skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Laserdisc was an analog implementation of that technology. Eventually it also carried digital audio a la CD but the video and the original audio encoding were analog.
Epstein at the time was known to be convicted of sex trafficking in 2008. That alone is sufficient reason to suspect that a couple young escorts are part of a continuing crime, but Zuckerman said that people generally believed that Epstein continued to be a sex trafficker.
>All language requires these sorts of assumptions; its implicit in pretty much every sentence. For most people, they will understand what is meant very quickly.

I have a snarky saying that no matter how clear you make yourself, someone can always misunderstand you if they really want to.
You should look up salaries for professors/lecturers that teach business, law, and medicine. They pay a lot more than salaries for professors/lecturers for history, math, and literature.
The second link is interesting. I've only seen the paper on the old Norwegian pilot plant before that slide show. The Norwegians were dealing with Iron Sulfide waste from copper mining as the feed stock. Being able to directly reduce solid iron oxide is probably better.

I have also wondered if you could use the iron rich gangue from bauxite mining as a feed source.
Engineer's estimate on when we will have autonomous cars
I think I'm a good engineer, but I don't think I have the intelligence to get into google. Most people can't. There's definitely some sort of difference between an engineer who can get in google and one who can't as displayed by the interview.

Most companies that interview people outside of FAANG tend to have easier interview questions in my experience. Some even forego algorithms all together.

For googlers who worked at companies outside of FAANG or startups. Is there a noticeable difference when working these people? Will you learn more from a google level engineer then you will from someone who can't pass the google interview? What are your thoughts about it?

If you think that FAANG engineers are genuinely better, say it. There's no need to be politically correct here, honesty is appreciated.
Lessig has mis-categorised Epstein as type 3 when he really should be type 4.

He not only personally offended with minors, but amplified that offense by supplying them to others.

This was certainly done for either direct profit, or for buying or paying off favors.
Which part is false? "Feels more real" or "sound quality isn't better"?

I suspect you mean the latter, though with modern audio tech, well-mic'd and mastered recordings can easily sound ... if not better, then more intense, than live performances.

Though there's nothing like seeing the music being performed live.
Staged Metaprogramming for Shader System Development
It depends on various factors like region, person's interest etc.

Facebook valued North American user at about $112 per year while globally it is about $25/year. Twitter is about $ 9 per user and SNAP is about $6 per user.

Source: https://thespring.io/investing/facebook-makes-more-revenue-p...
I would agree that using a pure CLI (Unix Shell) requires significant operator skill to not accidentally blow things up. But that is also why you write scripts, test them, etc.

Sitting at a root shell executing untested or uncertain things is pretty high on the list of don't do these things.
I'm not sure I can find the specific project I'm thinking of now (possibly [1]), but I recall that ~10-15 years ago someone scanned vinyl records with a consumer or "small business" grade scanner well enough that the scan could be played back with enough fidelity to be recognizable. Certainly far short of "all the data", but it's a data point for what can be accomplished with mass-market hardware.

[1] https://www.cse.huji.ac.il/~springer/DigitalNeedle/index.htm...
The author seems to flip flop on whether the "moral rot" is isolated to the Media Lab. First they write:

> Negroponte’s comments—even in light of his later clarification—indicate the structural rot at the heart of Ito’s choices. The Media Lab has long been academia’s fanciest glue trap for morally elastic rich people. ... In this, the Media Lab has apotheosized the capitalistic philosophy of its parent institution ... Theoretically, at least, professors are salaried and tenured so that they can conduct research pursuant to this communal scientific ethos free from any profit imperative. This is not how modern academic science often works in practice, and it is certainly not how things have worked at MIT for the past 100 years.

So the Media Lab, like the rest of MIT, is morally rotten because of its extreme reliance on private sector funding. But then:

> Over the course of the past century, MIT became one of the best brands in the world, a name that confers instant credibility and stature on all who are associated with it. Rather than protect the inherent specialness of this brand, the Media Lab soiled it again and again

So, MIT is credible and the moral rot is isolated to the Media Lab?

Well, overall, the article presents some facts and seems to want to make a larger point, but then fails to really make any point. The whole discussion of the 1919 "Technology Plan" goes nowhere and it's unclear if the author thinks it was a good or bad (or neutral) idea.

