skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> given that computers already are used to match passengers and route cars, I'm not clear on why we would expect a drastic increase

It depends on what the denominator is.

If it's only the time between when a driver/auto-car "accepts" the ride and the end of the ride, there's little reason [1] to expect a drastic increase.

However, if the denominator is the total time the driver is "on duty", which is, I believe, what is generally used to calculate rideshare drivers' effective hourly compensation, then my original point stands. That is, an auto-car can be "on duty" even while just sitting in storage.

The current algorithm also doesn't tell rideshare drivers where to be while on duty, only routing them once a ride is requested. In the auto-car scenario, the computer has complete control, so a predictive algorithm could increase utilization, even if the denominator is time-in-motion.

Whether any increase would be drastic is debatable, but there's opportunity for something.

[1] Currently, the computer routing algorithm has an incentive to optimize for time at the expense of distance (since it's the driver who bears the expense of the unbilled distance, AFAIK). In the case of an auto-car, that perverse incentive would be absent, but I don't expect the difference to be huge.
I've never had, or heard of this been a problem with the iPhone X, and I know plenty of people who use it with a case or without a case.
Much of the problems with Vista weren't actually Microsoft's fault.

A huge portion of the performance and instability issues were due to poor driver support. Vista was a major jump forward from XP, and in many cases the drivers needed to be significantly updated to handle this - and a huge amount of work that needed to happen to handle this, simply didn't occur. Microsoft aggressively pushed for drivers to be updated, and a lot of manufacturer's just didn't listen.

The other half of it was more than half a decade had occurred in between. Resource requirements went up for the OS - this isn't unexpected, and you can see the same between any 5 year jump in most every other OS. Trying to run Vista on a system specced for XP wasn't a great experience, especially when coupled with all of the driver issues.

By the time 7 had come out, Vista was more than fine. The drivers had been updated, people were using machines with more RAM and faster processors. If they had just skipped Vista and released 7, we would have seen the exact same issues - people would still be buying machines with XP specs in mind, hardware manufacturers would have had a shit story on drivers, and we would be talking about how 7 should have been called 8 beta.

I'm a *nix guy so I have plenty of personal bias against Microsoft for a wide variety of reasons and on a wide variety of subjects - but most of the hate for Vista never should have been directed at Microsoft. I've always had a Windows desktop for gaming, even though the vast majority of my time is spend using a Mac laptop or SSH'ed into Solaris or Linux servers, and I've run every version of Windows since 3.1 - Vista, itself, was fine. It was certainly no ME.
I heard they cancelled it, but in all honesty, they did something that every one caught up on, including Apple I think, the notch! And they even did it right. I think they should get to release another device, this time just pricing it right would probably help them get a better market hold. PH-1, is amazing because of the updates!
While I can see the need for DIDs somewhat, I feel like content-addressing documents fits the decentralization paradigm much better when it comes to a lot of types of data.

While it doesn't have all the properties of DIDs, it has the most important ones, and comes with some other nice ones (automatic deduplication).
Yeah, all good points, although sometimes one just needs to export a file or two (as opposed to setting up a publishing workflow or a system).

And Compressor for Final Cut Pro X or Adobe Media Encoder CC for Premiere Pro CC are effectively integrated (or some of the export code) for such a function - or are launched via the apps when you ‘Export’ or ‘Share’, although this can depend upon your CC plan or whether you have purchased/installed Compressor, or not.

The ‘crushing the HDR’ is a good point, I’ll have to look up how this codec handles DR and colour gamet :)
The requirement for publishing in a scientific journalshould be opensourcing all the code used.

You can't expect the results to be reproductible 20 years later otherways.
I have not used Alexa, but in the past I have used Subscribe & Save to auto-order consumables. I found that even ordering consumables was a pain as products were constantly being discontinued in favor of a "new and improved" version (e.g. new packaging), or running out of stock, or the price would change drastically, etc. At the end of the day I probably spent more time worrying about and managing my subscriptions than if I just opened up my laptop or phone and placed a brand new order. As a price-conscious consumer I feel like I would have the same experience with Alexa.

