skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I made a video about this in January, before YouTube strongarmed Blender. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_ksbTTXHw8

I am pretty dismayed to be this right. I didn't think YT would be nearly this aggressive in service of the ideas I outlined.

Basically, they take a cut off that activity. In some cases they could take most of or all the money, which is a clear win for them, but even when they pay out they're earning revenue on the transaction. It's been their core business model, so the problems with advocating an adfree behavior become obvious.

I would add that this becomes more urgent if they're in crisis. Makes me wish I could get the master copies I'd uploaded back, but there's no chance of that.

Bottom line: shots fired. You must work with YouTube the way they want you to work with YouTube, or you'll get punished.
I agree. The use of "Blowing away" in the title is incendiary and unnecessary.

It would be far better to state the metric they're using, i.e. "GitHub Stars !== Usage: React downloads still surpass Vue and Angular"

It's taken React about 2-3 years to go from being head to head with Angular(JS) to being the dominant frontend ecosystem. I expect within 2-3 years Vue and React will be on far more equal footing in terms of usage and jobs. (Assuming something else doesn't come along and topple the current trend towards reactive frontend tools.)
I for one measure my developer e-peen (used to get me real women interwebz dates) by how many stars my framework of choices uses. I am shocked and appalled by these findings.
I had an eye-opening experience with this. My android phone's home screen was locked, but somehow I managed to butt-dial emergency services. It wasn't until the police knocked on my door that I looked at my device to see what had happened. They were able to accurately find me at my house in an average suburban neighborhood. While I was pleased at the response, I was also quite embarrassed to have taken these folks away from more urgent matters.
This is the best post in this thread.

Besides the one saying there is absolutely no clear path on how to meditate or what its actually supposed to achieve, despite generic mumbojumbo.
Yeah, a more interesting article would be "Github Stars === x", because I've never been sure what they're for.
I can imagine this tech being using in some pretty interesting/scary ways:

* Generating avatars in Facebook's VR land from photos you're tagged in

* Recognizing a person IRL from photos they're tagged in
exactly. switched to a Lenovo Carbon X1 when my 2009 MBP died on me.
The article doesn't say what the HN headline says, or at least, not in the way that most people reading the headline would interpret it.
"Surface Detail", absolutely recommend!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface_Detail
You can also look at job postings as another metric of popularity. Last I checked, Vue wasn't sought nearly as much as React.
I read this and listened to the NPR podcast episode this morning, and just wanted to say: Patrick and John, you guys have done a great job with Stripe and have made starting an online business simple. I don't think I would have started the businesses I have if it weren't for Stripe making payments so simple. (I saw that you mentioned the negative emails that you get every morning, so if you're reading this, here's a positive message.)
It’s cool to be pessimistic I guess. What happened to happy?
Thanks for notifying me, but I'm sorry to say that I can't reproduce the problem. It's hosted on Netlify, who also take care of the certificate, so I'll let them know.
Yep. This is what's going on here, nothing in the article about the actual studies failing.

This title is analogous to saying "Amazon is imploding" as a result of the Fire Phone's failure to launch.
Didn't Peter Thiel predict this in 2012?

He outlined it very clearly as an inevitable shift from indefinite optimism to indefinite pessimism in his book "zero to one"
Lol. I mean sure Apple could be stuck between a US/China tradewar... sure. But the affects on Apple, versus literally any other the business out there, of the trade war are going to be relatively minuscule. There will be thousands of smaller businesses on both sides that are affected and that likely have a much larger aggregate impact than one player-- even if it is Apple.

Apple has money and margins, it would not be wise to underestimate the power of those two things in protecting their business. It'd be better if the NYT wrote a piece about a mid-size ($5m to $75m in revenue, 50-500 employees) businesses that can't lobby or fight back and the affect on them.

