skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
well, I beg to differ, and quite a lot.

I am a mover educated with a master in physics.

My father is a physician.

a Physician - physicist talk looks like this :

Dad, medical studies are not science ; for instance fat are goods, then bad then good again.

Son, Newton laws have been proven wrong by Einstein

Dear dad, Newton laws are still valid in the right domain, something proven wrong may be proven wrong at the edge but not in its core, if medecine was science, fat would always be good most of the time, except when ...

Yes, but we medics invented meta analysis that made the science better

You are mainly comparing apple and potatoes without blinking, and you are surprised the results of your studies are hardly reproducible.

Long story short; hygienists are leading medical science based on their religious believes (like Pasteur with alcohol) and believes are hardly a good way of leading studies, and I am used to live every day with a tenant of as soft science as psychology/philosophy/history that has a diabete type II for believing in the BS of his fellow «scientific» colleagues, and I do not know if I am angry or laughing.
Previous discussions on Bloom Filters:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12231623

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12124722
I don't feel the author is a luddite but her problems may well be down more to her mother's "screams of frustration and misery" and going to mental hospital regularly throughout her childhood rather than too much Facebook.
I think the current medical research system is badly broken in several ways, and it's possible that a few billions spent on alternative approaches would bear a lot of fruit.

It might also not, but I'm very glad if someone tries.
When you say "140 year mortgage term", what exactly are you talking about? Effective term or something? Because the banks only offer a choice between 20, 25 and 30 year mortgage terms usually.
The fact that Mozilla is so slow in implementing real per-process sandboxing in Firefox and that it doesn't even plan to rewrite most of the browser in Rust over the next few years, makes me think that maybe Tor should just bite the bullet and rebuild on top of Chromium, while vigilantly watching out for anti-privacy features in it that they can remove.
Bloom filters are a really interesting data structure. Whenever I found out about them I really wanted to use them, so I ended up building a distributed hash table. I thought bloom filters could be an interesting way to optimize key lookup value throughout the network, as I could use a bloom filter to state that a remote node definitely didn't have a key (therefore, no need to send a request to them) or if a node likely had a key (therefore, sending a request to get the key's value).

Naturally, if consensus were established between nodes, using something like this would be unnecessary, but it turned out to be an interesting way of optimizing lookups in a DHT.
The inflation rate is 1.1% for the past 12 months - its not ideal but IMO its not that terrible relative to the risk of a market downturn blowing up your money. Maybe its a generational thing - I watched the .com bust and then 2007. Stocks are at their highest point ever right now - I'm not so sure it'll beat the mattress.
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True, in particular, it would be great to see an organization like this help scientific software development and distribution, which something incredibly useful that is hard to fund through NIH (not sure about elsewhere).
Where did I say that Lenovo should change the default setting?

To be clear, I'm perfectly fine with a default setting of RAID -- but right now, they also lock you out of changing it back to AHCI.

What I think is reasonable is allowing users to change the setting back to AHCI (at their own risk, of course, as is the case with MOST settings in the BIOS). They should have done that all along, but instead, they artificially restricted it, locking us Linux users out by their own volition.
yes but those people aren't silicon valley smart. Now that the tech billionaires are working on it we should have human health solved in a jiffy. It's like how medical informatics was in a pathetic state for decades until James Clark decided to take it on. After Netscape it was a simple matter and thanks to Healtheon all our healthcare software is good enough!
Ignoring the color space is hardly a world ender for most applications, but it has an effect on quality that can be subtle to drastic depending on what you're doing. For example, arcade games emulated in MAME often have a washed-out look by default because the monitor gamma isn't included(but it can be achieved through user customization).

One thing the article misses is a process or checklist to discover your requirements for color spaces. Characterizing it as a gamma-only problem isn't entirely correct since we also have completely different models of color(e.g. LAB, HSV, YUV) that make tradeoffs for different applications. So, something like:

1. Input data: if it contains gamma data or specifies a color space use that, else assume linear sRGB.

2. Output device: is gamma correction done for you/can you access information about the device capabilities and lighting situation? This can inform viewing conditions. For example, if your smartphone has a light sensor this can be used to adjust gamma as well as backlighting to achieve a near-linear perceptual response. Most apps wouldn't consider doing this of course. If the output is a file or stream determine the most likely use cases and convert as necessary.

3. Internal processing. For each image or signal you process, determine its input color space, and the ideal color space to run it in. Then decide which approximation is an appropriate trade-off for your application(since many color space conversions are compute-intense), and implement conversions as necessary. For many situations, gamma-corrected sRGB is "good enough" hence its emphasis in the article.
Interesting that they're devoting screen real estate to something that can be found in the data section.
I'm sick of this contrarian disruptive nonsense.

