skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The pervasiveness of computers, phones, and the internet has all but eliminated the majority of the benefit of switching to metric in America anyway.

In 1978, I'm sure it saved countless hours of calculation and conversion. But in 2019 calculation and unit conversion is a task for computers and not people, and for computers it makes no difference.

I think it'd actually save more resources to focus on other forms of standardization. Maybe the UK could drive on the right side of the road, for example. Or maybe they could ditch their arcane electrical plugs for the European or American standards. These changes would save a tremendous amount of localization waste.
I don't understand why people are so worried about superintelligence. Moore's law is dying. Computers are not going to get much faster, or much cheaper. Parallelization is going to be the only way to get more powerful computers and there are real, possibly insurmountable, limits on how well you can do that. The computing sector is going to look like aerospace: the Boeing 737 of today is better in some ways, but it still looks almost exactly like the Boeing 737 of 50 years ago
In addition to giving some idea about algebraic geometry, I appreciated the insight and honesty it contained regarding how a (high profile) researcher decides to try to learn more about an area, and about how the author was intimidated by it. I appreciated it, but, it is also pretty depressing, in that a professional mathematician of Baez's calibre clearly found it very tough-going just trying to survey the existing knowledge, let alone adding to it.
Ha, you're right. But I have never heard of an onshore wind farm built using these -- only offshore projects.
This seems longer than writing http://gmail.com or does it link directly to the html version
It would be fine if they simply approached people and tried to rule them out, but due to the psychopathy in the justice department they often try to paint the people they find into the perp often hiding evidence that exonerates them.. in other cases photo-shopping their face to cover up tattoos to make them look more like the assailant.

The issue is that prosecutors don't act in good faith... and because of that legitimate exercises maybe used against people in illegitimate ways.
iOS already has a separate feature "offline dictation" which works on-device. I don't understand why that isn't used for Siri.

Also about "recently"... back in the late 90s I had a desktop PC running Windows 98, I think it was a Pentium 166 MHz with 32 MB RAM. On it, I had a voice recognition program called "Dragon Naturally Speaking". It required a little training with my voice but after that, it worked remarkably well. And that was over 20 years ago on a PC with a - by today's standards - very primitive CPU. Decent voice recognition isn't new technology.
In order to better solve what business problem, exactly?

If I was your boss, I’d demand to know your projected ROI calculations up-front too. That includes the near-term risks and costs of change management when phasing in your new technologies and practices, and long-term business continuity implications after you’ve personally buggered off to pastures new.
I think the more important difference than miles or km is which is the denominator and which is the numerator. The rest is just some multiplication factors.

As another poster pointed out, using [fuel]/[distance] (like l/100km) means I can easily estimate how much gas I need given my decision on where I'm going. Using [distance]/[fuel] (like miles per gallon) is only useful in a situation where I've filled my tank up and ask "Now where could I get to with all this fuel?". I don't think that happens very often.

I suppose it might also be useful in a situation where you're low on fuel and asking "oh Jesus, can I make it to a gas station?", but most cars now have a "[distance] to empty" display on the dash anyway.
Here you go,

https://youtu.be/W_HJ1czydiI
Isn’t it preferable to start with data modeling?

You can disagree but:

> Rule of Representation: Fold knowledge into data, so program logic can be stupid and robust.

http://www.faqs.org/docs/artu/ch01s06.html#id2878263

Statically and strongly typed languages excel exactly at this.
I'm currently dealing with precisely this exact scenario and database. Dated Mongo, homegrown ORM, a closet full of opaque hacks that are apparently all related to some MongoDB feature, etc. And I don't know if this is a cultural issue with MongoDB users, but my god the database has its hooks throughout the stack, all the way to the UI. It is amazing to see shit like this in 2019 and I've seen some heaps over the past few decades in this field.

But the optimism point resonated. Before reading your comment, I actually reflected on whether I am being pessimistic. I'll tell you why: at this point in the game, cleaning up the software would effectively require a rewrite. And the company is in no position to do this. They do not have the talent, leadership, or effective recruiting necessary to undertake a meaningful second system effort.

So I think I've come to the realization that the job is a poor fit and I should move on, but while I am here it actually wouldn't help pointing out the obvious issues with the system. There really is no point.
> But how did the compiler determine main.node is not null?

The test case in the bug happens to use UB to generate the constraint, but this is just an example of how to trigger the bug. The bug itself is not related to UB, and there are other ways to generate the same constraint.

