skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>games not validated for correctness under software emulation for detecting these types of edge cases prior to shipping.

Did they have software emulation for that hardware at the time the game was written?
The US (surprisingly) is not the only country where people start businesses. ;)

Look at emerging markets & look at tech being applied to them by folks that have far far less than 250k.

> If founding a SaaS company is free

VIRTUALLY free is what I said. And yes it is - you have resource like CodeAcademy & a VPS cost less than $5 these days.
Road salt destroys cars, but hey, Make Detroit Great Again (MDGA)!

The drawback with sand is that it doesn't dissolve in water, so silts everything up.
The article got me thinking about the universe's mass distribution.

Is the number of galaxies at any edge of our observable universe similar to the number of galaxies in our observable universe?

tl;dr does the (entire) universe have a uniform distribution of mass?

Now, I'm aware that the universe has always been expanding from every point in all directions since the singularity before the big bang. This means that effectively
1.) every point in the universe can make the claim of being "at the center"
2.) none of them can
3.) the question is meaningless

Which of those answers you find satisfying is more of a philosophical question which I'm not concerned with for this question.

My question is this - if we were to somehow reach the edge of our universe instantaneously, simply to observe what things looked like from that point of view, would we find that there's roughly the same distribution of stars/galaxies/matter in all directions?

I'm aware that questions with the premise that FTL/instantaneous travel is possible tend to be "unknowable" to a degree.

Perhaps another way of wording it would be - do we expect the amount of matter to be of a uniform distribution in every spot in the universe? Is it impossible to know? Or can we use models of the big bang theory to predict that the distribution is roughly equal everywhere?

Some philosophical implications that are curious but are probably scientifically meaningless:

If there's reason to believe that there is a uniform distribution of mass in all observable universe, and the universe is infinite, does that imply there are an infinite number of galaxies, all of which are inaccessible if they're outside our observable universe?

If so, is out ever appropriate to consider these infinite observable universes as essentially a multi-verse, containing many combinations of observable universes, one of which is statistically likely to be similar to our own observable universe?

As always with questions regarding the size of the universe, it's center, etc. I suspect the answer will be "it's a meaningless question because we can never know", but I'm hoping that research into the big bang itself could provide some evidence.

Please let me know if I haven't used proper terms or am making a critical mistake in my current understanding of astronomy.
Compared to iOS Simulator, the android emulator is very slow and clunky. But on the other hand, unlike iOS Simulator, android emulator fully emulates a real phone with real hardware (camera, mic, etc), while iOS Simulator only simulates basic functionality and doesn't simulate many hardware api like camera access.
Edit All Rows in a Table in SQL Server Management Studio
So he deserves to have his money taken by a government agent?

How about we don’t victim blame people, and instead decry unconstitutional seizure of assets.
Apple says that FaceID checks for saccades.
I would say that leaving it pointing to a vanilla Apache install is pretty on-brand for Maciej. He's currently busy with election-related journalism, but I'm guessing that this thread will eventually get his attention and he will get around to having it redirect to pinboard.in.
> (MADA)

Make America Detroit Again?
Just a word of caution, I believe it is against the affiliate agreement that you show prices. I mean, two of the first four now have the wrong price -- the price probably changed on amazon's side. I believe that's why Amazon doesn't want affiliates to show prices.
NO WE MUST ALL LEARN FROM YOUR FINDINGS
Dude, you should really Github this one, would be huge Kudos!
> Forced incarceration is pretty rare, and doesn't seem likely to become common or misused in severe ways.

Quite on the contrary. For a recent example of misapplication on the thousands see [1].
The idea that the deliberate misapplication of these "laws" doesn't exist or is minimal in the current year is completely false.

[1] https://www.tampabay.com/news/education/2019/12/10/floridas-...
All the standard libraries need to use it too. golang gets this part right.

