skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
it's virtually impossible for the police to tell who parked the bike

In theory, it should be easy: Gobee has that info. Has the police asked?
The system works- but it fails due to the surrounding system. Perfection is archieved!

And the lawyers deemed it suitable! Box and ship it.
Thanks for the post
>40s

This is a typo, surely? Quantum computers were first proposed in the 80s.
- Threadripper 1900x

- Radeon Vega 64

- 4k resolution

- Linux 4.15.4 and Mesa 17.3.5 (Fedora 27)

Firefox locked to 60 fps (is there a way to disable vsync?); Chrome hovering somewhere between 9 and 16 fps.
Well we removed all our servers from AWS and replaced them with lambda functions and dynamodb tables which resulted in 4.5 reduction in cost and increased performance by multiple factors. I suppose it all depends on what you are building and how you are building it. If you run servers I think it is no secret that AWS is not the cheapest option around.
There are varying levels of cynicism with which to view the smart home stuff.

On the plus side, smart home automation is great for those with mobility issues or disabilities, the elderly. It also could save a lot of energy globally.

On the other hand, a lot of things just don't need to be smart, and making them smart often means that they are not directly servicable by owners. When something breaks, you need a whole stack of knowledge about software to figure out where it went wrong. A lot of us here might have that knowledge, but even then it's a giant hassle. It seems insane that in the future it might require arcane knowledge of Python, bash, and Linux to get your lights on. That's some kind of fail.

The most cynical view, which I sometimes dare myself to consider, is that all of this smart home/internet of things is just another bubble where hardware manufacturers are pushing their chips into literally everything because they have to keep making more money...somehow.

In the latter case, well. Civilization doesn't need more hucksters, even if they are selling little black squares of silicon this time around.
That's missing the point. Until it's actually achieved it isn't "finally here".
Isn't that because in that SOC they use unified memory where GPU and CPU memory is the same. This does not apply to most desktop computers or mobile phones...
"If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong."

https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/arthur_c_clarke_100793

> On the other hand I'm sure you could find lots of other achievements where some scientists were denying it was possible right up to the point it was achieved.

True and I'm very aware that I'm creeping towards the age where I'm likely to be on the wrong side of these debates. (Not that I'm distinguished or even a scientist)

However - the distinguished, elderly scientists are sometimes right.
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If you control for positively correlated variables, the results are more dramatic right? Higher intelligence leads to lower death And higher intelligence to higher income then lower death. So actuarial effects multiply.
Does journalistic source protection actually apply to any random blog?
Technology Review decided to go full New Scientist 20 years ago. It's entertaining sometimes, but not a reliable source for the state of a research field.
AI​ ​Now​ ​2017​ ​Report [pdf]
One of the authors of this piece has some involvement with OpenPrescribing.

In England all prescription info is open. We can use that to try to reduce prescribing of meds that have more effective alternatives, or that have cheaper as effective alternatives, or that are dangerous.

https://openprescribing.net/
Most of the "smart IoT stuff" is built by (cheap) engineers and decision makers with no sense of IT security and reliability engineering

Also the infrastructure in a major city is usually much more reliable than someone living in the suburbs (especially in non-1st world countries). And I'm not even talking about internet, but electricity as well

See the Tesla remote unlock fiasco, people think it's a good idea to lock their car using a device which needs a recharge every day (and could break, has a higher chance of getting robbed than a key, etc), and needs access to cell towers to unlock the car? Compare this to other manufacturers where the mechanical keys will work even if the battery in the remote dies

See the bluetooth locks fiasco, you're putting a cheap and unreliable device between you and your house? Do people realize how stupid is that?!
In this article (in french), they say that Gobee face the same issue in Italy (60% of destroyed or stolen bikes) and they're gonna stop their activity there too. They also say that Globee already had to stop their activity in Brussels for the same reasons.
http://mobile.lemonde.fr/entreprises/article/2018/02/25/les-...
Do yourself a favor and use a Hetzner Storage Box:
https://www.hetzner.com/storage-box

Even if you don't include any extra costs, just keeping 10 TB on Hetzner will cost you 40€ max, whereas with S3 it will cost you at least $230.
I mean that D3D -> Nouveau could be still slower than D3D -> GL -> NVIDIA.
> Otherwise, you'd know that some countries allow folks to move there as long as they have a bit of income or a bit of money in the bank.

Which first world countries and what is a bit of money in the bank?

Many countries allow you to migrate if you invest $500k+ in the country.

Is that what you meant?
I think the parent might mean HDF5.
To add to this: it is incredibly difficult to risk yourself and your family to protect strangers, no matter what the numbers are. That's why the act of defying the Nazis in WW2 was particularly heroic: the alternative was to just go along, and be safe and comfortable. Heroism in warfare counts for less, since the alternative is often just a different kind of death.
Or intelligent people may be more likely to apply cognitive techniques (perhaps they experience depression earlier and/or more commonly which may build resilience) and/or may be more likely to seek professional advice (e.g. because they see the value, move in circles in which it is more acceptable, or make more money and can afford to).
However, this I never think to do.

