skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The purpose of SOFIA is to fly above as much of the water vapour in the atmosphere as possible to do astronomy in the far infrared and terrahertz regimes: frequencies that are absorbed by water. Near infrared astronomy can easily be done from the ground. As the grandparent mentioned, it is also used as a mobile telescope to do observations of stellar occultations. The purpose of this is to get a measure, for example, of Pluto's atmosphere as it passes in front of a star. I doubt it would be used for an occultation by an asteroid as you wouldn't gain anything by the measurement.
That's the same as regular fake keyboard usbs. The WiFi has no advantage here
Funnily enough that exact same thing happened to me. I funded their Kickstarter (or was it Indiegogo?) and then never checked it out properly...
I had a 2017 MBP and the USB speakers I had caused issues. I sold them thinking it was an issue with the speakers, but the next set of USB speakers had the same problem. Eventually, I just used AUX to connect them.
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You are cherry-picking memory hogs like "Chrome, Slack or Atom" as comparisons and ignoring bookworm and other more reasonable applications.

Also, I had to drop Calibre due to the large number of Python 2 and imagemagik dependencies that have a maintenance cost when it comes to pulling updated packages & so on.

Making Calibre modular would have helped greatly but the author never cared.
The first thing you need to ask is are we, collectively, seeing an improvement or a deterioration of aggregate mental health? And how does this compare and contrast against nations where pharmacological treatment of illness is less and, if such a thing exists, more common? In other words is what we are doing better than nothing? The answer to this question is not always yes, because it's entirely possible that in the process of trying to do something you end up going backwards.

This also cannot be answered with isolated consideration such as the effectiveness of drug 'x' since there are externalities involved. What happens to these individuals in the longrun? The treatment of ADHD with amphetamines is a great one for this question. For those who showed no response to the treatment, are their outcomes better or worse than if they had never pursued treatment? What is the false positive rate and what is the affect of medication on these individuals?

The answer to this question should be obvious, but I'm not so sure it is anymore.
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Why do you assume research in the social sciences even increases the odds of a true result? Combining low standards with a publish or perish culture actually encourages the publication of spurious results (and worse behavior) and hinders the careers of researchers with higher standards.
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Julia as hygienic macros. From their documentation [1]: "The strongest legacy of Lisp in the Julia language is its metaprogramming support. Like Lisp, Julia represents its own code as a data structure of the language itself."

Parts of Julia are even implemented in Lisp [2], although they tend to be ported to Julia now IIUC. But it's clear the Julia developers are well aware of Lisp and its strong points.

[1] https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/manual/metaprogramming/
[2] https://discourse.julialang.org/t/the-role-of-femtolisp-in-j...
>your code review feedback can wait. Nothing productive ever comes out of these processes

Then the errors get merged and I'm liable.
Maybe that just means the ground is more radioactive than air?
What was the name? I remember Raistlins Castle and stargate but I can not recall the names of the others. I spent a LOT of time back then playing barren realms elite.
You are assuming that the people talking to us have any chance of knowing. Even in a company with a relatively flat hierarchy there are walls of "they don't need/want to know that detail" between the engineers & budgeting[1] and top-brass & marketing. Sometimes this comes from the technical side ("I won't include that detail, it'll only confuse them") sometimes the other way ("That huge document you sent through, could you distil it down to a side or two of key points?").

I suppose they could try to instil a whistle-blowing culture whereby people are rewarded for highlighting potential problems list this to other silos[2], but then like external bug bounties you get into a new family of argument about what the problem is worth, who truly found it first, and the race to be first will lead to a lot of noise around any useful signal.

[1] the engineers will know it is there as they are designing the thing, the money people will know as they will have been involved in the "it is cheaper to just leave it and disable it than to redesign it out" decision-making process.

[2] no matter how flat/heterogenus/other-all-together-now-buzzword-compliant-word-of-the-momemtn a company claims to be, there will be siloed groups within it, and within them like Russian dolls in larger organisations.

> how on earth do they think they deserve trust

They probably don't, individually. They are like us, with similar concerns.

But they don't need to think they deserve it individually as long as the company overall can convince enough of us that they do (and convince enough of us that will never be convinced of that, that it doesn't really matter in the long run anyway).
>Now it sounds curious why it can't leap wirelessly from one brain to another one this way.

What do you think you're doing when you write?

(I'm only half-joking)
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> IA-32 instruction set has grown from 80 to around 1400 instructions since 1978, largely fueled by SIMD.

