skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Helium hydride (HeH), a combination of helium and hydrogen, was spotted some 3000 light-years from Earth by an instrument aboard the airborne Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), a telescope built into a converted 747 jet that flies above the opaque parts of Earth’s atmosphere.

Not quite. The paper makes it clear that what was actually observed was HeH+:

> Here we report observations, based on advances in terahertz spectroscopy8,9 and a high-altitude observatory10, of the rotational ground-state transition of HeH+ at a wavelength of 149.1 micrometres in the planetary nebula NGC 7027.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1090-x
I think there's a lot of power in telling someone that whatever they're going through sucks and you can't do anything about it, but you'll listen to them bitch to get some relief. Being told to be positive can feel like a polite way of saying shut up, I don't care, keep that to yourself.
Everything is removable if you are sufficiently stubborn.

It should be significantly more difficult to remove with bare fingers.
Crystal 0.28.0 Released
This update just warns that it disable LivePatch. I've never seen that in a release before.
Recurrent Geometric Networks for end-to-end learning of protein structure
That is all true, but what will solve the problem is making something that's suitable and free, either as part of OSM or in addition to it.
>Like with vinyl records, there is a certain satisfaction in taking care of the pen, cleaning it when switching to ink or a different color, and so on; and it's a mechanical object that helps me detach from the digital world. Unlike vinyl, it is actually a practical thing to use everyday :)

Not to mention that carrying around piles of splotchy papers and notebooks and having perpetually ink-stained hands really helps to sell the "eccentric professor" aesthetic I have going. Which is key to making my lack of charisma seem charming and idiosyncratic rather than lame and boring.
Google has the team + tooling to properly support it. The same cannot be said for many other orgs.
This isn't really news. Managing a technical code base is mostly about excluding total fucking dipshits.

Excluding total fucking dipshits is often about hiring smart people, and not exterminating their enthusiasm and optimism, so that their willingness to perform doesn't wither and die in a smothering rat race environment.
Thanks again, I saw this at work and didn't read through the updates. I really like the convenience of Datacamp platform and their "small-bite" approach to learning and I would be sad to see the most of external courses removed(if they broke the contract) but I also understand and applaud all instructors who want to show their disagreement that way.
All the companies have in common a huge budget they can invest on their build systems to overcome the shortcomings of monorepos.

They do have some benefits, but they also come with an immense cost
Not to mention the latest offerings by Motorola have been lackluster.

I, too, loved my Droid Turbo. When I first got it, I remember driving from San Diego to the north edge of the Los Angeles metro area over about four hours using Waze. 4 hours of screen and GPS time and it only used about 40% of the battery. But after 3 years, 1 hour of Waze would consume 25% of the battery. The battery would barely last me a day, and if I was somewhere where I wanted to take a decent number of pictures, it wouldn't last more than a couple hours. I bought a replacement battery, but even though the battery was new, it was built years ago and was still slightly degraded.

I ended up buying a Pixel 3. The battery is only 3,000 mAh IIRC, but it's quite efficient. I usually finish my day with about 30-50% of the battery left depending on my usage. Of course, it'll be a different story in 2-3 years.
I don't think we can call electrodes on (in?) a shaved head 'non-invasive'...
> To test these predictions, we conducted a double blind, sham-controlled, within-subjects experiment using EEG and high-definition tACS (HD-tACS; a form of tACS that provides more precise targeting of cortical structures)

So they're applying stimulation with electrodes placed on the head. tMS and stuff like this are the main ways available right now for non-invasively inducing oscillatory activity.
Recently there was news about MS refusing to sell their image recognition yeh due to human rights concerns

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19684688

Is it remorse?
Machine Learning Algorithms for Data Science
Gnome is A LOT snappier after the update. Update was very simple and quick too. I especially appreciate being able to set the flag to avoid disabling every PPA.
Our Google Maps bill went from ~$100k per year to $380k per year as a result of these changes. Needless to say, we're moving over to Mapbox.

What Google seems to miss is how this will affect customers' receptiveness to other Google products in the long-term. Having pulled the rug from under us once, there's no way we could consider e.g. a migration to Cloud in case the same happened again (where moving to a different provider would be far more painful).
Here's a TLDR in case you're curious:

AES-GCM is an API that takes 4 inputs. AES-GCM(key, nonce, additional_data, plaintext). The nonce is also called an initialization vector (IV). The key and nonce/IV are used to encrypt the plaintext using AES-CTR. A keyed hash, GHASH, is then computed over the additional data and the cipher text. That hash is encrypted with AES too, and you get an authentication tag.

