skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a very good point. It might be question of high versus low level. From a video I watched today (the rest of the video is worth watching, too, but the following stand-alone quote is apropos): "Polymorphism and interfaces have to be kept under control. I don't believe that their role is in a very low level system like interpolating a couple of numbers in the animations, but they have their place in high level systems, in client facing APIs. They are amazing if you do a type of plug in and you really need some type of dynamic polymorphism."

https://youtu.be/yy8jQgmhbAU?list=WL&t=2553
> Even then, at a moment of techno-optimism we are unlikely to see again in our lifetimes, Reddit was a toxic swamp. It was the place you went, shrouded in anonymity, for pornography, hard-core racism, revenge porn, Nazi cheerleading, Jew-baiting, creepshots, fat-shaming, mindless anarchy and pictures of dead kids or of women who had been beaten.

What in the world is the author talking about? I went there to discuss local issues (r/stlouis), look at cool maps (r/MapPorn), find credit card deals (r/churning), and shit-talk sports (r/baseball and r/hockey).

I've been on reddit for almost 13 years. I keep seeing hot takes about what it supposedly is (or was), but they never match my experience.

You can find porn and nazis on the internet, yes, but it would be a profound mistake to describe the internet as a tool for finding porn and nazis. So it is with reddit, too.
Clojure does this out of the box: `(/ 1 3)` is 1/3. Removes a lot of annoying floating point errors.
Yes, because C99 was such a design success with mistakes being made optional in C11.
This is very interesting, is it maybe that CRISPR resembles attacks we faced from viruses and the likes during our evolution as a species, that we have such high rates of immunity to it?
If chicken were as expensive as kaviar, people would go vegetarian pretty quick. If the government gave out free vegetarian food, I'm sure most people would eat it rather than pay for expensive meat.

Our consumption habits are mostly encouraged by various taxes and subsidies.
CMPS290S Fall 2018: Languages and Abstractions for Distributed Programming
Actual article: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-018-0204-6

This is perhaps not surprising, but still very disheartening news
Apollo 8 Crashed on Global TV: The 50th Anniversary of Apollo 8
Genuinely. I can't come up with a reason or 'thing' that I wouldn't be able to learn from the internet/video chat/vr (hopefully soon).

What were you thinking of when you wrote this?
I've tried Firefox, Safari, and Chrome. And in every single one of them, scrolling works fine with spacebar, with the mouse, with Page up/Page down, and even that vim*-extension's 'd'.

I also enjoyed the effect. For anything I visit repeatedly, such as webmail or github, or news websites, I prefer a "lean" implementation. But a product page that I will visit may twice in its lifetime? Knock yourself out!
Depends on your goal.

Outlier removal should be done much more carefully when the goal is inference; trying to test if your hypothesis is true. Here, outlier removal is a super easy way to accidentally p-hack. Current best-practice is to pre-register your analysis, including how you'll define and handle outliers.

For predictive goals, where the idea is to predict the class/value of unseen data, outlier removal is often a good way to keep your bias in check and not bias your model towards the outliers. The trade-off is that future outliers will be predicted as though they weren't, e.g. much closer to the mean than they should be. This is what the article is trying to do.

There's also a whole wide world of outlier & anomaly detection, where you want to say e.g. "this new data point is probably an outlier".
Interview with John, a web developer running a mini-agency inside a larger one
None of that has anything to do with the subject of discussion though. How are those US ranchers burning down the amazon? US beef consumption and production are completely irrelevant to the developing world burning forests to produce their beef, which again is what the article we're discussing is talking about.
You decide to make the most uncharitable interpretation of my comment therefore I am not interested in engaging with you any further.
No matter what it's not a metaphor. You might want to look up what that word actually means.
You'd need to accumulate 10^14 such errors to be off by an entire penny, which doesn't seem relevant to a web shopping cart.
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I am very single and this is never true for me. I love my work, and then I go hang out with a friend or two for dinner or dessert, explore neighborhoods, cook myself some interesting food, play some games, work on some serious side projects, talk to my housemate, scribble notes for an essay or blog post, and generally find myself not having enough time to enjoy the things I would like to do despite not investing any time in a romantic relationship. This when I'm not keeping myself busy with traveling out of town.
I agree that Apple needs to improve developer experience on the iPad. However, regarding the file system access: Apple already has a Files app that handles this very well (introduced with iOS 11).
> interacting with others.

