skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Worthy to note that Mozilla VPN is using Mullvad as a service.
Just looked beeminder up. If anyone else doesn't know it's goal tracking and contracts where you pay them if you fail. I'd feel a lot better about that if they were doing something positive with the money, like donating.
Hi @stereo, thank you for your lovely comment.
Throwing Out the Kitchen Sink: C++ Output Ranges
With Title IX, you can ruin someone’s career without as much as a relationship.
It seems like a lot of disagreements stem from assuming shared definitions.
If you're writing a document (not an app) and using floats for their intended purpose, they are useful - and can't easily be replicated with grids or flexbox, I think.
The Wikipedia War over Kamala Harris's Race
emma (german I think) bought it on spain.

Just launched a springy version at a 3x price-tag though!

Got the cheaper foamy one
> The memory footprint of the engine is larger than the code size on disk. Users may be wasting gigabytes of RAM on trivial desktop tools.

That may be the case. Usually it is not a problem, there is mmap and swap and unneeded parts are paged out of physical RAM.

If it becomes a problem, one has to change tools or get more RAM.
To the future occupants of my office at the MIT Media Lab
Is this pretty much "Microsoft's Google Earth"?

Is the whole world mapped? Is the data part of the game or streamed from the net?
It doesn't quite seem fair to compare numpy to one of the most famous K code golf's ever created, but here is my attempt, 140 characters compared to Arthur's 30, so 5 times longer. Not worry about padding the edges would cut it to 100. I don't think the gap is as wide as you think it is.

def life(M):
MP = np.pad(M,[(1,1),(1,1)])
N = sum(np.roll(MP,(i,j),(0,1))
for i in [1,0,-1]
for j in [1,0,-1])
return (3==N-MP*(4==N))[1:-1,1:-1]

Speedtest (presumably memory bound):

100 x 100 matrix, numpy 0.2ms, K 0.2ms
200 x 200 matrix, numpy 0.5ms, K 0.8ms
500 x 500 matrix, numpy 5.2ms, K 8.0ms
1000x1000 matrix, numpy 20.0ms, K 36.0ms
5000x5000 matrix, numpy 0.5s , K 1.2s

Interestingly the K code is designed to return a boolean matrix, but operates much more slowly for me on a boolean matrix compared to an integer matrix, with the result that:

q)\t klife M

Takes 1.2 seconds whilst

q)\t klife klife M

Takes 24 seconds. So whilst the idea seems to be that klife is used with scan/over to run a number of iterations, it's actually a bad idea to run it more than once.
I haven't used a dual boot Linux/Windows machine in ages. How popular is this setting these days?

On Linux, my most common scenario of deploying Windows is in small VMs and, when needed, mounting host folders from them. It's true these VMs will probably not run some PC software well, but I have a Windows PC for that. The other way around we have WSL and WSL2 on Windows, again kind of erasing the need to dual boot from the Windows user side.

The money for them here is in support. Maybe they have licensees that bind them to support contracts and merging software into mainline Linux counts as a "best effort" to make others chip in at keeping it functional as the kernel evolves.
Is there a microbial component to religious rituals? (2014)
> my research while doing my postgrad at Cambridge, I figured out a way to scale empathy: no need for personal data, no need for intrusive technologies, no need for excessive details.

How??
Yep, I'm talking about the equivalent for non-mobile / the original Gecko. The "embedding Gecko" documentation I posted before says "original last update 2002". That's pretty bad.
Can't wait to see the "everything working as normal, nothing to see here" comments. The hoax virus is a hoax until more and more people know someone that died from it. Nothing wrong with the postal service until your grandma dies or is hospitalized (and billed; either she pays all or you pay it-she is probably on medicare) because her medicine didn't come for several weeks, or the check sent in to pay your bill and you get late fees, and on and on the excuses will come for this corruption.
This site can narrow it down for you.
http://www.openinsider.com/officer-purchases-25k-past-week
Pretty sure the parent comment was suggesting that. Hé even said “it’s what vegetarians do”.
Kirsch co-authored - with an undergraduate intern! - one of the foundational papers of my field of cheminformatics. Then never touched the topic again, as he was more interested in computers and art.

