skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The procession of mechanisms is as follows, starting with layer 1:

- calcification

- cross-linking

- vascular smooth muscle dysfunction

Could you please throw some links behind that? I've never heard of cross-linking before and I'd never made the connection with calcification and high blood pressure, but it sounds interesting to look into.
You don't need to use a manned one at all . You could design unmanned drone which can carry the weight of the (dead)person. Losses while perhaps costly will improve the design and more acceptable than risking human lives.
Coming from system programming, I'm glad I made a website in a 2017 state-of-the-art fashion. React, DRF, Sass, JS... It's really great to see something you made out there in the wild, not just running somewhere in the depths of Linux.

It's a tool to help people with their decision making.

https://dilectee.com
Microsoft Stores offer computer coding workshops for kids, parents
This extremely common in Dutch cities like Amsterdam too.
Can anybody estimate how far from that are modern 3D printers in terms of precision?
Corporations can't 'wield the code' because by copying it and using it it doesn't take it away from other people and as such this argument against BSD license doesn't really make sense. Corporation can copy the code and improve it so that it would have people willing to pay for their improved code version and I am OK with that, in the end they made the work to generate the profit, that's their goal. I don't have one like such, so I can and I do release my code BSD licenses so that others could do anything (literally) they want with it.
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I don't know about you, but I've managed to avoid death by Everest for over 3 decades.

And regarding the "coward" part, surely there must be some ways more productive to society by which they can demonstrate their bravery...
Is the underlying assumption behind this text is that less innovation is happening right now?
Are the billions poured in AI not counting?
I think it is hard to get people to understand what they do not understand yet, actually what they have opposing experiences to. It seems to me making money is easy if you a) work hard b) are extremely goal driven (and obviously you need to be sufficiently smart). Now this seems to be working in research too, where the extremely goal driven part means you focus on publishing research papers in prestigious places.

I think it is working in research (given for example that some of the papers in conferences like POPL are just great). Of course you won't hear from those instances where it is not working (until it does).

The problem is you somehow have to decide who to give money to, and you cannot possibly know who carries a vision inside of them that they are actually able to realise given enough funding and time.
So, generally speaking, anything a large enough group of people would find themselves too passionately engaged in - can be considered at it's extremes as a disorder - from utilitarian, dominating "usefulness of the body" perspective? Ant world!

Then extreme sports go next? "Base jumping addiction" (deadly!) or let's just go big and make "adrenaline junkie" a serious medical condition? Who in Sci-Fi got this right?
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I would argue that you're drawing a false connection between being GPL and the benefits of open source code. GPL provides legal protections, but does not directly or indirectly incentivize writing open source code.

Having open source drivers grant Intel and AMD at least the following:

1. Free work on their drivers. Who wouldn't benefit from bug fixes and improvements to the graphics drivers of extremely popular graphics cards? In other words, it reduces cost.

2. Good marketing. There is only a very small group of people who are twisted enough to think that open source is a bad thing. There is a much larger group that see it as a positive thing (and then there's the group that doesn't care at all). In other words, it increases sales.

3. Greater ability to mold the Linux kernel to better accommodate their drivers and needs. Even though a company can send patches to the kernel that would help their closed-source drivers, if they only help closed-source drivers, they are very unlikely to be accepted. On the other hand, any sane change that would help an in-tree driver would be accepted without question. In other words, it increases flexibility.

None of this relates to GPL (the drivers are probably only GPL because GPL forces the in-tree drivers to be GPL), and the same logic applies to *BSD's. The reason we don't have good graphics drivers on BSD is likely because it takes a lot of effort to write one. If it isn't going to affect revenue, Intel and AMD are unlikely to care.
Iranian authorities are now blocking access to Telegram
Iranian authorities are blocking access to Telegram for the majority of Iranians after Telegrams public refusal to shut down https://t.me/sedaiemardom and other peacefully protesting channels.

https://twitter.com/durov/status/947441456238735360
You don't buy shares in the holding company, you'll buy shares in the shares.
As I said above: one thing does not exclude the other. They're BOTH liable for their acts.

Folks claiming "cops are murderers" without equally blaming the 400 idiots who did this intentionally to harm someone are letting their political bias cloud their judgement.

For context, here's the guy that (allegedly) caused it all [1]:

"Swautistic soon changed his Twitter handle to @GoredTutor36, but KrebsOnSecurity managed to obtain several weeks’ worth of tweets from Swautistic before his account was renamed. Those tweets indicate that Swautistic is a serial swatter — meaning he has claimed responsibility for a number of other recent false reports to the police."

"Among the recent hoaxes he’s taken credit for include a false report of a bomb threat at the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that disrupted a high-profile public meeting on the net neutrality debate. Swautistic also has claimed responsibility for a hoax bomb threat that forced the evacuation of the Dallas Convention Center, and another bomb threat at a high school in Panama City, Fla, among others."

