skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
no, it's just like lcd, but using the sunlight/room light and immediatley reflecting it, rather than using artifical backround light
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I talked to an Uber employee once about a "Zoolander mode" project for drivers so that it only turns right and cannot turn left. The code was pretty simple if you've ever written a maze-solving algorithm.
(Hint: What happens if you follow either side of wall for the entire maze?)

In theory, this would be useful for truck drivers or prioritizing passenger pickup locations.

But now, I use it as an example of overengineering and overoptimization.

In practice, the main concern should be reducing cognitive load on the driver. Additional instructions, rules that can be potentially broken, inconsistencies in logic, all of it poses a substantial risk.
I like the idea a lot, and the interface is very easy to use. However, I entered a Neil Gaiman Sandman book in my first four, and it showed me another Neil Gaiman book, which seems odd? But then again I didn't recognize it, so maybe the statistics really do point that way. But excluding books by the same authors you've entered might make sense.
Based on the quality of MusicBrainz [1], I thought that BookBrainz [2] could be a good alternative, but unfortunately it looks rather incomplete.

[1] https://musicbrainz.org
[2] https://bookbrainz.org/
That’s why he said “mathematically speaking”
And - to go further still - Orwell, Huxley (and perhaps Zamyatin) fulfil the 'Goldstein' role, IRL.
> There is no such variance and new fashions in compilers every year.

Indeed. Packrat is exactly an example of passing fad in parsing. I find it telling that you, an "optimizations expert" are so worried about ways to parse. Shows that "new fashions every year" have reached the compiler industry too.
How many is a lot? What is your source?
Aren't smartphones banned before high school?
Some, but most would not since I assume that would be a felony.
Version control support in FreeCAD
(The author’s name is Amos, not Steve.)
Excellent article. Thanks for sharing.
Beware “Amazon's Choice”
>you should get the loading equipment from UPs

I work at UPS. We hand-load and unload everything. The loading equipment is a guy. If there is palletized volume then once it gets to the hub the pallet is broken down. When a trailer is being unloaded a worker is physically inside the trailer grabbing each and every individual package and placing them on a conveyor belt that takes the package to be sorted. Irregular packages (exceptional size, weight) are pushed out of the trailer and then loaded onto another, larger belt. This process may differ at other facilities, but that’s how it works in Raleigh, NC.
When did TI capture the education market?
I’ve never had any direct experience with Pascal (though I remember my dad telling me a story of an assignment he had in college to write a queue of queues in Pascal).

From the perspective of the Alan Perlis quote “A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing,” is it worth it for me to give FreePascal a try? Or if I have experience in other procedural languages have I pretty much seen what it has to offer already?
What is there to explain? The decision to deprecate it harmed blind individuals. It's wrong to harm people, even by inaction, especially when you are a multi-billion (sometimes trillion) dollar quasi-monopolist...
This can get tricky in places where there are many plate designs. Some US states such as Georgia, reuse the same number on multiple plates. They're distinguished by the plate design. Those can be difficult enough for a human reviewers to distinguish, can't imagine software will have an easier time of it. Then throw in plates from other states, things get even messier. And though license plate frames aren't suppose to block any relevant information on a license plate, they often do.
Well, it likely already almost have.
That's called selling on the dark web, and it's at least vaguely mercenary, IMO
If you sell on eBay, Paypal is heavily integrated, to the point I'm not sure you can complete a transaction without it.
Network effect: visualizing AI connections in the natural sciences
What happens when the ubiquity of the dollar is combined with a globalized world? It seems like it will take the combination of failure in the dollar + abandonment of globalization by world powers for a shift to deflationary reserves to occur. Regardless, the only loser is the poor and middle class. The wealthy will have enough Bitcoin and gold.
Seems more like they're trying to get abandoned accounts down to $0 in their wallets so they can cancel all the abandoned accounts wasting space on their server than actually trying to charge people a fee for something.
I mean, my wife is a nurse in an ICU that has had to triple capacity in the last 6 weeks and still has less than 15% capacity remaining, so, yeah, I'd imagine I'd have some inkling.
When stock brokers were charging commissions this was their model too.

