skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Slightly unrelated question but does anyone knows how quantum computing will change if Copenhagen interpretation is invalid and instead De Broglie–Bohm theory proves to be correct?
Include a Hamburger Menu in a NativeScript Android and iOS Application
Because this isn't the typical experience for most?

I've had nothing but good things to say about Apple's repair policies. If it's in warranty, wander into an Apple Store, explain the issue, come back an hour or two later for your free fix or replacement.

Done and done. I've also heard horror stories, but they're a pretty big company. I'm not surprised it's a mixed bag. I can say that there are almost no companies that have a store a couple blocks from me that I can walk into and get free same day repair service for some devices.

The vast majority require me to mail my device into some unknown depot and be without it for a much longer period of time.
Dollar General has amazing logistics end-to-end, possibly better than Walmart. Clearly the difference is enough to make them profitable, if barely, in circumstances Walmart isn't.

What's new information for me is that DG can make things work in tiny towns that only support a single store. A lot of what I've read about their strengths in the past had to do with how well they manage multiple stores in one city.
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Why not just borrow the library book and donate the money you would have used on the amazon books to the library instead, or donate the amazon books to the library? Maybe next time at least :)
Is hiding the mutable shared memory and introducing mandatory serialization for message passing a design decision or technical limitation of v8?
Woebot: AI for mental health
That's a great reason for Electron to exist and I'm all for it. If you want to mess around, do silly stuff just because you can, it's amazing that such technologies exist and you can do magic with pretty low learning curve. Heck, I've been doing stuff in the past like complete smartphone UI with Node and Chromium, just because I could and wanted to experiment.

However, that's a really bad argument when it comes to software development of proper tools that need to be developed and maintained and actually used by people.
Given the quantum computing chip space is getting increasing heated in competitions[1], can someone with industry experience and knowledge to compare Intel's chip with D-Wave's, Alphabet's and IBM's?

[1]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-13/ibm-makes...
Ask HN: Good books for the young software engineer?
I have a CS degree and have been working for a year, but there's still gaps in my knowledge. I've been reading Designing Data-Intensive Applications recently and love the mix of theory and practice. Any book recommendations on other topics like networking, web servers, or the like?
Some environments pass the uncanny valley in video, namely vehicles, architecture, nature - but complex things like smoke from a large fire are still ridiculously non-realistic.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=why+should+i+containerize+my+app
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Ladyada is the founder of Adafruit. Adafruit is a company that sells hobby electronics, micro controllers stuff of that nature. She has a bit of a following in that diy community from her articles and videos.
I do the same and it really helps my productivity. I have no clue why it actually works, but I've been using the strategy successfully for a few years now. I always suggest the idea to a coworker if they're stuck on a problem or find themselves unmotivated.
I would feel nervous about applying old company rules to these companies. Nothing will be around forever, but if any companies ever (so far) might last, I would pick these ones.
I don't get the analogy. Every algebra course goes over the material in order of complexity. You don't go over real analysis until the students have mastered the basics.

The problem with c is that the advanced things get in the way of the basics. You get students asking why their if statements didn't work and to answer you need to teach them GDB and valgrind and different compiler flags and how the stack works. This is a recipe for students that don't end up learning either thing. And it slows everything down so in the end of the year you can't cover everything properly and end up with mediocre C programmers you would never trust near a real C codebase

---

Another thing to remember is that we should be very careful about that drill sergeant mentality that intro to CS should be hard and painful. This advantages students that had the opportunity to program before university and often ends up turning away women and other minorities from the field
Sony tried to do it with their alpha series of cameras. You could install apps from sony, and do post-processing. The cameras were under-powered for this sort of stuff, and the experience of installing those apps isn't very seamless.

https://www.playmemoriescameraapps.com/portal/
Yes! Motion is key. It's not enough to be photorealistic -- you need to be "videorealistic" as well.
I don't understand what software they are offering for a postcard?
The touchbar is worse imo. The problem is the lack of tactile feedback, plus unwanted "keypresses" when your fingers wander over it.

If they would have just placed the touchbar above the old row of ESC and Function keys, it could have been good. Now it is just shit.
It is easy to A-B test. Maybe someone has done that already?
Ask HN: What feature rich, secure puppy cams are you using?
I just got a puppy and I'd love to keep my eye on her while I'm away to make sure she's not howling at the neighbors all day.

