skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also, this was done on cell lines in vitro, only one of which was derived from a non-diseased human retinal epithelium (ARPE-19). Cell lines have undergone genetic change that allows them to replicate indefinitely, so they are fundamentally different from normal cells.

I presume that they used a laser because they anticipated that it would potentially take years to see a result from a non-coherent blue light source, far exceeding their available funding, patience, and ability to keep uncontaminated cell cultures going.

Applying a blue laser with unknown irradiance to a retinal cell line from a single human genetic source in vitro is very, very far from proving a link between blue light and diseases such as macular degeneration and RP.

All this demonstrates is that coherent blue light is capable, under certain circumstances, of interacting with retinal to produce cell damage.

Any relationship to human disease on the basis of this paper is pure speculation. Advising people to wear "blue blocker" sunglasses or avoid cellphone screens (or take Vitamin E!) is pure fantasy made up by the scientific press to sell your retinas.
Lots of places do have laws that ban people from being intoxicated in public.

They often aren't severe, more so police are able to remove extremely intoxicated people from a public location.
Further down someone posted the journal article[1] that describes a centimetre scale accelerator, that certainly counts as mini to me.

[1]: https://journals.aps.org/prab/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevAccelB...
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Companies cannot give money directly to politicians

According to [1] Paul Ryan accepted $121,700 from Blackrock Inc, and [2] says Charles Schumer accepted $102,950 from Lockheed Martin.

Sounds like companies giving money to politicians to me?

[1] https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/summary/paul...
[2] https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/summary/char...
The only thing you can really do is use tor. But you have to be very, very careful and know what you're doing. It's not something most people can set up, and not something most people can (easily) access.
> My approach is to ask them to "worry on my behalf" about the goal. Worrying is anticipating problems before they happen. Worrying is not taking for granted that everything will continue as planned. Worrying is finding and fixing bugs before anyone else notices. Worrying is being pessimistic about the quality of our codebase and the stability of our infrastructure. Worrying is identifying and mitigating risks in advance. Worrying is verifying the strength of relationships with more communication. Worrying on my behalf is considering everything that might go wrong so I don't have to. This is what I expect from people who take on responsibilities.

This isn't worrying, this is managing.

Don't tell people to worry. Worrying is detrimental to their health. If I can't do something about something right now, there's no point thinking about it. However, if I can do something, there's absolutely no reason to worry about it, just do it.
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No. PhD should be about truth, research and advancing knowledge. Knowledge/science shouldn't be politicized.

It's such an absurd assertion when you consider that different people have different ideas on how to improve society.
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That link name is probably the reason why corporate proxy blocked it.
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> > No it doesn't: it depends on whether it's dysfunctional or not. Even if the people involved don't see the dysfunction.

> “It’s dysfunctional because it’s dysfunctional.”

> I hope I don’t have to explain why this is, again, begging the question.

I think your response also begs the question, assuming an empiricism that should at least be argued. That is, it seems to me that you conflate a non-definition ("there is an absolute notion of dysfunction, although I don't know how to define it") with a circular definition ("dysfunction is the state of being dysfunctional"). These may be equally useful in the present, but the first, which seems to me to be what WalterSear is saying, can be imagined as a spur to useful future discussion (either arguing that there is no such absolute notion, or seeking out the correct absolute notion); whereas the latter is clearly useless and is, I think, an incorrect summary of WalterSear's position.

(Can you really pin down any concept—like morality or human rights, which you mention later—to the degree of specificity that you are requiring of the definition of 'dysfunction'? I know I can't.)
I read the pdfs but didn't dig in too much, however the main difference seems to be the generation of a beam of positrons instead of electrons.
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They mention 100GeV/m gradients in the paper. If you could get that for 150m you'd have 15 TeV, comparable in energy to LHC (~14 TeV).

As I understand it, you can't just build a pipe and get the full gradient for X meters. Rather you build a (relatively) small device which has the 100GeV/m gradient, and then you'd glue many such devices back-to-back. So you get some overhead from the interconnects etc. Still, with 10x overhead it's "only" one mile.

The other point is that not all applications need TeV scale. For such applications maybe just a few stages would be sufficient. In which case it might be room-size or less.
Here are the RGB values converted from the Matlab color index format mentioned.

https://github.com/sbrichardson/react-cividis/blob/master/sr...
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The two problems historically have been efficiency and endurance. Endurance has been in the range of 2-5 years, so not good. Although I think that’s more to do with reactivity in the presence of oxygen than UV. If UV was the problem you could always just filter it out, albeit at an efficiency cost, whereas total encapsulation is more difficult and expensive.
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To all those commenting about "Whoa is me, the dastardly cyclists are running red lights and stop signs", please look up the concept of an Idaho Stop.

