skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AVerMedia and Fastvideo alliance to accelerate embedded AI/ML solutions
On fox hunting by English country gentlemen:
“The unspeakable in pursuit of the uneatable!”
Well documented. Looks like a nice way to learn about market making in a real life situations with small fractions of bitcoin. Curious to know if someone takes it for a real drive in a production environment.
Citizens assembly: towards a politics of ‘considered judgement’
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Google Maps, aka Wiki Maps... you can add whatever you want on there.
I've seen multiple 4-way SMP rumors in comments in the last few weeks. Was there something hinted at, or a "leak" implying this might happen? I did a brief search but didn't find anything.
Tesla vehicles can likely be made less vulnerable to this attack than even human drivers navigating via cell-phone GPS since Tesla has inertial measurement units.

They are likely 'trusting' GPS signal over IMU currently, but that could be changed via software. Or at least alert if the signals disagree.
> You are just used to your flaws, and not used to theirs

This is a testable theory: name me a flaw in Common Lisp that cannot easily be worked around. I'll bet that for any flaw you name, I'll be able to show you an easy way to work around it.
Of course no one wants to see horrifying things. But current events force us to admit that Facebook is a platform for vast quantities of political speech. And if we're going to entertain political speech, we should be grown-ups and face reality; if we don't allow the horror to inform our discussions, if we turn away, then the horror will only grow.
Not only is junk food a big deal, it also makes people big. And big people is a big problem right now in the big ole U.S of A.
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I'm guessing that's because they measured the return rate of institutions:

"Wallets were returned to one of five societal institu-
tions: (i) banks, (ii) theaters, museums, or other cultural establishments, (iii) post offices, (iv) hotels, and (v) police stations, courts of law, or other public offices."
>Japan has a lot of small “police booths” where people can return lost objects.

I like this idea.
>We find that over 98% of the money was returned, so doesn't seem to be the case that people are contacting the owner but pocketing the cash.

Is that 98% going back to locations that had contacted you? I'd be interested in the figure for returning to locations that didn't contact you, say after a week. But In understand how it could be logistically tricky. Congrats on the paper.
Yes, that's the point? It's a well defined term.

Toxic masculinity is connected to the masculine roles society forces on men and women. I'm not sure what else you'd call it, because the entire point is that it has everything to do with masculinity. Hence, toxic masculinity.

But again, anyone can perpetuate it.
Well that is simple, minimize your down payment even if it means taking on PMI as long as your mortgage payment is less than rent then you are better off with the house.

It's not that simple of course, because there are many other concerns like property taxes, insurance, maintenance, renovations/upgrades, furnishings, etc... But the idea that you have to lock away a massive down payment into a non compounding asset isn't necessarily true.

In my calculations I found a home to be slightly more expensive than renting when taking everything into account. But it's a huge lifestyle upgrade for some people, myself included.
Yes, this is from last year: https://appleinsider.com/articles/18/03/09/google-gives-up-o...
Reminds me of The War of the Worlds:

> The program has become famous for supposedly tricking some of its listeners into believing that a Martian invasion was actually taking place.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds_(radio_d...
What has happened, has happened and gone by. We must now find a way to live next to each other so that nothing like this happens ever again, that no more blood is shed and no more people lose their homes to senseless nationalism and hatred.
I see. In all the British-derived non-rhotic accents I'm familiar with, the second "r" sounds basically the same as the first.
My biggest qualms with G+ was that it was constantly changing...

I would log in every few weeks/months and something was different.

G+: Hey, check out this new feature!

Me: But I uhhh...

G+: Oh, and we implemented this too, isn't it great!?

Me: Well sure but...

G+: And we removed that one feature that you did actually kind of use, it's now this.

Me: I just wanted to use your service for 5 minutes right now, not learn about how great it was. And now my 5 minutes is up.

G+ was pivoting to a fault since day 1 imho.
Where can I get a top of the line 5,5-5,8" or less phone? Bigger phones are becoming very unwieldy and are definitely not better.
Over 60 steps and the battery hasn't even been touched yet. I don't think I've ever seen an iFixit teardown take more than 20 steps, and both my 2009 and 2012 era consumer laptops can be broken to base components in even fewer
And has been happening since at least 2014, with articles in the NYTimes as well as other sources.
But a non-terrible apartment can become a terrible apartment in a surprisingly short time. And by god I hated moving every year or two.
Meh. Julia does nothing to help me catch errors before runtime, it's no different than Python in this regard. Although it does use the types to generate fast code (and in my experience it does live up to its performance claims).

I've seen some talk of Julia doing compile time checks, maybe in the future it will?
It's pretty easy to make sure nobody gets offended - you communicate (in a serious setting) that you value results over hours worked and you demonstrate this in practice. At that point irony and sarcasm is safe territory (appropriate or tasteful is another matter). Being afraid to joke about this because it could be missunderstood tells me you are failing at that which is far more important than worrying about what are potential interpretations of your jokes.

