skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Google mapping properties are definitely on the decline. My theory is that they are less critical to the advertising business.

For navigation, Waze can't find a route 1/5 times for a longer trip, and Google Maps gets weirder and more hostile to use every few months. For me, they have tweaked their routing engine to be more "creative" and direct you in weird ways. Big G is too fat and happy and they need a challenge.

Apple Maps is fine now from an accuracy POV. They are more conservative about routing and Apple gives the app privileged treatment on iOS that improves the UX while driving. Now that Apple seems to be embracing letting services move beyond their platform, I think we'll see them give Google a run for their money.
Interesting how nobody ever claims that the Romans were advised by aliens.
for podcasts, if you use a podcast app like Overcast that supports playback speed adjustments and silence skipping you might find a speed that keeps your attention while still retaining the important stuff.

I wonder if any audiobook apps support that kind of speedup feature?
Can someone explain how these strategies aren't standard across online games by now? They've been around for years, but it's always a big deal when a game adds them.
Gradient descent is partial differentiation, and Lagrange multipliers come up in the context of nearest-neighbor searches. I’m almost positive most people just use it without actually understanding the theory behind why it works, though.
Sure, but only a handful of people really employ advanced calculus for building ML, while the vast majority of Data Scientist only use the ML algorithms implementations as a black box, without diving into its inner workings.
It might wear off if the cars are shoddily built and will not be reliable in the long term.
Personally prefer an open-source, no-phone-home launcher. I settled on Lawnchair [0], a clone of Pixel's launcher that's highly customizable and pretty much works on all major OEMs flawlessly:

1. Let's you hide apps.

This is important to me since I usually firewall apps that I can't disable but have no use for, esp the ones that are pre-installed. Also, I don't want to see them or accidentally launch them.

2. Remove Google search bar and Google feed.

3. Dark mode that's gorgeous on AMOLED screens.

Lawnchair doesn't track usage nor does it, to my knowledge, phone home to any server.

LessPhone, NoPhone, Siempo [1] et al do have their places, but feel a bit forced and unnatural to use, esp for someone like my mom or my dad, who are used to traditional Android launchers with icons.

A feedback: Not meant as a slight on LessPhone or the others, but I guess, the key to building something for the 2 billion strong Android ecosystem is to abide by the existing UX standards and not surprise the users.

[0] https://lawnchair.app/

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17126771
> very wary about migrating a production database. It could be long and risky.

Heh, I've only done a few migrations from MySQL to PostgreSQL, and in every case the hardest part has been dealing with bad data in the source DB. It's always been pretty illuminating for the client when they discover how much bad data they actually have in the DB, even though their "ORM Validations" were keeping it "clean" to make up for MySQL's shortfalls.
This actually strikes me as a quite dangerous mindset! A lot of "hacked" accounts happen when someone tricks customer support. How, exactly, would you verify the customer's legitimacy?
I hope they are also keeping separate rankings for cheaters, that would be pretty cool.

"I'm currently the #5 player in the cheater zone of Apex."

Heck, embrace it: don't call it the cheater rankings, call it the tool-assisted rankings, by analogy with "tool-assisted speedruns". Tag people at the end of the game with which particular cheats you detected. Pop up a polite notice that "We have noticed that you seem to be using external tools to help you play better; we will now be matching you up with other cyborg players to keep things fair. Good luck, and may the best man-machine win!"
I might have extrapolated a bit too much from my much deeper knowledge of my countries central bank system. But I gess it's fair to ish compare Supreme Court justices to fed governors (not easy to fire and long terms)?

My point was more that colechristensen's "appeal to democracy" seemed somewhat misguided. Both the Fed and the Supreme Court seems like the least "democratic" government institutions, in some sense. Not that it's bad, nor that I think that FB would be a better guardian of our money supply, but still.
My Last Macbook Pro
I wouldn't go for just meditation but I'd like to take a few months off to learn kung fu in China. I have seen a number of live in programs where you do 8 hours or so of kung fu a day. They cost on the order of $1000 a month all in, for $5400 they will let you stay for a year.