Given that the article seems to have been intended to be persuasive, it would have been better if the article clearly stated either that the Media Lab took the Technology Plan too far, or if the Technology Plan was flawed from the beginning. At least then there would be a clear point which readers could agree or disagree with.
I was a teenager in the mid 80’s, mostly with tapes, but with some vinyl. The first CD I heard (1987) was far superior sound quality. Vinyl has nice cover art, but that’s it. I’ll stick with CDs. Eventually those will become hip.
Planting trees, lots of them, should be a major part of any effort to reduce climate change and improve the environment. Furthermore, it's cheap, it works, and trees are beautiful.

And yet there's little talk about it, and even less action.

Congrats to Ethiopia for actually doing something real.
iCloud Bypass Pro – iCloud Bypass Hack for All iPhones and iPads
Let’s be clear, aquifer depletion for example is unsustainable not because of water but because that source is going to run out. Similarly, anything depending on Natural Gas unsuitable as long we are going to run out of natural gas.

The issue is using this stuff inherently means a future spike in prices.
Thanks for the specific example! That on-site visit – a keystone anecdote of the article – was a potential avenue for untoward influence, worth discussing.

But it's not "naming something after him or listing him as an honored donor". A meeting with some willing subset of the faculty is a "donor benefit", sure, but far reduced from what a large donor normally gets, and not "special" to the point of "kowtowing" – the characterization to which I've objected.

Farrow even couches this implication of influence with the qualifier "apparently" – as in, "it appears this way but I'm not saying for certain". That single visit sparked arguments inside the Lab that likely swayed many against any of Epstein's priorities – spreading the understanding his

And, concerned staff separated Epstein from the "model" "assistants" who would normally accompany him into "any room" for the duration of the meeting(s), and spoke with those women to verify their welfare.

Again: that looks to me like the opposite of "kowtowing". The Media Lab set conditions for his involvement, to minimize any spillover benefits to Epstein, and Epstein – desperate as he was – agreed to their conditions.
>2 x 3 = 3 x 2 feels so obvious

You just got used to it because you learned it very young. I'm pretty sure it wasn't that obvious when you learned it.
Surprisingly (I thought anyway) WL was one of very few which support shared lists effectively.

I bought Things for mac for myself and my partner at the time and was blown away when I discovered a $60 CAD To Do list app couldn't share a list. WL ended up being the best option by a long shot.

These days I use Todoist which can also share lists nicely.
Yes, but part of keeping your application code stateless is that you need to actually do things to keep it that way. If you haven't done those things, it's easier to set up Tarsnap in a cron job than it is to make sure your deployment process is stateless.
I have a similar non-overlapping project for steam emoji's:

https://github.com/EhsanKia/Steam-Mosaticon

https://steam.tools/mosaticon/
I was in the local record shop on Saturday, picking up the latest Bat For Lashes and Brand New Heavies albums. CDs are still selling more units, but vinyl is up to 3 times the price of a CD, so no wonder it can make up the shortfall. Vinyl packaging is just nicer. Back in the 1980s and 90s, vinyl and cassettes were the same price. I wish I'd bought fewer tapes during my Walkman years and instead recorded the vinyl onto tape. Those tapes are all shot now, but my record collection is still here...
It isn't just a change of server, it's an entirely different back-end infrastructure. To Do is a modern UI on top of Exchange tasks.
San Francisco makes $2.5B bid for PG&E's electric system
... earlier submissions ...

The front page of the PDF is dated 6 September, so this most likely is some newer revision.
Realism, Indian cinema’s parallel success story (2017)
Here's a quite friendly elucidation by the inimitable Avi Wigderson, from: https://www.ias.edu/ideas/2009/wigderson-randomness-pseudora...

> Let’s elaborate now on the connection (explained on the cover of this issue) of the Riemann Hypothesis to pseudorandomness. Consider long sequences of the letters L, R, S, such as

> S S R S L L L L L S L R R L S R R R R R S L S L S L L . . .

