skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>>Separating children, babies and toddlers from their parents.

You mean the same thing we do with American citizens who commit crimes? [1]

>>>> Keeping children in bed-less, 24/7 lit rooms. Not giving sanitary pads to menstruating girls, etc. The list of atrocities is growing, depressing and unforgivable. Apprehended migrants are treated in ways that most humans would consider too cruel for dogs.

Additional funding would help, but the same politicians criticizing the conditions also ....voted against additional funding! [2] It's almost like they aren't interested in actually solving problems....

As an aside, the US isn't alone in first-world countries with harsh immigration prisons.[3][4] Pretty much every gaijin I know understands the importance of "staying on the level" with regards to the immigration authorities here because the prisons are terrifying.

>>> Because of these policies, any increase in enforcement has a direct, causal, traceable and immediate consequence of increasing human suffering.

Or you could put personal responsibility on the people who chose to leave their homes at great personal risk, exposing themselves to life-threatening dangers.[5] <---that couple both had steady employment in El Salvador. Do you consider their decision to leave their (meager) economic situation and expose their children to danger immoral?

Have you seen interviews with some of the detained African aliens?[6] There are NGOs feeding these people propaganda about how the US will take care of them, provide for them, and give them money. If anything, those organizations and people are directly responsible for deceiving unfortunate populations and skewing their risk analysis in order to convince them to undertake an objectively-dangerous course of action. Are you going to directly hold them accountable for human suffering, as well?

[1]https://youtu.be/ZEFoi_leYDw

[2]https://thehill.com/homenews/house/450363-the-4-house-democr...

[3]http://www.debito.org/?p=13056

[4]https://www.economist.com/banyan/2012/01/18/gulag-for-gaijin

[5]https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/28/world/americas/rio-grande...

[6]https://youtu.be/mJlOmMj21uM
'Somehow other US allies don't have these sorts of "hey let's spy on our friends" impulses'

Pretty much any US ally with a functional intelligence capability spies on the US. And we spy on all of them. And it's not always for traditional diplomatic or political purposes. Some governments, such as France's, have a tradition of aggressive espionage to get a commercial advantage for domestic corporations.
Ask HN: What outreach channels should I use?
Hello Everyone!

I am developing a simple financial transaction logging web app for individuals and small businesses. I want to reach out to potential users of this app and provide them with beta access when it is ready. What specific channels, other than Hacker News, Startup School and Product Hunt, should I use to reach out to people for using the financial web application?

Thank you!
There was a company named Athelas mentioned here on YN too. I can't imagine it's a good idea. The Tolkien estate is notoriously rigid.
30 miles total daily commute?
When I lived in the America's desert southwest, the school buses were partially solar powered. The panels weren't on the roof, though, they were where the buses were parked. Each bus had a port on the side for hooking into the panel grid in between runs.

I think the reason there weren't panels on the roof is because the roofs usually had two air conditioners on them. I suspect the solar plug-in wasn't for locomotion, but to power the air conditioners.
Write down the first 50 terms of the series for e^{-x}.
Go back in time and tell Pythagoras to plug in x=2,3,4,5,6,7,8,10,...

Each of the terms is a rational number, and the each of the sums will be an extremely small rational number (numerator will be tiny compared to denominator).

Don't you think Pythagoras would be impressed and mystified?
Would he be able to come up with an explanation for this `coincidence'?

Now try the same with with x-x. That's not going to impress Pythagoras.
I did, in fact! Thanks. :)

