skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's so strange is the way that humans want their news to be less true for some emotional reason.

I really love Eliezer Yudkowsky's concept of least convenient possible worlds as a heuristic for evaluating the sorts of truth claims made or implied by politicians (and often echoed by journalists).

We are drawn to belief systems that make hard decisions easy, but what if some of the assumptions we take for granted are less clear cut. So the exercise is to imagine the least convenient world, one in which a key idea or conviction we lean on for other aspects of our belief system is completely incorrect.

In my view we should not expect journalistic work to strengthen existing convictions but to challenge them and add empathy and nuance to our views of the world.
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Alboom, really great book about life and everything brilliant about it.
Lost in clocks: non‐canonical circadian oscillation discovered in Drosophila
Top Programming Languages.....bit of a title there eh
I don't understand how anyone can think patents are a good idea.
That's interesting, I started with React, and switched to Vue, and felt Vue was the simpler tool.
I agree, quite a bit of this reads like fiction. The scenario itself suggests an uncommon level of competence, but assuming that's true then the rest is pretty believable for the same reason, if given to some dramatic license.
You seem to be nitpicking, they were easy enough to read and displayed information as indicated by their labels.
Sorry, should have made it clear that my comment was sarcastic.
Is the electricity that you're using coming from a renewable resource like hydro/wind/solar, or is it from a NG/Coal burning plant like most are?
That could work, not sure how discoverable that is to the end user though...
Could you explain why someone should believe official sources over those his reporting?
Eh, that is certainly true in the suburbs, but we live in the city with a child and no car. We can buy 99% of what we want within walking distance. Bigger items we would have delivered. If I had a driving license (which I would if it wasn't such a costly hassle in my province), I would rent a car occasionally. Metro + bus + walk + bike in the summer is completely fine otherwise.
And Facebook is taking this even further. And while all these things are very cool, do not let ASIC designers claim they are barriers to entry for GPUs and CPUs. Whatever variants of this precision potpourri catch on are but a generation away from incarnation in general processors IMO...

https://code.fb.com/ai-research/floating-point-math/
Ok, wow. That story is pure gold. And when your shop is really on its toes, this is how you run Opsec.
Here is everything you need to know about the demand for autos and the psychology of the auto consumer in the United States. Also very instructive about attitudes toward public transportation in the US.[1]

This video is worth one million words:[2]

https://www.ispot.tv/ad/wy2O/state-farm-backstory-truck-song...

What is depicted in the video is considered, by much of the United States population, to be their birthright. The tax or incentive regime that would be necessary to prevent every young male from buying a huge truck[3] would be a bigger political impossibility than banning firearms.

I note that General Motors just reintroduced 0% financing for trucks.

[1] ... which is well deserved. Bus transit in the United States is terrible. In most municipalities, there is no other option.

[2] A state farm (insurance company in the US) commercial that was aired in the past year during American football (not soccer) games.

[3] If you don't live in the US, you have no idea how enormous the vehicles are that individuals are using to drive their single persons to the grocery store. It is very common to see a 7 meter long vehicle that is rated to tow an 8 horse trailer (or a yacht) being driven, with no cargo, and a single occupant, to run errands around town.
I think of "Gmail Classic" as what they call "Basic HTML". https://support.google.com/mail/answer/15049?ctx=gmail (click Basic HTML version of Gmail). I've been using that style for years.
How do you graphically show top 10s on a map without just making it into text lists with a background instead of title?
Please see my answer above. This will NOT be a public shaming list. We will only release the data regarding the companies and reach out to the individual recruiters to show them the data, hoping this will make them reflect on how they approach their leads in the future.
DevOps since 2005: a retrospective
Yes.

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Or Lisp and Haskell :)
This is what we call “market failure”.
Genetic Programming in Clojure
After a significant sun burn I downed a full gallon of water and continued to drink a little more. Granted a rather extreme situation, but you really can need that much fluid.

However, I suspect that was a rather sarcastic response.
Simply brilliant. I've genuinely been struggling to comprehend what most services are.
How does plotnine compare to Altair?
Potential flow simulations are not very practical these days (maybe for quick back-of-the-envelope), and I highly doubt Formula One would be interested at all. But my theory touches on what is taught to every aerospace engineer, and I think the value of it would be better understanding of the relationship between lift and drag, rather than practical purposes (though it is possible).

Just curious, how did you find this question? I assumed it would have been buried by now.

I am thinking of just releasing it publicly on GitHub and asking random people to vet it...
Making it a standalone chrome extension might be helpful, then your css changes over time will auto-update.

