skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is consistent with Alphabet's trajectory of becoming a defense contractor.

One might ask why during peak oil on the precipice of a major decline in relevance of Saudi Arabia (partner to the US military and client state of the US Government) this would be happening.

There must be a need to have US-guided firms crowd out any other tech infrastructure investment in Saudi, to provide a substrate more friendly to surveillance and psychological operations projects in the future.

There is also the factor that because we are at peak oil, Saudi elites have an unprecedented amount of wealth and they can simply transfer some of it to Alphabet in exchange for the increased political clout that teaming up with a major defense contractor offers.

Note that for all the moralizing done by Google about not being evil, censorship, etc., Alphabet is teaming up with one of the most backward and corrupt regimes in the modern world, a regime that would have been replaced by something far more democratic long ago if it weren't for support by the US Government.

So while in general economic cooperation makes wars less likely and helps reinforce private sector independence from the public sector (which is generally a good thing) anything involving Saudi or Alphabet is clearly a government sponsored, military-focused operation at its core.

It's going to be pretty hard for Alphabet employees to explain to their grandchildren why they worked for a company that was known to cooperate with US domestic surveillance programs and team up with undemocratic monarchies.

The greatest human evils are not obvious like scary monsters in movies, they creep up around us with the support of many reasonable people.
I wonder how they square this with their commitment to diversity?
Do you think HN is trash or that upvotes are a bad system for this site? Seems like the simplest way to have a community self-filter content
Very silly. If you are keeping up with the latest and greatest in JS, you have the 20 minutes to sit down and learn the basics of a framework that will make your life a bit easier. This argument will never end, code hipsters need their voices heard.
DBMS migration in LibreOffice: Firebird and HSQLDB schema import
Most of the oil in the US does not come from the Middle East.
What about taxis clogging up public roads with their private service?
It looks very similar to Flexmonster.com. Does it mean that author is the same?
no it's not inconsequential

for one, why are _researchers_ using largely obsolete technology; for another, many high performance computing tasks perform significantly faster on 64bit (e.g., lmdb)
No, but it's also not taking into account a lot of reasons web component features exist as they do, and the flaws with react.
as a former scientist in immunotherapy/immunooncology research: we are going to win against cancer.

and very importantly for you and your wife, many of us consider the PD-1 therapies as the biggest battles and biggest victories that we've ever won against cancer. it is extremely difficult to overstate how powerful the anti-PD-1/L1 biologics are.

and it's also extremely hard to overstate how much research scientists in the field live and breathe and toil to harness nature. you have a care staff of perhaps a dozen at the hospital, but just remember that there are tens of thousands of people working day and night to find better therapies and cures.

nature is always throwing us curveballs, and in the words of rich feynman, "she's never gonna let us relax." but we'll figure it out, and win. in the meantime, that clinical trial you mentioned is investigating the true power of our biggest achievement to date.

it isn't ethical to push your wife into the trial, so i'll just say this: if i had serious cancer, i'd find more than one anti-PD-1/L1 trial to try to enroll in simultaneously. that way if i got excluded from one because i didn't meet the criteria, i have a next step in hand without thinking about it any more. if by chance i got into more than one, i'd withdraw from the others (obviously). just my two cents.

good luck.
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I don't have any issue at all with people doing what they love. I am just slightly worried about him putting others to risk, should he fall and possibly hit someone. Anyone feeling the same?

Besides that, do whatever you want, even if I don't agree with it or its motivations. I am not the ruler of the world.

People tend to get overly emotional with these subjects because they usually project themselves onto their opinions and if they get a nasty rebuttal, they feel it like a personal attack or w/e. Being brutally honest: It's his body and will and he's free to do whatever he wants with it, except harm others without their consent.

o/
The parent said lobbying, not paying for it themselves. I do believe it's a government's job to provide and support equal opportunity when it comes to educations though; that is, allow anyone, regardless of background or wealth or whatever, to attend a school matching their intelligence and ambitions.

