skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(we're too many levels deep on hn, so replying to myself - this may end up going beyond what would be a good discussion on hn though)

> vim is lightweight and miles ahead of ed.

and modern browsers are miles ahead of where they were 10 years ago, giving us better text rendering, better image rendering, much better layout, and better interactivity.

> Solution: don't use javascript.

for some things, this is acceptable, but for some applications this simply does not make sense. loading a static page, probably shouldn't be any javascript.

viewing a map, where you can zoom in and out, as well as pan around should probably use javascript. I'd be interested in hearing how you would solve that use case without using javascript.

> Honestly I don't see where the problem is a user problem. It's a problem, for sure, but I believe it rests solely in the hands of the developer and web site's servers.
> > I'm happy to provide concrete examples, if you want.
> I would like that, if you're willing to also learn how I think some of the examples might be done differently.

here's an example of something that I did real-world with web workers:

a city's building footprints, loaded from a feature service (~150mb as JSON), processed by a user-specific variable (such as age of building, square feet, building usage: store, warehouse, residential) where each building is rendered on an interactive map in different colors based on the visualization type. this can be done server-side, with 150mb of data rendered onto either vector or raster images, each processing tiles for any location, or it can be rendered in browser. without using web workers, expect a 5 minute freeze while everything loads, gets processed, and rendered into the dom, with the experience repeating every time criteria is changed or the map is moved. with web workers, it is near real-time, with no freeze. if this were rendered on the server, it would be quite a lot of server cpu usage to render on the fly, or a huge amount of image space to render ahead of time, plus very large amounts of data. add another layer on top of it, and you're looking at doubling that, along with huge data transfer, which would not make for a very good user experience.

I'd be interested in hearing an alternate way to provide this, while keeping the data usage, server disk usage, and cpu usage (server and client) to a minimum, while still providing a compelling user experience to the user.
Flat image is here as well: https://imgur.com/RpXQRBp.jpg
An alternative that will soon support multi master is rancher/k3s if you want a lightweight k8
I just don't see a significant difference between the modern education... and any other. It happens to be more practical, useful and even more correct, but the majority of its believers mistreat, and misunderstand it, just as they would anything else.

It's definitely better, but not fundamentally superior. (this perhaps is the troll, the blasphemy, the should-be-made illegal belief)

>I feel that you're conflating your experiences with, or observations of, bad teaching -- with education in the general / abstract.

I'm arguing that, in practice, education is not education, and thus telling people to get educated as a solution to some mistake like following psychics blindly, is based on the exact same mistake that the target person made. If you critically think about education as it occurs in practice, it rarely offers critical thinking; it theoretically does, just as the bible theoretically offers you inner peace, but in practice, it does not. And its difficult to argue that the (now like ggggp) gp meant your idealized form of it, because you wouldn't get the solution from the default form of education. But the mistake was made, because of a blind faith in how the system describes itself (your idealized version), rather than an understanding of how it actually functions.

Also what do you have against a good wholesome christian/hindu/muslim/etc? Ignoring the god-ly aspect, religion passes down a culture, and they tend to be pretty damn good ones at that, if they don't run off to some extreme (the good, wholesome description protects us from that scenario). Of course they have their history... but again, so does any other. A religious or geographic one, they all have something to be ashamed of. It's not like the heathens and worshippers of science are without fault as well.

Blind faith in education is as dumb as blind faith in a psychic. ...and it turns out education doesn't stop you from executing blind faith.
It's weird, but often instead of Monterrey Jack, I want to say Mercury Jack. It's the word that comes first in my brain, though I don't let it out of my mouth. It takes a few seconds to remember the proper name. I guess the words are pretty similar-looking in my brain. Oddly enough, I only seem to make the mistake when referring to the cheese and not the city, but it could simply be that I talk more about the cheese than the city, too.
Rather Electrolysis. Switched it on when it was not default yet, and happy with it. That killed the performance plus for Chrome (Chromium at least), but either way I was never satisfied enough with Chromium.
"e10s compatible" add-ons were as fully-featured as the "original" XUL add-ons and did not interfere with multi-process at all. For instance, VimFx was e10s compatible and could even run with Firefox Nightly (which allowed "legacy" add-ons), without disabling multi-process, until about Firefox 65(!), without major changes.
Generate AC then use diodes to turn it into DC
Schizophrenia's Surprising Link to the Gut
Biggest boom we’ve ever witnessed and we still accept demeaning interviews ...
Me neither. It may or may not be true in Edge, I've never tried, but it absolutely wasn't true in any IE so I wouldn't naturally expect it to be true in Edge.

