skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, if it was file search it would be basically swiping left and right on random files until you saw all the files on your hard drive. A brilliant step in matchmaking, to be sure.

Who wants to switch to such a file system? :)
Getting a laser guided vacuum robot. Automating vacuuming is awesome.

Also my cat would disagree about who trains whom, but he uses the regular 'throne' in the restroom.
Dumb question from someone who doesn't use Kubernetes (or Docker) in production: don't routine security updates mean you're constantly rebuilding and redeploying these images? And if so, how is that more efficient than just using Puppet / Chef / Ansible and a 'real' server?
Regarding old buildings - it also applies to cities.

I once seen somewhere that Wrocław was designed to have air flow through the streets freely to take out coal hearing induced smog.

Now, after the war, Polish architects unaware of that redesigned some of these airways and even though coal burning is almost non-existent smog levels are rising.

Cars and loss of greenery contribute to it but one can only wonder how good air would have been if they would follow the original plan.
Original tweet, linked in article

> I cannot tell the difference between my $15 3D printed magnetic rack and the $600 commercial one.

Top response

> Does that factor in the cost of the printer, software, etc.?

Funny thing is that even if include price of a decent 3d-printer (say from Creality), 1 kg of material and shipping you would still end up at under 500 USD.
> I see "Letter Recognition Dataset" from UCI ML repository. What's the hell is that? Can you point to any paper published in a respectable conference (NIPS/ICML/CVPR) in the last 5 years that used it?

Why are you pro MNIST but anti Letter Recognition Dataset? A quick search of Scholar shows hundreds of papers that have used it in the last 4 years.

Again, I'm still not sure what you want. They aren't doing a paper on NN vs PR for image classification. They aren't trying to get a higher score on a Kaggle classification challenge. Their hypothesis is that PR is a good alternative to NN, and their findings show that - for certain datasets - they are correct. Will more research arise from this? Will future results be mindblowing? Maybe, who knows. It's just research, and somebody has to do it.
er actually there are a lot of laws regarding the transfer of technology from the united states to foreign entities [which I do not know if there are statues that are implicated in the google matter but considering the willful blindness of several tech companies in the past it would not particularly surprise me]. but moreover-this is basically congress writing a letter-they are free to write whatever letters they want to regardless of whether or not laws have been broken]. part of creating new laws is initiating inquiries into things... considering the sorry state of forced technology transfer in joint chinese-foreign ventures I think some congressional scrutiny is long long overdue.
Not really. This is a local inhibition, and it's not clear if there's penalty on synapse growth.
Columnar DBS are mostly used for analytical workloads, where you normally have wide tables (analytical data with lots of attributes) and want to query only some fields. You end up scanning most of the data, but because it is store in columns you only fetch the cols you need. In a regular DB you would fetch the complete wide row and then discard the unused cols.

Regular(oltp) databases are probably optimized for certain use cases, and changing a storage layout midway may not be feasible if the DB has to keep supporting lots of online txs. I'm no DB expert but that's my educated guess.
As I just got reminded about this through other comments:

4. Vacuuming. My roomba has paid for itself several times with the time it’s saving me
I think the term "backpropagation" has a different meaning in neurobiology.
Because it's wise to not put too much complexity on browsers which in the end have to process and parse all inputs from front-ends. While on the rest of software development (e. g. desktop applications) you're mostly free to decide if you install untrusted code or not, the web only works if you allow untrusted code to be executed on your machine.
I don't think there's much need for you to be nervous. First I think Mario Kart is pretty safe, the competitive scene there is pretty negligible so I doubt Nintendo will prioritize them at all. For Smash, all the stuff they're adding is either togglable in settings or should work for both communities, at least all the things I know about are. Here's what they are afaik:

- All characters from all versions available. Important for pros because having a few players who main characters that aren't included in new versions left out can really hurt the pro scene. Can't see how this would be anything but more fun for casual players.

- All stages have Omega (single platform) and Battlefield (4 platforms) modes. Original versions of stages still exist though.

- Manufacturing new Gamecube controllers, so crucial for the competitive scene where pros have resorted to setting up their own workbenches and making franken-controllers from working components of broken controllers. Shouldn't affect casual play at all.

- An extra decimal of precision on %s allows more precise play, should be at worst a bit of extra visual noise if you don't play competitively.

- Removal of fatigue on Pokemon Trainer, effectively introduces 3 new potential main characters for pros. Takes away a subtle mechanic for new players to learn.

- Game speed, SmashU looks to be a bit faster than Smash 4 and Brawl but not as fast as Melee. This one I can definitely see the argument for being a little less new player friendly. But I think it increases the skill cap but shouldn't make the game less fun in casual play.

