skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is true but at the same time it is not. Geekbench measures the unthrottled performance of a CPU. One thing you have to consider is that ARM SoCs contain a cluster of heterogenous cores. A high performance low efficiency core for bursty workloads or games and a highly efficient core for "sleepless" standby.

What happens is that people see a benchmark and they see low power consumption and now conclude that it must have 10 times better performance per watt. x86 is bad, ARM is good

But the thing is you cannot have your cake and eat it too. The ARM SoC is clearly more efficient but only during standby or low intensity workloads and because everything is integrated into a single chip. As soon as you use a constant CPU/GPU intensive workload like servers or video games or even just google maps [1] you will have the same energy efficiency as intel chips.

[1] My phone battery barely lasts 2 hours with google maps
Sorry, french word for "comprehension". It pops up automatically. I can't edit my post anymore though.

The worst for me is OOP. In french it's POO, which, for obvious reasons, does not inspire confidence in an english reader.
I am glad other people get that feeling too. A lot of pop-sci books are not terribly bad but could be cut down to 1/4 of their length. Another example for this is "Deep work" by Cal Newport. Great idea, something to actively think about. But not necessary to be spread out across 300 pages...
Cryptocurrency Virtually Outlawed in India as Top Court Backs Ban
Ask HN: How to announce/launch a GitHub project?
I’m getting ready to introduce a new open source project with its codebase on GitHub. Is there a GitHub specific “announcement” site for devs to learn about new projects? How did you get gain recognition/stars on your projects?
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"there is nothing better than being in or near water with a long stick attached to some kind of cord."

Yoga or meditation could? (in a quiet area with water if you like)

I guess this is difficult to totally order set of possible activities by their goodness. Activities each have their strengths. But I'm uncomfortable with qualifying an activity that involves purposefully hurting or killing living beings good. There must be better ways to spend one's life.

Instead of catching fishes, start catching ideas! Write, paint or draw near a lake! :-)
Boxer: an encryption story
he call himself Wantrepreneur,
https://github.com/wajahatkarim3/MediumClap-Android
Don’t we have Terahertz communication already? Fiber optics run on 100 THz light approximately, no?
Your expectations are unrealistic.
Having driven with the Tesla touchscreen, I can tell you you don't need to use it much while driving.
The dials in the steering wheel can adjust the temperature, voice control is great for navigation and for selecting music, and range, performance data is on the dashboard (for non model 3).

If you need to do something complex like select a destionarion on the map, I don't think there's any interface that would let you do that safely as you need to visually identify a location.
The big issue here is that a client server model has an inherent trust on the network to be 100% there when you need it. Cable modems or DSL (probably) fail at a much higher rate per day intermittently than a fleet of 2,000 sets of redundant computers.

Consider - how would you handle order taking if the network dropped?

A buddy did IT for a theater for a while - they had a similar problem where they’d lose access to their payment processor regularly. No one ever noticed since the system queued ops locally until the network came back up.
AI Learns the Art of Debate (IBM Project Debater)
In other words, link sharing service providers are explicitly excluded? Pinterest, HN, Reddit?
Ahhhhhh - thanks!
can the same be said of slack?
Maybe the answer is "wait and see the full details when they become available", but is there an example of code that is hardened against cache side channel attacks but would be vulnerable against TLB side channel attacks?
Author namechecks Thirteen Days, the harrowing account of the Cuban Missile Crisis and a world on the brink of annihilation. There is also a terrific movie adaptation. In it, Secdef McNamara talks about how the positioning of submarines and aircraft carriers about the open seas is actually a coded language. And by making moves and counter-moves, what the US and USSR are actually doing is communicating intent.

Another classic is Ron Howard's Apollo 13. One of the few movies that depict the engineers as heroes. An inspiring watch for the whole team. And Damien Chazelle's upcoming Neil Armstrong biopic might make for a similar outing.

Crisis management, perhaps more so than innate technological superiority, can yield distinct competitive advantage. And this is where actually learning from precisely the type of case study found in the YC network makes sense. Knowing that you can stay calm, slow time, take deep breaths, and react rationally because others have dealt with far more on their plate than you ever will.

