skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Still the worst of all the editors. It will eat up all the RAM for no reasons. Also looks absolutely alien and uses very different shortcuts than all the other macOS apps.
IntelliJ is very own world of java crap.
What Role Do Digital Influencers Play in a Campaign Strategy?
some of the spending just saw on my trip was mind blowing. Acres of granite pavers and timber decking in new parks. Huge new city walls in place of ancient ones. (protecting them they call it)
What's the deal with push notifications if the modem has to be switched on every couple of minutes to keep a connection alive? I was under the impression that push notifications were implemented similar to a call handshake that only activates the phone if there is a call.

Are the FCM service and the iOS equivalent also IP based or can they use some lower level, more energy efficient protocols to wake up the phones?
So after enabling it, is there some easy way to see if it actually works?
You’ve Never Seen Anything Like This Performance Before
If you have been working on bare metal all these years and don't have any embedded Linux experience, I'd say definitely get that under your belt.

You don't need to kernel hack all day. I would say most of the major SoCs I work with already have a stable tree and anything that's not super-exotic already has a driver or can be adapted from another. I haven't seen the need to fine-tune kernel performance to any serious degree.

One area that companies always need is experienced bootloader and BSP work. That lets you tinker at the register level as well as understand the build process. The demand for secure bootloaders/HAB and secure field upgrades over IoT will definitely be increasing as time goes on, and that can be very specialized work based on the SoC and platform. That also kind of ticks the security aspect of the role...maybe look into that?
I'm assuming the debt problems are the corporate defaults on bond payments [0] for 2018 until July, were close to equal to the entire year of 2016. There's also consumer debt stuff that's blowing up as well (the whole p2p loan companies going bankrupt was linked on HN recently).

As for the what are they responding to is the engine for economic growth is stalling out from knock on effects behind whats going on above, and I can only speculate that the "goal" of any kind of response will be to maintain some kind of economic "stability".

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-02/china-hea...
w3c is an easier standard than amp
It just works! Also, I feel like VS Code is much faster than atom at this point
> They have tried to persuade me to restore my account with a couple of emails, but it was already too late.

Where are they sending those emails, to your Google account's backup account?
In the US, I have never had a problem with homeless people in libraries, or anywhere else.

I sometimes think people on HN like to make up problems where none exist? I'm not claiming we don't have a problem with people without homes. It's America's number one problem. So many of you workers will feel the pain when this bloated party ends, especially in the Bay Area.

In my local libraries, it's the privileged white folks whom use the library as a baby sitter until they get off work.

(I really don't get the Homeless bashing that goes on here. The homeless I know are harassed, scrutinized, arrested for petty reasons, and told to leave the premises even when they have money. Oh yea, don't like stepping in shit? Let them use a restroom? Hell, in SF I have peeed behind a building because I can't find a restroom.)
Yeah, I think many Clojurians would mildly agree some changes to how nil is handled would be nice... but this is such a fundamental behavior that it's very hard to justify modifying the language at this point for just a minor benefit.
I have not studied Go. I am learning Rust. I am not current with C++, but once was fluent. My take on Rust (as a Pythonista) is that while C++ is tedious and error-prone, Rust is merely tedious. Which IS progress. But... if you want to up-level, then I think the goal you seek depends on the state of the Rust crate ecosystem to get you out of the trenches.
This is neat! But, it seems a bit disingenuous to say I'm looking at experts, as opposed to people who like to talk about something. My expertise is industrial automation and connectivity for example, but I come up when searching for vue, a javascript framework, just because it's a tool I like to promote since I think it could use some noise given react's popularity. Step 2 seems like having someone or something reading through comments and assigning expert status to profiles.
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> which are considered to not be real by definition

So you claim that love, justice, truth, and honor are not real “by definition”? And, moreover, that everyone agrees with you on this?

> I think you should find another fight to pick with someone else.

Who’s “picking a fight” here? You’re being weirdly defensive.
So... awful and bloated Java code (with javadocs, why?!) compared to short counter-examples from Clojure.
IMHO quite terrible way to compare the two…
If they were immediately addictive, everyone that got a morphine shot in the hospital would need to seek treatment. It isn't a "one use and you are addicted" or even "occasional (recreational) use will get you addicted". A portion of folks will seek it out more often, but most folks will just seek it out occasionally.

With opiates, the bigger danger is daily or consistent use over a period of time. The period depending on how often you take it and how you are using it and the strength of your dose.
Don’t a lot of them cheat there anyway?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/worldviews/wp/20...

https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/03/india-school-e...
Routers must run open source software, no exceptions, they are keys to the kingdom, corporate or home, no difference. FreeBSD/OpenBSD is de facto standard. Good projects like OPNsense test their production releases extensively.