"Bomb threats are more fun and cooler than swats in my opinion and I should have just stuck to that,” he wrote. “But I began making $ doing some swat requests.”

--

Lovely, isn't it?

Btw, Krebs' article [1] is excellent; wish it had being linked in the OP, instead of the local newspaper.

[1] https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/12/kansas-man-killed-in-swa...
Why is python 'higher level'?
It has been done: http://wudev.digitaltorque.com/2015/04/3d-printing-challenge...

You can see it in action here:
https://youtu.be/j9uRckJLqLk
High blood pressure is a largely diet-related western only disease. It's not normal that it rises with age either, just something we got used to it.

If you want to cure your blood pressure, watch this video till the end - https://nutritionfacts.org/video/how-not-to-die-from-high-bl...

Then if you want the details, have a look at this playlist - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5TLzNi5fYd8jLx2M6exR...
Green boots
While the PCG paper does not contain such an impressive number of mathematical formula's that makes me instantly want to skip pages, I would not say it has 'practically no theory in its support'.

For the theory around periods, distribution and jumping it can just refer to these properties for LCG's, which are very well studied.

Testing an RNG design against the statistical test suites TestU01 and PractRand seems on first intuition the be the wrong way to go about it. First you should have a theory behind the RNG, and only then test it.

And to me it seems PCG does just that. The various output functions are carefully designed. Which bits are the best and which are the weakest for an LCG? The worst bits are dismissed. How can the best bits be used to pick permutations of the remaining bits? The output functions are well designed, but you will have to watch the video or look at the C++ source to see the theory behind them.

Then just about all known tests and theory to differentiate between true randomness and the results of an RNG are applied. Which are handily packed into test suites. That is the way to look at these tests. Not some sort of specific, arbitrarily chosen test. This is not the situation of Javascript engines that may get optimized to much for some arbitrary benchmark.

And those test where run against severely weakened versions of PCG, just to be sure the tests don't accidentally pass.

But you have a good point: designing solely against test suites is not a good idea. A result are Xorshift128+ and Xoroshiro128+. Even with some theory behind it, they are the result of varying constants until they do not fail any test on BigCrush too consistently. It may even sometimes pass, and that is what is claimed on for example Wikipedia. But along comes another test suite, PractRand, and it fails within a second of testing. It is optimized for BigCrush, but not really statistically good.
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Telegram shut down the channel where people were making threats against the government, but they did not shut down channels where no threats have been made.

As a consequence, Iran has now blocked all Telegram traffic.
White coat syndrome cannot be ignored too. This is where your BP can increase by a lot just by being in a doctor's exam room.

I went in for a checkup a few years ago and they took my BP and it was like 140/93 with an 87 heartbeat (I was 32 and in decent shape), so my doctor was like, hey I don't want to put you on any medication but your BP looks a little high, let's chart your BP at home for the next 2 months and see how it goes.

So I grabbed a BP machine and about 3 times a week I took my BP, alternating arms and doing it at various times in the day. I could see that my BP was a little high for weeks, but by the end of the 2 months I had a 2 week stretch where it was about 120/80 steady.

I took the same BP machine I bought and took it to the follow up exam and it was 138/87. That's a pretty big spike.

Now I take it myself twice a month or so (just for good measure) and it's usually 120/80ish with a resting heart beat of 58-62. My dentist likes to take your BP before doing any type of work and it was 135/88 before a cleaning too.

I don't know about you, but I generally don't like getting my BP taken. It causes some anxiety.

I wouldn't immediately discount high BP to white coat syndrome, but you should ask your doctor if you can track your BP at home if you're on the cusp of high BP.
Particularly considering that most of the AI work is openly published (companies averse to publishing have difficulty hiring in AI)
With shows that good, fewer and fewer couples manage to reach the "chill" part before falling asleep.
Not really disagreeing with your sentiment, but he laid it out nicely in the "Defining the Hot Path" section. That is honestly the most valuable lesson a newer programmer could take away from this gist.
The inuits did have high artero esclorosis and heart disease, as seen in 500 years old mummies.

The idea that inuits are healthy despite their high meat diet is a myth, have a look here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LvGiiZyn-M
Honestly I would be depressed it that was the field of my research.
I'm wondering the same. In Germany my wisdom tooth removal took 20 minutes with local anesthesia included. It was fully covered by the regular compulsory health insurance so I don't know the cost, but seems like quite a small operation to me.
Marcus Wu designed, 3D-printed, and assembled a 3x scale working Curta calculator. He shared his models and progress on Thingverse at https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1943171

His YouTube channel includes many videos of the development, assembly, and operation of his calculator. Watch a short demonstration at https://youtu.be/ShFkJgck6Pw

Adam Savage commissioned Marcus to build a copy. Adam unboxes his 3D-printed Curta on YouTube at https://youtu.be/j9uRckJLqLk
I'd actually like to add "Don't touch synchronized functions" to the list. If need be try and use Thread Locals instead.
AI-assisted fake porn are being used by people on Reddit for self-completion
The biggest problem with fitbit is the DRM. If there is a means to prevent the firmware from encrypting the data it collects from the wearer that would be fantastic, otherwise we're really just accepting fitbits analytics without independent verification of the data.
The comparison is bogus, because you can make the numbers arbitrarily high by subdividing into tiny areas and then conveniently ignoring all the places where they are zero.

