skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use pen-and-paper for my normal notes about things I want to do.

Until recently I had a section in my notebook devoted to project ideas, but it got a bit unwieldy, and I've switched to keeping those in Markdown: https://gitlab.com/lyndsysimon/ideas
It has nothing to do with Mozilla, specifically. Binary packages are very tricky. I'm sure Cargo will figure it out and eventually grow support, but this isn't some sort of top-down policy.
Not sure I agree r; Netflix and Spotify. Both have curated home pages with questionable amounts of accuracy. Netflix in particular, places all of their own content on the top row of the selection. My fire tv stick home page is jammed with ads for content on the landing screen. Amazons website is a gigantic ad. My online shopping now has suggested items based on what I’m ordering( ordering strawberries - now you get suggestions for branded cream in the same search)

Product placement also appears to be rampant (despite you mentioning it explicitly in your post) - many shows highlight specific vehicles and brands, or specific phones, brands of food...

Another one I’ve found is lots of blogs (particularly food ones) have sponsored entries. So you have someone writing about food ad having recipes that use a particular brand of harissa, or a particular food processor.

All these things are advertising, and are mostly heavily targeted too.
I'll be honest, I took pause at the title. I only ventured into the comments because I was baffled how such a click-bait title was in the #1 spot.
Nice ad hominem. What about this article, and the facts presented therein?
Do you have any plan to open source the platform?
The language of the indictment is surprisingly legible (and blunt). This is a welcome change in how legalese is usually used as obfuscation, or possibly in anticipation of the many journalists and non-lawyers who would want to read it.
Thanks! Gwern's article is more interesting than the original submission.
He's saying that the abbreviation (not the content) is just three letters. He's also conveying that using an icon instead of 3 letters doesn't really add much to the user experience.
Android Audio Latency Problem Just Got Worse in Android 8.0
Ok, you unlock in your pocket for SOS, what then? You can't see what you are doing anyway.
The only reason for Trump to have ever hired Paul Manafort as his campaign manager was to collude with Russia.
SceneNet
Clickable link: https://market.mashape.com/utelly/utelly

Also this should probably be in Show HN rather than Ask :)
On the (very cold) ride into work this morning I realized my mistake.

I did not mean to say that being cute needs to go away. If you want to have a teddybear on your desk called Mr. Snuggles, that doesn't bother me in the least.

What bothers me is cutesy labels like what we're talking about here. They're so commonly used in a manipulative manner that I have trouble seeing them as anything other than scary.

I don't like them for when people watch TV or listen to music or use a programming language. And I despise them when companies try to act like there's a strong bond between employees by breaking them out.

Very, very creepy. Please don't contribute to that. That's all I wanted to convey.
> Or for other apps to take extra precautions such as saving copies of dynamic state to non-volatile locations in case the power fails completely.

The system can crash, hang, forcefully reboot or otherwise die at any moment, without warning. All it takes is one "oopsy", for the phone to hit the ground and the battery to fly off.

If there is important data that needs to be preserved, applications should already be committing it to non-volatile locations periodically.
No wonder Android people do not understand why people pay good money for very locked down iPhone, to them crappy implementation for hardware and software is good enough.
I'd like submissions with clickbait headlines to get deleted instantly.

If your post needs clickbaity embellishments it's probably not worth my time to read it, if it doesn't need any, the post should be able to reach frontpage without them.
Looks very impressive. Any plans of offering this a-la-gitlab: paid hosting + support OR free downloadble source but then you're on your own? Main concern is that for something to really become ubiquitous the community should be able to contribute and not just be in the hands of two developers (no offense, I think you did a fantastic job!)
P2P/Mesh protocols are less desirable when many nodes are running on battery.
Predicting the limits of friction on metals
Why would that be sensible, from their perspective? Seems to me that P2P is an ISP's nightmare, even if only from the logistical perspective of routing.
The first grey box with text in it _is_ the summary.

