skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yup, the range claims are silly, too. Radar has an inverse fourth power with distance, so to go 10x as far by adding power, you need 10000x as much power, which is quite a challenge at 60GHz.
Genuinely interesting! I was brought up storing them in the fridge and have never (knowingly) had an issue.

I will do a little more reading - thanks for the link!
Back when the treaty signed, Native Americans did not have the right to vote (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_civil_rights#V...) thus a delegate would have been the only way for Native Americans to have a voice in Congress. This is the same with the other delegates, who all represent places that do not otherwise have representation in Congress.

Now Native Americans all have the right to vote, and thus have a voice in Congress.

It will be interesting to see how this all plays out.
Because air is much dryer inside a fridge.

I still put my bread in a fridge (unless it's something that's really intended to be consumed soon) because I prefer stale to mold.
Huawei seeks to allay EU concerns with appeal for 5G partnership
It is actually the perfect means to buy illegal things if you are the purchaser. A person can use cash at a bitcoin machine and buy them anonymously. Walk up to the machine with a mask on and when you leave no one knows who you are and now you have bitcoin no one knows who owns it. If you order drugs and the police show up you can just say you had no idea why anyone would send those. I don't know how the seller easily gets his money out and wouldn't really care as long as my order went through. The public ledger would show that bitcoin was sent but no identity as to by who. Make a new wallet each purchase and have very little linking you to illegal purchases.

Edit: upon reading up on the bitcoin ATM's it looks like some of them have started requiring phone verification where they will text you a sms, in that case you could need to use a burner phone creating one more step in the process of remaining completely anonymous. But certainly a doable step.
In Defense of Chinese Tour Groups
> it's weird to me that all the commands start with the verb.

It's not really weird, (verb)-(direct object)-[(indirect object)] with the subject implied in yh direction of the command is a very common structure for imperative commands in natural language. Given that PS largely targets operators that are not (and even moreso were not when PS was developed) general coders, following natural language imperative patterns makes a lot of sense.

There probably is somewhere a natural language that uses object-verb in the imperative, but o haven't heard of one.
There is still benefit of keeping unwashed eggs in the fridge. They last until forever and then three days more.
TBF Yahoo stock performed very well at some points since then so it might have worked out well for them if they sold at the right time.
Yeah that part stuck out to me too. Lucky guy!
The brain is a crazy thing. People can be smart and still make terrible decisions, whether that be caused by mental illness, emotions, etc.
My point is FaceID trades security for convenience. Seems like you love it, but that doesn't change the trade off.

To temporarily disable FaceID and TouchID, you "just press and hold the side button, and either one of the volume buttons".

Good luck remembering the procedure and having the time to do that in an emergency or mugging.
That's what I thought before I tried it.
Did you know that masturbating to porn causes hypofrontality (measurable brain damage to the frontal lobe).

Watching violent films doesn't do that to you.

https://www.covenanteyes.com/2014/02/28/hypofrontality/
Also discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21271103

Mentioned here with no discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21270259
Also discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21270764

Mentioned here with no discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21270259
Out of curiosity, what stopped you from making several regexes, especially for the product numbers (ending in "-ND")? Was it mainly for edge cases or cases where it might have been slightly different?

Or, was it due data context, which I assume is more plausible. I ask because I maintain an old, slightly large, and growing project which contains about 12 different regexes and is used on messy unstructured data. I'm in the process of rewriting it into a more general framework using NER + RNNs or HMMs, but this seems like a very interesting approach.
Yeah. I would like to know this too. The process of this, how to start this kind of things as a beginner.
Most vendors that aim for enterprise contracts take a "contact us" approach. Contracts can be negotiated. Pricing may vary.

(I am not affiliated with this vendor, I just deal with software vendors a fair bit.)
You may want to check out the forum site Cloudy Nights.

Here's a thread in the amateur telescope subforum about the instrument that discovered this comet. There's a photo of the telescope and of Borisov four posts in to the thread. https://www.cloudynights.com/topic/677286-homemade-065m-f-15...

