skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll be more direct than sillisaurus: You seem to be operating entirely within a world of stereotypes, some of which don't even make sense. Like, for example "the Germans getting ripped off": Even ignoring how unlikely it is to correctly infer one datapoint from data aggregated across something as heterogenous as "the Germans", they (or, more specifically, "Deutsche Telekom") are customers of this company (not investors), buying something rather non-essential (a customer support chatbot), making it seem rather unlikely that they are getting "ripped off".
Deploy a React Native Cross-Platform Blog in 3 Steps
The tale of the frog and the bird may be good for a less mature audience but here we can really go with a richer analogy: the two views correspond to how a virtual machine is seen from within and from the environment in which it runs.
I prefer this analogy to the "abstract mathematical structure, an immutable entity existing outside of space and time"because it not only allows to comprehend how space and time could emerge within that VM and not only what it means to exist outside that emergent space and time, but also that that outside environment could have its own space and time and in turn be just another VM, totally beyond our reach but not inconceivable.
AMD has HIP.
HIP allows developers to convert CUDA code to portable C++. The same source code can be compiled to run on NVIDIA or AMD GPUs
https://github.com/ROCm-Developer-Tools/HIP
Adding to that: they advertise the app for android. The app wants access to contacts, identity, all available networks (wifi scans) and a bunch of other stuff, where I ask myself why it is needed. I also want(ed) to like it, but you are exactly right about that bad vibe. We finally need a search engine that just costs a monthly fee or gets paid via coinhive or the like....
> Do you happen to have a repo I can clone to reproduce the problem? I'm interested in fixing that.

Yeah for a repro you just just need to do this:
https://imgur.com/a/N2S2r

And you can see the warning when you hover over choices in the second image.
Guide to the GDPR Breach Notification Rule
> But on the other hand, there's no point in mentioning that a girl is a girl.

Agreed, that's why I think it was weird to bring it up. Plus, we all know who Elizabeth Holmes is; we all know she's a girl -- why mention it? I guess it was kind of salient that she was a woman.

No idea.
Broadcom Proposes to Acquire Qualcomm in Transaction Valued at $130 Billion
I mean, if we go "household name" then I highly doubt NXP, Freescale, Broadcom or Qualcomm would make that list.

People don't usually research who makes the chips in their doohickeys and gizmos.
New Intel Core Combines High-Performance CPU WithAMD Graphics and HBM2
The limitations of Face ID
> We've got all that in an Advanced Digital Design course, but you have to be pretty far down a class path to take it

How far down? I wouldn't expect it to be popular but I also wouldn't expect it to have a long prereq chain (a sophomore-level course on computer architecture seems enough?)... it doesn't seem like analog which is where you actually need a long prereq chain to get anywhere.

> so most students don't

Most students... in EE? Or most students planning to do digital design after graduation?
>if you tax the company they increase the cost of the phone

Raising your prices in response to not making as much profit as you desired is not often a winning move in business.
Yes but why couldn't peer review be organised by a not-for-profit group? Perhaps a society attached to your specialty could provide a panel?
Are you arguing that a 100% tax on Apple profits wouldn’t impact their competitiveness? How would they build new factories, develop new products or hire more workers without reinvesting profits into their company? Why wouldn’t a company that can raise more money from capital markets and that has the support of its government quickly overtake Apple’s position?
According to an Economist article from Aug 12 2017, the Chinese companies currently in a margin-sacrificing battle to outscale each other. Increasing volume allows them to drive down per-unit costs, so everyone is expanding their production and exceeding the demand for customers. I would be very hesitant to bet on an American company beating the Chinese companies on price and scale for battery production.

> But getting prices down this way has not just produced cheaper, better batteries. It has also resulted in significant overcapacity. Cairn ERA estimates that last year the manufacturing capacity for lithium-ion batteries exceeded demand by about a third. Both it and BNEF say that the battery manufacturers are either losing money or making only wafer-thin profits on every electric-vehicle battery they produce. Despite the seeming glut, though, they all have plans to expand, in part to drive prices even lower. Mr Jaffe explains their thinking as that of the “traditional Asian conglomerate model”: sacrificing margins for market share. This may be a sound strategy given the ever-greater hopes for electric vehicles in the near future. But at the moment it is also one that looks rather unnerving. Although Mr Jaffe believes that increased demand for both electric vehicles and stationary storage will justify the rush to expand, he accepts that, for now, “It feels like a gold rush—but there’s no gold.”

https://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21726069-no-need-sub...
I said it was America’s number one value. Not mine. So your questions make no sense.

