skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually humans can exploit the prng on for example Generation III Pokemon. It takes frame perfect timing, which limits how long you can do so, but it is possible at the start of the game.

This really falls into the same category as speed running using save game glitch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHTK5GLOFVM aka possible but only really useful if you’re trying to do something very specific.

Anyway, while I understand you assume this stuff to be impossible I simply suggest you do some research before bringing it up.
We’ve talked about it this a lot. He takes precautions, such as vacuum sealing his cargo and keeping it in a locked bag, leaving at a reasonable time, not driving erratically, no evidence in the car, getting rid of all the receipts, etc.

But even he acknowledges it’s a risk; just for him I think it is a worthwhile risk to not have to deal with that shoebox of medications.
I was shown some ProvideX code written by a Sage MAS 200 "partner / reseller" for a custom vertical version of MAS 200 to review for a Customer. The code was a horrifying maze of numbered lines, GOTOs, and global variables. It reminded me of the Applesoft BASIC stuff I wrote when I was 8-10 years old... except this code was handling hundreds of millions of dollars of revenue. Yikes!

I ended up researching ProvideX pretty heavily as part of that work. The language was evolved from its original roots (much like Microsoft QuickBASIC / PDS evolved out of GWBASIC). Just like QuickBASIC, thought, it could still run the old line-numbered, globally-scoped, nightmare spaghetti code too. There were some neat constructs to deal with ODBC, GUI controls, etc, to be sure, but it seems like it exists now only to serve the old, rickety codebases that are in that "milk the market dry" mode (which pretty much sums up all of Sage's software, too, interestingly enough).
In Australia you do your taxes and then a few weeks later you either get a refund or a bill. If there's anything that doesn't add up in your filing they may ask you about it. Nothing to regret unless you knowingly filed incorrect information.

Edit: a lot of it is pre-filled (payroll, bank interest, investment distributions in my case), you just need to check against your own records.
Even with let's encrypt it still seems odd to me that you need a 3rd party to confirm you own a domain name(and issue a certificate for it). The web trust model is broken.
100-page ML book for a brisk tour
Deep Learning (Goodfellow)
Introduction to Statistical Learning
I still don't see your point.

A poor person can put 100% of their wealth in. Someone who's well off can't.

I think you're just saying that a poor person has less money than a rich person.

Of course they do - that's what the words mean!
Interesting, for most people that's why they do get bored of chess. The learning curve is too steep.
live demo works on mobile, looks very nice, but not seeing rotate controls https://victorribeiro.com/isocity/

Doesn't seem to implement rotation - it can reveal obscured objects. https://github.com/victorqribeiro/isocity/blob/master/js/mai...
A Decade of Regression and Dismantlement
> Even if I only get a combined total of 100W

Quoting Wikipedia:

> The typical efficiency of TEGs is around 5–8%

To get 100W out at 5% efficiency, you'd need to put 2kW in, 1.9kW of which has to be moved away to keep the cold side cold with perfect cooling.

Realistically speaking, the cooling will not be that efficient, and will probably cost you a bit more energy. I'd ballpark that to 2.5kW lost total for 100W of charging.

That's pretty significant.
Cool - thanks for the link, I'm checking it out now!

I'm a web services backend guy. Lots of Go and lots of traffic!
People say there's an uncertainty of 10,000 years as though unlikely things don't happen. 1 in 10,000 is very possible!

I don't know anyone who's won millions in the lottery, but people win a few hundred all the time at the place where I buy my morning coffee.
Happy New Year, HN. What are your resolutions for the new year/decade?
True, but I guess it depends on the person. Was just trying to give HN a view of how I write code. I've found it to be faster, but I go in knowing I will be doing a ton of googling.
Somewhat relevant, "The Tesla Effect: How Tesla Is Changing the Used Car Game"[1]. People who buy Teslas typically trade in high-end imports, causing a drop in the used-car prices for Audis, Beemers, etc.

