skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is the significance of SoftBank financing this business?
He does not, he presents explanations that ignore almost half the facts and for the flir video is possibly factually wrong, as the object does seem to move in the video and not only the camera

While the "go fast" video might be a balloon and we lack enough evidence for the 'gimbal' case to dismiss his explanation (or metabunks for that matter) completely, the Context of the 'flir' video, beeing multiple people observing strange tic tac shape crafts (fravor and the other female pilot, so far unnamed), multiple radar systems picking up on them as confirmed by the princeton radar operator and the flir video showing what are possibly unheard of flight characteristics as analysed in this paper https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/21/10/939/htm make these superficial debunking claims rather tedious if not outright disingenuous.
Can someone verify that he actually has a "Jewish mother?"
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"the system" has given life sentences to people for marijuana charges while people who literally helped a hate group shoot at minorities go free. The system is broken, and i assure you, plenty of people care
Rust does have auto; "let" and function literal parameter type inference, for a start. It just doesn't let you use it in the return type position.
How is the behavior in et compared to setting up a no kill signal from your ssh config? Sometimes my no kill signals get killed after a half hour or longer.
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He’s referring to the idea that Hitler may have been a quarter Jewish. Not sure where this study from 10 years ago ended up:

https://www.history.com/news/study-suggests-adolf-hitler-had...

There were a lot of articles about that and here’s a recent one:

https://m.jpost.com/diaspora/study-suggests-adolf-hitler-was...
One way to introduce the idea that a number represented as decimal digits can have multiple representations is to talk about the numbers 1 and 1.0 being exactly the same. And that 1.00 is the same as 1. Just like 0, 0.0, and 0.00 are the same number. Most people would agree at this point.

Then keep stretching the number of zeroes to 0.000... - which, again, is exactly the same as 0.

From there, it is not a huge stretch to be able to go from that 0.000... is another way to write 0, then 0.999... is another way to write 1.
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What set in stone the equality for me was learning about limits and series, because 0.999... is essentially a funny way to represent a serie.

Before that, despite accepting the proofs that were given to me, there was always something in the back of the brain telling me "mmmm there is something wrong in that". The only thing close to that was a reasoning like the following:

1 divided by 3 = 1/3 = 0.333..., but then 3 * 0.333... = 0.999... so 1 = 0.999...

This comment in the wikipedia page nails it down:

"The lower primate in us still resists, saying: .999~ doesn't really represent a number, then, but a process. To find a number we have to halt the process, at which point the .999~ = 1 thing falls apart. Nonsense."
The Mapzen elevation tilesets are on S3:

https://www.mapzen.com/blog/terrain-tile-service/

https://registry.opendata.aws/terrain-tiles/
The charges seem comparatively light, even for the adults, for an act of terrorism and conspiracy to murder (although fortunately not succeeding).
A +1 observation regarding the effectiveness of CCTV being debatable. I used to work in this field and the number of crystal clear views of hoodies and base-ball caps was remarkable. Cameras tend to be mounted up high to deter casual vandalism. As for number plate recognition systems - the ancient trick of stealing a set of number plates from a random vehicle is alive and well. As long as it doesn't ping anything as the car moves along it is effectively a ghost until the theft of the plate is reported. The only time I have heard of this back-firing is when there is a problem with the stolen number plate (e.g. No insurance, Intel markers etc).
When I was a child I was convinced by a pretty simple conversation with my father:

Me: 0.9999... is not the same as 1

Him: Well if it's not the same is it more than 1 or less than 1?

Me: Less

Him: Okay then how much less is it?

At this point I started trying to do 1 - 0.999..., using the methods I'd been taught, and after a few iterations of "borrowing" the 1 I realized the answer was 0.000... which I was pretty convinced was equal to 0.
Many livelihoods in tech depend on the surveillance economy. There are some laws, but they're not enough. Everyone I know that works for companies like this is able to justify it with their paycheck or the cool project they are working on. Ethics are never a consideration and the law is someone else's problem.
It shows they don't vet their CEOs very well.
Now a days it is a dark pattern. But in the days before "sell everything you can about your users" became the rule, businesses optimized for the accidental deletion by users. They could easily reinstate you and your data would still be there. It used to be considered good customer service. Times change.
Did you just call me moron?
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No.

> Its #1 goal is readability: help guide readers understand what is in a .wasm with as easy to follow code as possible. Its #2 goal is to still represent Wasm as 1:1 as possible, to not lose its utility as a disassembler. Obviously these two goals are not always unifiable.

> This output is not meant to be an actual programming language and there is currently no way to compile it back into Wasm.
Microsoft did end up paying $500M to Novell over anti-competitive behaviour in the 1990's

https://www.geek.com/law/microsoft-settles-novell-case-for-u...

