skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's hard to evaluate this because there is nothing published yet. There have been grumblings on twitter of imbalance in important genetically-driven predictors of Alzheimer's[1]. This might make it very hard to understand whether the effect is due to this imbalance, or truly due to the drug. I can't really evaluate for myself since I don't see the data anywhere.

1 = https://twitter.com/sciencescanner/status/102246964947947520...
Did you miss the fact that this component is interactive? You can't do interactivity declaratively.
It's implemented, it's preffed off. These things take time to roll out properly. Chrome jumped the gun on v0, Firefox/Edge aren't "dragging their feet".
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Soooooon. :)
I learned a lot about aviation as a kid/teenager playing the Microsoft Flight Simulator. All the important instruments, flight control, radio navigation, flight patterns etc. Good times on Meigs Field.
> There are barely more people checking Facebook every day compared to previous quarter. Even worse, Facebook’s user base shrank in Europe. Facebook is still growing, but it’s clear that GDPR combined with a saturated market aren’t helping the company.

Facebook is running some desperate ads to try to compensate for this. Literally: "Join Facebook, it's FREE! 2 billion people already have!"
Evolution is change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations. It may or may not be due to mutation. Why would someone discredit evolution for creationism just because they can’t see a tiny aspect of evolution.
It doesn't really make any sense that FB stock should be dropping that much based on slower user growth and revenue.

The main risks to social networks have to do with network topology. If the network starts getting hollowed out then the mathematics show that social networks can implode even faster than they can grow. But user growth isn't a good predictor of that, growth can be flat and then just start accelerating again; this already happened with FB before around ten years ago.
> Java has a very strong sandboxing and verification "story"

I disagree that it is very strong (I see java.security.Permission littered everywhere in the stdlib) and it definitely wasn't strong in the days of applets. Maybe in theory, but in practice access to such a large stdlib because it was desktop tech shoehorned onto the browser caused a great many issues.
I wonder if those sort of articles are paid for by shorters.
Not everyone's attention is scarce. I think it's a symptom of the digital age. Too much consumption on computers with constant interruptions and instant gratification.
Not that I like Business Insider as a source, but I think you're off from the article by about $5.94 trillion.
Well, it's not like police are using Amazon's face recognition technology in dragnets.

Oh, wait: https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/talkingtech/2018/06/29/c...
If an unambiguous centre point did exist, then flipping the coordinate system from (distance to centre point, point on a n-1 dimensional hypersphere) to (1 / distance to centre point, point on a n-1 dimensional hypersphere) would be a trivial and uninteresting transformation. In other words, turning the universe inside out does nothing to decrease (or increase) the difficulty of choosing a centre point.

This transformation is its own inverse. Applying it to the coordinate system in the article we find that the author has chosen the centre of the planet Earth as their centre point; that is what makes their coordinate system possible. This is totally arbitrary and does not solve any deep mysteries. The stuff about turning the universe inside out is just waffle on top of that.
For filtering as you type?
For the space industry, The Space Review[0] is a fantastic, regularly updated collection of essays.

[0] http://thespacereview.com/
“Nice for you” and “nice for your computer” are being treated as separate things here, I think. Assuming a supercomputer (like the kinds most Electron app devs must surely have), Electron [native] apps have a good user experience.

Electron wrappers for originally web apps, on the other hand, are usually horrible user experiences—often they don’t even support right-clicking elements, or clicking on links to open them in a browser.
This is a very broad statement. Would you care to elaborate?
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That’s also true. :)
>Attempting to modify e-coli with CRISPR in my bathroom

This either sounds like the third sentence uttered in a 911 call, The FBI justification for a lifetime supermax incarceration, or the cause of death and mortality summary on a medical report.
Legions of bored teenagers would fight you over that. :) At one time there was no force so powerful as a bunch of friends sharing albinoblacksheep games/videos. Users loved it.
The insides of you are rearranged constantly as well...
I used to tutor at a coding class for high school kids and I never saw them more engaged than they had been with flexbogfroggy!
12-14 year olds aren't going to be dropping 250 bucks a year. If you look at something like newgrounds, a lot of that was bored teenagers.
That's completely fair, and there are cases where unknowingly selecting and applying complex operations to many nodes is problematic but I think it's a great baseline/default regardless.
Not shocking to anyone who set up GPS systems in the early days. Or anyone who lives in a city with lots of shiny buildings. Or lives near a military facility. Or drives the Beltway around D.C. Or...
I think marketing departments would quickly notice that most crawlers won't execute all the fancy Blinkenlights.

