skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, as a Kiwi, I'm entirely unsurprised. I've owned Japanese cars from various manufacturers, but the absolute worst I owned was a Toyota Cavalier - a rebadged Chevrolet as part of some trade deal between the US and Japan - that the Japanese steered well clear of and immediately exported to NZ and Aus.

It had a great wee 4 cylinder 2.4L engine, a hell of a lot of fun to drive, but it was of notorious build quality (which I learned after the fact). I spent a lot of time trying to keep it running, and in the end, it was worth a surprising amount at sale simply for the spare parts, because these buggers chewed through them and as they were gray imports into NZ, very hard to find official parts for them.

It was the little things - like the interior light you could only turn on by turning the dashboard brightness dial all the way up - the boot/trunk latch that was made entirely of plastic, and was held onto the boot/trunk by plastic pins. The perpetual thirst for an odd (for Jap imports) grade of oil (5W30 only). The coolant that drained out if you parked on a slope. The sunroof that always leaked and you could never quite fix.

The park lights that involved taking the entire bumper off merely to replace a bulb - in a country used to actual Japanese built cars, such European levels of PITA maintenance earned the Cavalier a deserved bad name.

I don't know if GM just half-assed it on purpose, or by mistake, but it was hardly a soaring endorsement of American engineering.
General purpose AI is not waiting for more compute power. Its waiting for algorithms that can do it.

I'm not 100% sure deep learning can get all the way there. We might need a new approach. But the deep learning leaders are taking it very seriously and making some progress.

For example, Yann LeCun is talking about self-supervised, learning models of the world. MILA (Bengio's group) is talking about "state representation learning, or the ability to capture latent generative factors of an environment". Hinton now has capsule networks. In my opinion these types of approaches are very promising for general purpose AI.
In current form, yes. The article pretty clearly states:

>Instead Google wants developers to use the declarativeNetRequest API, which has the browser, not the extension, strip content or resources from a visited web sites. This API, though, has a limit of 30,000 rules that can be created.

>Unfortunately, this change will break popular ad blockers such as uBlock Origin, which rely on the original functionality of the webRequest API and need more rules than are available in the declarativeNetRequest API.

Looking at an old picture of ublock origin block lists: https://www.bleepstatic.com/images/news/u/1100723/uBlockOrig... we can see 150,000 rules. The whole point of a rules list (easylist/easyprivacy) is that they're easy to maintain, since it should be a surprise to no one that adding new ad domains is trivially trivial. EasyList alone is 30,000 rules and it alone is woefully insufficient for a modern-day browser. The declarativeNetRequest only allows for ONE type of filter to work. The static kind, i.e. the old, deprecated, bad, insufficient kind.

Recommended reading: uBlock Origin developer's comments on this change (unanswered by google ofc) https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=896897...
"expensive american-made fridge" how did he manage to find something like that? People might have different priorities
but nothing is preventing you from installing Grohe faucets, or Villeroy & Boch sinks they are widely available.
> The bank took their house and sold it at auction for very little money. So they lost everything.

Perhaps it's a bit of an off-topic tangent but this sentence caused my ire. Why do banks always throw people under the bus when it comes to foreclosing on someone?

I can imagine that it's often about reclaiming a residual fraction of a mortgage so even a firesale auction can turn a profit but why can't they bloody damn sell a property at market rates, cover the debt and leave the rest to the debtor? Heck, even take commission for the sale!

Why the ruthlessness? It's abominable.
Similar to how a low BMI has higher death rates than overweight BMI IIRC. People tend to lose a lot of weight when they are really sick.
Thanks! I've switched jobs six months ago. Previously, I worked moslty solo and relied on staticcheck and other static analysis tools a lot. On this new job I quickly found out we weren't using any tools, and staticcheck was the one I missed the most. Fortunately I was able to show its value, and we are steadily improving our codebase thanks to it.

This and also gosec are invaluable!

