skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We use Stripe. Will be adding PayPal integration later this year. Many of our customers are in europe and they don't have credit cards. PayPal works best for them.
Evidently you didn't read the article very carefully. It discusses all of these points.
I'm reworking the (already pretty old) concept of literate programming, basing my research on the implementation written originally by Dr Ross Williams in 70's called funnelweb. Given new hardware of modern times all the ugly hacks and compromises of the C implementation (including ugly delimiters, unnecessary terse syntax, not using a recursive descent parser but relying on byte values while parsing text) a new take on the subject might bring it to today's tool chain.
I think its less about the gap but more about the fact that the product was released in a not suitable state and then left like that for 40 days. If they had released it mid year and fixed all of the issues before the holidays people would be ok with that.

It gives off the vibe that this is another one of googles random side projects that no one really cares about and will be scrapped in a year. Which is extra concerning since people have spent real money on the hardware and games.
I appreciate you raising this concern, I honestly never thought about that.

> Simply that they want to save something from reddit to their tryunearth.com account

When you say that, I envision the extension overriding or extending Reddit's save button functionality by making an API call to the unearth backend. Is that kinda what you had in mind?
State Farm uses payment signature for HIPAA disclosure authorization
The link to the 1984 paper (from their website): https://www.osti.gov/biblio/6517343
wind power sucks. no one who has watched and studied ot for the last 20 years refutes this.
it has NO place in the enegry mix of the future.

it simply CANnot scale on the ground and airborn floating versions of it have failed.

tidal and river power may scale one day. maybe. for now we do with damming up rivers. the three gorges will prove the limits of dam building.

solar CAN scale. Nuclear DOES scale. fusion power MIGHT scale.
burning EXISTING SUPPLIES of carbon has ALWAYS scaled.

nature has placed mass and energy in various locations and densities. wind on the ground is the worst of all.

emvracing the worst as a solution to something that already works isnt decarbonization, ..if done to excess, malivenstment is suicide of our civilization.

one CaNNOT ignore the need to maintain an energy surplus to invest into building the next energy revolution. if we fail to maintain a surplus in the name of decarbonization, we will surely wind up in a dark ages of sorts for an umpredictably lomg period of time.

surplus turns to scarcity much faste than scarcity naturally turns to surplus. with respect to civilization...what can be lost over a century may take centuries to recover.
I'm interested about your project #2. As you mentioned B-splines do you deal with trimmed surfaces? Would you have any reading recommendations for someone learning about surface optimisation?
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There's a genre just starting where people electronically modify old recordings to change key. John Denver's Country Roads actually makes more sense in a minor key, to me at least:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoVtHLxNVlU
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That's exactly what I did in a recent project. Basically, I found a cool library, but the docs were pretty spotty, so I fleshed it out a bit as I became more familiar with the code. I ended up doing some minor refactoring to make the library more consistent (e.g. naming, this was just before a major release).

After that, I ended up finding a bug, and since I was already familiar with the code from fixing minor documentation stuff, I was able to submit a patch without asking anyone.
Five Best Gun Simulator Games for Android and iOS Users Offline in 2020
About “Qt offering changes 2020”
If you were a high school senior, which university would you have attended?
Hey what's up guys,

If you were a high school senior, which university would you have attended?
> There are comparisons being drawn between doing science and waging war.

Why do you think the DoD funds grants?
This is really great news! Soon we can finally start to deploy our global WG/IPv6 based management VPN.
A fantastic graphical representation of this is "The Conquest of Pestilence in New York City", produced by the Department of Health & Mental Hygine, showing progress from 1800 to 2002:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uTWEATUzgxk/TXQoTibILtI/AAAAAAAAAA...

This tracks mortality (rather than life expectency), but shows clearly the tremendous progress made from 1850, with a peak mortality rate approaching 50 deaths per thousand peak (from a baseline of ~30 - 40 per mille) to about 12/mm in 1920, and the present rate of about 6/mm.

From 1950-1970, and for a briefer period in the 1980s, progress was reversed with mortality increasing. There's actually been an impressive (though small realtive to 19th century improvements) reduction since 1990.

Looking at that chart, realise that virtually all the improvement through about 1950 precedes most of what we consider to be modern medicine: advanced cancer treatments, antibiotics, most vaccines, transplant surgeries, genetic therapy, pacemakers, and more. The progress instead comes mostly through increased sanitation and hygiene, as well as reduced environmental contaminations and hazards, though it includes both antisceptics and anesthesia.

We've been paying a tremendous amount in medical advances for a very slight improvement in outcomes.
I wish articles like this were more clearly written. What we know is that there are two satellites that will get with a few meters of each other. The 32,800 MPH number is not relevant as both satellites will be traveling at that speed, give or take a little; the relative velocity of one satellite with respect to the other is likely to be fairly small.
Largely CSGO seems like a finished product. Its the result of almost 2 decades of refinements and other than a map change or weapons price adjustment it doesn't need anything done.
> first hand knowledge

Please do go on :)
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OpenBSD's development process already incorporates linters and other static analysis tools, as well as code reviews.

