skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“Homonyms and synonyms, anyone?”

I think, for this case, that’s mostly solvable by being careful to not make assumptions. For example, you should create separate translation strings for the ‘for’ in “for…in” and in “for…each”, and for the ‘define’ in “define function” and “define procedure”.

Also, when (not if; if your language is successful, it will happen) translators report problems, you should ‘simply’ not hesitate to introduce new ‘clones’ of to-be-translated words.

Even ignoring languages with different word order, that wouldn’t make things perfect. For example, there will be languages where the correct way to say “define” depends on the (perceived) plurality or gender of the function name.

I think the correct way to handle this is by letting the translator produce a grammar for your language that produces the same tokens as the ‘original’. That probably is beyond many would-be translators, though.
“ Q: How many rainbows does it take to jump from Hawaii to seventeen?
A: It takes two rainbows to jump from Hawaii to seventeen.”

Maybe the AI knows something we don’t here.
Yes, after someone pointed it what's inside. :)

Otherwise, I consider it a good habit to avoid clicking on clickbaity titles. Here I got a false negative.
Not enough gestapo maybe?

https://www.npr.org/2020/07/17/892277592/federal-officers-us...
Dub Tropical House: World Electro Sound (2020)
I moved from Evernote to OneNote six or seven years ago and use that for a mix of work notes, document scans and the occasional TIL-style note (as well as a few things I want to keep track of between work/real life).

Everything else goes onto my public wiki/blog (taoofmac.com), which is just Markdown inside a git repo.

But I am struggling with web page snapshots (the OneNote clipper is horrible when compared to Pocket, which I also use) and more structured notes, since OneNote has become quite slow on iOS of late and it is a pain to draft anything beyond a few paragraphs.
For me the most important part of note taking is quickly retrieving previous notes. Paper notes don't work for this if one has lots of notes, so digital it is.
Ask HN: Advice on building technical spec landing page?
I'm in the process of finalizing a specification [1] and reference implementation [2] that I've been building over the past couple of years, and now I'm thinking about (dreading) the marketing aspect.

There's going to be a lot of slogging to gain any traction of course, but one aspect in particular I want to focus on soon is the landing page. Hopefully it would be pretty basic and static: A front page to get people interested, the specs, and pointers to implementations.

I have the domain name already, but I'm not an artist, marketer, or UI person. I'm wondering if anyone on HN knows of some good technical landing pages they could recommend for me to use as inspiration? Any other advice would also be welcome :)

[1] https://github.com/kstenerud/concise-encoding

[2] https://github.com/kstenerud/go-concise-encoding
Not sure there is a solution for this. To create a money machine like Cisco is extremely difficult and valuable. It is natural that the culture becomes more conservative, plus large orgs are conservative by necessity and bureaucratic. Also, most innovators won't put in max effort when they dont have full control and are under tremendous pressure. In a big rich org like Cisco, the comfy status quo is always whispering to you.
Same here, my garden with raised half-finished hugelkultur is teaming with life: moles, voles, and chipmunks.

As soon as that happened the birds of prey started hanging out. Since my cat passed last year, a large 5 foot black snake has filled the void as the top preditor. (No worries it's a constrictor! Not venomous!)
Totally agree.

Nothing makes me more upset than needing a pad and paper at a moment's notice, but having to reach into a backpack or a messenger bag instead. That feeling of dread when you realize the moment has passed, the thought is gone forever, and if I had only had quick access to my pen and pad, I would have saved a potentially enormously lucrative idea. But the extra 5 seconds to take the paper and pen out of my backpack the one time every year I need to write something down on the go cost me dearly. Now, I optimize for that rare situation. Sure, I look like a 15 year old manchild who never learned to properly dress himself, but that's fine, I work in tech, and don't need to interact with non tech people who have preconceived notions about me.

