skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> . In 1949, a researcher named Fred R. Klenner claimed to have found that high doses of vitamin-C could ward off the virus.

This was referenced in an episode of the tv show House

> the mass global uptake afterwards have almost rendered the virus extinct.

This is one of the things India (and from what I've heard, Pakistan) did really well. Every year around vaccination time (there used to be two doses taken around a month apart) there used to be almost propaganda like mass advertisements, camps, etc. When I was a kid I knew of a handful of older people that had polio; a kid born today is unlikely to meet someone with polio. Unfortunately, a very small minority is trying to argue that polio vaccination is a conspiracy by [pharma companies | government | rich people] :(
One of the things promised about Tether was full audits. And here we are now with nary an audit.

I'm surprised so many on here are defending or semi-defending Tether. All of this smells of manipulation yet people on here seem to be defending them.

I'm not an expert on any of this but if there's been no credible excuse for not having an audit, and part of the whole attractiveness initially of Tether was "full audits" how can you possibly continue to trust them unless you have significant money sunk into it?
> But I don't considered Pragmatism to be a philosophy, it is a rejection of principles on principle so it is a dead-end.

Huh? Philosophy books all list Pragmatism as a major philosophy, and it is far more elaborate than that. "Shut up and calculate" is not at all what the philosophies of Dewey, Peirce and James are about, it is far more elaborate.

>By holding philosophy in disdain and not studying it the physicists leave themselves vulnerable (due to ignorance) and absorb the bad philosophies I mentioned by osmosis.

I am referring to how they actually practice science, not their possibly quite inaccurate philosophical explanations of what they are doing. I am sure you are familiar with the phenomenon of someone loudly claiming they follow a certain set of principles, but then when you observe them you see they are actually doing something quite different.

What I am saying is that if you observe how scientists actually do science, it fits the philosophical principles of Pragmatism, whether the scientists realize it or not. And I am saying that as someone with a background in both the sciences and philosophy.
Youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYN1apQHPx0&feature=youtu.be
This might be true, but also AFAIK a new attack on otherwise secure VPNs: being able to predict visited sites based on bits up/down as well as traffic rate.
Try a sauna, it realy works.
FDR often leaned on people's arms to get support so he could appear to be walking or standing. In this video he does it too.
Teletext still lives on in Sweden despite the digital switchover. As late as last year, 20% of the adult population used it daily[0]

It's a very popular way to get the latest live goal-by-goal sports scores. During the current World Cup I've seen people access "TextTV" as it's called on their smartphones in pubs...

If you aren't at a TV it's served online on sites like https://www.svt.se/svttext/tv/pages/100.html or even styled third-party mirrors like https://texttv.nu and there are iOS/Android apps

[0]http://pejl.svt.se/nu-slutar-mr-text-tv/
Yes but no begginer is going to buy IDA. This would be much better with Radare2.
Hey there Scott!

I just wanted to say I wrote a student-paper on quantum computational complexity last year and I felt like your papers made up almost 90% of my references. Thank you for making my learning about the subject possible!

On to my question: I'm working on a capstone project right now that's using quantum computing to create a small video-game. I'm using the 5-qubit quantum experience from IBM and I was wondering if you had any cool ideas/suggestions for small game experiences that could use actual quantum computing resources to teach people about the properties of quantum mechanics?

Thanks again for all your work in understanding the quantum world, Scott.
i think there was an article a while ago about the OSM community not liking the idea of bots and automation, and how it’s a big problem for people “graffitiing” the maps because it’s manual effort to reset
But if you look at great scientists/inventors, isn't it true that they are generally making their biggest discovery before the age of 30?
Retaining what I learn through Spaced Repetition Software https://trevordmiller.com/blog/spaced-repetition-software
There are free versions though..
If you're not just trolling, you should be aware that many of us who choose to have tattoos or vape would consider it a positive if those choices kept people with beliefs like your own far away from us.
Uh, for 90nm you should be in the 4-digit range for a hand full of prototypes.
Trying to fully understand a living person is as futile as trying to pin down a river so you can dissect it.