Edit: I went ahead and made one, did a quick test by loading it unpacked, seems to work. https://github.com/tyingq/gmail-classic All yours if you want it.
He's making a joke. I thought it was clear.
We're a SaaS Shop in europe targeting larger enterprise customers. While there is some funny business dealing with that kind of customers, security actually matters to them. We're currently being paid to implement TLS encryption for our offsite database replications, we might be able to create a customer project to setup tripwire systems. That's fun :)
Eh, they were shorts, pushing their negative spin. /s
Same with this: http://paralleltext.io/read/?b=02b82ad6-29ed-47dd-98af-4c4ff...

Unintelligible German spoken by an English voice. My German-speaking friend thought it was trying to speak Chinese!
With the bonus bit, that's 2.4 significant digits of precision. Plenty enough for ML, especially if you use a F32 as the accumulator.
Can someone explain to a layman what does the truncation parameter do?
Not a fan of it either, but how do we incentivize companies to research and create new drugs if they can't make back the huge cost of clinical trials?
Security by obscurity obviously shouldn't be your only method, but it can absolutely be a valid component of a broad defense in depth.
Nelson Fire: Bodycam footage shows officers racing to save dogs and cats
I use Vimium plugin to navigate web pages. gg brings to the top of the page whereas Ctrl + G brings me to the bottom.
Sigh, well maybe we could have a real discussion about this if you would admit that you're wrong and stop downvoting every single one of my comments.

You're wrong twice in your first sentence. Normal users need to be able to install software and generally use their computer otherwise you're pushing a curated experience with zero third party support. But also, no, what I said IS the point. It's Linux. Its not magically not Linux no matter how many times you downvote my comments.

I'll check back in a year so you can explain why this flavor of Linux didn't sway a single user away from Windows or MacOS.
What if governments paid for the clinical trials?
Chapel language gets you a bit closer to an easier HPC programming model w/o special hardware.
Did you read the article? The company that charged that absurd price acquired the patent, they had nothing to do with developing it.
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in society, we have another large, one-time purchase people often make in which there are special financial arrangements and rules: buying a home. it seems to me that gene therapies (high priced, one-time use drugs) are going to warrant alternative financial instruments. there's absolutely no reason this drug should have failed when the amortized cost over 10 years is less than an inferior product. regardless of the other questions this is a pure market failure by the financial industry.

edit: the downvotes probably assume I mean the patient is going to pay out of pocket. of course not. the insurance companies would be paying. the only inferiority between gene therapies and non-cures is their pricing structure. we invented a solution to this problem thousands of years ago: debt.
Short-Term AGI Is a Serious Possibility
I agree with this sentiment except for your reference to Pivotal Tracker - it's the opposite of “one size fits all”.

It is so ingrained into the particular Agile Scrum way of doing things that this is actually cited as its drawback by teams wanting to be more "flexible".

Are you getting it confused with Jira?
That's strange, haven't heard of such an issue. What's your device and android version? You can try reinstalling the app or test it on another phone.
> I'm still not convinced this is real. It smells like fiction.

Right? What shop has that good security. Even CRI would be easier to hack, and they're not even on the net.
You might be interested in looking at Snowflake[0], which does something similar. This paper[1] too; that being said, the parrot is dead.

Cool project!

[0] Snowflake - https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/Snowflake
[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1605.08805.pdf
This seems bizarre to me:

Van Deventer says the company never considered lowering the price. "Why would we? Pricing shouldn't be a political decision. It should be a rational decision based on merits and value."

If no one will pay $1 million, your revenue is $0. Assuming the drug costs much less than $1 million to make, surely any revenue number is better than $0?
> We're currently being paid to implement TLS encryption for our offsite database replications

Amazing. I guess... better late than never?
I am on another list with fire fighters all expressing their opinions. Here is what one said:

I just got back from Butte Co - the ignition point in Pulga wasn’t deep forest, but grasses, shrubs and forest patches littered with downed and dead woody debris. Seems like a big fuel break by Pentz Road could have helped. It wouldn’t have saved Magalia and Concow but would have given Paradise residents more time to evacuate.
Dramatization === Fiction ?

Storytelling as a knowledge share is fundamental to human culture. Drama and story refinement are required to make the knowledge easy to remember and spread.

As for you being convinced, my personal experience is that this story is entirely believable. Many of us in security have stories we cannot share that would make this one look like a Saturday morning cartoon.
Historic SI Unit Overhaul Redefines Kilogram, Ampere, and More
I get what you mean, but I bet it’s more than 15 :) Hell, I bet just FB has more Haskell openings than that.
Hipparchus 1.4 Released
Gmail now has snoozing, you could probably use stars and filters to get 95% of the way to pinning.
I think most of the names are fine, now it’s easy to Google on issues related to a particular service. Try Googling on “amazon queue issue” instead of “aws sqs issue”...
Not true; I just booted the Elementary installer off of USB on a T2-equipped Mac. Even if that didn’t work, though, T2 Macs are a tiny minority; my question still stands for the millions of other Macs.
It makes no sense to you that a user might want to install something that's not in their operating systems store/repo?
There's a recent history book out called "Astounding" by Alec Nevala-Lee if people are interested in how the the science fiction scene in the 1930s and 1940s brought together scientists and mystics, including Jack Parsons, the JPL rocket scientist who also was into the occult, the science fiction writer Heinlein, and the chemist/writer Isaac Asimov.
The article has a section that talks about the difficulty of getting the drug even approved for testing by governments in the first place.
That seems like an awfully convoluted way to get a text editor for Linux.
Last time I visited Austin I went to the state capital and was pretty surprised to see how history was told on the monuments there. I don't remember the wording exactly, but there were references to the "war of northern aggression" and Confederate soldiers who died "protecting states rights". I wonder how this disconnect between how civil war history is told in school and how it's told in public spaces will play out in the long run.
Excerpts from abstract. I cleaned up the formatting some, but it still has some problems left.

