skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bet the vendor made sure the drivers "worked" for suspend/resume, but only from the user point of view.

I may have just been lucky with Windows on my particular hardware. A quick search turns up a bunch of different problems. I think suspend/resume may just be a particularly difficult thing to get right.
How to Simulate Fighting Robots
This is the TOS specifically for two of the managed services - it says so right in the link "Google Cloud Machine Learning Group and Google Cloud Machine Learning Engine"

These specific ML-as-a-service products are pretty easy to plug into and resell to third parties, which is why the wording is so restrictive in the TOS.

Many of Google Clouds other ML products, which typically are more customizeable and powerful, do not have these restrictions. The way your comment is worded makes it seem like this restriction is on all of Google Clouds ML products, but it's not.
I'd gotten pretty good at disabling all the sneaky checkboxes, 'extra install options' and fucking bonzai buddies that seemed to be bundled with everything back then. I ended up having to reformat and reinstall everything once because of my carelessness. I was really careful not to install anything like that afterwards. They used to hide the 'extra bonus stuff' really well sometimes.

Even some legitimate things were bundled with some horrible spy and adware that make the ad ridden nightmare dystopia we have today seem quaint.
Mobile: https://www.qt.io/mobile-app-development/

Web: https://wiki.qt.io/Qt_for_WebAssembly
Great product. Do you not worry about someone copying your code and selling it as a saas? I am selling premium Wordpress plugins and it’s incredible how many people try to purchase my plugin and then offer it as a saas
>but the real reason is that this way they own copyright to whatever their employees create in their spare time

Yeah it's not their spare time; it's work time. I would enjoy being able to spend one day a week working on whatever I like _for the company that employs me_. It's not a vacation day you spend in the office.
Reading your comment is the first time I’ve ever pronounced FAQ in such a way as to rhyme with “hack” instead of as “fax/facts” or “Ef Ay Qu” or “teh Questions.”

I am happy to add “the hack FAQ” to my snack pack.
That’s right. I’m a professional plugin developer. I’ve got my hands in both worlds, making dart APIs into the Obj-c/Java bridge where I’m implementing native APIs.

And several universes as well...I do plugins for React Native and Cordova, as well: same thing but JavaScript APIs into the Obj-c/Java bridge.
Was Connectix RAM Doubler still around in '99? I remember it was very popular around the dorms a few years prior, when 16MB RAM was considered fairly robust.
I haven’t tested this, but I believe you could use Homebridge to create a virtual “button” that got “pushed” when you hit some API endpoint, then configure HomeKit to change something when the button gets pressed.
I picked up a few ESP01 boards from Aliexpress recently, they're less than $1.50 each. They only have two GPIO pins accessible (and one needs a pull-up resistor to make the ESP8266 boot properly) but for toggling a relay or reading a simple sensor over wifi they're hard to beat. They're even powerful enough to run a basic HTTP server to handle a light web interface for the GPIO.
Anybody know any awesome cheap Raspberry Pi Zero W alternatives? Primarily looking for something ultra cheap, tiny form factor, not especially power-hungry, able to run not-too-weird flavors of linux, and preferably with (wireless) networking.
Implementing Inverse Dynamics
Wow! That article is gold! Thank you so much for linking it. I'm going to have to find a way to play at least Ultima IV (Edit: GOG has Ultima IV available for free. It seems to work well under wine, but you have to use the offline installer list just under the "Download" button). Some choice quotes:

- I realized that in all three Ultimas [before IV], I had created games in which the best way to min-max the game was to be un-virtuous. [...] I was not going to allow that ever again!

- I have and continue to find that headlines, and especially things that give me a sense of moral outrage happening in the world around me, are the best sources of plot ideas for the games I work on.

- Most game villains, he said, just “wait in the final level for you to come kill them,” sitting patiently on their thrones while you min-max and level up by killing NPCs. “I wanted my new villains to be worthy of your hatred!”