I'll share an anecdote. A small independent media outlet once got wind of a redesign I was working on and reported the story. The client was incensed as they were planning a full marketing rollout and had "lost the narrative". We were still months from launch. But rather than get into a blame game and lose more time. I suggested a soft, beta launch with media blitz immediately. After a week of jamming to polish our working prototypes for general availability, we were public facing, with laudatory feedback and the client appearing on CNBC ;)

Weeks later, as it turns out, it was revealed I was in fact the source of the leak. An unscrupulous reporter had called my office posing as a contract employee of the client and asked about a meeting time and place. In replying that it would be at my office that afternoon, they had confirmation that in fact the redesign was in progress!
Beijing on track to eclipse Silicon Valley as world’s top startup hub
Rain v0.3.0 Released
A curated list of websites that accept guest blogs
and those ressources are usually shared between systems!
Do they define content? Medium is written content. Probably can't re-issue a novel in a medium post, what about someone posting the contents of a novel in their comments, what about any comments anywhere? See the issue?

More to the point, who is this helping? There's records sales being set all over the place every year.
It is a simple solution for very common problem: styling a CSS button. There are many CSS buttons libraries but they usually force you to use their style or size. That is why this is interesting and simple solution born with my necessity not to recode and reinvent the CSS button for every new project.
Private DB, a Built-In “GDPR Compliant” Solution for Hyperledger Fabric
The reason noise cancelling headphones work is that, by being out of phase, the two sound sources sum to zero (or closer to it). It's not just a trick of the brain making you ignore the sound because an out of pass signal is also present. The out of phase signal causes the actual sound pressure level to decrease by cancellation. So yes, there is less sound pressure.
Design of the Erlang Driver for MongoDB (2010)
Not a classical bandit because the arms have a finite lifetime (the arm is no longer active once you read the whole book) and you know this lifetime. Definitely can be viewed as some form of RL problem. For me the challenge is how you define rewards and hence what information reading part of a book gives you about the total reward for completing the book. Maybe assume some smoothness criteria, so that the reward for reading part n of a book is highly informative of reading part n+1, but less informative of part n+2, and so on. More formally, each book gives some total reward on completion and that reward is distributed according to some stochastic process.

Greedy strategies probably work reasonably well.
Stupid question. If you manage to drill down to the cave, don't you pierce the air bubble that prevents the water from rising and flooding the cave?
>When I went to school there was a pretty high number of second generation muslim immigrants, but even there you already saw their strict values eroding.

I certainly wouldn't take that happening as a given. If you bend over backwards to attempt to accommodate their culture in the west, you aren't giving any incentive to join your culture and worldview.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1540895/Young-Britis...
6 Muslims Detained in Plot to Bomb Paris Rally Attended by Giuliani
> Who uses linked lists?

Isn't the linked list pretty much the main collection data structure in the Linux kernel?
Why should I have written ZeroMQ in C, not C++
I think they are encouraged to in later rounds by some VCs: https://bothsidesofthetable.com/should-founders-be-allowed-t...
Sad to see shills here
High Energy Parenting is finally back
I was really worried that something might have happened to Kevin and/or his family, but there he is alive and striving after a really long pause.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqI4idf9nAg
> for example, a huge number of structures in the Linux kernel are linked lists.

Which allocator is used for these? I'm not familiar with the Linux kernel, but since there is no malloc() in the kernel, I would guess that they allocate from an arena that's going to be page-aligned and thus exhibit the same locality characteristics as a vector.
DAppNode: The Infrastructure for the Decentralized World
This is really uncanny! ;)
"Arab Andy" cared more about the donation than his own life. He clearly let the bomb sound happen on purpose for the sake of fame. He didn't even bother muting it or at least muffling it.

Weakly moaning "It's TTS!" (Text-to-speech) as an excuse to the officer that arrested him not so long later is enough of a proof that this guy was disconnected from reality and just doing that for the money.

It doesn't matter where you're coming from, you just don't play a bomb countdown - especially not in a room crowded full of people. You're scaring people on purpose, and that's called terrorism. He deserves that prison sentence.
The quote really should be something like "optimization without empirical data is the root of all evil" to avoid misunderstandings (first thing that came to mind, I'm sure there's a better but still short description still)
Are You Ignoring the Achilles’ Heel of GDPR Readiness?
I saw another one where somebody sent arab andy a clip of the n-word being repeated over and over 50 times while he is on the bus. A very liberal looking white guy in his 40s threatened to stab andy so he got off the bus immediately.
By robot I meant remote controlled, not self-driving. But fair point - adding another obstacle would be tragic, yes.
Since the companies who are advocating for economic censorship of the open web like lists so much, is there a github repo of all companies:products:services and associated lobbyists who are advocating for the proposed EU copyright law?

