skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't ask you for "explanation" I asked you for citations supporting such extraordinary (indeed I'd go so far as to say ridiculous) claims. You still haven't done so and I think it's entirely reasonable to conclude that this is because you cannot.

Not technical bullshit, bullshit in the technical sense.

"Bullshit" is a technical term that's distinct from a lie. Lies are told on the understanding that they're a falsehood, with the intent to deceive, but bullshit isn't interested in the veracity of the claim at all, it serves only a rhetorical purpose.
All companies that are dependent on ad money have cognitive dissonence, in that most “care” about their users but the users are not their customer anymore. They eventually revert to only providing enough value to keep users, or try to lock in users via monopolies or legal means so they can spend resources on ad technology or enablers of them.
What is the relationship between the instruction set and the power efficiency?
Intel is a pretty large ARM customer, so them using ARM here wouldn't be that surprising either.
The U.S-China race for quantum dominance
You're trying to compare two things that aren't equal.

People who stay home for family/to help raise siblings/etc are different from leeches staying at their parents with no job and life goals.

You seriously lack perspective, friend.
Because x86 is symbolic of the peecee world, which Apple supposedly historically opposed. Beyond that, Apple fans seem to get a raging hardon from Cupertino gaining more and more control of every aspect of the supply chain, from silicon to bits to services, and Apple still depending on third parties for their baseband -- let alone Intel, of the dread Wintel alliance -- just seems so... tacky.

Besides, it's CISC, and everybody knows RISC architecture is going to change everything.
Isn't it safer, though?

I'm not very experienced with this stuff, but one of the issues is having sufficient traction to make it up hills, and all-wheel drive is superior at that. If you have to roll back down a hill and try again with a running start, that may be doable, but that makes things more chaotic and unpredictable on the roads (compared to making it up the first time). In an ideal world, other drivers would be attentive enough to handle it, but in reality not so much.

Also, more generally, because static friction is greater than dynamic friction, any time your tires lose grip, you have less control over your car at that moment. All-wheel drive means tires are less likely to lose grip when accelerating / applying thrust.
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I found it to be interesting. Don't be a gatekeeper.
I have a friend that was recently pushed onto the tracks. It was not the first time this guy did it either. The blue line is just incredibly crowded but I wouldn't consider it dangerous. I'm sorry but the El sucks for a variety of reasons depending on the line, I don't own a car but I still avoid the El as much as possible. Those are my experiences, not some news comments.
I was thinking of doing this. We have a Scala app that we deploy as a fat jar in a docker container. But if we instead shipped the individual files, the diffs between docker builds would be much smaller. Still, the time to build and deploy the docker container is so small it hasn't been worth the effort yet.
> Arguably that's fewer distractions

I'd argue that you're wrong. What's the difference between getting distracted by a physical interruption or an electronic interruption?

One's physical and one's electronic. They're both still distractions.
an enlightening comment, thank you
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Tiny camera lens may help link quantum computers to network
Above all else, I can't develop for my own device without rebuilding weekly.

I can't run real Firefox.

I can't route all calls through Google Voice.

I can't run CarPlay without a head unit.

I can't open all map links in my preferred maps app.

I can't create restricted accounts for my kids.

It's essentially unusable as a "smart" phone.

Any claims about privacy fall apart after investigation. Google will still get my location on iOS if I use Google Search, exactly as it does on Android.
Wow, this is incredible. Great work!
The interview is more recent than 2006. The year refers to the year he received fields medal.
House Passes Bill to Advance Quantum Science in the U.S
Yeah, like Lenovo which sells laptops with preinstalled adware and MitM attacks.
> It's a marketing decision to push people to buy $170 airpods.

Earbuds that work with the iPhone come in the box (and prior to the just announced models even an adapter was included). I'm not sure how lack of a jack pushes someone to buy AirPods. Maybe it makes them think about buying bluetooth headphones over wired if they were already thinking about third party headphones? Maybe.

Also while you may disagree about the 'barometric vent', it was put in the space that the headphone jack would have taken.

As pictured above, you can see a piece of plastic sits behind the ingress protection (waterproofing!), right where the headphone jack would have been. And (update!) according to Apple it's a "barometric vent." Apparently adding all the waterproofing to the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus meant that it was more of a sealed box, and so to be able to have an accurate and working barometer, Apple used that space. The barometer is the thing that allows a phone to measure altitude, and Apple points out that on the iPhone 7 it can measure even minor changes like climbing a flight of stairs.

https://www.theverge.com/2016/9/16/12941040/iphone-7-teardow...
Scala is not exactly a new trendy technology at this point; it's being used in industry quite widely.
Regarding absolute quality of output, that's an interesting thought. Maybe the interconnectedness and availability of immediate consumption feedback (likes, views) made things worse. People often talk of the monoculture eroding over the past generation, but you're proposing the exact opposite. Is there a way to measure diversity of output? I think 2018 me has found diverse people with small followings whom I genuinely connect to, but maybe I would have found even better creative output via print or in person in the past.