Something like this: https://www.shaolinskungfu.com/Accommodation.html
I very clearly worded my statement. I said "including a demand that taxes be paid in a certain currency". I didn't say 'a demand taxes be paid in a currency owned and controlled by the government', I said a currency. This is a very clear statement that already captures my thoughts on all the various media of exchange you mentioned.

If a government only accepts taxes in gold, then it is still demonstrating it has a monopoly on currency, because now gold becomes something everyone must own and thus will serve as a commonly accepted means of exchange for all those subject to taxation from the same government.

EDIT: For example, Ecuador uses the US Dollar, but don't be fooled to think the Ecuadorian government doesn't have a monopoly on the use of the dollar within Ecuador.
The only thing missing from this blog post is the recommendation to read "So Good They Can't Ignore You."

https://www.amazon.com/Good-They-Cant-Ignore-You/dp/14555091...
Wirth — at the age of 85, no less! — is actively working on Oberon stuff, like the compiler. Here's his "news" file, which is up to date as of May 31, 2019:

http://people.inf.ethz.ch/wirth/news.txt
I wonder if that number excludes suicides, though.
YugaByte product manager here -- have documented the answer to your question [1] As you can see, there are many similarities but there are also a few important differences such as depth of PostgreSQL compatibility (YB reuses PostgreSQL query layer while CRDB is a re-implementation) and latency/throughput observed for modern OLTP workloads.

[1] https://docs.yugabyte.com/latest/comparisons/cockroachdb/
https://golem.network is the project to make decentralized computing possible. They already have beta version released.
I see a lot of good podcast apps for Apple but I couldn't find a nice one for Android. I would like to pay for one, but I can't a reasonable one that allows me to make my playlists and speed listen without drowning me in ads. Sure I can spend hours trying each one of the dozens, but would my fellow HN have any suggestion?
that would be ok with me and would really simplify the solution, but economically speaking, riders generally should pay more than non-riders, since they get more direct benefit. also, by paying, riders feel a little more invested and less likely to take transit for granted.

fares are $1.75 per ride in LA, and from what i remember, that pays about half of the metro's costs. without thinking too deeply about it, that seems a reasonable split.
True. And I don't want to be overly pedantic with the implementation details.

I like your proposal to remove passwords and prevent phising in general and I'm trying to give some honest feedback on what I think is wrong with this auth system.

The title of this post is "Tell me why this auth system is a bad idea", after all, not "Tell me the good parts of this auth system" ;)

I guess a question I would have for you is: name a few companies to which you would like to pitch this auth system. (e.g. your first few customers if you turned this into a startup or something)
I upgraded to Puma 4 with no problems. Haven't seen an H13 since. :)
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There are still 14 issues blocking the MVP version of enabling Shared Array Buffers in Firefox by default. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1477743 And two of those are "design" tasks that don't even count the implementation work yet.

You can enable the feature manually by toggling javascript.options.shared_memory in about:config.
There's a feature matrix here [1] comparing YugaByte to CRDB, TiDB, Aurora, CosmosDB, Spanner, MongoDB, FoundationDB, Cassandra and Dynamo. No idea about performance characteristics though.

[1] https://docs.yugabyte.com/latest/comparisons/

edit: there is a relatively recent blogpost comparing the two here: https://blog.yugabyte.com/yugabyte-db-vs-cockroachdb-perform...

Key summary from the post:

In a nutshell, YugaByte DB delivers an average of 3.5x higher throughput and 3x lower latency compared to CockroachDB. Following are the detailed performance characteristics at scale (millions of rows) for internet-scale transactional workloads:

5x more insert throughput, 9x faster
4x more query throughput, 3x faster
4x more distributed transactions throughput
In addition, YugaByte DB offers additional features such as read replicas (for timeline-consistent, low-latency reads from the local region) and automatic data expiry (by setting a TTL at table level or row level).

