skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can follow virtually anything on RSS still. Blogs, every biology journal that I know of, pubmed or google scholar search term RSS feeds (super useful, can be a topic, journal, even author), subreddits, HN, youtube channels, twitter, email newsletters (kill the newsletter), the list goes on and on and there are even services to turn things that don't have RSS feeds into an RSS feed (like kill the newsletter). My workflow is have things categorized in inoreader and push interesting articles to pocket (or just open the HN/reddit thread). No paywall, and no ads. There's never been a better time to follow RSS feeds.

Your discovery would be from either your own search engine cleverness derived from spotting a topic in your articles, or directly shared to you by what you follow, like good topics in HN. NYT and LA times are both really good at sharing content from other newspapers, magazines, blogs, and other sources in their newsletters (which I follow via an atom feed from kill the newsletter).

Facebook, twitter, youtube, and the ilk are all pretty poor at discovery, to be honest. Discovery to the decision makers at these platforms is more towards manipulating into more and more advertising engagement than any knowledge dissemination.
DeepEvolve: Hyperparameter discovery for neural nets using genetic algorithms
The approach would have been easier way for me to answer the question. I wrote something like that to guesstimate the number of git commits on GitHub a project I didn't have time to clone a few years back (I think it was Linux). Basically I started at page 1, then went to 2, 4, 8, 16, etc. When I hit a 404, I went back 50% of the way to the previous number (e.g. if it was page 1024, the previous was 512, then I went to 768). If 50% was a 404, go to back midpoint of lower range (e.g. midpoint of 512 and 768). It if was legit, go to midpoint of upper range (e.g. between 768 and 1024). Wash/rinse/repeat. It was a fun exercise to burn some time on a slow day. If someone actually wants to see the code, reply to this comment and I'll find it, or write it again.

Now I want to go back and study up on that dynamic programming stuff again! Yay inspiration!
Sure, but as far as I'm concerned if you get the byline you own the content. Again I like Yong, not faulting him but rather a general trend in media.
I'm being a science curmudgeon.
That just has a straightforward recursive solution. I’m not even sure where the DP comes in beyond that.
> I'm hoping there's enough "anchor cities/regions", like Nashville/RTP/Kansas City, that have contingency plans and referendums ready for an infrastructure push at the local level if Fiber pulls out there, to prevent all white-collar talent from drifting towards the coasts and leave a complete vacuum everywhere else.

Which is why the cable cartel is lobbying at state-level to make deny cities that option - conveniently, those cities are in red states.
Parent post is talking about suicide rate, not murder rate. Unless the original post mixed it up and later corrected it.
>> In Michigan, as one example, for just one extra cent per kilowatt/hour you can have 100% renewable electricity in your home right now. No new wires, no extra setup.

Not really. The electrons all go through through the same wires regardless of where they come from. I think the extra cent does in some way incentivize renewable power, but you don't literally get 100% renewable energy.
It seems to me that letting yourself work under the assumption something may be easy to fix later when you add the safety constraints back is just asking for major pains when it isn't easy. A wrong assumption at that level can render your entire algorithm unworkable if your plan was to make it safe in the end, since some patters just don't lend themselves to easy expression in rust. Then you're stuck with the choice, leave it unsafe and worry about it from them on, or rewrite it safely using an altered or entirely different algorithm. That doesn't seem like a gamble that's worth it to me.

Even for exploratory code. Unless it's such a performance critical portion of the project that I'm willing to write it in a different language for speed, why bait myself so?

If one of my goals for a project is to write somewhat functionally, I wouldn't start off with an exploratory approach using procedural techniques. I think we can all see what I'd probably end up with in the end, and it might work, but it probably wouldn't have some of the attributes I was hoping for.
> It's not enough to say you're dominant in a niche, albeit a growing one.

When you're facing technology transitions, looking at it as a niche is exactly the wrong perspective. Tesla is dominant in a field which is the future of automotive transportation. It is a small market not because it is a niche but because it is nascent. The difference is, strategically, very relevant.

