skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting, I wonder if it beats VIPS yet.

VIPS page says they beat Pillow-SIMD 4.3.0 by a tad: https://github.com/jcupitt/libvips/wiki/Speed-and-memory-use

Pillow-SIMD's page says it beats VIPS: https://python-pillow.org/pillow-perf/ (you have to select "Full operations cycle", it doesn't let you look at VIPS tests separately for some reason.
Deep Thought Tabs for Firefox adds funny, profound observations in newly opened empty tabs, with fresh images each time.

* Few interesting bits of code:

- Fisher-Yates shuffle algorithm.
- Ken-Burns effect.
- Visual (image-preview) tooltips in CSS+JS.
- Asynchronous XMLHttpRequest.

* Checkout the source at https://github.com/TheCodeArtist/deep-thought-tabs/tree/mast...
to learn creating webextension addons for Firefox in pure JavaScript (no external libs).
Reddit is the reddit of social media...
Time Warner Cable bought Brighthouse, my local ISP, and promptly jacked up the monthly rate 50%.

I cancelled. I would rather go without.
This is my favorite parody video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSuvOVH0aSQ
This was one of the most memorable cartoons from my teens!

It was dubbed to Arabic by either a Syrian or Lebanese studio and was broadcast on MBC3, a Saudi cartoon/kids channel, in the mid-2000s. I may be mistaken on the channel, but the time frame should be accurate.

As a side note, probably 80% of all cartoons from the 90s onwards are dubbed by a few Lebanese, Syrian, and Egyptian studios.

The previous generation of cartoons, around the 70s and 80s, were mainly dubbed in Kuwait. Future Boy Conan[1] and Grendizer were from this era; if you ask an Arab about either of these two cartoons and they don't know them, they are not Arab!

[1]: The show's name in Arabic is A'adnan wa Leena, which are the Arabic names of the two main characters, separated by the conjunction wa ("and").
> This isn't a remote problem. I see this _all_ the time with people at work now and I don't work remotely.

One solution that usually works for me is to get a standing workstation and use it. Not one of those fancy ones that go up and down. Just one that is permanently up, like the Ikea standing desk hack. For a break, you can move and sit somewhere else. Standing takes a lot more energy, so, it is my belief, that you focus better because if you are standing and goofing off, you are wasting precious energy. There are times where you don't have the energy to stand but need to work - so just sit. Standing and sitting is not a either/or thing. You don't have to be faithful to your standup desk, go slouch in a couch for a break.

The biggest difference between standing and sitting is that walking away from your workstation is friction-free. You just move your feet.
I remember in college that we found it was cheaper just to use our computers to heat our crappy rented pad than to pay for heat and the electricity for our PCs.

Those were the days.
Price: £4 — great!
Shipping: £12 — nope!
Show HN: Virt DOM a tool for creating interactive UIs
Good. Internet access is more and more a utility like water and electricity. Municipal broadband in my town works great and is more than 100x the speed of comcast at a cheaper price.

As another poster said, would you want Comcast providing water to your neighborhood?
The question wasn’t actually addressed to you, but to the author of the article linked to the post.

They’re also pushing the “Russian interference” narrative, but as far as I can tell your product can’t point out the source.
Agree, it seems to me that there's a sense in which this is a trivial issue; just throw more adversarial examples into the training set, and turn the crank until the classifier understands how to correctly handle those cases too.

There's also a sense in which this is extremely non-trivial; any agent (human or machine) can be subjected to adversarial attacks. They just look different right now, and our current systems are vulnerable to very simple ones.

It seems to me that improving an algorithm's resistance to adversarial attacks is much more feasible than improving a human's resistance to their own class of adversarial attacks.
Just spamming here a bit later to mention the ideal configuration may be Trezor/similar for a root CA cert, and using it to generate certs for an HSM providing production performance.
Observation only goes so far. You couldn't find backdoors unless you started to decompile it.

