skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Try to step back and objectively consider the logic of what you're saying. You are literally trying to suggest that we went from minimal usage to more than a million passengers per year in 1999 and then back to minimal usage. This is possible (well, not really - but I'll get to that in a minute), but beyond improbable and seems to be based on absolutely no logic other than 'this is what I need to try to maintain my view, so it must be reasonable.' By contrast the assumption of normal growth is based not only.. well normalcy.. but also the fact that the original operator stayed in business. Tour businesses are costly and fickle mistresses. To keep going for 70 years strongly indicates at least normal growth.

I don't say that to mock you or your latest suggestion, but because I think you might genuinely be unaware you're doing this. I'm certain you think your view is correct and naturally therefore assume that there must be logic, and thus evidence, behind it. You're not considering the possibility that your view may be incorrect in this case.

And this is causing you to make more silly mistakes. For instance you are now proposing that perhaps the number of ducks in operation declined since 1999. As you mentioned, from the writeup on the original duckboat operator, there are about 300 ducks are in operation today. That growth ranges from a substantial 20% if we assume every one of the 250 vehicles the NTSB was referred to as 'amphibious vehicle' was a duck. If you genuinely believe that to not be the case (and some of those 250 were something else), then the growth since 1999 could potentially be vastly larger.

The NTSB did not call for a ban on ducks. They even specifically suggested an alternative list of (much cheaper and easier) criteria states could require in lieu of providing the additional reserve buoyancy. In fact, check out page 54 of the report. There was infighting within the agency even about the relatively minimal 'alternative' suggestions they put forth. Internally it was felt that the additional buoyancy requirement was unable to be able to be effectively implemented, and that the canopies were not a danger. In particular, some of the NTSB staff felt that basic requirements (double clamps on drive shaft boots, additional bilge alarms, etc) would be sufficient to prevent this sort of accident in the future. You're conflating media sensationalism with the quite level headed and reasonable report.
That has in fact been very uncommon.
Lil' old man!
They want niagara falls to look great for tourists.

When nobody is looking at night, it pretty much stops.
These videos are excellent. They earned my "patreonage" a couple months ago.
We dont even use Razor internally. Just learn the API controller side of ASP.net core 2.0 while using a modern frontend stack like Svelte/React as hot reloading is a thing that exists.
Relevant sentence:

The sole practical consequence of the EU’s action would be to raise an obstacle to this person’s discovery of the opportunities created by access to the world through the mobile internet.

What would be the other practical consequences? That some magical OS will appear to capture Android's market share? That Google Apps will somehow become less awesome thus paving way to some magical competitor apps to gain market share? That two-bit competitors like Foundem or Yelp with shitty services will somehow find a way to win users?

Latest salvo by Vestager only ensures more regulatory barriers to everyone, more hurdles for consumers at the low end of the market and a stunt by her to further her political ambitions.
I've often hesitated about getting a microfilm or microfiche reader, but what would really get me over the edge is some kind of similar equipment to make microfilm or microfiche to use with the reader. Did such "consumer" equipment ever exist, or did all the libraries and institutions buy premade microfiche or microfilm, with the exception of a few dedicated conversion companies?

Are there any combined devices/stations that can be used to both read AND create either microfilm or microfiche?
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You are correct, that digital documents may be copied perfectly. However, I don't think the author "failed to emphasize" that topic because that wasn't the goal of the essay.

It is part of the "Object Lesson" series - "Each Object Lessons project will start from a specific inspiration: an anthropological query, ecological matter, archeological discovery, historical event, literary passage, personal narrative, philosophical speculation, technological innovation—and from there develop original insights around and novel lessons about the object in question." - http://objectsobjectsobjects.com/about/

The object in question is microfilm readers, and the things we might learn from it. Not digital technology, nor the reasons why microfilm went by the wayside.
Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17345227.
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> in discussions with physicists, they have claimed a minimum of three different event horizons

Huh? Where are you getting this from?

> time at the event horizon as observed from the universe at large stops.

Nope. The event horizon is a null surface--it is "made" of outgoing light rays. The concept of "time" does not apply to light rays.

> The underpinnings of "black holes" requires an eternal universe

No, they don't. An "eternal" black hole is an idealization, but a real black hole does not have to be exactly the same as the idealized model. I mentioned numerical simulations in another post down-thread; any realistic black hole cannot be exactly described by closed form equations, it needs to be simulated numerically. Numerical simulations make predictions that match what we see, and show how realistic black holes can form by gravitational collapse of stars and star systems.

> If you think about "black hole" formation as described by the various models in use, there are a number of assumptions made that don't actually match what see in our observable universe or in any practical experiments we do.

