skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suppose it depends on how much you want to put effort into optimizing a single app for all users, rather than having a lite version of the site.

For my company, we serve images and video. Even multi megabyte JavaScript only equals one minute of a 720p videos runtime.

For people on restricted connections, we have a lite versions with less than 100k JavaScript and videos transcoded to 260p.
Nice, simple, and fun!

I also appreciate that you're very open to contributions! :)
The states are subservient to the federal government as restrained by the constitution. If the federal government (Trump, Obama, Nixon, Clinton, it does not matter) wants to take over California and can find an emergency power to do so authorized by Congress then the federal government will take over California.

The argument isn’t “we can do a better job than you” it’s “we are allowed to do this job for you”. Whether they can do it better is irrelevant.

As an aside, if we are looking as a whole, the federal government generally can and does do everything that they do better than the states could do it.
I don't wear nice clothing very often, but next time I have an event and need to buy a suit I will probably buy these. Big fan of minimalist shoes and really not a fan of dress shoes. Will probably check out the outlet store first.
Yea done that myself, save all the register states, save the stack pointer, and then set a new stack pointer and load all that tasks register states.

Although doing the same on windows is kinda annoying. Also the amount callee saved registers is kinda like what the heck. Here is some code I wrote doing that for window's ABI.
https://pastebin.com/jnxeMRcV
What are you talking about? In setting every icon has text describing what it is. On and off buttons have text that says On and Off.
You're not accounting for the marginal utility of money. The marginal utility of money decays exponentially with respect to income.
5. It's not about policing - it's about knowing what's being launched on startup and at least being able to disable items one by one to understand the root cause of your slow boots (and even that doesn't always help since some slow downs are caused by bad/misbehaving drivers). The startup tab in the task manager is absolutely insufficient as it shows pretty much nothing.

6. Random scripts from the Net to "improve" Windows 10? What could possibly go wrong? ;-)

And you're kinda neglecting the elephant in the room: you cannot uninstall apps in Windows 10 at all without using Power Shell. For some reasons Microsoft decided not to include the apps anywhere in GUI, e.g. in Windows Components which if I remember correctly were/was created exactly for this purpose.

In short the apps and how cryptically they are handled is one of the worst "features" of Windows 10. And don't get me on how they are handled in file system: it's a huge effing mess. And how you cannot really access/edit/remove apps data even when you're an administrator.

In short, UWP is an alien technology to Windows 10. UWP should have been a new different OS altogether (and probably that was the plan).
50k fine or 50k back taxes plus fine?
Free - A 200-year calendar that is different from the rest.

http://trackstar.4teachers.org/trackstar/ts/viewTrackMembers...
> An alternative is that, by not knowing what you are doing, you may not see all the options that exist -- and when you hit a problem too hard, you just throw more hardware (GPUs) at it.

Maybe some will. I just explained that I'm running my models on CPUs, so I'm actually developing sparse and efficient resource constrained models that evaluate quickly.

I've been working with libtorch's JIT engine in Rust (tch.rs bindings).

I'm currently trying to adapt Melgan to the Voice Conversion problem domain so I can get real time, high-fidelity VC without using a classical vocoder. WORLD works great and quickly, but it's a poor substitute for the real thing as it only maps the fundamental frequency, spectral envelope, and aperiodicity. Melgan is super high quality and faaast.
All of them can be rephrased as special cases of abstract interpretation, but that observation doesn't really help you develop them or implement them efficiently.
That is why average users using dumbed down and teletubbyfied interfaces of 'trusted' sites have bean fashion victims by
countless leaks, breaches, closed down sites, and so on.

I remember when MS-DOS came with large printed handbooks.
They were good. Maybe casual users should have read
about 20% of that, for learning how to organize and separate
programs and data, and doing backups accordingly.

Almost none did. And then cried because of some mishap.

Shrug.
https://www.fast.ai/

https://fast.ai is unsafe.
Interesting bit. I have a van with a 100 amp hour lead acid battery and an inverter. You can run a microwave and an electric kettle off it. Seems that solar panels + batteries would be enough for cooking.
>a pretty dry read

I'm not sure what you mean, except you didn't enjoy his style? Gee, he seems the opposite of dry to me–a very warm, friendly, human voice. If you think he's pretty dry, who in the field do you prefer?

I don't think you can have read Zinsser. You misspell his name, and it's hard to believe your sentences are those of someone who's heard his message:

"Not to be an HN contrarian, but" – this adds nothing. The reader of On Writing Well learns to cut every unnecessary word.