It is my impression that youtube or instagram have a long tail of creators, appealing to niche interests, but maybe there is a falseness to this as well if everyone is playing by the same rules.

Thanks for the exchange. I don't necessarily agree, but I'll be thinking about it.
Does anyone else feels like human distractions are worse than other distractions? I mean that if I read an article while something is compiling, I can switch back immediately when the compilation is done, while talking so someone provoke a way bigger context switch.

I feel like it's the origin of the context switch that changes a bit the things.
Everyone is not you. Can it be done? Sure. SHOULD it be done by a cross-section of the populous?
I haven't actually used RedBaron, but from glancing at the docs, it would look like there are two primary differences:

1) RedBaron uses a procedural API that modifies state continuously as you call methods on the class, whereas Bowler allows you expressive a series of queries/transforms up front, and then execute those all at once on your entire codebase. This also allows Bowler to provide a fluent API, so that you can chain all method calls from each other.

2) RedBaron uses a custom AST implementation, which still lists "Python 3.7 support" on its roadmap. Building on "fissix" (a backport of lib2to3) means that Bowler had day one support for Python 3.7 syntax, and already supports the provisional Python 3.8 syntax. This means your refactoring tools will never prevent you from adopting new versions of Python as soon as they are released.
This is freaking awesome.
I kinda imagine the HN bait (not taken up) was the guy who simply needed space to count to a million and back. I've read a lot of books less interesting than this story.

If born a few years later, would he have retreated to his room and got his spectrum or commodore to quickly do the counting and then moved on?

Great article.
You don't need an "app" to support VPNs. All they do is make set up somewhat simpler. iOS has built in support for VPNs. Once you have the configuration information, you can set it up yourself from settings.
I had such high hopes when I opened the arsenal. I anticipated it would an article of how to write code that's both JavaScript and Python syntactically correct.
Could this is a preeminent move to produce more parts in the US by Apple to avoid the new tariffs being imposed?
How many years of R&D are required before production of a new phone these days?
I hope this change will result in new low price SoC board PCs running x86 cores to compete with RPIs entering the market soon.
What non-remote companies don't tell you is how super awesome remote work is. If people caught on then all those near useless mid level extroverts wouldn't have anyone to poop next to at the office.
Your source that Meltdown only afects x86 CPUs literally starts with "Meltdown is a hardware vulnerability affecting Intel x86 microprocessors, IBM POWER processors, and some ARM-based microprocessors.[1][2][3]" and that iOS needed to be patched.

Also worth noting AMD x86 CPUs were not affected. Meltdown was definitely more a "how good was your implementation" question not a "are you x86" question.
Can you describe a situation where an adversary would be able to run user code on a phone's baseband processor? This is a serious question - I don't know anything about smartphones. Do apps have access to the baseband processor? As an uninformed bystander I would think not...
I think his point about the "happy accident" is that iAds failed and that's part of why Apple is now "pro privacy."
A webinar to be attended by all open source enthusiasts.
> As an American, I consider a "right" to be something owed to you by other people.

You can consider it whatever you like. You can consider the moon to be made of cheese. You're wrong, unless you have some basis for this statement. If so, let's hear it.

> The "Bill of Rights" is "the Bill of things the government owes you".

That is absolutely incorrect. It's the "Bill of things the government can't do" or the "Bill of things the government cannot stop you from doing". Name one thing that the Bill of Rights says the government has to provide you, other than a fair trial with representation, which is an implementation detail of the idea that they can't unilaterally decide to incarcerate or otherwise punish you. Go ahead, I'll wait.

> We have one party that actively believes that letting people who would otherwise not die is okay. In fact, some people in this party believe that letting people die who would otherwise not die is a moral good.

> whoever professes to believe the opposite isn't acting in good faith.

