skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If something travels nearly the speed of light we couldn’t detect it. Any kind of information from this object would at maximum travel at the speed of light so this information would arrive only a little sooner.
It's a trailer of a NYT produced show airing on FX and HULU. Seems to focus on Facebook users who got catfished.
I agree this is a great idea! But a large portion of the taxpayers would decry this as handouts for the lazy, so the less perfect, but more palatable solution ends up being used. Uninformed beliefs that pretend to be ethics are the roadblock to your solution, and these take a long time to be fixed.
That looks like the Latin ablative case, governed by the preposition "a" in the previous line. In Latin you can see many different forms of a name depending on its context in a sentence (the two most common in books' title pages being the genitive and ablative, roughly meaning 'of' and 'by').
I have known and worked with several mainland raised Chinese and there is no doubt that the schools in China teach anti-American propaganda. Whereas America does not teach any anti-Chinese propaganda in their schools.

This is really kind of weird since it was the Americans who provided the Burma-to-China airlift during WWII that allowed China to expel the Japanese from China. Furthermore, if you look at world trade balances since 1978 it is America, and only America, that has carried the burden of an imbalanced trade relationship with China of billions of dollars per year; year after year.

I'm not anti-Chinese in any way, I've traveled through the country three times, but the facts are the facts.
And three months?

Any regular home I know of can easily be built in three months.

Make it take three weeks, and you’ve got my attention.

Make it take three days, and you’ve got a money printing machine.
For my project (quarkjs.io), I went for https://comodosslstore.com . They have the cheapest certificates I could find (at ~75USD), also they are the only ones issuing certificates for individual developers.
Does that necessarily mean that the food is low quality or just that there are more options and many are considerably unhealthier than the more traditional options (eg. more processed foods easily available now than in the past)
This is around the time I've started my programming career. Many of my buddy went with RoR while I stuck with PHP. I went to a few Ruby meetup with my friends before the web dev boot camps phase started.

If I recall correctly, because this is such a while back, he left and wants to be left alone. Seems like he got issues to resolve and what ever it is it's personal.

As for the website there are dupes out there.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20537941
The people who object to voter ID laws don't also object to voter registration ID laws? I thought they were worried about people who never had ID, but how would they register?
I'm a little disappointed that they had to make a video in order for people to view the 3D model on the web. The model itself should be viewable in a browser, just like an image, a sound or a video. This is exactly the sort of thing that glTF was designed for, so maybe one day that will be a reality.
Super fascinating article, but it leaves me with two huge questions:

> The fast-moving charged particles also emit light due to Cherenkov radiation as they move faster than the speed of light in Earth's atmosphere

Is this saying "not faster than the speed of light in a vacuum, but faster than light travels through Earth's atmosphere"? Just checking that I understand that correctly. If not, I'm interested in knowing what it is actually saying.

On another subject, later in the article it says: "even as primitive an instrument as the human eye"

Is the human eye that primitive when, try as we might, our camera sensors are still hundreds of times lacking in resolution by comparison or require great effort to resolve details we take for granted? Our advanced equipment hasn't caught up if what I learned is still accepted as current and correct.

If so, what is the article measuring our primitive eyes against?

Fascinating stuff.
I once asked Siri "What city am I in?", to which she responded "Calling Ian." This was around 5am. I promptly disabled Siri and never looked back.
It's Ukraine, not "the Ukraine".
Thank you for bringing this up. It isn’t something I usually hear people talk about. I loathe the feel of the butterfly keyboard. Even if it was 100% reliable, I would never buy a computer with one. I am, however, seriously considering upgrading my 2015 mbp with this 16 inch model if it has a different keyboard.
Asking for a friend, is it not possible to park phased array satellites out at 43,000 KM orbit looking for faint smaller asteroids with current technology?
It probably has no effect: objects that are not in stable orbits around the earth are going to be in hyperbolic orbits relative to the Earth's gravitational field. A dangerous asteroid would need a periapsis lower than the Earth's radius by a certain amount to hit the Earth, so the risk of collision is still roughly proportional to Area. If gravity is a factor I would expect it to be a high order term. Atmospheric effects are probably more significant.
> A man named Ferrari might not be a blacksmith.

It was right in front of me and I feel dumb, having never considered it might have the same latin root as the word ferrous.

https://www.thoughtco.com/ferrari-last-name-meaning-and-orig...
The robot owns the dog, the human owns the robot, and the human's job owns the human. Just like nature intended.
Cool! Got a public repo of code? What toolchain are you using?
Technically, yes. Politically? We don't use the word sense with politics.
Some cultures in South India simply have the place from which they are from as their surname. Most of the south Indians have their father's name as surnames as well
Yes, although it's globalizing a pretty big problem. What you said is absolutely true in countries that are adopting a more modern western diet (eg. those upping their intake of processed foods, more meat, tobacco/alcohol, etc. + a bunch of factors around things like AIDS, malaria, diarrhoea, etc. not killing them before those things have a chance to do so which all usually take much longer.

