skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But GPU cores are already king at latency hiding. They can run hundreds of threads doing pointer chasing, switching between them round-robin as the memory reads complete.
DNA's structure was deduced from X-ray crystallography using a conventional X-ray tube, most laboratory protein crystallography doesn't require a synchrotron light source.

Here's a typical unit:

https://www.rigaku.com/en/products/protein/micromax007
was that part of the FTC's consent decree, concerning Facebook's deceptive privacy practices?
It's not only the A/V that goes into the experience. Not saying it is a perfect experience, but a large TV or even a projector isn't really the same.
read "A Mathematical Theory Of Communication" by Shannon himself, it's the only source you will ever need, it's available for free
Reminds me of the time that I moved back from the US to Canada but I couldn't change the billing on my Xbox Live account because I couldn't specify a province in the billing address. I had to buy Xbox Live gift cards to renew my membership year after year So sad. Xbox Live is state of the art but the billing system is a dinosaur.
Boring Chest Pain
>humans can't survive on what is currently being grown. In other words, we can't just stop feeding all of that corn and soybeans to animals and give it to humans instead. We can't live off of a diet that is 75% field corn and industrial soybeans.

Both feed corn and industrial soybeans yield their deliciousness to the power of the chemical engineers. Both are processed into food you and I eat every day. I bet you a dollar that your last piece of chocolate had lecithin in it, and you have to go pretty far out of your way to get lecithin that isn't from soy. And corn syrup. I'd bet a fair number of dollars that you've consumed some corn sugar product today, and that can be made from feed corn.

TVP is a common ingredient in meat substitutes, and it is a pretty heavily processed food made from what's left over after you extract the soybean oil from the industrial soybeans.

My favorite preparation is the "Morningstar farms" "Grillers Prime" vegieburgers... but you can also buy tvp bits at the health-food store, and I know people who use 1/3rd ground beef, 2/3rds TVP bits in their spaghetti sauce, and it pretty much tastes like your regular beefy spaghetti sauce. My mom used to make TVP sloppy joes that were sloppy joe sauce with TVP instead of meat. (I personally think meat greatly improves that recipe... but you can add a lot of TVP in with that meat without ruining the flavor, if you ask me.)

(To be clear, I'm not actually arguing that TVP is as delicious as actual meat. It's... usually not. But it can be quite palatable, and it is unquestionably nourishing, and it is made from the soybeans you grow for oil; stuff that would otherwise be used in cattle feed.)
The tweet announcing it: https://twitter.com/pwnsdx/status/1040944750973595649

The code that causes the crash (safe to open): https://gist.github.com/pwnsdx/ce64de2760996a6c432f06d612e33...

The demo itself (causes crash): https://cdn.rawgit.com/pwnsdx/ce64de2760996a6c432f06d612e33a...
Cheaply made products that break easily are always a problem; there are certainly a lot of terrible headphones on the market, with or without wires.

However, the problem you are describing:

> One side of the headphones stops playing sounds; you can sometimes spin the connector and get the sound back, [...] and it stops working eventually.

I suspect that might be terrible quality wires, not necessarily the headphones. The quality of patch cable at the usual big-box consumer stores has fallen dramatically over the last ~5-10 years. It can be really difficult to find a cable hasn't changed the outer protective wrapping from traditional softer rubber(?) to some sort of cheap plastic. The wrapping on the new cables can harden badly over as little as 2-3 months, leading to sharp kinks/bends forming over time that break the delicate wires inside.

The newer cables also tend to lack protective stiffeners at the ends for protection against damaging the wires if the cables is pulled at a right angle to the connector.

Once the wire has started to break, you might be able to get it working again for a while by turning the connector (if the break is at or near the connector) or otherwise moving the cable until the broken ends of the conductor touch.