Here is an example on godbolt showing what I mean: https://godbolt.org/z/pRW97L

You'll notice that I removed the UB, but the bug is still there. You can see that the 'return;' statement is not emitted because it is colored with a white background. So the bug is not related to UB at all.
This looks like a great candidate for the space at the bottom of my garden, good pricing too.
Installing Old Versions of macOS
I eat McDonalds rather frequently for lunch because there's one nearby, a double cheeseburger is $1.89, and has 26g of protein and under 500 calories. I think they taste fine; I wouldn't pay more for a better tasting one.

I'm pretty sure nearly every McDonalds customer thinks the same way. They want quick, cheap, safely prepared food that tastes good enough to eat.
Good for you. But so what? (Edit: my point is not about the ribbon)
The tree pollinates during a 2 to 3 month period during the winter months, and for many people, the allergies it causes are horrendous. If you're allergic to it, you're basically screwed from December - February. The pollen is so thick in the area that your car will covered with orange dust every morning.
The microcontroller doesn't go on the 6502 memory bus. If data is sent to the microcontroller over a serial channel (e.g, SPI or UART), it can handle incoming data during blanking periods.
Yes, but borrowing isn't, and ownership is by itself no more complicated than RAII.
A judge would review the warrant before issuing it hopefully. I think Google can basically say "Look, this is a bad warrant and you'd be better off narrowing it a bit" and that would work in most cases.

You, as a defendant, can also challenge the warrant as part of your trial if you are caught, potentially getting the results of the search thrown out.
WSL 2 foregoes the system call translation approach in favor of virtualization, you get a Linux kernel: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/announcing-wsl-2/
I'm just saying it's not necessarily true that the ribbon is worse than old school menus.
OIN works with the Linux kernel community to define a "Linux System Definition" that has tables of packages and functionality covered. New functionality is added every year. It does not include proprietary software or components.

https://www.openinventionnetwork.com/joining-oin/linux-syste...
The fact that Apple is bragging that they take privacy seriously while Google has been bragging to advertising customers that they have been violating the privacy of everyone's banking transactions is everything you need to know to see that the two companies have a very different approach to user privacy.

However, Google can still adopt Apple's position that data collection should be turned off by default and only turned on by the users after you explain what will be done with the data.

They won't since spying on users is how they make the vast majority of their money, but they could.
> Though that fact that it's faster is more a novelty; what matters most to me is clarity and correctness, which is highly context dependent.

We agree.
Build better public transit? Modern society seems to have switched from a society that enables people to a society that punishes people to solve problems.
Same here. It works remarkably well out of the box.
Super Mario 64 is a 3D game. The emulator can render the polygons at any resolution. The 2D textures should be replaced or carefully scaled, though.
You're not really addressing the core question here, it was never really about the profitability a depressed person can bring, it was about whether hiring based on a signal of an optimistic personality is unnecessarily exclusionary.

Values-based hiring isn't a magic bullet, it can lead to problems such as having a monoculture. And as I alluded to before, it's possible for hiring too rigidly against a value to unintentionally become a proxy for exclusionary bias.
Bibliotheca, Hoopla and Overdrive are angry with major publishers
Reminds me of https://gizmodo.com/automatic-wifi-login-helped-police-id-te...
No Fap for 1 year using this method
The purpose of fines is to punish someone, not to raise money (except in failed and failing states, of course). Jailing someone who can't or won't pay as a replacement punishment is just common sense.
Later versions of Win10 have ext* support?
Robot in Command
Zelle is roughly real time.

It is owned by the same company doing RTP.
And I'd agree with you. So what do you think my point was?
>but not under this notion that we are somehow in the same bucket as China

I didn't say India was the same as China.

>and that only the west is holy in the world.

If you're a minority of any kind, you're better off living in a Western liberal democracy than anywhere else in the world. That doesn't make it "holy", but that does make it better.
And my wife would use that information to discount whatever shallow, materialistic fools judge her by her jewelry choice.
No one has to, but like all things in life, some people do for whatever reason... I guess enough do for "exit interviews" to even be a thing.
Is that really true though? To me this sounds more like making the validation of the program an afterthought, at best. Even in very academic mathematical models, introducing types early usually doesn't introduce much of a cognitive burden. I maintain that even when developers don't think that they're reasoning in terms of types, in many cases they are:
"This is function 'x'. It takes two items of type 'T', which have to have a member 'a', which is a number. Function 'x' multiples the two 't.a' values together and returns a new 'T' with the result in its 'a' field."

