skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On my property in the US, I've seen bald eagles, hawks, owls, at least 3 species of woodpeckers, any number of songbirds, hummingbirds, turkey, pheasant, turkey vultures and a half dozen migratory ducks and geese species.

The first year here, we didn't feed them at all- there's really no shortage of natural foraging for them. We hardly saw any of the smaller birds, and truth be told I didn't think we had many around.

Then we had an unusually brutal winter, and started putting out suet to help. Sure enough, all kinds started showing up. They stuck around through the spring, but we stopped feeding them in part because the suet was attracting unwanted attention from other animals. Since then, they've mostly "disappeared" again, though I know now they're not gone.

It's worth pointing out that I live in an area that is predominantly farmland, rural homes, and some nice forested spots. We don't have a shortage of insects or really any other wildlife, either, in spite of the horrors that pesticides are supposedly wreaking upon them.
My favorite "genius idea" that comes up regularly is to have people running on treadmills and pedaling stationary bikes use the power they generate to power the gym or whatever. The amount of energy that treadmills and stationary bikes can generate from human power is absolutely trivial. Even given high electricity rates, it's worth about 3 cents an hour. The energy generated can barely power basic electronics on most self-powered exercise bikes.
Thanks. I don't have a LinkedIn profile, so I wouldn't have been able to see that anyway.

What do you mean by non-normative? Can you give an example of a "normative" version of my statements?
What you're talking about is basically a surveillance based internal border. It can work that way for people if you have massive levels of internal surveillance (otherwise how do you think the government can catch employers of illegals with any efficiency), but it doesn't do much for goods or people who cross the border without wanting to get a job, like gang members, dealers etc.
Good article, the author is clearly well informed. In the past I've made the mistake of staying on a growth team for too long, well after the gains mostly ran out. Toward the end, I was doing the best work I could, but it didn't have much impact. Now I'm on another growth team still in the honeymoon phase, grabbing 10% here and 20% there, and thinking what to do next when the gains run out.
I think it makes perfect sense. I'm in both categories. I excited for it because it's probably going to be the biggest flop of the year (more than Uber/Lyft). Tepid interest from people buying into the IPO.
Wrong. I’m not bothered by privately owned assault rifles because of the homicide rate. And, this time, you went to a straw man logical fallacy. I said Fairfax was better than the rest of the US, and not a favela. So, I’ll go back to my original question: what’s your standard for feeling secure?
We had a Parsi tower of silence in Bangalore as well. It was in the outskirts back in the day. The city consumed those areas and they are now in the heart of the city. I wonder where the facility is these days.
Most of it makes perfect sense. But there is a certain Congress critter that has got himself convinced that UFOs are real and has made it his pet project to fund these investigations. Which, quote predictably, cherrypick facts to justify their continued funding.
There's a crazy VR Steampunk mash-up of a build-your-own synth and marble machine that I'd love to see people do something elaborate with: https://store.steampowered.com/app/673970/MuX/
Hm yeah I see what you mean. I don't know the details of how v8 deals with __proto__, but I can see in theory they are similar.

Though I think the general point that Python is a very large language does have a lot to do with its speed / optimizability. v8 is just a really huge codebase relative to the size of the language, and doing the same for Python would be a correspondingly larger amount of effort.

I don't know the details but v8 looks like it has several interpreters and compilers within it, and is around 1M lines of non-test code by my count!

v8 was written in the ES3 era. And I knew ES3 pretty well and Python 2.5-2.7 very well, which was contemporary. I'd guess at a minimum Python back then was a 2x bigger language, could be even 4x or more.
The author quotes a definition

> A functional language is a language that supports and encourages programming in a functional style.

Seems rather circular
I think it was Taleb who said the best way to assassinate a public figure is to provide them with a personal physician
> that turning the right amount just happens to take the power of e (and not, say, 2)

username90 already explained this one, but in my own rephrasing:

The premise is incorrect. It isn't that "turning just happens to take the power of e". e is defined to be the number for which this is true.
How common was it for parents to lose a child?
> Taxes are great when they are fair, well spent, and seriously monitored

Which rarely happens in my opinion.
I'm well aware of the closed form for Fibonacci since my undergrad days. This was produced as a kind of joke. I simply took the first several, plus 42 thrown in, and fit them to an N-th degree polynomial.
You're completely right on that. Absolutely evil.
Also, I'll add the obligatory reference to Tallinn and its free transport for all registered residents.
> I think e^i pi = -1 is drastically overrated. That is typically the definition of exponentiating to a complex power, that e^ix = sin x + i cos x.

Yes, but it's the definition of exponentiating to a complex power because it is easily proven by reference to the real Taylor series of those functions. The complex definition is motivated by the real result, not -- as you imply -- the other way around.

