skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What you're doing here is exactly the bad faith interpretation of the concept of "offensive" that I was saying - throwing out example after example of "potentially offensive words" and how we should just throw the whole language out for fear of offending someone. This is an unfair/bad faith interpretation of what's happening here, highlighted by your insinuation that the people who care about this kind of thing have only two brain cells.

This is a watering down of the position to the point where it can be attacked by a stand up comedian saying "sorry if my jokes OFFEND YOU, snowflake!"

You're right that context matters - it'd be terribly abusive for an employer to refer to their employees as their "slaves," for example, far worse than an employer referring to "master/slave" harddrives in their documentation. That much is obvious.

So once again I'll say what's happening here: America is trying to come to terms with its history of racism against POC, the fact that it's far from a solved problem, the fact that there's a lot of work to do before justice has finally been reached. People and companies are looking for ways to help. A great thing a company can do is strive for inclusivity. Doing a little bit of auditing of internal language is fairly harmless and should be uncontroversial, but for some reason there's hordes of what I would describe as "free speech fanatics" always ready to ignore their privilege and kick down the door of public companies should they dare to try to make their POC employees actually feel like they're as valued as the white ones.

Does GitHub seeking to make their POC users and employees feel more included mean that the US government needs to pass thought crime legislation to ban the use of the word master? No. Does it mean a español dictionaries need strike the word "negro" from their lists? No.

It's a company trying to make people feel more included. That's it.
A culture of consistent product management strongly embedded into the company DNA ("The Lego System") is important for something like this to happen.

Without it high quality manufacturing and QA won't help.
In the U.S. context, concentration camp is used almost exclusively to refer to the extermination camps run by Nazis in World War II. I know not everyone on here is American, but that bit of information is useful for understanding why so many people make the association between concentration camps and the extermination of Jews in WWII. And it also explains why it is disingenuous of Americans to state that the US government is running concentration camps; it is technically correct according to the dictionary definition, but it is not correct according to lay usage in the United States.
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You’d think the HFT lot would jump at the chance to knock 100ms off Singapore to New York.
Do we know how many neutrinos were registered during the 503 days? I'd be curious about the resolution of this image.

Also, in order to cause the Cherenkov radiation, the neutrino has interact at least with an electron, I wonder about the percentage of the number of neutrinos interacting with the water in this vs. the number of neutrinos that interacted with Earth on the way.

Not anything practical... I'd just be curious.
Ah, one has to resolve, the other doesn't have to. Thanks for the explanation.

It seems you're proving my point: you didn't need to collaborate outside of your company. So you picked the path of least resistance and that's totally what I would do too.

But what if you work together with a plethora of academic institutions and then decide that you want to keep options open such that other disciplines can connect to you and you can connect to them, automatically?

You could create a consortium and create a shared Postgres schema (among other things), since everyone knows it. Or you could just put your linked data online with a web page, no consortium needed. Anyone who wants to link to you, they can. And if they publish their data, then by no effort of your own, your data is enriched as well.

I view linked data as a DSL of some sorts. DSLs are amazing, except if you try to force fit them into something they shouldn't be force fitted into. You are giving an argument that one should not force fit it within one organization.

And I agree with that since that's not where linked data shines. Just like SQL doesn't shine at making a raytracing engine, but that doesn't prevent anyone [1] ;-)

That's my current view anyway (again, 3 weeks in, I mostly dealt with NodeJS and ReactJS issues at the moment).

Also, a lot of SPARQL looks like SQL (to my new eyes anyway). Here's a tutorial on it (for a basic feel, watch until episode 5 -- takes about an hour, or watch just the first episode to get a feel): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbUYrs_wWto&list=PLaa8QYrMzX...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21218144
After years of rentals, I've really only ever had consistently good experiences from National/Enterprise.

I vowed off Hertz 6 years ago. It was around midnight after a long flight, my phone was dead and I had a rental booked from another company.

I was thrilled to see that the Hertz rental counter had a large box of car chargers with a label "$8.99" or something reasonable. So I walk up and ask to please buy one.

The person behind the counter looks at me in disbelief "No, these are for customers only. We're not a convenience store. Go find a Seven Eleven if you need a car charger."

Six years and $10,000+ in business rentals later, I've still never rented Hertz again. Customer service matters.
This just seems like a weird, ineffective way to put pressure on ICE to stop detaining people excessively, inhumanely, or lethally.

It might very well be, and it's worth debating how much giving business support to an organization whose policies you (possibly vehemently) disagree with is a kind of implicit support of those policies. But, it's also worth asking: if protest by workers to put pressure on their employees to stop giving business support to organizations whose policies they vehemently disagree with is "disappointing," what kind of protest isn't?

