skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Genetic programming is just one way to optimize candidates embedded in a high-dimensional space. Neural network research has been using population-based optimization techniques for a long time, that's not the innovation here.

This is an extension of NEAT (from 2002), which evolved neural network architectures and weights simultaneously. The interesting thing is by having a shared weight, they appear to be finding much more minimal networks, which can still be trained to have results close to the state of the art.
"Jewish" refers both to ethnic groups and religion.
You can't, and that's demonstrated in this thing I made for fun: https://youtu.be/xzcdopwq7ok

A frame is 40 ms and you blink for more than 100.
> To keep in the spirit of gopher we should figure
out a simple encryption system that a normal programmer can implement in a weekend. This is totally possible to do with strong security

I'd be curious about a specific example of this.
It's simple. Avoid them, just as you should avoid processed meat.

Easy less processed food, and lots of fruit, veg, fiber, and protein from whatever source you like. That's the key to a healthy diet.
AEPD law is pretty clear on handling private data on companies/state institutions.

Also jamming teleco signals is a no-no in any European country. I can't know how much is fined but consider it similar to an offence in the US related to the FCC.
Democracy attempts to answer that question by allowing real people to change the government.
Our school had an Apple II in 1982 but they were quite expensive, so people mostly got Sinclair machines or Commodore 64s for home use. When I went to 6th form they had a few BBCs and an old Commodore PET. I don't the Apple IIs were common, but they were certainly around.
It's nutritional science, so the error bars are big, the effect sizes are small and the confounding variables numerous. At least a plant-based diet reduces your GHG footprint, so there's that. If you want to switch to a more carnivorous diet, I'd suggest chicken instead of beef. The evidence for mammalian meat being slightly carcinogenic seems to be pretty solid, and the climate impact of beef is about ten times that of chicken.
UK Signs Julian Assange's US Extradition Papers
> Without these simple mental models, many people come to wrong conclusions about what happens in markets!

It seems like that happens with or without the simple mental models. Put five economists in a room and you'll get five opinions.

I'd argue that one purpose the mathematical models do serve is to shut down disagreements from non-economists. Where there's a difference in opinion, the economist can (fallaciously) argue that "if you don't have a model, you don't have a point".

See some of the discussion around MMT for a practical example.
Double posted at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20167686
Speaking of which, where's our sapphire phone screens already?
On a side note, I miss MiniDisk — It was somewhat of the pinnacle of mixtapes with best of all worlds. Tangible, digital, compact, non-destructive and joyfully tedious to create.
The mystery of why some people become sudden geniuses
You're treading a very dangerous line, here.

To an oppressive regime, any "fighters" against that regime could be labelled "terrorism", for pragmatic approaches to dealing with the people who no longer want to be extorted, brutalised, tortured, murdered, what-have-you.

If all you have to do is label a tool as 'x' to block it and shut it down, then - in premise - you're denying all of the users of that service one of the inalienable rights that you're supposed to enjoy: Which is the right to peacefully assemble and/or protest.

That seems like a very large, oppressive, back-handed means to quash the few that you're actually having problems with.
Yeah that number is definitely wrong.

The best fit I can find is that 128 bits is roughly enough to address every cubic meter in a sphere slightly larger than Neptune's orbit.

64 bits is way too big for a single dimension, but way too small for three dimensions.
>There really shouldn't be a debate that there are genetic differences amongst 'races'. It shouldn't be something that is "taboo" to discuss or talk about, since it is a factually correct statement to make.

I disagree. Who defines what a "race" is?

Divide a population into two groups arbitrarily, and you'll find statistical differences.

Pick any metric, and you'll get clusters.

There are so many data scientists here on HN - so I hope many do understand how sensitive clustering is to the metric, algorithm, and other parameters!

