skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The brain is a complex and powerful organ. I'm not saying in all of these cases that's what it is but the brain has the power of placebo effect. If physical ailments get better because you merely believe you're being treated, there's a chance that there's a treatment out there that the brain responds to for some people for some illness that isn't apparent generally.

If it helps where nothing else does, is that wrong? I bet it doesn't feel wrong to you - you're just glad you're better - and I don't think so either.
> launchd's documentation is so woefully incomplete it's soul-crushing

Interestingly, systemd (which, AFAIK, is influenced in large parts by launchd) goes the exact opposite way and has amazingly complete and well-structured documentation.
I really don't think the speed thing is as clearcut as you let it out to be
That makes sense. Thank you!
I kind of switch between five languages. But that's nothing to brag about here because so does everyone here.

I work at a small ML startup (5 Engineers). Communication on Slack is mostly in French. Everything related to code (documentation, comments, commit messages, architecture diagrams) in English.

Conversations go like this: "On prendra une journée pour refactoriser le code.. take care of all code smells, hakda bach ki nebdaou l'application lokhra ykoun koullech ouadjed". That's French, English, and Algerian. Then I go home and speak Kabyle (most of my coworkers are Kabyle but we don't use it).

Since I've learned English, all my notes are taken in English as is most of my reading (it was in French when I was younger; raised on classics).

Job interviews are conducted in the three languages (although we test for English because it's important).

I joke often that bilingualism here starts with your sixth language. I yearn for bragging rights.

When it comes to thoughts, however.. mine have no language. It's just a "vvvvvvvv vvvvvvvvv", as if I were underwater or in a womb. Images through which I can jump, become part of, and play with. Becoming so small as to go inside the fuel tank, follow the fuel to the pump, pass through the dirty filter, get inside the cylinders to be compressed by pistons and stay there for the boom.
Maybe Debian forgot to remove their patch when the manpage was upstreamed?
Something like lazily calculating/evaluating an operation, right?
The scenarios coming to mind as most probable are:

1. She dies in some kind of accident. He panics thinking that police will not believe him it was an accident and tries to cover it up.

2. Sexual advance gone wrong.
We're averaging about 3 projects/mo per client based on the first batch of customers who've been using the service for the last 4 months or so. Having a dedicated design team (not outsourced but in house) makes it easier for the client. They know what to expect. The workflow gets improved etc. the way we can make it work is because of the subscription model. It allows us to spend less time looking for projects (time = money). And more time doing what we love (designing interfaces and brands)
Interestingly or apropos, BART are looking into a second Transbay tube to fix the Transbay tube bottle neck (headway during peak times is like one minute and they can't add more cars to the trains).

If cheap enough they could bore a second one from SF to the East Bay and an additional from the Peninsula to the Fremont area. to east-west commutes in the south bay.

Pure fantasy would be to have direct point to point routes consisting of the SF-Oakland-SJ triangle with outward spurs from the respective terminuses.
They're salesmen. Knowledge of the product is handy but also can be a deficit. They generally know what they have to know to sell.
You can easily differentiate a set of (computer defined) operations formed of composition of standard operations (sums, products, etc), as in, you can define another set of computer operations that is the exact, precise derivative of the first. Wikipedia is a bit dense, but it's explained here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_differentiation
We dont charge 6000/mo
That's something the memo does quite a lot as well. When it talks about "innate dispositional differences" between women and men, and uses quite deterministic language such as "as society becomes more prosperous and more egalitarian innate differences have more space to develop and the gap that exists between men and women in their personality becomes wider” it becomes increasingly unclear whether he is talking about suitability or preference or if women have the power to overcome these "innate differences."

It doesn't help that in the English language the word "disposition" can be used to mean both innate tendency and preference. When I say "I have a nervous disposition" I mean "I have an innate nervous tendency" rather than "I prefer to act nervously", but "disposition" can also mean "the power to do with something as one pleases." The fact that he does pair it with "innate" suggests that this preference is something we are born with however, and something that would indeed impinge on our biological suitability for a role.

