skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In science, the burden of proof is on the new thing to unequivocally prove itself true...not 'harmless until proven harmful.'

The former statement does not imply the latter--it depends on whether you default to "we assume, as a null hypothesis, that everything is harmless until proven harmful", as in the US, or "we assume, as a null hypothesis, that everything is harmful until proven harmless", as in the European Union (which, by the way, is not "the rest of the world").
I wouldn't rule it out completely, though. There is some opportunity to mitigate latency, such as performing the heavy lifting remotely with local transformations on a simplified description of the scene to account for head movement and the like.

It would certainly be a much more complex solution that would still have inferior results compared to computing everything locally (just like cloud streaming now). Just that it's not "change the laws of physics" impossible to get to a workable implementation.

See also John Carmack's comments from 2013 on latency mitigation: https://web.archive.org/web/20140719053303/http://www.altdev...
Who says GMOs aren't tested? I'd bet they're tested more than non-GMOs.

> I might want to know for environmental reasons that have nothing to do with health.

Sounds like wanting all the details of provenance, which, apart from letting the consumer decide on environmental factors, lets decide on issues like fair trade. So a good thing. But it sounds like "GMO or not" isn't special among "all the details"?
The hype is probably for recruiting. But, "Magic" in the name is like the handicap principle of biology, means the founders had a big prior exit and can raise despite the name ;) Like Magic Cap operating system — usually means good talent, but they take too long to ship.
I do often wonder if exposed beams and varnished concrete floors will be as ridiculous to people in 2030 as shag carpets and faux wood paneling are to us today.
There is no point in gmo "done responsibly". The question is do we want more or less industrial agriculture?

Given what we've learnt in the past 50 years, we should want less industrial agriculture. And gmos are not the way to go. They're useless, potentially harmful, and industrial-level shit products.
You need $$$ for mfg scale to get the waveguide price down and to build the light engine at all, it's not off-the-shelf.
Modern equivalent to recommend: The Man Who Quit Money.

While few of us will ever go quite that far, it is an intriguing study of how far one can go in minimizing, and the costs & benefits of doing so.
Just out of curiosity (never used a Mac), how to you install all those versions you need? Via a package manager or from source?
I guess that depends on a person's background. I'm almost certain a kernel hacker would feel that way. People with more experience in dynamic languages probably not so much.

I am one of those folks that specialize in JS and admittedly, the freedom of the syntax can lead to some pretty poor code. I suppose that's why most "serious" projects have resorted to bolting on type checking systems.

In all depends on where you stand.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12869601
It's a little hard to distinguish worthwhile warnings from the near-constant din of finger-wagging
Show HN: Word Forms
this isnt uncommon. my favorite ice cream maker got shut down on similar charges.
I think this is the first time I've seen a 410 Gone Explained

"This page is under investigation or was found in violation of the Medium Rules"
> I'm not sure how we do that

GMO milkweed, and other weeds, I presume. Perhaps Monsanto can create and patent an entire polyculture to be grown as a unit?
No, they're ahead I think

Aside from their screens, I have to disagree. Everything else in Galaxy phones is gloriously second-rate. The compass in my S4 and Note 4 never really worked properly. Their GPS is just slightly better than a wild guess. Their SOCs went from awesome in the exynos 4000 series when Apple was designing their cores to awful in the 5000 series when they had to do it on their own, and they've only recently started coming close to Apple again. Their external speakers are so bad that they've provided HTC and others with key market differentiation. They don't seem to be able to design an earpiece that doesn't sound like its playing through cheese-cloth. And the fit and finish of their phones is 'luxury-plastic' at best.

The only piece of hardware they seem to do really well is their screens, and that happens to be the most important component for smartphone users. But the rest of their hardware? If it wasn't for Samsung's dominance of OLED, the Android handset market would be much more balanced.

S7 is IP68 waterproof

The difference between IP67 and IP68 waterproofing is 50cm of immersion in water (1m vs 1.5m). It isn't rated for swimming or underwater photography. In practice, both an S7 and an iPhone 7 could probably be taken into a pool. But remember that the S7 still comes with water immersion detection stickers inside (or at least the Note 7 did). They'll know if you take it for a swim.

larger battery (and longer battery life, actually)

Definitely not my experience. My iPhone 7+ is approaching 3 days of battery life. When new, my Note 4 could get about 1.8.

It also has more built-in sensors (which you might call a gimmick, but still, it's not _behind_ Apple in any sense).

None of which really seem to work very well. The GPS and compass in my Note 4 were really flaky.
Nice one. But I guess you're just trying to label them! Shame on you. Labels are bad. Don't you get it?
Who else has plowed a billion into a waveguide and light engine factory?
This is what (a form of) propaganda looks like. Use it to learn to recognize propaganda on topics you're less versed in.
K&R = Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie.

