skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> are there any smokers on HN who can explain the phenomenon?

Smokers aren't exactly known for their good judgement, manners and consideration for others in the first place, are they?
Google says 0.8 grams of sugar per 100 grams, or 3.2 calories out of 77 total in those 100 grams of potato. That's 4%.

The fact that starch is processed into glucose by the body does not make potatoes sugary.
IDK about those products but Google's AutoML stuff is probably the best of breed here. A few research groups have published AutoML-like stuff on github too.

Like anything it depends on your use case. Sometimes even a tiny bit of feature engineering can have a huge impact on model fidelity.
Google will load JavaScript but you can also use react-static to do static SSR if you’d like your first render to be fast or you’d like better SEO from crawlers that don’t read JS.

Ping me if you’d like to know more.
Have you ever used IntelliTrace in Visual Studio Ultimate?
Cyberwarfare documentaries like Zero Days?
A couple years ago, Alex Gibney released a great documentary, Zero Days [1], about the U.S. cyber-attack against the nuclear facilities at Natanz, Iran.

Do you know of similar documentaries? I've found Viceland's Cyberwar series [2], and am interested in any suggestions covering the same kind of content (in brief, cyber-warfare).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_Days
[2]: https://www.viceland.com/en_us/show/cyberwar
Gaia is only a few month old so we currently only support Go, Java, Python and C++. Feel free to open an issue on our github page to rise some awareness that C# support is appreciated. :-)
Back when I was working in Stockholm, we usually went to a certain place on Fridays to grab a greasy lunch and a pint of beer, and when everyone came back to the office, absolutely no work got done, it was glorious! :-D
Confirmed. I also don’t eat fibre. Also my friend had digestive issues all his life. He stopped eating veggies and it went away.
Please don't post in the flamewar style to Hacker News. We're trying for something better than that here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
What helped me initially was listing all recent projects (industry, research, private, even books I read) and the corresponding skills I used/learned (react, typescript, ml,cnns,etc etc) in my CV. It now looks like I am showing off :). It shows much better how much practical experience I have and allows me to pass first checks of recruiters and get into Skype/Telephone interviews. (I used https://www.gravitycv.com/, but there are surely a lot other CV generating sites).
Who here is saying that? And who or what in the thread is "corporate"?

"Lets enjoy laughing at them after they fail, rather than before"

Suggesting someone apply a little humility to their worldview is a pretty far cry from laughing at them for having goals.

I also don't know why you would laugh at someone for failing, it seems a bit harsh.
At the end Gaia is a task scheduler. You can compare it with AWS stepflow but also with Jenkins/CircleCI/TravisCI/Bamboo/Codeship and many more.

In my opinion Gaia is perfect for programmers which are "forced" to write automation tasks. It allows you to write automation tasks in your preferred programming language and makes it super easy for you to schedule them because Gaia comes with an automatic build feature (just provide the git url of your source code and Gaia does the rest). Additionally, Gaia is super fast, lightweight and open-source.
Web Components are highly underappreciated as a front-end framework. With Microsoft moving over to Blink for their browser engine, they should be usable natively anywhere now. If you want a standards based approach, go with Web Components rather than React or Vue or whatever is the current flavor of the month. LitElement is a thin layer on top of the standard to make binding and templating easier but still generates standards-based web components. And performance is theoretically better than virtual DOM.

BTW, LitElement is the bleeding edge front-end framework from the Chrome team at Google.
Or, possibly more accurately, GVFS/KIO
I'm a regular HN reader, yet I've never heard of half of these. This doesn't sound like the kind of stack you'd want to adopt if you ever want anybody else to work on the code.
>In few countries however such kind of "productivity" is considered a kind of (self) slavery and it's not really accepted. For instance in Swiss it not common at all eat in your workplace no matter the provenance of food because we do not live for work but the contrary. In French is common only for low-paid labors, mostly young at career start etc.

This is fascinating and very interesting from a radical point of view. A while ago there was a thread on HN about if it would be bad for a workplace to have bunks and a kitchen such that employees can sleep there. To me the whole idea felt incredibly dystopian. In the end, though, some authors have observed a kind of cultural shift, in which we are no longer told what to do at work, but rather the workplace tries to align our desire to theirs, the analogy Frédéric Lordon[0] uses is that desires can be expressed as vectors, and the modern workplace, lacking the old methods to make us work (because they are culturally inappropriate, or illegal) must use such a method which seems a whole lot less pernicious at face value.

It's not only the time to make the lunch which counts as unpaid labour, it's also the time and expense to travel to work (and according to some stories on HN this can get to absurd levels) and due to the phenomena I mentioned a lot of time spent around work doing non-work activities (though this is more common if there is a "workplace culture").