The puppy cam market seems saturated and based on a few blogs I've read there are quite a few cams with gaping security holes.

Some features I'm interested in are 2-way audio and controllable camera. Saw some that offered treat dispensing, but not sure if that's a necessity!

I'm curious what cameras is HN using and any security tips you have when setting them up!
I guess I have no idea what I'm talking about here as I honestly don't know anything about teaching and my own experience is atypical (around 8 years programming by the time I started college). So my comment is basically noise I guess.

As long as you eventually require them to understand how things actually work and that code execution, memory management, etc isn't black magic, they should be fine.
Except half of the modern popular video content discussed in this clip represents evermore uncanny depths of said surreal valley. Overly glossy blockbuster movie FX sequences, subversive glitch gif style viral media, vaporwave, and so on.

So, maybe the title is something like:

Warm Hugs For the Uncanny Valley And Other CGI Oddities
I did the same in '03. BA released some steeply discounted tickets with the end-of-life announcement; I think I paid $3,500 round trip (JFK-LHR leg in coach, my rationale being I could afford one way and London to New York was an hour more time on Concorde).

It was also noisy and cramped. Fantastic though, it was a once-in-a-lifetime experience and a wonderful thing to have done.
After owning one since January, I really don't notice the touchbar. However, I spend most of my time docked with an external keyboard - I've used a Das Keyboard (blues at work, browns at home) and the new Magic Keyboard with 10-key (which has same mechanism as laptop but a little more key travel IMO)
in the article:

/shelf/{something}

{something} could be a name - 'american literature'
{something} could be an identifier - '20211fcf-0116-4217-9816-be11a4954344'

if someone calls:

https://library.com/locations:
{
"kind": "Shelf",
"name": "20211fcf-0116-4217-9816-be11a4954344",
}

now we have a shelf named with the id of a different shelf

and the meaning of

/shelf/20211fcf-0116-4217-9816-be11a4954344/book

is now ambiguous

i don't know a great way to avoid this

this is unambiguous, but i don't think my co-workers would like it:
/shelf/name/{id}/books
/shelf/id/{id}/books

I think this would only be slightly more popular

/shelf/name/{id}/books
/shelf/{id}/books

because the thing after shelf/ would not consistently be an id
“Requires”?
I do not only write code.
Am I the only one who would prefer the old style keys but keep the Touch ID?
The cost to setup a dollar general has to be 1/100th of the cost of a walmart store.

Are they franchises or company owned?
Here is a photo realistic demo video made using Unreal Engine 4.0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3LtFrMAvQ4

It's quite impressive how close they are getting to photo realistic rendering. Keep in mind, this is done in real time.
“Essentially what the dollar stores are betting on in a large way is that we are going to have a permanent underclass in America. It’s based on the concept that the jobs went away, and the jobs are never coming back, and that things aren’t going to get better in any of these places.”

That's a pretty strong quote to bury halfway through the article.
I think the streaming movie/TV market is the same as any other commoditized market -- the businesses that survive need to find a way to differentiate themselves or offer something nobody else does.

I think the original content is what will keep Netflix alive in the long run. There are a lot of other places to see movies and TV shows, but you can only see Netflix original content on Netflix (unless you pirate it).
Her profile loads, but you'll notice you can't add her as a friend, follow her, or view any associated content like comments or likes. I think this indicates Facebook has banned the user, but I might be misinterpreting stuff caused by her privacy settings.
There's a Dollar Tree (competitor to Dollar General with a similar business model) in South San Francisco that I shop at sometimes for cleaning supplies/paper goods/party items. I wouldn't trust most of their food offerings, but for the sort of thing I buy there they generally charge 30-50% of what a traditional grocery store in the area does. I have no idea how they can make this business model work with the cost of rent in the area, but I love it.
As a pianist, latency of 20ms makes an electronic keyboard instrument unplayable for me. I wasted lots of time messing around with different drivers for soft synths trying to get below that number. 100 ms is a lot. In audio, a 8ms delay has an effect you can clearly hear, and can be used to "widen" tracks or simulate stereo from mono sound sources, since 8ms corresponds roughly to the amount of time it takes a sound wave to travel from one side or your head to the other.
That is just your money focused mind at work.
There are other ways.

