skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe that a significant number are true believers, judging from conversations I've had with them in the past.
Async Pan/Zoom (APZ) Lands in Firefox Quantum
Worth noting: Skylake and Kaby Lake have been horror shows for Intel Integrated GPUs driver crashes. To add to this, some paths (like DXVA) are actually slower than Haswell.

I wonder how much of this is a fix for GPU reliability rather than GPU performance.
I already signed up for their free CPU cycles
Whenever I tried an app on expo it crashed for me so in my head expo was never the option.i will.investigate that path too. It's basically send images to friends and comment / conversation literally over the image .
This article fails to address the major question. Why and how are not important. The only thing that matters is WHEN the bubble will burst. Nobody can answer that question. My best estimate is around the 2020 election cycle when regulation of cryptocurrency becomes a major issue
Top 20 Python Machine Learning Open Source Projects, Updated
i remember when you'd get a fully featured ui library when you bought a compiler.
I know it's fun and easy to bash PowerPoint but I strongly believe it has its merits. I guess, as a strategy consultant I have to say so :) As there are ways to properly structure a text document, there are ways to properly use PowerPoint. E.g., for detailed management briefings, a PowerPoint, if done right, allows the reader to get the main messages within minutes but also allows for in-depth reading of key points. Typically, such presentations would be structured results/recommendations-first [1] and using the assertion/evidence model [2]

[1] Most people structure their PowerPoints sequentially ("we started doing this, then we did that..."). In most cases it is better to start with the final outcome ("we recommend doing x") and then provide all the required backing

[2] State the learning from the slide in the title and present the required evidence in the content part. This allows people to just skim all the titles and get the full story but also dive deep where needed

Edit: To be precise: such presentations are not intended to entertain. They are a tool to guide people as effectively as possible through complex content and allow pre-reading / post-reading
That explains why every BioShock review I read back in the day seemed like it had been written by the same person. Suddenly, everyone were talking about protagonists and antagonists in their game-reviews.
> what are the MAIN UX stories for this browser?

Hello mister design middle manager.
I like to believe most of them are trolls, but you can never be too sure. Some of those comments actually do ask decent questions regarding refraction and line-of-sight calculations.
Seems to me mostly a (valid) criticism of ICOs, which are kind of like penny-stock. No one would put all their money in a single penny stock, right?

It doesn't say much about buying stock in companies who have 'blockchain' in their name. Many of these seem like traditional startups (and many will fail), but can any of them provide fast growth? if not, any long term value?

Disclaimer: outsider point of view, I know nothing about this. I stopped using Bitcoin when renewing a domain name would cost me $5 in fees for a $15 transaction.
You should pay your fair share of tax. You shouldn't pay way more tax than you need to just because you're doing your own accounting badly or because your accountant is a moron.

A good accountant will do a lot more than deal with taxes. They'll point out how you can better finance your operation, how you can capitalize on assets you have to save on interest costs.

Managing cash-flow, expenses and accounts receivable is a very important job. If nobody's paying attention to this you can run your company aground without even knowing it.

So what I mean is if your accountant can't handle basic tax code, your accountant needs to be fired and replaced because you're probably getting killed in other departments as well.
"immoral but not illegal" as usual
David Gerard, author of Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain, has made just that point. I can't quote it enough (three times so far at my Reddit blog):

Decentralisation is the paramount feature in bitcoin, but it turns out that that's a bad idea that's really, really expensive, because it turns out that a tiny bit of trust saves you a fortune.

"Decentralised" isn't a useful buzzword in a lot of ways, because it turns out that you want to be a part of society.

From his interview with the Financial Times:

https://soundcloud.com/user-544122300/gerardpod
Essentially: https://xkcd.com/1172/

It's great that they're making systemd, but if it doesn't work for you, it won't. (Rephrasing a Github bug I read a while back) systemd seems set on replacing the existing software stack with software that works for its creators, without regard to established historical standards of behavior.

For example (in the GH bug), folks using systemd for networking can't necessarily connect to intranet sites, because systemd doesn't keep historical behavior: it doesn't try all the DNS servers you've provided for each request. Instead, it always connects to whichever DNS server hasn't failed most recently. That's faster, that's good.

If you needed systemd to connect to your local DNS server to resolve intranet names like http://myreports/, and 8.8.8.8 to resolve external names, that would work fine... Until the local server took too long to respond to one request. Then, all future DNS requests would go to 8.8.8.8, effectively blackholing your intranet. That's broken, that's bad.

The resolution supplied in that bug, IIRC, was users shouldn't do it that way. So, the resolution appeared to be that the user should've been hired as the network administrator instead of their current job. Maybe it's been fixed some other way since then? Please correct me if so!

Sure, systemd might be faster, but faster isn't better than working-as-expected.
I already signed up for their free CPU cycles.
It's important to remember this grounded-ness in real life examples.