(Also, you have it backwards; e^ix is cos x + i sin x.)
I have to agree on this with you. The public sector isn't functioning as you would expect and opening this market can actually boost the state's economy and provide decent treatment to inmates.
So you’d leave the generator running when you park the vehicle, unattended? Would it be safe to allow this in, say, an indoor parking garage?

It would be like leaving a vehicle idling when you park it. Noisy, polluting, and potentially deadly.
> The stepping of the robot was controlled by a human operator through foot and hand movements coupled to hydraulic valves.

> The walking truck was one of the first technological hardware design applications to incorporate force feed-back to give the operator a feel of what was happening.

This might sound primitive in today's autonomy-driven mindset, but in contrast to autonomous robots, this is a technology that could be delivered today (or was already delivered in 1965, according to the article).

So if infantry really does need hardware to move stuff from A to B, the 1965 approach -- primitive as it is -- might be the simplest solution.
> Neonazis are also a movement, but nobody thinks even a split second of giving them platform to spread their ideas.

Hence no one has taken the word "movement" in that case to imply respect and legitimacy. Why should you?
No, because greenhouse emissions are free. When we do start paying for carbon emissions, it might be worthwhile to revisit this question, but right now I’m talking about actual costs, not some hypothetical value assigned to externalities.
"statutory rape", full stop. To be precise.
Santander launches the first end-to-end blockchain bond
If that's what floats your boat go for it. I am bored of the pointless churn. If it was actually useful I would be far more enthusiastic. I am currently working on a React frontend to our app. It was supposed to make things s faster and easier, but the reality is it just adds more layers of unnecessary complexity.

I want to solve problems efficiently, not chase fads.
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Can this transaction be found on https://etherscan.io/ ?
Devil's advocate: The same could be said for a baby buggy. Filthy things, taking up all that space. Noisy too! And those inconsiderate people with their luggage trying to get the airport. And don't get me started on old people with their zimmer frames.

Me speaking: So where do you draw the line? On your personal preferences or where the outcome achieves the goal? ie. getting more people to stop using their cars. Bicycles are already allowed on most suburban London trains, but are sometimes limited during rush hour. It's a win-win for everyone without having an outright ban.

(I apologise for weird response, but couldn't find a better way to get my point across.)
You can easily derive e^ix = i cos x + sin x.

Just look at the Taylor series for e^x and compare with the Taylor series for sin x + cos x. You'd see that they are basically the same, just that the trigonometric functions alternate their signs every 2 steps. How do we alternate the signs in e^x? We just add a factor of i, that way we get alternate signs every two steps but get an additional i on every odd step. Odd steps are sin, so just add i to sin and we are done: e^ix = i sin x + cos x.

Now we also see that you remembered the wrong formula, it the sine part is imaginary since it corresponds to the odd factors.
Sounds great, let's go and fork Wikipedia.
FDA approves GE AI system to detect collapsed lungs
We need to talk about carbon
It may well be, you can't be 100% sure.
No, the racist bit is the implicit assumption that people in this part of the world can only do services and not creative technology development.

We can do both, just like anyone else in any country.
> I think things like prison, corporal punishment, exile, etc., are good deterrents but they're horrible at reintegration

Not sure I understand. Corporal punishment doesn't have a problem with re-integration because no one is removed from society, and the whole point of exile is you will never be re-integrated into society. Only prison has to deal with the problem of how to re-integrate people.
Apple Card users can now get 3% cashback at Walgreens
Streaming large objects from S3 with ranged GET requests
That's probably one of the best methods to "attract" people into using public transportation more. In my country the public transportation sucks and we all have cars to more around which causes tremendous troubles.
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You'll also have to account for the money saved that you no longer have to spend operating the ticket machines or have people patrol the public transports and checking for tickets. That alone should be tens of thousands of euros saved.
Pretty neat way of dealing with streaming large s3 objects without having to deal with the whole multi part object mess.

See: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/developer/parallelizing-large-d...

"Parallel downloads are not supported in some cases." yeah.
NY Times: ‘Wow, What Is That?’ Navy Pilots Report Unexplained Flying Objects https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/26/us/politics/ufo-sightings...
This is just terrible system. They barely make anything and yet no benefits. Sometime it is best just to stay unemployed and let the government take care of them.
Also, treadmills aren't powered by the people on them, but rather use a lot of electricity to move the tread (and usually a tiny bit more for the electronics).
What wartime ‘munitionettes’ can teach us about burnout
> Umm, yeah sweetie :) your political opinion is shit and you're a mongoloid. We need to unpack your rage and intolerance.
I don’t think it’s necessarily a bad thing to let a philosopher muse a bit about ethics and advise caution. Maybe we won’t have the AI singularity, but some of the questions brought up (should we improve ourselves? Is technology inherently good?) are quite important and contentious.
IP infringement is one half of the coin, industrial espionage the other.

