skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a degree 10 polynomial here, but it has an integer root, which seems to be what they computed. This can be achieved just by factoring the leading and trailing coefficients, and by various other easy methods. It's not really anywhere near as difficult as computing an approximation to the root or solving in radicals (when that's possible). Edit: OK I see on one of the other pages they were finding rational approximations to a root. That is pretty clever for the time.
> Just click the Keybase link next to the username, and you can verify each of the connections yourself.

Ah. I thought the logo itself meant its verified (like on twitter).
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IBM had corporate anthems going all the way back to before WW2, it isn't like Devo was prescient to the future on that point.
unpredictability of wind, i'd imagine.
I am saying all the equations listed also had their solutions given.
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> The European commission will recommend that EU member states abandon the practice of changing the clocks in spring and autumn, with many people in favour of staying on summer time throughout the year.

Eliminating the annual time change makes huge amounts of sense, but why stay on incorrect time all year? Why not just be on the real time year-round?
> the dates to switch to DST and out of it would be uniform within the EU

You misunderstand, the twice-yearly variation is what happens now. The proposal is to do away with it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_panorama
Exceptions are a control flow mechanism, not necessarily an error collection mechanism. I also frequently work with languages either without exception handling or with exception handling disabled for certain targets.

Even when exception handling is enabled, it's a bit silly and heavyweight if you just need to short circuit a single conditional, loop, or function. Why throw when you can break or return? And when you do use nonfatal-but-logged exceptions, what do you put in the exception handler and what makes it different from assertAndContinue besides minor errata like being specialized for exceptions?
I've been online for 20 years, and AFAIK was pretty common, although a few years ago I came across AFAICT which was pretty easy to extrapolate as ending with "can tell". From that I was able to recognize the pattern here and pretty quickly got "understand it" for UI. I think it's pretty neat that we're able to adapt language in this way, though obviously not foolproof or universal.
Don't hate the player, hate the game. It's how the entire economic model is setup. For a publicly traded company, stock price matters above all else. Stock goes down, people lose their jobs. PR departments' job consists of damage control and limiting the impact of bad news on the stock. I'm not aware of any company that would've done something different.

People actually admitting fault/guilt, publicly, means that heads are getting chopped off.

If you want to see companies' behavior change, we have to change our entire model on what "economic performance" means, and whether it's even something worth pursuing above all else.
You might look into PowerShell
Except you’re forgetting about fuel.

350k kg max take off weight
-170k Kg empty weight
-145k kg max fuel
= 35k kg usable weight @ max fuel

35k kg / 350 pax = 100kg/pax which means passenger weight is far from trivial
Ask HN: Moving from tech to healthcare?
Hi HN,

Until recently, I’ve been employed as a software engineer for 2.5 years and am now considering shifting careers into healthcare. Although coding is fun, I’m struggling to enjoy sitting at a desk all day, and I really enjoy interacting with people.

I’m hoping to utilize my technology background (Computer Engineering and Computer Science double major) at least a bit, while still interacting with people, possibly understanding complex diseases or health system issues.

I’m looking for the following:

- ideas for career paths

- advice from people who have gone through similar transitions

- advice from people in healthcare that use an engineering background but aren’t necessarily engineers in their day to day

I’m considering looking into translational medicine master programs (e.g. UCSF MTM), but I think at the end of the day, I still want a more clinical oriented path.

My resume if you want to learn more about me:
https://joer14.github.io/JoeRowleyResume.pdf

Thanks in advance for your thoughts!
Coming up: A lot of board members' wives get board positions.
The Rise of Computer-Aided Explanation (2015)
I never thought about that - farm animals also have to adjust twice a year!
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The surprising origins of the TV remote
As long as we all go on the Stigler Diet
I'm surprised that you'd think yours would be an unpopular or taboo opinion on Hacker News, of all places. I opened this thread certain that it would be an echo chamber (other places where couthness is less mandatory might instead use a two-word phrase that begins with "circle...") of voices condemning this requirement--and, well, there currently appears to be one single post in support of it in the entire thread.
INTEL’S EXASCALE DATAFLOW ENGINE DROPS X86 AND VON NEUMANN
DuckDuckGo's bang
Yes, I plan to let him know soon!

