skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article is beyond terrible. I'm a python-head, so I appreciate the praise, but its all vague and for the wrong reasons.

Conclusion from the link:

>To sum up, Python is arguably the best programming language for machine learning, as it is a general-purpose language that is suited for a variety of machine learning tasks. R is better suited for data analysis and statistical tasks as it is specifically designed for statistical computing.

Conveniently ignoring Julia, the reason why python is the best suited lang for ML is because... its general purpose? Uh, what?
Every city? Certainly not, I remember no such thing where I've lived. Why would they do that?!
Here is my counter to these thoughts: Decentralized internet was not created by a myriad of decentralized decisions. A centralized authority came up with the idea and created TCP/IP. Just like centralized decisions were made to create the decentralized/balance of power democratic systems we have today.

Capitalism itself is naturally centralizing. That is why we have anti-thrust laws. We don't just leave it to consumers to make sure centralization does not happen in the market. It is the job of the government to prevent it.

I agree with you that centralization is the natural order or things. But I disagree with your implication that it is somehow the individual users who are responsible for keeping a system decentralized.

In much of Europe, a large number of cell phone service choice and broadband choice was created because government mandated that companies with infrastructure had to let other companies borrow it and offer services on it.

Capitalism and free markets exist because a centralized government maintains it.

The solution IMHO is not to blame the individuals but to combine in collective action and collectively agree/decide we want a different arrangement. In other words one has to bring this to the political level. That could mean anti trust action against google, facebook etc.
Optical Proof of Work
2-3 showers a week? Maybe if all you do is sit in a sterile room.

One mildly warm commuter train ride and you’re donezo.
I'm inferring the same conclusion. The days of 1Password as one of the best password managers will soon be over.
What are good alternatives to 1Password?
> All the athletes mentioned saw their performance go down after adopting a plant based diet.

I'm sorry I must have watched a different film. The complete opposite of what you claim is portrayed in the film. Also my personal experience of regularly running and recovering from Ultramarathons suggests that you are wrong. My times and recovery rates are much much better on plant based diets.

Also the Amazon is being cleared for Beef and agribusiness to food humans. We don't need to do this and we don't need to eat meat. Please read some decent news and science and try and think things through.
Dapr is a portable, event-driven, runtime for building distributed applications
No... only iCloud and my Mail account (strato.de).

I just noticed something else though: when i drag down from the home screen and enter "google" in the search bar, the result list displays a "Settings" item named "Google Home" with the gray ios-settings icon next to it. If i click it to open it, the settings app opens but it doesn't show me anything specific, just the main setting screen.

Note that Google Home is not installed on any of my devices (i removed them a long time ago after ditching the Chromecast).
Why? I mean, by all means they've always felt like a true bootstrapping success story (I'm a happy 1Password customer for many years). Why take funding and give up control of your company to an outsider now?
What is the predictive model predicting, and why would a recruiting agency use those attributes? Any model using nonsense data in predictive model can imminently be ruled out, and I can make a trivial example like.

* Most programmers have 10 toes. Fact.

* A predictive model correctly identifies that more programmers have 10 toes than 9 toes.

* A recruiting agency uses the predictive model and exclude programmers with 9 toes, but why? What possible use could they have with that model?

The problem of recruiting agency that using biased predictive models is when the data is relevant for the recruitment purpose but create socially unacceptable conclusions such as:

* There are more computer programmers that leave after the first year who identify themselves as women than men. (descriptive statement)

* A predictive model use gender as data point to predict employee retention.

* An internal recruiting agency within a company has goals of hiring employee with high retention in order to reduce training costs and uses the predictive model. This result in excluding women.

