skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think I'm currently in a minimalist phase; the KeePassX UI is too feature rich and cluttered and makes me want to configure everything but I don't want to manage that.

If that's not a problem for you, KeePassX is definitely a solid password manager!
No..... Windows is the best
Lately, whenever I see a new deep learning library, I think of https://xkcd.com/927/
People used to say things like this about OS Kernels
HTML is still quite limited compared to native UI toolkits. It's still fundamentally a document model that we're using to write applications. Especially where layout is concerned: HTML and CSS are pretty clearly designed for document layout (and they're not half bad at that!). Flexbox helps, but it's still not there compared to e.g. layout constraints in Cassowary[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassowary_(software)
Someone mentioned this earlier - "The Innovators" by Walter Isaacson is pretty much this thesis exactly. Progress comes from building on previous work, usually collaboratively.

Now, I think it's fair to say that there are "geniuses" and it's perhaps a little uncharitable to claim that we shouldn't look up to them at all - but there is certainly more than one dimension to progress.
Teaching me what I don't know is what I want with all of my engineering hires. I want people better than me who will tell me why my architecture isn't ideal or whatever the case is.
Yeah, I totally agree with you.

I was just pointing out that "enforcing rules against littering, using parks after hours, etc." isn't the solution to them, they see it as the problem.
ubuntu-mate has a nice software boutique, which I think is a great idea for people new to the world of FOSS. It's a nice curated list of great FOSS software sorted by category.
Creation is a goal that admits occasional accidents.

Generation is a series of unfortunate accidents in search of something that might pass for a goal.
Sorry, the missing C is just me being sloppy. The underscores are a C#7ism where you they are ignored and people can use them to separate LONG hex literals.
> You are coming across like "Well, individual men have zero responsibility at all for this problem, even when they are obviously being incredibly aggressive and predatory."

> If you don't mean to come across that way, you will need to work on how you talk about such things.

Yeah, this isn't what I mean (I'm not a native english speaker, but I don't think I wrote it entirely wrong, but your emphasis is not mine's). Your previous reply nailed it,

> When ordinary people stop doing things like that, then predators have a lot less latitude for pursuing their ugly goals. When you reduce their latitude enough, you may find that in order to get laid at all, they need to behave something like decent human beings instead of overentitled rapey bastards.

But is exactly this my point: It is up to the women to correct/validate this behavior, when men starting to change their way. Because if in the long term this strategy doesn't work better, most of the men will drop it and start to approach women in the way they see it working. And this is my point when I say that it is not my (or individuals) fault. In an anthropological analysis, this is the same reason women evolved to rely in men for security and better chances of survival: it worked. Now we have a much better social security structure in the world so naturally the usefulness of men for women reached a new low in most countries :P
And those types of users are, from what i've witnessed typically still highly functional members of society (lawyers, tech entrepreneurs, etc)
I personally have found taking notes to be more reinforcing than destructive, but to each his own.
Use a decent code editor?

Jetbrains editors have it built in (change some settings and then ctrl+alt+l does it for you.) Sublime, VSCode, Atom, etc.. all have prettify plugins.

Aligned code is easy to read code. Aligning code is a pain in the ass. A good code editor once again saves the day (and man hours!)
The job postings are basically ads due to the fact that YCombinator runs the site for free. Considering how often someone posts a comment that is mean spirited and possibly even wrong which gets to the top I don't think that allowing for discussion would help at all.
What SegWit means for gaming
From your lips to Blizzard's ears....
> Centralized trash sorting seems like a much more efficient solution

How is this supposed to work? Sorting trash into many containers takes me a little more time and effort and pretty much exactly as much energy as putting it all in one place. It also keeps the materials from mixing (that is, becoming dirty). How would it help to first mix it all, compress it together (which is pretty much required to keep transport efficient) and then sort it again?

Even if you want to use a sorting machine, would it not be better to have presorted ("richer", in mining lingo) input material streams?
New North Korean (DPRK) Tourism Website
If YC had invested $20k in every startup that applied, they'd still have caught Airbnb and Dropbox, and would be quite successful.

Some quick googling shows YC acceptance rate at ~3% let's call it 5%.

So that means 20x the capital expenditure in investments, that's going to put a damper on returns(provided the company picking prowess for a round was somewhere not to distant from optimal). Even if profitability could be theoretically maintained with these shifted numbers, it really couldn't.

The value proposition of YC is the exclusivity and the individual attention the partners can give the companies. With the exclusivity entirely gone and partner attention massively diminished YC would obviously not be YC as we know it.

It would not be anything as we know it. An institution that invests in everyone that applies? wtf is that? it doesn't exist. The closest thing might be the sub-prime mortgage bubble and we saw how that worked out.
How to create reports with R Markdown in RStudio
Dedicating our life to find a meaning trough work.