The actionable takeaway for me is to try and solve this problem with some machine learning approaches, since it's simple enough that we compare to exact solutions, but also interesting enough.

The takeaway from a social point of view is that even people working in finance are not very good at playing these games individually. (The companies they work for might still be doing much better as a collaborative effort, and with more simulations and backtesting used.)
IBM Calling Remote Workers Back to the Office
Paul Manafort Indicted
Does Guile (or even Chicken) do anything similar?

(My only exposure to it is from Andy Wingo's blog, and I don't know much about Scheme.)
Looks like the chrome equivalent is:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/canvas-defender/ob...
But then he would need to describe the context in which the word "Web" is used in the title also.
Or "before your battery runs out, please checkout our battery saving app"
One thing I don't see mentioned here is flexibility. You can plug any ugly old thing into an evolutionary algorithm and let it run. Give me a working computational model at breakfast time and I'll have runs going by lunch. Cranky ancient FORTRAN that requires you to write a new input file for every evaluation? No problem. You have to compile the inputs into the model to make it run? Fine. Badly scaled inputs or outputs? EA doesn't care. More than one objective? Great! Population-based search is a natural fit for multiple objective optimization.

As long as you're clear on what the decisions and objectives are, and you're able to run the model yourself, layering evolutionary optimization on top is easy.
I don't speak for others, but yes I can navigate from locked phone to messages and type a full message to my wife without looking at the screen, thanks to qwerty knowledge and GBoard's "swipe" typing.
Danish submarine owner admits dismembering body of Swedish journalist
I know TS discriminated unions may not be the most elegant construct in the world, but in what way is the check via the never type (as a return or assertion parameter after the switch) not an exhaustiveness check?
I was the audience to at least a hundred advertisements on my way to work today.

Do I mind? Not really. Probably because I can't point out a single one.
Lidar Sensors: Applications and Opportunities
tl;dr They simply bought them through Soviet front companies, operating in West Germany. Instead of trucking them to ports for shippment to NATO countries, they trucked them to a Soviet freighter, and floated them to North Korea.

Hey, we’re buying helicopters, and we’re shipping them here.
Surprise! They get shipped somewhere else.

To maintain cover for a bugging operation, Western allies only busted the last shipment of 15, as a check on the operation, as if to say “oh look, we see you, but how?”

Meanwhile, the intended purpose was to mingle with South Korean vehicles of the same make and model, over the DMZ, by matching paint jobs, so as to be extra confusing, opportunistically.

The article seems to exclude details regarding a mysterious entity named “The Semler Brothers” which are mentioned twice, but uh... wait, who?

Out of nowhere that name is dropped, and why? Who are they? Is this some kind of hamfisted redaction bleeding through from the research for the article? Slightly mysterious.
you also have ^f ^b (forward, back (by a page)), and ^u ^d (up, down (by half a page)). I honestly prefer scrolling by paragraph though ({ })
The right way: influencing ranking by load times for some exemplar (and easily replicable) device and inter-actability events.

That way, sites like HN are boosted to the top, while sites which take 10 seconds for their JS frameworks and ads to load before showing text on the screen are penalized.
Should note: much of the web is now 'mobile' and on mobile people use apps considerably more often.

So - while possibly not 'the web' as in 'browser' - it's arguably 'the web' nevertheless because almost all these apps depend on a great deal of http-ish interactivity etc...

Also - though it's hard to say how much change there has been on the desktop - remember that people do use desktop apps for socially and webby oriented reasons etc..

Imagine: Spotify App vs. Spotify Web, Gmail vs. local client - etc. etc..

This is quite a demarcation.

Finally, one might consider also that 'web experiences' have expanded.

We may not be uses 'other things' less, rather, FB is a new experience that is taking up addition time allocated to the web.

So - we had 'the web' - now we have 'the web + FB web'.