Not all companies are able to wipe the slate and begin again. They may have infrastructure or data that's nearly a hundred years old.

One can't just scorch the earth to solve all the problems, as I sometimes see "robots taking jobs" as.

How can I interface my new Robot Worker 3000 to RPG running on proprietary 40-year-old software? Of which the original programmer is long gone.
It already burst a couple of times actually. Back with MtGox we had quite the burst and a long period of decline. Or how about the 5 times China forbid Bitcon? Burst after burst.

As with the internet: we continued to built it anyway. Adding value to the network in our own way.

I have not stopped working with Blockchain technology no matter the price. I went from millionaire to nothing back to multi-millionaire and I have just kept on working. And I will keep on working, bubble or no bubble, there's always going to be cryptocurrencies and cryptocurrencies-innovation and work for developers and a nice people and fun projects.
This suggests an interesting "golf" game: Given any web page, find the shortest set of keywords that will cause Google to return that page in the first page of results.

Should probably exclude some operations like "inurl" or simply searching the entire page url.
Thats a cool plugin but I had performance problems with it once a file gets above about 1k lines of code so I had to uninstall it :(
> Turns out the most advanced aeronautical tech peaked in the 70s, and we just stopped giving a shit about advancing it past that point.

Really? Gains have been massive since the 70's. Today the goalposts are comfort and cost efficiency. So we're not getting the more sexy speed advancements the jet engine brought us. But cost, comfort, safety have all improved massively. And last year we even ha a solar plane fly around the world. Self landing space rockets. Flying wings. Drones. I feel your ignoring much beyond going supersonic.
True, however, Asians aren't even close to yellow.
GitHub.com/jupyter
A quick note to the author: The article names the company as "Dopplr" but it should be "Doppler". The former seems to be a defunct social networking service.
You mention website developers and Chrome developers, but spare a thought for users as well. If I want to use a password manager and the website developer decided to stop me from doing that, I appreciate Chrome helping me out.
You don't necessarily have to convince IT. If you instead convince their legal department that by not following the NIST standards for passwords they are opening their company to a lawsuit, that could get results a lot faster.

When IT is convinced they have to decide when to put it into the budget. If they think their policy is not okay, just not perfect the fix will probably be buried in the bottom of the budget pile and cut every year.

When a company does not follow a NIST standard [that applies] that is admissible in court against them. While it isn't an automatic loss they have to defend why they didn't follow the standard. In some cases the defense is not to the jury, but the the judge while can make a "statement of fact" and tell the jury to assume negligence for not following the standards. When legal says the cost of not complying with NIST password guidelines is potentially 10 million dollars that puts fixing the password requirements much higher in the budget.
Unfortunately, they don't really have control over that. I'm sure every airline would love to decrease the hassle of flying - it would be great for business.
They should follow the more familiar pattern of CSS libraries with a series of simple examples. I feel this reads more like a paper.
> These fonts are only available on Apple OS.

Eh? The article uses https://github.com/edwardtufte/et-book with fallback to various names of Palatino, which as one of the base 35 Postscript fonts has been available everywhere for approximately forever.
Are we seeing the same page? https://i.imgur.com/LOOHFFz.png

What's the point of making 'e's look very close to 'o's?
From the parent: "Even if it could match Intel's performance it could never match Intel's brand".
Your brain signals weaken and slow down when you’re really tired
The difference between flat earthers and round earthers is that round earthers can correctly predict the outcome of observations using their mathematical models, and flat earthers cannot.

Take the recent total eclipse as an example. It was predicted years (centuries) in advance using round earth mathematics. Is there even a single flat earther who was able to predict the eclipse using their model? If there is, I haven't heard.
In retrospect, I am very sorry for neglecting Brazil in my list.
If I remember correctly from the last time she also has a great post about decoding RF bus stop signals. Super useful for a home assistant!
Haha this has got to be a reference to theWarOnDrugs...
Switching from Ava to Jest and Why
Why doesn't NVIDIA build a CPU? They'd have to license x86 from Intel/AMD (since most Windows apps are built for x64) but AFAIK CPUs are far less complex (in sheer amount of transistors) than GPUs.
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Ask HN: Is VR considered a commercial failure yet?
I understand there are some interesting applications of VR/AR that may catch on, such as teaching medical students or engineers about complex systems, but the broad commercial appeal of VR seems to have been vastly overhyped. Have industry players accepted this or would they disagree?
> For instance, I could imagine smaller, cheaper slot machines sold directly to players, to take them home and feed them coins all day, just to see the pretty lights (I mean they could get their coins back at the end of the day).

Already exists, in a way, and are quite popular. Check out the slots games on the Apple and Android app stores; the ones that are created by subsidiaries of slot machine manufacturers (and therefore can make their slots in the likeness of real machines) rake in an astonishing amount of money, despite the fact that the player is just playing for virtual tokens rather than real cash payouts. A couple are in the top 10 by revenue in both app stores.
From my experience with bluetooth, yeah it is.