Probably the best example of what you're talking about is tripping, which was a mechanic in Brawl but was dropped in Smash 4 and won't be back in Ultimate, I just found that mechanic frustrating, but I'm more toward the competitive side of the spectrum. Overall though, I think Smash Ultimate is going to be the same crazy fun that you're used to from Smash games, it's just going to have a lot of settings that help out the competitive scene. At this point competitive Smash and casual Smash are really 2 very different games.
The "Dogma of Otherness" might just be one of the reasons why those views are so popular, especially when paired with insufficient reasoning abilities:

"Climate change? Sounds inconvenient, I'll just settle on a different opinion!"

"Vaccinations? Don't trust doctors, I heard they cause autism!"

"Science? I don't understand it, so it's probably not true!"
Columnar data stores tend to be used in applications where performance is the primary concern. Abstractions tend to be leaky, but especially so when it comes to performance.

This is maybe comparable to the way high-performance applications are still usually written in C instead of higher-level languages. You'd think that at this point we could write compilers smart enough to generate more performant code than something written by a human hand, but in practice that often doesn't turn out to be true. Not yet anyway. And even when this is possible, due to their inevitably complexity, those abstractions tend to misbehave in unexpected ways, with unpredictable performance hiccups.
Emotions have causes that produce them, so you can ignore emotions and discuss causes. If the cause is something unavoidable like a bad weather, then a partner who's suffering from it needs compassion and support. There's nothing to fight about.
I already tried it because I owned it. I also wrote a 1,600 blog post explaining my position in French, but I don't feel translating it here in English. But here are my main points: the weapon system and the inventory are (incredibly) frustrating. Getting a new weapon is not a rewarding as it will fade 3 strokes after. Sanctuaries could be labeled as game-designer training, but as a player they lake both fun (heck one time I even gave the console to my girlfriend for her to solve one because it put too much on my nerves) and distinctiveness. The whole world is desperately empty. There is no pressure to complete the game whatsoever (no hostage, no crashing moon). The saving system is crappy as it does not save the game state. What makes the salt of previous games was the story, the feeling of progression, the music, the characters, the distinctiveness of some regions (kokiri forest, zora domain, etc.) and all of that is pretty much non-existent in BotW. Some gameplay mecanism like rain that forbid climbing are hostile to the player by design and really annoying. Monsters: all the same with some color or stat variations.

Basically this "game" is a game engine on top of which a real game could be implemented, but as such I just see it as an empty open world. I'm sure that without Zelda on the title, it would have been judged more objectively, for was it is: an average game to say the least.
Just because something is a distributed ledger does not necessarily mean it is a blockchain.

Yes, they are a dev in the cryptocurrency/blockchain space but still, who knows?
Choose your trader, choosing a baker is now possible
Copyright can still exist, as well as licensing and IP law and trade secret protection. Patenting is just saying "we'll disclose this invention in exchange for a temporary monopoly".

It's especially problematic in software because algorithms are very closely tied to fundamental mathematical axoims. For example, you can't just try really hard and make a O(n) sort. There is no benefit to society to granting a monopoly on a faster O(nlogn) sort
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No, it's generally true for broad categories - OLTP vs. OLAP. These patterns, along with different data structure needs to serve their intended use cases, are why data warehouses are almost always separate from transactional systems.

Re: auto-optimizing databases: the DB would need to understand query patterns before it could optimize storage format. Is it possible? Almost certainly, to an extent. But not upfront.
Technical papers preview: SIGGRAPH 2018
You can automate the build process and the deploy process. Given that you can do that with any orchestration software it gives you the ability to roll back changes in your environment.

Is it more efficent than a real server? I guess thats only the case if you automate almost everything and use CI and CD.

It sure shows a diffrent viewpoint on servers focusing more on services or containers than on servers.

Comparable with Functional Programming and Object Orientated Programming. While you can archive the same functionality with both it gives you another mindset to solve problems.
Watering my plants outside.

Some of them are connected to the water line, so I use a german commercial solution that irrigates 1-2-3 times a day for x seconds.

I just hacked the electric signal of the valve with a cable, sugru and 3d printed parts to control it with a raspi, so it is dynamic, based on the weather and water sensors, so water is not wasted.

Other plants are not connected to the water line pipe. So I use terracota recipients and a raspi controlled deposit of water to add some water the terracota will absorb by capillarity and irrigate the plants this way.

There is no better system to irrigate plants than capillarity.

I fill the deposit manually once a month or so.

I also brought a bread-pizza mass machine as in some countries there is no good bread like in Spain or France, this way I could design my own custom cycles depending on parameters like the weight of the bread I will make. Automating it was super simple.

