skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Discoveries" about the mathematical structure of these theories are actually incredibly important even if no current day experiment can conceivably test them. Special and general relativity were discoveries made in this way (at least to an extent), and now general relativity is important for the proper functioning of technology as "trivial and boring" as GPS. Even earlier in our history, much of thermodynamics was developed in a similar fashion.

See the sibling comment for another version of this argument, but finding the weird mathematical coincidences between the competing mathematical theories of nature is very useful. In other words, there are mathematical and logical tests that can be as important as experimental tests for the progress of our understanding of nature.
I assume part of that is part of $1 billion total, it gets a bit complicated since they bought a going concern, and T-Mobile forced them to finish satisfying the requirements in the contact they assumed.

Which was part of why the Kin was so late, they moved every Danger employee they retained who was working on the Hiptop line to the Kin, then had to pull a bunch back to finish 2 more versions. Who could have guessed that Deutsche Telekom could pose a serious threat to Microsoft?
That makes sense if we imagine we have some fixed pool of climate fighting energy we can spend in one case or the other but I'm not at all sure why you would want to adopt that model? Climate change on Earth is more a political matter than a technological one and so the PR resources used by Hollywood seem to me to be more applicable to fighting climate change than the engineering resources space exploration uses.

But more to the point, we're not actually spending any money on terraforming Mars right now. It's just something people talk about. What we are doing is sending robots to Mars to explore. And hopefully at some point we'll be sending better robots or even human scientists who'll want a pre-assembled base put together by robots. Worrying that the terraforming efforts people might get up to in 50 or 100 years will take away from the steps we need to be making now for climate change is premature.
there were no workers on site (started at 6:30pm local). No way they know what the actual cause was.
Because you booted 'crysis' in an electron-app running on a mac-mini from 2011.
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What's the benefit using k vs. c, cpp or java for the same? Does it run or compile faster?

The article says you can do the same with cpp and some extra libraries, but I wouldn't immediately think cpp or java was easily beatable -- manjana wonders --
My favorite answer is:

“Time is what the clock measures.”
The torture is quite unnecessary and not enough people know about it. It’s obvious they torture prisoners there, why else keep it so secret?

We do need democracy, informed democracy. The people need to be able to tell their government not to do things like this.
You can do $2 a day pretty easily in my opinion. Basically you want rice (or pasta) and beans to be the bulk of your calories, and anything else just adds flavor. Helps that in America you generally have access to $2/lb boneless chicken breast (and I've gotten drum sticks for 69c a pound before, but those are more of a pain) at one of your grocery stores, and rice and beans are almost free (25c-50c a day), even in smaller bulk sizes such as 5lb bags. Potatoes, carrots, bananas, and apples are examples of fruits and vegetables that are generally incredibly cheap.

Once you get up to $5 a day per person it really feels like you can eat any thing, once you start following a budget. I've met people with budgets around $400 a month for one person, though that usually includes a lot of eating out.

US currency, by the way.
I'm watching it on CBS News right now and there is in fact lots of visible water being sprayed on the fire.
Which logical fallacy is this anyway? Why are people against just waiting more than 5 effing seconds before jumping to conclusions with no evidence these days?
Shareholder can, and do, sue for damages from fines as the result of poor decisions by executives and the board.
Not necessarily.. Even a cell phone is the result of hundreds of thousands of people coordinating: hardware designers, manufacturers, software, shipping, retail, etc.
If anything, everything around us is a monument to the hyper level of society/global consensus.
Give it a shot and report back to us.
Forcing them might have a worse effect. Be relaxed about it and try to show them other ways of eating with unknown people might help though.
Didn't know that, didn't need to know that. Was happy not to know that. Now I know that and am sad.
This is just an anecdote, and I wanted this to be a reply to the OP, but I've always felt there's a weird sort of connection between the stonemasons who built these masterpieces and the hackers of today.
> A perfectly sensible meaning given the construction of the word. There is something about mathematics and linguistics (and to some extent CS) that encourages the creation of confusing, meaningless names like "accusative (case)", "(algebraic) ideal" and "(geometric) manifold".

Confusing is hard to argue, but meaningless is, I think, hard to defend. These all have meanings; I could speak to the latter two, and I'm sure a linguist could speak to the former. They may not be obvious meanings, but that's not the same as saying they're meaningless. (I regard much business jargon, for example, as literally meaningless, defined only in terms of other words that also seem meaningless to me; but I'm sure an MBA would take issue with that characterisation.) I don't know who coined 'manifold', but 'ideal', for example, was literally Kummer's word coined to describe things that behaved like, but weren't quite, numbers in the ordinary sense (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideal_number )—much like the "ideal points" of hyperbolic geometry (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideal_point).

