skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, it depends on how you feel about "appropriating" the original vs. feeding it to a Markov chain. I don't think less code/no code is necessarily boring, nor would a more complex LSTM model of the music necessarily be more interesting.

I was thinking of a non-digital piece by Rodney Graham, where he retypeset a few pages of a book so that a looped reading became possible:

"In Lenz of 1983, for instance, Graham appropriated an unfinished novella by Georg Büchner in which the mentally unstable protagonist, Lenz, wanders through a forest. The artist reset the type on pages one to two and on pages five to six of an English translation of the story, to set up a situation in which the page breaks at the same phrase ‘through/the forest’, which establishes a loop whose effect is to cause Lenz to endlessly repeat his journey by returning from page five to page two; in 1993 (fig.6), Graham had a reading machine constructed for this version of the text to facilitate the repetition, and the hardcover version of the 1983 work was a book bound with eighty-three repetitions of these pages, which in principle can be continued forever."

https://www.tate.org.uk/research/publications/tate-papers/06...
The Incredible Shrinking Planet
It's easier once you've checked the "must-dos" off your list admittedly.

Absolutely. I’ve been visiting Scotland since childhood (family is Scottish) and the last few trips have been fantastic precisely because I’ve seen the must-sees (as has my wife, who has now visited twice) and can now just drive around and take in the beauty.

And now that we’ve visited several other countries, we seem to have found a balance between “see all the things” and “relax and smell the roses”.

But, admittedly, we have the budget to travel internationally once a year or more.
The GNOME devs are actively closing the software as much as possible; their software philosophy is probably as closed as you can get while being formally open source.

There are many interesting informations around to get a picture of how they think; this article has interesting concepts:

https://igurublog.wordpress.com/2012/11/05/gnome-et-al-rotti...

and this is the most relevant part:

I think one of the most important cases against applets (as they are currently defined
in GNOME) is that they are extremely detrimental to the Identity of the product or
platform. [...]

Let’s say that we are trying to define either a product or a product platform. I don’t
think it is possible to do this without some “brand” coherence. And it is arguably
impossible to do this effectively with such an ad-hoc/individually-customized design
identity.
Sure, as long as you don't expect anyone to complete the course or are willing to play catch up for most of the semester. In other words, I'd love to plan courses that way, but no university administrator would ever let me (instead I restrict myself to graduate seminars and beyond).
Using Satire to Communicate Science
What are the cognitive side effects of opioids. I’ve always thought they weren’t very neurotoxic.
Nah a lot of the "growth" in employment is these low pay disguised employment "gig" jobs.

This is true in many countries not just the USA.
The point of my sarcasm is different: the word "effective" implies that some goal is being achieved. Who sets the goal? Why do they have the authority to tell people what to do on their property?
> As far as I can tell 95% of the usefulness of geometric algebra is the usefulness of the wedge product ∧, which is absolutely under-appreciated and appears in loads of places in disguise (for instance, the determinant of a matrix is the wedge product of all of its rows or columns together).

Also, it's really intuitive. At least I found it really intuitive when it was first explained to me.
Are you sure that link is up to date? The latest referenced was published in 2010.

Also the groups mentioned that medicaid can charge are mothers and the disabled. No mention of able working adults. That seems really strange.

Update: just clicked on the summary of one of them. Doesn't even mention the ACA, but other acts: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (the Recovery Act)
This was my experience as well. I think it’s because I required that my pay be over a few dollars an hour.
Meh. Compressed to RISC-V is close to thumb2 in density if you write everything in assembly. The current gcc compiler does generate some underwhelming code, but it's a lot better than it was a year ago and chatter on the list is there's still improvements to make, so the trend is in the right direction.
Could you please say more about why you felt I had gratuitously editorialised the title?

I have checked the definition of the word "editorialise: To present an opinion in the guise of an objective report." - I did not express any opinion in the title - I simply added context for those who don't know about the so-called "contaminated blood scandal" in the UK. Namely the three-letter detail I added was "HIV" i.e. that the UK's government-run National Health Service infected patients as young as 8 years old with HIV.

This change was not gratuitous as it added essential context to the story.

I have checked the Hacker News guidelines and since the article dispels myths people have about health systems, which is an interesting area of society, I felt it was pertinent.
Really well done. I like the design, the wood finish the look, configurability. Up to 40TB storage, 4 GPUs (I tried to configure a Thelio Major), lots of RAM.
Great post although it made me hungry for explanation what are the actual implementation differences between rotors and quaternions because I got the impression that we use exactly same real numbers to do exactly same things. We just imagine basis of this transformation space not as some 4 orthogonal vectors, just 3 orthogonal unit planes plus one real number for scaling.