And now I realize we can't actually have a productive conversation about this, because you presume that the only reason anyone could possibly disagree with you is because they're morally deficient. You're not interested in the other side of the debate.
It's IMHO not a big deal, but still interesting. Intel has seemingly invested less and less into their small embedded stuff in the past few years, is known to use ARM in various parts, so it's interesting to see that they've made this switch here and are using their embedded developments in their integrated products.
You seem to be linking the rise of ISIL to the Arab spring and ruling regime's corruption, without listing any related factors. ISIL was able to scale the way they did because they already controlled a good amount of territory in neighboring Iraq, which was in full-fledged civil war since at least 2006, a conflict in which the US spent significant amounts of the 'magic money' you mention.
Xamarin's "first class" support for Windows is Windows Store only though?
Come on. Every Mac available for almost 15 years now runs on Intel x86 arch
I'd say that $25/month in order to get support from the core development team within a couple business days is an excellent deal, especially for an open source software.
Saas can get a product out fast. But yes, unless one has some kind of special contract with a Saas company ensuring the continuity of the service as long as one needs it, never rely on Saas for too long, unless the solution is open source. For all we know Firebase could be gone in 2/3 years...
The stated problem does not produce an acyclic graph. For instance, if A has B in their contacts, then B is not forbidden from having A in their contacts. In fact, by ensuring that for all A, if A has B as a contact, then B has A as a contact, we can eliminate directedness from the graph and, via isomorphism, pretend we are operating on an undirected graph.

The requirement that no actor forward a message twice is merely equivalent to finding a simple path through the graph. It does not “basically” mean there are no cycles.
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This sounds like exactly the sort of transforms and codemods that Bowler was designed to handle. Furthermore, we plan to support more linter-style features, and would like to have it integrated with tools like Flake8 or Phabricator, so that it can simultaneously find lints, and immediately suggest modifications to resolve those lints.
This strikes me as one of those "Ah-hah" projects, why didn't someone do this sooner. Breast pumps were ripe for disruption. One thing I don't see is how cleanable it is/whats the cleaning process. IMHO, that's one of the biggest headaches for today's breast pumps.
We've removed “Show HN” from the title because the product isn't ready for users to try out yet.

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
i feel this is too hyperbolic in the wrong direction. there is clearly more beyond our current knowledge of physics, so why is it beyond the realms of reality to assume that something in that subset of all knowledge is useful? we didn't even know of the possibility of gravitational waves a century ago and just confirmed their existence. so why is it reasonable to say they couldn't possibly be useful for communications?

in dealing with the eventuality of alien civilizations, we must open our mind. it is certainly probable they communicate in ways we can't understand, even if they are simply evolutions of our current communication methods.
I helped a non-programmer coworker with an Excel macro a while back. After working out the details on their own, the coworker told me I needed to be in an office by myself. After fighting through a little bit of VBA code, they couldn't see how I could get anything done with all of the open-office distractions. Maybe we need to get all of the decision-makers that come up with open offices to sit and write Excel macros for a day.
Russian Super Robot FEDOR Can Shoot Guns and Fly into Space
This seems like it might be a new "hello world" for devops-inclined people.

I've authored a similar Docker image with less features: https://github.com/DanielDent/docker-nginx-ssl-proxy

(Although lately I've been finding my cookie-or-IP-or-HTTP-basic auth feature extremely useful in development, which this doesn't seem to have from the README)

It hasn't been updated in a while, but I've also got an automatic service discovered based version of this for Rancher 1.6:

https://github.com/DanielDent/rancher-nginx-active-lb
Once you delve into the article, it becomes clear that it's the changes in the town's infrastructure and urban form that have to be done to enable safe and worry-free cycling that result in a more livable space, where mobility goes up within the town. Cycling isn't the cause; rather, it's an effect of an urban form that treats them as valid form of transport, and doesn't force them to gladiate among heavy cars that go five times faster, or confine them to narrow strips where unprotected pedestrians walk five times slower.

The 'shared space' concept, where traffic-calmed cars are in close proximity to bikes and pedestrians, relies both on traffic devices, the emergent slow speed of traffic to act as a barrier to overtaking, and on the psychological inhibition of drivers to not flaunt the idea and drive like madmen anyway. It also trades physical separation of pedestrians for an emergent one, which is a raw deal for some disabled people (e.g. those with impaired sight, hearing, or mobility), or those with small children. This is a tradeoff that some communities don't find acceptable.

But for the majority of people for whom it works, mingling car traffic, bike traffic, and pedestrian traffic in close proximity has the advantage of decreasing the utility of high speeds that could otherwise be attained by cars and increasing the utility of lower speeds and non-motorized forms of transport. This effect encourages the town's urban form to be compact and provide employment and services close to residences or transit nodes (like train stations), which leads to the cityscape familiar from the Netherlands.

Areas that were developed with the assumption that the sole choice of transportation will be the automobile face many barriers to retrofitting other modes of transport as a realistic choice. This is because density is a key metric: a car covers 20 times the distance in the same amount of time as walking. If there is no employment or services within a walkable radius, any sidewalks or bike lanes are largely for recreation, and don't offer a meaningful everyday alternative to driving. This is why dense areas like CBD Vancouver can mull over these changes, but doing the same in Surrey is a lost cause. In the US, where urban employment is a mix between those living there and those commuting by car from far away, the streets of cities are still dominated by cars that are trying to cover distance in little time. Market Street in San Francisco is chock-full of transit and pedestrians and stoplights, which prevent it from being an urban highway, but other streets in SF are far too rapid to safely host pedestrians or bikes, even though the city around it was clearly built at a time when slower transport was the norm.
The silver lining is that if enough people actually did sue in small claims court, it bleeds the beast in terms of forcing the company to spend time in court for each infraction.

