skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know about him, but that describes me pretty well. As I've gotten older, I've been getting much more satisfaction out of doing things other than pursuing relationships. At this point, I just don't even care anymore. Well, okay, there's always going to be a shred of me that will think "what if" with some women that come in to my life, but I realize just how uncompromising I am and how that I will never change, and that trait really isn't fair to a partner in a relationship. If someone can accommodate me while I'm able to accommodate for them, then sure.

But until that happens, I'm really just fine being who I am and not being fraudulent by acting nice to keep the favor of family and friends.
Your baseband in your phone is likely backdoored, and your media is friendly to war efforts, and owned by oligarchs with connections to the military-industrial-Congressional complex.

Awful as they may be, at least N.K. has the balls to be honest about it...
Remains of the murdered Romanovs 'authentic'
Well, the blind and sight-impaired have been walking (and running) for years, so I'd vote "yes".

Even people with impressive visual hallucinations are still capable of walking.

That said, vertigo (where your eyes and your inner ear are in violent disagreement as to whether you are moving) can impair movement, though you can grow accustomed to the "disagreement".
They just haven't developed their intelligence services well enough to send an FBI equivalent when someone looks up "bomb making" digitally, give em time.
Extended data figure 1h is testing the optimum pulse settings for the electroporation machine. There is a well-known trade-off between efficiency and viability (too small a pulse and no DNA is transferred into cells, too strong a pulse and the cells are destroyed). The efficiency increase at lower viability cannot be attributed to pre-existing mutants, because they're assaying for the presence of a GFP transgene inserted by homology-directed repair, not indels in general.
I'd say Transformers did a pretty good job of doing what it set out to do (make money) even if you and I don't care for it :-)

Certainly there are good "little" movies that get made on a relative shoestring. And even more shorts and arthouse fare. And modern video equipment makes it a lot easier to mostly use natural lighting and the like.

That said, mainstream TV and movies have made most of our standards pretty high. I'm always somewhat amazed by how much gear gets brought in by a video crew to shoot a few minutes of talking heads to use on a company web site.
The code being open-source accomplishes very little in this case. It's what they do with your data after they get it that matters. Data is the new oil, and if a for-profit company can get it, rest assured they will use or sell it.
I disagree entirely. The “people only lived to 30” notion is based on a misunderstanding about infant mortality rates which were massive. In the 1950s my nephew with CF would’ve had a life expectancy of weeks. In the modern day, he may very well live a full life.

Stephen Pinker, while I disagree with him on a lot of things, has a couple of books that are essentially collections of every way that we can quantifiable show that the present is a better place to live than the past.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enlightenment_Now
In the works? No. Planned? Yes. I've been playing around with kTLS/BearSSL but so far I haven't made any stride. PRs, my inbox, and the IRC channel are open, though!
If you look at the color of the top block, it's matching somewhere between 3 and 4. Botulism is avoided if the pH is under 4.6.

The test strip is sitting on 6 but it would have to be darker to have that high a pH.
My god, 1000+ pages. What a great submission though. I wonder what kind of things keep such people motivated to write one fuckin' thousand and eighty two pages about assembly!? This is nuts.
Fighting a war on two fronts did Germany in. Do some research on what contributed to that 20m and you’ll soon realize the number didn’t have to be nearly that high. Stalin was a political genius, but almost as atrocious as Hitler when it came to human rights
Orthanc server for medical imaging announces support of MySQL
> think Transformers, where hundreds of millions and dollars can't save bad writing

The box office result says otherwise.

(Note: I'm explicitly making an economical argument, not an artistic one, since that's what the thread focuses on.)
Show HN: Worklet editor – JSFiddle for audio DSP
Astronomers Discovered 12 New Moons Around Jupiter.  How
I did mention that async design was hard and bug prone, and that was not my point at all.

My point was that clocked design is such an orthodoxy that you can almost not find any information and more specifically methodologies to attack asynchronous H/W design problems.

