skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm aware of the mechanics of relativistic travel. I'm also aware of the terrifying energies that will be bombarding a ship - the interstellar medium is quite cruel to objects that are approaching C.

The amount of shielding this vehicle would require is massive - solid feet of shielding to protect the occupants. So the economies of scale make it obvious: the vehicle would have to be enormous. More of a hollow asteroid than a spaceship. Is there enough energy available to launch that to another system?
I'm not talking about directly wrapping Vulkan, I was referring to skocznymroczny's comment: "it might not be such a bad idea to create a common graphics API, which will use Direct3D 11/Vulkan on Windows, Metal on macOS and Vulkan on Linux"

The goal would be to maximally retain the advantages of the new generation of graphics APIs, while accommodating all three as backends to the system. (Comparable to the way ANGLE maps WebGL onto Direct3D, but without 'picking favourites'.)

You sound ambivalent on the practicality of this. WebGL itself has been more successful at doing this (wrapping a highly 'trusting' graphics API to give a secure and portable API) than I thought it would be (though we did have the very alarming security issue I mentioned before).
But AndrewKemendo isn't saying that he is obligated. He said it's common courtesy, which is not the same thing. And he never said that the recruiters will get angry if he doesn't. So you're arguing against something other than what he said.

> Also, a business communication is not "genuine". You're only interacting for your benefit.

Fine, but it still may be to your benefit to interact with courtesy, rather than as a selfish jerk. It may be in your interest 20 years from now rather than today, but it still may be in your interest.

And this cuts both ways. I keep a file of recruiters who are decent (decent recruiters, and decent in how they treat people). When I need a recruiter, I'll pull out that file. It may be ten years since they demonstrated their decency, but they'll get my call.
From my experience, eating it is even more difficult than was made out to be. Not if you are eating out alone - then you can to to whatever keto or vegan restaurant you choose. The issue is if you are eating out with others - which is usually the case. Then you are first faced with filtering out 90% of all restaurants, and getting everyone who had planned to go to accept that filtering.
But it only takes one advanced civilization to do it. And we're probably only a century away from being able to spam the entire galaxy with probes, if we wanted to say take apart Mercury and use solar panels for propulsion. The probes would be small, smart and able to replicate themselves.
If we weren't going to enter a recession anyway, a trade war will surely accelerate the process.
> Caloric Deficit == Weight Loss. The only thing you really need to know is that you should be eating fewer calories than your body burns everyday. If you do this, you will lose weight – it’s science. Nothing else matters for weight loss.

True but completely disingenuous. If you normally eat 3,000 calories/day, and cut it to 2,000 calories/day, you won't necessarily lose weight -- many people's metabolisms will simply slow down equivalently.

Happy for this guy that it worked, but not all of us are so lucky. Turns out there are a lot of different factors that affect our metabolism, which can be just as important (if not more).

Edit: see Gary Taubes' work on this, extremely detailed stuff on what regulates metabolism and fat storage, there's nothing simple about it -- e.g. https://www.amazon.com/Good-Calories-Bad-Controversial-Scien...
It's clearly about fusion. Maybe you meant it's not about generating power?
> By convention, the stack is between the value of registers rbp (lower address) and rsp (higher address) and rsp increases when there are more stack frames added. We're on 64-bit Linux so each frame takes up 8 bytes.

Stack frames grow in size based on local variables allocated on the stack. And $rbp and $rsp need not point at the correct places in the stack for leaf functions, at least on Linux, because it uses the System V ABI.
I admit, I didn't read the full article because it's only barely readable on my device, but if my scroll bar is accurate, I did read about 70% of it.

But my point stands.

We've known that these specific buildings are the key hubs in the network for close to a century. And that they're hardened against nuclear attack, etc...

Maybe I was too deep into the phreaking scene in the early days, but I thought this was common knowledge in technology circles.
Can you clarify why variance only scales linearly in the duration you are optimizing over? I would have expected it to be exponential, since the size of the space you are searching is exponential in the duration.
They're down about 10% on the year: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/WBA?p=WBA&.tsrc=fin-srch

Also hadn't seen that news. Interesting.
Especially as filing a patent costs several hundred dollars. If you have an idea but not much money, you can't afford to patent it (or might have to make the choice between buying a patent or marketing your invention).
I concur. The medication was in fact causing nasty side effects and I was able to cut the dosage in half. I may even be able to ween myself off it entirely once I find the right combination of natural alternatives.
Qt/C++, QML Themes and Templates
Hello,

I have started working on website with Qt/C++ QML themes and templates like one presented here - https://keenthemes.com/metronic/. That will be a marketplace with free and non-free templates, frameworks, libs, themes, that will simplify development live of ours.

