skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think the fact that it's mostly illegal would discourage Uber. But compare it to Uber Eats: those driver subsidies, they're never going to get that money back. A drone last-mile R&D budget could at least lead to something. Even if it's imperfect and still requires some labor, maybe it vastly cuts cost. E.g., drivers are assigned drones, and they go from the driver's car, parked on the street of the destination, and fly to the front door to drop the food off, so drivers get more throughput while running their deliveries.
Haven’t read the article beyond the free teaser, but I wonder if an alternative explanation was that in previous decades competition strategies were strongly about adding to the amount of product: “10% more, for the same price!”

Now that the market consolidated and the losers have been driven out or bought out, the winners are quietly taking it back
You may be able to run Signal server from your build, but you won't be able to talk to users on Signal.org. Signal's official position is that it will never federate with others. So I don't understand how building and running a server locally is a step up in any way.
It works in developing countries where labor is so cheap and plentiful that you can get orders delivered from across town for less than half a dollar
Same EU rule is circumvented by some shops by having the comparison prices in mismatched dimensions (volume Vs weight Vs unit).
Please define "works much better." Thanks.
Working link https://jasoncollins.blog/2018/06/28/explaining-the-hot-hand...
> I'm guessing there aren't all that many cryptographers at blackhat; that's quite a different specialty, isn't it?

Well, it's not "quite a different specialty" in the same sense that zoology is quite a different specialty from what you would expect at Black Hat. There's some overlap between cryptography and Black Hat.
I think that if we found out tomorrow that we are living inside a simulation, it would be interesting for about 5 minutes and then we would carry with our life exactly as before.

It would not have any sort of bearing on our lives, we couldn't break it or transcend it. Our feelings and our lives would feel just as real as before.
The speaker('s company) paid a hefty price for him to be there to present. Black Hat doesn't wanna dissuade any other potential vendors from not giving them their money.
On the other hand, this chart: https://www.washingtonpost.com/resizer/taHyLEiwFvxZO4U3BfvmJ...

The top percent or two are sucking up increasingly large amounts of GDP, and they're not paying taxes appropriate for being at that level.

And capital gains taxes push the high end down even more.
I wonder if it wouldn't make sense to use GPS coordinates.
Yes, but also in hebbian learning you must have some weakening of weights, otherwise the weights would just grow indefinitely? One example I guess is Oja's rule.
The difference to bp is just how to select what weights to strengthen and what to weaken based on what information. Forgetting and learning must always happen one way or the other. Or am I not getting your point?
The only thing they missed in that video is a mention of "blockchain".
So what would it mean if there are gods of simulation? Most religions and gods purely exist as a way to implement law and order: define what is good and bad, and to manipulate people to behave accordingly (otherwise you will be punished in hell).

Would simulation gods really be interested in us following good and bad rules, or more interested to see what happens if people do as they want?

If this is a simulation, my assumption is that it is to test if any highly intelligent and successful species is destined to destroy itself...
Isn’t this basically electrohydrodynamics?
It definitely should be codified. And anyone with power that isn't strongly advocating for that is acting immorally. The nature of the game is very much not an excuse, it's something to rally against.
That is a very modern reinterpretation. Trade was a practice of more-or-less equals. One doesn't trade with gods, much as one doesn't trade with parents. One hopes to attract their favorable attention, and fears their ire or neglect.
The senior developer make tough calls according to what architecture we're going to use, senior developer listen to clients in the meeting and make tough decision.

Yes every developer always learn new things but junior developer never asks himself why this framework exists, what pros and cons we get after using the specific library, they not dig deep, etc
Here's a full portfolio of snake oil "companies" that these guys (or this guy?) engage in:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8paZWjiJIk8
I don't have a link handy but I came across a statement on their website earlier mentioning that they are mostly funded by doctors.
How much money do bloggers make?
I think you would need to read the theorizations the author read to evaluate such a claim. Did you?
Every developer second put into AMP is a waste of cosmic resources.
All these apps have voice calling, including Telegram.
> It means that if the thing they advertise in front of the package is way down the list, that's not good.

Certain strong flavors, like mint, pepper, and lemon, usually appear pretty low in the ingredients list at the same time they're headlining the label.
I disagree quite a lot - look at Doom 2016. It's a masterpiece of a game and its design does not allow multiple different playstyles. You cannot go and start sneaking around , the gameplay is extremely focused on always being 100% balls-to-the-wall, guns blazing and running around like a terminator from hell that you are. The levels allow different approaches to that style of gameplay, but fundamentally it cannot change. Does it feel like you have no agency over its dozen or so levels? No, of course not.
It's the equivalent of people arguing there is a "god", a supreme power which decides everything for us. It's a figment of our imagination, germinating from our hunter gatherer days where a leader was in control of the gang and decided everything for all the members.
Perhaps a 'ruse' or 'slight of hand'?
Is there any fail-safe law out there that catches all loopholes in existing laws?
I played a ton of RTS games, but I still remember fondly Tiberian Sun for the art style.