Stop pretending that you're seeing these cyclists performing an Idaho stop during busy traffic. You know full well they're paying attention a whole hell of a lot more than you considering their life is on the line. You may not see us looking both ways, because it only takes about 15 degrees of head movement to allow our eyes to capture the full peripheral to check for oncoming traffic and it's a hell of a lot more convenient for the drivers behind us to have some distance between us.

The only reason this is a big deal is because humans are barely different from monkeys on an emotional level and can't rational handle the concept of there being a different legal context for a bike vs. a motor vehicle.
> it's worth noting that advertisers intentionally manipulate your emotions, including fear. That can't be healthy.

I don't know that "healthy" is the concern I'd have there. All television programming intentionally manipulates your emotions. That's why people watch it.

The same goes for... all other forms of entertainment, without exception.
In depth technical books, like for example[1], are very rare these days. Competent people are busy building systems, frameworks and making money. Some of these guys are talking on various conferences, but IMO just to present themselves to various companies. To put it simply they are mostly in a business of selling their time.

Systematic approach of learning particular topic through the books is deprecated these days. One of the ways to expand knowledge would be building stuff. If you are into distributed systems, implement something small and build upon that (i.e. implement raft[2] or build distributed rate limiter). There will be many problems and I'm sure you will learn a lot along the way.

[1] "Design of Unix Operating System by Maurice Bach"
[2] https://raft.github.io/
Microsoft should be able to decide who they do business with. That's typical contract law almost everywhere.

If they decide get certain content is against their own values, culture and risks the safety of their own staff, even if that risk isn't an immediate one, they should always have the option of termination the contract.

That's not censorship, that's business. A company doesn't owe anyone their service, unless they provide a public utility or because they're a monopoly. In terms of web hosting, neither is the case with Microsoft.
What? Just let the programmer to it in his homeland. Easy. Just as outsourcing.

I wish this project approuch was more common. It would probably be cheaper than wasting time on multiple days interviewing reality shows where people are voted out one by one like some companies do it.
They do not. The difference is the same as having a BLAS implementation that uses the SIMD units to their potential and one that supports a dedicated sparse matrix multiply ASIC connected via some high bandwidth bus. In the first case the caller doesn't have to worry about the implementation details it is just a performance optimization. In the other case you have to use an API that has to be more cumbersome to deal with multiplexing the accelerator and moving data.
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They are aggregating the contributions of people associated with the company. Look at https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/contributors...

These tables list the top donors to candidates in the 2017 - 2018 election cycle. The organizations themselves did not donate, rather the money came from the organizations' PACs, their individual members or employees or owners, and those individuals' immediate families. Organization totals include subsidiaries and affiliates.
Yeah, same with making someone rot in prison for a lifetime.

I understand that.
Or, viewed another way, IE developers have a stable API surface to work on that isn't a moving target every hour.
That I know of, both Germany and Ireland are very quick to issue work visas if you have a sponsoring company and both Berlin and Dublin have huge tech ecosystems.
I totally agree with this article, except:

"That’s what tax preparers are – they use the exact same software that anyone can use at home, but they allow you to talk to a human instead of learning the software"

IMHO this is one of those edge cases where software might simplify the process 99 times out of 100, but a skilled/experienced human may help avoid uncommon but costly mistakes. There is enough nuance and vagueness in taxes that it pays to have a human look over your numbers -- even if they use software to do it.
Most people can get away with a work visa. It's usually much simpler.
Which is what Gab was supposed to be, so that ship has basically sailed.
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Well, in America almost everyone has a car and there's a road system that will take you anywhere you want to go. Americans don't like public transport overall, for reasons such as privacy, being able to play your music over the speakers, not having to smell the person next to you, having an interior you choose, taking the route you choose, being able to stop at Wendy's when you want, leaving to go and coming back on your own time rather than the train's... This list is much longer in reality. Plus there are planes for long distance which are already cheaper to fly San Francisco to LA than the ticket on the yet to be built train.
It was probably shot on film at 24fps, then a 3:2 frame sequence is applied to convert to 30fps, which is then slowed down to 29.97. This slowdown (known as a "pulldown" in the jargon) causes the drop in pitch of the audio.

(Sometimes things are actually shot at 23.976, so that they can be sequenced straight into 29.97 without needing the pulldown, but I'm not sure how common this is).

