skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As an aquarist I find this hilarious. For $399 you could hire an expert in fish pathology to check that the fishes are free from diseases and spend the other dollar into buying the real fishes, and put it in a quarantine tank then.

> the facility in Europe had suffered a fire that required them to stop production for 4-6 months.

This sounds very strange, unless you want to artificially create a scarcity in the supply of an animal that anybody can breed by thousands in their living room. You don't need almost any space to breed this fishes, and aquariums can be moved right?. 6 months seem too much.

I wonder why nobody has tried with another of the 100000 species of fish with transparent embryos and bypass this money-grabbing structure.
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For a game that released 15 years ago?
Yes outside of a few limited areas (mostly controlled access highways) and benign weather conditions we're going to be waiting a long time for level 4+ self-driving cars.
The lies Comcast allegedly told customers to hide full cost of service
superficially. Under the hood, though, Julia has an type-system that interacts with the compiler in a very specific way that makes it possible to write highly optimized dynamic code without the overhead of a VM (is that the right term) like python's.
Stop going to restaurants based on pictures and yelp reviews then. Also Michelen Stars are horrible unless you want over priced small plates that try to be art first and food second. If you do want to go to those places, get a reservation. Either OpenTable or just call them like it’s the 90s.

It takes a while, but exploring neighborhoods can be really rewarding. I rarely wait for a table, and if you do have to wait there is usually another place right next door. Not every place is spectacular, but the overall food quality here is decent. Finally, avoid anywhere with more than 20-30 items on a menu (Thank you Gordon Ramsey).

There is another (realer imo) Asian area on Clement and Geary over in the Richmond that has authentic food all over. Japan town is good, but stay away from most of the tourist trap that is the Grant street Chinatown.

But this city does suck for Mediterranean.
Almost everything between Midtown and Downtown is a 4-5 story walkup, how is that ideal?

4-5 stories (at 2-4 apartments per) is quite good density, actually.
Funny enough I worked at Yelp too and one of the reasons why I decided to move back to Europe was what you wrote :)

"There is a lot of money, but not a lot of wealth."
Correct, Google has all the leverage to dictate what non-Apple smartphone manufacturers sell. Moving to Fuchsia would be expensive for everybody involved. Google is developing a new OS. Chip manufacturers will have to write new driver code. Cell manufacturers will have to integrate a new system. Everyone loses the work they put into the Android Open Source Project and their private branches of ASOP.

With all this cost, who's getting the upside? Google is clearly getting the lion's share.
I doubt that communication with mission control requires dialing a number at all...
> scuttling housing projects that would have eased the bubble and helped house a lot more people for reasonable prices

Exactly this. In and around Amsterdam, housing prices are booming. The number of homeless people on the street has hardly increased, because we spend massive amounts of public funds to keep the homeless off the street and also to help them get a home. The biggest issue is graduates, that have to share houses or move out of the city. Also, it's nearly impossible to buy when you're alone.
>Now, if you want a particle to be conscious, your minimum expectation should be that the particle can change.

The crux of the argument seems to be here, and is simply a fallacious equivalency of free will/agency and consciousness. Two different philosophical issues that may have a unifying explanation, but not for now.

Besides, panpsychism seems to almost be tautological in its assertions: if we accept materialism, and we accept consciousness exists in some creatures, then where else would consciousness be "realized" in aggregate except distributed amongst the actual matter of the brain, down reductivly to sub-atomic particles? That doesn't mean it's a fully formalized robust theory, but the concepts underlying it are sound.
newsflash: rich people have better access to _______, making them more likely to _________, what are the implications for people who can't afford _________ and what should the _______ industry do about it?
Just in case anyone doesn't get the implication, the answer is unions. Everyone in Hollywood has a union protecting and fighting for them.
The article says the new plan will take 15-20 months. Sounds like a big win to me.
This website might just be getting the HN hug of death if it can’t even serve you the game at full speed. It doesn’t seem like it’s related to how practical it is.
Peruvian driver with Down’s Syndrome set to make history at Rally
Must read on the topic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eratosthenes
I guess 30 years of peace and prosperity was too much for people to handle.. we can't just read our history, we have to learn the hard way.
Breath test for cancer being trialled in UK
Redistributing game assets like this is legal how? https://github.com/id-Software/DOOM-3/blob/master/neo/sys/li...
If elementary particles can't think, how can thinking arise when combinations of elementary particles are put together?

