skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh heck, me too - since I was responding to your only comment just minutes ago, here is again :)

Maybe, but what is really causing the DNA methylation? The article pins it mostly on epigenetics or environment, the 'stress of space travel', including dietary constraints and oxygen levels all of which are valid.

- https://theconversation.com/epigenetics-can-stress-really-ch...

- http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2017/stress-induced-dna-mo...

- https://www.scientificamerican.com/page/sponsored/nestle/how... ooh, sponsored article, didn't catch that the first time.

However, the CNN article only briefly mentions 'radiation' as a factor and likely is lumping that into the 'stressful environment' case repeated several times.

Realistically, cosmic rays or radiation are far more likely to the be prevailing indicator for DNA disruption but are not plainly disclosed here. Despite much research having been done on this specific topic.

Wikipedia states: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_threat_from_cosmic_rays
"The potential acute and chronic health effects of space radiation, as with other ionizing radiation exposures, involve both direct damage to DNA, indirect effects due to generation of reactive oxygen species, and changes to the biochemistry of cells and tissues, which can alter gene transcription and the tissue microenvironment along with producing DNA mutations."

From this paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.6641 "In the present paper, we suggest the BNR as a cause of genetic “fails” in living cells, that is one of the possible origins of the so called spontaneous mutations. Cells exposed to the shower of electrons and ions, caused by the collision of a neutron and a proton of water, could be annihilated or experience a permanent damage, in particular, a damage in the DNA."

Cosmic radiation detrimental effects to DNA confirmed by NASA in this study: https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/200800...

And more poignantly, from https://www.vencoreweather.com/blog/2017/6/26/1200-pm-cosmic... ( do not read full link if you are easily panicked ): "... there are other consequences of increasing cosmic rays according to “Spaceweather.com” including the penetration of commercial airlines, dosing passengers and flight crews enough that pilots are classified as occupational radiation workers. [Dose rates are expressed as multiples of sea level. For instance, we see that boarding a plane that flies at 25,000 feet exposes passengers to dose rates ~10x higher than sea level. At 40,000 feet, the multiplier is closer to 50x]"

Sorry for the data dump, I just happened to be researching cosmic ray effects the past few evenings and have collected many interesting facts on the topic. The most I have concluded at this point is that humans, as currently derived, are not made for space travel.
I feel your pain :) Back then the most such fun we had were Fermat theorem proofs coming to the algebra department.
I learned that if you access the html5 youtube player you can actually change the speeds.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5845484/force-html5-yout...

The other hack I was thinking about playing around with is removing silences, or long pauses, ummms, etc.
Good point. It would certainly not be progressive in a political sense haha
Is it more dangerous than labeling the girl a psychopath/sociopath even though the grandmother is just some ole biddy and not a trained expert?
I thought Southwest was managing an outsize profit margin for the airline industry for many years on arbitrage bets on the price of fuel and finally ran out of steam in the last couple of years, so it's not a good yardstick.
I love this outlook, and I share it. I’d add that I like to take patterns of claims into account, past and present. Patterns of claims can be illuminating as to the reality of underlying motivations, even where claims are true. Sometimes claims are accurate, but by presenting only one segment of a story the reader’s conclusions are moulded a specific end. For example claims that video games cause violence recur in predictable ways, as do PR submarines.

Another useful filter is to identify which of Logos, Pathos, or Ethos is being employed most. Is an article trying to support its claims with citations, original research, and sound logic? Or is it just calling everyone who disagrees with it immoral?
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So far, that's been me at every n+5 years or so.
Maybe try making it more specific. Have them specialize in one difficult but common task. Ideally one that can happen away from the house, because people want to minimize visits to their doorstep from strangers, even invited strangers.
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Doing certificates on edX and Coursera is the wrong path. Their certificates and "micro-masters" or "nano degrees" are worthless.

The way you do it is you go through a full 4-year program on MIT's OCW. You do the same assignments and write the same tests actual students did a decade ago. Then you take a GRE subjects test.

Whether or not you use the score to enter a graduate school, it carries weight. The same is true for those who self study through one or preferably two or three levels of the CFA examinations.
* Closing natural gas and other pipeline feeds to prevent fires.
> It is how they inspire an entire generation to seek out knowledge, understanding and fill us all with a sense of humility, awe and wonder.

It's one of the finest things one can do. In today's climate of dystopian science fiction, we could all use some awe and wonder.
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I think Fortran uses a number followed by a byte array to represent strings. This is the big argument with C which used null terminators. In retrospect, maybe Fortran was right after all.