I created a book reader-digitalizer, all my books are digitalized, OCR.... The hardest thing to do was flipping pages. At first I used vacuum with a super complex system. A year ago or so I simplified it enormously with just a cheap Chinese electrostatic device.
I thought the majority of the complains on Youtube were more about demonetization rather than content removal. PeerTube is solving the latter, but that doesn't help most people who are upset that they are making less money since the adpocalypse.
I don't think that would make it much simpler (if that's what you're getting at). There's tons of grunt work that just has to be done - eg. calculating expected dividend payments (by automatically matching portfolio details to dividend schedules from corporate websites), and automatically matching those to bank account credits - all through code. Despite the laughs that the VB languages get on HN, VBScript is in fact, a fully featured traditional imperative programming language, and has all the features you'd expect in such a language (but no IDE :-(). So I doubt that rewriting in python would make much difference. And I'd still be bound to the IE automation model.
If someone can patent, say, the magsafe connector, then I don't see why someone couldn't patent the FFT.

Whether it's a good thing that patents exist is another matter, though.
Linux Malloc Never Fails (except when it does)
What could possibly have caused this completely unjustified stereotype?
57% of tech industry employees are suffering from job burnout
I would love to know more about the inner workings of Nintendo corporate culture. For the company to have survived for so long means they clearly know something most games studios and tech companies don't. That their offices don't seem to include any of the flashy bullshit populating the offices of most tech companies seems telling.
As folks here have said, it's apples to oranges when it comes to VR, that's for sure.

However, I think there's something to be said if we instead compare them as immersive experiences. Nintendo created something compelling by taking an unorthodox route. [Insert joke about thinking inside/outside the cardboard box.]
I'm in the process of creating a new blog and site (I have python, vue, nuxt background) which maybe will have more non technical authors and dynamic content in the future and after many iterations (looking deeply at Hugo, Lektor, Forestry and even Wordpress [headless]) I will probably go to a

open source headless CMS Strapi https://strapi.io and Nuxt.js frontend.

If anybody knows a python and flask based headless CMS let me know!
Self-Hosted Dynamic DNS Tutorial
Actually the new finding is similar to weight normalisation for individual neurons. LRN would be similar to another thing called lateral inhibition.
You're just replacing moral relativism with counterfactual thinking. Just because you can imagine an alternate scenario where things might have been worse, that doesn't provide moral justification for an action. This is especially true since we know what the original justification for the invasion of Iraq and I can't imagine it being aligned with any counterfactual thinking on the subject.

The type of thinking you espouse can be used to justify virtually any military action, including war crimes. All you'd have to say is "it could have been worse..."
I used to live in Toledo as a kid and we went up to Grand Rapids one time for a trip. I remember the forests surrounding the city were really nice, and of course there was a lake nearby with waves big enough to body surf on. I can't really say anything about the city, but that part of the Michigan has a lot to offer.
Just because they didn't do something before why should they do it now? Is that really your argument?
>they clearly know something most games studios and tech companies don't.

money
So up until now Dropbox used zlib compression? I would have thought that they would use zstd or brotli for a good speed/ratio-ratio or lz4 for speed.

DivANS looks interesting/promising like a nice little kit for compression. Doesn't seem like it's good for archiving since it doesn't seem to have support for seek (or so it seems, would like to be proven wrong), but very interesting nonetheless.
Well, AFAIK it did result in an exploit for OS 1.x, webkit was patched in later versions.

RCM mode is barely "intrusive". Just shove a paperclip into the joycon port, easy.
From that article:

'My take-away from all of this is that if most of the user experience takes place in a single view, and it’s only things like user settings and options that need to be accessed in separate screens, then keeping the main UI nice and clean by burying those in a side menu is the way to go.'

That article is saying that A/B testing shows that if you have different content views etc then you should have visible navigation, if it's options then sure, tuck it away in a side menu. I don't think the History menu is a 'view' per se...
No child (or adult..) on this planet has ever willing blown their self up and that is exactly why we as an “evolved” society have various consent laws.
Ask HN: Why aren’t libraries inter-callable by default?
Lisp is dead. Really dead this time. But it’s not bcs of the language, it’s bcs the libraries haven’t kept pace with, say, Python. But wouldn’t it be easy to write an “interface matcher” that would easily allow Lisp to call python libraries. (Obviously, replace Lisp and Pyhton with L1 and L2 - in fact you don’t even need L2 bcs all libraries could in theory be written to this FFAPI, so to speak, and then any language could call on all the best libraries and people could stop wasting time replicating libraries in every L1!?)
In the beginning, a sea of discrete components made up a system. Investment in fab technology caused process nodes to shrink very 18 months so these discrete components gave way to the System-On-Chip where the board of chips was replaced by a single chip.