Syncing is usually relatively painless but reliably and "instantly" reconnecting is a long ways off. I have maybe a 50% success rate without going to Settings>Bluetooth and clicking on the device. That inexplicably fails about a quarter of the time and I have to powercycle the speaker and toggle bluetooth off/on a few times until it decides to work again.

That rate drops to basically 0 if the speaker is paired to multiple phones, or there are multiple speakers in range of my phone.

If I had to deal with that multiple times per day like with headphones I'd just give up and return it.

I have one absolutely reliable connection (turntable>bluetooth transmitter>stereo) but even that one takes about 15 seconds to establish after turning everything on.
Ask HN: Is a cryptocurrency for funding community projects a viable idea?
It appears that most people are dissatisfied with politics and civic engagement can be difficult to measure.

What if there was a cryptocurrency that gave every participant a vote on the usage of a portion of the funds? Directly linking a member's participation in a fund with the projects within their community. Each member would have a single vote. Theoretically this could act similar to an infrastructure bank but not limited to a certain type of project.

There are obvious issues with this idea: Does the amount of money required to initiate the fund prevent it from being viable? Will members from outside a given community attempt to "steal" its' funds? How could the identity of a member be authenticated without being intrusive? Are people truly interested in improving their community?
I don't know why people think competing against Apple is hard or impossible. Apple steers a pretty clear course, and they don't like to take risks on niche products. They're not like Google where, on a whim, they might make an IoT blender for reasons that nobody can explain.

Apple also maintains very high margins, something that leaves more than enough room for another company to compete on price. The trap here is instead of producing a good product at a better price, most companies produce the cheapest possible product in a race to the bottom.

Find something Apple isn't doing, doesn't seem interested in doing, and use their business model. It worked for Nest. It worked for Tesla. It could work for you.
recently, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15206292
Zelda Wiki is hosted on Gamepedia. It's like Wikia but specifically for Video Games and less obstrusive.
What Happens When You Put 500,000 People's DNA Online
> Since hydrogen fusion lies at the heart of hydrogen bombs, the researchers were quite naturally alarmed at their findings. So much so that they considered not publishing their results. But subsequent calculations showed that it would be impossible to cause a chain reaction with quarks because they exist for too short a period of time—approximately one picosecond—not long enough to set off another baryon. They decay into much smaller, less dangerous lighter quarks.

This must be either some kind of inside joke that was lost on the reporter, or a really poor reporting. You simply cannot accumulate stuff that decays in the order of picoseconds: if you can, you already have a bomb. No chain reaction needed.

After all, when they say "they decay into much smaller, less dangerous lighter quarks," it means they release all this dangerous energy.

It's like saying "Fortunately, this TNT decays into a much less dangerous mixture of inert nitrogen, water vapor, and carbon monoxide." Well, duh, it's exactly the process of decaying that makes TNT so dangerous.
Apple at its Best
I guess anyone who wants to take on the legal risk is welcome to start up their own version hosted on IPFS.
Thanks for replying but I know what Jupyter is and I'm already using Jupyterhub. My question was on more details/source code for this Google service that they've built on top of Jupyter which looks equivalent to a hosted Jupyterhub.
I'm reading from Windows, and the fonts used look good to me?
NY Times published an update about these kids in 2015 [0]. Basically the US immigration system prevented them from pursuing engineering within the United States. This was before DACA, and they were undocumented. Thus:

> Lorenzo Santillan considered becoming a mechanical engineer, but instead earned a cheaper associate degree in cooking. Today he works as a line cook.

> Luis Aranda studied cooking as well but did not complete a degree and now works as a janitor.

> Cristian Arcega [...] made it to Arizona State University on a scholarship. But [..] Arizona voters passed Proposition 300, an anti-immigrant measure that prohibits undocumented students from receiving any state financial aid or qualifying for in-state tuition — more than tripling his tuition. He dropped out and is now unemployed.

> Oscar Vazquez [got] a scholarship to A.S.U. [...] He graduated with a degree in mechanical engineering in 2009 and applied for legal residency [...] but he was also summarily banned from the United States for 10 years for living here without a visa. [...] After a year, his ban was reversed when Senator Richard J. Durbin, Democrat of Illinois, interceded on his behalf. Mr. Vazquez returned, enlisted in the Army, and served a tour of combat duty in Afghanistan. He is finally a citizen, and repairs trains in Montana for the railroad company BNSF.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/16/opinion/the-cruel-waste-o...
It's worth noting that in my observation their fares jump in price as the flight approaches to a higher degree than some other airlines, though not too much higher, and I still prefer this to change fees.
So I'm not a cloud advocate. For the present company we use the cloud because we, as a company do not have the skills or the ability to run our own infrastructure properly.

