skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OK, cool.

But what's the universe of gender pronouns?

Whatever anyone requests be used?

And will mods get in trouble for questioning strange ones?

Or is it just "anything goes"?

Edit: This is a decent list: https://lgbtqexperiment.com/2019/05/13/what-are-alternative-...

Some I know are gender neutral, but it's not clear what the others communicate. Or maybe that's not the point. Which is just to use whatever someone requests.

Edit: Now this is good: https://gender.wikia.org/wiki/Gender_Wiki

So you can see which are (at least by this wiki) accepted, and which are still iffy.

And for those (like me) who love scatter plots, this: https://gender.wikia.org/wiki/2D_graph_theory(gender_Theory)

Probably needs at least a third dimension, though ;)
Normality Is a Myth
China is a dictatorship.
So, news in a non-authoritarian country are all truth? Non-authoritarian gov never “muddy the truth and make official and important sounding institutions make official statements that paint a situation in exactly they need it to be to further their own goals” ?
I think this might be what you're looking for?

https://www.browserless.io/
> it seems like the goal is to kill or capture

The goal is almost never to kill or capture. That’s not why you’re there in the first place, is it? The goal is to achieve some effect. If you can do that without killing or capturing then all the better. If you narrowly focus on killing and capturing then you may be missing other options which are easier. That’s what Sun Tzu is reminding us, and it’s why a modern tactical checklist includes an item like ‘what effect do I want to have on the enemy?’ so you don’t just go straight to kill or capture.
On duty for 68 hours when I was in the army. A strange feeling, in the end it was like I was drunk(like after a bottle of wine)
On duty for 68 hours when I was in the army. A strange feeling, felt drunk (like after a bottle of wine)
Who are, the Guardian, or The Heartland Institute, and if the latter, why?
That may be. However, I was using Linux on bog-standard computers before System76 was even founded -- preinstalling Linux on a computer isn't exactly revolutionary, and it's in a completely different league from the work that has been required to bring up entire new CPUs (!) to compete with the increasingly locked x86 systems.

No idea where you're getting a kilowatt from. My desktop uses maybe 120W or so, with a lot of that going to the AMD GPU.

If we're going to trade barbs over ecological damage, what happens to all those Intel and AMD systems that would have been useable if they had just had updates to the locked/signed firmware, but are instead floating around in landfills because the vendor decided they wanted to enforce their control and not issue security updates?
Here is the video [1] with complete context. Unfortunately I've yet to find a complete translated transcript. But from what I've read (from potentially unreliable sources) the casters said 'Go ahead and say those 8 words and we'll wrap up here. There's nothing else to talk about. Let's lower our heads.' He then said 'Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our time' while wearing a gas mask. Guessing that's 8 words in Mandarin. They then laugh and clap.

This is actually the thing that most frustrates me about these protests and issue in general. Finding complete, in context, recordings of the critical events is so incredibly difficult. This makes no sense since we are now in an era where everything is on camera from 500 different angles. But it is what it is. And of course providing in context video gets downvoted, because it makes the issues look less black and white. But that to me is the clearest example of idiocracy. We should not seek to create Hollywood villains and heroes in how things are presented. People should make judgments based on reality which, almost invariably, is more of a million shades of gray rather than good vs evil, right vs wrong.

[1] - https://youtu.be/KyxO0Ea1_kM?t=2152
And hobos
> I think what she's saying is that if you were part of this group, the early Internet seemed welcoming and inclusive, but if you weren't, it was the opposite. From within a community it's easy to feel inclusive!

Arguably, the people who weren't "in the group" at that time were people who weren't interested or didn't have access. Internet was neither global nor cheap nor popular back then.

As for the misogyny angle, I feel either she fixated herself on a problem and is projecting, or this remark was included to signal allegiance with the social justice crowd. As it is now, the comment reeks of antiintellectualism.

> It must be a lot worse for people who are not white or male.

