skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did someone really just write a blog post on not downgrading an account without knowing what you're doing? Yes, you should not do that. You also shouldn't buy something without knowing what you're paying for, shouldn't vote for something you don't know what it is, you shouldn't eat stuff which might be poisonous but don't know for sure, you shouldn't cross a street without looking, gosh you certainly shouldn't drive a car with closed eyes not knowing where you're driving. Let's remind everyone of these things regularly, as this stuff is apparently not obvious anymore in 2019.
Not sure if it's still a thing, but the slowness of starting the REPL was what kept me from moving to Clojure. Python is doing much better in that regard.
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If you are referring the course content creation. Well, I have thought about it.

In the initial stages, No.

You would want to have control over the content to
1. Update / Iterate it faster
2. Sense of continuity when switching from one course to successive one.

One of the problem, I have personally felt is the abundance of video based courses for a single topic. And none whatsoever for a deeper topic.

When you jump from one video-based course to another, then you either feel there is a bit of overlap or a bit of skip of content. This is due to different university teaching style and syllabus.

Self-learning online today, basically feels a bit disorganized. You need to scourge through the entire internet to find good resources. A lot of people have created wonderful platforms ("awesome" repos, Learn-anything.xyz etc) to curate those resources and my experience has been opposite when I encounter these resources.

I need one good resource, not 10+ resources to learn about a topic. And when I do complete a course, I feel I am missing out by not completing other good resource. This might be only a personal experience though.

The D.R.Y. Principle I wrote in the website, basically means, you don't need to waste effort studying something you have already covered. The teaching style will be uniform. And you can scale deeply. Kind of a like an endless book that keeps on adding new updated things for you to learn more. It is easier when you are in charge of course creation.

That being said, all the Course Notebooks, will be available free for everyone. Anyone can read what Primer is trying to teach without spending a penny.

Also, I don't have a fixed plan. Everything is based on this hypothesis that Conversational Learning is better for self-studying than video based courses. Given we are able to prove by putting Computer Science Resources by the end of the year, then we can discuss about what would be the best way forward.

Hope it makes sense.
The state of accessible web UI frameworks
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I don't intend to dispute this claim. In fact, it's still correct. And I'm biased, I've got a Samsung phone.

Still, opinion improved a bit when my S8+ got a march 2019 update which upgraded it to Android 9.0 (phone shipped with Android 7 in May 2017) and basically the same features/skin as what's just been released on the S10 lineup. Makes me hopeful that maybe they are improving their update game going forward.
I really doubt EI, if we can't even measure intelligence think about emotional and other factors.
> In order to be vetted as an individual critic, you should meet the following guidelines:
Written

> • Consistent output for a minimum of two years.

> • Demonstrated film/TV coverage at a publication outside of a self-published website. If you are a self-publishing critic, your reviews should reflect our key values.

Having journalist rate other journalists won't serve as a good filter on the actual quality of reporting. They may pick up on technical errors, but it doesn't address the large problem with modern reporting, which is inaccuracies or misstatements on technical topics. I'd rather have a review system of SME specific to the topic discussed.

For instance, an article written on some AI breakthrough would be critiqued by researchers in that field.

I understand that would be more difficult as it would greatly increase the number of reviewers required, but on the flip side a single reviewer would likely be more representative of her industry. I frankly don't care what other journalists think about the work of their peers since they all have the same biases
Nintendo plans two new Switch models for 2019 – one is cheaper, one is high-end
Not so much these days, but back in the day I came across plenty of very explicit, very deliberate gender and racial bias. Talking to my mother, her whole career as a teacher was shaped by it.

The way I see it, there is very clear gender and racial and other minority under-representation in some areas of tech and employment. Some of the reasons for that might be benign, others might not. It makes sense to me to poke at this problem and explore it and push against it's boundaries, obviously in a non-damaging way.

This seems to me to be a positive way to do this. If women going to coding camps typically find themselves in a small minority among a big room full of guys, that isn't necessarily ideal for them. It's not anybody's fault, it's not like anybody has done anything wrong, but it can be an obstacle for those women to overcome. So why not try to minimise that obstacle?
Take a break after a meeting to recover a bit. Don't feel obliged to stay as productive as on the days that don't have meetings. If you are demanded to be as productive on the days with meetings, then you can just explain that your attentional resources are limited and the demand is excessive.

After all, you are paid for the time spent on meetings, so it's not you, but the business is the entity which should bother about productiveness of your time.
A few hundred years is nothing compared to the time the universe had habitable planets.
Ah perhaps. It certainly nicer than an explicit locks in "business" code
That's just plain wrong. If the AK shares anything with another weapon, it's actually the M1 Garand and its bolt.

https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2016/10/22/no-germans-di...
It's strange to think that with all the research that has gone into 2D weave patterns, I have yet to see any real application of it come out of the PCB dielectric industry.
Serverless Artillery: Instant, cheap, and easy performance testing at scale
Describing Chinese Characters with Recursive Radical Packing Language
> What kind of abuse?