Those bivectors just explain (incredibly, amazingly well) what quaternions are and why they have properties they have. It doesn't seem to change how you crunch the numbers to get what you want.

...

It's really great that you wrote that post. I feel like for the first time I truly understand rotations in 3D and know why I felt something fishy was going on with results of vector product and expressing rotations with them.
Surely everyone gets some paid vacation time.
I wonder about the rate of reinstallations though. Over a month, some steady percentage of users is changing phones and reinstalling apps. If a new app is able to beat the (new installs + %reinstalls) of giant apps, that's impressive.

If the app stores don't count reinstalls as downloads, then, well, sorry you wasted your time reading this
Oh man, I thought cars were for driving, houses for living in, art for looking at, and Bitcoin was supposed to be a currency. No wonder I'm not rich; I've been doing it wrong this whole time!
Thanks. I considered linking directly to the FAQ, but chose the undeadly link instead simply because it highlighted the fact that the FAQ is a new addition, though the infrastructure has been there for a while now.
Not with most developed countries employment laws and standard employment contracts with out their employers permission.
A nice one by Julius Comroe:

“Serendipity is jumping into a haystack to search for a needle, and coming up with the farmer’s daughter.”
I was pleasantly surprised by Pop!_OS.
It's basically Ubuntu + nice theme + drivers specifically tested and configured for the System76 hardware. No more pain and suffering because of nvidia drivers.
Open Source Roadmap
Or people who don't like having to deal with dongles.
Why are you spreading so much misinformation?

> only SPARC V8 is an open standard. The OpenSPARC T2 is v9.

"Source code is written in Verilog, and licensed under many licenses. Most OpenSPARC T2 source code is licensed under the GPL." - Wikipedia

> No its not. SPARC is not a modular ISA in the same way RISC-V is and the RISC-V believe that a modular ISA will be needed.

"The "Scalable" in SPARC comes from the fact that the SPARC specification allows implementations to scale from embedded processors up through large server processors, all sharing the same core (non-privileged) instruction set" - Wikipedia
I don't really pay much attention to what other companies are doing, TBH. So I really couldn't say. To the extent that the Tiobe index means anything, Groovy was #28 last time around. https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/
It's not rotten to the core, it's just imperfect, like all human communities are. Nepotism, conflicts of interests, human error, unconscious biases, etc. don't magically disappear just because we're in academia. As I said below: "All in all, I'd say we're doing fine. We're just not the ethereal source of truth that some people hold us to be, the very same people who, after claming that 'God is dead', are very quick to replace Him with His sillicon-based equivalent around which we would act like priests, except with lab coats in lieu of clerical garments."

It's all about trust, really. Many people choose to trust state-of-the-art medical research when they do vaccinations on their kids; some do not. You can indeed choose not to trust us as a 'source of truth', and it seems a fair chunk of the US political landscape is being led down that path; we'll see where it goes.
First person views typically only use two axes of rotation, so of course gimbal lock will not be a problem. You are not dealing with general 3D rotations.

However, as soon as you want a 3D rotation (eg. in a flight sim) then you really need a way to represent them that doesn't suffer from gimbal lock or have any singularities.

Note: even with an FPS, you do typically want some more complex camera movement (for certain actions or animations that tilt the camera) or need to orient something relative to the camera (like the gun). Euler angles do not allow you to compose rotations, and so for this you'll need to go via an intermediate representation such as quaternions or matrices. Probably this is handled by whatever engine you are using though.
I don't this is exactly accurate. Hawking radiation for example, causes black holes to evaporate over time. While the radiation that is detected outside the black hole has positive mass/energy the in-falling anti-particles have negative mass/energy which results in the net reduction of the black hole's mass/size. Does it not then make sense that in-falling anti-matter would have an evaporating effect?
Every commenter gave a different answer to this question and I have no idea which of them are right, if any.
Well of course they were. What exactly made anyone think they'd actually changed anything, other than time and a bit of marketing? What they were doing at the time of the financial crisis was illegal then, and this is illegal now.

It turns out when the financial incentive is big enough, people will commit crimes! Especially when they're in an institution that seems to prize making money and "being clever" above following the law.
Doc.ai acquires Crestle.ai to help physicians join the AI revolution
It is a federal felony for an American citizen to bribe a foreign official in the course of doing business. Especially if that business involves a company regulated by the SEC.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Corrupt_Practices_Act

Put in place after the Lockheed Bribery Scandals in the 1970s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_bribery_scandals

Which incidentally involved Adnan Kashoggi, the uncle of the recently deceased Jamal Kashoggi.
>that kind of capability from imaging sensors is fairly established (yet still not widely available enough to produce real world applications).

It has been used in real-world applications for a while -- just not the dystopian kind we love talking about here.