"it's actually a pretty dry read and does not itself, in my opinion, reflect good writing" says unclearly in 16 words what could be said clearly in a few. Cut "actually", "in my opinion" and "itself". Does not reflect good writing – do you mean "it's not good writing"? i.e. "it's bad writing"? I'm not sure what saying a book "doesn't reflect good writing" means, but seemingly something other than its not being written well, or you would have said so, the reader assumes.

"unfortunately I wouldn't say Zinnser's book is a piece of writing I would admire." Again, the head spins, although what you're trying to say seems simple. If it's "I don't admire it", why not say so? If something else, say that. Simplicity! Etc.

I encourage you to give him another go!
The net effect of the changes was absolutely tiny for low and middle income folks, and disproportionately rewarded the already well off for whom the marginal utility of money is the lowest. It was a totally regressive change.

Just doubling the standard deduction is fine. Capping SLPT was a kick in the nards to liberals on the coasts. It's not just "upper middle class" folks who got hosed, its actually people on the bubble, for whom their SF property tax (1.188%) already eats their entire deduction, and now they're double-taxed on their state taxes. 100K may be upper middle class in Iowa but it won't even get you a studio apartment in SF. That's who gets hosed.

And anyone with way too much money got more money. The net of it was dumb.
What's the point of this all or nothing attitude?

This looks like a move to getting better support. The alternative is getting nothing.
4. Sadly nowadays it's one of the worst UIs. It was great starting with Windows 95 and ending with 7. It all went downhill starting with Windows 8. Windows 10 isn't much better.
It's still experimental but the VS Code Vim extension has support for Neovim:

https://github.com/VSCodeVim/Vim#neovim-integration

I personally have not gone full dive on it yet though. I think once I can use Neovim on every major IDE / Editor, I might go fully into Neovim just for consistency in editing.
"The Black God's Drums" by P. Djeli Clark was a great novella.

https://www.amazon.com/Black-Gods-Drums-Dj%C3%A8l%C3%AD-Clar...
Awesome seeing this here! I hope this will get you the traction you need to keep it up and running! Happy New Year by the way!

I made a WhatsApp chatbot[1] a while back that helps you customize and send postcards from within WhatsApp.

1: https://melonpost.com
Jewish Man Assaulted, Hit in Head with a Chair in Crown Heights
I wonder exactly what you have done to windows to cause those sound driver problems. I haven't seen any real problems with sound.
Also don't forget binary translation which basically is assembly level JIT. Although static binary translation is a thing but has limitations.
For those who are susceptible any strong or traumatic experience can trigger psychosis, including leaving home for college. I don’t think that’s a good argument against going to college though.
Great. I hope the IRS is serious about this and finally makes the tax software industry obsolete.
Doesn't a modern IDE with context aware autocomplete help more with that than slightly faster text editing? Perhaps it also depends on what kind of development you're doing
A lot of the resources proposed in the comments focus on theoretical knowledge, or a particular sub-domain (Reinforcement Learning, or Deep Learning). I recommend a top down approach where you pick a project and learn by building it. This can be easier said than done however, and after mentoring dozens of junior Data Scientists I wrote a how-to guide for people interested in using ML for practical topics.

You can find it from O'Reilly here (http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920215912.do) or on Amazon here (https://www.amazon.com/Building-Machine-Learning-Powered-App...).
For an advanced challenge: do it for a hundred large bz2 files too big to fit on disk in an uncompressed state, such as the monthly-compiled hourly dumps of Wikipedia Pagecounts-EZ (https://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/pagecounts-ez/). This is feasible with CLI utils, but not trivial.
I thought the word "cellular" referred to discrete space? (Wikipedia also suggests that cellular automata are discrete by definition.) If not, what distinguishes continuous cellular automata from general dynamical systems?
> where should I start? I work mostly as a data analyst on pharma where the focus is batch process.

Any tool needs an applied field but any applied field does not need all the tools. You have an applied field already (pharma), so start looking for one or two state-of-the-art ML papers for that? Happy 2020 and good luck, it’s going to be fun!
True, but that framework seems to have lost its teeth in recent decades. Uruguay, Portugal, Canada and many US states are flagrantly violating international law with no consequences.
Sadly not legally available for SOHO users in any shape or form.
Sounds like bs to me. People with early psychiatric symptoms are probably more likely to self medicate with weed. In other words the arrow of causality is probably backwards.
"Professor Glantz’s central claim in relation to scientific consensus is false, and not even close to true. The scientific consensus is that vaping is much less harmful than smoking, and this is unlikely to change."
Just to clear any confusion, this is not a town created by the relative existence of Disney World, this is actually originally part of the original Disney World property that Disney used to create a new town called Celebration, which was then sold off.

PS: I live two miles from there.
I'll be interested to watch what happens when that guy kicks off. We're down to one politically active Koch Brother too.
There is many kind of assembly language, some for the actual computer hardware, some for VMs, and some used as both.

