skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The real issue is that we don't define the real number system before we use it. The fact that 0.999... = 1 is a consequence of a formal definition of decimal numbers. We can create a new definition of decimal numbers that does not satisfy this equation and use it in place of our current one.

Let's imagine a new decimal number system with some vague notion of infinitesimal numbers. We lose some properties we enjoy in our current system but all of those properties still hold for numbers with no infinitesimal part. We can still use our every day numbers like nothing has changed yet we also have a notion to describe infinitesimal values. We can make statements like 1/3 is infinitesimally less than 0.333... and carry on like nothing else has changed.

Now let's sit someone down, start with the rational numbers, introduce Dedekind cuts to define the real numbers and prove that in the real number system that 0.999... is exactly equal to one. Let's also convince them that the real numbers are the unique complete ordered field and that each of these properties are indispensable. Then they will believe that 0.999... should be equal to 1.
Please. We shouldn't let these bureaucrats try to own what comes from the sky. Sheesh. Don't indulge them by believing in their silly laws.
Why not hide it? If you did something very stupid at 17, something of which there is public record for everyone to find with a background check, do you still have to go around telling it to everyone for the rest of your life?

You have paid for your stupidity and life goes on. In this case life has certainly moved on and it doesn't seem like he is secretly creating a 4th reich in his free time.

Of course if you can do something easy to hide it like spelling your name better great. It has been a long time, but some people don't seem to understand this and seem to want criminals to be punished forever.

Why bother about this?
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The best part is that every time your geolocation changes, all google products will reset your language.
>JetBlue to require passengers to wear masks starting May 4

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/jet...
ISIS was using Captagon. Getting people addicted is part of the benefit to using drugs in war, I believe
It wouldn't be the first time SoftBank failed to do due diligence on the business that they invested in.
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you're right (about confusing), i wasn't expecting more than a few people to
actually read this ;) at least i quickly repaired the float/fixed thing.
Given that both the desuperheater and the geothermal both need backup heat, the best approach is to install a small high efficiency gas boiler with 2 zones, one as an indirect heater for the desuperheater (so it'll ensure that the hot water stays hot, but won't run if not needed) and the second zone as a hydronic loop in the air handler to provide backup for those cold nights in the winter that are below the design spec.

Of course, the heat input to your house is a function of heat loss, so if the house is very well insulated and sealed against air changes, regardless of how you heat you'll save energy.

TBH, since geothermal is reversible, in that it does both heating and cooling this makes it even more attractive and efficient especially in the summertime. It should be required in new construction where possible and indeed heavily subsidized to encourage it's adoption.
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When reached for comment, Patton wrote:

