skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't care to figure out if this complicates any solution schema, but your Lemma 1 is wrong. If I can see 8 statues, then my friend can see anywhere from 12 to 20 statues --- at no point does the riddle say that we see 18 or 20 unique statues.

It's the imprecision in these sorts of riddles when told, but which expect extraordinary precision in the solver, that generally turns me off from the problem.
I salvaged a 2010-model MacBook Pro trackpad, soldered on some USB wires, and made it external. I was actually more interested in the keyboard, but discovered that I needed both because the USB controller is on the trackpad.

https://hawkwood.com/archives/743

Here's a closeup of the chips:

https://hawkwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/IMG_3578.JPG

CY8C24794: Converts SPI to USB. [1]

SST 25WF020: 2 MBit serial flash memory. [2]

BCM5974: Multi-touch controller. [2]

TI CD3238: Driving IC. [3]

[1] https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/333175-macbook-pros-...

[2] https://appleinsider.com/articles/10/07/29/teardown_of_apple...

[3] https://www.semisrael.com/blogs/technology/ti-touch-screen-c...
Tobacco Products, Abstract Art and General Adversarial Networks
For backups I understand. What I'm curious about is what is your setup that involves multiple computers. Is it one personal computer and one at work? Do you have multiple personal computers for some reason? Just curious about usage patterns that differ from my own.
>Academic scientists were less dismissive of the new study, in Nature Biotechnology. One leading CRISPR developer called it “well-done and credible,” “a cautionary note to the [genome-editing] community,” and consistent with other research showing that the DNA cuts that CRISPR makes, called double-stranded breaks, “can induce the types of genomic DNA rearrangements and deletions they report.” He asked not to be identified so as not to jeopardize business relationships with genome-editing companies.

no. no. no. no. that is not good for scientific integrity
This is why I'm an expat in the philippines.
These Three New Trends in Game Theory Could Be Part of the Next Big Blockchain
I've used this before - really nice library and an easy way of getting started without having to write so much custom code. Only down side is that of course it's still faster to hand-write a parser :)
Afaik equilibrium is a matter of at least vision and audition, is it not?
The Daniel Tiger Doctrine
>In general you get the perfect ratio of predators to herbivores to plants.

This is just flat out wrong. Both predator and prey animals starve to death all the time, often due to the impact they have on their environment but also due to a myriad other natural events. It's known as the predator-prey cycle and is a series of population booms and busts caused by over consumption and over population. Here's a video that gives a very basic explanation.

https://www.khanacademy.org/science/high-school-biology/hs-e...
I wouldn't object to that. I see the difference between "UK Government" and "British Government" as being academic.
My Summer of Crypto
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A series of three experiments to generate acceptable "fake" images from three training sets.
On a related note, I'm a bit annoyed by the attention people pay to rather boring realistic art. I'm actually conflicted about it, because on the other hand, a teenager investing his time and effert into a skill like this is awesome, and I do hope that he pursuits art later in life. But the pictures themselves...
Anything is possible. Most couldn't but I'm sure there is someone out there that could. Especially if they have a mentor with those skills.
Physics equations about balls falling are more accurate. The body and mind are good at guessing. That doesn't mean they are right about everything it guesses, especially models of cognition. Why bring up the the subconscious? How does that support anything?

> mostly the worst you can be taken advantage of is things like being tricked by an optical illusion

Imagine living your whole life under an optical illusion. That should at the very least, be a choice you can choose between.
Humans with issues in their vestibular system located in the ear can't really use their optical data streams to compensate. When you loose your gyros time to get a walking stick or a beautiful nurse to lean on.
Speaking from experience as a postdoc, we earn less for sure, but from what I can see a postdoc in the US earns about the same. In the rest of Europe things are a bit different. At the extreme end, in Zurich you might earn 100k CHF as a postdoc if you're lucky (but you pay 30EUR for a pizza). Even at really top-tier places like TUM, you're going to be on 35-40k EUR.

A typical professorial scale in the UK (most universities publish this information publicly) ranges from £60-120k.

You have to realise two things. First, that FAANG are crazy outliers. Second, that UK universities are publicly funded and with few exceptions, justifying six figure salaries from the taxpayer is difficult. A lot of professors make good money on the side by doing consulting.

I believe this is different in the US, as a lot of universities (like Stanford) have huge private endowments. I'm not sure how it works at places like Oxford where the university owns half the centre of town.

