skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In the USA they used to have paid toilets but got rid of them because it was called discrimination against the poor.

Meanwhile, in "socialist" Europe, paid toilets are the norm. Then again, wild urination isn't a sex offense either.
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And I am not sure how many of them support Arabic right to left either..
Whoa! Fancy seeing you here, Pat. Always cool to see a fellow Planeteer in the wild :)

also, ditto what he said. This news was certainly an interesting conversation that happened at Planet HQ today, but a couple of folks knew the people doing this work in Amazon before it was announced today. There are a lot of regulatory, licensing, and construction hurdles. Not the mention, the placement of the ground stations is going to be crucial, but otherwise...I can see upstarts in the smallsat industry totally taking advantage of this should their orbits compliment the deployment sites of the ground stations.

We build and operate our own ground stations for the most part and I can understand/sympathize that we're fortunate enough to do so since much of our business depends on it. It's a costly exercise for sure...
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ETH is used only within the blockchain ecosystem. Its greatest utility has been enabling ICOs. OMG and BAT are both interesting proof of concepts, but they are not really operating at any kind of scale. I don't see how they can transition to a stable and growing company. I love the idea of Augur, but they have something like 50 daily users, and that's not a sustainable business.

Perhaps my original comment was a bit too snarky, but my point was after a few years of hype about how the blockchain was going to revolutionize everything, and billions of dollars of investment, we should have at least a few real-world use cases. Something beyond the PoC stage.
Since I didn't exercise as much I focused on physical activities that require less commitment like hiking, rock climbing gyms, and the occasional yoga class.

I just found having a full time job made it hard to get in consistent workouts that weren't just showing up to a gym. I had a work schedule that was shifted late for commute reasons so I found it hard to hit class times consistently. If I didn't eat enough that day I could still go to a gym and do a light workout. If I messed up my eating schedule and had to go to a intense class, that just wouldn't work out since I couldn't eat too soon before class or go when I hadn't eaten enough.

I looked at jiu jitsu gyms since that's a consistent experience I enjoy and there are lots of gyms. Its pricing is kinda steep if your not committed to going a lot. I find that more traditional martial arts gyms really vary for me depending on the culture and instructor and haven't tried to shop around for those as much.
> A reason why pay software does so well is that there is hand holding within a phone call away if something goes wrong.

This is obviously untrue unless you have a support contract in hand, which means you're a business.

Hell, Microsoft would probably shoot you for implying its software which you paid for comes with a warranty, let alone support.

In Apple Land, "You're Holding It Wrong" is considered tech support.

/s
I often wonder why it's written with a 't' on the end in English.

Seems like wikipedia has the answer:

> The English word borscht, also spelled borsch, borsht, or bortsch, comes from Yiddish באָרשט‎ (borsht). The latter derives from the word борщ (borshch), which is common to East Slavic languages, such as Ukrainian or Russian.
You can do caching with any renderer, GPU or not. Almost any text renderer caches glyphs to some degree. Of course, even fixed width fonts can have things like ligatures and composite characters which complicate matters. Rather than caching individual code points, you'd really need to cache something more like individual grapheme clusters.

Subpixel rendering is tricky, but should be possible to do with shaders. You could just render to a normal single channel texture at 3x the horizontal spatial resolution (basically, stretched 3x horizontally) then when rendering move 1 pixel across the glyph rendering for each subpixel, alpha blending individually.
I quite like Docker for compiling Linux apps to run on multiple distributions. See eg. https://github.com/mherrmann/fbs/releases/tag/v0.4.6.
RedBus co-founder on how entrepreneurship is a self purification process
another italian here.

Jen's fake italian is ok, the "real italian" is cringeworthy: it's like someone who does not know italian reading a google translation, accent is off, grammar is off, word choice is mostly right but also a bit off.

But the scene is still fun, like most of the IT Crowd :)

This is par for the course btw, it's how italian is done in 99% of english content, for obvious reasons.
>We should ask ourselves if we want to be equal on a sinking ship or make life better by allowing everyone to compete as individuals regardless of which identity you think they belong to.

I think, there's a very solid cause behind it. Most of "competing individually" is essentially making different decisions and benefiting/losing from the consequences. Except over the past few decades our society has automated/protocolized those decisions away. We follow rules and documented best practices (or just let a database search figure out the right thing for us) much more than we have to improvise. So the society is looking for alternative planes for people to compete and ironically, due to our sense of compassion, the competition shifted to demonstrating that you suffer more than your peers. I'm afraid, this is also responsible for declining willingness of westerners to make families/raise kids.
Kernel Royale doesn't sound cheap to me, in fact, sounds regal =P
> Real engineers are liable if their output fails.

