skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree! But the cost of such a move across the industry would be incredibly high, probably taking decades of highly expensive investment. Is it really worth the cost for all projects?
"Harper presented to the leadership committee and they were confused."

Is 'they' referring to Harper or the leadership committee?
I agree with this. Almost all LBOs are cash transactions financed with debt.
No I certainly would not. They didn't mind when the tables were turned though, is my point.
Before I can be bullish on RISC-V, I really need to see a set of basic bitwise instructions -- minimally, popcount and count-leading-zeros (i.e. integer log-base-2).

When I last looked at the (tabled) bitwise extensions, they had been bloated out of all reason with really wild bit-shuffling apparatus.

I understand those last are very useful to some people, but if they interfere with getting a fast popcount in the core ISA, we can't afford them.
The first 3 paragraphs could've been skipped.

It really starts at: "I’ve wanted for some time to have one place to send everyone who complains about singular they".
It's really interesting to get a retrospective, once you get to know your co-workers/managers, on what they were thinking when hiring you. It is DEFINITELY NOT what you might expect!

I was once was hired as a "career-changer" because I had worked in one of my early jobs as a science museum staff-member doing demonstrations for school groups. For some reason, the hiring manager thought that was indicative of communication ability and curiosity. I guess it was, but I never thought it to be very important nor formative at the time.
Just as there's no time to do it right, only time to do it over, there's never money to do it now, only later.
You don't understand the difference between a police department and a private corporation? No wonder you don't see a problem.
The SSO "market" is only a market if the SSO providers are monetizing your data at the expense of your privacy. Private authentication is not a "market" almost any of us needs or wants, but rather a right that we deserve.
Cats and Butterflies: Two misunderstood analogies (2018)
This is one of the most accessible explanations of the mechanics of magnetic resonance imaging that I've come across. Thanks for sharing.
Ask HN: When you can't face another shitty CRUD application
The recruiter called and said he has an exciting urgent requirement for a senior developer position with x company

After 10 years I can't face building another boring shitty crud application and trust me most of them are just big stinking shitty stupid web apps.

Get shit from a form, validate shit, transform shit and stick shit in the database. get shit from database, squish shit stick shit on a web page. I feel like a plumber up to my elbows in..... you guessed it, shit. Somebody shoot me, and to think I used to love computers as a kid
Well, the next step above would maybe be a low-end PicoScope (they start at 115$ for 10MHz).

https://www.picotech.com/products/oscilloscope
A recent post on the same topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20098900
Apple's business model is selling hardware, not selling advertising. It's not really a sacrifice for them. It's a "strategy credit" https://stratechery.com/2013/strategy-credit/
Ah yes. Always knew my superior general knowledge was due to my absolutely incredible intellectual humility.
It's really happening
Highlights from Git 2.22
Persuade or Be Persuaded
That's like doing engine work blindfolded!

Amateur tip though, lots of good deals on used scopes out there. Companies seem to cycle through them, probably a calibration thing. I've seen 200MHz scopes go for < $150 USD on Ebay in the past, (inconveniently enough at times when I didn't have $150 to blow for an older Tektronix).
`python3 -mvenv` is the obvious true way
Because C++ is the future of systems programming on Windows.

If you want to hold on to C, there is clang and GCC.

There are multiple occurrences of this statements from Microsoft employees blogs and talks, apparently some keep missing it.

And actually VC++ compatibility with ISO C has been updated to the extent required by ISO C++, meaning C11 standard library, and some language constructs that were considered relevant by major customers.
They switched over long ago.

There are far fewer shelves of books now. Of the books they do have, they are optimized for profit -- ranging from best sellers, new books by genre, and those few books from big authors that sell year over year.

Most of these books are now trade paperback instead of mass market paperback. I go in needing to get Tom Sawyer and the only option they have is $15.95.

They took the computers out where I could look up a book.

If I manage to find a series of books I want, there is a good chance the first book in the series is missing, since that is the most likely to be purchased. I could then ask at the counter, where they'll tell me they can order it for me.

The shelves themselves have fewer, larger books -- many place front cover out -- occupying fewer shelves. There is just no hunt left in B&N anymore. There is no discovery of something from the back catalog.
And the U.S., via its isolationist policy at the time, largely chose to just stay out of a war which was being fought "way over there" and which we had no direct interest in at the time. But then the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in late 1941, which changed everything. This is when IBM's direct involvement with Germany also ended.
It would be a completely different game, something more like elite and other flight simulators in space.
I find it curious to selectively focus both your comments so far on the census services and ignore the rest. Certainly, when taken out of context those census services are easy to defend.

For the record, the context is that of a fascist regime invading its neighbours (enemies, neutrals and allies alike) and rounding up their undesirables.

