skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Colored lights (LIFX) change color automatically during the day. mostly thanks to their scheduling, though the one in the foyer changes color based on both the time of day and on the temperature and rain forecast - during the day I can glance at the light and know how to dress. That happens with a Python script on my computer, which I should really move to the Raspberry Pi in the living room that I could leave on 24-7.

When I make a blog post, my WordPress installation automatically posts about it to assorted social media sites. And when I post a new page of comics I can make it automatically calculate the next day it would come out on, based on the schedule I’ve chosen (new pages Tuesday/Thursday, unless Shit Happens) and on how many pages are already in the queue, if any.

When I put together a book of my comics, I use a small AppleScript that runs over a directory and outputs a sequentially-sorted CSV of file names, which I can dump into an InDesign template.
It's not the machine that killed you - it's the person who programmed the machine. If a pedestrian dies when a person is behind the wheel, there are any number of reasons: inattentiveness, drunkenness, anger - all very human states of being and emotion. That exact combination of influences will never happen again. And it could also be just an unfortunate accident.

But with an AI driving the car, some faceless person ran the numbers and decided that your life is worth some statistical amount. Not only yours, but all the people ever who will stand in front of that machine.

And that is murder.

We could give the AI's free will if we ever figure out how to encode that concept in terms a computer would understand. But that opens up a different can of worms because we are then enslaving a being with free will.

We could absolve the original programmers of blame - after all they were doing it for humanity or for the children or some other excuse. But then we have to decide how limited that absolution is.

Those are the kinds of issues we must address before we can fully trust an autonomous vehicle.
It's easy to be against "free basics" when you can afford internet access.
When I graduated college, the job situation wasn't as hot.

I would take a resume, custom tailor a cover letter, change out a few paragraphs in my resume to fit the specific job title --- and then.. no reply -. So. I scripted it. I would scan craigslist, monster, indeed, etc for emails or company names. The script eventually evolved to guess company homepages and scan for emails on 'career' sections.

Based on the job titles it would automatically change out cover letters. It became smart enough to understand that a word doc or txt format resume was required. It could catch "PUT THIS IN THE SUBJECT" and created a queue for hand verification -- otherwise, it would send out the emails. Once they were sent out it would scan incoming emails to determine if there were any leads - and matched the thread together with a unique email footer.

Hilariously, it flipped job searching. I would get long ranting emails why I wasn't a qualified or the position required someone more 'senior' to build CRUD webpages. OH well, HR blew their time, not mine, ---> delete. When a interested company did call, I had a nice mysql database of all the posts that company made and was ready to return a call prepared.

I got a job quickly after this php script starting running.
1) What capital gains tax? You can run it through a company, which is what I do.

2) Broker fees are $0 as I use Robinhood.

Like I said, I made a ~44% return. If a $7 trader fee is your argument for it not being viable then you are most likely not investing enough money, or not getting a decent return.
The making of video is arguably more interesting: https://youtu.be/lMPozJFC8g0
MythTV has commercial skip: https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Commercial_detection
That video at the end about the army throwing Humvees without properly setting up the chutes was pretty incredible
Seems like they could get most of the benefit at much less cost and complexity by going with side-by-side "dualies"

If one of the tires goes flat, then there's built-in redundancy from the other ones and it could be replaced in the field if needed, but no one's going to be able to overhaul this track mechanism without a shop.
Thanks. I'm doing this manually every few days and have so far about 1300 screenshots in that folder. It's a simplest possible way to keep a diary if you spend most of you time on a computer.
Not knocking it, but the main issue in this case is that the commercial one specified is way over-priced.