I would assume that it will take a while for tooling in any other language to get to a javascript level. I think WASM will mainly be support for the latter. Do some excessive calculations.... and yeah, excessive Blinkenlights.
Wouldn't performing better on two different cognitive tests over placebo be a positive effect on symptoms?
I am super OK with the regulation around Li-ion batteries on flights. I am also super OK with carry-ons without the extra weight of batteries, circuitry and motors. If you can't pull your carryon through the airport, you like can't lift it into the overhead bin on the airplane.
The amyloid hypothesis on trial
Just yesterday there was this opinion piece in Nature, suggesting that reducing amyloids might not help.

The amyloid hypothesis on trial
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05719-4
"Most worryingly, it turns out that there was a clear difference between the placebo group and the treatment group in APOE4 status."

I would turn to Derek Lowe as he is an expert in the field who has been looking forward to this release... he holds out hope, but is not positive on "the field is in the state it’s in today."

http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2018/07/26/bio...

"APOE4, a lipoprotein, has been recognized as a risk factor for Alzheimer’s since back in the 1990s, although the mechanism behind that has been the subject of debate. But there was a regulatory-mandated change in enrollment of APOE4 patients during the (Bayesian) trial, for fear of a brain-swelling side effect that these patients are also prone to, and there ended up being far more APOE4-positive patients in the placebo group compared to the high-dose group (70% versus 30%)."
Facebook, Inc. - the company behind the stock - is more than just Facebook.com. They also run Instagram, which is doing great and WhatsApp which still has huge potential as wel
> All because the writers get paid by the word, i suppose

I don't suppose that. I'd say it's because writing has more levels to it than a Wikipedia style information dump. Just like software has more elements than just spelling out the desired behavior.
Pretty sure there's something called everything in the JS space. Thankfully this is the Rust/WASM space so all good names get to be recycled.
Right! I actually meant centiliters - it's been a few years. But a commenter below mentions deciliters are a thing as well. What a crazy world :)
The GPL's aim is keep openness for the end user as well as developers. BSD/MIT, etc. is aimed squarely for the benefit of developers. I far and away prefer GPL3 over anything else. I'm somewhat disappointed the Linux kernel and important tool chain programs are still under GPL2. I'm not an RMS fanboy by any stretch, but in the end, his views on the overarching concerns of GPL licensing and free/libre software are usually born out as true.
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> Well, to be blunt, you don't have a story without a protagonist and a problem.

What if the protagonist is an object? I find the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs is quite a mover of things! And that evolution guy has many fantastic, quirky stories to tell.

And I often read science-fiction for the interesting world-building. The people-shenanigans are just a vehicle to show the world to me.
> From a religious perspective, I think our purpose should be contributing something to the world as long as we live.

I agree in principle, but what motivates me to be financially independent is not having to deal with all the bullshit that comes along with work. Office politics, drama, having your priorities set by someone else, etc. I also find having to care about promotions and such extremely stressful.

During periods of high stress, I find myself dreaming of FI just to stay home reading books and going to the gym. But more realistically, I’d likely continue to work my current job, with some changes.

If I were to become financially independent overnight, I’d schedule a 1:1 with my manager and explain that either I’m now working 100% on my terms, or I quit. That would allow me to just contribute to the product we’re developing, without having to deal with the bullshit. I’d then be perfectly fine staying at my current position for the rest of my career (i.e. no promos).
Oops. But now it's on sale, 25% off! So now, Facebook looks like it might be a stock worth buying after it has reported Q2 financial results after market close on Wednesday, July 25.
Escape Team is great for learning about team collaboration:

https://www.escape-team.com

It's a printable, app-supported escape game. There's also a mission editor for creating custom missions.
You compare them to a control group and check which group has had more decline after five or ten years?
I love this kind of thing. I often wonder how densities would map under such a transformation. What would the density be of the "core" of the inside out earth? What is the density of the universe sphere-reflected about the geospheric surface of the earth? How does this change as you reflect about different layers of the earth? How about sphere reflecting the universe about the surface of a star? Or a black hole?

If anyone is curious, I made some experiments years ago to play with this kind of perspective shifts. Make sure you check out the horse:

https://hyperspectives.wondering.xyz

I also made a blender modifier that does Moebius transformations... There is a patch on the hyperspectives page. But also this fork:

https://github.com/micahscopes/Hyperspectives/tree/hyperblen...

Lately I've gotten into using Clifford algebra (conformal geometric algebra) to do the same stuff. I'm slowly building tools for this... Stay tuned!
The NYC subway ones are straight dystopian:

https://media.wired.com/photos/5ae2367a7e275409d957991e/mast...
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Corporate CEOs took home way more than you think in 2017
Out of curiosity, what was not working with Nextcloud on your Android phone? Nextcloud on my phone runs extremely well.
People keep saying it's "not feasible" to do deep learning on a CPU. Is that actually true? I'm thinking of papers like this one[0] from Uber. that make the claim that CPU training is very much feasible, in this case with a cluster of 10 machines, each with 72~ CPUs. There's a blog post about someone recreating the paper here[1].