The other thing is that when converting to PAL, you have two choices - either apply a very complicated frame squence that I've long since forgotten all the details of, or just speed up the footage from 24fps (or 23.976) to 25fps, causing a raise in pitch.

So it's quite possible that neither of the versions you watched were actually at true speed or pitch - the NTSC version could have been slow and the PAL version could have been fast.
Great analysis of the paper’s experimental protocol.

Isn’t the other “sniff test” that we haven’t seen a huge increase in age related retinal diseases since the introduction of computer monitor and handheld devices?

If these sources had such a big impact, it would be obvious from incidence numbers.
Religions? Do they've all scientifically verified ideas? People still believe in them. Not only that, religion is also given special place in the constitution and law of some countries.

Religion is still going strong. Try to take away anyone's religion based on refutations then tell me that refuting bad idea really works.

Till then many others will try to mix mash bad ideas into new religions.
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Here you go
https://github.com/sbrichardson/react-cividis/blob/master/sr...
That's good to hear.

Because Aurora PostgreSQL has already behind MySQL for years. Glad to hear this isn't a perpetual condition.
I second this.

On one of my sites that barely has 1000 visitors a week, I still have to deal with 1000¨'s of requests every day from "hackers" lol.
Well, there’s NO different context, at least in some places. In Montreal, which is a very bike-friendly city, you can get a ticket for running a stop or using headphones. I was recently stopped for this, by literally an ambush cop on a bike bath. Luckily got away with a warning. But I’ve heard others getting tickets.
How is this different from people who own animal farms and purposefully breed them? Is it just because it's satisfying an emotional need rather an a financial one?
In Australia, it's normal to go from a bachelor's degree with honours (which is usually a 4 year program rather than the usual 3 years) straight into a PhD which is usually 3-4 years full time.
> substitute TV with books

Books are so boring. Like snooze.
>impossible unless it is pure sci-fi.

It also depends on the timeframe. If someone comes to me and needs some complicated job (doesn't really matter what it--just assume it's something that normally takes weeks to months) done overnight, the money doesn't really matter. There just isn't enough runway.

Of course, as the timeframe gets longer, things start to become possible for a premium cost, phased delivery, etc.
Good for Microsoft for drawing the correct line in the sand. Calls to violence are not protected speech.

The Alex Jones censorship is another matter. His stuff is pretty crazy, but not worthy of being taken down. Louis Farrakhan says lots crazy stuff and I don’t believe he’s been censored at all. There is definitely a double standard at play.
Cloning is perhaps less alarming than some of the regular practices of dog breeding, which produce breeds with chronic respiratory or joint problems.
eh, could've condensed the whole book to about 1/3 the size. It took me about 8 months to read it cos it was so hard to keep trudging through. In hindsight I do somewhat like the gist of the book though.
that Hasura company has really been cranking up dev tools lately. Seems there are some serious brains behind the company. I hope you'll find the equivalent business people to keep you going.
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This shocks me too. I’d at least like the option to turn off ads for an additional fee. No way will i pay and watch ads however!
> Don't want to support diabetes-inducing sugar water? Then avoid soda companies.

So thought experiment on this. Say 49.5% of the world buys pure index fund. 49.5% of the world what you said... and say, all avoided Pepsi stock. Wouldn't that mean that Pepsi stock is undervalued from a PE standpoint, and the 1% of investors left would go 100% in Pepsi, and make a crapload of money?

I totally get voting with your money. If you think some company is absurd for some reason, avoid buying their product. But to avoid buying stock? I think all you do is create an investment opportunity for someone savvy with numbers to make big money, and the company feels no different.

Please correct me if I am wrong though, I might be missing something in this argument.
That is what I call 'thermodynamic truth', or the truth we would see if we ran time backwards. The problem is, we can't run time backwards and because of information loss there, many times, can be many possible situations that create the outcome we see.
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Isn't this almost the same as the viridis palette that has been around for ages? https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/viridis/vignettes/in...
Not accessable in the EU.
That is also somewhat the case. If someone is sufficiently drunk walking about instead of getting a safer ride home, they may receive a temporary driving ban (I haven't heard of anything longer than a week in that case) and if you endanger traffic then you can loose your drivers license.

The difference is that pedestrian and cyclists don't weigh tons but can still severely endanger others and themselves.
It's depressing that someone can write 650 words about an strike and its effects and fail to describe the actual grievances of the employees striking.
Why the hell does RSA ever get used anymore, esp. in smartcards etc? It's been obsolete for like 10 years thanks to ECC, and ECC is way easier to implement (esp. 127-bit and 521-bit).
That's still true in the U.S. too. It's always like a product that isn't regularly that brand, but substituted with the logo being heavily exposed.
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Registered domain one day, got 23 calls from marketers the next
Has anybody else experienced this lately? I wonder if it is related to gdpr drying up data on older registrations? Any other theories?

