skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are a lot of very toxic moderators on the network.

As far as I recognize, none of them are among the resigned. They'll probably be more prominent now that reasonable kind people like Monica have been removed.
This is why I dislike touch screens in cars so much: You have to look at them. We have 100 years of experience with car user interfaces that don't require you to take your eyes off the road, but we threw all that away in favor of these shitty pictures under glass.
The air forces if the world are run by air combat pilots, and until that changes there will be manned aircraft and it will be a priority that killing them is difficult. So drones are a long way off in that sense, at least until we have a drone-vs-manned war where the drones win.

It should also be noted that in stealth '5th gen' drone vs '4th gen' drone simulation, the stealth drones win convincingly, not because they are 'invisible' but because they can shoot first, before the other drone can get a lock.

Personally I think we're more likely to see '5th gen' drone wingmen. Finally each SQNLDR will have their own squadron, albeit robotic. With short range comms are much harder to jam, but it's uncharted territory to see how the leader will guide the engagement.
> The "profit" portion in a given year means they are just carrying over the revenue for future operations or to stash in a fund. It should not be used in a argument for the "major" universities or top performing programs as to whether or not they should play the players.

Why not? The economic value of work to the entity for which it is performed is a significant factor in the criteria under which the law now requires other formerly unpaid, often student, workers such as many interns to be paid, even when their employer is a nonprofit. Why should athletes be treated worse?
The funds are already in the US bank, and it won't release them.
That's not fair or accurate. They said they had a basis for concluding they didn't fail to catch BSers - experience with hires afterwards. They also said they could only guess at the number of false positives.

That means they supported their conclusion where they made one, and refrained from a definite conclusion where they couldn't make one.
Do you have any more details about this?
> forcing young student athletes who are often from very low income families to resort to illegal bribes

No one is forced to do anything here, as if children from low income families somehow have less agency than others.

You can complain about a system where children from low income families make a rational calculation to skirt the rules to better their position.

No one is talking about regulating endorsements. The law simply says you can’t keep a player off a team for being paid.
Zippy Catholic has a FAQ on this : https://zippycatholic.wordpress.com/2014/11/10/usury-faq-or-...

His claim seems to be that usury is when interest is charged on loans where the lender has full recourse to the borrower in case of default.
It's less that it's not acceptable and more so that it's a plainly stupid argument.
Banks routinely hire hit-n-run contractors to manage systems will low level, uncontrolled, unaudited access to mind boggling resources and eye popping access to private customers info.

Email porn? Child play.
A bug that has no obvious side effects that only became visible once all data centers were upgraded?

Happens. Statistics are hard.
To be fair, he may have motive for being "upset" since he was dismissed from being GNU Hurd's official maintainer by Stallman.

From the Wikipedia link shared:

"Bushnell was Hurd's official maintainer from its instigation until November 2003, when he posted to the GNU project's discussion mailing list saying that he had been dismissed by Stallman for criticizing the GNU Free Documentation License.[5] Stallman said the dismissal was because Bushnell had been inactive since 2001 and wasn't responding to mail."
Reddit has broadened its anti-harassment rules and banned a major incel forum
Hard to suck worse than literally not processing any payments.
>I mean lets pretend its true. So what?

there are things you don't know that you can find out by listening to people.
When was the last time you changed your email address?
>1080p production system that was upscaled to 4K

mm the US, land of "unlimited" internet with data caps
I’m a big fan of them for technical on-call for those reasons, plus the better battery life. Much more reliable than cell phones.
Yahoo owns AOL!
Thankfully they fired the VP last year who is a complete idiot when it comes to infrastructure. Probably related to decisions he made no doubt.
Companies prior to DO are still fixing his bad decisions.
And now he's in charge of blockchain stuff. wcpgw????
Well, if she had a decades-long pattern of abusive and tasteless behavior towards people with less power than her, such that people went out of their way to avoid interacting with her at all, then yeah, I’d say hit the bricks.

You’re tilting at strawmen to get around the fact that Stallman can’t seem to control his inappropriate behavior. This isn’t a hypothetical, perfectly spherical, frictionless situation, this is documented patterns of behavior. Not that it should be necessary for understanding, but would you want to explain to your wife/daughter/sister/mother/aunt/any other woman in your life how a sign reading “Knight of Hot Ladies” is at all an appropriate thing to display in an office at MIT? Imagine being gay and Stallman had a sign that read “Knight of Bashing Homos”. Try to imagine how that would make you feel if you were gay.

