skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why not just let the market sort it out without a congestion fee?

You realize that the roads are property right? They're owned by the city. They're funded by the tax payers. Are you telling me they are obligated to share their roads for free?

I simply cannot fathom how someone who is advocating a "free market" solution doesn't understand the important role that property rights play in a market system.

I realize you want free access to the roads, but who says you're entitled to free access? You don't own the roads. I don't care if your tax dollars pay for them, you're not entitled to drive on them just like you're not entitled to roam around on a military base.

If I owned the roads, you bet your ass I'd charge you an arm and a leg to ride on my roads. I would do whatever I could to maximize revenue. This means getting as many paying customers on my roads as possible.

Let's say I owned 10th, 6th and 3rd Avenues and series of cross streets. I could be a conventional thinker and simply turn them into premium express lanes for car services and the wealthy, but that's peanuts.

I could make a lot more money if I turned them into efficient roadways for a fast bus service that's competitive with the MTA. I'd try to make my roadways the fastest and most efficient way to get around the city so I could charge as much as I could to make a profit. For less capital investment, I could get better coverage of the city at a fraction of the price of the subway system.

Who gives a shit if cabbies and people from New Jersey can't drive on my road for free? It's my road! Why should I let your crappy car drive on my roads when I can pack far more customers in my driver-less buses?

If you want a free market solution, then let companies buy/lease the roads. Your solution is not a free market solution. It gives away access to the roads at the tax payer's expense, so taxi/car companies can leach off it. You've socialized the costs and privatized the gains.

Stop telling tax payers what they can and can't do with their roads. It's their roads and they don't owe you shit.
> Ironically,

i see what u did there....
Achieving human-level text prediction
> However, if emulating e.g. ARM on i86 (or vice versa), I guess that recompiling optimizations may be necessary to keep things efficient.

Depends on the ARM in question and how dependent on cycle accuracy the rest of the system is. Anything more than ~100MHz you pretty much need to JIT, but a surprising number of systems don't reach that. So like a DS is generally interpreted, but a 3DS is generally JITed.

> Wondering: does VirtualBox use such approach?

VirtualBox uses a combo approach depending on the host.

32 bit host uses a very simple JIT that runs ring 0 and runs all guest code in ring 3. The JIT hides itself using the segment registers. It's mainly to emulate the few instructions that don't fulfill Popek & Goldberg on x86 (ie. instructions that act different in ring 0 vs ring 3, but don't trap). It'll also play with the page tables to know when self modification occurs.

64 bit host is way easier. Pretty much just relying on hardware virtualization, and interpreting a single instruction here and there when you get a trap out of hardware virtualization into the hypervisor.
No the vast majority of workers targeted by this do not - even in developing countries like India "tiffin wallas" bring food to office workers.
The problem here is that when it's the banks doing it there really is'nt a court involved, nor police there simply is an algorithm spotting something and usually that's the end of the story.

If the block was followed by mandatory court action by whoever made the block with failure to successfully prosecute resulting in compensation paid to unjustly accused, there would be balance but thats also not how this kind of block works, as the courts are usually not involved when it's the banks/services own mandatory anti-fraud process thats being invoked, and not the police conducting an investigation prior to an actual open court case.

The problem is that private organizations are being asked to police their customers on their own under a framework thats basically outside of the justice systems, under penalty of fines by a justice system, that is not issuing the same fines when the private organization punish the innocent.

Again the problem is we have a mechanism that made some sense when nothing ever happened without sooner or later happening in a court that can/will punish the police for false arrest when/if the resulting prosecution fails, that due to the fact that a false/incorrect negative action no longer have consequences for those making it happen, especially as it happens under the pretense of being done but a free private organization by private organization that are theoretically free to reject customers even if that rejection is practically ordered by the state.
Google advertises their products using their own ad network. And yes, they does cost them in opportunity cost because instead of making money selling that ad spot, they are claiming that space themselves depriving themselves of the revenue.
I think there are two things going on here - "a child being treated in X manner" and "how we view parent X (mother or father) treating their child". Fathers culturally often get the dad pass for why something happened while society still frowns on the thing that happened to the kids the same. I (as a father) am just as afraid of getting in trouble for leaving my kids in the car for a few minutes as my wife - because the legal issues of how society responds to that happening to kids even if there is less cultural mud-slinging at me because I am male.

All this to say that I am much more interested in the direct topic of this article - which is the fear I and my wife operate under of our getting in trouble for not raising our kids "right" - rather than have the discussion get derailed into a gender rabbit hole.
Like a C node? Or a node on another VM?
(I work on the Zulip core team.)