That is, a person is capable of changing like the flow of a river, and while you can analyze who they were in the past, and -- if they're alive -- make predictions about who they will be in the future based on their past, or draw conclusions based on similarities with other people's paths, you can never truly know something that is always capable of change at any time.

But you can know them well enough. Is that frightening, depressing or liberating?

To better understand someone you have to empathize;
to better empathize you have to understand them.
Fair enough. This is just what I've heard second-hand, so I definitely don't have any data to back it up. I may try it out.
> we've definitely noticed an improvement in our disagreements

You disagree more? Or in the cases were you disagree, the reason is more a fundamental difference of opinion, rather than a misunderstanding?
> it's largely irrelevant

Maybe not. Wouldn't you prefer a candidate who did prep work before an interview rather that one who chose to wing it?
Yeah, it was shocking in ways. I managed to navigate it pretty well though. I laughed and made them laugh a lot.
Verilog was heavily influenced by ABEL, and is now the predominant HDL in many places.
Illegality puts up many barriers to trying heroin - thanksfiully. One has to deal with unknown, unsavory characters met through personal connection, or asking strangers in random places or dangerous areas of town.

I assume the middle ground will be a dispensary filled with treatment suggestions.
> Apple leadership basically assumed Google would screw them over sooner or later if they could.

This should be the default assumption for any relationship - doubly so when corporations or big $$ is involved. That's why we have legal paperwork even for inter-family agreements - your Mom & Pop may love you now but in 20y when dementia sets it, that may be out the window (or Mom dies, Pop remarries and Step-Mom hates your guts, etc etc).
This will never, ever happen, so why ponder it?
Trinity did it first in The Matrix
I admire your determination to start a scientific career at age sixty! I once faced the "converse" problem---how to start doing research at age 14 or 15, before I'd found any mentor to help me---and it was one of the great revelations of my life that, at least in theoretical fields, the barriers standing in the way are more internal than external. So long as you have the time, and enough income to live off, you can start reading textbooks and arXiv papers. You can email the authors your questions. You can go to conferences, with or sometimes without registering (just don't tell anyone I said so ;-) ). You can sit in on classes at a nearby university (ask the professor; most are fine with it). You can talk to the professors. You can start working on a problem that interests you. If you get somewhere, you can write it up and submit it to a conference or journal. You can offer your services as a research assistant. The gates are open.

Of course there's a chicken-and-egg problem here, where the stronger your research record, the more busy researchers will want to talk to you, and the more they'll talk to you, the stronger you'll be able to make your record. Just like with dating or anything else, I guess, it does take persistence to break this cycle. :-)

And of course, you'll need to be considerate of people's time, and you'll need to decline to take it personally if some people are too busy to answer you. Just plow ahead and ask others.

Lastly, let me strongly suggest finding some other people who started their research careers later in life, and asking their advice. They'll surely be able to think of things I didn't!
Comcast Blames Widespread Service Outage on Cut Fiber Lines
Isn’t beam still slow for computations? I envisioned doing something with NIF’s, rustler and rust to break out anything computationally intensive.

Perhaps jvm is still a better purpose tool due to this.
I really have a hard time coming up with a field outside of pro sports that is more meritocratic than tech. The assault on that in the name of "diversity" is morally repulsive, and I'll be very happy to see racial discrimination outlawed.
Yes, I would say that I perceive exactly the phenomenon described in the article. People want to believe in a outsider like a genius kid or autistic savant who has a special insight which escapes those trapped within the standard point of view.

Not that people really 'believe' this logically... It's more like a tabloid-quality news story trope.
See this previous answer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17428675
Lots of solar power, too, and lightsails and magsails have more to work with.

