skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah. That sentence is useless for the argumentation of the article (which is fine and interesting otherwise), it can only be interpreted as a nod to a specific kind of ideological readership. It doesn't help his argumentation, it is even completely wrong (active and passive have nothing to do with gender norms - maybe in a sexualized way of thinking, but that's in the author's head). It's a "Look, I'm intelligent and a feminazi as well, I'm cool!". A good lector would have removed it.
An interesting perusal: https://www.itdashboard.gov
Hi, I come from the future, where this sort of system is already in place.

It helps. Definitely a good idea. But it doesn't eliminate corruption. It just makes it easier for principled politicians to keep up with the less principled ones.

But what happens is that a party will start out being principled and prove itself and then people will keep electing them expecting more of the same, (literally "more of the same" is the motto of most centre-right, financially conservative, parties in the EPP) but then over time the party becomes increasingly more corrupt and the people let it happen because they aren't comfortable with the idea of switching parties after so long. They value the stability. So the corruption grows until the people have no choice.

But overall it does improve things.
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Standardized testing has also restricted teachers to standardized teaching. They must complete X number of units from the binder every Y number of days. This leaves little time for the teacher to come up with their own lesson plans. I think there needs to be a balance between a teacher's autonomy in the classroom and standardization. I've heard many teachers complain while I was in school that they felt like they don't have the time to focus on the things they want to do in class. In my elementry school, the class would go to a different teacher for either STEM or liberal arts. I think this is a good start since because teachers can solely focus on material that is related, they can tie in lesson plans and make sure that the standardized subjects are taught efficiently to leave time for the other topics they want to focus on.

I remember in middle school, I had a couple teachers who would say "ok, this is the standardized stuff I have to say" and then go into a very boring lecture of what we just had been learning except the way we first learned it was interesting and engaging. They were simply dotting their i's to make sure that they did their job in conveying the material the state wanted us to know.
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For one, it's a gimmick that brings attention to Mastodon, which as a foss/decentralized alternative to Twitter, is interesting in its own.

Second, it's based on a centuries old literature/poetic challenge/game, of writing a text based on some constraint, and especially with avoiding a specific letter (a "lipogram").

Third, the challenge itself, which removes the ability to use the most common letter in English, is amusing enough to people. It makes you think harder about phrasing, and solve how you express something in alternative and creative ways. So it's a kind of fun game, like e.g. Scrabble.

Fourth, besides the fun/challenge factor, exploring alternative ways of writing a sentence is something that most people seldom think hard about, but that has applications in general writing too (in other words: what you gain by working around some constrain can make you a better writer in general, even when there are no artificial constrains imposed).

P.S. How are things going in Vulcan?
It depressing if you assume we'll be withered and half alive but they may fix that.
I know you are being sarcastic, but ... small villages being absorbed by the larger city is happening in every major city in the US. DC, Chicago, NY, you name it. Consequently, everyone complains about too many people moving to their city.
...the solution to the particular problem of the rich owning Congress isn't breaking multinationals but rather limits on campaign donations...

That's so cute. If only this super-powerful threat to humanity could be directed toward the good rather than the banal, all would be well! Bullshit. The threat itself is the problem, not who is temporarily at the reins. In fact this whole myth of "if we vote hard enough it will work this time!" was created by those who want to perpetuate the monster, so that they may profit by it.
The memory wall is not a bandwidth issue, but a problem of (concurrent - many more strands of execution than memory channels) latency and there are as far as I know pretty much no ideas how to fundamentally address that (DRAM alternatives might, but so far were all rather disappointing even compared to much older DRAM).

You can add more channels and more ranks into the system, which gives some small linear increase w.r.t. to concurrency, but brings a a big (channels) or minor (ranks) power increase. This doesn't change non-concurrent latency, so does not help sequential workloads.
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Possibly, although there are some people who believe that the act of taking notes helps retention. Certainly you'd still have to review the transcript to deal with all the uhming and sidetracking of a live speaker.

Mind you, I'm old enough that I took all my lecture notes longhand. I'd love to see a dictation system cope with maths notation.

(Thinking back, 20 years ago I went to a lecture on the subject of "what on earth will we do with >4Gb of RAM"...)
That's patently untrue and quite ridiculous.
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A pretty interesting video pointing out some damning stats.

