skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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I will watch that video later and get back to you. I understand what they did. I'm not saying that what they did was right, simply that it wasn't fraud. My point being that if the test is already deceptive for true vehicle emissions (laboratory settings, very particular configurations, etc.) then the test itself is the problem. If we flip the script and say that a car fails the emissions testing but is in reality the cleanest car, is it not "fraudulent" to label this car as dirty?
> unless you want to waste most of your FPGA on a soft core

Huh?

As an exercise in FPGA stuff, I decided to use PicoRV32 on a small MAX10 8k FPGA. The core itself consumes easily under a quarter of the logic blocks.
Lime doesn't require you to pay in bundles. There have been some days where I've seen more Limes around than Birds.
> Isnt the entire purpose validation of data?

No. Digital signatures are for validating the data (who said what). The whole
purpose of blockchain is to tell who said what when. Document timestamping,
in other words. There were previous attempts at solving this problem, though
they needed a trusted third party.

> Services, Products, and Leadership is still needed, blockchain ONLY decentralizes the validation.

No, it does not decentralize validation. It decentralizes assigning
timestamps to documents.

> Will blockchain allow any sort of revolution to happen?

Doubtful, given the previous timestamping protocols haven't brought about any
revolution.

> Or is it an expensive way to write to a database?

If you try to use it as a database, of course it will be expensive and
unwieldy. Blockchain is a service not designed to work as a database. It was
a document timestamping service from the day 1.
For starters I would try to make a hologram. Once you can do that you can expand into photonics, it means that at least your basic understanding of setup and things like interference and stability are taken care of.
You are making the common mistake of confounding essential complexity with accidental complexity. One you are stuck managing and one you can eliminate with skill. The world isn't getting less complex just because you work harder on your software.
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They're a sibling company to Google, not under Google's umbrella directly.

https://www.sidewalklabs.com/
Get a credit freeze at all the services. That's a first-line defense.
So Google doesn't even have enough patience to grow a fiber internet business, but it has the patience to build a whole city and then support it for decades?

That's a real problem with Google. They lack follow-through outside their core business area. Their ISP projects, both fiber and wireless, ended after a few prototype neighborhood installations. Their robotics projects went nowhere. They bought Motorola and trashed it. City infrastructure has to be maintained for centuries. Google lacks that capability.
I live in Toronto.

The problem with companies like Alphabet / Google / Sidewalk Labs building mini-cities is twofold.

First, they lack the internal focus so they flake or sacrifice on things that no sane singular focussed entity would. For example Craig Nevill-Manning, head of Sidewalk Labs flaked on his talk at The Walrus' 15th year anniversary party titled The Walrus Talks The Future. This was a paid event, full of Canadian cultural elites, specifically aimed at talking about the future. "When someone shows you who they are believe them." If they cared about what we thought they would actually engage the people here that care.

Second, they try to leverage existing internal competencies. Completely understandable, but it warps the outcome to solution mixes that aren't necessarily optimal for the people actually living in the city. When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. I don't want to live in a city where a techno-hammer international corporation has hammered its copentenczies here and there. I want to live in a human city where little decisions are made by little people. I want to live in a city where flowers hang from windows and where theres little bike paths and a nice mix of trees. Cobblestone streets. Community gardens and little shops and restaurants. Some Chinese, some French, some Italian.

I'm not saying Google is necessary going to fuck up that area of Toronto. It might be great. But it's such a large project that I worry that it risks being another CityPlace. A soulless pocket mark on a diverse and increasingly interesting city.
Too vague of description. I have no idea what you are trying to build.

What are you trying to automate? Model building? If so are you trying to make it easy for a business operations person to build their own models without help from a data scientist? Or are you trying to automate the conversion of models into production workflows that integrate with other enterprise applications? That is data engineering.

What are you trying to optimize? My time in doing analysis? Trying to guide analysis down useful paths and eliminate dead ends with features that are not actually helpful?

What do you include in your domain of data science? Sometimes people reduce it to neural networks deep learning architectures. Others include all types of statistical learning. Others include NLP. While others might focus on IoT of time series analysis. At least in part tools are tied to the specific subset of the data science domain that a person is working within.
IdeaVIM is not good. I have tried it and for me it just pales in comparison to just vim. I can get all my IDE features in vim anyways.

I don't use java though, so maybe that would be different if I where using Java.
It wouldn't be too difficult for cities to create designated 'parking spots' for scooters. Or require that they must be next to a bike rack. The apps all require you to take a picture of the scooter after parking, so it would be pretty easy to verify if someone moved it after the fact.
The capital stock of Mexico is estimated at $6.5T (2011 dollars, 2014 estimate)[1]. This is probably a better point of comparison.

