skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>What's the alternative? Allow only packages with code over 100 lines? 1000 lines?

The alternative is allowing packages with more than a single function. It's NPM and the javascript development culture which is enforcing the arbitrary limit of "no more than a single function per package."

Sure, you can do trivial things in a package, but that calls into question the usefulness of enforcing that level of granularity versus having libraries of related functions, shallower dependency trees and less fragility.
I always find it weird when Hacker News gets obsessed with productivity. Productivity is what employers want, as an employee I couldn't care less if our open office plan or our heavy use of slack makes me less productive, that's a problem for my employer to recognize and solve for if they decide they care.
Wikipedia lists the last release of MS-DOS as version 8.0 in 2000, linking to the page for Windows ME.

This is what the comments above were alluding to, a "final release" before the project is abandoned. Installations still continue, in the same way there's probably places still doing the books on a C64, but it's no longer supported.
Work is optional. There are plenty of people who get by without it. Doesn't mean they're doing well or healthy. And for society to continue to function having children is actually not optional.
Thanks this sounds like something I'd like to try - are there any others you considered whilst looking around as that is mac only and I'm Windows unfltunately ( or any one else in this thread do something similar )
>> if identical technology emerges faster than he foresaw as was Apple when the Android ecosystem emerged

Android is hardly an "identical technology". Where's the Secure Enclave? To this day, Android is too insecure and too risky for anyone to depend on.
It seems like the problem here is that these companies are voluntarily put out their code under terms that gives rise to use by competitors in a space they they want to be the sole vendors in. If they want people to be able to self-host these components for free but have no big competitors for managed services, they could easily set up the licensing terms to create that situation.
I always thought Quidditch sounded like it had been developed by an AI.
> Users on average refuse to pay for software / web apps

Yes. And it is the western corporates that have deliberately created this anti-competitive business model. This "free to use for your personal data" model ensures that any potential competitor has a very high bar to entry, and it ensures that their product will always be inferior because of the lack of data that can make it better.
Sure. Like I said, it's a bit green still though I think it has a lot of potential. Also the speed should improve a lot soon as the flagship chromebooks should be getting GPU acceleration in crostini when version 75 hits stable. Currently we're on 73.
I think the OP is specifically trying to say that most lay people do not actually mean "life expectancy at birth" when they use the term "life expectancy", but instead mean "how long I, a person who has reached adulthood, can expect to live". I agree with OP, FWIW.
Similar situation here. I didn't even check my email today. If there is something important I will be notified, either automatically or by a slack mention/direct-message.
I usually keep it refrigerated so it's the right consistency and blends well with flour. Remember to keep everything cool when making pastry crusts and make sure your hands don't warm the fat too much.
1) It isn't the best AI chip in the world. And Tesla doesn't have the most advanced self driving program around.

2) I can't remember a CEO who has complained more about the stock price in particular those shorting the stock. And worst of all then go on to illegally manipulate the market to target them.

3) You have that completely backwards. Musk is the worst at solving problems with the least capital. Look at the way his manufacturing processes work or the decision to build out the Supercharger network/Gigafactory. There are definitely cheaper ways to do those. Better probably not. Cheaper yes.

4) I have worked with more Data Scientists than most and I assure you that they are just like everyone else. They care most about: company reputation, work environment, money, challenging problems etc. It's not just whether there is a great dataset or not.
>What is it about the military mindset that absolutely must see everything not 101% under their control as something potentially hostile?

I think it's perfectly possible all the know is that they exist, and they're not human-made, and don't want to acknowledge something that counters the narrative of the all powerful, all knowing government.

But I'm also wondering if they could just be some other country's black project.
What do you mean by incentivise? Either manufacturers delivered custom firmware or they carriers didn’t sell their devices, period. Apple changed all that.
The ARPU numbers that are reported are for the quarter, so they just take total revenue / # of users present on the service in the quarter. They don't look at MAU or DAU for that calculation (if they did, they'd be reporting ARPDAU or ARPMAU, which are industry-standard terms).
Interestingly enough what seems to have killed lard, at least the most common domestic use of it (making fries), in France and Belgium really is hydrogenated vegetal oil. Fries simply taste better. And it's also much worse for your health.

