skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah. Even though I remember a lot of the reasons for FTPs weirdness back then, looking at it below the cover today, it's a similar feeling as operating a mechanic calculating machine. Interesting, weird, with unfamiliar concepts, but you wouldn't do it like that anymore.
'Tosche Station' and 'power converters' obviously - see 90% is all I need!
SQLite is C code and any Rust usage of it will not play nicely with M:N. This is just off the top of my head. I'm sure there are plenty of other examples.
SF tore down a major black community within the city (Filmore) and its policies have resulted in an exodus of blacks except for some impoverished communities.
My favourite UI mistake at a 24 hour self-service pump, a page on a 7" screen half way through the sequence of pages after selecting the gas type that simply asks for a Yes or No answer:

Are you sure?

Yes

No
So you’re lumping in Republicans with “Nazi’s, anti-vaxxers and serial killers”?
Hot and sunny Europe, a paradise for the most regulated decadent chauvinist purposes, thanks, I love it.
And I hope in the future that we all do what Oberlin should of done here. To take a step back when the news makes us angry or sad, when we hear about someone far away violating principles we hold dear. By being angry in the here and now we inevitably hurt structures and people that have done nothing wrong and efforts to direct that energy back towards the violators often do the same to whatever distant place they live in.

I think it's important to note that the biases Oberlin showed are something we can all do if we're not careful.
See also: [1] Excerpts:

"Within one year of release, several NLP models have already surpassed human baseline performance on the GLUE benchmark."

"According to Facebook AI, humans can obtain 100% accuracy on COPA while Google's BERT achieved only 74%, signifying there is a lot of room for NLP improvement."

[1] https://www.zdnet.com/article/facebook-deepmind-nyu-and-uw-b...
>The key is finding a limit that allows police to identify actually impaired drivers while giving those with tolerance enough leeway to avoid being falsely charged

Given that is an impossible statement, it sounds like you are admitting this will be used to falsely prosecute more people than it will let off the hook. This is a smash and grab that will adversely effect society, not help it. You keep comparing it to alcohol, but you should be comparing it to adderall. Do you think society needs adderall testing curbside as well?
People bought the Wii because they thought it was transformative. Yet people got sick of standing the whole time to play. Same with VR.
I’m kind of shocked by this. Careers torpedoed because of being unable to get past the UI (presuming they didn’t come from Maya or some other system)? Would seem that’s the first hurdle before getting to the core of the discipline. Like I’d say it is too early to say that an inability to figure out Visual Studio or Xcode tanked a programming career.

Again, I’m saying that if an application doesn’t at least behave in a way that is expected from coming from other applications (either similar ones or common behaviors of applications for a particular OS), it’s going to deter some: perhaps in a way it acts like a gut check of sorts, but it probably eliminates a few that just can’t wrap their heads around the UI.

ASP.NET WebForms I don’t think anyone is going to say is God’s gift to web development, but it worked in that the barrier to entry was low for WinForms developers so it allowed companies who wanted to take their desktop applications and move to the web a little easier. If not for it, who knows how many (small) companies would’ve had to shift direction entirely.
Does ESO own any stock in this company?

>The average American has a carbon footprint that can be offset with a $20 per month subscription

You have a source on that?
You can justify removing anything with "less code paths." I hate that argument. Don't care about FTP being insecure either. Google's just being hostile to the open web as usual and getting the usual applause.
SFTP is different from FTP, though. As far as I know, it's a fine protocol.
A Million Random Digits with 100k Normal Deviates
> This is a bizarre conclusion given dramatic and relentless reductions in US rates

It's based on past scenarios that have little to do with the current scenario. A common mistake even among economists. X thing happened in the 1960s or 1970s, therefore it will happen now. Their dogma is the same reason they are nearly all baffled by the lack of wage growth, productivity increases, dynamism, etc. in the economy.

There is no scenario where the US experiences rampant inflation (traditional consumer inflation) and soaring interest rates. The only guaranteed bet in fact, is on low interest rates 'forever' (or until default).

$35 trillion in debt * 3% = hahaha, very funny, stop kidding around!

Take the Japan scenario to the bank. The Fed is going to do everything in its power to pursue that route, as it's the only one left (short of the miracle of spending cuts with tax increases and spending locked to ~1% annual growth).
This is why picture books are so important for improving listening comprehension for young children. It gives them something to focus on so that hearing words they don’t understand or new grammatical constructions is less distracting, it provides visual cues related to some of those words and helps guide understanding of the story, and it gives the children and whoever is reading to them something to point at in discussion. It also makes the stories more appealing and makes repeat readings more rewarding.

