skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am really struggling to find where Wittgenstein fits into any of this at all.

>And it’s now quite clear where the Wittgenstein’s theories jump in: context is crucial to learn the embeddings as it’s crucial in his theories to attach meaning.

That's not at all clear to me. The crucial part of W's tome is that two sentient beings are knowingly engaging in a game where they have 'agreed' on meanings. My guess from reading Philosophical Investigations is that W would only think NLP were possible in formal settings like law, where all players of the game know the rules quite well, and the program could be trained as if it were a player in that game.
If they are being uploaded show a progress bar immedietly. Make it obvious to the user what is happening. Magical applications that do things silently usually tend to fail silently in non obvious ways. At least with a graph you have a point of reference.
Property-Based Testing with PropEr, Erlang, and Elixir
I logged into my HN account for the first time in months just to upvote and add my agreement
Sounds like a good startup idea?
Functional Programming in C++
If only engineers didn't confuse their craft with economics.

Higher productivity will decrease the amount of labor that goes to those now productive endeavors, and go to those that arent as productive, like the service industry in general, healthcare, entertainment, etc. Much how like all of that started when less labor was required for farming.
>Apart from academia, they're non existent in industry or in government.

As a point of order. They're non-existent in the parts of government that actually do economist work, but the political appointee positions are lousy with them.

And boy do they punch above their weight in the financial press, chambers of commerce, think-tank circuit, etc.

In other words, Austrians do very well in any place that's sustained through the largesse of plutocrats and political donors. I wonder why. . .

I also wish their school of thought had an adjectival form that didn't make it sound like I'm slandering an entire nationality. Some of my best friends are Austrians! But they're mostly leftists. . .
Sure. More $ = better. However, this sort of attitude is also why small and medium sized businesses will always exist.
Brings back memories of Squares 2, a Flash game I was addicted to in high school: http://www.officegamespot.com/freegames/squares2.htm
>Reminds me of certain economic ideologues who insist everyone, whether they know it or not, is motivated by money and self-advancement.

Unless they are just destructive sociopaths, everyone is motivated by perceived gains. You're misunderstanding if you think they are saying just "money".

People very frequently turn down a higher monetary value in exchange for some perceived gain otherwise. This is completely modeled by economics.
It's a bit silly to compare killing a plant to killing something with a central nervous system. Plants don't think or feel. Birds and mammals certainly do.
I don't think quoting Mao is doing your argument any favors.

>It's conceivable to me that China could benefit from a move to alphabetic writing, and translations of Classical Chinese into vernacular

The issue is not that classical texts become illegible, the issue is that all written language becomes illegible. For example, in the other DeFrancis source you provide, he uses the term "shuangwenzhi", the meaning of which I simply could not figure out. I saw the English "digraphia" below, at which point I assume he may have meant "双文zhi" but I am still unclear what he meant by "zhi". As of right now only 66% of the phrase he used has any semantical meaning and I am still unclear as to what he meant to say by "shuangwenzhi". Without the English translation I don't think I would've deduced any of the semantic meaning of that term.

>So, the idea that the Chinese writing system is too cumbersome is by no means new,

You are correct, this argument isn't new, it's outdated.
Slicing on characters is a linear time operation and indexing is meant to be cheap.
It’s less than 12 months until Python 2 will no longer be maintained. https://pythonclock.org/

I really encourage you to create a tap for the formulas you like to customize. Taps are a powerful, much overlooked feature baked into Homebrew.
Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos Announce Pursuit of New Romantic Ventures
I just wanted to report that someone (https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ekaulakis) left this comment, and then deleted it before I could reply:

"
You embody the death of our civilization. Have you ever felt gratitude for the systems which you count on to sustain you? "

This is exactly the kind of reaction that I am facing from social connections and family for living a "non-normal" life, where everybody tries to make me feel incredibly guilty for taking a decision of not having kids and pursue other activities in the incredibly limited amount of time I have on this planet.
Since it's relevant to the topic conversation, only use a Roku if you're blocking its outgoing requests. It sends out an insane amount of outbound data that goes beyond just your viewing habits (e.g. wifi name, "connection data") [1].

