skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've used mostly email for messaging, skype for talking, Jira for development work and MS Word for planning/documenting. Not a big fan of Slack, preferring a quick email or a call for longer discussions (or preferably in person chat, but I'm currently remote).

Haven't been happy with Jira for a long time so decided to start thinking about what a replacement would look like. Created https://tasks.withcomb.com as a placeholder to see if others are interested.

But in my research I've come across ClickUp & Clubhouse for project management. Never used Confluence, and while I don't really know what it does beyond being a documentation site/wiki, I'm pretty happy with Word to type up requirements & GDrive/dropbox/OneDrive to share with the team.
I remember the 90's "part of this complete breakfast" was cereal, toast, and a glass of orange juice, and my parents thought they were eating healthy. I think people are just more aware now.
There's uncountably many more noncomputables than computables too, but the noncomputables hardly crop up, even though they come along with the reals also.
Absolutely. Private offices FTW!
I can only assume the "nothing to do" retirement crowd didn't do much when they were working, and therefore have no idea how to fill the time. Personally:

1. More volunteer time at the dog shelter.

2. More reading.

3. More music playing, and finally really spend time on that violin that is currently a secondary instrument.

4. More time at "church" (read: Zen practice), yes, just like other old people.

5. Might finally have time to hike the Appalachian Trail, or at least large parts of it.

6. Finally find the time to sit down and decide what I want to do when I retire, 'cuz there's no way this list is complete.

All but #5 should be able to be done by all but the most feeble. I hope I live so long as to get bored in retirement.
The idea that the United States (or substitute any other large country, such as China, India, Brazil, etc), for example, is a monoculture is laughable. The death of a no- longer-significant culture signals neither a lack of external diversity nor an inability for diversity to arise again.

I've already said it... the way you get diversity is by having more people. In that regard, we're doing just fine. In the unlikely event that literally every person ends up following the same culture (which again, is not going to happen, despite the false dichotomy you are trying really hard to set up), I can guarantee you that in a few years, people's ideas will begin to diverge, and in a few decades, there will once again be factions, and in a few centuries, there will be mutually unintelligible cultures.

That is how the world works. It worked when zoroastrianism was the predominant religion for a large portion of the world, when its monoculture arguably gave rise to things like Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and it will work in the future. In the meantime, we need not take any drastic action to ensure the survival of a culture that not even its inhabitants want to keep alive in any practical sense.
After thinking about.. I think you must be right.
Malware detection is not an easy task especially because of Ruby's dynamic nature.

Even simple open(), sleep(), eval() could be easily obfuscated.
100% native English speaker... And 100% dependent on modern spellcheckers.
https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/malware-apple.html

Apple's Operating Systems are Malware

Is there anything these guys like? Stallman and Gnu are extremists
Title should be "50K ultra organization failed to manufacture a 'male' trophy.", clickbait 100
Ronke Odusanya confirms Don Jago is her baby daddy
Lightweight Reflection for Scala and Scala.js and the Future of TypeTag in Dotty
Ask HN: What is a good resources on building YouTube videos/channel?
> I had over ~300 followers and if I published something none of them would see it

i hate this. it's the same with youtube. if i "follow" an author, or "subscribe" to a channel, it's because i want that creator's content; not content by other creators related to the same topic.
Thank you, my dsl modem is on a UPS, I have a generator. The DSL line goes down instantly when the power goes out.

I'm on centurylink's ADSL2 service.
This is mind-blowing.
This looks really nice, but MY GOODNESS, there are a lot of dependencies!
> I imagine this doesn't need to be just about autism. I imagine this is useful when living abroad, for example.

Interesting. Other applications would be to such potential things like "meeting an advanced alien species" or "interactions with a future GAI", etc.
"Illogical" is a synonym of "Irrational" because...

> Greek mathematicians termed this ratio of incommensurable magnitudes alogos, or inexpressible.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irrational_number
>> Because government finance is not the same as personal finance.

