skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a lot of culture that comes with a language. 10 years ago, Java and C# were associated with enterprisey complexity and interchangeable programmers working under architecture astronauts, Python was used by the cool kids. Keeping to simplicity is hard when the available libraries and people you recruit were used to https://github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpris...
@walterbell submitted this, so intuition tells me I should be paying attention, but all I read is someone struggling with single-link digital video implementation on a FPGA and a sponsored advertisement for a tool that doesn't quite make sense in context.

I think I may have had one too many drinks tonight. Did I miss something?
This reminded me of the minimalist constructed language Toki Pona. As the author herself puts it - " It was my attempt to understand the meaning of life in 120 words."

https://tokipona.org/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toki_Pona
Good automation is often form of documentation.
I have the slim and strong, they are very solid and worth the investment IMO. Fills two niches for me: part of a one-bag for travel, and a comfortable pant to wear while biking.

I've had them for two years now and they've helped up well; recently I wear them less because I think denim is more fashionable and I don't need the performance most of the time.
I've been annoyed lately by Americanisms creeping into conversation in my little corner of the world. Silly things like "come with" instead of "come with me" and "it's cold out" instead of "it's cold outside". The internet is a major influence by Hollywood hasn't lost its place.
"It's too late not to want your life to be spied on, so you need to accept it whenever you see it happening to you. Otherwise you are being naive."

Is that a fair summary of your point?
Left: Face the noon sun. Lift one arm to point at where it was first seen this morning.

Edit: works where I live. YMMV. Adapt as needed (which I thought about saying but decided wasn't needed here.)
Consider that you might not be as intelligent as you think you are. I'm sure you are aware that there is more than one kind of intelligence right? Although you might have a PhD and be very knowledgeable in many subjects, you sound like you are severely lacking in many other kinds of intelligence. So maybe you are not so different from the "dull" people you speak so poorly of?
> Given that in the long term, loving someone is almost definitely a choice

It's not, though; it requires a choice, but that choice, while necessary, is not on its own sufficient.
In fairness I think it's a fairly new thing for individuals (as opposed to large companies) to even be able to buy offsets, but I'm betting it will become a much larger trend quite quickly, perhaps even required in some jurisdictions. It's not a 'perfect' solution, but at least a step toward doing /something/ rather than shrugging off CO2 emissions as a merely inevitable consequence of air-travel.
I thought they would actually do my work. Whoops
This is very generic. You need to elaborate.
There is a list of semantic primes on the German Wikipedia, though it seems like it's just a translation from the English words: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantisches_Primitivum
They wanted to move away from Qualcomm because they were taking the piss. The problem was that the Intel chips were never that good so the were forced to settle with Qualcomm. It's a story of Intel being useless rather than Apple being evil.
> They didn't realize why people were leaving.

I think this is a standpoint that is not defensible. Seeing how it is close to their core competency (people), it is more reasonable to assume that what they were doing was a conscious choice. Maybe you (and apparently a lot of other people) think that is the wrong choice, but that doesn't mean it was not made.
this is known as a "gusset"

outlier pants also have this feature, makes biking or just walking around a breeze
Just saw this post. Wow, that’s a big cash investment and certainly makes this very significant.
> Historical reality cannot be dismissed as 'nonsense'.

You clearly didn't read my posts. Your "historical reality" is simply a delusion.

> You are arguing on a topic you obviously know very little about and that you don't understand, judging by your nebulous comments. And you're doing it in a very dismissive and rather rude way.

As I demonstrated in my comments, I in fact know quite a bit about this topic. As far as I can tell from this thread, I know more about it than you do. So if you'd like to elucidate me about your post, feel free. If not that's alright. But you shouldn't take your inability to explain yourself as some kind of a badge of honor.
How is it unethical? If you live in a village with two bakeries and one, your favorite, starts charging you double for their delicious bread, you then start shopping at the other one who’s bread is terrible, but suitable enough. Now, faced with competition, your favorite bakery lowers their price, so you go back to your favorite.

Now, the second bakery is hanging on by a thread because you aren’t buying his bad bread. He decides to get out of the bakery business so he can use the money to invest in his roofing business instead. You see an opportunity to make even better bread than the best bakery, so you agree to buy the second bakery.