I thought it was just spitballing an alternative name.
Not sure about the API, I just used whatever was currently available. I am sure there might be someplace on IFTTTs api - https://platform.ifttt.com/docs this may be a good place to start.
For USA citizens who are Jewish, they want their homeland to continue to exist. For the military industrial complex, they see it as jobs and profit. For the politically minded, they might prefer to see democracy prevail.
Besides having to um, drag the mouse, is there an issue with simply dragging the visible scroll thumb/knob/thingy down or up? That said, my preferred way to get to a part of a page is CTRL+F, which really should be updated to automatically OCR images at some point in the future. It's a shame we call sites inaccessible in 2019 when we can sometimes fix such problems automatically. I'm not saying it's a permanent or good fix, but nobody's going to go into web.archive.org to update the alt text that wasn't provided in the first place... there are browser extensions, and JAWS apparently does it, but we shouldn't need to turn to commercial tools, it should be baked into the OS and browsers so it can be used more easily. And for sites that override Ctrl+F, there should be a way to override that in the addressbar as if it's a privacy/security setting, on a per-site basis. Actually, you could add such a setting for scrollbars too, but there should be limits somewhere or the settings list would just become about:config or the Registry. /endrant
The sr-71 gets all the glory but go look at some of the aircraft that lost competitions. The convair kingfish that lost to the 71 was decades ahead. It lost for a number of reasons, some valid, some not. The f-22 competitor was super interesting as well.
Does Uber track the ride or the driver? App users are carrying out work and the business wants to track work. Asset track and telematics are product categories used in the industry where work is on the move. This app belongs in the same bucket.
> In C++, rather than using a subclass for the mutator, use a different (friend) class.

Unfortunately I don't control this class :(
Man your commute is that short, and you drive?
It seems like this could be useful for making electric cars more practical for apartment dwellers, in that a car in an open lot would stay indefinitely topped up when unattended and unplugged instead of the omnipresent worry of the battery running down.
Having recently finished a successful remote job search, one of the most frustrating aspects I found was that recruiters at the front of the pipeline would often promise a far higher degree of remote friendliness at the company than I would actually encounter as I progressed through the interviews. A very common caveat as I made it to later stages was always, "we will hire you as long as there are no other acceptable candidates willing to work on-site," which in practice always worked out to "we will not actually hire remote."

As with most job searches, the things I found helped the most were personal referrals, and focusing on companies which already had a strong remote component to their work. This includes many companies not headquartered in the Bay Area, which often have to accept remote work to access a sufficiently large hiring pool.
Andrew Yang wants to give 10 families $1k a month
> Even with DNA, if you manually assemble a sequence, is it not something you've built?

That’s not what DNA patents are. People are patenting genes that they find in nature. No invention at all, nothing created.
Yes look us up here: https://github.com/hypertrack
180,000 golf carts are manufactured each year, and golf carts pretty much live in the sun. Seems like an opportunity.
It really isn’t. Between the existence of Norwegian Airlines and the fact that the Norwegian crown is hovering at 9 to a dollar, flights are almost never over $200 one-way from New York and it’s now cheaper for an American to drink an Aperol Spritz here than in Manhattan.
Interesting! Why would you use localtunnel as opposed to ngrok ?
Former lawyer who worked on IPOs. Can confirm, amendments to S1s are common af. Basically always see them
FWIW, I've never studied philosophy (unless you count formal logic, but we never talked about "necessary and sufficient conditions" in the two courses I took), and I use that terminology a fair amount. I'm not sure where I picked it up, but it certainly wasn't in philosophy classes.
someone needs to make a VR open world game set in Google Maps 3D view
On the cave front, your best bet might be car dwelling on public land. I don't know the options in the UK, but there are opportunities in Australia and loads in the US. In the US you can go camp in the forest or desert away from the chaos and (generally) only have to move every 10-14 days. Depending on the vehicle you have, you can do this with minimal expense and as a full-time lifestyle decision or just when you need to clear your head for a weekend.