[0] "Willing Slaves of Capital: Spinoza and Marx on Desire"
Open source is not for VCs. VCs aren't good when it comes to creating value. The VC's job is to capitalize on hype. Hype doesn't go well with open source projects; it leads to dissillusioned customers later.
Very interesting story. I must remember to ask my Indian colleagues about this
Daemon and Freedom by Daniel Suarez. You won't find a better book about near term impending tech.
"Seveneves" by Neal Stephenson was a great read. (The last third is almost a different book and can be skipped imho). You mentioned you liked The Martian so I think you'll like this one.
> Add ways to show multiple apps on screen at once (e.g. windows – but because they don't overlap, oh except for slide-over items

So, like i3wm. Makes sense on a small screen, I guess (the iPad mini is 8 in., even the iPad "Pro" is no larger than 13 in.)
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I, and others, have been using Yr.no for many years across the world. It’s only really failed me once, when other weather providers also failed. I dislike the iOS app, the Android app is a beauty. Just using the website is fine though, because it’s super fast.
The mortgage concept in the US is the ticket to the American dream. It is designed to give you essentially free money over the life of the mortgage by leveraging yourself with a loan that very few people would give you for any other investment decision.

Not taking advantage of buying a house in America is a big mistake. Sure, there are plenty of pitfalls along the way, market timing can be important, location matters, etc.. but on average you are way way better off after ten years, ceteris paribus, versus someone who did not buy.
Very simple. It is dividers, usually made of a strong paper material, but plastic or aluminium foil works too. It must be stronger than cellophane, that won't work.

Just think about it, if you make a nice slice of bread with strawberry jam, without mellomleggspapir and it would hit right into the slice above and mix with the ham and cheese.
Widevine hasn't stopped piracy. No DRM ever does. It only inconveniences the people who want to pay. Trying to watch Netflix on a phone or desktop is needlessly complicated. Grabbing a torrent is easy.
Get a CDN from Cloudflare, takes 5min + 5min distribution and makes many people happy.
> Losing 45% in 3 months is a failure.

I had been critical of Tim Cook and his team for years - they had been mismanaging that beautiful company. But it is hardly their fault from middle term (few years) perspective.

They got golden goose and they had been milking every single dollar out of it. And returning some cash (which they clearly have no idea how to put to the good use) to investors. From their personal perspective (stock options, bonuses, fame and perks) and from the perspective of Apple shareholders (ca. 2008) it had been very good 10 years. And this is what you do - grab as much as you can because good times won't last forever. It didn't.

Sure - they had the opportunity to make Apple into Mercedes or BMW of personal electronics - delivering great products for 100 years. But who cares about forever?

PS. Same goes for FB. It was clear from the beginning that social networks is just a fad that won't last. 10 years and so much profits is a good run. Move on.
The difference shows up in things like unfunded mandates. An appointed senate would resist demanding that states pay money. Voting for such a thing would likely get the senator rejected by the state government, preventing another term. In general, appointed senators were a force to keep government smaller.
- Frontend: Angular 7+

- Backend: NodeJS with Hapi and Mongoose / Mongodb

- Auth module in Hapi (JWT)

- All in Typescript and VSCode

These libraries have been stable for a while now.
Tried GraphQL / Apollo for a while but the amount of breaking updates made me go back to the stack mentioned above.
Currently i'm exploring dotnet core (in C#) and blazor.
He also brings up the old “how do elephants get so big if plants don’t have protein?” Yeah well they eat 300lbs of plant matter a day, so like ~5lbs a day by human scale. Its almost like they are an entirely different animal with a different digestive system and nutritional needs.
Apple shares plunge after blaming weak revenue on China slowdown, trade war
Arabzono (امازون عربي): website to help arab shoppers on amazon
10 year expat here. Part which I don't get is how come "warm lunches" for schools typical/natural/expected in the rest of the developed world never caught up here. Equality uber-alles?
This reeks of pseudoscience and is terrible for the environment to boot.
I'm still waiting for the OS that will have the courage to truly innovate.

I had high hopes for webOS and Windows Phone, but they're both dead. I'm now waiting for Fuchsia.

I expect to be disappointed. Maybe I'll need to show them?
A Surface that runs macOS.
It was never about stopping piracy, it was always about controlling your device and how you use it.
This is one of those; if you gotta ask then it is a bad idea.

Successful freelancing requires a network of contacts that provide you work.

If you don't have that network it is unfortunately a race to the bottom where you have to rely on recruiters/brokers or worse internet freelance websites where you compete on price with students and people in low cost countries like India, Bangladesh, former Soviet union ...

You are better off getting a regular job or put in extra effort at the job you already have. And then expand your network over time.
There are plenty of PC's with touchscreens and loosely MacBook-like design aesthetics. Some of them can even fold over and let you use them very much like a tablet (with the keyboard out of the way). (Unfortunately, OS support for such "hybrid" devices is lacking. But I think Linux will get there shortly - you can already tell that GTK3 was built for touch use, not just for the mouse.)
CA: population per senator: 19M

For 24 years, California had no change in Senators.