>I don't recall IBM coming out smelling like a rose

After building the census systems to identify targets, IBM built a train scheduling system for transporting those people to work and concentration camps. Then, they built a punch card system for optimizing the exploitation of that slave labour and exterminating the rest.

But yes, "IBM was in the census business at the time, after all."

Please.
> “She kept her head and kicked her shoes off, as everybody ought to do who falls into deep water in their clothes.”

I fall into category C: Native English speaker who has no idea how to use English properly. Could someone please explain what is supposedly wrong with this sentence?
Graduates have a problem: massive debt. FAANG offer a solution: high salary. Until this situation changes, you'll see a steady flow of fresh meat into the grinder.
Why is nobody talking about Xiaomi, Oppo, Vivo? They have majority of Indian market. Together with Huawei they might create an alliance and create a Chinese fork of Android.

If they give access to intel data to other countries then it can be a competitive offer compared to Google Android.
Uber used to work so well for me but ever since Travis left the service has rapidly degraded to the point where I try not to use it if I don’t have to. This goes double for Uber Eats. I don’t know if the original leadership change caused to problems but it’s very noticeable. The software used to be very tight (for lack of a better word). Responsive, always did what I wanted. Always a satisfying experience. Now it’s slow, laggy, more prone to drivers flaking, has arbitrary UI changes... Sadly none of the competitors offer a UX on par with early Uber.
You have obviously worked for that state. :)
We have too many racists already. They can stay there.
Is there any strong evidence of the claim that Larrabee HW had the potential of being a capable GPU, and that it was just a SW issue?

Despite being increasingly programmable, GPUs still have very fine-tuned hardware for graphics, and this goes deeper than just adding some texture mapping units here or there.

A good example of this is the fact that both Nvidia and AMD keep on adding new modes in HW to streamline graphics primitive processing with varying degrees of success (see mesh shaders and primitive shaders.)

To me, this signals that a free-for-all software approach as championed by Larrabee is simply not efficient enough in a competitive environment where GPUs are declared winner or loser based on benchmark differences of just a few percent.
What is this garbage visualization? What is the root of the tree meant to represent? Why does it seem to originate at 15 companies per year? What does the color mean? Why are there multiple strands per year if the X axis is "per year"?
Wish I could, but like I said in my first post I just haven't been able to find any similar space/trader games on the same level as EVN. Maybe someone else will be able to chime in.

But my guess is just that it's not really a popular enough genre, which is why there's such a dearth in games of similar style and quality.
JFC what do people want from life? They long for something they don't have. Ever seen a big family, full of back stabbing? Not all families are great. Be alone, enjoy the void, wtf.
on the other hand, if nobody had corrected my use of "loose" I wouldn't know it.
Some of these are actually mistakes native speakers are prone to make, since they didn't learn the language from text first.
Amazon has recently opened bookstores in shopping malls.
It's also a "market" if you happen to run one of the largest payment networks in the world (Apple Pay) and if having users signed in with your service gives you the ability to let them easily provide payment information through you to the exclusion of your competitors (Amazon Pay, Google Pay, etc).
Pretty sure facebook coin is a stable coin. You cant make money trading it. You can only make money by using it for trading.
There's no hard-and-fast rule on this but generally junior projects are isolated where you may only have one stakeholder. Growing into a more senior role, your actions generally have greater breadth that affect more teams/clients/orgs. Technical chops are worthy but I can guarantee that your stakeholders would rather have amazing communication for things like progress, deployment, etc. than how efficient or beautifully written the project is.
I've gotten used to saying "they" when referring to people I don't know. When it comes to people I do know, I prefer "he" and "her" because it still provides context when referring to multiple people while saving on syllables. But I think it's a good thing not to immediately assume gender when referring to someone(one doesn't know) in an occupational role so we get out of the habit of thinking of nurses as "she", for instance.

I really appreciate someone pointing out that "they" is perfectly adequate. Ze and zir are still gendered, and extraterrestrial genders at that.
> simple pleasure of going in for a nice sit without feeling an obligation to purchase something.

Could explain why they aren't very profitable and why they might be going by the wayside.
Why would it refer to Harper?
> that was in the best interest of the user

Or in the best interest of Apple.
Please read the article before commenting.
You only sign what you want to sign.

When you publish a video of you speaking at a public event, you sign it. When someone else publishes a doctored video of you, you do not sign it.

This alone doesn't protect you in the case that someone speaks and then later intentionally doctors and signs the video in order to change what they said. In this case trusted third parties (e.g. news organizations) could sign videos as well. A set of signatures taken together can provide trust.
Yep - it doesn't help much with a method that's named EmptyCacheToPreventBlugblagCongestion() if external circumstances have stopped the blugblag from ever congesting any longer. So discipline in maintaining the intent of the code is required even if you never write a single comment.
> It's standard OATH just like FB

Doesn't it require an active developer subscription?