To use an analogy, the vast majority of electronics is digital these days, because analog is darn hard and digital brings in discipline and guarantees but it doesn't mean the subject of analog electronics isn't explored just because it's hard.
Shit, I hope your data was encrypted
I'll take that into consideration, and my choice of words wasn't very good in that regard. Often, what they interrupt me with is not drivel to them. I still stand by the notion that not every interruption is worth my timely attention, as I would not expect any of these same people to care about anything I do or say, but what you said has been duly noted.
VirtualLink USB-C Alt Mode Announced: Standardized Connector for VR Headsets
In many places soldiers can be had for far far less than 80k. In Africa or Iraq, $5k can buy you a man with a gun to follow you around for a year.
Humans use multiple sensors together at one. Your inner ear is a great example. If you see a picture doing one thing, but your inner ear feels another, this is the senstation that causes motion sickness. I cannot find the source right now, but i recall being taught that research dating back to US airforce simulation training suggested that this might be a built in evolutionary function that is designed to make us throw up. The basic narrative being "I'm seeing something I'm not feeling, i must have eaten something that's poisoned me, i should throw up so i don't die".

Edit: As a side note, this is why I'm extremely skeptical of things like VR technology in general (as a person that owns a HTC Vive). I'm not sure we're going to be able to easily convince the human brain it's OK for different sensors to feel different things, and not result in us feeling sick.
How close are the renders to movie-accurate (that is, what's missing?)? Looking at e.g. [0], it seems to be missing a lot vs what is seen in the film. Are features missing compared to the original, were things missing from the scene description, or something else? The shorelines from screen stills in particular seem much more sophisticated [1].

[0] http://pharr.org/matt/blog/images/pbrt-moana-beach.jpg
[1] https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/moana/images/e/e3/How_Fa...
ProppyJS: Functional props composition for components (supports React and Vue)
The test shows a pH of 6 however.
Creator here, happy to answer any questions! Here's an example delay effect: https://dsp.audio/editor/QbQuSG8sMKsMnrqgf7NB/1

Please feel free to use the tool to prototype or show your creations around.

— Please note that the app runs only on Chrome > v66, for now, because Chrome is the only browser implementing the Audio Worklet[1] spec. Other browser will follow suit (hopefully) soon

[1] https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/12/audio-work...
All drones do use gyros - they couldn't remain level without having rotational awareness. Accelerometers are the sensors which are optional.

The earliest drones used actual model helicopter gyros, the current generation have those sensors soldered onto the control boards.
> the website does a poor job at showing what they were trying to influence.

Maybe they weren't trying to do that. I know it's uncommon these days, but maybe they just wanted to present the facts, and allow us to deduce whatever we wanted to deduce from them.
Why not just have one file per city name? Or use e.g. the first 2 characters of the city name as the hash, so that certain near misses later in the city name appear in the downloaded files.
Probably a nice tang from the lactic acid and the only sweetness would be residual from the vegetables.
I used to use macbooks exclusively, but for the last 2 years or so I have switched mostly to windows 10 because of work, and I hate it more two years later than I did when I started using it.

I am truly trapped. I will buy another macbook, I can't help myself. Even now I can feel myself justifying their flaws in order to propel myself towards the next model. There is no escape.
The SIGABA/ECM II Cipher Machine: “A Beautiful Idea” (2015) [pdf]
A lot of effort (and lots of time) can go into the development of a show or film. Yes, it can cost quite a bit of money in absolute terms to go through multiple rewrites, conceptual development, storyboards, screen tests, etc.--sometimes over the course of years--but it's still generally dirt cheap compared to the daily costs once you flip on the production switch.
Some distros don't offer a laptop-optimized build explicitly. But many times this is because the optimization is performed as an automated step during the installation process.

That said, some popular distros do offer laptop modes during install. Off the top of my head, I think Ubuntu and Gentoo do.
Discovery is pretty much impossible for anything with a lot of products, I think mainly because there's no way to account for someone's personal taste, a pretty intangible concept.