- Far too many perpetual conflicts in the world are sustained generation after generation due to these deeply held beliefs and grudges that prevent any real progress from being made [...] Honestly I don’t know how we are going to solve this in the real world, but I think it’s important to play out in a fictional world, so we think about it.

This is pretty much exactly what motivates me to write a game. I remember someone (probably on HN) saying that they had to kill some insects as a child before they understood what death was. You can't learn without experience, but there are some things that you don't want to learn from experience (as my ex-paratrooper friend likes to say, "like how to pack a parachute"). I really want to create a safe place for people to experiment and learn, but most games actually reward being a jerk ;-)

I also find it interesting that he singles out "outrage" as being the best way to create villains. It's one of the things we are explicitly encouraged to avoid in conversations on HN. The conflict and drama in the game comes from the justified hatred and outrage in the villains. I'm sure there is a lesson in there somewhere...
Digital cameras also didn’t kill or injure people when their limitations were reached.

I remember the QuickTake and all that. Yes, those small pixelated images weren’t the same quality as film but they had other benefits instead.

Self driving cars currently aren’t in a state where they can do anything, even waymo still has safety drivers.
Invest in Kotlin. Kotlin is useful for Android NOW. Whenever Dart starts becoming more mainstream, you'll know and have enough time to react to it.
Google launches Jetpack Compose, open source Kotlin-based UI development toolkit
Punching up?
The article seems to make that clear. SSDs are falling in price, they offer superior performance and more and more PC sellers will be including them due to the lower prices.
Freight Elevators Manufacturers in Toronto
"Going cheap can risk you and your family. Don't let fire start in your bedroom." (Picture of burnt family remains.)

Hmm.
Re: your last sentence, does that mean the whole unit dies as soon as one LED fails?
From the creator of Hibernate Gavin King

"Just because you're using Hibernate, doesn't mean you have to use it for everything.”

https://mobile.twitter.com/javaooq/status/504184043765002240

This is how I use it
1. Use Hibernate for most updates.
2. Use JOOQ for reads. Gives you everything from compiler checks to type safety.

ORM is a tool. Just like any other tool in CS or non-CS you have to know when to use it and when not to use it and what other options exist.
It's good fun to do once or twice, but eventually, like the parent poster states, you eventually find yourself having spent more time tinkering with the stack than actually writing.

I, too, went with WordPress after years of trying to avoid it. After having launched ~30 WP sites in the past ~5 years, it just made sense.
> ...researchers used data on livestock density and calculated the annual amount of phosphorus excreted by cattle, pigs, chickens, sheep, and goats globally—as much as a whopping 130,000 kilograms per square kilometer.

356 kg / day / square kilometer. At first that number seems enormous, and then when you think of 356 kg of phosphorus from manure per day in a huge, vast square kilometer, the number actually is credible.

Manure provides on average 15.9 lbs. per ton [0] or 7.2 kg per ton, and therefore you need 356/0.0072 = ~45 tons of manure to produce 356 kg of phosphorus. That's 450kg of manure per day per hectare.

This apparently boric topic has a lot of interesting things in it if you are willing to dive deeper.

[0]: http://fafdl.org/blog/2018/02/06/can-manure-supply-nitrogen-...
Invest those extra hours inventing something! :)

Then you can sell your hours over and over again.
Yes, I'm nervous too, although to be fair when they do shut down a service, they generally let us know and allow us to download our data. I'm not aware of any service they did not do that, but there have been so many so maybe. Without that history I would not use any of their services.
You can pretty well solve both of those with systemless root... if it works. It just crashed horribly for me.
Yeah -- I can see what you're getting at.
This is pretty weak imo. The effect could easily just be due to the fact that someone who is morbidly obese probably isn’t capable of standing for very long. Because they would be included in the sitting group, it would easily skew the data. Not a fan of this study at all.
I really like Sequelize after using it in a couple of small projects. Not quite that level of concise, but I find it to be a really nice balance of concision and flexibility.

