skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ancient usually refers to the period before 500 AD (not BC) as indicated in my original comment. 500 AD is roughly the collapse of the Western Roman Empire, but definitely not the marker for before the Romans. It'd be nice if that explained it though.
Elections have been fraught with various levels of targeted propaganda for a long time. Cambridge Analytica didn’t really even prove it worked better than previous methods of targeted advertising.
That actually bodes reasonably well for AI/ML; a lot of these ideas are borderline practical from a cost/benefit perspective. The cheapest way to move dirt in a mining operation is actually to blast it into it its final location with chemical explosives. But it scales poorly with distance and controlling where the dirt moves is an Interesting Technical Challenge.
I get the impression the last sentence is written (and you copy-pasted) with a bit of sneer towards their religion; in case it is, how many videos have we seen of Americans watching disaster unfolding and repeatedly saying "Ehmagerd, ehmagerd, ehmagerd"?

Your account is 2 minutes older than this post... do we need to worry?
The complete project is very exciting, I hope that this is really a game changer, that enables private persons and startups to create new neural networks without a big investment for the data collection.

I worked for the Esperanto dataset of common voice in the last year, and we now have collected over 80 hours in Esperanto. I hope that in a year or two we'll have collected enough data to create the first usable neural network for a constructed language and maybe the first voice assistant in Esperanto too. I will train a first experimental model with this release soon.
To be fair most of the requests I've had have been from Chinese nationals trying to spearphish me.
It seems fair, i grew up near a US air force base and the standard of driving was.... questionable.

On the bright side if you do murder someone by driving on the wrong side of the road you can just catch a plane home and hide there, cant you Anne?
I am not sure where is this coming from ... I reported the statement as it is ..

the thing to worry about is this
: The crew was overconfident and not focussed.
Modern 35mm yes, and even then if the lens you put in front of it resolves 1mpx it doesn't really matter.

A 4k remaster of the first star wars still look worse than a modern movie shot on film with modern glass and cameras. Let alone early 1900s 35mm film.
Many local governments publish shapefiles (geojson) that have address information. You could parse out addresses and have a fairly simple free option. Since this data is based on property taxes, these data sets aren't going to be missing parcels (or the tax collector would be missing potential revenue).
Huh? The core/reference implementation was python-only. (Was python2-only for a while, actually--I helped change that.) Asciidoctor (ruby) is a prominent implementation, granted, but afaik there are quite a few other implementations in other languages.
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If it's already shared history it would be too late anyway - thread is about lying when you authored/committed.

Not really sure what the benefit in cheating your boss would be though? You still had to do the work at some time. Maybe you work extra hard one day but push only the first half of your commits, then give yourself a day off where all you do is check in at the end to push the fake-timed other half of them?

It'd probably be easier to find an 'unlimited holiday' job that pays you for output rather than keeping your seat warm.
And various pacific islands - locals and relative locals complaining led to the infamous bombing The Rainbow Warrior by the French when it was docked in Auckland, New Zealand in 1985. With allies like that, who needs enemies?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_the_Rainbow_Warri...
There’s I40 which runs parallel to the road for that stretch of it. Speed limit is 65. I’m sure people still speed plenty on that stretch of singing road, but makes little sense when you can go much faster on the freeway next to it.
> Many natural languages, like German and Finnish, are so syntactically and morphologically complex that there is no compact ruleset that can describe them. (...)

> Additionally, not every sentence in a typical Wikipedia article can be easily represented in a machine-readable factual format.

It doesn't seem like the goal of this project is to describe those languages, or to represent ever sentence in a typical Wikipedia article? The goal doesn't seem to be to have all Wikipedia articles generated from Wikidata, but rather to have a couple of templates to the order of "if I have this data available about this type of Subject, generate this stub article about it". That would allow the smaller Wikipedia language editions to automatically generate many baseline articles that they might not currently have.

For example, the Dutch Wikipedia is one of the largest editions mainly because a large percentage of its articles were created by bots [1] that created a lot of articles on small towns ("x is a town in the municipality of y, founded in z. It is nearby m, n and o.") and obscure species of plants. This just seems like a more structured plan to apply that approach to many of the smaller Wikipedia's that may be missing a lot of basic articles and are thus not exposing many basic facts.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Wikipedia#Internet_bots
A) If you're going to throw out blanket statements about "Indian scammers" then you need to do a little better than "everyone knows".

