skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most interesting part for me:

"And in this paper, new genetic evidence shows that after two generations, there was complete reproductive isolation from the native birds. As a result, they are now reproductively - and genetically - isolated. So they have been breeding exclusively with each other over the years."
It is a way to show confidence that it won't happen again. The same's true for a new CEO announcing this. Uber is on a "flattery strike" (for lack of a better word; sry I am not native English) on the general public. They're trying to win our hearts. I see their employees also regularly commenting here, excusing themselves and explaining the situation.

If you're being blackmailed you always lose since a problem with blackmailing is that it doesn't stop as the evidence isn't destroyed. Its like a fork in chess, two evils. However, generally speaking (excluding political motivations such as Clinton leaks), the blackmailer wins nothing by releasing the information. So you can let them win by giving in to paying. I guess this is game theory.

True, if you pay the evidence might seemingly get destroyed (or a seemingly "original copy" of it), but you can't be sure (there might be a "copy of that copy"). Another example of this is revenge porn or CP for that matter. Yet another example of copyright infringement/piracy.

Once its out in the open, it will keep getting distributed. The cat's out of the bag. Its a problem of the digital age. As a society we haven't quite coped with this issue yet and privacy invading seemingly free services are clouding our judgements.
You mean shitty review?
Are you arguing there has been no impact at all? My understanding is that there has been a significant increase in prices since the Brexit vote, generally ascribed to the falling pound (both actual and anticipated). This is obvious in electrical goods but is also affecting the weekly shopping basket, which in turn is impacting people on low pay, or whose pay hasn’t been rising in line with inflation since the banking crash.

That said, not all price hikes are attributable to Brexit. The significant hike in butter prices is apparently more due to a supply shortage across Europe.
It says it supports WebDAV-based cloud storage. It would be really nice, given its on iOS, if it supported iCloud.
So these "new" birds are distinct from all the other birds on the island that they form a separate breeding group. But how distinct are they from the outsider that started it all? Would they breed with birds from that birds home island? If so, I'd say they're not really a new species but a displaced species that survived one generation of interbreeding with the locals.

While certainly interesting, I wouldn't say this is a great example of speciation. One might even argue that it's an invasive species.
Etheal Builds Blockchain-Based Peer-Reviewed Global List of Health Professionals
There's varying degrees of "anti-immigration." I'd be very willing to bet that there's a larger support for deportation of illegal immigrants than 10%, and those who know anything about H1-B visa issues would mostly be for reform of that program at very least.

When forming political generalizations of the country, keep in mind that there are massive cultural differences between regions of the country. Just because you don't know of many people against illegal immigration doesn't mean other states don't have that majority opinion.
1966 New York City smog
Three days ago:

BountySource suspended from GitHub
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15747328

Useful discussion on the concept there; they were temporarily suspended for not supporting opt-out.

Whisper Systems supports auto-Bitcoin for suspended pull requests. https://signal.org/blog/bithub/
It is not an assumption, rather fact!
Leaving Apple and Google: my “eelo odyssey”
A dot-com back in the last 90s that a friend of mine ran with a Sun E10K proposed selling the hot air to a pizza restaurant that was next door.

The restaurant ended up declining because air was too dirty and could not be for cooking.
Advent of Code 2016 Day10: Balance Bots
Thank you, Phish fans, for caring about net neutrality
I would love to see an article on this topic - this one is not it though. The reason: we struggle at many major universities to determine this balance. On the one hand, students need a lot of CS in order to become mildly proficient; there is just so much to learn. On the other, school is a last chance to expose students to some of the big ideas of the world, the stuff (as Keating says in Dead Poets) that makes life worth living. How can you do both in 4 short years?
To support what dkersten said: there's a trade-off when deciding to go with lock-free or lock-based structures. Lock-based structures tend to have less synchronization instructions in total, but the inherent mutual exclusion means that usually only one thread can make progress at a time. (And the cheap locks are non-deterministic as to who gets the lock next.) Lock-free algorithms tend to have more synchronization instructions in total, but all threads tend to be able to make progress at all times.

