skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have no problems believing that her handler may have been charitable, but the question whether Koko had or did not have a language is far more difficult to answer than the typical authoritative claims make it sound.

Does a 3 yr old human child have a language ? Do the Sentinelese [0] have a language. Are we applying the same standards to animal language/intelligence that we apply to humans ? Or is it that we rely heavily on the edge case that we share a common language, and selectively extrapolate.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentinelese
The old "our science is limited, so I will 'trust' garbage emotional arguments."
How to stop the decline of public transport in rich countries
This is like asking why Brazil (pop 208M) and Nigeria (pop 191m) don't field competitive cricket teams.

Interestingly enough, China does have a fairly decent women's soccer team (~17th in the world), so they must be doing something right.
Right, but what's being discussed isn't that the policies are there. It's if they make sense i.e. do they ban something that's actual bad or are they just arbitrary restrictions?
Thursday’s Summer Solstice and the Search for Life in the Galaxy
China is not surrounded by rivals, its also never been conquered. The chinese do not have the same existential fear that france does.
In praise of gentrification
Reminder: never believe anything said by members of your out-group. Only what's written by your own tribe can be true.
And beyond that, what if Apple proves out a method for efficiently emulating x86 on ARM (like they did with Rosetta, which was considered an infeasible emulation of register-rich PPC on x86?)
> Now that smaller sellers (marketplace sellers, eBay, etc.) also have to collect tax, that hurts the ~8% discount built in, so why even shop around?

Because the more I learn about Amazon and their warehouse employees, the less I've been shopping on Amazon.

Having choice is a good thing.
It's not possible to safely scavenge a booster sitting in the open, because by the time it could be dissipated it will long be scavenged unsafely by someone else.
Be careful if you're already on ATT unlimited plans, they remove stuff like HBO for life if you "upgrade" to %More, which is 5$ more a month as well.
>Could it be that the cost barrier is lower today than in the past, but there is much more money to be made as an educated employee today than 25 years ago?

This is likely a component. Purely anecdotal, but in connecting with entrepreneurs in Portland, OR vs. Seattle, WA, the contrast is clear. In Seattle there are more high-paying employers (Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Facebook, for example), and thus the startup meet ups have relatively few attendees. Compare to Portland where outside of the significant apparel focus (Nike, Adidas, Columbia) the number of household name brands drops significantly. Yes there are Puppet and NewRelic, but they aren't the scale of Amazon, for example. So, you end up with more people willing to take a risk and strike out on their own as entrepreneurs.
That's true but stores have an advantage in that if they mess up it's harder for regulators to notice. But I'd bet the way this actually works is that companies mess up on this all the time and regulators will yell at companies to fix it before they start resorting to fines.
Automated Tax Calculations in the Orders API:

https://stripe.com/docs/orders/tax-integration
Yep, and offering local things to do is some of the lowest hanging fruit a project manager can grab on to now a days to CYOA on why he hired so many employees.
Preparing a Machine Learning-Ready Dataset for Market Basket Analysis
The Constitution uses a fair amount of fuzzy language. "Undue burden", "excessive bail", "cruel & unusual punishment", "unreasonable search & seizure", etc.

Thus our perception of what is undue, excessive, cruel, or unreasonable can change, without the Constitution changing a word.
It's absolutely a win for Amazon, who have been doing this for several years already, so their compliance costs are already baked in.
Why do you think it's fair that online businesses are given such an advantage over physical businesses in your state?
I'm sure he does. He just likes to abuse his position as a "tax expert" to say outrageous things and people believe him. He's very good at it.
Did you give them the $50?
> A beginner's experience with learning a new technology is valuable knowledge, even if some details may not be correct.

This is so true. I think I'm a better teacher of javascript than design, simply because I'm worse at JS and find it easier to take early learner perspectives when I write tutorials (http://getfirefly.org)
It really depends on the websites. Firefox has long been significantly faster than it was in the Firefox-1.x days, when it was the fastest browser. It's always been perfectly snappy and efficient for hackernews, craigslist, 10,000-line colored diffs in the cgit web frontend ... but popular web sites got many times slower. Chrome enabled web developers to do atrociously inefficient things and just not care.

