skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's already one in your pocket
To clarify: it does not lend itself well to ShaderToy, because the computational model is hamstrung by the fact that the threads can't communicate with each other within a draw call. On a more modern GPU platform with compute shaders, you get a lot more of that, and I think interesting things will happen. I'm personally really looking forward to WebGPU, as I think it will make a lot of this stuff much more accessible.
I would love to be able to buy an electric car here in Montana (US) but how would I charge it? Either way I couldn't afford it. Even at a conservative estimate of 20k that's still too much considering I can go out and buy a used car that gets 20mpg for 5k and keep it for the next 100k miles.

I realize this is a bit off topic but I get so bitter when I heard about other countries converting to electric. I just wish someone would make and sell a reliable electric car in the states for around 10-15k and provide me with enough utility stations to make it practical to use.
Tesla's lower-end Model 3s fall in that range. Tesla will be announcing their European Gigafactory soon (most likely in Germany), so it is in Germany's best interest to make Teslas more attainable as well. It will increase local jerbs and decrease carbon emissions.
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In the UK, a trademark has to be associated with a specific product category. A business that isn’t Apple Inc., could set up as “Apple T-shirts” or “Apple Foods” or “Apple Taxis”.

I’m not sure of this is good or bad.
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> Companies are not supposed to be a way by which you enforce your moral beliefs.

Says who? I don't know about your ethical system, but mine certainly doesn't demand that I confine ethics to one sphere and never let it touch the others. Indeed, such an ethical system sounds completely broken to me.
Probably a semantic difference that I don't equate proof with understanding.

I would call that a colloquial definition of understanding. Very different from mathematical understanding.

If you ask a mathematician what you’d need to know to understand Fermat’s last theorem, he won’t say “high school pre-algebra.” That’s only enough for you to understand the basic statement of the theorem. It doesn’t get you to the why. To understand the problem involves a deep dive into both algebraic number theory and analytic number theory.
It's hard enough to find a decent selection new in the local market. Buying used isn't a viable option.
That is a fundamentally flawed misunderstanding of the NorCal housing shortage. The causes are largely governmental and can be discovered just about anywhere.
Choice is an interesting word. Our purchasing decisions are constrained by income, which is limited by education and experience.

If someone grows up with poor education in an economically stagnant area, their likely minimum-wage severely limits the freedom to choose. Surplus unskilled labor translates to downward pressure on wages which implies the same for goods on the market - it's a nasty feedback loop that undercuts the local economy.
Have you tried using the 'speaker diarization' feature of any of the commercial TTS APIs (from Google, Microsoft etc.)?
One can look at it from another perspective -- when Walmart comes to town, typically they'll receive a tax break, which is an unfair advantage over a local grocery store. They'll also typically get a massive investment in terms of newly built infrastructure -- roads all around the lot, pipes, electricity, etc, compared to a local grocery store.

When you compare the revenue the WalMart (or any big box store) brings in compared to the amount of space it takes up (with a massive parking lot), it's typically WAY less than a small neighborhood grocery store built in the older traditional style. It's only because towns and cities have effectively subsidized these big-box stores that they've taken over. They're really a terrible deal for municipal governments in terms of economic benefits.

In many places (such as Texas), people don't consider space to be valuable because it's so plentiful -- which is true in one sense. But it's not just space we care about, it's infrastructure-supported space. Space that has roads to access it, water pipes, electricity, police and fire services, etc. will ALWAYS be scarce. These resources are expensive, and the more spread-out things are, the more money we're forced to spend on infrastructure.

This is a good way to present the issue to anyone who identifies as a free-market capitalist. Free markets require a level playing field to work properly.
Google published research papers on offline recognition, the feature is shipping on Android phones (i.e. one can inspect a working device), there is an active OSS community for TensorFlow and lots of public work on speech recognition. Many building blocks are public for motivated researchers.
Please be less patronising in the future; it's not a good look. In reality, of course, many people currently "sitting around typing" are doing plenty of useful work using a variety of different tools.

There are various tradeoffs to be made when considering the benefits and costs of a strategy for long-term backwards compatibility. Microsoft was traditionally on the "it will continue to work until the heat death of the universe" end of the spectrum, and Apple on the "we will be dropping support soon" end. That is, Microsoft invests a bunch of effort into ensuring old software will continue to run on new platforms, whereas Apple prefers to drop support for various platform features (68k, PPC, 32-bit) with a few years of notice.

In some cases and for some users, backwards compatibility has a value that is worth the cost paid in development time, testing, and complexity. For others, it is not. I've been a Mac user since the G4 days, and I don't think I've ever really been in the situation where I thought "oh I need to run this old software but it's no longer supported" – that is, the feature has no value to me. And I'm pretty confident that the things I produce will continue to have value in the future.

