skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Philips isn't exactly an unknown there.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-cartel-crt/eu-imposes-...

https://de.reuters.com/article/uk-eu-court-semiconductors/ph...
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This is a bit of a stretch. The algorithm used today is due to Tukey. Gauss's work was great, but it's not the algorithm used today.

Also, another interesting fact about fourier transforms- in the old days, computing FTs was too expensive, so physicists used lenses- which perform approximate FTs- to decompose signals into spectra.
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Replace it with any other nonsense.

In practice your time guarantee isn't going to let you produce a sound and complete static analysis that proves the equivalence of two arbitrary (modulo termination guarantees) functions.

In the real world all programs have a timeout set to the time to the heat death of the universe. This hasn't helped us make sound and complete static analysis.
Why would the Russian's care if their address was known? They aren't going to be extradited or punished by the Russian government, they may be funded by the government or people very well connected to the government. Not to make it political, but they hacked many of our election systems and didn't even get punished for that.
Be present. That's about the sum total of it I think. If you are there, you will pick up on what is and isn't working, and you can work to make it better.

Really kids just want someone to love them and teach them how to be a person.
Our colleagues at SAP: https://blogs.sap.com/2018/07/24/sap-cloud-platform-an-open-...

Edit - and Red Hat: https://blog.openshift.com/state-of-serverless-in-kubernetes...
What percentage of your networth is considered socially acceptable to spend on preparing for disasters? For a billionaire buying a new zealand vacation home is like most of us spending a couple hundred bucks on, eg a water filter, first aid kit, and non perishable food, standard preparations that FEMA recommends.
So the fish we consume is most probably consuming garbage and plastic. Veganism to the rescue?
Not to derail the conversation or fixate on this element, but being in the right place, spending time outdoors/being active (others have touched on fitness), and having a low-stress lifestyle all make anyone more attractive and provide more opportunities. I was being a bit facetious; "get laid" is more of a placeholder for "create some social bonds and have fun."
"individuals were allowed to grow, learn and create for themselves instead of relying on government."

Individuals are not able to do any of that when they're stuck working 3 jobs just to get by, or when they go bankrupt due to a simple medical procedure.
Not true:

"SPOKANE, Wash. - SWAT raided a Spokane home on heroin warrant. It happened just before 11 am Friday morning at a duplex home on the corner of 4th and Altamont. Details were not immediately known but authorities on scene say they were serving a warrant related to heroin."

http://www.khq.com/story/21437261/swat-situation

How do police obtaining a warrant? In part by establishing probable cause. How is probable cause determined in the US:

"Probable cause can be based on either direct observation by the police officer, or on hearsay information provided by others."
“OK, so 10 out of 10 for style, but minus several million for good thinking, yeah?” - Zaphod Beeblebrox

(Sigh... as this is the Internet I will say here, I'm adding something, not saying it's on the page.)
He’s saying he wouldn’t invest in any company that doesn’t have a daily email blast with the KPIs. But if you already have dashboards for everyone then surely a daily email is a nice to have rather than a need to have.
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Ask HN: When's the time to quit a startup?
I've been working on a startup for about 3 years now. It was a fun idea, gained a bit of traction - nothing major yet, but enough to support us (founders) living comfortably as we tweak the product further.

There are 3 founders, all fairly technical and with similar experience - worked out great at the beginning. We started as a democracy - trying to discuss and plan everything between us. But as time went by I feel those best intentions kind of backfired.

We often couldn't agree on the direction of the product, pricing, marketing and features to develop - which led to heated arguments at times. The bigger problem was that it was seldom resolved - each of the founders pretty much ended up implementing their own idea. We tried addressing this a few times over the years, using different methods/products/solutions to try to plan and structure this. But after some time - things always returned to what they were.

To a point where it stopped being fun for me. I'll go on a vacation and come back to find features implemented that we never discussed or I was against. Or offers being sent out to clients with amended pricing. Meetings are now almost painful for me and I think about it so much that it kind of paralyses me from doing 'real' work.

Have considered quitting before but I poured so much of my time/craft into the product in general that I just didn't want to let go and was always postponing that decision. But I might have no choice - is just not fun any more and I don't see how it could get better in the future.

Anyone with similar experiences? How did you resolve it?

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EDIT: the company is private i.e. bootstrapped and funded by the founders (mostly client work/sales) so no issues with stock/investors. The only value in it is intellectual property (software) - and we anticipated and have a contract in place what happens when a founder leaves the company. No issues there.
> You DO NOT want to go down there.