Even today, Travis-CI really struggles in firefox, it's modern pleasing animations are just so atrociously coded. And remember when the Reason (facebook language) website was unveiled, it really killed firefox, because of some strange shadow effect applied to all letters or something ...
Not only is that not relevant to the original statement, it's almost certainly not true. And getting a base car at base car price is likely almost impossible.

The Audi and Lambo aren't in as high of demand as say, a Ferrari 488 (or whatever the latest mid-engined model is, I've lost track), but you can't actually buy a 488 if you don't already have a history of Ferrari ownership. So, while I doubt Audi and Lambo have the same restrictions on who they 'allow' to buy their car, good luck buying one off the lot or in any reasonable timeframe.
Would there have been a certain $ figure that would've made you say, "fuck it, I'll do it, at least for a little bit"? A common way to justify this is to say you'll be able to do more good with the $ than bad you did to get the $ in the first place.
Tether asserts that they are redeemable for USD.
Knowing or suspecting may not be same as able to prove it. It might still ruin the career if your allegation go nowhere and board does not act.
Hi! Sure I would be happy to do an interview. :) And thanks for spreading the word :)
Yet, the US dominates in women’s soccer. Maybe there are fewer options for them to play other sports (football specifically)?
I believe student loans can be written off after 25 years. Not sure the exact details. I know med school loans can be paid off based on income and if your income is low enough (almost never happens) you don't have to pay anything.

I'd nitpick a few things, but I think overall your points are valid. However, I would say a bigger cause is the replacement of small firms with larger ones. As the US has shifted more to a service economy larger firms have better economies of scale so it's harder to compete as a small firm. Plus, the pace of technological innovation is slowing so there are fewer opportunities to hitch your cart to some emerging technology.

Also, I believe their definition of startup is not what most people on HN think of when it comes to startups. It just means newly formed businesses, the vast majority of which are small, non-VC funded businesses.
Galileo was making lenses hundreds of years before the time we are talking about. Also, eye and magnifying glasses existed then.
How Neural Network Similarity Can Help Us Understand Training and Generalization
> DDR4 RAM is quite expensive, though.

True, but it is a major upgrade.

The i7-3770 supports two channels of DDR3-1600 memory, or 25.6 GB/s of memory bandwidth. A Ryzen processor (or other recent generation) supports DDR4-3200, which literally doubles your memory bandwidth. Fortunately or unfortunately, we now have much faster PCIe SSDs so memory bandwidth isn't as crucial for normal use, but a 100% improvement is a much better reason to upgrade than a measly 10% bump.
TL;DR

They present four papers in total that shed light on developments and deployments of FPGAs in data centers:

Project Catapult (Bing/Microsoft):

First paper:

> [...] provides insights into the development process of FPGA base systems. The target application is accelerating the Bing web search engine. [...] The paper shows how such a system can improve the throughput of document ranking or reduce the tail latency for such operations by 29 percent.

Second paper:

> The web-search accelerator was based on a unit of 48 machines, a result of the decision to use a torus network to connect the FPGAs to each other. Not only is the cabling of such units cumbersome, but it also limits how many FPGAs can talk to each other and requires routing to be provided in each FPGA, complex procedures to achieve fault tolerance, etc. [..] Hence, the second paper describes the solution being deployed in Azure: the FPGA is placed between the NIC (network interface controller) of the host and the actual network, as well as having a PCI connection to the host.

The other two papers debate whether FPGAs could actually be implemented using ASICs or other dedicated hardware. To do so, they discuss how FPGAs can be used in MySQL with a SSD+FPGA storage engine.
It's not exactly what youre describing, but isnt e-Mail a decentralized file store? Sure, most mail is google, microsoft, or verizon by now, but still, you can spin up your own compatible instance and participate with others.

