skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the basic skill of language is a conservative function...
if you are aware of linguistic rules [grammer syntax], you are aware of the "algorithm" and variations of said algorithm...next is the strings [words] and the variable type [accent , timbre, pause etc.]
how many languages do you speak?[rhet], how many high level source versions do you know/speak? BASIC, LISP, APL, ASM are all very old digital languages that the ancients speak, and i remember my first TI sinclair 1000 and the basic source code, it was a hurdle but also a nucleus of concepts, it was shockingly easy to learn additional coding languages compared to the first one, and going further i believe this contributed to the ease, and desire of learning how a computer/object code device actually operates, then i learned ASM and hex macros, and the need/use for compilers and libraries, i was 11 by the time i was designing digital circuits...."the whole point being, spoken languages utilize the same underlying mechanisms"...
if your daily dealing involve symbols , abstracts and translation of these to relay concepts you are primed to learn a "new language" easily...
mathematics, schematics, stoichiometry, feynman diagrams, are all languages, as well as english french spanish etc..
Sooo..."how many languages do you speak"?...
Telecom Lobbyists' Plans Revealed in Accidental Email
> Flexibility, not frequency, is the new mantra

> Compared to its current 16nm FPGAs, the so-called Adaptive Compute Acceleration Platform (ACAP) will deliver 20x and 4x performance increases on deep learning and 5G radio processing, respectively, Xilinx claimed. The first chip, called Everest, will tape out this year in a 7nm process.

> The centerpiece of the new architecture is word-based array of tiles made up of VLIW vector processors, each with local memory and interconnect.

> tiles communicate with each other to create data paths that best suit their application.

https://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1333632

So GA144 is going to mainstream finally.
Who are “the liberals”? You surely cannot think that all “liberals” or even a majority I think we should be banning speech. If you do think that I’d love some data because as a self identified liberal I don’t want to ban hate speech. I think you’re painting a straw man here.
(disclaimer: I own a non-profit for submitting requests, education, and advocating the release of digital records)

I seriously recommend that everyone submit a FOIA request for information that they're interested in and make it public. Either locally or federally. You'll learn a lot about the interface between you and your government.

Something to think about - Illinois FOIA allows the submission of code within a FOIA request. For example, as long as you know the schema of a database, you can submit SQL for a government owned/contracted database. The schema is often included in contract specs, but more often requires a request to figure it out. My nfp is working on some projects (through muckrock) to build out a list of schemas across all states' big cities. It's possible, but there's still a lot of work to do!
It's a balance, one that AirBnB is making far more difficult to maintain.
Why shouldn't people optimize for the number? At the end of the day, people change, and being optimistic or excited about the job today doesn't mean they'll feel that way 4 years from now. Money on the other hand, is quantifiable and can be saved up, its a much more flexible resource to optimize for than immediate happiness.
I might be wrong but as far as i know they were added while there were still lead in the gazoline. Anyway it didn't hurt the normal person it helped them because techonology.
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Clearly "every little bit helps" is as much of a straw-man as "must completely solve." Replacing a part of the transport for 2500 people, in precisely the part of the trip that is most likely to be congested, using electric vehicles certainly sounds like it would be of more benefit with much reduced carbon footprint and noise pollution than a midfield helipad.
My guess is Microsoft seeing how recently they're pouring a lot of resources into the Linux subsystem and how they're trying to seem more "developer-oriented" overall in recent months.
The size of the control surfaces was NOT changed after the report that you linked to. Where do you even get this misinformation?

You yourself linked the article that I'm referring to, and you mentioned it originally.

And I am informed on the F-35 and don't think it's wonderful, but I don't think it's a horrible piece of garbage, either.
>Porn might prevent the next generation from being born, worst case.

You know it's possible to watch porn and have sexual relationships with other people though, right?
Just get AirPods. Worth every penny. Best purchase this year.
I'm not talking about shooting the shit but video conference calls eating up precious data, panic support channels to fight fire....

I feel like companies use Slack exactly for this reason...it tethers your employees to a very intimate possession-your smartphone and it's far more invasive than a phone call or email and your are expected to respond immediately.

It has all the dynamics of any email or regular office conversation. Somebody has a grudge in the office and want to make you look bad for remote working? Call them and immediately hang up and tell managers 'so and so isn't responding in real time' or take a convo out of context where emoticons play a far more conflicting messages to the receiver. For example, somebody using a animated flashing parrot and mistaking it as a slight.

I feel like Slack has been more times counter-productive than advertised.
Yea I don't use Linux too often but how different is an Ubuntu kernel compared to a Debian kernel? I know Ubuntu is downstream from Debian or at least they were. So how much extra work/code does Canonical add to its kernels.
From http://www.chicagomag.com/city-life/June-2018/Theres-Reason-...:

"[According to the Boring Company FAQ,] The current standard for a one-lane tunnel is approximately 28 feet. By placing vehicles on a stabilized electric skate, the diameter can be reduced to less than 14 feet. Reducing the diameter in half reduces tunneling costs by 3-4 times.

