skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't take the earlier point as a hagiographic endorsement of licensed professionals, so much as a comment on the changing mindsets of the people making these hiring decisions, and how over several decades that has moved from a sort of cowboy "anything-goes" approach towards a far more risk-averse one.

Outside of interesting questions like whether amateur tinkerers and hobbyists can be as reliable as professionals are other (also interesting) questions like "what factors drive the way institutions and corporations perceive and react to risk?"
This is why we never forget
If it an HR/legal issue, he could be brought in as a contractor.
If this company owes you money, would you prefer that the core executive team stays around and brings in an extra $200m in revenue during the wind down even though you'll have to pay them $20m to stay? Or just fire everyone, and make nothing?
Sometimes the source documents only exist in one language, and speakers of that language are more likely to be interested in the topic.
Truer words than that are seldom uttered.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18135949
Are you talking about cross-platform desktop apps? This has been an unsolved problem for a long time with many attempts, with Electron running web stacks getting the farthest at this point.

Blazor is interesting in that respect but you can already use Electron today with JS and .NET Core powering the backend.
I use arq for selected files.
No full system backup.

Oh and I got burned by the windows file history thing. It can fail silently (e.g. when paths become to long once nested in to the backup destination)
Everyone thinks everyone should be compensated according to their value... Unless someone else's value is way more than their own.
Amazon Expands Future Engineer Program to Younger Grades – THE Journal
Really cool concept, thanks for sharing. :)

Small nitpick, but there's an extra l at the end of "renewal" in the mockup. The capitalization of "Next Subscription renewall" is also a bit off-- maybe consider "Renews on:" or "Next renewal"?

On the pricing side, I definitely agree with runako. Prices are much easier to lower than raise, and so you should experiment early on with the higher end.
I recently found my copy of the 1991 Macintosh User's Guide. It has the superb line:

"Until you save your work, it exists only in the computer's memory - like thoughts that are lost unless you write them down."

This is almost as good as:

"All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain"
Fuck off. Some people never forget.
The privacy risks of compiling mobility data
I agree, the versioning has been a mess and they're constantly breaking changes to the API. Just trying to update a project is like trying to change playing cards in a house of cards...
There was an elevator hacking talk that went into the buffers at the bottom of the elevator. You may have seen them in elevators that have glass on the outside of the shaft like in malls and hotels. The elevator never rests on those. Those are to take the impact of an elevator that crashes. Inspectors will often test the buffers as well as part of routine maintenance:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUvGfuLlZus
Was randomly generating user names a deliberate choice to prevent people from putting messages onto the leaderboard? In any case, it worked. You might want to kick the legit maroon dog off his not-so-legit top spot, though.
Microsoft’s M12 Announces Winners of $4M Female Founders Competition
We have found the same when working on our own projects. Within the last few months a friend and I have been working on our own FaaS: https://3clouds.io/
We believe it solves about 90% of those issues - it's currently under heavy development and not ready to be used in production yet, but we think we are on to something here. Check it out, let us know what you think.
Amazing. Is it 100% secure?

I mean, is it proven to have no way of reconstruction the content from just one of the two parts?

edit: seems to be https://revealer.cc/how-it-works/
(one 100% noise, the other some xor on the noise)
Towns can and have exercised control over their borders. Even in the US. Here's an example from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordon_sanitaire :

> The 1918 flu pandemic spread so rapidly that, in general, there was no time to implement cordons sanitaires. However, to prevent an introduction of the infection, residents of Gunnison, Colorado isolated themselves from the surrounding area for two months at the end of 1918. All highways were barricaded near the county lines. Train conductors warned all passengers that if they stepped outside of the train in Gunnison, they would be arrested and quarantined for five days. As a result of this protective sequestration, no one died of influenza in Gunnison during the epidemic.
Would love to see some pictures!
Computer chip vulnerabilities discovered by WSU researchers
Third, it moves the pollution out of the city center.
Clean and minimalist theme for writers
AI Retools Jobs in China, U.S
The Nintendo Switch uses the Tegra X1 which fits in a traditional power profile of ~10W, but it is somewhat downclocked (about 1/2 the OOTB specs) to drive that power usage down more, helping achieve its current battery life. So a 10W part can absolutely work, if you scale down the clocks a little bit. The Switch uses a 4310 mAh battery, for reference.

