skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FWIW, I don't see a 10 second delay. I see a delay of roughly 2.5 seconds (Firefox; Chrome is a bit slower), followed by a Unity splash screen (which you can disable once you buy a license). But the delay obviously depends on the speed of the user's machine and network.

The startup overhead is mostly downloading and parsing of the JavaScript. (WebAssembly basically reduces both by being more compact and easier to parse, but it requires browser support.)

Be sure to read the WebGL section of the manual thoroughly, as it contains several tips on reducing this overhead. Also, the overhead varies a lot depending on the browser, so be sure to test all the major ones (Edge, Chrome, Firefox, Safari).

A classic pitfall is to have collider on some of your game objects, even though the game isn't physics driven. This forces Unity to include the entire physics system in the build.

Even if some systems, like physics, can be removed if not used, Unity is still a full-blown 3D game engine. It can of course also do 2D, but it'll almost inevitably have a higher overhead than a dedicated 2D WebGL engine.

You can also consider showing your own loading screen before/on top of the Unity WebGL player, which can camouflage the load time.
Yeah, especially since weechat with its custom relay protocol replaces the bouncer and has a great mobile client too.
IIRC, Advogato did something like that a million years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advogato
> [...] include actual reasoning about why things are how they are in Rust and that they seem pretty open about drawbacks of the choices.

This trait of documentation (the "why" & openly discussing pros and cons) seems to be a property of great systems being well-documented.
It's not really a secret that Apple News is incredibly popular. Everyone on the publisher side has been talking about how much traffic it drives to their stories for a while now. Journalists even pitch their stories to the Apple News editors to try and get them featured [1].

[1] https://9to5mac.com/2018/02/14/the-information-apple-news/
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me too. After i got used to the shortcuts and tuned the JVM, never looked back ( to eclipse ) again.
Good points, and it doesn't make Slack or anyone else look any better. They aren't doing what they do for the good of communication and long term retention. They are making themselve a single vendor point of failure on purpose, like so many companies have tried and will try to do with their customers.

I don't believe there is a dichotomy between IRC and Slack. In fact, Rocket Chat and Mattermost show that locally hosted platforms can be developed openly and serve a similar purpose.
Doesn't really make sense. Why are you importing this package if you're getting the creds via environment? Why wouldn't you just load the creds into the environment with an external tool, and then just run your app, and never have to modify your app in the first place?
Given how well-suited our universe seems to be for life, I feel like we should admit that one of 2 things is true...

(1) There is a God who decides how things are.

(2) Many universes exist.

Actually I usually feel that the second is simpler than the first, despite my prejudices as a near-Catholic. But I'm increasingly skeptical about efforts to maintain that there's only one, unplanned, universe.
This comment is specific to Sanskrit learning.

If you are in Bay Area, Sanskrit Bharati (http://www.samskritabharatiusa.org/) is very active. Their teaching is focused on conversational style. They are world wide organization.

They have a 3 day intro workshop followed by weekly meeting to keep you going on the learning path.

Twice a year, they have a weekend retreats to fully embrace the language.

I just did intro workshop their style is very very effective. I could start conversing basic sentences after 3 sessions. I didn't pursue further (laziness), so above details could be slightly incorrect.

I have no affiliation.
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Where can I find an investor that will give me 1.5 million so I can hire my insomniac friend as VP of engineering?
I should rephrase. It's not useful to attribute something to God because then you'll never know how God did it.

But maybe instead of approaching every problem with the "how did this happen by chance" angle and answering it with ("infinite possibilities multiplied by infinitesimal probability = 1" i.e. "infinity/infinity = 1") and instead approached it with "how could this have been done intentionally by a sufficiently advanced species" angle, we may make more progress in this and related "mysterious" fields (abiogenesis, for example)
I am surprised at the under-reporting of this issue. We are literally on the brink of a serious chip technology stagnation which could cause a dead stop to moore's law and very few people are concerned.
At first glance, having no information on this other than a title and an image, I assumed there was some data encoded in the odd pattern on the flags at the top of the tombstone. I then read through the article waiting to learn what was there, and of course it was never mentioned.

A google search turned up a higher-resolution photo of the tombstone: http://elonka.com/friedman/Tombstone.JPG

The lines on the flags appear to be ordinary stripes, with nothing encoded in them. So I guess I can thank my own imagination for turning an otherwise fascinating story into a bit of a disappointment.
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I live and learn, thanks. The particle size I assume is an issue for pulmonary reasons? So sequestered in concrete that wouldn’t be an issue, smart.
Came here to say the same. Centering an image is much harder than it should be, pre-flexbox.
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slack's desktop client is electron based, and while people may bitch about it they don't actually have to use it. the web ui (which is just shoved in an electron wrapper for the desktop client) lacks a few of the desktop features but nothing major. it's pretty usable for anyone who hates electron.
If the coin you're mining goes bust you can still sell the GPU and recoup some of the investment. With ASICs there's not much of a market for that.
Yes - Amazon has done well in tablet space but that isn't because of Android.

