skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That comes back to my core opinion on smart watches: notifications are the core. Everything else is feature creep. Imagine shopping for Bluetooth headsets - do you want one with biometrics and a backup radio antenna and a microSD slot for playing music without its phone, and a one-day battery?

Or do you want a good quality mic and earphones with a solid Bluetooth connection, and a week-long battery for light use?

I want the latter. Apple's take on smart watches is the former.

I don't want a "smart" watch. I want a Bluetooth notification watch. Very specific purpose. That's what Pebble made. It's a shame it didn't work out.
Hi! I just launched a project, which I have made. You can find it here https://sciencetone.com/

A brief explanation of what this project is about.

In this website people can share the latest studies, which they find interesting. There’s a voting system, so the most interesting submissions go to the top. On each submission people can comment and ask questions. Comments must be objective and based on other studies. Same with the replies to the comments and questions. So each submission can turn into an objective discussion on the subject.

Why it is useful?

I’m a sports science graduate, so I constantly follow the latest publications, related to wellness and training methodologies. Also I’m interested in computer science too. So I follow a lot of people on social media, who are experts in those two fields. They often share interesting findings. I hope that platform like this would allow those people to share studies & conclusions, what they find interesting, with some additional and more diverse audiences. Also those shared studies might generate more ideas and questions by attracting other people, who are interested in the same subject, and expand its value by participating in the discussion section, below the submission.

I still have a lot of features in my mind, which could improve the website. For now I published the core features to see if anyone is interested in the idea itself. I think a platform like that might be useful and make people a little bit more aware about the latest discoveries. I think right now a lot of exciting things are happening in the majority of science fields.
Amazon tends to recommend things I like and the majority of the purchases have been because of their recommendations (good job Amazon, your software is doing it's job, raising sales). I think books and music are different though. Books have well defined categories. If I buy a pop-psych book, say "Blink", and then I am recommended "Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise" it's pretty much going to be very likely I buy that too if I am interested in that subject.

If however I want recommendations for new Metal music, and my previous selection was Metallica then you play me some Megadeth, I am going to hate it and not be interested in it at all!
Have had two since I started at the place I'm at now. It's basically very nebulous "you're doing ok/you're not doing well in x" type reviews that they get from the departments you're contracted out too. Recommendations are usually "keep doing what you're doing/do more work/do work faster". You provide feedback forms for how you feel youre doing in various areas, but they're effectively useless as its the managers rebuttal that holds all the weight. There's rumours of career planning being integrated into the mix, but that's apparently been on the table for years with no change.

Had an associate of mine at the same company two weeks ago get a performance review (more of a contract since he had to sign it), that said he had to improve performance in a month or he'd be fired. The reasons? Too slow/too low quality, but no specific measurable metrics to meet that he'd be able to use to keep his job when re-evaluation comes up in a month.

Needless to say, performance evaluations aren't given a lot of thought here. Wish they were.
No, I couldn't. In academia, when publishing a technical paper, only final/published papers count. I doubt that this was a "rule" enforced only at my University or even just in my country. I'd love to hear from others where citing arXiv was at least allowed, but I doubt that that would have been the "standard" way of citing in technical papers.

I must add that this was such a pain for me, as I found several relevant articles on arXiv and I could download and read them. I can't say the same for articles found on Elsevier or ACM, where the relevant articles were mostly in the journals to which my University did not have access...
My wife is a doctor and doesn't carry her phone around during the day when seeing patients. It sits on her desk back in her office which she rarely enters except at lunch and at the end of the day. After seeing my watch and talking to patients who have them, she decided she wanted one. Having the watch means she can get text messages throughout the day and if needed, quickly respond in the few minutes between patients. It's a total game-changer because if there's something going on with our kids or I just have a quick question for her (e.g. "Do I still need to stop by the store on the way home?") she gets the message right away and is able to respond.
I think part of the issue here is that it just visually seems slower. In my experience it isn't actually doing things much slower, it's just a little visually clunky in comparison. And as far as resource usage goes, RAM is way down now because their multiprocess implementation is a lot less intensive than Chrome's. I switched for that reason and I'm enjoying it a lot.
Mega-CAAAAR!

(One of the first times I realised that the web was going to be mis-used/abused by morons...)
This is great, very small code. The choice of Clojure would make it a bit difficult for a beginner, but hey, then you know a real language.