Trying to find actual hidden gems on Steam or iOS is a nightmare, to the point where I waste the time I set aside to play games because I'm looking for one instead. Same with Amazon, the best it can do is "people who bought this product also bought this other sort of related product."

I also agree that UI like Netflix currently has -- big giant vaguely descriptive rectangles that only fit a handful on screen at once -- make discovery super discouraging, since it becomes tedious to scroll through everything and find more info about it.
Building a 'camera calculator' with Vision and Tesseract OCR in iOS
the xps are some damn fine machines. we give them to c-levels here and i'm always super excited to work with them and super jealous when i have to give them away.
> fee-free instant money transfer. Banking, for such basic purposes, should be treated as a utility.

You're making it sound as though "being a utility" means "no fees". I cannot name any utility that is fee-free.
Here is how Securify detects unsafe calls in Ethereum smart contracts
iPhone front glass leak shows identical notches on 3 models for 2018
> it doesn't heat up like the MacBook and warm my lap

Yeah, but then a Macbook is inaudible under normal webbrowsing load. A typical Windows machine will be audibly loud even when doing literally nothing, much less gaming or other CPU/GPU intensive tasks. Touchpad aside, I'm not going back to Windows unless I can find a laptop that is quieter than a cat meowing for food.

As for the hinges, I have the exact opposite - no matter if Asus, Clevo or Compal, it's always the hinges which break in less than a year. With Macbooks, no problem in 3 years...
Interestingly, it is possible to learn to walk when you never had a vestibular system, although the gait is visibly distorted and when you know what you are looking for you can easily spot it. Those who suffer from CHARGE, and are left able to walk, can still do so despite sometimes entirely missing their vestibular system. But learning to walk with a vestibular system and then losing it later seems to be very, very difficult to recover from, if it is possible at all.
Or rely in Linux proper frigging LUKS drive encryption
PSEC2018: The meta-virtualization Layer of OpenEmbedded [video]
OxygenOS Open Beta with Google Lens Support for OnePlus 5 and OnePlus 5T
Sounds like your team would benefit from GVFS [1].

[1]: https://github.com/Microsoft/GVFS
From what I've read, those don't have the same feel as the keyboards used in the laptops and are definitely unrelated hardware. Since the keyboards are one of the "switched/repaired in < 5min parts" of (older) thinkpads, I don't get why there isn't just a case with an USB converter available. I would pay way to much for an authentic external Thinkpad keyboard. Nothing I have encountered so far feels comparable.
That book was awesome! It
Slackware, the oldest active Linux distro, turns 25
What impression you had probably depends on whether you read the Go mailing lists or not. All of my colleagues, myself included, had gotten the impression, who knows how, that Dep was official. We don't follow the Go lists.

The Dep situation is very similar to that of Eric S. Raymond's attempt at replacing the Linux kernel's config tool. Instead of presenting a design proposal and discussing it in public, he pretty much finished the project on his own, perhaps thinking that a working version would lead to adoption by users and thus forcing the kernel team to accept something users liked. Or perhaps he assumed he had clout in the Linux community, which of course he didn't. Either way, this kind of brute-forcing just leads to wasted work and resentment.
I think you talk out of pure envy, which is understandable, but people are generally interested in prodigies and nature's wonders, it's just the way things are. What matters is that the kid brings a lot of hope and joy to people.

And what comes to old people doing similarly amazing things, there are stories like that:
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/931295/OAP-84-paints-magni...
"...agriculture is not a clean cut-off."

Even today.

There's a lot of taper along the spectrum: hunting, foraging, gardening, farming, manufacturing.

Trees, fish, mushrooms...

Ditto non food stuffs.
I like ancient cultures too, the two I find interesting are:

In Egypt the dakhleh oasis has evidence of habitation for 200,000 years. I don't know if what's meant by habitation means it's always been human or generally hominid. But I think 200,000 years is quite recent for any hominids other than what we became to be around.