It seems to me that when we're talking about corporations, who you do and don't sign contracts with -- who you buy from, who you sell to, and what charities you support -- is far and away the strongest signal you can send. If you're sending a signal of support to Black Lives Matter protests, it's nice if you send out a few tweets and update your home page, but it's better if you donate money, services, and/or employee time. And the group you donate those things to is going to send a signal: donating to Colin Kaepernick's "Know Your Rights Camp" is in some sense a more specific, stronger message than donating to the ACLU.

So it certainly seems reasonable that asking the corporations you work for (and perhaps work with) to put their money where their PR is in terms of who they do business with also sends a message. No, it's probably not in and of itself going to put much pressure on ICE, but it is a statement of values.
Apple’s App Store ecosystem facilitated over half a $1T dollars in commerce
Would you also match it with α? Notice that "a" and "α" are always completely interchangeable, as opposed to "a" and "ä". What about their uppercase versions (which are visually identical)? Or all similarly-looking letters between Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic alphabets? And what about letters that are almost identical but have very different meanings like "w" and "ω"; would you match them ?
Yea that's definitely a bit more of an edge case. and for the downvoted sibling commentor, this is the same kind of setup that previously would be done with inetd or xinetd and the lack of security or monitoring or logging that that usually entails. I'd be surprised if there's not some other way to do it but this seems like a perfectly fine work around otherwise.
You don’t end up on food stamps by blowing your savings
IIRC, ISO-10646 initially preserved each of the 16-bit national codings for Han characters (including three separate Chinese encodings). I don't know if that has been retained at all in later versions of the standard and a cursory reading of the relevant wikipedia pages is not informative.
Property is private, but the market is public.

I am not sure how much legal barter is, but in many sense the currency is intrinsically linked to the public space of the state.
Sure, that's one difference.

The other is that it usually takes serious labor and negotiation to land a government contract. It's not like ICE went to some Web UI and bought GitHub Enterprise with a company credit card, and now we're asking GitHub/MS to ban them from the e-store.
No need to study anything more than a newspaper archive. Look at the local papers every time a hurricane hits the United States, or there is another major natural disaster over the last 80 years.

Ham operators are always a communication lifeline in times of crisis.
But perhaps the manufacturing costs do reflect it? In which case the profits would be much, much higher than normal drives.
master is just another branch in git, so trunk is an incorrect description.
That's an apples and oranges test, and the performance difference doesn't matter. They're for different target markets.

I don't think anyone in their right mind considers a Surface as an alternative to an iPad. Just because they have similar form factors doesn't mean they're substitutes for one another.

The things I run on my atom based handheld are only available on Windows.
Looks to be a tech issue related to the Sprint merger.

That is the current suggestion: (reposted from elsewhere in this thread:
https://puck.nether.net/pipermail/outages/2020-June/013124.h...

This is because of an update in the systems from the Sprint side to help
merge with T Mobile. That happened from 12am-6am EST and Sprint's systems
clashed with T Mobile's. I'm glad I have off today.
Illegal immigrants are not at all entirely of a single minority group. And even though they are mostly of a single minority group, that fact is incidental to the fact that they are being put in detention facilities, it is not causal.
and why not? scientology is getting away with it and making millions.
Time-series databases themselves are usually key/value or relational.

The "time-series" features come from the focus around time as a primary component of the data (or some kind of increasing numeric value). Features like automatic partitioning and sharding, better compression, aggregating into time buckets, extracting and managing date values, smoothing missing values in queries, etc.
I learned C++ at the 11 grade, back when Turbo C++ 1.0 was still quite recent on the market, and was giving classes to fellow classmates about OOP with Turbo Pascal 5.5, as payment for accessing school software packages and manuals, so I do know a couple of things what about matters at that age, and giving a good preparation for the work market.
Just use Dorico and have support for all of that stuff in actual notation...

https://steinberg.help/dorico/v2/en/dorico/topics/notation_r...

https://steinberg.help/dorico_pro/v3/en/dorico/topics/notati...
Derp! Fixed that.
Disability protection law uses the idea of "reasonable accomodation", which mediates between the tensions in this issue.

So disabled people don't get an automatic job, say. But an employer can't just decide not interview someone because "it's inconvenient to interview you due to your disability".

Another: It's not acceptable to say "sorry we can't interview you if you can't climb stairs, because there is a staircase between our interview room and the downstairs offices", because there is a reasonable accomodation possible, namely interviewing in a different room.

A shop is required to make reasonable accomodations, such as provide an entry ramp if that makes sense, and a wheelchair compatible toilet if that makes sense (i.e. it has other toilets).

That prevents shops from saying "we don't care about the 2% so we can't be bothered with a ramp even though the cost is negligable to us".

