skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Think Gizmodo is off by a couple of zeroes, and I'm not even referring to the "50 decades" part but the number of detonations. That dozens number is surely in hundreds, if not thousands.

The report (PDF) describes my lower bound clearly, but is otherwise full of fascinating operational details and related horrors. The higher bound is reported by retired chief petty officer Michael Gonzales Jr, who was a mineman. Having worked the reseeding operation, he puts the count at 4,000. This is generally corroborated by declassified memo 2217-73, which states this in the timeline, "4 Aug - Solar storms deplete DST fields."

Using two types of planes, the Navy planted 11,711 sea mines in the area over eight months, nearly the entire majority of them being the Mk-52 (magnetic) type weighing at 1,000 lbs a piece. Each plane could carry four bombs at a time and not all could be capped so they were an annoying aerodynamic drag to pilots. Some early mines detonated prematurely due to a configuration flaw, and the arming mechanisms were adjusted accordingly.

On August 4, nearly fifty mines were visually observed detonating spontaneously (half the explosions were seen, other half were seen as craters.) Elsewhere, "numerous" underwater shocks were felt by destroyers. So that puts it a terrifying notch over "dozens." Within weeks, sympathetic detonations and self-destruct mechanisms were ruled out.

While I find the cause of the detonations - even if it was just dozens - eerily fascinating, more importantly I find the whole idea of tossing 11,000 sea mines somewhere harrowing, and obviously dangerous under even the most controlled conditions.

No one is documented to have died during the solar storm detonations, but there were other losses due to the mining operation. Two U.S. aircraft crashed, an A-7E Corsair II (pilot missing), and a Sikorsky SH-3 helicopter (pilots and crew survived due to training, rear admiral Robinson and two aides drowned), rare flag officer to die in combat until 9/11. Five U.S. warships struck misplaced mines; four took light damage but USS Warrington (DD-843) had to be scrapped due to a high repair cost of $4M. The mine was estimated at $720. But if the cost estimates were accurate, it took about $6,250 to lay a single one ($37k today).

Mining waters around Vietnam was apparently in contravention of the Geneva accord, but they used the 1972 Easter Offensive as a "justification for a retaliatory move," which explained why they didn't lay sea mines the first seven years of the war.
Could the "AppleSSD" driver for Windows [1] be reverse engineered?

[1] https://twitter.com/tperfitt/status/1060995265694449664
Imagine how much better would have been using a language with a proper sound static type system and ADT instead...
I totally forgot the "don't"! Too late for editing :(. Thanks for noticing it.
I have some friends who find that they budget much more successfully when they use only cash... they can see exactly what they have left this week or month.
Some of them make you wait weeks/months before you get their approval to unlock.
> it only accepts Swedish bank accounts

I have a Swedish bank account, but I still can't use Swish because I have an American phone. It's infuriating.
I keep logs on individual tickets I work on and separately also a daily wrap-up.
Microsoft acquires Obsidian Entertainment
Yes, I actually live in West Linn, OR, and that's what caught my attention since it's kind of famous around here. I had also recently been reading about the dagger found buried with King Tut, which seems to have likely come from a meteor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tutankhamun%27s_meteoric_iron_...
Thats what killed Redis, good on them for warning about it.

https://drewdevault.com/2018/08/22/Commons-clause-will-destr...
> Do they assume/suspect that Echo/Amazon continuously records and logs audio, akin to a security camera? Or do they have evidence that Echo was actually activated around the time of the murders, or afterwards by the suspect himself?

They're looking for any scrap of information. It could be that someone task Alexa with something that becomes pertinent to determining motive, or opportunity, or even just presence or absence of an individual.