Almost any client you can dream of can access IMAP mailboxes and send through SMTP.
I pay $70 a month for AT&T's gigabit (up/down) internet all fees, taxes, and modem included. DirecTVNow has intermittent buffering issues on my Roku TV/Roku sticks -- and I'm getting 200Mb u/d wireless from the location near my TVs and one of my Roku TVs is actually connected via Ethernet.

I didn't get the buffering issue when I switch over to my 3rd generation AppleTV over AirPlay. It's also not as bad on the 4th Gen ATV with the native app. If you get DirecTVNow, I suggest you take advantage of the free ATV 4K offer when you prepay for 3 months ($120). Even if you're not in the Apple ecosystem, you can still download the various streaming apps.
You're kidding, but it should.
Some systems don't allow their most modern browser to be easily consumed. Also, Chromium has features that some default-distro browsers don't. Finally, using browsers on the system don't always give flexibility that Electron does and even when they do, the abstraction to the greatest common factors just so you can work cross-platform leave a lot out.
Firefox is indeed, much faster and less memory intensive than it used to be. I started using it heavily (again) roughly when Quantum came out after giving up on it for years as unusable. (like many, I think - hence the article).

However.

I still find it very crash-prone. Less so over time, since Quantum came out, but still.. very crash-prone.

Perhaps I use it differently from others?

I use different Profiles to separate concerns (and give myself some small modicum of cross-concern privacy - if nothing else auth cookies are reliably separated). At any given time, I have up to 5 separate Profiles running.

With Firefox, each Profile is a fully separate PID (I assume their newer Containers are not), and there are affiliated PIDs for "Firefox CP Web Content" (similar to Google Chrome Helper, I assume).

On any given day when I log into my system in the am, one or more of those Profiles has crashed, all affiliated PIDs are dead and the Crash Reporter is up.

I don't believe anything I'm doing in any of the Firefox Profiles is particularly unusual, or extreme. No social networking, or anything with infinity-scroll. No video streaming (eg: Youtube).

So Mozilla - what gives?

Despite that complaint, I still happily use it because I believe Mozilla is much more interested in my privacy, and much more dedicated to FOSS, and because I mistrust Google. Thanks Mozilla!
Amazon already collects sales taxes based on the state the order is delivered to, despite not being legally required to until now. They've already baked the compliance costs into their prices. Smaller retailers who weren't doing this will suffer, as they now need to raise prices.
Surprised to see no mention of "put the kitten on my head", the most adorable sequence of symbols that has ever come out of an intelligent animal.

https://www.petcha.com/koko-the-gorilla-gets-new-kitten-frie...
I don't think that has been the case.

The stuff I've read about the new process nodes from the last decade indicate that moving to those hasn't been easy. And the chip designers haven't had it easy either, with each new process comes a longer and longer list of restrictions and other difficulties.

Transitioning an existing CPU design (for example) to a new process node was never easy per se, but it has never been harder than it is these days. That's part of the slowdown.
Yes, that is subjective.

That's one narrative, there are many others (in fact an infinite amount of other perspectives). You are just choosing one way by reducing the reality of the interaction of the apple, the cells, atoms, time, how it gets in your body how that suddenly help you burn energy and run faster which then means your footsteps are a little deeper in the soild you run which kills a few ants which then turn into soil and goes back into the ecosystem.

There isn't an objective perspective on this only reductions into narratives.
I love these crossover rulings. They give me just the faintest confidence that the judiciary actually works, and isn't simply filled with a bunch of partisan hacks.
Ask HN: How to improve English vocabulary?
I can understand when I read. But when speaking, I get stuck and lost. I think active vocabulary is limited. How can I improve it?
I have never come back from a vacation more excited about working than before :)
Is pixel perfect UI really what you even want these days? With high-DPI screens and screen scaling being a thing, not everyone's pixels are the same. And that's not even talking about accessibility for people with low vision who want text to be big and readable.
Same as "Ask HN: What services and technologies do you use to build web app?" from 14 days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17257394
Hayabusa 2 Images of Asteroid Ryugu Show Boulders and Craters
Languages change over time, and the gender neutral "they" is becoming widely used to refer to specific people.
Learning to run challenge: AI for prosthetics
I call it 'lovesense' music.
Whoa, that page crashed my (long running) Nightly (presumably exhausted RAM completely) and in freshly started got 4 GB for the tab process (and survived). Nice.
Tried again this morning after rebooting the computer -- turns out I was low on RAM yesterday evening. After starting Julia a few times to make sure it is cached I get the following results:

