skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I reported to the Debian bug-tracker where I assumed it would either be forwarded upstream, or be searched by the project authors:

https://bugs.debian.org/816277

I appreciate that most of the time reporting directly is the right thing to do, but often there is a good relationship between packager and developer and things flow well in both directions.

I guess I should make sure I chase old reports and reroute if they seem to be orphaned/ignored/overlooked.
Yeshiva’s Preschool Program Is Closed by New York City Health Officials
Memory and Span in .Net, Part 3
Rust: Beyond the Typechecker
> At what point does 'accepting' an alternative set of morals become 'condoning' them?

As far as I can tell, those words mean practically the same thing. "Condone" is modernly generally only used in the negative sense, and thus people may be confused into thinking it means something akin to "endorse" or "support". In actuality it means something much more akin to "tolerate".

"pluralism" and "relativism" are harder words to nail down. One way might be to say the relativism says that all moral systems are equally valid while pluralism says that there are more than one valid moral system.

Here, I think "pluralism" is being presented as its own moral virtue (rather than as a philosophical stance): tolerance of other moral systems and beliefs is good.

> pluralism in general tries to leave people alone to pursue their own ends as long as they’re willing to play nice with others. Part of playing nice with others for pluralism is not trying to coerce others into adopting your truths, values, and ethics, even if you think you’re right and the other party is wrong. That live and let live attitude may be the same practical result as relativism, but it is reached by starting at a different philosophical standpoint.

http://blogs.bu.edu/dscott/2011/06/24/pluralism-vs-relativis...

So I guess the point being made is that while a lot of sexism is bad, especially where it is imposed unwillingly, there there may be acceptable sexist moral systems that limit that sexism to voluntary participants of that moral system.

However, the choice of voluntary participation in the moral system is usually suppressed in sexist moral systems which makes them unacceptable from a pluralist stance.
Facing Segregated Schools, Parents Took Integration into Their Own Hands
I'd be way more interested in the median than the average. Me and Bill Gates are worth 50 Billion on average.
> The reason this is so amazing is that the architects and planners knew it would not be completed in their lifetime, and yet they progressed for a greater cause.

Not only that, but the ones who followed them didn't balk at working on a "legacy" project.
Briefly Comparing the Last Ten Economic Expansions
We have infrastructure that is under continuous maintenance, too. Sure, it is already completed but we are repairing it for both the close and far future.

And we plan new bridges and tunnels that might never benefit the people that drew up their first plan.
indeed, I recall being in Thailand where HD's are (were?) built, and buying one still costed aprox 2x the price in the USA.
A Parisienne friend of mine said last night when we discussed the fact that I never went inside, while she had: "Actually it was a horrible experience. Loud Americans everywhere taking pictures with their flashes."

Cities like Venice, Barcelona, Paris and Amsterdam need to address how we can preserve history while also considering how unfettered access makes it unappealing to participate as a local.

[Edit: I don't mean to single out Americans! That was just her comment. I know it applies to all unruly tourists of all countries]
Which is part of why I think the most valuable part of an estimate isn’t the number. Its the task breakdown and identification of risks.

1) You improve your foresight so you can get your manager rolling on getting resources early.

2) You have a concise record of what you think you need. If you notice something else mid-project (which does happen even in otherwise-straightforward implementation projects), you have a concrete point at which to raise a flag to stakeholders.

If you have zero confidence in an estimate from the beginning, then there is no point where its natural to realize “oh hey, this is going to overshoot and I need to communicate about it.”
Loss of one engine at low speed will leave a twin uncontrollable. See Vmc (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_speeds?wprov=sfla1).
Cue responses from the butthole brigade.
I've seen the 5mm resolution quoted on reddit. Not bad.
Why are you trying to talk about scientific proof? You don't even know how science works. Cat's out of the bag.

You know what? I'm done getting played. I gave you the benefit of the doubt, I and others gave you every opportunity to learn, but all you can do is dig in.

This is my last reply, if you want the last word that badly after this you can have it. If that is enough to let you think you won, then you can enjoy that too. Just remember that this subject is not like other debates in life.

You can let your stubbornness express itself most of the time quite harmlessly, but if you ever convince someone who doesn't know how to verify the science for themselves, the consequences are on you.

No joke, no exaggeration, you really are a bad person.
> This form of writing was dated as soon as the ballpoint pen was invented, which was in the 19th century.

While technically correct, that's all this is. Loud might've invented the ballpoint in the late 19th century, but they weren't of even remotely practical use until the late 1930s with Bíró's refinements, and even then they only took off after WW2.

> By tradition we have clung to this terrible writing style instead of introducing something more sensible and modern like italic cursive, which is connected but without loops.

