skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Being emitted as undifferentiated Hawking radiation, after the black hole has shrunk to microscopic size, and when it finaly ceases to exist doesn't sound like much of a happy ending.
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Because if they would continue to store them in US then all would be well. They are perfectly safe in the US...
The griping isn’t about subsidizing those less well off. The griping is about a warped Federal system which systematically allows states with representation disproportionate to their populations or wealth to siphon excessive resources.
Kenya's massive skills gap
> Anyone should strive to have as accurate colors as possible

Why is that? I like to have my monitors with a bit of a warmer colour balance, since it is nicer on my eyes, and I have no need for 100% colour reproduction. I think that everyone should strive for the most comfortable colours as long as they aren't doing photo editing or something.
True but at the end of the day, someone is going to be holding the coins, and that entity is better off holding PoS coins that PoW coins.

We can tweak the scenario to say that you're forced to buy and simply hold one of the currencies, without loaning them out or otherwise touching them for 5 years. Then clearly PoS has the advantage.
We just published a study on the environmental performance of current and future battery and fuel cell motorcycles (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030626191... ; also available via scihub). The supporting information is open Jupyter notebooks, though some of the background data is closed.

The environmental performance of electric motorcycles is different than cars:

- Cars need ancillary services like heating, increasing battery size

- Motorcycles have no real chance at regenerative braking

- Motorcycles are driven fewer kilometers than cars, making the impact of the vehicle more important (as opposed to the fuel).

Currently, we estimate that battery motorcycles are preferable across a variety of environmental indicators, though results differ for small and large motorcycles, which have very different usage patterns.

Feel free to contact me directly if interested in discussing or collaborating on open source life cycle assessment code or data (https://brightwaylca.org/, https://chris.mutel.org/).
heh first thing that came to mind. I'm still curious about repl lagrangian mechanics
> Strong typing simply means that every value in the language has one and only one type, whereas weak typing means that some values can have multiple types.

Aha! Now, any system with subtyping is “weakly typed”! For example, System F-sub!
> Extra points for not mentioning AmaGooBookSoft.

Alphabet (parent company of Google) is gearing up to be the Berkshire Hathaway of technology companies. If you read Larry Page's letter announcing Alphabet[1], it's clearly informed by Berkshire's principles of operation. It's even reflected in the name: alpha bet, or investment return above the benchmark.

[1]: https://abc.xyz/
Related, earlier thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16449326
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What do you recommend for this?
Dane here. I live 500 meters from one of the attacks. I've been happy with how the police has handled the terrorist situations. I do not fear going past the place of the attack - it's not a trend.
We have no guns allowed, no large knives, no pepper spray, etc.
In terms of effective anti-terrorist means, I don't see what I could ask of politicians.
What usually happens is terrorist attacks put immigration on the political agenda. In that sense I don't see Denmark reacting much differently than USA, France, or others, where immigrants are sometimes directly accused of being terrorists, stealing jobs, stealing the women, stealing welfare, etc.
I'll try my best at this although I've only been involved with OpenSCAP some time ago doing a bit of integration with libguestfs ...

> 1) what types of things does OpenSCAP audit?

It uses a big XML file of tests (which generally you don't write - that is supplied by the OS vendor), called OVAL files. The tests can do a lot of stuff, I believe arbitrary stuff, but in general it's things like checking the permissions of files and directories, checking versions of packages installed to see if they are vulnerable, looking for misconfiguration, and so on.

> 2) does it support my mixture of operating systems?

Well you need the vulnerability data - ie. the XML/OVAL files. Red Hat [the company I work for] supply this for all of our Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems, and I believe you can get it for Windows too, but I don't know about others.

Here are the RHEL files: https://www.redhat.com/security/data/oval/

> 3) is it for scanning remotely over a network?

> 4) does it scan the configuration of a computer from a local daemon?

It's running a process inside the machine under test (and hence it's not really good for testing machines which have already been compromised and where the compromise has countermeasures). You can automate the program in the usual ways which would allow you to initiate a scan from your puppetmaster / ansible / whatever.

One of the things I did was extend it so that you can examine a disk image using libguestfs, but unfortunately only a subset of tests is then able to run, basically only those tests that can be done through pure file access. Nevertheless this allows you to scan (eg) all your VMs to see which ones are vulnerable to some subset of problems.
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I wonder what the pro-Trump gamer groups are going to make of this.
Like Newton's Principia (from 1684) looks like Norse mythology? It is still a valid model except for a few minor errors, and almost halfway to 1000 years. Better yet might be Greek mathematics, e.g. Euclid's Elements which is more than 2300 years old now. The language is different of course, but the content itself reads a lot like a good proof-oriented geometry textbook.
Open SCAP has been part of the functionality of Red Hat's Satellite Server for years, in my experience not that many people use it, but enough for it to be well tested. Its been a while since I looked at it but from memeory...

