skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s not personalized trash cans, it’s public ones at streets and beaches.

You wouldn’t really need IoT in the trash can if it’s emptied on a schedule, but a lot of public trash cans see very different usage amounts over the year.

As for durability, well, people destroy them. Your average public trash can at a park or a beach could need replacement several times during a summer thanks to things like one-usage grills. ;) In those cases the IoT device has the added advantage of being able to warn the fire department.
Fizzbuzz is fair: it’s a fair waste of time.

Interviewing an experienced and credentialed developer like they’re an undergrad sophomore with a one sentence resume looking for a summer internship shows to me that if an employer is going to waste the time of a candidate (and implicitly insult their intelligence and education), then they will waste the time of an employee, and such they represent an organization I want no part of.
Sarcasm Analysis Using Conversation Context
IRC Turns 30
Blocknet is the first, and still leading, interoperability protocol yet it is not listed. Little disappointing to say the least.
Hatchful has potential. Most of the better ones are paid though, such as LogoMaker[1] which was acquired by Deluxe and Taylor Brands[2] which landed a $15 million series B.

[1] https://secure.logomaker.com/logomakerv3/

[2] https://www.tailorbrands.com/lp-home
60 times Madonna changed our culture
This isn't hypothetical at all. Look at the atomic bomb. Did the scientists from the Manhattan project control it or influence it? Did they influence its use?

Also inflationary bitcoin doesn't solve the money problem either. You need it to be controlled by a third party consensus and not just "ticked" at a specific rate. The Fed tries to target inflation at 3% but that doesn't mean we always have 3% inflation.
It was 18 for a while during the 70’s. But kids were getting drunk and crashing and dying like crazy, so Ronald Reagan raised the drinking age back to 22 in the 1980’s with the threat of cutting highway funding to states that did not comply.
German Cryptanalytic Attacks on the British World War II “TYPEX” Machine
That is why he is at the bootcamp in the first place...
Quake was nice tech, but Goldeneye blew it out of the water in terms of gameplay and content. I always thought Quake felt like a very long tech demo more so than a game.
Crypton – Library Consisting of Explanation and Implementation of All the E
Income inequality not gender inequality covaries with sexualization social media
As small as 13 sq metres: are these the worst new flats in Britain?
There are three main reasons for this, don't underestimate any of them: generally more technically literate to make the choice to use macOS, unix and DE design, and small target for malware makers.
BFF anti-pattern is a superlinear explosion of surface area to maintain. I agree with you that GraphQL does not actually fix it when backed by any mainstream database. If you solve this, you don't need to write backend boilerplate anymore, the whole thing can be done as an abstraction and you can fire the web developers. No clear answer has emerged yet. I think Datomic (c-f this thread) can be used as a basis to fix BFF anti pattern.
The article looks interesting. The type, number, location, and format of the ads is distracting to the point that it makes the content unreadable for me.
Drunk driving movements throughout the 1970's and 1980's are responsible for this regulation. Groups like MADD: Mothers Against Drunk Driving fought hard to change the way things were. Organizations involving people with relatives that passed away as a result of a drunk driving accident, which was frighteningly common back then.

During high school, and prior to attending Driver's Ed classes, we had an assembly organized by various local chapters of anti-drunk driving groups, where a guy in his late 20's spoke about being amputated below the waist, because when he drove into a large tree, the engine block rebounded through the dashboard, and onto his pelvis, coming home from the bar one night. People talk about how prior to automotive safety standards developed in the 1990's (air bags, anti-lock brakes) cars were absolute death traps, and I believe it.

That movement achieved some of its goals with those laws, and receded during the 1990's when broader programs encompassing drugs and social diseases were more normalized.

I think it makes sense, because in the United States, people find some amount of identity in the cars they own, which seems to be less intense throughout Europe, where driving absolutely everywhere isn't as ingrained into daily life and culture.
Set up nextcloud on my home network and share stuff with friends and family that way, never got into federation but that's pretty awesome! Especially since it supports encryption and privacy in a pretty easy to use way.
Working on a codebase however is not what the license says. It says specifically "making modifications".