People feel unsafe because he says the same things abusers say, and act the same way they act. Abusers don’t treat women like people or colleagues or equals, they treat them like objects. And, if I take the gold medal in mental gymnastics I can imagine years of Stallman not realizing that all of the stuff he says and does is harmful, but that doesn’t make it any less inappropriate.
No interface sucks more than not getting paid...
Thanks for posting this. It's interesting to see how different experiences can lead to different political views in populations.
Not releasing can put them in violation of Canada's Foreign Extraterritorial Measures Act so they are between a rock and a hard place (particularly Foreign Extraterritorial Measures (United States) Order, 1992 https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/regulations/SOR-92-584/p...)
I was holding out for hardware enforced overflow and underflow checking but I guess it has been abandoned. Thanks for the info. These choices are being made as was made opposite in C standard deliberations... I am interested to see how it will work out.
DevOps Borat: "To make error is human. To propagate error to all server in automatic way is #devops."

https://twitter.com/DEVOPS_BORAT/status/41587168870797312
Don't worry, all the delivery trucks will end up programmed to park illegally because it's often impossible to find a legal parking space.
It's not something I'd expect most non-Indians to notice immediately, but the whole "politicians promise toilets" thing has been a common scam in India for decades. It's a very easy thing to promise, and frequently half-delivered if at all. Getting a toilet built and safely maintained is almost as rare as a cold-email from Nigeria following through with the million dollars they promised.
Yes, the thing is that profitability in that way would cost them their IPO, whose value would plummet. And private investors that bought in at 10x or 20x revenue would not be happy with 0.2x profitability. More or less what happened with WeWork once they issued their offering & the CEO's behavior caused scrutiny on the whole thing.
I'm also working on a Java + Dropwizard project. MongoDB is the option I went with as a DB, and SendGrid for transactional emails.

Did you evaluate Digital Ocean as an option?
the article you cite also states "the total number of hectares where coffee is harvested in Cuba has fallen from 170,000 hectares (420,000 acres) in 1961 to 28,000 hectares (69,000 acres) in 2013." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee_production_in_Cuba)

Why do you think that is now?
I don’t really understand how blockchains are compatible with the GDPR’s right to be forgotten. Even a website that lets people buy bitcoin, how is that legal in Europe? They can’t remove the record of your transactions if you ask them to.
What is it about vegan sources that make them lower quality?

If anything, they're higher quality since they're closer to the source; whatever you get out of meat has already been used once. Which is also why raising animals to eat meat is so wasteful.
I always think of it as -
What a sentence denotes is rarely reliable information;
but the fact that the sentence was stated means something, with the right context, including a model of the speaker/writer.

Someone says "X" and it doesn't tell you a thing about whether "X" is the case, but it always tells you they wanted to tell you "X" for some reason.
Not accurate. Verizon owns them both, but bought AOL before Yahoo.
Judaism has a mitzvot to lend to gentiles with interest (mandatory)

It's number 58: http://www.jewfaq.org/613.htm

They also have a mitzvot that one shall not lend to another jew with interest. It's number 171

To be clear. I acknowledge there is a difference between lending with interest and usury
Imagine the world where that person that didn't do the thing in tech because of an "awkward/offensive interaction" with Stallman did that thing.

Imagine that multiplied by all the someones that didn't do any of the things that had an awkward/offensive interaction with Stallman did those things.

These behaviours, ESPECIALLY by someone in such a influential position in our industry, have a chilling effect on every person they affected.
>Many incidents have occurred, enough to demonstrate that they’re a trend rather than “the first” one-off.

Are people deliberately ignoring the fact that his guy is mentally ill? You're ascribing neurotypical social requirements to someone who is demonstrably not capable of them, and then acting surprised when he breaches said decorum.

>Please don’t use threats here; “I better not see anyone here [any action here]” has no place in this forum’s conversations.

Actually my comment seems well in line with the general tone of this thread - which is either intentionally misleading about what actually a happened or willfully arrogant and dismissive about how people who struggle with mental illness can respond to the modern sociopolitical environment and its "requirements".
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We have designed this curriculum because, frankly, it solves a problem our founders had: No good online textbooks or drill-like training systems exist for Japanese that can take one beyond intermediate.

In 2011 a huge corpus called the BCCWJ (Balanced Corpus of Contemporary Written Japanese) was released and as a prime sample in the world data science it highlights not only the most commonly used words in newspapers and novels, but also samples online message boards to "balance" the corpus with actual human use.

