skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Uh, I'm out of my field so I'm not sure I can summarize it better than the article did, but I can try. They prove that the Riemann hypothesis is equivalent to a property of a specific operator, however they can't prove that property (that's it's self-adjoint under some inner product) since they don't know what the appropriate domain of the operator is. But the operator does do several things: first, it's classical version is what was expected. Secondly, they suggest an approach towards getting an inner product that would the operator self-adjoint. Lastly, the authors conclude "The fact that iH [the operator in question] is PT symmetric, with a broken PT symmetry, offers a fresh and optimistic outlook" which I don't understand well enough to add to.
That's interesting! As a former occult-type guy this was news to me. I can definitely see AC ribbing Waite over this endlessly.
You've picked poor examples.

NASA just gave up on making rockets and arguably going private is going well for them.

US military is quite famous for inefficiency. F35, B2, the 100 million dollar gas station in Iraq etc. Given the mess in the middle east, effectiveness is questionable as well.
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If there are examples you'd like to see written up, I'd be interested in helping out.

I used to try complicated examples, which led to pages such as http://taeric.github.io/Sudoku.html. I'm now much more into writeups such as http://www.howardism.org/Technical/Emacs/literate-devops.htm.... (Note, I did not write the second one.)
Is this another attempt at contributing to the discussion by being "humorous"? Trying to be funny while attempting to explain the joke, and failing at both, should be sending a clear signal.

We get it. Math has driven people nuts in the past. And others in that time period successfully joked solving those hard problems must be as easy as talking to the divine.
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I actual enjoyed this article and, more broadly, the subject of the governance of love. How much intrusion into our private (truly private) lives is enough? Are relationships, to a point, meant to be held in the public eye or can they be private? Granted, I'm a bit paranoid and pretty private. I've had a Facebook account in the past, but only used it to poke fun at people, but didn't care for the inevitable drama that followed (turns out, when you have a laugh at someone's outlandish political views face to face, you'll be fine but online, with those same friends, they view that interaction completely different). Obviously, by this small sampling of my personal self, I don't think highly of a governmental intrusion into personal relationships, but I'm pragmatic enough to understand their documentation and categorization. So I ask you this, HN. How much governmental intrusion into our private lives in enough? Also, how much intrusion into our personal lives do you think a semi-connected group of peers (our Facebook "friends") should get?
Filled out, really interested to read the results if you publish them!
Chrome and Firefox support BroadcastChannel

https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2016/09/broadcastc...

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/BroadcastCh...
> This isn't wikipedia.

The norm that the person making claim bears the burden of persuasion in supporting that claim with appropriate evidence and/or reasoning (citations being a means of referencing pre-existing examples of the former) existed for centuries before Wikipedia.
sytse is very active on HN whenever GitLab comes up, but not at all active on this thread.

That's almost certainly wise on his part. I know I endeavor never to discuss (someone other than my personal) employment issues publicly, for myriad legal and ethical reasons.
How do they track position? I know that (eg) GPS and Bluetooth don't work under water (or at least their range is so bad that they aren't useful). Seems like an interesting problem!
you look mad friendly dude! http://www.stockcontrollerapp.com/img/simon.png
Agreed. I have no idea how order works and I don't have a clue how setting order: 1 in that part of the game did what it did.

Otherwise the game was a great way to ease in to grid.
Same here. It clicked when I saw the dolphin.
A bunch of us in the robot club are using Neato Botvac's and RasPi's. Significantly cheaper.
Doesn't most Oauth2 things work that way?

http://www.riskcompletefailure.com/2013/03/postmessage-oauth...
I am on the phone right now, but I can gladly post later a few links of commercial JVMs for microcontrollers.

There is a Java life beyond OpenJDK.

Unless you want to discuss PICs and then I give you reason.
Indeed. Most people don't know what is possible let alone what is easy / hard to develop.

The answer to everything in my previous workplace was "another excel sheet" when we had a proper Django application with relational integrity and data validation. Showing them that a few clicks on a web form was easier than what they were used to - copy pasting data from one web page, pasting it back into an excel, reformatting it and uploading it, followed by a ton of data validation errors.
> I don't understand the particulars of the spectrum of this operator that they have constructed, but I have heard others describe this approach as a simple reformulation of one hard problem in terms of another equally hard problem.

I don't know if it is something inherent in the RH, or just because it has received so much attention, but it seems to have a propensity for having equivalent formations in areas that do not have any obvious connection to it.

A couple examples:

• RH is equivalent to the assertion that for integers n >= 3, |log lcm(1,2,...,n) - n| < sqrt(n) log^2(n).