Why not subdivide further and claim that Buskerud is a veritable warzone, compared to the whole of USA on average?
No need to comstrain our self to engineers. There are probably lots, and lots, of people that would produce more value on their own agenda.
On a related note, a team has just set off to attempt a summit of K2 in winter -- a feat thought physically impossible:
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/12/K2-mountain-wint...
I don't consider it surprising that a Taiwanese would use characteristically un-Taiwanese expressions on an English-language forum. I'm not sure what to think of your approach of suggesting that they are lying, but then self-congratulating your charity for not outright saying that.

While rice and noodles may be staples of Taiwanese food, that doesn't mean that everyone is eating healthy. In the West, you might say the same about wheat flour and potatoes, but when that flour comes in the form of burger buns and cake, and the potatoes in greasy fries, it doesn't seem so healthy.

I don't know how often Taiwanese drink sugary drinks or eat sweets in addition to their meals, nor do I know how much of that rice and those noodles are fried as chow fan or chow mein (and apologies if those are not the words Taiwanese would use), but it isn't hard to imagine that it is more than optimal. That's usually what happens when people are able to afford more food than they actually need, and are able to choose tasty high-calorie high-fat meals whenever they feel like it.
I don't know what's more ridiculous in this article, the "hunch", the fact that Netflix is never mentioned by name (while Hulu is) or the apex of stupid tech junk called "the smart condom" which auto-plays at the side...
I commute on a bike with a Shimano Nexus, and I feel I should push back a little on the greatness of internal hubs.

You have to change the oil in the hub once a year or every five thousand km. The OEM oil costs seventy dollars a quart, but some people say ATF works fine. A bike shop will do it for you for forty or fifty dollars.

If you use chain drive, the chain will stretch. This is largely invisible on a derailleur bike, since it has an automatic chain tensioner, but on a gear hub bike it has to be done manually, by moving the wheel backwards a couple millimetres in the frame. This takes two wrenches and ten minutes, and must be done monthly or biweekly, or else the chain will fall off when you hit a bump. (Ask me how I know) Belt drive and shaft drive bikes do exist but I have never seen them in person.

For the first year of my bike's life I used a Hebie Chainglider: a plastic slimline chaincase that rides directly on the chain. It didn't seem to do anything at all, after twelve months the chain passed 0.75% stretch, so both the chain and the chaincase went in the trash. A conventional Dutch-style chaincase might work better, but I'm not confident.
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I don't know what the relevant statistics actually are, but if the death rate for sherpas rescuing solo climbers is higher than that for sherpas supporting guided climbs -- even if the total number of deaths is lower -- this still suggests reducing the number of solo rescues, no? Especially since, as far as I can tell, supporting guided climbs is way more economically important.
Set up a family bouncer. Palaver's good for iOS. I'm sure Android has good clients too.
Can you recommend a particular BP machine? I have $100 in an FSA I need to spend in the next 16 hours and I've had a similar experience to you with white coat syndrome.
There also isn’t really an alternative - and if I’m paying taxes for the services of course I’m going to use them while I am forced to pay for them.

I have no problem paying, personally, but I don’t really like the line of reasoning used in your comment.
I don't know if you can consider it blazingly fast, but Blender has ray intersections from Python, and IIRC it was fast enough to make a 256x256x256 voxel grid in a couple of seconds with raycasts.
A good list, but not for me. My interests are in general AI, specifically machine learning, and recently in a few open source blockchain platforms. The world would be a boring place if we were all into the same things.
Under your design, it sounds like it would very much be possible to produce a modified history that remains valid, by repeating the hash chaining process from the point of the edit. You couldn't do it un-noticed because the hashes would change, but you would still end up with a valid database entry at the end.

More to the wider philosophical point, having a single centralised server means putting trust in a single authority - I'm not talking so much about the possibility of being shut down (although that ought to be a worry for more than just criminals) but about the power, implicitly granted to whoever maintains the central database, to act as gatekeeper.

Essentially, if you're happy having a single central authority (if you're willing to trust that they'll always play fair, never try to interfere with transactions, never exploit their position for profit, never deny service to particular customers) then all the hashing and chaining is a meaningless veneer and you might as well just use Paypal. If you're _not_ happy with a single central authority then "Just use a database" misses the point entirely.
Recently I found a get_info(doc) which was hard to understand. It should have been get_xrsf_token(web_page) which would have been self explanatory.