He worked on the SEAC computer at the National Bureau of Standards. Quoting the Wikipedia page (which in turn cites Kirsch), SEAC "is claimed to be the first fully operational stored-program electronic computer in the US".

The NBS had this great little machine - the first computer available to the US government, at least for general use - and it got applied to all sorts of projects.

Marvin Minsky, for example, learned to program on it, https://www.webofstories.com/play/marvin.minsky/29 , where they tried to get the computer to recognize letters. (Minsky commented "my friend Russell Kirsch ... was the kind of person who could say well, everybody's having their machines crunching numbers, can we have one that can recognize patterns.")

The SEAC team talked with the US Patent office, which had a thorny problem of how to handle chemical patents. They needed some way to search chemical structures by substructure. Ray (the intern) and Kirsch implemented subgraph isomorphism search on the SEAC, in 1956, published the following year, and still often cited (though less often read).

Kirsch humorously points out in the video at http://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/birth-of-the-compu... ,

> 21:09: This solved the immediate problem for the Patent Office, although in a very ponderous way. An amusing incident is this: The program that we wrote demonstrated this possibility, but it was so ponderous - so slow - that we decided 'gee, I hope we don't have to use our program in the Patent Office'.

> 21:29: Well in those days, a tool that you hoped you wouldn't have to use was the hydrogen bomb. So we decided to call our program the H-BOMB code. When the coding sheets got misplaced, the FBI came in, and it took an awful lot of explanation to explain this was just a name; it had nothing to do with the hydrogen bomb.

As another example of the humor they had, see http://www.ams.org/journals/notices/200711/tx071101502p.pdf where:

> The staff of the NBS computing lab declared us “Heroes of the SEAC”, a title awarded in those days to programmers whose programs ran on the first try—a rare event—and for some while we had to go around wearing our “medals,” which were drawn freehand in crayon on the back of used teletype paper. (The word “hero” was in parody of the practice in the Soviet Union of declaring persons “Heroes of the Soviet Union” for this and that accomplishment.)

For more about the machine, see https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2010/06/pioneer-nist-c... .

I wrote a letter to him a few years ago, to ask questions about his chemical substructure work. His wife, Joan Kirsch, kindly replied and said his dementia was too far progressed. My heart goes out to her and her family.
Interesting that they were mostly from the midwest.
I think we did this a few months ago in Albuquerque. They've formed an unarmed alternative police force thing.
The DOI link in the article is broken, but if anybody is interested, the original paper appeared in Science: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/369/6505/863 (paywalled)

There are several websites that can help get around this paywall :)
The best developers aren't putting out tons of content or courses. The people putting out popular courses are just the best course developers/marketers.

There are plenty of folks like Tom Christie, who has minimal social media following, but who built Django Rest Framework, which is used by tens of thousands of projects.

The best developers are leaders, whether or not they're thought leaders.
It's a false security, and it can induce you to break opsec when they break monero privacy again.
Download the anime slayer application, how to download the drama slayer program
Potentially when it has incriminating evidence.
Do you use canvas rn?
I think your wrong about the "all time high social mobility" my understanding is that the peak was reach 40 years ago.
I'm currently reading Thomas Piketty on the subject
Was it memory foam or latex?
It's more likely in relation to the black hole it's orbiting.
Unintuitive string types, weird print function, unintuitive division, to name a few. I'm sure there are more things I can't recall at the moment.
Why do planes use floppy disks in 2020 for critical updates?
DEF CON's revelation about BOEING-747 using floppies made headlines, but nobody explained WHY.

Why not USB devices, or CDs?

So I decided to do a detailed analysis on why do airplanes use floppy disks in 2020 for critical updates?
> where I heard Gates Foundation...

Oh, come on, that was one of the few places I semi-idealize as ethical and "clean".