Depends on who wins the court case, of course.

Toyota's unintended acceleration problem didn't result in any Engineers losing their jobs. They just blamed it on the old people.

Ditto the Ford Pinto's exploding gas tanks.
Why don't you use Kinesis for this? Isn't that what it's made for?
Black Companies [0] are a thing, but the discourse of Black Companies mostly serves to protect the mainline of Japanese work culture from the degree of criticism it deserves.

[0] A company so abusive of workers that it literally disgusts Japanese salarymen. Common elements include withholding pay, withholding pay for large amounts of mandatory overtime, ordering overtime in quantities sufficient to cause death by exhaustion, physical violence against staff, harassment of staff by management in a fashion far surpassing social norms, etc.
I would add that since Fortran 90, you can also get scalar-array and array-array operations for free. The `elemental` keyword that automatically broadcasts pure scalar functions to multidimensional arrays works almost in a way reminiscent of NumPy (I'm a weird one who came to do some serious work in Fortran long after known C and Python).
That’s why the attack surface is way larger and harder to keep an eye on.
Hesoid is greek poet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hesiod
:)
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Chinese scientist He Jiankui defends 'world's first gene-edited babies'
> The court requires someone to notice the pattern, or be aware of the pattern

How is that different with a union?

> and be willing to risk their reputation

Class action suit or submit evidence confidentially to the attorney general.

> With a union, the onus is on the business to act right, or risk labour action where the SRE folks walk out, and all the little blinky lights turn off.

If Apple won't hire Google employees then the Google employees can retaliate against Apple by not working for them?
It really helps with DPC latency issues, though. You could get a pretty cheap one like an RX 550 or Geforce 1030.

I'm hosting on a libvirt/qemu/kvm stack with virt-manager as my interface.
Hi all, for those planning to watch tomorrow's rapid/blitz tiebreakers live, Stanford Chess team will be livestreaming analysis and commentary at https://www.twitch.tv/stanfordchess and https://lichess.org/@/StanfordChess.

Our team captain is GM Daniel Naroditsky, one of the top blitz and bullet players in the world, who regularly beats Magnus in the LiChess Titled Arena. And our coach is NM Jordy Mont-Reynaud, a ~2350 bullet player who formerly held the record for youngest master in the US.

We'll be responding to questions and comments from the chat for any HN members who want more context on what's going on. Looking forward to an exciting finale!
To be fair, I laughed harder at the Family Guy scene: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=J6dFEtb06nw
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While interesting, it appears it's a bot account posting multiple times per minute. I'll be shocked if Twitter doesn't ban this, and soon.
Speaking from experience, holding an office job (it's worse with programming, bad for the neck, wrists, eyes and spine) for 8+ hours a day and then managing a disciplined regimen (hours a day including stretching and relaxation, good sleep, eating well) to get really good at a body art of high performance is really tough. Result for me was the opposite, dropped the programmer job at the middle of this year to go back and focus completely on my physical training and run some side projects with very reduced hours and ample time for rest when training gets gruesome.
> Uber is partnering with a variety of aerospace companies to develop a VTOL vehicle that can overcome the limitations of using helicopters for transportation at scale: noise and cost.

What about energy efficiency?

Perhaps that's covered under cost? But if not, this could be a step backward in a way.
It's not possible. And even if you try, no competitior will even take you serious as you are just at 10% speed/willpower/energy. Just quit you job and start in a manner that makes sense :-)
I think you're over-parsing this. The document you linked is basically an apology - the guy's saying "if you came to this repo looking for the code for that talk I gave, it's not here, and sorry about that, and here's why I regret that and how I'll avoid repeating my mistake". Considered in context, it's clearly not a "here's what I think other people ought to do" kind of document.
Sounds a little like copyfarleft.

Edit: Why the downvotes? It was a serious comment:

"establish a form of cooperative which would function in the same way as the copyright collection societies [...] Members would assign their copyrights to the cooperative, which would issue free non-exclusive licenses to other members. [...] Non-members could still use the works but would have to negotiate and pay a licensing fee in the normal manner. The original twist is in the criteria for membership of the cooperative, which would be limited to those who do not employ wage-labour or capital-intensive technology in producing cultural works;"[0]

[0]https://knowfuture.wordpress.com/2007/11/22/copyfarleft-an-a...
Thanks, you're absolutely right!
I released the first version 5 weeks ago and It's improving(drag&drop, context menu, multi-select table, etc.)[0][1].