A prime example are the paradise papers coming to light.
I will do everything in my power to drive, build and pursue progress and change
These robotic skeletons could teach spine-injury patients how to move again
I agree. I love LaTeX and spent many hours building a YAML/Markdown document that could be compiled to PDF with a custom LaTeX template, or HTML with custom CSS. But after using that for a year or two, I switched back to Word because it was just too painful trying to get the document to fit nicely on two pages without a WYSIWYG editor.
The pricing is out: https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/on-demand/

Note, that you will need to select Northern Virginia, Oregon or Ireland to see C5 prices. By default (at least for me) the pricing page loads Ohio, which doesn't have C5 yet.
Rock–paper–scissors game in less than 10 lines of code
Lessons learned from 20 years of working to improve antibiotic use in Sweden
A great example of why I think the entire core ecosystem of the web is backwards.

I've had a number of comments here on HN related to this. Imagine this same scenario, except instead of the User being in charge of deciding which engine is used to render a website / webapp, the Developer is making that choice. What would a developer need to do if they were in control of which "engine" rendered their website on the user's computer?

Instead of being at the mercy of Google / Chrome, the developer of said site could simply change their HTTP Header "X-BrowserEngine" or something like this, and the client's computer would know how to (a) download the new engine if it's not on the computer already (b) sandbox the new engine (c) run the site / app in said engine.

I've called this idea the "Meta Browser" in the past. It's a concept for an app that sandboxes and runs sites on different browser engines seamlessly. The user experience is more or less as though they're continuing to use a single app to browse the web, but behind the scenes could be any number of custom engines rendering the content.
I believe they are saying that there should be several types of sizes:

a: Relative sizes (to bounding boxes/etc)
b: Exact physical sizes (E.G. points which are 1/72nd inch)
c: Precise device sizes (REAL pixels, not compatibility pixels)

It might be nice to have a way of specifying the minimum and maximum size among those three values, and a priority for fulfilling the min / max request ordering.
What’s the benefit of KVM over Xen these days?
> The author is trying to pave the way for the actual argument and a context-free quote of the buildup does not help the discourse.

The reason I quoted it is to show that he makes assertions meant to sound as if they include interior aspects of reality, even though he says previously in the article that he is only talking about external aspects. There is nothing that happens in that paragraph which affects that fact at all.

To be more clear, the pattern is like: Let us redefine the universe to just refer to exterior aspects of the universe. Then for the rest of the article he can just talk about anything and the reader is supposed to call to mind the initial disclaimer. Statements like "Everything in our world is purely mathematical — including you" gain their force from the fact that he stated his limitation only early on, so that 'everything' has been redefined to mean something else.

> I am sorry to have wasted your time with requests for foundations of your claims.

If I were deferring justification that would be another matter. Instead, I was declining to give yet more elaboration of which there's plenty in this thread already.

> If your valuable time allows, could you maybe find the time to explicitly point out congruent arguments in philosophy "since Plato"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_forms

The common thread is that folks since Plato have tried to make arguments that general categories of things are more real than particular things themselves. The means of going about this have been various. The author's particular tack is called 'mathematical platonism': https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/platonism-mathematics/
Should you not?

I'm sure having a LaTeX CV correlates well with other skills which you might deem desirable and, if so, it seems like a perfectly reasonable indicator to use. It shouldn't be used exclusively, but nothing should be.
Thanks - that post had been on my readar, but got forgotten.

The paragraph you quote pretty much sums up my feelings, though I'm not particularly concerned with finding old school sites.

Google used to do a good job of answering technical questions, as well as finding the little gems of originality (and lots of lovely mediocrity too, of course).

I don't think the two need be mutually exclusive. It's just that what I consider the good stuff is lost in the attention seeking nonsense that the web has become. Filter that out, and I have a feeling that lots of great stuff will become a lot more accessible.

wiby is wonderful, I had a play around and found pangs of nostalgia, and stuff that made me laugh out loud. But I think the criteria of lightness of a site, for example, the amount of JavaScript used, means it will be missing many great contemporary sites that happen to use the technology of today.
How can you tell that they used LaTeX if the CV is in PDF format, other than by guessing from the use of Computer Modern?
Any books or other resources you recommend to learn these things? On learning to learn I have enjoyed A Mind for Numbers[1] by Barbra Oakley with Coursera course[2], Make it Stick[3] by Peter C. Brown, and How We Learn[4] by Benedict Carey.

1. https://www.amazon.com/Mind-Numbers-Science-Flunked-Algebra/...

2. https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn/

3. https://www.amazon.com/Make-Stick-Science-Successful-Learnin...

4. https://www.amazon.com/How-We-Learn-Surprising-Happens-ebook...
With respect, and not to belabor a silly topic, but 'female' is an adjective, and is the only correct choice between those three options in the original sentence. Although I would tend to agree that as collective nouns are concerned, 'women/men' is almost always correct when describing adult humans when one wants to specify a particular sex or gender. (Girls/boys/kids rustles my jimmies when used to describe adults).

