skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It falls under "don't treat science like a bunch of gotchas". There's a lot of shit we don't know. There's a reasonable argument that the observed lensing might be refractive index distortions from increased gas density in the bow shocks, aka, "actual lensing".
where did you discuss outages of HN's previous provider?
They called him names?
Seems like a great way to prevent recordings by having one officer move towards onlookers and force them an arbitrary distance away
And I thought most discussions on HN were helpful and high quality
"normalize" does not mean anything because there is no base rate of interest. the Fed underpins the whole thing as it provides the reserve balances for our currency.
Dropbox premium does this. My entire historical archive is up there and am super happy with their search!
But you already have the right to record which has been upheld in court. Now in AZ when faced with a court argument that you were too close to the action you can point to a law that defines too close.
I think I looked at using Google Drive for OCR, but it was limited to 2 meg files or only a few pages or something? I had a lot of higher resolution pages (1k pages, 300 or 600dpi), so this was a non-starter for me.
Really? I guess I'd believe it. He was a wealthy aircraft designer / Hollywood A-lister.

Fun fact about Howard Hughes, he once crashed a biplane during the filming of a movie he was directing. (One of four airplane crashes he experienced)

The stunt pilots had all refused to try the maneuver he wanted to do, so he hopped into the plane, took off, and did exactly what they anticipated.

It's not clear whether he was pulled from the wreckage or found in a nearby hangar after walking away from it, but he survived and finished the movie, which made a loss despite being the top-grossing film of 1930.

Celebrities, eh?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell%27s_Angels_(film)
Very cool. Reminds me of the also underground London Post Office Railway.

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

edit: Take note of the mention of road traffic reduction in both articles. Some things never change!
I’m one of those rule follower types. Worked in govt for a while. Long time democrat “big govt” voter.

If I’m losing faith it’s got to be a bad sign I think. So I believe these stats. I never thought govt was great, but very often “good enough”.

Then we got cdc blocking Covid testing, Biden doing his big EV summit without Tesla and going on about GM being the one changing things, the space launch system boondoggle, just makes it hard to trust govt will spend money wisely
It seems like they know the responsible carriers, but not the originating customer of those carriers, probably because they're fly by night organizations. These recent orders are basically the FCC saying to the responsible carriers:
"We've told you about this before, you've failed to uphold your promises to stop it, so here's a cease and desist and failure to comply and provide information about how you're complying will result in you being de-peered completely."

And then telling all the other US carriers that they are now authorized to identify and block such calls from the responsible carriers without running afoul of the FCC rules that normally require all carriers to carry for other carriers.

If the originating carriers get de-peered, the FCC will effectively allow other carriers to not carry any of their traffic, legitimate or otherwise and put them out of business.
Election fraud accusations were reported on constantly without any evidence by right wing media.

This is from a ruling in the case against foxnews that they tried to have dismissed:
“Even assuming that Fox News did not intentionally allow this false narrative to be broadcasted, there is a substantial basis for plaintiffs’ claim that, at a minimum, Fox News turned a blind eye to a litany of outrageous claims about plaintiffs, unprecedented in the history of American elections, so inherently improbable that it evinced a reckless disregard for the truth,” Cohen wrote in his decision.

Just a note, this is not a judgment just a finding that the case can proceed
reddit.... shudders
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28479595
That works for the trivial example, but in a larger program I can't realistically say (a,b,c,d,e,f......zzz) = (....) to get the equivalent of an "atomic" update to the program's state.
I wrote and operate a high throughput go service with somewhat tight memory requirements. It became impracticable to try tuning the memory footprint to avoid OOMs while balancing gc pauses with just the GOGC flag. I'm happy to say that I started using the soft memory limit shortly it landed and it's been a game changer for us.
I also have found that kids pick up APL very easily. Schools are probably missing a huge opportunity not using it to teach math and computer science.
Does anyone here actually believe Twitter doesn’t know this and have exact metrics down to a science?