You can pick up tube racks on eBay for 5USD including shipping. I've not seen magnetic ones, but gluing a couple of magnets on would provide a similar result.
What do you see as risky? I don't invest in companies I don't believe will be around in 10-15 years -- I don't invest in penny stocks. I invest in REAL companies (Amazon, Shopify, Atlassian, etc.)
Thanks for the reference to sekenium etc. I know nothing about other browsers' automation capabilities, so i'll takee a look at some stage.
Heck, just last year one was stranded in Montana for days.

https://www.jqpublicblog.com/air-force-lacks-resources-retri...
so I was trying to figure out why a query was slow the other day... it was a nasty query with like 14 joins... I used explain and saw that it was a mess... now in my case I was able to switch to outer joints and nest related joins and got it fast.. but I had some interesting thoughts.

In SQL, indexes are implicit.. they are used if available but it's easy get a large query to scan sometimes when it shouldnt... what if there was a different query language with explicit index syntax.. I think you'd get a lot more predictable performance.
Has it ever chopped up a squirrel, or the neighbor's cat?
You could definitely make money selling access to this.
It's the build that you buy it for, which sounds silly but its true. It's like buying a LEGO set, kids don't generally buy a LEGO set and stick it on a shelf once it's built, they pull it apart, upgrade it, build something new with it. Labo isn't about playing the game so much as the feeling of making something cool using one of the cheapest materials around. That said I feel like Nintendo could be pushing the 'make your own game' aspect a bit more which might have extended the interest in it a bit longer.
The rubber hose would fail!
They tried a moderation system. An active and passive moderation system. Conservatives in the U.S. claimed it was "biased" so they stopped. Despite the fact that Facebook had clear records about disinformation campaigns and how untruthful they were. To keep the faux appearance of "intellectual curiosity" they scrapped the moderation team and now eventually the news feed. Talk about political correctness.

When rolling out their platform to other countries they obviously "learned" from yesteryears experience about dealing with disinformation and decided that doing nothing was better than doing something (no matter how perceivably flawed, or how substantially flawed it actually was, which is just foolish). Boy did they learn their lesson here, at the cost of other people's lives. Fortunately, such rhetoric rarely has jarring repercussions in the U.S. (for now).

Blame humanity. Some of the best engineers in the world tried to solve the problem but were only meant with whining about unfairness. No doubt had they employed enforceable, decent standards when moderating content on the implementation of their platform for other countries it would have just been dragged under the meaningless label of "censorship." So they didn't bother apparently. Foolish and privileged.

But at least we treated all sides equally. It only was paid in blood.
Just posted. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17389157

Glad at least two people will see it.
You probably shouldn’t be using Ubuntu base images anyways. The closer you can get to “scratch” the better, and the fewer security related issues you’ll have. For most use cases I think Alpine is a much better base image.
It's not your average cardboard from what I've heard and once complete the toys sound like they are quite sturdy.
I have several patents I created and assigned to my company. The main reason is to allow the company to work in those ways without restriction. For example, without a patent granting rights to do operation XYZ, then a competitor may say that the company is doing something forbidden and needs to stop. We can look at all the claims for stolen IP with the various self-driving car companies to see examples.

This is a forward looking protection mechanism due to the environment that we actually have in the real world today. Even so, I don't like the idea of a social media company that sells advertising to have so many patents of the kinds mentioned in the article.
It impresses me as a user though since ETag still incurs a round trip while "forever" expiration doesn't. There's a night and day difference between ETags and no HTTP request at all.

You are likely complacent because you're always on a good connection, since you keep arguing in these comments (even farther down) as if conditional GET requests obsolete other forms of caching.

The real benefit of ETags is that they generalize over all content dynamically, but they come at the cost of incurring more requests than expiration caching. I don't see how you could keep arguing here unless you didn't understand that trade-off.
It would probably never reach scale for obvious reasons, but someone should productize this.

