skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a Mi 5s and the build quality is much better than any of the Samsung phones that I have ever owned and the price was just HK$3k for a very powerful phone. Many of the imports into the West are fake and it's usually best to buy them from a Xiaomi store, which I admit is just a ripoff of the Apple store.
Ask HN: Did the HN top bar turn red?
Is this a Christmas celebration thingie or it was changed before and I've just noticed it?
This article is very bad by wired standards. Things I noticed:

> To find the answers to these questions, we have to go back to Xiaomi’s 2015-2016 debacle, which saw smartphone sales decline to a rumored 41 million in 2016, from a reported 70 million a year earlier.

As if one year is enough to proclaim a company's fall and rise. Businesses run on multi year cycle and 1 down year might be a small blip. Additionally, if the lower sale numbers were just rumors, there was no "fall" of Xiaomi, was there?

> Today, Xiaomi is being called a “Chinese phoenix.”

What is the source?

And there are so many editing mistakes:

> These include hundreds of thousands of hours of movies and shows — available a la carte or via an all-you-can-eat $7.50 monthly fee

Eat?

> Adding the word ‘connected’ to a range of appliances doesn't a smart home make — even Apple hasn't pulled off that trick yet.
साल 2018 इन 4 राशि वालों पर होगा मेहरबान, छप्पर फाड़ बरसेगा धन 25 – 31 दिसंबर
That was my first encounter with computers world even before I touched a real computer, playing with these maps and drawing combinatorial circuits with gates, under the guidance of an old soviet book of Mir publishers.
What I find difficult to believe is that presumably intelligent people put any store in these ridiculous pictures at all. There's a a thousand explanations, most of which would not occur to most people.

Let me add this comment that I made to a dupe on this UFO thing a little while back:

"I can give my own example of an utterly astonishing gob-smacking sight which turned out to have a fairly simple explanation. I invite people to speculate on what it was...
About 7am I was travelling in a ferry on Sydney Harbour about 400m east of the bridge. I saw a giant (50m diameter?) golden glowing ball hover on the other (west) side of the bridge. It was definitely not on the bridge. It maintained its position for over 30 seconds.

Then it changed and the actuality was revealed."

Follow this link for the discussion and explanation.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15948600
It's also about using multithreading to achieve a responsive user interface. Something that is not quite as easy in python with the global interpreter lock which tends to lock up quite some time on seemingly innocent operations.
Mathematicians love greek letters, and if there are a couple of them it's easy enough to read the equation, but you can easily end up with 5 or more in a single equation, then have to spend extra brain time mapping which symbol refers to what variable.

What I often do when I want to better understand a formula is to rewrite it by replacing greek letters with plain words. Less elegant but more readable.
The Redmi phones are 95% as good as a flagship for 25% of the cost. The Mi phones are flagships, for about half the price of something from Samsung or Apple. That's a remarkable selling point and it's the basis of the Xiaomi brand. If you pay any less, you're probably going to get a substandard product. If you pay more, it's not always obvious what you're getting for your money. Xiaomi represent the platonic ideal of mid-range.

The Miui OS is hugely popular, for good reason. It has quirks and quality issues like any other phone OS, but it also packages a stock-ish Android experience with a ton of very useful features and a bare minimum of bloat. Updates are regular as clockwork, even on older devices.

Indian and Chinese consumers might want an iPhone or a Galaxy S8, but they're overwhelmingly buying Xiaomi devices. Western brands should be seriously worried about the threat that Xiaomi represent to their fat margins.
Apparently this is it. tty is very fast, although since I have a 4k screen the drawing/scrolling rate is very slow.

I recently switched from whatever Ubuntu 17.10 is using (Gnome on Wayland?) to i3 on X.org, and there was no real performance increase that I could see.