Well, some of us do think to do so. Until recently I had a commute that required me to take a bus that stopped 2km from my house; using the shared bikes was perfect for that connection, whereas using my bike would have required leaving it all day on the street, and taking a bus/tram was slower than walking.

I don't know about London, but the Brussels system had 1.5M rides in 2016 and more than 40 000 long-term subscribers.
One of the first heisenbugs I encountered was IE8's console.log.

That object/function was only defined when the developer tools were open. Otherwise you would get an exception (but of course you couldn't see that exception in any place).

Daily effect was funny: When you forgot a console.log in your code your page JS would hang. When you tried to debug it by opening the developer tools everything worked- and you started to doubt your sanity pretty soon.

I wasted hours of my life with that.
Information regularly leaks out of the NSA. It doesn't seem like they'd be able to keep this a secret.

It could be that they have some super secret projects which are protected by much better security, but I doubt it. If they could be that competent for one project, why not use the same protocols everywhere?
Now let’s try a discussion about ad blockers or net neutrality
For speech recognition, in android, you can use google now, then with the app tasker you can send the recognised text to your mqtt broker and from there it's easy.

I'm doing that with some relays and LIFX bulbs using Openhab.
Was in Paris last year. I thought I was in Africa..
Nice, thanks for pointing that out!
A very different time when equity returns were 12% and inflation was in the 5-10% region.
Obligatory link to this classic blog post explaining heisenbug and many other classic programming puns: http://www.dodgycoder.net/2011/11/yoda-conditions-pokemon-ex...
After Apple ruined the podcasts app in iOS 11, I switched back to my old way of listening to podcasts: download on the computer and listen on a Sansa Clip+ player (with Rockbox on it).

Especially the first few days were pure delight. A player with.. hardware buttons! I can skip tracks, jump back and forth, pause, everything without even looking at the thing! Several years of using touchscreen-smartphones for this had me totally forget how it is to use an MP3 player with physical buttons. Really, I didn't expect at all how much I'd love it. I've now gotten used to it again and going back to anything touchscreen-based is not an option at all anymore. And on top of that the joy of knowing that there's no ad-company tracking how/when/where I'm listening.
There are a lot of problems with fining someone after the fact. You have no proof that the last renter actually left the bicycle exactly like that (they may have left it neatly parked just a few metres away and someone purposely moved it), and the renter is quite likely to be a foreign tourist (fining them is near impossible without the benefit of a license plate like you have with a car).
This is my current life. Testing an idea costs $25M. It’s absurd, and most of my time is spent filling out forms or explaining the basics of the web to idiots.
The Complete Guide to Figure Out the Heterogeneity of Tumor Cell
What is tumor heterogeneity?
Tumor heterogeneity refers to the difference between genotype and phenotype of tumor cells in different parts of the same malignancy or in different parts of the same patient. Tumor heterogeneity refers to the difference between genotype and phenotype of tumor cells in different parts of the same malignancy or in different parts of the same patient. This difference can occur in different individuals, which can show different genetic backgrounds such as chromosome mass and quality differences, different cell types. There are also significant differences homogeneous tumors at the molecular level, such as gene expression profile, network regulation, mutation spectrum and other aspects of the difference. The inconsistencies happen between the mutant gene spectrum and biological characteristics in the same tumor paitient, reflecting a high degree of complexity and diversity for the evolution process of malignant tumors.
The mechanism of tumor heterogeneity
This heterogeneity can be traced back to normal human cells. With the development of single-cell whole genome sequencing technology, each cell in normal cells prove to be different, genome, phenotype, developmental stage and gene expression will cause the same tissue origin between a group of cells Heterogeneity.
> When the system allowed segregation, whom do you blame more

That is easy - the people who were taking advantage of it.

E.g. I have the right to be a racist dirtbag - but if I act like a racist dirtbag that is on me and not on the system.
Finally a viable platform to mine bitcoin and other crypto currencies
The origin of tumor heterogeneity
Most common view for the origin of tumor heterogeneity is from cancer stem cells. Cancer stem cells refer to a small group of stem cell-like cells with infinite self-renewal ability in the tumor, which can evolve into different phenotypic cell populations with strong tumorigenicity. Affected by cell differentiation, clonal evolution and microenvironment and other factors, leading to phenotypic and functional heterogeneity. The maintenance of heterogeneity is related to randomness.
Arguably the most popular reason is "everyone else is using it". This is what I hear all the time. It usually goes like: "Why aren't we using AWS?" "Well, because it's a few times more expensive than our current infrastructure" "How can it be? If it's true, why all other companies are using it?" "They fell for the hype, just like you". Then we sit down, we do some calculations, we check different scenarios, and it always turn out AWS is more expensive than dedicated servers. In the past people also used a very strange argument that with AWS you don't need to pay the IT staff anymore - but I no longer hear this argument, I think most companies already realized how ridiculous it is. The most recent fad is the "serverless revolution" with some people claiming this time for sure the IT staff is unnecessary since the app developer can take care of everything. Good luck with that fantasy.
More expensive than a low end intel notebook but also worse specs except battery
most likely with a locked windows only bootloader
No x64 emulation
x86 emulation
but doesnt support opengl beyond 1.1
some DRM systems don't work
shell extensions are not supported (affects dropbox, 7zip etc)

