skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The angular resolution is mind-blowing. Combining these telescopes gives us resolutions on the order of the orbit of Mercury around the sun, at a range of our distance from the center of the galaxy. If the Earth were the size of our eyes, it would be like seeing objects of diameter 11.5 meters (37.7 feet) from about 7622 km (4736 mi) away. Almost like seeing a small apartment building in London from Los Angeles, with the naked eye.

> The increased angular resolution provided by the APEX telescope now reveals details in the asymmetric and not point-like source structure, which are as small as 36 million km. This corresponds to dimensions that are only 3 times larger than the hypothetical size of the black hole (3 Schwarzschild radii).

> “It reveals details in the central radio source which are smaller than the expected size of the accretion disk”, adds Thomas Krichbaum, initiator of the mm-VLBI observations with APEX.

Synthesizing with Wikipedia:

> The current highest-resolution measurement, made at a wavelength of 1.3 mm, indicated an angular diameter for the source of 37 μas.[12] At a distance of 26,000 light-years, this yields a diameter of 44 million kilometers. For comparison, Earth is 150 million kilometers from the Sun, and Mercury is 46 million kilometers from the Sun at perihelion. The proper motion of Sgr A* is approximately −2.70 mas per year for the right ascension and −5.6 mas per year for the declination.[13][0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagittarius_A*

Diameter

Earth 12,756,000 m
Eye 0.025 m
Ratio 510240000x
If you just apply common sense and think about it - it makes sense :) Insurance companies are not interested in lowering prices. They are interested in:

1) Not spending more than they captured in premiums in current year.

2) Increase of cash flow.

Once you combine these two you realize what insurance companies are looking to get steady increase in medical costs over long time. And medical service providers are playing along.
Not the only one for sure, but A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. The plain-spoken honesty in that book contains multitudes.
Amstrad programming is still a thing :)

https://vimeo.com/69787152
How is this an acceptable defense ?

I don’t know a single prInciple of gypsy crystal ball gazing, but do I have to still be open minded about it?

The same with unani medicine or homeopathy?
OP seemed to be referring to Normans. The whole cow (English) -> beef (French) is a classic linguistic example to cite with regard to them.
Yes. Browser history in Firefox sucks. It's like they don't want you do use either bookmarks nor history. There is not even a search functionality more then on site title.
It’s funny to compare Slovak with Polish — you could also use “kleszcze” for pliers (and “kleszcz” is also tick), but it sounds archaic — today you’d say “szczypce” or “kombinerki”, which are also nouns without singular form. Also, “pants” are called “spodnie”, which also lacks singular form, but “nogawa/nogawka” still means a pant leg.
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Bane of humanity is that they are glorified copy machines, creating flawed simulations in their minds and trying to validate themselves using others. So I strive for one thing I know I cannot achieve: to produce thought original enough that will let me die with pride.
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An introduction from Science, March 2017:

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/03/global-telescope-may-...

"Last year [2015-2016 (2)] researchers "heard" black holes for the first time, when they detected the gravitational waves unleashed as two of them crashed together and merged. Now, they want to see a black hole, or at least its silhouette. Next month, astronomers will harness radio telescopes across the globe to create the equivalent of a single Earth-spanning dish—an instrument powerful enough, they hope, to image black holes backlit by the incandescent gas swirling around them. Their targets are the supermassive black hole at the heart of our Milky Way galaxy, known as Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), and an even bigger one in the neighboring galaxy M87."

(Also see (1))

Now the article in the current main HN link talks about and links to the work just published (2018 May 24, and open access):

http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/aabe2e

From the abstract:

"The measured nonzero closure phases rule out point-symmetric emission. We discuss our results in the context of simple geometric models that capture the basic characteristics and brightness distributions of disk- and jet-dominated models and show that both can reproduce the observed data."

Translated, approximately: "what we see when we analyze the data is something that probably isn't symmetric in all directions and can be either disk-like or has jets."

The humanity is "seeing" (using the black hole in the center of our galaxy for the first time! We are looking (combining the radio telescopes across the world as a single telescope and using complex calculations to calculate the results) at the "event horizon" of the black hole in the center of our galaxy, the place from where nothing escapes!

And the first picture is blurry but hints on "not point-like." (1)

And the current article ends:

“The results are an important step to ongoing development of the Event Horizon Telescope”, says Sheperd Doeleman from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and director of the EHT project. “The analysis of new observations, which since 2017 also include ALMA, will bring us another step closer to imaging the black hole in the centre of our Galaxy.”

