skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Surely an urban legend. I'm expected to believe Mr Hall wrote to Mr Ford (1992 was pre-email, pre-internet, pre-social media) to inform him that he'd found his jacket, but then refused to return it? I mean, who else but Mr Hall himself could have "informed" Ford? And how did the luggage store become aware of any of this, who told them?

In fact, given the improvements in luggage tracking, in recent years, I'd bet "Unclaimed Luggage" is mostly a lie as well. My guess is that a very small percentage of the store's inventory comes from lost airline luggage these days. Most likely, it's stuff left behind at hotels, abandoned storage units, "imperfect" textiles and goods, pawn store inventories, police confiscations, bankruptcy auctions, even lost/overboard shipping containers.
The accuracy of the Bible and its influence on the US is its own can of worms. It was heavily referenced both for and against slavery, and was certainly not convincing enough proof "that God made only one kind of "mankind" and no one set is superior to another.", to prevent genocide and the subjugation of people of color for centuries.

Edit: I see you don't consider the Native American genocide to be actual genocide, so I am going to conclude you're just ignorant of Native American history. It seems you have a very coddled view of American history.
I started writing letters to a friend and former coworker some years ago - and we live in the same city! This while we occasionally would get together for lunch, etc. He then moved elsewhere but we kept it up.

Definitely worth it.

Edit: Should add that for now we've reverted to email to limit the possibility of transmitting COVID-19 ;-)
Yeah, I don't understand this leap from Apple running ARM to Microsoft running ARM. No one can match the performance of Apple's ARM chips. If Microsoft uses ARM, it will be significantly slower than Apple's and Intel's chips, and that doesn't make sense.
This is my own impression. This is what "to me it looks" stands for in my original reply. I do not have to prove it to others.
Cool point in the article:

"Palfi said users don't need to have to have a Charm to use the app, which is free. In addition, she said the company is working on hosting coding competitions where users can try and win a Charm. imagiLabs is also exploring working with companies to sponsor Charms for girls who might not be able to afford them."
>"mankind" has always struck me as unnecessarily exclusive

IIRC, “man” in the sense of “human/person”, from which comes “mankind”, is actually older than “man” in the sense of “adult male human”.

> Why not "people", "humankind", etc?

That's what “mankind” has always meant.
> You're argument tactic is to just dismiss which at minimum is lacking integrity.

Sorry, but your framing of this as "coddling" is itself dismissive. That, combined with complaining about downvotes, might be driving the unpopularity of your comments.
> […] I'm Native Mexican, and I have very strong feelings about my ancestors being enslaved. I was taught these words in the context of colonialism and slavery.

My ancestors were / are from Eastern Europe, i.e., Slavs. The etymology of which is where the word slave actually comes from.

Do I get a say?

* https://www.etymonline.com/word/slave

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery#Terminology
Frankly, blacklist/whitelist is actually less clear than blocklist/allowlist in the most strict and rhetorical language. Similarly, master/slave is actually less clear than alternatives, because it implies single points of failure that technology has already resolved.

I don't actually have an opinion on the language change (I'm not black so how could I have an opinion on if it empowers black people?) but strictly speaking the rationale based on clarity isn't true.
In the gzip case, the reason is that the compressed stream format is inherently sequential: you need to decompress everything before a byte before you can decompress the next byte. So parallizing is not really possible, without changing the format.

Newer compression formats have multiple streams that can be decompressed in parallel, or have blocks that are compressed independently without dependencies (bzip2 can be decompressed in parallel due to independent blocks).
I thought JSTOR wanted not to press charges, but the public prosecutor decided to do so anyway.
I think there's a pretty big psychological difference between harassing a fishing boat and threatening nuclear war.

Canada also harasses US fishing boats, fyi.

https://www.nytimes.com/1989/12/13/us/fishing-boat-dodges-gu...
Japanese ARM Based Supercomputer Fugaku Is Now the Most Powerful
Then with cash it is even easier as it doesn't leave any digital trace.
China Coverup Coronavirus
ANN is the building block of density estimation. If I recall correctly that's the bottleneck for density-based clustering as its various algorithms then take advantage of faster yet algorithms (sort, union-find, spanning-trees..).
While very interesting I am not sure this gentle introduction is the best place to discuss ANN.
What do you do if you want to minimize the effects of an upcoming devastating market crash but still retain the value of your retirement (I.e. not cash out and get penalized)?
Probably the same answer fits: if tabs (or spaces) is a problem for you then set your software environment to convert to your preference and convert back to the established use in the project.

Just use what's customary and get on with your life. If it's hurting you to see it then get therapy, you've lost proper perspective.
Between this and that [0], it popped into my head that we should just go further and invent polymodal. Would specifically refer to the other comment's "only one thing" deep dive.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23808478
I think that's a stretch. I don't think the ancient Canaanites viewed Moloch as evil. Even Milton and Flaubert consider him a god. I think such definitions only make sense within the context of the religion. I could argue that Yaweh is a demon because he is evil (has also asked for child sacrifice among other things), but that is an absurd claim within the religion where by definition he is good and the source of morality.

