skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just got back from Japan and it is always surprising whenever I first get into town how quiet everything/everyone is both in their homes and walking around.

A major factor there is the lack of cars (and higher buildings to wall out car noise from highways) compared to where I live, but even so people are just quiet. It was weird for a while, but coming back to the states I really miss it.
In Unicon/Icon

d := s

Strings are immutable, so it internally just copies a descriptor.
You can flash it with AOSP and then there's no Google: https://developer.sony.com/develop/open-devices/latest-updat...
Thanks. Some reason it didn't pop up the first this I was browsing it earlier.
Can you please edit the name-calling out of your comments here? ("revisionist nonsense", "this comment makes no sense"). I appreciate that your comments have gotten less uncivil over the years. Please don't relapse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Things like templating, or JSON parsing for that matter, would be much easier in something higher level than C, but python, PHP, node, etc are simply too huge and slow.

FYI, there are some nice (small, performant) JavaScript runtimes now. A typical Moddable[1] xs engine app needs less than 200KB of ROM, runtime included, and a few dozen KB of RAM to run.

[1] http://www.moddable.com/
Maybe this explanation is simply too long, but how is this? Isn’t this simply a measurement of size?

As a layman, I see how Retina can be a buzzword, but not 7nm vs 5nm.
Man, I just tried out gmail and the UI is so bloated and slow. C'mon google, don't bullshit us that "gmail" is equivalent. It's not about what it can do, it's how it does it.
You will be losing the audience though
The term used by Googlers is embarrassingly similar, "Perf driven development".
Don't think it's allowed. I just tried to post it only to learn that someone else also tried; post is dead.

Not surprised, but think it's a little weird because the leaking of the video seems like a point for discussion of something happening in the company, SV, etc., maybe?

Maybe Dang (or someone other minder) will be kind enough to explain.
"Adult" hangover market. Humorously redundant wording, haha.
Yes but, then we can draw some scientific conclusion.

If I can outperform Julia by 50% in C++, but I have to write 10x code. I won't bother with C++.

If you manage to have that in the end, that's a very valuable promotional information.

For one of my master courses, I had to write 200 lines in python. C++ solution would have been in the thousands. My colleague solved it in 10 R lines. R is on my list now :)
Show HN: Interactive Platform for Modeling Biological Networks
My biggest thing that I am kind of panicking that I'm going to lose is the ability to batch groups of emails into bundles and deliver them at given times of the day.

For example, all "purchase" emails (emails like shipping updates, receipts, etc...) are automatically hidden whenever they come in, and are delivered under one bundle at 9am for me, and they will send notifications to my devices and show up right in front of me at that time.

This is very different than something like Gmail tabs, because they are fully out of sight and out of mind until they "arrive" that morning.

And that feature is the killer feature for me. Imagine if your physical mail was delivered to your door tens or hundreds of times a day? That's how I feel about normal email clients.

And after getting used to this way of working, I have this vacuum that I desperately want filled with just not email, but all notifications on all platforms.

Id love to queue up all Reddit messages until after my workday, bundle most Twitter notifications until one specific time every day, get a notification from slack at 4:45 and "snooze" it to show up like new tomorrow morning at 9 AM.

Snoozing notifications individually isn't a replacement, the ability to choose to snooze automatically to the next key time was huge. Putting them in tabs hidden from the "main" view isn't a replacement, I won't remember to check that tab unless I'm in my email and have time to do it (and remember to).

Inbox changed how I deal with interruptions, it changed what I want from a phone, it helped me stop my FOMO in a lot of areas, and kept me from forgetting to answer emails and do tasks because I would forget to check a task list or something.

I know I'm only one person, and I still haven't clicked on your pink and checked it out (I plan to right after this), but I would very much pay good money for software that can enable this workflow again, especially if it works for more than just emails and reminders.
This is where trust in a brand kicks in. Brand represents product quality. They work so hard on making the brand, that it then becomes the product. Back to square one.
Am I wrong in seeing merit in the argument for blocking people/entities from re-posting copyrighted content and simultaneously holding the platforms accountable? Of course, they should exempt businesses valued below a fair figure like $50M so as to not bother startups with compliance expenses.
> Article 13 requires certain platforms like YouTube and Facebook stop users sharing unlicensed copyrighted material.

How is this different than making gunmakers responsible for shootings? Continuing with the analogy, the only option the gunmaker has is to essentially close up shop. Seems like an impossible law to follow. "Develop better algorithms for filtering inappropriate material or you're gonna be sorry" sounds like tyranny.
It begs the question: What is the reason for any valuation of the stock price? It's all wild speculation on future potential earnings, price to book is very high.
What seems like a very easy thing to do is actually quite difficult. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry said that "It seems that perfection is attained, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing more to take away."
In order to unify the country, the French Republic fought against every language. Alsatian was forbidden in schools, but it was the same for anything outside French.