Person.findOne({where: {name: "Grandma L."}})

Person.findAll({where: {age: 30}})

Particularly, I really like how associations are handled. If I have a one-to-many association between Posts and Comments, I can do something like this:

Post.findOne({where: {title: "My Article}})

.then( article => {

article.getComments()

.then( comments => {

// do something with all comments of Post "My Article"

});

});

http://docs.sequelizejs.com/manual/
The big problem with "glue work" is it's often as important as the "real work" but it doesn't fit neatly on the Jira board.

The other problem with "glue work" is it's often viewed as, well, glue work when in reality it's necessary work every bit as important as the "real work".

IMO the distinction has been amplified by the agile/scrum/devops train wreck where engineering no longer exists and it's the next person up to pull that next story to the "In Dev" column.

And then the real tragedy comes at review time... I see you didn't complete as many stories as your peers on the team this past year. Yeah that's true, I was busy doing glue work that made the app build easily, integrate with all the external systems, deploy from dev to stage to prod seemlessly and trigger a quarter the pager duty alerts than other apps in the org.
He may have created the icon, but the like was invented and released by the team at FriendFeed about 18 months before Facebook copied the feature (in Feb 2009, the article you linked got that wrong).

[1] http://blog.friendfeed.com/2007/10/i-like-it-i-like-it.html
I’m really glad I bought a pantelligent because it only cost me $40 to learn that IoT is a giant scam.
im vinyl collector and know this niche very well ...
what is your app doing and why i need it ?
People new to the discussion may not have seen this page, so there’s that.
Here, take my vote!
Related - Some SF Supervisors are going to put a retroactive 1.12% stock compensation payroll tax on the November ballot: https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/Here-come-the-I...
Plenty do. Just not the ones in Detroit. Presumably the problems extends to all users of the E-Cobra system. But I don't think this is a general industry problem in LED streetlighting. It surely is a problem in consumer LED fixtures.
Apart from bonzi buddy being annoying, it didn't do anything that our modern browsers (chrome) and operating systems (windows, android) don't have baked in these days.

Which is why I can in all seriousness call google a spyware company.
Gigabit Shields for Arduino Compatibles
Well, Fortnite Save the World launched with paid loot boxes, so...
In accordance to Article 44 of EU Council Directive 2006/112/EC, you're supposed to be reporting your spend with Google and paying VAT taxes on it.

You don't have to pay it right away at the time of purchase, but you do have to pay it. You might want to talk to your company's accountant...
Me too. A neat part of it is being able to share what I've built and get and feel the appreciation for what I've done.

It's not like that in my software life. Like databases are not as... neat to most people but everyone can appreciate something they can see and touch and control.
16k batch size going that fast... Damn. Use it for good.
No. Mobile Dev is not anything close to web dev : developers don't have control of run time devices.

Google is now mandating 64 bit APK for its apps (after years and years of trying) - that's a end device support issue. React native has had 64 bit problems for years.

Viewmodel is a lifecycle aware component. Android Q will come with foldable-aware SDK. Will that be
supported both on Dart & AndroidX/Kotlin ?

Someone has to explain to Google management that an ecosystem that has gazillion different devices , that are not in developer control is a far different beast than web dev .

Microsoft understands this better than anyone else. Look at their bug-compatibility spanning 30 years.

We cannot afford a fight-to-the-finish when my customers are on a gazillion different devices with different hardware. NBU markets like India operate at a very different level of complexity than the two-device markets of North America.
*Lightning port.
>LEOTEK ELECTRONICS CORPORATION

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>研制、开发和生产新型电子元器件、电力电子元器件、光电器件、新型显示屏器件、发光二极管（LED）应用产品、LED交通信号产品、交通设备及相关电子产品，并销售公司上述所列自产产品。 #R&D and production.

Oh that's a popular trick now, you'd think China would get around its bad reputation.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/03/lawsuit-3-5m-ind...