Do you have any suggestions on how I can get a tty level experience (with the occasional ability to use a web browser), but with low latency? I obviously can't use tty when the screen is native resolution (and the text is miniscule in size).
I read quite a few war time memoirs (not soldiers bit people living there) and people indeed died because they could not adjust. Some aspects of you are changeable, others not so much. And checking yourself into mental institution won't change any of what is talked about here. Neither psychiatry nor psychology works so reliably, never mind them having to deal with real huge mental disorders primary. They will kick you off, because they deal with really heavy stuff and they can't help you with run of the mill spiritual path.

That argument is literally just you trying to insult/offend people. Maybe you stopped yelling at your familly, but you are still solving disagreement with insults - that pretend to be fact based but are based on lack of knowledge about mental institutions. I find yelling better, as long as I can yell back. It is less under the belt.

Society does not side with people who have problems, except in very few circumstances anyway.
Darker?
Thanks. I'll give it a try!
There was someone on reddit/ml who posted some pretty interesting numbers for training.

I think they have a lot of challenges ahead of them, but I’m still more optimistic about Plaid than AMD’s own efforts.

AMD says that they don’t care about ML[1], and their actions back that up.

Edit: and to be clear, I think comparing Keras+Plaid vs Keras+TF is an entirely valid thing to do. Lots of people work in Keras, and if you download a random NN code off github it likely to be Keras (or Pytorch now of course).

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/66bgmf/com...
Airport limousine
Could you make the problem you were solving into a non-copyright infringing question and post it on here please?
You cannot have runaway negative feedback loop. Negative feedback loop tries to preserve the status quo.

When the outcome self amplifies this is positive feedback loop. The positive feedback loop may be virtuous (more education, better jobs, more resources on education, even more good jobs) or vicious (high unemployment, low resources for education and training, even higher unemployment) rinse repeat.
How would a open www.change.org petition be any indicator of the current state of things?
Or even indication of the 2013 state of things?
For christ's sake, anyone can start a petition about anything.

Obviously the petitioner is also clueless, or else how could they write "We feel that Radeon hardware is vastly superior to competition", when their hardware in 2013 was nowhere near NVIDIA. (See the review the petition links to for an example...).

You sir are a typical phoronix reader. Uninformed, biased and thick.
The indexes also turned red/green alternating so it’s very likely just Christmas.
I do believe it's a Christmas thing. The topic numbers also alternate between red and green today.
Clinton talked about it in her campaign so whatever it is, it's been going on for more than a year and a half.
The US is peculiar with its nuclear policy in trying to guarantee immediate response

This doctrine is called "launch on warning". It hasn't been official US policy for 20 years[1]: In 1997, the Clinton administration changed the official policy away from launch on warning to one of retaliation after withstanding an initial first strike.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Launch_on_warning
Yeah, and if IOT really takes off, it would be trivial for a car to use the city’s API to do a health check on the light many time faster than a human could. But now we’re introducing dependencies on API’s coded by God knows who to our heavily regulated, self-driving car.

But yes, engineers probably have thought about this, but there’s an infinite amount of stuff that could happen which is impossible to control for. What about falling trees across the road? Dirt roads that’s way behind on maintanance that would require you to drive off road a bit?

I’m not saying I believe AIs can’t handle this, but they would need room for improvisation to do it. When an entirely new situation occurs humans make decisions, argue in court, and then the ruling becomes precedent.
> The problem with the UFO evidence is, it's shitty every single time. With 4K cameras in cheap smartphones, 50x optical zoom cheap consumer cameras, cheap telescopes widely available, our UFO videos haven't gotten any better.

Try taking a picture of a plane at a height > 3000ft with equipment available at hand (during the night) see how it looks like
"Solo connects us in these moments when we are most authentic to ourselves"

If we were authentic to ourselves we wouldn't need to share experiences. We wouldn't need an audience to authenticate them if we valued ourselves as worthy witnesses.
I do a mixture of photography and videography and I’d seriously considered the BMD Cinema. I really wanted to go with that device but the form factor left a lot to be desired for hand shooting and the reviews about battery life as well as hard disks over heating were what ultimately steered me away.

