skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, I’ve been thinking about something like this for doing continuous weight measurement of cat food and water bowls.

And then the thought occurred to me that we could build an even larger platform to put under that, so that we could also monitor the weight of the cat itself (or themselves).

For a multi-cat household and variable bowl weights, you would have to combine the weight measurements with video surveillance cameras, so that you could confirm which cat is eating or drinking from which bowl. However, with some OpenCV work plus ML, you might be able to automate a lot of that.

Thoughts?

Anyone else interested in such a project?

Or maybe there are already projects out there in this space that I don’t know about?
Not only do browsers often have zero days but many people configure their browsers to let the server do basically anything it wants. Service workers, WebGL, Webasm, javascript.

Any of those have been demonstrated to be capable of spectre/meltdown/etc. Hope your passwords/ssh keys aren't stored in RAM.
I don't think that's true. What we don't like is any talk of Americanising the NHS.
In my experience, you don't need to be a major contributor to an open source project to gain notice. I've only 3-5 minor contributions (work rules generally preclude me from being more active)

While my contributions haven't been large in terms of LOC, nor have I added new features, I have identified, debugged and supplied patches for bugs.

I mean, I did this out of self interest, of course.

A defect in a certain DB lib on bulk copying with nulls would fail (uninitialized memory in the C portion of the lib). That took about 6 weeks of on again/off again attention. Debugging a C module in Python is a bit of a pain in the ass.

Fixing 64-bit compatibility in a Windows ODBC C++ wrapper was another. This was a pain because it required a line by line audit to make sure the correct types were used on every ODBC call.

A problem with some inline assembly using rtdsc as a highres timer reporting 200 years had elapsed in a few minutes. This took a long while to figure out and only stumbled into the cause of the bug. I was using the timer to measure socket timeouts. We were supposed to timeout after 30 seconds, but randomly, the timeout would trigger immediately. Stumbled into it because we were using the same timer to measure database queries. Found it odd that my logs were reporting queries were taking more than 200 years to complete, as I sat there reading the logs and seeing them complete.

Another was an issue of file handles being, no pun intended, mishandled on a .Net logging lib. I forget the details on this one. Dont think the file was being properly closed at exit?

Reported an issue with Boost DateTime overflowing on certain arithmetic situations. Coworker found the issue, but I narrowed down the issue, figured out a solution and reported upstream. Finding the wrong typeset in a template zoo like Boost is an arduous task.

I'm sure there's more I've forgotten, but my contributions haven't been much in the way of LOC. My contributions have been in the hours spent and expertise in finding the typically 1 or 2 lines that are wrong.

Having experience like that on a resume (and being able to talk knowledgeably about what you did and how you do it) do open doors. Having "found and fixed obscure bug" in a widely used OSS lib is nearly just as valuable as churning out lots of OSS code. Probably more noticeable if you fix bugs in an OSS project that lots of people/companies use, rather than churning out tons of lines in a project almost no one has heard of or uses (beyond the authors).

Edit: spelling

Addendum: providing bug fixes for 3rd party libs also demonstrates an ability to work with and understand code written by someone else, which is a valuable skill in of itself.
Yeah, I toggle that switch off every few weeks when it 'mysteriously' toggles itself back on.

I really hate google's YT, they even throw up (the equivalent of) 'buffering' more than it ever did when they didn't have a huge worldwide CDN behind it.
Prank your friends and colleagues with fake update screens
I totally disagree-- having video on a conference call is really helpful to me. When you can see the people you're talking to, you can tell if they're nodding along or if you're boring them, or if they want to jump in and say something, and so on. If you're only talking over audio, it's much harder to use those nonverbal cues to guide the conversation.

We also use whiteboards while on calls pretty frequently, which wouldn't be possible if we were audio-only.
The latest in that saga: https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/07/09/virnetx-reverses-...
Fintech startup Revolut is launching its robinhood like stock trading
And this time Jobs can't come back to save them... Well, unless he truly was techno jesus.
Sorry, I was trying to explain why I was providing additional statistics.

