skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Too many apps slow down your phone. They take up memory space, run background processes, and constantly check for push notifications even when not in use.

This is provably false on iOS, yeah? iOS's backgrounding model means apps that aren't actively doing work don't "take up memory space". Apps that you never open are quickly throttled from all forms of background processing on a pretty aggressive timescale (I know this firsthand, it's been a major pain for one or two specific apps I've worked on). Push notifications are, as the name implies, a push service rather than a pull/polling service.

Unused apps do take up storage space, but iOS 11 and newer automatically silently delete apps you don't use, keeping the user's data and the app icon around for when you open it again. In the settings UI where you can disable it, this is explicitly framed as only saving you storage space, rather than having performance benefits.
I always had this dream, of giving them "suits" so they could become aero-nauts. Just some basic vehicle, parked in the surf, which allows control by button or touchscreen.

I wonder how they would behave, rolling down the streets, staring at all those strange fish.
Of course, they're a for profit company. And I understand they will do everything they can to undermine competition. That's why I also don't buy this "new cool Microsoft" mantra.
this article (https://towardsdatascience.com/uber-introduces-pyml-their-se...) does a better job motivating PyML, or maybe I'm just more awake now. In any case, I see what you mean. The GitLab CI setup we have builds Docker images out of our models, and we use branch names to target datasets, so "production" usage is "just" creating a branch, watching it run, checking results, etc.

Maybe a missing detail is that our models are run-once, once results are QA'd, they are sent to relevant practitioner, so Uber's query-per-second stuff is irrelevant for us (for now), which I can see simplifies the deployment question enormously.
Nobody wants an arbitrary complex program for describing some trivial build steps. A programming language here is an anti-feature.

Ideal would be some DSL that isn't even Turing complete, but that's not practical at the moment. Maybe we'll get there some day.
Apple Pay Rolling Out in Germany
I understand what you're saying but it is just a poor excuse IMHO. It has been 3 years since Windows 10 came out, everyone at Microsoft knows it comes with this crap. They want it there.
Philosophy to me is a kind of fanciful thinking. Article mentions something about being "purely theoretical", but is your life theoretical or real? If it's real you can't approach it by pure theory. As well as there is much more to life than just thinking.
> The treatment they developed, and published in a highly regarded journal, almost certainly works as described.

No, this is simply not true. Unless you also mean “cures the disease, but kills the patient for some other reason” and other net negative outcomes.

Most of those studies are on tissue samples, or rodent analogs. That’s not the same as live trials and there is no basis for claiming they’d work in situ.
Are you serious about the font choice on the website?
Is it strange that I find it somewhat endearing that this person seems to thing that:

1: Reddit was some place where all the worst of the worst people meet
2: Reddit was intentionally toxic.
3: Reddit was some singular hivemind, rather than small, clustered communities.
4: That there aren't any worse places on the internet.
Likewise! I would love to have a "personal CRM" if it was well done. Preferably integrated with my phone's contact database, but also usable via my computer with a real keyboard.
I am not really sure what you're trying to say. Can you give an example, perhaps? In particular, can you give an illustrative example which explains the difference between "free to choose" and "actually free to choose"?
Follow up question to the Facebook question should you answer no, how do you expect to pay for everything?

How do you think you will be different from path? https://hn.algolia.com/?query=path&sort=byPopularity&prefix&...

(Just to identify which path) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3563016
And the responsiveness is good? Isn't there always this terrible startup lag? Could we rewrite the C implementation of e.g. git in Java to get a program that is just as fast (e.g., instantaneous response for most operations)?
Math for common angle and tipping points of branching valley networks. (2012)
I'm pretty sure the image is satire that happens to provide a semi-workable description of how watersheds work.
I was very happy with Reddit around 2008. "The pre-1995 Usenet is back, you can say anything you want and then enjoy the verbal lashings you deserve".

Around 2015 everything changed: you were either transphobic nazi or morbidly obese surgically modified foul-mouthed thingy, who had zher own pronoun. There was no room for normal people anymore.
I asked about this here: https://clojureverse.org/t/clojurescript-is-weakly-typed/311...

And documented to what extent types are automatically coerced.

Also got the rational behind this: performance.