Some trivial suggestions:

- becoming a monk

- begging for food

- steal for food

- roam the open land and life with the animals and eat what nature provides

- die

Some of these are not really attractive, but they show how it is possible to life in a way where you can truly not think about money.

But making the "not wanting to think about money" much less strict will also work.

"you have to have enough of it for your expenses to be paid on autopilot"
Having a job helps here. If it makes enough money, you don't need to think about it.

"enough to retire on"
Solutions:

- having kids

- gamble that pension is enough

- delegate your future problems alltogether to your future-self

- never stop working

If you truly don't want to think about money, "enough to retire on" wouldn't be a concept for you anyway...
I can't remember, was it FoundationDB that didn't have interactive client-server transactions too?
Michigan bill says no “federal, state, or local funds” can pay for broadband
Odd coincidence how this "news" article popped out of nowhere, after this video just had brought the Tu-144 into the focus again.
I don't recommend building your API with it unless your engineers' ops skills are on point. I'm currently contracting for an org that is transitioning from java & clojure services hosted in a colo backed by postgres to full on lambdas written in node backed by dynamoDB. They've built a very impressive Rube-Goldberg machine for taking some data from an etl process, inserting it in dynamo, and then retrieving when an endpoint is hit. In the meantime code quality and development speed have taken a nose-dive with a very important deadline looming in the near future.

Lambdas are great for event-driven tasks and cronjobs though.
I had a friend who sold software to run generic dollar stores. It was fully integrated POS -> inventory, etc. He was making a ton of money traveling to tiny towns across America.
As a mechanical keyboard fan, I'm quite impressed with how much tactile feedback the keys provide despite the short travel. I could live without the touchbar though.
Or you just had a kid, your wife is not working, and there’s only your income paying the mortgage keeping you in a home, and you have a 6 month window only to find something else if you quit, in a small tech market.
Building unified documentation for the web
That's actually good advice. In the event I cannot figure out the classification system, I fallback to this solution.
We did but Go was deemed better in our case. For more details Ctrl+f for Elixir in the blogpost.
Odd, Hey Siri always triggers for me in the car while driving.
It confuses the idea of child porn with literal child porn, similar to hate speech/depictions of violence with literal violence, neo-Nazis with literal 1940 Nazis, historical statues with racists. Free speech makes on sense in this regressive mindset.
It wouldn't change at all. Interpretations of quantum mechanics are just that, interpretations. They don't change the results.
There is a Japanese competitor growing in the US recently. I have seen a few of them in San Francisco. Interesting to see their take on this concept vs American version. http://www.daisojapan.com/
In my hometown, Wal-Mart left years ago and now there are 5 DG stores within a 5 mile radius. The town only has 5000 people or so. All of those stores stay busy.
Some of worst managers that I have met sucked at the jobs of the people they were managing. But they were good at pretending in an environment where upper management is also clueless. Or simply they were promoted to take them out of the jobs they sucked at.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilbert_principle
I'm also pretty sure most cloud systems contain very few condensed water droplets. The containers I work with are not 20 or 40 foot long, and while I ship stuff with their help, no actual ships are involved.

Could there have been a better word than serverless? Probably, but that is the one that is currently used for that general kind of architecture. I would have called that PaaS before, and sometimes still do.
From the FAQ https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

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> [...] a small number of reposts is ok.

I posted this update twice, and typically repost 3-4 times total. Feel free to ignore my next posts.
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And while the US has been slow to act, other countries are already massively stepping up antitrust and privacy enforcement. While most of these big tech cos are based here in the US, international regulation has a massive effect on the bottom line.
lol at "what is a Ladyyada"
Facebook however is has near-monopoly status in social networks.

FB would probably rather regulate themselves than be deemed "a public good" or "necessity" and have someone else do the regulating.
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a good employee negotiates his work and the schedule in good faith. nothing about hanging around the office until 8pm makes you a good employee
Another strength is that the stores just simply aren't that big. I've been to Wal-Marts in rural parts of the lower Midwest that are simply too huge for the population density. Somehow they manage to stay open, but I am never entirely sure how. DG, on the other hand, tends to be half to a third of the size and does very well on the basis that they pretty much only sell stuff that people are actually gonna need on a regular basis. Combine that with the logistics you mentioned, and it's bound to be able to at least sustain itself.
Not sure if I can respond properly on mobile but I'll do my best.

