skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I hope they make billions in profits.

No. We shouldn't be wasting resources on developing new antibiotics, because their effectiveness will be relatively short lived. We should focus on alternative sources, such as plants found in rainforests that are rapidly disappearing.
If you're saying that DNA is too complex to have evolved on earth, where else would it evolve? Panspermia just puts the origin of life in another location in the universe. It doesn't answer any questions about how that complexity would evolve.
"You are betraying your ignorance" makes the discussion personal and expresses a pejorative. That's what I mean by personal swipe. Even if another comment was bad and provocative, the guidelines ask you to omit those. The issue isn't whether the other commenter deserved it—it's the effect that including such things has on subsequent discussion. We know from long experience that the effect is degrading, whether someone deserved it or not.
Well, that's on Spotify to do. They've been able to do it forever. Tidal has an Apple TV app.
I have to imagine the "just open a .html file and start playing" route is a huge vector for getting people into proper programming. I know it's what both I and my brother did. Maybe you don't agree, but I think it's a horrible shame that we're making that route less and less possible by disabling features for anything other than HTTPS.

Glitch honestly looks really good, but I'm a bit worried about telling people that the way to learn programming is to rely on a random for-profit corporation's computers rather than letting people realize the actual power they have over their own machine.
> Each color cycle represents 4.8 inches (12 centimeters) of ground displacement in the radar line-of-sight.

Is there a legend somewhere, or at least a max? I'm not sure what is meant by "color cycle".
The Perovians were known to out-IBM IBM in terms of company culture. They all had short hair, no beards or mustaches, and a freshly starched shirt.

From what I heard, they generally did a good job for their customers. Unlike the Big Five accounting firms, who would only run up your laser printer toner bill.
> I hate any application in Windows that doesn't close when I hit the close button. If you want your application to minimize to the taskbar, have that happen when I hit the minimize button.

That's reasonable, because on Windows there's no clear distinction between the process and the window. On MacOS, there's real functionality provided by the dock icon and menu even in the absence of any window.
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As I get older and get other responsibilities, I want to be admin of fewer and fewer things. Same reason I replaced my Linux fileserver with a Synology. I'll let someone else stay on top of the security issue du jour.
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Panspermia doesn’t only work (if it works) by microbes floating in space. Rather the idea is that microbes are embedded and somewhat protected in asteroids which then land somewhere habitable. The occasional close brushes between stars and their asteroid clouds provide the medium where microbes could be transferred between stars quickly enough to launch and land before the radiation destroys any hope of survival (like 20 thousand years.)
How's the multi-account and desktop notification support in it? I can't find a lot of details on what it does, but there's a mailpile-desktop package that seems potentially promising?
What is exactly extra for Ultra?
It came to my Samsung TV and i can't uninstall it
Not a bad idea, actually.
I think they just mean how the maps cycles through the colors. The contours for the same color are apart by multiples of a cycle.
I can't wait for YouTube on fire tablets
I'm currently planning a trip where I'm considering going from Strasbourg to Toulouse. Over 7 hours on the fastest train itinerary, versus a 1.5 hour flight. Not that difficult a decision.
There's some, but not much. These look fun - http://lazairinfo.com/electric-lazair/
1,250-mile road linking Europe to China given green light
The statement was misleading. Thanks!, it has been corrected.
If freely available information doesn't change peoples minds why do dictatorships try so hard to ban it?

That's not to say that any amount of information would cause the North Korean's to rise up into a (frankly suicidal) armed rebellion, but it will influence opinions inside the country.
The verge article mentions it's reasonably common and mentions some programs that do it.

From the article, a tweet

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They are far from alone, a quick `lsof -i | grep LISTEN` shows that I have: Spotify, Keybase, KBFS, iTunes, Numi, https://t.co/MVSAJgN9yY… All running locally listening web servers.

— Matthew Gregg (@braintube) July 9, 2019
It says it's ideal for unpredictable load or infrequent demand. My reading is that billing is done per minute only while the database is being read / written to (active), but what I'm not sure about is if the storage is completely free whilst it's inactive. If that's the case it would seem like a great solution for BI and analytics type applications where you want to collect data over time (and are able to batch writes) and produce reports relatively infrequently.
Cosmic rays sterilize everything in time, so it seems unlikely we would find anything.
I was randomly guessing it, and somehow I managed to land on level 8 from level 4. This is hilarious :)
Actually, I'm not sure that's the case. An article about the move states "On the Google side, both its own Chromecast devices, as well as partner TVs and hardware that support Chromecast built-in, or that run Android TV, will gain support broadly for Prime Video. Plus, any Chromecast Ultra owners will also get access to Prime Video’s 4,000-title library normally reserved for Prime members, at no additional cost, as part of the new tie-up between the two companies."