And that every new release of the compiler performs smarter and smarter type inference and can warn about more of these cases. Though it still misses some as of now.
There's a very long history to the effort to digitize federal and state case law. West, once a private company, sued Lexis/Nexis claiming that their page numbers were copyrighted. West lost, and perhaps seeing the writing on the wall, sold itself. The copyrighted material added by their editors were summaries of the cases themselves. But wouldn't these be derivative works, given that most of the time they merely copied key text from the opinion, as opposed to creating an original work? With digitization, the key number system, a valuable finding aid in the analog days, became unnecesary. Whatever happened to the Taxpayers' Assets Program? Or the Department of Justice's Juris system? Perhaps Juris was obtained under license from West or Lexis, but the Air Force had their own system, called FLITE (Federal Legal Information through Electronics). The Assets Program tried to get access to Flite but could never get the Air Force to push the button. Remember that the raw material for all of these cases are the opinions written by federal employees; i.e., federal judges. The opinions themselves cannot be copyrighted. A copyright wrapper around them was permitted. I'm surprised that only three states have made their records available under this program: in Florida it was possible to sign up for the feed and receive a zip file of all "published"(that is, filed) cases every week. More than a few private companies jumped in. It's now possible to get access to one library or another at a fraction of the 1980's cost. The deep dark secret of all of this is that, except for a few clarion cases, you only have to pay attention to the last 400 volumes or so; maybe only the last two hundred volumes of the Federal Reporter, Third Series. The U.S. Reports (not the Supreme Court Reporter, which is inside the copyright wrapper along with the Lawyer's Edition) contains no copyrighted material whatsoever. The basic problem is that there is simply too much law. It is difficult to keep up with the law in a single jurisdiction, and impossible to keep up with the case law written in the whole country.
gym teachers love to express the same set of beliefs

I think that’s orthogonal. The SAS aren’t looking for Olympic level athletes in any given sport. They’re looking for people who will keep going in the face of exhaustion beyond anything any athlete will ever experience. That’s a test of will and character more then anything physical.

Like, Usain Bolt and Meb Keflezighi are amazing athletes, but neither of them do anything like Test Week or Hell Week in training.
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That's a fair argument. As long as it's you who is interested in your preferences, and not preferences of others, then it's a valid question.

My personal suggestion is to assume that biology plays no role and attempt to change yourself to whatever you feel you want to be. I don't think there is any downside really, because it's ultimately the journey not the goal that counts.
Why can't you move?

Because losing one's Prop 13 taxation rate is a huge hit. Vote for Prop 5 so that the rate savings is portable throughout CA, and lots of Bay area homeowners will mive gladly to cheaper areas, freeing up housing.
I am one of those JS guys who like to put JS/Node.js everywhere, but I do not get the problem Redbird is trying to solve: the Express.js doc is quite clear that for serious things, you should use a dedicated http server. [1]

If you just want reverse-proxying, you can choose between the simplicity of Caddy or the power of Nginx (or Apache). Why would I want to run a JS app (that I know will be less performant) to do that?

[1] https://expressjs.com/en/advanced/best-practice-performance.html
I like the idea, reminds me of the "Smart Contact Reminder" (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=me.barta.stayi...) app for Android. Too bad this one is not available for Android (yet?). However, there is definitely a market for a Personal CRM like this. Desktop access would be great. Maybe even like a web-app like Tinyblue (https://tinyblu.com)?
Cool.
I am checking your site. The topic is super interesting.

Which are the differences with Monica [1]?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14497295
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Why do i need an app to send someone a message? Call me paranoid but this is just a data mining app.
Intel Announces 48-Core Cascade Lake-AP, Xeon E-2100 Processors
The problem is that not all the languages tested have a Set type. This is why all the implementations use a Hash or map or associative array type, which are roughly the same thing. Othwerwise we are comparing apples with oranges. I also refuse to use anything which is not included in the standard library. The program does really basic stuff, so all of its building blocks should be in the core language. This is why the Rust implementation is slower than D or Go - because it uses HashMap which is slower than D's associative arrays or Go's maps.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/apr/29/stainless...
Of course, anyone who is friends with logic will immediately spot that "socially useful" cannot be defined in any way which does not depend on (drumroll) value to the people.

In other words, all Marx said is that value is created when labor creates value. Duh. Circular reasoning of this sort is a hallmark of kookery, and it takes a rather brainwashed mind (or absence thereof) to miss this obvious logical fallacy.

There are other ways to demonstrate the idiocy of the labor theory of value: for example by constructing a realistic scenario when clearly "socially useful" labor (for example, work at a factory) destroys value of a "free for all" resource which wasn't created by labor at all - i.e. by polluting the air). Incidentally, Soviet Union was full of grossly polluting factories.