> This is not an official Google product (experimental or otherwise), it is just code that happens to be owned by Google.

#1 reason for a hacker to not work for Google, you could program "Hello, World" and they wouldn't sign off on it.
When visiting Europe I had a similar experience with "Seitan" [1] based sausages.

I quickly realised that what I like most about sausages isn't really the animal fat / flesh, it's the wheat, barley and or other spices + salt fried in oil that I enjoy. I should also add the texture which was easily reproduced with Seitan.

Also I found Seitan cheese burgers to be really, really good.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheat_gluten_(food)
its not about the ideas. i dont have a problem with his ideas, i have a problem with how he goes about spreading them. that's why we should not allow this.
I think it would be pretty unlikely to trigger rowhammer accidentally. The incidence of random (memory) errors is very low. Something like once every 1.5 years...

This study from Google is pretty interesting:

http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~bianca/papers/sigmetrics09.pdf
I'm not looking for an ObjectPascal job (because I have zero experience with it and I'm quite happy in my current position). But I'm still curious about what you do.

How do you build for iOS, for example? I thought you had to use Xcode.

How do you convince clients that ObjectPascal is the right solution?
That is, are client concerned that you're not using Java/ C#/ C++?
I've always thought Germany was fairly conservative in this respect.
every time somebody uses the word 'terrorist' a kitten dies
I'm somewhat surprised that one of the touted features of smart watches never materialized, and doesn't seem to matter... early prognosticators proposed lots of custom faces: ones that emulated famous watches, ones that allowed a wide variety of placement of "complications", and ones that intermingled various ways of displaying time.

While the big brands did release customized versions of their famous faces (Tag Heuer) and Apple got sued for making a clock that looked like a Swiss Railway Clock (licensed by Mondaine), the idea of downloadable faces or themes, made by users or junior devs, never really became a thing.

I miss it; I think the apple watch face options are really lacking (though Mickey makes me laugh even now). But I seem to be in the minority of wanting more...
It's amazing how the promise of "decentralized" internet has turned into centralized datacenters.

P2P networks, each computer being a "data store" on the internet, no one entity can control data, etc to modern day centralized cloud where a couple of players control so much.

There has been a cultural shift. In the early 2000s, the idea of storing your data somewhere else would have been weird. But now, people don't care about keeping their data on apple/google/etcs data centers.

I think it has to do with the fact that computer/internet illiterate people are now the majority whereas in the 90s/early 2000s, it was generally the computer literate on the internet.
>the capability of spying on NZ networks without assistance from the GCSB

Of course they do. Read the Wikileaks! The NSA has given itself provenance over the entire planets' worth of digital content. They hack the origin.
The critical thing about great fries is that they are fried twice, once to cook the potato and the second time for the crispy shell. The freeze step in the middle is likely just for transportation logistics.
Unfortunately, since there are more people who don't have a grasp on the ramifications of what she's proposing that those that do, there'll be more people that buy into this dangerous spin, than those that don't. She'll pull it off, just like the Snooper's Charter.
While this is true, I've found the UI for AWS to be much, much worse. And that's across basically all of their products.
I doubt they are higher judging by the number of comments and votes.
I ran Fedora some years ago when btrfs support was added. I thought the idea to be able to roll back after a yum update messes things up was cool... in practice, it's a lot more complicated than hitting some "rollback" button in the system update gui.
Inside Daan Roosegarde's Smog Free Towers Project UK
I often joke how google's documentation is the perfect example of documentation written by geniuses / very smart people.
Often you find the way the API is designed more complex than it should/could be, and documentation missing to things that might not be so obvious for everyone.
Google maps is also a good example of such API that has a stiffer-than-required learning curve imo.
Google has tens of thousands of employees. It's also an incredibly diverse place where all kinds of mindsets manifest in different products and publications.
Getty's Multicultural Internship Program changing the face of arts leadership
Why is time online big (assuming more means better)? I do remote too and I would never consider that to be important as long as the work gets done.
While I understand the intent of your comment, it's bothersome to think that we can't have a discussion about something purely because some murderer said it once.

That aside, I think he seems to overly doubt the inevitability, which is to completely ignore the fact that if we didn't create these systems then someone else would.

