skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't mean to be facetious but how does that make it better? Doesn't he still control the company that owns the fund?

Is it suppose to be better because it "looks" better because with my minimal understanding there isn't a difference.
Your 90 hours/month figure is only 3 hours/day. It doesn’t exactly take a ‘screen-locked’ household to consume 3 hours/day. I would imagine most households with any number of kids greater than 0 easily consume more than that.

Also, why would they continue to increase caps? For the first time in their history the cable companies are losing video subscribers like crazy and they’re losing them to over-the-top services. They’re going to keep datacaps right where they are and use them to recapture that lost revenue rather than actually attempt to fix the issues consumers have with bundled channels and linear programming.

You do bring an interesting point about having tiers. Currently there aren’t any tiers. There’s the ‘normal’ rate capped at 1 TB and it’s already pretty high IMHO without constantly fighting for an intro rate and then there’s the unlimited rate for nearly double. I just don’t think if you want to play the tiered game that your ‘normal’ rate should be capped at what an average household can be expected to routinely consume.

In the end it doesn’t matter what consumers want or are willing to pay for though because as we all know broadband is at best a duopoly for the vast majority of households so you just get what you get. And that’s whatever XFINITY (maybe they won’t realize it’s still the same shitty Comcast!) decides you get.
Just like the CIA
Just so we understand it correctly. The LED is software controlled and therefore it being illuminated or dark signifies only that it's illuminated or dark and nothing more.
> Right now living in hotels and working in coffee shops is strictly worse than having a home and an office for almost everyone

Maybe it's just the WeWork I've been it, but it was every bit as loud and distracting as a Starbucks. The glass fishbowl offices constantly remind you other people are walking around you. You see them, they see you. In addition, the one I was in had the bright idea of installing hardwood floors everywhere. Men and women in dress shoes and high heels would "clop clop clop" all day long.

You also never want to mix sales people with engineers. Or any job title that requires a good percent of the day socializing. Sales people are on the phone nonstop, usually running a script quite loudly. That's not even something you could get away with at most Starbucks. But WeWork on the other hand...
Satellite internet, with batteries or a generator, works even when local conflict shuts down pretty much everything else.
Thanks for the first part of your comment. I assume you are arguing that being "dumb" is not coorelated with IQ because IQ isn't meaningful. If so, I politely disagree but I'm not motivated to take on that argument.
I wonder if things would be different if this individual was using, say, Signal, Conversations.im with omemo enabled, Briar, Wire, Threema, or other related e2ee enabled application. WhatsApp et al just have less security overall.
Love love love this article. I'm so tired of hearing lazy, unskilled, disorganized, mismanaged, etc. companies handwave the shit they write as simply being "tech debt". Sticking 50ms waits throughout your code, because you're not good enough to figure out how to actually trigger your action from an event or await something completing isn't "tech debt". Maybe hiring people not good enough to figure it out could be considered that from a higher level..

If we are going to allow the tech debt metaphor to continue, too much of the debt I see is the equivalent of a pay-day loan.
That's also the solution to the blinking 12:00 on the VCR.
The name grates on both my ears and my eyes (due to the awkward shouty capitalization).
This was already solved, however. If one was worried about this, one could have set the option to leave the light on when recording.
I can't believe I'm praising Tcl (2008)
Blood pressure monitoring could be as simple as a selfie
That sounds an awful lot like Japan.

https://investors-corner.bnpparibas-am.com/markets-strategy/...
Any thoughts on the security model for the hosted service?
How Robotics Teams Prepared for Darpa's SubT Challenge
Successful popular movements are almost always led by elite class traitors. It's been like that at least since the Populares.
I will concede that it’s technically plausible to chain an RCE persistent attack to it somehow, and hopefully that pays out a significant bounty!
It's not perceived cost, it's HR job security.