[1] https://www.capitalone.com/cars/learn/finding-the-right-car/...
Only rarely do you write emails were the message is complex enough that writing will force you to think it through carefully, which is the (very real) benefit the author is referring to. Someone said writing shows you how sloppy your thinking is, and math (and code to a lesser extent) shows you how sloppy your writing is.
Sure, but for professional use I'm not very interested in unsupported hacks that are liable to break things and/or be overridden and reverted by Microsoft in some future update. We deal with various kinds of sensitive and confidential information, and we have legal and contractual obligations to protect it, and so we need the ability to control where it goes on our terms. It's really as simple as that. If Microsoft won't give that to us, then we won't be Microsoft customers.
> German car manufacturers deserve everything coming to them

What's coming to Volkswagen is that they'll be the world's biggest producer of EVs. It's not that surprising. After all, they are the world's biggest car company.

2020 is the start of Volkswagen's big EV push. This is what Volkswagen's 2020 EV plan looks like:

- VW e-Up!: https://www.carscoops.com/2019/09/vws-updated-e-up-offers-16...

- VW e-Golf (sold over 100,000 but will be replaced by the ID.3): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ah4lrqWx8E0

- VW ID.3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPjvgXWA78E

- VW ID.4: https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/motor-shows-frankfurt-mot...

- SEAT Mii: https://www.electrive.com/2019/09/11/seat-mii-available-to-o...

- SEAT el-Born: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZI7WFtwc8g

- Cupra Tavascan (maybe, not confirmed): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNYHRKp4n1w

- Skoda Citigo iV: https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/new-skoda-citigo...

- Skoda Vision iV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-f1g9xl6W_E

- Audi e-tron (and also the new "sportback" variant): https://www.audiusa.com/models/audi-e-tron

- Audi e-tron Q4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiwevzHsCbU

- Audi e-tron GT (maybe 2021): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMEdiq2xTbQ

- Porsche Taycan (and the Sports Turismo wagon variant in future): https://www.porsche.com/usa/models/taycan/

More models in 2021 and more in 2022 and so on.

The Volkswagen ID.3 will be a big seller in Europe and then later on in China. It's a popular form factor with good range at a good price.
Looks like just two chapters left though.

I've been putting off reading it until it comes out so I'm glad I see the update progress here.
An implementation of classes with prototypes:

http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2010/08/01/class-in-the-fr...
I didn't support the trade war myself, but I listen to NPR and in the last few months heard them do a number of stories about how the war is affecting consumer prices and how we're all supposed to be impacted. Yet I don't notice any inflation from the war at ground level. I don't think the listeners noticed either. It seemed like the story was designed to point something out that otherwise would have no impact on people.
Yes, I meant a newly rendered tile. Or just the corresponding rotated tile from the library if it exists.
They do so nowadays, too. At least around where i am. Inconvenient when you change ISPs.
I think that view is a bit simplistic. Tesla is catering to upperclass and upper-middleclass people. 90 % of people in Germany either wouldn’t be able to afford or wouldn’t be willing to pay 50.000 € (what the cheapest Tesla model costs here) for a small sedan when they can get a Diesel car with similar capabilities for 20.000 € or less. And honestly most people don’t care much about emissions, they care about usability and ease of use, and there gasoline cars are just much more convenient than electric cars right now. I have several colleagues that drive Tesla and I find it a bit awkward that they have to plan their hotels and schedule around the available charging infrastructure even for small distances (e.g. for going from Berlin to Leipzig to attend 36c3). EVs would be awesome if the charging infrastructure was there but it isn’t and it won’t be for several years to come.
Goods and services are on the current account side of the balance of payments. Savings and investments are on the capital account side. The two should sum to zero (otherwise stuff is being given away for free, which we assume probably doesn't happen).

US consumers buy stuff with US dollars. Where do those US dollars go if the consumers spend them on imported goods? They end up invested in the US (or, depending on your political bent, "the Chinese buy up all of our companies").