I would say this applies to any value.
My son spent 10 of his first 15 days of life plugged to an ECMO (he's 5 years old now!). Through the pain, fear and despair of 3 failed attempts to get him out of it, one of the thoughts that my head clung to for sanity was exactly what you describe, that awe of what the machine's power, and awe at the amazing people who, like your wife, tended to it and to my son.
Exploring the Meaning of Tron Legacy (2011)
It depends on the neighborhood and unfortunately the racial and the economic makeup of the neighborhood.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesleadershipforum/2012/12/1...

Anecdotally speaking, I bought a house in a new minority subdivision in 2003 brand new build. The value went up by about $40K by 2008, crashed to $40K less than I bought it, and today it’s still worth $4K less than I bought it in 2003. It’s still a nice neighborhood so it hasn’t gone “downhill”.

Being the numbers oriented, unemotional person that I am, I did a strategic default in 2012 realizing that I could be eligible for an FHA 3.5% down loan in 3 years after the foreclosure, applied and received a loan exactly three years later and had a house built in a new subdivision in a predominantly White neighborhood. The value of the house has gone up $70K in 3 years and a house with basically the same floor plan is being sold for $70K more than mine was 3 years ago. .

And to hopefully stave off some of the expected replies:

- No the world shouldn’t work like that. But to paraphrase Buffett, “the world can stay racist longer than I can stay solvent”.

- No I’m not racist and it’s not that “I don’t want to be around Black people”. I am Black.

- Yes I know “White Flight” is a real phenomenon. But there is also a well studied “tipping point” when that occurs. I don’t see that tipping point happening.
I never hear anyone discuss that - everyone I ever talk to seem to experience nothing but joy - I'm glad that I'm not crazy for having a less than stellar outlook on the whole endeavour.
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Well in that context I'm pretty good at that. I clean out apps regularly, although it doesn't result in much as ... I don't really have "many" installed that I don't use / don't use that may.
Ordinary users can suggest changes, but I believe that if you have a Google My Business account that's active in the last 6 months, you get notified and can approve / reject changes.
Google is pretty good about announcing security update support up front so you can make that decision at least. I think the Nexus/Pixel phones are generally 2 years of updates, 3 for security. Maybe a little short if you're optimistic about how long you'll keep the device but that's better than most manufacturers being late or inconsistent about updates.
Sure. But two memory channels is not amazing. I'll hold out for ThreadRipper, with 4 channels. Although AMD Rome Epyc got massive 8.
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I see this very occasionally on Apple Maps, too. I use the automated reporting feature and in a day or two I get a notice that the problem has been fixed.

I'm not sure what the solution is, though. As soon as you ge the general public involved, data becomes messy and unreliable.
Hopefully. I'd happily pay someone for curated listings and reviews (we don't seem to have something like Consumer Reports over in the EU; at least I don't know of anything). Everything that's not either a recommendation from a person you know or community forums around a particular niche seems to be thoroughly gamed.
What a nice feel-good story which is totally not a marketing/PR concoction, albeit a brilliant one. The story is literally the Cheeto version of Good Will Hunting.

Do you all honestly believe none of the hundreds of food scientists working at Frito-Lay thought of making a spicy version their snacks?
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I'll use Yelp/Apple Maps/Google for places to eat. That's about it. For everything else, I will drive around town and look for a van or a truck with a business/service that I need. Billboards. Even local newspapers. Word of mouth, too.

The last A/C, plumbing, and appliance repair folks I've used have all been people who drove by or were recommended to me by a neighbor. They'll also be the people I end up recommending, too.

This is part of the reason I like Nextdoor so much. Since these are people who (at least, ostensibly) are within my community, I know that they are at least somewhat honest in their recommendations. They have nothing to gain but also nothing to lose. But those companies that people do talk about are ones that give great service or are a pleasure to work with.

Let's face it: we're seeing the pendulum swing back the other direction: it used to be nobody would find you unless you are online, but now it seems that physical advertising seems to be the litmus test of "are you real?"
NYTimes have been on a similar kick, and you can find a general techlash across most media these days.
The interest graphs gathered in the several years G+ was online should be valuable to Google still. I wish G+ was still around, although I could get a GSuites account and still use Google+. Most likely there are not a lot of users anymore.
> TOTP does not defend ordinary users against phishing

I never said it ultimately defends ordinary users, just that it reduces the chances because it requires a more sophisticated attack.
What do you mean by FTA? I'm not familiar with that TLA.
Oh, I forgot that benefit of renting!

* As my ol' granma used to say, two moves is the same as a fire. New furniture all around!
I heard a lot at school why we should learn history. It was so we could learn "lessons" from it.

Learn what? I always wondered. No-one ever told us. Not once I can ever recall.

