skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
• Don’t slow the reader down. Avoid footnotes because they break the flow of
thoughts and send your eyes darting back and forth while your hands are
turning pages or clicking on links. Try to avoid jargon, buzzwords or overly
technical language. And don’t use the same word repeatedly — it’s boring.

• Don’t over-elaborate. Only use an adjective if it’s relevant. Your paper is
not a dialogue with the readers’ potential questions, so don’t go overboard
anticipating them. Don’t say the same thing in three different ways in any
single section. Don’t say both ‘elucidate’ and ‘elaborate’. Just choose one,
or you risk that your readers will give up.

"Don't use the same word repeatedly" and "don't say the same thing in three
different ways in any single section" are contradictory.

In particular the first bit of advice is not good advice, to my bitter, bitter
experience. I used to do this in my papers: I would vary the terminology I
used to refer to the same concept throughout a paper, to make the text more
interesting. This was criticised very strongly and caused untold confusion
among reviewers, and the confusion caused my work to be rejected with very
strongly negative comments. And that's not just papers- I kept having to re-do
the reports on the progress of my research required by my university, because
the internal examiners wer so confused by the way I was writing.

Then I had a single session with a woman from the unversity's center for
academic English and that was one of the first things she said to me: "use the
same term to refer to the same concept, throughout the text". It was like a
lightbulb went off and the next set of comments I got for my work was
overwhelmingly positive (with respect to my technical writing anyway). It was
just This One Simple Trick, right? But it made a world of difference.

And here's a more general bit of advice: if you ever enjoyed literature, or
indulged in writing your own, woe is you, o damned soul. Do not even consider
trying to write a technical paper as if it was literature. You will be damned
for ever to the eternal flames of damned damnation. Really- don't do it.
Literary writing is evocative, it creates fleeting impressions and conjures
emotions. Done right, no two readers will get the same impression from the
same literary text. But the same is death for technical writing. Technical
writing is precise and unambiguous. Everyone who reads it must understand it
and they must all understand the same thing. Don't mix the two kinds of
writing up or you'll make a mess. Like I have.
It depends which end of the market you are targeting. My customers generally don’t have the budget for consultingware. Their budget means they can only get a self service solution.
I don't know, and I don't think which side is right is really important. More that I felt that neither side compromised even through tragedy (just basing it from this article).
If you had met mloncode at a party, would you have said it this way to his face after he said "Hey, check out this thing I helped build to make code search better"?

Do you realize how rude and disrespectful that tone is?

There is a civil way to air one's views; one that we use naturally in face-to-face conversations. Yet once it's from behind a computer screen, we somehow seem to think it's okay to lash out in a barrage of hurtful language...
Adding Rust as a first class citizen to GCC.
I love the push buttons on my radio 1-10 for 10 channels. If i wanna change, i intuitive press the right button.
I drive a Mercedes, i can skip through 20 channels on my steer-wheel, or use the touchscreen and go to radio and...
Push buttons for me.
Stallman defended adults having sex with children in 2013.[1] He didn't say anything else about it until now, as far as I know.

[1] https://stallman.org/archives/2012-nov-feb.html#04_January_2...
For me the problem with gaming laptops for work is their GPUs. I honestly don't need anything beyond build in Intel GPUs but I would love to have powerful CPU + a lot of RAM. Highend GPUs are driving prices of laptops very high so essentially I'm paying a lot for hardware that I would never use. That's why I prefer desktops, there is no problem with having Threadripper and 128GB of RAM in case with some basic $30 used GPU.
Exactly, the ease with which companies put you through multiple rounds of timewasting just to reject you on something small (or even not telling you the salary range) is staggering.

I've gone through rounds of interviews and take-home assignments and calls just to be given a very low offer. Start with that, save time for us both!
I downvoted this because ranty tantrums don't belong on HN.
> If you think everyone should be called by their preferred pronouns, that's not respect

How is that not respecting others?
Isn't the description right next to the video?

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What are Zapmarks?
Zapmarks are custom keywords, used to get you right to your favorite websites.
Any gas car converted to electric is universally terrible. They have to mount the batteries extremely high because the chassis wasn't built for the batteries and this results in utterly horrible handling because the center of mass is too high.
Any decent solutions for a whiteboard replacement?

Maybe an iPad Pro with the pencil?
You can remote GPUs pretty far these days - it’s possible to have a local system and have the cards still connected with PCI but on the other side of a wall.
I wouldn't mind having the option of a car's voice assistant (exclusive for the car, where I have a signed contract with the manufacturer stating that what happens in the car stays in the car and doesn't get sold for ads). But I'd still very much prefer to have a dedicated physical button option for any basic function that a driver might use while driving. Not a button that navigates through a menu but something where I can use muscle memory and have the guarantee that it does what I expected without taking my eyes off the road for a second.