ICE automakers are just realizing how far behind Tesla they are. I'd wager at least ten years. The model S was launched in 2012, VW et al won't be able to launch a similar offer before 2022.
Personally, I had the same experience as you did, except the borrow checker also helped me unlearn a few bad habits and gave me a deeper understanding of references. Now it is second nature, and I rarely every fight the borrow checker. I think part of it is planning ahead.
Visa and Mastercard do actually charge 30% if you don't pay within 30 days or so. Why is that not equally laughable?

Is it because they provide a service in exchange for that 30%, a service that many people are willing to pay 30% for?
>Students never being told that math is actually difficult and requires perseverance, encountering a struggle for the first time in math, and taking it as a personal failing rather than the expected order of things.

I think this bullet point overlooks other factors contributing to the idea that the math anxiety is a personal failing.

For example, kids doing poorly in math observe other kids that grasp the concepts quickly and don't fall behind. Some get A's without struggling.

The article/study of this thread is about primary & secondary school and at that young age, the math of Algebra, Trigonometry, etc was not difficult for me. It was tedious (e.g. endless manual matrix multiplication exercises) -- but it was never difficult. Some kids really do struggle with basic topics like fractions, percentages, reciprocals, etc.

The first time math was "difficult" was Calculus I. (What's this delta-epsilon proof of a limit all about and why do I care?)

Yes, one has to practice math but kids are not stupid in that they see some of their peers master it easily. The kids understandably conclude that their brain isn't optimized to easily understand math. Explaining to those slower kids that "math is difficult therefore you must practice more" actually increases their math anxiety.
So you think the New York Times doesn’t have free speech rights?
I worked professionally in Haskell for a long time and I cannot disagree with you more. This is always the promise of strict functional languages but in a business setting where the very nature of what you build has to be arbitrarily mutable at the whim of competing interests between stakeholders, engineers, customers, etc., it just doesn’t work.

You end up with the same spaghetti code messes, unexpected runtime errors, indecipherable crashes, etc. no matter what degree of strict verification tooling you use. The introduction of lazy evaluation, difficult to debug tail recursion implications on memory consumption, elevating IO into the type system, burying details deep in type class patterns, relying on dozens of special case compiler directives to enhance Haskell... it becomes the same shit code mess as any other paradigm.
The CDU won't stop until they are at 10%, just like the SPD.

It is tragic, because people who are more libertarian now vote for an alternative that isn't necessarily better.

But as long as (forced subscription) state television propaganda works, I guess everything is perfect.
Airlines and general aviation aircraft have totally ignored AoA as a relevant indicator until very recently. You won't find an AoA indicator in even a modern Cessna.

As a student pilot you're taught about unsafe low airspeeds instead, even though AoA can technically cause a wing to stall at any airspeed, and even though that memorized stall airspeed ($V_s1$) actually varies with factors like plane weight.

AoA is not considered fundamental in commercial aviation, but is considered fundamental in military aviation.

Of course, if your commercial aircraft has a tendency towards stall, that changes the calculus on how important AoA is..
It’s Not Your Fault, Your Brain Is Self-Centered
Perhaps "delivered to you twice a month" would be even better
Burst is basically an upgrade to Roslyn with some perf warnings set to errors.

IL2CPP is literally required on iOS but the perf gain you get on Android was never very good. Because of its general instability, a lot of games just ship in mono mode.

It's funny that you're saying both Burst and IL2CPP are required. Can't you see that Burst is an admission that IL2CPP wasn't the way to go?
General availability of RavenDB 4.1 in the cloud
MTGOX-USD codes were about as liquid as you could get 7-8 years ago.
Are you suggesting that Rust is not as safe as it claims? Or that C++ is as safe as Rust?