(I was thinking of free-space skyhooks, exchanging momentum between inbound and outbound trips, but the ones for planets are also cool. Just harder when the planet is heavy like Earth and Venus.)
“So if you’re not going to make any money on ads, you may as well open-source your app.”

Great point!
The main problem with nicotine is that it increases your risk for heart disease. It’s also somewhat carcinogenic.
Death?

Still in use in Europe. I know it hasn't had much widespread use in the US.

The limited format makes it very good for displaying only relevant information. Once fully loaded, it's faster then going to the website of the program, or just to receive e.g. sport outcomes.
Plexus, high-performance haptic gloves for AR and VR
Rivers don't tend to change their flow suddenly or unpredictably, though, and I don't believe people's personalities or opinions do either. Change in both tends to be gradual in the short term, even if diverse over the long term, and can be understood by studying the environment in which flow occurs.
Sorry to hear that, I might be able to help. I work on Gmail. DM me the details on twitter @prlambert (or if you gain email access prl@google.com).
Do you mean all the possible solutions to a problem when you say 'answer space' ?
I agree. You can know them well-enough for practical purposes; sometimes they will surprise you.

As an aside, I think the antonym of "lonely" is "understood", and when you empathize with someone, you put yourself in their position and feel understood, and thus less lonely.

A person can feel lonely in a crowd
but not alone when their self is understood
even when alone in a cell
made of all (flesh, concrete or abstract)
that barriers can be built of.
I've been looking for a job and when I talk to some executive I'll look them up and like you noted... nothing but a LinkedIn profile and a short one at that.
“Hashtable: like an array but instead of an index you can set arbitrary keys for each value.”

This sounds like a gross over simplification of what a Hashtable really is underneath the covers.

Any candidate that shows up with that definition better be ready to dive in on what it really is and when you’d want to use it.
Irony. HTTPS deployment in China is going very ... not bad.

First and second tier websites already switched it on long ago. Because in China we had an ancient tradition for ISPs to sniff and modify user's traffic to (for example) inject their own affiliation codes to the web request. Those websites hates it of course.
I like the topic of clock synchronization, so I read the paper. It's about three ideas:

1. "Coded probes," or a group of temporally structured packets that are robust against random queuing delays and timestamping noise. The paper proposes that the sender sends two packets with a fixed time interval so if the receiver gets some other interval this data pair must have been corrupted. I didn't find any argument on why the scheme is good at identifying noise points besides a note about a 4-5x improvement. I don't think this scheme necessarily identifies all noise points but it should be able to eliminate some of the true positive noise points because of the temporal constraint. More temporally sophisicated structures may have even better performance at this task.

2. So they collected a bunch of the coded probes and plotted them and found out it somehow looked like the classic plot of the linear SVM, or actually the error model of the measurement scheme being a stable lower bound of transmission time plus a positive somewhat exponentially distributed error. They use a SVM to identify the lower bound because the data fits the SVM perfectly. I think more sophisticated models can also apply here given proper probabilistic accounting of the error model.

3. Cooperative network synchronization. In essence getting better accuracy by averaging several clocks but in a network you can't average them directly so it becomes message-passing on a probabilistic graphical model. As an analogy think of a network of springs, and the network is optimized/converged when all springs are at their lowest energy levels.
I think a reasonable explanation may be that other customers possibly have come to unknowingly rely on some of the bugs. Shipping a fix of all the bugs could actually break their code!
Yeah I'm reading these comments and getting a good laugh.
Or spray dead bee pheromone on the thieves.
Fun fact: they do! https://github.com/osmlab/appledata

e.g. https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-au/2018-May/0...

> * I work for Apple’s Maps team. We are interested in doing some fixes and improvements to inland water features in Australia on OSM, such as adding and improving geometry of polygons for lakes and wide rivers, fixing broken relations, and correcting alignment issues for inland features when they meet the coast.*

> Atlas [1], a tool Apple created for querying, visualizing, and storing OpenStreetMap data.

