skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Trump is President. Amazon buying Whole Foods. Antartica is melting. London Burning. Corals dying. Bees dying. North Korea. Putin. Etc.

WTF is going on... Elect Elon Musk as President in 2020 and let's all go to Mars (Not!)

So many assholes in charge. And the people of this planet are in diametric opposition to each other.

Feel free to down vote this on the basis that it is absolutely and utterly useless to state all that is wrong and offer no solutions. I just happen to think that we need more of stating what is wrong. I don't think it has sunk in yet.
As stated by the article, his daughters were happy and thought he did a fine job as a parent.
Rails and/or Django. Check what's more popular in your area.
Out of curiosity I tried github.com and one of my servers. To my surprise it judges my server to be far more secure than github.
Suicide isn't really illegal, you can't be prosecuted for it or for attempting it. It does have some interesting corner cases. If police believe you are attempting suicide they can enter your house to stop you without a warrant. A person who attempted suicide but was stopped or saved by someone cannot sue that person for any injuries sustained during their rescue. And of course if you are considered an active threat to yourself by a qualified mental health professional you can be involuntarily admitted to a psychiatric institution.
When did people care and why do they care less now?
Navy veteran discovers rare NASA, spy drone photos in trash
All I can say is finally. Death to d3.
So your argument is that because Lewis was a devout Christian he must have also been a xenophobe? He was also a renowned expert in medeival European history, isn't it more likely that's where the inspiration came from?
The criteria (online at https://www.service-public.fr/particuliers/vosdroits/F10619) talk explicitly about photos. They also say it has to be taken by a professional or in a photo booth certified by the government. IANAL, but I wouldn't build on that defense.
What is it, please?

I've googled and found nothing (except for Chrome Plugins that offer to do the same thing, issue trackers for adding high contrast mode to ChromeOS, etc).
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But suicide is not illegal in Mass.,so she is not an accomplice to any crime. She did not give any material or physical aid to help the victim effect his death, so it's hard to stretch this as assisted suicide, the closest related criminal charge (and it seems the prosecutor agrees as they charged her with manslaughter).
As long as my golf courses in Florida are OK, there is no global warming. A bunch of floating ice can't raise sea levels, since the ice is already there, it's just moving around. It's big ice, yes, but it won't do anything and certainly won't reach the US, hence it will not affect it. Those damn state leaders aligning with the commie Europeans on the issue don't know a thing, they're going rogue. I tell you what, they will regret this, the federal government and the American people won't stand for this.
Direct link to the list of differences:

https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/blob/r1.2/RELEASE.m...
> I don't think there is anything inherently wrong with google programmers. Sometimes looking something up is faster, sometimes it's inspiring.

I think the term "google programmer" covers too much ground to make a blanket statement.

On one hand, Google and StackOverflow can serve as an easy to use interface to documentation and troubleshooting information. I think this use of Google is great.

On the other hand, it's also possible to use them as a source of copy/paste code snippets without necessarily understanding what the code is doing. This second kind of "google programmer" is a huge problem. These are the type of people we all laugh at for not being able to solve FizzBuzz (assuming they haven't found somebody else's solution to copy/paste).

> The thing a degree does though, is make sure people know what stackoverflow code to ignore.

I wouldn't count on it. Even if a code snippet on SO is 100% correct, that doesn't mean it'll be the best solution outside of the original asker's situation.
D3 can use GPU shaders and is far more flexible. This is ok for canned vis, not for custom data vis. Like Vega vs D3. D3 wins every time.
All speculative but... I've assumed since hearing about telomeres that they were a failsafe against cancer; X cell divisions allowed, then apoptosis. If so, maybe shorter telomeres are something you can afford if you have the energy (etc) to engage in a lot of DNA maintenance.
I found this to be informative - https://svds.com/getting-started-deep-learning/
Because reading the ifixit teardown is actually quite boring. At least the article pointed out literally everything of substance in the teardown.

Vice is just an easier way to read it overall.
Clearly, it needs a bit more repeating for the English speaking oafs.
It kinda feels like McDonalds is being held back by their franchisees. I guess that is the downside to doing business that way.
#74 is a duplicate. Is that for emphasis?
Doesn't memory beta have like a zillion ads and popups?
Post graduation: started working for a startup owned by one of the Silicon Valley dinosaurs for 3 years and now starting my own agency with friends (http://www.blackbeltlabs.com)

My classmates who wanted to become developers are still developers. I had quite a few that went in to start their own businesses etc. They wanted to gain more insight into the tech side of things. Probably because hiring tech staff for early stage companies is quite challenging.
If the internet has taught me anything, it's you can make a lot of money at anything if you work hard enough.
Hello, thanks for the comment, as you can see, it is tough to get sincere feedback.

