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Re:Ask HN: What's the best paper you've read in 2020? on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @06:10PM (#25352838)
Network topology design at 27,000 km/hour (2017) by Debopam Bhattacherjee, Ankit Singla

https://people.inf.ethz.ch/asingla/papers/conext19.pdf

I am just working on pretty much the same tool: subscanner.com

My goal is to get the content indexed on search engines to make youtube transcripts browsable.

I have decided not to use auto-generated subtitles as they are of poor quality and search engines do not like broken English. However since I am not done with the tool completely yet, I might reconsider this.

An example video on subscanner: https://subscanner.com/rjDX5ItsOnQ

Re:Baby girl born from record-setting 27-year-old embryo on Thursday December 03, 2020 @07:35AM (#25288238)
That's easy. Wait for it to learn to read and provide books.
Re:Why did renewables become so cheap so fast? on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @09:27PM (#25284540)
Thank you for the link. Satistying to watch tradition meet modernish equipment. Would you know how long does a tube well like this yield water? Do the farmers regularly deepen the drill or just find a new location?
Re:Why did renewables become so cheap so fast? on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @08:50PM (#25284294)
That reminds me of an article linked few months back about opium farming: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-53450688
Re:How to Escape the Modern Rat Race on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @01:50PM (#25279867)
More on this topic in a recent HN submission and its associated discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24686904

Re:PostgREST: REST API for any Postgres database on Saturday November 21, 2020 @12:09PM (#25170901)
I can see how an API like this would be a great fit for some no code solution integration. Certainly bad idea in some situations, but let's not be too quick to judge the usefulness of the project.
Re:Estimated 3° Warming by 2500 if we cut all emissions now on Friday November 13, 2020 @06:13AM (#25081142)
Neil DeGrasse Tyson made following analogy:

https://youtu.be/cBdxDFpDp_k

tldw: weather is like a dog on walk, running around, climate like the owner, bounding what weather is possible

Re:EU Draft Council Declaration Against Encryption [pdf] on Monday November 09, 2020 @07:56AM (#25034247)
HN reads from EU, take half an hour to contact your EU parlament elect and provide them with information and arguments on why this law shouldn't be passed. The comments with links on this thread should help you compile a reasonable email.
Re:Anu: A sound, distributed version control systema on Thursday November 05, 2020 @06:14PM (#25003154)
The new codebase is apparently in Rust. Perhaps the parent is being sarcastic with respect to the quantity of results here: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=rewrite+in+Rust
What does music theory mean to you? Is there a mathematical introductory take on the topic? Can it be studied without an interest in music, but rather for appreciation of patterns?

I've seen the term many times before in context I found appealing, but the wiki page talks mainly about the connection to actual music.

Re:Document your code just by hitting “record” on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @06:22PM (#24985166)
I've been playing around in my head with tangential feature. I run into situations where I must make some assumptions about a codebase and its context which aren't translated into the type system. I add comments to remind readers whenever I feel like an assumption should be stressed.

However assumptions change with time. I'd like to be able to cross reference all the places in the code base where certain assumption was made to a readme section with necessary details and background. In my ideal world IDE would resolve these links and made them easier to maintain.

_EDIT: word order_

I would have guessed this was in a very strong sense a linguistic issue. Does a composition "veggie burger" present an oxymoron, thus forcing the consuner to either interpret the composition as being one or the other? Or does the adjective merely make a more specific case? A compiled list of similar compositions would in my opinion help the counter argument.

The line of reasoning of the agricultural lobby about "confused consumers" feels to me like an insult to public's intelligence.

Their arguments about protecting farmers is valid and needs to be considered.

The Mindscape podcast has a recent episode on this topic - Sean B. Carroll On randomness.
Re:Ogden's Basic English on Monday October 05, 2020 @10:57AM (#24688310)
We've got that in Czech too, it's a nice feature of Slavic languages.
I wonder how the properties that Jeff Hawkings derived from neocortex (and partially hippocampus) in his work "On Intelligence" hold against the structure in question.
Re:Ami, a tiny cube on wheels that French 14-year-olds can drive on Saturday September 12, 2020 @01:51PM (#24454134)
Healthy lifestyle and good nutrition can easily bring one to -200kg.
Re:Low-code, no-model recommendation system with GPT3 on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @01:40PM (#24423568)
Slightly related excerpt:

"Supporters of the Strong AI Hypothesis insisted that consciousness was a property of certain algorithms – a result of information being processed in certain ways, regardless of what machine, or organ, was used to perform the task. A computer model which manipulated data about itself and its ‘surroundings’ in essentially the same way as an organic brain would have to possess essentially the same mental states. ‘Simulated consciousness’ was as oxymoronic as ‘simulated addition’.

Opponents replied that when you modelled a hurricane, nobody got wet. When you modelled a fusion power plant, no energy was produced. When you modelled digestion and metabolism, no nutrients were consumed – no real digestion took place. So, when you modelled the human brain, why should you expect real thought to occur?"

— Permutation City by Greg Egan

Re:Doom running on a pregnancy test on Monday September 07, 2020 @08:04AM (#24398816)
I've heard about phonemic restoration, but this is even more interesting. Thanks for sharing
Re:Level 3 Global Outage on Sunday August 30, 2020 @11:38AM (#24323559)
Judging by other comments, it seems there's a space to fill this niche with a series of blog articles or a book, if you're that sort of person.
Re:Japan facing credit card number shortage on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @09:18PM (#24278072)
Great video on checksum was done by Ben Eater:

https://youtu.be/ppU41c15Xho

Re:Japan facing credit card number shortage on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @09:14PM (#24278054)
ISBN also uses last digit as a check digit:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_...

Re:Humanly Traversable Wormholes on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @07:31AM (#24209294)
This reminds me of a great hard sci-fi book, Greg Evanses Diaspora.
I think it's aimed at scenarios in which the attacker is not aware of this utility running. Otherwise they could just kill it before inserting the USB.

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