It's technically a stock vs flow difference. Not trying to correct, just expand.
Copyright Lawsuits Could Come to Regular Internet Users Under a New Law
Attacking satellites is increasingly attractive–and dangerous
> It's disingenuous to the consumer.

How is it disingenuous? If the numbers are to be believed people would get checks for under $1.

So I'm pretty sure they will be, as the FTC says "disappointed with the amount they receive".

It's actually good advice, (absent raising the payment pool).
Many states (Oregon and Colorado) are starting to decriminalize psilocybin. The interesting thing is always how the federal government views this and what actions it takes. I'm optimistic.
this is so rare, i take trams every day and have never seen it.
> No, no it does not.

You would really pick a check for under $1 over credit monitoring?
I think it was helpful! Thank you for expanding on the numbers.
Kqueue is quite nice. BSD is much better designed and I enjoy working with it more. Linux suffers from people doing just enough to solve their specific problem and then no more. The result is APIs are not orthogonal and follow differing styles. Sometimes they don’t even work at all (e.g. futex fds)

I admire what Linux accomplishes functionally. But it is just as ugly as win32 in my opinion. The two are really more alike in their pragmatism than they would care to admit - but mutual hatred prevents learning from each others mistakes.
UpToDate.com:

STI incidence among MSM using PrEP
Men who have sex with men (MSM), particularly those who have indications for pre-exposure prophylaxis against HIV (PrEP), are at high risk for sexually transmitted infections (STI). In a study of nearly 3000 MSM in Australia who were initiating PrEP, the incidence of new chlamydia, gonorrhea, or syphilis over the subsequent year was 92 cases per 100 person-years [2]. Nearly half of the participants were diagnosed with an STI during the study period, with 25 percent of participants accounting for 75 percent of all STIs diagnosed; the risk of STI was proportional to the number of sexual partners and frequency of group sex. These data highlight the importance of frequent STI screening for MSM using PrEP.

2. Traeger MW, Cornelisse VJ, Asselin J, et al. Association of HIV Preexposure Prophylaxis With Incidence of Sexually Transmitted Infections Among Individuals at High Risk of HIV Infection. JAMA 2019; 321:1380.
From Linux? Are you sure about that?
Having eaten possibly all the best beef around the world, and most of the "meatless" meat even before they were even hyped. I have yet to taste a Meatless burger that is anywhere near as good as real beef.

I wouldn't say Beyond Meat were terrible, may be because I have low expectation of these type of patties anyway. But Impossible Burger is slightly better than Beyond Meat, but still far from Real Burger. I definitely wont be trying it again until they have another major version upgrade.

Yes, they talk about meat like Software Development.....
There are a ton of ways to slice these numbers, but no matter how you slice them the result is just insane as a percentage of America and the World - which was my point.

I appreciate you pointing out an alternate methodology though.
My ATT is exactly the advertised price. It includes all fees, taxes, and equipment. $90/mo for gigabit (was $70 when I signed up, which reminds me I need to ask about getting the promo rate again).
The latest MacBook Air starts at $849 refurbished. Quite a good value even compared to Windows laptops.

https://www.apple.com/shop/product/FREA2LL/A/refurbished-133...
Oh - thanks! I’m glad someone from the 19th century is here to explain the worldview in question.
Can you provide a citation for your claims? I've never paid credit card interest in my life and have more than an 800 credit score. Mortgage rate is low as hell and the highest rate I've paid for a car is 1.9%.
Implementing Poincaré Embeddings (2017)
Is low level programming as lucrative? I love it, but I don’t hear many people talking about the jobs
It blows my mind that 0.3% of the worlds "effort" goes to apple products.

Thanks!
Sash: Developing desktop applications with HTML and JavaScript, circa 2001
By using integers they can avoid a person rounding off fractions of pennies and putting it into their own bank account.

Really, it’s about rounding and floating point math.
I heard the term “smoke test” came from the hardware expression “if there’s no smoke, it will probably work”
Oh wow I feel like an idiot.

