skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. If the purpose of all this is to create a more even playing field then there really shouldn’t be much rational opposition. If tarrifs were placed specifically for artificially protecting non national security related goods then that would be an economic disaster.

But if tarrifs are implemented to correct unfair trade agreements, then that isn’t economically unsound policy. How else do you rectify decades of wrong doing. IP theft, china can invest in whatever here, but we have artificial caps there. Significant tarrifs and regulatory issues there, far fewer here. Americans can’t buy property there, China purchases $150B a year in residential property here, pricing out many in the most sought after real estate markets. Forcing technology transfer to a totalitarian borderline authoritarian government and not doing anything would be pathetic.

What other tools do we have that are more palatable than tarrifs? War? Sanctions? Stop trading altogether? How else are you supposed to fix something, if the other side never wants to fix it?
Running autonomous vehicle scenarios: Some problems
Mostly speculation and observations of many hours in Starcraft. I don't think anyone has really set out to create an AI where the only goal is to never lose. I can imagine a program that can take one unit and program it to always remain 1 pixel farther than the maximum distance any enemy can shoot it unless for some reason it knows with 100% certainty it will win an engagement.

I'm not aware of any public api or hooks into controlling Starcraft or it would have probably been done by now. It would also be used for cheating so they can't make that anyway.
The Intercept, though I like much of their work, has shown some sympathy with Russia and repeated things that were Russian propaganda from agencies like Sputnik and RT. Wikileaks itself is possibly even a Russian front operation.
A keyboard with only letters, numbers, and space only has its uses. You can still fill out forms. Some kiosks have keyboards like that.
Science is saving this city
This basically exists in Haskell/Idris as the Maybe type.

It is used slightly differently than what you're saying but in essence it lets you say:
- The thing doesn't exist, return Nothing (unit in a way)
- The inputs produced Just the thing you wanted

You have to cover both "didn't work" and "here you go" but its highly useful to not have to worry about NULL versus NOT NULL.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29456824/what-is-the-may...

Your function that decides if something exists or not, could be the thing determining the percentage spiel.

Aka a function returning Maybe Bool could return: a Bool with true/false, or Nothing. Nothing being "its not a bool, your inputs are insane/nonsensical", but if it returns a Just Bool, you just unbox the Bool and voila. Just thought you might want to know this is a real thing and is super useful.
Make your own with a box in AWS or any other cloud provider running something like Strongswan on Linux or iked on OpenBSD.

All the out of the box VPNs I've found have some shortcomings, either being horribly insecure (PPTP, seriously?), overpriced, often abused (which means their entire subnet is banned by pretty much everything) and the providers sometimes seem shady (I want a VPN to escape cancer aka ads, not the government - in this case I'd actually prefer something akin to an ISP complying with local laws versus a "bulletproof" one who could very well be a fly-by-night operation up to no good).
Agreed it is probably a bad state to be in; Chinese companies buying up ours. But if I own a company, I shouldn't need permission from Washington to do with it as I please as long as I'm not defrauding or directly harming others. Freedom is messy.
There is a deduction of sorts.. It's guaranteed basic income. Give everyone 3000 a month per household + 500 per dependent.

Those who own homes/land/property will pay more because they're expenditures are more.

Example: You earn 70k per year, you get 30k for gbi. That's 100k. Of that, you spend 80% on housing, school, food, clothes, toys, w/e, and invest 20% for retirement.

Of that 80% you spend 5% on taxes via sales tax. So roughly $4,000 a year in taxes.

If you earned 30k, and didn't work at all i.e. 30k from gbi alone, and spent all of it, you'd have spent 1500 on taxes, but still be able to feed/clothe/house a family in at least some comfort.

I don't see how that makes life unbearable for everyone? If you're an immigrant who isn't a citizen yet, you'd pay a bit more, but that's the price of coming to America, deal w/ it. At least you'll never be deported, or have your family ripped away from you, etc...
Ask HN: React Native is dead, how you would build mobile app nowadays?
I want to build a simple hybrid mobile application and I was thinking that React Native can be the best solution for me... Because I know reactjs well, and js/html/css is my daily bread. However, in recent days I have noticed there are plenty "buzz" about dying React Native. I have not dig into... but I wouldn't want to use something which is "out dated". I would like to know what would be your dev stack to build simple mobile application quickly these days? What technologies you would use? I do have knowledge of swift but I don't want to use it anymore...

Any feedback/ideas would be appreciated.

George
I agree, it's mostly based on what you sell. Electronics like phones and cameras are notorious for this, while more niche items tend to be safer.
>"Offering managers didn’t have technical backgrounds and sometimes came up with ideas for new products that were simply impossible."

how many of those managers will now be able to get even a higher paying job because they have manager of Watson AI project on their resume?
Why oh why all the functional programmers I know use sExps. ;)

You didn't guess the right expansion. I meant shortened expressions. Say a function called forallPerm.

