skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm going to give the article a pass on this. They explain the genesis of the Snapchat dot codes. They don't explicitly say that the FB and snapchat codes are based on QR, they do genericize the term QR a bit, but that is all.

The problem is of course barcode isn't quite right either. The term 2D or Matrix codes never really caught on (of course the FB symbol isn't a matrix code either).

Further, the "dreaded" is a bit of poorly worded editorializing. But I recall a few years ago when they started popping up, that whily maybe not dreaded, people thought they were a stupid gimmick (for all the reasons mentioned in the article) and many times intrusive or tasteless. Dreaded similar to fucking blue LEDs. That is, to say, Blue LEDs are useful, but it was damn fucking annoying when a bright one was put on damn everything they didn't belong.
But in the sense that Apple is notoriously tight-lipped about research, it's a notable PR stunt. Unlike with Microsoft and Google, you don't see a lot of Apple in academic research circles despite them having a significant brain-share. Love them or hate them, Apple is a powerhouse and the (undoubtedly amazing) research happening behind the scenes could do a huge amount of good with just a bit more visibility.
The EEA was formed in response to Hyperledger, the heavily IBM-backed private blockchain. I think it was the only possible move. The risk of Hyperledger taking over the world of blockchain was too great. EEA is sort of to Ethereum/Blockchain what RedHat is to Linux. A necessary evil.
You can put the phone inside a RF radio blocking bag.
We were just in the the trough of disillusionment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hype_cycle
>They are simply a standard for communication, not unlike writing down an http:// URL in human-readable text.

So why not encode that data in a human readable format? I think it's the same argument as a binary storage format vs. plaintext. Sure you gain a slight bit of efficiency on the application side of things. But the decreased portability and ease of use is usually not worth the trade-off.
One more thing to consider is: Stones or other obstacles thrown on the train (which happens sometime due to protest and theft attempt) and can damage those panels. I don't see that being handles in any way.
I wouldn't be so sure until the support actually drops.

1607 is going to receive updates to 2018, and the Acer quote says "Microsoft is working with us to help provide compatible drivers to address this incompatibility", and I can see no official statement from MS saying otherwise.

The "Windows 10 is no longer supported on this PC" message, then, could be explained by simple "if (!systemsupported()) { show message }" that does not properly take into account that support could still be added in the future.
But won't they get blocked when everyone starts dancing on top of the train?
I think they're great too, but they don't hold more info (per unit area) than other types of symbology like, for example, datamatrix. If you really want to stuff tons of data in the symbol itself, you need PDF417. That can be scanned by a specialized line scanner (admittedly not convenient for phone cameras)

QR codes often encode URL's/URI's and the application typically hits up a database upon scanning them just like any other inventory barcode.
There seems to be a shortage of Ledgers, yes. I wouldn't pay 3x the price (which means I'd sell you mine if I didn't have coins on it), but it's easily the best purchase if you have more than a few hundred dollars' worth of coins, or if you're a geek like me.

I especially love how it supports multiple cryptocurrencies with the same keys, so I can just store everything in the same place with no hassle.
If this is so important to our industry, why are people in our industry helping to destroy net neutrality?
You're being downvoted for making people read the words "Fox news" but you're absolutely right about this.

I would state it another way though. Fox news is hugely profitable because it provides information to people that validates, reinforces, and legitimizes their particular social and political beliefs. It thickens the walls of their bubble. Fox news led the way with this and every other network quickly followed suit.
Dropping support? No, said support was announced to not exist before the release of said CPUs, and given that CPUs are a fair bit more complex than appears (for instance Windows XP wouldn't run on Ryzen CPUs until a microcode update in practice due to some old feature being unsupported, or new features would be introduced that old OS task switching code is unaware of) at first glance, it was considered unviable to formally support these CPUs - even if they might work at first appearances, Microsoft gathers sufficient usage/error data that they presumably know of some hard-to-fix issue that makes it impossible to guarantee the OS to work together with this new hardware.

Also, an update to the OS to make it compatible could potentially be sufficiently high-impact that it could break user applications, existing hardware functionality, or other potential concerns.
It basically allows some untrusted party to convert ciphertext which you can decrypt to a ciphertext which someone you granted access to can decrypt.

It's like "instead of decrypting my data and encrypting with Bob's public key I want Charlie to do this operation without showing my secrets to Charlie". Charlie is a miner in our case :-)
Realistically, we both know that hardly anyone will check the source code, let alone be capable of spotting security problems or backdoors. Unplugging your machine from the network doesn't protect you either - who knows if the software leaves some temp files around containing your private keys?
Yeah, but apparently the PS4 was originally hacked through bugs in the IOMMU. I basically don't trust an IOMMU that I don't have the source to and that hasn't been formally verified (so all of them).
I clicked on your first link out of curiosity and see that it's for F90/95. My first reaction was to wonder whether it would cover the object-oriented paradigm and IEEE floats added in later standards, but then I realized that this is a manifestation of the problem: lecture slides from 2014 that fail to cover even F03.