---------

1) Another approachable introduction to what is being done, with a lot of illustrations, is here:

https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/2018-will-be-the-year-...

2) 2015 collected data, 2016 presented
I agree it would be annoying, but not as annoying as what we have now. This is why I suggested one consistent ui across all websites is a better solution vs every site having their own random individual solution when they all have the same requirements. Do Not Track is not effective because you leave the trust in the website owner vs your own control via the browser. It seems the GDPR is suggesting that this is a necessary evil but it still puts the trust outside of the user's power.
My late mother did some programming in a language called "TASMIN" once, which seems to be so obscure I cannot find information on it through a regular Google search, although there are one or two hits at books.google.com such as a 1966 issue of Datamation.
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Interesting.

Brazilian here. It seems that we have a lot in common.

However, entrepreneurship and self made man/business culture has
been getting increasingly popular (mostly at São Paulo) although lawmakers have not been following the trend.

edit: formatting.
Your act_upon is passed values from the inner loop. GP's act_upon is passed values from the outer loop.
I live in a town with 3 colleges in SC and regularly see breweries card people. I've never been carded, but anyone with a young face is an automatic.
Both articles are written by a company selling SSL inspection solutions...
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Hold up. Stop. Read the parent closely.

This is a case where the right answer is only obvious once it's been stated.

> Its a great feature - but there should have been another keyword for it: "also"

SmirkingRevenge - !@#$ing brilliant. You've stepped outside the box and presented an answer that will click as soon as it's read.

Someone make a PEP.
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Just another reason to not even visit medium. That site has become complete garbage.
Just sharing another experience:

I am a technical manager at a small-size big data company. We opened a new office in Paris three months ago and our largest struggle by far is recruiting talent. Despite what other comments here are writing, the startup scene is booming. Station F[1] is huge. The four WeWorks are full and they are opening two more soon. Global companies like Microsoft, Google, Facebook and Naver are growing their presence. New companies are popping up all the time. Despite the academic strength of France in Computer Science, there is simply not enough supply of senior engineers in France to meet the demand. A couple of years ago Paris was lukewarm and we managed to open up in the midst of frying heat. I have met both Berliners and Parisians who say that there is more happening in Paris than Berlin right now.

The language divide is definitely a thing. We are an international English-speaking company and that works both for and against us.

(We're called Kaiko[1] if anyone reading this wants to reach out and connect)

[0] https://stationf.co/

[1] https://www.kaiko.com
Just for the sake of arguing semantics: "Just replacing" is incorrect in my view. The new implementation is designed specifically to not be one. It is a different mechanism mit a different interface and a different design goal.
> Given sufficient data, according to the Universal Approximation Theorem, a neural network can learn to model physics.

It just says there are weights to approximate any function, not that you can actually learn the weights. Neural networks trivially can't learn how to approximate noncomputable functions to any accuracy, and there might be a lot of other functions that neural networks are terrible at actually learning.
I remember when Voxels were the "Next Big Thing", 20 years ago.

Delta Force:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_Force_(video_game)

Which used the Voxel Space engine:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voxel_Space
Thoughts that have buoyed me:

- I'm not 'normal'. Expecting life to proceed 'normally' doesn't make sense for me.

- Other people's expectations are none of my business (related to marriage, property ownership etc).

- I may die before the end of this sentence, or in 60 years time; 'too late' is relative. (Phew, made it).

I'm not making assumptions about them applying in your case, but wanted to share in case they're helpful.
This is called Medical Loss Ratio (MLR), the thinking was to limit healthcare companies from charging exorbitant rates for "profit" and not care. It got strange though because "cost of care" also included wellness programs. So what do you think these insurance companies do coming into the year end when they are under their estimates for care?
A) Refund premium dollars to their members, HA!
or
B) Spend millions of dollars in the last days of the year building step counting programs and other half-baked wellness efforts

Healthcare in America is terminally ill. In it's current form, commercial insurance, like Aetna in this article, are rewarded for pumping up the total cost of care as big as possible while keeping their members just healthy enough to dump off at the doorstep of medicaid when they're old enough to qualify for it.
I write SQL, Python, bash, and Java at my job, not really specializing in anything. Is that similar to what you regret?
Miranda case was 5-4; it still stands. They decided for Bush vs Gore 5-4 and that will of course remain.
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It takes infinite energy to achieve a walking pace? Where do playets get that?
well said .
Blushing because this is the first I've heard of it - I owe you one :)
I'm old and I care about privacy. Being able to contact a domain owner has nothing to do with public listings of their physical addresses.

