skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Their wind and storm predictions are really accurate, I use them every time I go on a mountain hike. I think windguru is still a bit better for sailing.
Not being around Mac OS long enough?
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Like a number of other large scale scientific instruments like the LHC, it's provided proof of theories held for a long time - in this case, that gravity can propagate in waves, and that merging black holes cause these waves, and in turn that black holes do in fact merge or rotate around each other causing huge waves in spacetime.

Is it conclusive evidence? No, ultimately it's just a data point. But it's evidence.

Take another one; Einstein hypothesized that light is influenced by gravity, and came up with an experiment that didn't need super high tech instruments; observe the stars next to a solar eclipse and see if their position is different from normal. A few years later there was an eclipse, multiple people made the observations, and his hypothesis was proven correct.

Thanks to that experiment, we now have telescopes that can use gravitational lensing from galaxies to look at the farthest reaches of space.
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> provided the average uncertainty is above the limit

> reduces the uncertainty in one observable by increasing the uncertainty in the other observable

Seems like you’re both saying the same thing with different wording
Yeah. This is how you get company like Blizzard make a super expensive complete flops like Diablo IV. By having stupid beliefs about what your users want. Or ever better, by having your own wants, and projecting those wants at your understanding what the users want. You lie to yourself for long enough and you start believing it.

Recently the way I approach choosing software has changed. I found I spend too much time dealing with problems and issues because whoever produced the software does not really care to ship working product or features that would make my life better. So now I prioritise choosing reliable software and companies that care for me, the user (at least more than their competitors).

You can imagine things like basically every Micro$oft product got dumped immediately. I now refuse my family requests to support their MS-powered machines and tell them if they want Windows they will have to support it themselves, I don't have time to deal with this crap.

I found by sweeping the stuff that gives me headaches I have improved my life and productivity even if I have to use some more expensive or sometimes functionally inferior products (and sometimes do it manually).
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I disagree that your version is more readable. If you don’t know linear algebra, the code is inscrutable, and if you do, dot(x,y)/norm(x)/norm(y) is about as close to the math as you can get.
I can't say if this law is stupid or not.

A company has to be over 250 employés to be GDPR compliant. And it seems there is UTF-EBCDIC.

I can see what you mean, but I don't think having rules for large banks is against the ~hacker etos~
There's a lot of legitimate criticism in that short video but the presenter is also extremely dishonest and biased. E.g. they end the video saying that they started with "a lot of optimism" when at the beginning of the ride they literally said that they expected the car to be unsafe. They also seem to mock the AI for obeying traffic laws like speed limits and stop signs, which is a bad start for a video like this.

Someone in the comments also mentions that the destination was in a dead end street, which may be the reason the drop-off is a 5 minute walk away. The 5 minute walk was also apparently indicated when she entered the destination. This along with the pick-up location being on the other side of the road feels like it might be the result of the AI being overly cautious. I'd find that acceptable for an "autonomous car" but not one advertised as a replacement for taxis (which as the presenter mentions are also used as accessibility aids where a 5 minute walk uphill can be unacceptable).

There's no footage of the car stopping at the green light, just her saying it's come to a full stop and then an external shot where it's already stopped. That's not enough information to call the stop "unsafe", even if it was impeding traffic. It also stopped with flashing hazards, assuming Waymo doesn't flash hazards during the entire ride (which I hope they don't). It's not clear why it stopped there but based on the little footage we have it doesn't seem very abrupt so any traffic behind it would have had plenty of time to notice and react the decelerating car in front of them.

The stop seems unnecessary and because it's AI and Waymo didn't provide additional information, it's impossible to say what caused it. The message she saw also indicates it was caused by an error, presumably a navigation issue. Although it is impossible to tell based on the editing, the issue seems to have been resolved within a few seconds. A human driver would have probably decided to just follow the direction of traffic for that amount of time, or change lines to come to a full stop at the side of the road but in an urban environment (not at highway speeds) the behavior is not completely unreasonable. What's more concerning to me is that the AI ran into a problem while in traffic that required the car to come to a complete halt and presumably wait for external (human?) intervention, green light or none.

I'd prefer a car that slowly comes to a full stop at a green light because of a software issue over one that keeps dragging a pedestrian it ran over for several seconds to avoid impeding traffic but the bigger issue with Waymo here is that the car runs into a software issue at all while in traffic.
> user data should be treated as binary anyway

I don't know about that, there still needs to be some validation. Is your legal name really "Bobby $@134 Tables"? In this case validation comes in the form of "is every character EBCDIC-compatible?"
Hi @dang, is it possible to modify the title of this post to reflect that it is a post from 2018? Thank you
The answer is "sometimes".

