skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi I'm one of the founders of Litmaps. We set out to build this tool after frustration with the state of current academic search software. This was specifically from the painful literature review process of my co-founder during his PhD.

Our first attempt to solve this was with a "map of all science" (from 1400-today, 100M+ articles, 1B citations), which we did build but it didn't end up solving the problem that well.
We re-approached the problem by pairing a time-based citation visualization, with helpful search tools, and project (or map) state. Our visualization lets you quickly see how search results relate to each other (optionally with nodes sized by citation count). We currently have keyword search, and a network search (called Explore) that scans for highly connected articles up to two degrees away from your map(s) and/or keyword searches. Lastly the project state is nice because as you build up key articles, network search is more targeted, and you can opt into email updates if there are any newly published works that connect to your map as we update our dataset.

It's currently in early access so it's free to use, and you don't need to create an account to get started. You can dive right in and start finding relevant articles to what you are working on or are interested in.
Keen to hear feedback on our work so far. Thanks.
I, as a 15 year old kid, was detained as a suspect in an armed robbery, and murder case for a few days. Of course the case never went anywhere, and that's why I can speak with you now. Fortunately, a complete bullshit FIR, and CCTV records made the case to look too silly even for a Russian criminal system.

Every time I see an immigration officer at the border raising his eyebrows in disbelief, I instantly understand that he took a look on my criminal file.

For me, the cruel tradition of Russian police to literally grab the first bystander they come upon near the crime scene to draw as a suspect did cost months of my life spent on legal paperwork, and an immigration nightmare.

Russian citizens have no ability to have anything struck from their file, even if those lucky got a rarest %0.8 acquittal. For most unlucky people, even if the case doesn't go anywhere, they will never get the clear acquittal record, but instead have something like "case struck on procedural grounds" in their file.

Getting wrongly accused is very easy. Just be the first person to be seen near the crime scene.
What is the JavaScript Call Stack and how does it get Exceeded
You can execute dbgate from console, all available info is printed to console. Message "An internal error has occurred" seems to be from the underlying db driver. You could also create issue github, if more investigation is needed

Azure cloud should be not problem, what version of MariaDB are you using?
I think they’re implying that you may have a case for a lawsuit
That’s out of over 1,300 executions since 1976.
The thing I find distasteful is the 'sanitization' of execution. I've got some ideas on how to spice it up:

Brushing away of the wrongful executions as a price of justice. Hold a monthly lottery of the population, with the random 'winner' being executed. Out of a population of millions you wouldn't even notice, but would send a message to the world that you were OK with the cost.

Secondly. Repercussions for those that assisted in wrongful convictions. Your prosecutor withheld evidence of your innocence? Police dropped evidence into your pocket? Try them for attempted murder. Boggles my mind at the lack of repercussions that seem to come out of these cases.

Finally I think you should be executed by your peers, in the same way as we tried you. At your conviction lottery is held of the population and winner is your executioner. They're given a gun/syringe/whatever and they're pointed at the prisoner. Oh, and I'd like this televised - maybe as part of the superbowl show. "Here's Charlene from Ohio, she's just celebrated her sweet-sixteenth, likes horses and reading and has selected a crossbow"
Most of the examples of innocents being convicted are from before the invention of DNA forensics. The problem is the criminal justice system which too easily gives the death penalty. We could easily reduce the probability of conviction innocents from 4% to one in a trillion by enforcing a set of requirements:

- Must have DNA evidence
- Must have audio and video evidence
- Must have fingerprints
- Must have at least 2 witnesses

There are plenty of cases that satisfy these conditions (terrorist attacks being one of them).
This right here

I think arguing for its abolition on the basis of "the system is bad" is completely valid

> familiar with the details of truly horrendous crimes

And this still happens. And I agree, society is sometimes too tolerant with people who have no business in being in it (which, true, is a much smaller percentage of people on death row)

But don't expect the legal system to try to improve how many innocents they convict.
> British Siri was always a male voice.

Does it? I've had it set to a female voice since, uhm, forever...?

I am absolutely guilty of sexism towards my AI assistants, but it's in a congratulatory way. On Google Home, I have an issue whereby it often thinks I'm speaking Italian when I'm not, hence doing the wrong thing. I set the Italian responder to be male (like I am), and the English one to female; so when I hear a male response I think "stupid man is stupid", repeat the command more clearly, and get a "competent female" voice who will do the right thing.

Siri does not have this sort of granularity, you have to switch languages manually - which makes it less flexible but, I guess, slightly more precise (although it's still just Bad pretty often).
Yeah but compared to similar nations in culture and wealth it's pretty much an outlier.
Interesting form the headline I thought the OP was trying to break into a NT machine where the password had been lost.

