skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "Changing the flavor sounds needlessly draconian, as adults like apple and bubblegum, too."

I heard this same sort of thing back when Obama banned flavored cigarettes. I wasn't very sympathetic to it back then and I'm still not. But with the passage of several years I think we should be able to evaluate the impact of banning flavored cigarettes. Have any adults been unduly impacted by this restriction? I can't imagine how anybody would be, but there is no reason to speculate since it's been several years. Is there any demonstrable harm caused by the banning of fruity flavor cigarettes?
Right, that's what I am saying. If even that discussion isn't settled yet, we should be more careful and wait before mixing humans and animals.
nice use of a single .tex file to produce the full .pdf

https://arxiv.org/e-print/1907.00847

(rename to 1907.00847.tex and then latexmk -pdf 1907.00847.tex)
http://We.Are.Sanctioned.RU/?
Swift Core ML 3 Implementations of GPT-2 and Bert
No it is not.

Viability matters here. I realize you see that differently. Realize others will ALWAYS differ on this. ALWAYS.

Frankly, this will absolutely be done. There probably will be wars over it too.

And it still will be done.

And then it will be done sans an embryo, using stems.

Right now, powerful, wealthy people are paying full attention. The one thing they cannot buy will end up for sale. More time.

Buckle up. It is going to get super ugly.
Not really. The explanations of reality are entirely different thus reaching different conclusions (even if the different conclusions only happen on extreme events). That's what the historians mean when talking about overturning theories. It's not really surprising that Newton and Einstein explain most experimental data, otherwise, one of them would be a crappy theory.

To put a simple example, geocentric model not only was at least as accurate for calculations of celestial bodies positions than initial heliocentric models, but it was actually simpler, but it's easier to say the model was overturned because the difference in the explanation is obvious.

In Newton/Einstein case, the difference is on the underlying concepts (the most obvious, the speed of light limit), but it's really easy to see that even if equations approximate on some range, they're not equivalent.
During a ramp up the limiting factor is usually engineer hours, new features, and ability to have the load at all and not cost.
Woad.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isatis_tinctoria
You do realise that UK won't be the only looser in Brexit don't you?

To use a bit of metaphor, we, the UK, are definitely shooting ourselves in the foot but we're doing it inside a metal box with the other member states. We'll loose a foot for sure but when the bullet starts ricocheting it's going to hit all of us sooner or later. Our economies are entwined.

There are no winners in a more fragmented world.
I agree with a lot of this, but I can't let the comment that chamber music is "designed to be flat and unobtrusive" stand.
Of course there is a lot of boring chamber music, as there is of any kind of music. But chamber music is vast and contains some of the purest and most passionate music ever written.

A very few examples of some great chamber music (I've linked to some fun parts):
Beethoven String Quartet #10 (The Harp) - take a listen to a minute of the coda from the first movement. This music is exalted!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exMaWKVcCEs&t=490s

Schubert String Quartet #14 (Death and the Maiden). So tuneful and heartfelt.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otdayisyIiM

Shostakovich String Quartet #8.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tby5aMrMu6Q&t=316s

Mendelssohn String Quartet #4.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4cankQnobU&t=1180s

I wish I had more time to link more here, but everyone should know that the best chamber music is thrilling, concentrated, joyful, ecstatic, anguished - just the best! Certainly not written as boring background music!
I read it as being the people living here calling for suppression of free speech, not the government proper, and I agree with that take.
Flight attendant had to get five stitches after emotional-support animal bit him
Hong Kong airport staff stage protest against Yuen Long attack
I have trouble setting up servers and database instances while being a full-time professional developer. At work the DevOps people handle that, but still I should be able to do it on my own.

I hate to imagine how hard it is for someone who has never typed 'cd' or 'ls' in a terminal.
Enter any nightclub and you will find masses of slender, tanned women in great shape, wearing makeup and sexy clothes.

But this house party sounds like survivor bias at play. One fit person invited their best looking friends, who then invited their friends, who then invited theirs. Anyone who does not fit the narrative (straight, gay or other) will feel the same unease you did and leave.
Mods need to look into this trend and give us a report.
This is kind of what CBT and also exposure therapy is about.. recognizing the pathway and then providing an alternate resolution. At some point you should be able to reduce the stress response to specific triggers to a distant memory. You can certainly treat a phobia and anxiety this way.
Heartiest congratulations on the birth of your brain-child. This is something I wanted for a good while. Will definitely dive into it.
Here's the original article: https://viterbischool.usc.edu/news/2019/07/fighting-back-aga...

And the primary source/study: http://www.jbc.org/content/early/2019/05/28/jbc.RA118.005806
I'm not remotely torn about it, taken to the finish, it's a human organ with my dna grown in a pig and then transplanted into me.

We already eat bacon and use large mammal heart valves in surgery.

I mean we wear the skin of cows, grease things with their rendered fat and use them for glue.

This seems like a strange point to be torn on.
It is meant only for standalone Daydream headsets. Why this is the case, I cannot fathom.
Look at Zume Pizza. Their fund raising seems insane.
There's nothing inherent about a button that prevents it from being programmable, and Phillips even has a battery-less remote that could as well be wall mounted.
This very much exists in the UK [1] - I cannot speak for the EU as a whole.

