skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are misreading that document tremendously. It states that 265 million people are actively involved in playing football, not professionally, just playing in any way. That number includes "professional footballers, registered players over the age of 18, registered youth players under the age of 18, futsal players, beach soccer players and unregistered occasional players".
"More than one hundred years after he published his paper setting out the equations of general relativity, Einstein has been proved right once more — in a much more extreme laboratory than he could have possibly imagined!"

This sounds somewhat like an insult to Einstein's imagination.
It's been obvious since Firefox 37 that Mozilla no longer cares about "power users" or the web in general. Every step since then has been removing features and removing customization in a race to the bottom (w/Chrome) for making a safe shell for grandma to run JS web apps.
What’s liquid biopsy?
Oops. Changed back. Thanks!
If it is poorly trained and recommends incorrect treatment, then no it is a poor tool. If it recommends only in clear cases and then gives the doctor tools to narrow down treatment in more obscure cases that would be good. But current machine learning tech and more importantly marketing does not actually provide that capability. Because the ML software does not work like human decision making. So it cannot really know when it’s making a poor guess and any insight into its decision making process would be useless to the doctors involved. This tech is way too immature for the uses it’s being put to. But the tech companies have started to believe their own hype.
A very long time ago, iirc, Firefox installed with the bookmarks toolbar default on and a live bookmark example with some help text and populated with BBC news (Perhaps different in non-GB locales).

From that start it's been successively made more discrete (i.e. buried) with subsequent releases. They defaulted the bookmarks bar to off and at some point removed the pre-created example.
> why shuffle play is the default

I expect it's because A/B testing showed that most users preferred that behavior. This makes sense from their radio/playlist-centric model, which seems to de-emphasize single album listening.
Reading up on it, it seems like the justification for creating Phoebus was to standardize the industry (it's the reason all of our lightbulbs today follow the same rating system and screw in the same way). But clearly they ran amok to serve their own interests.

Cartels are very interesting: historically few are successful long term - there is too much incentive for newcomers to undercut prices. They need something to keep new entrants at bay. It seems like in this case they pooled their patents together.

IEEE has a more detailed write-up: https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/dawn-of-electronics/t...
Bigger collectors or longer exposure.
If you compile C++ or Rust to native targets anyway, I fail to see how it's more complicated.
Also I wonder how they authenticate the "alums" who sign up. Who's to say it's not someone posing as a founder from a YC company after setting up a plausible gmail address?
This is a huge complaint of those new to Go and touted as a benefit from those who still use it.

Being explicit is a double edge sword. It requires more typing, but there's also no don't about what the code is doing.
Extra tests... the cost of diagnostics is a tiny fraction of the cost of doctor time, and most patients just go to the doctor to get the test. The doctor is an irellevant gatekeeper 90% of the time. How about we start talking about ‘extra’ doctor visits because patients don’t have access to tests. There are some diagnostics where this gatekeeping is literally causing a public health crisis. ‘Extra tests’ are only an issue because of the untreated disease they reveal, which costs insurers money to treat. This ‘concern’ is all part of their lobby.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffraction-limited_system

The first problem is that we are limited to observing that photons that originate at the source; there's no way for us to bounce some small-wavelength photons off of our target and collect them.

So we could do long-baseline interferometry, instead. You need to spread your sensors over a large area and keep synchronized timing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_telescope#Radio_interfer...

Naturally, you can build bigger systems in space.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Interferometry_Mission#O...

If we sent out satellite telescope stations to orbit the sun, with really good communications and clocks, we might be able to create a virtual lens that's really big:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_Interferometer_Space_Ant...
With things like HFT what proportion of stock market transactions have economic value?
I don't use hidpi, so I can't really compare your screenshots. :) Mapy.cz just looks better on your screenshot to me (aside from blur caused by rendering a screenshot vs direct software rendering optimized for my LCD).
"[..]conversation will start with guns drawn, and that will greatly increase the likelyhood of things going south."

That is where the two sides of this argument diverge. First: That things "will start with guns drawn". And Second: That things are more likely to "go south" for an innocent individual incorrectly blamed by this.
I like embrace criticism part. It's so real. Sometimes while making a screen's layout I don't recognize bad decisions my colleagues see with first sight. It's amazing lol
I always think of it as PTK - which I think is the old prefix used for fishing boat registrations. :-)

http://www.portknockiewebsite.co.uk/about-portknockie.php
How is this such “great news”? Spotify is having a Dropbox issue - in the grand scheme of things, their only reason for existing is just a tiny line item to their major competitors - Apple, Google, and Amazon. They are a feature not a product.