Installing pi-hole reveals how noisy a Roku is [2].

[1] - https://docs.roku.com/doc/userprivacypolicy/en-us
[2] - https://imgur.com/a/n5zcAwl
It’s not a matter of what you “believe.” In election law, the “campaign” is a specific thing and financing it is something with specific meaning. Having an independent entity run ads because it happens to support that candidate is not “financing the campaign.”

Leaving that aside, SuperPACs account for just 15% of election spending in 2016. It’s inaccurate to even suggest that corporate money and money from wealthy donors is the dominant factor in campaigns.
There's arguments to be made that this is a right-wing coup.

Many hardliners in the republican party, along with trump, want to starve the beast. And there's not much more you can do than by harming the rank and file with "you must go to work but we won't pay you". The people in federal positions I know of are already looking elsewhere. Some are trying to survive it. And others are going "sick-out".

Regardless how its being done, it is. And this shutdown is starving all non-military federal positions from TSA to the USDA. If this goes on for months, then those people will leave, along with their experience their tenure brought. And eventually, when the government is not "shut down", they will have proof that the government really didn't need those positions.

And we open our eyes, and realize the swamp wasn't Capitol Hill. The swamp was us. We're in the middle of draining.
Like many services, it has suffered from frequent management changes and short-sighted initiatives that have ultimately prioritized marketing and sales over the core service experience.
Gambling is gambling, there are different levels of risk and probabilities you will win or lose but investing is all gambling. Saying its anything else is ignorant of reality.
Since back in my DOS programming days, I've lived in several different Hex editors when analysing data streams. Some great, some ordinary. I would have killed for colour highlighting like Hexyl seems to have.

I wonder though, whether I can colour code 'blocks' to differentiate them? One of the things I seemed to do a lot in hex editors was to check out the differentiation in, for example, 72 byte blocks of data, so to be able to delineate 72 byte blocks in different colours in the hex editor would make it easier to see where each block starts/ends.
Some middle managers will overestimate how much time and people they need for a project just so they can be on time and under budget. And once you hire someone it's really hard to get rid of them until there is a layoff cycle. And usually on layoff time there's plenty of people who are actually actively making things harder for people that need firing (they try to do work but are bad at it, which causes more work for the people that are actually productive) that you don't really get around to fire the people that are just useless.
I'd be happy just to see it listed on downdetector.com
You would mix after the sewage treatment, simply placing the pipes next to each other would work.

As to impact the quality of brine is less important than the amount of surplus salt. Sea water is ~3.5% salt. You need 1:1 fresh water produced to get back to the default at discharge. While a significant fraction of the water produced would be lost as evaporation etc, desalination is not their only source of water.

Edit: Digging into the numbers it looks like Saudi Arabia is not limiting things to cities which have a closer relationship between water and sewage production.
Stripe and Square both identify consumers by their unique CC numbers. If I swipe my card on a square reader, it recognizes me and asks if I want a receipt sent to my phone or email, even if I’ve never purchased from that vendor before.
This also highlights why it's so helpful to eliminate clutter; the things you see are the things that matter.

When I open my fridge, I don't see amorphous 'stuff'; I've got leftovers one and two here, extra ingredients that need to be used there and there, and the rest is staples that remain there and get replaced as needed.

Anything that doesn't fit that gets tossed. If I can't pick it up and come up with a plan for it, it goes in the bin. If it's a longer-term plan, it gets noted on a list stuck to the door. ezpz

I waste less food now, and have less stress about meal planning. Pantry is similar; at this point I can just glance at a shelf and sense whether I'm low on something.
LOL, this cracks me up because movies always use the Red-tailed call, even when it is an eagle or vulture being shown
Your comment is extremely confused. Let's unpack some of the confusion...

