skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know about the other organisms but in the case of Deinococcus, the answer is multiple redundant backups of its genome, combined with extremely robust DNA repair machinery.
> Image, attachment and CSV uploads requires the /uploads/ folder's permission to be set to 777.

- https://sendy.co/get-started > Step 2

Is this really true? Why do uploaded files need to be executable?
E-Commerce on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver [video]
Mine does:

mplayer artist/album/*
> The YouTube business model also aligns perfectly with Google's strengths:

The things people want an alternative for are central to YouTube’s business model, so an alternative that would have any chance of not duplicating the problems would not be trying to duplicate that business model.

One alternative would be a basic creator-pays model which provides the option for creators to require viewer payment for some or all content with a cut of viewer payment received going to the platfrom as well as all of the creator payment going that way.
i suppose a video tutorial on youtube-dl is out of the question then.
E.g. OECD: https://www.oecd.org/els/family/HC3-1-Homeless-population.pd...

0.18% in US, 0.22% in France, 0.44% in Canada. 0.36% in Sweden.
> I have no idea how thinkspot is going to play out.

I do. The uncensored alternative to a popular platform consistently attracts all the toxic users, making it a place nobody else wants to go. Voat is a relatively recent high-profile example.
I'm surprised that article doesn't mention the "Close Doors" button on elevators. It is frequently disconnected and does nothing.
And? That’s why cash exists.
Exactly. Southwest Airlines doesn’t think “these darn planes are in the air too much!”. Every minute you’re not flying is lost revenue on a depreciating asset. Keep the metal moving. Unproductive assets is no different than lighting money on fire.
Big fan of his channel. It's so fucking stupid how a simple educational channel on mouse traps (and other types of pest traps) can run into a wall of censorship and demonetization.
You seem to have internalized ethics designed to maximize profit not happiness or utility.

Deliberate incompatibility is a lever that allows a degree of control that allows one to extract money both from end users and from companies that serve end users.

Having the ability to reverse engineer a compatible solution is a check on the maximum amount of rent seeking one is able to do before a competitor provides a more open or at least cheaper alternative that doesn't force one to entirely rip out existing components.

This is only like stealing if you believe a company has an inherent right to make a maximum profit without interference from competitors which is an interesting moral stance to take.
I misunderstood how the account system would work I think. Sorry.

I'm still wondering how it would choose who gets to make the next block. If 8 people have huge storage and one needs to be picked to make the next block who wins? All 8 of them would presumably get the "answer" right immediately right? One of the highlights of proof of work is that it mathematically keeps block times at 10 minutes. I don't fully understand how this system works.
>> "If we define a social network’s success by its ability to form and maintain strong bonds, and it’s ability to be a forum for discussion, then Mastodon has already succeeded."

This is still true in 2019.
Yes. My parents taught me. They studied it at Cambridge.

I'm not talking about inflection. English doesn't use inflection except vestigially, though our grammar is every bit as subtle (compare English verb tenses to those of a Romance language). I'm talking about the employment of reference, accent, dialect...
>Since you renounce your duties to the society that gave you your free education and upbringing, renouncing the benefits sounds fair, yes. Living and dying by your personal convictions is what I respect in people. Living by them only while it's convenient and stopping to do so when they get tested just means that you don't actually have any.

Why not formalize it by saying one should lose citizenship automatically under these circumstances? If you don't agree with that, then realize you are drawing a line somewhere, and deanmoriarty is merely drawing the line in a different place. Both of you are the same, and are merely quibbling with the degree by which you are the same.
Marsh v. Alabama, 326 U.S. 501 (1946), was a case decided by the United States Supreme Court, in which it ruled that a state trespassing statute could not be used to prevent the distribution of religious materials on a town's sidewalk, even though the sidewalk was part of a privately owned company town. The Court based its ruling on the provisions of the First Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsh_v._Alabama

> "Ownership does not always mean absolute dominion. The more an owner, for his advantage, opens up his property for use by the public in general, the more do his rights become circumscribed by the statutory and constitutional rights of those who use it."
Microwave ICs, possibly high speed logic. HEMT and MESFET based ICs.
You can get the same effect much more easily by shielding with water.
Ask HN: JavaScript Async/Await Experiences
In my nodejs projects I've still mostly been using the async library [ http://caolan.github.io/async/v3/ ]. I noticed that they (and everyone else?) has now moved to the new async/await syntax and the synchronous-looking syntax does look appealing. Especially since I worked with C# MVC for a bit where that pattern is heavily used and very nice syntactic sugar.

