skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We can prove that almost all irrational numbers are normal, which is a quite large set. It's just when we pick out a particular irrational number that we have difficulty proving normality (unless that irrational number was intentionally constructed to be normal).
I was thinking of the 11/03, not 11/23. And the disks were in a separate enclosure, most of the dishwasher size box was empty air. Yes, the boards in the LSI series were much smaller than the equivalent PDP boards - they had a name for the form factor but I can't remember what it was.

Of course I may be misremembering things, this was 40 years ago.
I dump articles into instapaper send them to my kindle when there's a pile of them. That's usually every week. Then, when I have some free time, waiting for my beef stew, for instance, I'll chip at them little by little.

Some really short ones --- a short news for instance, I just skim over them when I see them.

Some articles require more concentration, and I'll usually add them to my At-Desk to do list. When I'm at my desk, and has a chunk of free time, I'll pick one and read.

One thing is that over the week, some articles will have the same topic, with varying depth and quality. So by waiting a little bit, I can often read less words while still being informed.

But I probably spend much more time on books, mostly in mornings and evenings, because I prefer books in general. However, I read fictions most of the time. It's probably not what you have in mind, and it isn't really comparable to articles.
Chang’e 5 polarization in the ATA observations
>“Computing” was excel and word.

Yes. And I also wish my teacher told me Excel runs the world. I always thought Excel was some school / student tools for basic spreadsheets, it was only decades later did I realise the world is literally run on spreadsheets.
Individual liberty is not so great for a kid who likes games and useless videos more than doing homework.

Somewhere around 1% of the kids can be responsible. Letting the rest go feral isn't proper parenting or school administration.
I agree with you that the fees for some of the cryptocurrency’s make them impractical, and this certainly will hinder mainstream adoption. I do not think that I will try to pay for coffee with some of my antique gold coins any time soon, but that does not render them any less valuable. bitcoin plays a similar role in the context of digital assets for the moment. It frustrates me when I read other comments here dismissing cryptocurrency out of hand without taking the time to understand it. As you rightly point out, some tokens are better at certain tasks depending on the situation In the same way that some fiat currencies are circumstantially better than others... I think a number of people in Lebanon would prefer BTC to LBP right now regardless of the fees. For my part, I am more concerned with micro transaction fees for running applications, and I will leave the speculation to someone else.
Near copy how? Their UIs? Rebooting a project or cloning another project and copying the old UI without sharing code isn't necessarily hard. I've done it plenty. Netscape was already doing it internally—each platform's (Unix, Windows, etc) GUI was a separate project. The details don't really match up, either. Netscape 3 was written in C. Netscape 6, Thunderbird et al are drawn by Gecko and written in JavaScript and XUL—which didn't even exist at the time of Netscape 3.
Occhams razor: A magic weapon is causing brain damage for every diplomat in a country that, conveniently, happens to be on the presidents short list of evil places he does not like.

or

After taking office in 2016 the president sought to roll back the cuban thaw and needed a convenient pretext.

suspiciously this weapon was never deployed against a single person at Guantanamo bay.
Here in Canada we have e-transfers securely from bank account to bank account, in minutes/hours.
Cuba really isn't close enough to Russia to be "in it's sphere".
There are plenty of established scientists that are going against the method of the current approach, they tend to get silenced in the media.

It's not like lockdowns have any scientific evidence, everyone just copied what China was doing. If they are effective then you would expect Peru to not have the second highest fatality rates after 8 months of strict lockdown.
Both SQL and NoSQL will scale fine for 99% of apps (and let's be honest, ~90% of apps don't need any scale).

Your data schema/format should be dictated by the data itself more than some handwavey "we might need to scale" requirement that isn't true the majority of the time.
Assuming that the data at the start of a zip file is valid is an invalid way to interpret a zip file. Zipfiles start at the end ALWAYS. The format was designed to be able to just jump to the end of the file, read the table of contents, append new data, write a new table of contents. That new table of contents might not even reference the data at the front of the file.

