skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And further, this is how the federal government governs in the vast majority of cases. Sure, it doesn't have the ability to directly mandate what states do, but it does have the carrot-and-stick.
Probably not, but mainly due to scale. The number of people who vote remotely is so few that the amount of fraud you can get through without being detected makes it not worth the effort.
This is true but only half the story. The federal government is able to incentivize vote-by-mail through federal funds. This has been the center of much debate.

Speaker Pelosi says she will push for these funds in any next round of stimulus.
Ah yes... "Remote voting for me, but not for thee."
Exactly. Remote voting is easier when the votes don't need to be secret.
It is hand-wavy, because it is using a vague conception of infinity which doesn't correspond to the real, useful definition of the infinity labelled "..."
The problem with this approach is that it leaves a patchwork solution and still leaves the most disenfranchised out of the running, because ideology trumps free money. See: ACA Medicare expansion.
They look bad. What is up with the prominently carved "G"? They feel like they were designed by a truck manufacturer.
Searle does believe that consciousness is caused by physical processes in the brain. However he also believes in what he calls 'Biological Naturalism' whereby consciousness can only be generated by biological systems.

So Searle does not agree that consciousness is a product of or a form of computation, which is where he and I part ways.
Disney sparks backlash with MayThe4th tweet
Yeah, I'm not really plugged into the community that well but I think reasonml.org is the long term plan and that some sort of transition might be going on? I've mostly used reasonml.github.io and Bucklescript docs, but lately I've started using the Discord channel and it's very welcoming, friendly and helpful!
This is the best option for free terrain tiles. There are four formats, though "Terrarium" is the most used. It maps RGB pixels in a PNG to raw elevation values using this formula [0].
If you're using Mapbox GL, you can just point your map to [1] to fetch the tiles, and then use it as a hillshade. I do that in my topographic map style [2].

[0]: https://github.com/tilezen/joerd/blob/master/docs/formats.md...

[1]: https://s3.amazonaws.com/elevation-tiles-prod/terrarium/{z}/...

[2]: https://nst-guide.github.io/osm-liberty-topo/
How's a filibuster work when a surreptitiously orchestrated connection drop inevitably becomes ground for relinquishing the floor?

Furthermore, part of getting everyone colocated with the apparata of government is to ensure unfettered access to staffers/resources.

The Library of Congress isn't just there for decoration you know. It is actually there to be utilized.

Furthermore, there is the potential for breach of highly sensitive state information if you go full telepresence.

This really isn't something to approach lightly.
Yes, there's a difference.

Firstly, though, there are multiple different types of black hole, from the theoretical to the astrophysical. We must narrow your question down to have any hope of a good answer.

The simplest theoretical black hole, the Schwarzschild black hole, has one variable -- the central mass -- which must be positive.

If we set the central mass in a Schwarzschild spacetime to zero, then we have Minkowski spacetime: no curvature, no horizon, no black hole.

The Schwarzschild spacetime is completely empty except for the central mass, which is constant and located at an infinitesimally small point at all times. The Minkowski spacetime is completely empty everywhere and at all times.

The symmetries of Schwarzschild and Minkowski spacetime are different, and if one were to probe the spacetimes in question with a Synge curvature detector [1], we would quickly discover which we were probing if our probes happened to be placed close to the central mass, and eventually if they were placed far from the central mass.

If one placed the probes infinitely far from the central mass, it would take an infinitely long time to distinguish the presence of the central mass (which makes spacetime non-Minkowski); but these spacetimes are eternal anyway, so that's OK. So that's almost a "yes" to there being a theoretical black hole analogy between (1-) 0.999... and (1-) 1.

I would not call this a physical analogy since neither Minkowski spacetime nor Schwarzschild spacetime is at all physical. Nature is full of stress-energy (gas, dust, ...) any of which breaks the vacuum condition of these spacetimes, there seem to be a lot of astrophysical black holes at the centres of galaxies and individual/binary stars that have become black holes, and even a two-black-hole universe is markedly different than a Schwarzschild spacetime. Additionally, these astrophysical black holes are not eternal, unlike Schwarzschild. In particular, the stellar mass ones were once stars, and the galaxy-centre ones at least had less mass in the past. These last conditions alone are substantial deviations from Schwarzschild that are even more obviously not Minkowski (e.g. if you put probe finitely but sufficiently far away, you could see an image of the radiant precursor star rather than the black hole!).

Finally, in our physical galaxy the answer to your question is a big "yes!". The observed orbits of these stars [2] would be noticeably different if the central mass in the Milky Way's central parsec were anything but a black hole, and would be even more different if that central mass were not there at all.

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[1] Synge, J.L., _Gravitation. The General Theory_, ch. XI §8, "A five-point curvature detector".

