skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Article mentioned that other volumetric displays could cut off your fingers if you put your hand inside the volume, but heavily features use of fingers in the pictures to show scale.

This only requires enough power to push a tiny speck of dust around.

If you had a precise enough means of determining the position of a particle, and a precise enough means of painting it with visible light, you could rely on Brownian motion to trace out your image. You project the color and intensity of whatever voxel the particle happens to be in at that moment, and the dust scatters that light everywhere.

But if you can force the particle to trace out a specific path instead of a random one, you can make it walk through all the voxels in sequence, and paint your whole volume reliably.

The problems with scaling up are controlling multiple particles at once without making any of them occlude the others from the perspective of the painter lights and pusher lasers. One speck can only travel through so many voxels in the time required to paint one frame. And the more specks you have, the more likely it is that one that is supposed to display transparent will be occluding one that is supposed to be colored. The image would get "foggy".
As a society we shouldn't make people choose between the two. That's why we have things like a social safety net and minimum wage.
Oh, then we're probably safe - he was only worried about the Antarctic:

"I am forced into speech because men of science have refused to follow my advice without knowing why. It is altogether against my will that I tell my reasons for opposing this contemplated invasion of the antarctic — with its vast fossil-hunt and its wholesale boring and melting of the ancient ice-cap — and I am the more reluctant because my warning may be in vain. Doubt of the real facts, as I must reveal them, is inevitable; yet if I suppressed what will seem extravagant and incredible there would be nothing left."

Whatever, drill away!
Its possible that I misread the comment; it seemed to state that this problem extended into safe Rust, which it definitely does not.
> It seems to me that "unsafe" Rust is a subset of Rust as a whole.

Sure. When people say "Rust" they usually mean "safe Rust". But if we consider "Rust" as a whole, "Safe Rust", and "Unsafe Rust", then:

Rust is Unsafe Rust

Safe Rust is a subset of Unsafe Rust (and therefore Rust).
Honest question: what's the problem if you keep it to yourself ?
I wonder about the ELO thing how much is age and how much is priorities changing (kids, families, the realisation that outside the top15 there isn't much of a living in playing vs teaching/writing which takes you away from teaching etc).

Anand just won the rapid chess world championship at 48, Korchnoi was top-100 into his 70's.

Not saying there isn't some decline just that it may not be as pronounced as the raw ELO figures would indicate.
Thanks for your response! Even just an aggregation would be useful (outside of 3P apps).

Congrats on your new gig! Looks a little more exciting than your previous one ;)
Honestly, I think he's more seen as a pulp-y xenophobe than a genius. But could he write portentous purple prose, or what?
I must be doing something wrong. I've been using Linux for my primary desktop since 1995 (started with TurboLinux 2.0, then jumped to RH v5.2).

Was it a cakewalk over the year? No. Even today there are times where I'm in WTF mode about something or another (my favorite is when I do an update to the NVidia drivers and it borks my system hard enough I have to restore my X config in some manner or another at the command line because I have custom crap in it).

But I don't regret anything about my 2+ decade decision to ditch Windows.
I am a neurologist. this is actually the exact opposite of what you should care about, which is "does it work to treat ___"

In this trial, and 99% of other trials, there is no mechanism provided by the study, only a measurement of causality (which is the same thing as effectiveness).

The authors may think they know based on other, prior, basic science research (as they are postulating here), but it does not affect the conclusions of the trial ( whether they do or don't (or even if they are wrong).

Obviously it's intellectually satisfying to understand WHY, but it's not as important as "is it true?"
"Unsafe" Rust is a superset because everything you can do in normal "safe" Rust, you can do within an "unsafe" block. That is, being within an "unsafe" block (which is what people mean by "Unsafe Rust") allows you to do more, not less.
Why was he still there, after 13 years? He should have been able to retire ages ago, or if he wants to keep working, should have gone somewhere innovative half a decade ago.
Apparently someone started writing a decompiler for movfuscator that looked for the patterns of movs generated. Probably possible to obfuscate past that still though with an extra layer of indirection whereby all instructions generate the same basic pattern of movs, with one small difference.
google? https://www.google.com/search?q=Steve+Yegge+predictions&oq=S...
It just seems highly unlikely to me. Even if 90% of the world becomes uninhabitable there is still plenty of space left for a lot of people. You can lose 90% or even 99% of world population and will still have a lot of people left. Not saying this is a good thing but I just don't believe civilization will get totally wiped out. Emphasis is on "totally".
The last time I got medical records, it was a thick stack of papers (the images were on a CD at least). Another provider sent an "electronic" record, which was just a PDF of essentially the same stack of paper. This was way back in May 2017.
what about cutting meat and occasionally some salad on the same board? that never happens in a busy kitchen, right? totally enforceable too
I hope that Stripe consider support for GNU Taler!

https://gnutaler.org/
Until now, I never really thought about how version control might work in writing and publishing.