If we're talking about many countries in sub saharan Africa for instance though, I'd say shortage is still a problem and probably going to get worse with climate change since Africa is particularly vulnerable (literally read an article about this yesterday but can't find the link right now)
Ultra Omega Burn
Try to get as much walking as you can, as well as your sleep. Weight loss can be easy but you still have to try. A little motivation goes a long way, so remind yourself that you are going with a weight loss program so that you can prevent

https://amts-news.com/fast-diets-the-real-secret-to-losing-weight-quickly/
Wish I shared your optimism. It is simply too little, too late for humanity to avoid serious, calamitous effects of climate change.

Take a look at these graphs:

1. Annual worldwide CO2 emissions by region: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-co-emissions-by-re...

That graph keeps growing every year (save for major recession years). Consider how much effort it would take just to reduce the growth to 0, where we would still be very much screwed.

2. Global CO2 concentration: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/global-co-concentration-p...

Again, up and to the right, consistently, for decades, with no sign of slowing down.

3. Same graph of CO2 concentration, but over a longer timescale, to really freak you out: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co2-concentration-long-te...

I'll start having optimism when I see even a small change in the direction of these graphs.
Request that they change, and if they won't, then find a new third party I guess?
”We can't even accurately predict where deorbiting satellites will end up...”

I think that’s because they are so small. The impact of earth’s atmosphere on a 100m solid rock will be negligible in comparison.

Their speed perpendicular to earth also is very low, meaning they spend more time in the athmosphere. I guess they may even bounce of it a couple of times. If so, computing impact location requires calculating how many times a skipping stone will skip.

(But no, I don’t think we have the technology to make this an effective weapon. I would go for that rail gun on the moon instead. Still not quite within reach, but it would be a lot easier to get targeting accuracy)
This is achieved merely by following the rules. But what are the most appropriate rules? It depends on the taste of the logician
And I'm reminded of a time in college when my roommate, who majored in classics, came home from class today and told me that they discussed a theory that the Iliad and Odyssey, were not actually written by Homer, but rather by a different place poet who happened to have the same name.

"So they were actually written by Homer then?"

I thought it hilarious, because the only identity of Homer I knew was the guy who wrote those works, so what difference di see it make? Identifiers can get into very sticky business sometimes.
OP seems to have ignored 2 issues

1. Objective-C enabled Apple's productisation

2. C++ programmer usually mix C code as well
Obligatory not a lawyer, but third party doctrine likely applies in the US, meaning that it would not be illegal for police to use such evidence if supplied by Apple. Not sure where the line is drawn if Apple itself violated it's own EULA, or violated local wire tapping laws, or if a service like Siri falls under such laws. I know California and Illinois are 2 party consent states. Not positive if it's only for phone calls or all voice recordings.
OP wondered about the differences between lifting and hiking. Please read my comment in that context. I was an avid hiker for years, so I get what you're saying. I don't think anyone is hiking to build mass. That would be silly.
Request for Public Comments on Stateful Hash-Based Signatures (HBS)
Softbank Rolls Out $108B Vision Fund 2
> The article describes these algorithms "efficient" on the basis of being linear, and they're not.

If memory writes are expensive (relative to reads and comparisons), selection sort is much better than insertion and bubble sort. Which is not something I had considered before trying to defend the post from the original comment.

> Insertion and selection require O(n^2) moves or compares respectively (or, n log(n) with use of data structures). As it stands, the page is pretty as heck but teaching a misconception.

I am definitely aware of the runtime of the sorting algorithms discussed. I have written about all of them [0]. Originally, I was going to agree and write about how it was a concerning misconception, but at least in the case of selection sort there is some (albeit small) merit to considering selection sort as O(n).

Though given that I cannot come up with a defense for insertion sort it is likely the author doesn't understand the time complexity of the sorting algorithms presented.