I don't actually know if this village had sewers or not (I suspect not) but we did see people swimming in the water.
The British Empire was at its peak in 1922 and was largely gone by the 1960s - I think that is actually rather faster than the decline of the Roman Empire!

edit: 1992 to 1922
There are a lot of naysaying in the comments but I think it's a nice write-up and if you are interested in doing something like this I can say for sure it is possible based on my own experience. One of my side projects, https://cmdchallenge.com is setup almost identical. Cloudfront / api gateway / dynamodb and is covered a bit in this blog post https://about.cmdchallenge.com/building-cmdchallenge.html .

My last month's AWS bill (not in the free tier anymore) was only $2.23. For the runner that runs arbitrary shell commands I used to run a t2.micro in AWS but when the free tier expired I moved that over to gcp and I'm burning through their credits. I'm also using gitlab ci/cd to periodically renew the docker instance that runs shell commands.

It only works because there isn't much traffic obviously, and api requests are not made on every page load.
Lots of discussion from when this was first posted on Medium. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17468558
Seems like a very useful library. Any similar libraries for other languages?
Understanding how neural networks actually learn using topological data analysis
Unfortunately the people who should consider breeding less will never consider this. And anyone on HN who is conscientious enough to actually stop reproducing because of this post will probably cause a net loss for society by doing so.
I only know about Germany because it's stated in the manual of my '05 Civic so I guess other countries have adopted it since.
Sorry if it wasn’t clear in my comment, I meant “a lot more” as in “more and more”, not “more than China”. I wasn’t trying to claim that he USA had more electric buses than China (that should have been obvious isn’t the second sentence, but I edited my comment to make it clearer), only that parts of the USA are undergoing an electric bus revolution at the moment also (to counteract parent that said we are just obsessed with oil).
Explain the benefit.
Advice from someone who is a year and a half in: find a volunteer opportunity with the under 3 set, at least weekly, with your partner. The opportunity should include diaper changes and serious interaction with the parents, watching them interact as a triad/dyad with the neonate.

Unless you have had regular interaction with the 0-3 set and how people raise them, you won't know what you're getting into, and you won't have the right perspective.

n.b., I think it is something that can be written down, to a large extent, but you won't find it in the "parenting guide" section, you'd find it in the clinical guide texts for professional nurses and parenting educators.
this is an interesting point and I think is more valid than many teachers (and adults of all flavors) want to admit due to not wanting to accept the enormous responsibility, thanks for sharing!
There could also be mention of the "right" variants e.g. __rmul__ vs. __mul__. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5181320/under-what-circu... gives a rough sketch of what they're about.
Most people reading this are working to encourage it. Social media is funded by advertisers who want you to buy more.
Chrome now marks all unencrypted web sites as ‘not secure’
> Isnt itunes/apple significantly worse in the freedom to choose your software?

Yes they are, and it's upsetting - but, sadly, with apple not being in a monopoly position, not illegal.
Maybe in addition to making cheap electric buses, they could make EBs that don't break down every 20 miles?

Several transit agencies in SoCal purchased Chinese-made EBs on a trial basis. None of them plans to continue to the trials due to the abysmal downtime record and maintenance costs. Instead, they're looking at the more expensive, but far more reliable American and Japanese EBs coming to market in the next year or two.
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I believe that is correct, though LA is a much bigger city than Seattle also.
> Regime change and policing the world isn't our responsibility

I find this to be a really odd statement as its been the USA strategy for almost 70 years.

Does this mean the general sentiment and overall strategy is changing at long last?
Could be also that it says something about mental illness (in particular: anxiety and paranoia) being present on all the rungs of society.
I notice that The things you list are things that can learn online from youtube and video games.

- Geography Now: https://youtu.be/DxxZOsfsIUM

- Crash Course Computer Science: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8dPuuaLjXtNlUrzyH5r6...

- 6.004 EdX: https://www.edx.org/course/computation-structures-part-1-dig...

- Hearts of Iron, Europa Universalis, Sid Meyer’s Pirates, Railroad Tycoon, bunches of kids games teach geography or arithmetic

Whereas there isn’t really a good digital experience you can build to teach brain-management skills... or is there?
My daughter had some friends over to watch a movie, and we had just moved. I had not yet unpacked my speakers, but I had some el-cheapo bookshelf speakers scavenged from a circa 2000 HTIB. I set up just the RLCs and subwoofer, and did some basic equalization.