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Higher latency (per status) is not end of world especially if it’s just “may experience” higher latency.
His job, as the head of the FSF and GNU, was to represent those organizations to the public, which includes many people who don't know him. Being judged and vilified by people who don't know you is what happens to public figures.

If your behavior brings disrepute on the organizations you represent, you should let those organizations find different representatives. RMS was right to step down. He is still free to say whatever he wants as an individual without damaging the reputations of GNU and the FSF.
I believe most still remain in a sealed vault, stored in a nitrogen environment, and only rarely are damaged or passed to other scientists for study.

We might want to understand:

The rate at which solar radiation impacts one side of lunar rock vs another (all the specimens were sampled with their orientation photographed). The composition of different lunar materials in different places. The alignment of various internal crystal or magnetic elements to better understand the moon and Earth's history. If we get very lucky, we might pick up a rock that came from Mars, or somewhere else, and we can understand the creation of our own solar system. Solar radiation leaves its mark on the rocks, and provides us a record of our sun's history if we can learn to read it.

We might want to understand whether a lunar regolith sample was capable of sustaining life, but the way we do that is not just grab the existing samples and put a seed in them. They are far too rare and precious. Better to try and understand everything about them and their formation, then try to create as accurate a simulation as possible.
a fictitious chain of reasoning and present it in a style learned from the textbook and classroom presentations

Communication is an important skill for scientists, it's not enough to discover some new science, you must also get the point across to your peers and the general public (and of course the examiner in an exam situation). There are accepted forms (although some textbooks are really lousy). I keep telling my students that and am known to take points off for poor writing or unclear reasoning. It's something I learned from my teachers.
Personally I like kale salad a lot. Plain kale can be a bit bitter but If you make a lemon-based dressing, mix it into the salad, and leave it in the fridge for half an hour or more, then it works out great.
> but they generally render as if they are on a desktop browser

If you wanted to avoid using that for some reason, there is a very effective (~99% coverage) way to do it and make your site render perfectly on mobile. In your application, simply check the user agent for "mobile" and insert whatever resources you prefer to adjust for mobile (perhaps an entirely different design for example, as is sometimes appropriate) and failing that switch to desktop view resources.

For common caching (you don't want to cache one universal copy of a page for desktop and serve that to mobile), if you're using Nginx as a web server and for caching, map a mobile value based on the detection of the keyword "mobile" in the user agent, something like:

Map $http_user_agent $mobilekey {"~*Mobile" mobile; default desktop;}

Staple that $mobilekey value to the proxy_cache_key to generate two cache versions, one for mobile, one for desktop. For most sites this is a low burden expense. The map approach also avoids the various pitfalls of attempting to use IFs in Nginx, so it's extremely performant.

This approach has obvious downside risk, such as if the popular browsers decide to drop the mobile keyword from their user agent strings (there are other simple ways to target the user agent that would solve that change however). The industry overwhelmingly disagrees with targeting the user agent like this, however it works perfectly well and has for a long time.
Improving RNN Transducer Modeling for End-to-End Speech Recognition
You don't have to be a doctor to diagnose asshole behavior.
"Yes, housing prices in coastal cities have spiraled out of the reach of middle class people."

But that's where the jobs are for many people.
I guess we've just reached the point as a society where we've decided that we enjoy the professional bloodlust of burning anyone at the stake that isn't a paradigm of behavior to leave any room for forgiveness. Welcome to the new Salem.
It is illegal for a Canadian company, in Canada, to be subject to or comply with American extraterritoriality laws surrounding Cuba.

https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/regulations/SOR-92-584/p...
Thanks for the follow-up
I talked to a career magician (lives in Vegas, travels across country often for shows) last week about Derren Brown.

Take it for what you will: he said the guy is mostly showmanship and light on psychological tricks. Looking back at the videos of his that I watched a decade ago (and the guys who took him seriously), I believe it’s largely a show. But I could be wrong!
Thanks for telling us your story -- you make good points.

To what degree did you enjoy the process of learning, collaborating, teaching, writing, experimenting, and so on?
I'd wager you did enjoy some or many of these... otherwise, it might have been a long slog. :/

Maybe the following story can convey part of my message. You might have seen movies about a wily protagonist villain (or a flawed, tenuous partnership between several) who meticulously plan to steal some priceless artifact from some nearly-impregnable facility. What drives such people? I don't think it is purely money -- there would be alternatives that would, rationally speaking, generate more income, on a risk-adjusted basis. In the case of the ninja-suit wearing infiltrator(s), I'd argue they fundamentally enjoy the process (the preparation, the planning, the deferred gratification, the meaning). Perhaps the same is true for people that pursue and complete a Ph.D. -- some get a decent financial payout, but on average, I don't think the degree made them better off financially compared to other alternatives (e.g. holding together some rotting infrastructure with bailing wire). They value the title, the activities, the identity, the community, the kind of work they do.