Now physics is harder to overcome, the cost of development at the bleeding edge of technology is higher than ever, and the continued desire for larger and larger systems caused the SoC to break apart again. It’ll be interesting to see if this is what the future looks like for silicon-based chips, or if this is a temporary shortcut.
How is this better than bitchute?
Functional Analysis Meets Deep Learning [pdf]
There are a bunch of ways to solve Zeno's Paradox involving time (and not necessarily involving real numbers and calculus), Wikipedia gives a quick overview of many.

In the interesting number paradox a solution can be related to time (or recursion depth) such that, as the person you were responding to mentioned, the first few otherwise not interesting numbers can be considered interesting without considering all not otherwise listed numbers as interesting. The wikipedia page gives a different example solution involving time.
Digital archiving of important physical mail is a nice way to go paperless and keep track of documents. Get a good scanner and shredder, then set up a system to track your scanned documents. No more misplacing files and having to stuff cabinets with papers.

Proxy phone number via Twilio or Google Voice for the times when you'd rather not give your real number out.

Audio translations for digital books using espeak + pdftotext + shell scripting. If you didn't know, espeak can output wav files. It's a nice way to read since my commute is 3 hours a day.

Recipe management for putting meals into rotation and generating a shopping list. Check out Gourmet or Krecipes on linux. It could probably be hooked into a grocery delivery service like Prime Pantry or just migrated to one.

General automation with Twilio + serverless cloud functions is pretty good. There's a new Twilio tool for building IVRs (interactive voice response trees, like those phone menus you get when calling a cable company). The super cheap on-demand pricing for cloud functions makes this basically free to run.

I started a personal SMS/Voice service for some of my tasks like what's on [favorite radio station], Bus line directions, shops near me, etc. There's no real point yet but I feel like it could have uses that are actually helpful...
10% either way is very tight. I think everyone's keen to allocate capital well, but if you see a way to pull 30% out of a project and are incentivized to decline then that's not good.
Flexport is hiring a head of data
I just had a company want to enforce http://limegreenip.hoganlovells.com/article/104/patents-law-... -- for a contract gig!
"jibe well"
I personally enjoy the grand tradition of nerds writing blogs only about how they set up a blog.
You should ask their portfolio companies' founders and speak entrepreneur-to-entrepreneur about their experiences working with this VC. Do your due-diligence before getting into bed with anyone.
Why the rich love Burning Man (2015)
> Facebook is a multi-billion dollar corporation with a history of obfuscating the truth and a terrible record on privacy. With the power they have they deserve scrutiny.

Definitely agree.

> Could it just be that NYT is printing a lot of negative articles because they're are a lot of incidents involving Facebook doing something wrong?

Yes probably, though I've also noticed a certain level of bias. Google and Amazon probably have as many "creepy" patents to infer user behaviour, yet we don't hear as much about them on this space. Hell, Google pretty much invented the whole concept of tracking users across websites, "shadow profiles", and personalized search/ads.

Cambride Analytica was bad and Facebook should've veto'd its API users better from the get-go. The next obvious step after that article was a look at Google's own leaky data practices: I've installed too many Android games which ask for essentially full-phone access and I'm sure there's people who, much like with CA, don't consider the implications and just hit "ok".

I'm not trying to defend Facebook here, but I do want to point out they're not the only ones who should be getting scrutinized.
Basically just less rolling your own solutions. It's more political than technical.

"Devops" for me is just shorthand for we want the sysadmins on our team (or on a platform our team controls) versus a separate sysadmin org we can't control. K8S is one of many things that makes that more achievable.

That, of course, has it's obvious benefits and shortfalls.
But I'm not promoting any company. Most of my comments are just correcting misinformation and explaining why I use Windows. And as you can see on reddit, I heavily criticized MS and the media regarding the Surface Pen issues that they keep ignoring. That thread even got stickied on the Surface subreddit.

I also regularly criticize Windows 10 there, and praise iPads and ChromeOS. So please reconsider this ban.
The source is this Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/sam_power_825/status/1009192761122271233 but I think the slideset pdf is easier to link to.
Show HN: The simplest interface for finding your nearest coffee
The criticism that the participants were just doing as they were told has always seemed to me as rather missing the point. What better demonstration is there of the human capacity for cruelty than a bunch of Stanford undergrads torturing other students because a professor told them to?
Because I constructed a set of otherwise boring numbers. The first otherwise boring number can arguably be interesting, but if you accept numbers are not inherently interesting by being on the number line you need find a reason to remove them from the otherwise boring list.