"32 years ago I was a lost, scared, and vulnerable child. I won’t go into detail, but the reasons I left home at such a young age are unfortunately not unique; I suffered abuse in every form. I did terrible things and said despicable and hateful things, including to my own Jewish mother, that today I find indefensibly wrong, and feel extreme remorse for. I have spent most of my adult lifetime working to make amends for this shameful period in my life.
In my teens, I dropped out of school, lived on the streets, ate out of dumpsters and raised money panhandling. I was desperate and afraid. I was taken in by skinhead gangs and white supremacist organizations. Over the course of a few years, I did many things as part of those groups that I am profoundly ashamed of and sorry about.
Eventually, I was able to get myself away from this world while serving in the United States Navy. This turned my life around. While serving my country, I worked with law enforcement agencies in hate group prosecutions and left this world behind.
Since then, I have tried and failed to completely accept and come to terms with how I, a child of Jewish heritage, became part of such a hateful, racist group. One thing I have done, through therapy and outreach, I have learned to forgive that 15 year old boy who, despite the absence of ideological hate, was lured into a dark and evil world. For all of those I have hurt, and that this revelation will hurt, I’m sorry. No apology will undo what I have done.
I have worked every day to be a responsible member of society. I’ve built companies, employed hundreds and have worked to treat everyone around me equally. In recent years, I’ve sought to create technologies that stop human suffering and save lives without violating privacy. I know that I will never be able to erase my past but I work hard every day to make up for mistakes. This is something I will never stop doing."
The thing that helps me "understand" it is that the universe has finite sizes of things like the Planck length for example being a theoretical thing at the smallest distance I would imagine. Now imagine it going smaller than the Planck length (finite) in terms of the difference of .9 repeating and 1 since infinitely small differences can do that. Essentially there is no way to tell the difference between .9 repeating and 1 then from a practical or theoretical perspective of measurement. So not imagining infinity lets us at least imagine smaller than the smallest measurable thing.
A Phd takes n years. A person could spend n years figuring out what they wanted to do without getting a Phd. The OP has spent n years figuring it out and has a Phd. Plus the habits and skills necessary to earn a Phd that are independent of domain knowledge. Few people have what that takes.
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To me, the biggest thing that makes AirPods unique is that they look pretty weird. The Google ones don't, so I see them as clearly differentiated from AirPods.
We will always have the mercury california raisins as proof of some conspiracy. They even officially colorized it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQII-O6Nn2U
I couldnt figure out how to get the mouse behavior I liked working in the shell as well as in editors like less or nano. Id get the shell able to scroll and work well with selecting text, then Id have some archaic mouse behavior in my editors. Or I could have the editors working like they do outside of tmux, but then I lose the ability to scroll in the shell and whole tmux multipane window scrolls off screen instead. I could get into the keybinds, but I dont use vim so they are pretty ancient and foreign to me. The effort for me to learn these binds doesn't seem there compared to just moving my windows with the mouse once or twice a day.
Blue Angels Thunderbirds over New York and Philadelphia
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It makes sense if you consider how sausages made from camels can be cooked to get a nice smoky flavour.
You can get a lot of this nice behaviours in Vim with coc.nvim (if you can get past the awful name). It uses VSCode's language server behind the scenes to offer similar auto-complete / tooltips.

It doesn't auto-download @types, but it does suggest them to you. It can also auto-import, rename across files, etc.
Well for one, they opened a link titled "Google Pixel Buds" and one of their first issues was "What's up with the "Pixel" branding on the headphones?"
Are the covid and the UFO conspiracy theorists the same ?
I've tried everything including the Airpods Pro, and the only earbuds small enough to not cause my ears discomfort are the Klipsch X11i and X12i. They use some of the smallest balanced armature drivers made by Bosch.
No, he wasn't
The idea is nice, great even, but...

No but seriously.

Who, in 2020, grabs their phone first thing before hitting a drink, or bathroom, or wash your face or whatever you do when you wake up?

I (37M) find it weird. In 2010, sure, it was all new and I was younger maybe. Nowadays I just don't even have to refrain myself, it could be 10, 20 minutes before I look at any screen. It would usually be my laptop actually.

Am I the exception? I'd think a technologically mature crowd to be much less... dependent, less hooked to their phone. I would think of this being an actual challenge for the mainstream Facebooking / Instagramming / Twittering, but not people like us...

[work notwithstanding, evidently, sometimes we need to grab the phone but that's irrelevant to my observations]
I don't necessarily disagree, but can one do anything that puts them past a point where society should afford them a chance at redemption? Does an individual always deserve to be given a second chance?
Cyber-Intel firms pitch governments on spy tools to trace coronavirus
Ada (https://learn.adacore.com/courses/intro-to-ada/chapters/cont...) and Eiffel (https://www.eiffel.com/values/design-by-contract/introductio...) also support contracts.

Contract-based programming is a very nice way to quickly find errors and specify how different parts of the program should interact.
People can change, and he was a kid from an abusive home per the article.
Not clean enough to be considered potable, but good enough to water your lawn or use as a separate grey water system if you're set up for it.

