skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We are seeing external adaptive pressures that diminish natural selection as an absolute, such as in this paper https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4333222/

Its nice that science is able to adapt to new information.

Natural selection needed to be an absolute to counter state-religion based spontaneous creation.

But its now not an absolute, with worthwhile investigation of how life experience can make its way into zygotes.

Maybe one day we can even prove spontaneous creation, and learn the process for that.
The major problem I see here, is that no amount of software will make flying a shoebox a good idea. The primary systems were at fault too here.
> Everyone on this site overestimates tracking.

Do we, though? A lot of sites include third party Javascript, fonts, and CSS from Google servers, and it would be trivial for Google to use those requests for tracking purposes, and very useful for targeting ads.
There is no statistical evidence that pistons are more reliable. Indeed, ARs with pistons are less reliable on average (although this is mostly because the AR bolt carrier / receiver interface is not designed with that in mind, and carrier tilt results if you try to adapt it).

Not using a piston has two advantages. First, it's lighter in general, and in particular, there's less reciprocating mass, which means that weapon is easier to control, especially in full auto. Second, the recoil impulse in Stoner's design goes directly back along the bore axis (which is why it doesn't have carrier tilt!), whereas pistons add an angular component, which translates to more muzzle flip.

The disadvantage is that you get carbon deposits in the action. But the effect is usually overstated - there were numerous tests with uncleaned ARs firing several thousand rounds without any ill effects from the carbon - it just keeps running so long as you keep lubricating it. According to Armalite, most of the deposits are in places where they don't matter, and where they do matter, the action itself is designed to remove much of them as it cycles.
Absolutely.

Writing textbooks is extremely time consuming... Seeing 'Mathematics - May 2019' in the list of tracks for Primer strikes me as un-serious. Likewise the single animation for Hyperbolic geometry in the 'non-euclidean geometry' page on mathigon.
Logistics is your force multiplier. Sacrificing the (excessive) performance of 7.62 to improve the rounds you can field is well worth it. That said, 5.56 still holds up well in CQB, provided you have a sufficiently long barrel and a bullet with decent ballistics. But therein lies the problem. The move to shorter barrels means lower muzzle velocity which severely gimps a round that leans on velocity for its lethality. The move to shorter barrels has also necessitated the move to piston-operated guns like the HK416, but they don't come without negatives, especially when guys are over-gassing out of fear of stoppages.
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> various signals to put that information into reproductive cells

This idea isn't that far-fetched, when considering something like this is possible https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/10/181022085844.h...

> "90% unused brain capacity"

However, the myth of the 90% unused brain capacity is a myth. Different parts of the brain are always active depending on the environment and the tasks being undertaken at any given moment, due to the brain's structure as a sort of parallel processing machine with specialized areas (speech, visual processing, auditory processing, etc.).
"starts to sound a lot like many people's jobs"

FTFY.

In some ways its better, choose your own hours. In my country, tax free earnings. Where do I sign up?
cited by 555 other papers suggesting RNA changes from life experience -https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4333222/

so people are working on reproducing this and understanding this process more, to say more clearly: scientists are actively researching how evolution can happen without natural selection
It’s worth bearing in mind this is literally a talking point thought up and promoted by the rich. There have been studies in this. They suggest the exact opposite: there just aren’t many Saverins in the world.

Equally, business location seems to have very little to do with personal taxation.

This all funnels down to a fundamental misunderstanding of the source of wealth: it starts with a working economy where people buy stuff and work. The rich, like it or not, don’t do much of either relative to their wealth.
It's a redirect.

The link goes to the HTTP version of blogspot. This redirects you to HTTPS. If you click "back" you are back at the HTTP version, which will redirect you again.

Yeah, browsers could be smarter about this.
Yes, it is something but I am not sure that this is enough.

There are accounts that contain important information and I could not see how the owners of these accounts would change the license.

There are users that

Giving pro membership is the option I am going to use but this is not perfect either because the amount must be paid upfront and is relatively large - $50.

I could support up to 10 accounts with the monthly subscription but I could not pay $500.

The pro membership only lasts for a year and then we are back in the same place.
As far as the bullshit goes, chess is probably the pinnacle of it. Perfect game of grind for pretense of intelligence. Chess doesn't solve half as much problems as YouTube videos.

Your 15 year old is more likely to grow up making living off making YouTube videos than playing chess anyway.
Any heat pump has a hot and a cold side.

Are they also freezing other stones? Are they cooling a river?
Which house has infinite money?
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While I usually have a strong aversion to articles hinting at anti-market sentiment, I found this to be quite good. I really liked the point about the growing prominence of information technology growing the share of the economic value contributed by public goods.

