skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's exactly how the DNA sequencing works for fresh samples. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequence_assembly We don't have the technology to do more than a few thousand bases in one go at the moment, so all modern sequencing means chopping up the sample, analysis, and then statistics based reassembly.

I don't know how it relates to million years old samples though. Maybe someone else knows why that's not easily applicable. I'd guess degradation being pretty random leaves chunks which are too small for analysis. (pure speculation, please educate me)
I work in the biotech industry and it's the exact same way. We have legions of lawyers who try and decipher the regulations.

A great example is price reporting to the gov't. You're supposed to report your net price across all sales to CMS on a quarterly basis. Problem is, the regulations are so vague that it falls on companies as to how to interpret them. Naturally, companies err on the conservative side (at least most of them). My old company probably had 20 FTE's dedicated to this one regulation.

And if you reach out to the regulatory body for clarification, that's a multi-year process. A great example is the AMP rule (average manufacturer price). I think CMS was supposed to role out the clarification back in 2012, but only finalized it last year. And there are still unanswered questions.
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Months? No. Weeks? Yes.
Thanks for pointing it out. Like 2 decades ago I knew a guy with 1 syllable name (like Hoon, Yi) which was quite unique. It had been done for a long time but not as common. I guess it is less rare.

Lol 2 families from 경상도 and 전라남도 joined by marriage...
Yeah, I recently installed Windows 95 in a VM to run some old software and I was actually quite surprised at how hard it pushes MSN - the "connect to the internet" wizard it presents basically asks if you're on a LAN and, if you say no, tells you to call MSN to sign up.
Certainly, there are illusions around traditional martial arts , which is highlighted by this Taichi guy's agreement to such fight in the first place. However, the Chinese reaction is not simply a shock reaction (as the title "rattle" implies), but a deep-rooted cultural reaction. Chinese culture is about longterm wellness, which, in a superficial way, is about face/elegance. It is much more important in Chinese culture to gain respect or to save face, which is of long term value (often beyond one's lifetime). Winning a fight by keep pounding a guy on a ground with no obvious defense is the opposite of elegance (elegance is equivalent to civilization in the culture), therefore, Chinese people would feel definitely not right and the reaction is simply to emphasize their value system: winning with no elegance is not winning at all. In fact, it is worse than losing, highlighted in the following events.

In another word, if the Taichi guy beat the MMA guy by in the end hitting the defenseless repeatedly, the Chinese reaction will probably be the same. While the MMA style does emphasize compounding the weakness, it is probably one of the reasons that it is never popular in China.
If by "modern" you mean "EFI" you are incorrect.

A traditional BIOS is hardly suitable for describing a "modern" firmware; for chrissake it doesn't even use 32 bits!
> you do so in situations where the machine is connected to the public internet

Where'd you get that from? My "micro instance" is clearly not on my Windows machine. My Windows box is behind a pretty over-the-top firewall (which isn't even necessary on a private network for the exploits that are public). Not every vulnerability makes you remotely vulnerable behind your NAT, and I wish more of the people obsessed with update-hygiene understood that.

Is my solution good for a corporate network? Obviously not, because you can't control the attack surface.
https://repl.it/
That looks like an interesting documentary. Thanks for the link.
If you're worried about quality, you're missing the point. Stories as a concept work because they are informal glimpses into people.
No. Typical implementations use polynomial evaluation and range reduction. The advantage of CORDIC is that it only uses shifts and additions, and no multiplications. The disadvantage of CORDIC is that it converges very slowly. On modern hardware where multiplication is blazingly fast, CORDIC no longer makes sense.
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Totally unreadable on iOS Safari. Keeps jumping around then finally jumps to the bottom and disables scrolling.
I completely agree. I think moving to a single-payer health care system would also be required.
https://cronitor.io
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California in general is pretty easy on cars, but if you live close to the ocean, salt air is still an issue. The majority of the rust my CVCC got was during the few years I lived near the beach.
Oh, for sure. We agree "Everything I the theater is terrible" is false.
this is really beautiful. If you used an fused dot product [0], you probably very easily get to within 0.5 ULP.

[0] http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6545890/?arnumber=654589...
May depend on the CPU, but I think most CPUs use pade approximants and use the recurrence over Pi/4

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pad%C3%A9_approximant
I take it this website did display text for other people. I wonder what it said... I only got a series of alternating dark and light grey rectangles to scroll through, without any text. Thinking maybe there was a problem with the CSS and the text was there but not visible, I pressed ctrl-A ctrl-C to copy all the text and pasted it into an editor: I only got the header and footer, there really was no article!
Are they? And what about courts in other countries? Are they also good at sorting out those issues?
So, if Hitler had successfully made the Volga into Germany's Mississippi, and then 200 years passed, it would be unjust to demand that the Third Reich give the land back to its former inhabitants? (Russians, Ukrainians, Poles, etc.)
What I'm proposing is not communism, where ownership is held by the state. In fact, what I'm proposing is starkly different.

