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I occasionally watch firearms videos, usually Forgotten Weapons, and the recommendations it now gives me are ... interesting. The ads seem to think that I’m either a day trader, or I’m desperate to escape from Fake News.
Earthquakes, movement of tectonic plates, etc. can shift the mass of the earth closer to or further from center. This speeds up or slows rotation, like when you are spinning in a chair and pull your arms in. Some energy is probably also lost to tidal friction with the moon.
So…you’re saying it’s Airbnb’s fault that someone punched you in the face and that’s why they should pay?

The person who really ought to pay is the guy who punched you in the face. Unless you deserved it but I’m giving you the benefit of the doubt.
As they always say, resistance is futile ;-)

Throughout history we have resistance against the introduction of number 0 into numbering system (introduced by the Arab mathematicians in the 9th century AD based on their study on the works of Indian mathematicians).

Then we have resistance against the complex numbers introduction into numbering system (introduced by the Italian mathematicians in the 16th century AD and then made popular by Euler in his famous formula).

And now we have resistance against geometry algebra (GA) in the 21st century AD. I think the main reason Heaviside (the inventor of the modern form of Maxwell's Equations) was opposing the usage of quaternion equations utilizing "versor" is probably due the difficulty of its manual calculations compared to his rather limited "tensor" based proposal. The irony is that Maxwell himself was originally using quaternion based algebra or GA for his discovery of the EM equations. Since now we have very powerful calculators/computers compared to the 19th century AD this should be a non-issue for the practioners.

IMHO, people who work in electromagnetics (EM) have no choice but to adopt and work with GA due to the nature of the EM waves in which (unlike other waves e.g. sound) it has additional polarization property that is cumbersome to manipulate using conventional complex numbers.

Eventually, someone will come up with a better replacement of I/Q data and probably call it IQ2 data where the extra Q represents quaternion.
No nation is friends with another nation. Nations are allies.

Ally : a state formally cooperating with another for a military or other purpose.

Friend : a person whom one knows and with whom one has a bond of mutual affection, typically exclusive of sexual or family relations.

Allies work together for rational mutual purposes, friends work together for emotional reasons.

Besides, humans of all nations have far too many factions and unreasonable emotional responses to ever be fully trusted.
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Earthquakes, nuclear explosions, tectonic plate activity, the moon slowly moving away from us amongst other causes.
Why PVS-Studio Doesn't Offer Automatic Fixes
Leap seconds have nothing to do with precision time. It's a non-periodic alteration to the definition of UTC. Those niche applications that require second-accurate knowledge of Earth's rotational accuracy don't need to rely on leap second changes to UTC; they could get that information out of band, and will need to anyway when they need sub-second accuracy. The 99.999% of other applications that don't need to know Earth's rotation orientation relative to the sun within a second -- but do have to calculate time differences between two UTC times -- would be much better off not having to deal with leap seconds. Leap seconds were a terribly misguided idea.
This is indeed a very useful page. Thanks!
PE can lend to its owned assets. Accumulation of capital is powerful in that way.
Didn't mean to criticize. I've tripped on mushrooms, I get it. It's just ... 7g, holy crap :)
Apparently Apple doesn't agree that this is covered under warranty since they have denied wrongdoing (at least last I saw as of the $500M settlement, can't access the latest one).
In Airbnb’s case their hand was forced. RSUs given to employees in 2014 are going to expire if Airbnb waited til 2021.
You wouldn't be running anything that has been repaired, the fact that a repair is done means that a syntax error has occurred and compilation has failed. The repair is just a recovery strategy so that the compiler can work further in order to potentially uncover further errors.

This is what compilers do already, one such strategy is to unwind the state to before the error and skip over the erroneous part. This can be a bit problematic in certain situations, such as a syntax error in a variable definition and the following flood of 'undefined variable' errors.

The repair strategy in the article is trying to optimise the quality of the attempted repair in order to provide better error messages to the user.
I'm a bit slow thinker, so it took me some time to put this into words. This article helped me to do it.

Google and Apple app stores are mechanisms which are used prevent, snuffle and destroy competing digital services. They prevent competition by collecting 30% tax. They snuffle competition by setting their own rules and controlling app store visibility. They destroy competition by closing companies from stores. Why it is important, is that smartphones are the most used platform to consume digital services. Digital services can be apps, music or anything distributed digitally.

Why it is financially so small business right now, 15Bn for Apple right now, is just that they have not used their full leverage yet.

Why you need to make rules for all App stores, for example Facebook virtual reality, is that it is feasible, that these will later become platforms, mainstream customers expect to have services.

How it works (if further explanation is needed):
1. If you are offering digital services to consumers or companies, your customers will expect them to be present in both platforms.
2. You have to pay tax, so both of these companies take a cut of your business, which prevents competition.
3. They can add offer the same service, and advertise it over your services, which snuffles competition.
4. Even been closed out by either of these, likely destroys your business.

