skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very interesting article! One comment - when the firing pin is released and moves forward, the gun recoils backwards slightly to conserve momentum.

I suspect what you saw was the sudden release of the couple of pounds of rearward trigger pressure causing the gun to move forward shortly before the pressure buildup and recoil drove it backwards. That would swamp any small recoil associated with the firing pin.
What you are doing looks like fraud.
I think most machinery in the military runs on gas nowadays.
ECDSA.
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US state & muni debt is comparatively mild versus the federal debt. About $1.2 trillion in state debt, versus roughly $1.9 trillion in tax revenue (the US Govt is at $21/$22 trillion in debt and ~$3.6 trillion in tax revenue).

Muni / local debt is about $1.8 trillion, with around $2 trillion in tax revenue.

The US Government's ratio of tax revenue to debt to be maintained, is about 10x worse than the states. States would have to boost their debt from $1.2t to $12t to match it.

US state and muni debt is also not particularly increasing. There hasn't been a jump in state debt since the great recession. Many of the states have to keep balanced budgets by law, or close to that. Mostly the only time they plunge into the red, is when their budgets explode for a few years during / after a recession (then they go back to trying to balance their budgets, and usually don't do a good job of paying down the recently acquired debt). States obviously don't have the luxury of doing a stealth tax on income & wealth via the currency to meet their funding needs.
great attitude, but is shadowing also interning? Intern add value, but if you are shadowing - that implies being seen/never heard.

Seems you could get more value and give more as an intern. never too old to intern!
> It really does mean that my poor accuracy with a large caliber handgun is from flinching.

When I shoot my revolver, I will load empty shells in a couple random spots, spin it, and close it. This immediately exposes any flinching or anticipating I'm doing. I squeeze the trigger, the gun moves slightly downward and no round is fired.

Do that a couple times and you learn to remain neutral pretty quick.

It's not as easy on a magazine-loaded pistol. I imagine you'd need to get some purpose-made dead rounds. And the randomization is harder.
Why not simplify this and make it opt-in?
What is the difference between "the server I meant to communicate with" and a "server ... with authority to communicate on behalf of my intended peer"?

This seems like a distinction with no meaningful difference, outside of esoteric things like hardware-based attestation where you actually do want to identify a peer with the specificity of an actual physical piece of equipment. As soon as we introduce names that are not physically bound, we have a level of indirection that erases any distinction you were making.
I deny you the right to put words in my mouth. I also despise the "You said X, so you must support/oppose Y, then" argument schtick.

In a parallel comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18736465), I said that giving money to those unable to compete "seems almost certain to be wasteful". I chose those words very carefully. I was thinking about food security rather than steel for war, but I was very deliberately leaving an escape hatch that, yes, sometimes you actually do want the inefficiency for other reasons.
I agree, this is a terrible look for the company. They need to apologize, suspend the service and be honest with users about how this works, before announcing a reboot.

That being said, I've been using Brave on Android since early 2017, and it's been great. I don't think the BAT stuff is in the mobile version, but I did see it on the desktop Windows version recently.
Even if Brave has the best interests of everyone at heart, this kind of thing has been tried many times and nobody is ever happy with it.

If the person doesn't want to make money from their fans, that's their choice and it's not cool to possibly mislead fans into thinking the person is taking their money.

It's a pain for people to have to constantly monitor all the random sites collecting money "for them". New services are popping up all the time, how are people supposed to keep track? No, Brave is not going to be able to find the correct way of contacting everyone.

If your service is great, why not make it opt-in and advertise it? Patreon succeeds because people want to sign up and make money from it when they're ready to do that. I believe you're all trying to do their right thing and not take anybody's money fraudulently but this isn't the right thing.
Lots of useful work isn't economically valuable enough to be done as a job.

For example, caring for the needy, many forms of art, and a large portion of journalism are among such jobs; where there's some demand but not much willingness to pay, while the job grants fulfilment and is a net positive for society - though not enough to pay a liveable wage, often because it gives fulfilment, so some people are willing to do it for near-free.