In general, lock-based structures and algorithms are better in low contention situations, and lock-free structures and algorithms are better in high contention situations. The intuition is that in low contention (either few threads, or few interfering threads), there's little harm in forcing mutual exclusion, so it's not worth paying a bunch more synchronization instructions. But in high contention (lots of threads, or lots of interfering threads), mutual exclusion can mean that most of the threads are sitting idle waiting for the right to do some work, so it's worth it to pay a bit more overhead so the whole system can more often progress.
John “Cap'n Crunch” Draper banned from conferences for “inappropriate behavior”
The UI of your app is the one highly visible point where 99,999% of the interaction with your customers takes place. If you can't be bothered to have a good UI, how shit is the stuff I can't see as a user ?

A bad UI is a huge smell. In my experience there is a 1:1 relationship between the quality of the UI and the quality of the software as a whole.
Since FCC facilitates that monopolistic behavior, there is a strong legal argument against it. That was the point.

Pai has no valid argument. He basically says: "We should let monopolists run amok by removing current rules. Get lost if you don't like it". That's because dealing with monopolistic abuse through "proper channels" produced close to zero results in the past.

And somehow EFF are rarely involved in anti-trust issues. I wonder why.
Somewhere a 12 or 13 year old is reading this for the first time and wondering what the heck a RTOS is. You were young and uninformed once too(or at least I was), and some nice people didn't tell me to RTFM, because at that point I didn't know what it would have even meant.
Not sure if the article has been updated but the only one I could find after a quick skim was: “Love Bug’s”

Thing is the writer was trying to show possession with that apostrophe but I the correct usage would be:

“Love Bug”'s

Not terribly attractive to read though; I would probably rephrase to avoid it.

Also I'd say I notice this more and more. My suspicion is that graduates from the more prestigious universities are avoiding journalism as a career.
Can you tell me why you'd recommend it? Like MobileOrg I've never been able to get into it and keep going back to Google Keep (no pun intended).
If the entire Constitution is about concrete matters comparable to 'building good-looking cities', and 'building good-looking cities' is certainly one such matter because it is emphasized in the concluding remark, then why would the word appear only once?

I don't believe abruptly inserting a term that's never mentioned is good writing style.

A plausible way to understand it is that, the concluding remark is a summarizing call-to-action, laying out the spiritual and ideological framework for the rest to act upon. It certainly needs to be abstract, just as the four words preceding 美丽.
Thailand. The paid visa plan is called Thailand Elite[0]. Apparently there should also be some sort of new visa that could be useful for digital nomads introduced in 2018 [1]. The company that can provide a work permit in exchange if 30% of your invoice is called IGLU [2].

By the way, after staying 5 or 10 year inside the country, one can apply for a Thai citizenship, which is something I will consider [3].

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[0]: https://thailandelite.org

[1]: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/997836-4-year-professio...

[2]: https://iglu.net

[3]: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/121353-story-of-my-thai...
I wonder if it being an international theft would impact the true owner's ability to recover the work, even if they knew who possessed it?
I had to give a wrong answer to get the job
IC Takes Major Step Closer to Zero-Power Digitized Temperature Sensor
Funny², because that was my first inspiration, but as of my understanding he is not using "real" LEGO colours.
Is anyone good enough for an H-1B Visa?
Receiving stolen property is a crime.