Get interested in some artists and what they have achieved.

A humble human being would never call it self an artist.

That's the first mistake, and it's philosophical rather than technical.

I would say the tool it self is rather an piece of art. Not what it creates.
Its foolishness to try to find a whole list of apps that use the same gui toolkit instead of the best apps, python is installed by default on every linux system under the sun, and you can't just convert from installed size to memory usage. The universe just doesn't work that way.
fooled by randomness
It's not just a yard. This is declining now, but for example, for decades children's blood lead levels were correlated to their proximity to the inner city.
I guess a dinner would have been more than enough, having some face time with the boss to reflect on the past and perhaps plan the future.
We don't do employee reviews either, so not much communication with the boss here.
This is all about perspective. Now that's definitely the case with AWS and service first design etc. But from the beginning it was trying to be a bookstore, an online one, for sure. But not pure technology, as say a search engine or an operating system - that don't require much integration with existing physical infrastructure.
It's like a meta side gig.
At Tierion, we think the inclusion of the NIST Beacon in every Chainpoint 3.0 proof we generate is a powerful feature.

We announced that we had started including the Beacon in our new proofs at Consensus in May. The first of its kind.

https://tierion.com/blog/chainpoint-innovations-in-blockchai...

Its also featured in our white paper if you'd like to read more about how we're using it.

https://tokensale.tierion.com/whitepaper

Tierion has been collaborating with the leader of the Random Beacon project at NIST and we've been providing feedback on their new release, expected this summer.

Every Chainpoint 3.0 proof has the most current available NIST timestamp and its associated random value merged into the proof directly, allowing easy manual audit and cross-check. This is in addition to server NTP time in the form of a v1 UUID, which contains both a timestamp and randomness.

We also include the NIST Beacon in a new Calendar block every time it is updated so our Calendar blocks can have enhanced temporal anchoring, even in the absence of aggregated Merkle roots being anchored to the Calendar.

We've thought for a while that the NIST Beacon it pretty cool and we're glad to see others coming around to the idea as well.
Yes, likely this will be the AI revolution: humans will only do jobs where robots are more expensive.

These will 99.999999% be McJobs.
Letting the companies moderate the threads would be just an incredible drama factory.

Not necessarily from anything the companies were doing...
It's in the faq: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
Yes, but I'd argue that's on a different level from "teach us why we need an 'architecture'" or "teach us how to use this 'data science' stuff". Some people are trying to be buzzword compliant when they don't actually understand the buzzwords. Ya know?

Or maybe there's a better explanation for asking for a candidate with a Ph.D. in Statistics to create a linear regression model in Excel. Because truth is, for many companies that's all they need.
You are guilty of what you are accusing "digital feminism" of: You only want half the people to be held responsible, just the other half. Some women want to blame men 100% and play the victim card themselves and that doesn't work. But men saying that it is 100% on women to defend themselves is equally broken.

And it sounds really, really ugly, like you just don't want to be bothered to behave better yourself.

I talk all the time about the fact that it is a societal problem and we need to address it at that level. But addressing it at that level involves figuring out what individual's can do differently. Because society is merely an aggregate of a lot of individuals. It does not exist separately on its own or something. It is the collective result of many individual choices. You change it in part by coming up with mental models for effective actions that individuals can take.
That's why speed is a "simple" problem. The mechanical design and detecting the fruits are real problems. A machine that tips over and picks leaves is useless no matter how fast it is.
The subtle power of uncomfortable silences
The world needs more ergonomic and mechanical keyboards. My fingers love Mechanical but fingers and wrists love ergonomic. Kinesis is quite steep in price (500 Loonies).

Anyone got any favourites?
That's true in a thread oriented environment; but it's not the case in a traditional PHP environment, with one OS process per client. A PHP process does not know how to context switch between many requests; if the process is waiting for I/O the OS will schedule a different process. In this model, sending multiple backend requests concurrently, regardless of how, is of value when it lowers the total request time and lets it accept another request sooner.

You can send requests to the backend through async/await language features, or more simply by using apis that separate sending a request from waiting for a response, assuming network buffers are large enough to enqueue the request(s) without blocking.
Did you find another job yet? If not, what type of opportunity are you looking for? Data science is also a wide, somewhat poorly defined domain.
are the gists public? care to share? the firefox search bar only works for those in the first page right?
Mugging scales poorly.
> cryptocurrencies can be thought of more as living organisms fed by the collective computing power of their users

Mm, I like this image. It completes something for me...