Redd Foxx got to choose his fate, but what am I going to do while forced to sit around the hospital dying of nothing?

Find a socially acceptable alternative to disease before you eliminate it.

(Ok, to put it more clearly: get off my damn lawn and my damn planet you stupid non-exponential function understanding kids.. Please!)
Analysis of chronic fatigue syndrome study casts doubt on published results
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Infra-red cameras are used in the LeapMotion controllers. I don't think it is anything special about the spectrum however, coupled with Infra-red lights it's an easy way to cut down on the noise in the comtrollers field of view.
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In principle heat can be gotten rid of with radiators, like the EATCS[1] on the International Space Station.

To maximize the heat radiated away, you'd need radiators with as much surface area as possible with an unobstructed view of the sky (no cloud cover). They'd also need to be as hot as possible, because thermal radiation power rises with the 4th power of absolute temperature

There have been attempts to detect such thermal radiation from alien civilizations[2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/External_Active_Thermal_Contro...

[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/1408.1134
If we made any mistakes, they are pretty small.

What gets super confusing is that you have a bunch of different stuff flying around. You have textures in different formats and render targets in different formats (some are in sRGB, some are in HDR 16-bit floating-point, some are other random formats somewhere in-between). You need to set up your shader state to do the right thing for both the input texture and the render target, and the nuances of how to do this are going to change from system to system. Sometimes if you make a mistake it is easily spotted; other times it isn't.

And then there are issues of vertex color, etc. Do you put your vertex colors in sRGB or linear space? Well, there are good reasons for either choice in different contexts. So maybe your engine provides both options. Well, now that's another thing for a programmer to accidentally get wrong sometimes. Maybe you want to introduce typechecked units to your floating-point colors to try and error-proof this, but we have not tried that and it might be annoying.

All that said, everyone is about to rejigger their engines somewhat in order to be able to output to HDR TVs (we are in the process of doing this, and whereas it is not too terrible, it does involve throwing away some old stuff that doesn't make sense any more, and replace it by stuff that works a new way).
We learned a lot, and things have been completely different this time around. We were much more careful about managing timelines & deliverables much further upstream, delivering features in more of a phased approach to prevent on big last minute merge with unanticipated interaction effects, ensuring adequate time for internal testing as well as external beta testing to uncover bugs of all kinds (regressions, usability, etc), and then cutting scope aggressively if necessary as the deadlines approach to make sure that we maintain a very high quality bar -- those are just a few of the things we've been able to improve on.

Very proud of Weebly 4 and the team that made it all happen, it's both our biggest release ever, as well as our most polished!
The super rich have been doing this sort of thing at least since the robber baron era. Government funding of research went up dramatically anyway
Ha, true. Normally we aren't going there during rush hour. It's probably more like an hour or an hour and 15 minutes during rush hour.
Just because something was shittier in the past, doesn't excuse the present for still being shitty.

Where did I say that Lenovo should change the default setting?

To be clear, I'm perfectly fine with a default setting of RAID -- but right now, they also lock you out of changing it back to AHCI.

What I think is reasonable is allowing users to change the setting back to AHCI (at their own risk, of course, as is the case with MOST settings in the BIOS). They should have done that all along, but instead, they artificially restricted it, locking us Linux users out by their own volition.

Maybe they could even have two separate builds (using an #ifdef on their end), where Linux users can download the "unlocked version" much like some permissive phone manufacturers have done with rooting (to draw a somewhat weak analogy).
I expected a project dedicated to combating light pollution, or possibly saying where the closes dark sky was. Got severely disappointed.
I admit I haven't done any therapy by any therapist. I have read some CBT book and tried to do it myself without any progress. Its also one of those things I probably should look in to (along with sleep apnea suggested by someone else). I just wish benzos didn't have so many issues with it, or it would be the perfect drug. I take such a low dose and I know people who are taking 2-5mg and they are happily chugging alone. I fear for them, if they ever needs to get off of benzos.
No. The up-to-date composition of the fund is not public nor should it be due to the very real possibility of moving the markets in unintended ways. However, they do publish annual reports of investments which you can access on their website. Here's a 2015 one:
https://www.nbim.no/contentassets/70de238e3f6747228b76a99ec2...
if we're going to get pedantic, what is the chance that the weight ended up in exactly the same spot that it started in, when moved by a person?
Last question first: large, but not Facebook large (I spent 10 years consulting on this kind of thing).†

You comment early in the talk that the MD5 step is somehow helpful for password dumps. That was the bit I didn't follow. If it's there because that's how password hashing worked before your team got to it, that makes a lot more sense. But then: it's not a "layer" of the onion so much as a sheen of dirt that needs to be washed off the onion. :)

I get that your auth problem is huge. Yuge. So big you wouldn't believe it. I totally believe you. No, wait, I don't believe you, that's how big I know your authN problem to be: unbelievably huge.

