skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Once a parent was looking for their 4 years old in panic with help of the police because the child for some reason decided to look for them outside of the house and ended up meeting some other children and went with them to the new playground, those parents look for something like a phone or something with GPS so they can find them earlier before something happens.

Not every of those parents have the overview of which company can be trusted and which can't so they need to believe what the advertisement says.
Your comment reminded me
of John Boehner who went from opposing any type of drug legalization to marijuana salesman. And making millions out of it.
What do you imagine the different brute force approaches are? I would assume the brute force approach is to calculate the cost of every possible route and choose the one that had the lowest cost.
Free Alternatives to iAuditor?
That’s what I can’t understand: how do SS rides cost so damn much. For that experience I’d expect a flat $10 fee
Do they reduce parking usage at least?
Some BBC election result stories were computer-generated
>that it's apparently not says a lot about their true nature, as in, they have no intention whatsoever of compromising

Labour's Brexit policy was a compromise. The Tories was the opposite. The voters pretty clearly rejected the idea of compromise.
This is what I thought the article was going to be about. The John Deere / Meraki licensing model.
I googled and it seems that a patch has landed in 18.04

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1791312

I'll give it a try. Thank you!
It all depends on what the lawyers say. What happens when a self-driving car gets into an accident and possibly seriously injures someone? Who's responsible? The manufacturer of the vehicle or the owner? If it's the owner then yes, I'd prefer someone else own the car since I have no control over it. If it's the manufacturer then I'd prefer to own the car.
I like https://coolors.co/ for quickly cycling though options and being able lock certain colors.
Junior to Senior – Refactoring a React pan and zoom image component
That would be disabling the only two ways I visit reddit (for nine years, wow).
this. the zero barrier to entry thing is what sucked me in.
I use it multiple times a day for work and for social/news/entertainment...

I dont use FB at all because of in part the barrier to entry.
Things may have changed, but two notable omissions at the time: a restaurant that had been there for 30+ years, and the post office closest to me.
Well said, comrade!
Does the fact that you "hate that argument" invalidate it in any way?
Cancun needs to get their shit together and stop taking bribes from the taxi unions.
I just read up on this. If what I read is true, TSP is NP-hard not NP complete. You can’t trivially prove that the solution is optimum.

Reference: https://eklitzke.org/the-traveling-salesman-problem-is-not-n...
I looked it up, it appears the title has been translated into English. Morten Münster, I'm Afraid Debbie From Marketing Has Left for the Day - How to Use Behavioural Design to Create Change in the Real World, Translated from Danish by Helen Dyrbye, Gyldendal Business, 2019
Not really applicable to the situation. A pro business centrist Conservative won with a large majority.

Labour is the only party along with the BNP (white supremacists) to be
Investigated by the human rights commission for racism.

The talk of people of colour wanting to leave is over blown. Look at the cabinet and junior ministers, it's one of the most diverse there has been.
Apple is offering free genetic tests to all its Silicon Valley employees
> but the criminals who make a living stealing them do hundreds per month and thousands per year.

You got a source for that claim? At least in the US, it’s significantly higher than any number I’ve ever read in a study / report.
Of course that's one way of proving this wrong. But you have to start above 18 quadrillion. Because all the numbers less than that have been tried.
This seems like shifting rationalization to me. They used to say women don’t want to be lawyers because it’s too much confrontation. Now women are well represented in law because it’s people oriented. Moreover, corporate law firms are 50% women, but that work is even more solitary than programming in a corporate environment. (Having done both myself.) You’re sitting in your office alone reviewing documents, writing briefs, or doing due diligence ten times as much as you’re in court or talking to clients.

Also, if programming is solitary as you suggest, why do tech companies discourage remote work and insist on culture fit, team building, collaborative work spaces, etc.? Much more so than law firms.
Count on Me: The Beauty of Citizen Science
They do not necessarily yield a correct solution. For example, under a heuristic approach, if you ask "is there a path of length < L?", you may get the answer "no" when the actual answer is "yes".

