skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're going to define phonology that way, it doesn't make any sense to say that there are people studying how subfields of linguistics that traditionally apply only to spoken languages can be applied to sign languages as well, since -- by definition -- they all apply equally to spoken languages and to sign languages. That reduces the claim to "some linguists study sign languages", which is even less interesting.

> I am using "syntax" in a very precise sense, as tied to linguistics generally and the Minimalist program specifically. Having a syntax = having a grammar with a merge operation and a move operation that governs relationships of the word or morpheme level units in your language.

Similarly, this is a bizarre viewpoint to take. Syntax is a much older concept than that. The subfield of syntax, as "traditionally" applied to spoken languages, predates the definition you're trying to use here, by hundreds of years. And that's just talking about the subject that was literally named "syntax". Take a look at gloss A.4 here: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%... . You are not using "syntax" in a sense that linguistics in general would recognize. You're taking a very specific feature and, without justification, naming it "syntax" in spite of the existing use of the word -- and then claiming that people who use the word normally just don't understand you. Of course they don't!

And the subfield of syntax, as traditionally understood by everyone, conceptually applies to any messages governed by any rules at all. Are you really claiming that Daniel Everett would say the Pirahã language has no syntax? Or would he say that it does have syntax, and its syntax differs from those of most natural languages in that it lacks a particular feature?
According to the preliminary report from the NTSB,

> At 3 seconds prior to the crash and up to the time of impact with the crash attenuator, the Tesla’s speed increased from 62 to 70.8 mph, with no precrash braking or evasive steering movement detected. [1]

This means the vehicle gave the driver less time to respond. I'd argue the manufacturer bears some responsibility.

[1] https://ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/HWY1...
Deniability of what? Google cannot reliably identify logged out users. There're different lawyer groups that make sure it's the case. I was working with the log data and this is actually a big pain, having to go through data reviews and remove all identifiable data.
And yet you must still post.

What hope is there for me, then?
> As far as I know there's no way for evolution to "sprinkled a bit of autism" across a population for an increased chance of population survival - I don't see how such a mechanism could exist.

Not strictly autism, but sickle cell anemia is a disease caused by carrying two copies of a recessive gene. If you have two copies of the recessive gene, you suffer from a debilitating illness. If you carry one copy of the normal gene and one copy of the disease causing recessive version, you have increased resistance to malaria, which has killed more humans than everything else combined. So evolution definitely does contribute to the prevalence of sickle cell anemia. Almost everyone in the US we suffers from sickle cell anemia is of sun Saharan African descent, where malaria is especially relevant.

While autism certainly isn't as simple as sickle cell anemia, there does exist the possibility that genetic components which contribute to autism can also contribute to other, more positive traits with fewer risk factors.
> CBP insists it'll discard photos taken of citizens, and only keep a database of non-citizens.

So only non-citizens would be able to "use" the face-as-boarding-pass "feature"?
I might be playing the devil's advocate a little bit now, but If what these people are saying is truly that toxic that they can be excluded from facebook, twitter, podcast directories, etc. If they really do incite violence and harrasment and spread misinformation.

What's stopping them from ending up like the daily stormer, being "deplatformed" from cloudflare, or ending up like the pirate bay, being blocked by a lot of ISPs world wide?

Or maybe they just deserve it if they can garner enough attention and infamy to get themselves blocked from a hosting company.
And yet, this thread is full of people talking about Gitlab rather than Github, so I don't really know how good of a move it was.
Automation and self-serve makes sense even if N% of people fall through the cracks. As long as N is small enough that you can comfortably reduce headcount while not degrading customer experience.
Applying link is broken, it renders "The page you requested is unavailable".
Through the '90s and even into the very early 21st century, doctors would hold off before starting antiretrovirals. After acute HIV infection (which often causes flu-like symptoms, known as sero-conversion sickness), the body naturally suppresses the HIV infection to manageable levels. So the standard advice was not to medicate yet.

Of course, that meant that most HIV-infected individuals were still contagious. Their viral levels were low, but they weren't so low as to prevent transmission.

Combined with a social stigma that kept people from getting tested, this medical treatment philosophy is a major part of why HIV became as prevalent as it did. I understand why - early drugs like AZT were even harder on the patient's liver than modern drugs. But at best that seems myopic; at worst, it was negligent from a public health perspective.

It is probably a bad thing that, at least in the U.S., we separate the medical field from the public health field so arbitrarily. Maybe -- hopefully -- this development in HIV treatment and the evolution of antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections will make us rethink this dichotomy.
Until the their payment processors refuse to do business with them due to political pressure. I guess they could accept money orders or cryptocurrency, but services are centralized to the point that "just create your own website" isn't a simple solution any more.
Very cool. Worth checking out a similar project Durable Functions. However those orchestrations can run in serverless and can scale to zero during the “waiting for other tasks” step.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-functions/durab...