This however is wrong:

>>We have strong growth without wage increases.

Economic growth is still strongly correlated with wage growth. Much of the supposed decoupling between productivity and wage growth is a result of different standards of inflation being used for the two, and the two standards diverging over time.

The majority of the decline in the rate of wage growth in the developed world is due to a decline in the rate of GDP growth.

The world as a whole has seen the largest gain in wage growth and largest decline in poverty in human history over the last 20 years.
You do understand that nearly all the parts on an M16 are interchangeable with an AR15, right? The AR15 is an M16 without select fire capability.
> As I recall the GC will only touch things that have been deleted for some time (a month?), that's a long time to correct accidental deletions.

That is what I mean by second class citizen. The same logic doesn't apply to deleted files in a branch. If I delete a file it may not be accidental at all, and still I expect it to be accessible and not be considered 'orphaned', 'garbage' or similar. Why doesn't git throw away everything that is older than 90 days? (the default for gc)
Remember also to use advanced mode and block other Google domains, like google fonts, youtube, ajax apis etc.
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I have heard that part of the rationale for a lower caliber round was that it was more likely to wound than to kill outright - and a wounded soldier would be more of a burden than a dead one.
Would you rather they showed mating between parents and offspring?
I think it’s quite normal for animal flocks to start off from a single pair.
This answers a question I had I guess. I thought with the new free-tier stuff like private repos - GH pages would still work :(
Compare that to the suburbs

I grew up in the suburbs. All my friends where within walking or biking distance, as was the local library. There was a small forest less than 5 minutes walk from our house we could explore, as well a nice sledding hill. There was a small field at the end of the road that had a couple of soccer goals. The 'big city' was ~30 minutes away by bus. When I got a bit older they even opened a mall within 20 minute bike ride of where we lived.

Basically whether a place is "good for kids" is entirely orthogonal to if its urban or suburban.
The short answer is: I don't know. I just wanted to broaden the discussion. I think it is much more complex than just pricing

Regarding your last point: You are assuming that they're manufacturing the iPad mini on their own tooling like the iPhones. Who knows if that's true. The scale of iPad production is much lower so it might make no sense to buy the machinery.
In hindsight I don't know why we didn't just call an ambulance

Presumably, any ambulance would be starting from the hospital, meaning a 70km round trip taking up to twice as long.
Well he does now because the NZ government is carrying it out....

So pointing out hes a lunatic only highlights the insanity of the NZ government.
Thank you Suraj.

Will definitely connect with you once I release the beta.
Another thing that is not well known about the brain (among non specialists) is that there are roughly one order of magnitude more glia cells than neurons in the brain, which while non-spiking definitely also respond to synaptic activity and could be involved in computation.
Third-party replacement batteries will most likely keep being produced for ages still.
If your drain analogy holds beyond the point of you losing the sightof probe, the matter that goes into drain does not cease to exists, even if for all your practical purposes it does. On the contrary, you can be sure it does reappear somewhere.

Also, it's pretty much certain that wherever there appears infinity in physical model you can be sure it's a limitation of the model, not actual physics of the object. We do not observe infiities, even though pretty much every of our models has some.

Those would be two basic hunches against stuffing matter into infinity without consequences. Some kind of exit seems natural, the question is how destructive it would be.
PayPal are enjoying the "first mover" advantage. A lot of sites allow you to use PayPal so it becomes convenient. Personally, I am rather wary of providing my credit card details to any random site's shopping cart.

Having said that, I don't use PayPal when transacting with parties that I trust. In financial terms PayPal only captures about 15% or my business.

To answer your last question: It is a very large workload to establish relationships with banks and credit card companies in order to create a viable alternative to PayPal and then you still need to build up the user base. It can be done, but will take considerable resources and time to accomplish.
> how evolution can happen without natural selection

This sounds incoherent. What does "natural selection" mean to you?
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This seems a bit bananas to me because there’s plenty of valid HTML5 is NOT valid XHTML or XML. For example, HTML5 allows common tags such as <p> and <li> to be unclosed, which is not valid in XHTML. HTML5 written in this style is not “wrong” - it’s valid, and correctly presented by tools like VoiceOver. Screen readers will be a-okay with HTML5; this advice is going to send people down wild goose chases with no need.

XHTML is an alternative, dead-end branch of HTML evolution that time has forgotten.

To validate HTML, use an HTML validator.
Indeed. I consider any file I don’t have at least on two pieces of on equipment that I own (computer, NAS, external HDD etc.) to be already gone.

