skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hubble uses a contact lens with poor oxygen permeability...which can lead to infection/swelling.

"Hubble contacts are made with an old material called methafilcon A, which has a Dk/t of 18.8. Research shows that a Dk/t of 24 is necessary to maintain cornea integrity and avoid swelling."

https://www.reddit.com/r/YouShouldKnow/comments/9o6a0h/ysk_t...
Anyone looking to make money in creative writing should consider erotic literature. Erotic content on Patreon is a growing segment.
The point is if the cards actually meet spec and if they behave differently on the RPi.

So the first step is to show how the cards behave in an environment with no artificial performance limitations. This is the baseline "peak performance".

The next step is to show whether the RPi's performance ceiling is below that baseline, or if any specific card behave particularly poorly on the RPi. 2 cards may be equal on a high performing machine but for some reason have big differences when running in the RPi.
The Pi steals the lion’s share of the attention the in the cheap SBC space, but there are plenty of alternatives that have better storage solutions out there. I too grew fed up of SD card issues.

I always see the argument “but the Pi has the best community support!” trotted out, and I don’t disagree. However, it’s all normally just sane Linux distros on the Pi at the end of the day. Whatever instructions/advice someone has written for a given Pi project will likely be applicable on a non-Pi board anyway.
Well the goes the rest of the day
Maybe this new UI change to Blender means it is high time I learn how to use it. Tried it before but couldn't get past left click not doing what I expect left clicking to do, but apparently things are more user friendly now.

The influx of money/talent from Epic and Ubisoft is great though. Blender was, from what I've seen from the outside, looked on affectionately as being a good tool, but maybe this leads to them being a consideration for primary tool (beyond just free) in the way the commercial tools have been.
I challenge you to name any American military project that is as worrisome as Iran's 'Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution' having control of a nuclear weapon.
Without a breakdown between those immigrants that came through the system legally versus other means, I don't see the real benefit to this data.

Edit: I emailed the author of the piece and she confirmed that there was no breakdown.
/s implies sarcasm
As an alternative, there have been successful tests where small amounts of polio is injected into the cancer so that the body can "see" it and attack it.
Suggested upgrade: Have such scripts ask for a unique name/"instance identifier" when run so they can log to simple text files in a well-known directory and potentially pick up where they left off. For when you invariably use these for long-running tasks and have 7 of them in-flight, and your power goes out or Windows forces a reboot.
Note that some browsers are planning to start doing lazy image loading themselves. See https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!msg/blink-d...
Can we remove any prime number from this strange process?
I can’t stand bad reasoning even if I sympathize with the objective so to make immigration case to Trump supporters you’re going to have to break out those that came to the U.S. through legal and illegal means. You’re also going to have to show them that a meaningful portion of entrepreneurs came from Latin America because that’s where much of the illegal immigration comes from.
In case it's unclear from the title, the study showed that 45% of Fortune 500 companies had at least 1 founder that was an immigrant or child of an immigrant. For example, Facebook is considered "founded by an immigrant" in this categorization, which sort of surprised me at first.
A hundred million dead in the 20th century wasn’t enough for you?
The publisher of this "Study" is from New American Economy, a think tank "fighting for smart federal, state, and local immigration policies that help grow our economy and create jobs for all Americans."

So I don't think it is 100% neutral in terms of its view on immigrants.
That's exactly how leadership manipulated soldiers during the Tiananmen Square massacre [0]. They weren't given clear orders and were basically only told where to go and when. With that much force and tension anything can set it off.

But... As a counter argument, that could be exactly why law enforcement were pulled away this time. If they started cracking down on violent anti-protestors the peaceful protestors could have gotten caught in the mix and it could have escalated rapidly. I'm not defending Honk Kong leadership, but hopefully they're aware of the risk of concentrating armed forces amidst this tension.

If shots are fired it turns into a chain reaction.

[0] https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2014/06/02/317996805/...
Support for booting from SSD should solve the SD issues before too long.
I made some edits to make the sarcasm more clear.
Lisp is sitting on another mountain, smiling at you.
Both. If I am using Shopify, it will be hard for me to figure out how to upload file to root.

If I have my own website, I'll find it hard to figure out where to change things in DNS
It seems the Ubisoft news website is a bit buggy, or theres an issue with its cached pages. If you go to the main news page[0], its not there. However, if you click "Latest", it brings to to the same URL, but with the Blender article on top. Clicking that still brings you to the notfound page you linked.

