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kilovoltaireon Number Theorist Fears All Published Math Is Wrong

Clickbaity title but I found the content interesting, concerning a growing push for more computer-verified proofs

kilovoltaireon Shader Deconstruction of Happy Jumping

This is a long video (by one of the creators of Shadertoy) but I learned a ton of interesting stuff from it.

It inspired me to write my own simple ray marcher from scratch yesterday without referring back to the video, which was fun and very satisfying when it started working.

kilovoltaireon Jumpcut – macOS Clipboard Manager

I've been using this for probably 10 years, couldn't live without it (though I'm sure there are alternatives)

It hadn't been updated for 10 years until yesterday!

kilovoltaireon What’s the Magic Behind Graphene’s ‘Magic’ Angle?

> supercells

I think you might mean superlattices - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superlattice

kilovoltaireon The Race to Develop the Moon

"Mostly science payloads, mostly NASA. Some commercial."

reminded me of

"Eat food, not too much, mostly plants."

kilovoltaireon Seven-Dimensional Cross Product

"it is the only other non-trivial bilinear product of two vectors that is vector-valued, anticommutative and orthogonal"

kilovoltaireon What Happens Now That China Won't Take US Recycling

"America generated 262.4 million tons of waste, up … 60 percent from 1985. That amounts to nearly five pounds per person a day."

kilovoltaireon EditorConfig: Consistent coding styles across various editors and IDEs

Agreed, I now feel like I'm editing the AST instead of editing text, it's quite magical.

kilovoltaireon You Don't Need to Quit Your Job to Make

I like that quote, but at least according to wikiquote it may be misattributed - https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tenzin_Gyatso,_14th_Dalai_Lama...

kilovoltaireon What is the space overhead of Base64 encoding?

The article compares raw vs base64+gzip, but I'd be interested to see gzip vs base64+gzip

kilovoltaireon Project Fi Is Now Google Fi

Fi also wins over T-Mobile for international data, where they give you 4G instead of 3G.

(Unless things have changed—when I had T-Mobile, you had to pay extra for international 4G)

kilovoltaireon How companies use fake sites, backdated articles to censor Google results (2017)

I recently learned that this is due to a somewhat shady SEO trick referred to as Private Blog Networks.

You take over expiring legitimate domains, and ideally immediately (before Google notices) put up almost the same content, but with a link to whatever site you're actually interested in giving better search ranking to.

Repeat this 1000x and you can apparently make enough headway that people put time and money into the approach.

kilovoltaireon Google AI with Jeff Dean [audio]

I don't know what title you gave it, but perhaps the HN guidelines can answer your question

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

"…please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize…"

kilovoltaireon The Empty Storefronts of New York

"about 20 percent of all retail space in Manhattan is currently vacant… compared with roughly 7 percent in 2016"

kilovoltaireon What is this Twitter army of Amazon drones cheerfully defending warehouse work?

That one certainly seems like satire, but the ones in the article do not, e.g. https://twitter.com/AmazonFCCarol

kilovoltaireon Our brain is a storyteller, not a reporter from an inner world

I was thinking about this recently—given how difficult it is to explain "why" an artificial neural network behaves a certain way, it's probably similarly difficult for our conscious minds to explain our unconscious behavior, the best they can do is pattern match and tell stories.

From the article: "If we could understand the processes by which billions of neurons cooperate to help us recognize a face or interpret a fragment of speech, we would find these as unrelated to the stream of consciousness as the operation of the liver."

kilovoltaireon Fukushima’s nuclear signature found in California wine

Wow, I hadn't realized the effects of the atomic age were that widespread, creepy.

kilovoltaireon Everyone Has an Accent

> Worldwide, nonnative speakers of English outnumber natives by a ratio of three to one.

I was vaguely aware of this, but hadn't really thought about the numbers.

kilovoltaireon When You Watch Sports, Your Brain Thinks You’re Playing

Only half relevant, but I'm reminded of "body english"

> bodily motions made in a usually unconscious effort to influence the progress of a propelled object (such as a ball)

kilovoltaireon Blot – a blogging platform with no interface

You could .gitignore your images folder (or store it outside of the repo) and still get the benefits of tracking text changes.

kilovoltaireon Did Google Fake Its Big A.I. Demo?

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=TFA

…seems kind of unnecessary in this context.

kilovoltaireon Mathematical Illustrations: A manual of geometry and postscript

I remember being delighted when I learned that .ps "images" were actually programs.

At some point I wanted to make a book of PostScript code on left pages / graphical output on right pages, but I only made four pages:

https://github.com/hrldcpr/geno-pheno#geno--pheno

kilovoltaireon Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It (2016)

(2016)

kilovoltaireon Fish: A user-friendly command line shell for macOS, Linux, etc

It is fixed, RVM supports Fish now - https://rvm.io/integration/fish

kilovoltaireon Blockchains Considered Harmful: Is Brute-Force Processing Replacing Good Design?

"considered harmful" considered harmful

kilovoltaireon Rising Rents Are Pushing More Tenants Past the Breaking Point

It looks like it's defined based on pre-tax gross income. (Here's one reference that mentions it[1] and I saw a few others as well)

So it would be an even higher percentage of after-tax income.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/23/realestate/how-much-of-my...

kilovoltaireon Scientists Are Just Starting to Understand Earth’s Eighth Continent, Zealandia

It seems like tectonic plates are less arbitrarily defined than continents.

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

kilovoltaireon Energy Efficiency in Programming Languages

Here's the paper - http://greenlab.di.uminho.pt/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/pape...

On average, compiled languages consumed 120J to execute the solutions, while for virtual machine and interpreted languages this value was 576J and 2365J, respectively.

kilovoltaireon Show HN: Slacker Snooze – a personalized HN

Neat!

It's definitely showing me some cool articles I hadn't noticed before.

I wish I could upvote and watch it re-order, instead of having to click and then come back to a completely changed list.

What's a "fellow RC'er"?