skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is very exact.

I was in London during 7/7 and more recently the London bridge attack: foreigners were a little ruffled. Locals could not care less, or more exactly, expected to deviate at little as humanly possible from their routine and knew exactly how to get there because they expected everyone to know how to make that happen.

As soon as rumours of an incident on the public transport leaked on the morning of 7/7, there were lines in front of every tube station and major bus stop: one file, people patiently waiting their turn. I asked:
“You are queuing for what?
— (flabbergasted) The mechanic…”
It took me a while to realise that: before there were severe disruptions, many people might not be able to take their usual route. London public transport is notoriously complicated and most humans can’t really process a journey. Now we have CityMaper but at the time, that was not imaginable.
Experienced workers (I believe former tube and bus drivers) can, a feat not unlike the London taxicab “Knowledge” optimise a journey under disruption. So, the queue was for every traveller whose journey was presumably interrupted to announce his or her destination and have spouted out (with the most undecipherable Norrff-Lundun accent) a sequence of three to six bus numbers and the corresponding transfer station.

No one asked if there would be mechanic available, or what they would do. It was just a normal day, with the Tube mostly not working and some buses disrupted. The sorriest I've heard was "I know… Get a round without me, I'll get the next one when I'm there."

Check out the stories of what happened during the London Bridge attack, but… yeah, expect a combination of “I am not not finishing my beer for that.” and “Attack? Londoners!? Are you daft, mate?!”
>If self-driving is fully developed, people would buy fewer cars, and that's bad for Musk.

Maybe on the long run but it looks like Tesla might have self-driving cars about 12-24 months before anyone else, that's lucrative. I think a lot of the interest in Tesla cars (esp. those with the v.2 autopilot hardware) comes from the full self driving prospect. The economics of full self driving could be awesome for Tesla - they can operate a taxi network wherein sell the cars and the service.

And Tesla earns ~$8k-$10k from people who upgrade their car to full self driving - that's probably the highest gross margin option in the automotive industry because all the new cars have the hardware built into them. There's one fixed cost: the software. If they build the software right, upon regulatory approval, they can cut down the team to a skeleton crew that just makes sure the system is self-improving.
So next time my partner wants me to help with household chores, I can cite my well-documented disinclination towards the task to excuse myself as being fundamentally unsuitable for it?

Dictionaries define "suitable" in terms such as "such as to suit; appropriate; fitting; becoming", which all either carry a moral connotation (appropriate, becoming) or one of capability independent of volition (such as to suit, fitting). Let's not forget that one of the primary underlying moral motivators of the fight against sexism/discrimination against women is freedom (it's not an accident that "emancipation" means "release from captivity"). To turn, in this context, a statement that says that women do not want tech jobs into a statement that women can't do tech jobs (with a connotation of "even if they wanted") is not just a minor cosmetic change - along the axis that matters, it flips the meaning of the memo upside down.
There's currently an open PR on GitHub for AMD GPU support https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/pull/2365
This isn't Google's patent, it's just linked to the actual patent via Google's patent search.
Is that totally true? I had always heard that for example applications for perpetual motion machines would always be denied. Perhaps that was the U.K. Patent Office? The USPTO really allows on the face impossible inventions??
I would be careful of assigning false equivalency considering a domestic terrorist act occurred against the counter-protesters.
Yes, this is a very important thing to understand and internalize. People, in the abstract sense, will not read and do not care about what you wrote. "Refer to line ABC-123..." is thus a futile defense (in most contexts).
I've built some pretty user-friendly development tools targeting Chip8:

https://github.com/JohnEarnest/Octo
I understand the mission of the ACLU, including their representation of people I agree with / don't agree with.

But, I'm not quite sure why they are representing Milo... mostly because he can afford and their resources are better spent on cases where people can't. If they just filled a Amicus brief in his defense, i'd be perfectly fine.
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The misinterpretation comes from conflating difference in population averages with differences in population. He said that on average men and women are different, but not that all women and men are different. The statement "men and women are different" implies the latter.
how about https://www.stackoverflowbusiness.com/talent/platform/source... ?
In a civilized discussion, this happens:

--------------

Alice: I think A, B, and C.

Bob: Did you say you think A, B, C, and D?

Alice: No, I said A, B, and C, but now that I think of it, I misspoke about the C part. I think A, B, and C(2). I don't know where you got D. I don't think that.

Bob: OK. C(2) makes more sense, and let's forget about D. Here's why you're wrong about B.

---------------

Here's what seems to happen a lot these days.

Alice: I think A, B, and C.

Bob: I hate your thoughts. We're done here. If I were your boss, you'd be fired.