Same attitude for any type of employee towards any external consultant. They think: that's my job, I can do it cheaper, otherwise I'll just leave and hire myself back as a consultant and double my salary - but never have the skills or the guts to actually do it.
The difference is that traditional chamber of commerce GOP types would hold back the anti-immigration stuff because it killed unions and made their mainstream donors happy. Your chicken slaughterhouse in the middle of Nebraska prospers with underpaid illegals who don’t get workers compensation.

The big money, big ideology people poured money into hard right conservatism. Investing in and advertising on talk radio being one key strategy. Your average blue collar worker/trucker/etc has been indoctrinated with conservative blather for 30 years.
WeWork is planning for the future, when we'll have instant teleportation between cities (obviously).
Take a look at https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3397 for one way to get this set up. Your DHCP server can give you a list of host suffixes to try whenever you have a short name.
fragsworth mentions being the victim of exactly this issue with weightlifting machines (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16723769) in the post linked by coke12 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20700966).
You could mount a tape dispenser on a robot platform, but it’s not really “plausible”.
Lessons from a ‘Local Food’ Scam Artist
The US and UK have similar rates of obesity* and fast food availability, as far as I can tell.

*The US is noticeably higher overall, but there are about 13 US states including NY and California with lower averages than the UK.
This time things will be different. Any militant movement needs money to grow - traditionally money (made using selling drugs) came from ISI [3]. Pakistan narrowly avoided FATF sanctions [1] (now in grey list but can be moved to black list this October) Now Pakistan's economy is tanking [2] and it clearly knows military options are not workable. No foreign governments except for China support them. Only option left is disinformation campaign aided by leftist media. [1] https://www.voanews.com/extremism-watch/watchdog-pakistan-co.... [2] https://herald.dawn.com/news/1398616
[3] https://www.refworld.org/pdfid/4b6fe2d2d.pdf
> It works pretty well if you're OK with the huge resource usage.

Isn't that an oxymoron?
PegLeg
I run a web service that gets around 10m hits a month, and I serve one popup ad (yuk, I know) per day (or until cookies are cleared).

Compared to revenue, hosting cost is next to nothing for sites like Tumblr that serve text/image content. A similar video site would need to spend a ton of money on bandwidth, streaming CDNs, encoding servers, etc.

If you get 2.5 million hits a month, it is certainly possible to cover the said selling price of $3m in ads alone in a month.
A more brutal and widespread ethnic cleansing, which India conveniently likes to brush under the carpet, was that of Muslims from the Jammu in 1947. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1947_Jammu_massacres
This should be the top comment.

If a car mfg forced driving lights remotely and killed your ability to run and operate the car without the driving lights I feel like this issue would get more clear resistance. The workarounds are cute but the alarming issue is that we paid for these things with XYZ capabilities and specifically someone thought this feature was good enough to build and ship and maintain for years. Now that feature is removed, I guess this invalidates the previous use case to have had it. It seems fair that new cameras would have this “feature” baked in, old cameras notta. Same use case for the car scenario.
While I could imagine a world where it is equal cost/quality to live a nomadic lifestyle or a fixed lifestyle - I'm dubious of the claim that most would prefer it as the risk profile is inherently higher than a fixed location and all else being equal people will prefer a lower risk living situation.
Biohackers chase Johnny Mnemonic with 'Pegleg' implanted hard drive
This matches my experience - most C++ engineers I know have little desire to work on C++ for mobile after having tried it once. Most mobile developers tend to be specialized on mobile and don't focus so much on generalist C++ stuff. Some good ones do both and don't have problems finding work. :)
Get a load of this:
https://twitter.com/AdityaRajKaul/status/1161161663493464064

If J&K Police has some cell in Srinagar writing form letters to Twitter in San Francisco every time someone posts something they don't like God help them when the Internet comes back on.
Wait, in what timezone was 4 hours ago the 13th?
Nest historically used firmware updates to do this stuff, I see no explanation why Google would vary that practice for something they’re doing to gain trust. They could be so absurdly stupid that they software control that lamp off from their servers as a permanent solution, but I think they have more wits about them than that. As you point out, it’s a terrible idea; and it’d wreck them in the press if that was their final answer.
I don't think wxWidgets is a strong example for cross-platform success. While admittedly I haven't touched wxWidgets in years, back when I used it, I marvelled that it worked at all, as the source code was such an utter mess. For example, I found a bug where a class constructor would raise lifecycle change events before the constructor even finished, and the issue was brushed away on the mailing list. Argh.
I get the API differences on these platforms but at least in terms of the UI Flutter seems like a good choice. I'd imagine it'd still be easier to stick to Flutter than write two separate native apps in most cases, it seems to have gotten tooling right.

