skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since it's Trump we're talking about, yes, it is hysteria.

Next week/month/year he'll declare the EU are our best friends, likely timed with a trade deal. See: how he behaved with Macron, or how he snap pivoted with Mexico and was lauding them.

He blatantly isn't representative of much of anything, even in his own administration. We're seeing that demonstrated on a daily basis.

You have to understand that Trump operates by an obnoxiously simplistic - often antagonistic - method in every single thing he does. It starts with lambasting and overreach, which he uses as a tool to stake a far out position/demand that isn't expected to be realized. In his approach, that is used to get something closer to what he really would like out of a negotiation. Every action and word Trump says on these fronts is part of a negotiation as far as he's concerned. One may plainly find his negotiating tactics poor or disagreeable, of course.

So to explain the EU statement by his approach: why call the EU a foe? He wants the EU to recoil and respond that they are in fact not a foe. He's trying out that statement to see if that pushes them to give ground. The idea is likely that they would find that terrifying, to have the US as an actual foe, or to consider that the US may now view the EU as a foe. Give me a great trade deal or we're not going to be friends any longer.... Don't push us any further, or else. There are few proclamations off the table as far as this process goes for Trump. He'll keep it up all the way to burning the house down. In that negotiating strategy, as far as Trump is concerned, the worst thing you can do is give ground. Outrageous statements are preferable in his approach, than to soften and give ground.
I feel like that's an interesting balance in generative art: I want to make something that is aesthetically pleasing or at least interesting to look at, but I also want to be surprised. If the process is really heavily stochastic, then you'll have to do a lot of manual curation to produce the final work. If it's heavily rules-based, then you might not find anything novel after the first few images.
Never really recovered? That event wiped out Digg completely, and is exactly what skyrocketed Reddit.
The reason why there are so many static site generators is that they are trivial to write (which is why making your own is a good beginner coding project):

for {post}.md in in blogdir:
if timestamp({post}.html) < timestamp({post}.md):
convert_md_2_html({post}.md)
True. Companies are hitting a lot of friction getting node sizes down to 7nm when compared to sizes from years or decades ago.
Alibaba's Daniel Zhang to Succeed Jack Ma as Chairman Next Year
I was not being ironic. Notebooks are lovely as an output format for showing your research and allowing others to fiddle with your code. However, for people who do not want to edit inside a web browser window, jupytext is a godsend!
Paying for a service! Wow!
Meanwhile, a mirror organism, made of antimatter, who travels back in time like Benjamin Button, would be exactly the same as a regular organism. At least I think that's how CPT-symmetry works.
Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours
As long as the pricing is right I appreciate that alternative.

We complain a lot here (and to a certain degree, righly so) here on HN about annoying ads and creepy tracking so I will try to e positive when someone actually honestly makes a great product and asks for money instead of trying to extract it from profiling me and selling the profile.
Huh? Email >>>>> Twitter over like 40 years or more? You don't work as an engineer, right? If you would, you would know how low the quality of most centralized technology is that is created by big corps. Most of the good stuff is decentralized. But the problem is that decentralization also means that the edge has more responsibility. And that responsibility is what people don't want to have. So they rather use a centralized bad system, because it's "easier" and then every few years they can blame all their own laziness on the centralized service provider and even read about it in the news.

If you need another example google a tool called "git". It is used by almost all software developers nowadays and even by quite a few authors. You don't need to setup anything to use it. If you have ssh you can just share your text based data with others by giving them access to your repository's directory. I bet it transfers more MB/day than Twitter. But nobody counts it because it's so distributed that it's hard to put an owner label on it. (Although the originators can be named quite clearly.)
2 small ineffective wins, that basically mean nothing weighed against a Trade War with China, almost entirely destroying relations with the EU and Nato, deeply damaging relations with the 5 eyes countries - who are the US's closest allies. Worsening relations with Iran. And of course a FAR too familiar relationship with Russia. How is that doing ok?
Ken Jebsen is an anti-American, right wing conspiracy theorist

Both he and Willy Wimmer toe the Kremlin line

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

https://www.tagesspiegel.de/medien/juergen-elsaesser-und-sei...
They probably confused 'sodium' with 'salt' and missed the Natrium in NaCl.

Apologies for linking to Quora:

https://www.quora.com/Who-renamed-Natrium-and-Kalium-to-Sodi...

If you want to explain an acronym that has its basis in the names of chemical elements you should probably use the same words the scientists that came up with the acronym used.
Ethstonia Identity: Ethereum transactions signed with a government issued ID
I think the Facebook "I don't want to see this" data is stored server-side, but the code that actually hides posts runs as client-side javascript. That would explain why the client spins so much loading/hiding posts you've hidden, and why the hidden-ness is persistent across browsers.

