skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are many third person pronouns that people have suggested that are not widely in use today, including singular they. Ze, zhe, per, zer, e, etc.
[1] have all been proposed at various points in time (and some have resurfaced in the past several years) and there are people who identify by these pronouns. If singular 'they' is valid, then so are they (plural, referring to the alternative third person gender neutral pronouns in this case).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-person_pronoun#Preferred...
Things don't always work out this way though. If you publish a scientific paper that reports an interesting result, it can permanently help your career even if it is later proved to be wrong. It just needs to be believed for about 10 years or so - you'll extract most of the career advancement possible from the paper during that time. When the paper is debunked, as long as there is no evidence of fraud, you'll still have tenure, you'll still be the PI on projects you have started after the paper, you'll still have your network of collaborators who won't shun you if it looks like you made an honest mistake years ago.

I've seen the above happen, and it can be caused by a perverse fact one of my mentors told me in grad school: "Bad data almost always looks interesting." Cold fusion started out as bad data, and looked very interesting. Those faster-than-light neutrinos that were in the news several years ago were bad data. When I was a kid in the 1960s, there were numerous reports of exoplanet detections - all were bad data. Etc.
Huh, I didn’t know most of the providers require a phone number now. Thanks for the info!
Nobody has made 400G NICs because a PCIe 4.0 x16 slot is only 256 Gbps. Infiniband is currently at 200 Gbps because 8x and 12x modes are no longer used.
I use Anki at the moment. Anki makes it easy to search, recall and recollect all the details.

I've toyed with GitHub, Evernote and markdown files but the greatest issues with all these topics is lack of active recall and that fact that I never came back to them. With Anki, I've been spending time daily so it's hard to forget these topics. If I do forget something, I can always look it up in my notes or just go to the internet again.
So who is the most likely buyer: Google, Amazon, Microsoft, or IBM?

Or Oracle??
But you do to judge what people with any given type of mental health issue can and cannot do.
Especially amazing since it used to be pretty good. The former codebase must have been an absolute mess for Google to throw it away in favor of the garbage that exists now.
Amateur Radio license holders can't use encryption in the USA. This kills a large portion of the use case for an amateur cellular network.
> I do not excuse Richard Stallman’s remarks, nor do I challenge the actions of both the MIT Media Lab and the FSF for terminating his positions with them.

It wasn't the Media Lab with which Richard had a position; it was MIT CSAIL.
The "hot ladies" photo was by someone who vandalized his sign and took a picture. He didn't do that. I looked around quite a bit, but I could not find a single instance of abusive behavior. No unwanted touching, no abuse of power, no coercion. I did find quite a few outright lies, such as John Gruber claiming that Stallman had an "open marriage" and "made overt sexual advances to women" while on the board of VA Linux.[1] Of course, Stallman has never been married and he was never on the board of VA Linux. There are many stories along those lines, and they've been repeated over and over despite being either unverifiable or verifiably false. You'd think that after 30 years of abuse, there would be a single person who would tell their story to a respected journalist (so that their report could be trusted while still having their identity protected). Hell, considering how famous Stallman is, you'd think one liar or crazy person would have tried this already. Still, nothing.

1. https://daringfireball.net/2019/09/richard_stallmans_disgrac...
"...how they align with your company’s core values"

This phrase seems kind of common, but it seems a little odd in that it sort of implies different companies have significantly different "core values". Like, Google's core value is of course, "don't be evil". So, they get all the non-evil candidates, and someone else gets the spawn of Satan?
It’s the first time I’ve read about Pavlov. What are you referencing if I may ask?
Feel free to be appalled; most normal people don't care about the "suffering of cows" either.

It's sad but true - our species has a lot of evolving to do still.
“I better not see anyone here doing XYZ or else I’ll ABC” is the complete construction of the phrase you use.

In parenting, this phrase typically replaces ABC with “punish you”, “hit you”, “spank you”.