I think having a trusted compiler is an important first step to trusting software, even if you have to analyize it in depth yourself.
Offices are great places, some of the best times were drinking, goofing off after work or dating a co-worker or pulling pranks.

But regardless you need to put in the same effort documenting in person. Being able to talk over a solution doesn't help anyone when you've left the company.
Bluzelle Had an AMA with Bash Creator Brian Fox
People won't be leaving that field any time soon. There's already a massive shortage of data science talent in private industry, and adding demand from the government won't help. But with the government shelling out buckets of cash for programs with AI/ML, there will be even more demand, meaning contractors will need to lure in DS talent. People in DS will be making way too much money to want to leave the industry.
Lots of things are cheap if you can amortize a large capital investment made upfront. You might need a lot of people to fund the project upfront so it can be cheap later. I agree transparency would be good though.
eli5 usually just means simplest terms that make sense for the answer.
Thanks for building this! I noticed that the charting api have EOD prices for past 5 years, is there a plan to support longer durations?
It's a little complicated with uncles, etc., but the net result is more than 20,000 brand new ETH created every day.

Here's a chart of daily block rewards.

https://imgur.com/a/JG9W5
Unfortunately, it's been leveled so much, we're below sea level.

I despise propaganda as much as... Well, I despise it.

Unfortunately, the winners of 'breaking the MSM's monopoly on Truth' aren't any better then what they replaced (And are in many ways, much worse.) Their output is, by far and large, the worst kind of yellow journalism.

Unsurprisingly, nobody actually wants the truth. The people shouting from the rooftops about corruption and bias, and collusion in the NYT turn around and uncritically read about how Hillary is in cahoots with gay alien pedophiles operating out of the back room of a pizza joint. Or, alternatively, how this is totally the week that Trump's finished. (And did you see the great burn some celebrity gave him?)
Tesla share crash amid Republican bid to kill off electric car tax break
Only thing I wanted to comment on (as a remote worker now for 6 years or so) is that it's very hard for me to work more hours when, actually, I want to do so.

In my dynamic (with young kids), any attempts to work later than 20 min past the predetermined closing time are often met with baby/kids being "let loose" on Dad.

For the family, it's a plus. But sometimes ... holy shit I have stuff I need to finish.

Finally, it is SO convenient for spouses when their partner works from home. SO convenient. E.g. child care/babysitters fall through guess who gets to not get work done.

Overall, the ROI is pretty positive ... but I've been doing this a long time, and I do miss the office.
Algebra is pattern matching of a set of operation rules with regard to a space. Your jar example just extends the domain to physicality. And I agree - until these sorts of learning mechanisms have a wide range of quality realisms to pattern match from - they will not be able to form the type of cross visual/physical knowledge that is a much deeper and abstract undestanding of reality. But don't fool yourself. Humans and well..life..are just input output machines with incredible pattern matching capabilities. Algebraic representations are the structural result of that pattern matching.
How do you define a major conflict? Iraq seemed pretty big, and so did Afghanistan.
I commute because I love driving (even in a little traffic), I'm not disciplined enough to work from home (and never will be - know thyself), and I like the social aspect of the office (where I am immeasurably more productive). It's a win-win-win for me. I don't even consider telecommuting when looking for work.
How they work – The 3 Magical Functions of Python: map, filter and lambda
Thinking about the probability: postal worker wins $10M jackpot
The Search for Better Search
Could you please not take us straight into ideological hell? These inescapably repetitive flamewars aren't a real discussion, they're just teeth-gnashing.

> Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
If you read back you will see that I also stated a bad boss who doesn't know how to do your job is worse than a boss who does.

