skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's too bad, because your comments there are really bad. You argue solely by assertion and personal feeling, and then wonder why no one agrees with you. Why does it matter in the least that you are not 'impressed' or feel using more than 1 server 'waters it down'? Why does it matter how much IBM Watson uses? AlphaGo uses more electricity than any human; does it not win at Go? If a NN uses more electricity than 150 watts to classify images at superhuman rates, why does this matter? Is there some law of physics I am unaware of which stipulates that no computer is allowed to use more than 150 watts, or that we are unable to build systems which have more than 1 computer involved? Is there some theorem in computer science which proves that AI isn't real AI unless it solves problems in exactly the same way as a human brain at exactly the same efficiency, never mind how well it solves problems or how much superior to humans it may be otherwise? ('Jet planes, you see, do not actually provide "artificial flight" because they burn more joules than a bird would.') Is there some reason to think that AI can never be misused or cause problems if it happens to use somewhat more electricity? Have deep learning techniques not continued to scale over the 8 years since you posted that? IBM Watson failed; did it have anything to do with using 15TB RAM; would Watson now be a success and closer to 'real AI' if they had hand-optimized its routines for memory efficiency to do the same thing but only needing 1.5TB RAM?
I couldn’t even get it run a Hello World application. I feel like the tooling needs a lot of ironing out before being usable.
Exactly as was foreseen.
One thing to be careful of with this is the Data Transfer (egress) cost you will incur streaming data out from S3.

If you're just wanting to do a 'grep' style action on an S3 prefix, might be worth looking into "S3 Select"for your use case instead
Ford Uses AI to Solve Urban Driving Problems
Give it 20 to 30 years and he or she won't be used anymore. It will become an HR issue.

Things change.
I’m another car hater. Living in London. Cars are everywhere. They park on the sidewalks. In some places you can’t even walk because the cars cover the entire sidewalk. Hammersmith bridge has closed due to constant, heavy truck traffic. Cars idle outside of schools in traffic all day as the kids play outside. Zebra crossings are incredibly dangerous as cars ignore them. Parents are afraid to let their kids go out and play due to the car traffic. I could go on and on. Dense urban cities are simply no place for cars.
How do you use it on linux? Just a browser extension? I've been on lastpass because the last time I tried, 1password didn't seem that convenient on linux.
The header really should be REMOTE (US only).
I don't think anybody is in the wrong here. These types of forums are communal in nature, they are the sum of the people who use them. There is really no right or wrong here, if a thing bothers enough people within a community for them to speak up then rule changes should be made if that is the consensus based o. The power structure. If those rule changes push community members away then that is a natural consequence.

But all of the above is why I feel that it is unwise to engage with these types of communities or at least that you need to be very selective when you do. It's either a dictatorship or mob rule and if you buy into these communities as part of your identity with out being sure your values are aligned with it's, you're bound to end up frustrated.
This is a side question, but in regards to the actual gendered pronoun discussion that seems to be at the center of the policy debate, what even is the specific set of criteria being used?

It seems like someone is lobbying that moderators must refer to others with pronouns that the other person chooses. Doesn’t this obviously have unsolvable problems, in principle?

- most of the time, responses on a Stack Overflow site are content-specific (“clinical”) and should not necessarily make reference to another human at all (and probably should make efforts to avoid such references as often as possible, for writing clarity).

- when referencing another comment or answer or something, dry scientific writing that does so without attributable language attaching it to a person would be less controversial, more clear, and less likely to bring subjective opinions into a matter of reference.

- you could always make all references revert to a chosen username and restructure language to have no concept of gender, which for clinical writing is a huge positive aspect, and is in no way connected to the preferences of those being referred to (by matter of it being clinical, not by any matter of status of gender identity)

- even if you assume you did need to refer by pronoun, how could Person A know what pronoun Person B wishes to be referred by, unless explicitly stated somewhere?

- how could you prove negative intent when choosing not to use certain pronouns, as opposed to a mistake, or pronoun identity that was not publicly known, etc.?

I’m just curious how such a thing could ever conceivably be part of a policy that restricts or controls clinical writing style in the moderation of a forum. Regardless of all the moderator drama, it just appears to me like a type of policy that functionally cannot exist, regardless of whether a corporate entity declares it a policy or not.
do volunteers for not-tech things have control?

I don't feel like I'm working for free when I contribute to stack overflow. I feel like some company is running a mostly free site (until recently just job ads you can turn off).

I volunteer to help others. I assume most others do the same. It just feels good in the same way I'm assuming other volunteer activities feel good. Of course not everything feels good but over all when I've managed to answer someone's question it feels like the same feeling I get helping someone on a non-tech way.
Header = REMOTE(U.K)
It's been around for ages as a gender neutral pronoun:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002748.h...
Needlessly obnoxious retort, as gp is exactly right. There is no a priori reason to zero in on road design as a major contributory factor given the huge range of possibilities. One can easily apply profound selection bias in a complex problem simply by choosing which experts to ask.
It makes you feel important
Many cloud providers like digital ocean have student offers [1] with GitHub student developer program worth trying out.