My memory, and it's been a while, was that at least partially related to some interop tricks that MS played to make Netware's software work less well in the Windows world. , although I'm sure part of it was also down to Novell finding it challenging to adapt.
Oh, I figured it out, kind of. [I don't really know what I'm talking about either.]

1.000...0 = 1
1.000...05 = 1 + ε/2
1.000...1 = 1 + ε
0.999...8 = 1 - 2ε
0.999...9 = 1 - ε
0.999...98 = 1 - ε/5
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See also Magenn (I believe they're defunct now.) https://duckduckgo.com/?q=magenn

Their idea was to use inflatable Magnus effect generators to provide lift as well as power.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnus_effect
Though you could treat it as an infinite series in a similar way:

0.9 -> 0.99 -> 0.999 -> ... -> ?

0.1 -> 0.01 -> 0.001 -> ... -> ?
As a consultant, I see companies struggling to compete with Amazon (or Amazon-like companies). Most companies struggle for a couple of reasons

- They are ego driven, with legacy execs & others relentlessly protecting their status - whereas Amazon is relentlessly data-driven

- They have poor incentive structures and are feature factories. They value velocity over outcomes. Amazon, by being more data driven, is focused on being extremely outcome oriented

- Because of the first 2, Amazon can give people and groups a tremendous amount of autonomy, whereas other orgs heavily micromanage or have structures that create more politics than value

- There's little place to hide at Amazon (which means you might work your ass off!)

To compete with Amazon, you have to learn from them, and be prepared to adopt their practices as the new industry norm. Not just dismiss them as some relentless and heartless evil empire.
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"you'll notice the speed of the animation change"
that might be, but the demo is designed to run at equal speed on all systems (it hooks into the timer)
if you experience animation speed differences, that means your system can not handle what dosbox (on high cycles) demands. It should be noted that DosBox is far slower than people expect it to be, and also, that in actual competitions in the demoscene, real modern hardware is booted to Freedos, but has no sound. So if you want sound (with MIDI) in a competition, you have to stick to the rather slow dosbox, and even optimize against an emulator which can be really really weird. (https://www.pouet.net/topic.php?which=11881) I wouldn't claim the demo runs fine on a real 486, but a pentium should do, as a variation of the raycast tunnel part indicates (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_3CU6shKlY)
> caps and no caps leave different psychological imprints.

I agree with this sentence, but in my case it applies in the opposite sense as yours. For me, the paragon of seriousness and professional writing is K&R, where no caps are ever used on function nor variable names. Any mixed case identifier, or worse, camel case, is a deviation from that utmost formal elegance, thus I subconsciously interpret it as amateurish or ugly.
Hypothetically, if an alien civilization powered itself through a mesh of evenly-distributed orbiting solar power stations (a Dyson sphere with one-billionth coverage would still produce in an insane amount of power), would we have any way of noticing?

My hunch on the Fermi paradox is that the space-faring phase of a civilization requires transitioning into immortal software, dodging around the speed limit of c by becoming very old, and very patient. I suspect such life forms ("Space Ents") wouldn't bother trying to communicate with such rapidly churning species as ourselves, other than perhaps collecting data via probes to be perused hundreds of millennia later.
But that's SNI's fault specifically. For comparison, SSH doesn't do that (to my knowledge at least), but the attacker can still see the destination IP, and might well be able to map that back to the domain.

I agree though that ideally a bad guy intercepting your traffic should not be able to tell where it is headed.
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> But Patton does not mention that, by his own testimony, he continued to socialize with white supremacists while in the Navy. Patton told prosecutors that he gathered with skinheads while stationed in Virginia for training. “I had known some of the Skinheads there from prior rallies in Tennessee and because of not knowing anybody there, I ended up meeting with them and hung out with them for some time,” he said.
We don't know it was true. We know he makes the claim that his mother was Jewish, but who knows?
> Mind you, this requires the city to work together with the scooter company

And some cities would be happy to. Problem is, scooter companies don't want to work together with cities! They just show up and open shop, Uber style...

> The city could also pick up any scooters that are in the way / abandoned and fine the owner company for each of them

...and then cry foul when that happens, because why, this is destroying innovation and assaulting honest businessmen.
The BBC is known to write about ex-colonies with a certain level of contempt.

There is a thinly veiled nostalgia about British superiority and to an extent still consider the subcontinent to be some sort of 'unfinished work' that still requires 'civilizing'.

I have noticed a similar sentiment among French and Belgian people about their colonies, but I haven't read enough of their media or politics to know how pervasive it is.
Dijkstra once said: "It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration."

I find much the same to often be true for many Java programmers. Programmers who start out with a course all about classes, getters and setters, inheritance and so on often end up with their minds wedged such that they never learn to program properly.

