skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dynamic Yield (reasonably) seems to focus initial efforts on associating a unique id with customers. Given that, it's not much of a leap at all to think that McDonald's will start capturing license plates in the drive through and associating them with the correct order. (Heck, they might do it already) With Dyanamic Yield they then offer custom recommendations the next time that plate number is detected.

I'm not sure if that creeps me out, or if the data geek in me likes the elegant solution to a problem. Why choose? It can be both.
Moot point - well obviously the other person would feel differently - who wouldn't?

Although that argument only works if you stereotype things completely. On one side we have a savvy outspoken salesman and on the other a shy introvert coder. And each thinks the other is completely replaceable. Kind of black/white don't you think?

Thats sort of the VC mental model i.e. the mantra that more people in the team makes it more likely that the startup has the entire skillset needed to create a successful business. On the other hand - one of the top reasons for startups failing is cofounder disputes. So difficult to say - are more founders less or more risky? :)

Most serial founders I know are actually pretty good at multiple things - experience and endless pitches will often do that to you.
Is elimination of vert transmission of HIV in high prevalence environs feasible?
> The family (not my wife) asked me to talk to my brother-in-law about this because nobody else could get through to him.

This is a very tough situation and I don't think it was any lack of skill on your part that made you unable to get through to your brother-in-law this time. I don't think the world's champion hostage negotiator could have done it on the first try.

I'm a little unclear on one aspect, though. You say your goal is to get your brother-in-law to allow your wife to talk to medical staff. But the family not your wife is asking you to talk to him? Yet they're not asking for anyone else, other than your wife, to be able to talk to medical staff? If there are aunts and uncles, presumably some of them are siblings of your father-in-law, as closely related as his children and with as much right to be involved in medical discussions as your wife has. Yet they're not trying to get themselves involved in the process? Only your wife?

(Also, as I commented elsewhere in the thread, if I were in your position, I would not want to take this on unless I was sure my wife was OK with it. I can totally see that she might just not want to have the discussion herself because of her history with her brother; I just would want to be sure that she was OK with what was being done.)
Oh yeah, that's why I'm interested in that algorithm :-)

Honestly, the more and more I look into this, it seems like GPUs are the ideal computational platform for this problem. We're talking about a simple equation, with numbers that fit inside the 64-bit integer space (less than 10^19). GPUs can calculate that somewhat easily (The compiler probably turns 64-bit multiplies into 4x32-bit multiplies + adds, but that's still low in memory usage...)

I'm not sure if one GPU would be enough to compute everything. But we're talking about 512-cpu cores at 1-month of computing. A GPU probably can solve it within 6 months.

I'm talking about replicating the work done on "33" by the way, not on 42. If 10^19 is sufficient for a search space, then 64-bit ints can be used.

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It won't be an easy port btw. The three variables are written as x^2 - 2xy + y^2 == (33 - z^3) / d, where d = (x+y).

The Numberphile video said that "d" is brute-force searched, because there are very few values of "z" that would satisfy the above formula. So every shader probably can brute-force d on its own in a GPU.

Overall, seems pretty efficient to run this on a GPU. Very little memory, everything probably fits in GPU-register space.
You could do this reasonably straightforwardly within an existing programming language: make a string wrapper type that had the standard I/O functionality as a "friend" or equivalent, so that printing the string to standard error prints its actual contents, but any other use turns into "The value of this string is not part of a stable API." Or more simply, provide an exception type such that getting its string description isn't a public function, but if it's uncaught from main(), whatever in the language runtime invokes main() is allowed to get the description.

That said, it sounds like the "real" problem here is that there's no programmatic way to investigate details an exception, and the answer should likely be to make an extensible structure (to which you can add new fields later) that contains the meaningful information in the exception string.... Ideally the exception string should be a static, probably translatable template string that you can use with the language's printf equivalent to fill in the per-exception data in the structured fields.
> I truly don't think most people that argue to work for a startup have internalized the compensation at the big tech companies.

Completely agree. For instance I don't think anyone who throws around the term "market rate salary" has updated their definition of it to include these dramatically higher numbers.

Not to mention, housing costs in the bay area have followed (or been driven by, depending on your perspective) these rising big co salaries. Meaning that startup salaries not only haven't kept up, they may have even gone down in terms of how much money you take home after paying for housing.
>Just ask Napster, LimeWire, Scour, Kazaa, Grokster, Madster, and eDonkey2000, all of which were brought down by injunctions.