Python can be relatively easily embedded in a C program and its source code can be compiled to C. The problems come from Python modules that are built to use shared libraries. It's not impossible to solve, but it means that you'd have to find the source code for those modules and recompile them to link statically with those libraries. This could be quite an undertaking, and is probably not worth it, unless you want to learn more about build systems and build tools in general.

Finally, in some cases it's impossible due to the licensing. I.e. you may have a Python module that relies on a shared library with license that prohibits redistribution. In that case it's not a technical, but a legal problem. This, however, isn't unique to Python, and you'd face similar issues no matter the language you chose to use.

Re' Docker: in most cases this is not a solution to making command-line interfaces. I actually struggle to think in what case it is. You'd have to write a program with the command-line interface and then put it in the image for Docker to create a container from (which will usually make it very inconvenient to use due to the Docker containers by default running such programs in separate filesystem, user and network interfaces.) This would make things like user identity, user's data and, well, obviously, network hard to access for the program while gaining you noting of substance.
> It is also worth noting that any claims of detection are thoroughly investigated and confirmed with other detectors.

This is the thing I (as a layperson) can't really wrap my head around yet; there's gotta be so much interference from so many different sources, there's gotta be some impressive data processing going on to filter out anything not relevant to their core measurements, and then THAT data will have to be compared to that of other detectors.

This device, the LHC, space telescopes, really cool and all if you look at the published pop-sci results, but the actual data is like... individual photons captured by a worldwide network of detectors and processed / data analyzed into the first "photo" of a black hole.
I mean miracles like reviving a person that was dead for days, curing blind people, extremely ill people. Like they were togheter for years.

What chances are to convince me that those miracles were real if someone that was there and seen them with his eyes had doubts?
Show HN: I create discord bot generating sudoku
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Technical details. Bot is developed using nodejs and other graphics libraries. Sudoku is generated using algorithm written by me. Bot is hosted on an AWS light sail server.
Ask HN: Who is using the Ada language and likes/doesn't like it? Why?
This is similar to the one about D:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37621348

But this one is for Ada.

Thanks in advance to all who reply.
Meta sued by 33 states over claims youth mental health endangered by Instagram
I wonder how many simultaneous proceedings they have?
Oh, I get it - modifying the system costs money that the bank is not willing to spend. After all, only one person complained.

If it happened her, in the US, fixing the issue would be a very expensive process, probably requiring replacement of the entire system and triggering tons of audits, etc.
Blue check is not enough, I believe, this post is not just long, it has multiple images inserted in the middle of the text. Like a full length blog post. I think this comes with a "creator profile" while also is why the button says "Subscribe" at the top.
Discriminating against a non small part of the population of the country you work in is stupid???

You know what is stupid, the attitude of "works for me must work for everyone". It's objectively stupid because it has caused probably not just millions but billions of damages.

The huge majority of widely spoken languages in the world does use letters not contained in us-ascii, this applies to names, too.
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> some sort of KYC/AML snag where something

Get used to it.

Once the government realizes it can shift the burden of enforcing a law onto the private sector, it never un-discovers that. It's a ratchet.
Super cool resource! Thanks for sharing this!
Anecdatum: I was absolutely hot and miserable in the one session trying out hot yoga. I had to get out midway because my head was swimming with the heat and humidity, which was made worse by the owner's dog giving me a friendly lick. Adorable dog and not his fault, but the last thing I wanted was anything hot and wet coming near me!

I grew up in India and have done yoga in the summer, but everything about doing it indoors in stale hot humid air was awful.
This story happens in Belgium. All national languages(Dutch, French, Germans) have plenty of accented characters. This EBCDIC variant was never a valid technical choice for the country. Sad that we needed the GDPR to finally whack some sense in this bank.

I worked in a similar national organization. I fought for having a newly built systems in 2015 created in anything different than cp1252 and ISO8859-1. I lost. The architects flat out forbade UTF-8 and required 1252, in the name of consistency.
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There were numerous comments from game developers, including from folks here on HN, that the lack of OpenGL ES was a major obstacle for porting games to Windows Phone: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15434891

I don't understand what you write about Valve, the Steam Deck supports unmodified Win32 games which use DirectX.
> This is true even in places where the speed limit is 85 mph, and the slower end of the flow of traffic is 95 mph.