> Data Improvement Projects [2] being worked on by the Apple Data Team.

> Building Footprint Data [3] that Apple is sharing.

[1]: https://github.com/osmlab/atlas

[2]: https://github.com/osmlab/appledata/issues

[3]: https://github.com/osmlab/appledata/blob/master/BUILDINGS.md
I should add, professors who advise you to go to graduate school have a financial incentive for you to go to grad school if either 1) you will be their students (you are a means for them to get grant money and it helps inflate their credentials, not to mention you will be their cheap labor) or 2) they are currently your professor in undergrad or taught you previously (you going to graduate school also helps up their credentials).

Even barring these possibilities, professors who have tenure or tenure track positions just by virtue of statistics are extremely lucky: many smart people write their theses and do substantial work, but there are a small number of actual positions relative to the number of PhD's awarded. For example, in Physics, I think there are may be dozens of openings in the US every year while there are thousands of newly minted PhD's per year, and the majority of good positions as you can imagine go to graduates from a handful (O(1) number) of schools, anything below the top 10 is significantly less well poised for tenure track professorships. Thus, you have to take a professor's advice with a grain of salt, for they're potentially influenced by survivorship bias.
ethtool -T eth0

will show if you have a PTP support for your NIC.
The internet is a dark place in some corners.
This is an interesting fact that I did not know.
That would be an access control list (ACL). Find all the matching rules then process them top to bottom keeping track of whether access to the specific resource is allowed or not. Runtime is O(n) where n is the number of rules. There could be improvements but this is pretty straight-forward.
I had clients in the early 2000s with 1.9% rates, as well as one with 2.5% and no fixed per-transaction fee, and these were small mom-and-pop businesses - the Targets, Costcos, Apples, etc. of the world likely go way lower on volume.

Stripe's selling point was never low fees. It was "you can be up and accepting cards in just a few minutes of coding", and that was well worth paying an extra percent or so.
Isn't that the stereotype for mathematicians? Not so much about scientists and inventors, I think.
Several pages on that site refer to an 'EDB' and 'IDB'. What do they mean?
Yes, I suppose this is similar to how copying an existing product is always easier than coming up with a new product. After the point where you have the user's manual, you're basically copying an existing product.
USB 3.1 pushes data at 10Gbps. Do you have any idea how much black magic it takes to do that?

Try writing an FPGA SDRAM controller that reliably operates across frequency, voltage, and temperature at 150 MHz. It is doable but a challenge with the common xilinx boards that are sold to hobbyists for $80. If you can do that, then think about designing a circuit which operates 20 times faster, and negotiates a protocol which is 100 times more complex than what an SDRAM controller has to do.
How does Google make it easy to find and navigate the train system?

Don't most people look for directions from a to b, by a certain mode? I've extensively used both Google and Apple maps for this and found very little difference between the two when doing this. I tend to use Google more when traveling because it supports more cities, but when I use Apple Maps in a supported city, I find it tends to give more useful information (like what line to catch, or how many stops) easier.
I believe that's when there aren't too many middlemen in the way or too many people driving up the cost of your materials when you can source them better at a different stage in the processing route. Logistics companies are middlemen. Vendors are middlemen.

Space X for example has a high degree of vertical integration, maybe not to the point of smelting their own raw materials but much higher than ULA. In the past it may have made sense given the environment.
Haskell: Smart constructors that cannot fail
GM's doing good stuff nowadays. Don't lump them in with FCA product.
You, in fact, conflated the original question with a essentialized, worst case scenario that shoehorns a multivariate determination into a binary proposition. There are, after all, other methods of smoking secession beyond nicotene alternatives.

In fact, there are some methods of quitting an addictive substance that work by actually stopping the ingestion of the addictive substance in the first place.