Such a list will be necessary for mass-market boycott, divestment and sanction of the companies who killed the open web. Users will have lots of time available to focus and channel their energy, if these laws are passed, economically outlawing most user-generated content.

In the history of online and offline publishing, what have been the commercial and censorship consequences of centralized copyright registers/databases and pre/post publication filters?
Generally the answers I've seen boil down to: our ML models is still pretty primitive. Models make their decisions in ways that aren't super generalizable, have decision frontiers that don't reflect the actual problem space well, etc. An example of such an analysis, see the "why is it hard to defend" section of https://blog.openai.com/adversarial-example-research/, or for a more academic approach which should be a good hook into the broader literature, see https://openreview.net/forum?id=rk6H0ZbRb
Implementation of classic deep learning algo for computer vision
TI Pico DLP[0] is a nice platform for projectors at small scale.

[0] http://www.ti.com/dlp-chip/display-and-projection/pico-chips...
Thanks so much for writing, I will email you shortly!
Perl 5.28 Released
My frustration with automotive controls isn't limited to touch screens, but I've never used a touchscreen I like. I have two cars with awesome controls - a 2000 camary and a 20007 suburban. Both have 3 knobs: 1) how hot/cold 2) how fast is the fan blowing 3) where does it blow. The radio has two nobs - "what channel" and "how loud". My wife's 2013 (?) "luxury" car is quite the opposite. All controls are either 1) buttons you have to press or 2) something on the touchscreen. The user interfaces force you to take your attention from the road to use. That is bad and dangerous design ... end of story. I know the world likes to complain about using phones while driving, the the controls on some cars are just as bad.
This is true, but I don't often see people writing code like this in the wild. That's what I mean about it being actually easy with static typing -- you can have the compiler and/or your IDE check for you whether it's a lazy sequence (like a Generator in Python) or not (like a Set, List, etc).
This is of course not true. If I go to England I’ll see & hear references to ‘stone’ for weight.

Similarly most of the world uses Celsius instead of Kelvin for temperature.

In China you’ll see measures denominated in duplicate units at times.

The world over you’ll see variations in what units people use.
Already seen:) its nice.
Besides the (desirable) features already listed by someone else, here are a few others, some of which can have unfortunate interactions: implicit conversions, constructors, member initializer lists, inheritance, overloading, default arguments, capture lists, variadic templates.
I encourage everyone in the EU to reach out to their representatives by mail (or by phone, even better!) and let them know how you feel about the proposal. I have already sent mails to mine, and have at time of writing gotten two responses indicating a shared opposition of the proposal. I moreover asked whether they are experiencing any significant surge in comments compared to other controversial topics to which they, much to my disappointment, said they are not. Whilst this likely depends entirely on the representative in question, I was reassured that every comment was read and taken into consideration - if anything then in an aggregated manner.
The internet that we have now, wouldn't have been possible with laws like these in place. Remember that when you are trying to rationalise this and other overreaching laws like the GDPR. We will be destroying the future if we allow this.
Joachim Frank: Single-Particle Cryo-EM of Biological Molecules
There are 7 or 8 independently operated mirrors of the linux kernel mailing list archives. On top of that, thousands of people have local spools of the list that could be used to rebuild it in the event of catastrophic failure.
It's standard issue at my current job (as well as my previous one). For my personal laptop I actually bought one of the 2015 MBPs Apple is still selling new in the box. The next time I get a laptop refresh I may very well just go with something like an XPS w/ Ubuntu (at least for work, where I don't need things like Ableton Live, Max/MSP and NI Reaktor).
Interesting features of Aspose.Imaging
There's a whole lot of smalltalk in ruby.
Don't SUSE tout that they can do in-place kernel upgrades? So if you want to keep your iron running all the time, no interrupted experiments, no reboots; SUSE is the distro to go for.
> how will anyone ever be able to oppose them?

The law clearly states that the size of the company and the costs of the "measures" should be taken into account, so that shouldn't be an issue.

> if you make any mistake, you'll be sued out of a company?

If you can prove that you've tried that you're not liable anymore and therefore can't be sued.

> what makes this website not a "content sharing service provider"? All the site does is share links to content.

You kind of answered your own question there.

> And since linking to content will now obligate paying the person you link to

No idea where this linking myth comes from. Commercial websites now have to pay a license fee when they publish substantial portions of press publications.

