skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Am I understanding correctly that this paper is making the argument that because AAVE follows an identifiable set of grammatical rules, it is a dialect rather than an aberration?

I don't have any opinion on that, I just wanted to make sure I understood the basic premise.
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What would be the closest app equivalent in the western world to Toutiao?
I’m assuming you will just link whatever account you already redeemed your ultraviolet copies with (e.g. Vudu), and they will show up.
Yes, and funny enough the reason we got 6Gbps SATA was because of SSD.
> Also, purchases of followers usually happen in batches, so it is easy to observe the spikes in followers numbers.

I would disagree with this. It is very easy to have a steady stream of followers on instagram, I've run a few campaigns myself.

When an account is private, and promoted, instagram queues up follower requests to 100 at a time, and you can't see how many are queued but you can predict how many users have been attracted to the account. Bot accounts or otherwise.

(Note: this is part of a larger strategy of getting instagram's algorithm to self-promote your posts in the explore section, or as popular in a hashtag. As you can post something new and your new followers will like your post and then you can switch your account public soon after and it is boosted in activity on many feeds, attracting more people to your account)

The user - who is the influencer - account can manually approve the pending followers, or take their account public. When taking the account public, 100 pending followers are added automatically, and it has to be switched back to private to show the next pending followers, only for them to be added when the account is toggled to public yet again. If the account stays public, the other pending followers will stay pending indefinitely and the user can't see that they are pending.

Therefore, this gives the account the ability to control a steady growth of followers, 100 at a time, indefinitely. If they keep the account private during their actual campaign. The authors might be surprised that this strategy obtains more humans than bots.

The main thing here is that there are many ways to "buy followers". And I think the analysis here assumes way too much about a single way that followers are bought. The authors have probably never created their own influencer account, to know about the infrastructure that really exists.
I imagine that the people they displaced during the process of establishing that colony would have just as dramatic a story, about having their homes taken from them by a foreign conqueror... I wonder what happened to them afterward?
Yeah, this. It's called "code switching" and we all do it. The way you talk to your boss is not the way you talk to your friends is not the way you talk to your Grandpa is not the way you talk on Facebook etc.
And unfortunately, when it comes to religion, this is a flat-out religious war.

But I mean, they're all Moslems, right? It has to do with who the rightful heir to Mohammed is. Is it Ali, or Abu Bakr? The answer to that question thus says which side of the interpretation of "Shia" or "Sunni" is.

Long story short, it's not resolvable without a great deal of violence. Disagreements about succession are hardly ever peaceful.
Yes, this is more likely. I suspect that there was also a desire for private communication using code words, especially before slavery was abolished.
it's amazing how much the finance industry can get away with. like honest-to-goodness amazing.

it's really impressive how these people can have such a death-grip on society. honestly, i'm more curious than mad. how is such a thing even possible? i mean, wow.
My biggest issue with buying digital movies has always been the lock in factor. If I buy from Amazon, I can't watch it on my Chromecast, if I buy from Google, I can't watch it on the Xbox, and if I buy from iTunes, I can't watch anywhere but an Apple device or iTunes. The only digital movies I've bought to date have been Disney movies because of the previous Disney-only version.

I wonder how it works if a partner decides to leave. From what I understand, when Microsoft left the Disney program, Disney movies shared to your Microsoft account stuck around and Disney movies shared from your Microsoft were still available on the rest.
That's exactly how it works. It took about an hour after linking my Vudu account before they showed up on the Movies Anywhere site and iTunes.
Right. The point is that the differences are following rules, they're not "mistakes".
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No they don't, kh is an aspirated k sound. In any case that is not what was mistyped in the original post, it was the second and third syllables that hade changed places.
Yes, hosting providers need rate limiting mitigations in place. GitHub's is called gitmon (at least unofficially), and you can learn more at https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=f7ecUqHxD7o

Visual Studio Team Services has a fundamentally different architecture, but we do some similar mechanisms despite that. (I should do some talks about it - but it's always hard to know how much to say about your defenses lest it give attackers clever new ideas!)
I know what they said the reason was, it doesn't make it less strange.
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He's also building one, so he has a vested interest in the technology being successful: https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/04/elon-musk-reportedly-plann...
People are been throw in jail, you know? Some of them when they are lucky to not be killed before getting there.
If I am thinking about something like this (my reason so far is fairly contrived, but I would really like to use Stripe, that is available i.e. in Ireland, while in mz country, it mostly seems to be paypal/braintree), where would I be able to read-up on gotchas, before I consult a proper lawyer?
> A high speed train like the ones they've had in Europe for a long time?