At least with Subscribe & Save the 15% discount made it almost worthwhile.
They sound like an accessibility nightmare.

Imagine an old person or someone with movement issues not quite making the transition between the slower and high-speed bands. They’d end up as sort of human bowling ball, knocking down other passengers like skittles.

Similar thing happened to me on a crowded escalator at London Bridge tube station. Was about half way up when an old guy in front toppled back onto me. Thankfully I’d noticed he looked unsteady and managed to catch him under his armpits, otherwise we’d all have ended up in a heap at the bottom.

I didn’t have the leverage to get him upright, so we stayed with me holding him until we reached the top. His shoes hit the metal plate at the end and I flipped him to his feet.

We then gave each other a nod and went about our business.
There is an interesting paper on using DID in combination with ActivityPub [0] presented in the 'Rebooting the Web-of-Trust' [1] event in Fall 2017.

> ActivityPub implementations at the present moment rely on HTTPS as their transport, which in turn relies on two centralized systems: DNS and SSL certificate authorities. Is there any way to bring self-sovereignty to the federated social web?

> Thankfully there is; ActivityPub was written intentionally to be layerable on any protocol that can support HTTP GET and POST verbs. The Decentralized Identifiers specification looks to be a good fit for ActivityPub.

[..]

> Here we see an example of Alyssa's profile that is entirely free of traditional centralized DNS authorities. We were able to look up Alyssa's object via her DID, but we still have access to all her endpoints, which in this case are pointing to Tor Hidden Services. No central DNS required!

[0] https://github.com/WebOfTrustInfo/rebooting-the-web-of-trust...

[1] http://www.weboftrust.info/
Or, you know, you can just PWM them rather than having them going at full blast.
My Journey Through Open Source
Is it better to get the correct answers 25% slower, or incorrect answers at 100% speed?

How do you do science if you can't repeat experiments?
So, it takes the DoD about a month to write such a simple memo? Was there a preliminary “while we investigate this, turn it off” memo? If not, how, how does that compare to other countries?
> I think this is all premised on the belief that American corporations somehow have the moral obligation (and right) to change the way things in a different country work.

> China has its own functioning tech ecosystem, so entrant companies need to play by its rules if they want to make a profit there. Period.

Nazi Germany also had "its own functioning tech ecosystem". So did Stalin and Mao's even more murderous regimes.

Moral obligations don't stop at borders.
The Challenges of Off-Shore Oil Extraction in Guyana
“Finder” Founder Wants to Launch Crypto Bank of Australia
> You use it wrong

Self-deprecating humor ?

https://www.engadget.com/2010/06/24/apple-responds-over-ipho...
The fact that the subreddit is called r/linux instead of r/gnulinux is a major turnoff to emacs users.
For comparison, on London Underground the escalators are refurbished every 20 years, and replaced every 40 years.

https://tfl.gov.uk/campaign/tube-improvements/behind-the-sce...
My impression is that when rich and powerful people talk about "the dangers of AI" what they really mean is "the dangers of AI (to me when it's not controlled by me)"
> Also it can't be denied that vim is the hipster editor, used by the same kind of people that use reddit

/r/vim subscribers: 54,406

/r/emacs subscribers: 22,701

If anything it seems like emacs users are over represented on reddit :)
China develops new VTOL UAV
Japan, the criminal has kept crying for the penalty it suffered all through these years through artful ways: cartoons, music, women, children, and now VR.

Can it cover the criminals it had done? NO!
> Also it can't be denied that vim is the hipster editor, used by the same kind of people that use reddit.

I'll deny it. I doubt there is any kernel of truth to that sentence at all.