"This claim is contradicted in professional literature. Studies of particle accelerator tunnels as well as rail tunnels that look at different diameters find that reducing the diameter in half reduces costs by a factor of two and not three or four."

That's actually quite surprising. I would have thought that changing the diameter would have no effect whatsoever on the price of boring a tunnel, to a first order of approximation. Almost none of the variables involved are dependent on the diameter of the tunnel.
>The alternatives are better. Nuclear is expensive even before you factor in the decommissioning costs.

Nuclear is very cheap for producing the base load. You also shouldn't compare the price of different energy sources in isolation. If an electricity market goes 100% solar and wind for example, it will get power outages soon. Storing the energy of varying power generators is expensive with current technology.

>Given these developments, why build new nuclear plants?

You can create cheap and clean eletricity.

>If (when?) we can design nuclear plants which are both economical, safe and don't have the externalized decommissioning costs then it would also be foolish not to include them in the mix.

Nuclear plants are economical and safe.
If you're into cheeky humor, I rather like Greg Gutfeld's The One, for a conservative podcast.
How did they locate the hole?
Perfect plan, if you want a good plane for target practice for the F-22 and F-35. Or if you need to test your radar systems against something and you can't find a Piper Cub.

https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/stealth-aircra...
I don't see what about front-loading washers would make them especially prone to standing water or mold. I would expect that vertical washers could just as easily have standing water. Worse, it's probably out of sight behind the drum where you can't clean it.
2017. The charts you linked to end in 2014. In 2017 the US reduced carbon emissions[1]. The EU increased their emissions[2].

1 - https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/fossil-fuels/gas-...
2 - https://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-carbon-climatechange/e...
I wish this was more common.

I worked for a company based out of the valley. One year they announced their awesome new paid parental leave policy. My wife and I were expecting and I was excited.

I submitted for paid parental leave..... denied, unpaid leave only.

The paid parental leave was only available to employees in California... because that is the only place they were required to do so.

The lesson was that many companies will only do it if they are forced.
pretty cool site! UK based?

Where do you get the roles from?
Why would companies need to change anything? Every engineering job gets hundreds of applicants. Its an employers' market.
The Most Beautiful European Town You've Never Heard Of
Very interesting article! I wonder what the ROI on these ads are considering two things: 1) the ability to buy lots of fake followers and 2) teens having very little spending money.
> If you shrink an aircraft down, the aerodynamic cross-section (i.e the drag force) scales with the area (scale^2), but your engine thrust is going to drop roughly by the decrease in volume (scale^3).

Why would we shrink drones down? You read drone swarm and assumed small, but most swarm proposals are using drones of a similar size as today or even large in some cases. They're swarms because of the way they interact with one another, and overwhelm enemy defensive systems, not because they're small.
One thing I didn't know that I learned recently - in countries where paid parental leave is mandated by law, the government reimburses companies for most of the cost of the employee's salary while they're on leave. At least, this is what I was told about the UK (I think it was like 90% of the cost that the gov't reimbursed).

That makes a huge difference. Of course every company would be offering it if the cost to them were minimal. If we want to this to happen in the US, it needs to happen at the voting booth to approve a program like that. Unfortunately it would most likely have to go on a state-by-state level.

But, I think this should be brought up every time someone complains about how US companies are so barbaric that they don't offer this paid leave. Well, duh, of course they don't because it would be an enormous cost to them that it's not elsewhere in the world.
We've been seeing this since the 60s.

DC-10 promised it.

L-1011 promised it (https://www.psa-history.org/about_psa/aircraft/lockheed-l-10...).

747 promised it (https://vinepair.com/wine-blog/the-glamorous-airline-lounges...).

A380 promised it.

It's not going to happen, because airlines want to cram as many seats as possible, even in business class.
I have a friend who provides private security. Gov't and a few progressive clients have benefits and wage guarantees. He spins off a LLC to handle those contractual benefits. It's a bit of a headache for paperwork but stupider to leave the money on the table.
You got a link to any of this, or are you just speculating?
Interesting. If you have 51% of the people declaring that 49% percent of the people should start with nothing, and that they (by right of popular demand) should get the 49%'s stuff, as a starting point, then, ... that's a clear definition, I guess. And it's satisfactory to most people, I guess. I still feel vaguely unnerved.
The idea that the cryptocurrency market relies on tether is absurd. Everything follows Bitcoin. Tether is an irrelevant scam.
IIRC, Noscript had per-domain JS controls before Umatrix existed.
And for many of us - we like having exciting nightlife options in Williamsburg or the Mission during the week. The solution isn't to stop neighborhoods from becoming lively and fun, it's to once again build more housing so that those who don't want to live in lively neighborhoods can move to another neighborhood.
Stall-free real-time garbage collector for reconfigurable hardware
assistance to the people and communities affected negatively by decarbonization