Edit: Actually seems I confused Fortran and Pascal. Also, Fortran uses an internal length variable.
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Halfway to making a handheld radar.
Yea, you're right. I would say it's in part the disparity between the scale of the fixed cost and the amount of qualification that is predatory.

As in, if it was a loan for only $1000, it's certainly more ok to do less qualification. Versus if you were saddling a student with a loan of $40,000, you should probably be very careful.
I agree with you, and have seen other examples:

- government managers are evaluated on budget and headcount because the core services they provide are hard to measure. Thus they don’t want new software to help them be more efficient, unless the alternative is catastrophic, visible failure to provide their service.

- Lawyers charge by the hour. They don’t want new software to dramatically reduce the time spent in discovery. Then they would have to bill for outcomes (cases won) and there are too many things out of their control.

Basically nobody wants to charge for value, because value is hard to quantify accurately and quickly. You wind up showing costs to prove value, so nobody wants to reduce costs.
I'd like to see a cross-section of data and metrics that acknowledge that some human beings lie. I searched the article for any mention of lie or untruth or manipulation and found nothing. Why is that concerning to me?

>Ultimately, we want to understand the psychological mechanisms underlying these kinds of cognitive processes to generate models that can contribute to computer programs and artificial intelligence.

"I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that." - Hal

A great start would be to use the espoused rubric on Duke students and/or faculty to see if they are willing to lie about bribery in NCAA Basketball recruiting vis-a-vie success.
Yes, it worth it. For two reasons:

1. 5.4 is end of life

2. 7.0 is a LOT faster. I cutted down the load time by half by only upgrading to 7.0.

Now, issues you could have:

- Old WP versions that are using `mysql_` (instead of `mysqli_`);

- Some plugins are using the old style constructor (a method with the same name as the class name instead of __construct)

http://php.net/manual/en/migration70.deprecated.php
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Uncoincidentally, it's most successful market (or one of at least) was the UK where the video game crash never happened.
Same story here. I had an Amiga 1000 from 1985 all the way through 1995. Never with a hard drive or modem either. I was still disappointed by the 486DX2 (4MB!) that replaced it. It was better in every "bullet point" way, but lacking in a hard-to-describe way.
Yea, I'm on the waitlist for all the good it does me.

It looks like the higher end graphics cards are available new for no less than ~3x their MSRP. Everything else is sold out. In all seriousness, the cheapest option is to buy a pre-built computer and throw out everything but the GPU. It's insanity, and I can't wait for this fad to be over.
RWX doesn't prevent ROP!
Shameless plug, I'm the author of Git Evangelism. This is the guide I built to onboard my coworkers during our transition to Git. This guide is updated regularly and differentiates itself by putting the reader in a position to succeed during their first attempt at Git by providing sane defaults (which Git does remarkably poorly) like setting Sublime Text as the text editor (instead of Vim) and configuring Beyond Compare as the diff tool and mergetool. GE gives a brief introduction to the commands to move you towards being productive early-on and orders the commands that the user is likely to encounter the need.

https://github.com/ryanrodemoyer/git-evangelism

I like Vim, but it's incredibly intimidating and frustrating that you get presented with Vim if all you want to do is experiment with merging. I'm going to stop myself here. I could go on a long rant about the awful system defaults.

I have a series of screencasts planned, some recorded, that follow through Git Evangelism so that you, the reader, can use Git confidently and successfully while avoiding the bizarre error states that plague new and seasoned users alike.

In addition, I have created a non-traditional in-person workshop event that helps new users build up their understanding of the Git data model and we go in detail on how that differs from a centralized source control system (ie. TFS VC).

Git Evangelism is in some ways heavily influenced by the thinking forced by centralized version control systems. At my current job, we are moving away from Team Foundation Server Version Control (TFSVC/TFVC) and to Git hosted by TFS. There is much in that document that is specifically geared towards Windows/TFS background although I have planned to make non-Windows specific updates (personally, I'm a Mac user).

The problem with most getting started guides for Git, is that they continue to put the reader in a position to fail rather than a position to succeed. Git has all kind of "gotchas" that guides skip over. A typical guide leads you through staging and committing and reverting but rarely does the guide explain the nuances such as difference between "git add ." and "git commit -a" or the value in using a tool like GitLab (besides that it's hipsterish) or what is a hard reset (hint, there's multiple meanings so it depends how it is used).
Just bought two of these.
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I've done some work in this area - it's disappointing how terribly the Twitter product has failed to evolve to take account of bot usage.

There are (of course) some useful bots, but lots of incredibly harmful bots, they they should be treated differently to actual humans.

But Twitter can't ship product, so it's not really worth suggesting what they should do.