Edit: or not in this case, my bad.
No, there are still plenty of people who sincerely believe in a flat Earth, that vaccines are a conspiracy, and that homeopathic "treatments" make them better. Best to move on and not worry about people who chose not to have evidence-based beliefs.
Here's a randomized trial with placebos that did work. I wasn't able to find one where it didn't work.

http://annals.org/aim/article-abstract/2545886/effect-fecal-...
Oddly Josef Stalin doesn't seem to get boxed-in like that

Nor do Mao, Pol Pot, Castro... they appear on t-shirts...
For an incomplete list of open (and closed) source alternative Minecraft servers, see: http://wiki.vg/Server_List
I love it but use it only to view and process notes/deadlines/status from my mothership org files (maintained on non-mobile computers). I don't think I'd use it as a primary note application.
I think we have Uber because you can make money from people who can afford a taxi ride, but you can't from someone who lives on $2/day. Not that I disagree that learning about people in real hardship is important.
The SiC handles temperatures > 200C fine. The problem with COTS SiC components is that they use aluminum wire bonds that don't hold up well at those high temperatures[1]. There has been research done to evaluate platinum and palladium wire bonding [2], or Nickel wire bonding [3] as replacements.

[1] http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1442008/

[2] http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6542125/

[3] http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/4914761/
What's really shocking is the drawing from the article [1]

This Astroid was Discovered when already passed by the Earth!!

And was actually very close to it! While I am pretty certain Astronomers knew it won't hit us, the amount of time it took to discover it would be way too late for us to even hold hands and kiss our children goodbye!

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/outthere/files/2017/11/eso...
Not only is the system in question dynamic, as another pointed out, but also subject to perturbations. Worse, orbital mechanics with many bodies is chaotic, in the strict sense.
Hijacking your comment to plug another good resource that describes the Venus / Venera missions in detail: http://mentallandscape.com/V_Venus.htm

Good old fashioned web page, focused content, no weird js malarky, I love it.
I looked at this a while ago, and actually took another look about two weeks ago when I got a new phone and it has come on in leaps and bounds since I last (quite quickly) wrote it off.

I've got it set up to sync with nextcloud (through nextcloud app directory sync) and same with my laptop and it's proved a pretty solid and reliable way to stay on top of stuff.

I've used it to migrate away from stuffing everything into Google Keep (in a general move away from google) and have ended up preferring my current config after living with it for a week or two.
this title was more clickbaity but in a good way. made me click after spending some time (fruitlessly) trying to figure it out
Radio waves in the atmosphere also travel faster than light in a fibre.
These days, if I want a quick overview of an unfamiliar country, from a traveler's perspective, I tend to go to Wikivoyage:

https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Guinea
I have a friend who is heating his home exclusively with mining rigs this winter. I'm not sure what he plans to do next summer.
How long do they last?

It was my understanding that a big problem with brain implants (both probes and stimulators) was that after some time the body rejects them. Is that true here too and they have limited lifetimes, or have they got around that somehow (or is it otherwise a non-issue for whatever reason)?
The problem is when they start voting based on those beliefs and help elect representatives who then attempt to make policy for all of us based on those beliefs.
Checking the meta-analysis paper on sci-hub, Fig. 2 has 7 RCTs, all of which found large effect sizes. I think you're simply mistaken.

http://sci-hub.bz/http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111...
Heh, loan words tend to fall into 3 categories:

1. Original pronunciation, but entirely different meaning
2. Original meaning, but entirely different pronunciation
3. Neither pronunciation nor meaning has anything to do with the original, but it's still spelled the same.

I like Japanese. They do #2 out of strict necessity due to their very limited sounds, and shorten the result so that we can't easily recognize it (e.g., personal computer -> pasonaru konnputaa -> pasokon).

As for sprachgefühle—I really don't think there is any need for that word. It's doesn't seem to fill a gap, other than an emerging love for German compounds.
Yeah, we need some tool to ensure that no one is going to steal it.
Well that'd get them sued, but you could probably make a browser plugin that did that for you
For true geekery, compile a corpus of text that you typed and generate a good layout for your inputting needs using a genetic algorithm or something like that. There is some code on github that you can steal.
I feel like Facebook is like Trump, It doesn't matter what it does, media will always attack it.
Right, thanks. That was my impression as well. It didn't feel really nice to take notes in. Too complicated.
This was a great book! I almost forgot I read it. One of those important books I read when I was younger.
برنامج كي ام بلاير
Why? As long as it doesn't have a microphone/camera then this sounds like a positive.
Not sometimes! "Good enough" is ALWAYS... good enough! :)
> "So even though it's only one hop from an L2 perspective, the light is being decoded, error corrected, and re-transmitted many times along the way to hong kong from SF."