AES-GCM-SIV has two big differences. Firstly, GHASH is replaced with POLYVAL, a hash that is almost exactly the same but reverses the order of some bytes because it turns out that's more efficient on most platforms. Secondly, rather than using the key and a nonce to initialize the AES-CTR encryption, a synthetic IV is computed from the nonce that the caller provides and an encrypted POLYVAL hash of the plaintext.

This difference means that even if the caller uses the same nonce twice, which is bad, that the synthetic IV will still be different as long as the plaintext messages are different. This is what makes the nonce resistance. This is great for cases where we're using the same key over and over in a distributed way, and all of the senders can't guarantee not to use the same nonces, they might collide. TLS session tickets and cookies are good examples of that.

Two small gotchas: the biggest is that when encrypting the message, we have to pass over it twice, once to compute the hash, and once to encrypt it. The second is that it's still possible to screw things up on the caller side, SIV doesn't magically make it ok not to make an attempt at setting a random nonce. For example if you use the null/all-zeroes nonce over and over, identical messages are going to be trivially finger-printable.
I don’t understand the problem though. Alt+tilde for windows, alt+tab for applications. I intentionally will use one over the other depending on what I want to switch to, and it has become second nature. I find the OS X approach way more manageable when working with many windows/apps.
Then I believe you've missed the central premise.

And, you're right Brian is not the Messiah (which is just what the Messiah would say!).

You know Animal Farm isn't about a farmyard, right?
The most in-demand skills for designers, by level
Watson's applications outside of a quick search of existing datasets are vaporware. I'm amazed not a single customer has gone public with it when so many of them are whispering about it on LinkedIn.
This is from August 6th 2018?
Well over half a year ago (It's still scary)
Right, or I can just get a phone with a loud enough speakers in the first place. I've outlined a number of situations where I want loud noise from my phone. Having the phone solve the problem is more convenient than fixing it in each situation separately.

I don't know if it is possible for the phone to provide this, but it is on my want list.
Mastering Amazon DynamoDB ACID Transactions
It's not that complaining is inherently bad, it's that it tends to be uninteresting and unstimulating.

Yes, I know the sky is rainy grey today. It does nothing for either of us if you point that out for the fifteenth time. On the other hand, if you compare the sky to a giant peeing elephant, then we're now engaged intellectually at least a little bit.

Personally, I don't complain unless I can come up with an interesting way to spin my complaint.
>Plants are definitely resilient. I like experimenting with high densities/small pots on the very unlikely chance I find some plants with synergy (or just lack of space).

>In 2017 this resulted in tiny (but tasty!) jalapenos (about a quarter of the normal size) growing off a plant that had sat on the windowsill doing nothing for 2 years.

Very interesting. Must try that out some time.

>If anyone has advice on plant pairings/symbiosis I would love to hear it!

You probably know this, but nitrogen fixation via legumes is one such symbiosis, of a kind. You can plant non-legumes interspersed with legumes. The native North American "Three Sisters" concept [1] is an example of that - they discovered that corn, beans and squash work well in symbiosis - beans being the legume.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Sisters_(agriculture)

Edit: In fact, with the Three Sisters, it is not a two-way symbiosis - it is three-way:

>The three crops benefit from each other. The maize provides a structure for the beans to climb, eliminating the need for poles. The beans provide the nitrogen to the soil that the other plants use, and the squash spreads along the ground, blocking the sunlight, helping prevent the establishment of weeds. The squash leaves also act as a "living mulch", creating a microclimate to retain moisture in the soil, and the prickly hairs of the vine deter pests. Corn, beans, and squash contain complex carbohydrates, essential fatty acids and all nine essential amino acids, allowing most Native American tribes to thrive on a plant-based diet.[7]
Someday if I've got a few months to spare, I'd love to hitchhike around Europe. Seems like a pretty cool place to wander.
Potentially of interest as well:

Her Facebook life looked perfect. How social media masks mental illness (2015)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19691000
Speed makes hits catastrophic. A slower field means those linemen (who are taking hits every play) are doing so with less impact. A faster field and those linemen launch into each other with even greater force and impact. The running backs up the middle are going even faster when they get stuffed by a faster linebacker.

Make the field slower. No three point stance. Extreme version would be no runs inside the tackles so we see mostly lateral movement and pass plays.

Step one is to stop funding football with the schools. Private clubs can show proof of insurance.
All the preclinical work is actually the cheap part of pharmaceutical development. Most of the costs come from the clinical trials for the FDA. Now a lot of the reason for this is that the US spends a pretty penny (and a lot of elbow grease from grad students) on basic biomedical research that's published into journals for "free" from the perspective of the pharmaceutical corporation.