But great article, thanks for that.
But also Google is so terrible at making successful physical products in a lot of these spaces, its hard to say the products give them a lot of power in the market. Google Pixel, Google Home, Google TV, do not represent large install bases. If they want a walled garden, it can't be the size of a postage stamp.
Doesn't that make it win-win? It both gives the site the advantageous position AMP offers it, while undermining AMP's entire purpose and hence discouraging support of it.
> Compiler would infer the types, and the programmer would read it and say, oh, I agree with this type, but I disagree with this type, that's perhaps wrong, this should be rather that type. Then the compiler would infer types again, based on programmer's incremental input.

This is possible today, at least in Haskell. (and I'd guess in OCaml too ... surely also Scala?)

Your proposal for adaptive data structure selection based on benchmarking is intriguing!
Ok, then please don't opt in.
Continuous Integration for ML services
Even tiny cities in comparison will give you a similar experience. You just have to look. There's probably a lot of people looking right through them.
More specifically, I quoted the linked Wikipedia article.
The Indispensable Man
This HN submission was flagkilled; I vouched for it due to this reason.

Even though there is a political backdrop behind the investigation, there is still a newsworthy process to the law-and-order of a special investigation.
Also, and exactly because I find it very interesting and well done, I'm curious about what happens if the company goes down, or pivots, or gets acquired.
Even for people who know the word "crustacean", it's not clear how to say it. The cleverness of the pun doesn't make it more universal.

I'd guess "Pythonista" or "gopher" are much better in that regard because they are almost obvious to pronounce in other languages using the Latin alphaber. They are only one "th" or "ph" away from regular German, for example.
Howdy; author of the article here.

TTI would be pushed back regardless of where the script was included so long as it executed for more than 50ms (very likely). I used a trivial document that contains many pathologies I see in traces to illustrate the point, not to suggest what ideal apps will do.
Manafort, Gates charged with conspiracy against the United States
I don't really follow this logic. Wouldn't ad blocker plugins block ads and therefore nothing about battery status is sent either way?
Why do you have a hard time reading that? It's generally better to solve problems before they happen. An dead Web isn't coming back, and we are trending very much in that direction.
Don't companies participating in hyper-competition only compete for the best products/services/etc. in the eyes of their customers? I mean, companies only get money (investments) if there is promise or results that their product can make money (sales) in a ratio beneficial to the investors. So doesn't everyone win in this case? Not accounting for practices that can arise out of monopolistic tendencies of companies like Amazon or something -- but even then, if competition always exists, isn't the onus on the company to provide the best product for the consumer?
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> They do due to the AMP carousel at the top, but that’s it.

They also get the AMP icon which users are starting to equate with faster loading times. Another form of preferential treatment.
Its discrimination against men with elephant like appendages.. what a outrage, right?
Novel writing tool
You say "more web the Web", but your main example is that your bubble was 4chan; this article implies the exact same thing, but with the bubbles being Google, Facebook and Amazon.
Visual Basic where you replace basic with Python is compelling enough. On the web with a visual design editor ? That’s worth more than 50 bucks enough so that you can crank out a prototype.
Lookup address-by-name seems much more damning than lookup-name-by-address.

Much less is to be assumed about you, like just your name.

Versus the country you live in, state/province/territory, city/village/township, neighborhood, etc.
I don't doubt the facts. I question the analysis and what motivates it, coming as it does from a think tank that's busily trying to sell a plan for a war with North Korea.
How come the number of websites is increasing if the web is dying? How are these websites getting their attention?

Maybe smaller websites are getting less absolute visits than in 2010, but even if that was true, you should say that the web was dying in the 90's.

