skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That was more of a musing on the part of P. Pius XII because he had been preoccupied with the philosophical side of showing God's existence, and saw some potential synergy. In his Un'Ora speech, where he was actively contemplating the primeval atom hypothesis:

...contemporary science, with one sweep back across the centuries, has succeeded in bearing witness to the august instant of the primordial Fiat Lux, which along with the matter there burst forth from nothing a sea of light and radiation... Thus, with that concreteness which is characteristic of physical proofs, modern science has confirmed the contingency of the universe and also the well-founded deduction to the epoch when the world came forth from the hands of the creator

However, before his speech to the Eighth General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union in Rome, Lemaître consulted with the Pope's secretary as well as his science advisor, and Pius's further statements dropped references to the "primeval atom" hypothesis:

the human spirit, upon considering the vast paths traveled by galaxies, becomes in some manner a spectator at the cosmic events that occurred on the very morning of creation

Despite this, it was enough to fuel criticism of concordism (the belief that the Bible contains hidden scientific facts). Lemaître addressed those by invoking a separation of concerns: Philosophy and theology are concerned about the "why?" and science is concerned about the "how?"; the two need not overlap. In his words:

Should a priest reject relativity because it contains no authoritative exposition on the doctrine of the Trinity? Once you realize that the Bible does not purport to be a textbook of science, the old controversy between religion and science vanishes... The doctrine of the Trinity is much more abstruse than anything in relativity or quantum mechanics; but, being necessary for salvation, the doctrine is stated in the Bible. If the theory of relativity had also been necessary for salvation, it would have been revealed to Saint Paul or to Moses... As a matter of fact neither Saint Paul nor Moses had the slightest idea of relativity

More info and actual sources: https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?rec...
The point is that alcohol is predictable and does not affect your well being after the intoxication. Proven countless times.

Using psychedelics is like playing russian roulette. Proven countless times. The effects of a reasonable dose of psychedelics ranges from weird experience to psychosis (you do not recognize false beliefs) to the worst action you have made.

http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/04/28/why-were-early-psychede...

There is a reason why alcohol and tobacco are accepted in almost all societies while opioids and psychedelics are treated differently.

IMO too many people suffer already from psychosis. E.g. flat earthers, denial of climate change denial, denial of urgent action against climate change, low carb diet is healthy,...

Judging what is real and what not is already difficult for many without psychedelics.

Read about Donald Trump or Scott Pruitt, the ex-EPA administrator.
Interesting. I'm mostly not tracking these since there is a ton of CompSci work post-Meltdown/Spectre. I do periodically look for things that try to stop many attacks at once. Here's two I found that were interesting with one in hardware and one for clouds on top of a verified hypervisor:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1703.07706.pdf

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/6aa3/18e95cae5a932e330857e5...
If E:D is what SC has promised in their KS they are finished. Fly around for half an hour in the SC dogfighting mode, fly a bit more in the open world, maybe do a mission. Done. You have now fully experienced E:D. And that's with the current state of the Alpha.
I think that's because many early access developers don't put enough focus on the "Viable" aspect, and focus too hard on "Minimum". For a game to be viable it should express its core gameplay features in a compelling way. Iteration should just be building additional content on top of that, or building new modules that live on top of the core (like the FPS aspects of Star Citizen arguably should be).
> Is there some legal reason they aren't giving more details?

Company fires CEO Bob because they claim he had an affair with a dozen employees and publishes it. CEO Bob immediately sues the company for defamation. Company fails to meet legal standard to show said affair happened.

1. CEO Bob now claims (to the public) he was fired wrongfully

2. Company looks terrible and also loses a bunch of money

The company isn't required to meet a legal threshold to fire a CEO for an abuse of conduct, but by publishing details, they might open themselves for a lawsuit related not to the firing, but the actual publication of details.

Sometimes you'll see cases where the person being terminated makes the admission - since it's pretty difficult to sue yourself over defamation, that changes the equation a bit. So if CEO Bob loudly declares on twitter that he had an affair with a dozen employees at once, then the company is free to basically restate his own comment.
Doctors fear urgent care centers are wildly overusing antibiotics–for profit
> being thin doesn't actually change the surface area significantly

No, but it reduces the space for a better cooling system (pipes, fans, etc).
In my first year of grad school (1995) our microscopy professor showed us an astronomy adaptive optics paper and said "we're going to do that". Years later, they did that.
Evolutionary algorithm outperforms deep-learning machines at video games
I was comparing it to HST WFC3 with a field of view of 160 x 160 arcsec^2 (https://www.spacetelescope.org/about/general/instruments/wfc...). Thats about 450 times larger than the MUSE narrow-field mode FOV.