1) SCAP is its own xml based language which includes tests for things like packages installed, sysctl settings, and processes running, but it also has a generic "run this command and check regexp the results" type resource so you can pretty nuch check anything you want with a bit of work. Openscap is an opensource tool for running scap tests.

2) SCAP is a generic standard so it should be applicable to everything, but I've only ever used it on Linux so shrug. I would expect other unix's to be supported.

3) iirc it runs locally, but its pretty trivial to run via puppet (satellite 6 comes with puppet modules) or ansible to run it and pull the reports back to a central server

4) it doesn't run as a daemon, its a binary you run when you want a report. The Satellite puppet modules set up a cron job to run once a week,

Like all these things its only as good as the tests you run and the xml format isn't that easy to write unless you're willing to put in some serious work. There are existing test sets available (again Red Hat supply some) which are a good place to start
Compared to the truly rich, the 0.1% who dont hesitate when dropping 300$ on a candy, middle class is poor.
There's nothing to refute, your statements had just as little substance as mine. If only there was some field of study which could discern valid logical arguments and how persuasive we ought to find them. Someone really ought to start such a field of study.
RetCon – The Retro Gaming Festival
Our own past (say, 1974, for example) is also “separated from us not by a space-like frontier, but a time-like one“. Would you say that the past is not real?
It would be amazing that you independently reached this conclusion through only your own observations when "people that disagree with us are irrational and emotional" is incredibly common propaganda that is everywhere.
How are you going to buy stocks when the market crashes if you are already invested as much as you can?

Edit: nevermind, I guess you mean with the incremental savings.
"Design Version control without changing tools" ... that is, if you're on Mac OS and your tool is sketch.
Linear is conservative in this case. One would expect the growth rate to shrink as the mountain grows.
I recommend you do it. /s

In seriousness, I think you need to be more specific about what you want to know/understand, your question is pretty open ended.
...and this type of replies is why it stays that way.

Well, at least when ignoring the UI/UX mention that has absolutely nothing to do with the discussion here (color correction is required in many fields, but UI and UX aren't really those ones).

The author seems to be technical enough to make a nice analysis of what's done and what needs to be done. I suspect he might be able to provide this particular fix himself - or, if he isn't, then he might be able to contribute by providing a well-detailed feature request for others to implement (with that even I might be able to go and fix it, while without it I surely won't, as I lack the knowledge, hardware and in fact even awareness of this problem; only reading this post put some light on it for me).

Some people don't do the mental switch between "I'll wait for fix" and "I'll fix it" if they're not used to it, even if they are perfectly capable of fixing it and have time for it. I see it on my own example, as there were some parts of the stack I never really considered digging into to fix stuff by myself, and when I finally tried, turned out there was no reason to keep myself restrained. It's just a friendly reminder that you can often fix such stuff by yourself and it might be not as hard as it seems.
> You read the title, saw it had OJ in it, and rushed to the comments to rant about it?

It seems to be a strange quirk of HN lately. You see this often with facebook posts. "I quit facebook and it cured my cancer". There was a post about tea being good for you and someone chimes with something like, "I quit tea cold turkey and it helped me get a raise!".

Seems a lot of people on HN attribute their successes and failures to arbitrary things and something in a headline clicks and they have to evangelize.
Wat? Try 3k for a 1br, 4k for a 2br.

That said, even with a 4k/mo apartment, you're looking at 4-5k after tax, housing, and retirement savings.
> People are not wired to properly consider long-term risks. The risks in the ancestral environment were entirely short term - literally, the tiger in the bush. At worst it was a drought or poor season, with a series of short-term food security crises.

This kind of pop evo psyche just so story is not any different than stories about how natural phenomena are the result of gods playing capricious games with humanity. It comes from the same place and has the same validity.
I wish the supes would push some quality of life ordinances, kind of like the ones Mirakami passed for the panhandle to deal with the druggies on Haight, but most supes don't seem to care.
AT&T (of which Bell Labs as a subsidiary) was a vertically-integrated nationwide monopoly that bankrolled its R&D using its massive consumer revenue. Most people would consider the current market structure, where service providers are separate from equipment manufacturers, to be an improvement.
The frontier I was talking about is impassable. It's "infinitely in the future", aka "never". That's a whole different level of frontier, imho.

Granted, there is a bit of tree falling[1] conundrum here, but that does not make the question less interesting (arguably, it even makes it all the more so).

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_a_tree_falls_in_a_forest
This is just not true, you're spreading misinformation. I am a colorist, I'm the person making these final decisions. Every single high end color suite I've ever been in runs Linux. In fact, the full version of Baselight (one of the defacto color correction suites) only runs on Linux. DaVinci Resolve (one of the other major ones) ran only on Linux for the majority of it's existence and the full panel version (the pro choice) only ran on Linux until last year.