"I'll get you a 20% more high paying job for $1,000"
One thing that I would really like to see is how Nintendo's Japanese hardware development organization really looks like, because at least since Wii all of their hardware design is quite obviously outsourced to the US.
ذاكرة العيد .. / لطيف عَبد سَالم – شبكة الاعلام في الدنمارك
This is a much better talk with better video and sound.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jib2AmRb_rk
SpaceX has Project Manager positions open and that would be a hell of a lot more fun than Google.
Mattracks sell conversions for street driven vehicles that bolt on where normal wheels go

http://www.mattracks.co/
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One of the interesting things about MBS is that there's a huge amount of under-employed or under-utilized talent that's basically (1) the "trailing spouse" problem (one half of a couple has a Dow job, the other doesn't) plus (2) Dow employees that have been lost in the shuffle and aren't in roles that are a good match. I never quite came up with the right idea to take advantage of the local talent pool... a startup incubator is a maybe. If Dow were the smart and forward-looking, they would encourage a local startup community, but that's not the pattern of decision-making that happens at Dow.
Amen to that, we are starting to get some of the groundwork but are far far away from a “standard model”, neuroscientists,psychiatrists and AI developers oversell their understanding in order to keep their jobs and funding.
for number 2 how do you handle tax season? Mine was very complicated last year and I didn't fully automate my trading.
Thats not the argument i made though. Thats like saying a resident of any state in the us. We are talking about coming from outside the EU.
Note: taut (pulled tightly) and taught (past tense of teach) are homophones
The "nearest swamp" is pretty near with all the rain we've been having here. Hopefully we'll see a side-by-side comparison in the mud soon.
EA DICE do the same, Battlefront and Battlefield feel and play very similar, they just have different visuals and voices. There's nothing inherently wrong with reusing the same code, especially when the games work and sell very well, but it does make the games feel a bit similar.
Ansible playbooks to build and maintain your own private cloud
> You impliy that it's trivial to add rechargeables to the existing engineering for multiple chemistries with actually similar voltage profiles, without showing how.

Even if NiMH did not exist, not being able to operate with batteries below 1.2V wastes the majority of the capacity of an alkaline. I think that's a valid criticism of almost anything in consumer electronics. It requires a very good excuse before it should be considered acceptable.

Furthermore, anything relatively recent should be able to use NiMH as a matter of compatibility with batteries a significant minority of consumers have, and for environmental responsibility.

> Is that a forum where commenters tend to report such experiences with full data

Of course not. I suspect data like that about consumer products is not available to the public at all, though there are some scientific studies on alkaline battery leakage as a phenomenon (the first one I found was paywalled).

> Are they representative of the average consumer's usage patterns?

Probably. Regulars almost never use alkaline batteries, so when people post about that, it's usually their first post. They're not collectors, hobbyists or heavy users, but people who encountered a problem and thought "I bet there's a subreddit for that". (We have 35K subscribers)
> (this assumes normal metabolism)

Such an assumption is likely to be false in cases of chronic sleep disruption [1] [2] [3].

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2830474/

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14512265

[3] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3476879/
So in other words, it succeeds because it is more white, north European and conservative, no surprises there.
Agreed. If car crashes kill so many in the U.S., wouldn't it make sense to make the country a less car-dependent nation if we want to reduce fatalities? Walking and biking generally won't get people killed, so why not promote that?

I think part of the problem is that self-driving vehicles is marketed as a life-saving technology, when it is the novelty and futurism people are attracted to. (It is indeed an impressive and challenging problem.) The furthest mainstream press release I can recall making the case for autonomous vehicles was Google's efforts. This makes me wonder if they had a solution in search of a problem, so they took road deaths in the U.S to sell the idea. Maybe they were chasing the next iteration of intense computing application, e.g. Deep Blue -> Watson -> self-driving cars.

The 40k+ fatalities per year is a solvable problem without autonomous vehicles: (1) promote equity in other methods of transportation, (2) enhance driver-assistance technology, (3) design roads to be built for safety rather than convenience/speed [0]

Regarding point 2 above, note that Chevrolet has "teen-driver technology" which can set a maximum speed, and provide visual and audible warnings if the (teen) driver exceeds the speed limit [1]. Presumably the vehicle has cameras to read speed limit signs. Why isn't this being applied to all drivers? It seems to be the classic case of "let's blame teens for everyone's bad driving" (juvenoia).

