skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>There may be something about alcohol that was helpful in the 1950s that is no longer so today, due to these environmental changes.

Maybe an interaction with the prevalence of leaded gasoline?
This is going a little too far into conspiracy theory territory, don't you think? SpaceX already has successful launches of the Falcon 1, Falcon 9, and Falcon Heavy behind them. By their own admission, the majority of their R&D effort is going into BFR, as Falcon 9 Block 5 is essentially a complete platform and Falcon Heavy is a bit of a technological dead-end that will be obsoleted by BFR.

You can argue that they won't meet their timelines, as they haven't before, but what is the specific accusation here? That it's all lies or some grand cover-up? I don't understand this level of skepticism for a company with a proven track record of results. Maybe you're letting your personal dislike of Elon Musk cloud your judgment too much?
That seems like a very broad statement.

I played with VR a few years ago, and found the notion of an immersive virtual environment to be profoundly different from looking at something on a computer screen.

Some technology absolutely helps with learning. Pencils and paper are technology that help us write down our thoughts. School buildings and chalkboards are technology that make it easy for us to meet and collaborate.

Computers too can provide an opportunity for us to play with abstract concepts. Immersive VR could be a way to better understand certain concepts. With the right presentation, I think VR could be a more effective way of learning than other methods.
The expanded scale raises concerns - avoiding secure locations that scan your face is less burdensome than refraining from public air travel, and a homeland security-curated traveller face db would have a wider reach than a secure site's records.
I think it's little more than a sharp increase in bias. The physiological sciences are heavily driven by moneyed interests and the social sciences tend to be full of people who are extremely politically motivated, and homogeneous, in their 'research.' Bias is always bad, but at least when it's counter-balanced with bias in the opposite direction both sides can help bring each other closer towards the truth by remaining extremely critical of one another. But bias without any counter balance is particularly dangerous as it leads to a feedback resulting in even greater extremism and bias: social media in a nutshell, but it's not limited to just social media of course.

Compare science that's goal is to find a truth to science that's goal is to prove an assumed truth, and you'll see the standard of research sharply decline.

There are some systemic issues in play for sure. Publish or perish means researchers need to put out new publishable work, or find a new career. And that in turn also introduces a publication bias. Spend 5 months researching a hypothesis only to find that it's wrong? Well that's pretty much 5 months wasted because journals are not so fond of publishing negative results. Massage the numbers a bit to get that positive result though, and you're good to go. Pretty nasty incentive systems there. And now add into the fact far more people than ever before are pursuing postgraduate education. It's a mess.
I am just now (as of reading your comment) becoming aware of the "Little" series. Is there a particular order in which one should read the books?
I love this response and I'm stealing it for future use. Thanks.
Maybe so. But if it happens in all cultures across the globe (which is verifiable), then there must be ‘some’ cause. Even if we don’t know it.
China’s low-speed electric vehicles, or LSEVs
That is incorrect. There is no trademark on "open source", and the OSI has no monopoly on what it is supposed to mean.

https://opensource.org/pressreleases/certified-open-source.p...
Being pragmatic and in the OS kernel business, they basically disagree with the standard here and say that tricks like that are necessary in kernel development (even if they might not be needed in the userland). Those parts of the kernel intrinsically cannot be portable anyway. From that perspective GCC is ”wrong” if it doesn’t at least provide an ”escape hatch” to disable optimizations in cases UB isn’t UB but in fact perfectly well-defined on that particular architecture.
Not sure about other belief systems, but most scientists who are Christian at least would consider your question to be a ‘category error’. Science is generally limited to explaining questions of ‘how’ things happen, while the belief in a creating/sustaining God is believed to be explaining questions of ‘why’.

Professor of Mathematics and Christian John Lennox had a fairly good quote saying that he doesn’t believe as a “God of the gaps” but a “God of the whole thing”, in that a Christian doesn’t believe that science being able to explain mechanisms diminishes God in any way, because if a God is in control/sustaining the universe then pretty much everything that science explains can be simultaneously brought about by God.

The whole young earth thing is strangely popular in America but not really strongly held in general mainstream Christianity or (I believe) in mainstream Judaism. There is plenty of scholarship going back thousands of years (back to Augustine circa 4th century AD, or even Phillo of Alexandria in 1st C) who believed that the author of Genesis didn’t intend the first few chapters to be read as attesting literal time periods or mechanisms but convey theological truths about God and humanity.