The attribute being measured in the later case is relevant for the purpose of the recruiting, but it amplify gender segregation. When discussing AI recruiting bias it is this kind of problem we should focus on rather than looking at attributes which has no bearing on the purpose of recruiting. Attributes which has nothing to do with the goals of recruiting should not exist in a model for recruiting.
Pickup trucks are sold to consumers, but the business economics drive the design. The F150 is the lightest version on a platform that scales up to crewcabbed 350 diesel dualies sold by the fleetload out in the Permian Basin. Sold by the dozens to utility companies. Into the timber industry. Here and there cattle ranchers, feedlots, farmers. Building contractors.

The cost of fuel? There's markup passed along to customers with the risk of higher fuel prices eating into profits under an existing contract. The cost of electricity? Planning overhead and the risk of failure to meet contract terms. In business, non-performance can evaporate the $20k lifetime savings in a year, or a month, or even a day.
"Ironically enough, people do not live year-round in centralized hotels with cleaning services provided. They live in their own decentralized homes, and make an economic decision whether to take care of their cleaning needs by themselves, or to outsource and hire somebody to clean their domicile for them."

I think that this is mostly to do with the fact that you can't simply take advantage of economies of scale and centralize ever one into a single housing block the way you can with a lot of web-based businesses. Despite this, a lot of people do live in apartments complexes with centralized maintenance and utilities. Moving to a house is about gaining space than independence, I think.
Hi John! Animats was very cool! As you know game physics still kinda sucks for this work. Unity/Bullet/MuJoCo are the best we have and even they have limited body collision counts. Luckily we've now got some GPU physics acceleration, but IMO it's not enough.

What we really need is a scalable, distributed, physics pipeline so we can scale sims to 1000x realtime with billions of colliding objects. My guess is that Google/Stadia or Unity/UnityML are better places to do that work than Facebook, but if Carmack decides to learn physics engines* and make a dent I'm sure he will.

Until our environments are rich and diverse our agents will remain limited.

*More, I'm sure his knowledge already exceeds most people's.
or use nvi (not nvim) or original vi
I want to like dev.to, but I think it needs more granular curation for the feed.

I want to follow interesting JS/web-dev related stuff, but if I follow related tags all I see is "5 tips for new devs" and "how to pass the interview" type articles.
np ;)
Dynamic material flow analysis of rubber release from tires into the environment
Yeah indeed chromium is a more efficient 2D rendering engine than what's available natively and performance of JS is comparable to Java. Electron apps being slow is mostly a developer laziness problem, not a technology problem. Making a fast electron app is actually easier than making a fast C++ app IMO, when you take into account the libraries and tooling available.
The book is loaded with facts. It just doesn't focus on the computational aspect (more focus on the geopolitical details). I strongly recommend this book- I understood a lot more about modern power after reading The Quest and The Prize.
Sorry but I only calculate in football fields.
dot-clojure (By Sean Corfield)
Sure. But you see people giving diamonds all the time. It's a meme, a discussion topic, reinforced each time you hear the ladies on the train discuss their friend's new "gigantic finger rock".

Just cuz you yourself are making the purchase once doesn't mean it is in a thing much of the time.
I hope they rush this. They are already a retailer I systematically avoid, dispite being a prime member, when authenticity matters. When I have time I ocassionally gamble, but have been less and less successful getting authentic items as time passes. Even if you dislike amazon (i am personally, torn), getting this right benefits everyone selling things online if it proves practical to implement.
>but since you're applying "guilty by association" logic to Brave

That's a misunderstanding. It's not a guilty by association thing. It's that there is already a thing more in line with accomplishing my goals, since uBlock Origin has no provisions for ad companies to still make money.
You can also visit the National Library of Scotland Map Room in Edinburgh - they have a mindboggling 1.5 million sheet maps. https://www.nls.uk/collections/maps

While they don't sell originals, they do reproductions on demand for a lot less than 500k. I was just looking at a 1934 sheet for my wall, £27. Tho mainly I go to their site to jump back and forth in time, they have a great georeferenced map browser that lets you see how places have changed.
It is denying the inevitability of it. I mean considering women to be inevitably miserable and moody because of their menstrual cycle would be rightfully called ignorant and misogynistic. The fact some women may suffer crippling menstrual issues because hormones are a very real thing.