[1] https://blog.digitalocean.com/were-participating-in-githubs-...
There are online degree programs which are accepted by some state bar associations.
well, I don't work on osx or windows, like, ever. ;-)

csv is the lingua franca for prototyping of course. For deploying (which could make your code more sticky in an enterprise setup), you need to hook up to real databases.

I'd suggest finding a local senior data scientist or consulting group and use them to drive your product feature development. I'm not sure who you had in mind for your end user, but I do think data science types (the ones who get paid; not smurfs who want a DS job some day) are a viable market for something like this.
Central heating was more common in buildings built in the 50s-80s. The only places I know of with district heating are university and government campuses. It was popular then because it was more efficient than wood burning fireplaces. But has since been replaced with in-unit gas boilers.

Our apartment, a 60s era building, had central heating. It put out plenty of heat. I would say far too much heat. We ran into the problem that central heating isn't distributed evenly. Some apartments get lots of heat and some get far too little. Apartments at the top and near the bottom floors were the worst. We've actually had to crack the windows during the winter or we would have roasted.

> It didn't help that my hosts put things in front of the radiators,

I assume they were using them to dry clothes? If that is the case we are also guilty of this as well. Clothes dryers still aren't common in the city. It appears the problem wasn't central heating but your hosts.

Radiators don't pump out heat they radiate it. I would bet the building pipes weren't being maintained nor were the radiators. Paris water is really hard. If you don't descale them regularly the pipes will get blocked with lime. And it is really evident when water comes out in a trickle.
> An employee with a "director" title posted and pinned a message saying the company is changing the CoC to require use of preferred pronouns and avoiding them is forbidden. I asked questions, most importantly: would it now be a violation of this new policy to write in the gender-neutral way that I already use? And how are you judging "avoiding", which requires knowledge of intent? Other people had questions and issues too. One moderator pointed out a problem with something I was proposing to do and I agreed after it was explained and said I wouldn't do that. The employee did not stay to field questions, but came back a couple hours later to tell me "we've been as clear as we can and your values are out of alignment".

In what world is this type of action supposed to be praised?
There's a growing movement of people that believe all the power we put into computers goes to waste by adding layers of abstraction and I agree with them. VS Code currently sits at 550 Mb RAM idle. We could increase the performance and longevity of our hardware by fixing our software. The excess gain in performance could be used to do something useful instead of adding another VM on top of a VM inside a sandbox.
To extend your comment; Even your mouse movements can be used to form an identity of you. Not only that, your mouse movements even correlate to demographic information about you (eg age/gender/etc).

With that said, I think you're correct in that it'll be a game of cat and mouse, but I'm not sure what the alternative is. Are you implying that there is anything that can be done beyond the traditional cat and mouse? Because I feel that's the same with security, crypto, etc etc.
What happened to, "Just don't call me late for dinner?"
easy to cancel

Easy to throw a paper away.

The equivalent to circling things on paper is selecting check boxes next to items on a touch screen

Form and fax he already has. The app, and server infrastructure of the provider, he has not. I would have zero incentive to change a perfectly working and cheap system.
This is specific to USB-C and unshielded cabling. It's the same issue that Louis Rossman tried to blame on the new MacBooks until his Dell laptop started doing the same thing with the adapter. Especially for powered USB devices, unshielded cables will cause all kinds of interference. Make sure that whatever adapters you're getting are properly shielded and/or switch completed to USB-C to avoid these situations.
True. Wealth, at the scales most of us are familiar with, gives you autonomy over your own life. The motivations described here have more to do with the desire to exercise power over others.
Is anyone else concerned about the changes to the CBP officer population over the last few years?

The priorities of the current administration have allowed the organization to rapidly balloon in size. Those of us who have worked at fast growing startups are aware of how quickly the character of an organization can change when it doubles or triples in size too quickly. And then the kind of person who wants to be a CBP officer in this political climate is... possibly worrying?

Will the next adminstration try to purge this organization? Will they even be able to? Are we going to be stuck with a dramatically more authoritarian customs organization for the next few decades?

I'm moderately concerned.

As a meta-addition to this comment, self-censorship is absolutely real here. I normally interact online using my real name, but obviously that seems a little more fraught when there's a real possibility that your comments will be thrown back at you when you interact with a customs officer at an airport. "You clearly don't like customs agents. That probably means you're hiding something" etc.
I think it's just rude behavior, honestly. If I ask you to call me something and you go out of your way not to do that, how is that not a dick move?
This is a big one for me. I've been looking for a minimalistic blogging tool that has good math support for a while now and have yet to find anything. If able has good latex support in the future I'd definitely start using it.
After fiddling a bit around, I would change the colors of modules that handle CV versus Audio or add even more colors to better comprehend a patch I've just loaded.

