skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In this case, I left out the part where said vagrant had broken into the parking structure and caused several thousands of dollars worth of damage to infrastructure that we had to pay to repair.

There's also the matter of the broken glass bottles he left in the stairwell, which created health and safety risks to everyone using the parking structure.

And there's also the distinct possibility he was the focker who broke into a bunch of cars over the holidays trying to find things to steal.
I been on the system implementor side of the ERP for long time and done many ERP projects(SAP). I have also never seen ERP implementation that has gone smoothly and everybody involed has been 100% happy. I think implementing ERP is 98% change management project and 2% IT project or something like that.

I recently also wrote my thoughts on what ERP is. Maybe its interesting to someone. https://www.integrated.ee/posts/the-erp-software/
No doubt. If I could get a diet burger and diet fries, same quantity, about the same taste, sure I would. Diet soda seems just as good from what I can tell. A veggie burger is nowhere near as good as a fat greasy hamburger.
should i be worried that i have used this site
No, it’s not. This hurts survey telescopes and it’s an orders of magnitude issue.

A rule of astronomy is that if you can see it with your eyes near a city than it’s really really fucking bright, if you can see it with your eyes in the wilderness after your eyes have adjusted for 10 minutes, than it’s still extremely bright.

Bright, fast-moving things are pretty terrible.

Even if Starlink doesn’t kill astronomy, the next 4 companies with similar deployment will definitely exclude types of sciences and ruin billions of dollars of investments in new observatories.
The spacing of floating point numbers have any bearing on their values.

To be precise: every integer, positive or negative, with magnitude less than 2^53+1, is exactly represented in double-precision. “Extra values in two’s complement” don’t (and couldn’t possibly) effect this at all, since it is a statement about abstract integers and floating-point numbers, neither of which depends on two’s complement representations.

In particular, -2^52 has a sign field of 1, an exponent field of 1023+52=1075, and an all-zero significand field. This number is exactly -2^52.
When was the climate unchanging?
It's a risk vs reward scenario. The data leaking from Airbnb is bad, but nowhere near as bad as the data leaking from a porn site. You might be willing to take the risk with the former but not the latter.

The main damage here isn't the data leaking (it's already out there thanks to countless other breaches anyway), it's the data leaking and the association with the porn site.
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I agree, there are actually two problems here:

One is technical, and to do with the service and how to deal with it.

One is political, and to do with who gets the blame when the service inevitably fails.

OP needs to work out if they're being tasked with the job as the answer to the technical problem or the political problem. Because management could be very aware that this is a ticking bomb with no technical solution, and have appointed OP as a scapegoat to take the blame when it blows up.
That depends on the wave length regime.

Radio is firmly ground based, because you need huge dishes and potentially many (thousands) of them, at very precisely known distances.

IR is mostly space based (with SOFIA and ALMA the notable exception) because of atmospheric absorption.

Optical is firmly ground based, due to much lower cost for large telescopes. (See https://doi.org/10.1117/1.2031216 for the factors that affect cost). The notable exceptions are Hubble and satellites monitoring the sun such as Stereo and SDO.

X-Ray is space based again due to atmosphere.

Gamma-ray telescopes are an interesting mix between ground based air cherenkov telescopes (IACTs such as Hess, Magic and Veritas) and water cherenkov detektors such as HAWK and space based Fermi (with relatively poor sensitivity and low upper energy cut off, but very wide field of view).

Neutrino detectors are firmly ground based because the need huge detectors (the cubic kilometer of icecube is basically the lower limit).

So they are very much complementary. And some things will probably never moved to space, even if launch was free.
A couple of weeks ago, the 1e group I'm DMing visited a dungeon they are overpowered for, as it's for levels 1-3, and the party is a mix of level 3 and 4.

Except for the Level 2 NPC magic-user. Random wandering monster. Rolled a Giant Weasel - should be no problem, only 18 hit points against an entire party. Combat. Weasel attacks random party member - oops, it's the magic-user. Except, the die fell in a crack right after, so I secretly rerolled. Magic-user again. Oh well. Attack - weasel wins initiative. Attack hits. Scores high damage. And the weasel is clamped on to the magic-user, sucking blood. Argh. Magic-user isn't dead yet. Party's turn - thief hits! Ranger... chooses to fire her bow. Hits, but there's a chance the arrows hit the magic-user. The dice roll favorably, and she hits the weasel. Weasel is still alive. Cleric hits. Our fighter misses, argh. Druid hits, but the weasel is still alive, but just barely. Giant weasel is still sucking blood and doesn't need to roll a to-hit roll next round. Magic-user will automatically go below zero on the next round unless the weasel is killed first. Roll initiative. Simultaneous initiative! Argh! Magic-user falls to -5 HP, weasel dies.

