skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're mixing up the stats on eagle deaths (I posted a link elsewhere in this discussion for those, and they are indeed just a couple hundred a year at most) with that of all birds.

The number of birds killed by windmills is likely somewhere in the six figures annually. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-many-birds-do-...

> In the end, using 58 mortality estimates that met their criteria, they came up with an estimate. According to the current literature somewhere between 140,000 and 328,000 birds die each year from collisions with wind turbines.
Anything like that for Telegram? Not necessarily by you, I mean in general. I know it supports bots so this should be possible.
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Like this: https://github.com/jodavaho/bashlog
Nothing wrong with a scrolling layout, it's just a bit overrestricted: https://i.imgur.com/76BML6a.png

Filling some of the whitespace with scrollable grid of pieces would go a long way towards decreasing time for piece selection.
So there's a couple interesting things here.

In airport areas, it's pretty common for that type of separation during takeoffs and landings, but you're under 250 knots airspeed.

This case is different. At FL300, you're flying at cruising speeds, and usually on airways. Hence the .2 nm lateral separation.

In a GPS world, you're flying the exact centerline of the airway and will have no lateral separation with other aircraft on that airway unless you "fly right."

An example of an accident because of that is the one in Brazil, where a private jet's winglet sliced through the wing of GOL 1907, a 737.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gol_Transportes_A%C3%A9reos_Fl...

So this was a pretty big deal.

Source: commercially-rated airplane pilot.
You haven't written any Assembly, because the guys and girls that implemented the compilers you use have done it for you.

Someone has to create those tools.
Similar website like https://www.zaqs.org/home.html,
You can customize the news sources and track original content news websites.
You can get a volume license by buying a bunch of licenses for stuff that's $5-$10 per user. You'll still end up with a total of ~$300 (Including one LTSC license), but it is entirely legal and supported by Microsoft.
The brain is not a von-neumann architecture.

We have different architectures that can perform computation million times more efficiently than general computers. Of course, they lose on other axes (like precision).

Whats 54398456905 * 23423645745? Your 40 W brain can't compute that in a minute, yet a 0.01 W calculator can in a millisecond.
> Same on the east coast: Cape Cod actually had a proposed wind farm that was stopped by the moneyed interests that live there, but that could supply Boston with all the power they need.

This is false, as far as I can tell.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Wind

> The project is expected to produce an average of 170 MW of electricity, about 75% of the average electricity demand for Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket island combined.

Those three areas have ~250,000 people, and are largely residential. Boston has ~685,000, likely with larger per-capita electrical demand due to industry/office space.
I'm going to throw out (3) because it doesn't make any sense (to me), and we haven't found any evidence that this is true.

(2) seems possible, but highly unlikely.

(1) seems the most probable of the three options, and although I believe we have found evidence that biological systems exploit quantum effects in some instances, there doesn't seem to be any indication that brains (human or otherwise) use quantum effects for computation.

The thing that you seem to be discounting is that the bulk of the work has already been pre-computed. Our brains can do what they do in 5 seconds * 40 watts because they have been "designed" to do so via billions of years of evolution. In ML terms, the training stage has already happened by the time your brain starts thinking, it is simply doing inference at that point.
If US wants to finance their deficits, they can turn on a new printing press and people wouldn't be able to do much about it. They can't just say, we want you to pay us in <safer currency>, because the USD is that currency. Other countries have to pay their debts (usually) in USD, which is controlled by US.
The article mentions that the term 'fencing' is used in the sense of prohibiting electronic devices from working outside a geographic region to avoid their use as weapons, rather than swordfighting.
Very good question. As alluded to under "About", this is very much in side-project phase and absent ToS, Privacy Policy, payment, etc. I considered slapping a generic privacy policy up there before launch, but convinced myself I was coming up with excuses for not launching.

So that said: nothing will happen with addresses entered. If this project grows to the point of a ToS/Privacy Policy, those documents will reflect that. At this point you've got to trust me: I've been active in this community for a decade and have an easily-Googleable reputation. If that's not good enough for you, I completely understand, and this service is a little too alpha for you.