I certainly see where GP is coming from, Microsoft do have an awesome legacy in dev tooling that lives on to this day with products like VSCode, but browser tooling might be the glaring exception to this - perhaps since Microsoft never really was or became an 'internet' company.
repo: https://github.com/assister-ai/nancy
Thank you, that's very kind. Working on Theory of Computation. Don't know any functional analysis, sorry.
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> Corporations are people.

Corporations are entities made up of people that have incorporated. Corporations are therefore supported by people. If the people aren't there, a corporation will fall.

Forests don't need people, people need forests. To me, that would make them more important to protect than a corporation. For this reason, suing on behalf of a river seems quite reasonable to me if a corporation can, too.
> I'm guessing you are assuming that the electricity used by the vehicle is coming from an energy source that is partially renewable/carbon neutral, which isn't the case in most states[1].

You're looking at total generation, but you really need to look at how increasing demand over time is met, since that's really how marginal increases from changing usage (like switching to electric cars) is met.
Any interest in doing that? Serious question. There are some platforms such as WeBWorK http://webwork.maa.org/ that seem to me to be promising targets.
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The autoupdate group policy hasn’t changed since Windows XP and still exists in Windows Server 2016.

I shouldn’t have to buy 5 enterprise copies for ltsb to turn that shit back off.
The talent shortage is absolutely imaginary. The hiring process is run by incompetent internal recruiters and competitive developers with Aspergers whose goal is to reject as many people as possible in order to prove that no one is as smart as they are.
When I'm interviewing senior candidates or being interviewed, my preferred first interview is a conversation about interests, past work, and areas of future work. Depending on the ability to communicate effectively and deeply about topics of shared knowledge and interests that will decide the next steps. It also gives a good idea of the candidate and the company in the process. The best use of time all around. I have yet to be 'duped' by an imposter by this process. Some may be slightly underwhelming but I've yet to regret a hire or being hired.
Yep. Another recent example is the The White Earth band of Ojibwe recognition of the Rights of Manoomin (“wild rice”).

https://www.nationofchange.org/2019/02/04/the-white-earth-ba...

Linked article reminds us that 'In 2008, Ecuador and Bolivia both added Rights of Nature clauses to their constitutions.'

Not a moment too soon. To protect nature is to protect ourselves and our progeny. The same is true for any corporations in any way dependent on extraction (or as they learned to call it 'harvesting').
This is brilliant work. I'm not strong in NNs yet, but I am strong in prerequisites/blockers. This demos:

* Working in a rapid application development (RAD) fashion by operating on vectors using a language like Julia/MATLAB/Octave/Scilab which allows focusing on abstractions instead of implementation details and other distractions.

* Running code optimized automagically on GPU/TPU/etc.

* Sharing work over the web in a standard fashion (Jupyter Notebook on colab.research.google.com)

It's not clear to me where in this process the code is actually run on TPU (maybe someone has a tutorial?) but that doesn't really matter. The specific machine learning algorithm used is also not really that important.

The important part is that this enables amateurs to tinker with machine learning, see results quickly and share their work. Which means that now we'll finally see the accelerated evolution of machine learning.

Any of these blockers alone hindered the evolution of AI for decades, but seeing all three knocked down in one fell swoop is pretty astonishing, at least for me. I favorited it as a watershed moment in the history of AI! Congrats to him.
I quite like the design philosophy behind the Punkt phones. It looks like the MP01 is 2G only which would disqualify it for U.S. use. For the MP02 they say

> "Please note that some mobile phone service providers in the USA have not yet finished registering the MP02 for their networks.Because of this, some carriers currently require users to temporarily disable VoLTE on the MP02 (use 4G or 3G calling instead), and Verizon's network is currently unable to accept the MP02 at all. (This is an admin issue, not a technology issue.)"

Anyone who has actually used this device in the U.S. who can share experience? It sounds like you would still be able to use it as an LTE hotspot, but for voice you'd fall back to 4/3G.
I hope we do see some of these models come back. I know that it will probably be a small market segment, but I really liked my Samsung captivate glide.
Data Science predictive maintenance. Should I jump in? How do you make decisions
Hello all,
I have bin a follower of yvombinator for few years and most of the time surprised by the witness I could take from you guys.

Right now I’m facing kind of hard decision:

Now: working on an boring insurance job. Low stress. High pay.+ doing personal projects after work in the area of ai

Offer: freelance position. Data Science. Predictive Maintenance. Distributed team and low know how on my location. Interesting tech.

I would like to go to machine learning in long term. Why I’m still not taking the offer? My current position is extremely comfortable. The tasks are stupid but I can concentrate on side projects. On the other hand there is kind of incurrenty on the freelance position. Especially regarding workload and know how as well as the colleges. Couldn’t get a feeling if I would like them.

