skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds like he has parents from different countries, first name is Irish, surname sounds Portuguese(?) so head start there on the language front, perhaps. Schull is a very small community, couple of thousand max but there's been a lot of 'alternative' type immigration there from other first world countries, artists etc from places like England (eg Jeremy irons), Netherlands so its secondary school is pretty progressive afaik. They have a slipway to the bay right next to the school so the school does sailing classes etc. The planetarium in question is a stone's throw from the school. County Cork has a youth orchestra. Overall not the worst place in the world to grow up.
Article on living with face blindness (prosopagnosia)
>Ferrier sat his Leaving Certificate exams last month at Schull Community College and is due to attend university in the Netherlands.

pretty normal to graduate high school and attend university

> works as a curator at the Schull Planetarium

I don't know what responsibility this holds how he got the job so it's hard to say.

>has won 12 science fair awards

I don't know the award scheme so hard to say. Even if he won 1st place 12 times, a science fair is hardly difficult to win since you are basically competing against semi-motivated highschoolers.

>speaks three languages fluently

This depends on the language. Some people get 2 languages for free from home and learn another to fluent level in high school. Not really a mind-blowing accomplishment.

>plays the trumpet at orchestra level,

This is really the only one that required consistent effort.

>had a minor planet named after him by the MIT Lincoln Laboratory."

meh

Out of all these, the only thing I wish I had is the ability to play the trumpet.
I think it's fairly obviously mainly a marketing move. These wipers (judging by the drawings) look cool and futuristic. If they ever implement them I'm sure that's going to be the main motivation.

I can be very critical of Tesla but if there's one thing they achieved it's making electric vehicles that look cool. I don't think many teenagers saw a Prius as an aspirational vehicle but I'm pretty sure you could find Tesla posters in many a bedroom.
I posted this link because I, too, have face blindness.
Praised be the adblocker.
The Google Memo Controversy – Revisited
Will UK consumers ever accept face scans for retail? (Linkedin)
besides the cost of installation.
Printing a qr code << NFC reader. On a 200 dol e-scooter, that is not trivial economy
If I don’t need the bulk of a laptop screen on a train/plane a physical keyboard, possibly with processing integrated like current laptops, would be fine. In my experience there’s always space on the tray table for a keyboard, but once I angle the screen so I can see it everything’s hanging off the edge and squashing me in.
I find these kinds of articles fascinating

It reminds me when I read that ee can only dream of faces we've seen in the past, whether we actively remember them or not. The brain cannot invent these.
How difficult is it for small groups to create cyber weapons?

Many very effective cyber weapons are the work of a single individual working on them part time.
https://www.retrobrewcomputers.org/forum/index.php

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!categories/retro-comp

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/rc2014-z80
Eh almost no legitimate businesses accept bitcoin right now and yet there it is.
Because in reality the teenager's mental output isn't higher than a random adult engineer.

But people just think "amazing" when a teenager does something, because people now have very low expectation for teenagers.
The underlying reason is that we have a default that says that all documents produced by the different levels of government is public by default. This allows journalists and other investigators to expose bad stuff that is going on. Also note that just because something nominally is public, it doesn't automatically mean it is easily accessible. It can mean you have to go somewhere, submit forms and pay for the induced work load to produce the documents.

Things can still be made secret if there are actual reasons to do that, like privacy reasons or security reasons etc. Taxes have traditionally not been counted into the things that require privacy here in Sweden.
Neural architecture search – Limitations and extensions (featured)
This article totally reminded me that Tom Brady's diet also includes avoiding nightshade vegetables such as peppers, tomatoes, and eggplants. The reason for that is because he follows an anti-inflammatory diet, and one made up of mostly “alkaline” foods
I don't really get what testing has to do with whether or not a piece of code is isolated or not? For example if you're making a change to a 4 line function with a clearly defined interface, the change is probably going to be trivial, regardless of whether the interface is defined by a set of unit tests or a short comment above the function declaration
The Gut Microbiome Could Speed Up the Progression of Alzheimer’s Disease
> At the same time, very young children “can rationally deal with the make-believe aspects of stories,” distinguishing the actual, the possible, and the fantastical with sophistication, as Denis Dutton has written in The Art Instinct.

One of my favorite quotes comes to mind:

“Man's most valuable trait
is a judicious sense of what not to believe.” — Euripides
Your dataset is very important. Is there a place where we can publicly analyze it??
كلمات لطمية الفراك الطويل شاكر العبودي مكتوبة كاملة
IIRC the NES had an analog bypass that could fetch signals to the cartridge for processing, meaning your game is actually a full blown hardware extension. Some youtube video talked about that regarding Japanese version of Castlevania (it had a complete FM synth chip embedded)
Seems like vendor lock-in is the new term for "Not Invented Here".