But here's the thing: you're already scrypting passwords. We're not debating whether you can use expensive password hashes. You already use expensive password hashes. I'm saying: the model where the KMS does a small bit of the password hash step and defers the heavy lifting to front-end servers seems like a suboptimal way to structure this:

* You have to bill cycles from the front end to do it

* You can't change password hashing without updating all the front-end servers

* It's harder to track usage because it's spread across a zillion machines

* You're more constrained in how you scale it (for instance, if you wanted to double or triple the work factor) because whatever your new scheme is, it has to fit with the existing front-end resources.

I'm not saying "wow, it's dumb that you built it this way". I'm saying, if other people are reading this thread thinking about how to do it:

* DO split authentication out into its own service

* DON'T have that authentication service be "HMAC as a service" and then do scrypt on your front-end service

YOUR MOVE, ALEC MUFFETT. I keep going until you unfriend me on Facebook so I can't see you wincing about these posts.

† I've assessed Facebook-large variants of this, though.
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No worries, Zuck and Priscilla will do it.
>The Social Security Trust Fund is a sovereign wealth fund it's not called like that due to historic convention, but it does operate like one.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the SS Trust Fund has to exclusively buy Treasury bonds, while other sovereign funds make investments in the public stock markets, etc. Seems an important difference.
I know and love my gamma. She makes the best cookies!
I have a question for the anonymous Woman,

Do you feel that tech companies that pander to misandrist Third Wave Feminist entryists and try to incorporate there ideology will be harmed in the mid to long term As Men move to organisations that do not Discriminate against there gender and treat them as people rather then accomplices of the patriarch who need to be marginalized?

In my observations both Men who want to enter the tech industry and those who have established careers have become aware of the misandrist intentions of Feminist entryism in the tech industry and are steering there careers away from companies that may limit there growth within the organisation and place less value on them simply because the are Men.
Right? Women in comp sci is a statistical anomaly [1] at this point, and it's interesting to see how this influences their experiences in the industry.

[1] http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/10/21/357629765/when-...
It's still the consensus that we can't (even theoretically) send a bit of information this way, right? Like, no quantum telegraph?

So we measure the particles and find that they are in inverse states. I assume there's a reason for this, but why are we sure that we're not just reading off a random number generator that's set from the same seed?
Which is _much_ (orders of magnitude) easier than curing Cancer
Non-alcoholic restaurants? Maybe that's a nice idea, but I don't think that actually solves anything.

The main problem with alcohol (at least in my culture) is that it's not given that you can go and drink non-alcoholic stuff in a social gathering without others making it a huge problem.

In that situation, who would go into the non-alco restaurant? Especially would you like to ask your friends "let's go to the non-alco place instead of the usual one", if the drinking is the thing you find problematic? Yeah, I've never heard much about non-alco restaurants.

The existence of gimmicky restaurants isn't answer to these kinds of problems, because the inherit reason is ... how I would say this ... in the societal background of "what is normal": the overall framework what is expected of you, what you can reasonably expect of others, and what options you are left with if you think you have a reasonable, principled case against the way things currently stand and disagree with the behaviour that is considered "normal"?

The parallels to over-indulging in predatory social media products are left as an exercise to reader.
We will all be dead so we will never know.
Plenty of even perfect numbers. Find some odd ones!
The easiest way to address this is to simply move the p value necessary for significant results - instead of p < 0.05 use p < 0.001 or even p < 0.0000003 (3 x 10^-7), as is needed in particle physics. Though the 5 sigma threshold is a bit ridiculous. Lowering the p-value threshold significantly increases the cost of hunting for positives due to random chance, at the expense of needing more sensitive experiments.
I've used regular off the shelf foaming dispensers with Dr. Bronner's before and it worked well. I used roughly a 1/5 soap to water ratio.
> I can admit though that Telgrams marketing of their encryption has been at least borderline dishones.

So, 100% Facebook free with a company that is borderline dishonest in how it communicates about the things we can confirm... Why is that the better devil?
I think the first thing people should be taught about concurrency... is when not to use it.

Concurrency can result in increased maintenance costs and complexity.

Concurrency is also not more efficient on a single core.

Concurrency can help with latency and response time.

In embedded systems in particular, there is an over-use of concurrency which often results in bloated, complex code.
I believe there is a 'downvote' button, but it's only available once you've scored above a certain karma threshold.

