skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right above that, he wrote:

> If person A comes along and demands that I refer to them by their "preferred pronoun" (even if it is a mismatch for their genetic sex or the grammar of the language being spoken) and I refuse, that's considered an insult. Now, SE staff's enforced interpretation is that if I deliberately avoid pronouns altogether, whether by carefully avoiding sentences that even need pronouns at all or by sticking to proper names or by disengaging from the individual — those are all being considered insults too if the other party says they are insulted.

And yes, he does say that gender issues about pronouns aren't an issue for him. But then he goes on to say:

> Unfortunately the new CoC (as interpreted by staff) specifically enshrines the rare and awkward scenario where those issues in particular are brought up and the other party demands affirmation of their specific world-view, and the staff interpretation makes no accommodation for agreeing to disagree or politely disengaging.

So no, I don't agree that it's another issue entirely. But a broader issue, yes.

Edit: Cut misquote.

Also:

> Ironically in the specific the issue at hand called out (using people's preferred pronouns) [Monica] is on record as being much more accommodating than I would be.
Ninja-IDE Is Not Just Another IDE
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I consider both companies untrustworthy. I was using a example of a thing nearly everyone shouldn't trust. I could have used Google, Apple, USPS as examples too.
Exactly! Telephone operators were the equivalent of DNS back in the day.
first thought: ack! I may have to buy a Windows machine

second thought: phew at least it will be a lot cheaper than my Mac and probably better specs per dollar ;)
This was extremely fascinating. Thanks for posting.
On the other hand, you can be almost completely incoherent and still become president. It's all about what you offer your audience.
AMD aren’t part of the RISC-V foundation.
> These movements define paths that are random yet (statistically) selfsimilar, ie, a zoomed-in version of the path resembles the whole path

This goes a bit against my intuition of self-similar, but I guess I should interpret "resembles" as *statistically resembles" here as well? Does it mean something like the distribution being the same at all zoom levels?
Everything I've seen from the NYT web team(s) has been stellar work.
FT closes WhatsApp group as platform clamps down on bulk messaging
Discovering Hard Disk Physical Geometry through Microbenchmarking
Ben would you mind then being called she/her then if that is so silly? I'm a hetero woman and I've been called a male few times when gaming and this is not silly, people are rejecting your identity and I can't even imagine how bad this is for trans/NB people.
It is totally possible to ask (or even answer) a question about a religion without believing in it.

"What are the differences between Shi'a and Sunni belief?" is a totally valid question even if you are an atheist or a Hindu. The answer to "What does the Catholic Church teach about abortion?" is totally independent of your own personal views on the topic.

One doesn't have to be a believer in a religion to be able to answer factual questions about it. Sometimes, an atheist, or a follower of a competing religion, may actually know more about a religion's teachings and history than many of the people who actually believe in it do, and so may actually be able to give more accurate answers about it than some of its own members can.
I would love to use something like this, sounds incredible.
> I mean, that's how I treat people I hate; shun them, ignore them, not reply to them.

That’s also how I treat people I completely don’t care about or am aware of. My default behavior is to ignore, that doesn’t mean I hate everyone I ignore. If I assume this about people who ignore me, I’ll probably be wrong.

Should I assume Comcast is shunning me when they don’t respond? Or that they hate me? Or maybe they are just a stupid org that doesn’t care at all about me.
And that's why I will never watch another game and seek to keep any spending out of those traitors' hands.
Things are still shrinking but the tempo seems to be slowing down a bit even at TSMC. Maybe we'll get our full 6 remaining doublings down to 9Å[1] but I'm not sure I would count on it, especially given that the cost of a cutting edge fab is also going up exponentially. Even if features stop shrinking that doesn't mean that price per transistor will stop going down. And we're very far from the theoretical limits of energy per computation so I tend to expect we'll move to some other computational substrate in the future.

[1]https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/technology_node

[2]http://www.futrfab.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Small-Volu...
People are probably reading too much into flat vs. variable fares. Historically, you probably tended to have flat fares on transit systems in no small part because it was so much simpler when people mostly paid using tokens (or transit passes, in which case flat or variable didn't matter).

This is becoming less relevant with the increased prevalence of contactless pay as you go systems. (Although the newer systems tend to be more complex for irregular users like tourists.)
RISC V is now affiliated with the Linux Foundation.

https://www.linuxfoundation.org/the-linux-foundation/2018/11...
I don't gamble or particularly use social media, but surely these things provide entertainment? Or does that have no value?
Thanks for the provided details and a report, I did try it in couple of places outside UK and outside of 4G coverage, but I will try more options via VPN soon. Did you use specific device or browser? There was small outage this morning which could have affected when you tried it this morning.
> If we assume as an axiom that privacy is a right

But you can't assume that. For everyone who thinks that privacy is a right you can find someone else who thinks that safety and security is a right. Neither of these follows from the laws of physics. Which one ends up being a right (or which one ends up being the more "fundamental" right that ends up trumping the other) is a function of what we as a society decide.

