skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you have a source for blades often being made of toxic material? The Bloomberg article a poster linked above makes it seem like it's completely safe to store the blades in landfill: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-02-05/wind-turb...
Apple iPhone is really great for reduce perspective thanks to its OS support and great SoC. A problem on Apple is repairability.
Right, but that is just syntax highlighting. This is resolving the content of the string type-safely, at compile-time.
I'd love to see iPads become more versatile. The iPad Pro seems like a pretty nice device, particularly because of the high refresh rate screen. But it's very heavily consumption and illustration oriented. My iPad 3 has been passable since it was new, with some degradation in performance, but I haven't found a more interesting use for it besides YouTube and Pocket. I imagine that it could be a great device for interactive systems or 3D modelling, but I'd really be trying to justify the purchase at that point. I do also agree that the fingerprint sensor is a nice addition, but along with it they made it almost impossible to recover data in the event of catastrophic failure.
Or even “hey, I’m away from the office and lost my company phone. Can you help me …” attempts using an obvious third-party service. All of these have fooled people in the past and you really need high adoption rates to seriously reduce the odds.
[EDIT: actually what’s probably quite relevant is all the stories about high schools sending young women home because they don’t approve of their outfits even if said outfit doesn’t violate a dress code.]

Imagine someone walks into a grocery store naked.

Or wearing a t-shirt with a explicit image of a man and a woman having sex. Or two men having sex.

Or a t-shirt which says / shows something extremely inflammatory yet not illegal.

I could imagine various stores making various decisions in all of these cases, all of which would be the folks working in that store expressing their beliefs!

Humans are inherently social and thus inherently political (politics in the sense of politics as the negotiation and management of a community).

Or imagine someone walks into a grocery store and doesn’t wear a mask! Lol :):/:(.
Wait, wait. Is this the total price? I think it's much expensive. $17000 for 300mm wafer is unbelievable.
That only explains costs not prices
I've got all my stuff at Directnic. Never had an issue in the 15+ years that I've been doing business with them. I've searched for thousands of domains over the years and never had them mysteriously pick it up after a search.
Someone told me around $30 million for a 14 layer chip in TSMC 5nm but I couldn't get real confirmation.
Hi Ted! It’s good to hear you won’t be stealing domains. It would be even better to hear that Namecheap starts enforcing their TOS and doing something about your registrar being used for hundreds of thousands of SMS scams in Australia by the same botnet.
The problem is now the superstardom narrative has grown in importance in academics, regardless of validity. It's not just something we project into the past anymore, it's something that is needed to project into the future, to survive at the most basic levels. Everyone is the next W&C (ignoring the complexity of the truth around that narrative), until they have tenure or are pushed out altogether. In this way false narratives about the past become impossible goals for the future, which leads to false claims in the present.
For more on space tethers, check out Hop David's excellent blog (cited as such in the article), wherein a laypersons understanding of orbital dynamics and momentum exchange is developed in posts spanning several years.

http://hopsblog-hop.blogspot.com

Best read in chronological order.
I've been working on Ruby apps again lately after spending a few years in the iOS world. I don't miss iOS at all but moving back to a slow, dynamically typed language like Ruby after getting used to Swift is like trading in a Tesla for a Model T. Ruby was great it its day but I think we can do better now. Maintaining large Ruby codebases is no fun.
I think this is great. Nature is really a way for scientists to score points, not a publication that you read cover to cover that needs stylistic consistency. Right now the academic citation-count scoring mechanism doesn’t give enough incentive for people to work on the important infrastructure pieces like Numpy. So this is a good step towards putting scientific priorities in the right place.
This. The deaths directly attributed to the virus alone aren't the only relevant deaths. Suicides are up. Domestic violence is up. Child abuse may be up but schools are all "virtual" so good luck detecting it (as if it wasn't hard enough when kids were mostly in school).

Talk about throwing out the baby with the bath water...
I am speaking specifically to diversity initiatives visible to all employees, as opposed to those that are specific to managers or HR.

The law doesn't require us to banish the phrase "master/slave" from our lexicon, yet it is part of our diversity initiative.

The law doesn't require us to banish the words "whitelist/blacklist" from our lexicon, yet it is part of our diversity initiative.

The law requires we do not discriminate based on a protected category (gender, race, etc). We have always been compliant. However, the law does not require us to hold special recruiting events for underrepresented folks when we are already compliant, but yet that is a major part of my company's diversity initiative.[1]

There are pay disparity laws. We were fully compliant before they became the law. They are not part of the diversity initiative and usually not discussed.

The law doesn't prohibit us from saying "Merry Christmas!" but our diversity initiative addresses this.

The list goes on and on.

Note: I am not saying I'm against such initiatives. Merely noting that at least for my company (and jurisdiction), these initiatives are not about what the law requires. We have always had employee expectations training for all employees, and it already covered things required by law, long before the company dove into these initiatives.