If you have the Perl script that generates C code, you get a benefit from being able to modify the Perl script rather than the C code. So the Perl script is the preferred form for making modifications.

If you have the history, you don't get any benefit from modifying the history. In this sense, having the history is not relevant to making modifications, only to studying the code (for example to make the same modifications on another branch/fork of the code, like I do with upstream patches, or like Oracle could do if they had the Red Hat patches).

Your could say that this phrasing is shortsighted, but note that neither Red Hat not Debian or anyone else has ever given the complete history to Linux or any other piece of software they distribute, but they had to give the complete base source tarball as distributed by the upstream project.
The world’s 50 most innovative companies 2018
I spent a sleepless night in an AirBNB with loud music outside and a crick in my neck that had me stretching my
legs for hours.

The next day I jumped up quickly and hurt my calf muscle and was laid up for two weeks. I'm pretty sure that the excessive stretching led to the injury.
Its easy to tell who has a passion for it and who doesn't.

I've never met anyone with a passion for programming, but I've met a lot of people who misuse the word passion.
Wrong!

I am getting tired of this meme that people who can code - 'devs' - can't pick up a pen and design a logo. It is a practically xenophobic assertion.

The 'dev' type might admit to dwelling in their mother's basement, they might admit to having hygiene issues but the stereotype 'dev' type would never admit to using 'Shopify'. 'Shopify' is designed for people that are not developers. It's a hosted platform with all the 'dev' potential of mySpace or Duplo Lego. It is not what a true 'dev' wants.

So this logo maker is not for a 'dev' audience. It is for people that have a new business they want to get online. Not a 'small project' or a 'blog', but an ecommerce effort that hopefully makes money. For this audience they may want to involve a 'professional designer' at some stage, but, starting out, without the business realised, this tool makes it easy for them to get a placeholder, something to work with.

A business has to be built before someone else can take a look at it and design the logo that is the distillation of the many things that go into that business. During this phase a placeholder is fine.
The Hayes command set still lives on? Wow.

ATDT1,3103106000
So, a "feature" in the installer allows an already installed malicious app to install even more malicious apps.

That new malicious app then gets to somehow have more permissions than the original malicious app or the installer.

Guys, that's an Android bug. This is exactly the kind of thing that needs to be fixed at an OS level, you can't be relying on the competence of arbitrary developers to maintain the security of the system.

Of course it's an opportunity for Google to use their own broken security model as an argument on why apps should only come from their own "curated" channels (which presumably also host the malware exploiting this). It just so happens to be their source of revenue...
From multiple recent cursory craigslist searches, it seems you can find a bedroom of your own in a shared apartment/house for $1200, but you would share a bathroom.

For around $2000, you would share an apartment, but have your own bedroom and your own bathroom.

For $3000 to $4000, you can have your own space and bathroom, but that would unlikely be more than 500sqft.

All seem to want a security deposit equivalent to one month's rent.
"On the education side of things, Jupyter is quickly gaining adoption in universities around America, particularly for data science courses. Conversely, data science is increasingly becoming students’ first exposure to programming and computer science"

Am I the only one this two sentences worries deeply?

Or is it just a rehash of the twenty year old "my first exposure to programming was Excel"
(which, from what I'm reading is what the article is talking about : a glorified spreadsheet).
Progressively Growing Deep Image Prior
Good summary except the last hyperbole. There's no way FPS doesn't happen on console even if GoldenEye was absent.
Thinking from first principle you can reason why Elon pushed for windows. Elon is a guy who wants to get done. On windows you get a linear output with time spend on it. On Linux the output is exponential. Relative to windows lot of time is required for entry on Linux.Since Elon is man of output he did not like to spent so much upfront time. Also he don't want to let go the control as he is micro manager.
that logo looks amazing, referring here especially to the ability to create endless logo variants by interspersing thematic visuals between the letter of the logo...

for some logos the "base case" doesn't really matter, you want something based on which you can create infinite variation, something that's open to "mutations".

you example is basically a good case of why automatic or AI-driven design tools will "always" suck... nobody really ever wants a design that "just looks f awesome", that's useless...

