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Ask HN: Anyone Have Expertise in Trigonometry?
howdy hn

im looking to collaborate with someone who is passionate about trigonometry, computational geometry, or just math in general! im trying to figure out if the white dot in the animation linked below can be computed in constant time, and if not what is the best that can be done? all the code i write these days is open-source, and i believe cracking this nut will go a long way for many!! any takers??

loop anatomy animation:

https://youtube.com/shorts/M83QFzrcnlc?feature=share
Couldn't you just have them play in a faraday cage? Surely there's enough money in the world championships of chess to arrange that. A metal detector and a room that can't be penetrated by wireless anal beads (pun intended) can't be that hard to arrange with a little budget right?
Does anyone know if the new evidence exonorates him or if it simply proved that the case and trial were mishandled?
My read of TFA is that author is complaining that companies are trying to push responsibilities onto FOSS authors that don't belong with the FOSS authors.

He includes complaints about Github there, but those are easily resolved by not using Github.

I believe that the author and I are on the same page here, generally. Have I misunderstood his essay?
In theory, as a US citizen, I have some control over the government oversight of Google, Facebook, etc., probably much less over TikTok. So while I can feel angry and frustrated with what the Googles and FBs do, I also believe I have a little more power, whereas I feel a bit more powerless over TikTok.
I think it's more for Chinese communist police raiding her home. Since she runs mains voltage through the USB drive the thing would have to be plugged in.
No just that, but whether or not Mars is still geologically active is still an open question. If you admit planets on the basis that they have a history of geological activity, then Ceres is a planet too.

I don’t think anybody considers geological activity as particularly useful for classifying things as ‘planet’ or ‘not planet’.
GTA 5 is already so hilariously hackable that I don't think security is on their radar.
While you are right that one logical font can consist of multiple font files (or possibly a OpenType collection), this constraint does affect most typical fonts, and in particular wide-coverage CJK fonts already hit this limit. Fonts supporting only one of Chinese, Japanese and Korean don't need that many glyphs, and probably even two of them will be okay, but fonts with all three sets of glyphs won't. It is therefore common to provide three versions of fonts, all differently named.
Is that supposed to imply something to me?
> The "your X has been replaced" pop-up doesn't handle the situation where an attacker knows your passcode.

If this is the case, they can add their own fingerprint or face (alternate look feature) to your iPhone. You’re thoroughly pwned at that point, no hardware swaps necessary.

> I think you might also be failing to account for situations where you aren't in possession of your phone for an hour or two

If I came back to my unattended phone after 2 hours and it was giving me a pop-up about a swapped part, I would never trust that phone again.

> I don't think you can expect every potential target to constantly set their iphone to lockdown mode.

If they are that much of an attractive target, their organizations would be stupid not to enforce it. I know that Lockheed used to give personnel that was China-bound a throwaway laptop and would shred it the moment they returned to the USA.
That seems like something you consider after you get past what i described.

As for other nations I strongly believe there is a real difference between more free and very much non free nations.

But to your original point I'd have no problem with raising the issue of if apps should even be able to gather all this data... but again that's after the issue I raised is resolved.
Man this is crazy true, I work with people who are ridiculously "intelligent", seemingly have amazing memories. They seem to right the worst code.
Macroeconomics novice here. What's the argument that interest rates need to be close to inflation rates to counteract it?

It seems like there should be an intrinsic time-value of money (e.g. 1 stuff today is worth 1.05 stuff next year) which is tradable (supply of future-stuff will equal demand for future-stuff at some rate like 1.05). And that single rate of stuff-interest would exist if the central bank does nothing. If that's true, then in a long-run equilibrium, shouldn't there be zero inflation if the interest rate in dollars (i.e. the fed rate) matches that intrinsic rate of stuff-interest?

Any explanation or links to the same would be helpful! I'm just past the point of grasping the fact that interest rates going down causes inflation to go up, but finding it hard to find sources on anything that give me intuition on answering e.g. how much things would go up if you held one policy forever, and what factors that answer would depend on.
New tiktok challenge: going through my pantry to show the chinese government how much non-perishable food I have

New tiktok challenge: seeing how much of the interior of this building I can map

New tiktok challenge: demonstrating my physical fitness level

New tiktok challenge: how many different angles of the presidential motorcade can I film

Yes, China can gain intelligence from other sources like spy satellites. I would likewise describe chinese spy satellites as a potential us national security threat.
That's interesting. The decoding of Linear Elamite _may_ help in the decipherment of the Indus Valley Script.

One of the theories behind the Indus Valley Civilization, is that they spoke a Dravidian language, related to modern southern India's Dravidian languages.

There are also some theories (not generally agreed on), that the Elamite language is related to the Dravidian languages.

