skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right, I get what you're saying about Japanese, I took a few years of Japanese in school, and it is a really interesting grammatical problem. (Which is why I love this example even more)

If you read the released book about the project, one of the problems he brings up is that also the AI will pick words that start with the same letter as the first kana, seemingly at random, when it gets confused.

While I don't disagree that using AI might not be the best tool for Japanese translation, or that there might be better specific Japanese translators that use AI, I think the idea that AI has "mastered translation" is honestly going a bit too far, which was the point I was attempting to make.
It makes sense when you are also significantly decreasing your cost of living at the same time in addition to cutting taxes and want to purchase a home something that really isn'y possible in NYC or the bay on that income but is easily possible in a state with low cost of living.
I've thought the same for a while. A lot of the expense in upgrading rail cars, replacing frigates, building hospitals etc comes from the fact that every such project has massively expensive organisation constructed around it and then ... it's thrown away.

The Project Production Institute take a similar view: that instead of modeling a project as a fixed thing, you focus on it as a production process.

https://projectproduction.org/
For domestic transit, that might be true.

For international shipping—often something will be in a black hole on various boats + transdock facilities + customs for two months or more, before anyone knows where the package is, or whether it was received at all.

And, at that point, you often deal with carrier hand-off, such that the package immediately stops getting tracking updates from carrier A and there's potentially >4d of delay before you start getting tracking updates from carrier B.
As far as taxes go, yes voting left tends to result in that, but in my experience high housing costs is not a left vs right issue. Where I live most left-leaning voters would choose legislation that would bring down housing costs.
Not quite correct. That patch was never intended to be merged as-is in the first place:

> As a PoC

> Presumably this requires benchmarking/more exhaustive testing which I don't have time to do, but if someone wants to take the patch and get it merged feel free

Keeping that in mind, the "boring" comment comes off differently to me, like they got sidetracked from the original issue and he didn't feel like continuing - which is nearly the confirmation given in the second issue.
It is almost never mentioned but most men won't respect other men who are stay at home parent. So there is also an expectation on the man to be the bread winner.

Also many women tend not to want men who earn less then them:

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/rich-women-like-rich-men-a...
Well in that case, the issue gets even more complex as you factor in whether or not a city with 4 Democrats and 3 Republicans on the council and 1 Republican mayor is a "Republican" city or a "Democrat" city.
More so thinking of reusable spacecrafts like the Shuttle or Falcon rockets.
This is true for feature driven projects where features are added on top of exiting code and only some existing code is changed.

But you will have a very hard time merging two refactoring branches that both touch internal data structures.
While the expectation vs. reality dichotomy is very real, the cost vs. return is just as vital and, ultimately, more easily solvable in the years to come. Curbing the expectations of the money-givers in regards to what they might get out of these ventures is always tough but using tech is going to be cheaper because, well, the price trends for tech have been downward for a while.

Personally, hoping to see more shifts toward trying new things rather than attempting to perfect the already existing models. This would, well, not solve but circumvent the need to try and improve something when the tools are not there yet. This way, a broader groundwork will be laid.
It's not unique to Amazon.

My company did a deal with a F50 retailer that you've shopped at. About a month ahead of the first deliverable which was agreed to in the statement of work, one of their VPs called me and screamed at me demanding a live demo or they would cancel any further payments on the contract. Oh and stay on the original delivery timeframe.

We were small enough that we couldn't afford to fight that in court and losing that client would have been the loss of our biggest deal and a huge negative signal.

So we made it work but it just proved to me that contracts without the ability to enforce them don't mean anything.
Niña Magica
Facebook now jails me for sharing my own Spectator columns
It seems incredible to get away with selling such a brazenly fake product for so long - as well as the reviews, I would expect that Amazon have had several complaints about this.

I don't know if perhaps there is some weird legal shenanigans going on, where Amazon are more able to get away with this in the US? Here in the UK, I've never come across such obvious deceit, or (knowingly!) ended up with a fake/counterfeit, across what must be at least hundreds of purchases, spanning 10+ years.
Prop 13 does produce some distortion in the market, but much bigger problem is the sheer inability to build anything. If California had similar zoning and building rules as Texas, Prop 13 would not really be relevant, since houses would not be appreciating in value fast enough for Prop 13 to make any difference.
This looks really useful. How is authentication and authorization handled? Can I connect it to my Openid provider?
hey, I love seeing the code on Github, but could you clarify the licensing? Your website says it's open source, but I don't see licenses in either of the repositories linked here. (May I recommend the AGPL? :D )
This reminds me of VFS for Git, Microsoft’s solution for scaling Git for the Windows code base. [1] [2] [3]

