skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you think "privilege" is only a political dog-whistle, then you must also believe every person is born with equal chance and opportunity without regard for race, gender, or anything else. Can you say that with full intellectual honesty?

And what part of being targeted for skin color is a "consequence that come[s] from believing in the supernatural?"
If Jim Simons wouldn’t play ball it’s hardly only academia that’s implicated
Maybe true, but they knew it going in. It’s not like it was a secret that he has the majority of the votes.
Scientists Restore Some Brain Function After Death in Animal Experiments
This is what bothers me when someone uses Core i7 for performance comparisons: it covers a range of CPUs since 2008. Even saying "modern x86" would be more specific.
google play store and android have consistently shown that the first priority is gaining market share. user safety and security, app quality, data privacy and positive developer experience are far, far lower priorities.
> and b) source modems from Intel.

Well, they can't do that anymore, given Intel's announcement that they won't be making them.
Huawei previously mentioned that they started with the same concept as Samsung, but ditched the idea after they found numerous drawbacks. Looks like this might be that

https://www.businessinsider.com/huawei-prototyped-folding-ph...
> Despite how inexpensive, powerful, and ubiquitous computers have become, very few of the ideas floating around in technology today are better than the ideas from half a century ago, and quite a few are quite a bit worse.

Stand-out line from a fantastic essay. There are so many fruit to harvest that only now seem low-hanging because the hardware has gotten better. See: RNNs, for example. There has been a lot of thought about how the future could look; it's worth paying attention to it.
There really are people who think that eliminating inequality is worth it even if it makes everyone worse off, and say so explicitly. Usually they try to frame it as having some sort of positive externalities, but when you dig deep and probe specifically they will say that lowering inequality is good even if it leaves everyone worse off. I've met plenty of these people. Maybe I'm exposed to this view more often than you seeing as I live in San Francisco.
Sure, but it was the first survey I could find after poking around for a bit. I'd be interested in seeing something more extensive if you can find it.
I don't find the possibility of distraction to be more important than the possibility of deception.

If you conceal data because it is distracting, the person from whom you are hiding it cannot know why you did that. They only know that they cannot see what you refused to show.

If it is not relevant, it is better to show it, and explain why it is not relevant as best as you are able. And that explanation can take the form of an arrow that marks the earliest time life was suspected to have first developed.

But in showing it, an observer might be able to discern temperature trends due to changes in the sun, meteor and comet bombardments, loss of core radionuclides, radiation into space, or other cosmological factors not attributable to humanity, or other forms of life. It might show a reason why the Earth today should be cooler now than it was at the Eocene maximum.

It's just more honest. You can still show a second graphic that cuts out the pieces you feel to be unimportant, and which highlights the pieces that best make your point.
If they burn facebook to the ground this may be better in the long run both for the users and for society at large.
Pc gaming is awesome. Not everyone can afford it though. If stadia can actually get low latency 60fps ultra settings graphics on low end hardware that will change everything.

One issue here though is exclusives. Many of the best games are console only, or even ps4 only. I don’t see how Stadia could overcome that, but I guess we’ll see.
Naspers is doubling-down on Internet investments
In theory, the price of a stock reflects the market's expectation of future dividends. In practice, the market expects lots of things that aren't true.
There's no other possible way for an economy to grow except through that?

Population growth is the lazy, unsustainable way to get gdp growth.
None of these work on my iPhone running 12.1, but they do work on other sites. For instance the “search” type works on Google.

Am I missing the point?
It is not. Raw salary numbers don’t matter much if you ignore the other variables at play.
Study: Global Energy System Based on 100% Renewable Energy [pdf]
Daaaaamn few;
That's a VERY slippery slope, and there are very few arguments where I am personally convinced by it. (and I say that as someone that generally finds "slippery slope" arguments to be overblown about how slippery and how sloped) Feels more like an excuse than a reason.

A world where we don't do something bad creates a reason not to do it. A world where we say it's okay to do the bad things because we assume that someone else will not only do them, they will be more evil than us (and here we are compromising our morals from the start) removes any such incentive and creates a race to the bottom.
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I thought "easy to reason about" was reserved for pure functional programming languages :-)
At that time, before Aspirin was demonstrated to be an effective cure, I'd say it would have indeed been ridiculous to use it outside an experimental setting.
Relevant link: https://medium.com/s/story/by-the-end-of-this-century-the-gl...

I don't think the global population will ever reach 11B as predicted by the UN.

The link above makes a good case as to why it will probably reach around 9B and then start declining.

The more important question is what happens to our economic model once the global population stops growing on a global scale, assuming we did not become an interplanetary species by then?
'Assange smeared feces in Ecuador embassy,' says president
Because EU is a political entity, somewhat a very loose federation. India and Bangladesh are not.
Rendering an anchor in the place of an image in case I don't have JavaScript enabled doesn't feel very good.