Like this California startup Acumen Robot Intelligence is actually a Shenzhen company subsidized by its local government.
This doesn't seem plausible. They have tens of thousands of patents on all sorts of stuff, and people "infringe" on them all day long with no repercussions. Some of those patents will probably be violated when I click the "reply" button under this message.
What you really want is some way for the voter to create plausible deniability. Like the voter should have multiple secret keys, one which allows them to confirm their vote was correctly tallied for themselves, and another one that allows them to trick an adversary into thinking they voted for an arbitrary candidate.
This is Microsoft, so out of the gate the right assumption to make is that it will be much worse than iTerm2 which has matured to a very polished state over the past decade.
And what do you think those plugins implementing the native sensors or CLLocationManager / FusedLocationProviderClient is written with? Obj-c/Swift and Java/Kotlin.
There has also been a rise of

>you see growth opportunities that are worth spending money on instead of returning profits to investors.

I fail to understand why asking a company to return a profit considered wrong?

Sure, growth opportunities but then if that story is strong why weren't they able to sell it a VC for another round of funding?
You might actually have reasons for a lawsuit, if you can reasonable make the court believe that the reason for your purchase was the advertised works with nest API.

If a feature that was advertised is removed after sale, this is reason to revert the sale.
Hearthstone packs definitely affect gameplay. Most of their other games are cosmetic-only, though.
Most banks credit the money to your account, up to a certain amount immediately.

Which is helpful in cases like this. And purely idiotic in many other cases because it enables check cashing scams which are probably the number one most popular scam in the US.
What happens is they extinguish the competing alternative open source products, by taking mindshare and users from them.

Oh my.

That’s called “competition”.

You are mis-construing EEE.
I doubt most new IoT will be functional in 5 years. They have an app mentality with everything locked up in that app. No API.

I look at a lot of products now and if I find I can't access it via python then I treat it as pre-landfill and don't even consider it worth purchasing.
The creeping threat of facial recognition
I haven’t played fortnite so take my comment for what it is worth. Isn’t fortnite not as resource intensive as other games? Which makes it possible that more and more people have it? I remember when I played bf3 and bf4, the three points mentioned in the video still apply. I guess he does mention the scale and amazon web services in the video to allude to the amount of people playing I guess.
Very cool. This should integrate well into my ongoing audiobook hacking work. Building my own personalized shell scripts to interact with my library is fun!
>What does a profitable Lyft/Uber look like.

I imagine it looks like what the traditional cab companies have been doing forever in every city for the last whatever many years.

I am spitballing here, but here is my vision. Please feel free to correct anything deemed infeasible. Decentralize the platform and open Lyft hubs in every major city as their own business unit. Use the same model of contract drivers/use of their vehicle. Pay them better wages which is now possible through greatly reduced operational costs to increase driver loyalty and keep them on the road. I just don’t think this business model works at this scale. There are two major players with an insane amount of capital who both are failing every single metric of a going concern.
Anyone noticed that Google is cheating with Google Photos backup? Only hi-resolution gets backed up. To back up original resolution one has to buy Pixel 3. I am kind of pissed of this marketing.
Is Chinese-style surveillance coming to the West?
Google Talk had XMPP support for its entire history... until they killed it
So the Pixel 3a XL loses out on resolution (the Pixel 3a does not... go figure) vs the Pixel 3 counterpart.

The SD670 performs close to the SD835 in CPU, but noticeably worse in CPU. It should be noticeably worse in CPU than the 845 due to its 2+6 configuration rather than the 845's 4+4 configuration.

You get eMMC storage with F2FS (acceptable, but slower than UFS 2.0/2.1)

You get glass from some Japanese manufacturer instead of Corning.

Plastic body (yay!)

It's a number of compromises (not minor by any means), but the price is a pretty noticeable drop.
It’s already here. Stupid how some Americans think they have more freedoms than the Chinese just because their propaganda news sources tell them that everything in America is way better.
Can't set them as default though :(
My two cents having lived in CA for 12 years now: it boils down to the general perception that we residents pay a lot of money to the state to live here with not a whole lot to actually show for it. Our infrastructure sucks, our public primary schools mostly suck, homelessness is out of control, wildfires, water shortages, and power brown-outs seem to hit every year, etc. etc. And on top of that, our tax dollars seem more often than not to go to projects that are blatant rip-offs to the public (see: the "high speed" rail project through the central valley). Also from personal experience, California is about the worst state in the country I can think of to start a non-tech small business for multiple financial and labor reasons.