Do not allow your experience with a bad boss to clutter your thinking about how a good boss would handle things.
Tezos Founders Sued for Securities Fraud in Potential Class Action
of course everyone can read the linked article if they choose, but that Mother Jones article does not even mention Twitter or any other social media site (where I guess the "biased tweets and comments" are supposed to have appeared). It seems to be about a campaign operation focused on delivering pro-HRC information to news reporters.
Conference Call Confirms Tesla's Model 3 Faces Huge Problems
When that theme song played we got so quiet and so excited. It still has an incredible effect on me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xa1RMD1f5Es
My impressions after familiarizing myself with Stan, BUGS, JAGS, and a few Python libraries for Bayesian inference:

Probabilistic programming languages are designed to specify and evaluate statistical models. They usually sit somewhere between declarative and imperative languages. They're basically DSLs in the sense that they come with built-in primitives for various statistical distributions and linkage functions, and the model is sometimes but not always lazy evaluated, but they also often have procedural components like variable assignment and loops, and in some software like Stan, the model has to be specified in a certain order since it is evaluated procedurally.

The languages are also de facto coupled with the engines that run them -- I don't know of any probabilistic languages that have been formalized without a corresponding sampling engine, though there have been cases where a language is "forked", and separate engines built for the same language (like WinBUGS and OpenBUGS).
Twitter Employee Who Deleted Trumps Account Being Hailed Hero
If you are in the LA area the Museum of Jurassic Technology is worth visiting for, among other reasons, the room dedicated to the dogs of the Soviet space program. It features paintings and bios of 5 dogs who were involved in the space program.

http://www.mjt.org/recentaddtions/creatures.html

Edit: Some info about and images of the paintings here:

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/miranda/la-et-cam-...
Who are the two countries you speak of? There have been some pretty spectacular accidents due to underfunding and poor performance in superpowers.
Gargoyles.
There was an attempt to host servers in a similar setup in regular houses, not sure what happened to it (the article link doesn't seem to work, either): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9334792
I don't think people stick to crazy beliefs because they're not as smart as I am - I think sticking to old/comfortable beliefs is a problem in general with how our minds work and something you have to fight against basically all the time, it's the default behavior.

Part of the way of doing that is trying to evaluate what evidence is available and update how you think accordingly. It's when people refuse to do this that it's a problem (or worse when they think they're doing it, but really they're just trying to come up with 'evidence' for what they already believe to be true).

It should be a struggle towards whatever is true - not trying to prove what you already believe to be true.

I think it's sad that so much time and effort is spent spinning in circles when we could make so much more progress if we were collectively able to fix these issues with how we think.
Build Your Own Blockchain – Writing Nodes That Mine and Talk
True. All the Marvel films are broadly the same. They've got absolutely nothing to say about the world or the human condition but they are of course entertaining (well, some of them anyway).
Political leaders are far from the biggest worry compared to command and control of their vast nuclear arsenals. More eyes on less weapons mitigates that. After all, several nuclear weapons have gone missing by the US and several dozen are believed to have gone missing in the Soviet Union.
The soon ending computer animated Turtles series that Nicktoons made (they now own the franchise) has been "interesting". Thanks to the art choice, some episodes were borderline nightmare fuel. And the last season even had a trilogy of episodes set to a Mad Max like future.

And some episodes also involve interaction between characters from the 90s show and the current show.

Never mind that quite often the turtles are seen watching fictional cartoon shows patterned after 80s/90s shows...
Ahem... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-Pakistani_wars_and_confli...
I recently finished Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety [0]. I can't recommend the book enough for how eye opening it really is into how blasé we have been with nuclear weapons.

We've been reckless and by all accounts it is a miracle we haven't had a serious accident (there have been a few, just not on our own soil). The number of close calls is just astounding.

Further the book, at one point, talks about America's position on Russia and the attempts to keep them from getting "the bomb". It is exactly what has played out and will continue to play out with North Korea and Iran. History is repeating itself and we sure haven't learned from it.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00C5R7F8G/
Best theme music ever? Maybe. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAkL2-vh2Sk
Hah, my place in the SF bay area often gets that cold on cool nights, no insulation, single pane windows and heat is expensive, blankets and thick socks are cheaper.
The debate they were having was whether or not it is true that Trump supporters and people who are merely conservatives, are correct in their fear of being "outed".