It was designed this way because it comes from the era of floppy disks. If you had a zip file spanning multiple discs and you wanted to update `firstfile.txt` at the front of the zip file you didn't want to have to insert all 10 disks and read and re-write all the data. You just wanted to insert the last disk, read the table of contents, append your new `firstfile.txt` and write a new table of contents. The invalid `firstfile.txt` still exists at the front but it's ignored by the table of contents.

If you're going do stupid tricks by scanning from the front then you'd be better off choosing a format for which that's actually valid like .tar.gz or something
Did it just pop-up or you searching for one.
Nominative is "dies" which is not stellar as a brand in English.
The key here is that no one in the chain--not the product manufacturers, not the sellers, the construction company, the regulators who were supposed to be on watch, etc, had any interest or incentive to actually ensure that the product was safe and being used appropriately. Until it was too late and people died.

And yeah, the slow dissolution of the division between the corporate and government is a real trend.
I just accidentally got a hackerman like you expelled from my daughter's uni. They sent a peer review for a doc but sent it 3 minutes before deadline and was corrupt. Being helpful programmer and teaching daughter I opened it with a hex editor. Top of file referenced /var/www/corruptmyfilecom. Which seems suspicious. It's a also a website for exactly what you suspect. This was for 5% of grade on assignment and meant to boost your grade by rewarding engagement and peer review.

Daughter dug further and found the doc text (so proud) and it was a outline with loren ipsum in it. Dated 3 minutes before the corruption.

This started the chain of events where one student was no longer in class, teacher was flabbergasted at stupidity for zero gain, and then kid not being in school anymore (I guess was not first issue). Uni it department also checked and verified and added to autoscans in monopoly software. Daughter got full credit for assignment since she had noting to peer review.

I should of been suspicious, I haven't seen a corrupted small file in years.

Hackerman is there but so is overly qualified accidental white hat
This pedophile scandal?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotherham_child_sexual_exploit...
Trying to align a microwave link on a ship that's floating (i.e. not completely steady) sounds like a horrible nightmare.
> This was a few years ago, fees are probably higher now

Anecdote: I have a U.S. online bank account with no minimums or maintenance fees. Travelled to Europe a few months ago. Took out Euros with the ATM fee reimbursed by my bank and an implied FX spread less than 1% to spot.
May’s Theorem
> In the UK, I have low-cost, fast, reliable, accessible money transfers. Basic bank accounts are free, and come with reliable free instant transfers to any other UK bank.

As an EU citizen living in the UK, it boggles my mind that "EU Faster Payments" was not implemented as part of the eurozone, if not the EU as a whole.

As far as I know there's nothing technically preventing this, anyone has an insight into why it isn't a thing?
Is this in all seriousness your answer to the questions? And yes, I looked through your rather chaotic pitch.
I always scrape recipes now from the first few searches of google but that wasn’t always the case. I remember borrowing recipes or flipping through worn, tattered notebooks my mom kept. The pages were stained and items and quantities were scratched off or altered, the margins contained illegible notes. Many recipes had an origin or little story: “Jen’s recipe” or “Pop’s favourite”.

So I like the project. Cool that you can cross off ingredients as you go. Curious eight-star rating system.
It can be (consider that some Emacs power-users used to do most things in Emacs, including email, Usenet, etc.), but this reminded me of something...

Many years ago, some new founder I knew asked to see my elaborate .emacs file. I was reluctant, because it had some slightly sensitive info in it , as well as unreleased bits I might turn into packages. But he reassured me he just wanted to see how I'd done some things, to inform some non-Emacs thing he was about to build, and he'd keep it private.

Sometime later, one of the developers at his startup happened to mention that "everyone" uses my .emacs file.

Today, that person I let see my very personal .emacs has sold the original startup, and is CEO of a different business you've heard of, but I received nothing from the indiscretion. :)
Are they reusing the original CA? That's supposedly still blocked by Firefox isn't it?

https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2019/08/21/protecting-our-...

---

Nevermind, I went and checked. It's a new CA.