Humans will be humans I guess...
I referred to not being willing to replace meat in general, not beef specifically, due to the difficulty in getting a similar mix of nutrients, not to mention things that you can't get from vegetables, period. Here's a small list [https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/7-nutrients-you-cant-ge...] but there are plenty more. Sure, some of them are non-essential but those are pretty damn useful for general health, cognitive performance, and athletics.

Moreover, some of us respond poorly to carbs in terms of weight management and general well-being. I have ADHD and and a carb-heavy diet really messes with my symptoms. There aren't really any plants that provide enough protein without including a significantly greater amount of carbs so getting all of my calories from plants is a non-starter.

I forgot to elaborate on the emissions/calorie issue in my comment (there's that ADHD). The link in the parent shows that many animal-based foods compare favorably with popular vegetables using the emissions/calorie metric. Direct link to the chart: https://img.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_1024w/2010-2019/Wash...

It feels good to see some vindication on the animal farming emissions issue. It's a huge positive that we can lower our emissions footprint without resorting to a fully plant-based diet.
You're right, I agree.

However it's still Show HN section, and the product is still tech, so design is kind of nice addition

But I'm going to write an article about how did I make it too, maybe it'll be more interesting indeed
The resolution of this "paradox" is at the heart of "Quantum Chaos", the study of the relationship between classical chaos and quantum mechanics.

In a chaotic system, minute differences in initial conditions are quickly amplified, making long time predictions impossible. A striking example of this is the potential instability of the solar system; we cannot rule out that a planet (earth!?) shoots off into space long before the sun turns into a red giant. On the other hand, in the wavelike world of quantum mechanics, trajectories are ``smeared out'' because of the uncertainty principle, and this seems to preclude the complicated picture of interlocking, yet divergent trajectories present in chaotic systems.

Thus, a fundamental (and somewhat philosophical) question is: how can macroscopic chaos arise in a world governed by quantum mechanics? The answer to this has been the subject of debate, but from the point of view of mathematical physics, a more concrete question is at the center: in what ways does chaos in classical dynamical systems manifest itself quantum mechanically, in particular in terms of spectral properties of "quantized Hamiltonians".

There is a fascinating connection between quantum chaos and number theory (the Riemann zeta function): the distribution of (normalized) gaps between zeros of the Riemann zeta function appears to be the "same" as the distribution of gaps between eigenvalues of quantized Hamiltonians associated to classically chaotic systems. There is a fun story of how H. Montgomery had (partially) computed the "pair correlation" ofthe gaps between Riemann zeta zeros, and at tea time at IAS he mentioned this to F. Dyson, who immeditely told him that this is the same as for random matrices, more details can be found in

http://www.bourbaphy.fr/keating.pdf

Some further info about quantum chaos:

http://www.ams.org/notices/200801/tx080100032p.pdf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_chaos

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/quantum-chaos-sub...

http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Quantum_chaos
*contextualize
May I suggest visiting the creators awesome website: https://victorribeiro.com/
It's great to see even incremental performance fixes are still getting backported (eg: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8229022). I am curious how long that will be maintained as it must surely be quite a bit of effort.
In real estate, the value of a property is often tied to the value of the rental income it could bring in, even if it's never been offered for rent.

'Rent seeking' doesn't refer to the same kind of 'rent', of course, but I think the analogy holds up pretty well. All Google has to do is turn a few screws, and the rest of us will have no choice but to sing whatever tune they call.
If I don’t upload a picture of my face and tell Facebook “please let me know when you’d see my face, it looks like this”. Then any time they see a face they don’t recognize they should just do nothing.

That’s not at all how Facebook chose to implement their face detection and pretending it’s a hard problem does a disservice to anyone interested in their privacy.

Parsing the image and seeing faces is one thing. Persisting and correlating that data is another.
Nothing makes it appealing or faster than C in particular.

It's the stubbornness of the old guard of physics professors (and applied math, etc) who contributed to mountains of (now legacy) fortran code in the 60s, 70s, 80s, and who's funerals haven't occurred yet [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck%27s_principle
Ask HN: What features are you missing in the terminal?
> Can't wait to see the "everything working as normal, nothing to see here" comments.