Even if you believe that they're dangerous or harmful (inherently), there's some game theory involved in not having created them in the same way as not having designed the h-bomb when we did. Because another potential world power will and that seems hard to dismiss.
Why delving deeper is a good thing
Yet the installed size of my facebook app on android is 350MB and since the total phone memory is 2 GB I have a storage problem (less than ideal free space). While facebook lite is not a smooth experience compared to the full app.
Mozilla Makes Tab Hiding API a Priority
Your link has no mention of the subject being directly used to manufacture MSG, and only mention a link to glutamic acid being used for syntheses of it. This is not adequate evidence that Acrylonitrile was ever present in commercial MSG.
>This product is indeed capable of changing the world for the better if scaled up. "Saving it" is hyperbole.

But "changing the world" isn't hyperbole?

> But it's not about making a nice meal for vegetarians, it's about sustainable meat consumption for a growing population.

What? Meat eaters aren't going to choose fake meat no more than vegetarians are going to choose fake vegetables/fruits.

People are still going to hunt, still going to keep livestock and still going to consume meat. We are omnivores after all.

Also, meat production is HIGHLY sustainable already. We waste tons of meat because we have such an excess of it.
It can now store 330 million books. We better get started writing!
He is, but it seems silly to compare him to Walt Mossberg. They do very, very different kinds of tech journalism.
"How he goes about spreading them" - unsuccessfully? He's spent the last twenty-one years in prison. He will die there. That, and the pointless harm he did a few innocent people, are the whole extent of his legacy.

I'm impressed to hear that you don't have a problem with his ideas. I certainly do! I went into some detail about that, not long ago: https://aaron-m.com/2017/07/09/on-kaczynski

Perhaps I have failed to take your meaning here. But the trouble with an idea is that you can't kill it by excluding it from what we please ourselves to regard as polite discourse. Kaczynski isn't the only radical anarchoprimitivist in the world. Don't you think it might be a good idea to give food for thought to the next one who might be thinking about blowing people up?
Event Sourcing on Blockchain with Ethereum, TypeScript and React
I'm not David but the answer is yes. After spinning up multiple discrete clusters, you can orchestrate across them by deploying the federation control plane.

https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/cluster-administration/f...
In my opinion, the results are not quite exciting as they might seem like at the first glance. The hip-hop and minimal house classification perform almost randomly (the random classifier would have accuracy of 50%). The claim of music genre subjectivity is not fully appropriate for the categories used in this work: the presented genres are quite distinct, and they have objective differences. Knowing only BMP and rhythm structure of the tracks would be sufficient to classify most of the mentioned genres. Also, the article lacks of critical analysis of the results. The network may not have learned to analyze structural properties of the music; if this is true, than what is it classifying exactly? An averaged spectral envelope or spectral distribution? In this case the network will fail if you feed a filtered music piece into it. There is a nice paper on issues like these called “A Simple Method to Determine if a Music Information Retrieval System is a Horse”, you may want to check it out: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/265645782

I understand this is an educational project, but nevertheless it's published, hence open for critics ;)

Edit: small style corrections.
The fact that they open-source their code is enough. Imposing the requirement that they must support everything they open-source will mean they will open-source less.

Why should everyone support everything they open-source as an official product? I contest everything you say. This is not the #1 reason. It's not even _a_ reason.
Why trying to do it via A.I.?

Why not checking which are the top 3 most played songs by other users who are the 1000 users who have the most similarity with the current user, and then recommend the current user the most played songs from the 1000 similar users that the current user has not listened to yet.

As far as I can see this would be superior to any existing A.I. recommendation algorithm.
How do you measure time online?
Every nerd I know (including the ones who own Apple Watches) mirrors the comments in this thread — poor text entry, slow, half baked.

Every non-nerd I know who has one absolutely loves them. Last month, my parents came to visit and...
- boarded their flights with the Delta app
- paid for taxis with Apple Pay on their wrists
- laughed at how much higher their “steps” were here than back at home
- when my mother wound up in an accident, used Hey Siri to call us from her hospital bed when she couldn’t reach her phone.