Most of the things that sell Amazon Fire are its really cheap price (it is probably a loss leader), seamless Amazon's Kindle and Content integrations (such as Prime as well as FreeTime). However, there are no Google Apps on it - no maps, no gmail, no Youtube etc. It is a really hamstrung experience if you have used their product.

Android is much much bigger than Amazon tablet and to say Amazon is eating away at Android is a disingenuous statement.
I like the concept, but using both "ai" and "blockchain" on the front page of your website triggers me.
I highly doubt chess club will give me any broken bones. Band, however, did give me tinnitus (seriously)
I don't think the question of whether it is a profession really ties that well into the rest of what you have said.
please, open source it.
But our universe isn’t well suited for life, our planet is.

So 1) there is a god or 2) many planets exist.
About all I can say is, No kidding.
That is an incredibly naive view of harassment in an era of doxing, swatting and revenge porn.
HUuuum idk about security being a problem now a days.
The community overlook in an opensource library vastly outweighs my capabilities of writing secure libraries.
As usual, entirely devoted to machine learning and without showing any hint that there's anything else to AI than classification -and a bit of clustering.
Would you care to elaborate? I'm not familiar with the process.
Blame him or not blame him, it was hypocritical to proclaim in all other forums for open web policies and then not vote against DRM when the chips were down. From my very distant viewpoint, it's almost inexplicable.

I couldn't imagine Stallman, Doctorow, or anyone else with as deep a desire for open systems having that divergent a reaction to the one most galling topic in the whole discussion.
"But our universe isn’t well suited for life, our planet is."

I suggest that most possible universes would have zero regions containing life.
Thank you so much! Any improvement from the first to the second edition is thanks to Carol :)
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Also, you can look at Tablet Marketshare here: https://www.statista.com/statistics/276635/market-share-held...

Granted Amazon is big but Android tablet marketshare as a whole (exclusing Amazon) is much bigger. I would use data to back your assertions vs. what I am observing (as that is subject to echo chamber and confirmation bias risks).
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I imagine this problem would be remedied by an acquisition.. or at least masked... Twitch (Amazon) seems a likely candidate, considering it's usage by Twitch users, and also the fact that Amazon doesn't really have skin in the game currently in the chat market (do they?), and could use a product like Discord in their ecosystem.
A problem with IRCds is that a lot of them are very similar (charybdis, ratbox, ircd-seven, hybrid), which duplicates the efforts needed to fix bugs and add features, for very little benefits.

And the benefits each fork has generally is extra non-standard modes, which complicates work on the client-side.
For instance, +q is a channel owner (= someone very powerful) on UnrealIRC, but it's a muted user (= kind of a ban) on ircd-seven
On the other hand, someone with more knowledge accessible off the top of their head is more able to find and assimilate new information too.
This comment is on the money.

"..just plain refuse (are unable?) to even see the difference between a chat like slack. ...the user experience will be a different one."

Underlying this is (unusually) a way some technical people think, and the way most bureaucracies think. Bureaucracies will often "checklist" requirements, see that it does all the things "users have identified as important," use cases they think these apply to and go on that information alone. They only consider stuff that is tangible & legible.

By that checklist method email, whatsapp, Twitter, slack are IRC and such are essentially the same. Some may tick a.minor box that the other does not, but basically they all get messages from A to B (sometimes to B, C & D).

It's even worse in this case, because slack is social software and the conventions people form as users are very impactful on the UX. This compounds differences.
Facebook and Google have been quite successful in defending their respective market shares. Regulation, if it lowers the value of the market by, for example, making shady political ads less lucrative, would seem to be more threatening to them, currently.

That’s not to mention that regulators tend to be more cognizant of regulatory capture and their effects on the market than people give them credit for. That’s why you see revenue or other cutoffs in many regulations.
Hey Siri, play Delta Blues!

..Delta Blues starts playing.

Hey Siri, play the first album from T-Bone Burnet.

..and it plays.

Play the number one song from 1983..

And Every Breath You Take by The Police starts playing.
I really think that if we could keep the barriers to entry low there wouldn't be that big of a problem.
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This is an awesome question, and one that was raised by the lawyer on our team. Since summarization is not a lossless process, there will be some information that the user doesn't see.

For now, we have a blanket disclaimer that our product is merely for summary and should not represent the will of the company whose terms you are reading.

However, you're absolutely right, we want to make sure that the companies are also well represented. We are building out an avenue for companies to "contest" the summary on their page to be more accurate, or write a personalized summary.

