skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've made this point before too. Not only is perfection expected elsewhere, it's routinely achieved. Not always but routinely. My example is a Cirque Du Soleil performance. Seeing the routine lack of screwing up points to some actionable advice too: practice and train, study, have competence rankings.
If you have any hard evidence that the majority of the Office Mobile/Online web apps are written in C++ I would like to see that, because I can't seem to find any.

Thankyou.
Increasingly I think the answer is to regulate the public relations & advertising industry. I'm not sure what exactly that looks like in a free society, but it's the root cause of seemingly all of our problems and I can't seem to come up with any benefits it really has on society.

What we need to do is eliminate the incentive to build these influence networks - and the primary incentive is that politicians, companies etc... want to pay to push some kind of agenda.
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Is that actually true? I mean, it was true in the US in the middle of the 20th century but it seems at odds with what I know of conditions elsewhere, though I'm not an expert.
Can't we aim for 'not appearing biased to anyone' rather than 'appearing biased to everyone'?

I think the simultaneous accusations of both left and right bias are because separate parts of the Corporation are biased in this way. If you sum those biases then yes maybe it sums to zero, but I'd rather the individual parts were not biased at all.
The GUI would be the easy part but our applications have a lot of background logic. Going to UWP would be almost a complete rewrite without actually improving anything. From what I have seen so far UWP is just different but not really better than WPF.
Well if your interest is Martian geologic history (or biology), Nevada won't quite cut it.
Our difference of opinion hinges on the ambiguity of “success”. Here you use “success” strictly in the sense of making a financial gain, while MySpace’s users would have called it a failure.
Ask HN: How to find a good business idea?
how do you think a good business idea is found? I would appreciate if you can share books, videos and sites about this subject. thanks.
> One of my most upvoted Hacker News comments was saying that creating an account and whitelisting the subreddits you want to read is a tremendous improvement on reddit.

I am surprised this has to be said. It's the same thing with Youtube. Unless you're signed in and have set your own preferences, you will be exposed to the dumpster fire that is mainstream internet content...high schooler humor, conspiracy garbage, superhero movie trailers, etc.
Unless you have to type “Please enable maps even though it will break all of my code” every time you run it, that's a distinction most people will ignore. If something is useful enough to ship, people will want to use it — helping test it is even the point — and only the most prominent “This is terribly unsafe” warnings will be heeded.
Except university education doesn't need to be that expensive. Anecdotal - I had a law school professor who went to the University of Michigan Law School in the 60s and his tuition was $18 per credit. That's about $150 today. That would be about $13,500 for the entire law degree.

The unlimited student loan situation has directly caused the bloat of university administration, salaries, and spending. It doesn't cost $40,000 a year to educate someone.
EuclidesDB v.0.2.0 released, with Faiss support and libtorch 1.0.1
My phone gets the latest Android updates the day they are released even though it is a discontinued phone and not from Google.

The issue isn't Google or Android. It is phone manufacturers.
More proprietary than "basically Google just tells everyone how it's going to be"? Maybe. It'd be hard to make it worse though. What people seem to really want out of the web is a VM platform and a document layout engine, so why not design a new VM that is intended first and foremost to be an efficient application platform, and then make one of those applications an open source document layout engine? You don't have to be married to HTTP and all its woes either. You could even port a current "legacy" browser to it. And if that document layout engine is found to be lacking, we can make a new one without breaking everything because its just another application on the VM.

Hell, you could compile the VM with an HTML5/JS target and get forward compatibility too.
I believe a lot of good things has come from Microsoft. But their business practices and extremely dominant position during the late 90s and early 00s was quite unpleasant IMHO.

It’s a totally different story now that Satya Nadella is CEO. I have a lot of respect for him and all the good news that has kept coming after he took the helm. I would go as far as to say that he saved Microsoft from eating itself.
Don't mind me, just checking if people already are complaining "THIS SUCKS, IT DOESN'T HAVE X". Just don't switch to it if you are so dependent on X. I kind of like the restriction on not being able to write overly clever stuff. There's plenty of languages out there that are a freaky amalgamation of different features from different languages and paradigms. Pick one of those then.

My own use case is for scripting and writing performant API's rather quick. DevOps also seem to be a fan of a simple binary. I'm not a Go dev, but any time I find a use case, it's just enjoyable to write from scratch and tolerable to return to code I wrote months ago.
> Not allowed by thermodynamics. Otherwise you could create free energy by continuously burning and recapturing the same carbon.

That doesn't have to be the case; the carbon you capture may not be in a burnable form. E.g. if carbon dioxide were captured, additional energy would be required to split off the oxygen before the carbon could be 'burned' again.
From that link:

>> Folks who are considering using actix-web might want to follow this thread about its heavy use of unsafe Rust.