I don't think it was back then, because back then people didn't care much about it, and a lot of communities of post-university Internet were text-only pseudonymous communication anyway. As for what's today, increasingly it's being white or male that makes you out of place in a hacker space.
I have this exact problem, both me and my wife are still on X200s, but we've only one decent battery between us, and that's unlikely to last long.

Is replacing the cells enough, though? Isn't there a controller that needs resetting as well?
Pytorch Named Tensors
Google Core Algorithm Update Rolled in September 2019
I suspect it's because the light Chrome looks better to me with most web pages.

Whereas for apps with lots of text (e.g. Kindle etc) dark mode looks better (to me).
As alecco says in this thread, it is indeed a hardcore scientist who studied sleep for twenty years trying to communicate to a wider audience. I'll cut him a lot of slack.

Also, not sure if you've seen Walker speak (do check out on YouTube), he's one of the most brilliant public speakers. Very few scientists can manage to hold your concentration like Prof. Walker does.
Large enterprise solutions usually have maintainers or source a company to do maintaining for them.

Startups in today's world - not necessarily 'startups', but also new products - move too fast for maintenance; by the time they pivot, the old stack is easier to replace with whatever new fancy system was sold to stakeholders.

Also, most new software churned out today is built from some building blocks, usually community maintained, so no one is going to hire a developer to maintain <insert_fancy_open_source_framework_that_is_heavily_used_and_actively_maintained_by_the_community>.
How comes nobody has sued them over that yet?!!
This is the point where you enumerate exactly which of her statements (direct quotes please) that you find either

a. Delusional
b. hysterical

I've watched her statements quite closely and they seem fairly well calibrated, and I'm sure you're not just regurgitating talking points, so I'd be interested to see what you have.
Yep, I figured as much. We'd love to do a laptop, we're literally just stalled on the GPU. This is where a consortium of ODMs and OEMs could possibly effect change, the combined buying power is probably enough to get custom GPU silicon sans-DRM and locking created. Only question is, does enough willpower exist from the other ostensibly open vendors at this time to actually work toward that goal with us? ;)
Had the same issue initially. Called Apple support who debugged it via remote desktop. Turns out Sidecar uses iCloud for handshake between the two devices (god knows why), and for some reason requires 2FA on iCloud to be turned on for both the iPad and the laptop, on each device. I didn't have iCloud 2FA setup completed on the laptop, so it didn't work until that was resolved.
Child Labour in Chocolate Companies' Supply Chains (Scorecard)
I wonder how big part of that shitstorm was due to "hey look, the new guy thinks he is smarter than us!" attitude. Which is often warranted, way too often fresh blood charges at the Chesterton fences.
Except for this time, the new guy was indeed smarter. Kudos.
Let me take this opportunity to ask you a question here after you making clear the problems you see.

Hardware becomes more complex and can include internal software that from a user perspective is just part of the hardware. But in fact, it is software running doing complex things outside of the oversight and control of the user.

Do you have plans to not just have open software but also open hardware? Do you hope to offer a device in the future with not just free software, but with the source files of the integrating hardware like the motherboard as well as of the chips like CPU and auxiliary ICs? Do you see a possibility to start with an open RSIC-V CPU?
Me too. :)

In fact, I try my best to not use Kafka at all. Most of the applications don't have that kind of load and adopting Kafka leads to heavyweight architecture.

In my experience, it is easy to emulate Kafka topic behaviour on modern SQL databases (for example LISTEN/UNLISTEN/NOTIFY in PostgreSQL), rather than doing whole gymanstic of KSQL layer on Kafka beast and still fall short of SQL2016 spec by a large margin. I always look for databases which application uses as a primary DB with support for Streams/CDC (Change Data Capture) either natively OR it is easy to implement thin layer over the DB within 2-3 days.
If humanity is the disease, will it kill the body or leave both alive in symbiosis ?
Therefore I got a 4K monitor at 24 inches so that it would be usable at 200% scaling. For 27-30 inches I would aim for 5K.
Will a lot of westerners boycott us if bend over for China? Probably not.