The net international investment position (the amount of stuff the US owns abroad minus the amount of stuff other countries own in the US) is about -$11tn as a result of the persistent current account deficit and capital account surplus.
tesla is not aiming at VWs audience. They make sexy, expensive and fast cars that target the market of ... porsche cayenne? It's not clear if tesla's model will lead to economies of scale that will make these cars cheap. it's a bit premature to say that they 'll destroy old companies. There are already pretty good EVs like the jaguar I-pace , but they dont have mass market appeal. If tesla manages to cut into VWs profits, i think you ll see a lot of EVs being pushed out fast.
You don't really have to imagine as places like Las Vegas have similar laws already. It's a trade off. https://www.npr.org/2019/11/07/777356656/las-vegas-bans-slee...
That's fantastic. All the vim people always raving about how much productivity they gain from vim, we can point to an objective measure of how much productivity it's ux destroys too.
What do you think Ubuntu collects without an explicit option to turn it off, or even having it off by default? Canonical have had a couple of mis-steps in that direction over the years, but the Ubuntu community has pushed back consistently against intrusive measures and Canonical have typically backed down very quickly when they overstepped the mark.
I think one contributing factor slowing down progress is the cost of electricity in Italy. It's €0.24/kwh vs $0.06/kwh in the US (at least in PA). You dont see any electric cars in Italy, and it seems super expensive to them. I’m also not sure if there is a tax on top of that €0.24 from what I remember my cousin telling me. I’m hitting a language barrier confirming this.
Kratom is addictive and you can overdose on it, neither of which is generally considered true for cannabis. It seems odd to mention both in the same breath.
I print a bunch of these (sometimes multiple calendars on a page) and stick them up on the wall. Very useful to separate events / agendas of different classes on separate calendars e.g. birthdays, travel plans, project deadlines, appointments, goal tracking, habit tracking all go on different calendars but on the same wall.

Much cleaner than putting them all on the same calendar and fight for space.
The icons and colors don't matter to me at all. Because it finally has search within control panel. It even seems to index some terms used inside the modules.

Also, these are included in the regular start menu search.

So you can hit windows key and just start typing for 95% of what you need.

For example, hit "windows key" and type "path" to get to the "edit environment variables" menu.
Same issue in Chrome on Mac
I don't think that is fair. The Japanese, Korean, Italian, French and other Americans still have not made any worthwhile EV cars either. It's Musk's drive that is the anomaly not German complecancy.
No. I didn't suggest that. Not even remotely. I am not aware of any such undertaking and did not state any opinion on the worthiness of such an undertaking.

I was just a bit stunned by the sheer number of people that work in the cafeteria. I make no judgement here about those people, their abilities, working conditions, living conditions, or anything else except their quantity.
Buying is not capital its expense.
DMCA itself is bogus. It was deliberately designed to let companies censor: claims are valid by default and nobody has the desire to dispute invalid claims in court. The potential for abuse is a feature.
The name certainly doesn't help, but neither does their penchant for bias, agenda and lies.

Also, "journalism awards" are as impressive as participation trophies. Pretty much X amount of awards are alotted to X number of news/broadcast companies with the "right attitude" anyways.
Ford is going electric in a big way. Coming in 2020, the electric Mustang, for which pre-orders are now full. Electric F-150 pickup in 2021.

"Ford says that they can produce 50,000 vehicles in the first 12 months" on the Mustang. That's kind of small, but Ford can probably ramp that up as needed.

Toyota is now making electric car noises but is only selling (or not-selling) that hydrogen-powered thing.
You could use two bits in each pixel to indicate horizontal, left or right, and post-process light/dark depending on orientation. (Assuming only those faces and senses... though this project also has sloping roofs).