http://forum.blackmagicdesign.com/viewtopic.php?t=59032

Looks like the original cameras, minus the pocket, are now EOL.
I wonder if the move of the young back into the cities from the suburbs is behind the more puritanical views that the left have moved towards recently.
Maybe they are guilt by the global warming :P
I had trouble getting started with React but Vue was a breeze. Better for newbies imo.
HN Chat is pretty dead, let's give it some traffic
And what exactly is the problem with depressing commercial real estate value? Personally I only see upsides for the economy. Incentive for people to try to do productive stuff instead of holding to their precious real estate and collecting rents, possibility for entrepeneurs and companies other than megacorporations to actually open stores in cities...
None of us are paying into social security expecting a positive return. That's why it isn't a ponzi scheme. There is no fraud involved.
Oh I agree that GPUs should be more commodity. We might see alternative ASICs rather than GPUs come out though. I'm personally more interested in seeing that succeed than just confining the solution space to gpus and discrete gpu competition. I'm just not keen on trying to predict what will win (I really don't know) I just have criteria I would be looking for before trying to implement support for it in either my deep learning framework or trying to support anything for customers.
> If we were authentic to ourselves we wouldn't need to share experiences

And sometimes, the experience is already shared with other people!
it would have been a lot easier (and less embarrassing) to fake the WMDs if they had the capability.

The goal had already been achieved. Why bother covering up the fact it was based on a lie? Where's the benefit in that?
Many of the things Netflix does here google does too and has been doing for a long time like GGC (Google Global Cache) for free at ISP NOC or datacenters - their GGC nodes are many orders of magnitude time is distribution.

90% of the Google traffic through these devices are youtube videos.

They mention it in the article like Netflix pioneered this idea with open-connect. If anything it's harder to get OC devices from Netflix then it is from Google.

Even Akamai does have a similar program where they let you put their CDN on ISP NOC.
There is a complementary land based system for detecting ballistic missiles. It's more limited in coverage and also has more-or-less the same blind spot: not much coverage of missiles launching from directly south of CONUS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid_State_Phased_Array_Radar...
If you want to know what Nvidia are afraid of, look at the last figure in this O'Reilly blog on distributed tensorflow.

https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/distributed-tensorflow

On a DeepLearning11 server (cost $15K), you get about 60-75% DL training performance compared to a DGX-1 (cost $150k)
Looks like a fat finger rather than spam
I don't think it's becoming more prevalent in the last 10 years, at least no more than mentioning your birth sign... But anyway (take with a grain of salt) the last time I looked at M-B it seemed that although there's no reason to take it very seriously scientifically, nevertheless it correlates surprisingly well with one of the psychology crown jewels, the Big 5, and misses out only on testing for neuroticism.
A Practical Guide to Correctly Troubleshooting with Traceroute (2009) [pdf]
warning: TMI. The dirty clothes basket is next to the toilet. I fish something suitable looking out of that and pat dry.
And again grainy footage of an UFO. Some people conclude from this that unknown life crosses oceans of vacuum only to skip around in our tiny puddle of an atmosphere.

But lifeforms capable of bridging light-years would look nothing like us. Why assume they would enjoy a ride in our atmosphere?
> To be blunt, the singularity phenomenon is the quasi-religious expectation that a brighter tomorrow through technology is "certain" and universal deliverance of mankind is just around the corner.

This sounds like a mis-representative view of the Singularity. Indeed some people think the Singularity will bring some kind of techno-utopia, they get excited about living forever and so on, but this only is an assessment about the Singularity, it is not a definition of the concept.

As of today, the Wikipedia definition is :

> The technological singularity (also, simply, the singularity)[1] is the hypothesis that the invention of artificial superintelligence will abruptly trigger runaway technological growth, resulting in unfathomable changes to human civilization.

That sounds much more accurate imho. Most notably, the important point is that the Singularity will bring unforeseeable changes. No-one knows if mankind will be better or worse out of it.
OnePlus accused of infringing patents with the OnePlus 5T facial unlocking
Active lens mounts are on the road-map: https://www.apertus.org/axiom-beta-status but it will indeed require a serious amount of reverse engineering for each different lens system:
https://wiki.apertus.org/index.php/Lens_mounts
> The evidence includes

I highly recommend reading the Skeptical explanations section of that article.

