skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your characterisation of what a dictionary does is misleading. Dictionaries in languages like English are a combination of prescriptive and descriptive. Change happens because humans are complex and evolving and language must evolve alongside. There remains a core of the language that is prescriptive.

That does not mean that people are free to redefine words as they choose and change their meanings entirely. That is how you get a dialect and then a different language.

With emoji, there is no shared understanding precisely because there are simply too many, often with no meaning and when meaning does exist, it is either vague or dependent on culture. This is absolutely not the case with written language.
One complaint, from an irrationally upset person, can and should be ignored. It's way past time to stop giving power to the vocal minority.
I've seen this type of argumentation around go and it boggles my mind every time. Saying "we are not sure if we'll need a version of this function that accepts an override to the type's default comparison" only makes sense if you've never used a programming language other than go. Or the function sort.Slice for that matter.
Yes. The author contacted the actual Louisiana attorney general with whom Abagnale claimed to have worked. The AG said Abagnale never worked there. The author also dug up the records of the bad checks Abagnale wrote against the airlines. He was a clever forger, and the airlines went after him, but the total bad checks came to only around $1200. And Abagnale was busted by a small town cop after passing one of those checks. The FBI didn't even have him on their radar.

All his exploits were small-time cons, and he often got caught. The author does a really good job of documenting all this with primary sources (arrest and prison records, etc.), secondary sources (news articles from the 1970s) and with interviews with people who were actually with Abagnale during some of the supposed exploits in the 60s and 70s.

Overall, it's good, thorough journalism. I wrote a brief review at https://adiamond.me/2021/03/the-greatest-hoax-on-earth-alan-..., but the WHYY review is more thorough.

And, BTW, I loved the movie. As author Logan points out, one reason con men can con is because people would much rather believe an exciting romantic story than a mundane and disappointing one.
For Switzerland that position may be tenable, but not for Taiwan. I fear that there could be a war within the lifetime of my potential future children, and I want nothing to do with it.

Many other students in the Engineering department of Lancaster University, where I studied, went to work for BAE Systems, a defence contractor and major local employer. I joined protest marches against them. I'm still involved in activism, most recently last Saturday in a solidarity march for Myanmar.

Military service does more than just train violence, it also takes away peoples' youth (which could be spent in Erasmus or Working Holiday), causes relationships to become long-distance and often break up, and creates a sense of national pride (which is contrary to the international views of the EU and UN that I support). The violence may also not be directed towards others: there is a very high suicide rate within the military. I can say that if I'm ordered to shoot someone else, I'd rather shoot myself.

I suggest you read this poem, 5 Ways To Kill A Man - Edwin Brock, and consider how the distance between a murderer and the victim becomes larger through weapons technology, the more devastating the results can be. Supporting the military through R&D is not an acceptable alternative.

https://poetryarchive.org/poem/five-ways-kill-man/

Alternative service for conscientious objectors is sometimes available, but many of the issues above also apply to the police service, and I may not have the freedom to choose ambulance/fire service instead. I'd rather run away than fight, so I've chosen to run to the ends of the earth in NZ.
Does this use PEP 523?
The Scout Mindset, by Galef
> We can't even spot China from putting ppl in concentration camps how are we going to regulate their rocket program.

We can, we’re just not going to do anything about it because decades of outsourcing American (and others) industry to China has made us a bit dependent on keeping them happy.

Edit: tell me where I’m wrong folks...
How does "the universe" "learn" anything?
If it were only about the desire to bone, then “just visit your local prostitute” would be the accepted obvious solution. The need for stable companionship is not as easily solved. Luckily, it is not tied to sexual attraction, like the drive to bone.

Close platonic friendships that outlast romances are more healthy than requiring each new girlfriend to be your primary means of emotional support. The lack of social interactions outside of work and wife is also a cause of codependent burnout: it’s unreasonable to expect that the same person is good in bed, a loving mother to your children, primary full-time emotional support, and a chef.
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I agree. I don't think marketers are trustworthy: their sole purpose is to "hack" my mind in order to buy stuff, so sure it's a job someone has to do but if I can avoid marketers to get more data from me, I'm in.
Yes, I do the same. Almost all my searches are restricted to specific sites. Still, Google is the best at searching specific sites, usually much better than the site-specific search functions.