If 100 plaintiffs sue 1 defendant, each plaintiff has to appear once. The defendant (or their paid agent) gets dragged in 100 times.
Yep, the saying is generally that if you don't pay for something, you're the product.

But I've noticed that more and more, even when you do pay for something there's a good chance your data will still get sold.
Everything that makes Android "Android" to most people includes a lot of closed source Google parts and binary blob drivers. Google has been closing up more of Android over the years.
It's probably something like a Quark, which is basically a Pentium SoC that can leverage modern manufacturing techniques to get the die size and power consumption down.
Sandi Metz did a great talk on this that can be summed up in one really good quote

> Code duplication is far cheaper than the wrong abstraction.

https://youtu.be/8bZh5LMaSmE
The thing that I still don't know about are how would things like data persistence be handled in a cross platform manner?

I recently built a kotlin Android app for work, and our architecture is tightly coupled to Android's Room database and LiveData objects. Obviously if we build it to be cross platform we wouldn't be able to use a Room database or LiveData objects on an iOS device. Would we have to roll our own persistence layer in a cross platform application? Or would we share business logic but still write a persistence layer using platform specific code?

It's not just persistence too. Any lower level API provided by the platform would still need to be written twice, right? Accessing the camera, the devices GPS location, or anything hardware related still needs an implementation for both platforms. Or would we eventually see libraries that would abstract this layer out, similar to react native?

Edit: Another thought...I haven't done much iOS development but the whole async nature of Android apps with the UI thread and background threads also seems like it would be a nightmare to deal with in a cross platform way. Does iOS involve a lot of async threads?
Remember when Intel sold StrongARM division? :)
Counterpoint: https://dave.cheney.net/2015/11/05/lets-talk-about-logging

tl;dr: Only Info and Debug levels carry their weight.
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You took this thread straight into flamewar. That's not what this site is for and we ban accounts that do it.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and use this site as intended in the future, we'd appreciate it. That means steering away from ideological battle, not directly into it. It also means being civil in your comments.
I buy running shoes from Amazon. The next 4 weeks Facebook and Reddit and random websites show me nothing but ads for running shoes. I already have my shoes, don't need another pair, thank you.

Am I a minority, not being a serial shoe shopper? Or is whatever machine learning those companies are running really that simplistic?
Sure, but reading 100 books by michael crichton doesn’t offer much value beyond the first.

My point is that both quality and quantity are important (and diminishing returns apply). The speedreaders described in the article Im assuming have focused primarily on quantity, leading to the lack of value derived.
I am not really sure how you are defining 'research' but I think your definition might be wildly different from mine.
I have a feeling in the pit of my research that what you define as 'practical research' I would NOT define as research in any commonly accepted sense of the word.

> There is a difference between "practical research" where you are developing new ways to solve problems or apply technology and "academic research" where you are developing computer science theory.

this distinction doesn't hold water for me. look at adaboost! but moreover I am very curious what you think 'practical research' looks versus 'academic research'. Like there is a research spectrum in how abstract versus how concrete/empirical computer science research is but 'practical research' is often still pretty complicated/lots of theoretical concerns/ etc etc

> if you want to do practical research, then opportunities are limited if you don't have a PhD

research is hard and it people don't want to hire people for research roles unless they have a track record of doing research. the vast vast majority people with a history of doing 'good' research tend to have Phds. However this is not always the case.

>It doesn't seem like this is the case in other engineering disciplines or even outside of engineering.

I think this is highly unlikely.
I was actually thinking about it as a methodology. Twice the cost, but I bet the gain could be big.
> Millennials neither want nor can afford large suburban homes

Due to the economics of supply and demand, if the former clause is true then the latter clause cannot also be true.
Since Qualcomm and Intel are the baseband/modems manufacturers and Apple has little or may not have anything to do with developing these x86 baseband modules, this should be mostly Intel/Qualcomm responsibility to tighten up the security, no? It's like we can't fault Boeing for the plan crashes if it's a CFM56 engine failure, right?
Nice idea. Would like to see extended to broader topics. For example on talks about history.
In the suburbs I've lived in, there are no forts, woods, or trees that you can climb, without being told off by whomever owns the property the tree is on.
These are interesting terms and ideas that I have never encountered before. Thank you!
> Apple's business model does not involve ad revenue or data collection

Seeing how ads and analytics are so pervasive in the Apple app and music stores, they probably profit from ad revenue and data collection.