Whether or not it is "moral" to fire people for being a Republican is a separate issue, that you can decide for yourself on.

We are merely stating that these fears are legitimate fears.
>It's not technically a measure of "efficiency", we call this the "coefficient of performance" instead.

I have to disagree. At its most general, the concept of efficiency means "desired output achieved per unit of scarce good expended" and can be applied in a variety of contexts: new users per dollar spent on marketing is a measure of your marketing efficiency, treasure value found per hour spent searching is a measure of your treasure-finding efficiency, etc.

Heat pumps are just a case where a) we use the same units for output and input even though they're different things, and b) in that unit system, the value for the output can be greater than the input. Since people can be unnecessarily suspicious of >100% efficiency, they use different terms for it.

If you expressed the efficiency as "2 joules of heat moved per joule of mains electricity consumed" you eliminate the canceling that would let you phrase the ratio as 200%.
You are missing the forest for the trees. You've described <i>how</i> such a project would be held up, not <i>why</i>. As a society, we here in the United States (and very broadly speaking, The West) have made the decision that such mega projects are seldom, if ever, worth doing.

You may agree or not (I'm conflicted myself), but at least see clearly. The situation isn't going to change unless society's mind changes.
There’s room for both. I’m a fan of a the government providing the fiber and support for the infrastructure and opening up the “isp” part to private companies. This allows competition without putting a bureaucracy in a position of power.

I’d like to see a community funded ISP on top of a city-maintained fiber network. That way the government can be told to fly a kite if they want to put their hands on anything of value.
surprisingly it is similar for iron too, luckily we can bleed.
This post is about Pyro (probabilistic programming framework, with a clever logo "pi rho"), not to be confused with https://github.com/irmen/Pyro4

Completely independent projects, just a name collision.
Hmm Hillary was an actual candidate. Russia is a state entity directly trying to influence a democratic process.
I don't know, but according to this reddit post(1), I could hope to earn maybe 1 cent after a year of non-stop cycling.

But I would never be cold for a whole year.

1-https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/6cf1wn/i_mined_bit...
This Startup's Artificial Voice Sounds Almost Indistinguishable from a Human's
The Perfect Laptop Cover for Creatives
The Museum of Jurassic Technology in Culver City has a small exhibit on Soviet space dogs. It's one of the more grounded parts of the "museum"
IMO WB still do good adaptations of DC material.

Marvel on the other hand too often descend into fart jokes and similar cringe moments.
WH report says ‘no convincing alternative explanation’ for climate change
If you're in this thread you're also going to want to check out Batman: The Animated Podcast (http://www.btaspodcast.com/).

It has some great interviews with the writers and producers.
Have watched a few engineers work on MR scanners - no gloves unless dealing with helium.
Answer: because the boss doesn't trust the employees to work unless he can see them working (or not) and they know he can see them.

I think remote work will increase just because society will realize how much energy it wastes commuting. A 15 mile commute both ways uses the equivalent of the energy used by a house in day.

If we get fusion then things will change, but for now it seems like this is one of the best untapped was to conserve energy.

I anticipate that ways for the boss to watch remote workers like always on video conferencing or collaborative workspaces will also become more popular.
He was supposed to be using a fuse puller, but he didn't have one.
This is a fuse puller.[1] It's a pair of pliers made from nylon. Before good plastics, they were made of hardwood.[2] Standard electrician tool for a century.

[1] https://www.jensentools.com/gc-waldom-9356-fuse-puller-molde...
[2] https://www.etsystudio.com/listing/552201603/antique-wooden-...
> The main purpose of nuclear bomb is to deter nuclear attack by ensuring MAD. We should strive for a world where nobody has a chance to use nuclear bomb. And, currently, a handful of countries having them is the best way to ensure that.