Now, how many major pieces of legislation authored by either can your average Californian name?
Quote from article:

A leading tobacco industry academic, a California lawmaker and a worldwide surfing organization are among those arguing cigarette filters should be banned. The nascent campaign hopes to be bolstered by linking activists focused on human health with those focused on the environment.

“It’s pretty clear there is no health benefit from filters. They are just a marketing tool. And they make it easier for people to smoke"

I used to smoke rolled cigarettes with mild tobacco without filters (thankfully quit) but I thought they were just as mild as filtered cigarettes. Smokers anyway self-modulate how much they inhale.
That is exotic indeed, but I know Mithril and Rocket as well, they’re nice. I take it you favour performance over other things?
Oh yeaaaaaah... Like modern "coding mania" at school... Guys IT world is as complex as a society: you can't train anyone to be a prime minister in such society before train in being an educated citizen.

Most Finnish child can type on a Window PC with some proprietary (cr)app. They can probably play games, watch porn sites, social networks etc and that's for some older people seems to be like magic so they think that "programming" is only a small subsequent step like you can study integrals just after derivatives. And that's the ideal way to put people far from computer disgusted by obscene software and absurd training.
What uses of MDArrays in deep learning don't correspond to tensor manipulations?

That's news to me. All genuinely tensor-related operations in machine learning that I was aware of were about dimension reduction (tensor decompositions or low-rank tensor approximations). Maybe things have changed and I stand corrected.
since the site is down, here are the videos:

https://twitter.com/twolivesleft
I think it's because the butt is usually made to resemble some natural material like cork.

Since the rest of it (paper, tobacco, and ashes) is easily degradable, I think the natural assumption is the butt is degradable as well, and the notion that every other smoker seems to think so isn't helping.

So to answer the question: I suspect it's simply a lack of information. As a data point I'll add that I stopped deposing them right away a long time ago, because I suspected they might not be easily degradable, but this is actually the first time I've read this is the case.

If I'm correct I see no harm in correcting friends who smoke in their behaviour. They are simply unaware.
> So it’s surprising to discover that students may be the worst people to ask about the quality of education.

Is it really surprising? Or it is just a some kind of sarcasm?
Passport record and number of passport record are protected by Privacy Act[1].

(4) the term “record” means any item, collection, or grouping of information about an individual that is maintained by an agency, including, but not limited to, his education, financial transactions, medical history, and criminal or employment history and that contains his name, or the identifying number, symbol, or other identifying particular assigned to the individual, such as a finger or voice print or a photograph;

[1]: https://www.us-passport-service-guide.com/is-passport-inform...
Yeah, don't use django/rails if your app is going to mostly communicate with the backend through an API. Use flask or other smaller framework. The only advantage of using django or rails would be the builtin auth (and admin)

In fact don't even waste time with relational DBs unless you need to, especially if you're still prototyping the solution. (Or just use the json field in PostgreSQL if you prefer)
Fair enough, but there really is no need to be pedantic. In the context here, "Eating grass" had clear enough a meaning.

We're not ruminants. The amount of fiber in food can't possibly be a prime criteria to assess the quality of food. Fiber is, after all, not digestible by definition. It is absurd to think that can matter much.
Machine Learning is Alchemy https://youtu.be/x7psGHgatGM . We need to understand optimization to advance this field not train thousands of monkeys to press play and hope for a nice result.

Also, why did they not decide to teach 1% of the population basic coding. Now that could transform a society.
Starch is a complex sugar and to your body it is a sugar. Google definition here "Complex carbohydrates are made up of sugar molecules that are strung together in long, complex chains. Complex carbohydrates are found in foods such as peas, beans, whole grains, and vegetables. Both simple and complex carbohydrates are turned to glucose (blood sugar) in the body and are used as energy"
Frontend: (vanilla) React with TypeScript.

- TypeScript is more important than React, static typing is such a productivity boost, even for projects of all sizes.

- Start with vanilla React and create-react-app, monitor for painpoints and look for solutions for these pain points in the community, don't look at the whole ecosystem before you start building stuff.

Backend: Kotlin on the JVM.

Kotlin is a really nice language for either functional or object oriented programming. Static typing with strict null checks are again a huge productivity boost. Standard library is very complete

Beeing on the JVM without beeing stuck with Java is a big win:

- unlocks a huge ecosystem and Java interoperability of Kotlin is superb.There are a lot of lightweight frameworks for stuff around here, enterprise Java is a myth if you are free to choose what to use.

- special shoutout to the JOOQ library, the golden middleground between an ORM and raw SQL Strings.