I also fail to see how Fargate locks you in: as you say, it's just docker and DNS, with a sprinkle of environment variables if you use it with SSM Parameter Store.
Google Correlate
The end of this article is gold

'So unfortunately, I can't end this article with a solution. It's an open problem in emulation.'
About the only time I consistently code the test first is to reproduce defects. It's really useful in that case. Sometimes that also works for features.

When designing an interface I like to write usage examples. They're more nimble to work with than tests who require scaffolding. The usage examples do tend to become tests during implementation.
I think the logic is flawed in this piece

The Chinese had invested in US real-estate in order to move their cash to a "safer" jurisdiction, and China had bought US companies in order to acquire expertise, often to be transferred back to China.

Neither afford much leverage for the US. Real-estate is largely individuals, and companies are better off not drained of their IP.

I don't know about the quality of Chinese tourists to the US, but if it's as elsewhere, this is also not too much of a loss.
One question: are they somehow more efficient in answering to an incident report?

My conjecture: I am not so surprised at these having the same % of failures - after all the TDD will not magically lead everyone to think of all the possible ramifications; you write tests for the case that you can "imagine" just like a non-TDD developer will implement logic to cover cases they can "imagine".
But on the other hand, if after fixing the bug you need to prove that you haven't caused some other side effect, then having a full test suite in place should be more efficient than retest everything again (or less risky than "ok, fixing module W should not impact X, Y and Z, so we test X only and ship...").
Shared Emotional States in Ravens
Write the least amount of code that will solve the problem, then write the least amount of code that will make the feature as efficient as possible to your ability.
"Google Correlate will shut down on December 15th 2019 as a result of low usage"

I wonder if it gets now to the front page of HN if it might change google decision.
Or finding them on the train tracks of the New York subway:

https://www.macrumors.com/2019/09/03/lost-airpods-nyc-subway...
>games from that time just didn't have many glitches

What do you mean? It was pretty standard for a game to work on select few(3dfx, nvidia and maybe ATI if you were lucky) graphic chips and glitch/crash on the rest. You often waited 6-12 months for fixed drivers. Original Unreal just crashed on stock Nvidia TNT2 drivers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFqqsYoT4hk
> Regulations that prohibit the use of this stuff altogether would be even better

A lot of microplastic is from textiles. If you ban all sources of microplastics you'll be back to wearing only wool, cotton, silk, linen, and leather.

A lot of the remainder is from plastic single use containers. Instead of banning them they could simply be returned to the shop from which they were bought for recycling as is done for most drinks containers (both plastic and aluminium) here in Norway.

Banning plastic bottles would mean a substantial increase in energy use because the alternative is glass which is much heavier and more costly to recycle. Perhaps we could switch to aluminium for more containers.

It fashionable now to complain about the deliberately created microplastics like those used in cosmetics but the vast bulk come from wear and tear on what are now effectively traditional materials.
Reaction of NASA Contractors to Crash of Indian Moon Lander
The question is, does it matter ?

I've been following the MOOC phenomenon since its early days in 2010-2011, and taken a lot of moocs in the meantime.

Sometime the mooc reveals to be low quality, and I quit because I can get better information from books and/or by actually messing with the technology (xkcd.com/519).
Other times, I quit the part after the interesting part, or don't care about going through all the single details to get a worthless recognition ("a website says i've watched all the lessons").

Other times I pay for a course, go through all the lessons, do all the labs, get all the certificate of completion.

It really varies a lot, and most people ask the wrong question: it's not "how do we measure success" but "how do we measure success with respect to the original goals?"

Very little people care about an automated system somewhere recognizing my 100% completion of the course materials. But I (and possibly, possible employers) care about actual competencies. It's the same thing all over again: in real life pieces of paper don't matter, what matters is the capability of solving problems and handling situations.
Only one way to find out ;) :D
This is a sad picture. Substitutes for natural products destroy us
Microplastics aren't the only plastic related problem.
its all personal preference at the end of the day, i can honestly say ive never been part of a "community" hell its rare ive even known my next door neighbours names nor do i have a desire to. as for long term friend ive known most of mine for upwards of 2 decades, we havent lost touch so far and i dont see it happening in future

i also have no plans to retire, if i stop working ill become incredibly bored incredibly fast, im sure its a goal for those with partners etc or things theyve held off doing but not me, if ive wanted to do something i generally do it there and then and my emotional and social issues mean that i have no interest in having a family or partner, i have my hobbies and my work which is pretty much all i need

while not to the extremes of japans hikikomori we have a significant number of people in their 20s and 30s still living with their parents here, but these arent jobless shut-ins theyre just regular people, the reasons for it are many, some simply cant afford to live alone and why rent a room in a shared house with a bunch of strangers when you can rent one with people you know? i suspect another reason is that single accommodation like one bed flats etc is not that common here so if you do rent alone youre likely renting a 2 bed house, which can feel rather dull and empty if youre living alone

im also aware that i have a serious lack of responsibility, were i to own a place id have access to significant lines of credit and id end up doing something stupid and get it repossessed.
JS frameworks are not standards, they are just tools. You still can build plain HTML site, even without CSS, and it will work fine in any browser.
PGO may not be the right tool for this. Mozilla used custom instrumentation and linker scripts to achieve symbol ordering optimized for startup.