EDIT: I found out he is providing extra credit for textbook errors.
I don't have any research to support this claim (unless you consider anecdotal, n=1 as evidence), but I believe that "learning styles" exist, just that they are relatively dynamic and more specific than just "kinesthetic".

If you take learning in and of itself, it requires connecting new ideas to pre-existing ideas. If you present something to an individual that is distant to their current understandings, then of course it will be difficult to understand. You need to learn how to walk before you learn how to run. If you take that concept and sum it over their entire learning background, you get two effects:

1. People that get an early lead/intuition in specific fields/topics/skills tend to keep building on similar fields/topics/skills. Kids that are good at math/comouters early on are more likely to pursue STEM in University. The skill is compounding in this way.

2. Specialization in a field/topic/skill (let's use a Math Bachelor's for example) requires that individual to learn/solve problems broadly inside of a narrow domain. Those narrow domains (math) have inherent skills that need to be built (logic, pigeonholing, building on top of root ideas, abstraction, etc.), as well as some supplementary skills that are often developed but not necessarily critical (visualization, fact checking, re-organization, etc.). These skills can be thought of as "learning styles". If you know a Math Major that is strong at visualizing geometry, then describing a mechanical reaction to them would be easier if you simplify the structure to it's simplest level (they don't need to hear about all the fillets you have to smooth sharp edges), and describe the reaction. In that methodology, you can skip all of the engineering terminology you may otherwise use and nail down the representation that they need to think about the problem.

In that way I believe that "learning styles" exist, it just requires case-by-case understanding. This likely plays a role in the numerous benefits reaped through smaller class sizes.
They mention that solids are stored in a sort of liquid suspension. Why is that? I feel like a solid, airtight box (like a shipping ocntainer) 100% full of sand wouldn't doo too much.
Or they never did the math, assuming it wouldn't work out because of cost to operate, maintain and insure.
What are the chances that the stock+bonus will be an extra $75K per year? Also, the stock and probably sign on bonus probably has a vesting period. What will be the future value of the stock? What if the project doesn’t go as planned and they let the potential employee go before the vesting period?

Cash is king. Anything else shifts the risks away from the better capitalized corporation to the less capitalized potential employee.
Define "real".

Time is arbitrary anyway.
Happened in the USA too:

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

http://appalachianmagazine.com/2014/03/07/coal-mining-the-hi...
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The big US chains are very similar to the big European chains. If anything the big US coffee chains, especially Starbucks, arguably originated the model that the big European chains are following almost as a template. The late-20th-century European chains like Baresso, Costa, Nero, etc. do like to play up an "Italian" influence (hence the vaguely Italian names), but in practice their management strategy was pretty much to clone Starbucks. You can see this in part because their menu range and naming tends to follow the US style rather than the Italian style (e.g. Costa's "macchiato" and "iced cappuccino" are American imports).
Bringing experiments all the way to market is a good way of wasting lots of precious natural resources. The more you can test a design before it hits Chinese megafactories and worldwide distribution centers, the better for the planet.
> Farmers should have farming clocks, not break everybody else's clock to align with the sun.

Growing up on a farm, nobody hates DST MORE than farmers. DST was not setup for farmers, it was an energy saving device from WW1. Please stop spreading that DST is for Farmers, its plain wrong.
So that when you make a mistake, instead of random memory corruption, you get a leak or a slower GC cycle.
>If the law required a 50/50 gender split on boards

I'm curious why you would see that as an improvement. Care to elaborate?
Yeah, a good pour-over is really something different to a burnt-bitter crap americano (which I will still drink...)
Taking photos is one thing. Distributing these for profit is another - you need to obey several laws, including copyright law and various privacy laws.
Didn't know you could do deep packet inspection on encrypted traffic?