They would take the user profile of most of the users that gravitated to their specific sales pitch, and make a commission structure that worked for them and let that subsidize the outliers that traded different products like high volumes of sub-penny stocks. (There are some fixed costs to stock and options trading, which are now subsidized by selling data instead of charging commissions)
University math - usually not, university physics - usually yes.
If all that’s changing on a site is the presentation/ordering of elements, then you just need to update some XPath selectors every now and then and have a notification system for knowing when those selectors aren’t working.

You can even automate this process by having a known input (eg, URL to a book on goodreads + its known [and hopefully unchanging] book title) and have a script that periodically checks that the xpath string matches the known pages text / generates a new one to point to the title. This is harder for values that do change but there are always workarounds
He’s really not.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/unsecured-mongodb-databases-ex...

You’d think that basic critical thinking would keep anyone from putting their name on this story.
MicroStrategy's Bitcoin Debt Bet
I don't know about paypal.
You buy ISBNs in blocks or individual numbers, and then submit whatever data you want.

There's very little control. E.g I just published a novel,and Amazon did not in any way validate that the ISBN I have them actually belonged to me - I had not yet registered the book data, so what I told them would not have matched anything they might have looked up.

In this case, based on the reviews on Amazon, it looks like someone changed the description of an existing product, and that the ISBN probably actually belongs to a book.
Lots of people call stuff they dont like "delusional belief systems" while ignoring the truths, even if nuggets, behind those systems...
> I'm pretty sure we refunded every one.

That's good to know. It seems like a particularly visible part of the cloud credibility puzzle to be able to monitor/limit dynamic resource costs.
>You forget one closing tag and everything fails.

That's not really a problem with augmented editors and software testing frameworks. It even "lints" your code/html -- documents must be well formed.
Is pattern matching a generalization of if/then/else, a reframing of it, or something else entirely?
> If you have an iphone, ...

and iOS 13+ :-/
I'm not clear what your position is, but what does it say about one, in one can only see the tyranny in a book but not be able to see it in real life?
Not just you, gives me the same error :(
And “or else” has long been perfectly normal (“if a then do b, or else do c”).

See also “elsewise”, equivalent to “otherwise”; use in this construct “if a, b; elsewise, c” is a good deal rarer.

I would commonly speak sentences like “I was not hungry; else would I have eaten it” among family and friends, but not typically among the general public. It definitely feels a tad archaic, or at least highfalutin.
Interesting idea.

Assuming this is still under development, I thought my experience might be of use.

I input The Three-Body Problem (Cixin), Sapiens (Harari), Leonardo da Vinci (Isaacson), For Whom the Bell Tolls (Hemingway), Bluebeard (Vonnegut), and On the Shortness of Life (Seneca) and received in return...children's books!

Age-gating the recommendations might be something to look into.
If you are a maskist, cheering on the vaccine, demanding everyone take it, isn't it the most extreme hybris to then point at 1984 as an example of a warning against a dystopian future? At what point do you respond to the warning? (I know the answer - never!)

Submitting to rule with the promise of freedom as bait (freedom that the rulers took at away!) is a strategy for fools.
> Good error recovery / line blaming is still an active field of development.

