skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with this idea for one reason in particular: as a user, truly leveraging Siri requires a manual engagement - the experience is not conversational, it is not like speaking with a person. It is like using a tool - one needs to conscientiously adjust oneself to follow its rules and get it to work as desired.

Users actively taking control over how they use Siri (as in iOS 12 Siri shortcuts) will almost certainly encourage them to more conscientiously adjust their usage behavior patterns.

There exists a general assumption that a voice has a human-intelligence behind it, but obviously now not all voices do. This poses a tough learning curve, as evinced by criticism of Siri as ineffective or plain bad. Yeah, Siri won’t respond the same way your boyfriend will when you ask him to find some good Chinese food, or express some feeling. But Siri will excell at setting alarms, or adding an event to the calendar, or starting a meditation with Timeless. It comes down to matching the language to the tool / following a protocol. It comes down to manually engaging with precision.
A must-have t-shirt, if you are Cat lover
And iOS has very good non-Siri dictation
Can you break a camera without being identified in a completely surveilled area?

This goes to a core why many believe a totalitarian surveillance system might not have a way back out. Once the first guy or girl breaks the first camera the cops will know immediately and they will end up in jail before they can say "revolt".

Former revolts and revolutions always needed the incremental creation of critical mass. Without the possibility of prior planing and coordination all that leaves you with is being a hopeless martyr who will be locked away in a heartbeat with the faint hope of at least motivating a few others to resist.
https://koompi.com/#/specs
Does that mean it’s 64x as fast for 16-bit floating point vs 64-bit for a rank 3 tensor?
I think the point was that
a family => you cannot maintain schedules/habits.

If you cannot maintain schedules/habits that may be related to the presence of a family
Please see https://koompi.com/#/specs
Yup. I think the reason people overlook it is because build quality is likely subpar. Or at least that's the perception of the brand. And when you're dropping >$1500 you'd like something that you can depend on so while the spec sheet seems to be on point, the more ephemeral parts feel/flex/hardness that are much harder to pin down are keeping this from being seen as a worthwhile contender.

Also I think I ultimately went with something else based on the 5 star amazon reviews that complained about performance issues. Also no biometricts at that price is kinda unforgivable.
Why would anyone but high-frequency traders want to use it? And in that case, HFT would be on aggregate a losing proposition.
I feel that camping taught me a lot about cooking; especially with backpacking; You learn what will keep, what's heavy, what ingredients you can replace with what, and what, with limited ingredients you can make into a good meal.

Examples: way too many combinations of sealed chicken/tuna, macaroni, and broccoli; eggs, pasta, using oil and water without/instead of milk, the food safeness of dried sausage.
With regards to actually getting a job, try and reframe your thinking around your Unique Selling Points. If you're feeling uncertain about the depth of your knowledge, then view that (and present it to others) as a certainty of your willingness to learn. There are a non-negligible number of employers who would rather take in developers who they can mold to their own coding style over someone who comes in heavily opinionated and looking to change the entire way the company does things.

Some developers I've worked with are incredibly smart, but also know that of themselves and (with that knowledge) prefer to work without the constraints of having to explain themselves to others. However genius doesn't scale well, and this kind of attitude can make them less effective in teams. So learning to be a team player and adopting scalable ways of working can be a strength of your lack of ego, if you choose to see it that way.

Don't just think there's one set of criteria that all employers are looking for. Present your best self and I'm sure you'll find somewhere to work.
Why Tokenizer in Keras reserve word_index 0
I love the idea and added a topic here

https://www.kialo.com/macos-and-windows-should-sandbox-all-a...

Some comments:

The site seems designed for desktop first. The fancy radial graph doesn't seem to appear on mobile. That would seem like a pretty big barrier to popularity. I have lots of friends who's only access to the net is their phone.

