skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's definitely some deep miscommunication going on. I'm just going to try to clarify a couple parts...

> All you are doing here is disagreeing with the conclusion; you have not offered any refutation of the argument that leads to it. The reason for me saying "the relevant differences must be causally dependent on what form the expansion takes" is that if they were not, then they would not be the sort of differences that could be used to choose between the alternatives. And if they were so dependent, then the mapping from what we observe from here to what would be observed there also has that dependency.

It's circular if we assume the form of the expansion. If the real form influences our measurements, and we use that to figure out what telescopes would show, which lets us calculate the real form, then nothing is circular.

> Actually, Swebs' original claim was pretty much that, as it could accurately be paraphrased as "we have seen, with our telescopes, that, when observed from a different galaxy, the expansion also seems to have originated there." You seem to have put yourself into the position of defending a claim that you do not actually believe in.

No, those are very different statements. "We can tell from here what telescopes would show" could be part of a valid argument. "We need to go there to know" is not necessary.

> There is something very confused here, but I cannot figure out what it is. I can say that my point does not have anything to do with "how our telescopes would differ from a distant galaxy."

I'm talking about the "none of our telescopes have observed the universe from the perspective of a distant galaxy" stuff.

Okay, look, this is clearly not working. If you want to format your argument as a numbered chain of logical statements, I can probably give you a response you'll understand. Otherwise I'm giving up. Big blobs of paragraphs are not conducive to debating whether there "must" be certain assumptions.
Isn't there already quite a few lawyers that will take a case on contingency? Usually this is based on whether the client has a legitimate/strong case, and in that way is self regulating. With healthcare there's no incentive to take on a case for free because there's no payout for a positive outcome.
This is the diagnostic produced for similar example using new diagnostic architecture:

error: binary operator '+' cannot be applied to operands of type 'String' and 'Int'