~ Emacs user who frequents Reddit

(though not the tech subreddits because I get enough of that stuff here)
I largely agree; although I ‘fear’ that the regulation will take the form of the competition authorities rather than say, a communications authority (FCC in the USA [1], ACMA in Australia, relevant bodies in European nations). Why such a ‘fear’? Because it is the wrong way to regulate in my opinion and proves that the ‘horse’ has bolted.

I can’t remember the source but I recently read that Facechook has a PR team of 1,100 (WTF?!) and that even The Zuck (™ pending!) has a personal media team of 15-20 making him look like a Saint. Spoilers: outside of HN and many tech sites, it’s working - even in the light of Cambridge Analytica, et al.

The real issue stems from the fact that very few elected Politicians or Technocrats understand technology and its implications, OR, are too fearful to attack the FANGs as they are very powerful, OR are susceptible to soft propaganda efforts; otherwise known as lobbyists.

It’s clear to me at least that an unregulated Facebook is a potential danger in many parts of the world: USA elections, Myanmar, etc. It obviously has great utility too - hence its absolute success - but the days when Google, Apple, Facechook, et al, say they are not media companies are hopefully in the past.

[1] although not under the current FCC regime!
Don't forget the dose of radiation for millions of travelers from those scanners. 20 years later thousands of people die of cancer and fucking idiots can't explain why.
Relatedly, the emacs users I’ve met were 10+ years older than me (so far).

Also, a huge number of other editors have vim keybindings as an option or plugin: intellij, eclipse, visual studio - the list goes on forever...
In from the Cold: State media gives Google conditional welcome in China
> What does it even mean

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reproducibility#Reproducible_r...

The term reproducible research refers to the idea that the ultimate product of academic research is the paper along with the laboratory notebooks [12] and full computational environment used to produce the results in the paper such as the code, data, etc. that can be used to reproduce the results and create new work based on the research.[13][14][15][16][17] Typical examples of reproducible research comprise compendia of data, code and text files, often organised around an R Markdown source document[18] or a Jupyter notebook.[19]

> abstract numerical disciplines

Could you give an example of a non-numerical science?
I was going to ask, I don't own any Alexa devices, so I was wondering about discoverability of products. Amazons product search is notoriously bad and subject to hijacking by creative sellers, so how is it even possible to order anything using Alexa?
Very difficult to do with free software and completely irrelevant really. At some point in your life it's OK to accept that you're the weird one. We're the weird ones. Donald Knuth, Richard Stallman, Guido van Rossum, Rich Hickey et al are the weird ones. I don't know why emacs is such a barrier to everyone else or why vim is so attractive. But I don't understand most other humans about most things.
Apologies about the tongue-in-cheek prefix. Couldn't help myself.
LEDs just got more and more efficient. Even driving them with tiny currents produces bright light nowadays.

Yes. A flashlight today is one chip LED and a "do not stare into beam" warning.
In my opinion, Android should focus in quality/stability and UI responsiveness. E.g. it blows my mind that Nokia N900 (2009, Maemo Linux) was, in some cases, way more responsive in the UI than current Android running in hardware 20x faster.
Completely anecdotally as well, all 3 emacs users that I know are the most brilliant developers that I know.
I must be missing something here.

Every hardware store we go to here (Thailand) has LED lights (in all forms - flood lights, 'tubes', screw-in globes, even the flexible strip-lighting for hidden lighting) in at least two and usually three 'temperatures'. From most to least 'blue', they are "Daylight", "Cool White" and "Warm White". No price difference.

So, is this whole article basically just a rant because nobody this guy knows ever buys "warm white" bulbs?
Yes, great article. Many people today like to say there is only one kind of good football (soccer for the Americans), that is free flowing, attacking football. I dont think so, I think the best game is the one that goes according to the manager's plan.