Most of the asynchronous code we build is for calling various APIs and databases and all manners of compositions built out of those blocks. So there's often lots of "do all these things, then do this when they are all finished and then return a response"

Question: How was your experience migrating to the new syntax? Good/bad/unexpected issues, examples of some non-toy-project using it, was it worth it, does it feel well designed/intuitive...
Doubtful - I was calling from Tahoe City California to San Jose California...

And it was a summer month long binge on PCLink and BBSs...

(I later convinced my highschool to install a CAD network on which we installed a BBS Called Heaven and Hell and ran a warez site from there....

Fun times.

EDIT: Oh -- and it was run on an EverexStep Cube machine... I think it was a 386?
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Being healthy is cheap as can be, but the gap is indeed increasing. One need only spend 10 minutes at their favorite discount grocer checkout line to see why.

I'm not sure what the answer is, but it's very sad. Why are we destroying our bodies?

edit: this quote is getting at it, but seems to ignore the real problem.

> Research shows that health care accounts for only 10% to 20% of overall health outcomes

> when patients living in public housing have problems like pest infestations or lead paint, their team finds them attorneys to hold their landlords to account.

> Such approaches, Moore says, can address social determinants on a local level. But they need to be implemented more widely.

Do we have many people dying from lead and pests nowadays?

To me it seems like we've adopted the uber model for health in the United States. Free market and damn the externalities. Resulting in a nice profit transfer from the working class to Mondelez et al.
Not entirely unexpected now that YouTube has grown up and can't be seen hanging out with certain folks by the other grownups in the room. Another example of this trend of getting popular on the backs of the same nerd/geek/hacker/counter-culture/ people who are then deemed unfit to be part of the community, one they become the minority (and hence wont affect your bottom line).
Remember this next time Alphabet execs claim YouTube is a neutral platform and that they can't be held responsible for what's posted.

Radicalization and harassment is ok because it makes them money.

Cyber-security education is a threat to rich and powerful interests, so it is taken down.

They've had their finger on the scale for a long time.
How is a year ahead of launch "last minute"?
but who's browsing Instagram while posts aren't loading?
Maybe they just figured they have enough of how to bypass their android factory reset protection and someone who wrote new rule stated too general policy?
Your analysis has an underlying assumption of individualism. That is, the ideology (quite common in the U.S.) that each person is competent to make their own decisions and has the right to do so independently of what anyone else might want.

Having kids or taking care of mentally declining parents tends to put a big dent in that. Or working in other situations where you commonly interact with people who are clearly no good on their own. However much lip service we might pay to it, respect for Autonomy and Individual Agency only goes so far when people are doing what's Clearly The Wrong Thing, then you have to decide when to step in.

Group decision-making is messier but in many ways more realistic. It isn't necessarily dystopian, though someone thinking in purely individualistic terms might see at as such.
batteries and fuel cells, arguably the same thing. not mechanical or a heat engine.
Try to make viral anything you want without the cooperation of silicon valley big tech club. Unfortunately, I lack the data but I am sure these companies are covering the biggest part of the mass distribution channels and current personal telecommunications, especially since whatsapp surpassed phone calls and texts.

In the other hand, they built a social image and I wouldn't wonder that the ones out of the most' platform will become the new parias and they will be less trusted and less accessible, harder to find etc.
Yes I have some stock forms that are probably 50+ pages long. Was just curious if anyone knows what the standard disclosure rights are. My stake in the company is not worth hiring a lawyer to comb through the legalese unfortunately.
That balance can be shifted if enough normal people get evicted, especially if the normal people tend to end up on some particular service, at least to start with.

Probably the best reason Silicon Valley can understand to start thinking twice about whether they want to deplatform all the non-SV-liberals.

(I initially said "conservatives" there, but given the discussion elsewhere on this page for someone who was deplatformed on Vimeo for reviewing animal traps because they said it was 'cruelty to animals', it's going well beyond that.)
Another way would be to use the neural network to do segmentation, run the
individual results through DeTeXify and finally reassemble. This would probably yield higher accuracy (DeTeXify works with handwritten too).
Thanks for your reply.

One more question for you, to understand the scope of your philosophy: I don't plan on having kids ever, and to be honest my reasoning is partially driven by the fact that I see them as an unnecessary financial and time burden on me and my partner (she agrees).

Does that mean that in your world view we don't deserve a place in society at all, because if everyone was like us we wouldn't have a society at all in a few decades, so once again I am living by exploiting all the financial and time commitments spent by other people in raising other humans for my benefit?
Facebook Messenger is the worst for this if you try and use the mobile site (which is otherwise quite capable).
Generally common shareholders have very little information rights. If you’re really curious just send them an email.
I think I remember (1980s/90s) if you were copying a file to/from a remote host (with ftp or something), you could improve the throughput speed by pinging the remote. Maybe ethernet, or maybe ppp/slip, I'm not sure.
+1 for Mg. I prefer the citrate salt as I find it faster acting and doesn't give me the same digestive issues, but it's so damned effective for general anxiety I even keep a bottle in my desk at work!
The use of λ₁ and φ₂ instead of l1 and a2 or x1 and y2 or longitude1 and latitude2 is cute, but really not that big a practical improvement.