It is possible that this is just propagating that though.
I saw what you edited out. Too bad I didn’t grab a screen shot. Why don't you go ahead and tell everybody what you think is the “real reason” behind my comments. I would like to know.
Is it really more power-efficient? CPUs are often a smaller process node than integrated GPUs and it's much easier to share common work between pixels with CPU rendering, reducing redundant operations.
> What security concerns though? It's not like accessing the camera on a random attacker controlled HTTP page is less secure than on a random attacker controlled HTTPS page. If the user lets a malicious web page access the camera, that's game over regardless.

No. But accessing the camera on a non-attacker-controlled HTTP page is less secure than doing so on a non-attacker-controlled HTTPS page, because an attacker could MitM the former but not the latter. (Even if the camera data itself is sent securely, the attacker could just change the host page's JavaScript to send it to a different server instead.)
It's good that people are observing anything ... even including the moisture content of Yeti skulls, and value of da Vinci paintings ... and trying to correlate it with anything that can't be predicted and kills people. Some day it will pay off.

There was a time not so long ago when sprites, whistlers, jets, starters, ELVs and other TLEs were funny stuff. Today we understand that gammas are produced by thunderstorms. Times change.

https://physics.unh.edu/events/colloquium/probing-particle-a...
Chromecast Ultra has 4K output and the regular Chromecast doesn't. I don't think the Ultra gets access to any more content but presumably it gets the 4K version instead of the HD version.

Personally I am disappointed that almost nothing on Prime Video is 4K anyway.
The new life may have spread very rapidly and ended the conditions that abiogenesis required, in a sense it had a massive "leg up" on the "evolution" of non-living compounds, and we already know that species that get out competed are quickly driven to extinction.

Consider for example that abiogenesis is probably impossible in an atmosphere containing oxygen, because everything gets oxidized too fast, although free oxygen in the air happened quite a long time after life arose.

To abiogenicly form long chain carbons you need a free oxygenless reducing environment, oxygen from the new microbes could have easily poisoned all the viable sites for abiogenesis.
According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Californium#Production "Only two sites produce californium-252: the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the United States, and the Research Institute of Atomic Reactors in Dimitrovgrad, Russia. As of 2003, the two sites produce 0.25 grams and 0.025 grams of californium-252 per year, respectively."

So it seems that the Turks have seized about 66 years of production.
Hey thank you for your work. Giving the world a permissive Plugin-capable GUI library is a really special thing, so from us plugin developers I hope you know we appreciate your efforts.
The image labeled "Californium bullet" actually shows laboratory neutron sources that contain 5 mg of Californium. The rest of the "bullet" is actually a stainless steel casing. The metal shaving further down the page are most likely microscopic, but as no length scale is given it is hard to estimate the mass.
As a non-lawyer forum commentator I can say with absolute correctness that it will (or will not) maybe apply.

More seriously: I would guess no, as the GDPR is concerned with data collection and compromise, but I can’t imagine they store all the video they forward.

Of course I wouldn’t be surprised if someone sues them in the US (but given that the US sees companies as people for rights, but not punishment I imagine that they’ll be fine).
What about users who had previously uninstalled the Zoom client? Must they now reinstall Zoom in order to be able to fully remove it? Surely there are users that won’t perform the manual update and will remain vulnerable indefinitely.
700 kW emitted by a grapefruit-sized object will be a white-hot, rapidly-expanding gas cloud. Maybe it's not a nuke, but I don't know that your decay heat math is correct...half a critical mass of uranium or plutonium is slightly above room temp, not something that violently disintegrates. Is Cf252 different?
> I'm out of my element here

Nice
So you realize you’re kind of arguing against your point? He made a prediction that still hasn’t come true over a decade later.

And citing the patent office isn’t helping either. Every company patents everything they can.

Direct download isn't going away, not after all the work that's gone into securing it, but if you think you can sell an app off your own site without giving Apple some identifiable info about who you are and what your code does, prepare to be disappointed.

Well today you can. As you have been able to do since the info-Mac archives since before the World Wide Web existed. So unless you can bring back some proof from either your time machine or visiting some other world in the multiverse, I would rather talks about facts as they exist today.

And code signing still won’t stop you from being able to run code that runs on top of a VM or scripting languages without them being signed and you won’t have to do the ctrl-click bypass.

Why is it wrong for Apple not to bundle extra runtimes (scripting/JVM) software that increases the attack surface? Should they also start back bundling Flash?
But thickness != heaviness.

