skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 2. It is much harder to focus and succeed when you're trying to push yourself down a path you think is probably fruitless.

This is actually the big one. Validation that they are making progress allows people to go back to banging on a problem.

If one of my senior engineers claims to be stuck on some technical problems and comes to me asking for extra technical advice, we're probably going to spend some time digging at things. That's the realm of sounding board.

However, I may have given an assignment to an intern specifically so that they will go learn something that I think they need to learn by working it out. If they come to me, I'll give them some limited advice, validate their progress to this point, but I'm probably going to send them back and tell them to bang their head on it some more. One of the lessons junior engineers need to learn is "Sometimes the senior guys don't actually know the answer and part of your work is actually figuring it out."

And sometimes the task really is just a slog. Too many junior engineers think everything can be made "easy and quick" like a textbook question. However, if someone is slogging via brute force and comes to me I'll look at it and say something like: "Yup, you seem to be going the right way. And it looks like you're about 10% done. Keep going."

The validation that they're not going down a blind path is the most important thing.
Advertising can lower the cost per item, if there was a large startup cost and marginal costs are small. More importantly, facebook ads have caused me to buy more things because the ads showed me things that I thought were useful that I otherwise wouldn't have known about. Honestly, I feel like maybe I should be paying to see FBs ads sometimes.
The grey squirrels are an invasive species; even in wild parts of Scotland you'll see them far more often than the native red squirrels.
For anyone learning Python, experienced or not, Python For Beginners at python.org points to tutorials and docs appropriate for either profile. These are, of course, not-a-books.

https://www.python.org/about/gettingstarted/
Ill take it over unaccountable private action, at least there is a chance of influencing government policy.

Good luck influencing Google or Facebook's policy.
Still better than actually using a fire stick directly. At least the UI latency on the phone is bearable. My, admitedly old, fire sticks have input latency measurable in seconds.

The firestick remote replacement app (because I can't ever find the actual remote) is also a joke: it disconnects all the time, fails to reconnect and it is generally not very usable.
I read the deadliness is kept secret (at least in Germany) since they want to avoid using it as suicide pills.
I'm not arguing that the data is inferior (because it's definitely not, the sourcing is properly done like you mentioned), just that any large import of so many data items (whether it is about streets, academic papers or people) will first need to be discussed with the community. Also, Wikidata always refers to existing sources, and this website is just that: an excellent source for future reference on items.
At least in Madrid they are not uncommon even in city parks; and there are plenty at the sierra.
Oh snap. Wanted to write "could not agree more"
> There's no "next platform"

I beg to differ. Its sort of like watching old scifi movies and people go into the "future"... where there are no cellphones.

Just off the top of my head:

- ar and vr are not really solved

- look at ctrl labs (bought by facebook, unfortunately) where they can decode neural impulses in your forearm with a wristband

- look at Elon Musk's Neuralink where direct brain i/o is being developed
> It buffers frames, and delivers those frames whenever requested.

Going by the article they use a plain android thread that runs at fixed 15ms intervals and buffers exactly one frame in advance. For 30 fps this is more often than needed (yay battery life) and for 60 fps that just asks for trouble when your OS doesn't guarantee real time behavior.

> Ninja supplies an endpoint, and it's the hardware that calls it?

As far as I understand it provides a cross platform endpoint, called by a platform specific wrapper. In the Android case this was a background worker and Android considered background workers not real time critical.
Brexit happened on 31.01.2020.
€ 899 is absurdly expensive for this device. As much as I'd love to play with non-intrusive "low-dynamic" displays, this is just too expensive.

https://www.visionect.com/product/place-and-play-13/
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You are describing video games.
Especially social philosophers like Rousseau, Marx, and various ideologues created a lot of social power structures.

Things like separation of powers. Humanist philosophers have influenced the way we see the role of the individual vs a member of a collective and so on.
It costs money to build protections for customer data now?

Oh I'm sure the service providers took information security very seriously as they proclaimed to. In which case, GDPR is only a legal framework they had no trouble (and serious expenses) to adhere to.
Because we write code primarily to communicate and the words we use to name things has a high impact on that communication.
The GDPR isn't an "online" law.

It applies to processing personal data whether it's online or stored on scraps of paper in a filing cabinet.
That's a clever move, because pedos and traffickers are the main hodlers.
> Based on MAQ stats, devices from Apple & Google are suitable for live audio use, and devices from other manufacturers generally are likely to have glitchiness and latency that makes them unsuitable.

Seems to be more of an issue with manufacturers than a specific issue with Android as Google's own phones get low latancies.
Same here - I like working with XCode because the native UI!
We are bothered by deforestation and diminishing biodiversity yet we fail to put monetary value on rainforests. Let's make Brazil one of the richest countries in the world for what they have and they will make sure not a single tree is ever cut down.

