skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Radio altimeters always have some margin of error, so a slightly negative altitude reading doesn't necessarily mean it's malfunctioning. A better approach would probably be to cross check the radio altimeter with the GNSS receiver and navigation system, then alert the pilots in case of a sustained large discrepancy. Of course that would further complicate the avionics and risk introducing additional failure modes.
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Binary choice describes a range not a distribution. Suppose Bob is optimistic and always decides "yes". The opposite of Bob's decision is always "no".

The right course of action requires looking at the data, not theory. In a context where the probability that "yes" is right is 0.05 -- 19/20 proposals being bad ideas is not an implausible reality -- there's no excuse for keeping Bob, just answer 'no'. There's no reason to assume that correct yes's and no;s are equally distributed.

There's also no reason to assume that an incorrect yes has the same cost as an incorrect no or that a correct yes has the same benefit as a correct no. Silicon Valley venture financing comes to mind.

To me, it's probably a good idea to base business decisions on business facts rather than the beauty of a theory. It's not that theories shouldn't inform decisions, but data is probably a better place to start.
No need to get that involved:

for (let i = 0; i < 1000000000; i++)
console.log(i);

Every single valid social security number, and several (e.g. 000-00-0000) that probably aren't. You can store the whole thing in about a gig.
Givewell also ranks that foundation very highly
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Probably their life experience.
> that encourage more walkable cities and greener commutes

People using a bike that lasts 20 year is much greener than a shared scooter that dies after 100 days of use.

Having more walkable communities start with removing cars from the streets, adding density, by planning our cities. There is no magic tech that will fix the status quo.
I can generate a set of pass rates during build and output it to the gh-pages branch. That's a good idea. Thank you.

https://github.com/artichoke/artichoke/issues/101
Certainly. For example, I've never heard Zuckerberg and Lisp mentioned together, and the use of PHP suggests he's not really a PL nerd.
That's implying that those same people are being supplanted, and are therefor "losing" because of that. The issue, as I see it, is that society should already have a place for all young adults.
Lisp is not typically a low-level programming language, but rather extremely high-level (high level of abstraction)[0].

The "dialect language of Lisp" quote just means that it's a variation of Lisp, but running in a Python environment.

The term "domain-specific languages" refers to programming languages created for a specific, often one-of, task. If you look at this repo, you'll see various languages used to create diagrams and graphs in this library. These are all examples of DSLs (note, they're in many places, this is just an example):

https://github.com/francoislaberge/diagrams

Regarding Hy specifically, it's basically Python that uses a different syntax, or skin, of sorts. Instead of white-spaces and colons, you get parentheses and...parentheses. It's more complex than that, but it's basically just a way to write Python for people that like Lisps.

0. Yes, there are some examples of low-level lisps without features like memory management, but they're pretty unusual.
Use the Duckduckgo app.
I would love to have someone in or next to my team to teach me/us about security flaws that I produce. I sometimes look into the basic stuff from OWASP and hope to catch the most common things but I miss someone dedicated with a lot of experience. The biggest hurdle that I see so far is to educate the teams to plan in the time to actually check for vulnerabilities. The constant pressure to deliver new features in the SCRUM environment makes many things that should be part of proper software development a though sell.
50 yo. congentitally profoundly deaf person here. Cochlear implant fitted last month. My quality of life has been utterly transformed: I can't imagine what life would have been like if I had had one from birth. If appropriate for the patient, the healthcare system should skip the hearing aid and go straight for an implant. If you happen to be reading this, and have a hearing loss, explore cochlear implants whatever your age.

Whilst I wish the OS hearing aid project every success, what we really need is open source implants - the pricing is even more insane than hearing aid technology and is relatively well understood. The existing, certified implants could be used, but with an OS/DIY processor - circumventing many of the potential certification issues.
This is totally insane. Stop ruining the internet before it's too late, EU.
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How to Secure Your Git Project Using an Easy Branching Strategy
Boot sector programming has always seemed like ln of the cooler ways to play with writing lower level code,but am I wrong to assume it won't work on systems with UEFI?
Disney report to shine spotlight on streaming war
Per EU's GDPR, and maybe the future California Consumer Privacy Act, yes : GitHub should do everything they can to preserve people's privacy. Including maybe flagging and reviewing projects which process PII.

GitHub is popular enough that less technical people also browse it, in particular young people looking to learn.
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Cutting out the middleman and their profit margins is almost always going to be cheaper if you have the requisite scale requirements. Depending on what your workloads are (particularly non-bandwidth intensive), that scale can be pretty damn large for compute infra nowadays.
I'm in Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S.A.
>While I agree with pretty much everything else you wrote, I have to take some exception to this. Yes it is trivial to put something online. But library sciences exist for a reason, so if you want a nice collection of things online with some sensible structure it becomes less trivial. Worse yet if you want some way of ranking in importance the things in your collection, it requires a lot of manual intervention.