Of course, if Alsatian had been allowed or supported, more people would speak it as bilinguals, but would it be enough to save it? Thousands of languages are dying, especially those that are spoken in a small geographic area where another language seems economically more useful.

As an example, Romanche is an official language of Switzerland, yet it is disappearing at an alarming rate. Even the Basque language, which is rare in France because of a century of concealment, is not flourishing in Spain. Basque is a official regional language in Spain, and the population that can speak it grows slowly, but now the majority of those who live in the Basque region don't understand its traditional langage. When only 20-30% of the population can speak correctly a language, how long can it survive?
I'm an Image Consultant/Fashion Stylist based out of San Francisco and a lot of my clients are Software Engineers. I realized a lot of my clients had the same questions, so I launched a site to give practical style advice to men. I hope it can help you! http://www.pocketstylist.io/

If you're still overwhelmed, consider hiring a stylist and we'll do the work for you :)
Beautiful redesign. This is a home run in my book. Especially love the "U" layout motif as a consistent lodestone throughout all branding.
I'm just thinking of all the windshield stickers they're gonna have to hand out...
How much of this is Apple's fault and how much of it is the RIAA and MPAA's fault for enforcing this region based DRM structure where every possible use of media is split up and locked from each other. Oh, I was only able to purchase the rights to allow my users to download this movie in the USA until 01/20, English Canada until 6/19, Quebec until 1/19, UK until 1/22.

Then, if the movie is still popular, the renewal rights for this movie will be bundled with 100s of other movies my users hate, all with different time periods and locations. If it isn't popular, it gets thrown into a bundle that will be forced upon content providers so net out a few extra $ on movies no one wants to see.
> Why is there a full page picture at the top with no text or anything?

That confused me a little, I thought this was an homonym company related to plants or ecology. It didn't help that the rest of the images never loaded on the first try.
Main point being nontechnical mindset.

OP points out LaTeX, but for non-technical and non-academic people, this is a non-starter. Word has an extremely low barrier to entry so it makes tons of sense for the general public and K-12 education markets.

There's a reason it's so popular and why LibreOffice and GSuite have emulated the bulk of it's feature set.
I bought last year's iPhone X and it was $999 for the cheaper version + $200 for apple care + $160 for airpods + $20 for case + Taxes.
Lua uses 1-based indexing because its initial userbase were engineers used to FORTRAN.

As for ~=, you need to keep in mind that Lua goes all the way back to 1991 and back then there wasn't a big pressure to make your syntax look like C (of Java or JavaScript) like happens today. Syntax used to be much more varied.
Classic post on the provenance of files being important for legal reasons: http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23
Or like CPU clock speeds, which have never correlated directly with performance across families, even when comparing something as old as the 6502 vs. Z80.
There is a FAQ on the page that explains that a 68k built in the same way would require a board 1.7m square.
Small point, but you are assuming the only direction a phone can grow is height and width. Thickness would also allow a larger battery.
If libraries are banned, then his reference implementation already fails. It uses an "import" on the very first line.
Reminded me of the pepsi logo redesign document (that talks about 'relativity of space and time', 'galaxy', 'gravitational pull', among other things).

https://www.goldennumber.net/wp-content/uploads/pepsi-arnell...
It would be a bold acquisition for any of the various tech new money firms from China.
Google assistant is smarter than Siri. By a lot.

Suggested replies are right a significant fraction of the time.

The fact that you can go outside of the app store when you want is nice.

Lastpass can integrate more easily with other applications. In the iPhone you have to cut and paste. In Android, it just fills in like it does on my desktop.

The fact that Google is not so aggressive about pursuing in-app purchase revenue makes in-app purchasing better. For example you can purchase a book from audible and start listening, rather than having to switch to a browser, buy it on the web, and then download the already purchased book in the app. Technically that's because Audible doesn't want to pay Apple 30% of their revenue. But as a user it is simply a better experience.

Plus many smaller UI tweaks.
Was it pointless? Who doesn't like to hear something pleasant said about, oh, I don't know 25 years of knowing a fun word and getting to use it in context. If praise for that bugs you then you need to find some joy in your life, because I can assure you you're wasting your time right now.
Manhattan DA's office drops more than 3,000 open marijuana cases
Let’s not pretend like yearly release cycles are still necessary. And 5 years is only commendable on mobile, but is becoming less so as many of the software changes that impact performance are superfluous “improvements” like Animoji and live backgrounds.

Imagine if Windows only supported up to 5 year old hardware.
I think they're claiming that people have enormous amounts of trouble reasoning formally about graphs with 3 or more dimensions. Anecdotally this is bourne out by my experience, where it's easy to read an X-Y plot and speak to how the X value influences the Y value(EG linear, cubic, quartic, grows to infinity in one direction, etc). Add a third or 4th dimension and I start to have a lot of trouble making general statements because I have to juggle the impact of the third dimension on the X-Y plot slices.