And don't even get me started on regular pants pockets for your phone or wallet or keys. Sure they fit securely, are easy to access, and are universal, but they're not functionally elegant cargo pockets.
"LeBron James is famous for being able to remember every shot he makes"

No he isn't, and no he can't. This is total hyperbole and he has never said he can remember "every shot" he has made. He can identify games from short sections of video, and he can remember certain memorable dunks, etc. But he can't (and no one else can either) remember every shot (including failed shots).
If you do the crime you do the time.
Helped Build a $3B Startup and His Fourth Is One of the Fastest Growing in Music
Foreign professionals still allowed in (points based system), and the London property market remains a great place to launder money.

You’re right food prices will go up, but house prices won’t come down.
Timegpt – All in One Solution
I once had a levi's that had a chained pocket in lower back thigh. Awesome place to store phone. I miss the jeans though
Why would imports of vegetables be more expensive? The EU doesn't have export tariffs.
There’s not really a European identity like American’s have. You can live in Texas or Idaho, but consider yourself American. I’ve never met a Spaniard, German, or Englishmen consider themselves European first, and their nationality second.
The Apple Touchbar: the other problem
> 1/3 of London burned down in 1666. It was right at the end of the great plague of London

kind of like 2020.
In the "Behind the Bastards" special podcast series "Behind the Police", which ran only a month or two ago, one of the running themes of the police is that they historically are not just entangled with corruption, but are a source of corruption. In particular, in "How Police Unions Made Cops Even Deadlier" [0], they examine several cases where police unions were the primary nexus of organized crime in major cities in the USA.

Another major theme of the police is that they are slave patrollers, which is where the Klan connection becomes most obvious. (And there is an entire episode, "The History of American Police and the Ku Klux Klan" [1], dedicated just to that topic.)

[0] https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236...

[1] https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236...
this sounds neat
Yeah, wake me up when the Chinese or Russian military leave burning piles of rubble all over the globe at anything near the same evil rate as the US military industrial complex needs, just to keep its wheels oiled ..

10 million people being genocided in Yemen, with American military support. Iraq lost 5% of its population to illegal American war. Afghanistan had more bombs dropped on it by US forces last year than at any other time.

Not even close to the same levels of evil.
We've Created SMS Number Verifier – Free Disposable SMS Numbers – Tor Supported
> But why is this a bombshell (implying a surprise), rather than the natural, expected consequence of the UK leaving the customs union?

Because those who promoted brexit comprehensively lied to the electorate about the consequences of brexit.
There are a lot of apps that require SMS verification for using their service nowadays. Examples are Discord, Facebook, Uber, WeChat, Google & more.

That’s why we released SMS Number Verifier. Using a fake phone number to receive verification messages prevents the risk of putting your phone number out there.

Fully open-source as well, PRs are open.
This just made my day, thank you so much.
Let us know what countries you would like added for our own provider, and we’ll be adding more.
If you use "passes through" as a standard, surely C would be the biggest thing ever since Linux+BSD+Windows make up way more than 99% of operating systems and those are all written in C.
I can finish compost in as little of 30 days in the right time of year, with the right inputs.

Cold compost process takes a couple years, hot compost takes months.

Hot compost is great for kitchen gardens, cold compost is great for food forests.

Hot Compost is bacteria dominant.

Cold compost is fungal dominant.
> There were certainly no senior managers willing or able to sacrifice the golden goose of film to pursue something entirely different.

Bingo. Innovator’s Dilemma. You have to be willing to eat your own lunch because otherwise a competitor will eat your lunch.
The UK has import duties. https://www.gov.uk/check-tariffs-1-january-2021
I can create an RPM containing a filename "TRAILER!!!" just fine:

$ rpm -qlp /home/rjones/d/fedora/virt-what/master/x86_64/virt-what-1.20-1.fc33.x86_64.rpm
/TRAILER!!!
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/59
/usr/lib/.build-id/59/59c1cb95689b7babd5a6cb1b5bc58f12e20b3a
/usr/libexec/virt-what-cpuid-helper
/usr/sbin/virt-what
/usr/share/doc/virt-what
/usr/share/doc/virt-what/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/virt-what/README
/usr/share/man/man1/virt-what.1.gz

Furthermore I installed and uninstalled it with no ill effects, and the file was created and removed in /. So whatever problem cpio may have with this file does not affect the RPM-not-quite-cpio format.
Does anyone have a non-paywall link?