I would guess (based on not-too-rigorous anecdotal experience) that the optimal level of word familiarity for most rapidly improving listening comprehension when read-to 1:1 is closer to 90% than 98% (but with the caveat that books should be re-read several times). The big difference is that having someone to talk to makes it very quick and easy to ask what words mean and discuss other aspects of the story.

When read to for an average of 1+ hour per day, young children improve at listening comprehension very quickly.
As someone who barely scraped by the Kanji/readings of my N2 but have to do a chunk of my work in Japanese, I gotta disagree.

Sure, reading isolated sentences with only 90% coverage is really hard sometimes. But usually you're reading whole blocks of text, so you have context. Also, maybe you don't know some kanji but it has similar radicals to other, so you can make educated guesses (only sometimes of course).

I mean it's just like English! There are radicals/etymological clues, there are context clues, there's so much that you can work off of to figure things out. And exercising "figuring things out with partial information" is a valuable skill that can compensate for a lot of missing kanji knowledge.

An aside: I've heard that when learning a language, you should be able to understand roughly 80% of what you're reading/listening to, because then you'll have enough of a base to not feel overwhelmed, while still having new stuff to absorb.
it also enhances your awareness though, resulting in more cautious driving. No studies have seen increased accidents in areas where marijuana has been legalized. Should we be testing for adderall curbside as well? What other prescription drugs would you like to restrict curbside? They all effect motor ability, after all.
2136.

But the list isn’t at all comprehensive. There are a considerable number of kanji in regular use that aren’t on the list, and when you include place/person names, it grows massively.

It’s possible to memorize all the standard kanji, but crack open a history book and you won’t recognize half of the words.
I'm not fine with this.

I'm of the mindset that code written 20 years ago should run today. This is a breaking change on a critical piece of internet infrastructure. Google, by nature of operating the most popular web browser, has a moral obligation to the community to provide a stable environment.

There are something like 10^9 webpages out there. How many of these will become less accessible because of this change? Many well maintained webpages will have to expend resources to migrate off ftp. Less maintained webpages with FTP links will not be updated and put the burden of installing an FTP client on the user, reducing accessibility.

This is Google externalizing the cost of updating their software by forcing everyone else to update their webpages to following Google's specification.
He thinks we only started recording temperatures in January, I guess
Lol, 777 kanji is just too short to even be comfortable reading emails at work in Japanese. So what good is 90 percent if the only thing it allows you is to do shopping?
Not in the hub, bad for unsprung mass. In the bottom bracket like this

https://pinion.eu/en/

But has some tradeoffs that mean it isn't quite there yet.
Would have been nice to include links to the source.

https://obfuscator.io/

https://github.com/javascript-obfuscator/javascript-obfuscat...
Amazing project, but analog film making is like costly retro hobby in our days.

For modern film projects need openhardware digital tools such as AXIOM cams by apertus°.

[0] https://apertus.org
>The prefixes you used are incomprehensible without the parentheticals following them

I disagree. In the taxonomy of these things, being a twat is more impulsive misbehaviour, while being a cunt involves malicious aforethought and intent. There is a fairly clear meaning from that general usage.

>I'm not convinced it breaks down into three clean categories anyway.

I agree, but I didn't make it up and people tend to use the rule of three for stuff like this. I suppose a category of dickproof could be added between foolproof and twatproof, but I think it already has a lot of overlap with foolproof.
Beat me to it. To expound upon this, Japanese is not unique in basically adhering to Zipf's law. In many organization data sets, including the vocabulary of most languages, the most commonly used word is twice as common as the second-most, and the second-most word is twice as common as the third-most, and so forth.
A beautiful visualization of a formula for linear regression
But sure one must use an output queue, not synchronously wait for the consumer to consume a result?
> In general, the police are hyper vigilant about buying only devices that are independently validated to be very accurate.

How do you reconcile that with the reality of the NIK tests which are notoriously unreliable and ubiquitous among police departments?
My local pumps don't have ads, but the number of questions before allowing me to pump are frustrating. "ZIP code?" "Carwash?" "Receipt?" "Rewards card?" "Debit or Credit?"
It would be an interesting if on Prime day, they also discounted AWS resources created during the two days. If anything would be great marketing and publicity.
> Try finding a recent hit movie/TV series or music video, produced in the US, that shows green bubbles

I imagine they get paid for using blue bubbles, just like other product placements.
There are definitely winning strategies. The issue is whether they can be reliably identified beforehand (thus rewarding skill), or whether people who implement them are just lucky (regardless of whether they believe they were skilled or not).
I don't think US politics is geared toward the educated anymore. Maybe 30 years ago. Today, it's just tabloid-esque garbage.
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Several Asian people I know who moved to the Bay Area seemed to be traumatized by the racism they faced growing up in the South. Don't know if it is different now.

