skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
CNN such a valuable contributor. /s

"Suprisingly non-trite article".... Wtf are you talking baout? Never going back to normal? Maybe not in the minds of the brainwashed
Is Latvian anything like Russian? I found it impossible to hear the vowels when I was first learning Russian. Even today, И and Ы are difficult for me to differentiate, but I've only been in Russian speaking countries for around three months, so maybe that will come with time.
The only reason I ever upvote an article is because I think it'd be something interesting to discuss.

If you want to mark something to read later there's the 'favourite' link under the title on the submission's discussion page.
It's sad. We ought to be able to debate important topics without people getting upset and emotional and ruining each others lives.
> "Privacy is the ability of an individual or group to seclude themselves or information about themselves, and thereby express themselves selectively."

This is the problem with social media such as FB. You do, in principle, have the ability to express your selectively, but the friction of creating and maintaining lists and only showing certain posts to certain lists is way too difficult.

Messengers like Whatsapp are much better because group conversations are selective and maintenance is much simpler - akin to real life interactions. I do notice the same person behaving differently in different groups, which is really hard ton FB.
It's also kind of destructive to say that people you disagree with are like Mussolini, but here we are.
You maybe exhibiting the normalcy bias the piece describes.
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Have any made any statements about commitment to maintain this? It's tough to justify using these minor Google products these days, given their reputation...
Other resources: http://radio.garden for international radio, language frequency dictionary
Obviously people do buy them otherwise they would stop.

Passenger luggage is targeted partly because it is pure cost, but also it’s a price discrimination mechanism.
On tiny planes, like the ones that go between islands in the Pacific, they weigh everyone (with hand baggage) when checking in. This is in order to load the plane evenly.
FAST A March Version of "The Harder They come" by Jimmy Cliff
I was talking more about what happens after the SMS reaches the tower. How is that message delivered to the cell tower that the receiver is affiliated with, especially if that tower is owned by a different operator?
I love the !sr bang. For example, "!sr apple" takes me to Reddit's Apple subreddit.
Oh, and how that is related to current practice (because I lost my train of thought somewhere) is that 'modern' (=ML-based) experimental sentencing guideline systems try to overcome this 'subjective bias' by injecting an 'objective subjective bias' by using ML methods. So basically by looking at many more circumstances and training the former 'points' system using ML, so in a way automatically deriving what used to be set by manually devised guidelines (as crude as they were) from past data - under the assumption that our past data is somewhat objective, and/or because we know it wasn't, additionally trying to correct for past biases.

It's easy to see the problems with this approach and I don't have to rehash them here; and much of the interesting (academic) work here is in rebalancing and fixing the biases; but that is research, not something that is ready for actual use in democratic societies (not that that has stopped some places from using them anyway...). I'm not convinced it's even possible and any such system will invariably be very opaque. Imagine, if judges and prosecutors already find what was essentially a decision tree too inflexible and incomprehensible, how they would experience an ML model! Imagine being the person who has to explain how such a new model works to a classroom of lawyers! Strong men have wept for less.

Anyway so the Dutch judicial system is now back to a system of spelled out sentencing guidelines in textual form, systematised by criminal law area, like there is one for cybercrimes, etc. With some tables that probably used to be encoded in a DBase file (that's how old the former software based tool was). But it seems that the fact that this information is now consumed from their original texts, gives the impression that there is more room for 'customization' - although there isn't actually that much more room, and in another 15 years we'll go full circle I suspect and get someone to code up the guidelines again...

So these texts are still just algorithms but spelled out; and the former method was to have software to help with 'interpreting' those textual algorithms; yet nobody called them out for the things modern ML-based systems are called out. But still I think this is a very clear example of how the word 'algorithm' has become overloaded in its meaning - not just become broader, but has actually shifted in meaning depending on the context in which it's used.
If a company is breaking the law, some countries offer whistleblower protections.
I don't see this press release as forbidding debate. This is simply saying that the company won't be taking a stance. That shouldn't stop individual employees discussing political topics as long as they can act like adults and not create a hostile environment.
The view you just described is active support for the status quo.

One fairly non-controversial part of the status quo right now is our dependence on fossil fuels and co2 emissions to keep our economy running.

Saying "I'll keep my views private" means I'm giving an okay to what's happening now. If every individual shares the thinking at every company then it is impossible to even imagine how the most catastrophic climate change can be avoided.

Beyond even this example, it's is politically naive to believe there is some "normal". The status quo today is the politics of the current dominant power (which is largely market forces). Agreeing to be "apolitical" is actively support of this system. Your view is the one that is strongly "with us or against us" in that any opinion other than the dominant political ideology is supposed to be silenced at work.

