skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why would your phone be locked while you're driving and trying to use it for navigation? Surely you're not looking down and locking / unlocking it every time you want to look at it, right? You just have it mounted on your dash and it stays on.
It is, actually. We live in a society. FOSTA is just the beginning, I’m sure things are going to get real tight for “sex workers”, pun intended.
edmonds-karp, dijkstra search, kruskal mst, floyd-warshall, bellman-ford, tarjans least common ancestor, danzig's simplex method, etc. are all algos that were paper pubs throughout last century, covered in CLRS i.e. good undergrad algos class, and come up in interview style questions.
If maps is installed on phones as part of the default install doesn't that mean that 25% of people go out of their way to remove or replace it?

It says nothing about the users that have no use for maps and just counts them anyway
It's not bad logic, but it is a non-obvious conclusion. Which is why it gets misreported.

One of two things may be true:

1) As we age, mortality rate increases until certain

2) As we age, mortality rate increases, and then levels off at some point

The latter doesn't mean you'll live forever: you're still already rolling the dice at the highest handicap every year. But it does mean there's no fundamental age everyone MUST die by (aka "live forever", if you're one in a billion).

The more interesting differentiation between the two, and the reason biology is interested in the question, is as an answer to "If we want to maximally prolong life, what do we do?"

If the flattening risk (option 2) model is correct, then we could extend life very far indeed by simply preventing people from dying of things that normally kill them by age 85 (e.g. disease, cancer) and then provide them with high quality medical support (to best fight the risk of their expiring from "normal" causes, e.g. accidents).

On the other hand, if it's ever-increasing risk (option 1), we should instead spend our effort at untangling the microbiology mysteries at the root of aging, and see if we can instead re-engineer systems to not work the way they currently do.

Or as my father (PhD in pathology) quips on the whole matter, "At some point, old folks are past the point that all of things that normally kill people would have killed them. And by virtue of still being alive, it's probable they're more resistant. We say they've reached escape velocity."
Where in the linked article does it say Apple Maps has 75% marketshare?

Assuming that number is accurate, as Apple Maps is preinstalled on iPhones it means 25% of users went out of their way to manually remove it. Mission far from accomplished (and hence Apple's efforts in the OP to rebuild Maps' dataset entirely in-house.)

I'm also curious what the active usage numbers are versus Google Maps on iOS.
It's difficult for me to be sure, since the article makes it sound as if they're attempting something novel, but synthesis tools are standard in ASIC/FPGA design flows.

Currently, the best synthesis tools are closed-source and extremely expensive. Imagine the benefit of having gcc/clang be free software. That is the kind of effect that is at stake here.

Usually, hardware designers will write RTL code (Verilog/VHDL) which describes the hardware slightly above the gate level. In order to turn this description into a web of logic gates (called a netlist), the design is processed by a synthesizing program. The produced netlist describes exactly how many AND, NAND, OR, etc. gates are used and how they're connected, but it doesn't actually describe where the gates are placed on the chip or the route the interconnections take to connect the gates. To generate that info, the netlist is fed into another synthesis tool (usually called place and route).

This is a simplified version, but even at this level of detail, there are important factors affecting chips.
- How many gates? (less might be better)
- How far are the gates from each other? (closer is better; less power, area, cost, timing)
- How often will the gates switch? (less is better)
- More....

More advanced synthesis tools improve area, cost, power, timing. They also allow designers to have less expertise and still obtain the same result as experienced designers by optimizing out micro-level inefficiencies in the design (though experienced designers will also lean on the synthesis tool).
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Hi. I got an interview question a little while ago that the interviewer said “was not a datasteuctures/algorithm question” because it was too specific. I call bullshit, but I don’t actually know what the algorithm would be called.

Problem:

A tree of resources that you can get granted access rights to. When you get access to a node in the tree, you inherit rights to children transitivley. You can also have rights explicitly blocked. The ordering is important. An example, you start of as head of IT and have all the IT stuff granted, but explicitly no access to the IT security department. Then you make CEO and are granted right to everything, so that should overrule your previous restriction for the IT security department.
You say many but I'd argue for "statistically insignificant".
Would it actually help here? If all requests are redirected to a given DNS server, how would you even know the zone is supposed to be signed?
Right, can you tell me why Nigeria didn't get awarded the penalty kick?
My interpretation:

Death rates increase every year due to naturally occurring mechanisms in the body. Consider those mechanisms as a function with the body as a parameter and the output as a more aged body (or rather a body with higher probability of failure).

If the body reaches a point where the death rate ceases to increase year per year, it would suggest that those same naturally occuring mechanisms, thought of as a function, approaches some asymptote.