Your construction buries the implied violence of that phrase by leaving off the “or else”, but that does not resolve the inappropriateness of threatening “or else” on this forum.
"Han unification" (deciding that Chinese and Japanese characters were 'basically the same' and could be represented with the same set of codepoints) was a terrible idea, yes, mainly brought from the Unicode foundation not being run by people who spoke or wrote either language, and not wanting to "waste" their limited code points in the BMP on languages using an inconvenient number of characters.
I'd venture that if Google, Amazon or Microsoft were to buy Docker, it would also be so that none of the others could buy them?
> The prices paid at the last FCC frequency auction are a tiny fraction of the revenue those frequency bands will earn over the next decades.

The licenses that the FCC auctions off have a finite term. E.g. this [1] license is owned by AT&T and expires in 2021.

[1]: http://reboot.fcc.gov/spectrumdashboard/detailLicense.seam?c...

So over the next decades those carriers have to purchase it from the FCC again and again and again.
It looks like they have just updated it as resolved and monitoring.
Meteorite Swords Forged from the Fire of the Heavens
Your product looks really interesting, but

- $95/mo for a single user sets the impression that this is way out of reach for anything I'd consider. Clearly, I'm not the customer.
- The fact that it appears to be using traditional spreadsheet formulas gives me concerns about how general it might be. Mesh is intriguing for its more flexible programming and table model.
- There's a live chat module on your page that appears to not be able to be dismissed, which blocks a lot of the page content.
My whole working life has bee
in organisations with a disproportionate number of atypical types, and by and large found it refreshing and tolerant compared the culture outside, often macho, ignorant and dumb. Defending RMS's predilections as stemming from being aspy or whatever is really insulting to a great many in the tech community.
Arguably, yes.

I don't think that's exclusive of the other types of company you can be.
Louisiana did, it’s hardly giving us a comparative advantage to Texas - see https://www.theadvocate.com/acadiana/news/business/article_a...
I'm starting am engineering job at a FAANG in a few weeks. They already had me sign something agreeing to not do anything with the data of someone I know in the course of my work, told me access is monitored, not to make actual changes to people's accounts because hacking isn't distinguishable from admin changes by users, if something accidentally happens, notify a specific group so they can reach out to the user.

It feels like they take privacy really seriously, but at the end of the day, yes, employees do have access to your data, so before giving any company your unencrypted data, think hard about it.
Wow. I just looked at Cruise's numbers. 19Bn. That explains a lot. I guess I've been way out of touch with happenings of self driving world. Thank you for the details.
Here's some stuff from him:

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Search/Home?lookfor=%22Young,...

The 1945 one sounds closest: https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/012277991?type%5B%5D=a...
I'm inclined to agree but if an nginx filter is like (HttpRequest, HttpResponse) => (HttpRequest, HttpResponse) then aren't we basically saying we like purely problems that can be expressed as compositions of pure functions? Signal programming I have less feelings on
I have never seen a vegan who is what I would consider "fit" - and my standard is not necessarily an elite athlete, but, let's say, "able to handle themselves in a bar fight". Frankly a lot of them look rather sickly.

I have however met a lot of people who are Paleo or Carnivore who are in incredible shape.

I'm inclined to believe that at least some of this is cultural - Paleo/Carnivore folks tend to be more strict and disciplined about their fitness anyway, and do different workouts - and some of it is indeed due to diet.
The problem is that tensorflow is an umbrella name for bunch of related technologies: it's a matrix calculation engine, graph definition language, distributed graph calculation engine, ML algorithmic libraries, ML training libraries. On top of that it's extremely poorly documented. At the end of the day when you use it anything beyond most trivial stuff turns out to be incompatible with each other (this operation is not implemented for TPUs or GPUs, this API doesn't work with this API) and most of development cut-n-paste trial and error. Then you go to read it at source, but creative Python renaming and importing leads you to multi-hour wild goose chase.