In golang strings are immutable sequences of bytes (which can be concatenated) or have 'slices' taken from within them (I believe addressed to a rune; which IIRC is a complete UTF-8 sequence). Standard libraries typically operate with bytes[] for low level operations (file I/O) but strings and bytes can be coerced between each other with ease, and notably many objects (such as a File https://golang.org/pkg/os/#File.Write ) have methods for interacting with bytes[] and strings.

There's a core library specifically for low level Unicode operations and external libraries for more complex tasks.
And of the dead patients, 5 were in the ICU and one was not.
Why do you say that? What are some of the issues?
I'm hardly half way through this talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvENPX0MAZ4

But I'm already completely convinced that every language should have these features! Especially languages used for the web.
> I'm not aware of many limitations besides some people getting their driver's license taken away.

Forget ever legally owning a gun. Or get a security clearance. And if you ever end up in court it'll almost immediately disqualify your testimony.
> Please show us just one example of this.

How about the patents at issue in Alice v. CLS Bank? Or any of the “hundreds” of patents, according to Wikipedia, that have been found invalid by lower courts in decisions citing Alice.
If you look at MRIs of human brains, you can determine the sex with pretty high accuracy. Researchers have even trained machine learning algorithms to differentiate with >90% accuracy.[1]

Researchers have tried this on transgender brains and come up with mostly noise. When they do find differences, it appears that the brains of trans-women are unlike cis-women. Ditto for trans-men.[2]

I am very confident that there is a ton of publication bias in any transgender research. If you publish a politically incorrect result, you risk your career.

1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30430711

2. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/337026445_Predictiv...
Not A FLUFF POST: global problems can be fixed. This is why they haven't yet
ROFL, I was wondering what is going on there for a moment. Turns out "Sharding"..... is not a word and gets auto corrected to shading.
The results of the Milgram experiments were selectively publicized to sound more provocative. The context of the experiment was the trial of the nazi Adolf Eichmann, who plead during his trial that he was merely "following orders." (There is a myriad of evidence that he was in fact an enthusiastic ideologically motivated nazi who believed in what he was doing.)

The idea that a 'normal person' might become a nazi if ordered by an authority figure was provocative, since it suggested the potential to be a nazi existed in many if not all of us. The disturbing and provocative result of Milgram's experiment seemed to suggest that 'regular people' could indeed become nazis if given orders from an authority figure.

The deceit occurred when the results to publish were cherrypicked from a larger set of experiments performed by Milgram and his team, in which various variables were tweaked. The people from New Haven (home to Yale University) were most likely to comply when given orders from a man dressed like a scientist and were less likely to comply when the orders were given by people in other sorts of costumes. Why? Because people in New Haven had pride in their community, in the university located in their community, and had a belief in the necessity of science. They complied when they were told that compliance would further scientific progress, which they considered to be virtuous. These people were in fact motivated by ideology, just as Adolf Eichmann was. Just as Adolf Eichmann believed in the necessity of the nazi ideology, these people believed in the necessity of scientific progress.

So what did the experiments actually show? It showed that many people are willing to commit atrocities if they believe the ends justify the means. That's not really a provocative result.
I think it's too-clever-by-half... In category theory, most of the arrows connecting the dots are functions, which are often called 'maps' by the mathematicians using them.
Right, should have added that to the list of not-quite-consistent explanations. Also, slight typo, black level is 16 not 10.

And to this I'll add another speculative answer, similar to others that have been advanced, but I'm not sure it's ever been explicitly expressed: it means that a piecewise linear approximation in either direction can be done with good accuracy and not a huge number of segments.
In the case of SQLite, it doesn't have a server process.