So while fundie YEC people would probably have a problem with this finding, generally mainstream believers and Christian scientists have no problem with this as just being a step in a process that God causes to occur to intentionally bring about life including humans.
Stop hitting ESC in Vim
Ctrl-C is much much easier on the fingers.
There are only a few case where this does not work so well like in the visual block mode, generally I think its really nicer than ESC.
Sure, but much of the fairness we argue about as adults is due to fundamental disagreements about morality or how the world should work. “It’s not fair that tax cuts benefit the wealthy.” Republicans think it’s not fair to take money from people who earned it. Democrats think it’s not fair for some people to have more wealth than they’ll ever use while others have so little. But the concept of “fairness” doesn’t do anything to help us resolve that disagreement.
Oops - apologies. I forgot how HN works.

Mail me at simon.2.thompson@gmail.com - it's legit, it's in Suffolk, I'm not competing with Google or Facebook for wages but pay ahead of EPSRC and it is research - applied research, but still research.
Cryptocurrencies don't solve practically any problem that a MYSQL server can't solve
Well, we do know that the brain does something that CV systems don't, and that it was a part of a recent self-driving car accident.
Does he really have to do a lot of mental calculations, or does he just have to remember that "the satellite as it is currently positioned comes into view of my friend Bob's observatory in Canberra an hour and 15 before he goes home for the day, at 3:45PM local time... and with the way we are moving in relation to each other, it has been coming into view approximately 36 seconds earlier each day that passes."
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18050349 and marked it off-topic.
Yeah it's fine inside an array, but as soon as you move a pointer from one allocation to another, boom.

Dunno what it means for stack pointers though, probably the same except now you've made it so they can't be registers.
this was an absolutely fascinating read, and it made me question a lot of things I've heard. Like many others, I've heard mostly negative things about kids and video games over the years (almost always from mothers) and now research is showing that the opposite may be true.

Great article!
When Televisions Were Radioactive
I can't believe it's not butter!
If nobody would find it interesting it wouldn’t be on the front page.
I agree with you very much so. A little story -- when my son was in his 3rd grade elementary, I showed him a little Python with turtle graphics. He absorbed it in like his Sponge Bob. I still remember the day when he took an old duck taped laptop of mine to school and his teacher had him do a demo before the class, explaining the python constructs that drove the turtle. The school made Python available at its labs for all students after that. Times changed so much from where I started!

Now computer languages are poetry that we all can learn, and its a necessary tool for any career path. When we talk about _CS_ Undergraduate training though, languages are peripheral and we need to get much deeper -- theoretical and hands-on grounding in hardware, software, network architectures, mastering CS fundamentals that help tackle organizational complexities that new tools and methodologies bring upon us on a daily basis (today ES6, webpack, mobility, data science, networks, etc. ) along with a large legacy world running SAP, Microsoft, etc. out there...and don't forget having enough on accounting, economics, and management under the belt.
Super interesting, and for some, incredibly useful. But I do wonder why you seem married to chrome as a browser when others seem more suitable for this task? Familiarity? Compatibility with streams?
vue-cli needs nodejs, no ?

"Sometimes you have to work with the tools you have, not the ones you want"
This isn't really about coops just making employee share schemes easier presumably by better tax treatment.
> Now, by identifying the remains of organic matter on newly discovered Ediacaran fossils as ancient cholesterol, the scientists have been able to confirm Dickinsonia was an animal, which makes it the oldest known animal.
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And BFR will launch 100 Mg for a tiny fraction of the price of the 140 Mg that the Saturn V could do. Add to that the fact that the plan is for two BFRs to dock in LEO and shuttle across supplies and you end up with larger mission capacity, still at a fraction of the price.

Reusability is the huge game-changer here. When you're reusable, the max payload per launch doesn't matter nearly as much since it's not a one-shot deal.
I use Spark on iOS and Mac, and I love all the extra features (smart inbox and follow up reminders mainly). The only reason I don't use the Gmail anymore is because I have multiple addresses now.
Just get a good case. Unfortunately most rugged phones are behind on the hardware side.

Sonim has some pretty cool devices even engineered to work with gloves. Or you can go with a samsung active model.
Economics should not play a role in science. I agree it is hard.

But this isnt a choice between hard science and shitty survey based science.

I am saying this is a choice between hard science and NOTHING.
Do nothing. Don't do lazy work. That's my point.
It'd be pretty tough to use it on the SAT if you take most of the allotted time trying to type out a function.
Cabot Creamery in Vermont is another fairly well known example of this; it actually happens to have joined with a larger but less publicly visible coop known as Agri-Mark.
I love the concept of the cat phones. There's some real cool hardware in them like an infrared camera.
I downvoted you because people who have religious faith are not always irrational people. This is a cruel way to judge those who believe in higher beings. Watch your words, seriously.