On the other hand, most of the cables that I bought in the late-80s/early-90s still work fine. (they never formed permanent kinds) The problem is race-to-the-bottom we're seeing everywhere as businesses try to squeeze every last cent out their products. This will happen to wireless headphones eventually, but for now they are in a honeymoon period where they are still a "new(-ish) tech" that is experimenting with new designs. Eventually the value engineers and must-meet-growth-targets management will get around to "optimizing" their quality and longevity too.
Ah, if newLISP had only dispensed with the "new" and "lisp" in its name, it might be viewed in an entirely different vein. Alas, it did not and thus nearly committed language seppuku.

As to the language itself, as a casual programmer I very much like it. Its use is clear, it's well documented, and it's self-contained (and thus easily installed).
Rain ruins one of Norway’s richest men
It think it means that some of Apple's wins came from building something no one knew they wanted. So no amount of market research would have led to it.
Safari does not run at ring zero. However, it can make system calls into the ring-zero kernel and drivers. If there's a bug in the kernel or drivers, that can cause the kernel to crash.

There are other scenarios that don't involve a ring-zero vulnerability but still result in a "reboot". Safari coordinates with other system processes, like the one that shows the home screen. If a web site can cause Safari to cause that process to crash, it would feel like a "reboot", even though no ring-zero code was attacked.
> Javascript's runtime interpretation + lack of strong typing is the real issue here and not just for embedded devices, but for any application.

Explain how 'runtime interpretation + lack of strong typing' is significant for security.

JS is memory safe which makes it a more secure choice than e.g. C/C++.
> C to the same C is "unison" (You may need to instruments to play two identical C notes at the same time.)

> C to C#/Db (this note has two names) is "small second"

While C# and Db are the same note (in equal temperament [1]), the intervals C/C# and C/Db have different names: C# is called 'augmented unison' [2]. For the name, you start from the basic interval (e.g. C/C) and apply the accidentals (# or b) [3].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_temperament
[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augmented_unison
[3] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accidental_(music)
The whole sentence was:

> Most people en route dismissed me as an English eccentric, > although many were politely intrigued. On one occasion, a > local man offered me a huge meal and homemade wine.

In this context I really don't think the word dismissed should be of concern. Seems like many people treated him fine despite bouncing on a space hopper...
AT&T ksh93 is being actively developed
For that reason I sincerely hope that those unofficial projects go to another dedicated org (say, `google-unofficial`). It is so much confusing.
Thanks for clarification! The TechCrunch article might indeed be click-baity, but OTOH it seems credible to me Google wouldn't be maintaining k8s indefinitely when they've nothing to gain. I understood Google said as much when they were calling on other parties (presumably AWS, Azure) benefitting from k8s more than Google itself to engage in k8s development. Though I'm not sure Azure, and much less AWS, would have a business case for doing so.
AWS likely doesn't have because they don't have the same trust problem Google does. Google likely were loosing from GCP deals because of this, so they put it in there to appease customers.

One year is way too short as well. Enterprise application development does not happen at that speed . Teams and budgets are not readily available to start migration to something equivalent just coz Google felt like it.

Even if that's not a problem migration may not even possible with proprietary APIs. You may have to deprecate entire fearures. If your SLA is longer and reasonable time to your customers, you are screwed.
It was an absolutely terrible idea. I use the headphone jack on my phone every single day, either for my high-quality earphones that I'm not in a hurry to replace, or for plugging in to a PA or stereo at a party, to stream music.

I don't want to carry a single around, and the 3.5mm jack is the standard for analog stereo audio.
This author doesn't really explain how their proposed additions to the curriculum would have predicted the subprime mortgage crisis. If the author is going to criticize mainstream economics for being irrelevant, it seems reasonable that they show how using their methods, it could have been predicted.
While it is interesting to read more of the root cause, the tone of this article is surprisingly pro-Apple to my ears. No, they didn't delete his movies, but they did introduce a technical limitation to prevent him from accessing content that they told him he was buying because of details of media licencing.