I'd much rather have image solutions that fail gracefully if the JS on my page is broken or the user just has it disabled.
Harvard Medical School: Protein Folding Revolution
TLDR ML is getting closer to solving protein folding. New method predicts structures 1 million times faster than previous methods.

> Reporting online in Cell Systems on April 17, systems biologist Mohammed AlQuraishi details a new approach for computationally determining protein structure—achieving accuracy comparable to current state-of-the-art methods but at speeds upward of a million times faster.
The actual study is here. It's a remarkable achievement: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1815408

No CRISPR/Cas9 was used in this study.

We'll have to wait and see if any of the patients develop hematologic malignancies (blood cancers).

I predict we'll see dozens of papers like this in the next few years. Sickle cell and thalessemias are low hanging fruit.
Solis by A.A. Attanasio as well, though I think it might be more for kids, and not hard sf
Can I ask why ZIP? Isn’t it quite heavy on CPU at a not-that-good compression rate? I’m thinking of LZ4 or Zstandard instead.
Search erlang and efene code by pattern matching code with “holes”
It may be "bold", but is it a design that makes any sense beyond a short-lived sales-boosting novelty?
Hi! This is also a problem in Welsh [0]. In the Fluent world we solve that on the level of design principles (do not reuse the string `yes` because it can be translated to a different `yes` in different buttons) and bindings (compound messages allow us to localize a whole widget with a main message and its yes/no options).

[0] http://psychopixi.com/languages/yes-and-no/
This thread didn't get much attention, but since you chimed in I thought you would be interested in how this got figured out in the comments here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/gimlet/comments/bdxht4/hey_its_ben_...
There appears to be an assumption that this is a linear rating list. Have you asked how the ratings were derived?

Second, it appeared if your rating was based purely on your perception of the first week your score would be higher. As usually the first impression is important.

I find your comment: From my perspective this job is really easy, so I'm confused.

Did you ever think they gave you easy stuff to see how you reacted? If it was easy did you make sure what you did was extra perfect (documented, tested etc, good grammar?) If it was so easy, then an above average person would have asked for more work, or more challenging work.

Lastly, they just hired you. They expected you to perform at level X. Had you been rated a 7/7 then maybe they hired you at too low of a level. If you were a 1/7 then you were hired way above your skill set. A 4/7 says you are a perfect fit for the job they hired you into.
I would suggest you add the word "protein" to the title (before "folding) to make it clearer.
Didn't Huawei steal this tech from Samsung in the first place? Or was there more to this story?

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/11/30/tech/samsung-china-tech-t...
I guess it depends on how you define enemies. I think that generally an enemy is considered to be someone who is actively hostile towards you in a specific way, rather than just a general way.

If you ask someone to name three friends, they wouldn't consider all friendly people, they would consider their actual friends.

If you ask someone to name three enemies you would expect them to name specific people they actually know and have interacted with, not specific people that are known to hate their race or belief but they have had no direct interaction with.
You make a lot of good points in the linked article, but you lose some credibility right from the start

> Secondly, it makes it impossible to introduce multiple messages with the same source string which should be translated differently.

This is false. The gettext message format uses msgctxt to deal with this. It's a fundamental part of the format. The unique identifier is the combination of msgctxt and the singular string. I wonder how you could miss that? We actually use an automatically generated msgctxt for some part of our app to avoid accidentally translating the same source text incorrectly in different context.

Also I couldn't quite follow the point about interpolation of fluent vs gettext (probably because I don't know fluent). Message interpolation in gettext works and can be absolutely readable. E.g. "You have {count} items". The big drawback is that you can't move this variable across strings. Can you do that with fluent?
All of that can be automated. For new drone systems it makes a lot of sense to strive for fully autonomous systems. Why have some human in the loop for things a computer can do faster and more efficiently? That stuff will eventually trickle down to civilian aviation as well. Just like self driving cars are likely to happen in the next years; self flying planes are just as feasible. The shortage for pilots is short term. Pilots starting today in their careers need to consider that they might be automated away some time during their career.

Fortunately, a large part of the planes flying today will still be flying for years to come and they won't be flying themselves. E.g. the B52 program was just extended to 2050 I believe. Replacing that stuff will take decades even when it is feasible technically.
Making the Obvious Code Fast
The article indicates it's been deadly for the elderly and people with weakened immune systems. In the case of this patient, it probably entered the bloodstream via a catheter.

It's probably difficult for it to infect people from skin contact.
This is really a pretty simple (not easy) thing that we tend to over-complicate. If you want just one rule, I will give this one - eat only food that you prepared by yourself - with only raw ingredients.