If you opted to forego static typing, every step of the above function would require you to validate that you're dealing with the types you think you are. This kind of example isn't even at all uncommon.
I don’t think there are many deductions for kids that no longer need child care, maybe 2k. But the biggest expense is medical insurance, that will eat a lot of the savings
Link broke, other one with slowmo: https://youtu.be/lsoS6C0uzGY?t=659
Yes, let's all cheer on the guy who has open disdain for his customers. I wonder what he calls his health club customers behind closed doors.
Happiness is relative to expectation.

Most people reading this will never feel extreme hunger and have all their material needs met forever, but they will probably also go through things that to them, feel like miserable failures.

You might even be forced to leave your cushy jobs and take an annual salary that is what 50 African laborers make in year. And it will possibly take years, maybe well over a decade, to live down how bad you feel about yourself.
Depends on the school you go to as others have pointed out. I spoke to the head of the CS department at a local university this year; he wanted to pick my brain as a bootcamp instructor on the industry. I learned that they had already copied parts of what bootcamps were doing and had many plans to try and stay ahead of other universities doing the same thing (lots of ads for these follow me around). It was a very interesting conversation and it left me believing that the future wave of CS grads will have a much better mix of theory and application.
These platitudes are of course correct but quite irrelevant here.
> However I think it’s important to have used both for a while so you can make a good decision what you prefer.

Exactly, I always found static typing to be annoying clutter and Python seemed to work even at scale. I removed the few type hints the codebase had.

Then I had to spend a year in C# professionally. At the end, I was fine with both, no preference. Then I jumped back into our Python and only then realized the utility of typing - it felt chaotic, my (IntelliJ) IDE was no longer helping me and every time I had Prod type related bug, it feeling dumb.

Ended up type hinting the critical parts of the Python.
EMC compliance isn't really a concern until you're building a consumer product. A breadboard kit… nah. :)

Noise is a real issue -- but the main concern there is the CPU. Video generation isn't unusually noisy.
While that could be more consistent, the presence of all those zeroes would inevitably lead to too many typographical errors.
I'm waiting to get home to play it. Im working on a 2D rpg, but no release date yet. All vanilla js too.
For a dependent student it's $5,500 for the first year, which is more than enough to pay for community college. And it goes up significantly each year and way up once you are considered independent it goes up even more (lifetime max of $57k which is more than enough to pay for tuition and fees at most state schools). Also the dependent student caps don't count if your parents can't qualify for a PLUS loan.

>Community college would be much cheaper yes, but if you're a working adult,you'll likely only have a handful of times you can take classes, dragging it out more than 2 years.

As another poster pointed out community colleges tend to have plenty of classes available. And during the first few years when you take intro classes you'll likely have no problem finding classes at any time, and most states have online classes available for intro subjects.

Additional if you go for something like and engineering or CS degree you can do coops and internships where you'd earn a good bit more than most people can make working in their early 20s (while getting course credit and relevant experience).
I am not sure if I want to work with you if you think it’s about “intelligent vs ignorant"...

Even though I seem to be in the “intelligent” camp by your definition.
I'd wager their wrenches are damn close to identical unless perhaps you're using a lengthy cheater.

(Machines more complex than a simple lever probably have more room to differentiate themselves.)
Except the civic institutions are corrupt and therefore the duty is voided.
Almost more interesting that the article - this is the third time it has been submitted. The first two died at 2 and 1 points, but while I write, the third is at 17 points.
I guess the third time is the charm.

What was different with this submission? Time of day? The other stores that were new at the same time?
No, an externality is an impact you create that isn't a part of your business model. It can be positive or negative. Most of the time people talk about negative externalities these days, especially with airlines, they're talking about profiting from climate change. (Although I don't know that Ryanair is worse than anyone else.)
My bet is that, like most mammals, by becoming an adult.
Gene linked to autism undergoes changes in men's sperm after pot use
2GB is not enough and it hasn't been for a really long time.
I thought the cell sites triangulate the location of customers for better analytics. It's not AGPS level, but it isn't single cell site range either.
Marking the end of pixel trackers in Basecamp emails
Being rich doesn't make you automatically happy, you can hear many stories about billionaires who have and have achieved everything they could possibly want being miserable – wanting things and then getting them isn't the source of happiness, being faced with this reality firsthand by running out of things to want and still feeling dissatisfied with life can be (imagined at least) really miserable and hopeless.
IntelliJ has a plugin for that. https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/9792-key-promoter-x/
Probably the perl script only supported 256 color modes, 24bit colors from the terminal are a relatively new item in terms of support in terminals.
Is having an affair a #MeToo movement thing? This is a horrible story, but he didnt force her to do things at work, did not take advantage of his position, did not harass her because she was of the opposite sex unless Im misunderstanding what #MeToo is about. He lied about his marriage, but it wasn't him who forced her out of her job, it was a 'violation of Google’s new policy which went from “discouraging” direct-reporting-line relationships to outright banning them'. She should have known about that policy too?