He even goes as far as to suggest that "there may be limits to how people-oriented certain roles" can be and "we shouldn’t deceive ourselves or students into thinking otherwise (some of our programs to get female students into coding might be doing this)." It seems clear to me that he is using quite causal language there, and this isn't just a "preference" for people-oriented roles he's talking about.

Also, to be charitable to NYT, the fact that we are having to be this forensic with language over something that was written last week (as opposed to Plato's Republic, written 5000 years ago and which has been through many translations), and still can't agree what the memo is about, probably suggests that any misinterpretation is understandable and probably not borne of malice.
Tnx for the headsup
Tensorflow was the first modern tool supported by a large ai company, so probably mostly historical reasons. Also, Google is likely still the company with the largest AI departments, and the company that gives them the most visibility.
While looking it up, I stumbled across an article from someone who has aphantasia, and say this [0]:

"I do have the ‘milk voice’—that flat, inner monologue that has no texture or sound, which we use to tell ourselves: “Remember to pick up milk.”"

I don't have such a voice, I think about the concept of remembering to pick up milk. There's no verbalization, and it seems really weird to imagine it: when beginning your inner sentence, you already know what you'll be "telling", so why continue to "tell" it to yourself?

https://www.facebook.com/notes/blake-ross/aphantasia-how-it-...
Participating in social group activities is what helps with depression.
Oops, another typo, I meant 8080.
How appropriate! You fight like a cow!
The comment above with ~~~ was trying to give you grammar help, not content help.
"Then, an Illuminati role-playing card game appeared in 1975 which imprinted its mystical world of secret societies onto a whole generation."

Ahem.

Illuminati came out in the early '80s (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illuminati_(game)).
Which projects do you have in mind? Only one that comes to mind for me is Homebrew.
Superb; enjoyable write up. Very witty in parts, no puns in sight. Makes me want to try Perl6 out.
I wouldn't care to. The author already summarized himself in his "tl;dr". And he thought he need more than a couple bullet points for that. None of those points said a woman is less suited for technology work than a man. In fact, he went to great lengths to dispute that fallacy.

Some of his suggestions implied that Google work practices could be more welcoming to people who enjoy more teamwork in their day-to-day (the bit about pair programming). And he mentioned that more flexible work arrangements would benefit people who wanted a different balance of work and family life. Both points imply that women want those things more (plausibly true, but I think that's an empirical question). So he thinks women generally want to work differently, but that's not saying he thinks they do worse work. If he thought that, he'd recommend putting women in less important roles or giving them easier work.
Yes, setting up Linux to book as an EFI stub is a common problem. /s

I used Arch wiki to finally get it figured out, iirc.
In an interview RAW was asked what could be the cause of the popularity of the Illuminati conspiracy. His answer was three-fold:

There is too much information nowadays. Life's truths used to be simple: USA good, Russia bad. You adopted the political views of your parents. Men worked and women stayed at home. Your favorite news station was always right. Too much information and fast change leads to a cognitive overload. One protection mechanism to not lose touch with reality and filter the large amounts of information, is to create very simple truths. One of these truths is that there are rich powerful people behind the curtain controlling everything.

Second, with the rise of the internet and search engines, it means that if you have an idea of a conspiracy, no matter how far out, there is likely a website already documenting it. Everyone can feel like an expert after a few hours of internet research. The barriers to publish your views on a conspiracy have vanished: always resulting in a few websites out there that confirm your hunches. For instance, if you perform research on vaccines, and start out as biased against them, you will likely stumble on a lot of a websites that tell you exactly what you want to hear: vaccines are bad and used by the governments to control their people.