"Just do you job and don't voice contrary opinions" is a pretty radical political opinion if you ask me, so your definition of "apolitical" is only "A"-political because you are so intensely in opposition to non-status quo beliefs that you disregard them completely.
If a person refuses to be political (e.g. vote), that's stygmatized, because it's irresponsible. The same should hold for a group of people (like a company).
I totally agree that -- under this law -- if you log in and dont get a ride, you should be paid a fair.

My question was -- what if you log in to Uber AND Lyft simultaneously (as most drivers do) and dont get a ride. Do you get 2x the fair wage?
> You might be underestimating how weird English orthography is.

How very dare you. With only 56 rules applied in order, you can easily predict the pronunciation of a word from its spelling 85% of the time.

http://zompist.com/spell.html
If you're gonna rehash the iOS vs android flamewar at leat use up to date arguments...
Scalable digital fitting room based on the first full-body Deepfake
The next generation of Deepfake does the full-body swap including head, hair, skin tone and body shape modification. Practically the new technology is applied for a brand agnostic digital fitting room, that works on the existing content and doesn't require content creation on the brand side:

http://www.beyondbelief.ai/man00.html
http://www.beyondbelief.ai/woman00.html
http://www.beyondbelief.ai

To demonstrate other applications and raise interest of the community, developer created a video, demonstrating many features of the new generation of Deepfake: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15q41GjtyZs
> The biggest problem in my opinion is people struggling with self directed learning, more than anything.

> many people dont have a clear goal of what they're trying to achieve in their target language other than a vague sense of fluency

> If your language goal is to become fluent in a language, that's a goal with no defined end in sight

This is why I like tests that 'proof' the level (e.g. CEFR, HSK, NLPT, and so on)
It does not make anyone better and does not really proof that one can converse in the language, but for me as a learner it is a nice goal to have. I can study by myself and know what I am learning for (the test for the next level)

Fluency just comes with it imo and needs immersion and practise anyway. Practise would mean application of the things learnt before
el-patch – Future-proof your Emacs Lisp customizations
No, it's just stating that the workplace is neutral. It's not for or against anything. You can do that on your time instead.
>For example, can you be a gun shop owner without being pro-gun

What do you mean "pro-gun"?

You're fundamentally trying to reduce something that's a range to a binary and you're gonna lose a lot of accuracy doing that.

There's lots of gun shops owned by fudds who support various things from the "anti gun" wish list. Just by virtue of being older the "people who own gun shops" demographic is likely less extreme on the pro-gun spectrum than the average person on the pro-gun spectrum.

Obviously this is gonna generalize pretty well to other issues. Anyone running an abortion clinic is gonna be pro-life to some extend but selling the service doesn't necessarily mean they're at the super extreme end of it.
Hedgehog Lab - Scientific Computation Tool in the Browser
!m is Google Maps as well.
Not if you wear a hat and shirt, or sunscreen.
> not even mutually intelligible with its only surviving relative

Wikipedia lists four surviving descendants of the Eastern Baltic branch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltic_languages#Eastern_Balti... : Latvian, Latgalian, Lithuanian and Samogitian. Though apparently Latgalian and Samogitian are frequently considered dialects of Latvian and Lithuanian respectively. So in a way it's tautological that related languages don't have high mutual intelligibility since otherwise they'd likely be considered dialects of the same language.
Honestly - the flight I took the most pre-covid was a regional commuter between a midwest city and Washington DC. It's like a 2.5 hour flight, at most.

Why do you need a toilet for that? I understand there are disabilities that may call for it. But in the 10-15 years I made that flight regularly, I never saw someone use the toilet an extreme amount. It was more for convenience. I have to assume that those short-haul flights could save a ton of fuel by eliminating toilets.

But I also have a young(ish) bladder and young(ish) digestive system. So maybe I'm just too self-centered.
I suspect the market will solve this problem. There's a pretty neat growth hack that you can do that doesn't scale (http://paulgraham.com/ds.html) and therefore lets you out-compete the incumbents like Uber and Lyft: pay your drivers minimum wage. Once you're established and profitable you can keep doing it.
That title is super misleading. Hosting a free website does not have a high privacy cost. Using "free" third-party services to build your website potentially has a high privacy cost.
When was that?

Emacs 27 (released recently) with native JSON support was reportedly a huge improvement.

The `native-comp` branch on master is receiving great feedback too.
Just in case you're like "Why does this look familiar?"

https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/frekvens-portable-speaker-black...

https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/frekvens-speaker-with-subwoofer...

TE designed both this OB4 and the Frekvens, this seems like the Ikea line taken to a very far extreme. Very neat, lots of cash though.