So you can't win this fight simply by standing up on a soap box and proclaiming that privacy is a right. You have to come up with an argument for why losing privacy is a greater evil than letting the bad guys get away.
Uber probably just rand the numbers and figured out that everything over 28lb or something is a rare outlier so allowing 50lb makes for better marketing but costs little more than say 30lb. 50lb is decently heavy. The intersection of "people willing to pay $200 for a helicopter to save time" and "people willing to lug around 50lb" is probably reserved for a handful of specialized repair technicians (like the kind you fly out to somewhere) who carry specialty tools and expense the cost, a rounding error in any case.
Not in my experience and I am in my late 60s. I think current trends are not radical eno
Everyone has to spend at least some time thinking ahead of time what they are going to say, and you probably do too.

Its the perception of yourself and your work from the eyes of the group that is at stake here, it's important and most people usually don't just improvise it.

Many times people have notes of what they want to say, which involves preparation, attention and energy put into it that would better be directed elsewhere.
It is illegal and does break laws, but the enforcement of laws is very selective, and is usually limited to a single device. So, even if you were to sue the manufacturer, and win the case, the worst that can happen to the manufacturer is a slap on the wrist fine and the device being barred from selling in that country. Which is ridiculous because devices are sold for a few months, the cheaper ones even less, and are quickly replaced by newer models. The fines are offset by the revenue in selling user data and also direct payment for inclusion of third-party apps in the phone's OS image.
Could all of this been avoided if SE had a field in user profiles that is basically "Please use the following pronoun when referring to me: _______"? The user could fill this in with She, He, They, Qwotzl, whatever.
“The number of deaths per passenger-mile on commercial airlines in the United States between 2000 and 2010 was about 0.2 deaths per 10 billion passenger-miles.[1][2] For driving, the rate was 150 per 10 billion vehicle-miles for 2000 : 750 times higher per mile than for flying in a commercial airplane”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportation_safety_in_the_U...
Still bothers me that with Notch we now have one more right wing white supremacist billionaire, while Zach seems to be a really nice guy that would probably have used that money for some common good like education :/
Uh, sorta, kinda, I guess... It is a lot less alive than it should and could have been. Sure, you can set up your own web-server, install RSS reader on your phone and use RSS as a protocol to get updates of your cat coming in and out or whatever. But essentially all the major services heavily discourage its usage for the majority of users.
iOS 13 adds support for std:filesystem
My take on that decision is it's because SE is a business: They use the community to MAKE money.

Now, it's not entirely one-way as they need to be providing value to the community in order for it to continue but business decisions need to be made at some level and the community level isn't the place for it.

If SE perceived a loss in profits from community members' actions then they need to take steps to mitigate that loss and I suspect that's what they did(rightly or wrongly).

Not trying to defend SE's actions, or those of the community (I have no opinion on the matter and, not to make light of the issue, I don't really care either) but a mistake that I sometimes make is thinking businesses make decisions for reasons other than profit.

In saying that, if SE thought that putting it to a community vote (or whatever best decision making tool the community could use) would make them more money then they likely would have... makes good business sense.

Just my £0.02
Plus an engine that realizes that it has to recompute the document immediately instead of making "pdflatex ..." run 2-3x necessary in order to get what you actually wanted.
Did you try using google keep? Works really well for this kind of stuff ;)
Switched one year ago from 1Password. I'm self-hosting the bitwarden_rs implementation written in rust (https://github.com/dani-garcia/bitwarden_rs).

PROS:

- no issues whatsoever. The rust implementation is rock solid.

- I have clients for Android, Linux, OSX, Windows and browser plugin for every browser I use. Again, a friction-less experience.

- I was able to import my 1Password vault into Bitwarden without issues

CONS:

- Android client is quite slow compared to 1Password

- The Firefox plugin on OSX tends to freeze Firefox. Not so much an issue for me anymore, since I moved to Linux

- The bitwarden_rs server does not support multiple users
Dammit, I'm older than the universe. There's a happy thought.
> Also if there was any form of life orbiting a star in the path of this flair...

Based upon a couple other articles I read [1] [2], it sounds unlikely there were other galaxies or smaller structures in the path of this flare. I only see references to a very directional cone at the poles of the Milky Way, and the cone only intersects a trail of gases left behind by the Magellanic Stream.

Were there somehow orphaned planets, solar systems or smaller galaxies in the path of those cones not mentioned in the articles however, then the gamma rays, X-rays and highly ionizing gases in those cones of energy would certainly strip away most if not all of the atmosphere of any Earth-like planet, and kill all forms of life as we know it unless it was in some kind of weird, tidally-locked configuration that kept one side always facing the originating, ejecting side of the cone.