I did this back in the day for a big Uk Cinema chain's booking system - basically boot to floppy and extract the secrets to run Jack the Ripper on
You make two assertions that are both clearly incorrect. Your point a) there clearly is a difference between watched (not filmed) in class and a software, filming you, recording audio, monitoring everything you type and what your computer is doing _in your own home_. Saying there is no difference is akeen to stating a police officer watches you in public, so let's install cameras in everyone's home.
b) you say that nobody will be penalised by based on an AI system, despite there being lots of reports of exactly that happening (some where even posted a bit further up thread).
Also mingling in politics. US has been in the business of that for decades. The whole of Central and South America has had a couple of regime changes dictated by the US.

Then Russia supposedly bought some Facebook ads or something for a US election years ago, and I still need to read about it in the news every week.

Conclusion: US also has a huge double measurement problem.
This comment is internally inconsistent-- favoring a more barbaric penalty of life incarceration does not mean a nation has a higher morality.
The more comments I read in this thread, the more this sounds like Perl 5 and Perl 6.
> how prude the US is when it comes to sexuality

This hasn't been true for decades.
“We hold these truths to be self evident...” is from the Declaration of Independence. It does not appear in the Constitution.
Yeah i found that..

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/proctor

Though in fairness proctor / procurator are extremely antiquated english words, that have survived in common usage only in the US for some reason.
I am a lector at a University and would never force my students to install something that is so privacy invading as Proctorio on student's own computers.

If you absolutely need this type of monitoring it should be done at some sort of testing center on cleanly imaged computers. I could see it being done for something absolutely crucial such as a bar exam.

Proctorio and its ilk should not be used for simple mid-terms or even finals. This monitoring software becomes a huge crutch to lazy administrators and teachers. I should know I am lazy too.

PS While we are on the slippery slope, if Proctorio becomes standard we rapidly head to Snow Crash situation where federal jobs were heavily monitored. Already many freelancer sites use screenrecording software.
What if your love and forgiveness allow a killer to strike again? I share similar values but I'm prepared to compromise on them if necessary. Even incarceration is a compromise. Values are ideals, not absolutes.
I strongly disagree.

- You can copy a text symbol and put it into a search engine to figure out what it means.

- Screen readers can recognize text symbols without needing an alt text.

- Text is more flexible on dark or light backgrounds and has better contrast.

- Text is better suited for virtual keyboards and auto-correct or auto-replacement.

- Text can be used in input fields.

- Text has native rendering hints built-in, such as baseline and kerning, which improves inline rendering.

- Text is more flexible when choosing a glyph. For example, you can render it larger for the visually impaired, or change fonts and put a special glyph into the font.

- Text is more flexible when choosing color vs. black-and-white output. Try printing an emoji to see what I mean.
Saw this and downloaded. Looks very good. Thanks for creating this. Fast, and plenty of features. I am using DBeaver and this looks like it can be a great replacement.
Idle hands are the devil’s workshop.
s/Proctorio/Scientology/g would work just fine in the story https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/22/21526792/proctorio-onlin...

Of course there are a lot of creepy software and sleezy businesses around. That is not the issue. The issue is the university administrators - the MBA style morons who overtook the universities - who subject their students to such a crap software. On the other side one can argue that that is really preparing students for the real life - after all they are going to come to the industry and will be subjected by the MBA style morons in the management there to the crap like Jira, Scrum, Slack (how being forced to constantly broadcast your status and be immediately responsive is that much different from Proctorio?), etc.
I think the author is trying to sow outrage, to pit people against each other based on gender, to emphasize the differences instead of the commonalities and support conflict rather than cooperation. That's what people like the author want: class, race and gender wars.
Printing of textile care labels ... that are on all of your garments, towels and bedclothes.
Scientific knowledge that connects brain injuries to violent crime is an even better reason to end the death penalty.

Traumatic brain injury damages self-regulation and changes social behavior. Uninhibited or impulsive behavior, including problems controlling anger and unacceptable sexual behavior, leads to crime. The concept of insanity used in the US criminal system is based on science 130 years ago, combined with the religious concept of sin and soul. The thinking is that if a person knows what they do is wrong, they could choose to not do it is BS. With brain injury person can lose that ability.

Damaged Brains and the Death Penalty
https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/stories/damaged-brains-and-the-...

>In another study, of 14 juveniles sentenced to death, the researchers found that all had suffered head trauma, most in car accidents but many by beatings as well. 12 had suffered brutal physical abuse, 5 of those sodomized by relatives.