So how do you make such lifechanging decisions? Ok in this case it’s the same city. Worst case would be that I will not like it and searching something new. On the other hand I will loose a chilling job. Longterm I want to leave but short term I would like to concentrate on personal live and side projects.
The COP of a heat pump hot water heater is strongly dependent on the ambient and current water temperature. You get the best COP heating from cold, but it's not often that you have to reheat an entire tank of cold water. The actual achieved COP in normal use is more like 2-2.5.
Isn't that a bit like saying Facebook is just a collection of forwards from Granny? The compilation of raw materials into a coherent whole has a larger value than the existence of the raw materials.
And remember kids, even if you win the ratrace, you're still a rat.
Oh there's zero question that what they're doing. They are greedy and they aren't satisfied with the amount they have.
Twitter will just randomize the machine IDs and datacenter IDs
Man when that leaks there will be no putting that genie back in the bottle (for countries that haven't already legalised it).

I don't care either way but it's going to be hard to stop your pot farm when the two hallmarks (massive power consumption and thermal output) go away and there is a huge overlap with the brewing industry in terms of equipment.
1997 would be a good year to be doing this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKg1hTOQXoY

Pertinent bit to your question starts at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKg1hTOQXoY&t=1284
To an extent I disagree. Yes, drawing diagrams can be useful, but simply solving lots of problems is honestly the best way to learn maths. I also much prefer reading from a physical book. Im not sure simple animations will improve things massively.

I don't mind if a book skips some details and I have to fill it in myself, for example drawing a diagram to help understand a key point.

Perhaps in school most people treat maths more mechanically, and exploring requires more mathematical maturity. I don't think some basic animations will improve that directly.

That being said, people like 3b1b on YouTube are in the intersection of people who can animate and know the maths. They certainly produce things which spark the imagination.
> Corporations are entities made up of people that have incorporated.

No, corporations are legal persons created by law, with regard to which which other people (natural, non-natural legal, or a mix) are granted certain rights and privileges, by law.

They aren't made up of people they are made up of laws.
Of course it can. Fancy advanced degrees aren't worth anything - that's just the lie colleges tell you so you'll part with more money. You're supposed to be the valuable part. If you aren't valuable, no matter what that means in your modern market, then you could be living in the streets.
Thanks to all who took the time and wrote back. Every comment is valuable to me.
That makes a lot of sense. Thanks for the info
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Those who drive manual cars are frequently removing a hand from the wheel to adjust an aspect of the car without looking and I would be surprised if the momentary loss of a hand on the wheel would mean manual drivers had more accidents than automatic drivers.

Re: steering wheel buttons in general, it depends on how they're implemented. If you take an old idea [1] and provide tactile locating then it is easy to learn. If you can reuse a common paradigm (a knob for volume) there's no learning required. The steering wheel also is already a busy place - you have two or more stalks nearby, sometimes cruise control is part of the steering wheel buttons and even if not the amount of space means you are forced to provide a subset of functions. A stereo with tactile-marked buttons and knobs is known to most drivers via other paradigms and is easy to swap between cars.

[1]: https://patents.google.com/patent/US2350059A/en
It turns out that water boils quite slowly at room temperature and low pressure, so you’d need a very large surface area.
That was my experience. I took through calculus in high school, but that was a lot of years ago. I discovered my trig and logs were very weak, and started back at algebra 2 and worked my way forward. A lot of it was review, but a lot of it felt completely new to me.
Maybe this points out the real problem... There's no way to buy Windows minus the unsafe crap, and still use it for regular work.

It's what the "pro" version should be, but isn't.
BTW, here is the actual guidance/press release from USB-IF

https://www.usb.org/sites/default/files/usb_3_2_language_pro...

To me it seems the "press" is distorting this press release.

Excerpt :

USB 3.2 Gen 1

o Product capability: product signals at 5Gbps

o Marketing name: SuperSpeed USB

USB 3.2 Gen 2

o Product capability: product signals at 10Gbps

o Marketing name: SuperSpeed USB 10Gbps

USB 3.2 Gen 2x2
o Product capability: product signals at 20Gbps

o Marketing name: SuperSpeed USB 20Gbps

USB 3.2 Key Messages

• Defines multi-lane operation for new USB 3.2 hosts and devices, allowing for up to two lanes of 10Gbps operation to realize a 20Gbps data transfer rate, without sacrificing cable length.

• Delivers compelling performance boosts to meet requirements for demanding USB storage, display, and docking applications.

• Enables end-users to move content across devices quickly, conveniently and without worrying about compatibility.

• Backwards compatible with all existing USB products; will operate at lowest common speed capability.
> Twitter’s firehose is a complete stream of all tweets made on their platform and is only available to a few businesses at an extraordinary price.