As I stopped being a kid I started to form my own view that said "lessons" were how monstrous things can be. We forget those lessons. I see people never understanding them because they've grown up in a peaceful society in a peaceful family. What they're used to defines how things are to them, and, so terribly mistakenly, how things will always be.

These kinds of guys (it's usually guys) who say "life's a bitch and then you die", and I so want to slap their stupid, comfortable faces off.

My brothers and I had a... childhood, let's say. We won't make that mistake; we know life isn't intrinsically safe because it never was. Every day we pay for that, and that's how it is. But compared to these horrors, none of us could complain.

"She remembers as an authentic miracle a dog that followed her home at some point deep into the nine-hundred-day siege and saved her family from almost certain death. She has been asking the dog’s forgiveness ever since."

"a twelve-year-old boy remembers using frozen German corpses as sleds"

And plenty more just in that extract.

We were taught the worthless shit in history, the date of gallipoli, details of hitler's beer-hall putsch, and surely that was right, I don't think many children can face the ugliest reality of war without getting mangled, but this awfulness needs to be be learnt at some time so people understand things can collapse into utter hellishness, and the only thing stopping it is, perhaps, themselves. It's not another's responsibility, it is one's own. I've come to understand history does matter because history is a warning, if you care to listen.
> just as it is with people throwing rocks onto cars from bridges or shining lasers into driver's eyes.

Both of which happen with alarming regularity.
Specifically, a marketplace for websites/web apps with organic search traffic and earnings.

Sellers never pay any fees and we only want to list the very best sites at fair prices. No starter sites, no sites with no revenue, no sites with $100 a month earnings that are selling for $20k!

Currently looking for sellers that fit the bill, so please reach out if you have a website to sell.
Thanks! It has been an amazing experience, if a bit exhausting (I am a single founder and the only developer). I did it because it was cool, started giving them to friends, and then it became obvious that they were making a very large impact in some people's lives. So I decided to try to reach a larger audience, which had the nice side effect that now I can make a living from it.

I am using the stereographic projection, and I display up to magnitude 7. The conversion from magnitude to diameter is one of the key elements of getting a beautiful result.
Hammering down the nail that sticks out sends the strongest message to the rest.
I'm too stupid to understand math. Is there a book to prove me wrong?
Cometcursor being so horrible inspired me to learn how to make .ico files with transparency in mspaint.... good times!
I think the problem is there is only a focus on toxic masculinity and men see it everywhere. It stands to reason there can be just as much toxic femininity, but you don't hear about that ever... or not much talk about positive masculinity but surely that exists also
Lots of warnings on `cargo build`, undefined behavior on a couple of places (e.g. crating &mut uninitialized), raw calls to libc as opposed to using a safe wrapper over it like nix, ...
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I imagine it does unless the attacker has an additional XEN zero-day to pile on.
This is absurd, the bulbs don't need to be hermetically sealed like incandescents were, so just put a tiny little 'reset' button somewhere rather than all this stupidity.
Alan Kay at OOPSLA 1997 (“The computer revolution hasn't happened yet”)
How many people can read these?
This is a baffling move from EA. They could have had minimal light touch regulation. By denying the reality of lootboxes they're forcing the hand of the regulators.

Europe will happily pass laws to restrict loot boxes and then impose a tax on them.
> What is your "end game" so to speak?

One very reasonable 'end game' for those who do not want to own is to invest enough cash in the stock market so that your rate of return supersedes your rent, thus guaranteeing that, if rent increases are within reason, you are able to finance renting interminably. Stock markets typically have a higher rate of return than real estate, so...
Looking forward to the day when Django templates can observe realtime changes in user input (aka the equivalent of R Shiny).
With the lack of 'wealth' that many Millenials are experiencing, it's not only real estate that is going to be affected. Stocks and other areas are also going to feel the effects. Strangely, it's not a lack of supply that will be the issue here, it's a lack of buyers. Millenials just don't have the cash to pay the Boomers for the houses and stocks they accumulated and the Banks can only buy and sell the properties to each other for so long, collecting fees each time they hand off. Though we're in a good job market right now, we're still not seeing any real rise in wages.

EDIT: As an example of the Banks buying up houses: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/06/20/business/econ...
You are absolutely correct. However, there are better ways to handle a roof replacement than incurring the $10k+ cost in one year. It's a foregone conclusion that you will need a new roof, just a matter of when. Best to start saving right away every month and include that in your overall cost calculation. It's much easier to pay for a roof over 25 years instead of all at once. Plus then you can use interest to your advantage.
Having just this morning had to turn Automatic Updates back off on my Windows 7 box and (for the third time) fix the gyro sensor driver Windows 10's updates keeps breaking on my laptop, I feel you.
In computer science, "formal parameters" is the name for those named variables that are established on entry into the function and immediately receive external values. "arguments" are the values that they receive. A function has only one set of parameters, but a new set of arguments in each invocation.
It's not just you. Google Maps seems to be stuck in this sad state of being almost, but not quite, good at being a map. Street names in particular seem like a low-hanging fruit that would vastly improve the UX, but for some reason, they don't do anything about it.
While I agree with you, you then need to worry about the opposite problem:

Car drives onto ferry, GPS signal is lost, car drives off to ferry, dead reckoning figures the car is lost in the water, GPS is regained placing the car very much somewhere else.