Note this doesn't necessarily mean you stop aging (in appearance), just that your body's rate of failure no longer increases. This suggests that if the reasons for failure can be treated properly, perhaps the body can remain in that equilibrium state indefinitely.

This study provides some preliminary evidence that such an asymptote may exist in the body's natural mechanisms. Both controversial and exciting. Worth exploring further.
People seem to love this thing. I don't really get smoking what appears to be a USB drive, but the market appeal seems pretty undeniable.
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This is true. However, most users of NoScript/uMatrix/uBlock are blocking the script that actually does the fingerprinting. So while the server could infer information because the script didn't run, usually they get no notification and tracking simply fails.
This graphic shows a 3% difference in success (although it is a nearly 4 fold difference). Overall, Only 1-4 % of entrepreneurs succeeed according to this article at any age.

Maybe you can share an example of revolutionary? Many tech revolutions had a previous incarnation.

On age:

One has to decide if it's easier to learn 20 years worth in 5-10 years from someone more experienced, or waste one's own time learning it before innovating. I think mentoring is good and a turbo boost for innovating.

New entrepreneurs and innovators can tend to seek more permission and validation from others than those who are closer to just making value happen for clients.

There seems to be less of a gap between what you are calling middle aged vs someone in their 20's. Today's 40 year olds have grown up on the internet 10-20 years longer than today's digital natives as creators, but also know how to interface with the pre-internet world and powerholders. It's really a valuable 2 way relationship.

Ageism is silly against any age, because it just slows down innovation and the exchange of knowledge and insight.

I started as an entrepreneur when I was 19, and the feelings of people not getting it are normal, so it can be of value to learn to build and level up to meet the future you see. Luckily innovation cycles are shortening.
Is it better to have 10 kids smoking traditional cigarettes, or 1000 using Juul? But perhaps that's a false dichotomy. My worry is that by creating new addictions, we will end up with 1000 using Juul AND 100 kids smoking traditional cigarettes.

I don't see how anyone gains from this, other than Juul's investors.
Maybe not, but a "random person" may well one day have to make that decision. Should this guy be injured, and that injury be made known to others, those others will have to decide how to handle the situation. When any of us become ill, ill to the point of not being able to sustain our own lives, outsiders take control. We wouldn't let a dog die in the woods with a broken hip. If this man broke his hip, rescue services would go in and remove him. We don't let people die horrible deaths no matter how much they may want to.
I don't understand why Apple would need to host Google data. That's not how Google Maps on iOS works now, and it is fully featured.
I took an OS class in college where either a TA or professor would read every line of C code in the OS you turned in. They required every function to have a doxygen style doctrings. It was also a partner based course. Writing those docstrings before implementing the functions not only helped them be more useful, but also helped my partner and I coordinate on features/interfaces before they were done. I think documentation in general is highly underrated.
Kudos for the ethics.
If I'm navigating to an address I would put it in the search box... Who in their right mind would decide to hunt around the map to find a specific address? Pike Place Market was one of the few things highlighted on the screenshot I posted so that seems like a strange example.

Obviously we use the product differently, but I'm not using Google Maps to study for The Knowledge exam. I am looking for POIs which is what Google emphasizes, streets are
just part of getting there (and are then emphasized when you're in navigation mode).
The Italian study argues after a certain threshold age, lets say 105, Italians hit a constant, "mortality plateau, which was 50:50 odds of living to your next birthday, and thus since mortality is not increasing year on year, theoretically there is no upper bound on the age of a person. This may be true theoretically, but mathematical reasoning clarifies this somewhat. Even if you have 1 million humans aged 105 right now, which is probably a vast overstatement, they would diminish to 100,000 humans in less than 4 years, then diminishing to 1,000 humans aged 115 in 10 years' time. After this point, it's basically a question of statistics, as we keep halving the population yearly and get into statistically unsubstantial cohorts of humans. So, while it may be that some humans could live to 130-140 naturally, without fountain-of-youth innovations, the VAST majority of us will die much, much earlier.

The low-hanging fruits of obesity, heart disease, and diabetes are calling to public health far more urgently than this pie in the sky limitless life.
I wish FPGA design tools just worked...
> Buying a Chrysler was a huge mistake

One of my good friends is an automotive engineer. He's told me never to buy a Chrysler product, no matter what. That includes Jeep, Fiat, Dodge, Ram, etc. It's pretty bad when the people who design your cars literally think you are the worst car on the market.

I tell people this when they are looking for cars, and they always tell me "Well I asked the salesman about [whatever issue they heard Chryslers have], and he said they got rid of those issues." Without fail, a few years later there are a whole bunch of problems with whatever Chrysler.

