skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> space expansion and the speed faster than c as a result is possible. Without exotic matter, etc.

Except that in order to get the observables right, dark energy is required to keep the galaxy clusters running away from each other faster over time. It's a heavy price that no physical cosmologist is really happy about, but the concordance cosmology gets its name from how it is explicitly constructed to match ("concord with") observation (and it is consequently updated from time to time).

It is not really surprising that some energy is required to keep the warp bubble from dissipating away from its compact region of spacetime, particularly since the Alcubierre model is a vacuum spacetime, so there's no mass in the middle to keep the bubble local to it (or source it, or however you want to look at it). He says so at the end of his paper[1]. It's important to remember that there is no observational evidence supporting Alcubierre's metric; it concords with nothing. However, one can still attempt to answer the questions he himself raised, and Lobo & Visser do just that in their 2004 paper[2], where they note that the geometry of the Alcubierre metric requires an even-more-unusual-than-dark-energy stabilizing term even at arbitrarily low warp-bubble velocities.

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[1] https://doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/11/5/001 https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0009013 (short, not especially difficult, fewer than 20 equations, 4 refs) See the text bracketing eqns (18) & (19)

[2] https://doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/21/24/011 https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0406083 (twice as long, but mostly developed through more than 120 equations, 38 refs incl. [1])
This hasn't been true for a while for certain applications under the right circumstances. There are architectural renderers, product renders and certain movie shots that will fool 99% of people into thinking they're looking at a photograph. Once motion is involved it gets much harder but there are still snippets of rendered video that could pass for real video.

It is true however that the problem is not fully solved in general. There are still things that are not handled very well in still renders and animation (particularly human animation) breaks down in more situations.
Looks pretty cool: https://chrisseaton.com/katahdin/
Well, from what they say you can massage the data to get various views. Perhaps in ieee world, python is the top. But more generally it probably isn't.
I've thought about this as well and for me the reason to want to publish a paper would be some kind of sense of accomplishment despite not being an academic. Producing a piece of work that is accepted as somehow useful to the world and meets the standards of academic peer review would be a great feeling. The barrier to entry is partly what makes it enticing - anyone can publish a blog, not anyone can publish a paper in anything but the lowest calibre of journals. Your comment is certainly making me stop and think twice about how much of the peer review process is legitimate criticism and how much is politics - does the author of the paper get the feedback given during the peer review process directly? If so it feels like it might still be useful.
True, but there are markets that are completely outside the reach of international capital markets - and are highly non-correlated to the US stock indexes.

- Congo, Somalia are the extreme case but you can make really good gains in real estate, telecommunication in these places. (I know that people might balk at the idea of investing in Somalia but I consider it a no brainer to invest in renewable energy in a place like Somalia - I also get to enjoy the risk premium for it)
A not well-researched viewpoint. In USSR since late 20s, a significant portion of workforce was compensated on a "per unit of goods produced" basis, not "per hour worked", which was the standard in contemporary capitalist countries.

Slave labor in the post-renaissance era cannot compete with other types of labor.

If it could then the South would have fared much better in the US Civil War and everyone and their grandmother would have industrialized economies in Africa by now. Or at the very least Ethiopia should have, which was never a colony of anyone for any meaningful period of time.

Not to mention, the North Korean Famine of 1994-1998, in which 3% of population died, would not have been a thing.
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My 386SX 20 MHz, 2MB RAM, 40 MB HDD bought in 1991, was about 1 500 euros in today's money.
I've been looking for a good invoicing solution along the same lines (OSS and realistically self hostable) and not found much that ticks all the boxes.

Would your project be OSS as well?

To answer the last question, things like this are pretty CRUD-y, so a decent MVC framework/library should be enough to get going.
A corp establishing a effective monopoly on a share of everyday life should be held to the same scrutiny as a government. Especially if it intermingles with it.
edit: word
Didn't people say the same thing about Steve Jobs in the 80s when he was forced out of Apple?

I'm sure that if Twitter existed in 1985, we'd see the same drama from Jobs.
> it obviously makes sense to invest into continental infrastructure because it does not control the sea.

Easier and cheaper to pursue a Blue Water Navy than pump money into questionable projects in corrupt States -- projects who's success is anything but assured (See Malaysia PM planning to cancel all Chinese projects and the mess in Pakistan as recorded by WSJ recently).

> someone needs to build infrastructure, after all, I don't think we've somehow transcended the need for transportation.

It's more about the opportunity cost and ROI than the need, right?
Loops now, dude.
Yep - I have two ways open now:
A donation to my non-profit, Free Our Info, NFP - which is the company I'm submitting requests for DBs' info through (and many other requests): https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_b...

