skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It makes more sense to call it a fractal rather than a pile. In the paper they reference, it is suggested that particles can form fractal like structures through a diffusion limited aggregation process[0]. One very important result in planetary science is the observation by the astronaut Donald Pettit of granular materials aggregating together in microgravity[1]* . In the experiment[2], it appears that some of the resulting structures resemble those formed in a diffusion limited aggregation process.

*It is also worth noting that this experiment was entirely ad-hoc and came about from Don basically just playing around with stuff in microgravity

[0]https://arxiv.org/pdf/1402.7132.pdf

[1]https://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2004/pdf/1119.pdf

[2]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0YuivnCXhM
> There is more than one version, and I know the first version was made freely available online

Good news! Every version is freely available online. Here's the most recent:

http://modernperlbooks.com/books/modern_perl_2016/index.html
I second what you said. People want to call those in infosec paranoid, but there is also the very real risk of spying or theft or intellectual property that one can never let their guard down. It's not paranoid if it's true! This mentality is very tiring to keep up with but if you don't, you can lose badly.
Also I think if you ever need a kidney transplants, all the antibodies in your system from blood transfusions may make it hard to find a match.
Last time I flew from SFO to MUC, we had almost 100mph tail winds, that was already very impressive and shortened the flight time considerably, but nothing compared to this.
Poe's law is so strong with this comment, I have no idea what to believe.
Basically what happens is that even if you start to be cash positive, you want to get a bigger company, so you need to scale a lot the sales team and the customer support team, so you spend more money in order to end with more customers, not caring about the short term profitability. This is common to most startups basically.

Btw the Redis Labs development team at this point is quite large, because Redis open source is the core, but the company produces a number of things in order to provide a good managed Redis experience, all the additional features and modules, and so forth. But even so, I think it is accurate to say that most money in most companies of this kind will go to orchestrate the company at a different level, not just R&D.
Numbers don't exist - unless you're a Platonist.

The experience of numbers certainly exists. The reason you recognise one-ness and two-ness in objects is because your brain experiences a difference between one-object and a-pair-of-those-objects.

The experience is subjective. If you have two objects that are identical except for the fact that one is red and the other is blue, you can parse them as one-each-of-red-and-blue or as two-identical-things. Both interpretations are logically consistent, but the most useful interpretation depends on the context, and your specific needs as defined by the context.

It's easy to underestimate how subjective math is.

I've long suspected that this is why math eventually dissolves into incompleteness theorems. You can't prove a subjective experience, and eventually all mathematical reasoning reduces to subjectivity - even something basic like true/false, which is essentially just an interpretation of experience. (And can be very unreliable.)

Math is really an introspective map of experiences and processes that we find collectively consistent. We like to tell ourselves it's external and objective. But how can we tell the difference between true objectivity and subjective consistency when we only have shared human subjectivity to use as a reference?
Link currently broken (from their side)
You're not likely to be able to test throughput without running into the limitation imposed by whatever instance type or service you are using to deliver it.

An individual service effectively has infinite bandwidth relative to the available bandwidth of any of the major providers.

Not that seeing test results for service-level capabilities would not be interesting, but it isn't really a test of the network itself.
The argument "it's too slow to be a spaceship" makes a lot of unstated economic assumptions. Yes, a bigger sail would be faster. But if you wanted to send a lot of ships to various places, and you were the kind of civilization that makes very long-term investments, smaller probes could be optimal.
Regarding number 2. I absolutely agree and we need to change the visa system to prevent the routine abuse that happens to people because of it.

Though I don't know how we can change it to prevent that.
Having to vet the source of the children's blood you vampire like transfuse yourself with sounds like a billionaire problem.
Putting the Brakes on Aging
Works just fine for me.
This seems like a misunderstanding more than anything else. The cofounder of IP3 is a four star general in the US Army.

http://ip3international.com/member/general-ret-john-m-jack-k...
Long ago I found this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/lisp/comments/1totwx/some_useful_li...

lisp to pascal .. with vanilla pretty-printer customization
- Left negative feedback for manager -> Prohibited to leave feedback by manager.

- Required to work on weekends.

- Denied some form of immigration benefits behind his back.

- Told that his wife having a job has anything whatsoever with him being able to transfer.

- The above being a lie.

- Required to show up 4 hours before everyone else.

- Punished for using sick days.

I don't think any of the concrete concerns I listed above are subject to the authors interpretation. Short of the author lying they appear to be valid complaints.
There's also incredibly profitable cigarette business's that want to fund the opposite, and arguably have had much more influence and money to do so. Weed isn't a miracle, but it's also not evil either.
> Notice this guy joined Twitter in December.