> it's been owned by Dropbox for years

I want to correct this here, precisely because we haven't yet done a good job of making it clear on the web: this statement is actually a couple of years out of date.

Dropbox was very graciously helpful for the Zulip project in 2015-2016 (after acquiring the original startup in 2014). Major things include open-sourcing the code, obviously -- but then also helping those early users who'd been that startup's private beta users, who'd determinedly hung on to it for that couple of years despite the minimal support and uncertain future, migrate their data seamlessly to the hosting company set up by tabbott, one of the original startup's founders. (See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17623701 today for one such user's telling.)

Digression: That is a far nicer experience than what usually happens when a startup you like using is acquired by a company that has no interest in the product! I think they deserve a lot of credit for deciding to do that.

And then since 2016, Dropbox hasn't been involved. I actually used to work there myself -- I left in order to start working on Zulip. The core team is employed by that new company (Kandra Labs): https://zulipchat.com/team/

PS:
> it's pretty easy to implement

I think making a threading experience like Zulip's really work well is harder than you think. ;-) The original startup's team was stacked with engineers with systems-heavy backgrounds -- most of them colleagues of mine from Ksplice (rebootless kernel updates) and/or MIT -- and they put quite a bit of careful engineering into the architecture.

But as you say, it's also a design choice, and moving from Slack's current UX to a fully threaded one would be a radical product pivot (lots and lots of details are shaped by that choice) that it's hard to see them making.
Except on Twitter, unlike in reality, you can easily hit "block" and never see that person again.
How fire scientists see through flames
English is the Borg of languages.
The crazy thing about English is that some of the various crazy spellings were decided on a long time ago as a way to distinguish the linguistic origin of words (Greek vs. Latin vs. French, basically) for a reading audience that was highly educated, and in the 800 years since then nobody ever engaged in a systematic campaign of spelling reform.

In some ways, I think this reveals a lot about Anglosphere culture.
Well, can you say how they actually are invented today?

Please be aware of the distinction between public libraries (as is the general semantic implication when speaking of ”libraries”) serving the whole of the public; national libraries serving the whole of the public, creating systems for the retrieval of information and preserving the cultural memory of the world together with museums and archives; school libraries serving childrens’ and youths’ education; research libraries serving students, scientists, researchers and professionals in, for example, law, medicine, health sciences, industrial research on conducting research, referencing and preserving research data; hospital libraries serving the physically and mentally ill and disabled; and special libraries serving domain-based interests of for example artists, industry professionals and cultural institutions.

Also be aware of the fact that Library and Information Science as a scientific multidisciplinary field researches topics such as information theory, machine learning, cultural heritage, sociology, linguistics, comparative literature, knowledge organization, information retrieval, computer science, pedagogy, critical theory, didactics.

I also suggest a systematic literature study on the term ”information literacy”.
The comparison is indeed pretty thin; it certainly doesn't come anywhere near the miscommunication and whiffs of NIH that are present in the Dep case.

It still made me think of it, because in that thread there is a domain expert which lays out careful reasoning for the decision to place constant-time arithmetic inside big/int. Among some other discussion, the main hangup is about the placement of the code, and not any core maintainer is signalling go-ahead with any direction. The issuer author could of course continue to work out the existing strawman proposal, but that risks to be abandoned if the core maintainers turn out to change their mind.

Meanwhile, on March 19 2018 a core maintainer asks if "anybody want to fill out this proposal to see what changes would be required in math/big?", despite that the issue itself has an extensive PR with test suite which reveal most of the necessary changes. (either that or it refers to the Aug 17 2017 comment, but that seems to be exactly bford's proposal with a different public API)
Alexa does sing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYGN5ocl950 and with a little modification it will play a lullaby if you ask it to https://www.amazon.com/Pretzel-Labs-Baby-Lullaby/dp/B07B7LH8...
To be fair, even that page does a terrible job explaining what it actually is (as opposed to what problem it's solving).
Tax mate its all about the $
Actor Tom Cruise did 94 practice HALO jumps over the UAE for his latest film
> And maybe due to the fact that it didn't have a "standards body" (like the Académie Française) and much less "protection" than others meant it was more free to evolve.

To be fair, they really don't have any effect on language as it's actually used. French people still say 'le week-end', despite how much the Académie raves about it. They still often drop the 'ne' in negative sentences as well, despite it being standard. Academies really only affect the written standards of a language, not how it's actually used daily.