"Cloud Atlas" was published in '04. I wonder what systems are in place now?
By sampling them against other cultures, the same way we know Japanese people have lower rates of heart disease than western European/Americans.
I swore that Intel had recalled the microcode updates because of issues (I've not had any of note)?

https://www.computerworld.com/article/3250297/microsoft-wind...
Show HN: Engage for CPAs, fast contracts for tax pros
Again, that's with only an 8MB block size. They're now doing research into 1 GB block size limits. Think about it, with 10 terabyte hard drive at $300, it's completely feasible to have 1GM blocks.
sugar mostly
The United States of Paranoia: A Conspiracy Theory
Under most measures it isn't counted. What you are looking for is called consumption-based emissions accounting and unsurprisingly it shows US emissions are still going up.

Moving to consumption based accounting aligns closely with the generally accepted best economic solution for reducing emissions - a global carbon tax, which would be pushed onto developing countries as a requirement when they want to export to developed countries.

Incidentally, the US military has been exempt from all climate agreements since Kyoto, and so are international flights.
I love this post, partly because of what you're saying, but also partly because of how excellently you captured the attitude using "proper chaps". I know nothing of the British Class system or the topic of which you speak but it brought a huge smile to my face.
"things that didn't work before will now"

Just the words I want to hear when I upgrade my programming language by one minor version.
They started out with 259 volunteers, and based their conclusions on 40 individuals.

The Theracurmin would change the color of the urine, but the researchers don't believe that affected Placebo.

Volunteers came in every three months for supply. They were given eith Placebo, or Theracurmin. I'm wondering if any of the volunteers cut open the capsules at home? "Let's just see what I'm taking?" I don't know.

My point is I'm getting tired of percentages. The average person looks at a percentage and assumes it must work. All previous studies on this spice showed no benefit. But that might be due to bioavailability--of course.

Actually my point is I don't trust most studies, especially the studies that study the brain, and how it functions.

I'm still in shock over the copious amounts of tricyclics/heterocyclic antidepressants I was prescribed.

I'm still in shock the expense. The mandatory office visits. Being told "you just don't want to be on antidepressants!". Yes, the side affects are real.

And completely dissalusioned when I read the actual studies on the wonder drugs.

This study on Theracurmin seems like it could be easily done in most rest homes. If I knew for sure the patients didn't know what they were taking by breaking open, I imagine a gel capsule; I would give the study more credence.
Agreed. Kay, Nelson, et al are well-known more as an accident of timeline convergence than due to their revolutionary insights.

That's not to say they don't have or didn't have revolutionary insights, it's just to say that such insights are rarely widely recognized. :)

This is painfully obvious when we see that these people themselves have been making comments critical of the industry for decades, and have generally been ignored.
And apparently it played out exactly as predicted by the author: https://br.inyour.space/?s=4059&b=7922675&e=345&t=eaqqvvuaeu...
The measure of flourishing is not how fast one can dig holes, nor is it how quickly one can study new APIs.

Knowing useful and effective ways to act, and acting accordingly; understanding and undertaking long-term, purposeful courses of action; and fully integrating new knowledge with vast, existing knowledge -- are key to flourishing. This doesn't end at or decline with the start of middle age.
I remember if you were lower than 100 in WC3 you were a noob.
Google Groups has been on life support for 15+ years. If they knew what they were doing it could have been a Reddit killer integrated into a functioning G+.
> If the Bitcoin Cash blocks get full, then we'll see how things go.

Yeah, then they'll raise the limit from 8MB to 16MB. With 10 terabyte hard drives at $300-$400, that's not a big deal for anyone running a full node.
> xenophobe

More than the people of his time?
Revenge porn doesn't even need to be real anymore to terrorize someone. A celeb has plausible deniability when it comes to stuff like this. But an average person whose career is on the line?
I wouldn't be that pessimistic just yet. It's yet possible that new advances in authentication technology might counteract some of these trends.
I don't know why you're downvoted. The RCPs that show us respecting the goal of the 2C limit all show emissions need to shrink globally and reach zero around 2050 or even earlier. The fact emissions have stopped growing is not really much progress. It is like we are cruising to disaster rather than accelerating towards it.
This here seems to be the only possible way forward, other than throwing out all concept of video evidence.

All video streams (and frames) are signed / watermarked with the source that recorded them. Video editing now becomes impossible without showing a change in ownership.

Unfortunately it will be a long number of decades until we can successfully replace the majority of cameras with these new ones that society doesn't yet have reason to understand the need for.
Alcatraz inmates survived infamous 1962 escape, letter suggests
"Which then conditions people to just click past the warning, at that point you might as well not even run the AV at all"

anectode: a girl in my student flat wanted to give me some file and copied it to her usb-stick. But as she plugged her stick in, a antivirus warning popped up and said very clearly INFECTION DETECTED.
But she just clicked it away and said it does that all the time since weeks ...