I have used and sometimes still do use assembly language, including 6502 (specifically, NMOS 6502 without decimal arithmetic, including unofficial opcodes), and a little bit of x86 stuff (although the modern x86 is very messy, I think), but also Z-machine and Glulx. I have also used MIX and MMIX assembly (and may use MMIX more if I would actually make a computer with it). And then some other programs (such as ZZ Zero, which is similar to ZZT) has its own kind of assembly language.

One feature not mentioned is the relative numbered labels such as 1H and 2H available in MIXAL and MMIXAL; you can then use 2F to find the next 2H label forward, or 2B to find the next 2H label backward. My own assemblers for Glulx and ZZ Zero support the similar feature too.
Type systems are getting more interesting as time goes on as innovations from research and niche languages are making it into the mainstream. A particularly interesting one to me is dependent types. That's where you can start to prove more interesting things about your code. It's juuuust beginning to make its way into practical use. I'd expect once that happens, we might see a gradual transition towards proving more and more invariants and properties of your code.
I don’t think it’s quite as simple as “not giving a shit about the country”, as much as it is the simple fact that different reasonable people can have different opinions about collective ownership.

Recall that both companies and countries are abstractions; they are not real. Some people (reasonably) think that it is logically impossible for a country to own something. Others (reasonably) think it is logically impossible for a corporation to own something. Reasonable people disagree on these things sometimes.
I guess i dont see what the fuss is. Instead of looping through the numbers, they precalculate the answers and loop through that instead. Personally this seems about equivalent of replacing all instances of 2+2 in your program with just 4, and then claiming the program doesnt use addition.

Both solutions seem to deal with group theory to basically the same extent.
I love it.

It's a stripped down to the bare bones Windows 10 which doesn't include UWP apps (except the core ones, like the start menu and PC settings) and which allows to disable pretty much all the telemetry.

Also, it's rock solid, doesn't get reinstalled every 12 months and is supported for 10+ years.

In short, it's what Windows 10 should have been.
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that was the easiest most intuitive way I found to display the tiles. it's not great though
Republicans haven't actually voted for smaller federal budgets in decades.
I'm sure something nice could be built with frequency pairs: one for voice, one for data.

It should be possible to build something backwards compatible. Use processes to fall back to voice for when data is lacking, etc.
Finally some rationality on the horizon!
Don't forget, once the public came to associate marijuana with "bad things" then it was easy to get cheap votes by being "tough on crime" and correspondingly tough on drugs.
Related

"Ask HN: Best books you read in the past decade?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21900498

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"Ask HN: What book(s) had the most impact for you in 2019?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21677320

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Do you really believe that people would "cut" legal marijuana with "dangerous chemicals" and sell it from their dispensary? This barely ever happens with illegal marijuana. The reason drugs like heroin and cocaine are cut is to increase profit margin, either through dilution with a relatively harmless substance, or (more dangerously) a cheaper, more potent alternative like fentanyl in the case of heroin. Marijuana cannot be "cut" in this way, and it is the black market that incentivizes it with other drugs. I should be able to grow it for myself and my friends and family but that's still illegal most places that have rec laws. These laws are preferable to prohibition but it is not the laws that are helping people. It's the plant itself that is doing so.
I worked with Francois back in 2010. A few years later I turned down his overtures to join AbVitro. Even with the benefit of hindsight it was the right risk-adjusted decision.

As for the why, I don't think it's in the water. Church is a brilliant scientist and mentor, but he's also in a position to skim the cream.
I think you are confusing morals (subjective) and ethics (objective).

Complying with the tax law, as written, is not itself an unethical act.

People disagree on whether or not paying the minimum amount of tax required by law is moral or not.

I believe that most people generally agree that the tax law’s current angle of not taxing companies without profits is a reasonable decision.
Their business model is based on data prostitution. You give away your privacy they give you "free" services.
I partially disagree because i did that educational thing, though a long time ago. All in all it was mostly a waste of time.

I have an aversion of being called elitist. It's more like resignation, cynicism. Like thinking 'Eat all the shit that you want. Just don't shit on me'
Pascal is just such a nice language to read, too.
The top answer even throws shade on the "it doesn't sound like my father" response.
Heading to the US? There have been some major changes at the border
Fantastic. Like a mini sim city. Probably works better than the original PS version.
There is no formal resident removal program, but tons of people are leaving as they get priced out: https://sf.curbed.com/2019/1/30/18196549/san-francisco-every...

This is an unavoidable consequence of people moving in and the housing supply not growing (you're right that it's growing a little, I exaggerated somewhat to make the point).
4-6 hours still seems like a long time for this, did you have sorted indices on the join columns? How high of cardinality (distinct counts) did the join columns have? Traditional RDBMS are pretty fast at joining when you have the right indices in place, especially when the cardinality of the join columns isn't very high.

