skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You often see road signs in dry states advising motorists pulling trailers to double check their chains to make sure they don't cause sparks that start roadside wildfires.
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I think the point is that the author of the piece has also constructed sentences wherein the ambiguity can be argued away. That doesn't make it more useful, though.

Replacing "he" and "she" with "they" both removes information and introduces an ambiguity in number.

downvoter: am I wrong?
I'd be happy to buy virtually all my packaged food in recyclable glass containers. I buy milk in bottles and return them for a refund and it's easy enough.

Amazon could make this move happen pretty quickly with amazon.com and Whole Foods. I'm sure there would be difficulties involved but they don't seem insurmountable.
If the bookstore setting is played out, perhaps something fresher would be a perfume store? Or a music store? Or a leather goods retailer? These all still exist! :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikl%C3%B3s_L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3#P...
James is more gender neutral than you think. (I can't speak for Jessica.)
You say that, but the singular they has been in use since the 14th century[1] with criticism only becoming prevalent since the 19th century.

Also I would pay strong attention to the [citation needed]s.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they
In the common usage of the word they are totally free. If you want to redefine the word as it's used, let's start also considering your bandwidth isn't "free" and so these apps aren't free in that sense either. How about the electricity you paid to charge your phone? The calories you ingested that help you operate the phone?

The common and almost universally accepted understanding of "free" is "no exchange of money". Saying those who don't adopt an extreme viewpoint are lying is dishonest.
From the parking lot? In your car? With which you spent $2 in gas to travel there and back?
It's out of fashion in a lot of places in English. I'm not saying it's gone entirely, but there are definitely places or communities where generic he would sound very awkward.
“the best and brightest minds in the world ...”
You have to have loose morals & ethics, be a misanthrope, or be completely oblivious to the world to even work at Facebook or Google anymore.
To me this suggests then that the absolute amount of data collected isn’t necessarily a useful metric
Q: "Why is this database unavailable"

A: "Because we don't have anyone to maintain it"

News Media: "Microsoft deletes database".

Does anyone feel like today's news articles, are written by gossip/tabloid writers?
Tom Forsyth's write up seems to make mostly reasonable claims. Though even he notes that it wasn't competitive with the high end at the time.

"So let's talk about the elephant in the room - graphics. Yes, at that we did fail. And we failed mainly for reasons of time and politics. And even then we didn't fail by nearly as much as people think. Because we were never allowed to ship it, people just saw a giant crater, but in fact Larrabee did run graphics, and it ran it surprisingly well. Larrabee emulated a fully DirectX11 and OpenGL4.x compliant graphics card - by which I mean it was a PCIe card, you plugged it into your machine, you plugged the monitor into the back, you installed the standard Windows driver, and... it was a graphics card. There was no other graphics cards in the system. It had the full DX11 feature set, and there were over 300 titles running perfectly - you download the game from Steam and they Just Work - they totally think it's a graphics card! But it's still actually running FreeBSD on that card, and under FreeBSD it's just running an x86 program called DirectXGfx (248 threads of it). And it shares a file system with the host and you can telnet into it and give it other work to do and steal cores from your own graphics system - it was mind-bending! And because it was software, it could evolve - Larrabee was the first fully DirectX11-compatible card Intel had, because unlike Gen we didn't have to make a new chip when Microsoft released a new spec. It was also the fastest graphics card Intel had - possibly still is. Of course that's a totally unfair comparison because Gen (the integrated Intel gfx processor) has far less power and area budget. But that should still tell you that Larrabee ran graphics at perfectly respectable speeds. I got very good at ~Dirt3 on Larrabee.