Holy quack! I didn't even know there were 80 (feels too much already, I barely used a tiny portion when exercising in assembly), 1400 sounds really insane.
Thanks for this comment. It is accurate at describing my circumstances as well. Although in my case I think I am fortunate a lot of people want to help me, but are scared to, or dont know what to do. Unfortunately, my immediate peer group is where this started.
Read it again. The landlord refused to buy it, not that the renter could not use it:

> 1. Der Beschwerdeführer wurde von der Vermieterin (im Folgenden: Klägerin) seiner - in einem Mehrfamilienhaus gelegenen - Wohnung auf Duldung des Einbaus von Rauchwarnmeldern in Anspruch genommen. Er lehnte das von der Klägerin ausgesuchte Gerät ab, weil es nicht lediglich dem Brandschutz diene, sondern mittels Ultraschallsensoren und Infrarottechnologie dazu geeignet sei, Bewegungsprofile von Personen zu erstellen, die sich in der Wohnung aufhielten. Sogar die Aufzeichnung von in der Wohnung geführten Gesprächen sei technisch möglich. Der Beschwerdeführer bot der Klägerin an, auf eigene Kosten ein einfacheres, ohne Funktechnik ausgestattetes Modell in seiner Wohnung zu installieren. Dazu war die Klägerin unter Hinweis auf die Vorzüge des von ihr gewählten Gerätetyps nicht bereit. Das Funksystem diene lediglich dem Zweck, eine Fernwartung sämtlicher im Haus befindlicher Geräte über ein im Hausflur installiertes Steuerungsgerät zu ermöglichen.
Sure, but what if I had done all the maintenance I was supposed to and it crashes. Should that still be on me or on Waymo?

I wonder self driving car manufacturers are going to try to get around this making the required maintenance and 'pre-flight' check list so onerous that basically nobody is completely in compliance and thus they're never responsible.
tl;dr: He needs subjects with a particular mental illness, so he needs to recheck the diagnosis. Turns out this person is actually ill from using drugs since he was 10, so he can't use him in his study, and he wonders how meaningful the diagnoses are.
I live and work as a developer in Stockholm. I have registered as an employer and have been able to help people from abroad before by taking the fight with the governmental authority handling immigration.

The visa situation is a bit borked right now since the EU was unable to humanely handle the civil war in Syria so staying permanently isn't a given anymore. Right now we have to make do with "for the foreseeable future".

Feel free to reach out to me at plata@plomo.se.
The main differences of Boards compared to other web browsers will not really be clear until 1-2-3 releases from now. The current version just shows the core principles.

Boards is not designed to replace a standard web browser, but to supplement it for the use cases traditional web browsers do not support very well.

Eventually, we will not even classify Boards as a web browser, but as an alternative Internet Client - targeting the Internet of Data, Internet of Services, Internet of Things etc. However, we have to start somewhere, and this is our embarassingly simplistic and not-so-pretty MVP :-)
I'm honestly pretty conflicted here and the best thing that is coming out of this is some healthy debate.

IMHO the strongest argument against publishing it is because its built from Reddit it includes a lot of toxicity... VinayPrabhu originally made that argument here https://medium.com/@VinayPrabhu/reddit-a-one-word-reason-why...

Can't blame them for not opening up that can of PR worms. It could be like a version of Microsoft Tay that can form coherent paragraphs.

The bigger picture is this could be used for some very effective social media manipulation. A bit of clever infrastructure, maybe another generation of improvement and some understanding of human psychology (overton window etc) and managing 100,000 believable human accounts on something like reddit that subtly move debate becomes very doable.

Then again its going to happen anyway so better focus on the defensive techniques now...
>In both cases you do not have enough information to make any conclusions.

That's why the field of statistics exists in the first place.
I feel like even though full vector architecture might perform a lot better, the use cases may be much narrower than SIMD, especially on typical desktop or server (web applications etc, not scientific computing, deep learning or image processing -- many of which are already vectorised on GPUs) workloads. As others have mentioned, SIMD allows you to do a little bit of vectorisation in an otherwise non-vector workload, or use it for the wider registers or whatever. I don't know enough about it personally to be able to judge either way, though. I just know that I've attempted to vectorise some hobby game code for fun a few times and typically found it much harder to achieve than it first seemed, even though the data seemed trivially vectorisable at first. Perhaps that's just lack of experience.
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I partially understand your point, but I don't think "free" is necessarily a better description than "slave".

One is always free in a literal sense to choose between available options (e.g. a slave may choose to escape, an employee to quit). However, ability of a second party to attach consequences to those options (e.g. corporal punishment or death, deportation away from one's family, removal of healthcare from sick loved ones, etc.) amounts to restricting the freedom of the individual.

I don't accept that legal freedom equates to practical freedom, e.g. you have the legal right to quit your job therefore in a practical sense you are completely "free" to quit your job. If your employer can attach extremely negative consequences to quitting, then your freedom has been severely limited.