Java has one way to do everything. That's reasonable if you're running a large IT department and want programmers to be interchangeable between projects. That's a horrible way to have people understand the richness of computation.

You want new students to learn at least two ways to do abstraction and to structure code, and ideally, to learn many. Then, if they do Java for a random bank or something, they'll see where Java is on the spectrum. If you start with Java, you end with a closed mind.
I recently got this surprise when practicing Japanese by translating a folk tale [0]. Even revenge I was able to understand quickly turned into outright sadism. Maybe it was the morals of another time, maybe the tellers didn't care if all the characters were unlikable.

[0]: http://life.ou.edu/stories/sarukani.html
That choppy frame by frame scrolling interaction is hilariously bad.
I've had the same experience, even debating this topic with engineers. I think there are actually two hang-ups.

1. People have had it drilled into their heads that humans can't comprehend infinity. It was taken for granted by philosophers, that an "infinite regression" is a logical fallacy (e.g., used in a proof by Thomas Aquinas), and that tricks such as infinity and the infinitesimal were not rigorous. Mathematical infinity has been a settled matter for all practical purposes since the early 20th century AFAIK.

2. Related to the above, most people also believe that there is always a gap in any knowledge, and something hiding in that gap. Thus it's perfectly natural to believe that there's something hiding between 0.999... and 1, that we just haven't found yet. Knowing for certain that there is nothing between 0.999... and 1 is regarded as a kind of arrogance.

I think the way to approach this with children is to teach math as an abstract topic, that's not necessarily rooted in the objects of everyday life. For instance there's no physics experiment that can test the necessity of any math being carried beyond roughly the 15th decimal place. Yet we enjoy exploring it anyway.
Is 1 a prime number? No, because we define it not to be. Why do we define it not to be a prime number? That's the real question.

Is 0.999... = 1? Yes, because we define decimal numbers to behave that way. Why do we define them to behave that way? That's the real question.
Yes he was. He had an entire city destroyed to attempt to hide that historical fact.
This would have more weight if it wasn't from the era of a government that lies about everything.
>"the system" has given life sentences to people for marijuana charges

No it hasn't.
Not only can numbers have more than one representation, but they can also have zero!

Looking at you, irrational numbers.
I'd suggest linking to the github page https://github.com/Cushychicken/bfunc
and/or call for users
http://cushychicken.github.io/bfunc-call-for-users/

Personally as a product I'd be likely to buy it struggles without amplitude control
Sadly, I'd expect this from hacker news commenters.
I've lived in the U.S for over 20 years in multiple regions, I've lived in Denmark for over 20 years, and been around other parts of Europe reasonably much, and I have some experience about how racism works in Brazil.

While all these regions are prone to racism, the experiential reality of racism between two places is not the same, and this article's seeming assumption that the racism of the U.S is directly translatable to these different EU cities is ridiculous.

Of course if someone uses an algorithm trained on the racism of the U.S in Prague they might get something that anyone viewing the reports would find really weird, so that might be an amusing thing to try.

In short the issue at hand is an issue apparently dreamed up by people not realizing that their society's problems are not exactly universal.
Expending and improving your national grid to support that - is not going to be cheap or easy.
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The immediate question that springs to mind is why the US Navy with all its sophisticated technologies were not able to identify these as known aircraft or balloons.

If they could identify these objects, why lie?

If they could not and these are in fact explainable as known craft/balloons, doesn't that imply a serious security risk?
This is false. I frequently travel to Bulgaria and Japan. My language remains in English in all products.
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Can we follow up and send him some small violins with that?
What business is it of ours whether his mother is Jewish?
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> When person in an elderly care facility dies we don't do a forensic investigation. We just shrug and say "I guess it was their time".

This ("we just shrug and say "I guess it was their time"") is untrue. It's okay that you don't know, but you should stop spreading this misinformation.
As the article repeatedly states, Patton proceeded to continue his association with white supremacist groups during his time in the U.S. Navy. Shockingly, white supremacist does not stop white supremacisting. Film at 11.
A virtually identical argument could be made for the same thing with the sides swapped. Some people's actions (i.e., those imposing lockdowns and other restrictions) are significantly affecting the safety (i.e., mental health, solvency, etc) of other people. It's a balancing scale, not just an independent bar you're trying to drop to zero.
Questionable evidence that his grandmother might have had an illegitimate child with a Jewish man is a long way from "Hitler was jewish"

Not to mention this is standard ahistorical conspiracy theory fare.
Bragi crowdfunded "The Dash" in early 2014 (to much publicity) and released them in late 2015. To my knowledge this was the first high-profile pair of "disconnected wireless earbuds".

And they had so-so reviews.