Something I looked recently and should adopt soon:
https://github.com/golangci/golangci-lint

So far, this is what my 'de facto' lint list looks like:

echo "Checking for unchecked errors."
errcheck $(go list ./...)
echo "Linting code."
test -z "$(golint `go list ./...` | tee /dev/stderr)"
echo "Examining source code against code defect."
go vet $(go list ./...)
go vet -vettool=$(which shadow)
echo "Running staticcheck toolset https://staticcheck.io"
staticcheck ./...
echo "Checking if code contains security issues."
# TODO(henvic) fix/update gosec when available:
# G104: Doesn't understand _ assignments #270
# https://github.com/securego/gosec/issues/270
# Ignoring G104: Audit errors not checked for now.
gosec -quiet -exclude G104 --quiet ./...
FYI, some land is well suited to grow food crops, other land isn't. The share varies by region, of course. There's a limit to how much meat we can eat if we are to use the land optimally. That limit isn't zero.
Yeah - I really enjoyed it. Takes a somewhat more humanities based approach towards describing the history and understanding the relevance of running for humans. It inspired me to get out there and put some more miles in.
BART riders hold 'eat-in' protest after man detained for eating on platform
Halifax is 87% white though. Much higher than Bradford and Huddersfield. I specifically mentioned Yorkshire (being not London) as I suspected you were thinking of London. At 12% of your population it’s not representative of the U.K (though neither is Yorkshire of course)

I wonder what the demographic of Skirtcoat Green are compared to the western part of the town. It’s my impression that the small Asian communities live in certain parts and there is not much of a mix.
It's amazing how AMD, which once seemed a company on their knees, now seems to be kicking Intel's butt, and I find myself worrying about Intel now. Why do they seem to be failing on so many projects? Itanium, Larabee, XScale, the Modem Division? Why is one of the world's largest and most successful CPU companies noncompetitive now on pretty much everything, except their mainstay x86 processor, where they seem to be stalling.

Is there something wrong with Intel management/culture that's allowing other firms to run rings around them?
It could of course, see for example any big commercial software like Mathematica, Matlab etc. . However, doing things that way is something you really, really want to avoid if at all possible.
Way ahead of you...
The quip is stupid, and I don't understand why it's so popular. In reality, top posting looks like this:

--

Message 1:

Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?

Message 2:

A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.

> Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?

--

My point is that you almost never read a single message in isolation, so bottom-posting makes you re-read everything you've just read all over again. If you happened to be reading an individual e-mail from the middle of a chain, bottom-posting would be slightly more convenient (and inline-quoting would lose information). Top posting gives you reverse chronological order, prioritizing what is important, and is friendly for discussions with changing number of recipients.
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Google's internal motivation doesn't really matter.
I've seen videos of people tripping in their home and punching a hole in the drywall.

My apartment in the Netherlands is 100% drywall but I need to run into it at full force to even make a dent. To make a hole in it I need tools.
Given that they added an arbitrary limit to the number of rules that is high but not quite high enough for modern adblockers I'm gonna assume this was intentional.
Propositions as Types: Some Missing Links
While you are not wrong, there is a big difference between choosing not to use something, vs not having the option to. You can get much more peace of mind in the latter, even thought the situation is the same.
A Remote Peak in Myanmar Nearly Broke an Elite Team of Climbers
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I highly doubt the author gets any say in the matter.
> it concerns me that no one seems to worry about whether we're losing some valuable things with the ongoing cultural homogenization of the planet.

This quote is for you then.

> From a philosophical viewpoint, the danger inherent in the new reality of mankind seems to be that this unity, based on the technical means of communication and violence, destroys all national traditions and buries the authentic origins of all human existence. This destructive process can even be considered a necessary prerequisite for ultimate understanding between men of all cultures, civilizations, races, and nations. Its result would be a shallowness that would transform man, as we have known him in five thousand years of recorded history, beyond recognition. It would be more than mere superficiality; it would be as though the whole dimension of depth, without which human thought, even on the mere level of technical invention, could not exist, would simply disappear. This leveling down would be much more radical than the leveling to the lowest common denominator; it would ultimately arrive at a denominator of which we have hardly any notion today.

> As long as one conceives of truth as separate and distinct from its expression, as something which by itself is uncommunicative and neither communicates itself to reason nor appeals to "existential" experience, it is almost impossible not to believe that this destructive process will inevitably be triggered off by the sheer automatism of technology which made the world one and, in a sense, united mankind. It looks as though the historical pasts of the-nations, in their utter diversity and disparity, in their confusing variety and bewildering strangeness for each other, are nothing but obstacles on the road to a horridly shallow unity. This, of course, is a delusion; if the dimension of depth out of which modern science and technology have developed ever were destroyed, the probability is that the new unity of mankind could not even technically survive. Everything then seems to depend upon the possibility of bringing the national pasts, in their original disparateness, into communication with each other as the only way to catch up with the global system of communication which covers the surface of the earth.