All of those were commercial outings trying to make money out of their proprietary piracy client software, the open source versions are still around, and even very old networks like ed2k is still up and running. The current 'dominant form' is bittorrent, and from what I can tell it is doing just fine.
Why did you put quotes around 'backlash'? Do you not believe that there was one, or do you believe the reaction wasn't a backlash?
Why is that interesting? It's explained by the theories of both regulation proponents (industries that are dysfunctional get regulated) and opponents (industries that are regulated become dysfunctional). Therefore it wouldn't seem to have much informational value.
Available in Proton 4.2
I keep looking at bitwarden, but because of the value I put on my time not fiddling with alternatives I've found 1password to continue to be worth the money.

I really really wish it worked more effectively with the yubikey, though. For my purposes this is at least 50% the fault of Apple/iOS, but even on android it's limited.
Imagine how many thousand man-hours would be saved in debugging if this existed a decade ago. Little things like this over time adds up.
"If someone orders two Happy Meals at 5 o’clock, for instance, that’s probably a parent ordering for their kids; highlight a coffee or snack for them, and they might decide to treat themselves to a pick-me-up. And as with any machine-learning system, the real benefits will likely come from the unexpected."
It looks like 'machine learning', 'data mining', etc. gets thrown around a lot even when irrelevant. That machine was never going to find out that it was a parent in there ordering 2 happy meals for their kids. Its more like 'if 2 an item tagged for_kids sold then suggest item tagged for_adults, if weather_temp > 40 degreea then suggest ice coffee otherwise hot coffee' where is machine learning in that?
I honestly would prefer they showed me my recent orders based on my cars license plate just like dominos.com does when I go back on their website
And even when those kids in the burbs want to walk places, their parents risk being arrested for it [1].

[1]: https://www.cnn.com/2014/07/31/living/florida-mom-arrested-s...
How did this guy manage to write an entire article on GNU, the FSF, and ultimately open-source, without once mentioning Richard Stallman's name?
Password Gorilla

https://github.com/zdia/gorilla/wiki
That’s still a year before any of us really felt the Great Recession. I was in my first year of college back then..
I know I've grown old when this history and the nuance of the open source concepts need to be spelled out for a new audience.

Just some self-reflection. Thank you very much Steve for doing so in your usual engaging style.
So if I get this correct, the app ID of com.mommysaverapp.plus is correct but the screenshots they use to justify their app removal are not from that app?!
>> Not the biggest, but the richest

It depends on what you mean by rich.
From a GDP PPP perspective there are issues on short, medium and long term when compared with other countries.
For example:
China is richer than the whole of the EU (incl UK).
US is almost as rich as the EU.
India is 1/2 and Japan 1/4.

*By rich I mean GDP PPP.
MIDI (only controls sounds, does not generate them) is widely used to trigger samples, so slip some samples of bird noises into your mix and trigger away.
Yes, more and more super-suburban living, combined with increasingly restrictive teen driving regulations, curfews, and fear-based media stories about abductions have ratcheted down the ability of teens to hang out together. So when technology came along to enable improved interpersonal contact, it was embraced far more rapidly than it would have been if teen freedom were as high as it was in the 70s.

The graphs they show don't perfectly correlate to the trends in hanging out in person. While smartphones have definitely contributed to changes in the culture (for everyone, not just teens), it's false to pretend that they are entirely responsible for changes in loneliness. It just as well may correlate to being bombarded by reactionary hatred from adults over things teens have grown up thinking about more openly, like more open ideas about gender and sexuality. Or perhaps from finding themselves in a culture of fear about mass shootings while again faced with an adult political establishment who does nothing about it. Or maybe just facing the reality that the grown-ups are making things worse, day by day, and that they're going to have to clean this all up after us.

Smartphones have nothing to do with that.
Welcome to hn, we meet again!
There also ought be more public spaces in general. When everything is all zoned up to be residential or commercial, there's nowhere to go without a credit card.
That was an incredible response. Thank you so much for sharing your advice!
Because it's irrelevant to the point of the article. It's not about who or the minutia of what happened (what!? no mention of the printer driver!?), it's about the driving principles and the landscape we have today.
Smith County Texas will eventually get sued for this for indefinite imprisonment. There have been a few cases there where they put people in jail for 'contempt of court' for not paying child support. They throw the person in jail, then as that date comes up they demand the person pay further due child support, and keep said person in jail, but since it's a new charge they can keep doing it again and again and again.
We were dealing with this today! so we want to use type="number" but it doesn't work!

first, the browser default error message is not accessible.

then we decided to use novalidate="novalidate" to tell browser to not do the validation.

Chrome does not submit the value if the input is not perfect numeric ( try "......"). so it does wipe out user input without letting us catch it on the server!

We just changed it back to type="text" !:(
Gamma hydroxy butyrate abuse and dependency (2005)
Machine learning isn’t magic. It’s just math.

Feature: for_kids, for_adults

Machine learning allows you to generalize inference across a large number of features.

Instead of hardcodong control flow, you train to maximize an objective function.

The belief is that once trained, you can infer cheaply and scalably.
So far as I can tell, yes.

