skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ScreenplaySubs fetches the subtitles from Netflix

How is this done? Isn't everything on Netflix protected by DRM?
There is one particular restaurant that has these installed. It is a very weird experience that takes some time to get used to.
That depends on the genre, just as before. With house, hip-hop (most of it anyway) or any other style with funky, playful atmosphere, you want swing in your patterns. With techno, synth pop, post-punk, or any of many other styles that have robotic, cold aesthetic, you want drums programmed straight to the grid, and often without any sincopation in the patterns, too.
It must not be enough to matter to anyone at Akai; their new MPCs use USB internally to connect the computer to the pads.
It was not any hotter than it gets most years. What has changed is probably that California's ability to govern itself has declined to such an extent that it cannot consistently keep the electricity flowing.
Wow, never heard this story before. Thanks for sharing!
Two words:

Mars Mission.
You see, any pile of junk(Kubernetes being one of them) can have a use case if you searched hard enough. Do not learn/work with Kubernetes unless your livelihood depends on it.
It would actually mean around 12.5% higher after-tax income. And after considering minimum fixed expenses, such as housing or food, these state tax savings become even more significant.
Couldn't agree more. What's your setup right now?
> Kubernetes isn’t just a 2018-era buzzword.

And then he goes on to throw buzzwords. Yet another poorly written article as is now the norm for Kubetnetes.
In the Danish locale "aa" doesn't start with "a".
>That said I wonder why you’d need Github Pages if you’re already set up with Wordpress...

Maybe there's something I don't understand here? Wordpress.org isn't hosted, it's just the website software itself. Hence the need for Github Pages (although most people just use a hosting provider like Siteground).
I’m doing just fine, but you are misrepresenting me now.

If Epic runs their own Store alongside Apple’s and takes 12%, then Apple will get nothing from those sales.

Oddly, your previous comment contains a quote which agrees with me:

>Epic doesn’t want a reduction to 5%, it wants to pay nothing and run its own store on iOS.

Which you gave chosen to now disregard.

This is simply what it means for Epic to be allowed to run their own Store.

I am not focusing on what “I think” Epic wants.

I’m focusing on what Epic says that they want, and what the author says.

Why should I only base my view on the author’s words?

Facts matter when putting those words in context, unless you are suggesting we critique the piece purely as a work of fiction.

The author’s position is that Epic is lying about what they want for strategic reasons. As you say, a bluff.

But the author is dismissing opinions to the contrary of their own as “bullshit” or the opinions of people who don’t know what they are talking about etc.

My reading is based on the words the author is saying.

You can do better by addressing my points as written and not misrepresenting them.

The piece is terrible, and contains all of be problems I attribute to it.

It also contains some valid opinions and interesting ideas to debate, but it claims them as fact, and uses innuendo to fend off criticism.

An obvious example is the dismissal of security concerns as ‘bullshit’. The author asserts that people who don’t have experience shouldn’t comment or be taken seriously, but we have no reason to believe the author has any serious security experience, because their claim was to expertise is that they have been developing an excellent Markdown editor for the past decade.

See how the piece is bad?

If you start to acknowledge what’s true about the faults of the article, we might be able to have a reasonable debate over the parts of the article which are worth exploring.

If you can’t admit that the article contains problems, so be it.
Russians are to active measures what God is to sin.
You are right.

The population density is probably lower though.
Also two regions in Brazil are interested in the incompletely-tested Russian vaccine. If it backfires, that could cause resistance in the population against a successful one. That's a good time for a right-wing negationist governant to be anti-commie.
you're a funny guy. hyperbole much?
"running WordPress locally is a nightmare... I should also caveat that I know almost nothing about Apache, MySQL, FTP, and PHP."

Without wishing to be too snarky, this could be rewritten as "Running this software is a nightmare if you know nothing about the technologies it is built on." And being slightly more snarky, my response would be: well, duh.
These were developed and run by a company called PrizeLogic out of AZ. They had to keep costs down, so they mostly used new programmers. It is not surprising to me that this is the result.
I've never heard of Laravel before - checking it out now.

I wanted to use Github Pages because I had my previous site on Github Pages. GH Pages was easy to setup and provided good hosting/serving for free. I wanted the same for my new Wordpress site and naively thought I could make it work.
David Hume's deathbed had become a matter of public interest – to see if (cont)
This doesn't follow. How does an open standard that, essentially, allows for CDNs to be more secure, let Google dictate how the internet operates?
Wow this article makes me feel old. Running wordpress locally is something I have done so many times in the past, but yes, I would not imagine it being a good fit for then turning it into a static site.

These days there are a lot of better CMS options for JS single page applications.
> In safety-critical systems, known problems are often tolerated because they are predictable. In these cases, mitigations are understood, and there's a well-defined upper bound on the amount of damage that can be caused if the mitigations fail.

