skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Help:FAQ:

Q: Is it possible to download Wiktionary?

A: Yes. https://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiktionary/ should have the latest copy of the main namespace. The cleanest navigation page is https://dumps.wikimedia.org/. Just download a -articles.xml.bz2 file and some software to read it (for nix, for Windows).

Q: Can I use data from Wiktionary in my program?

A: As long as you meet the conditions of the GNU Free Documentation License or Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License, certainly.

Latest dump for English is from September 1. I wouldn’t know whether it has all the data or how easy it is to parse it.
How social media intensifies US political polarization [pdf]
I thought for sure we were headed for a recession prior to covid based on this. The great thing about being a permabear is that eventually you are right. In the meantime you're a terrible investor who can't afford to buy a house. And then when your predictions are fulfilled, the prize for winning is everything going to crap in the world
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Of course different languages have different syntax, but it is a pretty hard requirement that within a (specific version of a language the syntax rules are both explicit and consistent.
Does Betteridge's law of headlines apply here?
Yes, exactly, the Foundation Models paper is basically a grant proposal of research program. Still many object to coining a new (hyperbolic) term for an established field for own gain.

Personally, I will stick to the established 'larte-scale pre-trained models' instead of 'foundation models' in my publications.
The problem nowadays is that pragmatism and conservatism are a victim of popular propaganda and emotional overreactions.

My theory about this is based on economic and societal differences between countries.

In high developed countries, with functioning or semi-functioning social security systems, people can afford to think more liberally even in socialistic views.

For underdeveloped countries, especially Eastern Europe this way of thinking is form of luxury.

We have lived trough transformation from communistic regimes towards capitalism and payed the high price. Some of us emigrated and created something out of nothing. We are hardworking and ambitious and with this fight comes realistic and conservative view of the world.

https://www.bosch.com/stories/synthetic-fuels/
> The Foreign Interference (Countermeasures) Bill, which was introduced in Parliament on Monday (Sept 13), will provide the Government with a range of tools - including powers to compel Internet and social media service providers to disclose information on users, remove online content and block user accounts

This is after POFMA (Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act) which is has been heavily criticised by human rights and free speech organisations. Reporters Without Borders claimed the bill is "terrible", stating that it is "totalitarian" and used as a tool for censorship [0][1]

[0] https://rsf.org/en/news/singapore-uses-anti-fake-news-law-el...

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-singapore-fakenews-idUSKB...
Embroidery Digitiser
The hard part about college admissions is the fact that most young people don’t know what they want to do until after high school cause they are still exploring their options. Many studernts have to use https://writinguniverse.com/free-essay-examples/world/ . Even more, for people who are passionate about lots of different things, it can feel very tough to opt for a single path and stick to it so that you become “awesome” at it..
I wonder if this is part of why there is a special sigma for use at the end of words.

σ is normal sigma and ς is for the endings of words.
One of the big differences I’ve observed between the USA and Europe is the way cities are zoned: I didn’t realise until I actually went to America that SimCity 2000 is somewhat realistic with regard to Californian city design.

By comparison, my residential building here in Berlin has a restaurant and a café on the ground floor, a business office on the first floor, and the rest is residential, and even the parts of the city with houses rather than apartment blocks do similar things horizontally rather than vertically: house, house, kebabs, five houses, small supermarket, three houses, office.

Similarly in the UK, you’ll have domestic resistances above or next to shops and pubs and offices. Or next to (I’ve never seen them above) industrial buildings: workshops, factories, etc.
Geizhals had a rough stance in Germany. Despite being very early on the market, it used the .at TLD (and later geizhals.cc and geizhals.net) because it was impossible to acquire the .de domain. It was later bought by a competitor who turned his deals website into a price comparison (geizkragen.de), which caused much confusion among german users. Eventually, Geizhals bought the domain (along with the .com, which it had gone to WIPO over and lost - https://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/decisions/html/2005/d200... ), for a (AFAIK) record-setting 7-figure price for a .de domain. Said competitor went on to build bitcoin.de and was very successful with it.
> sitting on piles of cash in the past for years and years, avoiding buying securities when they are overvalued. He never tried timing the market, simply waiting for the right moment.