Leakers have good reason to protect their identity. Especially when Tesla fans get so clearly agitated about anything that can be even remotely construed as negative toward Tesla and/or Musk.

> particularly the one saying there are tons of RWD Long Range cars just sitting. The claim that they have them in inventory but aren't selling them just beggars belief.

Why do you need to be "suspicious" of something as obvious as the below. These are just 3 examples that appear like you can place the order. Those are all LR RWDs (they only comprise 2.4% of the dataset, so I agree that LR RWDs are basically non-existent)

* https://3.tesla.com/model3/order/5YJ3E1EA7JF136358

* https://3.tesla.com/model3/order/5YJ3E1EA9JF118167

* https://3.tesla.com/model3/order/5YJ3E1EA0JF062734

> I also wonder if he's sure they're US cars

The sixth digit in the VIN is a '7' for European cars and '1' for North American Model 3s. 100% of these VINs have a '1' in the sixth position. There's also 10,848 vehicles listed, quite a few more than the 8500 in the headline.

> For 3 weeks solid I saw at least one transporter full of Euro-spec 3s going up 101 to SF to be shipped overseas.

Yes, they have sent 5 ships to Europe and 4 to China so far. Estimates are 2,500 cars per ship. A 10th ship just arrived on Sunday. So yes that's ~25,000 cars going to Pier 80 in San Franciso so far this quarter.
Based off some of the responses here I just want to clarify some things in order to make this work.

- Yes, you have to have vetted your contracting companies. In our case that's something we'd already done (roughly 20%-30% of our staff are contractors)

- This is contact to hire, which is different than bringing on contractors for staff augmentation. The intent is to hire and the applicant is made aware of that up-front, to the extent that their employee salary is negotiated and employee benefits package is discussed.

- W2 employees jump at the chance to be given an opportunity to prove themselves in a new domain. Younger and older employees are especially attracted to this option.

- You're still doing an interview, but the nature of the interview is different since you know the contracting firm has vetted their basic skills.

- So far we've only had to let one person go, they simply never could "gel" with the team. We've had two others we had to let go as we were scammed - the person that did the interview wasn't the person that showed up to work. Yes, it happens. What we don't have is a "revolving door" situation where people are continually rotating in-and-out.
Another way of framing it is that by regularly accepting a low but non-zero risk of very serious consequences of blood transfusion, you get a possibility of magic happening which currently exists in the realm of conjecture.

Not to mention that some people have established medical needs for plasma donations and the number of donors is not unlimited...
YouTube has 1.8 billion monthly users - nearly one quarter of the entire human species' population. They have about 550% the population of the USA inside their 'house.' They have hundreds of millions more users than the largest country in the world has citizens. I think the only thing analogs to household (or even most business) rules emphasize is how inappropriate they are to considering what the most reasonable action in this sort of scenario is.

YouTube is a natural monopoly which changes the whole picture. It even works as a bypass for literal first amendment infringement from the government. Imagine a government entity wanted to prohibit discussion of a given topic. In past times, their only option would be to try to pass legislation against it. That's where the first amendment kicks in. In modern digital times, however, there's another option. They can simply apply pressure or offer incentives to e.g. Google and Facebook to ensure it ends up on their black lists. It's a clear violation of the spirit of the constitution without clearly violating the constitution. None of these issues came up when considering the constitution as the concept of things such as a private company having a monopoly on public discourse would be completely nonsensical.

I think it's completely unavoidable that the next socioeconomic movement of society will be to an overt corporatocracy. That's disappointing, but it is what it is. The only thing I wish is that people would realize is that these steps are exactly how we get there. This all effectively comes down to not only simply accepting a monopoly of this scale, but now further suggesting that this monopoly begin ensuring that the discourse is 'corporate approved'. I'm certain YouTube will be thrilled to comply.
paper:

> [Oumuamua as a fractal] is a hypothesis worth investigating ...

tabloid journalists:

> NO, 'OUMUAMUA IS NOT AN ALIEN SPACESHIP ...

I guess the use of 'Bad Astronomy' tag is apt.
Well-established medical practices aren't necessarily safe, they just have benefits that tend to outweigh the risks in normal use. When there are no established benefits, even a small risk is too much.
Well, yea, you can only hurt your case, not help it.
> having your circulatory system grafted onto a teenager.

College students need money and spring break is a good time to be grafted onto an old rich guy for a week.
I know https://leekwars.com/ and have seen a couple others coming by, both on HN and played by my friends, but I haven't seen such a list. There also seems to be a few interesting single player ones, like ruby-warrior.

