skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> just computing the integrals numerically and then converting to fractions
> because the error in result was smaller than the the threshold needed to convert it to a fraction.

Then why can't they display 9 instead of 9.000000007? What is that threshold if 0.7e-9 not small enough? And, are you telling me that computing integral(sin(x)dx from 0 to pi/3) can be done with better precision than 0.7e-9, whereas arcsin(arccos(arctan(tan(cos(sin(9)))))) cannot?

Otherwise, of course I don't know how these devices work internally. But have you designed one, or you're just assuming things?
Not like Steve Bannon
Triple distilled, with two scoops of raisins.
Infinitism in Epistemology
Yeah, people with rap sheets, I don’t think tend to age out of criminality.

Young offenders (most?), yeah, I believe they have the potential to age out as they mature and are given avenues to pursue other civil endeavors.
What needs to happen is jail time for systematic violation of the "do not call" list. Anything less is bandaids.
Everyone should censor and shun white supremacists. They have no place in modern society. When they shed their noxious views, we can all welcome them back with open arms.
I'm confused; wouldn't the oxidizer-rich half run hotter? Isn't that challenge the Russians overcame but the US punted on back in the days of the space shuttle?

Your post and the referenced wikipedia article claims the turbines run cooler. Wouldn't that only be true for the fuel-rich side?
Because the slippery cliff/slope almost never happens. It's always threatened, but I really don't see the UK becoming a totalitarian state.
Esports’ rising stars are changing the face of gaming culture
Could be improved by "This person does not exist... and never has before."

Some might just think they are deceased with the current title.
> Truth be told, nobody makes hardware the way they used to in the 70s and the 80s.

> Simply put, CASIO is the king, and fx-991EX, whatever you call it, is the mother of all calculators, both in build quality and features

Let me introduce to you the DM-42, the ultimate calculator

https://www.swissmicros.com/dm42.php

Precision? 34 decimal digits

Build quality? Steel case for starters

Keypad? Harks back to those classic HPs in feel

Screen? High-res, high contrast

Performance? 24 MHz ARM core

And best of all? Fully free firmware that you can verify and modify to your hearts content.
Sometimes people intentionally make computers dumb.
> meaning that they had very little engine-out margin

N-1 could complete the mission with up to 4 engines turned off from the start. And I guess it it's not from the start, you could turn off even more engines and still have a successful flight.

Even though Saturn-V is heavier, N-1 has more lift-off thrust. Partially to have this kind of redundancy.
Applications of abduction: knowledge-level modelling (1996) [pdf]
Your comment doesn’t really contradict the parent’s point that they kept trying to put on the festival.

I can agree that they were greedy and criminally delusional, but I can also believe they really did believe they could deliver the event.

If it was just an elaborate get-rich scam from the get-go, they’d have wasted far less money trying to produce the event.
I think you might be on to something here...
Of course it doesn't hurt profits. It doesn't prevent copyright lobbyists from saying that it does, though.
Not quite that many, the NANP only allows NXX numbers that would match this Regex:

[2-9](?!11)[0-9]{2}

So there's only 7,200,000 numbers allowable within a singe NANP area code.
The Jains are discussed early in the Atlantic article under discussion.
Imagine if those sites had to build their own captcha service instead. How much more expensive would they be?
Broke my waterpump. Lots of trouble usually serious.
Crossing Africa and the Sahara by Truck (1959/60)
My pleasure, and I have a great link that goes into the exact mechanism of how CFC photochemistry destroys the ozone layer.

https://scied.ucar.edu/ozone-layer

Here’s one with more technical analysis along with the exact chemistry:

http://www.theozonehole.com/ozonedestruction.htm

Here’s a broad overview with historical perspectives from the American Chemical Society: https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/education/whatischemistry...

I hope this helps.
Show HN: A transit assistant app for commuters who use the GO Transit in Toronto
I don't think it's intentional -- it probably just emerges from the training process.