This is not right. Submarine cable along the ocean floor is strictly Layer 1 ,there is no L2 down there. Also nothing is being decoded and retransmitted along that path.

Signal regeneration only happens at the terminal stations. There's no repeaters along the ocean floor. The signal undergoes no conversion from optical to electrical, its optical the whole time it's under water.

Submarine cables use an optical amplifier. Basically the fiber itself is doped with erbium creating an EDFA - erbium doped fiber amplifier. See:

https://www.rp-photonics.com/fiber_amplifiers.html
Although semi-related, a wait-free stack was discussed on HN previously[0].

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12109206
An interactive essay about context-aware programming languages
This guy is definitely obsessed with aliens
Anyone Interested in Collaboration on Wireflow.co? [Open Source]
The author's calculations are based on flight distance which will be significantly shorter than the actual fiber distance. Also, the actual network path is much harder -if not impossible- to derive with conventional tools. Put another way: the calculations are extremely rough approximations and should be taken with a grain of salt.
Great project!

This has been done for 3D models as well. https://brickify.it/

The idea was to build most of the model from Lego and 3D-print only the complicated / detailed parts.
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I think you didnt read it. It says there were no placebo controlled trials.
I remember reading somewhere[0] that they were used in the early days of Super Nintendo development due to similar chipsets.

[0] http://www.patpend.net/articles/ar/sil10.html
SV wealth is protected from taxation, see: Apple and Google and Facebook. That doesn’t scream, “helpful” or “trying to spread it around” to me.
They aren't meaningless, they just aren't perceptually linear.
This is a great, thoughtful article. A few quotations.

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I believe every material has a grain, including the web. But this assumption flies in the face of our expectations for technology. Too often, the internet is cast as a wide-open, infinitely malleable material. We expect technology to help us overcome limitations, not produce more of them. In spite of those promises, we typically yield consistent design results.

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What would happen if we stopped treating the web like a blank canvas to paint on, and instead like a material to build with?

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an edgeless surface of unknown proportions comprised of small, individual, and variable elements from multiple vantages assembled into a readable whole that documents a moment

That’s a pretty good description of the visual challenges in interaction design, huh?

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And, most interesting to me, edgelessness means blurred lines between the disciplines that work together to make things for the web. Everyone that I’ve spoken with that’s worked on a large responsive project with a big client says that the process disrupts workflows, expectations, and work culture.

Simply put, the edgelessness of the web tears down the constructed edges in the company. Everything is so interconnected that nobody has a clear domain of work any longer—the walls are gone, so we’re left to learn how to collaborate in the spaces where things connect.

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Our words make it seem that we’re designing how elements break down, but really, we should be focusing on how they build up.

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We often think making things for the web is a process of simplifying—the hub, the dashboard, the control panel are all dreams of technology that coalesces—but things have a tendency to diverge into a multiplicity of options. We pile on more tools and technology, each one increasingly nuanced and minor in its critical differences. Clearly, convergence and simplicity make for poor goals. Instead, we must aim for clarity. You can’t contain or reduce the torrent of technology, but you can channel it in a positive direction through proper framing and clear articulation.

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What we build is defined and controlled by its unresolvable conflicts. In responsive design, it’s the text and image conundrum I showed earlier. In other, more grand arenas, there is capital versus labor, or collective control versus anarchic individualism. In technology, I believe it comes down to the power dynamics of convenience. To create convenience—particularly the automated convenience technology trades in—someone else must make our choices for us.
In other words: the less you have to do, the less say you have.