There’s a lot of research to disagree with either of those positions.
A New Kind of Mouse
I guess you didn't take the time to read the full response:

When we reached out to Spotify about Siri and AirPlay 2 support on several occasions, they’ve told us they’re working on it, and we stand ready to help them where we can.
More time, yes. A lot more time?

Filling a gas tank takes what, 10 minutes? Charging at a supercharger takes 30 minutes. That's more, but not ridiculously so.

For comparison, getting the same charge at home from the recommended outlet takes 4 hours. Getting the same charge off of a home outlet is something like 36 hours.

So yes, it can take a long time. But it doesn't have to.
Walmart flies employees to top hospitals in other states for treatment
try talking to `bahnsicherheit` about wholecars. i bet they'll be chill
While the US government usually acts in a collective fashion this particular action has Trump fingerprints on it:

* He isn't particularly concerned with pissing off allies.

* He has taken a particular interest in North Korean negotiations so is likely taking more direct control on this front.

* These actions demonstrate a desire to increase US negotiating leverage especially in light of the last failed summit.
An obituary for small modular reactors
> Spotify wants a lower $ charge. Apple owns the platform and controls that access and $ charge. That's it.

I think that's an oversimplification.

When you control the platform and then use that control to favor your own products on that platform, that's anti-competitive.
There are multiple contradictory studies from Harvard about eggs.

As a result, there are youtubers who believe that cholesterol is a benficial steroid-like substance for muscle growth (Snake Diet guy), and others who feel tha it causes heart disease and death (Vegans such as durianrider)

The interesting thing is that both men seem to be qualitatively and quantitatively healthy, both on blood tests and physical performances
The flex circuit technology is the most interesting aspect of the Model Y, if the plans haven't changed.
I thought, "how bad could it be". Then I tried it... I don't think I've ever seen a UI like that! Just begs to be redone.
and much of the EU internet traffic, including to/from germany, goes through the UK. I'm not sure why I'm being downvoted for pointing out a relevant fact on US and western allies who share intel and basically have tapped most all of the fiber in the world via legal or illegal methods (per the snowden docs).
Hey Retra, I looked at your comment history, to see why you'd possibly be saying this.

I've noticed two type of comments that you made:

1. Comments that have substantial reasoning, mostly technical but not always. These seemed to be appreciated.

2. Short comments that seemed to attack the person or a particular concept. These short comments did not have any reasoning from your side. Also, most of these comments are non-technical.

My first thought was: it seems that you have a lot of technical knowledge, and people appreciate this. I know I do.

Two observations on the category 2 comments you make:

1. In the comments that I skimmed, no one seemed to tell you to read the guidelines. I'll post the link [1]. Saying "then get cancer and die young" is an offensive thing to say because you're attacking the person. For some people this is obvious, but based on your comment history, I doubt whether this is obvious to you. Attacking a person is not a civil thing to do, not a nice thing to do (unless it's meant in a constructive fashion, even then it'd be debatably constructive). Regardless of that, it is in violation of the guidelines. As a technical person, I hope you'd appreciate that I'm pointing to a source appointed by Y Combinator. They make the rules on how to behave here, so then behave like that, the guidelines are reasonable. You seem to do so in most of your comments.

2. In most cases, short comments don't work quite well on Hacker News (many counter examples exist, I'm describing a trend which I observe). This is not because HN'ers dislike discussion, they dislike a discussion that does not have scientific evidence (again, a trend), most already have a problem when someone says "based on my experience". Do with this observation what you will, it's just my observation which is biased as well.

I hope these two points will help you to improve your comments like these ones, because it is obvious that you have a lot of insightful things to offer. And HN would be a more fun place if we'd see more of that and less of "then get cancer and die young" type of comments.

If you want a private conversation about this, you can always email me (check my profile).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html -- read the section "In Comments"
AFAIK this is a draft for a new police law in North-Rhein Westfalia (NRW), so it would affect “only” that province. NRW was also the province that made the draft for the infamous new police law.