Finally, there simply are a lot of rich and powerful people conspiring behind the scenes to move society in a certain direction. Just one example was the P2 lodge [1] in Italy, also called a "state within a state". It is unlikely that the queens of this giant collection of ant hills we call humanity have stopped conspiring. It just happens under a different name than the Illuminati. Symbolically, the Illuminati stood for rebellion against the church and royalty, in favor of monetary power and reason. That's a role for capitalists and scientists now.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_Due
What is your understanding of those ideas?

>questioned the company’s gender diversity policies

It did that.

> made statements about women’s biological suitability for technical jobs.

It did this too. But I'd argue the NYT opinion piece is too vague here. "made statements about" does really mean anything. I suppose the "suitability for" is a bit wrong. More like "biological inclination towards" technical jobs?

That changes things slightly but I can't see it as a huge misrepresentation.

The underlying idea of the memo is that biology can partly explain women's career choices (true) and that Google should recognize this and factor it into their diversity targets more than they do. That second part is highly debatable. Without controlling for gender bias and many cultural/historical effects, I'm doubtful we can even really begin to detect how much biology influences the choices of any given individual in the real world. How can we blame biology for a woman's choice if the mere fact that she's a woman causes her to be reviewed more harshly by others for the same work? Taken less seriously? Etc etc. These are real effects, and until they are gone, it will be impossible to determine what role biology plays on average participation levels in tech.

(edited to clarify NYT opinion piece, as opposed to NYT article)
I really liked the tools listed for each task. Usually I encounter a nice logo, newsletter, landing page, etc. and wonder how such things can be made without being distracted from the main product.
https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/10/16127968/fired-google-eng...
Microsoft enterprise blockchain framework
Next time you find yourself in that situation, try shouting "feck" instead, which is regarded as a fairly mild swearword (indeed, barely a swearword at all).

Not being Irish, I'd never heard of it until I first saw Father Ted [0], and was initially shocked at the characters uttering what I assumed was a dialectical variant of "fuck" every five minutes.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father_Ted
Look up what actually happened and it won't seem so fishy.

I'll summarize for you: an evil white supremacist found a crowd of counter-protesters and drove into them. They didn't drive into a crowd of white supremacists.
Actually it was mostly Assembly code being called from C and Pascal, or via language extensions like virtual registers.
Fascinating! How does the situation arise where you don't know if something is an axiom? Aren't axioms either members of a small agreed-on set, or based on an axiom schema?
Yup. Diesel is so expensive, I don't understand why they are making 2030 plans. Why not 2018 plans? Solar panels are now about 40c / installed watt or less. They will have trouble getting much below that with even Chinese panel manufacturers barely breaking even. Interest rates are still very low.

Just get everyone involved & roll that solar out. Not a biggie. The savings will be immediate over burning diesel to generate electricity.

All your ideas were spot on & good for using excess energy.

Heck they can even mine some bitcoin if they have extra energy.
Indeed, there are a lot of ways mitochondrial dysfunction could lead to depression on a physical level - thyroid function suppression, HPA axis disorder (leading again to thyroid suppression), various electrolyte imbalances caused by decreased intestinal uptake (eg magnesium deficiency can cause "untreatable" depression), microbiome shifts due to decreased peristalsis leading to decreased serotonin levels...
I agree with abtinf about the best interpretation of ideas within the memo.

It is a result that the author of that memo should have reached after counseling and seeing evidence supportting of /equality/ programs actually being about equal treatment (or at least fair, as in having multiple possible measurements and a consistent policy of utilizing the best scores to reach a determination.).

I feel like a lot of animosity was allowed to fester among all parties due to a lack of intelligent, open, and respectful discourse about problems and perceived problems.
Well ".Net developer" is almost always synonymous with "C# web/desktop dev".
Perl6 feels like it could be the ultimate language for Man, Machine, Mineral, and Beast, if only we could teleport into a parallel universe where it war already in widespread usage. The sense of sheer potential off the language is intoxicating.