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I am weary of mega dosing vitamin D to 8000 IU as recommended in the article. I am currently taking a bit less than 3000 IU a day and don't plan to increase it unless more research is made.

From the book 'The Perfect Health Diet' :

> 25OHD levels after abundant summer sun exposure, as in lifeguards, peak between 45 and 80 nanograms per milliliter. Outdoor workers in the tropics typically have 25OHD levels between 48 and 80 nanograms per milliliter.
These tropical outdoor workers get too much vitamin D.

> People in South India with 25OHD levels of 89 nano-grams per milliliter have a threefold higher rate
of heart attack.

> Lifeguards in Israel develop kidney stones twenty times more often than the general population.
Nuclear Power Professionals Are Serious About Joking
I'm not sure happiness is that simple. It's "easy" to fix depression in someone if they're well fed, in good physical health, and aren't overly concerned about their physical safety (I'm not trying to minimize depression here, just pointing out it's relative problems). However DPRK soldiers apparently aren't fed that well, lack access to good healthcare and above all they'd be fighting on a battlefield seeing death around them and in constant fear of their life. It might be possible to amp up the soldiers, but the Germans also drugged their troops and even military leadership during WW II which didn't work out so well for them in the medium term.
Oh, the White Shadow market wants some publicity so they take a relatively well known painting that was stolen and they make a listing for it.

Or they do have it and they fed this article to wired regardless .

This is a great way to promote this site !
> The answer lies somewhere in-between. As it always does.

Exactly. It's called social democracy and its proponents are social democrats.
My "favorite" annoying hold queue was a couple years back when I regularly had to call the business support line of a big computer manufacturer. It'd go something like this:

<1 minute of epic flute solo> <sound of phone being picked up> Thank you for holding. One of our employees will be with you shortly <repeat from the start>

You'd basically get startled into thinking someone had picked up once a minute. The flute solo got especially grating after the first half hour of waiting.

On the other hand the ISP I'm currently using has probably the best hold queue I've ever used. You'll call in, be asked for your postal code at which point the system tells you if there are any known service disruptions in your area. Then there's about ~30s of ringing tone after which an actual human picks up the phone. It's the only big company I know of that has you connected with a human in <5 minutes.
How are those countries at all comparable to New Zealand?
Initial impressions moving from Git to mercurial
> Submarine cable along the ocean floor is strictly Layer 1 ,there is no L2 down there.

Isn't that what "only one hop from a L2 perspective" would mean?
60+ frameworks and toolkits for AI and ML development
Musk beats deadline for building world's biggest battery
I agree that it's an error to describe bitcoin as free of ideology, but regarding the fact that it's an algorithm decided in the past and hard to change, wouldn't that describe Constitutions too?
For those who are scientifically minded but not biologists, I highly recommend the Grant's "How and Why Species Multiply" [0]. It's very well written. If you're much more into population dynamics, you could give their book "Ecology and Evolution of Darwin's Finches" [1] a look. It's much more technical, being aimed at maybe upper level undergrads (in evolutionary bio) or so. They have another book, "40 Years of Evolution: Darwin's Finches on Daphne Major Island", but I haven't read that one yet. Guess I should put it on my amazon wishlist!

[0] https://www.amazon.com/How-Why-Species-Multiply-Evolutionary...

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Ecology-Evolution-Darwins-Finches-Pet...
Don't worry, if their beliefs are truly wrong, concrete consequences will start happening and people will see the error of their ways. For example if enough people stop vaccinating their children, common ilnesses will start spreading again and people will clamor for a fix.
I submitted on a while back. Will check later if people reverse the downvotes and assume good faith.
The problem is that free-market fundamentalists look at even the Scandinavian countries and see nothing but COMMUNISM because in their minds, much like Thatcher, There Is No Alternative to neoliberalism.
Would you consider adding support for checkboxes?

I like to make grocery lists with org mode checkboxes, and this app doesn't seem to allow editing them.