And for everyone else: race is like colors in a rainbow. Yes, the rainbow is not monochromatic. And yet there is no division in the continuous spectrum in nature.
This article does emphasise processed meat being the cause, so Bacon and Hotdogs for example, as opposed to Butcher cuts or prepared foul.
Why Logos Become Legends
Not to speak about the amount of antibiotics in meat probably [1][2][3]

[1]https://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/28/opinion/antibiotics-and-t...
[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/10/05/most-...
[3] https://www.consumerreports.org/cro/2012/06/antibiotics-are-...
I think it's also not great for many of the same reasons but the motivation might be more eithical or environmental than health. Most of the vegans I know (myself included) have totally different diets that don't include meat replacements at all. Beans and legumes take the place of red meat.
It means you're a Jew. It's the chosen people, not the chosen random punk who "identifies" as a Jew.
There is nothing more depressing than “positive news”
This is obviously a simplification, but a rule of thumb is probably: Just as unhealthy as the meat alternative for you (particularly the closer these alternatives come to the original), but better for the planet.
Going the privacy route makes sense for e.g. Apple because it's a moat they can dig that Google can not follow. For the same reason that Google can't follow -reputation-, however, Huawei can't either. Too many of the people for whom privacy would be a selling point do not trust China or companies with ties to China.

They might be able to pull it off, but it's an uphill battle, so I wouldn't expect them to try.

Edit: OK, it's not exactly* the same reason as Google, as Google is practically unable to build privacy-preserving features without harming their primary revenue streams, whereas China might not force Huawei to not build privacy-protecting features. They do share a reputation problem though.
PDFs have been under Export since Office 2010 for better clarity.
What actually moves the surfaces hasn't changed radically. It's a question of whether there is a computer that controls the servos, or just a stick that does it.

A stable plane can fly with a stick controlling surfaces. Just like an ordinary cessna does. An unstable plane has to fly by wire, where a person moves a stick to ask the computer to tell the computer to roll the plane, and the computers calculate the necessary control surface movements and tells the servos to move.

More importantly, the computer tells the servos to move the surfaces many times per second just to keep the plane straight, because it's not stable. Looking at a modern jet fighter from the outside it's hard to see just how unstable in they are. You can get some idea by looking at where the weight is (in an empty plane) vs where the surfaces are. They are built like a dart, but with the wing in the front and the weight in the back.
Look at where the engine (the thing that weighs a lot in an empty fighter built from composites) starts in this cutaway: right under the tail! It's a backwards dart.
https://www.slideshare.net/SaabGroup/saab-gripen-3d-cutaway
And as someone who has butchered a pig, made sausages and bacon I can assure you that for a lot of it the nitrates are really the only difference between those and other forms of meat.

I guess the curing time could also be relevant but I don't believe there is anything to suggest that curing time is an issue.

Knowing this I was wondering for ages "surely it can only be the nitrates" and that seemed to be the case. It is also possible to buy bacon safely cured without nitrates now too.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/octolinker/
I think a lot of the critics here on HN hate Brave not for technical reasons but because Brendan is behind it, and he stood up to left wing dogmatic orthodoxy and was unrepentant in doing so. So he, and all his future endeavours must be castigated.
> even evidence of a decline in IQ in developed nations

Can you expand on this? Only thing I've heard is the Flynn effect, which is probably longer-term... And the only other thing I think of in association with "long-term, potentially worrisome, population-wide unexplained decline" is testosterone levels.
There's a text link all the way to the bottom to the 'Mozilla Addon Store' but I agree that it's confusing that the big install button only mentions Chrome (despite browsing with Firefox).

edit: At the bottom of https://octolinker.now.sh/ that is. On Github there's a similar text link + clickable Firefox icon in the 'Install' section.
Every American must be either a cowboy, a NY cop, or a hunter in the rural Midwest according to HN.

That's how ridiculous they look.
There's no rigorous scientific definition of "race", so there can't really be scientific facts about genetic differences between races.

