skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s a video featuring people pretending to rescue someone who is pretending to be injured. I call that fake. Why are they engaging in this sort of activity?

The BBC are standing by their footage, but it looks mighty fake to me, I suppose it could be real though.
TFA answers your question. "A study just published in Neuron ..."
A lot of the Windows Phone OS is ported from the Windows code at the time (networking stack, libraries, UI) with fixes for multiple architectures (ARM/MIPS), power, and performance.

Source: I worked on it.
And therefore, it may (or may not) offer one in humans.
I tried them when I had IBD years back and they made it worse
Because in postmodernism, rationality and logic is a tool of the patriarchy, the (various types of) establishment, or otherwise a construct of those in power, against those who are not in power. Thus we must balance it out

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3463968/

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

https://everydayfeminism.com/2016/03/why-rationalism-is-irra...

http://www.indiana.edu/~koertge/rfemlog.html

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

A number of different philosophical and historical schools, often grouped together as "postmodernism", began reinterpreting scientific achievements of the past through the lens of the practitioners, often positing the influence of politics and economics in the development of scientific theories in addition to scientific observations. Rather than being presented as working entirely from positivistic observations, many scientists of the past were scrutinized for their connection to issues of gender, sexual orientation, race, and class. Some more radical philosophers, such as Paul Feyerabend, argued that scientific theories were themselves incoherent and that other forms of knowledge production (such as those used in religion) served the material and spiritual needs of their practitioners with equal validity as did scientific explanations.
Teaching someone to code is teaching them how to automate things, which is useful in many different careers. Being financially savvy is useful too, fortunately people can learn both.
Denis Johnson's God
Good riddance, consumers are tired of paying for all those parts and being nickle and dimed at the dealership, affectionately know as the "stealership" on most online car forums.
Lua always seemed somehow "right" to me (despite its numerous flaws, including one-based indexing), just like s-expressions somehow are just the right format for many kinds of data. You look at it and "just know". You understand it, the computer understands it effortlessly, and if you remove any element it stops making sense.

One thing both of these have in common is that they are slightly different from mainstream ideas (e.g. C, Python, JSON, XML). Not so different it becomes alien, but different enough to make you approach it with a different state of mind.
Is this an accurate summary?

Spiro curves are necessarily smooth, but beziers aren't. To show what makes beziers smooth, you created a viz that maps spiro curves to their bezier equivalents:

* x,y = spiro curve angles
* color = bezier handle lengths (to best approximate spiro)

The abrupt changes in color in the image reveal the difficulty in creating smooth bezier curves—because it forces abrupt changes in handle lengths for small angle changes.
I think there is no absolute free will. Some are more free than others. Money, mindset, and circumstance heavily influence how free your will is. Some argue you were always going to decide what you were going to decide , unconvincingly to me, but the role of the conscious mind and what it actually is, we are still discovering.
I couldnt get a lot out of this talk and havent read the book. But I do feel the theme of what he’s saying becoming a popular narrative lately.

People are hungry to provide themselves and others with purpose and meaning. It seems as though so many of us want to know what we’re doing will make a difference, in the short and the long term. Not just working for the sake of it, or competing blindly in what may be a zero sum game.
Infinitesimal machinery (1993) [pdf]
Thank you. I don't understand the down voting for simply asking a question in an appropriate manner. It's one of the things that I dislike about the community.
I guess it’s not even available for viewing in my country (the United States). Coincidentally, this must be close to what it’s like in the UK (just on a much much smaller scale) after the GDPR stuff.
CircuitMaker 2000
Why not SQL Lite?
The Souls of Yellow Folk: Essays by Wesley Yang reviewed
Me too! I can't even remember what channel it was for, my Google Fu has not helped me to find it.