Specifically, what structure do paid journals have that Arxiv lacks? How much would it cost to provide that structure outside of the current system, bearing in mind that editors and peer reviewers aren't paid a dime by the publishers?
Oh look, a Trump official that doesn't know shit about the job he's been assigned or anything that requires scientific knowledge or logic for that matter. What a shock.
‘Would that all journeys were on foot’: writers on the joy of walking (2018)
I genuinely wonder sometimes if we are on a slide towards a banana republic, and it makes me genuinely concerned that many people (40-46% of them) just wouldn't care if we did.
Why nanotechnology could be the key to smarter machines
Is drip-based watering used at scale?
I’ve never seen any bikes that has a lifetime of 50 miles. But I’m all for anti-planned obsolescence laws. Maybe just forcing manufacturers to put the expected life of the device next to it would help ?
FYI I worked for a largish UK recruitment company. A lot of CVs had photos. They made not a whit of difference to the recruiters. When the CV was entered onto the database, any images were stripped anyway. I imagine - though did not see - any especially hot chicks were noticed but I guarantee it did not change their chances of being placed. The recruiters just don't care.
It's offensive regardless.
This is impressive. Looks like a technique you could automate fairly easily.
I personally prefer the more respectable Greybeard :). Although I’ve been blessed to not have my grandfather’s beard genetics... I’m currently only a Salt & Pepper Engineer
Curious why this was flagged?
>How would a single person be able to choose what is best for everyone, even if benevolent? Benevolent does not mean omniscient and infinitely wise.

A benevolent dictator can still make mistakes, but so can the smaller entities you describe. The benevolent dictator would be focused on the good of everyone though, while the smaller entities in opposition would be focused on the good of their own group.

The process of setting up a longstanding benevolent dictatorship is what makes the idea ridiculous.
The age of wealth accumulation is over
Why a mock doesn’t work
Sure they allow it. The icons are also included in FontAwesome for easier use.
I had the same plan. Thanks for the link, nice to have a reference if I get stuck (as a Rust noob).
Ok, thanks for the heads up, I'm going to test this.
A focus on the mediums through which these shooters express their views misses the forest for the trees, which is that this is fundamentally a political problem.

There is an ascendant political ideology in the United States, and in the West more broadly, that is rooted in a fear that White supremacy is being eroded by immigration and demographic change, and that violence against minority populations is an acceptable response to these changes.

This ideology is promoted by the President and prominent members of the Republican Party and the party-affiliated media; government goon squads are used to harass and ethnically cleanse those populations; and "lone-wolf" paramilitaries terrorize them directly, while allowing their "respectable" enablers and ideological supporters some degree of plausible deniability.

The solution to this problem doesn't lie in technology or communication platforms or mental health awareness or anything like that. It lies in organizing politically to defeat the supporters of this ideology and take power away from its proponents.
Is there a species as universally loathed as the mosquito?
Why do you think that the cost is an increase?

I pay quite a bit more than $3/kgal, and a large fraction of that goes toward funding the SFPUC’s massive infrastructure for bringing Hetch Hetchy water to the Peninsula. A desalination plant would be located on the coast or on the bay and would not require this infrastructure.

As far as I’m concerned, the problem is the capital cost of the plant and the plumbing to safely suck in saltwater and discharge brine and has essentially nothing to do with electricity.

The situation isn’t helped by the fact that, in average and wet years, demand for desalinated water would be nil, since the Hetch Hetchy infrastructure already exists.
One way to do this would be to have privacy standards. EU PP0, PP1, PP2, etc., that would conform to particular uses of one's data.

Such info could be tagged in page head and then you could do things like search for a forum that doesn't (according to policy) use your data for revenue (or share it outside the named business -- perhaps that's "PP0", in analogy to CC0), etc..

Just thinking on my feet, E&OE.
Pro tip: lots of banks let you set a pin longer than 4 digits.
What would be the alternative to peer review? White papers on “pop” topics? Opinion pieces by think tanks?

The ideal of peer review is pretty much the gold standard of scientific work. By that, I mean the idea that your work should undergo rigorous scrutiny by your peers before it gets accepted for publications. As any other human system, though, the process is still subject to politics and biases.