We have three physical datacenters.

in terms of cost for us, its about 3-8 times more expensive, side by side AWS vs hosted tin.

The problem is this; Raw metal is much, much faster and more efficient. but the tooling to make it HA, scalable and monitored >> than the cost of hosting in AWS. (specifically migrating the ~3000 instances from 6+ config systems into a homogeneous platform)

Having worked for a beautifully integrated high scale (36k servers, 15pb storage) company, where everything was real steel and well monitored and automated, it makes my heart bleed paying through the nose for shitty VMs with even shittier storage.

However, Having to deal with half-arsed VMware/kvm integrations is far far worse than dealing with AWS. Or worse, dealing with a shitty puppet wrapper for tungsten.
I was somewhat surprised that ESP32 not only survived being powered from 5V, but worked somewhat reliably while so and I only noticed that the software issues I was debugging were caused by that from the smoke coming off the paper label on breakout module.
Don’t forget ‘loading’ indicators
It looks like there's two options for cross-platform XAML UIs:

* Prism [1], which doesn't seem to support .NET Core. It was originally created by Microsoft Patterns & Practices, but then open sourced it. It's now community maintained. It looks like it's still being actively developed as there was a merge 4 days ago.

* Avalonia [2], which supports .NET Core but is still in alpha.

[1] https://github.com/PrismLibrary/Prism
[2] https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia
MySQL and MemSQL are very different, are you looking for a data warehouse specifically?

They are closed-source and require enterprise licensing based on RAM quota so it's not simple to do automated cloud provisioning. They do have their own MemSQL cloud offering so you might inquire into that. Also MemSQL Ops is probably the easiest and most reliable operations software for any database, it just takes a few clicks to install and upgrade your cluster.
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Key phrase from this article:

> At present, however, the very short lifetimes of the heavy bottom and charm quarks preclude any practical applications of such reactions.

In other words, this is just an academic exercise, albeit an interesting one.
but you are already there. At present company if I want a new database, I have to make it from scratch, and I'm not a DBA.

One size really doesn't fit all.
Thanks! Just fixed!
This one is one hell of laborious read. Though on the top highlight:

> This is the reason why things like technical analysis work much better in crypto than in equities, because these markets are quite obviously more likely to be driven by fear and greed than established markets.

It works because as the author puts it " the field is made up almost exclusively of newcomer retail investors that probably have never held a stock in their life."

In which case, trading is mostly done by reading some trading books. Fundamental analysis tools like valuation etc. are quite vague and don't really provide a simplistic "if a, then do b" answers. So, people turn to TA which is much easier. If a significant amount of people follow it, then it becomes a self fulfilling prophecy.

That said, author also seems to use TA as well:

https://medium.com/@dennyk/trying-to-make-sense-of-the-ellio...
That's a rather unreasonable criticism. I'm sure if you could ask the author (before he died a few years ago), he could provide you with more detail.

Requiring an author to expand on every question a piece brings to the readers' mind is just an unreasonably high bar.
FZF is fantastic, but has anyone managed to make it work in MacVim? I just get weird display corruption and control characters in my search string when I use it.

Works great in the terminal and neovim.app etc.
"focus on app devs"

This is exactly the type of book I've been wanting for a long time.
The explanations as to why this does not prove the Earth is flat is great. I am not a flat Earther (I very much believe it to be roughly spherical) but I didn't know something like this could be explained by "atmospheric refraction"

It gives me even more respect for astronomers and physicists that they are able to account for factors like this when doing their calculations.
We would be interested, along with other datastores like ElasticSearch, Redis, etc.

AWS, Azure and Google all have various resource organization systems now so that the environment can be isolated but still within our overall account. We run on Google and it would be nice to have a separate project for managed databases while taking advantage of our existing billing arrangements and private network.
I disagree. It's made for writing papers and paper-likes. It sets the tone and expectation with itself as a fluid set of examples.
>As some have speculated maybe this is Apple telling their suppliers to jump and Intel and AMD said how high...

That sounds a bit far fetched IMO. They aren't that dominant in the PC market (esp. compared to the Big Three (Lenovo, HP, Dell)) for Intel and AMD to warrant such an "out there" cooperation just at the behest of Apple...
They've also done something so threatening to users' security that I can't take them seriously on the issue. They've been doing it for years, they refuse to change, and it makes me conclude that they fundamentally don't understand the problem.

Every update of chrome erases their password manager entries. So for every site their password has to be re-entered.

Why is that dangerous? Because that means that my cousins and nephews other regular folks cannot trust Chrome to keep their passwords, so they must either reuse passwords or write them down somewhere. Obviously, a third-party password manager is simply not an option for these folks- they rely on the browser. The browser can get it right or get it wrong. Chrome gets it wrong.