[1]: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/RKNANPMXA666NRUG
You might want to have a look at lowRISC. https://www.lowrisc.org
> A proof of replicated storage guarantees that, unless the server is indeed reserving the space necessary to store the n
n
copies of the file, the user will not accept the proof.

> While some candidate proofs of replicated storage have already been proposed, their soundness relies on timing assumptions i.e., the user must reject the proof if the prover does not reply within a certain time-bound.

> In this paper we provide the first construction of a proof of replication which does not rely on any timing assumptions.
We'll see how that works out for them.
Google uses OKRs (they took it from Intel). Not sure why I'm being downvoted

http://www.businessinsider.com/googles-ranking-system-okr-20...
It is eerie how much that rendering looks like the city from Logan's Run.

And as interesting as it is to imagine the city of the future, it is disquieting to think of it being designed to minimize the friction of monetizing the residents. But we know the best data comes from happy data cows.
Its not a bigger point. If it was, they wouldn't have written the headline to deliberately mislead away from that fact.
One way to compare would be to say that all of Norway could earn as much money, just sitting on ass all day, every day, as 3% (safe withdrawal rate) of Mexico, working 43 hours a week (actual stat from OECD).

Alternately, compare to a country with lower GDP.

"Norway (5.3M people) makes as much sitting on its investments as Latvia (2M people) earns working 36.5 hours per week."

This has the advantage of comparing a Scandinavian country with a Baltic nation, with cultural and geographic proximity.
One day, you come back to your apartment. It's locked, and won't accept your AUTHENTICATION_METHOD. (Your technocrat landlords despise plain old metal keys to open doors. What are you, a peasant?) There's a note on the door saying that you've violated the terms of service and that your account has been terminated. You're locked away from all your stuff! You try to get some answers from the robot downstairs, but it's unsympathetic to your situation, and it won't listen to an unperson.
clojuredocs[0] has some good examples. I more often use when-some or if-some over when-let or if-let, mainly because I'm processing over collections and I want to do something to the result only if the collection isn't empty (and the function I want to call doesn't like being called with nils or empty collections).

Ultimately it's a convenience macro. Saves you a nesting level.

[0]: https://clojuredocs.org/clojure.core/when-let
> "Misappropriating company information" isn't a great justification because insider trading is still illegal even if a company explicitly allowed employees to trade on nonpublic information.

I can't think of a reason why it would ever be in shareholders' interests to allow insider trading. If a company did ever allow it, it would likely either be a case of company officers misappropriating information from shareholders or a case of majority shareholders misappropriating information from minority shareholders.
Happy to answer questions about the post here for the next couple of hours.
BitTorrent and Napster is what made me think that
It's equivalent to finding cars parked on the curb, in streams, or upside down in someone's yard.
I'm sure they pay that.

https://www.npr.org/2018/07/06/626683457/judge-orders-chines...
WTF does "toxic culture" even mean, other than clickbait?

Some people seems to use this as meaning "anti-social" or "excessively aggressive" but the word only appears in the article as "toxic fixation on margins" where it's equivalent to "harmful".

The gist of the article seems to be that Intel lost in the mobile space because it refused to chase opportunities with lower margins. But decisions regarding such deals are made by a small handful of people at the top, the "culture" of the rest of the organization is irrelevant.
It would be nice if you could back-up any of your claims with some supporting information.

If that were the case, why wouldn't the world's premier warfighting nation instead be creating such a project, graft and all, instead?

Perhaps the answer is that the F-35 still fulfills a very real, very important role and that all of the FUD around it is just that. FUD.
And the UK spent its oil wealth on tax cuts...now the oil has gone and retired people are richer. Woop
I got used to the bike shares in Seattle and I've never heard anyone really complain except initially when the city was getting used to them. Lime E-bike's are everywhere and are actually useful here. They stay pretty clear of walking paths.
How to Analyze Patient Readmission with SQL Part 3
Maker of Donut County is shocked when a free knock-off beats him to the market
Nobody said anything similar to "pro-abortion-in-all-circumstances" except you. I never assumed anything, simply pointed out the reality the many people who are claiming "pro-life" or "basic humanity" seem to be using that as a shield and do not practice it in other forms.

It's ironic how you want me to accept your nuance, but you eliminate any nuance from my perspective. It speaks to how you view your opinions versus other's opinions.
AMD Zen-Based Hygon Dhyana CPUs Start to Appear
The typical way to extract power from exhaust gas heat is to add a turbo.
I have a simple Hugo blog at https://alexanderellis.github.io/blog/. I write some about software, but I really enjoy writing about non-software things like user experience in general, design, how things work, etc. Recently I had a post on how a spray bottle works get pretty popular here (front page for a couple of days) which was fun!
Ugh! After so many years, I now have to view a white-themed internet again. I forgot how painful and blindy websites are!