> That's no more of an issue than if you are using any other IDP

Google and FB are pretty lenient about who is allowed to use their sign in and i haven't heard of any horror stories. Comparatively apple is very aggressive in removing apps.

> iOS users are a small user base?

It's like 12-25% of users which is not a lot and it is very highly overlapping with people having FB/google accounts already, so it definitely seems like an "optional" sign in option.
there are plenty of ferrous iron/steel concretes.

I use them for pads for my heavy equipment because it doesn't move much after the initial setting.
It wouldn’t have been suspicious if she had just walked between the 2 cars, but she tried to break into one of them, and at about 8 seconds in you can clearly see her scanning the parking lot to see if anyone is watching her.
Yes, Huawei phones can be less secure compared to a two-year old android phone that is running vanilla Android, because Huawei, and sometimes even Samsung, sometimes end up making modifications to the kernel that expose the entire device to userland hacks.

Google is trying to move Android to a more secure footing with Titan, Play Protect, verified boot, etc like ChromeOS. If Huawei becomes the dominant Android phone manufacturer, there is the possibility for things to be worse than they are today.
Like it or not, there is a large swath of people (engineers, designers, workers, etc, etc) whose jobs would simply go away if masses of people didn't buy useless stuff they didn't want or need and couldn't afford. We all work for someone, and we all feed this system in some way or another. The only way to escape this is to go off the grid completely.

And so, I think that advertising is not the root cause, its consumerism, which has been anointed as this engine that drives positive economic growth under capitalism. And like any other macroeconomic theory it falls in this contradicting category of 'thats bullshit' and 'that totally makes sense'. "Studies show X" whoop-de-doo. Advertising simply enables consumerism, and the people who you're calling dickheads actually enable a TON of software developers to even have jobs. Where is all the tech we're building being used? To build websites to sell stuff. To build databases to store all this info, to build entertainment platforms to sell you more stuff, to build logistic systems to organize this useless selling of stuff, etc, etc. Unless you're somehow connected with selling things or otherwise generating economic activity, why would anyone pay you to build it?
Facebook is not related to Android or iOS. But Google is related to Android and Apple is related to iOS.
For me at least, this didn't quite hit the mark. The world just didn't feel like it had the same richness.

The good news about EV:N is that IIRC you can just disconnect your computer from the internet and roll back the clock to the day after your license was issued. Then it will work without complaining about expiration.
Why would I want to come back to the store that couldn’t provide me the product on the first visit?

If my book is going to be shipped, it’s almost surely going to be shipped to my house, whether by B&N or by Amazon...
The Science of Barbecue
I was going to say “Loewry who?”.

Cultural bias I guess.
Sure but why manage your own OpenFaaS when you're already paying a cloud provider and the billing will still be 24x7?
> I really appreciate someone pointing out that "they" is perfectly adequate. Ze and zir are still gendered, and extraterrestrial genders at that.

I've always been really confused at these weird attempts at pseudo-gender-neutral pronouns when "they" exists. It's like… I'm not a native English speaker. I learned about "they"-as-singular in English year 2. How do native English speakers not know about it? How do you get to "zir" before you learn about something this basic?
The sorting centers are completely different, since the methods of backbone transit are separate. Express only goes via airports (except for regional city pairs like L.A. to San Francisco). Home/Ground only goes by road/train, so you'd have to consolidate somewhere in between.
Also, a significant fraction of the Express traffic is stuff that is time-sensitive delivery. Things like getting signed paperwork so people can buy houses. They really hate delays. In fact, if you spring for the "priority overnight" they'll send a driver to your door with a blank waybill and envelope, and wait while you fill it out. It's quite a different service than Ground/Home.
I think the question is, is it more problematic than the current situation, whereby users wholly distrust companies with their data, because those companies have shown again and again that they can not be trusted with it? I’d say no.
Me too. I always seem to know a little or even a lot more on any subject than others do. I realise now, it's down to my outstanding intellectual humility.
Somehow this reminds me of the "Running Man" movie.
There was a comercial playing that said something like: "Citizen, denounce your neighbor, and get some extra dollars"...

There should have been more positive visions of the future. These idiot companies took the shit from the 80s as script it seems.
I would quit any job that implemented something like that. Having your day logged down to second sounds horrendous.
Most of the time legacy code and technical debt appearing on same project
Why are women accused of witchcraft? Study in rural China gives clue
What are you trying to get out of the legal recourse

Get rich ?

Financial Punishment? It’s not going to put a dent in their revenue

Name and shame ? It’s happened
“Pig Ebola” Is Spreading Uncontrollably in China and Vietnam
Has anyone been disputing the continued use of 'they' in referring to a person of unknown gender?