Cloud backup (Backblaze etc.) is for when my house is on fire. But the only backups I actually trust are the ones that I have 100% control over.
Counterpoint: I do not want a bezel-less screen. Not only does it ruin the iPhone’s iconic design, but it removes a “safe” area where you can rest your fingers without obscuring any content nor interacting with it.

I hate both my XS and X for this reason (along the lack of physical home button and Touch ID). There’s just no “right” way to handle that phone like there is with the previous generations, every attempt at holding it is a compromise on which content you’re obscuring on the screen.
FWIW, Branch protection looks like it's a free feature on Gitlab [0]

[0] https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/protected_branches.h...
Can't get rid of the objectionable content and still have an open and uncensored platform.

I personally prefer an open and uncensored platform, and I'll steer clear of the objectionable content, but I can see how others might prefer the alternative.
>a piston gun is generally much better than impingement.

The AR-15 is a piston gun, though: the piston is the bolt itself (the bolt carrier acts as its cylinder walls- this is the reason why the back of the bolt has piston rings). And because said piston is right in the center of the moving parts, you don't have to worry about those parts rotating off their axis (i.e. there's no force tilting them up or down)- the only reason the receiver needs to be there is to hold the barrel on.

This doesn't work for barrel lengths below about 10.5"; at that point an external piston system is indeed more reliable. Also, because the gas tube is a weak point in terms of heat dissipation, the internal piston AR isn't the best choice for sustained automatic fire- but in that case you just give one squad member an external piston gun much like how the Russians distributed their beefed-up AKs.
I think static typing is needed in a low, middle level programming language to help the optimizer, and make sure values doesn't go out of bounds. Fanny enough higher level languages like JavaScript (and probably python to, I don't know Python) are strictly typed eg. you can never go out of bound and get overflow errors, have dangling pointers, etc. When you already have strict typing, there's less need for static typing.

If the statically typed language is compiled to a dynamic language, you will lose most of the performance gains too, for example Dart is almost like JavaScript-with-static-typing, but it's twice as fast because the compiler can actually make use of the static types.

I also think static typing bolted on to a dynamic higher level languages do push you into an object oriented paradigm.
And I think the language becomes uglier with annotations.
And it makes people lazy so they name things x, y, z because the type annotation fills in the rest.
But who cares about syntactic preferences, code readability and naming things :) The real reason you use static typing is to catch bugs ... But the best way to catch bugs is to understand the code, and have many people read it. When I see less good programmers the workflow goes something like this:

-I want to do foo ... autocomplete ... fooBaz, fooBar, fooFoo ... hmm, what can I do with foo ... autocomplete ... foo.bar sounds like what I need, it takes a baz, new Baz() ... damnit how do I get rid of this null exception ...

I did what you suggested and looked up why Facebook created Hack, from a release post (1): "but still spend time looking up mundane method names in documentation"

They don't have time to read and understand code. :P
I sometime jokingly say "the code is the documentation". Jokingly because I know that is unacceptable, but I most of the time actually do mean it. :P

"We didn’t want to slow the PHP workflow, so we came up with a new approach to reconcile instantaneous feedback with type safety."

They addressed one of the issues with a compile step, eg slower feedback loop.

1: https://code.fb.com/developer-tools/hack-a-new-programming-l...
I was not saying that's how they work. Most prod clusters are configured for high availability and multiple replicas. They have at least 3 nodes and 2 replicas configured for the index. Sure you can run this configuration, but do you really want all your traffic to hit this one instance when the other one goes down?
It's actually enabled by default, but myself and most I've talked to about it disable it because it happens by accident way too much during normal use.
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Just wondering why the blacklist wouldn’t be public to begin with - the blacklist would be the most effective only if anyone can check it free of charge.
i have a mid-2015. i just like it. aluminum body, good screen, i don't mind the keyboard, the trackpad is fantastic. I really want a physical escape key. I've thought about, and can readily afford, a newer model. the 32g memory would be nice.

It has been a long time since i felt like i need to start searching for a linux capable laptop. i've felt like that for a long while though. i consciously know it's not that hard to find quality hardware. I still have some subconscious apprehension. Trying to find a pcmcia network card to work with my thinkpad was such a pain back in the day. i have not so fond memories of trying to compile tulip.c into a kernel module.