In the mean time, my colleagues and I got a nice WWW18 conference paper about a new unsupervised (!) way of detecting some type of bots on Twitter. Like most things it's completely obvious in retrospect...
Just a note, not to argue any of your substantial points, but Intuit announced about a year ago that they will no longer develop a desktop version of Quickbooks for Mac (leaving v. 2016 as the last version, officially supported through May 2019). They continue to make a version for Windows.
Most ordinary people I know favor Siri despite it's differences.

The "character", theatre, framing, if you will, with Siri is superior.

Few people in my circles use the Amazon device at present.

Somehow, people like Siri. Siri is an agent in their minds and that is how they treat Siri.

The "OK Google" is one too, but not as well personified.

If I were to hazard a gut guess, based on an anecdotal sample, personification, as well as relevance to pop culture are big draws and can make up for technical gaps.

Personally, it's no contest. I use Google voice constantly. Works well enough for me to continue to invest in the experience.
you're reminding me of this 30 minute talk from 2014 "the birth and death of javascript", in which he supposes a future where CPUs basically run webassembly directly
https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...
> The company has struggled to pay down nearly $8 billion in debt — much of it dating to a 2005 leveraged buyout

Good business, bad organization.
An expert would also know that children are not diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder anyway, and for good reasons. I’m guessing that granny isn’t familiar with conduct disorder, and even if she was, unable to distinguish it from more likely issues plaguing the kid. Children can be sociopathic, any parent knows this, but that doesn’t make them sociopaths. Children are not fully developed, and it’s dsngerous and unethical to casually label them with a personality disorder.
There is at least one LPG fueled ferry travelling the fjords of Norway.
It could guess and or extrapolate, based on recent data.

For a lot of people it would be effective.
Yeah it's not very good. It marks the author's account[1] as "not a bot" when it appears to be just reposting Instagram posts.. ie, it is a bot.

Plus it said I was a bot (85% chance anyway), and I'm pretty sure I'm not.

[1] https://twitter.com/mkearney (I assume this is his account?)
A priceless quote:

"[U]sing systems that scale poorly for tiny projects is like using Roman numerals for calculations involving small numbers."
> It looks like the IT security world has hit a new low.

That paper isn’t from the IT world. It’s from the kinda-looks-like-securities-fraud world.
See current discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16583348
People sometimes mention this. What about existing things that do the same? What about the JVM? What about llvm IR and bitcode? What about .net/CLR?
A person with a certain perspective would see it that way. Suppose you think Bitcoin is a fad or bubble. Ponzi scheme doesn't quite fit since there's no mastermind orchestrating it. You think that people are only buying or outlaying the capital to mine bitcoin in the hopes that someone downline gives you more money for it than you invested. Eventually the world will run out of greater fools and the price would plummet. Decreasing interest from new people would definitely signal something to this person.
Not all games jobs are like this. I entered the games industry just as I was turning 30 and it has been rewarding both in terms of type of work and compensation. Maybe I'm not typical but I also don't think people should write off a whole industry based off of anecdotes.

Really I'd just generalize your advice and say that any job where you're not invested in the product, have unfavorable hours and aren't paid well is uncool and should be avoided.
Per the README to the corresponding repo:

> The default [gradient boosted] model uses both users-level (bio, location, number of followers and friends, etc.) and tweets-level (number of hashtags, mentions, capital letters, etc. in a user's most recent 100 tweets) data to estimate the probability that users are bots.

Not an exact science, but shows what you can do and deploy quickly with R/Shiny.

The author’s rtweet package is very good for making quick Twitter data visualizations.
my contention is not that I got any jobs because I was a friend (or a contact of a friend) but rather that I very likely wouldn't have gotten any jobs if I weren't a contact of a friend.

A lot of the SV narratives circle around meritocracy (or other ways of 'hacking the signalling game' even. And when you say "it's SUPER unlikely", I think you're 100% correct. And so challenging the meritocracy myth is important.
Kinda wish you named it: 'Robot or not' https://www.theincomparable.com/robot/
> This greatly exceeds any state in the west

Technically true regarding states, but there are several Canadian provinces which get more than 95% of their energy from renewables, some of whom are serving a larger population base than Norway.
According to Spotify's list of countries, [1] it's available in 73 countries. Apple Music is available in about 115 countries according to Apple's list. [2] In this comparison, there are many prominent names missing in Spotify's list, not just India.

As for Spotify opening in India next year (2019), that's already quite late to the game, in my view.

[1]: https://www.spotify.com/int/select-your-country/

[2]: https://support.apple.com/en-in/HT204956
> For example, any sort of number crunching. That stuff is now feasible, which opens up all kinds of applications.