Edit: It's now there on the news home page without having to click "Latest", but it still 404's.

https://news.ubisoft.com/en-us/home
Not all these people were wealthy before they arrived; Andy Grove of Intel was a Hungarian refugee, for example.
The Pyramids actually did experience earthquakes, knocked off the limestone facades that eventually ended up being moved and used to build mosques in the area. https://www.thevintagenews.com/2016/09/06/the-great-pyramid-...
> It's mostly true and the "mainstream mass audience" has always exhibited low

you 're speaking of a different thing, and as u said participation was low even before the internet's eternal september of 2005-10 happened.
This is what books and novels are for
Sounds like it could be good if you want to go there repeatedly, bad if you just want to get there as fast as possible again.
Any airline that sells Basic Economy tickets (without seat pre-assignment) does by allowing seat choice for Economy tickets and above.
That is wonderful! Sorry I didn't spot it earlier.
I really like these questions, really digs into exactly how much magic a person knows about.
I originally compared Hong Kong to my understanding of the cities in the middle ages. London and it's citizens were granted special privileges.

I thought this was a sort of recapitulation of that. That still might be the case but I'm also starting to think this might be bad for the mainland Chinese government. They are fighting ideas about autonomy. The people in Hong Kong don't just want to sit back and make money - they want a say in how the world is run. They want power. That's the idea that's being fought against.

If it's China vs. Hong Kong then my money is on China. But what if that alienation between governed and government spreads from Hong Kong to other places in China? It seems unlikely but can the Chinese government respond to that?

There's that classic Churchill quote about Democracy (The worst but for all the others) and - if what I've described is accurate - this is one of the places Democracy shines because it's agile enough to concede power as a way of avoiding chaos. More autocratic systems tend to be a lot firmer - they concede nothing by their nature but the prices of firmness is brittleness. If they are finally forced to concede it comes in the form of shattering.
There are designs to help this problem. I've seen a few takes on the idea of making it two levels like this one [1]

1. https://www.cnn.com/2014/05/02/tech/social-media/apparently-...
The weird part of the web still exists. neocities.org is a more modern geocities with the same ability to experiment and modify a static page that geocities had.

You just need to dig deeper and promote parts of the weird web on the new gateways like reddit, facebook, etc.
Gandhi was hardly the sole arbiter of Indian resistance. In fact their success in fighting colonial rule was dependent on the reality that there were people like Bhagat Singh who were willing to and did use militant tactics.
The legal process is a very movable barrier and has changed over time to make it much harder. It might be interesting to ask "how many of these people would, if they had applied under the current rules rather than those of the time, have been turned away?"
If you start coding in middle school, and consistently work on stuff, you're kind of bound to get a impressive resume by age 20. I only know a handful of coders like that, and they all have wildly impressive projects and resumes - just like OP.
Japanese and the dying art of civilised travelling
Do you have any criticism of the actual study or are you immediately dismissing it because you think the publisher is probably biased?
Looks like I'll keep booting my pi's from usb attached storage. At least with the Pi4 USB speed improvements should be nice.
This is great! Success here would show how much is possible with $146MM and encourage others to invest in space exploration as well. India's space program, ISRO, put a satellite into Mars orbit in 2014 for $73MM.

Reuters article: https://in.reuters.com/article/space-exploration-india-moon-...
I thought Patreon specifically banned erotic content / porn?
I think there is some bias due to historical events.

Ww2 caused a lot of jewish immigrants to emmigrate from europe and some emigrated later from russia. They have been very successful in general. I am sure this particular population already skews the statistics already.
but it's easier then ever to build your own website

It's almost irrelevant though, right?

Because the bigger thing is that the web itself is going away.

Kids don't browse the web. Most people don't browse the web.

People, particularly kids, use apps.

Let's suppose you could create a high-quality website literally at the speed of thought. For free.

Who would look at it?

(to be clear, I hate this state of affairs)
How do we measure pain, anyway?
It's funny how easily the government crushes Christians, but can't do anything about drugs, piracy, or immigration
How to create an iOS selfie app with 2 lines of code using CREO
I noticed that you're gay.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding numbers, but if the first attempt was aborted then this is the second attempt?
Faster XML Stream Processing in Go
> Photography and video making has never been simpler.

Agree, but largely because their form factor allowed them to replace the camera. Cameras and photography are creative, and this carried over to the phone form factor, not the other way around. Cookie-cutter instagram filters and other prepackaged disney stuff is very lowly creative though.