/shrug
US cop-TV shows often treat it as a given, but US courts allow in bad evidence more often than not. US supreme court decisions are generally against the exclusionary rule, and it's likely to mostly disappear in the US in the near future, except for very rich defendants. Here's the most recent one:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson_v._Michigan

where everyone involved says the evidence was seized improperly, unconstitutionally, but the evidence is very much in and the defendants are in prison today.
Yes, that is the hope, but the problem is it "CAN" but this does not mean it actually learns, if you seen what this AI do is just ignoring most of the data since the hardware is not powerful enough, the reality should be that the radar and cameras would work together and identify all the detected objects and not ignore any input. Tesla hit a firetruck, then a police car, it killed 2 humans in similar conditions, did Tesla cars learned from it anything? if it did it was not enough
Who censored a whole subthread?
Be sure to listen to the linked podcast if you haven't: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/national-public-radio/how-i.... It contains a lot of good content.
I imagine there's something beneficial in the fact that it's competitive, and therefore non-solitary. You're forced to interact with your opponent.
Not mentioned in article, but Exynos versions of s8/9 don't need these tricks.
Why should you assume Americans are happy?
I like “an organization formed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model”

If you’re selling water and expect to grow a lot, unless you’re selling water in a completely new way, are you really a startup?
I must have been 6 or 7 with Windows 95 at home and I double-clicked that mysterious black and orange hazard icon on my dad's desktop. Duke Nukem proceeded to captivate me, then I blinked, and now I'm over 30.
>$2/day and banks will not deal with them

People living on $2 a day generally don't have reliable access to computers, electricity, internet or the technical literacy necessary to navigate the cryptocurrency minefield.
But he's not deciding it - he's merely stating his opinion. Uber apparently did decide this earlier by taking the shortcuts they did.

I also agree with GP. We need to take more _calculated_ risks instead of trying for strictly risk-free science. Personally I'll gladly accept more dead astronauts (and hail them as heroes) if they push spaceflight further.
Vue was started by one guy. Vue is lead by one guy. But there's a core team behind Vue and it's growing ;<).
Great tutorial. More importantly though, how did you get that desktop wallpaper?
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send.rest supports HAR1.2 calls, you can technically call any API
It's not only America. Every time I talk with my parents they keep discussing how SpaceX and Tesla are huge scam or how EU will crush and burn, etc, etc.
This idea is often formally referred to as the "Law of Comparative Advantage", and most economists do believe it provides a logical defense of free trade. That said, there are some interesting criticisms of it [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_advantage#Criticis...
How to explain gradient boosting
Just set up a handler to `/wp-admin/index.php` guaranteed to be called multiple times a day for free.
Society definitely needs more law-enforcers with a high false positive rate.
A lot of the carriers and manufacturers already have a very strong safety culture. The regulator spends most of its time working with smaller companies.
That's the dumbest way to enforce IP law. Just take the companies to court in the US if they sell in the US or international court if selling to other countries where Chinese companies compete with American manuf. - tariffs just aren't a good way to do this as it royally fucks American consumers
Just rolled into day 6 of a fast.

Between fasting and a ketogenic diet I've managed to lose 80 lbs and keep it off for more than a year. It was much faster and easier than any other method of weight loss I'd tried in the past, and the results have been easier to maintain.
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This article defines stereotypes as "unfair" categorization. That is far different than knowing the fact that groups have traits, and that categorization comes from these observed traits. Of course individuals stand out, that doesn't make the generalization a less useful tool for quick analysis.
Yeah, I mean, most advertising-supported outlets are terrible. The incentives push the organization toward churning out clickbait.

We need a new system of incentives for information dissemination.
"5120 x 5120 at 60 fps" here is why that's overkill. If you start putting dots on a sphere you can go in one direction turn 90 degrees, put 5120 another axis. However, if you tile like that with 5120 x 5120 you get a lot of wasted pixels at the poles.

If a 5120 pixel Radius is fine... then Radius of sphere = 2 pi * r, and Surface of sphere is 4 pi * r^2. So 5120 / 2pi =r substitute for r > 4 * (5120/2pi)^2 simplify > (5120)^2 /(pi) ~= we need ~1/3 aka 1/pi of 5280^2.