True. But let's get terminology straight: that's not a compiler science, that's parsing science. And it's no more compiler science than parsing a natural language is.
A lot more. Maybe they could be made similarly concise with more libraries, but the fact is that APL/J have the array as their native unit, and all of the functions in the example are from its base or core. NumPy and Pandas are the progeny of APL/J. GPUs became the "vector/matrix processing" machines that APL and J were looking for decades ago for the perfect match. For me, I study APL/J because they are like math. You learn the symbols, and now you can abstract your thoughts into a program the same way you can convey it in mathematical symbols - succinctly. The speeds are not performant, but allow for quickly learning or experiementing before optimizing. Interpreted APL code can run as fast as C, but in this paper they stay away from using functions that are not vanilla APL. I have been reading books on neural networks since the late 80s, but I have never fully owned or grasped some concepts until I see them succinctly and not buried in pages of a book or hundreds/thousands of lines of code. To me it is yoga for the mind!
But isn't Google so profitable they can afford to lose money offering unlimited storage because that way they will attract more users than competing services.
BBC Basic II does have ELSE, it just has to go on one line.

IF A=4 THEN PRINT "FOUR" ELSE PRINT "NOT FOUR"

Statements for the IF block and the ELSE block can be separated by ':'.

I was recently given a BBC Micro and it's a fascinatingly impressive machine, the hardware and software are so beautifully designed in tandem that it's quite awesome even in 2020.
I love reading these old manuals; so many of them had hand-written symbols (eg ->) that couldn't be expressed by whatever typesetting system they used at the time.
Reevaluating Children's Role in the Pandemic
I am currently writing a parser using combinator. How can I reach you to learn what is the proper method to use on each case?
It was a joke considering it is point-and-click, but the size difference was the real reason that came to mind.
Riiiight. And the poor often have a lot of choice compared to their relatively wealthier counterparts. Check your privilege dude.
Fairly unethical, though their rationale is probably something like 'hey everyone else is doing it!'

My state has a law where it account goes dormant for a long time, the balance is turned over to the state. The state sees this as revenue, but an individual can submit a claim online and recieve it for no fee, up to 10 years I think.
This isn't about "wasting space on their server", it's about confiscating money left in those accounts. It's illegal for them to just take it, because it's not theirs.
English became the dominant language only in the 20th century. I think it's more linked to the US Grand Area than the British Empire.

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29543708
I thought of that also, but don't know really any social networks where users pay to be a member? And I don't see a growth potential if users have to pay, especially if you want users from Africa or India.

That is why I think Scribd has a chance, users pay for book rentals, yet they are also part of the social network.
I am working on a similar project, but I'm currently puzzling around prying the firmware apart.

The article casually mentions

> After decompiling the Kasa app

How does one do that ?

I can get to the ARM dissasembly, but my disassemby reading skills are a bit poor. Is there an ARM decompiler I could use, that gives me some sort of C-like code?
I found the Radare project, but I'm a bit stuck there.
I see it as a cross between a switch and if statement. You’re saying based on what `x` is (a switch), do these things that a switch can’t do (an if).
Tesla aggressively tracks your car’s movements and your driving style.

The have publicly discussed their plans to monetize that data.
> “... one common word which does seem to have been invented by the software industry: "access" as a verb”

Really? That’s surprising because the French and Spanish equivalent verb (accéder / acceder) is common and has multiple meanings such as “reaching a peak”. I would have imagined this word transferred over in the Norman days.
I remember first coming across "for"; the ... parsing of it in my brain I don't think ever did make it. I had to just accept it for what it was.
Why software ends up complex
Goodreads is complete garbage, they can't even sort a list of ratings properly.
Yeah, the Python csv package hasn't had problems for me yet.

One unfortunate bug that they seem to have put onto the 'wont-fix' pile is that for many recent-ish books, the 'date read' field isn't properly exported, so if you try to make reading stats you have to cheat a bit by approximating the 'finished date' with the 'book added' date.
You can still cheat with the programming ones by making cheat sheet programs.
I made a tool[1] a year ago to export Goodreads reviews into markdown and synced it Dropbox.
Wanted to have two way sync, but I guess not anymore.

[1] - https://borges.ai
Can anyone recommend a Goodreads alternative?
Storing the second factor in the same password manager as the password is a lot like having a post-it with the password on your desk: it's practical, but defeats the purpose.