A good example is Manchester United's Jose Mourinho, who despite being criticized for being too defensive, I think he organizes his teams to counter the strengths of the opposite team and exploit their weaknesses, which, in my opinion is the way to go.
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And if you keep going back, TECO (like QED) can be traced back (via ports, rewrites, shared authors, etc) to the PDP 1 and Colossal Typewriter. All those histories are intertwingled back then.
Except that EU has been doing it's job since the 90s and China has been doing it as well in recent years. They both slipped the last 12 months and a lot of it, at least in Europe is combination of side-effects of the post-Fukushima nuclear scare and increase in greeny renewables (like solar and wind) that actually cause more methane and coal to burn because they cannot work as reliable base supply.
This is also an older benchmark. I'd be curious to see this used against postgresql 11; there have been massive speed increases in 10 and now 11.

One of the most interesting things is you can shard postgres extremely easily now by using FDWs which can do native pushdown of optimizations.

Also, Citus itself has been improving in that time, and I'm curious to see how that performs.
I completely agree with you. But all these signs of MoviePass altering their offering again and again just points to them being headless and in "survival mode", trying to find anything that can keep them afloat. From the outside, it just seems like it's not profitable at all to let subscribers pay $10 and give them $33 of value (earlier it was a lot more for some outliers) back. That just can't work longterm. I wonder what their longterm goals look like, how are they going to make their money back? What's the plan for that?
Just what’s happened to our neighborhood’s most violent star, η Carinae?
Google is welcome to return to the mainland, but it must comply with Chinese law
The science of food security
Covering for ElsaGate while patting each other on the back. Fantastic.
IMINT measuring numbers of cars in parking lots for major military bases and other nations' Intel agencies is a very old, tried and true method. Correlate vehicle count with unusual times of day or active crises.
> Moving slowly enough for whom to step off? The 90 year old lady with a walker? The toddler? Stephen Hawking in his wheelchair?

Why not? Don't they use moving floors on airports already? (Also, do toddlers walk alone on the busy streets?)

Here's a design I just sketched in Factorio for a belt system with 3 speed levels, and an entry/exit for moving onto the belt system, and then between speed levels.

https://imgur.com/c51pTnP

(For those who don't know Factorio - the blue belts are the fastest, the yellow ones are the slowest.)
Luckily, claims like this should be easy enough to prove :)
ISPs’ listed speeds drop up to 41% after UK requires accurate advertising
Taken to its logical extreme, Google "Janet flight".
Ubuntu 18.04 has a night mode built into the gnome shell. It works really well, allowing a complete removal of blue.

But neither of these has any point if you have blue light bleeding through from the LED backlight of the LCD screen. The most complete solution is OLED and a screen temperature adjustment like this.
#HP releases firmware updates for two critical #RCE flaws in Inkjet #Printers
I started to appreciate stand-up comedy a lot more after realizing just how much effort goes into delivery. It's almost uncanny to watch a comedian perform the same routine twice, because their timing is so consistent.

Here's a good breakdown of a Louis CK joke: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufdvYrTeTuU

Jerry Seinfeld also gave an interview with the NYT about the process — I think Jerry is a good example because so much of his comedy depends on the delivery.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itWxXyCfW5s
Someone else mentioned USB cables and I don't think I would trust even that to Alexa. "Alexa. Order me the cheapest 1.5m USB cables which isn't of questionable quality, but keep it below $5."
* Database abstraction, we need database that maps to real world objects more naturally. Just look at existing relational schema, we end up with tons of cryptic table names etc. Please check http://shujutech.mywire.org/corporation?goto=ormj
Or maybe vim is massively over represented in those other polls. Lots of people claim to use it. Few customise and really live with it and thus are not likely to subscribe to a subreddit about it. I know "vim users" that actually use pycharm with vim keybindings if you actually watch them. If that's OK then everyone who uses default readline bindings is an emacs user.
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Yes, there is. Subgenre of speedcore.
I think the biases are pretty obvious, but the most serious shortcoming of this benchmark is that their result (30% WER on CV) is not reproducible: it's not clear what they trained their model on, and the model itself is not available, so you just have to take their word for it.
Can't speak to the Azure Resource Management API's but I've had a very different experience with Web Apps, Azure SQL, Storage, Traffic Manager. Other than a few short-lived bouts of missed writes into Service Bus and Cosmos (their worst product, IMO) the platform has achieved 100% uptime for us for several years. Pretty amazing. From what you're describing I'm guessing you're REALLY not their average user and they de-prioritize quality on your use cases. Probably better off on another platform if you can help it.
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Algorithm Identifiers for Ed25519, Ed448, X25519, and X448 for Use in X.509 PKI
They are. Or at least, this guy is. Quote from Dieudonne, his doctoral advisor, describing how Grothendieck got his PhD:

