skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because the designs predate the big push into extremely high efficiency processors. Like the big "server class" processors, the investment required to create a truly high efficiency processor is quite large. Small in-order cores with limited functional units, and lacking much of what makes a modern processor fast (vector units, specialty instructions/etc) can fool people into thinking that minimal clock domains/gating is sufficient to create a high efficiency design.
I always wonder why discussion about this issue does not state the obvious: the internet is the perfect tool for radicalization, even inadvertantly. This is why authoritarian governments control/limit access to the internet and why free countries see so much violence, conflict, and polarity that ironically appears to be curtailing free speech.

Theres a reason the information revolution is a "revolution". The days of typical mass media are over, and society is going to take a few years or decades to learn how to function smoothly again.
Yep, but that can backfire as well if the angry person thinks you're trying to control them. Sometimes it's just best to let them vent, and if it gets nasty, document it and deal with the consequences later.
"Inference, question-answering, NER detection/disambiguation are pretty important NLP tasks"
Yes indeed.

"While GPT-2 has gained mindshare for its generative capabilities, BERT and other pre-trained Transformer Encoder models are used for production workloads"
You rephrased my point pretty well, while openAI search for "fun" tasks, deepmind and others allow progress on real world tasks.

You use BERT which is nice but do you consider using it's successor: XLnet?

"take a look at the work by HuggingFace, the Flair project, Spark-NLP and others."
I was aware of Flair (from Zalando) but thank you for Huggingface and Spark-NLP, I will take a look!
I just use a bunch of aliases to make sense of things. eg "new-branch = checkout -b" and "branches = branch".
The last truly mainstream PowerPC desktop was Apple's 2005 Quad-G5 PowerMac. There were other PowerPC machines after this, the PS3 being the most notable. But they were either not desktops or not mainstream.

I'm a hardware nostalgic and have both gathering dust in my basement. So I can't wait for a PowerPC revival of any kind.
https://www.microsoftedgeinsider.com/en-us/download/?platfor...

Seem to be working here.
Uh, that list is most definitely tongue in cheek. The only one that really holds is “not bad”, which is an idiom that does translate into some other European languages (“pas mal”).
My partial hearing loss is such that I can understand conversations in an otherwise quiet room, but if someone turns on a fan, or intentionally plays white noise through overhead speakers, the conversation needs to be about twice as loud in order for me to understand it. Normal speaking volume isn't quite enough any more. That tiny bit of white noise overwhelms those frequencies that I can still hear to differentiate between similar speech sounds.

For me, blowing fans are unpleasant. Piped in white noise would be torture. Like gratuitously flashing strobe lights into the eyes of someone with night-blindness.

Maybe this could be used as the basis for ADA complaints against open offices? I can't understand why anyone would think that's a good idea, but then again, I don't understand open offices either.

(I also prefer 2-day email chains to face-to-face conversations, because I can both understand what I read much faster than I can understand listening to speech, and refer back to it later.)
Why is it no longer a "clear history" feature?
Part of any good introduction to real analysis is going to be walking you through a bunch of this stuff until you first understand how much you had glossed over the details, then than the details are strange, and finally that you have a working understanding or at least comfort with techniques to reason about this.

Is that the same as making sense? Well to paraphrase a physicist, you don't so much understand it as get used to it.

One of the fun things about teaching this material is that usually students have been through years of calculus prior to it, and you get to watch the moment when they realize all of this stuff has been "hiding in plain sight".
I was also confused by 'Pard'. Google suggests its a fictional animal from medival times, but its very obscure.
Another confusing one was 'Wal', which I have never heard of and doesn't look like an English word.

Another small thing to note is that once the monsters start to get really fast on the maze game, they can travel right through the player without triggering death

I have to say though, I love the response times, its extremely fast, a joy to use. It also looks like it would work great on a touch screen
Bit of an oversimplification, but I think it was a human error assisted by bad design.

An engineer set the "state estimator" to manual mode at 12:40 pm, then at 1:30 pm went to lunch forgetting to put it back on auto. Half an hour later, a grounded wire set off the first outage and due to the system reporting bad information, a cascade occurred.

They had launched the new power model just a couple of months prior, but I don't think it was a software glitch. For a few more details, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12476001 and for the full report (238-page PDF) see https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/oeprod/DocumentsandM...
> Maybe because it was bought by Atlassian.

Nope! Bitbucket had the "free private, paid public" model from the start. IIRC, Atlassian actually changed the model to allow unlimited public repositories after they purchased Bitbucket. It's possible that if BB had started with this model, they'd have been a much stronger competitor.
I've noticed this myself.

I simply walk more when I'm on a trip for something. Because often, I'm either going to cities or I haven't taken my car.

When I'm home, I'll drive to where I need to go. Then it's just whatever few steps I need to take around my place. Not even really trying, I walked over 6 miles total in a day while in a city for an event where the main activity is sitting down and playing cards.
Neil Young is an audiophile in the worst sense of the word. He's tried to make a player and music service https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pono_(digital_music_service) and it didn't work because there isn't demand.