This doesn't really contribute to the conversation other than to clarify how defensive your position is before you even begin stating it.
Hi @dubrocks,

I'm a little sorry for calling me a thief but my intension was naive.

I've seen that app you mention after releasing my own app.
As you said, that application was an Siri Shortcuts integration app, after seeing that the domains are different I made the decision to continue with the same name.
Deprecate [1] doesn't mean remove though. While the old style paths are officially deprecated, they will be supported indefinitely. GCP's problem is that they deprecate and remove features.

[1] "Depreciate" is something else.
Arizona is not a blue state.

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/512153-arizona-elec...
And no, I mean real 3d!
And related, a sense of benefit. You have to listen to the right parts of your mind.
I gave up using Federal Reserve Notes, on principal, and have dedicated my life to improving a small ranching community. By limiting my use of money to less than $100 a month (hopefully soon $0), I've had to build connections with human beings that would have not been possible otherwise.

It was really eye opening to realize that the universe wants to play and it will help me in the strangest ways.

I've set up a community computer lab entirely based on e-waste collected for free that has a print-shop, network, big screens, projectors, electronics lab, etc and organized a few hackathons to see what services we can offer to the community.

I'm spearheading reopening the local community center and are setting up a tool-library with donated tools. You'd be amazed how many people have workshops filled with tools they never use and will give to you if you ask nicely and with a purpose.

I've begun to map all the trees in town, set up a gleening team, and building out solar dehydrators. Gonna stock the local shop with dried fruit right next to the candy isle. Give the kids a choice.

I've got hundreds (soon thousands) of baby trees in my back yard and have been setting up a gene bank for grafting many varieties of fruit and nut trees. Grafted a couple hundred apple, pear, plum, and cherry trees this last spring. Propogating out all the materials we will need to turn this town into a veritable food forest. With patience you can create orchards without spending a single dollar.

We live in the most wasteful society that has ever existed. I'm exploring the hack of seeing how much of this "waste" can be turning into things that people would have had to spend dollars, which to me is adding fuel to the flame that is rapidly destroying everything of true value on this planet.

Mother Earth.
Miraheze (free and FOSS wiki hosting) celebrates five years
I don’t understand these remarks. Is the idea that the victim wasn’t perfectly professional and therefore deserved this clear and overt overreach? We rightly mock “her skirt was too short” justifications for sexual assault—I don’t see how this line of argumentation differs.
It really is the one, universal rule that is repeatedly pointed out to career academics, from when you start TAing onward: do not sleep with your students. This rule has existed for an enormous length of time, and exists at essentially all universities. It so continually repeated that its repetition, even to the exclusion of pretty much anything else that might be useful, like training about actual teaching, is a common joke.

This isn't even just to protect the student, and I expect that the rule was originally developed when universities didn't care about the potential for the student being abused: it also causes a potential for unfairness to everyone else, especially when the relationship is clandestine.

Academia is somewhat unusual in that relationships within research communities and universities need to be allowed, are rather common and accepted, and often even need to be accommodated by universities. Strict restrictions on them at some universities in the past actually caused serious problems at times. Many situations are accepted, so long as they are appropriately handled, even when there are close professional connections involved, and even, sometimes, between faculty and graduate students, when the student isn't their student.

But sleeping with your students has always been a deadly sin in academia. And this appears to be a case of someone trying to argue that, while he slept with his student, she wasn't really his student at the time. That's a difficult argument to make.
I love that someone at Microsoft managed to get some VC cash from Scribd for that garbage bonfire of a black pattern SEO spam fountain.
Don't last year's blackouts count?

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/23/pge-rebuked-over-imposing-bl...
C was designed for general purpose computing like operating systems, while fortran was specifically for numerical simulations (for science) and not much else.

Due to this legacy, Fortran has better support for arrays, and multidimensional arrays.