4 happened to one of my products

I'm building a new product, and I think it is likely, that Apple and/or Google will use 3 to compete against me in some timeframe. Even if they don't I will be paying 30% tax forever.

Edit: Now that I think about his further, nothing prevents extending their reach to nondigital services as well, such as airbnb sales - they just need a new 'innovation' to the app store rules
Ever feel STUPID during Design Handoff? We create a tool without it
I assume it's just an epub that's been optimized to work with Kobo's tweaks.
Not everything requires making a component. A CSS class can be fine, and I'd always use the least powerful way first. This is how the framework is meant to be used - that's the entire reason for having @apply.

https://tailwindcss.com/docs/extracting-components

I don't understand what you mean by ad hoc. It's a very structured approach. When utility classes don't work, you make a semantic class. If that doesn't work, you make a component. You can even use BEM naming if you want, you'll just be making a lot fewer classes.
Or apple could make the device a few mm thicker and put in a larger battery that’s able to produce enough current for a reasonable product life.
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I love awk. I never used it beyond as a sort of SQL-ish method for querying semi-structured data (and adding some of that missing structure) but it's great just for that sort of usage alone.
So not only will we not have any meaningful local hardware in the future, but games themselves will simply be custom-generated to satisfy the player’s exact desires?

Sounds like it would become pretty dull. Art and experiences are interesting because they are unexpected. Experiencing someone else’s unique and surprising artistic voice is what I love most about good games / art experiences.
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Is there some reason to think that's the case? Batteries are pretty consistent technology, roughly equivalent across manufacturers and all sourced from a pretty small pool of OEMs. If that's the case I'd love to know more!
Same. It does everything pipenv does but it can actually install Ansible.
> People hacked Windows onto early Intel Macs before Apple made it official with Bootcamp!

Slightly different there though, considering that the early Intel Macs were more or less identical to contemporary PC laptops internally other than the lack of BIOS compatibility mode.

Drivers would be much more challenging in this case.
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Does HN have a top level category like this? Something like: Show HN. Or must you do a search for it?
> Nobody identifies as a git or the descendant of gits.

I see you've never been to Finland.[0] (Perhaps Linus comes from a long proud line of gits ;) )

[0] I briefly considered saying Switzerland, after a Stan Freberg skit where he speaks in an outrageous accent and claims to be from Switzerland "that way, nobody gets offended". Crockford's page with various types of JavaScript inheritance (including Swiss inheritance) unfortunately now has a broken link to the Fredberg skit.
> I see no reason why DST code (which is generally implemented as an extra timezone) could straightforwardly be adapted to handle a single permanent shift of time.

The point is that we don't have to add the additional code to handle leap hours, as it can be implemented as a large swath of time zone changes.

We can imagine that there would be two versions of UTC, one before the leap hour (hereafter UTC) and one after the leap hour (hereafter UTC'). After the leap hour UTC and UTC' will coexist, where UTC' = UTC-1. Since time zone definitions themselves have UTC offsets, the trick is that instead of replacing all occurrences of UTC with UTC' (so that they would have UTC' offsets) we replace those offsets to have the same net effect. For example EST is UTC-5 before the leap hour and UTC'-5 = UTC-6 after the leap hour, so we pretend that the definition of EST changed to UTC-6.

Note that this approach essentially fixes the UTC-TAI offset (as opposed to the UTC'-TAI offset) and makes UNIX timestamp (time_t) deviate from the current version of UTC (well, UTC'). I believe this is just a matter of definition and thus much doable than changing UTC every few year. After all, leap hours would be much rare, probably the first one would occur at least a few centuries later.
It is very much not working for me. I get a mostly-transparent creature. The opaque parts seem to follow the brushstrokes of my drawing. Maybe it is because it was trained on finely detailed material, whereas my drawing was a coarse doodle.
...and will be sunset in 18 months
I fought on the ground in Afghanistan. I know what it's like to fear dying, see friends blown apart, and expect not to see my family again. Believe it or not that's exactly why I think "trust then verify" is a good policy when handing over such a sophisticated weapon. Too many lives are at stake, on all sides, not to.
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The problem for EU is they haven't forged a nation like what US or India has done in spite of their cultural diversity. They're still essential squabbling little countries. How horrifically the south European countries were treated during the financial crisis instead of the EU pulling together just demonstrates how bad the situation is. Unless it federalizes, it will have little or no political impact.
Ah so you mean the mathematical unlikeliness that evolution brought forth the complexity we see today, not that evolution happens at all. That makes more sense. I think it's hard to come up with solid arguments either way, because we only have a poor understanding of genetics and hence we can only give very rough estimates on the amount of complexity needed, and how much can be introduced in a given unit of time.