Revenue means nothing without profit.

http://fortune.com/2018/05/30/spotify-ipo-profit/

bit bullied. Despite steadily increasing paid subscribers (75 million and counting) and revenue (about $1.36 billion last quarter), Spotify continues to bleed. The $49 million or so that it lost in the first three months of 2018 wasn’t because the company can’t keep a tight rein on its own spending, but because it can’t keep a rein on its suppliers. Yes, that’s right: As Spotify grows, so do its royalty payouts to record labels and other music providers. And those marginal costs are an anchor on the Stockholm company’s profit potential
So how exactly were they doing their job? Didn’t their manager have anything to say about the non-delivery of the project?
I'm not worried about activity that people successfully conceal or do in private. That isn't what upsets people who want to criminalize things.

It is also possible to have penalties that scale with the value of your property or income.

And I don't think we need to worry about policing either. Neighbors in such neighborhoods are perfectly capable of recording video. It is public activity that is the issue, not private, so no need for undercover stings.

Activity goes where taxes are low and where it is convenient. Taxes are very high in Manhattan but it is more popular for many activities than rural New Hampshire.

And there are other considerations too, like safety. A place where there is no tax and perhaps no order might have lower appeal than a well-policed area with a moderate tax.
On corporate machines you dont know how many things are subscribing to file notifications.
I definitely agree that reading textbooks is not commutative with respect to ordering. I wonder whether there is any method for de-biasing from this pernicious effect? Other than, perhaps, split up a test and control group that reads A followed by B, or vice versa, and then debates what they have learned?
For reference, I believe this is the crash you're referring to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_447

The fly-by-wire control system ordinarily prevents stalls, but it had disengaged due to an iced over sensor and was operating without stall protection. The plane stalled at 38,000 feet and fell into the ocean.

They should have had plenty of time to correct the stall, but one pilot was pulling back his control stick (the opposite of what they needed to do), and since the two sticks aren't physically linked the other pilot didn't know he was doing that.

It's one of the topics discussed in the podcast that I linked above.
Great link in the wikipedia article to Gravity's Rainbow. Love this quote from the Byron the Bulb episode:

"His youthful dreams of organizing all the bulbs in the world seem impossible now—the Grid is wide open, all messages can be overheard, and there are more than enough traitors out on the line. Prophets traditionally don't last long—they are either killed outright, or given an accident serious enough to make them stop and think, and most often they do pull back. But on Byron has been visited an even better fate. He is condemned to go on forever, knowing the truth and powerless to change anything. No longer will he seek to get off the wheel. His anger and frustration will grow without limit, and he will find himself, poor perverse bulb, enjoying it."
That's one of the implicit reasons why US based airlines in the past used to recruit retired pilots from U.S Air Force. In case instruments fail or contradictory signals are present, pilots with physical skills (kinesthesia, etc) can steer away from dangers.

Two incidents demonstrate that:

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asiana_Airlines_Flight_214

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_447

Pilots on both came from the civilian background. The difference between civilian training and combat training is that the latter is more trained to operate in conditions that involve instruments failure, distress, etc.
Electron is not a native app. Electron is a browser web app marketed as a native application.
Twitter responds to Donald Trump's shadow banning allegations
They're a country living under a dictatorship. Not exactly the best example.
When people speak of "facial recognition", they speak of faces being compared to other faces. What you're mentioning is face-detection. Are you honestly saying that police departments will have a "criminal database" filled with wooden walls and furniture?
Editorializing titles like this is against HN's guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html). When accounts do this, they eventually lose submission privileges. If you'd read the guidelines and follow them when posting here, we'd appreciate it.

(Submitted title was 'Don't be taxpayer – Google Alphabet made $19.2B in revenue in Bermuda'.)
Actually putting the huge label in the middle just wastes space for anyone looking at the map regularly, or for printing. You already know what you're looking at at this zoom level, or can zoom out.

Google maps does terrible job by missing labels for half of the city parts.
Microsoft Announces Built-In Hyper Log Log for Azure SQL
When differences are vast, a linear bar chart becomes unreadable, and logarithmic bar charts make intuition about sizes difficult. Two dimensional spatial comparisons are intuitive and compact.
They sure have value to the miners, and presumably to those who pay those miners transaction fees. A Bitcoin transaction isn't free.
The question mark in Rust is equally explicit in the case where it can be used to simply pass the error along.
Git bundles are pretty nice, they are just a packfile [1], with a list of refs prepended, that you can clone like a remote.

But this also means they have pretty inefficient compression, since every object (or delta) is packed using zlib on its own. For packfiles this is good because it allows random access, but for bundles it would be better to disable this compression (set it to level 0) and compress the whole bundle instead:

435M default.bundle
412M default.bundle.bz2
410M default.bundle.gz
401M default.bundle.xz

978M uncompressed.bundle
290M uncompressed.bundle.bz2
330M uncompressed.bundle.gz
245M uncompressed.bundle.xz

That's 245MB vs. 401MB, 40% space savings! It can't be cloned directly, though.