They're not necessarily (or even imaginably) thinking they'll get wiretap or bug type recordings. It's more like getting phone records - who did they call? Then following up those leads.
An observation: The next generation of tech products
Its not just the government that has this data, but every intermediary in the non-cash payment chain. Mastercard for example sells its payment data to Google, who uses it to correlate online ad viewing with in store purchases. There is no way to opt out of this if you use Mastercard, and other intermediaries do similar shady things with your data.
Exhaustive pattern matching combined with ADT seems way better to me compared to the go error handling where it is pretty much guaranteed that you will shoot your own foot forgetting to handle some errors...
Exactly my point: if you only take the first and much easier step of a centralized ledger then you have done what public transit cards do. They don’t actually charge the tokens onto the cards, instead they just set the balance of the card id to the charged amount in a central database.

The novel and more difficult step would be to charge the actual cryptocurrency tokens to a card, which could then be spent anonymously without contacting a central ledger. Why we “need a cryptocurrency” is because otherwise we have just let the central bank take the role of commercial banks and credit card companies. Perhaps not a bad thing in itself but not the full potential.
Actually you can run anything you want, just can’t distribute it via the AppStore. Anyone with a Mac can compile any app themselves and install it via Xcode.

And it’s not like iPhones are being forced onto people. People go out of their way to buy iPhones... Maybe there is some merit to these Draconian rules? Just look at the sorry state of the Google Play Store with all the low-effort adware or outright maliscious crap.
Another standard trick to reduce memory is to store a bitfield telling you which pointers are not null, and then store an array of only the pointers that are non null. For example for a Node64 you store a 64 bits bitfield plus only the pointers that are not null, so if that node has only 3 children you store 64 bits plus 3 pointers instead of 64 pointers. You can index that structure by doing a shift + popcount: if you want to find the pointer at index n you first check the n-th bit in the bitfield to see if the pointer is null, and if it isn't you count the number of set bits in bitfield[0..n] to find the index into the pointer array.
Why do you think the article garnered 7 comments on its website, but 25 here on HN?
The "original title" is also what this video was posted as five months ago and discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17184407
If you’re interested in automatic differentiation or manipulating differentials, checkout the video on http://conal.net/papers/essence-of-ad/
With a delay of their choosing, and a conversion factor for those of us that aren't locals. Cash has frictionless instant settlement, which is very hard to compete with as a centralized payment processor.
Similar position. May keep using my 2013 and replace the battery when it gets feeble enough.

All I really want the new MBA for is the 16gb ram, but they bundled it with multiple new tradeoffs.
You don't state if the pricing is monthly or one time.
Still, they can decide how high a risk a person is by how much they withdraw in cash.
That doesn't sound like TC for real world usage...unlike a regular programmer.
> Sealed gears like sturmey Archer live on in rental bikes

Sealed gear drives are quite high end[1] these days, for the folks that ride in messy conditions a lot and don't have the time or money to do lots of drive train maintenance.

[1] https://www.rohloff.de/en/
The Girard books I've read are REALLY tough slogging, and they are focused on interpreting the content of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Gospels. That's why I'm looking forward to the biography in this article; maybe it will be more accessible.

But, you asked a question. Try The Scapegoat http://www.worldcat.org/title/scapegoat/oclc/13124168

or Things Hidden From the Foundation of the World. http://www.worldcat.org/title/things-hidden-since-the-founda...

It's radical theology but well-worked-out anthropology.
Who ever said it was a "utopia" with a cashless society?
600 is a lot
"either use Swish or go without food/water/travel/etc" is coercion by any definition
Can you elaborate on that second paragraph? I don't understand how those things are related to each other.

Why do they allow weed to be brought in? Why do they have college girls carrying cash in a backpack? Why so much cash? Why is there an off-duty cop following her around? Isn't an off-duty cop just an ordinary member of the public? If a cop is required shouldn't it be an on-duty cop? If it's somehow a trap to catch drug dealers, how is it meant to work? Why do they limit the amount of weed? And why are they trying to catch drug dealers at all?
> Who is asking for it outside HN and the techy types?