B) Removing the context ("Indian") from OPs post does absolutely nothing to diminish your understanding of the problem (too many scammers dirtying the pool).
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That the current hedonist lifestyle based on consumerism is sustainable in the long term.
I clicked on the article thinking it would be that. I got into electronics making little BEAM robot things from salvaged parts. BEAM robotics seems pretty accessible and has an interesting design ethos.
In my mind it's because you have a more direct route to the underlying physics of the problem than either hand-coding features or trying to learn them from real data (at least when that real data is as poorly managed and controlled as it usually is).

Our ML algorithms are really good at finding correlations -- but we don't necessarily know if the correlations in our data are actually the ones we want our system to learn. When we're using synthetic data, we have many more levers at our disposal to ensure that this is the case.
Yes, those techniques are what we are moving towards and we are slowly getting there, but for the time being they can't be universally applied.
The source of this table is probably a legal review of the different exam requirements rather than accident rates and reputation.
> The entitlement required to think you deserve to benefit from someone else’s work by forcibly inserting yourself into it — while loudly criticizing it — is stunning.

Eloquently worded.
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Sadly AFAIK it's just a bilateral contract thing. So if Virginia said "European licences can be converted automatically/you can drive here with them", Germany will also treat Virginian licences the same.
I was indeed referring to Pakistan. A decade or so ago, you had to bribe a person or two in order to get your license at the dmv, and they made the actual driving test next to impossible to pass, something like "Make a reverse L shape without hitting any cones" the L being a very tight fit. If you didn't have a DL, you'd pay a bribe every time you were pulled over, although the bribes would be to the tune of $1, although the times have changed since.
Well... I retract my previous comment then. Thanks for pointing it out.

(I blame viewing it on mobile.)
I don't want to shit on anyone's work but there are so many wrappers around qt, gtk and the others. I wish more people were writing guis frm scratch as opposed to wrapped the same old shit.
Probably not so hard to do:

- Personal reports from drug users

- since the majority of users are recreative users and not hardcore junkies, and even those are just people with various levels of mental issues, I would actually find this reliable.

- There are surveys that are taken, at least here in the EU, that track drug usage.

- Quality sampling of confiscated drugs

- Analysis of medical data (deaths, overdoses,...)

- Analysis of police data (crimes related to drug usage)

A lot of data out there.
Some of these labels veer towards electro sometimes but there's some decent IDM mixed in at the least.

* Analogical force

https://analogicalforce.bandcamp.com

* Further electronix

https://furthurelectronix.bandcamp.com/

* Touched - quite varied output, some IDM

https://touched.bandcamp.com/

* CPU records

https://shop.cpurecords.net/

Here are some more labels from the chilled out side:

* City centre offices

* Morr music

* ~scape

* Kit records

https://kitrecs.bandcamp.com/

Artists:

* BRAINWALTZERA (big tip!)

* James Shinra

* Cristoph de Babylon

* Doghn

* Bochum Welt

* The Remote Viewer (especially the "black" album, can't remember the name)

* Jan Jelinek (dub IDM sort of)

* Global communication
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I reject this analogy. Google and Twitter and Facebook aren't providing a government service (they never "bought up" the pre-existing public land). They aren't using violence or government services to enforce their rules (the police), and there are still other places to speak.

The actual analogy would be that the most popular saloon owner bans white supremacists, and they get pissy because the white supremacy saloon isn't popular enough to stay open, so the only place they can go is the public park, but no one hangs out there because there are only white supremacists there.

And man, that sounds like a great situation!

Edit: And I'll once again stress that these differences matter. They're profoundly important. You not being able to say a particular thing on a particular website is not an existential threat to free speech. The government being able to decree that certain entities are not entitled to their own 1A protection is. And that's exactly what you're requesting: that things you define as "platforms" lose first amendment protections. That's more of a threat to free speech than anything a single platform can do.
Ask HN: Small teams, how do work from home?
I would like to know how start-up and small teams suddenly moved to work-from-home model. Did you completely change anything on your stack, or started using an entirely different stack? How efficiently are you working, and what problems are you facing with the change?

For me it had always been:

1. Mail-in-a-box for internal & customer support email.
2. Gogs fot git.
3. RocketChat for team communication.
4. NextCloud for files sharing.
5. LastPass for password management.
6. DigitalOcean for DNS and hosting needs.

When we started working from home, we introduced Taiga for project management, BookStack for internal documentation, and Collabora app on NextCloud for document editing.

Things haven't changed much, but it feels like there's a lot to manage, including the servers, authentication, onboarding, offboarding, etc.