The book is small and pretty good. I found it useful. C is a small language thus the book is small (I think they say something to that effect in the forward).

Its book famous enough to have its own wiki entry:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_C_Programming_Language
A bunch of .it domains with exhausted, failed or never started projects: bestapps (formerly a web magazine, now a never happening apps recommender system); databot (now a landing page for a local business); jobsud + jobcentro + jobnord (an empty job board, not starting because of a break up with the sectoral partner). Getting rid in order to focus on my primary nuclearresearch.net. Anyone going for the full batch of five .it?
I'd like to see that!
MLeap is scanned, but they'll have a limit on the switching speed of the laser + color components.
You make a good point and this point has indeed been argued. I can't speak for the quality of the research, but one conclusion was that if demand exceeds domestic supply, legalization will increase trafficking in high income countries. Which makes sense from an economic point of view.

I still think the problem is the trafficking and not the prostitution so much, and that all efforts should be put towards combatting trafficking by any means possible.

Even if protitution was legalized, I have no problems convicting johns for enabling or benefiting from human trafficking, if done so knowingly. This isn't much different from age of consent and could be solved in a similar way.
Surprised that this is one here. Curious- how many folks are helping you run this? I'd love to chat about how my skills / experiences (sales, marketing) can help you out. Email me [hn_username]@gmail.com so we can talk.
Yeah completely implausible...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaWeWtG0tJQ
> There is a unknown side to GMO, perhaps it can lead to super species that we can never get rid of in the future and will destroy bio diversity.

I can see how this kind of fear stems from watching scifi-movies, but it is totally unfounded.

When we breed super-productive or super-muscular beef cattle, for example the Belgian Blue [1], absolutely no one is afraid that these bodybuilder-looking muscular cows could survive alone in the wild, kicking the ass of natural populations of deer, elk, wolf and bear, and take over the ecosystems.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=Belgian+Blue&tbm=isch

Yet somehow, when breeding high-yield crops, people mistake the high productivity in the controlled, pest-controlled, fertilized, irrigated farming conditions to some kind of general life vigor, ready to spread outside the farm and outcompete the natural vegetation.

Nothing could be further from the truth. No crop plant, GMO or non-GMO, could ever stand a change outside the farmer's care.
The problem is Apple uses different words for what I want. I remember when I couldn't find render for exporting a video project. I was then informed that it isn't called render on Apple. I threw something and broke it (I forgot what I broke but it wasn't expensive but I felt like a HUGE jerk)
Pretty cool read. I'll agree with others that the title didn't make much sense to me, but the people.ai software sounds interesting.

Something like that for personal use could be neat to try. I'm not a sales role, but I would like to have something like this for engineering tasks.
I think you're talking about Metro bank? I know they're literally on the high street but they're meant to be a bit more innovative/useful when you actually go into a branch.

I normally use the phrase 'High Street bank' to mean those that have a branch on most high streets and range from unhelpful to really unhelpful. That's useful to know that Metro bank are living up to a different reputation.
They're aiming for mobile pricing, and could subsidize just like mobile, $199 + wireless contract.
Not afraid. More like "please tell me why?".
Let's fire all cleaning staff, sewer workers and customer support personnel. Then they will be happy.
Reminds me that a company a while back tried to pitch such a system on the cheap. It was basically a bulky visor that you put your smartphone into. inside the visor was a angled piece of glass that would make your phone screen appear to be hovering in the air in front of you.
> Net downmodding = groupthink, but net upmodding = diverse and factual?

I didn't make those explicit equations nor is it that black and white.
It is far more complicated.

If you want more of a "net" it is we have a HN culture that prefers pressing the downvote instead of offering a simply comment as to why the previous comment is incorrect or why they politely disagree. Like I have honestly no idea why the parent*5 was downvoted.

If the downvote is content filtering I could understand that (ie downvote because other comments are more relevant/correct) but the problem is that it is called karma and you can downvote 1 point comments. If it was fairly positive comment (ie lets say more than 1 point) and it lost points I think that would be better. Still it is crappy mechanism for content filtering.

Some people honestly think they are doing service downvoting comments. I guess I don't agree.

As for the groupthink I meant it less for downvoting and more for the love of nostalgia. I probably could have done a better job explaining.
https://lwn.net/Articles/701964/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PflCyiULO4&t=2h10m22s
No, I was responding to the grandparent saying that labeling GMOs was pointless. It is not pointless to those who wish to avoid them altogether. You don't need to know what was changed if you main concern is the binary question of whether it is a GMO or not.

It is also no true that it tells you very very little. It tells you that there are transgenic modifications to the product's genes. That's not "very very little".
Fair enough, I know the situation well, it just came up a lot in recent times.
Yeah, and actually we get to know where that rice is coming from. There is a fucking label on it. Also you can't export it everywhere because it's a shitty experiment.
Wait Hue doesn't use asymmetric keys to sign its firmware updates?
Depending on the environmental impact of what gets washed off, it might be better if we ate it rather than allowing some critical piece of a food chain to be killed by it, or for it to be concentrated in the flesh of some fish that we eat.