Pls redesign the whole internet to be dark themed, so we dont need add ons like this to fix the world. Thanks!
But that is the same thing, which isn't the case in the article.
"it'll be phenomenal, half-finished and then abandoned as engineers/leaders get bored and work on the next big thing"

You have just described every project at every large software company. However, important to note that usually "phenomenal" is an idea driven by all the non-engineer stakeholders.
My point is that the system you outline doesn’t work, because ordinary drivers can’t check their own emissions. It would be fine for fuel consumption since that’s easily measured, but emissions requires special equipment and careful testing.
The progesterone finding is particularly interesting. I wonder if it's common in the US to prescribe progesterone before 14 weeks gestation.
Faire enough, thanks for clarifying it.

The linked story is actually quite interesting.
I honestly think those pseudo-pedants didn't actually read or understand the article they just want to sound like they are intelligent so they found some detail to nitpick.
When they're actually parked in those spots. But the issue is idling cars (Ubers) taking up spots in the lane because they're waiting on people/don't want to leave a good pickup zone. I see it all the time in Seattle and it's made traffic significantly worse, particularly around Cap Hill. I see the bus drivers honk at them to get out of the bus stops at least once a week.
More like 20 to 30 in recent years (or even more if you look at indexes of smaller companies such as the Russell 2000)
I'm not sure if the author understands the word's context or usage; the article also links to "Intel's toxic fixation on margins" but nowhere on the target page does the word toxic appear.
The money quote for me:

> The rest of the paper is an excellent analysis for why Lisp lost out to C as a programming language, even though Lisp was a superior language. Or at least superior on the grounds that Dick found most important. But this doesn't necessarily show that Lisp was in fact superior to C; it can just as easily be taken to show that the metrics that were cited in the article were not the ones that were taken to be most important by those choosing a programming language. The fact that C produced faster code, was easier to master, was easier to use in groups, and ran well on less expensive hardware were not considerations that Gabriel found important. But others did. On those metrics, the dominance of C as a programming language was an example of better is better, not worse is better.

I think the problem is that some people thought "better" was defined as "more elegant design". And that wasn't the metric of "better" that mattered in the real world.
Caustic indifference to newsworthy events on the national scale is not something people should be bragging about IMO.

Trump is Trump. He's the President of the USA now. We should give him the proper respect that his office demands. In his hands lie the future of the North Korean / USA relations, US / China relations, the Supreme Court (which lies the future of Roe vs Wade, Citizens United, and other such cases decided by the court). US Border policy (at least for the next few years), etc. etc. A wide variety of issues that determine the future of this country.

Its one thing to deeply care about the future of the country, be it on the left or right side. But its another thing to simply not care about it and laugh it off.
The term 'toxic culture' is mostly used to describe widespread harassment and bullying. 'Ossified' or 'stagnant' are more apt terms for a company that can't seem to seize new opportunities.

The thing about margins is that it's a lot more fun to work in a division with high margins. Low margin businesses are grim, because every cost matters. When you can charge $5000 for the latest Xeon, you can pay high salaries and have fat travel budgets. So it's hard to get people used to working on high-margin divisions to move into a new low-margin division, even if it might eventually be bigger.
Google has more POPs, search clusters everywhere, etc. I was going to say that they also use QUIC, but the poster mentions using Firefox, which I don't think supports it yet.
For those who don't know, Sebastian Ruder is a coauthor of the ULMFiT paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.06146
Smalltalk UIs used a pattern called dependency propagation to make objects update themselves based on system wide notifications.

Similar idea was used on Oberon System 3 Gadgets toolkit.

Also java.util.Observable based on the same Smalltalk ideas was already part of Java 1.0.
Rust and actix-web in the on of the biggest music festival Atlas Weekend
I've only been lurking a short while, but Ive been finding WSJ to be relatively unreliable.
I was going to make a joke about tech ageism and Logan’s Run here, until seeing your comment that the rendering actually resembles it. Creepy.
Snapchat is working on a feature that can find products you snap on Amazon
Serving Donald Trump: hard pass.
>Money, or its lack, doesn’t cause a financial collapse, human folly does; the numbers simply follow

iow, the symptom should not be confused with the cause.
Corporate structure technicality. The DNA of the company will still be the same.
How about the "Austria-Serbia war of 1914-1918"?
Paul Graham called these "anaphoric" macros in On LISP.
Boeing, General Atomics, and Lockheed Martin probably have more talented people in that domain. Google doesn't have any sort of special capabilities.
It required me to after my second ride. I went to rent another scooter, and it forced me to load a balance onto my account first. I would have just switched to Bird at that point, but there were no scooters nearby.
> [mammals] and chordata in general are highly diverse