But seriously, it's a great question and thanks for asking it!
If you already have concepts of training and validation error then you're already there. The risk is not realising you can't test on your training data, or more subtly that you can't tune hyperparameters on your test data.
AOL was more 'spatial' vs. the netnerds obsession with everything has to be (ASCII)-text delivered by simple but sometimes obscure to the average user, means.

I sometimes think one could easily replicate large parts of that with

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citadel/UX

which evolved out of

{2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citadel_(software)

but then it lacks mastodon/matrix like federation, i guess.

Sigh. Maybe this year i get to try it out... ;-)
Tetrachromacy
What does the author really think about Windows?
The natural AND synthetic oils are disgusting to me.

Remove all oils and don't replace them.

Use a bar of surfactant bar soap everywhere.

Everything squeaks and is bone dry until nature's chaos reasserts itself.

Flesh is gross.

Robotic bodies when
And replacement costs. How many people have had this discussion with a mechanic?

“The engine will cost $4000 to repair or replace. The car is only worth about $3000 so it’s better just to get a new car”

Engine replacements in cars are crap because all of the other bits and pieces are still wearing out. Meanwhile a new batter makes an electric car like new.
> But a platform of “we’re going to make taxes painful so the government is afraid to raise taxes” gets a lot of votes.

I've never heard anyone promoting the idea of keeping taxes complicated to avoid higher taxes.

There's nothing inherent in complicated taxes that stops the government from raising rates.

Conservatives have long wanted the flat tax (file taxes on the back of a postcard) and lower taxes, so simpler lower taxes.

I think the reason it became so complicated was because businesses lobbied for special rules and tax breaks that made things complicated in the first place. Businesses are now setup to take advantage of these loopholes (Amazon passing $0 in taxes, etc.).

TurboTax was built as a result of complicated taxes and they lobby heavily against a simplified tax code.

It's not some cabal of citizens wanting to keep taxes complicated, it's the industries that benefit from the current tax code that wants to keep it this way.
Tell HN: Python 2.7 is no more
None that I know of but it should be fairly easy in telegram. It perfect for chatbots! Integration with WhatsApp was the hardest part really. I know there used to be a version for Facebook messenger[1] though.

1: https://postcard.im/
Back 10 years ago I had a complex tax situation and my gut feeling on reading the IRS booklets is that the tax preparer (I tried 2 of them) were taking the "safe" route to prepare it. I called up the IRS hotline and they directed to me an expert who agreed that I could file it in a better way that saved me $5000+. And they were even willing to go over the form line by line to help me fill it out. I've heard that since then the help lines have been gutted as part of a crusade to weaken the IRS in auditing rich people.
I’d also blame the budget airlines trend. Lots of unnecessary flights and under qualified pilots.
German automakers not only stopped their R&D to develop the next generation of cars. They focused their R&D on figuring out the best way to cheat on emissions testing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_emissions_scandal)

None of the German car manufacturers actually made any worthwhile EVs, and it always seemed like they're making EVs just to satisfy EU lawmakers.

Meanwhile across the ocean, a company with essentially no production line history is able to completely destroy century old companies because they got complacent.

German car manufacturers deserve everything coming to them
You can actually implement most new layers or experimental ideas using frameworks like pytorch or tensorflow. They support fairly low-level primitives which are much more flexible than keras or pytorch sequential models.
That said C/C++ is still very useful for implementing high performance systems.
Favorite algorithm can be as simple as "look at the first day of each month on a normal calendar".
thanks, I was afraid my tagline would make me look arrogant. glad you liked it.
Why do you think there's not more discussion around forfeiting the privileged position? Or am I wrong, and is there a lot of discussion on it already?
You should submit that to HN.
long names obscure the patterns in expressions, and make idioms harder to pick out. In APL-family languages, the ability to visually pattern-match aids comprehension. It's a skill that must be learned, though. This may sound implausible until you've tried it.
> Lying to Ourselves[: Dishonesty in the Army Profession]

A post[1] and working link[2]. The two HN submissions got no traction.

