skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You clearly haven't worked out how many shillings there are to a pound, or to a crown for that matter, from M. Pratchett's explanation.

The whole foundation of this "10 isn't divisible by 3" and "it only has prime factors 2 and 5" argument is fundamentally flawed, undermined by the fact that (as the headlined article quite clearly pointed out) several old units used vigesimal, which also is only evenly divisible by two prime factors: 2 and 5.

Indeed, reading the headlined article reveals the important point that there are eight furlongs to a mile, which is only evenly divisible by one prime factor, putting the lie even more to the "it's because they're also divisible by 3" arguments. There's a multiple of 4 in the headlined article. And other units elsewhere were subdivided into 16ths.

Some were sometimes subdivided into 14ths, for reasons that this article touches upon but doesn't actually go into in enough depth: namely that standards in different places were so out of synch in Mediaeval Europe that multiplying by 16 in one town sometimes gave the same length/weight/whatever as multiplying by 14 in another town, and people formalized that to try to make things work.

The idea that the pre-cursors to the metric system were some wonderfully Babylonian system composed purely of 12s and 60s is nonsense.
this is also the reason why it took until the industrial revolution for a wider used system to develop. Even before metric became standard, a lot of local measurements existed inside countries.
mass manufacturing required a system which would work outside the local sphere.
Full Tilt Poker didn't operate like a bank from what you described as they "had slowly siphoned off almost all player funds over the course of multiple years, leaving only a small fraction in reserve".

In this case they were like a _Ponzi Scheme_ and not like a fractional reserve bank as they had _no assets_ to redeem the claims of their depositors with.

Pokerstars (from what you've described) was operating in a manner similar to a fractional reserve bank.
Personally I think that the quality started increasing between the first few releases (i.e. tiger better than panther, or at least definitely better than jaguar), but it then started decreasing at some point. I would not be able to say which release was at the "peak".
No, you need statistical independence of the measurement choice to the measured quantity. In superdeterminism, this is not possible.
On the other hand, "moda" is the correct translation, and the function "resto" gives you... "il resto della divisione" (the remainder).

It's probably just a matter of being used to it, because nobody would complain that mean(array) is about the moral qualities of the array (seeing mean as an adj.)
Interestingly, even in English it was common to say things like "five-and-twenty"; it's considered archaic now.
Base-2, like the US Customary volumes, has all the same scaling-made-easy properties, is strictly easier to work with as a maker (dividing/multiplying by two is waaay easier than 10, for, e.g., cutting wood), and plays nicely with computers. This makes it strictly superior on all of your metrics to the SI system.

I suspect you want the US to switch to metric because it’s what you use, not because it’s actually better.
> "by default" ... In Italian it is translated (correctly) "per difetto"

No way: the correct translation of "by default" is "valore predefinito", anyone who translates it "per difetto" has serious issues with Italian language.
He's now posted a follow-up analysis of LinkedIn Job postings: https://twitter.com/fchollet/status/1300417952211034112?s=20
Car registered in NC, while living in Texas, is sufficiently suspicious, a smuggler won't bother to change license plate.
Yes, obviously there's an ethical difference between a scientist experimenting in his basement with a new WMD and one experimenting with new body armor.
Emacs also has prettify-symbols-mode, which by default replaces lambda with λ, but can do a lot more - it can make Python look like this! http://www.modernemacs.com/img/spacemacs/python-code.png
Correct, but the effect would be too small to measure like that (human performance at tests is noisy).

If you made the difference in gravity more extreme the difference in measurement would be trivial to notice, but we don't have a way to achieve that in practice.
Except Google's approach doesn't seem to serve the needs of any user.

Even search quality has degraded notably in the past 5 years, mainly because of the automated smartness that more hinders than helps.

I used to get answers to my problems, now i have to wade through piles of manure that is only vaguely related to what i'm searching. And they're even overhelpful. I had to plan trips with Bing maps because Google helpfully routed me around a road closed in winter. Except it was winter but I was planning a summer trip...
In general this is a half decent way of explaining how fractional reserve banking is presented in econ 101 text books. This is very different to how commercial banks operate in the real world. Reading the piece however is a reasonable exercise for people to understand how a bank may not retain the same amount of liquidity as their deposits may demand.
Which does make the fingerprint a lot more valuable if used in other contexts. This is why Google is so scary; they have biometric fingerprint data on everyone, account(s) or not, just through mouse/scroll patterns and cadence.

Ideally we need to find the JavaScript making the motion API request and try determining what it might be used for.
ELI5?

I get that a browsing history C is unique, but if I clear it, how can you identify that my new history D is tied to C and not unique?
Yep, I've also noticed a lot of really weird stuff from sketchy sources embedded in the answers panel.

