skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, mounting guns on the wings is suboptimal, as they have to be focused to converge to a point in space, usually 400 yards or so. Aces prefer under 200 yards though, or even "fire when the windshield is full."

The twin-engined P-38 fighter was loved by Allied pilots because the nose-mounted guns projected rods of steel through enemy planes out to 1,000 yards.

The P-38 was a "Zero killer" because of its very high speed and nose-mounted guns.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_P-38_Lightning
I wonder if, in the absence of gravity (and thus no issue of buoyancy), a spherical ice ball would form in a stream of slow moving cold water...
One idea is that there weren't many double stars so the evidence was weak.
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What would drive a stream in the absence of gravity?
I wish aria labels were first class citizens are at least that developers cared about blind or disabled users.
You've read too much scifi.
Pretty much every house built in the last 25 years does at least.
That's an excellent approach! Well done! Thanks for sharing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morane-Saulnier_N
Is this related to gas vapours and how liquid gasoline is only flammable because the vapours are pouring off it?
Because I've been working from home for a while. I wake up when I want, without an alarm. I drink a couple cups of coffee and take a shower, then I go to my "office" downstairs and work. When I'm bored I practice electric guitar or do cardio. Then I work some more. When I'm tired I go do something else, or take a nap. When I'm in the mood for music, I can listen to it on my studio monitors. When I want to work from my backyard in the summer I unplug one of my clients' laptops and go work in my backyard. And, get this, _nobody_ can interrupt my flow unless I choose to be interrupted. I can't imagine being productive in what passes for a regular "office" nowadays.
I am generally of the philosophy that all "disruptive" technologies end up looking basically like slightly modified versions of what they replace, mostly achieved by pushing at the regulatory environment a little bit. Uber/Lyft replaces taxis. Self driving cars begin to resemble trains.
Spam. Nobody expected it at the scale we see now. It kills off all but the biggest sites.
And you don't think they would change that pretty quickly if they really needed to?
I've often thought about wanting to build something like this, as I find something enchanting about the memory palace idea.

However in my case I think it wouldn't do anything for me, I'm not a visual thinker, I think in paragraphs, I understand things that are written down, even simple diagrams of server client interaction can slow down my understanding of what something is supposed to do in my job. Perhaps that's why I find it enchanting, it seems a fantasy because my brain doesn't work that way.

All that said I think my daughter's brain works completely visually, she struggles with language, her memory for abstraction is not good, but she is great with visual ideas. I guess I might start her on this, however like other people I find myself a little hesitant given that you haven't figured out a cost for the service yet.
You're being unfair. Speculation is how you create new hypothesis and it is perfectly ok as long as you don't confuse your hypothesis with a theory. (which GP did not)

This particular hypothesis seems to be invalidated by the fact that the phenomenon was observed before, back in 1895. See the wikipedia link in comment above.
that is the point.

Should British demand their colonies back?

Should Indians demand their land?
They should still be responsible for damages if they were their fault, though. Just like you shouldn't lose the warranty on your car because you get the tyres changed at an independent garage.
If a road is too dangerous for humans to drive on due to enemy fire, I would expect the conditions of the road to be much worse than American roads today.
And those people can come to the office. But it should really not be a requirement, and work should be structured in such a way as to not penalize people who are remote: around written communication, with infrequent teleconferencing.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Portable_Threads

N:M threading from 1999!

And there are many more recent examples too.
A near-perfect sphere? sure! Only looks-like-a-circle from some distant projection.

Vortices in a near-2d-flow like a river will absolutely be circular, vortices need to be coherent in some plane in order to sustain themselves.

The specific circumstances here must be that that the water is on the edge of freezing during downstream flow and there is a naturally-very-long-lived vortex in one region for it to initially form the ice-disc. Must also be followed by some very-gently-bounceing-off-the-edges, and the river never getting too thin for it to get stuck.
> It would be hard to go back to waking up in the dark and turning on a massively bright light.

That's why we invented the sun.
Ukraine is not a Baltic state, the Baltic states (Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia) are all in the EU and NATO members. No way the EU would let that slide.
So I am willing mainly as a form of social currency, a lot of women ask about money early on. I own a lot of unusual investments and some more conventional ones. I exist on my more conventional interests, and I would be silly to say no woman has wanted to know all I own.
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>Should Sony also be forced to keep their service running for PS1 games that had an online component - forever?

Yes! Absolutely they should.
I wonder why 100% remote positions and companies are still marginal. Software engineering is one of the few industries where remote work is possible, and yet hardly available, despite obvious advantages.
So does burning them whether fully or not.

The question is really: how much and is it important?
As I said mostly a joke I realize it probably stems from a comic in the 1960's
Very comprehensive discussion.

p39 correctly points out that post-election verifiability significantly reduces the burden on the system. If you can later prove your vote was cast correctly, it doesn't really matter if the system that correctly recorded your vote has some theoretical flaw.