---------------

People would be a lot less angry and a lot smarter if they actually dialogued more.
What is a “TeX token”?
For me, Keras is the least verbose of Tensorflow and PyTorch, however I find it too sparse and there's too much "magic" happening under the nicely done API. I have found PyTorch to be the happy half-way point between Tensorflow and Keras in terms of verbosity.
Let's not forget that Churchill ordered the Royal Navy to attack the French Navy in 1940 as well [1], killing 1300 people.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Mers-el-K%C3%A9bir
Should there perhaps be some limits, though?

For some reason, I can't imagine that advocating genocide should ever be considered legitimate free speech. I can understand political ideologies, even authoritarianism being protected - but advocation of genocide?

Why do we refuse to draw lines?
From what I've read, Church of England is definitely a religious organization. Unitarianism however seems largely non-religious, but still might not be ideal due to still being rooted in catholic dogma and morals -- it is still classified as a "Christian theological movement".
The problem is that this type of action plays into a narrative of an organised conspiracy. Surely we are better to satirise their beliefs? I'm reminded of the Blues Brothers :)
but he does admit it would not solve our political problems.
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I can't help but consider that modern science and medicine has enabled a large amount of adults whose continued life depends on continued access to that science and medicine.
Oh, I absolutely didn't mean to imply that HN mods intervened manually. They're just not intervening to keep people from keeping others from having a discussion, either.
Awesome. Finally I know how to summon Satan (TheSimsPieMenus.pdf)!
I had almost entirely forgotten about shanley, who's been on a one-sided jihad against HN since time immemorial. But apparently she chimed in with the thoughtful tweet:

>FUCK THE ACLU

>ACLU CELEBRATES CAUSING DEATH TO ANTI-FASCISTS AT THE HANDS OF NAZI AND KKK

>"FREE SPEECH" IS FASCISM
> There's something callous in the tone of the quote that rubs people the wrong way

We have to leave room for "insensitive" tones if we are going to be truly inclusive. Having a uniform book of dog whistles and manners doesn't mesh with actual diversity.

That being said, if someone approaches Thiel about the offense and implications and he doubles down, he's on his own.
I agree. PyTorch’s dynamism is fantastic. However, I have no idea how you’d manage to recompile PyTorch code to Caffe 2 in a satisfying way. If something is released, I suspect it’d be limited to a subset of PyTorch features (I’d also bet that subset doesn’t include the features that make PyTorch compelling).
So you correct an idiom that are both in common use but you don't correct an obvious typo? If you're going to be pedantic, at least be completely pedantic. Your pedantry about an idiom doesn't jive * with your non-pedantry about misspellings.

* Yes I said jive instead of jibe just to irritate people.
Forgive me if I'm being dense here, but how is genocide a form of speech? Genocide is a form of killing.
Oh, the facts are correct, they're just not used in any sensible way. Look no further than the use of references to fictional television and movies as supporting evidence.

It feels like something thrown together by scraping a bunch of random content from blog posts on Silicon Valley.
> I've spent years working with TF

Ha, TF was only released in Nov 2015 but sitting around waiting for networks to finish training makes it feel longer than that!
So, let's conspire a bit here...

The KLF (Kopyright Liberation Front) had a hand in creating music genres such as trance, acid house, ambient; the song "What Time Is Love?" is arguably the most remixed song ever (you can even see Armin performing it in Greece). They took a retired US country singer and made her sing about an ice cream van, then a Deep Purple singer to spoil America's 500th anniversary, and used a grind-core band while firing blanks from M16 during Brit Awards. They did the wicker man burning, obviously to popularize Burning Man in Europe. They deleted their back catalog in order not to allow anyone to re-release their music and burned the only million they got from their music.

Upon closer analysis and research, this all is so improbable it obviously couldn't be an accident, so there must be somebody behind them making all this happen! I know who that is, it's the Illuminati v2.0!
Xoogler here.

First, no, I don't trust you. Sorry. You seem like a nice person, but that means fuck-all when it comes to trust.

Second, who cares about the employees? Google is not its employees. A corporation is a golem, animated by legal fiat and supposedly obedient to its owners. But the corporation's own internal power structure, as well as the larger structures above it like the state, the world, culture, etc. are what determine what it can and will do.

You say that you all have compassion for humanity. And I'm sure you do! But that didn't prevent Real Names.

You say that you all have respect for privacy. And I'm sure you do! But that didn't prevent personalized ads.

You say that you all have morals, ethics, and the general ability to distinguish right from wrong. And I'm sure you do! But that didn't prevent Youtube from being steamrolled by anybody willing to swear out a DMCA request, to say nothing of Youtube Red.

So, the question is, do you trust your employer? Not your bosses, not your peers, not HR and Legal, but Google itself, the golem?
I think that this professor is correctly relating the recent sexism episode with other critiques of Google, culture, it's place in our society, and previous monopolies. We should take advantage of his perspective. They are all related problems.