What? Why wouldn't there be substantive human interaction as part of this process. If we can do that via text (see this post for an example), why not vr? Virtual Tour guide could be a thing. Or Just think of a VR version of Second Life, but with less sexual overtones.
> If we sell an education math app that is a free download... (emphasis mine)

Wait, I'm confused here. Are you (hypothetically, yes) selling something or giving away just half of it hoping that you can eventually sell the other half?
Maybe you could deliver the CRISPR payload through some sort of pathogen-like mechanism such as a virus
Even the news/media industry is complicit in advertising. How can you tell the advertising bias in news articles etc? It's a tough problem to solve...
Centauri Dreams is one of my favorite sites to grab a coffee and settle in for a read / geek out on high-concept space articles.
The Web has been collecting dates from users in forms long before date-pickers existed.
I found Florence pretty miserable and dont get me started on the 'italian food' within a mile of the Coliseum in Rome. I had the good fortune to spend quite some time in Castiglion Fiorentino and found that much preferable.
It actually doesn't use SLURM, even though SLURM is originally an LLNL development. It uses LSF. I do not know why the shift.

https://hpc.llnl.gov/training/tutorials/using-lcs-sierra-sys...
>We can't all go travelling, we won't fit in the same place and we'll boil the earth doing so.

Not every city is as famous as Venice. No, everyone can't go to Venice. Everyone can go somewhere, though.

> If we develop EV's and don't boil the earth, they won't all fit downtown.

Gridlock is a rounding error compared to air pollution. Sure, congestion is bad. But it doesn't deserve to be compared to the worst environmental crisis ever. (After all, studies showing induced demand are also showing that people choose to sit in traffic -- they can't hate it that much.)

> We can't all eat high quality meat as often as we want. We'll boil the earth and it'll require too much farmland, anyway

Lab-grown meat is an easy fix. We don't eat very much "high-quality" meat to begin with, at least, not most of us. Most of us eat Taco Bell, which is already only 30% meat or whatever.

> We can't all live in the country, that's not sustainable either.

No, but it's possible for a significant fraction to live in well-designed small towns. Obviously cities are necessary; we've never been without them. But you can fit a lot more people into three-story houses on 1/12 acre lots (33' by 110') than into one-story houses on half-acre lots. We have a lot of the latter these days. There's no need to jump all the way to small apartments in mid-rises on car-free streets. (But building some of these is good because there is clearly some demand from people who would like to live there.)

>But the idea that everyone should be able to do the same things implies a set of "things" very different from what, say, the middle class families on my suburban street do today.

I don't disagree with the general claim, but most people's predictions are far too dire. These problems are much more addressable than some people seem to think. They won't be, if population continues to skyrocket, but at current loading, the Earth will be okay.

(Unfortunately, some surveys indicate that people are choosing not to reproduce because they're unhappy. If we make those people happy, the population problem could come back. That's my greatest worry in the long-term.)
Per the article > "Michael Schmueck-Henneresse of Charité University Medicine Berlin, who led today’s study, said that he was initially surprised by the 96% finding. “But it made sense because the Streptococcus pyogenes bacterium is one of the most common causes for bacterial infections in humans and we have all been through multiple infections and potentially even been colonized by it,” "
The enzyme commonly used for gene editing is from a bacteria that is a common human pathogen. Bits of these bacteria (including their Cas9 protein) are recognized as foreign. Unfortunately, when gene-edited cells are expressing the Cas9 protein, bits of every protein in the cell, including Cas9, naturally get processed and presented on the surface of the cell. There are immune cells (T cells) that monitor for non-self protein bits on the surface of cells, and when non-self is detected, they kill that cell they perceive as infected.

