skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep. It's going to be a massive problem figuring out what's what, who owns what, and who owes what. I don't even see how they'll keep enough customers to stay afloat.
Social isolation during Covid‐19 lockdown impairs cognitive function
> That's subjective.

I don't follow. There is an argument out there that we should stop using he/she and default to they (unless informed otherwise). Am I wrong about that? I didn't say I agree with it, just that it is a proposed solution.

> Allowing the end-user to customize the translation according to their own personal biases introduces an entirely different set of issues...

Yes, and allowing people to speak introduces this exact same issue...
Acceptance of some of those strange observations relied on the older generation - with strong emotional attachment to the old way of looking at things - dying off.
Reasons that people were forced to move from Elm to something else
I don't think this is a hard problem to solve, it's just outside the scope of the site generator itself. The best way to handle it probably depends on how you deploy the site, but one option would be using the at command to either overwrite the existing site files or point a symlink to the updated version of the site: https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/schedule-one-time-comma...
Yep. We were stupid and naive. If it was up to me, we should approve the Russian and the Chinese vaccines just as a gesture to the yanks.
It hasn't disappered -- it will be preserved because it's important. The tooling will exist in automotive museums and the expertise will reside in engineering historians and engineering academics -- the first tractor engines are generally still the learning tools for many undergrads. That knowledge just shifts from working proffessionals to another group in society.
Google Analytics does not give you additional keyword information.

If you want keyword information from Google search results, the best way to get it is actually buying ads for those keywords. And in fact some marketers allocate ad budget to keywords they already rank for, specifically for that purpose.
"This is not available to you"

Hm HTTP 451, or JS error?
The EU itself doesn't manage the reaction to the pandemic, it's up to each country. And as you can see European countries reacted differently and have vastly different results.
From a very brief Google, it looks like there was a near three month difference:

UK, May 2020:
https://www.cambridgeindependent.co.uk/business/astrazeneca-...

EU, August 2020:
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_20_...

(Thanks for making me check - I've read that there was a few-month delay from some newspapers, but never bothered to verify)
We’ve added a table with some evaluation scores to the GitHub repo, and you can see a comparison between our scores, GPT-2, and GPT-3 here: https://twitter.com/BlancheMinerva/status/137399189661642752...

tl;dr we are doing pretty much exactly as well as we expected on LAMBADA and WikiText. Results on more sophisticated tasks will take some time, but HuggingFace is currently working on implementing our model in the transformers library and when they do so we can easily run a lot of analyses very quickly.

We actually built an evaluation suite that integrates with HF, but interfacing with the MTF code that GPT-Neo was written in was too much of a pain in the ass because Mesh TensorFlow is the worst. https://github.com/EleutherAI/lm-evaluation-harness
German water idioms in honor of World Water Day
> If I walk into a shop, the shopkeeper doesn't know if something in the window caught my eye, if my friend recommended the helpful staff, if I saw the advert they placed on a billboard, or if I just came in because it's raining.

A lot of places will attach unique discount codes to advertisements to get an idea on where you came from.

For example, on a TV commercial it might say use promo code COOL123 to save 10% or if you saw that billboard it might say to use NICE123 instead. Then there's radio, newspapers and so on each with their own unique code that offer the same 10% discount.

And since a discount is applied chances are you'll use it because not too many folks would purposely avoid the discount to hide where you discovered the shopkeeper from.

You often see this being done online too, but there's also things like UTM tags or unique URLs that let you do the same thing without discount codes. It's not to make more money as a shopkeeper (avoiding the discount), it's just easier to set up. Using a UTM tag is a matter of creating a link with a few query parameters. Creating a specific discount code or a unique URL for a specific promotion takes a bit of extra leg work.

I'm not sure where I stand on the movement to remove all forms of referral tracking. Both referral headers and UTM tags can be spoofed or removed through extensions so
using them as any type of source of truth was a bad idea anyways.

However, as someone who sells digital products I like knowing which specific video or blog post helped someone discover some of my paid content. But at the same time, the end game is really "is the needle moving forward?" so the specifics kind of don't matter. But in the short term while you're figuring things out, the extra info does help you focus on where to spend your time. Not just for more profit, but to provide better and more free content because it's what folks want.
The source on that someone faked that door sign?

Because I do not see that in there.

edit: and the downvotes while still providing no source for alternative facts, just strenghten my image of the FSF and its followers as a quasireligious cult. And nothing I want to connect with, despite myself living and loving open source.
I think a helpful human translator might use singular "they" in cases where the sex can probably not be known (for example, if it's a reference to a hypothetical person) and there is little danger of confusion with plural "they", and "he/she" in other cases (for example if the person requesting the translation might know the sex and be able to fill it in for themselves).