Ecuador was asking for $3.6B so they could afford not to dig out their oil and save one of the richest ecosystems in the World. The World pledged just $200M. It's a sad lesson:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasun%C3%AD-ITT_Initiative
Yeah, Xcode has some annoying bugs occasionally but in terms of UX, it's miles ahead of anything else I've used.
Yes. I get my carbs from vegetables like broccoli, cabbage, carrot, tomato, and kale.

Fruits like banana, apples and clementine appears to be fine.

The highest glucose I measured was after a parsimon.

I tested potatoes as a part of a meal, and it gave a small and short elevation.

I tried rice twice and it gave a high but short elevation.

Sequencing also appears to be important. Start the meal with fat and protein and finish with carbs. The French desert is a good idea. Bread as an appetiser at restaurants is a bad idea.
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Is it not guaranteed? Looking at this question [1] on StackOverflow and the quotes from the standard included in the question, it seems that the value should be preserved.

(It raises the issue of whether (char※)iq should technically be (char※)(void※)iq if this were C code, but the (void※) cast can be inserted without changing anything about the problems discussed in the article.)

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/q/34291377
Oh no, just stop doing this EU!
Quick simple question for you. What does the TV testing landscape look like at a Netflix? Is it hundreds of various TVs in a room on a variety of networks or am I imagining too much here?
It was relevant for the joke.
AAudio is supposed to overcome that, although I never used, only care about graphics stuff.

Isn't that the case in your experience?
Losing the EU-skeptic members could in the end be a good thing for the EU.
I think if someone wrote the GDPR is a net negative, that's actually a good sign in that it implies some actual consideration and weighing up of the advantages and disadvantages.

I agree with your overall point though. It does make it very easy to spot who's just repeating someone else's opinion.
Robots encourage greater risk taking
The law applies to any service provided to any EU citizen, even abroad. (That's why geofencing does not make GDPR 'go away'.)
In particular you cannot provide an internal SLA on write requests to low-level storage solutions if you can't guarantee that you actually have the spare disks.

The SLA would have to be something like "we guarantee 99.999% write availability unless team A or team B or team C makes a mistake", so now you have to look up what team A and B and C are up to and what do they guarantee. Instead of the more sensible "we guarantee 99.999% write availability unless you are out of quota".
Is this not legal? I would have thought this would be illegal if they republished their content, but if they use it to train an ML system is this not transformative? Google Books vs the Authors Guild seems to suggest so [1].

https://towardsdatascience.com/the-most-important-supreme-co...
500 miles of highway/autobahn/autostrada is definitely possible, i'd say even with 2020 tech. i fully expect a long-distance self-driving passenger van/minibus service in the next 5-10 years - get on on a park&ride close to a highway, get off in the morning 500 miles away in a park&ride, take taxi/uber/train to the city center.

even better if my own car could do that - it'd make road trips on vacation so much better.
Anyone serious about doing high quality apps will do native development on each platform.
Yes, absolutely! Sorry I didn't mean to imply there was rationalization at play in your case. I just made the mental link with doctors supporting one hypothesis thinking it all makes perfect sense, and then you find out actually the exact opposite is the actual solution, and it typically also makes perfect sense.
There were good reasons to make some changes but €10K isn't very high. My small one person business does that much in several EU countries and I know I'm far from alone in that.
Metal is a pleasure to work with, versus the "build your own API" experience of using Vulkan on Android.
As a person who develops a video player SDK on iOS, I can say that video processing is horribly undocumented, buggy, and randomly changes behavior depending on device and OS version. And Apple being Apple, you pretty much have no channel to report issues.
Time to clamp down on the embassies. Nowadays you can do most of it online anyhow.
> > The window to the internet

> This exact part of your comment is why big companies are fighting so hard to own and gatekeep web browsers.

Yes. And it goes even further, it's also why they're working hard to destroy the WWW, and have everybody silo-d into their app.

It's why on most social/media networks you can't really link to anything. Why they're dressing down the address bar so that people don't see (and learn about!) URLs any more. Or learn about their use, that they are one of the fundamental building blocks of what was the WWW.

Although there's more, they already burned some parts of the woods before attacking the WWW. Do you remember there was a time when almost all of the popular instant messaging protocols were supported in ONE (free, non-tracking, non-ad infested) app (and there was even a choice of such apps: Pidgin, Trillian, Miranda ..).

Some of them could even talk to each other. It's crazy to imagine, but ultimately even more crazy is that we don't have this any more!!

They won the instant messaging war, it was pretty silent in fact. Just wasn't as ingrained as the WWW used to be. They had to wean the users off slowly, which is exactly what they're doing right now.

The time is coming but not yet. If they could, they would completely do away with the browser and just have their own apps. All the browser represents to them is a liability; an opportunity to click away and leave their platform for another.
Sad and early death of a great mind :(
Dulcie September, shot dead in broad daylight on a Paris street back in 1988, on the orders of the apartheid-era South African government.