I think you mean the high-resolution mode of the ACS instrument (https://www.spacetelescope.org/about/general/instruments/acs...) but that is broken and it was not repaired during the last HST service mission.
Why was the [flagged] status for this comment or any below it applied or acted upon?

It’s an unequivocally civil thread of discussion about a valid interpretation of the parent comment.

To flag and hide this subtree of comments seems like unquestionable misuse of the flagging system for HN. Particularly for this first comment above.
But with this approach to train adults to not take responsibility. I am all for placing full responsibility on every adult - one has to learn to deal with this of course and the current state of society is opposing it. Otherwise people couldn't sue manufacturers for having put their pets into microwave ovens or for getting cancer from smoking. I know this will cause colateral damage from people doing stupid or bad things on drugs - but the opposite isn't much better - to train a generation towards non-responsibility - this is probably causing more damage. We are just used to it. If somebody decides to take drugs and destroy his/her life - that is very sad - but so be it. Those people should be helped - and even this will be easier when taking drugs is not being criminalized.
You said it "Market dominance is, as such, not illegal under EU antitrust rules." It isn't about a monopoly, it's about abusing power.
Minor nit: Google didn't have to Open Source the whole Android because of Linux; Linux is just one of many components, and Linux' license doesn't apply to the rest of the software there.
It is a rather large list. I am reversing the cumulative damage to my body.

To add to the discussion however, I would include sub-components of supplements such as BioPerine which is just a commercial version of piperine. Several supplements I take have this and it changes how drugs are processed in the liver. Drugs that would normally have a small chance of minor side effects can suddenly have dramatic and unpredictable side effects.
> If the public service of justice is slow and expensive, we need to fix the public service, not replace it with a free market simulacrum.

Completely agreed. Prisons are another example of an essential public service that should never be privatized or outsourced.
Evolving simple programs for playing Atari games
IBM has been a "patent troll" for a long, long time. Heck, the term "ninja lawyer" was invented for their patent teams.
Google is imposing terms on third party manufacturers. What third parties are selling devices with iOS?
Next-gen steel emerges as the backbone of the auto industry
Google confirms it will appeal $5B EU antitrust fine
Weird 'wind drought' means Britain's turbines are at a standstill
At this point, people in the Mac hardware engineering leadership need to start submitting their resignations or being forced out. This kind of sloppy engineering and lack of product focus is the antithesis of what Apple has stood for.

If I were Tim Cook I would fire Dan Riccio, and then resign myself and hand the company over to someone who cares about products and not supply chain optimization.

Also the whole executive Memoji thing is incredibly stupid and childish. Please take your jobs more seriously -> https://www.apple.com/leadership/
A belief that Kickstarter or similar services are anything other than a donation to a hope that something happens is willfully ignoring reality.
I hate this idea of "the best"

1. there are multiple skill sets both soft and hard.

2. you don't need fifty "alpha nerds" on one team.

3. today's best practices are yesterday and tomorrows heresy.

4. most engineers know there are trade offs which in one case is a great decision in another is horrible:

- speed to market versus code quality

- performance versus readability

- perfection versus can live with it for 20-40% of the time and cost

- also make a few bad career choices and your skills are so far out of date its ridiculous.

Do you code outside of work -> code for are you single with no kids.
Didn’t Minecraft release (obviously successfully) with this approach?
> they are concerned about whether you are having a material negative impact on your life because of your perfectionism

Sometimes you have to go through the hard stuff to get things to be perfect. Mental health care can sit there and explain every cliche aphorism while you wait to get to that point, but that doesn't mean it's doing anything useful for some individuals. It could just be a waste of time, resources, energy, and distract from focus - especially if you have a problem solving mind you value and accidentally wind up syncing into 'the problems of mental health care' while going through the process of re-correcting maladaptive perfectionism.

It has to be taken a possibility that for some people, mental health care itself can have an adverse effect on the mind. If a person isn't getting that validation in their life, it's very easy to jump to other types of problems, like psychological ones. This can give a sense of progress but is ultimately unfilling.

Anything can be made to be seen as a problem and anything can be made to be seen as a solution when mental health care is so generalized to the point that literally anything you do can be connected or related in some way to everything you do. That doesn't mean a directional rule of causality can be inferred. The obvious is that anything you do is related directly through the fact that your own existence defines the relation between what you did and what you do. There is that obvious connection. But just because some stuff you do yields results and other stuff does not, doesn't mean there exists an intrinsic rule one can rely upon eternally as though it were gospel.