Yes but we’re speaking of adaptability on the level of species. And the more specialised a species is to an environment, the higher its investment (in terms of some vague “evolvability resource”, which we might naïvely equate with number of mutations) in one particular strategy. This pays off as long as the ecological niche exists. Changes to that niche may require (relatively) fast adaptive changes, and these are in principle easier for generalists than for specialists. This isn’t a hard and fast rule, of course, but it seems to be a robust general principle. It’s therefore not correct to say that

> Specialization and [adaptability] are two sides of the same coin

Adaptability describes the ability of a species to adapt to new conditions; specialisation describes the state after adaptation has happened. Roughly, a highly adaptable species is a generalist whereas a highly specialised species is, well, a specialist: in this sense, the terms are (at least to some extent) opposites.
Yup. It's just a cult though.
True. And I hope we're moving away from that.
I'm not sure that CryTek have the moral high ground here as you seem to suggest.

CIG have moved to Lumberyard, a tech based on CryEngine, so lines of similar looking code are seemingly expected.

And the license was negotiated for a single game, not two as StarCitizen now is, but this would seem to be negated by the fact that these games are no-longer using CryEngine.

On the subject of CIG passing back engine improvements or not to CryEngine, I don't know.
How long till EYPK chips show up on AliExpress?
> What’s a example of these macros being used usefully?

Sure, here are a couple examples I found from grepping my src directory.

roguelikelike game I made for a game jam: https://github.com/sjl/vintage/blob/master/src/main.lisp#L19...

prolog compiler: https://github.com/sjl/temperance/blob/master/src/compiler/3...

cl port of robotfindskitten: https://github.com/sjl/sattyrday/blob/master/src/002-afk/mai...

generative art lib: https://github.com/sjl/flax/blob/master/src/drawing/api.lisp... https://github.com/sjl/flax/blob/master/src/looms/004-turtle...

There are plenty of other things that use various versions of these macros too. ASDF uses them all over the place. And of course Clojure code uses their versions. A Github search for when-let and if-let will give a lot of examples (though you have to wade through all the import matches... unfortunately Github search doesn't let you search for literal strings like "when-let (" to exclude those).

> Why not use `if` and `when` directly?

Convenience, especially when you have multiple in a row:

(when-let ((a (foo))
(b (bar))
(c (baz)))
(blah a b c))
; =>
(let ((a (foo)))
(when a
(let ((b (bar)))
(when b
(let ((c (baz)))
(when c
(blah a b c)))))))

> Is creating new names for variables — which is what `if-let` and `when-let` seems to contribute — that common of a pattern?

I'm not sure what "new names for variables" means here. `let` (and these convenience macros) defines local variables. People create local variables for things pretty often.
Sadly this stock/flow confusion is rampant in economic thinking...
Given the tremendous quantity of illegal explosives and fiery flying projectiles (fireworks and skyrockets) discharged in suburban streets over the last week in my fire-prone, drought challenged US city, one might conclude that the US doesn't have a very strong government either.
> The data from such systems would feed back into the city, which would constantly learn, optimizing its own operations from month to month, year to year.

All so we can better extract a profit from our u̶s̶e̶r̶s̶ citizens.
The Fords (when Rob was mayor) attempted to forcibly take the land from the Provincial and Federal governments (by way of their investment in Waterfront Toronto—the company working with Sidewalk Labs on this project). The Provincial government at the time continually blocked them out. Now Ford is premier. It's unknown if he'll set his eyes back on his grand plan.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17492065
You just gave a non-answer to try to avoid answering it. Public agencies such as the CIA are politically armoured against any attempt to get rid of it. These organizations aren't accountable nor are they at the service of the US congress.
I love strong regulations that try to reduce or eliminate negative externalities (like pollution and toxic waste), especially when the cost of the those externalities are collected at the point of purchase. They aren't very popular though. When we try things like a sugar tax to reduce the $$$ billions a year that diabetes costs us, people starting screaming about nanny state and their freedom.

I'm not sure how we would require products be durable though? Who would be Czar of how durable things must be? Seems like that person would have a huge amount of power over which industries are profitable and by how much. I'm open to ideas though.
It's not that people are shielding Musk, it's that they are pointing out inaccurate reportings. It just so happens that the ones most informed are...the fans. Oops. Journalists should be more careful, they're starting to look pretty stupid.
The current Norwegian Government is doing pretty much the same...
Little bit disappointing. Instead of 10 parts of bitumen, it requires use 9 parts of bitumen and 1 part of plastic. Add to that the heating of plastic to a tight upper bound lest it releases toxic fumes.
If it's not simple, it might be incorrect and you'd never know until it bites you.