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by privong 6y ago
> So not changing a spec for over a decade should not be considered pathological but actually commendable, if the nature of spec is complete enough for it's purpose. The "nature of the spec is complete enough for its purpose&q
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by privong 6y ago
> Amtrak and Acela do not actually own the railway they use... This is true for most of the Amtrak mileage, but the Northeast Corridor rails are largely owned by Amtrak[0,pg4]: Amtrak owns and operates 363 route-miles of the 457-route
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Hofstadter Sequence(en.wikipedia.org)
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by privong 6y ago
Just a heads up, for me the "posts in this series" links (towards the top of the page) all return 404 errors. It seems they have an extra "python-for-feature-film/" in the URL. This happens when I have javascript bl
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‘Asteroid’ nearing Earth may be old NASA rocket(latimes.com)
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Astronomical Data Sonification(github.com)
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Detecting Deep Fakes with a Heartbeat(schneier.com)
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by privong 6y ago
It's alluded to in the Quanta Mag article, but it's worth repeating the information from the NANOgrav discovery paper[0], as stated in the paper's abstract: However, we find no statistically significant evidence that this pr
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by privong 6y ago
> It could do pretty much anything. Though, you may have noticed that I omitted addressing your first bulletpoint of "simple formatting", as I am not able to keep a straight face while calling LaTeX "simple". One poss
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How to Make Biomass Energy Sustainable Again(lowtechmagazine.com)
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Did a broken random number generator in Cuba help expose a Russian spy network?(mattblaze.org)
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Drivers and pedestrians break rules to save time, cyclists do it for safety(daily.jstor.org)
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by privong 6y ago
In the US, I've seen that referred to as "go to hell pants": https://www.gentlemansgazette.com/go-to-hell-pants/
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by privong 6y ago
This is part of an issue of "Nature Astronomy" that is focused on climate change: https://astronomycommunity.nature.com/posts/the-climate-issu...
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The ecological impact of high-performance computing in astrophysics(nature.com)
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Ranking National Cyber Power(schneier.com)
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by privong 6y ago
There was a HN title generator done a few years ago: https://veekaybee.github.io/2015/08/24/markov-in-python/ And one for generating (unrelated) comments to a title: https://github.com/le
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A small group of U.S. lawyers pushed voter fraud fears into the mainstream(reuters.com)
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by privong 6y ago
> There's a similar NodeJS program called blcl (broken-link-checker-local) which has the handy attribute that it works on local directories linkchecker can do this as well, if you provide it a directory path instead of a url.
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by privong 6y ago
LIGO and VIRGO are sensitive to gravitational waves within a specific frequency range. The bulk of GW energy is emitted at a frequency that is twice the orbital frequency of the objects emitting the gravitational waves. Supermassive black h
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by privong 6y ago
Tucson, AZ is another place that has rules to guard against light pollution. This is to keep skies dark for the nearby observatories. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tucson,_Arizona#Light_pollutio...
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by privong 6y ago
> I think 'Show HN' is signalling to people that you don't think anyone would be interested in the content. It is like apologizing. Make content people are interested in. Show HN isn't for content links. From the &quo
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The realities of a black man in the bike world(surlybikes.com)
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by privong 6y ago
This comment has info about a community license: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24166978
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by privong 6y ago
> USPS has a free API that gives you the location of every collection box. Do you have a link for this? It would be useful for filling out post box information on openstreetmap, I'd think. I found the USPS "Web Tools API"[
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by privong 6y ago
Good news, it's a great program. It might be better to use the URL about the release: https://www.darktable.org/2020/08/darktable-321-released/ (rather than the "news" page)
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by privong 6y ago
> the TGV is also profitable Correct me if I’m wrong, but my impression is that this is only true if one excludes the capital costs associated with the railroad (tracks, right of way, and I think also rolling stock). If you factor in th
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Seismometer noise includes signals from South Atlantic storms(phys.org)
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Radio Frequency Interference Forecast for the Next Gen. Very Large Array [pdf](library.nrao.edu)
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NIST Launches Investigation of Face Masks’ Effect on Face Recognition Software(nist.gov)
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