skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Even in this case (the "I don't know" sequence), the tone isn't really contrastive.

It's not contrastive in that there is no minimal pair that would demonstrate it. But good luck being understood if you don't produce it correctly. The lesson I would draw here is more "minimal pairs aren't sufficient to demonstrate every phoneme" than "it's not a phoneme until a minimal pair exists".

> the English example you mention is really isolated - it's not enough to spawn a system of tone

I didn't claim and don't believe that English is developing lexical tones. But I do believe that the development of lexical tone in this single unusual word is fundamentally similar to the larger-scale development of tone in other languages, and that the still-obvious relationship between the phrase and the tone sequence makes this a good example to help English speakers understand how it can happen.

> And of course there's more than just question-associated tone, there's also focus-associated tonal prosody.

Very true, but much harder to describe.
Arming the public with AI to counter social bots
3 kids would be able to provide each other plenty of sibling value.
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It is supported because it is accepted, especially in places like hacker news, to not be scientifically literate. In fact it is so obviously problematic that you would to a large degree have to be obnoxious to support it without reserve. Which is why you see all these rhetorical arguments, sarcasm and hostile engagements in this thread. Of course from a reasoned perspective this would indicate that you were wrong. But if you have already realized that they aren't going to win with arguments, it is instead seen a good thing that the discussion isn't about that.
Max productivity to the library implementor not to the integrator or maintainer. The number of hours I've spent inlining gross macros so I can debug them has poisoned me against all but the simplest application of them.
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If the Yo app can raise 1.5 million...
Funny how removing the government's ability to interfere in our lives was not mentioned as a solution. Public brainwashing complete.
My question for you would be, why Clojure over, say, Racket? Is it just the JVM?

I personally prefer Racket because of the ease with which you can use it to hack on itself. Macros are no stranger to LISPs, but Racket goes beyond by having the entire system around it built to accommodate language design and modification.

Want to use dynamic typing? Just use #lang racket. Want to use static type checking? Use #lang typed/racket. Reactive programming is there with #lang frtime. And that's before we even consider things like Scribble.

As an aside, I totally agree with you on Elixir. Erlang is wonderful for what it's built for. Elixir's choice to use Ruby syntax, however, ruins Elixir for me -- and it's not because I hate Ruby. I actually like Ruby a fair deal. Instead, it's because using Ruby syntax makes it more difficult (for me) to truly and fully think in the paradigm. Erlang/Elixir are nothing like Ruby. Making the syntax Ruby-like just obfuscates what's actually going on in the system. (I find similar issues whenever I try to program using imperative chunks in, say, F# or Scala.) Just my two cents.
What if you give a good tip first but then the delivery turns out late?
I've been in worse situations than that and refused orders. So, yes.

There are costs involved in taking a stand. If any group has the capacity to take a financial hit in service to an ethical framework it's software engineers.
Slow reader, eh?
As a parent I am seeing a corollary to this in that there is an insane arms race in high school education for those who can afford it. Some of my sons friends are taking their Math SAT before freshman year of high school so that they take it while high school math is still "fresh". All the bright kids are cramming AP classes in and taking very advanced math, science and computer science classes that I am sure most schools can't provide. Essentially these kids have taken a year or two of college before they have gone.
If you mine a Bitcoin and don't spend it, you are making the remaining Bitcoins more valuable (in theory). You have reduced the overall supply.

With Bitcoin, the maximum number of Bitcoins that will ever exist is fixed.

It doesn't really matter who mines them. Of course at the moment, indeed, new Bitcoins are mined all the time, but the timeline for the future is clear.

Whether it is a good thing, I don't know. There are a lot of weird aspects about it.

As for China - sure, some miners will accumulate a lot of BTC. But they can only affect the price by selling or not selling it. If they wouldn't mine the BTC, somebody else would. It doesn't really give them that much more power, except for monetary power.

It's probably true that right now there are several people or entities who could crash the Bitcoin price by simply selling off all their BTC. That's not very reassuring.

On the other hand, such a crash could also be a chance to distribute BTC more evenly. It would actually be in the interest of the rich BTC people, too, as it would lead to more adaption and hence more value and stability.

Distribution is a hard problem.

There are several problems with crypto, but they are also interesting, and smart people are trying to solve them. At least it is fun, even if it is unclear if it will be worthwhile in the end.
That is not correct at all. Python 2 and Python 3 have relatively few syntax differences. You could teach someone the key differences in like 10 minutes.