I think a personal anecdote is in order: unlike Western Marx fanboys I happen to be formally educated in Marxism, at the top university in the USSR, no less, (this was mandatory, I wouldn't poison my mind with that junk willingly). The professor reading the course of Political Economy was the well-known Marxist/Leninist textbook author and certainly was quite smart. So after his first or second lecture (I don't remember exactly which, it was 30 years ago), I asked him to clarify exactly the point above: how to define which labor is useful and which it is not. He called me into his office and told me in no uncertain terms to never ask questions like that again if I wanted to stay out of trouble (didn't help), and that the best answer was "whatever Party directs us to work on". This pretty much clarified everything regarding Marxism to me, and I took his advice to heart, so I still have my transcript from MSU with "with distinction" ("отлично") marks for Marxist/Leninist Philosophy, Political Economy, and Scientific Communism. I guess I should thank him for a sound advice on surviving cult indoctrination.
It already exists: https://github.com/monicahq/monica.

I've never used it though, maybe I should actually try it out.
Oh come on!

Yes Safari includes Google, Bing, Yahoo and DuckDuckGo as built-in search providers.

That is not the same thing as bundling Candy Crush Soda in the Dock. Hell Apple don't even include the free iWorks apps such as Pages and Numbers in a clean macOS install you have to go and get them via the Mac App Store.
I don't think you understand the nature of a state/federal government. the Federal government in China has absolute authority? Yes. Does it routinely interfere inside individual states regarding powers devolved to the state? No. Because when it does, there are effects which cause extreme stress.

Every province in China has a huge square of property in Beijing, with a hotel, casino or similar complex on it. They aren't there because the central power wants to give land grants to the provinces, They're there because it has no choice

The provinces are surprisingly powerful. They can make things happen. At some level, somebody is probably hoping to make the provincial government act speedily on this, and make them realize how bad it is for future trade from their factories. But these things take time.

On a Tu Quoque note.. how well did the EPA do telling the Californian Oil and Gas sector to stop leaking methane from that giant underground tank? I mean.. thats a "thing" in greenhouse gas, right? Just venting..
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Ask HN: Do you see code-review as important?
Do you see code-review as important?
Do you think it worth the effort?
Garden: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/garden-stay-in-touch/id12304...
Just you. :) It probably refers to this part:

> Q: Your colleague David Chalmers has fretted that “there has not been large collective convergence to the truth on the big questions of philosophy,” such as God, free will and consciousness. Does this lack of convergence bother you?

> A: I disagree with Dave here. Overwhelmingly most philosophers are atheists or agnostics, which I take to be convergence to the truth. Most are compatibilist about free will and believe in it, which I also take to be convergence to the truth. Almost all believe in consciousness and most don’t have a clue how to explain it, which is wisdom. It is not that there isn’t convergence, it is that the outliers who do not converge get much more attention than the great mass of convergers, who don’t particularly stand out.
> it debunks the notion that discrimination is the only reason for any differences in gender representation.

Which is also a notion that nobody has ever argued but suits polarized demagoguery.
I'd add:

- Done by people who more often than not are politically militant on topics that are politically charged.
KDE just recently received a 300k donation [1].

You seem to remember KDE from the 4.x dark times. Give it a try, it has vastly improved in the last 2 years.

[1] https://dot.kde.org/2018/10/15/kde-ev-receives-sizeable-dona...
Compatibilists are inconsistent determinists.
They claim we're "free" when we're doing what we want; not being forced by external circumstances to do something we don't want. Basically the idea of being free if you're a puppet and love your strings. I find the idea ignores how everything is one entity and what encompasses the puppet, "being the stage & props" must also be loved by the puppet for one to be free. So the perfect life fairytale is needed to be free?
Incredibly, there might be non-spring applications that need to be maintained, or even non spring-boot ones /s
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Yes. I switched to using the "Basic HTML" version by default. Either turn JavaScript off and refresh the page once logged in, or click "Load basic html (for slow connections)" while the loading animation plays to get to it.
"I think the idea is that your culture can enslave you in an idea of who you want to be, which isn't really yours, but rather your culture's. The idea seems to be that this identity has been forced on you, and isn't really yours."

Yeah, I agree, but I disagree with this notion. I mean, if you, even after hearing this argument, still think you made a free choice, then it seems to me that any attempt to subvert that is making you less free. Who should know better whether some decision is yours than you? It seems to me that this idea really rejects agency in other people, and that's why I find it disingenuous.

As a side note. The current idea of having 50/50 split in ratio of preferences between men and women as correct culturally bears some similarity to old idea that all left-handed people should be taught to be right-handed. Eventually, it was abandoned in favor of personal choice and the question whether it is cultural or biological is no longer relevant.
I just tried this on a the latest version of Windows 10 and with everything disabled during the OOBE I still get Candy Crush, Twitter, Minecraft, Get Office, etc. in the start menu.

How do I avoid those using settings in the OOBE?
Interesting observations, but it might be be both true that both genders are more free to spread out the other side, and that the majority are more likely to not be. So with more freedom there is greater social mobility and also less pressure to move. I've not read the paper fully. I wonder if they provide this information as to the scope.