Apparently mining coal is also such a job - it's not economically worth it to pay people to go down a mine and dig out coal. In that regard, why not pay people basic income and let them choose whether they want to find fulfilment by spending their time doing gov't subsidized (by paying them liveable income for activities that aren't worth it) coal mining, or spend that time in a similarly subsidized alternative rock band? Both of these activities have some benefit to the people themselves and the potential customers, but aren't economically needed anyway, both of them literally aren't worth their time, so why is one better than the other?
Sounds like he has very negative views of work to me...
It's worth separating what is a "conservative politician position" and a "conservative position". People are more nuanced than their parties. Also, their problems and approaches to solve them (i.e. taxes vs not) may differ even if they agree on the end goal.
Coal is an input to steel production.
"This game is terrible because I got game over after ignoring the primary quest" is not a good reason to hate a game...
Isn't John Carmack able to code for 10+ hours straight? Will he be automated too? :) My point - as much as this forum seems to hate this notion (I usually get downvoted when I point it out), there's variance in human aptitude and stamina.
I don't think being a startup justifies switching on the "deduct money from my account to pay these entities" button before you've figured out how and if you can actually pay them.
The funniest thing about it is that “zero” and “partial” are at odds with each other. Whoever decided to juxtapose those terms is genius.
I run Arch full time with i3, and I have no issues with lastpass. I use both browser plugins, and lastpass-cli which I have had no issues with[0]

[0]: https://github.com/lastpass/lastpass-cli
I'm sorry what? To me, and probably most people, that sounds like workaholism. No vacation? How do you maintain your sanity? Don't you feel the need to disconnect every once in a while?
They used a plasmodium "true slime mold" amoeba in this experiment. Here is the more technical PhysOrg source that Vice relied on:
https://phys.org/news/2018-12-amoeba-approximate-solutions-n...
You're describing parts of TARP.

In sum total it:

- Purchased preferred stock or warrants in banks, insurance companies, and auto companies, recapitalizing them, then subsequently selling that stock

- Directly purchased troubled assets to remove them from bank's books and reduce uncertainty

- Made a variety of loans around the financial system to encourage financial institutions to continue operations

- Directly bailed out homeowners by modifying and adjusting mortgage balances and terms via HASP, HAMP, & HARP (to the tune of 32 B$USD)

Afaik, the majority of those actions recouped their investment or suffered slight losses, with the exception of the last... which was designed to pay out to homeowners.

The accounting off all TARP programs can be found in the CBO's annual report to Congress: https://www.cbo.gov/system/files?file=115th-congress-2017-20...

You can't wring blood from a stone.

So if the federal government does something about underperforming student debt, it's going to have to address the root cause of students being unable to service their debt.
For decades, I almost always worked four days a week, 32 hours/week total. Since I was working for mostly large companies, I didn’t make any sort of special deal to do this, I simply took a 20% pay cut. Well worth it. Looking back over the last 35 years, I don’t regret working less at all, with the extra time off spent with friends and family, and giving me time to write several books.
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Weirdly enough, I prefer the same (as a freelancer). 6 or 7 days a week with gently sloping down hours each day (long Monday, shorter Tuesday, even shorter Wednesday, etc) feels awesome. I get the hard work out of the way early in the week and arrive into the weekend relaxed, while still staying disciplined with my sleep schedule over the weekend (get up, do a couple hours of work, then go have fun).

Plus, vacations feel less necessary.
The problem with Kaldi is that it's not a turnkey solution for a speech recognition system, but a collection of libraries and shell scripts that can be used to build your own system, assuming you're a researcher in speech recognition or are willing to put in the time to become one. A long list of dependencies appears less daunting in comparison.
Dang, Germany! What happened there? That is a huge outlier.
Snap caps make great "dummy" rounds for these drills on semi-automatics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snap_cap
I love the first two, and the third one I've never tried but my friend loves them. My mother is from Manitoba, I'm dual citizen.
The effort to debunk rates poorly on effort vs reward, outside of an unhealthy value placed on attention/status. But making fake content for attention can have a reasonable expected payoff.
I think TFA refutes your argument, but I'm not smart enough to know for sure. Can you please expand on this?
Tom Scott did not explicitly sign up for this service. Brave is not even telling users that Tom Scott is not signed up, and Brave has no automated way of contacting him to let him know that someone donated. The system is engineered to move the money towards Brave, with neither the benefactor nor the beneficiary being aware of that. How is that ethical?
> artificial visualization based on real topographical and composition data

Yes, that's what they mean by a composite.
Power plant doesn't just mean fixed electrical generation plant. There's probably a gas-fired power plant in your car, for example. And you're correct that the main place fuel oil is price-competitive is in transportation, but that's less a story about cars and more one about the massive amounts of extremely dirty bunker fuel consumed by marine shipping vessels.

Even with electrical generation it's a mixed bag. The recent US fracking boom has also dramatically lowered the prices for natural gas. Natural gas burns cleaner than coal, so to the extent it's pushing us away from coal consumption it's serving to buy us some time. But it's still desequestering carbon, which means we're still going to need to stop well before we run out of available natural gas to burn.
Thank you for taking the time to read it, and for the positive feedback!
What did you find changed in lastpass after the logmein acquisition? We've been using lastpass since before the acquisition, and i can't say i've noticed any substantial changes (either positive or negative)
I think the author decides that "raw data" means "reality", when I don't think that's a useful definition, as it, as the author showed, leads to the conclusion that raw data does not exist.