> Such a sequence can be thought of as a set of instructions (L for Left, R for Right, S for Stay) for a person or robot walking in a straight line. Each time the next instruction moves it one unit of length Left or Right or makes it Stay. If such a sequence is chosen at random (this is sometimes called a random walk or a drunkard’s walk), then the moving object would stay relatively close to the origin with high probability: if the sequence was of n steps, almost surely its distance from the starting point would be close to √n. For the Riemann Hypothesis, the explicit sequence of instructions called the Möbius function is determined as follows for each step t. If t is divisible by any prime more than once then the instruction is Stay (e.g., t=18, which is divisible by 32). Otherwise, if t is divisible by an even number of distinct primes, then the instruction is Right, and if by an odd number of distinct primes, the instruction is Left (e.g., for t=21=3x7 it is Right, and for t=30=2x3x5 it is Left). This explicit sequence of instructions, which is determined by the prime numbers, causes a robot to look drunk, if and only if the Riemann Hypothesis is true!
Are charge and discharge rate usually equal?
This is a great idea. Every once in a while, I want to say "I'm sorry" to someone in another car, and I'm not sure how. Currently, I wave and grimace, but I'm not sure that gets the message across.

I wonder what it would take for something like this to spread across the globe as the standard way to say "I'm sorry" to someone in another vehicle.
This is great to hear, actually. I'm also a premium subscriber, and I don't need a ton of new features, but improving the core speaks to another ten years of stable development.
I wouldn’t do this with stock trading because I’m risking everything. But I wouldn’t call the people adjusting search engine parameters completely untrained either, simply not using a methodology that tests their changes against every query. I’ve found that for libraries, at least, the search engines folks are used to are simply SO BAD, so unoptimized, that a little hand tweaking and prioritizing of exact title matches will go a long way. And you’re confusing manual testing with no testing—they would very carefully watch for counter examples with a list of known good titles to search for and get back an expected set of results and were known to rollback changes when they had unexpected consequences. Effectively they have the risk appetite to test in production because the cost to end users is minimal, and the assumption when search doesn’t work is, “oh, they must not have that book” or “oh, they need to fix this particular search” and not “oh, they broke search completely and must be fired” (no one says that last one)
Currently getting a PhD at respectable grad school, my Girlfriend is currently at medical school. She has it way harder than I ever have, medical school is just on another level.
Third-party apps are great and all, but if you're using GNOME, add a Todoist account in Settings -> Online Accounts and use gnome-todo for a truly native experience.
I spend a lot of time playing games as a way to study Japanese. So I wrote a blog post summing up everything I've learned!

From picking the right game, to finding scripts, to study strategies, this is how I get the most learning out of the time I spend playing.

If you have any thoughts/question/comments please let me know!
It's done to keep supply down. Medical costs are high partially because of lack of doctors willing to put up with this. Talk to the AMA.
Cerebral organoids are becoming more brainlike
> In short, I agree with you that regex cannot parse regular expressions completely. Would be happy to be proven wrong, though!

the proof that you can't parse nested pararetheses with a regular language is a pretty standard part of first year computer science
Landing on extraterrestrial objects is really difficult. Even the US, which is the champion at this, has had a number of failures. I trust the Indian engineers will figure out what went wrong, keep trying, and eventually succeed, maybe on the very next mission.

Also, the mission includes an orbiter with a number of scientific instruments for studying the Moon which is still going strong.
Except that the film industry in canada wants to do far more than film over closed sets. They want wide nature shots (this is Canada) and moving vehicle shots on public roads. The real estate industry (far bigger than film/TV) also wants to photograph houses from above. Farmers, also a huge industry, want them to spray crops. Police want to use drones to hunt criminals. Fire departments want them to scan buildings. Rescue groups want to send them over fields to find children. All of this requires flying in areas that are disallowed today. The current regs appease the aviation industry. That will change as other larger and more influential sectors make raise their voices.

In my personal experience, the drone rules are impacting aviation more than expected. The problem is that people are actually following the rules. NOTAMs are being issued to notify manned aircraft of drone activity. Large manned aircraft at thousands of feet are being redirected because someone with a 2kg drone is running a test.