A senior engineer in London or a tech hub like Cambridge might make six figures, but that's after several years probably. For engineers, there are much higher salaries to be found elsewhere in Europe in places like Munich.
Kodak has quietly canceled its stupid (and very expensive) Bitcoin miner
Branded products having recipes on the label has been a marketing staple in America for a long time. Sometimes you could mail them for a little book of recipes all using that specific brand of oil/chocolate/flour/etc.. Quite a few "old family recipes" are something that Grandma got off of a Crisco tin.
> My claim is simply that if the aliens have any sense at all they will choose the first option.

Does Homo economicus really exist? And even if it did, the ends optimized for are chosen subjectively, aren't they? If the aliens' goal is to possess the original fsvo original, that's their business. Just as it is the vendor's business to set the price of the original at $Y at a price of $X.

AFAICT you introduce "... as a bundle of atoms ..." here. Are you proposing that rather that to "actually ship" original or copy, rather than packaging up the original carefully to keep it intact on its journey, you ship a dust that the buyer can reassemble, IKEA-style ("Interstellar Kamprad")? (Even still, they may decide that destroying the original in this way is worth the price premium you're demanding above destroying the atomically-identical copy; who's to say?)

Finally, there is some circularity in you asking $X rather than $Y, Y >> X in this case -- if you don't see the difference yourself, why would you have priced them so differently, instead of charging either $X for both or $Y for both, and then randomly choosing to send the copy or the original at that price? For instance, "Because that is the price they are willing to pay? Because that is the price the market will bear?" involve some assumptions about your a priori market knowledge.
Love Dynalist for notes and todos.

Two things I dislike though, 1) as far as I can tell the dates/times can't trigger notifications. 2) the paid plan is expensive.. they give so much away for free, but then charge a lot for seemingly little. A $3/m tier is a good price point imo for a todo app. Right now it costs basically the same as Netflix..
Do you mean `git branch --contains` or `git branch -vv`? There are many options to `git branch` that cause Git to be very slow.

The commit-graph feature in general will make these faster by reducing time spent parsing commits. You can compute a commit-graph right now if you have Git 2.18 installed: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/devops/2018/06/25/superchar...

Generation numbers will make these operations much faster in Git 2.19. Here are the related commits:

`git branch --contains`: https://github.com/git/git/commit/f9b8908b85247ef60001a683c2...

`git tag --contains`: https://github.com/git/git/commit/819807b33f820dc17d96f04374...
The terms are used interchangeably.

Nothing like this would ever described as "English". Yet Scottish people sometimes complain when things aren't described as "Scottish". I don't really know why. It might have something to do with football. England have a successful national team but Scotland don't. I'm English and wish we played as Great Britain, though.
Data over Code
The fact that we want blockchain to solve every problem is a problem
I like new age music while I work. Tangerine Dream, Andreas Vollenweider, Vangelis, etc.
Unless they want to purchase the authority of the original.
It's questioning the ethics of lying, not the production advantages of being unethical.

The two of you have different priorities. You are both right and both wrong.

It's not really the kind of thing that requires a citation. However it's trivial to Google and see there are a whole range of opinions on the matter.
A Sense of Discovery: How the Immune System Works with the Brain
Slightly related good man/woman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czgOWmtGVGs
There is an obvious model which can be for profit but bakes in user ownership and control: cooperatives.

There is plenty of work being done on this area in online spaces - the platform cooperative movement. I wonder if it a major failure of this movement in terms of visibility that this wasn't their go to model.
What indicates that Interstellar travel requires a technological level that includes arbitrary transmutation? It seems to me travelling these distances is much simpler, it basically just requires current technology plus organisations that can hold together for more than a century or so. If you take the only known civilisation as an example: Ever since the invention of atomic bombs we have the propulsion part of what's required to go to ~40% the speed of light (or ~20% and then break). The most difficult challenge yet to overcome would probably be the front shield (at relativistic speeds, space dust can really mess things up), but that seems far from unsolvable. The main thing missing is political will to take the required risks. We were well on a path to such a machine in the 60ies, what failed was mainly politics in the two organisations large and advanced enough to do it (USGov/UdSSR).
Yeah odd it's as if different people have different sensibilities and my experience with trackpoints has no influence on yours and the other way around. How surprising.
as far as I know only in one brand of cigarette. it was a particularly hazardous form of as estos. ironic since it was marketed as being safest healthiest cigarette.
So if I'm a TSA agent and being sued for accidentally punching someone in the face (e.g. I tripped), I guess now it's a worthwhile defense to claim I did it intentionally and with utmost malice.
I just rsync my home directory and re-run the nix installer.

Setting up my mac is a matter of letting things run overnight mostly (the rsync primarily).