So for example the volume up button should always be a volume up button. They shouldn't change function because in some other menu I picked "temperature" instead of "volume".
It's surprising how similar it is to modern Teslas, forty or so years later.
Yes, "crypto" is not a necessary condition for something to be considered a currency. Neither is "¬crypto", though.
Linen is pretty green. It is made of flax and has low energy consumption during production, and moderate water use. Much lower water use than cotton on the production end, but it needs to be ironed which increases the energy use on the consumer end. It is biodegradable as well.
I do not think it is a good idea to present lesser known graph types that need explanation in an enterprise setting.
We have been self-serve product for the first 12 years and a year ago we launched our Enterprise version. As the article mentions because of the existing high traffic it has been pretty easy to find leads. We have already signed 100 Enterprise customers. Our main challenge was not to find customers, in fact we struggled to catch up with leads. The main challenges were making the product Enterprise ready with necessary features such as covering most popular SSOs and building admin privileges on the Enterprise product, and trying to build a sales team from scratch.

We had to hire 3 sales people before we found someone right. It is like someone hiring developers without any development experience. You get it wrong because you don't know what makes someone good. Get help from someone who has experience. We finally found the right person from our network and suddenly sales started flying.
This is the killer feature that made me sit up and take notice of F#.

Add exhaustive pattern matches and I was hooked
No one asked for your comment. I hope it gets punished.
Add a layover and you could easily be at 20+ hours (which is common since NZ is small so there aren’t that many flights). Europe is well over 24 hours even to the major hubs.
> doesn't ruin RMS.

He's perfectly capable of doing that himself.

There was a time where his style of firebrand-like vitriol against proprietary software was crucial. But that time is over. GNU/Linux won, it won years ago.

GNU does not have the influence it once did. It is an organisation geared up to solve the problems of the early 90s.

The real crux is this, "computing" and free software is not the preserve of academia anymore. It should be for everyone. Which means getting rid of deliberately antagonistic behaviour.

It serves noone.

I want my children to follow in my footsteps, as I followed my dad. But they can't do that if we cling to these idols who bully, cajole and generally act like obnoxious arseholes. There is just no need anymore. It doesn't work, it doesn't make for better code.

Crucially it serves as an excuse to let abusers, psychopaths and other nasties continue to abuse people "because RMS, Jobs & Ballmer all did it"

No, that kind of behaviour has to stop.
Hah nice one, Chinese native here as well. I think giving a few samples (with input english name and output chinese name + pronunciation/meaning) might give more confidence and perhaps more conversion.
It’s all relative. My products are in the $100 to $500 range, there is a limit to how much support you are going to get for that price. On the other hand it does mean I will work hard to engineer problems out of the software.
I think there is some merit to these chips having better power consumption. Generally the CCX's that draw more current under no cpu load are capable of higher clocks albeit at higher power draws at said clock.[i] That is to say is that the higher performance chips from the silicon lottery are the least efficent.

So as you said, its "just a slightly worse binned version" but worse in terms of max clock not performance/watt.

Although there isnt a 'hard' definition of TDP AMD has typically rated there chips more accurately[ii] than intel in the past [0], but that said AMD's TDP is still lower than absolute max power draw.

[i]- Memories from working in validation, although this was not focus of my work, this is what I recall on the topic.

[ii]- from amd's data sheet "The maximum power a processor draws for a thermally significant period while running commercially useful software. The constraining conditions for TDP are specified in the notes in the thermal and power tables."

NOTE! This source is old!!
[0]-https://www.anandtech.com/show/2807/2
The 3900X still uses ~140 W at full load with a 105 W TDP. And still just like Intel, if you limit the clock speeds you can make it use 105 W, 65 W, or 35 W at full load, just like with Intel chips. AMD calculates the TDP a bit differently, but nothing really changes fundamentally. All CPUs in a generation are essentially the same chip, TDP is completely irrelevant.
> learned not to be bothered by it

Have you ever been forced to use a women's bathroom because of your, probably fabulous, hair?
The NIST Definition of Cloud Computing (2011)
i suspect the military/leo databases are not the ones being searched in criminal cases
> You can use it to snipe at political figures and promote products for money.

I think that's wrong - there are lots of communities of interest where people follow a crowd of others because of a common topic of interest.
In other words, the system is ready to be trained for languages not on the initial list, without requiring additional development?
>Pulmonary embolisms are rare in young people. In the United States, they are even less common among Asian-Americans than white people.

This is a strange opener given that the embolism was related to the limb lengthening. Not quite a bolt of lightening from the blue
If you're logged in, all you need to do is click on the "9 hours ago" field of the comment. That takes you to the individual comment, fully visible. So it's only one extra click to read.