> NVIDIA’s scalar architecture

NVidia doesn't have a scalar architecture in any meaningful sense of the word. Individual work items execute in warps, meaning (up to) 32 items execute the same instruction, at the same PC. If you have divergence, i.e. fewer than 32 items at the same instruction, you lose ALU throughput. This is the same as in AMD (and every other GPU architecture out there, for that matter).

The difference to AMD's architecture since Volta is that there is hardware support for each SIMD lane having its own PC, which makes it easier to have independent forward progress and a bunch of other features. The separate lanes don't have separate instruction fetch, though -- they all execute the same instruction (and if they can't, then some lanes will be disabled).

> this is why “async” compute doesn’t benefit them as much as it does GCN cards

Nvidia literally cannot do async compute in the same way as AMD, because their micro-architecture cannot switch between graphics and compute on as finely grained a basis as GCN cards. That's why they don't benefit from async compute. (Though I'm not sure whether that's still true since Volta.)

> GCN cards that have a 4 wide SIMD array

GCN has 64-wide waves, though with a bit of a weird execution scheduling which means that 16 lanes out of the 64 are computing at a time. Nowhere in GCN are there any 4-wide SIMD arrays.

> a massive external compute scheduler that sits idle when doing graphics.

Also nonsense. Both AMD and Nvidia have the majority of die space allocated to the compute cores (whatever they're calling them). The pieces of fixed function logic that distribute work onto the cores (whether for graphics or compute) are comparatively tiny.
When a large number of people are working two jobs already because a lot of jobs will only let you work for less than 30hrs a week to keep costs down (not full time so don't need to include many costly benefits), it is probably not helping people if they now have to go to three different jobs. The USA should probably get rid of the rules that force companies to pay people more when the work longer. It would be a lot easier for workers to just work at one place for 60-80 hr/wk and not have to commute to an extra job if they need/want more money.
I wonder how much of it is because the executives live on the Peninsula in places like Woodside or Portola Valley and would have a short and pleasant drive to a mountain view office.
I am using the HTTP Gateway and generating OpenAPI from that for type-safe access [1]. The main downside is that this introduces an additional build step in your project and a small amount of additional run-time processing.
The upside is supporting a JSON API and not requiring gPRC(-Web) for clients. Even for non-browser clients, GRPC tooling can still be heavy-weight to pull into your project. Not all languages have easy to use OpenAPI integration, but any language can always just send some JSON.

But with the HTTP Gateway you are actually supporting both, so a browser client can still use GRPC-Web if it is able.

[1] https://github.com/gogo/grpc-example
It reminds of me of Ferro:

https://easydatawarehousing.github.io/ferro/introduction

Did you get inspired by that?
I'm not sure the money is really at stake. They were married when Amazon was just a tiny start-up and Washington is a community property state.

Half of all assets gained during the marriage belong to his wife. The only way it could be less is if she agreed to take something less.
Even in the growing and harvesting of plants, large amounts of animals get killed in the process. The moles underground, the rabbits and hares that eat the plants, the rats and snakes that shelter in the piles of harvest etc, they all have to be killed en masse to ensure a good harvest. Given this fact, veganism appears to me like a refusal to accept the reality that this world is a harsh one full of chaos. I prefer to focus on sustainable consumption as the reasonable balance between the two extremes of veganism and American fast food.
Improbable's client does have experimental websocket streaming.
His life is going to be so f wild after the divorce XD
Nice little story. I was kinda wondering what happened to Jason. At the start I felt like Jason was the lead character and at the end the story would return to him.
Where is Jason ???
Truth be told, the majority of Greece's problems sprung from how past greek governments cooked the state's books to hide its perpetually massive deficit and ever increasing debt in order to keep borrowing more cash and keep the structural deficit high.
To me this feels quite pedantic. Being able to do less than on NaNs and just having it do something vaguely sensible (as in your linked solution) is a far more common requirement than need to handle NaNs specially.