Also, famously, in Fortran, pointers to data passed to functions are assumed to point to non-overlapping data regions, which allows better optimization of code. C doesn't generally assume this.

Apart from that, my understanding is that the "Og" status accounts for a lot of the rest. Fortran compilers are very well optimized.
And those Gopher browsers can be really tiny. I think both Jaruzel's Gopher Browser For Windows [1] and Phetch [2] are under a megabyte.

Rather than a new web standard or ignoring "legacy", I'd point out that there are even web browsers for the Commodore 64 and Apple II. You don't need to implement every tag, the point of HTML is to ignore tags you don't understand and it should still render. Pages with correct markup are still readable in ancient browsers that don't understand CSS. If your page isn't readable in Lynx and Links, you didn't code it properly.

You can't support every site obviously, but Links [3] has shown you can go a long way by just supporting a subset of web features. The speed when you're not trying to render pixel perfect layouts is astonishing.

[1] http://www.jaruzel.com/gopher/gopher-client-browser-for-wind...

[2] https://github.com/xvxx/phetch

[3] http://links.twibright.com/
Hey Brenden!

I mentioned this before and the claims were that you lost the "trust of the employees" infering that the work environment wasn't feasible.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23681475

I think for a private action that's insane. But oh well.
I started looking into doing something similar about 7 years ago. My primary advice is to nail down and narrowly define what you're doing with food early on, it's a huge distraction full of pitfalls.

Hopefully you're already aware that it's not really feasible for a household to grow enough food to live on-- better to be clear up front with everyone that it's to supplement groceries, not replace them. Focus on a few core crops you can gradually become more efficient at growing, and don't get too caught up on automation unless someone on your team has extensive experience with using it in agriculture. [Edit: I saw further below that you're already doing this, I guess all I can say is be aware of the limitations and try to have realistic expectations.]
Oh yes, pardon my sloppiness. I was focusing be contrast between determinism an indeterminism and I was giving locality for granted.

The Everettian interpretation is fully local, where any non-locality is just an illusion caused by observers observing correlations they cannot otherwise explain if they insist on the impossibility of themselves being made of matter itself being in superposition.

EDIT: it's understandably hard to throw away the first person pooling if view and our innate feeling of self and identity. Fuethermor the mechanisms of consciousness are poorly understood. I'd argue that what's making it hard to make progress on understanding consciousness is entangled with what makes it hard to accept the Everettian interpretation (which is the simplest consequence of basic quantum mechanics, nothing is added )
Apple's going to be entering the mid to high range soon, and they use Tile-Based Deferred Rendering. Very different indeed.
Castellan
This sort of makes sense. The organization-as-organization can't address things via the defined processes if the input data doesn't flow up into the command center from the satellite nerves (in this case, the individual staff members).

This closes the loophole where someone could report something casually to a faculty member, and nothing happens, which is a tragically common problem.
I'm curious how this compares to normal, and other crises like 2008.
In vino veritas. You can learn a lot in bars if you drink soda water and lime and pay attention. Especially in hubs like Seattle or Mountain View.
> If money were everything, nobody would be working on opensource.

A large majority of hours spent on open source are paid, though. Developers working full-time on open source projects at various large corporations. I was in that category from 2012 to early 2017 working on mod_pagespeed, for example.

There are many small labor-of-love open source projects, but large ones are uncommon.

> I'd jump at that opportunity.

There are definitely people who would be happy to make that trade; I'm not claiming that you're the only one or something like that. Instead, what I'm saying is that there are a lot of people who are willing to take a modest pay cut to work on a public-benefit project like Firefox but aren't willing to take a ~60-75% one. And, further, Mozilla isn't going to be able to make a top-notch browser without hiring many of these people.
Do you ever have websites that use the full width length of your page? I’ve never seen that except for horizontal scroll webpages or if you are on a tiny screen.
It is not a strawman in practice. I have provided a link to a professional organization taking such a stance and the court agreeing with them in the sibling comment, which for reasons I cannot comprehend is now heavily downvoted.