(EDIT: Fortunately no_identd knows more about the history of 'manifold' than I do (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19659571).)
I love the ease of Transferwise but I've run tests and a bank wire is cheaper (we get free wire fees with our business banking service so I'm not including what might be an extra $30 from your bank).
Extensive discussion yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19660917
Lemme try in something closer to plain English:

In most programming languages, the way you compose functions is by creating some other function that takes whatever arguments are necessary, applies the first function to some subset of them, collects its result, and then applies the second function to some other subset of the arguments, plus the result of the first function.

IOW, while the syntax can be quite clean:

let h(x) = f(g(x))

is doing quite a lot in the background. Moreso if some of the top-level arguments are to be passed to f and not g:

let h(x, y) = f(g(x), y)

In a concatenative language, all you have to do to compose functions is place them one after the other. So those two compositions both become something more like

let h = g f

One big difference here, and the main part of how most concatenative languages achieve this behavior, is that arguments are never stated or passed explicitly. Instead, inputs and outputs are typically retrieved from and placed onto some sort of stack.

(edit: Just realized never really said why they're called "concatenative". It's because, at least in a Forth-style concatenative language where the compiler isn't doing any fancy footwork, you can compose functions by literally just concatenating them. So that `let h = g f` is basically saying, "To execute H, first execute G and then immediately execute F.")
OP here. I think everybody wants to see SpaceX succeed of course, but when you're in the bleachers you are very keen to see it launch. For most people a scrub would mean packing bags and leaving the next day without ever witnessing the event they came to see, and all that money and time gone.

There is a weird dichotomy at KSC: the visitor center is like DisneyLand and the launches are like a NASCAR race. Yet the work being done is dead-serious, very high-stakes, and sometimes even significant for humanity.
You probably saw some of Lost in La Mancha, a documentary about the disaster that project was.

This is a revival of that project. They resuscitated the script and completely re-cast it (since, among other things, original lead Jean Rochefort passed away more than a year ago).
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I'd recommend following the events live on Twitter: https://twitter.com/search?q=%23notredame

Though the fire seems quite intense, not sure how much will be preserved.
> If the NSA or China want to read your email, they don't tap undersea cables

It is naive to say that the NSA does or does not use a particular collection method. The truth is they use them all to varying levels of success.

Upstream collection (targeting the communication medium and infrastructure) has been confirmed dating back to the 70s and as recent as 2013 with the Snowden leaks. Even the PRISM program with its "direct access" to providers like Yahoo and Google was eventually discovered to be tapping the fiber optic links between the companies datacenters without their knowledge or consent.
Facts aren't an antidote to conspiracy thinking.

To the conspiracy minded, facts only prove how deep the conspiracy goes.
Seasoning is something people seem to miss a lot. Just garlic powder, paprika, chili powder, and of course salt and pepper can bring a dish up to something you could see eating at a restaurant.
I would urge people interested in this topic to read the hard scifi work of Greg Egan. In particularly, Diaspora. It is fascinating how much overlap is between this mathematical work and his work of "mathematical fiction".
>Good for a party trick but in general I have yet to find a good real use case for it.

It's particularly hilarious when you and several buddies are watching the meter maid try to put a ticket on it. It's probably occasionally useful for adjusting a car in the driveway but yeah, it's 99% party trick.

It could theoretically be useful for attaching a trailer but most Tesla owners aren't doing that and the collision detection system will probably go crazy and prevent you from getting close enough to the trailer to actually couple it to the car.
Human Pose estimation is an important problem that has enjoyed the attention of the Computer Vision community for the past few decades and is a crucial step towards understanding people in images and videos. This post covers the basics of Human Pose Estimation (2D) and reviews the literature on this topic.
No conspiracy theory needed. I'm not sure about contractors in Paris, but here in America a large percentage of them seem to be completely incompetent and do shoddy work, so it's no surprise to me that they'd cause a fire.

Remember the old saying: never ascribe to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity or incompetence.
Within living memory, but during a vastly different (political) climate.

Edit: Can anyone explain to me why this is getting downvoted?

Is there really a consensus that the current political climate is comparable to the cold war?

The cold war which is intertwined with the space race that put a man on the moon?
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Ye. C++ used a preprocessor in it's early days.

Edit:
I like this:
"#define in ,"
to make "foreach(a in b)" loops.
> This is a common trope ("language users are just ignorant"), but couldn't be more wrong.