On the other hand, reasonable is relative. An organisation with no funds would not be required to do the same things as an organisation with plenty of funds. A club open to the public is expected to do more than a private gathering of people where nobody in the group has particular needs. And accomodation doesn't always have to be pre-emptive. For a public facility, anticipating needs of a broad spectrum people is expectecd, but for a small, private workplace it may suffice to react to the particular needs of individual people as needed.

(Note, disability is complicated because there are so many kinds, many of them invisible but cause much difficulty for the persons affected, and people without experience do not recognise the signs. I've used wheelchair here because everyone recognises that, but even with those, a lot of people seem to not understand that if a person can stand up and walk a bit, it doesn't mean they don't need a wheelchair.)
H.R. 116: Investing in Main Street Act of 2019, passed House 403-2.

H.R. 1759: BRIDGE for Workers Act, passed House 393-23.

H.R. 2590: DHS Overseas Personnel Enhancement Act of 2019, passed House 394-2.

H.R. 2609: DHS Acquisition Review Board Act of 2019, passed House 419-0.

H.R. 769: Counterterrorism Advisory Board Act of 2019, passed House 414-12.

H.R. 3050: Expanding Investment in Small Businesses Act of 2019, passed House 417-2.

H.R. 4407: SCORE for Small Business Act of 2019, passed House 389-8.

H.R. 499: Service-Disabled Veterans Small Business Continuation Act, passed House 423-0.

H.R. 596: Crimea Annexation Non-recognition Act, passed House 427-1.

H.R. 1593: CLASS Act of 2019, passed House 384-18.

Of course I can't say for sure that any of those would pass if allowed to come up for a vote in the Senate. Those all could be issues where GOP Representatives and GOP Senators are so far out of alignment that they pass with overwhelming GOP support in the House but would get at most a couple GOP Senators behind them.
May have control... Over mineral exploration licences. And.. it looks like guys like Craig bid in to prevent exploration by determining not to explore. So they are bidding to preserve federal land against the predations of exploration in a time of declining markets for oil and gas
Yeah I was enthusiastic but my kids really aren't interested. I'm not sure if I should force them to do it or just give up.
Nobody is praying for an apocalypse. On the contrary, there have been people sounding the alarm on the reckless policy of the Fed for decades, but since it falls on deaf ears and any reformation of the Fed seems increasingly unlikely, anybody who realizes that kicking the can down the road is not a solution to anything has no real option other than to opt-out of the fiat system and Bitcoin or Gold are the only real alternatives. Bitcoin has several advantages over gold which would make it more desirable if there were a shift back to hard money.

You seem to think that the dollar crashing will crash civilization. There are dozens of cases of hyperinflation hitting over the past century, particularly since the end of the Bretton Woods agreement - they cause temporary turmoil, and those most affected are the poorest, but recovery happens fairly quickly provided the government steps out of the way and deregulates to allow the economy to repair itself.

If you don't want to be one of those most affected by hyperinflation, it might make sense to have a plan in the event that the USD hyperinflates - since there's nothing to suggest it will be any different to other currencies. I'm not necessarily trying to predict the future, but I'm planning ahead for a potential scenario. To me one that looks increasingly plausible and is merely a question of when, not if.

Part of that planning includes being able to transact if there are disturbances in internet infrastructure. This is why you can transmit and receive Bitcoin over satellite and radio already. The internet will quickly heal because there will be a financial incentive to provide it - earning bitcoin in exchange for the provision of bandwith.

Also, in regards to coiners becoming kings - it is likely that people with significant bitcoin holdings will keep a low profile, else they put a target on their heads. Extravagant displays of wealth seem unlikely and foolish.

There will be no apocalypse because the replacement for the dollar is being built already and it will simply absorb the fallout when the dollar fails. There will be some havoc caused, but the transition will likely happen in steps, with the 2017 bull run being an example of one such step - where a large influx of new users happens at once, followed by a bear market, followed by another bull run which exceeds the previous one.

You don't have to have a backup plan and you can believe everything that your government and "experts" spoon feed you, that's fine too.
It's not just the programming. You also get hands-on experience with gears, including unintuitive ones like the one-way spirally thing.

I was never taught these kind of things anywhere else.
This was clearly addressed in the comment you originally responded to:

> According to your definition, a concentration camp is an "internment centre for political prisoners and members of national or minority groups who are confined for reasons of state security, exploitation, or punishment.."

> People of certain minority groups aren't being rounded up. Illegal immigrants are being rounded up, regardless of race or nationality.
Companies building 'intelligence' and external-facing security wings have large potential for abuse and need to be very careful.

Just like big private tech companies wading into censorship and politics, you have to have strong values from leadership and a strong internal cultural to prevent any sort of abuse of power. These sorts of things are minefields.

One of the most common forms of abuse is when it's used like some personal weapon against pet enemies - merely because executives or employees don't like certain groups or want to silence them. Which seems to be the case here.