How would you have a chance to find that out without long-term testing?
You'd probably have more luck asking this on blender stack exchange or blender artists. Here's what I found after a quick google search. It looks pretty similar to your question:

http://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/5525/animated-obj...
The way I recollect it, this is so far very different from Segway. In the runup to the Segway release/announcement, all the hype was coming from the Segway people and the press was repeating it because they had nothing else to report besides potted biographies of Dean Kamen and his previous inventions. I don't remember tech journalists going in, getting to use the Segway for hours, and coming out and telling the world that it was going to change cities forever (even if they aren't allowed to explain exactly what 'Ginger' was). With Magic Leap, on the other hand, we have many people going in, using it live, and coming out and saying it's going to change everything, including people who have been watching tech hype bubbles form & pop since before you or I were born, like Kevin Kelly. I think we can be pretty confident that there is some extremely impressive technology in there and that the descriptions are not totally bogus, even if we remain uncertain how successful it'll be (eg VR headsets are technically impressive and do deliver presence and deliver on many promises, but have not yet set the world on fire).
I am in no way, shape, form, or manner saying that evidence should not be expected. I am saying that goalposts should be made clear, because there's little point in trying to get to goals that can never be reached.

I'm also saying we should apply uniform standards for managing risks. It's not uniform to require GMOs undergo multi-human-generation safety tests (as another user hinted at), but readily approve strains from traditional breeding after a basic "Does it immediately kill people?" test.

I don't just what to know what strains of GMO wheat went into my packaged cookie. I want to know what strains of everything, because I don't think non-GMO is better or safer in any reasonable way. I want a uniform safety standard, not one that only exists for scary science-y new-ish things.

I don't want to keep people in ignorance. I think that people are currently badly misinformed, and I'm in favor of full disclosure all around. I am not in favor of the "Contains GMOs" labels, because those labels do not provide information to make decisions with and only play on fears.
Speak for yourself. Such simplification has long been a critical step in achieving philosophical or religious ideals.
... about two years ago. (Though admittedly it's not used much.)

If that surprises you, it sounds like you may be equally surprised at the list of TLDs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_top-level_dom...
We always get latest version of soylent instead of having a way to subscribe a specific version. This is like cloud based service, the upgrade is transparent, you benefits from ingredient upgrade, and you suffer from it. The key here is how fast Soylent can identify and address customer's concerns.
Thanks, this is precisely what I intended.
The Raspberry Pi 3 is available from many vendors for $35 + sales taxes. You can pick it up on our site for £32 including VAT (that's EUR30 before taxes or EUR36 including taxes): https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/raspberry-pi-3
Call for Prevent-style strategy to stop children engaging in cybercrime
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"Temporary is permanent."

"Test is production."

These two mantras have saved me and coworkers from making stupid "temporary" fixes countless times through the years.
I'd argue that in a time when everybody has a LinkedIn account, putting your name on the article is a form of disclosure.
That is wonderful. Glad you were able to kick the habit. Same with me- my intention was never to stop smoking... it just kind of happened. :D
No and I can't tread it, fairy font?
I've been programming in Python for a long time and recently took up an OS class which exclusively used C. Syntactic differences aside (declarations in C can get pretty hairy), the steepest learning curve while writing anything useful in C is with a) pointers and b) memory management which this guide doesn't seem to cover.

From my experience, the best way for learning C has been [0] Build Your Own Lisp and Zed Shaw's [1] Learn C The Hard Way.

That and of course spending countless hours debugging segfaults and memory leaks.

[0] - http://www.buildyourownlisp.com/

[1] - https://learncodethehardway.org/c/
Exactly, for as many legitimate problems I see posted I usually see double as mean fear-mongering stories.
- Unlike VR, they don't have to render backgrounds

- FOV is apparently their big advantage, along with focus zones

- They could do hard occlusion with an LCD mask. Or they could punt til v2, and soft-occlude with blur using their stacked diffraction plates.
Exactly. There are tons of other way to address these issues - tons of less harmful and more beautiful ways. What sort of agriculture do we want in 20 years? Gmo industrial non-sustainable shit? Or something else entirely?
Simply because it's been popular for long enough that it's starting to get predictable. Every new bar/restaurant/office that I walk into looks practically the same. Fashion moves in cycles, and this one is past its peak.
That sounds right. The link in the OP outlines a pretty solid plan; that's pretty much the way I used to get raises as a corporate dev.
The 40-hour workweek is a direct function of (1) that it's advantageous to have the fewest employees possible, because each additional employee has overhead costs; (2) you can't make employees work more than 8 hours/day (a number that was arrived at through significant strife and is unlikely to change substantially); (3) everyone gets two days off in a 7-day period.