In contrast, the TX2 in "MaxQ" mode (energy efficiency savings mode) achieves close to equivalent performance on many benchmarks to the TX1 at half the power budget, so it has 2x the energy efficiency overall.

The real question is where Xavier lands on the power/efficiency curve here, but I'm betting it would be pretty good, and there's nothing to necessarily disqualify a downclocked part, here. I think a custom version of Xavier could make a good gaming part, if it wasn't for the cost being outrageous.
Absolutely not an insane goal. If you want to see progress in picking items a good starting point with a bunch of resources is the Amazon picking challenge.

In terms of navigation, magnetic line following is trivial and more complex navigation really isn't that hard these days. Just look at how any of the modern robovacs navigate.

If you want to generally see where things are I'd recommend checking out some papers or even some writeups from the last icra.

EDIT: Just looked at the Amazon picking challenge for the first time in quite a while and it's not as impressive as I remember it to be.
> a UK-style TV license (Internet Publishing License anyone?)

Germany sort of does that already. From 2006 to 2012 internet-connected devices were considered broadcast receivers for the purpose of the broadcast fees. Since 2012 the fee was simplified to a general per-household broadcast fee which reduced the fairly data collection the agency had to do to know who had which kind receiver.

The internet presence of the public-service broadcasters is also financed through those fees.
Thanks for stopping by! I'd like to ask a question / make a request. Unlike most of the people here, I was trained in mathematics but am just learning how to program, so I was wondering if you had any desire to expand the online algorithms material. In particular the 'generic programming' technique illustrated by Alexander Stepanov in these lectures (Four Algorithmic Journeys) [1] and book [2] caught my attention. He takes a simple number theoretic algorithm, considers what properties are required for it to work, then generalizes it and applies it in other useful and surprising cases.

For example, Stepanov starts with the problem of multiplying two integers n * m using the Ancient Egyptian Multiplication algorithm from the Rhind Papyrus (which runs in log n if i remember correctly), then observes the only property needed for the algorithm is associativity, so that it can run on any semi-group: mult(n,s) is n repetitions of the semi-group element s, using the semi-group operation. Useful and surprising applications are (1) matrix exponentiation to solve systems of linear recurrences in log n steps (no stupid Fibonacci implementation here!), and (2) encode a graph in your matrix, with elements in a tropical semi-ring, then matrix exponentiation solves shortest path. Not too bad for a 4,000 year old multiplication algorithm.

A second example is the euclidean algorithm, which he extends first to polynomials following Stevin, then to Gaussian integers, then to euclidean domains. A surprising application was to permutation algorithms managing memory.

Anyhow, I think it would be really cool if you showed these kind of applications of number-theoretic algorithms as well as the cryptography stuff. Unfortunately basically all of the modern algorithms literature seems to avoid even the tiniest hint of abstraction; it makes the subject so much harder to hold in your head! So providing a new set of examples that is more accessible than Stepanov would be doing the world a great service, i think.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/user/A9Videos/playlists

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Elements-Programming-Alexander-Stepan...
I do a lot more in RAM these days. Everybody is. But once I commit, I want it on solid storage.
> Parts can be reused when needed, and tested independently.