You seem to be confused over the difference between "solution", in the sense of the answer to a well-defined mathematical problem, and "solution", in the sense of "what do I say to my boss?"
Thanks for the link - this article is eye-opening.
Quantum computing gains a first foothold in investment banking
Almost all would be a good result, especially if the exceptions could be identified and characterized. That'd just change the conjecture e.g. "All numbers except those with more than 37 prime factors above 18 quadrillion" or some such.
Things were not great some century ago, they were often beyond fucked and average joe's life meant nothing, nobody cared, nobody helped apart from close family, which was often not enough.

Young folks are generally pretty stupid and inexperienced (duh). I know damn well, was one of those. Due to peer pressure itching to get wasted, on anything available (luckily there wasn't much). Looking desperately for approvals and doing stupid shit for 15 seconds of fame, risking getting crippled for life or even dying. Generally clueless about life, what I want from it, which direction to go.

But it was OK, everybody was more or less on the same boat, so you didn't feel behind. We talk about east Europe here in 80s and 90s, there were basically no drugs apart from alcohol and nicotine and no organized crime. People had simpler ways to be miserable and waste life. These days, constant exposure to people better off than yourself leave a lot of room for desire. There is always somebody on Facebook having great time on vacation or having time of their life on other way.

This phase will pass. It is part of growing up, rebellion to previous generations, feeling that all and everybody is shit. Some might get stuck there and its usually not so nice story, but that's life. It ain't supposed to be a game on easy difficulty.
I use Green Ride Boulder which is the same concept as SuperShuttle but way better execution. Scheduled rides, most people get on and off at the office, but they will drop you off at your door after the office customers.
Amazon: Behind the Smiles
A Hackers Guide to Crack Google Summer of Code 2020
> a) More people fit in the same car and an intelligent mechanism can pair riders. This exists today in the form of things like Uber Pool. Without a driver you might get one additional passenger in a car. That's the main mechanism. In the best case it can reduce energy use per passenger by around 20-25% - in a realistic case it would be more like 10% or less.

And it would reduce the number of cars on the road, the number of mechanics shops needed to service those cars, the number of insurance companies, most of the infrastructure around licensing, etc. Lots of knock-on effects that would also impact emissions, and a fleet of self-driving cars permit a lot more vertical integration, which reduces TCO.

A fleet of self-driving cars will simply be more cost effective and reduce emissions. Car ownership becoming a luxury is probably inevitable. It will become a collector's hobby, like old sports cars are today.
I think quality of the conversation will always trump "privacy, openness and ad-free".

We have to pay for quality. If we're not going to pay with dollar bills, we pay with privacy.
Separation of positional and keyword arguments in Ruby 3.0
Accepting bribes and risking it being used against you is for low-level officials now, for those from humble beginnings who had had nothing but poverty and being treaded on, so they enjoy their priviledges extra hard, you now regularly hear news of corrupt Chinese officials with hundreds of millions in bribes, hundreds of mistresses and condos. But they are taken because of political struggles not for their crimes, no one is allowed to be clean in this game.

Those with immense political clout, who are born red with innate immunity, they play financial games. It's largely legal, much more profitable and effortless. The NYT has written many articles about Chinese listed companies with red investors and princelings.
>And you can't launch a ok product and iterate

Yes you can, tesla and comma.ai doing it right now.
Err... right. I stand corrected.
If this project is dead, just tell us
If you choose giant starting numbers(like "Tree(3)"), then maybe "quite close" is 10^100.
There should be and we are looking for it. Several experiments are looking for WIMPs or other proposed particles on Earth or in the solar system.

But the amount us tiny, current estimates of the dark matter density in the Milky Way result in roughly 700 grams of DM in the Earths volume
The secret list of convicted cops
Majority of Americans use drugs or alcohol to fall asleep
>It is Apple’s attempt to meet the needs of people like Ridley Scott and Calvin Harris.