'female wunderkind,' in an irrational, razzle-dazzle bullshit train like theranos was probably emphasized to create an aura of exoticism and magic (e.g. 'wonder woman'), not because of the sociocultural situation of women in tech broadly speaking. The symbolic significance of gender changes depending on where/how one invokes it.
What I learnt building a (simple) self-steering car in TensorFlow
Having to move your headquarters every time you open up a foreign market that is more lucrative than your home market is insane. Suicidal, in fact.

I don’t think you’ve thought your solution through.
> cure bad ethics.

I don't see "bad ethics" as a disease, but a difference of opinion.

Why should I compel others to share my opinion?
I couldn't go to his lecture in Stockholm the other day. Were any of you there and could tell us something about it?

Edit: Hm, actually, the lecture was about dangers of AI, so not the same topic.
12 volts should be enough for anyone!
>Are you arguing that a 100% tax on Apple profits wouldn’t impact their competitiveness?

Pretty much. It would render their stock worthless, but there's nothing about a 100% tax on realized profits from preventing a business from operating exactly as before.

>How would they build new factories, develop new products or hire more workers

With relative ease. Corporation tax is paid only on realized profits. Reinvesting earnings has often been a way of avoiding paying it at all, which is actually supposed to be a feature.
Oh, and November 19th in Barrow would be ~1,560 hours long, and you would you just skip those 65 days? Or you could have November 20th in Barrow while it is different dates in other parts of the world?
So many that there’s a term for it: Regulatory capture.
> So you are saying you would want one physical square inch on a phone to be the exact same size one square inch on a projector screen?

If they're not the same, then they're not inches.
When I worked in newspaper web tech, I did an analysis of our front end traffic, grouped by IP ranges, user agent claims, and so on. I found that the majority of our bandwidth was spiders and bots. The majority of our hits were also robots. I couldn't do anything about that without big spending with our cache vendor to prevent it.
Also, a calorie may be 1000 calories (kcal) depending on who is writing it. It's clear that nautical miles aren't miles. Not so clear for calories and maybe points. What should we call them? Cyber points? Relative points?
To clarify: your colleague's comment is asinine?
I wonder if it'd be possible to get it running on Wine for a safer experience.
Note that there's slightly more choice here than just that: 1px may be either (1 physical real-world inch on the output medium)/96 or set related to the reference pixel. (Though in CSS 1in always equals 96px, etc.)

(See https://drafts.csswg.org/css-values-4/#absolute-lengths)
Show HN: Unity Scene to WebPage using three.js/gltf
> If a site misbehaves and users want autofill on it, they should be able to override autocomplete=off for that site.

How?

What do you imagine?
> Apple phones get better battery life because of stricter app store inclusion rules and native binary builds for all targets instead of generic automated ports.

Apple does just as well in comparisons that only measure the first party browser.

Apple wins in battery life because they sell $900+ phones and invest large sums in engineering specialized chips while Qualcomm doesn't sell phones, they sell chips to customers whose main concern is price.
Sure, grid and flexbox are cool, but when is the CSS Cute Cartoon Faces spec coming out!?!?
This is basically a wrapper that handles the mounting process, different mac versions, etc.
You touched on an interesting point:

it's pretty well-known that in startup circles being a woman is, generally speaking, a net negative.

The reason I spoke up originally is because where I'm located, it's very common to believe the exact opposite. It's become something of a trope: "Better respect women or the thought police will get you!" (said in a dismissive tone)

I don't know if I'm just living in a weird area, but that seems to be the default sentiment across the last N companies I've worked for. It's either treated as a joke or not discussed.

And then of course there are pockets of people with the exact opposite feelings, but they often go so far in the other direction that it's hard to take them seriously. There's some space between being completely dismissive and hyperventilating about women being oppressed, and I thought the latter was a myth until I saw it in practice.

So it's just really hard to figure out, y'know? It's not something that we generally get to talk about. It's socially weird to bring it up with strangers or publicly, so you're very likely to believe whatever the people around you happen to believe. So how do you determine whether your beliefs reflect reality?
You are confusing pixels with points. Points are being scaled, and a simple workaround to accomplish that is often duplication of pixels.
Or, if you don't want to be a heretic, use display: table.
Oh cool. Thanks for sharing this!
'Hack back' bill gains 7 new co-sponsors
Mozilla Firefox 57 Release Candidate
Mildly off topic...

For Chromecast users, I discovered that there's a wired Ethernet dongle you can use to eliminate the need for wifi...

https://store.google.com/us/product/ethernet_adapter_for_chr...