Parts of SF do smell but most of it and most of the Bay Area don't. Likewise, part of the Bay Area is foggy but I would say 80% of the Bay Area isn't.

There is definitely a growing monoculture here. Not sure Atlanta doesn't though. If you look deep enough most places do in at least one aspect.

Traffic is bad most places in the Bay Area though. Prices are high for many things beyond housing.

I think tech is definitely spreading itself a bit more geographically. Its overall a good thing. The concern is how many of these places have enough tech diversity to be self sustaining. The Bay Area is just much, much deeper technically than these other places.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but Windows and most Linux distros both come with usable ftp clients in general. So an ftp link will result in the OS handling it, right? And so it opens in IE or Filezilla or whatever.

That's fine... Except on a Chromebook or Android, where it will be a pain.
If PA was actually capable of half of what JACK does, they would be fine with it. These people just needs to record music without latency. But PA does not do what they need, so they would indeed complain.
Avahi, in all my experience over many years, does nothing noticeable besides going into 100% CPU spin loops at random intervals. Looking it up online, it is reported and declared fixed every couple of years. I would like to know why it still happens, and the right way to get rid of it, or at least to know why I have to have it.

I don't have any other system daemons that like to drop into 100% CPU spin loops. Should I be happy it doesn't fork bomb? I guess I am.
I should have written 2035 to make the sarcasm a little clearer :)
>Is being paid well not good enough?

I would say no. Since the employees are one of the keys to the success of the company, why should they not share in the additional profits above and beyond what is planned for the year?

>Companies tend to give out stock as part of a package in lieu of all cash.

Some do. In my experience, it's been about 50/50. Startups obviously tend to lean more toward equity and lower cash, while larger companies pay well and ofter options or RSUs.

I pay market and do profit sharing.

>If you have all you want in cold hard cash, what’s the problem?

I'm not quite sure how to respond to this. If you make a good salary, would you turn down even more money?
I'd like to see companies actually track how much CO2 goes into the production of their products. Imagine if everything you buy had the equivalent of an EnergyGuide sticker for CO2 emissions used in the production of that thing. It would lead to companies trying to optimise their products to reduce CO2 used in the manufacturing process.
There is a bipartisan carbon fee and dividend bill in the United States Congress right now with 59 sponsors[1], called The Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act (H.R. 763)[2]. This bill puts a fee on fossil fuels that grows over time. The money collected (minus administrative costs) is paid back to every American to spend as they see fit.

Citizen's Climate Lobby is a bipartisan organization of regular people trying to get this bill passed. Please check out CCL and write your representative[3] to ask them to sponsor H.R. 763. It's our best shot at lowering green house gasses quickly.

[1] https://energyinnovationact.org/

[2] https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/763

[3] https://citizensclimatelobby.org/write-your-representative/#...
Do you have a link to a study that has better science in it than the IPCC report?
Is there a such a study?

If not, maybe, just maybe, the climate scientist are right and the ever increasing CO2 is the culprit. Maybe.
The average American has a 20-ton / year carbon footprint. Offsetting 20 tons per year has a cost that ranges depending on what service you use. I've seen estimates of $6-10/ton - $20/month is $12/ton.

Edit: for the average american footprint, you can easily find the stat that the US emitted 5.268 GtCO2 in 2018. There are 327.16 million people in the US. From that I get more like 16 tons/year per person, so 20 is out of date. Of course, we have to get to zero with sequestration on top of that.
Wait, you're saying 1 human = 2.5 horses?
The same could have been said of Gopher. FTP is typically insecure and painful to use with it's varying port maps. Transferring files over HTTP or more modern protocols is the future.
> They touch screens are finicky, the soda doesn't taste as good, and the interaction feels a little over-the-top.

Those aren't things in question here

> it seems like the author is conflating visual design with effective user experience

often the fact that people separate those things so much is an issue in itself. visual design is definitely a big part of an effective user experience and a user's feelings about the product they are currently using

much like how the feeling of responsiveness of an interface can be manipulated by simply changing the duration of a few animations (but not the actual duration of the action)
You say that like it's a bad thing. I wish I could decipher that much of a random sentence in Japanese. At least then I can ask about the parts I don't know. And for most people learning Japanese, they'll probably already know the word in hiragana or katakana, knowing kanji is just icing on the cake.
It will have the same intrinsic problems. It doesn't matter that it is Java.
Regarding the event driven architecture: it is far easier to understand than systemd's dependency system. But it is indeed more difficult to apply, particularly because it is a departure from how most systems work currently and in the sysvinit past.

I enjoy the architecture, and hope to continue developing Upstart/startup or at least work with a similar model.
beyond the technical aspects of what was going to be done with kubrick's napoleon, it seems as though lot of the same ideas from this film were encoded, in reverse, into barry lyndon.

the more i read about napoleon, and what could have existed had it been allowed to be made, the more i come to appreciate what was actually accomplished with barry lyndon.
Most farms are owned by Cargill or Monsanto.