I mostly develop backends of web apps. In my experience not every web app has some code that needs to be explained. Picking the correct names is usually enough.

That said, unit tests really do what you write: provide examples, use cases and guidance.
> Monte Carlo simulation is the obvious exception

It depends. :) Even then very few realistic simulations are going to be RNG bound. Even fewer of those are going to care about the difference between Xoroshiro and AES-CTR (with AESNI).

A common failure mode I've seen is programmers picking Mersenne Twister and then assuming initialization is cheap.

> suffer a very low quality least significant bit

IIRC, the LSB behaves like a LFSR.

> it's surprisingly hard to get researchers in PRNG to give clear, unequivocal recommendations for users

There are about five PRNG researchers in the world and few (none?) of them are doing it full time. L'Ecuyer, the biggest name since Marsaglia died, seems to be dealing with PRNGs mostly as a means to doing operations research.

(Side note: Pierre L'Ecuyer is very likely the strongest over-50 cyclist in Quebec.)
No, but I think the failure rate of starting a business is deformed by the startup culture.

A small business of one person plus a couple of part-time assistants is much more likely to work than a 20 person company, there's a spectrum to it and the 95% failure rate gulps everything together.

What'qs the worst it can happen. You try for one year, doesn't work and back to the corporate world.
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The assumption is (I believe) that innovation is better when it's not goal-oriented. Currently much of the funding goes to projects that have a clear path to results, but finding that path is a prerequisite, and is not funded.
Remember when Google was useful to find good stuff faster instead of driving what should be there ?
Related:

https://jessicadavidson.co.uk/2017/11/13/research-notes-gree...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirius_Dog_Sled_Patrol

I read a good article about this subject [of these patrols] in a local mag around 2014. The point being, that Denmark puts money and effort into protecting Greenland.
I would attribute it more the glut of free online porn than netflix. Men consume porn far more than women because men are more visually stimulated than women. This has been verified by numerous scientific studies. In many ways, women can't compete with porn. Hundreds of years ago, the average man would be delighted to get sex from the average woman in his local community. Through porn, your average guy has seen more naked women than all his ancestors combined. These women are far more physically attractive, sex-hungry and available than anyone he could meet in person. Today, after seeing countless videos of the the most physically attractive women imaginable, perfectly suited to his preference, taste and sexually proclivity, the average woman seems like a lame approximation for what can be accessed readily online. Men are far less willing to deal with all the pitfalls, annoyance and cost of dating when an approximation for sex, like porn, is much less costly and easily available.
Although Everest is a bit of an outlier here - this is a dangerous sentiment to hold if someone actually holds it.
> How would one go about that now?

If you know your way about Linux and the commandline, it's not that hard. There's plenty of good tutorials out there for (almost) anything you would want to do. Renting a small VPS is not particularly expensive either.

I did it this year and can only recommend it - I learnt a ton in the process :-)
I have to second the mention of Embree. Intel poured several man years of optimization into this code. As long as you are fine with being restricted to x86 platforms, you won't find faster open source code for general ray/triangle intersection.
Those are all about segmenting the text on a page from the background, and not semantic segmentation, which I thought you were talking about ("segment the page and decide what is the navigation").

Finding the text in a screenshot of a webpage should be easier than doing it for handwritten documents; it's the "decide what is the navigation" part that I'm doubtful about.
I found this helpful not necessarily for the particular book recommendations, but for the topics it suggested looking into.
BTW, thanks for mentioning the tilde club! Hadn't heard about that before... A lovely passage from the Medium article:

[Talking about the history of Unix] Fast forward 20 years: Your typical “cloud” Unix server, designed in the 1970s to be a very social place, is today a ghost town with one or two factories still clanking in the town square—factories that receive our email, or accept our Instagram photos and store them, and manage our data. But there’s no one walking around and chatting downtown. Thus when people talk about “cloud computing” they are talking about millions of tiny ghost towns. Ironic, because what do people build on these ghost towns but social networks.
> on other hand there are example of people who were told to wait in line for weeks or get denied of their desired treatment option.

These seems to most often crop up around non-critical issues like joint paints etc.

And i have yet to find a single payer system that do not let you go abroad for elective care, if you can find the funding. They will however not fund your trip unless there is a strong case made for there being no viable alternatives back home.
The web now presents mainly economic activity and validation of currently held opinion. When we were both younger, the web and I, the ideas and opinions expressed by it were on a wider spectrum. It feels like it went from 4:2:2 down to a 32 color fixed pastel palette.
Maybe there is something similar with coughing. There definitely is with yawning.
Absolutely. HN isn't about meeting people, it's about discussing ideas. A very worthwhile objective in its own right, but the two shouldn't be confused.