Once traffic rules are enforced by autonomous cars that don't let you go over the speed limit, we can start raising the limit to more realistic levels. I guess currently it is priced in that everyone goes over by x km/h.
On the one hand, underground comms conduits are difficult to target with rockets or even laser guided bombs. This is one reason why special forces on the ground were tasked with popping access hatches along iraqi highways during Desert Storm.

On the other, Israel is an acknowledged world leader in electronic warfare and jamming etc, so they have a very deep understanding of the technical vulnerabilities of wireless comms.

The border fence project did a lot of digging up of the ground so it surprises me if everything wasn't wired together with a mesh and lots of redundancy. And also that cutting the wire would itself trigger alerts and things.

So the part of the story where Hamas blinded everything by targeting cell towers doesn't seem likely. I wouldn't imagine Israel to be vulnerable like that. The bigger picture where Israel was caught off guard resource-wise and response-wise is very plausible though.
In the article it says 48 hours after consumption but it isn't quite a hard statement on when he took it.
The least bad solution for the bank is probably to close the customer’s account, because overhauling the system will surely be too expensive.

No, it’s not a good solution, but realistically what is the bank supposed to do?
Oh my God I read this ages ago and completely forgot which blog it was on. Thank you for bringing this back to my attention! This is up there with Hotel Concierge on Tumblr for "favorite giant sprawling essays on the Internet" for me.
The cosine similarity is not inherently better suited for linear properties whatever that means, it’s just the cosine of the angle between two vectors. If the vectors are unit length, then it’s just the projection of one to the other.
I thank you for your advice and no, it's not bitwarden. I have losely described my setup elsewhere in this thread.
(1) Which currency are you talking in here?

(2) This 98m^2 detached house is listed at €104k to build: https://www.massa-haus.de/fertighaus/einfamilienhaus/lifesty...

This is the cheapest they do, yet a thing costing 10k/m^2 as you suggest would cost nearly a million.
In addition to 'A philosophy of Software Design', I would also recommend the less well known 'Object-Oriented Design Heuristics'.

It came out at the same time as the GoF book, but I think it is still relevant today and similar in spirit to Ousterhout's book.
Funny, just yesterday I listened to a podcast were a small part they were talking about retro-computing. They ware talking about AS400 and that they are still in use, if you think about Amadeus, one of the worldwide flight-booking systems for example. That some banks in their backend still use AS400 and EBCDIC. The thing why these systems are not being updated is more like: never change a winning team. Because you can spend millions to update those systems just to discover that there is an error in your update. So you spent millions for nothing or even worse. The is not real technical benefit for them to update as long as the systems run.
>If you believe all the miracles are true, you'd see Satan entering Judas to tempt him as kind of a big deal. The kind of thing a normal man couldn't really overcome.

So Judas was setup by God? Give him a test that he will fail?

I also hate the story where God allows Satan to kill some extremly good person children to test him and later to reward him the "good" God gives the man other children( f that God, he kills your children, you pass the test and he is so heartless or impotent to restore your children - an average human would not be such cruel)
If it ain’t broke (in a way that affects the bottom line), don’t put yer hamgrabbers anywhere near it.
The difference is that most countries don't expect the world to bow to them (culturally, technologically, etc). While I used Chinese products, I never had to learn how to spell my name with Chinese characters.
Ask HN: What desktop GUI app have you created or are creating?
Please talk about the app's purpose, tech stack, and anything else you would like to share about creating it.
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My direct experience is that all social is now Dark Social.

It's invite only Groups on Telegram, FB Messenger, or Apple Messages mostly.

So it has ended well for my social circle ;-)
With pens and corrals, the animals can be moved naturally from one point to another, following the one ahead of them. There are specific ways to design facilities to move animals through slaughterhouses naturally.
In some places they're still being used though.
They also who’ve no business trusting Microsoft when it comes to privacy, this being a company who has infamously stolen its competitors products several times and later bankrupted them, yet that hasn’t stopped them from succeeding.
It's unlikely that miracles happened as described in biblical texts due to the length of time between the events and the recording of them. I'd also expect people to exaggerate or even fabricate stories to boost other narratives, so there's a whole bunch of uncertainty surrounding them.