HN and the techy types are a huge market, especially for high end hardware and especially for Apple. I need something I can run macOS on for testing, but I can get the cheapest available Mini (and then not replace it for a decade) and a high end PC laptop to actually use, or I can buy a new high end Macbook.

> Joey Beercan just wants his device to work.

Which is why the first generation or two that can't be upgraded or repaired still sells. Ordinary people haven't figured it out yet. Then some time passes, they go to have it upgraded or repaired and discover it's now slag, so they go to their nearest HN or techy type to ask what to buy instead this time so that doesn't happen again.
I think it would. I posted some observations on this the last time this video was discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17187140

My hypothesis is that Zig's compiler passes the equivalent of -march=native to the backend, which is why it should also be given to the C compiler to give a fair comparison (and a speedup of 30% or so).
Data recovery is now performed via the Thunderbolt port.

https://9to5mac.com/2018/09/20/apple-t2-data-recovery-transf...

Apple has recently documented a new data recovery process internally for Macs that utilize its T2 chip introduced with the iMac Pro and the 2018 MacBook Pro. The new process for repair staff is being introduced due to the T2 chip’s advanced security features including hardware encryption for SSD storage that isn’t compatible with Apple’s previous data recovery methods used on older machines.

PCMag should update their article.
These statements are consistent modulo zero measure (probability) sets. For instance: there are infinitely many rational numbers, but the probability of picking a rational number at random from the interval [0,1] is zero.
yep! there was a sort of epiphany for me, the first I wrote Java, from Python, when I realized that I can be sure that my code could handle anything the callee could throw at it.
As someone how loves their old Air, the recent Dell XPS laptops are quite nice.
Thanks.
I even checked before posting and assumed this meant it was.
“Strong Parks, Strong Communities Through Strong Parks, Strong Communities, the National Park Foundation (NPF), National Park Service (NPS), and Friends Alliance (the Alliance) enhance local philanthropic organizations, bringing park philanthropy to an elevated level”

https://www.nationalparks.org/explore-parks/appalachian-nati...
Completely off topic, but it really pisses me off that stuff like this gets covered uncritically:

https://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2016/02/08/meteorite-kil...
The e-krona will most certainly need to be a decentralized ledger or I don’t see the point at all. For centralized (I.e monitored) transactions the systems we already have are good enough.
A (The?) major purpose of hn is commenting on things. People know what to expect to see in comments and what standards to apply in writing them. The major purpose of quantum magazine is writing and publishing articles about science and mathematics. Most interesting comments from experts in the field will be in the article, not the comments below. Those not quoted who have interesting things to say will probably have written or said them closer to when the preprint came out and won’t be looking for the subject to come up in a popular magazine to make their comment. I don’t think this fully answers the question
Some people would say that consumers are free to avoid vendors that don't accept cash, but in practice this "freedom" is actually a huge cost, in terms of time and mental overhead and lack of choice.

The danger is that society as a whole ends up making sub-optimal decisions because each person is (selfishly / rationally) choosing to avoid these extra costs.

Powerful entities (even those falling short of absolute monopolies) probably get away with a lot more societal harm than they would if we were more aware of this "coercion of convenience".
https://developers.google.com/products/

Would be the equivalent to the links this person blogged. And they offer a ton now, including Turing GPU cloud computing for AI, which I have seen host chess AI and destroy the world's best chess engine (Stockfish).
can someone tell me why these cached interfaces are even leaving memory/RAM
road bikes still slow you down by squeezing the rims

It's getting harder to find bikes with rim brakes, discs are becoming more and more popular.
I disagree with this. I think sql is actually mostly very good, with the exception that maybe the FROM clause should come before the SELECT.
I haven't needed my notes that often but on occasion I do and that's usually when I'm glad I took the time to keep a engineering journal.

I accomplish this with a jupyter-notebook inside a git version controlled repository. I'll usually write my notes down in markdown format. Markdown is nice for me because it forces me to write clean/formatted/organized notes versus just writing random stuff down in a word doc. Jupyter-notebooks work great for me because much of my scripting is done with python. So I can include snippets of python code if I want as well as share it with my friends/colleagues.