There's a bit more nuance than this, but this makes it significantly more difficult to pull off gene editing in a human.
Exactly, which is clearly a made up marketing term that has no established meaning just like Retina Display is.

all-screen and edge-to-edge, however, are not.
There's legal requirements, and then there's ethical requirements, which are not necessarily the same.

If they are supposedly vetting renters, then it should be incumbent upon them to stand behind their vetting. They should also very unequivocally state that if the renter just walks off with your gear you will not be compensated.

So sure, maybe you're getting repaid by KitSplit because you wrote a blog post about it, but what about everybody else who this has happened to. I doubt you're the only one. If they improve their practices because of this that's great, but the fact that it took months for them to come around, and only after they got some bad publicity, is not a good sign.
Same thing with 4chan. I used to post every day about video games and music (/v/ and /mu/). I still do once in a while.

The reality is a bunch of nerds being pretentious about music do not make for good clickbait. Online nazis do.
Alaska, Hawaii, Maine, and Vermont have solved billboards.
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Yes.

Something of that size (area) and weight doesn't seem like some kind of naturally occurring object though.

Even if it is a piece of debris, that is super, super interesting.

Eh, who am I kidding, even if it was produced through some natural process, that is still interesting.
Wow I didn't realize they stopped publishing sub numbers so long ago. I'm not convinced that add-ons give us great insight beyond a certain level of player who tends to use specific add-ons (e.g. DBM), but yeah it's better than nothing.

Still, historically we know that bid drama does not correlate to mass drop in sub numbers. Hell, GC just posted something about that a week or two ago[1].

>Dropping a game because of a specific design change (despite what you might read on forums / Reddit) is actually pretty rare. I know it happens, but if you’re stack ranking the reasons why people quit, those specific responses end up being so far down the list that it is hard for a development team to take actionable feedback.

WoW remains massively successful as far as I'm aware.

[1]: https://askghostcrawler.tumblr.com/post/157080214673/unsubbi...
Here's an example of one of the documents if you want to gauge how easy the challenge is:

https://crowd.loc.gov/campaigns/letters-to-lincoln/1830-1839...

There's a lot of academic research (see e.g. https://transkribus.eu/Transkribus/) but that's in progress rather than done.
People in general, don't like free speech. They just want to be able to say whatever they'd like.

Clearly, some things cross the line but who do you let draw the line?
Agreed, this is a very cool concept but it's too hard for the player. As a workaround, run this in the console to double the player's speed and allow you to re-shoot the bullet while it's in motion.

Player.prototype.shoot = function shoot() { this.bullet = {x: this.x+this.s/2, y: this.y, s: 3}; this.isShooting = true }; Player.prototype.update = function update() { if (this.x > 0 && this.isMovingLeft) { this.x -= 0.02 * dt; }; if (this.x < w/4-this.s && this.isMovingRight) { this.x += 0.02 * dt; }; if (this.isShooting) { this.bullet.y -= 0.1 * dt; if (this.bullet.y < 0) { this.isShooting = false; this.bullet = {}; } } }
The biggest problem with raid5 is that it is completely unprotected against silent corruption -- because there is no way for raid to know which data is the corrupted one (and as a result it has to decide whether the parity is correct or not -- though on most raid implementations just ignore silent corruption completely and so the parity is always assumed to be wrong in such cases).

So even if you rebuild an array, a bad drive might've blown away all of your data already. If you were to compare this with ZFS' "raid" Z1 (same parity, different design) you get detection and protection against silent data corruption.
On one hand, none of this kind of stuff was ever on the front page, and many users never went far beyond the front page. On the other hand, there was a substantial minority of users for whom that kind of content was the draw. And there was an uproar whenever any of this content was banned (which happened slowly, piece by piece, and continues into the present).