That particular subforum is full of people who make their own telescopes in their home shops, and it's a fascinating place to visit. From what I can tell, this particular telescope is an extreme example, an instrument manufactured to professional standards by a well-resourced optics professional working in his spare time.
It's arguable since it's "donation" so one may expect to get the full donation instead of 30% cut by google but one may argue what exactly is (or isn't) a donation.
Just to clarify - I wasn't wanting to state that what I do is correct. Rather I wished to illustrate that there is some debate around it, regardless of right and wrong.

Your comments around farming practices are great! Thanks for sharing!
What's the evidence it came from Yemen? Are they claiming the images released by SA are faked? What about the claim the attacks came from the North?

So far I haven't seen any evidence from either side.
It's pretty easy to point to the obvious societal and economic benefits to the population of all of those examples.

Does the book explain why it believes said benefits are outweighed by their use in allowing the government to actually enforce taxes and laws?
> go out and sex just anybody

It's not just about outright sex, but some cultures repress ALL and ANY sexual and romantic expression, like couples publically holding hands, kissing someone on the cheek, females and males even shaking hands at all, flirting, dating etc.
Most regular people in the UK aren't nearly as stuck up about it. It always seems to be some sort of prudish edict from on high, from ageing or church going politicians or tabloids that forgot how to have fun. Usually ends up being a common cause to point at "the great and the good" or media and have a bloody good laugh.

Since I first noticed one, probably 70s/80s video nasties or heavy metal played backwards causes satanism, exactly never have I actually met or spoken to anyone who wasn't having a laugh at the stupidity. (Whilst watching a 4th generation copy of Texas Chainsaw Massacre with friends)
Definitely, but that wasn't the question. For instance, I wouldn't expect UnionPay to allow me to fund pro-democracy organizations. I similarly wouldn't expect Visa and MasterCard to allow me to buy drugs legal in Canada or Portugal.

These are again, very much, social and not technological problems that require cryptocurrency.

In Canada for instance, you can easily get a merchant account with Moneris (a Canadian payment processor) and take card transactions over Interac (the Canadian debit network). Yeah, Square's bound by their US banks, because they're a US company with an overwhelmingly US product being sold internationally.
Right, but I’m outside their house, asking others who are standing on the sidewalk with me, why they think they have these rules.
The Holocaust is far from unique. Stalin executed or starved millions, maybe tens of -- for having the wrong grandparents. Mao starved tens of millions for the same offense. Pol Pot, similarly, albeit with fewer to draw on.

The behavior in question is not the killing, but the enabling of abuse. IBM aided the Nazis. Who aided Stalin and Mao? Doesn't matter. The topic at hand is our evil, ICE. Are they Nazis? Doesn't matter. Are they engaged in evil? Yes. Is corporate America eager to aid the evil they do? Yes.

"ICE are not executing Jews" distracts from the very valid analogy.
Is this your job?
Please don't respond to a bad comment by breaking the site guidelines yourself. Your comment would be fine with just its second sentence.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
If you don't feel like reading the actual book, this book review [0] does an excellent job of summarizing.

[0] https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/03/16/book-review-seeing-lik...
For me, it's the local Freecycle community in my city.

Also, an area UU church still uses Yahoo Groups for several mailing lists. Trying to help them technically 10 years ago was difficult at the least; I gave up and eventually moved on. It took a few deaths in the congregation for them to update their website, for example. And now, the virtual death of Yahoo Groups will force them to change again.
It’s interesting that a extremely disproportionate number of Orthodox Jews sell on Amazon. The mesh (as opposed to clash) of religion and modern technology and culture makes the article meaningful.
imo what makes neapolitan pizzas so outstanding and difficult to reproduce is the quality and freshness of the tomatoes. there are lots of pizza joints with the same kinds of ovens that they use in naples. but the tomatoes in naples are grown in the volcanic soil of mt vesuvius, and iirc they don't use tomatoes out of a can; only fresh. neapolitan tomatoes are exported abroad (san marzanos) but they're canned and not as tasty.
Ignore the below; I was wrong.