My post here is to get some feedbacks, on what kind of themes, will save your time, possibly even some designs. Ideas with the most amount of likes will be created as the first.

This idea came to my mind after talking with web devs, that always buy ready themes for 50$, install free packages with npm and save days. So I decided to create something very similar to save our time and improve development speed. I understand that C++ is compilable language and it's more difficult to create some marketplace, but I want to try. Also QML is of much better fit for this kind of reuse.

There are many repos at github, but I want to create website with something more like this - https://github.com/IndeemaSoftware/QDashBoard - ready structured templates for some standard structured projects with unique bodies. I hope idea is clear =)

This project is not only idea for now, as we already started and created few IoT components available via qpm (https://github.com/IndeemaSoftware/Qt-IoT-Components-By-Indeema), but we plan to move farther and create separate website, with available compiled examples.

I am happy to get any feedback, comments and requests for ready solution, as the most liked will be developed as the first.
If you are very busy, just fill in the form, it's completely confidential https://goo.gl/nXxkvd

Thank you in advance.
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That's what I'm thinking too, and I like it. It may not even cost a premium necessarily, just longer wait times.
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Why low-tech and outdoor play is trending in education
Considering that a rocket was just lit in an enclosed area, how much of the autopilot is left to be functional anyway?
This is ridiculous, but I'll play along. California absolutely is a state. Further defining the location of a city in a state does not really explain how Washington DC ends up being classified as part of Maryland. Washington DC is not part of the state Maryland. There is also no area (I assume by "area" you mean metro area or region) that is commonly defined as Maryland. Washington DC is part of the DC metropolitan area or "DMV," however it is in no way part of Maryland anymore than New York city is part of New Jersey.

I was simply pointing out a minor (albeit, comical) factual error that immediately made me question the legitimacy of the rest of the article.
From the quote:

> "Successful very-low-energy diets (VLEDs) were associated with significantly greater weight-loss maintenance than were successful hypoenergetic balanced diets (HBDs) at all years of follow-up. The percentage of individuals at 4 or 5 y of follow-up for VLEDs and HBDs were 55.4% and 79.7%, respectively. The results for VLEDs and HBDs, respectively, were as follows: weight-loss maintenance, 7.1 kg (95% CI: 6.1, 8.1 kg) and 2.0 (1.5, 2.5) kg; percentage weight-loss maintenance, 29% (25%, 33%) and 17% (13%, 22%); and reduced weight, 6.6% (5.7%, 7.5%) and 2.1% (1.6%, 2.7%)."

That's a remarkable degree of loss to follow-up in the VLED group compared to the HBD group. Without further information, I would take great care in trying to interpret the results of the study - the 20% of VLED participants who did not show up could conceivably widen the confidence intervals, if not change the conclusions.
> Since 2014 -- when Chief Executive Officer Bob Iger laid out plans for three episodes and “at least three” spinoff movies -- films have needed reshoots, rewrites or changes in director.

Hearing that a movie has had the director replaced, and a sizeable percentage of the movie reshot, has become a red flag to avoid. It would be easy to dismiss this as a Disney-specific issue, if Warner and others weren't also guilty. These become like a Frankenstein's monster of plot, cutting back-and-forth from one mood to another so quickly that the movie feels tone-deaf.

There is a rumor that there was no overarching storyline planned for these 3 last episodes - the "plans" alluded to in the article are merely that 3 movies would be created. This lack of storyline planning has allowed the "creative disagreement" between directors of Episodes 7 and 8.

Controversy has become another red flag - where the movie isn't good enough to stand on its own merits, and has to leverage some cause. Particularly egregious groups even dare leverage the "if you're not with us, you're against us" trope.

> The company is dealing with reports that its next stand-alone “Star Wars” movie may be delayed and an effort by one faction of fans to remake “The Last Jedi,” which came out in December.

There was a "defeminized" cut of The Last Jedi that removed whole characters and the Canto Bite side-quest, but there was only enough story left to make a 45-minute bite-sized Star Wars TV show episode. This group would have to add a lot more content than merely embellishing and tightening the current plot.

> The franchise also hasn’t proven it can connect with Chinese audiences, a key market for the film industry. Moviegoers in that country don’t have the same nostalgia for “Star Wars” and prefer to see Marvel films.

Viewing a back-translated sub/dub of Episode 3[0] may shed some light on this - so much of the movie is driven by character or plot, while Marvel movies are more action-driven. Marvel stories are more generic, so are easier to follow without understanding the words. It's similar to how Ong Bak[1] has a generic "retrieve the MacGuffin" action movie plot, and is quite watchable untranslated.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XziLNeFm1ok

[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0368909
When I first provided the book (?96), with it I provided for free download the answers to about half of the questions. The web page said something like, "If you are an instructor then write me and I'll give you access to the rest." But just how foolish that was quickly became apparent: telling who is acutally an instructor or someone learning on their own, and not someone just saying that, was not something that I could do.