Every major color house I've worked in runs Linux exclusively in their suites (CO3, The Mill, Technicolor, etc).

That's not to say windows and OSX suites don't exist, I use them and my own suite runs windows, but the highest end of color is basically Linux only.
If you are a Chinese activist, then yes, of course you are better off with the keys anywhere outside China.
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DO is still my go to service provider. They were the first company that I remember who simplified provisioning of a server. Their UI was also way better than other competitors.
Not an easy thing. The ICC-in-X specification specifies the index as the Xinerama screen number, which has no meaning with XRANDR-on-XOrg, and even less meaning on Wayland. There's nothing in the protocol to tie the ID to a monitor, or even a predictable hotplug order. This is why the device-id in colord exists.

Source: colord author.
To Apple's credit there are still significant parts of their platform that remain end-to-end encrypted even in China -- meaning that Apple or any other cloud operator can't read because they don't have the keys, notably:[1]

- iMessage

- Keychain

- Siri data

And more like health, home & payments.

While it's unfortunate that Apple couldn't compel China to run their government requests for data through the U.S. court system, in my view it is pretty amazing that they are "getting away" with keeping the most sensitive data end-to-end encrypted.

I mean China shut down WhatsApp last year and iMessage is of a similar level of security.[2] Then again nobody really uses iMessage in China. They do use keychain.

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303

[2] https://www.apple.com/business/docs/iOS_Security_Guide.pdf
I am unproductive if I am given a task where I can't switch to something else. If I have to work on a task for longer than 2 hours then I become unproductive. This is why I am always jumping on helping other people with their tasks and get pushed into leadership roles when its just really me coping with ADD.
Thanks, I am going to check that out over the weekend!
yes, that's it

And also install self signed mitmproxy certs to your device.
Look up QML (Qt Quick) on Qt, its the easiest UI building experience I've ever had

Funny that QML looks alot like the JavaFX script that was abandoned
> This reads like a very thinly veiled ad for the author's $500 Software Design web class.

My takeaway as well.

> In fact the source he quotes (himself) claims he can give you a year's worth of experience in an hour.

Did he invent a form mind-meld?
Here is how to solve them with SAT: http://kmkeen.com/battleship/
You may not have encountered any bugs but what about the vulnerabilities they’re fixing - do you not care to have those fixes?
The snark is unnecessary. Many papers in deep learning display heavily cherry-picked results. Including a source code implementation is one way to ensure that the real world results match the cherry picked results
The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dictatorship of the Small Minority (2016)
They aren't massive bird choppers. That's a persistent myth from some very early wind farm that used short turbines with small, faster-moving blades.
I use resilio sync (formerly bittorrent sync) for this. It provides bonus features (2) and (4), and with some finagling you can also get bonus point (3). It doesn't provide (1).

https://www.resilio.com/

Beware that you have to dodge a lot of premium functionality in the UI, and search a bit to find the secret key functionality. They originally built the app to work decentralized with just secret keys, and no accounts, but then they wanted to build a business out of it, so they started trying to compete with Dropbox, and they made a centralized service to wrap the decentralized functionality. Ignore that part.
It's barely more than the device costs to make. It turns out making batches of 50 at a time is an order of magnitude more expensive than building them 50,000 at a time.

Source: Am the person that sits in a shed and builds each ColorHug.
One of EFF's directors is running for congress
Require mandatory licensing of all patents on 'fair and reasonable' terms (as decided by some sort of market). Require that inventors get a share of the licensing fees (non-transferable until valued by the market).
The introductory physics course for which Feynman lectured in 1961-63 is part of Caltech's core curriculum, required of all undergraduate students. It was taken by the entire freshman class in 1961-62, and the same people, then sophomores, in 1962-63. The course consists of 3 parts: lectures, recitation sections, and labs. The recitation sections and labs are mandatory, but the lectures are not, and many Caltech students - particularly those who do not understand English well - choose not to attend all the lectures. Attrition in Feynman's lectures was typical for this course: an average of about 10%-20% of the students did not attend any given lecture. However, I would like to inform the poster that graduate students and faculty do not "sign up" for this course - that is not possible. Some graduate students and a few faculty members sometimes attended Feynman's lectures, almost all of whom were leading recitation sections or working in the course's labs. The ratio of undergraduate students to others who attended Feynman's lectures was very large, as you can see for yourself in this photo taken during a typical lecture (the ones with ties are faculty): http://www.feynmanlectures.info/FLP%20Classroom.JPG . For more information please see http://www.feynmanlectures.info/popular_misconceptions_about... . Michael A. Gottlieb, Editor, The Feynman Lectures on Physics New Millennium Edition
Apply hasn't cared about ColorSync for years. Every release they break something.
Find an existing project that's already in your area of interest - e.g. a sporttracker if you're into running - and start contributing to that. No point in starting someplace that's completely alien to you.
> Especially if the loan is single-action or your investments get funneled into creditor-protected retirement accounts.