I prefer to self-host everything I can, partly because of the horrible things that happened to startup founders who suddenly lost their accounts on Google, GitHub and alike.
Gell-Mann Amnesia effect?
You get the experience at any speed, just in a different key.
Every time I see something like this I think back to the glorious days of Borland Delphi with it's beautiful drag&drop GUI builder.
Seeing the mob mentality surrounding this is honestly scary. All the top voted comments have pretty much decided that this is used for nefarious purposes, with absolutely zero evidence. Same goes for TikTok and the DDG favicon saga from yesterday. Whatever happened to Occam’s (edit: Meant Hanlon's) razor?
This comment doesn't make any sense to me. Why would the existence of a robot copy imply a lack of pain? How can you argue that whether humans feel pain is an unsolved question? Shall we experiment on you instead?
If you have a look at the different fortran implementations of BLAS gemm (matrix multiplication), you'll see that the transposed matrix cases are treated specifically. In fact, IIRC, the gemm function has flags to indicate for each matrix if it is transposed.
There's something ironic about a forum closing down because the author's pseudonymity was threatened, endangering his IRL business dealings; and as an alternative people talking about a forum you can only get into with specific IRL business dealings, and without pseudonymity...
"If one side says it rains and the other says it doesn't, agreeing to disagree is wrong"

No. Agreeing to disagree is accepting, that a subject is disputed with different, even contradicting opinions.

An AI could in theory extract both versions and present them as disputed. Meaning, there are different definitions of a word and the correctness of facts.

And "raining or not" is also not as simple as you think. A person from spain will consider a certain state as raining, which a british person might see as some humidity in the air ..
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People, just use -> https://tinyurl.com/y8qc6tfx

I can't write the name because is caped by algolia
Keeping track of new releases on these labels has become a complete obsession. That Ulla record sold out sharpish!!
The interactive inspection of each layer is beautifully implemented. I hope that one day we'll be able to make even more sense of the consequence of each individual weight, ie. know more than -0.52 for a given pixel.
The low bar for most of the social science publications and subsequently most of the findings from these fields so far. Entire branches of science make sweeping claims about races/classes of people based on one study in a small college town with 20 participants.

Now that the reproducibility crisis is shining light on this modern tea leave reading, hopefully the groundwork is being laid for overhauls of these fields.
It's fine if it's one of many channels, but at the time, it was the only way to get considered for the job.

I no longer think quizzes and tests are a good idea.
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How can you deduce the religion of the pilot from these words? It is just a common expression in many languages, even non-religious people. I don't know anything about urdu, but a postdoc in my lab is an arab-speaking christian and he says that all the time. Likewise an arab speaking muslim would say that.
Well thats no good. I will say, that for the customers Ive had who have suffered big problems with their search engines, Algolia has always been the solution. It just works, so its worth paying for. Im a little concerned that this change puts the price over the top.
In defense of hiring based on side projects
https://mobile.twitter.com/ChampagneSharks/status/1278523422...
And who is the government of the internet?
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OK, but now imagine if a Bay Area client tells you to lower your rate by 20% since you're based in Oklahoma and it should be more than enough for you...
Probably all of those.

Small core group founds a community about X

-> people who like X a lot join

-> people with no prior experience with X join (X is cool now and they want to learn)

-> people who care more about the community than about X join

The problem is that the lowest common denominator keeps getting lower as you increase the size of the community. If you want a tight knit community then you need some kind of entrance criteria or at least ensure that new users are moderated (basically impossible with open registration).
Documents are two way streets. You need them to prove your rights. You need document to prove your identity to bank or notary. If you are younger side, document helps validate your age in liquor store.
I trying use "american" examples here, but other countries can have other regulations or customs. Document, especially digital one, is very useful.
For example, I like do encrypt with id card, when sharing materials over untrusty medium. You don't need worry about key exchange, you don't need to teach or install software to other party devices: they already have knowledge, how it works.
It's also very comfy that I can send digitally signed documents and that isn't fringe thing, there is knowledge and bureaucratic processes, how to handle it.
You don't even have to go back that far. XAML and C# developed with Visual Studio and Expression Blend is a fantastic experience, it almost makes me wish Silverlight was still around.
Lazarus(open source and cross platform) is there, alive and thriving, actively developed and used.

https://www.lazarus-ide.org/
Sadly, AFAIK, BLAS hasn't been updated to use generics. It would be so nice to have support for integer vector/matrix operations in there (not that it would require generics to have that, but it could be easier to implement integer support with it, though I suspect that for efficiency reason it might not be used in the end).
What's killing free speech is failing to set and enforce reasonable limits to hate speech and eventually forcing an over reaction to deal with the severe consequences of that neglect.
And why is that? Would bringing water into your house by a bucket also be a great idea? Unlikely, unless it serves another, non-obvious point.
This is one big hurdle I think. If one has to refer to the english meaning of words for the whole project to work, then how is this different from just writing the whole thing in english and translating everything from this?
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This. Absolutely this.