I've gotten the impression from several accounts that, despite their prestige, Facebook's application code is often unbelievably janky, and this just confirms that.
Canada has already had court ruling forcing Google to delete pages globally (not just the Canada domain). So why not Europe?
> I never got any of that pounding on the treadmill or struggling to lift 16kg dumb bells

I think that's what was meant by "Most people do absolutely nothing of value in the gym."

There's a little bit more to it than that. I retained training services for the first few years I did triathlon simply because I didn't know anything about it. (What are these heart-rate training zones? What strength exercises are useful to triathlon? What are base/build/peak/transition stages? What are the correct biomechanics for strength exercise? etc., etc.) In the end I ended up reading a lot of books and pieced enough together that I construct my own training plans and do my own strength training - correctly - now.

At my first triathlon it was quite apparent that 80% of the participants hadn't done any of this. These days I'll see someone "pounding on the treadmill [or pavement]" or flailing through the water or riding their bike with a seat that's way too low or doing basic strength exercises incorrectly and realize that - indeed - all that time spent exercising is mostly wasted:

a) Pounding on the treadmill/pavement - usually too low a stride rate and/or incorrect running mechanics will lead to joint problems / repetitive stress injury in short order;
b) Flailing through the water - hello shoulder surgery! Form is 10x as important as strength in the water. I've seen guys with well-developed lats struggle at 100 yards and skinny kids zip right by me.
c) Riding bike with seat too low will eventually lead to knee and possibly back problems. Get a bike fit.
d) Strength exercise is useless unless you are correctly activating the right muscles in the correct order. Worst I've ever seen: GHD machine being used with hip flexion range of 45 to -15 degrees. Ouch.

It is possible to get value out of a gym membership but mechanics are really important.
Thanks for the heads-up, if my project gets more popular and do not just rot in my github account I will consider changing it.
From “Super Mario” to the New “Spider-Man”
Hypothesis: The main evolutionary benefit social animals get from IQ is understanding the thinking of others and communication.

Thinking and understanding others is more important than thinking better. Slightly higher than average IQ is beneficial, but too much higher is net negative.

You can understand others in two ways.

1) Build a internal model for how others think. This is a difficult problem. It involves complex decode-encode process that eats resources and can fail. For social animal this process must be almost always on.

2) Have the same underlying thinking process as other individuals. The communication and understanding is now effortless.

If this hypothesis is true, social species have lower IQ variation than species where individuals live alone.
This is one of the most frustrating things for me. Two weeks ago they'd set a cookie to redirect www. to old., then they removed that and now all of my old links take me to the redesign.
Given that this is a very new account I smell trolling, or astroturfing. Just in case it's not, I bite:

This is an anti-spam and anti-abuse requirement, not because they need you to tell them your phone number.

Any means of backing up that statment? Specifically, why are anti-spam measures needed to access a device?

They’re on most of the phones in the world

So what? A lot of people, myself included, will never, ever use an Android device. Especially since they don't trust Google one yota not to completely violate their privacy. In terms of the discussion this is a red herring.

and have access to all the billing records associated with your phone number, as they’re a cell phone service provider.

It's here, where your comment gets outright ludicrous. From [1]

When the mobile device is turned on or is transferred via a handover to the network, this new "visited" network sees the device, notices that it is not registered with its own system, and attempts to identify its home network. If there is no roaming agreement between the two networks, maintenance of service is impossible, and service is denied by the visited network.

The visited network contacts the home network and requests service information (including whether or not the mobile should be allowed to roam) about the roaming device using the IMSI number.

If successful, the visited network begins to maintain a temporary subscriber record for the device. Likewise, the home network updates its information to indicate that the cell phone is on the host network so that any information sent to that device can be correctly routed.

There is NO, whatsoever exchange of subscriber information, safe for service information required for billing. Pretending that "Google can associate billing records with your number" doesn't pass the smell test.

The idea they’d need you to tell them this information so they could use it is kind of laughable.

The idea that the ilks of Google, Facbook and all those dodgy add tech brothers and sisters would not abuse any means possible to violate your privacy is laughable.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roaming
Damn yankie autocorrect!
This gives me an idea. What it game textures for 3D models were entirely made up of shaders/generative algorithms. The entire game could be rendered with an equation and never have to load assets.
I've only run into a couple things that made me stop and think for a bit. For the most part, Hugo has just worked for me.

Maybe we have different criteria for how a theme should be constructed.
> toxic content

What is considered toxic for you might not be considered toxic by another person. That's personal choice. If you need to eliminate some sort of content, that inevitably will lead to this https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-internet/china-laun...
When Bayes, Ockham, and Shannon come together to define machine learning
Isn't that just a matter of chicken and the egg timing tautology? The parents are well educated presumably because they went to good schools.
Introduction to text manipulation on Unix-based systems
I was getting redirected to the messenger app from the mobile browser version, as well. They seemed to quit letting me used messenger in the browser.
To be fair, overall he made money - the 1.8 billion number was just the dip, but they were making money hand over fist in the years before, more than enough to come out positive overall.
> section 1.3

I missed the reference to Bernstein (and Pugh), thanks! Though they seem to think he was kidding. I don't think so. A little tongue-in-cheek, maybe, but not kidding, because what Bernstein and Pugh discuss are very real.