Those criteria also align roughly with the acceptability of singular "they" in modern British English: a sentence like "everyone should mind their own business" is totally normal and standard and always has been; a sentence like "the unidentified miscreant left their cup on the table" will seem a bit strange to some people; a sentence like "Chris ate their lunch" will seem strange to a lot of people.

I wouldn't expect Google Translate to be capable of such cleverness so a simpler solution would be needed.
Google Cloud Caps Sales Commissions as Losses Mount
What Is the “Mffam” Policy?
Good luck entering a 24h race with an ev. Hydrogen is definitely a better platform for that.
It's crazy to say that it is a safe vaccine with those statistics.
Isn't that a different Porsche company though?

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

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

The latter is a 100% owned subsidiary of VW AG which has Porsche SE as the largest shareholder?

i.e. Porsche the company that makes the cars is a subsidiary of VW Group which is then partially owned by Porsche SE which is a holding company.
Show HN: I landed a Data Science job without a Data Science degree
The American author, Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) wrote "The smell of sulfur is strong, but not unpleasant to a sinner.” after visiting Hawaii's Kilauea Volcano in his book "Roughing It".
This is correct. If you don't have the right to quit at any time, you are legally a slave / indentured servant. And that is very, very illegal.
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I always fall back on this pattern when the return values need to be used further down:

foo, err := doThing(bar)
if err != nil {
// handle error
}
foo2, err := doThing(bar)
if err != nil {
// handle error
}

Only one value in a multi-valued assignment has to be undeclared to use the short variable declaration operator (:=). If the variable already exists in the current scope and the type matches, it will get reused.

https://play.golang.org/p/qo141lT-Jjp
At least that might stop Twitter refusing to serve User-Agents it doesn't recognise.
Hm, that honestly sounds about 90% of the way to a reasonable explanation.

In my own experience I've found as that as a majority of my own marbles have figured out "OH, that's which way is up", my own pragmatic learning capacity has transformed from "transmutation ray that turns everything into indecipherable, unmovable rubble" and... what almost feels like a happy grid of FPGAs that bustle about classifying and organizing without me really having to make much effort. After leaving ideas and subjects for long enough (10+ years in some cases) that old broken memories/associations have just about completely died out, yeah, I definitely can look at things with new eyes.

Discovering that HRT can trigger or you might even say accelerate this process is very fascinating, because it sort of maybe points in the direction of the root causes that break everything in the first place.
First ship tunnel to be built under Norwegian mountains
The active ingredient is bromoform, which might even be cheaper to dose than the raw algae.
I've heard/said it before that point.
Are we in danger of becoming like mice right now?
Redshift has some pretty significant and fairly unpredictable per-query overhead. For example, all queries are compiled, then code is distributed to every node in the cluster, then executed and gathered before returning. And most analytics databases use a scheduled execution model, which can delay execution from a couple seconds to several minutes, depending on database loads.
Even if you open a checkbook wide, there's no guarantee that someone remembers the specifics of some kludgy system they worked on years ago. And if things are really snafu-d, there's no guarantee that even someone who does have domain knowledge can recover things.
The EU has been put in charge of vaccine procurement and there is a lot of coordination between countries.

When I say "the EU" it means as much the EU as an institution as it means most member states individually.
Released Sanic Version 21.3
If it's literally this or the company folds, that seems realistic.
That's smart, I never thought of that. Thanks!
Farming is low margin. Farmers don’t get to set the price of their products, and they aren’t handed billions in capital to burn through or 1000x multiples on their profit in the public markets. When most businesses say they can’t hire someone and the reason is because they don’t pay enough, the underlying cause of their low pay is usually because that’s what the company can afford.

Sure, farmers could pay $10/hr, but unless your Doritos were $10 a bag, they’d lose money.
That fully removes the header, instead of stripping it down to just the origin as they're going to be doing.
Buzzfeed and et. al are deeply dishonest companies running on borrowed time.
Given a HN post if just some persons opinion, and a podcast is just some persons opinion, aren't you failing your own logic by calling that post "toxic"?

i.e. If you don't like opinion framed this way, find other posts to consume.. Instead you're naysaying a HN comment..
In the 1980's when I was in college one of GM's main engines in the UK was basically a 1930's design (updated slightly over the years).
the data sent by a pixel is not PII. it enables lookup of the existing PII. the company putting the pixel on their page isn’t collecting PII and this is outside of GDPR. the accidental transmission of file names doesn’t seem to be PII to me.
How long until we see a CFAA prosecution based solely on providing a UA in the request that you're not "supposed" to use?
> Pretty sure that title was coined by Steve Gibson on his Security Now! podcast

In your source he explicitly says he does not know who the originator is.