The question can be looked at for any one, what happens if they don't read the ToS at all, and then do something that violates those? We think Legal Leaf is a step in the right direction towards education, but there is still lots of work left to do.
you are totally correct. u16 is more than enough (as is u12 apparently!). F16 is also sufficient. I'll update the text to point this out.
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Phone: 1 (dropped; screen broke but I was able to repair it)

Laptop: 1 (spilt wine on it, was not able to repair it)

I agree for desktops, but laptops regularly get broken and stolen.
Maybe. Media isn't necessarily a "sexy" word given the legacy relationship with physical media that the content industry is leaving behind. But it'd free them up to use the more-accurate names for the content that was marketed under that umbrella. You'd still have Apple Music. And Apple TV. And Apple Movies. (Or whatever they want to call each tier of the content). Right now I'd bet virtually nobody knows you need to use Apple Music to watch Planet of the Apps or some of their other TV content, and it's certainly not intuitive for somebody new to their ecosystem.
Yeah, but I'm not archiving for the German or Swiss government. For scanned handwritten notes, JBIG2 still beats out anything else by an order of magnitude at least
Censorship and bias of information seem to be the major concerns I have with tech companies. Treating them as common carriers so they are not allowed to discriminate seems like something that is needed. Outside of that, I think they are doing a decent job and question whether more regulation will do more harm than good.
The IRCv3 working group (ZNC in particular) introduced several specifications to make bouncers integrate better with IRC clients.
Component values outside the (normalized) range [0,1] are necessary to represent certain colors as sRGB (and most other color spaces). So if you're color-space aware, at least i16 is warranted. f32 just means you have to worry less about overflow, quantization effects, etc., that crop up with various image manipulations. Plus, on GPUs, 32-bit floating point math is generally at least as fast as integer math. So it comes only at a loss of space.
Parameter Store is rather cumbersome and heavyweight for the kind of quick iteration you can do with EnvKey, and of course it's AWS-specific. I do use Parameter Store to "inject" the EnvKey into newly-booted EC2 instances, but then EnvKey takes over from there.
It is probably worth mentioning the expiration of OCB patents. Of course, it probably still would be optional for now.
Right, so I think we should make a distinction between "healthy choices" and "eating healthy food".

I'll agree with you that McDonald's is providing healthy choices. But just because the choices are there, doesn't mean the food is healthier - iceberg lettuce and hamburger buns are still empty calories.

High quality chicken/beef does not mean it's more healthier. Quality does not correlate to health. That'd be like saying a high quality cigarette is better for your health than a low quality one.
That's an explanation proposed for why we can barely measure any gravity stemming from the huge energy contained in the zero-point field. The idea is that the fermion field (matter) and the boson field (energy) cancel each other out. This theory is part of supersymmetry.
Importing the package is what sets the config on the environment.

If you'd prefer not to modify the app at all, you could also use EnvKey's bash tool, envkey-source: https://github.com/envkey/envkey-source

This lets you set the config as OS-level environment variables, and therefore doesn't require adding a library to your app. With an ENVKEY environment variable set, it works like this:

$ eval $(envkey-source)
$ python

>> import os
>> os.environ["SOME_API_KEY"]
Great feedback!
1) That is an awesome idea, I hadn't thought of that. We'll put that together.
2) Right now its sumy/regex/bs4 for our tech. As you can see, it's nothing complex, but we're hoping to had some real ML to warrant our use of buzzwords. The hardest technical challenge was actually working within the Chrome Extension framework, the actual summarization (currently) is fairly straightforward.
3) Spacy lemmatization looks like exactly the next step! Thank you for that. link.
Pretty much like your good old sync code. Some examples how it might look like you can read from the async/await macro crate [0], somebody might be able to provide more recent examples...

[0] https://github.com/alexcrichton/futures-await
Well, it wouldn't be the first time someone had the right idea decades before the world was ready. (No sarcasm; fully serious.)

Though you'd want to open it up to people beyond open source developers. And it's possible the idea of using the "up/down arrows" that everyone is familiar with may still be worthwhile; it's been too long since I've seen the advogato interface to remember if they had that. And finally, a "likeability" metric that was less mathematical and a bit more rough & ready might be a good thing; mathematical constructs are really good at maintaining the properties you design in, but are often extremely fragile. I'd want an algorithm with some knobs I can twist, not a single algorithm. But by all means read the papers in question; why rediscover those things the hard way?
Its been relatively rare that unpopular opinions offered in good faith are punished with anything other than downvotes on reddit. People don't post opinions with the intent to convince, they post with the intent to deceive or create a reaction, IE trolling. That has been the big wave that has taken over, its just taken the conservative political sphere over far quicker.

The other wave is the circle-jerk - a relentless and all-encompassing embrace of confirmation bias, institutionalized to keep a fundamentalist purity of thought. This is beyond a normal echo chamber, these are high powered ideology amplifiers.