[0] https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2018/1/25/speed-kills-so...
[1] https://www.chevrolet.com/teen-driver-technology
Can you explain the use case for this please?
Powerful, cheap and Cambodian: Computer dreams being born in the kingdom
Hashes never take the filename into account anyway. He knows this, and is trying to throw users off track.
At my job, we extruded plastic sheets, so we had dies which were 84 inches wide with an opening of 0.020 inches. It's quite a challenge to get the plastic to spread evenly from the barrel opening all across that width like a river delta. There are two flexible lips inside, you can supply more heat to individual die zones to make it meltier, and at the very edges you stretch the plastic out a little so that several inches of the die end up contributing to one inch of the finished sheet.
I don't know why but the ?m=1 in the url is breaking the site. Go to this url and save yourself the frustration.

https://multiverseaccordingtoben.blogspot.com/2018/06/google...
>My point is that free software is very proven as a development, distribution, whatever method by now.

Yes, it is indeed proven that when you pay people to develop software, it works great. (Linux, FF, Chrome, Photoshop, Windows, etc, etc). The license doesn't seem to make much of a difference.

When you don't - (your typical freeware on download.com) - they have to figure out a revenue stream after the fact, and the choices they end up making cause them to be on the front page of HN where people line up to call them "scum".

Obviously this is not about hobbyist/part-time developers with a github repo, who are already getting paid through an external job, etc.
s/deserve/desire

s/be/he
Facebooks entire business revolves around collecting personal information. Their business model is entirely inconsistent with personal privacy and everyone needs to know that.
If they are legal yes and thats the discussion here. I repeat, its easier to get into the us legally than the eu. You want to count how many drowned to get into the eu? The EU isnt any better and 11 million people living illegally in the us on top of how many of them are immigrants the last 80 yearsshould be an indication of just how absurd the claims about the us immigration politics are.
> I can count on one hand the number of times I've used the Switch outside the house

For me it isn't even about taking it outside or play while commuting so much as being able to pick it up and play it on the couch, at my desk, while watching food cook etc. Also the ability to just pick it up, take it to a friends and play games I own but they don't on their TV.
> what if there was a different query language with explicit index syntax..

There is, it's a feature in MySQL called Index Hints [1].

[1] https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/index-hints.html
OK so I hit http://rebind.network/rebind/ from this VM. Gave it full JS permissions. And hey, it just spins its wheel.

Which isn't surprising, given that this VM's LAN router/firewall is a pfSense VPN-gateway VM. With another pfSense VPN-gateway VM as its uplink. With another pfSense VPN-gateway VM as its uplink. Oh, and a hardware router/firewall on the ISP uplink.

The first pfSense VPN-gateway VM would likely have been enough. There's no reason to expose your LAN to the Internet.
>intellectual property law is immoral on the grounds that it creates artificial barriers to prosperity for individuals who don’t receive the benefits of the patents

It is also a wealth transfer from the poor to the wealthy: the justice system protecting IP capital is financed by taxpayers, the hard majority of which hold no patents.
I do believe it is our purpose to reproduce and extend the lives of future generations, but it is foolish to believe that humanity can prosper by systemically encouraging everyone to raise children. Some individuals are simply predisposed to be bad caretakers given various environmental and genetic factors. Must we actively inspire people who do not have the ability, patience, or the mental capacity to raise children to do just that?

Aside from that, what is it from that we must be "prevail", exactly? If you are suggesting the continuation of our species, I might remind you that our global population is steadily increasing.
You have the choice to.

If you use reactjs based frameworks, you get the same amount of upfront effort as Hugo. It's not harder. However build times are slower.

