skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds like that person had it made to me. Well paid, work that was ostensibly in demand but nothing bad would happen if it wasn’t received... not bad. I suppose it’s “scary” if you’re incentivized to care about the efficiency of the company, which almost nobody in corporate America is.
>"the meltdown/spectre "working as intended" joke"

I was really surprised by this. Why would you treat your customers as if they are idiots like this and make them lose trust in you? Its not like the main people making purchasing decisions are "the public" either, they should be much more informed than the typical person buying a laptop:

>"Intel now has eight major customers that are responsible for 75% of its revenues. In 2016, Intel's three largest customers were responsible for 31% of the firm's accounts receivable. Intel might obey Moore’s Law, but the Pareto Principle (a.k.a the 80/20 rule) is a different story."
https://www.investopedia.com/articles/markets/100214/inside-...
Vanguard 2055 Target Date Fund (tax advantaged retirement accounts), VTSAX (Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund) and BND (Vanguard Total Bond Market Fund) in taxable accounts, real estate that I expect to appreciate or that cash flows well, and small businesses that aren’t asking for a large premium on ARR.
I think that a combination of GUI with a keyboard can be great too. I think CLIs have stuck around for so long for their consistency. You type something and press return. The web on the other end of a spectrum is full of surprises and therefore requires something to be able to handle it's unpredictability.

Who knows what is really going to happen if I press Tab here? Will it really bring me to the next field or some random link in the other side of the page?

I wouldn't doubt that once the web finally settled down from this hype, people will find ways to get the full potential out of both GUI and the keyboard in a consistent way.

The web is the only reason I need a mouse during work anymore.
As someone who's currently going through a wave serious depression, I'm curious about this book. Thanks for sharing.
For the longest time chat bots were a nuance, if you didn't need it it was there and if you did need it, it was there and it would take all day. Those unnecessary pauses to make it seem more human is such a waste of time.
Apple adopts a 'cautious approach' and cuts iPhone parts orders by 20 percent
Yup, does the lower precision in Deep Learning matter though? You are basically constructing some hyper-dimensional soft boundaries separating classes of objects, and even between training runs on FP64/128/256/512 one can end up with very different boundaries - whether these come from some random training/sample order or lowered precision probably doesn't play a large role, if it speeds up training 10x? If you really want more precise boundaries, you can train on 8/16-bit first and then use transfer learning on pre-trained low-precision model with higher precision as your last step anyway.
I'd think it'd be a disaster if those screens were to malfunction mid-flight and all of the sudden people realized they were in a box with no way to see out. I'm sure that would cause at least one person per flight to have a panic/anxiety attack. It's similar to walking with your eyes closed, you start to panic after a few seconds because you can't see where you're going and lose your sense of positioning/direction/balance. I hate flying, I don't think I could manage to make it on a plane with no windows at all.
Experience. Start with the simplest of things: replacing a standard (non-GFCI) receptacle. Buy a book that tells you how, or learn from someone who knows. (Both is best.)

Don't guess at anything. If the book doesn't say exactly what to do in the situation you're in, hire an electrician. (This sounds overly cautious but really – if you're doing something even slightly "novel" then there's either going to be code issues you aren't qualified to judge, or actual electrical issues you aren't familiar with and don't even know to think about, like grounding issues.) Thankfully, most situations a homeowner will encounter aren't left up to interpretation by code, and are therefore covered in a good book.

Move on to similar things (say, replacing a simple switch or GFCI receptacle) when you feel you have enough experience.
Check out https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/php-7.3.0alpha1/NEWS
I believe it is quite clear to many of us familiar with the space that Microsoft is not some small-time backer of the Linux Foundation and other, related organizations. I certainly did not feel the least bit of an attempt to downplay MS' financial contribution in light of the subject of the conversation.
'Agent' or 'representiative' will usually do it faster.

But I hear you. I recently wanted to change the ownership of my cellphone account. "Change ownership", "It sounds like you want to change cellphone plans, is that correct?", "Agent", "Okay, let me get you to a representative".

The only tasks these things are equipped to do, are the tasks that I can do via the company's online portal, and in a much less frustrating manner. I wonder who is actually using these things.
Don't forget "darcs". That had a lot of promise, but suffered from at least one exponential timing issue - where it would get into a state which took "forever" to resolve.
FBI used Signal app messages in leak investigation
I think the biggest flaw is chat is just a black hole of a UI. Until the machine is a full AI, you have to be able to put boundaries and parameters on expected inputs. Otherwise, it's like putting a casual user in front of a Linux terminal and asking them to use a website via curl. Unless you give them very visible paths to interaction, you're done. The fact is, we have had that kind of thing for ages and it's called IVR.
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Security code AutoFill: is this new iOS feature a risk for online banking?
There are different reasons people attempt or commit suicide. That said, do we blame someone who succumbs to cancer when they die? That somehow they failed at trying harder?