I really don't understand how your cost accounting can be so terrible that literally everything you design has a horrible flaw. I guess they stay in business because people always want Jeeps and cheap cars that have 'luxury' interiors.
I believe that Ruby also has that & shortcut (or similar) but it's totally unreadable. I never used it and I don't even want to check the exact syntax. Is it the only way it works in Crystal?
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Inside Japan's extremely minimalist homes
Yep, it's a totally different culture. For example, there's a lot of motivation to protect the family's honor.
The police will mediate between the parties before going further, and often reach justice outside the court, where both sides are satisfied with the result. Often a sincere apology goes a long way in Japan.
after almost 18 years, i quit smoking and vaping altogether a year ago and i couldn't be happier now. it feels great to be finally free from smoking. i used to think smoking is good for relieving stress, but after i quit, i realize, it was smoking that created the stress every couple hours for me to light up another one.
This interview with Trey Hunner discusses his use of automated tests to help teach programming.
Automated testing is a huge part of developing great software. But many new developers don't get exposed to testing for quite a while. But this is changing.

New ways to teach programming include automated tests from the beginning.

Trey Hunner is a former PSF director, a Python and Django team trainer, and he has been using automated tests to help people learn Python.
What on earth? Firebase has had the notice that your database is open to public access (if set that way) for ages. They've had IAM rules for years.
Merchant accounts weren’t that low until they started getting more competition.
This is Ethereum, folks. I was fooled and clicked on the link
I've written a lot on this thread. I think the linchpin of this entire thing is how much salaries for technical people have lifted.

If you can get a qualified dev/dc engineer for 50 or 60K maybe you rack your own. But when facebook is paying all-in median wages of 240K/year things start to look different. I understand not everyone is going to be able to work at fb and not everyone lives in California. But when one of your critical inputs doubles or triples in price, of course that's going to adjust how things get done an in industry.
Respectfully, "we live in a society" isn't an answer any more than "the sun rose today". Plenty of European nations reason about this in far more pragmatic and dignified terms than does the United States.
Since I first got interested in science, I've been presented a number of times with this idea (that lifting things in orbit is subject to very simple physics that have harsh economic implications).

I've always felt uneasy about this, as it seems to imply that the only way to put things in orbit is via rockets.

For example, there is the idea of a space crane (assuming it can be built) that is simply a very, very tall building, assembled one chunk at a time, and that once built can simply lift things in orbit.

Would a space crane be slave to the same equations?
Yeah when I first read the headline i thought it said 100 Billion, now i'm a little dissapointed
We currently have this issue with mobile data and it doesn't do a damn thing. Engineers don't optimize for mobile data consumption beyond "download for offline usage," and ISPs don't build additional infra based on consumption: it doesn't affect the industry on any level whatsoever.
Any tips on getting started with FPGA on custom pcbs?
I'm using it every day.
Drones are not that expensive of a hobby. I just bought one on Amazon for 11 dollars. I'll just be sure to not fly it if I'm ever near a wildfire.
But doesn't that mean that it would be cheaper for an adversary to just wait until the excessive military spending makes the US implode, figuratively, in debt? This same concern worried former president Eisenhower back in his days[0].

A similar argument is usually touted regarding the economic strain that the 'Space Race' caused the U.S.S.R.[1].

[0] "The Cold War: An International History", p. 42-43 https://books.google.com/books?id=Yv2FAgAAQBAJ&lpg=PA43&pg=P...

[1] "Comparison of US and Estimated Soviet Expenditures for Space Programs", p. 3-4, https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/DOC_0000316255....
Yes it's quite a lot better than smoking.

Vaporization of juice is better on your lungs compared to inhaling smoke and tar. Less to get clogged.
Nicotine itself has been shown to be significantly less addictive combared to Tobacco. Theories for this typically involve the fact that there's more than just nicotine in tobacco. There's a chemical in tobacco smoke, the name escapes me at the moment, that acts as an MAOI, reinforcing the effects of nicotine.

This isn't to say that nicotine is harmless. Rather that the consumption of nicotine via vaporization is Less Harmful compared to smoking tobacco.
> , (I think we're around 5th). Soft power remains our major advantage. Not that bad when you consider our outsize role in world military affairs.
> https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2015/06/25/the-bi....

Your link says US is 4th in list of selected countries, not in the world.
On this page US not in the top: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_...
However after 5 or 10 years of that only product you might end up knowing perfectly only one tool, probably not the most relevant one on the market by the time you plan to live. Those jobs always looked to me like dead ends. Maybe it's different in Silicon Valley.
I agree. I have only just heard of this product, but can immediately see it would be extremely useful to me. Sadly, I can say 100% that I can not justify this kind of spend on a single operational analytics tool. For that reason, I probably won't even try it.
The large US defense budget is almost entirely due to human costs.