We forgot that the reason search engines were effectively exempt from libel/copyright etc. is because were just describing the web, they published the map but the content was on all the individual websites.

It's a lot harder to argue that model still applies when you've got algorithms building out these micro-articles from increasingly disparate pieces. Somewhere here there's a line between a preview of a link and republication.
Timeseries db is one thing that comes to mind.
Oh I don't doubt it, I'm not saying it's some weird or wonderful exclusively American thing, I'm just too young to be aware of it from anywhere else, and suggesting that it or similar (tenths, hundredths) would be an improvement on 2^x denominated fractions even in applications that don't need such accuracy.

Put another way, I think if everyone (not just precision applications) used decimalised inches, it would just be a different scale and ~nobody would care to say 'omg why don't you use metric'.
You reach a door, you twist the handle, a window at the other end of the room opens.

Not sure how to explain it better.
> it's not that government says it is, it's the societal consensus that it's worth it.

Disagree. The government only accepts their preferred currency for payment of taxes. This is, in my opinion, its initial source of value. Secondly, they may literally stop you from using an alternative currency if they can't figure out how to tax it.
I'm with you. I looked at that modal for a second or two and just decided not to read the article
There are so many issues at play. However managers is a very narrow and should be expressed as Management. This goes all the way to the top and involves compromises as even a CEO/President is not going to be absolute in authority to declare one way or another. You don't get to that level without compromise.

The fear many have is they already know they have problem people and that the option to work from home will not fix this problem and instead possibly make it worse. This means the lack of action on management's part beforehand is going to brought to the forefront, unless of course they want to continue to kick the can down the road and ignore people they should have dealt with already.

Plus my favorite, for those renting space it comes down to how prestigious the address is. Quite a few in management derive a lot of status from where they work. Then throw in the companies that own their sites, that investment is hard to part with and many have dolled up their interiors to impress both visitors but also employees.

Then comes the majority of people who have jobs which will never work from home. It would be interesting to run the numbers to see how many jobs in a country could even be done remotely.
German language is much more similar to English language than Italian language
I am appalled.

" "by default". In Italian it is translated (correctly) "per difetto" "

Correctly? Not at all!

Please don't take as given Google Translate's translations.
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Nice! Which company?
Celsius works better with one of the base materials in the world - water. At sea level 0 degrees water freezes and at 100 degrees it boils. For the same reason Celsius works better with metric system. "What feels cold" is not a good base point, because people are different and that feeling also depends on humidity and wind.
Metric works in the US where it was practical and was cheap to switch out to use it. In many instances it does not really mater. In some instances it is historical (such as property and distance).

Metric is also a historical thing. The US basically came along and mandated it for most other countries that had recently been destroyed in WW2. It was a good time to 'reset' and get things changed over. The US planned on doing it too but found other uses for the money allocated to do it.

This sort of argument is the same as with CO2 emissions. When it is cheaper to switch over the US will do it. You will have to justify switching out billions of dollars worth of signage, inconveniencing millions of people to do it, millions of man hours to switch out docs and change one number from something to another, other than some notion of 'its better'. It can be done however, this is not a cheap thing people are asking for.
> At that point, has anyone else at your company read the candidate's CV and cover letter? Sounds stupid, but you would not believe how many people ask about specific topics ("So have you worked with a relational database before?")

My understanding is that this situation happens as a test to see that you were the one that wrote your resume.
Did you even read my comment or click on the source I cited? Nuclear energy is the safest form of energy we have.

Hiroshima and Nagasaki had nuclear weapons dropped on them. I'm talking about power plants. The same material can be used in two very different ways to achieve two very different results.
> in Belgium, parties have to pander to the French or the Dutch voters

Well it's a bit different, as people in Wallonia can only vote for francophone parties and people in Flanders only for Flemish parties. Only Brussels gets both. So in effect, parties don't really have to choose whether to pander to the French-speaking or Dutch-speaking voters.

Which is even worse IMO, because how can you form a functioning federal government from parties that are each elected only by half of the country? Well you can't, as the current situation shows.
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I worry more that the people who are politically or economically invested in the vaccine's success will hide facts and/or lie about it's effectiveness. It is a common thing to worry about, however I feel there is a much greater chance of happening now, with certain leadership and their addled fans.
Why not? I would have thought it was a buyer’s market now with all the layoffs.
this is common in dutch aswell, especially when talking about one's length. "Een meter tachtig" (one meter eighty)
Such as in the nursery rhyme you've now put in my head!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sing_a_Song_of_Sixpence
In practice that's really not a problem because of rust's great pattern matching that easily lets you extract even deeply nested values.
He was a Salzburger, which was an independent princedom back then.
Rewriting existing code in a new shiny language just to keep employees happy is a pretty stupid thing, sure. But when you're just solving problems and maintaining old software, there's a lot to be gained from thoughtful, measured inclusion of new tech, transition to new libraries and such. This is technical investment in the company's future: improving developer's velocity and code's performance, reduce bug rate and overall quality of the software.