Decomposing logic using Hoare triplets and properly incorporating assertions as hints to a model checker wouldn't significantly add time to the development process. There is a lot of misinformation about the supposed overhead of formal methods or the assumption that they must be total. A lot of this is due to the fact that formal methods are typically used in projects where serious harm or death could result from an error, and thus, the cost of verifying the project must exceed the potential risk for failure. An incremental approach is pragmatic and yields results. It does not require the totality of classical formal methods projects.

I have not noticed a significant increase in time for my own development efforts while incorporating model checking into my own software development process. That's anecdotal, but up until the past 10 years, there haven't been many OSS model checkers to choose from. In turn, the cost for using these tools have made it harder to have peer reviewed cost analysis. If using a commercial tool, it's because you were required to do so via FAA or similar. Hence, the adoption curve hasn't yet been wide enough to have the wide adoption you've alluded to. With both the availability of these tools and the increased tool-assisted nature of red team analysis, it'll come.

Language can't fix these problems alone. Not even Rust is a silver bullet here. But, the incorporation of formal methods is an additional layer in a good defense-in-depth strategy.
What company leaves their hyped up product mostly useless for 4 weeks after launch?
I'm a little outraged that he was making more, per month and from his ostensible "side-gig", than the postdocs in his lab make in a year.
Looks like Walmart’s investment in Flipkart is beginning to pay off
I enjoy LINQ, but the real power comes from when the implementation is more complex than just renaming your standard functional programming map, fold, filter, etc functions to more SQL-y aliases.

With that power comes the responsibility to actually understand what it is that you are doing, and where the abstraction leaks. If you are not careful, and do not understand the ramifications of what you are writing, it is very possible to write some horrifically inefficient code, or code that looks correct, but will break at runtime.

I have seen many a horror with Entity Framework or Linq-to-SQL when I dug in to fix badly performing code, and hooked up tracing to track the SQL code that is actually generated and executed. Multiple iteration of an IEnumerable is very easy to run into, although static analysis is getting good at flagging that with a warning. Trying to use an IEnumerable that hasn't been materialized from the expression tree into the actual data after the database connection or other resource has been disposed is another common gotcha. Understanding what operations can be translated by the expression tree engine is very important. In LINQ database ORMs, the way that foreign keys behave can vary wildly depending on how the query is written and on how the ORM happens to handle those accesses.
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>Is Qualys getting paid for this excellent work, and if so, by who?

I can't say I have any info on this subject, but having a group of people do stellar newsworthy offensive security research around widely used products is a good way to market your company for free and help drive sales for your security products.
Any Employers Here?
Hi!

I'm not too sure if this is allowed to be posted here, but I'm working on a little side project which is a job board for well-paying jobs in tech (ideally) that don't require candidates to have a college degree.

Some companies have been doing this which is awesome as it encourages alternative schooling and welcomes those that don't follow a traditional education path. It also makes you question the relevancy of a college degree in today's world––at least for certain careers :)

If you are an employer though and would like to give it a go, feel free to comment or shoot me an email (sakun @ sideprojects.net). The site is free to use btw.

Cheers
Don’t forget section bias. There were a lot of trash games in the PS2 era and before, and worst of all, many of them barely functioned on a technical level compared to today’s games.

Of course KOTOR is good, it was probably the best RPG of its half decade and it won GOTY awards all over the place.

The same year KOTOR came out, Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing was also released. And besides abysmal games like that, a lot of relatively forgettable games that might not stand up to another go-around in 2020 were critically acclaimed: perhaps selections like Prince of Persia: Sands of Time, Grand Theft Auto Vice City, or even the original Call of Duty, depending on your point of view.
How Do Bats Live with So Many Viruses?
Seems a bit silly to assume they're the same group of people, no?
20 Growth Hacking Techniques and Tools for Startups
Auto safety has shown a very consitent rate of improvement with deaths per passenger mile halving about every 20 years, since 1920.

That's the red line in this chart:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/US...

The period of most rapid car safety improvements came during a single ten-year period, from 1910 - 1920, where deaths, again, expressed per passenger mile, halved in only ten years.
I'm not saying you are wrong btw, there are multiple efforts put there to create truly parallell processors. But it's not until recently that the technique exist to make them good enough. Good times ahead I would say. I personally know someone part of such effort.