Obviously to be taken with a grain of salt as with all benchmarks doing head-to-head comparisons.
Well if you want stuff, you have to pay to have it. We falsely think that acquiring things is a one-time cost. While true that owning something typically has a lower total cost of ownership, the relationship is not as cut and dry as often made out. For most people, renting certain things that they currently own would be a better use of resources.
Anecdotally, many people I know in Northern California dislike Kaiser, and many in Southern California love it - but it's been years since I've really polled my acquaintances on it.
Is there anyone who ever knew all of this when they graduated?

I think maybe the top student through my five years at university might have known all of this. I sure as hell did not check all the boxes when I graduated two years ago.

If you're nervous after reading this, just know that the "should" probably means "in an ideal world".
They all have that problem.

My son's school is in a kafka-ish situation with Google where their listing is wrong and cannot be changed. People cannot write reviews, and data doesn't get updated.

98/100 times, updates to Apple or Google mapping products are done in hours or days. The 2/100, forget it.
I've heard good things about "Scalable Topical Phrase Mining from Text Corpora" [1], but it's been a while, so I don't know how close to the state of the art it is.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.6312
Like I said, we are here, we can iterate infinitely faster in figuring things out here.

The only reason why the Earth's core might seem out of reach to you is because of how little focus and resources have been put into it (compared to colonizing Mars).

> I am 100% confident saying that human kind will never reach the center of the Earth

Well, that is your own personal opinion. And in my personal opinion, it sounds very pessimistic.

We can definitely do it, and we might not even need to drill any holes. We just need to get excited about it and go for it.
A new study has shown that videogames, when used as part of an emotional inte
> learning how to examine other people's ideas without coming across as I'm attacking them.

This is an extremely valuable skill to learn as well as a difficult one. Unless you work in a vacuum this will help you work better as a team. It is one of the differences between a fantastic manager and a bad manager. People will value your opinion and it will help you learn more (because you will see more code and how others do things. Unless you're the best and do everything perfectly). It's also something you have to continually work at and improve upon. Of soft skills this is one I'd put in the forefront for any engineer.
Now you've stacked up two hypotheticals to counter the point, though. That's might be true. It also might be true that the cars are of, on balance, very tolerable quality and that maintenance issues just aren't a driving factor in driver satisfaction. They're cars. Everyone loves their cars.
You can still bring it up to them as a problem that you have noticed where "some people" get overeager and interrupt others. mention the downsides and ask if he can help change the culture. You don't have to point the finger at him and it helps to enlist his help rather than complain.
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I mean, yeah, all else being equal, it would be better for consumers to have access to any content they want on any app or device. But it's a bit difficult to imagine how "making exclusives illegal" would work, exactly. Would content producers be required to sell their content to every distribution network for the same price, so that every streaming service could, if they wanted to, make a profit by effectively charging more for the content?

What if the content producer just wanted to sell the raw video file of their movie to consumers directly? I.e. you go to the movie's website, pay, and download an .mp4 file? That's not much different than how Netflix works, except that DRM makes it tricky for the layperson to move that file around to other devices or video players.

So perhaps what this law would look like is just a ban on DRM, although even if that happened, and the content producer had an app or website that took payment and served DRM-free video files, there's no simple way to move that file around, particularly on mobile phones or TV streaming boxes, so I think the sheer convenience of using the content producer's app or website would still result in largely the same "unfair" advantage to large content producers or unions of content producers.

Another legal alternative might be to simply require content producers and distribution networks to be owned by different companies. I believe that idea has been proposed by Elizabeth Warren and others, although I don't know if it's a very fully-fledged proposal or if it would be a good idea. It seems like the distribution networks would still have massive economies of scale and thus the few really big networks would have leverage over customers and content producers that would still result in a lot of exclusivity.
Usage. The more you use something consistently, the more you remember it.

