skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are used in production all over the place, along with their smaller cousin, the CPLD. If you see a part on a PCB by Xilinx, Altera, Lattice, or some MicroSemi parts, odds are that it's an FPGA. Many FPGAs lose their configuration on power-off, so you configure the bitstream using a CPU for example. As others have said, there are also flash-based ones.

I personally know of many embedded systems using FPGAs (spacecraft and medical applications), signal processing such as radar, many PCIe cards, etc.
It's not even about ads, for me. I'm more concerned with malvertising.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malvertising
> How long does it take you to climb 20 stories if you're having to do it every single day of your life so you're used to it? Let's say a generous 10 seconds per floor, so that's around 3 and a half minutes.

People would certainly be more fit in such a world. In ours, climbing 20 stories is not something many people can do at all, never mind do willingly every day. But even for a fit person, 20 stories at 10sec/story is definitely not "generous", more like a great athletic achievement given how strenuous it is to climb stairs compared to walking or running on flat ground. Gravity is a bitch.
Show HN: Telegram is the new IRC – list of communities, bots and channels
>You can still go to very inaccessible areas that have little to no tourists. Much of Canada is wilderness for one to dig a hole to put a roof over and fell trees with one of your sharpened soft axe.

Yes, but 100 years ago even large cities had little to no tourists. Not Paris or Rome, but tons of other places that are now filled to the brims with tourists...
For sure, I wasn't saying you were wrong in your statement, just pointing out that we are the exception, not the rule, when it comes to the employment landscape right now.

Saying things like "embrace no job security" is something most people simply cannot afford to do.
Why for Crypto centralization must come first
To respond to OG comment spirit:

I love my echo chamber, thank you very much! :)

But I get what you are saying and agree, but also with OG comment as well.

I think we want same things, more genuine connection with people who are meaningful to us.
> Since the open-source release in 2015, TensorFlow has become the world’s most widely adopted machine learning framework

I'd wager that non-trivial (non-tutorial?) usage of scikit-learn is significantly higher.
What magic will they come up with next? Sheesh. Cool stuff, looking forward to having some time to play with it all.
Extreme consumerism trends downwards in a few obscure commodities and someone proclaims the end of private property.

Give me break, collections of books, DVDs and CDs have always been largely worthless. Cars was never an investment tool.

Real estate, stocks, bonds is property with at least some value. Put stats on that before arguing that private ownership is in decline.
(I'm not saying it isn't)

I'm merely saying consumerism was never about private ownership, or am I missing something?
And save about a million bytes in bandwidth.
That's an divisive statement. I'd blame people who were unwilling to invest the time in properly modelling their data on the rise of NoSQL.

Transactional consistency and data normalisation - pffft.

SQL is still doing very well running things behind the scenes.
Cost of a Join
Is rural America declining, or simply not improving the way the rest of America is in the last 100 or so years?
I basically avoid cabs at all costs. I'd rather stand in front of an available cab and get an Uber because of crappy cab experiences are. The drivers are miserable and rude and the cleanliness is low.
Depends on the country as well. Here in Uruguay, 99% of the time they do, and usually several multiples of what their reports make.
" Wish they had given more substance to their claims of 'sexist management'."

Just because they didn't share the substance with you, doesn't mean they didn't share it with CMU administrators.
99% Invisible (design podcast) had a story about this as well, how the American south and west became habitable due to air conditioning.

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/thermal-delight/
That is cool. I don't know why they don't advertise that option more aggressively, even in the theater
This isn't 'Bloomberg'. It's Matt Levine's Opinion, and his opinions (which always come with ample justification, unlike yours) are very highly regarded.
This might be because games are a young medium, but I find a lot of “primers” on game design to feel like subjective reflections of the author’s ludography. The sort of fundamentals a level designer for a 90s first-person shooter would give seem very different from a 2010’s indie platformer dev or a big-budget JRPG producer. There doesn’t seem to be a lot of insight that’s indifferent to genre or team size yet.
Before Hitler, most of the "wise" men of science and progress in Europe and the US were in favor of eugenics.

If it wasn't for the Nazis, those kind of people (think "Californian Ideology") people would openly be in favor of them still...
Pausing ‘Location history’ doesn’t stop Google tracking your location
It's not just "the context of an academic specialty". Almost every non-white person I know uses this definition.

By contrast, the traditional definition of "racism" that so many are vociferously defending here is used almost exclusively by white people. Think about that.
Verizon Is Close to Apple, Google Deals for 5G TV
> I'd guess a lot.

Absolutely not. Before elevators most buildings would stop at around 5 stories. Climbing 20 stories is not just time-consuming[0], it's also quite tiring, you're dragging your own mass 60m upwards on a very steep slope.