It has a very, very distinct feel from anything else back then, and anything that followed.

For me it's a combination of many factors. Voxel units looked great at small scale compared to any polygonal type that came after that. The infantry and landscape is 2D and hand-crafted. It's gorgeous. I think this was the last game in the series where this was the case. Dynamic and scripted lighting, esp nearby tiberium, added a ton to make some of the landscapes really look alien and alive - but did so without changing the vibe of the game. The soundtracks were very fitting as well, although not as memorable as C&C RA.

I'm not nostalgic here. I really did like subsequent games in the series. RA2 was great. I had lots of fun with Generals too (which I always thought looked stunning).

But Tiberian Sun has really a _distinct_ feel to it encompassing everything. RIP Westwood.
You don't have to be a medical expert to recognize that a guy selling crystal-infused snake oil probably hasn't found the cure to cancer.
With the cost of many many people feeling observed, many parents being nudged into thinking it’s okay to observe their kids 24/7 etc.

The old discussion about security vs freedom again. And I don’t think there are easy answers to that.
I can't be sure but it feels like a lot of people are discounting exercise here, I don't mean stretches but something more serious.

I've been staring at a desktop screen 6h+ daily for 8y+ and started feeling serious rsi symptoms on my right wrist at the old age of 19.

I tried bandages and wraps in the beginning, but once I started lifting all pains literally disappeared.

Heavy deadlifts (and maybe a press), done with correct form, is something that I'm quite sure will resolve the issue for the majority of people -- when your wrist starts being able to manage 200lbs+ loads then mouse-related issues feel like a joke.

I'd be interested in hearing stories where deadlifts didn't help. Would there be any?
I agree. Above I mention that neurons have finite resources so synaptic strength is essentially zero-sum. When a new set of synapses becomes strengthened, it implies that all the other synapses must be weakened by some amount.

Here is a nice animation of signal propagation in biological neural nets:

https://youtu.be/WCqNn9PEELw

To simulate the dynamics of synaptic strength I created 3D mesh of a dendrite segment with several synapses...

https://youtu.be/tDKUU0SqbSA

Then I simulate the diffusion of AMPA receptors on the surface (the number of AMPAR in a synapse is proportional to its strength)...

https://youtu.be/6ZNnBGgea0Y

I don't have animations of this process but you can imagine what happens when one synapse holds onto receptors longer than the others (has a reduced particle diffusion rate), when there are a finite number of receptors
For whatever reasons, probably because I don’t say ‘no’ or I’m too arrogant to say ‘I don’t know’, I’m one of those people who always tries to help.

I don’t keep a brag document but I do keep a folder called People where there are folders for the people I’ve helped and subfolders for each problem they’ve come to me with. On one hand it’s useful because I can recycle the code but it also helps track how I’ve spent my time. I also tried to keep a diary but this was less successful.

I learned the hard way that being helpful is not always recognised, in fact I’ve had one manager openly hostile to the idea even if that meant the project would fail, it annoyed the hell out of me. (This manager came back from his MBA promoting a Whiplash approach to management and told us to actively ‘destroy’ the other teams in our company so there you go.) This was part of the reason I moved back to academia, now my job is to help young engineers be the best they can.
As far as I understand it it means keys goes one way, messages another way, so that no single jurisdiction can get hold of anyones messages by seizing the servers.

Warning: the above is just my very simplified explanation of my understanding of what I read a while ago.

Edit: again, this is based on something I read a while ago, but I think Gmail has or had a similar system where you have to have access to two different places in the system to get hold of the messages, so yes, Google can get hold of anyones messages bjt it is not like anyone can do a select * from messages where accountid = 12345. (And this is not how I think they store the mails anyway :-)
r/badeconomics is great place to lurk for a layman who wants to learn.

The problem for layman like me interested in economics is that you have absorbed so much wrong views and explanations from the news and political commentary that you must work hard to unlearn them before you can start learning.
I had every VerticalMouse so far (they don't seem to last for me for whatever reason). I prefer the C, it sits nicer in my hand, they changed the shape; I can't comment on the buttons as I under-utilize those.
Either way though, going to any VerticalMouse from a regular mouse is a huge improvement. The changes between 4 and C are probably hard to pick out for someone who hasn't exclusively used those mice for a decade.
They launched China's largest reusable rocket. 8m tall, less than a meter wide from the images and it reached a height of just 300 meters. No orbit, no space, no payload.
This is at SpaceX grasshopper levels, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grasshopper_(rocket) for comparison.

DC-X and New Shepard also launched and landed vertically and that at far higher heights.