The other's through Muckrock, for specific requests:
https://www.muckrock.com/project/tables-and-columns-from-gov... (I'll add more requests to this list tomorrow)
Depends heavily on the production & team tools/workflow, and it’s been a few years since I was in production, but I personally believe hundreds of GBs is reasonably common.

The Moana scene data in PBRT form doesn’t quite contain all the data they had in production, and I don’t know, but PBRT might be better about texture caching than some production renderers too.
Cute. I like you.
for the 3rd example, not sure why you are manually building the array..

df -h | ruby -e 'puts readlines.drop(1).sort_by { |l| l.split[-2].to_f }'

similarly, the `uniq` example from your other comment could be shortened to

printf 'hello\nworld\nhello\n' | ruby -e 'puts readlines.uniq'
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Right now I'm reading Pragmatic Thinking and Learning by Andy Hunt and Cryptonomicon.
The example they give for embedded Python is building an illuminated halloween costume (using a microcontroller).
Another example I know of is comma.ai which is using it for their Android phone-powered self-driving car project.

I suppose Python can be used on embedded, but so can JavaScript (neither should be).
One is on 1st, the other on 8th, doesn't make much sense.
I'm aware of email spoofing, but there are measures to protect against this, like SPF as you mentioned, as well as DKIM.
Of course not, it's our own biases that lead us to think we are the gods through the expression of a creative process. Because we are human, and cannot see past what's in front of us, we mistake our tools for creating.

The first steam engines were riveted by metal workers who may have felt similarly.
> revolutionizing the work of 50 million designers and artists by enabling them to render photorealistic scenes in real time

Is it just me or is this extremely flowery?
I believe there are a wide variety of methods used in social science. Are you specifically referring to small experiments conducted with undergrads in a classroom? Or do you have other targets in mind?
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It's intended to run without maintenance for five years. That's been tried before. InfoSeek did it in the early days of search engines. They didn't repair machines; the entire module of some number of racks was replaced at end of life. But that idea seems to have fallen out of fashion. That Microsoft is trying this again is significant.

It's running in dry nitrogen. That has advantages over air. No corrosion, for one.
Crystal's programming model is about concurrent actors that don't share memory. Nothing should break when they move to multiple threads/event loops; it just needs the scheduler to schedule multiple fibers onto different threads. It's a solved problem.
Not "always". But you should not build your systems based on the assumption that passwords will be strong enough.
There is another valid reason: if you are one of the 1000 million (and rising) people living in Spanish speaking communities.
> Worst case, if I publish a paper and it turns out to be garbage, I can pin the blame on the journal.

Certainly the journal should catch garbage, but authors shouldn't rely on this.
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I bought a lot of admin themes from Themeforest, but all of them feel bloated. So I build my own using Framework7.io, because my (web) app projects should be mobile first, too.

They provide a VUE.js template, too. Maybe it'll fit your needs.
> d)while this may give you long term negotiating power, you will likely just save more money with long term exclusive contracts.

Uh, This would be true, if one expected prices (and technology) to remain stable, but since that isn't the case, maintaining re-negotiating power is quite a bit more advantageous than you imply.
Oh boy, how I wish I could have at least one day without something programmed in C. I'm so sick of all the vulnerabilities...

No social justice vibe was meant. I was trying to say that we're all bad at dealing with the kind of errors which appear in a typical C or (perhaps to a lesser extent) C++ program.

I know that some people are able to do this more successfully than others because of skill, etc, but it's not just about certain individuals. As a whole, the C community has a really poor track record at security and safety and that has a lot to do with the language itself.
Some damn fine science-writing, this.
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The EFF agrees with you: https://twitter.com/EFF/status/1029162973254696961
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> There is more underground distribution (medium voltage) in Europe because cities are denser and older and there's less space for overhead lines.

Do you know if the existence of other relatively large, underground facilities, namely subway railways, is a factor?

Is it a common/reasonable practice to use a rail tunnel for (non-rail) power distribution? I can imagine it would the advantage of not having to dig for inspectin/maintenance but a disadvantage of needing to coordinate with rail operation instead.
What is this system that prevents pattern-of-life analysis while still sending all DNS queries to one nameserver? I'm still sending frequent short-TTL (normal caching) DNS lookups for most hosts that would betray my pattern-of-life in aggregate. The vast majority of the security is from sending those requests to the domain-specific nameservers instead of aggregating it all through a single upstream nameserver.