This isn't something a reasonable member of the public would expect, and the UX and customer service paths he experienced did not help him understand or try to make him whole, they dismissed his concerns.
> It's annoying that 50% of the die is allocated to hardware that requires feature-specific implementations.

That's the future. While we may be able to cram more transistors onto "7nm" chips, only a tiny fraction of the chip area can be powered on because leakage currents are no longer decreasing with transistor size [1]. Hence Apple's Neural Engine and Nvidia's RTX. You have to waste the extra transistor count on something specialized.

[1] https://semiengineering.com/is-dark-silicon-wasted-silicon/
A good book written by members of the student society Maeve discusses here, for those interested: 'The Econocracy' by Earle, Moran and Ward-Perkins
It's possible to make an iPhone 6S 16 GiB into 256 GiB with a chip programmer and swapping BGA chips. Cost for the chip is around $50 USD.
You seem to think that a lack of usernames means a lack of community, and this is not remotely true. Anonymous forums have been around for decades and have been quite successful.
This is a topic close to my heart. Ever since console gaming went 3D I realised I can't look at anything from a first person perspective without feeling violently ill.

The effect takes hold quicker if I'm looking at someone else playing but even when it is me controlling the action I will be ill within minutes. If I let it get to that point the only solution is to go to a dark room and lie down for an hour or more.

I sometimes joke about it, but in reality I do worry about a future of HUDs and VR environments.

From the two available theories I find the Sensory Conflict Theory the more compelling although I'm still not convinced they have entirely cracked it.

Along with gaming I get similar effects from 3D movies. I struggle to understand the postural challenge that comes from watching a 3D movie vs a 2D movie in the same cinema seat. From my lay persons perspective it would seem to have more to do with the ability of my eyes/brain/inner ear processing more information simultaneously and making contextual sense of it.
My understanding is that it was hydraulic fracking that made the difference.

See, the 'peak oil' people were wrong; turns out that if you are willing to pay more, there's a lot more oil you can extract (albeit at a higher cost)

I actually think it was a self-defeating prophecy in a way. The peak oil folks actually had some mindshare for a while, and there was a lot of investment in more expensive ways to get oil out of the ground that had the assumption of long term oil prices being over a hundred bucks a barrel. This, I think, caused over-investment in new ways of extracting oil, which drove up production and drove down prices. (I mean, there was also a lot of investment in renewables, and I imagine that is also putting downward pressure on oil prices.)
This is why piracy is still going strong... purchasing movies is just so inconvenient. I really don't understand how hollywood doesn't see this.
True and I have two huge battery banks but I still don’t like using my phone. Keeping my huge music library eats into my video and photo storage. And it’s not like Apple lets me stick a micro sd card in.

Maybe I should just bite the bullet and switch.
It works on my Android phone, and the last few flights I've taken have specifically said "we don't have WiFi, but you can activate airplane mode then turn on Bluetooth".

(Your writing would be much easier to read with capital letters and apostrophes.)
Can you? If so it’s not obvious at all.
Why does ray tracing require more than 1 ray per pixel anyway?
I'm using the headphone jack right now connecting to wireless headphones with a failed Bluetooth section. The headphones will be sent back to the mfgr for warranty service.
Odd. I am sure the one I had came direct from the USA and was called exactly that.
Unfortunately, low latency Bluetooth codecs are fragmented between AptX, which can achieve 32ms latency but isn’t supported by iOS, and AAC which isn’t generally supported by accessories, especially the low latency variant.

So you’re basically stuck with AirPods or new Beats if you want low latency Bluetooth headphones for an iPhone. And this seems unlikely to change.
How Pedialyte muscled out Gatorade to win the adult hangover market
It's prudent to reboot when a privileged component crashes, since the integrity of the code execution has been compromised. A lot of the time a DoS bug in native code is synonymous with "nobody bothered to craft a RCE".