I agree with you that there are tons of other Vim tutorials. None of them really clicked with me, I wanted to write about Vim "my way". And I'm not claiming my way is better than other's but there might be someone who might like my version and start using Vim. I've written short piece which are intended to be consumed in one sitting, and ideally one part every day. My aim is to help user to gradually replace his editor with Vim without significant loss of productivity. For this, I'm writing about stuff bottom up, each part builds upon previous or if two parts are unrelated, the third part will sit on top of those two. And lastly, I'm not trying to cover every command or trick, just enough to get them started and proficient enough to help themselves.

I strongly agree with your other comment too: studying keymaps doesn't make anyone learn Vim, it's the struggle, the agony which rewires the brain. But I think that's the most anyone can do to teach. Amaze someone with power of Vim, and leave him motivated enough to do the hard work. You cannot, especially through a blog, force someone to do labor.
But I liked your idea of making reader do something and later point out that it could have been done in a more efficient way. Maybe I'll add some exercises.
I always wondered what kind of reasoning was behind that 10 am cutoff-point. Who the heck wants to eat a burger before, say, 11 am?
If you read the article he posted the cooling mechanism is very susceptible to vibrations, which is why they suspend it.
I don't think he's dead because of her actions.
Bees are not dying, we are doing better this year than last year here in Holland:)
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Ask HN: What would you do if you didn't need money to live?
I like to think I'd do pretty much what I'm doing now: learning and building. But I'd love to hear about other perspectives!
600% faster is absolutely unbelievable.
According to Agner's observations, this should not be true at all: http://www.agner.org/optimize/microarchitecture.pdf.

The Ryzen architecture apparently has half throughput for 256-bit vectors instructions compared to 128-bit vector instructions, while Skylake (no data for Kaby Lake yet) has full throughput for 256-bit vectors.
Since the 1800X has twice the cores, it should be about the same throughput if all cores are used, so if it isn't multi-threaded, worst case should be half, no?

This guy also seems a bit biased »it has to throttle itself down below the base clock to prevent itself from imploding -- just like their GPUs!«.

There is also a benefit to using 256-bit instructions, contrary to what he says: They're more dense than having 2 separate 128-bit instructions.

I wouldn't call it a bold-faced lie either, it's not like they said »Using 256-bit vector instructions is much faster than using 128-bit vector instructions!«.
Psycopath. Must get capital punishment. Meanwhile an interesting debate on Quora https://www.quora.com/In-India-a-married-man-commits-suicide...
I agree. But also to counter the optimism would be to clearly explain that if a company does not have a solid fundamental plan to make money that is not 'running ads' or 'when we have millions of users it will come to us', you might not want to work there. There are plenty of great startups that have a solid plan and yes, it is more risk than working for Microsoft, however, it is not as much risk as working for a company that needs investment rounds until they figure out how to actually make money. I find those the most frightening and many of those you can find here. That is not to say even those do not stand a chance, but it is a big risk.
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> Because all she did was give advice to somebody else

And all the person in the example did was yell "Fire!".

> We can't even definitively say it was bad advice, maybe committing suicide was indeed the best option for him.

I will push back against this very strongly. This isn't someone with a terminal illness looking to end things free of pain. People with clinical depression have a mental illness, their suicidal actions are the product of a condition they have no control over. Their feelings are not the product of reason and rational thought, it's a disease.

> these kinds of rulings make it much harder for a doctor to ever have the ability to advise a patient about suicide.

No they do not. This is why we have specific legislation allowing doctors to discuss end of life options. It explicitly exempts them from prosecution like this.
"In my opinion Android is not Linux on the desktop."

Agreed, since it does not (usually) run on a desktop or laptop computer.

"In my opinion ChromeOS is not Linux on the desktop."

And why not? That's the point that I've been trying to coax out with no success. What makes it anything but Linux on the desktop?

Is it the fact that it doesn't provide low-level access to the system by default? If so, then why is that a requirement for a desktop system? It seems to not be in line with how the vast majority of desktop computer users actually use their computers. It would also exclude Windows and macOS from being desktop operating systems, since they're (IMO) just as hard to work with on a low level (if not harder) than ChromeOS (but not as hard as Android or iOS).

Is it the fact that everything's web based? If so - again - why does that matter? Who cares what executable format is used or what programming language is used for user-facing software? (Of course, this "fact" ain't entirely true: https://developer.chrome.com/native-client/overview)

Is it the fact that the Linux name is not used? If so, then by that logic Ubuntu is not a "real" desktop Linux system, since https://www.ubuntu.com/desktop doesn't mention Linux anywhere (except for the developer subpage, where it's mentioned as a development feature).