An email address is more than enough for an abuse contact.
The Antonines (Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, Lucius Verus, Marcus Aurelius) just don't offer the scandal and gossip that drove a lot of what people remembered. "Things were pretty much alright for about 80 years" doesn't make for exciting history-telling, though it sure makes for nicer living.

That said they definitely are covered in the history books I've seen, and specifically mentioned in the context of the Pax Romana...
The perpetual cruft stacking seems to be a far greater problem of passing large laws like eg Dodd Frank. In terms of regulation, the biggest problem the US has, is a century of cruft having built up, and the rarity with which it gets fully removed or even looked at + questioned for whether it should be on the books at all. The perpetual, hilariously absurd expansion of the number of pages in the Code of Federal Regulations is a nice example of that in action (180,000 pages).

My favorite example, that does a wonderful job of pointing out the absurdity of this endless stacking, is the Twitter account A Crime a Day:

https://twitter.com/crimeaday

Who is going through and removing all of that trash? Nobody, it's perpetually expanding.

They almost never actually remove large bills like Dodd Frank from the system, they stack more cruft forever on top. If you want to roll back a section, you add 20 more pages of cruft to do it.
This is made more exciting by the fact that Java rarely introduced big breaking changes in the past. Especially deprecated classes (java.util.Date...) never were actually removed. Starting this now is going to wreak havoc.
The most important distinction between movements like pro suffrage, anti slavery, etc and most modern movements was a well defined win condition. The end of the pro suffrage movement was one law. The end of anti-slavery was more complex but still fundamentally came down a change of law. The end of BLM is...?

In a way modern movements tend to be like modern wars such as 'The War on Drugs' or 'The War on Terror.' These are neverending wars that can never be won, nor lost. And when violence begins to become associated with these movements, then it's infinitely more damning since that means there will also be no end to it and you'll invariably breed a counter-movement, which can lead to a long term divide in society which, again, has no end.
After suffering the gaps in 8080 command set for years, this was the greatest joy ever. Also the new assembler was such a pleasure, you could just LD everything to everywhere.
Those lights were directly connected to the main bus which ran at several hundred khz to the low mhz. You never looked at them while the machine was running except as a way to confirm "something" was happening. You would not see individual pulses but rather they would appear dim or bright depending on activity.

Instead the machines had a single step mode where you could force the computer to execute one instruction at a time. Or you could pause the machine completely and manually poke bits into memory yourself.

The real death of the front panel was when machines got their own bootloaders and could load their operating system without the operator manually injecting instructions on how to read from external storage directly into memory. This actually happened much later than you might appreciate. This combined with software based debuggers which could be more powerful.
>I don't think the South loved owning slaves as much as they found it an expedient economic model

The economic model is strong in some ways; the value of all the slaves in the south, as I understand it, was greater than the value of all the farmland in the south.

There are weaknesses in the economic model, too, though. Nobody is saying that the southern enlisted man was hesitant to fight, and few of the enlisted (as opposed to officers) owned slaves.

For that matter, your average enlisted southerner would probably have been significantly better off, economically speaking, without slavery, just because if you are trying to sell your own labor, it's significantly more difficult to do so when you are competing with literal slaves.

So while you can use the economic model to explain the behavior of the southern elite, the economic model does not explain why the average southerner fought.
does anybody know how the France Tech Visa thing going on?
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If you want to be OCD about it - here's how the original arcade game worked...

http://www.computerarcheology.com/Arcade/SpaceInvaders/
> Guido says if he had a time machine he would not have included the feature at all

So deprecate it with a runtime warning and remove it after some years.

I wonder if there are some statistics about its usage. I guess it's very low.
"nobreak" also makes as much sense. Even Raymond Hettinger has suggested that, but getting a new keyword at this point in python is going to be really difficult.
Nope, it's quite easy to integrate unicode parsing :) just need to check for "\u1234" strings in JSON as it is valid, also need to check for utf16 surrogates. Standard package does it already just had to implement it in Gojay.
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So the the city just invests a little in some shaded ice-cream cart infrastructure at the quarter mile markers, providing the convenience for beach-goers the free market would not have been able to provide.

Aren't I correct, HN?