It excludes a lot of things (ready sauces, biscuits, chips etc) so it's not that easy. But you will be surprised at how effective it is - you will end up eating a lot of good stuff (veggies, met, simple carbs) and weight will go down very fast. By very fast I mean something like 3kg / month at least.

The biggest enemy in loosing weight is sugar - we just don't realize how much sugar we are eating / drinking every day by consuming transformed food. There is simply no way you put so much sugar in any meal you prepare by yourself.
And MicMac https://micmac.ensg.eu/index.php/Accueil

And OpenSFM https://github.com/mapillary/OpenSfM

I wish they better documented their specific benefits and short comings.
Back when I worked on a similar problem 10 years ago, we solved it by having a quickly expiring memcached key for hitting the database. So if the value wasn't cached, and if that key wasn't there, it would attempt to add that key. If it was added, it would hit the database and cache the result. Otherwise, if that key was there or it didn't successfully add it, it would wait for a short period of time, then re-try the whole process again.

There's other similar problems elsewhere too though. A cold MySQL start is a bitch when you have and rely upon huge amounts of memory for MySQL to service your requests - this is especially noticeable if you have so much traffic you need to cache some results. Back then it would take us about an hour before a freshly spun up MySQL instance could keep up with our regular traffic, even accounting for stuff being cached.
Well... Followed by buttons and charging ports. Y'know, the remaining mechanical parts. Perhaps the distinction is wearing out vs sudden damage.
I bought at IPO and sold when I deleted my Facebook account. Now all Facebook owned domains are null routed on my network. I will no longer be party to the social disease that is "social networking". I urge all people of good conscious to do the same.
Done. Much obliged.
Let He Who Is Without Yeezys Cast the First Stone
Yeah but it doesn't expire and the underlying asset can increase in value. And the interest rate can fluctuate. Not really comparable to a junk bond
It depends on what you like to do. If you’re really into modding Bethesda games you can easily do many playthroughs.

I guess with Stadia modding is no longer a thing, or only supported on a limited and expensive basis using systems built directly into the game such as Creation Club.
A bond has a fixed return if held to maturity. Equity has unlimited upside and has no maturity. Stock is the residual claim on a company's assets after all other claims are settled. Equity isn't a junk bond, with or without voting rights.
Does anyone else think that a nearly 1 in 200 chance of dying following surgery is very high? I'm not sure I'd want surgery for a non-life threatening condition if the chance of death is that high.
Considering this is a thread about open source software I feel like your self promotion of a proprietary service is out of place.
Increasing hiring of non-white non-male individuals to the employee pool. Not sure what it has to do with the technical discussion.
A stock only has value (theoretically) because it offers cash flow to owners. that cash flow is created by eg distributions (dividends) or as a result of an acquisition. If a stock will never create cash flow for the owner it theoretically has no value.
Seems rather tenuous to blame Elizabeth Warren in 2010 for the actions of Mick Mulvaney in 2018.
Job market for programmers will not always be what it is today.
We're seeing our OAuth login attempts be redirected to a "Clear Your Cookies" page help. Clearing cookies does not resolve the issue.
Looks pretty nice.

I'd never buy one because they just aren't going to be as good at security as Google or Apple, but the design is good.
It's the Moustache That Matters (1980)
That's nice, although I wonder how effective it is to try and prevent governments from getting their hands on technology that is made available to corporations. What's to stop some consulting company from signing up for an Azure account and selling the same service to the "non-Free" country in the article?
Countries work differently than companies. In a country, you could assume that vast majority of citizens think of it as their home and wants to protect its long-term interests (however bad they may be at it).

In case of both VC-funded and publicly traded companies, investors/shareholders mostly don't give a damn about the company or the product, they just want to flip it for more than they put in. That promotes extremely short-term thinking and abusive business practices. A "dictator" who actually cares about the company and the product is better.
whoa! Cyc is still around? As in Lenat's ontology of everything project?
Rent-seeking doesn't refer to specifically real estate, but renting out a piece of property that you own is rent seeking, as you are using your existing wealth to acquire new wealth without creating any wealth.
Teaching babies a second language makes them smarter
I wonder how well Xiaomi’s version of this will turn out durability-wise. The Mi Mix3 was pretty well-engineered with its slider and out of all of these foldables their version looks the most appealing (and is rumored to be the cheapest)
I don't have any data handy, but intuitively I would argue the majority of people owning stock never do anything to control the management of the company, neither they want to. They want the part of the revenue stream that is produced either by dividends or by stock appreciation, that's it. Of course, there are activist investors, but saying all of them are such sounds wrong.
Can't log into Jenkins right now because we use Oauth...
You can say that again.