Most code is cold, most optimizations here are a waste of compiler resources, better to compile to a simple/compact bytecode to keep code-densities high and memory clean. (See also Google's recent experience with re-implementing their JS engines).

Some code is hot, here most compilers are not good enough, though we will take what they can give us, not necessarily because you need assembler (as Bernstein says), but because higher level optimizations that do 100x - 1000x are needed when coming from high-level code.

Often, the "cold" code is setup code, whereas the hot code is in loops that get run once set up, see the Scripted Components pattern. Of course, once you follow that pattern, you run into the Two Languages problem that Julia is trying to solve.

> getting high-performance executables out of high-level languages seems to fundamentally require aggressive compiler optimization".

If you (a) treat the compiler (or runtime) as a black box and (b) don't permit multiple levels (as per Knuth) than I agree, sort of. Except that you don't actually reliably get high performance that way. You may sometimes get high peak performance, if you're lucky.

Now they seem to argue that their approach would do away with the variability of that approach, by consistently/reliably burning through layers of abstraction.

"finding optimizations using aggressive search algorithms and SMT solvers that are, unlike humans, not easy to fool with superficial changes of representation."

I wish them cough sufficiently smart compiler cough luck, particularly when the goal is also to make/keep compile times reasonable. I also have a hard time with the phrase "unlike humans, not easy to fool", because what's easy to fool here is the compiler, and the "superficial changes of representation", as the changes needed are often not superficial.

To me, an alternative solution to the the Scripted Components / Two Languages problem with progressive refinement and the ability to specify constraints seems like the right path. So instead of, for example, writing high level (OO?) code and hoping that the compiler/runtime will do the escape analysis and put things in registers instead of allocating them on the heap, you write the same code and then (a) specify that you don't want heap allocations in a particular region (b) have the compiler tell you whether that was possible and (c) assist you in putting in annotations/transformations that accomplish this goal and remain visible in the code, possibly separate from the other other code.
why sign into an untrusted device in any way without two factor authentication and incognito mode enabled?
I wouldn't call N. Korea a "small ineffective win", I'd also put improved relations with Russia high on the list of good things but I know how unpopular that sentiment is with the left.

Putting pressure on our allies? Good. No relationship should be above examining and reevaluating. The EU has been imposing its will on the entire internet, I'm glad the US president is not in lock step with them.
So no, there's no way of telling whether or not an editorial change in direction was made or a mistake. Instead we can just talk about journals in general, with nobody knowing what the hell was going on in this particular case.

And all the other comments regarding other journals and their consistency of quality is where, exactly? I'm also missing any discussion of standards to judge quality articles and their application (or lack thereof)

I must be missing it because to me it looks like a bunch of usual political crap.

Assuming charitable intent, I understand that you might want to talk about honing one's ability to "read and evaluate journal articles" instead of what this turned out to be. That'd be cool. I'd like to read more of that. Sounds great.
I think you misunderstood me. My question was not why you would use an external editor (and get all the benefits you provided), but rather, why work back from jupyter to achieve this rather than working forward from simple markdown and allow code blocks to be embedded and run from the editor.

But maybe I am missing some other features than the interface that the ipython kernel provides? I haven't used it much myself, since I found the setup and usage rather complicated, though to be fair, I don't really use python and its ecosystem much.
Natural skinny fat to muscle body transformation (5 MONTHS)
Yeah like iSCSI backed by the cloud but with local cache for recently used data. And the ability to roll the entire device back to a state in the past (depending on how big you want your S3 bill to be).
I was imaging a module on ISS feeding cable out direct to the surface of the Earth (impossible as ISS isn't geostationary). ISS is 400km high apparently, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiber-Optic_Link_Around_the_... is 28,000km for comparison.

Perhaps with your plan we could put a giant spool at one of the poles and auto-wind it!
Yeah, Bitcoin-based consensus probably isn't the best choice for a project like this. I'd love to see a project that uses non-blockchain (but similarly publicly immutable) tech, like Nano or Iota.

Still some issues with centralisation (since consesus is achieved through vote delegates), but that's much easier to fix than redistributing hashpower.
This worked really well in New Jersey. However, California's implementation of county-by-county standards as opposed to a statewide system could still leave a lot of room for error.
Atmospheric drag affects small satellites more than large satellites, all other things equal?
and every time you open a tab you have to open it via the container feature which gets irritating after exactly one time you forget to do it and just use ctrl+t
> Trump just signed a new NAFTA deal with Mexico

No he didn't. He reached agreement in principle with Mexico on NAFTA reforms that Mexico decribes as requiring Canadian agreement to even turn into an actionable concrete deal.