If you switch to PyTorch, what are you going to use for prod deployment? Is there any way to use TPUs?
Show HN: Realize Portable and Reusable Text Preprocessing
https://youtu.be/BTuCshX5bc0?t=36
I'm amused that this very wise very true comment is downvoted on HN. 20 year old me would have downvoted it. 40 year old me recognizes it as obvious and has a divorce to show for it. There's no way 20 year old me would have believed 40 year old me, though.
He is? Working in CSAIL for years, I would never have guessed that he was autistic. The email threads are lost to me now, but I remember him being unyielding and obnoxiously dedicated to free software, but he never seemed unaware of social cues. He always struck me as a very good communicator - someone who understood exactly how obnoxious he was, he was just a true believer so he didn't really care.
Not to mention the huge carbon footprint they leave.
I question a fundamental assumption here: that Stallman was let go or pushed to resign because of "SJWs."

I don't see much evidence of that. "SJWs" have had problems with him for years and nothing happened... until now.

What's different this time? Stallman's comments on Epstein added to the embarrassment of MIT. He waded into a political bonfire and added fuel. The last thing MIT needs is someone affiliated with MIT with a history of (at least sounding like he was) defending pedophilia holding forth on the Epstein saga in any way whatsoever, let alone by apologizing for or at least minimizing his actions.

This time he embarrassed and offended much more powerful people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavlov%27s_Dog
I admire the level to which he’s mastered his craft, on stage or in one of his specials.

I’m also quite frustrated with people who watch him and believe he’s shown us something about ourselves, especially those who believe he demonstrated that 75% of people would commit murder if in a real situation like the elaborate sequence in The Push. But it’s difficult to explain the difference between participating in a hypnotic/suggestive guided scenario (unwittingly or not) and real life with its hard edges and unsuspended moral convictions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_conditioning
Enjoyed reading the Library of Babel, referred in this article. Other Borges masterpieces - The Lottery in Babylon, Blue Tigers, The House of Asterion.
> There's so much that can be done with it, and Google has abandoned it

Does anyone know the inside ballgame on this one?
Funny you mention this. My friend runs a jewelry business and one of the things he needed to do was move something from Etsy to asana. There was no API so we used Zapier’s email parser to parse the order emails to send into Asana. Works pretty well.

https://parser.zapier.com/
The first time I was trying to build Konsole was a bit painful too, they don't really list what the dependencies are. I ended up creating a docker container based off Fedora 30 and added the packages needed to build the app there, then I can mount my local checking into the container and run `cmake` and `make` there. Not sure how useful that would be if you're trying to build a DMG though.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Pavlov

Pavlov famously rang a bell while feeding his dog, eventually demonstrating that the dog would salivate at the sound of the bell alone, showing an adaptive link between stimuli and subconscious response.
Similarly, what you wrote hurt my feeling.
I know the US (330 mil. pop.) is a much larger country than Switzerland (8 mil. pop.). You also could have said: "The cost of improving the Swiss housing and infrastructure to reduce the mortality rate due to fire would be a miniscule fraction of what it would be in the US". You have to normalize to look at these things, and you also have to look at the bigger picture, or you could totally mislead yourself.

Put in normalized terms,

- 0.00028% of the Swiss pop. dies from fire annually

- 0.00116% of the US pop. dies from fire annually

- 0.001% of the US pop. dies from drowning annually

- 0.001% of the US pop. dies from exposure to mechanical force annually

- 0.006% of the US pop. dies from gunshot annually

- 0.01% of the US pop. dies from falling annually

- 0.015% of the US pop. dies from road injuries annually

- 0.03% of the US pop. dies from respiratory illness annually

Here's [0] a visualization I made of causes of mortality a few years back. Play around with this a little bit; it's pretty interesting looking at actual mortality rates.