time julia -e '[1 2 3; 4 5 6; 7 8 9] ^ 2'
real	0m1.629s

And for Python/Numpy

time python -c 'import numpy as np; print(np.linalg.matrix_power([[1, 2, 3], [4, 5, 6], [7, 8, 9]], 2))'
real	0m0.103s

Edit: Julia Version is 0.6.3, installed directly from the Fedora 28 repositories.
Rebooting AI – postulates
Hedge funds worry about the legal risks of using “alternative” data
Perhaps he was selling coz he figured the relationship will surface soon and wanted out ?
>> When you, a virtual stranger to me, write about a "warm friendship" with an elderly person who taught you to "play backgammon well", an avalanche of emotional associations surrounding happiness, childhood, security, caring and many other things wash over me.

Let me ask you then: how do you know that what I reported is true? Maybe this "warm friendship" I report, never really happened. Maybe only I experienced it as a "warm friendship". Maybe I only remember it now as such, my recollection distroted by the passage of time, or wishful thinking.

You can as easily empathise with a misreported emotion as you can with an accurately reported one. That is a bit of a problem when what you are looking for is some understanding of objective reality.

>> Which brings me to the point that communication is an intellectual, emotional, and all-encompassing phenomenon and our attempts to scientifically understand communication between sentient beings (including interspecies) is at present unequal to our ability to perceive meaningful communication is occurring.

Well, sure. But just because we don't fully understand communication doesn't mean we'll trust anything anyone says about communicating with an animal.

Like, we don't know whether there are other technological civlisations out there but that doesn't mean we'll believe all the reports of alien visitations and so on.
Yes, strict YAML is different than YAML. If you take a look at the github page linked in the GP, it explains the differences.
The Chinese women's team is actually pretty good. This is just banal political tripe. I feel like the author had a point that he wanted to make and just said anything to support it.
> “We have to have an incentive,” he said.

There already is an enormous incentive for therapies that work. Whether you agree or not, you kinda have to admire the leaps of logic that allow people to rationalize needing to make huge profits on unproven trials from day 1, for an industry that has some of the highest profit margins of any.
Almost the only play planning in baseball is the catcher calling pitches. Everything else is reaction to where the ball goes. The coach does staffing.
What sports to Chinese kids play?
Thanks! I'm just a regular person trying to make a go at my own thing because the corporate world just wasn't for me. My goal is to help people realize that if they have a dream they should go for it, but also to realize that it doesn't come easy. It's A LOT of work!!
Because for 95% it's correct and when you are not part of those 5% and less, this topic is way below other topics and thoughts.

Doing the dishes or putting stuff away is a way bigger problem for me. I do not wanna offend anybody with this but some genderassumptions and gender topics are important but less relevant for me than the amount of discussions we have about it let us believe that it has more daily relevance.

My language is a language with genders (German).
For use with one of these: https://www.lovense.com/bluetooth-remote-control-vibrator
I reported a very serious one to Edge recently and the team told me they would "backlog it and might be on a future release".

Chrome had already patched it and Firefox never had it. (It was related to incorrect DOM spec implementation of document inheritance allowing cookie access from anywhere).

I'll do a full write up and blog it when I'm back from vacation but to summarize I was really unimpressed by the team at Edge and Microsoft Security.
>modernism is clearly wrong and serves only to mislead and enslave via narrative control

And when postmodernism is used as a toolkit to deploy different narratives, with the same amount of misleading and control, pointed a in slightly tweaked directions? What exactly did we get?