So I'm also interested in hearing more elaboration on how Flutter has been a struggle for you.
I attended a talk by Stephane Mallat a few months back about the work his lab is doing on wavelet scattering transforms.
It seems they're making great progress in developing deep neural networks based on them that don't need to be learned.

It's not as hyped as mainstream deep learning methods but I think it holds a lot of promise since it cuts down on learning time, is mostly unsupervised, gives you control over the network's features and is a more theoretically principled way to build networks than just defining the loss and crossing your fingers while it's optimizing as we're doing right now (bit of an hyperbole).

I could go on, it's absolutely fascinating.
More info (in english & french): https://edouardoyallon.github.io/thesis.pdf
The US has a great deal of territory that is not in someone's half acre back yard.
Thanks for linking this. This is what I was referring to, I had forgotten where I had heard of it happening.
Couldn't some sort of waiver be signed in presence of various witnesses and properly notarized etc work in these cases instead? That way the company would not be held liable and the patient, by his own choice, can get access to the drug when he needs it.
Prefab, modular housing.
It's a pretty standard signal processing topic. It doesn't replace a FFT, but is used similarly to windowed FFT.

Definitely has its uses. Definitely isn't a panacea.
Blocked by Patent-bullshit
Depends on what constitutes a group and how broadly you define "something". Does Google+ count? Any of the dozen or so spring football leagues? Plenty of movies. Jai-Alai? If we restrict "something" to politics and social movements, opposition to H1B visas has been going on since the program started but with a few minor hickups, it has become increasingly entrenched. Perhaps the grassroots money isn't in the same order of magnitude but it's also not big to sneeze at either.
The article says it all - they chose the wrong language with no community support for the trail they were blazing and that technical debt destroyed their productivity.

I achieved 90+% code share in Xamarin including UI across windows - ios - andriod. 100% buisness logic shared. You can write cross-platform UIs, and swap out to native code on a widget by widget basis. Threading is seemless. Sure it has its own set of issues, but everything is a trade-off. Look at your use case, and define what trade-offs you are happy with.

The drop-box use-case is also an outlier - to achieve high levels of responsiveness, it must integrate with low level platform specific APIs to the point their entire app may be some kind OS specific service. Look at blogs about their desktop apps and you see my point.

If you going to drink cool-aid from companies just because they are dominant in an area, atleast drink the cool-aid of a startup which was created for the purpose of building cross-platform apps.
If everyone predicts a recession is coming then yes, absolutely, it can start a recession. If you read that duke CFO survey basically what happens is companies begin to pull back on capital expenditures if they think the future economy is going to slow down. That simple idea manifested in enough companies can significantly reduce the amount of capital expending to make a dent in economic growth. This thinking also plays into the inverted yield curve - it is a sentiments indicator so if people are fearful about the future then they change their behaviors. Perhaps they don't invest anymore money into stocks, they buy bonds instead. Maybe instead of going on that vacation, they pay down debt or cut non-essential spending. If a large enough people do this then it will definitely have an impact on economic growth.
If anybody wants to read in detail about Kashmir issue from outsider, check this
https://www.lawfareblog.com/indias-move-kashmir-unpacking-do...
You also can't scale up the cheap UPU subsidized China Post + USPS shipping. It's for small quantities only. Order ~10+ and they ship via much more expensive means. Try and order a bunch one at a time and customs will catch on and seize them.
Prosperity reduces birth rates for a variety of reasons.