TLDR – other people are different to you sometimes.
Tracking smartphones is helping TfL update it’s Journey Planner
Even zeal is no good without knowledge, and he who hurries his footsteps misses the mark.
Facebook's abuse of privacy is only part of the problem, the much more pressing issue is that it's become a publisher and news network de facto.
Hah, no, they certainly didn't. That's a bad comparison for me to make.

My point is that this is a pretty transparent flex of corporate might. It's hard to escape the subtext of "Fuck with us, and we will grind you into the dirt".
How long until a supermarket in that area starts stocking KK donuts?
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I'm at a bit of a loss on the premise of this; as the main focus is on social networks, search, and ad space - which I'm pretty sure aren't the only companies effected by things like GDPR.

I work in high ed. and previously worked for a small genetic software company and I know both of these spaces are effected as well; and quite frankly in both cases and many others, these regulations just create a middle industry for dealing with the regulations and regulators that a small company or less technical institution could and would work with to make sure that their information is in compliance.

A mix of regulation and cracking FAANG like we did with Bell, Standard Oil, Anaconda, and many others is the route to go. Rebuilding our patent/trademark system would also go a long way to correcting some of the more egregious issues around intellectual property & content... just don't tell "The Mouse." And, as to lobbying, if a company isn't large enough to lobby for itself, it actually will need to go through grouped channels for representation and maybe need to think of more folks in the industry than themselves (take Tavern Associations, various SBAAs, etc etc etc).

Cracking FAANG and Wireless Telcos is possible, but it starts with the big voices like Doctorow not going "it's too darn hard to do, woe is us."
I mean, it's a good quip, but it's autocorrect, and we don't get stock options we get restricted stock units :P

One of the reasons why I work at Google is, as a former web developer I didn't feel AMP was a problem. I did feel MAVEN was a problem, despite what that could do for my stocks. I get the criticism and do think AMP has a lot of problems, but I also think it's crazy that's what we are talking about in an article about oil and gas activism. /Shrug
May I ask why you wouldn't be able to charge it at home? It is my understanding that most people simply charge their electric cars overnight, much like their phones.
I paid $11k for my used 2015 leaf about 2 years ago. I charge it every other day (90 mile range) by plugging it in at work or at home into a DC charger that’s connected to my dryer outlet.

For these cars they work great but you have to accept that they usually have to be charged every other day.
I wonder who owns the 888 number though. I assume there must be some kind of registration for toll free numbers
> Hardware switches for almost everything and open source software :D

I just flipped through the various pinephone PDFs linked from the November update and saw no evidence of hardware kill switches. Maybe they're buried in the schematics, but the exploded phone diagram has nothing for them.

Can you link where you saw mention/proof of this?
Police departments take PredPol effectiveness on faith with few checks in place
What percentage of code written 20+ years ago is still in production - without any kind of updates - today?

Also, many developers use Macs not because they're in love, but because of the practical conveniences of working on a Unix-based OS.
Wow, I was expecting graphics in the style of Return of the Obra Dinn, but this is much more impressive.

Lucas Pope's work on bringing the 1-bit aesthetic into the modern age is fascinating in itself. One of my favorite excerpts is how Pope 'stabilized dither' in order to reduce the harsh effects that dithering moving images can create: https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=40832.msg136374...
> I'm hoping soon every lamp post will have a charging plug.

I don't see any major city doing that anytime soon. The grid is not ready, power plants are not ready, it would cost billions to rewire everything, especially in old European towns. And even more for germany since they're shutting down coal and nuclear right now. It's not a big issue though, we should focus on getting rid of personal cars and that's something Berlin is getting slightly better at by the day.
Let me bring you back since you seem to be trying to change the discussion now that you're stuck in a corner. We're talking about vendors that provide wireless networking hardware. Your claim was that any wireless hardware networking vendor that had phone-home wouldn't fly in hospitals or finance. I can literally walk into any hospital in the US and prove that wrong, so I asked you for a list of these magical vendors. There aren't hundreds, there aren't thousands, there are dozens at best at any given moment. Name one that is an enterprise wireless networking vendor that doesn't have phone-home.
Google Ends Support for OG Pixel
The ads make them look cool. Amazon puts them at the top of the site so it looks like they're popular and everyone wants one. The industrial design makes them super unobtrusive, and the cheerful voice comes off as ultra benign.
A poor person can't afford a home in either Texas or California. Not unless you cherry pick living in the middle of nowhere, in which case both states are perfectly affordable.

