skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cars do get weaker over time as the parts wear. And I would certainly expect the microcontroller to adjust to provide the best performance possible under the new limitations. I assume most well-made, modern cars already do that.
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Won't be very useful. The internet is turning to subscription model very quickly.
Why would you want to live in a country where adding a blurb to user manual excuses your device being crippled after few short years? Even though the hardware functions perfectly well?
aka your classical Russian troll farm
Personalization would require training the network to recognize your hot word, which needs to work in all sound environments, and detect hot word spoken by different people. That network also needs to be optimized to be small enough to be run constantly by a low-powered CPU in standby mode.

I am not saying that it is not doable, it's just there are real engineering tradeoffs present here.
I'd have it all under one listing with the job title you're looking to have for the next two years going forward.

Put a short list of some of your more well-known clients and then a list of technologies you've worked with that you suspect future clients will be willing to pay well for in the coming two years.

Three sentences, your future clients will thank you for not emailing them a wall of text.

I don't see CVs as needing to be detailed catalogs and LinkedIn and Blogs are better places for keyword stuffing.
So it's Russ Cox I believe who asked people to submit "experience reports" to understand the use case of generics, because apparently he doesn't.

The use case for generics is known already, there is more than 30 years of literature about the issue they solve. One can always tell developers :"well you don't need generics for that" and that would be true just like no problem cannot be solved without the use of functions. Yet functions are useful nobody can deny it. It's the same with generics they are useful when you need them.

So why ask people to submit "experience reports" when one can easily say "You don't need generics for that"? I doesn't sound that useful to ask people to waste their time writing "experience reports". Either a language designer understands the value of generics, or they don't.

I like the way ada deals with generics: they are just incomplete types one need to complete before use.

with Ada.Containers.Vectors;

procedure jdoodle is

-- declare a typed package from a package with generic types
package int_vectors is new Ada.Containers.Vectors
(Index_Type => Natural,
Element_Type => Integer);
package char_vectors is new Ada.Containers.Vectors
(Index_Type => Natural,
Element_Type => Character);

int_vector_1 : int_vectors.Vector;
char_vector_1 : char_vectors.Vector;

begin

int_vector_1.Append (20);
int_vector_1.Append (34);
int_vector_1.Append (94);

char_vector_1.Append ('a');
char_vector_1.Append ('b');
char_vector_1.Append ('c');

end jdoodle;

https://www.jdoodle.com/a/i6z

No use of templates, no code generation with all its bureaucracy, no type erasure, it's completely type safe both at compile tima and runtime, no use of <<>> everywhere that hurts readability and it solves 99% of the use cases where generics would be a fit.

Now go might not be able to implement something like that while keeping backward compatibility , my point is, if the question is "how", then don't make people write experience reports when the use cases have been known for decades, the how exists in many languages that are neither C++ or Java.

In fact, a lot of issues with Go were solved decades ago in Ada, especially when it comes to concurrency. Ada had goroutines because goroutines were a thing including the "select" statement.
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hm, so things are not so bad after all, but there is no solution in sight to make tx cost under 1$ right?
>but that she shouldn't have upgraded and that there was nothing they could do.

The "blame the user for using the product normally" mentality that seems to has arisen around Apple products drives me crazy. I recently upgraded to High Sierra, and Mail decided to delete all of my filters in the process. When I went looking for a fix, I found someone with a similar issue on Apple's forums, and most of the responses were basically berating the user for not taking a backup before upgrading. The attitude was as though this were a perfectly reasonable way for software to behave, and the user was stupid for not anticipating it.

It must be nice to build tech products knowing that your users will blame themselves if you screw up.
Technically, history begins with the writing system, around 6000 years ago [1].
Before that is what we call "pre-history".

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuneiform_script#Proto-literat...
Apple is making one (the HomePod), although they couldn’t ship in time for the holiday season.
Note that this goes well with Apple fighting against right to repair and 3rd party repairers - if they can make your phone slow over time and prevent you from cheaply and easily replacing the battery, they essentially force you to replace your pocket computer every two years or so - the pesky "iPad Upgrade Problem" disappears for them.

I think we shouldn't look at this issue in isolation - Apple (earning bulk their money with hardware sales) has tried quite hard to make planned obsolescence an accepted thing. Soldered components, special screws, lobbying against legislation to allow you to maintain electronics.
How is this an improvement over VR headsets already on the market?
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Can't find it but he had a whole blog post about it
it is still very much usable for mostly everything, especially when the bubble pops finally and it will be used to buy stuff, not to trade
That line of citations just ends in a tweet quoting a copyright notice from the FreeBSD kernel.