It's unintuitive to many people how many scenarios eventually allow a RCE exploit to be crafted. Check out some null pointer deref RCE's to convince yourself.
A very important factor for helping people with addiction is considering its context. Gabor Maté says in In The Realm of Hungry Ghosts [0] that nearly 100% of his most-hopeless addict-patients had experienced some sort of adverse childhood experience.

When I met the friend who completed my education about addiction, I thought, "this woman is high as a kite." She latched on to me like a life preserver. I didn't know anything about hard drugs, and just observed and listened for the first two months -- adopted, older adopted sister was angry and picked on her, etc etc. After three months I decided that she didn't like her drug world very much, and began to encourage her to sober up. She resisted at first, then she came around. She likes me more than the drugs.

[0] https://books.google.com/books?isbn=1583944206

I want to draw attention to the bit in this article about anxiety:

The first patient, Brooke Anglin, 28, had
had a rough ride. During a turbulent
relationship when she was sagged down by
depression and severe anxiety, she soothed
herself with opioids. After the birth of
her second child, she lost both her job as
a supermarket cake decorator and custody
of her two children. Under Dr. Wlasiuk’s
care, she gradually weaned herself off the
opioids.

[...]

Ms. Anglin whispered, “I want my kids back.”

Dr. Wlasiuk grasped Ms. Anglin’s hands.
“I am amazed by your strength,” she said.
“I want to treat your anxiety until things
settle down. What are your thoughts?”

They agreed on temporary anti-anxiety
medication. Dr. Wlasiuk also taught her
breathing exercises.

"Anti-anxiety medication" is probably code for benzodiazepines. This class of drugs is remarkably effective in the short-term, but rapidly worsens the patient's anxiety. "Ms. Anglin's" anxiety is caused by stress. She needs a social worker to help her get stabilized and get her kids back, not a benzo.

The best use of the medical profession's stature would be to advocate for mostly removing addiction from the domain of criminal justice, or at least for advocating for removal of "incarceration" from the list of reasonable things to do to an addict. Cages don't help with the emotional problems at the root of addiction.

A HN comment [1] recently reminded me of "problem solving courts" [2]. Maybe a good intermediary step would be to require that all "drug" cases be treated as problems to be solved, rather than excuses to throw people away for long periods of time.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17965398

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem-solving_courts_in_the_...
As a son of a university professor who has worked mostly with startups in my career, I would say, if you have tenure, or a good shot at it, I would not leave.

I explored academia when I was young and gave up because I realised how limiting it was going to be for me. The infighting, and politics are crazy. Software is a game that's best played in teams and the kind of team you can realistically build in academia is limited (for reasons I'm sure you're far too aware of).

However, as I've gotten older (getting near the tail end of my career), I've discovered something interesting. In business, your teams are composed of the people you can hire. It's not a true collaboration either. Small startups are the most fun because it's small and cosy and you can usually get a good feel for your coworkers before you join. But as the business grows, the business needs take over. At some point, your contribution becomes one of encoding the (usually ill thought-out) dreams of the business people.

There are plenty of interesting problems, but unfortunately, there is very little desire to solve these problems. And as the business grows, your influence is likely to diminish greatly. It's very frustrating to see the problem you want to work on hovering in front of your face, but be denied access to it.

As an academic with tenure, you have something incredibly valuable: freedom. You work on what you want to work on. You solve the problems that you want to solve. And, as you said, you may not be able to get grants, or hire grad students and get a lot done, but you also don't have to grind through the day following other people's priorities (for the most part).
More couples are reportedly divorcing over Fortnite
The switching isn't free. Waking up a thread to do just a few computation cycles (a few ray-aabb intersections) and then going back to sleep while waiting for the next node to be fetched from the memory is super inefficient.

If there was significant computation needed per node, this wouldn't be an issue.
The problem is that all HN reader's outer circles would never constitute 1% of Facebook's user base
Great, so now I've got a dongle attached to my earphones. How about the PA or stereo I need to plug in to, in order to stream music?