Example of how complicated this can become for pilots:
https://www.tc.gc.ca/en/services/aviation/drone-safety/notic...
I just like having a physical copy of my favorite music. It is similar to how there's a greater appeal to rows of hardbound books on shelves compared to a Kindle loaded with epubs, even if the latter is more practical/portable/etc. I'm just going to stream the album anyway. If I'm going to go as far as to directly support the artist by purchasing it, for me it feels more substantial to buy the vinyl.
Syntax-wise Ocaml is waaaay weirder than Haskell. In fact, Haskell is a pretty typical representative of the whole ML language family, with StandardML being the cleanest of them all.
The Future of Mathematics [pdf]
> A typical ELK deployment has logstash and kibana as well.

Now that we have tools like docker-compose, would it not be possible to spin up all the dependency apps in a single command, so as to preserve the character of a monolithic app?
AKA How to get pulled over at every traffic stop you ever pass by.
Ask HN: How many *playable* combinations of piano keys are there?
Given a span of 15 notes for one hand; and two hands I make it out to be less than 49 billion but the exact number eludes me (fingering constraints, duplicate notes between the two hands when they overlap).

The 49 billion is 3003 (15 choose 5) * 73 (the number of positions you could do that in) squared.

Anybody good at math with a more accurate number?
Your no exit strategy article just had a huge impact on me in so many ways, thanks!
If it's beside human intervention, then yes, it's humanly fair.

The universe might not be fair though, but I'd say the universe does not give a f...
Lawrence Lessig just asserted on Medium [0] (without specific evidence) that the anonymization of Epstein's donations was done at the direction of MIT. If true, that loops the Institute generally into the whole scandal, where previously they had an almost bulletproof defense.

[0] https://medium.com/@lessig/on-joi-and-mit-3cb422fe5ae7
Or the water. I remember researching reforestation and the first 10 years are tough and water is one huge challenge.
At some point most parents are ready for their children to move out and do their own thing.
And even once they get burned, they don't understand what they did wrong. Instead of cashing out part of their stash for taxes (equiv. to the taxes owed on the coins they traded, plus the taxes owed on what they cashed out), they effectively went gambling with the government's money.
The capricious use of solitary confinement among detained immigrants
OK, so is there a huge distinction between prosecutions and judgments for pedophiles and hebephiles?

I haven't followed his case well enough to know the age range for his young friends. But yes, I don't recall that he was grooming ten year olds. But probably 13 year olds, I think.

And yes, it's hard to tell about preteen people. Looking back at old pictures of close friends and myself, the most obvious changes were later, at maybe about 19-20. Mainly a loss of gangliness, I think. Puberty is not uncommon now before ten, so secondary sexual characteristics alone are unreliable indicators.

Way back in the hippie days, when I was about 18-20, I had a few 13-16 year old girlfriends. And I don't recall that they were all that obviously distinguishable by age. But of course, in old pictures, we all look like children.
It's not possible to do this for regular expressions, but it is possible to do it for context free grammars. You can write a context-free grammar in Backus-Naur form that recognizes all context-free grammars in Backus-Naur form:

<syntax> ::= <rule> | <rule> <syntax>
<rule> ::= <opt-whitespace> "<" <rule-name> ">" <opt-whitespace> "::=" <opt-whitespace> <expression> <line-end>
<opt-whitespace> ::= " " <opt-whitespace> | ""
<expression> ::= <list> | <list> <opt-whitespace> "|" <opt-whitespace> <expression>
<line-end> ::= <opt-whitespace> <EOL> | <line-end> <line-end>
<list> ::= <term> | <term> <opt-whitespace> <list>
<term> ::= <literal> | "<" <rule-name> ">"
<literal> ::= '"' <text1> '"' | "'" <text2> "'"
<text1> ::= "" | <character1> <text1>
<text2> ::= '' | <character2> <text2>
<character> ::= <letter> | <digit> | <symbol>
<letter> ::= "A" | "B" | "C" | "D" | "E" | "F" | "G" | "H" | "I" | "J" | "K" | "L" | "M" | "N" | "O" | "P" | "Q" | "R" | "S" | "T" | "U" | "V" | "W" | "X" | "Y" | "Z" | "a" | "b" | "c" | "d" | "e" | "f" | "g" | "h" | "i" | "j" | "k" | "l" | "m" | "n" | "o" | "p" | "q" | "r" | "s" | "t" | "u" | "v" | "w" | "x" | "y" | "z"
<digit> ::= "0" | "1" | "2" | "3" | "4" | "5" | "6" | "7" | "8" | "9"
<symbol> ::= "|" | " " | "!" | "#" | "$" | "%" | "&" | "(" | ")" | "*" | "+" | "," | "-" | "." | "/" | ":" | ";" | ">" | "=" | "<" | "?" | "@" | "[" | "\" | "]" | "^" | "_" | "`" | "{" | "}" | "~"
<character1> ::= <character> | "'"
<character2> ::= <character> | '"'
<rule-name> ::= <letter> | <rule-name> <rule-char>
<rule-char> ::= <letter> | <digit> | "-"