"powerful ugliness" is always more beautiful in the end...
Nextcloud 14 RC1 announced
You must have worked at the wrong sort of company then - they do exist
If you're interested in this kind of thing, Jon Bentley wrote a column called Programming Pearls which was later collected into books. One of the instalments was called Squeezing Space, and talked about stuff like this. He also discussed the trade-offs involved, as sometimes the code introduced to compress the data more than offsets the savings.
The Honor Play Is a Gaming Phone with ‘GPU Turbo’ and AI-Powered Rumble
In 2004 PHP is the standard. Any MYSQL is still the standard.
Amazon scientist: this model will let Alexa dispense with wake word repetition
The part about the movements - agreed (maybe we need to add this to the machines to improve them) - but the rest is just about additional layers - machines are not restricted to just one layer neither.
this is very cool!
any idea what sort of gate-count we are looking at for synthesizing the VHDL?
I'm not familiar with the Intel FPGA you refer to on the docs for the VHDL implementation:

https://github.com/mbitsnbites/mrisc32/tree/master/mrisc32-a...
in the energy world (power grids), there are very practical advantages to decentralized generation. It actually makes for a good example of similar pros/cons to the kind of (de)centralization this post is talking about.
> Human brain is like a peacock tail

I don't think so. Curious detail about that tail: The females don't have it.
I worked at Digium from 2008-2011. Digium employed some really great programmers and I obtained a solid starting foundation for my career as a developer hacking on Asterisk in C. Definitely enjoyed my time there.

Going back to around that time period, there was a project started called Asterisk SCF (internally called Hydra, I couldn't remember if it was made public but it's in the list archives: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-scf-dev/). Asterisk SCF was going to be new software (written in C++) that supported scalability as a primary feature. I still wonder if Digium had continued funding it what would have happened, but eventually development was halted: http://www.digium.com/blog/2012/09/14/asterisk-scf-pause/.

All that to say I'm happy for Digium's success, but still think an acquisition could have occurred far sooner with a product based on Asterisk SCF.
I think the actors who are eager to see Tesla and SpaceX fail are more powerful and motivated than is typical, but I acknowledge this is an unproven hypothesis.

However, Tesla does not need to be exceptional for the larger point to remain. Former heavily shorted companies have dealt with the same thing. Look at the war between Fairfax and hedge funds in the early 00s (similar claims, similarly evidence (i.e. circumstantial but unprovable), similar results (stock took hits and then jumped as financials improved).

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/fairfax-t...

Someone at TMC wrote up a more thorough and Tesla-analogous explanation if you are curious: https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/elon-musk-vs-short-s...
You can take pride in doing good work and you can take pride in the outcomes of your work even if you're not passionate about the work for its own sake and even if you wouldn’t be interested in the work without being paid for it.
We are considered "greasy" engineers second class professionals London is well know as a place to get good engineers who will work cheaply.

Though London has far better public transport so living 60 miles away and commuting by train isn't to bad.
Most my memories of Goldeneye involve having 4 people stuffed on a couch, cheap beer, pretending we weren't looking at each other's screens.

Quake was a blast, but we weren't all in the same room, let alone the same couch.