Not the same but similar. Look at Argentina and Greek to see what happens if countries overspend. Germany is one of the forerunners against climate change without going in too much dept.
I was talking about issuing debt for the sake of being incentivized to do so, because of negative interest rates.

Infrastructure investments that are profitable later on are a different story.

However, I live in Germany, and when I go out I don't see any crumbling infrastructure. There's certainly potential for improvements, but it's not as if we're living in a crumbling country.
Resentful -- never. I just see it as a skill to learn. It's a game, and there are rules. If anything, I choose to see it as an advantage, in that I am able to step outside of the intended response and attempt to determine what the situation actually is. So, though my replies may be slow, such thinking allows me some insight into how people operate.

Examples:
Is this a powerplay? Ok, this is new. But I've read about how to respond.

Is this affection? If so, why and what's the appropriate expected response?

Is this banter? Ok, I have been in this scenario before. I know what to say to keep the laughs going.

But I will not paint it as all a learning experience. I am an intensely visual thinker, so sometimes I just can't find the words I wish to say, and I end up simply silent -- due to being lost in thought. Those situations can be a bit frustrating. I see what I want to say, but I can't find the words or energy to say it.

Edit: An interesting result of this is that people often confide in me quite readily. I assume it's because I've become so adept at listening in order to understand what a person is really trying to say.
If you come at it from the perspective that Google is your friend, as in not like a real friend (who I wouldn't let change my passwords), but a friend that's even better than a real friend, then sure, these points are paranoid. The GNU perspective is very distrustful of the idea that anyone else should be administrating their devices, and refuses to trust any corporation more than they would a friend.
Avenify: Invest in students, earn a return if they succeed
In regards to the downvotes:

https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/malware-google.html
Your confusion is understandable. What the article fails to mention is that, although Lyme disease is very real and is increasing, the disease referred to as "chronic Lyme disease" is not recognized by physicians as either Lyme disease or as an infection, but is more commonly classified alongside things like chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia as legitimate suffering from an unknown or poorly-understood cause (but not from infection). Other people, like the author of the linked article, disagree, and think that doctors are mistreating these patients. So there's some controversy.
Ditto. My wife is an OT at an elementary school treating kids with special needs. What is being described in the article is indeed a rarity.
Thanks.

The "thermal window" seems rather narrow:

>This ensures that exhaust gas cleaning only works at outside temperatures between 10 and 32 degrees Celsius. If it is warmer or colder, the exhaust gas cleaning system remains switched off.

If that is accurate it means that for most of the winter (and possibly part of the summer) the device is off.
Portion sizes have massively increased.

https://www.motherjones.com/media/2012/06/supersize-biggest-...
Intel launches first artificial intelligence chip Springhill
For Android, privacytools.io advises Blokada. It is an app that runs a sort of local pihole which enables it to block trackers in any app, not just a web browser. I don’t have an android phone myself, but I was very impressed when I tried it out on someone else’s.

Is there a similar for iOS that anyone is aware of?
The weird, repeating signals from deep space just tripled
> challenges

rm -rf /var/tracking_data/jforberg
Sorry, for which app?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Connection

for starters, mr. unexplained downvote.
Might need to check something out. I saturate my 400mbit connection. Now PSN on the other hand... last time I used it Sony artificially limited it to something like 20mbit.
A disaster for me, I've got dozens of hg repos over there. Do they support an automated conversion? If not, probably no reason to use bitbucket any longer.
How much time do you think the average person actually spends waiting for a download?

Most of my software updates run in the background.

Xbox/Steam is the only thing I notice downloading and I usually just play a different game if it needs a big update.

Work is the only reason I pay for 300mbps. Otherwise, 100mbps would be more than enough for me.