However, I suspect you actually want more than 5120 pixel radius.
Ask HN: How to stop worrying and start enjoying?
Hi HN,

I am a worrier. I worry about things that I should worry about, but I also worry deeply about hypothetical situations that will probably never happen. These can be to do with work, money, personal, life, you name it. You could even call it paranoia.

I am capable of idenfting the real threats from the fake ones, the ones that are extreme worst case scenarios - but I'm very bad at controlling them and letting go of them. Sometimes they can haunt me for weeks at a time.

This is of course deeply unpleasant and massively instrusive to the extent where I don't really enjoy daily life anymore.

I was wondering if anyone here has experienced these challenges and how they worked to overcome them.

All the best
Are you joking or is there a study I missed? You have seen statistics for accidents and fatalities when human drovers are involved, yes?
Unfortunately, I only have time to post this since I'm on a lunch break. I hope to read this sometime after work.

That said...

GATTACA is a much watch and I can't believe that it was a trilogy. I can't wait to read through this!
React is indeed the new jQuery.
Is such a requirement in YouTube's terms of usage?

If yes, YouTube should have notified the affected channels first and ask them to change their settings or leave.
> Click this button to open a Workspace on FloydHub where you can train a Markov chain model to generate "commencement speech style" sentences in a live JupyterLab environment. The commencement address dataset of ~300 famous speeches will be automatically attached and available in the Workspace. Just follow along with the speech_maker Jupyter notebook.

That's pretty cool.
> '"Make it so" was a standard phrase used by British naval officers.'

Which makes perfect sense, because Picard was French.
This is changing though. At least in Europe there is a growing pressure for reproducibility and openness of data and implementations. I hope that in a recent future publicly funded content will have to be released, no matter how experimental or inflexible. Unless there are good reasons to keep it private (e.g. 0 days during embargo).
Aerospace and defence seem to have a much stronger notion of systems engineering than I experienced in Automotive -- but it is entirely possible that what I experienced was an outlier, not representative of the whole.
Well, they picked the wrong org to gamble on strongarming in the case of Blender. Instead of getting them to monetize they've just compelled Blender to move platforms.
unpkg stats:

React 138,829,602

VueJs 33,952,225
In October will be exactly one year that waymo is doing this.
And I don’t see any apocalyptic news so I guess that they are doing more than well.
I havent tried using them, but what makes them stink?

Expensive/Slow?
"It's the economy, stupid!"

How long are we going to watch the economic elite be mystified as inequality skyrockets and the American people become more and more disenfranchised from the "success" of "American" firms like Facebook, Google, and Apple.

And yeah, a billionaire like Elon Musk who inherited his money from an apartheid state trying to "disrupt" the auto industry is not going to be taken to kindly, especially by anyone who's paying attention.

The ends do not justify the means.
Good point, though I'm really just trying to get across that 'since some conspiracy theories have turned out to be true, all conspiracy theories are likely true' is not a good summation of the motivations which produced rplst8 statement. When I apply the principle of charity to what rplst8 said, I'm forced to ascribe to him beliefs which maximize the correctness of his views. In doing so, I have to take the position that he is referring to conspiracy theorist as applied as a label to a person, rather than used as shorthand to discuss the structure of someone's argument. This is especially a truth maximizing necessity, because the conversation he is replying to is discussing cases where conspiracy theories turned out to be true; not just unfalsifiable rhetoric.
Whilst I agree that no American benefits if Apple fails, it’s not surprising that Americans no longer celebrate the success of American businesses.

The economy is demonstrably structured so that only a small number benefit, whilst income has been stagnant for generations, and living standards have been declining because of rising healthcare costs.

