skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Cross platform". If cross platform means "pretty much installed on all company" then sure, but if it means ubiquitous among all platforms, then decidedly know. Excel is a huge piece of software, and it will probably never be cross platform, simply because it would take longer to port than the lifespan of the platform you were to port it to.
Fernando Martínez Gómez-Tejedor, protect our savings in an intelligent way
I had a project named Pythia as well in my previous company. It was a prediction service and I needed a name that was related to predicting future, hence I chose the name of Oracle of Delphi. I am guessing that's where even Facebook got the name from.

The name was so bad that no one got the reference. I changed the git repo to Sybill, alas that also never clicked.

Edit: was supposed to be a reply to `davrosthedalek`
Facebook does not have a monopoly on communication though... like not even close. If there is any such monopoly (I don't think there is) it'd fall at the foot of the telcos or ISPs
Not sure why the Guardian only picked parts to make him sound as inflammatory as possible. What about honestly reporting that his saying that his daughter uses Apple and he wants her to have the choice and people should not be too nationalistic about it. What about his profusely praising his US suppliers and consultants for helping him succeed. His overall tone is fairly noncombatative given the circumstances. Here is a transcript https://m.huxiu.com/article/300415.html
I would think that most small companies don’t own their own office and are renting space in a building where the building owners contract out cleaning for all of the tenants.
Would you avoid them simply on the basis of a blog post?

OP is saying a false accusation turned into a witch hunt because people believed an allegation posted on the Internet without question.

What makes you confident you're better at detecting the truth than the people who believed the woman's story?
Ubuntu lost me when they started with Unity. Xfce works the way I would expect and generally gets out of my road.
"she's doing to him exactly what he allowed other people to do to her"

Please explain that. What did he 'allow' 'other people' to 'do' to her?
Much of that is economic. Our society places no value on most people that age. If you have a family they may value you enough to spend their time with you, but that’s giving. Most people have 0 economic value at that age, our political elites excluded.
Anything you, as an employee of Wolfram, create or prototype or whatever with it can have a future. You would have no questions asked. And as an employee I presume you also get the possibility to inspect the source, and perhaps even email the dev teams directly to fix or modify things as you see fit. In such an environment, even simple things like prototyping are great.

Actually, the cases you described, making an investor demo or the like can be argued to be prohibited by the license! Does an investor demo or MVP count as commercial use? I’d say so. Would an MVP potentially produce data that I might use in the production of a “real” system? Likely so. Both of these are expressly prohibited by the license, straight up in the first section.

“Yeah but you’ll get away with it fine.” Will I? I also
must respond to Wolfram with a record of my use within 10 days of being asked.

How is this an attractive state of affairs to build anything, even for paltry testing of an idea?
We are aggressively encouraging men to take up nursing.
Not in production environments.
Push is (as it should be) towards open source.
You mean like the internet?
Wish there was an option to buy a 15 inch with no touch bar. I cannot find any suitable use for it on my current model, and I often hit items inadvertently due to the lack of tactile feedback
Insanity. If only her name could be published. People like that deserve to face consequences for their actions.
That's mealy-mouthed prevarication, and does not match the actual actions taken under the claim of that philosophy. There is a difference between proactive nurturing and proactive suppression and condemnation.
Hatsune Miku and her fellow vocaloids also seem to be an exception. They're not real people of course, but they may as well be here.
> Apple introduces first 8-core MacBook Pro, the fastest Mac notebook ever

You can use phrase "the fastest Mac notebook ever" each year when a new notebook released.
TL;DR: Are you lonely? Have you tried doing things with people?
Because the comma breaks English grammar when it’s in the middle of a sentence.
Don't mind the downvotes. Thank you for taking the time to post such an insightful post.
Great, no need for a new Mac Pro!
Speaking of replication, my personal experience in very narrow field of audio DSP which is easy to test gave results of 9 papers impossible to implement mostly due to missing key details, 6 more where results only apply in specific test signals (total failure in reality), 3 where performance was overstated by over 12 dB in real samples. 8 were really good and detailed. Two had actual used test code available, one has it in printed form. None with the code were any good. :D

(IEEE database around 2005 in noise reduction, echo cancellation and speaker separation or detection.)
It disregards the cultural history of names to suit what’s easiest for Western Europeans to understand.
Sure, go for it. But I know a male nurse and he's never experienced anything remotely like what a lot of women I know in tech experience so it's not the equal thought you might think it is.
Why do you think its right to fix the imbalance - what do you accomplish by it? Are you going to fix the imbalance everywhere you see it?
supposedly something similar happened when Kruschev visited Los Angeles decades ago and thought that all the cars/trucks he saw jamming up roads and freeways were put there to impress him.