Right now I do everything by myself and it's not easy to jump from compiler to gui, back to the database and so on.

[0] https://milansuk.github.io/ChangeOver/screenshots_build_1/hi...
[1] https://milansuk.github.io/ChangeOver/screenshots/high_5.png
What you'll have is a lot more false alarms and overdiagnosis.
Thanks. "Skill through effort" is wonderfully worded - a perfect value to pass on to the young ones.
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One interesting triviality. In modern Fortran you can do "list comprehension":

integer :: i
integer, parameter :: n = 20
integer, dimension(n) :: index = [(i, i = 1, n, 1)] ! list comp

And this works just like range(1, n+1) in Python (array index starts from 1 by default in Fortran).

The list comprehension in Fortran can even be nested (because it is essentially a do-loop), according to this Rosetta Code example:
https://rosettacode.org/wiki/List_comprehensions#Fortran
There is and Apple already announced that they will fix their mistake with a new, modular Mac Pro in 2019.
> ClojureScript is a compiler from Clojure to JavaScript (Clojure originally targeted Java). It is not a Scheme dialect, not does it feel like one. It’s a LISP dialect.

Hell no. The linked website, http://wiki.c2.com/?LispSchemeDifferences lists differences between Common Lisp and Scheme. Clojure is not a Common Lisp implementation.
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This makes some sense both on tech and sales sides.

Tech-wise, my guess is the benefits of AI/ML are best exploited at scan time with a scanner integration, rather than after the fact. Specifically, if the algorithm picks up something it can immediately dive in for a closer look while the patient is still there, shortening the turnaround time by weeks. There's also the opportunity to co-develop / tune AI/ML to specific types of scanners.

Sales-wise, selling scanners is already a thing, and you don't have to create a new sales channel or figure out how to get buy-in. If a scanner works faster or better than others, hospitals already have a way to understand that through their procurement processes. And you may gain a higher margin by bundling AI/ML reading with hardware.

Is this roughly what you see?
There is no way around it, IoT will never be feasible until companies start to take updates seriously. Slapping a fully upgradable, WiFi-enabled Linux-based firmware on appliances whose usable life spans several years if not decades (haven't changed my fridge in more than 15 years) can lead to disastrous consequences if the manufacturer stops providing security updates (something they totally do not care about, as they've shown with their android devices).

I don't see how this could be solved without a fully open platform like the PC, where a third-party company (like MS on the PC) can ship a whole OS on every single machine without having to develop a custom firmware image because thanks to standards.
Arabia is west Asia :)
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"Ethical source" licenses exist, such as the Do No Harm license:

https://github.com/raisely/NoHarm

https://hackernoon.com/6-myths-about-ethical-open-source-lic...

Software developers can also commit to a form of the Hippocratic Oath:

https://github.com/Widdershin/programmers-oath

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1016991
I'm part of a very privileged workforce and our situation, while not great, was a lot better than the average worker. We still managed to form a union. It can be done.
Complexity is creepy: It’s never just “one more thing.”
There's probably lots of room for optimization, for example currently it sets and resets all sorts of GPU state on each print call, for each character, which is rather expensive:

https://github.com/liamg/aminal/blob/master/glfont/font.go#L...

Speaking of the main loop, for every columm and every row:

cx := uint(gui.terminal.GetLogicalCursorX())

which in turn calls another function -- move that outside of the loop and do it once. Generally buffer values that don't change and get used in loops, instead of fetching them by calling functions on each iteration.

Also, while it may not matter much in this case unless there are other sources of GC churn, just because I noticed it: don't create an array for the vertices for every character to then throw it away and recreate it, have one and keep reusing that.
So why don't national governments and local councils, create and maintain software for the public good, like toilets?

I mean this in the euro-socialist model. If that's anathema to you, substitute charity or benevolent technocrat.
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> Declining to work with paid murderers is not a partisan position.

Calling military paid murderers is definitely a partisan thing. What else do you propose? Someone has to do the dirty work to keep the citizens safe.

> Opposing sexism is not a partisan position.

Are you talking about harassment cases. Have you been to Google or talked about it to a Googler? It generally is swift and works without any proof. What they are asking is anonymous complaint system and things like that, which can definitely have two thoughts.

What about Google giving huge advantage to women in hiring. Just one verified anecdote, in kickstart, which google uses to hire in Asia Pacific, men do get a call for interview within rank 50, many time lesser than that. And they have definitely called women if they got rank 1000, likely even more.
Interesting interview / history on this issue I read recently from the guy behind much of panera bread: https://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/the-founder-of-p...
I think people have done something similar with reddit actually. They tried to make redit conversations, and well as expected they were pretty funny. Try google searching ou might be able to find it.
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Is that the last thing blocking "fortran-parity" in rust? Is there a working group hpc would fall under?