Upload is where I really feel the lack of bandwith. I don't have fiber avaialable at my new apartment, and the cable companies only offer 20-25 mbps upload. Hard to run a plex server for my parents and inlaws with that little bandwidth.
I misunderstood the meaning of "wine cooler", and mistakenly thought you just meant 1/3 of power for the same volume. Sorry.

Still, the shoe polish analogy was meant to convey that the harmful substances are incidental, and e-cigs give you smoking experience and nicotine without them.
> The average user certainly doesn't worry about any of this, but that doesn't mean that they shouldn't.

I think the point he was making, in part, was that if the average user worried about those things, they would WANT most of those features and decisions.
Where are you gonna get sulphuric acid from?
> What does this mean? The company? The worker? It seems like the company not employing local workers, and the worker not leaving their house, would be worse for community all around.

No, like an actual community. Like people who live near each other and don't necessarily share a corporate brand but take care of each other and share memories and build traditions. People naturally have communities based on place, so getting hired and forced to move for that job disrupts communities. It's better for the everyone's social and psychological well-being to stay put.
Same. "I don't _want_ to, but I'd love to join you anyway" is my way. My wife and I both answer with some variation of this now and the extra info is helpful. Sometimes the rest of the conversation goes something like:

"Fair enough, let's go for a couple hours and if you're still not into it we can make our way out."

OR

"Oh, alright, I didn't really want to either, so let's just [send a gift | invite them for dinner next week | whatever]".

As for chores - well, they have to get done, but the protest can still be made and noted so it's not a surprise when something is done half-assed.
I disagree. The vast majority of internet costs are setting up the internet lines, maintaining them, and customer support. "Correct" pricing would likely be "large monthly price" + "negligible price per gb".
I'm a neurologist, which means I specialize in diseases of the brain, spinal cord, and nerves.

The clinical entity of chronic lyme disease which is undiagnosable by conventional medicine and require months and months of antibiotics is pseudoscience. There is a large industry built to pedal treatments to purported sufferers. I don't want to be disrespectful of the people who report being helped by these treatments, but this is exactly the same situation as vaccinations causing autism: people being convinced by "obvious facts" that are ultimately supported by anecdotes but not science.

The medical community can be wrong, for sure (h. pylori is a great example), but we notice treatments that help our patients, even when unconventional (the FDA approval of cannabis to treat epilepsy is the most recent example).

This will eventually reach the same conclusion as the vaccination debate; hopefully with a lower price tag of dollars and lives.
"How are you?" is an idiom. Just like "what's up" isn't a question about what is currently in the sky. It's unfortunate, and I wish it didn't exist, but it does. It functions as a politeness marker, and in some settings (i.e. nerdy programmers) politeness markers are seen as unnecessary and pointless, but in others they are seen as necessary.

As to why it exists, the answer is the same for just about every other linguistic feature: nobody really knows.
You didn't mention night in your first message.

You'd still be criminally at fault, and if you can't stop in time for a cyclist you're over-driving your headlights, but the cyclists would be well served by buying a back light for visibility. Keep in mind that wild animals can't, and they'll have roughly the same visibility as the cyclist.
Building a Balloon Launcher for the “I Spy” Books
ADSL2+ uses frequency division duplexing (FDD), ~9:1 ratio (50/448 bins). DOCSIS up to 3.1 is also FDD. Typical EuroDOCSIS 3.0 modem deployments work in 8/4 (max 400/100 Mbit) or 16/8 (max 800/200 Mbit) channel configurations.

Finally 'full duplex' DOCSIS 3.1, renamed to 4.0, promises up to 10Gbps symmetric transfers thanks to echo cancellation (V.34 dialup modem says hi). Of course we barely switched to 3.1 and its unlikely cable networks will jump on the 4.0 bandwagon any time soon.
Are there any applications for the GPT-2 models beyond text synthesis? Inference, question-answering, NER detection/disambiguation, anything like this?
Yes, and in fact the ancient Greek term, of those who invented the thing, was neither ("illogical" or "not a ratio").