There were smartphones before the iPhone, there were tablets before the iPad, there were smartwatches before the Apple Watch. However, in general when Apple enters a category they set the bar for the rest of the industry (with some exceptions, e.g. HomePod and to some extend the Apple TV), because they nail the experience and the category becomes much more popular. Moreover, Apple generally dominates the categories they enter when it comes to profit margins. (And no, it is not only because people pay to carry an Apple logo.)

So, it is not strange that people compare Google Pixel Buds to AirPods. The now-iconic AirPod is what Google wants to emulate or compete with, not "The Dash" or many of the other less-visible competitors.
> A big reason is the good old 'passing by pointer is faster'

Not even with old compilers, necessarily, this is more about the CPU architecture. If you've got an architecture with no cache (eg 386 and below for Intel) you'll not care about cache miss vs cache hit, but once you have cache you'll often find that the pointer dereference will hit main memory, and thus be slower than just passing by value. Not always, of course, but sometimes, so since 1989 (for Intel) you've needed to profile that to be sure.
We've defined the series we're talking about, and we've defined 0.99... as the limit of that series.

I don't know whether repeating decimals are useful for testing equality of surreal numbers.

All I'm trying to say is we're all talking about anything and everything except the definition "when are two real numbers equal?"

And then we're saying people who don't understand the consequences of that definition are kind of dummies ... while we continue to not actually say what the definition is.
I know Google's doing this for their own reasons, but I'll take the help. I've been an Amazon customer since 1997, but their recent anti-worker actions [1] were the straw [2] that broke the camel's back. I canceled my Prime account, and have decided to start my product search elsewhere. Google's product search has been long neglected, so it's great they're giving it some love.

[1] E.g. from many: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/amazon-fires-two-empl...

[2] Previous straws including the steady decline of their website, increasing fraudulent goods, and so, so many bad customer service experiences.
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I was wondering if anybody knew anything about the US plans for contact tracing. Every article says that it will be required in conjunction with testing to get things back to semi-normal

What agency is developing it? Is there a contractor, and if so who? Are they looking for volunteers and how does one apply? When do they expect to be rolling it out?

Does anyone know any information about it?
Thanks!
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probably the fact that a good portion account deletes are users doing something they want to undo in the next few days. Soft deletes make this much easier, then going back and deleting anything older than X days is simpler than expensive customer support tickets of "how do i login it says my account is deleted"
A lot of people care, in general, if money they pay - or which is acquired by virtue of their custom (eg money a company gets by unlawfully mining 'clients' social data, as appears to be the case here) - goes then to fund malevolent actions such as racist violence.

The subject here, Patton, may be reformed, but there's a substantial possibility they are not and are using their ill-gotten money to fund further hate crime, or other anti-social racist activity.
Hehe... smart man.

Another one is that

1 / 3 * 3 = 1

<==> 0.333... * 3 = 1

<==> 0.999... = 1
SICP is an designed as a freshman course, and it was designed at a time when many students had never programmed before.

It's worth looking at and trying.

It's an intense course, but it's beautiful, elegant, and you get a lot out of it. I wouldn't call it a forbidding rite of passage by any stretch, though. Given a bit of time and perseverance, anyone can do it, and come out smarter on the other end.
I would clearly prefer a web browser with a dosbox to the "real" dosbox when it comes to safety...
Anything wrong with

var myClass = ...

(or some other descriptive name of the variable)?
That's fun but it's not clear how interesting those numbers are compared to real numbers, which have turned out to be pretty interesting over the years
There are literally billions of people more deserving of his position in life than him. Sure, this applies to some extent to everyone, but given surveillance companies like the one he's built most disproportionately harm the blacks that he wanted 'elimination' of, it's maybe not the best to give him the corporate-equivalent of a loaded gun.

This assuredly won't destroy his finances. It probably won't absolutely kill his reputation; he's not the worst guy in the circles he runs in. That doesn't mean that suddenly others should respect him or give him the time of day, though.
But what if I live in a major city not only for work reasons?
I had the impression, based on news articles at the time, that local officials were behind the initial coverup in Wuhan, lasting until national officials rectified the situation.
I had a nexus 5, nexus 6p and pixel xl 1 before switching back to iPhone. The nexus 5 and pixel xl were both great workhorse phones. I switched away because I was sick of googles software ecosystem but the hardware was decent. However the 6p was an atrocious piece of machine, I hated that phone.
This expands into an infinite tree of maybes. My point is that its worth looking because a satellite with a fish eye IR camera wouldn't be that expensive and the benefit would be huge.

We know for a fact that such a satellite would have a good chance of spotting any star farers that are remotely like us, even if they are significantly more advanced but still "fast" in terms of their energy use and general way of doing things.

Space Ents belong to a long tail of other possibilities, but they also must obey the second law...
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But from the same story, the court documents that Patton admitted he associated with skinheads in the United States Navy, which does not sound like "get myself away from this world" has any truthiness.