I'm proposing the direct ownership of automation technology/companies by the workers themselves, not by their government.

This is in keeping with a political philosophy called distributism, which advocates for the widest possible (private) ownership of productive property. Proponents of distributism typically view both capitalism and socialism as systems that tend toward a small number of people holding power over a large amount of capital. (In the case of capitalism, super wealthy investors, and in the case of socialism, government officials.) They see widespread private ownership of productive property as a way of neutralizing the dangers of both Big Business and Big Government.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pad%C3%A9_approximant
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There are very complex websites programmed in javascript that are not sluggish.

So why is it then impossible to use that on the desktop?

I would say, this is actually the way to go. Because there are MANY good UI-Designers now, because of the web. And they know Web-technologys. If there will be a easy way, to integrate that into the desktop(native apps in general), then there will be better and more consistent UI's over time, that "newbs" can use.

But deepin looks interesting.

edit: and quite ironically, deepin is based on Webkit und HTML5 ... (or used to be until recently, don't know for sure yet, why does deepin does not even have a english Wiki page?)

edit2:
but the deeper I look into it, the more it looks flawed unfortunately

https://www.quora.com/How-does-Deepin-compare-with-Elementar...
And what precisely do you mean by "seeing and avoiding"? Ugo the caveman sees a slowly rising river, Ugo runs to the village, village safely runs away? Erm, no.
When you see a flood wave several stories in height, you may have a few split seconds to start videorecording on your phone, maybe the phone will be found afterwards and handed over to your surviving out-of-town relatives, it will make a nice clip in evening news...

With floods, you rely on authorities and early warning systems just as much as in radioactivity, actually you can buy a cheap dosimeters/Geiger counters and there are enthusiast networked detectors - but did you put a webcam with trained CV model on all surrounding flood paths? Did you put chemical sensors around all railway tracks in the neighborhood or do you just as well rely on "seeing, understanding and avoiding" a chlorine gas cloud?

It is just the prehistorical evolutionary parts of the brain speaking - we see flood, radioactivity we don't, danger, quickly bash it with a stick!
Which "few operations" do you have in mind? Accurately reducing an arbitrary argument into (-pi, pi) in double precision requires over 1000 bits of pi--you don't use all of them for any one input, but you need different bits depending on the exponent, and in the worst a bit more than 150 bits contribute meaningfully to the reduced result (see, e.g. https://www.csee.umbc.edu/~phatak/645/supl/Ng-ArgReduction.p...)
"On the other hand, the fancy waiter will make recommendations. "

The fancy waiter will recommend whatever the owner of the restaurant wants him to recommend, because that is his actual job. He is employed to maximize the dollar value of food and liquor sold.

Now, there are limits to this. A good restauranteur isn't going to sell you inedible crap, and a good waiter isn't going to recommend it, because that will hurt the restaurant's long-term profitability (and in the short term, probably result in a bad tip for the waiter).

Nonetheless, it's wise to keep in mind that the waiter is working for the restaurant, not you.

If you have any friends who've worked in fancy restaurants, ask them about some of the strategies waiters use to encourage a large bill (and thus, a large tip).
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I remember having to physically take my Nokia Communicator into a service center to get the firmware updated.
"Emergency rooms were forced to divert people seeking urgent care."

I feel like the words "urgent" and "forced" might both be a bit shy of absolutely true here?
In the barista example, the robot clearly will be able to make a more consistent cup. Maybe the solution then is to make the barista experience more elaborate and enjoyable, sort of like performance art? Flair bartending is a good example of that, aesthetic differences aside. Humans, when properly trained in the creative arts, are still the best entertainers of other humans.

I wonder how this will impact the world of fine dining and establishments that have a great reputation with their community. Just yesterday I was watching a Japanese show about a restaurant owner in Louisiana who would spend all night in his store going between the customers and the kitchen, coming up with new menu items on the fly with his friends(customers), introducing people to each other, going to the neighboring bars to visit and try out their new drinks/food, and just really combining the best aspects of a chef, host, and wait staff. I doubt his store will be severely impacted by automation since you're not just buying food or a drink, you're there to be a part of something you really love and supporting a man and his business in keeping something beautiful alive.

