skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Population control isn't a solution to anything.

We're already at or very close to "peak child". There are about two billion children in the world, a figure we don't expect to ever significantly increase. We expect the population to grow to between 9 and 11 billion by the end of the century, but the cause of that growth is simply survival. Increasing life expectancy means that the population is turning over more slowly - there's no increase in the number of children being born, but people are surviving longer.

Most of the developed world is already at or below a replacement fertility rate. The developing world is catching up very quickly. The birth rate in India has fallen from 5.91 per woman in 1960 to 2.4 today. Bangladesh has done even better, with their birth rate falling from 6.95 in 1970 to 2.14 today.

If you're proposing that we reduce the global population, you have two options. Option one is to reduce the global fertility rate to well below replacement and accept an increasingly ageing society. With current trends in life expectancy, this option would leave us completely unable to care for the elderly. At best, this means millions of elderly people being warehoused in robotic care facilities; at worst, it means leaving people to die, especially in middle-income countries. Option two is some kind of genocide.

Unless you're willing to volunteer yourself or your child as a sacrifice, I suggest we all figure out how to share our resources more equitably and use them more efficiency.
This so much. Keeping your email out of the spam folder it's simply painful.
Analytical Cost Metrics: Days of Future Past (LANL)
Arch Anywhere Is Dead, Long Live Anarchy Linux
> an app from the 90s works much faster than Google Docs

This is not really a technology limitation as much as it is a product and economic limitation.

Google docs works like it does because it is "good enough" from an economic perspective. Improving the performance would not increase profit so it is not done.

Much of what people complain about with web software being crap is the same issue. Crap is more profitable so that is what companies make.
Framework for Monitoring Heterogeneous Multi-Accelerator HPC Cluster [pdf]
text size is easy enough to change; i do love how it renders on a 4K display though.

im really talking about dpi scaling though. there are still a fair amount of apps I use frequently that don't do a good job. the recent qbittorrent update looks horrible for me. some electron apps have awkward proportions but are still usable.
It started as fork of Zippy. It changed very much since then. You can download the binary as part of graalvm. It's not yet open source, but it will be. It's just not ready yet.
And kids, this is why security by obscurity is such an awful, awful idea.

If it's true their products' security "doesn’t depend on the secrecy of our source code" then there shouldn't be any issues in open-sourcing it already. Open source, not making it free software, which I suspect they'd never do anyway. Even having some form of assurance they're not doing anything nefarious behind the scenes and a proper bug bounty program would be plenty.
Mixed Precision Training of CNNs Using Integer Operations (Intel Labs)
>Modern JavaScript is not a very badly designed programming language.

JS fans said the same thing years ago, claimed that it didn't need classes, more extensive core library, or better syntax. Then came ES6, almost a different language, and they magically changed their opinions to match. Apparently all those features they dissed were needed and good. After seeing this kind of switch-a-roo several times I realized that most of JS community have no fucking clue. They will gladly consume and defend absolutely anything they currently consider "theirs" and "modern". It's a matter of fashion and identity rather than language and tooling quality.

JS was and is a horribly designed programming language. The Web would be lightyears ahead of its current sorry state if the core language was a dialect of List of Smalltalk.
How? A naive solution would use only "upwards acceleration" and "lack of upwards acceleration"; phone accelerometers should be able to handle that quickly enough to get at least couple dozen bps.
Adversarial Vulnerability of Neural Networks Increases with Input Dimension
Sometimes brokerages prevent retail clients like in this story below,

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/fidelity-prevents-retail-c...
“Does my insurance agent, who operates his own small business, need machine learning? No”

If he has a fixed mindset you are right. But if he has a growth mindset and has the intellectual curiosity to learn what ML is and if he can apply it to his business and finds out that he could maybe he can increase his business 10 fold. Even if you take a stance that he is not interested in growing just the fact that living in this age and time gives him(or his kids) the option to learn/play with powerful tools at a click of a button is worth appreciating on so many levels
Doesn't that mean also that they didnt break their api or update it to exclude these older versions? Wouldn't that me an admirable thing?
I shouldn't be getting nerd sniped by comment about Maven but here goes. Maven doesn't compose because it is an ad-hoc lisp where every element has different semantics, every element is a different language. This isn't an XML problem, but a way that XML fragments in Maven map to the interpreters of those fragments. Maven could have been an amazingly compact expressive combination of a logic/constraint solver with a declarative language, instead it is PHP written in XML. Maven is declarative only in that it has a textual interface.
Transparency in Deep Reinforcement Learning Neural Networks [pdf]
no, this is not the point of passive houses. it is a contradiction, but the point is to reduce hvac use as much as possible. you will always need hvac for perfect results because it is impossible to build a perfect hrv system. its impossible to insulate perfectly. there will always be heat leaking from the system. in some extreme cases people can do away with their hvac completely but its difficult and expensive.
It is API agnostic, you have to provide the functionality. There are some examples using various APIs here: https://github.com/vurtun/nuklear/tree/master/demo
The encoding (XML) isn't Maven's problem, the semantics are.
That's a tenth of all USA mortgages.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/data/mortoutstand/current.htm
Fully Unsupervised Learning of Time-Domain Features
I feel like everyone is picking up on your language complaint, but maybe that is not your biggest concern.

It seems like you give JavaScript as an example, but what really worries you is the complexity of the front end ecosystem.

Here are a few ideas to reduce that complexity:

Don't use a package manager, you can copy dependencies into folders.

Remove steps from your build pipeline unless you really need them. Use ES16 to get native promises and imports. Or don't use ES16, so you can remove that step from your build pipeline.

Use as few dependencies as possible. Whenever you can, make use of native browser behavior and CSS.
To understand deep learning we need to understand kernel learning
If it's so simple, then why isn't it more common?

You say "should be trivial", but in practice that doesn't seem to be the case for most applications.

For example, Google Calendar changed their API some years back which caused the calendar display on Samsung refrigerators to fail.

Why did that seemingly trivial task of calendar synchronization fail?
Yet when I try to tell people why copyleft ala GPLv3 that prevents tivoization is so important I get shouted out of the room.

I should have the ability to root and control the linux on my smarttv. Full stop. This is part of the problem. The same goes with things like phones. This is why both android and ios are NOT the mobile os of the future. They restrict the user from truly owning their device, and I'm fed up with this bullshit.

So remember that next time someone talks about how right Richard Stallman was right and gets downvoted to hell... HN is far too full of businesspeople pretending to be hackers instead of the other way around.
“As for CSS, everyone agrees that flexbox is a godsend.”

If flexbox is a godsend CSS Grid is God.
Performance Metrics Aren't Everything
Remove ghostery and install privacy badger instead https://www.eff.org/privacybadger
The 'go get' tool is just a small convenience wrapper around git/hg/svn. Its intended for use by developers, for quickly taking a look at some source code. The tour use case you cited is also a good fit for 'go get'.

It was never intended to be a part of your production build process. If you push its outputs directly to production, you're holding it wrong.
Swipe the world with Tinder web app without upgrading to Tinder Plus
im sorry but this means that the houses were not designed well. if you have a house that is well insulated, and that does not leak heat from the ventilation system, that means that it will stay the same temperature. if you go through a cycle of cooling and then coming home to a hot house and then cooling again, eventually you will stop coming back to a hot house. the only explanation is that there is a leak (poor design) or that heat is being injected into the house through sunlight or some other means. i would put my money on sunlight making its ways through poorly implemented windows.

by the laws of physics, if you have a passive house kind of house, you will not be able to come home to a hot house repeatedly.
The Red Strings Club Review: Cocktail Revolution
> Ripple is totally centralized

You are completely wrong. Ripple is decentralized by way of validation of transactions done through their distributed consensus protocol, which is done through validator nodes sitting across the world at places like MIT and Microsoft.
I think there's a change occurring recently (last 3-4 years), especially in the larger tech companies with respect to this role. There are still programmers dedicated to writing and maintaining the automation infrastructure but most of the test are expected to be written by feature developers.

Understanding the build system and devops in general is important because if the teams you work with use continuous integration then the test systems interfaces with it.

I work on a team dedicated to making build and automated test reporting better (see my profile) so obviously I have an interest here but I think great reporting is often overlooked and it's crazy because all of the effort involved in automation and writing tests is only valuable if everyone can see the benefits and resolve failures immediately.
Ruby on Rails vs. Django Performance
No linux client and closed source. I would love to switch my gsuite account but there is no real benefit.
I really hope they sue that intern to the ground and the circle of people that took it. It just endangers everyone if someone donfind out how to weaponize it.
Analysis and Synthesis of Floating-Point Programs (Dagstuhl Seminar) [pdf]
Show HN: TokenAnalyst – Explore on-chain data on crypto assets
I was responding to the point about using AC all year to remove humidity. The thermodynamics works like this: The air inside your house is more humid than the air outside; warm air at the same pressure holds more moisture than cold air. When you extract the warm air from the house the heat exchanger cools it down, therefore reducing its moisture carrying capacity and causing condensate to form which you can remove. The heat is transferred to the incoming cold air via the heat exchanger, the warmed up incoming air now has a much greater water carrying capacity even if it was already humid outside so it absorbs humidity from your house, when this air is extracted again the cycle repeats. Passive houses have very low humidity inside because of this.
'unspecified green stuff' probably means it's peroxide monopropellent
Nuklear isn't doing any actual rendering. It depends on other, platform-dependent code to do that. Look into the headers inside the demo folder to get an idea of how that works.
JavaScript static typing, promises, and modularization via imports are very useful—you just pay for them with a compile step. If you don't want those features, don't pay for them.
Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning Based Data Analytics on Edge Devices [pdf]
I kind of wish more sites assigned dimensions to `img` tags too. Unspecified or scripted dimensions make mess more often than not.
Other than the fact that credit card and auto loan numbers are not updating, I like the concept. Not using tabular figures[1] here is really unforgivable, though. Maybe I'm missing a font?