> and has improved relations with N. Korea more than any other president in history.

Granting more visibility and prestige to NK for no concrete results than any other President since NK existed isn't a win, it's getting played.

> His domestic policies might be a wreck

They are.

> but he's actually doing pretty good with his handling of foreign policy.

No, that's a wreck, too, and the second thing you try to cite as a win is a big example.
> Anyone with half a brain should be able to see the downturn coming soon.

How are you so sure about this? You dont provide any evidence or reasoning and state is as a fact.

One argument people that make similar claims is the "never in history has an economic expansion like this continued", which is true. The argument is, based on history, we should see a downturn soon. But then you go on to mock the stress tests for relying on history.

There is no specific criticism of the "stress tests" but you just write them off as meaningless. Then you throw in a few buzz words like tipping points, feedback loops, speculation and negative interest rates.

I'm skeptical of stress tests and bank incentives as well but your comment isn't really making the best case for the argument and strikes me as uniformed
If it were true that anybody with half a brain could see a downturn coming now then they would have already taken short positions, causing the downturn to have already arrived. It's really hard to try to time the market, people regularly lose their shirts trying to do it. Don't tell people it's easy.
I agree as a generalization, but that does presume that the syllabus itself doesn't need rote interpretation.

“No, we haven’t learned about some of the vectors yet, so for the sake of the problem, we just take this one out,”

Many many students self-combust when faced with garbage worded questions because they never learnt how to deconstruct them in class. When questions come with spelling errors and ambiguous variables it's tough.
Industrial espionage is old news:

France v. US, 1993: http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=199...

The bungled outcome of the US tit-for-tat, 1995:
http://articles.latimes.com/1995-10-11/news/mn-55816_1_cia-o...
"If works of art were judged democratically--that is, according to how many people like them--kitsch would easily defeat all its competitors" -Thomas Kulka

http://csmt.uchicago.edu/glossary2004/kitsch.htm
A bit rude. I like that phrasing.
> Thrift has been around since 2007, and is one of the first rpc protocols.

Done reading there.

Not sure if bad written or just not knowledgeable, please do your research.
Fun fact that I recently learned, the person who named aluminum was Humphry Davy and he originally suggested "alumium" but ended up choosing "aluminum".
Twitter popping bubbles? Ha. Didn't they just double down on banning conservatives, and supporting the openly racist liberals?
Perhaps this is explained by the "stopped clock hypothesis", but if Summers thinks that all of the hubbub about strengthening banks is meaningless window dressing, then he is certainly correct. They don't have to survive inevitable downturns without help from USA government in order for their executive teams to make lots of money and stay out of prison, so they won't.
Tuist, the Gradle that Xcode never had
Top 3 reasons why businesses should be blogging
Do you have any links on how to install it properly, and to test that? (Maybe through Wireshark or something similar) I admit I've haven't used it in-depth (although I've studied the protocol quite a bit)
Frozen Mountain Integrates Callstats.io Real-Time Communications Monitoring
Well, yeah. Org mode can do anything, right? If only it wasn't so tightly coupled to emacs. Not a hater btw, I just can't get used to the editor. The concept of an extendable editor sounds really good, but it just seems so complicated and uncomfortable to use...
N. Korea just held a military parade where they didn't display nuclear weapons for the first time in years. The reality is Trump and Kim are taking steps to bring N. Korea into the modern world. It won't happen overnight, but real progress has been made and Trump does deserve credit for that.
Help me out, how exactly did the US - North Korea relations improve? I must have missed the de-nuclearization deal they signed...
I find this kind of amusing. I suspect the adoption of this varies by area/country based on how, ahem, well, poorly basic SMS is implemented and priced in that area.

For example I notice that when in Germany, Whatsapp adoption is quite high, because SMS rates are absolutely ridiculous. Other countries... less so.

I still get SMS (and email, but SMS frankly still pushes more reliably than data based systems) notifications for my airlines, and that also certainly qualifies as Not An Extra App :)
My guess would be the the next president will take a very hard-line against Russia, which will prevent a repeat of 2016.
What's also interesting this time is the relationship between bond markets and modern ETFs.

Especially in Europe, ETFs can be synthetic. In some cases this means they're made up of generic filler material (e.g. German bunds), with some secret hobo spices (derivatives) to provide the ETF's specific flavouring.

Because of 10 years of central bank buying, all these bonds have been priced to perfection for deflationary scenarios. And as the world is mostly calibrated for small, well-announced yield changes, I wonder what an unexpected discontinuous "jerk" in yields would do to such ETFs.