You honestly think having someone adding a sub-function as a dependency and adding more tests is 'good'
No such luck with the iPhone X, though. Apple's investment in its tech - which saw the company work with a Hollywood studio to create realistic masks to test Face ID - has clearly paid off. It was impossible to break in with the model.
I was one of those poor people, buying $3000 cars to get by 10 years ago, when gas was hitting $4 a gallon while the economy was absolute shit. Truth is, you can find even used Civics for like $4K (although the idiotic Cash-For-Clunkers program caused a lot of lower end inventory to disappear...hurting poor people like me at the time)...and you can still squeeze 100K miles out of them with minimal repairs.
I don't follow what you're trying to say about her "gleeful enunciation".
Golang – bare bones pixel graphics window
Yes totally agree and I want to add that it enables us to add docstring or similar where we document the function and expectations of inputs, which can be very helpful.

As an extreme case, one time I made a function with a single line that just delegated to a builtin function. But it had 5 lines of docstring explaining what it was doing in terms of business requirements and 5 lines of comments explaining how the builtin function accomplished that.

Before a few changes like this, the mixture of abstraction levels (what I was doing vs how I was doing it) was a big impediment for me. I would stare at the code for hours trying to figure out if it was correct or not and only being able to hold all the complexity in my head at the very peaks of concentration.

But yeah that was an unusual case.
It's disappointing how often the knee-jerk "why are they getting paid millions to fail" implication comes around given this is exactly why things happen the way they do. It weaponizes people's desire for fairness.
I'm not the OP, and this isn't quite what you're asking for. You'll have to dig through a lot of horseshit and cracked pottery to find them, but there are gems at Rex Research.

http://rexresearch.com/1index.htm
GaN Will Address Energy Efficiency Demands for Tech in 2019
I'm from Europe but I live near Queretaro (Mexico) in a small village.

- I have a decent internet connection. Optic fiber 30Mbps.

- Rent is cheap. $600 USD for a 3 bdr house with garden in a fancy neighborhood.

- Almost no crime. I rarely lock the door of my house.

- Great food at reasonable prices. The area is known for its cheese and wine production.

- Very very silent place which is super important for me.

- Most people you find are honest and peaceful
The response could be a closer approximation of linear by using six tubes, two magnets each, with varying initial distances. As the stick compresses, additional magnets contribute force, but not all at once.
I've occasionally wanted to translate some material from another Wikipedia, in a language I can read, into English. But the referencing in that Wikipedia is often quite bad, so I wouldn't be able to reference it properly in the English Wikipedia. Finding and interpreting good sources then starts to look like a major research project.
Building a networked console app in .NET Core
exactly what i thought!
What's deadly is the other type of failure, where the counter weight causes the elevator to shoot upwards, like what happened in that elevator in Chile. There's a video of the guy confused as the doors continued to open/close at each floor. He had severe injuries.

Apparently if that ever happens, your best bet is to lay flat on the floor with your hands covering your head, as the impact will launch you upward.
The probability of a joke being funny increases as a function of attraction as well
The article says they used thorium-230 dating to calibrate layered samples from the stalagmites. This cave was special because the stalagmites did not contain much carbon from limestone, but did include atmospheric carbon.
OP here, this is my naive attempt at using Go to create a basic GUI window to render basic graphics to. I couldn't find anything like this for Go in my searches so I thought I'd have a go at it myself.
I welcome any suggestions and comments on better ways to do this and improve the code base, thanks.
737 is a much older aircraft. The A320 and subsequent Airbus jets and Boeing jets since 777 have been electronic.
Leonard Susskind on Feynman, the Holographic Principle, and Unanswered Physics
BTW, I wasn't against the idea of a right-sized approach, or against your previous work. Very much in favor of both those things. Your work obviously did very well. So did this automation 30 years ago. My whole original remark is about a temporal dimension, which is why I brought up the lights to anchor them to today.

Back then, you could do things more freely with less capable and available hardware. Different environment. Concept of computers was scratching the surface of what they could do for us, and people didn't have a notion of liabilities. And yes, the student didn't install the HVAC systems, but how did tele-operated harwdware interface with it? They didn't have echo dots and knockoff power plugs back then.