A lot of people who do this will have a complete filtration system so it can be used for all of their water needs. Personally, I have some rain barrels for watering my garden and a small emergency filtration kit that I can use in the extremely unlikely situation we need it
Shouldn't that be considered sausage casing?
If those cameras have any kind of outside accessibility over a network, the NSA is probably just one of many with potential access.
> another is Stripe which is a SAAS boilerplate built on top of laravel

Spark
People do change between being 17 and being adults. If you write about your life, knowing you are now a public figure, and leave this huge racist detail out, then the change is not enough.

We can't accept both that people change, and it's ok to lie about it to everyone.
Assuming that one located a naturally mild strain of virus (which I personally remain bearish on), for it to produce useful (in the regulatory sense) information a challenge trial, you would need to establish that the response of individuals to the mild strain (which by definition differs from the more lethal strain) is representative of the response to the more lethal strain of virus.
Only if he’s a freelancer. If he works for a company, they could just take this piece of work product that he made, use it in all the ways your just described, and then lay him off.
I look forward to someone building Narrated Hacker News.
Better hope the algorithm he programmed isn’t racist.

https://onezero.medium.com/how-tech-algorithms-become-infect...
That probably has more to do with having been in the military...
What are you integrating over?
I have actually shared that exact same experience working on a Xamarin Forms app for a year.
That doesn't count IMHO, it's just a couple taps most likely, you're not engaging with the device (it's merely an overkill alarm clock at that point).

;)
Which Face Is Real? Applying StyleGAN to Create Fake People
Google beats Apple to a multicolor product. I am not a fan of the chosen colors, but I suppose they had a reason.

Also aesthetically the embossed "G" is a bit garish to me.

I wonder if the Find my device feature works on iOS (even if only through Safari)?
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A range with each fun applied to all the elements. If there is more than one fun, the element type will be Tuple
containing one element for each fun.
You’re saying it’d be more Pythonic to not use list comprehensions? I find that doubtful.
I read Reddit often and I honestly do enjoy those TTS compilations.

They're low effort, sure. But it's a different format and allows me to do other things while hearing creepy stories or whatnot.
I wouldn't go so far.

I see it more as "freedom even at the expense of lives". The west for the first time in a long time, is being asked what the value of a life is.

Is freedom to roam during a pandemic, worth the aggregated loss of life it causes ?

The question has been lingering around with ecological damage done by our lifestyles and the anti-intellectualism/ anti-vax movement, which is allowed free reign in many places. But, Covid has brought it into focus.

I have heard enough about India super-power 2040, to know that anyone who claims to know what the future holds is either lying, under informed, has an agenda or all 3.
It’s just packaged differently. Instead of easily knowing it’s trash, it’s someone you trust on Facebook spouting crazy. I think that’s what gets people the most.
That's an interesting thought I hadn't considered. The AirPods do indeed seem like Apple accidentally invented (or at least popularized) a new product category while trying to reference the old headphones, which were pretty iconic in their advertising. All of the "copycats" are taking that same product category and designing around the formfactor. I agree that most of the copycats are more aesthetically pleasing, including the Pixel Buds.
I agree with you and I’ve made the same observation but I don’t think it’s due to some misplaced sense of superiority.

I think it’s simply because it has been a while since disease and pestilence was a worry for the average Western country so the average citizen (and therefore the leaders) are complacent in a sort of “It can’t happen here” way. There have been outbreaks such as the AIDS epidemic or swine flu but nothing as impactful, infectious, and at the scale of COVID.

Whereas Asian countries have grappled with issues of SARS, Malaria, AIDS, Polio, and many more in the not so distant past and have learned the importance of taking public health seriously. The experience of the outcome of mismanaging a response to a previous epidemic is still “fresh” so to say in many of these countries. I think a good example of this is how South Korea dealt with SARS and evolved their response to COVID based on the learnings from that.