Aggressive caching of NS records for TLDs doesn't do anything to prevent a single upstream nameserver from leaning your pattern of life from the frequent DNS lookups for A records that are not cached longer than normal.
As long as JS lacks partial application and the ability to define infix operators (for monadic `bind`, etc), it's always going to be ugly. Not that JS would be a good language for that to begin with. We need a serious functional language that compiles to WASM.
for your given sample, you could use awk[0] as well

awk 'NR>1{print $2}'

or ruby[1]

ruby -ane 'puts $F[1] if $.>1'

which one to use depends on lots of factor - speed, features, availability, etc as well as whether user already knows perl[2]/ruby/etc

Further reading(disclosure: I wrote these)

[0]: https://github.com/learnbyexample/Command-line-text-processi...

[1]: https://github.com/learnbyexample/Command-line-text-processi...

[2]: https://github.com/learnbyexample/Command-line-text-processi...
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Depends on whether or not they're rendering a view of a meadow.
Congrats! Facebook could not have gotten anybody better to make live video awesome. I'm excited to see what the future holds for the fb/vidpresso combo.
I get that we’re deep in a non-sequitur subthread here, but I don’t see how what you said is a meaningful explanation of the theory of recessions coinciding with Republican presidential administrations.
I realise you're being positive and helpful, but I don't think many people could actually have these hobbies. The technical side is within reach of most HN readers, but you also need to see the problem in the first place and understand that it's actually solvable. Most people would assume that any effort would be wasted as the authorities would prefer to keep their revenue generator, so they'd never go through with the project. It takes a pretty special and creative person to have the idea, do the work, and actually get results at the end.
I see a lot of job listings that want python as a general skill, but few job listings for python developers.
Voter registration records being a perfect example - anyone can look up my address because the state makes it incredibly easy to pop my name into a website and there it is.
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This is really cool! Incredibly useful but also beautifully polished. Well done!
Also see lambdanative.org, which the authors created explicitly to build medical devices out of low-end mobile devices for third-world-countries. It is cross-platform.

They have several such apps on the website.

Warning: it uses the Scheme programming language.
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It's the same thing as borrowing.

US gov sells TBills, those TBills are bought by China.

The transaction you described also translates government debt into currency, which China also sits on, so it's a kind of an exchange debt.

So the US 'owes' China a gazillion dollars in services and stuff. One way or another.
Yeah movies would be reduced to commercials. Commercials are free after all, so that proves it is possible. So we would probably still have movies like Transformers and Star Wars, so I guess geeks would be happy.
Bill himself rather flatly told me something along those lines, though I’ve heard various other accounts / opinions. I don’t doubt anyone. Blurred contributions seem inherent to “a-ha” data interpretation moments on science—(as much as “a-ha moment” is how it really happens)
They're intermediaries. If you want to bypass intermediaries, to emulate a fax, it works fine.
The original GeForce had hardware transform and lighting (T&L), but lacked FSAA. The Voodoo5, vice-versa.

In a parallel universe where 3dfx survived and thrived, maybe they would be defining FSAA to be an important part of the first modern "GPU"
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Have you checked Apache Mahout recommendation framework ( https://mahout.apache.org/docs/latest/algorithms/recommender... )? For 'small data' it can be used as Java library (algorithms for single-machine); if you prefer .NET C# port is also present: https://github.com/nreco/recommender . If you're new to collaborative filtering 'Apache Mahout in Action' book will help a much.
FWIW the country I live in has a law that forces all public services to accept requests over email. Though the motivation was to stop the well known "send us a fax" customer abuse vector.
My personal believe is that neither work out in a way we'd like it to.

Censorship can, under the right circumstances, be effective but requires either a very delicate hand and be more or less invisible or oppressing the opposition until it exhausted itself one way or another. Sometimes it seems to work out only to end up reinforcing believes, leading to a deeper internalization and radicalization.

Education requires focused, continued, honest effort. It requires rolling that damn boulder up the hill until the hill itself starts to erode under your feet. It's a excruciatingly slow process. And it's so easy to forget that it needs to be a dialog no matter how much you think you're right.

I'm a strong advocate for the latter, but it's easy to see why so many gravitate to the former.
I found this document extremely helpful while writing cl-tls. Gutmann also points out a phenomenon he calls "bug conformance", where a major implementation of a spec (Microsoft's, in this case) has a bug, and thus nearly everyone else has to introduce this bug to conform. A curiously common phenomenon in the industry.
The problem isn't the keyboard, it's the USB HID spec. You can easily make keyboards that can send arbitrary Unicode characters, but they still have to talk to computer in the same outdated language of scancodes.
I don’t think GitHubs list is good either. It only contains open source software (right?) and does not account for any in-house software by big enterprise companies (and I think that those are still the biggest).
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Haha no. Telcos have had a tapping mentality for a long time. It's not advertised, but it's clearly there.