The other interesting thing is the situation of the San indigenous people of southern Africa region. They are supposedly a very old culture living in the area well over 100,000 years and even their DNA is unique compared to other African peoples. It's odd to think the Bantu, Zulu etc. are the "invaders" of the region, the new people in the area.
There’s almost no comparison in how willing people were to violate human rights in the past versus now. To say there has been little measurable progress is to ignore how truly horrible of a place the past was.
>"The efficiency increase at lower viability cannot be attributed to pre-existing mutants, because they're assaying for the presence of a GFP transgene inserted by homology-directed repair, not indels in general."

Yes, for the HDR case it is usually extremely unlikely (barring contamination) that the mutant already existed. If you reread my other post I specifically refer to the NHEJ case when discussing pre-existing mutants.

However, a single T-cell could (T-cells can divide up to 12 times a day[1]) expand to as many as 2^48 = 2.81475e+14 daughter cells in the 4 days of that study (see panel A of the same figure). They started with only 1e6 cells in the culture. Therefore these results could be explained by editing a single cell that then proliferates to make up the 30% of the population (300k cells) they see.

[1] http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....
Not all drones remain level. Racing drones rely on operator input to remain level (it's called acro mode).
The OP paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/Nbt.4192
There is no reason he can't build a cleaning drone in his garage and sell it, for example. A lot of adults never learn what 15 year olds learn in school and fluid intelligence drops off with age (early 30s), as far as science knows.

However, this isn't news, at all. He didn't even do anything yet as far as I can tell.
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Before they introduced Zelle, it was a free and relatively trustworthy way for me to exchange money with no fee between most of my friends. It just so happened we all had B of A.

In addition to that, their fraud resolution department has always been nice to me and their branches are nearby my house if I'm ever required to go in there. Still, right now, I trust my credit union more. But, my credit union wasn't founded by "two dudes" like Dropbox was, is the analogy I'm trying to make here.

Corporations I trust with my business - BOA, Google, LG, Walmart

Corporations I don't trust with my business - Comcast, Chipotle, McDonalds

"Two Guys" I trust with my business- My local mechanic, my local electrician (it took years of searching and relationship building).
Thanks! I will do that. I appreciate it.
Ask HN: I'm making an app to discuss podcasts – which podcasts would you want?
I made an iOS podcast app with a Reddit-style comment system. It lets you submit recorded voice comments. It's kind of like a book club, but for podcasts.

Here are screenshots: (https://econtalk.club/shots.html)
And a little-too-long video demo: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xC-oxpiKo0)

(I originally made the app just for EconTalk, but I've decided to expand a little.)

I'm only going to start with 3-5 podcasts. One of those will be EconTalk, but I'd like to hear what other shows might be good for discussion.

I will also be doing a private beta soon. It will probably be between 20-30 users to keep things tight-knit. Apply here if you are interested:
(https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScHlg-Jdkl-RHLRO9fHMY0qV-KPyKwk42QXqguhFY5mKSmc_Q/viewform)
Google confused Öffi with Öffi and raises new cost
The 2700 is available for $225 on Amazon.
I just read about Gobekli Tepe in Sapiens and was going to mention how fascinating it is that it challenges the agricultural revolution => religion narrative.
Ask HN: How useful is 'Ask HN: Who is hiring?' for cos. outside the valley/US?
Do people looking for a job outside the valley/US browse through the 'Ask HN: Who is hiring?' monthly thread?

If you are a founder/recruiter outside the valley/US, have you engaged with candidates via the thread?
Another bar raiser here. That site is wrong. The expectation is 2 candidates a week. And it would be more proper to say that it is part of your full-time job, not on top of it.

10 candidates in a week may happen at some kind of event, but then it isn’t 2-3 hours per candidate, and in that case you’d effectively be taking a couple of days off from your normal job.
If Qatar wanted to support terrorism, it's plausible the terrorists could pretend to kidnap those people. The hostages would suffer voluntarily due to religious reasons to make it look legit.
Why I love hiring Junior engineers – DEV Community ‍‍
Some Cool New Tools (RSS Reader, Unzip Replacement, and Mozlz4 Extractor)
Lightning appears to have major design flaws, the ones I have mentioned are not the only ones.