Verifiability could also prevent or reveal traditional attacks or miscounting, like lost ballot boxes, hanging chads, misdelivered absentee ballots, or simple hand counting errors. It could have a separate benefit of drastically increasing trust in the system, preventing allegations of fraud by those who simply want to undermine faith in Democratic institutions (be they foreign governments or sore losers).

The author quickly dismisses verifiability as a practical goal though, despite its potential benefits, citing an old objection: verifiability enables vote selling.

Since verifiability could lead to significant benefits, it's worth asking two questions at this point: (1) might there be other ways to mitigate the risk of vote selling under verifiability, and (2) does verifiability really increase the risks of the status quo?

(1) Other Mitigations

Two possible mitigations immediately spring to mind, there are probably others.

First, we could just make vote buying or vote extortion a serious federal crime, where any whistleblower voter gets some portion of the fine, enough to outweigh whatever they were offered. The new incentive would make these attacks highly risky, as they'd have to involve an improbable number of close confederates you can rely on, but who won't vote the way you recommend without a bribe. This becomes basically impossible to scale.

As a second option, we could instead give voters a true receipt and a false receipt. Voters could privately confirm their vote was cast correctly, but the system would have deniability, the voter would be unable to prove it. Maybe the true receipt holds a secret shared with the election commission that can only be unsealed under credible allegations of outcome-altering irregularities.

(2) Unclear New Risks

The argument against verifiability is that it would suddenly allow proof of vote, and that creates the risks of extortion and selling.

Proof of vote is already trivial in the status quo though. Sure, there are prohibitions on voting booth selfies, but if you had entered into a vote buying cartel, you would easily be able to defeat these with a discreet photo behind the curtain.

Mail-in absentee ballots allow one to fill in a ballot while being directly observed by an attacker.

Despite these possibilities in the current system, there isn't significant evidence that vote buying is a widespread problem, so the risk may be wildly overstated anyway.

If it is not clear we're avoiding a new risk, and if verifiability could dramatically increase the trust in the system, I think it's worth a harder look than most voting security analysis gives it.

That said, this amount to a quibble about one page in a significant piece of research, which is still an admirable summary of the issues in secure voting theory and design.
Having the person renting to me being able to control the lights, air conditioner and rolling shutters sounds awful.
Compared to Japan, there are no people in Tasmania.
>Without big bully to prevent countries doing deals that decrease stability in other countries we have no recourse.

The problem here is that many do argue right now that the US is doing this themselves and is a large factor in lots of instability in say the middle East.
I assume that can be artificial. Just use a pump.
YouTube Has Been 'Actively Promoting' Videos Spreading Climate Denialism
I would get extremely lonely if I spent time in only 1 physical space the majority of the time. Also I'd want to be with coworkers during the day. That's just me though - I know a lot of people love working from home and remote work.
A description of one thing you can do with this is at https://github.com/moonjit/moonjit/issues/84

It's not a common feature. Usually it's present in a language that has "continuations" and the api is something dreadful like call/cc. But you can use it in Lua with the above mentioned patch, and you can use it in byuu/co with memcpy.
The only reason this happens is because of (perhaps misguided) attempts to resist the changes caused by population growth from local voters. If it was up to the market to decide, what would happen if there was a sudden spike in the demand for housing? Developers would build more housing. Prices might move a bit, but you’re not going to be looking at a crisis. However, entrenched homeowners don’t want that, because it would change whatever it is they like about their nice quite neighbourhoods. So they resist any attempt to develop new housing. Housing supply is artificially constrained, everybody’s property taxes go up (because the supply of property tax payers is artificially constrained too), prices skyrocket, and access to housing plummets.

The idea that when you buy a house, that you’re somehow paying for your neighbourhood/city to perpetually remain in a state that personally satisfies you is behind most of our housing problems. Enabled by the almost universal dysfunctionality of local democracy.
just use incognito mode to read medium articles
I don't think you have much insight into thoughts of European countries. What you claim was a response to Trump, is actually much more complex. There are different views in different countries and within them.

Germany is also no longer the front to the communist block - which no longer exists and only Russia is left as direct opponent. So it may make sense to have NATO defense moving east. Many Germans think that the US politics against Russia leads to nothing good.

What Trump does/says is fully inconsistent. NATo is obsolete. Then it is great. He wants to reduce military. Then record money flows into the military. He wants to get out of Iraq, then he blackmails Iraq to let the US stay. He uses kurds to fight against ISIS and then he hands them over to Assad...

The main political reaction in Germany to him is to have not too much changed and hope for a more rational US government.
> Why not just use a cannon to shoot the ball?

Someone who knows the rules better might answer?

I assume the pitcher has to be registered in the team and as such has to be human.

If you have a pitcher set it off, one assumes it's not regulated equipment. If you have a disability it still has rules around what you can use.

