skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The first line of defense has been to lower interest rates. That can't happen currently.

A second line is to increase government spending. That seems unlikely.

The article notes that we have been reducing back-ups like food stamps and Medicaid. It would take time and political will to restore those.
There is also the scheme shell: https://scsh.net
One would assume that would be from the Washington Post rather than Breitbart
Yes, but it's more "we made Xen faster so you can use unikernels even better". Unikernels aren't the new thing here.
You're missing a few classic violent revolutions in that logic, the NAZI party, Mao (he created a famine and kept power...) Stalin, Pol Pot (also made famine, not created by it).

People really get triggered by real or perceived injustice. It seems to be one of those common human instincts. Being downtrodden with lack of opportunity while others are born to the manor can get people going.
>This generation AMD is killing the price/performance ratio.

Again, synthetic benchmarks that show atypical tasks like video encoding aren't helping sales. No one buying this stock because sales projections are poor. Turns out per core performance is what the market is biased for due to the benefits of it on typical computing tasks. AMD's big gamble with lots of cores didn't pay off like some assumed, thus the market correction we're literally seeing.

The report is fully factual, maybe it gets some causes wrong, but people are not buying this stock, they're selling it off, thus the price drop and the price drop in the future to a perhaps $8 stock price. Considering AMD floats around $4-5 in general, $8 seems like a decent place to be for an AMD slightly off life support. Thus far you have provided ZERO evidence on why a $14 AMD stock price is rational when all evidence points to it being the height of a hype cycle and nothing more. Or any real criticisms of Moore's analysis. Are you claiming his projections are incorrect? If so, what evidence do you have?

Not to mention, the data they have on seeing the big cryptocurrency GPU buys starting to taper off, on top of miners also buying NVIDIA especially the 1070 which has a strong price/performance ratio for certain types of mining.

Worse, AMD's console bread and butter is only getting worse. 5% reduction may actually be optimistic.

And that's on top of Coffee Lake eating their lunch.

https://www.pcgamesn.com/intel-core-i7-8700k-review-benchmar...

https://www.pcworld.com/article/3230369/components-processor...

Again, if Ryzen/Zen is so amazing, where are the sales? All I see are breathless fanboys being especially rude to anyone to calls out Ryzen's flaws or the pros of Intel's offerings. It seems like you guys are giving emotional arguments on what you want to happen in the market and not actually what is happening in the market. You can't will AMD into a proper intel competitor with a strong stock with just angry and misleading social media postings.
Meant 'wary' - thanks.
I think wxWidgets is still around and they have Python bindings (not used it, but have used the C++ wxWidgets a lot).
Frontend UX guy here: Focus on making the best damn API experience that you can. It should be restful, fast, and reliable. If you can build that, then someone like me can easily build out the visual interface.
I've started building a few side projects and experienced the same frustration.

I'll use one of my recent projects as an example. Here's the first version of the landing page : https://imgur.com/a/BDNgl and here's the current landing page : https://www.hostedcomments.com/

Even though the current version could be improved significantly, I graduated from receiving comments such as "The current one doesn't motivate me to continue, even less to buy from you" to being somewhat acceptable.

Here's what works for me : I used bootstrap but tweaked the colours of the default buttons, the colour of the navbar and footer and it made a world of difference. The default bootstrap colour scheme is pretty ordinary and the examples feel like they are literally designed to expose people like me, who just use the default bootstrap colour scheme and example code snippets and end up with a terrible design. As an example, the default navbar has rounded corners and a simple addition of the navbar-static-top class makes the navbar look significantly better.

Regarding UX, keep things as straightforward as possible. Cut out all the bullshit and fluff to deliver a flow that's natural to new users. You will need to talk to users to figure out what works and what doesn't. It's also a good idea to have helpful tooltips in areas where users can potentially have trouble understanding the flow.

In general use screenshots/gifs/videos liberally, especially on the landing page. They work pretty well.
There is also a Scala repl and scripting tool http://ammonite.io/
https://gengo.com/

https://localizejs.com/

^ both useful translation services ツ
With lightning it's still ultimately settled on the bitcoin network.

Here's a lazy copy/paste from the site:

> The Lightning Network is dependent upon the underlying technology of the blockchain. By using real Bitcoin/blockchain transactions and using its native smart-contract scripting language, it is possible to create a secure network of participants which are able to transact at high volume and high speed.

> Bidirectional Payment Channels. Two participants create a ledger entry on the blockchain which requires both participants to sign off on any spending of funds. Both parties create transactions which refund the ledger entry to their individual allocation, but do not broadcast them to the blockchain. They can update their individual allocations for the ledger entry by creating many transactions spending from the current ledger entry output. Only the most recent version is valid, which is enforced by blockchain-parsable smart-contract scripting. This entry can be closed out at any time by either party without any trust or custodianship by broadcasting the most recent version to the blockchain.

