skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Appropriate types and degrees of showmanship/salesmanship depend on the target customer. And scientists, by and large, don't seem to be concerned with impressing the general public - or at least, that is far secondary to the importance of impressing other scientists.

One could argue that making an impression on other scientists is the basis of the scientific method. And we impress with the quality of our evidence and the repeatability of our experiments.
>This is true in the sense that property rights always depend on law and the government making the law.

This rebuttal is getting recycled so often that I nearly addressed it before anyone said it. But since you've said it, I'll say that it is true only to the extent that government holds a monopoly over dispute resolution in matters of property. As it stands, indeed, any kind of ownership is dubious, considering that many are required to pay what amounts to rent (property tax), or lose their land. This is on top of the ability of the state to simply take land and other forms of property, based on whatever the local legal system allows (eminent domain, asset forfeiture, etc).

I'd add that this isn't necessarily an easy problem to solve, so I don't propose that anyone has a utopian answer to it all.
I'm pretty sure that "quarter of" means 15 minutes before, not after. But confusingly, I've also heard people day just "quarter" (no "of") to mean 15 minutes after.
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Not enough to keep Tesla afloat.
They have to sell one to every Swiss to survive.

Something should be said about the stupidity of governments that use taxpayer money to subsidize foreign car makers but you get the point.
I think you've got a typo here: points should be 0-dimensional.
Yeah, same name and security (otherwise it would presumably never work.) The problem is the in-between area where there's bad reception for one and good reception for another.
With trivial i meant that it is trivial to have a script that makes @P; a separator (or start marker) if you prefer to work that way. I made the system script-driven with a generic syntax exactly because i didn't want to hardcode any specific way of working with the nodes.

As for TeX, i personally dislike markup languages where whitespace is treated in a special way since this is source code, which often needs some style of its own and sometimes that depends on context.

To me seeing where a paragraph - or any other "long" element - begins and ends can be helpful and if anything, i consider the lack of syntax for this in my markup as a negative (but i couldn't come up with a clean and unambiguous syntax for adding an optional "closing" bit). I compensate for that using comments (which look like @# Blah until the end of line), but it is a workaround.

And also FWIW i prefer to have the markup map to the underlying tree of nodes clearly than introduce "magic" that in some cases can make things harder even for writers.

Keep in mind though that this is for long(ish) documents, like a large tutorial, guide, manual, etc not short comments like this one here. For anything that is around the size of a common blog post or shorter, something more adhoc like Markdown is probably better.
There is a way to opt out. It's a setting within the vehicle.
It could still download it as normal, but show a warning at the end after it computes the hash and compares. Just like getting around a bad HTTPS cert, the browser could allow you to say "I know what I'm doing".

Edit: To clarify, I mean it could show the warning before the browser does the rename of the file from the temporary download file to the final filename.
I suspect this is because it's extremely blurry, if you watch it on a large screen it might trick your eye into trying to refocus, obviously without success.
Interesting opinion. There are not infinitely many resources though and our energy consumption is not yet even near CO2-neutrality.

It's insignificant for eye glass frames, but not so much for other stuff, like packaging.
You didn't cover the most important—and political—reason: it would delay refunds.

2019 deadlines for 1099-INT/DIV (i.e., the forms you get from your bank or brokerage) are April 1st. The IRS filing window opened January 29, with 90% of tax returns processed within 21 days. Since the IRS can't reliably pre-populate a tax return without all the required information, it would delay filing (and refunds) by 8 weeks.

As the tax refund check is the largest check many Americans receive every year, delaying that payout gets taxpayer advocacy groups up in arms and is tantamount to political suicide.

Incidentally, this same gap is where a bulk of tax return fraud happens—equalling billions of dollars. In short, if you file return before the IRS has all the information to validate that return is indeed correct, they'll usually shrug and accept it. By the time they get all the information they need, you've cashed out your refund debit card and are long gone.

I haven't seen any analysis that such a system would lower revenues (indeed, it would stop billions of dollars of fraud and tax evasion), or that the deductible system is too complex.
The stretchy sheet of space time illustration is just a simplified visualization space is 3 dimensional so the warping is 3D. The stretchy sheet visual is used a lot because showing a warped 3D grid to be more accurate is a lot harder and a lot less clear and illustrative. Trying to show a 3D grid doesn't even fully capture the situation because it doesn't show how the passage of time gets distorted as well.
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is there anybody, really anyone, who doesn't want to be the "elite"?

every human wants self-determination, the power shape their own future, to be in control of their fate.

yet not every one of them are or become racist.

furthermore, there are theories (eg feminism) that are built on fairness (as in A Theory of Justice by Rawls), and there are those that are very much not (eg racism).

the others are simply too vague to simply deal with.
The average infantry loadout does not include a handgun.