At least in my personal experience: moving from SVN to git, moving development from C++ to JS (and company was making simple mobile games that are never CPU-bound) and then gradually adopting Typescript, migrating a commercial application from MSSQL to Postgres (saving a significant amount of $$ in license while actually improving performance), and many, many smaller refactorings, improvements and new shiny libraries — all resulted in direct positive consequences for the business.

If the company never adopts any new tech ever, it's a sign that it's lost its way.
Isn't it the same pattern every 10 years or so for "AI" related tech ? Some people hype tech X as being a game changer - tech X is way less amazing than advertised - investors bail out - tech X dies - rinse and repeat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter
The poster explicitly states he does not think this is indicative of AI winter.
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Even the border agents at the bridge at Niagara Falls are rude, unfriendly, and unprofessional. Their counterparts on the Canadian side were always friendly and professional.
It's a lightish medium grey for me--probably one one of those greys that can look too light or just fine depending on display gamma and ambient lighting.
squiggleblaz was criticizing the use of the word "literal".
I observe the state of the art on most Nlp tasks since many years:
In 2018,2019 there was huge progress made each year on most tasks.
2020,except for a few tasks have mostly stagnated...
NLP accuracy is generally not production ready but the pace of progress was quick enough to have huge hopes.
The root cause of the evil is:
Nobody has build upon the state of the art pre trained language: XLnet while there are hundreds of declinaisons of BERTs. Just because of Google being behind it, if XLnet was owned by Google 2020 would have been different.
I also believe that pre trained language have reached a plateau and we need new original ideas such as bringing variational autoencoder to Nlp and using metaoptimizers such as Ranger.

The most pathetic one is that:
Many major Nlp tasks have old SOTA in BERT just because nobody cared of using (not improving) XLnet on them which is absolute shame, I mean on many major tasks we could trivially win many percents of accuracy but nobody qualified bothered to do it,where goes the money then? To many NIH papers I guess.

There's also not enough synergies, there are many interesting ideas that just needs to be combined and I think there's not enough funding for that, it's not exciting enough...

I pray for 2021 to be a better year for AI, otherwise it will show evidence for a new AI progress winter
Source code released to unify datasets for visual localization and SfM
Power users are likely to be annoyed when middle clicking your link opens a new worthless tab instead of doing what they wanted to do.

Less knowledgeable users already have a hard enough time distinguishing what is clickable and what causes navigation, swapping functionality around on them is not kind. Styling can overcome this one to be fair.

And of course as the article states, using the wrong thing makes it harder for screen readers and other such technologies to help users use your page.

If that's not enough to convince you, I offer you a challenge. Use a screen reader for a week to get a feel for how to use it. Then use nothing but a screen reader for a week, no looking at your screen at all for even a moment.

If you get through that without being frustrated by decisions exactly like these, I'll take you much more seriously.
I see several comments questioning the choice of Manjaro on PinePhone, but as the name suggests it's Community Edition after all; Those who want Manjaro on smartphone, now have a device to develop for.

I think, the way Pine64 is pushing these CE devices is smart and definitely a positive step for overall pure Linux smartphone ecosystem. But, I'm also hearing great things about Mobian[1] on PinePhone and AFAIK it's being largely developed by an individual. I would like Pine64 to come up with a way to support these talented individual developers as well, besides supporting large well-established communities.

[1]https://mobian-project.org/
> I don't want 12 eggs, can you sell me one? Easy when I've 240d to divide into, not so easy with 100 pence)

So old money would have been briefly useful in the early 1990s, over 20 years after it was phased out? Because that's when a dozen eggs cost 1 pound.

In 1970, a dozen eggs cost 3s.4d. Quick, how much is one egg? (for comparison, I see Tesco have 10 eggs for £2.20. How much is one egg?
It's not equal to C, as such.

It's a unit vector, and physicists working with relativity habitually set C=1 to make the equations simpler. That being said, it isn't really a vector -- it's just a direction. The "equal to C" bit is a mathematical artifact of both vectors being normalized.
But that's exactly the point--historically, you wouldn't cut 3.93701 inches. You don't have the precision to do it nor do you have any real reason not to stick with "round" numbers or close enough. Rough carpentry (e.g., framing a house) is often only accurate to a 1/2" or so; very fine furniture might go down to a 1/32rd.

Note that machinists, who do want that sort of precision and can achieve it, mostly work in metric or metric-lite ('mils'=1/1000s of an inch).
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> I agree that a better template would be great...