~~Note that list content isn't going away as the headline implies, but instead all the files uploaded to groups.~~
> an indication that the firm, like many others, has internalized Chinese values. Activision Blizzard makes a lot of money in China

How is simple capitalism Chinese values?
Yes, but the cold will sink to the bottom. The bottom will have the most consistent cold temperature and won't supper fluctuations like the area by the vent will.
Yes you do. You do not want to write everything yourself.
Well there's that, ketchup, apples, bananas, plantain, pears, squash, sweet potato, citrus.

Which don't particularly need putting in the fridge either.
Note that brute-forcing an exponential-time algorithm is not generally possible. If you have an algorithm with a runtime of 10^N, then after N=61 the runtime of the algorithm will be greater than the age of the universe expressed in the Planck Time. For a 2^N algorithm it'd take about N=202. If you're willing to talk in nanoseconds instead of Planck Times (chosen because our current understanding of physics breaks down at that scale), it's more like N=26 for the 10^N case.

Practically speaking, though, users of privacy coins are usually looking for plausible deniability rather than total untraceability. The legal standard for criminal cases is "beyond a reasonable doubt"; if there's even a 50% chance that you're just an innocent person caught up by circumstances, you'll have trouble convincing a jury of guilt.
This solution addresses people in the UK visiting UK sites. If you want to prevent your citizens from going to a site hosted elsewhere, then you would have to consume the RTA auditing results and enforce them at your internet border.

Certainly this won't solve VPN's and some proxies, but then who are we trying to block? Adults? Children? If we are thinking of the children, then an order to UK ISP's to consume the non-compliance list and block those domains (and even IP's if you want to get heavy handed) should more than suffice. Whether or not you decide to block CDN IP's is entirely up to how heavy handed you want to get. I predict CDN's would move adult sites to their own CIDR blocks if this starts occurring.

If we are trying to block adults, that is a whole other discussion as to the intention of the blocking in the first place. I would expect some countries in the middle east already know how to address this problem, by forcing all traffic through a MITM set of proxies. I believe Syria and Iran use Bluecoat proxies. China uses (or used) a heavily modified netfliter implementation. They have the distinct advantage of not having to be performant. Priority always goes to blocking first.
SoftBank Plans $5B Rescue Financing for WeWork
Just as a minor counterpoint, the Anacostia River Tunnel project was finished on time, and the overall clean rivers project is on time and under budget by nearly 100MM so far.

Granted, it doesn't face WMATA's absolutely insane leadership and funding structure, but it can be done, and even in one of the most complex jurisdictional messes in the US.
I know nothing about the culture, but if the fathers are already in these trades and instill a business mindset in their sons early on, it makes sense that they excel in running the trades they grew up watching, listening, studying, and helping their fathers run.
Google hired away Oracle's President, not VP.
Just finished the Youtube talk on degrading technology / knowledge. Really liked that perspective, although I disagree with quit a bit of Jonathan Blows points.

About the challenge: I had the feeling, that you and a good chunk of readers here could go explain good deal of it all. But my point goes further: We all hit the wall of understanding sooner or later and all what is truly required is to know how use the technology. And that's exactly the same in information technology. I use databases daily. Do I know how they work? A bit, just enough for work and that is all what is needed. That's why I like to disagree with Jonathan Blow. Some people abstracted a great deal of complexity away, because it's simply irrelevant. As a result, we've seen an explosion in tech, just not in the nieces where he's looking. The modern ecosystem in tech is the normal way of economics, where everyone specializes him or herself further and further, understanding the specific domain better at the cost of everything else. Today, the average Joe can code as a result of all this simplifications. But Jonathan Blow compares the elites of coding, people who build engines, with Joe. That's misunderstanding what has happened, the level of analysis is wrong. Also, people like John Carmack are not gone, they simply work on new problems.