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It's faster :)
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If your mother-in-law is a professional artist, then I'd say this is interesting. If not, then she is just a novice like most people, and is having fun discovering the world of art, from the viewpoint that she discontinued it from childhood, when most kids give up drawing because their brains are frustrated with reconciling their drawings with the world around them which has correct perspective. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
how much did he sell you his shares for, if you don't mind me asking? because it sounded like it's for the first company, not the new one
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We overlapped there. I worked in a different security team in 97-98, the one that sold a certificate solution and where Stephen Kent was designing IPSec. Wish I’d spent more time learning from him, bright guy.

The GTE acquisition occurred one month after I moved to Boston and started there. Definitely a weird time.
It's a fair point that the Universal Approximation Theorem does not guarantee that the weights can be learned. OTOH, the physical laws that the article states a neural network cannot discover are computable functions.
True. Systems Theory really emphasizes this.
Not a python programmer (I've used it off and on in a very slashy sort of way).

I'd much prefer syntax like

da_thing = for ook in blahblah:
if oook == something:
break oook

if da_thing is None:
print ("Not found")
else:
print ('Found', da_thing)
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A counter-intuitive feature is not worth using even if 9/10 python devs know about it. Which they don't seem to. https://twitpic.com/4a52sh

Seems like bad usability.
> self-criticism is the _emotional_ self giving feedback, rather than the _logical_ self. Obviously, this is the worst self to receive feedback from!

IMHO that's a very unhealthy perspective. Your emotional self is just as important, healthy, and useful as your intellectual side. They are both essential; try to operate using one without the other and you will be crippled.
One nifty thing the Z80 did was built-in DRAM refresh: http://www.piclist.com/techref/mem/dram/slide4.html

"Access cheap DRAM just like you do SRAM" must have been an effective sales pitch at the time.
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Gave words to describe my feelings for various ideas in my head.
Another thing that happened (probably unrelated), after this I reestablished my reading habit that got lost for nearly 10 years.
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James Clear writes quite a bit about processes over goals, he has some great stuff. https://jamesclear.com/
If Guido would not have included the feature at all, why did he not remove it from Python 3? That would have been the perfect opportunity.
Why remove a feature that could be useful? That makes no sense.

Just because it isn't named in a way people find intuitive doesn't mean it isn't useful.
Because there's a cost in money and efficiency to transmitting power across large distances.

It's the same reason for why groceries in Alaska are more expensive then groceries in Florida.
Ask HN: Why do API providers don't follow RESTFul principles?
I have seen several API endpoints which are Verbs. e.g. GET /validate_user
POST /save_post_data

And these APIs are from Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon etc. Can't wrap my head around what's so wrong with RESTful principles.
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Right, I said it was off the cuff and rough. Point still stands, even if it's just within and order of magnitude of the actual idiotic half-assed platforms.
Goto is also useful... See why now?
Throughout the 90s several fine dining restaurants failed in Las Vegas. What changed Vegas was in 98' opening the Bellagio with 13 fine dining restaurants all in the same building. Now it became a destination. From the point of view of a restaurant owner, it is very, very when another restaurant opens in the same area. There has to be a critical mass for them succeed because each restaurant brings customers for the others. Cities discovered this when creating entertainment districts. It might be many venders close together like the restaurants at the Bellegio are the draw.
This is discussed as item 12 in Effective Python. The author argues that you should avoid "else" blocks after "for" and "while" loops. The main argument is that the behavior is not intuitive and could be confusing upon reading given its somewhat obscure usage.

He suggests using a helper function with an early exit or setting a result variable and using a break in your loop instead.
Unintuitive features that "could be useful" sounds like the antithesis of good design.
There is something nerdly satisfying doing something in ascii. I started a Bloomberg text style crypto dashboard. https://github.com/stevenpack/cryptowarrior. No real reason other than... ascii is cool... for some reason.
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As somebody who values privacy greatly something about the GDPR just doesn't sit right with me, which is confusing and conflicting because somebody who values privacy should be naturally aligned with it.
After thinking long and hard about the GDPR the part that bothers me the most is the expectation from the EU that foreign entities enforce their regulations because the EU cannot bare the political consequences of doing it themselves.

I might be reading this wrong but you are saying that as a privacy valuing individual GDPR your issue is that because it is a single entity - EU has come up with the law. And the solution is not that every country in the world should pass privacy laws rather European countries should build a China-like firewall?
You mean Normans, not Norsemen.