[1] https://warontherocks.com/2015/03/lying-to-ourselves-the-dem... [2] https://apps.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA615274
This is pretty cool. Do you have any metrics on how long it takes to arrive at the destination from the time of ordering? I'm curious to know how long it would take to arrive in the USA, South America (i.e Colombia) or Australia.
ie it’s not pretty bad. sending worthless pieces of paper in exchange for goods and services that the recipient needs to then turn around and either loan back or use in the US is a net good.
I’ve found FastMail to be my happy medium: I can give out arbitrary aliases over a couple of domains, and only have to do the config once per domain, but they take care of the actual email server part. I can then later add mailbox rules for aliases I give important senders.

Granted, the domain config would be overwhelming for my friends and family not involved in IT - even my mechanical engineer husband doesn’t quite understand what I’m doing.
> They actually don't precalculate, since Haskell is lazy.

I mean they ditectly put into the source code that the pattern is "", "", "fizz", etc..., and repeat (in a lazy fashion), instead of having the computer calculate which integers give a fizz/buzz. So the programmer is in a sense precalculating at the time of writing the program, instead of having the computer calculate the result of the if statements at runtime.
Wifi easyconnect is a very helpful feature that lets you connect to a wifi network by scanning a QR Code.

Create your Home wifi QR code https://modemly.com/qrcode
There were elections at the end of 2015 and 2019? Now you tell me!
The curry lambek howard isomorphism has been known for a while. Coq, the language that is used by the posted textbook is a dependently typed language and was released 30 years ago.
Reminds me of the trick to confess to a crime in the place you want to visit next.

They extradite you, you suddenly realise you have a alibi, win?
What does this question have to do with the existence of the Windows Registry API?
It's also blocked by Fanboy's annoyances list. It's a generic blocker, /wp-gdpr, probably designed to block a Wordpress plugin's GDPR banner. My guess is this site is using such a plugin, and then stuck the rest of its CSS in the plugin's folder instead of a generic folder like CSS, so it ends up blocked there too. You can whitelist this URL on the site if you want without having to whitelist the site as a whole.
FWIW, the recall is for 0.3 + 0.2 hours of labor so it probably didn’t reach nine figures in cost
> So for some percentage of Americans TurboTax won’t be able to compete because they can’t save you more than the IRS already did with its deductions.

Except many people will try TurboTax or a competing solution anyway, just in case they can get a little bit of money back.
I'd argue that a steam setup is considerably easier and more proven, but a Stirling engine is certainly safer and more efficient.

(A homemade setup would not be very efficient regardless of technology chosen, so I'm ignoring complexities of elaborate high-performance boilers.)
Use a keyboard macro tool
Senior Software Engineer, Data Pipeline at SecurityScorecard – $150k
How many patents did this produce, and how many of them were essentially funded by public money?
Some things are more volatile than others. Since nothing can increase in price faster than inflation forever, there's no point in including the volatile things in your index. This is why inflation indexes commonly leave out energy. People say "but everything uses energy!" as if this was a problem - yes, everything uses energy, so the long-run increase in energy prices will be reflected in everything else, so it doesn't need to be explicitly included.
Population of Turin: 880k or 2.2M for the metropolitan area (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turin, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_City_of_Turin)

Population of Shenzhen: 12.5M or 23M for the metropolitan area (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shenzhen)

⇒ the Torino grid need not be worse than the Shenzhen one for that to be true.
I would expect almost all Italian infrastructure to be older than the Chinese equivalent, and still paying off the capital needed to create it.
>Recall that both companies and countries are abstractions; they are not real.

Money is fiat. family is fiat. When you think about it everything is fiat. Plus, everyone thinks they own things. Im sure you'd be really upset if I took your paycheck and said you didnt own it. It's basic psychology. Even dogs get really upset when you give their bone to another dog.

