skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Patios are usually very close to doors. Is the threshold really 100 feet in some places?
So... you are saying that it is not absolutely useless even if it is absolutely useless.
Who has logs of full historical sessions, and the tools to decrypt them? NSA?
AFAIK, Better detection means earlier detection and may not lead to a decrease in cancers that are never detected.
It literally is.

I've been a developer for 10 years and AWS seems to me like its intentionally designed to be as messy as possible.
250,000 engineers at JPMorgan.
It all comes down to the platform. A mod who takes down political threads on a support forum is not "discouraging community members from expressing themselves". They're moderating a forum with a specific content focus.

I definitely think it would be wrong for Blizzard to threaten any kind of punitive action against a player who is making those kinds of statements outside of Blizzard's platform.
The rioters included many who were trans.
False positives counterintuitively outstripping true positives
Appwrite Back End Server Version 0.3 Has Released with New Features and Bugfixes
Just copying Emacs for Windows from one folder to another takes surprisingly long time :)
I would argue the issue with clothing is the opposite: you can buy very cheap clothes now.
H&M,Zara,C&A,Terranova etc all allow you to get a t-shirt, skirt, dress or whatever for ten bucks.

It's cheap synthetic and won't last long but who cares, you paid ten bucks for it.

And so each season you buy 3-4 new ones...
If it actually works in humans, and I have the gene in question (both of which I doubt are true in actuality), then unequivocally yes, even if the side effects were extremely severe.

> What are the ethics applications of using a treatment like this on people who are so deeply impacted by autism that they can't meaningfully give consent?

What are the ethics of fixing broken bones in infants who can't meaningfully give consent?
Union busting and retaliation against unionisation efforts is prohibited in most (all?) EU countries. Of course in practice not always easy to prove.
Node.js Version 12.13.0 'Erbium' (LTS) Realeased
Too much groundwater pumping is draining many of the world’s rivers
Money spent = Emissions generated (direct or indirect by further spending)

If you want to save CO2, then save as much money as you can in paper form. Don't spend, don't invest. Instead keep everything as cash. This also has indirect effects by slowing down the economy which reduces money flow for other people, too.
Razer Blade or Blade stealth

If you're looking for something as reliable as 2015 or macbook pro's that don't have butterfly keyboards then maybe this isn't a good choice. But specwise it's even better (display and internals) and the trackpad is probably best in all windows computers (they're basically trying to mimic macbooks).

However, like I said before, they aren't exactly the most reliable laptops, but when they work, they work REALLY well
Does Amazon want that, though? There are efforts for other providers to avoid bandwidth cost: https://www.cloudflare.com/bandwidth-alliance/ but Amazon isn't in there
Data transfer fee is the biggest reason stopped me from using AWS/GCP/Azure. Anyone using Oracle Cloud? I found their bandwidth is really cheap.
I'd have to try it. The question is what's the killer app? VR essentially has 3 things going for it after becoming somewhat mature - Google Earth, Beat Saber, and porn. All are considered better in VR, but none are really "omg VR is the future!" level of amazing (to be fair I haven't tried the porn yet so maybe I don't realize how much I'm missing out).

The notion of having a HUD for my eyes everywhere I go sounds neat at first, until I think about it a bit more and it just seems like sensory overload. I can always just pull out my phone if there's something I want to know, and that thing is already pretty invasive when it comes to my daily living - do I really need something more than that?

When it happens, we'll know. The iPhone was famously expected to be such a failure that Verizon refused to be a carrier. Microsoft also joked about Apple being able to make a smart phone. Blackberry felt the same way. The only company that took them seriously was Google with Android.