Why would the invalid hormoned as destiny expectations be assumed valid for youth as well? View as a possible obstacle to overcome rather than destiny.
> Because I'm not always online and you might not be when I'm.

That's a good thing, because maybe I don't want to be able to reached all the time. If you want to, you can add your IPv6 address on your phone, which is virtually always online (I actually do this on my phone).
That's a great hypothetical, but not because it's a no-brainer. I'd have to think long and hard about that choice.

Sure, we have vast amounts of knowledge and entertainment at our fingertips, but the reality is that most of us are spending our days staring at Facestagram and binge watching Netflix.

Having enough money to be able to retire after a couple years and then spending the rest of my life traveling the world and reading every book I can doesn't sound so unenlightened in comparison.
Ultrasoft slip-mediated bending in few-layer graphene
And hopefully a tad smaller.

If I'm getting the right idea about how big this is, I think I definitely want the iPhone SE version of this phone.

Here's hoping that's what they make the second V3.
Is there an effective way to suppress denial of service attacks in a decentralized network?

Given that there are DNS root servers, isn't the internet actually centralized?
Covered is fine, because the water pressure can clear out the path. The problem is stuff inside the pipes.
I'm in the process of convincing a business I'm working with to start using 1Password for all of our password management.

I really hope this story isn't the first warning sign that the decision was a mistake.
That's an interesting idea I didn't consider.

edit: Below is wrong, see author of article's reply below for why. Preserving for record.

They have been holding back review samples of their latest i9s so reviewers wouldn't do head-to-heads with this new 3950X (but people have anyway, and the 3950X crushes the i9). See Linus Tech Tip's review of the 3950X this morning for citation.
You are so misinformed as to be silly. There is no reason whatsoever a vegan diet would lead to performance decrease. None. There's entire cultures that have survived on plant based diets just fine. Just because you're all in on keto you don't have to prove to the rest of us you have no idea what you're talking about.

What does animals being needed for a healthy ecosystem even have to do with this conversation? You're just throwing jello on a wall to see what sticks.
Cosmo doesn't support Linux at the moment. Otherwise would be a no-brainer for me.
the one thing i am nostalgic about are buttons. someone please bring buttons back! so i can once again dial a number without looking at my phone or letting the whole world know...
Sure, just like shooting a gun: "other contextual information" like "the bullets hit someone" makes a big difference.
That'd be nice. For real though I did meet with them after, but it was basically the same as getting a referral so the same interview process which I chose to forgo.
How Enceladus got its water-spewing tiger stripes
The step from Ryzen to Threadripper is quite a big one. I'd benefit from a Threadripper system, but budget only allows a (top tier) Ryzen for now. I suppose spare money could go towards a Threadripper right now and I wouldn't consider it wasted per se.
New Features Free Pascal 3.2
> Industrial and agricultural water use, and pollution, are massive compared to anything a modern city dweller does on a daily basis.

Maybe, but people minimize the impact of day-to-day living. Which do you think is higher: US carbon emissions from passenger vehicles, or US carbon emissions from freight trucks, ships, trains and airplanes combined?

In fact, it is passenger vehicles. Does your modern city dweller drive to work every day instead of taking transit? Individual choices really do have a real impact, it's not all due to industry and agriculture. Don't minimize the impact of individual choices.