Fernando Pereira, murdered by the French DGSE when they bombed the Rainbow Warrior in Auckland in 1985.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dulcie_September#Death

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_the_Rainbow_Warrior
With freedom, humans can control for this by learning from it. They can see that cars don't necessarily get you women despite of what the ads say. This can also be indirect learning by someone pointing it out.

If you start making certain things illegal to say, you can use that against people. For example, given enough money for lawyers, you can sue people for saying that "these cars don't get you women" using the same anti-free speech regulations by finding holes and exceptions in them. History has shown that lawyers can pull this off.
I think the claim is that futurists lived to ruffle feathers and that their fascism is an example of this. Thus fascism is placed in the class of things that “ruffle feathers”.

Where is that an inaccurate interpretation?
No wonder Apple is lightyears ahead in A/V-land. At least with reliable OS and expected behaviour of hardware you don't need to worry about this.
As usual for Schneier, a thoughtful, complete, balanced article.

It will be hard to put guardrails on this stuff. It's pretty much 100% "gray area," easy to cast in many ways.
Seeing people refer to hard drives as "disks" bugs me as well, because they aren't by any stretch of the imagination diskettes.
The compile time guarantees could have been much better, especially around null pointers. Now they're hacking in non-nullability the same broken way they did it in Java. Same goes for a lot of things like switch / case statements requiring breaks but not supporting checks for covering all cases compile time.

In general it just feels like old Java spiced up with some Javascript niceties like Futures and a nice constructor syntax.

But you should've noticed that coming from Kotlin?

Why wouldn't they use Kotlin as most mobile developers are already used to it?
- "The real answer is that markets are efficient"

Like it efficiently chooses all hockeyplayers with birthdays in January to March? [0]

The real answer is people hire based on their biases and organisational restrictions more than they hire on objective metrics - and we have plenty of evidence for that.

0 - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relative_age_effect
Correct me if I'm wrong, I think that unlike some other markets (China and to some extent other Asian countries / Russia / etc) it's surprising how dependent the EU is on US corporations for digital services. As said the EU anti-monopolies chief Margrethe Vestager: "In the past few weeks we have all been fascinated by what is possible digitally. But the coronavirus showed how dependent we are on US corporations, and that was a wake-up call,".
PCIDSS is largely security theater as well, there are many many many problems with it.
I highly doubt it is even possible in any og those to produce something that would actually be releasable as a high-quality iOS app, rather than an embarrassing, ugly mess.
If you only target iOS for example it's a no brainer. There are use cases where you absolutely have to use it, those are currently Home Screen widgets and WatchOS Apps + complications. I would not be surprised if more SwiftUI-only use cases were progressively added.

SwiftUI is also cross-platform, in Apple ecosystem. That is, you can develop all of your components and have them work on iOS and macOS. Then glue them together with platform specific main view.

SwiftUI will also always have all of the native features whereas cross-platform tools always lag behind. This is important for smaller developers as releasing before others can be what makes or breaks your app's success.
Voluntarily feature creep. Instead of writing simpler one-off projects, try to keep plugging at the same project for a longer time and expand the product in ways you couldn't have guessed at the beginning. You have to learn how to write maintainable code and plan ahead.
That ferry is cool! Last time I was on it, there was a gang of bikers on board, returning from their Eurotrip. Then there's all the lorry drivers drinking lager in the bar. They wake you up at 6 am with a cheesy chime to sell you their overpriced breakfasts, though.
The Android Aaudio API is newer than the device in question.

The previous options are either SLES or AudioDriver, both of which are bad in their own ways.
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> I think if someone wrote the GDPR is a net negative, that's actually a good sign in that it implies some actual consideration and weighing up of the advantages and disadvantages.

Then you're much more of an optimist than me. In most cases, I ask them why (to see if there's valid criticism I'm not aware of), and invariably I get back a mix of reactionary "government bad" or supercapitalist "my company shouldn't have to care about people!"

I still haven't heard a good argument for why it's a net negative (though there's certainly good criticism of some aspects, but I still think it's a net positive by far).
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The attack you describe is plausible but very visible (your backdoor code will be visible on the package manager and generally not easy to take down). I doubt it's the kind of thing that is likely to be used as part of this kind of attack, which wants to remain invisible for as long as possible.
My understanding - as someone who knows nothing but just read tweets - is that hiring strongly prefers on-site, whereas tenured employees are usually able to negotiate remote work.
I think it depends highly on the company's size and structure. There is a quite interesting article about how to use Agile in DS: https://towardsdatascience.com/applying-agile-methodology-to...