> The study examines how three core variables: a terrorist group's organizational structure, its access to controlled territory and its level of popular support, affect the terrorist group’s counterintelligence strengths and vulnerabilities. Thirty-three terrorist groups are examined in a large typol ogi cal framework while addi tiona l case studi esprovi de an in - depth focus on Al Qaeda, the Provi siona l Ir ish Republ ican Army (PIRA),Fatah, Black September, and the Egypt ian Islamic Group (Gemaa al - Islamiyya).

> The study shows that terrorist groups inevitably face predictable, thoughoften subtle, counterintelligence dilemmas that challenge their ability to func tion effectively. Cont rary to popu lar belief, the dissertation show s that hierarchical and tight ly organized terrorist organizationsare frequently superior to decentralized or ‘network’ terrorist organizations in their count erintelligence capabilitie s, and therefore are in many cases better suited for long - term survival. Additionally, the study shows that most terrorist group leaders crave publicity, which frequently undermines the terrorist group’s need to maintain secrecy and security.This research offers numerous pol icy prescriptionsfor more efficiently exploiting terrorist counterintelligence vulnerabilities.Incorporating these insights into current counterterrorism efforts promises to add inventive methods for monitoring and eliminating terrorist groups.
The inside/out distinction is the whole point. The author of the article was indeed reasoning whether the antipolygon is the hole left from the cutout of the corresponding positive polygon or even the rest of the space outside of the cutout
US Expatriations Are Back to Pre-Election Levels
I wouldn't say range is a good heuristic for retiring units of measure. Do you retire the meter because both galaxies and bacteria exist?
I agree. Cloud only apps aren't enough for me. I'm starting to look for more apps with macOS offerings, and not just ones that cheaply wrap a webview.
Strangely enough, on mobile all those posts were melted into one big page so I didn't even realize it was not the one linked to.
if its ssh why do i need to install/run cloudflared?
What I think is happening is that the number of affected people is so low and the cost of producing this small number is very large and the company does not want a profit but a BIG profit.
Oooof ... well, my comment still stands as a rebuttal to the author then, who was not being sarcastic.
Ask HN: How do you get feedback during product development?
In your company, how do you usually get feedback during the development of a major software product? Let's say you are developing the new version of your website which is undergoing a major facelift. What is the process you follow to get feedback? Do you show it to the software team? Do you send an internal demo to all the company staff, or just ask for approval from the board? Do you send out customer surveys with the new designs and ask for their opinion?
CERN uses GitLab to remove the obstacles around global researchers – GitLab
Ask HN: YouTube mobile app copy at specific time
Why isn't there copy at specific time method in Youtube mobile app?
> Python’s versatility and interoperability are also impressive; for example, developers can directly call Python APIs from Swift.

Well, AFAICT, there's a branch of the compiler/stdlib with an "early stage research project" that lets you call Python from Swift. It's "hard-coded" to use an 8-year-old version of Python, and they say supporting anything newer would be "non-trivial".

It's a pet peeve of mine to see people exaggerate the capabilities of software systems, especially already-popular ones that don't need free PR.
Could you add the lines needed to the above example to make the user list grow / shrink real time via websockets?

Would be interested to see how you would implement that.
As sad as this story is, the silver lining is that patents expire, and 20 years from the patent filing point (probably 5-10 years from now?), patients will be able to be affordably cured. It sucks but is better than nothing.
> Do you think nobody lives in the countryside any more?

Less and less people. Pretty much all of my extended family moved out two decades ago, for example, and several no longer live in the countryside because their region is no longer countryside.

And AFAIR France at least a few years ago had a problem with farmer solitude stemming from this, and ultimately from farm automation.
Sorry, I guess I was not clear. I didn't mean what would be the justification for switching from F to C now in the US.

I meant what was the justification for adopting C initially for the metric system instead of using F?

For other metric units, there were serious problems with the pre-metric units. For example, Wikipedia says that by the time of the French Revolution, the existing system had become impractical for trade.