The world is filling up with these autonomous information organisms, who eat computing power. They also need other care, to go for walks, etc. If we humans want to survive in the information age, we will need to take shelter in one, draw a salary from the care of it.
I guess that ultimately depends on what you want to do with your discretionary money. The day-to-day costs are already accounted for in our hypothetical examples.

Someone in a low-cost area may want to travel to the city to take in the entertainment and amenities available in the big flashy city, in which case that money is being spent in a high-cost area. Similarly, someone in a high-cost area may want to travel to a low-cost area to take in what it has to offer and thus will spend it in a low-cost area. In that case, the person with $5k in a high-cost area is actually still better off.

If you're going buy an iPhone with that money, the price isn't going to vary much in either place. If the $5k is saved in both cases, there is no real difference either.
I think the field is seeing a large amount of "title bloat". I've seen job postings for data scientist roles that are only looking for SQL and Microsoft Excel skills. I almost accepted a data scientist role at a small manufacturing company, but a more realistic job title would have been "Marketing Analyst"
If parks did not have hours enforced, they would become permanent homeless tent encampments.
I am really curious to hear your responses to the questions I raised
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Local government in places with a waterfront is almost completely made up of people who have a special interest to champion and spends 90% of it's time bickering about said interests.

That article reminds me of my hometown.
This reminds me of Mauricio Aguirre, who stole quite a bit of money by deception from people in the high-end fountain pen world:

http://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/topic/9771-fraud-wri...
It has nothing to do with communism, this is an example of authoritarianism. People like to conflate the two terms.
I guess to be fair they should've had those clients go 50/50?
it's not a record to remember, my question was more along the lines of, you learn a new topic? you might keep 10 bulletpoints that streamline the core of what you've learnt, etc. otherwise, to me, it feels easy to forget one component or another of what i've learnt
You'd think you could just collect all the numbers and then translate, i.e. if I add some things and get XXVVVVVIIIIIIIIIII, I know that's XXVVVVVVVI = XXXXXVI = LVI.

The problem is IV isn't 6, it's 4.
?! That was in no way incivil or a personal attack. There is a hard line in the sand between making a logical argument and making another kind of an argument, and I just explained where that line is in a very objective way, and in a hypothetical no less.

If you are making arguments to authority, you are not doing a logical argument, period. You are making excuses to avoid doing logic. Is also not a personal attack, it is a statement of objective truth when you ignore correctness in favor of anything else.

That was a general statement and was not directed at tpatacek, and now this thread makes no sense.
Veracrypt - https://github.com/veracrypt/VeraCrypt
Ethereum ERC20 Tokens Explained
I noticed that too. If the leaders are actually engaged and act on what they hear, this could be a real improvement.

But if it's just the usual we-care-but-not-enough-to-do-anything happy talk, I bet they'll see the same groups reform by the employees who found them valuable only unsanctioned this time.
It all depends on what you do with your computer. For one I am a stats nerd so I tend to have Conky running.

OpenOffice or Libre office; for all your Office needs, it can also output to Microsoft formats.

Screen; for multi terminal windows within one terminal. Also very handy when working remotely.
I second this. Ubuntu default config probably isn't perfect for anybody, but nothing is in the way, which I consider a major benefit. If I need automatic configuration, none of these ideas will move faster than a decent Bash script. Some configurations cannot be scripted well and that's where the room for improvement is.
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People think it's been solved: https://www.google.com/search?q=wow+signal+solved
One interesting talk I watched recently: https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/GoingNative/2013/The-Care-a...

In it, they make a really good argument that humans simply shouldn't be doing this type of formatting work. Let the computers do it, clang-format can get it right every time in a fraction of the time a human can.

Pick whatever style you want, let the computers deal with it. I quite like this, now I just write a big long single line, hit a button and have it fixed for me.

It's not a bad habit if it looks better and doesn't involve any time investment.
> You are guilty of what you are accusing "digital feminism" of: You only want half the people to be held responsible, just the other half. Some women want to blame men 100% and play the victim card themselves and that doesn't work. But men saying that it is 100% on women to defend themselves is equally broken.

No, I've been saying that it is our problem all the time. You keep saying that I'm trying to free men off their stupid behavior and what I'm saying is that men's stupid behavior are frequently awarded by women. Change this and you change that.
Necessity is also an agent of destruction... how many people here have projects that failed because the necessary resources (capital,resources,time) far exceeded what could be viably sourced?
The point is not to place blame, the point is to find a solution that works best for everyone.
Amidst Layoffs, Vice Has Literal Field Day
I love how so many people on HN can read a strange news article title and came up with so many different imaginative interpretations of what it means.
the uber app is often broken for me and drivers complain about it freezing/crashing constantly.

lyft has worked every time I've used it.
GNU/units

Its a wonderful CLI app when you calculate things with units.