Lastly I wonder if the prevalence of more communal societies in Asian cultures make a difference. I can imagine it could make the problem worse but it could also be beneficial in the sense of providing strong societal pressures to quarantine/hand wash/social distance/etc.

Edit: And of course the misguided leaders in particular Western countries are not helping. Maybe the US this particular time is just a statistical outlier due to some mismanagement and there is nothing more to read into further than that?
It's mostly because YT actually pushes this garbage, while demonetizing or banning real people with tons of subscribers.
What if you send back modified terms?

“@Disney #MayThe4th This tweet enters into Disney’s offered contract, except that Disney agrees to pay $100,000 for the license to optionally publish this Tweet and to include it in Tweet analysis corpuses. If Disney doesn’t explicitly object within 48 hours or collects this tweet as part of a database, they accept this modification.”

IANAL, genuinely curious.
Tmux + Vim + TrackPoint (ThinkPad) means I very rarely ever leave home-row. It's amazing!
Good article. There are a few unknowns still.

1. Is Google really all in on product search? Their product search is pretty bad at the moment and it's a very challenging search space, esp when you work with tens of thousands of retailers. Going directly to retailer/niche-platform sites usually works better for me. For example, for music related I go to reverb.com, for outdoor to rei.com, etc. I then to Google and Amazon for reviews if needed.

2. Distribution and fast shipping is something Amazon has invested in for decades. I still need to wait longer than a week to receive items from retailers such as REI and others. Not an easy problem to solve.

3. Competing with Prime. Amazon ships everything including groceries. That's a big plus of Prime. Not only you get fast shipment, but you get everything you may need so you rarely need to use a different service. And with a credit card from Amazon you get 5% cash back on purchases. Everything is included.

Disclaimer. I own Amazon stock.
Scalog: Seamless Reconfiguration and Total Order in a Scalable Shared Log (2020)
> As a static number, the concept of infinity makes no sense; but once reimagined as a process

Super insightful. That's the key right there.

The same concept can also be applied to the physical world. Things are not static, they are in constant flux, everything is a process in motion.
This is the main question I have too. We have a disease that is pretty much guaranteed to be endemic so there will always be the ever present threat of re-importing the disease.
Forgiveness falls upon members of the public who read the story, not the press. I have no problem with this past being reported, especially given that he now runs what sounds like a large surveillance company. Being a successful CEO carries extra scrutiny that he might not have to deal with if he took a path with a lower profile.
A Glass Nightmare: Cleaning Up the Cold War’s Nuclear Legacy at Hanford
Sorry, we're not allowed, this content is for Americans only. I mean, they went through the effort to specifically block everyone else, so it must be really important to them, so we should just back off, for important reasons of course.
> I’d bet (a small amount of) money they have no ability to delete accounts at all

Probably not. I bet that goes for so very many organizations. It is far easier to reinstate an accidentally (user) deleted account if it is merely marked as deleted than if it were truly deleted.

Now, how NYT is handling this is ... well, it's bad.
Show HN: Tracking publicly-traded PPP loan recipients
>But once users logged into the innocent looking apps via a social network OAuth provider, Banjo saved the login credentials, according to two former employees and an expert analysis of the apps performed by Kasra Rahjerdi, who has been an Android developer since the original Android project was launched. Banjo then scraped social media content, those two former employees added. //

CMA (UK)/CFAA (USA) both make unauthorised access a crime, so, yes there are laws against this.
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If 30.33333... = 1, then 30.33333... != 0.9999..., then 0.9999... != 1
I don’t see any need for mental gymnastics, government doesn’t exactly have the stellar track record of not lying to public or not conducting physiological warfare on them.

I believe universe must be full of intelligent life, and keep in mind that I got some considerable astrophysics knowledge, but governmental claims mean nothing to me.
> No two of the 177 tanks contain exactly the same concoction, but they all pose a significant public risk. The site borders the Columbia River, which nourishes the region’s potato crops and vineyards, serves as a breeding ground for salmon, and provides drinking water for millions of people. So far, the aging, corroding vessels have leaked roughly 4 million liters.
Can you explain what you mean with "real" in that sentence? Because in the context of maths, a real number is "a number in ℝ", which this absolutely qualifies for. Whereas in plain English the term doesn't really have a clear definition.