Source, US EPA:

"The Transportation sector includes the movement of people and goods by cars, trucks, trains, ships, airplanes, and other vehicles. The majority of greenhouse gas emissions from transportation are carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions resulting from the combustion of petroleum-based products, like gasoline, in internal combustion engines. The largest sources of transportation-related greenhouse gas emissions include passenger cars and light-duty trucks, including sport utility vehicles, pickup trucks, and minivans. These sources account for over half of the emissions from the transportation sector. The remaining greenhouse gas emissions from the transportation sector come from other modes of transportation, including freight trucks, commercial aircraft, ships, boats, and trains, as well as pipelines and lubricants."

https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/sources-greenhouse-gas-emis...
the ones at a place I worked used reclaimed water. I don't know how well filtered or treated it was, but I know that it would leave horrible water spots all over anyone who parked too close to them.
> If the high expense ratios, hidden load charges, and diluted returns were not discouraging enough, this will help firm up that decision.

None of these things are true for Vanguard mutual funds, and there are some asset classes (muni bonds, money market funds, etc.) that Vanguard only makes available as mutual funds and not as ETFs.
Write Better Front End Components with This Tip
Actually yacy goes this direction: https://yacy.net/
Sounds like he agrees with you:

> When I think back over everything I have done across games, aerospace, and VR, I have always felt that I had at least a vague “line of sight” to the solutions, even if they were unconventional or unproven. I have sometimes wondered how I would fare with a problem where the solution really isn’t in sight. I decided that I should give it a try before I get too old.
I think we just need a few people to show how things ought to work and get that to be popular.

If we all hate ads enough and tracking, how about we invent a convenient way to pay for content across sites anonymously? I really like the design behind GNU Taler, which is a simple centralized cryptocurrency without the mining BS, so it can be used as a simple standin for currency, like PayPal. All we need to do is make a few popular content creation services use it, tipping small amounts for gratis content and larger amounts for access to pay restricted content. The only cookies that need to exist are proof of payment, cryptographically tied to the transaction.

I don't want to sign up for $10/month or whatever to access an article or view a video, I just want to access some given content. I do want to subscribe to content that I consume consistently to get a bulk discount, and I'd rather pay a little bit than see ads. That being said, every payment system so far is more work than it's worth to send a dollar or less, and the fees on top remove a lot of the value. I'd rather put $X into an account each month and click a button to send a small part of that to the content creator with little to no fees involved (maybe a one time load fee if anything).

The internet is only broken because the current solutions are insufficient and we've turned to legislation instead of innovation to solve the problem.
Model Interpretability
A few points

1. heme vs non-heme absorption is different 1. vegetarians and vegans do not have a high incidence of iron-deficiency induced anemia 3. plant base sources of food often have higher iron density that animal sources (tofu vs lean ground beef - it surprises people that tofu has substantially more iron) 4. too much iron can be harmful and the body lacks means of excreting excess: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4839665/
Only someone who either was dependant on the profits from, or has never actually watched cable television that they had to pay for, would claim it was perfect.
Knowing this, when my cats desire something sweet that I was eating, I have always assumed they wanted something else they tasted in the food -- if ice cream, then the cream, etc.
FPC 3.2.x just branched in svn

https://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,42265.0...
This App Will Tell You If Your iPhone Gets Hacked
> seen how the software will cope.

Honestly I could give two shits about all these hardware gimmicks. I wish mobile ARM devices had some standard BIOS or UEFI or something. Only Microsoft forced their manufacturers to use UEFI and no one really uses devicetree.

I care more about being able to take a new device and install what I want on it, just like any off the shelf PC laptop and being able to install Linux.

PostmarketOS is making some big pushes, but the mobile space is missing the hardware compatibility that enthusiasts need to run things that aren't Google/Apple tracking devices.

There just aren't enough hobbyist in this market to demand that standardization. Linux got big because it could run on a lot of the standard hardware out there. In the mobile space, we need custom devices like the PinePhone and Libbrem 5 (that don't exist yet) just to get the same kind of freedom.

The fact that there are a ton of devices out there that should be more than capable and powerful enough to be really good mobile devices, but that are crippled by the newer versions of Google services that slow them to a fucking crawl, is really screwed up and wasteful.
> Good riddance to x86/x64 once someone makes an ARM core capable of current Ryzen performance and attaches a runtime binary translator to it.