I don't know what assumptions you're talking about.

> When we find discrepancies or phenomena that don't match the current models

I don't know what discrepancies you're talking about as far as black holes are concerned.

> It is an unfortunate fact of life that people who disagree with the consensus view will be treated badly.

You can't effectively disagree with the consensus view if you don't understand it. You clearly don't understand the consensus view of black holes. I am simply trying to point out incorrect things you are saying about that view.
That's not what the case in NH was about. It was already possible to collect the winnings through an anonymous trust, but the winner didn't know about that before signing their own name on the ticket. The ruling let the winner do what they could have done without issue, had they known about it sooner.
OT: achieving the goal is just a temporary pleasure.. remember to enjoy the journey!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oroville%E2%80%93Thermalito_Co...
is in northern California.

"Water released for power in excess of local and downstream requirements is conserved by pumpback operation during off-peak hours through both powerplants into Lake Oroville to be subsequently released for power generation during periods of peak power demand. The Plant has 4 units: 1 generating unit and 3 pumping–generating units, with an installed capacity of 120 MW, maximum flow rate of 17,400 cu ft/s (490 m3/s).[5]"

Summer days are always dry and sunny, so a large solar array might work well here.
Also:

"In the past several years, mounting evidence has shown that sperm can take ..."
> I think you should've put it on the AppStore first before sharing it

It's not a browser. It's a browser design. (plus a bunch of not-really-functional prototypes).

I hope it becomes reality but so far this is basically the The William[0] of browsers. The William also never happened even though we all really wanted it to.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wBe3SDCcz8
>to avoid releasing too much water at once

Fixing that (digging the river deeper in downsteam towns) would probably be a cheaper way to allow Hoover to scale up and down to more variable demand from wind and solar.
I think the point is that variation is created by taking some material from the mother, and some from the father. A _mutation_ also creates variation, but refer to things like replications errors and "bit flips" due to, say, radiation.
I think this is more like finding out that the republicans screwed over Donald Trump. There's a strong case to be made for Corbyn being in the mold of Trump, but from the left instead of the right.
This trash is not worth hacker news.

What about Kim Kardashian?

"Sucking Black Rapper's Dick Is More Lucrative Than an Oxford or Cambridge Education"
I agree. My first project was a dual port SRAM emulator on iCE40 with UART bus snoop to enable real time tuning of really old BMW Motronic ECUs. This was a pretty fun/easy first project and had about the right scope. I started in icecube and eventually moved over to the OSS toolchain which was nice as well. If I had started by trying to accelerate some kind of complex algorithm attached to a microcontroller I doubt I'd have finished.
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In my opinion the line is already crossed earlier when advertising goes from simply informing me a product exists to tricking me into buying something. This has been going on for decades already, car manufacturers with their brand image commercials, subliminal reminder ads I should be drinking Coke or toothbrush's constant 'revolutions'.

To quote a random person from the internet: "Why are there commercials for toilet paper, who is NOT buying it?"
Perhaps Trump’s kids don’t work, but the existence of some idle wealthy people does not mean all or even most wealthy people are idle — any more than some Asians being good at math means all or most are good at math.
Except that major jackpots are chosen using physical apparatus and much harder to hack. There are multiple sets of balls, chosen randomly, the balls are regularly weighed to the thousandth of an ounce (gram? Can't remember), the balls are never handled alone and the drawings are supervised by independent auditors.

I'm not sure if I'm for or against winners staying anonymous. If they would require public identification, winners could simply change their name to smith. I'd happily change my name for a hundred million dollars.
This is very different.

In the American case, private emails in the dnc were talking about preferences of officials. Don’t forget that Bernie Sanders isn’t even a Democrat! So the officials had a preference for a Democrat to win, whatever.

No one has pointed to actual harm caused. Ultimately Bernie lost in the primaries even before the super delegates kicked in. Probably didn’t help he didn’t campaign in the south which is a requirement for winning.

Bernie lost fair and square and no one has alleged specific wrong doing. Just vague “but emails” - this is worse than circumstantial evidence.

So yeah I’d say a far reaching ad campaign to deceive is not at all the same.
This is part of statistics 201 and required reading for anyone working on AI as it is closely related to Markov processes, which are used to define Hidden Markov Models. Likewise, Restricted Boltzman Machines which are often used as input layers to modern deep neural and deep belief networks.
If they're in Unicode, it should be possible to register ghost characters as a ghost domain name, right?
> It's really important for people to be able to learn by flailing around without knowing what they are doing if you want mass adoption of a technology.

I'm not really sure that this is applicable to hardware design.