Hardware is your choice, but x86 gives you the best compatibility, and kWh is good, x86 CPU power management, mine uses less than 1W, max TDP is 6W.

Cisco, Juniper, and other closed source ones have a history of backdoors [0]. Consumer grade routers are joke.

[0] https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cisco-removes...
Strange as this may sound, this reminds me of Joe Rogan's interview with Elon Musk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycPr5-27vSI

Some of Asimov's predictions about the future were... off. The middle segment of Musk's interview with Rogan was about the future of AI and cybernetics. It will be very interesting to watch that interview in 40 years.
No one should use PyCharm. It is slow, ugly, resource hungry and expensive. Amazing "argument", right?
> The investor isn’t interested in what’s best for the CEO or company further than the extent to which that’s good for the investor.

Someone who owns shares in a company like this has multiple options. One option is to sell your shares and be done with it, assuming you think the problem is insurmountable. But if you remain invested, you can still do things that reduce the problem or things that exacerbate the problem. The last one seems particularly counterproductive.
Most recreational use doesn't constitute such things, though. Unless you have a very different view of recreational use than I do.
Wild wild certs
Ask HN: Are Twitter, LinkedIn and Quora ad platforms any good?
Hi HN,

Google and Facebook are basically a duopoly on digital advertising. But I am considering if there is an opportunity in what I consider to be the "long tail" of digital ads: Twitter, Quora, LinkedIn.

I am the solo founder of a bootstrapping business, with a niche product (help managers with their one-on-one meetings). I don't have the budget to go for the best keywords on Facebook and Google (both in terms of ads and SEO).

But instead of going for the long tail of the keywords on the major platforms, I was planning to go for the major keywords on the long tail of the platforms. Does that make any sense?

Does anyone have first-hand experience with advertising on Twitter, LinkedIn or Quora? I would love to know how it went.
using a noscript extension in ff makes so many sites work better, it's absurd. Most user-hating "news" sites, for starters.
>My intuition says Rust is more like a safer version of C++ while Go is more half way to Python/Julia. Do you agree with this sloppy assessment?

Yes
Engineer guy, slow mo guys, motherboard vice, primitive technology, smarter everyday
100% correct. The situation we have now is that the same news events are reported in 1000s of newspapers that add bias. For example, if Trump holds a rally in Alabama and says "Build The Wall" it is reported in The New York Times as 'Trump hates immigrants" and on Fox News as "Trump vows to protect America". NewsBlocks simply strips out those biases, converts the news event to data (Who: Trump. Where: Alabama. Quote: "Build The Wall") and then stores the data on the blockchain, where it can be retrieved by anyone who wants to build apps with the data.
On the contrary, nil punning seems exceptionally well suited to a dynamic language. In general, I'm only burned by nil propagating into Java, almost all Clojure code seems to handle nil appropriately.

I'm unsure of a good way to represent optionality in a dynamic language without a static type system. Or rather, doing so with the tools available -- core.match vs real pattern matching -- seems rather un-ergonomic.

I'm curious about your thoughts of what would be better.
Anyone who writes Lisp without taking a moment to add a docstring to every definition would never get a job offer from me. (Not to mention comments as appropriate.)
"personalize content and perform analytics" does not necessarily have anything to do with ads. Examples abound: 3rd party A/B testing (Optimizely), 3rd party analytics (Google Analytics), 3rd party error reporting (Bugsnag), 3rd party page speed testing, etc.
In math when we write a sum, we say "sum from i = 1 to n", not "sum from i = 0 to n-1".

Zero-based indexing of arrays makes sense in a language like C where arrays are just pointers and offsets are determined with arithmetic on pointer addresses in memory. This is why we are trained to write code like "for (i = 0; i < n; i++)". But in Julia where one of the stated purposes is to be able to write code that looks like formulae, it is far more natural to use one-based indexing.
Switching to unbound seems like extra work. I kept dnsmasq on my EdgeRouter and just pointed it at doh-client from [0] which is trivial to cross-compile. I’m using Google’s dns servers as upstream.

[0] https://github.com/m13253/dns-over-https/tree/master/doh-cli...
It's the co-op model, which USA generally has no problems with as long as it's elective, e.g. you aren't forced to depend on it.
Is it really a 'piss take' of Elon Musk or the people who idolize him?

The fact that Elon Musk may have influence in our world is even more of a reason to exercise some critical thinking when it comes to his ideas.

The article does not veer off into discussion about Musk's personal choices that some would label destructive. It is certainly a critical article, but it does not seem fair to classify this article as a pisstake.
>In practice, the variational methods are not competitive at all with deep learning models

I really don't see why these two things need be pitted against each others.

What you're describing (Euler-lagrange applied to computer vision problems) is a direct application of the calculus of variation to the image itself.