we tell ourselves these stories to make ourselves feel good about our misshapen consumer-oriented economy. and it doesn't quite work as well now because they more or less have the same stuff in China. also, we're buying a lot of that stuff from China, so it makes even less sense.
Ask HN: What simple tool do you use to manage your bookmarks?
I am looking for an easy and highly accessible tool to manage my bookmarks. It would be very nice if it is browser and platform independent.
A lot of geniuses have issues. I wouldn't use this to judge the rest of his work.
https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/werner-herzog-gorbachev

Recent Werner Herzog interview talking about interviewing Gorbachev. He discusses a little about the Yeltsin years following and puts Putin's popularity in context of how bad things were during Yeltsin's term. Worth a listen if you have 20 minutes.
Because it's a literal wealth transfer from the American middle class to China. Yes growth has supplied some of that wealth, but America and Europe have done the rest. And no one asked the respective populations of the lower middle class if they wanted to give millions of Chinese a better life at the expense of theirs, it just happened.
I can see how you might think I'm not seeing other viewpoints. Instead, perhaps you should see that I am rejecting other viewpoints. And I can see how it would worry you: your comments worry me too.

So let me re-frame our conversation. Let me re-root it to something that I will not budge on:

If I buy a device then I own the data on it. If I own a device then I own the data collected by it. If I own data, then I have every right to refuse to allow that data to be accessed by anyone other than myself.

If you want access to the data to be a precondition of my use of the device, then do not pretend you sold the device to me. At best you are providing a lease.
> They are working through the legal system...

That would be the "civil" legal system. I would imagine that if a police report was filed, the author would have mentioned that in the article. Otherwise, I treat it all as hyperbole whereby the author seems to be on the receiving end of the same rumors s/he has enabled.
It’s interesting the notion of waiting in lines. Yesterday at Home Depot I needed a four foot length of hose cut from their hose area. Most employees, even a pair standing and talking right near the hose, said they couldn’t help me, we needed someone from plumbing. They called three separate times for someone from plumbing and after 10 minutes or so someone arrived. But another man had been waiting since just before me, so he was helped first. That took an additional 20 minutes. Even once he came to me, it took maybe 10 minutes because the hose didn’t have the right SKU and he didn’t know what to put on the ticket.

So I had to wait more than 30 minutes for a single piece of hose.

I bet that’s not as bad as lines were sometimes in the Soviet system, but it’s not fantastic on its own. Imagine if Boris Yeltsin had to wait 30 plus minutes for a four foot length of hose that none of the employees standing around were able or willing to help him with...

I’ve been remembering to go to the small Ace Hardware store in town lately. They are much smaller but still seem to have stock of the right items, and I can get a person or two to help me immediately.

Capitalism as we know it played a big role in the abundance we’ve had here, but it has also left the US with the most expensive medical care and alienated individuals. Our system may be better than the Soviet system in many ways, but is it the best we can do?
Huawei: The alternative to Android already in the fall
> Once you see a car, it's fairly easy to make the algorithm pessimistically assume that any car that can cut it off is likely to do so.

Well, this just doesn't match reality. Uber showed us that these algorithms are full of false positives and have to be disregarded to make the vehicle actually drive itself (Remember when they killed that pedestrian?).

What a computer would need is 'awareness,' and that awareness is even more critical in a larger body vehicle. There's always going to be 'emergency stop in case of unknown situation.' The difference is, the human is not in an unknown situation, they're able to anticipate and plan.

Given the current landscape, I'd say with enough data you could more or less brute-force an AI driven car and be somewhere on the spectrum of safer than the worst human drivers. I say it's practically impossible for a semi truck to brute-force with sensors and pessimistic algorithms alone.
There are groups that visit housebound elderly people. Or at least, I know that several churches and nursing homes around me do that. Ask around, and I bet you'll be able to find people doing this! These groups are always looking for volunteers.
That's an easy one. We have to be able to identify all aircraft in our air space. This includes all potential military prototype aircraft that adversaries may be using to subvert our monitoring and security.
> I didn't check what finite difference stencil or finite volume scheme the code uses, though I presume it's a lower order accurate one that probably has a fair amount of numerical viscosity.

It's just the basic second order central difference. It also uses a first order approximation to the Dirichlet and Neumann boundaries, so that additional error will diffuse throughout the simulation region. It doesn't use any approximation tricks for square roots etc., so given appropriate floating point semantics (as a physicist I have no clue what the shader language specifies there) you can still get realistic and accurate results by reducing the spatial and time steps, which is easily doable for a small 2D simulation on modern GPUs.