Bringing down Apple may benefit nobody, but there is no longer any reason for most Americans to care about the success of American businesses since they can’t share in the prosperity.
My fascination with computers started when I watched the movie Hackers (1995) [1]. I just liked the idea of the underdogs upping the ante over their well-funded bureaucrats and being smart and stubborn. Even though this was rather a bland movie (by today's standards), I appreciate the fact that this movie pushed me into the realms of software and computers in general.

[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113243/
The examples you cite work in enterprise space, not when selling desktop applications to regular consumers.

Red-Hat explicitly moved away from desktop because of it. Even Ubuntu has given up and decided to pivot into IoT and server.

Average steet consumer does not care about consulting, and if some kind of training is needed they ask around to friends or local teaching associations.

The original author sees zero from those teachings and everyone in the business knows that desktop software books are more about building CV than actually living from them.
I use Homebrew, but you have to prefix most GNU utilities by 'g', unless you are willing to 'override' Darwin's utilities by having the GNU counterparts earlier in the path.

Besides that, Homebrew does not solve the fact that for a lot of Apple-specific utilities, subsystems, and daemons there are no man pages.

(I do agree that Homebrew is a great project, have been using it pretty much since its inception.)
Even assuming that there isn't already some precedent that a checkbox allows them to use your uploaded likeness in whatever they want, is your premise here that you have more time and money to spend in a legal battle with Facebook or Google?
Cook doesn’t seem to be proposing a solution to China’s policies other than: more of the same.
FWIW, I'm not a big fan of OCA theory. Or perhaps a better way to say it is that I think the case for making the entire planet with its next day transport of goods and immediate delivery of services would nominally qualify as a single OCA. Note that Mundells criteria are focused primarily on sovereignty and not economics per se (see the Greek comment in peer comment).

Tariffs and currency manipulation are a sovereign response to prevent efficient markets that would render local labor noncompetitive.

And as I mentioned earlier, a single currency makes such manipulations ineffective and you get Greece. They can't bring their productivity up to the level of Germany or France and their economy suffers for it because all of the capital goes elsewhere.
While Vue fits my brain _way_ better, most companies use React. Why? Their decision makers feel safer. (FB backing)

This makes me reluctant to jump in and burn bridges.
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One thing to think about is what is the motivation/incentive for someone to take a specific action. For me personally, I will "star" something that I find interesting AND I think I might forget how to find it again. Example: people might forget the exact name/repo for colors.js so they will be incentivized to star it, but no one will forget "apache".

That's why vue might gain more stars than the current dominant players (react and/or angular)
My experience with Volvo was very positive. They were very keen on building a Simulink model for the entire vehicle, which IMHO is a good way to go.
Yes. Kind of a self-fulfilling prophecy in his case though, so I wouldn't give him points for that.
This is definitely a needed service. As a business, if something isn't core to the business model, it's better to pay money and avoid distractions, at least until it's clear that something is actually core to the business.

That said, I've wanted something akin to a distributed cron, without the complexities of workflow engines like airflow or azkaban, so I started writing a little HTTP API for scheduling jobs [1], which is mostly complete except for configurable retry logic and failure notifications. To schedule a periodic job that runs every 30 seconds,

curl http://$HOSTNAME/jobs \
-d '{ "title" : "Healthcheck"
, "code" : "curl example.com"
, "frequency" : "30 seconds" }'

[1] https://github.com/finix-payments/jobs
> Elon Musk ... inherited his money from an apartheid state

Huh?
That's like saying you don't need a fullsize truck because the methheads seem to do just find hauling scrap metal in their Dodge Caravan.

That's like saying that one kinda, umm, perhaps didn't completely comprehend my point. Unless you're arguing that a Dodge Caravan has more space than a Ford F-150 (and maybe it does, dunno).

having more space will make hauling that load less of a chore.

Yes, I completely agree, that's why I like the Scion over an SUV.

As an aside, I wouldn't let my kids be seen in a Volvo Wagon.