(And if you know how to create one, can you share the method?)
That’s true for any information, but why would you introduce that problem for your (certainly initially) fringe programming language?
I think this is one thing that would be very, very difficult to study right.

There is huge selection bias. Playing chess for a long time select people who are very different from general public and from people who just decided to play but will drop it soon. People also play chess in a different way: some people play just to kill time while some play really competitively.

I think that regardless of whether chess in itself doesn't do much (I would be surprised if that was so), people who can stick to playing chess competitively are more likely to also exercise their minds in other ways.

I also believe that playing chess is one of those exercises that have other beneficial results (like training focus). Other example might be running which I think of the beneficial effects one that people forget to mention is training ones willpower (assuming you do more than just light jog).
Now xerox machines store everything they copy to disk and listen on multiple open network ports. I bet some phone home for updates by default.

I wonder if they’re all bugged these days.
> You can's fix that problem with more data as many responses to my comment seem to assume.

From my reading, you've asserted this to be true, but haven't given any more support to why then the people who have asserted it to be false.

GPT-3 isn't a human brain. I want to understand your argument as more than "planes can't fly because they don't flap their wings".
What are people's preferred solutions for markdown + latex?
I'm a medical professional that had a post- viral syndrome following the flu. In retrospect, even though I didn't realise it at the time, it may have lasted for over a year. It easily fit the definition of depression, but less so the negative symptoms. Could also be classed as stress or anxiety. It went away when I cancelled all my commitments (at the time my director of studies said I was on a course to fail, and advised I handed over other responsibilities in the run up to the exams to other people). Turned out it was overkill and I had plenty of free time. During this time I returned to my normal self, and I'm more self-aware of the issue now.

In ME/CFS one of the treatments is 'graded exercise therapy'. Given my experience, I should have done something like this earlier on.
Totally agree. Having to think about how I need to organise my thoughts as the same time as coming up with the thoughts themselves always seems like a burden!
Being able to maintain an occupation seems highly determined by the local population will and ability to fight. In the 1980's the Russian army tried to occupy Afghanistan and the Chinese army tried to march into Vietnam. Both had extremely brutal power structure on the civilian population, and both took severe damage then left.
Digital notes are too limiting in my opinion.

All digital note apps have the problem of making me work very hard to fit my thought into their "organization" of things: hyperlinks, a list of some arbitrary order, a tree, synchronization quirks, and whatever.

It's very painful to work outside their envisioned use cases.

For instance, most open-source solutions focus on a plain text, and if I do use plain text, they are reasonably good. They problem is I need more than that. I need diagrams and tables. Tables written with ascii characters are really hard to maintain.

In the end, I went back to a notebook, and occasionally a stack of sticky memos when I need to clean up some disorganized thoughts. The benefit of the physical world is the freedom of doing whatever I want to the medium: ordering, clustering, rotating, clipping, pasting, etc.

I guess that the digital user experience just isn't there yet.
I have beaten you to it by 5 minutes.

:)
I could be wrong, but I think in 1999 Amazon was still only selling books. Certainly they did not sell the variety of goods they have now.

There were thousands of online shops at the time, selling everything that Amazon sells today, and it was common to purchase from them using CC or PayPal.
They probably got the reps to disclose the phone numbers by saying is this the right phone number? And then they made a SIM card for that number to get the 2FA text
After Life and a Post Plague Reality
Zoom is a particularly good example because it shows the same cycle the "chat" space has been stuck in since 1993 or so.