Perfectionism becomes maladaptive when individuals are not willing to be adapative. The mental health care industry is not precluded from this very normal, very characteristic trait of being human. Nothing granted it that authority absolutely and nothing ever will. The industry is made of people just as capable of being flawed as the ones they identify as ill. It doesn't mean they understand all perspectives of being human.
Does personally attack people get you somewhere in real live, I wonder?
Regulated manufacturing - like with food and then controlled selling like with alcohol, cigarettes or medical drugs.

I mean nothing is bad by itself - we don't prohibit knives b/c people stab each other.
You can also use AutoHotkey[0] to create a script to emulate any keyboard layout.
I use it (among other things) to provide me with arrow-key navigation on IJKL keys by pressing the left Alt + <key>.

After the initial 'how does this work' it's almost trivially easy to create all kinds of new "shortcuts"!

[0] https://autohotkey.com/
The AI revolution will be led by toasters, not droids
As long as you're not his dog or a potential victim of his dog.
> its more restrictive licensing limits the global audience

That means not everyone has a business model that supports paying a license fee.
Exactly. That is the whole point of anti-monopoly laws.
Yes? When you’re in a dominant position in a market you’re subjected to a different set of rules. This is to help keep even a captured market competitive.
No, they would be able to bundle their own entertainment system with their cars, but they would not be able to force anyone else who wants to use their engines in their cars to bundle the entertainment system as well, as a contractual precondition to be able to use those engines.

Of course the size of the company and the market dominance comes into play here. It's not a monopoly if people can go elsewhere to get their engines, it is if there is only one realistic choice of supplier (Android).
Artificial Intelligence bringing to life new technologies
I somehow doubt it pays more than 5 billion dollars. I mean, even when I had the option I would use Google search and Google Chrome anyway and I think many other people too.
As a total newbie (well almost newbie, I've released one tiny game) I just want to ask: why not gray-box the whole damn game first, then paint rough 90s looking graphics on top, then gradually paint the whole game over with modern graphics? While tuning the gameplay the whole time? That just seems like the only sane way to build something huge, but instead all the big developers like CIG seem to start with ultra-detailed vertical slices for some reason.
Does it not sound hypocritical to sue a corporation for pre-installing software (Microsoft installing IE on Windows) and also suing another corporation for not allowing software to be pre-installed?

I also wonder how they come up with the multi-billion dollar values? How does that massive amount of money actually help repair whatever "economical damage" that was inflicted by not having some sort of app pre-installed on a device?
Thank you so very much for providing latency-under-load statistics; this is excellent.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17556497
https://software-lab.de/Penti1991.jpg
GP GPU programming via C#
Cancer Scientists Have Ignored African DNA in the Search for Cures
I think Android's popularity and extremely quick adoption owes itself to the fact that it's open source.
What you don't realize maybe is that the "ring" is more a notice that the multinationals need to spend more money on crooked EU politicians and support more efforts to undermine the bureaucratic state that initiates these types of things out of that common European jealousy and spite.

Reality is that THIS is the result of a governance structure run amok in the EU that is nothing short of an authoritarian state that has totally undermined democracy, sovereignty of people and culture, and is on a dark path that is clear to those who have a background to understand.

There is a huge chasm between what people think the EU is and what the "Socialism" of Europe is, and what it really is. The US President was actually quite right in characterizing Europe how ever he did that amounted to Europe not really being a friend at all. The EU and Europe in general are "Friends" the same way that celebrities have "Friends" that are "Friends" as long as they get things out of it or they still are star struck by you, and some will even sell you out to the paparazzi behind your back while smiling to your face and telling you you can trust them.

We are in a very messy time right now and anyone who thinks they can trust anyone but their own is going to meet an inevitable demise. That's just reality that so many these days simply cannot seem to comprehend for some reason. All places and all people are simply not the same and none of them are trustworthy to any degree more than of provable. It always strikes me as bizarre that tech folks seem to have the most surprising time with these things when they are supposed to be the ones that understand trust chains and systems thinking and networks and threats and risks.
All the better. If it's not free, some non-spying alternatives may finally appear/gain wider adoption.
Also Internet Explorer. This case seems almost a mirror of MS except in the phone space instead of PC. Only difference is that when the issue came up in Congress, MS was confrontational with regulators and Google cut some fat checks.
Normally I would say this is being pedantic, but I think the difference in meaning is important enough that this point shouldn't be ignored.
>one of the worst cases of feature creep in history

crowdfunding campaign that exceed expectations put the developer in a really tough spot. Star Citizen asked for $2 million but got 6. If they had said they keep everything the same, the schedule would stay sane but everyone would call it a money grab because they take $6 million to develop a $2 million game. The other option is to make use of the additional $4 million, but in almost all cases that will destroy the schedule.

Now if you are like Star Citizen and keep raising money (and get another $180 million) that same principle quickly pushes you deeper and deeper into feature creep.