It's not at all clear to me which link to share with people. Was the one above correct? It's not showing the radial graph in my topic so I assumed it was the wrong link since links to other topics show a graph. Clicking the "share" button is not helpful with providing a link

It's entirely unclear whether to respond pro or con on 2nd level topics. It feels intuitively to me that it should be green vs orange for the entire discussion. All green is pro the original topic, all orange is con the original topic. But that is not how others are using it. The comment for "con" of sub topic says "attack the parent ...." What's the parent here? The parent to this comment? The parent to this sub-topic so if it's sub-sub-topic that's what?

Whatever Kialo want's it to be it needs to made 1000x clearer. Even the help is unhelpful. It shows topic->pro->con which is uncontroversial. It needs to show topic->con->con or topic->con->pro. But of course most people won't click to the help so the actual form needs to make this far clearer.
How to Preprocess Character Level Text with Keras
What have you learned through audio format in math or programming before?
As another RP speaker using CarPlay, it works well. However you do have to heavily anglicise placenames when abroad. So I just tried ‘ get directions to Mal-moe’ and it worked first time.
I've been working full-time on this problem since March.

Although not ready for prime-time, Orb[0] is self-hosting, and I hope to have a full release ready in a month or so.

[0]: https://github.com/mnemnion/orb/

I've been using it to develop several related projects. It has a long way to go.
>because a con of a con is a pro of the original point.

Apologies for the pedantry, but no - a con of a con need not be a pro of anything.
Fermi paradox: why haven’t we found aliens yet?
Thanks for that, it's also blocked in South Africa, which is pretty damn far from Europe. I suspect they just block anything non-NA.
Good news for HomePod and CarPlay users, and I suspect that the ability to have a short phrase, trigger a sequence of complex actions will make Siriuse out and about more common.
VRSQRT28 too, which has max 2^-28 rel error.

https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/reference-implemen...
I like lisp, but I'm really not a Hy man
Why serverless/SaaS is not there yet
On point. It can happen if your company has great IP, or you managed to capture a niche market.

When that happens it's a no brainer: sell. You can still build another company while having a cushion for you and your family.

An exception to this would rule would be that you have a good chance at becoming a leading company in your domain.
Previous discussion

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14909786
F-droid is a tremendous resource for Android developers and users who want to distribute or install ethical open source apps that operate outside the bounds of Google Play's TOS. Two such apps that I strongly recommend are NewPipe and getChromium.

*Full disclosure: I made getChromium.
How to get your own mail server to send to Google, AT&T
The vast majority of milk on supermarket shelves comes from factory farms operating exactly as described in the video. But even the best run boutique family dairy farms are going to have to figure out what to do with their male calves.

Watch this recent German documentary to see the reaction when a Bavarian dairy farmer that takes pride in treating her animals well sees the ultimate horrific fate of one of her male calves:

https://youtu.be/295wKcuDGQk
Phantom Islands
Hi Kartik! Still at it I see...

me too ^_^
This isn't a very good definition. C++ doesn't have runtime types other than void* (python does, on the other hand) (java is the same way).

In C++, the only thing passed around at runtime is void* . The pointer is then used as a concrete type without any explicit downcast.

Any conversation about strong typing should not involve the word "static". Nothing about strong typing is "static". It is entirely a runtime concept. Functions potentially having multiple return types is entirely an issue of static typing. Not strong typing.

This is obvious because you can annootate python code with the type information. This makes it strongly typed, but not statically typed, even though it makes all unions compile time defined.

In other words, if I take python with type annotations (which is statically typed), and remove the annotations, you claim this would make the language weakly typed, but this makes no sense. There would be no difference between strength and dynamicness.

A better definition might be that a language is weakly typed of it allows transformation from type a to b, where a and b are unrelated (ie neither inherits from the other), without a call to a constructor. Python does not meet this definition, the only way to cast is via a constructor call.

C and c++ do not, void* allows arbitrary transforms. Java will throw a classcastexception, but can only do so at runtime, bit will do so at the bad cast.