Instead, a more useful definition are that "Raw data" are observations of things. Those observations can occur in lots of different ways (surveys, logging calls, billing system records, just to name a few). It's important to always distinguish between the method of observation and the thing that's being observed, though.

Similarly, once you have "raw data", you can analyze it. That analysis too is yet another transformative step, which can introduce more biases and errors.
I agree with the overall reasoning of Paul, and we are having the same conversations inside Redis Labs. For instance the reason why Redis remained BSD licensed is that, while it's odd that cloud providers are exploiting open source system software in this way, yet to look just at that does not capture the whole story. Open source software changed our world completely, so the real balance must factor in also what happened to IT because open source exists. Even what now is a problem for OSS producers, the cloud providers, is
in some way a product of the fact that software was democratised in this way by the OSS movement (and note that without the cloud to productize OSS is harder). Personally even the fact I write software is because I installed Linux 23 years ago or alike. So the point is to also have something that is interesting enough and that can be released in a commercial license and is complementary to the original project. Because the part that needs to be commercial, must go totally commercial (it's a long story but AGPL for sure, and probably also other attempts including SSPL and Common Clause are not just confusing, they may not be enough). However what this requires is a very good balance between what's open and what not. In the case of Redis this is a bit a natural process because I'm very unwelcoming to a lot of things that users want because I feel they are not a fit. Proof is that for instance, two of my popular open source projects, that are linenoise and dump1090, are currently both mostly distributed via forks made by other people. So Redis Labs can just jump in and do a number of very useful things like graph database, CRDTs, on-disk support and so forth without any conflict of interests. Let's see what happens. Right now the trend is to distribute the non-open parts with source code available and with very few limitations for end users: if this works is great, and it looks like is the only way because it is very unlikely that users will have the need of something as a service if they do not use it already in some form.

DISCLAIMER: This comment was written incrementally and modified several times adding things that came to mind while writing.

About BSD,MIT,... vs CopyLeft. We can say what we want, but if we just stick to facts, MIT-alike licenses provide more freedom for the final user. If one would like to dig more I think that the canonical example would be the Linux kernel and asking questions about, what if it would be BSD licensed.
I moved from Singapore (where i had 250mbps down /150mbps up) to Mumbai briefly and I've got 1gbps connection from local operator called Jio Fiber.

There is some local filter but it's on DNS level only. If you change DNS to something which is outside the country, you have everything available without any firewall.

It's free for a year or something afaik, i don't know what will be the future charges.
Why did this get flagged? The numbers aren't correct?
Thanks! It's my first time sharing on HN and I'm thankful that it has been well-received.
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Right, it is not guaranteed to find _the_ best solution possible, but at least it does find _some_ solution to NP-complete problems in linear time, which no classical algorithm is expected to be able to do. Now they claim in that article to have made a simulation of this running on a classical computer exhibiting the same characteristics, which frankly should not be possible. so where is the catch?
STOP WASTING Your TIME AND LEARN MORE PROGRAMING
And literally no one cares about a few hundred mb of ram
Stop wasting your time playing games and do something useful learn more about JavaScript and learn react. Contribute to opensource projects or write a blog post and watch those talks you have missed and read the papers you have bookmarked or finally learn PHP. WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU? Why are you wasting your time? That's what my brain tells me a lot.
Basically it feels like you are saying "we will take donations for you but tell you we are getting them in the most obscure ways possible, and we will certainly not make it easy for you to claim them".

Or to couch it in the form of a GenX nerd reference: if you're taking donations in my name, you're telling me about them by putting a note to that effect in a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying "Beware of the Leopard".

Realistically, I would say it'd look a lot less suspicious if you stopped taking donations for people until they have actually opted in. I'm on Patreon because one of my fans said "hey I really wanna start giving you money for your comics, would you set up a Patreon?", not because Patreon found my stuff and set up a tip jar for me.

Also automate the payouts, if I have ads on my stuff then I get money every so often as long as I've accumulated more than the minimum payout, but I have to remember to go check with Brave? Come on, it can't be more than a couple day's hacking to give a creator the option to say "pay me every month if I'm above $minimum_payout". (And if this is a thing you can now set up to happen regularly, there are webpages that need to be updated to reflect this.)
No they didn't. We have books on farming that are 2000 years old, people have read them even. Just because movies show dirty peasants hoeing fields doesn't mean that was reality.
I just imagined reading your comment from the perspective of a layman 20 or 30 years ago. It's amazing how far we've come as a species!
"Regardless, these results strongly suggest that the bullet is long gone before the rifle moves under recoil. How long gone? In my case, the bullet was already 23 ft (7 m) down range. This makes sense because the rifle is nearly 900x heavier than the bullet, so it cannot accelerate as quickly."