In fact, I would even say that the difference between Python 2 and Python 3 syntax is far less than the syntax difference between traditional javascript and the latest revisions to javascript (ES6+).
Except that google won’t let you register joe.smith if joesmith exists. Google strips out dots before unique validation.
The same way i did at 25. Be better!
Alright, I can see we can't even agree on terms here, so I'm going to bow out.

Thanks for the mature discussion on the topic, though. Even though I disagree with you I'm glad you put more effort in than the usual casual dismissals and snark this sort of thread usually attracts.
I worked on a large C++ project with design-by-contract pattern a long time ago. It was not the most pleasant experience. There was so much more code to validate pre and post conditions and class invariants. It might have had a lot to do because it was a classic OO business system (think a large Java app now, but where all the code was C++), but I remember spending more time writing the contract code than the actual business code.

Is there any recent writings on this pattern on applying the idea more sanely? As it is, I think I prefer to write testing code outside of the core behavior and have to anticipate what values are valid, or create new tests as bugs are found.
A person adding their contact list isn’t “ad targeting.” Some companies literally upload email contact lists to Facebook and pay for ads that will be shown to anyone on that list that also has a Facebook account.
> The result is denying poor people access to credit.

I think it sort of boils down to rayinier's wrong, or at least hopelessly unsophisticated, understanding of credit.

When you don't pay your landlord on time, you definitely enter a debt relationship with your landlord. That's credit in every sense but financial.

Payday loan companies securitized a form of credit that had low effective "interest" (e.g., late payment penalties) and converted it into something with high interest.

Yes, nobody wants to be evicted. But surely, in a strictly rational economic sense, landlords don't want vacant properties either. It's not so obvious what is the "efficient rate," as rayinier says, because based on eviction rates for late payments of rents, it's probably not that high.

Foreclosing on people's homes, of course, was a huge disaster and the source of an incredible amount of national economic and emotional misery. So again, just within an economic positivist framework, it's not at all as simple to arrive at "efficient" rates as rayinier assumes.

I'm not sure if payday loan companies, which charge a higher interest rate to essentially victimize the same population at an industrial scale, is an economic positive, you know? I wish he would just admit that while some human beings will sometimes be landlords, and therefore deserve some protections, no normal person will literally ever be a payday loan lender, so it seems fit that we ought to use a credit system (late rental payments) that people can imagine justice inside of rather than an usurious credit system nobody will ever be on the right side of.
There was an experiment in the USA about a school given unlimited funding. It didn't help grades or any other metric they measures. Look up the Kansas school district experiment.
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The issue if I understand your comment correctly is that you want to keep the ui state in sync with the logical state, so you can't just keep it in an object somewhere, since that wouldn't keep up with react's rendering?

I do think you can have a hook return a javascript object though for the normal reasons of encapsulation and such.
The U.K. can’t join the EEA (or get a similar deal), Norway stated that it won’t support it and they have veto rights.
Making Sense (formerly Waking Up) by Sam Harris and Joe Rogan podcast have been most influential but Mindscape by Sean Carrol has risen to very top of my current favourites.
All the OP said is "I don't like Bitcoin people", without giving any reasons (even saying he can't give reasons). Why should people assume he made an informed decision, based on merely that? Also, many comments really show that people don't properly understand it - can you blame people for noticing and dismissing those comments?

And I question your claim about enthusiastic people being the least informed. I'd say the people who work on it and dedicate their lives to improving the infrastructure are both enthusiastic and informed. Of course there are also enthusiastic people who are misinformed.
> So while not everyone's dream life involves taking out the full term of parental leave, it is most people's.

This statement "it is most people's [dream]", not being manifestly obvious, requires a citation to a statistically significant survey of people asked if they would take a full year of paid leave from their jobs, regardless of the tradeoffs (there are always some tradeoffs). Either that or it requires a qualification like "in my opinion".

And that opinion can't be used as a general argument against the benefit of paid parental leave. Just as the existence of people who want to take less than the maximum leave can't be used to argue against the benefit for people who want to take the full amount.

This sort of benefit isn't a "natural" right based on people's individual desires and dreams. It's a practical policy implemented via institutions to deal with the modern reality that often both parents are required to work to maintain a middle-class standard of living.
NYPD demands that Google's Waze app stop revealing DWI checkpoints
In my country we don't have school funding provided locally, it's a state level funding. Poor schools still do poorly, even with more funding. One of the big issues is school culture. A bright student surrounded my low SES kids isn't going to perform as well as a bright student in a high SES room
You could also just use a filesystem that does compression on top of it. Might be better? Another thing to watch out for is that if you format it ext4 don't make enormous as it will write lots and lots of superblocks. Found out the hard way.
"Fentanyl has a market"

Are you saying that a cancer patient ought not to use Fentanyl when Oxycontin no longer is enough and go directly to morphine? This is not obviously a "poor choice" from my perspective.
That is, in effect, a limit on how risky their loans can be if they want to stay in business. The more likely someone is to default on a loan, the higher the interest rate needs to be in order for it to have a positive expected value for the lender.