-- Hannah Arendt, "Men in Dark Times"

She also said nobody has the right to obey, and I agree with that, so we'd still have plenty to disagree about, but here you pointed to something that also worries me greatly. I'm not a nationalist in the ideological sense, but I also think souvereign nations are a great unit of organization, I don't believe in "smashing borders" anymore than I believe in smashing cell borders. So, there's this tiny sliver of common ground we have, at least.
This is a meta-analysis of many other studies of varying quality. There are many limitations, including the inclusion of a study that did not show effect , exclusion of people with heart disease problems etc. They are described in their discussion section here: https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/2019/09/25/bjsports-2018-...

this seems to put a few grains of salt in this all-or-none preclamation
Most of the things managed by the EU end up this way. When you are trying to manage a project with 28different votes and political powers, all pulling in a different direction, this happens.
Example for Managing Complex State with React UseReducer and UseContext
Yes but so many of them are built and sell as investments that are banking on an ever-inflating property market. I guess it's also what happened in most of the US to drive the quality down.

I wouldn't bundle the UK in with the rest of Western Europe. We're much more interested in the American model.
Ah, nice! I guess all languages have legions of these. In Norway, dell sold computers with “brannkabel”, or “burn cable” [1].

[1] IEEE 1394 — FireWire.
The title is indeed editorialization.
Layered voxel rendering: rendering randomly generated voxel islands in a browser
Neuroevolution: An Alternative Approach to AI
This is the point in the dominance cycle where the dominant player decides they no longer need to be the fastest or the most secure and that their dominance will allow them to coast along doing their thing.

There’s nothing particularly inevitable about what happens next, but let’s hope they get an IE6-sized kick in the teeth.
Link to article on a GDPR-compliant site:

https://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2019/11/08/maryland-medical-c...
Most of Tesla's problems seem related to the other parts of the car: doors, seats, suspension, etc. They are probably the best electric powertrain company in the world, but still not that great at being a car company.
I got the very same impression when I visited the US, particularly about housing and furniture. But I don't quite trust it: there must be a lot of quality metrics where the American stuff shines which I don't even recognize, for exactly the same reasons you named. But in the end I guess I still agree, chances are it's not even half as bad as it looks to my untrained European eyes, but still not good.
> Then you get to grocery stores, and you have to go to the “fancy places” to even get the baseline of quality you see in the rest of the developed world. All the chocolate is bad.

While I agree with you on other points, I take issue with this. American grocery stores are a real treat when visiting. Produce is colorful, plentiful, and delicious thanks to American embrace of GMO's and subsidies for farmers. Raw ingredients such as flour are available in huge variety (try finding something as simple as peanut oil at your local Lidl). Even the quality of "junk" food is comparably fantastic, as you won't find a frozen pizza like DiGiorno anywhere else. This is all before you visit a Whole Foods, which takes quality and variety to a point which organic supermarkets elsewhere in the world can't compare.

Europe, on the other hand, is so obsessed with the discount model, so disinterested in variety, and so opposed to GMO's, that their supermarkets are downright frustrating. Yes, the meat, cheese, and chocolate is great, but it stops there.
In the US the power of large corporations seems to have run amok a bit allowing them to foist crappy bread, chocolate etc. In Europe things are more regulated and it seems easier for local producers to not be wiped out by the large corporates. I think the US need some political reform so it's less easy to buy political influence.
^ this. I am unable to buy a pair (in London), but I have some loaned to me from ML so I can help someone deliver a product (for festivals, not the store/consumers)

Both these things continue to point toward the hype machine over mass market/sales/consumer consumption
Doesn't Lite limit you to 16 tracks? That gets over quickly once you start producing serious music.

The Push + Live Suit bundle is good value imo.

Though you should ask what you're going to use it for. I use it mostly as an arranger and honestly, I could have done the same better in Studio One.
Uhh ...

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/ne...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kateoflahertyuk/2019/04/12/amaz...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/gdpr-consent/?destination=%2f...

That said I agree its your home, and me as a potential visitor, will not expect you to disable/enable any devices on my account
I'd ague that Japan's quality is a bit better than EU but also depends on what food you are used to. Mainly healthy options wise I think Japan stands out even more.
Assuming this is a real cure for HIV, I’m curious what this will do to the HIV/AIDS charity industry. Would we still have “run for the cure”? Will red ribbons still mean AIDS?
Being young means you're less likely to be totally responsible yet. Being poor means you're less likely to have parents that are 100% engaged in your library visits.
This is a slight aside but the Wikipedia article on Galápagos syndrome is kind of interesting:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gal%C3%A1pagos_syndrome

It seems like a pretty useful metaphor that I wasn't familiar with.
German citizen here. I travel to the US quite often - I find that the quality of the Grocery stores is on average one level up. The quality of the goods sold there is another story. But mid-and southern Europe likes it cheap when it comes to these things. There is a reason why we call them "discounters".