[0]: http://thethirdone.github.io/blog/posts/random-sorting/
Something which Azure has taught me is that people will eat shit from Microsoft by the spoonful and pay them for it.
Show HN: Practical Bayesian Optimization in Go for ML Hyperparameter Tuning
I would recommend distributing binaries from a dedicated release server combined with a CDN. Possibly digital ocean spaces. It really increases download speeds for end user as compared to gitHub releases.
It's mainly focused on how to do good with your career but 80,000 hours (https://80000hours.org/) has a lot of resources and articles about basically what problems out there make sense to tackle and then career pathways to do so. Alternatively Effective Altruism (https://www.effectivealtruism.org/) has a bunch of resources more closely aligned with just understanding how to do the most good possible. If you're looking for something more one-off and easier rather than a career change or something significant, I recommend Givewell.org which ranks some of the charities that they've verified do the most good at the lowest cost and donating to one of them!
Fernando Corbató Removed Barriers Between People and Computers
Yep. In Russia - now I can read the letters but only with concentration. I want to spend more time in Asia. It really helps me notice the space reading takes up in my seeing and also, how important wonder is in fun. I spend so much time wondering what food I am buying, what is behind that door, what those people are protesting etc and that energy is like ... embers for creativity and makes it easier for me to admit that even when I can read it all, understand it all, I still really don't know anything much.
It is because of the love of modern mythology[1] in US culture. Starting from the religion, ending in the love of superheroes. You cannot change current generations, they are too ignorant for that. But you can start work with schoolchildren, promoting critical thinking instead, in the style of Less Wrong[2] or Rational Wiki[3] projects. THAT will change people, at least most of them.

P.S. Yes, I am aware there a lot of biases and illogical elements[4] in the Less Wrong community as well, but it is still a step forward from the current state of affairs.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/09/how-ame...

[2] https://www.lesswrong.com/

[3] https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Main_Page

[4] https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/LessWrong
When It Comes to Taxes, Sometimes It Pays to Say ‘I Don’t’
Judge weighs whether to force Georgia (US) to switch to paper ballots
Ask HN: How do you deal with irrationality as a tech lead
I recently joined a new team as the tech lead. The engineers are hard working, but a troubling pattern I've noticed is an inability to be rational and precise in communication. For instance I send an email with n carefully crafted arguments for a specific process change and receive a response with a lot of handwaving and that which fails to address the arguments directly.

Note that I'm unfailingly polite in the original email(please and thank yous and what not) and arguments are couched in the form of suggestions. My usual leadership style is very consensus driven, but that is failing here since I cannot engage effectively against unclear thinking. I cannot force the issue and call them out since I risk losing trust.

Any suggestions on techniques/strategy to deal with this?

Thanks
Also, the whole thesis of the article is that tattooing is a symptom of some societal problem, so naming that cause as "a manifestation of the desire to fit in with ... dark-skinned minorities" seems to imply that wanting to be like black people is wrong somehow.
Your persistent trolling is becoming tiresome.
> If swaps are the only thing you are counting, selection sort is O(n).

And if you ignore the bottom half of the centaur, it's just a dude playing a flute. :)

"In computer science, the time complexity is the computational complexity that describes the amount of time it takes to run an algorithm." [1] We shouldn't be confusing people that actually want to learn about this stuff.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_complexity
I am not a tax expert, so I'll spare you my advice.
What about side-effects that cannot easily be contained, e.g. HTTP requests sent from your code, DB writes?

I don't think the goal can be achieved pragmatically for many types of modern applications generally. Maybe offering some sort of debug snapshotting and mocking layer for things like that and libraries to implement might be an idea. The debugger should then also be able to identify for which parts preview execution can be done and for which ones it's not possible to contain side-effects.
You should probably check your website on mobile. For me on Firefox Android, the unmoving header takes up 60-70% of the screen and the actual scrolling content is crammed into the bottom fraction.
Ultra-processed food is "low quality food".

That's because: (1) it's rich in toxins due to the industrial processing and (2) it has a poor proteins/nutrients to energy ratio.

Nutrient hunger is a thing. Proteins are regulated by the brain. Micro nutrients might be regulated by the brain as well. When you eat ultra-processed food, you end up eating more food just to get the nutrients you need to live.

Ultra-processed food is also rich in calories, often being high in carbs and high in fat at the same time, a very unnatural combination that floods the brain with dopamine, making you overeat and crave for more.

You basically can't get lower quality than this.
Uyghurs who are devout Muslims impede development and are generally hostile to the Han Chinese. Redditors in America, on the other hand, literally have zero effect on China, so the party doesn't care what they think. Sowing discord might make sense, but it definitely wouldn't come in the form of defending China on internet forums.
Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journeys, by Michael Collins.

Read it originally 20 years ago. Re-read parts of it recently due to the anniversary, and it's still good.
This sounds great. I hope to see this being adopted by blogs and news sites!

The browser highlight->speech plugins have always been a bit iffy.
Why not both at the same time?
I think there are several reasons:

1. Centralization gives provides a juicy target for misuse/negligence by both legitimate (see: Equifax) and illegitimate (see: Cambridge Analytica). De-centralization allows a preferable level of chaos

1. Historically there has been an attempt at balancing federal (national) vs local (state) powers.

2. The country can probably not even agree on one standard -- some states for examples are very strict while others are not (usually along party lines)
Chinese people can't even own land. No fair legal system. No freedom of speech. Great firewall will block any web site considered "subversive".
Ditto here, but I can understand that some men might not be so blase about it.
Outside of a few limited areas, that goal won't be achieved in our lifetimes.
> the product's feature set is frozen at the "peak version"

And then youa add a plugin and extensions API, so people can continue adding features, without annoying anyone — although the product is "frozen".