Or, to put it another way: the more restrictive the cap on interest, the more poor people become unable to get an emergency loan under any circumstances.
Why do people still use fax machines?
> I suspect it's use is mostly going to be in development environments and client-side uses of containers

Containers don't need this. It's only useful for virtual machines.
>Considering that most ios users are up to date,

That's what makes it so valuable really. You get little to no entropy for a large portion of users, but you get a huge amount of entropy about the people who aren't.
To be fair, no rules have changed on the domain registry side. Just like new EU contries gain access to .eu registry, the ones that leave lose it, that was to be expected.
I misread his post.
you forward it to spoof@paypal.com, and then get a response pretty quickly telling you whether it was phishing or a real email.
The SS-ci5er is here to take the call.

This is "the deal"...

There are many computer environments beyond the desktop and cloud servers. Arguably most computer environments.

But to reduce it: imagine an O&G pipeline controller that stupidly did something bigger than QNX & C. That will be pumping oil and gas for 30 years. Online upgrades, until some young turk blows out the library size. Oil spill with a blown line, and New Jersey explodes.
They decided to spend time on finding a bug knowingly that there is no bug bounty program for OSX, this is essentially blackmail.

The other possibility is that this bug is so trivial e.g. the press enter a lot bug that you can hardly argue that a reward is warranted for their effort.
The lesson to take away from this is ”we don’t know whether having breakfast has any effect on weight”

The lesson I took was that "we don't know whether the effect of breakfast on weight is meaningful (let alone measurable) because we chose crappy data, which means that the question may or not be answerable with better data." To me, it's worse than not doing the study at all and saving those resources for actual science.

many (popular) articles on weight loss claim skipping breakfast is bad

I agree, and that's why I read this in the first place. Meta-analyses using studies with no relevant controls (such as distinguishing the time-restricted feeding effect) are mostly worthless.
There is no such thing as "financial freedom". Financial freedom is a concept that arises from personal beliefs and practices.

There is only one universal freedom, the freedom of chioce. I think this is more important than any 21st century pay day lending problem. We need to preserve free choice not just for our generation/set of problems, but for all time.

Edit:
Don't confuse living a long, healthy, happy life with freedom. They could not be more different.
This seems like a way to offload the blame onto the uploader, rather than the system that continually asks for contacts.
The way I see it, networking is making friends with similar (or at least tangential) professional interests. In different roles and industries, the specifics can be very different. But the foundation of it is the relationship that you have with someone. I would say that my best networking contacts are friends that I know from college, or who I used to work with. These people need to know that you're competent enough to be successful in what you're looking to do. But they're also going to need to enjoy spending more time with you.

It's the people I consider friends that I want to reach out to about working with, and I know that these people would be advocates for me within their respective organizations.
so is apple lying when they cite the removal due to tracking logic using DNT since theres really no teeth to enforce the request to not track?

DNT was and always will be an example of how not to implement privacy settings
Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand
One additional problem for Netflix is that although they have spent over $13 Billion on original content most of their subscriber prefer to watch 3rd party licensed content (eg Friends). This further reduces the moat that Netflix is trying to build. Disney or Amazon with much larger pockets can easily woo content creators for exclusive licensing deals on their respective platforms.
I went to a growth meetup last year and sat through a presentation by a Pinterest engineer who walked through how they upload emails from churned Pinterest users to Facebook to try to reactivate them as the primary use case for their FB ad spend.

Honestly didn’t even realize it was “ok” for companies to share emails with third parties as I thought that is even considered PII.
Yeah - in this context it's a pretty poorly defined term... Particularly since the original comment could be read as either " anyone on the continent (that geographers call Europe) ..." or " anyone on 'the continent' (where you get continental breakfasts instead of full English breakfasts) ... "

I'd probably rather question whether the ".eu" tld means "Europe" (in which case there's a reasonable argument to be made that UK residents should be permitted to use it even post Brexit) or if it means "European Union" (which'd mean the UK voted to opt out of being able to use it).
We use Walmart Grocery Pickup and it’s fantastic.

It saves me the hour in the store, plus my wife can pick out exactly what she wants from her phone.

Yes, we still go pick it up, but it’s really quite close to ideal.

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It seems these places prove the old saying about groups that claim that government is incompetent and when they come in power, they prove it.
It’s pretty simple. I’m surprised more people don’t know about this.

it’s called net operating loss. when you’ve lost money over the last ten years you can deduct those losses from your gains and only pay taxes on the difference.