Historically, some of the very earliest documented cases of industrial espionage were performed against China by european powers. - The US is not innocent in that regard either, but probably much better at hiding their activity. We needed Edward Snowden to substantiate what people in the industry here in Germany had been suspecting for decades [0]: I've heard of numerous cases where german companies are developing new tech, and shortly before or after release an american company with close ties to the government releases an equal product.

[0] https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/german-intellig...
I don't know your use case, but generally, if you have so many VST processing on a single track that it loads a core of a modern CPU, it means you're doing either something really creative, sculpting a sound, or some heavy-handed audio restoration. Both are candidates for freezing/rendering to a stem. YMMV, of course.
This is built on top of the newer hardware intrinsics capabilities added to the framework underneath a new namespace: System.Runtime.Intrinsics

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/hardware-intrinsics-in...
״Rather than directing users to adopt a coherent strategy, the app pushes riskier options like individual stocks and cryptocurrencies — and even offers trading on borrowed money, known as margin, and options trading, both of which are used by advanced investors but carry extreme risk.״

This is no better than forex or binary option trading. Assuming that people who
are using Robinhood's trading app aren't the most skilled and educated traders, they should
be treated like beginners. Instead of pushing them to take risks the app should direct users to adopt a conservative approach, especially when they are just beginning to trade.
Most Dutch people who use a bike as part of their transit routine leave it at a station. It's common to have one bike at home and another bike at a station near your work.

You ride your first bike to the station, get on the public transit, then ride your second bike to work. Then there's no need to take your bike on public transit.
Don’t Confuse Movement with Progress
I'm not talking about push scooters, muscle operated bicycles or pedal assisted e-bikes with a power rating below or equal to what an average person delivers. This is a discussion about motorized vehicles with more powerful engines that can operate at speeds in excess of 15 mph. At 25 mph you can definitely kill a pedestrian or knock another cyclist and injure them. Bicycle licensing is unnecessary.

1/2 * (100 kg vehicle + occupant) * (45 mph)^2 = 6328 J

~7×10^3 J = Muzzle energy of an elephant gun, e.g. firing a .458 Winchester Magnum[90]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orders_of_magnitude_(energy)#1...
Said critter thinks the 'A' in 'UFO' means aliens from outer space.
A bit disappointing that the course isn't openly available in any way. It sounds really interesting.
> Although in this and other cases the free bus plan is chiefly motivated by the need to fight poverty (remember that the yellow vest movement started over a fuel price raise)

There is no need to make it free for all if that's the goal.

I think the main goal really is to encourage people to use public transport as much as possible.

> public transports must be designed to transport not only pedestrians but their bikes too.

Yes for folding bikes, but standard bikes are too big.
And the pix themselves https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=HwKsDQAAQBAJ&pg=PT141&lp...
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It depends a lot on where you are in the world. In Germany and other northern locations, panels need to be positioned at specific angles for optimal year-round efficiency.

But at lower latitudes closer to the equator, panels facing directly up at the sky will do well year-round.
Maybe the article is wrong? The two concepts address two entirely different issues and I don't see how the book could be a refutation with that description.
That thing looks amazing! A similar concept was these walking harvesters https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pJwDZXasKU
Can you provide me with any reason to believe intelligence agencies don't use contractors, or don't use contractors who used to work for the agency in question? I doubt it.
Two is much smaller than infinity.
It's a cool DIY project though. I've been wanting to do this for ages (though I might want to get such a bike first and actually use it), and a while ago I saw this big nose YouTuber actually do this and they (barely) managed to run a gaming PC off of it. Which is a neat spin to the whole idea: No workout, no gaming.
The easy way to think about the halting problem is imagine a program to do some sort of exponential time algorithm. At the end, it checks the result, and if it meets some test, the program goes into an infinite loop. If you could determine that this program halts faster than it would take to run it, then you would know something about this difficult calculation without having to run it. This would be a way to speed up any algorithm!
I have lived in Shanghai and had an electric scooter as my main mode of transportation for several years, its incredible for city traffic and i miss it.

However, I dont get why everyone is using these standup kickbike type scooters... those suck, clearly.