I got this from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backus%E2%80%93Naur_form#Furth...
The JPMS represents what is probably the largest single change in Java's history. It significantly impacts the entire stack: language, libraries, and runtime/VM. In my experience the host of incompatibilities resulting from modules are not worth the trouble -- there's not much to gain from using them.

Generally the JPMS provide two benefits:

1. Since the JRE is restructured to use modules, it can be used piecemeal, which is great for embedded systems.

2. A module controls exposed packages -- only explicitly exported packages are accessible to dependent modules.

With this in mind it's difficult to justify the JPMS fallout: Why should #1 impact the much larger market of Java SE? #2 is nice, however we already have this feature with IDEs like IntelliJ IDEA, which provide robust compile-time module systems. And the runtime aspect of JPMS access control is hardly worthwhile; it's not security (reflection can always bypass that), so what is it providing exactly? Surely it doesn't fix the notorious "JAR hell" issue, you still need to shade jars or use OSGi.
The notion that multiplication is ("just") repeated addition is the hardest misconception to overcome blocking progress in mathematics.

Repeated addition is an algorithm that works when you have a non-negative integer argument. Imagining that the algorithm defines the operation limits conception.
| Farming can be extremely energy intensive or less so depending on the methods used.

In the US, we use less energy growing and harvesting food than we do cooking food. Total ag energy use is a tiny fraction of the total energy use in the economy.

Energy-intensive agriculture is perfectly sustainable. There's more than enough renewable energy available.

The one resource I would worry about is phosphorus, but this will be a problem for "organic" farming too. The solution there is to minimize erosion, recycle phosphorus-bearing wastes, build up sparingly soluble phosphate reserves in soils (and don't let erosion wash those away), and ultimately make up for losses by exploiting very low quality phosphate ores (crustal average is 0.1% P).
What is product-led growth?
WeWork Parent Weighs Further Valuation Cut
OK, so if this is so great, when does it appear in the iPhone, which always seems to have battery life problems?
Better to keep your mouth shut than spin outrageous and easily disproven claims.
You made this point on a previous thread, at length, in repeated back-and-forth with other commenters. I also doubt the escorts were "trafficked" in the lurid sense we generally mean by the word, or that they needed or would have been receptive to a rescue. That is not at all the point I'm making, and you know that.

Your rebuttal is even less relevant to this thread, which simply contends that there was no meaningful anonymity about Epstein's donations; in fact, there was infamy over them.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20906541
Amazing to see this here! The father of my grandma (she is turning 100 next week!) was a sailor on these Antarctic missions.

She still lives in the same village where several of these sailors were from. She recently told me that more than a year after the planned end of one of these missions, they still had no news of the boat. Everyone in the village fully expected all the crew to have been dead for a long time. But then one day the great-grandpa just walked in into the village after 3 years away, like it’s nothing! The boat had been stuck in the ice and had to spend one more winter stuck in the Antarctic ice pack.

At one point during that winter, food was running low, my great-grandpa and a few other pals had to row a small boat to an island 80km away to get food from a stash they left there on a previous mission 8 years prior.

These days were... epic!
Be clean, put a camera on the dash, sue the police, profit.
If the only way to build things is collaboration with the military, you've got a big problem in your society. maybe other evidence of a problem would be a billionare-adjacent pedophile paying for influence in mainstream academic circles.