Oh, voter suppression is well-understood and predictable. I disagree with you that mitigations have been effective.
The difference is that in US you also pay federal income tax and then additionally state income tax if one exists. The authors point was just that the its lucrative to move to another state, and save on the state taxes.

The other difference is that as individual you almost get nothing for your taxes. Childcare, college education, health care, pensions, everything is private and something you or your employer has to pay.

In Europe paying taxes feels better since in many countries you actually lot of this stuff for free in an exchange from the taxes you pay.
> Why is it surprising that a CFG can approximate a subset of English grammar?

"Colorless green ideas sleep furiously" is a famous example of a sentence that is grammatical, but meaningless. The goal of SHRDLU was far more ambitious than approximating English grammar.
Native Instruments is one of the best things that happened to music making in the last 15 years.
So, you agree that anecdotes are worthless? I don’t understand your comment.
I agree with coderintherye. You might want to read about manager vs maker schedule. The conclusion I come to is the manager schedule is nearly incompatible with deep work. But if your job as manager involves strategy planning, that might require deep thinking in which case I’d block off a day, and go on a long walk to think.
100% agreed. I was shopping for some recording gear earlier, and (habitually, I guess) checked amazon to see what was available. Zillions of things with brand names like "foofer" and "fifine" (yeah, I'm making those up, but you know what I mean).

What are those things, really? I don't know.

I hit Guitar Center instead, and there's this clearly presented list of brands that I mostly kind-of recognize, a simplified set of products.

The thing that amazon does really well is deliver things fast.
This doesn't directly address your question, though it perhaps can give you some pointers if you want to read about the history of AI and the AI winter of the '80s, but in a way SHRDLU featured prominently in the AI winter, at least in Europe, particularly in the UK.

So, in the UK at least the AI winter was precipitated by the Lighthill Report, a report published in 1973, compiled by a Sir James Lighthill and commissioned by the British Research Council, i.e. the people who held all the research money at the time in the UK. The report was furiously damning of AI research of the time, mostly because of grave misunderstandings e.g. with respect to combinatorial explosion and basically accused researchers of, well, faffing about and not doing anything useful with their grant money. The only exception to this was SHRDLU, that Lighthill praised as an example of how AI should be done.

Anyway, if you have time, you can watch the televised debate between Lighthill and three luminaries of AI, John McCarthy (the man who named the field, created Lisp and did a few other notable things), Donald Michie (known for his MENACE reinforcement-learning program running on... matchboxes, and basically setting up AI research in the UK) and Richard Gregorie (a cognitive scientist from the US for whom I confess I don't know much). The (short) wikipedia article on the Lighthill Report has links to all the youtube videos:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lighthill_report

It's interesting to see in the videos the demonstration of the Freddy robot from Edinburgh, that was capable of constructing objects by detecting their components with early machine vision techniques. In the 1960's. Incidentally:

Even with today's knowledge, methodology, software tools, and so on, getting a robot to do this kind of thing would be a fairly complex and ambitious project.

http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/project/freddy/

The above was written sometime in the '90s, I reckon but it is still true today. Unfortunately, Lighthill's report killed the budding robotics research sector in the UK and it has literally never recovered since. This is typical of the AI winter of the '80s. Promising avenues of research were abandoned not because of any scientific reasons, as is sometimes assumed ("expert systems didn't scale" etc) but, rather, because pencil pushers in charge of disbursing public money didn't get the science.

Edit: A couple more pointers. John McCarthy's review of the Lighthill Report:

http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/reviews/lighthill/lighthi...

An article on the AI winter of the '80s by the editor of IEEE Intelligent Systems:

https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/ex/2008/02/mex2008020...
Oddly enough a traditional risk of moving with kids is the "lost year" due to the disruption of changing school districts. But this year is going to be lost anyway, and a 100% certainty is no longer a risk. And if school is going to be online anyway, then they could stay plugged into the old district until they get fully plugged into the new one.
If you're a backend engineer without social skills this type of life style seems perfect and desirable. Everyone else can't wait to meet people and interact again. There's a reason cities have existed for thousands of years.
What records? We’ve only had a few hot days all summer.
Categories of Optics (2018)
I think a more effective solution than a breakup would be requiring Facebook to interoperate with other social networks. We could force them to implement APIs which would let users from other platforms chat with and send posts to Facebook users. Imagine a tweet or a snap showing up in your Facebook feed, and vice versa. ActivityPub[0] is already a protocol which tries to solve this, but Facebook would never freely implement it because it would breach their walled garden. We might be able to regulate them into doing it.