Of course, this was just the very first properly working chip (KNF had all sorts of problems, so KNC was the first shippable one) and the software was very young. No, it wasn't competitive with the fastest GPUs on the market at the time, unless you chose the workload very carefully (it was excellent at running Compute Shaders). If we'd had more time to tune the software, it would have got a lot closer. And the next rev of the chip would have closed the gap further. It would have been a very strong chip in the high-end visualization world, where tiny triangles, super-short lines and massive data sets are the main workloads - all things Larrabee was great at. But we never got the time or the political will to get there, and so the graphics side was very publicly cancelled."

http://tomforsyth1000.github.io/blog.wiki.html#%5B%5BWhy%20d...
In this sort of login authorization is considered the severs responsibility, and in most cases that use it it amounts to: you get access to you stuff. This only handles authentication. If you need managed authorization, you are going to have to handle that yourself.
Indie publisher here. I deal with B&N through several programs they offer. They have real market power in areas like college bookstores and sales to schools. I think it's possible to view the website and its ebook platforms as brimming with a lot of untapped opportunity.

And while they sometimes have some fantastic initiatives, they really struggle with execution, such as the launch of their self-serve ad platform in February (http://leanmedia.org/bn-botches-ad-platform-rollout-can-it-r...). The print-on-demand launch (http://www.barnesandnobleinc.com/press-release/6_28_16_nook_...) was also a miss, which I think relates to its siloed and bureaucratic nature.
The point is that where the antecedents differ in number, the semantic number of the pronoun may resolve an ambiguity.

If "they" can mean either singular or plural, then it doesn't help to resolve the ambiguity at all.
The ARRL has a quarterly publication, QEX, that frequently publishes FOSS hw/sw designs for VNA, spectrum analyzers, and frequency synthesizers.
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Checkout https://althea.org/ if you're interested in decentralized internet structure.

This is NOT vaporware. The theory behind it is simple and solid. It works and is happening right now. The fact that is uses shitcoins doesn't make it a scandal or get-rich-quick scheme.
And I'd be right there with you. The plugin system allowed me to dream of making interactive the stories, ships and characters I was reading in 2001, Rama, and all the rest. And the reasonable technical knowledge required to interface with the plugins made getting there a fun, and attainable goal.
I'm probably far more well-informed on the matter of renewables that you are. And I just read another article on so-called stranded assets and such, one which (IIRC) called out Shell as being a "leader" in moving away from fossil fuels, but which I interpreted as "Shell probably won't be around too much longer".

Fun facts about renewables which most people are pretty clueless about:

1. "Nameplate capacity" (the amount of energy produced under ideal conditions, which is what is always quoted in the press) is not at all the same as "actual average capacity", which as a rule of thumb may typically only be 25% of nameplate, give or take.

2. Storage capacity (battery, pumped hydro, etc.) is not at all the same as actual generating capacity, although the renewables folks like to conflate the two.

3. Actual hydropower was generally considered evil ("Because dams are bad!") until the renewables folks decided to make it their own, in order to make their numbers look better than they actually would be otherwise.

4. Individual windmills are apparently only going to last about half of their originally expected lifetimes - 10 to 15 years instead of 20 to 30 years. Not sure about solar, but I think that's generally holding up much better.

5. On the other hand, solar doesn't necessarily generate as much power as expected, even in "ideal" areas like deserts, due to dust accumulation on panels and such. Even Google infamously overestimated the generation capacity of at least one of its desert solar thermal towers by something like 2/3, based on estimated cloud cover vs. actual cloud cover. (How does something like that even happen?) And apparently a lot of solar panels which have already been installed were oriented the wrong way. That is, due South (as was originally the thinking) instead of due West, which is what the "duck curve" indicates is actually the best orientation.

I could go on, but that seems sufficient.

BTW, GE's troubles date back to at least the heyday of GM Financial, which is well before the whole current energy thing had any traction. Apparently it was routinely being used as something of slush fund in order to gloss over problems elsewhere. (This was an open secret within the financial community and even occasionally joked about in the financial press.) And IIRC, there are/were several billion dollars of future potential insurance liabilities which somehow just conveniently got "forgotten about" at one point. Oops!
But having so many configs is security in and of itself!
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>>10) I accept that someone with less experience may have better ideas than I have, even in my own field of expertise.