Source: http://www.consilium.europa.eu/media/35373/st09134-en18.pdf
It also works with (a) tags: <a class="button btcolor pill" href="#"> Button Link</a> I need to add this in the examples.
Look into getting a Vuzix Blade. It ships in 4-6 weeks for a devkit.
>Already, I have to screenshot and email my sister in Britain recipes from a Canadian website that doesn't want to deal with GDPR.

Have her install this https://anonymox.net/en it's a free Firefox addon that'll let her access the sites by making them think she's in the US
almost all retail credit card transactions go over the internet and commerce seems to continue fine.

but if you want to be safe, have a cellular backup network.

seems way simpler than pushing out a k8s infrastructure to every store.
I still drive a 'dumb' car with actual buttons and knobs, because I loathe (with a passion) almost every car UI I have interacted with. I haven't been in a Tesla yet, but all the big makers (GM, Nissan, Audi, etc) get the interfaces so wrong, to the point where I assume it was their intention. I'd be interested to hear of any cars that get it right.
Sounds like this person was wrong for that role and would have done well in a position where they had more latitude to play to their strengths. Horses for courses.
Interesting features of Aspose.CAD
This is awesome! The idea to first deploy the change to a small subset of docker containers, test it, and then roll the change out to the rest of the servers is truly amazing and controlled.
The Windows ARM laptops are hardly cheaper than their intel counterparts but they have worse specs and inadequate software compatiblity.
Thanks! There's a couple of us floating around here - but this article caught me during choir rehearsal, so Neil snuck in first :)

And I'll second the "it had better bloody be done this year!" - I'm keen to use it myself.
From watching HN, it seems one valid approach is to start your repo on GitHub (or GitLab -- seems to be more trendy this week), write up a good readme.md page and maybe a functional pre-alpha set of code, then post it to HN as a "Show HN" or "Announcing WASM Parrot: the Perl to WebAssembly compiler" or whatever the title/purpose of the project is.

Lather, rinse, repeat on Reddit.

Actually, the "how to announce a project" would make for a great topic in an expanded FAQ.
MIT Creates New Urban Planning and Computer Science Major
2018 Isn't the Year of the GNU Hurd
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When polymorphism bites you in the ass
You can also do username+website@fastmail.com
I would say they are maybe 1.5x better. I work in a cube with high walls and it's still really noisy and it;s really awkward to yell over walls so there is almost no direct conversation even with neighbors. In addition I hate staring at a grey wall the whole day. It feels like prison.
As someone from the area, I like jobs to be tagged with DC if they are in the metro region, so you don't have to search DC, MD and VA separately. Obviously stuff in Leesburg or something shouldn't be tagged that way, but even in like Herndon I think it's a convenience for WH threads: I've never seen more than, say, 10 listings in any thread for the region so it's nice to have them all together.
I lasted just over a year of working at FastMail before I moved my personal stuff for my family over. I resisted for a bit - but I figured if I was getting in woken in the night to fix the FastMail system anyway, I might as well not be woken a second time if my family system went down!
And lost a mars orbiter thanks to the US customary units.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter#Cause_of_...

Think what could have happened if the Apollo Program was an international effort and not a U.S. only one.
The "hard" part about styling buttons is making them look the same for <a>, <button>, <input>, which is solved like a million times.

Your solution only addresses <div>, which is a accessibility nightmare.
Basecamp was built 14 years ago. There was less competition and 37S a massive marketing channel. No disrespect to them but it was a different world.
Well, from the sounds of it they're not running at scale (always 3 nodes), and it sounds similar in principal to the way HSRP/VRRP works which is a well defined and understood protocol for doing leader election on a local network.

I suppose the question might be why not use VRRP itself, but if this works for them and has conflict resolution I don't think it's all that troubling.
Because there are usually multiple reasons for and against a choice, for a particular person's needs, and the sum of the positives minus the negatives might be the highest for that choice compared to the sums for the other options?
Free Point and Click Text Analysis in the Browser
"Google Glass is just a tiny notification window."

Birth control for your face. I think is where it broke down.

Edit: I know, I know.... you worked on the project and you need to down vote.
From the article: "The terahertz regime is that promising yet vexing slice of the electromagnetic spectrum that lies between the microwave and the optical, corresponding to frequencies of about 300 billion hertz to 10 trillion hertz (or if you prefer, wavelengths of 1 millimeter down to 30 micrometers). "

So, no.