Then chsh to zsh and log in/out and bam, back in business. I put all my apps in ~/Applications as well or as often as I can. I think screen flow is the only app that I need to install, but that is a bit of a one off and not often used so no big deal.
I plan to use it for much more than just city names, specifically Chinese-language lyrics/subtitles/Bible/menus for Pingtype. I could also use it to speed up the word spacing, which does a lot of dictionary searching.

https://pingtype.github.io

It's really hard to type Chinese. But that means there's no typos in the query! Therefore fuzzy searching isn't as important.
I think you're definitely a special case. For me the MacBook touchpad is my favorite input method, better than even a mouse -- because it's very precise, and the gestures are very handy!

Generally, most people are very fond of mac touchpads.

So, I'd say from a linux strategic perspective, or the perspectie of the greater good, the answer is yes!
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There is a difference, it's not the original. And that's in an authority chain of custody human sense.

To ignore that would ignore the change of things over time in the meeting associated with them. Whoever has the original is the authority on the state of the original, the copies are copies derived from that Authority. They have context in meaning only because of that original.

Whoever owns that, owns the culture and the story behind the original. That is something one can purchase and it does have value even though there are no physical differences. The original will diverge from the copies if anything just because how it's capped and where it exists in the universe.

Say there was a pan galactic radiation blast of some kind. And the original. Slightly contaminated. That's part of its history now, the copies wouldn't have been similarly tainted. Just one example.

People value stories, and we work to maintain them in their continuity. That is what the original represents. It can be purchased it does have value. This is not a physical thing.
Check out the book, "Turning the Mind into an Ally" by Sakyong Mipham. I used the techniques in that book to silence those random, erratic thoughts. I fall asleep within a minute of hitting the pillow now.
That thread is not about money laundering, and it's two years old.
'Hacked' while experimenting with AWS, these scripts will help you
Totally with you on that. The connection between football and politics is just really unpleasant to me. Nationalist politicians understand that too which is why they tried so hard to block a "British" football team entering the Olympics.

They'd rather divide us than unite us.

I always loved the "EU" team in golf for the same reason.
> Human lifespan has increased since ancient times, but not by that much.

This graph suggests that a 20-year-old in 1850 would on average expect to live another 40 years, while a 20-year-old in 2015 would expect to live another 60 years: https://ourworldindata.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Life-e...

That's an increase of 50%, which I would say is remarkable.

Would people in ancient times have lived significantly longer than people in 1850? If not, human lifespan has increased a great deal since ancient times.
Have you tried sending money internationally with any reliability? Randomly getting shut down by PayPal, waiting for insane amounts of time before normal bank transfers get through, etc. Even if you completely ignore any other aspect of it, this is a legitimate use case that works well.
Check out the top post on EthTrader, it's about Sir Isaac Newton losing money in a scam. HN is not the only ones with this opinion

https://www.reddit.com/r/ethtrader/comments/8zamjw/sir_isaac...
The rise of the robochef
To each their own. I far prefer my UX at the cost of RAM. I agree, there are a lot of abstractions in languages which leads to this bloat, but do I think we'd have better user experiences if everyone write perfectly efficient assembly? I don't, fwiw. Do you?

I know you're not suggesting everything needs to be perfect. We just have different lines we draw where our UX outweighs things like RAM or disk space. For me, if it gives a great UX, 75MB is a tiny fraction of my RAM, I'd gladly pay it.

Besides, I'm only going to have one copy of this thing running. If it was 75MBx25 or something then I'd be concerned, but 75x1? meh.
UIengine 1.0 released: A workbench for UI-driven development
Yes, this is warmed over when the Farnborough Airshow is on every couple of years. It doesn't change that the economics won't be there and we won't even be flying planes (never mind rockets) if we have a hard Brexit.
After 10 years of coaching youth sports and observing parents, I think this has something to do with 'mirror neurons', the ability of our brain to watch, learn from and empathize with others. Just like you have an immersive effect with a sci-fi movie and empathize with the characters and feel their plights, so do sports fans. When it's your kid playing of course, it's intensified. Of course, many are just straight up living vicariously through their kids.
> Don't mention the Armenian genocide.

What happens when you do? Do people just stop being nice to you or way more?
By "partially explains" I meant that if you spend money in this kind of thing, minor details that sometimes don't even end on the final cut, the costs can add up. I'm wondering to what extent the producers get good value for their money, or whether the Pareto principle applies here - is it possible to make something 80% as good for 20% of the cost, by focusing on the 20% that matters?

For an extreme example, think Transformers, where hundreds of millions and dollars can't save bad writing. Making things better at the screenplay level is probably much more cost-effective than spending millions in VFX (or, in this case, creating a full language where subtitled not-entirely-random gibberish would probably do)
While that's interesting, I'm not sure it's really proven, he mentions it in passing and gives a figure for only a single town, I suspect cherry picked. And I've been to Blackpool, I'm hardly surprised the life expectancy there isn't up to much...