It doesn't say why it had become impractical, but my guess would be it had a lot to do with no good standard values for the units. If the units are not well defined in a way that gives the same values everywhere, it makes long distance trade harder.

I base this guess on doing some research once to figure out why they did not defined the meter to make conversion to Imperial easier. Since they were free to define the meter any way they wanted, they could have made 1 meter == 1 yard, which would have made conversions of long distances easier. Or they could have defined the millimeter as 1/25th of an inch, which would have made conversions of short distances easier than the 1/25.4th of an inch that we ended up with.

As far as I was able to determine, this was never an option because, as far as I could find, there was no widespread agreed definition of inches, feet, yards, etc. All that was standard was the relationships among them (1 foot == 12 inches, 3 feet == 1 yard, and so on).

There probably was no way to fix that without adopting a completely new unit, because if they tried to just make a new standard for, say, the yard I'm sure it would have gotten bogged down in arguing over whose yard to base it on. The French would think everyone should adopt their yard, the English would think everyone should adopt theirs, and so on.

So, a new unit, based on something not tied to any one region or nation, makes sense.

Temperature did not suffer from this, or did not suffer from it in a way that was not easily fixable. F was based on a reproducible physical 0 point based on the temperature of a brine with a self-stabilizing temperature. The only problem F had was that there had been some waffling over the other calibration point, which had been fixed well before the first attempts at a metric system.

So...why did they pick C?
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Another +1 for me on that. I'd happily forgoe the tax cut I'm getting this year for better public services.

This myth that gets rolled out that any increase in tax will cause higher rate payers to flee the country in droves is really harmful, I'm happy to pay tax if it improves the services provided by the country.
This is probably the Vimium feature I use most often!
There should at the very least be a law that states that a patented technology should be made available in reasonable ways to make the patent valid.
I'm a customer at linode, vultr, and digital ocean, and digital ocean (over the last 6 years in their NYC datacenter) has had exceptional uptime and physical host integrity. I've never had cycles stolen by "noisy neighbors" (as has happened at Linode) or lost a server (as is to be expected on EC2). Their unixbench scores are great (fast disks and CPUs).

All that said -- you want use a new product, expect to pay the pioneer tax. Their CDN is even greener (no built-in GZIP, broken CORs header forwarding, only pulls from DO spaces, no CNAME mapping) but the bandwidth is free/dirt cheap. They are very upfront about their offering, and don't seem to be over promising, or over selling. You get what you pay for, and I am ok with that.
The amount of off-topic comments under yours about click-bait, grammar and english majors(??) is borderline obnoxious.
The story is clear: the problem is not the patent itself but the cost of passing regulation hurdles and maintaining a plant producing the drug when there is suck low demand.

No one will invest in this even after the patent expires. The best the patients could hope is to group togethr to get some done produced?
Yea I thought something similar - executives at the older companies feared jail time for doing some of those tactics so they stayed away. Of course there’s always lawyers to read the fine print, but still...
The turbo petrol engines have gone even smaller than you describe. Ford sell a Mondeo (large family car) with a 1 litre, 3-cylinder engine.

I have the next model up, a 1.6L 4-cylinder. It is quiet to drive and has good fuel economy.
So you don't like Google because all their revenue comes from advertising, but you're also angry that they're trying to branch out into things other than advertising?
If a company does not make use of a patent they should at least loose their right to it.
Solid point, but I'd like to offer that aws-cli has built in autocomplete, should help out with some of the 'guessing'

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-command...
Nasa ad for returning to moon and Mars mission
This would put the last year's Nobel prize at risk.
How machines hallucinate.

https://twitter.com/quasimondo/status/1063449767617937410
I use them very often.
Considering that the country seems to be getting farther apart when it comes to the culture war, this news is pretty surprising.
Our country adopted cards recently, I have a card and using it almost everywhere, but I'm always carrying some cash, 200-500 bucks just in the case that card won't work for some reason. It happens. If Visa would be down, I wouldn't be disrupted and nobody would be disrupted around here. Why don't you carry some cash around, it's still a legitimate payment method and it doesn't take much space in your wallet.
The government is the whole reason the clinical trials are required before patients can be treated with a working drug. They are the cause of the problem, not the solution.
All I can say is wow, this has been missing for a long time! If there was ever a time for an Acer, Asus, Dell, etc to sponsor a new product and pitch to corp/gov, this would be it.
go to google and type "about definition"
I Killed Sears, and I'm Sorry
It really bothers the fuck out of me that I can't find any iOS browser with a back to top feature. It makes browsing far more annoying than it needs to be and I end up not bothering.
Yeah the SWF one is off. I feel like SWF doesn't get enough attention. It's pretty brilliant.
Read some other entries in that blog, recipes are something to look at: http://aiweirdness.com/post/176589646292/its-time-for-cookin...

More of the same: https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditSimulator/