skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I tried to show them the loop button but they did not want it.

Ah, the African way. Imagine that 'this is fine' meme as a cultural trait. Or Japan's 'Shikata ga nai' without the corresponding work ethic. West Africa could be so much more prosperous if only they would will their way towards it.

There's so much low hanging fruit. This being one example. 30 minutes drawing this everyday, yikes. But that's Africa. Too chill for its own good.

Before the accusations of prejudice, I've from this region. I complain about this to my aunties every visit.

Ghana is a shining star of the region (the UK seeded some useful institutions during their exploitation) but still its best and brightest are lured away by better opportunities in London and beyond and its leadership needs more vision. Still, it's moving in the right direction. The future looks bright.
I guess it was better than living not knowing that there is such a thing as MS Word.
> m in the USA where it's a hardship to participate in normal business without windoze. It's a very unfortunate situation due to the costs involved. Also when you are evaluated for low level jobs you are generally put in front of MS office and directed to perform some tasks

Yeesh, what industry are you in? I'm lucky enough that I haven't used windows since high school, but my impression was that OS X, chrome books, and mobile were now common enough among consumers that no one _expects_ windows familiarity the way they did during the days of the monoculture.
I'd start at Democracy at work. But in the end it comes down to how decisions are made and what check and balances are placed on the elements of power, such as who's an employee and what they get paid and how/what gets voted on, who can start a vote, what each vote weighs. I'd also say that transparency of execution is paramount so that members can verify that the actions/policies they are voting on are being carried out as voted.
You might of had a point but there is nothing Communist/Socialist about Venezuela.
Not a physicist, but isn't "Bohmian Mechanics" (1) what's also known as "Pilot Wave Theory", which is now gaining experimental support (2) ?

Clarke's First Law: "When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong."

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Broglie–Bohm_theory

2. https://www.quantamagazine.org/pilot-wave-theory-gains-exper...
SMOTE is for more numerical data.
Philosophy tends to be higher up on the hierarchy of needs when your income is a dollar a day.
http://goldenmines.net/?i=90644
In a way the U.S. does subsidize healthcare in the rest of the world by performing most of the research. It's part of the reason drugs cost so much in the U.S.

"Of almost 3,000 articles published in biomedical research in 2009, 1,169, or 40%, came from the United States."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2011/03/23/the-mo...
A great domestic tip that I did not expect to find on HN. Thanks!
He has also expressed a strong desire to revamp the permanent residence visa allocation process to use an individual-focused, merit-based system that prefers applicants with a high income.

If I had to choose one, I'd prefer more employment visas over family visas and definitely diversity visas.
Democratic countries have an escape valve, we can vote in another government, and we almost always do after a crisis.

Democracies don't have famines.
Does anyone know of articles attempting to explain the huge success of PHP?

My first guess would be a combination of
(1) making simple things easy -- by the time you start experiencing the warts and flaws, you've already been successful, and willing to work around them. And
(2) (later on) ubiquitous availability on web hosters, giving it a much lower barrier to entry than other languages in the web space.

Other aspects could be a community that's welcoming to novices and autodidacts, or its integration into a "default" infrastructure (Apache, MySQL).

But it would be interesting if some aspects of the languages design itself could be shown to have contributed. Perhaps the mixing of HTML and imperative code? Not having (at first) object orientation? Could its unorthodox semantics for passing by value/reference have been helpful to beginners?

Getting a handle on such design issues for programming languages could be helpful in trying to come up with "better" languages that could be accessible to beginners and end-user programmers, and PHP is an interesting case here.
Lots of discussion a few days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16480744

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16457120
Alternative logic.
We, as the tech community, tend to be trusted by our friends and family for recommendations. Start pushing your friends and family away from the tech giants. You aren't going to win every battle, but if people know you have concerns, it does subtly change the message, people are coming around to understanding what these companies are and how they work. They have billions of people's data they're built on, but we can still start to erode it. Remember how Google Search and Gmail all became popular in the first place: We, everyone's "computer expert nephews" told people about them, and how great they were. Now we can tell them about DuckDuckGo and our favorite privacy-oriented mail service.

Additionally, we can avoid working ourselves for companies doing unethical things, like paying off academic researchers to make public statements supporting them, financing think tanks and lobbyist groups to push their agendas, and acting in blatantly anticompetitive ways. Sure, all of these tech giants have tons of people waiting to work there, but we can still reduce the pool of candidates, people who know better need to walk away. This not only reduces their talent, but means that talent is available to start and improve new competitors to the entrenched parties.

And I absolutely believe we need to advocate that legislators and judiciaries start taking a renewed look at antitrust enforcement, and we need to advocate for removing blanket immunities that these companies enjoy. Congress just realized in the past two years that these companies have a lot of sway over elections, and if anything gets Congress moving, it's protecting their reelection campaigns.
Ill bite. I meditate fairly regularly (~1hour a day, spread across 3-4 little sessions throughout the day) It's my addiction, really.

meditation, when starting out, is largely about training your mind to concentrate intensely. people say it's 'relaxing', and it is, but it's about learning how to 'intensely relax', as paradoxical as that sounds. it's being mindful of your psychology's tendencies, noticing your mental patterns and over and over again returning to concentration on relaxation. your breath is perhaps the easiest thing to use as your 'concentration point', but some people use the ringing in their ears, or body scans (focus on how your skin feels, arms, legs chest etc) whatever works for you, it doesn't matter. as long as you can easily focus on it.

its practicing shifting your thoughts, essentially. training your mind to let go of an idea. over time, you get used to the feeling of shifting your thoughts, and the inner 'tools' you pick up along the way start to come in handy on the day-to-day. someone rude to me on the internet? instinct is to get mad, but I know I can make myself feel better by concentrating on something else, letting go of the anger. it's not fool proof, Im still human after all, but it helps deescalate emotions when they would normally get in the way.

also, it feels really good. I figured out how to relax some muscle (or something? idk) thats behind my eyes, feels almost like when you zoom out to your peripheral vision: from focusing in on a tiny point to seeing everything your eyes pick up. its a difficult experience to describe, but relaxing this 'muscle' for long periods of time makes be feel super calm.

hope thus helped. i didn't realize how much I needed to type, and it's still not enough!
Dang!

Sorry, couldn't resist.

I will show myself out now.
This is actually a good point.

A friend of mine is from Ghana, and wanted to be a programmer. He had to build a battery bank to power his laptop, so he could do his exams without issue.

I helped him design the bank, and another little tool we found helpful.

Because power is such an issue, we used a couple Arduinos to build something reminiscent of the TRS-80, 200 [0]. Instead of BASIC though, we inbuilt a C-repl, based around Cling [1], though much less featured. It ran off 4 AA batteries, and lasted about six hours between charges, which though kinda crap, was enough that his power bank was always ready to recharge it, and he could keep going. It was all his idea, I just served as the technical expert.

I believe he's currently building and selling a few of these out of his house since he went back to Ghana, to help people get a hang of computing.

[0] http://oldcomputers.net/trs200.html

[1] https://root.cern.ch/cling
A rooted Android gives just as much power. With the added advantage of having the biggest developer base in the world (in case you dont want to muck about /proc or low level).

In addition, buying few 10 inch android tablets using MTK chipsets is just a click away and less than 100$ shipped - with working 4g, wifi, camera, etc etc. Getting the same to work with GNU/Linux is going to be a pain.

I would rather do Android and combine it with Accessory DK (https://developer.android.com/adk/index.html) and Things DK (https://developer.android.com/things/index.html).... all the way upto Tensorflow Lite (https://www.tensorflow.org/mobile/tflite/)

Remember all of this is still open source
A few years ago there was a program[1] on ABC (Australia) about South Africa detailing some of the mismanagement of public funds. Mid way through the story they introduced a young woman from Tembisa who had finished school and had the marks to go to university, but not the money.

A group of about 10-12 of us contacted ABC and asked how we could help. The journalist connected us together and we self organized to fund her university and accommodation.

The university was very helpful, setting up a bursary for us to pay into and helping to get her settled into her residence and course (Teaching).

I had to buy her a computer, and that was a frustrating process. I couldn't ship one from here mainly due to shipping batteries being problematic. I ended up enlisting the help of a computer shop and having them verify that I wasn't using a stolen credit card.

That was 4 years ago. She's very close to graduating, she struggled with English subjects early on, but now it's just practicals and she can go out into the workforce.

Moral of the story, you can help, and you can make a difference if you put your mind to it, even when no easy path exists.

[1]: http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/cry-freedom-promo/4881242
(The relevant section is 28:43 into the episode)

Edit: Grammar

Edit 2: Link to program
Wait, but there is one note on mac
How does mmap improve download speed?
I'm kind of surprised to see Guix described as having a high level of QA and polishing, akin to Debian and Fedora. It's not that I have experience with it being otherwise, but I thought that I couldn't expect it to be any more polished than NixOS, given that, at least as I understand it, it's basically a remake but using scheme in place of the nix language and running in an (almost) pure GNU OS instead of linux and friends like systemd. It's younger, uses less tested technology (linux-libre/Hurd and shepherd; with the exception of scheme (not that I dislike the nix lang)), and I imagine has less of a following to test it on this niche that NixOS and Guix belong to.

I'm going to install GuixSD one of these days to try it out. Installing directly from third-party repos is something I don't remember seeing in NixOS when I tried it a year ago. I'm interested to see what other differences in design choices have been made.
> What happened to liberalism?

There's a reason the far left identifies as "progressive" now rather than "liberal". It's no longer about increasing freedom, it's about furthering an agenda.
>Yet, none of this content ever leaves the country.

And whose fault is this? People enjoy Japanese media all over the world despite the language barrier. French media used to be very popular in my country, like for example Louis de Funès movies? Even Iceland produces media that's popular worldwide, like Lazy Town or Bjork.
All I know is that China has a huge, ambitious, STEM-focused workforce and a smaller economy. They could discriminate against applicants on any arbitrary basis ( I have no idea if they do, but that's irrelevant) and still continue to hire lots of intelligent, highly-qualified, and hard-working employees.
proper nouns and derivations thereof are capitalized

Not when used as adjectives, as in the given example. Had it been hyphenated, creating a lone noun, "Asian-American" would work.
UWP makes use of Win32 as implementation detail, all the Win32 APIs considered legacy are not supported.

"This subset of APIs was chosen to support key scenarios for Windows Runtime apps that were not already covered by the Windows Runtime, HTML/CSS, or other supported languages or standards. The Windows App Certification Kit ensures that your app uses only this subset of the Win32 and COM API."

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/br2057...

> Similarly, how many Xbox One developers are going to bother with UWP, either?

Probably zero, but they won't bother with Vulkan also.

If they are targeting something else besides the XBox, they already have a portable game engine in place, or as typical in the games industry, contracts in place with companies specialized in doing game ports.

Win32 is legacy, the Desktop Bridge sessions on channel 9 always show how easy it is to import apps into the store and slowly convert them into UWP ones.

The next release of Windows will even add support for command line UWP apps, and Office 2016 is only available via the store on Windows 10.

As for Steam vs Windows Store, not everyone is on Steam and the Store also allows for XBox games, which has a much bigger portfolio.

Plus you are forgetting the scenario where Apple or Microsoft, might eventually just buy Valve.
I meant for generating wordvectors.

Word2vec and fasttext use nn that are so shallow that the can be described as types of linear regression.
Show HN: Brainfucky – brainfuck interpreter in python
I know this is chiefly a weakness of Twitter's API, but I'd be much more willing to entertain apps like this plugging into my Twitter account if they couldn't post tweets as me.
Many Windows developers that prefer .NET and C++ to crusty Win32, and the improved security thanks sandbox, also see UWP as an improvement.
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I haven't been there, but I really don't think I can agree with that.

I would want to keep my eye on my relative until the body is no longer molestable. After that, I don't think I really give a damn, and they can just chuck the crispy blackened half-done body in the trash.
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Not parent but great point, thank you.
Pilot waves, multiverse and Copenhagen are fundamentally ineligible for experimental support, at least with respect to each other. They lead to the same numbers, meaning than an experiment that agrees with one will also agree with the others. It's something like trying to tell the difference between 2x=2y and x+2=y+2.

The "support" in the article is really just a physical system that obeys (as a macroscopic approximation) something like pilot waves: "just like the universe" if pilot waves are right, and "just like those silly nonlocalists" if pilot waves aren't.
I’m personally directly involved in one such trial. I’ll be happy to send you a mail in 5 years (or next year) with updates.
Printing money and handing it out is the best possible strategy if you want a vibrant, inventive culture.

... like present-day Venezuela?
That’s hilarious and I’m so glad you did that!!!
Great!
Thanks.
UWP is a massive improvement, as it puts applications in secure sandboxes, a strategy that basically every other platform is already doing.

Sure, Microsoft faces an uphill battle since backwards compatibility is the name of their game, and few consumer-facing OSes today have a continuous platform going back over two decades.

But UWP is definitely better.
Not sure if you meant this as a joke but, you know, Windows and OSX are not the only operating systems people use.
There is a lot of smoke for there to be no fire. However, who knows. Personally I have seen the same behavior where I work so I am not surprised if this is all true.
Yeah, 20% of market share and it isn't a required API.

Only OpenGL ES 2.0 support is required.

https://source.android.com/compatibility/android-cdd#7_1_dis...

Section 7.1.4.2,

"If device implementations support OpenGL ES 3.0 or 3.1, they:

[SR] Are STRONGLY RECOMMENDED to include support for Vulkan 1.0 .

If device implementations include a screen or video output, they:

SHOULD include support for Vulkan 1.0.

"

Regarding specification language SHOULD is not the same as MUST, just nice to have.
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I know I dont open tumblr links on mobile since they take so long to load.
Location: Tehran/Iran

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Just for interests sake, solar panels in the DR Congo are about a dollar a watt. However, getting durable batteries is a different story.
Ask HN: What are your best domestic time saving tips?
I'm a father of two and I do a lot of housework in the evenings, cutting into my project time. Lately I've been obsessed with finding ways to reduce the amount of time spent on household chores any way I can. Gadgets like dishwashers, bread makers and steam cleaners have made my life easier, and I'm looking for the next thing to shave 10 minutes off my housework. So what are your best domestic time saving tips? Do you defragment your cutlery drawer? Do you swear by a roomba? Did you build a robot to pair socks?

Maybe you just identified some big time sink that you could eliminate? For instance, I'm considering taking up the carpet in my hallway as I seem to spend a disproportionate amount of time vacuuming that area vs the rest of the house.

What are your top tips?
PHP is the most criticised programming language and yet still one of the most popular. Maybe its our measure of a good programming language that is wrong after all.
The US hasn't declared war since 1942, but I get your point.
Yeah, I mean I hope most of the people aren't serious. My worry is that you can't really get a subreddit that large of joking racists without it being explicit that it's a joke. The subreddit almost assuredly has actual racists hiding among the kids who just want it be part of a counterculture.
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The various scandals have been reported on quite a bit by Australian news stations
Localethereum provides escrow as a service, but for trading ether. I've had good success with them so far, but I haven't had a transaction yet that's had to go to dispute resolution.
Proper adjectives (adjectives derived from proper nouns) are generally capitalized in English.
It's not entirely clear to me that all of cognition isn't simply pattern matching with learned responses. It seems the human brain may just be doing more nuanced matching / responding.
They can't really "afford it" in the common sense of it. Russia is just so big and has so much left over hardware and factories from soviet days as well as people with the know how that things will get done alone almost automatically by scale and diversity of options. Somewhere there's always someone able that's willing to do it for less.

Its difficult to explain this concept/phenomenon, but Russia just works very differently compared to other countries and has a lot of underpaid skilled people, information and older tech to fallback on.
It doesn't appear to notify you of replies which is my most desired feature.
Not the author, but I think that the point is to make disk I/O async with respect to requesting and receiving blocks. I.e. request for the next block does not wait for the write of the previous block to complete.
She goes on a bit. Hammering home the same point over and over.
You'd be surprised

a) how common solar panels are (and how easy it is to partially repair broken solar panels)

b) how simple they are to make if efficiency doesn't matter (optional glas + conductive grid + any black isolator + aluminum foil will result in power delivered between the grid and the aluminum. Paper (even white laser printer paper frankly) will do fine as isolator, also I heard balloon plastic works very well. Of course a transparent conductor works way better than a grid (which is where 80% of the efficiency comes from), but it works at like 5-10% efficiency with a grid) (the optional glass is to keep it clean, you can of course also just clean it regularly)

c) how long batteries last if you only ever use 5% of their capability
White and Asian are proper adjectives in the sentence, and would normally be capitalized.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proper_adjective
No it's not and it's frankly insulting and factually baseless to suggest Twitter is deliberately sowing discord in order to sell more ads

Two words: algorithmic timeline
Yea, sure.

I highly doubt you or your friend make that salary without some special niche knowledge. Even a PHD, perhaps.
Make it, and then name this app "Dictionary" :P
They probably have never lost in court but rather settled or dropped the cases before they get to court.
My amd64 and ARM CPUs also don't have it.

On languages where the algorithm is an implementation detail, one can make use of reference counting with a cycle collector, which are just a few hundred lines.

Implementing one is pretty simple, making it perform well is another matter.
> We had the Bay of Pigs, the 1973 CIA backed coupe in Chile, the Iranian Contras ... Obama ...

The people are sensitive to the distinctions in character between illegal and immoral behavior by institutions that seek to advance American geopolitical interests vs the gaudy and self-serving disregard for standards and norms that directly benefit Trump and his kids. Trump's image of corruption is further enhanced by his personal character which has shown him to be superficially dishonest, petulant and vengeful. Although... coups and endless wars sound a lot more morally bankrupt than Trump elevating his daughter and her husband into the ranks of power. So all Trump has to do is get through his presidency without starting a war...
You say that the average citizen should be able to know when to call 911, which is exactly why I'm confused that you'd expect to need 80 hours of training for recognizing imminent life threats.
Do people not pay their taxes for public transport too?

You had quite specific numbers for the amount of the journey cost that the user pays for public transport, what are the equivalent numbers for drivers?

My intuition is road and parking projects are so spectacularly expensive I doubt drivers are paying their full costs via petrol excise and registration fees.

Obviously it's different in every city, but if we're going to have a conversation about the merits of subsidizing (or not) public transport then we should probably have figures for comparison on privately driven cars.

"taxes" doesn't cut it.

I can't vouch for the quality of this post, but it illustrates my thinking: https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2015/05/debunking-the...

Perhaps you have better figures.