skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can give you many more examples of specific computable numbers than I can of noncomputable numbers. This is a bit surprising when one learns that the set of noncomputable numbers is much larger than computable ones. Most of the numbers you’ve dealt with are computable. Every noncomoutable is close to a computable number where close means as close as you want. There is also the notion of definable numbers which is different than computable. There are people who study these things and the implications they have in mathematics and computer science. I’m not one of these people so beyond what I’ve said I don’t dare comment.
We tried Neo4j, but it couldn't support the throughput we needed for injecting facts.
Even easier, just spoof the GPS signals with your own higher powered broadcast and make the ship think it's sailing around while it's actually stationary. Cant find the link but, some university actually demoed this working in real life with an actual container ship.

Im imagining an LED throwie type big magnetic thing with gps RX and TX, and a satellite uplink. Cruise by the autonomous ship on a jetski near a port, thrown the magnet thing on, jetski away, disrupt from afar once the boat is out at sea.
Yes It is a personal wiki I started mine after reading Pragmatic Thinking recently, I have some examples from others too in my wiki https://github.com/hrnn/wiki/wiki#personal-wikis-examples
If you really want to lose sleep at night .... consider the fact that foreign intelligence agencies likely have EMPLOYEES at top tech companies....
Would love this technology or YouTube's auto transcript to automatically transcribe all podcasts or audio in order to make them searchable.
Understanding Google’s new online/offline conversion tracking
This reminds me about that story of the original algorithmic traders. I can't find it right now but I know it's been on HN.

Long story short, Bloomberg came down on one of the first computer-automated trading companies for reverse-engineering their proprietary wire protocols, so they built a robot that would sit at the terminal and peck the keys.
I'd chose a logistic-like curve to fit (since extrapolating to infinite population the ratio should approach 1 and 0 population it should approach 0).
If they would not stop this they could be blocked in Russia completely (because Russian authorities started banning whole networks where Telegram servers or proxies were found).
I wonder if anyone has looked at the complexity¹ of maintaining timezones in software before raising as a solution for every member state decide for themselves whether to abolish or not. It will be an absolute nightmare. It's going to be hours of code audit and consulting gigs like it's 1999 (I mean Y2K).

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¹ The Problem with Time & Timezones https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5wpm-gesOY
That sounds like a cool use of the concept. Will try it out. Thanks.
How do you organize your company's Dropbox?
In-App Documentation for Content Editors
Thanks for pointing that out! It looks like every county in Alaska is just showing the state-level vote ratio. Might have to do with Alaska having boroughs instead of counties? I'll look into this later; I've added a disclaimer at the bottom of the notebook for now.
Lessons learned and future prospects of Blockchain and payments
I'm not sure what competitor you're referring to, I don't think they have many of those (tutanota, maybe? Or startmail?) but I assure you I don't work for one of those. There's not another email provider I have significantly more trust in or that I think does everything right while protonmail does everything wrong, there's just a minor sticky feeling that I have using them.
I'm in the minority here but I like DST. I like it when it's 11 and still sunlight outside when I'm coming out of dinner.

The advantage of DST is that all the times of other shops changes in a way that makes the summer time ideal for me in Spain and France
I'm sure you're aware of this, but you can change this with NSSetUncaughtExceptionHandler: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/foundation/1409609.... By default Cocoa registers an exception handler that swallows exceptions and asks the user whether they want to continue after the exception is raised.
> In fact, the Magnus rotors will not provide any usefull thrust is both upwind and downwind scenarios.

If the wind is coming from behind won't it simply push the stationary cylinder, adding some thrust?
1. I want to do certain things/buy things (travel places, climb mountains. buy/build small plane)

2. need x amount of money/y amount of vacation time

3. target next company

4. requires certain technologies

5. study/practice

6. interview

7. success / Failure (go back to step 5)
I think that’s an important narrative. Thanks for contributing it.

It’s worth noting though that those people probably would never have been hired if Sandberg didn’t turn Facebook into the financial giant it is today.

