skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hardcoding 42 as the parameter to printf here is far more defensible for several reasons. Here's one: the value actually is 42, and assuming that it continues to be 42 doesn't require the compiler to hallucinate any additional instructions outside this compilation unit.

There's a difference between assuming that a function like SomeFunc internally obeys the language semantics for the sake of code around its call site (this is the definition of modularity), and assuming that because the code around the call site "must" be "well-formed" this allows you to hallucinate whatever code you need to add elsewhere to retroactively make the call site "well-formed" (this is the definition of non-modularity).
This may be the worst, least informative technology website I've ever seen – and that is a high (low?) bar. It fails the "what is it?" test with spectacular aplomb. And never have I learned less from a "learn more" page. “Music should keep you moving, not make you look at your phone.” Um, yeah, ok, thanks for that helpful information.
Since when have you needed a usb installer for macOS (besides hackintosh)?
I seem to remember from my computer vision class way back when that there's a fundamental theoretical limit to the amount of detail you can get out of a moving sequence. Recovering frequencies a little higher than the pixel sampling is definitely possible, but I feel like it was maybe something like 10x theoretical maximum. I also get the feeling, from looking around at available software, that in practice achieving 2-3x is the most you can get in ideal conditions, and most video is far from ideal.
Although not very known outside of Russian-speaking people, I would recommend Sergey Lukyanenko. He deals with mortality/immortality in several of his novels: "Line of Delirium" [1] and "The Stars are Cold Toys" [2] dilogies immediately come to mind.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_of_Delirium
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stars_Are_Cold_Toys
Niall Ferguson had an interesting thesis on property rights and the style of colonial gov't is what made all the difference.

Argentina had a good run, but internal politics have shit the bed in that country for a good century
Is Central America missing for you?

But I get the same logo as well when tapping random on Pixel.
I got 128GB DDR4 for $600. You can't even get 128GB ECC DDR for double that a year later. I was a bit concerned about memory errors as well, but my workstation has been rock solid.
Probably reliant on a fundamentally new platform(?). If we do end up with a rich AR world (a la Rainbows End), perhaps it will simply be an instant purchase based on lived context (e.g. Run out of something? Instant order. See something you like? Instant order.)

That said, seems surprising that Amazon would miss that boat.
Looking at their video for the jacket, all the gesturing was done around the wrist area, where my Android wear watch already sits.

They need a "killer" use case for this, but everyday jacket wearing folks can pass on this without missing much
Building Artificial Intelligence That Is Provably Safe and Beneficial [video]
I am looking for startup advice for founders that don't want to build a billion-dollar company or need VC funding. How to efficiently target a local market? Or perhaps start a niche business that appeals to a small market.

Every time I see a startup advice book, article, Stanford lectures, whatever it may be - it is always shooting for becoming the next Uber or Airbnb - including this article.
I'd be curious what the plan for recycling these fabrics is going to be. Microfibers from artificial fabrics are really a problem in watersupplies now. What will this bring?
I've been using a plug like this ( https://www.amazon.co.uk/Charger-Syncwire-4-Port-Interchange... )for my phone/watch/headphone/kindle charging for years. It's very handy - especially when travelling.
Doesn’t ROCm compile to amd’s libs for AMD GPUs and cuda lins for Nvidia gpus?

It doesn’t matter that the rocm libs are optimised for AMD.
These Drones Can Deliver Medication and Food to People in Disasters
I actually didn't, there was no team.
If you have an iPad the iOS 11 update is huge. Being able to run two apps side-by-side with drag and drop supported across the system is a fundamental change to how you interact with stuff.

The new dock and changes to the multitasking interface and behavior take some getting used to, but my iPad feels like a much more powerful device than it did a week ago.
Rather than using a library with a bunch of utility functions that you may or may not need, using individual utility functions indeed does seem like a better idea.

For example, I don't support browsers without classList, so I don't need your regexp stuff. Maybe you do, but my code shouldn't be larger because of that.
So an email that acknowledges what a bunch of others have been saying for a while (“your behavior is going to bite you in the butt”) is considered “amazing”? I don’t know what else he could have written, because another “they’re being mean to us and don’t recognize our awesome vision!” screed just isn’t going to fly anymore.

What would have made this email “amazing” would be it having been written eighteen months ago.
Sure, it has a lot of upsides, like copying of large files happening within an instant.
Any advice for people who would like to found their own company, but aren't sure what it should do?
I wonder if the seemingly shortsighted decision was influenced by the desire to appease stock analysts (who are more interested in next quarter's results than next decade's) by shedding costs quickly. Analysts seemed to think the company was heading in the right direction... few companies (aside from Amazon) have the luxury of telling analysts "We're forgoing profits now so we can build up our business"

A quote from that 1993 article:

Still, most analysts hesitated to say that the revamping alone would put Sears back on its feet. "Put it this way: They're off their knees," said George A. Ashur, director of corporate bond research at Chase Securities Inc. "This is without a doubt good medicine for the company, but I have to see a few quarters of good returns before I'm ready to ditch the conservative show-me attitude."
Argentina's economic miracle fell apart due to constant shift in power between the agrarian landowners and the urban workers.
>> What I don't understand is why the bond of trust, emotional closeness, and so forth necessarily needs to have exclusivity built-in, so to speak.

