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by m-watson 5y ago
I agree the style and headline is a little annoying but this is a story that is worth a little worry. Not because it is going to land on your head but because of the pattern of behavior. Here is an article about the same topic from the Guar
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by m-watson 6y ago
I think part of that has to do with it being a pythonic choice as well though. Python actively encourages you to segment off your environment for everything you do, that mentality continues to packaging and deploying.
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by m-watson 6y ago
In DC their in house 'innovation team' tried to overcome some of these issues and make them more useful to the people using the forms by having an annual formapalooza. Results were mixed but it is an interesting approach to digiti
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by m-watson 6y ago
There is a fourth now https://twitter.com/PhysRevLett/status/1354866900036153352 and a write up in Physics (The more casual write ups at APS about major topics): https://physics.aps.org/articles&#x
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by m-watson 6y ago
They also based the series (mostly) off of the book Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson. It's worth a read.
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by m-watson 6y ago
Since you posted the actual paper link I figured I would leave this here ( https://osf.io/mfzg4/ ) The Open Science project page, they have some of their initial thoughts before the experiment as well as some data. Alway
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by m-watson 6y ago
Not necessarily, the point of the article is that there is a high/room temperature superconducting material. That doesn't mean it is naturally occurring or that there are any, but the understanding that you can achieve superconduc
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by m-watson 6y ago
What makes it simply virtue signalling? And what kind of teeth do you want? It isn't the strongest but allowing individuals to sue[0] is a lot stronger than just saying "please don't do this." It isn't necessarily a
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Market Power, Inequality, and Financial Instability(federalreserve.gov)
3 points by m-watson 6y ago|0 comments
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by m-watson 6y ago
I also think, on top of all your points (which I agree with), keeping it shorter would make it more convincing. I think with the current usage of social media, short clips created through some synthetic means will be harder and harder to id
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by m-watson 6y ago
It seems like a kind of situation from this part: "Since 2016, the New York Department of Labor has held that ride-hail drivers were employees for purposes of unemployment insurance. But Uber and Lyft have dragged their feet, failing t
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by m-watson 6y ago
Note: The title was changed from "How You Can Fight Russia's Plans to Troll Americans During Campaign 2020" because it was too long for HN. Also I just find this an interesting short piece on disruptive techniques. Removing n
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Russian Reflexive Control Theory and the U.S. Elections(rand.org)
2 points by m-watson 6y ago|1 comments
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by m-watson 6y ago
The actual ruling [PDF]: https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nyed.448390...
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Judge orders New York to pay unemployment to Uber and Lyft drivers(arstechnica.com)
1 points by m-watson 6y ago|3 comments
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by m-watson 6y ago
Yea, I did not realize the huge difference moving from the east coast living in a few cities there going through the detailed inspection. I moved to the south, a different city, brought in my car, they told me to turn on my signals and haza
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by m-watson 6y ago
It is actually what I have on in the background right now. That now Amazon owned IMDB streaming service has it with commercials for free.
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by m-watson 6y ago
Unrelated to a strange bug story or anything but you just reminded me of when I was also helping someone set up a, as you called it, mini-supercomputer. It was to do quantum simulations. We were setting it up and the researcher who was goin
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by m-watson 7y ago
There may be a level of lobbying involved but I would also say websites like recreation are consumer facing, the weather data is used by actual researchers and practitioners. Layouts become a lot more sticky and efficient when people like t
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by m-watson 7y ago
Yea you made me just go check a bunch of my logs too. I still had the normal brute force level at least for the last few days. Still strange though.
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Ask HN: Anyone else notice the lack of spam recently?
2 points by m-watson 7y ago|2 comments
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by m-watson 7y ago
Yes from the research/understanding perspective but a lot of the testing is also to provide healthcare to those most in need. You test the most severe to make sure you can treat them effectively.
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by m-watson 7y ago
For sure light on details but it seems like he (or a family office) will be grant making and it is coming from him not his foundation or Amazon. https://techcrunch.com/2020/02/17/jeff-bezos-announced-a-10-...
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by m-watson 7y ago
Saying it was just an engineering problem is really understating the level of theory and experiment had to happen at the same time. It was a huge scientific and engineering endeavor that happened simultaneously. Some good books that go into
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by m-watson 7y ago
Yea the theory was not really much before this ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_fission#History ). There really couldn't be much theory on this before 1900's anyway because of our understanding of the at
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by m-watson 7y ago
Here is the arxiv paper for those interested: https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.05428
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by m-watson 7y ago
NIST Cybersecurity Framework is a good collection of resources. https://www.nist.gov/cyberframework
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by m-watson 7y ago
If you have a math/physics/chem background this is a good book [0]. I used it in my grad course on spectroscopy, it does a decent job walking through the concepts step by step. Spectroscopy is fascinating though, I used Raman Spec
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by m-watson 7y ago
This game has come up twice now in my online reading in the last few days. Smithsonian Magazine covered this game and some others. Worth a read through if you are interested in Senet. [0] [0] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/s
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by m-watson 7y ago
This one is really slick, I wonder how it works with larger data sets. I'll check it out later. Geojson.io is a nice one but I second your comment, anything on the larger side it just crashes for me. I end up just using QGIS with a tex

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