And I wouldn't say it has enabled creativity for either sound or painting. It made sound recording easier yes, but it did not push the boundaries of what is possible to make with digital sound. The same with painting. IMHO, real creativity is always at the boundaries of what is available, and always pushes it a little further.
No ingenuity is a match for police. And China has shown that they mean business when things risk getting out of (their) hand
https://archive.is/E40G1
But do you suspect the methodology, the results, or the conclusion were "faked" or inaccurate? Or do you consider it an accurate piece but suspect the reasons behind publishing it?

...And suddenly a wave of downvotes in less than 2 minutes. No justified concerns attached to them though.
Moreover, the steps should be in a table, with just one function to process the contents of the table.
Interesting part about the IPO: they've been very public for years about IPOing, and about the specific date: https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/being-a-public-company/
Less overvalued works too, if you prefer.

I take it you're not interested in addressing my actual argument given you've deflected twice.
This happens just 7 days after Epic Games contributed with $1.2m[1]. The future looks bright for Blender. If more companies follow, it might finally have enough funding to give it the development resources that it deserves.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20442131
Becoming shamed requires some amount of decency.

Amritsar caused outrage in Britain and changed the whole narrative. It took time, but within a decade British government had lost all moral ground and British attitudes had shifted.
People fail to understand or accept that HK is in China. It is a rather strange state of affairs, which I think is due to ignorance and, frankly, anti-Chinese narratives.

What you are suggesting is exactly the same as discussing Seattle independence mentioned by GP, and should be regarded as equally
extravagant.

> HK was independent for a while

HK was never, ever been independent.
An additional benefit of this approach is that your checklists now get code reviews, git hooks, history, etc. for free.

I mention this because I worked at a company where checklists were typically simply added to a wiki and required separate processes for things like peer review.
There are plenty of carriers (some might even say all of them) today without standing places where you don’t have to pay for using the toilets and many of them are profitable. You don’t need to accept ridiculous things for that. It’s just that every time, one of them will try to squeeze just a few more cents out of you and if the public allows them to do that, all the others will jump at the opportunity.
(I work at OpenAI.)

It comes down to whether you believe AGI is achievable.

We've talked about why we think it might be: https://medium.com/syncedreview/openai-founder-short-term-ag..., https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHCSNsLKHfM

And we certainly have more of a plan for building it than warp drives :).

EDIT: I personally think the case for near-term AGI is strong enough that it'd be hard for me work on any other problem — and find it important to put in place guardrails like https://openai.com/blog/openai-lp/ and https://openai.com/charter/.

Even if AGI turns out to be out of reach, we'll still be creating increasingly powerful AI technologies — which I think pretty clearly have the potential to alter society and require special care and thought.
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The only one I know of is the military.
I expected they would have at least added a EMMC connection by now. With the improvements from the new faster EMMC options it isn't even that slow.
Thermo Electric Peltier coolers (TECs) can be used for refrigeration. They aren't very cost effective though and are less efficient than condenser/evaporator coolers.

I first stumbled across TEC chips here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBNFrRsJJ08
Not sure what you're implying here - that the British will roll out illegal drugs to the Chinese market again?

Look at how everyone is treating Taiwan. That should tell you enough about how nobody will be willing to compromise anything for the sake of Hong Kong.
I wouldn't say the language is flowery. It's not. It just piles a lot of details on the reader.

"Taxonomically speaking, a lobster is a marine crustacean of the family Homaridae, characterized by five pairs of jointed legs, the first pair terminating in large pincerish claws used for subduing prey. Like many other species of benthic carnivore, lobsters are both hunters and scavengers. They have stalked eyes, gills on their legs, and antennae. There are dozens of different kinds worldwide, of which the relevant species here is the Maine lobster, Homarus americanus. The name “lobster” comes from the Old English loppestre, which is thought to be a corrupt form of the Latin word for locust combined with the Old English loppe, which meant spider."

This goes on for pages.
yes, they don't even link to their methodology in their interactive tool that this article is based on. The onus is on them to prove their point.
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First of all, contrary to urban myths, C arrived 10 years later to the scene of systems programming languages. It wasn't the genesis of them.

There were already computers being developed in high level languages since 1961, most well known languages are ESPOL, NEWP, Algol subsets, PL/I and its variants (PL/S, PL/M, PL/S, PL.8,...), Mesa, Modula-2. And for those with deep pockets on the early 80's, Ada.

As for performance, C was a lousy language regarding optimising compilers, it was only due to UB and lots of hard work that it actually arrived where it is today.