It's one thing to make heavy use of a small bit of unsafe Rust. It's another to use unsafe heavily - like someone who just refuses to use the language properly and therefore just keeps writing unsafe code. It's not clear from the wording which case this was but they do say it was fixed, rather than declaring it an unmitigated disaster ;-)
There are lots of us unofficially taking credit. RIP any googleability I might have had before...
Continuations also allowed me to implement python’s yield/send in 16 lines of Scheme code :-)

http://billsix.github.io/bug.html#_make_generator
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I wouldn't recommend the average consumer get a consumer router without automatic security updates.
If you want to study Mars, actually being there opens up new avenues of study. If you're going to study Mars from Earth, it doesn't make sense to do it from the Nevada desert.
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If we're going to depend on renewables for almost all electricity generation, this will require both energy storage, and installing more renewables than are needed for typical usage. This wouldn't be true if we had cheap energy storage that could supply load for weeks at a time through unusual dips in generation, but that seems unlikely. In practice it's cheaper to install excess generation than excess storage.

Now, if you've got excess generation for electricity, then at times of good generation, you want to use that electricity for something, as otherwise the electricity price will be negative. Using it to produce synthetic fuels for aviation seems like a really good match, as that electricity would be effectively free.
Yes, but is officially an ally, (the states where Pompeo mentioned this are all parts of NATO imho).

But still there are european providers such as nokia networks, ericsson..
The word is "colonization", it's about the hundreds of years of development and growth to transform Mars into a place that supports humans.

Why? It's a way to reduce risk of extinction. Put our eggs in more than one basket.
Clone is from the Greek klōn, for "twig".
As much as I hate targeted advertising, which leaves you in a silo, categorised, with no hope of ever seeing an ad for something you would buy but didn't know existed.

But if drive past a billboard or there's a poster on the door you're going through, you'll still see this and it will probably bring up bad feelings. Is that correct? Or is it just that the targeted ones are trying to be more personal, whilst getting it so wrong?
AND carriers. Don't forget the carriers.
Even the data that Hickel picked (excluding China) shows is that the trend is down. I'm not sure Pinker is right in that the it's true for every single social stratum everywhere across the world, I would think that certain middle-class earners are poorer today in relative terms.

However, for anyone considered poor by any reasonable standard, my guess is that the global trend is down, otherwise Hickel could've come up with that data. So in that sense the cutoff is irrelevant.

Note that Pinker in his letter talks exclusively about extreme poverty. In a free market, of course it's easier to lift people out of extreme poverty than ordinary poverty, so it should come as no surprise that the trend is even steeper there.
Granted this was getting close to 20 years ago. I had a Motorola Timeport, for which I bought the PC connection kit. The PC connection kit just gave you a serial port. I was able to connect it to my PC and use the phone as a modem to dial my ISP. It just used my minutes and since I was on Sprint it was free after 7PM.

A couple of years later I bought one of the first smartphones. It was a Kyocera Palm Phone. On it I could use the native Palm PPP dialer and again it would use the phone as a modem and just use my minutes. It worked pretty well, though the Palm browser was lacking. I mostly just used it for email.
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And lots of tree farms do plant new trees, making it neutral. Coal is more carbon-dense, so you need to plant more new trees than already exist and there probably isn't room for them unless you clear a forest first, and then what are you going to do with that wood?

Obviously other sources of energy are better than burning wood, but efficiently burning wood is better than burning coal or oil.
Agree on all points.
That is really only an issue for low-level drivers and kernel level issues. There is nothing stopping OS vendors from fixing this without updating the drivers.
I like the idea but I think with languages it's better to stick with one till you a certain level (maybe b1/b2) then move on.

If you are going to Italy soon you can memorize "non lo so" to say "I dont know" very effectively. But if you are actually trying to learn and retain "some" Italian, you probably need to know more like "lo" is a direct objective pronoun for him/her/it and "so" is the verb essere conjugated in the present tense for io.
I highly suspect "directly harmed" is a moral judgement, not an objective measure.

If female genital mutilation "direct harm"? If yes, does the same apply to circumcision of males? If yes, is denying jewish people a religious practise (and thus potentially entry to heaven) "direct harm"? Different people will answer this very differently, even in the same country and culture.

More applicable to this case: Is it ok for parents to see where their children are? Is ist ok for parents to get an alert when their children cross a geofence? If in a culture the husband is viewed as the guardian of his wife, is it ok if the husband uses the same app for his wife?

Note that I don't endorse any of these things, I'm simply saying that "are people being directly harmed by this product" is sometimes a deep philosophical or psychological question that is arguably harder than rocket science.
Show HN: Send keys and certs from the terminal with e2e encryption
Can you give some examples? I'm curious as I also find the de Havilland Comet design to be quite remarkable for this compared to modern jetliners, and this is the first time I'm encountering the design.