C and c++ will keep chugging until the miscast object is misused. That's weak typing.
Not sure if the issues are the same as the ones that we experienced with our son, but my wife suspected that our son had ADHD and she read several books and ended up agreeing with the ideas behind brain balance. She found a chiropractic neurologist who studied with the author of the book, and he prescribed some exercises to overcome some primitive reflexes and an elimination diet. Our son became less irritable and is better able to focus (but is still working on impulse control). My wife is super happy with the results.
Yup me too.

Both my grandfathers had Alzheimer's. I don't talk to my mother anymore (who is 68) so I don't know how she is doing, and my father (70) seems to be OK so far, but he's always been a bit 'scatty', so early signs would probably be hard to detect. I'm in my mid 40s but I've long had a lingering fear that Alzheimer’s will get me at some point. I find it absolutely terrifying at the prospect of losing who I am. On and off I tinker with ways of capturing who I am in some way, or regularly think of ways I could invent support devices to assist me when my brain goes to mush. I am definitely preoccupied with this topic. I doubt though, that I'll ever come up with anything to help; I'm simply not clever enough. I am less intelligent today, than I was yesterday. The anti-depression drugs probably don't help in that regard either.

This is why I come to HN every day... The richness of the topics covered, and the knowledge that the comments section is a safe place to share...

Please pardon my self-reflection.
Are they going to hit retail shelves or what? It'll be interesting to see if they do.

I was interested in getting one of those Chinese MIPS machines (based on the 3A2000), but they seem to have all but evaporated.
The design of this site is really good
OK and I’ve seen plenty of 2.5 - 3 star reviews where people were just fine with the app too. Same thing with products on Amazon. I’ve also left review such as this myself.

People like sharing their experiences with others. They’ve been doing it for thousands of years. Go figure.

Care to try again?
It was, duh.
I'm not sure if this has changed yet, but until recently Siri regularly failed to recognize artists, albums or titles, which often happen to be english, if the device/siri was set to a different language. In my case that's german and I can't count the number of times I had to pronounce the artists I wanted Siri to play in a ridiculously german way.

English is so ubiquitous that, in my opinion, all Siri queries should be checked for both local language and english.
Cortana has had an API like this from the beginning, so I don't see why owning the entire sack is necessary.
I think you've made a lot of mistakes in the past: allowing yourself to be carried, not doing internships to gain work experience, not actively doing on-campus coding related events like hackathons and contests, not going to on-campus recruiting events, etc. But it's never too late to reset everything and start afresh. You can decide whether or not you still have the motivation and interest to continuing this path; if you do, you can go to coding boot camps, do online courses on MOOCs like coursera, do random personal projects, even read your old textbooks again, etc. You might be out of work for a few months or even a year but think of it as the time spent remedying your mistakes during college days.

Of course the alternative is to not be a programmer; there are still plenty of related disciplines you can choose from.

Ultimately it's up to you to decide if you even love doing programming; recall why you chose this major; do some soul-searching and decide whether you have the motivation and interest to continue. Maybe take a short break go to the mountains or somewhere else, and clear up your mind.
I lack the criminal mind. I've been wondering about this, in HK, Beijing, Jakarta, KL, Sau Paulo, Buenos Aires, unable to work out what he threat risk was that high.

Now I know: the intersection of thief, and rock-climber.
> Personally I think this adds no value to the social goodput of trading:

We are long past trading adding any actual value to society.
This is heartbreaking. How can we solve the problem of overpopulation? What happens to poor people in America under the same circumstances of poor in India when seeking healthcare?
I've just tried Maps but one big issue is that it can't be directed to a cache of already-downloaded OSM maps. In fact I can't get past the initial download screen to do any configuration. I already have an 8GB card full of map data, I don't want to redownload.

Osmand at least will open normally, just with a blank map area and I cam fidget about with it.