Anyone who can shed some light on how they might be doing this? I'm curious.
>You often say to yourself "Well I know this assert will never trigger but I'll put it here just in case". Then you check your analytics next day after release and get humbled.

That is exactly what asserts are for: checking for things that "cannot happen" - but do sometimes happen.
> That only matters if voting actually functions as the root cause of election victory, but in practice it is merely an illusion of choice.

Illusion of choice strongly implies that the choice does not matter in reality. Yet you go on to say this:

> One is obviously worse than the other, but neither are for the benefit of the American people.

If X predictably scrapes me up very badly but Y mortally wounds me, can you please explain how is choosing X over Y "an illusion of choice?"

Edit: let me abstract out the question to avoid digressions. If X bad but Y is worse, can you please explain how is choosing X over Y "an illusion of choice?"
To upgrade techno, this engineer plays his own robots
> Who says I'm not fighting for better choices?

You certainly left me with that impression when you wrote, "We get to choose between corporate feudalism and outright fascism. Great choices we have there."

> Ross Barkan

... is a Democrat. So now you're asking me to donate to a corporate feudalist?

(BTW, if you want to respond to that, I suggest you look up my donation record in the FEC database before you do.)
> assertAndContinue

We had a similar setup. assertAndContinue will add a trace in memory. When the app crashes it will dump the trace to a file and quit. (similar to https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8233388/ios-crash-log-ca...)

On load the app checks if a dump file exists and sends the contents to our server.

So we will get the last N assertions for any crash plus other info gathered in the exit routine.

No fallback thou. Just continue until the crash happens, if it happens.
I've had patches rejected from the Linux kernel that tried to switch away from strncpy in favor of strlcpy. The behavior that strncpy continues to zero out the rest of the destination in the case where size of source is less than destination was being relied upon to not leak uninitialized memory to userspace. Seems strscpy alone suffers the same.
When the Cutty Sark was the state of the art in merchant shipping, the steam ship was becoming a thing. The steam ship was much slower than the Cutty Sark and needed its own fuel to operate. It's a good example how the numbers alone don't necessarily add up for new technology.
I'll second this, The Box is fantastic. It sounds like a dry subject, but Levinson did a fantastic job of telling the story of how containerized shipping changed the world.
It's not clear to me what's the original and what's a modern addition. For example:

Mixed question
Straight paragraph source
Eighteen questions.

Eighteenth question:

Today, there is a sum of money and multiplication, and the product is reduced by the sum of the balances. It has a total of 170,162 steps. Only the cloud and the benefits. The fourth is Yifang, the third is from the low, the second is the benefit of the low, the first is the right, the three squares open, such as a quarter of the flat. Question, long, flat geometry? Answer: Ping is twelve steps and is thirty steps long.

Li Tianyuan is the opening number and has:

(equation)

The solution is x=3, multiplied by four, which is the flat number.

It seems to me that the text is the original Chinese (with only a numeric solution for one case) and the general equation is a modern addition.
Its about who applies AI and for what purpose. Currently, FANG controls all the data and applies AI to maximize ad clicks (the evil paperclip maximizer). "blockchain" is a movement for people who want "take back" their data (re-decentralize the web). They still want the benefits of machine learning on big personalized data sets (but without the annoying intrusions of profit-maximizing EvilCorp).
Agree, but with a few caveats:

- The cost needs to be fairly easy to measure

- Some degree of competition in the industry exists (otherwise the capital could be used to increase revenue or acquire small potential rivals before they're too large to afford, among other higher return places to spend the capital)

- The industry is mature and sources of larger savings already exhausted

- Prospect for some future much bigger savings small (or at least not in conflict with the current effort)