These flares would make a great plot device setup for a story in the Xeelee Sequence or /r/HFY. We find out the flares are deployed as weapons, used as a kind of galactic-scale sawed-off shotgun against another galaxy. Or the flares are galactic-grade energy reactor experiments gone horribly awry, and are the cause of one Great Filter at the Kardashev Type-III scale.

[1] https://www.sciencealert.com/something-in-the-centre-of-our-...

[2] https://earthsky.org/space/explosion-milky-way-center-seyfer...
This is really helpful! I’m planning on having 2-5 kids. Can you let me know what square footage home would be necessarily ideal for those family sizes?
They said it would have been a massive event, but what would our ancestors have seen?
It's not necessarily hypocritical say all.

If someone abstains from voting because they find all the choices equally unqualified, I don't think that eliminates the person's right to complain nor does it diminish the validity of their complaints.
>Then they can always find another way to make the same point.

Making a political statement in certain way is itself a statement.
Thanks, I am working on that, would be very happy if you could mention the biggest obstacle you faced. Also initial use case is very specific, which affected a lot of first decisions.
And this is ignoring all the bit players, some of which are doing crazy things like using analog multiplication.

https://fuse.wikichip.org/news/2755/analog-ai-startup-mythic...

That's currently just slideware at the moment.
Usually because the lane is only being shut for a few hours, and it would cost more and take more work to set up a portable traffic signal. In Ontario, if the roadworks take more than a day, there's usually a traffic signal set up.

Interesting anecdote: I was driving through North Dakota this summer and hit resurfacing roadworks. It was the first time I've ever seen it, but rather than setting up hundreds of cones and directing traffic through them, then re-arranging the cones to do the other lane, they just had a flagman on each side and a pilot vehicle guiding 10–20 vehicles at a time through the work zone. No cones at all. I'm sure that project was completed in half the usual time.
In the US a kitchen scale is a relatively uncommon piece of equipment. I own one, but that's primarily to service what some might call an unhealthy obsession with coffee. Thinking through the kitchens of friends and family, I can only think of one other that is similarly equipped. And that friend shares my coffee hobby.

Some of these friends without scales bake quite a lot, and do a very good job of it. I guess they're doing it on "hard mode" but they acquit themselves very well.
You can expand this by graying out only those items which were on the screen. You could use Intersection Observer for this: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Intersectio...
I notice you have conveniently chosen to avoid answering the other talking points and am choosing to believe out of charity that you don't have time to write an elaborate response.

>If measuring something like the visual reaction time of people makes sense, then so too does measuring IQ.

I don't know what you mean by "make sense". To me it doesn't make sense insofar as it purports to put a single number on a very complex concept that no one really knows how to define or agree on a single definition. The traditional "predictor of life outcomes" motte-and-baley fallback isn't satisfactory for most people as it relies on circularity (in our society much of our life outcomes is actually determined by how well we do at tests that are strangely similar to IQ tests) and fails to account for the many, many socially maladapted yet gifted people out there. It's also unsatisfactory as it pretends to capture something from the inner person but outsources its definition to the outer world.

Also, none of that explains how one's IQ test results may predict one's ability to appreciate 'sophisticated music', nor is it clear what is meant by 'sophisticated'.
Manhattan is huge, so context of where you are starting is very important. For me, I’m a 2 minute walk to the E train, where I can be already through security in the terminal in 45 minutes. What matters is not the speed but the consistency. I’ve never had it deviate from that number by any meaningful amount.

We do have well designed public transportation, but you can’t make every point on the island take equal time.

It’s similar with the Paddington Express in London. It’s one of the nicest airport train experiences, period. But then you’re in Paddington Station and you need to get to wherever you need to go in the city and that makes it take as long as the JFK trip for most people.

If you actually look on a map there’s basically no way anyone could have built a LIRR style train to JFK in modern times without the entire length being a tunnel. The AirTrain is fast and very good at what it does — get you to the subway or LIRR.
I had never heard of Outline until just now.
The question used to be whether the Federal law was so all-encompassing that it displaced all attempts by a state to regulate the subject matter in question. If it was then preempt. If not, state law survives. Preemption doctrine is not so clear cut anymore.
For public transit, they are very large compared to road subsidies. In New York it’s $0.35 per passenger mile: https://iurd.berkeley.edu/wp/2010-04.pdf. Direct road subsidies are about $0.02 per passenger mile. Nationally, road spending is 3-5x higher than transit spending, but accounts for 50x more passenger miles.

Even when you add in externalities (climate change, etc.) road subsidies are about $0.10-0.20 per passenger mile. (Of course, electricity on the east coast isn’t generated from renewable sources, so you have to add pollution externalities to the subway too.)