The party healed the comatose magic-user's surface damage to full health, dragged him to the surface, and camped out in the swamp for a week fighting off creepy-crawly swamp creatures while nursing him back to health. Guess they'll explore the dungeon next time!
If the file is still open by the process and not yet closed, the config file is still there if it’s Linux. You can find it in the process’s file handles in /proc
I confirm. The stories nowadays about a freak 70 degree January day in Connecticut really boggle my mind. It was rare that the temp got above freezing then when I was a kid. Also we occasionally had sub-zero cold snaps in the negative teens and I don't hear much about those in New England anymore (although to be fair I don't live there now).
Many "legit" crypto exchanges ask for these kind of infos as well.
Aren't they mainly large so they have less hindrance of earth's atmosphere? Couldn't telescopes that are in space be smaller and have similar performance?
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Better yet, don't drink milk at all, it's unhealthy in the same ways as soda and fruit juice (milk does have a lot of sugar which I don't think a lot of people think about).

Don't drink your calories.
The challenge to that prior is that there is substantial overlap in the features and capabilities that were in, say Commmon Lisp a long time ago and yet there was a substantial delay in those features being accumulated in other languages with vastly greater adoption to this point (like Java, although that example might be disingenuous since the releases of Java and CLOS were only a year apart...)

Likewise during the last seventy years some languages saw wild uptakes in popularity for some languages much later in their life-cycle. Who would have expected the modern successes of Ruby?
Yeah I'm almost the exact opposite. I did a lot of martial arts when I was younger but never had any actual fights. Not serious ones. By the time I reached adulthood I had no idea how to act in either verbal or physical fights and was avoidant of confrontation. It's hard work but I'm gradually getting the hang of being present and holding my own in tough conversations. It's still very rare for me to get angry rather than just irritated, defensive or passive aggressive. When I do get angry it simmers in the background without any outlet, and either dies away or eventually explodes in a weird, unexpected way.

I was thinking more about people who grow up with very little, i.e. aren't sure if their parents are going to put food on the table that day. If you start out like that but manage to get a steady job etc..., I think it can be much harder to take risks like changing career or being assertive in certain situations.
> An algorithm is fully deterministic... it will always produce the same result, always "think the same thoughts" given the same input.

Well, these are not just algorithms, they are actual agents. So they are embodied and embedded in the environment. Each action or movement can change the information that this algorithm learns from. So different previous experiences mean different agents. Also, the learning process is reliant on noise, and this can cause different outcomes. You would have to reproduce the whole environment in order to get to a situation that an agent will produce the same results given the same input.

Also, laws of physics are like a fixed algorithm our brains run on.

> So where is the consciousness, in the execution, or in the algorithm?

Consciousness is in the triad formed of environment, agent and reward signals. It's a continuous loop of perception, judgement and action, followed by observing the reward signals. The purpose of this loop, for biological agents, is self reproduction - so it is a self reliant ultimate purpose, it needs no external purpose except this one.
Part of the reason they don't switch to other jobs is that squandering years on gig jobs does zero for your resume.

The logic above is simply restating the same fallacy that allows for the exploitation -- just because there's nothing better, it means that they are good.

The fact is, that in a modern society, any job that does not allow it's workers to make a living wage is not only exploitative, but it also constitutes welfare for the employer -- the taxpayers subsidize the companies to the extent that they subsidize their workers. WalMart has actual classes on how to get govt benefits.

If the business isn't viable providing a living wage, it is not viable in a modern society.
There are rules on how the information has to be indexed and cross referenced; while you might be able to design a system of electronic-beside-hardcopy records that you could make a plausible argument for meeting all of the requirements, it's straightforward to do it if your data and media are in the same electronic system.

Considering that getting it wrong is a federal felony, the incentive set by the law is clear even if, arguably, unintended.
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That "where" feature based on street view is really nice
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No conclusive evidence proving that a lot of screen time is bad for you
This is quite incorrect. Most jurisdictions have record retention policies that explicitly state that you're allowed to dispose records after a certain period of time (usually based on record type). After that, even if the record would be relevant to a case, you cannot be held liable for having disposed of it.

source: i work in this field
I love the wins-above-replacement idea. Just reading by yourself sounds like a great "control" treatment. But some subjects, like math, are too hard to learn with just eyeballs moving across a page. Perhaps a math intervention could be measured as "how much better is it than letting the child loose on khan academy?"