I don't see what the US political inability to build infrastructure has to do with my comment. Plenty of countries are still building highspeed trains and iterating on that model... and plenty of non-US countries are looking into hyperloop, the first ones to adopt it will likely be outside of the US, as that's where most innovation is these days. And regardless there's always plenty of room for new ideas.

Unless you think these billionaires should be backing American transportation mega-projects instead? There's plenty of roadblocks there outside of access to capital, where a highspeed train will likely cost 2-3x the initial projections, even if a private company does it. Not to mention the US is a car-heavy market. It seems like a risky project for any non-government entity to take on as it will be packed full of political risk and direct involvement either way...

The US rarely builds major projects anymore except in the defense industry. And almost every major defense project of comparable size ends up being billions over budget or cancelled.
sigh another "deadly wall of air" theory ala Thunderf00t? Hasn't this been debunked already?

"A little bit of physics is a dangerous thing."

* A bullet or piece of debris would likely leave a hole much smaller than the diameter of the tube. A breach 1/10th the diameter of the tube will admit 1/100ths as much the air.

* Even if there was a whole-tube breach, the "wall of air" will rapidly slow down and smear out into a gradual pressure rise due to friction with the tube walls. Pipes are not lossless! Within 5 km friction will have the air moving at highway speeds. So if you're so close that you can be killed by the air blast, you're so close that the pod can't brake before hitting the whole-tube breach (bad). In other words, "deadly pressure waves" don't increase your odds of dying beyond that of a regular "derailment" event.

* In the event of a breach (whole-tube or otherwise), sensors in the track will signal all the pods to stop and the tunnel to undergo emergency re-pressurization. So any "wave" won't get far.
The causation probably goes both directions here.
My Vudu account has yet to work. It'd be nice since I've got a lot of Ultraviolet DVD/Bluray codes there, but generally don't bother going to Vudu for much else.
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The Guardian has been giving pretty decent coverage to the Yemen conflict (and the US/UK/Saudi relation it) overall, actually. Well above the level most people in the U.S. would have a stomach for, were they to actually pay attention to this rather horrid and depraved state of affairs being conducted on the global stage, in their names.

At the same time, there are only so many column inches available, and there's only so much effort (and so many lines) one can devote to the regurgitating the broader context (that's generally covered in other articles they run).
I'd be interested in reading evidence that supports a causal link between AAVE usage and segregation. To the best of my knowledge, no research has shown this to be the case, but I might be missing something. Did you have a particular study in mind?
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I think docker succeeded not because it was a better container or virtualization solution, or because it was lighter than VMs. Jails or Solaris zones have existed for years or decades, and on Linux, we had openvz and vserver long before Docker.
And I'm not even mentioning plain old chroot (with indeed some security issues).

I didn't follow the latest development, but for a while, Docker was not even that great in term of robustness and stability. I never was a big fan of the userland proxy for example. And from what I've read, upgrading from one docker version to another could be quite painful (disclaimer: I toyed with docker a little, I haven't used it in production yet).

IMHO, Docker succeeded because it brought a complete ecosystem around containers:

* Ways to generate the container image through Dockerfile

* Ways to compose an image on top of another (itself on top of another, etc...)

* Ways to share and distribute these images with Docker Registry
Recognizing a difference where there is one does not cause segregation based on race.

If we have to choose a causal direction, I'm pretty sure it goes the other way. Otherwise we'd say things like "The government are trying to take my job away." (what British English speakers would say) to suggest someone is stupid, but no one does. That sentence, from my American-English perspective, sounds just as "different" as "The government be trying to take my job away.", which is grammatical in Black English.
Basically yes. Also if the point was to show that "AI" or whatever can be used for nefarious ends I think there are better ways of doing it. I have a feeling they were looking for better results than they got.
> based on the 50k fake followers they've bought from some website.
This, and its not just limited to buying fake followers.

There is an effect with real followers unintentionally following pages by either churn&burn or clickfarms, as well.

Facebook has this occur more widespread. The churn n' burn goes as follows:
1) Build Meme or image sharing page,
2) Accrue 50K+ followers,
3) Sell page to an influencer, influencer updates pictures and profile
4) Followers of old page have no idea the influencer they're following, and now see ads mixed in with the old content.

All and all, the overinflation in that industry is reaching bubble levels, if it hasn't already passed it.
Payment obfuscation (which is not inherent in the protocol, but how you use it).

International money transfers. I've personally met a few backpackers who use bitcoin ATMs in SE Asia in addition to the traditional banking system.