Nicotene alternatives are akin to advertisers recommending you to take a break from Facebook when it's too overwhelming, instead of just deleting your account entirely, like a person with self control and agency might do when products and services continually make you regret ever starting to use them in the first place.
I made this a few years ago. It's pretty much all of Super Mario Bros. in one image: https://i.imgur.com/g6JQ2WV.png / https://twitter.com/Doomlaser/status/1004802864433147904

I want to do more of these and experiment with training generative neural nets on that kind of thing when I get the chance.
> We still did business with him because you cant argue with the quality of goods he brought.

True but for a sec there my mind was arguing with lack of morals on your part. Since your whole post is somewhat American doing business with Chinese individual, I felt disgust how low some of us (like Obama bowing to Chinese President to almost clean the floor) will fell just to grab ONE MORE buck :(
The Quality of talks at PyOhio is beyond belief
1. Simple to use pod system eliminated the headache of using DIY devices where you buy the e-liquid, cartridge, and battery separately and fill your own cartridges.

2. Salt-based nicotine provides increased nicotine absorption and juul patented that. It's literally more addictive.

3. It blew the competition out if the water. The other ecig devices offered at convenience stores were underpowered, poor performing, and obviously low effort.

4. Distribution. Getting into convenience stores and gas stations was pivotal to their success but arguably the product quality drove distribution.

5. The device is sexy looking. It's a fashion statement.
“I have friends who are "marijuana addicts", who are pretty horrible to be around when they're not stoned, but fine when they are.”
Change the word “stoned” to “have-had-coffee-at-least-in-the-morning” and you would be describing a large percentage of the population. It’s interesting which addictions are stigmatized and which ones are normalized.
Foldable Surface render based on patents
You can use Lucky without a database, but if you use one, Postgres is the only support database.

You don't need node or yarn if you are using API mode. You can generate an API only app with `lucky init <app-name> --api`

The process manager is used to start the watcher process. You can use Lucky without it by running `lucky watch` instead of `lucky dev`, but using the process manager is nice because you can also run asset compilation, job queues and whatever other processes you app needs to run.

Lucky can be stripped down further still, but the documentation focuses on the more opinionated route
That isn't freedom - it isn't even self determination as they are still bound to the local environment and to have any chance of surviving in the wilderness individually without later innovations basically requires technology from the scope.

Even if Ted's mad dream was somehow achieved through mail-bombing (talk about insanity - at least Charles Manson's plan had the remote potential to start a race war if the frame up kept on succeeding and a cycle of violence was kicked off.) we'd be right back to where we started in rebuilding technology from scratch or worse yet scavenging it to survive better.

Anyone in an actual survival situation knows that such concepts are claptrap as they'd take any unsporting advantage to survive and use up irreplaceable resources to do so. Because your life is not a sport. If you need to make multiple life or death decisions as part of your lifestyle you are clearly doing something very wrong.
Brave browser begins controversial ad repeal-and-replace tests
I'm glad you were pleasantly surprised. Feel free to hop on https://gitter.im/luckyframework/Lobby if you have any questions or comments!
Wordstar – a writer’s word processor
I have encountered a few folks older than me whose bodies were unfortunately twisted by polio. It didn't stop them but it did present a significant and unfortunate impediment.

Vaccinate your children.
It was very successful, but it died after a decade or so.

Perhaps not entirely. We had one lab session dedicated to it during my junior year in college. That was ten years ago but apparently they haven't changed that[0] (course description in english at the bottom of the page).

[0] http://studia.elka.pw.edu.pl/pl/18L/s/eres/eres/wwersje$.sta...
Apple maps is installed by default on iOS AND is the default mapping app when you tap an address - and you CAN'T change that default on iOS. Given that, their usage numbers aren't as impressive as all that.
You got almost the exact wrong impression. You're correct that my comment was a bit derisive, but the derision was aimed at myself. Don Knuth is a giant in our field.

Also thanks for the reference.
It's all in the docs for DifferentialEquations.jl. For example, here's the page for the first order ODE solvers: http://docs.juliadiffeq.org/latest/solvers/ode_solve.html .