I was unable to figure out how to disconnect a cable. I tried alt, ctrl, shift click, right click, but none of it worked. I just wanted to add a second oscillator to the first example.

A larger mixer component would be very useful, like 6 in to 1 out.

Maybe add a highlight to the module I click on so I can use my keyboard to delete, move them around.

Do you plan to add MIDI out?

Really cool to have a "reactor" in the browser, keep it up :)
That’s what I meant by shafts. You could fill them, but dunno how kosher that is. It’s not like they’re open to the public or anything.

I believe you can take the catacombs under Montparnasse station, so it’s a solved problem ( I hope ).
What's the confusing part? It's often used in both plural and singular, for the latter mainly when you don't know the identity of the person. Not totally confusing to use it for an identity you do know IMO.
This is what happens when corporate codes meet kindergarten mindsets.
The longer this continues, the worse the blowback is going to get - I'm just happy to be far enough away to not have to care (protip: get the fuck out of the anglosphere as soon as possible)
> What I meant to say was: "how can the speed of light have an unchanging numerical value if the definition of the meter is not an unchanging definition?"

As I and you have already stated, the speed of light cannot have any purely numerical value, because it is a dimensional quantity.

...and? What's the problem supposed to be? I've never seen anyone be confused over the idea that the speed of light is 300,000,000 when measured in meters per second, but 186,000 when measured in miles per second.
It's also super weird because everyone I know who is NB, trans, or genderqueer is fine with singular they and absolutely supports its use when someone's pronouns are unspecified.
I don't know who thought this would be a good idea and what the use-case for Chromium Edge would be for apart from replacing the CharkaCore-based Edge. But I would like to know why to bring Edge onto other platforms when it is based on the same browser engine, JS engine, etc. Perhaps something like Office would be more beneficial to Linux users rather than another Chromium-based browser.

It's like Apple coming along and replacing the WebKit-based Safari with 'Chromium Safari' and pitching that to Chrome users. I'd prefer neither and keep using Firefox.

This tweet looks more like they are 'selling' Microsoft-branded igloos to eskimos and penguins.
Surely the locals go out into the mountains and villages for recreation?
If you (or anybody else) haven't given up on Scala just yet, have a look at ZIO

https://github.com/zio/zio/

It's a fresh, and pragmatic too, take on how to do pure functional programming, but without advanced concepts (like higher-kinded types).

could be (and maybe even has been) ported over to other languages besides Scala
As a counterpoint: I choose to live within walking distance of where I need to be every day. Or an electric rideable or bicycle of some sort.

I did buy a motorcycle recently which does improve on some of that, but most of the improvement has been eaten up by the extra time it takes to gear up and park.

Commuting is probably the single worst thing you can do to your quality of life.

PS: yes I know this is a position of privilege. We’re on hacker news and I believe most of us share similar privileges
LittlePrep – Make $200k teaching kids
I've seen first-hand people whining online that someone used the initialism "LGBT" which apparently can be considered exclusionary by some people. It seems that "LGBTQIAGNC" exists and may be more expansive, however I can't rule out the existence of some person who objects to even this.
I mean in order to build the product it matters that you can actually build it yourself in the beginning no?
> The tone of the answer was pretty combative and people downvoted for that reason (as noted in comments). OP interpreted downvotes as transphobia. There was another answer that said something like "cultural awareness / different cultures, as part of D&I" that was presented positively and got a lot of support. (I know gender != culture; I'm pointing out that another D&I answer, presented constructively, was well-received.)

Seems like an age old tale of management assessing a situations potential liability as high, and promptly responding with a zero tolerance policy and throwing someone under the bus to protect themselves.
Thats precisely the reason its written like that in Mun
Would love to know more not sure if you can share
You have access to the binary itself, you don't need to read it out of the debuggee process.
You don't go to the office on the average temperature, everything higher than 25 degrees, some longer distance and/or some small hills and you get there sweaty and smelly. Anything over 30 degrees guarantees that and an average high of 25 degrees means you can have 2-3 hotter days every week - it is enough to make cycling unpredictable.

I currently work in Bucharest and the average high is higher, from May to September you have 30 degrees or more, while in the winter you have snow on the road and it is illegal to ride a bicycle. Not Finland and not Cairo (Egypt), but good enough to make cycling unpleasant.
> “The problem is that macOS is what they call “app-centric” and they’re the only ones who do it.”

Actually, it’s document centric - the Windows approach is “app” centric. It has always been like that, 35 years and counting. It’s arguably a “truer” implementation of a windowed UI, than Windows.
Windows gives you a lot of control, but some of the stuff requires going to the registry to stop windows bs. But, we have a registry.
I'm pretty sure cellio specifically said that they were fine with using pronouns when specified.
Is this the new hollywood black list/red scare?