Some "racial" groups happen to have a higher incidence of particular genes. But when you look at specific examples, it's absurd to connect this to any kind of racial theory. For example, Latinos apparently have a higher incidence of Alzheimers than the general US population, and this could possibly have some generic component (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5874398/). But no-one would suggest that "Latino" is a bona fide racial category.
Assuming you mean factoring large number, specifically semi-primes with broadly similar sized factors and no assumed structure, the answer is still no. Taking N as the number being factored and C a candidate that might contain a factor, taking GCD(N,C) is not a significant part of the process. The large part of the process is usually finding C.

And the article isn't claiming that the GCD code here takes the same time regardless of the input, it's saying that for two inputs of the same size the time take is the same. Time as a function of the input size is still proportional to the number of bits in the input, it's just that the routine takes the same time regardless of how many of those bits are 0, regardless of the structure of the input numbers.

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To others commenting here, the guidelines[0] say:

Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Hmmm, this would have been before the BBC launch. This was a North London comp which received its first computer, an Apple II the month I finished my GCEs, so that would have been summer 81. When I went to a separate 6th Form college they also had Apple IIs with BBC Bs following soon after.

The BBC Micro didn't really get into mass production until 1982.
> Many modern browsers these days support a HTTP header called DNT which stands for Do Not Track.

Note that Safari has already removed the Do Not Track header as websites began using it as a way to fingerprint users.
> Those “strange assumptions” are what distinguishes economics from disciplines whose models are so under specified that they can’t be proven wrong

When an economist sees evidence against the prevailing models, they call it a 'puzzle' and write a paper on it. So then there's one model per puzzle.

That doesn't really feel like an approach that allows falsification either.
Well, it could be done based on microtransactions. To set up your mcast tree you need to pay. The slots are auctioned off every X minutes on a DAG-chain-block-thing.
There are 19 types of smile – but only six are for happiness
The US didn't loot the former Soviet Union; Harvard and their chosen oligarchs did. Harvard basically admitted they did this in a lawsuit[1]. It's one of the worst things done in the late 20th century; was basically genocide for a quick buck.

The US media, being part of the sinister Harvard axis, of course, didn't report it, but people in Russia (the Exile guys, Russians) certainly know about it, which is why they elected a brute like Putin to keep Harvard economists and their oligarch orcs from destroying the place further. You can find stuff; even Schleifer's wiki page alludes to it. Unvetted example: http://www.softpanorama.org/Skeptics/Pseudoscience/harvard_m...

Two books every American should read:
1) Godfather of the Kremlin (the author of this book was assassinated)
2) Casino Moscow

[1]https://web.archive.org/web/20160827112235/http://www.instit...
> That assumes that you can sell the house for more than what you bought it at.

Not necessarily; as long as the value of the house[1] doesn’t fall more than the principal you’ve paid, you’ll get more cash from the sale than you put up as a down payment. The trouble with buying on margin, though, is that it amplifies losses— the worst single day in the stock market[2] was about a 20% drop, but you get the same effect from a 1% drop in your house value if you hold the 95% mortgage that you described.

[1] Folding transaction fees into the effective value
[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Monday_(1987)
>GIMP 2.10.12 is mostly a bug fix release as some annoying bugs were discovered, which is to be expected after a 2.10.10 with so many changes!

Why do we care about a minor bugfix release?
I presume you meant "fowl" - or is that at reference to the "chlorinated chicken" we are being threatened with in the UK?
Can't even read it "Keep the story going. Sign up for an extra free read."
Fake news, sorry.

Also unethical. Big Food would like nothing more that to get you addicted to expensive sugary food products. (Cheapest to make, most expensive to buy, and with an addiction to boost sales.)
That's right, comrade, that's also why we need a single party, a deeply centralized world government and a great Führer^W Leader to guide us all under its wonderful unifying vision of the brave upcoming world.