MacOS was a breath of fresh air. everything just worked, and i had a real unix to work with. darwin isn't the greatest thing ever, but the hardware was nice. The air is getting kinda stale though. i need to find some hardware and make it right. the apple heyday made me complacent.
Just about every innovative idea from Lisp, and there were quite a few of them, has been incorporated into modern programming languages. Except for sexpr syntax. Draw your own conclusions.
Netflix is not allowed to point people to their website from their App store description, which is absurd to me.
I recently moved with my family from 'high density' living in the city to the suburbs and the truth is that the city actually had more outdoors / free activity space for kids, than where I'm currently at. There where at least 3 playground within easy walking distance of our apartment in the city, a school yard with outdoor basketball courts kids could play on after hours, plus a large city park/botanical garden with huge open spaces a 5 minute bus ride/ 20 minute walk away.
In modern browsers all modern HTML5 is valid XHTML so long as it conforms to the syntax and tag structure. In fact the only real difference, aside from closing tags like br and img, is that with XHTML the browser yells at you when you get HTML wrong.

On my personal sites I send all my HTML with a .xhtml file extension to force XML compliance, but the code is modern HTML5.
Well my stance is hard for the sake of ruling out computer science as an explanatory framework for neuroscience.

Computational metaphors arent explanatory, they're illusory sorts of explanations (like narrative) which "satisfy" without providing a causal model (ie., a scientific explanation).

I'm not convinced they have been helpful, and mostly end up giving deeply mistaken impressions about the nature of digital computers -- rather than helpful impressions about the nature of brains.
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Yes, the real economy is making and watching Youtube videos in a virtuous circle.
I thought the choice to implement locals and all of their semantics using just the main stack was both curious and surprising. (I'm most familiar with perl's implementation, which requires a bunch of stacks flying in for formation to implement it's complex scoping semantics.)

In the book, Bob says he designed the language such that it would be possible to use just one stack. What does that mean? It sounds very discouraging for newbies because it implies a lot of foresight or trial and error.

Overall, while this is among the most interesting subjects covered, I find the chapter a bit lacking in either one of two ways: either it is for beginners, and then the chapter feels very magical or is for intermediates and then a bit of extra verbiage on the design choices that led you there would be appropriate.

Nitpick: I would totally have stopped low and done the -1 initialization trick as well. But yuck. ;)
We may not understand its logic, but that doesn't mean it's logic is beneath us. On a bad day for nature, it makes a two-headed cow. On a bad day for mankind's tech advancements, we get the means to wipe out all life on this planet. Seems mighty fucking counter-intuitive.
Probably this -> https://github.com/fyne-io/fyne/issues/161
No, I too want to use the trackpad to pan the map. Not least because my initial muscle memory is always "swipe to scroll" followed by "FECK GOOGLE" when it doesn't work and then switching to click-drag mode.
I'm not counting spam, and I'm not counting sites that link to each other for free. And by "notable" I mean something like 10%, not an experiment or "it existed somewhere".
> That’s not really how any of this works—you can’t simply throw a bunch of unrelated data at some algorithms and expect usable output.

That is never what I claimed. First, note that I took a pretty (IMO) balanced view and indicated that this is still a hard setting. Second, note that I did indicate that sufficient training (i.e. labeled) data would be required.

This is what was possible in 2016: https://www.theverge.com/2016/2/25/11112594/google-new-deep-...: "The new deep-learning program churns through millions of photos to determine the best match."

Also see project of a fast.ai participant: "Which of the 110 countries a satellite image belongs to?" (point 13 here: https://forums.fast.ai/t/deep-learning-lesson-2-notes/28772)

> (There’s also no such thing as “deep learning”.)

- https://www.deeplearningbook.org/

- https://www.coursera.org/courses?query=deep%20learning

- https://eu.udacity.com/course/intro-to-tensorflow-for-deep-l...

- https://www.edx.org/professional-certificate/ibm-deep-learni...

- https://www.deeplearning.ai

- https://www.fast.ai/

> Yes, Google does have a lot of images of various locations from a top-down perspective, but that isn’t helpful for accurately determining a location from the images that Europol collects. You might be able to narrow it down to a probably country based colors and design patterns, but that’s hardly sufficient and not solid enough evidence to actually do anything.

Maybe not completely, but again: being able to narrow it down would already be an incredible help, especially for outdoor pictures (which were also shown in the article's video). I never claimed that a model would completely replace the human process.

Also, I find the downvotes (not saying you) on my initial comment to be in pretty bad form. I'm not Jeremy Howard or Andrew Ng, but don't think I was blowing smoke, and work in the area of data science and ML.
No, I mean vision impaired. There are all kinds of different vision disabilities besides blindness and color blindness.