It's a systematic problem every crowd funding project has to solve. Star Citizen seems to have stabilized their predictions of total money raised to get a fixed feature set, but I can't blame them for not predicting that they would raise over $200 million until release and planning for that.
How Facial Recognition Could Tear Us Apart
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My stance it to place the responsibility for educating yourself about LSD before taking it on an adult. If that adult doesn't do that - then that's no different to me from driving too fast and causing an accident or trying to climb a mountain without proper preparation and equipment.

Adults have the right to die, to suffer and to harm themselves - I prefer to not get there. But I don't see why the state should base laws on this b/c this will also affect the freedom of me and others who act responsible.
How did we get to currencies? Certainly not because of bartering's inefficiency
You could reduce the screen theft of the menus. It defaulted to a large menu for new users, as you became more proficient you could adjust the "help level" and reclaim the screen.
Yeah I laughed at this idea too - the stock Android install that is free of any bloatware or dubious OEM-replacements for things like gmail or chrome or the play store or google photos is what a lot of consumers want, yet Google is getting fined by the EU for basically trying to enforce that.

<shrug>
That is an extremely optimistic view of patents
Yeah, I had a bit of a look and a good number of the "not implemented/ignored/delayed" is hardly surprising. The game is still in development and the stuff in "broken promises" is basically slipped ship dates, hardly a massive shock.

Given that they seem to be tracking basically everything, even down to the level of "mentioned once in an interview that this might sometime be possible", I would be super interested to see this after an official 1.0 release and for the years of patches after.

I really hope they have history tracking for the entries, so you can see how they have been categorized over time and when they went from one status to another. I'd be way more interested in those stats, seeing what they have delivered over time.

However I'm sure this will stop being updated once CIG start releasing stuff as it appears the only thing keeping it going is anger.
To add to my answer from yesterday: there is also no obvious way to see that usernames are links (at least for me, somewhat colorblind on a mobile device.)
it really is that simple.
Stellar First DLT to Obtain Sharia Certification
Interesting. My bandwidth use is on the high side, but I have certain advantages. For one thing, there will never be more than 70 units on the screen, and all of the locally simulated objects are deterministic. I'm also planning a replay/debugging system based on the mechanism.
Product-Driven Customer Success with Personalization
> What extra burden?

All the work to make sure it comply with net neutrality.
I've tried psychedelics before, and I've found them pretty boring in terms of their effects (like a minor VR experience that doesn't go away and leaves headaches) and don't see the point of their classification.
I have also since avoided psychedelics because they last so long and you aren't productive during those hours.
> How is the Play Store related to the Google Seach app or to Chrome?

“Related to” does not mean that they are the literally same thing. They are clearly related as a suite of applications which form the core experience of what is called “Android”.

The law doesn’t say that if it is technically possible to unbundle a set of options from a product offering to be sold al la carte that companies must do that.

These are all essential components of one product — a mobile OS. Mixing and matching, for the vast majority of users, is neither practical or expected, and absolutely negatively impacts the brand.
Absolutely! When the lasers are used, MUSE uses a filter at the correct wavelength (Natrium D) to get rid of the laser photons.

Only one telescope is currently equipped with lasers. The other ones can't observe the same region of the sky when the lasers are activated.
The article talks about the innovative injection technology from the Orbital Engine Company.

Here's an article about that companies history and why it never caught on apart from existing 2 stroke markets (outboard motors etc).

https://www.carmrades-blog.com/all-articles/2017/11/24/failu...
Android is already nonfree, in that it includes loads of proprietary bits. If Google starts trying to charge phone makers big bucks, that's just more incentive for Samsung to fork AOSP themselves.

Google doesn't want to see a fractured ecosystem they can't control, so I agree with the article that it's an empty bluff.
yes, but they're not building those atop a functioning game platform. They're completely separate, like individual prototypes. If they were integrated into a whole that'd be a totally different story.
"Given Google’s dominance in search and browsers and the popularity of its many web services, Pichai’s warning looks more like a bluff to court popular opinion than a genuine threat that Android will no longer be free."

I wish these bloggers would keep their biases and unsubstantiated commentary to themselves.

This fine is an assault on open source, the fact linux didn't attain mainstream appeal on the desktop was largely due to the lack of condition and harmonization across distros.

In any other context fining an open source project for antitrust violations is absurd.
Ask HN: Best educational apps?
I generally use workbooks, but on a car ride, I sometimes let my Child use a learning app. I have come across a number of great education apps for kids 3-6 such as Endless Reader by Originator, Quick Math Jr and Quick Math, Litebot.

I am looking for some other math and reading comprehension apps. What apps have you come across that you thought were fantastic?