• For integers n >= 1, let s(n) = sum of divisors of n. E.g., s(6) = 1 + 2 + 3 + 6 = 12. Let H(n) = 1 + 1/2 + 1/3 + ... + 1/n. Then RH is equivalent to the assertion that s(n) <= H(n) + exp(H(n)) log(H(n)), with equality only at n = 1.

More at: http://mathoverflow.net/questions/39944/collection-of-equiva...
Huh, I always assumed Horlicks (and Complan) were health drinks. Because of the pervasive advertising I didn't even question this claim. Now I feel pretty stupid.
Or won't again in the future. I finally bailed on MS completely (at home only unfortunately) when 10 came out and telemetry was first reported. I let myself get too comfortable with Windows 7, and will not make that mistake again.

Now, for example, it feels great to happen to notice my harddrive spin up when I'm sitting idle at my desk, and relax knowing my OS is just doing what it's supposed to, not covertely spying on me or installing some crud I didn't ask for.
> US military is quite famous for inefficiency. F35, B2,

Those are private industry contracts.
So they are siding with a politician from Luxembourg to try to get fairness in accounting practices? That's an incredibly creative plot twist...
This is why native clients (real native clients, not browsers-in-cans) are so important: they enable one to be more secure against targeted attacks, and they enable many eyes to review code and hence make one more secure against untargeted attacks.

Frankly, given much of the history of successful Internet tools & protocols, I'd love to see some text-UI clients for ZeroNet.
Who wants to work on this with me? Let's make one for everyone.
In which a reporter falls in love with a fellow nerd she meets at a European hackerspace, maintains a long-distance relationship by messaging using showily bad file encryption, decides to move to Europe to cohabitate, and, lacking Facebook profiles to verify the relationship, relies on the testimony of friends and other anecdotal evidence sources, like hundreds of millions of other couples whose lives are imperfectly recorded by social networks.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, eat your heart out.
I assumed whiskey. That's like Indian national drink.
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Yes, if that's a sin, it's hardly a deadly one.
Although I've managed to neuter this crap, we really need a table which details all the data MS, Google, Apple, various Linux apps collect under the guise of 'usage data'. I'm willing to grant that most of this is not nefarious, but there should definitely be an opt-out. As the owner of the machine, I do not want my CPU cycles going towards this, or JS scripts that track me, etc.
Yup, the US, in San Francisco.

Hmm, I feel like my experience on US websites has ranged from "decent but not great" (https://www.irs.gov) to "basically terrible" (trying to sign up for a healthcare plan a while ago).

I do get the sense our government used to be much more competent overall, and I think it's an interesting question how we can get that back.
Cool service. Couple questions:

- Can I save things offline?

- Where did you license all those hand-drawn survival diagrams?
Not just CDN, there's benefits to rolling out SRI for lots of your third parties.

Your stripe js, scary ad networks js, front-end analytics companies. SRI is really neat and helps protect yourself from these many 3rd parties being pwned.
You sound like a really good parent. I wish My Dad had been like that
I'm probably missing something obvious, but... why don't the dolphins just chew their food better?
>I would imagine a better technique to be to leave the octopus legs for 10 minutes for lack of bloodflow to kill it.

Arms work even 1h after cutting off: http://moscow.sci-hub.cc/58b56284136af39dc0eaf7491b31d759/ha...
When asking people to fill out survey forms, it is probably best not to be anonymous.
Thanks. I was unaware of this particular term which was also a good keyword for google.

There is an alpha polyfill effort here. https://github.com/FremyCompany/css-grid-polyfill

Regarding speed, here's the author's take.

> I wouldn’t say this polyfill is slow by any measure, but your mileage may vary on mobile devices. My advice would be to use the polyfill only on tablets and desktops at the moment, after you have tested the compatibility and performance extensively on a representative number of devices.

Also, there are js layout libraries used with similar functionality, so one can expect that it is possible to implement this feature with the same efficiency.
One can run Windows virtual machine on a Linux host at near native GPU performance with PCI passthrough and KVM for gaming and then besides Windows registry use Iptables to block Microsoft Atlas telemetry. I use that setup for playing Windows PC games which are not yet available native on Linux.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PCI_passthrough_via_OVM...
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Sure there is, on a GUI toolkit I can always control at some level how those pixels are drawn, while on a browser I need to hope it does the right thing.

Also there is big performance impact, where piling up divs with CCS requires the right incantations, some browser version specific, for hardware acceleration to kick in.

And in any case, it is impossible to fully replicate the UX of the host platform.
Yes, I kind realized that reading the wikipedia article. "Holographic" effect as an illusion. :(

Any games were ever created with real holograms?
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Okay. It's a rude opener. I'll admit to that biasing my view. Starting a conversation with "your product is shit" sets a certain tone.

You're likely to get better service from me if you're polite. I don't feel badly about that.
r/truetruetruetruetruenews/ is pretty good though.
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Your relationship to the GitLab CEO is that of a peer, not of an employee. The power dynamic is entirely different.