For a while IRC was cool, then it was CUSeeMe, then there was Paltalk, and ICQ, and AIM, and Microsoft Messenger and Skype and Lync and Skype for Business and Google Talk and Facebook Messenger, and...

If you look at them closely you can find some improvement (e.g. Zoom has a server that makes the "Hollywood Squares" view of all the participants) but if you look at them broadly they don't seem to have gotten better over time, they've just locked people in, stagnated, then something new comes along. It's hard to see how Facebook Messenger is different from AIM except for what it is locked in to.

If the EU really wanted to show some leadership it would put an outright ban on proprietary chat programs and force them all to use open protocols. Think of it as a part of a "computer user's bill of rights". Every time somebody wants me to download some new chat app I want to throw a hammer through a screen like that Apple 1984 ad.
I thought clouds are magic and can never have an outage.
Similar experience here. Digital notetaking on non-touch devices fundamentally doesn't work, because non-textual expression requires too much work, digital notetaking with a stylus is better, but still doesn't work for the reasons you outlined.

Writing with a fountain pen on good paper is like meditation to me; you wouldn't want to contaminate meditation with computers, like they contaminated everything else...
I like using Notability with the Apple Pencil on the iPad. Hoping the text recognition in iOS 14 works with it.

GoodNotes is also nice. These pdf’s were created with it.

https://github.com/melling/MathAndScienceNotes/tree/master/s...

I also use Bear for my Markdown notes. Having everything on my iPhone and easily searchable is important for fast retrieval.

Apple Notes doesn’t let you limit search to a folder/tag.
Where Are Programmer Communities?
That really isn't similar in terms of usage. "Taco John" is a person's nickname. (And then, Taco John's is just the place that belongs to Taco John.) But you wouldn't call someone by their last name.
What i like about real notebooks is the 'flicking through'search function.
My #1 thing about CSS - it's OK to use tables ("display: table" to be exact).
i would be interested in follow-up regarding whatever you find.
The easy answer is to only sell locally, in this way you don't need to sterilize and it doesn't cost as much to transport fertility which can be made on site, around the globe!
I admire your efforts, but it seems to me it would be easier just to get everyone on Earth to agree to speak the same language. That would merely be impossible.
"be real" for being realistic, asking a better question that is not nonsense.

Loosely translated: "yo be real" = "Hey, please be more realistic with your future questions"
How many of you remember MegaHal (1998) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MegaHAL

It said many random clever sounding things. For example:

I COULD SHAKE MY TINY FIST AND SWEAR I WASN'T WRONG, BUT WHAT'S THE SENSE
IN ARGUING WHEN YOU'RE MUCH TOO BUSY RETURNING TO THE LAVATOR.

COWS FLY LIKE CLOUDS BUT THEY ARE NEVER COMPLETELY SUCCESSFUL.

COWS FLY LIKE CLOUDS BUT THEY ALSO HAVE VERY SAD DEATH. BUT AT LEAST WITTY?

TIME. TIME. WHAT IS TIME? SWISS MANUFACTURE IT. FRENCH HORDE
IT. ITALIANS WANT IT, HUH? WELL, I MUST BE THURSDAY. I NEVER
COULD GET THE HANG OF THURSDAYS.

CHESS IS A FUN SPORT, WHEN PLAYED WITH SHOT GUNS.
Expressing Epidemiological Models
I was waiting for the Eliza comparison. How does GPT-3 react when you curse at him? Whatever her shortcomings, Eliza knew when to end a conversation.
Against my better judgement, I switched from apple notes to notion for half of my note taking. I'm using Notion to document the things I am learning, but not for anything personal. As most of my learning includes a lot of URLs, the workflow I setup in Notion is easy and speedy.