EDIT: I found this wikipedia page [1] and clicked around, and the only jetliners I found without nacelles are the Tupolev ones -- the Tu-334, Tu-104, Tu-110, Tu-124 -- and the Tuplev supersonic Tu-144.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_jet_airliners
Thanks for the excellent discussion last time we posted here - this release is based entirely on people's feedback :)

If you're curious where we going next with Fluidkeys we've put together a preview site that spells out the vision:

https://www.fluidkeys.com/fluidkeys-v1-preview

Keen to hear your thoughts :)
Hinkel shouldn't have used this term, simply because Pinker was NOT mansplaining. And AFAIK Pinker isn't a billionaire either.

Calling them mansplaining billionairs is IMHO a cheap shot. Pinker and Hinkel have different opinions - which is perfectly fine, experts disagree a lot after all. But accusing someone of mansplaining just because of having a different opinion is not correct. An expert in this area should argue differently.
I have attempted to do something similar in 2017 [1]. A couple of issues I noticed:

* The field is evolving quite rapidly, and so most options will require a lot of configuration, which IMO is not suitable for a declarative approach.

* It's hard to debug, eventually you will need to dive into the code at some point.

* Extending the library would mean touching the code anyways.

One major difference here, is that Ludwig tries to expose one interface, that for instance users without python knowledge can use, and inside a company, some machine learning engineers can extend the tool and do support by debugging other users use-cases.

I think at some point such approach can be useful for a very limited mature use-cases.

[1]: https://github.com/polyaxon/polyaxon-lib/blob/master/example...
Looks good, congrats! It would be awesome if you could include links for testing speed and latency for each provider (when available).
The magnetic pole was over Canada until relatively recently though (20 years ago it was) so that makes it much closer to Minnesota than to Normandy. It's getting closer these days though, moving towards Russia.

I also witnessed austral auroras on Kerguelen island for example, which is 49° south, because the south magnetic pole is rather close to it, but people on the Antarctic continent itself near the peninsula could not see any because although further south geographically, they were at a greater distance to the magnetic pole.
That is inevitable.

Save an absolute travesty of human rights, China cannot avoid its swelling middle class. Economically, they have options to farm out their primary and secondary industries to their African interests but that is only a temporary stay on price.

Underwriting economic growth on a mythical endless future of exploiting consumerism seems plain absurd to me.

I know we're nowhere near post-scarcity but we have to start finding and testing better models of wealth. Globalisation isn't working.

Edit: That is not to say we cannot pre-empt the movement of China's existing industries, and do as they have, and heavily invest in the poorest parts of the planet. This is better but still not sustainable. As soon as you run out of people poor enough to make your crap for the price you need, you get massive inflation. We need to change ourselves.
This isn't a pub, and if you're "used to a hot opener" then surely you're used to people seeing you as a jerk for persistently making provocative and racist remarks.
In my experience using first person in abstract or even in the manuscript is field- as well as individual- dependent. Prof. John Cochrane (when he was at U of Chicago) advised not to use royal pronoun "we" when it's a single author paper. In business management you can see a mix of use of "we" even when the paper is written by a single author. Some journals like Journal of Marketing require all the abstracts in third person (e.g., the authors find xyz instead of we find xyz) but don't have any rules about using I/we in the manuscript.
It isn't really about bugs in the application, it's that IE has fine-grained security controls and they are easily configured via GPO.
Could you indicate the billing frequently beside the price?
The main value of token compensation is liquidity. People frequently underestimate how long it will take until exit and their equity becoming cash.

Tokens for a good project are liquid immediately on numerous exchanges, and likely will be worth at least something. Don't neglect the time value of money.
to think that we are one of the last generation to live under a somehow "free" WWW is something that we will all feel nostalgic about soon enough. we just wouldn't be able to express our regret later on as we will all be tracked and sued for expressing opinions that medias and governments deem as conspiracy or fake news.
Well, I'm sure it can't be worse than debugging a code using == instead of ===: at least you can look at the implementation :)
The working out etc part is only necessary if they ever plan to go back to Earth.
Large, devastating fires can be prevented by clearing out fuel and doing smaller controlled burns.
Everyone is ignoring that 98% of students doing the Public Service Loan Forgiveness are rejected for some vague inexplicable reason.

I don't think 98% of people are doing it wrong
Chester Wilmot, author of "The Struggle for Europe" who was an Australian War Correspondent during the Second World War was one of the passengers who sadly lost their lives in the crash of the Comet over the Mediterranean Sea.