It's a difficult balance, so if it's going to exist at all they need to invest heavily in making sure they are acting ethically at all times. Either bring the clamps down or get rid of it entirely.
Deepfake Fan Engagement
That's not really how it works. You cannot do an equity offering if you believe there is a good chance the value goes to zero. And the "obligations" are merely a starting point in negotiations. A strong starting point, for sure, but not set in stone.
I work in this space, and you've called out the thing that drives me absolutely bonkers. No matter how accurately I can diagnose the state of the equipment, what everybody wants is to know how long until it explodes, so that they can take it down for maintenance ten minutes before that.
First of all, thank you for the detailed response.

I will say that from my own experience (by definition anecdotal) on HN that there seems to be a quick, reflexive downvote for anything mildly critical of the Chinese Communist Party, that then sometimes then gets voted back up, sometimes not.

Since, by the nature of the platform where anything downvoted becomes less visible, comments so downvoted quickly may never even get the chances to be upvoted back to visibility, unless readers go out of their way to look for and correct the issue.

Speculating on why that is, is necessarily low-data in an anonymous setting, but I wish mine had been true, that it was state sponsored. The alternative that HNers are deliberately siding with the Chinese government in relatively large numbers is sad.
So, uh, how do you talk to the C_Os about this and tell them that it's GIGO?

Asking for a friend.
Next big challenge for these folks: Slashdot sues them for stealing their .css file, and Geocities piles on with a snarky amicus brief.
On an iPhone, I don't have much difficulty as double-tapping a column zooms into that column in a readable way.
The UK has implemented Open Banking [1] and PSD2 directive since late 2018.

It allows apps to interconnect and pull data - I can use a single banking app to check balances across all my accounts.

[1] https://www.openbanking.org.uk
He never stated his motivations so it’s impossible to tell what he wants to do. Also neither in the article nor any of the links could I find information regarding the actual size of the land to be leased. 100 acres? 10,000? Who knows
If the company knows stock purchasers are making a bad decision it would be obvious negligence.
I have no idea how these organisations can’t see that their actions turn off vast swathes of those who regard what’s happening in the west as a weaponisation of race in the furtherance of destabilising our (flawed but still the best) civilisations & by doing so, lose the trust of these folk forever.

It saddens me that we collectively rolled over & allowed our software to be politicised, by flagging or cancelling those that see through the narrative & dissented.
It’s not fully supported because you have to click the “share button” and scroll down and click on “add to home screen”?

From iOS 1.0 designers figure out how to design a “Add go home screen” banner in html that would point to the right place.
Walter Mitty-ness too, no doubt. Mayne some of them wanted to be in the CIA as kids?
> the companies that receive Indie.vc funding seem to be much more robust than their peers, especially in a challenging economic climate. On average, they’re growing 100% in the first year, and 300% the second year, says Roberts.

Is this measuring revenue, users, profits, or something else? If it's revenue or users, I would guess that most VC-backed startups grow faster than this. If they're looking at profits, then probably the VCs do worse.

> Plus, the fund’s mortality rate is 10% — compared to about 44% with traditional VC-backed companies.

Are they looking at the same time period? If Indie.vc's portfolio is younger, then they would obviously have fewer deaths than traditional VCs.

Basically, it looks like the author wanted to put down impressive-looking numbers without the context that would make clear if the underlying facts are actually impressive or not.
If true that would be interesting. Is the merger approval signed, sealed and irreversible?
I was mostly referring to the parent comment's suggestion that low level numerical libraries wouldn't benefit from a pure Julia implementation, specifically to the statement that it was still better to write optimized C/FORTRAN and call from Julia. Indeed, MaBLAS, which you linked, is built on top of LoopVectorization.jl.

I don't know how well ArnoldiMethod.jl compares with ARPACK, but if there is a gap my suggestion is simply that these recent developments might help bridge it :)
So you're saying it's not a big deal...
>When my kid does something illegal I'm held liable

This isn't true.
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My way of thinking was about high load servers mostly, where your idea works well for personal computing. In both cases a whole computing system should be designed to allow easy replacement of depleted silicon. Nowadays electronics designed in such a way that maintainance either extremely difficult (for an average consummer) or not possible at all, both technically and legally.
Buy it for yourself and enjoy using it, then they will pay more attention to it, especially when they see it making you happier.
> In free societies, governments should only be able to forcibly compel people not to do things

Well, how about "don't discriminate"?

I am not saying it is the perfect solution, but if you want to refuse a service you can always terminate your commercial venture. I do not necessarily see this a clear cut case of positive/negative right.

Similarly to how the state can compel you to get a driving license to drive. You can just give up on driving.
It's common for equity to maintain some value coming out of bankruptcy.
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