Sure someone can pattern-match the code to the already-derived line in a reference book somewhere, but that doesn’t help at all with reasoning about the geometrical relationships or developing new algorithms, following control flow, building abstractions, improving precision, handling edge cases, ...

It’s mostly helpful when you want to treat your formulas as an externally defined black box.

* * *

Aside: The problem in this particular example is that spherical coordinates and spherical trigonometry are just not a very good formalism for calculating anything, in either theory or practice. Unfortunately cartography, geodesy, etc. are bound by tradition and there hasn’t been much effort to switch them to better tools.

I’ve been trying to read a spherical trigonometry textbook (Todhunter, 1878) the last few days and following along is a huge pain.

Much better is to switch to cartesian coordinates or stereographically projected coordinates, and then use vector methods (and skip writing explicit coordinates in your code to the extent possible). All of the proofs and derivations get nicer, with geometrically meaningful steps and conclusions. Now your points can just be called p and q or a and b (or if you have a lot of them and aren’t pressed for space in each expression, points[i] and points[i+1]), and the coordinates stay internal.

In addition to using clearer code, the calculations will also be faster, more precise, with better numerical stability, take up less memory/bandwidth, ...

Here’s some general math for an arbitrary-dimensional sphere; for just the 2-sphere everything is simpler. http://geocalc.clas.asu.edu/pdf/CompGeom-ch3.pdf
TBC got me started on an exploration of the history and ideas of money -- also touched on in Cryptonomicon -- but it's only just a start. Though an entertaining one.
Andrew Yang's Proposals Aren't as Popular in Silicon Valley as You Might Think
First they came for the hate, violence and dake news promoting voices that happen be conservative.

There is are so many conservative channels that have been untouched.
'Tsunami' on a silicon chip: a world first for light waves
I can't wait for all the videos showing you how to repair your own stuff gets outlawed.

Right now it's 'hacking' or possibly circumventing proprietary systems that are trying to get you to purchase a new device or contact them directly rather than fix it yourself if you have the technical know how.

Today it's Software/Hardware and computer systems.

How long until looking up a you-tube video on how to repair your John Deer tractor or iOS device gets banned.

Take it further and how long until all repair/tear down/fix videos get banned from their platform.

Everyone is yelling, just repeal their platform status like it is going to change anything. They've used that status to grow to the size they are now and even if they are forced to go publisher it wouldn't change anything other than them being more brazen at the censorship in my opinion.
for x in range(10000000):

Why not just use `while True:` ?
They don't have to go that extreme, they could just tax Libra coins like securities. That would create a huge burden on their use as currency in the US.
I used an old VAX for a while connected to full frontal internet with a Telnet port available. One of the cool things VMS had was a way to mirror the session from one terminal on another. It would watch while script kiddies would try to break in, only to be confused about what it was they had broken into when they succeeded.

I'm sure you could do something like this by running VMS on simh and a vlan/pty and use your modem's port routing nat feature to send it telnet traffic.

My go to "spare Linux server" environment has been RasPis for a while though since headless they are pretty cheap, with an actual x86 there are perhaps some interesting PCIe, PCI ,or ISA cards (depends on how old it is) that are fun. Setting it up as a media transfer station to move things off 5.25" floppy or 3.5" floppy or Zip disks or something can be a fun use as well.
One of the packages created by RStudio is reticulate, which allows integration with python. They have also recently added some support for python to the IDE:

https://rstudio.github.io/reticulate/articles/rstudio_ide.ht...
Unfortunately, typesetting the equations directly is often the wrong way. It might sometimes work for lecture notes, but when you develop your own scientific work, your notation is often still fluid. In such a case it is sensible to express your mathematics with a domain-specific notation. Then you can later a) change your notation and b) understand your source code.

As an example, instead of writing \(G = (V,E)\) directly you might want to write \(\graph{} = (\nodes{},\edges{})\)
How can anyone violate this rule? Any secure computer system cannot be bypassed.
Couldn't that trivially be defeated by having that part of the work done somewhere that doesn't accept such shrink wrap contracts? Alternatively even just a different person than actually paid for it?