Do we care enough about Hong Kong customers? Not really - they are <8 million people!

Do we care about China? Yes, a lot. Both about the government and the 1.4 billion potential customers there!
As I also experienced this, the trick is that you keep your mind focused around the problem, even when you go to sleep. I already mentioned you need to make trying to solve the problem your big thing of the day. Of course if you try to solve a problem and at the same day got almost robbed or were close to having an accident (or something really nice happened) your brain is most likely to process that instead at sleep or mix things up.
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The keyword co-occurrence is pretty smart.
The best Mario Kart Character (2018)
> letting you use a laptop to power your smartphone, for instance

What do they mean ? I remember charging my phone (or even a mp3 player) from my laptop using mini USB and later micro USB like 8 or 10 years ago.
Complexity of installing TensorFlow, even with the inclusion of custom compilation and hacking Bazel (to make it work under CUDA version that it doesn't officially support) is low, compared to releasing a model that works in production.

Because of that, it doesn't make much sense to judge a "differential programming language" like TensorFlow or PyTorch by the ease of installation. It'd be like saying "I prefer C# over C++" because it is easier to install.
I still have the original hardware hooked up. There's a few games that definitely hold my interest:

* Qbert

* Pac-Man / Ms Pac-Man (I mean, the gameplay on that is a classic)

* Battlezone

* Centipede / Millipede

tbh mostly the arcade conversions (with exception of Battlezone)

That all said, I do definitely agree with your point that the vast majority of 2600 games don't hold up well compared to stuff released a few years later. And in the case of the arcade conversions, there's definitely better versions of those games on other system -- playing them on the Atari is really more because "I can" rather than because "they compare better". Even so, I do still really enjoy playing on it.
Actually, yes! We're closely monitoring the development progress of the open toolchains for various FPGAs; with POWER ISA now being open for implementation by anyone anywhere, I could easily see a future where extremely sensitive work is seamlessly moved from a large closed ASIC like the current IBM POWER chips to a completely software compatible, but significantly slower, soft SoC running in an FPGA. Or even an ASIC, if methods are eventually developed to verify the ASICs match the input design files at scale (i.e. non-destructive testing).

This seamless transition is one of the key benefits of an open ISA in my mind; development and testing of algorithms can be handled on the closed but top of the line (i.e. extremely powerful) ASIC, then when sensitive data is being handled that same binary can literally be run without changes on the soft core or other slower, but open, system. You could even compile on the slower ultra-trusted system, and test the binary on the larger ASIC -- lots of interesting possibilities here!
You can add drag and drop quite easily if you use a library for it.
There is great value is maintaining old software, from an evolutionary perspective it is often the critical systems that have a reason to exist. An organism that has been around for a hundred years has a bigger change of surviving to the next day compared to something born yesterday. Its counter intuitive until you compare the life expectancy of an awk tree and a fruit fly.

Most principal software engineers I've known have been with the project since the beginning and live in symbiosis with the project.
Announcing verified publishers on pub.dev (Dart's package manager)
9to5google Leaked Google Pixelbook Go Hands-On
> Statewide utilities are bloated and inefficient, and they abuse their monopoly power.

This seems overly general. There's plenty of state-wide utilities in the rest the world which are fantastic in every regard including cost.
The Elizabeth Warren pregnancy firing controversy, explained
The latter. Why what? Why I have this opinion? Simply because the whole campaign is purely based on emotions, it's whole frickin idea is to cause hysteria in people's minds. And Greta even says that she wants people to be afraid.
My phone charges fine with a Nintendo Switch power adapter.

In fact, I am doing it right now.

Output on the adapter reads: 5v@1.5A/15v@2.6A
Few years ago I spent quite some time learning Haskell, failing to understand the concept of Monad. One day I just woke up, with the concept understood. It was like magic.
Thanks, that was interesting!