We have already established [1] that even ColdPlay level musicians or Hollywood level Audio effects does not Mac Pro level computational power. Something we assumed for a long time I guess we now have evidence to call this a fact.

And everything in that video could have been done on a iMac Pro or even latest MacBook Pro.

So apart from SFX or Data Science / AI, I cant think of anything that requires these level of Computation power. And none of those are on the Mac Platform.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jv5HIrOrn2o
The real fear is the potential lifespan of electric cars. IC cars already last decades in private ownership. With fewer moving parts, electric cars could last even longer. They need to keep everything in fleets, where cars can be forced off the road after a specific timeframe, if they want to maintain sale/replacement rates long term.
How to Take Smart Notes
It's an over the counter device with a subdermal needle. The device needs a blood sample, so it gets fouled by our organic bits. I imagine risk of infection is a large part of the short life span of the product.
I call this the dismal equilibrium. Anything free that provides value is, in brute economic terms, mis-priced. Thus, it tends to degrade due to attempts at monetization until a balance is reached between its inherent value and the pain one must endure to use/access it.
I pivot after YC declined my application
Hi ! My name is Augustine Oni yc ss 2019 batch. After yc rejected my application twice, I decided to work on new app and the name of the app is called "Syint" (a social network)

WHO IS SYINT FOR?

Syint is for anyone who wants to share their knowledge, feelings,ideas, experience or entertain people via photos, status, and blog.

What are the features of Syint?

Blog features
Photo upload
Status upload
Search functionality
User profiles
Save any content
Read later option
Comment/like

I just finished the app yesterday (beta) and I want you guys feedback before I publish it on playstore.

Here's the link to the app (https://www.dropbox.com/s/xy0cdkljyrevtjt/Syint.apk?dl=0)

Thanks in advance, God bless you, I love you all.
True!

But these are places of work not town hall. Get on with your work.

All I’m saying is it’s like getting into an argument with a kid and you try to explain every ensuing “why”? At some point it’s “because!”
Google had obscene profits _because_ of the rest of the company. Mano of us were working on weekends because we thought that it's a different company. And it was.
It appears based one recent updates that Google is abandoning Hangouts and reverting back to Google Voice.
See
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/XENON

Article about a Dark Matter research detector using Xenon, not the element itself.
That's a really unfair characterization of people's anger at getting their property stolen and destroyed.
Fundamental Research Security – JASON (December 2019) [pdf]
I've wondered about that. I think its part the youth culture of programming. Have to be in the clique to be acceptable. Counteracting the isolation of the programming process, with rules to try and create social interaction in the group.
All bathrooms usually are private places in the house + have one or multiple mirrors, real selfies weren't made with a second lens/selfie mode in your smartphone before 2008 lol
In Jefferson County, Colorado, the stretch of US 40 up into the foothills from the plains used have a lot of cars stalled by vapor lock along the shoulders. But I don't think I've seen a car stalled by vapor lock in forty years.
The Tick deserved to get nominated! (It got canceled)
That seems like it be worse. Making unilateral changes without any rational would likely anger people more.
Sure but that was just the first example. Then there's failure to get a reminders right etc.
Brain-controlled hearing aids could allow precision listening
Zhaoxin Unveiled Next-Generation x86 SoC Plans: 32-Core Servers, Sub-7nm Client
slides https://speakerdeck.com/iancoldwater/the-path-less-traveled-...

demos & manifests https://github.com/mauilion/blackhat-2019/blob/master/README...
I like those devices too, but they, and all other kids smart-watches, have the same issue - huge attach surface due to use of cloud-based third party servers to gather and display information, change configuration of the device with a parent's smartphone via an app. I, personally, don't care about that level of convenience, which imposes lower security. I would prefer information about location to arrive even via SMS/email in form of good-old GPS coordinates, which can be requested only from a list of pre-approved phone numbers, all of which are configured using physical USB connection. The only problem with such an approach is hijacking of the phone number of one of parents, but that is very unlikely.
I'm hoping one of the ActivityPub Reddit-like projects takes off.