Because I want to make that bond something I build my life around, and want to know that the other person is reciprocating. If the other person is having other, similar relationships then I'm not really able to do that. It also implies a sort of time-share basis to the relationship. I'm demanding, I want most of my partner's time, and I want to give her most of mine. I want to face the world by her side and with her at mine.

>> However if I have 'just' sex (with little emotional involvement) it is considered cheating.

Like I said, for a lot of people, there's no such thing as "just sex", and it always involves emotions, even if you didn't think it would beforehand. This is something I learned about myself over the last couple of decades.

As to what people might really prefer, absent any sort of pressure, it is indeed very hard to tell. If you look at society it seems the mainstream is to prefer serial monogamy, with occasional total breakdown. As the pressure to marry (and to do so young, and to stay with someone you might hate) wanes, perhaps we'll see more, different models emerging.

It won't be for me though. And it's always going to be a good idea to have a conversation about who you are and what you want from a relationship very early on.
Levis makes commuter trousers in the 541 athletic fit. It is not as popular and often on sale. The 511 commuter is different from the normal 511 fit, higher rise and more room in the thigh, and the stretch is more forgiving.
Groups that get more and more power pretty much never give up that power willingly. Google's NEED to understand your desires, track your behavior, and read your emails to sell more and better ads is them accumulating power.

So, even if you think Google will always have your best interests at heart, the governments they work with certainly don't. China could exploit their knowledge to target dissidents. Would Google do that? Perhaps, just censoring internet was anathema to Google in their early days, now Google respects Chinese censorship.

To be honest, I'm not comfortable with my own government knowing what I want to read online or what I say to my friends, let alone authoritarian ones. The future is pretty much already here on that one though as government already does.
"As marriage has declined, though, childbearing has not, which means that more children are living in families without two parents and the resources they bring."

Er, no, it doesn't mean that at all. I mean, I 100% support anyone doing the ridiculously hard job of raising a kid all by themselves, but just because Justin Wolfers and Betsey Stevenson aren't married it doesn't mean they aren't committed to each other and their children.

Anyway, maybe the truth is: people don't have to get married, and it's expensive to do so. I don't think there's any great mystery here.
I don't know how many times Google Maps calls home, but it does it often enough for Google to know where any Android user that hasn't explicitly disabled location tracking has spent each minute of his/her life.

The proof is easy obtainable on Google Maps location history.
More noise, too, which scales as 1/(pixel size * sensitivity) - that is, decreasing pixel size and increasing sensitivity both raise the noise floor.

This can be filtered to some extent - indeed modern phone cameras already do so quite heavily, to overcome the limitations of their already small pixel size and already high sensitivity. But doing so costs the same detail you'd need to try to invent a "simulated telephoto" image, which would give your fake telephoto process even less to work with than otherwise - guessing you have a neural net in mind here, and while I'm not about to argue that a sufficiently well-trained net won't produce some kind of result given an input of sufficient similarity to its training set, I see no reason to expect that result to bear any particularly photographic similarity to the original input.

I mean, don't get me wrong - what you seem to be suggesting isn't all that dissimilar from how we currently understand the human brain's own optical system to work. But I don't think it is especially likely that many such brains will happily accept another neural network's best-effort guesses as the output of a process that we've all learned to expect will give us representations as precise as is within the capabilities of the devices we use to make them.
> There are clear paths to NOT use anything Microsoft if you want to.

For a lot of people there isn't.

Take my dad for example. He sells weight scales for retail (think butchers, greengrocers, cheese shops, etc). Those scales are pretty much embedded PC's nowadays, they connect to the internet and can be remotely accessed to update product prices, promotions, get the daily sales numbers but also things like changing the logos and text on the receipt and a million other things.

The manufacturers of those scales sell a piece of software to do that, but it's always a 100% Windows app, held together with all kinds of (outdated) MS technology like Visual FoxPro. Often they have licenses that require hardware dongles, have bizarre drivers to communicate with the hardware and it feels like it's al held together with spit and ducktape.

There is no Linux or OSS alternative, the protocols aren't even published and no one cares to reverse engineer them as the market is just tiny, and the target audience has no overlap with the techies that are interested in Linux and the like.

And that's just one example, there are tons of crappy, outdated, proprietary apps like that out there. Apps with tiny user bases no one cares about so no OSS options will ever emerge.
> this was not how the decentralized web was designed... but that doesn't mean that it's "time to kill the web."