[2] http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~ghezgroup/gc/animations.html and http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~ghezgroup/gc/blackhole.html
I doesn't, because 0.666....7 is not a valid representation for a number. The ... means goes on forever, and you cannot put something "after forever". It's not different than saying "0.0j" is a real number in base 10; it's not, that string does not represent a number in our number base 10 number system.
The parent poster states:

> I want to pre-register the device into a device whitelist that I maintain before I allow that device unfettered access to protected resources.
A Solution to iPhone Backgrounding with Bluetooth
I don't care what the comparison to South Korea is, and I don't expect other countries to have already achieved this. I care whether testing is widely available enough that a person who finds out that they had dinner with someone last night who has coronavirus can go and get tested immediately, not wait until they are short of breath and feverish.

Perhaps you would like to read Dr Fauci talking about why we need more testing capacity before relaxing lockdown rules? https://time.com/5826161/anthony-fauci-covid-19-testing-capa...

Or Gottlieb, Trump's appointee for the FDA? https://www.vox.com/2020/4/14/21219021/scott-gottlieb-corona...

If you are dismissing "all of the US media reporting around testing" as terrible, misleading, partisan nonsense, then you are either looking for a particular opinion to be represented that isn't, or, more likely, you aren't reading all of it.
There’s not a way to define it, typically you’d define .666... as the sum of 6/10^n from 1 to infinity. This decimal representation does not terminate, so you can’t put a 7 at the “end of it” because there is no end.
Honestly, if you're finding it hard to plan that's an indication to me that NoSQL isn't a good fit and you actually need relationships.
> Last but not least: we are in theory talking about interstellar visitors here. Anything capable of interstellar travel is by definition capable of generating absolutely vast mind-boggling amounts of energy. The only physical power planets we know of that could theoretically propel you to the stars (at a reasonable enough speed) are some mix of fusion and matter-antimatter annihilation.

You are assuming that they bring the power plant with them. What if the power plant is back home, used just to accelerate the ship to relativistic speeds, and the only power plant for propulsion on the ship just needs to overcome friction from interstellar dust? For example, they could use a laser assisted light sail for departure.

When approaching a destination solar system, they could turn off the on-board propulsion while figuring out if that solar system has any life capable of detecting that propulsion system. If it does, they could adjust their route so that they only use active propulsion when the system's sun is between them and the planet of those lifeforms.
That isn't always possible though. I've had at least two cars that mounted them either sideways or near-upside down.
I vehemently disagree. Auto/var is a tool that may be used judiciously by your userbase. This new philosophy of blocking your users from using dangerous tools because you know better than them just invites workarounds and kludges. Give the user the tools and warn them of the ways it can go wrong. There's a reason Rust is losing the war to C++.

Anyways, var/auto is critical in some cases. C#'s LINQ, for example, would be very difficult to develop with if you had to manually figure out the type you were returning with long queries every time you wanted to restructure your query.
Releasing Data Science Blogs and Code
Typilus: Neural Type Hints [pdf]
Qwerty is great for phone keyboards because it puts all the letters for one word nearby one thumb. And I can swipe words without leaving one or the other half of the keyboard. For all that it was about physical limitations of typewriters it's actually a good design for swipable keyboards too because it limits the size of the stroke, reducing the number of characters that could be part of the path.
YouTube brings fact-check panels to searches in the United States
Hiding in plain sight: PhantomLance walks into a market
See also:

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/04/28/anpr_sheffield_coun...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23005820
That causes a contradiction which is why infinity can't be used that way. But what is the contradiction with 0.999... = 1?
I did a little more digging regarding water content. By weight dressed chicken is ~60-65% water, so not insubstantial. Dry feed is ~10% water. But even if we double FCR to offset the water weight we're still under 1 order of magnitude, at least for chicken and fish.[1] I think the point still stands. If we consider all the context, such as nutritional needs (can't simply replace all animal protein and fat with processed corn), maximization of diverse agricultural resources, industrial efficiency, relative inefficiencies of whole vegetables and fruits, etc, then some moderate amount of meat consumption is readily defensible.

[1] Using other metrics there's a lot of literature that defends beef production, but that doesn't make for good napkin math, and I'm somewhat skeptical of it, anyhow--much of it seems to be published by the beef industry, and if you pick your metric you can make anything look good. Nonetheless, beef production is pretty darned efficient as far as it goes.
Zoom deploys its core videoconferencing service on Oracle Cloud
I believe Japan is doing relatively well still. https://www.wsj.com/articles/japans-coronavirus-cases-fall-s... https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/japan/
Currently workers on beef production are getting sick and factories are closing.

Now you can go to parks, beaches, grocery shopping, order food. What do you so deperately need to do? Have a beer in a bar? 80% of americans dont want to have anything start opening again.