> Lightning Network. By creating a network of these two-party ledger entries, it is possible to find a path across the network similar to routing packets on the internet. The nodes along the path are not trusted, as the payment is enforced using a script which enforces the atomicity (either the entire payment succeeds or fails) via decrementing time-locks.

> Blockchain as Arbiter. As a result, it is possible to conduct transactions off-blockchain without limitations. Transactions can be made off-chain with confidence of on-blockchain enforceability. This is similar to how one makes many legal contracts with others, but one does not go to court every time a contract is made. By making the transactions and scripts parsable, the smart-contract can be enforced on-blockchain. Only in the event of non-cooperation is the court involved – but with the blockchain, the result is deterministic.

I haven't explored sidechains enough to give you a competent tl;dr but the security model is discussed in the whitepaper I linked.
> Does anyone understand this?

I don't quite grasp the details of the story, but the "four kinds of money"[1][2] theme may help understand the point of view.

Why exactly would Musk spend money in a way that disturbs conservatives more than how say ULA does it, is probably complicated, but I assume they have their reasons.

PS. Also, quite illuminating is Ron Paul's original opinion piece on foxnews [3].

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MQp-5lZToE

2. http://lpmaryland.org/liberty-quotation-milton-friedman-four...

3. http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/09/12/ron-paul-crony-def...
Reminds me of this submission from a while ago that explained how to have a kinda-live version of the current htop status as the background image of your website as a fun hack:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10323226

The site is now down but here's a snapshot:

https://web.archive.org/web/20160304133820/http://drunken-se...
more like (anymore): https://developer.apple.com/support/iad/
I remember reading another story on HN this morning from someone who applied to the big four (well, five) and got accepted by all of them. How they did it? By optimising solely for the hiring process and little else.

And, to be honest, I wouldn't hire this person - they are so focused on optimising towards the METRICS that they ignore what abstract goals the metrics are trying to measure. And that can easily come back to bite you as an employer; you can even see this behaviour if you look at what weirdness ML systems can optimise towards without the right constraints. It's a natural and easy way to do things, but it probably doesn't make good developers.
But that was in no way the market situation at release. AMD offered more cores, and each core was almost as strong as the Kaby Lake processors'. Exception being the very high clocked 7700K (but clock a Ryzen v2 might address).

Now that Coffee Lake is released Intel also got a hexa-core against the Ryzen 5 1600, that one was eating their lunch until now. But even that i5 is not much stronger.

The Ryzen 3s + the smaller Ryzen 5s (their 4 core offerings, 3 core offerings don't exist this time) are competitive against the i3s, though the Coffee Lake i3-8100 wins against the Ryzen 3s at least. No, this is not the strong suit this time, it is the middle class with the Ryzen 5 1600 (in all areas) and productivity with Ryzen 7.

This is exactly why the mobile chips are so promising: This generation the single core performance is very good, energy-wise Ryzen looks nice as well, and the graphics AMD always did better. Raven Ridge APUs should make for very strong laptops.
> Is arstechnica musk's PR firm? Isn't that strange in and of itself?

Nope. Why is it strange? I expect there is a large intersection between people who like Musk and the things he is working on and people who read Ars. In fact there is likely a large intersection between people who like Musk and his companies and people working in tech.

But hey, if global media conspiracies are your thing then sure, it's that.
>I'm not trying to be snarky, I'm considering to become a customer.

Why would you consider being a customer if you've no idea what they do?
DeepL (https://www.deepl.com/) is a pretty good translator. It's not perfect, but it's much better than google translator.
The death kneel for me regarding Ars was that they shut down their Open Source section while their Apple section kept spilling over into their other sections.

More and more i felt the place could be rechristened Apple Technica.
I've never worked at an organization that hired the best. Hiring the best is a myth.
What constitues a "bad amount"? It is displaying a series of text onscreen, with a history of messages for each contact. What's it eating all that RAM for? My mind boggles.
People have been trying to turn Africa into a great opportunity for far longer than I've been alive. It never works. There's something more fundamental there that's causing problems than lack of education.

That said, I believe the most important stats are moving in the right direction there.
As someone who does own an iPhone i'm genuinely curious what your largest concerns are about its privacy
But they won't go away when they (we?) crash. And they will likely want to double down on those voting patterns.
Ask HN: Is there a neural network I can use to help diagnose cancerous moles?
Researchers published a study earlier this year [0] about promising results in using neural networks for classifying skin lesions as cancerous. The results are on par with professional dermatologist.

Does anyone know if this neural network is available or if the results have been replicated? There are a few apps out there but I’ve read the accuracy is lower. I would like to use this technology for personal use in addition to professional screening.