Ultimately, though, all the basic "best practices" for simulations of this kind - staggered grids, higher order derivative approximations, etc. - aren't very complicated and are well described in any CFD textbook. What really makes engineering CFD software complicated are things like handling complex geometries with dynamically refined meshes, efficiently solving the resulting linear equation systems at scale and coupling the fluid dynamics to other physical phenomena while retaining numerical stability and accuracy.
The "old" way still works, and won't stop doing so. If your deployment needs are not too fancy, these are still easier to reason with and maintain, too. e.g. a one-man operation who manages a handful of mom-and-pop businesses' websites, it makes no sense to go too fancy. A simple git clone on a simple LAMP setup, or hell, a shared host through FTP, works just fine.

Introducing these things prematurely are just asking for trouble. They come with their share of complexity and overhead. However they do solve some problems. In a lot of cases, if you don't know about these things yet, you probably don't need to.
That's true.

I just object to the implicit "so it's not really a problem" or "so nothing need be done" that come along with "This is a self inflicted problem".

I don't care who's fault it is. This is a real problem for countless children who are worse off because their parents squander their income and it's a real problem for me because my government has to allocate its attention and resources toward an electorate in need of financial assistance.

I don't know if the solution is personal finance classes in high school, or internment camps for people with credit card debt. But I'm pretty sure the laissez faire attitude is not in the best interest of anyone.
Kraken is offering preferred shares to its customers
Poor comparison. If Apple and Motorola was run by the DoD that would be better.
The same thing happened in Venezuela in the early 2000s when they initiated price controls to make food more "affordable" for the poor. The variety of products was the first thing that dropped to only the necessities. Then even the necessities started to drop in supply:

> Further yet, price controls, expropriation of numerous farmlands and various industries, among other disputable government policies including a near-total freeze on any access to foreign currency at reasonable "official" exchange rates, have resulted in severe shortages in Venezuela and steep price rises of all common goods, including food, water, household products, spare parts, tools and medical supplies; forcing many manufacturers to either cut production or close down, with many ultimately abandoning the country as has been the case with several technological firms and most automobile makers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Venezuela#1999–2013
Still using Intel CPUs, judging by the fine print.
It would mostly make the question moot. In a federated system, there is no worry about a single entity exerting editorial control. Every instance can set their own policies for content and who they wish to federate with. Individual users can find or setup an instance that meets their own needs and requirements.
I was expecting to see an article about them running out of money.
Found a transcript (in Chinese) if people are interested.

Warning: very long text -- 20,000 characters in length.

https://m.huxiu.com/article/300415.html
Is it possible to get them without the touchbar? I’ve pounded my poor old MacBook (2013) into submission and the bottom row of keys are starting to not work intermittently. We’ve got a bunch of the newer machines in the office and I just can’t get on with that keyboard and touchbar.
> 99.99% of things delivered by USPS are spam at my house.

How is that the fault of the USPS? Mail "spam" wouldn't go away if UPS/FedEx took over the postal service via privatization.
I use median, because thinking of the guy in the middle of the spectrum seems to make more sense than averaging it into an amorphous person. I like math, is all.. I'm not sure what your statement about winning means, are you okay? Negative neuroplasticity is a thing, dont despair. This situation is bullshit, I'm not sure if any superorganism is really winning in the long term. Some individuals maybe.

Edit: I maybe should have used worldly, rather than educated; not quite sure of the precise word I was looking for. I didn't mean college educated.
"one bad apple destroys the whole batch"
you need one bad example to disprove the validity of this kind of approach, unless standards are enforced to get the bad apples out as early and as quickly as possible.
Excel is a dead-end road. I view all software as a vehicle to achieve more software. In other words, the solutions of today become the platforms of tomorrow. To that end, anything made in Excel is completely worthless. You can get some way by using excel, but at some point you want to build something on top of it, and at that point you will have to throw your entire excel solution out the window.

Excel sheets are nothing buy a worse version of bash scripts, at least in my opinion. At least bash scripts let you plug them into something bigger using standard process operations.
Value Option for F# Proposal
Any news on their broken keyboard design?

I might bite if they've fixed this. Oh and no touch bar.
You can also just read the Japanese pronunciation in brackets :)
That's fair. From just the original article, it's hard to guess what Dijkstra's intent was or if he even had a clear idea himself.

But if you look at the "goto debate" of the time -- the various letters published by various people pointing out "how would you do the following without goto?" as others had meanwhile started treating goto as sinful and avoiding goto with the moral zeal of new converts -- then it appears that regardless of Dijkstra's intention, at least the debate among most programmers at the time was about abandoning "goto" even in the absence of other compensating control structures. So it appears to me that the debate was settled, and eventually faded away into a catchphrase, not simply by everyone agreeing that goto is evil persuaded by Dijkstra's arguments, as the popular opinion holds, but by languages adding most of the control structures that people were using "goto" for, under different names, until ad-hoc "goto" became less and less necessary.