Child sexual exploitation is a well researched bit of criminology. Jessica Eaton has a lot of research focusing on female victims which covers all of this stuff.
>> My opinion is we're in something of a Well World universe, where everyone is pretty well travel-isolated from their neighbors.

Let us hope so.
Some US computer scientists managed to avoid it, with great effort:

“Clearly the game was potentially addictive, so I forced myself to stop playing — reasoning that it was great fun, sure, but traditional computer science research is great fun too, possibly even more so.”

— Donald Knuth
Organix UI
I think it's stupid that GitHub stores (meta-) data in a place that's not governed by git. Everything should be in git.
I agree, and quite like Gitlab, but Github's recent decision to allow free private repos has surely put a bit of a dent in Gitlab/Bitbucket's marketshare expansion - many people were using those services instead of Github just for that feature.
Netflix Average Revenue per User: $30. Facebook's? $35
Exactly. Or a bit more succinct: High-volume, low-margin (as with the iPhone SE) is neither a viable growth strategy for Apple (the volumes would have to be huge and it would erode the brand -- way too risky), nor a viable complementary offering (as it would cannibalize other products).
Taking a look at the Rotten Tomatoes “Top 100 Films of All Time” list [1], I’m not exactly sure why it’s a model to be replicated. It’s extremely obvious that “top” means “popular and/or most advertised.”

[1] https://www.rottentomatoes.com/top/bestofrt/
Because the growth of a population of rabbits is the exact problem Fibonacci studied to come up with his sequence! It has historical appeal.
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CDCs Abortion Surveillance System
Why Is Simpler Better?
Nobody likes to feel like a fool. Paying $1000 bucks for a phone when you can get a similar phone from a competitor for $100 makes you feel like a fool.
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There are maybe 10 well known tools for doing such things, easily Google-able, including Google's tools, that web developers everywhere have been using for ages but I'm on my phone at an airport so I'll try and post them tonight.
No, that would be DeFries.
London councils pay landlords £14m in 'incentives' to house homeless people
Measured via pushes per day...
Admissions Scandal: A lecturer's perspective on dumb-but-entitled students
What consists of a minority is of course contingent and relative. A group that is a minority in one setting can be the majority in another. In one situation a group can be the oppressed, in another 'they' (different individuals but of the same 'group') can be the oppressors. Unfortunately that's human nature, but it doesn't mean we have to just sit back and accept it.

If course it's also possible to overcome obstacles like these. Some people are very successful at doing so, but unfortunately others are not and shouldn't really have to.
Ah, the good old S-expression flamewar again! Every few years it comes up.

This is, of course, mostly a matter of opinion and experience, but I find S-expressions highly readable and LISP syntax superior in readability to every other syntax I've seen, as long as different parentheses are allowed like in all modern LISP dialects.

There are two other problems with LISP. First, it's so powerful that the semantics gets too rich, every author creates a DSL of its own with tons of macros and functions for every data structure. That makes code unreadable and difficult to maintain in the long run. At some point, every LISP program starts to look like a hack and you start spending most of your time transforming one data structure to another to interface with various packages.

The second problem is the focus on dynamic typing. I've found strictly static compilation better for debugging. Racket is particularly bad in that respect, as it tends to use ad hoc symbols with contracts everywhere. Static enumeration types are just way better for that purpose. Ideally, they should even be tied to the functions they are used in (e.g. a "function parameter type" with appropriate scoping).

These are the main drawbacks of LISP, maintainability and readability of code written by others is too low, because of a tendency to encourage hacks and DSLs.
Not everybody realises all that, so I suppose the OP cited that quote to reinforce the point that ANN are a very useful, but very imperfect model of the brain. I cite it often enough, but usually it's in person, where I can see the reaction of the person I'm talking with, and explain if necessary.
Hi all, I was not able to post this all here as there is a word count limit so it's on the google docs.

Any questions, suggestions, feedback or you just want to say hi? I would love to hear from you all.

Sabba
Uber has pre-coded locations for HIA now.
I'd like something similar myself. I do love reader view.

The problem is it's black magic trying to make a site work in reader mode. See https://www.client9.com/designing-html-for-safari-reader-mod.... My blog works in reader mode using a pretty much straight up HTML generated from MarkDown kind of affair, but that was a fluke.
I admit to not knowing the details of the case, but I remember following this in the news when HP apparently grossly overpaid. I briefly used Autonomy’s software in 2001, thus my interest.

It seems to me that it was HP’s management at fault for not better doing due diligence, but I am not a lawyer and I am not sure my opinion is right.
> You would want to have control over the content ...