It certainly has gotten worse, ever since they started thinking it's a good idea to let AI "guess what you want." But such a widely used product doesn't die quickly...
The App Store: how it delivers your apps
I'm appalled by the lack of the RSS feed. I am sure the greatest POTUS of all time should be able to do better.
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Agreed. I was more riffing off the comment I was responding to as far as what a bad company would be.
Our computer guy was pretty cool, he set up Starcraft LAN parties during recess. However he also used passwords like Spring1998, so everyone could get year-round admin rights if they knew his pattern.
The definition wasn't invented by Nazi Germany, what are you talking about?
In that response, Irving is weak-manning Langewiesche's article, by attacking only the weakest, most speculative parts. As Argonaut says, it is mostly concerned with the point that Langewiesche is speculating about the captain's state of mind and motives. Irving makes no attempt to explain the inconvenient fact that someone activated the Inmarsat system and turned the airplane south an hour after it could have landed at Kota Bharu or Penang.

In addition, Irving has no qualms over speculating when it seems to suit his purpose. He claims that the rational choice for someone wanting to disappear would be to head east, ignoring the fact that one has to go further in that direction to reach the open ocean while avoiding radar.

Irving concludes by making an issue of the fact that the section of flap that washed up in Tanzania was not deployed at the time of impact, which is an utter non-sequitur.

The thing is that once you have compelling technical evidence that the disappearance was not accidental, it is reasonable to speculate about motives, and the weakness of those speculations does not weaken the independent case that it was no accident.
There's probably not a single new car that doesn't come with at least one microphone in the cabin. You need at least one for Bluetooth handsfree and for voice commands.
The Simpsons is not the authority on the meaning of yellow skin for generically representing human body parts. It’s a tv show. The iconic happy face symbol is not intended to specifically be a white person. Pac man is not a white person.
It’s definitely true that there’s stuff a JIT would love to know that the type system can’t tell you. But that doesn’t mean there isn’t useful information available in type annotations. In particular it is possible to speed up attribute access and method/function calls a lot when target types are statically known.

Our approach to “int fits in a machine word” in Static Python is to require machine ints to be explicitly annotated as such, and then you opt in to limited size ints with overflow etc, in exchange for getting really fast arithmetic.
The Art of Writing Loops in Python – By Yang Zhou – TechToFreedom – May, 2021
I own a Sony WH-1000XM3, and although I primarily use it for music listening and noise cancelling I use it for all of my video calls.

I've looked at a few reviews that are so-so on the microphone, but on the occasion that I ask people they say I sound fine.

I recommend checking out Reddit's /audiophile subreddit if you want to get more intel: https://old.reddit.com/r/audiophile/

Review: https://www.soundguys.com/sony-wh-1000xm3-wireless-bluetooth...
If using a white-skinned emoji gets you special treatment the yellow, brown, or black-skinned emoji does not, I think that's worth being concerned about.

Until that happens, there are probably bigger fish to fry.
>"inspired by a true story" or "based on a true story" movies already deviate pretty severely from history in many cases.

The only twist in this case may be that it's the conman making everything up rather than the movie producer / writer / director. "Based on a true story" almost always means, "totally made up, but doesn't contain any scifi or magic, unless it's about an exorcism."
Ya know at 20 theirs's a ton of very bad mistakes one can make.

Something that can be resolved via getting in contact with AWS isn't one of them. I've gotten charges refunded before.
Oversight Board upholds Trump’s suspension, finds FB failed to impose penalty
Those Pesky Pull Request Reviews
By following the basics of ISO27K1, for example:

Good infosec teams keep inventory of all the software used in the org. If they see that the org already pays a vendor for software doing X, a question should be raised, why we need another one for doing the same thing.

Also, each new vendor or software provider needs go get a "security clearance", after the infosec teams checks their state of security.

These kinds of practices would probably discover the shady intents.
>1.

The issue is that low performers are often only such because of external factors (low income, food insecure, other factors like that), and not due to actual ability. If we focus exclusively on high performers in the low grade, we will only create a WIDE and absolutely inhumane division among the have's and the have not's (more so than what exists).

>2.It sounds like the idea is really to extort high performers into doing unpaid labor to educate their lower-performing peers,

No. You're 100% wrong in your assessment. One of the best ways to learn to do something really well is to teach someone else how to do it. This applies to everything. Letting high performers take a leadership role teaches them not just the core competencies, but also those 'soft skills' that are so often left out of advanced curriculum, but are vitally important to success.

Also, just to nitpick, adding [that] via edit to my quote is unnecessary to the sentence. That word isn't at all needed for context, clarity, or proper sentence formation. Not sure why you did that.
Some people believe humans have an amount of free will (which by definition is supernatural as you allude to).

Others believe humans have as much free will as a rock rolling down the side of a mountain.

It’s either an act of faith as to which you believe (if humans have free will) or a random event (if humans don’t and the laws of the universe are set up to appear to contemplate this in some clouds of atoms).

Since these are axioms, it’s impossible to prove one way or the other.
The State of Data Engineering in 2021
Since we have all these combining colored graphic characters when can we get a combining character to change the background/foreground color?