I like to imagine the Geth in Mass Effect run on a hybrid Perl6/Erlang platform.
(n+1)sec – a protocol for distributed multiparty chat encryption
Not all that directly related, but if you like these old adventures and don't know it yet then check out ScummVM! It's an open source project allowing you to play all these games on more or less any modern device (including Linux, Android, iOS etc.)

They also have a few awesome games freely available under http://scummvm.org/games/, for example "Beneath a Steel Sky" (which I'm playing right now, probably for the fourth time or so ;)) or "Flight of the Amazon Queen".
It took about a year for Luke to regret his move off the grid. “It’s not that it wasn’t what we expected,” he explains. “We wanted the difficulty of it.” But he also wanted to show people it was possible to live with a smaller carbon footprint; instead, he was burning gasoline and watching the island’s electric utility outpace him, installing solar power and cutting carbon all over the island.

“That was all happening, not because of me,” he remembers thinking, “but despite me and my efforts.”

He wanted to be a pioneer, a leader of some sort. This was more important to him than "saving the planet." His goal of going off grid was to position himself as a hero, a frontrunner. Instead of being happy that the island is converting to solar at a pace that exceeds its stated goals, he just feels cheated of his goal of being a role model.

But, I like the ending:

Walking me out past the taro patch, back across the swinging bridge that spans the creek surrounding his property, Luke points out one last thing. “It’s funny,” he says, “it was only recently I learned that Thoreau had his mom bring him food out in the woods.”
I've tried XLA and observed no measurable benefit for most models, small benefit for some, and worse performance for others. That was a few months ago, so maybe things have changed since then. It won't be a huge difference no matter what they do, because the vast majority of time is spent in CUDNN and gemm/gemv anyway
My grandfather was left behind at Dunkirk, taken prisoner, spent the rest of the war in Poland and returned home in one piece but very thin (6ft 4 and weighing around 8 stone according to family legend). He died aged 48 a year before I was born - heart problems, which might be expected I suppose.

I'm now working with the jigsaw of records and archives in the UK to try and find a little more about what happened and where as a result of the film mainly.
I, too, enjoy the game Sink and am a person of much ilk.
On the other hand is this recruiting work all about being lonely wolf? I could imagine that as programmer & side gig you could work for recruiter(s). Prepare to convince why your skill is important not just their customer but themselves and go talk to them.

I have no idea is this a good idea but nothing bad shouldn't happen if you try.
"I waste an hour trying to coerce it into doing something useful before just falling back onto crontab."

Unfortunately, cron and crontab only function as expected in every other (every third ?) release of OSX.
Why the hack? I think you can switch to the old graphics in the remastered version. Or does that switch voices too?
What does anything Peter Thiel says have to do with Google? The writer calls him "an ideological leader in the Valley". That's a pretty tenuous connection.

And the contrast with Drexel and Milken? Come on, those people went to jail for fraud!

This is fact-free dreck that's just adding to the noise.
Well, that sure is terrifying.
Take a look at PyTorch. Much easier to understand, fewer bugs, much less obscure all around. I've spent years working with TF and have come to dislike its inflexible, verbose, and convoluted way of doing things. I'm 80% on PyTorch now.
I work in HFT and i probably couldn't run most of my stats on these exchanges. There are some that can be but their performance limits what can be run.

The ones that could be run are often the same that were run on the exchange floor but you wouldn't call those 20 years ago HFT.
> you can download a version that includes most of the Unix commands you know and love

Is it the actual Unix commands that I actually know and love, or just 25-year-old parodies like on macOS? (I've stopped keeping track of how often my bash scripts broke on macOS because I was giving some switch to a coreutil that was introduced less than 25 years ago.)
Things like this may scare you to hell from starting anything at all.

One can do perfectly well without 90% of this checklist.
The goal of living off the grid is not individualism, it's utilizing all that freaking cheap real estate..
Reserve the 418 status code
Yeah, let's start with "why English is such a great language for puns", but then explain that it's not actually going to be about puns at all (an extremely difficult kind of joke to make because real puns are either grammatically incorrect, or nonsense without a strong established context or audience) but simply about any kind of play on words.
"As a developer, I want to be able to log time spent on projects. So that the company could analyse [sic] time spent on different projects."