A new way to set down a foundation of bullshit, but perpetrated by a group that pulls up the ladder behind them. Excluding anyone who doesn't know how to play their semantic games from having an opinion about consensus reality.
do keep in mind though there is the perspective that we're heading back into the 70s phase where the end user owns dumb terminals and connect into semi-centralized servers. The place where performance is going to be killer is in the server space, which clearly amd is starting to get the jump on intel again, and you are (presumably, don't know what you do as a dev) not the target market. Heck, even if you're a hyperscaler, you might not be the target market, since it might be the likes of AWS.
> Turns out it was Business Insider and other news media.

And that they knew that when making the "sources unknown" claim.
Upgrading to Node v8 has significantly reduced our operating costs
the paper seems to be talking about "startups" as firms less than 2 years old. i guess this includes startups in plumbing as well as startups in software.

maybe the reason a young plumber doesn't go out and start their own new firm is different from the reason a young software engineer doesn't go out and start their own new firm.
"Rationalize" suggests the people coming up with this stuff believe it.
Sure, but there's no point in getting bogged down in strict adherence to jurisdiction when we're all one country. Would you feel better if the ruling was that an online retailer in Oregon has to get a business license in every state which would come with the same requirement to collect sales tax? Same effect, but now businesses have to do more paperwork.
Maybe there are 2 kinds or conscious expressions of procrastination:

- One related to lust for fun. Like you describe.

- One related to inhibition, fatigue, powerlessness, dread. You escape work even though you feel bad because you know you should be doing it to avoid an even worse situation. You do something else in the (false) hope to relax and to improve your mood and motivation for the task.
No. I think it's more that the mythos of the startup has been busted. Most of us probably know someone (or had it happen to them) that joined a startup, and got completely fucked on equity while getting paid peanuts and being worked 80-90 hours a week. Why would they want to go work for a startup, or give most of their startup to VCs, when they can work in a much lower stress environment for far more money, and actually get to go home at the end of the day?
But that still fills search engine results with garbage I have to filter through. It's hard enough searching for solutions to problems when there's five StackOverflow answers with full of bad data and incorrections scattered through the comments, answers, and comments on answers.
At that time, did Microsoft have an anti-fraternization policy?

Did he conceal his relationship with his future wife?

Unsure there is enough information to suggest Bill Gates "got away" with anything.
MTV Launches Studio, Sets ‘Daria,’ ‘Real World,’ ‘Aeon Flux’ Revivals
Cricket is not the most popular sport of those countries. Football is.
> The idea that BrainStorm could make a profit from NurOwn before the treatment is proven effective and approved by the FDA is a bad look for the company and the entire pharmaceutical industry. It reeks of opportunism, even when couched in compassionate rhetoric.

If anything we need more experiments like that. If you have no treatments left to try and you are dying, being able to try something that is not 100% proven but that has some potential is better than nothing. It's not like selling snake oil or something, most therapies have clear identified pathways and targets based on actual fundamental research.

Companies are hardly going to make tons of money on unapproved therapies anyway, because the word will get out if x patients tried it and had no benefits.
Intel CEO Brian Krzanich resigns over relationship with employee
This.

If the people don't play a sport, why try to force it on them?

In places like China, Indonesia, and even the US, rightly or wrongly, the people are not really very big on football. (In China, the government is attempting to prop up football unilaterally, but it is having limited success).

Now maybe this aversion cultural, maybe its economic, whatever. But I'm not seeing why the Chinese people should be pushed into football when they have an obvious preference for other activities?
When I was in school, we played soccer to get in shape for basketball season (we were too small to field a football team). People tried really hard to push soccer, and we were actually better at soccer than basketball, but soccer just never had the same kind of excitement. You need too many people and too much space to actually play soccer, compared to a little bit of driveway and a ubiquitous hoop for basketball - you don't even need another person, you can spend hours blissfully shooting by yourself.