[0]: https://activitypub.rocks/
That's not french at all. :)
Totally agree, running Wordpress locally needs a minimum understanding of Apache, MySQL and PHP for sure
But you're just renting... won't the price skyrocket when things go back to normal?
Mechatronics ??? I work as Mechatronist in a way. Process engineering with software automation.
“ Note, I don't consider bonuses or equity to part of salary.”

Depending on the company and how much the stock appreciates this can easily be +50% of your total take home so I’m not sure why you’d discount it.
I find the first mistake here to be trying to use WordPress. Maybe it's just because I use it so much (or rather, as a developer, I'm often hired to fix other people's mess and broken code) but it is genuinely my most hated piece of software.
These tools seem to be getting pretty good at fiction. In particular, playing around with AI Dungeon, it doesn't believe anything, or alternately you could say it believes everything at once. It's similar to a library that contains books by different authors, some fact, some fiction. Contradictions don't matter. Only local consistency matters, and even then, not that much.

Unfortunately, many people want to believe that they are being understood. But, on the bright side, this stuff seems artistically useful? Entertainment is a big business.
> Read what I've actually said: I'm talking about leisure and social activities.

My life is already normal with respect to social and leisure activities. We only keep a lil more distance and do more outside, the former being fine, the latter being an improvement.
But it’s specifically made to be a blogging software, to me it just feels like an extra step to convert your writing, unless the Github Pages ecosystem gives you lots of benefits.
> whatever setup minimizes the daylight between wanting to write, and writing.

No matter your setup, writing in markdown is the fastest way to get your ideas/thoughts to a presentable format. That should work in all good CMS/blog/static/dynamic software.

The markdown can have associated markdown settings that are either in a comment at the top or a sidecar file that can be adjusted to any platform.

Whenever I write I do it in markdown, get the thoughts out, clean it up, add presentation. Then I know there is no lock-in or ownership of the content to any system.

If you do change systems there may be some initial settings/markup/declarative hooks you need for things like embeds/code highlighting etc, but after that you are rolling.

Standards whether specified or market standards, always help you evade lock-in and can make your content a free agent when needed.

Software today is a mine field of lock-in created by large entities that want you to develop in an abstracted layer above the simple standards, even at the programming level we have lost focus of shared standards that give you platform freedom.
Yes, a lot of the detailed weather data is actually provided by planes, but with a lot fewer planes flying, they get fewer data points and the models lose accuracy.
Her blog requirements sound simple enough that I wonder if she couldn’t have just coded up a few HTML pages by hand. Or is that too 2001?
Reasonable. But returning to Snowden, “one executive wants to pardon and the other doesn’t” is pretty much by definition a case of differing interests. IMO this question is more clear-cut than typical DJ questions.

It’s just really hard for me to believe that POTUS could protect Snowden from prosecution in state courts via pardon. At the very least, a DOJ that wants Snowden in prison can side-step this whole question by leaving it to a state and keeping things out of federal court...
> wouldn't you also bargain more aggressively with your landlord?

It depends on the landlord. If they were reasonable, then yes, I'd bargain with them. If they were total pricks for most of the time I was there, then screw them. I can get my lower rent and hurt them in the process. I'll try that option! (At least, I bet that's the thinking of many people.)
Ask HN: What is the best Noah's Ark vessel with current technology?
Yes, hence the caveat. :)

For my purposes (set up a simple blog and get it running), I truly don't think that I need, or should, have to learn the ins and outs of the tech stack. In fact I chose WordPress specifically _because_ I wanted it to abstract most of the implementation details away from me.

I don't think this is true for development generally.
Tekgence sends an email to prospective clients listing H-1B/OPT workers
I use NextJS as my static site generator which uses Wordpress as the CMS, I host my static site on Vercel and it works beautifully.
Probably not that bad since, with the advent of masks and social distancing, supposedly ~95% of cases are NOT from community spread. Most of the spread is from dense living situations and meeting with friends and family without masks when you shouldn't.
COVID has changed these habits of mine
Alright, an open-standard that allows Google to create a walled garden. But when has google ever been for an "open" internet? Never because an open internet doesn't make money, but then again that has never been Google's philosophy.

AMP does dictate the internet in a way that forces the user to see and do how Google wants you to see and do.

If Google was for open standards, I should have the ability to turn off google amp. No?

If Google was for open standards, they wouldn't force features upon users without the ability to turn them off?

If I host my own email server on my own IP range with in my colocation and send to GMAIL, I am instantly put in spam. Is that not dictating that my email to my mother is spam?

And yes, I'll admit that I am hypocrite. I use google search because it's the only search engine that yields the results I require. I try to use DDG when I can but that fails. Bing is a pile of puke. I don't want to, but I am forced to which fine, I understand the conditions that they give me. However to boast that Google is for opens standards. That's what's laughable.