My Thinkpad X1 is lighter than the Macbook Pro and has more ports.
Here's his second infomercial. Complete with flip charts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPIVI0CbCmg

Pretty much every topic he brings up is still relevant today.
Isn't Spotify tied up in a dispute about the 30% cut? If they pay 70% to the labels and 30% to Apple that leaves them nothing to operate on.
The spotify one is for spotify connect most likely. I'm guessing (although not sure, someone could verify it) that spotify connect requires some sort of authorization to work.

Edit: here you go http://cgbystrom.com/articles/deconstructing-spotifys-builti...
I saw (felt) this happen.

Worked for Acxiom when they were to be bought by Silverlake. The stock shot up to near-sale-price levels, where I should have sold (but did not). The deal came unraveled, Acxiom stock dropped like a rock and the company had a reputation as 'damaged goods' for many years.

Lesson: There is a small upside, but a massive downside that can materialize.
13-inch MBP now has quad cores!
Other downsides are that it is more expensive than Aurora MySQL and there's no automated upgrade tools.
do you have any idea how many carbon emissions are created with a two hour meeting? The network, the video servers, the laptop/desktops - the monitors, the A/C to cool each of those people at the distributed locations?
Well, at least it’s not IE.
Specifically - OP is just the news that Zoom agreed to make the changes the security community demanded. Previous discussion is root discussion of the issue itself and of the Zoom response more generally.
Especially when someone threatens to report him to "his boss" for poorly representing Pinboard on social media.
You listen for the small voice inside of you that knows what it wants, you protect it from all the other voices inside of you that will shout at it for being unrealistic, or selfish, or naive, etc. And you follow as best you can...
I sold my Apple TV and replaced it with a Roku because the UI experience was so poor. It was frustrating for me to use as an experienced user and basically unusable by any of my guests. The Roku is an amazing experience in comparison and my guests can use it with no instruction necessary.
Sorry, I meant Nantes, not Lyon. Come to think of it, I’ve never been to Lyon, not sure why I got those two cities mixed up. It wouldn’t make sense to go to Paris just to go to Lyon. :)
The 'paperwork' to buy and sell a model train seemed strange to me.

Anyway, something to do with boiler testing -

http://www.wirralmodelengineeringsociety.co.uk/BoilerTesting...
I've noticed that the Intel software update scan tool is a web page now, I presume it is a client side application that communicates with a local web server.

But I could be wrong.
Depends on what you plan to do with your career. Research? Web frontend/backend? Graphics dev? Embedded systems? Mobile development? Desktop apps?

Generically, of what you listed, the ones that are most likely to serve you the best in your professional career are:

1. Probability and Stochastic Systems. It's amazing how many developers run into pitfalls because they fail to understand basic probability. This will serve you well no matter what you do.

2. Operating Systems. When diagnosing performance issues or trying to squeeze more performance out of software, knowing how your OS works and how it interacts with the hardware is going to be of immense value.

3. Quantum Computing. Might be fun but almost certain to be useless for your career. On the other hand, there's nothing wrong with learning something fun.

One course you might not think to take but ought to consider is a technical writing course. You are expected to document the design of what you're doing and, unless you plan to stay a peon forever, you'll eventually become senior enough that you'll be expected to present technical ideas and proposals to either your team or your leadership. Unfortunately, most developers can't explain or write worth a damn (really makes you wonder how they even manage to code). If you learn how to write clearly and effectively, aspects of your career will go much more smoothly.
I see several people discussing VPNs in the comments, but I'm surprised no one is mentioning Tor. Is Tor identified and blocked reliably by the great firewall, even with bridges?

(The Tor UI claims meek-azure works in China, is this not accurate?)
The Cold War Meets Commerce: The House(s) in the Middle
I think "semi" is analogous to "commercial interests" as "bicycle" is to "recreational user".
The aftershocks going on here (most small, but higher frequency than usual) is interesting to look at, if not a little disturbing :). A 4.0 in the last hour too (6:48 PM).

http://scedc.caltech.edu/recent/Maps/118-36.html
Hey, I thought they shut down the silk road!

[laugh track]
Why do we endure this.
Well it’s an argument for responsible disclosure - you tell them, give them plenty of time to fix it, and publish.

But responsible disclosure absolutely does not mean “no disclosure”. It means give them a chance to fix it. If they choose not to you disclose so that people know that they need to take steps to protect themselves.

The important thing is that the disclosure must become public. It doesn’t matter that they pushed an update, as none of the victims who had deleted/“uninstalled” zoom will get the update, and without the update they’ll still be running the server.