So by calling Moloch a demon, you are participating in perpetuating a potentially false history of Moloch that is heavily biased and Judeocentric. Sure you can call him an evil pagan god, but to call him a demon requires fitting that into a prior belief system of evil supernatural entities which is inconsistent with the very belief system he came from.
As much as I'd like to see a decentralized solution, I agree with you. I just spent 30 minutes helping my mom (age 60) and brother (36) set up a microsoft family account so they can dictate and monitor my nephews computer usage because [nephews] are addicts.

I didn't even know Microsoft family was a thing, but setting it up and configuring it (from my perspective), was intuitive and simple. My mother and brother however struggled to follow along, an are stressed that they won't be able to manage it.

Most users (even my spouse who is in her late 20's) readily fall into this category. My point is that if configuration requires any troubleshooting it won't reach mass adoption unless it addresses a perceived necessity without an alternative approach.
This is a hit piece against GOOGL to get the price under resistance for Mondays open. The idea is to try to stop the GOOGL break out this week.
This is fantastic. Tried it where I live and the 5km and 10km routes were very similar to where I actually run for those distances, the only major differences being local paths that I know of which are poorly represented in available data.

One improvement I might suggest, it’s not clear if this is being done already, is to not just bias towards greenery, but also boa against main roads. The routes generated for me spent a long time on roads that are quite major, where there are nicer alternatives available.
Most normal people correctly assume that the culture is toxic and move on.
Sorry missed that :)
Is the education of the average person worth it, or anything significant? Considering the average person does not have any significant production capability, a power-law probability distribution average. Not everyone can make things and contribute to society like Elon Musk or else everyone would be named Elon Musk. It's best to just classify only exceptional individuals as more important in large scale public policy. Idealistic socialists would disagree with me but productive reality and politics are not disjoint.
You don't know the entirety of what Mano wrote.
While I don't think C++ belongs in the Linux kernel, Linus rants and diatribes are not something to laud.
How does this compare with Sandboxie?

Are there any reasons to use one over the other?
> I've always thought of myself as an 80 percenter. I like to throw myself passionately into a sport or activity until I reach about an 80 percent proficiency level.

This is a very difficult thing to grasp as a beginner. As a beginner, you have no idea where you are on the scale. You might be an "80-percenter" in React at your company and discover that you know very little when you start applying for senior front-end positions.
I believe they are talking about Wikileaks.
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That's the illusion that got me into C. Reality I found is, where I live at least, C is for legacy code and code that runs in very bad hardware.
That is also known as good marketing.
>this only tells us about the performance of this particular FORTH engine

Yes, exactly. Whatever its other qualities may be, I suspect this particular Forth has overlooked some pretty obvious low hanging fruit, performance-wise. In this[1] post we learn that LOOP puts a 1 on the stack then falls into +LOOP. Although there's elegance (and a memory saving) to that approach, I'm startled that they didn't provide a dedicated definition for LOOP instead. AIUI, implementing LOOP as an instance of +LOOP substantially and needlessly increases the complexity of what gets executed. Yes, I know premature optimization should be viewed with suspicion, but if profiling were performed it's hard to believe LOOP wouldn't be a hot spot! So, I constructively suggest that in this respect at least (and perhaps there are others) this Forth engine could benefit from some tuning up.

[1] http://forum.6502.org/viewtopic.php?p=76849#p76849
Just wait a bit
Ebay's side project Gumtree throws up captchas if you so much as open two links in new tabs, for "moving through the site at superhuman speed".
>All the use cases for digital identity are about enforcement and liability, and there are almost none that anyone would volunteer for.

Everything from a LinkedIn or Facebook account to your personal artist homepage with your CV on it establishes identity. People obviously disclose identity voluntarily, because identity is the primary means by which strangers establish trust.

If your identity is not transparent to me, I won't enter a relationship with you that requries me to know who you are, which in practice is almost every one. I don't see how non-fragmented identity is oppression. It can be for sure, but the primary reason why identity is important in our interactions is because it establishes trust and reputation. I've always considered "non-imposed" identity a sort of oxymoron for that reason, because if full control of identity is left to the individual, identity essentially loses its primary purpose.
Is life Candy Land, or more like Life?
Seems like you could say since the Nazis moved the Jews to ghettos and had plans to move them to "Madagascar" it wasn't genocide either.
Audio engineering uses the term "master" for the source of highest fidelity "copy"ing...
> Is significantly slower than a $400 iPhone SE in single core, and only slightly faster in Multi-core.