The article says the draft is beeing discussed in the Bundesrat. The draft is mainly targeted on dark net market places, but its formulation is broad enough that one could argue TOR exit nodes could be affected by it (its forbids platforms that enable criminal behaviour, which is arguably nearly everything if you squint your eyes the right way).

German privacy activists are mainly suspicous here because there is no real reason for the draft to exist. Running illegal black market sites is already illegal under german law, because the stuff you sell there is illegal — it doesn’t matter if you do it online.

Why such a law then?
I feel like the advent of Trump has taken some of the urgency out of tearing down the worst parts of the national security infrastructure, and probably removed that as a possibility while he's around, since he seems to only want to destroy what is good and functional. It's like not being able to worry about chronic back pain because you're bleeding to death.
In "Algorithms" [Dasgupta, Papamdimitriou, Vazirani] they state that the memoization (e.g. querying a hash table) can have significant overhead leading to a large constant factor in the big O analysis. On the other hand, the bottom up approach using a table solves all the possible subproblems including ones that are not needed and ones that the recursive approach would avoid. So from a big O perspective the recursive top-down and the table bottom-up approaches are the same but there can be significant constant factor differences.
I suppose if an artistic person broadcast the news in an artistic manner, sure, why not?
" There's no public right to have a music app be charged a certain amount that's called "fair". Spotify could charge nothing to consumers, and be charged nothing by Apple. It's their choice. It's Apple's choice."

Competition laws place limitations on what a business can do. They're not free to sell or price entirely as they please.

In this case Spotify are arguing that Apple is using its dominance of the smartphone market to give an unfair advantage to its own music store. Whether or not this is true is up to the courts to decide, but it's not a frivilous case; there's a real risk to Apple that they lose.
Visual Studio Community (which is everything you'd need if you aren't a large team) is free. You can use it for up to 5 users for commercial work.
QR codes, too.
The R is for Reliability, and the F is for Fun.
And what you just cited should be taken in context, and that context is that native people in Canada have been subjected till very recently to a program of forced assimilation.[1]

Some people call it cultural genocide.

Basically we tried as hard as we could to "take the indian out of the indian."

They would come into villages, as late as the sixties and take all the children away from their parents and put them in "residential schools" where they were beaten for speaking their language.

Thousands died in these institutions.

So perhaps another way to read it, is from the positive side. That is to say that some native people of Canada can remember their traditions and are attempting to practise them despite a hundred and fifty years of persecution.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Indian_residential_sc...
Here's a video of a glass one spinning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yh5GCZw5iHE
Not quite. The person you’re responding to is talking about the motivations and beliefs that lead to the clichés, not the things themselves.
Natural Language Processing’s Crazy Busy Start to 2019
How to Spy on Your Competitors and Steal Their Traffic
Major Ice Ages May Be Caused by Tectonic Collisions
John Williams did the soundtrack for so many action/sci-fi movies and used different kinds of classical themes to represent imperial stormtroopers, luke skywalker, etc.

So far as "rich villian" goes, i think it is best expressed in anime and kung fu movies, but you will see it in cowboy movies, crime movies, etc.

In this story the protagonist takes down not just one evil person (say Dirty Harry vs Scorpio) but an entire evil organization.

That organization inevitably has a social hierarchy that goes from bottom to top. The protagonist first beats up the poor bad guys and then beats up the foreman who is paid $2
an hour more for being a little more responsible. Only after beating up the poor criminals does the protagonist get to beat up the person at the top of the conspiracy.

"Lethal Weapon 3" is a great example, but "Sailor Moon" defeats a supernatural invasion that is organized like a military organization with enlisted monsters, lieutenants, generals and Queen Beryl at the top -- it demonstrates how the structure can fold and unfold like an accordion and fit any timebox.
How effectively would they able to enforce this? Aren't those nodes precisely designed to evade detection? I perversely welcome such surmountable hindrances to liberating technology -- it feeds the antifragility of the target
Wired vs wireless... With anything securityrelated, it should really be wired. At least cameras. It's very, very easy to just run a simple $2 sniffer (eg an esp8266) that sends de-auth packets and thus kicking devices off the wifi.