Thanks for the clarification, I some how thought grass was man made or domesticated/engineer like cows.
This is the result of giving the police yet another tool to harass people for minor offenses.

Whether Eric Garner was bootlegging cigarettes or not - do you think it was worth it?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Eric_Garner
Does someone have a link to the old paper form? Would mailing that in still be valid?
From Telegram to Twitter: Top Puerto Rican Officials Plotted Possible InfoOp
Couldn’t you attach an EBS or EFS volume and use that for temporary storage?

Sure, even if it’s on SSD, it’s still likely to be more expensive than local storage on the lambda instance, but that might still be better than using ec2.
It's weird to compare unlike things.

(the only attribute of apple that is 5% of US GDP is market cap.)
Or if you belong to a demographic who is routinely stopped for the color of your skin or you look like you “don’t belong”....
I had never seen his blog before, but the writing quality is incredible. I hope to explore his blog more

Edit: reminds me a tiny bit of Catcher in the Rye, stylistically
Using the word "inherits" might be misleading (as might "extends", which I used). We don't particuarly care that the any actual behaviour/implementation gets re-used.

The core meaning of A < B is the is-a relationship. That is to say, a value of type B is also a value of type A.

I assume you agree agree that my first example ought to type-check (although, as the second example shows, there is an argument to be made that it shouldn't). The question is how does it typecheck?

In the last line, we call writeFirst(as,b). Here, the first parameter has type List[A].

However, writeFirst is declared as taking a first parameter of type List[B]. The fact that this works means that List[A] is-a List[B], which is the defining feature of List[B] < List[A].

If this were not the case, then we would have needed to define writeFirst with a type along the lines of:

writeFirst[X < B]( xs:List[X], x:B): xs[0] = x

Where we explictly declare that the type parameter of the list is a subtype of B. In this case List[A] could be used not because of the languages decision on variance, but because the program explicitly typechecks with X=A.

Note that this actually changes the return type. In my original example writeFirst(as,b) would have a natural return type of List[B]. However, in this new example, the natural return type would be List[A].

This second example is closer to how ML style languages work.

EDIT: It occurs to me that I was thinking a bit too functional in this. The natural return type of writeFirst is void in (most?) OOP langauges because arrays are mutable. What I wrote assumed that the natural meaning of writeFirst was to construct a new list which replaces the first element.
>Would you bet the rest of your life on a casual test like that?

On an individual level, this doesn't guarantee much, but on a population level this could provide a huge benefit. You yourself might not feel confident based on the test, but it would likely severely limit the spread of STDs (as long as treatment is available and accessible).
The Art of Pirated Software
You can try tilting a sail in 2-d simulation: http://wry.me/t/gravity/gravity.html (I don't promise I got the light-pressure math right, but it least this shows maneuvering without needing to extend and retract it.)
It’s essentially five year old technology and I don’t see it being supported for much longer. I’m not sure I can recommend it anymore :/
> Consumers determine the price of something based on the single factor of “what they are willing to pay”. If Apple can sell devices at that price, and consumers are willing to pay it, then it is by definition not overpriced.

Luxury brands are either one of two things, they're either a superior quality product over engineered for the consumer's use case, or they're a $40 chinese made t-shirt with a logo on it.

When people learn about the problems with the butterfly keyboard, and the display connectors shorting out -- The luxury good becomes more like an overpriced t-shirt.

Companies don't typically buy $40 abercrombie t-shirts for their employees. Nor will they buy $2000 laptops with a 10% failure rate over 2 years or ownership.
7-11 7pay terminating at the end of September
I’ve looked into graph databases a few times. I feel like there’s a use case I’d love to apply it towards more seriously but I always stop after not fundamentally “getting” the “gains” out of it.

I’m doing quite a bit of NLP and similar conceptual structures of edges with unstructured / structured relationships to content and I I’m always wondering if there is some boon to utilizing a graph.

I guess I lack some success stories where I can see the wins.