Or those stock options and gains too big to have any real morals?
A group of people would have to band together to share the same table (windex) with each other. Personally I am interested in seeing people try to cultivate their own niche indexes instead of working towards a common one.
If the term 'soc2' makes sense within 2-3y, gsuite/ms and move on to more important tasks. Counterproductive area to innovate or penny pinch on.
That's before you even get into "I think I'm 10ft away, but the cop says I'm 7ft so now I'm going to jail and will always have this arrest on my record even if charges are dropped"
I think never having considered this type of thing is why I could never make a sweet roller coaster tycoon coaster that didn't make everyone throw up.
> More people paid to watch others ride these early coasters rather than ride themselves

I had no idea roller coasters have been around this long. The photos are laugh-out-loud terrifying. I was shocked that anyone would pay to ride them until I read the quote above. Now it makes sense. I’d pay to watch that too!
never. It's a very deeply corrupt country.
They did prosecute someone, which looked to me like a case of throwing an underling out of the bus, but it looks like that person was acquitted by a jury:

https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/boeing-test-pilot-...

Former Boeing test pilot found not guilty of deceiving FAA

A jury in Texas has found a former Boeing test pilot not guilty of deceiving federal regulators about a key flight-control system on the Boeing 737 Max jetliner

(March 2022)
MethaneSAT is quite important!
> Twitter can’t give Musk the data he needs to determine fake accounts.

Twitter has already given Musk access to the "firehose of data". [1]

Musk bragged about buying Twitter because of the bots. Nobody is going to believe that he suddenly cares now that there are too many, not after he waived due diligence and set the buying price as a 420 joke.

[1] https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-twitter-firehose/
Right move, too late. Everyone I know has largely abandoned the possibility of answering unknown numbers.
Don’t skimp on this or your conferencing solution. Google and Zoom absolutely.
Wolvic XR browser
I was really hoping Musk would bring Starlink for cheaper then Rogers et all. I think for now they will mainly focus on rural areas but as time goes on hoping they lower the prices enough that even city folks with clear line of site to satellites can hook up and ditch Rogers.
If you are already the most hated company in Canada, why do you need to bother spinning anything or trying?
Wolvic 1.0 – the next stage in XR browsing
This well-known J dude has done some: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzK2SazvCxM

And J is almost isomorphic to APL.
> What exactly is wrong with this? Previously, couldn't cops just claim you were interfering regardless of distance or number of warnings?

What's wrong is this - I'm filming some police brutality from the legally mandated 8 feet away. Then a cop moves 1 foot closer to me. Ooops, look like my camera/phone is confiscated and I'm under arrest.
Yeah, 8 feet is pretty dang close to police action. I would consider that "close range".
Yeah. Bare metal failing is approximately the worst case scenario behind data loss. Being down all morning is an impressive recovery time, because they had to provision an EC2 server and transfer all data to it.
As a matter fact lots of things can potentially benefit. Elastic, duckdb, but more importantly the new projects.

I was discussing with Wes that we can put arrow compute on top of neon storage.
Certain modern(-ish) roller coasters do have more circular loops than others. Specifically Schwarzkopf[1] coasters are famous for having more circular loops (and the more intense positive Gs that come with it). Anyone in the Bay Area might remember Zonga[2] at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom which featured the more circular loops.

Also maybe of interest is Blue Flash [3], a backyard roller coaster that has a loop that reminds me of old school circular loops.

[1] https://rcdb.com/6844.htm

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsunami_(roller_coaster)

[3] https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/blue-flash-backyard-roll...
What is most surprising about this, is that he had built up a significant percent ownership before the offer.
Honestly I have no idea what's going on with this code.

Where is `zero()` defined? Why does a `Numeric` have a function to `add` two numbers? Shouldn't you add a single number to a numeric? What is the relationship between `<T>` and `Numeric<T>`? I thought `T` was a `Numeric`?