Ahhh. Personally, I tend to think of OSS as not really taking away control of stuff, as more enabling interested people to collaborate and get involved.

eg surajs below seems like a potential candidate

That being said, it's not the only way to enable such collaboration. :)
Or to say it differently: the tip of an iceberg is also an iceberg.
Almost anything (if not all) requires one to put in years of practice before one is adept. "a" non-trivial "personal" project probably won't cut it.

Comparing that to your 30 years practice of XML is not at all useful.
Unfortunately I know next to nothing about writing themes :(
You can also compose functions together but there’s a reason that programmers don’t generally jam everything into a single function or think about programs that way.
Same diameter doesn't mean same area. Different aspect ratios can cause differences in sizes anyway (this was used by the PC industry at the time when they switched from 4:3 to 19:9. Same diameter, smaller panels, ads looked better).

So yes, both phnes are 5.8", but S10e is 82.8cm^2, while XS is 84.4 cm^2 (XS: larger display). S10e has 83.3% screen-to-body ratio, XS 82.9% (XS: larger body, the display takes less space than the proportion of the body size differences).

TL;DR: despite the same diagonal, S10e is slightly smaller than XS.
Also would recommend this video to understand the mechanics that makes Fornite so damn addictive:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tqG74aI9t3Q
I feel like there’s a lot of people out there under the impression that we’re on the brink of human-like AI (in the self-driving car sphere, for example).

Surely there’s going to be some sort of crash when they collectively realise that’s not the case.
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I had the G1 and _loved_ it. I'd totally be in for a comeback, although it does not necessarily need to be made by Google.

Typing with the physical keyboard was great and a much more conscious activity than now with on-screen keyboard. Also I could type much faster, never reached those speeds with any on-screen keyboard.

Probably have it lying around in some drawer, will have a look for it but I'm not sure it's still good enough for anything.
I can’t use Rift S, and neither can you. – Palmer Luckey
Servo is a complete experimental standalone web engine. It only use the Javascript engine from Firefox (Spidermonkey).

Firefox is only using some parts of Servo : the graphic renderer (WebRender) and the CSS engine (Stylo).
Social work spies? (Yes, you over there I’m talking to you)
The big-oh notation is an asymptotic notation, so it is meaningless to describe an imul as being O(n). Given that an imul is doing 64x64 bit multiplications, it is almost a tautology to say it can be done in a constant times 64 ops/cycles.
I got bored with just beating the game and added some flare on level 20 by using a canon and photon torpedoes and kappa-face explosions[1]. Because why not.

[1] https://gist.github.com/Untrusted-Game/70038d1464d11ac270466...
> Fyne ships with two themes by default, "light" and "dark". […] The default is dark

As someone who uses dark-themes for absolutely everything, which sometimes requires quite some hassle (I am looking at you Slack), I welcome the trend to offer a dark theme next to a light one. And having dark as default is even better. Thank you!
Basically damnation with faint praise?
The reason why purity ([0]) falls flat is because the pure approach only handles 90% of the problems efficiently. The remaining 10% will take more effort so you do not actually see a 90% reduction in cognitive burden but perhaps a 70% reduction. If there is an escape hatch for the remaining 10% of problems the cognitive burden would be reduced by the full 90%. But purists don't like escape hatches, because they think all the benefits of purity are gone, because it's an all or nothing thing (it isn't).

[0] It doesn't really matter what type of purity we are talking about here. Whether it's about pure functions as in FP or Rust code that never depends on unsafe code.
Exactly, although the word probably derives from that - hence my remark about its etymological origin.
Sounds similar to the Japanese subculture of crane machine players. Because these machines are programmed to always win prizes within a certain number of games, if you spot a machine that hasn't given a prize for a while, there's a good chance that you can win a prize within a few games on it.
Haha, funny, related to a tweet I posted some times ago :
https://twitter.com/C0il/status/1040566413541470208 "Hi @Apple , I'd like a small smartphone (4 inch screen), what do you have?"
SE is enough for me, I'll never pay more than 500$ for a Phone so if Apple doesn't have an option in this range of price I'll switch to something else. + I don't like big Phones.
There's a user-mod for Silent Hunter 5 (WW2 submarine simulation) which contains a fully working Enigma emulator for decoding and encoding messages. And with this mod installed, all orders from High Command come in encrypted and you'll have to learn and apply all the manual steps required for decoding to actually know what to do next in the game :)

Here's a walkthrough video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-7-FrBU4fY

Good example of a video game that can also be educational, also a good case for keeping video games open enough so they can be modded by users.
HN is always really concerned when talking about the UK RIPA (regulation of investigatory power act), especially because of the bits around disclosure of encryption keys.

