skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>What is worse than academic groups getting scooped by DeepMind? The fact that the collective powers of Novartis, Merck, Pfizer, etc, with their hundreds of thousands (~million?) of employees, let an industrial lab that is a complete outsider to the field, with virtually no prior molecular sciences experience, come in and thoroughly beat them on a problem that is, quite frankly, of far greater importance to pharmaceuticals than it is to Alphabet. It is an indictment of the laughable “basic research” groups of these companies, which pay lip service to fundamental science but focus myopically on target-driven research that they managed to so badly embarrass themselves in this episode.

I wonder, is this because these methods are simply 'not good enough' to really have an application for medicine yet? I know nothing of the pharmaceutical sector, but saying they don't do basic research seems to stretch my world view given their vast profit baselines and government funding for exactly that purpose. Is there someone in the field who knows more?
Real Madrid was beaten by the countdown, and it was hard to win
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> lmao that ain't his reasoning muh brah

Please don't, and please don't use HN primarily for political or ideological or national battle, as described elsewhere.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
If you find blinking lights on cyclists annoying, that means you noticed them. So they accomplish their mission. Blinking lights are significantly easier to notice from peripheral vision.
Agreed. As an Australian, I'd also suggest that all IT staff, devs and PMs should now be treated as a plague ship for any company hiring us. At any time, our Gov can pull this new law out and coerce us into undermining your software.

This is not good for international relations at all.
There's no such thing as too much Fallout :D
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List of all 71 officially released games for the Atari Lynx
Incidently that movie is brilliant. Graphic but briljant.
And has nothing whatsoever to do with bezier curves; thus completely off topic, so I will leave it at that. (but briljant :-)
Good stuff!!

Does your API work for test-nets? Also, what do you think the future of this project is?
Considering cardinalities, functions and strings are equal. Using javascript notation, ‘fn => fn.toString()’ is an injective function from functions to strings and ‘str => () => str’ is an injective function from strings to functions.
Pride and envy predate magazines and TV.

So does advertising.
From my experience:

There are shops who charges extra if you paying with credit card on the other hand there are shops where only credit/debit cards are accepted. And in both cases there is some logic behind that.

There are additional charges payed by merchant when you pay with credit card, small business just pass that on to customer. For others handling cash is more work. You need to have a reserve to give change, collect cash at the end of the day and put it to safe. Someday move accumulated cash to bank. There's also risk of employee stealing cash. So accepting only cards makes also sense.
No string compare does not work, as the order of elements may not be the same so the strings may not be the same. The utility will report both JSON's as equal even if order of elements is different.
Exactly. Living your life with zero buffer against fluctuations in the availability of life-critical materials is just as stupid as people who are prepping for zombie invasions. One guy thinks nothing will ever happen and the other thinks society is a transient entity. They are both fantasies. If you aren’t ready for earthquakes, fires, financial disasters and etc then you have a short attention span or you’re just lazy.

Besides all this, consolidation and integration of life-support is the way of the future. If you look at society as one big system, it makes a lot of sense to have lots of redundant units rather than all units depending on one central resource. Sole and batteries for example harden the whole country against equipment failure, terror attack, negligence and natural disasters. With a single power plant any instance of one of those things could bring down huge numbers of houses. Technology is making it possible to produce some of the things you need in home, so there is a funny convergence of preppers and technologists.
> Do you think this is a feature?

If you're talking about the recent case where police followed the car for 7 minutes and brought it to a controlled stop then this is pretty much a resounding yes! If I fell asleep at the wheel of my car I'd more than likely be dead within seconds.
Intel Confident in Its 10nm and 7nm EUV Process Tech for Future Core and Xeon
What level of cheating are we speaking here? Bribing the ref, match fixing, doping are all forms of cheating in sports and could be a punishable crime.
Yes. I’m nearly 30 and my mother still has the power to instantly discourage any hobby I’m picking up by spamming me with tips, telling me the equipment I’ve bought is no good and I should buy what she has, and insisting on “showing me how it’s done”. That’s not bonding with your child, it’s overpowering your child. It’s subtly telling them that you, the parent, are all-knowing and all-powerful and you’ll never be impressed because you can always do better than your child. It’s asking the child to be impressed by you instead.
No, Turing complete means that whatever we are talking about can solve all the problems that a Turing machine can solve. A language that has only jump statements and absolutely nothing else is not Turing complete even though its programs can run forever.

We only equate running forever with Turing completeness in contexts where something would be Turing complete iff it did not miss an instruction or something that would allow it to run forever (consider a language that has addition, subtraction, if statements, etc but no jump or function) or if it has something that does not allow it to run forever (such as a type system, consider simply typed lambda calculus).