6mm and 30 are "better" if you don't have to carry it -- you're also forgetting the weapon is much heavier. For the vast majority of infantry encounters, it adds zero capability to the fight.

I'm curious as to when you were in the military, and what military you were in.
Looks like they just started initial operational capability in February 2019, I think just one squadron has them
Well, at least under Windows (and MacOS) you are still able to distribute your application using an installer which users can download from your own site, rather than being forced to use a centralized "app store". And policies like these are making this more difficult. However they won't stop shady sites which "re-bundle" open source applications and add spyware - those will have no problem getting an HTTPS certificate.
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The picture is not captured by lenses, or an optical telescope at all. It is created by inverting the data received at eight radio telescopes (or eighty individual dishes) around the world. And the smoothing is just due to the inherent limit in the resolving power of the telescope array. The impressive bit is that we see more than a single bright dot.
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Can someone stick it on IFPS?
Google already uses .google

http://blog.google http://about.google
The EFF's httpseverywhere extension works well, you need to set it to block if it can't upgrade the connection to tls
Free food was originally introduced to Google in part because there were so few food options near the Mountain View campus that people were driving a half hour each way to spend twenty minutes eating. So yes, the goal was to get people to spend more time at work, but the alternative was “time spent sitting in traffic” rather than “time spent at home”.

(The other major driver behind food was supposedly the fact that the founders were PhD students and had found that some of their best ideas had arisen from informal discussions with other researchers over lunch, so they wanted to create an environment where employees had that same opportunity)
Why are you using the internet or living in the first world then? Instead of talking a good game, why not do something yourself? If you really believed the nonsense you are saying.

Ah, the "unavoidable collapse". I used to think like you because I consumed so bullshit from the news/media. I can't remember how many times "the world was ending". Super bacteria, acidic ocean, peak oil ( remember that one ), supervolcanoes, bees gone, butterflies gone, etc.

Listen, if things were truly getting as bad the propaganda claims, all the rich people's assets would be seized, nobody would be allowed to fly, own yachts and all global shipping would be stopped. If the fearmongering were true, but obviously it is not since the same people fearmongering about climate change are also pushing for more global trade, more consumption and more pollution/environmental destruction.

Do you know what is the biggest source of environmental carnage and climate change? Globalism. Do you know what the fearmongers want more of? Globalism. So maybe the world isn't going to end as they'd like you to believe. Maybe the fearmongering is about something else?
Adding more TLD's is such a bad idea
Ultimately we cannot secure content without being able to look at it (encryption is the problem). We need to be able to look at what the kids are looking at if we want to control what information gets to them.

DNS is a band-aid solution with side effects.
I have an older house that has been expanded several times, with some rather amateurish wiring. One outlet works, the one next to it doesn't. Slow speed, interruptions that require resets...

Google wifi pucks work much better, in spite of the cinder block walls.
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You are correct. Most router these days select channels automatically.

But the automatic channel selection is not very accurate in my personal observation as well as that of a few others on the internet [1]. Wish it were better though. I feel that there are numerous problems in automating the channel selection

1. We have to make sure that this happens without any downtime otherwise there is poor QOS. If the router has to reboot to choose a channel you're out of internet for about 5-10 minutes. It can be very frustrating if it happens often.

2. As if that was not enough you have to draw extra power to scan nearby access points and constantly react to the changing signals. (This would also defeat the point of using low power signals)

In my opinion it is better to tune the routers manually than to set it on automatic channel selection.

> the odds that your [...] is _very_ low

Yes unfortunately that is true. There is little we can do about it. But there is one redeeming factor. As per my understanding interference depends not only on the base access point but also on the client. In other words the channels will deteriorate if the communication link that is the pairing of client with the access point interferes with the signals of another access point.

On low ranges you can create mini line of sight networks that will happily co exist with any number of signals. Example wifi on laptop working with bluetooth mouse.

[Router] --------- [laptop]

|

|
[mouse]

It is not such a good example because signals at such a small distance are strong enough to overcome any interference but the principle stands in other conditions as well.

[1]https://superuser.com/questions/1311149/why-do-wifi-routers-...
You can drive a manual in stop and go traffic (and I don't mean that suburban sprawl "run through the gears between each stop light" type of stop and go you get in some places, I mean like going 10-30ft at a time between stops). That doesn't make it not obviously worse for the task than an automatic.

The extra cognitive load of having to worry about range and where you're going to charge is a pain in the butt that most people will opt out of, all else being close to equal.
Unified billing, support and management was the pitch...if I recall correctly. Seemed pretty compelling to me.
Co-founder of Unubo here. We created this platform because we're dissatisfied with the current landscape:

AWS is a headache. DigitalOcean is great, but you’re on your own in managing it. Heroku gets expensive, fast. Now (Zeit) is serverless only. Netlify only supports static sites.