[1]: https://github.com/microsoft/VFSForGit

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14411126

[3]: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/bharry/the-largest-git-repo-o...
The Federal Board of Governors is composed of 4 Republicans, 1 Democrat, and 2 vacant seats. All four Republicans were appointed after October 2017, with 3 of those in 2018. [0] The balance sheet began reversing in September 2019. [1]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Reserve_Board_of_Gover...
[1]: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WALCL
While this is all true, on a dollar-for-dollar basis, cut-and-cover is still cheaper than deep tunneling. There's no way around the fact that there is far more expertise, equipment, experience and competition for digging holes compared to digging tunnels.
Time spent raising children should be shared in a way that the parents mutually agree on. Society has no legitimate interest in which gender does the work, as long as it's a mutually agreed to arrangement that both parties are equally happy with (or, probably more accurately, equally least-unsatisfied with).
>based on reviews

That's incorrect. "Amazon's Choice" is based on sales. If you search "flash drives" the product that has the Amazon's Choice badge is the product that is bought most often by customers using that search term. It's one of the only organic things on the Amazon platform.
I just end up not reusing resistors. I have the unused ones in labeled drawers. Once I lose track of a resistor's value, I add it to the pile of components that need sorting.

I actually sorted that pile once for fasteners, but resistors are so cheap...
> I just don't see where the assumption here comes from that this maintainer has to do that indefinitely or even has to be involved in actively searching for successors in a community they don't feel good about

Of course they don’t. But I don’t see why they couldn’t have made an issue along the lines of “I’m stepping down, I’d like someone else to take over the project”. (Still reading through the other writeup.)
That is excessive, and is a troublesome outcome from the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestlé_boycott I only have anecdotal data but this advice does not help families that have problems with breast feeding.
Sidney Frank and the Story of Grey Goose (2004)
>>Wal-mart has a hideous reputation among the general public

Walmart has a hideous reputation in certin area's normally upper-middle to upper class urbarn area's with high population density... This is also where they have very few, or no stores and the store they do have are not their "SuperCenters"

Outside of these area Walmart has a fine reputation and is generally well received by the population.
"I assumed that over time, the community would grow, and we’d encounter problems.

Today is the first day where I say to myself, okay, has that happened?"

I think it depends on how you define community. I used to think Rust was going to be able to go mainstream. Now I'm wondering if it isn't niche. In other words, infrastructure needs code too, but all of the code "at the edge" (ie. applications that interact with users) may not be the perfect place for Rust. And I feel like that's where the majority of code will be written. So, maybe to produce metrics on this I would start with "where is the primary activity", and discover within that niche whether or not Rust has positive trajectory in terms of "market share" of that category of applications.
Being priced out of one's home is a red herring that the low tax zealots want you to believe to keep prop 13 in place.

Somehow in the 49 other states that don't have Prop 13, people aren't priced out of their homes from taxes.

There are other options. There are home equity lines, reverse mortgages, or even freezing tax payments and adding them as liens on the property at time of transfer.

But even if you're worried about that, you should still support repealing prop 13 on anything that isn't an owner occupied single family home.

There is no reason a rental property should have tax protection, or a commercial property.
> I think the chance of being a Boltzmann brain is zero if you can write down "I'm human" on a bit of paper, paper in the room, go to another room and then return to the original room and read the paper saying exactly what you initially wrote.

So I'm a Boltzmann brain and so is the piece of paper I'm writing on, and we're the same brain. When we're talking about recreating the states of a brain or a brain in a room they're both Boltzmann brains.
Your comment was insightful; I think the GP missed your main point, which is one of economic pressure through constrained supply.
I stand by the assertion that we could not go back to the moon even if we wanted to right now. They had slide rules instead of computers, but a passion and attention to detail that I very rarely see in any workplace these days. Maybe they were just less distracted than we are today by our current culture of distraction.
Exactly -- with such little data, we should only be making definite, absolute statements rather than vague probabilistic guesses.
What makes me somewhat bullish is that parallel compute keeps getting better, cheaper and more widely available.
Sure. I'm not saying I am a professional. I'm saying I will provide professional-style support (according to the connotation), just not necessarily in a timely fashion, and it's demoralizing when other people say you should avoid my amateur software because they're leaning on the connotations of "amateur" and "professional."
Imagine an AI assistant that tried to maximize well-being across time, instead of engagement (aka arguing with strangers).

Imagine a job board that maximized its users income over time.

These would become essential services, right? Let's line up these incentives :).
This is the standard voice vs. exit dilemma. Rust community is, for better or worse, very worried about "fracturing the ecosystem" so they generally prefer voice. Well, some of these voices can get ugly.
Are you sure about that?