Among other things:

[...] but the Belgian military only reported three such locks, and upon analyzing the data, all three radar locks were on each other.
Where Were Netflix and Google in the Net-Neutrality Fight?
The whole assumption/connection of UFOs to extraterrestrials has to be eliminated in order to understand what these objects truly are. For some reason for decades the majority of people simply cannot think in a scientific way about UFOs, it's like they are blocked. Yes there are exceptions of people but they usually get ridiculed. If we start from the premise that UFOs exist, stop thinking aliens and see what else is there then maybe we will get to the truth. Other options we can look into:

1) Someone or some people have the technology to build these. We simply don't know who they are and what they represent

2) It's a natural phenomenon that can be explained but needs proper investigation

3) They are drones from our planet but maybe built at a different time remnants or an old civilisation. Do we understand the entire history of earth and it's past civilisations? Maybe yes but also maybe we are missing something

4) Theory of multiverses and other dimensions could be something to think about

5) Or they are simply projections to our brains sophisticated enough to make us think these things actually exist

It could be none of the above and just governments messing around with us in order to see how we react but this has to be one of the most complex and long term projects any government has got into. Point is more people need to look at this scientifically rather than dismiss all the evidence straight away.
This week, our 20,000+ community joined us in making SingularityNET a reality
Is this reddit now?
Or, they are super shy and loneliness is something they protect like a diamond :)
"These thrusters fire in tiny pulses, or "puffs," lasting mere milliseconds, to subtly rotate the spacecraft so that its antenna points at our planet."

Does anyone know whats the fuel inside those thrusters is?
"in reality I don't think that in those early days they even called what was running on the Mac an operating system at all"

I must live in a different reality.

The first Apple operating system, with the phrase "operating system" in the name, was Apple DOS, starting in 1978. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_DOS . It did not have the features you require in your definition of an operating system.

Here's the summary from the bibliographic entry for an article from "Popular Computing", Aug 1984, quoting from http://www.worldcat.org/title/whenever-you-use-a-computer-yo... :

> Examines design, features, and shortcomings of eight disk-based operating systems designed for general use that are popular or most likely to affect the future of microcomputing. Included are the CP/M family, MS-DOS, Apple DOS/ProDOS, Unix, Pick, the p-System, TRSDOS, and Macintosh/Lisa. (MBR)

Several of those have the term "operating system" in the name, and as you can see "Macintosh" is described as an operating system.

Here are internal development notes from the Macintosh project, dated 1983, which shows that Apple had a "Macintosh Operating System Manual" already by that time: https://archive.org/stream/MacintoshDevelopmentNotes/Macinto... .

Chapter 1 of those notes is titled "Overview of the Operating System". https://archive.org/stream/MacintoshDevelopmentNotes/Macinto... The introduction is "There are two main groups of routines that may be called by an application program -- the MacIntosh Operating System and the MacIntosh User Interface Toolkit." (The capitalization in "MacIntosh" is theirs.)

I know what your intent is, and I think you are correct. What I disagree is your use of phrases like "True sense of the word" and "in reality" in expressing what seems much more like a personal opinion based on a shallow understanding of the topic.
Nothing. So you go to your nearest torrent aggregator and are streaming it down in 3 minutes.
Electronic Loneliness (1995)
Elon Musk's backup battery took just 140 milliseconds to respond to crisis
Everything I've ever wanted, I got. Whether a first new car, stopping smoking, gaining weight, losing weight, being the guy that everyone likes... I just needed to want it enough.
Ubuntu Touch Mobile Will Soon Support Android Apps with “Anbox”
That people will be more trusting of the next lie. Otherwise, we lose a bit of trust in the government. But then again, our memories are pretty short, so it probably doesn't matter...
HN news turned Red
Is it to support net neutrality
What does MIA stand for?
Does anybody know how to make a Pascal compiler run on such a system? The executable for Turbo Pascal for x86 was 39kB and likely needed more to run on a character-based screen.

