skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just traded in my 5 year old iPhone 6 for $250 , effectively bringing pixel 3a to ~$175 which is pretty cheap for a new phone for Google.

If Google can break even with cost and this becomes a blockbuster, then this is good for the entire industry
> Imho: because Western populations care about environmentalism and don't like to use their power to compel others, even if that would be more efficient.

Do you really believe western nations don't use their power to compel poorer countries to act in a given way?
I believe in the code dictator model also. However, the code dictator takes a lot of heat over style opinions. What I see is that, when the dictator emerges, he still has to build coalitions out of people with different skills and different backgrounds. If there's a pool of mediocre or average developers, that is very hard to work around. Only the new people being added can really come pre-loaded with the right code-culture attributes. With non-new people, everyone has to be convinced about the code dictator's approach. This is just not a frictionless process.
Same idea, but much more comprehensive: https://github.com/k88hudson/git-flight-rules
Given that NumPy is implemented in C and only with bindings to Python, you can do exactly the same on the BEAM and indeed it exists (though not widely used): https://github.com/versilov/matrex
blog from erlang/otp team, summarizing the major changes is quite useful as well: http://blog.erlang.org/OTP-22-Highlights/
The Google indices are very expensive to create and serve. For one, they use a ton of memory.

YouTube has TPMs whose only focus is making storage very cheap.
Indexing and storage are two different things. If something if not accessed regularly, then you don't want to index it. You can still access it, it just takes longer to find.
I dunno, I recently switched from ~4 years of using git to mercurial, and I am finding mercurial massively easier to use.
Dave Wolf told stories about his EVAs to Radiolab. It's a good listen: https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/242184-dark-side-earth
Does this support hardware video encoding (h264)? There are a lot of SBCs with Mali GPUs that could use video encoding support.
> double current density

Humorous potential for confusion in an article about batteries :-)
What is the advantage of serverless-rack over using AWS SAM? A quick glance at your project seems like it has a similar general intent, but without the official backing/support of Amazon.
Won't affect any raspberry pi based systems. the Broadcom chip there isn't Mali based. For that you need a VC4/V3D chip driver, but that's also being developed. https://anholt.github.io/twivc4/2018/10/30/twiv/
Tesla doesn't have traditional "model years" either.
Exactly. You can confirm a lot of bias looking at noisy data. This is what the Germans did in that study. Germany is very irrationally anti-nuclear. They shut down their nukes after Fukushima and replaced them with burning more coal, killing thousands of people in the process. They mean well but are totally misguided.
Correct, their game engine has been around since the very first Tomb Raider and even before that. The code evolved over the years of course and the cloth simulation code as well. Shadow of the Tomb Raider used much more cloth in the environment and on the characters than previous games and it needed a bit of help. I don't remember off the top of my head how much I managed to speed it up but tuning the assembly for x64 and SSE yielded a 1.5-2x speedup over the old code due to various optimizations.
And Orwell, apparently he is now a right-winger too.
Somewhat but I think it's more a reflection of sentiment towards anything Oracle related.
Walmart's bad practices by far predate the founding of Amazon and have been well-documented. Walmart moves into towns and undercuts prices on locally-owned stores, putting them out of business and destroying Main Street America. They demand products sold on their shelves reduce the quality enough to make the items disposable, which forces the manufacturing offshore to China or Mexico, further destroying American towns.

As a consumer, Walmart is better than Amazon in the very short term. Long term, both Amazon and Walmart are causing serious damage to the economy of America.

https://www.fastcompany.com/54763/man-who-said-no-wal-mart
Hahaha this is really neat I don't know what I'll use it for but...
AR's Marketing Challenge Comes to Light
Only if there is free space over the liquid.
Indeed! No one should be blithely blamed :)
Audio jack!
>Also I wonder why it's always the military and public funding making real progress in research, almost never private ventures.

Because it costs money, isn't guaranteed, and can take longer than a quarter which is a combination of aspects that private ventures hate. Private ventures can also easily pair up with universities to have the public pay the bill and then get IP protections over the innovation and sell it themselves
Sorry but IMHO your perception of beauty has no priority over allowing people to live a fulfilling live...
If you read the article... he’s tried. They agreed to stop harassing him until a retrial and instead have started harassing his assistant.
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> I'm sure this might trigger some intense attempts of industrial spying.

Nah, you don't know Dr. Kang Xu, he would never sell Americans.
Sugary drink sales in Philadelphia fall 38% after city adopted soda tax, study
Are we risking a planetary AI explosion?
Perhaps, but speaking personally, that doesn't matter much to me. What matters to me is how much easier a tool makes my job, and of all the version control systems I've used, git is easily the winner.
Does anyone have interesting examples for when a bloom filter came in handy as a solution to a problem?