Makes senses, right? A business needs to cover the losses before there is really a “profit” to pay taxes on. But this ends up incentivizing losing money, and makes the silicon valley business model of raising a ton of money and running at a loss to try and dominate the market a lot more profitable
If you can monitor it via a web proxy, then you should be able to block it the same way.
The definition is well-accepted; the interpretation of the definition in difficult (and perhaps intentionally-difficult) cases is not. That seems perfectly reasonable and pretty common. The existence of cyan doesn't mean the definition of blue isn't well-accepted.

And in any case, I'm not making my decision based on the OSI approving it. I'm making my decision based on my personal consideration that the DFSG expresses principles that are important to me, and the OSD is basically the same thing. (The DFSG, however, does clarify that certain licenses are "a compromise," which seems to have been dropped in the OSD, and I think it's perfectly valid for a definition to have this level of nuance.) I'm making my decision based on my personal belief that "innovating" on these principles isn't great, and the market is the exact opposite of the entity I want deciding on how free/open source software works.

For the record, I do actually see the AGPL as "innovating" against the spirit of the DFSG/OSI, although I don't think there's a strong argument that they're non-compliant with the letter of the OSD/DFSG, and I personally avoid it. There's a practical problem that AGPL code becomes unusable when embedded in contexts that don't admit an obvious way to offer source through network interactions (e.g., you can't incorporate something into OpenSSL). But it is innovating in a different way from the SSPL.
Keto eats vegetables, nuts and also berries in limited amounts. Doing keto spinach, kale, broccoli, lettuce, cauliflower, brussel sprouts, avocados, squash and many other non starchy vegetables are core.
My impression was that sous vide was generally for meats, not veggies?

I would think a pressure cooker might be a practical solution to the "no time to cook veggies" - I use mine to do things like steam a bag of prewashed and cut kale in under 5min.
But the employer examples all involve some contact (rescinding the offer, etc).

It seems odd to compare an employee walking off the job with no notice vs a recruiter never getting back. I think the equivalent is having the doors locked with no notice. Happens in the restaurant business, but pretty rare in white collar.
"with the most obvious being that poor people cannot afford to eat more fruit and vegetables"

This is simply not true.

In fact, the least expensive foods are fresh vegetables.

Aside from the homeless, most poor people have some means to cook as well, giving them access to an astonishing variety of meals.

Meat, milk, cheese, often expensive.

Fruit and veg is the cheapest thing in the store.

Processed/fast foods are more than likely the culprit in so many ways, it seems wherever you are in America, you're arms length from something massively processed, salty, fully of fats/sugars etc..

Same for Canada.
> “amount borrowed is very low.... There is a certain amount of overhead in processing a loan.”

this is the crux of the business challenge here, and it’s common for long-tail businesses like payday lending. fixed and marginal costs are high relative to marginal revenue and to loan amounts.

but the social and ethical issue is rooted in bias and discrimination mediated through the credit bureaus who have a poor track record with low-information and/or highly-dynamic credit landscapes. they apply a static model that works fine for the affluent while shutting out the poor.

payday lenders transfer default risk to borrowers through high fees rather than relying on imperfect creditworthiness models applied to borrowers that often have little credit history or bad credit from difficult life circumstances.

in that situation, is it possible to create credit models that better predict default risk based on information available in our interconnected age? some startups tried using social media data for this, but none seem to have emerged victorious.
Nutrition epidemiology studies are not scientific experiments; they are wildly inaccurate, questionnaire-based guesses (hypotheses) about the possible connections between foods and diseases. This approach has been widely criticized as scientifically invalid [see here(1) and here(2)], yet continues to be used by influential researchers at prestigious institutions.

Even if you think epidemiological methods are sound, at best they can only generate hypotheses that then need to be tested in clinical trials. Instead, these hypotheses are often prematurely trumpeted to the public as implicit fact in the form of media headlines, dietary guidelines, and well-placed commission reports like this one.

Tragically, more than 80%(3) of these guesses are later proved wrong in clinical trials. With a failure rate this high, nutrition epidemiologists would be better off flipping a coin to decide which foods cause human disease.

(1) https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnut.2018.00105...
(2) https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2698337
(3) https://rss.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1740-...

Ref: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/diagnosis-diet/20190...
IMO 2) is a PR move. Removing 1 bit of data isn't going to do much for anti-fingerprinting.
How is that different? The behaviour is made illegal, precisely because it's unwanted... that's pretty much the definition. I don't think there is another source of law in healthy cases/systems.