Since it was commercialized just after WW2 and lard had been used as a butter substitute during the war there was a favourable context for it to happen.

Lard is still used extensively in butcher shops as part of pork preparations (rillettes, grattons etc.). Mostly traditional/regional stuff.
Did he drive himself? Maybe the company should ask him to stop thinking and focus on driving.
> No shade here, but how can you possibly be on HN right now?

https://xkcd.com/303/
A mismatch of supply and demand. Put another way, the price is too high.
Why don't you care about your own productivity? Part of the agreement you struck with your employer is that you provide value, don't you want to provide that value?
> the mentioned lack of a huge speedup is due to both hyperthreading

Correct :)

I just updated the article after similar comments on reddit: https://blog.rom1v.com/2019/04/implementing-tile-encoding-in...
Yes, of course.

Americans currently have record low unemployment (especially for minorities), rising wages, a roaring stock market and fewer race riots than when the previous president was in office.

So for some, it is not a stressful time.
I wouldn't pay for Facebook and I don't use their free product either. I've used the React library so I suppose I'm benefiting from Facebook. If React weren't available, I'd use Vue.
Hi Chris, that's awesome!

My (perhaps idiosyncratic?) priorities in order:

- a ui programming model that is thoroughly thought-through. to be honest i think javafx fits this bill, it took long- hard-learned lessons from Swing but rebuilt things up from that learning. the scene graph api model imo is so ideal and then the way they build the widget/controls on top of that...creates a lot of flexibility yet remains simple

- actually works reliably (ie, is production-quality) on all platforms
* this is probably where 100s of these xplat desktop frameworks fall down. many are just so far from reliability

- full support for building binaries (+ installers would make you really stand out! +, heck, streamlined app store deployment would be wow) for all major systems (mac, win, linux) ... ideally producing these all from one same build machine/os

- solid set of optimized core widgets (all the stuff you'd expect in any widget toolkit...and performant...eg, the table widget should be optimized for unlimited records etc.. again javafx seemed to get it right w/ their tableview)

- polyglot (again java/fx ... you can build in clojure, jruby, kotlin, etc etc)

Where I depart from perhaps the majority is that I don't care about native LaF... and I suspect striving for native LaF is sort of at odds anyway with the xplat goal. So in my mind, I'm okay w/ non-native.. of course I do want ability to pixel push and have things look nice and I want things generally fast. (javafx again is doing something cool w/ its ability to style things in its 'css' support...)

I can think of a lot of apps that don't use the native OS LaF and yet look great.. Spotify, for one, and there are many productivity-oriented apps in this list... Another.. I use Jetbrains IDE for developing in Java, Clojure, Ruby, Elm, Javascript, etc... and that app - afaik - is Swing-based and yet they have made a killer user-experience across the board imo..

I guess I just talked myself in to using JavaFX
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/13/well/eat/how-the-sugar-in... would disagree with you. The argument from authority was paid for by the sugar industry. The health industrial complex, whatever that is, was also profit-seeking.
It would be nice indeed, but it’s also trivial to do with a few lines in the CI file
You're not wrong, you're just an asshole. A funny one, though.

The story is relevant, however, because we expect companies to protect personal and financial data even for people who are so profoundly foolish as to act against their own interest by patronizing them.

We accept that the tobacco companies sell an addictive product that causes cancer and COPD, among other diseases, but heaven help them if they should leak some customer data.