I see it this way: Arduino got really popular because it pushed the software paradigm to electronics, which was previously dominated by careful planning, studying of datasheets and having at your disposition at least a multimeter and bench power supply. Now you could just write a few lines of imperative code instead of using a few transistors for turning a fan on and off when you press a button. And if things went wrong, you just serial.println until you figure things out.

FPGAs are entirely unlike this. By the point where you're first synthesizing a design onto silicon, you should've thoroughly tested it on a simulator, just because of how much easier it is to debug there than on really hardware. And that all requires discipline - something that is not really achievable by changing things around until they work.

Sure, you can get by making hacked together designs that will probably synthesize - but they'll be unstable, slow and unmaintainable. And you will be no wiser by the end about what you did wrong until you actually pick up an EE book and understand setup/hold times, metastability, clock domain crossing, FSM design and signaling techniques. Or even what exactly does an always (*) block with mixed blocking and nonblocking statements synthesize to.

I don't know, maybe I'm just underestimating people. Sure brings me closer to actually starting a series of lectures or blog posts on this.
Why? Because I’m backing up the opinion that I presented. Or would you rather everyone makes statements without saying how they came to those conclusions? That said, I never claimed anyone was wrong - just taken advantage of. Your comment has me wondering if you own or commonly purchase one of the products I mentioned. You seem hurt.
It's mostly just shocking to me there isn't more separation of duties amongst a few people. The fact that one guy could pull this off suggests some major failure to consider single points of failure. He did allegedly have someone with him, but they didn't even sit in the same place on the plane!

The mark of a good security expert is that they will tell you the threat they themselves, potentially, are. (This is true for IT as well.)
Machiavellian is indeed more appropriate.
The react app looks more complicated and verbose.
The two situations really aren't that similar at all. You don't have to make everything into an opportunity to bring up the 2016 election all over again.
There are all sorts of weird hypothetical marriages you could imagine (and we could grade them on a scale from 0 to 5 Macrons). Human behavior as a matter of fact does not normally work that way.
Augmented reality app from IBM and NY Times tries to make history fun
A rather small portion of software that requires search requires a relational database, though.
I think you left this comment on the wrong thread.
Recently I was looking at my 200Kb app minfied for what was the largest portion of it, and, Lo and behold, react-dom comprised a little under half that size.

Part of this is because React and ReactDOM haven’t switched over to ESM (and still use CJS), but calling react small is probably not entirely honest, at least if you use it like most folks do.
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1/3 and 1/100 are perfectly representable using floating point. Sure, I've never seen fp in base 3 in the wild, but base 10 isn't unusual for the exact reason you're pointing out.

So what I see is a conclusion that floating point is "emulated reals" as opposed to rationals, despite all floating point numbers being rational numbers and that decimal floating point is wrong and "the worst of both worlds", but I don't see a valid argument for it.
Hello quantum world
I fully agree with him. In-video ads should die.

I don’t really mind product placement as long as the brand matches the content of the video (a gun channel promoting gun manufacturers is fine by me) but I’m getting so tired when a totally unrelated video promotes some shitty pay-to-win mobile games or forex/binary options exchanges/betting sites.
Ghostery (very slow speed) has killed my use of Google Chrome
The fact that a member of a crime family felt comfortable enough to appear on a McDonald's commercial as a winner seems to call into question the effectiveness of this strategy.
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No, the DNC absolutely rigged the primary against Bernie Sanders. They fought and won a lawsuit about the legality of this practice: http://observer.com/2017/08/court-admits-dnc-and-debbie-wass...
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Our grocery store chain also does Monopoly annually, and I generally just download the list of rare pieces off the Internet, and check for them before the contest expires. I figure there's no point in picking out the commons unless I find a rare one.
I use a app which I have written especially for this
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I do see other manufacturers do it, and I do see even non-hardware manufacturers do it, hell, even Sony did it with a bunch of hackers that reverse engineered the PS3 and PS4 to run their own software -- and they weren't running a business off of it.

Also, I'm not blaming IP laws, luckily, we don't have the USA IP laws in the rest of the world.

I think most of the pitchforking at Apple is just happening because it's an easy target, not because it's a good example or the first step to fix a structural problem. That USA bill for the right to repair (or was it a state? or county? who knows...), that's the right kind of thing.

Also, have you ever tried to get spare parts from Microsoft for your Xbox, or schematics? Or perhaps for your PlayStation? It's not new or different what Apple does, and it's not going to fix anything by picking the easy target.
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i'd say planck did more for zeno than calculus

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultraviolet_catastrophe
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Yes, I'm always amazed at people who use pot to sleep. If I smoke I will be up for hours.
Looks like submitted before I was done, and replied to the wrong person....
I wonder if there are any non-profit archival bodies that would partner with a tech org on such a venture. Finding a non-profit tech org that could do it in a sound way might be challenging*

Perhaps a Google project like the books scanning they did? That would be really cool.