It's rather naive because it uses an extremely weak representation of the content of the image (i.e. a bunch of pixels which essentially means working with a piecewise-constant basis of the functional space), and as you noted, it is easily beaten by modern techniques.

However: Deep neural nets are nothing but another, much more powerful "basis" of functional space (I put "basis" in quote because they're not linear. OTOH, they're generative).

A deep net is a finite set of real numbers that maps to a point in functional space, and any arbitrary continuous maps from R^n to R^p can be approximated by deep nets given enough weights and neurons.

So, if deep nets are dense in functional space, and "training" a deep net is nothing but solving a minimization problem in functional space, then I don't see why the "calculus of variation" ==> "PDE" via Euler-Lagrange route can't bee applied to training deep nets instead of backprop-based minimizers.

Now, if you're claiming that backprop works better than solving the PDE induced by Euler-Lagrange on the functional minimization problem of training a deep-net, I'm very happy to believe you, but I've yet to see literature demonstrating this.
Well, I screwed that all up. Thanks for the correction, I have edited my comment.
Just finished the first major set of bug fixes for our order entry module
They're all open source licensed. Android even uses OpenJDK code these days.

What you're looking for goes beyond any traditional notion of free software, in the Stallmanist sense.
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Fair as long as demand is as elastic as it used to be. Like if everyone has a phone now it will be harder to sell new phones. And good for pointing out a critical assumption behind the article - that CA surplus will actually fall as a result of tariffs, as you showed there is a fifth solution - sell to other countries, EU for example, US is not the whole world
They can try that, but I don't think they'll have much success this time around. At least In Indonesia, the government here just hiked rates on imports, as well as implementing a whole bunch of other policies in order to defend the IDR. I can only assume this is going on as well in other non developed markets.
As soon as you are maintaining multiple connections, battery life gets worse.
Then it isnt engineering work. Engineers are professionals, acredited by societies and licensed by governments. It is akin to the differance between simple "medical work" done by any number of people with the skills, and medical doctoring.
That cannot possibly be true, as AMP is literally a subset of HTML.
Good points. I'd expand that by saying that these apply to any organization that wants a content-based site but has no need for a real web development team.

Non-technical users often don't know what they want until they see something on the screen, and once they see it on the screen, they inevitably want to make changes that undo the first set of things they asked for. Everybody seems to have an opinion about layouts and design features, whether they ought to or not, and the least-capable voices tend to be the loudest.

And you're absolutely right, explaining the limits of web dev to non-technical people is a perpetual exercise in frustration. They think web dev is like print design. As we know, it's not even close. Web design is constrained by a multitude of browser limitations that print simply does not have. They don't like to hear that.
"...they can take as big hammer as needed to fix it."

If you believe complex economic systems follow simple, well-known control laws, then yes. But I haven't seen much evidence for this.
Decision-making processes, especially in times of crises are rarely presenting themselves so supra-rationally.

Meaning, that usually internal struggles will prevent the participants to be so generous, cool headed and foreward thinking.

Sure, the Politburo / Central Committee is small, but they still represent hundreds of millions of people, many different regions, cities, to a degree even many ethnic groups.

Usually shielding the elites does not show up as a goal, and differing circumstances of those can easily lead to serious opposition against the generally useful solutions.

We shall see how the current regime handles whatever history throws at them.
EU copyright must protect access to knowledge and the commons
I second this; ProtonMail is great.
I feel the pain and feel similarly. Sorry that we're sharing this space of despair in our political institutions.

The town hall comment jumps out to me. I have this sense that more local communication, or dare I say "organizing" -- not in a politically-specific sense but in a more general "community getting to know each other" sense -- is the way forward.

Has anyone ever participated in a town hall or other forum for communicating with fellow citizens that has gone well? I'm curious to know.
I recently read a great book on this: The Mezcal Rush by Granville Greene, who toured around Mexico getting to know the people making good Mezcal in tiny villages. It's an amazing story. One producer he visited has their pit and still halfway up a small mountainside, next to a water source they like. They have to carry everything up and down the mountain on dirt paths.

All mezcal is made by burying the agave in a firepit; a few still crush the agave with wooden clubs, ferment it in a cowhide hung between trees, and distill it in a clay pot. There's archeological evidence that people there were doing the same thing at least 500 years ago.

I picked up a bottle from Del Maguey, the first company to import "single village" mezcal to the U.S. (prior to that mezcal sold outside the producers' villages was mostly mixed into low-quality blends). It was from that mountainside producer. I wasn't a huge fan at first but it grew on me. There's a lot of taste variation between different mezcals, partly since they don't all use the same species of agave.
NSA metadata program “consistent” with Fourth Amendment, Kavanaugh once argued
LISPs seem to me the best candidates for an alternative to the traditional text editor. I could imagine a mind-map sort of view which would allow you to expand and collapse sub-trees etc. Does anything like this exist? To me, that would be reason to experiment with something like Clojure.
That’s naive and uninformed. Many Chinese political elites not on the side of Xin jing ping have been jailed and killed in recent years under the guise of corruption. Many corporate elites have been quarantined, jailed or killed, such as head of HNA and Wanda.