Maps also has an unhelpful name for tryimg to search for bugs or howtos. Mapz or Mapapp would have been better.
Can you give me just a few names of important scientists who died in poverty for reasons outside their own actions?
Not being able to say in the US right now, I read that in the UK, private cameras are installed for profit and sell a feed to the police.

There are three levels of police in most jurisdictions worldwide: federal state and local. the US is no different, and putting devices on street poles typically demands compliance with planning law, and I suspect in any economy with cameras on light poles or sign posts by roads, its state actors.

The UK is either the most, or the second-most surveilled economy in the world. Not western world, worldwide. Cameras per head of population are increadibly high.

Your faith in 'old glory' is touching. I suspect, its misplaced.
I read you, yet that's kind of funny: Son struggled to get through a karate class in the afternoon without a small refresher dose of Ritalin - which has helped him academically at school. He finally got sent out after three strikes for disrupting the class without; his attention and ability to be one of the crowd instantly improved with the addition of the drug.

From this in particular I'm inclined to believe in the professional opinions of the specialists we engaged.

He's doing 3x weekly Kyoshkin sessions as well as occasional mountain bike riding, but we could probably try to do even more to get energy use up on a daily basis; very strong, an abundance of energy. Which is normal for most children at least.
Writing Proper Web Acceptance Tests
assuming 1) memory bandwidth is the bottleneck and 2) you can keep the tensor values in cache or registers.

I think that GPUs are still vector processing engines, so they should scale with 4x... But assuming google architected the TPU correctly, it should be 16x as fast (I think the architecture is actually that of a rank-2 tensor).
It's easy to Tramiel for not having vision but what you're describing simply wasn't a thing in that era. Computers were silos which where hardware incompatible with one another. And the few instances where a next gen machine was build with support for its predecessors, that generally harmed the successor more than helped as fewer developers wrote bespoke software for the newer platform (why would you when you could target all versions of the product line instead of just the lastest machine?). However that didn't stop Atari from having a go with the many revisions of the ST and, later, the Falcon.

Plus the ST and C64 were largely sold as games machines (yes, I'm aware of the popularity of using the ST as a MIDI sequencer etc) and consoles of that era didn't follow an upgrade path either (baring the Atari 7800 being largely hardware compatible with the 2600 but the 7800 wasn't exactly a success because of that).

Many accounts of history actually look more favourably on Jack Tramiel as they argue that had the American Commedore offices taken his lead (like the European division did) and sold the Amiga in toy stores as well as the usual places - as the Atari ST was sold in Toys R Us across Europe - then the Amiga might not have flopped in the US. And there is good reason to believe Tramiel's strategy worked as the ST was a massive hit and the Amiga had a lot more success in Europe and America after the European division of Commedore started copying Tramiel's business strategy.

Ultimately though, few hardware manufacturers from that era survived. Even Apple nearly went under (several times in fact, Microsoft had to bail them out on one occasion just to avoid a desktop monopoly). And IBM didn't exactly do well out of upgradeable machines as the market just got flooded with cheap clones which IBM got no cut from. So it's very easy to blame Tramiel with hindsight but in reality he was one of the few which had multiple successes.
You're using the words wrong. The code may have undefined behaviour.

For example, a race condition is an UB. Compiler won't invent locks that were not specified by the programmer in a code with some raw threads. As a result, CPUs will trash the memory.
The vast majority of the time you don't need all (or most of) that stuff though. None of the applications i actually use take any advantage of accessibility (i do not need it), bidirectional text (most all of the text i see and write is in English and all of it is in left-to-right order), IME (i do not write in any language that needs this), multiple pointing devices (i only have a single mouse), all kinds of unicode script (as i said most of the text is in English, but i'll have a note on that below), DPI scaling (i prefer 1:1 mapping of units to pixels ratio and none of my monitors are hidpi and i plan on avoiding getting one as long as it is technically possible since i want to have the pixels visible), hardware acceleration (i do not think any GUI toolkit that uses traditional buttons/checkboxes/inputfields/sliders/etc style uses hardware acceleration, at least in the modern sense where it means using 3D hardware as opposed to the older 2D acceleration - some toolkits that try to reinvent Flash are probably using 3D acceleration more but i do not use any programs that use those) or any "much more".