The certificate is here: https://isca.gov.kz/

The first button downloads the cert.

It's a newly issued one, valid from Feb 2020 to 2040.

I've put it on Pastebin as well: https://pastebin.com/ERqCMCBf

---

Common Name: Information Security Certification Authority CA

Organization: ISCA

Country: KZ

Valid From: February 27, 2020

Valid To: February 27, 2040

Issuer: Information Security Certification Authority CA,ISCA

Serial Number: 287dce0ce3c6f7aaa33ff965e76ea98c824a59db
It seems to me that if the high-rise building truly resists the spread of fire, then sheltering in place is probably the optimal solution. However I just can't trust my own life to that. Furthermore one of the hazards used to justify this advice was the possibility that hallways or stairs are already filled with smoke. Well if that's the case, doesn't that perhaps call into question the premise that fires stay contained in these buildings?

I found a local copy of the video, it was from the London Fire Brigade and links to the site knowtheplan.co.uk which is now defunct. I can't find the video still on the net, but it might be out there somewhere. Edit: found it: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Vy4L8B7KI9k
If I have to draw conclusions, I would think some defensive measures going wrong.
It's complete bullshit. If there actually were RF attacks of such huge intensities, the US would have trivially recorded them.

Yet that didn't happen. I don't see any reason why no measurements and proof would be measured given the extreme ease of doing so, except that it just didn't happen.
Why is every article from bloomberg that gets upvoted on HN based on lies and misconceptions?

No, we haven't reached "peak oil" unless you redefine it differently than it's mostly been defined for decades.
Jira is another good example. Or enterprise software like oracle or salesforce to a degree.

When the response to your question to the customer of "what features do you want" is "every part of my job I don't like" it's going to end up that way. Or you'll loose the bullet list bingo during aquisition.
Oh yeah, totally fair and an interesting difference between Diem and other cryptocurrencies. I still think volatility and transaction latency/costs are an issue, but assuming we fix those (and stipulating they can be fixed) it doesn't seem unwise for smaller countries to use cryptocurrencies. It would more or less be gold standard monetary policy in a box, and while that system has drawbacks, a nice thing about it is it's pretty hard to corrupt. It would be harder (not impossible, but meaningfully harder) to manipulate currency and politically choose winners and losers via monetary policy, which is a big deal especially for growing or newly stable countries.

But for those countries, it really seems like choosing Diem is the worst of both worlds. You're still pinned to the Dollar, you're still at the whim of unaccountable controlling stakeholders, and you have all the downsides of cryptocurrency on top of it. I struggle to think of a group outside of Facebook that Diem is at all good for, honestly.
>As far as I know there's nothing technically preventing this, anyone has an insight into why it isn't a thing?

Banks wanting to make more money?
Not that it's proof or anything, but supposedly ICE or a similar org has undercover backscatter XRay vans. Don't remember where I read that, but it was years ago.
> My viewpoint is: calling for ethnic cleansing through violence creates real harm (people have been murdered!), so private citizens and organizations should not support people who advocate for ethnic cleansing.

Oh, I wholly agree on that part! It's absolutely not that. I think deplatforming that stuff is good. Good for society, and good because you get to watch them complain about being oppressed.

> Also, blaming the two party system misunderstands US politics. Most Democratic politicians have not called for deplatforming of white supremacists — it's mostly a leftist idea.

Precisely. My point was that the original article and much American political discourse has trouble distinguishing between the Democratic party and "leftists". And different groups of leftists - that often can't get along. It also kind of exists in the opposite direction, in that centrists aren't fascists. That's the distortion, and I think the two-party system makes the tribalism much worse than it needs to be.
Glycyrrhizin: An old weapon against a novel coronavirus
Caveat: Chronic usage of black licorice can cause depleted potassium levels and eventual death.
Not OP, but I don’t read it as bait, and I don’t think having a solution in mind is a prerequisite for noting a problem.