The problem is not landing a rocket vertically, it is to launch a payload (recovery mechanisms mustn't eat up all the payload mass), make it back through atmosphere at supersonic speeds and still have means (or propellant left) to achieve a landing.

It's a good step for the chinese space company LinkSpace but pretty much non-news for others in my opinion.
> All dane-pgp's proposed law would change is that when they change the labels to match the new formulation, which they must do, they would have to include a change date or a version number of something like that on the new label.

The proposal was a lot more aggressive than that -- dane-pgp specified that the packaging must mention if the ingredients stay the same but their relative proportions change. Under current law, there is no reason to alter the labeling for such a change[1], so you'd be seeing a huge requirement for new labels that weren't formerly required.

[1] Actually, there are two. First, you might switch up the relative proportions so much that the rank order of the absolute amounts changes, which would require reprinting the ingredients list. This is really unlikely.

Second, you might end up altering the Nutrition Facts information. That would also require relabeling. I don't know how likely that is; the Nutrition Facts panel is a pretty low-resolution instrument.
We should strive to name predicate functions using adjectives or verb participles. Then they do not require a suffix.

(if (closed handle) ...)
(when (static widget) ...)

The p or -p or ? should only be used in situations when we can't avoid naming the predicate after a noun, like stringp for "is it a string".
Bento – A New English-Based Automation Language for Non-Technical People
is disagree. while it may be expensive it’s far from unsolved (im the virtual world of course)
It’s not spam for a recruiter to send an email to a developer.

Spam is defined as “unsolicited bulk email”.

Https://spamhaus.org/consumer/definition

It’s a one off, not hulk, so recruiters emailing developer emails found on GitHub isn’t spamming.

Nor is the email address being sold in this case so that aspect of GitHub terms is not being violated.

So in fact you’re wrong and it’s perfectly legitimate for recruiters to use email addresses from GitHub and email them asking about jobs.
I can only hope that going forward we'll see less cisco stuff in datacenters.
Apple may be spending a lot on research but they've recently become too obsessed with mobile profits over holistic prosumer experience. I don't think I'm the only heavy Apple user considering leaving the reservation if they choose to focus on mobile consumption above everything else. If they don't fix the MPro[1], I've lost one of the major reasons I use Apple products at all, I thought the agreement was I pay Apple a nice fat 30% profit margin and in return they ensure I'm using the hands-down best computing devices on the market.

The Airport Extreme disappearing is another disappointment.

https://blog.pinboard.in/2016/10/benjamin_button_reviews_the... (not replacing my 2013 MPro until they fix all the issues with the current generation that I'm forced to use at work)
Maybe we did. Maybe it's circular.

At least that would mean the state of the universe isn't stored in a JSON object. That'd be nice to know.
Sounds native to me.

Non-native to me is typically a a pure web client or when you use Java Swing or Electron.

What do you mean by native?
Anyone curious about cloud kitchens should watch this:

https://youtu.be/nVZq21xC3fM
What if it's just a really detailed astrophysics simulation and any life is just coincidental and without interest to the ones running the simulation.
Based on the amount of stealth games in that list, you might like Mark of the Ninja - indie side-scrolling stealth platformer with a great visual style.
A hermit nation ruled by an egomaniac: Is Turkmenistan on the brink of collapse?
Surely it should be downloaded rarely and cached heavily?
Boiling Frog experiment. Real frog used - no prop https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRWL8-dn_Uk
I was driving from Portland, Oregon, to Seattle, once, and the moon was dead ahead. Caught 'em!
The sad truth is that Google's goal isn't efficiency, it is keeping people on Google's property. The best way to do this is to make people package their websites into little bundles that are safe for Google to preload. They're even working on a way to capture sites that don't want to invest in AMP (signed exchanges).
people like his employees who get a loan to pay for their new car.
I still feel like MOND would make alot more sense than all this weird dark matter stuff
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modified_Newtonian_dynamics
Fast(er) Food
Perhaps a poisoned chalice, then?
There's an article from PC Mag with a few more details:

https://www.pcmag.com/news/370119/black-hat-attendees-sponso...

Here's a video of Robert Grant giving an introduction to his Time AI nonsense from their party the night before:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/llp24loq5odvyhk/Crown%20Sterling%2...

JP Aumasson live tweeted their presentation at Blackhat:

https://twitter.com/veorq/status/1159559785068429312
Seems fine on my older Xperia Compact.
Because it doesn’t last. You get a short burst of happiness when you get recognized, but it goes away quickly. Then you start seeking new recognition to make up for the void, and before you know it you’re on an endless treadmill without ever attaining lasting satisfaction.
Ahh yep, they're still in HK as well. South Korea too.
It's interesting if and how the reverse task is possible: if we can type with our voice, can we hear back the feedback?