(And even Dijkstra's response to those responses, namely, his "On a somewhat disappointing correspondence" (original: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd10xx/EWD1009.PDF / transcript: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD10xx/E...), which incidentally is a good example of why they used to say that arrogance is measured in nano-Dijkstras, reveals that for example he was against short-circuiting AND/OR ("conditional connectives"), that he wrote his loops with boolean variables checked in the loop condition rather than break, and that he wrote of "all sorts of “programming language features” that seem better ignored than exploited" -- so in the original when he writes that "whatever clauses are suggested (e.g. abortion clauses) they should satisfy the requirement..." it's not clear that break/continue would satisfy his requirement because it's never specified, as you say.)

And as you say, it's not clear that it was an improvement as far as language research goes, because it's far from obvious that the set we've settled on is the most natural or useful one: C has while, do-while, and for, each with break and continue, but alternatives like repeat-until (expressible as do {...} while(!(...));) were contenders, and especially Zahn's "event indicators" system looks quite nice (http://www.kohala.com/start/papers.others/knuth.dec74.html#e...). (I guess in Python it's not unusual to do something similar using exceptions, so they've returned in some form.)
I always thought Miku was her given name.
And in the UK, the local pub. Community is a good thing.
What is your response to the author's point that "ability and topics" are abstract concepts that don't take into account how people engage with a conference?
Why would it be free?
It is and I am an old history major so yes I am aware :).

I am not advocating for a total loss of privacy, merely that it is is a spectrum, and technology seems to be driving an acceleration of what is socially acceptable. And, that might be a good thing long term.

How do you change people's acceptance of things they are afraid of? You show them they don't need to be. You don't do that by hiding and pretending you are something else. You show them that you are x and y and still a good normal person. It can get you killed, it can lose your jobs, it can lose you friends, it can lose you your family. It is an incredible sacrifice that millions of people in the USA make every year. They do it for themselves, but also for all the other people that are x or y and who they want to see raised without all that bullshit.
This is really a misleading interpretation. In the original context, he meant Huawei will buy products regardless if they are made by Chinese or US suppliers. One doesn’t need to trust everything Huawei claims, but taking quotes without proper context doesn’t help the discussion.
He “plans to ask” the media to do so.
But is equality a basic thing to define? :)
The European Parliament uses this convention because not every EU country puts surnames last, in particular Hungary doesn't.
These used to excite me because I've desperately needed 32gb and faster procs and used to upgrade every 2-3 years but now I just yawn at MBP releases. I'm so unexcited by everything about this form factor other than the fact that it has OSX. I'm guessing I'll be on my 2016 until I finally bite the bullet and quit using OSX if they don't make a more compelling package to spend my $3k on in the next few years.

I don't want thinner. I don't want a touchbar. I don't want this oversized touchpad I touch constantly when it's on my lap. I don't want this terrible keyboard solution required due to the desire for thinness. I don't want to carry 3 USBC dongles or to buy a $350 USBC hub at every single desk I have with monitors (home, work). I want a bigger battery. I want more ports. I want less bezel. I want a chassis that doesn't scratch and dent.
It also ignores people that have not been working for more than a year, so basically if you're chronically unemployed (and are likely the type of person that need the most help) you're conveniently ignored for the sake of bureaucracy.
A year ago I bought a memory foam pillow after reading positive reviews about it in Amazon.

At the beginning it felt hard, but I kept it, thinking that I’d get used to it. And I actually got used to it. Except that my sleep quality was deteriorating slowly without me noticing.

The pillow lead to a “hidden” neck pain that I was feeling all the time. During the last previous months my sleep was horrible, I’d randomly wake up a lot of times during the night.

Two weeks ago I thought about ditching the pillow. The results were magical : I’ve never felt having a better sleep during the past year, and my neck pain started disappearing.

I’m still surprised how a whole year has passed before I suspected that the pillow might be the cause.
Sure, after turning over any IP and source code and being installed in a few token places. Hardly any kind of real adoption, more like a forced IP transfer.
It'd be massive news if they weren't - you'd be hearing about that first not having to look for it in the small print.
They don't even have to release a new model.
This is a good (often overlooked) point, but I do think there are also real physical constraints (limited mobility, injury risk, lowered energy) as well as mental ones (including just being from different generations) that increase the difficulty of elders participating fully in society.
I just want a MBP that is a late 2013 body with modern hardware inside it. I know there are many others like me.
What did doctors and lawyers do starting back in the 80s? We should do whatever they did, since it seems to have worked.
Yeah, I feel it's a grass roots effort here to drive people to paywall news sources we otherwise wouldn't consider. On any given day, there's one to two links to WSJ and NYT on the front page, even on stories that aren't exclusives.

The cool kids don't mind paying for journalism and all that, and the press deserves our support (etc, etc). Most of the content I enjoy here is written for free by hobbyists or company blogs.