That said, if you can make clinical trial reporting data collection more efficient, there's a LOT of money to be made.

https://www.nature.com/articles/nrd3078
The problem is that some people don't have an highlight reel in their whole life.
Nobody thinks the highlight reel is a daily occurence, but at least it happened and for many people happens a lot, hence the well-justified envy.
I hope this explain my point better. Aldo I wish people on hackernews would stop downvoting unpopular opinions. I can tell the balances of my posts before even posting, damn.
It's north of 99% likely that the posts about affording things on a side business are also lies[0], so it's an impossible standard at every level!

[0] Sorry for the reddit link, but https://www.reddit.com/r/antiMLM is instructive on this score
Carborane Acid
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_goo
I was wondering if something like this might help with my ADHD... a thinking cap, if you will :)
"Authoritarian" is when you're the one pointing guns at people (and companies) in order to make them do what you say is best.
Algorithms spot millions of California’s tiniest quakes in historical data
As a very large and very public tech company, they assume they have whistleblowers' eyes on anything that gets discovered, even internally. I assume they go public with it precisely so that no one else can do so first.
There are worse things in life than brain damage risk, and I'm thankful that others aren't allowed to choose for me how I approach those risks.
it is 'on'. And so, yes, we can:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-invasive_procedure
> The Justice Department innately cannot prosecute the President,

That theory is widely disputed.

> It is Congress's duty to prosecute the President through impeachment proceedings.

It is Congress’ duty and role to do that for all civil officers of the United States; this is not exclusive of criminal prosecution. Impeachment is a separate, not substitute, process which serves to protect the United States from the unique and special harms of wrongdoers in office.

> The impeachment of Nixon only really happened because Democrats controlled both sides.

The impeachment of Nixon did not, in fact, happen at all—Andrew Johnson and Clinton are the only Presidents to have been impeached—though both it and conviction likely would have (IIRC, whip counts in both houses were part of the reason for the resignation) had Nixon not resigned.
I could see that being problematic.
Never got this complaint. Just because something different is installed by default doesn't mean you can't install something else (or use one of the many _buntu's to make life a little easier)

A constant window manager is actually one of the strong points of linux. Lot of people still use twm.
Wonder how close they can get to deliberately routing all traffic through McDonalds and Starbucks drive-throughs, as an unskippable part of the route.

Oh wait, oh wait! They do that and then you get an INSTANT E-COUPON for wherever they drove you through. You'll be driving to nowhere just for the chance to be given amazing discounts en-route!

(open to placing bets on how they will inevitably, literally do this. I want royalties, you bastards :D )
What, no? Do you mean something I don't understand? Or are the downvotes coming down to rain on your comment?
That's not how it works. The suffering generally comes from the fact that some people can have highlight reels and others can't at all.
You’ve been manipulated by very obvious “open borders for Japan” propaganda. Why doesn’t it bother you when people manipulate you like this?
The paper disagrees with your restatement:

> caution must be used in interpreting the high frequency of CTE in this sample,

> and estimates of prevalence cannot be concluded or implied from this sample

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2645104

Last paragraph before the Conclusion header.
What bothers those female readers is not the behaviour of the morally flawed protagonist in itself. Rather, it is that the author seems oddly bent on making his protagonist use women for sex time after time, and that says something about the author. Furthermore, the work lacks a female voice that would serve as a corrective to Severian and put his actions in a clearer moral light.

Now, one might disagree with all that criticism, and I remain a fan of the The Book of the New Sun myself. But one cannot deny that within 1970s and 1980s science fiction and fantasy, there is a huge difference between Wolfe and the feminist writers of those decades like Ursula K. LeGuin, Storm Constantine, and Samuel R. Delaney. In our modern age, when critics and ordinary readers have often come to expect the gender concerns introduced by those feminist authors, Wolfe's work can strike some readers as problematic.
As Emerson put it, "the mind loves its old home". (http://transcendentalism-legacy.tamu.edu/authors/emerson/ess...)
Apple Owes Everyone an Apology and It Should Start with Me, Specifically
Honest question: do you have a real-world example that indicates that the extra pointers added due to multiple inheritance actually results in performance degradation due to extra cache pressure?
Oh but they largely did throughout history. It's only in recent times we have been able to (barely) counter that with democracy.
> Were releases named something like "Ubuntu Standard 18.04", or "Ubuntu Preview 19.04" it would have helped clarity.

They should be just “Ubuntu 18.04” but “Ubuntu Preview 0.1810”, “Ubuntu Preview 0.1904” etc.

The non-LTS releases are really not for everyone, and should not even attract the normal users with the "bigger" number. They should really warn the "normal users" that only 18.04, 20.04 are somewhat "safer" for them (I've personally had significant problems with 17.10 which used "wayland" as default even if a lot of applications just didn't work correctly under it, then 18.04 thankfully changed that default. And even 18.04 had initial issues which were removed only some months later -- so who wants less issues shouldn't install 20.04 before, let's say, September 2020).