The Wikipedia quote explains the perception's existence. It doesn't explain why that perception of "ChromeOS ain't a real Linux on the desktop" exists or by what criteria it's not a "real" Linux desktop. The fact that it uses the Linux kernel is the only thing that matters for the phrase "desktop Linux", since - again - we're talking about desktop Linux, not desktop GNU or desktop KDE or desktop GNOME or desktop whatever other software.
Thanks. I don't run either anymore. The TV show site started off as a side project to train a new employee and ended up turning into a nice little business for awhile. When summer hit, the site plummeted in traffic & revenue and when the TV show seasons started again both Hulu and Netflix where not advertising the same anymore. That combined with the TV show line up was horrible so the traction just wasn't there anymore. It was fun while it lasted.

I shut down the Minecraft site about 6 months ago. Traffic also plummeted being that mods are not as popular because lots of the kids are now playing Minecraft with the app or consoles.

It's not my full-time job. It's always been more of a side thing. I don't think I would be able to sleep at night if it were my full-time job. Way too much risk with it.

"Wouldn't you still come out ahead because with more ads you get more impressions?"

You would think but actually no at least not for all of the tests I did and I did a lot of them. You don't really make your $$ from impressions. You make $$ when people click on your ads. If the ads that are displayed are very relevant and your CTR is really good, you make more money.
Whatever you do make sure you can host the ad banners or so yourself. A slow ad-network is killing for your traffic.
> The victim would, after manual inspection, finally pipe the file to a shell

Why would anyone do this? If I see some unknown, interesting file, I might run cat, head, tail, less or vim on it. If it's binary then maybe I'll use xxd. But it wouldn't even occur for me to pipe it to a shell.
What people seem to be missing is that this is a photograph. It just happens to be wrapped on a 3D model.
It's not really a lie, but technically the Ryzen architecture doesn't have 256-bit instructions internally. Not like it matter much to you though, because these are all implementation details, and don't really make a difference for you, other than changing how you should optimise your code for max speed.
Please stop commenting on downvotes. It's explicitly against the guidelines and will likely result in you receiving even more downvotes because you're violating the guidelines.

> Please resist commenting about being downvoted. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

> Please don't bait other users by inviting them to downvote you or proclaim that you expect to get downvoted.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I actually know identical twins that do that...
Seems quite common. One managed to board a plane with the ID card of the other one for instance.
For more scalable on both, generally happy to share Graphistry API keys -- ping pygraphistry@graphistry.com . At the 100K+ scale, you need to optimize both :)

I'm excited to see both Stardust and the related DeckGL project. We've internally built several related framework layers (ex: streaming for cloud GPU offloading), and picking accessible abstractions for different developer personas is hard. Stardust & DeckGL are both (potentially) enabling dedicated visualization engineers to work more closely with high performance computing engineers. That's impressive: we deferred that problem to focus energy on enabling embedding for regular web developers (which goes above stardust) and scaling to the next 1000X (which goes below/adjacent)... but at the expense of making it harder for non-webgl visualization engineers to work on parts of our stack.

Long-term, I think their mindset is right, so, I've definitely been enjoying these projects!
Things like Bitcoin might be horrible for remittances right now, but there is a lot of development in this space. For example, Ethereum is working on sharding to make it exponentially more scalable. The goal is that when sharding and proof of stake are completely finished, it will be possible to play something like Starcraft on Ethereum (super cheap transactions and 0.5 second block times). This is probably something like 10 years away, but it's coming.
Wow... just wow. I'm overwhelmingly under-learned on this topic, but from the sounds of scientists, shit is literally hitting the fan. What books and research in the last couple years are good for non-scientists about the effects of rising oceans on socio-economics and politics?
I recognize a lot of them from DS9, but I'm not sure if they all came from the show. I really enjoyed how the Ferengi were portrayed in DS9 making pilgrimages to WallStreet...kinda funny.
If you didn't have a GPU?
React-app-rewired: override create-react-app webpack configs without ejecting
Yeah I can't even find this thread on the first few pages anymore. Such a shame HN can't get over the tone of the thread to discuss the details.
Yes they are. People keep conflating the ability of commercial bee keepers to keep up with colony collapse with the ability of wild bee populations to survive. They are not the same thing.

I don't know about the Netherlands specifically but iirc neonicotinoid pesticides are banned throughout the EU. Maybe wild bees are doing better there. But overall things are not getting better.
> The best-case scenario is a system that consumes 20 megawatts...