This is rather like Mrs. Lincoln complaining that she didn't get to see the end of the play.
People Born Before 1989 May Need Another Measles Vaccine
Duck fat is sublime for frying potatoes and things like Yorkshire puddings. It's also quite easy to procure - all you need to do is get a whole duck, score the skin with a knife, and roast it in the oven (flipping it and draining the fat every hour or so) until you've rendered as much as you can out. Not only do you get a pint of delicious fat that will keep for ages in the freezer, you also get roasted duck meat that you can do whatever you please with (personally, I like to shred them up and eat them with a bit of slaw and hoisin as street tacos).
This is the news site for Y Combinator, a startup accelerator. Anyone interested in startups should also be interested in how to build a culture that's conducive to happy, productive employees, because startups that do that will probably have a better shot at success.
i'm glad Mozilla had the foresight to abandon this project right before it became a profitable enterprise.
"For a while it was also popular to be "outraged" about stuff but that seems to have calmed down quite a bit. "

Wait for it. The presidential election cycle is just starting up. Pandering to every possible demographic is just around the corner. (And they're all victims!)
It makes sense considering the rise of drones.

Imagine if some low level cadet sees something, but doesn't want to look silly/weird so they don't say anything. That drone then collides with a plane during takeoff, or is packed full of explosives.

A lot of things that are perfectly terrestrial can look weird, and it's important people in a military facility can report strange behavior without fear of repercussions.
Ask HN: What are important SaaS for lawyers?
I am looking to start a saas in the legal space vertical and would like to know successful saas ideas I could copy.
Never tried it but https://www.virtualpostmail.com/ seems like an interesting solution.
In a Polish restaurant, i had a starter of lard on bread - you get some slices of bread, and a pot of lard with little flecks of gherkin or something in it. I wasn't all that taken with it, i have to confess.

But in Britain we do have, or once had, something distantly related:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dripping

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/feat...
I remember hiking in the mountains when I was like 14 yo when I saw a jar of lard in my friends backpack. I was confused at the time as to how he was going to eat it since most food we carried was canned and had little or no bread with as to cut down on volume.
When we reached our destination at night my friend put the jar by the fire, the lard melted and all I could see was a jar filled with sausages in liquid lard. They were absolutely delicious I remember
Because looking for a new job !== I have time to piss down the drain? Many people are still working a full time job and have kids whilst trying to juggle landing a new role
Everyone of these posts I Ctrl-F the first Delphi comment

Can you imagine trying to explain to a developer in 1995 what you need to use to produce an app feature equiv in 2019
It's integrated into the IPMI controller and not meant to do anything more than a remote management console.
Why would they be from other systems?

Does no one think it bizarre that with other star systems having billions of years head start and a completely parallel evolution of both biology and technology that the resulting flying objects reflect technology that appears to be a leap forward over our current technology of perhaps 1000 years max (and that's assuming we hit many roadblocks/plateaus between now and then)?

While our current understanding of the laws of physics precludes the possibility of time travel, it seems far more likely that our understanding of that limit is wrong and these unidentified craft truly represent future technology of our own species than that life exists elsewhere in the universe, but is only marginally more advanced than us, but somehow able to have traveled from light-years away to interact with us (another physics bending issue seemingly glossed over).

To be clear, I'm not saying this phenomenon IS DEFINITELY time travel from humanity's future in action, simply that such a possibility poses far more likely a scenario than aliens, which heretofore has been the go-to explanation the public has been enamored with.
That's the average. They definitely didn't make that much from my account that I log in to 5 or 6 times a year.
To reach your freedombox from the internet you can: use a public IP address, use DynDNS, use PageKite, or use TOR.

About connecting boxes: FreedomBox is a platform for services/apps that then can connect.

About integration work: True; Some apps are indeed one-click installations and are running and usable after that, others (e.g. tahoe-lafs) would need more setup to be actually usable.
I highly suggest you and your spouse go a 'news diet[1].' What you are saying does not match up with reality.

While what you are saying has some valid points you have to realize that you are magnifying the intensity and severity of these issues greatly.

