skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Within days of the departure of Uber and Lyft there were competing services that operated just fine under the new regulations.

Good point, I always forget to mention those. While not without their own technical issues, I think RideATX (I forget what the other competing service that sprung up during that legislative frackas was named-was it Fasten that you mentioned?) had a lot going for it with real promise as a model cities could follow during the months Austin went without the two big names in ridesharing.

The story is even more baffling when you consider the story of HeyRide, who launched in Austin before Uber and Lyft even showed up (http://austin.culturemap.com/news/innovation/11-01-12-15-51-...)
> "marijuana abuse"

> "illegal drug"

Holy fucking bias.

1) There's nothing to support that the study participants were abusing marijuana

2) Medical marijuana was legalized in California in 1996 and numerous other states until recreational legalization began in 2012. This study was conducted from 2000 - 2017 so it stands to reason that many of these users were completely legal under their state jurisdiction at the time. Obviously it's been illegal on a federal level the entire time.

3) The 55% is the percentage that had ever used it. A study by the National Institute of Health [1] conducted in 2017 found that 45.20% of the 12yr+ respondents said they had used it at least once in their lifetime (and 52.7% of the 18-26 cohort).

I'm not even here to defend whether or not this study in particular is rigorous or not, but you need to drop the 1971 War on Drugs propaganda.

[1] https://www.drugabuse.gov/national-survey-drug-use-health
Are you kidding about historical information not being applicable enough to tourism? Versailles, the Acropolis, the Great Wall, D.C., Stonehenge, Machu Picchu...?
nVidia's Volta is used for training primarily and we've already hit 1 ExaFlop in some DL HPC systems.

Also most HPC (and now slowly deep learning too), is limited by data movement not raw FLOPs. LINPACK is out, HPC-G is in.
At this point, the 7 won't probably get updates nearly as long as the XR will.
This tutorial also cites it.
That is indeed what many here are advocating. There are only so many possible interfaces or implementations, and usually abstracting over one or the other is an effort in reinventing the wheel, or the saw, or the water clock, and not doing the job as well as some standard parts glued together until quite far into the endeavor.
You have to normalize to something like the GDP or GDP per capita or similar, with inflation numbers from the past cannot be compared to numbers in the present.
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What does pay have to do with a job being an "office" job? Are corporate lawyers and accountants not office jobs?

If you work in an office, then by definition, you work an office job.
> Why? What's the business reason? What does a native app provide the business that a mobile website doesn't?

Simple: you can’t block ads in a native App (at least not by installing an ad blocker or other methods accessible to normal users, you‘d have to modify DNS responses or similar).
> When you pay at a supermarket, often the cashiers are supposed to say thank you for shopping with us mr/ms Lastname.

Wait, what? That's creepy.
If the job prospects of history majors are teacher and cab driver, then it's not very attractive to many people for good reason. History is important, historians are important, but not everyone needs to study it. The skills only have limited demands on the job market and its dangerous to tell people to study history if they have meek prospects, especially in a place like the US where colleges aren't tuition free.
Most revolutionary thinkers don't think replacing the existing leaders will "magically" lead to a better society.

They have grievances with the existing systems, reason to believe those in power won't address those grievances, and reason to believe replacing those in power with people more sympathetic to their grievances will address them.

Also, there has been a boatload of revolutionary thought about how to make a better society over the last century or so. There are clear ways that our system is imperfect and clear ideas of how it could be improved. I'm not sure why you claim there are no "intellectual improvements" over the status quo.
It’s not just a translation issue, but that the composition is just archaic. The constituents had real meaning a long time ago when they became a word, but today you just understand 天真 as its own word and move on. If you didn’t know that word but understood 天 and 真 you wouldn’t be able to figure out the word’s meaning.

The same is true with many English words as well actually: many of them started out as composites that were meaningful in the last but today are not. For example, “understand.”
Wow, how have I never heard of this podcast before? Looks amazing, thanks!
Add an extra 5 minutes for every official form in the future where you have to answer "Did you previously use a different name?" and provide documentation for it. Add more time if your name change happened in a different country and you need to provide officially translated documentation.
neither of those quotes, written by people who are not biologists, actually demonstrate how Gould is supposedly wrong. I find it ironic that they are the ones accusing Gould of politicizing evolutionary biology, but they are the ones doing the politicizing.
The cognitive load is higher on Rust, not only do we have to annotate the code, to have the same semantics as Swift we have to write Rc<RefCell<T>> everywhere, which isn't that ergonomic.