Nearly every single kid commented on how good the sound was. Several insisted it must be a surround-sound system. As far as I could tell, none of them had ever watched a movie with anything but the speakers built-in to their television.
Thanks! Url changed from https://old.reddit.com/r/macbookpro/comments/91256u/optimal_..., which straight-up copies this.
An unpaid claim is only slightly worse than higher premium. Bank management wants to sleep soundly on that pile of money they're holding.
I think it's called abuse of a dominant position, considering that Google has a quasi-monopoly in search engine in Europe.
Yep. And what about the most obvious? HR. Resumes, cover letters, reference material, etc. Many places don't subscribe to the evil ATS or taleo parser tools and casually open whatever is sent to them with a familiar icon or extension as attachment.
Why shouldn't they? Because it harms competition and because Google is a near-monopoly. That situation gives Google the power to kill competitors, and that's bad for everyone except Google.
"My example of taking 100% of people's money is an extreme example that demonstrates the moral dilemma of taking other people money, regardless of how good the investment is."

No, it's an absolutely ludicrous statement that makes people no longer pay attention to you.
Drivers themselves are pretty cheap and crossover designs are well understood. I wonder why we're not seeing small companies pumping out hifi speakers at reasonable prices. Maybe it has to do with cabinet production at low volume.
Upon rereading what you are saying, I realize I am not disagreeing with you. I am, however, easily triggered by this as an armchair student of math, because I think infinity forms a kind of a trap for amateurs like me. "Actual" infinity is not a member of the reals and it is not necessary to augment the reals to have a functioning real analysis. But you are right that it can be done, it can be added to the reals to form interesting algebraic structures and there are even books on nonstandard analysis that start from here (Elementary Calculus, which I have read part of but not finished).
It looks like people who have power are so used to shirking responsibility that when an actual crisis comes up they don't even seriously consider that they might be able to affect the outcome.
Maybe China's dominance will eventually dispel the myth that government is always bad an ineffective.
What would help is to develop a material that is just as good as plastic (or better), degrades easily and is cheaper as well, and then wait for them to copy. Germany basically did this for solar energy.
>Really? It'd be surprising if they hadn't.

Ding ding ding. PLA Unit 61398, Bureau 121, Unit 8200, Fancy Bear... doesn't surprise me if all of them have any variety of ways into our infrastructure.
I think the point is that people in the UK are mostly happy, healthy and better off in many ways than when there was an actual empire.

That's not true of a lot of places when things 'go south'.
Christ, this topic is rife with misinformation.

Google search is the door to the internet for a majority of the world population.
And then they had the brilliant idea to give their own services prime real estate on this door, thereby completely screwing alternative providers out of the traffic.
Its not about upselling. It is about Google leveraging their effective monopoly as a search engine (in EU, >60%) to unfair advantage in other industries (retail). MS got into same trouble over IE in US as well.
Seems like a really stupid idea when you consider the already mature tech for getting people through tubes- light rail.
uh? I minimize the contact to my teeth, I guess?
I assume they mean 1892. But, I dunno, maybe time travel is a thing, even at the global level. ;)
Do you have a source or paper on the vulnerabilities you're mentioning?
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But before then, weren't property taxes high?
The difference here is that Apple doesn't sell or distribute their MacOS to other PC OEMs and dictate to them with how and what software packages they ought to ship their PCs.

In another word, Apple is free to do whatever it feels like as long as they do it on their own hardware or at Apple retail stores.
Not impressed with your response... it is entirely relevant if the claim about the regulation is that it will reduce smog, but the smog isn't even coming from cars in CA to begin with.

Try thinking a bit harder.
Hi malchow and anothergoogler,

Yup. That would work, but it takes out a couple of things from the original requirements I had:
1. scalability It should be able to stretch especially for bursty traffic situation.
2. I should not have to pay if the app or service is not being used.
> Seems like the alternative is to declare the 3yo liable for the damage

No. That's an alternative (though not a particularly sane one.) The other alternative is to accept that it's not always socially useful to give people someone to sue for every misfortune.
What problem? The problem of being able to mooch off your countrymen?
Meh, everyone has a preferred type of language they find least surprising. To many Ruby is the least surprising, and Matz used "principle of [his] least surprise" as a guiding principle when designing it, but many other people find it enigmatic and confusing. Some people find Haskell the least surprising and most consistent, others say Java is. Every language has caveats and inconsistencies, even Go. Like how Go has generics, but only for two or three built-in types. It seems to be more about the person trying out the language than the language itself.
Ah, come on, that's a bit rich. Seems reasonable (& healthy even...) to be chatting with mom about an exam coming up, then give her a ring when it's over.

Sure, if mom is still supervising, then that's a bit awkward...
If the alternative is the solution that he has, than yes he is saying it worse than nothing. Right now he has nothing implemented. He is comparing it to an imaginary system that doesn't exist (nothing) and saying it's worse.