Maybe this whole automation issue will give the big box retailers and chain restaurants a kick in the butt to up add a deeper human element to their experiences? Or maybe the space will be filled in by people who can make spaces for people to just have a good time and connect with their community, instead of being walked along like dogs through a programmed conveyor belt experience.
This looks awesome.

Does anyone have any opinions on how this compares to pycharm for similar IDE functionality and jupyter support?
Starting from here, then adding a bit of modification, gets to Trusting Trust: http://wiki.c2.com/?TheKenThompsonHack
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The person behind the counter in a movie theater is usually a high school aged teen.

Their opinions as to what constitutes a good movie are almost certainly wildly at variance with my own.

That said, Yelp-type reviews aren't much better.

About the best you can do is find a professional movie or restaurant reviewer whose opinions match yours and go with that.
I'm disappointed by the downvotes this person is getting. I have a close friend who went through a manic episode, and can imagine how "cute" stories like this might seem.

As an observer, the most alarming thing to me about this whole "raising awareness of mental illness" movement is that it's another judgment-forbidden sort of "every subjective experience is equal" movement. It's gone mainstream, too, in the usual sickening, missing-the-point way; you now have neurotypical college students with essentially easy lives drawing posters and holding fundraisers. It's not surprising people with authentic mental illnesses are rolling their eyes.

The downvotes this person is getting are a symptom of exactly this problem. "How can this person belittle someone else's illness?" In other words, everyone's illness is equally important. We've got to be diverse and inclusive. Never mind that some cases of mental illness are actually more severe than others. If everyone's entitled to their own perspective and experience, isn't this person entitled to theirs? Why downvote that? Because it doesn't fit into the modern mental-health-awareness agenda?

I think it's important that instead of lazily saying "everyone's suffering is a problem," we discern between degrees of suffering. Partly because perspective matters, but also because being told your problems are non-problems compared to someone else's is a helpful thing. The truth is, most people's problems are to some extent self-inflicted/self-created, and it's never a bad time to examine the size of that extent.
16s? No Neuralink?
I always credit the artists, as well as the Noun Project itself, in cases like this. https://chadpaulson.github.io/react-cassette-player/
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Phewww! Good thing I'm using .tex to write my thesis and write most of my code in .py... lol
Traditional martial arts can be quite effective if practiced in an effective manner. I've been to traditional schools where the pinnacle of training involved fighting each other bare knuckle.

As amusing as it would be to see a tai chi practitioner systematically progressing to bare knuckle tai chi sparring, perhaps their art could be more effective if it were trained more aggressively.
But there are som hints, that the decision to "go back" might have been politicaly motivated. Like relocating the microsoft central in germany to munich ...

But on the other hand, there were many flaws in the system, but many in the OSS-community did not want to acknowledge, because it is easier to shift the blame to evil conspiring microsoft, than to admit, that linux and libre office is not perfect. Which is really, really stupid, because how can it be technically as good and polished as microsoft products, given there is so much more money behind them. And even though the linux kernel might be now even better than microsoft - that is not at all the case for Desktop, Drivers, Stability, Programms, etc.
Were all of these unreported?
Sometimes Padé, more often Minimax or Carathéodory-Fejer.
I wish you had actually looked through the website and the associated Github repo. H2O has actually ported their machine learning algorithms starting with GLM & GBM to run on GPUs and achieved some pretty significant performance gains by doing so. https://github.com/h2oai/perf
Chromeos and everything in browser sandbox with always up to date software sounds pretty solid.
Yea I remember reading about this in Linux Format magazine (yea I pick up a copy occasionally when at the bookstore...great read on all things Linux, and FOSS) a few years ago. It is crazy how far Microsoft will go if the stories are true. If Munich wants to use LibreOffice, then let them, or maybe make an OS that doesn't require an almost unfathomable amount of resources.
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i store all my images in .rgb format, i'm safe too :)
Did some of the people behind that go off to do the Fyre Festival? Same concept, same kind of screwup.

The current incarnation of that concept is Snctm, in LA.[1] More sex, though.

[1] https://www.snctm.com/
Most things that die are quickly picked clean to the bones by scavengers, insects, etc. I doubt for a normal skeleton there's much left around it.
The webcomic Schlock Mercenary has done a tie-in where they did a hardcover version of "The Seventy Maxims Of Maximally-Effective Mercenaries," an in-universe self-help book that characters constantly refer to, with annotations written into the book by the characters.
> And congratulations for you achievement and your bravery to quit the job!