The utilities could just build the new power plants where the old ones were. Same result, without an overt handout.
Good job OSS terns!
Java is at least somewhat responsible for the need to get to 4TB in the first place.
Don't forget that it also effectively prevents any other similar solution: "The result is that the tunnel would have negative value to the region. As a transportation service based on how Musk wishes to construct and operate it, it has practically no value. But in the event of upzoning in West Los Angeles, the tunnel would complicate any possibility of rail under Sunset connecting Hollywood with Downtown. Metro may even need to acquire and demolish Musk's tunnel, or else dig under the tunnel, which would complicate intermediate stations in Silver Lake and Echo Park."
A minor aside- "Popover" doesn't quite work if you're regularly using Bootstrap because that means a specific thing.

https://getbootstrap.com/docs/4.1/components/popovers/
We leave ours open when it's not in use. No mold for years.
Very cool, though I'm curious about the classification of large hydro(and maybe even nuclear) outside of renewables?
Like all policy change, it will create winners and losers

Translation: It sucks to be poor. And an indian. Where did I park my Tesla?
Logic is logic.
You're (and me) are not alone at this habit. Nice to know I'm not alone :-)
Agreed. Sadly, I believe the way things are going, geo-engineering will be required, not optional. At planerary scale, clearly it's a non-trivial problem, but we probably should be working on it much harder.

I like your inspiration for setting such goals as carbon neutral in America. That's the kind of thinking we need.
Mathematical Model Used to Explain Why Only Men Start Wars
Well, there are a lot of thing slow in firefox, it takes 5 times longer to pretty-print a minified js in firefox devtools than in chrome.
Don't feel bad about struggling with the question. It's only with the recent advent of birth control that it's become a decision we have to make. Children used to just happen.
It's a good enough reason to switch to DuckDuckGo or StartPage (if you don't mind that they still use Google in background, though in anonymous way).
Well there's this.... https://workhorse.com/pickup/

But I think it's either still in the concept stage, or maybe in fleet trials. Don't think an ordinary consumer can get one.
Don’t forget the bit where all the managers above you give themselves pay raises.
That is shocking and disgusting. Is that even allowed under new EU law?
Canonical had Spectre and Meltdown mitigations out for their kernels before Debian did, and he also specifically mentions Canonical as getting alerted, so apparently enough.
"The rate of the leak was slowed this morning through the temporary application of Kapton tape at the leak site."

In tape we trust!

I hope they show close ups!
My grandparents died in their 60s and 70s. My parents are well into their 60s, still working, and healthy as ever. I don't blame the baby boomers at all, they aren't the problem. The problem is that they're healthy, healthcare is the best it's ever been!

Millennials should be inheriting their family houses to start their own families, they should be inheriting money to start businesses, CEOs and executives should be retiring so the next generation can move up. It's not happening. The world is on hold while we wait for this generation to literally die.
Yes, we're too dumb to do resource allocation directly, and maybe irreparably so. Citation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_calculation_problem
Purely speculating, but with some thought. The F-22 is innately stealthier, has better aerodynamics, and a better thrust-to-weight ratio.

The A-10 has proven itself to be indispensable for CAS. Helicopters can't get there in time and are at more risk when getting in close. Not to mention that the Apache (and even the Russian MI-28) are much lighter armored, which is a factor when being shot at with heavy machine guns. No flares / chaff for that.
The pilot safety issue was due to a failure in the on board oxygen generating system.
Well the area of a circular tunnel is proportial to the square of the diameter. Perhaps a lower area allows the bore to tunnel faster? That kinda makes sense, but I have no idea how much the area of a circle relates to tunnel boring in reality, if at all.
Azure has a sizable customer base running Linux, so I imagine it was Microsoft.
Android Bug Allows Geolocation of Users
A subway might be a more complete answer, but there is no Musk character throwing private money at the city hoping to build a subway. Also like I mentioned previously, there is little political capital to expand the subway. The subway system as it currently stands is simply ignored by a huge percentage of the population and adding a small extension to Dodgers Stadium wouldn't change that. So yes, this won't help that much, but we shouldn't make the perfect the enemy of the good.

Musk is currently claiming that he will not need public funds for this. I don't have any reason not to take him at his word. My opinion of this project would change if there would need to be any non-trivial public investments. However if this is a serious concern of the city, there are obviously ways to structure the contract so the city doesn't find themselves on the hook if Musk changes his mind.
Didn't Google end up importing OpenJDK code?
> I got all three options and cleaned all three dishes. A near heavenly experience.