In the case of cloud "serverless" it doesn't have a physical ser-- Wait did you just mention "managed servers"?
For an enveloped virus like this? "Awhile". I'm sure there's estimates for SARS or Influenza somewhere that are probably pretty correct for this too.
Sphincs+: a post-quantum stateless hash-based signature scheme
I think this was first of the short URLs that played with words and TLD’s that I remember.
Could you explain, what's the difference to

- https://github.com/gooofy/zamia-speech#asr-models

- https://github.com/mpuels/docker-py-kaldi-asr-and-model

in regards of speech recognition except the fact that its easier to use?
For hottest planet, a major meltdown, study shows
I missed that when it happened, too bad. OpenBSD's sgi hardware support is much better than NetBSD's (although that

I guess the reason is that they used an Origin 350 for builds, but the disk controller driver had a bug causing lockups and FS corruption which never got fixed.

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=156941089510768&w=2

I also remember Miod Vallat doing a lot of the work on sgi, but he left the project a few years ago.
Can you elaborate on what you don’t like about working with Arcade?
That's all fine and dandy, but why does it matter? This is not some sort of personal messaging, banking or financial transactions that we're talking about; this is literally an online resource where any anonymous user can come and edit anything they please without any sort of authentication or peer review whatsoever — on English Wikipedia, all edits are immediately shown to all subsequent visitors/readers, even the vandalism made by anonymous users, which on some articles goes undetected for months or even years at a time, especially in cases where the vandalism is subtle-enough.

Put it simply, it's literally a big dump of unverified information, even if some of it appears to be relatively reliable and of good quality most of the time; how is preventing me from accessing it from my iPad or Android magically makes it so great and "secure"? Don't they have any bigger problems to worry about?

And what does PCI-DSS compliance has to do with an encyclopaedia? How does it benefit Wikipedia from being PCI-DSS compliant? What's next — is Wikipedia going to adopt EDD-KYC, too?
Some teenagers are really mean and some people never grow up.

Also : Some boomers believe they know everything because of their experience and some know better.
Birds are easily killed by any kind of smoke. Everything from overheated cooking oil to second hand cigarette smoke can quickly kill your bird. Non-stick cookware is hardly unique in that regard.

PTFE does emit some uniquely nasty chemicals when overheated, but in mercifully small quantities, and the effects seem to be temporary. If you read up on fluorinated polymer fume exposure, you'll find exactly zero known deaths, only a handful of known injuries, and no firm evidence of long term health effects. Considering that there are millions of amateur cooks out there abusing non-stick pans every day since the 1960's, I'd say that's a pretty fucking good track record.
Interesting. As of 3 hours ago https://del.icio.us/ simply returned:

Internal Server Error
Are any of these products actual one-to-many USB-C hubs?

You know, a hub. Which seemingly do not exist for USB-C / USB 3.

https://superuser.com/q/1381139/122042

https://mjtsai.com/blog/2017/10/14/the-impossible-dream-of-u...
It is ssl'd for me
‘Love hormone’ improves attachment issues in people with autism
Privatizing DISCOMs the Way Out of Their Financial Mess
They look white but say they're black: a town in Ohio wrestles with race (2019)
Well, it's not a monopoly by any stretch. Market share - Jio - 32%, Vodafone Idea - 29%, Airtel - 28%, BSNL - 10% as of Nov 2019.

Yes - the incumbents (Vodafone, Airtel) have suffered a loss of market share and revenues / profits. Serves them right for keeping data rates high and not investing in modern technology when they had the money and market share to do so. I am sure customers in other markets would wish for real competition like this.
Hm, the experiment took place before 1973 and involved 8 pseudo-patients, all anonymous. This person was able to deanonymize and locate 3 of the pseudo-patients. Because they didn't find all 8 they then claim the study was fraudulent and never involved 8 people. That seems an absurd conclusion. It's not reasonable to think one could find all the anonymous/identity cloaked participants in a nearly 50 year old study.
They had the word first. That is a compelling argument.

Imagine I start a company today called "America" (I'm in the UK). My business is wildly successful and grows to the point of being a global unicorn that can afford gTLDs. Should ICANN allow me to own .america? A lot of people would argue I shouldn't..
>maybe we should just make your own map that we do like better?