https://web.archive.org/web/20100223202038/http://blog.mozil...
Would it be possible on multithreaded architectures to have a thread listening for the response, then setting a flag in /proc or somewhere else to indicate that the part is now active? That way, init code that does not depend on that device can continue to run.
I concur! Additionally to the article I believe the overall problem with software development is that it cannot be done by everyone. Developing great software requires the mentality of a passionate artist and a lifetime dedication. Unfortunately most companies I've worked with (with very few exceptions) are only after immediate profit and thus creating toy programs mainly by means of integration of ready-made third party libraries. The example they set for new developers is catastrophic. Fewer and fewer people dwelve into the depths of knowledge. Shallow integration, adoption of over-hyped immature components and the new trend of containerization is a two-fold failure: a) Failure of educating minds to think and b) low quality end products for the users with all the consequences this brings (aka performance, security, UX, etc). It really feels as if software development has entered a dark era where instead of educating people we create mechanics that take 'experinments' to market asap and disguising them to look like they operate error-free. Of course such tactics cannot keep problems hidden forever. If only I could share with you the stories of large heap fragmentation I've heard over the years on production server code...
Not only Americans

People worldwide

Social media made people more into them self than into society

People will like and share a touching post of a girl with autism but they will never go volunteer in an origination that help those kids.
Reminds me of my friend who, when asked about this girl he's been dating lately, listed all her accomplishments(she has perfect pitch, good job etc.).

I think the author of this piece values these accomplishments more than the guy in question.
Underrun QT World 1 – 3
Removing dissolved salt is different to removing suspended microplastics though.

There's lots of work done already on removing suspended particulates from liquids, eg https://petrowiki.org/Removing_solids_from_water#Desanding_h... .
and thats just fine granted you have a big fat pool of cash that will allow you to both pay your mortgage and the rent on where you live in the mean time but most of us workaday joes cant really afford two properties
I've never seen one in person, but from the specs, the Fujitsu 8 bit micros were the best and they used the 6809.

My beloved beeb could only really compete in expandability.
> It reminds me when I read that ee can only dream of faces we've seen in the past, whether we actively remember them or not. The brain cannot invent these.

Do you have a source for this, it looks very suspicious

1) The memory is highly compressed. We remember only some interesting details and then fill the gaps. It's easy to add false information in the gaps, for example the experiment with the inexistent stop sign https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misinformation_effect

2) Even if it where true: How did they test it?!
This disease can be successfully combated. But unfortunately, due to low funding, it takes many lives
Amazon Prime Pantry ?
Indeed, every approach has significant trade-offs.

I've even had it non-jokingly suggested to provide netlists of the game cartridges. But well, that's great if you don't mind your SNES emulator never reaching 60fps. And good luck asking most emulator developers to simulate full-on netlists and logic chips directly, instead of a single-byte in a header that lets you turn that into a few if((address&mask)==range) checks.

Further, in practice, getting emulator developers to all agree on a solution is like herding sheep. The NES has a long history of very strong opinions on how this should be done, and in my earlier, more boisterous days, I did as well.

These days, I've taken to the more pragmatic yet developer-intensive approach of just supporting as many options as possible and letting the user decide. I do the best I can and when things fall through the cracks due to missing information, it just is what it is.
That's an interesting dataset and it aligns with my gut reaction: TDD (and testing in general) are ideal for bug fixes and code refactoring, which would be less useful when the software is going to be sold at a specific point in time (and therefore frozen or mostly frozen).
I'm really expecting the 'no evidence' line to come back and bite Pompeo in the ass. I hope someone has the balls to ask him "where's the evidence Iran is behind the attacks - and real evidence this time, not fake national-secrecy bullshit".

I won't hold my breath though. I know that America is in the grips of war profiteers who will stop at nothing to get yet another heinous, evil, illegal war started for their profits.
A legitimate use of a pie chart to visualize remaining supply.
I don't expect similar things from other countries. They have something to do with crypto and Blockchain Technologies. Speak your rights
Ask HN: Do you follow a method to refactor your code?
solar panels are way more efficient than 3.333... % , so no, nothing can be 30x more efficient than solar panels these days.
That is correct. Every cartridge on every system can do this, if you don't care about the cartridge potentially being oversized.

There is no reason you couldn't put a Raspberry Pi Zero inside of an NES cartridge. You would just need to write a communication layer between the NES and the Pi.