I think if we think of a graph. In less equal places the peak of the graphs occur closer to each other and are narrower. In more equal places the peaks of the graphs occur further from each other but are wider.

http://i.imgur.com/dSq5f0v.png for example
In my opinion KDE Connect is one of the absolute core applications of the whole KDE project!

> [...] while the desktop rots in its instability and lack of polish

This is not true at all. Yes, the KDE desktop has a few rough edges but for me it is still by far the very best DE in existence.
Ask HN: Do you feel your team moves too slow?
Do you feel the programming team you're working in you daily job is finishing tasks too slowly?(i.e code being deployed to production)

if so, what do you think is the most prominent cause of feeling such?
Describing, defining & creating are very closely related, if you're creating a system of thought/debate. It's an institution.

Karl Popper obviously didn't create the method out of whole cloth, but the ideas he formalized & championed became a real platform. Nearly any scientist/science advocate (degrasse tysson, dawkins..) dealing with an "is this science" question paraphrases him Popper.
There are plenty similar ones: https://www.paintnite.com/blog/apps-keep-in-touch-friends/
The Evolution of Async JavaScript: From Callbacks, to Promises, to Async/Await
I don't say those people are stupid. But if you look at the publications it's very obvious that they are not trained in the same way as other scientists. The jumping to conclusions, the application of methods without knowing their constraints, the lack of imagination when exploiting a problem (i.e. asking questions like "Are there other theories that could explain our results").

I have been in several situations where those people were explaining to me one of their research problems (in a friendly chat) and then I ask a question ("What about...?") that appears logical to me and they stare at me and reply "Why didn't you tell us you are working in this field, too?".

> If you actually want to make your message go through

What message? Go through what/where?
For example take this quote from Nietzsche on the sentence "I think" from Beyond Good and Evil:

>"When I analyze the process that is expressed in this sentence, 'I think,' I find a whole series of daring assertions that would be difficult, perhaps impossible, to prove—for example, that it is I who think, that there must necessarily be something that thinks, that thinking is an activity and operation on the part of a being who is thought of as a cause, that there is an 'ego,' and, finally, that it is already determined what is to be designated by thinking—that I know what thinking is.

Good luck convincing a skeptic like that to take your definitions for granted, or believe in any conclusions you draw from your definitions.
Ask HN: How can we really help environment?
I'v read [1] and started wondering if there's any research on how we can act to save our environment with the real impact.

[1] https://qz.com/920561/conscious-consumerism-is-a-lie-heres-a-better-way-to-help-save-the-world/
Intel to Challenge AMD with 48 Core “Cascade Lake” Xeon AP
arrogant and pompous uses of terms "mediocre, soul-sucking, etc etc", while the fundamental ideas of the article range from trivial to minimal-value
Long-Livers of the Earth: Are Cats Older Than Humans?
Consider there are a lot worse things than being attractive to men.

Plenty of women have been raped and stalked. Some would be hard pressed to name worse experiences than the ones they have had for the crime of being attractive.
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Dhall and Dhall-nix are definitely a step towards that.
Try compiling this with swiftc -sanitize=thread:

import Foundation

let q1 = DispatchQueue(label: "1")
let q2 = DispatchQueue(label: "2")

var a = [0]

q1.async {
a[0] = 1
}

q2.async {
a[0] = 2
}

You'll get an error at runtime that there's a data race.
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The author seems to have confused 4chan with Reddit. Not sure if the author is being sincere or just trolling at this point.
> So pure theory is not for everyone. But if you love theory, philosophy is the top of the heap of all the disciplines.

I think calling philosophy "theory" is a bit of a reach. Theories (Relativity, Quantum, Evolution) draw on, and can be falsified by, direct evidence. Philosophy is more argumentation on subjects that won't have scientific basis (morality, meaning of life) or don't yet have one and may never (consciousness).
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I am not a philosopher, but I would respectfully suggest the problem may be more that you not keeping up with philosophy. Your timescales also seem a bit strange.

I was last in an academic context with philosophers of mind in the mid-90s, at which point Searle's Chinese room was already considered a tired argument (it was seen as an argument to incredulity). The hard problem of consciousness and qualia seem odd to present as worth 'leaving behind': they are surely even more pressing as synthetic thought becomes more capable. More than one of the other areas you suggest were certainly active research in the 90s. (Though I was on the periphery, looking at evolutionary engineering, the research group that I was part of contained both scientists and philosophers of mind and was focused on cognition and affect, most definitely including rewards, agents, learning and representation). So I wonder whether the issue is what you hear about rather than what philosophy is being done.