One of the big drivers of population growth is being a poor farmer and preserving a legacy. Once you have some wealth, the incentives change.

My grandparents grew up poor in rural Ireland, my grandmother was one of 12 children and at least 16 pregnancies, born in the WWI era. 9 of the siblings made it to adulthood. They needed people to milk cows and catch fish, and needed living sons to inherit the land and take care of the elders.

Immigration in modern western countries fills the gap between productivity gains and the dearth of workers. It keeps salaries lower to reduce inflation and preserves the status quo. Remember that behind of all of these crazy debates is a need for certain stakeholders to maintain power.
Project loon? Good time to make a real impact Google!
"About the glowing red light on the pre 12v Bus which was my constant 'little worry' on many night trips: there were many, many explanations. All seemed valid and I really appreciate them all, but the cat who seemed to have the best grip on the problem suggested painting the button with heavy red fingernail polish so I couldn't see the dim glow, but could still see when the light actually came on."

-- How To Keep Your Volkswagon Alive
When I first started making the app, Dart existed, but Flutter didn't. Then Flutter existed, but didn't support the web. I thought that was still true, but I just checked, and Flutter for web [https://flutter.dev/web] does now exist, as a technical preview ("When trying Flutter for web, you can expect to experience crashes and missing features.")

When Flutter came out, I looked into it, wondering if it might be worth switching my approach (I figured most of the Dart code would probably be able to stay the same). There were other deal breakers at the time, but I don't recall them.

Maybe once Flutter for web is production ready, it would make a compelling alternative, but for now it isn't an option. I'm not sure if would have made things harder or easier. But I'll be curious to check it out.
Actually, "modern device" seems to mean "locked-down anti-user anti-backwards-compatibility walled garden" more than anything else, so I'd say the term is quite accurate. ;-)
Do you think separatists would win an election in Balochistan? (and I don't mean BNP). The situation isn't comparable to Kashmir. Balochistan wasn't one state in 1947 (accession of Kalat is separate case). iamshs is right to be sarcastic.
Yahoo bought tumblr. Verizon bought Yahoo - they weren't likely specifically after tumblr, it just game as part of the package.
No one is talking about farming. We're talking about factory meat production and slaughterhouses.
Tech giant Tencent sorry for typhoon deaths error
https://github.com/bjoernkarmann/project_alias
I don't think utilities need to be subsidized for anyone. There's a difference between that and just giving people money. If I have $X extra a month in income, and electricity or fuel is really expensive, then I still make choices based on the relative price of those things versus other goods. But if I am given a subsidy of $X specifically for energy, then that seems like a terrible idea. Just because it's the same amount of money doesn't mean it has the same effect on my choices and the environment.
The 2A and crypto have been linked for a long time. The original crypto fight in the 90s was over exportable encryption (because it was listed along with munitions and other ITAR-restricted items).

One idea I saw floated around the time of the San Bernadino iPhone was arguing that encryption is protected by the second amendment as a means to not having to fight against backdoored encryption every few years. I don't have the case law familiarity with the 2A & encryption to say if it would go well but I did find it a fun idea.

Edit: I should add that this would be in addition to the clear 1A protection code and therefore encryption has.
> And lastly, as the article stated, we had a hard time finding new talent to cover the growing amount of work required to deliver our product. There just aren’t many C++/JS devs out there.

Reading the article and now this, I really can't grok this perception. There are plenty of us out here, I think, it's just we're buried in the heap caused by mass resume farming, aka modern recruiting. Recruiters and hiring managers don't think of me as a senior dev with 15 years writing software and delivering value to end-users... I'm just YA candidate who doesn't have any experience in the latest JS framework du jour, so I might as well not exist.
I've been surprised at how loud emptying a bucket of aluminum cans into an empty bin can be, the half open lid also reflects the sound back toward you.
That’s a reasonable point, and I do try to keep some perspective. The number of “likes” and retweets for the hateful posts does seem to scale for India’s massive population.