We've never had the concept of unlimited freedom of speech, and most of the time that its been curtailed, it has been to protect against those who use it in bad faith (fire in a crowded theater, etc). That is the toxicity - IMO Reddit is going to learn this lesson far too late, and allow a group that doesn't want to be there anyway take down the whole site when they leave.
Oh that's awesome! I hadn't thought of that. This would really allow people to change behavior based on the information they get. That's great. Thank you!
Just remember you weren't racist when the hordes of non-whites come to kill you. There won't be anyone to save you either, just like there isn't in South Africa right now.
The point I was really making was one about transparency. Many people don't know their connection is insecure. They see the green link status on chrome and everything is good.

If the server detects an insecure connection, then at least the minimum is that the user is informed.
Coal is the big pollution problem in northern China: Chinese coal is dirty (compared to USA coal), scrubbers are often missing or turned off, much of the coal is also burned in rural personal furnaces for heat. It is obvious now most of the pollution was from coal. Banning was the only thing they found effective, since China does not have enough rule of law capabilities to just regulate it.

Cars, in comparison, usually have all their emission equipment installed, and are not running on shitty gasoline (well, ever since sinopec stopped importing the low grade stuff from Saudi Arabia that no one else would go near). Cars still cause pollution, but on a different lower scale from coal. Well, there are still problem with blue trucks that lack emission equipment and use bad gas from outside the city (they are only allowed in at night and you can see the pollution spike then).

Electric bikes play a bit of a role in this improvement, but mainly in suppressing the need for gasoline-based mopeds popular in the rest of Asia. China moved straight from foot power bikes to electric power bikes, so they never became much of a problem.

EV cars are still new and can potentially lead to future improvements in air quality. For example, getting rid of coal has brought Beijing's winter average down from 300 to 120 or 150, but that is just going from really bad to just bad. EVs could potentially get Beijing into the good column.
There are multiple sources of internet archives and reddit-specific archivals.

re: edits; check whether the post sentiment changes, I'm not worried about admins fixing typos/grammar.

Also, investors understand trust is a prerequisite to profit... editing shenanigans are intolerable.
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When physicists (and you guys know who you are!) say things like "the universe arose from an infinite multiverse", they are bullshitting, because structure does not come from "infinity", structure comes from rules (which may generate some structure that is infinite), and if you can't say anything about the rules then the answer is simply "I don't know".
Maybe look into the maps.org phase III clinical trials for MDMA? Pineapple fund just gave them another $4MM in BTC ( a blockchain based cryptocurrency).

But to be fair, they were citing an award they were given.
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The right thing to use is really f16, half precision floating point. It's a crying shame that CPU manufacturers have ignored f16 for so long, because there are so many applications where it's the perfect choice. Imaging, audio, machine learning.
> I can't invest in a company that wants investors money but won't give them anything in exchange for it.

Other than financial returns, you mean?
Condoleezza Rice

https://i.imgur.com/Ix9rYDR.png

Didn't realize Condi was on the Dropbox board of directors.
> This is the mentality that caused the now-semi-famous HN post in the early days of dropbox, arguing that it was useless because with a combination of [ simple CLI tools that nontechnical people have never even heard of ], you could create the "same" functionality.

That's a strawman - no one said dropbox was useless to everyone: this is not about how simple it is to replicate the functionality, but who controls the data. The point gp was raising is that surrendering control your data to a 3rd party company has costs most people do not consider until it's too late - and this happens time and again ("oh no, this shit again"). How many stories have you read about downtime, account bans/freezes, and companies winding down or sold with little or no notice and no way to retrieve your data? Is it a worthy tradeoff for a shiny UI?
For those wondering, RFC's can be installed to /usr/share/doc/rfc/txt/ with the rfc package[0] on Arch Linux. Ubuntu has the doc-rfc package[1] with installs to /usr/share/doc/RFC.

[0]: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/any/rfc/

[1]: https://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/doc-rfc
Thats not the case. Being good at trivia doesn't mean you're able to concentrate enough to synthesize solutions using the knowledge you have.
Ugh I messed up my post, "doesn't" was supposed to be "does".
Obligatory, but Haskell, comment.

Nice post, looks like a decent API. I wonder how similar each implementation of this model in Language X is and how easily it would be to test their implementation meet the spec.
The basis of venture capital is the simple statement:

"For every buck you give us, we will give at least two bucks back next year."

You take this extortion because the benefits are ludicrous. "If we get EBay into every country before anyone else, we make silly money" or "We need want <mumble> million to make <mumble> billion in the next few years." The hardest part to get investors to understand that exiting in two years with only a 3x return is still a win.
Also, most coins try to design them to be ASIC resistant because they do not want them to become centralized.