>First question, do you have access to a compiler?

Sure do. In fact I managed to fumble my way through writing a program to parameterize away piston-engined aircraft performance into an iterative solver a few years ago, but the lack of good/comprehensible language reference materials made trying to decipher the arcane incantations needed to do robust file I/O or divide the program into multiple source files, etc. into a very frustrating experience.

It was the last time I touched Fortran.

I'm surprised nobody has sat down and said "All right, if we want people to use Fortran outside of legacy codebases, we really need to polish the language introduction and put out a modern getting started guide to writing idiomatic Fortran in $current_year."

Because if they don't want new people to learn and use Fortran, why are they bothering to update the standard?
Take this: https://alisdair.mcdiarmid.org/kill-sticky-headers/
Pai's immediate predecessor literally flipped his position on net neutrality, owing largely (at least as is commonly assumed) to political pressure from the White House, itself driven by clearly expressed sentiment among the democratic base. Absent the earlier burst of activism, it's unlikely the Obama administration would have cared enough to lean on Wheeler.

That doesn't mean that it's going to work on Trump and Pai in the same way, but arguing that activism "doesn't work" based on this one data point is silly. It does work, sometimes. The details matter.
Assuming no crypto vulnerabilities are discovered.
>> QR codes, it turns out, were just ahead of their time.

No they weren't, they were given a bad reputation because their use in ad campaigns, where they were exclusively deployed as a tool to con people into actively viewing more ads, dwarfed other uses in both number and visibility to the average person. Google did exactly the same thing to the reputation of its own product (Glass) in a similar way - by trying to convince people that it was going to be something that everyone was going to wear all the time.

It makes sense that they're becoming more popular now that they're not being used in ads so much anymore, and instead being used for games and other features that actually do things users want to do.
I always wondered why electrification of major rail lines is not accompanied by updating and implementation of a more modern and efficient power grip. The two can parallel each other due to right of ways and while you cannot directly power your train from those high voltage lines the substations along the way make for good connection points
We are using a search solution, which I think is provided by Microsoft (http://search.cern.ch , I find it looks like one of these fake search engines when people on TV browse the internet ;-)). It works pretty well to index the mails, but could always be improved of course.

The bigger problem is that nobody wants to sign up for the traffic heavy support mailing lists. We actually have shifters who do that and try to answer the mails. If there was something that is "pull", not "push", or if I could just watch certain tags, it would be easier to participate.
The whole article, and all the studies cited in the article are characterizing AVs as things people will buy, and some will, but AV use will come predominantly as robotaxis. Looking at the number of vehicles sold isn't even pertinent, the relevant metric is the number of vehicle miles travelled. Like a regular taxi, an autonomous Rideshare EV will move something in the neighbourhood of an order of magnitude more people per day than a conventional privately owned vehicle.
But there has to be a limit to demand for VMT at some point, right?

If car travel was easier and cheaper, would more people take more trips? Of course. There are obviously trips that people don't take because they're too cumbersome with current technology.

But at the very least we know 1 person cannot exceed more than 24hrs of equivalent VMT. So there's at least a hard limit there. And I doubt most people want to spend the majority of their lives in cars. So there's some natural limit on VMT that we'll approach.

I mean, think about it like this. If self driving taxis were a thing, would you be in the car 4x more than you are today? I wouldn't want to. Maybe I'd take more weekend trips to LA for fun excursions, but during the week my schedule would probably be about the same.

So the hope, I think, is that the improved efficiency of self driving cars will allow us to easily hit that ceiling with at least the current infrastructure, if not _less_. It's not hard to imagine that the current infrastructure could become at least 400% more efficiency with self driving cars. Cars that can drive bumper-to-bumper at 60+ mph, no accidents, no rubber necking, no aggressive driving, no brake checks, and no traffic waves from lane changes. Not to mention the space saved by using taxis sized for the task. Right now people drive 4 seaters for their daily, 1 person commutes. Imagine all of those people are now in 1 seaters. Maybe even self driving motorcycles!
An interesting aspect of this is that for hand-eye coordination tasks, 60Hz provides a perceptual smoothness advantage over 30Hz. There's some benefit to having a higher frame rate even if it costs some latency. I don't know where the trade off point is, but it's not always better to reduce latency if it means a lower frame rate. It probably is always better to have both low latency and high frame rate, but that's hard.