I especially liked the linked demonstration video at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIFCV2spKtg .
California has a different gasoline mix with the seasons for emissions reasons. And every time we switch between winter and summer mix, the few refineries here always seem to have mysterious maintenance emergencies. Not sure why they always need to shut down for a few days right then, but it sure makes for a supply crunch and a price bump.
That assumes that the big company doesn't have enough inertia to keep going on and on, strangling the small business or buying it outright (thus incorporating it into the broken culture, Borg-like).
Are you sure? Have you read human history? Or read about corruption in finance, healthcare, education, etc?
This is not the point where you tell me what to do. Who do you think you are?
Wow, yeah that's true! I have never thought about it before.

From Wikipedia:

"In Faroese, the name appears as Føroyar. Oyar represents the plural of oy, older Faroese for "island". Due to sound changes, the modern Faroese word for island is oyggj. The first element, før, may reflect an Old Norse word fær (sheep), although this analysis is sometimes disputed because Faroese now uses the word seyður (from Old Norse sauðr) to mean "sheep". Another possibility is that the Irish monks, who settled the island around 625, had already given the islands a name related to the Gaelic word fearrann, meaning "land" or "estate". This name could then have been passed on to the Norwegian settlers, who then added oyar (islands).[12] The name thus translates as either "Islands of Sheep" or "Islands of Fearrann".

In Danish, the name Færøerne contains the same elements, though øerne is the definite plural of ø (island).

In English, it may be seen as redundant to say the Faroe Islands, since the oe comes from an element meaning "island". Most notably in the BBC Shipping Forecast, where the waters around the islands are called Faeroes. The name is also sometimes spelled "Faeroe"."[1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faroe_Islands#Etymology
Feedback loops are shorter, news reports are increasingly more useless[0], and our current age is somewhat unique - reporting of the past didn't have a strong economic system attached whose sole purpose is making it less truthful, less accurate, and more disagreeable. I'm, of course, talking about funding media through advertising impressions at article granularity.

--

[0] - Gwern makes a really good argument that with the amount of people we have on the planet and how information moves near-instantly around the world, you can plausibly assume that all news reports are flukes, one-in-a-million events, "rare datapoints driven by unusual processes such as the mentally ill or hoaxers are increasingly unreliable as evidence of anything at all and must be ignored." https://www.gwern.net/Littlewood
CEI? AEI? Heritage Action? Google supports those? Those are the classic conservative PACs.

Although, in the era of Trump, they're starting to look not so bad.
WeWork Bailout Deal May Emerge Soon as Next Week
Predominantly, some internal teams at Cisco. VPP and its CNI (Ligato Contiv) seem to be picking up steam off late. This is going by activity in the mailing lists. I know Yahoo Japan uses it.

http://events19.linuxfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/...
Sorry for the off-topic note, but I would appreciate if you could comment on my recent poll here (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21187659) and, if you know other MSE people on HN, please ping them, if possible. Thank you very much in advance!
I'm surprised they went with the outdated-looking Macbook bezel. Having owned a Dell XPS 13 for a few years now (and a Macbook Air 11" previously) I always think the Macbook displays look very dated. I expect the upcoming 16 inch Macbook to have thin bezels (and rounded display corners like the iPhones).
Perhaps you ought to be afraid. Massive climate change is going to disrupt everything we take for granted today.
People call that "punishing" but it's nothing of the sort: it's just exercising a fundamental right to access whatever data companies have on you.

If they didn't do the work to automate this 3 years and half after the law was voted, then it's on them.
Newest technology isn't always the problem. The problem is always the choices and incentives you have.

All projects I lead always have the aspect of how are you going to maintain it when I'm gone. So I tend to "force" the project owner to spend money/time on simplifying unmaintainable parts of the infrastructure. They're always happy about these changes after the fact however.

It's also the opposite of what most big consulting firms do, because they do want to maintain a steady revenue stream from their clients.
While I am not familiar with any of the organisations mentioned in the article, I think it is a good thing when non-mainstream views are financially supported. The headline is "large contributions", but later it is specified as "more than a dozen organisations" out of "hundreds of groups". So it's not like it's a focus of Google's spending.