(yeah, I know, someone else make what I want . . . )

(or, we should have just fixed spam on Usenet . . . )
> Anything free that provides value is, in brute economic terms, mis-priced.

Damn, that's a good way to put it.

I assume value includes non tangibles, otherwise open source wouldn't work.
I agree totally with "Metaclass based registration" as I have seen the same with Django Models. It took some time initially to grasp what(and when) is happening under the hood. Even now, I find it hard to make newcomers understand how it all works. I have taken 2 sessions with my current interns and still they get lost.
There is a conversion between the decision problem I mentioned ("is there a path of length less than some fixed L?") and the general problem "what is the minimum path length?".

If a solution exists, it will have length less than or equal to the product of (1) the maximum edge cost and (2) the number of nodes in the graph.[1]

You can then find the actual minimum length by doing a binary search on the threshold below which there is no solution.

And it's very easy to show that the decision problem is in NP -- given a candidate path, it is trivial to verify that its cost is less than a constant L.

So we have the results that (1) the decision problem is NP-complete; (2) the general problem can be solved in polynomial time if you can solve the decision problem in polynomial time. That's enough to show the general problem is NP-complete.

[1] Under the assumption that the graph is complete and has no edges of infinite cost. Without that assumption, multiply (1) the maximum finite edge cost; (2) the number of finite-cost edges in the graph; (3) the number of nodes in the graph.
No thanks. I like that my vehicle is ready to go when I get outside. When my son had a seizure we were on the road within 5 minutes and on our way to the hospital. I don’t want my ability to get a ride to be based on the availability and proximity of an Uber-like service vehicle.
I'm a little late, but maybe Iraq is? I can't find anywhere online that mentions the protest's size, but security forces and militia have killed over 400 protesters so far. In some ways that seems to make it more newsworthy then Hong Kong.

Here's an article criticizing the media for not covering it: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/11/13/hundreds-...
Mathematics of prey detection in spider orb-webs
It does seem dead.

The dead don’t speak.

And no one is replying to this question.
As someone else mentioned in the thread. Viewing NSFW content now requires signing in as well.
The app is clean. I can't even look at the actual website now.
Why would someone choose to use a third party library when the first party solution[0] is more than adequate in the first place?

[0] https://docs.python.org/3/library/venv.html
Hey I would counteract my kids' 'Why?' with "Why is not a question. Why what?" They'd have to form a clear question. Made them digest the issue enough to say what they were curious about. And incidentally made it more work for them to keep asking "Why".
> And no one is replying to this question.

I'm a ghoOoOoOst!
I remember reading from traffic accident in China involving lorry that was loaded full of money. Some officials get so much bribes that their problems are similar to Colombian drug lord.
Sure, I'm not disagreeing with any of that. But saying it's "fraud" and there there should be "laws against" it is going way too far.

Of course, if I choose to call you for support I probably would not continue to hide what platform I'm using, that'd be silly. I wouldn't report an issue with false information.
The entire idea of the internet was suppose to be “disintermediation”. Why are we now wanting middle men?
Sometimes a straight directive is more efficient than nuanced measures. Nuance is for intellectual pursuits, not for management.
Buy your kid a dumb watch, explain it to him, tell him to be home at 6, otherwise he will be grounded. Worked for ages, should work for now.

(Or to be somewhat less snarky: We should not try to solve every problem with technology, just because we can.)
This would make a nice movie action script about the decadencee of art and how it's all bullshit from a business POV lol
Microsoft's Next Console Is Xbox Series X, It's a Radical Design: Zen 2 and RDNA
I can't comment on the fact that the whole field is imploding, but there is only room for finite growth.

A lot of these platforms seem VC-funded or publicly traded, and they are based on growth. So they probably see growth slowing down, and this is an effort to squeeze more numbers out of it. Hopefully for them, they can pivot their business plan on to something not growth-based.