I wonder how many of recent efforts on DNS alternatives was motivated by the perspective to profit off of new names gold rush. Some even got VC funding IIRC.
>but definitely not all

integrable is quite a general class of functions (especially if you define the coefficients in terms of the lebesgue integral instead of the riemann integral).

>a small, finite number of elementary operations

piece-wise definition is not an elementary operation. you can't easily add/multiply/compose piece-wise defined functions. you can't easily differentiate/integrate them either. fourier space representations don't suffer from any of these issues.
Hi, I have exactly the same problem.

I kind of know English and can communicate but I want to become more fluent. I even built a startup myself to help me reach fluency :) You can check the vocab10k.com.
A different view of the Lorenz system
A must-read piece for people trying to understand language design theoretics. The paper clearly talks about all the perspectives around the word type, and then discusses the ambiguity in the usage of the term.

Was very helpful to decrypt what people mean by type under different contexts.
All things must pass.
Neat. How did you enter the mine?
In theory, at least, the atom could be emitting enough light and oscillating over a large enough area that persistence of vision could result in a visible dot to the naked eye.
Faster degradation of cars on the road might be an upside for Detroit.
Bill Gates warned in 2018 that new disease could kill 30M people in 6 months
Yes this is true. Can confirm
> But there’s a difference between taking a picture of the light coming from a light bulb and a picture of a light bulb, as I am sure you’re aware.

OK, explain it.
I think grandparent was not about having surveillance programs or not, but about whether the government is being held accountable to it's own laws. A quality that is worryingly slipping in several nations. Hence the emphasis on 'illegal' and the shoddy investigation with little follow-up.
> guys it was lifted. After a ruling by a court.

It took 2 and half years for this to happen. That does not sound like a nation of laws to me.

Imagine if this happened in America. Would you be making apologist arguments, in that situation?
> You can apply all the "autogynephilia" testing and logic to most cis women and they'll come out with a strong diagnosis.

That is not true. Trans women score much higher on tests of autogynephilia.[1] This is even found to be true in amateur surveys.[2] Trans females score the highest, then cis males, then cis females. Trans males have the lowest scores for autogynephilia.

1. https://sci-hub.tw/10.1007/s10508-007-9306-9 From the abstract:

> The results showed that, overall, transsexuals tended to place more importance on partner’s physical attractiveness and reported higher scores on Blanchard’s Core Autogynephilia Scale than biological females.

2. https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMotte/comments/et039t/independen...
Thanks! Exactly what I was looking for.
> so long as they aren't burned

That is one big caveat, Teflon is in cookware, under direct flames, is there more precise info on what being "burned" actually means temperature-wise in Celsius?
"Election-related journalism" is a polite way to put it. And this has been the situation for what, 5 years? One of these days I need to take a weekend and get myself off that abandonware.
Looking at you China
gibbs phenomenon only occurs for discontinuous functions. so it's a reflection of a pathology, not a pathology per se. what i mean is the problem is with the function itself (it's got non-removable discontinuities!) not the fourier series representation.
Did you read the article?

It tells that these companies increase plastic production though people want this to stop.

People do not insist because this is what they always wanted but because of the advertisement manipulating them in a very subtle way and their missing consciousness about a lot of things that you do not learn at school.

They are presented with influencers, pictures etc. which make them feel useless and worthless just to present them with the new XYZ and the promise it will improve their sad life, help them to get along with their neighbors and stuff like that.

Another player in this game is the government which does not hold companies responsible for their actions and the harm they do.

You could still use the 1st iPad with a decent OS (e.g. some Linux) if you would be allowed to. Because companies need to make money they will brick it instead so you will have to buy a new one. Is this the fault of the customer? Certainly not.

This is not normal and it is not the expected behavior of a device like that from the point of view of someone who knows that on the inside it is just a computer. We (people in IT) know that and many ignore it or lie to themselves to feel better but the average consumer in the meantime believes this is the way things have to be.