Thanks!
Usually you get the system integrated into some panel of the device. It's not the software itself that's certified. It's the device as a whole with everything running on it, hypervisors included.
No, in gaming it's literally twice the power consumption of a GTX 1060.

https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Sapphire/RX_580_Nitro_Pl...

Many other aftermarket 580s are similar. For a sense of perspective here, that's roughly the same amount of power as some aftermarket 290Xs used. Or roughly 60 watts more than a GTX 1080. And that's GPU-only, not a total system load.

https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ASUS/R9_290X_Direct_Cu_I...

Polaris 10 is a reasonably efficient chip when you don't push it too hard. AMD - and their AIB partners - are pushing it way, way too hard in a desperate attempt to eke out a 2% win over the 1060. It isn't worth a 50% increase in TDP to get an extra 8% performance.

(and unlike the RX 480 - there is no reference RX 580 design, it's a whole bunch of these crazy juiced-up cards)
That's more of an ad for something like AWS, where you need compute power and network connections, but not VR.
> Not directly, at least I don't think, but through lack of health care, lack of shelter, lack of education, poor diet, use in waging war, incarceration, and probably once they get desperate and try and get theirs, being labelled terrorists.

I sadly agree this is likely to happen. I really hope I'm proved wrong and we can all come together. To figure out a way to live in this world together, peacefully.

The conspiracy theory in me can't help but wonder though, if one day, some group will make a virus to wipe out a large chunk of the population. Kind of a forced cull if you will.
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Since you posted the link, can you please share why you think gatekeeping in the sense sketched by those examples is necessarily a mistaken thing?
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I was looking around for it when you mentioned it, but didn't see any PM system either.
Ah, but feelings of importance are merely incidental mental representations and emotional responses that are somewhat hard coded into our bio machinery, so I'm pretty sure the universe won't mind if you indulge every now and then. Having this self awareness adds a nice element of comic absurdity to the indulgence as well ;)
I think the problem is more that budgets don't take into account for enough integration testing, packaging, or automated patching to support enterprise environments.

There was a time when there were fewer threats to Internet based infrastructures and skipping patches didn't matter so much. Those times have passed and there are now significant threats arrayed against Internet systems. Additionally, commerce and government services are now predominately Internet based, putting far more at risk than before.

It's time to start putting more money into fixing the patching problem. I'm really tired of fixing broken systems that I was trying to patch. No good deed goes unpunished...
I'm more talking about "going back to Ma Bell" wouldn't be so bad, not saying that is what would happen with more consolidation.
They did that for a while with Google Play Editions...
If he's a moderator, he can shut this thread down if he likes.

In my opinion my experience adds some context. On reflection I'd be happy to change 'crap' for terrible and so on, but I can't edit that (historical time-out I guess).

Now, if you'll excuse me, my comment has actually spawned a really interesting, intelligent conversation with an Australian about the conduct of the main protagonist of this article, and I don't have any more commentary to add on this point.
The processor itself still boots up in 16-bit mode. UEFI does switch into 64-bit mode before booting an OS loader, but that doesn't mean the processor itself starts in 64-bit mode.
So would Mr. Xu have received the same negative public feedback if he had avoided the ground and pound, and won without perceived brutality?

I'm having difficulty seeing how this fight could have happened without either some form of KO/TKO, which I assume would have generated the same outrage, or degenerating into a farcical slapfest, which would have lost Xu face anyway.

Am I wrong? Or would Xu have killed a sacred cow no matter how he won? Because let's face it, it was clearly Xu's fight to lose. Xu should just come to America then, we have different sacred cows here.
Chronic depression is not caused by avoiding "shoving your head in the sand." It is certainly not the case that people with chronic depression are simply more 'aware' of all the shittiness in the world than the happy people.

I am fully aware of the awfulness in the world. I know millions of people suffer immensely every day, and I want to do my part to alleviate as much suffering as I can. However, I also know that me being miserable will not help anyone. Finding joy wherever you can is simply the best response to a crazy, unjust, and often times cruel world.

As far as depression goes, I hope my comment didn't come across as dismissive of real depression. That is a serious condition that cannot be fixed just by sheer will. It can, however, be dealt with, and I have many family members who are living testimants to that fact. It must be treated like any other serious health issue; I am in no way advocating ignoring your problems, I am saying make the best of it as you deal with them.
Most of these don't apply in context of medical devices. Sure, you can find some which will give you access to the usual OS desktop. But largely they're integrated and have a full-screen, completely customised interface
It struck me that this ends up looking a lot like the Y-combinator, which makes sense, since it's a function that acts on itself without a recursive definition. Pretty cool to see the overlap of simple concepts in various ways. I've always wondered how quines worked on general principle.