_ = "a" + 1

~~~ ^ ~

note: overloads for '+' exist with these partially matching parameter lists: (Int, Int), (String, String)

_ = "a" + 1

^

note: candidate expects value of type 'String' for parameter #2

@inlinable public static func + (lhs: String, rhs: String) -> String
^

note: candidate expects value of type 'Int' for parameter #1

public static func + (lhs: Int, rhs: Int) -> Int
^
That'd be the end of any chance of suing the government. A large number of Trump's proposed policies (eg. the Muslim ban) would've passed through without resistance because no lawyer is going to sue the organization that signs their paychecks.
If dotdot can't be opened it fails. So I don't think creat was the same as what we now know.

It looks like the code opens dotdot, and then scans through it for something (match for dir?).

The creat call might mean "open for writing", and possibly the flags mean append. It appears dir is appended to the dotdot directory file.

So maybe, add this "dir" entry to dotdot if it isn't there already?

I can't guess what initializes dir; maybe it somehow comes as an argument from the command line or whatever.
I see. Your scope of "cohesion" is at whatever remains of the team AFTER the divisive action by the CEO. My scope was the ORIGINAL team.

I agree that decreeing a divisive policy and prohibiting dissent tends to leave one with a more "cohesive" team. I very much doubt that it's a commercially optimal strategy. You end up with (a) true believers, who build up group think and (b) yes-people and the spineless, neither of which strike me as high value contributors. You've optimized for agreement, rather than excellence, as a hiring criterium.

I would much rather see "cohesion" in the form of a team that, DESPITE widely diverging views, manages to agree on a common vision.
"For that kind of adversary, password is vulnerable, and biometrics is secure."

The applications I'm familiar with, the password takes precedence. It doesn't require password and fingerprint.

The thing is, if you add an extra factor, either you are required to use all of them, in which case it increases the risk of being wrongly locked out, or you are required to use any of them, in which case it increases the risk of the wrong person getting in.
Childhood Obesity Is Rising 'Shockingly Fast' Even in Poor Countries
It's not an issue, this is a non-story.
a bar is an enabling environment for an alcoholic in recovery. if an alcoholic doesn't want to relapse, it would make sense that they would fear bars.
It's not that using PlPgSQL simplifies things, but that putting business logic in the RDBMS does simplify things. It does so by letting you use an ecosystem of tools you otherwise could not use. There are several tools that let you serve a DB via any number of protocols, including RESTful APIs, for example. You could even give out direct SQL access to power users and not have to teach them how to maintain referential integrity.

PlPgSQL is not a great language, and that's obviously not a reason to use it. But it's not obviously a reason to not use it, and more than that, it's no reason not to put business logic in the RDBMS. Once you decide to put business login in the RDBMS, PlPgSQL is just one of several languages you could use, and actually the most accessible one.
> For people living in the CA filter bubble where everything is done via ballot measure.

California has city governments that set policy by city council action, too.
> Does this mean instead of individual objects we make our calculations with x units of mass and energy in every given patch of space and this may be an issue, or am I getting this wrong?

Pretty much yes, as we can only take observations like that.

More importantly, the GR equations are non-linear, so taking these 'average' observations and feeding them into our models may introduce significant error.

Or another way of saying that, it's possible that the model would give accurate predictions if you were able to feed it precise and complete information (the details of every single point mass) but not give accurate predictions if you feed it the sampled data we have (observations about whole galaxies, for example). People have discussed this elsewhere in this thread as the N-body problem.

It's also saying that even if we did have that level of detail, our numerical simulations aren't currently capable of calculating at that fine a level of detail.
It's worse than that. The actual award to the class is a 10% off coupon. So, to get compensation, a class member would need to send Zappos money.
Hard disagree on the syntax. ML languages to me have the best syntax and their ease of currying is extremely attractive.
What about the failure rate of all the DNS servers? It's not like someone set up a Windows Server box and we all share it. Google's DNS server at 8.8.8.8 for example uses some sort of complex multihoming/multicast setup and is globally distributed. I trust DNS to work more than any other service on the internet. It's a triumph of software engineering. The Roman aqueduct of the internet.
But the program appears to fail if dotdot can't be opened for reading, and it appears to scan through it doing reads first. Then it closes and does a creat, which is expected to succeed also. I'm suspecting that at this stage of development, open may have been used for reading and creat for writing (including to an existing file).