"Oh, it was quite a while ago. I kind of stopped when C came out. That was a big blow. We were making so much good progress on optimizations and transformations. We were getting rid of just one nice problem after another. When C came out, at one of the SIGPLAN compiler conferences, there was a debate between Steve Johnson from Bell Labs, who was supporting C, and one of our people, Bill Harrison, who was working on a project that I had at that time supporting automatic optimization...The nubbin of the debate was Steve's defense of not having to build optimizers anymore because the programmer would take care of it. That it was really a programmer's issue.... Seibel: Do you think C is a reasonable language if they had restricted its use to operating-system kernels? Allen: Oh, yeah. That would have been fine. And, in fact, you need to have something like that, something where experts can really fine-tune without big bottlenecks because those are key problems to solve. By 1960, we had a long list of amazing languages: Lisp, APL, Fortran, COBOL, Algol 60. These are higher-level than C. We have seriously regressed, since C developed. C has destroyed our ability to advance the state of the art in automatic optimization, automatic parallelization, automatic mapping of a high-level language to the machine. This is one of the reasons compilers are ... basically not taught much anymore in the colleges and universities."

-- Fran Allen interview, Excerpted from: Peter Seibel. Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming

Interesting fact regarding security, MIT continued with Multics, even after Bell Labs dropping out.

Guess what, DoD later assigned a better security level than UNIX, thanks to PL/I being the systems language.

https://multicians.org/b2.html
That's true but actor model achieves freedom from data races by forcing ALL messages to be synchronized. This can be useful in some situations but imo isn't a panacea for concurrency issues
I've flagged this post because (IMHO):

1) Doesn't belong on HN.
2) Comments so far are unsubstantive -- ranging from "middlebrow dismissal" to flamebait.
3) Doesn't appear to be conducive to any sort of useful discussion.

Edit: Clearly I've struck a nerve someplace.
Are you claiming that people claimed AI was impossible and openAi (or any other "AI") has proven those people wrong. If so please provide some evidence of this happening.
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DeepProbLog: Neural Probabilistic Logic Programming
Serious question: what does a neutral view on immigrants look like? How does one take a view on immigrants without aligning with one side of the debate?

You bring up a valid point in identifying the authors of this study. I'm just not sure what a truly neutral position in that debate would look like.
We are incredibly open to any ideas, comments or concerns on how we're doing this. This is a big step up from what we had previously, but there’s always room for improvement. Happy to hear thoughts in the comments.
If you read my post instead of downvoting, I'm not calling for the end of Western democracy.

I'm just curious whether people who are in favour of the One Party system use arguments or metaphors like these.
The ratio of casualties would certainly be the closest in house-to-house combat, but who's to say that's how it would go down? Civilians don't have air power or much of anything that would be effective against armored vehicles. Theoretically a few tanks could cruise through a neighborhood and level it.
So the first try failed?
But it isn't a proof that if the immigrants did not found these companies, someone local wouldn't have found them either.

Maybe it had taken some more time but, locals would have ended up setting up these either way.

A big maybe.

China is an example that screams, immigrants do not matter much for economic success.
In Commonwealth countries at least, some synonyms for recitation are “tutorial” or “study group”.
I don't think many of those immigrants would be counted in this study. No founders would be in that group, and very few founders would have parents in that group. Possibly grandparents, but the study is only counting first and second generations.
If you really think writers are not paid, then you're wrong homie
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Oh come on, don't you wish you could send a game using WebGL via E-Mail? Think about the possibilities!
(To some degree I'm unsure if I'm really joking - I can image practical use, but I love plain text mail, which I can easily search, filter and render as I need it)
The UI is definitely much nicer now, and the release candidates are very stable. If you'd like to learn, I'd definitely recommend sticking to 2.80 tutorials and not trying to understand 2.79 tutorials. This series [0] is a decent starting point.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MF1qEhBSfq4&list=PLa1F2ddGya...
I'm surprised we haven't seen a smaller than M.2 form factor for SATA on embedded devices. It seems like the big limiter on devices like the Raspberry Pi and others are the sd cards/emmc modules, since the amount processing power and ram have been continually going up.

If you need disk performance on the Pi 4, wouldn't it make more sense to only keep the kernel,initrd on the sdcard and mount the primary filesystem off a USB3 device (like an mSATA-2-USB enclosure), that is if you have the space to spare for it in your project/enclosure?

I did something similar with one of the SolidRun devices, but I had to scuttle it due to other hardware problems:

https://penguindreams.org/blog/review-clearfog-pro/
Actually Taiwan's de facto independence has probably more to do with them having a relatively large defense force ready to inflict heavy casualties to an invader.

Hong Kong has no such asset.