I'm not very well versed on that topic, but as for speciation, that happens very easily. For example even relatively short term separation of populations can stop interbreedability, e.g. by changing mating behavior. Once that happens it's just a matter of a few million years of random walks to grow feathers where there has once been fur.
Do you have a suggestion or thesis? It's not so hard that it couldn't be taught to average humans. Even if it was extremely hard, it should still be taught, considering its importance.
> One great thing about biology is that it is easy to understand because everything makes sense and "works" like you think it should. Human created systems often times dont make sense at all.

Interesting. I tend to view it as the opposite.

Someone else’s system might not be created using the abstractions I would have chosen but with enough head scratching you can generally at least surmise causality. And with computer systems, you can test and re-run until there’s a grain of certainty.

With biology there’s so many independent moving pieces that it feels, to me, like our explanations of molecular and cellular processes are almost certainly lacking an encompassing view. And using them to explain macro biological phenomenon borders astrology. Sure our, experiments tell us something but we interpret results as rules while neglecting the wider context. I don’t want to project onto others but I don’t think my brain is equipped to understand the emergent processes at that scope of nested, interdependent, hierarchies. If you thought object-oriented programming was bad!...
> Lackluster performance means low adoption

And yet Electron rules cross-platform desktop development, not Qt nor wxWidgets or openstep.

Developers are fine with worse performance - even lackluster performance - if a platform or framework offers some other compelling advantage, especially _developer performance_ (i.e. it saves money).

Electron saves money because creating one-off custom UI widgets can be done easily and cheaply with just HTML+CSS+JS. While there are many things that are literally impossible with HTML+CSS+JS at-present (such as "splitting" a rendered UI, like how iOS 5 did with its notification banners and home-screen folders), but besides certain flashy effects everything is doable quickly. Whereas building a custom UI in any other platform would take days or weeks just to get a prototype done if you couldn't hack-on additions to an existing "UI component".

So your line of reason would be improved by saying:

"Lackluster performance with no other benefits means low adoption", the rest then follows.
Does svelte really has that much presence in industry?

People have difficulty finding devs with experience in vue, i don't think svelte would be doing anything better in that respect
The roborock S5 and older models can easily be rooted, and you can install alternative open source firmware [0], newer models still require hardware disassembly in order to flash the firmware, so it's not quite user friendly yet [1]

For newer versions you can however extract the API token from the app, and use it to control the vacuum without internet access and block its external internet access, since the vacuum uses a known protocol. [2]

[0] https://github.com/Hypfer/Valetudo

[1] https://github.com/dgiese/dustcloud/issues/213#issuecomment-...

[2] https://github.com/marcelrv/XiaomiRobotVacuumProtocol
Why do I need to trust the system when we could have verifiability? No one trusts the system in my country, which is what makes the people trust the results - they can see everything with their own eyes.

What happened to make democrats turn into this authoritarian behaviour that condemns questioning of any kind? Let people insist the earth is flat, that the sun is revolving around the earth etc. You see the people believing in that stuff beneath you, so you should be able to convince them of the truth using experiments and whatnot if you're so great.
Even if Alan Dean Foster gives up, his estate will still be owed. Or he could possibly sell the debt owned to a debt collector brave enough to tackle Disney. The issue isn't going to disappear over time.
The Mac is losing me
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You could address the substance of my comment by providing evidence. I'm trying to be polite about it, but the astroturfing is obvious.
Thank you, this should be added to the hacker news rules or something. I can't remember the last time there was a thread related to personalized recommendations and someone didn't complain about irrelevant results.
When both allies were spying on each other, then sure, you can go "hehe look at us sillies xD".

But when it's just one party doing the spying, it violates trust, not builds it, as the US has learned.

It's hard to measure how much the Snowden revelations have contributed to the distancing of US allies, since there was also someone else who contributed greatly to the ongoing political isolation of the US, but it certainly didn't help build trust.
Simpleton working on the Android client here. You guys did a decent job! The Plaid flow is a little quirky, but it's like that for us as well.
Danny work's has been foundational to behavioral economics. I have however struggled to find practical applications of Thinking Fast and Slow (TFAS). I find a lot of the research descriptive and not prescriptive i.e. works likes this rather than do this or don't do this. This is the same struggle with mental models (e.g. Farnam Street's writings), they are fun to read but almost impossible to apply. The only mental models that work are the ones that I have extracted from lived experience often at great cost.

How have people taken TFAS and put it into action in their work or daily lives?
How does bankruptcy for corporations work? If that were true wouldn't companies just liquidate, payout to the founders, and screw over investors? But in reality don't courts require the debtors to be paid off first?
It depends on what you mean by "you don't mind."