Sure, you can't do it on ONE CPU, but the point is to have a cluster of CPUs. It's not the case that you're forced to use nVidia's proprietary stuff in order to do deep learning.

[0]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.06567
[1]: https://towardsdatascience.com/paper-repro-deep-neuroevoluti...
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Has Facebook picked up on this yet? Good thing the Web is a Web of documents.
>running for decades

>hugely popular

>numerous companies

>various areas

>6+ hours

There is no way to get useful data from that. 80 boats being used all over the country for 6+ hours in a few places with an average of 3 hours per day across all boats for 20 years, fits your descriptions.

Automobile fatility rate is 1.25 per 100 million miles. Assuming a high average of 50 mph (to convert to deaths per hour), all those assumptions would put DUKWs at about 40 times more fatalities per hour than cars (over the last 20 years).

Maybe there are 160 boats and they really drive 6 hours per day average, that's still 10 times deadlier per hour than cars.

Tour boats and tour buses, which we should be comparing them to are much safer than cars. How is that comparison?

But none of this matters because we don't have accurate estimates, the NTSB does, and they have experts who evaluated the boats and found them unsafe.

I don't care what a news report says. The NTSB report is all the evidence I need unless I see other more compelling evidence to the contrary.
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Coding/Math:

https://coderbyte.com

https://hackerrank.com

https://leetcode.com

https://codeforces.com

https://projecteuler.net (more mathy)

https://www.topcoder.com/challenges

https://adventofcode.com

https://halite.io (machine learning + game)

https://www.enki.com (coding challenges on mobile)
Securing the Kubernetes API server
Introducing Telegram Passport
My bank actually orders transactions to make it so that I avoid the overdraft fees. If I get paid one day and also make a debit that would overdraft my account if the payment didn't clear first, they will place the payment first then the debit.
That was a really interesting read, thanks for sharing it.

> Impect disregards all passes that go backwards or don’t beat any defender. It’s a correct assessment, a pass that doesn’t travel forwards, doesn’t help you score. Can’t argue with that.

This is a really odd statement. Plenty of passes don't go forward but absolutely do increase the likelihood of scoring. For example, the final pass here [0] is backwards, might even allow an additional defender time to track back (-1 packing?) but opens up the space required to take a shot and score.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0oihU_fLas
This is actually terrible.
I am writing a new book on System Administration Ethic
Lenovo Smart Display review: The Google Assistant now has a face
Show HN: Layoutit – An interactive CSS Grid generator
>It doesn't really make any sense that FB stock should be dropping that much based on slower user growth and revenue.

Yes, investors and stock holders are typically the most rational people who never panic.

It also doesn't make sense to hold on to stock if you think this is the beginning of a long, slow decline.
It's understandable that this is done, given the usage numbers. I've never really used live bookmarks in the past 10 years, but I always had the 'feed' navigation button appear if a site has a feed.

It still saddens me, because it's another nail in the coffin for an important technology. It's technologies like Atom/RSS that once broke us out of silos. We're back in the silo though, and I would love Mozilla to lead the front in breaking us out again.

Maybe it's not RSS and Atom that lead us into the next revolution. Maybe it's activityfeed? I want it badly though.
Potentially fun questions: are there any “DOM-native JavaScript games”? I.e., games that manipulate the DOM for their “graphics”—or even have hypertext in place of graphics—rather than running in a canvas?

The only example I can think of is the Twine engine for Interactive Fiction.
Facebook is a Rust user, but given that this was just announced, I doubt that they're suddenly using it ;)

> Good thing the Web is a Web of documents.

That was three for three years. It's been 23 years since we've had executable code as well.
You make a lot of bold claims in this post and provide no evidence. I think in this case the claims are far enough out there that some evidence is warranted.

For example: "They already have access to sensitive health information for many many people and have had access to this data for decades". In what country is this? Everywhere? You would be wrong about that, unless you mean a specific group of people that gave them this information voluntarily (in which case you made it sound a lot more exceptional than it is).

"Many drugs now require some genetic testing to be done to justify a prescription". How many? I've interacted with a lot of people who take (or have taken) prescriptions, and have met precisely zero that needed a genetic test. Of course this doesn't mean you are wrong, but maybe you have omitted critical data required for forming the opinion that you are correct. I already mentioned the number (and perhaps the type of prescription is also important). Also again, where in the world is this?