Geekbench is super misleading because they do things like include benchmarks which are hardware-accelerated on the CPU in the iPhone but not the Intel ones. The weak little low power CPU in the Air is also hardly the fastest single thread Intel processor, much less multi-core, so I don't know what they're planning to do on the desktop.

> Now imagine next years MacBook Airs running the next generation A14 processors on a 5 nm process instead of 7 nm

But then it's competing with not only whatever Intel manages to come up with in the meantime but also AMD processors on the same 5nm process.

> with far faster integrated GPUs than Intels

But, again, faster than AMD's? Or what Intel will have at the time, given that they're now developing discrete GPUs and will have that in house to improve their iGPUs?

> And using processors that are at least $100 cheaper.

Which Apple has no incentive to give to you instead of putting in their own pocket, especially if what they offer is actually better.

> how much longer their battery life will be

"Much more thermal head room than a phone" and "much longer battery life" don't go together, they're a trade off against one another.

The amount of hype around this is getting to a level that people are going to be very disappointed if it doesn't live up to it.

I'm waiting for some independent third party benchmarks before getting so excited. And not the first ones which were given early access in exchange for favorable skewing.
Well, $white_list and $black_list was easy for me to change to $pass_list and $fail_list. Saves one char and is more explicit about the code intent.

I've never like colour based names anyway too ambiguous.
Comments outnumbering votes is one of the heuristics used to determine if a thread is likely to be toxic rather than promoting good discourse, so that may be what dampened this off the front page.
So it can translate itself?

> Translate the translator (par.sed) with itself:

Yes! Congrats!
… and if you read further in that same thread:

https://mobile.twitter.com/xpasky/status/1272958618124595201

https://mobile.twitter.com/localheinz/status/127330224500268...

Again, I wouldn’t blame anyone for following use which is common in the field. What disappoints me is that some people are so strongly opposed to using more accurate terms when they’re not even being asked to do the small amount of work. Maybe this is innocent, maybe it’s not, we could fix it now and never have to spend time on this conversation again.
Yes, I think Orwellian is why I don't like this trend although I have no problem catering to requests I have no stake in.

Removing uncomfortable and provocative language seems like a mistake but I understand that its my privilege to hold this position. I can't think of a word that makes me uncomfortable enough to ask for its removal.
Homographs and homonyms are traditionally defined by words that share the same spelling (like the example you posted) and/or pronunciation (like the other example in the link immediately following the one you posted), when those words have or can have different meanings, regardless of etymology.

As an aside, I wonder if the semantic satiation from using homographs that have negative connotations for some could have a positive effect overall by diluting the connotations of what someone thinks of when they hear the word "slave", etc.

Of course, any time I make any kind of comment on this I get told that my skin color makes my opinion moot (even though my ancestors were, also, slaves). I switched to primary/replica last year (in projects where I could), but the never ending tide of other arbitrary words to change gets pretty tiring -- and two different bouts of harassment, death threats, and vandalism when I haven't made changes has really put a sour taste in my mouth about the whole thing.
Start small and work your way up and around.

No way to know the optimal path, so don't stress about finding it.
I’m a rails fan because of the sheer speed, so...
Frontend: a lightweight jacket framework such as Stimulus, but if there was going to be a mobile app then React
Styling: Tailwind
Backend: Rails
Storage and some processing: Amazon S3 and Lambda depending on the jobs
The music we listen to in our teens and 20s does stay with us for life
Super helpful. Thank you for this thoughtful answer and I'll check out the YouTube recommendation. Cheers!
I don't believe it's virtue signaling and I do believe it substantially helps. Does it solve everything in one step? No. Does it show that the window of acceptability is shifting? Yes.
That would all be perfectly fine reasons to rename the thing, on a case by case basis, if the community of developers working on the given project feel the name is too ambiguous and leads to confusion. That's really up to them to decide that.

Having a general ban on the term because of some social pressure to apply "inclusive terminology" is an entirely different issue.
The "master" in git refers to "master" copy, not the master/slave relationship. There aren't any "slave" branches in git.
If you're looking for something a bit more minimal, check out Pristine: http://pristine.js.org/
When Carl Sagan Warned the World About Nuclear Winter (2017)
It's difficult to determine whether it is arbitrary (in the legal sense) because the Chinese government does not communicate on these issues and the Canadian government will obviously not want to spill any beans.

What is plain to me is that a Canadian guy who can live in China at the border with North Korea, can run a business there, and personally knows Kim Jung Un is not just any "entrepreneur"...

Likewise we cannot know exactly what "diplomat" means for someone stationed abroad (including Afghanistan, and Beijing).

I'm not defending the Chinese government but these 2 guys were clearly not arbitrarily picked, it's a little disingenuous to claim that they were.
I regularly shopped at UBC in person pre-pandemic. Prices for electronics are decided by a group called "Operations" that presumably operates out of an adjacent building. Unmarked items are either withheld from sale for the day, matched to a similar item on shelves, or checked on the spot with a VoIP call to Operations or by a manager, usually by searching eBay. I think the online store was created in response to the pandemic.