I'm guessing they do something like load up a batch of images and once N people agree on one, record the answer and remove it from the rotation. You end up left with the ambiguous images where people couldn't agree.
Hi guys we built this app to be a companion transit app for the daily commuter who uses the GO Transit in Toronto. I know it's bit niche but wanted to share it with the HN community since we are long time HN fans. Feedback would be appreciated! Also it's iOS only for now but we are working hard on Android to get it done asap! Thanks for checking us out :)
Bandcamp.

Otherwise get the CD and rip it, even though that is still a gray territory even after 2 decades.
Fodder for a third documentary!
I stopped using phone completely, period, even for known numbers. It's in permanent silence, no vibration, no checking mode. It took some time for friends to learn they have to use Skype or whatsapp to contact me, but after that I don't have to worry about spam and midnight calls anymore.
> I'm willing to bet if you record how long you spend clicking signs and lights on average, it's going to be more like several seconds than a few minutes.

How much, and at what odds?

The length of the average Google CATPCHA has been steadily going up for me. I haven't pulled out a stopwatch, but I do count how many image sets I go through. I basically never get through on the checkbox unless I've done one on another site shortly before. I sometimes succeed after one set, but if I don't it's consistently 3+. The worst case I've seen was 10 layers of slow-loading images without success, at which point I gave up and tried on another device. (If it had been a site I didn't need, I'd have given up after 5 - which I do fairly often, so I don't have an average count needed to succeed!)

I'm fully aware that average users don't have this much trouble, or people would be furious. But I also see that captcha ramps up to an extremely long process in the face of even modest privacy-protection efforts like not running Javascript or allowing third party trackers by default. (God forbid you're using a VPN for any reason.) It's not assessing your humanity but your familiarity, using the same fingerprinting tools as any site that wants to track you.

Spam is a real problem, and a hard one to solve, but I admit I'm hostile to Google's captcha. Partly because it really is a significant time sink for me. Partly because it lacks any progress indicator or fallback option so it's an indefinite hurdle to accessing sites I'm already committed to using. But largely because, despite what I really believe are good intentions, it's yet another force pushing people to give up privacy and even security if they want websites to work tolerably.
If it doesn't fit the narrative, it's in dispute.
Debunking the Myths of the War in Afghanistan
Yeah, blending in seems to work better in many cases. Remember the guy who sent a bomb threat over TOR? The only reason he was caught so quickly was because he's the only person on the organisation's network to have accessed TOR before the incident.
US carriers illegally sold 911 location data
Paying a scumbag for an interview is problematic in the sense that it shows a willingness to "fund bad people" in exchange for their stories. This does not create a conflict of interest, or the appearance of a bias.

Having the scumbags who were responsible for producing the festival involved in producing the documentary can lead to a MASSIVE conflict of interest and screams of bias in the narrative.

This is a false equivalency. One is good jurnos doing bad things to tell the story. The other could be bad jurnos doing a bad thing to spin a story.
Yes, and due to overfishing Russia banned it periodically in 2007 onwards.
Ask HN: What makes you laugh?
What they're actually getting though is the population consensus of what normal people believes Google's image classifier believes. The system incentivizes users to reinforce misconceptions their classifier has.

Does this look like a mountain to you? https://0x0.st/zzvr.jpg

Google's image classifier would think that's a mountain. If you disagree, google will classify you as a robot. After failing these sort of challenges a few times the user decides to play along and tell google what they think google wants to hear, rather than the truth.
We are not nearly as determined by our genes as once thought
I think BEM was the point where I decided to give up and accept CSS in my JS.
I get the feeling if you really wanted a true transparency report, you would discuss government requests, but also prevalence & detection & restriction of bots, prevalence & detection & restriction of vote farming, true likelihood of random submissions doing anything, acts of reddit censorship and the underlying and reportable reasons for doing so, user tracking and sales & mining of user information.

I don't see 95% of that there.
Still my favourite summary of Twitter:

> The following extract shows how a messaging client's text entry could be arbitrarily restricted to a fixed number of characters, thus forcing any conversation through this medium to be terse and discouraging intelligent discourse.