And when you do force things open again you force workers who dont want to go back to work and feel its unsafe to go back to start working again, theres no benefits to recieve.
>Overall we feel like the core value propositions that Rust promises (Performance, Reliability, Productivity) have proven true at FullStory. We’re able to write performant code without spending excessive time in optimization.

Sounds like they could have had the same things with a much easier language like Nim. Unless they are using a lot of Rust exclusive features?

>We can confidently make sweeping changes to our codebase, and trust that the Rust compiler will point out anything that isn’t correct.

How true is this?
I've been following this story since 2015 and the same incomplete story (only the most salacious parts, none of the context or criticism) keeps getting recycled by the media over and over and over
TripAdvisor Cutting About a Quarter of Staff Amid Travel Freeze
For me the single best feature that stands out in D is the uniform member access using dot.

- Want to access member in a aggregate (class/struct)? Use .

- Want to access member in pointer to an aggregate? Use .

- Want to access member in a module? Use .

- Want to access reference (not free standing)? Use .

This makes switching between different implementations pretty easy. Coupled with UFCS, this is pretty fantastic!
I think the problem is that the definition, while valid, makes you hyperfocus on irrational numbers this way.

Seldom do we prove that a number is irrational by inspecting its decimal expansion. This would be in most cases a very unnatural proof. Since irrationality is a negative property (meaning, one arising out of a negation: the number is not a ratio), most of the time you prove it by contradiction. But people who just know the "digits don't repeat" definition expect us to somehow be able to list all of the digits of an irrational number and show that this infinite list doesn't repeat, which is, of course, an impossible task.
Interesting. I never drank coffee in my twenties, and only started in my thirties. I now realize that I would have had a better time during undergrad, grad school, and part of my career had I drank coffee in my twenties as well.
> I feel like a lot of these arguments do a bad job of explaining what utility these ancestor simulations would be to the future civilizations, and basically say something like “it will be so easy to create such a simulation, members of the future society will just create them on a whim for amusement.”

Why do people run the sims game today? Isn't that a waste of time even by modern standards? Would future humans not waste time with entertainment? Look at how much time people spend on analyzing Conway's Game of Life to find new constructions. Isn't it plausible that future humans might play with what parameters would have had Trump lose in 2016?

Which leads to: ancestor simulations would have significant historical importance. How many historians today would love to simulate what would have happened had Hitler won? Or what would have happened had one of the plots against Alexander the Great succeeded?

Ancestor simulations would also have economic importance. We already simulate toy economic models. However, we also know that humans aren't prefectly rational. If one day we understand the algorithms driving human brains, why wouldn't you run your economic simulations with real human minds for more precision?

I could go on, but I think the point is clear. We have no reason to suppose any of these values would change in "post-humans". They would still have incomplete information about the world, but they would be able to handle substantially more complexity, at the very least because of the simulations they have available to them.

> But given that Moore’s law has run out and there are no pathways we can see to faster computation

There are many, many pathways forwards that are being explored (optical computing, amorphous computing, reversible computing, etc.). Our current architectures are in fact quite inefficient. We could be making much more use of parallelism, for instance.
Imagine a DDoS attempting to prevent quorum or affect vote outcomes! Lots of edge cases to iron out.
And yet the Senate still often takes votes by voice, where precise counts aren't even logged.

Registry of votes seems easy enough. If there's ever a question or a surprising vote, ask again. As-is, senators regularly vote by means of hand-waving and thumbs up/down gestures, so it's not like things are always super-formal even before this change.
On my sites, the URL parameters wins. For example, when the user is explicitly changing a page's language.

#2 is the site language cookie from a previous visit. If that fails, #3 is the language the browser requests. If all those fail, English, because it is the most common language the company uses internally.

In our user testing, we run into a lot of situations where the computer's primary user, and the person who set it up, are a child, who speaks English. But our site is more geared toward their parents, who often will speak the language of their homeland. For this reason, I make it stupidly easy to change languages, and we have a policy that ALL content has to be translated into English, Spanish, and Chinese, which covers 99.8% of our customers.

You don't find out these sorts of things through modern "telemetry" gathering and such current methods of testing. You find these things out by going into the field and watching your customers use your products. But interacting with wetware is beneath people in the SV bubble.
Oracle must have cut them one heck of a deal.
There's no mystery. India acted early and went into nation wide lockdown.
Correct. This is covered in the article. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0.999...#Infinitesimals
UPS to deliver medicine by drone to large Florida retirement community
By mute I mean silence the audio for a specified duration in a clip
Isn't that what happens with Instagram? It says "you've caught up" on my phone when I reach photos I've already seen.
Making things more expensive for lobbyists sounds like a good idea to me.
Now is the time to watch closely. When Pelosi got on board healthcare reform, we lost the public option. The chances that her support is a mask for a campaign to water down any potential legislation are high.
Clearly Google sees your part of the world as a third rate market.