It isn't a matter of ignorance; using those switches to get a vendor-specific version of not-quite-C is a matter of willful disobedience.
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/06/150622-andrew-ta... Apparently there are 3D laser scans of the whole cathedral
Why do you need facts when feelings are so much easier to obtain?
Non-native speaker here. Is there even something called that? (Yes I know it is a quote)
They canned it as a product, but the tech is still alive. You see echoes of it crop up in press releases every now and then.
I also saw the first FH launch, but I was at the (free) Playalinda Beach public access area. It's so close (~3.59 miles to 39A) they actually close the beach and move spectators further back. HIGHLY recommended if anyone is looking to see a launch. I've seen other launches from the causeway, but this was closer and had a much better atmosphere - and literally right on the beach, so the kids love it.
There's a blog post titled Into The Borg[0] that states:

> There is also a user “legal-discovery@prod.google.com” that has permission “auth.impersonation.impersonateNormalUser”

So it exists, but hopefully Google doesn't have the same issues with giving helpdesk employees access to impersonation.

0: https://opnsec.com/2018/07/into-the-borg-ssrf-inside-google-...
The moonshots could likely be the last truly monumental effort completed by the West for at least a century.
I lived in Paris as a child and have often been at Notre Dame. I still feel heavily connected to France. Seeing this precious diamond burn is like having my own house burning. What a cultural tragedy.
>>I wonder how the firefighters feel about risking their lives for art

This type of art is irreplaceable and art cannot walk away from the fire. At least we know it has zero chance of doing so, unless someone shows up
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Thanks for your perspective.
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This seems like a silly thing to be annoyed about. Checks don’t have fees like most other types of electronic payment, and money is money. Why would you be OK with giving up a certain percentage of your hard-earned money just because you have to go through the “hassle” of dealing with a piece of paper? Many banks even accept the check deposit via app now - you don’t even need to go to the ATM.

Edit: I’m talking about paying/being paid as a contractor/vendor, not as an employee.
This is an embarrassment of the victor and never celebrated - atrocious actors on the victorious side have been punished at times throughout history but I agree the bar is higher. It certainly isn't celebrated though - and informed societies can still be outraged (See Guantanamo, Abu Gharib, Yemenese drone strikes under Obama & Trump, the Bay of Pigs, Guatemala... the general familiarity of this list is a testament to the fact that the victor can be held accountable - even if individual actors are generally given more levity[1]...)

[1] _sigh_ Oliver North, honestly America... why did you never... eh.
I don't see it to be honest. The website is plain and simple, downvotes are capped, the scores are not visible. I spent significantly less time here than on other forms of social media, and I never feel glued to the website.

What part of the HN design appears to you exploitative? It's much more like an old school web forum than a gamified social website.
Water damage on its own is incredibly destructive.
PII is personally identifiable info?

What's an EQ account?
I'm shocked and that's rare in these days of chaos. The powerlessness hurts
Actually even if they get a license with every possible rights holder the rights holder may decide to not allow the video on youtube which again means upload filters.
I did the same with my 2008 MBP 15" and it worked, for a while. I then lent it to a friend who had it when the fix stopped working - he figured out that another solution was to simply wrap i in towels and turn it on and leave it like that for a while - it got hot enough to reflow itself!
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Firefighter and sysadmin! Great mixture.
Lmao, try that in Switzerland. A very cheap broccoli head almost costs $1 and has basically no calories. You would literally starve. Anything that contains meat or sugar is almost an order of magnitude more expensive for one meal.
Despite many posts criticising the recommendations, the ICO _doesn't recommend age verification_ as a solution.

From the actual document:

> 2. Age-appropriate application: Consider the age range of your audience
and the needs of children of different ages. Apply the standards in this
code to all users, unless you have robust age-verification mechanisms to
distinguish adults from children.

The commissioner is saying that the companies should make the sites adhere to the rules covering children, with a get out IF some new age verification system could be developed.
I sincerely hope that was a joke.
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https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/11/151105-gaudi-sag...

Also, from other threads in these comments:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dresden_Frauenkirche#Reconstru...

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-281...

With increases in wealth and technology, we could see even more monumental projects implemented by only fractions of society. Then, there's also China. There are serious proposals for China to unilaterally dig a tunnel to Taiwan. I suspect they're also serious about long term colonization of the Moon and Mars.
Water has a mass of ~8.3 lbs per gallon.

A DC-10 Air Tanker carries 12,000 US gallons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DC-10_Air_Tanker

All said, that's 45.4 metric tons.

Go ahead, stand under one and let us know how it goes.
Oh, sorry, I was not referring to specifically that AdBlock extension. I wanted to say that users just associate "adblocking extension = AdBlock Plus".
Former (volunteer) firefighter here:

Park the truck next to the cistern. Connect a length of hose to the pump supply, drop the hose into the cistern. The pump will move water until it loses suction pressure.
They had actually taken out many statues by crane just yesterday to protect from the ongoing restoration.
Because absolute authority no longer lies in the hands of a few people? What societal consensus was required? As long as the church, which was flush with cash, kept paying, people kept building.
Not parent poster, but I did graphs directly in PostScript. The simplest book to start with is the "Blue" book https://www-cdf.fnal.gov/offline/PostScript/BLUEBOOK.PDF (from the blog post http://blogs.adobe.com/CCJKType/2016/12/ehandler.html - that book has a lot of examples to really get your feet wet.
There's a wide spectrum between "abandoned" and "totally up to date." Not everything is black and white.
It was the center of learning, during the Medieval era. The idea of left (progressive) vs. right (conservative), comes from here. Student's lived on a the left bank and spoke Latin.
What could be salvaged from the Dark Ages, in terms of knowledge, was sheltered around Notre Dame.