Last I checked there was no fast-math on stable, and #[repr(align)] was recently added.
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From The Obligation of the Engineer:

> As an engineer, I shall participate in none but honest enterprises. When needed, my skill and knowledge shall be given without reservation for the public good.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineer's_Ring#The_Obligati...
> 1. Immersion is overrated, even if you're trying your best to study vocabulary in your off hours. You won't just start "dreaming in a foreign language" because you've been around it all day. I wasted 6 months thinking it would someday just happen magically. It won't.

> 2. No one will put up with your shitty language skills for more than 5 minutes... Except your significant other. They'll have the patience because they love you. Everyone else will just cringe after a few minutes and change to English, or just smile and wave you off.

I suspect these two put together are actually the reason why it's easier to learn languages as a child.

I'm not familiar with the evidence (how could you test this?) but it seems to me that everyone I go as an adult people will switch to English as soon as they hear I don't speak the local language.

As a child, it's different. You're constantly corrected, and people will forgive your mistakes indefinitely. Also you're hanging out with kids, and they tend to only speak one language, so you end up learning it from them.
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Faster would be the key word. These things are expensive and in near constant use. There can be extensive waiting lists for non-critical scans. And as someone who's spent a couple of hours in an MRI machine, it's really just the duration that causes discomfort.

Not sure whether there is much room to speed things up though. You need a lot of slices, and selecting them takes time I guess.
We would all be exceptionally interested in more technical details about this.

Particularly if you compare to other approaches, talk about technical tradeoffs made, etc.
Only the male line died out. The Habsburg-Lorraine cadet branch took over and although they don't actually rule any countries since WWI, they are still quite wealthy and well-connected.
"Plus you get other nice stuff with Aurora like, you know, traditional SQL multi-operation transactions." THIS !!!!

NoSQL has such a nich usage!
A lot of the factors have been very stable for a long time and are unlikely to change too much, e.g. symmetry, hair and skin in good condition, etc.
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The devices do, the software doesn’t.
It would be great if this (and the Iron Ring) was more popular worldwide.

Also, imagine every software developer taking an oath with the phrase you just quoted. Adtech industry would disappear overnight.
That may be the case today, but it certainly isn't the case historically with hindsight.

It can also be true that nuclear closes coal, and renewable closes nuclear.
I think language learning is a growth area for intelligent machine interactions: a machine can understand pretty well if you are saying the right thing, like Duo Lingo tries to do. If it could add in some actual conversation flow, it would start to emulate a teacher or a conversation class. I'd certainly try it out - Eliza in Spanish?
I was definitely immersed - with my own apartment, and later a Spanish wife, baby, etc. - but I was also there on tech business, so there were plenty of people around with great English skills. I understand your point, and will agree that immersion is better than not, but my point is simply that there's no magical transformation just by living in another country.

My tutor definitely spoke Spanish to me, but the first several months was all in English. I hate the teaching method where a teacher just yammers away in the target language, as if (again) by magic and special miming gestures, the students will 'pick it up.' Bleh. Nieves gave me a review of concepts in English first, then we practiced speaking. I can't imagine learning any other way - but that's probably why she taught me that way. That's the benefit of a private tutor.
Or nuclear warheads.
Depends on when you bought. Of course it's not useful if you're trying to outsmart the market.
Electric Osprey-esque coaxial bicopter tiltrotor with ridiculously high disc loading and unguarded props sharing ground-space with pedestrians and then flying over densely populated urban centers? At a communter-friendly price which will enable "transportation at scale"? Oh, it's exactly as close as I think it is.
Has someone done any work using ResNet architectures with mri/xray images? Would be interested to here hows that working.
What's good about Pimsleur? I'm about to start learning a new language so I'm looking for the most efficient resources to supplement classes with a teacher.
I truly sympathise. Hope you hang in there, and wish you all the best.

I can relate to some of this - when I post on math overflow, my questions are heckled for poor English - by French mathematicians, when the reality is that I grew up in India with English in schools from the age of 5, and completed my Ph. D in the US. The hidden condescension, emboldened by my verifiable physical presence in India (from the profile), turns the conversation _that little bit_ nastier than it should be. All the while, the responders evade the perfectly legitimate question entirely. The tone of the responses on mathoverflow, by identifiable researchers, is quite bad and has turned me off the whole thing to a large extent.