As for your question, ideas like UBI, post-growth capitalism, etc seem to move towards relaxing the ethics vs profit dilemmas that systematically drive these disasters (as well as most of the other slow-motion disasters like climate change, biodiversity loss, etc).
I agree with you, but there are some people around the world that don't trust their governments. A use-case most people here would agree with is in the yellow economic circle in Hong Kong: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_economic_circle

Using a cryptocurrency is kind of like a technological band-aid to a political problem. Viewed through the lens as a form of peaceful protest against the government, it makes sense. Otherwise, it's completely your call if you want to make transactions where the receiver has no obligation to provide the product or service you paid for.
yes but that does not cover everything geforce experience offers
I did the same (well, used a discarded GPU that my kids didn't need any more) and I have one caution: If you're using PyTorch, you'll want to have a CPU that at least supports AVX. The C++ libraries that ship with PyTorch assume AVX at compile time and don't have an option to disable at runtime. It's a PITA to recompile the entire stack.
> An unforgivably naive market of architects and contractors then began merrily specifying it for a wide range of uses well beyond its original test.

Architects are architects, Contractors are contractors, and neither are fire engineers. No one can be an expert on everything. This is why we have building codes, product certification, and engineering assurance process. The problem here appeared to be dishonest players. If certified independent labs were required to test products, and licensed engineers were required to approve the assembly and submit their letters of insurance for the permit, it seems like there would be a net benefit to the public (this is how it works in Canada). If there was a stronger regulatory system, the investigators would be able to look up the letters of assurance for this permit, obtain the project documentation from the responsible engineer, investigate and possible charge him with negligence if he failed to spec a certified fire assembly. It appears that in the UK, there is no clear hierarchy of responsibility. When everyone is responsible, no one is responsible.

As an aside, Fire rating generally involves more than just a single product - it requires an 'assembly'. That assembly must be recreated every time the product is used to achieve the fire rating. If the testing assembly required 1/2" non-combustible cement backing board, the installation also requires it. It sounds like the fire rated assemblies were not being followed in this case.
From the article:

> Three French and one German employee of Arconic say they might breach a law in France which prevents evidence being given to proceedings abroad.

> The law in question is known informally as the French Blocking Statute.

Maybe a French HN member can give us more info on this law.
Most of the recruiters that reach out are for crappy jobs (I know you are a senior engineering, here's an entry level QA job, do you know anyone interested).

Every so often I do get some decently sounding positions, but I've almost never seen how legitimate they are since I live in a low COL but work remotely for firms not located here, so most local areas can't match the pay.

I can almost set my calendar based on the yearly recruiters from Amazon I get reaching out, and in the past I have had some conversations (on the phone too) with Facebook recruiters (though all ultimately end up not going anywhere due to relocation requirements).
Don't Let Others Tell You What You Can't Do
Merging ZSH history files from different hosts with Scala
check out nvcleanstall
Have an eye on this project.
It's the equivalent of Lua and SQLite of JIT engines.
It is literally worth trillions ($27t)! The credit-worthiness of the USD is so good we've sold trillions of them. It's just such an inarguable stat haha.
Wow, send a bill to the company and ask them to renew their site license for the emacs config. Or opensource what you can of it and remove the competitive advantage they have.
Somewhat more retro, all that stops current nvidia drivers working on Xfree86 4.8 (from 2008, though we're working with an earlier version) is a single missing call, put this in a preloaded library:-

int miIsSolidAlpha(void)
{
/* fprintf(stderr,"miIsSolidAlpha called\n"); */
return 0;
}

I'm not sure if this is an argument for progress or not (we use embedded development systems, and it's really common to 'export DISPLAY=someothercomputer:0') this trivial hack means Eclipse/segger/other random IDE's run perfectly on systems some of which are 22 years old now.

Edit (requested build info):-

gcc -shared -Wl,-soname,nvtweak.so.1 -o nvtweak.so.1.0 nvtweak.c
Does any integrated USB hub support per-port power control? I'd like to control a directly-attached USB external hard drive to my Linux box.
Right to Buy - many of the council tenants will have bought their flats.
Banking is the lucrative and powerful form of rentier capitalism.