FWIW I suspect that these use cases are negligible compared to speculation.
If the game is part of a series or potential series, they would not delete them. If it's a one off, they definitely deleted a lot of assets. A lot of backgrounds, models, and assets from PSOne Final Fantasy games do not exist anymore, for example. This is why a lot of companies that remaster games for HD actually "reverse engineer" the game disc.
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No that's a bit confusing. They were meant to be totally unrelated.
I guess the collusion comes from the cooperation of Amazon and Microsoft on this effort
I don't understand the "expect" part, but are you trying to describe code-switching?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code-switching
You're obviously talking about transit for the mainstream in which case it's not perfect but airlines provide the best combination of speed, comfort, and service today. Let's not forget that you're actually flying in the air in an incredible machine.

We already have plenty of cheap bus drivers though so I don't see what self-driving buses will do...
It’s not just a racial things. Rural whites have their own way of speaking that’s stigmatized in professional settings too.
Real happy to see Saudi Arabia really earn their place as head of UN humans rights council!
To the generations that traveled the world on boats, constructing flying machines that move faster (and required more tech/maintenance) also probably seemed like an unknown of whether it would be prohibitively expensive or not. I'm grateful that they didn't wait long to explore the possibility, which is what Virgin is doing here.
Well, the comparison was to writing unit tests that provide the same safety as an equivalent type system.

And compared to that, the type system is certainly faster.
At what speeds?
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Meh... It's not quite as easy as one might wish, but I haven't seen any business where it had any significance. If you're small, it's about $300 to start and maybe around $500 for an accountant.

It get's more complicated once you have employees, but even that's not relevant compared to almost any other aspect of a business. I think we're paying EUR30 per quarter for managing the employees taxes and various benefits.

If you're doing GAAP accounting, you're 95% done with taxes as well. And since these standards have converged over the years, the only difference in bureaucracy that remains is people's enduring stereotypes.
Does modern neuroscience really help us understand behavior?
Yes I understand that, but I was looking more to better understand what kind of projects require this kind of tech. I can think of adtech as one industry, are there any others?
As in a tree that points to itself? You cannot, since a tree would have to point to its own SHA1. So this would require you to know your own tree's SHA and embed it in the tree.
SFPL has said that they have air filters in some of their locations & the mayor tweeted that people can go sit around in the library if they have trouble breathing.

https://twitter.com/mayoredlee/status/918477373657325568
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Thanks for this, never read this before! I still remember how back in '95, after I had had my mind blown with titles like Tekken and after seeing it hyped in so many magazines, being so disappointed at what Gex actually was. Biggest disappointment since Vortex on SNES, heh.
Thanks for your concern, but I am very happy with the professional advice I have received and am entirely confident that no tax fraud is being committed.
It's pretty hard to initially digest, but when you think about it, right and wrong with language is almost entirely just convention. The difference between what we consider 'bad' English and dialects of English is dubious at best.
Yeh which makes sense because grammatical rules are by the nature of how a people would develop a language intuitive to humans. We put names to those grammatical rules, but they are typically more so a function of how human beings as a species communicate.
Had to fact-check that opening remark about Oakland being half African American. Sounded a little high but the 1990 census does show 44% Black. By current census estimates it's only 26%.

That aside, while it is cute that people make academic studies of this language, as a resident of Oakland I agree with the reactionaries that it should be exterminated instead. Recently when I was riding the bus, a woman on the bus loudly announced that "all dem bitch-ass niggas be hella gay". It does not matter to me that she meant "those people are habitual homosexuals" instead of "those people are currently homosexual". All I know is the language and the culture associated with that language have no place in public life or public school.
The Coastal Starlight runs from Union Station in DTLA to Jack London Square in Oakland. From there, it's a quick walk to BART to get into San Francisco - no bus required.

That being said, the trip takes 13 hours and some change, depending where in SF you're trying to go - which would be blown out of the water by HSR.
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Indeed. It's a bit ridiculous to assume that how someone speaks doesn't influence the perceptions of others.
"grammatically incorrect" is an arbitrary value judgment, no matter how much you might assert or concern-troll otherwise.
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You’d also have to obey the bookkeeping requirements of the companies country of origin. For example in germany the line between paying yourself a wage and “verdeckter Gewinnentnahme” is important (you can’t just take money out of an LtD) and it’s important to understand the host countries law. When things start to go haywire you’d need to hire an expert in Maltese law and that may just be very expensive from the comfort of your desk. You might also in addition require an expert in German tax law on top of that. I’d avoid that.
Yes, but it's not "open", per se. You get access to the source, but you cannot distribute it.
And that valuation is based on ..?
Where are you pulling those numbers from? On ULA's website [1] they say you can launch an Atlas V for less than half the $/kg you listed