- JVM is fast

- fat jars are somewhat like containers, can be run everywhere with minimal setup (yeah I'm looking at you python-uwsgi black magic)

Database:
Postgresql. Everything you need (relational, JSON), fast, rocksolid
What is there to explain? Its convenient.
Indian IT Services and Startups Will Create Over 500K Jobs in 2019
I think people think they are biodegradable.
Or lettuce.
By mass or quantity?
Thank you for the advice, doing it now
Haha, classic. Didn't pack your lunch? Your problem. We forgot to tell you to pack your lunch ("cause that's how we roll here in Norway") ? Your problem.
In all fairness, if you are worried about syscall overhead when doing i/os, you are most likely writing a database. In which case direct io is almost mandatory, you are going to handle cache yourself. You don't want double buffering as it's slower. Do you think sql servers uses a regular file system cache ?
May I ask, what is it that you don't like about Elixir?
I think it is related to people not cleaning after their dogs and throwing their thrash on the street or in the woods.

These are people who just don't give a shit about other people and only act like they care when it is convenient or necessary.

I know a couple of smokers that will make sure they have a place to dispose their butt after they are finished and I know some that will dispose them only when somebody is watching (yeah, we have windows in offices, too...)
Scala, ScalaJS, Slinky React.

No Javascript to learn and no worrying about ECMA versions or whatever today's new build tool is. Shared code between client and server. Type safe so you can get a proper IDE, refactoring and a lot less bugs. Full reuse of React + Javascript libraries as well as the incomparable JVM ecosystem on the backend.

Also probably the fastest and most scalable language you can use and is used at Twitter, Netflix, Linkedin, Spotify, Tumblr.
I second this. Leverpostej is gross when it's sat in a schoolbag for half a day.

I think this is one of those "ooh, look at this other culture" articles that overdoes the novelty of what it's looking at. Like "Finland does UBI" or just about anything with Japan.
I was wondering the same. Pet food dispenser sounds reasonable. This is a literal manifestation of the “leaky bucket” rate limiting algorithm.
The article claims he informed them but in the original tweet thread it was the opposite and he said it wasn't even an exploit so didnt bother disclosing.

I think the guy is awesome and very likely he did what he claimed, but do get annoyed about low effort Twitter journalism. Prove it or don't write it. It's very simple.
Numbers are too easy to crack by enumeration. You can just enumerate all possible passport numbers, encrypt them, and compare two hashes. It takes seconds on modern CPU. Even if salt is used, all 5E6 records can be cracked in about 2 months on modern desktop, or in 1 day on 60 node cluster.
Well, given the fact that they lunch out regardless, the proximate cause is likely that all the food around is covered in fat.
You talk about using Django and React together. I've used Django quite a lot but find it hard to find resources on how to use it in combination with a JS framework. Could someone recommend learning resources?

Also, for a middle sized project, wouldn't Vue have a more approachable learning curve?

Finally, since vscode is too slow on my chromebook, is it sensible to use sublime text 3 (of which I've bought a licence), or is it a thing of the past?
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If it's a brochure site, use a static site generator and put your generated stuff on S3. I happen to use Hakyll, but they're all more or less the same and nobody cares what software generated your files.

If it's a web app, my weapon of choice is Haskell/Yesod because I have opinions about how complexity grows over time and how that should be managed. Dynamic languages fall short of my needs.

If I need a complex UI (lots of state and interactivity), I use Elm. It works, and in my experience it works better than dynamic alternatives (JavaScript, ClojureScript, etc). TypeScript and Flow are not alternatives to Elm.

For storage I just use Postgres, and sometimes Redis if I need it.

For infrastructure, I do just about everything with Nix/NixOS/NixOps (although I develop on an Apple Macintosh Book Air).
It's interesting that your view works on paper but in practice lichess has many contributors and this has never really been a problem.

This is probably not the go-to stack but not for the reasons you've stated.
IMO it's gotten too sophisticated to tackle head-on. Back then, if you were getting screwed, at least you knew how and by whom. Now, the vast majority of people who really understand how any particular rent-seeking scheme works are the rentiers themselves, so any public policy debate quickly devolves into a mix of noise and actual malice.
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I think they mean this literally. Student evaluation is standard in higher education, and so for many people who are very used to it even with all its faults they may still have thought it had some utility
Crossing my fingers for verification. It seems like the Nobel committee should have waited for multiple third-party verifications of LIGO's results.

It would be pretty terrible if we found out the detections were mistaken or even fraudulent.

From what I can understand, LIGO's results seem very open to interpretation. It seems like they could be mistaking noise for signal. And it even seems possible that some unscrupulous person(s) could have created fake signals, using something like the "blind injection" mechanism.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. It doesn't seem like the evidence is strong enough yet to say definitively that GW even exist.