Tech behemoths, full of privileged people on top, use the false pretense of respecting pronouns or other minority demands, to actually oust people that care about such issues in the first place?
It isn't perfect, and it does penalize LastPass's behaviour more due to its poor startup performance.

But I don't think it is entirely unrepresentative of real world performance.

If your hypothesis is correct — if you have LastPass installed, your pages are probably going to load slower and you'll experience a longer "uncanny valley". The tax paid is worse for pages that are otherwise lightweight.
I worked with a guy in the UK who constantly lamented this.
This appears to have been more specifically about using neutral forms (EDIT: specifically avoiding any pronouns at all), if someone's preference otherwise is known.
This person seems to think using 'they' as a singular is somehow wrong in English.

That's not correct. It's been used since the 1500s and it was only when the wave of idiot Victoria grammar prescriptivists started throwing weight around that there was any dispute at all.
For XCode, you can easily run macOS in QEMU with GPU passthrough. Linux is the best general purpose OS unless you're technically illiterate.

https://github.com/foxlet/macOS-Simple-KVM
Use Ghost. It's amazing. Using it with Docker (writing a post how to do this super easily) and it works flawlessly. The editing interface is unreal. Just run it on any instance you can (DO has instances that are $5 a month, or any server you already have running).

Hosting it on https://sdan.xyz/blog actually.
I Worked at Capital One for 5 Years. How We Justified Piling Debt on the Poor
Same reason many people contribute to open source projects for free, often without any control (ie. they can be removed from a project for similar violations as the one linked here).
Gates claims Tokyo needs 23GW for 3 days a year during a monsoon.

Tokyo has less cars per household than many Japanese cities but there's still about 3 million of them.

If those cars each had a 50KWh battery then that would be enough power to run the city for about 1/3rd of a day.

But since replacing all the ICE cars with electrics is forecast to save money and lives and help make cheap renewables even cheaper, it seems like they could work something out to tap into that when necessary and have solved a fair chunk of the problem without spending any money (in fact saving quite a lot which they can put towards this problem).
Tesla Acquires DeepScale
Ok bad example, but it shouldn't have taken them 15+ years to fix it.
Not clothes, but putting a board on top to store things, or a couch next to it against the wall. Drove me bonkers.

At least I would aim a fan at it to actually heat a room.

Then those people move to North America and set the thermostat to 29C thinking it’ll make it warmer faster. It won’t.
>Now your lack of a specific behavior is suspect!

this has been established practise since the dawn of time, to the point where some languages have honorifics built into their grammar. Communities have guidelines and addressing someone with their preferred pronoun seems as simple to me as addressing someone with their proper name and title.

If someone is not up to the task to treat others with at least a modicum of respect they probably shouldn't moderate communities.
You don't use a lot of Adobe apps, do you?

(Not trying to be snarky, but I spend a lot of time in my hobby using their apps and I could easily use 10x the overall processing power / speed)
Also they might last longer than a badly built ICE car, so over time the ratio will become even more skewed towards electric cars.
I think the opposite. Instead of polite consideration for others, we filled the airspace with dictatorial edicts and draconian overreactions. The backlash will be such that any hint of it in the future will be vigorously put down. A shame all the way around.
Looks like for light vehicles it’s bimodal, with peaks at both $28k and $40k: https://www.energy.gov/eere/vehicles/articles/fact-989-augus...
> (That's ignoring the cost of paying your electric bill, not sure if that changes the math much..)

If we ignore the cost of gas, it'll also change the math...

Needless to say, need to include all costs for a fair comparison. A few years ago when my wife had a Fiat 500e and I was commuting on a 1988 Honda CRX (~40 mpg). The energy cost was higher for the Fiat than the Honda at the time. (Electricity is very expensive in CA). Gas has gone up lately (but then, so has PG&E), I haven't run the numbers in recent years. Might be a wash now.

Gas an electricity prices vary widely so do the math for your area, but don't ignore any costs.
I'm appalled that moderators edit posts over pronouns. And not sure why the gender or sexual orientation of people matters on a site where you can basically be anonymous. I guess because I only read Stack Overflow questions from Google searches there's a whole dimension of Stack Exchange that eludes me.

On Twitter I know not to engage with people that specify their pronouns on their bio, it's just a waste of time even for trolling. I guess it's something that I can extend to SE and elsewhere.

And to be clear I've no problem with trans people and calling them what they want, but sometimes it's just difficult to remind it all (and confusing over different languages).

About CoCs: who would have thought? Well ...
Did you get 100 on lighthouse? For some reason I'm getting 59 on performance on this post itself and 93 on the post he indicated (although everything is around 100 as well).

Regardless, it's a great feat.