People also have hypothesized that the IVC script may have at least some relation to Linear Elamite, and if so, it's more of a basis to do generate some hypotheses.
Oh I promise it is not so simple.
You're staring at a story that is doing exactly that. You really think they'll have cash within 10 years of implementing this?
Every company is a house of cards. 1 dollar invested in a stock can pump the price 7-10 dollars.
What about the hardware? Who will take on liability for Row Hammer[1] vulnerabilities? What about Meltdown [2] or Spectre?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Row_hammer

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meltdown_(security_vulnerabili...
Anyone know if a late-2018 Mac Mini will run this game? My son would love it!
The reddit comment posted in this post says the following:

"...Now Magnus is required to play 1 move before resigning so he did so. He's basically saying: "I won't play with a known and admitted cheater, so I'm going to resign any game I'm forced to play with him" rather than doing a weird dance about skipping tournaments or forcing tournaments to not include Hans if they want Magnus to attend." - enfrozt
To be more specific, I am concerned about addressing surveillance-ware on a nationalist basis because it strengthens the political power of domestic surveillance-ware.

If the data is dangerous, no one should be allowed to collect, store and sell it. It shouldn't be allowed for only those in the favor of the US federal govt.
The events space seems to attract a lot of shady business practices. It's not even outright scams like the Fyre Festival, but boring legitimate businesses like Ticketmaster ripping off customers with service fees.
I think part of what frustrates (some) GMs about Niemann, is that he is playing like Kasparov and them from before supercomputers. Modern GMs think they all know everything, since they have so much computer training, so everyone is afraid to bluff, which means a bluffer can win again. The meta has cycled back.
I’ve seen plenty of half-baked garbage from scala FP purists. Bad code is bad code.
why not make an additional eye a diacritic mark so you can just add an arbitrary number of eyes
I think it goes a bit further than you described. both sides aren't just judging calling the other side heartless or hedonists. They are actively using the state and police to force them to comply with their own morality via mandatory taxation and laws. (e.g. mandatory taxation for social welfare, or prohibition of private behavior such as buying alcohol on Sunday)

Social diversity = differences in morality

differences in morality + State enforced morality = low social cohesion/animosity.
> China is preparing to invade Taiwan in the coming decade

Propaganda. You can tell because China has never said that it intends to invade Taiwan, and you have no inside information. Propaganda is what makes you think you have inside information.

> the US is committing to defend the 23 million people there from invasion.

That's not propaganda. As far as I can tell, it's as much a declaration of war as if Xi said, on video, that the would commit the Chinese military to defend Florida if there were any US effort to prevent DeSantis sending immigrants out of Florida on buses.

China is not a submissive or weak country. I would honestly be surprised if they didn't start preparing to invade Taiwan (or as they would say, to send troops to Taiwan) ASAP after that interview.

edit: We can have WWIII, but it will be the US, BJP, and various poor authoritarian Eastern European states vs. everyone else. It'll be like WWII, except we can be the Axis this time. Hitler was as surprised as anyone that we weren't in the Axis last time.
???

Please read the thread (shrug emoji).
For folks who do this kind of disparate data-source scraping at scale, what does best practices look like? What kind of tools are used in industry?

Maintaining scrapers for 18k county websites and PDs is no small task and looking through the docs for PDAP, it seems like this is still a very open question.
My posts are not only organic, they are local, fresh, and some smell a bit like manure!
https://github.com/pixelomer/discord-fs
I know this exists, don't think anyone's done the twitter thing yet
Honestly I'd make the case for writing a simple python script for this kind of thing.

`requests.get(url)` is a lot harder to mis-type as `requests.delete(url)`.

At $dayjob we would sometimes do this sort of one-off request using Django ORM queries in the production shell, which could in principle do catastrophic things like delete the whole dataset if you typed `qs.delete()`. But if you write a one-off 10-line script, and have someone review the code, then you're much less likely to make these sort of "mis-click" errors.

Obviously you need to find the right balance of safety rails vs. moving fast. It might not be a good return on investment to turn the slightly-risky daily 15-min ask into a safe 5-hour task. But I think with the right level of tooling you can make it into a 30 min task that you run/test in staging, and then execute in production by copy/pasting (rather than deploying a new release).