Not really. You're still hamstrung by either being single threaded & time sliced with the UI thread (huzzah for cooperative multitasking still somehow not being dead), or you need to jump through the webworkers hoop if you're lucky enough to have a problem & dataset that's compatible with webworker's rather severe limitations.

webasm claims to have threading support on the roadmap but until that happens anything truly involving heavy number crunching is still largely infeasible. And with SharedArrayBuffer being killed by spectre there's a lot of rather major unknowns to deal with.
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I understand that. The reason clock time is changed is so the agreed times of work across society don't have to coordinate. No organization is an island. If school shifts back an hour, but the office doesn't, the disruption for parents is significant.

Suppliers aren't going to shift their hours if their clients don't. Investment banks won't shift if the stock exchanges don't. There'd be no change since nobody could go first.

It's much simpler to decree the change on the clock than try to convince everyone to change their schedules in lockstep.

Again, I don't like DST. I wish my area would stay on "summer time" all year. Basically shift to the next time zone. But DST is better than the ad hoc solution that you're suggesting.
They offer better service and selection in many areas than Walmart. This is particularly true outside of the south, where Walmart is just better for some reason. Here in the northeast, Walmart is like DMV especially when benefit checks come in.

They also appeal more to women, and eschew product categories that men and poor folk flock to like car parts, guns, fishing, Jesus books, crafting, etc.
I'm not generally one for the concept of "head-canon," but I think this is now my head-canon for The Matrix.

You see, the Matrix itself is the proof-of-work puzzle, formatted for compatibility with the neocortex. The simulation of a circa-1999 metropolis is not just something to keep the humans' brains occupied while they power the machines; its very substance is a cryptographic hashing process in the form of a simulated world, which also explains why everyone has to be in the same Matrix rather than instanced versions. Agent Smith's real job was just to prevent 51% attacks!
Git is much like Vim...user-unfriendly on the surface...but user friendly at the core. It is a simple tool that works, but is hard to understand for the beginner.
I disagree. In the case of MIDI, or a printer it has significant non infringing uses, and they weren't implemented solely, and with great detailed knowledge of the work in question. If you had a printer that was designed specifically to print Steven King's It and wouldn't work with any other novel then you would have something parallel to what they have built. Their project isn't general, you couldn't use it to target a couple of open source games, or a couple of games you wrote yourself.
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Walt Mossberg has a funny "series" on his Twitter where he screencaps all the blatent failures he has with Siri. Many times, he or a follower will attach a screenshot of Assistant completing the action. It's not scientific by any means, but it's fun to go through and provides some concrete examples. His biggest issue seems to be that Siri is unreliable - there are queries that work, but only sometimes, and that makes the experience of using the product terrible.
It is the 21cm hydrogen line from the early universe. It is redshifted from 1420 MHz down to 200 MHz to 9 MHz; they were looking at 78 MHz.
don't play hindsight game, hopefully its not too late for you and you can start again
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I would be skeptical. They conjured up profits when the analysts finally demanded it.

My guess is that Amazon will be the next big accounting scandal. I doubt anyone truly understands how the company works.

AWS has a big head start, but the margins aren’t going to last as Microsoft and Google grow. Once one of them decide to buy the business by slashing network costs, poof.
I really liked the analogies the author used to demistify git usecases. I also agree that it probably doesn’t make sense to use other version control systems if cost and learning (which can also be modeled as cost for the company) are not factors.

For eg, if there is some quick project you need to do, and people in your team have been using say CVS, and there is not much wiggle room in the deadline, getting your team to use Git may not be the most smartest choice - I think that is what most people mean there when they talk about ‘tiny’ projects.

I will say that even if you are not truly starting from scratch, migrating to git has advantages more often, but I am wary of trivialising the people who think there is a cost associated to ( move to )a distributed system like git.
Using AI to match human performance in translating news from Chinese to English
Suggesting tha Node is only used by lazy front-end developers does nothing but show how condescending and uncharitable you are towards other people who picked different trade-offs than you.
Many top voted questions seem to be on AI, and his answers are relevant and to the point. I skimmed through them, but this is going to take a long time to catch up with (I doubt if I'd ever catch up completely with this AMA).

My wish would be that somebody captures (if not already done), the main points from this AMA and have them available to scientists, researchers, technologists and business people in different fields as a kind of a guiding light for the future, near and distant.
I'll stick with my RTL-SDR thanks :)
Modern VR as in sticking a phone screen 50mm from your eyeballs. Carmack did a lot of the work tackling the latency and tracking issues.
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