It's very liberating being out in a forest or desert, especially without phone signal. Fewer distractions, fewer possessions.
> In our analyses, we examine how crime under-reporting may bias the results. We employ precinct fixed-effects to address time-invariant sources of under-reporting, such as communities’ varying histories of police distrust. We then model time-variant sources of under-reporting biases, such as those caused by the killing of Eric Garner and/or the heightened conflict between protesters and police. Model (5) in Fig. 3 controls for the number of community complaints reported in each precinct-week for misdemeanours
and criminal violations. Assuming that time-variant sources of under-reporting are correlated across crime types, this model is robust to slowdown-induced under-reporting bias. While we cannot entirely rule out the effects of under-reporting, our results show that crime complaints decreased, rather than increased, during
a slowdown in proactive policing, contrary to deterrence theory. Additional tests show the results are robust to specifications including controls for long-term trends in crime (Fig. 3 model (6)), lagged
‘Major crime arrests’ (Fig. 3 model (7)) and lagged ‘Major crime complaints’ (Fig. 3 model (8)).

doi:10.1038/s41562-017-0211-5
Random comment. I've monitored the discussions of WHLSL/WSL vs SPIR-V and I can't decide which side I'm on.

I started in the SPIR-V camp. I liked the idea that WebGPU would just get "shader assembly language" and that would let a 1000 other higher level languages blossom. I also liked the idea that injesting assembly seemed easier and less code than injesting a higher level language.

But, Apple had their original WHLSL post (https://webkit.org/blog/8482/web-high-level-shading-language...) and I liked some of their arguments for a text based language. I like the idea that I can just make snippet/jsfiddle/codepen and don't need a entire tool chain nor any 3rd party libraies just to get something working. I have 100s of standalone WebGL samples that have next to zero external code. I'd like to do the same with WebGPU but if it's SPIR-V based that will be impossible.

I also agreed that AFAICT SPIR-V being more assembly language like is not really a help. To validate it still requires a bunch of work, understanding it as a whole (building up an AST?) and checking everything so it's not clear to me there's a win there. The SPIR-V came does list some valid points here in relation to validation

https://github.com/gpuweb/gpuweb/issues/44

It's also been pointed out that SPIR-V is not a small format. Suggestions have been made that if you care about download size you'd send some other format that is smaller + a library to decompress/compile that format into SPIR-V. That sounded less interesting to me as again I need now both an offline toolset and a library to use its results.

I don't remember why but at some point I gravitated back toward the SPIR-V camp but when I went over the arguments it turned out to be mostly a tie.

I feel like if someone wrote a WSL or GLSL to SPIR-V compiler that was very small (50k to 100k compressed JS), ideally in JavaScript not WebAssembly, that might help decide the issue? Unfortunately AFAIK none of the devs involved with WebGPU are JS programmers so they do things like re-compile ANGLE's GLSL compiler via Emscripten as a solution which turns into a large bloated library with multiple parts.

I hate the idea that I won't be able to create small WebGPU demos without large external libraries or without finding places to host binary spirv files. A small library might push me in the SPIR-V camp. Without that I think I lean to the WSL camp.

I think the SPIR-V camp would argue that small samples don't matter. What matters is AAA games and AAA apps like Google Maps and those teams don't care if they have to use large offline toolsets. They'd also argue there's 2 or 3 orders of magnitude more devs using a large library like three.js than using low-level WebGL so the fact that without a large library the experience sucks is irrelevant. So again, I don't know which direction is better.
> If five highly-qualified engineers spent five years trying to speed up gollvm compiles without success, we'd have strong evidence that something about LLVM prohibits the fast compiles that are possible with the gc toolchain. But that's not the situation.

At some point people are going to need to put the money where their mouth is. Or they can live with the software which open source developers developed on their own or employers' dime.
Firefox is testing a VPN, and you can try it
We are talking about software patents here.
I see them in my area on flightradar24, running very consistent grids like this one: https://www.flightradar24.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/0...
Getting a 404
Mining company paints bare hillsides green
This is behavior that could be expected when you evaluate _any_ infinite Taylor series far enough away from where the series is centered. Denominators of a typical Taylor series are fixed and the numerators depend polynomially on x.

The post is definitely an interesting observation. I would chalk the miracle up to Taylor series and analytic functions in general, however.
When you meet him, he literally radiates integrity.

It's a false integrity.

Many senior executives do that.
Huh? Probability density functions aren’t bounded between 0 and 1. Their integrals are exactly 1, but that’s considerably less interesting.
If you don't park in the shade. If your parking space doesn't tilt slightly away from the the sun.