Disclaimer - product manager for Azure durable functions
I think this is a better aphorism than "trust, but verify".

I work in the information security assurance field, I swear that 90% of the issues I see at companies with external service providers comes back to the fact that their contract does not have anywhere enough ability to hold the service provider to task...

Get everything you need in the contract / agreement, then hope you never have to use it.
Google does not care about it
Visual Studio Code Remote – WSL
Anyone who thinks autism is just a difference in personality that doesn't need treatment is welcome to foot the bill for all the people including my nephew who has difficulty talking and cannot live independently now and may very well continue to be this way long after his parents pass away.
From the PR it sounds like they plan to provide customers with a sort of feedback loop between productivity metrics and training programs.
This is really cool! I wanted to point out this wonderful article also posted to HN today that shows how LLVM MCA can help guide low level optimizations:

Article: https://pdziepak.github.io/2019/05/02/on-lists-cache-algorit...

HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19810618
Out of interest, how would you argue against someone using your justifications for facial recognition on street corners, which you seem to think is a step too far?

Would your argument against street corner recognition systems have been different before and after facial recognition was required at the border?

You mention that having your photo taken at passport control is “pretty normal”. Do you remember when it was not? Would you be more concerned if we had gone straight from a situation where no pictures were taken, to rolling out a facial recognition system at the border?
This is why full end to end encryption is required.
> I don't like the language very much, I guess that could be part of the difficulty. It's just too damn complicated, the same way C++ is complicated.

Interesting comparison. I find computer languages incredibly easy to pickup. Human languages on the other hand have been much more difficult. I only speak English and sometimes even then my words come out in the wrong order or I forget words entirely (+).

(+) I once forgot the word "and" - as a result I struggled for a day to speak/write many complex sentences.
How do you know someone in the group chat isn't a spy for the government?
It's Microsoft. I'm sure they just rebooted it!

(I had to, see username!)

edit: seriously,-3 ? it was a joke.
didn't mean to ruffle any feathers, it seems like the ones that have appeared lately are "new language like language X but does Y". Maybe I'm getting old and grumpy but can't help but think the time would be better spent adding feature Y to language X, but didn't mean to start anything :-).
Multi Task Tool (Mouse Move Remapper)
.. on the same day the 'undesirables' are banned.

+1 for 'social credit score', USA style.
Why no comment for this critical issue?
In the USA this doesnt seem to be true. I just looked up the stats. 23 and 27 murders of trans individuals in US over past 2 years. Avg US homicide rate is 5 deaths per 100,000 per year. There are roughly 1.5 million trans individuals so you'd expect 75 or so. However margin of error and confounding variables are massive so my point is just that it seems roughly normal, not that it's safer to be trans. This despite 15% of female transgenders having worked at some time in the sex industry, more involvement with drugs, etc.

If you want some crazy (depressing) stats, look up trans suicide rates. Although I would speculate that only like 1 in 40 attempts succeeds.
Private Equity Is Turning Public Prisons into Big Profits
AWS was also down for a bit
Serum – Advanced Wavetable Synthesizer
I became a coder because I find it useful, valuable, and creatively stimulating.

The only time I really enjoy coding, in the sense that 12 hours can pass by in the blink of an eye, is when I'm working on my own things. So by the time I'm done working for ~8 hours a day I'm bursting with excitement for when I get to fire up my development VM and code for another 6 hours.

I get excited learning new things about my field. I get excited encountering and solving new problems. I get excited when I am able to form connections between isolated domains of knowledge and create work that is more valuable than the time I spent on it.

Programming is engineering, but it is also art. I am an engineer, but I am also an artist. I live to create; writing useful applications, making video games and writing music are all ways I do this. My career path has and will continue to be a reflection of these values.

I understand if some people chose to become programmers just for the money. I hope you are at least treating my field with respect and not just getting by with minimal effort while eroding employer/employee trust and dragging down the median salary.

But consider that you could be making money in a field you are truly passionate about, blurring the lines between what is "work" and what is a "personal project". This is what it means to become successful in life, not wads of cash.
F35 has been an incredibly expensive platform to develop and deploy.

Possibly the most expensive military system program in history.

However, it is beginning to reach its extraordinary potential of sensor fusion, electronic attack, force multiplication, and hybrid teaming.

We heard very similar things about F15 and F16 40-50 years ago, the same period of time they have completely dominated the air domain.

Odds are, F35 will be an extremely capable aviation platform.

Having said that, and from the perspective of an aviation geek, I would rather see F35 funds NOT be spent to deter adversaries, but to be invested in other areas such as infrastructure, education, health insurance experimentation, and affordable housing solutions.
Why would this not usually be listed under "racism"?

Seems pretty damn racist and completely fucked for this to still occur today.
> Presumably in this hypothetical situation where you can "cure" autism, you can also "uncure" autism.

For one, I don't see how that's justified. There are plenty of diseases we can't uncure?!

And then, the choice to try out non-autism is already a decision to be non-autistic, even if only temporarily.

> My point is that austistic people who choose to deliberately stay autistic without experiencing what it is like to be non-autistic are making a biased choice (likely rooted in fear of the unknown).

Well, yes, obviously. And how is that relevant, when noone claimed they were making an unbiased decision?

> The objective course of action is to experience being on-autistic for a few years before deciding whether you want to "uncure" yourself.

More subjective experience doesn't make the decision objective, just better informed. And in any case, it's still besides the point, because noone was making claims about how objective or how informed the decision is?

When someone says "Plenty of people don't drink alcohol, and are happy with it, and have no interest in trying alcohol", it's simply a non-sequitur to respond "But the objective course of action is to experience drinking alcohol for a few years." Yes, the decision would be better-informed, but being better informed is not a prerequisie for being happy with what you are doing, nor does the fact that you could try drinking alcohol have any relevance to the assertion that some people just aren't interested.
Americans would also say /ɡiːks/. No dialect of English would be likely to use /ɡiːkz/; that's not how voicing assimilation works.
Eminem also had a track called "Criminal", highlighting the absurdity of labels that people throw around for things they don't like.
How many of those homeless would choose to re-enter those institutions if they were available?

Would you rather be homeless or in jail if given the choice?

Perhaps we can find a third option where safe and supportive communities are provided that have various levels of minimal removal of agency.
It's more than weird. It's a crazy ruling.

The press room in the Whitehouse is an official communications platform of the White House. With that ruling as precedent, can I barge in there? I can even behave better than Jim Acosta.
Facebook is reportedly looking for allies to support its planned crypto payment
shouldn't that be (addr1-addr2+1)? Or does dd copy the first byte plus the count?
Farrakhan is a prominent leftist. He was at Aretha Franklin's funeral, seated next to Bill Clinton. The leaders of the Women's March are big fans of his.
>It would be entirely possible to have a benevolent dictator

You lost me at this straw man. You are tossing around nebulous and vague concerns. Would it be fair to say your concern is potential abuse of your photos by a government entity?
Who is this "Brendan Burns" dude and why is everyone treating him like a deity? I've never heard of him even though I spent nearly a decade at Google, some of it in Google Cloud. Much of what Kubernetes is is basically a "lightweight" take on Borg. It even comes through in naming: borglet <-> kubelet, borgmaster <-> kubernetes master. The story of Kubernetes is very much about standing on the shoulders of the giants, and most of those giants (members of the Borg/Omega team) are still there, at Google.
This is not new. DNS queries didn't respond to Outlook (Hotmail) servers from within Azure. Thus the application I was responsible was unable to send emails via SMTP. And this issue appeared few times in the last few years.

Our customer was bashing us if they were unable to use our product for several minutes but when Azure was down for a day there were no complaints to Microsoft. (they were hosting our product at Azure)

I don't understand their love of Microsoft. I guess because they have Microsoft certificates like generals have.
> How great of a programmer are they? You're going to need more than 60 minutes

That's clearly what the OP was saying.
I’d signup for that
You missed the point. Schools are only prestigious because of an expected quality of students. Nobody is clamoring to hire random folks that took free online MIT courses and there is a reason for that.

>Also, who would you have in mind to be the minority on a track team?

I don’t know, a gay Muslim, a queer Christian, what does it matter? Once you’ve started selecting for diversity rather than merit, you’ve failed no matter which minority you choose.

>why would you want to be getting stodgy about educational qualifications up around here?

I don’t care about education, but that’s because in my field it’s relatives easy to check expertise with hands on exercises. But that misses the whole point of the conversation.

The only reason anyone cares about education on the hiring side is that it’s supposed to be an intelligence/competency signal. If you just let whoever into the MIT electrical engineering department because their skin is the right color then there really isn’t much to say for the aptitude of MIT EE grads.

Finally, if disadvantaged people performed up to par when placed in school and intelligence didn’t matter, then schools could simply save hundreds of thousands of dollars by firing the admissions department and replacing it with a random number generator.
This is excellent, and opportune timing for me too! I just finished courses on microarchitecture and compiler optimization.

Can anyone recommend any similar articles about low level optimization?
How do you know the government does not already have the root cert anyway
Who am I to judge the quality of your life? Nobody can judge that but you.
See xkcd 538: https://xkcd.com/538/
Coriolis Systems was a software company that supplied Mac utility software
You don't know that a group is free of spies, but a group is less likely to have a spy than the current setup whereby pervasive, omnipresent surveillance is facilitated by WeChat, leading to people needlessly imprisoned and tortured for the thoughtcrime of others.
Oh, sorry, you don’t have ID? Oh… I hate to tell you, but… I guess you live in Dallas now. I think you need to start a new life here in Dallas, and work hard until you get a new ID. And then you could use that ID to fly back to your old life and get your old ID.