I guess they will think of throwing in a windmill farm (or something) to power the beast.
Ask HN: Cross-platform desktop IDEs with visual layout?
I've been looking for a RAD tool that can be used to develop a set of small desktop apps in a business context (essentially an industrial mini-ERP broken down into smaller apps, to be run in factory floors and warehouses alongside similar existing apps). Requirements are fascinating due to the industry in question, but essentially boil down into:

1) No web front-ends, apps must be native Windows or Linux (Android is not yet feasible for various reasons)

2) Delphi or Visual Basic-like environment for quick, iterative development

I've been looking into http://xojo.com and Delphi, but it's been so long since I delved into native desktop development that I'm not sure what to recommend - plus being a Mac guy the only thing in that field I'm more or less acquainted with is Qt, which seems overkill.

So pointers are welcome, and if backed with real life examples all the better.
How is not being allowed to induce a mentally ill person to kill himself any more of an infringement of free speech than fraud or libel or perjury or conspiracy laws? The freedom of speech is a freedom to express oneself, not a freedom from consequences for any harmful action that can be accomplished through speaking.
In 2014 Antarctic sea ice reached a record maximum:

https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/antarctic-sea-ice-reach...

But now in 2017 we're talking about continent-wide collapse?
> There are a whole host of alternative Ruby language implementations out there, but I only see MRI and sometimes JRuby in the wild.

Well I think those are the only ones actively maintained, aren't they? As a language community we're pretty lucky to have even two production-ready implementations.

Rubinius seems to lost all their contributors and to have deleted their JIT and ground to a halt. Topaz was just an experiment. I don't think Maglev or IronRuby have been maintained for a few years. Opal is still going but it's not quite what you mean when you talk about Ruby implementations.

> Why don't we see more adoption of alternative runtimes?

Because it's a huge volume of work that needs very specialised skills that few people have, so they often aren't maintained very long. Starting one is fun, finishing and maintaining is more of a slog.
I don't know anything about music, but it sounds like you said "Here's proof that beats are perceived as echoes: I play them like echoes."
Tech is actually a big part of the problem - inequality is driven by anti-monopoly laws not being enforced for decades; power and money aren't trickling down to the poor so they get what they get - housing that's cheap deathtraps from fire, or lack of earthquake proofing, or Flint-like water.
That would explain why she wasn't charged with murder. I didn't consider that most states define murder as a the killing of another person, which rules out suicide.
He attempted suicide, then stopped and got out of the truck. And she said "Get back in." Her saying those words directly led to him getting back in the truck and finish committing suicide.
Don't forget Australia and Canada. Both massive co2 polluters per capita (even worse than the US):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_greenhous...

I have noticed a pattern. Anglo-saxon countries are killing us. Unfortunately they are also the primary users of this platform, so good luck seeing this message!
Sonomap: What does the city sound like?
Amusingly, this comment could be taken as an argument both for and against this story.
There's no fee for prime now, just an optional tip which is probably why amazon doesn't use prime now on their normal site.
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tensorflow has tensorboard, a great application that allows your to explore your models in depth. it makes neural networks less of a black box.
Is Antarctica melting? Yes.

Is it bad? Yes.

Are humans accelerating​ it? Yes.

Is it bad for my kids and future generations? Yes.

Does that mean I'm going to switch to an EV, start taking public transportation in Mountain View, or stop using disposable bags at While Foods? No.

Scientists have a long way to convince the billions of people on Earth like me before anyone is going to meaningfully reduce climate change.
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We've moved over to Tensorflow from Theano around a year ago. I'm a Software Engineer on the team and here's what I think are advantages from my POV:

1) Transition was fairly straightforward, both APIs' interfaces are more-or-less similar and share some design characteristics.

2) Having said that, TF's API is easier to use and without a doubt a lot easier to read.

3) Consistency: Deploying Theano in different environments surprised me on several occasions with different output compared to the training environment. TF is more consistent on this front (never had such issues).

4) Running multiprocessing with Theano + GPU is a disaster (due to forking) so I end up having to create process pools before initializing Theano. No such issues with TF.

5) TF provides many helpful operators (such as queues and batching ops) as well as monitoring tools (Tensorboard) and debugging tools.

6) Its development is extremely rapid, new releases every couple of months with a lot of improvements and new features every time.

In short, TF is what Theano should have been. A lot of new papers are being developed in TF as well so it helps to understand it.
I see d3 imported alongside stardust in this example: https://stardustjs.github.io/examples/daily-activities/

Edit: from their paper: "We see Stardust as a complement to D3 instead of a replacement. Stardust is good at rendering a large number of marks and animate them with parameters, while D3 has better support for fine-grained control and styling on a small number of items. For example, to create a scatterplot with a large number of items, we can use D3 to render its axes and handle interactions such as range selections, and use Stardust to render and animate the points"