It's all well and good saying that consciousness is incompatible with evidence, but I for one perceive a great deal of consciousness. How do "scientists" address this conflict with perception? Simple: they don't.

(FWIW, I don't think elementary particles can think).
This is possibly the biggest straw-man I've ever seen set up to represent panpsychism, and I feel like I've seen a lot.

This article is beyond nonsense. The author seems to define panpsychism as the idea that a "conscious" particle would somehow affect the number of particles produced in a collision. Where she gets that definition from, I can't even begin to fathom.

Panpsychism isn't "crazy shit" we "tried long ago" and we haven't "moved on". There's currently zero solid scientific evidence for any theory of consciousness, and the idea of panpsychism -- that consciousness is grounded in the physical universe rather than being an emergent property or being something supernatural -- is just as valid as any other right now. Who knows, maybe it's something like gravity that's indetectable at the atomic scale but shows up under very particular configurations at larger scales.

I don't know who this author is, but based on this post she comes across as anything but scientific.
Some more details here, including an explanation for that visual glitch:

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/emscripten-discuss/pKcWvKppj...
>laws are the ethics of the society

Law is the attempt at legalizing ethical principles. Quite often the laws fall short of the actual ethical consensus of the society due to the fact that the members of the society ultimately have little direct control over what laws get made and how those laws are enforced, for example:

federal judges are appointed, not elected.

most people aren't able to parse legalese enough to fully grasp the implications of a law they support.

laws often get passed by Congress people by virtue of some group with financial interests using their money to influence decisions, etc.
Is it possible that a lot of the money is from microtransactions? and that there is a gambling addiction that is being taken advantage of by lootboxes and other such pay-to-gain-random-reward microtransaction mechanics?

I remember reading a post about a Path of Exile gamer who successfully convinced Grinding Gear Games to put in special rules for his account because he was a gambling addict.
I don't think so.

Evidence #1: The ever-present existence of potato masher PC configurations (cheaper and more powerful than a console in qty 1) makes me doubt that consoles are loss leaders. The crypto bubble played with that math but it seems to generally hold.

Evidence #2: Sony keeps bragging about how many consoles their investments in first-party game studios have been able to move. Importantly: that's how they phrase it.

Evidence #3: This particular narrative has held true for several people in my bubble, including myself. People will buy a console to play Bloodborne, Horizon Zero Dawn, or God of War. The center-of-mass for single-player narrative-driven AAAs seems to be moving away from the PC, and the ones that stay on the PC seem to be bogged down with "alternative" monetization models.
No, that’s crazy. It takes lots of atoms of iron and silicon to make a Boeing 747, but that doesn’t mean that a single iron atom has even the slightest amount of “plane-ness”.
Reminds me of the roads in Bolivian Andes
The same as those $23B? If shareholders will want to get them as income in US, government will collect corp and income taxes on those money.
> What can we really do in 2019 to grant full, solid access to people in Vietnam (and North Korea, and everywhere)?

Think outside the box.

The government is monitoring TCP/IP traffic to the ends of disappearing people and Facebook will sell anybody out for a buck, especially if it means getting or keeping a foothold in emerging markets.

When the RIAA started suing Napster users, you didn't double down on your own Napster usage-- you GTFO and moved on to Kazaa or Limewire, services that weren't being monitored yet. Signal and Whatsapp are now in the same endgame.

Same with pirate radio. You get complacent and stay in the same spot too long and the FCC will kick in your door.

We need to acknowledge that the party is over and to stop trying to make an increasingly-centralized and highly-compromised internet the medium for all communications. It's lazy OPSEC and it's getting people killed.

We got messages into and out of concentration camps and prisons without slapping a stamp on a letter and sending via the US or German Post. Concerning ourselves with getting people in the DPRK onto the most heavily-surveilled networks and services ever created is not good for their longevity.

The best we can do is offer low-bandwidth, discreet connectivity via shortwave, mesh or satellite, using parts easily procurable in authoritarian regimes.
Getting something like this running in a web browser at acceptable performance is a significant technical achievement.
Considering the majority of the homeless in SF are mentally handicapped, it turns out you can: https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2018/03/05/san-francisco-h...

Deinstitutionalization has contributed to SF's homeless problem, as many mentally handicapped people self medicate with illegal substances.
I never said the whole lot is garbage. But a huge portion of them are at best passable or forgettable.