So, I’d put this story in the “I created you, and I can destroy you” category.

Sandberg is higher on the cash food chain than any engineer.
At which point that's just the cycle of karma closing the loop, no?
Fixed! Thanks for noticing.
What's interesting about this form of criticism is that his ability to do any basketball task is judged not by the ability that the median NBA player has at that task but against the bar he's set in other areas. His jumpshot isn't as great as his rebounding, playmaking, dribbling, or defense, so he's lazy or lacks foresight? No matter how good you become, you will always have a "weakest" area to your craft. He clearly has made tremendous strides in shooting (did you see him play in high school?), and in fact, he is well above average when judged against a median NBA player, which is itself remarkable since he possesses the ability to score an efficient 25+ ppg without taking any jumpshots at all.
Because private sector is incredibly easy to steal from. At least the government actually cares about it.
I have one word for you: telecommuting!
I don't know, but this looks very space saving and have much less moving parts.
You were talking about about the Trump election. Please don't constantly move the goalposts on me.
Show HN: Blogloom – Create your blog quickly with Google Sheets
A year back, I had a dataset about eCommerce companies' performance in Google Sheets [1]. I wanted to publish a blog post for each e-commerce company based on this dataset, so that I can get them interested in my blog. But, it was painful to convert each row into blog post manually. So, I created a Google Sheets add-on to convert all the rows into blog posts in a one click [2].

Here is that add-on: https://www.blogloom.com

[1] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ipHZUGvXkj2kavMyDU4t...

[2] http://4be28a3b3c6f79a5c1b3f0053f09f9ec.of.blogloom.com
...you missed "and never getting back to it again" :-p

I suspect the main value of this particular list was actually producing the list, and mainly for the author's sake.

The presentation is actually pretty, and I'm glad people share their favorite learning/knowledge resources. But I guess I'm coming mainly from my frustration of finding so many things interesting but so hard to choose what to focus my attention on.
I guess it makes me a dirty NIMBY but I live on a very suburban street with a row of modest single family homes, and I'd rather my neighbor not start a tire recycling business in his backyard, or replace it with a 3 story apartment building. That said, I have no problem with people who want urban living in already-urban areas, and it's a shame when NIMBYs try to stop that kind of development.
Typescript and Babel
I don't think the general public can.
Or Ben Affleck, Bryan Cranston, & John Goodman.
I think it would be interesting to see the results of regressing vote against population density + racial makeup.
Other commenters have mentioned about how pirating can increase exposure and in fact increase sales - Breaking Bad (which isn't music) is one big name example of this happening.

In any case, "album sales" is a very one dimensional view of the world. Even if fans were to pirate music, there is no way to pirate live performances - and exposure is one such way to boost sales of live performances so lost sales in albums is a very narrow slice of the entire ecosystem.
Multi Cloud Governance: Hard Problem but Essential for Success – StackSense
It's from 1996--back when PDF was proprietary and non Windows support was inconsistent.
Why Kids Want Things
The more things change, the more they stay the same. It starts to feel 1984-esque when you see these same opinions from 100 years ago or more.
Next generation Apple MacBook will look like an improved version of this. It will look stunning and be very uncomfortable to use. It will have a single USB-C slot, nothing else. Battery time will be 20 hours since they can put one where the keyboard was before.
Would be excited to see this technology combined with the "underbelly bubbles" technology that I heard about a few years ago where they reduce drag by releasing air bubbles under the hull. Yeah it takes energy to do it but the decreased resistance is supposedly a net gain. Two 10% gains would be awesome.
Masnick took what could have been a great piece to use against telcos, and turned it into an embarrassing attempt to defend Google/Facebook at all costs. His claim that Google and Facebook know less about you than your ISP would require you to pretend that encryption and Google Analytics / Facebook's "pixel" don't exist.
Thanks, had not heard of rofi. Just took a look. Seems like a useful tool.
> And also do the same tactics, go to their content and report it as violation of your content.