> I don't know who the originator was because I saw it coming from several different sources over the past week. But I just love this. I mean, I liked the acronym IDIOT, I-D-I-O-T, which of course stands for I Don't Internet of Things. But I think even better is this slogan: "The 'S' in IOT Is for Security."
It doesn't just encode bias but perpetuates it. So yes, the AI is biased.
Is this what’s new about it? I thought this finding was already known?
I generated bicubic and Lanczos versions in 2006. It was stated that the Lanczos one evidently came from a version of GIMP that was buggy, so I removed it a long time back. The bicubic is still there from that era. If it's wrong, I will have to redo that part of the page.

The Lanczos images in the paper should be correct.
Don't want to sound harsh but, given how isolated Iceland is, anything less than a week is like... wasting money anyway? Obviouvsly if it's a business trip you might go and stay one or two days, but for anything involving leisure, I don't know, adding extra 5 days quarantine is not that a big deal (if you can afford going to Iceland anyway).
Synthetic fuel. Works in current cars and it's cleaner than current fuel:

https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/industry-news/porsche-beg...
Also, it prevents you from exfiltrating Google's ML model for search and build up your own.
Cyclist are a menace for well behaved pedestrians. They are very aggressive and endangering the well being of other people in the city centers, which are closed to general traffic or on walking paths outside of cities. Recklessly speeding between pedestrians and doing risky maneuvers thinking they are on the Tour the France.
Do you think the original he's criticizing (available at https://twitter.com/DaveKeating/status/1351129935826575360/p...) was fair?
Yeah, I'm wondering the same, since he refused to use the app at all, so no sniffing packets either.
the data they hold on their audience is irrelevant here. eg BB not collecting age and gender, and they don’t have the web history of the user (that fb pixel and thumbs icon enables). the lookalike audience is based on FB profile.
Depends. Public employees in Bavaria are allowed to have up to 2 liters of beer for lunch. Is that drunk?
Normal websites are going to be unaffected in terms of user-facing functionality, regardless of whether they use the data gathered from HTTP Referer internally. On the other hand, badly designed websites that do depend on the HTTP Referer to provide functional user experience are going to lose their users in favour of normal websites, because they are "broken"—and always have been.
Depends on the contract and jurisdiction. I had one contract that stipulated a fixed penalty, which made any attempt of ignoring notice periods a calculated risk (the fine wasn't that steep). In any other case, in Germany, I would expect a law suite, incurring costs, stress and time, followed by some kind of agreement between the two parties. As an employee, you don't necessarily have the time nor the money (there's insurance for legal disputes like that so).

In that particular case, my experience tells me the guy won't get any credit for finding a solution, I would consider sick leave. Burnout, whatever. Doesn't have any monetary consequences in Europe (at least no harsh ones), and Germany covers up to 6 weeks of salary.

Any way, you can forget about getting goods references. Not that would get them anyway, with an employer like that.
If there's something I learnt over the years about any technology is making big claims about any technology is very risky.

A small invention/progress/optimization would change everything about that technology.

I'd rather have my popcorn and watch the competition.
An overview of search engines and libraries
As far as I understand, even if Biontech would partner with European companies instead of US ones, we (europeans) do not have the capacity to produce vaccines in mass quantity. The issue in Europe is more fundamental IMHO, we lack strong industries in too many critical domains.
An electric 911 would not still be a 911. The 911 is defined by engine placement and configuration. I think they are acknowledging that their customers would regard an electric 911 as a travesty.
I’ve been wanting to get into optics, but have no ideas where to start. I imagine it starts with the typical engineering math, but where from there?
That would be news to me that VW actually had any engine in development by themselves. Last thing I heard were small customizations in their racing department. Before they could announce ending any engine development, wouldn't they need to start one before?
I heard in Handelsblatt's podcast a few weeks ago that new Porsche CEO (?) was already planning for it.

They're thinking how to introduce "wow factor" to electric cars. They don't want to be just another Tesla.

Apparently Porsche was always about being "exclusive".
Murmuration of thousands of starlings appearing like a single enormous bird
The US did make big purchase commitments for the mRNA and J&J vaccines before EU though, months before, which he just dances past.
Their mistake was scamming people richer than them, not poorer than them
Poignant way show show how there is no security in IoT
Checking for a specific internal URL will still work: they're changing the default cross-origin behavior.
of lamp endpoints I presume!
> is demonstrably false

Please demonstrate it then. Which research? Nothing you said demonstrates what you suggest.
Great video but its amusing to see so many people up close and personal with the erupting lava. Here in the US, our National Park Service closed the entire area surrounding the crater at Kilauea when it started erupting last year. Unless you were a volcanologist, you aren't able to get within several miles of it.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26535224
Oh yeah... the dismorphia effect and similar anxieties. Of course. Never experienced any of it myself, didn't realize how big of a potential factor it could be until reading your comment.

I was mostly considering the fact that the female hormone, uh, configuration is naturally pro-social, and that dumping that set of hormone balances on the brain promptly elicits the associated responses - ie, that the response (or rather the tendency for those responses to function properly) becomes a partial function of hormone state.