The only elite safe is xinjingping. Because he is the dictator
Great. I wonder how long it is until me and my friends are on this new list for supporting socialist/left wing politics as citizens of the USA.
Doctors said the coma patients would never wake. AI said they would-and they did
It's all GPL licensed. How is it not 'community owned'? What is your definition of 'community', exactly?
Social media companies must be allowed to do policing this way only if they abide by the national laws pertaining to freedom of expression. I mean, if a company wants to list as a social media company where people share information, and they also do policing, they must be answerable to local courts if they take down posts using their judgement which goes against the established freedom laws of the land, without hiding behind the garb of being a private enterprise etc and saying that its their prerogative to manage their platform as they please. I don't know if such a thing is already in place.

The companies are having a knee jerk reaction to the misuse by public, and like all KJR this is heading the wrong way. The fact that the companies whose primary aim it to maximize profits are taking it upon themselves to do these sort of ethically and legally questionable activities itself will lead to bad ramifications.

One obvious solution to controlling fake news is to remove the invisibility cloak of users by forcing them, by law, to use government issued ID to authenticate their accounts. This should make people more responsible before sharing misinformation. However, the fragility of technology that would lead to abusing authenticated user accounts is a big enough concern to put the onus on the companies.

I don't care if the companies "employs executives who are thoughtful about the task of making their platforms less toxic while protecting freedom of speech" or use third party authenticating sources, or some fancy AI/ML, but unless they are forced to abide by the laws, things will only worsen. Whether they like it or not, social media companies are now entangled in social and legal aspects and have to deal with all that comes with it. They have enjoyed exponential growth in profits, now its time to get real.
An important thing that many people fail to realise is that Julia-1.0 came as a surprise to package authors as well, and thus the first month of the the release has been a scramble to get everything working on 1.0. Unfortunately the pre-1.0 package manager did not have good facilities for upper bounding versions - so essentially everybody's packages would install on 1.0 but be broken.

At exactly the same time, a lot of people thought "hey, 1.0 time to check out this new language", and would experience all those crashes.

Doing a review of Julia based on the experience in the first month after 1.0 will be grossly misleading. I've used the language progressively more for the last 3 years, and also teach a university R course, so I have some experience to base that claim on.
I was watching that while my wife overheard and commented on how funny he was.

Meanwhile UK TV prime time talk shows only have reality TV people, and film people (both times I avoided the word 'star' deliberately). Most of them are dull-as-a-door-mat, and so the show relies on the host saying outrageous things to them. There must be some people left in the world who are both funny and smart.
A map that shows everything about Amazon Echo
Maybe it's a combination of different theories. Maybe having a certain virus with "type three" diabetes, with certain genetics triggers it.
Yeah and Publix is apparently hiring pharmacists without a degree apparently.

Total BS, to be a pharmacist you need to have a Doctor of Pharmacy (which is an advanced degree!) and be licensed by the appropriate government entity. Those 6-8 years of schooling aren't exactly optional.
> The VS Code Python team has put forth lots of effort (and worked with our team, quite closely) to support Pipenv projects out–of–the–box.

What a coincidence!
Guessing it's also Google?
It's not an open standard, but this was the one of the interesting pieces of RIM's software stack. Their push system worked reasonably well, used little power on the handset, and organizations were able to run their own on-site push proxy supporting their own in-house applications.
There's a neat way to roll cables, called Roadie Wrap. Best described in video, but basically, you alternate the twist direction while you add each loop to the roll. Every other time the free end goes under the forming loop.
Last time I was prescribed opiates, I got a standard prescription. There were about 20 pills, inside a box. The box had 20 bubbles, each with one pill in it.

Unsure of how long the pain would last, this worked. I was able to sleep a few nights and work out the pain since I had a few things to do. I had an xray planned just in case, but it wound up being necessary.

I don't see the point of taking more pills than I have needed, so they are in the cabinet. I also don't see the point of breaking up a bubble package at the pharmacy. They are made to both keep costs down and ensure pill safety. No pill miscounts, for example. Bubble packs have shown to help slow down suicides as well (people have to work harder to get the pills out, giving them time to rethink things at the last minute). I don't have a history of asking for pain medicine.

The time before this was for gall bladder surgery some years ago. As soon as I didn't need the pills, I stopped taking them. This was in the US, so they were loose pills, but I*m not sure they numbered more. I did need one later when I returned to work as the first day was rough. I assume the prescription I received was standard procedure after the operation. Just because I didn't need that many doesn't mean that someone else didn't.