There are more solutions on the market of course, but they all leave us wanting more.

We drew up an extensive wish list, and went about creating it ourselves.

Unubo Cloud exists to simplify the process of deploying web applications. We want you to focus on creating, whilst we take care of everything else.

This is a starting point, and we have a lot planned for the future.
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That's really strange. I did replace my lenses and kept the frames. It was basically the same procedure as ordering new glasses.

To my knowledge opto-technician will map and cut new lenses using your frames or old lenses as a template.

Also looking at the prices, it looks to me that most of the profits are in selling the lenses (unless you buying designer frames for gazillion $). Where I live no-name frames are very often free or for extremely low price (< 30$).

EDIT: also it would be an insane task to mass manufacture specific lenses for specific frames, just due to the fact of variability of eye conditions: near-sightedness, far-sightedness, astigmatism and varying strength on these conditions (cylinder angle and diopter).
I would assume that you woudln't be forced to buy your name if you own the trademark because within-reason nobody else would be able to buy it.
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First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results
TIL IBM is a tech startup.
> For some observations, they've used the earth's moving position in space to create a synthetic-radar style image. That gives an 'aperture' of 180M miles.

That may not work for imaging the immediate surroundings of black holes – one can only combine the data for that SAR-style imaging if the source you're observing doesn't vary significantly (e.g., in brightness or flux distribution) between observations.
I wanted a CMS that doesn't impose anything on me.

I wanted a CMS that will perform like statically generated sites but won't penalise me in any way.

Apparently, I wanted a lot.

And then I met GraphCMS.

I fiddled with Razzle a bit as well.

When I figured out the kinks and quirks, I made Graze.

It's a CMS-less CMS. Server-side Rendering for front-end components. It has hot-module reloading and all the bells and whistles you'd want from a zero-configuration setup (don't thank me for that, it's all Razzle here).

And it just works™️.

Let me know what you think.
If you are focused and calm, or have bad sight, you won't see it naturally. To force it, move your focus from 1cm to the left, then right, again and again, quickly.
SNI is getting encrypted soon too
> It's still no proof of existence of black holes

You've shifted the goal posts in this sentence. Previously, you said there was no evidence of black holes. Now you're upped the scale to demanding proof.

The previous commenter wasn't claiming that LIGO detections were proof of black holes. They said that they were evidence of black holes.

The LIGO detections, by all reasonable metrics, would certainly qualify as evidence of black holes. Of course, I agree with your assertion that taken alone, LIGO detections are not proof of the existence of black holes. Taken with the significant body of other evidence we have, though, I would say the sum total of evidence that we have is a strong indicator that black holes exist.
I've always wanted to learn org-mode and emacs.

Can anybody recommend a good tutorial?

Also, should I learn pure emacs or go the spacemacs route? My background is in vim.
To my (very limited) understanding, I'm under the impression their main way of verifying taxes is by comparing what you reported vs what everyone else who reported a tax form on you sent in.

I 100% agree that the IRS should handle the majority of simple taxes. I just don't think it's reasonable to expect them to find all the possible deductions or suggest complex strategies for you. They could offer common suggestions & try to remind you of common deductions though.
Just as an FYI, Org mode has a flashcard software (org-drill).

(Broken on Org 9.x - not sure if they fixed it - you may need to use 8.x).
No, the USD and the Euro have dropped tremendously relative to the Swiss Franc.
The entry level model is 35K before tax breaks (which is $3750 now IIRC). Some places in the US have sales tax, some not.
Sounds like it is working perfectly, you want a MITM and this is making that difficult.
I think you're right, that they probably are a mathematical artifact of GR. Regardless, what they are in the real world will share quite a few properties with black holes.
Petrobras, the Brazilian oil company is the largest company in the country by number of employees and revenue. Two of the largest banks here, Banco do Brasil and Caixa Economica Federal are both federally owned and both are larger than their private competitors, thanks to a couple of monopolie they hold (BB has a stranglehold on financing agriculture, and CEF operates the lotteries).
I love how they offered $5 million in amazon kindles and hosting to them. How absolutely daft. Couldn't they just offer money? (Not that it's more likely to work, but the kindles and hosting was ridiculous).
I wonder if this is a call for another level of math. Are we just not able to take the derivative of something in respect to space time rather than just time?
And break the code signature in the process, thus causing Windows to display a large nasty warning about the exe being unverified.
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This was my start as well. Thanks Steve!
There is no lens. This was done using eight radio telescopes (or arrays) around the globe to create a "virtual" radio telescope which is effectively the size of the earth. After that the data of the individual telescopes was processed to produce an image.