[1]: https://www.fonts.com/content/learning/fontology/level-3/num...
This seems dramatic. Why not just cancel the Clinton administration's sinister provisions Higher Education Amendments of 1998 (the 1998 HEA) which made student debt non-dischargeable in bankruptcy? They sold out all the students with that.
Explanation of Deep Neural Networks via Autoencoded Activations
Really grateful I will be able to graduate debt free. Doing a degree like CS where I can get a great paying internship really helps.

I think the biggest cause for numbers like this is that some of us see it as problem while tons of people see this kind of debt as totally normal. I cringe when I see friends who I know are graduating with large amounts of debt run out and buy a brand new car within months of graduatingbecause they are suddenly making 50-60k and feel like they've got it made.

Most of the time it'll all work out just fine, but I can't help bit think that there's a better way.
It kind of sounds like GP's was just a regular house, opening windows etc. at night and closing everything during the day is what I do with my regular house. I'd expect a passive house to handle a lot more of this without requiring those types of interventions, and be a lot more successful at it. Like...I don't think something qualifies as a passive house if it doesn't work.
His name must be known, you want this guy to work at your company?
Nice domain, also shows up #2 on search results for _current student debt us_!

Calculated as a linear extrapolation with debt intercept of $883,000,000,000 on 01 June 2010 and a gradient of $2853.8/sec.
Actually, the question that interests me is when, if we allow couples+ to skip around infertility problems, will we have engineered in enough infertility that we can no longer maintain the population if artificial means fail/become unavailable?
The median student loan debt is just $13,000, and seventy-five percent of borrowers owe less than $29,000. That's easily paid by most working professionals over a decade or so.

The student loan "crisis" is fake news. The largest loans are for high income professional degrees like law and medicine.
> VM ( EC2 on AWS ) have the same perf that baremetal

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
I used it once to provide a simple GUI for a some simulated annealing I had written in C, was more straightforward than I expected.
I know of at least this Canadian company that specializes in single-family steel-framed design and construction, but it definitely is more on the high-end side of things.

https://bonestructure.ca/en/technology/
> Their main concern sounds like a liability issue (they cite the aging Li-ion battery heavily)

Gratuitous power autonomy is quite high on my "things I won't buy" list. I was once scouring Amazon et al for some cheap bluetooth speakers for stationary use as a "poor man's Sonos", but they all came with their own integrated power bank. Ended up buying a radio that had BT input just as a secondary feature. About three times as expensive as originally planned, only to avoid seeing one more 18650 (or pair thereof) idling into decay under my watch.

I'm not always that eco-aware, but when I get stuck on an issue I tend to get irrationally zeaolous (probably a quite common form of mild bigotry)
the point of this article is that moralizing about who "deserves" it more is a waste of time that is destroying the economy. Is it really worth it to hold back everyone else just so you can finger wag at people that wern't responsible?
>You assume there are good VPN services. What are they? Private ones, self-maintained, run by a friend? For journalists, who are mostly not seasoned sysadmins and crypto experts, self-run VPN is worse.

I do not assume that there are good public VPN services.

Presumably a journalist would be using one provided by their employer or none at all.

>No, they don't. The say: "for ultimate anonymity you can also run Tor locally on your machine".

Yes, they do mention the possibility of running Tor locally. So what? They're still trying to push people to use their Tor gateway which is simply indefensible.

>It's all about your threat model. For many journalists, their adversaries are not US TLAs, but less competent nation states TLAs. Using a service outside of their jurisdiction may be acceptable.

Remember your username, don't think too little of "less competent nation states TLAs". :)

Choosing to follow Protonmails advice involves taking stupid risks, you should not be taking stupid risks if you are worried about any TLAs.

>It's not more insane then trusting your email provider. But yes, you have to trust Proton, this should have been stressed more.

With email you hardly get a choice. There's no legitimate reason to ever have someone else run your Tor client for you.

And we can already establish that Protonmail cannot be trusted. A trustworthy organization would never have released this "SECURITY GUIDE", nor would they ever try to get you to use their Tor client to access hidden services.

>And let me remind again, this is a guide for journalists, not for crypto-nerds. "Tor... can be tricky to set up, and can sometimes attract attention to yourself", which is true.

The first part is not true, Tor browser and Tor messenger are both very easy to use. The second part is true, but Tor isn't going to draw significantly more attention than Protonvpn.