But as your website complexity increases, you can leverage the reactjs ecosystem (both people and libraries).
In Hugo, you get locked to their templating system. Which is nice...but very non standard and relatively non-Googleable.
I thought about that crosstalk or more like: "how make noise between "to small" transistors useful?". My gut says we can.

We might have to deal with incorrect results that require repeating the operation 3+ times. The usefulness (speed) would have to make up for that.
Not Logging in using Redux-persist
Is there some particular reason why your network has three layers of uplinks?
Is SRV part of the problem in your view?
Ask HN: How popular are internationalized domain names?
For countries without Latin-based scripts, do you type internationalized domain names (IDNs with punycode) in your browsers? How about countries with accents (e.g., France, Spain)?
Do you have similar patent analysis on other social media companies like twitter, google. Curious to see what other companies are doing wrt to user privacy.
Rolling Out Robotics Automation and #RPA? Prepare for the Initial Heavy-Lifting
> lip service paid to hoping the player is ok.

If we're talking about "celebrating", lip service is all I can think of that fits the bill. People enjoying it in the privacy of their own thoughts isn't the same thing.

> look at any serious injury on the court or the field.

That's why I was asking for counter-example. I don't have this experience. I was hoping for, possibly, media coverage or maybe fan blog posts or videos.

> Applause, sometimes a standing ovation, for the player's physical sacrifice.

If I were to witness this from afar, I would have no idea what the applause is for, so, again, I'm looking for that evidence. A more charitable interpretation would be that the applause is due to relief that the injury could be walked away from or even gesture of support in recovery.
IPv4, don't get me wrong, I like much more than IPv6 for many reasons(128 bits? Overkill). There are more people on Earth than ipv4 addresses, you can't solve that problem without heavy NATing, which has its own drawbacks.
oops, too late to edit, but meant to say 'paying' for mobility :-)
> US is not fighting in areas where getting stuck between trees is a big issue.

They need equipment for future wars, which are very difficult to predict. Also, the military's main purpose is to deter enemies by having capability. Enemies would be thrilled if the US military couldn't operate in wooded areas.
> computers

It's true, the market is becoming pretty flat with globalization for costs in general. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZs4NDC4yrI
Does it cover the same material though? I don't want to deprive people of the original survey.
Or oracle has it

A DBA can even sit there as queries fly past, and add hints on the fly.

And then you change a query from "select" (lowercase) to "SELECT" (uppercase), and query plans break and you break production.

Fun times
"Don't shout at your JBODs". Not something I'd ever considered, but good to know!
You simplify the situation by completely ignoring the context. We’re advocating prosecution for torture.
Only rational reply to my post^^^

This site is becoming infiltrated by morons.
Yes, that's the point I'm making though. Their two year "baseline" is what seems to get them into so much trouble.
I once had a long distance girlfriend who lived on the east coast. She would like to see "good morning" texts from me, the problem is that they are 3 hours ahead, so I wrote an On.X bot to do it every morning and pick randomly from a handful of messages
Please just go out of your way to be civil. It's not that hard.
I'm guessing the triangular track mode is the default mode. If the track gets damaged the whole thing can be switched to the wheel mode and continue working that way.
There are four numbers to compare, salary_SF, salary_GR, living_cost_SF, living_cost_GR, and two obvious ratios you could take. You chose to divide salary/living_cost for each, but you could also divide salary_SF/salary_GR for ratio_1 and living_cost_SF/living_cost_GR for ratio_2.

So, you might find that it's a 50% lower salary, and an 80% lower living cost. That would be informative.
Thanks for your response. I strongly echo the other comment here. This should be on your website. I'm ready to purchase now.
Whether they use highly tuned or proprietary or obscure algorithms (they do) is less important than the fact that understanding b-trees and basic normal forms will get you 90% of the way to understanding how to use one. It's just not that hard as a database user.
The beauty of this approach is that patents expire after ~15-20 years so it is basically just guaranteeing that everything will be free and clear soon.