I get a sense that there was an attempt like noSQL back in the day with graph - and it has its specific cases but it’s not massively used for general use cases. And a new sense that there’s an emerging thought leadership on doing graph db’s a new way that is more general.

I love new tech! I just want to know how to use it for the unknown unknowns :).
You could use it to make gloves that work with touch screens!
We should eliminate a majority of law. Too much law is like an over engineered program with edge cases for everything that prevents anything from changing in the future. Law cements stagnancy in our society. And at the worst, it creates moats for the powers that can use law to protect their interests over others.
Kepler: So, you see, orbit of a planet is elliptical
"Socks and underwear are definitely consumables"

The border between a consumable good and a durable good is somewhat vague, but socks and underwear are usually considered durable goods because they can be washed and re-worn many times.

"Durable" does not mean "does not wear out". For example, household appliances are considered highly durable goods because they typically have a usable lifespan of many 10 years. However, they do wear out.

I have no disagreement with your point about how they give customers horrible diseases.
Lack of familiarity with the drugs mostly.
Well, CDK actually produces CloudFormation templates. Sorry, but I always feel the urge to jump in when people claim Terraform should be used instead of CloudFormation because of personal preferences. If you are AWS native and already using CloudFormation, I see no reason to switch. CloudFormation provides a ton of functionality out of the box and Amazon handles it for you. Rollbacks alone are a huge reason one might want to use it over Terraform.
1970-2030+ or so will be seen as a drug dark age. A time where criminalization made everything more dangerous, and harm reduction worse. Part of a 60+ year gap in innovation using all substances for many health related cures and issues as well as recreational fun and exploration.

We learned nothing from alcohol (a drug) prohibition.

All prohibition and criminalization does is make everything more harmful, from use, to production, to creating cartels/mafias that become as powerful as nation states.
Why do entities who aren't American trust Microsoft, Google , Amazon or apple?
Getting a doctor takes time, something I'm woefully short on.
Discover Learning Materials in an Open Space
Advantages of Botanical Skin Care
Skin care is an area which has products ranging from a number of different sources. One might be surprised with the number of different places that you can get products from today. In fact, many people often double check to ensure that the product they buy is truly beneficial or just claims to be so. Hence, when you hear about botanical skin care, it is normal to be confused and wonder whether it is the latest fad that will pass after a few weeks, or is here to stay.

Fortunately, botanicals is actually very beneficial and can be seriously considered as an option for your skin needs. Since all products that are derived botanically use natural ingredients, they are very useful. Most of these products are formulated using only ingredients that are safe for your skin. Often, there are no artificial chemicals added in the product, which should further imbibe confidence in you about its safety aspect. To top it all, is it's actually healthy to use, and will not have side effects if used in larger quantities.

Nowadays, many big conglomerates are also developing an entire line of products under the botanical skin care brand. Hence, it might not be far before you see your favorite brand of skin care available in a botanical avatar. Do give these products a shot, as you might like the results. Often, people who go in for these walk away impressed and buy the product again; you too could be one of them.

https://www.dietsdiary.com/best-way-to-prevent-wrinkles/
Nah. They’ll make that back in a few minutes.

If you’re not talking about a sizable portion of their gross annual revenue or their total market capital, you’re going to have little or no effect on any corporation.

If you really want to have an effect on a corporation, the only way to do that is to pierce the corporate veil, and hold the senior executives and the board members personally liable. That will get them to change big time, and in a hurry.

When you endanger the mega yachts and the private islands, you’ll get them to sit up and take notice.
Not really. It'd be nice to have a Nvidia eGPU but that's not supported anymore. Apple controls this and there isn't much we can do to change their choice of which GPUs are supported in the OS.

PS: My use case would be for CUDA stuff. It being a Mac is nice because I can directly use it as a development machine. So having a Linux desktop at home is the best alternative and SSHing into it.
It's not far off from commercial pine nurseries though.
Casio had some cool features on their "High Speed" cameras. eg the EX-100 and before it the FH-100. It can buffer photos at 40fps while you half-hold the shutter, and then when you fully press the shutter, it will save a certain number of those frames from even before you fully depressed it. Great for catching, eg a bird taking off, or a sporting event.