Please note that I'm not saying it's impossible for people to intuitively understand 3 or more dimensions. Indeed as you say we do it every day. This is not the same as reasoning about it in a general way, which is much harder.
For one, it won't be supported anywhere near as long as a device launched today. It would still be getting iOS updates during their entire high school career.
that means webRTC can be quite useful
or this is just a PR stunt on a company who's trying to trumpet their "we block trackers like Google" functionality.
How does this project have 13k stars?!
Accidental regulatory capture seems to be more common than nefarious intentional corruption when it comes to policy reinforcing monopolies. History is littered with examples of well-intentioned policies backfiring.

The rat pelt bounty in French Vietnam led to rat breeding. The US luxury tax led to the wealthy saving more money and mass layoffs in the luxury industry. Bank regulations in the wake of the financial crisis gave big banks a competitive advantage over small banks.

These aren't apples to apples examples, but they show how regulatory action often has unintended consequences due to the complexity of the real world.
It's not tar sands, it's fracing.
similar to the netherlands, where the government mandates pricing and coverage options and private insurers compete within those guidelines.
basically everyone over a certain income threshold pays about a hundred euros out of pocket per month, with almost no cop-pays to speak of (including doctor visits and perscriptions). people in the netherlands are healthy and have easy access to affordable healthcare, and the big insurers still operate within a competitive system. it's not my personal favorite but it seems to work well for most people.
> installing some random utility .. and getting chromium installed

If you mean Chrome proper (not OSS Chromium) SourceForge was doing this for a while and it was all over hackernews. Mostlikely that's where it was from.
It's also a form of control.

"There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws."
Pretty sure Ibuprofen and brunch is winning the adult hangover market
Liking the new logo, but the rest of it just seems...ok? I really hope they tone down that motion, watching it on the screen made me go "Woah", and not in a good way.
Pedialyte also has flavoring
This seems very finely tuned to the Julia language (i.e. relying heavily on meta-programming). It's not clear to me that strong support for meta-programming is actually that necessary for every day use cases.

I'd be curious to see what kinds of implementations someone could come up with in CUDA using templates, though. It could easily blow the Julia performance out of the water.
Interesting...

At first, I thought nominating Carson for head of HUD was a very strange choice. He's a neurosurgeon. Why???

But then... He was Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins, so he had some administrative experience.

Then, I realized that Ben Carson has one bit of very relevant life experience that no other HUD director has ever had: He grew up in The Projects.

I thought then that that might lead to something interesting. Seems I may have been right.
Windows builds were switched to clang back in July before Linux. MacOS was already using it.
Because it actually works?
Can those same techniques increase OPEC production?
One layer removed from this - stop giving employers tax breaks for providing insurance benefits, and you remove the infinite gov't money hose from the equation - only then will you get a pricing signal that means something to individuals.
Do you have PrintScreen key on your keyboard?
We can use a simple hypothetical test for many of these issues: Say I read and memorize a book of poetry which statists and corporatists categorize as "copyrighted". I then go into my friend's house and tell him these poems aloud.

You either believe that I have the right to my own memories and I can talk to my friend or you think I should be fined/imprisoned to subsidize a particular business model.
I do think that Google has data sharing with "hundreds of companies". These are not advertisers, these are ad companies. They recently updated to comply with GDPR.

https://support.google.com/admanager/answer/9012903

https://developers.google.com/third-party-ads/adx-vendors

Edit: And about it being "evil" or "bad", let's just say that it is "unnecessary" (from a user viewpoint). You can still make money from ads without hovering up user data. But then you don't make money from users not clicking on the ad, and it is slower to build up an effective profile. Relevant ads are better than irrelevant ads, but nothing beats no ads at all. The best future ads will not look like ads at all (but will be hidden inside reviews and editorials).
Making Better Sense of Quantum Mechanics
>They document a rapid expansion between 2000 and 2016, as the Chinese share of global publications in physical sciences, engineering and math quadrupled.

I really hate to risk being the guy who says "they will never best us," until they do, but in my field and many others Chinese papers are known to be of a lower quality standard and a lot more mill-like. This may come as a surprise to many, but the simple fact is that integrity issues are common in Chinese academia - a pattern not specific to China, but repeated almost everywhere. Globally, a high-quality academia with a strong sense of integrity is the exception rather than the rule.
Wow, I (ready for jaded-HN criticisms...) actually think its terrible. The U and the B are too closely linked, which de-stresses the syllabic bridge, undermining the emphasis on the U, and its unique and cool "long" pronunciation. Makes me want to pronounce it like 'blubber' without the 'bl'.
Not quite - that still doesn't explain why there can't be an SSO-optimized FnBox with extra padding that's there specifically to fit the kind of Fn that only needs to store the frame pointer, inline on the stack.