I have to say, it kinda reminds me of Ikea's Eneby too, but TE did not design that: https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/eneby-bluetooth-speaker-black-0...
I have learned Cantonese for over a year to be able to communicate with my girlfriend's family. As a native spanish speaker, this was task that seemed insurmountable at first given how little learning materials exist out there. The Internet is flooded with Mandarin learning materials, courses, books, and content yet Cantonese learners are far fewer. Went from not knowing how to say a simple greeting like 你好 (neih5 hou2) to knowing 2500 characters, speaking conversationally with her mom, and being able to write 500 word short stories. Here's what helped me get over the hurdle of lack of learning materials:

1. 1h lesson every Sunday with a professional Cantonese teacher from italki.com (native speaker from Hong Kong)
2. Focus on pattern recognition of character radicals, write with pen and paper 30 new vocab words per week. Starting on Monday, I would prepare the words of the week, focusing on utility. Then, I would write each word every morning 10-15 times. Thankfully, my memory would never forget a character after doing this approach.
3. Focus on listening and reading advanced content with an OCR translator handy, even if it was very uncomfortable, difficult, I would not stop until I 100% understood a paragraph down to its nuances
4. Keep a handy grammar book or resource cheat sheet, covering particular grammar edge cases
5. Conversation practice every day with my girlfriend, with the goal of pushing myself into uncomfortable territory by trying to express complex ideas and not just talk about the weather
6. Native speaking intonation practice every Saturday, focusing on all the different phonemes and listening to various native speakers pronounce sounds I had a hard time enunciating, such as the `ng` sound or `j` vs. `ch` in Cantonese. Cantonese has 6 tones in HK and 9 tones in the regional variants in Guangdong, so it's important to master them and understand all the nuances of their pitch differences.
7. Write, write, write. Attempt to gather thoughts first in my native tongue, then try my best to translate a paragraph using my Cantonese vocab so far and learn new words in the process.

It's worth noting this takes up the majority of my free time, essentially being my major "hobby" as I have a goal of fluency within the next few years.

It's a tough world out there for anyone learning a Chinese language that isn't Mandarin. Overall, I learned there _are_ indeed resources and people are more than willing to help. If anyone is learning Cantonese, please DM me and I'd be happy to share more information.
This 3D scene took me 59:04:42 hours to render
I just watched this video [1] showing the progress of ArchViz with the new RTX technology and how it's possible to render complex scenes with very realistic lights in real time.

It reminded me about this very simple scene I rendered (around 2009) that took me almost 60 hours to complete:

https://victorribeiro.cgsociety.org/yjoi/my-last-background

1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvjKM-iVxYI
Hey there! I'm not sure it can handle the incremental exports. I'll have a look and check if it can be done. Thanks for the pointer.
why would the incentives be different?
Society is much better when we have individual freedom and responsibility, which includes the ability of people to make bad decisions.
It's a bit of a tangent, but you might be interested in this solar-powered website if you haven't seen it before:

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/about.html
"Seattle's law will require drivers be paid at least 56 cents per minute and $1.33 per mile driven while transporting passengers."
You didn't make the complete argument. The problem isn't just that users are not aware of exactly how much privacy they give up. Even if the user knows exactly, you get a sub-optimal Nash equilibria like scenario. The problem is that

* the user perceives that giving up a few details about themselves doesn't seem like it would benefit the ad company that much. This is the marginal benefit (to the ad company) per user.

* the company builds a database of user data and gets some total benefit. From this you calculate the average benefit per user.

The problem is that the average benefit per user is much bigger than the marginal benefit per user. So each user doesn't see the danger, but collectively there is a big problem.
Shell to cut up to 9k jobs as oil demand slumps
When someone uses the word apolitical I know they’re usually another conservative trying to avoid the witch hunters.
> I guess my point is that your actions and omissions have political outcomes whether you want them to or not.

It does not even stop there. If we choose to understand what's political in this way everything that humans choose to relate to (even things that do not exist beyond human imagination) have, of course, probably some influence on political outcomes.

Rain, an escaped alligator from the local zoo, the color of a button in a web form, etc.

I think that this second idea of what's political is merely the realization that we can choose to view everything according to it's political impact. Like a pair of glasses we might wear or might want others to wear.

...to stick with my example: One might end up making a long term study on how news about escaped zoo animals affect election outcomes. That might lead to surprising results. It's just not always guaranteed to be a very productive use of time.

I think there's probably a healthy middle ground here. It's not hard to argue that there's some reasonable moral expectations regarding company decision making. Like, don't construct gas chambers. (Local example from my German home region.)

On the other side it's easy to see that insisting on questioning every minor decision will lead to almost instant gridlock.

That's why I think that both radical positions are pretty hard to defend. A better society might hide behind pragmatic decision making with some reasonable, probably even academically shallow moral questioning of ones own actions. Not in corporate apathy or zealotry.
> endless looping tape*

> *ROLLING 2 HOUR RECORDING

Then maybe not call it "endless" if it's not even practically endless?
So do many Americans. It is a vocal and proselytizing minority getting outsized coverage that makes it seem like “everyone feels this way”.
I was a graduate researcher implementing HTM in a hardware accelerator. The largest problem is there was never any sort of specification for HTM outside of a white paper that only vaguely described it's internal structures. And the picture the white paper painted is a design with N^N different hyperparamaters.