I can recommend "The Struggle for Europe" - he wasn't just writing about the history, he was actively taking part.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chester_Wilmot
I'd love to tinker with this. What is a classic problem or demo for graph neural networks? Is there an equivalent to the MNIST problem for GNNs that would make a good learning exercise?
You first asked for C-style enums, which are not type safe constants (but nothing more than integer constants), then asked for type-safe constants, and then, you say they are not enough either and you want full-blown rust-style enums, which are not enumeration types but true sum types.

Thing is, as soon as you provide users with one more feature, some of these users want even more features: "yeah, enums are great, but I would like to have type safety with them; oh, type safety is important, but why not have sum types, after all? Oh, now that we have sum types, why not add pattern-matching?"

All of these features are great, but they make the language harder to master, and tooling harder to write. This is a tradeoff, there are many languages that implement all the features its users want (I can think of C++, Rust, probably C# too), why not let other language designers try another way?

I have to admit I wouldn't dislike an enum construct in Go, just syntactic sugar that would be equivalent to the type foo int + const block, but I certainly won't push for it.
Here we're talking about PNG format, for which a codec already exists.

I was asking about the integration work, exporting high quality Rust libraries with a C API and calling from Skia for example.
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I'm reminded of this every time I set up a Reddit app on a new phone. I have to set my filters manually each time, and it's crazy how many garbage meme/videogame/superhero subs targeted at kids I have to block before my r/all experience goes back to normal.
It would suffice to use less non-carbon-based energy to capture the CO2.
Once I scale up Azure analysis services(main data source for company Marketing and decision making) cause we were running low memory in peak hours, only to find out that I couldn't scale down, increasing cost by 300%. I had to recreate all the models again in the old tier increasing even more the cost cause we have to maintain both data sources till I finish with the creation of the models. My boss was mad.~azure lvl 100 destruction~
I'm the same.

QBasic, GW Basic, Commodore 64, those were the big ones for me as a kid.

Without them, I probably wouldn't be a programmer today.
"You can't extrapolation the future from current trends. "

Yes, you can.

We are learning and adapting our civilizations, and by most measures, it looks like we are 'getting better'.

If we continue along this path, things will likely improve.

Nobody is suggesting that there cannot be alternate dynamics. We all face the risk of war, famine, climate change etc.
Yep, so it's why it was forgotten so many times in history.
I could have posted this exact post. I use Anki to slowly study subjects that I'm interested in, including foreign alphabets. Myself and my oldest daughter are doing Greek right now.
The other advantage is that revealed preferences tend to be fairly rational. Not 100% and there are systemic issues in them, to be sure, but they're often quite good. In fact I'd say they're reliably better than their criticisms.

That is, given a revealed preference and someone claiming they've identified a bias, I start from the presumption the revealed preference is actually rational and the explanation of the bias is wrong, because, well, the article is clearly correct. I see it online all the time. There's a bias bias, the presumption that if someone explains why something is biased, that's it, case closed, no further analysis needed. I see that bias in myself. It's hard to overcome, which is why I (try to) start by presuming the revealed preference is correct.

People's explanations of their revealed preferences are, by contrast, hot steaming garbage. People are terrible at explaining their reasons. So terrible that I think it actually plays into bias bias, because if you take people's explanations seriously they sound incredibly irrational, so it's merely a matter of trying to explain their irrationality. It seems so fruitful. But while studying patterns in rationalization is probably an interesting topic of its own, studying rationalization shouldn't be confused for studying what people do. In general, I (try to) start out by discarding someone's claimed reasons for doing something, unless they do a very good job of convincing me they're actually good at introspection and have made an at least halfway serious attempt at it.
A looming retirement crisis threatens us and future generations
The quote you replied to is referring to global poverty, not Africa specifically. And maybe you missed that it’s a quote from Hickel straight out of the article.
If you're asking here, you probably don't have enough knowledge to understand if their token has a chance of returning a profit.

As other commenters say, most ICO nowadays are scams and risky business as well when it comes to regulations.

I would be very very very careful here.

But then, the chances that they get some value VS the chances that some other startup's equity gets some value might be higher.
As with tokens, loyalty programs have a long history of devaluing points without warning.
Once again, there is no need for very much to be in memory at one time. This is accumulation and buffers can be reused. I'm not sure how much more I can simplify this other than to say that addition doesn't care about ordering, you can just add continually without needing access to any of the other data that has been rasterized.
Points like that are frequently devalued thru worse conversion rates or increased barriers to using the points.
I disagree profoundly, but that's because I work with Windows every day and Nadella has helped turn it into a horrible garbage fire of a product with no QA, user-hostile features, and a bunch of crap nobody asked for. Say what you will about Balmer, but Windows was a better product under him.
Imagine you could combine the redwood dna, with bambus- a plant perfectly adapted to humans by beeing fast growing and resilient, turning into a plant perfectly adapted to what earth once was before us.