Eg:
You have: (1000W * 5 hour)/(24V100A)
You want: min
125

Or:
You have: 10 km * 6L/100km * 1.3 EUR/L
You want: USD
* 0.837486

You should try it !
How safe is it to keep that battery indoors? Don't batteries need some ventilation?
You can very easily get a free blog and just start blogging! https://wordpress.com/
Google drops the boom on WoSign, StartCom certs for good
> Most of America agrees with you

The ever increasing urbanization rate suggests otherwise. If the majority of Americans had stuck close to their families, these cities would be small settlements at best, and maybe wouldn't even exist at all. In reality, the high cost (which may come in the form of lower income) of living elsewhere has pushed most into these cities.
Sized to fill my screen, it's about the same font size as my own. Maybe one point size (probably less than 1/32") smaller. The only major difference is that my fonts are smoothed by the higher resolution.
You two are speaking across each other.

You're saying no amount of evidence could show someone intended to abide in a way other than how the smart contract says they must abide, because their intention is part and parcel of what the smart contract says. True.

Your partner in this conversation is saying: You might have agreed to something illegal. It's not that the smart contract drifted from the contract's intention, it's that you weren't allowed to agree to that contract in the first place. And they're right: in such a case, the courts won't give an F what conclusions the smart contract comes to. Also true.
> The final solution to the underclass was thus implemented.

If "final solution" refers to relocating people, what term will you use if they're deliberately killed?
I hear terms like "developers", "coders", "resources" and all these kind of stuff when companies talk about us. So I don't think any company has brillant "engineers" per se. They maybe have excellent algorithm solvers on a whiteboard. Google, Facebook, etc.
Please insert your comments saying how this is bad or not enough below. Let's gather the negativity in a single place.
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Enforce existing laws on the people who are to blame. Fine them for littering.

As far as flower-trampling, just shrug and wait for the fad to pass. It's not a big deal.
There is a lot of interesting work going on in this area right now in the research community - using ML for things like program synthesis, meta-learning, and combining ideas from constraint satisfaction with ML approaches.

The rules based approach has (as you mention) years of history, so people are currently exploring the green-ish fields of raw learning approaches with good success on tasks where rules based approaches performed much worse or didn't work at all (cf image recognition, speech recognition), and in some areas it seems like the more you let the model learn / get rid of classical rules based approaches (with enough data), the better it does. Whether that is true for field X, not true yet for field X, or will never be true for field X depends on who you ask.

There is definitely a recent tide of models which are focused more on rule learning, function generation, and so on. The general thing I see is that rule based approaches with good approximators/probability models to guide heuristic or exact search can do crazy things - this is the story of AlphaGo at a 10k foot level. People in the ML community are just more focused on the new-ish part (learning good probability/function approximators from data) right now.

Just because rules aren't incorporated widely yet, doesn't mean they won't be in the future. I am personally very interested in this direction, and a bunch of work from Sony CSL (Pachet et. al.) has focused heavily on this idea in the past.

As an aside, whenever you hear an ML researcher say "prior", it is generally functioning as some kind of soft or occasionally hard rule - so maybe there are more rules floating around than it seems. Soft rules aka priors are generally (much!) easier for gradient descent style optimization and incorporating directly into models, so we tend to have priors rather than hard rules as seen in many other parts of computer science. Even the structure of the model itself can be seen as a prior.
"What is the difference between creation and generation?" -> that one has already been answered under.

"What is the difference between me selecting the specific frame made by a generative algorithm and photographer picking a specific moment in time to capture a frame?" -> he captures life and tries to create a embodiment of something that already has a meaning for everybody. He can have multiple ways of underlining different aspects of the same thing. He has total control over How and Why. It is not only technical but it also communicates something in very different ways depending on the subject and how he took the picture.

"What's the difference between me using a generative algorithm and Michelangelo using assistants to paint the Sistine Chapel?" -> these are people not machine.
I think it is even more extreme. It is the normal result of having multiple teams making UIs. Each team is going to try things that are different.

Consider how different the iPhone and windows 10 are. Or windows 7 and windows 8. Because the community driven teams don't stop when they run out of money they stick around, but they also have really small marketshare.
I keep a 3-ring binder with plenty of college ruled paper on my desk, and am continuously writing down bits and pieces of information. My keyboard is on a keyboard tray to give me room on the desk for the binder.

It's not an ideal system, but practical. In college, I remember coming across THOUGHTSTICKER, which I would recommend anyone working on e-learning to research and steal ideas from.
Got downvoted for some reason, I guess some people don't understand how crucial this is. BIP91 was signaled mostly with this node software. This node is what matters the most since it will show if miners get reorged.