Is there a serious effort on this front? At the very least a mobile version of Electron[1] applications would be a great interim step: you just need a browser for the UI and performance-critical bits can be written in C/C++ for accuracy and speed. Ultimately a modular UI paradigm can replace the dependence on a browser but that is likely years down the road.

[1] Cordova used to be the model; Ionic's Capacitor project is far more advanced but targeting iOS and Android specifically.
When you need to defend, it's too late.

If you're at a point where you need to take specific action in defense of a drone, you are already have crossed the rubicon where you are in conflict, and the outcome of that action may include harm to others. Any other constraints around the application of violence is wishful thinking at best -- there are too many variables in these scenarios.

The obvious solution that will happen is heavier licensure requirements and criminalization of unlicensed operation. You'll have toys and professional devices, and there will be a presumption that a drone is bad unless proven otherwise.
These guys wrote the most popular Ruby on Rails multitenant gem and eventually moved away from it:

https://influitive.io/our-multi-tenancy-journey-with-postgre...

Some things were mistakes but others look like pretty fundamental flaws. Performance is a problem, database changes are a problem, and you aren't able to query across tenants.
Luckily for Google, Genius doesn't "own" any lyrics.
Or put another way, it's not a vector. It's just a direction.
This reminds me of two things:

1. The Save The Cat! books by Blake Snyder. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blake_Snyder#Save_the_Cat!

2. TV Tropes (warning: TV Tropes) https://tvtropes.org/
> If you have an argument why these IOUs should not be considered money, I would love to hear it. Otherwise, let’s conclude that non-bank corporations can sometimes create money out of thin air.

It comes down to the definition of money. Yes non-financial intermediaries are very similar to banks and "create money" but money is defined as the amounts on bank's balance sheets so by definition non-financial intermediaries cannot create "money", but they are doing something very similar.

Also Nonintermediated debt is probably a better example. If you own a CD from a AAA corporate its effectively money but technically isn't.
> The government only accepts their preferred currency for payment of taxes.

By "transactions" I also meant tax collection, yes.

> Secondly, they may literally stop you from using an alternative currency if they can't figure out how to tax it.

Usually, at the point where society as a whole loses confidence in government-issued currency, it no longer has resources to stop you from using alternative currencies.
Had the same issue. Fixed once I uninstalled VirtualBox and the KEXT extention. Vbox was no longer needed because I switched to Docker.
They are comparing getting rid of spam to getting rid of useless pinterest results in their search. That is a pretty obvious comparison.

So, no. They are comparing "getting rid of" and "getting rid of".
I'm not talking about content quality!

When I find an image on Google search and I want to go to the source site, I want to see that exact image there.

Not scummy paywalled "I show Google something else than you" images.

Plus it's pretty obvious that in many cases they scraped the original, which then they outrank in SEO.
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I think if we first understand what 'time' and 'space' really are than rest becomes easy to understand.

To me time is the rate at which things change or its just a measure of change. Everything is changing state, electrons are moving, bodies are moving from one point to another and also the clock moves the same way.

The diagrams that explain gravity show 'space' as a 2d plane with planets weighing it down making other small objects come toward it. That's a misleading representation I think in a sense that it depends on weight/gravity. I understand space as a sponge. Heavy objects with huge mass are like a squeezed lump in that sponge effecting space around it. Larger the mass, more it squeezes, more it effects what's around it.

When an object moves through space, it effects time as well i.e. rate at which change happens within that object. At very fast speeds, speed of light, it's already moving through space changing space, change within that object is reduced to nothing making time move slow for it.

That all I think it is.
> I’d have to give up my editor, my SCM, my code review practises, my deployment strategies, my whole way of working

This is bad? Everything (besides maybe reviews) is horribly broken for most (modern) dev, so not sure it's a negative to just nuke it from orbit.
As mentioned in the article it can make all kind of tool and normal browser interactions misbehave.

I'm frequently annoyed by it, too. But it had gotten much better.
I had to enable the "AdGuard Annoyances" filter, with "Fanboy annoyances" it was still showing up.
Germany is a bit more complex, because historically speaking, there has been cultural separation.

In my experience:

- middle aged people speak an ok english
- elderly speak a poor or no english
- young people speak a very good one

Something also worth considering is, as I've previously mentioned, the exposure to international traffic. In big German cities, there are a lot of foreigners; much less in Italy.

Finally, it's correct, as mentioned in a sibling post, that German has (some) roots in the English language.

Regarding Italians I've hardly met people who actively refuse (in the sense of "dislike") the language per se, but I can't exclude the option you've mentioned of "cultural laziness".

There's a cliche of the French culture being proud of their language, so I can imagine a sort of active refusal in this case.
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