It may be that your company's diversity initiative is about legal compliance, but for many company's, it is a lot more than that (by a lot, I mean the majority of the initiative is not required by law).

> The risk of running into both PR & legal trouble

There's a world of a difference between PR trouble and legal trouble. Your comment originally was about the legal side, and so is my response. I do believe that most diversity initiatives are about PR, and not about the law, which was why I responded.

[1] These are invite-only, and so it's not open to all groups - just the ones we picked.
We absolutely expect public utilities be shut down temporarily when danger exists. This happens with gas, fire, electric. In 2001, when USPS first encountered the 'sealed anthrax envelopes' problem, they shut down lots of post offices for quite some time.

Your framing suggests that Firefox Send was a 'public utility', held to the same standard as a power company or a gas company, required to provide service to all who seek it. Firefox Send was not a 'public utility', though, and so it need not be temporary to shut it down in the face of attackers. Apparently the Firefox group decided to make it permanent.

What if Gmail was shutdown without notice tomorrow? Would any lawsuit have standing if refunds were issued that same day? Would free users have any recourse whatsoever? It isn't a public utility, right?
Exactly the same boat! Namecheap offshores all their abuse to their “legal” department - underpaid level one support in Eastern Europe.

Namecheap is abused to prop up the largest SMS phishing scam in Australia and they do not care to enforce their TOS to stop it.
Probably closer to 'libertarian' in US parlance (laissez-faire economics, small government).
The bug is closed. What more do you expect project management to do?
Surely America can churn out good Semiconductor physicists?
A very childishly written article with no real insight. The real question in my mind is why on earth Bloomberg funded the writer's travel to Switzerland and Japan for this?
There's nothing ad hoc about it - PCA is an extremely fundamental statistical tool, and commonly used in genetics, especially to evaluate population structure. A few random examples:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3392282/

https://speciationgenomics.github.io/pca/

https://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371/jo...

https://www.genetics.org/content/210/2/719

https://www.nature.com/articles/ng0508-491

If that SSC reference bothers you so much, you can look at the Atlantic for a definition of weak man instead: https://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2009/07/the-w...

And I know what intrinsic means, but I don't know what an "intrinsic point" is supposed to be, or what makes my point "intrinsic", as opposed to just a regular point.
Yes, indeed. The vast majority of Redditors, bots. Some quite clever, actually.
> We're talking about Federal districts here, not state.

Yes.

> It'd take a constitutional amendment to alter the single-member, FPTP practice, wouldn't it.

Nope, the single-member district requirement is a federal statute that was adopted in response to states turning to, or at least considering, multimember at-large FPTP districts (majority-take-all) to prevent effectively enfranchising minorities (well, specifically blacks). Which was certainly a good motive, and single-member FPTP districts are better than that, but the same law could be retuned to prevent that but allow (or even require, in states large enough to support it) multimember districts with a candidate-centered proportional scheme like STV.
It would be nice if citing repositories were easier-- either for generating a reference for my own code or acknowledging when I've used someone else's code in my research.

There's tons of math and physics blogs that contain useful results that the author wanted to make available but didn't manage to incorporate into a paper.
I wonder if there'd be any interest in a sort of GitHub for proofs?
It could even use git, since (assuming consistency) isn't math just a DAG anyways (and therefore isomorphic to a neural net, as are all things).
This page is still up and running and I always thought this hack was pretty awesome: http://www.cypherspace.org/adam/rsa/
> But if you miss, boy are you fucked.

Imagine closing in on Mars knowing that if you fuck up a super-orbital speed, split second maneuver by more than a couple of meters you will drift in space until asphyxiated. It makes a carrier landing seem bland.

If you carry enough fuel to decelerate without the tether it defeats the purpose of the tether.
I built something like this but more special-purpose. It just switches a USB-A power source on/off. I wanted it to control my 5-volt fish-tank lights. I didn't want to use a 120VAC smart switch for each light because I prefer to use a single USB hub to power them all, and a bonus feature was being able to PWM the lights so the fish aren't freaked out when the lights suddenly turn on 100% in the morning.

I ordered PCBs from JLCPCB and components from LCSC. I think each one cost around $5 in parts, and I hand-assemble them as I need more around the house.

https://github.com/sowbug/smart-usb-switch

Picture: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sowbug/smart-usb-switch/ma...
Your tool is very useful for me. Have used it since a long time.

First transfer.sh and now Firefox Send are closed. What service should I trust to send file quickly and securely.
I definitely accept that mistakes could be made, and do plan to follow up. It's not within the repair window, but I'll see what can be done.
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Is there a term for the tension that occurs when objectively optimal policy falls outside the window?