Now, the reality is that California's monetary situation is complex and not entirely the fault of the legislature. Prop 13, voted in by the residents themselves 40 years ago, is a giant sandbag on the state's finances. California's wealth inequality is also frankly ridiculous [1] and causes a lot of problems. The vast majority of the state's residents are not wealthy and thus need a lot of support services from the state, so if you're a wealthy tech worker it seems like your money is disappearing, but a lot of it is going to support families who make less than a third of your salary. The state also runs some excellent colleges and a bunch of fantastic national parks, beaches, reserves, etc. that cost a lot of money.

The net result is that if you're a high income earner, libertarian-leaning, or generally entrepreneurial, your perception can easily be that the state is a wealth-sucking behemoth funneling your exorbitant tax dollars into homeless shelters and welfare programs while your friends in Texas live in shiny new houses on acre lots with swimming pools, tennis clubs, and places that let you actually shoot guns while paying no income tax. As always, though, the full picture is more nuanced.

[1] https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/412928-middle-class-is-d...
I don't understand how counting verification is achieved. Let's say that election officials release a list of hashed votes, so that you can verify that your vote has been counted and included into results. But how can you check that all other votes in the list are the votes from real people and not arbitrarily added by sysadmin to get the expected result?

Does anyone know how such things are implemented? I have read about e-voting in Estonia, but there one has to trust the authorities and cannot independently verify the results.
Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Mysterious Author
I released a chat using this kind of backend ~1.5 month ago on Tor. It has a few extra features feel free to check it out:
http://t4kvzrhhwxc4dumfpvnffovgrp6idjj6wlvuptk3sfnlefnupdpaz...
To me, smartphones are like plungers: They are dirty, ugly (from a software perspective), and I don't like using them, but they are pretty convenient to have most of the time.

I only want them to get the job done and then get out of my sight, so I don't care about the UI being pretty. I would say "elegance is reserved for desktop PCs", but those are ugly too (x86 is horrible, all OSs suck).
I doubt it. They’re probably stoked about it.

Video evidence comes out about some politicians committing crimes?

Just send a memo to the propaganda news networks to say that it was likely a faked video!
> Lyft reported Q1 revenue of $776.0 million versus $397.2 million in the first quarter of 2018, an increase of 95 percent year-over-year.

95% growth year-over-year? On first reading this sounds incredible. But then on the other hand, if they still had 100% growth left in them, why couldn't they raise another round of funding?

One theory is that they held back some revenue from their IPO documents to show a spurt. So, I really want to see their 10-Q to understand what really is happening here.
This is my favorite book of all time, introduced to me by a high school English teacher.

Russel Hoban is more famous for his children's books such as Bread & Jam for Frances, which my Mom got me as a kid.
Interviewing at Gitlab
5-HTTLPR: A Pointed Review
Simply using an IPGeo service doesn't mean they're not handling the GDPR compliance differently.
They were good for a long while too. Like, long enough that you started to feel it might last forever.

I’m really not sure why they felt the need to change a winning strategy...
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It reads nothing at all like The Onion, and the rest of your comment comes across as outright dismissive of pollution and ecological concerns.
http://reverbpress.com/business/rupert-murdoch-national-geog...

https://www.foliomag.com/susan-goldberg-becomes-first-female...

https://www.nationalgeographic.org/education/gender-revoluti...
... and then do what?
This isn’t true. Are you thinking of trademarks?
> It feels like complete disregard of the user base.

Probably because it IS complete regard for the user base :/
This isn't an electronic voting system.

> ElectionGuard provides a complete implementation of end-to-end verifiable elections. It is designed to work with systems that use paper ballots, supplementing today’s tabulation process by providing a means of public verification of the accuracy of reported results.
I'm referring to the context of this conversation, and misusing whataboutism to defend assange.