And as you mentioned yourself, there is so much technology surrounding you that you have no idea of how it works, like chemistry. Still, you use it to your benefit because other people who know this stuff simplified its use. And not just for you and me, also for other chemist, like coder for other coders.

Now a bit of a rand, skip it if you like: The school system, including university, killed so much of my curiosity, it's insane. I had to learn so much bullshit that I'm almost glad for one of my least great attributes, my bad memory. Because there was really no point remembering most of it. It's just too bad that I can't control my own garbage collector. Last year, I learned a great deal about machine learning (again, as I did it in college, too) and now can remember almost nothing. Despite really enjoying the course and throwing myself into it. What I don't use, I forget and of course I use only a tiny bit of skills and knowledge at work. I'm not happy with the way it is, but it simply is. I also learned so much about databases and liked that subject, but the only thing I really retain is what I use in my work.

That brings me to my final thought tidbit: My brain obsesses with ideas that you would put more in the category of philosophy. It's what you think about when you have nothing to do or start daydreaming that's probably where your brain is best at. I never asked people in tech what they think about in those moments. I'm really, really curious about the answer.
Depends on the use case.

One reason mainframes still use bytecode as executable format is that it allows for AOT compiling the world after and OS or hardware upgrade.

And there are solutions for doing that to plain native opcodes as well.

Finally there is the whole issue that many micro-opmizations, while fun to implement, seldom contribute for visible optimizations of the business case at hand.
Which country fired missiles at us again?
DM Verity Algorithm Change
I guess the theory is that Windows 7 can run Edgmium, but not Edge Classic, so at least Windows 7 users could upgrade from IE11 to Edgmium. But the problem with that theory is that Windows 7 expires from security support in April and if those users aren't already contemplating their next Windows upgrade then yes, why would they bother upgrading IE11 to Edgmium? Especially because wouldn't they already just be using Chrome in that case?

Yes, I know that Edgmium will also have the ~crutch~ ability to run IE11 in specific tabs on Windows 7 (and 10) so corporations stuck in IE11 for "reasons" can have their cake and eat it too, but that's still doesn't mean corporate developers can stop supporting IE11, that means corporate developers will be asked to continue to support IE11 because GPO-ing the entire LAN to use IE11 "compatibility tabs" is easier than picking and choosing individual intranet sites that require IE11 because of bad vendors. (If your corporation or client is stuck with supporting IE11, it is likely stuck forever. IE11 will never die, because corporations won't let it.)
Not really. It was done at scale, too. Hotmail replaced all of the faulty CPUs live.
https://www.seriouseats.com/2014/06/does-refrigeration-reall... Temperature causes starches to crystallize and cause it to get stale
I'm in Europe. Eggs from supermarkets are not washed. I do store them in a fridge anyway. They get spoiled after a few weeks or months regardless. So much for "There really isn't a debate."
In my brief dive into colorspaces I got the impression that CIELAB isn't actually that uniform and there are better spaces available, such as DIN99o (actually DIN 6176). Is this right?
Ah the beauty of use-after-free and memory corruption issues. /s
One of the things I like about Java's streams is that it makes the verb-chaining more obvious, at least to me.

list.stream().filter().mapToInt().sum() just reads better to me than sum( mapToInt( filter(list) ) )
Fond.co (YC W12) Is Hiring a Senior Engineer in Portland
To fight online fraud, Facebook proposes a more privacy-friendly approach
It does already work and the "three letter organization" can't do much about it. Hell, they can't even do anything about the bitcoin wallet "wasabi", much less monero:
https://www.cryptopolitan.com/disgruntled-chainalysis-employ...

There have been academic 'attacks' on the monero cryptocurrency, but nothing usable in the real world.
A Glitch with the “Willoughby–Hoye” Scripts for Calculating NMR Chemical Shifts
Facebook makes big advances in AI reasoning and machine translation
Last time I was reading about this I also saw that refrigerating eggs that still had the cuticle could draw the cuticle through the shell which would also pull in the bacteria and other stuff that had been trapped.