It was an amazing feature but Casio has sadly exited the camera market now, and I haven't seen another camera with the same kind of feature.
Because this is untrue? Even the most pessimistic estimates have drivers making a substantial amount more than 0; the complaints are that they don't make enough to justify their hours of labor. Removing this labor cost would be non trivial, esp once the cost of a self-driving fleet stabilizes.
Ooooops I guess we’re full-stack developers now
You are incorrect about the need of an enclosure: they don't shadow the back objects at all, instead they use a "diffuser" which obstructs the image of the back objects (and reflects backlight) during the color phase.
But they could still protect you from a whole bunch of accidental injuries. Eg stepping or falling onto a rusty nail or sharp glass or a rock. Protective clothing that would double as regular clothing could make you safer against that.
Turn Off Apple's AirDrop
It's easier to model domains with FP than OOP.
Briefly reading the code, it seems like a distributed wrapper around sqlite.
Federation is nice, but going out of your way to hide that federation is occurring from users is a bit too much. Doesn't it matter who gets to see the full URL you are accessing (especially after efforts for DNS over HTTPS)? At least it could put an icon in the URL bar that can be clicked to show details about who served the content.
It is domesticated - wild forms of grass are very different from lawn grass - they are more similar to the grains that we also domesticated from the grass family. Some of it is even closer to ferns in appearance (eg, wild dogstail)
> Apple's market capitalization is more than 5% of America's entire GDP.

Ugh. Comparing a dollar number with a dollars/year number is really ugly. It's not even the same unit!!
Nice to see Valve pushing Linux gaming advancements like that!
It depends on your building's setup. We have a gig radio on the roof with G.Fast inside the building to each unit. I get 200mbps up and down. $35/mo tough to beat unless you can get Sonic fiber.
The two laws work together, Ying and yang. You can't analyze one half in isolation.

I dont know why you italicized patent, in that example it's a trade issue precisely because the patent doesnt cross boarders.
yeah, shocking. if you have diabetes or a thyroid issue or hiv or really any chronic disease that requires medication you are out 12k a year easy, 6 for your insurance premiums and 6 for the deductible and copays. if you are broke there are some provisions, but if you are above the poverty line you gotta pay.
> If all 147 million victims of the breach were to take part, the monitoring services would cost Equifax more than $2 billion.

The amount it costs to buy credit monitoring isn't how much it costs Equifax to actually do credit monitoring.
It would be great if the author (or some good soul) explicitly stated that this project doesn't violate any hashgraph patents as at first sight it's not clear.
Why maps have north at the top
Even Cardie B. is eating halal, these idiots are so not down with progress.
Heavy smokers have a ~25% chance of getting lung cancer (plus various other horrible things), it drops to ~15% for light smokers, that's people who smoke many cigarettes a day every day. This service sends out 4 Cigars a month, the lung cancer risk from that is minuscule.
English:

Seven and I Holdings announced that 7–11’s mobile payment service, 7pay, will cease operation at the end of September.

7pay started operation on July 1st. 1.5 million people signed up, but third parties were able to log into accounts and add funds to their own. Adding funds and new signups were stopped on July 4th.

As of July 29th, 38.6 million yen (~$300,000 USD) has been stolen from 807 people.
Apple today is not the company it was 10 years ago, let alone 20 years ago. Comparison is not useful. People buy equipment for different reasons from different levels of expertise. Some people like to hack their hardware, some don't. I've grown out of hacking hardware and software and prefer high availability. Like cars, I guess, buy a Ford or a Merc. Customer's choice.
I did. I haven't watched much TV ( and facebook too) for almost 6 years. I feel strange like alien whenever I see people watching crazy news and dramas. I login to facebook if only someone PMs ( like twice-thrice in year ) but believe me those few seconds are like hell and want to get out of it as soon as possible.