If there was demand, Spotify would just add FLAC. They already added 320kbps compressed streams, and I doubt anyone can hear the difference between that and FLAC.

The vast majority of the audio perception people are going to pick up on happens during production. And https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war is why everything sounds worse than it used to. When records were being made for vinyl, the physical material wouldn't allow for the level of "loudness" that removes dynamic range from the track. That changed when all music started being produced digitally for digital distribution. Ironically, digital audio actually has a much larger dynamic range and should be better, but because of the way it's mastered it comes out louder but with less dynamic range.

Audio compression is the least of the problems for people interested in high quality recordings.
> I wonder what it would take for them to act

Losing money
Did they ever make anything faster than the 4-core QorIQ chip that powerpc-notebook.org is using?

Current NXP networking chips are ARM Cortex based, like the LX2160 that's in the upcoming SolidRun workstation (which they still haven't publicly demonstrated ECAM PCIe on, sadly…)
There were quite a number of Japanese Sparks from PEZI, Fujitsu and some others, but they were all purpose made HPC products. Not mass market
Ahh okay, glad I asked- and I think there may be something to that, the question then becomes: if employees on the autism spectrum are over-represented in tech, and this creates opportunities to learn how to work with such individuals and create workplaces, work styles and management styles that help them succeed with their peers, how do we create orthodoxies and systems of work that can be applied to the rest of the workforce?

I don't have the answer, but it's an interesting question to probe.

Thanks for the meaty conversation, I have my own little one on the spectrum so always thankful to have discussions like this one.
Seems a bit extreme. I imagine that one could easily extend this logic to apply to almost any group. Anyone making anything but the healthier foods tastier or cheaper. Any innovation that enables laziness. People who build elevators. Pretty much all of IT.
As black people in the Jim Crow South discovered, "previously forbidden from" and "enjoy genuine equality" are not the same thing.

The Wikipedia article simply serves as a well-sourced starting point.
Oh then you'll love finding out how much of the overall economy is guided by tax code idiosyncrasies - read up on stock buybacks vs. dividends for extra horror.
nvm--I signed up to see and was able to see that it's getting raised by 2020 madness' ActBlue (https://secure.actblue.com/donate/2020madness), not a specific candidate and probably uses the refcode query of AB's db to make the connection.

Cool idea!
The IRS has (this decade) targeted specific institutions by their affiliations:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRS_targeting_controversy

(Read the fourth paragraph of this page)
Hopefully this: https://www.mercurial-scm.org/pipermail/mercurial-devel/2019...
Yeah, the people "getting away with it" in this case aren't those paying withholding or even mostly individuals... they're corporations bilking the government and every other taxpayer. It's more like cutting back on the FBI when there's an outbreak of organized crime...
all versions (next/angular/jquery/vue/mvc) will be available as open source soon.
Using Authy may be a good idea. There is a slight risk of exposing the TOTP key to the cloud, but having it available on all devices (current and future) is very convenient. Authy has an option to encrypt the key using a user specified passphrase, so it is at least better than storing the raw TOTP key in the cloud.
That only includes the ebuilds, which are instructions for how to build from source, not the sources themselves.
Yeah, you would think so (and I thought the same for a while). All the epsilon delta stuff seems to work fine with rationals. But really most theorems of calculus (intermediate value thm, etc...) just are false, with very easy counter examples, as we see in the post.
> they harass and assault people for all sorts of subjective made up infractions.

The IRS does this all the time.

And unlike criminal law, the burden of proof is on the accused, not the state.
Do you need to build a single page application?
I'll be the cofounder of your $1B startup.First,send me $200 for chocolates (ha)
Can we start waving goodbye to IE11?
It's created by firm.ai so there's general corporate interest?
1) A person should buy these books directly from Patagonia (not Amazon ... in many ways a business diametrically opposed to the Patagonia corporate culture). 2) He as a new book called "Some Stories". Equally good.
It doesn’t matter. There are “norms” for every company and country. Just like someone would go into a new company and be expected to learn the business rules for the company/industry, the same applies to learning cultural norms for the company/industry/country.

There are very few companies that you could hope to get ahead in if you don’t build the relationships and understand the cultural expectations of the company.

You can no more go into a company and expect to get ahead without understanding the culture than you could go into a company in the medical industry and not learn about HIPAA.
Like mosquitos, we could create a gene drive for these tick species and eliminate them.
There is a moral to that story.

Making sure we have enough energy for everything we want whether the source is coal, oil, nuclear or hydro because energy is the single biggest contributor to a better life, richer and safer life and the more access we have the better of we are.
Love this. I always find myself falling into Sublime Text to take notes. I'd add that I also use the default Reminders app in iOS 13, before that I used OmniFocus but they seem to have copied the relevant features I use.
Wow I only knew about the movie. Now I have a new TV show I have to watch.
> Middle management is often desperately trying to justify their job by creating purposeful confusion. I swear he's trying to trip me up looking for reasons to put marks on my record.