If it took a team of lawyers 7 years to resolve this, $1.5M hardly sounds like "set for life" money. But maybe this is not a good one.
This must not be a good one, then, because $1.5M is barely enough to set one attorney up for life, let alone however many folks were presumably involved in this case.
One of the ideas I heard about recently that I think could do well in helping address the issue is "Investable Lawsuits". This would allow potential lawsuits to crowdsource lawyer fees and get returns on this investment out of the winnings. While this might not help address the cost of representation (although it might as lawyers would work for a smaller upfront fee then a larger take of the winning if it was done pro bono), but it would help the lower and middle class individuals take on corporations and the rich.
I remember about 3 years ago installing Veertu off the App Store, and it was great, though seems the company shifted to enterprise variations on that, and no longer offer Veertu as a VMware competitor.

VMware, to which I have purchased a license, installs itself and reinstallers of itself in unsavory fashion, and I'm kinda over that nonsense. Same reason I refuse to install Chrome.

Thanks for the reply. I'd not thought of checking xhyve.
I file my taxes in Australia using a government-run web application. It's not perfect (like all big government systems it has outages, etc etc) but I can't really complain about it, it's more than adequate to get the job done and I certainly wouldn't want to pay for something that's only marginally better. There's a few UX tweaks which would be nice but it's fine, really.
"""
Later in life, myoregulin steps in to help regulate muscle activity. When a muscle receives a stimulus, cellular storage depots spill calcium, triggering the fibers to contract and generate force. An ion pump called SERCA then starts to return the calcium to storage, allowing the muscle fibers to relax. Myoregulin binds to and inhibits SERCA, Olson's team found. The effect limits how often a mouse's muscles can contract—perhaps ensuring that the animal has muscle power in reserve for an emergency, such as escaping a predator. Another small protein, DWORF, has the opposite effect, unleashing SERCA and enabling the muscle to contract repeatedly.
"""

I've noticed when I take magnesium that my muscles really relax, and jaw doesnt tighten as much when I sleep. this is from what i understand, because Magnesium acts as a natural calcium blocker, helping your muscle cells relax after contracting preventing excess muscle contraction (tightness). An interesting avenue i've started exploring is attacking the problem from another angle and instead of using mg, lying on a grounding mat plugged into a wall, which after reading this, is providing extra grounding for the "ion pump" described above? After sleeping on that mat, i feel even more relaxed than downing 500mg of magensium, i can even feel like the inner heart area be able to relax, which otherwise felt uncommandable to relax.

Ben greenfield, a biohacker whos pumped his entire body full of stemcells at one point (including the netherregions), has recently been investing it [1]

I can imagine since we know _so little_ about how even proteins and now these mini proteins work... how is the underlying electric system affecting the whole interaction a couple of abstraction levels up!?! what happens when the entire system is operating under a slight electric potential for 80% of lifetime, as opposed to being grounded? (static in a television signal)

[1] https://bengreenfieldfitness.com/podcast/biohacking-podcasts...
Philip Rosedale endorses Yang, suggests ways to implement his Freedom Dividend
>human sexual behavior not a topic on which RMS has adequate expertise

Ouch!
AI revives Nelson Mandela's voice, reads his autobiography (with subs)
Exactly what I said. You're just not smart. You're not really worth my time and I have nothing but contempt for the way you think.
Maybe but running towards "losing 30m" as a fear is a hell of a lot different than not-running-away from "I lost 30m" as a fact.
>Realistically, Java (or something very much like it) is the apex of OOP [...]

By this logic Java Streams are the apex of functional programming and anyone who uses them is fully qualified to dismiss the paradigm, even if they don't know anything about proper functional languages.
I haven't used face detection by Rekognition so I can't comment.

However, I'm surprised it's that bad.

I've done two projects in the last 6 months that required face detection, and in both cases combinations of DLib and OpenCV performed perfectly well. Since these are entirely off-the-self models I don't see why Rekognition should - in principle - be any worse.
As the article points out, back exits are critical. I imagine it’s not difficult to find a good seat like that near the kitchen.
Hey cool, I like this operating system.
A lot of that stuff is pretty modern in terms of FP, though. It's definitely not a pure functional language, though quite a lot of the data is actually immutable. It was really surprising to me that strings are immutable (but as the other commenter pointed out, they don't throw if you try to mutate them, so it's not that convenient). "Objects" and arrays are mutable, but it's pretty easy to avoid mutating them if you want to.

It probably wasn't clear, but the reason I didn't use any dependencies is because I was avoiding JS's built in inheritance mechanism, which I don't think is very compatible with FP. You can build objects out of closures and build your own object oriented mechanisms if you want. Unfortunately you run into the limitations of the implementations I mentioned.