Today, you have all that available hardware but can't realistically do things as freely. Suffice it to say that the environment has clammed up on all fronts for an amateur to enter an industry. In some cases rightfully so (only experts for surgeries, plumbing and wiring for me please). In others, egregiously wrong barriers. For example, commonly the first thing that happens in a public institution or agency is that the losing bidder files FOIA requests trying to litigate why their solution was passed up and by whom, including copies of correspondence between them. Imagine having to deal with that dimension.

Back to traffic lights: for something so rudimentary yet so vital, it costs millions of dollars for a handful of intersections, and they're everywhere. Nearly a prime candidate for a four raspberry pi solution, right? You'd think someone would have attempted it.
You can also linearize it by making the displacement small enough -- which is how Hooke's law actually works.
But minus points because transfering the energy and storing it in a battery loses some.

Still, China is probably completely content with getting the pollution out of the city.
And of course it's a blockchain with smart contracts.

Not that it's inherently a bad approach, but it's very much a fad that's often applied without thinking.
I'd prefer that executive compensation above a certain threshold was held in trust for 5 years, and clawed back under certain circumstances.

That way the core executive team would be motivated to bring in the extra $200 million _without_ requiring huge bonus payouts for failure.
Sorry, I should have been clearer. The macro way of doing it doesn't mess with stack traces as it expands to pretty clean scheme code, at least after the optimizer has had it's way.

I am sad that most languages don't have macros since it is a very powerful tool. Not only does it let you abstract the ugliness away from approaches like this python one (which is actually pretty decent), but it also let's you produce good machine code from a "bolted on" construct. The python matcher is bound to have some overhead, whereas a syntactically expanded one is not.
We also have a HUGE, far more diverse, far more spread out population that's an order of magnitude larger than the Netherlands.
"Who do you think should sponsor the creation of arts and the publication of news?"

The government is the obvious choice. The USA already has the National Endowment for the Arts, which is a good start but it needs vastly more money. The important thing is that the NEA has none of the corrupting biases that afflict companies such as Google and Facebook.

Most Western countries have some equivalent for the NEA.
How carefully did you check the surgeon's ID?
I agree that they should, but it’s pretty reductionist and arrogant to call it “trivial”. There is no such thing as a one-size-fits-all dynamic compressor. You would also need a fairly sophisticated content detection system (don’t distort anything that is music, which is a huge use case on YouTube for example). Not to mention adding _any_ steps to their intake pipeline requires more processing power and data moving than you and I will ever touch in our lifetimes.
of

- Narcos
- The OA
- The Haunting of Hill House
- Marvel series. All of them!
- GLOW
- Ozark
- Altered Carbon
- American Vandal
- 13 Reasons Why

I've seen all of Altered Carbon, some of Ozark, some of Narcos, and 2 seasons of Marvel (Daredevil season 1 and 2).

None of them were particularly amazing.
The whole point of including minesweeper was to train people to use the mouse.
It's certainly not ethically sound to lock out people from poor countries just because you don't want them to be poor nearby.
Are you saying that almost everything isn't crap?
Before the rise of ubiquitous ads, the web was publisher-pays. If you wanted a blog, you would pay a host a few bucks a month to host it.

I wonder if that's the model that the web will move back to. There's the argument to be made that the advertising model supports 'independent' news and social media, but it sure doesn't look that way - we'd move from partisan media supported through ads to partisan media supported by parties, which seems more direct.
When Tocqueville visted decades after the Constitution was adopted, he remarked on how the federal government was remote, and not very much of a concern in peoples lives. Nearly everything he had to say about how democracy mostly-successfully holds tyranny in check was about about state politics.
If it were that simple, wouldn't the police simply take your watch too?
Where I lived, school could shut down for a week if the heat wasn’t working right. That has a huge financial impact.
Why do NFL quarterbacks get paid millions even when they lose? Because they’ll only sign in the first place if their contract gives them that right.