Out of curiosity, what is it you think AR will revolutionize? What do you consider the killer app?
Apple Notes + Confluence + Slack.
Some of the author's issues seem to be a result of not scaling the voting thresholds based on the sites size. For example, 5 votes needs to close a question: When the site had 100 users, 5 votes is 5% of the site - a meaningful proportion. When the site has 1,000,000 users, 5 votes is 0.0005% - which may have no information content at all, it could just be random noise and the votes to close wouldn't be meaningful representation of the communities viewpoint.
The legal framework is very different however. The local governments (cantons) decide by law which sectors are subject to mandatory collective agreements, mostly manufacturing, construction and transport. All companies and employees in those sectors then have to follow them. Union membership in other sectors is relatively low. Public sectors has specific rules.
Isn't it illegal in the US also? Doesn't seem to stop it from happening.
Thank you very much.

I defend that sentence as meaning "touch her with consent in ways that are different that what she is used to". In keeping with it being an analogy for config files, I would like to edit it to read "stumble a bit when I touch" but it seems that my post is locked to editing.

You are invited to edit that phrasing in, or if you can unlock the post I'll do it.

Thank you for taking the time to explain. I'll do my best to apply what I've learned.
>It will likely stifle my salary, and the salaries of a lot of high earning swes.

Yeah, this sounds like more anti-Union FUD than being based in actual data. I'd be happy to be proven wrong though if this can be substantiated through more than just cherry picked examples.
You are right. I could re-phrase my comment - all statements about the future which don't contain notion of probability are pure gambling.
I'm glad to see DDG growing in popularity, largely because Google won't place my website in search results. Bing does, DDG does, Yahoo does, but Google does not (unless I explicitly search for the exact URL). Depending on your view this is why Google's results are so good or bad.
There's no memory safety problem if the data you're racing on is pointer-free. Rust allows racing on memory with Relaxed atomics [1]. (Yes, I know about potential UB with floating point and whatnot; this is solvable.) Happily, GPU programming tends to use a lot of indices as opposed to direct pointers, because it makes CPU/GPU memory management easier--indices are valid no matter where in the address space the data in question is mapped.

Of course, you might then ask "what's the point of using Rust at all?" The answer is that a lot of code can be expressed in regular patterns idiomatic to the Rust type system and borrow checker. This isn't particularly different from any other type of programming. You sometimes see people say "Rust is useless because you can't safely write an arbitrary graph with direct pointers". The obvious fallacy with this argument is that most code doesn't need an arbitrary graph with direct pointers; for the small amount of code that does, you can drop into unsafe in a targeted way and still have a much safer program than one written in e.g. C. GPU programming is no different.

[1] https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~pes20/cpp/cpp0xmappings.html

(Note than on x86 Relaxed atomics turn into plain mov instructions, and on ARM they turn into plain ldr and str.)
> People often say no one saw X coming, no one saw apps on a phone or a screen with buttons etc etc. But it seems hundreds or thousands of writers, designers, futurists, failed technologists and so on did predict these things.

Often technologies are available long before they ever catch on with the mainstream. There were several PDAs sold in the 90s, and at least one had a built-in telephone. The Buick Reatta had a touch screen center stack in the late 1980s.

Technology adoption is weird. There needs to be the perfect storm of integration, marketing, and (for lack of a better term) zeitgeist to really make something mainstream. And even with all those things, it still takes YEARS to really get there. Think about how long techies were downloading TV shows/movies before streaming really took off -- Windows Media Center came out in 2002! That's a full six years before Netflix started its streaming service, which itself took several years to take off.
Improv: Teaching Programming at Scale via Live Coding
Cloud architect is a title as a result.
Well, for one, that would vastly reduce economic growth. But aside from that, there’s not many things that fit X in the scheme of things you purchase frequently. Packaging / containers of consumed items is a big one. Fashion might be but probably not.

The example I hear a lot for some reason is power tools. Yeah it would be great to share power tools because you only need them once or twice... but you only buy them once or twice otherwise. It’s a good idea to help poor communities consolidate resources but it’s hard to help large communities reduce their eco foot prints
I'd settle for better data before we start burning down the clothing industry. 10% of global carbon from clothes seems unlikely. No source with data cited in the article, or the article that is cited.
Does this mean the Dex gadget itself is completely gone, or just 'Linux on Dex'?
Facebook will label false posts more clearly
I’m glad this finally got the attention it deserves.