Nothing unethical at all there. That’s exactly how free markets are supposed to work. The key point is that nobody forced Intel to make bad modems and nobody should be obligated to pay Qualcomm’s high prices. It isn’t Apple’s fault that Intel modems weren’t that good. It isn’t Apple’s fault they want to build something better than other market participants are currently providing.
Security Roles and Responsibilities in Security Governance
A few years ago, I played with Pegged. Pegged is a PEG parser fro DLang. Beyond about why PEG is good/bad, Pegged shows how powerful is the metaprogramming of DLang. It simply generates the parser from the PEG grammar at compile time, and could execute and parse stuff at runtime and compile time !
https://tour.dlang.org/tour/en/dub/pegged
Can someone explain why Intel was having such a hard time competing with Qualcomm? What are the challenges in developing modems?
try aluminum-free deodorant to avoid the staining. you're right that fabric quality won't make a difference here, but the deodorant quality will :)
Huh. This is all very interesting. Thank you! I'll look into it!
I'm a fan of your work! We use Metabase pretty frequently.

The only nitpicks I have are around the concept of Metrics (still not quite sure what those are or how they're useful for me) and the initial download size of the libraries takes quite a while (especially over unstable VPN links)

I'm wondering if there's a way to have an option where it tries an external CDN first and then falls back to loading from the hosting server.
TIL Ericsson still exists.
If not actual nonsense, it is at a minimum not idiomatic American English.

“...help you get stuff done”

“...make you get stuff done”

“...get you to get stuff done”

“...get you(r) stuff done”

Lots of things close to it work, but it does not.
Yes, glad to see that common sense prevailed.
Yeah. What you want is a dialectic. A discussion between two people where neither is trying to 'win' but both are trying to get at what they believe to be true by exploring each others ideas.
Investing into a bubble only to make sure the money go to yourself. Seems like a economic loophole. You think computers will start to have dreams and desires? Abusing such a machine would be unethical. Go ahead and build a better OCR, just don't fall to the AGI hype.
They would love to if they had funding for faculty positions.
we may have plateaued by now, but so far it's still a net gain - a new person comes in, learns things, often by reverse engineering, often improves the automated process, sometimes leaves etc.
But what we do need is a better way to measure automation gains and losses - basically any process that is automated shows up as a net loss in human productivity, which is simply not true.
And vice versa any automated processes probably don't account correctly for the total energy and resource use and the cost of maintenance (both software and hardware).
> Usually we can tell what word was meant

It's called typoglycaemia. I actually wrote a library[0] the other day that will jumble up text in typoglycaemic fashion, mainly because I was bored but also because I want to try it out when having arguments <cough> sorry, healthy debate on social media <cough, cough> as (apparently[1]) it changes the mode of thinking the reader uses:

> In a final study, Gervais and Norenzayan used an even more subtle way of activating analytic thinking: by having participants fill out a survey measuring their religious beliefs that was printed in either clear font or font that was difficult to read. Prior research has shown that difficult-to-read font promotes analytic thinking by forcing participants to slow down and think more carefully about the meaning of what they are reading. The researchers found that participants who filled out a survey that was printed in unclear font expressed less belief as compared to those who filled out the same survey in the clear font.

[0] Typoglycaemic https://github.com/yb66/typoglycaemic

[1] How Critical Thinkers Lose Their Faith in God, Daisy Grewal, May 1, 2012, Scientific American https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-critical-thin...

Edit: one day I'll remember which bits of markdown work on HN. That day is not today.
Disliking weirdness is a bias: Something you feel and act upon. Knowledge has nothing to do with what you feel.
Big fan of Metabase, thanks for all your work!

I've always been curious if there is a feature in the works for charting or displaying comparisons across defined timespans (e.g. total page views this week vs. last week)
How is this work related to Natalia Chechina's and RELEASE team work on Scalable Distributed Erlang?

http://www.erlang-factory.com/static/upload/media/1394469405...
It's not a coincidence: http://learnthesewordsfirst.com/about/research-behind-the-di...
For anyone interested in following this work, these Discourse threads are interesting:

- https://discuss.python.org/t/preparing-for-new-python-parsin...

- https://discuss.python.org/t/switch-pythons-parsing-tech-to-...
Darts: Differentiable Architecture Search
Uniqlo has strange quality difference between countries. Uniqlo in any Japan city can boast decent quality items for reasonable prices, but if we take Singapore for example, most items are much lower quality for exorbitant price.
The main point for me is that you don't only need a good definition of left (/right), but you also need to keep your audience in mind.