White nationalism didn't destroy the US during the civil rights movement and it certainly wont now. Good people and tolerance is winning.

[1] https://www.gwern.net/docs/culture/2010-dobelli.pdf
Not 404'ing now.
4,200-Year-Old Egyptian Temple Discovered to Be Remarkably Well Preserved
> Is this a book review?

Yes, for this book:

https://www.amazon.com/Model-Thinker-What-Need-Know/dp/04650...

> What does the title have to do with the article?

Nothing. It's a click-baity allusion to this famous book:

https://www.amazon.com/Random-Walk-Down-Wall-Street/dp/03933...
MIT finally gives a name to the sum of all AI fears
I have found that I have 35 hours of good code in me per week. I make sure that I average at least 1 hour a day for meetings just so I can hit my 40 hour mark (this isn't hard). I can work more hours for a couple weeks if needed, but my quality goes down a little each week.
Machine Behaviour
I have several friends who are doctors or nurses, and have talked with most of them about this. They all parrot the "doctor/nurse-patient continuity" line, but when pressed as to whether fewer handoffs actually outweigh the effects of exhaustion on outcomes, they all seem to take it as a given that it does, without being able to support it.

I suspect that, even if fewer handoffs does take an edge over exhaustion, the handoff process could be improved greatly; from what I'm told, handoff processes vary wildly, often aren't formalized, and even when they are, adherence to process is pretty lax, in part due to the effects of exhaustion.
You really should thank your advisor.

Most labs I've been in and seen are 180 the opposite. Due to Dilbert/Peter principal dynamics, most advisors at R1 universities aren't selected based on their management and teaching skill, but on their research publications. As such, they tend to be very lacking at many skills required to be 'good' at running a lab. In the hunt for tenure, they get very stressed out and tend to take it out on others, typically the students and staff as they are physically the closest people to them.

I may or may not have been around MeToo style situations, more germane management abuse and screaming, direct sabotage of students' work and presentations. On the light side were 6 hour long lab meetings, 2 am lab check-ins, requests to journals to reject student's papers, and complete mystification at why students and staff aren't sleeping in the lab (safety be damned).

That, in my limited US based experience, is the 'norm'.
The Keepers Registry Is Closing
There will be hell to pay!
I really appreciate being made aware of this author, so that I know in the future to avoid his writing.

He desperately needs an editor (an editor other than his spouse).
I'm just telling you over what and why Americans were pissed, and that the outcome should've been obvious to the producers. I'm certain most Americans and even most canadians would have seen a negative response to such a decision coming. It's not a part of a negativity culture or complaining or anything, they should've just put the flag planting scene in if they wanted to avoid the negativity.
Asymmetric agreement asymmetric benefit.
Hydrogenated vegetal oil comes nowhere near lard when it comes to taste for fries.

I’m a Belgian talking so maybe I’m biased.
Amazon reports $59.7B in Q1 2019 revenue
I don't think alpha go is a good example here. It play with strange brilliance, but I wouldn't call that creativity. If you care to elaborate on why you said this I'm curious to hear your rational.

To me, creativity is really about generation of "aesthetic novelty" which is hard to get from a ML algorithm that is trying to approximate patterns in training data. Eventually, there will be models trained on a wide variety of art, music, stories, etc that can recognize aesthetic and structural isomorphism between mediums (say between a grizzly picture and death metal), then we'll lose our competitive advantage. I don't think we're nearly so close to that as the singularity types would have us believe though.
I'm sympathetic to what I think you're talking about, and I've had a few discussions about that. I think your assessment is too harsh in some ways, and I'd like to mention a few thoughts why...

In some regards, some things that seem arbitrary actually have a large amount of informed reasoning behind them. He doesn't show off, and maybe makes his arguments too simple, in simple language, but I've seen him trot out more of the logic and academic terms&references on occasion (for people who know those terms&references).