I'm not proposing that it's possible to identify a truly optimal policy mix, only that there might be (at least) one and I'm curious about what happens to society when it falls far outside what's acceptable to discuss.
Yes, but a lot of companies would absolutely do so for employees--rather than customers--certainly including grocery stores even if they didn't otherwise have dress codes (which they likely do).
Another long time Namecheap customer with good things to say. Only "complaint" is that discount codes are not more prolific :-).
Plenty of people who scorn Zinn agree directionally with his politics. Historians dislike him due to the poverty of his sourcing, about which you can read a lot just by casually Googling, and because of his flattening of US history into a totalizing class struggle that ignores race, immigration, religion, culture, and the goals and attitudes of the people who actually lived in the 19th and 20th century.

You can readily find left, class-centered histories of the United States that aren't criticized the way Zinn is. You can yourself scorn ideologically-motivated superficial criticism of Zinn from the right, if that's your thing! But you shouldn't dismiss the substantive critiques. Sometimes, being a good read is a tip-off that something's amiss.
There’s really no reason why Netherlands can’t import power from its allies. It already does.
Looks like there's a new citation for NumPy in town.

"Citing packages in the SciPy ecosystem" lists the existing citations for SciPy, NumPy, scikits, and other -Py things:
https://www.scipy.org/citing.html
( source: https://github.com/scipy/scipy.org/blob/master/www/citing.rs... )

A better way to cite requisite software might involve referencing a https://schema.org/SoftwareApplication record in JSON-LD, RDFa, or Microdata; for example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24489651

But there's as of yet no way to publish JSON-LD, RDFa, or Microdata Linked Data from LaTeX with Computer Modern.
If Tesla is aware that a certain car is stolen, and they have the ability to remotely disable it, should they?

And if they’re aware that the car will be imminently used for a terrorist attack, does that change the equation?
I've always wondered about the possibility of search tools sniping like this.
That's obviously not true, since many of the historians who criticize Zinn are themselves leftists.
The defeats sound interesting, have you documented those anywhere?
It isn't clear to me: can/will a "universal" flu vaccine confer immunity for multiple years with a single shot?
I think charging a $27/hour is quite low. That might be what an employee gets but they're going to get billed out at 3x that. A client sees like 75/hr for that 27/hr employee and doesn't have any idea of what their take home pay is.

200/hr for an independent consultant is someone making ~130k annually. It's a lot but not insane.
> I'm sick of companies building their products off the backs of the personal/hobbiest/small business market, and then when they get enough recognition and buzz, switch to essentially an "enterprise-only" pricing structure, completely screwing over the users who made them successful in the first place.

Then stop supporting them.

This isn't hard. There are alternatives. They need users. They need programmers. They need money. They need tutorials.

Support the open alternative even when it is inferior or keep getting screwed.
Ah, the good old "no true scotsman" argument.

You can lose faith in a particular part of the scientific community without losing faith in the scientific method.
They are becoming the Apple of B2B compute. And Shield is their killer consumer app. Watch out for FAANNG
Thank you for building this and keeping it running!
This is common misconception of students or perhaps research people, who don't need to actually earn money with their projects.

Software needs to be as reliable as it needs to be to satisfy customers and not erode customer trust. And that's it.

Now sure, you can proof everything mathematically and ship your fitbit application within 10 years instead of 10 days, but there are more than a few problems with this approach:

1. You will be bankrupt before you even proved the first theorem

1. Your proofs will turn out to not align with realities of a real world environment

1. Hardware has bugs

1. Software you depend on has bugs

1. Requirements change like a flag in the wind, i.e. 100 times faster than you can prove your little theorems

1. Customers don't give a shit if your fitbit app is never crashing and always does what you think it should do. Especially if its 10 years outdated and doesn't do what customers want lol.
I think Stephen was pretty patient here. Weinstein went off on a tangent and moved away from the conversation into the politics of it. Wolfram was more focused on the science. Now the problem is that nobody else is studying the same thing in the same way... Wolfram is the only one doing the Science. So Wolfram's issue is that nobody is running CAs to study the same phenomena so the discussions are kinda of mute.
This is still a big freaking country - I don't see population shifts as cataclysmic. They have happened all throughout our history.

Also I think it's folly to assume people will congregate in large metropolitan areas like they have in the past. One of the blessings of COVID-19 is many companies have woken up to the power and benefits of remote work. I expect our society to decentralize and if this study is accurate I'd see it as just another factor accelerating some of these trends.
Thanks. Just thought the original post was very long and interesting that BBC picked it up.
What do you mean? They're designed and tested according to calculations done by mathematically proven methods.
I've seen people literally scrub off the coating, but it's not quite at that point yet. Thanks for the suggestion though. I was just expecting to either be told whether or not it's in the repair window, or what the display replacement and battery would cost, if it did become unusable. Oddly, the one comment where the support person confirms that it's not in the window was removed from the transcript.
> Donkey Kong Country Returns

Pretty please, play the Wii version of this! You can use Dolphin if you want.