Could be, esp. now you've called him out on something and he didn't own up to it.

My advice is to do this kind of thing in person. It's emotional - you calling someone out, and the other person accepting the mistake or not - and should be conveyed face to face. Email is a terrible medium for emotion.
I don't, but maybe a disclaimer on R in this article could bring those who could share their experience with R?
That's a real stretch. You could argue any post on HN is slightly related to tech and there for should be allowed. However, even if that were the case, then comments about Khashoggi should be allowed as well as for it's directly related and was also previously discussed on HN. Obviously that's just playing devils advocate.
I agree that there's so much potential that could be tapped if only we consumers could host stuff at home. In fact, I don't get why ISPs don't push for this; I have to imagine there's a market out there for this.
Fasting to cure the Lyme disease sounds very strange. Almost as the infamous banana diet to cure celiac disease.
Interesting that the download button says "Not supported for Linux" when you're using Linux. But what if I want to try this out on Windows, but use Linux to acquire the software? Sniffing the useragent and providing the relevant message is annoying for users, because if they want the software, they are going to find ways of acquiring it, regardless of the useragent sniff in place.

Note: I downloaded the beta version, and within 10 minutes of using it, it crashed. I reported the crash however so hopefully they can fix this
I'm not sure if the amount of extra engineering and costs involved to support low rise rooftop farming is better than the opportunity cost of slapping on a bunch of solar panels. This might be a viable model for Paris due to severe zoning height restrictions, but when I think urban farms that solves big problems, I think of high density vertical farms.
Why I Printed My Facebook
I thought it was agreed that Security through obscurity was frowned upon.
Thanks for supporting the development of open hardware and software. Very few of us can afford to do so.
If you like this video, watch the other 5, too, esp. the ones about quantum computing and on CRISPR are great. I find the challenge taken on in these videos fascinating. Too bad they haven't posted new ones lately. I would love to see a channel like this with other topics, e.g. string theory, how stock market works, etc.

There are other great learning channels that summarize complex topics, e.g. Kurzgesagt, 3Blue1Brown, but the multi-level approach is what makes these so interesting.
Or they simply don't care about Facebook building a profile of them to show them ads because they are happy with the value they get from Facebook.
The problem is Congress, not the IRS.

Most corporations pay the amount of tax they owe under the law, but the law is written to allow tax evasion. The IRS can’t do anything about this.

The fix is to close several well known loopholes.
I have worked remotely since February, and the startup also rents a shared office, which is mostly unoccupied. However, I have used it only when there is a meeting.

I rather not use my time to commute, and prefer working at home, some cafe, or even nearby park or restaurant terrace on sunny days.
Towards a Twilio, for open [crypto] networks
Today, we launched our cloud platform for open network and blockchain managed services, https://bloq.cloud/. The basic idea is to bring more users into the crypto space with an AWS-like offering, starting their journey in the cloud, and eventually leading to the fabled Fully Decentralized self-hosted configuration.

Our vision is to do for open blockchain network development what Twilio did for mobile integration and take away all of the friction and hurdles that get in the way of building great multi-blockchain apps.

Here are the services we are starting with:

- Nodes-on-demand for Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum, and Ethereum Classic (BloqCloud Nodes)

- APIs, indexed blockchain data, and event notification for Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash (BloqCloud Connect)

More network and services to come. If you work on a network or protocol that you want included and supported, I want to hear from you.

The BloqCloud Connect service has a free tier (500 API requests per month, limited event/block/address monitoring). For $24/yr or $4/mo (“Starter”) you 10x the API requests and 4x the monitoring. BloqCloud accepts credit card and Bitcoin, with MET and Lightning soon.

Site: https://bloq.cloud/
Signup: https://console.bloq.cloud/signup
Documentation: https://docs.bloq.cloud/
Pricing: https://bloq.cloud/pricing

The rough ten-year roadmap and vision: https://sync.bloq.com/bloqcloud-our-platform-and-vision/
I haven't found any mode of communication that's as effective for building trust as face-to-face interaction. Video conferencing, email, tickets, etc. all work well for the "Let's make a decision on this issue" or "Let's get this specific thing done" use-case, but it's much harder to actually get to know someone and build trust over those mediums. That's unfortunate, because trust between people on a team is a huge force multiplier for getting things done.
I'm not sure what the rocket equation for EV battery capacity would be, but EV batteries are very heavy, pretty bulky, and they need fluid heating/cooling for optimal performance. It's not as simple as hooking up the lights for a trailer.
The series of 4 planned orbital maneuvers are outlined here https://www.isro.gov.in/update/14-aug-2019/chandrayaan-2-suc...
"It’s a balance."

What would that look like?
Use of IE11 is largely tied in to Enterprise applications. Whatever happens to Edge it won't make IE11 die any sooner.
The operative words there are "sort of". You can in fact get arbitrarily close. Just as you can with other sets of numbers, like those the form m/10^n (decimal approximations), or the numbers tan(n) where n is an integer.