For some, depression is an episode or collection of episodes in life. For others, it's a chronic condition. He lived decades (from other accounts) with a chronic condition and succumbed to it.

Sometimes, toxic environments contribute and I don't want to suggest otherwise, but for those with chronic unipolar depression, it is a condition that people die of. It's sad, but so long as we understand that it's illness, we can get over the polemics.
Holy crap this thread is getting absurd.

> Today's Microsoft sees the profitability that can some from Free labor of open source, but continues to be Hostile to Free Software

Microsoft donates more dev time to open source then they will EVER get out of their own use of it. But sure, let's pretend the multi-billion dollar company is spending billions upon billions on open source in order to save money. That makes SO much sense!
Even though some people have changed their Firefox user agent and found that the web page still works under Firefox. Chrome isn't the only browser doing things to extend the web. Firefox and Mozilla work on new features too. Chrome didn't come up with WebAssembly, Mozilla developers did. Edge isn't as behind as it once was either, pretty sure they called it Edge for "Bleeding Edge" and you can see the source for their JavaScript Engine on GitHub.
> Boy, you got that backwards. Abstinence is what "goes against our very nature as living beings". Contraception allows us to engage in sexual activity without the consequences of unwanted pregnancy or STDs.

Where did I mention abstinence?

While not my choice, I consider it just one more approach that falls under the 'contraception' umbrella, not sure how you made the link from my sentence to abstinence honestly.
Yes, but... whenever reading discussions about nuclear power, I'm told over and over that the reason we don't have more nuclear is because of over-regulation and irrational environmentalism, not other factors - that if we weren't so regulated, it'd be cheap and easy to do.

China, as you observed, has no qualms about "environmentally friendly", so according to America's nuclear proponents, China should have more nuclear than us, not less, since it's cheaper. This is not the case, ergo their argument is flawed.
^^^ I've been repping physical data transfer to people for a while. Veracrypt is a great option.
I'm sorry the relevance wasn't clear!
I use .NET from pretty much anything I build, whether it is my main project or a pet one. It's blazing fast, Visual Studio is stellar, C# is a joy to work with and probably the most evolving language, SQL Server is very matured and the list goes on. The only thing I find lacking in the whole ecosystem is Windows, but you can't have everything. And thanks to .NET Core moving to Linux is a dream come true.
Microsoft's been orienting themselves as a developer services company over the past few years. Azure, vscode, open source dotnet, they want free onramps onto their services.

They were missing CI/CD tools, and source control. They had VSTS and Team Foundation Server but there's no way theyd beat the ubiquity of git.

I'm betting they're going to now start offering CI via GitHub like Gitlab (or offering a unified marketplace to allow other companies to fill this role and they take a cut) and then folding GitHub Enterprise into their suite of developer tools. Just like Visual Studio is vscode++, GitHub Enterprise will be invested in to where it does a whole lot more fancy things, and free GitHub is the onramp. And then Microsoft will have a portfolio that spans the entire code development pipeline.
AirBnB never had many listings in Japan in the first place; when I was visiting there I always went with the agencies that specialized in short-term apartment rentals; those were best for price/quality ratio if you spent at least month there. And you could even get typical traditional Japanese apartments that way near important cultural landmarks. And observing typical Japanese customs like trash collection of certain types on certain days at precisely designated spots made you feel quite integrated to their modern way of life.
Removed support for BeOS

It's amazing a lot of software still support some very old stuff :)
GDScript really is just a subset of Python and works really well. Remember Moonscript for Unity? Well GDScript is much better.

GoDot FAQ:

The short answer is, we'd rather a programmer does the small effort to learn GDScript so he or she later has a seamless experience, than attracting him or her with a familiar programming language that results in a worse experience. We are OK if you would rather not give Godot a chance because of this, but we strongly encourage you to try it and see the benefits yourself.

The official [languages] for Godot are GDScript and C++.

GDScript is designed to integrate from the ground to the way Godot works, more than any other language, and is very simple and easy to learn. Takes at much a day or two to get comfortable and it's very easy to see the benefits once you do. Please do the effort to learn GDScript, you will not regret it.

Godot C++ API is also efficient and easy to use (the entire Godot editor is made with this API), and an excellent tool to optimize parts of a project, but trying to use it instead of GDScript for an entire game is, in most cases, a waste of time.
I'd imaging these would go blank in an emergency or at landing/takeoff. Can't imagine that reducing the terror factor for certain folks.
https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/php-7.3.0alpha1/NEWS
"I can't imagine the displays being used are very high quality" ??? if they provide the amount of savings outlined I doubt spending extra 200K on quality screens will be an issue
Black-white education gap is trivially explained by black-white IQ gap. (If you don't believe in IQ, standardized test score gap, or whatever.) It's not school's fault. The most probable reason is genetics.
Github itself extends Git in a closed and proprietary way...