And if you get sick or injured in Texas, well, I hope you have good health insurance from your job.
Also I believe it will move towards a voice free AI determined system. Because at some point in future decision making will be the toughest activity. (Currently moving and switching on buttons is)
> They both comply with law enforcement take down requests. Stop trying to make for-profit companies arbiters of what is right and wrong. To them less risk and more profit is right. In both cases they don't want to be responsible for what people deliver using their network,much like ISPs

So you're saying they should outsource all scam and spam mitigation work to the police, and just let it run (and cause damage) until some police agency tells them to shut it down?
This (anything can be a key) was eventually added with the Map class. They're an iterable type too, so they're much more useful than Objects imo.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
Did BD re-offshore things? At one point, they were bringing manufacturing back to the US after QC issues.

Answering my own question: looks like it. They brought it back in 2015 and are going back overseas in 2019.

https://www.outsideonline.com/2400138/black-diamond-layoffs-...

https://companyweek.com/articles/as-black-diamond-bolts-to-c...
But they also announced that they will not work on a new generation of combustion engines anymore:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-volkswagen-emissions-comb...
There are a lot of people who never managed to learn and understand Solaris more than superficially and then didn't keep up with his quite revolutionary and violent improvement, so quite often you'll read deeply wrong and misinformed jabs about how Solaris is "Slowlaris" and so on. These have no basis in reality for almost 15 years, but illumos and his derivatives want to distance themselves from such nonsense, and one can't really blame them for that. illumos based operating systems are the most advanced on the planet bar none, and it would be a great waste to have that ruined by poorly informed superficial opinions from people with no skin in the game incorrecting each other.
In the US, having a local REI is pretty close to the only good option. Or Cabela's for some types of gear; they're geared towards hunting/fishing. There are a few other local alternatives with various degrees and types of specialization. But not a lot--and they all tend to pivot more and more towards general clothing over time.

As for repairs, good luck. I took something into an REI recently to get repaired as I had done in the past and it was: "Nope. Don't do repairs any longer. Send it to a place in (somewhat ironically) Seattle."
Hopefully between consteval and string literal template parameters, we'll be able to detect literal const char* in templates.

Would be nice for my threaded logger to know if it can copy the pointer instead of the whole string, knowing it was initialized statically.
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The author seems to have done no actual research beyond skimming the code. E.g., "none of these libraries have had security audits"

When in fact there has been a review, and probably more internal audits that haven't been published: https://blog.quarkslab.com/security-audit-of-dalek-libraries...
However, from what I can see [1] there is just some prototype hardware and some datasheets, is there an SDK somewhere? Or at least a toolchain?

[1] https://wiki.pine64.org/index.php/PineTime
Wow! So shopping at Walmart is the same as heroin addiction?

Your attitude is just the old paternalistic "You're too stupid to know what's best for you, so I'm going to force you to make the right decision for you."

Thank god we don't live in a country where that's broadly supported.
Bullying or business? It can be both.

To me, whether suing for trademark infringement is ethically supportable or not comes down to the purpose of trademarks: to prevent consumer confusion (consumers thinking they're buying the product of one company when they're actually buying the product of another company).

If a company is suing for trademark infringement, but there isn't any reasonable chance that consumers will be confused, then the lawsuit isn't legitimate -- it's just plain old bullying.
https://www.pine64.org/2019/09/05/september-update-the-pinep...

>The detachable back panel – which covers the privacy switches, pogo pins and the removable battery – is made of a durable soft-touch plastic.

https://wiki.pine64.org/index.php/PinePhone

> Privacy Switches: LTE (include GPS), Wifi/BT, Mic, and Camera

edit: You can see them at the first link (picture "PinePhone mainboard + daughterboard (prototype) "), its the little switches above the sdcard reader
Eh, they do compete. Service and prices are solid and often better than competitors. There's zero need to be doling out lawsuits.
Build product roadmaps inside of GitHub
No one becomes a billionaire without stepping on some toes.
> The tax rate on the house being proportional to what other people would like to pay for it now vs what you actually paid is clearly discriminatory.

How is it discriminatory? It has nothing to do with who you are (indeed one doesn't have to know anything about you to figure it out), which is the opposite of discriminatory.

> I see, so you have decided that homes should temporarily allocated to those who are working in the area, and should be sized according to a political opinion about what they ‘need’.

Better that than allocating them by whoever first called dibs. There's a reason we believe most goods should be brought and sold at a market price that's the same for everyone, not different prices for different people.

Do you acknowledge that there's such a thing as a luxury home? I would rather people who just want somewhere to live near where they work had a level playing field with people who want to live in a mansion they don't need. (I'm not even arguing for favouring the workers, just for stopping subsidising the mansion-owners). There's nothing wrong with spending your honestly-earned money on luxuries, but you shouldn't get a tax break for it, particularly when your luxury is someone else's necessity.

> A segregated society where we have worker only zones and industry is more and more concentrated in the places it is already established is a grotesque, quasi-fascist dystopia.