Seeking a job only for money doesn't really endow much meaning -- (Please, don't take this as an endorsement to go off and work for some harebrained startup when you have better options. :P) -- though I think there is plenty of meaning even in the mundane (e.g. rearranging JSON) to be found if you open yourself to experience (e.g. books with dragons about parsers).
>If you want to be anonymous on the web, picking both a common first and last name would make you very hard to find.

I vote for "Bob Bob."
I would think having all zones go down is a flaw that genuinely needed to be fixed.
Because one basic way of showing any respect at all for someone is calling them by their preferred name and pronouns. Refusing to do so suggests that you somehow know someone else better than they know themselves. If someone is that upset about it they can seethe elsewhere on their own time, but when interacting with someone, just use their preferred name/pronouns.
Sure, I hear you on that...but given the realities of today I am curious what you would prefer?
People do lots of things that they acknowledge are against their religion. However I’ve never heard a Christian (or Jew for that matter) tell me that their religion prohibits lending or that it’s a sin. It’s not that they simply do it anyway, but that they aren’t even supposed to avoid it. In this respect it seems that lending isn’t like consuming pork for Jews but like drinking caffeine for Christians.
I disagree. Societal censure is appropriate on the topics you declare exempt. It is appropriate to fear censure and exile from your society when caught to simply be considering such activities, even if no criminal action is occurs. They are societally unacceptable. If his historical actions and present words lead others to be concerned that he’s an apologist, it is appropriate to react societally.
I've come to a very similar conclusion. Outrage culture does have a way of disproportionately targeting those on the spectrum as well as people who might suffer from ADHD/ADD. People who fall into those categories will often be a bit more impulsive when saying whatever's on their mind and will by definition have quite different ways of thinking about things. Simply telling one of these people to stop saying stupid things isn't going to work and makes the person come across as being just as ignorant.
Awesome. I’ve wondered the same. Thanks for the tutorial.
Why not RDS? Still ubiquitous and cheap to implement.
That is an issue, but I don't think preventing the training of physicians will help. If anything it shows our training is inadequate.
The fall of Google finance is astounding. You can go to https://finance.google.com and search for "Slack" with no results. You can search for "WORK" (Slack's stock symbol) with no results. You have to actually type "NYSE:Work" to have it show up in the search results. It's astonishing.
>He’s autistic.

I keep hearing this - has he ever been diagnosed?

Why do people keep saying this?
Everything has to get decrypted at some point, right? I try not to think about what would happen if a Google employee decided to leak everyone's search history.
In your comment, yes; In my comment, no. You can use the passive voice detector to examine it: https://datayze.com/passive-voice-detector.php

Fun fact: That detector uses zombies!
When European regulators auctioned off spectrum for UMTS use they got bids so high that the operators became capital constrained with respect to actually building the network.
I do realize I'm balancing a thin line by even touching the subject, but I have no intention of starting wars.

I find it highly questionable to derive happiness from killing animals, and I think most people do once they find the courage to look reality straight in the eyes.

If we can't even talk about it, how are we ever going make progress?
IoT is really several different kinds of devices. Many of which are extremely low bandwidth. When you’re talking a few per hour, spectrum bandwidth is simply a non issue.
Agreed, Google Finance is garbage. I talked with a Google recruiter and asked if there were any positions at Google Finance, and she thought I meant in the Finance department, not on that particular site. There's so much that can be done with it, and Google has abandoned it.
Hey I just stopped in at midnight sun coffee roasters for the first time last week. Good place.
Amazon and Apple are quietly building rival location networks
Likely not.

Faith is emotional and traditions based.

Data requires reasoning and logic, as well as allowing changes that conflict with tradition.

This struggle has been occurring in some form since at least the dawn of writing, though likely much longer.
Short answer: No

Long answer:

Forget about "studying".

If you doesn't like doing research, i.e. try to solve open-ended problems without even knowing if an answer exists, do not do a PhD.

Doing a PhD is like Antarctic expedition - low wages, bitter cold, long hours of complete darkness, safe return doubtful. There's no reason to do it unless you really like it.
Shitty DSL is fine for remote desktop.
For what it's worth, since anyone can predict what Matthew Garrett's opinion on this was going to be, it is in the Bayesian sense very weak evidence for anything.