If I receive a box in the mail or an exe in an email along with a request to document it to what degree am I party to any contract with the developer? I received after all nothing from them.
This is awesome I was looking for such a tool. Indeed handwritten seems like the next logical step.
Where is the discussion of R? You talk of scientific computation and don't speak of R? That's an oversight, given the majority of the scientists I know have used R. There's also STATA, which economists love, which can do somethings in my workflow much quicker than R. There is also a huge contingent of analysts that uses SAS, especially in healthcare and finance.

The car analogies in the blogpost are not particularly useful... Why do people feel the need to dumb down a topic with off-the-wall analogies? Talking about Julia like it's Tesla is laughable. Tesla is a huge innovator, Julia is another tool that does similar things to the other tools. The apt analogy for Julia would be a new ICE company, not a new EV company.
Thanks. I did come across the term "food forest" a few years ago, had read some articles and saw some pictures of them. Very interesting. It definitely works. Also there is precedent for it.

In some articles, Wikipedia or other, about the term, I saw that traditional gardens in places such as Kerala (India), North-Eastern states of India (like Assam, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, etc. - which have climate partly like Kerala, in the sense of getting a lot of rain), and probably places in other countries, like maybe Thailand, Philippines, etc, are basically like food forests, or rather, food forests are like them (since they came earlier). For example, in home gardens, as they are called in Kerala, common plants grown in the same area (polyculture), often just part of and outside some person's home, include species like banana, coconut, jackfruit (all three are medium to big trees, although banana is more like a herb) (also all three being wonder trees in the sense of having many uses), spices like cardamom, pepper, clove, various edible greens, herbs and spices like turmeric, coriander, cumin, onion, garlic, etc. All growing together in natural symbiosis and helping each other.

>requires no maintenance,

A bit of a nitpick, but they do require maintenance. It is not a closed loop. Since we keep harvesting stuff, nutrients decrease, so we have to add inputs too, like organic manure, compost, etc. Can't keep taking without giving back.
Ask HN: Switching from big corp to smaller company management position
I am wondering if some of you did such switch - working only for big IT companies (corporate culture etc) and then moved to a smaller one (but NOT a startup, let's say 30-40 people, good revenue, 7-8 years on the market). If so - what are your thoughts? Did you regret this? Did you move back to the bigger company in the end?

Brief background: currently I'm working on middle mgmt position in big corp, my previous job was also in huge company (manager of dev team(s)) and now I have a chance to join much smaller company (fintech) that is opening their office in my city. Any suggestions?
My firend's experience has been the same. We've had issues where our wordpress instance was exploited and we got kicked off the network.

Also, we've had issues where there was a upnp connection open and we got kicked off the network for that as well.

In those cases it took days for them to get back via email, and then they struggled to open up a channel which we could resolve the issue and get it compliant.

Also, we've had situations where there was maintenance but no update that it was going on.
Unless they themselves are also terrible people, I can't imagine that they don't have some plan to combat this given how obvious of a problem it's been. They mention respect in the header at least...
There are quite a few educational apps that does this. E.g. look up socratic.org's GitHub.
Expect, YouTube is a monopoly in monetizing video content. It's like asking an app developer to not publish with [Apple, Google] if they disagree with their policies. Sure, they can choose to not publish, but with that choice goes away the ability to monetize their app in the real world

Big tech has gotten even more powerful and necessary at a practical level, with none of the guarantees of fair treatment the government is bound by. This needs to change, pronto.
In NL cash transactions of 10k+ already needed to be reported to the authorities.

But a new law will forbid any cash transactions higher than 3k.
I know this is just going to be an opportunity for someone to post the "first they came for the <blank> and I didn't speak out because I wasn't <blank>" copyasta, but..

I wish the only people fighting against censorship by trying to build their own platforms weren't actual white supremacists and bad-faith pseudo-intellectual charlatans. (Note, I"m only placing Peterson in the second category. He's not a white supremacist. He IS however a reductive, regressive male-supremacist, wearing the mask of a classic liberal free speech advocate).

He claims to fight for a free marketplace of ideas, but only because his religious conservative dogma about men, women, gay marriage, and trans people does not hold up to scrutiny, and people have gotten tired of debating him.

Let's be clear:

* Google and YouTube do not owe the internet the right to access to an expensive video hosting content platform. They are a business and they are free to prioritize the content that enables them to make money
* ThinkSpot has two agendas - one to promote "unpopular" free speech ideas in a "safe space" free from criticism, which is hilariously ironic. Two - to make Jordan Peterson money. If you don't think that's part of the goal, you haven't been paying attention to all of his Patreon activity and motivations for the last several years.

These are not the droids we are looking for.

What is the alternative? Honestly, here is a hot take: Kazaa

We need to get back to distributed peer-to-peer file hosting. But this time with more security, encryption, access control, categorization of content that you can choose to host on your node.