As it stands, US education is all over the place, and worse, it's more and more only becoming available to the elite; social mobility is low, that is, if you're born poor chances are you'll end up poor yourself.

This is unlike where I came from, where my dad was a low paid metalworker but I got an effectively free college education and repaid that government funding multiple times over in income taxes in just a few years, whilst simultaneously bringing a lot more money home than my parents did (to oppose any "but income taxes screw with my income" claims).

Anyway, since the government isn't doing it, I do think it's up to the big companies to offer it. That's what the US is all about, isn't it? Changing it to a capitalist government, where it's big companies that rule the people, not the government.
At least since the days of the Moral Majority, I'd say. (Or possibly since the House Un-American Activities Committee. (Or maybe since Industrial Revolution-era strike-breaking? (Or maybe - if you're gay, transgender, etc. - roughly since the Old Testament was penned?)))

In other words: IMHO, social conservatism is very much authoritarian, in that it seeks to proscribe certain modes of living as contrary to the moral fabric of society. Saudi Arabia is, in this view, a prime example of this as it approaches its logical extreme. Fiscal conservatism, OTOH, doesn't necessarily have anything to do with authoritarianism. We've unfortunately managed to conflate the two in modern American politics, which is how you end up with counter-productive policies like "tough on crime", "war on drugs", "cut basic social services", etc. that end up costing more than necessary in the service of "proving" a moral point.
Over the last year I have severely cut my contact with these mega-corporations. Don't order from Amazon, google services is limited to the rare use of ``!g'' from duckduckgo, and I tend to get groceries from smaller grocery stores (relative to Walmart). What I've learned is how easy it is to do. People just want what's familiar, to do what they did yesterday, and don't realize how much of a non-issue the alternatives are. I'd recommend giving it a try. Now if I could just get rid of Comcast.
We Need Fewer Product Managers
Not sure, but in the United States there may soon be easier access for any person with a terminal illness to get access to any experimental treatment if they so desire, even treatments that are in early stages with no human trials yet.
Thats because absolute monarchies were the status quo in the 19th century (except for switzerland and france -- on and off). Conservatism is a political agenda to preserve the status quo. Going further back and revive concepts of a long forgotten past is usually called reactionary.
> But they remove any apps that might show boobs?

We are not much better, sadly. https://floens.github.io/Clover/gp_unavailable.txt
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please read what I've written carefully. if the us didn't use so much oil, global oil prices would be much much lower and wouldn't enrich these countries.
This project is a Tilt-brush like allowing users to draw in a 3D world using a VR headset. It was made as our last project in a French Computer Science School.

* You can test the app with an HTC Vive at: https://davidpeicho.github.io/artflow/

* The project sources can be found here: https://github.com/artflow-vr/artflow

* The UI library we used is the following:
https://github.com/artflow-vr/vr-ui
Great work! Finally a stable version working with Python3!

I find wxPython highly productive and enjoyable to work with and the wx C++ documentation has always been outstanding. Now the Python docs are also really good! https://docs.wxpython.org/

I know that Qt gets most of the publicity, but personally I prefer wx (having written huge applications in wx and only a small one in Qt, but still). Being able to .Bind() anything without sub-classing and the fact that the class constructors normally takes sensible parameters so that no further method calls are needed to set up a widget makes it very fast and compact to generate dynamic UIs with readable code.