As far as the latency analysis, I'd probably just lump display latency all in one and not try to break it down further. There's some number of ms it takes from the GPU output until pixels are on-screen. Consumer TVs are worse than computer LCDs because the TVs now are doing all kinds of filtering. OTOH, consumer TVs are also trending toward 240Hz refresh, so there is a counter-force causing latency to go down too.

Someone else here mentioned there are two kinds of triple buffering, which I didn't know, but FWIW I was talking about the 3-frames of latency kind. There's also a 2 frames of latency kind, and it sounds like that's the kind you're talking about?

Anyway, I tend to think about game latency as simply 1, 2 or 3 frames of latency, depending solely on how much buffering is going on. That explains almost all game latency, and the games are bad because they don't run at 60Hz, tons of games run at 15-30Hz with double or triple buffering, so the latency is automatically bad. No other sources of latency are needed to explain why. There is the 1/2 frame of latency between input and when the system polls the input and recognizes it, that's fair. So a typical double-buffered game has 2.5 frames of latency, and then add on the display device latency, and that's the sum total. It doesn't need to be made to look more complicated than that, IMO.
We have those edge cases too. California is not all sunshine all the time.
>This is an all-or-nothing fallacy

Not really. Pollution is uniformly unwanted by definition (without you changing the goalposts to CO2, which is naturally occurring, and the naturally occurring CO2 would not be considered as pollution, whereas human created CO2 would). In fact, let's stick with the wikipedia definition:

"Pollution is the introduction of contaminants into the natural environment that cause adverse change."

Outrage, on the other hand, may be very much wanted, or even required. I'm not defending ALL outrage. I'm defending that some outrage may occasionally be warranted. You saw an all or nothing fallacy where there was none. To recap -

Argument: Outrage is cultural pollution.

My Response: All pollution is unwanted, some outrage may be occasionally wanted or warranted.

Your response: Saying pollution has no value is an all-or-nothing fallacy!

The worst kind of bad reasoning is the false accusation of a fallacy. Because the person making that claim should know better.
You have to sign up to hefty subscription packages with loads of bundled shite just to watch 7 hours of Game of Thrones.

You don't have to. Most people watch GoT for free either from torrents or from free streaming websites.
Pythagorean triples: for example, 3^2+4^2=5^2. For a length-6 plate the distance from the first to the last stud is 5, so you can place it at an angle of approximately 25 degrees, i.e. arctan 4/3, as long as there are no studs in the way (which you can achieve easily using tiles). On LDD you can place it horizontally, choose the rotate tool, and the constraint engine will automatically forbid invalid angles around arctan 4/3, where the plate would overlap with the stud, and "snap" to the right one.

An example of a rotation is to build two rectangles of the same size, and then place the topleft-bottomright diagonal of one rectangle on top of the topright-bottomleft diagonal of the other. The diagonals don't have an integral length, but the lengths are the same so it just works.
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"If you followed the news at the time there was a ton of coverage in mainstream media with bold claims about how society was going to be transformed" You cannot control what the media decides to hype their purposes. It was not as if Google itself made those same claims - that wouldn't be confirmation that the goal of the product was to transform the lives of every consumer. If they were throwing a bunch of ideas around to see what sticks that is a far cry from a purportedly failed "massive consumer push"
I had a crazy idea re: a multiplayer roguelike engine that would be scriptable. It was a pipe-dream, mostly due to my skill level, and I abandoned it after using it as a hobby for roughly 3 years when it became clear it needed a massive rewrite. However attempting it taught me an insane amount OOP and modern development practices. The Java client rendered with LWJGL, and it was very easy to start playing with basic concepts for graphics and voxel worlds. Without the ease of LWJGL the project wouldn't have taken off at all.

I went from doing general IT to being a professional software developer, and the first thing I ever starting coding was that engine.
> No it's not. It's Google telling it's users which apps to use and
> not to use. For regular users Google presents itself (just like Apple does)
> as an authority of what's a good app.

It's not a good app/bad app question. It's a "can I trust the person who built this app with access to my private data" question that this is attempting to help with. It's not about good apps/bad apps - it's about access to your data. Including data that could be very sensitive.

The validation process does not look onerous:

https://support.google.com/code/contact/oauth_app_verificati...

It's an extra step, and therefore probably frustrating to a number of people - but I have a hard time seeing how taking a few minutes to declare your intentions around private data usage with the entity supplying that data for your use is a bad thing. I hope other OAuth providers go in a similar direction - that way developers don't just go with "easier" paths that are less secure for their users.
It might help to understand that, broadly speaking, businesses in Japan that forbid tattoos are usually fine if the person covers up the tattoo with clothing or a sticker, etc. In fact stickers for this purpose are in shops - a friend told me a public bath once even provided her with one when she forgot.