> <label>What are you doing? <input name=status maxlength=140></label>

-- Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group, https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/input.html#attr-input...
> It’s not “the EU” in general that is to blame – but those who put special interests above fundamental rights who currently hold considerable power.

While I agree with the author's point that the latter category--those who put special interests above fundamental rights--includes the far right as well as the far left, I have to disagree that "it's not the EU in general that is to blame". The problem is that the EU in general is set up to allow this sort of thing to take place. Yes, in this particular case it has bubbled up to visibility early enough to give people a chance to try to convince their representatives to say no. But how many other things are going on behind closed doors that don't get publicized? How many other special interests are being put above fundamental rights without public knowledge? If a government is so untrustworthy that citizens have to constantly micromanage what it does to avoid having their rights taken away, what's the point of having the government in the first place?
It's a Netflix documentary intended for entertainment. I think expecting it to the objective at all wasn't very realistic in the first place.
The debt is about 3x higher in real dollars, and about 2x higher relative to GDP. That doesn’t seem like the sort of change that would take you from “moderate” to “truly massive.”
And the number of livestock with shitty factory lives is multiple orders of magnitude greater than the number on happy animal friendly farms.
Sorry, I disagree.

I grew up in the Soviet Union, and in the 80's black sturgeon caviar was readily available at reasonable prices.

It was and is DELICIOUS. We had no idea it was a status symbol, we just loved the shit out of it on bread with butter.
His main argument besides 'name a country where this has ever worked' was that he is a philanthropist.
He alleges that his foundation would have contributed more (in terms of $$$) than a 70% marginal rate. He further feels more comfortable deciding where/how to help by himself instead of giving the money to the gouvernment.

Just because some billionares use their money in good faith, how many of the >5.000.000$/year behave the same? Do they help, buy overpriced luxury goods they don't need, or park their money in some financial product.

His foundation does much work outside of the USA. That's commendable, but it's not up to the individual to decide what they fund. For a good reason.

He really came as arrogant and uninformed. And where was the push back from the host?

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NR_lictGa5g&t=1m50s
The vast majority of robo calls are done for someone either in the US (a company) to make money or uses the US banks to collect money in some way.

What they may want to consider is a team of people to actually take the calls and trace them back to the source. Or at least the people that are making money in some way. And don't say or react 'oh that wouldn't work'. Of course it would work if done correctly. No point in selling health insurance by way of a third party making calls or on your own if it will get you in hot water.

From what I can tell nobody is making robo calls to simply be annoying. It's quite different than a DOS attack done for fun or many other 'crimes' if you want to call it that.

Not that they shouldn't approach this in the way they are. But to simply make as if there is no way to get the perps is a bit ridiculous. Someone is in the end selling something or collecting some name or something like that.

I am reminded of what I thought back when graffiti was a bigger deal than it is now. Why not simply set honey pots that you know are going to get tagged? Or monitor various locations likely to get graffiti.

Now this doesn't mean that offshore people with scams won't get involved. That could happen. But as a start might make sense to at least gut the people in the US that are benefiting from this (in addition not instead of other 'remedies' by the carriers).
The Theory of Relational Databases (1983)
Show HN: Fighting Discomfort While Having an Interview with a Recruiter
By that logic Toyota should of been Chinese 20 years ago?
[...document.querySelectorAll(el)]
thats actually a kind of cool attack vector.
> and I can guarantee you that 22 year old compsci grads and 50 year old product management vice presidents who think the glossiness of the building is important are much bigger shitbags than 18 year old college applicants and 70 year old professors who might think so too.

Could you elaborate on that? I feel like those labels could all describe the same people depending on their life experiences. The psychological factors that result in high-achievers in academia and industry seeking prestige are too subtle for me to understand well enough to think of any of these people as “shitbags”.
Yup. Magit is a stellar example of UI that's both discoverable and ergonomic. It shows you a popup with a list of options available to you at a given stage, with plainly visible keyboard shortcut. But it doesn't block or slow you down with this.