I always hesitate to link to my own "fun" code, but just so you understand that I was not looking for code quality in this: https://gitlab.com/mikekchar/testy But it shows how I was using an FP style in JS to implement an alternative OO system. I really had fun writing this code and would have continued if there weren't problems with using closures in JS.

Edit: If you look at this, it's probably best to start here: https://gitlab.com/mikekchar/testy/blob/master/design.md

I really should link that in the README...
In this particular case it’s not just politics that could be equally right either way.
It’s politics where one of the options is wrong and science should be able to reveal which one.

And in that case challenging the popular opinion better come with actual scientific research, not lunch time napkin math pulled out of thin air.
While not stated explicitly in this PR, the meta-materials that are referenced are supposedly from possible ET craft. This announcement has everything to do with UFO's as TTSA (To the Stars Academy) is the group that brought publicity to the NAVY UFO videos, helped change NAVY policy on UFO reporting, and also got the NAVY to state those videos of UFO's were real.
How the Pentagon wants to make buying American weapons easier
To this newbie, procedural is ===SO=== much easier to understand.
The old Australian online tax filing system, through to the early 2010s, was an extremely 90s-looking Delphi application, Windows only for most of that time until they released an OS X port towards the end. Linux support consisted of a note on the website saying "some users have reported success with Wine". I don't believe they ever did floppy disk output though.

It's been replaced by something far nicer and web based! Though the old application was still definitely better than doing taxes by hand or having to pay for some third-party thing.
I like the bold design, though I find it a tad too large and low-density. Also, a shame you can only log in with a Twitter or Github account.
Do you know what those job titles are (can be) ?

- I'm shooting for a Patent Filing per month...from now on. Our IP team is gonna start hating me. Cause let's face it, not all of them are gonna be heavy hitters. But, I literally have discussions about ideas with people EVERY DAY, MULTIPLE TIMES A DAY.

- Anyways, area of expertise? Hmmm..I've been on a lot of different ends of the spectrum in my career. I started in IT during college. Then did Software Research Internships every summer, in 3 different projects. Then graduate school - High Performance Computing & Compiler Optimizations. Then worked in Patent Consulting. Then worked in Cloud Software. Now I work I'm in Fintech.

- I've touched a lot of areas and am a pretty good researcher in terms of finding what is already out there & challenging the state of the art. So I don't really have a specialty.
Hi, I understand C to the extent I can write simple, intermediate-scale useful programs, but my foundational grasp of the basics is still sufficiently shaky/incomplete that I can still get easily thrown by simple memory management constructs in practice.

In this case, I academically understand pointer-to-pointer references... but I'm honestly not able to mentally model the above.

First of all, congratulations - you have posted comment #4,294,967,296 to be bitten by the asterisks-are-only-for-formatting-and-all-other-uses-should-be-passive-aggressively-ignored bug in the Arc software powering this site! Your prize is that the explanatory denotations of "* x" in your post have disappeared and everything between the two points you've added asterisks has become italicized instead. (It would be great if someone can figure out a way to successfully convince the admins to just fix this bug already - it has existed for the entirety of this site's existence. </rant>)

With that over...

I don't understand the relevance of the 3rd code block. I get the impression it somehow replaced the first one (...?), but I can't figure out how the #define would have been rewritten without changing the signature to something like

#define BAG(x, y) temp = y; **x = temp;

which was used like

BAG(x, f(y))

but the above is not valid code as the type of `temp` is not defined or inferrable.

Next, as I noted above the pointer-to-pointer thing is throwing me for a pretty big loop :) and I don't understand how a double dereference would (in practice) translate to a moving garbage collector.

Like pointers I also have a basic academic understanding of GC, but sorely little practical real-world experience with either to be able to make the connection between the two ideas.

Insight appreciated in advance :)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21286284
Threat model! Firefox indeed does excel for the average citizen in terms of security. While people that know some infosec think CVE count and exploit mitigation is a priority. It has auto update for known vulns, for 0days,people who are targeted by attackers willing to burn a browser 0day on them have a drastically different threat model than the average citizen and frankly using Chrome because of CVE count is a bad strategy if you're one of those people (bromium,qubes os and other segregation based appsec is worth a consideration).