The work Robin Dunn has done with wxPython is simply massive and he should be known as one of the great open source legends, especially in the Python community! Congratulations on a fantastic release!
SA doesn't issue tourist visas. Also -

"Many travellers remain wary of visiting Saudi Arabia due to its extremely conservative culture and instability in the region...Major cities in Saudi Arabia such as Riyadh, Jeddah and Dhahran are considered to be vulnerable to terrorist attacks. Saudi Arabia still enforces strict Islamic rules on dress codes and gender segregation, though the Crown Prince's reforms may see this change. Public cinemas and theatres are also banned, another restriction which may need to be lifted if the country is to attract foreign tourists."

https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/saudi-a...
Oh I see, yeah I could see the value of that. Primarily as a novelty I think but still interesting idea. By that I mean I wouldn't expect "all" digital art to be sold like that. But like with how someone was willing to pay a lot for the genesis crypto kitten, I think some pieces of digital art could be sold for a lot on a blockchain. But once sufficiently many different pieces of digital art have been sold like that I think the value of distinguishing between "original" and "copy" will fall back to negligible difference for new pieces. But the first different pieces of digital art will retain their value I think.
> now much of jQuery's goodness is native

Frankly, not that much. Most of the APIs are still the same imperative you-can-only-do-one-thing-at-a-time hell, often with very limited capabilities compared to jQuery.

And yes, whoever made the decision to return NodeLists instead of arrays everywhere should at least re-evaluate whether they should really be doing programming.
Understanding the recipie and salient ingredients by which nature generates intelligence so that we can build a theory of intelligence is long overdue but they’re starting at too high of a level. We don’t have a good model for artificial neurogenesis that allows us to create complex AI from a simpler set of building blocks, we don’t have a genotype-to-phenotype mapping or a generic representation to encode complex phenotypes in a mathematical genetic abstraction, we don’t have an abstraction by which mutation can create open ended phenotypic variation, we don’t have a model for artificial evolution to drive the evolution of novelty.

If we want to solve this problem we’re going to have to reverse engineer intelligence. Otherwise we’re just going to continue to run into walls by trying to either brute force our way from the ground up and by ignore lessons from biological intelligence or philosophize from the top down.
> What’s with their support of authoritarian regimes

Because the US is very familiar with them?[1] US companies continue to make billions off of authoritarian regimes. Why should tech be a stranger?

From a practical perspective, they are being smart, and safe. They know that China is positioning itself as the de facto global leader in trade, aid, finance, development, consumerism, etc, and their AI research is way ahead of ours. They know the Saudis have a butt-ton of money and can help them open up other middle eastern business. And they're getting in on the ground floor before their competitors do.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_authoritarian_regimes_...
And let me guess: We draw the line wherever it conveniently leaves out a preferred country (usually the US)? We throw in a modifier "gross" to have an escape clause?
All DevOps Engineers are Sysadmins but not all Sysadmins are DevOps Engineers.
I'm not sure why anyone argues against Apple's 30% cut like this. It's app developers who make the determination whether the cost is worth the benefit.

As you point out, there are alternatives. Why do you think developers have massively and overwhelmingly opted-in?
My last [NYC-built] startup operated in the Middle East (not Saudi Arabia) for multiple years as they had regulatory fast-track for medical devices/startups.

While it was a tough slog living in the middle east, I did it out of greed (my startup was doing ML-driven-health diagnostics...and...where else can you get years of medical records with full government buy-in).

However..having been there I can see a lot of reasons for this possible Alphabet-SA-Aramco deal:

- there is NO cloud endpoint in the region. no AWS/GoogleCloud/Azure/SoftLayer, nothing. So if you have data locality issues, like we did, you build your own storage/GPU cluster as we did. There is a huge opportunity for AWS/GoogleCloud/Azure/SoftLayer, locality laws make doing typical stuff impossible in the middle east -- just imagine how your life would be if you couldn't use cloud services?!

- electricity is near free due to energy abundance, we paid no electricity costs on our giant GPU grid in the region

- there is a lot of tech and ml talent in the region, most of it unable to take jobs in the US due to immigration laws and unable to take jobs in China due to cultural differences. there are also many customs like keeping your parents living in your home, which is now (post-2016) pretty must impossible with current western immigration laws. we hired locally (mostly Egypt) and got great talent for a fraction of US costs.

- for the likes of DeepMind/DeepHealth trying to get UK NHS data, they can do it far more easily in Saudi Arabia for training models, etc.