It’s not quite clear what you’re trying to say here, because if you popped into a newbie investment forum and said you were sitting on a pile of cash that you were avoiding investing because the market was overvalued, you’d be told that is the literal classic “trying to time the market” move.

Buffett obviously is a sophisticated investor who knows what he’s doing but if your description is right this is absolutely still him timing the market. Timing the market isn’t just when you try to pick the day that’s lowest, it’s still timing the market if you are picking the month or year that is lowest.
Raven from Rosaria at Laughter Hegemony
They already go negative in Australia quite regularly, almost always because of solar.
Except for Branson, aren't most of the "space billionaires" of US origin or activity? It seems to me that most other countries have only government funded space programs.
Here’s the paper https://www.aging-us.com/article/203485

> The study population comprised adults (5 males, 1 female) with significant memory decline aged 64 years and older

> The protocol consisted of 60 daily sessions at 5 sessions per week within a three-month period. Each session included breathing 100% oxygen by mask at 2ATA for 90 min with 5 min air breaks every 20 min.

> At baseline, patients attained a mean global cognitive score (102.4±7.3) similar to the average score in the general population normalized for age and education level (100), while memory scores were significantly lower (86.6 ± 9.2). Cognitive assessment following HBOT revealed a significant increase in the global cognitive score (102.4 ± 7.3 to 109.5 ± 5.8, p=0.004), where memory, attention and information processing speed domain scores were the most ameliorated (Figure 8C). Moreover, post-HBOT mean memory scores improved to the mean score (100.9 ± 7.8), normalized per age and education level (100).
https://archive.is/IkR2o
Somewhat related:

> And, as the injunction reveals, the vast majority of App Store billings come from gaming. Games account for approximately 70 percent of the entire App Store’s revenue, and 98 percent of in-app purchase revenue. The App Store is a game store, and more specifically, it’s a game store for massive, free-to-play games that make nearly all of their money from in-app items.

Source: https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/10/22667047/apple-epic-rulin...
Genuine question: isn't Singapore also in an effectively one party system? How is it that "foreign influence" matters to it?
I think the end game for Epic and their owner Tencent is to get a foot in the door on iOS and Android to open it up to Chinese app stores, especially in markets outside of the U.S. This could potentially be good for developers, but at the same time having to support multiple app stores can get really tiresome.
It definitely educated me!
I just tried, but I could not reproduce this on my laptop here. The overall system load is consistently higher with PulseAudio when playing an audio file with mplayer -- even when using "plughw" (which allows in-kernel software resampling) instead of "hw" (which does not). It must be hardware- or system-dependent.

Also, I'm curious why this happens on your system. PulseAudio itself uses ALSA (the standard kernel API for audio) behind the scenes, like any application would, directly, in its absence. In addition, it must carry audio samples across process boundaries and perform software mixing/routing, all with low-ish latency (hence small buffer sizes). All this with negative (up 25%!) CPU usage?

One possible explanation: I did read many times that PulseAudio "fixes ALSA bugs" or "fixes buggy applications". However, I can't remember encountering any such bug in the last few years (or any PulseAudio bugs either, to be honest). Nowadays, most applications that can use ALSA directly do so through alsalib, which could just as well iron out such issues if any remain.

Which application triggers this behavior?
I think the execs see it, they're just betting that the billions of dollars they get now will be more than what they would get otherwise. I think they botched some decisions regarding Epic (revoking certs), but the overall strategy makes sense to me.
https://archive.is/Bz7r7
this one even better)
She doesn't really face any consequences for it, either, no PhD to lose or anything. The reason it made the news is because before that, she faked lots of entries in her CV, suggesting qualifications she doesn't have. The book was just a piece of the puzzle.
At least st. Cyprian (died 258) [1] understands epiousious meaning the holy communion. (Source: my friend who has studied theology focusing to early church fathers)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyprian
The percentage of consonants in this word induces serious amounts of Angstschweiß :)
Or because no one could confuse a graphic library with a file system library !?