But anyway, that's way too abstract for a real discussion. I'm specifically talking about the psychological effect of the civil war and how it affected important people like supreme court justices and tycoons, because if people want to understand how we got here, it's important to understand how and why decisions were made from a cultural/psychological/economic perspective.
I think it would be nice to have an address book feature. This is what led us back to Postable, we had used them a couple years ago for mailing thank you cards which involved uploading our addresses to their address book. Overall, their post card design templates appealed most to us.
We need a stronger law: any employee should be able to choose how many hours or days per week to work AND work for any other company at the same time (NDA applies, but non compete bs doesn't). Execs do this all the time: they can be on boards in multiple companies, run other companies, while possessing material information about them all.

The way I see it's working is the total comp negotiation goes as usual, but the employer isn't allowed to ask how much time the employee indends to work and whether one works for other companies. The salary and other comp is paid bi weekly as usual, but is pro rated to the number of hours or days worked. All the machinery is already in place: big corps have very detailed per minutes compensation for vacations, various on call duties and so on.

This will be strictly better for the IRS, because more competition means more taxes, but much worse for the dividend seeking investors.

Obviously, this will be a decade long legal battle with tens of millions in expenses, and it can't be done without a full time team of motivated and very expensive lawyers. However if 100k engineers spend 1k/year as membership fees, this organization will have a 100m/year budget and can keep courts busy forever.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/74/Permanen...
> None of the German car manufacturers actually made any worthwhile EVs, and it always seemed like they're making EVs just to satisfy EU lawmakers.

To be fair, this is most legacy automakers.
By your logic, Bismuth-209 must be the most dangerous element on earth, with a half-life of 19 quintillion years.

Elements with longer half lives tend to be more 'stable'...
Some sincere feedback: LVT sounds a cooky concept that might solve inherited / ossified land ownership problem in the UK, but it seems to have little relevance to the USA. Land is plentiful here.

LVT might also reward families with liquid assets, while burdening lower-income families whose main asset is their house.
> For such big files laptop is not an option anyway

Too big for excel is not big data, and my laptop can load this 10G in RAM (not that it necessarily need all of it) so why not if the data is here and the laptop on your lap ?
USPS is almost never cheaper than UPS or FedEx except for areas highly subsidized (AK and HI) and light weight international items. USPS has special (and anticompetitive) arrangements with foreign countries that UPS and FedEx can't have. Even with the special arrangements USPS is more expensive and less reliable than private carriers.
Ask HN: How do I build a browser game?
I want to tinker on a dungeon crawler and want to know what the best way to do this in a browser is. I'm a backend engineer so am kind of hoping that it doesn't _have_ to be some sort of Javascript.

Ideally:
- Support rendering 2/3d game
- Network access for realtime multiplayer

Thanks!
It’s definitely important! The addresses are stored for generating the postcard designs and shipping them to the recipient only.

The card is however printed by a third-party with whom we thus have to share the address details for shipping. From there on the is no additional privacy concernes compared to sending a postcard by hand.
Well, it must be possible. If we can't build an artificial sun then we won't be able to leave the solar system.
US Patent Office Data and Trademark Data Going Offline Jan 2nd 2020
Curious-- without 1Password, I don't get a scroll. If you don't mind, which mobile platform and which browser?
Curious, how does V4L handle these things?
Oh hah, I know this guy from Case Western CS dept. Around 1990 he was writing some Lisp on a TI Explorer lisp machine to simulate cockroach neurons for an AI project.
And the one in Java, less cool because neither cycle nor zip exist :(

<T> Iterator<T> cycle(List<T> list) {
return IntStream.iterate(0, x -> (x + 1) % list.size()).mapToObj(list::get).iterator();
}
<T, U, V> Iterator<V> zip(Iterator<T> it1, Iterator<U> it2, BiFunction<T,U,V> merger) {
return Stream.generate(() -> merger.apply(it1.next(), it2.next())).iterator();
}

var fizz = cycle(List.of("Fizz", "", ""));
var buzz = cycle(List.of("Buzz", "", "", "", ""));
var ints = IntStream.iterate(0, x -> x + 1).boxed().iterator();
var fizzbuzz = zip(
zip(fizz, buzz, String::concat),
ints, (f, i) -> f.isEmpty()? "" + i: f);
Stream.generate(fizzbuzz::next).skip(1).limit(100)
.forEach(System.out::println);
In this case what "we must" do isn't really in control of a single country. It turns out battery electric vehicles are viable now. Most of Germany's car sales aren't internal to Germany. If they don't produce competitive electric vehicles, Tesla will, or Rivian, or a dozen companies in China and all over the world.