This past weekend my wifi was super slow, to the point streaming music would have buffering issues on my Chromecast. A quick speedtest.net assessment showed wifi was only getting 2mbs (2 meters from the router) and wired was getting 50mbs. I googled for options, and found the dongle.
'female wunderkind,' in an irrational, razzle-dazzle bullshit train like theranos was probably emphasized to create an aura of exoticism and magic (e.g. 'wonder woman'), not because of the sociocultural situation of women in tech broadly speaking.

I didn't even consider this. You're probably right.

Well, in that context, it was obviously absurd for me to start talking about any of this. Sorry about that. But HN is optimized for good conversation, so hopefully it will turn out interesting (if unexpected).

Looks like this thread got knocked off the front page anyway, so it doesn't really matter now. Drat; I was hoping to get people's thoughts on this.
A user can scale point sizes to her/his liking.

That still means that point sizes should be consistently scaled.
Can you point me in a direction where i can work collobartively with other like minded individuals in the same field(machine learning)
If you have the cash, then start investing in research, perhaps? Although I really don't know if that will speed things up any.
https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/

Be sure to pick a region where they're available, like us-east-1.
I am also curious. I found this article which might help a little bit: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/01/30/google_cloud_kicked...
Choosing to use Chrome is also opt-in. Its the same concept. Its not ideal, but it is what it is.
In their earnings call last week, Tesla said that their margins on existing vehicles were dropping, and they were diverting resources from the Model S and Model X to focus on the Model 3.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15605480
Pricing and Volume most likely.
> You're conflating a regulation of speech one disagrees with, with hate speech.

I'm not calling for regulation, nor labeling anything "hate speech" (ergo not conflating the two, either), so I have no idea where this particular statement of yours is coming from.

What I'm saying is that trusting sites where anybody can post anything is the core danger of the situations instigating this specific mess, and that trust is the fault of the reader, and of Facebook falsely positioning itself as a trustworthy information source.

This situation isn't about "hate speech", incitements to violence, or any other already-illegal acts. To quote, it discusses the "far larger problem, in which the platforms are gamed for profit or political influence." At its core is the observation that people let Facebook content influence their finances and politics; the demonstrable dump of people's unthinking, reactionary blurted opinions, and their personal or incentivized proselytizing/propagandist/marketing skews. These are the random words of random accounts, all unworthy of blind trust.

Facebook wants to discriminate "trustworthy" from "untrustworthy" somehow, and to do so algorithmically. To be very specific, what's at stake here is Facebook's desire to have a particular PR posture as "the" place to be online, for their own gains. There's no actual direct safety issue involved here driving these automated "trustworthiness" speech classifications. It is both unnecessary for the site to function socially, and ultimately unworkable as an implementation from its very concept.

What is necessary for a properly functioning mashup of the world's unfettered speech in one place, is more distrust by the users of what's posted, as there's no reason to trust it in the first place. Again, from a content perspective it's no different from 4chan.
> In one of them, Peppa Pig uses a razor blade to slice a piece of her own arm, right after eating her own father.

You mean the one clearly on a channel not officially associated with Peppa Pig's creators and that starts with a fake restricted content warning? Ok, yeah that was dark. But Youtube is not a G-rated site, and it's designed to make content discovery easy.

Doesn't Youtube have parental controls? If that's not enough, maybe there's a need that needs to be filled by a browser plugin that restricts the UI or external player. Either way, letting a child on to Youtube unsupervised is taking the risk of having them stumble across content you don't want them to see.
Original at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15635249
In most industries robots make something cheaper. I am confident that the US health system will find a way to become even more expensive with the help of robots.
> Tooling is most definitely not beside the point. And if your focus is backend, that is what you spend most of your time on.

The question isn't what you spend your time on though. It's what is worth spending time teaching/learning in school. You also spend all your time using a mouse and keyboard but (hopefully) you don't take courses to learn how to use the mouse and the keyboard in school. If most people could pick it up in a short period of time on the job then it doesn't seem a worthwhile use of time to teach in a course.
I would argue that's not "...back to the US economy."
Bill Gates made this same promise when Windows 1 was released. That each monitor and printer would require drivers specific to their model in order that the fonts would be measures in points (or pica) instead of in pixels.

Somehow we ended up with all the drivers for each device even though the original promise has been long forgotten.

We sacrificed the days of the plain printer with Centronix hardware interface, and the versatility of the Unix lpr spooler where you simply sent a stream out to printers containing control codes you knew would work with your device, like carriage return and linefeed. Then later the Calcomp and HPGL codes.

And what did we gain for that trade?

I think this link is great, because someone is clearly remembering the promise. Upvote for that.
What is written in CSS specification may work only if CSS has any means to measure distance of observer from display surface.

Like @media distance(1m) {}

Otherwise it is just a good wish like "hope you have normal eyesight".

The only information that is available to CSS is that it gets rendered on some media. And so 100mm shall be 100mm measured by the ruler on that media surface. Monitor or printer. Dot. No other options.
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