I really do hear you on the housing quality - it's ridiculous what people are willing to put up with over there. We have friends living in the southern bay area who pay 3.5k for a 2.5 bedroom apartment in an apartment complex - the whole thing calls itself "Luxury Residencies". Ain't no luxury there. Like you describe everything is built extra cheap: from the walls, to the kitchen appliances and the plumbing. There is a massive top-loader in their supply closet that sounds like it runs on it's own ICE, built in the 50s. In Europe this would be considered a very basic apartment but it's already considered 1-2 levels higher than average and not even 3 years old.

I do think there is something to your Galapagos syndrome theory.
It seems they have left the xx90X model number unused for now but the 32-core has been accounted for...
> AMD has released a salvo by unveiled what are the world's most powerful desktop processors

Is it too much to ask that tech journalists proof read their articles before hitting publish?

> AMD unveils world's most powerful desktop CPUs

This article contains zero benchmarks or anything other than the core count and TDP to substantiate the claim that these are the "world's most powerful desktop CPUs"

Can we please stop giving ZDNet impressions for this tripe?

The Anandtech article from 4 days ago on the Threadripper announcement at least included AMD's slide deck. [1]

[1] https://www.anandtech.com/show/15062/amds-2019-fall-update
I've seen others, Arianna Grande on a amateur video amongst them, complaining about the diff in quality between European and US street food being inconceivable .
If you want to see shoddy new buildings, go to Sydney.

Third Sydney apartment block abandoned

https://thebrag.com/third-sydney-apartment-block-abandoned/
The way ad-blockers work at the moment is that the authors of ad-blockers work hard to not break the websites they block adverts on. This is good for users. This change means ad-blockers will need a different, simpler approach that probably will break far more websites. For example, you could write a very simple ad-blocking script that just denied requests to load JS from any third-party domain. That would break a lot of websites, but you wouldn't see many adverts.

I'd rather have lots of broken websites than websites with adverts. I suspect a lot of web users feel the same way.
You shouldn't, just because there are similar projects out there already doesn't mean your implementation is barred from being of value, be it (re-) sparking a discussion or solving certain aspects more effectively (unless maybe you outright copied from other projects which i doubt you have)
Sorry buddy, there's a marketplace for ideas, and this is what sells.
What are those mental habits?

Edit: it's the blog post you linked above? "How to see self & others: not as better/worse, but as individuals..." ?
What’s that then?

I live in Western New Zealand (Tasmania), and we have to adjust the temperature too.
At this cost, is AWS really worth it? Shouldn't colocation be much cheaper after only a few months of use?
I don't think a work "failing" is relevant here. The reality is that AMD is still well behind Intel in many, many things.

Projects fail. It's expected. The only way to have no failing projects is not to create experimental projects.

But AMD is definitely catching up and that's a good thing.
The corn economy in the US is highly perverted, and that is just the tip of an iceberg. Agreed somewhat about Lidl, I'd be very frustrated if Lidl was the only place I could buy stuff in Sweden.
Safari has a much larger limit for blocking list entries though.
Avoiding “OR” for Better Query Performance
Worst comment I have seen was in an systems paper at Uni (assignments in a MIPS's like assembly language).

add $1, $2, $3 #add some stuff.
I wonder whether this article will be indexed by search engines.
Salesforce lead management tips and best practices
How to Manage Salon Inventory – Blog- Salonist Salon Software
Infrastructure in Leipzig is awesome because it was newly created after joining Western Germany for the money from westerners. Infrastructure in Western Germany is crap! My wife uses subway in Munich and there is no week without complaining about delayed or canceled trains. Buildings of universities in Western Germany is a bad joke. University in Regensburg was literally collapsing while one in Dresden got many new buildings. It’s not fair comparison.
Couldn't some kind of graph compression algorithm preprocess the subscribed rulesets into what fits 30k rules?

I have no idea about the domain but 30k rules seems more than sufficient to map from a 150k set of uncompressed wildcard patterns.
Lidl is a discount supermarket. It's not about choice, it's about the lowest prices possible with a limited amount of variety available in exchange. There are plenty of other chain supermarkets that have the huge variety of flour (?) you crave.

And "colorful" doesn't mean tasty with produce, unfortunately.
You call it beauty, but to me a pile of unnecessary abstractions (and the associated boilerplate) is just ugly. It can be fun to design and build, kinda like goldberg machines, but I wouldn't decorate my home or art with such things.

Simple, small, short.. now that's where I see beauty.