In a way, getting down to the uglier sides of the people involved in the organizations with unchecked control over our society is a way to bring the point home that no, we cannot place this much trust in these people.

But whether people are buying that angle or not, listen to the professor when he connects it to the larger problem of technopolies. Really this is just a new variation of the overblown corporate power that has been around forever. These companies like Google, Uber, and Amazon are so powerful they are basically supplanting aspects government in many countries. It's sort of like the giant corporations the cyberpunk authors envisioned, but worse because they don't have competition.

It does seem to basically be working to most people's benefit -- as long as you don't have a business that tried to compete with these companies.

This is just the core problem with both cooperative and competitive approaches to society -- without adequate structural prevention they tend towards over-centralization. If we can realize that this over-trusting relationship is unacceptable, that will motivate structural changes to improve it.

I believe the next big revolution will be mass deployment of truly decentralized, open, easily evolved, and public, platforms that have some similar features to the closed for-profit monopoly technology giant services. This includes things like search indexing and advertisement Google, retail indexing and logistics (Amazon), transportation (Uber), etc. And probably even banking, which is not quite as centralized but has things like PayPal etc.

Because high-tech economies of scale are great, but centralization of control by private companies over the public at large with fixed platforms that don't evolve are not.
You can buy 10 acres of land in randomtown Michigan for like $15,000. Power hookups included.

The US has lots and lots of cheap land with utility hookups if you don't care about things like high paying jobs.
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> His solution to the fact that democracies may disagree with him is to weaken and destroy democracy.

does he say this? or is this an inference.

I would think he'd be okay with not having ideal libertarianism and keeping democracy.
True, but it seems unlikely that CFS could be caused by the mitochondria or intestinal update suddenly screwing up overnight. A neuropsychiatric disorder caused by chronic stress seems more plausible, with both the fatigue and depression being generated in the brain itself.
The author misses one very important feature of LaTeX that is the reason why I keep a lot of my notes in it. LaTeX exposes two mechanisms for easily making replacements all across a document. One is with macros, which you can change the definition of when necessary. The other is the simple search-and-replace, which is very powerful since you can involve macro and formatting syntax in it. Traditional word-processing and note-taking software like Word and OneNote simply don't expose such powerful functionality for making edits across the entire document.
There are limits. You can't incite violence or shout fire in a crowded theater or plenty of other reasons.
In Rwanda, there was a radio station literally advocating genocide and organizing slaughters. It played a major role in inflaming tensions that were already really high. You can reasonably see it as an exercise in free speech, but it was also very much an active participant of the genocide.

Needless to say, the USA is not 90's Rwanda.
Should Jetbrains officially support D?
No, sorry, there is really no equivalence between the two groups. The right wing marchers weren't rammed repeatedly by a speeding muscle car. They didn't suffer death or critical injury at the hands of their opposition. The counter-protestors did.

The counter-protestors didn't surround anyone and beat them with flaming torches. The counter-protestors didn't gang up on a bystander to beat hil with metal poles, presumably for no reason other than that he was black. A few punches were thrown and a few white supremacists got pepper sprayed.
while close friendships increase your longevity by up to 22 percent

Any anyone find the reference for this in the linked study.

The PDF[1] is quite long and my CTRL-F Fu is failing me.

1. http://www.flinders.edu.au/sabs/fcas-files/Documents/StudyOf...
"it would be absurd to suggest X" doesn't amount to a denial of support for X? Why not?
It sounds like the refrigerator is the problem here:

"But they still have rainy weeks where they run out of power and have to run their gas-powered generator to keep the refrigerator from spoiling."

You don't need to run any other appliances all night when the sun isn't shining. Also, why would you even have a microwave, toaster, and ELECTRIC dryer? Those all use obscene amounts of power.

I live off-grid and we run laptops (using boost converters) and lights directly off 12v DC. A big part of making an off-grid system work is reducing your consumption drastically in ways that you can't even do if you're plugged into the grid.
I’m curious, what parts do you find too magical? I’ve been trying to help with this problem (clarifying or surfacing features that are too magical without relinquishing Keras’ commitment to “convention over configuration”), so your (or others) feedback is welcome!
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Based on this article, it sounds like they're taking every opportunity they can get to fight this law (I'm assuming to establish the case law they want) rather than specifically choosing Milo.
> I never really understood this loaded/gendered "brogrammer" term.

Me neither. I'm not Silicon Valley-based so when the articles started to appear about some guys who pop their polo collars and work out between writing lines of code I just assumed that this is a quirky new meme that is based on a few eccentric characters existing in real life. And a stereotypical google engineer in my mind is polite to a fault and not in any way a brogrammer (I wonder, is this grounded in reality or are my stereotypes off the mark?)