That's wholly a matter of personal style. Plenty of people learn and use cursive styles that lack loops.
Imagine the kinds of things we could build in a multiple life time project using modern day techniques.
And we mandate by law in more developed nations that workers exposed to dust of whatever kind use PPE. Your point is a bit of a red herring when applied to asbestos really, because there is still plenty of atmospheric asbestos from historical sources blowing around (Wittenoom) and indeed being newly produced (Asbest, Russia). Don't get me wrong though, I completely agree that it's desirable to limit it if economically viable but I'm not about to start worrying my little head about it when tomorrow there will be another civilisation-threatening environmental/health/economic/social problem to worry about, and the day after, and the day after that, apparently ad infinitum. I'm sick of the negativity. The modern world isn't perfect but is preferable to the alternative. We need to start thinking of solutions.
Wireshark 3.x source code analysis and errors review
At the risk of a totally uncalled-for derail into politics - this is a hilariously apt description of Brexit. It makes me want to reanalyze the entire situation from a project-management perspective. It suggests a possibly illuminating metaphor: party leaders = management + sales, the electorate = the customer, and representatives = developers and engineers.
I guess some of us do. But then you have Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, Kim Jong-un, The Saud family, etc.
That's wonderful. Do you know more about that, by any chance?
At the bottom of the README

> This collection is meant for education, discussion, and historical work, allowing researchers and students to study how code was made for these interactive fiction games and how the system dealt with input and processing. It is not considered to be under an open license.

So all rights reserved, basically
Microsoft is an ad network. They went on a buying spree 10 years ago snapping up various ad networks. Windows 10 is riddled with ad tracking software and even when you disable every checkbox during OOBE there are still more that are enabled you cannot disable. If it was such a good idea they wouldn't use it.

I don't trust any of their ideas on protecting your privacy just as I don't trust a fox to guard a hen house.
Laser Scanning Reveals Cathedral’s Mysteries | National Geographic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAi29udFMKw
does anyone have a link to the original, full-size image of the black hole? i can only find 800x600 versions laying around. I want to know how large the original is. =)
And their children would reign after them, so monarchs are much more willing to take a long-term approach.
The hard part is not making (launching) the bot, but maintaining it and making sure it stays usable and useful. A very important piece that is missing from many open-source chatbot frameworks is some sort of web-based administration tool.

You need a tool that is capable of the following:

- Collecting analytics about each session, so that you can notice user problems early.

- Providing an interface for improving your training dataset using new data from actual user interactions.

- Evaluating the model after each update (simple accuracy metrics are not good enough; it is possible to maintain good accuracy and have one of your core flows messed up after re-training).

Even when you have an admin tool capable of these, you need one or more people (depending on the size of the bot) to review historical sessions and curate newly generated training data almost daily.
Javascript will be with us for a long time ( the new BASIC?)

C99: while there is much to applaud in Rust and Swift, but i doubt C will be displaced in the embedded space given the pace of embedded device development and scale of legacy libraries and investments.

Languages from Walled Gardens, even when open sourced, such as Microsoft/Unity & C#, Google & Go, Apple & Obj-C/Swift, etc., do not seem to expand far from their origins, and thus their fates seem entwined with their creator. Hard to call their futures, but i suspect the market will shift.

LLVM's intermediate language (IR) and Vulkan's SPIR-V, seem to underlie many other languages compiled outputs so i'd expect they will be with us for a long time as a validating, porting, and research standard.
How is it ridiculous? According to Lenin socialism is "state-capitalist monopoly."[0]

[0]: https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/ichtci/11....
Tech Industry-Funded Think Tanks Work to Overturn California Privacy Law
The paper is about predicting ROI, and that is a well known problem in advertising. Now, the same author of the paper you linked, Randall A. Lewis, has a paper about whether advertising actually works [1] and it does, "we find statistically and economically significant impacts of the advertising on sales. "

[1] http://www.davidreiley.com/papers/DoesRetailAdvertisingWork....
I highly recommend the book "Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art". I work for an outsourcing company and part of my job is to come up with estimates and it helped me deal with clients and managers.

The book contains a quiz that we used as part of a training exercise with management and the results were hilarious. Here is an online copy: https://scrumandkanban.co.uk/how-accurate-are-your-estimates... please don't look at the answers, I guarantee you will have fun completing it.

For clients, my preferred approach is to show "The Cone of Uncertainty" and ask where they think they are. Since most people have no idea what they want to built I ask if its ok if my estimates are 4x off. That usually gets me a few weeks of peace while a team comes up with a product definition and we start all over again :)
> This is a foolish idea

Are you talking about the idea you just proposed or the petition at hand? I definitely agree on the former; what you are describing makes absolutely no sense.
but dial-up modem bulletin boards were definitely a thing, in those days. Or Compuserv, if so inclined.
I wrote a BBS in Applesoft basic (and assembly, to trap some of the control characters and escape commands) and hosted it on my Apple ][. comms at 110/300 baud (full duplex!) or even 1200 baud where text comes faster than you can read, if you had the extra $400 for an AppleCat modem!

walkthroughs were very popular topics.
Any extra space you leave between you and the car in front of you is artificial traffic you're creating. That's space that could be used by more cars. Ideally, at a traffic stop every car would sit literally bumper-to-bumper to maximize throughput but that's obviously not reasonable.