Edit: Upon closer inspection, I kind of get what's going on. But it's really cryptic for something that should be simple to express.
Love it! I've been meaning source my supplements more intelligently than via local sales and bargins, particularly as I have family that can't go without some. A friend mentioned companies that create custom multivitamins, but without looking into it, I assume it comes with a markup; OTOH, I own and love a Little Capsule Machine, but still do t have the time to buy in bluk and use it.

Other's are welcome to reply with your own situation and thoughts!
And yes. MySQL people reached out as well. Off strategy for us right now, but definitely doable.
I think you missed the point: How many gay black men own news institutions, or run them?
They’re just going to have one cop be the “perimeter” 50 ft away.
The people in those states are your fellow citizens. If you don't care about their well being, then you might as well split now. What exactly makes you United besides a cultish devotion to your origin story and a self image of Freedom Loving that hasn't matched reality since your independence.

The freedom for individual states rights you espouse has always been used for almost exclusively civil right violations.

If you don't do something about that, you are complicit. Now you might say there is nothing you CAN do about it.

But that is the problem. That is WHY the rest of the free world looks at you and says "You are not a democracy."

Because you couldn't change this even if you wanted to.

The last time you tried you came close. You had to fight a war over it but you almost got there. Then you fucked it up during the Reconstruction.
>Less than 5% of the reported users. Reported by them.

I don't know what this means. They report on DAU in their earnings calls, and apparently those numbers were far from accurate once Musk and his people peeked under the hood. If that's the case, they may have legal liability for fraud.
Have you been in an AV? In my experience (around 50 rides) overall it's a more relaxed and smooth ride; strikingly so, even at this early stage in the game. There are occasional uncomfortable and/or confusing moments, but they're already becoming much less frequent. Lyft/Uber already feels less comfortable, and even less safe. It's horse vs car; elevator operator vs buttons; Blackberry vs iPhone all over again.
They both produce the same outcome, they feed the consumers existing biases/priors and reinforce the notion that the other side is contemptible. They just do it it in different ways.
But then the cop runs towards you and now everyone filming can potentially end up in prison.
True, that's similar - but I wouldn't say that SQL alone is enough to build an application.
I have a Tini midi controller. It’s only a couple octaves but has 8 finger drumming pads. I like those for my limited beat making ability. It’s an akai and it’s was pretty cheap and pretty fun. I use it more than my full size keyboard which doesn’t fit on my desk…

I often wondered how well those keyboard with light up keys work for learning…
How is media left leaning according to you? How does it manifest?
exactly, that guy was just a fall guy. If a system / organization is designed such that the fate of something as critical as an aircraft depends on ONE test pilot, that system needs to be re-assessed. All those managers / senior engineers / decision makers should be fired / fined and the worst of them should be put in prison.
> Twitter claims 5% of daily active users are bots

You also left out an important piece: 5% of their *monetizable* DAU. Not just DAU.

But you're right, Elon's been convincing the public that Twitter has made claims they never actually made.
A banana's mass is on the order of 100g, so it's 20x as radioactive in terms of mBq/g, not 2000x
Hmm, my biggest issue with Stripe was verifying my account while living in one country, while being a national of, and having a company registered in another. Their system just thinks that if your company is in one country, your home address must naturally be as well.
The title is, to me, 10x the impact of the event.

Per the actual deeds, the person earned a revenue of 100m from the equipment, with millions of profit gained from the sales.

The equipments' market price tag adds up to 1B. Which suggest authentic Cisco equipment is 10X the price.

I did not actually really everything, and don't know if the sold equipment is of lower quality. But just from the 10X price difference, I think Cisco needs to be disrupted...
Nice.

op-1 is such a beautiful and excellent sounding machine. i'm sure it'll bring you decades of joy.

I could never bring myself to buy one, we(now defunct music tech startup) estimated the BOM cost between $40-140, and I couldn't get over the psychological hump to pay $849 for it. That was about a decade ago and of COURSE every time I see an op-1 on a friend or coworkers desk I have to play with it for an hour or so...