Evidently, the word "bro" is convenient: it is short; it is vaguely pejorative; you can seamlessly attach it to other words to mark the specific bro (pharma bro, google bro etc.)
There isn't a generally agreed upon definition, and that is the point. Even the author acknowledges this.

> At its simplest, clean eating is about ingesting nothing but “whole” or “unprocessed” foods (whatever is meant by these deeply ambiguous terms).
Pre-internet examples are less than relevant.
There is a sushi shop near me called "Sushi Yah!" the japanese for "sushi shop" is "すし屋" pronounced "sushi ya"
Did you literally cut the utility wire to be able to proclaim off grid on hacker news, or are you grid neutral and still keep the connection around for emergencies? If you did cut i am curious the plan for say a very cloudy 7 days.
I think he left sometime last year
https://changelog.com/podcast/232 they start talking about his departure from Apple at 55 min and 26s, unless he went back recently
I don't get all this confusion wrt Python 2 and Python 3, it's not different from GCC supporting different C standards. Just run the correct executable (i.e. python2 or python3) and done.

In response to parent comment, Perl 6 is Perl. I don't think that it's difficult to understand that Perl is a family of languages, and Perl 6 is a more recent and sophisticated sibling to Perl 5.

All of this is bikeshedding to me.
Funny story.

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

> The phrase is a paraphrasing of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.'s opinion in the United States Supreme Court case Schenck v. United States in 1919, which held that the defendant's speech in opposition to the draft during World War I was not protected free speech under the First Amendment of the United States Constitution.
Depth of information, organization, etc. I wish there were more books like these covering other platforms - like one about DEC's minicomputers, another covering Cray, etc.

Plus they're nice and thick, without a third of it being indexes and footnotes.
Right - there is often representation from engineering in a recruitment capacity. To be clear, I'm talking only of people who are employed as recruiters.
And you believe them?

More that 50% of the population will tell you that they are good drivers, which is statistically impossible. Would you believe them as well?
Advocation thereof
It's very common for supermarkets in the UK, for example, to compete on margins on common food - not necessarily packaged/prepared food, but definitely the basics, fruit/vegetables/bread/milk/flour/eggs/etc. People have little loyalty to a specific supermarket and often have 2-3 within reasonable distance, so there's a very strong pressure to keep down the cost on these items - they're pretty much the proverbial widgets. The lower the cost to sell an item, the lower the supermarket can charge. Some supermarkets take technical losses every year, with most having falling profits every year.

This sort of thing affects poor people more than it affects people who are eligible for a credit card with a good rewards program in the first place. I'm sure you really don't care that your potatoes are 2-3% higher in price than they otherwise would be.
> Think what you may about Peter Thiel, but the quote does not say or even suggest that "women should not even have the vote."

Said by a rather notorious libertarian venture capitalist it comes off a pretty big criticism of women getting the vote.
There are brogrammers. I don't think they're more or less sexist on average though. Just out going engineers in a male dominated field.
The counter protestors did start fights and threw a rock at the car – which provoked the ramming. No excuse for the reaction, but let’s not pretend the counter protestors were peaceful. They were inciting with equal fervor.

Protestors on either side have zero right to violence, regardless of provocation.

Freedom of speech isn’t just freedom of speech with which we agree and violence is violence regardless of the perpetrators.
I really don't understand why you say that. Care to expand? I can't picture what problems I have that perl6 is the solution to.
> The right wanting companies to be able to fire anybody for any reason, except for this particular reason.

The conservative columnists I've read on this think that Google was legally entitled to fire Damore, but they failed their eithical obligations to follow the golden rule, promote a culture of honest discussion, and actually promote diversity of thought in their organization.

There may be some alt-right columnists saying other things, but they don't really follow logical principles as much as fight as partisans in the culture war. So you're right that they're hypocritical. To them it's beside the point since the left is already being unfair, etc. But if you can figure out a way to get them to care, let me know.

There could be an interesting argument invoking the prisoners' dilemma and game theory saying conservatives should use liberal laws while they exist. Maybe they're getting at this with the "but SJWs" stuff.
It cites http://jech.bmj.com/content/59/7/574

Quoting the abstract:
Main results: After controlling for a range of demographic, health, and lifestyle variables, greater networks with friends were protective against mortality in the 10 year follow up period. The hazard ratio for participants in the highest tertile of friends networks compared with participants in the lowest group was 0.78 (95%CI 0.65 to 0.92)

I assume that 0.78 is where the 100-78 = 22 % number comes from? (Although it doesn't really match the phrasing "increases your longevity by up to", it seems to be the closest?)