I would love to have some (more than the contrived standard) examples to draw upon to make it easier for me to intuitively notice that a bloom filter might be a good fit in a future problem I encounter.
Not even counting government research, roads and bridges and other infrastructure make innovation possible. Where would Uber, Amazon (deliveries) be without good roads and bridges.
Frustrating because it doesn't actually tell you how they work.
Stupid Git tricks: Combining two files into one while preserving line history
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The part that gets exported, the pop culture so to speak, is as uncontroversial as it can be. But it's just the end product of a creative process. And this creative process works best in a free society. Moreover, pop culture is the tip of the iceberg standing atop all sorts of cultures and counter-cultures that make up the free society. It wouldn't have been created if free thought wasn't allowed to flourish.
I think it’s because the profit motive is only sometimes incidentally aligned with the goal of technological progress while publicly-funded researchers have progress (and often actually bettering the world) as their primary goal.
It couldn't be Brutus, he's such an honorable man...
Argos here in the UK basically do that now, they have loads of physical locations and will do same-day delivery even if the item is out of stock at your nearest branch.
Ah! Small note. There are methods of compression and encoding that allow for scalability. There's some fancy signal processing you can do to encode multiple <framerates / resolutions / compression qualities> into a single bitstream without necessarily storing redundant data.

But, I'm not in industry, and the last time I poked my head in I recall things being way uglier and more complicated than I had imagined. There was a good conference talk that was linked here once but I've lost it. Talked about the sort of awful, buggy things (formatting/file wise) that people try to upload that break everything.
There is also growing evidence that microdosing psychedelics like LSD or psilocybin can be beneficial:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/willburns/2018/02/26/the-beckle...

What's happening in the brain exactly that gives people an advantage? What is the brain science behind microdosing LSD?

The effects of microdosing in the brain are not known, which is why I am setting up an international research program to investigate how microdosing, both acutely and after repeated doses, may produce changes in brain function. Our results with higher doses of LSD show that LSD revealed important changes in the way different brain regions communicate with each other, resulting in a more integrated and fluid brain state. The Beckley/Imperial Research Program found that LSD makes the brain much more connected and flexible.

Both the psilocybin and LSD studies showed a decrease in blood flow to the “default mode network” (DMN), meaning there was less activity in the parts of the brain that repress other parts that maintain the normal, restricted status quo. The DMN is activated when the mind is wandering, not committed to a task, but overlooking the past and planning the future, and thinking about one’s self and one’s emotional state. An overactive DMN underlies the excessive rumination associated with psychological disorders such as depression, anxiety, addiction and post-traumatic stress disorder. A microdose likely lessens the rigidity of the DMN, making the brain more flexible.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5853825/

Second, like Huxley’s cerebral reducing valve and Freud’s ego, EBT argues that the DMN’s organizational stronghold over brain activity can be both an evolutionary advantage and a source of pathology. “It is argued that this entropy-suppressing function of the human brain serves to promote realism, foresight, careful reflection and an ability to recognize and overcome wishful and paranoid fantasies. Equally however, it could be seen as exerting a limiting or narrowing influence on consciousness” (Carhart-Harris et al., 2014, p. 7). Carhart-Harris et al. (2014) point out that neuroimaging studies have implicated increased DMN activity and RSFC with various aspects of depressive rumination, trait neuroticism, and depression. “The suggestion is that increased DMN activity and connectivity in mild depression promotes concerted introspection and an especially diligent style of reality-testing. However, what may be gained in mild depression (i.e., accurate reality testing) may be offset by a reciprocal decrease in flexible or divergent thinking (and positive mood)” (Carhart-Harris et al., 2014, p. 10).

Third, consistent with both psychoanalytic and filtration theory, is the notion that psychedelic drugs’ capacity to temporarily weaken, collapse, or disintegrate the normal ego/DMN stronghold underpins their therapeutic utility. “Specifically, it is proposed that psychedelics work by dismantling reinforced patterns of negative thought and behavior by breaking down the stable spatiotemporal patterns of brain activity upon which they rest” (Carhart-Harris et al., 2014, p. 1).
Will this improve performance on the Pinebook?
>How do you turn it off, how do you train for that? I cannot really do that that's why I ask for a second and third opinion and then talk it out.

Imagine you're a programmer and you're in some kind of professional rut. You consider your options. You could learn a functional language, maybe get into mobile development, find something else to do altogether, or any other of myriad paths. If you think long and hard enough about any single option you can probably convince yourself it's the right choice. Or maybe you get overwhelmed and just give up. The question is too abstract and so are the alternatives hence the overthinking.