But to add to this, I wouldn't ever set up a 2FA on a service that doesn't allow multiple second factors, and mostly static backup codes. Having only one (ie. device) is a much higher risk, of being locked out, than having the password stolen.
The organization and data which is in that takeout is a complete mess of years of design changes from picasa -> photos, empty folders, duplicate date folders, hidden old crap from your Google+ account (like banner pics) which you can't see anymore to delete, just stuff everywhere inside those zip files. $0.02 if you ever have to actually deal with them, add time to first normalize what you unzip.
>PayPal is the main reason I'm not positive on Elon Musk's history... they've been "known bad" for many years, including when he was there. He started his fortune from building a company that knowingly scams people. :(

There's plenty of possible things to criticize him for, but this seems like a weird one. PayPal was started by Confinity. He founded X.com in 99ish and they merged like a year after, but then he got the boot as CEO in a matter of, months? Weeks? Don't remember why, but while he still owned a ton of stock he was out in management. Then Ebay bought it all in like 2002. 20 years after his departure, itself before he had any real chance to make a mark, and 18 years after being bought, seems like a bit of a stretch to hold that of all things against him?

Edit: also man what a crazy time, I mean it was obviously crazy even at the moment but still thinking back on the timelines it's still wild.
Reminds me of my experience with Skrill (Moneybookers).

Skrill charged me €50/month inactivity fee (€600/year), after 6 months of inactivity, without notifying about changing of terms and conditions or any warning that my account is inactive.

The only email they sent was that they were introducing a
change to the terms and conditions about charging €1/month after 12 months.

PayPal's €10/year inactivity fee after 12 months is reasonable, especially if they warn users in advance. However, this is one of their "boiling-the-frog" tactics, and I'm sure these fees will significantly increase in the future.
Suppose you have to fit a fairly non-linear curve to make interpolated predictions. A NN could do that with fewer parameters than most other models.

I can't think of a method that would use fewer parameters. If nothing else, it's a decent way to compress the data set for interpolation (on nearby averages) as a use case, no?
True!

A point could be made for restricting ifs to 1 or 2 clauses and delegating more complex conditions to switch/case, but that is arguably even more far out there (and in case of Python it actually doesn’t have the switch operator). Also, “if not X {…} if not {…}” would be confusing but possible.

I guess I should leave language design to the better-equipped for the time being.
It does not even register as “archaic” to me.

Methinks it's rather ordinary.
Things don’t need to change constantly. If it works it must be left as it is.
Aren't you just subscribing to the geopolitical bubble now? Is there a way to add quilting, farming, and spelunking?

Tongue in cheek, but I bring this up to point out that while it might be good to expand one's knowledge, it can become a virtue. When that happens, we're all condemned because it'll never be broad enough.
Complete recovery.
Tripling capacity in flu season, after having cleared out the hospitals and cancelled all the operations in previous months, doesn't say anything to me.

We are living in a clown show. If this was real, we would see bodies on the streets, and the government would be fighting to keep businesses open. We don't and its not. This is just the first stage to a transition of a new economic paradigm - technocracy - where there are no small businesses, everything and everyone is tracked and traced, were we will own nothing, and be completely dependent on government/corporations/military. And most people are cheering this on.

Shout some more hate at Goldstein!!
I thought they had added support normal TOTP now but if not you can probably still use the old method of generating a Symantec VIP style ID which has allowed you to use any TOTP app with paypal for years.
Isn’t that already the case? Twitter basically muting the president?
Facebook influencing people?
Not trolling and absolutely serious. I've spent a lifetime exploring the world through the lens of music and I'm an admirer of the field of ethnology. Such studies have been highly useful to how I view the importance of music in society, aside from being entertainment it bonds communities and the study of it sheds fascinating light as to our cultures and ways.
Transflective screens require very little power. You do not want to have to deal with having to recharge or swap the battery every few days!
"PayPal says it will consider the account to be inactive if the user hasn’t sent, received or withdrawn money, or logged in for a year or more. Importantly, that means users can avoid the fee simply by logging in."
What Trump has going for him, is picking up issues that need to be addressed, that have gone been neglected in a fast-evolving world, leading to unfairness. However, how these issues are treated and how people are treated, is important in a democracy.

https://theconversation.com/why-hard-core-trump-supporters-i...