There are million better names most of which start by saying what it does. Even foldAllPermutations would be better (if you know what a fold is).

If you're writing in M-expressions do it consistently. If it is logic proof, it is not functional. There I'd expect some lemma names. In plain English.

The datatype called LTEL takes the cake.
In fact, I would say apart from maybe self-driving cars, almost all of the biggest gains from machine learning are in unsexy, hidden backend problems, like automatically rectifying disparate data, optimizing resource utilization, flagging difficult-to-articulate events or triggers in a stream of data too large for human evaluation, machine translation, and other “unsexy” things.

Product interfaces usually offer simple features to users and the value proposition is easy to see. Effective use of machine learning is well hidden upstream in a bunch of unsexy preprocessing or heavy lifting to get to the interface. Not something you’d ever need to emphasize in marketing, except maybe at tech meetups or in recruiting materials, but not to the end consumer.

It just makes pop references to AI-powered products more egregious.
But the question is what is it actually programmed to do. The answer seems to be that is scenario is not contemplated. But it isn't a childish what if type of question.
How Entitled Parents Hurt Schools
Yeah, but I mean.... to quote...something or other

"Just because you can doesn't mean you should".
Russia’s Proton rocket, which predates Apollo, will finally stop flying
Going on two years of 16/8 IF myself, but I'd say that it absolutely was life-changing for me.

I initially lost about 45 lbs (217 – 172) in about 10 months, but have since leveled out between 170-175. Beyond the weight loss, I noticed marked improvements in general energy levels, sleep quality, and chronic issues such as heartburn. More importantly though, I think the biggest adjustment that IF enabled me to make was transitioning into _wanting_ to eat healthy/whole foods and cut out foods with processed carbs and added sugar.

But I totally agree, there definitely is a psychological aspect of it, whether the improvements are quantifiable or not. Maybe the results are placebo, maybe it's confirmation bias, but I definitely think that IF allowed me to reframe the way I approach my diet, and eat in a way that is more attuned to being healthy.
Pooohh back from a session on the water closet, dumb like me can not say that a practicable "fuzzion"-reactor did not have to work like a sink. There is the need for sized/ matching "Zu-/Ablauf" (sry, German) and an "Überlauf" and yes, (spoiler:) the fusion waste product (Neutrinos) - mega useful for projects runed by the milita...ooops! (-;
Seven Techniques for Data Dimensionality Reduction – KNIME
> I'll eventually cave and eat it. All of it. People sometimes say things like "no one can eat all that X" and I can tell you from personal experience they are almost always wrong.

100% true for me as well. If it's there I can and will eat it, sometimes past the point of feeling sick. "You ate that whole pint of ice cream in one sitting??" No, you don't know about the other pint of ice cream that I ate a few hours ago and didn't say anything about because of guilt.
Have you used your login for any other TV service? The OTT industry has settled on a pretty broad single sign-on ecosystem. If you've logged into any OTT service with your crendentials, you likely don't need to do it again for any other service.

https://www.fiercecable.com/cable/tv-everywhere-starts-up-46...
> P.S.: India has a restricted form of free speech, where vague terms like public order, affecting the sentiments of others on religious grounds, and such can be legally used to deny speech and also punish people arbitrarily.

That's putting it mildly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_India

https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-net/2017/india

https://www.engadget.com/2017/08/29/india-shut-off-internet-...
A few decades ago an F86 pilot ejected from a flat spin. The resulting changing in CG leveled off the aircraft and when his wingman saw the plane flying level and straight again, he radioed "You better get back in that plane". It landed in flyable condition in a corn field, engine running.
Winnie raises $4M to make parents’ lives easier
Still won't report on what? The Chinese firewall is public knowledge, and Cisco helped build it. China doesn't have a democracy and doesn't pretend to.

NSA spying to an extent is public knowledge, but the submission is full of new information. I'm sure it will be reported by other sources in a few hours.
Is this a US thing? I got the impression that neighbors tended to be a lot more friendly when I was traveling through Europe.

(One of the many reasons I’d consider a move.)
> How many thousands of man hours would that chew up?

Given that replacing a developer could easily cost 50k or more, even if only 10% of the appeals were successful you'd still be looking at saving a huge amount of money.
As an Indian who runs several political groups this is at best shoddy reporting by foreign media. Often NGOS in USA use this kind of news reporting to generate more donations for themselves by showing this poverty porn to their rich donors.

Lynchings do not get triggered by text. Indian people, even the poorest ones are not that stupid. Most often it is a case of genuine crime that the government fails to address. Recently two people of lower castes were badly beaten up for "using water of higher caste".[1] In reality the owner of the well was of even lower caste. The boys were swimming and pissing in the only well the entire region had of drinkable water. After several complains and requests the owner took matters into his own hands.