The 40-hour workweek isn't an arbitrary quantity, it's an empirically derived quantity. And the process of deriving it literally involved people killing each other. I don't see it changing very soon, except in edge cases.
You and I will simply have to agree to differ on this subject. I don't agree that "there are transgenic modifications to the product's genes" is a substantive information gain.
> How else do you explain how woefully unprepared we are?

What do you mean? This is an expected outcome of the "ship ASAP", "competition uber alles" culture, rewarding short term gains over everything else. Our whole technological ecosystem was built on this mindset.
Accidental but I'll keep it.
I mainly use it in two ways (in order of usage):
1. To set reminders and timers,
2. To find quick answers, ie. I actually _just_ used it to find out what time sunset is and it answered fine. I might sometimes ask it a bit more complex things like "What time is the GSW game on tonight?", but anything research-related or more challenging questions, I leave to Google.

My biggest gripe with this whole voice assistant thing is is, when I think of a query, I usually _want_ to Google it because I enjoy going to Wikipedia (or some related article) and reading about it myself, picking out the sections I find interesting and reading about them, which sometimes leads me deeper into other areas of interest. I don't find that joy when an AI tells me what I want to hear. That's my biggest limitation to using these things. That and Siri never understanding me.
I agree i'd like them to be completely transparent. However, they're certainly more transparent than your average packaged food company.

And I don't think you can extrapolate from a single incident that their process has increased the number of issues. You need more data than that to make a claim of that sort.
Fair enough, I missed the "vendor" mention in the parent's comment. But my main point was to address the fact that labels with just "GMO" are pointless, which is certainly not the case.
Then why doesn't the City lose on purpose the defending lawsuit since they have no horse in this race?
> Genetic modifications through hybridisation and other traditional methods are protected by cellular mechanisms that are bypassed in GMO.

If they actually are bypassed, the modifications wouldn't give rise to any viable organisms.
Do others working in this industry differentiate between freelancing (project-based) vs independent contracting?
https://www.asknestor.me - a programmable Slack bot platform, over 2000+ installs, featured by Slack App Store and has a cool programmable interface for AWS Lambda.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61MimimmOZQ
Intimidation could be avoided by allowing a voter to send in a ballot multiple times, with only the last one counted, or allow them to void their mail-in vote by visiting in person on election day.
Well, one criticism of Postel's principle is that it's contributed to the security hazards of the modern-day Internet. We have a lot of ill-behaved software, written by programmers who felt free to take the easy way out because everyone else bent over backwards to accommodate them. The critics argue that a more formal, RFC-respectful approach -- the equivalent of what we'd call "political correctness" in a conversational context -- would bring about a safer Internet (or safer world) for everyone.

I don't subscribe to that point of view because I disagree with the idea that safety and security should be prioritized above virtually everything else including freedom. But I think it's worth acknowledging in a devil's-advocate sense. The question, "What's the minimum level of standards enforcement / political correctness that's required to enable technological development / human progress?" is an interesting one. Clearly the answer isn't "Zero" in either case.
How do we do this with non GMO products? I'm eating today organic crops which were either never eaten by my previous generations, or didn't even exist then. Let's take a garden-style non GMO cherry tomatoes. They didn't even exist a few hundred years ago and didn't become popular until 20th century. In eastern europe I don't think I've ever seen one before late 90s.

So what's the difference between a genetic mixture like cherry tomatoes and GMO tomatoes? Why should I be more scared of long-term effect of one over the other?
> Sure, but Python 3 only took on correct handling at the whole string level. It ignored correct handling at the character and sub-string level. Something similar applies for many programming languages. I think this was Zoffix's point

It very well could have been what Zoffix had in mind but do note that this goes back to the problem with the rant style of post.

As for the specific question of character handling which you raised, given the wide number of people who have made other choices on the question of whether a length function should count codepoints or graphemes that I'm reluctant to say using one versus the other is a question of “correct” or “incorrect” versus simply “different”. I suspect most programmers are rarely going to care and the ones who do are going to need to learn enough more about Unicode and i18n that this difference will not be a deciding factor for anyone.

(This is not to detract from the great history the Perl community has with taking seriously the benefits of having a rich Unicode API – I've routinely used this as an example to follow – but simply that Unicode is a deceptively simple-looking topic)

> Literals of the form `1e-5` are not arbitrary precision in Perl 6. They are floating point (called Num in Perl 6).

Yes. Again, my point wasn't that Perl 6 is bad but rather that it's lazy and ineffective advocacy to say something like “you can write accounting software worry-free” when you know full well that anyone doing that for real will still need to understand the differences and that most users will never care because they aren't writing financial software.
Fat Head.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Size_Me#Criticism_and_st...