In practice, the NES, SNES and MSX had this expansion done the most. The Genesis only really had Virtua Racing. And other systems tended to be pretty much standard, with few exceptions.
It should be recognised that the USA and its Coalition partners have been supporting Saudi efforts to strangle/starve the Yemeni people.

We are on the wrong side this time, folks.
Didn't know it existed. Pretty cool tool.
> We can only dream of faces we've seen in the past, whether we actively remember them or not. The brain cannot invent these.

How would anyone test this claim?
I get that Apple has a better rep than most other companies when it comes to user privacy, but that still doesn't mean that we should take everything that they say at face value. As users, it is up to us to stay vigilant and ensure that Apple is doing as promised.
The Hitachi 6309 is even better.

But the problem with the 6809/6309 is that they max out at a clock rate of 3-4mhz and there's no new chips being made.

Whereas WDC & Zilog still manufacture brand new 6502 and Z80 chips, and they clock way higher. A brand new 6502 can do 20mhz.

So probably for retro projects that want a little more oomph, you're better off picking a 65816 clocked at 15mhz or so, than a 6809 at 4mhz. The 816 has relocatable direct page and stack like the 6809, too.
Interesting. My intuitions (as a developer of 25 years experience) are that testing can be a big tax on development velocity; perhaps 60% of time is spent on writing tests, especially in a more complicated code base where the choice is between tests with lots of mocks (=> brittle against code change), or tests with lots of data setup (=> brittle against schema change), where the tests are more verbose than the code under test.

I also think testing compensates for communication inefficiencies when developing with a larger team with developers with less tenure and experience. I'm not sure this tax is avoidable as you try and scale up organizationally.

Code architecture also has a significant effect on the cost of writing tests, and TDD was originally propounded as a way to ensure that code is testable, but with object-orientation it tends instead to lead towards dependency injection and pluggable interfaces purely for testing rather than reconfiguration, and you end up with overly abstract software.

More functional code, and architecture which increasingly represents control flow as data flow, is a better direction to aim in, IMO. That argues towards streaming and messaging techniques more than interfaces and APIs.

TDD is great for fixing bugs, less great for software design. I think the key reason is that the best design is in tension; it's a solution being applied to several problems, and triangulating that point starting from a single problem is both (a) further away from the solution, and (b) unlikely to be close to the final design unless you were really lucking in choosing the test problem.
This guy did that...

https://kotaku.com/programmer-hacks-cartridge-to-run-snes-ga...
Let me rephrase: otherwise what’s the point in getting a degree?
This isn't some conceptually difficult thing like quantum mechanics, it's something designed to make software easier to build.

If it doesn't in fact do that for this person it's totally valid to mention that.
I would be very shocked if prices when up.

Unless they are targeting a niche market, I expect prices will drop. in other words, what percentage of the market are they targeting? If it is just people who do not have access, then no it will not. If they are targeting people with crappy internet, then the price of crappy internet will probably go down to stay competitive.

In addition it depends on quality. If you are a twitch game player, you are willing to pay for whomever provides the least lag time.
There is the old AWS Beanstalk https://aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/
> The answer is that most of our mind does not even realize that fiction is fiction, so we react to it almost as though it were real.

Yes, we are dreamers and believers. And that is also the reason why we are so easy to manipulate. I consider it a weakness that leads to stupidity. Most of our opinions are 'fiction', we think we're 'right' but the truth is that most often we're just dreaming. It's our minds favorite activity because it doesn't require any effort. It just happens, like most things in life.
What is the result of "badger"+2

If + is to be defined on a string and a number then the only sensible meaning is string concatenation. All numbers can be converted to strings but most strings cannot be converted to numbers.

There is a good reason to not define it because it is not associative: in JavaScript 2+2+"x" != 2+(2+"x")
In Europe, Switzerland is most similar to the Bay area: high salaries, high cost of living and low taxes.
The scheduler uses requests alone: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/configuration/manage-com...
Sure. They might not track people, but if they ever share the user data with external places it's a moot question.
Learn Go Programming – Golang Tutorial for Beginners (Freecodecamp.org)
There’s a reason we have vocabulary for this kind of situations, ie. Nuremberg Defense.
Mods: This user's posting history makes clear they are an anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist. Why have you not banned them?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20972062

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20918028
TDD is not dumb, just there are use cases where it fits better, specifically, when you know the exact inputs and outputs beforehand and how it will fit in your system. When designing an API, it's not a good use-case for TDD at all. The author obviously doesn't understand that.
If you don't even know what functions will you need, you obviously can't write a test for it!

Kent Beck, DHH and Martin Fowler explain it very nicely in the "Is TDD Dead?" dicussion: https://martinfowler.com/articles/is-tdd-dead/

I highly recommend it to everyone even if you think you understand what is TDD all about! It's a very deep, interesting discussion about TDD between truly great minds.