This is actually very common for the same name to be used in different contexts.
Twitter want customers now than users: Twitter monetization case study
https://archive.is/yyH3s
The Bawdy Graffiti of Pompeii and Herculaneum
'love' might have been their interpretation.

Another one would be cause and effect, if that had already happened it means it must happen again... and so whatever he does there it will succeed in setting events in motion again... Interesting bit would have been how it all started.
>The countdown goes to 0, and ... it downloads nothing.

But you have seen a few ads in the meantime, that's all that really matters.
Torrent is still better experience (in my particular case, lol).

Tried to watch Ted Lasso at peak lock down. Apple TV+ bumped the quality something to 480p since it was evening in nationwide lockdown so all streaming services are down to 40mbps (tho realistically Apple was barely moving at 3-4mbps). They do let you downloading episodes, but that's still at 1080p.

Fired up WebTorrent and was watching it glorious 4k in matter of minutes...
> https://www.ncdhhs.gov/news/press-releases/2021/08/27/adult-...

It's frankly irresponsible to say this. We are talking about what's essentially an exploratory study that needs a LOT of followup before taking action and pushing it in a way that's going to cause people to run scared.
France having crippled the Covid app on iPhone but not Android is the reason I still use Apple. Despite their recent attempt at crippling privacy.
I seem to remember other quotes, in any case, the book only made the news because before that, Baerbock was already in trouble for faking her CV, suggesting qualifications she doesn't really have. At least they were being disputed, I haven't followed the story lately.

The book just fed into that story, especially as it was published when she was already in trouble for her CV.
Ask HN: How do you take notes throughout your work day?
Recently I've been really curious how engineers take ad-hoc notes throughout their work days.

Personally I've been using Obsdian.md and creating a new file for each day that I work.

Anyone using a specific tool, or maybe even a physical notebook?

Follow up question is whether you ever reference your notes or go back and look through them again.
Before the book, Baerbock was in trouble for faking her CV, suggesting qualifications she doesn't really have. I don't know what the last word on that was, though.

Pointing out the book was not such a big deal then is like pointing to a fake PhD thesis full of quotes, picking out one quote and saying "see, that is not really that bad". Yeah, a single quote is not that bad. It is the sum of them that makes it bad.
I will disagree. I cannot see how a native speaker can be the worst at understanding their own language. Your own language is the one you understand best, and even though that is not directly the opposite statement, for your statement to be correct it would mean that statistically native speakers are of inferior understanding compared to others. When you take that to apply for all languages you would end up with a paradox. You give an example based on pronunciation, which does change for all languages, so I would not take knowledge of history of pronunciation to have anything to do with the instinctive understanding of concepts in your mother tongue. Now on the second part, I.e. the ability to explain, I would think it’s related to understanding, but it is more nuanced as it also has to do with knowledge of the language in which the explanation is articulated.

—-edit to add comment on pronunciation of β

On the specific pronunciation subject, I am no expert in the matter but I do wonder how that reconciles with the fact that the letters μπ make the sound b in Greek and that combination of letters is not modern but has been in Ancient Greek words too, such as in εμπνέω.
I feel like this is similar to the criticism that YouTube received in its early days. And I wonder if the problem is with the platforms that offer an opportunity for self-exploitation or with our work culture. Because self-exploitation is a much more widespread issue and transcends platforms and workplaces. In my opinion, it's the "rags to riches" and hustle mindset that's at fault. So I'd rather blame Tony Robbins and Tim Ferry than Roblox.
The hard part about college admissions is the fact that most young people don’t know what they want to do until after high school cause they are still exploring their options. Many students have to use https://writinguniverse.com/free-essay-examples/world/ . Even more, for people who are passionate about lots of different things, it can feel very tough to opt for a single path and stick to it so that you become “awesome” at it.
>decentralized Peer to Peer information exchanging network

So a new form of torrenting? Tor browser? I don't get it. What do people use it for?
But this isn't ancient Greek.