Combined with the ability to mine user data for 'insights' and you’ve got the greatest panopticon.

Hello corporate dystopia.
What are good beginner resources to learn Lean?
This. Cengage is the one I've had to use - your take tests within cengage's website, which is only accessible by buying the book, and the grades are reported back to the school's online course platform (blackboard for me). I didn't ask, but I would be surprised if the instructor offered any alternative to taking those tests and hands-on labs.
Assign pseudonyms to the kids.

Hans Pfeil --> Lo Wang

Consider also: tor browser, other VPN, blocking connections from browsers not in private mode, browser in VirtualBox, etc.
This has been downvoted, but I guarantee that people involved with this process would have read Yanis’ work (he’s one of the most famous economic ministers of the early 21st century) and been familiar with the Diem movement. I wonder what Diem25 will do now that they’ve been either trolled or namesquatted by Facebook, depending on how you want to look at it.

Maybe they’re hoping Diem25 will embrace the collision and ride on their platform?
The kernel they find is a function of the gradient descent path, which is a function of the data. So no, its nothing at all like a normal kernel machine, where we pick the kernel before seeing the data.

It also only applies to the continuous limit of non-stochastic GD, far from the real training methods used.

We don't gain any understanding either; understanding implies predictive power about some new situation, and I don't see any- and nor does the paper suggest them.

Looks like yet another attempt to attract attention by "understanding" NNs. Look, humans can't explain or understand how we drive, speak, translate, play chess, etc, so why should we expect to understand how models that do these work? Of course, we can understand the principles of the training process, and in fact we already do- the theory of SGD is well understood.
Oh that's interesting, like an energy economy.

I think... it's a little tenuous because the price would based on like, math, algorithms and ASICs more than scarcity of fuel (or pollution, or what have you), but definitely an interesting idea.
As a long time Rails developer, pushing products and prototypes out the door quicker than peers, it's heart-warming to see messages like yours more often on Hacker News lately.
Facebook Messenger can already transfer money between people. They could just expand that into a fully featured digital wallet to compete with WeChat, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Samsung Pay, Cash App, PayPal, etc. It's actually astonishing they didn't do this a decade ago.

I get the VC appeal of blockchain, but Facebook already has the money to fund it. Outside tech circles I don't think slapping a blockchain label on a product will make it more appealing.
Cloud, containers, AI and RPA will spur a strong tech spending rebound in 2021
Definitely a thing. The NYPD has them as well.

https://www.propublica.org/article/drive-by-scanning-officia...

> ABC News reporters Richard Esposito and Ted Gerstein provide one of the few accounts of the backscatter van in a book they wrote chronicling a year inside NYPD's bomb squad. Describing the security ahead of President Bush's motorcade to the 2004 Republican convention, they wrote that every vehicle entering the street in front of the hotel was ordered to drive between two unmarked white vans, which X-rayed each vehicle for bombs.
This article only mentions in passing the best approach so far: Uniform Type Identifiers (1). When it comes to file types and associations Mac OS X hit a homerun. This mechanism way more powerful than MIME types because:

UTIs use a reverse-DNS naming structure.
UTIs support multiple inheritance (which is a good thing in this context)
Using UTIs allow per file exceptions.

It really is a shame this was not implemented by any other OS than Mac OS X. It is one of the brilliant technical features it has. Together with bundles (2), they make for very powerful and flexible filing.

(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Type_Identifier

(2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundle_(macOS)
> unfortunately you’ll have to write it out each time you change the colour of a link

Or you can just use CSS variables:

<style>
:root {
--link-color: 0, 0, 0;
}
a {
color: rgb(var(--link-color));
text-decoration-color: rgba(var(--link-color), .2);
}
</style>
<a href="#">Hello world</a>
The federal government and the "corporate news media" have a lot more to lose by making shit up. They have actual jobs. What are your sources of information? A rando on Facebook under a fake handle?