I found the following while browsing AlternativeTo, it might be nice to fill in the others as well: https://codecombat.com/, https://robocode.sourceforge.io/,
Probably not a ton. I used to donate plasma every Friday for some beer money. I'd normally get 15-30 dollars. That number was higher than most as well, because I got paid extra due to receiving various vaccinations in the military.
Don't even numbers have a pretty easy definition? If prime factorizartion of the number contains at least a 2
What are you hoping to accomplish with this post?
As a customer, this is unfortunate news.

Why is it so hard to just supply an honest service in exchange for money and take a nice profit?
Why do you think that would be more likely in a structure like McKinsey's than in other structures? E.g. many banks have such structures (e.g. trading and M&A have a "firewall" between them so that no information crosses), and obviously insider trading/market manipulation happens between companies with no (or very little) legal connections (e.g. LIBOR scandal, or most other insider trading).
lol, ok. Make that 800 MPH then.
I wonder what VCs expect of Redis Labs now that they've raised a total of $146M. Let's say the VCs are shooting for a 10x return... does that mean everyone's expecting a sale/IPO for $1.5B (with revenues of maybe $25M/year)? It took RL 7+ years to get to this point, so what do investors see that I don't see?
it means that neurons can 'transmit' a spike to their immediately neighboring neurons even without chemical synaptic transmission (which is the norm). i cant think of a relation to sleep but there could be one.
The article claims that if it has the snowflake properties it isn’t long and thin and still produces what we saw.
If you don't have a European physical presence, GDPR can't really be enforced.

We really need something here in the US that's enforceable.
Flight Reaches 801 MPH as a Furious Jet Stream Packs Record-Breaking Speeds
Find it incredible as well. The average user finds Calibre to be too complex.

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Jasper Reports seems adequate. The report designer can be frustrating due to it's various quirks and bugs, but it gets the job done.

The main perk, in my opinion, is that it provides source XML files that define all the components of the report. This is a boon for version-control compared to Crystal Reports files, which I don't believe can be conveniently versioned.
One of the features of language is that many words or phrases have more than one meaning, and people determine which meaning is meant by context. In particular, the phrase "Roman Empire" can mean either Eastern and Western branches, or just the Western one. In this case it is obvious it is the latter that is intended.

However, it is good to bring up Byzantium since so many people are completely unaware that it was the Eastern Roman Empire.
Ah, haha. No such luxuries there.
This reminds me of my Italian grammar teacher telling me that nouns can be broken into two categories: ‘concrete’ and ‘abstract’ (for example, ‘chair’ and ‘love’ respectively). Then came a totally mind bending digression for my eight-year-old mind when she mumbled “well actually all nouns are abstract because there’s no such thing as a chair divorced from reality, there’s nobly instantiations of these abstract concepts we consider close enough to be concrete”. That totally blew my mind. Together with reading The Computational Beauty Of Nature” when it first came out nine years ago those were the two key experiences that drove me towards choosing to get a degree in mathematics.
The problem with this story is that it's more about an abusive boss at Amazon than Amazon.

Any large company is going to have abusive individuals in it. I think the real issue this story illustrates is that when people are brought over on work visas they have no leverage with their employer.

As an American citizen software engineer my boss knows that if I'm unhappy I will just leave. But the boss of someone on a work visa knows they can do pretty much whatever they want to them and the employee is just stuck.

So we need to change the work visa system so those employees aren't in such a vulnerable position. How exactly? I don't know..
> even though vacuum tubes are commercially extinct

Sounds like someone's never shopped for guitar amps before.
Come back in a year and tell us how this went.
>If you are at your job as part of your Visa process, you are essentially a slave with a slave's rights to match, and you are better off not rocking the boat if you want to complete the process.

This is why it is critical for people with citizenship to advocate for their coworkers with visas, both within the context of their workplace and outside. Pressure your congressional representatives to pursue comprehensive immigration reform. Have a conversation with HR about visa-blind recruitment and retention policies.
I wonder if I can sell my middle aged blood at a discount
> If a group of players does not play because they feel unwelcome, THAT is the thing that matters

What, in terms of profit? (And in the next paragraph, competitive advantage, really?) That’s a very narrow view of what it means for something to “matter”.
Is it technically correct to call 'Oumuamua an UFO? I mean, it is unidentified so it should apply, right?
My point is that when science discovers something, good or bad, the FDA will be the last one to tell you.

The commenters in this thread seem to believe an FDA warning is some type of negative proof on this therapy. I just don't think that's the right way to read this.
> Especially given that most uses of the continuous variable systems is to encode discrete qubits

Current uses, maybe.

> Is there any Complexity Theory work published about continuous variable models?

"Complexity and Real Computation".

> And photonic systems do not magically fix the noise issue. Noise grows in a fast non-linear fashion with the size of the system, so the "constant factor" noise suppression you gain from switching to photonic systems is quickly washed away.