Average time played is not a good metric because people on both extremes will skew it heavily, like any average - people who bought the game but never played it, or people who play it way too much. It also depends a lot on the game. On an okay-ish game that has a +/-20h campaign will be pretty easy to munch through just to check it off, but one can easily abandon an okay-ish game with 5-10 minute matches after a handful of hours.
Group sms works great. But you or someone should take charge and summarize the conversation/plan as last a text.

My friends use group texts a lot but sometimes conversation gets out of hand and I have to read through 100 messages to find out if there were any concrete plans.
A simple web app is sufficient for most online transactions today. Even better if that web app can directly access GPU and interact with the hardware more natively using Javascript.

Nothing for the end user to install. Just use the next-gen mobile browser.
That's a well-written and nicely organized documentation, congrats :)

Btw., I'm now working on a C# support for this documentation theme, but by using XMLDoc directly instead of Doxygen (and thus also with none of its bugs). See here: https://github.com/mosra/m.css/issues/76

For the IDE docs integration, I know about QHP (by Qt), which is supported by QtCreator, KDevelop and has a VS support using the Qt VS Tools plugin. But that's C++. Weird that VS doesn't have something similar builtin for C#...
Valuing a future revenue stream (called the “net present value”) is simple using something called the “discounted cash flow model”.

The main variables are the annual cash flow amount and a “discount rate” which is the interest rate you would earn at equivalent risk.

Each year’s cash flow is divided by (1 + i)^n where I is the interest rate, and n is the number of years out.

For example, 10 years of future annual recurring revenue of $100mm per year, at a discount rate of 5%, has a net present value of $772mm.

That 10th year’s $100mm is only worth $61.4mm in present value based on the 5% interest rate. It is the same thing as saying: $61.4mm invested at 5% would turn into $100mm in 10 years.

If Apple’s net profit turned into a steady $50b stream from here on out, at a 5% discount rate, it comes to a NPV of $673b over the next 20 years. Their current market cap is $680b by the way.
I'm not espousing a particular ethical view here; rather, I'm saying that laws are not our way of dictating ethics by fiat. If Google (or anyone) does something I feel is unethical, I reserve the right to criticize them for it — whether it's legal or not!
It's great to see the number of OSs available for these phones. Hopefully projects like this can create a sort of desktop-linux-distribution-like ecosystem for phones, to develop alternatives to iOS and Android.
const length = (string) => (string.length)

It is unnecessary to adopt a naming convention which implies a scope within the context of "names" when the method is compatible with all strings.
If the house is being rented there's no incentive to make it nice given the housing shortage.
The issue at hand isn't about switching left and right button. Windows, Mac, Chrome OS support it for ages (I know that Windows 3.1 supported that).

The feature request is the ability to map arbitrary buttons (of which there can be many more than 3) to arbitrary actions.
Headline is somewhat misleading, since that advisory seems to be the same as previous year (and maybe previous years?).
Is there any 'wall' between the owners and editors of a newspaper?

Does someone like Bezos now have access to similar information that the Times was hiding from the public shown here?

That information would appear to be worth a lot more than the 250 million he paid for the Post.
Is Fuchsia only going to run on Google hardware, like iOS?

All third-party manufacturers will be stuck with just legacy Android, and Google will have a contender to iOS.
This definition of consciousness, that there is some internal state that can change based on input, and changing this internal state leads to different behavior, is problematic. So is a definition that defines consciousness as responding to identical stimuli in different ways.

The whole problem is that consciousness as a concept is poorly defined. I do not think the people the believe inanimate objects have "consciousness" believe consciousness necessitates thought, or even internal state.
Maybe, depends on what you're doing.

Going full functional style could possibly be used.
Elementary Particles are Conscious
Hence why I said "i.e. shredding prop 13" and why my other comment in the thread said "blame the Howard Jarvis taxpayers foundation".
Most of us believe the world being this meritocracy and we all get what we deserve and work for. And think the only people who would band together are the weak ones that can't compete on merit.

People may not agree, but every argument I've heard against unionization contains this sentiment. Even if it isn't expressed so boldly.
I think this might be a US specific thing.
Sure I'll drop you an email!
Is it? Web browsers aren't that much slower than native (around 2x with web assembly and WebGL I think).