I'm curious however, how does the data look for other democracies, e.g. in Europe. The question is, whether this is a problem of US and its "money in politics" issue, or whether other democracies suffer from that problem too. I have a suspicion that this is inherent to politics in general, regardless of form - that money and power will always find themselves in bed together.
For the record, the United States was not designed to be operated in the way it is currently being operated.

It was designed to have a bicameral legislature. The lower house was supposed to be full of your neighbors, folks that lived down the street. They were supposed to only serve for a couple of years at a time. It wasn't a lifetime job. One of their main responsibilities was handling money.

The upper house was specifically designed to be a bunch of old, privileged, party hacks from the states. They work six years at a time, and might stay in for a long haul. They are the architects. They are responsible for monitoring and maintaining the structure of the system and keeping an eye on the other two branches.

This is not where we are. Somehow we thought that the more democratic the legislature, the better. That is not the case. The structure of the system suffers. Somehow we have Representatives that have jobs for life. The system suffers.

Now I can't tell the difference between my senators and my representatives. They're all camera hungry partisan hacks voting solidly as a block. Voting for them is pointless.

It's not rich people. It's not privileged people. It dumbasses over the years that have hacked the system into something it was never supposed to be. Democracy is not some special thing where the more you get of it the better you are. It doesn't work like that. It never worked like that. You take apart the body of legislators that were specifically responsible to monitor and fix the system and turn them into run-of-the-mill politicians? Then the rest of it is going to fall apart. What else would you expect?
"Who else today is like them?"

I don't know, but for sure, they're not in computing. PARC was special, among many other reasons, because it existed (and had the vision and the funding) in the early, gold rush era of computing. Google Research isn't it, not because they're not generously funding important and worthy research, but because computing as a field is too far along for them to have a chance of introducing truly fundamental research in the area. Self-driving cars comes close, no doubt hugely important, but even they have a quite incremental feel to them, especially next to inventing something like the graphical user interface.
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Viruses and mad dogs also have little innate volition. We still put them down, if we can.
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Advantage of big, fat CPU cores: They have tons of performance counters :)
There are still a lot of companies that will let you work on your own internal projects as long as you can get your manager to sign off on it. The idea is that if you can get a working prototype or some proof of concept working, you can try to convince a customer to sign on to fund actual production. Some companies have leadership that isn't focused on short-term profits and thus let the smart people they hire use their brains to come up with new things to build to make money on. Not everything is going to be a winner and maybe someone else will come along and make a better version before you can get yours sold but as long as any R&D project resources can be put towards another, the money and effort was not in vain.
Guessing it is because you are not in the US?

I opened it up to all countries with the latest update.
'We had to give them bonuses' to leave early
You could get 10x better perf and easier programmability , for starters.
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They've announced already that Scorpio is just the codename; they have yet to announce the shipping product name. I'd guess they'd do that at E3, alongside pricing.
You probably know about "A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy" by William B Irvine. If not, I think you would enjoy it.
That doesn't mean Shanghai is less popular, since the 24/7-ness is limited because of the curfew, not due to lack of popularity.
> Go is a great language which combines C-like speeds

I am using Go in production. It does not combine C-like speeds (I've comparison after rewriting one of the services from C to Go), but there is a lot of space for additional optimizations in future. Go will never be as efficient as C because of additional indirection in certain cases and additional bookkeeping. But in many cases it's faster than Java.
>You've mentioned two companies - Microsoft and Google. Both of these are American companies so they're subject to US competition law in at least their home markets. No other country would have the power to do anything fundamental about their monopoly such as breaking them up.

That's quite untrue. Any sovereign country can impose whatever restrictions they like on any company they like. That company can withdraw from that country, but in doing so they are giving up on all the income they could get from that country.

They might not be able to force them to break up, but they can certainly force them to either break up or fuck off.

>If you want to talk about some other countries, a monopoly is also not illegal in the UK. Again, only abusing the monopoly may be considered illegal.

You don't seem to understand. By definition, if it isn't abusive, it isn't a monopoly.
I mean, the main thing we've figured out to do with carbon is set it on fire to create electricity, which is sort of what got us into this mess ;)

But even if there was a better use for carbon, it would still have to be cost competitive with digging it out of the ground, which it's not.
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The law that isn't.
Good question! This is what is needed to be figured out. I'm thinking about this. Do you have any ideas or advice on this? Please let me know.
The Wii was one of the projects where another company came to them with an idea (of motion controls), IIRC.
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> Intel, AMD, ARM, etc could learn from supercomputers from 1970s/1980s era. They had to deal with heat problems and found solutions, look at e.g. Cray 2

You have to be more specific here to support such a claim.
The extremely capitalistic US has a relatively clean environment. Compared to China because we are already rich and compared to Europe because we have much lower population density.