Germany's choice isn't to start producing electric cars or to keep producing the same number of ICE cars they always did. It's to start producing electric cars or lose most of the market to new competitors.

And that means there are going to be fewer jobs making cars, because it's less labor to make an electric car. But you don't bail out the buggy whip makers, they just start making drive belts, or they go away.
+1 to Adam Ruins Everything! Other commenters might scare you away, but it brings attention to a lot of things that go unnoticed by the general public. Of course, always check sources yourself, but there are some genuinely interesting things brought to your attention that you might have never thought about.
I'm in SF too and get mine from Sweet Maria's. I know I can pick them up from Berkley but it's honestly a pain to get over there and if I'm getting ripped a $7 toll... Well the $8 delivery isn't so bad, and I get my beans 2 days after ordering. I've bought about 35 pounds in the past year.
They added more renewables. https://www.cleanenergywire.org/sites/default/files/styles/g...
> What makes you think that the next 10 years will generate smaller return?

Look at the link I provided.

If you have goose that lays golden egg worth $1000 every year, and the price of the goose goes from $20,000 to $30,000, how does the ROI (return of investment) change?

Valuation of thing relative to valuation it provides is important. All the factor of economic growth in OECD countries are declining so you should expect lower ROI (once the effect from increasing leverage stops).

https://institutional.vanguard.com/VGApp/iip/site/institutio...
Nope. More details in another thread on this post, but tl;dr:
1. This is a side project and I'm eating all the sending costs while iterating on the product
2. Selling addresses is shitty and if I monetize, it will just be mark-up on the selling costs
3. If this project continues to grow, I will make the ToS/Privacy Policy clearly state that we will never sell addresses
Well, if it's covert, then that is presumably just the cover story.

Maybe it's a solution for region control of swords, in which case it would be a virtual virtual fencing fencing solution.
When there are entities constantly spamming [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor's_New_Clothes
in a mad raving way on all channels, at full treble, exploiting privacy and advertising falshoods for the benefit of the few, and the bullshit jobs of the masses, while trashing the cultural, mental AND physical environment, then I'm all for denying them that possibilty.

They can fuck off and go die somewhere, i won't miss them.

Aye häff SPOQQN!
Ringing in 2020 by Clang'ing the Linux 5.5 Kernel
> Nearly six million vehicles are produced in Germany each year, and approximately 5.5 million are produced overseas by German brands

1.5m produced in the UK ... a large chunk of which are for German brands.

The UK automotive industry may be fucked, but the German one is 4 times bigger, and also directly exposed to Brexit and weakness in the UK industry.
I can show you a lot of people who rarely if ever use their smartphones to take pictures, and more still who primarily take pictures for utilitarian purposes (such as preserving the information on a whiteboard before erasing it, remembering where they parked their car, etc.) So I definitely don't agree that "owns a phone" and "enthused about photography" are basically the same groups of people. The former is much larger than the later.

> If you don’t believe me, show me a popular smartphone that doesn’t have a camera. :)

I can show you plenty that lack good cameras... I don't think that's a compelling argument anyway. iphones have barometers but that doesn't mean everybody who owns one cares about their altitude or predicting the weather.
And they were most likely looking for large amounts of cash, Cops love the Seize cash, anyone carrying more than 10K in cash will likely never see it again, perfectly legal under Civil Asset Forfeiture
Great idea! I considered an SMS interface but kept with web as an MVP. Good luck with your project! If you'd like to stay in touch, please connect with me: adam@der.wiki