My response is simply that we concept of time in religious text is not what we think it is. I think science exists and God also exists. Plenty of scientisits believe in God and science at the same time. Are you going to quote and say they are also irrational? Sigh. I may be an angry engineer but I don’t think you should imply all of us as irrational. Don’t do that. You are insulting everyone who believe in a religion for having belief in “irrational beliefs”.
Oh, I love that. I didn't have the patience to listen to the radio show but here's a link to an article about L'inconnue that explains a little of the history of the use of the model of her face, and the connection to the toymaker who eventually designed the CPR model! https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-24534069

Wikipedia also does not disappoint, with the lists of literary references to the mask of her face: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Inconnue_de_la_Seine
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sbase is incomplete, though, so not really apples to apples
Low sleep seems to correlate with disorders like diabetes, obesity, and cancer, which are definitely disorders of modernity. It also impairs cognitive performance in lab studies. Going through the book Why We Sleep right now and it’s eye opening for sure.
Freemasonry means different things to different places. In Europe, it followed the parable of certain sectors of the bourgeoise, some of whom ended up in very dark places after universal suffrage became commonplace.

For example, until fairly recently, in some Italian cities if you wanted a career in the civil service you had to choose between Catholicism, Communism, and Freemasonry. No conspiracy needed, just regular turf wars: three churches competing to place “their men” where decisions were made.

The vulgata is that Freemasonry is still relatively strong in Italian academia. It’s just a form of networking in a country that officially forbids networking as a concept — like many things in Catholic states, it is officially forbidden but everybody does it anyway.
One meeeelion dollars. But act today and get a 50% discount.
I don’t think you can treat “tech” as a general category. VR headsets are totally different from smartboards which are totally different from graphing calculators. Maybe VR headsets will be useless too, but I don’t think you can extrapolate that.
Thanks, Mitchbob another extra advice for learn UX?
How's Scrum/Agile/micromanagement in the fields you've mentioned? I've heard that even some research units at universities are beginning to use Agile now...
Well, there's a tension between the right to collect/collate/record naturally public things and being concerned about how that info’s being used by others.

Does it seem reasonable to have law enforcement go through your curbside trash for evidence when you're suspected of a crime? How about when a private investigator hired by a competitor in your industry looks for discarded documents? Or when an unfriendly journalist counting how many liquor bottles you've tossed? The trash is naturally public in all those cases.

To play devil's advocate, how do you feel about this statement?

My DNA is not a secret. The traces that shed from my body are not my property. Anybody is welcome to capture these traces if they come into that person's possession, whether it's fallen strand of hair or a DNA profiling system in an airport.
Holistic health professionals are subjected to an online Inquisition when they attempt to edit false statements and libel out of their profiles only to have the edits immediately reverted and their life’s work dismissed. It was Dr. Gary Null’s investigation into this phenomenon that first alerted me that Wikipedia was playing fast and loose with the facts beyond of the political realm, and I use him here as an example not to sing his praises but because his case is such a clear example of the site’s bias. Null is a board-certified clinical nutritionist who has conducted over 40 clinical studies on lifestyle and diet, more than anyone else in his field. He hosts the longest-running daily non-commercial radio program in history and for 12 years ran the most popular show on WABC. He has published over 700 articles, many in peer-reviewed journals, and has been invited to present his findings at scientific conferences. His research showed humans could not only survive but thrive on a diet wholly devoid of animal protein. His documentaries, including Death by Medicine, the Drugging of Our Children, and Seeds of Death, have won more than 276 awards, placing him among the country’s top documentary filmmakers. He has counseled tens of thousands of people over his 50-year career, never charging a penny. None of these achievements are in his Wikipedia bio, which focuses instead on his divergence from medical orthodoxy and accuses him of quackery. I did not merely take Null’s word at face value when evaluating his statements against those of the Wikipedia page he has been wrestling with for the better part of a decade. Instead, my investigation revealed a pattern of systemic bias that has the entirety of Wikipedia’s medicine and science coverage in its thrall.

Some of this article raises known issues (Phillip Cross for example), but a lot of it just seems to amount to, “my biases are not adequately represented!”
This sounds a bit like the No True Scotsman fallacy. There is no official definition of "open source", so taking what the words literally mean, "open" and "source", ie the source code is open to view, is an acceptable definition.
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Neat. The obvious question would be, how does kronos compare with ntpd? Do they work together, is kronos a replacement, do they solve different problems, etc.? Is it expected that all the servers in a cluster synced by kronos are already running ntpd, and that kronos provides an additional level of reduced skew on top of that?

It'd be great if you could address this somewhere in the top level README on GitHub.
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I’d hope that if some random person walked up to their dorm and said something anti-social along the lines of:

> “Hi. Someone on campus is saying that Senior House used to burn kittens in the furnace. Is this true?”

You’d indeed get an adequately anti-social response.

If you were to follow it up with:

> “Past experience tells me that someone at FSF/Gnu sends me back an email either full of relevant information, or with relevant and helpful links where I can read valuable information.”