Or, couldn't you pretend the city rotated but the sun didn't (like a model under a lamp), so lighting is the same for all orientations?
Syd Mead, visual artist behind “Blade Runner” and “Tron,” dies at 86
For 95% of people that want to do what they want to do and not worry about malware or other nonsense? Use macOS/iOS. The little bit of extra money is well worth the time saved.
Best Business Ideas That Beats Everything for 2020 – Amelia Liko – Medium
I've been following this book and I really enjoy it. The style is in a sweet spot for me between "here's all of the code, just read it" and "here's some theory, go do it yourself"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kY-pUxKQMUE
Most modern game engines will export to the web as javascript/WASM (at least I know Godot and Unity will.) Construct2 is specifically intended for exporting to the web. You can just treat "the browser" as another build target like Windows, Linux or Android at this point, don't worry about it.
I agree that #1 is by far the most likely. #3 would mean we (meaning natural science) are wrong about the nature of the universe. I included it mostly to get across the mystery we have here, namely that what brains do cognitively on so little power appears to be "impossible" by classical CS metrics.

I think you are incorrect about precomputation though. The human genome is not very large. It's smaller than Windows 10 or Wikipedia. It's also not substantially different from that of a mouse or a chimpanzee. Most of what it encodes is highly conserved metabolic stuff. All the richness of human cognition is realized through a vanishingly small subset of that already small genetic code.

Nearly all learning and cognition happens after birth, meaning it's done by the brain (unless #3) using absurdly less energy than any known method of computation.
I don't like trump and don't think he reads enough to deserve any credit but the policy is good. We have lived in fear for too long of this doomsday trade war.
> such as preserving the information on a whiteboard before erasing it, remembering where they parked their car, etc.) So I definitely don't agree that "owns a phone

You’re an engineer that doesn’t go on a lot of vacations then. My mom can see the difference between the photo quality of her iPhone 6 and my dad’s iPhone 11, and she’s everything but an expert.
Does anyone know if this is viable on a pi zero?
The tricks to getting a tile-free start menu is to remove every single tile. The start menu then collapses down to a more simple list of programs. I've run with this for years, and no tiles have ever appear, or tips
You don't even need to read in between the lines. He literally states that in his conclusion...
While this is true. It is also short sighted.

1. They don't need much time to catch up. The VW ID 3 has solid specs and costs significantly less than a Model 3.

2. Combustion cars will still be around for quite some time. If not in EU/USA/China then in emerging countries.
The window for conducting planned burns has also been shrinking over time (either too dry and it will run away or too wet).
1040EZ died after tax year 2017: https://www.irs.gov/forms-pubs/about-form-1040-ez
Look at Carlos Ghosn for another extreme example in a different direction.
Two British companies confident of nuclear fusion breakthrough
> Why isn't the conclusion to just ...

Sigh. From the article itself:

> I hope to have convinced you to avoid spinlocks, even for very short sections. Spinlocks are only a benefit if you really really care about the fast path and are certain that the lock will essentially always be free to take. On my computer the fast path on a spinlock is roughly 7ns and on a mutex it’s roughly 14ns, so both of those numbers are very fast. But when spinlocks go bad, the scheduler can be really confused, at least on Linux.
People aren't terrified of plundering their retirement accounts? There are massive and scary tax penalties if you do....
So how about, in 2020, you make a car that's as good as the 2012 Model S?

It's absolutely bonkers that the car manufacturers are still playing catch up to a car that's almost a decade old at this point.

Tesla are on their fifth model, third complete rework, and the 'traditional' manufacturers still have their dick in hand.

Take a bog standard sedan, put a 200-300 mile range battery in it, sell it for the battery cost more than the ICE version, scrap the ICE line before the government forces you to, job done.

This is going to be the car industry's collective Kodak moment if they don't pull out soon.
Additional note that mutual exclusion is a concept that pops up a lot when dealing with concurrent processing (think threads, multi-process type architectures).

Typically mutex / spinlock is implemented to reduce and prevent race conditions
The supply chain companies in Europe seem to be prepared. Continental has parts for gas, electric, hybrid, and Diesel cars.

Continental announced parts for self-driving, offering flash LIDAR, ruggedized computers, and actuators. But nobody got self-driving to production and ordered a few hundred thousand of those units. Must be frustrating being too early.
No, we don’t measure this. The study in question tries to make college wage premium go away using questionable control variables. Sure, some skilled trades can make more money than liberal arts grads. But very few people want to be plumbers or work on an oil rig and for good reason.
And that advice applies further than just Rust, too. Highly recommend checking their blog and work out!
Tixora – hiring back end engineers to help facilitate payments in transportation
Calculate the day of the week for any date in your head
Follow up: where can you do best based purely on technical/design/product skills? Freelance/consulting?
No individual will ever pursue this in court because of the cost in time and money and the risk of being declared liable anyway. Corporations with legal departments are certainly capable of pursuing this against individuals.