[0] http://bl.ocks.org/MattTriano/raw/154e9c142504d61985e2b65287...
It would be interesting to see if things people are embarrassed of became normalized over night. It'd probably just be awkward for a while tho.
Nice article. I’m still getting used to go so it’s good to have this resorce! I find the go tour a bit lacking on details on the subject of interfaces. Go’s approach to interfaces is also one of the language’s breaks from convention that confuses me. The implict implementation approach, imo, actually hurts ubderstanding when reading code instead of helping. I sort of get the idea that using the implicit approach enables greater decoupling between interfaces and implementors, but it also does a poor job at signaling intent. it’s kind of nice to be able to start at the top of some type/class/whatever declaration and see that the author inteds it to implement the methods defined by foo interface, vs having to read the individual func defs, parse the somewhat syntactically odd func (T) arguments to comprehend that the function refers to this type (defined elsewhere) and implements this interface method (defined elsewhere). But it may be totally fine once I get used to it.

It’s almost like using a language that really wants to be only imperative but begrudgingly introduces support for minimal oop. In spite of this though, it’s still a pretty great language and I have a lot of fun reading and using it. Some of it’s other patterns and decisisons, such as the v, ok := expresions I find quite delightful to read and use in practice.
> If you switch to PyTorch, what are you going to use for prod deployment? Is there any way to use TPUs?

PyTorch has an optional XLA device, that let's you use TPUs: https://github.com/pytorch/xla
People are excellent rationalizers -- smart people especially. Basically smart people can use reason as a cudgel to win any debate -- not because they've actually constructed a good proof or considered all relevant evidence.
Just for the sake of feedback, I found your post confusing.

It's not really clear to me what you are saying exactly.
hope this is sarcastic lol
I'm not getting defensive I'm pointing out an argument that stems from feelings and is only supported by feelings has no basis in discussion, since they are not axioms for discussion but subjective.

The OP starts out dismissing logical arguments and then pats himself on the back for seeing through the grand conspiracy of analytical thought.
> most of the ancestors in human history were near vegetarian

An extremely disingenuous statement not backed in any manner in the article outside of paragraphs like these

>But the truth is, for most of the last twenty million years of the evolution of our bodies, through most of the big changes, we were eating fruit, nuts, leaves and the occasional bit of insect, frog, bird or mouse.

That goes beyond "human history" because monkeys/apes relatives are not humans. Last twenty million years? there was nothing recognizably human then. The australopithecus genus appeared 4 million years ago and even that isn't quite human in shape. Then mentions a diet of "fruit, nuts, leaves". Leaves? Humans can't process leaves efficiently enough to get more nutrition than energy expanded. Unless by leaves they mean leafy vegetables like lettuce which will fill up your stomach while not providing enough calories to get by.

An average fit, physically active human needs 2500 calories intake a day. 100 grams of lettuce is 15 calories. 100 grams of fruits like Apples is 52 calories. Of the three mentioned food sources, the only reasonable way of providing enough energy to a human body is nuts. Most nuts can get you where you need to be without having to eat yourself to an enlarged stomach.

When you account for seasons, primitive lifestyle that has no way of preserving food and lack of mobility because men relied on their own two legs for their own transportations (reducing the variety of foods available) you really have to brainwash yourself to believe that such a diet could be possible at all.

It's easy to be a vegetarian in a world with agriculture. Not so much before.
We have human cultures that lived in harsh environments like Alaska for millenias and they didn't live on a diet of good vegan sentiments.
> As an active feminist and one who has witnessed much bad behavior among tech CEOs over the past 30 years, I think that accusing Richard Stallman of not supporting women, gays, or any other minority group is false. Look at his real history — […] — but his record in helping to give everyone in the world access to free software.

What kind of bullshit is this? Stallman's advocacy for open source in no way whatsoever makes him a champion for women, gay people, or any other marginalized group, and does not even remotely excuse his behavior.

Sylvia, calling yourself a feminist doesn't actually make you one.
I must admit I didn't know who Mr. Bushnell was, so I looked him up. Finding out about his dismissal from GNU Hurd back in 2003 was quite ironic to me:

> RMS has now "dismissed" me as Hurd maintainer because I have publicly spoken against the GFDL, saying that a GNU maintainer must support and speak in favor of GNU policies. If this is really RMS's reason, then it means that he demands the right to control the speech of every GNU volunteer when it comes to GNU project policies. He wants not merely to set the direction, but also to require that each and every one of us publicly support a GNU policy when asked to.