India also has a long history of deadly “communal violence”, something that doesn’t really happen in other democracies. If questioning whether it’s wise for companies like Twitter and WhatsApp to allow incitement for violence to exist in such an environment is regarded as “privilege”, so be it.
No.

If the user interface is usable and snappy, it is probably fine that it consumes twice as many resources as a similar native app would require for the same result.

Example: Slack.app is a huge memory hog (though not as bad as it was before their rewrite), but it fits decently into OS X and does not lag on me.

I have lots of RAM, so the extra consumption is fine.

Sure, it annoys some programmers that it could be more efficient, but other than them, who cares? Those guys are probably using Emacs or a CLI program as their client anyway.

(I must be a rare breed, since I do email, writing, and programming in Emacs, but not chat)
Agreed. I mean if we look at the CSIRO's list of achievements:

https://www.csiro.au/en/About/History-achievements/Top-10-in...

and considering the defunding that has been going on, particularly with respect to climate change:

https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/csiro-australia-...

It really is a sad picture indeed.
I mean, it is different / better.

Now, if WeWork goes belly up, Neumann doesn't get to keep the buildings.
Usually the rule with a title that ends in a question mark is that the answer is no. In this case "not close" seems to be the answer. Rest assured, it's way more complicated and there are a lot more problems to tackle than just aligning ECMs.

That being said, I love this sort of thing so much. Maybe one day my grandkids might be saved by this.
Mehr Chand Mahajan quoted in that article went on to Supreme Court of India. 370 allowed 100K of those refugees to be rehabilitated. When there was the possibility of more returning in 1980s, Indira Gandhi showed up and accused NC of bringing in 'anti-nationals'. But please, Modi bhakts, tell us more about how 370 isn't necessary.
Here’s an article that seems to explain this better. Not sure if it is accurate, but I think it is. TLDR; it is a carrier requirement for the market. Not a law, but still a required feature.

https://articles.inqk.net/2018/02/09/japan-iphone-shutter.ht...
Perhaps OP was thinking of the criticisms around Dual-EC-DRBG?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_EC_DRBG
Something not being in the US Constitution doesn't make it not a right.

>If anything, it enables tyranny by corporations, since they are unelected and not responsible to the public, whereas elected governments, in fact, are.

I feel the opposite. Corporations can easily be taken down when you stop paying them. Governments are extremely hard to fight against, especially with rampant corruption and gerrymandering. There's also the fact that almost all tyranny in the world is enacted by governments telling people what their "rights" are.
Something that blew my mind the first time I learned it:

You can think of a function f(x) as the limit of an infinitely big vector where the entries index the infinitesimal. Eg f(x) = [...f(-2dx), f(-dx), f(0), f(dx), f(2dx)...]. The dot product of two functions (f,g) is still the usual sum[f(x)*g(x)] but the sum is replaced with an integral. Sin and Cos of integer frequencies happen to have a dot product of 0 (check it) which means doing a change of basis into those functions (aka the Fourier transform) happens to work out really nicely. Other than that Sin and Cos are not really privileged. For example you can do a transform into the basis of polynomial functions if you wanted to (aka the Taylor series). Any basis you can cook up would do just as well so long as its a complete basis. Just like in linear algebra, you have a complete basis if you can use linear combinations to construct the vectors ... [...1,0,0...], [...0,1,0...], [...0,0,1...] ... (aka the dirac delta functions). Differentiation is a matrix with dx on the off diagonal and -dx on the diagonal.
That amazon FBA "side hustle" stuff you see on youtube isn't as lucrative as it used to be. More people are doing it and the prices drop quicker on the hot items.
They didn't really morph, these were approaches to deal with a fundamental issue in signal representation in higher dimensions that comes up when you use tensor product representations. Simply put, wavelets are not good at capturing edges in signals of dimension > 1 (although they are great at it for dimension 1)

The fundamental (functional analysis) research in this area split in a few directions. One as you mention, mostly driven by imaging research, but also frame theory and non tensor-product basis, etc.
How useful is that data without a name attached?