Is there anything published on the fact that this cannot be overcome?
Regarding point 3, you can run Lambda on edge nodes too — Lambda@Edge, which uses CloudFront.

Although as you say, whether that ends up reducing latency in particle depends very much on your use case.
>Examples of typical undirected comments that would occur in either condition include ""my girlfriend keeps sexting me how do I get her to stop?", "going in balls deep", "what a surprise. strokes dick [during the post-game highlight]", and "support your local boobies".

I think it's notable that although these are not directed they are highly gendered. This is part of the problem as well.
Russia Moves to Mask Its Soldiers' Digital Trail with Smartphone Ban
No integrating the power distribution into the vest - the cables. So power goes down your sling to your rifle to deliver power for optics, lasers, torch etc, and up a cable to your helmet for more optics, and so on. The battery lives on your belt kit I think in prototypes I've seen.
Proper place to check for Java features.

http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/0

Regarding JDK 13, this is the WIP page.

http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk/13/
It may be more than a language to describe the world. Take Euler's identity, e^(i*pi)=-1. One of the most striking equations in maths and it doesn't really describe anything physical in particular and true regardless of the nature of the world.
hah! last year, for our bounty snake, we used a c4.2xlarge. Still, we could only manage a depth of 6-7 before hitting the response-time limit.
seems similar in spirit to facebook's [pfff](https://github.com/facebook/pfff)
It’s likely less than the reading error in most speedometers including those which are used for autonomous vehicles unless you are writing a guidance system for bombs or attempting to land on another planet that’s pretty negligible.
> More than a fractal, it is better to imagine it as a pile of recently fallen snow

But snow flakes are fractals.
For stuff like this. For stuff we can’t even fathom yet. The world didn’t need the amazing diversity of organisms that it has, but then we can’t imagine a world without it. The “swarm” offers a lot more than just numbers, but it also offers numbers. Arguing against each planet having observatory abilities and comms is not that far from dismissing all progress on the basis that “well were already pretty well off.”
Aside from very real medical concerns being covered in other comments, donors are typically anonymous. So I would be extremely leery of claims that it's from "young people" to begin with.

Blood intended to save your life makes no unverifiable claims about the age of the donor. They are pretty strict about who can give blood, but this is not per se a pertinent metric normally.
It's funny how you often notice bullies getting promoted - is destruction of a low-level person a rite of passage for a middle manager to get ahead at many US corporations these days? I can imagine if they select for some dark-triad characteristics and going all-in, demonstrating cold/calculating/cruel moves while keeping paperwork clean signalizes the right person?
Your reasoning is not backed up by evidence.

In the 2016 election, "Social Justice" barely made the top ten issues people voted on[1] (#1, It's the economy, stupid!) The independents that swung for Trump were worried about their jobs (or lack thereof). His base was more concerned with social justice issues, but they would've voted for him anyway.

The democratic candidate, nor her running mate were widely known, or even running on social justice issues. [2]

Lastly a higher tax on the wealthy is highly popular, even in republican circles. As are some "socialist" type policies like medicare for all. [3]

[1] http://www.people-press.org/2016/07/07/4-top-voting-issues-i...

[2] https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2016/jul/22...

[3] https://thehill.com/hilltv/what-americas-thinking/425422-a-m...
I hope he has written email records of all of these claims. If so I'm quite confident he'll have a strong court case.
When I was getting my pilots license I stumbled into a really cool video NASA did showing exactly what happens when you reach a fluttering condition like what you described. This is a link to the NASA recording if anyone is interested.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEOmCkZyXzk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhwLojNerMU (Older with music, kinda funny old-school science video from NASA)

Edit: formatting.
Sounds like 2019 tech vampires...
Would you guys like to become Code Shelter maintainers?
Where Movies Get Their Vintage Electronics
The license plate story is useful, but it does not address the uniqueness problem. We see lots of license plates, and there's nothing particularly special about most combinations of characters. We see lots of rocks, too, but until Oumuamua they were all solar. The distinction between solar and nonsolar is meaningful; indeed, many astronomers have wanted to see a rock from outside the solar system for a long time.
On the flipside though:

* You're always thinking of whether you might need to use weak refs, right? That's a cognitive load that you would otherwise be spared.

* What are the consequences when you get it wrong?

* How probable is a mistake, particularly when working with a large complex codebase that you didn't create, and don't fully understand?

* How probable is it that you might fail to detect a mistake, for a long time?
Office Space at 20: How the Comedy Spoke to an Anxious Workplace
My comment is made to combat the tone of this thread that somehow an FDA warning is the same thing as negative proof.

The FDA is famously restricted by the Feds, often leaving them decades behind. This is like an OSHA type warning telling you not to inject plasma into yourself like an idiot.
Cultured Lab Meat May Make Climate Change Worse