A billionaire saying systems that many people use and are happy with are bad while not actually using them himself and not actually having a viable afordable alternative is completly obnoxious. Come back and compain about buses Elon when you have actually built a reliable alternative people can use.
Recently I've been fascinated at gap between server providers these days. It seems each provider is either:

- Enterprise public cloud, AWS/GCP/Azure, expensive but scalable and enterprise friendly

- Developer public cloud, Linode/DO, cheap and easy to use

Although I say that AWS/GCP/etc are expensive, they obviously have negotiable prices for large customers. I doubt the smaller providers do that.

But it makes me wonder why people use AWS/GCP when the other providers are so much cheaper. How do Linode/DO offer such good prices? Would they kick me off if I actually maximized the server capacity they offer, like a shared cPanel host would do, back in the day?
Human nature being what it is, it's inevitable. Making it about personal responsibility to recycle and dispose tidily is guaranteeing a tragedy of the commons. This frees manufacturers to create ever more packaging crap and chase an extra fraction of a cent.

Only way to stop it is to go back to packaging that decomposes or is inert like glass which soon loses the sharp edges.
> [It] is just not fun any more and I don't see how it could get better in the future.

There is your answer.
In 1996 IBM made a system that was better than any person at playing chess. Chess has roughly 400 moves possible at any point.

In 2016 Google made a system that was better at any person at playing Go. Go has roughly 130,000 moves possible at any point. That's approximately equal to 400 * 2^9.

Moore's law states that the number of transistors (which is a proxy for computing power) in CPUs doubles every year. 2016 - 1996 = 20 years of computing power growth.

In short, after our computing power has increased roughly by a factor of 2 ^ 20 someone made a system that plays a game that's 2 ^ 9 time more complicated than chess. Why is this seen as some giant, surprising leap forward?
Leptospirosis is the reason people are trained from childhood to require drinking straws in many parts of Asia. Rats piss on bottles and cans, and the bacteria their urine contains kept alive due to the ice used to keep them cold. So if you refuse the straw while on holiday, remember it is flu like symptoms with a high chance of death.
nice salacious hot take. knowing the author and having followed the development as it happened, I can attest to his sincerity. your assertion is just plain wrong.
Glad to hear. When I was a kid the doc prescribed T3s since normal Tylenol wasn't working. I wish we would have tried other fixes first because T3s barely helped. They would just make me high and didn't solve the underlying problem.
I think this is a big part of the problem. That the 1% has become so insanely wealthy that they believe it is less expensive to prepare for the end of the world rather than take on some the cost of preventing it. Their belief that it would be better to start over with a small population (the 1% themselves, obvs) then to work to improve the world as it currently stands. And, of course, the naive belief that they can make plans robust enough they might somehow survive "The Event".
The UK healthcare system is in danger of collapse because it has been slowly starved of the income it needs to operate effectively, by a government which is idealogically opposed to its existance and whose members generally stand to gain substantially from privatising it.
Because it's not a Go project, it's a Google project[1]. It's like Apple posting new iOS features on the Swift blog, e.g.

[1] https://github.com/google/go-cloud
duplicate, please check before submitting:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17587952

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17594361
Ask HN: Status of “self-driving” vehicles for mostly *highway* driving?
Five to six times a year, I drive 800 miles round-trip to my childhood home. 99% of this route is effectively a straight line. Every time I drive this route, I think to myself, "Shit, I'm not even that great an engineer, and I could automate this," and proceed to loathe the remainder of the drive. What are my options for automating this portion of the drive?

I am a big believer in the idea of automating this "boring" 99%, and re-engaging a human for the remaining, much-more-difficult 1%.
The thing is; there won't be a "the Event" there will only be a long emergency and it's already in progress. Systems won't fail all at once and new temporary systems will be built as things change.

But if these fools think that that they will be able to keep their power and influence by doing the same things that made them wealthy they will be an amusing and schadenfreude inducing sideshow that most people will barely notice because they're too busy figuring out how to beat the heat.

The way to survive the transitions we are facing now is not to use today's wealth and influence to make yourself a warlord of a post-apocalyptic desert. It's to build cooperative societies that can make deserts bloom in difficult places and provide shelter from the storms to come. You cannot expect to maintain effective technologically adept societies by fear and coercion. You must be able to offer hope and inspiration if you want assistance of any level of cognitive complexity.
What a company is actually doing it not "that" relevant in that case.

Is it much more related to the fact they already have a quasi monopoly on one domain, and they leverage it to acquire more power or market share in another area.
Can you do functional programming in any language?
Palm Beach, Coral Gables, Naples, etc.
Cobra Effect
The hackers teaching old DNA sequencers new tricks
In a country where SWATTING is a thing, I would not be so sure.