Memories can deceive, however, thanks to my colleagues in the world of lighting and camerawork (plus the edit suite) it was pretty good. We had CAD files and all of the images, my challenge was to get the polygon count down to something that could render in real time. The thing about it and why I think my efforts were 'good' is that you still have to actually do all of the work, it doesn't matter if you are using the fanciest computer or not - that ceiling has to be 'painted' and that entrance hall has still got to be built.

We also needed some scenes of entering the tomb. So, as you can imagine, that entailed building the view outside. We didn't quite have to build 'the whole of Egypt' and model the entire Solar System (and universe) but it was getting that way. There is a lot that can be done with choosing your camera shots carefully and also using 'magic tricks', i.e. sleight of hand magician stuff, so nobody notices that you haven't modelled absolutely everything.

The funniest thing I found was having my name in credits for various programmes that people close to me watched. I enjoyed not owning up to my work and being in the same room as a friend or a relative with my name going past them on the screen for them to never notice. Happy times, so much was possible in the 1990's.
Are your scripts available? I do something similar but hadn't thought about encoding the web page info into the JPG.
> what are the privacy gains versus an android phone with lineageOS and f-droid foss apps?

Google oozes from every part of Android. I very much doubt that installing LineageOS with closed-source blobs for most of the hardware makes Google/NSA/OEMs completely unaware of your activity. Moreover, Android is such a critical piece of software that probably every significant 3 letter agency in the world has some sort of a backdoor in/to it. Android suffers a security fiasco quite often and the update situation is quite awful. Lineage is also often not as stable as one'd like and the update process from one major version to another can be itself nerve-wrecking.

On the technical side, it is running ancient, out-of-tree kernels that lack a lot of the security work going upstream, which is especially concerning considering there's a new Spectre variant patch in practically every release.

Lastly, having the full GNU/Linux experience in my pocket is something I've always wanted.

Whether 'regular users' care about this is not particularly concerning to me, as I think the 'enthusiast crowd' is large enough to get the ecosystem started and once we feel comfortable recommending this to our 'regular' family members and friends, they need not to be aware of any of the additional benefits - it would be just the new smartphone that they have.
> Should governments be reduced to nothing more than the facilitators of the Free Market? And if anyone votes for a different kind of government, well, they voted wrong?

Governments should facilitate competition in markets, not free markets. "Free" markets are economic anarchy; like political anarchy, power is inevitably seized and exploited by strongmen. Competitive markets have high entrepreneurship, low barriers to entry, easy access to credit for new businesses, and increasingly stringent requirements for companies as they grow larger and larger.

And yes, competitive markets welcome foreign imports, which reduce the price of inputs and therefore make it easier to start new businesses. Yes, competitive markets welcome immigration, since so many immigrants become entrepreneurs and so many others fill key roles in companies which would not exist without them and provide plenty of jobs for native-born citizens.

If somebody votes for a different kind of government, then they either voted short-sightedly ("he's going to save jobs! ... but not in my town. And the jobs he did save, moved away a couple years later...") or they voted ignorantly ("They promised me the sun and the moon for free! Why didn't anybody do that before?"). Political budgeting is like NIMBYism, everyone wants to expand infrastructure/education/social-welfare/environmental spending, but nobody wants to cut the programs they personally benefit from to help pay for it.
I'm thinking some of the stuff that will pushed for climate change mitigation will generate a lot material for new revolutions. If researchers and engineers manage to get efficient, cheap carbon capture at scale what sort of consequences does that have? What materials get super cheap and experiences common?

Can we get to a point where battery tech gets cheap enough that electric personal transport gets even cheaper than ICE cars? Does that bypass mass transit? We've seen futuristic visions of how that plays out, so not quite the reality yet.

At some point, nations at risk will start seriously exploring geo/climate engineering solutions. If adopted, what are the potential side effects and side products?
I love how people reacted to this like it was a serious comment.
All I've seen is some checkmarks on Twitter speaking of "the LGBT community" needing to forgive him as though there were one unified bloc. I barely noticed and will probably never hear about this again once it passes by.