Most stories of unfairly treated employees are never published, of course.
Except that when the third party changes that script you'll stop loading it. Unless they adopt strict versioning in their files you'll have to be careful.
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uiGradients 2.0 has a revamped UI
This still wouldnt be enough, because you could still target the unique mix of script/script versions some specific site has, and have a high chance of being accurate, or at least high enough for statistical purposes.
Author of crass here. That's interesting: if you have a specific case where the browser doesn't do what you'd expect, I'd love to see it in a Github issue!

https://github.com/mattbasta/crass/issues/new
I guess you think it's clever to imitate me or something? Anyways you clearly have nothing more to contribute. Microsoft wanted to give away Windows 10 "for free" but realized they'd be screwed money wise, so they loaded it up with advertising and telemetric crap to try and compensate. It's really that simple. I'm sorry I bothered engaging in the first place, and I certainly won't continue if you just imitate me with more inane bullshit in your reply.
A future clustering version of TimescaleDB will reinvent problems already solved by Cassandra, Riak, and similar databases, and the level of effort in doing so will be far greater than the level of effort needed to add data exploration and complex queries on top of cassandra in the first place (that is: clustering is the hard part, and had this team spent time to bolt the analytics logic onto cassandra similar to what FiloDB did, they'd have the best of both worlds already).

Wraparound vacuuming still sucks for high write workloads. I've been there. I've fought that problem in a high-write-throughput-no-delete-immutable-workload. I've seen it in person. You're still writing a lot of frozen txids to disk. Your slaves are still going to get the WAL command in a single-threaded WAL sender and fall behind in replication as that vacuum runs. You're still going to have pain trying to create an HA setup.
Hm, we should file an issue on $browser's $bugtracker requesting something like...I dunno, what should we call it...a "bookmarks" feature?
I was just joking to a new gamedev group I joined about this when we started discussing selling our game. Ugh. So ridiculous.
I've wondered about this myself. My thoughts always ended up deciding that what we need is a Mac equivalent of apt, which relies on the existing `installer`, as apt relies on dpkg.
The way I see it there is a bunch of people already doing the governments job, making free software, just give them the money. It's not a waste and it's easy to spot a terrible software project when all the development happens in the open vs. behind closed doors at DARPA or wherever.
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Yeah, but you can deal with that, if you know what you're doing. If you use Whonix, or roll your own Tor gateway, leaks around Tor aren't an issue. UDP is the hardest thing to deal with. I mean, with proper Tor/userland isolation, leaks don't happen. So all UDP just gets dropped. If you want UDP, you need to use OnionCat or tunnel a VPN through Tor.
What do you mean fr unit goes from 0 to 100 like percentage ?

my solution to level 21 was one 50px column, three columns taking equal share of remaining space, one 50px column.

grid-template-columns:50px 1fr 1fr 1fr 50px;
Do you have to pay for a windows license to do this?
Yes, that's about right. Since they control both sides of the link, they can manage the flow from higher up on the [software] stack. Basically, if the link is getting saturated, the distributed system simply throttles some requests upstream by diverting traffic from places that result in traffic over that link. (And of course this requires a very complex control plane, but doable, and with proper [secondary] controls it probably stays understandable, manageable, and doesn't go haywire when shit hits the fan.)
Yeah, don't pirate music/movies, kids, the artists need the money. Oops, turns out the record/movie companies weren't paying them in the first place.
I have been seeing this. It was bad before but for the last couple of years it has become sickening. They even make ads where they talk about doing actual scientific experiment and proving that it actually makes kid taller, stronger, sharper. They are basically selling it as a miracle food. I think the whole product and the marketing group should be banned and jailed for such ads. I'm sure there are a lot of people who are buying this instead of better/cheaper food and as a result is actually getting sub-optimal nutrition.

I feel these are as bad or even worse than medical bribes that makes doctor give excess meds (and the companies get fined billions of dollars) given the sheer number of people affected.
I miss Quake I, Expert mod.
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So what is the policy of The Internet Archive on this level of scraping? Do they have a rate limit in place?
Which ROS package are you using for the neato? I had a lot of fiddly compatibility issues with mikeferguson/neato_robot: https://bbot.org/blog/archives/2016/06/09/using_ros_with_the...
His way is a lot safer. It's never a "$1" chip, you also need a power supply for that chip, breadboard (or dev kit) which puts price into cheapo webcam range.

On top of that, breaking out to LCD pins or their drivers is not easy. They're often very fine-pitch pins, if they have pins at all, some can be QFNP packages making it even harder to get to the pins.
There's a big risk of just straight-up breaking the thermometer doing this, so if you attempt it, it's best to buy a backup.
What do you have against mandatory access control?
Off-hand grapple, preferably. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3y5bJzZzXNc

How did gameplay get worse since Quake I, Expert mod? It was nearly twenty years ago.
SRI may be a double edged sword. What if stripe fixes a bug and rolls a new version of their JS? Your page stops accepting payments. That's bad.