I would say that the author did well by having a copilot; that's the other practice we used to avoid errors. But a copilot looking at a complex UI like Postman is much less helpful than looking at a small bit of code.
I also predicted the invasion of Ukraine. So did the US intelligence service last summer. So did the state department when trump was trying to extort zelensky over military aid for a hunter Biden investigation. Not a hard prediction to make at all after no one gave a shit about crimea, especially given putins longstanding goal of Soviet reunification.
More like the political case for it.
Fancy a Lamborghini Tractor?
Not only what videos are shown, but also what videos /topics are suppressed, which is also a useful tool for swaying public opinion as Meta has demonstrated: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32607698
Well, it's not like he has not cheated before. The doubts in other's minds is his own mistake from the past.
Yeah, I am thinking I don't even know what "cancelling" means.
I was really excited because I have the memory of a goldfish but am the most hyper-productive person I know. I was curious about the techniques and a write up on various techniques that this person uses to compare them with my own.

Then 2 paragraphs in I run face first into a 5 meter high stainless steel marketing pitch. Wtf.
Its reposts all the way down.

Sometimes nested in two or three layers of reaction videos.
> he was simply no longer familiar with modern opening theory.

That's what parent said. Fischer wanted to get the memorization out, since memorization makes the game unplayable for someone who doesn't have The Knowledge.
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32754274
>Totally disagree. A whole of AI business space seems totally focused on pushing the boundaries of what is possible, completely ignoring delivering something consistently useful.

Interestingly, Midjourney is taking an approach you might be interested in, where they're fine-tuning their model to prioritize consistent, visually-appealing outputs with even the most vague prompts (e.g. "a man").

And... it's really making me appreciate its competitors more. This always-good-enough consistency is very much a double-edged sword, IMO, because it also results in a very same-y feel for most Midjourney images (and kind of makes me appreciate instantly-recognizable MJ images a little less, in a way not unlike how I used to be impressed by starry-sky spraypaint pieces and then realized they're basically SP101). You almost always get something good out (at a rate I'd feel comfortable wrapping a production-quality app around) but it has become harder and harder to produce new visuals/aesthetics as Midjourney has progressed closer to their desired consistency levels.

Back when I started on it, I'd get good/interesting images every 5-10 generations that I'd then tweak and get even more interesting images. Now I'm lucky to see something new/interesting every 5-10 generations, although everything in between is _fine_.

My background here, FWIW: according to the site, I've been using Midjourney for 4 months straight and generated almost 10,000 images. I also have ~700GB of generations on disks from other models in the meantime and run a few sites that basically do wrap these kind of generation models, like novelgens.com, that try to find a good ratio between consistency and divergence.

In the grand scheme of things, I think the AI generation space needs both ends of the spectrum: consistent results like Midjourney lower the barrier of entry for new people to explore the space, but prompt-dependent powerhouses like Stable Diffusion enable artists to push the tooling further and have significantly better control over the art they're trying to create.
Jay's story "checked out" because it matched the cell phone evidence and also the testimony of another witness. The problem was that the cell phone evidence was later proven to be completely misinterpreted, and the other witness's testimony apparently misremembered the day (it was something along the lines of her being in class at a certain key time). Without those, it sounds like there's nothing left for his story to rest on.
The comments weren't flagged. HN's software has other kinds of filters too, and comments by brand new accounts are treated a little more skeptically. Fortunately users had vouched* for all but two of josh-pdap's comments by the time I saw them. I restored the other two and marked the account legit.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
Of course I believe it’s a crime committed by the the oppressive regime.

Most people in Iran don’t think like the government does. When you call a country backwards, you actually call its people backwards obviously, which this girl was one of, and I wanted to point out that it’s not the case as shown in the provided reference.
Exactly, Tiktok can algorithmically identify a few 100k persuadable voters in a few battleground states and feed them the political viewpoint they favor. Thus CCP can influence our elections. Its easy do this in stealth and there is no way to prove from outside that it happened!.

We already have laws that restrict majority foreign ownership of traditional media, why cant we extend it to new media?
He didn't try to make people forget it, he just didn't keep it up.
> I have no faith in the ability of nation-states to accurately determine that I am not a criminal

No state will burn extremely expensive tools like Pegasus on a garden-variety criminal.

I’m very conscious of my privacy and device security myself, but I’m also aware that I do not warrant high-cost surveillance. Most people are in that boat. You can model your threats accordingly.
I was thinking the same thing while reading the article. I have been using RPN calculators for 40 years, and it has become second nature to manipulate the stack to have two calculations going at the same time, and then merging them, if needed.
>but also wanting universities to take as much from that system as possible to the detriment of society.

I don't think anybody is saying universities should take as much as possible, only that it is to be expected. Because it is expected the government should not be enabling it. People have been asking the government to stop with these loans since the beginning saying this exact thing would happen.
This isn't entirely true because many people don't just write software, they also promote it. For example, they create websites encouraging adoption, much in the same way companies do, with instructions on how to install it easily, implying that you should install it. And maybe they'll give talks and make videos?

But it gets worse. Often the people promoting the software aren't the people who wrote it, and they may make claims that the authors never intended.