> And not only that, I suppose languages based on the latin alphabet have an intrinsic advantage. From the time of the printing press to the earliest 8-bit computers.

Except movable type printing was available in China from the 11th century onwards, and solely printed the Hanzi [1]. And, likewise, if the other technology had been designed in China, it's likely support would have first existed for the Hanzi over the Latinate Alphabet. It's not really an intrinsic advantage as much a matter of coincidence on where things were developed.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_printing#Movable_ty...
Many subscription services start to make money as users start to use the service less and less but are too lazy to cancel the subscription.
Why not Oracle or Salesforce? I think Salesforce would be a natural fit, but would love for Oracle to do it just to watch the tech community freak out.
Its great for griefing. Its also heavily automated, so the griefers can just work the system into doing it whenever they want.
In have never understood why slack is successful. HipChat is great and HipChat still makes you create one account per invite.
Good point -- it would actually be simple to combine IndieWeb + Mastadon and solve this problem.

IndieWeb's solution is to own your own domain: https://indieweb.org/personal-domain. If you control your DNS, you can move your data to a different back-end provider and just update your DNS entries.

To combine this with Mastadon, just make your own domain, like https://chipotle.coyote, and point it at Mastadon-Server-A. Then if you want to move everything to Mastadon-Server-B, just copy the data and update DNS.
> which the author admits that it also could be a separate package

I don't think the similarity is all that apt.

If the core team is the limiting factor in the PR, and if there is a need for this, then why not just make the separate package and be done with it? If it is popular and core wants to merge it in at a different time, then great.
> I suspect that management has sort of a "gatekeeping" effect - if all of your management is good, the whole department does great things, but if a single link in the org chart is a dufus, the whole organization will fail. When I joined Google in 2009, my whole management chain (6 levels, up to Eric Schmidt) were all engineers, and it showed.

So true. As an engineer, the most direct impact on my productivity has been the team and manager. But the manager is a SPOF: if he/she is bad, then my productivity suffers.

I have yet to work in an organization where there was a good chain as you mention though. Maybe that's what sets Google apart. Smaller companies tend to have shorter management chains and I prefer them for that reason.
There's no point to that, more than insulting the UK? And indirectly everyone else that already speaks a working english in the remaining EU.
tbh there are a lot of british accents that are hard to understand even for native english speakers.
It's the idea that P2P payments are PUBLIC BY DEFAULT on "social media" platform and what that says about people's idea of what privacy is.
I think the US has fairly broad definitions of maternal mortality, i.e. death within 3 months or 1 year of birth or something like that.

Some deaths related to the childbirth happen after the birth is officially over. Think sepsis from c-section complications or untreated post-partum leading to suicide.
I wish most online accounts didn't require an email address to signup...
porridge
Actually, the "franca" in "lingua franca" refers to the "Frankish" people, a term applied to a variety of Western Mediterraneans.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediterranean_Lingua_Franca
Facebook and Microsoft have both undertaken large scale ML projects contributing data to OSM. Facebook has a pilot in Thailand:

https://forum.osm.org/viewtopic.php?id=61826

and Microsoft released 124 million buildings for contribution to OSM:

https://blogs.bing.com/maps/2018-06/microsoft-releases-125-m...

There's also been some work by individuals:

https://github.com/jremillard/images-to-osm

A key to the satellite imagery projects is that the imagery be suitably licensed.
Cool, happy you have your stuff together :)
If it was a hotel room would you like to share it with 10-100 of others or rather have your own private space? Same with offices.

You are more productive in private offices with shared collaboration spaces rather than open office floor spaces.

High rents convinced the world this some how was a good idea.
Competition is good, right? Personally, I'm sold on the Indieweb tech, but if ActivityPub proves itself, then that's great, too.
I don't know about all languages but Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, and Mandarin all have many formal and informal conjugations of words
If that happened, it would basically tell you that Brexiters made the right choice.
Certainly we have much less progressive taxation than we had through most of the 20th century.

Overall effective tax rates hasn't changed much over the last 100 years.[1] In fact, they are higher now than they were before the 1930's. Bracket rates were higher, but there were also a lot more ways to avoid taxes.

I can't find the source right now, but if you look at the tax burden on the top 10%, the US system has actually become more progressive over time.

Those darn Republicans!

[1]https://taxfoundation.org/taxes-rich-1950-not-high/
> the problem with scaling is that when you go up a magnitude or more, you may need a qualitatively different solution for the same problem.

Never been to Berkeley but I've heard something similar enough times that I've adopted it as one of my own aphorisms.