You could even say the reason NaN exists is so that you don't have to check for NaN constantly. Rust is being technically correct but practically really annoying, for basically no benefit.
In case you don't know: the government passed a law that USPS must prefund all benefits (like pensions), which is extremely uncommon (pay-as-you-go is typical).

https://www.cnbc.com/id/45018432
What I want to see in UX design for 2019, is buttons that actually look like buttons, and not buttons that are hidden as practically anything on the page :/
Also, SJ in general is so low density. It would be easy to double, even triple population without "Manhattanizing" SJ. Now, of course, making sure NIMBYers don't get in other people's business is a different story.

SJ has so much room to grow. With the airport, soil geology, aquifer [subsidence], etc., you're not going to see much beyond 6-12 storeys, 20 max, but just getting that in some key areas like North SJ would allow pop growth really easily. North SJ (also south of 280 in some areas) was light industrial, so you won't get so much NIMBYism) and there is no excuse of "ruins the views" there are no views in SJ.

The surface area where you can build even low-rise, some mid-rise modern condos in areas where 1960's and 70's poorly built apartment building are in disrepair and with poor earthquake readiness makes for so much (re)building opportunity.
This is how tech works. The old things are new again.
(Let's not forget about CORBA, Sun RPC, and others.)
Disgusting. It's too bad he'll get away with it. Normal people would go to jail after a while.
XHR is really just an HTTP client, despite the name. It doesn't enforce anything regarding inputs and outputs of an HTTP request.

gRPC gives you guarantees on those inputs and outputs, along with a bunch of extra features. It's basically a layer on top of XHR.
I don't think people are necessarily that ignorant. But the dirty business of slaughtering animals has been hidden away from public eye extremely well. There's a certain "out of sight out of mind" aspect to it.

If, to eat meat, people had to kill the animal themselves, what proportion of meat eaters do you think would continue the practice? I obviously don't know the answer, but I suspect it would be far less than 100%.
If you don't give a crap about how happy your customer is, your product probably sucks. Actually it does suck.
The impact of AI and automation on white collar jobs isn't going to be that they're going to be entirely replaced, but that the top 10% of employees are going to become so productive that they displace swaths of less productive workers.

I think this is a really clear example of that.
I'm not sure what you are trying to say. I really doubt what got her murdered with a car bomb wasn't her fashion comentary.
It is interesting. Almost like the pursuit of gaming takes away the imagination and urge to engage in anything else.
Someone realized that they could use desk vetoes as a negotiation tool even when what was being vetoed was the budget, without the public really minding enough to cost anyone an election.
These older word embedding models (word2vec, GloVe, LexVec, fastText) are being superseded by contextual embeddings ( https://allennlp.org/elmo ) and fine-tuned language models ( https://ai.googleblog.com/2018/11/open-sourcing-bert-state-o... ). These contextual models can infer that "bank" in "I spent two hours at the bank trying to get a loan" is very different from "The ocean bank is where most fish species proliferate."
You consulted. There's no need to mention the pay or not for the work.
It seemed to start after sctb said "We've banned this account for repeatedly breaking the guidelines and ignoring our requests to stop." 37 days ago.
> An efficient JSON-like message encoding

how is this still "the future"?
Ha they're still using that red-tailed hawk sound for pretty much any appearance of a bald eagle in media. The real sound they make is so anticlimactic compared to the hawk screech, they can't ever go back. It would be too silly.
I've used it for the OSS project I'm working on (https://ossia.io) but at some point the coverity scans just started failing, and they never replied to my support requests.
Earnings of workers without a college degree haven't risen in 50 years
>Americans, for example, think it is Ok for Mexicans to cook their food for close to nothing, and having African Americans clean for them for minimum wage.

Where do you come up with this racist crap? As someone who grew up in a poor white area in the North of the US I can assure you that race has absolutely nothing to do with lack of low-paying jobs concern.

>Of course, there is no reason why these people should make close to nothing while other people throughout the economy have bullshit jobs that pay really well.