What about a table of sixel pseudo graphic characters?
Would virtual memory still be necessary on a capability machine architecture [0] ? My understanding is that would not be the case since all programs can only access memory that's been allocated to it. By definition, capabilities cannot be created out of thin air like pointers can be ?

[0]: https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/security/ctsrd/cheri/
That's OK because I assume that's the case for all movies "based on a true story". Take any biopic you want, it's mostly a bunch of mythology sprinkled with meme references about the person, if any.

Say this was especially egregious in the Steve Jobs biopic, which had almost nothing to do with reality, except being a "best hits" of various memes spread about the man throughout the years, combined with copious amount of Sorkinisms.
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I like it, but I'm afraid companies would just change the way it is currently done: from query parameters to encoded urls. Example:

Before

https://example.com/item/4000336900709?spm=a2g01.126...

After:

https://example.com/item/4000336900709000044323234

Now the tracking parameters are all encoded in the last segment of the url. The backend just has to decode it accordingly and it will have both the item id and the bag of tracking parameters.
I think the CEO is always in meeting with politicians, billionaires and use the charity activities to influence the local politician and war lords to gain access to mines, etc.
Lots of cars now have microphones in them for voice commands and so on, and not just luxury vehicles. Is that what you were asking?
And it's on the left. I kind of like it.
Revel's big talk of reinventing ridehail may run into a brick wall
Many associate C++ uptake to Microsoft, however they completely miss the point that C++ is a platform language.

It was developed on the same building as UNIX (so to speak), as C pre-processor with no additional requirements on C's toolchain.

That made it quickly available across all UNIX platforms and respective toolchains.

Then it followed C as younger brother alternative in any C toolchain that mattered.

A few UNIX vendors, e.g. Sun, did offer Ada compilers, but it was naturally an additional software package to buy, and not everything was available, thus additional hurdles to write FFI bindings.

Not bundling a language with a platform is always an issue with system programming languages.
True, but between actually seeing the first news and figuring out: "Oh my God, this is going to be a global pandemic!", it took me a while. I think most people were in the same boat.
Fargo is accurate. They said so.
It used to be incredibly slow but these days I find it's not so bad. It even has parallel pip installs now which while occasionally triggering some issues in projects with over complicated setup.pys is usually a lot faster than a good old pip install -r requirements.txt.
Excellent explanation I guess the short term effects of producing these proteins is pretty small, that’s good to know.
I've travelled London-Glasgow quite a few times over the years since the 90's and I've noticed that the timetable has got gradually slower and slower recently and now it's no faster than the 40 year old trains they replaced in the late 90's. The fastest time went from 5:00 down to about 4:20 when the pendolions were first allowed to go at full speed. But now there seem to be only about 2-3 trains a day that do it in less than 5hrs. TBH, if it's going to take 5hrs+ they might as well have stuck with the old style trains as they had more comfortable seats with better legroom.
It's already visible on the "send" button IIRC. I think it's blue when it's secured, grey otherwise
Ask HN: Anyone want to build an open source model deployment tool
Hi everyone,

Just wanted to reach out to anyone in the community who is interested in working on a project to develop a framework for deploying DL/ML models.

It would lean on no code/low code principles to abstract away the infrastructure and any code that comes with that and just give data scientists and engineers a minimal API and UI for managing model deployments and model pipelines.

I set up a simple landing page https://densebase.com to get the idea out. It’s a rough idea and just a starting point.

Looking for people interested in ML/DL and kubernetes, docker and the like.

If interested reply here for now. I’ll probably set up a Slack to add everyone to a bit later.

Thanks!
>being bullied, death threats, mob harassment etc are not acceptable responses to ideas or opinions you don’t like.

This is obvious, but I'm not sure how it pertains to this discussion.
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The thing about AWS that is so impressive is not what it does. What AWS does was previously done by every single IT department at every company across the globe. What is impressive is the scale at which they do it. When you move to a world of every product hosting their own AWS equivalent, you've removed the challenge and impressiveness of AWS since you no longer need their massive scale, you only need enough to host your own product.

Setting up your own servers was not a bottleneck to the generation of internet companies that preceded AWS, and time has only made hardware cheaper, bandwidth more affordable, and OSS higher quality and more plentiful. It is easier than ever to host your own services, AWS just makes it cheaper up front thanks to their massive scale.

Point being, people aren't choosing AWS because AWS solves a problem they're incapable of solving, people are choosing AWS for pricing flexibility and faster time to market.
> Our bodies line up such rebel cells and shoot them by the hundreds every second

Like how we imprison criminals and fight ISIS, etc.
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The issues with Bengali writing are a large portion of TFA, I would highly recommend reading submitted articles before commenting.
I'm just happy we have three ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic penises in Unicode. Mobile keyboard developers need to step up and make them more easily accessible, though.
No, your analogy is neither apt nor useful. It's an oversimplification that ignores the unimaginably more complex nature of ecosystems compared to software. The same principles do not apply.
I agree with the goal of the package, but I feel it doesn't do a good enough job of picking a lane between the imperative and functional approach.