Edit: I used Godaddy, didn't pay for privacy. No calls today so far today (10am east coast).

Edit 2: Just talked to a coworker, it happened to his son recently and he registered at register.com. I think that supports my theory.
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I don't know, the two questions are nothing alike:

One is asking for a guesstimate, while the other is a proper optimisation problem.
To me it's a valid interview question, albeit a bit difficult for a short session.
> no zero hour on our clocks

There is. We call it 12 for some crazy reason (it goes 12 AM, 1 AM, 2 AM, ..., 11 AM, 12 PM, 1 PM, ...).

> no zero year in our calendar

Which is quite irritating really. New Year's Day 2000 wasn't the start of the 3rd millenium, because there was no year zero.

> East Asian babies are born with age one year

But not western babies.
The politicians did the lying about how much it will cost, how fast it will go, how necessary it is, and when it will be built. And they made sure the referendum with all those lies and benefits for special interest groups happened.
If you flatten a pedestrian I doubt they care whether it was with a car or a bike. And the court won't care much if you were drunk.

The road is supposed to be used responsibly, driving or cycling drunk shows you don't care about that. Everyone here uses Taxi, public transport or friends for transport if drunk.
And you can have a kid in a 2BR and its not “poverty.”
Why should we wait till the people currently in the field retire?
> Stack overflow

Well, yeah, other than tail recursion with tail call optimization, stack consumption, if not stack overflow, is always an issue.

> and honestly many recursive algorithms are quite hard to parse in your head especially once you add some edge cases and some other entropy.

I find lot of things are easier to conceptualize recursively than iteratively, though parsing really depends a lot of the language.
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CSS is one of those things I think you bite the bullet and learn over a weekend.

Its frustrating rather than difficult + the instant gratification makes it a fun little weekend project.

EDIT: For clarity-

"Cheat sheets" in CSS IMO are more harm than good. Sure, google the occasional 'align'. But until you start typing in your own code, you really are hacking your CSS.

Taking a weekend to learn CSS is learning the syntax and applying it. After this, you will know what to google, what type of responsive problems you will be setting widths for, etc...

Its very easy to use other people's work in HTML/CSS without ever understanding it.
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As a rescue dog owner this article made me wonder how different he could be if I had the chance to raise him with love instead of neglect. Then I realized a clone would look the same but it could be an entirely different dog otherwise.
But you can say "Take a look at column 4" instead, which is unambiguous.
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> I sort of get it now why USA import shows have the weird breaks though.

That's a direct result of networks dictating the # of commercial breaks in the show.

Watching a show like Battlestar Galactica is a bit odd because they liked to have dramatic little climaxes right before a commercial break.
Why is cloning more narcissistic than regular procreation? We produce half-clones already, this is just adding the other half.
> Open Source software, which can be verified by everyone.

What makes you think that the open source software you verified is the software actually loaded on the machine you are using to vote. What about the software on the machine that counts the votes?

> Voting via an app with authentication as good as or through your bank account.

What about voter secrecy? Logging in and then voting defeats the purpose of voting.

> After Voting, We should be able to query and verify who our vote is with - on a particular day of counting, and get whole history of our votes. An individual persons vote is append only.

If you can query to find your vote then anyone else can. Do you want everyone to know who you voted for?
It's called clean energy evangelism.

reneweconomy's self-description.

"Australia's best informed and most read web-site focusing on clean energy news and analysis, as well as climate policy."

It's an advocacy organization probably funded by clean energy lobby. There are quite a few of these climate advocacy "news" organizations being spammed on social media along with their supporters in the comment threads.
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> If there is an incentive to get to know who a individual person has voted for, then it would be with all parties.

Buying votes is a thing. If it's easy to verify that you voted for X party then it's very easy to sell your vote.
This looks cool. It looks like it wouldn't be too hard to write a preprocessor to online the includes (to get down to a single file)
What an awful situation for you both.
Would a change of career be possible/practical/helpful?
Advertisers to tend to measure how many people are turned of by their ads. Atleast the ones that care. The lower bidders (ie the scum of the internet) who sell ads for the absolute lowest price. They usually don't offer any clickthrough analysis, it's just a place to dump your ad into.

Quality advertisers will tell you if an ad sucks and is annoying potential customers (they measure accept/ignore/deny rates of ads).

The internet is a great tool to have a product offering race to absolute zero in both price, features and quality