Honestly basically everything went wrong. Don't buy this unless you only use windows store apps.
The breast cancer cells were divided into three subgroups: stem cell-like subsets, basal cell subsets and bursal epithelial subgroups by flow cytometry. Keep culturing three subpopulations of cells, then each subpoperation will produce another three subgroups, and there was a random conversion mechanism in the cells to maintain the balance of stem cell-like cells. Cell fusion may be a source of metastatic tumor cell heterogeneity. Using the breast cancer lines MDA-MB-231 and MA11 co-cultured with human normal bone-derived stromal pluripotent cells, spontaneous fusion of heterozygous cells was observed and the DNA content was aneuploidy. The hybrid cells were inoculated into immunization Defective mice, breast tumors can be observed in metastatic capacity.
The democratization of non gaming 3D content and both powerful and cheap consumer electronics are long term driving forces.

I am both biased and hopeful since I am working on something very related, but my take on this is that the 3D part of the web will grow much faster than the non 3D part [1]. This growth will mainly be driven by non gaming 3D content that do not need high quality graphics to be relevent or entertaining.

VR and AR are better understood when we realize that they are just means to the end of consuming a wider variety of 3D content in a more engaging fashion.

The percieved lack of interest about VR is absolutely not about technical limitations (such as HMD weight, resolution, controllers, wire or whatever)[2] but it clearly is about the layman having no 3D content as relevant to his daily life as let say Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, Amazon etc. The first big VR company will launch a product that will be useful both in and out of VR and the web is the platform the most likely to host it.

[1] Most (say over 70%) of the web will stay 2D for a VERY long time though
[2] Most people who try VR HMDs enjoy the experience just fine (for the least). They just have no reason to try it again, and even less reason to pay money for that.
This is true. Nothing has been released for Linux yet.
Too many are using Medium. This recent HN posted link for example: https://blog.jupyter.org/jupyterlab-is-ready-for-users-5a6f0...

My protest is to talk about this issue in this HN thread, and to just install the extension so that the sites start to "just work".
Interesting.

I wonder whether the Flynn effect (increase in IQ in the general population over time [0]) can therefore explain at least some of the increase in longevity in the 20th century.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect
> Participants 33 536 men and 32 229 women who were participants in the Scottish Mental Survey of 1947 (SMS1947) and who could be linked to cause of death data up to December 2015.

> In this prospective cohort study, all individuals born in Scotland in 1936 and registered at school in Scotland in 1947 were targeted for tracing and subsequent data linkage to death certificates

Hard to get a more comprehensive population study than that.
we are probably on the verge of at least the inflation part of this - there is no way we are going to be able to do $1T deficits for long.
What we are seeing here is the next climate scam.

Arctic sea ice thickness has grown substantially in recent years and not even ice-breakers can get through the arctic reliably these days yet submarines were surfacing at the North pole in the 50's which would be completely impossible today.

Never forget that Al Gore insisted the ice would be completely gone by 2013 in an effort to gain political power.
IMO FRANK
This reminds me of Mozilla prism, which I think is discontinued now. I always liked having a separate window and process for gmail that wouldn't close if my browser crashed
If you are going to deploy "things" that don't work the way that a traditional device does then you might want to completely mitigate the behaviour or put up with it. A UPS or multiple UPSs are indicated here.

You could go the whole hog and install enough UPS for the whole house and a backup generator.
There is two projects that make a step forward the privacy direction: Mark II [0] and Project Things [1] by Mozilla. There are of course not as developed as the big ones, but it's refreshing.

[0] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/aiforeveryone/mycroft-m...
[1] https://iot.mozilla.org/
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Real interest rates - those set by banks based on demand for money, and not set by central banks are a price signal. What we have now is straight market manipulation which causes problems.

Interest rates should be a signal about consumption vs investment.
These (and bugs of other types) can make fantastic war stories for interviews. I have a few such stories from my own experience that I am practiced in telling; they're a really good opportunity to showcase your technical chops in puzzling situations, and also show that you're a personable character able to communicate effectively on technical issues, and an opportunity to demonstrate real enthusiasm and engagement.