The 3DS port halved the framerate from 60 fps to 30 fps, and it makes a big difference! At 30 fps, the game is much too difficult—unless you play on the "adjusted" difficulty they added, and I'm pretty sure I know why they adjusted it.

Also, while I'm here I'm going to add on Kid Icarus: Uprising. I know the controls were divisive, but if you can adapt, it's a really unique and well-done action adventure. From the creator of Smash Brothers!
> So why has nuclear waste become a thing that's not mentioned anymore?

- It still is the number 1 talking point.

- It is a solved problem (you put it in a hole).

- The "problem" is vastly overstated. We're talking about 60 years of waste can sit on a football field 1.5m high. That's tiny. Bringing up (generically) waste on a technical forum is often associated with not knowing much about the subject.

- Economics is a better talking point because it is actually debatable (cases to both sides).
Any love for mIRC?
Mining and enriching nuclear fuel is, what, benign?
Free as in beer, not free as in tower.
People are misunderstanding the nature of this stuff.

This is not corruption, it's just favours.

Nobody is awarding a major contract to get their kid an associate job at McKinsey.

The contract is awarded to McKinsey, if the person holding the purse has someone looking to get into such a role, then it's a nice thing that McKinsey can do in return.

My mother was a director of customer service and used to hire all of my friends in high school ... because they were my friends. It's normal.

It's technically not very above bar, but it's not necessarily corrupt. Most people get jobs through their networks, this is 'kind of' that.
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Heavens you are a little bitch. Ignorant too. Fine I'll muster a reply to this horseshit. You don't fucking deserve it you turd.
Is there a particular reason why solar and wind aren't competitive in Ukraine, while in general it seems like those technologies are some of the cheapest sources of energy available today?
I think the CHECK CONSTRAINT is explicit and intentional WRT data validation. However it does not make a different type out of the value. I don't really think there is a one-size-fits-all for this problem anyway. The real problem expressed is accepting too much data - a check constraint requires the entire value to be present before validation. So if too much data shows up and there is a weak link in the data processing system, T.U. as they say...Many libraries provide for controlling how much physical data can be sent without resorting to a large data API.

Most character values in a database are not really text entered by a person, it's typically a symbol for some kind of enumeration or key referring to external semantics, e.g. compass direction "N", "NNE", etc. Or street names or postal codes or country names and so on. You can either model this directly or if it makes no difference, accept whatever you get. Actually examining the data can be interesting; I noticed once in a database with 50 billion stored dollar amounts there were only about 50,000 unique values. This led me to assert the dollar amounts were actually symbols in the system.

Sorry, my comment was truncated in my original post and I didn't notice it in time to edit it.
Better work ethic + lower hubris in the work force. American fabs source heavily from a pool of people with a background in the US military. The intent is that it yields a certain caliber (positive connotation) of worker. What they get is the ego of the American male whose path after high school was to join the military. Now actually send that person through the meat grinder, thus ratcheting up their tolerance for bureaucratic incompetence of the sort highlighted in Catch-22, then consider that the US military's infinite budget means that the cost of anything is never experienced in a direct, visceral way, et voila.
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I'm the last person to wave the flag for Britain but I've never understood this meme about our food being bad, when so much of it is inarguably world class. For starters, so to speak, the Full English is obviously the king of breakfasts, a traditional Sunday roast cannot be beaten, we have the best cheese in the world by some considerable distance, and as for puddings, pies, crumbles, custard... well need I say any more?
Ah, if HN readers are fascinated by Pret a Manger, wait 'til they hear about J Lyons tea shops.
The answer is probably "we don't know." The closest example I can think of for this is what the immune systems of ISS astronauts look like after 6 months in orbit.

Listening to epidemiologists alone was/is a bad choice because they study the spread of disease. You also to consider long-term effects on the immune system, the economy, education, social structure, politics.

The second-order effects have already been surprising:

- Social unrest in the US
- China restricting freedoms in Hong Kong
- Bifurcated "K" economy
- Covid case surges in countries that "did it right" with hard lockdowns
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Yep, especially when the author are the people who wrote numpy, I have absolutely no problem with that. It's about time they be recognized for their contribution to the tools of science.
They would be sanctioned because they’re a bunch of scammers that take your money without providing a service?
> The solution there being to stop patronizing anybody who does that, which everybody should already be doing as a general principle.

If only. Every single major US bank and card company does this. It's terrible.
Hubble will be gone in 5-10 year.

Whenever it breaks it’s done.

Call the James’s Webb whatever you want. The point is that it would be useful to have both for decades
The pastrami (or corned beef) sandwich thing at the better known NYC Jewish delis is a bit of a Manhattan trope. And, yeah, people mostly either split it (for extra cost) or they take half of it home.