So you're worried about the image you project as well. Fair enough, I think that might apply to many vehicle owners including, to a degree larger than I care to admit, myself.
I'm pretty annoyed, I was planning on using a bunch of MITOCW video series to level up some on some computer science and information theory this summer and I hadn't even gotten through the first lecture of the first series on my list (6.001 with Sussman from 1986, classic and awesome) when this stopped me in my tracks.

I've been waiting patiently hoping it comes back, but at this point I feel like I'm going to have to use archive.org or download directly from them.

I was slowly warming up to the idea of paying for Red for commercial-less music and maybe checking out some other paid content, but this has been a bucket of cold water on that notion.
> Plus, the additional sensors available and the software response time mean autonomous drivers can outperform even sober, attentive, skilled human drivers in most situations.

Self driving cars are a hard problem, a very hard problem. So is CAPTCHA and machines are still not that great at solving them.

The problem space of autonomus vehicles is a large one, and even with how many mistakes human drivers make, I still don't think we're anywhere near the tech to make safe autonomous driving vehicles. We're at a minimum, 15 years off.

I want you to think about all the technology we use every day. Our phones, desktops, laptops, are full of bugs. Hell I found bugs in the ticketing system I buy metro cards from the other day. We see display kiosk crash all the time.

A Tesla car with lane assistance (please stop calling it auto-pilot) recently drove a car into barrier. Another kept driving for hours without hands on the wheel (fixed in an update. Was that driver passed out? No way to know.)

Now you might say, this is different. The engineers working on self-driving tech are at the level of the ones that build bridges, or make pacemaker software (which by the way, some were found to have a bluetooth vulnerability recently) or plane avionics.

Maybe, but Uber certainly isn't. They're a culture of scum shit shop. This isn't a small thing here. It's a huge, huge problem space that no one completely understands yet. Why are there not any self-driving cars on the streets of NYC or Chicago? Because it's difficult, and dangerous and if there were, people would be dead right now.

For all the money we're investing in self driving cars, we could build tech that already works. Singapore and London both have fully autonomous trains; some that arrive at 30 second intervals and carry millions of people a day. America needs to get its normal infrastructure back before we go down this fantasy world of self driving cars.

I wrote more about this a while back:

https://penguindreams.org/blog/self-driving-cars-will-not-so...
Nah, that's his typical analytical style. The wired reporter would have you believe otherwise, because--well, I don't know.
It's the gateway drug. Gaming (at least used to) gets you into save-file editing, then into modding, then into programming.

Not to mention all the general IT fiddle-frigging that was involved in making games run, or fixing your PC after something went disastrously wrong with that, and you needed to get it back in a working state before the parents noticed that you'd broken the computer...
Same here, it started when I found Duke Nukem's Penthouse Paradise and Leisure Suit Larry 6 on my dads PC.
This is a hypothesis about how variation relates to the period of time in which a language has been in an area. Simply put, the more diversity within a region, the more likely that place is the origin [1].

So in this case, England will have the most linguistic diversity within English since it originated there.

This hypothesis has an analogue within population genetics, e.g. Africa has the most genetic diversity compared to other regions.

I don't know if this effect has been given a name yet, but it would seem to apply to any system where 1) mutations accumulate over time 2) populations tend to be stable but 3) groups occasionally move about very large distances.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/AskAnthropology/comments/3dq1ko/why...

[2] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096098220...
As an aside, from the Houston Chronicle: https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Explainer-I...
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So, it turns out that the combination of calories in calories out and cutting out the junk food while keeping a 30% protein 30% fat 40% carbohydrate diet has also increased peak energy, average energy, sleep, and lower peak hunger for me.

(It was at the same expense of the work to manage that diet that keto does, of course.)

That isn't to say that keto can't work, but rather it may be a function of the quality of food in the diet over the diet composition.

To the topic at hand, it might just be that he didn't prove what he set out to do, but it's still interesting in and of itself.
I love it when a new thing is a "scam", if you really question them they have no basis for their opinion other than "it's new"