The hook "Tell me about an interesting bug you had to fix" or similar is absolute gold; if you've got a good one lined up, you can dazzle with your diagnostic procedure and explain what you tried and thought of and discounted, showing a wide range of technical expertise and more general investigative procedure. Tell it well and lead them through it, and they will start coming up with ideas and suggestions, making themselves part of the discussion. Ideally, they'll even tell you about something similar they once had to deal with. By the end of the five minute story-telling, you're more than just interviewer-interviewee.

I plan ahead for these; I have three interesting (well, as interesting as these things get) crazy bug stories ready to go, delivery practiced, and I'll pick one based on other factors of the interview. They're also good for non-interviews; meeting someone at a conference or when working with another company - it's an interesting conversation that the other person can feel involved in and enjoy listening to, and by the end of it you're in their mind as a competent person, good at the job, who is also engaging and communicative and fun to chat to. Because it's true! If you've got interesting material, and you can deliver it well and engagingly, you are all those things. It's not even a trick!

If you don't plan ahead, you're planning to fail (is the kind of aphorism that makes me want to punch someone but I grudgingly accept is true).
Makes sense, although I have to ask: are they a net saving in waste water and processing versus resources required to manufacture them (or price)? They've been around a long time now so I can believe they would be.
I think a lot of us engineers are solving non-problems. We make life only marginally better for a lot of people (if we're lucky). To me it seems that a relatively simple job like e.g. highschool teacher has more impact and provides more meaning than what we are doing. Anyway, at least I feel better than those engineers who are trying to make people click ads more.
From what I've read about the type of bicycles used by these companies in the Netherlands, the bicycles themselves are pretty awful for any serious use beyond moving tourists a mile or so across a flat surface without any wind or rain. Also, if you bought a stolen one from a fence, you would be riding a branded bicycle (probably adorned with your own lock instead of the original 'smart' one) and look like a right git. They just don't appear to be very attractive to thieves.
How is that obvious?
> Researchers at Curtin University in Australia observed 20 participants working at standing desks for two hours.
Hang on, why should someone from India have less of a chance just because they were born in India? They can't help where they were born, or that their country has a high population.

If there weren't country caps, then someone born in India would have an equal chance as someone from Sweden.

I argue what you're proposing isn't fair at all - it's clear that limiting by country is discrimination, not the other way around.

Now what I will grant you is that it'll skew population statistics for immigrants to the more populous countries. But that's just a function of global population distribution by nation.

Which again, isn't the fault of the applicant.

Or to put all this another way, should someone born in Vatican City have an extremely high chance to get in, versus someone from a country with several million in population? No.
You have no proof that the last renter actually left the bicycle exactly like that (they may have left it neatly parked just a few metres away and someone purposely moved it)

How so? Gobee can just check where it was the moment the renter locked it.

the renter is quite likely to be a foreign tourist (fining them is near impossible without the benefit of a license plate like you have with a car).

Gobee uses digital payment systems, which are not anonymous.
Microsoft has successfully created an environment where people with little training are able to add business value. The average Windows developer is not at all comparable to the average Linux developer.
Surveillance in sci-fi
I've been punting crypto a little, bearing in mind Buffett/Grahams Mr Market story where "... the more manic-depressive his behavior, the better for you." It's hard to find more nutty market behavior than with crypto. I daresay Buffett is bearish on crypto and has said he would buy 5 year puts on the whole lot if he could.

(http://www.alphavest.com/an-essay-on-ben-grahams-mr-market-b...)
tus is a well defined protocol with a couple reference implementations of the server part. resumable just says "This should be a fairly simple task" and a small description of the "protocol"…
Sorry, what do you mean non-uniform? The costs are digressive with volume. If you have non-linearly increasing costs with linear workload, then you have a fundamental math problem with your architecture / business model
IIRC Mike Pall himself said that to have a fast runtime you need to have it carefully designed for the language it's going to run, Lua has fairly different semantics from Ruby or Python.
Gobee knows who paid, but that doesn't mean the municipal police can fine that person using the same payment method. Getting fines paid by foreigners is a hard problem to solve, because ignoring these fines even if your address is known just works for most people.
I'd love to see the relation between IQ and happiness.
> Having suffered under H1B, its amazing how employee friendly the Canadian system is.

> If Americans don't want H1Bs, its all fine. Kick all Indians out.

If you like the Canadian system then you should love Trump. That's exactly the direction he wants to take the US.
Why would it be different with OpenShift? Either you know what you're running or you don't. Tagging on AWS gives you per dept/team/app cost split. If you don't use something like that you'll be lost in OpenShift as well...
The origins of almost every "Nazi tech" predate their rise to power.
> But, I know 6 other languages, I can learn one more...

I doubt you professionally know 6 languages. There's a lot more to learn about the runtime, frameworks and tools of a language than there is syntax.