We generate a lot of carbon dioxide but the consequences of that are more long term, not experienced as contamination of things we interact with day to day.
In a similar vein, the state parks of Minnesota usually charge a fee for parking and sometimes for entrance, but those fees are waived on Black Friday. I call it State Park Friday and my wife and I go for a short hike every year :)
You're not paying the 75 dollars for the domain, you're paying it for Medium allowing you to use it. What's surprising you there? It's just another type of user segmentation.
Is wikipedia still a reliable source? M$ shills
Jamie Hanrahan, from Azuis LLC. User:JEH
Jamie part owns Azuis, LLCwhich run Winternals Seminars under Microsoft. His partner Brian Catlin is an MSDN moderator.
http://azius.com/page.php?pagesel=about

Jamie/Jeh and his cronies prolifically & abusively revert negative content regarding Intel Windows memory limitations, cite thier own Winternals blogs as valid source for any misleading, while disputing contradicting published content. The worst part is the 3 or 4 of them create false sockpuppet reports on genuine editors to have them banned.

This has been taking place for a number of years, the admins ignore it.

Jamie Hanrahan also claims to be a developer with authorship in Winternals 6th. Mark R acknowledged him only for updates in a coupe of sections.
In fact he is a winternals seminar leader.

Reporting to WP doesn't help, the users just get blocked or banned. Jamie flat out denies any association with MS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jeh

http://uas2.com/index.php?z=aHR0cHM6Ly9lbi53aWtpcGVkaWEub3JnL3dpa2kvVXNlcjpKZWg%3D
https://twitter.com/jamie_hanrahan
http://wikivisually.com/wiki/User:Jeh/special_watchlist_1

http://www.paperbackswap.com/Windows-Internals-Book-1-User/book/0735684189/

Is Wikipedia still reputable for resources?
Do you run the 32" 4K display at native resolution, or are you scaling? What effective resolution do you get?
Its a negative to me because it highlights the consumerist attitude that seems to be prevalent in many parts of the US. The places that I personally felt where most culturally vibrant and interesting were typically the ones that are the least consumerist.

But thats just me! Everyone has their own preferences.
>a) laptop as a back-end for complex measurement system. Connected to a high-voltage signal, sitting in a crowded labs full of noise and cables. Would you like to reach out to type in a command every time, if you can speak or gesture instead?

First, wouldn't that be a totally niche use? I'm pretty sure people who can't type (e.g. no hand control due to some accident/condition) are far more than people in "crowded labs full of noise and cables" using their laptop as a "back-end for complex measurement system".

So, I didn't say there are no uses for speech/gesture control (I even pointed to incapacitated users and such). I said it's gimmicky for most people, and this is not really a counter-example to that.

But those things aside, if the lab is "crowded" and "full of noise" wouldn't that make speech commands either perform badly (due to the noise in the room), or further annoy the others in the lab (due to them adding to the noise)?

That leaves gestures. But those wont work for complex commands, but just for stuff like "pick among a few options". Else you'd have to learn a whole gesture based language (like sign language). I'd take typing then -- or some special controller that encodes the options (e.g. a foot switch).

>b) laptop put next to a rendering device (video, audio, whatever), close enough so a wide-band wireless becomes efficient. Would you like to have all rendering devices perform the same computation, closed-sourced, paid-licensing, full of non-addressed CVEs? Or you'd rather concentrate the same processing in one place -- your laptop -- source code open to public inspection etc?

I'd call this out as another totally niche and contrived example. And my laptop is not "source code open to public inspection" anyway, much less the hardware in it. So why would I trust the processors in my laptop more than the processors in my rendering device? I bought both anyway, and have not inspected any of them.
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They wouldn't need generation ships. You "just" need sufficient tech to put engines on a suitable astroid and accelerate it to a decent fraction of c; it only needs enough logic to fine tune the path. An invasion force is horribly inefficient vs. just slamming a lot of mass at someone at high enough speed.

And it only takes one massively paranoid, xenophobic species lobbing big rocks at people to ruin the entire neighbourhood.

I don't think camouflaging necessarily means not leaving your gravity well, but if there's someone lobbing big rocks at potential threats, then the only ones exploring will be the ones powerful enough or good enough at hiding for us to be unlikely to spot them unless they want us to. Everyone else will be dead.