Roads are cheap and not heavily subsidized when you account for how many people use them. There are pollution externalities, but those can be addressed by mandating electric cars without changing the basic structure of everyone having private vehicles.
It is exactly like arithmetic coding. The formula given allows you to improve the precision of the constant given by encoding more primes, and it equally well lets you encode integers that are not prime. It doesn't resemble a prime sieve because it's not one; you just construct approximations with existing knowledge of what the primes are.
this sounds amazing!

so there will be an associated Ph.D. thesis to look forward to at some point? really curious to how you achieved the speed-ups

what kind of timeline are we talking about? months / years?
> "Well, it is a pretty hateful way of doing things. I mean, that's how I treat people I hate; shun them, ignore them, not reply to them."

That is a striking perspective, but perhaps just reflects a generational difference?

In a social media driven culture, where people grow up feeling that "attention == validation"... I suppose they could also feel that "indifference == hate" as a corollary.
Couldn't you add images>threshold to a dict/map as you iterate, rather than building a complete matrix, then iterating through that?
Even so, 15 to 20 minutes on a whole day is nothing. It's less than what you lose on coffee or toilet breaks.
Note for writer: the singular of 'species' is 'species'.
The physical machine is company property. But some of the data may not be. Healthcare information for example, even though they pay for it it's still not their data.

Our company has to be very careful about that kind of stuff. Because once you have it you own it and you're responsible for it. Our ATP system, for example, scans for credit cards and SSNs in user and shared directories, sends us an alert and we ask the employee to remove it.
The Cool Kid’s Philosopher
2a: limited in outlook : NARROW -
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/provincial

"Provincial" in the sense of being preoccupied with themselves and not knowing much and caring less about the rest of the country.

Admittedly, both metros are more outward looking towards other countries. The elite New York Times readers consider themselves members of a community of international cities like London, Paris, Singapore, Tokyo, etc. That's not true of the average reader of the Daily News or New York Post.
We Just Got More Evidence a Large Meteorite Smashed into Earth 12,800 Years Ago
Tone can absolutely be extracted from anything written, but the fidelity and accuracy of what was imparted from the source is suspect.

Sarcasm in particular is difficult, and is so universally recognized as such that we've constructed a mechanism to signify it.
LOL, OK. You go ahead and make how we use pronouns on software Q&A websites "the most prioritized problem" right now -- definitely makes sense.

Women face real harassment in the tech every day, I see it firsthand.

If you're LGBTQ it's even worse.

But you know what? Let's not focus our energy on solving those kind of real-world problems. You're right. Definitely let's spend weeks writing long-winded blog posts arguing about pronouns.

You've demonstrably made the world a better place.
The thing is that by being owned by a government, it doesn't stop being "capitalism" in the eyes of the proponents of anti-capitalism. For them, the core feature of capitalism is freedom to buy and sell labour, employment of wage labour and accumulation of capital. They may even argue that companies such as PDVSA are private - because they are not under direct democratic control of the labourers who work with those means of production.

I see no reason to believe that capitalism is "the most sustainable" environmentally speaking. Just because it's hard to see big incidents such as Chernobyl or the drying of the Aral sea under capitalism, that doesn't mean that its effects are any less pernicious. In fact, it just means its actions are more transparent and insidious - in the words of a famous author, dystopia without a despot.

Nevertheless, it's worth reading up on socialist critiques of the environmental policy of previous socialist states. Eco-socialism[0] is actually one of the most researched areas of normative social philosophy this decade. They likely explain the points better than the article linked in OP.

[0] https://climateandcapitalism.com/2019/07/27/20-essential-boo...
Previously, that was called "slashdotting".

(Knowing such things makes me feel kind of old).
Hey cryptica. The intention of this post was not to "raise money from investors" (the service is free and I have no plans to monetize it so it would be a terrible investment). The intention was to show off something I've been working on in my free time. The project did indeed start because I had issues filtering through all the saved recipes in my browser's bookmarks.
Give the (Monty) Python headline on today's HN, let me add that it's worth learning to sing https://youtu.be/buqtdpuZxvk I find.

The exact numbers are not quite exact, although they are usually in the right ballpark. "We are 30,000 light-years from Galactic central point." But I found it so useful knowing that song over the years.
this extremely interesting video show state of the art techniques used to fake global illumination without using ray-tracing and compares the result with the ray-traced variant https://youtu.be/CuoER1DwYLY?t=127

long story short moving object color casting light is the main visible difference that cannot be replicated with traditional techniques (like baking the light reflection in the scene at built time, but can be faked convincingly); ray-tracing is also not limited at reflecting elements that are on the scene like what you'd get from screen space reflection, which is less noticeable of an effect but is there if you pay attention and know what to look for.
Yes, that feature is called "Collections". An item (login, card, secure note, etc.) can be shared into multiple collections (only within one organization). For each collection per user permissions (none, read, write) can be set.