I don't think comparing the games themselves directly really encompasses the difference in the playing experience.
I wish I could go back to the days where our group would spend all our free time playing split screen GoldenEye at my friend's basement.
If you were privileged enough (which we were) the 90s were a great time to be a child.
"Approval is a helluva drug". And like any drug we need to overcome it. Quit cold turkey, so we can see it for what it is. Sure, you can dip yourself into it from time to time, but you'll be less of a victim. We have enough of those already
I agree with you though I still think what the OpenAI team has achieved is impressive. Dota has two levels: the strategic and the tactical. The AI is very good at the tactical level (teamfighting) but poor at the strategic level. Perhaps they could train a "Captain AI" through replay analysis that would direct the player AIs?

I could see the Captain AI having various modules to help it decide what should be done next. For example, a drafting module, a module to predict where the enemy players currently are (some kind of threat heatmap?), what the enemy players are likely to do next (i.e., where they will farm, smoking, roshing, etc.), and what items the team needs (i.e., centralized item purchase decisions). I imagine these modules would be trained in an entirely different way from the way the AIs are trained in-game.

Technically, I can't help wonder if some kind of hybrid ANN-expert system architecture wouldn't work better. ANNs are rightfully popular due to their effectiveness but they seem so inefficient in this case. A few hand-coded rules could eliminate the basic mistakes the AI makes, and for the rest they could evolve the rules using some type of genetic programming. The latter would still allow the AI to come up with its own novel approach to the game.
My local pizza place makes me drool more than Instagram does.

This list couldn't possibly be more subjective. Walmart is more innovative than SpaceX? Come on.

Netflix is innovative? All they did was make people pay for a movie subscription service if they were too lazy to run Linux and torrent via Transmission
As someone else has said, this is specific to the SF bay area, and it's so similar to my experience that it's something I could have written.

I wouldn't say the takeaway is that working in tech is bad so much as it's a criticism of Silicon Valley hype and culture. I read HN a lot in college (2010-2015) and kept reading articles glorifying startups and the Bay Area; so when I graduated, instead of looking for a safe industry job I tried to get a job there (and decided to just move there when I was rejected by a company who said they'd prefer someone local). Even when I did get a job there, my monthly paycheck was lower than my rent--though with promise that I could earn more if I worked there longer.

Overall, SV felt like a very exploitative environment for people young and hopeful, and I'm happy people are calling it out.
Set Theory and Algebra in CS: Introduction to Mathematical Modeling (2013) [pdf]
In a way, that is what was done.

"In effect, Z-code is like P-code: a string of subprogram calls, with the bodies of the subprograms executed by a Z-machine or ZIP. Any often-used sequence of pperations [sic] in Zork programs could, in principle, be compressed into a Z-code instruction, thereby moving the sequence of operations into the Z-machine or ZIP, where it needs to appear only once."

The goal wasn't to do it the easy way, but to achieve something that happened to be difficult.

It's also important to remember that loading a program into a computer back then was very different than today. Today, you load a program and it exists along with the operating system and all its support routines, needed or otherwise. For example, you may load a car racing game on Windows or macOS, but the printer drivers are still there.

Back then, most games on most computers would wipe out the entirety of the machine down to the last byte. Even the fonts could be blown out if you needed the space. (Storing changing variables in what we would call the font space was a fun way to create an interesting display while heavy math was being done, but without wasting resources on a "loading..." progress bar.)
Things VsCode Didn’t Tell Me About Programming in F#
First time stories on the birthday of Linux?
Why do you think "co-location" is bad? its proven to be the best way to work.
> Musk still has an "only I can do it" mindset.

That seems to be his mission and it's pretty clear he is willing to do what it takes to accomplish it and the board and supporters know it. I have to disagree that "it's not working", unless you want to ignore all the accomplishments by Tesla.

It's funny how everybody and their dogs are now experts and think they know better than Musk how he should be doing things. I wish more of these people actually started car companies so perhaps we (US market) would have more companies in the "major automakers" category other than Tesla and other 3 companies from the beginning of the previous century.
It was far from a perfect game that's for sure, but it combines the elements of FPS, mission objectives, great level design (you might want to read how they managed to get some textures to fit the limited memory of the N64), a compelling story (that wasn't an exact replica of the movie, too many games make that mistake), couch/splitscreen multiplayer along with cheats you could unlock by being good at speedrunning.