On other side, as discussed recently at CCC regarding writing drivers in safe languages, Swift's GC as reference counting generates even less performant code than Go or .NET tracing GC, so there is also room to improvement there.
He said they were rare, not unheard of. There have been several in the last 5yrs while your quoted links have 50yrs between them. Surely that is considered a significant speed up?
> worship of popular developers by name

Worship is a bit of a strong word, but in any case the likes of Lovelace, Turing, Von-Neuman, Knuth, K&R, Stallman, Wozniak, Berners-Lee, Torvalds all predate the movie.
H.264s intermediate frames are none trivial. Some features do get dropped, but in the majority later standards are more complex.
Useful information and advice, along with a little tongue-in-cheek humor:

> So I turned to my favorite source of wisdom: Facebook.
> I always fact-check whatever I read on Facebook!
Ask HN: Question to people working at companies like Apple, Google etc.
Hi HN, I am 32 and I have a software business (kind of SASS but not fully subscription based, some one time license sales going as well) which is making me around $200K/year, I am sole founder/developer/designer with almost no business expenses (~$10K/year for office room and server expenses) and profits are growing slowly year over year, but I have to always work on improving it in order for it to constantly grow.

I now have two small kids and on a days when I don't get too many new signups/sales I start to worry about the future, and I start to wonder if it's maybe worth for me to try to get a job at a company like Apple or Google or something like that, just to add it to my resume, because right now I don't have much to show in it since I've been mostly working on my own stuff which was making me profit and also some consulting work for small clients.

I have couple questions to those who work/worked at a big 5 company. Did you feel financial security for your future? Did you still want to quit and run your own company? Also I wonder if hiring process in this type of company even looks at wether you had a profitable business or not? I've never been in interviews in big companies (any companies actually in the last 10 years or so) so I don't even know what position should I look for, senior product designer? Developer? Or maybe a manager or a team lead? Or maybe should I focus on my software instead? The main issue is that I worry that if my company fails in the next 5-10 years - I won't have much to show on my resume to get a good job offer. I would appreciate any input.
Dailyscandinavian seems to have mixed up the numbers a bit.

In Sweden parents get 480 in total together, of which 390 are at 80% (capped at 989 SEK = 138 USD / day), and 90 days are at a minimum level (180 SEK = 25 USD). Out of the 480 days, 90 are reserved to each parent (used to be 60 before 2016) and the non-pregnant parent (usually a father) gets extra 10 days at the birth.
I think the main reason is that foreign word went from being foreign to being fashionable. People love to use foreign word when talking about food because it makes them sound knowledgeable and well travelled.
There are plenty of actual communists on reddit you know.
Using "wage slave" unironically for cushy office jobs betrays a pretty severe lack of empathy and historical perspective.
One recommendation: When learning Characters, write them out physically (or in an app)

The characters are designed to be written with a brush dipped in ink. The shape, order and direction are arranged such that a right handed person has minimal chances of smudging prior strokes.

This kind of muscle memory seems to be very beneficial even to recognizing the characters (much like autoencoders or transfer learning in AI).
> I'm always confused why those troubled by the lobbying criticize the influencers instead of the influenced.

Bribery tends to be a crime because we haven't found a way to short circuit en masse the human tendency to submit to influence.

> Lulz...what kind of terrible spin is that. I would be ashamed if I voted for this guy. Lyft doesn't pass laws.

Considering your comment, I shouldn't be surprised that you would be dismissive of the idea that directing influence means exerting greater control over the legislative process; it's only the technicalities (i.e. Lyft is not a legislator) that differ. The statement holds, and I think many of us would appreciate a more dignified rebuttal to the article's point rather than "lulz."
How the EPA Measures Air Quality (Interactive)
We at Radix Labs (S18) use Z3 (and CVC4/SyGuS) heavily as a library to solve place-and-route problems for goal directed robot path planning problems.

Its facilities for program construction over the integers, sets, bitvectors, and reals make it an ideal candidate for this, especially when leveraging nu-Z3 for optimization over these.

With Z3, we’re able to construct optimized routes for robots extremely fast (especially with extensions over the techniques described in [1]), and as a direct result, derive value for our customers as execution time is important when dealing with expensive equipment.

A couple of my friends over at trail of bits do the work that saurabh does at synthetic minds, and their code is open source so you can take a look at it. [2]

It’s a decently active field of research, with solvers trading blows in the annual SMT-COMP [3]. check out their instances to see how people really use them.