This might work between rival game streamers or something but the law offices of Dewey, Cheatem & Howe likely do not have a YouTube channel for you to retaliate against.
You split your config into separate files for sensitive and non-sensitive values.
Edit: sorry, nevermind, I was confused as to what you were claiming.
When you are young, you have a lot of potential. You really have the potential to be anything. As you get older, you lose that potential by making choices that limit your choices in the future. In exchange, you actually become something or do something worthwhile, instead of doing nothing worthwhile but having the potential to do anything.
I built mine with... Google Docs because I wanted something simple that was accessible with all my devices.

Knowledge pays compound interest: the more you know, the easier it is to learn new stuff (more branches on the semantic tree). Just jotting down simple unconnected facts and organizing them later has helped me become a much competent person.
There were a string of shocking titles in the news 'stage 4 remission in N weeks, almost no side effects' last year.

I wonder what's up since.
...why the major container terminal ended up in Oakland instead.

Whatever the reason, I'm sure everyone who uses a bridge in SF is happy about this.
I believe the unloaded freeboard of a typical containership is 80-100' The bridge (navigation deck) is higher, but the "sails" would be mounted from the deck, so I expect most ships would be OK.
I disagree that it is a big deal. There'll be brief period when many people don't know about it, or don't know how mainstream it is, but when it will be done. Then people will realise and there will be a cultural shift where video evidence is significantly less trusted.
> At least the government actually cares about it.

Unless you're OPM and you can't be bothered to follow NSA guidelines. Or you're the military and think having sensitive documents on a loosely secured SharePoint server is a great idea.
Oh I am aware. PAK-FA, a program that started in 2000 because the previous program for the Mig 1.44 that start in 1979 was delayed so often. And now we have the Mikoyan LMFS a program based on the Mig 1.44.

I have high confidence that the Russians will manage to eventually make a 5th gen fighter using a legacy of nearly 50 years of development. But no, the JSF program is the one that is heavily delayed.
In the context of Russia, the company that made Telegram is headed by Pavel Durov, creator of the main Russian social network, vk.com. Don't know the exact history, but ultimately the social network ownership was transferred to a large IT corp, and Pavel Durov had some falling out with big wigs, and left Russia to create Telegram.

He is a kind of a rebellious figure in modern Russia, and, as younger generation generally dislikes the regime, he is viewed favorably, and a lot of Russians use Telegram because of that.

So blocking Telegram would be a "we're stronger than you" move by the government.
Which is arguably a good security practice, reminding the user once in a while what permission they've granted.

That highly limited permission actually makes me more likely to install this.
Interesting. It seems then that we can understand the difference between the 16->32 design of IA-32 (1985) and the 32->64 design of x86-64 (2003) as being heavily influenced by the fact that out-of-order execution had become an important consideration in 2003?
Enveritas (YC S18) goal is to end poverty in the coffee sector by 2030
Ok, as a data point: I have a (new) Bosch dishwasher here in CA. The "Auto" wash cycle takes 2h20 and I can hear the unit flush the water down the drain after initial rinse.

My Bosch dishwasher in Europe does the Auto cycle in less than 90 minutes on a single change of water.

I think it's about different consumer expectations: it the US it seems people don't care so much about energy/water consumption, so other things matter.

BTW, both dishwashers get things done, the dishes do come out clean.
American intelligence agencies likely have EMPLOYEES at top Chinese tech companies.

Spies are going to spy. I'm far more concerned about my government spying on me, then China spying on me.
Verizon throttled unlimited data plan fire dept battling wildfires
I lose way more sleep thinking about the dirty deeds committed against us by our domestic intelligence agencies. I don't give 2 fucks if China gets blueprints for a defective, overpriced fighter jet that kills it's own pilots.
> So much so that you cannot take a system running Debian and 'upgrade' (or downgrade, depending on your point of view) it to one running Ubuntu.

That doesn't say much, as sometimes ubuntu and debian upgrades are far from smooth.