The note i mentioned above and a small exception is unicode support, but that is externally imposed: sometimes i download files (like an album i bought on bandcamp) that use unicode characters which display weirdly if the program you use cannot handle them. But beyond that, no real need for it and this is only in a few types of programs.

Of course my needs are not the same as others' needs, but i am "paying" for stuff i do not use nor need, both in terms of complexity and actual resources.
> But those rules don’t apply to fuel stations in the United States until October 2017

It's July 2018. So this should be in effect right? right?

> Realistically is that going to change any time soon?

Unlikely. Until the penalties affect consumers/voters en masse, it's highly unlikely to ever change. Even if it did, a few congressional hearings would lull voters enough to not care any longer.

The only hope is that fraud becomes so expensive for the card folks that they actually enforce this themselves. Obviously that hasn't happened for all, but maybe they are making progress?
Kernighan saved the most interesting fact for his last comment: both grep and ed were written in assembly, not C!
> If people want to trade stocks every hundredth of a nanosecond, why not let them?

> but if that meaningless-seeming competition between high-frequency trading firms helps subsidize basic research to improve our understanding of time itself, isn’t that kind of cool?

Seems to me this guy is really struggling to reach the conclusion his editor wants..
I guess since you've seen 3 star reviews my argument collapses on itself. If only you hadn't seen those pesky 3 star reviews. What a compelling argument.

"I've seen 3 star reviews so it must be true, because I've seen 3 star reviews, personally"
Don't give up ... Westerners are bit obsessed with the idea of "revealed" talents and leading indicators of capabilities. Pursue the things that draw you regardless of how good you are at them initially... don't waste your time lamenting test results. I would love to rant about the non-causality of IQ, grades, etc but it seems tangential.

Coding is not an activity reserved for the "gifted". Your daily thought processes are far more complicated than coding, and it's highly likely you have all the capacity you'll ever need to be good at it. Before you know it, you'll know 5-10 different languages and pick new ones up in days. You'll be able to solve problems in a dozen different ways, and translate problems from one structure to another; much the same way that you can already do with human language.

Ask yourself if you give-a-f*ck enough to stick with it. That's the main factor in most pursuits, the other considerations are for suckers and mostly benefit someone else.
China have Zhaoxin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhaoxin) which can produce X86 chips already.
https://www.weather.gov/timeline
YR essentially request that only users from Norway/Scandinavia use the service.

https://om.yr.no/info/verdata/free-weather-data/
Even if it doesn't you may be able to get it working with PCem or 86box (fork of PCem which is a bit more user friendly).
It's "Computer, lights!" and we're still not close to Star Trek, because our computing is ridiculously fragmented. Instead of a unified, configurable system doing our bidding, we have a whole ecosystem of apps that try to be everything but helpful. Can you imagine captain Picard saying, "computer, tell Hue to turn on the lights", or "computer, tell Northrop Grumman® Unified Weapons Platform™ to charge Phasers™"?
Will South Korea Loosen Crypto Regulations?
Detecting who used the EC2 metadata server with BCC
If you have a disability, you may well face similar frustrations with anything you try.

Some disabilities can be helped with aggressive nutritional support.

You can also learn coping mechanisms to help you work around your weak areas more easily. The exact mechanism will depend very much on the disability in question.

I'm speaking from firsthand experience.

I'm medically handicapped. I have days when I'm fairly together and days when nothing comes easily. I do a lot of self care and I have learned coping mechanisms. I am more productive than I used to be and some tasks are just easier for me than others.

I also raised and homeschooled two sons who have disabilities. They still live with me.