Nice.
Just an FYI the GitHub button hover seems broken on my (Safari) browser.
>Hacker News Guidelines - What to Submit : https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups.

If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

Off-Topic:

Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon.

Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
Looking at just headlines doesn't give you the full picture of bias, but it's a good start.

The most notable CNN bias indicator would be having to pay out nearly half a billion to a minor for slandering him. It's not the only event of that nature either.

But usually the bias is omission of facts and even stories, speculation, and slant within the story. In the Sandman case it was only showing partial footage that cut out him being approached and made him look like the aggressor.
That is why you should have it live streamed so even if they confiscate/ accidentally smash your phone it is too late.
Let’s not be disingenuous. He hasn’t committed any war crimes. His grandfather and his grandfather’s peers did.

https://www.pacificwar.org.au/JapWarCrimes/Cross-section_Jap...

His government denies they ever happened

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-05-07-me-54705-...

https://time.com/5546/japanese-nhk-officials-world-war-ii/
I am in the US. I spent a long time in Canada. The population of the US is huge. While the shootings I agree are egregious, in every other way the US is better. The average citizens in Canada have no upward mobility, no healthcare except for absolute emergencies and no bright hope for the future.
Wiby is amazing and one of my favorite ways to discover the more unique side of the internet. I love to kill time by clicking "Surprise me" and half the RSS feeds I subscribe to are from this!

Thank you so much for making Wiby! I have truly enjoyed what its brought!!
As in my post, assuming this reaches a "negotiated" settlement there are going to be two important values: the original purchase price (OPP), and the fair market value (FMV).

If Twitter "wins", they get Elon to pay the full market value. Now, they don't actually want Elon to be involved, so if Elon pays the difference between FMV and OPP (~$24B) that's essentially the same as buying then divesting with fewer steps.

If Elon "wins", he gets out paying nothing.

So the range is 0 to $24B.

Elon has a terrible case here, so the best negotiating tactic he has is being a disruptive asshole so TWTR just wants it done with (this is playing to his strengths). I'm also making a big assumption about the FMV, which could easily rebound a bit by EOY. With those factors pulling it down from 24, I'm expecting in the 10-15 range, and if I had to guess I'd say $12.5B.

Pick your own inputs for your own estimate, but this is the deal structure.
Don’t even need zoom to be honest. I’ve never had trouble with google meet.
A Review of the Ferguson Imperial Model of Covid-19 Infection (2020) [pdf]
Read both.

With both sides of the story you see what is being emphasized or downplayed by each party. You also see the shared themes.

Add in international sources and see how they differ.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16076041

4 million requests per day in 2018.
Read the letter from the lawyers. They gave Musk’s team limited access via api until a couple of days ago despite asking for it since may. The limited access was rate limited and had other restrictions. It’s obvious that with a rate limit the amount of data is not enough to do what they need to do.
Yea, I really don't understand. I think maybe you have to be a billionaire to get it.
Do they edit the pdfs, or do they index them so you can search? OCRmyPDF does the first, so it's usable elsewhere; glancing around, it looks like Dropbox does the second, which can't be saved for use elsewhere.
This sort of post-outage discussion and speculation is kind of like debating where Justin Bieber gets his tires changed and what brand he’s going to use after he ran over a nail.

The only reason we are here doing this sort of thing is because we are “Justin Bieber” fans. We aren’t here because changing a tire is interesting, unique, nor will we learn anything from it – especially this particular tire (HN is like the Toyota Corolla of “vehicles” compared to the other complex mission-critical distributed systems that make up other popular web services).
Aside: How did you get the superscript? Is that supported by HN's formatter or is that just a literal superscript character?
Twitter is nice for learning about outages...
It's about making the marker between geological epochs official.

Specifically the line between the Holocene (the past 12,000 years since the last glacial epoch) and the Anthropocene Epochs (the most recent period in Earth's history when human activity started to have a significant impact on the planet's climate and ecosystems).