So, if we go from there and then take something like https://theintercept.com/2018/06/25/att-internet-nsa-spy-hub... and consider the complexity of that, then ponder XKEYSCORE and so forth, yes, absolutely ISPs store faxes __precisely because they're unencrypted__ and __precisely because they're routinely used for medical and other sensitive data__.

Or the NSA isn't worth its $1B/yr.

I don't know Ridley Scott, but he needs to talk to a nice security researcher at some point, someone whose feet are on the ground and who likes sharing honestly.
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I am very aware that, as I am native Chinese. CRS is SOE, but when they constructed each individual HSR project, they got the investment from local governments, as each local governments knew that HSR would greatly benefit the economy. Just like HSR project between Beijing and Shanghai, which got the investment from seven local governments, if you can read Chinese: https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/京沪高速铁路
The whole project has 12 major shareholders, including 7 local governments.
Agreed. I can't see myself using it because it looks so out of place and bold in a sentence.

Plus, how often do I really need to chain a question and exclamation mark together?
There is still the implementation, debugging and testing/validation cost.
> Are you specifically referring to small experiments conducted with undergrads in a classroom?

No I'm talking about the entire field of social science being dominated by complete nonsense.

See the following documentary:

https://imgur.com/gallery/7EPPT
https://codesignal.com has a good intro-level course, make sure to focus on the "medium" difficulty and above problems
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Do you not see the potential for insight there? You said it yourself:

> The kids tormented one robot and not the other because doing so with one was fun and the with the other it was not.

Why was it fun with one, not the other? Why do we take to certain forms of play? How do toys encourage these forms of play? This is extremely insightful as child’s play is partially the process of practising adult behaviours.
Presumably one of each are needed at both ends?

How is the encryption done? Password?

I've never heard about anything like this; fax machines have always been the POTS analog kind over in Australia.
Stupid F#: Taking JSON to the SPA 2
How exactly do you even measure the GDP of such an ancient empire? Economists can't accurately measure GDP of western economies today despite huge armies of statisticians, even China's true GDP is a mystery, so I'd have to assume any such claims about the GDP of the Mughal empire are nonsense.
Indeed, but putting sociopolitical (read: secretary-implemented) weight on something so easily confused (View Original Message > manually decipher headers, vs "From:") sounds... uninformed and underfunded, at the very least, to me.
Well then based on what actually happened (invading a county where there were other countries people & troops there since before the founding of modern china) it's not true to say that they haven't invaded anyone. Will they 'not invade' taiwan next? Invading and then declaring it was ours historically is still invading.
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LOL yea, C is going away alright. Just as soon as every company you mentioned and everyone else in the world stops making embedded electronics!
What solutions did you look at? Why didn’t they fit?
E.g. [1,2]

[1] https://www.gnucash.org/index.phtml

[2] http://www.sql-ledger.com/
Something tells me that thausands of heat exchangers where you produce hot and exachange it for cold, at the bottom of oceans which already are recording highest temperatures in modern history, is not much of envrionment friendly.
At least there is https://micropython.org/
I guess it's mainly used by hobbyists, though.
In fact, removing itemized deductions alone would do this, because the standard deduction is mathematically equivalent to a 0% bracket.

Alternately, you could even have a progressive, flat tax with a standard deduction of $150,000 and like a 40% rate. I’m surprised the Democrats haven’t proposed that just as a publicity stunt.
I meant regarding e-mail (or any other internet file transfer service). Your e-mail account, and that of your recipient, are accounts used to authorize access. If either you or your recipient lose account access, you can not send and receive files. This happens all the time, like when your corporate ID gets locked for no reason, or a user forgets their password, or some other problem occurs.

Faxes require no such accounts. Just plug the machine in to a phone line and send a document.
I understand the technical novelty, but from a financial perspective for the NVIDIA company and the customers and data centers they pop these things in: is this a big deal?

Is this just routine new cycle stuff that amazon and microsoft are going to buy en masse like they already would have no matter what Nvidia came out with?

Or is this a big deal for reasons that you will explain and the stock market is going to go wild attempting to "price this in"?
You'll have to know the farmer in person and take her word.
How can you possibly describe a chart that your link admits is the opinion of one academic "pretty standard and unsurprising"?

The idea that you can even estimate percentage of world GDP 2000 years ago is laughable.
The future holds advertising and collecting usage data, what else can it hold?
California is trying to pass a net neutrality bill
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Plenty of places to put money outside a bank depending on liquidity/risk needs. Money market at the lower risk high liquidity end to high risk non-liquid of investing in private companies (Hello world). Managing these kinds of portfolios can be and is a full time job.
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