>This is not a product comparison.

No, this claims to be a SECURITY GUIDE but is actually an ADVERTISEMENT.

A legitimate SECURITY GUIDE would never recommend Protonmail over Gmail.

A legitimate SECURITY GUIDE would never recommend ProtonVPN.

A legitimate SECURITY GUIDE would never ever suggest taking advantage of ProtonVPNs "Tor VPN support".

>This doesn't make them "bad", but insufficient.

I strongly disagree with you. Posting this was absolutely unethical on protonmails part.
Glass half full/Glass half empy. A bet against the opposite of an overpriced event will be underpriced.
I enjoy Javascript, have also programmed in it professionally for a little longer than you, didn't read all the docs in depth, don't have a great memory, and it on (admittedly less and less all the time) rare occasions still surprises me with unexpected or downright bizarre behavior. (But I also use other languages and thus know what sanity looks like).
I see. Well, anyways we also filled up from streams and waterfalls, as did other locals among us. I also filled up from streams and waterfalls in many other parts of the world--I'm am avid backpacker and I have done thois hundreds of times. I've never been sick. However, I this was always water coming down from mountain summits. I wouldn't fill up from a stream running through the middle of a cattle ranch.
I think that the analysis in the linked article is fundamentally flawed, because it assumes a simple one-dimensional axis of more or less resource use and a direct relationship between using more resources and creating better lives.

Most of their social performance indicators aren't inherently resource-intensive. Education, social support, democratic quality and equality have no direct ties to environmental resources. Life satisfaction and healthy life expectancy are only weakly tied to resource use - Cubans live about as long as Americans, the Bhutanese are more satisfied with their lives.

Good sanitation and nutrition can easily be achieved at a very low resource cost; in the case of nutrition, excess intake of high-calorie and high-carbon foods is now an equal or greater cause of mortality than malnutrition. Reducing meat consumption in the developed world would massively reduce resource use while also increasing life expectancy. Britons have never eaten a healthier diet than during wartime rationing.

That leaves us with income and access to energy. I can't really address the issue of income; I have no idea if it's possible to maintain current levels of economic growth while reducing resource use. The issue of access to energy is more straightforward. We know that we can produce close to our current levels of energy with entirely sustainable means. Energy consumption has diminishing marginal utility - getting an electric light in your house makes a huge difference to your quality of life, but trading up from a subcompact to an SUV doesn't. There are some big outliers on the plot of social progress vs energy use.

I think that this research has taken a really elaborate route to arguing "countries with high living standards tend to use lots of natural resources, ∴ high living standards require lots of natural resources". I don't dispute the correlation, but I think that the causal relationship is almost entirely illusory.
Nonsense. SDC becoming viable on scale is decade or two in the future. Uber is valued based on its ride sharing and food delivery business. Investors apparently believe it can be profitable on big scale therefor good investment.
This article is clearly wishful thinking, but it struck me that they want to do a big debt forgiveness thing without worrying about why people rack up these debts and just leave that as something to be figured out after we've done this big expensive thing.
Great article, bonus points for giving in passing the only explanation I have been able to understand on what a fuzzer check is and by extension how unrelated tools like QuickCheck should work.
How many other cryptos did they do a Poc with?

Ignoring BoE, Ripple's customers that are using XRP in production are:

Moneygram, Cuallix, Mercury FX, and IDT.

There are also 100 customers using xCurrent (the pre-XRP product that's used to transfer fiat). Upgrading to xRapid would increase the speed and decrease the costs of such transfer, so I imagine there will a conversion of some of those 100 customers to using xRapid, and thus, XRP.
No, there's still plenty of them on the market; they're just marketed under the name "monitor" instead of "television".
How much of these are non-STEM debts? Can we have a breakdown of what courses are wasting money?
The only poor decision made was for the taxpayer to offer student loans in the first place. This necessitated taking the loans in order to be competitive. Canceling existing student debt does not "reward" people who took the loans, it simply nullifies the original exploitation. The only person being "penalized" is the taxpayer who deserves it for handing out $100k loans to 18 year olds.
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Student lending wouldn't work if loans were simply dischargeable in bankruptcy. The deliberate policy decision here was to ensure that tuition lending would be available to pretty much everyone regardless of cosigning family wealth.

Before the HEA, loans were dischargeable, but only after being in repayment for 7 years. As a practical matter, young pre-family college graduates in the workforce couldn't discharge loans in bankruptcy.
From successful to zero, thanks to Namecheap
Wouldn't this just cause rapid multiplication of art history majors? Free four years of fun sponsored by the taxpayer since x% of 0 is 0
Somebody should make a physical one of these and put it in Union Square.
I'm not sure about "just fine". For many (especially in the software profession), the difference between doing "OK" and being well-off in later years is that new car.

Paying off debt early at that point in one's career is more profitable than investing, even.