This just sounds like an affair gone horribly wrong between two people that worked at the same company. I feel bad for the kid.
The entire premise of this is flawed; instead of trying to come up with a way to make the tracking device you're carrying stop tracking, maybe you should just not carry the tracking device in the first place. Leaving your phone at home when go and rob a bank is like Criminal 101.
wan't Samsung providing a GPL-version of exFAT for Linux already? what's the difference assuming this news means we will have a native exFAT driver in kernel "soon".

Is exFAT only good for file storage considering it has no journal ling? putting rootfs on it may have a dysfunction system relatively easily without fsck I assume.
Is anyone else using javascript + jsdoc + .d.ts files, and using typescript as a kind of linter?

I'm really enjoying this setup, I get to use tools that work on JS source code without sticking them in a build typeline. I find it easier to read as well - the function declarations are nice and short as all the type annotations are in a comment above. Also one less transpilation step.
Something very similar that I've used in the past https://github.com/notwaldorf/tiny-care-terminal
I spend ~40 hours a week on my laptop. The only things I spend more time are is my bed/sheets/pillows/etc. So there's really no reason for me to spare any expense on my laptop--the per-hour cost is negligible. So really the concept of "good enough" doesn't apply here--if it can be better I want it to be.
I'm well aware of that, having written at length about floating-point tricks, numerical issues, etc.

The issue here is you don't know what a library that formats a float does, and is the function is not specified clearly (as in C/C++), you have zero way of knowing what you will get.

Thus I said to do it yourself, using proper numerics.
I used to feel this way until I read about the costly signalling in terms of game theory.

Maybe this type of signalling isn't universal but it definitely serves a (not-always-evil) purpose.
I am also starting to embrace a mix. “Any” in TS or “dynamic” in C# can save a lot of code when parsing JSON but then I usually quickly try to move over into the typed world.
I think another way to look at some of the benefits of TypeScript is class introspection. By writing your classes in an idiomatic manner, it makes it trivial to see the shape of your api’s without you having to write large amounts of documentation. As well TS compiler will check you’re using the api’s correctly. Huge wins!
> Now add a third body, and yes, in some sense this system is still described by the simultaneous relationship between pairs of bodies, but it's not really usable in that form.

The third body makes the system nonlinear and non-analytic, so the equations can only be investigated via numerical simulation. But the number of symbols is still small.

It may be the case that most of the universe is nonlinear and we only pay attention to the linear parts because they're easy. It might also be the case that a lot of the universe requires a lot of symbols to describe but we only pay attention to the other part.
Yes that sort of thing happens, but "often"? How often are we talking here? You make it sound like a common occurrence and I'm not convinced that's the case.
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it's conceivable with even the phone powered off that the GPS processor could still be running in an ultra-low power mode doing geolocation fixes every n-seconds and storing them in a cache on the chip.

So I guess a Faraday cage would be the only sure way...
$9.99 a month "identity masking", lets you run your android device in stealth mode. (I'm being sarcastic of course).

One of my SDR projects was to boot a GSM base station if my burglar alarm went off and store copies of every IMEI it can see in the cloud. Seems like it would be a better lead to hand investigators than a fuzzy security camera shot.
Probably similar to what Mark Zuckerberg called people who trusted him with their data :)

https://www.businessinsider.com/embarrassing-and-damaging-zu...

ZUCK: yea so if you ever need info about anyone at harvard
ZUCK: just ask
ZUCK: i have over 4000 emails, pictures, addresses, sns
FRIEND: what!? how'd you manage that one?
ZUCK: people just submitted it
ZUCK: i don't know why
ZUCK: they "trust me"
ZUCK: dumb fucks
> FAANG...have literally too much talent coming through the door

From first hand experience, I would strongly disagree...

I won't beat the dead horse of the sad state of tech interviews, but just wanted to point out that this statement does not align with my experience at all.
My university still uses newsgroups and everyone uses Thunderbird as a client for that reason. It honestly works surprisingly well.
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I'm asking for evidence either way. Is there a reason to believe one side needs more evidence than the other?
Spaceline: Space elevator alternative achievable with current technology