After subtracting video memory and sound buffers (combined about 22kB) and what the OS used, that 128kB Mac had, IIRC, about 28kB available for applications to use.
Not only that, but empty spaces attract bad things. Bustle and foot traffic are good things. This is one reason why it is nice to have a mix of commercial storefronts (banks, cafes, etc), especially things that are open in the evenings...it ensures a commercial area that doesnt turn into a ghosttown at night.

Growing up in Brooklyn in the 80s, I remember snaking across busy side streets and back-and-forth across the main street to walk along the well-occupied areas. Stumble into a dark corner or and you could get jumped.

Much of her writing is age-old and not directly relevant now, but the concepts life on. All these are well argued in Jane Jacobs' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_and_Life_of_Great_Am...
Airy converter to MP3 sound
This is in essence what Vajrayana buddhism uses as its locus. Instead of seeking to destroy desires, as early Buddhist traditions do by working on breaking them apart and inspecting them, reductio ad absurdum, they seek instead to reshape desire to become a vehicle itself to enlightenment. There are intense and lengthy practices which aim to slowly shift the way the practitioner thinks and perceives, to be more aligned with an 'enlightened' perspective, and therefore shift into that modality, and eventually have insight.
You have the freedom to watch something else
So? Didn't do Blackberry OS a lot of good.
The article shows a useful neural network model for changing direction depending on an input. However, I'm not sure what this has to do with deep learning as there is only one hidden layer and even that one is only fully connected to output. Edit: also, why evolve weights when you can backpropagate?
How does the client keep their IP secret in this network?
When the news went out that BCash is being listed, the price on Bittrex shot up to $5k and then started settling down at around $4k. At that exact time, the price on Gdax was showing over $9.5k after which they halted trading for the day.

I am with the author on this one, no human with good intentions would put a buy order at that price.
One problem with group meeting is going on tangent. There should be a clear agenda established prior to the meeting.

Having so much frustration with unproductive meetings, I have been thinking about these, and they work in my case.

1. Attach agenda prior to meetig, along with a link to a Google Doc (or whatever live tool you use)

2. Reiterate agenda at the beginning of the meeting, and if this was a continuation of the previous meeting, go over the outcome of the last meeting. They should be reflect in your agenda.

3. Invite someone to be a moderator. Creator/caller of the meeting may be the moderator — only if the moderator thinks he/she is capable of keeping the meeting on track.

4. Ask attendees to use the doc to add questions/summary/views/new items.

5. Summarize before going to the next part of the agenda and at the end of the meeting. “To do, to be discussed” should be announced. Don’t end meeting by just saying “okay thanks for coming, let’s get to work.” Make sure people know what the outcomes are.

I learned #4 when I interned at Mozilla a long time ago. Not sure if everyone team does, but etherpad was very widely used afair. It was helpful for everyone in the team running the meeting in real time and after the meeting, especially because every user gets a different color assigned when the user enters the pad, so we could trace who wrote/made the changd.
Pardon my UI / CSS ignorance but these days I find that I have to zoom in every single article on the web to read it comfortably. I had to zoom this article at 200%. The default text is just too small and I am just using a standard HD display. It would be even smaller on higher resolutions. Do people not view their own website? Does everybody else also find themselves zooming in most of the web pages. What am I missing?
Though there is Nativescript Vue now.
Welcome to NEOM: The world's most ambitious project
Cool hack with Arduino HID. What light sensor are you using?
It was for Festivus ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festivus ), but they forgot to restore it in time for Christmas.
Yes, without a doubt we have not been able to identify these flying objects. Headline sounds impressive but it isn't really. Just because there is something we saw and couldn't identify it doesn't mean it's aliens.
You will only have this problem if you buy from the amazon market place. If you restrict your search to seller=amazon I would expect you to be pretty safe.