And that's basically discarding older adults entirely, according to "Functional predictors of stair-climbing speed in older adults" individuals ascend about 1.3 steps per second for 8~10 steps.

> That would be nothing compared to the alternative of there being 1-3 floor houses everywhere, so you'd need to commute even further than that.

The alternative would be necessarily rethinking the entire mess and either creating much wider buildings or going back to a much more decentralised model.

> This is on the order of time that it takes many people to walk from their parked car to the front door at work, or even just to park their car!

Walking level ground and climbing stairs is not the same effort at all.

[0] and 10 seconds per floor is absolutely not generous, it corresponds to a high-cadence stair-stepper setting (100 steps/mn, assuming 16 steps/flight which is about what you get in a residential building, an office building would be 18~20 steps/flight)
Now that's interesting.

I presume this is focused at retail banking? And focusses on
the customer-facing system?

Looking at the api, it's seems very UK-focussed.

I had this as an idea a couple days ago, ha.
> Tesla could likely raise at least operating capital into foreseeable future without a major problem.

Save for the fact that he explicitly insisted in conference calls and other places that Tesla doesn't need to raise money in 2018.
All movements have both kinds of members. Usually the movement professes a universal ideal that works for everybody. Usually there's a portion of its members who actually hold to that higher principle. Usually there are also members who use that as cover to wage banal social warfare.

There will always be people who suck. All you can do is try not to be one of them.
Can you ELI5 for me, because I don't understand this at all.
Yep. In Atlanta pretty much every business is on a 35-45 mph road and people do not take kindly to you driving the speed limit, let alone 10mph below it. But that shouldn't even be an issue -- real, street legal mopeds have existed for years and can actually go at reasonable speeds. Not sure why anyone would buy one that's capped at such a low speed instead.
Learned helplessness means that people gave up trying to help themselves, it doesn't mean that people will not accept help.

Someone who wants to do anything someone else tells him to is free to do so, even if he isn't enslaved. So freeing a slave is not equivalent to "treating" an addict, because in that case the addict is not left free to do what he wants, to "submit" voluntarily to his desire for heroin.
IH-35 around Congress is literally a parking lot from like 4PM to 6PM. I don't think I ever knew anyone that lived so close to work that traffic wasn't a problem for them.
I understand your opinion, and surely you have way more experience than me on this matter. Still, it seems that there should be a better way. Why aren't keyboards able to communicate a default layout? I've been reading about the current one and it's true it's complex and full of legacy decisions, so why isn't there a "better scancodes" protocol?

It's true, using a keyboard layout different from the one printed on the keyboard is unheard of in much parts of the world, but on others it's almost a necessity. Continuously installing operating systems and manually configuring keyboard layouts is uncommon, too, and it's mostly solved by automatic layout recognition, aka "write the words you see".
Associated Press: How to find and delete where Google knows you’ve been
Was hoping for some intelligent, somewhat deep insights on the old world v the new world, but instead this reads like something any brogrammer fresh out of the University of Texas could have written.

“Housing is expensive! Oh the food is kind of weird! Being in the same time zone with people is good!”

I want to praise the author for being brave and moving thousands of miles to do what he wants, clearly there was risk there, but hopefully he sees more of the world than that indicated by this Twitter post.
It depends on context. As much as some people would hate to admit it, communication and messaging is one thing POTUS is far from stupid about.

On Twitter and TV, he speaks the way he does to maximize attention and media coverage. He has found that evading basic courtesy is an effective way to use those media to his advantage.

In the context of a court statement or other official correspondence, I doubt you'd see him use such colorful language (indeed, check official White House correspondence signed by Trump: he doesn't).
Doqume (http://doqume.com)
It's a way to search text documents by specifying complex semantic conditions on items that have to be matched instead of simple keywords.

I think it's interesting because 1) it is challenging and it involves a lot of NLP (which I like) 2) I believe it's novel or at least I have not seen the same concept around.

Whether or not it is actually useful to somebody remains to be seen...
I'd like to buy one of those 10 pound bikes please!
We are quite offtopic already, so: in my experience, Liebherr fridges last decades.
Dems Must Build a Democratic Culture, Too
"Sunk: How Ross Ulbricht ended up in prison for life" [0] on Ars Technica is one option.

[0]: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/05/sunk-how-ross-ul...