[1] https://lists.softwarelibero.it/pipermail/discussioni/2003-N...
[2] https://lwn.net/Articles/59147/
A great Stanford resource for learning programming in-depth
Hell is sitting in a meeting where a consensus decision is reached that is demonstrably wrong, and everybody treats you like the asshole because your very real and verifiable reasons are making everyone else feel bad or stupid.
> Autism might hypothetically lead to doing that until someone pulled him aside and told him it was creepy and made others uncomfortable.

It's not with autism, but I have first hand experience telling a mentally ill person (diagnosis was schizoaffective) that certain behavior is creepy and made women uncomfortable. They didn't listen. They argued it with me very intensely instead. In some cases part of the illness is not realizing there's a problem. It's not always going to work to politely flag a behavior as off putting and they get it right away.
It isn't at all what I was expecting and it's quite the good read. An excerpt:

I suspect that few humans have had the experience I had that day: communing with an artistic visionary while miscarrying a baby you would never know whether you wanted. Let me try to communicate to you what that is like.
That's interesting. I read him (in total) as being quite optimistic about the way forward, if intertia and self-interest can be overcome.

He's listed as an author in a number of nutritional and other studies. One might see those as leaning in his direction, if he's willing to be mentioned.

You might contact him if you have additional doubts.
I was able to see it in autocomplete, so that's something:

https://imgur.com/a/dJFuNqW

You are right that simply typing "work" and hitting enter returns no results, though.
I worked for a while at a company which did this and, while it worked, everything was slightly worse (for me as a programmer -- I'm sure support was much easier). Noticeable latency while doing normal things like scrolling through code or switching windows. Every so often there would be a latency spike which, because it happened infrequently but unpredictably, was surprisingly disconcerting. I ended up having to retrain myself to use "low bandwidth" actions, like pgup/pgdn rather than using a scrollwheel. I don't think it significantly impacted my performance, but I often found myself wishing I had a local desktop.
I was always wondering how I can get know proactively if something like this break or some service has an outage. As a result, I have built this tool( http://incidentok.com )
I always thought the NCAA was a voluntary organization. Seems they can just take option 4 and ban teams that don’t comply with their rules.

This move would have been more successful if had passed during a period when CA had competitive teams.
Public watches drone delivery service for the first time
Stadia isn't for shooters or esports though, it's for Age of Empires and Civ.
That Perplexing Red Meat Controversy: Things to Know
Eight Tons of Punk
It always bothers me that, when discussing why `[]struct` can't be passed to a function expecting `[]interface{}` in Go, people always give the explanation that it would require extra memory allocation and so on. If it were only that, this would be a fixable problem.

What you should instead mention in these cases is that it would be fundamentally type unsafe to do this. Slices are mutable, so `[]struct` does not fulfill the contract for `[]interface{} `, since I can store any Go type in an `[]interface`{} , but not in an `[]struct`. The same is true for pointers.

Note: if this were only a problem of memory layout, the designers of Go could have built into the language a special type that wraps a slice of structs and behaves like a slice of interfaces, by doing automatic wrapping/unwrapping when you read from/write to an index. This would obviously complicate the runtime, so it may not be desirable anyway, but it could be done and it would solve the problem discussed in the article. In contrast, there is no way to solve the fundemtal type mismatch, so I see it as a much better explanation.
Reddit politics aside, good. The incel movement seems to live in false-defeat than actual truth. The reality is that (their) personalities and approach can be as fluid and evolve as the intrigues of a woman.
I think this a fundamental issue with humanity, not everyone think alike. What one human think is right is another human wrong. Its all relative.

At least I'm hoping in the future virtual reality can somewhat solve this where everyone can live in their own perferabable society.