You should treat their brand the same way. In the USA, the perception isn't of Google as a quality brand. More of an also-ran.

PS: I love their cloud services. I just don't know why they keep insisting on trying to make their hardware happen.
Due to extreme partisan politics, I have to agree that there doesn't seem to have been any good debates on Senate floor. COVID19 has finally broken the dam of it but doesn't seem long lasting.

For the most part the majority party seems to call the shots and are all aligned in effort, making any debates a waste of time. Until the partisan politics stop and we have parties reaching across the aisle again, that is.
I think my generation (millenial) and the generation after (zoomer?) is explicitly anti-television on average, compared to at least the 2 generations that came before us. Sure, Netflix, but I have no friends that engage in the act of coming home from work, sitting down, and letting Comcast and Fox/ABC/whoever decide what they'll be watching in 5 minute slices between 8 minute commercial breaks (or that's how it felt the last time I tried watching TV). I think that's an important development in increasing user freedom, the simple act of choosing what content we fill our leisure time with, and moving away from a barrage of consumerist propaganda.
You are correct. This was a rhetorical question to get traderjane to question whether "bigger than 0" really applies here.
A republican senate would never allow this.

If everyone votes, Republicans would lose in a landslide. They understand this, which is why gerrymandering is as pervasive as it is (democrats also do it, to a far, far lesser extent.) Trump himself said that if we allowed vote by mail, "you’d never have a Republican elected in this country again." (which is interesting because it's true (not literally, but spiritually) and also because you're not supposed to admit that.)

The Republican party is notable for its sheer nihilism. They care entirely about power, which, at the end of the day, is what politics is about. Democrats tend to forget that you need to win elections to pass things. Being "right" (for their definition) is almost irrelevant.

None of this is a comment on who is right or wrong or whatever[1]. Politics is fascinating to watch in its own right.

[1]: vs. something to the effect of "fuck trump and anyone who stands with him", for example.
I was thinking of mounting this old synchroscope like a clock, except of course it doesn't tell time just how much faster or slower the grid frequency is to 60 Hz.

What easier ways do you suggest for kind of a grid frequency display other than a multi-meter in Hz mode?
This looks insane, mostly because there must be some repeated code in all these impls.

The D way of solving this is to statically query the properties of the passed in type at compile time whenever a part of the template needs to be specialized. It can make for very concise code, but you can't name the exact input type with this approach.
>It's a different strategy. Prime is an investment up front, so it puts people in the mindset of wanting to come up ahead

So, Costco? Or other member/buyer-club type things across many industries? It seems to have become somewhat less common, but it's still not remotely a unique idea. Psychologically, even expiring coupons and sales invoke some of that feeling of "use it or lose it".

>My guess is that Prime Video exists as a "gateway drug"; you get it for the videos and then realize that extra $4/month or $11/year will get you free shipping, and then you're back to "if I order $120 worth of shipping, it'll pay itself back" thinking.

It's interesting you have that perspective because I've always heard and experienced it as the opposite, though I haven't followed it for a while. Prime of course started based fully around shipping, and it has seemed fairly common for a lot of old Prime users at least to never use any other Amazon services at all despite them really, really pushing them. I never have either personally fwiw. If you're doing enough business with Amazon (~$5.1k+/year) it's also probably more direct to just use their dedicated card I guess.

And there's a reason upfront costing has faded in general, it's usually discouraging rather then encouraging. Causation seems more likely to flow the other way: somebody looks and sees they're doing quite a lot with Amazon already, and then decides to try to further leverage it. Of course, Amazon certainly wants to encourage this and support it so that customers don't "grow out of them", and being a full fat full service provider probably can aid them in retention. I'm not sure all this supports the original contention however.
Depends the type, it can be quite long and complicated. I always have a lot of issues trying to read return types from templated functions in C++ because they look really messy.
Interesting, looks like it took the FTC starting an investigation for this to stop.
My last retail employer had multiple billions in revenue and had a really nice niche where they could apply a negative margin service to sell more goods. And a lot of their product catalog is far enough from Amazon's wheelhouse that they had room to operate.

That being said, their ecommerce org was still a complete mess. They were spending a ton of money operating a homemade ecommerce platform based on 2007 technology. They even had a mainframe running some critical features that they couldn't manage to deprecate. They ran everything focused on costs and didn't even do it right because they never considered the long-term benefits of investments. The architecture was multiple balls of mud. Teams were all aligned horizontally. Meeting customer needs wasn't never a factor in any decision making that I saw (and I spoke regularly to the CTO).
Really great stuff. Would appreciate a "full-screen" mode so I can more easily browse around the schema