I think this article does a nice job of explaining why RIPA is mostly good law: it means unauthorised covert surveillance is unlawful and it gives citizens a level to use against the state.
In Malaysia, can confirm we use PayPal and Braintree, just because Stripe hasn't entered. There are local startups that do payments better and cheaper, but they're limited to the country and can't take international payment.
O, definitely. Anecdote, but count me among these people. I had 4 or 5 iPhones, and 1 Android phone sometime in the middle (before my 6s). I am currently on the Xs, but if Apple keeps this pricing strategy I will not buy another iPhone again. Outside the US it is really hard to justify with the added tax and "export fee" on top. I just hope it will be ok for 3 years.
It is so frustrating that the EU doesn't have the capacity or the courage to stand up against these unjustified and illegal sanctions. We really are powerless in the face of the whims of a capricious fool and his warmongering friends.
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Neurotransmitters are not hormones. Some neurotransmitters are also hormones.
There are practical problems in pure mathematics that require multiplication of numbers with 85 billion digits. For example, polynomial multiplication can be reduced to integer multiplication, and certain problems, such as computing congruent numbers or class numbers of quadratic number fields can be reduced to that. Naturally the authors of the paper do not make any claims about the algorithm being practical though.
Interestingly, the Fyne website uses Bootstrap rather than one of the many Material Design implementations.
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PyPy2.7 is very good for preprocessing tasks not delegated to C code. On one of them I got 2x speed improvement without code rewrite. For some reason PyPy3* is slower than CPython.
It has less sense if we talk about using sklearn. Python here not doing any work, it just calls C-modules.
A consumer spyware vendor left thousands of images and audio recordings exposed
It's possible, yes, but even getting to the next system will take an enormous amount of time and resources; I want to believe colonizing the galaxy is possible, but it'll become a very long, slow and expensive process. I mean we're talking tens of thousands of years; by the time humanity has covered a decent portion of our local cluster, its evolution - both physical and cultural - will become really divergent. I'm sure a science fiction writer has thought about this.

It's interesting to consider that maybe life on earth is in fact a colonization effort from long ago. Sending probes with the base ingredients for life across the universe millions of years ago might've been a survival strategy. It feels meaningless without information to go along with it, but it's likely that information has either been lost, forgotten, or attributed to early humans instead of something Out There.
The 'element zapper' (or 'picker' if you want it made permanent) in uBlock Origin also works great for these situations.
I used your checker on https://news.ycombinator.com/newcomments and it gives 38 known problems and 384 potential problems.
11bn revenue and runway used in the same sentence. The late 2010s are crazy times.
Arguably the iPad 6th Gen is the gateway drug now. List price of $329 but many stores have it on a semi-permanent discount of $250. Very cheap entry into the iOS ecosystem, and really an amazing value compared to the other ~$250 tablets or laptops out there.
we're more likely to cure death than hyperspace travel
*his or her
Is there a known example of something a digital computer can do that a Turing machine cannot?
"Vriesland" is an old spelling for Friesland (Frisia).
A bit lame.
Founder Looks like a loser but that aside, the idea isn’t new. Conrad wolfram on board and wolfram screams for trouble and I can safely write this endeavour off
EU copyright reform: a missed opportunity
I would buy a iPhone se2 in a heartbeat. Stick the higest end system on a chip it can handle in there, give it 1Tb storage, and sell it for $2000.
What will happen here is what happens with all sites which attempt to curate news or check facts: people who disagree with the site's conclusions will write it off as propaganda. Using "professional" journalists or "domain experts" at all will be a red flag for people who believe mainstream media and science only serves political and corporate interests.
Labwork with as loosely defined goals as life ("reproduce", "accelerate rise of entropy") is costly. It's a robust, deep objective long-term, but extremely inarticulate with poor ROI short-term.

A species of spider nailing down how to live on a particular type of rock on a particular island, in a very particular environment over millions of years, is simply not articulate enough "lab work".

Which is of course not an argument for killing off species. But it's an argument against approaching that moral question from such utilitarian perspective. You might easily end up with results you don't like, once you do the cost/benefit analysis in a less hand-wavy manner.
What a weird list with few selections between 1970 and 2015.
Palestine’s Ibtikar Fund Announced Its Investment in Receet
If anyone's interested, Eric Weinsten was the guest on the latest episode of Lex Fridman's AI Podcast[1].
I'd listened to it last evening and he mentions this article on the show and I'd added to my reading list.
I'm pleasantly surprised to find a discussion around the article on HN, just before I was about to read it.

[1]: https://lexfridman.com/eric-weinstein/
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Nuclear fusion is not magic infinite energy; the amount produced is limited by the amount of fuel being used. I mean how much power is generated from fusion anyway? Especially at the scale (suitcase) you mentioned?

I dunno where your remark about salt comes from either; a lot of salt intended for consumption is dug up from the ground (salt mines).
its never been "obvious" in any point in history
Iran sanctions didn't start with Trump. But you already knew that. The US has been choking Cuba for decades, for example.

Also, immoral/unjustified != illegal.
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