If you ask me "what type of person doesn't know what 'left' means", my answer would be "either a child or a foreigner who just started learning the language". For that audience, even saying "the side where your heart is" (like some other comment suggests) would require knowing what "heart" means, which might not be a good assumption for this specific audience.
Not sure why it's called topological sort or what it had to do with topology, but it's a graph traversal where predecessors are visited before their successors. Such a sort only exists if there are no cycles in the graph.
Can individuals actually buy CO2 offsets?
>> Start respecting the fact that intellectual development & progress is only one axis on the map that is the human experience.

> Excellent all too overlooked view IMO.

Intellectual development and logical reasoning serve as the basis for proper personal health, family nucleation, social improvement, and other axes on the human experience map.

Without being able to think, how can you improve your health, friend, family, or financial standing? This is why most of America is overweight, poor, and doesn't care for anyone other than themselves (as shown by both democratic and Republican political platforms) -- they simply don't have the intellectual capacity to care.
”The latest speed record is not only a long way off this prediction, it is also not on the same level as the fastest high-speed trains currently in use in China and elsewhere around the world.”

That is a bit unfair; these machines only had 1.2 km of tunnel to accelerate and come to a stop.

These also are one-off events, more like an Olympic final than like an engineering test, where you can fix things and try again. The Delft hyperloop (https://delfthyperloop.nl/en/), for example, expected/hoped to reach 640km/h, but its brakes activated too early. In an engineering setup, that seems repairable within a day (depending on how the vacuum tunnel worked). In a sporting event, it means losing.
Why not just avoid these people altogether? If it makes you more happy to be around PhD's, find a setting where there's a bunch of them.
From what I hear about Qualcomm, theres enough companies that would be willing to jump through the hoops to avoid them, as Apple themselves did Intel.

They could always set up a joint venture, Apple brings the IP. The partner does the day to day stuff. It doesn't make a lot of sense to be sitting on top of IP and R&D that could be amortised over a much larger number of units.
Which is again, only most of time (cf: dextrocardia).

Not as common as left-handedness (one in ten), but still in the order of one in ten thousand people.
Apple getting more patents? What can go wrong.
It's pretty ridiculous to me to charge a late fee on net-30, especially when you want to work with a client again in the future. My best paying clients (e.g. multinationals) generally always pay late by one to a few weeks.

As long as you know they're good for the money and know they will pay it is a cost of doing business.
What a great way to learn a new language. Would pay for another language of this.
Given other nations' track record in places like Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, and other places in Asia, thank fucking god they're not taking sides, especially the insane US. The last thing we need is another unwinnable, stupid, pseudo war based on bullshit and lies. If the Chinese wise up and decide to get rid of the commies themselves, great! But it shouldn't be up to other countries to interfere and fuck things up yet again because they are only interested in their own agenda, especially the madmen leading the US.
Also strongly recommend cross-referencing the guide on Well-Appointed Desk: https://www.wellappointeddesk.com/2014/06/epic-refill-guide-...

The OP article has a good focus on the more technical details, while the guide I linked above gives large lists of specific pens/refills compatible which each refill.
I remember reading that multiplayer was pretty much an afterthought for GoldenEye. It wasn't planned, they just sort of hacked it together and snuck it in.
I wouldn't be so sure the Manhattan Project-type global arms race isn't already happening.
I wish the service was not that dependent on Azure.
What's Deoxyribonucleotide in Sign Language?
Yes. What he did is generally not good advice / a good course of action.

What you do is let them know you expect payment in X days, and if not start legal proceedings. And then you follow up on that.
Always improve, but manual work is the craft that gets you to that improvement. Once the wheel has been created, no need to recreate it, but brakes might be nice, too.
Yes, before the downvote army begins their barrage, the attainment of enlightened wisdom can be reached through many means and computer science is a sublime form of art and logic which contains many universal truths and can create very complex forms of understanding within the human mind
That some technically proficient people will find ways around it is beyond doubt, however it may prove to be an effective system for information control despite that, if the common user finds it difficult to circumvent.
You can always outsource your rocket launches to India to benefit from these low, low costs :)
This reminds me a little of "English Through Pictures" by Richards and Gibson, and "English Made Easy" by Crighton and Koster. Both use images to provide concrete examples for those words that can be illustrated visually.
I would really love to read more details about this as well.
My jeans always unravel in the groin, in the fabric just next to the seam. I was thinking it was because of bicycling, but it still happens (though at a lower rate) even though I no longer bicycle to work.