I also have trouble with arguments that the choice to immigrate was made of free will, therefore all consequences are one's own responsibility. It's not legal nor ethical to allow people to "freely choose" to sign themselves into slavery.

Anyway, this is obviously a contentious and charged issue, but I hope this helps communicate a different perspective.
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Generally it looks like: unstructured mess -> CSV -> database, or mess -> structured intermediate format -> whatever. Or database -> nicely formatted report that makes CEO look good. Even structured (weird XML) -> sort of structured (XHTML).

There was no generic solution although I've ended up reusing a lot of code.

One of the first gigs I got was to process about 7,000 pages from a static website, scrape out the relevant data, and plonk it in a database so they could run queries on it. :)

You could probably latch onto a common use case and build a solution for that e.g. Blogger to Wordpress transfer - something I've had to do in the past by building some custom tools. (That was years ago though - I've not looked at current state of play with regards tool availability). Not suggesting that would be your use case though - just an example.
Bbs is still a thing in Chinese circle. In Taiwan is Ptt, in mainland there are still a few such as newsmth.
the whole 5G radiation conspiracy thing has been going for a long time. I think it's as old as mobile technology itself. Surprising they haven't blamed RF for the disappearance of insects yet. Fwiw probably healthy to be skeptical about blanket statements claiming RF has 0 risks (they do cause brain tumors in rats).

Off-topic: David Dees has some funny (to me hilarious) artwork on his site that describes these conspiracy theories better than words: http://ddees.com/new-art/

The ones about "blockchain" and 5G are so friggin good I've set them as desktop wallpapers :)

http://ddees.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/clown.jpg

http://ddees.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Sheeple-42.jpg
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I wonder how would people react if it had an undisclosed 360-degree IR camera with LED.
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Agreed, but then again, the vector architectures have the undeniable benefit of being agnostic to the underlying hardware.

With a SIMD architecture, as registers get ever wider you need to recompile your code, and binary releases require multiple code paths.

With a vector architecture, the hardware designers can just increase the machine's internal vector size and existing code will benefit immediately.

Furthermore, it seems reasonable to count GPU users among "active practitioners of modern SIMD". All code that is written in a GPU-style -- which admittedly isn't too common yet on CPUs, but it would certainly be feasible and is possible since ispc came along -- immediately becomes a beneficiary of a well-designed vector instruction architecture.
we could illuminate streets using it
> who ever wants to Skype all sweaty during an exercise

I should imagine there's a non-zero number of fetishists who would pay $ for a live Skype call and/or webcam show with an exerciser.
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Replying to myself as I can't edit it any more: Apparently it wasn't a fire alarm from google but "Brunata Metrona Funksystem Star" [1]. It is still wirelessly connected though, not to the internet but to a ground station in the house, outside of the flats of the renters. Then once per year the station is read out by someone who connects a cable to it.

[1]: http://www.justiz.nrw.de/nrwe/ag_koeln/j2015/220_C_482_14_Ur...
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What is the longterm path for things like Redis Labs, Mongo, and Elastic, etc? They all seem to have an open source database which they in turn monetize by offering as a DBaaS. But can they really bet against AWS in the long run?

Elastic's own cloud ElasticSearch is better than AWS's notoriously bad implementation, but what if it wasn't? Elastic's cloud offering runs on AWS and other third party offerings, so all it would take would be AWS reaching relative parity in quality, and they would then surely have the upper-hand by being the cloud infrastructure their own offering is run off of. I feel like the same is true with AWS Elasticache vs Redis Labs. What if AWS reaches parity, but can additionally offer the ease of not managing 2 accounts, as well as the ease of co-locating the cache with the app server and putting it all in a VPC. What is the endgame for these DBaaS when they have AWS copying their work?
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> Sweden has a major problem with housing, so you can forget renting an apartment in a major city — you will spend roughly 18 years on a waiting list to be able to rent anything in the centre of Gothenburg. This isn't hyperbole.