You have to appreciate how much privacy counts (Chrome failed telemetry on the BSI test)
Thanks for the reply. You're right to bring up trickier situations like Cloudflare where it's not a government-granted monopoly, but a large 'infrastructure' provider. I deliberately omitted those from my post since it's more contentious territory, even though I still draw the hard-line at "no special government grant to monopolize a market" -> "no requirement to be neutral".

A few other thoughts:

>> afaik, and simplified, if you have users post words and such to the web via your service, you are not on the hook legally as much if it was you yourself publishing content on your own closed service for example.

Yep, that's my interpretation of Section 230 as well.

>> I have had expensive counsel suggest that not-moderating content may be the best choice in order to not lose these protections in some cases.

It astounds me that counsel would suggest that. Is there any case law to support this? That idea is the "misinformation" I'm specifically referring to. People are saying it without providing any support. As far as I can tell, Section 230 does not say this, and there is no judicial precedent to conclude it. At least insofar as systems where content is not individually approved before becoming available.

>> it's just more complicated now (and with the sesta / fosta adding exemptions to the exemptions, it's even more complex )

For what it's worth, I believe SESTA/FOSTA to be unconstitutional, and eagarly await someone brave enough to challenge them. So I don't think those laws existing necessarily imply that this is any more nuanced a problem than before.
> In TNG they ask the computer for someone's location every other episode, usually without hesitation.

Which is appropriate. There's nothing wrong about locating a crew member on a _military vessel_.
Right. They’re going to be killed anyway after immeasurable misery and betraying their contacts, so best to end it themselves.
Amusing that you're pointing out to me that I don't know your policy yet you feel free to make assumptions about my boss.

Whatever provides less cognitive dissonance, I guess?
I can't say I disagree with your take on the matter, but I don't think airing anybody's personality flaws on HN is in the best interests of Guile or GNU. The individuals involved are probably already aware of each other's personality quirks and don't need this forum to help them discuss the matter.
The NBA commissioner probably has the power to do that. Note that he, essentially, fired the owner of the Clippers. So, in principle, he probably could do it.

In practice, there is absolutely no way he could do so. He'd destroy the NBA for at least a decade, maybe a generation.
I wasn’t talking about scaling performance wise. I mean scaling the problem set beyond the initial easy ones.
Wow, awesome.

How long did it take to track down all the bugs? Presumably (/hopefully) there was copious logging going on allowing you to track down many issues per run...

(Also, how'd you mark the pages as !RW?)
I dropped chrome on Android a year ago, transitioning to Firefox Mobile. Was kinda uncomfortable for a few weeks, but now I like it more than I ever liked Chrome. I also switched to using DuckDuckGo recently on all my devices, and it's been pretty great!

In short: more people should be using Firefox and DDG.
They've thought about it but they won't say that outside of closed doors for plausible deniability.
There's quite a lot about this that I like, but I think we need a way to handle investigations. Let's say I think I'm innocent and that a blood test might prove it. Who decides whether I can order one done? What if the government decides that it's not a valid expense?

Similarly, can I have expert testimony at my trial? Can everybody?
Hm, if the lawsuit is going to drive more customers to them, wouldn't it make more sense to also include an injunction requiring them to comply with GDPR-like laws? That would seem to head of the potential of further data loss.
Writing code to save his son’s life
The UN hopes to be an inclusive club where nations can talk to each other rather than shoot at each other. Sometimes that gets in the way of other objectives, like letting the Human Rights Council actually care about human rights.
Just like startups, class actions are a lot of risk and sometimes the rewards don't make up for it. This is basically a middling exit in the startup world.
Fastned grows revenues 171% in Q3 2019
Not intending to advertise but this is relevant because of the difficulty in capturing calls automatically on mobile phones, even for personal productivity purposes.

We'll be rolling out https://productive.app for cell phoe calls shortly, which has call recording and transcription built in.

Other than the ownership and convenience of searching through your own conversations, accountability is another focus (phone calls shouldn't be an enabling medium for shady businesses practices compared to non-ephemeral channels like texts and emails).
That's how we do moderation: https://github.com/CareerVillage/slack-moderation
Check out https://podman.io?

Like docker (uses CRI images) but daemonless.
It is not true, FF on Android is pretty great. I use it a lot every day. It actually syncs tabs and passwords better than Chrome (and without leaking them to Google without encryption)
It means the opportunity for another law suit which will result in even more business.

Marking this bug works as intended.