If he's such a great leader and not just an opportunist populist, why do he need to instill a fear-culture where everybody who doesn't lick his boots get fired. People appointed by the same leader dare not speak up their own opinions. This isn't democracy. What type of leader do this? Hint: Communist leaders like Stalin, and fascist leaders like Mussolini.

If you're unable to spot a liar yourself, it is not too hard to form your own opinion on this:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/06/23/opinion/trump...

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-complete-listing-so-...

https://www.dailywire.com/news/trumps-101-lies-hank-berrien

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=trump+lies+list

Fortunately, a majority of the population see right through the lack of leadership and lies for what they truly are. The means are as important as the ends, and the ends are often obscured and full of misdirection, more like PR campaigns than anything of real and lasting value.
> Remember: "May you live in interesting times" is a Chinese curse. There's a downside to being interesting.

Another (possibly better) saying to illustrate the downside might be "The nail that sticks out gets hammered."
Thanks! Asking for a friend who wants to learn to code. I’ve learned a bunch of languages but python isn’t one I know well which is a shame if I’m gonna help him!
PayPal 2FA via OTP has apparently been available for at least 6 months
If you would like to learn more about that, you would have to extrapolate as all "net worth" estimators cannot account for all sources of wealth and are complete guesses.

Pensioners are living for 30+ years these days.

Index funds, real estate held for 30-60 years, an inch of entrepreneurial effort to make any of those properties cash flow, maybe a couple actual wins.

It's not that improbable. The only problem is that people want to do all that before they are a 70, not when they are 90.

When you walk through a city, like Toronto which this article was about, and see any block, or apartment building, remember that there is an actual human that actually owns that. Each and every one. Even in the run down parts of town, all that stuff has a book value of at least $1 million and is liquid enough to borrow against at the lowest interest rates for further investment. Start counting.

It is a lot. As in, not rare. Not exceptional. Not the same as common, or most. A lot.

It should be evident enough for you not to need a dissertation to modify your worldview.
The co-authors of the ENIAC paper are Haskell Curry [0] and Willa Wyatt. Curry is well known. Wyatt (Willa Wyatt Sigmund), along with other women who worked on ENIAC, is remembered here [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haskell_Curry
[1] http://athena.union.edu/~hemmendd/Courses/cs80/eniac-women.p...
Am I the only one getting a 403 on the XHR POST?
So the article goes on to mention a few individual features of the language which are good features and would definitely be appreciated by those that have already seriously committed to learning and using it, but are pretty opaque to an outsider.

The real killer feature of Haskell is that it is the closest language to mathematics and makes reasoning mathematically much easier than even other functional languages.

Superficially, the syntax has more similarity to mathematical definitions and statements, the conventions (like single letter variables) are borrowed from mathematics and don't feel ugly or forced. Lack of side effects, composition, currying etc and other functional benefits much more neatly line up with how functions are treated in maths.

Ultimately it's still a programming language, and is used much more for traditional engineering or compsci applications than something like Maple or Mathematica would be in Mathematics research, but nonetheless the main draw of Haskell is that it will feel like a home away from home for mathematicians and not because of 5 features noted in this article.
The TIOBE index [1] can be used as a good guide for your question. Python would be the first choice. In my personal opinion, however, I would rather advise RUST, since many projects switch to this language.

[1] https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/
Honestly i say this not to be mean but to try and help, it sounds like you are not mentally well. There are many real threats to the well being of the masses enacted by various powerful people and groups but masks and vaccines are not one. they are just the best way we know how to deal with a virus that is killing thousands of people a day.