And how much of that time was just getting the data into the tables? There are fast and slow ways to do that, too...
If the benefit of writing was primarily to focus your thoughts, I think everyone would be enjoying this benefit. After all, we constantly send email informing people of things we are about to do or have done.

Perhaps the benefit is closer to advertising. As Buffet is supposed to have said, if you don’t write it’s like winking in the dark.
For redundancy. Chances are all the lenses aren't covered in spiders. If you have two, you could select the non-giant spider view, or even write up a quick and dirty script for deciding which camera seems to have the minimum number of giant spiders at any given time, then select accordingly.

...I don't like spiders.
I found more Search GPO settings in the User Configuration to finally disable the web search. No more "Control Panel" Bing web searches for me!
This doesn’t seem be worked upon either?
In my experience, you can easily beat a compiler for size, which may or may not correspond to speed.
everyone wanting to contribute:

I thought about adding a print screen button

a save button that keeps the map on a localStorage would also be great
YouTube's deplatforming and demonetizing is about improving content quality for a broad audience, so they have been taking steps to fight spammy content. They will probably have to do more.

The systems that died were systems that were structurally unable to fight spam or where doing so was prohibitively expensive in time or money.
Pope Francis hopes to anoint a new economic model
What do opponents of marijuana legalization actually believe?

The only coherent opposition to it I've ever heard is that it's difficult to test for marijuana intoxication on the side of the road. Which still doesn't really make sense when you consider that people are clearly doing it anyway (and now can easily cross state lines with no marijuana in their possession but quite a bit of THC in their blood).
of course that would need a UI
> Hm, somehow I feel neither of them is related. How likely is it that the name wasn't unique after your rename? Did you type in gibberish or something that could plausibly exist?

I only have my memory to go by so this could be faulty, but if I remember correctly I was trying to copy a public repository into an empty folder. I simply called git clone url. When that failed, considering the error message I got, I then entered in the clone command with a random string of characters for the destination name, again in the same empty folder. When that failed, I closed the terminal, opened a new one on my desktop, and that failed, too. Restarting fixed it.

I encounter a lot of weird issues with Windows. I'm not sure if it's my hardware combination, or what. The hardware itself contains my Linux install, which never gives me an issue, so I doubt it's faulty hardware. At one point I assumed I had installed from a corrupted ISO or something, so I downloaded a new ISO and reinstalled. Problems persisted.

It's entirely possible that some program that I typically install causes issues, but I can't imagine what program that would be. Practically the only thing on my Windows partition is visual studio (c++ and c# tooling), clion, 7zip, WSL (could be this, I suppose), an installation of ruby, and Sublime Text. I know at one point Microsoft was saying that CCleaner was causing problems, but I'm not using anything like that.
Maybe I'm missing something, but wouldn't ctrla+a select all text?
To add a newline above, I just press home and enter. For newline below end and enter. The keys are right next to each other. Vim doesn't seem more convenient for this case
Isn’t 2009-2019 gain much greater than 1999-2009 gain? What makes you think that the next 10 years will generate smaller return?
> There are five different schedules of controlled substances, numbered I–V. The CSA describes the different schedules based on three factors:

> Potential for abuse: How likely is this drug to be abused?

> Accepted medical use: Is this drug used as a treatment in the United States?

> Safety and potential for addiction: Is this drug safe? How likely is this drug to cause addiction? What kinds of addiction?
Alcohol is still popular, though, for whatever reason.
Artificial knees should be sterile when they're first implanted, so if you use the same sterilization procedure, the infection risk should be the same, regardless of whether it's a used part or a new one.
Inflation..? What? We’re in a very low inflation environment right now. The Fed is actually trying to figure out how to get inflation to the target 2% annually. Unclear if they met it or not.
In the case of Linux, you can at least change the window managers and desktop environments. That is what I did; I installed i3-wm and removed the desktop environment entirely.
It likely was a motive, but it doesn't necessarily make the quote real. I have trouble believing Nixon or his advisors would give a supervillain monologue like that, personally, even if those were their exact intentions.
MySQL has a barebones CSV storage engine: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/se-csv-limitations.h...

More usefully, MySQL has LOAD DATA INFILE facilities for bulk loading of flat files.
Valid, valid. I think it's interesting to think about how groups that are in between the "mainstream" and the "fringe"--not banned necessarily, but those with more variant needs from their networks--can serve as an "indicator community" (https://www.britannica.com/science/indicator-species) of social ecosystems' function.
Nobody’s proposing not allowing amendments though, just that the government send you a best effort of your taxes to verify and for you to send back if correct. Amend away.