If you're going functional, a list is both a functor and a monad, so you definitely need at least map and flatMap for the abstraction to make sense.

On the other hand there are a lot of "in place", "insert", etc, which encourage working with mutation.

You probably need a bit of both, but I'd like a more top-down design better.
How to Stay on Top of Your Business Finances
> men in romantic relationships should still cultivate strong friendships

This is often of critical importance for making the romantic relationship last. Your wife should not be your only close friend.
Memory protection isn't just used to protect processes against one another, you can also use it to implement write barriers for a garbage collector, or to map files to memory, for example. I think you'd be hard pressed, with any kind of compiler, to prove that an object you're writing to isn't part of an old GC generation, seems like an intractable problem, unless you're in a pure functional programming language.
Don't Use Floats for Time: Patriot Missile Mishap
> Cooperative scheduling would require provable upper limits on the number of instructions run by process between calls to a yield function. When the process is a compute task with an input of variable size, this would result in the need to count iterations and branch in inner loops that you want to be fast. I am not sold on the idea that such an overhead is lower in that case than interrupt driven preemptive scheduling.

Surely something like branch-on-random could be made to work with such code. It's effectively an interrupt point with the added benefit that you can place it exactly where you want it to.
Just looking at the title, I thought this was going to be about electricity.
Facebook would not push back on this unless they were very sure of their position, because the spotlight is going to be on them harder.
> and separately the y,z,w triples are contiguous ([y1,z1,w1,y2,z2,w2,y3,z3,w3...]).

Wouldn't having ys, zs and ws occupying different cache lines be good enough? After all, the CPU only wants fast access to these data. Or maybe it's a hard thing to do for CPUs to fetch from 4 different lines at a time (+1 for the instructions)?
> For someone looking to assassinate a specific individual, there are far cheaper and simpler methods that are also more reliable, including several methods that involve physically tampering with a car. For someone who wants to cause mass chaos…

Most of us tech people are good at imagining ways technology might be abused, but we’re not as good at thinking like actual criminals.

It’s a simile story with smart home gear: Tech people go to great lengths to imagine how their smart locks might be compromised by hackers who will break into their homes, but real burglars will just break a window and go around it. Tech people imagine how their wireless security cameras might be vulnerable to WiFi jamming, but criminals will just wear a face covering and park around the corner.

I’m sure high value targets have specialized vehicles where these systems are removed, replaced, or disconnected. For the rest of us, the biggest concern would be if a hack enabled vehicle theft, as that would be more likely to be abused than a movie-style assassination where someone locks up our brakes from a drone or something equally complicated.
I skimmed through it but my understanding is that this is not a prion outbreak. At least the relevant tests come back negative. Did I get it wrong?
I lost my mom this way in 2016 and nothing has made me wish for legal euthanasia more than witnessing that suffering and decline.
as someone who has designed an application for financial services, I can confirm that Berkshire is a PITA :)
Represented the best of our industry? Google maybe, but Facebook has always been sketchy.
In most cases I choose to lay low and believe it was a case of hanlon's razor.

But the one case with the CTO who took a leading position at the vendor he was promoting, that was something. It happened almost 9 years ago now.

It's a fun story that me and my friends still laugh about and refer to whenever similar situations come up. But I'm not prepared to push the whole whistleblower agenda in this case. Feels like throwing rocks at a hornets nest for no reason other than principal.
I don't think those cases are very exhonerating. When asked to comment on what is or isn't true Abengale has cited mundane facts like the number of siblings he has. He has done much to imply the more fanciful stories are indeed based in some truth which this author does an excellent job of using documents to disprove.

In fact, most of the more extraordinary episodes in the film such as him passing bar or running a hospital come directly from his book which is supposedly an autobiography.
There’s an order to it:

“Based on a true story”: loosely based on a book

“Based on true events”: loosely based on some news articles

“Inspired by true events”: The writer heard your story and thought of a more interesting one
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Others have considered these problems and done some work. Here’s a poster:

https://hamsci2021-uscranton.ipostersessions.com/?s=EA-94-A8...
Blog post and interesting HN discussion on Bengali/Unicode https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9219162

I would summarize the key issues here, but they are complex and I don’t feel qualified to do them justice.
Cars sold in Europe since 2018 need to have a system to automatically call emergency services in the event of an accident. So, there's that microphone.
Or as it's called these days Big Data
He's running a cryptocurrency, doesn't need to be bought.