The US has one of the highest median incomes on earth. Now combine that with the large human force that the US military has. The bases, veterans, healthcare, various benefits, retirement, equipment for the humans, salaries, and on it goes.

For example missiles + munition costs are a mere 2% of the military budget. Shipbuilding and maritime systems is a mere 3%. Aircraft and related systems is 5.x%. R&D is about 9%.

The budget related to operating the bases, maintenance, salaries, benefits, vets, and all other related human costs = $500 billion.

There's a strong argument that if you adjust China's military spending to factor in the difference in income / per capita costs for human soldiers vs the US (basically PPP adjusted), that China outspends the US already (and that's with an economy 1/3 smaller):

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-05-25/china-out...
Damn. Too many javascripts on this page, including Facebook's. I guess I'll pass.
That is a big reason I stopped using chrome. I block all the cookies and scripts I can but they were still collecting data from other shit and serving me obvious directed ads.
Getting everyone off very poisonous deadly substances is a fair tradeoff for getting new people hooked on something as dangerous as coffee.
I like coming over to the US. Generally a very nice country. But it does have some issues, for sure.
Weird how "we live in a society" until something happens one doesn't like, like trying to ban guns.
The Space Race bankrupted an already failing command economy in the USSR. However it was a massive economic boon for US capitalists, as evidenced by our aerospace and defense industries today. The great thing about defense spending is that it is almost entirely domestic. We're not running up some huge trade deficit with a foreign power. It creates millions of jobs from Florida to California.
I target it. My daily driver is Antergos or Ubuntu depending on how I'm feeling and how crappy GNOME is on any given year.
Yea, but a catapult or railgun would be fine for water, certain foods and other durable goods. Then the crew could take a smaller, cheaper rocket up.
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Microsoft knew what they were doing: using secrecy, obfuscated formats/protocols, copyright law, and patent law to block as much competition as possible. They made billions in the process. The EDA vendors do something similar but mostly acquire competitors. There's just three of them covering the basics parts of ASIC design. They aren't competing on driving prices down, either.

So, their strategy is smart until they, like Microsoft, get in a situation where less and less customers need them. I did think one could do a more open version of EDA, though. I was gonna try to talk to someone at smaller player, Mentor, but they got bought. Im keeping my eyes open for new players wanting a differentiator.
He was able walk for short distances, but only with difficulty and a lot of pain. He often used a cane to help him out.

Winston Churchill records seeing Roosevelt slowly walk over to greet him, and knew how difficult it was for Roosevelt to do that.
I believe you are incorrect. It's hardly just Toyota's marketing department that credits Toyota with significant intellectual work. See, e.g., professors Liker and Rother at the University of Michigan.

My point about Toyota working on the Prius well in advance of others, Musk included, is to demonstrate that their continuous improvement approach doesn't prevent them from making big changes.

I don't know where you get me equating continuous improvement to slowness. Despite your quote marks, I did not use that word.

As to Musk's failure to meet goals, you need look no further than the article up top, which says, "The company has failed to meet any of its production and delivery targets for the Model 3 since its splashy event in July 2017". That isn't a matter of opinion. Musk's ongoing failure to hit his own self-declared goals is a sign of a severe process problem.
For once, let's thank web developers who assume everyone has javascript enabled.
To clarify that a bit -- while the semantics are that erlang can only send messages between processes, what the BEAM actually does under the hood can certainly involve memory sharing, for efficiency reasons. E.g. binaries >64 bytes are stored outside of the individual process heaps, and are just sent as references rather than actually copied (unless sent to a proc on another node in a mesh, of course).

Since everything's immutable, from the programmer's point of view the behaviour is identical to if it was copied, so the sharing is an implementation detail that doesn't affect the semantics.
No. Newspapers would have article conintued on page # that would break up an article. The ads were not within the article/wall of texts themselves. Those ads also didn't break or hinder the the medium through which the text was displayed.
Who in their right mind would decide to hunt around the map to find a specific address?

Anyone who's been given a wrong location or directions by Google Maps. Repeatedly.

Like when Google Maps tells me repeatedly to drive my car through the lobby of a hotel to get from Point A to Point B.

There's plenty of examples of Google Maps screwing up royally and people needing to use Google Maps as an actual map. Just Goog... oh... right.
talk to everyone and take notes
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Curated ecommerce, a CRM like system for stylist, order management, fulfilment and distribution.
Google Maps is also preinstalled on most android phones.
> Apple says its mapping service is now used more than three times as often as its next leading competitor on iPhones and iPads, with more than 5 billion map-related requests each week
factoring in Tsiolkovsky's equations, it seems more like 30mwh, and that is just one person, and just the fuel, not the processing or the preparation or even building a rocket, without any life support, or landing plan.

plus where are you going to send %10 of the population where they will be immune to human nature, whatever that is.