Our modern computers do not have unbounded tape nor are they infinite state machines - with their limited memory and finite amount of states they can't solve all the problems that a Turing machine can. They are basically glorified finite state machines with a lot of states.
Might not work so well if the apocalypse was caused by an antibiotic-resistant plague outbreak.
Agree. Imagine also if, as a potential 'saboteur' the gov then try and sweeten the 'deal' with cash 'on the side'. Suddenly, we're also targets for moral corruption too -- just like the pollies who voted for this disaster.
They do care, though, that Bitcoin has non-crime use. If the crash means that speculation drops significantly (which I expect to be the case) then it could be a reasonably quick slide to where "bitcoin" in effect means "crime dollars". That in turn means that a lot of exchanges will shut down due to low volume and regulatory pressure. There's little point to using Bitcoin for ransom if your victims have a hard time getting money in and you can't get your ill-gotten gains out.
Interesting dilemma there: gazillions of routers with worst possible security vulnerabilities are laying in the open for everybody to exploit.

Either you have them flopped yourself, or leave it to the enemy.

But in any way, the West has more urgent issues than Chinese popping their routers, namely the issue of their own spy agencies running rampant.
There is a critical component in such motivation that is not even mentioned in this article. The more money you have, the more ability you have to change the world around you.

Among many, many financially successful people I know, there are a LOT who are motivated by money and competitiveness themselves. However, NONE of them are founders of new businesses. (Real new businesses, that intend to stay in the picture and actually do something for the customers, instead of ending up acquihired or otherwise melted back into some comfortable corporate structure. Most of tech start-ups are really far from this image, and are created people who know exactly what their exit strategy is). These founders are always motivated by their desire to change something in the world: they love the field they're working in, and they love the product they're creating, and they wouldn't miss it for the world. And yes, they want more money, because it's the universal resource out of which they build the things they so love building.

So, in other words, the headline of this article should have been "Why Aren't New York Finance Executives And Other Thin Subset of Rich People We Got A Hold Of Happy With The Money They Have".
There is also Freeman Dyson's talk called "heretics thoughts" according to which global warming is mainly a land management issue.

https://youtu.be/8xFLjUt2leM
> every time someone uses heroin, that person is implicitly showing that they like heroin more than not and find it valuable more than not.

Any article pushing such obviously false logic should just be discarded immediately.
And yes, you remind me that I use the wrong word, it should not be "becoming", it should be "always". :)
Of course. Email is in the original post. Reach out and let's talk more :)

(Mention HN somewhere in your mail so I know it's you)
It's been said before, but we'd need the internal data regarding viewing patterns, license fees (which are per user in many cases), bandwidth costs, etc etc, but I'd take your proposed wager. Without hesitation. I can think of very few scenarios where the amalgamation of these per user costs is lower for a heavy user. (Not saying it can't happen, just saying based on what I know, I'd feel pretty confident betting that it doesn't happen.) Additionally, throwing in what I know about consumer behavioral patterns, I'd wager even their light users are extremely unlikely to cancel Netflix.
Are we peak ML yet? I understand the need for hype, but I'm yet to see a killer app.
I upvoted the comment back up because it doesn't seem particularly bad to me.

However, would you please stop using new accounts for each few comments you post? That is against the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

People needn't use their real names here, but do need to have some consistent identity for others to relate to. Otherwise this place isn't a community, and we want it to be a community. I've explained this many times: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
> - Why?

Because they’re probably paying Marriot for the privilege of being listed as a provider for monitoring services. Once the free tier runs out they’ll try to milk the consumers for an ongoing protection charge.

> - Why is that not a service provided by a bank, as a part of having a credit card?

Separation of concerns. A bank or card issuer cares more about covering their own liability for fraud on a particular card. They don’t care if a new one gets issued in your name somewhere else or if a line of credit gets opened.

> - Why do individuals have to pay some random third parties to protect themselves from some fraudster defrauding some bank via data obtained from some company (even if, in publicized breach cases, this gets covered by breached company)?

That’s not strictly true. Freezing your credit across all the major credit agencies is free. They likely don’t want you to know or do that as it also limits junk mail for credit cards.

> - (Somewhat related) how is it that your "credit score" isn't just a number on your bank dashboard, but you have to pay third parties to discover it?
It can't be that all of this is just a legalized racket, can it? Because if feels like it is.

It is a racket with a private sector origin that effectively got standardized over the years. There’s a number of private organizations that provide “credit scores” with FICO being the most prominent.

Starting a few years ago most financial providers provide free access to your current score or some “fako” equivalent.
>makes little sense.

They are doing 7FF+ in 2019 with few steps in EUV already. GF and Samsung also have similar schedule. You don't have to trust me. You could look at their investor meeting notes or report from Anandtech.
Agreed. So "Auto Pilot" == "Self Pilot".