I don't hope foreign intelligence services succeed. I hope our people and systems are better than theirs. But I do expect them to do it. It would be wrong for them not to do everything they can to secure their nations too.
Their laptops are overpriced closed mediocrity with a not so great reputation when it comes to reliability.

I'm still rocking used Intel ThinkPads, can run ME-cleaner and install coreboot myself, and rip out the internal wifi card in favor of a USB wifi dongle I can unplug for HW kill switch equivalence. They cost a few hundred bucks, support 16G RAM, and have epic keyboards+reliability.

The mntmn reform 2 [0] looks like an OPEN laptop effort far more worth supporting than anything Purism does in this space IMHO. Purism doesn't produce anything remotely resembling open hardware AFAIK.

[0] https://mntre.com/reform/
Interesting. I’m obviously not against paying interns money, but this might have the obvious unintended consequence of less available internships. We’ll have to see.
Are those youtubers, or their content still around?
nvm, sugar seems to be a special case: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceFyF9px20Y
This seems like a similar comment that would have been made about drum machines. Creative people will always find a way to push the limits of a new technology that makes something difficult suddenly trivial.
No, you just want a faster horse.
I remember reading about bioinformatics as a teenager and thinking it was the best option in the world,a career combining a number of my interests! For a little while I was semi interested in looking at that after HS, but I had a bit of trouble finding out exactly what was involved in day to day work and it wasn't exactly something big in hobbyist circles.

Of course, things didn't work out that way, I never ended up going to college, or ever really thinking about any science again until the last year or two.
I don't get what any government has to do with it. Almost all information now is consumed via Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube. These are private companies that has their own censorship rules and push their own agenda aggressively. Government has no control over this, even USA government as was seen recently when Facebook blocked links to NYT articles and Twitter was censoring Trump twits.

All other countries (except for China that just blocks Google entirely) have to live with the fact that all information consumed by their citizens is controlled by private companies from USA.

E.g. when I just started using YouTube, most of my recommendations in Russia were "opposition" channels (mostly by notorious A. Navalny - a daft populist). When I ignored one channel from YouTube recommendations, it offered me another channel with the same content. I had to explicitly ignore these channels for months before it stopped offering them to me. It still continue to offer me channels with more subtle and clever anti-Russian propaganda. Pro-Russian channels on YouTube are blocked regularly. Pro-Russian videos are blocked even more often or they are hidden from search results (e.g. when someone does a video about rampant rusophobia in a movie or a game).

I've canceled my Facebook account because of this. My FB feed was always full of rusophobic articles and all accounts that are even mildly pro-Russian (I'm talking about accounts of Russian people living in Russia) are regularly blocked temporarily or permanently.
So Google finally forced my hand yesterday regarding the Google Play Music closing. I’ll be moving to Apple Music or whatever it’s called.

Like most of the other people here, I have zero faith in that company running a project for any reasonable amount of time.

All the “Googlers” here should stop hiding behind their monitors every time a bad story comes out, and show some spine once in awhile.

It’s all fun and games when a product is launched. How about you show some initiative when we tell you to quit shutting shit down. Or is that suddenly not your problem?
As someone who has been editing OSM for over 4 years now with thousands of edits in my hometown, its really interesting to have now big players come in and contribute to this project. Almost always otherwise the situation is reversed. They build a competing product and extend that version only. Here they are contributing together because the competition aka Google maps is still far ahead in terms of names and addresses and buildings and stuff. Still, I do my bit so yeah
> There are cases where Wikipedia is biased, not because of any intention of people to be biased, but just because no one cares about that thing except fans of that thing.

This woefully understates the very intentional bias of editors.

As an example, take a look at the talk page for the Wikipedia article on Links between Trump associates and Russian officials, which includes bombshells such as "Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross has shares in Navigator, a publicly traded shipping company that has contracts with Russian gas company Sibur, held in off-shore accounts. Co-owners of Sibur have ties to Vladimir Putin and are under U.S. sanctions".

The deduction required to conclude that this is evidence of 'Links between Trump associates and Russian officials' borders on the absurd.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Links_between_Trump_assoc...
Can we look forward to a Netrunner card generator? :)

GAN-generated art, name and flavor text, a perhaps more structured rules engine for the card type and behavior, and AlphaZero to play the card in a deck against itself a few thousand times to tune the balance.
if i want to learn more bio not bc i want to hack or edit genes or whatever but because of reasons such as:

understanding autoimmune diseases,
the treatments for them,
relationship to other issues,
medication and their mechanism of actions,
and just a whole host of other stuff

basically i want to learn how to help people i know who suffer from multiple autoimmune diseases and the mental health/daily life and fertility struggles associated with them,

where should i go?

thank you!