[1] https://papers.nips.cc/paper/8233-learning-to-solve-smt-form...

[2] https://www.trailofbits.com/services/blockchain-security/

[3] http://smtcomp.sourceforge.net/2018/
More Alleged SIM Swappers Face Justice
Ah yes, a career ended in part thanks to a vindictive propaganda campaign by Ancel Keys. He of the very carefully cherry picked 7 countries study "proving" fat was the culprit.

It's a shame Yudkin didn't live long enough to see his reputation mostly restored.

Also a reminder that the Telegraph was once a half decent paper.
3,000 millions. Not 3 million, not 30 or 300. 3 thousand millions dollars. Unbelievable. And they barely make and revenue. Think about this for a moment.. if internet would stay like this for the rest of your grand children life, then they would make that money back. Bu we are at the tip of an ice berg. 15 years ago nobody knew half of the world will be using Facebook, daily. To think that those giants survive in next 25 or 50 years and everyone will get their money back and then some more.. its staggering!
If money was not part of the equation I would have loved to have studied history.
What exactly is low quality about the source? Apart from the fact that Mr. Walker is without question an expert in public transport most of the blog post reprints a letter from the city of Portland outlining Lyft's dirty tacticts.

The actual blog entry simply outlines the different requirements between dense - and suburban city areas.

Your comment, smearing the original poster, seems to me vile and totally beyond the point.
I think Michael Bolton was the only engineer, at one point he says something like "they better not fire us software guys", the main character was in finance or something, whoever cares about TPS reports and I'm not sure if Samirs was mentioned. Apart from the ability to hack the system they're generic office drones and their job titles aren't really important.

I think with trends like cubical farms, open plan offices and hotdesking software development companies lag behind other industries.
Show HN: I created Internet's most romantic site
The image you linked to exhibits horrible artifacts - but then again, you saved the screencap as a JPEG then uploaded it to a service that likely further butchers the image.
MostRomanticSite.com - I created a side project to build Internet's most romantic website to prove to my wife that I am romantic. :-)
"The Inner Reaches of Outer Space: Metaphor as Myth and as Religion" by Joseph Campbell
"Extreme Ownership" - Jocko Willink and Leif Babin : This is an amazing book which will make you stop complaining no matter what. It's all on you to make it better. Such an amazing book which changed my perspective on external world dependencies.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23848190-extreme-ownersh...

"Tools of Titans" - Tim Ferriss : This book can be seen a summary of 15 most popular non-fiction books. There are a lot of guests in this book with a diverse back ground. There is wide wisdom you can pick on every page of this book.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31823677-tools-of-titans
> The only exceptions are revolutions guided by good ideas and solid values.

Those are mostly not exceptions; successfully uprooting an existing power structure takes more than good ideas and solid values, and replacing it with something that will stably sustain itself both during the revolutionary emergency and afterwards without either falling apart or enabling a power hungry would be despot to exploit it to create an authoritarian regime takes far more than that.
How so? It seems like the mayor is reacting to lobbying by Lyft.
Not a native Chinese speaker, but I am a proficient speaker of Chinese as a second language. No dog in this fight except to mention that "天真" does have a "sum of its parts" aspect for me. I sometimes think of it in relation to the Chinese word for "congenital" (天生, tiānshēng). In the case of congenital, the 天 (tiān) part is better translated as "heaven", "God", "fate" or "nature", and for me, carries aspects of all of those English words. 生 (shēng) in this context means "born" as in "was born with". Think "congenital defect", a defect that you had before birth, which you could only blame God, or nature for.

So 天真 (tiānzhēn), along the same lines, roughly translated, means "then sense of reality that you have when you are born or which you are gifted by nature", unsophisticated and naive. Don't know if that makes sense, but I've always thought about these two words together and felt like I understood them better through context.
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I think he was specifically referring to people making a joke about the name, rather than those who are merely unable to pronounce it.
Just a heads up - the theory explained in that book (Austrian school) is 100% fringe economics. It's very popular with libertarians, but not really considered to produce very useful outcomes by pretty much any other school of economics.
Those aren't counters, they're measure words[0]. E.g. I saw two rolls of film or two films. sticks of dynamite, blades of grass, grains of sand. These function differently than counters in other languages.