What you expect to happen: developers will target fastARM for new code and users will use the x86/x64 translator for existing/old code.

What will really happen: outside of open source circles (where they do not need the translator anyway) developers will keep targeting x86/x64 for new code since their existing users will keep using their existing x86/x64 machines and anyone using the new fastARM machines will still be compatible thanks to the translator.

This of course assumes that fastARM will be fast enough and the x86/x64 translator to provide better performance than a real x86/x64 machine. Otherwise users wont have much of an incentive to upgrade as all of their existing software will become slower. At least unless they are forced to (see Apple).
Dmarc Analyser Aquired by Mimecast
A lattice-based cryptographic library in Go
There has to be some reason that a language that benchmarks like Java is used to build so many heavy-feeling bloated programs that eat way more memory than seems reasonable, even from big "tech first" companies. Either lots of highly-experienced Java programmers aren't using patterns suited to good performance, or the language actually sucks a lot more than benchmarks/theory indicate. I suspect it's mostly the former.

It's been this way ever since I can recall. "Java's so fast you probably can't tell the difference most of the time". Well, OK, but, I can. So something's going on here.
As some other posts have pointed out, their algorithm was holding them back not the language.
I still have my Thinkoutside keyboard from the Dell Axim days as well. I’ve tried a few more recent folding keyboards, but nothing has met the rigidity, compactness, and key feel of that old thing. It was truly a magical product for its time.
Over 1500 comments and not a single word that MATLAB runs 2x faster on this new Mac than before.
> the argument that users should not care, is not valid

I agree from the user's perspective. The point is nuanced but important - users should care, but the reality is they don't and from an implementer's perspective we should neither expect nor require them to. So to rephrase, I mean "users should not have to care in order to use the product".
My wife loves her Volt. It’s at 50k miles now. Here’s what a typical month looks like:

Fuel Economy: 250+ mpg

Electric Consumption: 31 kW-hr/100 miles

Electric Miles: 1,538

Gas Miles: 244

Total Miles: 1,781 mi

Percentage on Electric: 86 %

Estimated Gallons of Fuel Saved: 71 gal

Most around town driving is 100% electric but she can also take out of town road trips without worrying about finding a charger.

There’s a lot more Teslas around here (Raleigh NC) than there used to be but I still wonder how viable they are for road trips.

One of the things that motivated the Volt purchase is the susceptibility of this area’s gasoline supply which relies on a single pipeline that had multiple outages a few years ago[1]. On the other side, I know CA Tesla owners were not having fun during the PG&E blackouts. (Then again, without electricity, gas station pumps don’t work either.)

Anyway, the flexibility of dual energy choices has been great for us. I’m sad GM canceled the vehicle and that it and other similar range plug-in hybrids aren’t more popular.

1. E.g. https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/hurricane-harvey/critical-...
It's good that you know your ideal user-experience (developers are aware of it too), but the trade-offs will depend on what's happening on the developer's end, so dismissing developer difficulties is not conducive to a good consumer experience.

Developer difficulty is a symptom of a more systemic problem, and it will usually affect the end-user through: higher-cost, lower-reliability, accumulation of technical debt, and/or resource-inefficiency.
> There's entire cultures that have survived on plant based diets just fine.

Many cultures have survived on vegetarian diets. Vegan ones are evolutionarily novel.
Interview with Patricia Scanlon (Soapbox Labs)on Current State of Kids Voicetech
Because you can cash millions so you'll never have to work again for the rest of your life?
Before Vulkan, there were more bottlenecks on multithreaded rendering. Most games pushed everything to a single drawing thread.

Hopefully going forward that will change, but even with Red Dead Redemption 2's Vulkan implementation, a 6 core Intel/AMD chip is competitive with this processor at lower settings/resolutions where the GPU is less of a bottleneck.

Compute bound games like Civilization 6 do scale with processor count however.
You can just use incognito on Chrome or private browser with Safari.