Forever21 went into reorganization bankruptcy because they were not “fast enough”!

That’s lunacy. Make things that last, in other words durable. Make them timeless. Bigger upfront investment, lower total cost. Lower impact on environment.
Not sure how you read it that way. "Screeching to a stop" is absolutely not "safely stopped."

Maybe we're using "screeching" differently. If I need to jam on the brakes such that there is a chance the car my skid, or someone with a seatbelt might be injured, that is not "safe," and the law says I should keep going. Absent those things, I'm not screeching to stop but just stopping short.
Agreed and the conflation is somewhat intentional. When you install a system, you get all of that. Custom kickstart files can strip away some of it. For the longest time, you would get polkit regardless. The rpm spec file was changed about a year or two ago so that it can be removed if someone did not exclude it specifically. To be fair, each OS maintainer is including or excluding bits of systemd in the default configurations, so that is not entirely systemd's responsibility. Every year systemd appears to be subsuming more and more system functionality.
If the 2 billion were saved over two years, that is an increase in profit of ~4% over those 8 quarters ((75-56)÷56÷8)§. That's a pretty good outcome.

§ = Q3: "The bank said Wednesday that net income excluding an impairment charge rose 4% to $7.5 billion, or an adjusted 75 cents a share. When including the $2.1 billion charge tied to the end of a partnership with First Data, net income fell to 56 cents a share"
Thanks for the response! I wasn't trying to rain on your parade, but having a reasonable revenue model in place does help give some confidence that 1) you're going to be around a while and 2) you're not selling data I don't want you to sell.
> Every rung you climb between client-server towards fully distributed increases software difficulty non-linearly.

That's true. In my mind, fully distributed doesn't have to be the goal. I believe the number one problem for getting people to talk to their smart devices are NATs. I imagine a cloud service responsible only for NAT punching, and all the actual communication between user's smartphone and smart device happening directly (or rather, between the smartphone and home hub). It's probably more complex in practice than I think it is, but I can't think of an obvious show stopper.

> But someone is still always going to need to pay to maintain and update software

I think this is mostly a self-inflicted problem (or rather, a problem created and then used as an additional justification for subscription models). E.g. for a lightbulb, there's only few bytes of data that needs to be transmitted over the control channel. On/off state, color, intensity - setting them in one direction, reporting in another. That + overhead of whatever communication protocol is used. Such a device doesn't need an update. There's nothing to update there. The hub might, but arguably, hubs are designed overcomplicated too. But vendors seem to like to put a whole software stack on the devices, which now creates an attack surface that doesn't need to exist in the first place - and suddenly, security updates are required.
The caveat to that amendment being that you are only allowed to do so using tools you created yourself and you may not afterword share your tools, your methods, nor the decrypted material with anyone else.
I get your point, but then why does AWS charge for inter-az traffic? That seems like an "egress but not really" kinda thing. If AWS/GCP stopped charging for this, customers would be incentivized to build HA systems and distribute their workloads across AZ's, which are a win for both customers and you (since capacity is now spread instead of stuck in a zone).
I've never understood this isn't lacking an ability that 95% of the population have basically part of the very definition of disability.

I lack fine motor control, I'm unable to write legibly with a pen, i have issues with spacial perception and regularly fall over pretty much anything, i struggle with any task that requires co-ordination (if you threw a ball at me i'd have maybe a 30% chance of catching it). I also don't have binocular vision (anything thats supposed to be 3d looks the same as the picture to me). Luckily in the age of technology i this has not impaired me significantly but i couldn't claim to not have any kind of disability...
Kohl's brand clothes are even more bottom barrel and last for years. Durability isn't the issue.
Your first link was paywalled so I couldn't read it, but the potential issues with meta-analysis papers has been discussed to death already.

The article you linked second, is interesting. He makes some bad claims (The electric fields produced by muscles are strongly polarized contrary to his claim that they are unpolarized) and there is some questionable math, but what I really want to highlight is how he uses the pulse repetition interval in his section on forced oscillation. By his own math, a CW signal at mm-wave frequencies produces no biological effect being to low of intensity. The formula given is proportional to 1/(2pif) so it follows, but he then uses the PRF to set the frequency and displacement and finds that at these low frequencies, the effect is strong enough to be dangerous.

The problem with this though, is that the PRF is how often you activate the transmitter and not the frequency of the transmitted RF signal which leaves us with the perverse conclusion that, mm-wave is fine under normal circumstances but becomes more dangerous the less you are exposed to it.
Wow. Seems like a really cool person to work with. I hope that during some point in my career I’ll get the chance to work with someone like that :)
Commonality doesn't answer the question about what they can do.
Designing Organizations for an Information-Rich World [pdf]
> Notable changes

> npm was updated to 6.12.0. It now includes a version of node-gyp that supports Python 3 for building native modules.
How many vacation days have Google employees in Switzerland? The legal minimum is 4 weeks, the industry standard is 5 and many companies iffer 6 after a few years.
1776 and the Present Day Stance of the NBA to China
Like it or Hate it China's economy is on the rise, and fast as well.

Take Tencent for example, they own big stocks in many American companies, (e.x 50% in Reddit) but despite what many people will assume they'll do, censoring anti-china posts, they don't do anything and let the companies they invest in grow. That way they can get massive amounts of money since their income isn't limited by their beliefs.
Mostly the same languages, too, but yes.
Not far from where I once lived was a park, along two of its sides ran two busy roads which intersected at right angles and at this intersection is a set of traffic lights. The park was isolated from both roads by a high six-foot-plus fence made from grey concrete Besser blocks so every time a motorist had to stop at the lights he/she only had to look sideways to view this large swathe of concrete fencing. As anyone would know, this is the ideal place for graffiti to appear and this was no exception.

Anyway, for some 10 to 15 years, a large message remained scrawled and unaltered on the wall right near the lights—no one could miss seeing it. It read:

"The Australian people are bloody-minded sheep!"

For years as I passed it, I was always amazed at and wondered why no one had ever bothered to paint over the offensive graffiti until I eventually figured out why—which was that everyone knew or suspected that the message was true—and that the sign had remained there unaltered as a perverse reminder of the fact. Unfortunately, the park has given away to housing development so all that's now gone (and I also regret never having taken a photo of the graffiti).

This is not the place to delve deeply into the machinations of Australian society or draw parallels with 'bloody-minded sheep' except to say that largely Australians are deeply conservative by nature, intellectually shallow and very risk-averse people. They rarely riot in the streets—the last time of any note was during the anti Vietnam War demos in the late 1960s—their interest in politics only goes as deep as their hip pockets and most would prefer to gel-out at the beach, sporting fixtures or watch TV, or nowadays be numbed-out or dumbed-down by Facebook/social media.

Thus, when it comes to matters of security, all the Government has to do is to mention words like 'threat', 'terror' or security etc. and it can pass overly authoritarian laws in a moment without any debate or opposition—right, the opposition Labor Party is even more draconian about the introduction of such laws so they fly through parliament like a shot. The police and security services are onto a winner and have been so for decades.

The few of us who can actually see what's happening and are worried are so vastly outnumbered we haven't a snowball's chance of changing anything.

Frankly, it's a pretty terrible (and pathetic—even embarrassing) situation and I don't ever see it being resolved until well after the Australian 'Sheep' have realized it's too late for them to escape the boiling water.
I think Bezos is even colder than Ellison, it's going to be sad and hilarious when he decides to put the squeeze on those running on the cloud.
> $50 of hardware can accomplish this, today. Raspi running vehicle detection code.

That's only true if you want hardware that sometimes detects some kind of vehicles, in the right weather and from the right angles.