Its not "time to kill the web", because that was never under consideration.
And there is in Hamilton's books, IIRC, that idea that one unique sentient entity could share it's consciousness across multiple human bodies, in real-time, so you could add new young bodies and let the older one dies and still, as a sentient entity, never really die.

That works across long distances, and even when different bodies travelling at different percentage of speed of light, thus experiencing different 'speed of time' (but that's marked as 'a rather unsettling experience' iirc).
And lots of people decry that. It also is an upper class first world problem. I don't imagine too many poor people have smart phones, and I don't imagine all clothing will have tech interwoven. That may become common among the wealthier classes in developed countries, it is unlikely to be the norm for all people on the planet.

Your comment fails as a rebuttal.
Here's my Essential Startup Advice:

Whenever someone gives you free advice (i.e. you don't directly pay them cash) try to understand the motivation to give you free advice. That should give you an idea of whether the advice is valuable or not.
Happens to me as well when I choose random: https://xkcd.com/221/

It's fine though because it is a good demonstration graphic.
I find the gesture choices interesting and suggestive of future directions for interaction with wearable devices. Their help article on gestures lists the four supported gestures with GIFs. One detail worth noting: "We recommend using four fingers when performing gestures. Note: To avoid unintentional activation, the jacket will not respond to gestures performed with a single finger."

https://support.google.com/jacquard/answer/7537511?hl=en&ref...
> popularity is as good a measure of group enjoyment

Popularity can depend on a large number of factors. One that has no (direct) effect on quality is cost: threes wasn't free initially, 2048 was, so far more people played 2048.

This is why "freemium" is such a common model, trying to get the exposure/market-share benefit of being free while still pulling in income from the product or related addons/services.

If you look at "popularity" of similar products of each type as measured by market share or absolute download numbers you most likely see free far outstrips freemium which in turn outstrips any product with an up-front cost.
Why? I mean I like his books a lot but he doesn't exactly ponder immortality all that much. "Old man's war" maybe touches on this a little - but I think it's more about regaining youth than immortality.
It's the hardest part. Discipline. It requires creating your own system and constant reevaluation- every milestone/meeting should begin and end with how this is related to figuring out product/market fit.

If possible, this is the general way milestones should be structured:

1. Who is this for? Be as specific as possible. At first this might even be someone's name. As you start solving their problems, they'll ask for more and you'll naturally start targeting others through those features.

2. What's the easiest way to solve this problem today? Do it that way. You shouldn't be saving them 30 seconds a day, and actually doing what they're doing now will help you realize the difference between an annoying thing and a real need.

3. From here, what your proposed solution really is. Make sure you really figure out what they want- don't just do what they say, try to get to the root of what they're asking for.

4. How you're going to go back, show it to them, and see how much they clamor for it. See how it changes their plans, schedules, etc.

While going through this multiple times you'll probably even get mistaken customers. In this case, make sure you meet with them to just figure out what the hell is going on. They might be using it in a way you didn't realize and should maybe pivot toward- Segment is a good example of how there might be a big business right next to the problem you're solving today.
Ironically jQuery doesn't have the things you ask for here, but plain JS indeed does (custom elements for components, CSS grid for columns).
You might want to investigate the "high percentage" figure. It's one of those talking points that isn't really grounded in any solid numbers.
I'm so glad to see this as the top comment. In particular, his "Fallen Dragon" really resonated with me.

If I may, I'd also like to suggest Richard K. Morgan for his Takeshi Kovacs trilogy, which is currently being turned into a TV series named after the first book, "Altered Carbon".

It is premised on backing up human consciousness to a "cortical stack" that can be recovered when a person is killed or dies, and downloading them into a new body, or "sleeve". It covers the rich overclass that effectively lives forever with a clone bank, criminal punishment being "put on ice" while someone else uses your body, and crack soldiers being deployed across planets digitally by being downloaded into new bodies. The whole series is a must read if you are contemplating the ethics and implications of immortality via digital backup.
Yeah, it truly is a perfect app.
The applications that support this Unicode Math today (Microsoft's Office) provide a lot of typing shortcuts including converting LaTeX \tags into their equivalents. I think the balance in the "plain text" over-verbose rendering of the Unicode Math was to make sure it copy/pastes adequately and flaws in that a bit easier to spot in "plain text" form outside of document math zones and math-supporting OpenType fonts, than some of the combining character options might yield.
For me, AMD tends to do better with multithreaded/parallel applications, but that tradeoff is at the expense of single core speeds. So mostly it depends on what you are using it for. I built a 64 core opteron server for doing physics calculations and it was probably my favorite build ever, so I can't wait to try the new AMD server lineup, this time I'll only need two CPUs to get 64 cores!
Don't use the PIN as key, but something long and random, and encrypt it with the PIN. When you change the PIN, you only have to re-encrypt the key.
Who are you to decide what someone understands?