I used to be terrible for "less legal" downloads until I discovered beatport, Juno and bandcamp.

I'm pretty sure bandcamp is one of the reasons for my vinyl habit now. Complete 180.
Apparently no one else cared enough about buying Sun assets, so I am quite happy that Java did not die with version 6, and something was made out of MaximeVM.
So everybody needs two phones? Stupid.
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> Barons of the Sky is a nice history of the early days of the aerospace industry, and it shows that in the early days, everyone was a hobbyist. Unlike other hobbies, like writing computer games for fun, this was a high-stakes pursuit. Good amateur plane designers made the front page when they set records, the bad ones made the obituary page instead.

...

> And since the tweet mentioned rockets, it would be wrong to ignore one of the founders of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Jack Parsons, who helped invent modern rocketry, founded a cult, got expelled from Caltech for a bit of both, and died from a rocket explosion at his home lab.

> Hedge funds do this, too. At a typical stock-picking hedge fund, the decisive interview questions are about what stocks you like and which ones you hate. Some anecdotes:

> Lars Kroijer, a young MBA, scored an interview with a very good hedge fund in the 90s. He describes the interview in his memoir. The manager asked him for stock picks. He said the market was inefficient, so the manager asked him to leave. Ouch! Lars straightened himself out and went on to run a successful fund, then retired at the right time.
At another fund I’ve heard about, the head of research liked to poll the interns and ask them if they thought the market was efficient. If the answer was yes, he said, they were fired effective immediately. Fortunately, in an efficient market it should be effortless to get an equally attractive job elsewhere.
I’ve bombed at least one interview by not having any good trading pitches handy. (In fairness to me, it was a fund using a strategy I hadn’t ever worked on. In fairness to them, I knew this.)

...

> As many people point out, the norm in favor of side projects is unfair to anyone with limited free time. What they don’t add is that this is a progressive tax: there’s a positive correlation between educational attainment and hours worked per week, as well as between income and hours worked per week. This was not always the case; “The idle rich” used to be a statistically accurate observation, but now the rich work longer hours and have less leisure time than average. But the average American watches four and a half hours of TV per day. If your work happens to be fun, you can devote that leisure time to side projects. If your work is boring, you probably shouldn’t complain that people who like their craft more than you and devote more effort to it are rewarded.

> (As a friend put it a few years ago, when such pop culture references were relevant, “If you know what a ‘Khaleesi’ is, you had time for side projects.”)
One of the things I find really interesting about Chinese history is that Sima Qian, writing in the second and early first century BC, recorded a number of Shang kings reigning almost a thousand years before his time. For quite a while they were considered legendary, lacking any other corroborating sources -- but the Shang oracle bones eventually confirmed that kings matching the names Sima Qian gave reigned in the order in which he listed them.

(The Shang kings' names are actually ordinal markers -- something like Shang Fifth, Shang Second, etc -- but they did not reign in the order suggested by their names.)

Sima Qian, like Herodotus, receives a lot of credit for establishing history as a thing people kept track of. But he must have been working from some now-totally-lost fairly faithful sources.

And speaking of the coincidence between the recovery from the Bronze Age collapse and the Spring and Autumn period, I'm intrigued by the rough coincidence between the beginning of the Bronze Age collapse and the fall of the Shang dynasty. In that case, the coincidence is much rougher, though -- the Shang dynasty appears to fall about 100 years after the collapse.
There’s also loud echoes of Nietzche’s metamorphoses - Child, Lion, Camel, Child. Most of us get stuck on lion or camel, either fighting or bearing up under burdens. The child simply is, and finds delight in those small elements of nature which are deemed irrelevant to those still labouring under the guises of misapprehended beasts.
The fact that nearly a third of Pakistani pilots are known to have a fake license might have something to do with it. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/nearly-a-third-of-pakis...
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Based on the very limited documentation it seems to follow a similar approach to PySinpleGUI https://github.com/PySimpleGUI/PySimpleGUI

PySimpleGUI is indeed simple and quick, not very elegant but useful for small utilities.
I get a page of results ... what do you think happens?