E.g. check out this photogprapher's work:

https://petapixel.com/2015/11/27/a-wedding-photographed-thro...
I posted this elsewhere in the thread, but it bears repeating here: there is plenty of speech (such as advocacy of violence) that, if we tolerate it, has a net negative impact on speech.

Put another way: why would I paint a target on my back by trying to debate people who actively advocate for my murder? I'm much more likely to shut up and stay safe.
> Surely everyone gets some paid vacation time.

Not in the US.

https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2017/mobile/73-percent-of-all-c...
That is supposed to be a bonus?
I think people generally don't quite grasp that Facebook has 2.27 billion monthly active users. Which is, you know, only a third of the human race alive today.
I should be clear here that my longing for a physics community that embraces GA should not be confused with any level of optimism that it'll actually happen. I agree its a monstrously difficult task and our current formalisms are more or less good enough. A man can dream though!

One advantage I see in the GA treatment of E&M is in radiation. If one takes the Faraday bivector for a stationary charge (ie. the Coulumb field) and then just 'rotates' it into a moving frame using the GA rotors you can find the standard radiation fields of E&M quite easily. This is cool because it's not only a neat proceedure mathematically, but its computationally quite efficient, say if you need to find the fields produced by N moving charged particles.

I'm sure there are more examples of things like this but it's been a while since I last looked at E&M in GA so none are coming to mind right now.
Yeah, this and the similar comment "anti-matter is regular matter moving backwards through time" make no sense
It's not about code quality, it's about transparency and ease of reproduction.
And when Brise actually makes Gnome extremely beautiful for me. I find adwaita dull, as well as the tango icon set.

Anyway, for consistency, I hope using the Brise theme and the corresponding icon set on gtk apps in KDE remains possible. Adwaita would probably not work really well on KDE apps.

More generally, theming gtk apps is needed for nice integration in many non gnome environment.
Interesting question. I'd say there's several benefits that I see, and I'm not sure of their relative priorities.

- Be able to develop in the open. Every problem I have (like for StackOverflow) requires me to fully extract an MCVE -- and half the time, extracting a feature causes the problem to go away, for no apparent reason. It would be a big help to be able to just say "with open-source project X, I tried doing Y, and it fails with Z".

- Be able to use many of the online tools that are free for open source.

- Let other people help, if they want (including porting to other OSs, which I will probably never have time to do well).

- Let people use pieces of it in their own projects (like as libraries).

- Longevity. Closed-source apps basically all die, eventually. It would be great to be able to give users confidence that it won't just disappear if I get hit by a bus tomorrow.

I agree that the "open-source it, and keep a paid version in the app store" sounds very appealing, but my worry is that it only takes one developer to set up a build environment and compile it, to remove all of my revenue stream.
Earth is in fact falling towards the sun, very slowly but surely. Reversing that trajectory means that the earth would be moving away from the sun.
200% return since MDB went public. Should I sell or go longer?
Kudos for balls.
Trigger Warnings and Mass Psychogenic Illness
Use the up/down arrow keys.
Tensor algebra is fully expressible in terms of geometric algebra. If you're itnerested, I'd reccomend Geometric Algebra for Physicists by Doran and Lasenby.
Antimatter is generated at extremely high (relativistic) speeds and generally has to be slowed down ("cooled") in order to make careful measurements or to even collect multiple particles together. And that can't be done unless you can steer the particle with electromagnetism.

If you just generated individual relativistic anti-neutrons and tried to watch them follow ballistic trajectories in gravity, I suspect they'd just look like perfectly straight lines up to the limits of your detector resolution. Not sure though.

(The only other quasi-stable neutral particles are neutrinos, and those are essentially non-interacting with any detector. They leave relativistically and you'll never see them again.)
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> a) it is transitory and people won't tend to remember it and harangue you about it years later

I think this is a feature and not a bug. I don’t want to see a carefully curated representation of the past.

There are plenty of other social networks for you if that is what you want.

Or you could contribute anonymously if you want to say something transitory.

> people who don't like what you're saying only have a limited ability to harass you.

I think that’s true on Twitter as well for the most part.

What Twitter does that is different is it still allows the people you don’t like to participate in the general conversation.

Certain groups hate this and want to deny other groups the right to speak.

> surely we deserve better tools to prevent ourselves being harassed.

I think the problem is people want to benefit from the upside of having a public conversation but still want to carefully control it and I don’t think that’s healthy for society.

Again, if you are happy to forego the upside you can always contribute anonymously.

> Yes, those tools will be abused in some cases; but all tools can be abused

Exactly - Twitter is a great example.
If you could produce antineutrons, how would you contain them?
This is a strange list. The reasons for putting off generics have been made very clear. Fast compilation and simpler syntax are not unreasonable tradeoffs to make in exchange for waiting for a fast and simple generic syntax.