There are also people who assume their ideas in fields they don’t have experience in are good, precisely because of that lack of experience. They think their “outsider’s perspective” significantly increases their likelihood of being correct because they “think outside the box” or some such. It’s the opposite of humility, and supremely frustrating to deal with!
They have discounts for educational institutions if price is really that much of a concern, it's great value for the features they pack in that little thing...and honestly "professionals" use much much more expensive instruments in their labs.
Simple got acquired by BBVA(a giant 150 yrold banking conglomerate) in 2014. That’s my guess as to why they’ve stopped innovating, it’s a tale as old as acquisitions have existed.
Also, they got acquired because they had no profitable business model.
Yea...it doesn't need to be perfect or have pretty much any apps except for web browser, mp3 player, PDF viewer, document viewer, text messaging, alarm
...that is the only thing I use my phone for.
You aren’t likely to talk to a knowledgeable salesperson at a chain bookseller, as generally they are not big book fans. They just needed a job, and these chains will hire just about anyone who can competently work their POS systems.

As somebody who spends a ridiculous amount of time at my local Barnes & Noble store (I work from their cafe a lot, but also come here to buy books a lot), and who has gotten to know most of the staff here pretty well, I would say that this does not jibe with my (n=1) experience. It doesn't prove anything, but the people who work here (the New Hope Commons store, in Durham, NC) are quite often bibliophiles, and/or are very knowledgeable about books and/or quite a few other things. One of the baristas is a masters student in Data Science and always points out to me if some new techie book has shown up on the shelves that he thinks I might be interested in. Several of the employees are also authors in their own right, and I just finished one of their books which was, if not exactly great, definitely at least worth reading. Another lady ran one of the first ISP's somewhere in the midwest back in the day, and knows all sorts of interesting stuff. Amazingly she didn't know about the show Halt & Catch Fire until I mentioned it to her the other day.

Anyway, I digress... the point is just that at this one store, at least, there is a staff of people who are quite knowledgeable/interesting and make it worth coming in, in order to interact with them.
Then why does every online store allow you to pay more for faster shipping?
Presumably it was the principle of the matter. Bait and switch generally being seen in a negative light...
So how do I benefit as a consumer?
sounds very agile
My experience is that BestBuy will price match bestbuy.com, Newegg and Amazon. Their price match policy says they match: Amazon.com, Crutchfield.com, Dell.com, HP.com, Newegg.com, and TigerDirect.com, but I’ve gotten them to match online.
>shipping glass ... “difficulties”

Yeah I’m sure they’d lose a ton of money. Glass is heavy and expensive plus the added liability of it breaking and a consumer reaching their hand inside.
Nice to see. EV plug-ins — and a plug-in editor — were my first attempt to make shareware. Totally failed to sell a single copy, but my plugin got onto MacFormat magazine that month.

I’m glad this game also has plug-ins and a map editor.
Is Facebook going to get a banking license? If not this lets them offer bank like services while holding everyone's deposits and making money off the interest.
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Stallman's article about singular they has always struck me as Stallman just reserving the right to be rude.

Pronouns are a lot like nicknames or shortened names. You can ask people to call you Richard instead of 'Richie', 'Rich', or 'Dick' and generally expect that people will try to respect that. If someone wrote and essay that said, "I object to using the nickname someone prefers, because I found an equally correct replacement of my choosing..." I think we'd all raise an eyebrow.

Sure, go ahead and reserve that right, but did you really need to?
They could pilot it and charge a little extra.
Rather than complete decentralization, maybe what we're looking for is having opposing large organizations, as popularized by John Kenneth Galbraith?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countervailing_power
Not sure why you've put "market" in quotes there. Okta is literally a SSOaaS that has a $14 billion market cap.
I'm betting they try to flip it to Amazon for $1.8b in 18 months time :)
Interesting debate btw. I think the correlation between high levels of testing as relates to early identification is a big contributor to trend of increasing survival rates (along with advancing treatment options of course).