For the same money you would be far better off installing some solar panels permanently somewhere along with a battery that can transfer that power into the car when you get home.
Or, better yet, skip the batteries and plug the solar panels into the grid. The more solar panels attached to the grid the better. Anyone who cares about the environment would put panels on their house, lawn, driveway and pets long before their car. This is a fashion statement, a fancy paint job.

(And most people would be shocked at how much solar power is available in Vancouver. Without dust in the air, droughts most summers, and the lack of mountains to the south, Vancouver does fairly well in terms of solar.)
i grew up playing Serpentine (1982) on my awesome vic-20
Absolutely. If anyone is looking for a forum that tries to address the reality of modern men's issues without making it into a zero-sum game of men-versus-women, I've been reading https://www.reddit.com/r/MensLib/ lately, and it's actually really good. Yeah, I know it's hard to believe, but seriously. Take a look.
I drive if the Sun is beating down or there is a thunderstorm. Sometimes I get dropped off, then walk home later in nicer weather. I also drive when I don't have 20 minutes to spare; the drive is only 3 minutes.
They don't look that stagnant to me? Each one seems to have multiple inlet/outlet pipes, and the next pond over has an aerating fountain. If they were truly stagnant the car wouldn't be visible.
That’s not the same as going completely on strike. It’s possible that police wouldn’t go completely on strike, but it’s also possible that the work stoppages or disruptions would affect something more essential than the “broken windows” policy. It doesn’t take a lot of imagination to see what might go wrong even inside prisons.

There is a non-trivial risk of violent, even armed conflict if there really was a police strike and the National Guard was called in to restore order. That’s not something a state governor wants on their record.
Play one here

https://www.google.com/search?q=snake+game
Couldn't they just make their font have a ligature so that :-) turns into whatever they want? That's how some programming fonts make stuff like -> or != look different.
It seems user-centric to you know... make the browser work for what users what to use it for. Like generating digits of pi.
The device I allude to in my other comment here is a Cherry Trail device. I did query the supplier as to why the EFI was not 64-bit and was told essentially that "The 2 GB version of the device comes with 32-bit UEFI because it doesn't support 64-bit OS". Another variant of the device with more RAM does come with a 64-bit UEFI, apparently.

I can _kind of_ see the logic -- when you have only 2 GB of RAM, you aren't really going to want to put a 64-bit OS on it.

Part of the issue there as well is, as I understand it, UEFI can only load EFI applications (of which the bootloader is) of the same bitness as the UEFI implementation -- 64-bit UEFI can _only_ load 64-bit bootloaders.
" Otherwise, if the institution does not have confidence in the test, it shouldn't be granting credit for it! "

Having taught at the expensive and prestigious institution in question, I can say that there may be a gap between what the institution has faith in and what the instructors experience.

I mean, yeah, if it's a class outside of your major then sure. My son (and I, when I went) skipped freshman comp. I encourage my son to get through via whatever means is easiest, and in his case, I believe it's getting some extra time in the seat in a calc class.
Honestly, that was either too trivial, or underexplained for it to be a nerd-content. Maybe I’m watching too much pbs and numberphile, but nothing seemingly amazing here.
Some of the stuff to restart the afterburners was pretty nasty too. I think it was one of the hypergolic families if I remember correctly.
Yikes, my guess is that the linked project most likely isn’t being used for good.
Would be nice if you could do a single session without signing up, even if it didn't track over time
Because your predecessors worked to build that for you and their fellow people. Why do you think parents pay for their children's education. Why do you think many don't just provide the minimum, but instead go beyond that?