Truly reliably detecting this is much further away. The consequences of not getting it right are not as catastrophic as getting it wrong in a self-driving car, but they could still mess traffic up pretty badly.
This hypothetical “real libertarian” would welcome far more than that, and most of it not for the benefit of workers.

I’m simply stating it’s foolish to expect Google to actively work against their best interests. To provide material support and a platform for unopposed speech on a viewpoint they actively oppose.

There’s nothing stopping these employees from doing this on their own free time and with their own resources.
>It’s also a framing that is, appropriately enough, uniquely American; in the United States, the first three estates are commonly thought to be the three branches of government: the executive, legislative, and judicial.

The author of this article may have misunderstood it this way but I guarantee that this is not commonly thought in the United States.
The average consumer, if recent OECD data on adult skills is to be believed [1], makes my cats look computer-literate. They expect the software they use to do everything for them because they aren't capable of using a computer to perform complex tasks on their own. Without a GUI that treats them like learning-disabled five-year-olds they're lost.

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/02/a-quarter-of-adults-c...
I haven't bothered with music lately but last time I did I just went to my pc grabbed an updated version of Youtube-dl and went to my playlist and downloaded all the songs. Then I put those into itunes and synced them to my phone. It was pretty straight forward and youtube-dl is great it works on other video services as well.
> At the end of a shift, managers receive an email of the compiled statistics, which they can then use to identify problems and infer whether servers, hostesses, and kitchen staff are adequately doing their jobs.

> “It’s not that different from a Fitbit or something like that,” says Suri. “It’s basically the same

This is completely and utterly unlike "a Fitbit". They are presenting their metrics to the managers first. Thus not allowing the employees the chance to self-correct, and to even know what metrics are being evaluated. THAT would be "like a Fitbit".In such a system, you don't even need to present metrics to the management (although I reckon the chances it would be implemented like this would be slim).

Not to mention, that's a massive disrespect to the employees.
I fell for it with eyes intentionally closed, just like I have to do in so many other instances where I know that my luxuries have negative impacts on the world.
Yes I missed it. My other points still stand.
There have been research showing that while a majority of people who sit in an intersection with timers appreciate them… It also increases the number of accidents because people spend too much attention to the timer and fail to look at the environment whether or not it is safe to accelerate. There is also evidence that suggest that countdown timers from green to red cause more drivers to accelerate and increase the risk of accidents there as well.
The clothing you have at home already is your personal carbon storage. Carbon is extracted from the air to make cotton, bamboo (rayon), linen, and many types of plastic.
We briefly tried Discord at our company but found it had too high of a learning curve after previously using Teamwork Chat and Slack.

I guess if you're already a gamer then it makes sense.
Nearly two-thirds of Uber customers don’t tip their drivers
Pair them with a hub. Cameras should talk to the hub on LAN, not the Internet. You can everyone's devices with the hub once. As explained in parallel, QR codes and distance are not mutually exclusive.
Oh. To think things like this will all be obsolete by the time my son would get a drivers license.

crossing fingers for self-driving-cars
A supermassive black hole shredded a star and was caught in the act
I guess I wasn't clear, but I didn't mean the woman who invented the term is missing the point. I meant the introduction to the article, written by the author/interviewer, framed the misuse of the word in a way that hides the reason that someone might be tempted to misuse the word in that way.

And one thing I was very clear about was that even when you use the better frame, the people are still misusing the term, so I'm explicitly not disagreeing with the inventor of the term.
Pretty much a textbook "Lemon Market"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Market_for_Lemons
Agreed, been using it for 5 years for around 30 of us in 5 to 7 teams. Drag and drop for upload, as well as desktop, mobile and web apps.
Unlike people, I think corporations should be considered guilty until proven innocent. Bring on the hate.

Edit: it's an intentionally loaded statement. The `Bring on the hate` was a request for counter arguments rather than simple downvotes (go ahead if it makes you happy).