No idea if that part is true, I couldn't find a source either way and I live in the US so it doesn't impact me.
"Today's housing crisis stems from a lack of land – get rid of cars and the problem is solved immediately – JH Crawford"

When the situation is simplified, yes.
it's interesting because it gives insight into a culture and community we typically don't have access to. the point isn't amazon - the point is the hasids.
How easy is it to crack hashids?
According to https://www.tulsaworld.com/news/state-and-regional/citing-tr... the delegate might not be able to vote
> Finding a country that would take them was the problem.

... was those Jews' immediate problem, just then. The problem was rather larger.

We will be seeing huge waves of refugees as Global Climate Disruption renders large areas of the globe newly uninhabitable. There are already Nazi-like movements to "keep them out". Plenty of people will be found who would rather they were killed or starved to death than allowed in.
Fascinating! I joined my first mailing list in 1978. I often marvel at the recollection that indeed, things were just as flame-ridden and troll-hardened back then, as they seem to be now. Its just, everywhere.
Freezing does something to the bread that I just don't like. It's just different coming out of a freezer.
I'm so happy to see this idea starting to get mainstream attention. I predict that in 50-100 years we'll look back on the age of the automobile as one of the biggest mistakes in urban planning.

Automobiles are dangerous, kill thousands of people every year, contribute significantly to pollution, and cause health problems by discouraging physical activity. They're expensive, inefficient, and cause more harm than good within major cities IMO.

My dream is that one day most streets in Manhattan will be closed to car traffic and replaced with green space full of trees, flowers, children playing, and usable public space.
It’s true that claiming the pill will cure smoking is a lie. That’s no more true than saying the tires on your car will get you to work. The scientific studies of late depend on the use of the pill and a specially trained therapist through multiple sessions. Several drug free sessions to discuss deep issues and get to know one another, an introductory session with the equivalent of 2g of dried mushrooms, and two weeks later a full session with the equivalent of 5-6g dried mushrooms. All of this is with the trained therapist who knows the patient. And the results are undeniable. Of course it may be possible to find these benefits without the therapist, but certainly with the therapist the drug can enable deeply valuable medical treatment. Anyone who claims the drug fixes the problem by itself is either a quack or is speaking slightly incorrectly and really trying to say the drug was an important part of their solution.
If there's anything I've learned working office jobs at corporations, it's that you can't change the culture around "butt in seats" management because it's almost like one of the core identities of the leadership. There's always a non-technical C-level executive at the top who values "butt in seats" management, and remote work isn't one of those things that anybody will speak out to defend, particularly against the superior(s) at the top of the food hierarchy.

It's kind of like how legalizing prostitution makes way more sense especially for the sex workers, but nobody ever talks of legalizing it because nobody wants to be the guy to bring it up or challenge the status quo.

Just leave and get a job at any remote-friendly company. The grass is really greener.
Uber Drivers Are Organizing Protests at Billionaire Investors’ Homes
I’m not an astronomer, but I’d hypothesize that the composition of the non-solar objects in a solar system (eg. a comet) is different from the composition of the sun in that solar system.
How did their food supply work?

Very crudely, my understanding is that places where food meant plowing (i.e. heavy work) almost always had a strong marriage tradition. While places where growing food was light work quite often did not -- basically places where it was possible for a woman to raise children on her own labor. (Not very sure about non-farming people.)
I’m not sure why you’d expect to not pay a fee. Google’s expenses are the same for apps that take a charge as those that take a donation. Credit card processors charge the same fees on donations.

A donation doesn’t magically make everyone else work for free.
Busting somebody's balls because they're not abstracting away something as significant as 27% seems unreasonable. It shouldn't surprise you that somebody who dislikes giving 30% to apple would be proportionally less concerned about giving 3% to Visa.
I'm pretty sure most people are unaware of the facts pointed out in the comment. They don't like it, but that's another story.