I'm back home in the US after 3yrs overseas. DM me if you are curious.
Adversarial Network Learning MNIST Digits
FloydHub Machine:
https://www.floydhub.com/diegoalejogm/projects/gans/10/

TensorBoard with Error Graphs and Image Progress:
https://www.floydlabs.com/tensorboard/QFbTYZRfBxfyjsx7SxxYig/
Right but "flaws" is relative.
Should Trump Nationalize a 5G Network?
This is how ML research works these days, right?

You cherry-pick results and polish them to look super flashy so everyone hears about your work over Twitter, Facebook, and r/MachineLearning cause that's how everyone learns about new papers these days.
I have been developing software for about 30 years, following the latest hype is not always the best to one's career.

For example, I am glad I did not spend more than a few minutes looking at Coffescript.
"Telegram has risen in popularity thanks to its focus on advanced security features and the ability to hold secret conversations with end-to-end encryption. ... Telegram was forced to create a team of moderators in Indonesia to remove “terrorist-related content” after the Indonesian government threatened to ban the messaging app."

Wait, how does that work?
Do you have any links showing a connection between police criticism and increasing murder rates in Baltimore?

Or is your argument that police brutality and dirty methods are necessary to keep minorities in line?

Is this like Minority Report's Pre-Crime division, where the Baltimore PD just knows these kids are gonna commit murders when they grow up, so it's better to plant guns on them and remove them now?

Also, "vilification of police" has never been "fashionable"; it's arisen for decades in response to police crimes, and will continue until we restructure wholesale how PDs work.
There may be something to it, as most folk remedies do have an unscientific history of successes, but it definitely doesn't work on all warts or for all people.
Well, how about the possibility of the falling in the middle of a crowd? Should people be exposed to an exploding person raining from a skyscraper out of nowhere, long as the climber died doing what he/she loved? It would definitely ruin my day and possibly scar some people.
Does it work with OLAPs?
Venezuela's President Announces 'Petro' Token Pre-Sale
Yeah, and how WebComponents are gonna help with that? Considering that you need all of that just to make them marginally useful.
For context, I am a good 15 years younger. I do feel that video games are a bonding experience, both online and couch-coop. I made some really amazing friends when playing an MMO game for a few years in high school/early college (Stronghold Kingdom, World 1, H19 anyone?). I also play multiplayer games as a social experience to keep up with college friends that I can't see as often in person. Sure meeting in person is different and perhaps a better way to bond socially, but I wouldn't discount the ability to bond with a faceless stranger over a video game. There is a certain reality to the digital world.
The secure chats are opt in. The normal mode shares everything with the server.
Use a toaster oven or a skillet, they both work great!

https://www.sparkfun.com/tutorials/60

https://www.sparkfun.com/tutorials/59

I've been skilletting my boards (fabbed by OSHpark) for the last few months, and it's really easy. As another commenter mentioned, use a syringe to deposit solder paste. It only takes a few boards to dial in the right amount to lay, and is actually surprisingly quick to place the parts (even 0603) with tweezers and then throw 'em on the skillet.
That is a UI design issue: you don’t gave to use those, and if you do, it’s up to you to use them right. Web comes with a lot of limitations, many of those widgets obviously don’t make sense in the browser; heck they probably don’t make sense on the desktop but that is less obvious. With web, simplicity is enforced out of nescessary limitation, and this has turned out to be good for users.

From a programming perspective, modern desktop UI libraries are much more powerful and have less limitations. How you use that power is up to you and your UXD, however.
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The guy I replied to is saying that he needs to use third party libraries just for state management and data binding. Pretty much every non-trivial component is going to need these features, and if they're using a library to get them, we're back to the same situation we were in before Web Components.
Make sure to expand the VGAN_MNIST tab to see error progress in real-time.

Also make sure to click on the IMAGES tab to visualize the progress. There's a slider to see the images generated at previous steps, and the current ones!!