Do you trust dead reckoning or the GPS? In this case, you trust the GPS, one assumes, since dead reckoning places you in the middle of a body of water, though there

And this isn't a made up scenario. My car fights this every weekday. It's always entertaining to watch it figure this out as the GPS recovers badly and it starts to place me inside buildings in an area with poor GPS coverage.
> My "loop" was done by people who spend an hour with me asking my questions designed to see if I fit into these "principles". After the third interview, I was exhausted by parroting the same damn story multiple times - I mean, how many stories can you come up with?

I'm not sure how long ago this happened, but I'm surprised that your recruiter did not prep you for this. They tell you about the LPs and to prep 1-2 stories to demonstrate that LP, so you don't feel that you overlap.

LPs are used as a determiner of cultural fit and most other companies have their own version of this (e.g., "Googliness"). It may seem more cult-ish, and I thought that too when I joined, but it helps to move the business forward.

FWIW, I left Amazon a while ago for unrelated reasons.
What features are they missing? Which competitors have these features? Are AWS’s results not indicative of success?
I prefer how this evolves organically if / when there's a need. Once the need is proven by adoption numbers (say this ruby w/ type checking gets popular) you'll have a good idea of what people want (and any issues they might have with this implementation).
> I wonder why there isn't a popular gradually typed language that natively allows writing both dynamic and type-safe code, allowing quick prototyping and then gradual refactor to type safety.

Popularity aside, Perl 6 supports exactly this.
GDocs gets used because it's not blocked/censored by the school's IT.
I don't have a good answer. But I wonder if there are some realistic situations where we would have a good guess at the mean, but no clue about the distribution.
The keyboard design was quite poor compared to the Surface Pro in my opinion. It felt wobbly when carrying around too as it didn't magnetically keep the bottom part of the keyboard snapped to the display when shut closed.

I also don't feel it was light by any means. It weights almost a full 3 lbs with the keyboard attached. That's heavier than the Dell XPS 13 and much heavier than a Surface Pro 6.
Or it could be that Google is one of the world's largest companies and is actively changing almost every facet of our lives, and so these sorts of things happen.

If Google was a smaller business involved in a single industry, then your conspiracy theory might have merit. But it seems perfectly logical that as Big G's tentacles reach deeper into the lives of everyone on the planet that it's going to come under increased scrutiny.
The Bronx High School of Science is a specialized school.

Here are some papers its students published this year: https://www.bxscience.edu/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=3719&...

A similar institute is the North Carolina School of Math and Science, and their current newsletter is here: https://broadstreetscientific.ncssm.edu/

This type of content is not representative of the average high school's mathematics curriculum in 1957.
The Chinese invented paper money :) so it's not as though the concept is foreign to any of them. While there might be some differences between cultures in that regard, I think it's kind of a stretch to try to explain away the not very nice data points. I think the data can probably be interpreted in a straight forward manner: if you lose something in China, you're not going to get it back and that's that. It is what it is.

"There's a reason the authors stopped short of making any social commentary in their study." I think because it would be way out of bounds. Casual commenters such as us have a little space to speculate (unless dang gets fussy), but it'd be too improper for researchers to make assumptions.

One major thing missing in this study is the rural/urban divide. I suggest London is not representative in any way of the rest of the UK, and neither is Manchester the same as Penzance.

Edit: I should note that the authors do indeed go into trying to find cultural correlates, they go right for '% protestant' etc. and make some fairly speculative comments which I would be uncomfortable with because these are all just correlations. Notably, one of the highest 'correlations' is 'latitude' (!), it's not as though being at a certain latitude makes one more civic. Maybe there are other, related, factors, but it's certainly not latitude.
I'm having trouble finding the implementation of `sig` - could someone please point me to the right file? Thanks. I'm very curious how they pulled this off.
Alternative viewpoint: tech has benefited from a free ride of "doing no evil" for a long time and they are now being overseen the way multi-billion dollar companies should be. If a service is so badly moderated that their customers can get scammed by fake companies regularly, doesn't that require some kind of reporting?
> a popular gradually typed language that natively allows writing both dynamic and type-safe code, allowing quick prototyping and then gradual refactor to type safety.

You mention it in your edit, but Crystal has been exactly that for me. A rubyist for a decade I found Crystal to have the type system I was expecting all along.