Github is the extend part or EEE, Git is the Standard, Github is the extension...

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Edit since I being prevented from responding I will edit this to address the idea that "Github is not an extension of git"

Yes, it is. While you can still use git with out Github, you could also use "the web" with out IE6, GitHub however had workflow and process improvements over standard git, just like Active X added workflow and process improvements over HTML Standard.

GitHub adds things like Issues, Pull Requests, "Social Coding, unified Login, Access Controls, Project Discovery and about 100+ other things on top of git that using git alone does not get you. This is text book example of EXTEND

it is insane to me how people do not see it.

Further to address "I have to be insane to believe GitHub was started by MS" well I never said that, Simply because Github was not created by MS, does not change the fact that their buying Github is part of the EEE model
Agree. Japan has a stability-at-all-costs mentality. Until the old is completely untenable, and then change can happen incredibly rapidly.
Senior back-end developer (JAVA)
So are parts of Red Hat. I guess Red Hat hasn't embraced open source.
>"After the story published, Wolfe congratulated the reporter, using Signal, stating “Good job!” and “I’m glad you got the scoop,” the indictment said."

It's not revealed how the message content was obtained, but this seems to question the security of the application.
Yeah, Microsoft can find $500,000 in the couch cushions. It's not even a rounding error for them. It doesn't mean it's not a good thing they're doing it, but it's not like that's a huge contribution.
"Apartment #1A, #1B, #1C..."
“Greatly reduced number of windows” is a more accurate statement, which seems to be a much less scary thing.
You looked up 1000+ people on LinkedIn?
Enlighten us.
Not so, nobody forces anybody to compete in an arms race. My point is that there is an arms race - and inventions such as AI for war are part of that arms race and are being developed. These are very easy inventions too, given the widely available and extremely powerful software and hardware. These are facts. No amount of upsetting moral arguments make the arms race go away.

The question is: should America compete in the arms race? I don't know. But there are big consequences either way.
Thanks to you and the other people who linked this.
Talk to the wsl team on guthub, they are part of the larger kernel team
Ironically the TSA regularly fail scheduled-tests. Where "actors" intentionally try to sneak guns & knives through security..
they just weren't
If you want to do performance engineering on computational code, particularly parallel, go to vi-hps.org or the sites for other toolsets like openspeedshop and hpctoolkit; also tools.bsc.es if vi-hps doesn't cover them -- I can't remember.
See [1] and [2]. For example, 2015 median household income for Indian Asians is $100K while the same statistic for white non-hispanics appears to be $63K.

[1] http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/fact-sheet/asian-americans-in...

[2] https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/demo/visualizations...
> it would save 50 per cent of the weight of an aircraft.

Surely this is nonsense, even if you are considering empty weight, when you take the engines and main spar into consideration?
It's almost like people can have differing opinions from one another
Oil traders apparently.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-oil-traders-yahoo/bytes-a...
I’m also wary of accepting controversial opinions at face value, and fully support your skepticism here. She’s not my favorite messenger, either. I don’t think ad-hominem attacks are fair, though.

The article is full of references to evidence outlining her position. Do you have any critique of her arguments you can share?
Huge thumbs up to this.

I basically shop at Home Depot from home and then go to the store and pick the items from the bins. The mobile app works well if you're already in the store.

The only reason I don't just buy stuff from Amazon is because I happen to live close to a Home Depot, and a) I want the items now, b) I want to see the items before I buy them, especially because c) there is a high probability I'll want to return at least one thing I buy, and that's way easier at a brick-and-mortar.
Great point, the USSC decides like 50 cases a year? The next layer of federal courts decides thousands, and usually those are the tiebreaker appeals that don't get the writ of centiaori.
We can translate spoken words to text strings pretty reliably. AFAIK, we can do this locally without much processing power, but I may be mistaken. From the point that spoken words become strings, chatbots and voicebots are effectively the same.

Those strings are piped through a Switch statement of static responses, or fall out into the Default response. This was the situation in 2013 when I created a speech bot in Powershell, and it sounds like the state of the art here hasn't progressed far.

What's needed is logic to dynamically build the Switch statements, or otherwise better parse human entry and build responses. There has been much work on a few different fronts, but I'm not aware of any which were wildly successful.
I think the right is correct that a victim mentality is extremely dangerous and should be avoided at all costs.

This can't go understated. Life is hard and often tragic. Everyone will be a victim of injustice, often grave injustice, at one point in their lives or another. The worst thing a culture can do is demotivate folks to face their tragedies because something about their personal identity (race, gender, geography, religion, etc) made it impossible to overcome.
HR support within organisations, too. I'm aware of some large organistaions currently investing in chatbots right now to help people find out how many vacation days they have left, find policies relating to their job etc.