Should I just always carry a spare dongle in my pocket? Or rely on everyone having the appropriate Lightning/USB-C dongle already? Or maybe just use the industry standard 3.5mm jack, because it always Just Works.
Ok, if we demonstrate that the movement of the planets is not accurately predicted using a well loved system is it appropriate for us to be held to having to invent a new system before publishing?

It might be that there is another planet, or it might be that our understanding of the universe is incomplete. It seems to me that the information that there is something out there that isn't covered by our predictions is quite useful for directing science.
>politically enforced sustainability and diversity

This is important, and politically difficult. I mean, we subsidize farms to farm in America because it makes us much more secure against all sorts of potential problems. I, for one, think farm subsidies, if well done, are a very good use of my defense tax dollar.

But it's important that we see those subsidies as a defense subsidy and not, you know, just a handout to a particular class of people; This means that we need sustainable farming practices and we need crop diversity, as those are the only way to defend against some of the threats we face.

(I mean, I personally see it as "you don't want a subsidy? do what you like. But if you want a subsidy? you have to follow these best practices." then you set the subsidy numbers based on how many acres you think we need for that sort of thing.)
> repairing a cable is really easy task generally

Highly subjective. Some people have other hobbies.

> make the cable replaceable, i.e. have it also be connectorized on the headphone end.

I might try that.
Researchers are usually bright people, but funding is often decided by entirely different people, and policy. But anyway ...

Vaccines, as well as antibiotics are hard to find/make and eithee have high price sensitivity, nobody will pay a million for a dose of vaccine, or as with new antibiotics, will only be used as a last resort to combat bacterial resistance. As most medical research today is made by for profit companies, less money is spent on things that are harder to make money on.

Many 'easy' vaccines are already done, and the same goes for antibiotics, so there is. need to move public funding into the entire pipeline for these kinds of substances. Almost forgot, antivenoms also suffer from this, mostly because there are many venoms, and few victims.
Try using Bluetooth anything on a crowded subway platform or in a packed plane where everyone else is doing the same.

There simply isn't enough bandwidth.
How do you get new books if the Kindle never connects to the internet?
AI to Become Next Australian Prime Minister?
You don't buy digital movies. You license them under a license that says you can use it for a limited amount of time at the discretion of the company you're licensing from.

If you want to buy something, you need either a physical item like a DVD based on common open standards (as you have coded to remove the encryption), or you need a file that is playable in software you have the source code to.

Even then hardware wise it becomes more and more expensive to play old purchases due to entropy, and time moving on. Try to play a c90 cassette now, or a 78rpm record. Think how easy that is compared to a 1/4" video tape or umatic.
It's "someone's else's computers" that he paid money to use, and now he's not able to use it.
Fruit bats fertilise some plants in Oceania. I wonder if we have a lot more '...brought to you by mammals' fruits to come? (I think they fertilise non-farmed species. they eat the heart out of the fruit industry and are endangered in part because they're seen as a pest)
> The switching isn't free.

It absolutely is, on current GPUs. Think of it like a larger-scale version of SMT (Intel's hyperthreading). GPUs are able to do this because they execute instructions in-order and do not need to track thousands of instructions per thread.
But why is Safari a privileged component?
you can connect your kindle via usb and access it like a mass storage device to add new books, if you want. I've tried this on a ubuntu box and a fedora box, both default installs, and it just works with no extra drivers or anything.

Of course, the whole point of a kindle is that it's super convenient to live in amazon's walled garden. If you don't want to live in amazon's walled garden... you probably are using another device anyhow.
TIL. So "hoppity hop" it is. Oh, the innocent joys of the sixties and seventies. we got boffing sticks from the US and silly string. I think the boffing sticks lasted longest.
They removed it from his account. This defense based on slightly disagreeing over the correct semantics of "delete" is really grating. Apple promised him a purchase with indefinite storage, then took the access away.