I clearly remember the feeling of just getting it as well. It was a very binary moment :)
(This is more a reply to your replies)

It takes practice but steel & flint isn't necessary, here's a video of a friend of mine who does what you're saying, teach kids survival skills. She uses particular kinds of wood you would need to learn to recognize but of course people have been doing it for a million years

Warning: very enthusiastic audience; having been off the grid for a couple weeks, seeing a fire started by hand was big entertainment

https://youtu.be/d_HGO31E0sI
"several hundred thousand" per year is a less than the $750,000 that China was willing to pay according to the article.
In This Is All: Memory, Meaning, and the Self
I was saying that Expression Trees are created at "compile-time", and not at runtime. Here's the CIL that gets generated in the case of IQueryable - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3894598/how-is-linq-comp...
Rust testing, data generation and const asserts
But because there's a race to the bottom, and information is duplicated with marginal values near zero, sites which were free and didn't require monetization would squash sites that did over time.

I see convergent evolution towards ad networks/data brokers, monthly payment walled gardens, and crowdfunding.
Creating a [traffic simulation](https://github.com/dabreegster/abstreet/#ab-street) that's both realistic enough to generate results meaningful in the real world, but easy enough to use that anybody living in a city could use it to experiment with some change to cycling or transit infrastructure. Some of the problems hiding in there:

- Getting a representation of a city that cleanly divides paved areas into distinct roads and intersections, and understands the weird multi-part intersections that Seattle has plenty of. [This](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1cF7qFtjAzkXL_r62CjxB...) and [this](https://github.com/dabreegster/abstreet/blob/master/docs/art...) have some details about how I'm attempting this so far.

- Inferring reasonable data when it doesn't exist. How are traffic signals currently timed? No public dataset exists, so I have heuristics that generate a plan. If I can make the [UI](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dabreegster/abstreet/maste...) for editing signals fluid enough, would it be worth trying to collect this data through crowd-sourcing?

- Figuring out what to even measure to demonstrate some change "helps a bus run faster." Should people try to minimize the 99%ile time for all buses of a certain route to make one complete loop over the whole day? Or to reduce the worst-case trip time of any agent using that bus by some amount? Or to minimize the average delay only during peak times between any pair of adjacent stops?

- Less technical: How to evangelize this project, get the city of Seattle and advocacy groups here using it, and find contributors?
Absolutely, I agree 100%. Instead of trying to be all things to all people, I think they should stay focused on being a great email client. Based on the comments on this page it sounds like there’s certainly enough work to go around just with that goal.
Don't question it. Just consume product and then get excited for next products.
I have too many questions, not enough info with your post.

Why do you think you need to go to a university? What do you want to do with your life? How do you want to live?
Why does this sign-in not show up the "Apps & Websites" section on Facebook? How do I make it stop recognizing me without disabling sign-ins on other sites? It sure would be nice if these questions and their answers were included in the article!
The P-Tr extinction was overwhelmingly worse than we are capable of, even on our worst day. It drove every single obligate-shelled ocean species to extinction. The ones with shells that came after were descended from those that had lost their shells, and then evolved them again.

If civilization collapses, the sudden pulse of reforestation and radical reduction in CO2 production will clear the excess in a few decades. Many shelled species will survive just by waiting it out; do you recall the 400-year-old clam that turned up recently? It is mostly the larval forms at risk.
Embarrassingly, I completely forgot bradfitz wrote Livejournal. He’s done so much cool stuff since then.
You can make a rocket with ethanol.
I've actually been thinking about the issue of energy storage a lot recently -- I've read a ton about how lithium-ion battery production is exploding (usually not literally), but it seems unreasonable to store enormous amounts of renewable energy in a device that itself has to be replaced after a certain number of cycles. The device used for pumped energy storage -- a tank (to simplify greatly) -- basically never needs to be replaced.

It's really cool to see a feasible alternative to batteries. I think climate change is the single most important problem anyone can be working on right now -- amazing that you've found such a massive lever to pull on this issue.
Apples Macbooks are the leading the way for creating mountains of needless waste. We had multiple sent back because of their horrible keyboards failing repeatedly. And unlike on other brands where you could pop off a key and remove the whole keyboard without any tools, Macbooks have the keyboard secured with about 90 rivets so unless you want to spend hours and hours plucking out rivets and then threading the holes, the entire bottom case becomes useless which has glued to it the trackpad, speakers and battery.

How environmentally friendly! Recycling is a corporate greenwashing tactic to make it seem like you can buy endless product and do the planet a favor because someone in china burned off all the non metals and grabbed the remaining aluminum.
Real-Time Human and Machine Collaboration for Visual Story Development [pdf]
Knowing that fire is possible to make from sparks is the biggest factor.
Mullvad supports WireGuard tunnels, been using it for a couple of months now, pretty solid in any device, in all the regions I tried.
This is an excellent in-depth opinion piece on yesterday's Qt company announcement by one of the developers of Krita. It discusses, among other things, the inevitable forking of Qt 5.15 for an ongoing 5.xx open source version.
If you were a senior in high school which school would you have attended?