For almost every single lynching that media reports as "whatsapp driven", the further detailed investigations point out either deep personal grudge, network of crimes such as cow thefts or pure political murder disguised as mob justice. I have not come across 1 single instance were people just killed someone for a whatsapp message.

[1] https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-natio...
Curious what a similar model would show if applied to earth pre the discovery of the other continents.
> It's hard to truly grok just how long the dinosaurs were around.

One of the crazier things I've heard recently is that the time between the present and the Tyrannosaurus Rex [1] (68-66 million years) is less than the time between the T-Rex and the Brontosaurus [2] (156-147 million years ago, or 79 million years before the T-Rex).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrannosaurus

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brontosaurus
You seem to be intentionally ignoring the parent's point.

They're asking why, if China doesn't allow US ownership of Chinese companies, should the US allow Chinese ownership of American companies, not some abstract question of fairness. Currently there are severe controls on US activity in the Chinese market, ownership restrictions among them.
Not only are they ranged, but this lineup is very snowball-oriented, i.e. the optimal play style with this kind of lineup is to gain a small advantage in the early game and then keep pushing towers together aggressively. The middle-to-late game doesn't really matter. Whoever wins the early game wins the game. And we do know that bots are going to be good at early game last hitting.
Could you please give an example of what company the US tried to buy but got turned down?
That's a great idea. I will add that when I get home today.
Yes, that's the first What-If in the book. If I remember correctly, the nuclear explosion is from the fusion of the atoms in the air molecules building up in front of baseball, before it even gets to the bat!
It’s not leaves on the ground, it’s the leaves on the branches to watch. When they’re upturned, it means that the pressure system is changing, which often precludes rain.
Some, but not many actual bugs, but note that the corpus in question:

1. Is developed at a company with a stronger-than-average culture around quality and tests.

2. Already has copious tests.

3. Is mostly in applications that have been shipped in production.

So most of the bugs were already flushed out before we got to the point where we started tightening things. The more interesting question, which we don't have data for, is how much time it took to flush those bugs out the first time and how much the stricter runtime checking affects that. Hopefully it helps users find these kinds of issues faster.
There are probably plenty of problems that do not require that much data to solve (e.g. in reinforcment learning). And google doesn't have all the kinds of data - they didn't own medical imaging data, they had to ask for it. There are some problems where they have advantage (speech / translation) and they 've probably already solved those problems, but their data advantage is not as important as they make it to be.

Whats more worrying IMO is that they 're hoarding all the researchers.
I like The Intercept, but it's mainly Glenn Greenwald who seems to have gone off the deep end and really dug in his heels, even when other authors in the group have written articles disagreeing with his unyielding conclusions.
In general, at the power levels in question the limiting factor is diffraction, not beam quality. There are a lot of variables going into it, but the numbers I've seen bandied about for orbital systems are on the order of 100km. See e.g. here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S100093611...

(Or, for a more speculative take, here: https://childrenofadeadearth.wordpress.com/2016/07/02/the-ph...)
I mean, I suppose this is better than no review process whatsoever. But the real solution is to just have a union, so that the fired worker has some representation.

(For management workers, I favor a similar process but that would require some changes to labor law to be fully protected. You could still have a union without that, but it's not going to be one that has the same recognition.)
I have a lot of questions about how it might work, but above all else I'm absolutely in awe of what MechanicalChef can already do! Truly amazing automation, and I can see how this could directly benefit…nearly everyone. I wish your friend success with this (and many delicious meals too)
You’re absolutely correct, f(almost_1,almost_2) should not be “times” in the calculation I described. Or alternatively, it should be a massive number times a tiny number rather than almost 1 and 0.
Which technology stack would you recommend going forward? And why?

Node.js? Vue.js? React? Angular? Elm?

I can't keep up with the Javascript tower of babel anymore.

And what happened to Django? Nobody seems to talk about it anymore.
I was just reading about how horrible and exploitative Amazon is. How they deliberately hire the weak, the afraid, the vulnerable. I can understand the mindset that designs an employment and recruitment system with the purpose of being able to thoroughly abuse and exploit employees. Doesn't make it any less horrible. I no longer buy anything from Amazon. They're scum. I see well-paid employees expressing their conscience and saying they won't work on surveillance, or won't work on military projects. Where are the well-paid Amazon employees taking a stand against their own company's mistreatment of other employees? I wouldn't be surprised if we had some reading this very thread. Maybe they can tell us. I expect they just don't think about it. Take the money, try not to think about it.

From elsewhere:

Bezos defended Amazon in a fireside chat with Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner on Tuesday evening, saying he was “very proud of our working conditions and I am very proud of our wages that we pay.”