Wait what?!?

And she was a student (for high school teacher), so supposed to be not stupid. But in this case the antivirus was actually one of the better once which mostly only said something if there was something. But to her it had the same meaning as "update me please". Not something to be bothered with her now, as her task was to copy something to the USB stick ...

So yes, definitely also bad conditioned, but also plain stupid. Or overburdened.

So for those people, antivirus (wheter from the os or third party) which really blocks stupid things and scans everything, make sense.
And there are a lot of those people ... in my example it was someone who grew up with computers, but there are still many around who had to learn it much later in life. And they just click onto everything.
I think you are equating "human civilization" with "humanity". I agree that some people are likely to survive a catastrophe, but I don't think that what we think of as civilization is likely to survive a 90% or 99% population reduction.

Or as lifeformed put it elsewhere: "Destroying all civilization doesn't mean destroying all humans, but just the structures that hold society together. A runaway heating scenario may be a pretty effective way of doing that - all crops die, wars for food, nukes get used."
Once a company attains majority market share, it's not in their best interest to disrupt the market anymore.
‘Super Blue Blood Moon’ Coming Jan. 31 – NASA
Mattermost does have a paid (still self-hosted) version that includes support.

https://about.mattermost.com/pricing/
Depends on the role. But salespeople are there to sell stuff, the efficiency gains are orthogonal to the objective. Their job is to call people, go shake hands, get ink on dotted lines, etc. Not faff about with Excel.

Note: They also sell themselves to their bosses too. Hence why they tend to outlast engineers in largish orgs.
> Odd, the people who are in charge of creating laws, the House and the Senate, are still in office after getting nothing done.

For one, there hasn't been an election since this latest change to DACA status happened. Secondly, very few people decide their vote on a single decision like this, and especially one that doesn't directly affect them. That doesn't mean they don't support it, though.
As long as I have a guarantee we can preserve our culture, I can care less about my future. Even if we lose our species, we should leave something behind that indicates we mattered.
The .NET GC hands out "allocation contexts" to every thread. An allocation context is little more than two pointers: the bump pointer and the bump pointer limit. If the runtime allocates too much and exceeds the bump pointer limit, it asks the .NET GC for a "quantum" of memory (usually a few KB). Each quantum that the GC gives out is guaranteed to be free of pinned objects - it'll find a contiguous block of memory to hand out.

Pins on the ephemeral segment are generally bad in that the quantum allocator has to be aware of them and squeeze objects between them.

The GC is not permitted to eagerly move pinned objects out of the heap. This is because there are two ways an object can be pinned: a pinning GC handle or a stack scan reports a local as pinned (e.g. the "fixed" keyword in C#). The GC does not know until a GC is already in progress that an object has been pinned and, at that point, it's not legal to move the object so it must stay where it is at the current point in time.
What do you mean "authentication technology"? Tamper detection? The ability to see that a tool was used? It may slow things down, but this is an arms race.
Oh, you're right. I was thinking about linux for some reason.
> what if there's new viruses or bacterium contained under previously frozen earth for which modern medicine isn't prepared for?

A group at Harvard found that the traits that now enable enterococcal survival and transmission in hospitals were an advantage in the Paleozoic [0] and suggest that the multidrug resistant (i.e., untreatable) strains seen in hospitals were trained to be that way millions of years ago. There was also a split between commensal/friendly and unfriendly enterococci around the time of urbanization. So it's certainly possible that we'd encounter something we don't have an answer for. It has already been seen, in a way.

[0] http://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(17)30478-6
I guess that doesn't matter as he said "should".

But yeah, reality is different ...
Zig looks very interesting. There is only TODO in memory section in documentation. From what I understand there is only manual memory management? I've seen there is a mention about custom allocators, any details? Any RAII like concept? or full manual memory management?
Cool. I actually wrote a golang project to do this on OSX. And then convert it to a gif.
> In all countries that matter, governments are elected.

Well, except China, and Russia, two very large industrial nations that certainly matter in terms of global impact. You're kidding yourself if you believe those governments are elected.

> We are the ones to blame, governments just gave us what we wanted.

No, governments are giving their sponsors what they want. The electorate is led to believe they want it too.
The difference with the past is that the sun is slowly getting hotter. Increasing the incoming solar power by a mere 10% would be enough to tip the climate into a runaway process that will boil the oceans and scour the surface. Our Earth only has a billion more years to go

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/12/131216142310.h...
Every morning I make 1,5L tea, 1 root of cut/chopped turmeric and and a bit of cut/chopped ginger (for the taste), I also add a bit of ground pepper.
not just of their local environments, but of the entire planet?
Does it get clicks? It is press
Dinosaurs are now birds? Do Velociraptors climb trees?
Companies change as they get bigger because of increasing risk. The company has more value and making big gambles risky ventures with a large company starts to become irresponsible.
Building TwilioQuest with Twilio Sync, Django and Vue.js
> Security threats are growing faster than security teams and budgets can keep up, and there’s already a huge talent shortage.