Publishers reps seem to me to rely on paper mail, and an address like "Math Dept, St Michael's College" does provide some kind of proof. But I sometimes get emails like "I am a student in a poor country and the only way ..." and I simply am not saying no to that.

That last sentence also answers why I don't erase half of the answers.

Free texts are a different model and there are a lot of kinks.

The folks who wrote the book this thread is based on have done something great. (I teach Discrete and I had a look to see if I could use it.) But including answers is a problem to which I am unaware of a solution. Or maybe, it is just that expectations have to change.
The Fed is reducing its budget sheet which will have a significant effect on the yield curve. Inviting comparisons between the yield curve now versus any other point in history is foolish. These are probably the same people who predicted a recession when Trump was elected, after Brexit, and at least once a month for the last decade
Why do central banks still want to drive down long-term interest rates?
Google Earth gains the ability to measure distance and surface area
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-14/fed-s-bul...

David Kelly from JPMorgan and Bullard, the head of the Fed Reserve of St. Louis, say the yield curve going inverted doesn't mean that much because it's being manipulated by the Fed - that means it's broken as a measuring tool (still should be watched, though)
This is NOT TRUE. NOT TRUE AT ALL.
This is one thing I did to attempt to make a small difference in the current climate, picked a few media outlets I thought were doing a good job and paid for subscriptions. Living in very solidly blue places, nothing else I have done has likely mattered at all.
If your communication is encrypted it shouldn't matter if it passes AT&T networks.

Either

A. Popular and well known encryption algorithms are not broken by the NSA, and your communication is private.

B. Popular and well known encryption algorithms are broken by the NSA, but the fact that it's broken is top secret and the state will not do any actions that revel the secret. Your communications are not safe, and while what you communicate might make you the target of an investigation (if you're an appealing enough target), the communications will not be directly used against you in court.

EDIT:
There is a third option, that your communication is being stored until the encryption algorithm is broken or computation reaches a point where brute force is possible (quantum computers). Long term storage of encrypted communication is only economically feasible for a small subset of all encrypted communication, so it's only a concern for targeted individuals where the communication will be relevant to the state decades from now.
How to get company's FB page back which was moved to BusinessManager of hackers?
I represent a FB based news platform named "The Indian Feed" (https://www.facebook.com/theindianfeed/) and as I write this, we are on verge of losing our hard work of 3 years and half a million followers and most importantly the brand reputation.

We surfaced some three years back on Facebook with a motto to create an impact, determined to bring about a change we ourselves wanted to witness around us. Today, 'The Indian Feed' is a little more than 3 years old and we have an user base of around half a million. We also worked with reputed platforms like The Logical Indian, Indian Film Project, Josh Talks.

But Facebook handle of 'The Indian Feed' has been compromised by a group of hackers who are definitely up to no good. We're getting ransom texts from them as well. We're afraid they might as well post hate contents on the page to ruin its reputation.

The unauthorised persons have taken over control via FB business manager phishing and we are unable to get any help from anywhere. Currently, our team members are also the admin of the page but the business manager control is with the hackers who will surely remove all of us at any moment. Since the brand name and logo is trademarked to us we have temporarily got the page removed from Facebook which hopefully will get reverted if we withdraw our case.

Facebook is a platform which means everything to us ,we even quit our full time jobs to focus on "The Indian Feed" and now we are on verge of losing 3 years of our hard work, audience, credibility and the bonding which we developed over these years with Facebook. We also had a number of upcoming partnerships with many FB based platforms which will also get affected.

We have tried whatever we can, but failed to get any help. I request you to kindly help us in saving the brand by guiding us how to get the platform back.
There are use cases for it, just as there are use cases for any type of database. The biggest source of problems that so many of us ran into, was using MongoDB as the Swiss army knife for projects. At the end of the day, most data is relational, and should be put in a relational database. Otherwise, you'll end up running into roadblocks, and inefficient work arounds shoehorning in relational operations.
Generally a footgun is something that's designed in such a way as to be extremely likely to be used in a way that's going to cause problems for yourself.

Yes it's a play on shooting yourself in the foot, the idea is that you designed a gun designed to shoot yourself in the foot.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=footgun
How are you measuring bodyfat? I'm interested in tracking it, but seems tricky to do accurately.
>If you normally eat 3,000 calories/day, and cut it to 2,000 calories/day, you won't necessarily lose weight -- many people's metabolisms will simply slow down equivalently.