It's much harder for apps that are trying to render to the DOM (which is very slow). But WebGL apps should be perfectly fast in browsers...
potholer54 (who runs a truly great bad anti-global-warming junk science debunking channel -- totally check it out) also mentioned something about a recent discovery for an economical way to covert wind and solar power into ammonia, as a medium for storing hydrogen as a liquid. I'm not entirely sure about that, because while potholer54 is truly great in his usual wheelhouse, he's perhaps a bit bad at evaluating new technologies. (Like, he counts solar roadways as as promising future development.)

However, if that's true, we could see pipelines and tanks of ammonia criss-crossing Texas and the rest of the US, allowing us to fungibly transfer renewable energy. Basically, we could use the systems and techniques we have already developed for doing this with Natural Gas, including the kinds of interfaces those systems have with the current power grid.

Unfortunately, a cursory search for this technology seems to contradict this.
I applied, I think you guys have an amazing mission.
I think after 20,000 years of feudal life it's evolutionary ingrained that those in a higher social class can do whatever they want.
CyberTuner – The $999 iOS Piano Tuning App That's Well Used Amongst Technicians
The author misses the point. Panpsychism is in part a response to the hard problem of consciousness, the question of how subjective experience arises from non-experiencing matter. If consciousness at some basic, low level is instead a property of matter, the issue stops being a difference of kind and starts being one of degree: consciousness is an organisation of a property that already exists in the components, so it need not arise at all.

Consciousness and thought are also separate things. The seeing of the colour red or touching a rough surface are experiences, though neither could be described as thoughts.
It's the demo.
Generally the way these constructions work is that they use local resources (infrastructure, public education, subsidies, etc) and pay zero to no tax on the usage of it. Google has a presence in both the Netherlands and Ireland but pays very little taxes in both (if not none).
Basically what google does here is avoid general taxes in multiple countries (with the structure mentioned they can pay almost none in other countries as well) and still have offices and people working there. You could argue those people get paid, but since most countries (at least in Europe) burden both the employer and employee with the cost of almost everything public, it is unfair to the employee to let the employer not pay taxes due on usage of the infrastructure and public works and let the employer (the corporation) take advantage of it. The American view (I get) is that you are on your own and should arrange this for yourself as well, but due to this requiring quite substantial resources to pull of, it is unbalanced in favor of the corporations. You might consider it fair if they pay taxes as soon as the money is transferred to a person, but due to these schemes it never sees the light of day in any of the countries it was transferred from and thus doesn't go where it was supposed to go.

There are methods for people to do this as well in the two countries in the system mentioned, but it is way more difficult in terms of effort required and gains gained and impossible if you are an employee and not an owner of a (one man) business.
Coal's carbon dioxide pollution can be limited through carbon capture technology. The U.S. government recently incentivized power producers to implement this technology with the expanded 45Q tax credit. We'll see if it pencils out well enough for broad adoption.
It was more about the lack of es6 syntax but yes 100% agree
I dunno... a travel warning about a country with over a million people currently in camps seems reasonable.
Capital is free to move where it gets the most benefit, why aren't people this free as well?
It has been years that we have WebGL running in the browser, not to mention Linux kernel ect ...
Quick algorithm that identifies all brain scans with Alzheimer's.

public bool HasAlzheimer(GlucosePetScan patientScan)
{
return true;
}
> We're talking about is the games you actually end up playing versus the movies you actually end up watching. For me the value for money is crushingly in favor of games, both in terms of hours per dollar and in terms of subjective enjoyment.

Fair enough. Really depends on the type of games you enjoy though. They really don't all have the same replay value. As you said, other people might have different experiences.
He was undisciplined when it came to listening to authority. He was not undisciplined for learning or for solving hard problems, which is what make you a good engineer.
This demo doesn't include shaders, it's mostly just polygons and textures and lightmaps. It was the shaders which made the game impressive back then. However, for a port to WebAssembly it's really a big deal.
You could divide this into two kinds of failures: one local to a physical area (such as a traffic light that somehow always looks green to the self-driving cameras) and global ones (such as virus, or a bug like a GPS time rollover causing all cars to do something crazy simultaneously.)

Local ones seem unlikely to cause casualties larger than events that fool large numbers of human drivers, like sinkholes or malfunctioning traffic lights or black ice on a freeway. Some of these will probably happen, and the systems will be improved, and they'll happen less and less often.

Global ones could be very large, and there are several instances of global, cascading failures in other systems like telephone or data networks. There are known ways to prevent many classes of failures, but getting to 100.000000% is hard.