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Really good videos on color spaces and gradients from Chrome Dev:

https://youtu.be/cGyLHxn16pE https://youtu.be/Uh95jZPTDfw

Am employee is not a slave. You owe your employer the work for which they have hired you, and no more. These kinds of employee agreements should be illegal; what I do with my own time and resources is none of my employer's business.

We need software to tell us when we should be outraged by a tweet.

Why the hell isn't Google challenging these sweeping untargetted searches? This is akin to giving law enforcement all of our location data without reasonable suspicion.

It does seem he is conflating "progress" with "investment". Yes, the world is spending exponentially more compute each year since 2012 on training networks. The marvel is that neural architectures are scaling to more complex problems without much architectural change. But this is not an argument that AI is getting more efficient or productive over time and hence we can expect exponential performance improvements (like Moore's law).

Felt about right for the complexity of the story and the thoroughness of the research. I think we should be encouraging long form journalism, not falling back to click-bait news.

Huh? The article title makes a claim of 8x speed up in disaster recovery through drone use, but the text of the article says the government has restricted all civilian drone use for a month in the Houston area (to deconflict with military aircraft). These two things don't seem to jibe.

Take the report with a grain of salt. It appears to be sourced by an investment firm with an interest in selling real estate securities. There are no details given about how their sample of 10,000 renters was created; the data also seems self reported by the renters, so I would have accuracy concerns.

The figure seems dubious given most landlords would balk at extending a lease to a tenant who's major share of income would be going to rent (high credit risk).

I can't imagine any scenario where this is not pilot error (unless you had a power failure of the airport lighting systems).

Making an aircraft go-around can never cause an accident - the missed approach path for any landing aircraft is always kept clear.

Controllers in the tower do not have a good visual perspective to see runway alignment. I don't think they would have caught this.

At night, there are many visual cues to see the runway environment - it sounds to me like this complacent pilot ignored many red flags and was about to drive his plane on top of those on the taxiway.

A big heavy airliner can't just stop its decent instantly; it's a good thing that pilot on the ground chimed in when he did.

I betcha the landing pilot won't have a job pretty soon.

Contempt of court is.

Or just ban the links from HN. Paywall articles have no business showing up on a site meant to engage in community discussion. There are plenty of other things for us to share.

Wow. Based on the number of responses here, we should start a club - "56 and still doing it".

Those of us born around 1960 came of age during the earliest days of personal computing. I guess a lot of us got hooked and are still at it!

Read more (page 2) - there is a considerable discussion of channel congestion and interference due to over powered zones and large number of devices.

Computing a collision today costs about $100K from my reading of the paper. So most uses of SHA1 are protecting documents of far lower value, and would not be likely attack targets (today).

Computing a collision today costs about $100K from my reading of the paper. So most uses of SHA1 are protecting documents of far lower value, and would not be likely attack targets (today).

One of great humans that will be missed by millions. It's a shock that he is no longer a part of our world.

Nice job.

Nit - it would be nice not to use the term "signed" for a block that has a sufficiently small hash. The term "valid" is more commonly used for this attribute of a block, and less confusing with signed transactions.

You might want to see a doctor about that.

If you have a subscription (or come back in 1 year).

Has anyone done the same thing for the patents? They won't be as readable, but I would assume there are far more disclosed inventions developed by the .NET teams than academic papers (and you'd have to search the USPTO database instead of the .NET sources).

Libel does not require that the writer knows what he is saying is false (though doing so will increase the amount of damages you can collect). You can successfully sue for libel by only showing that the statements made against you were false, and that you were damaged by them.

I don't think people could easily adjust to having the date and day of the week change every day at, say 2pm (for those on PST).

Why doesn't bitly block obvious phishing domains - like ones that contain popular domains as a prefix?

Why not just a binary dwarf sucking material (somewhat chaotically) out of its more luminous twin?

Loved the Trump-ism buried in the middle of the dialog.

Make the counties pay for the cost of sending their offenders to (state) prison and you'd see this "overconsumption" of an expensive resource self correct.

Except for a few cases where Typescript let's you transpile ES6 syntax to JavaScript ES5, the compiler does not change your code; it just checks it for type errors.

The point of the example is that Typescript recently added support for non-null types, but is flexible enough to analyze where types have been further restricted by an early function return.

Maybe my bug? I wrote most of the original Excel text-based file import code in 1984 (including the SLYK format, which was the main way we migrated files from Multiplan to Excel).