Same with execs. Nobody who’s any good will agree to work for a failing company unless they’re guaranteed a payoff. Why try to work on something that’s probably going to fail when there are so many growing companies out there?

BTW the same is true for other highly-sought talent like engineers. Big companies on the brink of failure will shell out if that’s what it takes. It’s not special treatment for the “rule-makers”.
We recently binge watched both seasons of Stranger Things. Stranger Things and Altered Carbon on Netflix and The Marvelous Mrs Maisal and The Expanse on Amazon have been my most enjoyed shows this year.
AMP is a fork of HTML that pressures limited developer resources to maintain a version for Google's visitors while only being fast because of arbitrary framework limitations.

You can get a far better outcome by having search results consider site speed as a factor in rankings, which would make all publishers improve their sites overnight. The reason Google doesn't do this is because they also run the biggest ad network in the world which runs 80% of the slow ads you see on websites.

These projects within Google are common, similar to how it ranks down websites forcing web users to download an app, when their own websites do the same. AMP allows Google to keep people on Google domains, with better data collection and more control over the independent ad networks and analytics that can run on AMP pages.
To be fair, they were talking about self-orgsnizing exponential growth, but I think that makes your point quite well too. Not many people here are going to lament Moore's law.
I don’t think pianos typically have any springs, everything is gravity powered with counterweights. The only springiness comes from striking the strings as far as I know. Only the really cheap electronic keyboards use springs. Even halfway decent electronic pianos still rely on counterweights.
The consumer.
> Who do you think should sponsor the creation of arts and the publication of news?

Direct support from the public would make sense, this is already at work, to some extent. The problem with this is that people are already so used to free that it may be difficult to implement.

A license system would be a good idea. It is still far off, but authors associations are working on this in some countries.
A year after net neutrality's demise, the Internet is faster
In the similar vein I wonder if exploding lithium ion batteries can be used as small rocket fuel
You can easily tell that it wasn't in free fall, because if it fell 84 floors in free fall and then stopped, the passengers would have died.
So it's cooler, more reliable, AND bigger than modern computers? We need to go back.
Re the reference to Vectuary. Here's the decision:[1]

They sell an add-on for apps which snoops on the user's location and sends it to them for advertising purposes. The French data privacy regulator said that required Vecturary to get explicit user consent. But Vectuary has no customer interaction of their own. They claimed to rely on some chain of consent from some other party, but couldn't prove they actually had consent from every user.

This is the biggest effect of the GPDR. Ad companies which have no customer contact of their own are on shaky legal ground.
Some adtech companies have shut down operations in Europe.[2]
No loss there.

The big winners are Google and Facebook, which both have user signups and run ads. They can ask for consent.

[1] https://translate.google.com/translate?depth=1&hl=en&prev=se...

[2] https://digiday.com/media/ad-tech-firms-quitting-europe-blam...
And then explain why their heater hacked the entire network, or helped DDoS the governor's site during an election? Probably not the best idea to hook things like this up to the internet.
Büsingen is one. People pay with Swiss Franc, houses have two postcodes, the local soccer club plays in the Swiss league. "Vehicles with BÜS licence plates are treated as Swiss vehicles for customs purposes." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%BCsingen_am_Hochrhein#Pec...
Fair compensation also requires fair opportunity to increase one's own value. For most of us, there is no path that leads from "valuable employee" to "indispensable executive", which is where I think some frustration is justified.
You should definitely change your password ASAP! Anyone can currently access your database and break stuff :(
It’s a jewel. One of my favorite moments and a sample of that chemistry for the interested..

https://youtu.be/uVcAazaigiQ
What do have against somebody camping on your lawn?
Just as ineffective
Wow amazing I cant wait to see what you come up with next!
Show HN: Hardware-agnostic library for near-term quantum machine learning
KKnD Milestone 0.1.0 released