I was only vaguely aware of this guy before all this. His apology (on Twitter) seems sincere. I don't know what he said, but looking it up is not in the spirit of forgiveness and moving forward.
Well yeah border guards are human and display the full range of human behavior
Any yet, few carriage makers made the transition to automobiles successfully (Buick was one that did.) Being able to make the body is one thing, being able to make a very different drive train is something else.
Assuming that this is a well known and trusted scientific website, this kind of message just gives tons of ammo, very legitimate ammo, to political entities that claim the scientific community has political bias. This article is clearly left-wing, not neutral. It is absolutely imperative that science and politics are kept separate so that there is no opportunity for people to claim that a scientific insight is politically biased or motivated. For example, the left leaning tone of this article could make it more difficult for a right wing person to believe other scientific literature that claims global warming is real. Anyone who advocates political messages in the scientific community is an enemy of society.
For people like me not directly working on the field of smart contracts : does a solidity decompiler solve a specific problem or was it for fun?

I thought the point of smart contracts was that the source code is available and auditable by everyone, so there would be no need for a decompiler
It highly depends on what you're trying to change/treat. I recommending searching pubmed and high quality studies for your condition and the specific strains you need. Some strains can make some conditions worse and not better.
So you think you would have not been successful as a software developer if your video game time was limited to 2hrs/day?

Nor that you might have been able to use that time to develop physical fitness or other life skills?
This should not cut off ongoing games, except maybe if the anticheat was implemented by morons.

I’m not sure it it’d even very reliably stop you from starting a new game, but I guess it probably works well enough.
Car rental is affordable and you aren't putting wear and tear on your daily driver. Win/win for long trips
I feel the same way. I am so excited about this. I hope it is not too late though. Seems as though a lot of the popular around Minecraft has faded a bit.
And can be recycled.
Name one domain that can't be enhanced by knowing how to code.
If you have trouble with histamines, watch out. It actually can hurt: https://www.athinkingpatient.com/probiotic-l-reuteri-mast-ce...
This article has a lot more information about the Sulimov dog: https://www.rbth.com/longreads/jackals/
The commit SHA-1 at the tip of the leaked presto.git repository is 8cd9aeda16e82d5babc1070a0791f0ef2de6fad5, which helps to find it in various places.
My issue is not with the act of programming, just as I don't have an issue with the act of writing something on a paper.

The issue is that the parents are doing this in order to set the kids up to a career in programming, which IMO is going to be the blue collar work of their future. There is no glory in being a code monkey 10 years from now... just a decently paid blue collar worker making someone else rich.

Teach them the business skills that will enable them to properly hire and evaluate 20 programmers for their business venture, not simply be one of those 20 programmers.
Does AppleWatch measure the ECG on the wrist or the crown? Cause it asks me to hold Crown while collecting ECG data.
> energy intensity has been materially increasing for decades

Increasing? You meant decreasing, right?

Energy productivity is increasing, ie: we're producing more with less energy.
Further proof that millennials are the brokest generation
America is very good at refining oil into other fuels. Many countries export crude oil to the United States that gets refined and sold back as fuel.
True, if you know it's a state sponsored TV you can look at it with objectivity glasses. But not all think about putting two and two together--and honestly some can't...hook, line, and sinker.
Are there typescript typings anywhere? Might be a great toy to play with this Christmas and get more experience with TS.
both. you need at least one cross-body pathway, so your watch-hand wrist and opposite finger on the crown complete the circuit.
[2018-19] New DVD Movie Releases to Buy or Rent in USA
What about rotors?
Every runner can benefit from squatting
One can also chord on conventional keyboards. A cheap keyboard with 2KRO (2-key rollover) and 4 modifiers, might be held upside-down, providing Shift/Ctrl/Alt/Meta plus a key or two. And a 2KRO with 8 modifiers (left and right aren't merged) might be used two handed. Some keyboards special-case common key sets like WASD. A 6KRO keyboard permits one-handed chording with arbitrary keys. USB boot-mode keyboards are limited to 6KRO plus 8 modifiers. :/ Full n-key rollover (NKRO) USB HID keyboards exist, but last I looked some years ago, it was a niche mess.