But I want to go to a university to get a very deep understanding of something and to a university that is regarded highly.

Build products.

I want to live a life where I live comfortably, have a lot of creativity and build things.
The emperor's new clothes...
Any idea what major improvements there were between 1910 and 1920? I had no idea there were any improvements made before seatbelts in the 1950s.
Tired comment, but uMatrix protects from this kind of attacks.
To me, if a singer is going to sing a lot of non-word syllables, I want them to have earned it first. It makes sense to cry out with gibberish of joy if the song actually went somewhere that such exclamations make sense. If not, I'm like, "Why are you celebrating?" It feels lazy.
> for free

It's only free from external cost though. The time for the staff at Qualys is (probably) not free. ;)
They had a brain almost as large as homeo sapiens, and lived in an interglacial climate with no access to tropical fruit, so they must have eaten cooked food in order to metabolize sufficient calories to power their brains. That requires cooking which requires fire.

I'm not calling you wrong ab initio, but can you post something confirming to this theory? You really strongly state that its not possible to feed a large brain without cooked food. Raw blubber, brains, organ meat (liver) and freshly killed muscle meat are routinely digested.

Nuts do not require cooking. Fruit does not require cooking and has carbohydrates (plant sugers)

Whats the specific barrier to calorific intake which demands cooking?
For Nordic/European customers, you should check out Mondido, which provide local payments and a lot for smart added value.
Check this out https://github.com/mxgmn/WaveFunctionCollapse
I'm aware that they do. I'm suggesting that the answer to "why?" India might want to address the issue is because their own legal system also prohibits fraud, and is not simply a concession to foreign interests.
Not seeing a list here; the site has a limited selection... https://scroll.com/sites
Just go to the source. "...relative velocity of 14.7 km/s..." https://twitter.com/LeoLabs_Space/status/1221908248305061889
Thought your username looked familiar, I've seen your site on OzBargain many times.

I always wondered how/if finding cheap flight deals could be automated, and it's interesting to hear that it's as hard as it seems.

Just FYI, your logo and part of the menu disappear off the sides of the site background on my 4K screen.
It reminds me of the deus ex machina from theater[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deus_ex_machina
Really? Why, because they make condoms with latex? Or tight clothes? I wouldn’t expect people to care about that word.
I am working on Site that helps people, who are in teaching profession, track fees. Often times, small-time tutors are left with using multiple tools like google docs, calendar etc. to track contacts, fees. This is attempt to provide one stop to manage all things.

https://tracfee.com
If you’re interested in music and have a little experience with machine learning, you could look into music information retrieval. It’s a really interesting field.
Yes:

https://support.google.com/cloud/answer/9110914?hl=en#why-fe...
I'm building a product that aims to get people hosting software again. The internet used to be bi-directional, in that people could host content as easily as they could consume it. We're currently a Kubernetes hosting platform, but I'm working hard on a system that will allow developers to extend our cloud with their own machines at home, in a data-center, or anywhere! From learning to host Minecraft servers at home, to Fortune 10 Software delivery, we don't see a reason why you should have to jump to different vendors and different platforms. Democratize server-side software! https://kubesail.com (YC S19)
Does Verizon really never call?
There is a company called Replika that makes a convincing chat partner, but 37% of the lines are still scripted.

In other news, ELIZA was created in the 60s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA
Huh. When I go to the example, I end up on a Cloudflare captcha that appears to be missing most of its stuff, such that I can't pass it. I'm running uBlock Origin, nothing fancy. Here I thought it was just Tor users who were inconvenienced!
All blockchains use self sovereign identity. They just don't use that buzz word.
Working on a free lease trading website. Tried SwapALease/LeaseTrader but the fees were WAY too expensive for just posting. Going with a freemium model with posting being free and additional ID/verification checks charging money.
I get that, but you're carefully stepping around my point that their films are good. "Son's directorial debut," Kubo and the Two Strings, has 97% on Rotten Tomatoes and 84 ("Universal Acclaim") on Metacritic. Yeah, Travis Knight totally got his job through nepotism, but against all odds, the man is a good animator and director.

Maybe he's a lousy CEO. Maybe somebody else needs to come in and say, "Look, you people keep thinking of these films as art but the market wants Minions, so you'd better dumb this stuff down, pronto." Maybe that'd work. But I honestly think it's a shame that Laika isn't doing better.
Symbolic AI with common sense and explanation built on top of NNs. Here’s a talk I gave last year though I’m no longer with that company and am working on the tech elsewhere.

https://youtu.be/thmkaYOayCM
And there's (more recent) studies claiming they did:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/study-suggests-nea...

http://www.sci-news.com/archaeology/neanderthals-start-fire-...