I'd be interested to know though. The Last Boy Scout does kinda ask this question, that's why it's such an amazing opening scene.
Not to mention they're telling us that bird of a feather like to flock together, and giving it a name such as “harbingers of failure” ...

Modern Marketing came out of WWII Psychwarfare efforts, gotta keep that in mind.
Entitled College Kids Learn How To Keep Parking Like Assholes Without Paying Fines."

In the UK parking at NHS hospitals is a lucrative revenue stream for parking companies - they toss the NHS a few pennies to justify it but it’s exploitation of those in an emotional state, such as visiting a very sick relative, or even picking up someone to take home. Any techniques developed to defeat those parasites is a public good.
I'd expect something more thorough than "must be surveillance that would be illegal in the country I'm in" from a Cellebrite employee. Their follow up tweets seems to attribute this to some glitch though, the rest of that thread reads like unsubstantiated tinfoil material.
No they rent the modem from their ISP.
Giant organization overseeing a huge number of competing interests and accountable by proxy to millions of individual shareholders.

This sounds like a government. Maybe we’ll see voting for representatives and parties.
So, I am ideal consumer. High value. I would pay. Why would I use your service? I own ~$10k dollars USD. I have >2Million <8Billion in stock. How will you present me?
So how are those multilateral agreements doing, anyway?

The Geneva Conventions are an admirable code of conduct, but they don't in any meaningful way define international relations, since at least one belligerent in virtually every armed conflict since and including the Second World War has flagrantly flouted them. Countries that are decent enough to follow the Geneva Conventions don't get into wars with each other anyway. The Berne Convention similarly doesn't deter developing countries that pirate IP and shrug it off.

How did the UN work out in Rwanda? Why is it that the UN Human Rights Council typically contains most of the worst human rights abusers in the world? The UN can be a useful tool for addressing certain situations, but that typically only happens when someone--usually the US--makes a concerted effort of forcing the issue, as one of our most underrated presidents did in 1990 when Iraq invaded Kuwait. Left on its own devices, it doesn't work.

The rest of the stuff likewise relies upon the US to make it work. The Paris Agreement is fundamentally untenable now that the US has withdrawn; not only does the US produce a lot of greenhouse gas emissions, but they also provide the needed economic counterweight to push other non-compliant countries like China into compliance. And I don't think the Paris Agreement is the only instance of this.
BYO. Which is borderline OK for boosters (the Mifold [1] weighs under 2 pounds and folds to fit in a handbag), but totally impractical for a baby/child seat.

[1] https://mifold.com/products/mifold-the-grab-and-go-booster
Nato Membership is a contract.

Yes, Indeed. tanks are not the biggest problem.
https://consortiumnews.com/2019/12/21/pepe-escobar-you-say-y...

PS:
"Germany is only one of 19 NATO members that have not met the 2% GDP spending goal set at the 2014 NATO summit in Wales."
Yeah that's nothing to do with big companies moving there. That's what happens when you let Chinese investors dominate your housing market.

(See Auckland as well)
This Week in Kiss Linux (#7)
I’m the family archivist and it’s long been a dream of mine to build some kind of 3D virtual museum to host all the content (audio, video, photos, documents). I looked into using Blender to construct some “museum geometry” but it seems more suited to organic modelling of objects rather than environments. It feels the technology isn’t quite ready for what I want to do - scaling to tens of millions of assets.

Memory palace is a good description of what I want and this app encourages me that others are doing work in the same space!
> more subjects, loot, and territories to use to stage further invasions.

That sounds like a geopolitical ambition to me.
Foetuses likely experience pain much like adults or even more
China’s nuclear industry and high-speed trains are world class
I don't get the surprise. People want climate denialism. Youtube gives it. They get paid. How is this unusual?
I never said Ukraine is a Baltic state. Take out a map. Think about why the Baltic states can hardly be defended militarily. Think about what would be different if Ukraine were in the Nato (and a decent amount of Nato troops on the UA/RU border).

"No way the EU would let that slide."
They EU has no ability in military things if the UK is out. The Nato would not let it slide but they also would not fight back to win it back. It would be cold war II.
Just thought the reference would be useful.
Bacteria on your hands reflect the country you live in (2014)
Dummy I am literally telling you I might spend money on your dumb service, just sell it to me.
Clickable links

http://3zanders.co.uk/2017/10/13/writing-a-bootloader/

http://mikeos.sourceforge.net/write-your-own-os.html

https://www.nasm.us/doc/

http://faydoc.tripod.com/cpu/

https://github.com/cfenollosa/os-tutorialjos
The game is run by a smart contract on the TRON network, but I haven't read the code. Are you saying the smart contract gives the founders' key(s) some special privilege that others do not have?
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I'm having trouble imagining this. Would you be able to show a screenshot?
> 1) at best this happens at~50% of the games.