A half-century on, an we still can't play keyboards like pianos... "if your customers aren't complaining loudly of being crippled, you're overbuilding".
BRODOLF – THE RED NOSE GAINZDEER
i didn’t say it didn’t come without sacrifice. I said it worked.
Do we know of any organised groups who are opposing this? Both of our main political parties are in bed with this disaster so we can’t leave it to the opposition.

You’re clearly smart and lucid. Me perhaps less so but I have some spare time. Who else? Where are they gathering? What can I do?

I’m talking basic communications and publicity stuff, not anything anarchistic. Helping non-tech journalists. Writing articles to help the public understand this stuff. Lobbying MPs.

Maybe I just found a way to keep myself busy...
My favorite feature of Picasa was duplicate image detection. IIRC, it would actually find duplicate images by the visual of the image and not just the bits. So it could match smaller versions of the same image. This helped me clean up countless duplicate copies of photos all over my different disk stores.
No mention of reddit?
Way back there used to be Metamod (which IIRC circumvented some limitation of the Half-Life engine regarding how it loaded DLLs into the game), and then AMX Mod layered on top of that, which was later replaced by AMX Mod X. This in turn used a little programming language called "Pawn". You could then write mods in Pawn, compile that to bytecode and dynamically load it into the game server. Later there was Sourcepawn. These enabled a lot of complex mods, and required relatively little knowledge about the messy details of the engines, however it was still relatively involved. First you had to setup the various base mods to get it to work, then you needed to compile your mods, restart the game server for most changes etc.
For free software, I wonder if reproducible builds plus a "certificate transparency"-style check in the updater (only allow an update once several build servers, preferentially located in separate jurisdictions, have validated the build and published the corresponding source code) could help. That is, make it impossible to push a backdoor to a single user without making it public to everyone. Making updates anonymous (that is, never sending any ID which could be used to target an update to a specific user) might also help.
Please don't. Where by "this" I mean bringing in things you consider dumb, just to kick at them. This is not how we gratify intellectual curiosity.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I have nothing against knowing how to code, but no 10 year old needs to be doing that, just going to make them even more used to a sedentary lifestyle and away from (real) social interaction.
Weirdest way to optimize a dedicated gameserver (recommended by Valve)
Every time I try searching my Inbox in Thunderbird, it feels painful.
Meanwhile, using my mail provider's (Fastmail) web interface, its snappy.
I heard a lot of good things about FrameMaker for text processing.

For development environments I am deeply sorry that smalltalks are not a thing anymore. I know we have pharo, and that's great, but nothing with traction like let's say Lua or ruby or scala.

Next thing I miss would be Dylan as it was planned for the Newton. We have opendylan now, but I would like to have it at the heart of a OS/platform.
I was looking for Erythritol in the study, as it seems to be the safest sugar replacement so far (I'm using it all the time, still trying not to overuse it of course). It's strange that the study didn't take it into account.
Aww man. I've been a super happy user as well for quite some time. What should a privacy concerned customer do?
Your downvoters are probably assuming that you are actually espousing those views, rather than calling-out those views. But surely that assumption is false.
You don't get in trouble for denouncing dogma in general. You have to denounce a specific one.
You are right in "the way we currently use them", but that doesn't make buses inherently as safe as you imply. Buses get professional, trained drivers, subject to substance abuse testing and rest laws, consistently driving the same route. In the resource you shared, it looked like professionally driven cars (presumably mostly taxis and town cars? from 2000-2009) also had dramatically lower death rates, although they didn't give the deaths/passenger mile number.
We at Crunch.io run Python using jemalloc because we have found some really bad behaviour in the default glibc malloc when using Python with many threads.