These aren't the only two claims I raised an eyebrow about, but they are a good start.
Estimate your annual income for the rest of your career (with realistic assumptions on promotions, raises to compensate inflation and a bit more, change of jobs...). Add the pension contribution of your employer (if any); discount back with appropriate nominal investment rate (if you included inflation raises in the first place, otherwise you need to net that). This is the value of your career. Now the difficult part: how much annual income are you willing to sacrifice to get free time and being able to do all the things you want to do? You can do it on an annual basis or % basis of the total. You should also project forward your estimated expenses, to double check that you don't value your free time so much that you would not have enough money to pay the rent: if you end up in this situation, move to a cheaper country and redo the calcs. And maybe add a safety factor, for some peace of mind: as somebody else posted, shares or bonds may not do well every year.

EDIT: this approach assumes you maintain your current (and foreseeable) quality of life in terms of disposable income.
I agree but it's about using the right tool at the right time. How else would could they have started YouTube back then for example? Early YouTube definitely was a glimpse into the future.
Mandates are cool! Now, given the choice of all the possible mandates (go to mars, fix the environment, fix politics, cure some type(s) of cancer, address aging, fix food distribution, etc.) can you show your work behind why the mandate of going to mars would be the best?

Surely fixing politics, for example, would have a multiplying effect on the efficiency of everything else we do and would just accidentally bring up the living standards of millions of people.
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... and indeed on several of the BSDs.

It has been the default compiler in base on FreeBSD since version 10, and FreeBSD is now built with it. There was also a push back around 2014 or so to get much of the ports tree built with it, too.

DragonFly BSD has been buildable with clang since around 2014, albeit using clang from packages/ports. In 2017 (release 50) the DragonFly people started work on pulling it into base.

OpenBSD switched building on x86/amd64 to clang in 2017 and building on armv7 to clang in 2018.

NetBSD has included clang in base but as far as I know does not (yet) build with it by default on any architecture.
You don't just magically get medicaid though. You have to apply for it and follow up with things if they send you stuff in the mail. If you don't do that you go back to being uninsured which leads back to what JudasGoat said where you will get the minimum amount of care in order to get you out of the hospital.
I just got offered to work 4 days work weeks, I think potentially they would be ok with 3 days too. They are generally really flexible so I had time to prove myself in first term of the contract that I can deliver. I think my departments budget is running low so I think that helps - Contractors - work less, cost less. There are multiple things at play but most significant is demonstrating the value imo.

I've been contracting for 2 years now and lately I strongly prioritised the company culture and personal interest in the company over money. Turns out this way I found a really good cultural fit and people I can work with. They invited me to join as permie and I am strongly considering it as it seems it would allow me to do the most in my life while living comfortably.

Flexibility seems to cost you ~20% of your normal rate - at least I'm confident my daily rate could be 20% higher if I wanted elsewhere.
When you have a highly interactive component you're going to need to make a lot of DOM calls to get the current state of the elements and so on. jQuery makes this easy. The benefits of jQuery over making raw DOM calls have been mentioned by many people here already, so I won't repeat them. These benefits of jQuery don't go away even in a React app.
Here is what makes jQuery slow, both now and in the past:

* querySelectors (standard or the home grown Sizzle engine)

* Method chaining for trivial tasks, in many cases to compute data that is already statically present or directly assignable.

Regardless of whether jQuery is using modern APIs or not there are old standards available, to JavaScript, that just about everything in jQuery eventually compiles down to. At the end of the day it becomes a matter of whether writing a couple of 3 line abstractions is far too hard of work or whether it is simply easier to push everything through 65k of jQuery purely for the sake of familiarity.
I replicated FF live bookmark handling for Chrome years ago via an extension. This morning I laughed when I saw users opening github issues asking to port that extension to FF.

extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/foxish-live-rss/jp...
wait, really? padding with zeros maps to a different IP address than the non-padded version?
Is that because a leading zero causes it to be interpreted as an octal number?
Every time I read an article or infographic by Julia Evans, I can't help but feel a bit of excitement, because even after 15+ years of linux/programming experience, I still learn something new every time.

I genuinely hope there are awards/accolades for people that bring this much value to the linux/programming/computing community.
A computer doesn't take any "free will" decisions. But it does make decisions, based on rules that the programmer gave it. Everything about the program is determined, but the inputs to the program is not necessarily deterministic and is also completely orthogonal to free will. We can still have true random events, that doesn't imply that free will exist.

The actions of a computer making decisions based on a noisy, nondeterministic source, can not be predicted.

From your previous post: It doesn't even matter if one is guilty or not -- the decision to jail them or not is already made before they committed anything and is independent of their actions.

The decision to jail them depends on whether they are found guilty. Whether they are found guilty depends on the information available at that time. What information is available is not deterministic even in a world lacking free will.
RSS is alive and doing very well. Just not in traditional readers.
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I thought it did though. The centroid of the space relates the relative relatedness of the subsegment. I.e., animals are closer to plants than viruses.