I've heard that before, but this is the first time I've seen actual data. Nice work!
> until you write

Yeah, you can definitely opt out of it and there are even cases where the compiler doesn't guarantee that you're handling the errors, but assuming you're making a good faith effort to adhere to conventions, then you're thinking about your errors.

> Besides, Go errors are used in pair with the return value, so you have to check 4 possible combinations of value/nil and error/nil instead of 2 due to the absence of sum types.

No, you don't. If the error is not nil, there's an error. Sum types would be nice, but they wouldn't reduce the number of checks, they'd just formalize the idiom.

> Oh, and no monadic chains/exception mechanism, so feel free to write

I'm fine with this. Monads are hard for people to understand, and I'm not playing code golf...

> Go crowd had just invented the worst and least error-prone one.

I don't think it's the least error-prone, but it's not bad.
In my state (Utah). The government is attempting to roll back solar subsidies because "that industry should stand on it's own two feet". Conveniently neglecting to mention the massive tax breaks to fossil fuels.

I wish everyone competed in a free market (for the most part), but the energy market is not that.
This is akin to what I was thinking, in response to the grandparent's "This means what?"

In California and like places, does it get you into the car pool / hybrid/ electric / bus lane? Is that part of why they colored it green -- so it looks like / is apparent that you qualify?

P.S. Reading the Wikipedia link, I find the answer to my question: No.

However, the warranty extension requirements look good to me -- having an older Subaru whose evaporative emmissions control system started to go wonky a bit after the 10 year mark. Something that can be bugger all difficult and expensive to diagnose and fix.
You invite users to donate to regularly purchase your cryptoassets whilst designing a dark pattern UX which indicates the cryptoassets are being distributed in a certain ratio amongst YouTubers and other content creators. Your website also falsely claims to be sending these assets to these content creators once a month and falsely claims that browser users can see how the assets have been distributed using this UX. In fact, only a small portion of the assets are actually distributed, and the browser user has no way of knowing whether their intended recipients receive anything.

Your investors are rewarded by the cryptoasset price rising from more people buying the tokens than selling them.

Do you honestly not see the problem here?

And that's even before we get into the TOC which explicitly permit you to confiscate funds not claimed within 90 days for growth marketing use....
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11211454
There is zero chance an employee is going to get in trouble because a browser company they worked for collected funds in an escrow account to be released in the event that an intended recipient signs up.
They seem to acknowledge it and explain:

> High volume of device requests predominantly due to stolen devices investigations.

> High number of financial identifier requests predominantly due to iTunes Gift Card and credit card fraud investigations.
That's after a paragraph where I listed like five large sites with tons of users on them.
This almost sounds like something that belongs on /r/fellowkids. Combined with the description in your profile with the whole "I'm on HN to learn from people out there in the trenches" line makes it all come across very badly IMO. (Written from mobile Brave and love the built in script and ad-blocking, but I honestly think you'd be better off addressing some of the concerns here rather than sidling up and saying "hey I'm one of you"
Same guy made video "FLYING PHONE SCAM EXPOSED (so I built a REAL one)"[1], where he cried that someone made fake video and made money from amazon referrals.

At the same time, this fake glitter dude makes a lot of money from his fake video. Nice.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEZCxxKp0hM
No, since they anonymize the flow and thus do not know where the money came from. https://twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/1076198964607610880
Because a lot of "playing god" is thinly veiled authoritarianism -- the desire to control our fellows, out of our own egotism?
On at least 3 separate occasions now I've gone to open a container tab, and found that I was back to the default set of (Work, Personal, Shopping, I think). Even better is when this happens, it also resets the count on how many container tabs you've opened, so near the end of the day I'll go to shift containers and get blocked by a "Congrats! You've opened 100 container tabs!" that needs to be dismissed.
One slime mold to another: It just might be that these artifacts of quantization we see are proof we are living in a simulation. In fact, there is this argument to be made that the chances that we live in a simulation are bigger than that we do not. Here, let me show you...
It's hard to say which layer you are working with without having to know the whole model. You can always look at data as initial to what is computed, but 1. That's not much different than looking at the code and 2. Everything that is initial probably can be defined in terms of what computed it, unless you want to draw some arbitrary wiggly line between perception and act of taking a record or something like that, in which there are tons of use cases where one defines the other, no matter what sort of nomenclature you start with.
Google News claims to include other sources in a story's feed, to expose the readership to other points of view. That sounds like a great way to burst the "social media bubble".
Url changed from https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/21/18151764/att-5g-evolutio..., which points to this.