If someone is sexually assaulted and reports it to Uber and not the police, I'd bet money that person is a liar.
Those detailed simulations are out there, though.

The rather expensive-to-make military flight simulation games are getting rarer, but Falcon 4.0, ILM Sturmovik and DCS did, or do, have sizeable niche followings. Fairly detailed car racing simulators (Assetto Corsa, Dirt:Rally, iRacing) are also fairly popular. Board-style wargames remain a small niche, but they do exist - I remember the early iterations of Close Combat being particularly good (real-time platoon-level engagements with well-modelled soldiers that had a propensity for panicking under fire, or perhaps displaying extreme bravery).

Detailed simulations of fictional entities are a bigger thing - Prison Architect, Kerbal Space Program and Dwarf Fortress are all popular games, each of which simulate complex interlocking systems (the Prison Industrial System, Orbital Mechanics, and an entire fantasy world, in amazing detail), and all of which are starting to pick up imitators.

Then there's the Paradox series of big historical games - Crusader Kings II, Europa Universalis IV and Victoria 2, among others, let you pick any country you like in their given time periods (medieval, early modern, 19th century respectively), and attempt to model a sort of alternate history through gameplay, with war, economics, politics, diplomacy, religion being part of the systems at work. If you want to try your hand at the Swedish colonization of South America, or to halt the Protestant reformation in it's tracks, or keep Byzantium alive into the 18th century, these games are what you after.

There's sports management games too - the likes of Football Manager and Out of the Park baseball model much of the entire professional range of their sports (OOTP Baseball has more or less the entire history of the top US Baseball Leagues in it's database) in considerable depth.

Games are a very broad church, and complex, detailed, simulations are very much a part of it. A lot of the future you're wondering about actually happened; they just formed into various subcultures and coexisted with the shinier, simpler games you're thinking of.
jQuery is really useful when it comes to DOM manipulation, obviously.

Without using any framework you'll find yourself iterating over NodeLists all over the place.

ie, it's much cleaner to write

$('p').css('color', 'blue');

Than

document.querySelectorAll('p').forEach(el => el.style.color = 'blue');

Also, Microsoft kinda screwed us by keeping IE 11 around until 2025.
Perhaps look at something B2B rather than consumer-facing, is the advice I have seen - along the lines of that advice in the YC piece that it's better to have 10 customers that love you (and are spending much more) than 1000 that are lukewarm and/or not spending much.
My problem with VanillaJS is that browser companies ship browsers with VanillaJS support already. This is a clear case of picking winners, regardless of VanillaJS's excellent benchmarks. Why should all these browsers ship with Vanilla? Why not Vue? Why not MooTools? Why not Moo.fx?
>So back to the blurry security camera footage of a license plate or a face. Sure, that "hash" can reliably tell you that it wasn't a sasquatch that committed the robbery, but it literally doesn't contain the data necessary to _ever_ prove it was the suspect in question, even if the techs _can_ prove that the suspect hashes to the image in the footage.

For a face, sure, for printed text/license plates there are effective deblurring algorithms that in some cases may rebuild a readable image.

A (IMHO good) software is this one (was freeware, now it is Commercial, this is the last freeware version):

https://github.com/Y-Vladimir/SmartDeblur/downloads

You can try it (just for the fun of it) on these two images:

https://articles.forensicfocus.com/2014/10/08/can-you-get-th...

https://forensicfocus.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/out-of-foc...

https://forensicfocus.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/moving-car...

For the first choose "Out of Focus Blur" and play with the values, you should get a decent image at roughly Radius 8, Smooth 40%, Correction Strength 0%, Edge Feather 10%

For the second choose "motion Blur" and play with the values, you should get a decent image at roughly Length 14, Angle 34, Smooth 50%,
Report reviews the evidence and finds incarceration likely does not reduce crime
Problem now is that you get to write, test and maintain all this instead of using something that has a whole community backing it.
A History of Downtown Road Pricing
Let's see how many /r/redpill talking points we can collect in here over the next few hours.
Intel operates at 60% gross profit margin, AMD operates primarily in the red.
In the past 15 quarters AMD had a single quarter in 2014 where it didn't suffered an operational loss (when the bulk of this generation of console royalties were paid out most likely)
Via https://twitter.com/open_phil/status/912334421277028358
Google sells advertisers a promise to show their ads for razors to males 18-30 years old who have ever searched for 'razors' or 'shaving' or 'beard' or 'shaving cream'.

Maybe they also look through your Google photos to find faces with beards... or check your email for references to beards or amazon orders with razors... and to show extra ads to people who live in the Portland area

Some people are more okay with the facts (top paragraph) and the possibly exaggerated version (previous paragraph) and others.