If you aren't aware of any of it, the Gawker story on violentacrez (still available online) is good picture of the nastiest side of the site. Its publication was (and remains) hugely controversial.
Just to be clear, "InfintyEdge" is a brand-name, like "Lighting connector", it is not a description of the display itself.
Capturing this object would have required the effort of multiple Apollo prgrams in a timeframe that is shorter by orders of magnitude. It’s far beyond the capabilities of Musk, Bezos and anyone alive today. Pulling it off would make the Moon landing look like parallel parking.
I'm pretty sure that Apple was using parallax scrolling back in the days of Steve Jobs.

There's also a strange contradiction in these millions of people always complaining how Jobs would hate this or that, while essentially relying on the implied authority of the name!

If you all are capable of accurately predicting Steve Job's hypothetical opinions on all matters of design I wanna see some products you designed.
Nonsense, Alissa belongs to The Agonist! :)
FatPeopleHate was on the front page all of the time. It got banned though.
Ask them to teach you about something the position would require. Success is you understanding what they needed to teach you during the interview.
Schemaverse - https://schemaverse.com/ - The Schemaverse is a space-based strategy game implemented entirely within a PostgreSQL database.
Supercomputers are used for:

* Weather modeling

* Nuclear Research

* Car crash simulations

* Electronic Design Automation (ex: mathematically proving chips are correct)

* Protein folding: looking for new chemicals for medicine.

Etc. etc.

There's a huge need to grow our supercomputer capacity. I bet you that every major field has a use for a super-computer.

I think there's an element of bragging rights. But the USA buys "practical" supercomputers most of the time. There are designs that push out more FLOPs but are less useful to scientists.

The hugely powerful interconnect and CAPI / NVLink connections on this supercomputer demonstrate how "practical" the device is. Most people are RAM constrained, or message-constrained, and these are the biggest and best interconnects available in 2018.

Interconnects are NOT a "bragging" metric, very few people look at it. Most people look at the Linpack benchmark (purely FLOPs measurement). However, experts can tell when a supercomputer is built with a poor interconnect and purely for "bragging rights" reasons.
The lowest-priced Macbook was $1099 in 2006, which is $1370 accounting for inflation. The $999 model was actually the exception, probably priced that low on account of being long-in-the-tooth.
Could this be a potential cancer therapy?
There's really not much to it.

I keep computer science/math-related PDFs in Dropbox, copy them to GoodReader (I've started experimenting a bit with other PDF apps, but GoodReader has been my go to for years now), and occasionally use Apple Pencil to mark them up as I read them. I don't save them back to Dropbox for future review; GoodReader is effectively its own island in that regard.

For GPS, I use Gaia GPS to create routes, often with Apple Maps and/or Google Maps running in split screen.

If you have specific questions, I can address them, but none of it is particularly formal.
I have an old macbook air too. My biggest fear is the new keyboard will be a downgrade.
Yes. Check out sfmovementpractice.
Parties of two, three, four, eight, and twelve kids can now look forward to simple divisions of cake.

You can "spend a penny" again. Although I haven't seen a pay toilet in over 30 years. (I don't mean the ones you put money on a plate at the entry, I mean one you put money INTO the door)
Agreed. I saw The Acacia Strain the other night (more deathcore than death metal, I suppose), and in between screaming lyrics like "I am the end of the world", they were talking about making sure to reach out to your friends / family for help if you were having any negative / suicidal thoughts, not to taking yourself too seriously, and tossing glow sticks into the crowd while they played in front of inflatable balloons. I thought it was an interesting juxtaposition.
Great points. I believe the best way to change these arms deals is to engage in political action on a social-movement based level, just as MLK did, rather than on an electoral level, as the GP suggests.

History has shown us that threats of mass strikes by coalitions of large industrial unions have the power to force the hand of the elites. This is what people who really care about these issues should be working towards. I think tech workers in particular have a lot of power, if only they would engage in collective action.
Assuming a uniform thickness and density, is the acceleration of a light sail not independent of area? I get the impression that the radius given is an upper limit based on the apparent magnitude and assuming a high albedo.