You can see clearly from the simulation that having the opportunity to move around an obstruction doesn't stop the ensuing slow down from occurring because you have to slow down and reduce the bandwidth of the road to move around the obstruction.
Well, the thing about a black hole - its main distinguishing feature - is it's black. And the thing about space, the colour of space, your basic space colour, is black. So how are you supposed to see them?
I agree. They do reduce customer experience.

Most of the websites that employ these are using it in some form of an IVR
Anyways when I end up calling such sites I get stuck with IVR.

And I like it better to type than pressing numbers on the phone and listening to that automated and slow voice.
I bought five of the Activision re-releases back in the mid '90s. Each one was a selection of games on a CD ("on CD-ROM for the first time! Works with Windows 95!") with printed materials, when the whole set plus scans of the printed stuff could have fit on one disc with room to spare. I still have all of that stuff except the outer boxes.
Is this your blob? (Just asking. It's ok to submit your stuff here. But don't repost too much.)

It's much better to submit one post than the whole blog. Which one is your best article? I prefer articles that mix some relevant images with technical details.
> I'm inclined to put at least half the blame on the people voting with their wallets here.

I don't agree. The sheer volume of information that's available in the public space and the size and scope of large corporations makes "voting with their wallets" impractical.
Also, not to confuse you more, but for light, time actually stands still since it is moving at the speed of light.
move fast and burn things
As if there weren't loud Parisians, or French, all over the place as well, taking pictures with their flashes.
I think we have smaller size projects that move toward a common goal in the modern era. Take for example Aircraft or faster processors or AI. We have a longer term goal (faster processors) but a bunch of short term projects (x86 / POWER).
Just a thought, but can't the OS prevent applications from knowing anything about other applications? Rather than isolating apps by flushing/coloring everything, couldn't the apps not know what else is running? Two apps can't communicate, or one app spy on another, if an app doesn't know what else was/is running.

(Not sure why this is wrong, but confident it must be.)
This was deliberate on Douglas Adams' part [0]. It's all part of the joke. Other notable sections are where the game actively lies to you about being able to access a particular room (you need to try to enter several times in a row), and then sulks when you call it out and lies about the contents of the room.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_th...
There are multiple reason why the way people communicate is important, one of which is the limited logical reasoning capability of most people.

Just look at politics / marketing / dark patterns / mortgage contracts.

I successfully changed my sister's mind from variable rate mortgage to fixed mortgage, as the language of the contract doesn't explicitly write how bad the worst case option can be 10 years from now for variable rate mortgage.
> “I don’t know yet enough about the problem to give you even a rough estimate. If you’d like, I can take a day to dig into it and then report back.”

This is my default. Even when I am fairly confident I know what the code does, I want to double check. And it isn't just so I don't short change myself on time. If I tell them X days and deliver on 0.X days several times, they'll start thinking I overestimate everything and cut me off at the knees. It pays to get as accurate as possible.
> I've never seen evidence of the invisible hand helping anyone but the owners.

Just look around you. Adjusted for inflation, the median annual income in 1920 was $41,544. For 2018, it hit $61,372. The median person these days has $20,000 worth of more stuff now than they did 100 years ago. That's only possible because of growth, and the trade and competition that goes with it. That competition has driven down costs and drove innovation. We have luxuries people couldn't have dreamt of back then: phones, grocery stores stocked full of food, safe jobs, drugs and medical treatments that would seem like sci-fi.
Ignoring any future and ongoing discovery of lithium resources, yes, just like there wasn't enough oil to put us where we are now, there isn't enough lithium today for a day's worth of storage of all of US's energy needs. That is not a fair assessment, however.
HN has a predominant US reader base. Its natural that they compare everything else in the world vs US. For ex: If China excels in bullet trains, a common rhetoric will be that they copied something from the US, China's human rights issues and then goes on to say about some failed bullet train project in California. I am not sure how those discussions invokes "intellectual curiosity", but still gets to the top of HN. I got sick of this. So I created a filter with some ML out of HN RSS feeds which filters posts that it thinks is not on par with "intellectual curiosity" theme. The filter has shown great improvements as I continue to give it valid inputs. This includes all those toxic bashing like in this one.
Thats a massive selection bias!

I've used chatbots multiple times. Its just that they are flow specific.
If someone from the media is reading along here: it would be nice to mention every now and again that the "grumpy old progress hating nerds" have a pretty good track record at condemning fb/google. This entire branch of news that I would maybe call "dystopia gawking" just provokes a huge "told you so" in parts of the tech community, and that would be a good thing to keep in mind during the next gold rush.
It's fascinating that various Irish, Scottish and (I think, but not sure) Welsh legends make a similar eastern origin claim.