What I do is take the abstract and make it concrete. Instead of looking at this monster problem from the inside, I picture the end result. What am I actually trying to accomplish; what will my life look like when I do. When I see that and it usually comes pretty easily, what to do is simple. Ask myself what's the very next specific action I can take to accomplish that vision. If the answer isn't obvious I get even more specific. Maybe I need to literally get up out of my chair. Whatever. I do that thing, ask the question again, do the next thing,
then the next until I'm done.
bazqux.com - it tries to mimic old google reader closely, have very compact ui, support hotkeys and loads comments inline. written by 1 guy in haskell/urweb. unfortunately its not free.
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This argument against ORM is like just because I need to drop down to assembly to get maximum speed in a few cases I should throw out all the C code and redo the whole application in assembly.
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You will have to work with those people. If you don't get along, you won't be effective.
Something people run into all the time when talking about toxicology is that generally people tend to believe that either a substance is safe or not safe, irrespective of the dose. The EPA says that 10 ppb of arsenic is perfectly fine in drinking water but I'm pretty sure most people would be horrified to learn that their water has any arsenic in it at all.

People naturally apply the same heuristics to nuclear fallout for the same reasons. Fallout seems equally bad whether it's a 10 S dose or a 10 uS dose. And just as arsenic poisoning is a real thing that happens, deadly fallout was and remains a very real danger from nuclear war. Any nuke will produce some but if you set a big one off near the ground, such as to hit an ICBM silo or a sub pen or a command bunker, and you'll produce a very large amount. At the height of the Cold War a US first strike on the Soviet block was expected to produce up to 100 million casualties in Western Europe from fallout if the wind was blowing the wrong way.

Given that magnitude of danger it's no wonder people hear "fallout" and think that they're all going to die.
So in your opinion it's ok for someone who committed a crime to run away and hide and then have the DA go and question to them knowing regardless of the outcome they can't touch them and even compelling them to answer questions would be impossible unlike in court?

Ofc not, they should be marked as fugitives and held in contempt until they can brought in.

This wasn't a political case this was an asshole trying to escape justice, he knew he wouldn't be extradited to the US from Sweden he just hoped to play that while he plays the UK authorities while he spins this as political prosecution to his fans and the media to gather public support.
Maybe the sender can just put the domain in the return address instead of their name. I don't know if the post office really gives a shit
It was well known from older versions of GHC Haskell. Given how much Haskell knowledge was imported into Rust, it's surprising that this made it into stable at all.
That, and also vending machines. There was no way to do a slight increase in the price of coke. To go up to 10 cents would DOUBLE the price of Coke. Coke even asked for congress to issue a 7.5 cent coin, but was denied.

More details:

https://www.npr.org/2019/05/01/719213730/episode-416-why-the...
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>It's one of a few things that perplex me about Amazon

Their price match policy is pretty silly too. I bought a robo vacuum that got a $150 off promotion a week later. They were unwilling to refund me the difference but are willing to let me return the old one for a full refund while buying a new one at the discounted price.
If you surprise him by suddenly breaking down his door, there's a chance he'll make the wrong gesture. Then you get to kill him saying you felt threatened.
They have a patent for that. Where it actually predicts what you will order and they ship it to a distribution point closer to you.
A bit misleading of a title. Before I read the article, I assumed (based on the title) that the actual encryption algorithm used was flawed.

If you have a compromised device, of course there are ways of reading the unencrypted messages.

I'm not rallying to WhatsApp's defense - this is a serious flaw that needs to be addressed. But to say it's a problem with the encryption itself is disingenous. It's just another "if your device is hacked, your device is hacked".
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_didn%27t_build_that
I'm not sure what there is to buy. Just because AMD or Intel managed to do this doesn't mean it's any easier or cheaper for nVidia or Arm. AMD actually has been sued before over this kind of thing. Why not just save yourself the trouble and effort of making an entirely legal and safe open source implementation when you can just keep trucking with closed source?
The JAMA article referenced in the story which provides significantly more detail is available online at:

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2733208?gu...
Mercurial had "hg record" since 2007[1] and "hg crecord" since 2008[2]. Now you would use "hg commit -i".

[1] https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/RecordExtension?action=in...

[2] https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/CrecordExtension?action=i...
Some abstractions are definitely more useful/successful/robust than others.

(I think I want to say usually for a particular context, not as a universal/existential thing. Sometimes that context grows to be everyone's... we all use a 'file' abstraction because it was so useful the entire field adopted it, and stopped considering alternative abstractions, and everyone takes as a starting assumption to work within the context where 'file' is useful (except in extreme edge cases maybe) -- for better or worse.)

Deciding which is which, whether a particular abstraction's value outweighs the "leak" in particular contexts or in "general" -- well, that's what endless internet debate is made of. It's usually not clear as a consensus until quite some time has passed (and even then heretics can challenge it).

I agree it's the right question, but it can't be answered simply by saying "leaky abstraction".
They're a bad example of pricing trends. The OEM might kick up some option by $500 but they turn around and run $1k more rebate on everything. Is that a $500 increase or a $500 decrease?