When the order of magnitude changes, so do the good solutions.

(This is also my thesis for why we keep repeating software history. We stop using a solution because it doesn't work with the current ratio of speed or costs for network, memory, storage and processing. Then someone introduces 10GB networking or SSD disks and the old solution works for 5 more years until someone introduces a new CPU that scales better horizontally or vertically and we start over.)
There are many coders like that all over the world though :-)
People get shadowbanned on HN for using the the term that describes this phenomenon: neoliberalism. It’s exactly that: eroding of civil society while pushing the ideology that you can (and should) monetize everything. A sad development might I say.
> Everything else they do is a huge side show to distract people

Or attract more people to use their services to sell more ads
Its technically true just like its true that they didn't invent online search. Their innovations (either in house or through acquisitions) have fundamentally changed the ad space as the GP mentions. And this is an ongoing process as well as more and more people move off the more mainstream media platforms.
And you can be damn certain they wouldn't have picked Irish as their official language if the UK hadn't already selected English (same with Malta and Maltese). It was because they didn't have to choose between Irish and English that they were able to pick it at all.
a college compiler class
Well, patterns are a very different language than rust; rust has no way to express “one or more of this thing” for example. I wasn’t involved when the syntax was chosen, and that was well before our RFC process, so I don’t have any real, deep explanation for you, sorry!
> But there are small parts that are (natively) Irish speaking, called Gaeltacht

Unfortunately they're likely to be gone within 50 years or so. The government really doesn't care about them, and just pays lipservice to the language.
Similar in Paris. Subways cease between 1am and 5am (approx), and instead there are night busses (Noctilien)

The streets are not crowded between 1am and 5am so night busses make a lot of sense. Then of course you can do scheduled maintenance on the subways.
Copy paste to Facebook if you use google trends on social networks.

Ask your self this will the world be a better or worse place without Twitter?
Something like

リニキス　カーネル　ネットワークイング　サブシステム

It's basically English pumped though a lossy algo. I hate katakana and hope it dies soon.
I use (and love) Searx. It has two features:

- many search engines are used at once
- searches are proxied through a third-party provider

For example, if you type "ipv6" into searx.me you'll get results from Google, Bing, Wikipedia, Stack Overflow, and dozens of other sites. It's not perfect privacy, but I generally get better results than using only one search engine and there's a small boost to privacy.

The only thing you have to look out for is the "images" tab. It's usually fine, but unless you turn on the adult content filter there's almost always and least one pornographic image somewhere in the results. I'm not sure which search engine is responsible for those results, but I should probably just disable that search engine for my queries.
Ya, I've been following all this drama since the vgo proposal and I also find it somewhat rich...On another note I hope this is the last we hear about all this, please lets move on.

I only became aware of this by going to a meetup and seeing a talk. I just want something that's workable and not broken.

The reason BDFLs are in the position of making that decision is because they have proven through the accumulation of their previous decisions that they get it right more than they get it wrong. And that's the very reason there is a community around them at all.

This is the same reason given for totalitarian rule generally. The problem is that the dictator has enough power to make a big mistake, committing the entire communitiy's resources. In this position, if you can avoid making a decision, you should. Toyota doesn't simply make such decisions by fiat. Instead, they have a competition.

I mean in a way didn't the `dep` folks do exactly the same thing to the `glide` and other existing solutions?

Was the competition squashed?
Ever since I saw the movie Pacific Rim (2013) I have suspected that dialog in very expensive movies (that one was $190m) was a bit simplified so that translation could be easy for the Chinese market.
Seriously, people, this is a great podcast.
And it's all because of the King James Bible! They used 'thou' there when talking to God because they wanted it to seem informal and portray him as a friend. It's quite funny how after it fell out of use, it was reinterpreted as the exact opposite, with people being more formal when talking to God.
English is actually fulfilling the original goal of Esperanto:

> Zamenhof's goal was to create an easy and flexible language that would serve as a universal second language to foster peace and international understanding.

We should be amazed at the global convergence on a language, even if it's not Esperanto, and it can accomplish all the same things.
What people?

Google is a Delaware Corporation with substantial operations in California. Who runs it in your ideal world? The people of Delaware? US federal government?

If you want a different Google for each jurisdiction, how small down do you give the control? A Google for France? A Google for each department? A Google for each Commune?

How does this approach fit with WTO and EU rules, not to mention the US Constitution?

What do you do if Google reacts against your move? Moves its employees/servers/incorporation? Do you run a Great Firewall of X to stop people in your area from using Google?