You can forget a first hand contract from the municipal housing agencies. Second hand contracts and/or private landlords still work - but watch out for scams.
Yeah, the landlord refused to buy it, but instead wanted to install the wirelessly controlled fire alarm. Surely the renter could buy it for themselves but then there'd be two alarms, one bought by the landlord and one by the renter. The question was about the alarm the landlord installed.
The thing is, when there are so many people who insist it isn't working, or even makes things worse, (while nobody has much of idea why the drugs should work in the first place, and there seems to be a growing movement to try treating people with currently illicit drugs instead), maybe the drugs are actually not working and the "experts" actually have no idea what they are doing.
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Wouldn't getting a new sponsor just reset your position in the queue?
I started coding by doing C for ProBoard BBS plugins! I wrote SMURf CHaT back in 97!

http://archives.thebbs.org/ra119a.htm

I remember when I encountered my first smilie on chat :)

Those were the days :D
For most large commercial use cases, there is typically negotiation and customization involved. Very rarely will a standard SaaS program fit right into an enterprise customers work stack just like that. There are many other requirements that won't be covered and on the flipside, there could be many other ways to structure a deal that works for both parties. "Contact us for a quote" helps companies to build relationships with customers and understand their problems instead of proposing a take it or leave it scenario.
What is wrong with starting at 8? I start closer to 7 so I can go home a bit after 15. Some of us use flexible work schedule to get longer afternoons. You need to look at more than when it is normal to start working in the morning, like total hours/year and how flexible the schedule is
This is why I think women would birth children first and then decide if they want to raise them or pay someone else to raise them. Pretty stupid to spend 4-8 years of your life and thousands of dollars on schooling only to abandon that investment.
In French it's azote, meaning lifeless. I think many languages use a variation of this (based on the Greek roots) as well.
If you were designing a modern bug, wouldn't you make it cache data and limit its transmission window to one second a week?
The Mill also doesn't exist in a usable form, nor have I heard anything from them in a couple of years, so, as you say, the proof is in the pudding. I hope it sees the light of day and meets their claims, but we will have to wait and see.
Vue templates are not in any way more of a totally new language than JSX is. Vue templates are simply XHTML snippets with added data bindings. JSX is not quite XHTML (you have to use className instead of class) with added data bindings.

I find Vue templates slightly cleaner for that reason, but the difference isn't big. How they're used is different, though: React wants everything, including the XHTML, to be javascript. Vue puts it all in HTML, with script tags for the javascript.
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what I don't understand is this: if the kinetic energy is higher than the potential energy, what is the probability that it would pass the sun so closely? for bound objects this is not so surprising.

either these objects are way more frequent than we think and the reason it passed the sun so closely was simply that these would be the first to be observed, or it almost seems aimed to pass the sun closely?
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We're past the time that a human needs to understand assembly instructions.

In the future, instructions will be designed by machine, for example by considering millions of permutations of possible instruction "combined add with shift with multiply by 8 and set the 6th bit", "double indirect program counter jump with offset 63", etc.

Each permutation will be added to various compilers and simulated by running benchmarks on complete architecture simulators to find out which new instruction adds the most to the power to die area to performance to code size tradeoff.

I predict there will be many more future instructions with 'fuzzy' effects which don't affect correctness, only performance. Eg. 'Set the branch predictor state to favor the next branch for the number of times in register EAX', or 'go start executing the following code speculatively, because you'll jump to it in a few hundred clock cycles and it would be handy to have it all pre-executed'.
First of all, is this a "conspiracy"?

https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/security/a145332...

Is this maybe?

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jun/23/google-ea...

Is this?

https://www.geekwire.com/2018/heres-amazon-say-investigating...

Perhaps this?

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2018/07/09/smart-tvs-are-sp...

That said, "conspiracy territory" gets close to a knee jerk reaction.

History is full of conspiracies.

A conspiracy is just many people doing each other favors under the table and taking covert action to promote their private interests or political beliefs, something which happens all the time.

Heck, didn't a President resign because he conspired (including eavesdropping) against the other party?

Wasn't another in bed with mafia leaders? [2]

Haven't a third had friends profiteering of a trillion+ dollar war effort (Haliburton, etc), even using false testimony [3, 4]?

Don't tons of ex-politicians usually end up on boards of private companies they helped pass favorable legislation for and done favors to?

Haven't large corporations strong-armed whole nations, toppled governments, pushed for their own lackeys, etc [5]?

Wasn't the head of the FBI targeting, spying on, and blackmailing his personal opponents and for his personal gain? [6]

Just to mention a few examples, just the tip of the iceberg...

As Gore Vidal once wrote: "Americans have been trained by the media to go into Pavlovian giggles at the mention of the word "conspiracy," because for an American to believe in a conspiracy, he must also believe in flying saucers or, craziest of all, that more than one person was involved in the JFK murder" (Gore Vidal)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watergate_scandal
[2] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/oct/07/michaelellison
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayirah_testimony
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halliburton#Controversies
[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_republic
[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Edgar_Hoover
I get this, by why only cancer? There are other generally lethal (though treatable) diseases in the world. Yet you typically don't get to hear about somebody's, say, "battle with diabetes", or "battle with AIDS".
Not at all, SIMD is a concept used across all CPU architectures, including the PS3.
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