Traumatic brain injury: a potential cause of violent crime?
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6171742/

Traumatic Brain Injury in Prisons and Jails:
An Unrecognized Problem
https://www.cdc.gov/traumaticbraininjury/pdf/prisoner_tbi_pr...

>According to jail and prison studies,
25-87% of inmates report having
experienced a head injury or TBI 2-4
as compared to 8.5% in a general
population reporting a history of
TBI.
“Revenge has no place in a civilized society” is just an opinion. Mine is different. I don’t believe a society is civilized if it treats murderers with anything less than the most extreme vengeance.
Thanks for sharing this I’ll try this out
How would the software that lets me add text to images work? Presumably it would use unicode.

And how would the software that extracts text from an image store the extracted text? If it comes accross a number of symbols from different domains how would it save them, and what table of contents would it use as a reference? Unicode.
Which civilized society? In which baby Bush "finishes off" what papa Bush started?
Regarding:

> Does this project waste certain efforts of maintainers?

> Unfortunately, yes. We would like to sincerely apologize to the maintainers involved in the corresponding patch review process; this work indeed wasted their precious time. We had carefully considered this issue, but could not figure out a better solution in this study.

Have they ever heard about carbon offsets? How about finding/performing work that offsets the abuse of time of the maintainers involved? (Hint: it's not too late to do this to show you really are sorry. You won't be trusted at first but it's the right thing to do.)
I just read the title and thought "Switch to Zsh".

Bash is so amazingly clunky in comparison.
This actually seems pretty effective to me. I now know that if I criticize Proctorio, I am likely on the hook for six figures in legal fees. That alone would be enough to scare off many people who would otherwise feel inclined to critique the product/company.

In fact, winning the case may not even be that important to the firm.
> They're still a danger to society

Which is one of the reasons why we have incarceration, which I believe is absolutely necessary in some form in a case where a person is a danger to others (whether or not it's "their fault").

> we'd have to make excuses for peadophiles having 'messed up impulse control' too.

It's not an excuse, it's more a description of reality. And it would apply to child abusers as well, as well as other criminals, yes.

This isn't an argument against "punishing" these people. It's an argument for being clear about why we are "punishing" them, to make sure it's not a revenge motive (which is a heavily biologically driven motive in itself)
I want to preface what I'm about to say with: I'm against the death penalty. However, innocent people die every day, they're hit by cars, they're shot by police, they commit suicide. If your argument is that you want to save the lives of innocent poeple then you should be having a discussion about reducing the use of cars.

If your argument isn't about the state's role, then what is the distinction between these things. 4% doesn't actually seem like a high rate to me and it's not a high percentage of a relatively small number in the first place.
"Fell off a truck"

for those who don't get that it was a joke, the software is available for download on some non legal channels, you just need to look. He doesn't want to reveal the origin.
I reckon the majority of english speakers who read 'Proctorio' will immediately think anus.
I wonder how they did it before.
Just because it's banned doesn't mean the debate is over: https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BytxHbenQyQ/V_O2hw4mUXI/AAAAAAAA8...

Some western countries have respectably high numbers: France 50%, UK 48%, Holland 42%.

Not that the USA wants to be compared to us, but here in Romania it's at 91% and we still don't have it. (I suspect that romantic notions of Vlad the Impaler's time has something to do with the percentage.)
Though I agree that in most cases death penalty should not be used, in some very specific but not rare cases - like mass shootings with dozens dead - where you have a lot of video and DNA evidence and dozens of witnesses - I just can't find a single argument against it. If I find any - I would gladly change my mind.
> There's an implicit threat to it, where if you do not listen or don't comply life will be difficult for you.

One could say that plays into a certain type of "bitchy, commandeering" female stereotypes. Which is why this sort of analysis is often fluff with an agenda - once you're determined to find bad elements in human behaviour, you will find something.
Why does this stuff need to be at the federal level? CA has a very different air quality situation than Alabama. Why can't they both regulate air quality as they see fit?
you simply have a tool which extracts the text, transforms it however you please, and then puts it back as an image.

Then you still need some way to handle text, and image to text is not reliable.
Text simply has so much more distilled information. Images are nice for humans, but I can't imagine them as a storage format for programs.
I took one look at Litmaps when they first launched on ProductHunt and loved it so much we immediately approached them to integrate it with Citationsy (https://citationsy.com/blog/citationsy-and-litmaps/). The features they have added since then, like email updates if a new paper pops up on your map, colour coding, and reference count, show that the team is on the pulse of what’s useful to researchers and students. Looking forward to seeing what they add next!