There's a significant power imbalance here.
I'm not sure the buggy whip makers thing is applicable. Industrialization put a ton of people out of work, but growth created new jobs for them. We are now in a near-zero growth environment, so I'm not sure growth will supply a magic bailout this time. Jobs are going to be lost and they may not be replaced by anything.
> manufacturing cars has suddenly become accessible to a much wider and geopolitically more diverse set of industrial bases

It has always been. German companies manufacture parts or cars in cheap countries (like turkey). Yet there are no well-known hungarian or turkish cars
If you mess up your taxes, the IRS actually has a very reasonable process for making amends, with penalties that aren't egregious at all. It's mostly a small interest (like a couple percent above prime or something), which caps at 25% of the unpaid amount.

In fact it's the same interest they pay you if you were due refund and they were slow giving it back.

My main complaint is that it's a super, super slow process. They'll follow up years later, and each back and forth takes like three months.
Sure, but I think there is a widespread hesitation to use a db unless one's data reaches a higher level of size and complexity, which is misguided.

What I'm saying is that it's good to start with a database from the start, even if the problem seems too trivial for it. That way, if your problem grows into something that actually needs it, you already have it in a suitable database and the code to deal with that.
Truth is that the world economy relies more on linux-based systems than anything else, even in microsoft’s own datacenters
No Piketty? Come on now. You don't have to agree with it, but it was a big part of the "conversation" about inequality in the 2010s.
The VW ID 3 is not coming to the US, has a 45kWh battery, 50kW charging, and 50 mile shorter range for $33,180. So both in terms of specs and availability it’s still significantly behind the Model 3.

Size wise it’s about 17 inches (429mm) shorter, which may not be a bad thing. However, it shows they are making real sacrifices to hit that price point.
Curious which German made Diesel cars costs 20.000 € or less. I get the impression from Germans that EVs are not a good solution to replace diesel. Perhaps there just isn't motivation of the populas behind the techonology. Which could be blamed on the lack of infrastructure to support charging. Also in the United States a lot of people have garages that they can install charging stations in. I wonder what the percentage of Germans who have a private garage is.
DNA analysis revealed the identity of 19th century “Connecticut vampire”
That is too simplistic. Ever heard of

[1} https://duckduckgo.com/?q=shadow+profiles

?

Except of hiding in some deep hole there is no real escaping them. Maybe in Amish County, or somewhere far off-grid. But otherwise not really.
Now We Are Baking – Graphics
Do you have a source for this? I can't find any mention of it in the linked article.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=emb_title&v=iBpolaB4DqA
Nowhere. With Freelancing/consulting, you're just playing -their- office politics rather than your own. There is no place in society that allows you to avoid developing interpersonal skills.
This is full of weird examples. I take it it’s more useful for emulations than for use in any production environment.

> Calling methods on a JavaScript class from Python code...

This feels like an incomplete solution to a nonexistent problem.

JavaScript and Python can communicate however you want them to over a Unix or IP socket, which will ALWAYS be much lighter weight than running layered interpreters this way. All you need to do is determine a communication protocol and implement a basic API. Send a command, wait, and listen for a result.

> Wrapping a JavaScript function in a Python function...

There are other ways to skin that cat. And most of them are better.
There's a good Planet Money episode that explains how surprisingly it is still a partisan issue. The Republican argument, at least from certain prominent people in the party, is that if paying taxes gets too easy the average American will be less likely to push their representatives to lower taxes or to oppose new taxes that get proposed.
No, based off of their hardware requirements. See here.
https://rhasspy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/hardware/
Not all business is happening on the server side. A lot of business happens at the workstation where the tools are Outlook, Excel and Word.