The light curve indicates that the object is tumbling, so a thin sheet would rarely (if ever) be oriented approximately optimally to act as a sail. I have not figured out how the authors have taken this into account in their calculation - could it be as simple as halving the area to give an effective value?
It's the same thing that drives the non-usage of the 'n word' for example. North Americans don't use the n-word because of some kind of legality, it's socially taboo. If someone were to get out of hand with it, someone would say something.
If you are the target audience for these drives, you likely don't even consider regular (i.e. including random) IO as a use-case for modern HDD's . 10+ TB HDD's really only make sense for sequential IO, even if they technically still support random writes (e.g. the 10 & 12 TB PMR drives): the order of magnitudes of difference in random vs sequential IO performance make this a no-brainer.

If you look at the design of, for example, DropBox Magic Pocket, or Infinidat & Qumulo, you'll notice that their HDD access is really as sequential as possible. And if your storage layer is thus already optimized towards sequential writes, why not take the opportunity and get some capacity "for free" by adopting SMR drives?
The mics are on the left hand side on that model.

https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/MacBook+Pro+13-Inch+Retina+Disp...
So from your perspective XDP is better the DPDK and will be the leading userspace network stack in years to come, is that correct? Any chance you can tell me why?
To keep track of events and not overlap them. Also helps to set time for yourself if you just want to disconnect.
It depends on how we make the enzyme. If it's made without involving life in any way, it's hard to imagine how bacteria would "learn" to make it after finding it. At most, opportunistic bacteria could better parasite people already loaded with enzymes from CRISPR treatment.

If we modify harmless bacteria to build the enzyme for us, then sure, the modification could well end up on harmful bacteria.
I was under the impression that spot was actually pretty common knowledge and the most recent discovery was about _why_ they go to that location, not where it was.
That's gotta be some sort of record. I can't think of any other game which is still releasing full expansions 14 years later.
thats not true. if the probability of whether or not its a sail could be calculated, it would have been in the paper ;)
The free versions of RHEL will go the way of the free version of Solaris

There’s a difference between what you want to happen and what you think will happen...
>and I definitely didn't get the impression they were trying to be ironic and channeling PKD's social commentary on the advertising industry

not sure why you think that. It's a Paul Verhoeven movie and Robocop had similar themes.
It uses reticulate for REPL support, and has basic Python completions and snippets.

However, it doesn't seem to complete variable names. Eg, if I defined "foobar", it won't let me tab-complete that later when I start typing "foo".
> Maybe the site is no longer so toxic, or maybe the toxic internet has made me numb.

Or, maybe the site was never anywhere close to as "toxic" as you're describing and you're making mountains out of mole hills.
This approach, at least in languages like C and Java, would effectively smush the effective MAX_INT down to MAX_INT/1e15 or whatever. No bueno.
Do you mean besides different types of insurance? (health, life, critical illness & disability, etc.)
The company whos resources are being used.
Sensor-Laden Gadgets Track Package Abuse and Blood Sugar Changes Noninvasively
yes: to die
India tried that, more or less, during Indira Gandhi's "Emergency"; a stereotypical example was offering a transistor radio as reward for a vasectomy, though that's extremely mild persuasion in comparison to some of what went on.

The episode is not favourably looked on, in general.

https://www.pop.org/a-once-and-future-tragedy-indias-sterili...
Integers can be represented exactly in IEEE754.
Which talk? I didn't see any link to a video.
I appreciate the legal perspective.

It seems rather reasonable, but leaves a lot up the the interpretation of the judge/jury if it goes to court.

There's also something to be said for public social opinion/corporate standards which are distinct from law. Google has its own set of rules based off of public opinion that are only allowed to be more strict than the law. I think this deserves more discussion than the current law as far as this point about hypothetical harm is concerned - law follows public opinion and right now the law is kept very general.

I'm glad we agree that “something bad might happen to me if I say no” is irrelevant to the law, and I argue it should be for public opinion as well. It's unfortunate how common this refrain is, but I think it is the minority opinion.
That was the time they also got much faster MHz wise every year.