It's one of the more compelling answers to the Fermi paradox to me, while at the same time being profoundly depressing. But it's less depressing than the chance that there might not be any other civilizations.
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Ask HN: Where is the line between being challenged and being set up to fail?
I'm struggling in my job to overcome some of the corporate structure that his been setup for my team. We are a high-performing agile team with all development based in one area, with product and business leadership in a time zone 7 hours away. This gives us, in theory, 1 hour of overlap a day meaning that if anything comes up outside of that we end up blocked or confused about what product and the business want. When it comes to things we've learned about running an efficient team, we're forced to put those aside (i.e. not do them) because they are incompatible with the time zone difference. I'm a hard worker but after months of this new structure, I certainly feel like we're being set up to fail. I'm trying to understand if that's a reasonable feeling or not. I figured I'd ask the community for advice and input: Where does one draw the line between being challenged and being set up to fail? When you're in a tough situation, how do you know which category you fall into? Thanks in advance.
I guess you're talking about the oldest of those ideas, namely anarchism and communism.

Regarding anarchism, it's known that the reason it didn't work out in the attempts so far has not been an inherent flaw in the system, but external ingerence.

In the two cases that are most known to the public, i.e. anarchist Catalogna and Free territories of Ukraine, the reason why the revolution finally failed has been in both cases the intervention of Soviet Russia, that in the first case supported an antagonist faction (i.e. communists front in the Spanish Civil War) and in the second case it invaded the free territories.

I think in general it's not possible to disregard some ideologies on the basis that they never managed to be implemented, without looking at the context.
In today's world, which is dominated by capital, it would be even harder to establish a non-capitalist society, but that doesn't mean that such a society would be less fair, free or just than capitalism.
On a related note, there has been an interesting episode of BBC's CrowdScience. They reported that robots which go to Mars (to find out about microbial life) have to go through an extreme cleaning process to make sure that they contaminate Mars as little as possible with microbial life from our planet .

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04nmxzl
I agree. For me, TODO-style comments are very useful for stuff I'm currently working on, as a short term aid. Usually I wouldn't be committing them, except for things like short-lived commits on a working branch that will be rebased out later.

For example, if I'm adding a substantial new feature and it will affect the code in a few different places, I'll often go through first and leave easily searchable markers at the exact locations where I expect to make changes. Then I can do a quick comparison between where I'd expect to need changes given the design and where I've found to make them to ensure they match up before I start changing anything, and then I can move quickly through all of the required changes without losing focus.
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Despite the occasional swatting, for the most part the consequence of being spotted on social networks is not to have the local lunatic show up to shoot you in the face.

That's a rather significant difference to the proposed idea.
> It's probably because of the mythos of private entrepreneurship and the uncomfortable narrative of all this so-called "free market capitalism" being supported by billions in govt funds...

I think this is a really bad straw man. There's broad bipartisan support for funding research into good ideas, assuming it's done the right way. The problem, though, is that the billions in government research spending we already allocate are subject to incredible amounts of lobbying and earmarking.

We'll have a NASA allocation, but it has to take place in the state of a particular Senator. Or the research will be funneled through the department of defense and received by defense contractors.

And, besides, for every DARPAnet, we have many "Where does it hurt most to be stung by a bee?" (1).

It's hard to evaluate whether we would still end up in a net positive situation. I don't have hard feelings against people who are both enthusiastic and skeptical about government funding grants.

(1) https://www.flake.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/ef6fcd58-c5...
Put another way, humans develop hierarchical governance as soon as their group grows beyond a couple dozen. Even if you look at corporations, internally they're structured like governments.
Indeed, losing a loved one used to be common, now it's exceptional. One thing that struck me when reading Dickens was how prominent death was. Everyone had family members who'd died. Mothers, fathers, children, siblings. I think almost universally in the current era we take life and health for granted. The advent of antibiotics and sanitation has really had a profound effect. We know this, but we don't know this.

On the one hand, some one realizing the seeming meaninglessness of existence is banal. This is well trod ground for many after all. But on the other hand it's also a an xkcd 1053[1] privilege to be a part of the authors epiphany.

Personally, for myself, the question of 'what legacy shall I leave?' resulted in finally settling down and having children of my own. I felt like I received an immense gift of a kind, warm, and loving home. I seek to continue that legacy with my own family. Because in the end, that's all most can hope to do; be a positive influence on the generations to come.

[1] https://xkcd.com/1053/