However .... One thing I learned very early on is that in today's world, it's probably silly to try to clutter up your limited memory with stuff that you rarely use.

You can never remember everything. BUT ... you should know where to find it.

You have a computer with you, so use that as a source of reference.

Even today, after using C for decades, I will often do things like "man strtok" while programming.
I will like to introduce everyone to the most wonderful currency ever created.

The USA Ginnie Mae Bond! (GNMA)

For only $25,000, you get a Social Security check.

Just go to ??? it really doesn't matter, work, save, buy one, and quit.

If it fails, you get to tell Marines what to murder, yet alone get your very own Aircraft carrier!

What fun!

You could take the coupon, and value base invest it far far away from the hippy hell known as California.

You leave them alone.
They leave you alone.

If you like crypto, just make a video game, and doll out experience.

Worry not about the rich friends in San Fran.

There's behavioral wards right?
Those people from the county that come and help out the disadvantaged?

Screw them!
Because they are screwing you so so much.
There seems to be a tendency to exaggerate the breadth of things that people should study. When you ask for specific instances where something would be useful, you usually get a hand wavy answer that since X field is connected to what you want to study, it is therefore worthwhile to study X field ("Of course computer scientists should study advanced chemistry, we wouldn't even have computers without chemistry! And what if you needed to written a program for chemists!").

In my experience people retain very little of something if they don't keep using it. Many people take things like calculus in highschool or college, and completely forget it within a few years. I often checked with classmates about how much they retained from courses we had just taken the previous semester, and most of the stuff that wasn't directly connected to what they were currently studying seemed to be forgotten (if they ever had a real understanding of it to begin with).
This rings so true it hurts. At a very large, very blue, company I recall a time trying to explain to an account manager that I wanted to write the SLAs in terms of my footprint, which is to say, given the resources you have allocated to my account, lets set some SLAs like "latency from any node to any node", "latency from any node to the primary internet", "latency from any node to the secondary internet", "availability of primary internet", "secondary internet" and "blended availability of both."

I had a bunch of these things, all of which were things that were tracked, measured, and monitored, in an existing setup.

Their response was, "We really don't have any way to provide the data for your SLAs, much less actually sign up to enforce them." I suggested that they were not serious about being in the 'cloud' business then. They seemed miffed.
There's also quite a name collision with this company's product that has remained surprisingly civil with apple

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_6_(company)
> This means that you can run a much leaner database and require substantially less expertise to keep things going. If a rack goes down, you don't need someone on-site to bring it up ASAP, you can fix it the next workday without upsetting your customers.

This is already the case for cluster storage systems like Ceph.
Ceiling Light Fixture for Bedroom
Sry. Source was from a blind thread. Not an internal thread. Mixed the two up

https://us.teamblind.com/s/5YFH3CqL
Y Combinator in Buenos Aires – Sept 17-18
I’m going through a similar process. Over the years, I had fits and starts trying to relearn what I had forgotten and clarify what I didn’t intuitively get. With the usual caveats about different people having different learning paths, I didn’t find the knowledge stuck with me if I tried picking a broad math topic (ex: “statistics”, which encompasses a lot) and trying to re-learn everything about it.

Over the last few months, I realized a different approach that had been most effective for me. If I picked a specific thing I found challenging to do or wanted to develop as a skill, I could work backward from there to probe through ever more fundamental concepts where I had a gap in knowledge until I hit something I didn’t need explained to me. Having gone through that backward journey, the path forward now was more clear and obvious. It helped as well that I was motivated to dig deeper because increasing my knowledge within this narrow context had an immediate practical utility for me.