Hearing back the gobbledygook we pronounce might be a start to a mental disorder. Should the feedback be isomorphic to the input? There could be different levels of abstraction, starting from audio tty and ending with a high level commands. The usable solution would be non-trivial, what should I hear after running make -j? There could have been a commands like "give me the first five warnings", "navigate to the first warning".

Blindfolded navigation in the code tree would also be interesting. I could say commands like "list modules with route handlers", "go to function X", "get the type signature", "summarize function".

If the sane audible feedback would be feasible, it'd open a door into coding for people with visual impairments, or coding while wandering around, or pushing commits with a headset from the beach.
Agreed: Table: 426GB, RAM: 256GB, and then he says "and it is clear that having more than 10 workers will not give any significant performance boost". Quite expected if it's IO bottlnecked. It doesn't sound like it's about presentation. Maybe I'm missing something.
Or, in older words:

"Holy Athena," she cried, "protectress of our city, mighty goddess, break the spear of Diomedes and lay him low before the Scaean gates. Do this, and we will sacrifice twelve heifers that have never yet known the goad, in your temple, if you will have pity upon the town, and on the wives and little ones of the Trojans." Thus she prayed, but Pallas Athena granted not her prayer.

(Iliad 6.305-311)

Direct offers to trade with the gods are common in classical mythology. (And, um, everywhere else, ancient or modern day, fiction or reality.) And I specified that a sacrifice was often just an offering. Trading is normal, but not required.

> much as one doesn't trade with parents

I mean, I guess I can agree with this. I take it you don't have kids?
Whether this applies for google analytics may depend how/why it's being used. But this does seem to be the view for advertising related tracking.

https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protectio...

"People must be able to refuse consent without detriment,"

"The GDPR is clear that consent should not be bundled up as a condition of service unless it is necessary for that service:"

ICO recently published some opinion on adtech https://ico.org.uk/media/about-the-ico/documents/2615156/adt... clarifies some things

"due to the use of cookies to process this information, consent (to the GDPR standard) is still required under PECR at the initial point of processing."

"cookies used for advertising purposes are not ‘strictly necessary' "

The Article 29 working party guidance expresses similar things

https://iapp.org/media/pdf/resource_center/20180416_Article2...

"If consent is bundled up as a non-negotiable part of terms and conditions it is presumed not to have been freely given. "
You bake the pizza in a what? My Italian origins strongly disapprove this :/
Soup: people who have had enough soup, or live in hot places.
Guess we’re jaded, but if it happened 10 years ago...

I found this Reuter’s story on the launch.

Exciting, if they meet their goals.

https://www.reuters.com/article/space-exploration-china-link...

“The Beijing-based company aims to launch its next-generation RLV-T16 next year that will be capable of reaching an altitude of up to 150 kilometers, Hu said.”

“LinkSpace previously told Reuters it hoped to charge no more than 30 million yuan ($4.25 million) per reusable launch.”
Too precise I think - you can have multiple GPS coordinates for one address e.g. 2.00000000001 and 2.00000000002 could both be on the same building. Even a bounding box is too error prone.

Also, verticality would be an issue.
Also if a address get more than 20 items of mail per day. The Post Office will give you your own post code.
It's a good book if you want to delve into macros and already know your way around. If you want to learn Lisp in general, then his ANSI Common Lisp makes more sense. It's pretty much every Lisper's gospel when it comes to one style of coding. http://www.paulgraham.com/acl.html

It's not available for free, but there are 2 chapters for the sampling, and it is well worth the price to have on your shelf.
The fact that the abstract does not mention laser driven sails, the currently most viable approach to relativistic propulsion (ie, the current breakthrough starshot plan), does not give me much hope in this researchers credibility in the rest of the paper.

Furthermore, the performance of this engine is abismal. To put it into perspective,a modest ion engine would produce about a million times more thrust per power. While the ion engine of course requires carrying fuel, and is thus governed by the tyranny of the rocket equation and not directly comparable in performance, this engine still requires a power source and thus effectively requires fuel anyway.

Also worth mentioning is that the least efficient possible massless thruster, a simple blackbody radiator with reflector to aim all of the photons behind you, is only about 1000x worse than this unit in terms of propulsion force per power, and essentially infinitely better than the unit in terms of propulsion force per mass, since this structure is incredibly massive where as you can usually generate blackbody radiation directly from you power source.
>saved money leave the money supply.

And in that situation, it marginally increases the value of everyone else's dollar, increasing the value of their investments.

You can't save money without directly or indirectly investing in something (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saving_identity)
> Spam is defined as “unsolicited bulk email”.

More commonly, unsolicited/unwanted commercial email, see, e.g.:

https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0038-spam
But may nevertheless be necessary. Polite neoliberal capitalism will not see us through this challenge.
> `first` and `rest` are not unheard of in other programming languages

Like Common Lisp, which has `first`...`tenth` and `rest`.
If it's a good thing to own stocks for a person, why would it be bad for a corporation?