That doesn't mean the Switch runs FreeBSD, just that Nintendo used some code from the kernel, which could be as small as adapting a single driver to their in-house OS.
I was discouraged from doing this after having someone make such a video that generated millions of views, but no sales at all (https://www.candyjapan.com/behind-the-scenes/sales-results-f...). (Just noticed that video has since been removed for "violating community guidelines", I wonder what's up with that)

But I'm still a bit motivated to make more videos, because at 10k subscribers you get to visit the Roppongi YouTube space :-) Here's the old channel we haven't really updated in a long time: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAWrpxBNP8LukXGd4xQIDxg
Use SodaPlayer.
Ask HN: Is COBOL ever going to be obsolete?
and other countries still suffer from clean energy resources. Only because of economic interests for energy sales. In some countries the environment is being destroyed only for some hydropower plants, here is an example: http://www.ecoalbania.org/ebrd-confirms-negative-impacts-of-...
Orwell is an interesting figure; while a solid left-winger all his life, his experience in the Spanish Civil War left him with an entirely justified fear and hatred of Stalinism. 1984 and Animal Farm are about this, both allegories for the crimes of Stalin. 1984 was a fairly straightforward extrapolation of trends he could see back then. All the little details of the dystopia can be traced back to actual events under Stalin or Mao.
I found this link to be pretty interesting read on the topic. Kind of takes the mystery out of it though : )

http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2010/03/history-of-human-powe...
I'm glad to see this, as so often Year In Review posts are by companies humblebragging about how well they're doing, and they stop posting Year In Review when it's been a down year. It's refreshing to see a post that isn't "we're Crushing It", but is honest and real. (Though I hope next year will be more positive though!)

Also, I don't know if this has any SEO impact, but I thought the sitewide "flags" link in the footer of Candy Japan looked suspicious. At first I wondered if the site had been hacked or if you'd started selling backlinks, before I realized it's a requirement of the Creative Commons Attribution licence for the flag images. Maybe experiment with removing that from the sitewide, and just putting that link on a Credits / About Us page?

I'd love to read more about hiring the photographer & your artist. The artwork in the blog posts is amazing!
> Schiphol's big problem, however, seems to have been using the gates as an excuse to cut back staff too far.

From what I read it's the combination of cutting back immigration staff together with airlines (KLM) not sharing their expected passenger numbers anymore plus a significant increase in passengers. See e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_busiest_airports_by_pa..., Schiphol grew by 9%, year before by 6%

I quite like the automated gates. Per line is more inefficient but total throughput seems higher. Plus, seems quicker to go through.
The overview table should list some important properties I find myself comparing when selecting a sort algo: (a) stack usage, (b) heap usage, (c) whether the algo is stable.

E.g., I am a big fan of heap sort, because the implementation is very simple, and non-recursive (O(1) stack), uses no heap, and has worst-case time O(log n). It is almost perfect, but it is not stable. Now, mergesort fixes that stability issue (and its implementation is usually also very simple), but is often recursive (like this implementation) and it usually requires 'malloc()', because it cannot easily be run in-place. In an overview list, this dilemma would be nicely visible.
I guess you have not heard about the Venus figurines?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_figurines
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But it's not free power. That's just the ny times speaking to it's audience's wishful thinking.

It's power that the grid operators are legally required to pay to deliver, which means consumer electricity prices are higher. And it's caused by a system where a consumer electricity surcharge pays a fixed, above market price per kWh. In a country where zero emission nuclear power is banned, and tax fueled subsidies support fossil fuels to replace it.

So this "free" power is paid for in higher electricity prices for consumers (Germany has some of the most expensive electricity in the world), low profit for producers (the two biggest energy companies have seen income from production drop by more than 33% over 4 years), and higher CO2 emissions (emissions from energy production, and % of coal generated power, have risen under this policy).

It would be much better to just tax people to buy power for civic projects like the ones you mention. Unfortunately our expensive "free" electricity doesn't come with perks like that.
SecLists is the security tester's companion
Not an unreasonable assumption, considering their popularity and the fact that people DO use them.
> You could sniff the network connection and see whether it is sending anything home

Not really practical with a pinned internal CA and batched uploading.
> Light will come out parallel

No it won't, it's diffraction-limited. The best you can theoretically do is an https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airy_disk

You cannot construct, with any arrangement of mirrors or lasers, a beam that does not diverge.
> It may be useful for some raw materials - for example, osmium ($13,000/kg), rhenium ($2,750/kg), and iridium ($30,000/kg).

Or tungsten, in the form of cylinders 6m long and 30cm in radius, transported
gravitationally to their place of use.
I've said this before, but a twice-monthly subscription to sweets is too much sugar. If it was once every 3 months then I'd consider subscribing.
Detect and bypass web application firewalls and protection systems
Look again, I know the picture isnt the best, but its spot on.
Ask HN: Looking for a co-founder and CTO in the online gambling space
Think of it as stripe for online gambling - a suite of APIs to power any online gambling service.