> This combination speeds up the data transfer process since you don’t need every reachable Git object, and instead, can download only those you need to populate your cone of the working directory

If you're only downloading what you need to populate the working directory how is it that `.git` will have the entire repository?
FOSS contributions. You won't get formal mentoring, but a quality codebase and the occasional discussion of a thorny technical topic will be very helpful. There are some really good programmers in most projects.
No, forks don’t include issues or pull requests, among other things. Another problem is with “canonical links”: people will link to comments on the “original” project, which are at the mercy of maintainers to not be edited or deleted.
Have you physically done that experiment? Why not? I ask this rhetorically, but I don't mean this as some kind of gotcha to say that you're wrong for not doing the experiment. I believe there's a whole pile of interesting reasons in our heads that explain why we've never done that experiment, and the Boltzmann brain thought experiment is interesting because it helps us notice those reasons. One big reason is that the knowledge of whether you're a Boltzmann brain or not can't possibly help you. I'd also argue that our brain has some kind of intuition that super-low-probability events don't matter compared to super-higher-probability worlds that we can still affect. This seems like some kind of hint for how we can think about the Anthropic principle, but I'm not sure what it's telling us.

(Anyway I don't think your experiment is valid: it's perfectly possible for a Boltzmann brain to have the memory of just running that experiment and believing that it's proven it's not a Boltzmann brain.)
In the sense of AGI, it's all been hype. We are in an ML summer and have been for the past few years.

But "deep learning" is nothing more than that, nothing to do with AGI, we're not approaching an AGI winter except for people who were daft enough to fall for the hype.

There have been no advances in AGI in decades, it's already winter, and we've long been in it.
Boeing were not cutting corner with MAX. They were trying to fit square peg in a round hole.

They tried to fit clean sheet design performance increase into age old mold. The fact that they mostly succeeded shows how amazing and talented engineers are there.
I’m quite sure one uses airpods more during those two years than some over the ear headphones during their whole lifetime.
There is a lot of focus on the expensive parts of CA because thats where the jobs are. If you need to be employed you pretty much have to live in or around the expensive parts and thus it makes sense for people in that situation to relocate. If someone does not need to work or works remotely then one of the cheap parts of the state does make sense.
Oh, here comes the evolutionary psychology nonsense.

The world doesn't revolve around dating.

And what about lesbians? Do they benefit from being in the top 2%, according to your logic? They would still "access all the women"

It is also a bit disturbing that yoh believe being a billionaire gives you access to all the women.
I've been working on X11 on jailbroken iOS
> About equal numbers of Americans identify as Democrat or Republican:

We say this as though Democrats and Republicans fall neatly on a straight line.
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This is a great series of posts, highly recommended.

From my perspective, as someone who was once on one of the Larrabee graphics teams (but not the same one as Matt), I'd agree that the programming model was a big issue. For us, even C++ with intrinsics wasn't fast enough for the most important code, since we didn't control the compiler (note that I'm only speaking anecdotally here, these decisions pre-date my involvement). So we had our own programming language that was more like Python with intrinsics, that hooked into the back end of the shader compiler (which handled register allocation and scheduling).

This probably wasn't the best call for a Larrabee programming model "for the masses" (even lots of people on the team were skeptical of it)... But damn, that was a fun project. We needed the ability to try any crazy idea we could think of, because that's the only thing that could work.
Are you proposing that Henderson is safer than these large cities because there's less gun control, rather than other factors?
- I wouldn't conflate blockchain and cryptocurrency. Cryptocurrencies are one (infamous) use-case of blockchain technology.

- I agree that cryptocurrency turf fights are toxic

- censorship resistance does not equate privacy. The main blockchains today are actually fully transparent. The perfect crim currency is cash which is almost untraceable.

- The energy burn is to achieve distributed consensus. I don't think there is any distributed consensus algorithms that is not a tremendous energy burn today be it physical voting (transports, broadcasts, special machines, security, ...) or CEOs and diplomats flying around the world.

- The energy burn is still concerning but Proof-of-Work is not the only way to solve the Byzantine General problem via economic incentives. You only need a "rare resource" that cannot be easily replicated to avoid sybil attacks (i.e. not an email address). That can be cryptocurrency (Proof-of-stake) or storage (Proof-of-spacetime)

- I don't think you realize the scale of drug trafficking and other unsavory endeavors that use cash.

- Mostly agreed on private blockchain but there are some industry-wide private blockchains that are starting to emerge (including UNICEF and FAO) with very interesting applications (identity of children refugees and managing food).
It’s more exciting to work at a company that is actually game changing. Some SaaS cos fit into that bucket as well, but majority I see funded today fill some niche project management use case that just isn’t that appealing to me.

I didn’t say anything about it being “realer”.
I guess it's possible you don't get it all, but I've definitely ran `git grep` before on that repo and had results come back that weren't in my worktree.