I can imagine Judas hearing someone recounting a miracle and he'd be shaking his head and thinking "I was there, that's not what happened at all".
In Dutch we also have the letter Ĳ which is part of my last name. But ASCII (nor EBCDIC) don't have it so some family members have changed it to 'y' and some are using 'ij' to make up for that. So on paper our family lineage is now split because these changes have meanwhile made it into birth certificates and legal names and it's so ingrained that it can't really be changed any more.
https://nitter.net/dvassallo/status/1716585205400756514 (original twitter URL requires JS to be enabled, nitter doesnt)
> weird name

Yeah, some people think about their heritage as not compatible with the brave new world, so get rid of it. I know people giving their child dedicatedly ascii-only name common in the USA to make sure their children won't have a "weird name" when going to the USA.
Evolution: Well, our milleniums-long testing indicates that adding decentralization to pulmonary system is not the highest prority right now, as the blood already provides an oxygen cache - in case of pulmonary failure, we have a couple-minutes window to restart it before any permanent damage occurs. You can add it to the backlog, and we'll get to it when we have time.
way too different things, everyone using seccomp when they don't have AppArmor only profile. sometimes even do both.
> I'd be nervous every day of losing data

And I am, same as I am worried everyday about losing the keys to my apartment. I am speaking as a person who once only got them back by sheer luck (and a young mans honesty), after they fell out of a hole in my trousers pocket.

However, I would be even more nervous if the security of these keys were up to someone other than me. For example a random employee of a big company, whos access to the system I have no say in, who I never met, and whos actions I can neither see nor regulate.

Bottom line is: I prefer worrying about myself failing, than someone else. Because I can do something about the former.
I somewhat disagree. You can check out the Heisenberg uncertainty principle here

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

As you can see there is no mention of time in any of the standard inequalities (excluding the energy/time "uncertainty principle" which is not relevant here). You can not go below the limit imposed by the Heisenberg uncertainty principle for any duration of time without disproving quantum mechanics.

What LIGO does is break some metrological "limit" which is derived by combining the uncertainty principle with some assumptions about what your measurement procedure looks like and what your states are.

Unsurprisingly if you use different states you can break this "limit".
Peepholes are simply referred to as "Judas" in French, I don't think there's even another word for them.
> your compensation package will include two major components: salary and equity.

> Meals provided.

Equity and good meals at a startup with deep pockets, vs no equity and cafeteria food at the hospital down the road. Pay's the same.
>One might say that the existence of a doubter or rejector lends the story authenticity.

Not for me, if someone that was in the inner circle and witness so much did not believe then expecting me to believe this stories is too much. Anyway other issue I have are the contradictions with the reality and that the God morality is incompatible with my morality so even if he existed 100% I would not worship him.
I think the better question is why we try to replace cars 1 to 1, even if it is in terms of mileage rather than number of vehicles. The problem isn't just drivers, the problem is cars. For most trips there are superior technological alternatives, there's just no political motivation to implement them because infrastructure is boring and it's easier to justify throwing more money at roads in the short term than investing in long term urban renewal projects to build and expand tram networks, underground transit, dedicated bus lanes and bicycle-first road networks. Especially now that the idea of "walkable neighborhoods" has cynically become a culture war issue rather than something that's objectively improving quality of life while reducing emissions and resource waste.
I'm working on a custom Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) for my lab. We have a hyper specialized image capture and processing pipeline so I wanted to develop a system that's molded to that. It's mostly MATLAB, but I've sprinkled in a little Python for metadata extraction purposes.
If you squint and hold it at an angle ...
Would that mean that if we had decentralized pulmonary control, we wouldn't be able to hold our breath?
What does "store as binary" even mean in this instance, binary is just ones and zeros. You have to decode it somehow for it to carry meaning. Maybe you meant opaque, but even that would the prevent normal display the data to the user.
The user is not going to accept a hexadecimal binary form of their name, you can't sidestep
Having to deal with encodings by just not specifying one.

Also good moment to point out the you can't do a binary comparison of unicode strings, you need a unicode library that handles normalization.
It’s not sad that Apple keyboards are much, much higher quality now than they were in the Powerbook G3 days.
We would have loved to name our son after my grandfather, but his name includes non-ASCII characters so we went with his middle name instead.
> But it also saddles them with a bunch of beehives that they have to maintain in perpetuity.

Other way round: They'd have to maintain the speaker system, the beehives can maintain themselves.
>"buy lottery tickets with your money and time with the hope to win 10k", it just can't compete. The real lottery requires only money and offers a bigger reward without effort.

I mean the analogy doesn't really work because the calculation of the risk has to take into account number of people competing for prize.

Furthermore if you are going to do the lottery you only have chance to buy ticket, if you are going to compete for history prize you also have the importance of the idea you will demonstrate. Obviously people are apt to think their own ideas are really brilliant but that evaluation would go into deciding if it was useful to pursue that path.

But I would think winning this kind of thing might actually be more important not to be a historian but as a CV brightening bit for a job in a more lucrative field also requiring intellectual ability and analytical rigor.