All together, those made a great game for its time.
Maybe Your Sleep Problem Isn’t a Problem
I wrote concentrate not code.
Socializing was more a term for mails, calls and meetings plus the sometimes very productive coffee machine talk.

I can code without concentration but did you ever measure your productivity and and error rate over time? For me 5h is a sweet spot after that error rate goes up and productivity goes down.
If the errors are significant they could cost much more time later on. If the job isn’t that sensitive of course you don’t have to concentrate.
Legal drinking age is five in the UK. It's 18 to buy alcohol.
Google doesn't - why would they pay the same for a physically present vs a remote.
London is an amazing city.

I don't think there is much more to it than that. People just enjoy living there even if it doesn't make as much sense economically.
State of the climate: 2018 set to be fourth warmest year despite cooler start
Thanks. Ironic. But that said, perhaps they are less ;)
I totally reject your interpretation. If you're writing a crappy app with limited permissions then you get a pass. You don't get to complain about footguns if you are asking people to give you exceptionally dangerous permissions.

I don't think this was even hidden or obfuscated, doc-wise (exhibit A: doc exists), but even if it was the onus is on Fortnite.

"For someone coming to Android programming with the knowledge that it's Linux-based with a fairly strict permissions model, and with so many mentions of "private" storage in the high-level docs, it's a surprise to discover that there are no file permissions enforced on "external" storage."

If you are not an absolute expert on Android across multiple devices and api versions, then you have no damn business releasing something of this nature.

You bring up Linux. It is not a flaw that drivers run in a privileged mode. If you make a device driver and don't understand how memory is allocated and cleared or not cleared, then you have no business writing one because you're going to let people root your customer's boxes eventually.
A Productivity Manifesto
"My debt was the result, in equal measure, of a chain of rotten luck and a system that is an abject failure by design."

Personal choice played no part in being $100,000 in student debt?
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Yes, I'm sure it varies from state to state, but the story specified CA, which does indeed have a legal requirement.
>When you see it in nature, like in birds and whales, it's about finding a mate.

Not exactly, at least for whales. The humpback whale song's function has not been fully understood. The initial hypothesis that it is a vocal display for females has not been supported, since females do not approach singing whales, and whales sing all over the place, not just at the breeding grounds. So the function of a humpback song might not be solely to find a mate, or might not be related to reproduction at all.

https://www.the-scientist.com/features/the-mystery-of-whale-...

Furthermore, you do need a complex communication system for complex social groups. For example, there are two bottlenose dolphin ecotypes:coastal and offshore. Coastal ecotype is a small fission-fusion society and we see a somewhat simple vocal repertoire. The offshore ecotype lives in big groups and they have very complex vocal repertoire. The bottom line is, at least for cetaceans, we still do not have enough data and understanding to realy argue about the complexity of their communication system one way or another. But it definitely goes beyond of just being "about finding a mate"
I can't remember ever having been stunned by a logo.

The height of my experiences could be described as:

"Oh, nice logo." or "Hmm, clever."

The line between "clever" and "trying too hard to be clever" is also quite fine.

Some logos become iconic, but that has as much to do with the brand itself as with the logo. Even if Microsoft had the Nike logo, it would still be uncool.
> Livingston: Which was your favorite feature?

>

> Buchheit: That’s hard to pin down. Actually one of the things that we added very early on, which at this point seems pretty obvious, but it turned out to be really nice, is the autocomplete when you type in the email addresses. Once you have it, it just seems so obvious. “Why wouldn’t you have autocomplete?”

This is amazing and speaks to how much for granted we take features/discoveries/inventions after they become ingrained in our lines. I can't imagine a world where i have to remember the email addresses, and he's right it seems so simple of a feature. But I guarantee at the time people were questioning whether it's worth the time to build it out.