This user story is utterly absurd.

In this case, the "user" is actually the company, not the developer. The developer usually wants to provide business value by adding new features, or fixing bugs. And this is a feature, but it's not a feature for the developer. It's a feature for the company.

The fact that it got broken down into manual data entry features like:

"Users (read developers) select a project and enter hours spent for each day"

Makes me question whether the users were involved in making the stories at all.

This article feels like an illustration of what is wrong with Big-A Agile, not an exemplar of how to do it right.
The language of languages
What happens to all the material tunneled out?

What happens when TBC wants to tunnel where secret government tunnels already exist?
How to Convince Venture Capitalists You’re an Expert in Artificial Intelligence
TPU will be everywhere next year in the form of NVIDIA Tesla V100. And FB is clearly getting much better ROI. It's not even close.
[3] Foucault's Pendulum, Umberto Eco.
If sub-vocal recognition [1] (together with suggestions) gets as good as voice recognition I think we could finally have a viable alternative to the keyboard.
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subvocal_recognition
Thanks! And cool, the Little Schemer books is actually how I first started programming.
I was also thinking about Crossrail, and how it's going to cost $20+ billion for 73 miles of track...
Hard Lessons in misleading titles of Tesla advertisements / PR puff pieces. The submarine at work.

Don't get me wrong, that Tesla battery plant and the amount of solar Kauai has installed is amazing. I just wasn't expecting the obvious product placement given the story title.
Are Fake Instagram Influencers Deceiving Brands?
From the article: “Only recently I learned that Thoreau had his mom bring him food out in the woods.”

Robert Frost on Thoreau:

Well, if I have to choose one or the other,

I choose to be a plain New Hampshire farmer

With an income in cash of, say, a thousand

(From, say, a publisher in New York City).

Lesson: sustenance farming sucks. Farming has big economies of scale and you get none of them.
why was this flagged?
I find it bit weird that women and minorities seem to be able to use this "fatigue" thing as argument or excuse to blow up on some situations. The same does not seem to apply to white men, as otherwise she would started how Damore might have felt exhausted before writing that memo. Holding white men to higher standard might backfire in the long run.
https://www.principiadiscordia.com/index.php
An analogy would be someone writing a statement as follows:

"Abolishment of slavery led to economic ruin in the Confederate states." -Author Bob

And a not-so-well-meaning reader TLDR'ing it as:

"Author Bob claims that abolishing slavery was a bad thing." / "Author Bob is a supporter of slavery."
Wow, what a synchronicity.
I was just thinking how the images from Charlottesville could almost have come straight out of Illuminatus Trilogy.
I used OS X a few times for iOS development, never used homebrew. Am I not a developer?
I can already see how n-gate is going to summarize this thread:

> An internet complains about how macOS documentation is only transmitted by tribal knowledge. Hackernews acknowledges the problem, and proceeds to trade said knowledge in exchange for internet points.
AMA by James Damore
It's a shame that the author has effectively written out RAW's co-author, Robert Shea: he's not even named, mentioned only in passing as "another Playboy writer".
> Modifiers (i for case-insenstive is the most important one) can appear inside a regex when preceded by a colon. For example, this Perl 5 regex:

> (Male|Female) (?:[Cc][Aa][Tt]|[Dd][Oo][Gg])

> would be translated to Perl 6 as:

> (Male || Female) ' ' [:i cat || dog]

Perl 5 does support this feature:

(Male|Female) ((?i)cat|dog)

or:

(Male|Female) (?i:cat|dog)
Regarding spelling, the Wikipedia article notes that:

“The United States Board on Geographic Names lists relevant place names both with and without the ʻokina and kahakō in the Geographic Names Information System. Colloquially and formally, the forms have long been used interchangeably.”