Can anyone here speak to the "there's already a huge talent shortage" part of this article? Specifically, security is a field I'd love to work in, but I honestly don't see a ton of job postings and I'm unsure as to how one might transition from say a role as a full-stack web developer into a security job.

For example, here's are some things I've been doing as I'm considering a move into a security-focused role:

- Following the industry (podcasts ala Sans mainly)

- Reading books on hacking (currently "The Shellcoder's Handbook")

- Reviewing my comp sci basics (x86 assembly + reading K&R "The C Programming Language")

- Dabbling in some hacking exercises (https://ropemporium.com and https://canyouhack.us/)

Mainly asking because I see statements like the above regarding the shortage of security talent all the time, yet I can't find a lot of guidance either for exactly how one can get started in this field.

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This ad only makes it seem ridiculous because of the high prices of the hamburgers. However there are places such as Amazon that charge extra for faster delivery. Net neutrality may be right, but the ad misses the point.
Hopefully courts can stay abreast of the trend, although I doubt it. The court of public opinion though?! I wonder if someone will commit murder with an angry mob, incited by something upsetting about the target, “caught on film.”
I've been trying duckduckgo for the last month and just don't find it as good, all to often I'll be searching for a local shop, and even including my town name and it will give me America results. I really want to like it, as I feel too tied up with Google, but it's just not there yet. Still powering on though.
I think the whole idea with NuScale reactors is that if you take away external power and scram the reactor, there's enough water in the pool to handle the decay heat. After the water boils away, the decay heat is supposed to be small enough that passive air cooling will keep it safe.
Well in the police conduct case, if they're wearing a body camera, you can still have a properly-documented chain-of-custody backing up the photo evidence.

We've had good technology for the forgery of printed documents for a long time, and the world hasn't ended.
Why are people putting money in this? it has like 70k already..is everyone stupid?
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Start with the safe and secure option, figure out how to dial it down and open it up.

Doing it the other way around? We literally have 50 years of experience of that being a terrible, terrible idea.
What I find funny is how mild his opinion about google was. I read his post on medium and it's true that he showed some of the problems google have but it wasn't as poignant. He mostly focused on his new venture

Now CNBC takes it and puts it on steroids.

> GOOGLE CAN NO LONGER INNOVATE!!! says former big shot employee

I won't be surprised if this also affects their stock price.
I thought this was about methane clathrates. Hasn't there been carbon leaking from permafrost into the atmosphere already? To what degree does the production in the arctic affect that?
Fasttext's ability to handle OOVs, however naïve, cannot be understated. I'm not sure about the literature on this, but I think generalizing based on character-gram wordvectors is probably better than assigning a dropout based common OOV vector.
The technology for all of these exists, it's just a matter of motivation.

see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttGUiwfTYvg
Facebook has become the landline telephone. You dont want to get rid of it, it's good for keeping in touch with those few people you don't see often, it's pretty much all spam, and its increasingly bundled in to shit you use so its actually more annoying to outright cancel it than just ignore it.
We tend to believe our current level of civilization is stable because it got never challenged by climate changing this fast. Probably it is not about ending all human culture but about rolling back decades or centuries in a lot of regions. I remember how Sandy interrupted gas supply in New York. People took extreme measurements to get what was 'needed' - civilized was something different.

Just because English lacks the ability to adequately express the far-reaching consequences of untackled Climate Change shouldn't stop us from trying to get the message around. If you think there are better phrases, don't keep them for yourself.

Also permanent advertisement has exploited the alarming features of language. Do you really still expect to trigger immediate action by saying 'please'?
The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The second best time to plant a tree is today.
Super cool cloud ware
Seems like a possible license violation then (7-Zip is LGPL).
In your view, does this study fall short of answering the “is it true?” question?
How would this be helpful?
Finding the origin of contents are already a challenge these days. A random idea I have is creating a blockchain where content creators can register their creations to prove their origin. Also, camera manufacturers can get involved and build in a hardware that signs every picture and video captured by that camera which can then be registered to the blockchain.
The Eve programming language project is winding down
>but ask nearly any academic and they'll tell you they were better when they were younger.

I don't think that's true at all outside of Mathematics.

>Ask nearly any athlete (ultramarathoners being an exception) and they'll tell you they were better when they were younger.

That's obvious.
Because it's often hard to edit (which includes quoting or decoding where
computation or variable starts) and because it mixes formatting and presenting
data with computation.
Theracurmin's formulation is specifically designed to increase bioavailability without the use of bioperine.
Do you expect to die or do you think you should live?