That is an assumption. We don't know all the facts yet. Some are suggesting the camera could have been nothing more than a smartphone and there is a source from within the Astros org that say some of the players wore electronic buzzers under their shoulder to signal the call to them. There is no reason to rule out signals were known on the road as well.

> 2) what is the end game here?

Stop cheaters from winning titles and saving the sport from ruin like cheating did to the sport of boxing.

> 3) do you think they’re the only team?

Probably not but both existing and former Astros speaking up tells us Astros were doing it at an unprecedented level.

> 4) what rules were broken?

First of all sign stealing using technology goes all the way back to 1876. Illegal sign stealing involves mechanical or electronic technology; the rules regarding this have become more stringent over time and continue to evolve. This is also why an 8 second delay was added to the broadcast feed.

> 5) is it wrong for a base runner to scream change-up if they are on 2nd base?

Screaming anything while the opposing pitcher is about to throw I suspect is against the rules but stealing and signalling the signs in other ways is permitted. This is typically done by the base runner using closed fist or open hands.

> I don’t think a huge advantage was had here.

The Astros obviously thought it was enough of an advantage to break the rules to do it. The Astros went from dead last in the AL in strikeout rate in 2016 to 1st in '17 and their strikeout to walk ratio was an extreme outlier compared to the rest of the league.

> Ironically the “cheaters” couldn’t cheat their way to a second victory.

Ironic how? Teams were onto them by then. Once you know your opponent is stealing your signs you can use that against them.
If we invent some sort of technology that lets us increase the housing supply we may be able to avoid this issue.
>If the US simply 'did not exist' - Russian Imperialism would reach just about as far as in the Soviet era

We can speculate a lot, but that's a this is, speculation. This comment and a lot of others smell of American exceptionalism to me as a non US citizen.
> Most of the effort of spinning up a new language is in the backend (optimization and error checking), where lisp doesn't offer a compelling advantage

SBCL literally allows writing compiler intrinsics (and I'm talking about native machine code, not bytecode) at runtime out of the box: https://www.pvk.ca/Blog/2014/03/15/sbcl-the-ultimate-assembl...
aww, cats are cute
I could have chosen my words and phrasing better; I am most certainly adamantly opposed to doing away with cash.

Unfortunately, with the costs of transaction fees being put on merchants, there's essentially no incentive for customers to get anything other than what is commonly accepted, and so no way for any new entrant to the system that uses a different (or no) processing fee structure. The closest thing to new has been Stripe, and that too has essentially the same structure as the rest.

It is interesting to me that you mention the Post Office- a government run organization that effectively operates independently and probably has less data on you than your phone company. In fact, I suspect an organization set up in a similar manner probably would have the same level of insight and (in theory, if not practice) the same level of privacy for you as Visa or MasterCard.

Then again, if I had a magical fiat wand, I would also allow FedEx and UPS to deliver packages into my mailbox rather than leaving them in the rain and snow, so I can't say that I've worked through all the details of where the right balance between "public good demands a monopoly" and "public control is unwarranted and not likely to be more beneficial".
Although the subjects for study were new born babies not foetuses, it's reasonable to suppose that the ability to experience pain isn't only switched on at birth.
In my home town the local community college was a 45 minute drive from my parents house. I couldn't afford to move in to the city just to go to school. People who move to attend college are the exception not the rule, by the numbers.
What is your experience with python interop in clojure? Does it work sufficiently well that it is really usable or is it rather experimental?
Although the subjects for study were new-born babies not foetuses, it's reasonable to suppose that the ability to experience pain is not just switched on at birth.
I think the web has changed, that kind of information is no longer surfaceable within the current paradigm of search engines. SEO won, and I think in the short term we will just see walled garden websites create a monopoly on page views. In the long run, someone somewhere will solve this problem, probably will happen once nlp can understand language.
> First of all. Tesla counts the number of miles for every Tesla being involved in an accident. The other figure you quote is for all miles driven by motor vehicles before getting involved in an accident. Given that accidents tend to involve two or more vehicles the number of miles traveled before an accident involving a Tesla without autopilot or safety measures would be closer to 820.000 miles.

You're doing that the wrong way, aren't you?

If 479k is total miles across an average of two cars, then the single-car equivalent, the number you'd compare to the Tesla numbers, is 240k.

It doesn't really make sense to adjust the Tesla numbers to do the comparison, but if you did you'd be doubling them, not halving them.

> We cannot translate this to miles per accident comparable to Tesla, because commercial traffic tends to drive more miles than passenger vehicles do, but there are far less of them, etc.

Neither of those reasons makes them incomparable.
Yup. Remember installing it when it came out. The use of iTunes for iPhone was because it already existed, and nothing did for iPhone
Lol continuations will blow your mind. "Returning" to somewhere else than you came? Humbug!