Overall though, I hate the idea of putting my thoughts on the cloud (someone else's computer) and worry about the future when tool "B" comes along and I want to move my data. I see a lot of cut n paste in my future :(
My bad, thanks for supporting
One thing I don’t understand is wouldn’t burins large amounts of wood increase the nitrogen requirement is the soil? It seems to me that the soil would want to break down the wood as fast as possible.
The biggest issue I have with note taking is not the medium or app, it’s the fact that I would often write something and never look at the note again. This essentially made the act of note writing, at least for me, futile since I rarely remember my notes as I’m writing them.

The best solution for this, I’ve found, is to still take notes on the bigger picture but then to add the smaller details, definitions, concepts to Anki [1], which literally forces me to review those smaller details again and again until they “stick”. Doing so then makes me want to revisit the notes to get the full picture. As a result, my memorization of all kinds of things has greatly improved, which makes future research and documentation all the more better. It’s a very good positive reinforcing learning method and I recommend it to anyone who may have similar issues.

[1] https://apps.ankiweb.net/
Not sure if I'm missing something, but the article never outlines what actually makes "Eskimo" offensive, just that sponsors think it is.
Inequality and Democratic Responsiveness (2005) [pdf]
The Moon in 3D by NASA LRO
Make it open source and put it on put it F-Droid.

But seriously, this is what it takes to most of the poeple to understand why those nerdy geeks complain about security and decentralization - only after it hits them personally ....
If printer security interests you or you want to do some testing on your own devices. Check out PRET[0].

[0]Printer Exploitation Toolkit - The tool that made dumpster diving obsolete.
https://github.com/RUB-NDS/PRET
http://hacking-printers.net/wiki/index.php/Printer_Security_...
You think we understand the question, but what if "understanding" is just what the algorithm to solve the problem feels like. If it could, the computer would probably experience some sort of understanding too.
Opening all borders has an agenda, and people no longer believe the narrative.

But of course anyone questioning the tactics of big corporations is a xenophobic, alt-right adjacent, deplorable person.
Just as an addition to the OP comment: "perl -pe 's/old/new/g'" is the perl pendant for sed. The obvious advantage is the support for Perl regexes. Also there's the "-r" switch for sed which extends Regexes compatibility.
I have deleted it, as you are the official author of it.

Otherwise, I would politely ask you to remove your post.

:)

Have a nice day!
Which it could choose to zero rate if it stabilized food prices.
I’ve tried nearly every major app/service and always end up on Standard Notes. It strikes the perfect balance for me between privacy, ease of use, and functionality.

Prior to settling on SN I was a big fan of Simplenote and nvALT, but the lack of even basic MFA for Simplenote drove me away.

Evernote, OneNote, etc just seem to be way too much for what I need. And Apple Notes, while it has gotten a lot better, does not make it easy to get your data back out.
It was and still is trivial to get stolen credit card info that do have balances or credit available.
How Ruby on Rails Could Be Much Better (2008)
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

Elbert Hubbard
Elos would give a nice apples to apples comparison for something that is an inherently comparative skill. Ironically, Elo may be better for AI than for chess now; in chess, there used to be only a relative measure of strength, but with engines being what they are, there is an absolute set of optimal moves and valuations of mistakes. So while I do not know what an absolute standard for AI quality vs. a Turing test, there is one for chess, and a thing invented for chess might be better used for a non-chess thing.
https://fullfact.org/health/richard-dearlove-coronavirus-cla...

Not sure this is the final draft of this paper. Do we know that it is?
"the eye of the sun" is a common phrase, and likely picked up the singular. I think it would also give the same answer to "how many eyes does a storm have". It's probably reasonably good at answering riddles and word puzzles if it can leap between eye (center) and eye (visual organ). If it can also leap to I (pronoun) it might even be able to make puns :)
Journalists really are scraping the barrel here...
https://fullfact.org/health/richard-dearlove-coronavirus-cla...

Do we know that this is the final version of the paper that was published?
True. Maybe the human corollary to this is sarcasm. Lots of people fail to pick up on sarcasm in online discussion, hence the /s at the end of a post. And for that matter, natural language parsers really struggle at extracting real meaning from sarcastic texts too.