[0] https://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v542/n7639/full/nature21056.html
Canonical Joins Gnome Foundation Advisory Board – Ubuntu Insights
Hi HN! I'm one of the researchers that produced this result: we figured out how to make 3D adversarial objects (currently fabricated using full-color 3D printing technology) that consistently fool neural networks in the physical world. Basically, we have an algorithm that can take any 3D object and perturb it so it tricks a classifier into thinking it's something else (for any given target class).

Recently, there's been some debate about whether or not adversarial examples are a problem in the real world, and our research shows that this is a real concern, at least with current neural network architectures (nobody has managed to solve the problem of white-box adversarial examples yet).

I'm happy to answer any questions that anyone has!
GraphQL Authentication with React Native and Apollo [Part 1/2]
yes. and multithreaded.

Theres no meaningful reason to use cljs other than to avoid java or if the java runtime isn’t available (eg. browser).
Breaking the Waves
Link doesn't work for me. And I could use the organization.
The same thing people with a mortgage payment do.

And we do have public housing for those that can't.
Very cool! I use Clojure on a daily basis for coding, this is a great addition to the arsenal :)
Actually, my main argument against _not using it_ is that Bash has this awkward syntax that is hard to remember if you don't use it often...
But anyway, I keep forgetting it after years so I might as well embrace it and take the leap to use this.
Thanks for the initiative!
A Lesson from the Biggest Losers: Exercise Keeps Off the Weight
"Emotional labor" is a latest trend and it's going to be around for a moment. For the next few months, it'll be overused more and more frequently to describe an ever-growing set of things. Given some time, I'll probably start mentally filtering any comment containing the term.

See also: 'virtue signaling'.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=emotional%20labor...

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=virtue%20signalin...
Yeah I was overly cautious, it would be high risk to pull the rug at that time.
I've just finished reading "The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade", which is a pretty bleak and depressing book - I would guess the US Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex (who the Neocons are basically cheerleaders for) would hate SpaceX as they are trying to undercut existing players and reduce the amount of pork - which is basically what makes the MICC run.
Info on the 666 RFID Microchip Technology Becoming More Periodic as We GetCloser
Python asyncio for beginners
This seems a bit dismissive from an intellectual point of view. The article even mentions some of the questions that were considered when the concept originated:

> Hochschild was also worried about the potential social and health side effects of asking people to manipulate their emotions for others for pay, day after day. How did this affect their well-being when they went home? Did it alienate them from their ability to gauge their authentic emotions when they clocked out and regained their autonomy? Are women judged differently for their emotional work than men are? How are the emotions of people of color judged more harshly at work than white workers’, and how is this leading to workplace inequality? Hochschild’s work anticipated the rich field of research on the booming low-wage, high-stress service sector many workers find themselves navigating today.

These are not trivialities, and it seems clear that early evidence of these phenomena would warrant further investigation.
Actually, Quasar is more than actors - it also implements true, actual fibers/coroutines, using bytecode rewriting (essentially turning each async function into a state machine).
Political Twitter Is No Place for Moderates – FiveThirtyEight
I think if you could build a mvp front end and get started then by the time you have to worry about competing on features you're already at a point where you'll have the resources available (skills and/or employees).
Market manipulation, plain and simple.
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the fact that a war is fantastic for the economy is common knowledge, or at least I thought

What?! This is absurd! Common sense should tell you that war is terrible for an economy because lots of valuable assets get destroyed repeatedly.

What you mean is that war is good for GDP because suddenly every last scrap of spare resource is thrown into industrial production, often funded by running up massive debts. But don't make the mistake of confusing the economy for GDP. From a wealth perspective war is about as useful as paying people to dig holes in the ground and immediately fill them back up again. Yes, it pumps your stats around "production" (of holes), but it doesn't create wealth.
Posted here: http://wesmckinney.com/blog/arrow-columnar-abadi/
The #1 rule of computer/data security is physical security. If you have data/information you don't know anyone to access, don't put it on the cloud. Store it locally somewhere with no or limited internet connection.
I think there are a lot of people who open and close their editors pretty regularly, I can imagine that the start-up time for VSCode can become quite significant to those people.
I admit that the common lisp LET special form follows what you call the ALGOL style (for binding at least), but the traditional Lisp scoping seems more natural to me.
A no-installation version: `htop | nc seashells.io 1337`
I think its more complicated than that.

There are reports that Apple has an internal committee, including a high level executive, dubbed their "privacy czars" which are required to unanimously sign off on any instance of user data collection, and this committee has actively limited products like Siri over concerns [1]

There's also the San Bernadino customer letter, which has become a defining point in their privacy history [2]. They didn't have to publish that letter; they could have fought it privately or not fought it.