Also important to note. MRIs are noninvasive. Biopsies, in BC cases, are fairly noninvasive. It’s typically just pulling out some cells with a needle, not to say it’s comfortable, but nothing to really fear either. So, I guess I just don’t see what the big deal is. Except it’s expensive. So, as is always the case with healthcare, the real debate should probably be about cost.
They should at least be price matching their own website.
A Guide to High Speeds (and When They Were Achieved)
I agree it’s anti-consumer in some significant ways. I think of it as not competing as vigorously as you could on price, by publicizing that for the consumers who are willing to do extra work, that you’ll eventually honor the best price they found at a qualifying competitor, but that you’re not going to be the one who initiates the first salvo in the price war.
> It would be nice to replace the gendered pronouns with ones that separate along subject/object lines.

English has subject vs object distinctions in pronouns already, but all of your examples are subject and not object uses.

You seem to want a distinction between whether the referent was a subject or object in the preceding clause, but in all your examples the only reason to use a pronoun is to refer to the indirect object, since to refer to the subject you would render the sentence exactly as your example except dropping the pronoun entirely, so it doesn't seem to be a necessary or useful distinction, at least in the examples presented.
In hot metro areas the problem isn't the construction costs, it's the land. A 1/4 acre tear-down in Cupertino or Sunnyvale goes for a million dollars; an empty half acre goes for two million.

It's hard to fix this: the root problem is that income is concentrated in a small number of areas that are constrained by geography, not that houses are expensive to build. In areas with plenty of land around well-dispersed businesses (eg. Houston or North Carolina), nice houses can be had for $200K. In areas with no income (eg. Detroit) nice houses can be had for $10K, but you wouldn't necessarily want to live there anyway.
Assuming it's OpenBSD or GNU dc, it appears to be written in C.
The value of "shipping fees" changes depending on speed, but those are always separate from the cost of the actual item being purchased.
Look into the ADI Analog Discovery 2 for audio work, as it has a Bode analyzer and THD in the spectrum analyzer.

https://youtu.be/1rOvdsxQVTY
But you’re still packing it cardboard and air filled plastic bags. It’s fragile has to be handled differently. Which means it’s more of a risk. Think of the robot that pierced the bear mace in a factory.
ArsTechnica tech reporter charged with soliciting child sex online
https://proxy.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Farstechnica....

Physiognomy is real. Also he defines himself on Twitter as "Poly/pan/pervy" so there's that.
I think that if "downloading apps users can't log into wastes their time" was the problem Apple was trying to solve, this would be a good (maybe better?) solution.

But the problem they're going after is bigger: how do you allow users to keep using their favorite apps (because most people aren't super privacy-conscious) while at the same time making sure those apps don't track users or sell their data? And, like it or not (and many people won't), I think forcing developers' hand is the only real way to make this happen.
The entire "national security" argument that the administration is making fails on this observation. Trump is effectively banning Huawei from selling Chinese people phones that contain American parts ... in order to protect American national security? The whole argument doesn't add up. It's obviously a tactic to force the Chinese government to yield in the trade talks, as Trump himself has openly stated.
I’m not sure if we can really confirm HIPPA’s effectiveness that readily; we don’t live in a non-HIPPA world, so we can’t compare the outcomes.

If hospitals faced zero consequences for losing customer data, then yeah, things would probably be worse. But HIPPA is two things: a set of mandatory requirements and a grounds for suing hospitals that lose/misuse data. I think the latter thing is effective, but the former is not.
The article points out that you're also getting the microplastics from the food you're eating and from just drinking tap water. Microplastics from your own packaging isn't included in the 120k total.
> "Wouldn't increasing voter turnout be an upside?"