I am more of a product guy with some coding experience. I have worked in product and operations management in the IoT space before and work on this project in my free time.

Email me at gamblingcto@gmail.com if you are interested!
Holy shit. You people just throw away the old iPhone after buying a new one? That is a luxury almost no one in my country has. So weird that the people get to live the life on basis of how well the seed generator of Universe performed during their birth.
What do you do with 100k of savings? What's next?
I don't know why people are arguing so much with this when it's straight out of textbook antenna theory. Evidently it's very HN to work things out inaccurately from first principles.

Edit: http://www.cv.nrao.edu/course/astr534/AntennaTheory.html

"An antenna can be treated either as a receiving device, gathering the incoming radiation field and conducting electrical signals to the output terminals, or as a transmitting system, launching electromagnetic waves outward. These two cases are equivalent because of time reversibility: the solutions of Maxwell's equations are valid when time is reversed."
We need population targets for the world and for countries as well. Once the population stabilizes, growths in productivity will go toward comfort improvement instead of survival of an ever growing population.

I can't wait for it.

There are almost twice more people on the world now than when I was born. This is crazy.
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The thing with sudden cardiac death and arrhythmias is that the first sign/symptom is often sudden cardiac death, so unless you have a defib linked into it it isn’t going to actually stop your sudden cardiac death.

My comment history is negative on these types of sensors, I still feel they are gimmicky. For example this chip talks about capacity to measure blood pressure variability but there is no way to measure blood pressure without a cuff (or invasive monitoring) so I’m still trying to imagine the ‘all in one’ fitness device this is meant for
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Architectural tools and patterns for Android apps
To take one non-Tesla example:

> But then the blacksmith might learn something about your lifestyle.

But once the blacksmith has sold me the pot, that's the end of the data-exchange. He doesn't receive a continual feed of data about my usage of the pot. Maybe I'll go back five years later to get the pot repaired; that'll be a surprise to him. Perhaps he'll ask how I broke it, and I can fib to him.

Home automation is a great convenience and time-saver. That's not the concern. The concern is that megacorps are in the loop and are monetizing our lives.

An Amazon Echo should in an ideal world be able to operate just fine on a LAN without an Internet connection, or with just a web-server front-end for the owner to use. Just like my wifi AP or my weather station.
#Mozilla patches five issues in T#hunderbird, including a critical flaw
Windows Subsystem for Linux with zsh and tmux
> You still need an enormous quantity of petrol to send things in space

You need to think out of that box - I'm investing my savings in hevea plantations !
Fine, we are talking about the trhee main urban centers of the US here - not the whole country. Now that this strawman is out of the way- are we allowed to continue?
It wasn't that difficult. I just posted both as jobs on UpWork, then spent an hour looking through the portfolios of people who applied.
WHATWG doesn't make a standard for HTML either. It hosts an ongoing conversation between browser vendors.

Someone creating a standard from that conversation is useful, although I do agree w3c's approach isn't ideal. Personally I'd suggest HTML5 "levels" where level 1 would be fixed in stone (until HTML6) and higher levels are considered increasingly unstable.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Le...

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Pi...

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Pi...

It seems that some literary licenses were taken and many articles about this case show different species of (more beautiful) birds instead. Maybe this is the reason for not having photos of it here. The original scientific article cite the three right species. Wikipedia points also to the wrong bird.
Pennsylvania woman gets $284bn electricity bill
Do you have a source on lithium ion batteries working this way, because all of the sources I'm finding (and it's not the first time I've researched this) say that shallow cycles dramatically improve battery longevity.

My understanding is that "cycles" are used in discussing battery lifespan for the purposes of warranties and the like because they're an easy-to-define user behavior, not because they actually reflect how the batteries perform.
Send free boxes to YouTubers, if you haven't already.
How much externality should be added to traditional forms of energy to make a fair comparison?
I tried that actually, releasing Pen Japan at one point and had a few subscribers as well. Then I realized I can't really appreciate nice stationery myself. I would need to hire someone to curate it. The quality of the service was poor, so I decided not to go on with it.
I think they’re saying they changed to referring to Alexia in conversation to A or Her
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I was assuming geometric optics... because it was simple enough to get the point across. Which of course you knew, but took the liberty to 'correct' anyway. It's quite impressive how you can always count on HN pedants to deliberately go out of their way to technically-correct you while making sure to completely miss the actual point you're trying to make.
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In my experience free shipping for subscription boxes is often US-only. Not sure if this has changed since then.
One important thing that works for me is to set aside time to get inspired. You could try it too.

Set aside a few hours, with no distractions, and let your brain wander through the sorts of ideas and projects that are interesting to you. (You could also choose to direct this, e.g. towards things that bother you that you know making something can help solve.) Don't pressure yourself with amazing expectations, just put in the time to try.