There's really no fundamental reason why iAd couldn't have become a more powerful revenue generating part of their platform. They sell enough iPhones to reach a broad market. But, per [1], reports say that the team ran into internal privacy concerns which constantly forced limiting its capabilities.

Apple is fundamentally different, in ways that can't solely be explained by their product history and revenue sources. Companies like HP and Samsung make consumer hardware, but also generate revenue by selling their customers' data to third parties. Its clear to me that Apple does consider Privacy a revenue-generating product that they sell.

Of course, you can argue that maybe they wouldn't take that stance if they weren't so successful in hardware; that Privacy is a privilege afforded to them because of their success, and less successful companies need that advertising revenue. But now we're arguing hypotheticals, and I'm not going to partake in that.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-encryption-privacy-...

[2] https://www.apple.com/customer-letter/
Or a more open-ended variation: Tell me what you like about working here.

And then: Is there anything you wish were different here?
Companies have only done research in the post-WWII world in any major way.

Before that it was mostly independent researchers, or ones employed at places such as the Prussian Academy of Sciences.

And in that model, research was open and public.

In today's world, research is jept secret, never published, but a software patent is created based on the use case, so that the company can sue whoever copies it, but never has to publish either (software patents do not require publishing implementation detail, in contrast to real patents).

If that is good is an entirely different question (and I think it's not).

> There's no reason education has to be provided entirely by the state. In voucher schemes the state takes a slice of people's taxes and gives it back to them in the form of use-limited credits that can only be spent on e.g. education.

That's basically what the US model already does, and it leads to ever growing tuition fees, and people far over their head in debt before they even leave university.
You could:

. Look for a friend/partner who does UX.

. Contract external freelancer or business to design for you.
Both are powered by AMD, and it has been confirmed for almost a year.
> Is this related to Purism announcing that they had successfully disabled the Intel Management Engine on their laptops? Or is that unrelated?

It is completely unrelated.

Intel ME is about a remote servicing interface that exists on all current Intel processors. While it has some usages for managing computers in a corporate setting or managing servers (keyword to look for: Intel Active Management Technology (Intel AMT), which needs Intel vPro), it exists on nearly all current Intel processors (except, I think, Intel, Quark; but this processor is built for completely different purposes). Thus there are rumors that it is a backdoor for, say, 3-letter agencies. I don't want to spread any rumors here, but just say: Because Intel ME is very large and complicated (according to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iffTJ1vPCSo 5 MB in size) it is a real concern that lots of security gaps will be found (and some have been found in the past), which, because of Intel ME's structure (according to https://schd.ws/hosted_files/osseu17/84/Replace%20UEFI%20wit... it runs on ring -3) can easily lead to really dangerous security holes. Just for this reason alone any responsible admin should try to disable Intel ME so that this security liability does not have to stay open.

PRISM is a surveillance program by the NSA.
I sure hope that some of the tools is named Weasley.
Coding Without Limits
The trick with Maslow's Hierarchy is that it's not a serial process. Problems can happen in parallel, and different combinations of problems can happen to different kinds of people. All of society is not carried up and down the pyramid in lockstep, as we can clearly see. This means it's really hard to define any objective "significance" to a problem. "Fundamental", sure; you can't worry about the cost of emotional labor if you're dead from hunger, or a workplace fatality as you suggest. But it's much harder to assert that that provides a complete ordering over "kinds of problems people have".

So, in short, I guess instead of defining the whole picture as a (probably) false dilemma, why not do both? All of these issues need addressing, and all of these issues need voices. To paraphrase the Horowitz story, there's no silver bullet here, so we need lots of lead ones.
I have definitely filled my commute time with more podcasts and audio books in an attempt to learn new skills. I do agree though that having the quiet time is nice to just think or unwind for the day.

I have a podcast with just nature sounds I use when I need to drown out the noise on the train.
>Which few really used in the wild, so no, it wasn't.
Are you saying the average iPhone user doesn't have a case?
The roadmap seems well thought out. Perhaps linking each unfinished item to a summary Github issue explaining how you see it being approached would assist with gaining contributors. You could then keep a list of "where to jump in" by assigning that sort of issue a tag ("start-hacking-here" or some such).
I have used this in the past for rails apps:

https://www.localeapp.com/
Practical issues aside and from an individual’s perspective, why use an inflationary currency at all if you can use a deflationary one?
I haven't opened the ReportURI webpage, but I would assume their value added compared to DIY is exactly in spam-filtering and solving (or mitigating) all the security issues that report-uri (the header) inserts itself.

Call me cynical, but I believe reporting causes more harm than good, by exposing new attack surface.

Why not just deploy a crawler that detects CSP errors and reports them in a static report for the site owner?