Just leaving this here:
Do tasks, get paid. Earn your crypto in the CoinCircle website:
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In most cases, you don't actually want to publicize whom you see as personal enemies. It just makes it harder to resolve or minimize the issue while convincing a lot of people you are a paranoid fruitcake.

But I imagine lots of minority members et al are keenly aware of specific people who are generally against their minority group who have caused them, personally, harm because of it.

If they publicly start their view that "X person personally harmed me" it is usually unprovable and the statement just makes their own problems worse for various reasons.

Thus my impression that you must have an awfully cushy life that you are projecting as the norm when there is zero reason to see it as such.
> The more important question is what happens to our economic model once the global population stops growing on a global scale, assuming we did not become an interplanetary species by then?

The simple answer is that we don't know. If we don't change our current model, its pretty clear that we will ruin our planet long before we even reach that population level. Some things that could possibly happen:

* AI based automation results in a Golden age of ever increasing productivity and changes all economic models forever, resulting in mass unemployment, social unrest and ultimately, socialized medicine, basic income etc. disengaging most of the populace from the economy.

* Advances in Space Technology lead to colonization of other planets; communities/cults/religious minorities that want freedom to do what they please emigrate and found human colonies across the galaxy. There are various versions of this where humans learn how wormholes work and use it for interstellar travel etc.

* Advances in medicine allow us to upload ourselves into the digital realm where we continue to live after our biological essences are extinguished, allowing a digital economy to be created in parallel to the non-digital one.
Volume matters, but only after device fits in your pocket in the first place which is mostly based on one dimension or maybe two.
It's not just people supporting policies with that effect (like the GND). I've met plenty of people pushing for equality of outcome over opportunity, and seriously proposing confiscating all the wealth of the rich to do so.
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Zing!

Also, the government didn't knock Microsoft for not helping spy on U.S. citizens— they were mad that they helped the Chinese spy on their own citizens, which they asserted was morally wrong enough to be considered a human rights abuse. My response was not "criticizing the government for wanting national companies to help it," I was criticizing them for having a two-faced stance on governments surveilling their own citizens.
Michael Nielsen also wrote the best intro to deep learning I’ve ever seen:

http://neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com/
A Ferry Subsidy of $24.75 a Ride? New York City’s Costs Are Ballooning
Gyroscopes measure angles in respect to your velocity. AoA sensors measure angles in respect to the direction in which air is hitting the wings.
Almost. From what I've observed, the main reason to own stock is to flip it to the next sucker for more than you bought it for. I don't often see people caring about dividends directly. I guess that's a job for index funds?
In that video Dawkins says he thinks religious morality is contemptible because it is based out of fear.

That is true, however look at the world we live in. A lot of people are not moral.

He admits the question asked of him is a "genuinely hard question:" using concepts of good and evil is an inherent admission in some faith in such concepts.
Ah, gotcha! :-)
Not that it matters, but the constant used in the paper is 4096, not 4000. This algorithm is proven to be O(n log n) only for numbers with at least 2^4096 ≪ 10^1200 bits.

For comparison, we estimate there are 10^80 or so atoms in the known universe, so we would need quite a bit of progress in physics to even store one such number; this clearly is theoretical computer science.

On the plus side, they didn’t set out to minimize that constant, and think it can easily [1] be decreased significantly.

[1] ‘easily’ in the mathematical sense of “we think everybody who understands this paper and is willing to do potentially a lot of hard work will be able to pull it of”
The two week loan typically gets rolled multiple times, and on average end up as as in the 60 to 90 day range. Payday lenders -- because of their nearly limitless willingness to roll loans -- face default rates of around 6 percent, similar to those of credit cards.

You have no idea what hardships I've faced, what my personal experience with the payday loans is or what my professional level of understanding about the industry is, so I'd prefer you not lecture me about what I will and won't understand.

You can make usurious loans if you like, but don't use our courts to collect. We don't want to be part of it.
since at least 2018 snapchat hasn't used the "screenshot the viewfinder" thing on most/all devices afaik
The thing is, if you have a bunch of "programmers" who barely have actual programming skill, but a lot of curiosity and good attitude, they will get far more done, and what they get done will be far more useful, than if you have a bunch of programmers that are really good at coding but not much more.

At least, thats the theory.
"junk stock"
I don't live in SF so I can't speak to that, but I really don't think this is a widely held view. It sounds very fringe.
Confluence Server Critical RemoteCode Execution Vulnerability [pdf]
This is true of basically every army on Earth, because it works. In fact, the USSR notably attempted to do away with the idea of an officer class in the Red Army (since it was seen as un-Socialist) and wound up changing their mind and re-instituting officers about a decade later.