And your argument against multiple return values makes no sense. How is using a tuple type better (or even different, in practice)? And your pointing to the mathematical definition of a function is pointless. A function has a very different meaning in programming languages than it does in mathematics. Mapping a domain to a single co-domain is not what functions do in the vast majority of programs.
Reminds me of what Goldman Sachs did with Libya.

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-goldman-sachs-libya/

Not long after Libya's response, you get regime change. I'm sure it was just coincidence
It’s important to note the distinction between being able to model antiparticles as the time-reverses versions of their partners, and then actually “moving backwards through time” as it were. It’s not as though a sample of anti-hydrogen experiences a reverse or cause and effect.

Discussion: https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/391/is-anti-matt...
I think the Surface turned out to be a better product.

I used to think phones and tablets would be defined by lower performance but extremely energy efficient. And any learning from these low power designs would leak to desktops and laptops, but with more power to play with, they would be faster.

But now we’ve got these very powerful iPads and iPhones, but they exist in a limited ecosystem.

The Surface may not have the fancy A12 SoC but the entire line up seems to have intel cpus and run Windows. And their product lineup seems to be a single platform with increasing capabilities. Tablet, better tablet, laptop, better laptop. But you can run all the same stuff.

I’d love Mac OS in an iPad right now that can use the same binaries.
You've not really indicated how a multi-value return signature is even _different_ than a tuple type.
> Yes but the doctor prescribes it first.

fentanyl sold on the street is generally not diverted from prescriptions. fentanyl that you can actually take home tends to come in something like a patch where the drug is suspended at very low concentrations in a gel. illicit fentanyl sold at scale usually comes from illicit labs overseas.

> how else would a stronger drug get approved in the light of the opioid crisis we already can't handle

in this context, "stronger" simply means more potent by weight. you shouldn't assume that more potent opiates are more addictive; fentanyl is not the drug of choice for most opiate addicts.
Perhaps you're thinking of Microsoft moving Bing to ASP.NET Core 2.1, with a 34% performance improvement: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2018/08/20/bing-com-...
I'm not sure if you meant to disagree with me (you say "though"), but that's exactly what I mean. This is a use case for maps (show a map and point to where something is), not directions (tell me what to do).
Unlike the others, American Psycho is clearly satirical in intent. I don’t think that anybody is ever reciting Bateman’s lines unironically.
What Isaac Asimov Taught Us About Predicting the Future
The binaries will run, but the world changes and if you want to keep up with those changes then the software needs maintenance, which is obviously the topic of discussion here.
Oh :(. This whole thing is a garbage fire.

> Encryption is the process of encoding messages and information so they can only be accessed by authorised parties, usually via a key that’s generated using an algorithm. The encrypted data can only be decrypted by another party in possession of the key.

Neglects integrity vs privacy vs more complicated properties, but integrity-without-privacy or privacy-without-integrity aren't too difficult for lay-people to understand.

> Are backdoors possible in Encryption?

> No. Encryption is binary

Wat.

This is a hodge podge of random referral links to crappy single-purpose Windows tools a la CNET.

You're probably better off with a single program for encrypting your local files. Perhaps with a number of distinct "vaults" with different credentials.

The bottom of the article has a (purported) strong-to-weak encryption strength ranking which inexplicably ranks AES against RSA (they're not in the same category) and inexplicably includes Camellia, Twofish, and 3DES. Given the non-technical audience this piece seems focused at why the hell are you telling them about obscure old ciphers that no one uses? It's just nonsense.

@dang, the submitter seems to just be shilling his crappy tech blog: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=balalrumy

I don't know how the algorithm got this on the front page -- maybe a voting ring?
> I don't use a DE at all

Just curious, what do you use?
Sweet! Pricing seems competitive for what they are offering. But what's up with the 2.5 SATA drives? I was looking to replace my Z620 which has existing 3.5" drives - looks like I can't repurpose those. 2.5" drives are also considerably costlier than their 3.5" counterparts - never mind they also handle heat better.
I see. That makes sense. What do you particularly like about Groovy?
> If you start to follow people around in public space while yelling at them loudly or threatening them

Sure they do - I don’t like it but it happens all the time.

Think of all the protestors who show up on campus whenever a conservative is invited to speak.
That's a neat example, thanks!
Why?

I have had a friend die from a car accident. It doesn't exactly make you pro-driver (he was drunk).

If people can get used to cars, they can get used to anything. I mean, even as street furniture, they're hideously annoying. They monopolize roads, kill pedestrians, make noise, poison us, and do the same to our children, then you pay taxes to subsidize their manufacture. Drones sound far less obnoxious.