A society where people can't move into the places where the jobs are is far more all of those things (not being able to move freely was one of the biggest criticisms of the Soviet Union; we called ourselves a free country in contrast, precisely because people were free to move wherever they wanted) - and that's what we have at the moment by subsidising the lucky few who happen to live in those places at present.

> If you buy now, over time you will benefit from prop 13 in the same way that everyone else has. In 40 years you’ll have the benefit that people who bought 40 years ago now have.

By that logic it's fine to refuse to hire over-50s because 30 years ago they had the same benefit that people who are currently 20 have. But actually we still consider that age discrimination, because it is.
If its the costs that are preventing the consumers from getting the products they desire, the markets should find a way to overcome the obstacles using the new tools and resources available as the come online.

I've heard it called a warehouse on wheels, but it will be interesting to see how the delivery economy evolves.
I see that it is very powerful feature, i see that it could be used if you want to see changes of plase from some year and to the current, for example how was building NY from the begging to now.
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Maybe not outright poor, but compare home prices vs. median income in most of Dallas (excluding the most expensive neighborhoods) vs almost anywhere in LA or SF.

Ninja edit since I can't reply: no, they are not even comparable:

https://www.trulia.com/TX/Dallas/

Just wow. Try finding that anywhere in SF, LA, OC, or SD. I see a lot of decent homes under $200k. I don't mean trailers.

My point is about optics as much as reality. A lot of people look at San Francisco to see what liberalism is going to do since that city has a reputation (right or wrong) as being a kind of capital city for the Democratic left. When they look they see a city with massive wealth divides where nobody but the rich can afford a reasonable home and there are drug addicts on every street corner. They think "wow, so this is the future that liberalism is going to give us."

I'm not sure this is totally wrong either. I wouldn't want the country run by the head-up-the-arse crowd that runs San Francisco any more than I want it run by the current bunch of clowns occupying the executive branch.
The blog and an interview [1] have been by Lukasz Erecinski. Although Wikipedia mentions TL Lim:

> Although the original Kickstarter page mentioned a company called "Pine64 Inc.", all devices are manufactured and sold by Pine Microsystems Inc. based in Fremont, California. Its founder is TL Lim, the inventor of the PopBox and Popcorn Hour series of media players sold under the Syabas and Cloud Media brands.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_Microsystems

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bibXkrT8AqU
If you use a smart contract wallet you can actually protect yourself from losing all your money even if someone gets your private key.

You can set a withdrawal limit of say, $50 and you can set a few recovery addresses (of friends, family or other personal wallets).

So if I have $10,000 in my ethereum wallet and I post my private key in every forum and every chatroom on the internet then the most I lose is $50. Before 24 hours pass I send my remaining $9,950 to a pre-defined recovery address which is excluded from the withdrawal limit.

Consumer protections are actually pretty good. The trouble is getting these tools in the hands of users.
Are you talking about the same George W Bush who lead the expansion of Medicare to include Medicare Part D?

That one?
Which is problematic.

They are citing it as a cause but have no quantative basis for it what so ever apparently. The effect could be 0, or negative, they've apparently just brought feelings on the situation.

So figure SPM.7 looks pretty serious. It is 60-80 years in the future (probably further at the time of the models) and based on models (albeit on the agreement of presumably independent models). However current shortages are being attributed to climate change. To do this it should be possible to a) show a long term drop in precipitation and b) show climate related causality somehow. This should be easier than accurately predicting the future - but of course is less easy than innaccurately predicting the future.

So what you show I would say reenforces my point. We have predictions based on models (which we can take seriously or not), but then we also have current events which are being attributed to climate change with no quantifiable basis for doing so - despite the fact it should be possible to come up with some kind of proxy for climate induced problems(other than just a shortage happened).
Well, I do think it (was) dumb, but I also didn’t bring it up to show a big problem. I just wanted a counter-example to the claim that profits are limited at non-profits.
> typical company cars that will very rarely use the electric engine

This is backwards, plugin hybrids rarely use their gas engines. BMW 330e 2020 has a 20 mile electric only range (about the same as Prius Prime). Average German car trip distance is 11 miles [0] Even if the trip is longer than 20 miles, it will only use the gas after the electric runs out.

[0] Large PDF, average car trip distance on page 50 https://setis.ec.europa.eu/system/files/Driving_and_parking_...
It's not a unique spelling. It is the word "cool" in German. Many companies use it because of this. Similar story to Backcountry. Using a generic word and trademarking it and thinking they own it. This is hypocritical as the mission statement for the outside community as they all opt for public access, shared access, and community except when it affects their wallets.
The money put in subsidizing electric vehicles is more well spend in public transportation.
An 30 electric cars are not as green as a single bus.