Using jemalloc we were able to reduce our memory pressure over time dramatically.
I remember SourcePawn! It was a bit too hardcore for me at the time. If I remember correctly it used a thing called 'sigscanning'[1] to find the address of private functions. I think it would have a list of patterns and then scan the binary w/ pattern matching to find the address.

Hacky as hell but you could do some neat stuff with it like respawning players and adjusting all kinds of 'untouchable' attributes.

1. https://wiki.alliedmods.net/Signature_Scanning
Stupid question - how are they handling system calls in wasmer? I can't seem to find the answer easily.
Good to hear. What made you go with the Tesla?
My thoery:

I'm inclined to think the link in autism might be caused by the prevalence of C-section births not passing the proper gut microbiome to some kids who are also genetically more inclined to autism but only if the gut is screwed up at birth.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4464665/

Doctors nowadays do C-sections often for unnecessary reasons, such as expedience or shift changes or as a default because the believe its "safer":

https://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/01/19/arsdarian-c...

The wrong micro-biome eventually builds up a toxic load that causes the onset of autistic symptoms. Most likely due to cell danger response (CDR) getting stuck:

https://health.ucsd.edu/news/releases/Pages/2017-05-26-centu...

Out on a limb, I know. But likely the cause is probably going to come down to a cascade of preventable events and toxic loads causing some kind of malfunction in those who are already gene compromised.
Agree 100%. In one sense, the barrier to creating and distributing software is lower than ever before… but in another sense, it's much higher. Pre-teen me would have had a much harder time grokking the modern web tech stack or Unity than learning how to make basic animations and games in either of those two apps.

Sure, the runtime sucked. But not in any way I cared about as a kid! Plus, this is a hypothetical scenario, so we can have it be good :)
If it was pointless there wouldn't be so much money in it.

You sound like somebody completely out of touch with reality. People like you hurt our cause.
Why do you think all those parents wants their kids to have a programming career?
Do you think the same of parents putting their kids in musical instrument classes?
Don't you think there will be any joy working with code in 10 years time?
> Increasing? You meant decreasing, right?

Yes. Fixed--thank you. I got mixed up between the Wikipedia article quoting energy intensity and the EIA page using energy efficiency (essentially, the inverse of intensity).
Futures should be in Rust within a few months and the next Rocket release will switch to async. The Rust plugin for JetBrains IDEs is also getting better every release[1].

In short, I'd say Q2 2019 would be a time to seriously jump into it if you don't want to do it now.

1 - https://intellij-rust.github.io
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For people who like the idea, check Terrarium[1] from Fastly. They use Wasmer with Fastly services to have edge computing capabilities. Think AWS Lambda but in a CDN. It looks promising!

[1] https://wasm.fastlylabs.com/
My Dude… there are so many more roles programmers can play in the world than this little fantasy of yours where you get to be Mr Scrooge McDuck.
Even as a hypocrite he was valuing employees more than any other CEO in his time. Larry has no empathy and it was shown very clearly when he took over.
For some reason I had it in my head that it wouldn't. Fantastic, even more value!
Evaluating the Wisdom of Crowds in Assessing Phishing Websites [pdf]
Presumably because it's an STD that can't be transmitted through casual contact.
... I wouldn't really call RT a foreign propaganda site. Frankly, and perhaps I'm myself biased, they provide less propagandic of an assessment of Western events than nearly every one of our mainstream media outlets that I can think of.

Regarding what the article is referring to, things like the Washington Post allowing China to buy ads or China funding lobbyists who speak to congressman who likely have no idea, I can't see anybody justifying that, unless they hate the US, which okay, that's your prerogative.

The most important thing to keep in mind is that the average person is at least two orders of magnitude less endowed with information than the people you might speak with on HN, whether or not any of our opinions are correct, so even a tiny bit of propaganda reaching enough people can change minds against the interest of the country.

I think this should've been illegal 50 years ago, and I think the people abetting this should be tried for treason, almost by the very definition.