Yes I know about the Erasmus pronunciation and that it does not conform to how we talk nowadays. And I know most Greeks haven't ever heard about his theory. And I say theory because not everyone agrees with his proposed pronunciation.

But this here is another matter. Biblical texts are not in ancient Greek.

Edit:
I actually said that the biblical texts are not in ancient Greek (in that the language had evolved from the time of Plato and other such texts) but to be honest I wasn't really sure about my statement. I tried to do a quick research and I might have been mistaken.

However about this particular prayer, although it is of course not in modern Greek, I do not think there are particular hard passages that are not understood without knowing any ancient Greek.
There is a sibling comment describing the same experience. But I think that this behavior can't be reproduced nowadays.

I think it must depend on the relative performance of the software resamplers involved (ALSA's in-kernel plughw vs. PulseAudio's vs. your media player's).

Do you remember which media player triggered this?
Not MLP, but PySindy[0] might be a way to find a closed form solution. A simple MLP may not be best way to achieve what are you are after.

[0] https://github.com/dynamicslab/pysindy
The central bank performing a duration swap on money already in the economy does not involve printing anything. They’d like you to think it does though as fear of inflation stokes the behaviour they want.
Isn't this a tad exaggerated, jumping from the change in the pronunciation of one letter, to native speakers being the worst? I think you need considerably more proof than that.
https://archive.is/x9sPk
> So a new form of torrenting?

Wrong way around, Gnutella protocol is slightly older than Bittorrent.
"are from random web pages crawled between 2014 and 2021" makes me wonder if someone could copyright an AI based on this, or if the AI will be considered a derived work, meaning that you'll need to pay royalties to the owners of those 400mio images
Offset Tracking with RabbitMQ Streams
To me it reads like a text based adventure program or dnd game. A few drops from your universal antidote potion would have allowed for safe consumption.
Does Netlify not have logs?
I don't mind paying "The Apple Tax" on the typical 1-10 dollar one-off paid apps we had basically since 2008 or something, but if I'm going to do a recurring payment for something like Adobe Photoshop I might or might not be interested in using the App Store. For one I absolutely fucking hate everything surrounding subscriptions and Adobe and paying through Apple might save me a ton of hassle. But other companies might be able to offer a discount in a way that Apple cannot or doesn't want to, like cheaper upgrades for existing users.
Thank you :))!
Real parrots (and many other birds), yes.
Stochastic parrots, perhaps not.
A basic, poor summary: Gnutella[1] was a peer-to-peer protocol that came out of Nullsoft (the Winamp guys) in response to RIAA takedowns of Napster. It significantly predated Bittorrent.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnutella
What is "it" in that sentence? COVID deaths exceed excess deaths in quite a few countries, which doesn't make sense, especially given that lockdown measures create deaths through restricted healthcare access - look at graphs of hospital admissions right at the start or the now massive backlogs.

The Economist tables show this. Britain reports 10,000 more COVID deaths than excess deaths, and the over-count is surely much higher than that given that the healthcare system now has huge backlogs with people dying on waiting lists for non-COVID related diseases. Denmark also reports far more COVID deaths than excess deaths. Some of those are created by policy, and the proportion will only increase over time given the vaccines + generally screwed up health system.