Kinda, sorta, not really. It's about eating under maintenance. What you "normally eat" is irrelevant; what matters is that you are eating less than you burn and that you're eating quality food. I have been in and around this stuff for decades and I have yet to see a person who counts calories (correctly) and eats the right stuff fail to lose weight. Typically your sort of attitude comes from those who only partially follow a diet and then complain that "nothing works" and "it must be genetic".

This is nonsense and you're doing more harm than good if you repeat this to people honestly trying to get healthy.
Note that if you have a .edu email, you can get a NYT sub for $1/wk.
MongoDB Ops Manager [1] (previously MMS) is also quite nice, it's between Atlas and do-it-yourself.

[1] https://www.mongodb.com/products/ops-manager
So her headaches should be resolved?

On the other hand, quitting her job might have done that alone ;)
If you meant the font choice for the general text of the website, than that's just whatever default font your web browser has chosen. In essence this website's code has not designated any font choice. So, whenever web browsers are not directed to use a certain font/typeface, they defer to their default font - usually some default system font. This has been the practice of web browsers since the very beginning of the web. As an example, for me on a windows 7 machine using chrome, it displays the font as Times New Roman; other browsers and OS combo might show different system fonts. I hope this helps!
Further to my other reply, I've just checked the intertubes, and found that Codd's paper "A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks" was published in 1970, and Dijkstra's "Go To Statement Considered Harmful" in 1968. So I think my fading memories of all this are accurate (for once!).
I'm one of Nintendo's biggest fans and I love that they focus on fun over tech. I spent around 120 hours in BoTW.

But... at least for one of their series I loved before, Metroid, the lack of VR will probably mean I won't play it.

Metroid Prime 1 and 2 are among my favorite games ever. They made me feel like I was on another planet better than any other game. But, a year or so ago I played Farpoint on PSVR. It's not a great game and the writing is horrible but the feeling of actually being on another world is unmatched. VR is like visiting the Grand Canyon vs seeing a picture of it. A picture does not give that awe inspiring sense of vastness, size, and presence. VR does. For that particular franchise a non VR Metroid will now be a huge let down from that experience for me.
A team of AI algorithms just crushed humans in Dota 2
My pet theory about Fermi’s paradox is that there was only ever a very brief moment in the history of our civilization where attempted contact was politically and socially viable.

Think about the Voyager project right now. Assembling a rep sample of all of human existence onto a single golden record and including the instructions to decode it in math.

This. Could. Never. Happen. Today.

No one could agree on what to include or exclude or how to execute it. There was an incredibly brief window of opportunity where we had the technology and the social capacity to reach out to interstellar neighbors.

There are tons of other civilizations close by us. They just missed that very tiny window of a chance to say hello.
I don't know who to believe --- are there good, definitive references for either of you?
After you get asked for the umpteenth time what church you go to, it's easy to get outed as the Company Heathen.

After not going to the company picnic over the course of few years (BBQ) it's easy to get outed as the Company Vegetarian.

And then, because it is Grand Rapids, and the corporate world is very different from the local public university, you pretty much get shunned. They won't make your life completely miserable, but you will feel the affects of being an permanent outsider.

YMMV, but I was batting 2 for 2 and have stories from others. I'm sure there are some good employers around.
Wow, just made a crazy realization. A while back I was downtown with my 5yo kid, and we were by the bus stop right next to this building (You can actually see the bus stop in the picture). The bus was late, and my kid was hyper, and he tried going through the revolving doors. They were locked, no big deal. After a while, he tried going through the doors again. At this point, three security guards with ballistic vests come busting out of the door with their hands on their holsters, and chewed me out for letting him play near the door.

I know my way around the security industry. These weren't normal security guards that get paid to watch cctv and call the real cops. They don't give those guys guns or ballistic vests. To me it was completely bizarre that a telecom building would have that sort of security. Now it all makes sense. I actually wouldn't be surprised if they were actually military in disguise.
Nice idea, your site a good start but I have a few small recommendations.
* I would like to see the recorded date a little more prominent.
* It would be very nice to show the talk description in the search result rather then having to click "watch" to read it.
* I don't care how many views the video had but I do care about the number of comments and likes.
If I’m being totally honest: probably because I like trying new things and this is fun. I could retroactively justify this with stories about HGH, general alertness, longevity, health, improved eating patterns, but I’d probably be lying to myself. It’s a challenge that’s nicely orthogonal to the rest of my routine, so it’s fun.

Plus some people I trust said it was “good for your health”, so I didn’t bother to look further and just took their word for it.