There are better, less drastic, ways of making voting more accessible. Washington state's system of mailing everybody a ballot works pretty well. I usually don't even remember when elections are coming up until I get a ballot in the mail, without ever asking for it. In Washington, people who care to vote don't have any trouble finding the time. (Of course many people just don't give a shit, and electronic voting won't change that.)
Good, next step kick Turkey and Germany out of NATO.
By “not particularly useful”, do you mean that if someone were to apply it to the greatest extent possible, it wouldn’t work (on average)?

Or just that it’s obvious?

I mean, good advice often seems obvious to the point of banality, yet is heeded and properly applied by very few.

Paul Graham has said the same thing about his advice to YC-funded founders. He’s joked he could have been replaced with a bot that just repeatedly said “make something people want” and “talk to your users”.

It sounds banal, yet so few actually do it, and the ones who have done it are the ones who have succeeded.
The 5th amendment does not create any crimes, but every state has criminal laws that would apply to a police officer coercing a confession by threat, force, torture, etc....
The only thing to do when you implement a linter is fix the 800 errors it generates. It shouldn’t take long. That’s absolutely the right thing to do, and I’d happily back anyone on my team who does that.
> They have real market power in areas like college bookstores and sales to schools.

They used to, but Barnes and Noble (ticket: BKS) (the firm being discussed here) does not, AFAIK, any more, because Barnes and Noble Education (ticker: BNED) was spun off in 2015, and is a separate public company.
I use singular they, and used it through tech interviewing and onboarding recently. It was a real challenge trying to figure out whether I wanted to use singular they during the interview. Correcting an interviewer or recruiter when they get your pronouns wrong is scary (on top of the anxiety that is programming job interviews.)

Over the years in tech I've found all sorts of different responses to me sharing my pronouns -- mostly people being supportive and a bit forgetful. But also people saying some unnecessarily cruel things, or going out of their way to say, "I DON'T HAVE TO RESPECT THAT!".

I've had people tell me, "Yes, fine, I'll acquiesce. But you should know you are wrong and I'm lying to you every time I use singular they."

Ok, sure, but we're colleagues and I'm just letting you know that's what I'd prefer? You can also always just use my name. I'm not going to go to HR if you get it wrong, I'm not going to get mad. I might remind you, but the reminder will be gentle and not accusatory. Why so much aggro?
This looks to be an interesting piece on a very interesting paper! Somewhat tangentially (I'm afraid) I just wanted to comment on this para from the article's intro:

> Language is made of discrete structures, yet neural networks operate on continuous data: vectors in high-dimensional space. A successful language-processing network must translate this symbolic information into some kind of geometric representation

I was a bit surprised recently by another article linked here recently[1] that discusses "direct speech-to-speech translation without relying on intermediate text representation" which (if I read it correctly) works by taking frequency domain representations of speech as input and producing frequency domain representations of translated speech as output. This is indeed as near as you get to "continuous" input and output data in the digital domain, and brings into question (in my mind, anyhow) the assumption that discrete structures are fundamental to language processing (in humans too, for that matter.)

I don't mean to detract from the paper, which looks highly interesting, it's just that this business of given discrete structures in language is a bugbear of mine for some time now :)

1: https://ai.googleblog.com/2019/05/introducing-translatotron-...
The quote is from a 1984 news story, Pierre was Canadian PM then and Justin would have been 12 years old at the time.
Memory bandwidth is another issue holding CPUs back
I struggle with this when everyone outside of tech asks me what I do.

My answer always changes since I haven't narrowed down a way to describe "cloud engineering" to people.

I've heard this saying before and every time I think, "maybe I don't know what I do".
What information would you gain from sending a test email? Wouldn't test emails sent to Apple's anonymous forwarding email also go through?

There's really no such thing as checking for a "real" email address, though lots of sites do blacklist known anonymous email domains like 10minutemail. But nothing can stop you from just signing up for a new Gmail.
Because you don't want to reward bald-faced manipulation. It's not about saving two dollars.
Earned up to is correct but somewhere less than that amount since he wasnt there long enough.