>A general theory of duality for locally convex spaces had to be worked out: Schwartz and I had started its study for Fréchet spaces and their direct limits, but we had met a series of problems we could not solve. We therefore proposed them to Grothendieck, and the result turned out to exceed our most sanguine expectations. In less than a year, he had solved all our problems by very ingenious new constructions; then, with the techniques he had developed, he started to work on many other questions in functional analysis.
Good point. I haven’t thought about it much since I’m on macOS and Linux but it’s not like they’re immune. The idea of a node module encrypting my home directory (even with backups) makes me a tad nervous.
Here again I think brand is important, you order things without looking when you have confidence in the quality.
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TSMC says fully recovered from virus
So you're arguing that the third world doesn't deserve washing machines and clean water, so that you can have one person per SUV in the states?
Major takeaway : We are too bored to bother with really understanding stuff from first principles, let the computer do my work and I'll write a paper that I made the computer do my work.
I'm curious about the background of the team. They don't seem to have any linguistics experts from what I could tell.
There is an unwritten rule in biology that if you publish a paper that refers to uses of certain reagents that are not commercially available, then you are obligated to provide those reagents to other investigators who read the paper and request them. There can also be an expected obligation that the other researchers will share any data they generate using the reagents with the original authors.

Outside of biology, I have seen many "academic" papers published on computer-related topics that refer to software programs developed by the papers' authors that are crucial to the research but not publicly available. Is there any similar unwritten rule to that in biology where another researcher reading these papers can request a copy of these programs from the authors?

Obviously, in many cases other researchers cannot replicate and verify findings without access to the same research tools used in the published papers.
I really like opening it up and putting a sheet of tinfoil over the LED, with a single pin-prick hole.
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Running Commander Keen on Android from a Floppy Drive
I was rather disappointed that this article wasn’t about the worlds first guided missile, that was used to hunt ships in the pacific in WW2 — it was called the Bat.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASM-N-2_Bat
Think past quantitative reach and imagine qualitative. The New York Times reaches heads of state, business leaders, intellectual elites, etc. pewdiepie reaches an audience primarily looking to fill moments of leisure.
Thanks for the comment. Just wanted to quickly clarify that the model is available here: https://github.com/Picovoice/stt-benchmark/tree/master/resou...
If only it were as simple as voting for 1 of 2 parties.

https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/totals.php?cycle=2018...

Neither party appears to be turning down money from the opponents of net neutrality. It feels more like everybody takes the money and the rest is just politics and propaganda.
This rings true for all of society. Who could have known there would be negative social implications to having an always-on, always-connected computer in your pocket?
It was Chase, not Wells Fargo. Also, Amazon and Google are apparently seeking similar information. https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-to-banks-give-us-your-...
> Science is a system

Indeed; journals are repos, authors are committers, reviews are pull requests. But the unit tests are insufficient, and literature references don't quite make it as a form of continuous integration.
Unfortunately twilight gets much redder than these, and hence is much more helpful to (my) sleep.
App Service on Linux is an unrelated service that actually runs on top of Service Fabric (a stateful microservice and container orchestration platform).