We’ve been watching this industry for decades, unsure why it’s so hard for nerds to grasp that Apple doesn’t make products for “us”. But hey enjoy your Creative Labs Nomad...
One tool to add to your toolbox as a developer is named locks. Say you have a table for orders and a table for order items and a table for payments. Collectively they represent an order, but that is a higher level concept that isn't something an RDBMS understands. When the user on your site simultaneously sends two updates, such as "remove item from the cart" and "pay and finish", you will have a slew of simultaneous updates to the rows across the three tables. Unless you use the highest isolation level, you will get inconsistencies. If you do use serializable isolation level you might get a deadlock, depending on how conscientious you are about updating everything in the same order. You could do an initial read from the orders table with FOR UPDATE which will provide you an implicit lock on that order, but you still have issues with new rows being inserted into your order items table that will not be range locked.

So use names/advisory locks: create a named lock called "order-1234" where 1234 is tbe ID of the order. Acquire it before doing any manipulations to the order across all its tables. Then release it. Semantics of names locks differ across RDBMS's. Unsurprisingly Postgres has saner and more flexible semantics than MySQL, but both are perfectly suitable for the purpose. This technique can save you a ton of headaches.
SVGs are a problem because they don't have a "preferred size" parameter. On Xcode you can use PDF files for icons (which are much like SVG, but state "all my points are relative to the size WxH). Once you have that you can make pixel-perfect icons that are always rendered sharply.

The catch is that Xcode compiles all those PDFs to PNGs before bundling them into the .ipa, so in the end you have a bitmap either way...
I obviously can't speak for him, but macros do complicate things, particularly when ahead-of-time compilation gets involved. There's also the issue that macros have some of the same sorts of issues as inline functions - because they're expanded in place, they can introduce hidden forms of coupling.
While introducing the C class of stocks they made clear that they don't plan to give up their majority any time soon (that's the whole reason the were introduced) thus that premium is far in the future.
I didn’t say norming test scores either. I said norming opportunity. Quote where I said that.
Embedded MNIST running on TensorFlow in the browser
Inside Salesforce’s Quest to Bring Artificial Intelligence to Everyone
Based on what I've seen at a local running club with 60+ members, most regular runners seem to have picked up at least one wearable (although I haven't seen that many Apple watches - most have gone for either Garmin or TomTom). In fact, I'm certainly in the minority as someone who hasn't.

That said - the more professional members are generally also in that minority too - they tend to stick to using their phone or they don't bother tracking their runs at all.
The "spectacle of ignorance" on the part of the masses. The most horrific thing to come from all of this, is that we're all not at all interested in the knowledge that we have secret masters who have given themselves the right to inspect anything, alter anything - at all - in the digital world, and use that to maintain and continue to expand their power base.

None of that matters.

What matters is just how little any of us give a fuck.

When Snowden hit the wires, it was a digital apocalypse for a lot of people. The GCHQ "catalog of intercepts", such as it was, just hurt like hell. The details about Keyscore and the technology that out-Google's Google: horrific. I can't explain how depressing it is to know that there are hardware y-combinators out there, in the oceans, providing an elite class with advantages none of us will ever see, in their effort to project power in the new, digital, order.

It was absolutely disturbing.

What made it hard to wake up from the hangover was the realisation: 99.95% of the digital-using world just don't give a fuck, because they don't understand.

We cannot trust our computers any more. We never could, really, but now: we just can't.

How do we back out of this situation? It has to start with a local revolution: roll your own. Grow your own. And, unfortunately, that isn't happening. Technological centralism has enslaved us all - and there are only a few, elite, who can escape these bonds.

Are you one of them, "citizen"?
I'd like to know how much of an impact that had, but nonetheless Chrome is technically in many areas the best browser today and Mozilla, being the clear market leader at one point, could have done a lot more to prevent that.

Firefox was in need of technical improvements for some time, but they only started acting when Chrome already had a noticeable market share and that's not how you stay at the top.
> Really this product should never have existed and we should have moved to modern power management of monitors 30 years ago. Think of the electricity that could have been saved.

But then we would've had to store it in Leyden Jars.. millions and millions of Leyden Jars.
Its 174 MB installed with another 150 on Data which is a thing but I hardly use facebook once a day (just to see notifications not even the feed) which is quite big and no cleaner is going to delete the Data as it is not cache. Facebook app is a big one and I don't even know why.
If you're employed full-time, the expectation is that you're giving your employer roughly 40 hours a week. Nobody can code continuously for 8 hours a day and be productive, but just being available is the bare minimum you can do to be considered "working."

I've never heard anyone get cool points at our company for being online more than 8 hours a day, but being online less than that (without reason) is definitely frowned upon.