My hope is that a truly open review system might one day democratize science and ameliorate the issues with the current review system. For example, it would be cool to put all the revisions, reviews and authors’ comments in the open as an online appendix. That will show how the paper changes as it moves trough the process, the issues that the reviewers brought up, and how the authors responded to them. It will also help show if there is systemic bias against certain researchers or topics.
That's interesting. Could you expand it a bit or point to some English articles about it? After joining can you work with your own client and not share the client with the rest of the cooperative?
I use ProtonVPN free nested with another free VPN, then I put Tor on top. You just have to know what you are doing.
I haven't heard anyone seriously suggesting hydrogen as a surplus storage mechanism. Do you have any examples of this, examples of pilot plants or whatever? Most I've seen are discussing using molten salt to directly store heat from during the day which can be used to power turbines over night.
> What does Docker give that you can't get with a normal VM

There is a difference between Linux container (Docker underhood) and full blown Virtual Machine. In case of docker you are not running new operating system, you are just running new processes in different namespace but still using the same kernel. Linux containers are lightweight, you can start them as easy and fast as other processes, without overhead. VM (in most cases) is separate operating system running, which means startup time is different, you have overhead (CPU usage for keeping OS running and all its services, additional RAM usage, additional disk space usage etc) of whole operating system + virtualization overhead (in a lot of cases but can be minimzed).
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The one area where Java feels fat is the memory usage overhead due to 64-bit pointers being used a lot. So if you end up holding and processing a lot of data in RAM, the process allocation and the garbage collector metrics won't look awesome. That said, recently Openj9 improves on this literally by miles. I agree with all the other points - Java and its tooling are very powerful and by that nature they are enabling us to put that much more load on it, so yes, that's where it will be predominantly visible.

Edit: that said, Java was created when we didn't have containers. (Just as Clojure was created before Java had lambdas and aggregate streams). So it may be the time to come back closer to the metal again, but as you point out, we need to maintain a clear mind while contemplating that.
At what scale?
Having to exert yourself so much all day isn't an option for everyone
Another paywall ad. Can we please be done with these? They're worse than tracking ads.
Hard no. My visceral reactions to this:

- Strings are not names. Names help tooling, strings make tooling harder.

- A function which takes a string to switch on where behavior radically differs between cases is an anti-pattern.

- Imports should be explicit and well organized, not magic and scattered throughout the code.
Every single chip function cited here is available in any given wearable/hearable chipset, many of which are available in consumer products that cost less than $100. Economies of scale suggest that the price of the actual chip that does all that is less than $10. Personal experience suggests it's likely less than $5 - maybe even less than $2 in large quantities.

A big part of why hearing aids haven't faced much disruption, as I understand it, is their qualification as a medical device. A major competitor of my current employer had a policy of many years that they would not do hearing aids, in spite of extensive audio and audio processing experience internally. The reason? Amar Bose wanted nothing to do with medical device certifications.
>with licensed fire arms

Even more with unlicensed fire arms.
There used to be a paper from a Harvard Law student on the school’s website about the Estrogen scam. As I recall, the paper told of how a drug company figured out they could get estrogens from the urine of pregnant horses. They put the estrogens into a pill and called it PREMARIN (PREgnant MARes urIN) [0], and told women their premenopausal problems came from not having enough estrogen.

Horse piss was a big business for big pharma. Then one day a doctor said, ‘we ought to do a study to see if women are actually benefitting from their estrogen supplementation’. This was the Womens Health Initiative. The study was stopped early [1] when the preliminary results found that women were actually getting cardiovascular problems and cancer from the horse urine.

This is as should have been expected. Estrogen is the end of the chain in the steroidogenesis [2] pathway... steroids are made from cholesterol, they are transformed, used then disposed of by the liver. Supplementing the tail end of the chain (estrogen) instead of the start of the chain (pregnenolone) causes all sorts of problems.

Progesterone supplementation is supposed to also delay menopause for aging women, but it’s not as profitable or fancy, and doctors tend not to start with simple treatments.

(edit1: references)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conjugated_estrogens#Contraind...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_Health_Initiative#HT...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steroid#Steroidogenesis
Equating Option<T> to T is like equating T[] to T, so you're saying everything should be arrays (& in fact, C goes that far by making it unclear whether int* is a reference to one int or many ints)
You're right, but unfortunately the idea of a President individually attempting to punish individuals and businesses that criticize him is considered normal now.
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Another notable video series, Handmade Hero: https://www.youtube.com/user/handmadeheroarchive
Meaning, you took offense to it. I’m sure you’re aware that it is impossible for one to offend another human being. One has to make the choice to take offense. Which you did.
The slide that the Racket folks presented recently on allowing non-parenthesized syntax literally had “I <3 ( )” branded to the top. I think you’re mischaracterizing the position of Racket developers, who are interested in catering to folks who don’t want to spend a good 20 minutes on how to use ParEdit.
Once you search for it, then the web page could actually know.
Yes, I think it is at least 2-3k€ per year even for an empty GmbH.
Regardless I love them for short distances. So nice not having to walk so much outside at this con I'm at.
It's typewritten. Corrections were more incolved back then.
The Gatehouse/Gannett newspaper megamerger could be announced tomorrow
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Yeah, good luck with that. If you're lucky, you'll win a judgement for both the defendant's Playstation and his Xbox. I'm sure white shoe law firms will be beating down your door to represent you in that suit.
Absolutely. But that is the problem with online publishing in general.
They are also dangerous.