As in, it pilots itself. Which would indeed imply that no driver was needed.
This is a great point. I recently had a small burn which ended up infected with golden staph.

If that infection had a happened and I couldn't get antibiotics, clean water, food, shelter, etc. for a month things could have gone quite the way south.
Candida is what a lot of people assume it is, but there's really no way to know for certain what microorganism is imbalanced in your gut, so like many people I started off thinking it was Candida but then moved to more general approach as I learned more (and learned of many, many things other than Candida that could be the problem). It is ultimately very limiting to assume that it's Candida; you'll find most people who think their problem is Candida struggle a lot and the suggested protocols for treating it do not seem to work very well.

You are right to assume that the problem is fungal, since it started after antibiotic therapy, but I find that fermentation of any kind makes me sick - even supposedly anti-candida things made me worse if they were fermented (claimed to provide tons of antifungal probiotics). I have had much better results admitting that I do not know the actual imbalance, and thinking of this as a known unknown.

The supplements that helped me most were caprylic acid (for reducing gut dysbiosis) and S. Boulardii, even though you cannot take both at the same time (the former weakens the latter).

I also benefited greatly from taking nutritional supplements to top off any deficiencies of vitamins and minerals I might have had, but I do not take these things continuously, because supplements usually have specific forms of ingredients that may compete with others - for example, you'll often find Vitamin E as alpha-tocopherol, which is OK for topping off your levels but in the long run, it depletes other forms of Vitamin E such as tocotrienols and other tocopherols.

See my other comments for more details, I wrote quite a bit.
Doesn't AMD with TSMC 7nm basically ready to go? TSMC is already talking about 5nm.

While you might not see it in consumer hardware from Intel anytime soon, you will from AMD.
Ruby Ridge and Waco are two of the more famous ATF misadventures.
Went there to check if Twitch was listed. Twitch chat runs on IRC, or at least can be connected to with an IRC client - are they involved with the ecosystem?
> No. They can’t. Not unless you have a IIIc approach and autopilot. Those things are not common.

So you're saying they can?
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I'm absolutely sure it's self defeating only temporarily and/or when it doesn't matter. Governments can use literally any amount of money and other resources if they care, and there are many people who wouldn't even require extraordinary sums (being in army is not exactly well paid).

We're going full speed into totality. It was absolutely the same when the communist regime started in my home country: People were saying they would not use their new powers against ordinary people and that seizing all farmland would be impractical and then after few years of silence KGB and gulags and executions happened (our local alternatives of course).
fear mongering "government is out to get us" vs fear mongering "the terrorists are out to get us".
none are true, but fear sells nonetheless.
Can we have the title changed please. HN shouldn't be a place for crude sexual jokes.
Permutive (YC S14) is hiring a senior JavaScript engineer in London
"Thriving Systems Theory and Metaphor-Driven Modeling" (see https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9781849963015 ) is a book that attempts to bring the ideas from the Nature of Order in the world of software.
Correct, car drivers do behave in unsafe ways. Humans greatly value freedom of choice, and once given it will almost invariably choose badly and then be sad. We aren't allowed to make the same bad choices on their behalf - users will rebel if you propose that it's OK for a few New York subway trains to crash each day.

This isn't about railways per se. Individuals with freedom of choice on the railway will make bad decisions too. Track workers for example are routinely complicit in the unsafe practices that cause them to die, if we told them "take this dangerous shortcut" we'd be demons, but since they choose for themselves to take the shortcut against instructions we can only wring our hands.
Not really, unless the picture they're attempting to take includes me in it. I'll never understand why so many people are insistent on taking pictures of others who are clear that they're not comfortable with it.

(Sorry for hijacking your pet peeve thread to bring up my pet peeve)
Let's be charitable and assume that it was sarcasm.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Mac OS classic was a pure GUI OS without the concept of a command line shell
Have you considered that you think 100k is comfortable because you don’t have it?
It was written by GitHub, and has been used in their internal fork of git.git for a long time. The work of integrating it with upstream was sponsored by GitLab, since it's something they were interested in to save space.