But those sort of general factors (including elevated mood) would definitely be a part of the end result.
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>You have people (mostly) locked in a building and you feed them 3 times a day. The biggest costs should be food, electricity, and labour (guards).

don't forget housing, which makes up 40% of the CPI. You're also vastly underestimating the cost of labor. One article[1] cites the current inmate-to-staff ratio as 4.4-to-1, and that's considered high. I suspect that prison staff make far more than the minimum wage so I expect the staffing costs alone to cost more than the yearly minimum wage.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/federal-eye/wp/2015/09/0...
Depends on the setting. Among educated professionals - it's how science gets done. So even though the process is flawed, it's still more consistently fact-based than emotion-based.

But some people's arguments are based exclusively on emotion.

And they tend to be very bad at estimating risk, because they literally can't tell the difference between one specific tragedy which triggers their emotions because it's reported in great deal, and millions of tragedies which don't trigger their emotions because they're reported as dry statistics.

If we were being less polite, we'd call this a form of cognitive handicap.

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-04/ttu-pra04092...
First recorded use of AR.
You've just described the US H1-B visa program.
> You entirely missed the point. A 60 year old man sleeping with someone young enough to be his granddaughter is disgusting. Full stop.

You're moving the goal post. At first your claim was that Minsky should have known the women were coerced because otherwise they wouldn't have had sex with him. Now that I've refuted your claim, you shifted your position to, paraphrased, "he's a criminal because what he did offends my moral compass".

> It is LITERALLY the definition: the illegal business of recruiting, harboring, transporting, obtaining, or providing a person and especially a minor for the purpose of sex

That's not a valid definition of "sex trafficking", which requires an individual to be exploited and/or coerced to perform sexual acts. We don't know whether Minsky had reason to presume that the women were exploited and/or coerced, and we don't know whether Minsky had reason to presume that the women were minors.
Perhaps a model of contractors collecting together in small groups to carry on, will work.

I've seen this happen a bit in the US, especially in the Rails consulting space. I think having loosely formed "agencies" made up of complementary partners where the sales pipeline goes through the agency is definitely a potential way forward, but seems uncommon in the UK so far. The downside is independent contractors with poor networking skills might struggle to find people to collaborate with.
Is HBCU a common acronym in British English?
> This guy(gal?) is really required to submit 3 months notice or face some sort of repercussions (financial, I assume)?

In theory, the business could sue an ex-employee who just left for damages caused by the breach of contract, but in the real world it would be pretty much impossible to prove that the damages were caused by the employee leaving. In most cases it's simply considered a dick move, and you'll end up with a hole in your CV as you won't ever get a decent reference if you just get up and leave.

> Does this 3 month period apply in reverse (employer can't fire employees without a full 3 month warning)?

Usually yes. And unlike the situation above, employees could probably drag the employer to court for it, unless the employee did something illegal or completely irresponsible during working hours.
That's part of what bothers me about this whole story--it says they were running BIND, which configs on text files for goodness sake. These critical records were tiny and could fit anywhere & transfer in the blink of an eye. That such a simple thing is buried under & dependent upon an entire complex and untested/maintained DR plan is mind-boggling.
Yea this title is total click bait.
No clue here either.

My takeway is that it's an extremely specialized piece of software, only of any use to people already familiar with whatever mc and minio are, who hopefully find that explanatory enough.

I think this sort of thing is okay if you're targeting very specialized uses. But it is almost definitely too obscure if a newcomer to the field could have an use for it, without yet knowing what tools are used in that specific area.
> It’s overly complex for the tasks it is often trying to solve.

That's a bit like saying a excavator is a bit too complex to hammer nails. Yes, that's true, but that was not why we created the excavator in the first place.

Same with Redux. Initially created to get rid of big, hairy and complex balls of state. If you use it in your basic CRUD, you're probably using the wrong tool rather than the tool is wrong itself.

Each tool has it's place in our toolboxes. It's our job to decide when to use what tool.
The Burmese people kept quiet, and possibly supported the genocide of rohingyas. Now the chicken has come home to roost. Their neighbours, us Indians, made similar mistake with Kashmiris, and now we are paying the price for it as the whole country has become authoritarian.[1] Classic examples of Martin Niemöller's poem.

[1] https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/research-organisation-d...
Porsche has not said never for the 911. They have said it will be the last of their vehicles to go fully electric.

The new 992 platform for the 911 has been modified for electrification, so we'll be seeing a mild hybrid 911, likely for the 992.2 revision.
Unbelievable. I mean, I have experience of the Powerpoint GCSE with my daughter in 2009 but I had no idea it was also rampant at A-level.
It'll probably settle around 33-35% since that number is just for 2020.