Our company has an internal server that hosts the atlassian tools such as confluence/bitbucket/jira/cruciable. Each of us in the software department have our own company bitbucket account. Therefore, I keep my jupyter-notebook hosted on my bitbucket account.

For personal use I have moved away from paper/pencil journals. I usually collect my notes in the same way or sometimes just in a text file that I organized in their own dedicated git repositories on my GitLab account. Usually it's a project per project basis. For example, I version control many things in my home directory on my Linux computer like my bashrc/bash_profile/vimrc/zshrc and files alike. This gets consolidated in a "My_Linux_Setup" with other notes of mine of what packages and libraries I need to install should I need to reimage my computer.
Hi, I work on Reason full time and have been managing the reason-cli releases, and I'm happy to say that we're pretty close to not needing reason-cli anymore because the much better alternative is to _avoid_ global installs and instead model IDE support and as devDependencies of your project. We only have been releasing a global install (reason-cli) because:

1) Until recently we didn't have better alternatives for BuckleScript based projects (but then Reason Language Server came along)

2) We didn't have a good way to quickly install per-project dependencies for the Reason Native workflow. But then we built esy for native workflows which makes it very fast to install large dependencies across multiple projects by using a relocatable immutable package build cache.

Now, there's much less reason to use a global install and global installs will always have the problem of conflicting with project dependencies. I think you're picking up on that fact. Here's to the sandboxed project future!

This kind of stuff is often discussed in the Discord ReasonML channel so if you're ever curious to read the pulse on the direction of dev tools, feel free to join the discussion.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K669-vhKshU

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Cosculluela and Natti Natasha – Bonnie and Clyde
Which happens so very very rarely. It’s an amazing process.
Would you visit SF/Silicon Valley for 1 week to network....?
Currently working on a project within the AI space. The idea is to network with some great minds to open doors for us whilst get some proper feedback on the project?

I know this sounds like bringing some form of VC on board but for the time being we want to bootstrap the idea.

Would you recommend visiting SF for a week to achieve the above? If so, what ideas would you recommend?

Thanks, much appreciated!
Not to be pedantic but a person can in return also revoke their obligation to abide by these rules (like paying for food at the cashier or board a train without a ticket) at any time. So essentially there always exists a choice to not play by the rules if the regulators of this cashless society decide to cut you out
> Gel saddles killed brookes but somehow they came back. Fixies and hipsters?

Tourers too. On my city bike I don't mind the cheap stock saddle. On the tours I do, typically 4 months on the bike all day nearly every day, a Brooks that adjusted perfectly to my arse after 500 km a few years ago is a godsend.
Busting SIM Swappers and SIM Swap Myths
Indeed. This is an encouraging idea. But in a broader sense -- applied to a whole sector of corporations, for example -- I'm curious how legally enforceable this kind of charter is, under the cited statute or under other laws governing incorporation.

Under what conditions can articles of incorporation be changed? Can't their investors force such a change? If so, it seems a large burden must be placed on choosing investors who are somehow legally bound under similar rules.

And what mechanism of enforcement exists? Presumably investor lawsuits are the main mechanism, which again puts a large burden on finding investors whose goals are not returns maximization. If this state statute specifies a distinct tax classification, perhaps there would then be state-level prosecutorial or administrative enforcement.
You can't speak freely at home when your little children hear you, because there is a risk they will repeat your words in public, which can get you in trouble. It's probably also quite dangerous with teenagers around; they may get a wrong idea about appearing cool to their peers by saying something that can't be say, and then get reported on.

First, you need to make sure your children understand the magnitude of danger from repeating what they heard at home. That requires some maturity and intelligence, but more importantly the idea that "there are important truths that you can get punished for saying in a wrong place" is itself one of those important truths that you can get punished for saying in a wrong place, so you either need to approach this very very carefully or take a risk and hope for the best.
DEA and ICE are hiding surveillance cameras in streetlights
> Apple is known for not honoring this.