It was "alogos" (later "arritos"), with the meaning "inexpressible", "which cannot be spelt out" - in the sense that you can never fully write out e.g. the square root of two the way you can a natural or a rational number like 2/3 or 1/4.

Unfortunately "alogos" also meant "illogical", so that's where the confusion stems...
> I know they have allegedly improved after new owners and a come-to-jesus moment, but damn, that was some shady shit.

If Facebook tomorrow started saying they're totally going to stop being creepy and got a new CEO, I wouldn't suddenly start trusting them either.
The most comprehensive guide to org mode - Organize Your Life in Plain Text! (http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html)

To sync and edit org files on your phone you can use the app Orgzly.
> So a lesson in Software development is similar to betamax and VHS, so marketing is still a winner over technically superior architecture and ease of use.

this is an amazing opinion. Git won over mercurial because its capabilities and usage model are vastly better than that of mercurial. I had all of my projects on mercurial for many years and finally switched over to git, it was like a whole new world opened up. My daily workflows are now entirely based on concepts that are complete anathema to mercurial, where changesets are just objects that can be moved around or deleted once no longer needed, where commits to master represent complete features in a single changeset. Throwaway or hypotehtical branches are now changesets in Gerrit, rather than "feature branches" that exist forever whether or not they were used. I'm not sure if mercurial found a way to work out those problems of having zillions of little "fix typo" style commits crowding up a feature as well as zillions of dead feature branches forever crowding up the repo, but it at least was not apparent to me seven or eight years ago which would mean it's not easy to use.
Java is most certainly unsuitable for production in many domains. That doesn't mean it's unsuitable for all, nor does it mean it isn't "production ready" in general. The GP context was about Julia not being well-suited for certain production environments. I gave one of a number of possible examples where that can be true. Just as with Java, that doesn't mean it's unsuitable for all production environments.
Bruce Bethke: The Etymology of “Cyberpunk” (1997)
> Originally published January 12, 2018
Many of the points made are legitimate concerns. I’m guessing that you work for Google (or Apple)?
I've already tried training with nshepperd's codebase. Sampling works, but even with the memory checkpointing and freezing the embedding and using SGD rather than Adam, it OOMs on a 1080ti's 11GB. Either additional tricks or CPU training are going to be required.
It's not universal, but it extends far beyond the Anglosphere.

If one is in France and says "Ça va, Michel?" -- odds are one expects a little more diversity in the answer than "How are you?" expects in the US... but really, one still expects "Oui, ça va." or "Ça va bien" and not really "Ça va mal" or "Ça va pas."
> Ignoring the fact that there is basically no OS in existence that can't be infected with malware.

To be fair to GNU, GNU Hurd cannot be infected with malware because no one is quite sure how to install it and keep it running for any meaningful amount of time.
Google and Amazon use this guy's SaaS tool at conferences
It sounds like GNU have a very constrained view on what a computer does and is used for. From reading this, it sounds like they want a computer (and by extension, its OS) to be a thing that sits on a desk and is operated on in very distinct ways.
There are a few that stem from the cultural expectation that the husband's income pays for the whole family, while the wife's income (if she has one) is for her use alone. Therefore, if the wife works outside the home, she is selfish, and not contributing to the family. This leads to discouragement or prohibition of external work and the education required to pursue it, especially higher education.

Divorces tend to asymmetrically favor the husband with respect to child custody and what Anglo-American common law would usually consider joint or common property.

Women's fashion may be limited by modesty laws, and certainly still restricted by social pressures.

Premarital public displays of affection may provoke punishments.

Adultery and rape are still handled in a manner considered improper in the US and Europe.