I would hope that you’d get an increasingly anti-social response.

Why would you think that some 21 year old seniors, let alone anyone over the age of 14, feel the obligation to respond to random bystanders’ questions of lore? For the FSF it’s an academic mission they’re trying to bring into the world and spread. I’d say that doesn’t appear to be the case with Senior House (and that’s OK).
You can be sure any mildly polarizing topic on Wikipedia will be treated to an article that tramples neutrality with both feet. I don't know if they're "paid" articles, if the system is simply abused, or if Wikipedia is actively doing something about it (and obviously failing). But I can't rely on it for more than the general curiosity about an animal or the population of a city.
I know a young Bay Area engineer who left a large tech company recently to teach Brazilian Jiu Jitsu full-time. He felt that BJJ was the activity that was the most age-senstive to accomplish, not SW.
Teens ain’t on Facebook in my part of the globe. It’s all Instagram and Snapchat. The latest craze is multiparty live video where a couple of teens will broadcast themselves doing goofy stuff while all their friends watch remotely from their devices.

It is a brave new world.
We'll never have enough high quality teachers. The more educated the populace becomes, the more demand there will be for ever higher levels of education.

Education is a class separator. What matters is relative education, not absolute.
Ask HN: How to fully grasp Measure Theory?
I've been taking a class about discrete processes and so far, the introduction of conditional expectation had my head spinning because I don't fully understand the concepts of measure theory being used. What book or online resource helped you get a full and quick understanding of the topic?

Also, are there any professionals who use measure theory in their work? Like actual measure theory and not just the theorems it provides regarding stochastic processes and whatnot.

Thanks!
I guess what I mean is that the results of these types of studies are useful, but only in pointing where to look for a more direct mechanism. In other words, we found a correlation, now we can look more closely at the elements involved to find causality. Mostly it seems like the correlation is accepted and then untested theory is exposed as fact to explain it.
There is an interesting synergy at play amongst UI as s-exprs, functional programming, and components/vdom where the whole is more valuable than the sum of its parts. I was surprised to find no mention of Reagent[1] nor Om[2] both ClojureScript interfaces to React. They share a remarkable similarity with Umbrella especially the s-expr syntax. However, Reagent[1] and Om[2]'s language choice pushes the functional composition further.

I'm interested to see this how this combination of ideas spreads outside the browser and into other applications of UI. As for myself, I've been experimenting with a writing a terminal emulator/component lib[3] using Clojure that is inspired by Reagent/Om and React Native. It's been satisfying seeing the way these ideas compose.

[1] - https://reagent-project.github.io/

[2] - https://github.com/omcljs/om

[3] - https://github.com/aaron-santos/zaffre/blob/master/src/examp...
OK, we've updated it from “Murder body found after tree unusual for the area grew from seed in his stomach”.
Well, it depends on what you mean, I guess. You can't travel through space faster than light, but if we could figure out how to create and use wormholes, for example, we could potentially travel to places that are out of reach when traveling through space.
Do you really need a 10,000 word piece to make your point?

An earlier version of this article appeared with 96 citations (as captured by Archive.org) and then was republished with over 50 more.

And the author previously co-authored a similar 3,400-word piece, with 150 citations, claiming to have reviewed thousands of peer-reviewed papers on vitamins, accusing that Wikipedia editors were censoring information. (Edit: Found another one, 5,800 words, 117 references. Also from the past month. Prolific!)

I'm not rejecting any particular statement made by this piece—I barely skimmed it—but given the clearly biased source and raving-lunatic-with-an-axe-to-grind indications, I flagged this submission.
I stayed there in the summer for a conference during graduate school. Even in the week or so I was there, it felt like something between a hackerspace and the headquarters of a zine than some drab campus housing. There were people showing up to practice twirling flaming batons; there were sun workstations in ever nook; there were random late night bullshit sessions.
Introducing Marvin, the QTN airdrop bot
A telegram bot that will provide you with free QTN (qryptonite)?
Read it here : https://qryptonite.io/2018/09/21/introducing-marvin/
First, the chair wasn't replaced with a couch - you can see there is yet another rectangle just a few pixels to the left, that likely says "chair".

Second, even many people are surprisingly bad at decoding incongruous scenes, which is why hidden object games are a thing.
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Anything that requires hand/eye coordination is waiting on a good VR implementation.

I would totally pay $60 for a VR game that has you building a house from the ground up or doing woodworking in as much detail as possible (even if it's individual stages and tasks without a proper physics sandbox).
With a constant 1g acceleration up until near the speed of light you can cross the observable universe in a human lifetime.

To the other side of the galaxy it would be 12 years

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_travel_using_constant_ac...
Is the DOM an afterthought here, like in React, or is everything strongly tied to the DOM?
Or Alt + any motion key...
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