If you would like to take this approach, you need to start somewhere specific. For example, I had a generic goal to learn how I could deploy machine learning in an actually valuable way. After many failed attempts to meet that goal satisfactorily, I decided to pop open MindNode, write TensorFlow 2.0 in the main node, pull up the TF 2.0 Alpha documentation, and start reading from the top. For each thing I didn’t immediately understand (ex: eager execution, input layer shape), I created a node. For each node, I began Googling and reading pretty much everything on the first page of results. If I encountered something within the explanations I didn’t get, that became a new child node. Among the many things I explored, I realized a grain that stuck in my mind was “but why do the rules for matrix multiplication feel so arbitrary”. Exploring that question led me to 3Blue1Brown’s linear algebra playlist on YouTube. I can’t begin to describe how it felt when those videos helped me “get” matrix multiplication. With that fundamental bit of math starting to make sense, the more complex concepts are becoming clearer too.

In a nutshell, the approach I’m taking is to start with something specific that’s personally meaningful, and then dig in to it to find out what exactly isn’t clear to me. I hope it helps to think about this approach as an option.
Pretty easy with VB.NET and WPF/UWP.

The desktop world has long moved from fixed layouts from VB 6 and lower.

Since 2001 actually, given that even Forms has a layout manager.
Reminds me of people adding date paste to health foods instead of sugar. Date paste is only sweet because it contains heaps of sugar...
As Cobol Turns 60, Computer Language's Future Is Uncertain
A significant part of Niantic's servers were overloaded with bot requests at that time, which caused massive lag for everyone. Banning was their only option.

They came with a shadowban technique later though : https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/24/15686428/pokemon-go-niant...
GO-JEK did some performance benchmarking: https://medium.com/yugabyte/go-jeks-performance-benchmarking...
This all simply supports my point then: it’s an irrelevant argument in the current discussion. If the Woman’s March protest had zero influence, then the point is simply moot.

Furthermore, I specifically mean the leadership at Google when I simply say Google. I’m referring directly to the people deciding resolution or retaliation. Whether that’s a single person or a group of people, it doesn’t matter. By enacting a change that’s protested for, they’re legitimizing the concerns set forth by the protest (aka supporting the notion that they’re real moral issues and the opposite of rabble-rousing)
Low birthrates cause many problems, look at Japan. They have a massive labor shortage and a ballooning elderly population with not enough people to take care of them.

I don't think it's clear at all that a lower birthrate is a good thing.
You can also grow it yourself. Just bought 2 plants
I actually wish they would use more cardboard boxes and less of the plastic envelopes.

The cardboard boxes are easily recyclable or compostable. the plastic generally cannot be recycled but will sit in a landfill forever (at best).
Because it's a non-trivial feature to develop, test and maintain. Simply using a flag (banned = true or false) is lot easier / less complex / fewer potential side effects.
Cobol Still Powers the Global Economy
That’s called ‘Dynamic Ad Injection’. It’s not Overcast, in fact Marco gets complaints about it.

It’s the podcast host adding ads in via automated means that are supposedly customized for each listener. And doing a poor job of it.
I wonder just how much the Mac computer/laptop market would fall off if iOS developers didn't need to have a macOS device to run Xcode? I have a Mac mini, a 2013 MacBook Air, and a (way too expensive) 2019 MacBook Pro all to support compiling Xamarin, Xcode, and Ionic applications for iOS. For the clients asking only for Android to be targeted I grab my Lenovo P50 and don't even bother with the Macs.
They managed the amazing feat of being both anti-free market and anti-social-safety at the same time.

Perhaps a big-tent pro-democracy, pro-rule of law party will emerge as a counter weight somehow.
It seems like three-factor is a mistake in the article, but what you suggest is very close to the three factors that will be involved in SCA (Strong Customer Authentication), an upcoming European regulatory requirement to reduce fraud in payments:

https://stripe.com/guides/strong-customer-authentication#wha...

(Although only two of the three will be required.)
Have you tried Pocket Casts? Any reason it doesn’t work for you?
Flash lives on as Animate CC

https://www.adobe.com/products/animate.html
I would add a Statistics or Applied Math co-major, or even a Master's degree. Being able to analyze data is becoming a must have skill.
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