So, while I don't agree with it, it's not exactly the human rights crisis you're envisioning. Also, it sounds like you're holding very strong opinions about something you don't know any details of, which is generally a bad idea.
Yes, and that would also cost the websites dearly in terms of revenue. They don't care THAT MUCH.
So true http://yarn.co/yarn-story/f8191b73-7685-41ed-bef5-6e3df0a122...
The occasional blowhard professor aside, there is a thread of idealism in many research circles that advancing the field is more important than advancing one's stature. My favorite example of this is all of the research that went into the creation of Bitcoin and the still unknown identity of its creator.
Sure it will. You'll be able to walk right out into traffic safely
I think it is a growing sense of complete helplessness in American politics. Corporations and politicians will do as they wish, and we'll sit back and watch it on CNN. What can we possibly do? Yes, there will be protests and such. But as we've seen endlessly in this country, the money always wins. The slacktivism shown in this article exemplifies the state of complete cynicism we've reached as a society.
A step beyond that: some can get fairly accurate with a single "tower". We had at minimum 3 BTS on every site, generally at 120 degree spacing but this could vary, but each BTS had multiple antennas and would do some rudimentary triangulation based on signal arrival times to each antenna. We could generally get within a couple of hundred fee.
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is gfortran that much slower than Intel's compiler that they didn't bother to benchmark it?
To be honest, the ideas on the article look that they can be implemented in a straight way using Lisp's CLOS.

EDIT: The post below beat me to it, it was already implemented in CLOS...

"ContextL is a CLOS extension for Context-oriented Programming (COP), and was the first language extension that explicitly supports COP when it was originally introduced in 2005."

https://github.com/pcostanza/contextl
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> gen-3 Surface

I don’t think anyone ever said positive stuff about a “gen-3 Surface”... and it’s certainly not representative of the modern Windows experience
Kubernetes is literally the Angular of orchestration systems. SwarmMode is so much cleaner and less complex to use, dive into, and hack on.

I'm unsure why the community rallies behind Kube considering it's insecure, horribly complex, and a PITA to configure. I guess because google lied and said they use it internally, even though they're still using Borg?
The original text didn't use the Chinese-only character, it used Japanese kanji instead.
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Between 6 months and 4 years ideally. 25 years max. If you can't prove reentry within 25 years in simulations you do not fly on the rocket at all in the first place.
In my experience, most devs start with an ORM/data store/framework/pattern and try to shoehorn the solution into it.

I think Domain Driven Design[0] has held up well as an alternative to this - especially the strategic design patterns. The DDD strategic patterns are all about expressing the model in the domain language and finding the boundaries around clusters of interrelated model concepts (DDD calls these "Bounded Contexts").

DDD is often mentioned alongside CQRS[1] these days, but it also works for plain old OOP and functional systems as well.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain-driven_design

[1] https://martinfowler.com/bliki/CQRS.html
Firefox Focus (Android) blocks all these awful popups/overlays/trackers by default
C# has a compiled version that uses the MSVC backend.
YouTube doesn't need to want to use this, the content providers will be breathing in its neck about NotDoingEnoughToStopPirates, and they'll comply out of wish to avoid frivolous lawsuits.

Riiight, I'll just move to next high speed, high capacity video platform, that will magically grow in the meantime.
A human customer service agent might have all the empathy in the world, but if it's not permitted under their company policy then it is unhelpful.

The point I'm making is that empathetic outcome in customer service interactions is the outcome of explicit and implicit decisions by the organization. Empathy can only be used if the employee knows he or she won't face a negative impact.
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The proportion of fragments that would have their orbits boosted, through multiple collisions, to an orbit higher than the upper atmosphere, is trivial. Nearly every angle of collision between two objects in orbit lowers their periapses. The risk of Kessler Syndrome doesn't come from objects in upper-atmosphere orbits somehow getting boosted out through collision chains, it comes from collisions between objects already in higher orbits not strongly affected by atmospheric drag (>600km).
> In addition, creating software from scratch specifically for the given hardware delivers better overall value for the end users.

That much makes perfect sense, and I would imagine that something as novel as a new metal 3D printer like this would want custom software to drive it as well. That doesn't prevent that custom software from being Open Source. And when you're talking about a product like this, in this price range, designed to support manufacturing with very tight tolerances, clones (and adoption of such) seem quite unlikely, even less so if they keep innovating with it. I'd rather see the "stickiness" provided by support, rather than software.

Because inevitably, software written by a single vendor for their hardware always feels very particular to their workflow, not integrating with anything they didn't anticipate, and not allowing much flexibility. And CAD workflows are exactly the kind of area where everyone has their own set of customizations they want to be able to do. I'd like an Open Source library and an API, not an opaque kiosk.