- Prospect for the industry as a whole very good (in a shrinking market, 10% savings becomes lower priority than selling off assets quickly enough at high enough cost without subsidizing a competitor or startup)

- Industry consolidated enough (or capital costs of the improvement low enough) to finance the upfront cost
Was it not ever thus? Until the 20th century, it was common for navies to have little regard for the "basic rights" of their crew. See: etymology of "shanghaied". And I don't know why I say "until the 20th century": https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/27/world/outlaw-ocean-thaila...
This doesn't make any sense. I'm in semi-northern Europe and we get like 6-hours of light at the lowest point. How does it make the winter darker if that light is from 10-16 rather than 9-15 ?

Better to have the light even later in winter, instead of while inside during work, like 14-20.
No I meant injection sites.
To match the performance of a market economy, wouldn't that require modelling agents that themselves have access to the same computing techniques you have?
Usually unexpected exception results in a HTTP 500 response (or something similar) and few lines in the log. It does not result in stopped server.
Adapting Technology to Manage Unsafe Content
I'm sure it'll end up in https://github.com/mozilla/policy-templates/blob/master/READ... if it gets officially added and released.

Though I will say inspecting DNS for phishing protection is like watching your front door to catch a burglar.
I think you're under-estimating the power of the square.
180,000m^2 is 2 x 300m x 300m.
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Founder here. The internet is full of contradictory statements, but that doesn't mean we can't attempt to form a useful model of reality. Humans do, just to get through daily life and AI can do the same as well.

As you point out, the concept "sugar-free" does not equate to there being no "sugar" in the dish. Perhaps it means to folks something closer to that fact that no added sugar was explicit in the recipe. The word "sugar" itself has many meanings (the well-known problem of word Polysemy). So there are several similar but distinct concepts at involved here and an entity could have the value of true for one of these and false for another.
> If someone had a special haircut, could the hair stylist copyright the haircut?

I imagine this would hinge on whether hair can be considered a tangible medium.

> If someone had a special makeup job, could the makeup artist copyright the makeup job?

I see this as the same issue as tattoos - even though makeup is generally considered a temporary thing, that doesn't minimise the copyright applicability - assuming that skin is considered a tangible medium.

Similar body issues: Piercings, studs, etc where the overall arrangement and application may be considered a unique work of art.

I'd be interested to know if the absence/removal of something would constitute a work of art being recorded in a tangible medium - i.e a particularly unique style of hair plucking (eyebrows, say).
Notice the height of the rotors. Cargo ships already have problems clearing bridges in some ports. I imagine that must also be a factor.
The NFL is no league for old men
It can be done only by adding an initial check that does only that. But this means that the algorithm speed doesn’t gradually increase with partially sorted sequences.

For instance, timsort is also very fast if only a single element is unsorted, or only two elements, or only three elements. These are not special cases explicitly handled, its just the natural way the algorithm works.
I wasn't aware of keybase before seeing this. I really like this extension and keybase. Now I'm curious as to how difficult it might be to get my work to switch from slack.
Not supporting bashing language in this thread, but this was a reason I never wanted to develop in Java. This terrible desktop experience created a notable bias towards Java, and only later I learned that it's not that slow for networking services (but it was too late).
He isn't smart enough to adjust his offensive game.

His go to move is to lower his shoulder. The best defensive players and teams give way and then he is off balance and he tends to miss the shot. He has done that his entire career. See Durant and Iguodala's defense.

Also his straight line drives are completely negated by a good shot blocker(s). See Tyson Chandler and the Mavericks.

A more adaptable player would have developed a runner, a low post game, and a stop and pop. He consistently hasn't shown the adaptability or foresight to do that... other than to form new super teams.
This seems to imply there's some other, more righteous, form of capitalist organization, and that these are unfortunate anomalies?
I've always enjoyed Last Action Hero and also True Lies.
I can't believe this paper has never been submitted to HN.