- Hannibal Buress
I would love to, but I'm an ocean away.
>OpenGL:
Basically Javascript for GPU’s.

Everyday we stray further from god's light.
Occam's razor only works until it doesn't.
> We occasionally see getaddrinfo() calls fail claiming domains that we know exist at the failure time (b/c the records are completely static) don't exist.

That could be whatever resolvers you're hitting failing rather than an issue with Route 53 authoritative nameservers, though. The resolving DNS servers in EC2 are not actually part of Route 53, for example.
The link you posted is titled "Pesticide Turns Male Frogs into Females". Saying that makes the frogs "gay" raises questions about the person making that assertion.
I read this in your HN profile: "Facet is a marketplace for hiring ex-Google, Netflix, Facebook, etc devs." Doesn't that mean you're excluding everyone who wasn't chosen by the very hiring managers you're criticizing, at an elite list of companies?
I grew up in the South, and I never encountered the use of "y'all" in a singular context (I'm 48). I'm not sure where that idea started.

Edit: I should instead say I never encountered it among actual locals using the word in normal speech. Later on, the plural was sometimes used jokingly after the idea that "y'all" was plural had taken hold in popular, non-Southern culture.
We’ve experienced the same thing. I’ve never been able to figure it out. If you ever do, please let me know! I’ll owe you a beer ;)
> can people not make mistakes?

I'm sure everyone make mistakes.

I'm not entirely sure if people have made mistake where they stated the the death of children were just a plot to take away guns, that those where child actors and then before I continue I would like to briefly talk about my InforWar products. Buy this rape whistle to support InfoWar. Oh where was I? Right, making money off of the dead kids.

And you're saying this as if this is the only outrageous incidents he have done.

I want you to say it with your real name instead of a pseudo name.

Like how I'm stating my belief on this subject with my real name. Because I'm sure as hell you wouldn't be defending Alex Jones' actions.
It's a normal thing all over the world. The answer unfortunately is yes, most people are shallow and vindictive in a negligent sort of way. There's a saying that great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss things, and small minds discuss people. By this metric the majority undoubtedly possess small minds.
Atomic-powered airships that never made it off the drawing board (2017)
Why the 'post-natural' age could be strange and beautiful
The whole reason I picked Gitlab is that it doesn't matter what Gitlab does, if they pick a weird direction I can just self host and do what I want.

Gitlab is big enough that should they ever be killed by a Google acquisition (I don't think that's likely), a strong enough community would sprout and keep maintaining it.
To my knowledge, there has never been a global outage for any AWS service, and I've been using them for a long time.

There was the status page, but S3 being down in us-east-1 didn't effect S3 in ap-southeast-1, etc. The big DynamoDB outage a few years back also was limited to us-east-1
I'd rather have a HUD above the speedometer myself, this way you just have to glance down to see any relevant information.
And from Victorian England.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saltaire
Most kube focused customers move to GKE. It really is the best platform and Google is all in. Azure/AWS/etc see it as a commoditizing platform they don't control like Google does, so they'll never be the best.

GKE gives a sweet deal to encourage it because they see the long tail revenues.

It's a pretty easy decision for anyone based on k8s. I see this more a sponsored ad for kubernetes than I do for Google.
I know what you’re saying but when I read the parent comment I couldn’t help but think of an episode of Star Trek where Data and some commander are introduced to each other and they begin to talk for seemingly hours about nothing but trivia.

Rather than conversation I think the more appropriate moniker for what the parent comment was describing would be “small talk”.
Is the placement of the fingerprint scanner better on the back or front?
I hope some day we have RISCV phones where you can swap processors and all software is auditable.
Par the course for HN. The other day in a GCP thread people were pining for AWS and wish they could get off of the horrible, non-working Google infra.

In another, folks were pining for the days they could migrate off of AWS for GCP and the better managed k8s clusters it would give them.
>In general terms regarding systems in our society - If the system is dependent on charity to support it... it isn't supported

Whoops, you got that backwards. If a system is dependent on compulsory taxes, it isn’t supported. If nobody cares to voluntarily donate to it or pay for services on their own, then it’s not something really valued by society.
I should clarify to say, for my current use cases I have found I get charged for way more resources than I would expect to be and Azure's billing breakdowns are so useless and difficult to parse that I can't figure out where the extra charges are coming from :D But could be a PEBCAK error.

In any case, I think you are right that apples-to-apples for most things they generally shake out the same in theory.