My TAG program in school was just us sitting around a table with the art teacher having inane discussions. Literally zero value added.
I wasn't disputing the validity of their complaint. That's orthogonal to being unfunny through repetition.
Yeah, I can buy a couple year-old Hellcat (or Porsche, if you're the Euroweenie type) for less, it will hold its value far better than the Tesla, and it naturally increases testosterone, too... (See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=962046 ) I'm pretty sure no Tesla is cheaper to own over the long haul than a Ferrari - I owned one for 25 years, and it's actually one of the cheapest-to-own cars I've ever had (worth more when sold than when bought!), despite the fact that it got 12 MPG no matter how you drove it.
I did not find this mentioned anywhere but Onenote makes snips text searchable too
False. Scientists and economist have proposed to introduce carbon pricing, which would increase the prices of fossil fuels and oil, without forcing any utopian ideas, by simply including the cost of fighting the effects of global warming in the prices of fossil fuels and oil:
https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/bxgd5p/single_mo...
It is GF who later became a wife ;)
Yes, that figure is probably right. I did my first parachute jump in the summer of '98, a year before this study. It was a static line jump, using a round canopy; ancient stuff even then! I had wanted to skydive for a long time, so it wasn't a "charity jump."

However, almost everyone else on my course was - they were really young as well, a bit naive and maybe a little dazed by the idea of jumping out of a plane. Some of them were Chinese/Korean students, with a very, very rudimentary grasp of the English language; I genuinely have no idea how they all passed the course, but they did. When they went on to jump, I think just under half of them ended up with broken legs/sprained ankles and so on. If my memory serves me right during the same drop the jumpmaster managed to kill himself too.

To sum up, 11% sounds about right.
I don't think anyone is saying that web based apps were a bad idea from day one... Wouldn't the success of PWAs and pushing the web forward to support this type of open computing a good thing? Essentially, Google took a bold move, the tech world liked the idea of a more app-centric look a the web and pushed for PWAs. By all accounts, this is a success for all the web. It's okay for a product to go away if better stuff comes of it.
the researchers took steps to mitigate the potential effects of confounding variables:

https://new.hindawi.com/journals/omcl/2019/1574021/
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Tl;dr: Perfect subtraction is impossible due to physics.

Problem is: With photon count the uncertainty in the number of photons also goes up (the relative error goes down). So even if you know that you should have received 100 photons from the satellite (and have not reached the overflow of 256 in this example yet), Poisson statistics means you will actually get anything between 90 and 110 photons. So if you subtract 100 you have an uncertainty of plus or minus 10 photons left. That is deadly if you astronomical source only gave you 2 photons in that pixel in that time.
At least the way it works on iOS, iOS is supposed to keep track of whether you purchased that purchase or not (that type of purchase at least not the 'buy x items' consumables), and require apps to have a 'Restore Purchases' option you can click to load which items have been bought and restore the state of your app.

At least in theory, maybe there's been a few cases where it hasn't worked. I'm not aware of any, though.

I don't know how that works on Android. That might not be supported.
After the US commander of the ship murdered 290 people on flight 655, he was given a Legion of Merit.

Two sets of rules.
You have to give credit to SpaceX for tackling this thing head on. If someone else was in question, I don't think they would be as responsive.

We are also coming to a point where we have to acknowledge that sky is changing and astronomy or where we place telescopes should change. Depending on what is being observed.
Just FYI, supernovae (with an e at the end) is plural. The singular is supernova.
I am the professor who translated the article from Swedish. I agree that anyone can be a scientist. But, as you Erikson neither has qualifications, nor does he show understanding and nor does he use the scientific method. So very poor all round.
Given the requirements to keep this data, I'd be curious what data-model would make sense to prevent leaking it. I honestly can't think of anything practical that's better than "encrypt at rest, better hygiene with database credentials". After all, the webserver needs the ability to submit this data, and logically people are going to want to be able to review their own data on the web in order to update it.

What do?
It's actually not always illegal to create or possess a fake ID. It depends on the state and what you do with it. Some states it's illegal always. In California though as an example here's the law:

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio...

> 470b. Every person who displays or causes or permits to be displayed or has in his or her possession any driver’s license or identification card of the type enumerated in Section 470a with the intent that the driver’s license or identification card be used to facilitate the commission of any forgery, is punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for not more than one year, or by imprisonment pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 1170.

You have to have the intent to commit a forgery. This is defined elsewhere but means to use the id to commit fraud.

So you have a novelty id that says your name is Mickey Mouse and you are 100 years old. You show it to your friends. Or maybe you get one as a gag gift for a friend. Not illegal in California. Using a fake id to misrepresent your age for legal purposes such as buying alcohol, tobacco, firearms, voting, acting in porn? Very illegal.
I've got a copy of the re-release s4 module of this still in the box of D&D stuff I inherited (kinda just took with me.....) from my dad. 1st edition ad&d with the stacks of hand written custom tables and rules they created over the years is still my favourite way to play, when I can find people who'll play it with me.