The feature isn't interesting except for those that run a GitHub-like setup. I.e. repositories with a fork network where clones & fetches can be expected to be served from any repository in the network. In those setups it can make a lot of difference.
Isn’t TSMC’s “7nm” more comparable to Intel’s 10nm?
Here's another bug: SVG of the Pitcairn Islands flag renders incorrectly on Firefox 63.0.3:

https://i.imgur.com/Xoh51Ui.png
Click trapped (and non-functional) on Chrome, at least.
Wow, Hong Kong's Smartone uses Ericsson and wasn't effected. I am surprised at how wide spread the problem is. How could Ericsson messed this up when the it has the biggest chance to grab business from Huawei.
>“The sensation of ‘being well-off,’” [...] “is not about fulfilling a childhood dream of buying a sailboat or something; feeling wealthy is about comparison with others in your reference group

When there is a debate about increasing % of taxes further for higher income (often in the name of redistribution, reducing inequalities), I often hear the argument that it will reduce the motivation for the higher income people to keep working and keep contributing to society. I think the argument is wrong: it's a social game, and if the same rules apply to all, they all can keep playing the same game with the same motivation of outdoing their peers.
Anglican is a CPS state monad. Clojure functions are automatically lifted into the monad, but to maintain fast execution of Anglican code, Clojure functions must be declared as such to Anglican.

A language with native support of continuations is a nice toy but does not bring practical benefits to implementing CPS state monad.
As a parent it is really hard to find the right balance between wanting to spend time with your kids and trampling all over their hobbies. Especially if it is a hobby where they need you to drive them somewhere and stay or pick them up later.

My father and I used to compete in the same sport and I always hated it when he did well. Because however well I did, it was always how much ahead of him I got that mattered.

With my sons I have conciously either not competed against them, or only competed in events that I am rubbish at. And I don't go anywhere near their online games and social networks.
Quick-link for those wondering how to do this (as I was):

https://home-remedies.wonderhowto.com/how-to/make-aspirin-fr...
In a free market, money is made by creating value for others.
Dry pill form antibiotics will easily last 10 years without losing too much potency.
I think it's generally assumed that more money equals better physical health, but the psychological aspects are very underrated.

Money equals certainty for a lot of people. It lets them count on certain things always being there. Having your own home, respect, clout totally builds your confidence and lets you face life with positivity. You can afford to be wrong more often, so you don't mind sticking your neck out - sometimes you lose, but often times you win big. In short, money removes a lot of anxieties.

A poor person simply doesn't have these luxuries, and the anxiety of poverty is a killer in its own right.

Our flavor of capitalism is also such that all the wealth ends up in a small number of hands. The winner takes all. I wished we could somehow enforce equality without negatively impacting innovation. Probably wishful thinking, but I wonder if society can be optimised so everyone can feel prosperous at the same time?!
Personally I think this is a reason to sometimes use quora. The one right answer cult is a huge limitation of se, which frustratingly often closes good questions just for being subjective. This is not site policy but over zealous modding.

"We never claimed that subjective questions were horrible abominations that should never be asked." https://stackoverflow.blog/2010/09/29/good-subjective-bad-su...
Wow, the fact that Mac OS Classic did not even have a command line interface really baffles me. I looked it up and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18646286 - it seems to be true.

It's ironic that in 2018, the terminal is more prominent then ever in any developer scene (thinking only of package managers for diverse programming languages), while in the 90s somehow people thought the GUI could solve all problems, not only for the novices but also for computer experts.
Kodachrome was generally considered to have realistic tones. Traditional Ektachrome tended to be colder and was more likely to fade over time as with E-6 process films in general. Kodak did produce some explicitly warm E-6 films later starting with Lumiere.

Photographers did also use filters including for warming effects.

Photographers and art directors have always exerted creative control. Both the technical means and tastes change over time though.
Lol for the Auntie Jack reference.

If you're already overseas (including NZ), it should be a pretty easy ride:

"You may be eligible to apply if you ... will acquire citizenship of another country as soon as your application to renounce Australian citizenship is approved" [0]

From what I remember, there's basically an agreement between all countries stating that a stateless person in your borders must be offered safe harbour... or something to that affect, and that might be triggering the "We will not approve your application to renounce your citizenship if you do not have another foreign citizenship" spiel.

Talk to a lawyer to get it straight though.

[0] https://immi.homeaffairs.gov.au/citizenship/give-up-citizens...
I agree. counter-intuitively I heard the biggest difference in the base
Brexit: UK can unilaterally revoke article 50, says EU court
Please don't turn strange noun choices into personal attacks. That breaks several of the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
It's also a direct positive (slide) film, not a negative. A properly exposed Kodachrome is absolutely gorgeous in real life, scans do it little justice.
They can but they don’t pay people much and you have to be morally bankrupt to work there. Very few people fit that niche.

After paying £27k+ in tuition fees grad priority is earning so the government chased them off too.
26 trains an hour is pushing it hard. The London underground generally runs at about 24 TPH at rush hour on a single line (in each direction)

If you go to a moving block signalling system you can push the system a bit harder, but the problem is that as the trains get more crowded, their braking distance increases (which increases the block size - so fewer TPH). Also, at rush hour the dwell time at each station increases because more people are getting on and off - again impacting the headway.

So pushing the TPH on a metro line is hard...