Also, while you don't know how often something has been upvoted, a comment with a higher score will be at the top of the page, and you'll see it first and be more likely to give it an additional upvote.
Off topic but curious to know your thoughts on Unreal Engine 4 and if you feel you could be as expressive in it as you would in your own proprietary engine?
> and nothing similar to the Global Fund

This is untrue, while a country might not have a single large SWF most of them have similar investments they are just distributed and managed differently.
What you would be correct to say is that not many countries have a single large SWF which is primarily funded through the "nationalization" of the revenue from mineral rights.

Also please note that the "882B" are for both funds or if you like the Government Pension Fund of Norway Fund manages 2 discrete SWF's the petroleum revenue fund and the national insurance/tax revenue fund.
Sometimes I wish there was a package/library of the week. So many great discussions to be had!
A nice small enhancement. While many projects mention the license in the README, not all do. So it is very easy to see at a glance which license a project is under. In this context, I really appreciate how github offers to add the license while creating a new repository with a quick list of the most common licenses. A good incentive to put a new project under a proper license from the start and making sure that the correct license terms are attached.
Your suggestion also works for most liquid soaps: Just add ~50% water (mix well) and they foam in a foam soap dispenser.
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I noticed this a few days ago and I think it's a great addition. I hope they keep this feature.
This is great! I often find myself clicking through to the license file and trying to remember which license text it looks like. This'll be both easier and more reliable.
"Cure all diseases" is a bit hand wavy just like a static code analyzer claiming to "find all software defects".

What is the point that I'm missing? They don't really want to cure all diseases?
If you declared feature lock I bet you could get Facebook to have 100x less bugs in 10 years. If we aren't also genetically enhancing yourself, at least it could be a semi fixed target.
"these groups can trace their origins back to the very first arrivals on the continent about 50,000 years ago and that they remained almost entirely isolated until around 4,000 years ago. “They are probably the oldest group in the world that you can link to one particular place,” said Willerslev."

Terra nullius be damned.
Hosting wise it isn't
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Some commentators seem to be more keen on labelling others conspiracy theorists than consider the possibility that MS and Lenovo could be up to no good.

The only way to convince these folks it seems would be a smoking gun or even better a signed confession from satya and lenovo admitting to shady behavior.

Since that's not how shady behavior works in the real world presumably many here are supporters of the camel in the sand approach with a zero tolerance policy towards non conforming camels.
Arguable. We can only compare difficulty after the fact, if Einstein hadn't rolled along with relativity and 3 decade gap for research, the atomic bomb wouldn't have been possible.

There may be a 'relativity' level discovery in biology/aging/cancer that will change the historic perspective. We can't know until after the fact.
> Just because something was shittier in the past, doesn't excuse the present for still being shitty.

You are right. No one's making excuses here :)

> Where did I say that Lenovo should change the default setting?

You didn't, I did.

I was walking on Lenovo's shoes and asking myself "What's good for the business right now?". I was considering my options, so to speak.

> What I think is reasonable is allowing users to change the setting back to AHCI (at their own risk, of course, as is the case with MOST settings in the BIOS). They should have done that all along, but instead, they artificially restricted it, locking us Linux users out by their own volition.

Why is it reasonable? Does it bring more money to Lenovo shareholders? What happens when all the Internet forums are full of people blindly recommending to change to AHCI so you can use your Windows 10 vanilla ISO to reinstall? I tell you what happens: You end up with hundreds of support cases and laptops returned because they [underperfom|get too hot|have shitty battery] and non-returning customers.

With the decision Lenovo made, they will have way less problems. Or so they thought! Maybe they were right, maybe they were wrong.

> Maybe they could even have two separate builds (using an #ifdef on their end), where Linux users can download the "unlocked version" much like some permissive phone manufacturers have done with rooting (to draw a somewhat weak analogy).

They could do that, but as I said in my previous comment this might not be as cheap as it sounds.

If they were to provide the unlocked BIOS version "at your own risk", would you use it? And if it bricks your laptop, would you or someone else sue Lenovo?

Those are the things at play here.

(Note: I agree with you on most things here, just playing Devil's advocate)
No. In fact, that hardware support is mandatory. The SP0 field is used unconditionally on a cross-privilege exception.

Sadly, AMD64 came up with a terrible design for SYSCALL, and an exception right after SYSCALL will not automatically switch stacks. The result is a big mess.
Upstream libjpeg after v6 has appeared a little... weird lately: https://github.com/LuaDist/libjpeg/blob/master/README#L353
I must be defective, I get really annoyed with the inconsistency and just give up on things in that case in general.
Based on that link, the Gates foundation is providing $2.86 billion. The second biggest donor is the US Government at $2.64 billion.

I'd consider the entity with the most money in the game as the driver of really anything.
Mark ("and Priscilla") are pledging $3B.

The Manhattan project cost was "about $26 billion in 2016 dollars" according to the Wikipedia article. They are short $23B.
Excellent team, beautiful product, bravo!