>Almost all cars have differences between sticker price compared to what you can negotiate as the purchase price. In some cases, you'll pay more than MSRP because of limited inventory and popularity. In other cases, you can easily pay less.

Only pickups routinely have manufacturer rebates in the $10k range. These are manufacturer rebates paid by the OEM. You either qualify or you don't, no haggling needed. We're not talking about small differences, we're talking about changes as high as 20% (10k off a 50k truck), sometimes more. Other vehicles do not have that massive error bar tacked on to their price over time graph.
I used one in a bittorrent-like protocol, each block hash was added to the filter then sent to peers. Peers could then have a high accuracy way of checking if a peer has a block without having to communicate with them.
You put baffles in the liquid so the sloshing is reduced. Or use a spherical container.
There's a fantastic Engineering Connections where Richard Hammond explains essentially the same thing about LNG transport ships.
The entire tech industry is founded upon basic research. If Silicon Valley thinks they built it all themselves they are completely delusional.
Ducks go gua in Chinese. My bilingual toddler gets confused between English quack and Chinese gua.
Feynman tells an intriguingly similar story from another angle.

When he moved from Cornell to Caltech, he had a sort of Buridan's Ass situation where each one would beat the other's offer and leave him with no way to make a decision. Even the weather wouldn't cooperate, with the snow driving him out of Cornell and smog driving him out of Caltech. He eventually landed at Caltech, basically arbitrarily, and realized the solution to the problem:

"But I decided then never to decide again. Nothing—absolutely nothing—would ever change my mind again. When you’re young, you have all these things to worry about—should you go there, what about your mother. And you worry, and try to decide, but then something else comes up. It’s much easier to just plain decide. Never mind—nothing is going to change your mind."

So when Chicago came calling later, trying to recruit him, he refused. Didn't listen to the offer, didn't consider it when they told him, just refused outright over his prior condition. Interesting to see how many people have decided that formal analysis is a hopeless way of approaching this problem.
Web Browser: Brave (Chromium)

Terminal: Terminal (with oh-my-zsh)

IDE: VS Code

Basic Text Editor: VS Code

PDF Reader: Brave (Chromium)

Office Suite: Google Docs/Sheets etc

Calendar: Google Calendar

Video Player: VLC

Music Player: mplayer

Image manipulation: GIMP

The main things I always add are GIMP, Brave, oh-my-zsh and VLC. Getting a good/working browser does most work for me.
Microsoft invests $100 mln in tech centres in Kenya and Nigeria
It will probably be closed down before 2030 anyway.
The analytics are there. There's that classic article from some years back about a Target knowing that a woman was pregnant before her dad did because they were sending coupons for items related to pregnancy. The issue is now making a goo d product out of the service that people want.
There are a few places in Rust and its stdlib that people seek to validate with formal methods, but usually these efforts are first focused on proving fundamental pieces (such as std::pin https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/pin/index.html , which I believe has been integrated into Ralf Jung's formal model), and only later on outlying APIs such as this (the rationale being that fundamental APIs would be enormously more disruptive to fix if unsoundness should be discovered).

As to your conclusion though, obligatory shout-out to Huon Wilson, who discovered the one other instance of unsoundness in a newly-stabilized API (this one due to a typo, therefore much simpler to resolve), mere hours after the stable release of Rust 1.15: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/5roiq7/announcing_rus... :)
can you say more about "reference tables" ?
I think git is great. But that might only be because all the other version control systems I've used are worse...
Yeah but your Walmart phone charger will likely charge a phone. Your amazon counterfeit won't even have pins in the usb cable.
Silicon Valley is a place.
Thorough discussion earlier (241 points, 17 hours ago, 234 comments):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19904250
It's crazy how much technology comes from government investment, yet people continue to assert that private industry can somehow fill the gaps. With quarterly cycles being what they are, the only one thinking long term is the govt. They're the only ones who engage in fundamental scientific research or even near term research and are responsible for much of the innovation that private industry loves to claim.
Apparently I'm warned when I do this using SmartGit; if you are unable to safely use the CLI tool, maybe you should switch to a safer tool and leave the CLI tools to power users?
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A Norwegian town built a giant mirror to deflect the sun (2017)
You don't get to throw your dog's shit on the neighbour yard and complain when he throws it on the sidewalk.

edit: so what do you do when a contract is breached for years ? Find a solution or point the finger while closing your eyes on the issue because you know there is no other cost effective way to take care of the problem ?
Here are two major Canadian ones that seem to be doing a good job:

https://www.otpp.com/
https://hoopp.com/

They’re actually overfunded and have been (carefully) increasing benefits.
I've assumed that's been coming for a while—Amazon ships you something they think you'll want, and you ship it back if you don't. There are probably legal hurdles, but.