Anyone happen to know what that price is?
Khan Academy is great, the only issue I have with it is it's too long-winded sometimes. Taking much longer than necessary at the cost of maintaining that comfort level of a beginner student. There is something to be said about struggling just enough according to your proficiency level (the idea of Flow in psychology).
With an asterisk that leads to 59 pages of legalese and somewhere in the lines you're giving up all rights to your own genetics...
The YouTube channel is an offspring from the blog (https://bicycledutch.wordpress.com), which adds text, thematic groups (https://bicycledutch.wordpress.com/index-by-theme/), etc.
> What we want in this country is not solely a free market, but a competitive one.

Who's this we business? Turn of the 20th century politicians?

> Rockefeller didn't just establish a great supply chain for his oil refineries, he began making railroad companies charge other refineries more than his company.

And were those railroads forced to take that deal? Economies of scale. Sounds similar to how Walmart is able to use their buying power to force down prices from their suppliers. "Raise prices for others" is the same as "Lower prices for me."

> Then he bought the railroads and made the process even easier.

Similar to how Walmart and now Amazon have their own shipping services as well (Walmart does their own back-haul).

> Or pay a director a few extra million just to stop working with HBO

I'm pretty sure this is already a thing? You can create all sorts of contracts around non-compete.

> We, as both consumers and free marketeers, do not want this behavior.

I want exactly this behavior. Hopefully we can cut out more middle people and have more direct-to-consumer purchasing model.
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This conception is far saner than other "rights to natrual entity" schemes and I must praise for being theoretically workable and fully consistent with other intangibles in property rights - those can be taken too far but there is a valid purpose to them.

Prior "ecological entity rite" proposals I heard were emotional appeals from true believers which sounded superficially good on the surface but made no damn sense. Who exactly can speak for the river with any authority? You say the river wants to be clean and unfished? I say it wants to be pretty and colorful with mine run-off! Those being affected by it have a perfectly solid claim to damages ahead of time and can help bring many parties to the table for nuance.
Just don't ever: grow old, break an arm/hand, become disabled, get weakened by illness, or be born a smaller person. Then yes, you'll always have an extra hand for off-wheek controls.
was something dismantled after vietnam?
Just because some people choose to get distracted doesn't mean the whole technology is worthless.
> Heaters are the only type of machine which are naturally efficient!

I had a big argument with my physics teacher about this back in highschool. He was so stuck on the "no machine is 100% efficient" dogma that he couldn't look past it to the definition of "efficiency" for a heater in a closed room.
Incase the status page goes down or update is removed the current statement is:

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#opshugs out to their engineers!
Quartz resonators still move and are affected by the direction of gravity
It's not about all people being irrational, it's about humans having negotiations and softly defined deals when it comes to money. Bitcoin doesn't fit this scenario like human-powered trusted authorities do.

There's a reason why the legal system exists to offer you the case-by-case evaluation when needed. Many people have lost money through bitcoin, through hacks or poorly coded contracts, or to scams, or directly funded criminals and terrorists. Those people would have much preferred a little "legal hell" as you call it rather than no recourse at all.
So?

It's exactly the same as Wikipedia; yet nobody calls Wikipedia a "sensitive database."

I mean "So?" from a privacy standpoint, from a business standpoint it's an issue for Dow Jones.
> I don't agree with your weird rant, without any sources.

We are in a thread about browsers and web standards. Do I really need to explain that Apple pushed h.264 on the web, ultimately forcing a binary blob on Firefox? The lagging on web standards is a common complaint among web developers.
My vote is to get rid of the 'literal government granted monopoly' which created the problem in the first place.
> That would be kind of a no-op.

It would remove North Korea, Laos and Vietnam, and a host of other countries where the totalitarian inclinations weren’t able to reach their final goals yet.

> comparing it to free-market dictatorships is a more useful comparison.

Could you list a few free-market dictatorships? Do you think poor African countries are free markets?

> affected by economic warfare waged by the USA.

It’s funny, when the US invests in a foreign country, it’s evil imperialism; when it doesn’t, it’s economic warfare.

> I'm not interested in an index that shows how much a conservative think tank likes a country's policies.

Their methodology is fully available. Do you have any criticism on their data other than that it was produced by people you don’t like?

There is a strong correlation between the economic freedom index and the OECD quality of life index. Is the OECD a conservative think tank? Do you think this correlation is just coincidence?

> almost all countries with a higher GDP rank higher than Cuba on that index.

Is this also a coincidence?

> I don't think the CIA would just parrot Cuban propaganda.

I was taking about the numbers from Wikipedia, which are about twice as high as those from the CIA. And still the CIA number seems overly optimistic, given average salaries of $30.

That, or the inequalities among the Cuba political elite and normal people strongly distort the average. Who would have thought.
And Apple takes the web platform not seriously at all, which is why the author's suggestion is ludicrous.