Edit:

wrowclif@wrowclif-desktop:~/Taccs2/p5_deps$ git grep "def returnValue"
twisted/install_linux_gcc54/lib/python2.7/site-packages/twisted/internet/defer.py:1350:def returnValue(val):
twisted/install_linux_gcc54/lib/python2.7/site-packages/twisted/internet/test/test_win32events.py:66: def returnValueOccurred(self):
twisted/install_win64_vc141/lib/python2.7/site-packages/twisted/internet/defer.py:1350:def returnValue(val):
twisted/install_win64_vc141/lib/python2.7/site-packages/twisted/internet/test/test_win32events.py:66: def returnValueOccurred(self):
twisted/vendor_base/src/twisted/internet/defer.py:1350:def returnValue(val):
twisted/vendor_base/src/twisted/internet/test/test_win32events.py:66: def returnValueOccurred(self):

wrowclif@wrowclif-desktop:~/Taccs2/p5_deps$ ls ./twisted/
install_linux_gcc54
The Actix website encourages end users to report bugs: "If you think you found a bug it's best to go to the github directly."

If you're claiming that taking those directions seriously is entitlement and that it's less entitled to second-guess the maintainer and do what you think they meant even if it's the opposite of what they said....
DO sends an email when they can't charge. They send a second email 21 days later, when the account gets suspended (which doesn't deleted anything), with essentially your message, except it's 14 days instead of 60.

It's five weeks really poor form but eight acceptable? Seems a bit subjective.
An issue I have with Amazon these days is with books. Many slightly obscure books these days come print-on-demand rather than from an earlier, larger offset-printing run. I don’t know if the original publishers do this service or if the books are counterfeit too (I remember reading complaints here about low quality copies of books which the commenter thought were counterfeit. Though I’m not so convinced of that)

Print on demand means that the book is only printed when (or shortly before) your order comes in. This reduces the risk of not being able to sell all the copies in a larger offset run and of storage but at a higher per-unit printing cost. I typically recognise these books by soft edges on letters (even dots of ink around the letters giving a fuzzy underline) and blurry diagrams. This is particularly bad for small labels or footnotes. I also saw some absolutely awful photographs that looked like they came out of an inkjet printer running low on ink (ie not great resolution and big stripes of off colours running across the image). Another sign is a sparse first page (the one listing information about the publishers and print run), or even a blank first page with a little printers name in the back.

The kind of offset printing one normally sees in books leaves much crisper edges (I think the ink is more sticky and more shiny too; perhaps sitting ever so slightly above the page rather than feathered into it). Plates also somehow look much better. I don’t know how they are made.

I wish there were a way to know whether or not you’re going to get a print-on-demand book because often the quality is very poor and I’d be willing to invest time looking elsewhere for an offset printed copy.

But perhaps I get more print on demand books than I know. Indeed I read that Amazon’s own print on demand service produces very high quality results and if thats true it would probably be a good thing for getting consistent quality books from Amazon. Certainly all the poor quality books I’ve ever gotten were print-on-demand (or digital printing which, as far as I can tell, is basically the same thing).
Yes, you’ve made a choice: you chose the algorithm. You didn’t choose the product, though.
I love NYC.

Here are the downsides of NYC that I don't miss (relative to Austin):

- High income tax

- Far from anything west coast (skiing, mountains, outdoors, SF/LA, etc)

- Cold winters. Much easier to get to the caribean in the winter.

- Hard to get "out" of the city during the summer that doesn't have stupid logistics (e.g. hamptons). You can get to one of the lakes 15~60 min depending on where you live in Austin.

- Everyone talks about work (austin, people don't care what you do for a living)

Downsides of Austin:

- It's a small town. If you're social, you'll know everyone in about a year.

- Opportunity is limited.

- Satellite airport (gotta connect via HOU and DFW)

- Summers get HOT.
The author is missing the forest for the trees. She argues that a specific
kind of sexism (harrassment) is not sufficient to explain why so many women
are forced out of their careers in STEM academia. She argues that the real
reason is that those women want to start a family and they can't do both at
once. She herself is considering leaving academia to start a family (she wants
to have two or three children). Yet she never for a moment stops to wonder why
it is that a woman like her has to make a choice between family and career,
why that is a choice that so many women have to make and why it is a choice
that so few men have to make. The answer to all that is sexism, of course, the
kind of sexism that the author is so used to she doesn't even consider it
sexism anymore, just the normal order of things. Yes, of course a young,
talented researcher _has_ to leave academia to raise her kids. Because she's a
woman. And that's what happens to women.

That is sexism. It is clear sexism, it is classic sexism and it will not go
away by pretending that it is not. And I agree very much with the author that
it is the real reason behind the constant stream of promising female
researchers leaving STEM academia.