Say you're trying to show git log. The first time around, you'll press "?" to show the top-level popup, notice "l" is for logging, press "l", see the popup for logging commands, notice you need to press "l" again, press it. The next time around, you'll just press "l l" without thinking, and Magit will react as fast as you can type.
boy talk about irony!
The parent’s main point was they really did intend to put on a festival, rather than just disappear with the cash. Yes they deceived and lied to a lot of people; no one disputes that. But they still did seriously intend to run a festival, as ridiculous an idea as that was.
You're lying to yourself if you think that's the case.
To anyone reading this, I'm building a tool to automate this nonsense, at least until Node/NPM do something about it. Email me at niftylettuce@gmail.com if you want to get notified once it's up. It will be free and open-source.
Show HN: Open source agent to optimize Kubernetes cluster
https://github.com/MagalixCorp/magalix-agent
Would love to get the community's feedback. this agent is open source and it currently connects to Magalix backend which has an always free offering for you to monitor and optimize your resources on K8s.
I want to believe. I want to share this kind of optimism.

The harsh reality is that people will f off and less content will be produced. That's it.
One pet peeve of mine is that these old systems are often trivially navigable with a (often custom) keyboard, then replaced with something that needs a mouse.

So 'tap, tap, tap, tap, enter' becomes 'tap, <locate mouse> click, tap, tap <locate mouse>, click'.
Safe harbor is a mostly ridiculous concept where everyone has agreed tech companies should be able to profit from illegal activity and be exempt from being penalized for doing so.

It needs to die in the EU, and it needs to die here in the US. The apocalyptic language you've seen is merely companies upset that they may have to take on... the same responsibility to follow the law as the rest of us. The idea that the whole Internet is going to be illegal and everything you know and love is going to die is silly, and pretty much every single organization claiming such is funded by big tech.

If these companies want to continue to make money (they do), they'll figure out a way to make it work.
My theory is that the challenges are actually just to slow down humans trying to do repetitive sensitive tasks (sign ups for instance).
Oddly, they don't answer the harder question.

How you can prove that a human genuinely wanting the information in the page is filling that information out? Imprisoned humans are great CAPTCHA defeat bots.
Because Google can extract value from captchas, it makes world-class captchas and bot detection AI available to every webmaster for free. I don't know what that level of service would otherwise cost, but it almost certainly wouldn't be affordable for low-traffic blogs and the like, which would end up vulnerable using weaker captchas or trying to roll their own. Everywhere else the cost would just get passed on to users.

I don't love the compromise of paying for things with my data or by training Google's AI, but it's hard to say users aren't getting anything out of it. That said, I do miss the old reCaptcha.
Maier's The Theory of Relational Databases is one of the most highly cited textbooks on Relational Theory. I've given the first 2 chapters a look over, and I can see why: the writing style is clear, and its concepts are so fundamental that they are still applicable today (roughly 36 years after this textbook was first published).

I haven't read all of this yet, but I figure someone out there will find it helpful. My personal use of this textbook is for constraint-programming, which is closely related to the Relational Theory used in relational databases.
Luckily the dataset is attractive people so no danger of that for me.
I wish I could find it, but I read an article a while ago that showed how CDN-cached stuff usually, well, isn't. At the very least it's not something to rely on when making decisions about payload size.
this should be at the top, dammit
As i wrote in the paragraph you quote, my assumption is that this models wooden items being burnt at the end of their useful lives.

But hey, don't take my word for it - in the paper, that bit references this:

Penman J, Gytarsky M, Hiraishi T, Krug T. Good practice guidance for land use, land-use change and forestry. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), chapter 3, Appendix 3.A.1.3. UNEP; 2003. p. 268–70.

Which you can read here:

https://www.ipcc-nggip.iges.or.jp/public/gpglulucf/gpglulucf...

https://www.ipcc-nggip.iges.or.jp/public/gpglulucf/gpglulucf...