There is some more info in the wikipedia article for the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event_Horizon_Telescope
It was, as the Opel Ampera. You can find them used.
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> I don't trust the ad blocker in Brave for Android

I do wonder, why?
You can, but iOS won't load it.
My bad, it's because I'm French :D
> Unfortunately, on our school network, we also allow BYOD (students with their own laptops and ipads), so we will have to have some strict rules to block DoH, the same way we block proxies and vpns.

How can you block DoH without doing MITM on all outgoing HTTPS? For that matter, how can you block HTTPS based VPNs like OpenVPN?

ETA: I understand you can block IP addresses of DNS resolvers that support DoH. I assumed that to make this work, Mozilla / Google / etc. would serve DoH from the same IPs as some big services, so you wouldn't be able to block DoH without blocking something like Google's homepage.
It does if your multipath is good enough. Enough antennas on either or both sides help.
I read this book years ago thinking it was specifically about motorcycles (at the time I was riding a lot as a hobby) and instead got this strange meditation on the nature of work and its meaning. I was annoyed at first but kept reading. Ended up loving it. Highly recommend.
I don't get the whole "oh it's too blurry and nothing is visible" comments. It's a black hole, what did you expect to see? Interstellar CGI?
Pedantic/fun comment: I will assume that one of the presenters said that (I will watch the full video later tonight). One would imagine that that person knows that you cannot see a mustard seed from Brussels because the planet's crust is blocking your line of sight ;) unless the scientist who said that is a flat-earth-believer!

A statement like "it is like viewing a mustard seed X kilometres/miles away would be more appropriate.

And in all seriousness, I have started watching again everything-Star-Trek again (for the 5th time in my life), and news like that make me look up to the sky and think that as a species we do have a chance to move out of here and to a better future.
> Org-Mode Is Standardized

Let's be totally clear about this: If Org-Mode were actually popular, it too would have twelve variants. It is not popular.
I think what he is saying is that it is easier to do something ad hoc in Monarch since it is a global service with unified storage and retrieval. A Googler can join the data of Gmail and Ads easily if they want, whereas combining the borgmon data of those services is either not possible or it involves downloading CSVs and performing the join externally.

> Does it allow different aggregation methods (avg/sum/max/whatever) for different metrics, like Carbon does?

All of these methods are available[1]. Stackdriver Monitioring is the public face of Monarch.

1: https://cloud.google.com/monitoring/api/ref_v3/rest/v3/proje...
Opel Ampera.
In this case, though, note that if you turned power way up, it might cause your neighbors to do the same, and you could be said to loose a power war upon the neighborhood (in which everyone would probably lose...).

Turning power down, on the other hand, probably will loose nothing, just like he said.
Hm? It was my understanding that the companies that sell frames and the ones that sell lenses are mostly independent. Your optician will cut the lenses to fit in your frames.
So if you saw an ad with nothing else but "visit now at https://goto.amazon" you might potentially think "that's probably a place get info on the river and/or the rainforest"? I have my doubts, but each to their own
International collaboration on scientific projects (International space station, CERN) always fills me with hope and optimism for humanity.

It's a nice contrast to opening the papers and reading the regular news, dominated by politics, with all the pessimism that creates.

Hooray for science.
Nitpick - self driving cars have worked fairly well in snow and darkness but still manage issues in good conditions eg. hitting fire trucks (Telsa) or not being able to merge in heavy traffic (Waymo).
Why not run a Pi-hole? You only stand to benefit. Whilst it doesn't address DoH, it does go a long way in preventing the tracking you mention. It also saves on bandwidth. And because it works at the DNS level, you benefit from the calls not even being made. The Pi-hole can be customized with an endless set of rules to block about any ads, beacons, trackers. Couple this with uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger, Decentraleys, Referer Block, and some creative browser settings (about:config) and you are largely safe from prying eyes. JS can be whitelisted, etc. You have nothing to lose.
> I think you have made several incorrect statements.

If you're going to say that, you should list some of them (with corrections).
> Or that emacs is the only reasonable editor?

Given the options, I think that a decent argument can be made that emacs is the best editor, and that it's unreasonable to use anything that the best — so yeah, one might argue that emacs is the only reasonable editor.

I don't know if I'd go quite that far, but I wouldn't instinctively disagree.
The sudden need to have war games near the Philippine has more to do with this:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/apr/05/south-china-se...
What a beautiful human being he was. A great example of empathy.
I agree completely regarding light weight fonts. Wikipedia recently changed their mobile view font to Segoe UI Light for body text, and my old eyes can barely read the damn thing.
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Within next 10 years maybe. It doesn't solve anything though and is plenty of time for DPI vendors to pursue other snooping techniques.
No data collection? Watch 8.8.8.8, 1.1.1.1, etc. suddenly end their services.