The amount of care taken to price each item depends on whether it can be identified by brand or model. Items without either usually fall into a generic category based on the shape, weight, and ports.

It could be considered "worth it" to dig through every shelf, bin, and table in Electronics for some seriously capable but nondescript tech if there wasn't a pandemic on. The online selection is limited to popular, identifiable items at high prices.
Im sure some fake resume from Indian owned sweatshops will have an H-1B visa holder with the non-existent 12 years kubernetes experience. Isn't it how they operate for any position anyways ? Good grief IBM...
Making a front end library/framework/toolkit without screenshots and example code should be made punishable by law.
>And should calculus even be treated independently of classical mechanics?

Thank you. The value of calculus didn't really click for me until the next year in physics, at which point I wished I had paid more attention.

It's really unfortunate that you first have to drill high-speed high-precision symbol manipulation, devoid of any meaning, for so long before getting any indication of why you'd want to be able to do it.

I like Lockhart's analogy: mastering musical notation, transposition, etc. before being allowed to play your first note.

https://www.maa.org/external_archive/devlin/LockhartsLament....
"For I have sworn thee fair and thought thee bright,
Who art as African-American as hell, as dark as night."

— Ol' Billy Shakespeare, apparently.
"There are tons of sandboxing applications for Linux."

Which of them are widely used, as easy to use and as feature rich as Sandboxie, and are well maintained?
Today‘s Martian and Vesuvian surfaces are hostile to life as we know it.
There may be life below the surface. It‘s a lot harder to spot, especially if it is small.
You're kidding yourself if you think that pushing forward on this stuff won't label you as problematic just because you happen to be white. You're just going to be the "angry white dude" instead of the "angry black lady".
Aren't alectron, Edge, Brave, and Chrome all based on Chromium? Electron is a little behind Edge and Chrome.

So connecting Electron with Chrome seems incorrect as it should be Chromium instead. Edge definitely seems slower than Chrome as I use both side by side.

The best thing for battery and performance is to run something like PiHole. The internet never feels as crispe as when blocking all the cruft!
Arctic Sea Ice Extent: Lowest on Record
> Is it simply a disconnect between the hiring process and these sorts of skillsets that is causing this issue, or something else?

I feel like it's a practicality. I like doing front-end and I can hack together pretty much anything you can design in Photoshop (did some side jobs to test exactly this hypothesis), but my company would rather pay for a specialist in front-end to provide higher quality output, and have me do my expertise where I also provide more overall value.

Generalists are great if the company cannot afford more people (startups, typically, love generalists), or if there's a time pressure and there are no other resources.

Generalists are also great in some specific positions, like consultants, possibly (solution) architects, and one-man freelancers for small projects. Not so much for permanent positions at your Fortune 500 companies.
HCrystalBall – a unified interface to time-series forecasting in Python
HeidelbergCement's first open-source package is now ready for the wider usage. Read the full blog post to learn more!
The U.S. (1865) and Britain (1833) abolished slavery before China did.

> Slavery in China has taken various forms throughout history. Slavery was abolished as a legally recognized institution, including in a 1909 law fully enacted in 1910, although the practice continued until at least 1949. Illegal acts of forced labor and sexual slavery in China continue to occur in the twenty-first century, but those found guilty of such crimes are punished harshly.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_China
Speaking of TXR, and of "holding on weakly", as a result of this discussion, I made a little change.

A remark was made somewhere that interned symbols are held with a non-weak reference. But it occurred to me that this isn't something engraved in stone. A package should be able to hold on to its interned symbols via weak references. This means that if the only reference to a symbol is from within a weak package, that symbol can be removed from the package and relclaimed by the garbage collector.

Since a package uses hash tables, and hash tables support weak keys, it's trivial to put the two together. I added an argument to make-package to specify a weak package.

In the following test, the symbols interned into package foo get reclaimed because it is weak. Those interned into bar don't get reclaimed:

(defun weak-package-test (name weak)
(let ((wp (make-package name weak)))
(let ((*package* wp))
(let ((obj (read "(a b c d e f)")))
(mapcar (op finalize @1 prinl) obj)))))

(weak-package-test "foo" t)
(sys:gc t)

(weak-package-test "bar" nil)
(sys:gc t)

$ ./txr weak-package.tl
foo:a
foo:b
foo:c
foo:d
foo:e
foo:f

I'm committing to this as a documented feature.
Linux-Fu: GNU Parallel
White men are not discriminated against in tech.

Terminology matters. Slavery was only a couple generations ago. The people marching in the street and the comments in this thread make it quite clear we still have a long way to go. This is a small step along that path in the right direction.