I find the second graph here much more compelling, which shows across the country that there has been a steady improvement over time from 1841 to the present - https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsde...
This seems to the same text as the author's Reverse Engineering for Beginners (https://beginners.re/)

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=beginners.re
I would absolutely fund and support this project. It should be done. Personally I am fine with my touchpad experience right now on arch but it can be improved and it should be. These are the offerings we need to make linux more mainstream.
Kind of remind me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Merv_Griffin_Show_(Seinfel...
How to Use a Messaging App in Your Marketing Strategy
I'd recommend The Naked Scientists as well for the Science category.
Research Finds Predominance of Jordan Peterson Videos in YouTube's “Up Next”
Trump’s pick to lead energy technology program puzzles observers
Why does threadripper need to be competitive in the server space?

Edit: emphasis on threadripper, which is a consumer product.
Nanobrain – Software Troubleshooting in Seconds? Really?
Indeed. This is the easiest kind of "art" (I wouldn't even call it that, as art means something else to me). Just look around any portrait painting on YouTube, there's millions of them with this kid's same results.

Anyone can become a human copy machine with various simple methods. There's a reason why all of his pictures just look like a photograph with zero creativity. (The same reason why great painters stopped trying to achieve hyper-realism since~ van Gogh and the invention/popularization of the photographic camera...)
I read "over your property" as already implying that the airspace isn't your property.
wow, that's brutal. I've been looking at something similar through this outfit - https://www.globalrescue.com/ and now I'm not so sure if it's worth it or not.
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Not really, still working very hard to make it quite possible.

Guys, actually I made something really crappy/buggy. lol.

But it works and worth to check it out.

Appreciate your time.
Researchers couple artificial atom to acoustic resonator
In certain places yes, in others its kind of expected.
“Me before #strangeloop: I'm not a real programmer unless I know Haskell

Me after #strangeloop: I'm not a real programmer unless I knit”

https://twitter.com/adam_chal/status/914207020215042048
Chrome supports MHTML as an experimental feature. Visit chrome://flags/#save-page-as-mhtml in Chrome to enable it.

I wish there was an agreed-upon standard format that had cross-browser support.
Formal reasoning about the security of AWS [pdf]
And I do actually remember the amazement in the community when she stayed dead, rather than springing back to life as though it had never happened in the next episode.
But doing it intentionally, whether as a triggered booby trap or an aimed shot, and taking down a drone would likely still be illegal if shooting a drone down with a gun is illegal.

I can’t remember for sure whether it is illegal to do so over your property, but I think it is.
Delivery drones can learn to see and dodge obstacles in-flight
The Sci-Fi Sex Scene That Changed My Life
Yes! Thank you - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube_Poop
How do you know who starts as the "low" counter and who's the "high" counter?
While it makes sense to give attention to details, I see too much detail put into things without any effect on the result. Movies are primarily about good acting and scripts. One could slash budget significantly and still have the same final product. I wonder how much effort studios do in this space.

One example - GoT - their costumes have details ie in sewing that you can only see when somebody takes a camera and shoots it up close on purpose. It will never be visible in show, not even in 4k and huge screens.

Shows/movies moved past realism with how good dress/weapons/decorations looked in the past. If you visit any medieval castle, the stuff for kings and queens pales with what even mediocre TV shows can produce.
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No, they require your personal information according to the KYC rules defined by MangoPay: https://docs.mangopay.com/guide/kyc

As a small-time donor, I had to give them the info listed there under "Light Authentification". People who give or receive more have to submit copies of their passport or governmental ID .
Hackernews refuses to disappoint.

I bet the comments would have be less sceptical if it was about an 11 year old Nigerian cyber fraudster.

Sorry lads, positive stuff comes out from my country from time to time. Just don't get too upset when it makes Hackernews.

Personally, I'd like to see comments on how such a young and extraordinary talent from a very humble background (even by Nigerian standards) can develop to become a much more rounded artist.

I'm not interested in prejudiced minds questioning the legitimacy of my young and talented compatriot.
Feynman has a similar dicussion starting from the P=nkT equation: http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_40.html
>It's a good joke, but kind of a mediocre parable. The thing is, I don't think anyone would disagree that, all else being equal, living in a small fishing village, sleeping late, etc., would be better if you were a millionaire.

That's not the meaning of the parable though.

The meaning is that you can enjoy such things without being a millionaire.

Tons of people have been sold a rat-race stressful life in "careers", when they can achieve their ultimate goals with much more modest means (and in less stressful occupations).