In fact, now I'm even more confused as to why it can't be done generically for Box<Fn>:

> The first pointer is a pointer to the data, and the second pointer is a pointer to a vtable. So in the Box<Fn()> case, data is the captures, and the vtable is the code.

If a given lambda can capture via a single frame pointer (because it borrows everything), why can't that frame pointer just be stored directly in the `data` field? Why does it have to indirected, with data pointing to another pointer on the heap?

And if borrow-capturing lambdas don't actually capture via frame pointer, why not?

Or are you saying that lambdas that borrow everything aren't actually all that common? But if they aren't, then why does capture by borrowing reference the default for lambdas?
Why is it curious? Russia modeled their censorship regime off of germany's censorship regime.

Reporters Without Borders had a nice write-up about it.

https://rsf.org/en/news/russian-bill-copy-and-paste-germanys...

For some odd reason, we think that europe ( which gave us nazism, fascism and communism ) is some bastion of freedom. It's not. It's never been. And it looks like it never will be.

It's not europe catching up to russia, china or turkey when it comes to censorship or surveillance. It's actually russia, china and turkey catching up to europe.
Nice username.

"A man is not dead while his name is still spoken."

GNU Terry Pratchett
> Maybe that in itself is an important result?

Well, I didn’t have the skills to actually prove the negative then, I was just never able to find a positive example. Still not convinced that it’s impossible, if I ever get back to it, or someone wants to pick it up as a problem to tinker with.
just...take a screenshot of your editor
Why doesn't java just spit out a classLoaderClosed error?
Ibuprofen (and other OTC painkillers, especially paracetamol) are not risk free, they'll screw your liver seriously when used too often.

edit: yes, Ibuprofen messes up the kidneys, not just the liver, sorry for the inaccuracy. Still: don't overuse the stuff, people, it's dangerous. Having "ibuprofen and brunch" basically a meme is absolutely irresponsible.
It can legally apply but good luck enforcing it.
doesn't really mean they aren't winning though
I've migrated multiple family members to Linux, and I've never had a single one ask how to install an apt. I just make sure all the applications they need (Libre office & Firefox mostly) are installed. This type of user isn't installing things on a regular basis, even on a windows machine.

IMO the real pain points are for more advanced users, I prefer to develop on a Linux box but I have always had to keep a windows installation maintained just for mech CAD software, there simply isn't anything decent avaliable for Linux.
They are also intercepting iTunes downloads and redirecting to the MS Store!
It's getting famous primarily because doctors are recommending it for dealing with the flu, and because HS and college kids are using it during sports training. People using it while rolling or whatever might have some cultural cachet, but there's no way that accounts for more than a nominal amount of their annual sales.
I also recently went to an SE from a 6S. The iPhone Xs costs $1349 for a 512 GB device!
> In order to unify the country, the French Republic fought against every language. Alsatian was forbidden in schools, but it was the same for anything outside French.

Which is kind of at odds with the idea above that "It's more comfortable to blame an abstract entity like the government than your ancestors. "
One that actually works, with sufficient trust, still has "a middleman" (blockchain solutions implement this as many, distributed middlemen, IIUC, but that detail seems immaterial to an end user) and thereby still requires a "cut of" the transaction.

What would be the transaction cost for a couple-euro-equivalent vending machine purchase, using Bitcoin today? What about the cheapest (per transaction) cryptocurrency out there?
Good, competition and more spending is always welcome.
This is usually my experience, where if I'm with more than 3 people I stop talking because the idea I have is no longer relevant by the time there's an opening for me to say something.
Your agreement with the CC provider isn't binging for Valve, but Valve's aggreement with the CC provider is (which they need to even accept cards in the first place).

Admittedly, I don't know that much about the contracts between CC providers and merchants, but in the big picture of things, CC providers are the giants and Valve is the little guy, so I'm pretty sure Valve doesn't have a lot of leverage in those negotiations. Otherwise, presumably the CC provider would be unable to initiate the chargeback in the first place. The fact that the chargeback itself is successful (Valve's retaliation notwithstanding) is evidence that the contract between CC provider and Valve allows chargebacks.

In this particular case, what this probably means is that CC providers need to include a "no retaliation" clause in their contracts for customers who issue legitimate chargebacks. That's assuming CC providers care, and maybe they don't, but point is they have the power to fix this and if it becomes a problem for their customers presumably they will.

But I don't think any of this solves the broader issue though. In general I don't think you can depend on having a powerful authority like a CC provider side with you like this.
Please, don’t ever print screen any code you want to share with someone, it’s really bad for your karma.
You've won this round...