ENJOY
Selling weapons worth 100 billion dollars, using oil from said country - no problem.
Google considers opening campus - they are evil.
The point is there is no standard C++ (or even C) ABI because it is not possible to standardize one. At best you can standardize a platform specific ABI. Which is in fact what happens in practice on most platforms, but it is up to the platform mantainers and the C++ standard itself can't have nothing to say.

Regarding the C ABIs, they are the lingua franca for interchange between languages because, a) as C is semantically poor, it is the minimum common denominator, and b) it is often the OS ABI.
Who it comes from is part of that merit - there's a big difference between some untrained person shouting "correlation isn't causation" when it was never implied in the first place (ie every thread on reddit that references any sort of scientific article) and someone who has a deep background in the specific niche that the paper addresses.

Peer review is to be done by one's peers, not some random anonymous commenter.
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"this person" was channeling the pretentious buzzword-packed hype of the OP article.
Prolog, Prolog, Prolog.
https://wikitravel.org/en/Saudi_Arabia has a nice overview:

* No entry if you're from or have been to Israel
* No entry if you're from or have been from a country afflicted with ebola
* No entry if you're from Quatar
* Heavy punishments up to death if you don't follow their laws. That is, no pork, no alcohol, no non-islam religions, no homosexuality, porn, or unmarried sex.

Also keep the clothing things in mind; no shorts / t-shirt there, and women probably need to cover their heads.

Anyway, I did see tourism adverts on TV, advertising the sail hotel and such (forgot the name).
Sure, it can even be both. Look at the US and the issues of privacy and data sharing between the government and large tech.

However, it certainly is a legitimate question as to what role the company may play, what control it will have etc. If a free country like the US spies on its people through tech, to what extent would be expected Saudia Arabia would have no issues going far beyond

Unfortunately, if there are abuses, we will likely never know.
How GE Went from American Icon to Astonishing Mess
Maybe Google pays more than average for these positions.
I mean... Do you want to go there? The impression i get is they don't like outsiders unless they're filthy rich.
Building a Raspberry Pi Car Robot with WiFi and Video
Infrastructure that people outside of Saudi Arabia can use to monetize Saudi Arabians. The huge data centers that employ a handful of people in backwards oppressive states like the Carolinas, Alabama, and Georgia haven't made tech powerhouses out of those regions but have allowed people in Silicon Valley to get rich off of them with Internet products and services.
all things considered, it's probably far more dangerous than chemo in the sense that it could kill you or seriously and permanently injure you with your first dose depending on your phenotype. at least chemo is a slower process.

but immunotherapies don't kill most people, thankfully. there are also many ways that you could assay the patient to see how they might react to immunotherapy, but i dont know whether these are done clinically or not.
And aren't Mecca and (central) Medina off-limits to non-Muslims?
These buildings are high enough that he should be carrying an emergency parachute to prevent killing a person on the ground should he fall.
Makes it harder for the us to go to war. Imagine if Afghanistan had lots of US company / investments. There'd be more backlash.
And how much does it cost to build and maintain your own domain, storage, delivery/updates infrastructure and billing system? Oh, and how about marketing for your app?
Never? Dude, Tk back in the day! Compared with all the raw X11 predecessors, it was a revelation for Unix GUI's.
Netflix (and other similar platforms), Amazon Prime, Twitch subscriptions.

Those are only 3 examples a ton of people pay for.

If you provide a good service, you will get subscribers. News have been available for free for decades thanks to OTA TV broadcasts. That's why people don't pay for it.

Niche journalism needs to have subscriptions since they can have way less views and people looking for news on that niche are ready to pay.
This is probably mostly about the public channels, not regular group chats.
Secure communication is not possible on iOS because Apple does not permit it.

This is an accurate statement. Apple demands that Telegram be able to monitor and block "inappropriate" content. Therefor, secure communication is impossible on iOS.

Apple has further demanded that developers of communications services spy on their users by "monitoring" them. Tell me again how Apple supposedly respects privacy?