Let's all remember that harmony is not unison: our single goal must be to reduce everything until no difference remains and the universe is at last reconciled into the great singularity.
Oh, there are several programs which generate such files, for instance some flatbed scanners. Also amongst Adobe Photoshop® professionals, for some reason multilayer TIFF is the format to go with (don't know why -- maybe because it is still popular in DTP/printing?)
I'm going to offer the most scientifically-backed comment in this entire thread:

"yeah, no shit!"
> Like the dollar isn't also used for crime...

Crypto people say this like it's an argument in their favour - whereas it actually means: even for its one and only genuine consumer use case, crypto is utterly trounced by conventional currency.
> I use automatic address selection, so no DHCP.

This means you're using SLAAC instead of DHCPv6, right? In that case, your servers should have a fixed IPv6 address derived from their MAC address. Even if they also have privacy addresses (and prefer to use them for outbound connections), they should still have the non-privacy address which you could use for inbound connections.

Or is it the problem that, when your router reboots, the IPv6 prefix changes? That is a harder problem (and would be the same in IPv4).
hmm. Multicast is often used for, like, IPTV. That's a very different task from BitTorrent. Torrents are indeed about managing peers. IPTV is centralized, not p2p, the benefit of multicast for IPTV is that the routers in between the source (ISP) and your client only carry one copy of the stream instead of one stream per client.

At internet scale.. well, it would be nice to have this efficiency for Twitch and YouTube Live. Which are also pretty centralized (CDN) so I don't see how this is about managing peers.
Subtitling industry. 20 years ago. I seem to remember handling TIFF files for oriental scripts.
no, that's the point - that economic thinking is all about adaptation to circumstances, and makes no assumptions about the stability of anything.

"enough time to adapt" is always present, if you stop thinking about stability being present at all. The system is in a constant state of adaptation to current circumstances, and those circumstances are constantly changing. As those circumstances change, so the system adapts to them. It doesn't need "time to adapt", it is constantly adapting.

Ecological thinking emphasises the brittleness of a particular system, and talks about ecological collapse when the situation changes too fast for the system to cope with. Economic thinking emphasises the adaptability of the system, and how it flows from one state to another depending on circumstances.

What we have now is not a "stable system" that has a finite tolerance for change, relying on an underlying stability provided by a fixed set of parameters. It's an adaptive system that has an infinite tolerance for change, underpinned by nothing stable.

If the externalities of that system become apparent, then the system will change to cope with it. There's a good argument that the current "climate emergency" is exactly this: that the system has previously treated the atmosphere (and ocean) as infinitely-large dumping grounds for waste products, and that it is now adapting to the fact that that's not true.

Of course, if anything inside this adaptive system relies on a particular aspect of it to remain stable, then that is a challenge for that entity. On a grand scale, you could view this as humanity depending on a livable biosphere. On a smaller scale, this could be your country depending on oil revenues. On a smaller scale, this could be your family depending on the housing market always rising.

I've recently been reading AntiFragile, and that talks about the same thing. Relying on stability is fragile. Adapting to (and benefiting from) change is antifragile.
What is the easiest sport to win an Olympic gold medal?
I assume your last sentence is not legal advice!

I don't think photos and DNA are particularly similar. There's the critical difference that DNA from a person provides a mass of easily applicable information about that person's close relatives, information that is not displayed in public like somebody's face is. If this discussion has a point, that's the whole point of it, but you've missed it or are choosing to deliberately ignore it.
Open Source Scan Converter: Low-latency video digitizer and scan converter
Based on the GP post, I believe the solar system is a sphere with radius 16.4 km. The volume would, therefore, be almost exactly 2^64 cubic centimeters.
I think that's a fairly harsh reading of the report.

Saying "Fat Duck was criticised for poor food hygiene practices" is a little different to saying "Several weaknesses in procedures at the restaurant may have contributed to ongoing transmission."

The report simply says that they relied too heavily on using alcohol gels which don't work so well on norovirus.