[1] I went to rocketbuilder.com and both LEO configurations I tried were around $8,000/kg (and I didn't count the 20% deduction for "ULA added value" since the numbers there are debatable)
Try to find a local mill - the product is MUCH higher quality and the prices are cheaper. http://www.woodfinder.com/ is a good source for finding one. Also keep an eye out on Craigslist in the materials section, you'll often see sawyers posting material in there.
jbob2000 rarely participates in the inflammatory threads he sparks, so the smart money here is probably in avoiding anything with a question mark.
If you want to read more about dialects, I know Victor Mair (from Language Log) wrote a lot about such things in the context of Chinese (e.g., http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=10303; http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?cat=124). That's not anything specifically to do with AAVE, but more the general concept of what does and doesn't let you call something a dialect.
Interesting. I haven't participated in a network architecture at the hardware level for a bit so I'm out of the loop.

Of course, this whole article is about the differences between what should be and what you encounter in the wild.

But if I have jumbo packets in my data center and a reverse proxy at the edge, I either have an application layer creating fragments, or I have another, lesser problem with packet sizes.

If I don't see fragmentation, I will instead see some jitter in packet transmission due to buffering. Many workloads wouldn't even notice but some care. The proxy will end up holding onto the last partial packet until the next one is processed. If that packet has a message boundary in it then the jitter turns into latency from the perspective of the destination system.
This seems too good to be true. What's the catch?

Seriously, this sounds great.
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These types of comments belong on reddit, not HN.
It really depends on how you're displaying those vectors. Depending on the game engine, bitmaps are often much easier to display.
Agreed it's a cultural one. African Americans aren't a race they are an ethnic group with their own culture including dialect. This dialect isn't shared among african americans and lets say Nigerians.
Lowes / HD have absolute trash for product - at the very least I recommend people source from their local building supplier.
It is a result of the educational oppression and lack of English language and grammar education for African Americans.

Assuming for a moment that this is a true or even defensible statement, trying to "fix" it would be an even greater injustice. You can't rightly rip someone's culture away, regardless of how it got there in the first place. Expect any such attempts to go over poorly.

Also, keep in mind that the point of language is to communicate. So long as that goal is being achieved, what's the problem? I find this sort of linguistic prescriptivism (thou shalt use these words these ways) to be counterproductive and rather silly.
> What? Particles moving in through a hole against vacuum will usually be travelling at a distribution of speeds dependent on ambient temperature, since T = v_rms

A proper answer merits CFD. Barring that, sure, one can adjust for the velocity distribution [1] and the fact that a vena contracta [2] will reduce initial flow rates.

I used 330 m/s, the speed at 0 °C (which is generous since these tracks will likely be operating in hotter conditions), which one will observe is around the molecular velocity of oxygen or nitrogen.

[1] https://chem.libretexts.org/@api/deki/files/68415/BolzDist-M...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vena_contracta
From a strictly legal perspective I suspect /bin/true (or at least AT&Ts implementation) do not live up to the law's requirements of originality and expressiveness.
Exactly, the real question is why the muslim God is referred to as "Allah" even in English. It's not like the Christian God is called "Theos" or something in other languages. At least as far as I know.

In Japanese for example they use the same word, Kami, as the use for the more spirit like gods of Shinto.
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It is "wrong" because it is not the vernacular of the dominant culture. Just like baggy pants are 'wrong" just because they're not the clothing style of the dominant culture.

Differences arise as a result of segregation, and are then used to justify continuing that segregation. Perhaps "deliberate" is the wrong word here, but certainly expected.
It would take a lot of confidence and charisma even for me to pull off my local white, urban dialect in the workplace. I really don't think it's asking too much to adopt a standard depending on context and audience.
Just finished the Audible version of The Great Courses' audiobook on linguistics, and they spent a chapter on this subject. A lot of the same elements in this paper are pointed out in the lecture, which may indicate the arguments in this paper were part of the foundational elements of that particular lecture.

One of the things I found fascinating was that several of these grammatical elements are similar to peripheral English accents of Ireland, Cornwall, or York. The lecture noted that many of the indentured servants from Britain would be quartered alongside slaves, and that the strongest language reinforcement comes from people you live and work alongside.
There are also people who can only be happy at the expense of others
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