Then there's the question of how excess is calculated. It's excess vs a model. What matters here is not really what's true but what China can argue is true. Modelling is discredited in the west now, in the unlikely event they cared to respond at all, they would certainly argue that any calculations of damages were based on motivated reasoning and bad modelling (and then present their own bad modelling in response).
A server that only returns HTTP status code 418?
> I generally distrust modern Greeks' knowledge about Ancient Greek

I'd find it fascinating that you would have encountered these discrepancies often enough to form such an opinion, assuming you're not involved in studies of or adjacent to ancient greek.

Can you highlight what OP got wrong?
Some of these are not like the others:)
The denizens of the investor forum would be wrong; it isn't trying to time the market. This strategy is simply valuing the stocks.

The problem with the plan is that holding piles of cash is a game for losers; you need the money to be in some sort of asset - it matters not what - to avoid the printers of the central banks. There is a real chance that stock prices never come down as much as everything else goes up.
Hi, you do not have to use the curl | bash options, completely understand the concern (I am also like that), but we wanted to make it easy for those who like it easy :-)

It is completely open source, you can take the executables and run it yourself, compile it, change it, however you feel like :-)

If you do try it, let us know how it is, happy to get feedback!
Maybe it's blocked because one of your browser extensions has sourceforge on their blacklist. At least that is what happened to me in the past. I decided to leave it blocked and downloaded somewhere else.
See: https://jupyterbook.org/content/execute.html

> To turn off notebook execution, change the above configuration value to:

```
execute:
execute_notebooks: 'off'
```
I always thought the most likely explanation of the French findings was that smokers were more likely to be outside (smoking), and thus got the disease less than those sitting inside in less well-ventilated places.

Speaking as a smoker, respiratory illness hitting us less is definitely not generally the case ;)
That is taking an off the shelf solution and adding some glue. I bet it's much easier to build such a system from scratch, using Erlang/BEAM, since communication is in its' "DNA".
So, I've been thinking about making a library like yours, and as with most things I think about nothing came of it. However, I did have a name picked out: "Graffiti".

I think it's kinda cool and relevant, and a quick search didn't reveal any other library with the same name. If you're up for rebranding, feel free to use it :)
Strawman. I don't want to stamp out the ability of religions to create benefits for people.

At this point we're both wasting each other's time here so that's it from me responding to these dishonest comments.
>You won't learn anything, because you're a deranged wingnut with a trapped prior. But maybe the cognitive dissonance will be enough to get you to shut up.

Stick to attacking the idea instead of the individual. Personal attacks like this cause others to disregard your stance, even when they already disagree with the parent (like I did). It only works against the cause in the end.
Not sure that a no-compromises approach is good politics in the long term.

Politicians love to have easy targets as it deflects from their own failings. As the largest US company, Apple is the juiciest of low-hanging fruit already for their financial and tax arrangements, the last thing they need is to become antitrust public enemy No 1 as well.
if "fast" was the only requirement we would be writing it in assembly
>You can ask most adults why they did something and not get a coherent answer either but ok

This sort of cynicism about humans is very popular among certain AI researchers, but I can't say that it matches my experience. Leaving out instances where people are being deliberately dishonest about their motivations (which are quite common when you consider 'white lies' and other minor social lies), people do usually give coherent explanations of their actions.
This is an excellent example of where to use a PID controller, by the way.
What It Takes To Work In A Startup
I think he's right about most things except crypto currency. If energy costs go to near zero, will proof of work even make sense? Will it be about who owns the most CPUs then? Sounds like a contradiction ..
> When you're smoking - or rather in the breaks between smoking - the vascular system undergoes hypertension, which then is marginally reduced by the relaxation that another hit of nicotine provides. So your baseline 'stress' increases as a result of smoking, and having another cigarette/cigar temporarily reduces that. So the net effect of not smoking plus your relaxing environment would be more relaxing without the cigars in the first place.

This theory was popularised by Allen Carr in his Easy Way to Stop Smoking (or at least that's where I heard it, and the book was published in the early 80s).
A breakdown of the marketing strategy Netflix uses to dominate
Early innovation, predicting trends but also the mistakes they made along the way