It's also difficult to believe the web will stop working, or that people will stop making websites just because more people are browsing just on the "trinet" (remember, 20 years ago people already wrote websites, even if they would expect only 3 visits per month). Would Facebook, Google and Amazon come up with a plan to stop ISPs from serving other domains? Why would they do that?
Covariance matrix adaptation is comparable on real-valued hyperparameters, but you're stuck outside of that. More typical genetic algorithms waste a TON of compute time, so they might end up finding a good solution, but the computational budget is out of reach of normal companies.
…which would not help in that gentleman's case. How good is a fingerprint scanner in the back of a phone when it's lying flat on a desk and the user doesn't want to lift up the phone?
Not yet; they're still expanding in developing countries, going as far as building their own internet (same what Google does) so that they can control it. They've already been slapped on the wrist for breaking net neutrality rules there (free access to FB, pay for the rest). And they're doing it under the guise of providing access to everyone, not the real reason, getting everyone hooked on their products and their slice of the internet (not unlike how we were taught how to work with Windows and Office in school and never even heard of the alternatives until later).
New York City Population Closes in on 8.5M
I have to disagree with this sentiment. He's describing a future in which the web no longer exists and only google, facebook and amazon's network exists. This is a very literal interpretation of the term "web is dying", the web will no longer exist. If he's providing evidence that this is the case then the title is descriptive. That aside, we don't even really need additional evidence that this is the case, these companies have made it clear their intention to pull the ladder up behind themselves time and again, just look at Google's reversal of being opposed to net neutrality in general, this can only result in the consolidation of power in their hands. At most you can accuse this title of being apocalyptic.

I.e. If people generally knew that Bono was dying already through other sources, a headline of "Bono is dying" would be shocking by the nature of what it is, but ultimately not clickbait.
The World's Finest Workspace Solutions – For Those Who Want to Win – Servcorp
And us germans, we don't use credit cards much.
Your argument is that the web is now mainly controlled by two companies, not “dead”.

The technology is still there but the diverse hosting options and the creativity that many of us associated with it (what could be called “the spirit of the original web”) could be in peril.

I don’t think that you are arguing that Google and Facebook are fighting HTTP/HTML - although they are offering alternatives that they present as technologically preferable.
I'm reminded how finicky it is every time I step out of the shower. Even a bit of humidity seems to ruin the accuracy. Can't wait to try FaceID
Your comment is badly written and full of unintelligible words.
That’s Google AMP Cache, to be specific, which is used by Google Search. I was pointing out that the (alleged) extra bandwidth and battery use happens then the user visits Google’s website.

I’d limit the term AMP to the library and framework for creating AMP pages.
I think the multiobjective-part is very important. In other algorithms, you often have to specify the solution-space before hand. For instance, when optimizing between lightweight and strength, one would have to beforehand say how to weight those two properties. (f = 100s - 5w for instance). This throws away a whole dimension in your search space. For EAs, you can let it roam free, and select the bests tradeoffs from the pareto-set after the algorithm is done.
10 European founders who conquered the US with a startup and succeeded big time
Oldest recorded solar eclipse helps date the Egyptian pharaohs
They should have supported iphone only. And adjusted the projected demand accordingly. It's much easier to make bluetooth peripherals work nicely only with one specific device and specific os. The whole experience would have been much more polished. They could even have used something like airdrop. Iphone users are also more likely to have $150 to spend on a joke pair of glasses. Really seems like the obvious thing to do.
Anyone can give me an example or explain a little more about "Structure your code so it is mostly leaves."?
That depends on what the "metal" is :)

If the "metal" is the existing ecosystem of languages, then the name would imply that it will slowly eat away and replace code that's been written in other languages.
The biggest pro being the ability to develop with hindsight of every other language ever created
WooCommerce product search for better conversions
Honestly, we would absolutely love to open-source it! The issue is that we're a bootstrapped start-up, and it's rather difficult to make open source pay the bills, even if it becomes huge (see, eg, Docker's troubles). By charging for the product, we can claim some of the value we create, and be sustainable so the platform stays around.
He's not kidding:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3tpV9vUTPo
Honest question for discussion: How much of "serverless'" advantage is the "serverless" aspect, and how much is the advantage of breaking functions down into stateless functions?