Korean (and Chinese, I'm assuming) has actual counters/classifiers [1], that is, separate grammatical concepts. 저는 차 두 대를 봤어요 - Here, (대) is the counter for cars (차/차동차). I saw two [counter] cars. This concept doesn't exist in English, except for measure words which serve a different purpose.

For Korean there are around 30-35 or so [2] used in common speech I believe, with 개 being a general catch all for objects. Other examples include: One has to use 명 or 분 for people, and 달 or 개월 for months (duration).

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measure_word

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classifier_(linguistics)

[2]: http://www.koreanwikiproject.com/wiki/Counting_items
I'm still using the SE because I don't want a big phone. Kudos to Apple for making a quality technical device that's around 4 years old now but still quite capable. However, shame on them for not making a flagship 'mini' phone.
> ~20% bitrate savings of x265

Ironically, most x265 movies I’ve seen appear to be HDR blu-ray rips with no attempt to reduce size at all, and they’re usually north of 50GB. You can get 80-90% bitrate savings on these without significant loss of quality.
Since when is GitHUB a version control system?
Although Sowell writes very convincingly and brings logical arguments at first sight, most of his statements on the free market are based on intuition rather than data. He consistently uses a handful of examples (minimum wage, housing market) and extrapolates those to other areas in the economy without substantiation. Always assuming a fully efficient market (which it is not, see different bubbles in past few decades), rational actors (i.e. ignoring human emotion and/or marketing effects that effect consumer spending) and full price elasticity of all goods/services/labor.

It's an interesting read, but be (very) skeptical. The world and economics is a bit more complex than the picture he portrays.
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Accountants usually don’t have lavish perks or doctor-level paychecks though. The lifestyles of all of the big2+elite startup engineers I know is miles different from the characters in the movie.

I watched the movie much later than most people on this website and was most shocked by the fact that he was neighbors with a construction worker. That sort of class co-mingling seems vanishingly rare in my social circle.
EU recalls children's smartwatch over data fears
> I guess that's why the US revolution worked.

The US “Revolution” was a regional separatist movement led by the local elites and local governments that did not upend the basic local social, economic, or political power structure save for severing the latter from a remote central government (and the resulting new central system was replaced with something more closely approximating, and deliberately modeled on, the old one very shortly after the Revolution in the face of widespread perception of imminent failure otherwise.)

In other words, it mostly wasn't revolutionary and in the one way that it was it mostly failed.
Actually it does have automatic destructors, they're just not the default option.

The first way to auto destroy objects is to expose an Interface and free your object in the Release method. You can inherit from several class types that already do that if you don't want to rewrite a new class.

The second way is a newer feature that allows you to define Initiazlize and Finalize methods on any complex type. When you define these methods, the compiler generates code to reference count your object and call Initazlize on create, and Finalize when your object is no longer referenced. This works the same on stack based types as well as heap allocated types.

See also http://wiki.freepascal.org/management_operators
Guns, Germs and Steel is an absolute garbage book. It's pseudoscience, plain and simple. It's teaching unacceptable ways to think about culture, by any anthropologist's standards.
I also wonder if there's a subtle psychological effect here: You, in particular, sound like you know a whole lot about at least a few things. But, that means when you tackle something new, the "know a lot about it" bar is set really high.

You're already an expert at X, so you know how hard it is to
become an expect at something, and when you start learning Y, it's clear how hard you have to work in order to get close to the same magnitude as your knowledge of X. As a result, it feels like it "takes longer" to learn stuff. But maybe it's just more stuff?

I think I heard this argument first made by Adam Savage (of Mythbusters fame).
No kidding... This probably means that Cannabis causes infertity by some means other than lowering sperm count. Imagine the statistic: gang members admitted to the hospital were 40 percent less likely than non gang members to be diagnosed with heart disease. That's probably not because they eat a healthy diet and exercise. It's probably because the rest of the population is less likely to be diagnosed with a gunshot wound.
And with required authenticated encryption, one would hope an intervening switch or router couldn't accidentally forge a message that's supposed to be hard to forge when you're trying.
Economics, like all social sciences is nowhere near as sound as the hard sciences. You simply cannot have control groups for many experiments so you are left with case studies, which are often unconvincing. For example, does a true free market really exist anywhere in the world? How about a 100% command economy? How can you honesty determine if the federal reserve helps or hurts the economy?
I have Syrian refugee neighbors, we live almost a stone's throw from the Rhine, they seem fine
You're confused why they're at a fertility clinic if they have a high sperm count? Conception is a two player co-op game and you can't carry your partner.