(edited because apparently hyperlinks don't work the way I thought they would)
It's bad because our historical growth is based on us accumulating things using credit. Producing and consuming things is what creates job growth which sustains our growing population. Our acceptance of inflation due to said consumerism, credit, and the black hole of the federal reserve issuing new currency is what provides "new money" for investment in research. If we transition to a society where things are no longer valued for possession I have to think that we won't care to share them either. If a car is not cool enough for me to want to own, why would I care to use the communal car rather than the bus? Can the auto industry survive selling 10% of the vehicles is does now? Will consumers pay 10x what they pay now, it costs no less for R & D, all while not truly owning the thing? This communal ownership changes half the paradigm, the funds to rent the items still needs to come from an economy that relies on people buying things to own and those things becoming unavailable to the rest of us forcing new consumers to buy new things from a factory and hopefully destroying it or hoarding it before it hits the secondary market. I think we need to stay on the current path until we have abundant free energy.

Add: I also feel this is why new home sales is such an important metric to judge the momentum of the US economy, lots of new home sales means lots of new home-wares. You buy or build a house you also buy a refrigerator, microwave, carpet, furniture etc. Mostly on credit. If we truly become a communal society the cycle is broken, the same people who said "no new house and no new car, I'll just save my cash" now earn less 5 years later because there are many fewer things sold and the interconnected supply chain stalls.
I mix and match vi (evil) and normal emacs commands, choosing what's best for the case and for me. Some commands are so ingrained (C-a and C-e for navigating for instance) and convenient as they are that I just remapped them to be available in all modes
You don't usually do heating in cases where you're worried about surplus heat. You could make the same argument for every productive activity except heating...
There was a post on HN a couple years ago that I should probably have dug up instead of vaguely gesturing at, but here we are.

Anyway, it described the transition to digital technology as moving towards "magical rocks". They are amazing, perfect, and betray no hint as to their mechanism. They are excellent tools, in many ways better than their predecessors, but they don't tickle the brain the same way as a machine that wears its heart on its sleeve.

Everyone can have an intuition about how a mechanical watch works. You can see it right there, watching as the gears spin, the balance swings, the mainspring uncoils. It's alive. Like watching a steam engine. It takes a lot more knowledge, and a lot more trust in things unseen, to build intuition around how electronics work. And I'm not sure it's ever quite as evocative, even while being perhaps more amazing.

There are a million other arguments either way, but that's the one that's compelled me the most. And granted, I'm pretty biased, typing this with a mechanical watch on my wrist.
In non-tech industries big companies actually have a lot of trouble innovating, or driving resources and infrastructure to new initiatives. Startups exist to overcome this lack of maneuverability at big companies. Often the entrepreneurs are seasoned execs from these big companies who can't realize their vision under big company constraints

Biopharma is a perfect example. It represents over 20% of venture funding. Most entrepreneurs are 50+ years old. Big companies get orders of magnitude lower return on r&d investment than VC backed companies. And the returns have actually been better than tech startups in the last few years
Kubernetes: Building Docker images within a cluster
That's close to what the old (really old?) Sun workstation keyboards looked like. I believe the keys on the left were L1-L10, and there were things like L1-A to get into hardware modes.

I believe there were some old terminal keyboards that also had a second row of function keys, F13-24, but it's been a long time since I saw one of those.
are you thinking of .gifv which imgur supports?
True, but then you have a job AND have to work on the side project.

Working at a startup is a bit like going to university, while working a regular day job is like going to school.

You have to find out what needs to be done by yourself, nobody cares if you succeed anymore.
Christ glad these guys unionized. I mean I think unions are good, but also I just don’t want unhappy insider threat security guards.
Ask HN: What's your answer to this hardware-software software design problem?
http://bhardwajrish.blogspot.com/2018/08/an-architecture-for-hardware-software.html?m=1

I've been working on this for months, and have come up with a model I'm proud of. The crux of the problem here really boils down to the what your communication model is.
The best part of my solution allows for auto generation of most of the client's UI, and also ensures forward compatibility.
Excuse me, but I expressly avoid the term "SJW" because it's a known pejorative.

I prefer to use "social justice advocates" - I used "crowd" here but there was no ill intent.

And if I didn't apologize earlier for making assumptions about your views, I'm apologizing right now. I'd rather learn what you truly think than insist a caricature upon you. It's the only way to have an honest conservation, I think.
Fortnite will require Android users to allow unknown sources
Interesting article, but a bit off-topic.
Thanks for great explanation.

> A program is a piece of a text.

But, a program is more than a text, it is a structure,
parsed from text with the rules of the language .

Still I think I'm beginning to see the correspondence.

Execution of the program is when we give it some input and run it. So there would be similarly an input to proofs. Proof would need to be "proven correct" for EVERY valid input, that is what compiler does for programs, proving the result of the program must be of its declared result-type.

But a proof which proves anything is not really a proof as said by someone, it corresponds to a non-halting program. So in this sense doesn't a proof ALWAYS require that we "run" it, to prove that it terminates, and thus is a valid proof actually?

Does this require some meta-logic? Proving that a proof terminates? :-)
Sure, but even if that's true, new construction homes probably represent a minuscule fraction of the housing stock in the US. Not to mention what minuscule percentage of new construction is built in an energy neutral fashion.
Don't forget building it in a way to allow the user(ie, expensive consultants why you may be supplying yourself or grant certificates too) to customize it themselves!
His strategy of obtaining a HN comment from me 7 years later?
I think a more likely explanation is Elon's ongoing annoyance and anger toward anyone who questions the eventual success of Tesla, and especially anyone shorting the stock.

There's no way he would ever admit this, but I bet one of his motivations for posting that tweet was to move the stock and hurt the shorts.

Musk seems to be one of those classic "force of nature" founders, whose will to overcome obstacles and prove everyone wrong is essential to getting off the ground, but could be a liability in a mature company.

"Oh, yeah? Try and stop me!" works great until you run up against someone who can actually stop you (often, the government).
Thanks for sharing that article, I hadn't seen it.

There are plenty of reasons to support hating Monsanto. I do as well. Generic versions of Roundup are available from generic type suppliers now and that is where I buy mine.
Getting the SGX attestation key would permanently break SGX-based blockchain (Hyperledger Sawtooth?) mining, if I understand correctly. It's amazing that (if this is correct) this vulnerability has permanently broken a large software project.
A new free tool to find the best kindle category to publish your book
No it was an internal startup made from Match.
Supposedly photovoltaics are cheap enough thanks to scale that photovoltaic plus electric water heater is more cost effective than solar water heating.

And we can't really call solar panels "energy neutral", whatever they drive is still part of our energy consumption and their electricity could have driven another load.
'computation graph framework' isn't as sexy, I guess
Take a look at the chaos in their streets and the associated fatalities.
I do alot of gif documentation and its unfortunate that its hard to follow.

I only do this because its convenient using shareX and supported at the same levels images (no embedding needed), just traditional `img` tags. Also, it works natively with markdown so its convenient

The only suggestion is to download "Gif scrubber" or "Play this gif" or "Videoplayback Controller" off google chrome extensions
How can you possibly judge future potential without looking at past accomplishments?
Yeah this is one of the "standard" uses for matrix multiplication. Another one is calculating the N-th fibonacci number in logarithmic time (or any linear recurrence).
Banano Quest: Demystifying DApp UX
Sure, but do they have freedom of movement to other regions within their country that have vastly better conditions? It's not that it's not possible to live, just that there are alternatives to move to in the US -- or simply don't move to inhospitable climates to begin with. That's not a luxury folks in (say) landlocked African nations have.
Real strength is in doing the right thing even when it is inconvenient to your image.
>There's pretty clearly something deeper here.

IDK why there has to be something deeper.

>public park's pristine full-courts

I mean there's only so many courts maybe you don't want to play with other people you just want to take shots, and it's convenient.

>Neither does it shed any light on the sad way in which suburban dads build rickety basement bars

They do it to hang out with their friends. Same way you order a pizza and eat it at home instead of at the restaurant. What are you after the pizza or "being at a restaurant". For most people it's the pizza. The phenomenon of rickety basement bars as you call them is just people hanging out at home drinking cheaper beer at a home built bar. They get some of that "I'm out of the house" vibe while getting all the "hanging out with my friends" that they really want.

I don't know what else you are implying could be operating here. So I'll have to assume you just hate improvised home bars.
It's not like you have a choice for everything. You want a phone? Chose your evil: apple or google. And try using one of those without an account.
Sensible places ban all motor vehicles from sidewalks and bike paths. They belong in the road with other low speed ICE powered scooters and mopeds.
>at least for driving in the Eastern European capital city where I’m currently living where you have to actually “guess” what the other traffic participants will do next: is that kid going against the flow of traffic on his bike? (answer: yes) Is that cab going to cut me off in the middle of the intersection and should I take my foot off the acceleration pedal so that we won’t crash? (answer: yes to both questions). Are those pedestrians going to jaywalk without checking for any incoming vehicles? (answer: yes). All these things happened to me during my short city drive half an hour ago.

Those sound very quaint. Try India, China, SEA, most of Latin America and so on...
And keep everything that is not powered exclusively by muscles out of those areas.
It's easily the second most popular brand after Samsung.
It's funny how my experience is exactly reverse. Since I joined startup I learn much less, since we can't afford experimentation and there are no other front end devs here, so I don't get a chance to learn backend stuff, since someone has to do front end part.

I also hoped to learn some business stuff, but most of it happens behind closed doors between founders and investors while you code boring crud application.
I've had that off for a while. Now my ads on Gmail only offer me to date women and men 60+.