Maybe I man-spread too much? :-)

I would love some advice on how to deal with this, since I'm tired of shelling out $100+ for jeans several times a year.
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuyahoga_River

Another interesting note of history in the United states, specifically, the Cuyahoga river was so polluted that it caught fire at least a dozen times. The resulting damage was significant enough that it became a rallying point for the creation of the EPA in the 60s/70s.
I did my thesis on OCR, and even simple binary thresholding algorithms (to decide a cutoff point for "background" vs "text") that might boil down to a dozen lines of code if that in some cases, would often be presented as a formula (great; at least something) or imprecise prose, but where you then when translating it into code would find that their results depended on setting certain parameters to certain values that they'd not specified anywhere.

In some cases I basically had to run a test harness and brute force the parameters they'd used, because the algorithm was basically useless without picking parameters in the right range.

It was hard to accept then (~2008-ish), but now we're at a point where frankly at least for the more basic CS papers we ought to be able to expect source and some runnable format (e.g. a VM image) with test data.

I handed in a DVD with gigabytes of test data, full source, built binaries, and a test harness for the work I did for my thesis. All it took was to follow practices that I needed to follow to satisfy myself that my results were valid anyway.

I realize that for some work that relies on much larger and/or proprietary datasets making everything available would be hard, but a small test case illustrating the code run with the right parameters etc. ought to be a minimum unless there are substantial barriers, in which case the paper ought to signpost clearly what is missing and why.
Apple singlehandedly making multibillion dollar chip deals that make or break companies isn't "free market" for anyone but Apple.
> Left: Face the noon sun. Lift one arm to point at where it was first seen this morning.

That...fails to be generally accurate pretty badly.
> I’ve arrived at the conclusion that Loro piana, Brunello Cuccinelli and to a lesser degree Zenga provide the very best quality generally available

Why not go bespoke at this point? I keep asking myself this, laziness seems to be the only reason.
I had a colleague like that, he was diagnosed with Asperger. He genuinely wanted to be interested in others but wasn't... At least until we discussed bitcoin, or Isaac Arthur, or Scifi audio books with interesting concepts, or his body building diet... I think he just had little in common with the family people at work. I told him, most people have something you can learn from them and if not, just be polite and it's ok. I can tell you (and I have a PhD if this helps you accept my answer) that intelligence has very little to do with having a PhD so you are ignoring a lot of interesting, smart people right there.

You know, some people that you would consider simpletons are intensely happy due to their attitude in life and I for one am always interested in those people. People with a drive to explore the world or to make their loved ones happy. To me you sound pretty ignorant if you claim that you can peel back a layer on something as complex as a human mind and then claim to find it empty.

If you walk the footsteps of a stranger, you will learn the things you never knew you never knew. Though you seem to feel like you know what you don't know. And I'd consider that a somewhat boring attitude, although I'd be interested in how you came to feel that way.
> Running Tor exit node is dangerous. Very few people would dare to do so. Most of hosters will forbid that.

Even in the richest parts (relevant because they love forbidding things) of the EU you can find hosters that accept tor exit nodes. As for it being dangerous, that is kind of a spurious argument. Why do you think it is dangerous? Do you know because you tried, or do you "know" because you heard someone tell you it was?
This.

I have several mental models for this.

The first goes "most people are wrong about most things". You have to include yourself in that one or it just sounds arrogant, but it's true. Mostly we have a toy understanding of how anything really works if we are asked to scratch any deeper than the surface and the sheer amount of mental models required to begin to somewhat accurately map to reality vs. the search cost of finding those abstractions vs. the probability any individual is sufficiently motivated to pay the search cost. It's abysmal. So basically no one has truly good ideas. Yet some how the whole thing still grinds along.

You get what you incent. That would be another key model. Behavior follows incentives. Period.

Conflict of interest. That's another thing to watch out for. Loosely related to the idea of "subtext". People will say one thing but often mean the exact opposite of what they say. For example when someone says "I believe it is" this is a contradiction. The sheer timidity of the statement actually indicates that they harbor a hint of doubt. The subtext says "I acknowledge there is a possibility that it might not be and I cannot be 100% sure".

Power of ideas vs. Power of people. These are the fundamental two types of company culture that exist. If you're a thinker, you will be eternally frustrated in a power of people culture.

I'm probably rambling now, but there are a good many "human factors" that make companies awfully questionable at times.