You might consider "real" numbers (in plain English) to mean physically measurable quantities, but there are plenty of numbers that we can write out because they're infinitely long, but trivially "made" (such as π, which just requires grabbing a compass and drawing a circle)

The bit you should be wondering about is why 0.666...6 and 0.666...7 are the same number: infinities cause digits written on paper (or a computer screen) to look like a kind of number that they're not. The two fractions (numbers in ℚ) 0.6666 and 0.66667 are 0.00001 apart, but the two reals (numbers in ℝ) 0.666...6 and 0.666...7 are 0.000...1 apart. That looks like a tiny tiny fraction, but it's not a fraction, it's an infinite number of zeroes, and thanks to that, this number, while it looks like a fraction, is just a silly way to write zero.

So thanks to infinities, the most-definitely-not-a-fraction number that we write as 0.666... is the same as the most-definitely-not-a-fraction number 0.666...(some numbers here). The difference between the two is zero.

Infinities are fun. And difficult. But also fun.
There is a part of me that wants to extend forgiveness, but then I remember what Banjo does and I feel nothing for him.

I’ve known many who were stupid when they were young. It often is a direct result of malignant or neglecting parents. Some recover and do great things. This guy appears to have “recovered” and then went on to monetize state surveillance ambitions.
Softbank massively fucked up on this one. Feel bad for the current employees. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14783521
It doesn't change the fact that it is fundamentally a bad thing, because it will be used mostly for nefarious ends.

I'd probably have a leg up selling anti-personnel mines to the US military if I were a former officer, but using this advantage would be unethical (because land mines are fundamentally evil).
Apparently, no real gymnastics needed — just some domain knowledge. I was also freaked out by these videos until I saw this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7jcBGLIpus
Aerial Image Datasets for Machine Learning
Have you watched his debunking of the "Go Fast" video? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLyEO0jNt6M) I don't see any wiggle room around what he lays out, certainly not enough to warrant putting 'debunk' into "scarequotes". The object simply was not 'going fast'; it was a weather balloon sized object moving at weather balloon speeds that only looks like it's going fast due to parallax.

The only question in my mind is whether the USN is filled with fools who couldn't figure out what he figured out, or whether they're deliberately fucking with us. I'm strongly inclined to think it's the later.
I don't think that's disinfectant they were spraying, but rather insecticide for biosecurity. They do it on the way into Australia and New Zealand too prevent the spread of agricultural pests.
> Are the scooters even a problem?

Yes.

They're littering the streets. Beyond being just annoying, it creates a life-threatening hazard for the blind people. On top of that, they're used - as intended to be used - on the sidewalks, instead of the streets where they belong. This already killed many people around the world.

One idiot on a Bird copycat almost killed my then-9-months-pregnant wife, as he carelessly rode the sidewalk at high speed and didn't see passengers exiting the bus.

Cities have various policies towards innovation; some entangle everyone in red tape, others wave new ideas through. But the common thread of the famous SV startups in city space, and their copycats around the world, is building a business that dumps a lot of externalities on society, treating city councils as enemies, and then being surprised when said councils don't cooperate. If they want more friendly regulators, then perhaps they should be respectful towards said regulators (and people they represent).
Is your problem with it the fact that it is a wrapper, or that it's javascript?

If you don't like that it's a wrapper, what is wrong with adding a wrapper that adds new functionality?

If you don't like that it's Javascript, how would another language somehow make this better? Especially with the sheer number of people that are already comfortable using Javascript.
Because if it has 1 at the end, then this will mark it’s end, thus making it finitely small.
They have an amazing talent for this.