This unfortunately doesn't work if you're not logged in.
it's too much user-friendly.
Because then you need to commit your chnges, push to a remote Git repo, wait for the CI server to check for changes, wait for the CI server to finish previously scheduled builds, wait for CI server to start building, ...

Also, all that needs to be set up. If you need to change some little thing, you're much faster doing it locally, rather than trying to wrap your head around the build server configuration and figure out how to just run this one test different but only for this branch and not for the normal builds ...
The potent effects of Japan’s stem-cell policies
You know what would solve 100% of crimes? Putting every single person in jail.

Privacy is a human right, just as important as freedom. You cannot just take that away from everybody. This is putting the whole populace under general suspicion in each case.
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But it does work for many others and/or certain industries, and that's fine.
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Handling doesn't matter in city commuting. People also seem happy to buy SUVs and crossovers which have much higher centres of mass than hatchbacks.
> Does she need to admit that women do, in fact, prefer assholes? Or that the domestic violence she suffered was her fault?

no and no.

> In what direction do you think she needs to budge

One in which the author does not assume her brother should blame a greater system of patriarchy and white supremacy.
Sigh, it's a bit like reading obsolete scientific papers : "abrahamic exceptionalism" - no shit, Sherlock ?
(At least, the later given examples are still interesting...)
I think that for B2B software, the right approach is "service first!": you should consider service processes as equally important as the business processes your product supports. For each feature, you should ask yourself "How will we provide customer support for it?"

The answer does not need to be "self-service", but don't add customer service as afterthought to your product.
I suggest you actually try the Tesla UI. It puts every other automaker's system to utter shame so you shouldn't be lumping it in with the others. It's at the level of CarPlay, if not better.
>If the performance is alright for my needs, why wouldn't I prefer a processor with a lower TDP?

Because 1. a processor with a lower TDP doesn't necessarily actually use less power, at least not if your cooler can dissipate much more than the TDP, which it typically can.

And 2. because you can simply limit the clock speeds of any higher TDP CPU to reach any TDP you want. If you want a 35 W 3900X or 9900K, just set the clocks to whatever you need to reach 35 W max power usage, and you're done.

Of course the lower TDP parts are typically cheaper, so it makes more sense to buy those. But that's their differentiating factor, the price, not the TDP.
I agree. I skimmed back and forth trying to understand the other bars but had to read the actual Excel data in order to understand what was going.
> I think life is necessary for consciousness personally.

I suspect you would need to define life in a fairly leading fashion for this to be the case. Can you say what you mean by "life" here?
> I'd be more wary of the people with low integrity who just say what others want to hear, they change their speech but doesn't actually change their behavior and will still discriminate and undermine groups even when forced to change their speech pattern.

Yep, they're the worst in my book as well.
"I heard somebody say he harassed women, so he must have done so" is also not as strong an attack as you seem to think.
My doordash got hacked a year ago when they did not have a special call center set up. I had no choice but to file a support ticket into the void (which was even more difficult since I did not have access to my account so I had to use a public contact form). I always suspected a breach since the account had a unique password and was only used on my personal phone which I was still in possession of. I wonder if they are just now getting around to disclosing that breach?

I did not hear back from support for 3 months (no exaggeration). I asked that they delete my account back then so you can imagine my delight to receive more security-related correspondence from this company today.
Ask HN: Frequently do you change your laptops/phones
So being a software developer in this 21st century means being bombarded by adverts of the latest laptops/phones and other gadgets with mouth watering specs, so my question to you guys is how often do you upgrade your gadgets?
And what prevents you from climbing into your car and doing the same thing? Do you check under your car every time before you drive off? I know I certainly don't and never have.
Isn’t the conversation the main distraction with phones, exacerbated by the fact the other person can’t see the hazard you are approaching.
It's really odd for him to link to Youtube. I wonder if someone else added it.

That part of the HTML doesn't seem to be written with auto-fill-mode either.
>> However, this is frustrating to scientists who are then left wondering which of n different definitions of some property/parameter you are using and how this influences results.

I've had this sort of trouble also. The way I was taught to resolve it was to define every bit of jargon you use, or at the very least refer to some previous work's definition of that term - _and then stick to that definition come what may_.

So if you use a term, even if you want to use it in a somewhat uncommon manner, define it, and if possible define it before using it. It's like coding, right? Er. In C, anyway, if memory serves.
Prior post - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21070321
Just out of interest which city in Western Europe ?
Trust is the opposite of weight loss - easier lost than gained.

While I trust and respect your stance, you may have been just a "useful idiot" in this.

It'd be a good thing, if it's left to stand. You _should_ be happy/proud about _that_. But I'd not waste my life going out of my way to advocate for the rationale behind it.
If I can be forgiven for an interesting meta observation, I think the time of day and the tone of some comments makes a big difference depending on the topic.