Over the last generation, we've had a bunch of what was assumed to be fiction confirmed. Eric the red's voyage and viking visits to North America. All sorts of very old biblical narratives are being confirmed, the existence of early iron age kings and conflicts, for example, are being confirmed by archeology. Troy, and the possible historical conflict with the Greek aegeans... Also from the bronze)iron age transition period.

It's like a swing. Modern historians worked hard to get rid of all the bible-based histories. A few generations later, the Bible (and lots of other old books and oral traditions) is a surprisingly reliable source... as are folk legends.

Noah's flood is as legitimate as it has been for 100 years. Searching for Atlantis is as non-crazy as it has been for even longer. Some aboriginal Australian oral histories are now thought (by some) to be incomprehensibly, mind boggingly old...

I'm still hoping for confirmation of at Brendan the voyager.
Boeing’s Disaster Could Turn China into Aviation Superpower
Not to mention monopolies/oligopolies prevent real choice with most products.

No one can DIY everything.
I didn't say it was a "Jewish practice" it was darylfritz who misunderstood. The practice is common in the Hasidic minority as a result of society accepting people shoveling religious dogma down their children's throats. Except for Muslims having their girls wear veils which "society" has a problem with. But society shouldn't be accepting religious indoctrination of children from anyone.
This is really the problem with the entire early genre of adventure games. The later Sierra titles were terrible about this. You pretty much needed the hint book to beat many of them. Even after they dropped text for point-n-click, the puzzles were still hard and not really intuitive.

The later LucasArts games were better at this (I bit The Dig without any hints; think I needed one or two for Full Throttle).

The modern era of adventure games really got this right with the puzzles being more direct and the game being more about story telling. The Walking Dead, Heavy Rain and The Wolf Among Us are great examples of this genre done right. Too bad it didn't save Telltale Games, although Quantic Dream's will hopefully be around after their third console release.

Indie games in this genre have been hit or miss. Broken Age started off amazing (good story, puzzles, didn't need hints) but the 2nd part went back to the old adventure game ways with impossible puzzles. Atmospheric games are fared better: Virginia and Far Lone Sail are two great adventure-ish games that are really good storytelling as game.
Jesus. I qualified my statements over the last two responses. Can you move on already?

I would also appreciate if you didn't continue to distort my position by attributing quotes or phrasing to me that I didn't argue, and I don't believe.

>I think a better description is that you 'sidetracked' the conversation, while I tried to steer it back to the main thread.

Fine. But we have no actual disagreement about there not being a lack of supply of scientists and even engineers. I conceded that point, though 'concede' is too strong of a statement because I never argued otherwise. I live in a university town and half the people in my social circle are some form of PostDoc or PhD student/grad in the sciences. I can see how hard it is for a Math PhD to get a tenure-track position.

>(I later provide a couple of links to IEEE-hosted articles which concur with what we are saying. Furthermore, you now agree that there is 'no shortage of science majors', which is the S of STEM.)

It wasn't that I disbelieved IEEE, but rather it was an expression of surprise that a IEEE would issue a nonsense statement like that. But I said that already, and you won't leave it alone. How many more times do I have to explain what I meant without your gas-lighting?

>If it's so obvious that the thread switched away from STEM onto CS, then why did both bloomer and I get confused?

And after the tedious clarification - what's your excuse now?

>FWIW, and not that it makes any difference, but:

I understand the word 'bootcamp' is used, but those 'bootcamps' are not there to train professional physicists or engineers. They are summer camps for students to get excited about the respective professions. But you know that, so why would you purposely be engaging in this equivocation? Why even bring it up as a point when you know it's red-herring.

I ask seriously. I made a point that there are no weeks-long courses to get you to be a professional scientist, and you went ahead and googled it, found programs for students which are nothing like programming bootcamps but you still decided to post that.

>There are bootcamps for physicians, but they are for practicing physicians to get training in a specific topic.

So nothing like bootcamps I referenced. Just like the other 'bootcamps' you used as a counter-example.
Are you planning on including some of your other content besides the Deep Learning sections? I personally would like to see the 'Linear Algebra Refresher' posts included.
I'd rather pay a few dollars a month for the services I need than be targeted by ads that manipulate my emotions to purchase expensive things I don't want. I'm really happy the market has options for people like me.
It does run on a mac, but for this particular release of jcuda 10.0 that I'm using, the mac binaries are not bundled, so you'll have to build them yourself. I managed to build it on a mac, so it will be included in the next release of JCuda that matches CUDA 10.1, we are just waiting JCuda author to update the bindings. You can upvote that issue at https://github.com/jcuda/jcuda-main/issues/29