So dive into the gory details of harvested wood products, and the basis for their future methodological development to your heart's content!
Yes if the data is of value. They don't give this data out publicly. Open source the data or pay.
N-1 steered by differential thrust, meaning every engine points directly backwards and losing one on the rim means you have to turn off another on the opposite side to compensate, and now you've lost all the margin there is in the design and quite a lot of control authority too. All SpaceX rockets steer by gimbaling engines, meaning you lose one on the rim and you just adjust the thrust vectors to compensate.
That story is very much over sold. They defiantly designed the things with a longer lifespan in mind. NASA simply had more reasonable minimum specks so if they died on day 220 nobody would call the program a failure.
They only make the monochrome fx-9860GII and fx-9750GII.
What about individuals though? I think that is the point in question here
Nasa Declares Its Mars Rover Opportunity Mission Over After 14 Years
Tangential, but the Lec quote at the beginning made me smile. Thank you, author, for the token of appreciation to a great aphorist.
There's a world of difference. Plutarch is - as an old friend of mine once said - "an old club bore telling rambling anecdotes about famous men". Thucydides work is incisive and focused.

Both are enjoyable though.
haha I thought about this too, they are milking this so effectively!

they get to make their own meta-memes about it too!

every startup spending two hour meetings on a hashtag that nobody will use needs to learn from this instruction manual.
If that's true I take it all back, but the way I read "long-term residual" was that even after you paid it back they still got a piece of the action.
From what I can tell, the telcos are implementing it, or at least say they are:

* "Caller Verified is T-Mobile’s implementation of the STIR and SHAKEN standards" [0]

* "Verizon reiterates both our commitment to deploying the STIR/SHAKEN call authentication technology" [1]

* "Sprint supports efforts to build the SHAKEN/STIR call authentication system" [2]

* AT&T doesn't seem to mention STIR or SHAKEN by name on their robocall page [3] but the FCC sent them a letter thanking them for their "commitment to implement a robust call authentication framework in 2019" [4]

* "Comcast is proud to be at the forefront of efforts to address the scourge of illegal spoofed robocalls in this country, including the development of the end-to-end call authentication protocol known as SHAKEN and STIR" [5]

etc

[0]: https://www.t-mobile.com/news/caller-verified-note9

[1]: https://ecfsapi.fcc.gov/file/1119062987519/2018%2011%2019%20...

[2]: https://ecfsapi.fcc.gov/file/1091391175368/Sprint%20Call%20A...

[3]: https://about.att.com/sites/cyberaware/ae/robocall

[4]: https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-354933A2.pdf

[5]: https://ecfsapi.fcc.gov/file/111974588343/Comcast%20Resp%20t...
Surely this is effected by relativity?

Edit: Or rather should I say it’s relative... (lol?)
All of the links I've conjured up are pointing to the same bit of information, will continue to hunt down more but I can say at least for my account I was able to fully delete my FB account, and login to the browser version of messenger.com using the same email/pass combo.

I've also been able to log into the Messenger mobile app without giving them a phone number (I was prompted, but not required at the time to enter a phone number). This all happened back in July of last year, so if the mechanism has changed since then, it's entirely possible you're correct that a phone number is now required instead of optional, as it was for me-and everyone else before the change and we just got 'grandfathered' in. Maybe?
Underpromise and over deliver :)
Does it? The US market is greater than $10 billion and there are plenty of movies that portray Americans as bad guys. Seems more like the government of China might not allow that movie to be released in the first place.
EU busybodies are unaccountable, unelected and practically live in another dimension. There's no way something like the SOPA protests could work here.
ahem..

FUCK /U/SPEZ!
It seems like McFarland had an incredible ability to make people think he could overcome the issues with the festival and make it a success, which is why so many people worked day and night to try to pull it off. Are we supposed to believe the marketing agency should have predicted its failure and quit when so many people on the ground at the island didn’t?
Watch This Tesla Model 3 Stop Itself to Avoid Horrific Crash