base, regardless of language or hosting platform, is incremental and cumulative. Wikipedia shows this effectively in the English channel because it happened so quickly. But even the legacy encyclopedias did this through centuries. Whether a bot lays the groundwork from other reference points or dedicated humans do it is sort of immaterial, I think, because the very long run this benefits the people who speak this language.

In an age where languages are dying with their last speakers, Visayan has done much to preserve their diversity -- although not a written/codified language, volunteers give radio broadcasts in the language, books are published in it (here the lack of codification shows by variance in spelling, verb conjugation, and sentence structure), and similar. Thank you to this wikipedian for doing something to preserve a wonderful language (I mention in another comment I am fluent and miss the regular speaking of it).
For Monte Carlo eg in finance, you’d definitely take the speed improvement. This thing passes Big Crush and PractRand - it’s going to compute the approximate value of your three factor Power Reverse Dual note just fine.
Freedom for whom: the lower or the upper part of the unequal?
I think its worth pointing out that the Rust code is more broken than the Go code in this example. Because Rust is trying to come up with a sane way to display the filename (a) it prevents users from using encodings the language designers did not anticipate and (b) it prevents the solution from integrating with other system tools. For instance, you can't run `rm "$(rust_program)"`, but you can with the Go solution.

But discussing any of this means you've missed the point of languages like Go. Instead of arguing about the best way to to represent pathnames that aren't a valid byte sequence under $PREFERRED_LOCALE, we should be talking to our customers and solving their problems.
Slow and Steady: Measuring and Tuning Multicore Interference (RTAS 2020) [pdf]
Hi!
It's my first blogpost this year.
It's about how a huge travel portal's customer PII data could've leaked through some remanant functionality.
This led me to discover a few IDORs.

Thanks.
So is there a way to prepare our bodies for getting sick? Me and my wife and our 8 month old live 40 hours a week in public, so it's going to happen.

We already eat healthy, me and the wife workout. But the kid? Not sure how to prepare him.
Elon Musk says Bitcoin scammers impersonating him on Twitter are ‘not cool’
Please read the docs. All your fears are addressed in the doc. The permissions are managed on the Hasura side.

Concerning the lack of sufficient privileges to create a view, you can always either ask for permissions, or create a second databse with FDW. Apparently reading your second paragraph you are allowed to create tables, so it sounds like you'll also have enough privileges to create views.

I don't understand your point on your second paragraph. You can do all of that in Hasura, it's in the first tutorial, but also the doc. Please note we are talking GraphQL so there is no CRUD. It is a query + mutation model. More flexible and powerful than CRUD.