Wikileaks may well have been happy. That doesn't mean bitcoin is a good solution for wider use, especially with its transaction throughput limitations.

Ease of use in the cryptocurrency world is something of a joke...
Yes, you can still write Automator scripts with JavaScript!

Unfortunately the documentation is AppleScript only.
The server market is like Formula One for chip makers. It is where there is enough money to really push the limits of the technology. Competing in such leagues brings institutional knowledge, and bragging rights.

Servers is also where you get back-and-forth discussions with customers large enough to be worth listening to. Getting useful feedback from the users of desktop CPUs is difficult and time-consuming. But someone like Facebook or Google, who buy thousands of CPUs, and know how to use them, can give you quick and reliable feedback. They can test prototypes and suggest changes within weeks.
2% employment sounds like there would be an oversupply of workers, therefore the depressed salaries.
Great share. I have been curious about assembly languages for a while. Hopefully it’s not to technical for someone without a CS background.
For large businesses that's a huge market, it's called re-insurance. State Farm buys a policy that (for example) protects itself against hurricane claims in the state of South Carolina for 2018 against a Reinsurance company.
Oh yes, I suppose that might work. I've been using lots of local memory for facilitating communication and caching, but never made the connection that the compiler might map non-addressed local variables to uniforms.
> But when I do hang out with my friends or family, they have my undivided attention and we have a great time.

I believe that's how I generally am when I've carved out time to be with people, but then again, assholes probably think that, too.

The funny thing is I feel as if most people like to spread out interactions into smaller bits, whereas I like to have an occasional quality hangout with someone. I think a lot of what I'm saying, including that, comes down to how I don't really "need" other people, and that doesn't mean I don't depend on my friends for some things, but it means that I don't need to spend time around people in order to feel like they are my friends. The passage of time, for me, has very little effect on how I perceive friendships; my best friend is always going to be my best friend, even if months or years pass and we haven't spoken a word.
I mean, filming on location as opposed to on a studio sound stage or lot has often been favored by audiences and directors for greater authenticity, even when it's Vancouver masquerading as another city or Tunisia masquerading as Tattoine. And I don't think anybody is suggesting that conlanging isn't "a legitimate artform like anything else," just that it's duplicating effort. Remember "don't repeat yourself"?
There are a lot of very specific examples of filmmaking techniques for increasing clarity in movies. One that comes to mind is how George Miller uses center-framing to make it easier for audiences to follow the action in Mad Max Fury Road:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CR7ejkmf8Y4

The unique feature of cinema is the cut. While the web has "page transitions", they're used a lot less frequently, if at all. But maybe someone works on a project that involves a lot of page transitions and can steal something from George Miller.
That's why I added the CDN part, didn't wanted to go to deep on that issue. As you're saying CDN it's a big part of the image delivery, even more important than having a great algorithm to compress those images. We've found that after passing a certain threshold, eg. the image being < 200KB the download time it's not something important, so the size doesn't matter that much, the TTFB (time to first byte) is crucial.

There's also a difference between performance, speed and actual perception of speed, but that is very hard to measure and maybe it's an issue for another topic.
If 'if' was a skiff, we'd all take a boat ride.

Everything would have to use those separate streets. All of the customers couldn't use the "competing" store's highway. The two distribution centers have to use only the highways "owned" by the respective store. It gets to the point of the absurd. There must be some property shared by the two stores and the community surrounding them.

They couldn't sell the same products because there would be no way to isolate all of that. At some point, there will be a convergence.

If you want to pay the "true" price of your goods, you can't use anything that uses a common good for any part of the supply chain. Which is basically everything.

And you aren't really subsidizing anything. You are getting a deep discount by virtue of leveraging economies of scale. This is a case where cooperation makes things better for all involved. It's not a zero-sum game. Sometimes trying to be cheap costs you more.