While I'm confident that it's not "zero" in either case, it still sort of feels to me that people are praising serverless for some things they could get if they had the discipline to write stateless functions in the first place. (And maybe keep the debugging functionality and the other infrastructure we've built up for normal apps.) And as with many things when it comes to "cloud" tech, it seems to me that people are a bit too bedazzled by the advantages to come to a clear understanding of the disadvantages.
If just getting the information contained on it, then sure, phone cameras are fine and better than nothing. If it's for digital archival purposes though, like, museum quality, then investing time and effort in e.g. scanners is worth it. It's also some of the most boring work I can imagine, but hey.
Does this separate the region specific content appropriately?

ie. US Netflix has Clerks 2 but Canadian Netflix does not.
Yes, and the author of the linked article is the author of Redis.
a measurement of user initiated actions
how to pull that off

Sounds like a horrible idea to enable such behavior. It’s a quick window into bandwidth throttling, for any number of reasons.

Traffic is traffic, and it’s no one’s business whether I’m watching a video, clicking a button, issuing shell commands, or typing a reply to a message.

No thank you, to the idea of changing protocols, or forcing people onto the application layer, in furtherance of analyzing our already-over-analyzed activities with an electron microscope.
20 years from now you will be happy with the best possible pictures of the kids, true. Where 'best' is defined as 'pictures showing the children as they were, doing what they were doing where and with whom they were doing it with'. Whether those pictures were taken with, say, a Motorola Defy (5 MP sensor, takes good pictures as long as there is enough light but gets noisy in low-light situations) or a Samsung Galaxy S8 or Google Pixel (which take good pictures in most situations) is of less importance unless you are in the habit of taking pictures of your children in near-darkness.
> You can use a Google Pixel, and Google Chromebook, using Android and Chrome OS, browsing with Chrome, while using Google Fi and Google Fiber, connected directly to Google's backbone, visiting Google's Search, Maps, etc or other sites hosted on Google's cloud, using Google's DNS server.

...viewing content authorized by Google DRM.

> "After taking a look backstage, we can confirm that after recent updates Safari is no longer a supported browser for Web Player"

> Riegelstamm further dug into the details of the Web Player, discovering that the discontinuing of Safari support might have something to do with Google's Widevine media optimizer plugin, which Spotify requires for music streaming on the web and Apple opposes due to potential security issues.

https://www.macrumors.com/2017/09/08/spotify-web-player-no-s...
You might find this an interesting read about C#/F#: https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/posts/is-your-language-unr...
502 Bad Gateway

openresty/1.11.2.5
I read that as well... good spot being left out of this article. Here is the link: https://www.wired.com/2016/05/forget-elons-batteries-fix-gri...
Interesting that there is nothing here related to the campaign - just some money laundering with Ukraine. Some would argue its outside the relevance of what the special prosecutor was hired for (Russian interference in the election).

Im guessing these charges are designed to scare Manafort into giving up the bigger fish.
I can’t (and I won’t try to) tell how hair-raising was your experience of 4-chan, but Facebook has groups with… interesting content. Nothing that would get Facebook itself in legal trouble (actual CP & terrorism) but those still exist, if more discreet.

If you object to having your name associated to it, reddit also has fun places.
To add to this definition.

Facebook is a large conglomerate business that grows by purchasing young successfull social networks in multiple areas of services.
Generalization of Birthday Paradox
Really? It's a user's responsibility to check his own battery. You're probably the type of person who thinks a car should refuse to start without sufficient fuel. Stop it. Users are intelligent people. Let them do what they want.
as a ukrainian that (mostly) lived through political perturbations in Ukraine during 2003-2013, where connection between ex-president Yanukovich and Manafort was widely known, it is almost baffling to now see connection between Trump and Manafort. one would imagine somebody running for president of the US would have been more careful picking his team.

when scam perpetrators and con artists get indicted, reasonable people stay away from them or their future endeavors. Trump/Manafort for me is the best indication that the political campaign was full of shady business.