I was under the impression that the recent controversy surrounding the word is linked to the LGBTQ movement.
This is an amazing reply I am going to read a few times!
Will hit you up on your e-mail!
Hopefully their first step is to replace their website with one that is useable to purchase books. Oof and that app which is a watered down version of the site that runs slower.
Clearly "they" refers to the recipient of this sentence. /s

Unlike e.g. German, English doesn't have a gender neutral singular pronoun to use. The only one that fits naturally in most peoples' conversation (and doesn't sound like something uttered by a science fiction-inspired cult) is "singular they".
I write multi-line commit comments whenever I do something that's not trivial or has required a large amount of reasoning to perform correctly. As in, first 80 characters explaining the high-level details with (see details) at the end. Then a number of lines with more detailed reasoning.

Most such commits are never looked at again. But every other month or so, I come across a maintenance issue where I wonder about the context of something. In many such cases, I've saved multiple days of false starts or debugging. So it pays off in the long run even if it's only me gaining something from this. (Unlikely; we're a company of 80 developers).
Thanks. A lot of people here seem to focus on Computer Graphics I'm also wondering about potential application Machine Learning and Neural Networks.

Like how would it fare against today's FPGAs, DSP, NPU and TPUs?
I suppose for people opposed to the singular "they," the "correct" way to write this would be something like:

> “She kept her head and kicked her shoes off, as everybody ought to do who falls into deep water in one's clothes.”

or:

> “She kept her head and kicked her shoes off, as everybody ought to do who falls into deep water in his or her clothes.”
Exactly what point are you making here?
Yes, unless services are sending encrypted e-mails to their users via keys that are established out-of-band.
I found that sentence mildly painful to parse because the relative clause that attaches to "everybody" is split by verb phrase "ought to do" (bit of a garden-path sentence). It would be much easier to read if it was "as everybody who falls into deep water in their clothes ought to do".
Many native English speakers don't know about it because it was technically incorrect when they were taught English ("he" was both gender-neutral and male), and sort of still is, even though language evolves and the gender-neutral-singular "they" has certainly entered the common parlance.
> I was under the impression that the recent controversy surrounding the word is linked to the LGBTQ movement.

Nobody I know in the LGBTQ community takes issue with "singular they". In fact, many of my close non-binary friends prefer they/them.
I'm not necessarily pro-crypto, but a regulated and audited blockchain would be fine in the banking context. That's mostly because the bank itself is regulated and audited. The "trustchain" goes all the way back to the government.

With Tether, the trustchain ends at Tether. And even if you could audit Tether somehow, there's nothing stopping them from creating another stable coin and use the same currency they have in both coins.
Last year I wanted to buy Thinking in Bets (great book, btw). I was feeling impatient, so I looked it up on Barnes and Noble's website, and saw that a store where I was had it in stock.

I went in to purchase it, and the price in store was a couple bucks higher than the listed price online. I asked the clerk about it, and he kind of shrugged and said he couldn't do anything about it.

I walked out without the book and ordered it from Amazon on my phone in the parking lot.

I still can't fathom the decision-making that led to that pricing strategy.
Something I would add to this is the functionality of a component tester.

If you don’t know what they are for, they are cheap little arduino based devices that you can plug a lot of basic components into, and have them identify the component for you. Plug in a resistor, see the resistance. Also works for mystery transistors as well as caps and inductors plus diodes and other things.

They are fantastic if you’re one of those people who has a tendency to collect a lot of components but forget what they are.

Here’s an amazon link to a typical one...

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B071Y5CHPK
You have to get the user's permission to get their email address. FB sign in allows you to access the entire FB graph api (with permissions)
Did you ever think that maybe drivers are flaking more now because Uber realizes as a company they eventually need to to make money, and therefore they need to cut how much drivers get, and now drivers are picky over what rides they take, and it has nothing to do with Travis?
Maybe they’ll make the Nook better.
I'd agree with you here, I'm still a way off seniority but for me the takeaway from the past 5 years is good code is code that can be deleted with minimal work.

All code we write is going to be wrong in some way as a result of our understanding of the problem domain being incomplete so I'd rather see code with an obvious place to put an if statement than a lovingly constructed masterpiece of indirection and abstraction.

Obviously there are basic rules to follow, make it testable, don't mix too many concerns in one place but I see so much bikeshedding and overcomplicated code when it just needs to not be obviously wrong and easy to replace when needed.
I wonder how much collective human time search engines and google in particular has siphoned from us. Instead of getting straight to the point, now you have to read a bunch of “long form” content. Think about all that wasted time and multiply by billions.
A similar 20$ board
http://www.gabotronics.com/oscilloscopes/xprotolab-plain.htm
Not really. Prescriptivists have been fighting singular they since the Victorian era.

https://public.oed.com/blog/a-brief-history-of-singular-they...
People are usually prepared to pay a bit more to get something right away vs. in a few days.

It works out great (usually) for the impatient, but terribly for the patient that are aware of their options.