The only way anyone would know about it is with the details being public.

I’m waiting for Apple to use xprotect to kill the server on all machines, as that’s the only true solution for the uninstalled victims
Taxes pay for roads and socialized medicine, in the case of petrol/alcohol/cigarette taxes. Just because they're not direct or itemized, doesn't mean they don't apply in a similar way.
I'm not sure why you would consider a interview with an Iraqi General strong evidence. Either way while I agree that the US claims were fabricated, he was also demonstrably incorrect in claiming that there were none

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/10/14/world/middlee...
Citus AFAIK doesn’t have scale to zero. Aurora serverless does.

Citus gives you horizontal write scalability, Aurora Serverless doesn’t. (There is a preview of multi-master Aurora for MySQL but I think that’s more of an HA active/active feature and not sharding — which Citus does)

Citus is available hosted in Azure (Hyperscale), hosted on AWS, and run-it-yourself (a couple flavors). Obviously Aurora serverless is only in AWS.

Microsoft acquired Citus last January.
Maybe so, but it would be surprising if it settled on the same instruction set https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_codon_table
Some countries with high gasoline taxes situated next to countries with low gasoline taxes have anti-tankering laws for motorists (see Singapore vs Malaysia). That could be one solution.
The 8051 platform can present even more challenges for assembly language code developers than the 6502. It has been over 35 years since I wrote any 6502 code, and over 30 years since I wrote any 8051 code, but I remember the biggest issue on 8051 was the lack of RAM. You get a total of 384 bytes of RAM (256 bytes of normal RAM and 128 bytes of "zero page" RAM). When I needed to write floating point math functions for the 8051, I realized that fixed point decimal math would meet my requirements. I took advantage of the large ROM space to store a bunch of constants (powers of 10) and the code I wrote operated on decimal ASCII strings. Because of the limited memory, all of my operators would destroy the second argument and replace it with the result.

Code is available upon request.
Debt forgiveness punishes people who worked their ass off to pay their loans off. Every single person who took out a student loan consented to the terms of the loan. Why is it okay to just mindlessly take out a life ruining amount of money to pursue a degree in something of absolutely no marketable value to society? Why are taxpayers suddenly encouraging the continued subsidization of educations which have been proven to have been valueless to society? In fact, I would argue that the majority of these valueless educations are actually worse than valueless, they're ideologically indoctrinating with a divisive and destructive set of principles.

Stop federally backing loans, change the culture to move away from defacto bachelor's degree, and reign in the absurd admissions for public universities. It is not morally justifiable to suddenly foist the collective horrible decision making of a generation onto the larger society.

If we're really at the point where people are incapable of providing real market value to society, we need to talk about UBI. What we shouldn't be talking about is financially incentivizing behavior that is not desirable.
Don't be so tiresome. They obviously mean that they hope that the drugs don't kill or excessively harm the human.

Antibiotics that kill cilia or kidneys or livers are doing something or other to humans, in addition to working on microorganisms.
I don’t understand, how did it become resistant due to the penicillin? And it seems you’re blaming the doctor for this, but penicillin would be the natural first course of treatment here.
Glad to hear that there are people not plagued with the issues I've had. Perhaps I've been very unlucky but even though I've loved using the laptop, the amount of hardware issues I've had made me want to go back to my thinkpads before.

Not saying thinkpads are perfect, but at least they mostly favor quality over design.
You're looking at an interferogram.

The method used here can't measure displacement directly. It measures a phase difference between two radar images. Turning this into a map of displacement is non unique in the presence of noise and limited spatial resolution.

That's why you'll see this type of data displayed in this way. The rainbow palette is mostly convention, but either way, it's the most direct view of what actually measured.

It's also kinda pretty, i.m.o...
There was this interesting article posted here some time ago that plotted the complexity of life found on earth vs time, and by using the right methodology and logarithmic scales, it arrived at a nice linear line over many data points and several billions of years. And the line converged to a 0 point, but that point was a few billion years before earth was created 4.5 billion years ago, adding more credibility to a panspermia theory. Can anybody remember that article and its url?
I beg to differ; shader / GPU programming has been a haven for justification of programming 'that sort of thing'. Particularly on home consoles where the hardware doesn't change year on year but the need to improve is still prevalent.
It is a pretty out there theory, but at one point the universe would have cooled enough from the very hot big bang origins to allow liquid water to exist everywhere, but not cooled sufficiently to cause everything to freeze.

If any rocky planets existed at the time, maybe that was the origin of life which was much more able to spread widely due to the small size of the early universe.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1312.0613