Oh, and then the whole thing output a jumble of meaningless bits that had to be classified, an algorithm Numenta kept hidden away as the secret sauce...but if you have to use a NN classifier to understand the results of your HTM... Too many red flags of snakesoil. And I really wanted it to work. Doesn't help that Jeff Hawkins has largely abandoned HTM for new cognitive algorithm pursuits.
SV companies sell candidates on changing the world and disrupting the status quo. They literally target and recruit the type of people who would want to discuss politics at work.
https://vercel.com/docs/build-step (formerly zeit) is in a similar space to netlify. They support custom domains, custom git repo (though it's a bit hidden in the settings), but I don't think dedicated IP address.
I see no one remembers MySpace.
Try it at https://hedgehog-lab.github.io/
It sounds like Coinbase doesn't consider climate change to be within their mission.

We need to place a place on carbon, and thus share responsibility, in proportion to use.
Cicero was demanitated at 63 (beating Ernesto Guevara by 24 years), yet Roger Daltrey (76) still has to sing "hope I die before I get old." Now that's karma?
I agree ... but the problem is that this discourse isn't operating in the context of a common meta-ethical framework. It isn't just that we just disagree about the empirical evidence of a few (important) policies or disagree about about a few key moral values (or tradeoffs between values) it is that we are no working from the same moral frameworks. We are finally seeing the legacy of postmodernism becoming mainstream and it doesn't operate from the same assumptions that were crafted in the enlightenment. Luckily enlightenment values still dominate background presumptions for meta-ethical discussions, but this is why you see references to religion in this thread, the aesthetics of the discourse have many similarities.
Sounds like you have an axe to grind with some of the political or ideological positions of the people who run Metafilter. I never said it was run as a user-administered democracy, it's run by a core group of about five people who also own the servers. It's their pet project.
I think the "don't be political" works both ways.

If someone, say, brought up their gay partner to a colleague who is very religious, I'd expect the religious colleague to treat them courteously. I wouldn't expect them to tell them that they will burn in hell for all eternity.

Maybe the line to be drawn is one of policy vs people. As a policy decision, you could be against gay marriage but on a personal level still be happy for a gay colleague that got married. Or happy that they are happy.
You really don't see the irony that you believe your side, what you currently view as "neutral" is so absolutely unquestionable that any one who critiques it should be silenced?

You're not even allowing for the idea of opposition to exist which is a radical view pretty similar to the ones held by all the people you have mentioned.
But in some circumstances is that PLMN/PTSN interconnectivity just an “application layer” on top of existing IPv4/v6 infrastructure...similar to how VoIP/SIP works?
I recently made the switch from a Gatsby-powered version of my blog to a traditional server-templating based one. Currently there's zero JS on my website. The immediate impact is that my website is much more lightweight and loads and renders much faster. I plan to A/B test the visitor behavior across these two versions and share the results.

Though if you really go all in on no-JS (which I understand what OP isn't recommending), there are certain issues. Like if you have a "subscribe" button at the bottom of your page, using a non-AJAX POST request to submit the email will not get you to the bottom of the page by itself (which would come for free if using JS). So using JS can provide a better UX in these aspects.

EDIT: The blog in question: https://pythonautomationtutorial.com
Well, a tape loop doesn't have any ends ;)
Since Starlink offers only very limited bandwidth per square meter it will never be the "new Internet for the masses". I can think of only two major use cases:

- American military now can deploy drones around the world without the need for costly relay stations

- Rich people can savely trade their stocks in remote areas while densely populated areas get bombed to shit

Everything else is pure marketing. Like this article.
10 years of support on the latest driver branch (current branch goes back to the 600 series, and the 400 series was dropped in June) doesn’t exactly seem like a small amount of time.
That's an easy stance to have just as long as nobody is trying to politicize your gender, sexuality, skin color, ethnicity or other things that you literally can't do anything about or go anywhere without. Your skin color is either white or "political". Your gender is either male or "political". Your sexuality is either straight or "political". If you are not in the group that is protected under the status quo, then being asked to not "politicize everything" is the same as being asked to accept being stepped on. They didn't pick this fight, the people that decided to politicize their very person did.
It's endless like an Ouroboros.
Boeing will consolidate 787 production in S.C.
Main advantage of DDG bangs is they work everywhere, especially if you can set your default browser.

In an on-location training on a laptop provided by the training company? Set search engine to DDG, type "!w election fraud" and you're on Wikipedia.

So it's sort of the Firefox keyword feature, in the cloud, but with a little less control.