* it doesn't have to be non-profit tech org of course (I did mention google's book project after all), but finding a for-profit that would make things freely available might be a challenge in itself since the costs would not likely be low, either for development or infrastructure/maintenance.
> you should just be able to do deleteItem={() => this.deleteItem(key)}

Don’t do this. Arrow functions (and bind) are reallocated on every render, so this can result in a lot of useless re-renders.
Thanks!

This looks like a proper list. I’m happy to see older frameworks like Knockout listed too. Many thanks for this.
Most state gaming commissions have rules against these "almost got it" jackpot combinations for slot machines. If the jackpot is 1-10^6, then each jackpot symbol should be weighted about 1-10^2 (assuming a 3 reel one line machine). You can't taunt the player with many non-paying combos like JP-JP-(one space from JP)
I agree completely, but I would like to point out that FPGAs are fantastic educational tools. Being able to get your hardware design into actual hardware for < $100 is amazing, even though the performance isn't the greatest.
If you're reliant on ads, you tend to optimize your content to attract more advertisers and eyeballs.
If you're reliant on donations, you tend to optimize your content to cater to the richer (or upper middle class) segment of society with disposable income.

I'm pointing out the widespread belief among the techies that the second option is inherently more noble than the first.

If I create content that caters to the local population of, say, Mombasa, am I more likely to produce more if I rely on donations, or if I rely on google displaying ads of Mombasa businesses?
Would you, a techie in the USA/Western-Europe with disposable income, even hear about my channel?

(edit: That said, I don't like brand promotion from the creator within the video either since that introduces a huge bias. But I'm all for algorithmically generated ads where the creator has little control)
That commenter doesn't make a habit of it.
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>fruit is not healthy for you

https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article/105/6/1462/4569801

Fruit consumption is inversely correlated with all-cause mortality as best we can tell. Probably something to be said about people who eat fruits being among the more health minded individuals as well and skewing results but it’s probably not “unhealthy” to eat fruits.
I think you can copy microfilm perfectly, as long as you know the smallest distinguishable feature which the original microfilm archiving process could create. You just have to sample the microfilm at twice that spatial frequency, by the Nyquist theorem, right?
Why your advice is only limited to Facebook products?
You’re right, the difference was that Labour was unable to prevent Corbyn from becoming the party leader, while the DNC was already decided on anointing Hillary regardless of her actual popularity or electability and was able to prevent all opposition.
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This is a small project i've been working on. Uses Ruby for the code and is mostly inspired by Sonic Pi and Tidal Cycles, you can try it here: http://www.negasonic.org/
IIRC the US is mostly compliant with the treaties (without actually signing them) - there's a man in the loop, mines self disarm, etc.

At least with the newer mines.

Could be wrong though.
Unless I missed it, we never found out who the informant was.
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But digital copies ain't always perfect - you forget about bit rot [0] unfortunatelly.
One bit flip on stream of compressed picture or archive distorts remaining result.
Entire digital world is founded on analog physical world with all its imperfections.
Of course there are solutions to mitigate them: checksuming, redundancy, error correction. But how often one checks checksum hash on copy? Edit: CRC doesn't count as it is too weak.

I agree on open standards and deduplication, I hope content addresable archiving will get more mainstream, IPFS brings big hopes.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_degradation
While I understand why we don't really see them, I would love to see a much more involved comparison. A reasonably sized app would probably use redux/vuex, routers, async, etc. which changes things dramatically. Even just adding the state managers changes things completely. Then you have things like cost to maintain/upgrade.
Seriously? That lawsuit certainly does not demonstrate at all, in any way, that any of the primaries were "rigged." It shows what is and was widely known: the DNC had a preference for one candidate.

It's extraordinary that two years after the fact so many people still do not understand what happened even though the facts are widely known and documented. This is the power of propaganda but still it's always a bit disturbing to see.
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For starters: https://news.google.com/newspapers and https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov
Hi Sunil, I’m thankful for your article as you helped inform my framework choice for a new project.

Please know this feedback is presented constructively. I had a bit of difficulty following if the example was Vue or React. One place under “How do we mutate data?”, the last word is Vue: followed by React code. Under “How do we pass data through to a child component?” both say “in React”. I’m very uncomfortable giving editorial advice to a stranger this way; it’s a great article and just wanted to trade some polish for the valuable information you shared. Thanks.