However I do not believe that this is the most 'prosperous' time. It is the opposite. Life expectancy is falling in the West. This generation will not live as long as their parents, nor be as wealth, or successful. In places like Russia life expectancy for males is just 66 years (alcohol, suicide, poverty).

Will we look back at this era, a hundred years from now, and see that from the 1980s till now as a slow steady decline, slightly buoyed by the Internet, but with most opportunities squandered.
time for all our AI/ML to show it's prowess by reconstructing as much details as possible from all the pictures and remains..
You mean when they shot the president? Or when they were putting communists on a list just 15 years earlier?
Topically, Messier 87* has a Schwarzschild radius of ~17.784 light hours. Saying that: I have no idea how much subjective time it takes to go that far, because I don’t know how much gravitational or velocity related time dilation is going on. Plus the highly non-Euclidian space where C != 2πr, but I can’t remember if it’s > or < and I’ve never asked if that’s more like correct circumference and different radius or correct radius and different circumference, relative to what a distant observer might expect, and by extension which of those ideas corresponds to Schwarzschild radius — angular appearance, or inward distance.
> f you really have to (and use https://rtyley.github.io/bfg-repo-cleaner/ to cleanup any history of commited secrets).

Don't bother. If you push a secret: Do not pass go. Do not collect $200. Just rotate your secrets and move on. If you push your repo you should treat the contents as public information.
"good?" product "taking advantage?" of voice interactions?

sorry for the semantics, but good and taking advantage seem opposed to each other.

In my experience, voice interaction products chronicly misinterpret what is being said, and seem to be a field of embedded advertisements. I predict this will go the same as mobile did.

sorry but i dont know of any good products of this nature at all.
Well, some of us hackers are fans of monolithic architectures..
Subsection 4 is probably most relevant to this discussion, which I believe is effectively a press exemption:

“Subsections (1) and (2) do not apply to anything done in the course of providing a programme service”
Watch a self-driving car learn to navigate narrow European streets
Yes, humiliating other people is hilarious...
Does anybody know why this happens? I don't think MSFT would really have issues finding some software engineers to fix this.
That's just one metric. This is a good machine learning problem. Use companies caught in anti-poaching collusion to train the system.
Which has a bad taste of whataboutism.

The huge difference is the NSA collects to achieve political goals. China spies for political and economic benefit. Foreign businesses are frequently targeted with the singular goals of IP theft or gaining leverage in business negotiations.
You do not need to be offensive and hatefull to make a point. This might not be the US way, but it does work.
If I told you three hospitals were targets of attacks, then a similar situation happened at a fourth hospital, would your first thought be that it was an accident?
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This is the problem with these tech giants: they come up with cool stuff, and then abandon it because it isn't making enough money, but then they don't at least put it out there for other people to adopt.

Google is especially guilty of this.
If you can't prepare lentils in a way that you'd describe as tasty, then you owe it to yourself to look up any of the thousands of youtube videos or recipes that prepare it a thousand different ways.
I'm guessing EverQuest, which was pretty popular at that time.
Very sad. While a different cathedral, it reminded me of Orson Welles' soliloquy in "F for Fake" on Chartres (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksmjh8LL2zA):

“And this has been standing here for centuries. The premier work of man perhaps in the whole Western world, and it’s without a signature: Chartres. A celebration to God’s glory and to the dignity of man. All that’s left, most artists seem to feel these days, is man. Naked, poor, forked radish. There aren’t any celebrations. Ours, the scientists keep telling us, is a universe which is disposable. You know, it might be just this one anonymous glory of all things, this rich stone forest, this epic chant, this gaiety, this grand, choiring shout of affirmation, which we choose when all our cities are dust, to stand intact, to mark where we have been, to testify to what we had it in us to accomplish.

Our works in stone, in paint, in print, are spared, some of them for a few decades or a millennium or two, but everything must finally fall in war or wear away into the ultimate and universal ash. The triumphs and the frauds, the treasures and the fakes. A fact of life. We’re going to die. ‘Be of good heart,’ cry the dead artists out of the living past. Our songs will all be silenced — but what of it? Go on singing. Maybe a man’s name doesn’t matter all that much.”
Probably EverQuest
Tankers are great at dropping water and fire retardant on trees, brush, and small structures.

Dropping tons of water on Notre Dame's roof would likely just expedite the collapse.