He's proud of it. He's proud of the return to the workhouse. He's proud of rolling back workplace protections. He's proud of paying a pittance. He's proud of it all. Or is he oblivious?
This article concludes that systemd-nspawn is a more unix-style alternative to Docker. Interestingly enough, this is what rkt uses for its default isolation (stage1).

What Docker did is bring all of the aspects mentioned in this article together into something that could be easily understood and used. Now that the ideas are familiar and there are standards like the Open Container Initiative, I think we'll see more smaller and specialized tools being built and used. Take for example CRI-O, which is Red Hat's container runtime that only targets the execution of Pods for Kubernetes.
That's just not true at all.
Sure it would. Where I work, we’ve done piecemeal (15%) replacement of PCs since 2008. That saved us something like $100M.

Why? There was no reason to move past Windows 7 and almost no performance reason the get new gear. SSD everywhere would have pushed down the component costs earlier and cost justified the move 18-24 months earlier.

The justification there for me wouldn’t have been performance either — it would have been servicing costs on the PCs as SSD has a lower failure rate, and the power consumption is better on new PCs.

PCs are like the work trucks that contractors or facility guys use. If it can tow a mower and doesn’t break, you give zero shits about it, other than the $$$.
India has no free speech whatsoever. Ironically 1st amendment of Indian constitution took that out.

Unlike USA India does not have any right "against government". For example while American bill of rights mostly goes like this "Congress shall not pass any law restricting ....."

All Indian rights have a bottom section that says.

Indians have right to X. Nothing in this subsection will prevent government from passing any law that violates this section.

All Indian constitutional rights are essentially "as long as government likes it".
Its choice of location is nothing nefarious. It was built in the mid 1950s as a Pacific Northwest Bell telco central office, for phone lines serving downtown Seattle, in the days when dialtone rotary pulse-dial phone systems were the highest technology available. The PNW Bell phone system and its interconnections with the AT&T Long Lines system had some sites which were mutually shared with military AUTOVON and other federal government long distance telecom circuits (such as those which fed the giant SAGE installations at McChord and in Moses Lake).

It became a USWest site in 1984 through the breakup of the Bell monopoly system, and then Qwest and eventually Centurylink.
Could you please elaborate? Does that include DeepMind?
> I think you could reimplement [some random part of what Docker does] easily yourself with a small shell script and some calls to mount; but I haven't bothered.

Exactly.
Your comments regarding change in 20 years is rather over the top. I used to work at eBay and there has been massive change to the platform both internally and on the UI front. There were major changes rolled live to site in terms of search, mobile and web/desktop. Behind the scenes, there was movement from in-house to open source technology in a major way. Movement from 30k windows servers, to linux cloud (w/250K VMs on openshift), to docker to kubernetes. Moves on the client facing code from new implementations in java(raptor), then to node.js and more. eBay has embraced open source and also open sources many of their solutions as well.
Beyond your first 2 arguments I don't believe a thing you said is true or relevant.

> The Indian government has been curbing free speech and attempting to increase its control on speech over time.

Any specific examples please?

> If not for the Supreme Court, which runs on its own pace and rhythm, India would've become an authoritarian "democracy"

That's a very stretchy argument. India is not even 2% closer to authoritarian state and with 10's of political parties and a very strong democracy, I don't think we need to worry about that.

> India has a restricted form of free speech, where vague terms like public order, affecting the sentiments of others on religious grounds

Every country has that. Go say like "X religion is bad or the way things happen with Y religion people is crazy". You don't get to use your freedom of speech to incite anger in the masses.

> India doesn't yet have a data privacy law either

This is true. India should have a privacy law and I hope it comes sooner than later. But, India is just getting there in terms of digital penetration. So it will take time obviously. Just don't look at the West and feel bad.
This Is great. I wanted to do something similar with a TV. Mic detects commercial signature and sends mute command via IR interface. I'm just an idea man though who never followed through.
This is my #1 most desired feature on Uber and Lyft.
Ahhh, but that’s the thing. They’re the same story
All of them. Currently there are severe restrictions on foreign ownership of Chinese ventures, though the restrictions vary by sector and this year some of the restrictions in some sectors have been eased up a little.
I knew exactly one person who got put on a PIP by his manager and didn't end up fired. It ended up being because his manager got fired first, and his new manager saw that the PIP was completely ridiculous and the employee was in fact great. Nonetheless, it took that guy's career years to recover. He was basically his team's technical lead, but he was but was still ranked and paid as an entry-level engineer.
Quoting from the original article.

> This logic takes milliseconds per tick to execute, versus nanoseconds for Chess or Go engines.

So this is game engine itself, taking up the CPUs. Maybe the DoTA code can be optimized x2 for self play?!

IIRC AlphaZero was about x10 more efficient than AlphaGo Zero due to algorithm improvement.

So overall, $100K for the final training run, which maybe can go down to $10K for a different domain of similar complexity.