For example Snowdon topics posted during the European morning and then later on American users share their thoughts and comments. And then later on as Silicon Valley comes online.

same with RMS and other cultural issues, when just looking at the comments it's clear that there's differences in opinion due to different cultures.

I have not really observed these differences in pure tech stories though.
Many SoC these days come with a dedicated matrix multiplication unit.
That's just an ideology you subscribe to and fail to recognize that SJW may seem like creepy disrespectful totalitarian garbage by others who don't. You can't demand anyone to follow your ideology out of respect.
When I started working in my current company, the dual core, 16GB MBP that was given to me was enough since I was working on a single project.

But now that I am working across projects that run 2-3 repositories at a time with Jetbrains IDE, the computer almost barely keep up. I get times where typing will actually lag.

I am contemplating asking them for a Mac Mini instead since I rarely ever venture out from my desk.
Is mimicry always sign language though?

It is certainly communication, but I think there's a difference between communication and language. The latter requires more structure: perhaps grammar, a finite fixed set of predetermined words, etc.

You don't really need consciousness to communicate, since it's just transfer of information between different entities - for example, an organism could secrete chemicals that are detected by neighboring members of the species, as I think it's the case for some plants.

Structured communication might be different, as I think there has to be a something that composes the particular "phrase".
It works both ways, I’ve been heavily downvoted just for saying they won’t have the EV market all to themselves much longer.
No one can define consciousness... so what is it we are taking about?
How Social Media Doesn’t Give You the Money That You Deserve?
It's important to understand that "R.U. a Cyberpunk?" wasn't meant to be taken seriously even at the time -- it was poking fun of the people who read William Gibson novels and the like and then decided to think that's how hackers should act and dress in the real world.
Why are you spreading fake information? This hasn't been the case for years, if ever.
>That is to say is that the higher performance chips from the silicon lottery are the least efficent.

That is wrong generally. Not sure how you got that idea either. The chips that overclock the highest are typically the most efficient ones, too. A 9900K that can run at 5.3 GHz at 1.35v is going to use less power than a 9900K that needs 1.5v to run at 5.3 GHz. At any frequency. Because the "golden" chip simply leaks less power, and needs less voltage at any given frequency. Lower TDP parts aren't special in any way, they just have lower clocks. If you limit the clocks on higher TDP parts, you get the same (or better) power consumption.
Fair point. Somehow I've missed that.
Life Lessons Learned as a Programmer
Personally I used to use a Logitech wireless keyboard and mouse and stopped doing so.

The reason was my mouse cursor intermittently freezing - and there being no easy way to tell the difference between lag due to high workload, the signal being blocked by obstacles (like the computer's own case), intermittent radio interference, other USB devices spamming noise onto the 5v USB supply, and flat batteries.

It's possible Apple has solved all these problems - none of them seem intractable.
Blindsight by Peter Watts is a fiction novel with pretty interesting ideas on consciousness. In the book, consciousness is presented as a error during evolution, with no added value for species to survive. I find that idea quite disturbing and extremely interesting!
One solution to this is to add a cost to the queries... https://github.com/slicknode/graphql-query-complexity
>In 2000, there were 0.61 Euros to the British pound.

The writers don't seem very good at maths. I think they mean 0.61 pounds to the Euro.

Also as to why they went bust the top comment on the previous discussion seems more telling to me https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21045550
While I agree with OP's sentiment (gh's search is surprisingly poor), putting a warning “I'm going to be a jerk” isn't an excuse to be one…
I have mailed you with my contact number. Let's speak soon.
Is consciousness a binary state? There are many examples that suggest it is not: toddlers, the dream state, computer programs, communal endeavors (such as a scientific inquiry), not to mention animals. If consciousness is something that is a question of degree, it makes sense to think of the entire universe being conscious to some degree or another. I’m not a very spiritual person, but I find this train of thought hard to avoid.
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I've been experimenting with my own custom markup for annotating code blocks. I want to document code use cases and automatically generate an index of independent sandbox examples. This approach doesn't require AI but rather manual effort remembering to annotate novel uses in code and a standard convention for doing so. One problem this solved is that I've written so much code that I lose track of where I experienced certain patterns and this would help me track that better. This also helps to facilitate knowledge sharing across teams with access to the source.

Has anyone worked on something such as this and can comment or share ideas?
The article is obviously subjective but the statistics show that racism exists and the correlation between height and your salary/job.
I know this sounds silly because code on github is visible to everybody anyway and that's a good thing, but I would appreciate a way to opt out my own code from such automated data gathering programs for machine learning purposes.

Something like a robots.txt for github projects. Not that anybody would really care, only to make my intent clear that I don't support this sort of mass data gathering nonsense.