I witness an accident a week and I do not spend much time around areas where there are scooters.

People don't obey the laws, too many ride doubled up and many ride on the sidewalk.

They ones affected most are blind and disabled people who get hit on the side walk.
IMO it's not offensive since it's not targeting anyone in particular. You are free to consider yourself an old fart or not.
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E-life is already doing peer review right. Now you need get others on board
Thank you for your kind words.

Growing pains of blowing up on HN lol, I do not have this written down yet, but I have a ticket to start documenting this [0].

The idea is to have a core set of traits [1] that when implemented allow an implementation to load an interpreter agnostic Ruby core and Ruby Standard Library.

There is currently only one interpreter that implements these traits, and it is backed by mruby. My ultimate goal is to move off of mruby to either an MRI-backed interpeter via rutie or a native Rust-implemented backend + VM + parser.

[0] https://github.com/artichoke/artichoke/issues/102
[1] https://artichoke.github.io/artichoke/artichoke_core/
Having quit smoking before for a year and vaping for 9 months. I had to entirely quit drinking to do it. I started drinking again. It's dumb, I know. I need to quit drinking for a few months again, taper down with vape like I did last time, and then just not pick up a smoke again. Instead, just use a vape when I'm drunk if I feel the need.
The unsustainable cost of free returns
> I’m sure you’re aware that it is impossible for one to offend another human being.

What?
Couldn't I just pay all of that stuff by my own to show them I have no intention to do so? I want everything to be legal. I do not want to save any money in taxes, health insurance or social insurance. I am actually happy to pay all this. Nevertheless I heard horror stories even by doing so you are at risk they will f..k you anyway after a Prüfung (audit) within the first five years or so.
The same mutual funds own large portions of both Uber and Lyft. So while no one has proven any sort of anti-competitve collusion, I suspect investors may be pressuring both companies to scale back the direct competition.
Heh, I got a 620LX around somewhere. I believe someone managed to port Linux to it as well as write a bootloader that booted Linux from inside of Windows CE.
Use the Guardian App. Of course, privacy costs money in this day and age, so it depends on how much you value your privacy:

https://guardianapp.com/
It would be trivial to post every SSN online. There's maximum one billion numbers fitting that format. Store each number in 30 bits, that's about 3600 MiB of data.
Wait, are you telling me that someone who complains about backwards Islamic cultures and government wasting money before he even starts addressing his main point is not completely fair and impartial?! Colour me surprised. The use of emotional language and pejoratives almost had me convinced it was a genuine science article!

(Whether he is right or wrong on those points is not important here; they're completely unrelated to the main point of the article, and that he goes off on those tangents reveals a lot about the author and his intentions, IMHO).
yeah, I'd say its quite simple. there is "Functional programming", and it is an umbrella term. Then there is "purely functional programming" and it's kind of better defined than it's hypernym. For purely functional programming we are certain that we want to be immutable, try to limit the usage of effects.

Lately, I think, there is even a de-emphasis in _functions_ as the base of (purely) functional programming. What's now beimg emphasized is the composability-aspect. Functions are an abstraction that is composable, but so are other abstractions.
Incorporation in another country is too risky for me.
Large commercial monocultures, rather than personal vegetable gardens
You need 3 for things that if they stop working the plane crashes.

This is more of a "if it stops working the pilots have to fly more conservatively until it is fixed" thing. It apparently is generally considered acceptable for such things to not have triple redundancy, as long as a failure will be detected so the pilots can deal with it. Two computers is good enough for that.
Legally, what's the difference between all the distributed, load balanced servers running a "centralized" database and the computers which host the same data in a "distributed" platform?

This doesn't solve the problem. If anything, it amplifies it. We have to either protect platforms or hold platforms liable, but making everyone a platform doesn't help much.
The US military has been investing in this kind of technology since the 1950s. Here's an example from the Hiller Aviation Museum in San Carlos, California:

https://www.hiller.org/event/flying-platform/

If you like amazing things that fly (and a couple that don't) the Hiller Aviation Museum is a must-see. I've never seen anything like it.
Sewage and distribution is not included in these costs. Current systems get water for almost nothing it’s mostly distribution and sewage systems that you’re currently paying for.

As to why this is, a single pipe carrying 1,000x as much water costs no where near 1,000x much per foot. Each home might only need 1/10,000,000 the water, but it’s got to be built for peak demand not average useage. On top of this, people don’t live at sea level, so you need to pump that sea water up before you can use it.

PS: Not to mention most distribution systems leak significantly, that 3$ assumes 100% efficiency at 50% it’s more like 6$.
I don't have and I don't want to have any other clients.