I've also actually tried to keep up with upgrading every 6 months, and it's... such a waste of time when something breaks... and it will. Once the breakage was such that eventually the answer was "oh, you upgrade in place? We don't test it much like this, you should back up your home partition, install clean, copy back your home partition, then it will work."

That being said, given that I haven't paid for it, except with my time, sometimes the price is right. But sometimes, once can actually decide to trade money for the time spent debugging the OS... unless it's just about programming. Linux has some advantages there.

Additionally, to me it seems that KDE is still easier to use, so most users should start with Kubuntu and only LTS.
I'm pretty sure it is only installed when you open xcode for the first time and it asks you to install "additional programs".
New method enables quantum simulations on larger systems
A monorepo isn't particularly innovative, if the technical subgroups can create arbitrary subdirectories and branch ad infinitum.

Of course it's easy to work with a monorepo, when you can create a folder to stash your stuff in, bury important stuff deep in a nested tree under your home root, and then hide iterations in branches you own.

That's what every smart person does in repos they have no control over.
Except it was the second growth just exceeding the 4096 stack size that was causing the issue:

"it looked like the goroutine stack was growing from 4 kibibytes to 8 kibibytes"
HTML version:

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8452
From the first sentence of the abstract:

> monolithic source-code repositories

A monorepo is a monolithic repository
I am fortunate to have a house on a larger plot of land considering it's in a dense urban environment, and on the land are very impressive trees such as an oak, a maple, a few birch, and a black cherry. Regrettably the birch are short lived, and while they still produce leaves they are getting weak and I will need to bring them down in a few years. The cherry still produces leaves and may even flower this year, but its wood is very brittle and it will probably come down this fall. It truly is sad as their loss will definitely impact why I moved into the house.
A system that effectively marginalizes half the population into a dating underclass isn't really a solution. If anything it just creates more problems like resentment further down the line. Not to mention how such a system would even handle people who are genderqueer, for example.

I get the safety aspect of it, and I get fact it's an easy way to cut down on a lot of toxicity, but it's a shortcut that's fundamentally antithetical to equality in the long run.

There's likely a way to maintain the same level of safety for everyone, but I suspect it'd involve a lot more effort on behalf of the platform.
Yea, I have a 7+ with no issues. Also a 6 that still works fine after the latest updates.
That isn’t Japanese, it looks more like Hangul than Kanji. So my guess would be Korean.
Gateways filter that before internal services see anything. There's not any reason to be playing with passwords beneath the Authentication layer. Credentials should be exchanged for the customer identity and expirable nonce. If that mistake happened in the authentication/authorization layer then it becomes a big question of competence.
I wonder what the economic impact to local economies would be if we could be rid of the bribes, cronyism, and nepotism that goes into civil maintenance.
> That theory is widely disputed.

Fair point. But it was accepted by the Muller Report, and therefore Muller decided to not even TRY to prosecute Mr. Trump. (See the introduction of Volume II of the report).

Perhaps one day, the theory will be tested. But for now, Muller didn't even want to test that theory. He moved forward assuming it was true.
Mercury – Banking built for startups
It didn't work for Google+
The obvious replacement is simply another sport that doesn't involve people running head-first into each other at full speed. Turn every football scholarship into one for soccer, baseball, track, etc. Done. Athletes still get a sport to play, spectators still get something to watch.

I'm very much a person that does not say big complex problems have simple solutions. But in this case, it's pretty easy. Play a different damn sport.
I don’t trust banks, I trust Facebook less.
I have long stayed away from KDE because it used to require better hardware than Gnome, which requires better hardware than Xfce. I haven't even kept up with KDE's performance and hardware usage on older systems. Does it still need better hardware compared to Gnome (for a machine that's, say more than a few years old)?
Wow, they didn't waste any time in that executive summary. Those bullet points are insane on their own.
And it looks beautiful!

And it looks cheap (-ish, of course).

Do I understand this correctly that it's essentially two separate keyboards wirelessly connecting to the computer?
Thanks for the link! I'm just watching the debate, and it seems both sides kind of got a point for a while. There they are, the sceptics, clowns or rational thinkers on the other side, who I root for instinctively, and the pompous stiffs on the other. But I think the stiffs also had something going on for them with their idea of some awe and humility - and excellent pronounciation. Gotta love the civilized ways of a British debate!

Seems like it was only after John Cleese made a more seriours thrust that the stiffs got scared and went into a hedgehodge defense and it all turned boring and ridiculous.

Vintage!
Suddenly I’m fine with Apple Maps.
Off-topic, but this was my first time hearing about Exodus and I spent quite a bit of time on there. How is it possible that Facebook has zero trackers? https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/71538/
Related to gotcha #1 - it also means that you have to have the entire message available when you start encryption. Lightweight embedded systems may not be able to meet that requirement.