Interesting things will often if you try this a few times. (If not I will happily share many many ideas I've dreamt of but haven't pursued ;))
These days it feels like Google is the one writing the "standard" simply by throwing stuff into Blink that alternative engines ignore at their peril.
I suspect Einstein might be "remembered" due to use of his name as a word: "He's no Einstein". Already plenty of people saying his name who don't know anything about the man, or his ideas.
Welcome to the concept of inequality.

Most people in the world don't have the access to internet you have. And I would imagine some would say "Holy shit. You people browse message boards? I would rather spend that time on a MOOC".

While it is weird looking at the affluence scale above, it is very depressing looking what's at the bottom of the scale. I don't mean to chastise you. It is just a realization I've come to.
Will we? Seems like we could use fission plants just fine if we wanted to.
I enjoy it when mine feels like expressing an opinion in response to the commentary of any Alexa Bliss WWE match.
Show HN: A Raspberry Pi based hearing aid prototype with free software
I find it fascinating that in North-Korea, even though they where starving, the system itself did not deteriorate. To be honest, the moment my life is slowly ending, due to missing calories- the politics of survival should kick in and vote for freedom (aka food) with theire feet.
> good deal of the fix for sore sit bones is simply putting in the time until your body gets used to the stress you're asking of it.

That's my experience.

I also tried a $120 saddle following a fitting session. It was torture (I tried it for months). I picked up a $12 saddle from Lidl and all the pain went away. YMMV.
> Where are the people going to come from?

The rest of Europe.
There's also a print version of the page:

https://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1332763&print=ye...
Let me guess... Facebook and YouTube are going to fold, yet again.
Yes, but I really do want to communicate to visitors that this isn't a US-only thing.
It shows that microservices come with a lot of complexity. Only do it when your team is growing bigger and there are problems in building your app with a big team. split up the teams, and split up the services. Let teams deploy the services.
Google claims near-human accuracy at imitating a person speaking from text
Can you install Linux on it and run a small server or something? That at least would get some more use out of it rather than straight into the garbage bin.
Well I can't say "your payment was processed successfully", because that would give information to people who want to test cards. Rather I manually read through the orders, and only contact people if something went wrong with their payment AND the order doesn't look suspicious.
I only use aluminium foil on my head! To prevent mind reading, of course!!!!1!
Thank you for the compliment about my comment history. There is an alternative explanation. A surfeit of eggnog. Luckily I didn't post this link: http://flaminglips.com/history/songs/the-yeah-yeah-yeah-song...
MIRTS is an incredibly deep take in distilling the essence of RTS. The spartan look is instrumental to that. I don't think you get it.

I only played ADR for a few minutes, so I didn't discover its depth, but the reason it became so popular on the app store is that it was able to create a compelling experience with the least amount of resources, a creative tour de force if you ask me.

The mainstream audience wants flashy things, and these games are probably never going to catch on there, but not for a lack of value, work, or depth.
That's probably it. The technique is a little different from my recollection, but that's memory for you.
If they want to operate somewhere they're going to have to comply with local laws.

What is your comprehensive alternate?
I’m going to keep posting this short tech report until people stop making new broken shit: https://www.ssrc.ucsc.edu/Papers/wasptr-15-03.pdf
It's impressive, yes. And probably we don't know exactly how it was done. But that's not the same as saying it's an unexplained mystery - we just don't know which particular methods they used, even if we know one or more ways in which it could have been done.
Critical debug info: sensible logging in web applications
Functional architecture is Ports and Adapters (2016)
Very difficult to read when you indent like that. Here is it without the formatting:

"Any incident/crime which is perceived by the victim or any other person to be motivated by hostility or prejudice based on a person's race or perceived race"

or

"Any incident/crime which is perceived by the victim or any other person to be motivated by a hostility or prejudice based on a person's religion or perceived religion."
Probably only Washington, and possibly Lincoln will be remembered by anyone but historians.

There are far too many world leaders in 1000 years for anyone to care, unless it's some pivotal point in history.
Neolithic man did not have unicode; they were forced to make do with UCS-2.
Personalisation would not give advertising of the company to any guests who witness you using the device ... that's my idea of the primary reason.
See also: http://mentalfloss.com/article/515193/researchers-develop-ch... ("Researchers Develop a Cheap Way to Improve Wi-Fi Coverage With Aluminum Foil")
Quite the opposite, actually - the announcement was by accident, and the police at the border weren't informed. They caved to the sheer mass of people, unintentionally organized by the party.

It is not clear that if a similar number of people had been organized in another way, the wall would not have fallen.
You don't get a reward when you buy something - you get your purchased goods. The mental yoga necessary to consider a purchased good as a reward is absolutely baffling.
To clarify, muzani mentioned jellyfish for tampons and sugar for plastics.

Not plastic for tampons.