Why is a handful of countries having nuclear bombs the best way to ensure that? Why not two dozen countries having nuclear bombs? Neither Ukraine nor Iraq would have been invaded if they were nuclear-armed.

It's incredibly self-serving of nuclear powers to claim that they can have these weapons, because they will be responsible with them, but nobody else can. (And then they go ahead and start wars.)
> If someone slacks you, the response should be as quick as if it were verbal in the office.

It's droll that Slack is the name of the service chaining you to notifications. I wonder if that was deliberate.
Titanium tools are useful for high field magnets. They look awesome and cost a lot.
Same. I’d rather pay $300/month for municipal if it supports efforts to also make it available to my other neighbors, makes the program more successful (and thus more likely to continue) and I’d set up my own equipment volunteer to help them install.

Actually, I’m going right now to see if there are any municipal broadband efforts in my area that I could throw money at / help out with. Is there some good place to find out more about efforts in _____ area? Sadly, like many in the Bay Area, I live in an apartment with a Comcast community manager, so we’d likely be the very last to get off of Comcast unless some great wireless tech becomes viable (and even then, we’re not allowed to have any external antennas mounted outside of our units).
Show HN: Python Boolean algebra and truth table library
The draft wasn't invoked, so there's that.
How flexible is this compared to Church/Venture, Webppl, Anglican, etc? Does it support recursively-defined generative processes?

Edit: nvm, Noah Goodman is behind this, who created Webppl. This looks super flexible and awesome, congrats all!
It's very uncommon for homes to be as cold as 16C in Sweden, in fact if you rent you can demand that the temperature doesn't get lower than 18C, or 16C on the floor. It's probably because of better insulation.
We're not here for religious battle, so we've banned this account which seems like it is. We're happy to unban accounts if you email us at hn@ycombinator.com and we believe you'll post civilly and substantively in the future.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It doesn't matter. What matters is success. A good developer will be more successful in the marginal projects, and cheaper in the very worthwhile projects, but that is just a matter of dollars on the bottom line. The best developer in the world cannot save a stupid idea. The worst developers just ups how insanely profitable, and how long he need to wait a project must be before it is successful.

The above assumes a single developer. If you have a team of developers it quickly becomes obvious. In fact a boss who knows nothing about programming is probably better able to judge if someone is doing a poor job in these cases: those who know the new guy see him trying to get up to speed, while the boss sees a bigger picture by comparing to others. (a good developer will be making useful contributions on the second day, while a bad one will flounder for a couple weeks before the others will give up on teaching him the project)
shipping to canada is an utterly inexplicable 47 dollars, apparently not including taxes and duty
Those didn't happen in nuclear states.
> Previously the options were reference counts, garbage collection, or bugs.

I think you mean “lack of memory safety” rather than bugs. Garbage collection doesn't magically free you from finalization bugs, it just makes their consequences less disastrous.

> Formal methods are still a pain. The technology tends to come from people in love with the theory, resulting in systems that are too hard to use.

Clearly, the solution is getting rid of people, but it isn't entirely clear on which end to get rid of people.
Could you please not feed the trolls?
Interesting that the famous 6-stick X-Men arcade game, also released in 1992, used the character designs from the failed 1989 pilot episode rather than the 1992 animated series. I remember thinking how weird it was that the video game characters were wearing the wrong costumes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Men_(1992_video_game)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Men:_Pryde_of_the_X-Men
In practice there's a big difference in thought process and workflow between drawing freehand on paper and flipping through a UI library with a drag and drop interface. I think this is true even if your task is just composing from the same well defined set of components.

If they can actually pull this off it I can see it being very useful. And if it works really well in conjunction with other experiments currently ongoing, I can imagine it even affecting the way teams are structured and how a designer's day to day work goes.
It's stories like these that make me so glad I never used Twitter.
The difference is in rate, not occurrence hence the keyword "easy."
The Calling to Travel Africa -
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Broadcom Is Said to Explore Deal to Buy Qualcomm