Scooters like Niu is where its at: https://www.niu.com/en/
> Seems rather circular

* recurrent

seems more appropriate in this context :-)
Who else is struggling with backpain problem at early 30? It sucks and if you have any advices, i am all ears! :-/ I am living with herniated disks for 2 years now and my worst nightmare is to have another disk bulging episode that made me bedridden for 2 week. Not only working is difficult as i can't stay in a chair for too long, it is heartbroken to have to tell your kids you cant lift him up cause your back is foobar. :-/ I am trying to alternate between sitting and standing but man, just getting out of bed these days is a struggle :(
> my big issue is that it ties you to somewhere

This is also a benefit depending on your perspective. It makes you more a part of the community because your long term best interests align. It's easier to keep long term friends when seeing each other doesn't become an inconvenience. I know some retired people that have lived in my (gentrifying) area most of their lives but are now struggling to keep up with ever increasing rents, to them being tied somewhere by owning property would be a godsend.

> the problem with your "build more homes to crash the price 80%" is its a great idea for those who dont have houses already, but for those that do it means enormous losses on their original investments

Most home owners treat their property as a home first and an investment second, if at all. Even if it's used as an investment it will usually be invested in their next home. Getting rid of property speculators would be great though.

> thats also why it does work in japan

Japan seems to have some issues (Hikikomori) that may be exasperated by this lack of permanence. Paying ever increasing rent and/or moving when I'm retired instead of $0 to live out my days in peace doesn't sound appealing.
University Of Washington
CSEP501: Compiler Construction
http://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/csep501/

Keith Schwartz Stanford Compiler course CS143
http://www.keithschwarz.com/cs143/

Stanford's Engineering Compiler course on Lagunita
https://lagunita.stanford.edu/courses/Engineering/Compilers/...

Matt Might's courses are self educational blueprints
http://matt.might.net/teaching/compilers/

Book
Introduction to Compilers and Language Design
https://www3.nd.edu/~dthain/compilerbook/

I'm not a fan of uncurated link dumps, however:
Awesome compilers link aggregation on Github
https://github.com/aalhour/awesome-compilers
Hm does that mean you could say the complex quantum probability is just a probability over rotations?
How are South Africans feeling about the work environment?
Europe will not accept US verdict on 737 Max safety
> treadmills [...] use the power they generate to power the gym or whatever

That's... not even wrong?
Read it again:

> would only be able to travel 2–4 miles on that amount of electricity… in an hour. Most people could walk faster.
Is this a good a pace of growth?
They have self-powered treadmills. They're not very popular though: https://www.woodway.com/products/curve/
Should they need a special motive/excuse to unionise?
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Compiegne?
As an outsider reading this thread I couldn't help but laugh at this.

Galanwe said phry was "very malicious", which is actually and not just tenuously a personal attack. Do you plan to delete their comment as well? Interesting standards on HN.
Did anyone understand what is it that constitutes the “piano roll” here? Is it those carts on powered rails that we see towards the end?
Agreed on your first point. The process absolutely needs reform.

To your second. It's a truncation of the term "illegal alien": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_(law)

That's not propaganda, it's a legal term. Casting commonly accepted terms of the relevant lexicon in a political light only reveals your own political bias.
What the precise value of exp(1) turns out to be isn’t really the point though.

That’s one reason that e^x is a pedagogically problematic shorthand for exp(x).
I'd consider using those machines if they gave me a discount. But as it is, they're slower, exploit my labor, and are used to suppress the wages stores pay out to members of the community (making regional wealth extraction more efficient.) And worse than any of that, the machines are pedantic and finicky.

I see no conceivable upside. I totally get why companies are installing them; it's plain old greed. There is nothing complicated about that. But knowing that doesn't make me want to use them.
Don’t ignore aesthetics and installation costs of plug powered gym equipment vs. muscle powered equipment. Customer generated electricity allows to place equipment everywhere in the gym. Gym does not need power outlets for every piece of equipment and to have exact floor plan in the very beginning. Gym can rearrange equipment periodically delivering better experience for clients. You need 20 Watts to power Raspberry Pi running under load. Basic electronics with couple LEDs need only 3-5 Watts. Even less if designed properly, so this way generated energy can very well power gym equipment. I think, I can generate 100 Watts.
Microsoft reports child porn uploaded to OneDrive [pdf]
I really dislike cars and they way they dominate our lives and environments.

I've talked to local government reps about schemes like this, and the challenge that's always thrown back at me is without pricing, how do you regulate demand?

Currently, you normally pay a scaled fee based on distance of journey for public transort. The minimum is quite high, and that prevents you from taking a short trip. With free, how do you stop people using a bus for very short trips meaning you need more vehicles that are then empty for long trips?
What he meant to say: "We can't wait to see the big public epic fail".
Is SOLAR_FIELDS actually the real Solar Fields (Magnus B)?
The fact that discussing your working conditions online can have repercussions is itself a minor reason to unionize.
Do they include free Malware or Spyware?
I would be surprised if there is none.