In our neighborhood, we've had quite a few thefts of skiboxes (the ones that go on top of the car) recently, and several say the security cameras seemed to be unconnected at the time, hinting at some use of de-auther/jammer.
I have math anxiety and I have a BS in it ._.
I have not read his manifesto, but it sounds as if he identifies as far right, espousing policies that are generally considered to be of the far right. According to [0], he identifies himself as a fascist.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/15/rightwing-extr...
>Is the purpose of this infrastructure to facilitate all this criminality?
>To ask merely of a technical measure serves a criminal purpose without regard to a greater purpose is to criminalize any censorship resistant network.

There's two vastly different talking points here, a) the Tor network and similar tech that could get caught in legalese crossfire and b) specific websites that utilize the above. I agree on your sentiment that a) should never be outlawed but the German text seems rather specifically worded to address b). Please be assured that I'm not trying arguing that these people have enough technical understanding to not make it unnecessarily broad and throw a) under the bus as well.

I believe my main point still stands, b) is the equivalent of me opening a corner shop advertised as "illegal arms deals" and pretty much legislated enough.
Children Sleeping 'Less and Less'
Beto O'Rourke's membership in America's oldest hacking group
Maybe the infrastructure that is in place to support cars could pivot to public transport?
We could replace some/all lanes on motorways/interstates with train tracks. Reduce roads in cities to one way and install trams in the other lanes.
Glad to see I'm not the only one who became a programmer because of Runescape. :)
tbh, having read the draft, I am still not clear whether running a node/the browser is to be made illegal.

that's what the Zeit article says, too: the worst interpretation is, yes it will be made illegal. another, more benevolent reading is that there should be harder punishments for providing a concrete platform for illegal activities.

so how can you make a draft that is so vague? make no mistake, this is not incompetency. as per Zeit, and I agree, this is intentional to scare those who run the browser/a node.

also, consider Günter Krings' proposal to make the entire 'dark web' illegal. his reasoning: that an open democracy has no need for such a structure. so, because germany is an 'open democracy', he thinks germany can abolish the open internet altogether?

eidt: word.
"Real" classical music, like the 19th century Russian opera "Ruslan and Ludmila", the title music for the sitcom "Mom"?
Yeah that seems to be the key phrase and very very vague.

Terrorists for a while used email accounts where they'd write drafts, share username and password and read those drafts.

Obviously email isn't "for" terrorism but they used it .... but exactly where that line is is confusing.

If I provide a privacy focused service, it stands to reason criminals would like that ... I don't like it, but that's just me saying that, but is that "purpose"?
> you don't literally get 100% renewable energy. The electrons all go through through the same wires regardless

Yes, you actually do. Consumers Energy literally generates that amount of renewable energy instead of the equivalent from Natural Gas.

You are technically correct that my home does not get the specific "renewable electrons" that the wind farm itself generated, since the grid is all interconnected. But that doesn't change the fact that the power company burned less Natural Gas that month, for every user who opted instead for renewable energy.
Show HN: Dockerised Pgmodeler launched from cross-platform GTK Rust application
Interesting. I would be interested to know more details about what you worked on and with whom. This hasn't been my experience in any of the four jobs I've used Haskell at.

I don't deny that Haskell leads to spaghetti code messes, unexpected runtime errors, and indecipherable crashes, but the Java that I've previously worked with and the Python I currently work with suffer from those to a degree greater by an order of magnitude.
https://github.com/Microsoft/monaco-editor/issues/1209
I think it's worth stating that learning to control your emotions is not synonymous with learning to suppress your emotions. The first involves acknowledging the emotion and expressing/discussing it or it's cause if it is warranted the second approach simply ignores both symptom and cause regardless of validity.
“Normative assumptions” need not be complex