Wow! That's a lot of food!

However, you inspired me to hit them up for lunch again. Work from home and usually eat lunch at home, but went out and had Wilaiwan's today. Excellent as always; I ought to do that more often.
I know Apple have gotten away with names HN have disliked, but XS sounds like Extra Small.

iPhone XS sounds like the follow up to iPhone SE ...
If VCs actually think that, they are pretty bad at math. It is not indistinguishable. But even if it is (and I repeat, it is not, otherwise it wouldn't be so hard to get funding for $1-2MM), then they are unethical, terrible people who have no conscious about other people.

Which I suppose is just repeating what most people say here, but worth connecting it to numbers.
That was my guess as well, also doesn't Microsoft run some Linux in their Azure cloud? So that adds yet another incentive for Microsoft to help Linux folks out.

Edit: I found a link confirming that Microsoft uses Linux for networking in their Azure data centers [1].

[1]: https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/news/microsoft-runs-azure...
I understand this.

As a single guy, if I want to get drunk, play my guitar, and/or watch It's Always Sunny, I can do that. Whenever the fancy strikes me. If I want to go drive two states over just to ruminate. I can do that. If I just want to take a nap. I can do that.

The claims on my time are small. A child changes all of that.
They should find how to create electricity from poo as it is their first renewable material
Plus, if you charge enough and supply champagne and caviar, people from the right social class will enjoy it very much.
BTW

> Experts called for a new generation of secure-by-design computers at the Hot Chips conference here. In small steps in that direction, Microsoft and Google described their separate but similar hardware security architectures.

https://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1333616
Is anyone else impressed with the quality (and speed!) of some of the tools written in Rust? I'm an avid user of fd and bat, the former being ridiculously fast. Often I find something on github, I'm impressed by the quality of the documentation, features, UI etc, then lo and behold it's written in Rust.

Another one potentially for this list is tokei[1]
I was trying to count the code in our repos at work and used the venerable 'cloc' utility. It took over 5 minutes. Looking around I found tokei, written in rust. Same-ish results (more accurate actually) took 10 seconds.

1. https://github.com/Aaronepower/tokei
Janitorial company keeps 20% of staff full time with parental leave benefits, 80% are temporary contractors that don't qualify for parental leave.

At least that's how companies in Canada get around the requirement.
I think you don't get security. When you make something so hard for people to do, they just won't do it. It's like every website having a different password strength policy, people start reusing the same passwords or use 1Password. I upgrade my phone every year. I won't go thru a billion websites on which I enabled 2FA to swap the device. Also, when you upgrade phones at stores, you don't have both devices together for an unlimited time. If you want better security, then 3FA > 2FA, i.e. two things you have, and one thing you know.
1. I think this is a fantastic plan. I think that vertically integrated petroleum and coal companies should be forced to cease creating CO2 pollution. This should happen immediately. I am satisfied if nothing is done on the consumer side. \s

2. Carburetors aren't even on the exhaust side of an engine. Most cars don't have them any more (fuel injection), they mix air and fuel before it enters a cyclinder. You must be thinking of a catalytic converter, and that is still incorrect.

3. The only thing that stopped cars from spitting out lead was law and regulation in the US that banned tetraethyl lead additives.
That shit should be illegal.
What allows a firm to stay competitive if there are many apparently wasteful tasks being done? Should that firm not be superseded by competitors offering better efficiency (reflected in prices) or consumer benefit?

I keep coming back to theory-of-the-firm: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_the_firm

An industry that accommodates a lot of bullshit work is an industry with high transaction costs. The author hints at that at the end of the article, but leaves it an open question.
It seems most of his ideas lately are like this. Was he always so...wrong? Or is something personally going on in his life? Rumors that he tweeted about the privatization of Tesla while on LSD seem to make a lot of sense when you watch his recent erratic behavior.
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Understanding the hype cycle doesn't tell you who is right. It just makes you more skeptical of going along with the hype cycle.

In particular, Elon Musk's bad behavior on Twitter doesn't tell us very much about the technical feasibility of building a tunnel, any more than it tells us whether a SpaceX rocket will fly. Mood affiliation might make it seem like it's closely related, but logically it's not.
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Err, when it didn't get the outcome the brass wanted they reset the whole event and set strict rules on the red side.
I fully support articles that give individual investors advice to stay away from tether (it is indeed a very shady product) but I fail to understand how this is a disaster for the crypto markets.

If tether fails, cryptocurrencies may drop to a lower price- That is not a "disaster", that is appropriate market behavior.
So, all this fancy security boils down to a notepad again. I am an early adopter of Krypton and I've been sorry so many times that I'm using it for SSH and PGP.