The marker they are looking to make official is one that will survive for thousands of years and be independant of paper and electronic records, buildings, etc.

The paper fleshes out the properties and expected long term behaviour of the approximately 3 tons of Pu-239 released to the environment from above ground tests, which commenced in 1945 CE, and peaked in the Northern Hemisphere between 1961 and 1962 CE prior to being banned in 1963.

( assuming no additional above ground releases from the NATO-Russia exchanges of late 2022 | 2023 )
I've run linux on a Sparcstation 10, a Pentium Pro 200MHz, tiny ARM OpenWRT systems, and two top-500 super computer clusters. I've run it on my 2008 Macbook Pro and my Raspberry Pi. Even my stupid Android phone runs linux. My tablet is linux. My thermostat is linux.

I've been using linux for over 20 years now and can confirm that linux sucks.

Hopefully my casket will run linux so I can bitch about it when I'm dead.
How dare they overstep their bounds and hurt small businesses!!! /s
That would be a hard pass from me
But is there a difference ? You can have a monolith and still develop in independent enough components. No need for a complex infrastructure if all you want is modularized code.
The author is Thomas C. Hales, the mathematician who proved the Kepler Conjecture ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Callister_Hales ).
And then once you find the book and get it shipped to you it gets destroyed in shipping because they put it in a padded envelope or a box with zero padding. Every book that I've ordered from them has been damaged. I quit ordering books once it happened the fourth time.
It's not possible for the amount to be equal considering the number of people, companies, and news stories involved
> I have been waiting for years. I collect historical DNS data.

Why do you collect this? And in what format?
> It also seems like a protection for recording the police.

This was already constitutionally protected. And this new law is likely going to be challenged on its constitutionality.
Agree with both of y'all. It was a mistake to say I'm learning the piano with this tool!

I typically use https://www.basicmusictheory.com/c-major-scale to look up scales when I forget. For me this is going to be a quicker & more fun reference manual
AWS workmail or Google workspace are both great.

Workmail has a better management interface for the admin whereas Google has a better user UI (at least for the webapp).
Sure, let’s pretend the entire market hasn’t sunk.
I hate how much I can relate to this.
Even the paid options are very cheap - we have 25 mailboxes and pay less than $1K per year.
Flâneries
> Safety and environmental impact are commonly accepted as the two largest issues with cars. We are poised to address both of these over the next two decades. Yet cars are still somehow intrinsically bad nonetheless?

Urban designs that encourage (practically require) walking a few more kilometres/miles a day would add years to healthy lifespan at a population level.

So if you prefix "Health and" to Safety, then yes, cars are intrinsically worse than most alternatives.

Also, the environmental impact of cars does not just come from their emissions. Spreading cities out requires longer (and thicker) wires, longer pipes, and more maintenance of roads and berms, and it causes more soil loss.

Self driving and electric motors (I am guessing these are what you refer to with "we are poised to address") can't solve these problems.

In transport the choices are not between "good" and "bad", they are between bad with one set of disadvantages, and bad with another set of disadvantages. To me, urban designs that require less transport overall are to be preferred.
Motivation to post: discussion is interesting. Sharing and hearing opinions is interesting.
> Where is `zero()` defined?

It's defined by whatever implements the interface.

> Why does a `Numeric` have a function to `add` two numbers?

Because Java doesn't have user-defined operator overloading, so if you want to add stuff in a generic fashion you can't rely on `+`.

> Shouldn't you add a single number to a numeric? What is the relationship between `<T>` and `Numeric<T>`? I thought `T` was a `Numeric`?

`Numeric` doesn't contain data, it just defines operations on numbers. So `Numeric<Integer>` would define operations on `int`s, `Numeric<BigInteger>` would define operations on `BigInteger`s, etc.
People keep saying this... But twitter board accepts the very first offer from Musk.

Who does that in a business negotiation?