You did not do anything to get that. But your parents, their parents and those who came before them did, with the intention that you would.
yeah but is it COOL
Got my kid a FreeGoUSA.com scooter a year or so ago before he had his driver's license. This scooter is a dual motor version with a massive battery - it weighs 75 pounds, goes 30mph and has a 20-30 mile range. Once he got his license, I assumed he'd probably want to just drive a car, but he much prefers the scooter: Faster in traffic, no need to fill it with gas. In fact, the scooter has completely reshaped his perception of gasoline and cars - it just seems like a horrible waste of money while also polluting. Can't say I disagree with him.
Full wrap solar panels would be a silly idea. Almost half of the panels would not be producing power. Effective surface area would be about ~130 ft^2. Even with that additional solar panel, let's call it 250 ft^2, it would produce ~4kW on a clear day. Basically, charging all day might get you 150 miles in a Tesla model S. I would rather just charge my Tesla while eating a sandwich for lunch then pay for the additional complexity.
Let's take "analytic" to mean "determined by its maclaurin series".
It's not surprising that polynomials are analytic. Look at the definition of a polynomial. It's already in "power series" form, in fact there are only finitely many terms!

As for the other examples, here is one explanation for why they are ubiquitous in physics. Essentially, the class of analytic functions is closed under "solving differential equations".

So that's why sin/cos/exp/bessel are analytic - they are solutions to differential equations with constant/polynomial coefficients (we already know that constants and polynomials are analytic). That's why many functions found in physics are analytic - they are created from other analytic functions via a differential equation.

https://math.stackexchange.com/a/190167

P.S: Regarding your last statement "almost all smooth functions are almost polynomial", something much stronger is true: Every continuous function is almost a polynomial.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone–Weierstrass_theorem
let y=3n*(10n**1000020n);
const f=(i,x,p)=>{(x>0)?f(i+2n,x*i/((i+1n)*4n),p+x/(i+2n)):p/(10n**20n)}
console.log(f(1n,y/8n,y));

Not sure if I can golf it anymore
No. Meditation does not "work for everyone" no matter how hard you no-true-scotsman it and I'm sick and tired of reading this.

Source: Dad was massively into all that woo, spent my whole teens trying, even spent a week at an ashram in India. No, meditation is not for everyone.
Maybe you should trust the judgement of the highly-qualified engineers then when they decided to go with their own toolchain, and not just assume that they’re doing it because plan 9 or some other vacuous reason.
I actually just finished reading Rich's book, it's both interesting and entertaining.
Experimental replication: knives manufactured from frozen human feces don't work
No it's still public transport, it's resources are shared by the community, you don't have exclusive access even while travelling/booking and it may make several stops to pick up other people or drop them off. It's a bus with no fixed route and schedule, that doesn't make it private transport with a chauffeur.
>>>You can't just say they have to do a revolution in their own country,

Uh, yes I can. The US exists because the population staged a rebellion. I don't find it unconscionable to expect others to undertake the same effort our forebears did to improve their situation.

>>>You were born in a nice place by sheer luck. It's unfair.

Some of us are also taller than average as well, which is directly correlated with total career earnings. Sheer luck and unfair. Outcomes will ALWAYS vary due to the inherent genetic variations and capabilities in the human population.
Yes. Nerd became "cool" sometime in the late 2000's
increased tourism, has meant an increased demand in everything.. which has meant an increased demand in low-wage jobs, increasingly held by foreigners looking for work.

I don't see this as a wholly bad thing, but the negative impact is that the people you interact with in the service industry, are not able to converse with you easily.

Imagine living in mexico, walking into a mexican restaraunt, and having to order in english because the wait staff and kitchen can't understand spanish.

It's not the worst thing that's ever happened, but I do miss being able to speak my native language outside of close circles.
Thank you! If you have any feedback after you get to use it I'd love to hear it. Thank you!
Thanks for your article :thumbsup:
Matthias is one of my personal heros, I've been reading/watching his stuff for years. His videos are mostly what got me into woodworking and made me see it as more than just a way to build furniture. I built a bandsaw, out of wood, based on his plans: http://blog.bityard.net/articles/2019/January/i-built-a-band...
I'm missing the part of the article where it explains why this leads to lower fares? just because the native airlines on either end of a specific route don't compete with each other?
Colorful overlays will track athletes’ speed during the 2020 Tokyo Olympics