That is a very interesting strategy. Do you have any recommendations for books or other resources that discuss this?
The QA outreach page [0] suggests maybe about half the projects are ready. The ones that aren't include Netty and SLF4J. Those aren't small projects. Is that page outdated or does "JDK9 ready" not really mean "JDK9 ready"?

EDIT: Maybe it's outdated; SLF4J and Netty do claim to be JDK9-ready.

[0]: https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/quality/Quality+Outrea...
SF is notoriously anti-chain though, so even corporations can't seem to open or build new stores in SF. I'm sure many construction companies/apartment complex owners would love to build more in SF as well and can't do it either.
Moreover, we are on the dark side of black hole, and we have cookies. J
And since PDF is encapsulated PostScript, and PostScript is a Turing-complete language, this problem is actually uncomputable in general! I guess it can be done well enough in practice by pattern-matching — if the document came from Word originally, it's probably possible to reverse the process — but that is one converter I would certainly not want to have to write!
Your assertion of "slacktivism" seems in contradiction to the fact that more Americans are marching in the streets for various reasons in the last 10 years than in the preceding years of my life.
To be fair, RocksDB is a fork of LevelDB, so at least from a historical perspective this is fairly related to MyRocks.
I seem to remember that a reason why Git wasn’t popular with game dev (and why it wouldn’t be with designers, besides usability) is that it handled binary diffs terribly (ie it would store the whole updated file, even if just a few bits had changed). Am I remembering correctly? If so, is that now addressed?
Yes, the radius of its event horizon is directly proportional to its mass. The relationship is described by the Swartzchild equation.
Sorry, I accidentally looked at the row below 2017’s, which is the average for Berkshire Hathaway’s history.
I’m cursed with some kind of attention disorder and can’t keep track of what the heck is going on when I context switch. So over the years I developed this system:

I keep notes of what I’m doing and what I’ve learned as I do my work. I keep a separate note document for each task/project. I do this in One Note so that it syncs to my phone and I can attach clean processed images of whiteboards. But I used to do this with plain text files and vi. Either way I indent sub tasks.

In this document I break out and list all the things I’m going to do, with either a checkbox in one note or a [ ] if I’m using text. When I have done the task I change it to [x], and when I start the task I change it to [.]

When I get interrupted, I switch to the other file and keep track of what I’m doing there. When I switch back to the original task I scan the file and look for the [.] and that’s where I need to resume working. This step is crucial and helps me avoid the situation where it takes me 20 minutes to re-aclimate and remember what I need to do next.

Each day I do work I make an entry in the text file that tells me things below this line are in this date. As I complete projects I put the documents into a history folder keyed by date. This also lets me go back and see what I was doing on a particular date. This helps me avoid that “blank stare” feeling I get when management inevitably asks me why the task took so long or what the hell I’ve been doing all week. I’m not a slacker, I just need systems to help me overcome my memory and attention deficiencies.

You mentioned having trouble finding the willpower to go back and resume a project. A big cause of procrastination is not having faith that you’ll be productive with the project in the time you have available to work. Having the work broken down into achievable measurable chunks is key to fixing this problem. And that’s the major part of what this note system is all about fixing.
There're some open source alternatives, such as this one, with less features, though:

http://dcevm.github.io/

However, I couldn't make it work with my current project when I tried some years ago. I haven't tried again since.
Republican policy strikes me as devoid of data. During the election I really tried to understand their policy positions. But failed to find reasoned or rational arguments for their positions.
The Good Rain by Timothy Egan is a great read related to this if anyone wants more perspective on how hydropower impacts the environment.
Except for Altamont Pass. It's one of the few breaks in the California coastal range, so it's a big migratory bird corridor. It was one of the first big wind farm areas, and it has row after row of small wind machines for several miles. At peak, it had 5,000 wind turbines in a valley that's less than a mile wide. It's a Veg-O-Matic for birds.

The little wind turbines are being replaced with fewer and bigger ones, which are less of a hazard to birds.
> Equal ownership of something that’s likely to be zero.

I dunno; co-ops have been successful in other areas of endeavor. It's as reasonable a way of organizing a company as any other.

I mean, mostly they are businesses that provide goods and services for money; businesses who's value rests mostly at their profit in a point in time, but it's possible you could come up with a co-op like structure that would work for a tech company where a lot of the value is in the company and getting the company bought out by a larger entity.

I don't know how you'd do it, but I don't see any reason why it couldn't be done.

I can tell you that as a tech worker with options, I would be whole hell of a lot more likely to join a pre-IPO company if they structured the thing in a way that was more transparent and respectful to the workers when it came to the equity component of their compensation.