Isn't browser like FF and Chrome an ok example of this b.t.w.?
Alibaba releases RISC-V processor
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Great article. Thanks for posting.
I really can recommend Otter.ai for English transcription. And I'm pretty happy with the accuracy. You can tag and listen to each part of the transcribed text. I use it for consuming lengthy YouTube conference talks. They also have a very generous free plan of 10 hours per month. Big fan here :-)
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In some Western European cultures (Portuguese and Spanish, and thereby Latin American), most people have two last names.

When dealing with automated systems in other countries, it causes all manner of problems!
H ybrids "sort of" appear to be ahead in lower lifetime CO2. They key thing is that they higher GHG emmisions from the eletric grid, regionally, the less good hybrids look. But considering the trend of how fast wind, solar are lowering in cost, where coal isn't, I think the picture is getting better re: GHG emmisions for hybrids and electric, where gas IC engines are not, at least not as fast.

https://science.howstuffworks.com/science-vs-myth/everyday-m...

Original paper referenced above.
https://afdc.energy.gov/files/pdfs/argonne_phev_evaluation_r...

In the conclusion:
"The primary conclusion is that electrification of transportation significantly reduces petroleum energy
use, but GHG emissions strongly depend on the electricity generation mix for battery recharging. "
You can't be serious, right?

I don't question any of your data or even your conclusion, but do you really think WHITE-COLLAR workers having diabetes is a proof of " food is low quality empty calories"?

To me, it's more about the fact that lots of young people (or people in general) in urban area have poor lifestyle. Barely has anything to do with the lack of food quality or nutrition.

And I highly doubt this phenomenon is unique to China.
https://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/08/nyregion/sushi-fresh-from...
Chinese people can't even own land. No fair legal system. No freedom of speech. Great firewall will block any web site considered "subversive". It's pretty much crony capitalism or Facism at this point.
It can be difficult. NIMBYs are expected, but PACs running ads and lobbying against it and complex regulatory maneuvering happens too.

For intriguing stories, read about opposition to the Plains & Eastern Clean Line through Arkansas, the Grain Belt Express Clean Line through Missouri, and the story of the Wind Catcher in Arkansas. Compare and contrast this with otherwise generous laws concerning utility easements in Arkansas.
Can we give points to the one who answered 42?
I built a project where we transcribed speech into chat bubbles for an AR app (Magic Leap). We started with Google Speech-to-Text and swapped to Amazon Transcribe.

Performance-wise they seemed mostly similar - both can pick up text fairly accurately in somewhat noisy environments. We did notice that Google's offering seemed to be slightly more accurate. But the difference was marginal and only noticeable when we compared side-by-side on intentionally poorly pronounced words. There were two big differences that made it impossible for us to use Google's product:

1. Google has a 1 minute limit on streaming speech-to-text. It just closes the connection at 1 minute. It doesn't even send you a "final result", so if speech was being recorded at the time the connection dropped, that transcription is lost. Speaking of which...

2. Google doesn't provide incremental updates. So if someone speaks for a while, you only get an update at the end of it.

Note that this is their API - my impression is the product they use in their apps is superior in functionality to the product available on Google Cloud.

Amazon Transcribe, on the other hand, has a 4 hour limit and sends incremental updates, so in a longer sentence, like this one I'm currently writing, you would get a message every couple words, which is essential when the goal is to show a live transcription.
Atatürk (the founder of the Turkish Republic) made surnames mandatory as a reform to be compatible with Europe (he was very pro-Europe) and this was in 1934. Everyone got to pick their own surnames. Luckily people hesitated to pick Mohammed because the word for last name in Turkish translates to "name of lineage" and that'd be a big claim (also I've heard that it wasn't allowed not to put a target on non-muslims' backs). So now we have a significant portion of the population with the surname "Pure/Core Turk" (Öztürk) and its variations (my surname Özcan included). Atatürk (father Turk) was reserved for the president though :)
This is a legitimate concern with the "young" nuclear powers, like India and Pakistan. Their detection technology is less mature; their command-and-control systems are less mature; there's a higher level of tension between the two. Neither country is incompetent or hungry for war, but it's worrying to me. I'd expect them to behave rationally, but if the timing happened to coincide with a particularly combative episode, things could get out of control. I'm not even going to speculate about how North Korea might react; they're a total wildcard.
Siri-usly?
He's trying to say that over millenia whites enslaved whites, blacks enslaved blacks and viceversa. Nothing personal or racial