None of these things mean that the authors accept formal liability, but morally speaking, if you're encouraging people to use your software and you're participating in an ecosystem promoting its usage, and it turns out to have bad security flaws, then maybe you shouldn't be so encouraging? Be upfront that it's just something you threw together. Add a few speedbumps. Maybe don't publish it on npm? Disrupt the hype train.

Disclaiming all responsibility should imply that you also don't hype it up and set people up for failure.
I want to first say: I agree with your comment.

I think the problem is that companies would say "okay, let's take the leaner path"; they then proceed to implement their own (say) HTTP library, riddled with bugs which will never get fixed, because it will never have the same person-hours sunk into it that a (major/respectable) FOSS HTTP library will.

(And the number of times I've watched a dev attempt to implement some standard while steadfastly refusing to read the standard. Then I proceed to find bug after bug, trivially … because I am reading the standard…)

But you're right with your hospital analogy: it's that the company does not want to put forth the resources to do the job right, either by doing it right themselves or by doing the verification work & upstreaming fixes; they'd rather put forward a bare minimum to do shoddy work.

And in all my years of experience, I still am no closer to understanding how to fix that.

> We need to start calling this out as the negligence that it is.

People absolutely hate this, IME.
Because the rear glass was very common to break and Apple would not replace it because its borderline impossible. Now it seems very likely that they will offer it as a reasonably priced repair.
Why shouldn’t Ceres be a planet? If Pluto gets to be a planet then Ceres is definitely a planet.

But there is still active geology on Mars. There is still moisture, winds and ice-caps that are shaping the environment. I consider that to be geologically active.

EDIT: And there are actual experts which consider active geology (or something similar) to be a planet, including Anton Petrov (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-2HxrgqUnM)
The “Lite” version is an experimental release that supports Manifest V3. Unfortunately, that has various limitations
That's not true at all. All of these social media platforms have LEO portals where they circumvent any privacy settings.
For those of you wondering about the technical aspects of version 3 manifest and what it means for adblockers:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8KWCLhHrblE

(No affiliation, I just like the way he explains things like this)
Eh, that's not the problem being solved.

I have the same issue programming when I get popups for various autocomplete or method description or whatever.

Typically, I'm actually focused on the previous line like a hook into my thought process and almost need that hook to get into the next section.

This app is just a simple example of how people visualize the steps into complicated stepping alongside logic.
I believe Adnan is factually guilty. Undoubtedly there were significant procedural failures and biases that played into his conviction, and those are a black mark on the justice system. But today is a tragedy for Hae Min Lee's family. Adnan could very likely be a redeemable man who acted unfathomably during a crime of passion. But at present he is an unrepentant murderer. How very sad.
> You can document your code. You can keep it up to date. It isn't that hard. You just don't want to.

Yeah I can or an individual can, that misses the point of the advice which is intended for groups on large projects with deadlines. Like once a manager says get this done now and we'll find time later for the rest... That never happens
Developing the habit of repeatedly asking people for help and then taking it when they give it will fix this very quickly. You just have to be willing to go first. People feel much better about asking someone for help if they have given that person help in the past.
This is extremely melodramatic. They literally just want money so they don't have to run ads
> I don't think I've ever seen the term "whataboutism" used except in cases where the accuser wants to dismiss an argument but can't refute the point.

No you have that backwards, you’re the one dismissing the original argument by attempting to replace it with a different, inverse one.

Are you going to respond the the original points or just complain about me calling you out for using a conversation tactic favoured by Russian propaganda?
That is not the case with adobe, the contract autorenews.
Well that is new... Been called a Russian bot before but never a Chinese agent. Anyhow... I'm not either as far as I'm aware.

What I can say though is that money appears to be the primary driving factor here whether that is pushing an agenda or censoring ideas.
Even if someone can remember every second in any given day with picture-perfect detail, taking notes, documenting stuff will allow him to do MUCH more than he normally could.
It seems very broad and very shallow, like an engine proof of concept more than an actual game... how is this the result of ten years of effort?? Mass Effect had three games in that timespan, The Old Republic reinvented itself and added space combat in less time, and so did Warframe...
> Okay lets make sure China can't do this through tiktok.

> Then lets make sure that domestic political groups can't do this through facebook, instagram and reddit.

Except that in one case, it's a foreign actor interfering with the domestic political process, and in the other it's a domestic actor arguably exercising their first amendment rights.
A Tutorial on Euler Angles and Quaternions [pdf]
Could you please avoid flamewar comments on HN and, also, please make sure you aren't using this site primarily for political or ideological battle? That's one line at which we ban accounts (https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...). Regardless of what they're battling for or against, it's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
Sim NIMBY, the game where you cannot build anything and you cannot win
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I'd be down!