As a long Debian & Ubuntu user, I believe you're exagerating the work invested by Ubuntu to custonize Debian. Betond the default desktop environment and attitude regarding proprietary drivers, the work done by Ubuntu is rather negligible.
I have heard, though no citations, a psychologist or two on podcasts say that memories as we commonly understand them are reconstructions from fragments and snapshots.

If one accepts that hypothesis then it would make sense that you can reconstruct more accurately things that behave according to a fixed and small set of rules that you understand thoroughly and intuitively.

*small relative to the universe of rules outside of things like chess and basketball.
Definitely adds motivation to the user-friendly end-to-end encryption imperative.
French politics is very stable. Your leaders tend to be all very similar, at least in recent years. Macron is not wildly different to Hollande etc.

Despite that, France routinely sees a lot of remarkably aggressive political activism - farmers dumping manure on roads, the incident with the fishermen pelting the boat with rocks a few days ago, huge quantities of striking and so on.

I don't think there's anything special about France that makes French people able to discuss politics in a more civilised way. If France were to see significant change in politics the discussions would stop being 'adult' very quickly. For example if you had a referendum and France voted to leave the EU, "Frexit" would rapidly turn into a much more heated topic than it is even in the UK, I bet. It's all about the stakes.
Programming and Epistemology
You'd probably have to vibrate the cargo and/or the baffle to get it to settle in, which could be tricky, but it's not impossible. Not a bad approach.
2 things:

- I think it depends on how people are wired (if you have something personal you deeply want to do, you can avoid the useless negative factor into a "i have free funding for my project"). I used to be like that.

- I really wonder how much work = having the satisfaction to feel needed and help someone by your skills/knowledge/care.
Im kind of concerned they have iPhone X's with headphone jacks though.
​Troll-killing internet software Trollteq arrives
I agree. The vote dataset doesn't have demographic breakdowns (I believe it was created by scraping post-election reports on _The Guardian_, not by relying on exit polls). But you compare the prediction errors to county-level data on race (the Census Bureau publishes these numbers) and pose the question "is the population-density model more wrong in areas of higher diversity?"
I don’t see what’s communistic about them? The employees don’t control the means of production. There’s rarely consensus.

I don’t see them resembling modern communes, like kibbutzes or Berkeley co-ops.

Seems more like a monarchy to me.

Actually the thing they most resemble to me, in terms of operational stature, is the military.
Which would put you in the position of being a rank amateur playing against a top pro.
Reading the parent carefully, I find nothing that contradicts what you have written in response. Pressure is just force over area.
In fact, 55% of his shots last season were jumpshots, which he converted with a 47.2 eFG%.

http://www.82games.com/1718/17CLE15.HTM
Rustcast #7 – How to implement Iterator in Rust programming language
There is no difference between kids and young adults in their 30s anymore. They all want shiny things and like to show them off. Some people keep this up until they are 50.

It's because we live in a western society where we don't impress each other with skills. We impress with looks and gadgets.

We have become large children but it's not our fault. It's the forces of marketing, driven by the forces of capitalism, that is the reason.
You are indeed correct - and the copyright extension affected more than Steamboat Willie; going into the full scope would mean to venture into TL;DR territory.
Sure, sorry.

The rule-of-thumb max for solar irradiance is 1 kW/m^2 (noon, clear day, low latitude, etc):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_irradiance#Irradiance_on...

The rule-of-thumb for the electric power output of a solar cell is about 20% of the irradiance.

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

And because this drops in the morning and evening and falls to zero at night, you realistically only get a bit more than 1kWh/day with a 1 m^2 solar cell.

And these ships require huge powerplants. Maersk's biggest ships use this engine:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%C3%A4rtsil%C3%A4-Sulzer_RTA9...

which outputs over 80 MW.