Though this issue might equally be resolved by intranet search engines no longer being painfully bad (e.g. ones powered by Microsoft Graph).
No, it's only removing option of quicker waits for higher prices, because you can have longer waits for lower prices as it is (just wait till price surge is over). So yes, that's economic illiteracy with strange motivation of "service men should be protected"
How much is the write off on such donations? Surely can't be 100%.
Because it's literally rent-seeking and leeches wealth from the economy, jacking up prices while contributing nothing?
Yes, it kind of reminds me of those old text adventures where you had to guess what the computer would understand

>get sword

I don't know what "sword" is.
> Your life is always still valuable and fixable.

It's like wearing a heavy cloak around, after having done so for most of your life, day after day, year after year. If you're a proper adult, age-wise, all of the effort in the world doesn't guarantee that cloak will fall off one day. The idea that it's fixable doesn't play itself out in real life. I would posit that this is why riches and fame only temporarily relieve the weight of it.
> Because the Chrome team is consistently the fastest at supporting newly introduced standards.

Yeah, that's an interesting way to see it when Google/Chrome dominates/finances the whole WHATWG web "standardization" process directly after "what Webkit is doing". Not saying there isn't bona fide work, but basically there are many ways to derail meaningful standardization efforts other than by not playing ball: by making it so fscking complicated and prohibitively expensive that nobody can't compete. HTML is over 25 years old. There should be no need to rush features all the time. If that's happening anyway (WHATWG's "living standard" nonsense), then something is seriously wrong with the scope and organization of WHATWG's work.
I've seen this at all large companies that I've worked for. I call it self-preservation mode. People feel like they have to justify why they are important as a cog in the machine so they restrict information to make themselves required. Keep the game going so I get my next bonus. It is hard to convince someone to take risks when their job depends on not rocking the boat. The worst part is that these people have convinced themselves that they are irreplaceable. The issue at its core is that you get what you optimize for.
It's likely that these are for company itself. Ain't no one got time to deal with questions that are already explained on the website. This is made to filter mindless or lazy drones who don't want to search and its totally fair.
Did they? I used both heavily from elementary school through a large portion of college. They constantly added features and it was a time when it was exciting to receive updates. I feel they just went through the natural social network lifecycle. My friends and I didn't try Facebook and others because there was a problem. They were simply new.
The person you replied to is probably referring to the concept of fiduciary duty which is often mentioned alongside discussions of public companies. I don't know anything about it though.
Not necessarily. A portion of the energy from burning fossil fuels comes from hydrogen reactions not carbon. How much - I have no idea.
7 ‘Best Practices’ Have to Change for Survival Today
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I wonder what would have happened to Microsoft's Diamond level sponsorship for the Linux Foundation if they said something different.
Offtopic: I found the article format quite hard to read. The mix of headings, bold, block quotes and embedded media made it feel very messy and I was never sure when the article was finished.
Visual Studio started using WPF from 2010 on. It turned out not to be an exactly convincing example. It was slower than VS 2008 and lost a ton of features. Can't think of any other
commercial app. MS certainly didn't bother porting anything to WPF.
Windowless planes would be a useful step. If people can get used to not having windows then there's more scope to change the design of the aircraft, so something like Boeing's Blended Wing design[0] might have a chance of not failing before it gets off the ground.

https://science.howstuffworks.com/transport/flight/modern/fl...
I strongly disagree that customer service calls are trivial.
Just don't make me use a damn Microsoft live account to login!
On the reverse side of that, how can a government function when everybody feels like they are privy to know everything about its operations. Its like having a meeting with too many people in the room. Nothing ever gets done. Democracy functions in that we have a democratic process to elect those who represent us, and at some level we need to trust them with certain elements of operations because everyone knowing everything could cause harm in some cases. If we dont trust who we elect to office then thats a seperate issue that we need to tackle on its own.
AsI recall, Terry Winograd later claimed SHRDLU was the beginning of the end of the strong AI trajectory, at least at that time. I believe he, or someone close, said the central weakness of the system was that when it failed, it did not have any understanding that it had failed, much less why. Seems this is the current SOTA in chatbots now, given the somewhat snarky examples in the article.
> they are absolutely top notch.

It's easy to be top notch when you don't have to pay all the expenses you incur. By offloading all of their infrastructure costs onto their employees (that is, the cars and the phones), they can operate very cheaply. But it's not because the service is cheaper, it's because they're avoiding their bills.
Type inference, at least for variables doesn't really take that much time. In practice almost every language does it, they just don't expose it to the developer. For example you can do this in C:

foo->bar()->baz()

And the compiler has to get the type for the bar() result. That's one a small step from:

let x = foo->bar()

Also that dictionary is most likely parsed and assigned a type in the expression whether you specify the variable type or not.