Being able to support opposing viewpoints, and allow them to be funded and researched, is what (should) differentiate the West from China, where opposing viewpoints are deemed dangerous and must be shut down.
In spec devices will not have any issues. At worst your device will charger slower than it could.

Unfortunately a lot of devices are out of spec like the Nintendo switch which can be damaged by an in spec charger.
As a German speaker, my biggest issue is with the first sentence: I think Zettelkästen is a fantastic word! :)

I’m a heavy Emacs user; one of my most-used extensions is Deft [1] which was inspired by Notational Velocity. With that I have defined some keystrokes globally from org-mode which let me create inter-file links.

I really like this system for collecting general notes. What I think I’m missing that this system provides is the serendipity of stumbling onto something. I can usually jump straight to what I want. It has happened on occasion that I do run into something unexpected and welcome. I’d like to try and find a way to make that more common.

1: https://github.com/jrblevin/deft
Physiologically it probably involves mirror neurones and what you describe shouldn't be all that surprising or require an internal philosophical discourse as parent might have suggested.
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Yep that's the sad arithmetic behind capitalism - Apple are no different from any other corporation in this respect. But the problem is that people often see them as friendly and caring, when they maybe should step back and realise that such corporations are not their friends, don't care about them and would sell them out in an instant if it benefit them.
At-will employment is largely a US concept.

The rest of the developed world does not have such things, yet 40 hour work weeks are still commonplace.
I mean, the authors implemented it in pytorch: https://github.com/vsitzmann/scene-representation-networks

Do you have any particular evidence that PyTorch is slow here?
And the torch API has been around for a looooonnng time, as Pytorch is a re-implementation of Torch, which was written in Lua: http://torch.ch/
The way Chrome displayed flexbox stuff permanently changed at some point after version 70, breaking an app of mine that had been working fine for years.
Which part of Bluetooth do you dislike? These days it’s more like a family of standards.
Even if you were right, how would it help me being afraid?
The website developers have already added a Javascript plugin that instructs visitors on how to add the app to their homescreen, after they visit the website in Safari, which gives presumably identical behavior to the app store app.

Hopefully this alleviates the immediate negative consequences of the removal.
Is this a design fail from Apple?
TLDR; If you have two-factor authentication on, don't have trusted devices and are bad at remembering passwords then don't lose your iPhone.

So a friend of mine just lost his iPhone and tried to find it using Find My iPhone feature from my phone. Only problem he can't remember his password. No big deal we thought. He still has access to his email used with apple id, so we can reset the password through email.
Boy we were so naive! he had two-factor authentication on and no other trusted apple devices. Turns out account recovery will take days or more more. This makes "Find my iPhone" useless because no iPhone can last several days without running out of power.

So I guess the take away is,
1. don't use 2-factor authentication
2. If you want to use 2-factor auth then buy more iDevices or don't forget your password or simply don't lose your phone.

I'm sure this is done for protecting iCloud account but at the same time this is a huge inconvenience to the user. Makes me wonder 2-factor auth isn't for everyone.
And I’m sure that China could just block or otherwise disable this app or just go kill the protesters if they wanted. But that’s not what they wanted. They wanted Tim Cook to drink a cup of Xi’s diarrhea in public and Cook happily did it.
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That’s some 4 dimensional chess.
The Hard Thing about Hard Things by Ben Horowitz. It's aimed at founders who intend to be long-term CEOs (rather than employing a professional CEO once the org is big enough). Niche topic but I found a lot of worthwhile lessons in the book.

I have no affiliation with the author or A16Z.
It would be fine if there was clear branding. For some reason manufacturerers refuse to list all of the modes supported even in the spec sheet. It's just "usb-c" sometimes it isn't even usb3. At most they will say if it supports thunderbolt or not.
As people have replied to you before (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21058750), you can't take emotions out of human motivation and activity.
Not sure why people wouldn't like this answer. We've had great success with this approach and co-sleeping even after the breastfeeding period.

Would be interested to hear negative experiences.