I googled the app in the screenshots and it shows in google but now it 404s, just like Mommy Saver Plus. So it seems they removed the correct app also.
Hacker's Keyboard is a good choice for Android phones.
Or disable notifications! My phone has been on silent since 2012, and badge alerts are disabled for nearly everything. I find that I check it enough to see a text if someone needs to reach me.
I can tell you that as a parent of an 18 yr old, I've always encouraged him to go out and be with his friends. Since he was 12, he's much preferred to meet online in games. Whole groups of them. Whooping and hollering until the wee hours of the morning, when they can.

But, I generally agree with your statement.

Oh, I have a son, some it might be vastly different for daughters.
whats taiwain? (searching for this term returns 0 results. i'm in china)
> You can use Mastodon [0] instead of Twitter, PeerTube [1] instead of YouTube, Aether [2] instead of reddit, etcetera

try convincing _anyone_ who isn't already on one of those platforms to switch. It's nice on-paper to say "don't like? don't use" but it's not going to happen.
Thanks. I skimmed the linked "Mapper" article they cite as their method, and it looks about as topological as t-SNE, i.e. in the sense of caring about local nearness but not global distance.

But did I miss any heavier stuff? Is this all people mean when they talk about topological data analysis?
Visual Studio 2019 Prev2 New Optimizations, OpenMP, Build Throughput Improvement
I remember that article too! I used the same technique to make a convincing, non-duplicating flame-flicker algorithm for an led. 3 variables, all looping to different prime numbers and the sum of the 3 variables was the led intensity.
How real time malvertising solutions work
Yes indeed. Have worked with several clients and chatted with several startups that ultimately decide to migrate off due to extremely high cost as they grow relative to other platforms.
Many of us did this back in the day, and now we're stuck with our gmail addresses.
It's because NVC has taken away the natural way for people to express frustration, which is by being short with the other person.

Personally, I don't get it either. No one I'm frustrated with seems to understand that if I tell them in an unhurried, matter-of-fact way. They may say that they prefer me to express frustration that way, but it gets no results. I don't see the appeal.
Other than moral connotation and RMS being the way he is, Open Source is just business friendly rebranding of Free Software. Is there anything else to the "FSF model" that is different from OSI proposition?

I don't buy the FSF position that Open Source is only about efficiency, collaboration etc and that Free Software is superior - it is the same thing, albeit different language but the concepts are identical. Playing moral superiority is only counterproductive to FSF. Btw I wish them to succeed even if that might literally mean becoming a tax exempt church so that we could all be praying by the holy book of Emacs.
Emissions testing makes owning a beater risky.
Amazon Aurora MySQL now supports GTID based replication
Your mistake was writing a "two sentence appeal" and expecting it would do anything.

Appeal again. But this time, put some real effort into it. Spend more than 2 seconds on it. Really make it clear that your app does not contain ads and the screenshot is not your app.
> Device vendors don't update already sold devices because they don't care (and because average consumer also does not care).

You should consider why the hardware vendors are in the critical path for OS updates in the first place. Dell doesn't get to decide whether you can apply Windows updates.
Megatsunamis requite special geography, typically an enclosed bay and steep walls and large material displacement (or rather introduction into thd body of water). Most coastal areas are not susceptible to megatsunamis (large meteors excepted).
They can only hit a JSON endpoint in the same DNS zone (eTLD+1) as the sender's email, e.g. if the email is from sender@mail.example.com, it can only hit endpoints on example.com and its subdomains.
Your 2nd paragraph says pretty much what I was trying to say (except for difference in law views) that your 1st paragraph says is off-base.

Another way for me to say it is, that of course you would think my thoughts are off-base since I come from a different foundational base as you. I was just trying to explain the difference itself, not saying that you need to change views (your view is logical from your "base").

You think people's freedoms need to be trodden upon for a free society.

I don't. That scares me and many others.

Edit: I did not downvote you, just FYI, I don't know who/why would.
I think the problem is, we intuitively estimate the readability of code based on the space it takes up, when we should take into account the information density.

That code is extremely readable - if you assume it will take just as long to understand as the entirety of the GCC compiler: https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc
Java 9 to 12 – all the language modifications
how big is this ?
Do apps have a GUID or some other actually unique identifier they can use? It seems a huge oversight to not have or use such an ID, even if it's something as simple as a cryptographic hash of the binary(ies).

(Not an Android developer. Thought of starting but never did --- for mostly different reasons, however.)
A passport is a privilege not a right
What makes a good software developer CV?
As far as I know, writing down the card details manually instead of taking an imprint is a viable option.
Gee, you aren't implying that Huawei would do something bad, are you? You aren't implying that they don't take their user's security seriously, are you? You aren't implying that they could be dropping (very sloppy) back doors into stuff, possibly at the behest of Beijing, are you?