Produced using `git bundle create fname HEAD` on linux v3.0 after:
`git repack -a -d -F --depth=100 --window=100` (default compression level)
`git -c pack.compression=0 repack -a -d -F --depth=100 --window=100` (no zlib compression)

[1] https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/Documentation/technic...
And this is where the main issue is. Local newspapers, local advertising companies, global search companies that could have been; all of them are competing with Google on vastly unfair terms. Google is not paying tax. The others have to.
The quality level of publications coming out from Google far surpasses IBM both in terms novelty and content in my opinion.

Why not look through the papers each company has released though and decide for yourself?
https://ai.google/research/teams/applied-science/quantum-ai/
https://www.ibm.com/blogs/research/category/quantcomp/
4 Ways to Deal with Manipulative People
It's time. A solid 100% of the gains in wealth we've seen over the past decade have gone straight to this new aristocracy 10% of the population that has been fortunate enough to latch on to these gigantic companies that have concentrated wealth in a way never possible before in history.

And this will be a good thing for everyone. Look at what happened to Standard Oil. Rockefeller was forced by the DOJ to break things up at the height of our first gilded age, and the subsequent companies went on to be hundreds of times more valuable than Standard Oil alone, while creating thousands of jobs and spreading the wealth to more Americans.
Although to be fair, dust is definitely a problem if you want to see into the center of the galaxy which is why most of the observations of Sagittarius A* are done in the infrared or near-infrared spectrum, which can penetrate dust. It's also why we can't see clear across our galaxy to make out what's beyond it, so we don't know what the Great Attractor is.
State of the Dapps  – Alpha Browser
Can you define precisely what you mean by random in this context?
They are just arbitrarily declaring various things to be non-economic transfers. They have enough economic value for the participants to pay to execute them.

If you are going to slice it like that, there are plenty of ACH/SWIFT transfers that are actually just people moving money from account to account or institution to institution too, rather than actual inter-party transactions.

And specifically, if mining pools distributing rewards to participants don't have economic value, then neither does Uber. Mining pools are literally just "the gig economy" for computational power.

I'm as critical of Bitcoin as anyone else but this is just an ad for Elementus's services. "If you want to understand what you're getting into, pay us!".
The last (only?) recommendation for Numerical Analysis, "Numerical Recipes", is infamous for its poorly-written and hard to parse code examples. AFAIK some of it doesn't even compile.
>> Sometimes "business" must bow down to things like ethics, otherwise it tends towards corruption and exploitation.

> That's if you get caught. On paper I completely agree with you, but in reality I think you'll find many many many businesses and industry that skirt ethically and moral behavior to cement their bottom line.

No, businesses, and the people who they're composed of, must bow down to things like ethics, even when they wouldn't get "caught" behaving unethically.

> I keep repeating its just business because it is, ultimately everything comes down to money especially in business.

That's a morally bankrupt sentiment. Don't hold up a descriptive model of sociopathic behavior as a normative model of social behavior.

Simple models can be intellectually compelling, but neither correct nor complete. Simple economic theories, especially not the ones laymen read, do not represent the bedrock principles of society or human behavior. There's much they leave out and more that's orthogonal to them.
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Large companies should be taxed where the value is created. And because that’s hard to measure, cost should be used instead. So if Google spends 60% of its budget in the US, 60% of its profits should also be attributed to the US.

(Side note: the alternative of taxing profits where the revenue is generated does not make much sense as this would be equivalent to a sales tax.)
Matt Levine talks about this, and despite its obvious pitfalls (in terms of unfairness amongst players in the market), HFT does provide utility of arbitrage. Also, all that moving around of stocks theoretically provides more liquidity - i.e., it's easier to find a counterparty when you buy and sell; you don't sit there waiting for the trade to execute. I'm no expert, however.
Patients normally sue a hospital system though. My partner has been involved in dozens of malpractice lawsuits over the years because every person who interacted with the patient during their stay is named in the lawsuit, not just the doctor(s) who treat them.

Hospitals have staff lawyers whose job it is to deal with lawsuits. So it's not terribly time-consuming for doctors outside of depositions.