In this case I would not support the hypothesis that the average consumer (or the majority) is at all able to act that rationally.

To blame the consumer completely is a carefully seeded thought but it is just not the (whole) truth. While many decisions will aggregate and contribute to change not all of them are the kind of free choice the industry wants governments and the global community to believe in to spare them with the necessary consequences (laws, control, taxes etc.).
Back in the 2003-04 SARS outbreak, the cause was partly a laboratory in Beijing that let the virus slip out accidentally.

Fast forward 17 years. The virus looks like it did not originate in the seafood market but was potentially taken there. What else is in Wuhan? The country's only BSL-4 rated lab (secure enough to handle SARS). Occam's Razor suggests to me that history is currently repeating, though of course I cannot be certain. Feels pretty dumb.
Ask HN: How do you currently solve authentication?
There are a lot of different ways to do authentication these days. How do you currently solve for it?

Any tools you swear by? Anything you recommend? Anything you hate? Do you recommend writing it from scratch or using a framework or service?
Electroshock therapy now called Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is still pretty much in vogue and is gaining momentum.
Very interesting approach. One thing comes to mind though: in a large codebase, patching a fundamental definition (say, map or foldl) will take a long time, right?
Variable gauge trains help overcome this problem:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable_gauge

I once took a night train from Barcelona to Paris that changed gauge at the border. It slowed to a walking pace and travelled through a shed like structure that housed the equipment. There was some mild clunking and clanging from underneath as we slid over the mechanism. Quite impressive.
Actually these numbers are misleading - actual rates are much lower. For example, Jio has a Rs. 149 (2.1 USD) plan for 24 days for 1 GB per day. That works out to about 10 cents for a GB.
Why are we posting this nonsense?

And why do people jump to the least likely explanation for things?
Look at a light bulb when the filament is heated and is emitting light. Then look at it when it is not. The only people who can’t see the difference are blind, literally.
Kobe Bryant, daughter Gianna die in helicopter crash
fourier series converges pointwise but not uniformly. for many use cases you would like uniform convergence (e.g. approximation in an entire neighborhood of a point) and a fourier series won't give you that no matter how many terms you add. but like i said above - gibbs only occurs at non-removable discontinuities and so you shouldn't expect it to be well behaved at those points regardless of the representation.
The title is .. not great. They're listing restaurants without the restaurant's knowledge, and in this case can never actually fulfill the request (because the restaurant doesn't even do takeaway).

But assuming stupidity over malice, it's not clear to me the restaurant is being defrauded -- more like they're being misrepresented. But if they did have takeaway... everything would be fine? I'm not clear how GrubHub benefits from the few false orders that would come through before the issue is resolved (they'll make a pretty penny from a few people, and trash their reputation and user-trust entirely? It would be extremely short-sighted behavior)

There are some other comments like pricing not being specified correctly, which might turn out more money for grubhub... But even that doesn't seem so clear cut.

This entire thing seems like it's borne out of stupidity, and perhaps a shared poisoned dataset
We have 2700 confirmed cases, 80 dead. Some also in the West and we are still talking about these initial 41?

Are we a pre or post internet civilisation?

Honestly 4chan is doing better than this. Reading through their noise is better than the clean data coming out of the officials. For example they have people in pools of blood on the street with people in the bio suits China are using.

Maybe it's obvious people will throw up blood with this new SARS, but the officials aren't mentioning it. Sperm may contain the virus for months. Again obvious, not seeing it on official feeds.
I actually get this too - clicking the link works, but directly entering `del.icio.us` into my address bar gives an Internal Server Error page
Advanced microscopes can distinguish individual atoms. This is relatively trivial if you have the correct setup. Search atomic force microscope and HOPG (highly ordered pyrolytic graphene).

This wasn’t the correct setup though to do that. Presumably the reason you can see a single atom is because there is only one present, ie if there was a second one next to it you wouldn’t necessarily be able to see the difference in the photograph.