It also says that they are unsure if it was The Fat Duck's staff that continued to infect customers or if the Oysters they continued to use continued to be infected.

Yes, excellent hygiene is needed in Restaurants but excellent hygiene won't always stop a norovirus.

One thing not mentioned here (that I suspect might be a factor) is that restaurants that serve tasting menus are more at risk of causing an outbreak like this. If everyone eats a large number of identical courses each with a diverse number of ingredients the possibility of one of those ingredients infecting a large number of people is surely greatly increased.
I wouldn't exactly call Proxies metaprogramming. It's not wrong but it's just not the best example of what metaprogramming is.
> against nnws

The real worldwide risk of nukes is direct confrontation between nuclear powers.
The ways faces shape politics
I found this site to be helpful: https://nutritionfacts.org
In Ukraine and Russia dead-drops as a method of delivery is common. They also use the postal system just like regular dark web markets, what Telgram groups and contacts replace is the actual market part, reputation scoring and escrow
I think the longevity of dietary advice is pretty low. Remember when eggs were the enemy, when fat was the enemy, when carbs were the enemy? Meat had to have it's turn sometime.
> Not to mention the ability to share a backing array between two "vectors" and to append to both. That's a Go innovation right there.

It's been pointed out in the comment right below this, but it is a bug if you do this. If the backing array has any free capacity the results will be very different from what you expect.
You also cause way less suffering in the world, which is something I believe is very much worth striving for.
These days most countries go in conflict without declaring war on another so you can diligently ignore the Geneva convention.
While they are certainly in a rare position to do this, and public story from their side sounds a bit worse on the leaker, I still have to commend their approach to it.

Just like I had to get their first album they sold online for pay-as-much-you-want to show music labels the finger (even though I am not a huge fan of their music, I am a huge fan of showing the finger to conglomerates that seem to forget their founding roles).

Sure, that was a move out of privilege too, but not many in that position have done it anyway, so kudos to them.
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Probably none, most want to hear about, if there is something to it. They struggled hard to replace their meat with soy and extracted proteins and yeast from wherever .. it must be good.

I just really believe, that for the most part my body knows the best whats good for him. I just have to really pay attention. So sugar might taste good, but my body does not feel good, when eating too much of it. Meat is good, but only if it is good meat and not too much (meat that did not suffer too much and pushed with medicaments).

So balanced diet, lots of vegetables ... the classical recommendation, seems right.
Golang Skeleton with Fully Managed Versions
tl;dr no. http://archive.fo/7H3MM
There is an irony about any article on web design residing on Medium, which at this point is the defacto anti-pattern for web design.
The parent didn't encourage companies to use any legal means necessary. You can't know their stance about this.
Energy expenditure in lying, sitting&standing positions in young healthy adults
Improved Curves tool • Layers support for TIFF exporting • Support for user-installed fonts on Windows • Faster painting • Improved symmetry painting support • Incremental mode in the Dodge/Burn tool • Free Select tool now creates a preliminary selection • New Offset tool
Tell HN: GitHub Legacy plans can no longer be upgraded
GitHub migrated from a pricing based on number of repositories to number of users back in 2016. The promise back then was:

>We want everyone to have a plan with unlimited private repositories, but don’t worry—you are welcome to stay on your current plan while you evaluate the new cost structure and understand how to best manage your organization members and their private repository access. And while we’re currently not enforcing a timeline to move, rest assured that you’ll have at least 12 months notice before any mandated change to your plan.

The GitHub documentation still agrees to the above:

>You can upgrade or downgrade between legacy paid plans in your organization's billing settings. When you upgrade to a plan with more private repositories, we'll immediately move your account to your new plan and bill you for the difference in price, prorated for the number of days left in your billing cycle.

But starting sometime in 2019 May (The only reference I could find is https://datree.io/github-pricing/), GitHub started to stop users from upgrading between legacy plans.
Did you read my comment? How do you ignore the fact that your PR build is failing?