/s
Machine learning is used for improving food quality though. E.g. most wine today is made using machine learning. Here is a video showing how it works:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aY4KPMYd4xw
As if aisatsana was not beautiful enough, it was first performed in London's Barbican Centre in 2012, on a suspended grand piano, swinging in the air !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJHsT8kEyzs
If the government is willing to dole out research loans at appropriate terms all medication can be profitable.
Email is the last massively used open and independent communication system on the Internet. Unfortunately, many irresponsible users allowed Google to monopolize it by flocking to Gmail, and now Google is taking advantage of their position.
I hear that the battery I have can do 40 miles of range in flatter terrain. Here in hilly Seattle, I get 10 miles of range on it. Slower speeds also gets more range, I definitely am sacrificing range for speed when going 30mph :P
Sometimes what people really want is old-fashioned give-and-take, or to engage you in open conflict.

When you make it clear by your actions you're not interested in that game, it will throw them off balance. Not many people are prepared for this and the only tactic they know is to escalate. "You're being an insincere prick" is all they've got.

The key is that you know that you, yourself are sincerely open to making a connection, and you go the extra mile to avoid condescension. At a basic level, you are indeed pushing them to confront something about their own feelings that they'd rather not deal with at that moment.

Sometimes folks just don't want to connect with you when they're feeling vulnerable, and the best you can do is let them know that you're safe to be vulnerable around by respecting that.
Update: Google's reversed their decision and the appeal is accepted.

I wrote a passive-aggressive email.
I posted this.
I tweeted at them (first tweet ever).

I'm not sure what worked, but something got through. Thanks all for the support.
The thing with mortality is it's highly subjective. What horrible for one person is perfectly acceptable for other.
>I am not convinced that face-to-face interaction is an inherent good.

I think the inherent good is that young people understand social dynamics and how to read the non-verbal cues of others. I've noticed some, those who spend a excessive amount of time online, have a hard time translating their personality into IRL.
A more up to date version: https://github.com/JohnEarnest/ok
Everyringfort
I thought about this, but I think in the general case it's not always obvious whether the lesser of two evils is to risk getting false positives (by being too "robust to wording changes") or false negatives by being too strict. Either way, my point really is that I'm not about to condemn error message scraping wholesale.
It'd not just that they are not paid well. It's the fact that they have very explicitly and consistently chosen science over money. If they wanted money, they could switch jobs tomorrow and have more money (and more free time).
I doubt that the start of the recession impacted teens this much. I think it's more likely the rise/fall of certain social media (yahoo/AIM/FB/idk) than relating to them missing physiological needs, especially given most teens are not fending for themselves.
The app ID is a unique identifier. Once you claim an app ID, it's yours forever.
Higher density means the grocery store is a 7 minute walk away rather than a 15 to 20 minute drive. Same goes for other destinations, though housing bubbles like what is occurring right now have inflicted needless commuting on many workers.
Wow, I’m already looking forward to more flashy, blinking, nagging, unsolicited spam from booking.com in my mailbox. Thanks Google!
Context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19487506
Isn't that literally what they're doing with News, though? Apple is doing business in China but Apple News isn't available. They're not censoring news stories or altering them for Chinese audiences, it's simply not available.
It's a lot harder to format nicely on HN, so see here [1] if you want the details, but it looks like the vote about amendments would have changed from:

Official vote: 312 for, 317 against, 24 abstained

Corrected votes: 320 for, 314 against, 20 abstained

It's very rare to have that many corrections, the only other vote with more was the actual vote on the directive afterwards (but the corrections couldn't have flipped that one).

[1]: https://tildes.net/~tech/brp/europes_controversial_overhaul_...
Umm, generally speaking, it is a common courtesy when quoting someone -- for example -- several blocks of text from Stallman, to at least mention their name.

Meanwhile, every founding member of the OSI is mentioned.
The default keyboards are inflexible for so many reasonable use cases that I would actually consider this unironically.
This is why the GPLv2 doesn't only require the source code itself.
You have to be able to effectively make use of that software freedom.

It doesn't matter so much if you had software freedom, if all you had was the
freedom to study, which is only one of the four freedoms.

You need the freedom to modify, and freedom to install modified
versions, and the GPL guarantees that.

Question:
How many IoT devices out there are running GPL'd firmware,
providing source code, but no method to actually modify the device (or the current method is unmaintained and broken)?

Answer: A lot!

If you can't request sources and build & install them, it's a GPL violation.

Rebuilding and reinstalling linux on IoT devices is a necessary step towards privacy and security on those devices.
the issue is that you have no idea if you won't encounter another stupidity around Google Play in the future.
In the context of this article, you seem to be comparing "not making Apple News available in China" with Dragonfly and pretending that the two are even remotely the same.