I know I shouldn’t care, but it’s comments like this that irritate me. Inaccurate to the point of being silly.
One does not follow from the other. Your explanation would only make sense if the only two choices are keep cash or buy US debt.

Of course their holdings have to do with their belief in US debt, those dollars could be spent on many things.
It gives you 90% coverage in general. That's not 100% for any given domain. You're likely always going to need to know something beyond that common core for any particular domain. However, that 10% is going to be specific to the domain, and not have much overlap with other domains. The 10% that will be helpful for you at work is likely going to be different from the 10% the tI need for work. And you can get a long way on knowing 90% of something, and have the skills to be able to ask questions about the remaining areas of ambiguity.
I opened Message on my Mac the other day to type a message to a friend. It switched to green and was not successful. WTH? Grabbed phone and asked him. Oh I moved to an Android. Painful. The fact that I have to use the phone to text him bugs me to no end.

My current group of core friends are storing a party tomorrow and it is simple as it is all the blue text and I can read the messages on everything I own. Having to revert to SMS would be painful.

The funny thing is a few years ago we would all use Google Talk...yah.

Looking at my “chat” folder on my iPad, phone etc, I have Google hangouts (work and gmail friends), LINE (Japan, Korea, Singapore), Meet (google for work meetings), Discord for gaming, and Webex (work for customers that do not use Google for email). It is painful.

I did drop IRC a few years ago..

Only if XMPP had really won...oh well.
Settings change over time and maintaing any fork is hard. Maintaining a fork of a modern browser is a sisyphian task. Even compiling it is no joke.
The supply of real goods is anything but fixed.

On my side, I have evidence like the global population doubling while poverty plummeted.

There's still lots of people without enough to eat, but 30 or 40 years ago was a completely different story, it was much worse.
Nothing stops the phone from sending multiple sms, its the implementations fault
HTTP is objectively better then FTP for downloading files.

For remote file management and uploading there are other options besides WebDAV (itself a HTTP protocol extension), such as SSH/SFTP.

Basically the only case I can think of that needs FTP are people wanting to access a shared-webhost web-space. And FTP works fine for them already, and they aren’t using Chrome to update their site either - so no loss.
Google is moving forward without carrier buy-in: https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/17/18681573/google-rcs-chat-...
If we were thinking big picture, would this mean that the US gov't could basically spend $72 billion a year to zero out the carbon contribution of America?

Cheaper than the Iraq war....
You might find Rails + Turbolinks + Stimulus to be relatively headache-free.
Machine learning to build better batteries
For Japanese it can be different, as most structural words are in Kana, a phonogram, instead of in Kanji.
In the US, there are beginning reader books (e.g. the “I Can Read!” and “Ready to Read” series) which intentionally use somewhat limited vocabulary. These are somewhere between a picture book and a chapter book: they have usually 1.5 pages of text and 0.5 pages of picture in each 2-page spread; the text is set in a large font but there are at least a few sentences per page; usually the books are 30–50 pages long, with 3–5 “chapters”.

I don’t know how useful these are for independent reading by 5–6-year-olds, but anecdotally they are great material for reading to 2-year-olds, better than most picture books. (Note: some of the recent readers are garbage marketing gimmicks with movie tie-ins, ranging from boring to incomprehensible; skip those.)
> Relying on a larger and larger population to keep supporting endless growth

The article talks about "growth" as though it has to be absolute growth, but it doesn't; it only needs to be per capita growth. If the population is shrinking, absolute growth can be negative but per capita growth can still be positive (all that's necessary is that the rate of absolute decline of the economy is less than the rate of decline of population). In other words, per capita productivity just needs to increase. Which it has been at least since the industrial revolution.
... by 0.05 degrees Fahrenheit. I wonder what the error bars are on that number.
> second-most word is twice as common as the third-most, and so forth.

Normally Zipf's law refers to the frequency being inversely proportional to rank - i.e. the 3rd most common element would be 1/3 as frequent as the first, not 1/4th.
That's the thing, the developed countries are so arrogant about how much better they do things than the third world, but if you look a bit closer it's the same shit different supposedly developed country.
I believe the filtering is for user-initiated search, right?

Would be nice to have some standardized support for sieve-like server side prefiltering. That's how I sort my mail into mailboxes, send spam (labeled elsewhere) to the spam trap, and the like.
Some degree of farm subsidies are good/necessary just for the sake of food safety and national defense.

But, the amount and type of subsidies in the US is way off the charts for just those purposes.
It would be better if it did not eat 100MB, though.

It is hard for me to imagine what it could be doing with so much RAM.