Amp dictates the web and will as they see fit. But you work for google, so your bias anyway and that makes this whole discussion moot.
> According to this ruling, Safeway, the delivery company, the guy who moved the boxes, and everyone in between you and the manufacturer, are all at fault.

I downvoted you because that's not what this ruling says. If you want to have an honest discussion be honest, don't use hyperbole.
That's essentially what it was before :)

I mostly just wanted a better writing experience and CMS. (I talk about that in a section on the post).
It's expensive being well off. If you make $250k a year, you take home $159k in SF. A big chunk of that goes to cost of living such that the $20k means one of your two kids can't go to the college they want because it's $50k per year, and you don't qualify for financial aid.
Two obligatory comments:

1. Manhattan is not NYC. There are five, count them, five boroughs. Didn’t Johnny T on Glove and Boots teach you numbskulls nothin’? Manhattan is one borough. The author would probably wet his pants if he stepped into Brooklyn, and require a full adult diaper if he found himself on Staten Island. (Exaggeration for humorous effect, but he should know better.)

2. The “how dare you kick my dog, he’s great" posts that show up when NYC is disparaged are par for the course here. They show an admirable love and loyalty for Manhattan and, who knows, they may have read about the Bronx in a book somewhere. There will always be a Manhattan unless they tow it out to sea and sink it. (Imagine the Environmental Impact Statement for that project.) Will the Manhattan of the mid and late 1900s still be around? Paris still thrives, but does the Paris of the 1920s still exist?

3. Waiting for the inevitable dumping on New Jersey that happens when NYC starts getting insecure...
Isn’t capital j is dotless in every language?
The title should really say: human contact causes viruses to spread.
You know what happens to “fraudulent users“? No gmail, no sign in with google, no play store.
Ah, I see. Give it a few years, then.
This was pretty much my thoughts too. This use case is quite a bit outside of the realm of what Wordpress is intended to be used for. Local deployments are only really intended to be for people who are serious about administrating their own web server or developing plugins for Wordpress, so it's assumed that you already have the knowledge to set up a web server with PHP and MySQL.

The people who want a "writing first" experience _with Wordpress specifically_ have many paid hosting providers to choose from, but that would defeat the purpose of the article.

Making a one-click installation process would also take a significant amount of dev resources to handle all the different platforms and require expertise that isn't required for the main product, given that it is a PHP project which is almost entirely cross platform by default.
https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Aether_Paradise
The modern natural language interfaces with limited domains are Alexa and Siri. Yes, they’re limited. But they are far more impressive and useful than SHRDLU.
I think it was the unpredictable turns in weather.
Haha! I'd love to hear more of your reasons why.
There's No Good Reason to Trust Blockchain Technology (2019)
> people prefer Discord to IRC ... prefer Slack to SMTP or Jabber

"Centralization wins" is the wrong conclusion from this dataset. Discord & Slack have seen far more investment in UX & backend than IRC & Jabber. Because chat is addictive, relatively easy to implement, and easy for users to access via website or app, there's huge incentive roll your own chat service, and then incentive to differentiate from innumerable competitors. Many users are on half a dozen chat sites.

Email is going strong, even tho it's seen rather little UX investment. Decentralization is one feature keeping it afloat in a world of uncountable chat alternatives.
My point is, when making and evaluating these NLP methods and the tools they are used to construct, it is extremely important to understand that language models social realities rather than any single physical one.

I'd claim actual involves language both a general shared reality and quite concrete and specific discussions of single physical and logic facts/models. Some portion of language certainl looks mostly like a stream of associations. But within it is also are references to physical reality and world model and the two are complexly intertwined (making logical sense is akin to a "parity check" - you can for a while without it but then you have to look at the whole to get it). I believe one can see this in a GPT paragraph, where the first two sentences seem intelligence, well written but the third sentence contradicts the first two sentences sufficiently one's mind isn't sure "what's being said" (and even here, our "need for logic" might be loose enough that we only notice the "senselessness" after the third logical error).
The federal government also doesn't set the drinking age.

The Trump administration seems to be trying to ratfuck an entire election. They won't succeed, but "Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest"-style comments from trump about fraud and months of delays in the results are beyond asinine. I'm slightly amazed that HN seems to have a contingent of I'm alright jack supporters of him. Maybe that says something about our ethics but I won't go there.
If there is a viable vaccine or vaccines by early 2021 then all of these histrionics will vanish into the clickbait ether from which they came.
There are a lot of missing components here. The article makes it sound like the simple solution to increasing motivation is the glutamine to glutamate ratio. Isn’t that the result of internal neurological and biochemical processes not the causative element?

I think they are confusing correlation with causation.