And I think this ties in with him being obstinate/uncompromising: it's wrt logic he's worked out (and some values weights specific to him). IMHO, we need some uncompromising people, to provide different perspectives, and as a check against all the rest of us (including myself) who compromise more easily.

Some other things that seem arbitrary actually might be, even if they seem counterproductive (not, e.g., a principles reason). For a simple example, I've suggested a few times that saying "free software" to people unfamiliar with the term seems to derail many discussions, or is just confusing (especially when we keep doing it after the somewhat less-confusing "libre software" term). I think probably RMS has decided saying "free software" creates an opportunity to educate someone new on what "software freedom" is (even at the cost of any other discussion that was going on). Maybe "free software" is also a wordplay that appeals to him (like "GNU" being a recursive initialism), and which he thinks others might like. But I haven't seen that seem to work well in practice, overall. (Or maybe it works better one-on-one for him than it does in larger practice by others?)

Which brings me to another theory: RMS might think a bit differently than our typical programmer, and this might also affect his advocacy. We tend to think others are like us (sometimes more than they are), and we might also use ourselves to help model others. I suspect RMS realizes that others are a bit different, but I don't know whether he doesn't understand people well enough to influence them as well as he could, or he's prioritizing differently. For example, promoting the "software freedom" idea itself takes priority over everything else, including the goals of the person he's talking with and any promotion that might immediately build on those goals. (I can't get into details, but I've also seen setbacks due to RMS/FSF being seemingly misled by people who said the right catchphrases to him/them. Usually people mainly enthusiastic, not intentional manipulators. I don't know how well he was able to read them, and maybe he could read them, but was willing to take a chance because his mission needs a lot more workers.)

I think we're blessed to have at least one "full RMS". How does shooting for 50% RMS for everyone else sound?
They sell it as lard. I live in the Midwest and I'm really surprised to hear all these people saying lard is hard to find. It's in all the grocery stores here.
Does it? Do you have more information about that?

I occasionally contribute to the project, and afaik the general opinion is that mail servers would be too tedious and error prone exactly because of this problem. Did I miss something?
A non-paywall writeup:
https://www.androidpolice.com/2019/03/27/kaios-may-succeed-w...

"It also has received significant investment from Google, and in most cases, Assistant and other Google applications are preinstalled."

Great; so it's not an indie up-and-comer, so much as Google taking a sideways approach to capture emerging markets.
GStreamer Buffer Flow Analyzer
Can you name a better AI chip, especially in terms of TFLOPs per Watt?
Agreed completely, don't know why you're getting downvoted...
Your imunorespknse to a modern diet is one example of what triggers a cycle of inflammation. The diet isn’t necessarily good for you, but isn’t inherently bad. A 70,000 year old metabolism treats food the same way it did 70,000 years ago - turning much of the food into fat and surging you with insulin. This is what causes the inflammation. Your body isn’t in an era of scarcity - this response isn’t needed, nor is the subsequent inflammation
The decisions to include features based on price tier has seemed to grow increasingly petty IMO. We are on the Bronze tier, and won't upgrade because of a feature like this specifically. But each time I see that we don't get new features like this, I lose a little bit of that love I've had in GitLab as a user for over 4 years now.
A friend of mine who is a nurse tells me that she's at the hospital an hour before her shift starts (in order to prep) and is there a good hour after her shift ends (in order to help prep the next shift). So she's effectively working nearly 14 hours a day, even though she only works 3-4 consecutive days.

I stretches credibility to me that people can keep up a high quality of work for 14 hours straight, even with a 3 day break every 3-4 days.
Crypto Market Roiled by New Allegations Against Tether, Bitfinex
Proving that a certain piece was generated from a certain dataset will be a huge obstacle.

Heck, proving a piece was generated would be hard.
Decoder Transforms Brain Activity into Speech
The headline, at least in my head, reads as "being less distracted leads to more productive workdays".

Mind-blowing discovery.
or a wheelchair, but you're just trading identifiers.