Homosexuality is still punishable by execution, as far as I know.
Here's a quote from his amazing book, Let My People Go Surfing:

"When I look at my business today, I realize one of the biggest challenges I have is combating complacency. I always say we're running Patagonia as if it's going to b e here a hundred years from now, but that doesn't mean we have a hundred years to get there! Our success and longevity lie in our ability to change quickly. Continuous change and innovation require maintaining a sense of urgency--a tall order, especially in Patagonia's seemingly laid-back corporate culture. In fact, one of the biggest mandates I have for managers at the company is to instigate change. It's the only way we're going to survive in the long run."
I was saying to de-escalate in private, not escalate in private. This exec you're dealing with sounds terrible, and depending on how often you have to deal with him, might be worth finding a new job over.
I have so many questions:

- Where can I get the ISA specification?[1]

- Where can I get a compiler?

- Is there a link to the "softcore model"?

With RISC-V you can start very simple and small (micro-controller) and work your way up in understanding and implementation to a very large core (application class). POWER is a monster of an architecture, designed more for "big iron". I guess that might limit the "hobbyist" factor RISC-V has.

1. This I think, all 1200 pages of it: https://openpowerfoundation.org/?resource_lib=power-isa-vers...
Yes, but you're doing exactly the same thing. Why should it have any redeeming features, bar it being a breeding ground for a few acts that went off and did better things, (this is mentioned in passing), and being the punchline for a good joke on Father Ted?

A balanced music review that's good to read is rare. You have things you think are good, and you have things you think are bad, and the meh ones in-between: who cares? Not you. Validation that what you like/dislike - good. Putting into words what you thought all along - good. Part of the reason the site is so loved is because of the kickings doled out to genres (which a vague enough containers disowned by those put in them at the best of times) vs. the things he clearly loves, and, shit, that's what you want from reviewers, not an anodyne history lesson. Music is deeply, deeply tribal, it isn't neutral

Like Squarepusher. "My Red Hot Cock" is really good. But bar that, he's good at playing that stupid six-string bass and making generally-undanceable dance music that people like to stroke their chins to. Saying Hard Normal Daddy is considered one of his best albums -- well that's a pretty shallow pool! Considered by whom? Not by me. Hard Plastic is miles better by dint of the fact it has actual tunes. And the music I like is the best music, and the music I dislike is crap. Weirdly enough the music you like is also the best music and the music you dislike is the worst but anyway, Squarepusher is like one of the jazz acts on The Fast Show, or something John Peel would put on when he was having a mild breakdown. (nb I do actually really like Squarepusher, I'm just arguing against his music because it is frankly unlistenable to most people)
> so this dream WeWork has of gaining corporate partners seems unlikely in the next 5 years, if a recession is to hit as everyone claims. These corporate players will probably have excess office space of their own, never mind paying for more.

What if the corporate partners are partners in flipping excess space in the case of a recession?
Ash helps his users with retention marketing on Shopify
Heh interesting, an incentive structure that has insurance companies going to bat for the little guys for the little ones.
All of those were part of the original benchmarks GPT-2 was evaluated on.
Not sure it’s a locale-specific thing because I live in Romania and I do it almost all the time. I don’t tell my gf “close the door, please”, but instead I tell her “can you please close the door?” (she talks the same way to me). Doing so seems more civilized, for lack of a better word, asking for things directly looks blunt and at times can even be seen as lack of respect.
Preserving your wealth in a risk free fashion is a service the government is providing to you. That's a big portion of the reason why the army, police et cetera exist. It costs them and you a lot more than 1% per annum.
I have a private office, but we also work from home two days a week (often more than that as various things come up for people).

I come in to the office every day because my wife stays home with our 3 kids. Work from home when home is four people that want your attention doesn't work out very well. The few times I tried it, everyone just got frustrated that I was present but not available.

Maybe in a couple years when the kids are in school working from home will seem appealing. Honestly a ten minute commute and the entire office to myself twice a week isn't half bad.
Shared Hosting is a different model than that being discussed here. Shared hosting never scaled based on usage. To carry the analogy forward that was the same as renting a traditional office space where you had to guess what kind of capacity you needed, and had to limited access to services.