No citation for the drag caused by a floating mat of solar cells. The fact that these enormous ships burn this much fuel should be evidence that dragging a much more enormous mat should show that dragging an even more enormous and more draggy mat would be a non-starter.
Do you like DST or do you like evening light? Because those don't have to be the same thing. When I was in France, it was still bright out after 9pm. You'd have to add another hour on top of DST to get that in the States.
:-) Nice graphs, and very nice analysis. It's cool to see how washing out the density leaves the geographic factors more clearly visible.
I cited that as an example where voting can make a difference, because you said:

"[Voting] only matters if voting actually functions as the root cause of election victory, but in practice it is merely an illusion of choice."

Don't confuse a data point with a recommendation. Data points are always in the past. Activism can only be effective in the future.
Not sure if you realize it — using more energy means releasing more of it as heat into the environment. You are literally heating the planet. So even if your energy is produced cleanly (say, nuclear), you still don't want to use crazy amounts of it.
What Makes TPUs Fine Tuned for Deep Learning?
The US and Japan most certainly did industrialize by copying from Europe. Ignoring IP whenever it was inconvenient.
Just the reverse. Because a target can be compromised by what they do in their private lives, we, (meaning our intelligence people), have to care about what they are doing in their private lives.

I'd imagine that in the game of compromising targets, it doesn't really matter what the general public thinks of the target's behaviors or actions. The only thing that matters is that the target have a psychological profile consistent with wanting to keep their behavior or actions secret. As long as the target has the requisite characteristics with respect to ego, that target can probably be compromised if you can find something on them.
Yes, you do need Bitcoin.
Which isn't too much more expensive than a brand new F-16.
It is not karma if the country ends up paying, though.
Thanks, will take a look at those.
https://twitter.com/thekitze/status/1033437308694011904?s=21
It's already divided into smaller compartments, through the containers themselves.

Think of a ship transporting prisoners in their own little cells. Then think of all the prisoners working together to throw their weight against the walls of the cells at just the right moment in an effort to sink the ship.

The prisoners would only have enough of an effect to make the guards a little nervous. The ore sloshing around in the containers weighs tons and tons, though, enough to actually sink the ship.
Alaska Airlines Hacked Like Equifax: Industry Needs to Evolve to Prevent Repeat
That complexity is already there. Different regions have different rules already, even in the US there are states/municipalities that don't do DST so their relative offset from their neighbors changes twice a year.

The day I am made God Emperor of Earth I will institute a single time standard for the entire planet. No timezones, no AM/PM nonsense, no daylight savings time, nothing. If it means you're getting up at 14:00 and going to bed when the sun sets at 06:00 then that's just how it is. I would also not worry about leap seconds until you get 60 of them and need to do a full minute change. This would be about a once a century thing. Leap years sadly still need to be a thing to prevent the calendar from wandering off.
> At which point that's just the cycle of karma closing the loop, no?

You misunderstand. No one cares about Alice's personal life, karma, or happiness. All they care about is manipulating Alice and what a manipulated Alice might do. Alice's desire to hide her cheating from her spouse could lead Bob's trade secrets to getting stolen. Bob did nothing wrong here to have his "cycle of karma closing the loop."
On that note, to this day I find it maddening that Microsoft insists on doing time zones differently than everybody else - I literally had to pull in a library in a recent project to map between "Windows Time" and IANA standards because we develop with .Net Core on Windows on deploy on Linux.
Draymond is known for also being a very smart player.
I think you posted this comment on the wrong story?
Telegram doesn't use TLS.
Show Tunes: Instead of selling albums, the music industry today sells fandom
Security and design principles of WireGuard – Blackhat USA 2018 [pdf]
That sounds pretty great, but without the employee board or co-operative ownership it all operates at the whim of the paternalistic owners / managers.
Would a UUID work? Databases use a unique ID to identify data, but I’m not sure why you’re asking so maybe your issue is more complicated than I understand?
being allowed to bring the shoulder back up with an elbow to the face of the defender while taking an extra 2 steps after picking up the ball outside of the free throw line helps too....
Well you don't get to become a 'top pro' by doing nothing. Seriously though, I doubt the recruiters are 'pro' by any stretch of the imagination.