It's safe to say that this is one of the reasons that doctors move from private practice into working in a hospital system. But it's also not a major one (dealing with insurance companies is the major factor).
This looks great. Want to play it now but the edges of the screen are missing on Android Firefox.
I think there is going to be a revolution in using synthetic imagery / 3D renderings to train neural networks. Right now the biggest limiting factor imo is acquiring data sets and labeling them. That problem vanishes if you generate photorealistic images. Why this isn't a huge, huge, huge thing already I don't know, but I'm doing it.
I can appreciate your comment, but I respectfully disagree. So many high-profile people and groups want to completely eradicate any differences between the sexes. This is wrong. Women should be praised for who and what they are. Being smart,feminine, caring, and nurturing are virtues for women, much as strength and physical performance is for men. Notice I didn't mention fashion, physical possessions, or the ability to acquire them.

I appreciate the everyday woman and man far more than those who exist to toot their own horns. There is something to be said for the woman that can juggle a coding job and then be a mom at 5 PM. Kudos to her. Ditto, men should be praised for their abilities to hold down a good job, provide for and protect their wives and children should they have them. Yes, I am a social conservative, but I'm not misogynist or blind to the modern world. Every family has a different dynamic. Everyone has to work things out for their own situation. I'm old school enough to realize what identity politics is, can spot it a mile off, and reject it. But... we can never erase the differences as they are innate. Women should be celebrated as feminine and men as masculine. To do anything else is disingenuous. This is not to say women are sex objects, for example. They are not. Nor are men to be idolized for their prowess on the field. This crap can be taken too far and injures both sexes and compartmentalizes them.

In a nutshell, I tend to embrace sci-fi author, Robert Heinlein's, famous quote in life:

"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."
Practiced for near 3 years in Canada, and continued for a half a year after in China.

Quit webdev a year ago, now working in engineering consultancy.
This is disgusting. Literally stealing from the pockets of the american people. It doesnt matter that its technically legal. This news should bring outrage.
Missile launches still involve a significant cost. Firing a missile into space is not a cheap proposition.

And again, what if it doesn't work? You can only try this one time. After that, you lose your element of surprise. Your enemy now knows the enormity of your intent to do harm. Lesson to be learned from Pearl Harbor.

Risky. Risky. Risky.
TLDR: They switched to billing based on vCPU cores and GB ram, with fairly similar pricing of predefined and custom machine types.

And sustained use discounts are now based on actual resource use, with no distinction between machine types.
I like this too. I just like white countoured roads/streets I guess. :) Mapy.cz also have offline versions (for the whole europe that is!).

Seems like there are several good local competitors to google maps.
Number of stars would be a decent metric, for sure.
> Starting from when, Emperor Jimmu?

This system actually existed but it has an association with ww2 so it probably wouldn't go over very well now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_imperial_year
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Average word count at State of the Union address by POTUS
United CEO Refused to Sit Coach for an Interview About How Coach Seats Are Today
> People have been paying with plastic since the late 80s

I've had my Barclaycard since 1972, when I was 16.
Scenery cheat sheet
Android wear app to track table tennis strokes and speed
This is really cool, but I think this has less to do with AI and more with sorting algorithms. If the actual scientists say otherwise than I'm wrong, but I can only see AI as merely a buzzword.
And in cases where you don’t, various combinators let you handle common patterns more easily too.

You can also write it Go style if you prefer; we started off with exactly that, then moved to a macro, then turned that macro into ?.

That all being said, none of that feels very Go-like, so it makes sense that they haven’t followed what we did.
Hi. Celiac disease and non-celiac gluten sensitivity are linked to half a dozen mental illnesses, including ADHD, depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, OCD.

Sometimes, adopting a paleo or low carb diet can remove this allergen. Just something to think about. You don't have to have obvious symptoms of celiac disease or another allergy to ahve them.
I'm surprised you appreciated it so much. To me it sounds like a classic education companies are doing in order to make people accept a workforce where cultural differences are quite big.

Personally I always worked better with people who are similar to me in behavior and attitude. It's always a challenge trying to work with people who are very different. I don't mean different race - I mean different personality to the degree that it's super annoying.
Denis Villeneuve is remaking Dune, and that’s a good thing
I disagree. Comparing bar heights with large dynamic range requires vanishingly small bars or a graph that doesn't fit on one screen, both of which inhibit intuition about relative size.

I don't know that that would be the case with this particular data, but I can certainly imagine a dataset whose data would fit easily when expressed as two dimensional areas but would become too large for a screen or too small for a pixel when rendered as one dimensional objects.
Almost any game by Zachtronics.

In particular:

Opus Magnum

Shenzhen I/O

TIS-100

SpaceChem
C11 threads.h coming to glibc 2.28
That said, government administrated systems can become just as bad or worse because you don't have meaningful alternatives or the alternatives that exist aren't practical/affordable.
Great article that does a good job of recapping the evolution of how the interaction between consumer and merchant has evolved
There is evidence that before you develop symptoms, people with the flu are more likely to have social interactions: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/darwins-subterranean...
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