For us it was powerful to use certain Agile principles, e.g. splitting the work into weekly "sprints". The goal of the initial sprints is the development of the baseline model. In further milestones, we develop more sophisticated models. At each step, we measure metrics values and compare them with the baseline. It helps us to monitor the progress. After a few iterations, it's often easy to understand at what point you are now and how much time is needed to gain the required metrics.
There's clearly potential for pointer aliasing in the program, isn't that UB?
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The Turbo Encabulator (video, 1944)
That's a very good question though. It allows assesing how other people approach problem solving, how they think and how they communicate. A question like this will often tell you more about a candidate than seeing them invert a binary tree.
Actually I think there are some good reasons not to engage in it. You certainly don't want to get into a tit for tat situation. Nor do you want to provoke the host country so much that they start piling on sanctions.
A substantial part of the global sugarcane crop is used to make ethanol for fuel. The world's biggest producer, Brazil, uses the majority of its crop for ethanol. (65% as of 2019, the most recent number I could find [0]).

Wikipedia's "Sugarcane" article quotes a 2005 source to claim "solar energy-to-ethanol conversion efficiency is 0.13%". It might be slightly better now, but it's not going to match the 20% or more of a modern photovoltaic system, which could be used to power electric vehicles instead (an ideal use of solar energy, because electric vehicles need batteries anyway so there's no base load problem).

[0] https://www.reuters.com/article/cofco-sugar-ethanol/cofco-ex...
Excellent idea (and great name). Best of luck!
I think the practical question is, how do you know when you buy carbon offsets that you are really offsetting carbon? There's an awful lot of scope for fakery out there.
Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turboencabulator
> On Windows you often need either a prohibitively expensive software suite or go on an ad infested crapware hunt resulting in a borderline unusable tool.

For basic audio/video stuff on Windows, try http://avidemux.sourceforge.net/
Peruse the incomplete list here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assassinations

>but we’d really see a true shift in power when the mafia does it in broad daylight similar to the Khashoggi situation.

Why is this interesting? I personally find the assassinations of Fred Hampton and Huey Newton far more interesting.

Also, the alleged David Kelly and Jeffrey Epstein are curious since they were officially rules as suicide but many people don't believe that line.
My meals without slow carbs usually had a "rounded" elevation that last for about 1 hour and converges do my baseline after about 3 hours.

I never tried only carbs/fruits in a meal. I always add fat and some protein. I should try it for my next experiment.

The glucose response also appears to be affected by physical activity before or after a meal. You can "walk-off" a heavy meal.
I also find type narrowing extremely useful for error handling: you can use Union[Exception, T] as the result type, and ‘pattern match’ with isinstance, which works in runtime and statically checkable by mypy.

In addition, covariant Union type allows using it with generators (i.e. yield Exception("some error"), and consuming without extra boilerplate. I write more about it here: https://beepb00p.xyz/mypy-error-handling.html#coderef-simple...
> that's almost 400 billion dollars

Great, that's about 2 thirds of the yearly US defense budget! You have the workforce, the discipline, and as a bonus the defense industry can be repurposed for building rails and trains. Once the transition is achieved, you can build such a line every year at no added cost to the taxpayer.

(I know, that's completely unrealistic... it shows the priorities of the US government...)
I dont read that many books but I try to put effort in the decision of what not to read: if a book does not interest me, I drop it.
How about - don't.

Instead measure business impact. Don't only focus on quantitative measures, look at the qualitative behaviors as well.
And what kind of interface do your app have? I'd guess a graphical one or some network endpoints.

You should not test code. You should test functionalities.

You should be able to rewrite all your app in a new language and still be confident your tests will tell you if something broke. "Unit testing" at the class level won't do that.
I agree, it's expensive if you compare the price to an LCD. But as this is e-paper technology with completely different use cases, the manufacturing costs are still high. Keep in mind that, currently, e-paper is not a substitute for classic LCD panels.

Where e-paper shines for me is very low battery consumption. For example, the mentioned device can hold up to 6 months without a single battery recharge and is completely wireless.
So if the test is red, it verifies that the users assumptions were wrong first, right? ;)
Denver was superseded by the Carmel architecture. (which is sold on Tegra Xavier today)

The NVIDIA CPU team is alive and well.
Whats even the point of becoming a Google or Apple if then some clueless bureaucrat gets to tell you what you are allowed to do with your market position? Nobody is stopping other companies to build their own Android or iPhone, its working as intended, no reason to do anything.
Apparently, they've also "suspended" 2/3 of user-uploaded content as well[0].

As for being blocked by Visa/MC, I don't frequent PornHub, so I don't understand what folks would be paying for. Storage space? "Premium" content (if that, what is that?)?

[0] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/12/pornhub-purges-a...
confirmation.
These dark patterns are explicitly non-compliant under GDPR.

There are already precedents of large fines for similar bullshit.

It just takes a very long time, but when doing business in the EU, following the letter of these regulations won't be enough.