Because one costumer decided he wanted to have his laptop repaired instead of the Apple's usual practice of giving a refurbished device?

That's not what most people want. I would rather have a refurb that is better wear and tear state than my device, and has a new battery, than have my previous device repaired.

I have no affection for pieces of plastic and aluminum.
PHP and JavaScript are not statically typed.
What would be the use of generics in there?
Obviously for the same reason you don’t need the dynamic keyword.
As for LINQ at least in JavaScript you have it, either integrated in the language with map, filter, reduce or using some library like lodash or Ramda.
You don’t have expression trees but you don’t really need them given the highly dynamic nature of the language, although not at the same level as ruby if I remember correctly.
JavaScript has exceptions, so here I’m really not sure what you are speaking about.
For FFI marshalling (that for sure I would not call high level feature) there is webassembly.
Match expressions are present in JavaScript and obviously you can’t have exhaustive pattern matching like in typescript because of the lack of types. Even in that way it’s pretty comparable to c# switch case.
So to me it seems that at least JavaScript has all the features listed in the gp, why you are convinced of the contrary?
Apple repairs is weirdly inconsistent. I’ve heard horror stories.

But my own experience has always been good. Myself and a friend have had devices replaced within the warranty period free of charge even though it was clearly our faults.
It helps to write small functions with good interfaces and plenty of tests... The better your fundamentals, the less you need the debugger. (But, also, there's gdb and delve for debugging. So, do what ya wanna.)
Maybe. I just meant that the debugger is a pretty big deal to Python developers, yet I don’t really miss it in Go.
> I'm a Googler, so I get as irritated as you do when people say that. We're not arrogant, by and large. We're, like, 99% Arrogance-Free.

And the post starts with "Amazon does everything wrong, and Google does everything right".
Definitely not, because a few of my banks allow it without a problem.
I trade forex, every week I download my trades of that week and put all trades in a heatmap. I've been doing this for quite a while now, and with just one look I can see where I do good and where, not. I then take a screenshot and compare to screenshots of previous weeks.

This gives me the ability, in a few seconds, just browsing through the screenshots to see if my changes in tactic and my bots, help and which way if more productive/profitable.

To KonSchubert's point, scatter plots help when I have a small number of one or two dimentional attributes and it's pretty 'clean'. When I have multiple attributes (profit, duration of trade, etc) heatmaps work better (for me).
> but I'm pretty sure the reason they made this change is that they're no longer selling that many.

And why they should?

Pretty much everyone has a smartphone now.

Trying to push more and more units is something that only a lousy manufacturer would try.

Apple is trying to make their devices to last longer.
I don't think the question is settled, but unless you really hate oranges, the cost of adding them to your diet on occasion is negligible, and the reward is either small (if they don't boost cold resistance) or large (if they do). The payoff matrix is such that I'll eat them anyway. It's probably good for me one way or another, and getting sick or having a sick family member is enough motivation to push me to eat fresh fruit when I'm usually too lazy.

Anecdotally, since I started asking for orange juice on flights, I've gotten sick less often after flying. I always used to. But that coincides with other precautions I've started taking, like wearing a face mask.
But are all the newfangled bottom brackets really more reliable? I know Shimano’s Hollowtech BBs are lighter and therefore more attractive to certain consumers these days, but people seem to have to replace them more often than the old square-taper BBs that one installs and then forgets about for 20,000 km.

> Disc brakes are still quite heavy and expensive and unsuitable in many cases.

My Spyke disc brakes weigh little more than the Shimano XT V-brakes I replaced with them. While the cost of the disc brake was higher, they might actually prove cheaper in the long run due to less rim wear and therefore a need to have the wheel rebuilt and hand-trued once the rims go.