This is a common pattern: growth is like a drug for tech startups. Cut it, and they will do all they can to have it again, even if they have to alienate their current user-base for this.

As I often browse reddit in private mode, this probably just means that I'll waste less time on that website; I'm not going to bother logging in if I didn't already.
Most folks don't really care what you are doing. Because they don't understand your issues at all. Just say "It was the solution to a problem we were facing. If you want to find another solution, be my guest" and watch their 'anger' disappear quickly.
But what should they represent? The real world, some fictional idealistic world? If so, whose idealistic world should tv shows represent?
12 year club; charter member; already gone.
Fedora 32 Will Feature Bleeding-Edge Compilers Again with LLVM 10 and GCC 10
https://flatuicolors.com/
Funny that Bloomberg posts this, given their bosses strict policy to no investigate Democrats.
I think arria.com do Natural Language Generation (NLG) with analysis.
The CO2 emissions are not themselves the point, the CO2 concentrations are. The concentration is neutral in time scales we care about from wood/alge/bioethanol/etc., but goes up from fossil fuels.

It’s also fine to burn fossil fuels if you can make long-term carbon sinks from other processes, hence people caring about making carbon-rich rocks or whether dead plankton floats our sinks.

It’s a question of being responsible for the consequences of actions, not outright banning those actions before the alternatives have been deployed at scale.
same thing quora did, which made it hated by the masses.
Love the citations at the end of the blog article.

Getting a PhD was a waste for me, but I loved it anyways. It's been a liability for my career and it cost me ~5 years of income. I am older than my managers, and just a misfit overall.

Why did I leave academia? Well, there was this recession you see...but that was just the first part of the problem. A huge issue was how long it takes to get hired anywhere unless you're some top notch Harvard guy, it sucks, especially when you're broke. Then there was the realization that I could immediately see 2X the income just being a software engineer with evenings and weekends to myself pretty much.

Once I did the math, my academic career was immediately over. Broke, mentally exhausted, five years behind in income, not politically aligned with typical far left policies, sick of the campus lifestyle (beer, no parking, broken glass, property crime).

For me, it was called "growing up" to leave academia. I loved writing papers and articles and was getting into books, but it just didn't pencil out as a career goes. I think only independently wealthy or perhaps the really elite Ivy League types should even bother.
The falling price of a TV set
I know you have decades of experience with compilers, but are you sure 0.1% isn't a bit low? I can imagine 0.1% to be true if you have experience writing parsers, and just make a shitty parser for a batch compiler, and spend a lot of time on the semantics on the language.

You can also emit some shitty stack machine bytecode with a single AST pass, and write a simple interpreter for that bytecode, and the effort would be about the same as writing the simple parser by hand.

And you can spend a lot of time making a parser actually robust, threading file positions through the pipeline, handle errors nicely, allow for efficient incremental parsing, and so on. I could probably spend man-months and man-years on such a parser.
I did not know they had this transparency policy. Did it (hopefully) exclude documents containing personal information? Google has a lot of info ona lot of people, surely every employee can't access all of it?
Only a subset of Google docs were ever shared like this. The lawyers never shared. The internal security people had private files. HR had its files. The people doing the financial reporting were/are bound by all manner of rules.
Google's famed internal openness was only ever for a subset of docs meant for developers, not anything like a free/open data policy.
Eh... Yes?

GCC [0], Clang [1] and others [2] have supported for compiled headers. Cmake also has support for precompiled headers [3].

I would say both the tool and architecture to do that is well supported.

[0] https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Precompiled-Headers.html

[1] https://clang.llvm.org/docs/PCHInternals.html

[2] https://www.qnx.com/developers/docs/6.3.2/neutrino/utilities... (-pch flag)

[3] https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/command/target_precompil...
Builders don't mind handing over all the risk to banks, real-estate speculators and developers. Developers on the other hand, would love to have you rent indefinitely. At least until their speculation pays off and they can flip you and the house to the next developer.