Supply and demand. It's economics 101. It's like claiming that there is no reason people should be paying over a thousand dollars for an ounce of gold when copper is only a couple of dollars a pound.

If the people with low paying jobs were qualified to do the higher paying job, the employer would happily hire them for a lower price to save money.
Great question. There might be better examples, but let's look at one of the most famous poems, "Thoughts in the Silent Night" [1] by Li Bai:

床前明月光，
疑是地上霜。
举头望明月，
低头思故乡。

"Translated" word for word, it's something like

Bed before bright moon shine
Think be ground on frost
Raise head hope bright moon
Lower head think home

Note that it doesn't even contain 我 ("I"). One can render it as:

Beside my bed a pool of light—
Is it hoarfrost on the ground?
I lift my eyes and see the moon,
I bend my head and think of home.

Or:

Before my bed, the moon shines bright;
Be it frost aground? I suppose it might.
I lift my head, the moon to behold, then
Lower it, musing: I'm homesick tonight.

Moser [2] offers these gems on Classical Chinese:
"Forget it. Way too difficult. If you think that after three or four years of study you'll be breezing through Confucius and Mencius in the way third-year French students at a comparable level are reading Diderot and Voltaire, you're sadly mistaken. There are some westerners who can comfortably read classical Chinese, but most of them have a lot of gray hair or at least tenure."
"Whereas modern Mandarin is merely perversely hard, classical Chinese is deliberately impossible. Here's a secret that sinologists won't tell you: A passage in classical Chinese can be understood only if you already know what the passage says in the first place. This is because classical Chinese really consists of several centuries of esoteric anecdotes and in-jokes written in a kind of terse, miserly code for dissemination among a small, elite group of intellectually-inbred bookworms who already knew the whole literature backwards and forwards, anyway."

Wikipedia says [3]:

"Classical Chinese is distinguished from written vernacular Chinese in its style, which appears extremely concise and compact to modern Chinese speakers, and to some extent in the use of different lexical items (vocabulary). An essay in Classical Chinese, for example, might use half as many Chinese characters as in vernacular Chinese to relate the same content."
"Classical Chinese rarely uses words composed of two Chinese characters; nearly all words are of one syllable only. This stands directly in contrast with modern Northern Chinese varieties including Mandarin, in which two-syllable, three-syllable, and four-syllable words are extremely common."
"However, even with knowledge of grammar and vocabulary, Classical Chinese can be difficult to understand by native speakers of modern Chinese, because of its heavy use of literary references and allusions as well as its extremely abbreviated style."

However, I don't have a neat example at hand... Anyone?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quiet_Night_Thought

[2] http://www.pinyin.info/readings/texts/moser.html

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_Chinese#Grammar_and_...
Is polar open source. It has a lot of functionality I was planning on building for my own note-taking system. I'd love to contribute.

Edit: Nvm, just saw the git icon. Awesome!
also the areas south and east of san jose are far more affordable. if you actually want to buy a home in the bay area, your best shot is somewhere just outside of Milipitas.
One nine of uptime isn't amazing.
Rubber Duck Debugging: The Psychology of How It Works
Examples of them doing so?
I see two options that address the concerns and goals realistically.

1. Put a dumb phone in a faraday bag for 99% of its life.

2. Keep a physical phone book and ask strangers or businesses to use their phones. Paying your way, of course.
Hey, does holding this item effect a positive, visceral reaction?
San Jose doesn't want more housing. Prop 13 is strangling services so now they want commercial.
If that's the case, I guess his wife will make an entry into the top 10 wealthiest people in the world.

I hope the loss of 50% of his net worth doesn't detract from his space faring aspirations or considerable charitable donations (although I don't remember if he is one of the immensely wealthy people who vowed to give most of it away).
FWIW, the resume-friendly term is “pro bono”.
The Book of Shaders is so good. It's a shame it's abandoned, I would love to read the rest.