(As the submitter of OP, I'd somehow never seen OP or this until today.)
Who are America’s star firms
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That would mean they get published without any checks - an easy attack vector for malware.
I'm curious how this applies to televising games. At the start of many televised games, they mention their copyright disclaimer that rebroadcasting or recording without consent is prohibited.. While I don't want this case to succeed because of what it will mean for the industry, its pretty hilarious to see the media and giant corporations that all hide behind copyright getting sued for infringement, and arguing fair use, etc..
Does iOS randomize MAC addresses when looking for public wifi networks?

Another thing to worry about is whether iPhone really turns off the wifi radio when it is greeted out from the menu.. I remember a setting change somewhere around ios10/11..
Teams in the past have bucked this trend, though. The George Allen-coached Washington teams in the 1970s were nicknamed “The Over-The-Hill Gang” after they systematically traded draft picks for veterans. In 1971, the average age of Allen’s starters was 29.4, and the team had 11 starters over the age of 30. But Washington won nine games that season and 11 the following year, in which they regularly started nine 30-somethings en route to the NFC championship.

Could there be a market inefficiency in older players today, similar to the one that Allen exploited nearly 50 years ago? It seems like Jon Gruden is determined to find out. Last year, the Raiders had eight 30-something starters, tied with Arizona for the league high. A total of six — safety Reggie Nelson, tackle Donald Penn, running back Marshawn Lynch, tight ends Jared Cook and Lee Smith, and defensive end Bruce Irvin — remain. And the team has added linebacker Derrick Johnson (36 this year), safety Marcus Gilchrist (30) and wideout Jordy Nelson (33) as projected starters. Plus, the team signed 32-year-old Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie last week to fortify an injury-depleted defensive backfield. Gruden was surprised that he was even available.

“Somebody that has a history in this league,” the Raiders coach said to The Fresno Bee. “He’s got a lot of clout, and a lot of people know who he is. We’re hoping we can rejuvenate him and get him acclimated to our defense and potentially utilize his skills he’s proven for a long time.”

So it seems like the Raiders are set to put a lot more gray into the Silver and Black. For that, in today’s NFL, they don’t have much competition.
There is very little understanding in the US that "Daylight" time stops being "Standard" time. (because why should it? why have two/three time zones when you only need one?)
What is the environment like? C? Assembly? Windows or Unix?
Soyuz/Station atmosphere leak no threat to Crew as repairs continue
> If you set your pages and repositories to be viewed publicly, you grant each User of GitHub a nonexclusive, worldwide license to use, display, and perform Your Content through the GitHub Service and to reproduce Your Content solely on GitHub as permitted through GitHub's functionality (for example, through forking).

We are granted a license to use it on GitHub by the GitHub ToS.

https://help.github.com/articles/github-terms-of-service/#5-...
This is fascinating, I didn't know there was a such thing as a high level assembly language, but IBM High Level Assembler has IF/ELSE/ENDIF, and several types of built in loops. I wonder how similar it is to writing in C. One thing this page doesn't mention is structured data types, I suppose these would still have to be implicit like in other assembly languages.
Tragically, our legal system and business culture are so hidebound that the easiest way to make it acceptable for people to come into work earlier, shops to opening earlier and so on is to change what time shows on the clocks.
death (we're going to die at some point, let's make the best use of our time).
"Edit: no they were finding rational approximations to roots, which is actually pretty clever."

Right they provided a general numerical method that can solve univariate polynomials of any degree. See https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%A7%A6%E4%B9%9D%E9%9F%B6%E7... "南宋数学家秦九韶将贾宪的增乘开方术推广，以求解任意高次方程的实数根的数值解"
Household pets that get fed on a schedule too :/
Unneccessary allocation is expensive in all languages. Even if the allocation is instantanious, it creates more work for the GC and thus has a performance impact on the program.
The Go dev team tried multiple alternative approaches as described here: https://blog.golang.org/ismmkeynote and the generational GC didn't compare so well against the current GC.