If jQuery is compromised you'll detect it and download from different location but for stripe there is no fallback.
I don't think Apple collects anything, unless you say explicitly say "Yes, share usage data" during installation.

(Maybe I'm being naive.)

I feel like what we really need might be a legislation mandating easy opt-out (or even better, requiring opt-in).
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Can someone clarify what is meant by 'feature request'?
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Ask HN: What laptop do you use?
Every time I go looking for a new development machine it's a huge research project.

What's your laptop/hardware of choice and why?
Yes you should use a genuine copy of Microsoft Windows for security purposes so that you do not get malware. I use a paid license of Windows home edition.
Thanks for that information! Hopefully something will come of it, although as you say, the original revs won't be working on it... Still, I'm hopeful.
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This reminds me of story I heard about a pure math PhD student who wrote a deep proof for their dissertation. Unfortunately, they relied on certain math shortcuts that only work in a physics context. Their advisor didn't catch it, and I recall it ended badly for both the student and the advisor.
Germany to fine social networks up to €50m for not taking down fake news posts
Is it? Which one are you using? Walmart has the D80 for $499, which is about $50 more than the Kobuki.
Would you care to elaborate on what you consider to be toxic people?

I have met people that are hell to work and/or interact with, though the word toxic does not come to mind when trying to describe them, therefore I'm curious.
It's not that real-world Turkish delight is bad, per se, so much as that Lewis makes it sound so life-changingly incredible that the real-world version is bound to disappoint by comparison.
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I can't answer for the the people who wrote it. What you could do is put together a few questions and send them an email. Or look around the wiki.

Just for future reference when you quote put the page number or section so people can look it up and see the context.

From my experience expert arguments about C end with a reference to the C standard. The C standard is authoritative. If you can quote the standard to back up your argument you win. Arguing C/C++ is different from most other languages in that respect because we have an official ISO standard and expert C/C++ programmers take the standard very seriously.

The language of the C standard is very terse and hard to read for most people. (myself included) And a lot of the issues are very subtle. As a result anyone quoting the C standard starts to adopt the C standard style of language and idiom. So you get some arguments and documents like CERT that end up being kind of hard to read and terse also. I have read some arguments where I have to open the standard to read the argument because its essentially two people quoting the standard arguing about the correct meaning of a particular passage.

If they give a section reference to the C standard the purpose is to be authoritative. So that people reading it can look those up in the C standard and know that they are official undefined behaviors. There are lots of arguments about specific undefined behavior. And the only way to settle the dispute is to refer to the standard to see if the behavior is actually an official undefined behavior or someone who is making there own judgment which is usually wrong if its not backed up by the standard.
I'd put your third item above your second, and your fifth above your fourth.

Despite my nitpicking, that's a really solid list.
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I hope the article is exaggerated. The way they are described here, these hackathons appear to be little microcosms of everything currently wrong with MVP-obsessed Silicon Valley. Let's round up a bunch of early-twentysomethings, feed them junk food, see what they can cobble together without sleep in 48 hours and reward the shiniest turd that plops out with the leftover pocket change from marketing's budget.

Where is the engineering rigor? Where is the quality assurance? Are all the edge cases handled? Security review / penetration testing? What is the performance when you serve 10K users simultaneously? Can one actually build a business out of the "product" of a hackathon, or does it basically need to be thrown away and re-architected properly? Is it even a goal to build something viable, or is it the whole event simply a way to spend corporate marketing money on buzz?
A little bit about the author, Quinn Norton, for those who are unfamiliar:

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

She mentions in the article that "I came to the attention of a media storm after being struck by a tragedy. My life imploded, and between grieving and dealing with media controversy, my days became a sickening tragicomedy I couldn’t turn off."

Could it have been this?

> Norton dated Aaron Swartz for three years. Articles in The Atlantic and in New York Magazine indicate that she was pressured by prosecutors to offer information or testimony that could be used against Swartz, but that she denied having information that supported prosecutors' claims of criminal intentions on Swartz's part. Prosecutors nevertheless attempted to use a public blog post on Swartz's blog that Norton mentioned, which may or may not have been co-authored by Swartz, as proof of a criminal intent.
Why not underfloor radiant on upper floors? This Old House tends to work high end projects, but I remembered watching this:

https://www.thisoldhouse.com/ideas/retrofitting-radiant-heat...
I think that things like this are cool from a technical perspective. From a business and financial perspective you are still giving money to people who refuse to release linux versions of games. In the long run this supports microsoft, their telemetry and other their BS.