1. There are differences between system conflicts and user conflicts.

Let's say I'm collaborating on a Google doc. Both my collaborator and I start writing in the same part of the document. If the concurrent system is designed "poorly" (for example, it has last write wins semantics), then only one of our writing appears. You can store this history in the system and show that your changes were overwritten by their changes, but this can be frustrating if you are both collaborating on the end of the document.

2. Commutative operations give better guarantees.

Let's take for instance an append only DAG. We restrict this DAG to having 2 operations: creating a vertex (and associated edges) between 2 existing vertices and creating an edge between 2 existing vertices. In this case, even if both my collaborator and I add a vertex between 2 existing vertices, the system will converge on a DAG where both vertices are added. You can follow the same argument with adding edges.

This DAG is an example of a CRDT. It has a limited set of operations (addEdge and addBetween) which allow convergent semantics through concurrent operations

Happy to chat more about this stuff and hope my mobile response makes sense heh.
Although I learned to program past when it was popular, I can't shake the feeling that BASIC is the best way to teach programming. The basis of any computer is the sequential execution of instructions, and it's this model of computation that informs things like algorithmic complexity or Turing completeness. Even if teaching BASIC wasn't possible, I would still prefer to see a subset of x86 assembly taught than something ridiculous like "a simpler C" which obscures the core functionality of a computer with abstractions, without teaching a practical language.
I talked with Intel's director of quantum hardware about this.

https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/10/intel-moves-towards-produc...

What they're really proud of is essentially bringing Intel's manufacturing advantage to bear on an extremely new and different form of computing. Being able to iterate with new materials and architectures every few months is critical for testing, and it's there (as opposed to sheer numbers of qubits or whatever) that Intel hopes to outstrip the competition.

I was also surprised to learn that the cryo systems that get things down to a fraction of a kelvin are only the size of 50-gallon drums. I was picturing something much larger for anything that low. Now I know!
I returned my Apple Watch 3 cellular
The author really needs to understand that his experience is not everybody's, and replace "you" with "I".

He has a repertoire, a college education, a job history, he's white, he's young, he's a man, he probably has no kids, he's able-bodied, he has a support system... so yeah, if this represents you, you will probably do okay if you quit your job. This probably represents a lot of his audience, too. But he's certainly not talking about everyone, he's talking himself and generalizing it to everybody else.
The Thing is on display at the NSA museum in Maryland. Very interesting museum for crypto history.
This is what happens when you hyper-optimize for a single dimension in a many-dimensional optimization problem. In this case it's "thin and light."

MacBook Pros have been thin and light enough for nearly a decade. If I want tiny I have a smart phone that I can pull out of my pocket. I want a laptop to be a portable "real computer" with a lot of power, durability, and good ergonomics. Long battery life is also important. I'd be very happy with a thicker Pro with more CPU, more RAM, and a big battery.

The latest Macs are such a disaster I'm currently thinking about how I can extricate myself from the platform and go back to either Windows or Linux. The OS is fine but the hardware has gone bozo. My latest Mac was a refurbished older model which I consider to be superior in many ways to the newer ones.
> Essentially what the dollar stores are betting on in a large way is that we are going to have a permanent underclass in America. It’s based on the concept that the jobs went away, and the jobs are never coming back, and that things aren’t going to get better in any of these places.

Given the fact that the government hasn't changed tune since the 2016 election, I'd say that's a pretty safe bet. Rural America has been decimated by globalization, anti-trust legislation removal, illegal immigration, and automation, yet the only things the politicians and media are talking about are issues that most rural folk don't care about.
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I think the main culprit was Perl's mess of an OO system. While technically it was the same at its core as the Python one, the almost complete lack of syntax to support OO and lack of standards (especially in those earlier days) for objects to interoperate made it needlessly complicated for most people and people moved to languages where they could just write "class Foo".
Because halide is positioned as a high performance improvement over opencv. While I believe it is just an architectural decision to enable a non-portable ML model.