I remember as a kid just sitting there going through his d&d collection. He's got so many random things scattered in there. I used to love just reading the dungeon modules and the books looking at the maps and artwork and reading through the books.

I'm kind of disappointed with the way the game went after wizards of the coast bought up d&d. I never really liked the 3rd edition rules and the books, though beautiful and colourful, weren't as appealing to me. There was something about those dark gritty black and white line drawings in those older books that still looks better to me.

As far as I can tell now, it's not even really the same game any more. It looks more like a pen and paper version of an mmorpg than d&d these days from what I can tell by the bit i've looked at the latest rules.

It also seems to focus on being a 'hero simulator' rather than being a sword and sorcery adventure simulator than it was before. I've always prefered low fantasy sword and sorcery stories to the long sprawling wheel of time style epic sagas. Stuff like Conan and Michael Moorcock's books. That's what the game used to be more like.
I've been using an app called "Memos"[0] with a similar value proposition for several months now- it's become a crucial for me. If someone gives me a paper, appointment reminder, note from school- I just take a picture of it and I can find it again any time I want. It's also really nice for finding pictures of buildings or signs (or photos of people taken near buildings or signs) since it can recognize text on those as well.

It's really cool to see how something like this can be made without a huge investment! I expect that future iOS versions will probably just include this natively. There's already some object recognition but not at this level.

[0]: https://memos.org/
the researchers took steps to mitigate the potential effects of confounding variables. here is a link to the full study:

https://new.hindawi.com/journals/omcl/2019/1574021/
I maintained a home-grown corporate ERP for ten years.

The most important takeaway from that job applies universally. Business software must reflect business processes. If there are no processes, how do you know that your software is going to enable people to do their jobs?

Every business unit, every department, everything everywhere needs business processes that are documented. Those documents need to be maintained as the processes naturally change to reflect changing business needs. Those process changes need to be reflected in the software you're going to be working with.

If your company does not have the corporate will to establish and maintain processes and back the steps needed to keep those processes in step with reality, then any attempt to establish an ERP - whether homegrown or adopted from a vendor - will fail. Likewise, trying to maintain an existing ERP without corporate backing for process management can be incredibly painful.

Directly related, go with a vendor if you possibly can. As others have said, your business processes are usually not unique. There are adequate SaaS and FLOSS-with-support/FLOSS-with-premium-bits options available, and you as the implementer should give them a huge amount of weight compared to huge monolithic scary things like SAP.
If we are talking about visual light astronomy (the wavelengths where black satellites could help), a majority of astronomy is ground based. There exists just a single capable space observatory in visual light, the Hubble telescope, which will be going out of service in a few years. There's some metrics here[1] which show that about 10% of the most cited papers use Hubble data, which is still quite impressive. This is dated though, it could very well be that Hubble is becoming less relevant with recent advances in technology.

[1] http://www.stsci.edu/%7Ewebdocs/STScINewsletter/2003/spring_...
hopefully the clouds clear up before then!
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Hilarious..
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> This is something that is already done with merkle tree hashes

Yes, BLAKE3 is a Merkle tree, and what Bao is doing is conceptually similar to BitTorrent. (BEP 30 is even cited in the BLAKE3 spec.) Bao's goal is to be a general-purpose wire format and implementation library, for any application that needs verified streaming. Applications that use BLAKE3 for generic file hashing today can also start doing verified streaming at any point in the future, without needing any other trusted metadata.
Space based works for optical, but not all other wave length. For example it will also reduce the sensitivity of air cherenkov telescopes that detect gamma rays and that can not be moved to space.
This is terrible. The sensitive nature of this information could have significantly impact on the victims. This is the type of data, that coupled with the sensitive nature of the sites content, could pose significant safety risks — and I don’t say that lightly.

Moreover, the jurisdiction of this place (Andorra), leaves a lot of open questions about what (if any) recourse there could be either from a punitive or criminal standpoint.

This is terrible.
Yes, without any pain that you describe. I'll admit I need some balancing help (by putting my arms out), but I think that may be because my achilles/hamstrings may be a bit tight and I can't quite pull my toes up towards my knees QUITE enough; although I do stretch them 30sec every day.

I need to try splaying my feet apart a bit more and see if I can get my center of gravity a bit more forward.
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So taking the question to the obvious next step: is it possible the entity of an organization of people, corporations, clubs, churches, cults, have its own conciousness (feelings, goals, awareness of itself)? Does HackerNews have a conciousness?
Seriously... let it go people. Google is a business.
Startups are experiments. Sometimes, you learn something really valuable in the process. Often, you don't.