Take a look at an example map here: https://app.litmaps.co/maps?doi=10.1038/S42256-019-0086-4
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Truck driver. The comm terminal in my truck (Qualcomm) has a female voice, for navigation waypoint reminders, reading messages, and warnings.

It is not a pleasant voice. I've name it after my ex wife, because it's always telling me what to do.

This is particularly annoying in Oregon, where the max speed was raised from 55 years ago, and she will tell you every five seconds that "You are exceeding the posted speed limit. ... You are exceeding the posted speed limit. ..." So you turn off the voice (which I could never do when I was married), and give up the other useful voice functions.

The optical scanner advertisement from 1968 was interesting. "16 legs and eight wagging tongues." I was a teenager then, and I can imagine women being annoyed by that ad, and me and other men being dismissive. To our discredit, despite it being "a different time."

Maybe I'll rename my Qualcomm to George. (Although she really was always telling me what to do.)
It would be enough if there was a way to disable device managed mode.
Then the drive would still work on legacy machines, but if the host supports it, it could perform better.
By using custom fonts?
Usually, you don't need to replace a system dll at all. You can just drop an alter ego in exe's own directory or even in a launch directory. Default search order in Windows is such that it'll pick up from the latter two first and check PATH second.

Once the process is up and running it has the control over this (with LoadLibraryEx and SetDefaultDllDirectories) and it's also possible to tighten search logic at the OS level (with a registry patch), but if the machine is under attacker's control, the only option is to validate loaded module list from within the app.
The underlines mean gentle (and very gentle) as explained in the table at the top (see TEXTILE CARE SYMBOL COMBINING BAR BELOW etc.)
Shingled drives can still be read sector-by-sector. The shingling just changes how the data is written; it doesn't change how the data is read.

So no, a single bad bit would only affect a single sector. And in fact, a single bad bit wouldn't do any harm, as all drives use error correcting codes that can handle a lot more than a single bit going bad. You'd actually lose a whole sector at time (512 bytes or 4096 bytes, depending on the drive).
> “diminished mental capacity”

As we learn more about neuroscience, every murderer will look like they have "diminished mental capacity". This legal construct is merely a statement of our ignorance to understand what's actually going on in their brain.
This is purely subjective. Bitcoin's spent electricity goes to increase security of the network (whether one's care about the network, is the subjective part). But the electricity is not being turned into heat for no purpose and then ejected into the atmosphere.
Then the world would be better off without you.
Where are the successful AI companies in the EU to regulate in the first place? They would mostly be American companies
The company was delisted yesterday from the OTCQB over-the counter market “for not complying with the rules”
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/22/100-million-new-jersey-deli-...
It's as if you need guilt proven beyond reasonable doubt.
Tooling could be built to do all of that for images too.

For example you could take part of an image and put it into a search engine too... That search engine would take images as input, and where the image represents writing if some kind, it would return relevant results.

Screen readers could look into an image and read out any writing found, just like some screen readers can describe an image ("person in boat holding flag"). Deep nets that can do this reasonably well have been around years now.
Bitcoin mining becomes less profitable the more people do it.

At some point it gives you exactly as much as you pay for energy to mine.

So if you can store electricity in the batteries for long enough to sell it for more than pruce of purchase then you are better off investing in the battery.

But since batteries are expensive and inefficient, you might be better off investing in the wind turbine or solar panel and mine with it if you can't sell energy to the grid for more money.

It's better than battery because when demand is high it gives energy, but it doesn't have to take energy when demand is low and it keeps itself financially afloat even when there's no high demand for a long time which might kill your battery energy storage enterprise.

I know about at least one pumped storage facility that died because of that.
you simply have a tool which extracts the text, transforms it however you please, and then puts it back as an image.

This is extremely non-simple. It is a strictly harder problem than just... encoding image+text in a sane container format like HTML or SVG.
In shocking news the majority of people polled believed they should be paid more and be taxed less.
It sure looks better aestethically esimov/triangle or fogleman/primitive! Goal achieved I would say.

It still would be cool to see this compared to those in Low Quality Image Placeholder implementations and find out if the extra work on nicer aethetics is preserved when the blur applied.
But for example in my home country, there's no way I could be sued for this. I mean I could, but if I was, the legal fees would likely need to be assumed by the entity making this kind of ridiculous lawsuit.

There are too many like me, in different jurisdictions, who cannot be silenced like this.

And I'm still in awe that a modern democracy like Canada, would allow their citizens to be threatened using their legal system. It seems corrupt.