[1] - https://www.gov.uk/make-a-freedom-of-information-request
He's not a Juliard grad, but I think "Nosaj Thing" fits this definition really well. He makes electronic music with classical sensibilities.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dlg1moFsss

Also now producing for Kendrick Lamar and Chance the Rapper.
No, not true. Crypto isn’t perfect as is, and involves levels of security.

Two party crypto has two parties who could leak the data. Two party with exceptional access has three. Current crypto is susceptible to brute force via shor’s and quantum

The rest of the world absolutely does not agree with you. It’s just that a lot of people here live in a bubble.
Happened to me last year so I can empathize. Hope you find a way out.
There are many, here is one I hope you find reputable - The Royal Collage of Physicians.

https://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/news/promote-e-cigarettes-widely...

A quote:

"Although it is not possible to estimate the long-term health risks associated with e-cigarettes precisely, the available data suggest that they are unlikely to exceed 5% of those associated with smoked tobacco products, and may well be substantially lower than this figure"
Yes, stress levels are tied to cortisol levels in the bloodstream. This is especially bad for your physical health as it will cause you to store fat and crave sugary foods. The single best thing you can do is exercise 5 times a week for at least 45 minutes. It will retrain your brain to embrace stress because of the endorphin reward you get after. I promise you, the gym is never as hard as people make it out to be in their mind. 90% is just showing up. Don't take shrooms, you're just messing up your brain chemistry even more with a temporary bandaid. Furthermore, you're treating yourself with a drugs side-effect. If anything the drug you are looking for is Ativan or Xanax. I'm someone who used to be majorly overweight, overworked and stressed to no end, but exercise changed my life.
I wonder how much the ICO is going to fine them.
[U flag/I repost]Hong Kong Protesters Take Their Grievances to City’s Airport
For me, I personally feel enclosed and slightly seasick. I don't think it's a weight issue, but something to do with the inherencies of the system. I can stand a hololens longer than a Vive, for instance.
Your link indicates that it predates Caesar by a good while.
Tech debt accumulation from the 1950's onwards to now basically. The GDS are integrated with everything from check-in, rebooking, ops center, etc. Lots of companies looking to change this, and some airlines have been able to modernize. But it's a fraught process that can lead to mass cancellations during the upgrade period as stuff breaks.
Morals are subjective and personal. A country has ethics, but those are also a collective representation and open to change.

When it comes to biological sciences, we are on the forefront of some very big questions that do need consideration, especially because other populations (in advanced first-world countries) are deciding to move forward.
If nicotine addiction is relatively harmless without conventional cigarettes, who cares? A lot of teens also have mild coffee addictions.

Is this as harmful as, say, Pringles? Or trampolines? I think the reason this stirs up outrage is because it's 'smoking' which is seen as an adult activity that children must be shielded from, whereas many other harmful behaviors are associated with children and thus 'okay'.
Back when I wrote the comment, I tried to make clear that there were two very important and very contradictory requirements :

1. it has to look and behave the same way everywhere (because we don't want to have to retrain users when they switch platform, to maintain several documentation and marketing materials, and because we want to respect the designer's esthetic vision, and / or corporate graphical vision)

2. It has to look and behave native everywhere (because we don't want to confuse users of any given platform.)

Again : of course, I know they're contradictory ! If you have a sword to cut that knot, go for it !

And of course you're perfectly allowed to value requirement 2 more than requirement 1.

And sadly here, different user's interests are not aligned with different software producer's interests, so we're basically not going to please everyone.

Again, I have neither data, nor religion, nor solution about this.
Pisces: A Scalable and Efficient Persistent Transactional Memory
Mostly the absence of the carcinogens from combustion.

I don’t think there’s clear evidence that the contents of ecigs are safer (too new), but we know how terrible tobacco combustion is.

We also know that nicotine itself isn’t particularly harmful.
Improved Linker Fundamentals in Visual Studio 2019
Where there any negative consequences?
Dynamic Instrumentation in Go
Also, this music is very familiar to us. Imagine hearing it for the first time, with an audience who, like you, has never heard anything like it. Beethoven was radical, his music sounding strange and extreme to many listeners. You might want to hear the movement again.
Background story: did a startup as a CEO+CTO. 100 hours a week, mostly because I had to play two roles. It seemed easier to find a CEO than CTO.

So we were burnt out. Sold the startup. Made 750% ROI in a year, which is a good investment. Planned to reinvest that money into startups for maybe even a 300% ROI.

The plan was to go CTO route and rely on someone else to play CEO.

It didn't work out - most people were decent at business skills, but terrible with product. Some could build a million dollar traditional business, but couldn't make it in the startup space - they were too cautious, too scared of committing, or wanted passive income. There people with sales experience, who are great at forming strategic partnerships with big corporations, but don't dare talk to the customer.

So that was a mess. I regret expecting others to do well when given the trust and opportunity, even if they had done well in the past. I regret following logic over instinct, and following people who were not "animals" like Paul Graham suggested.

I'm working on a startup now, but it's the unsexy idea I had 3 years ago. At least I get full control over product and customer development.
"Umm...unless I'm missing something, this is literally taking correlation and determining causation."

Yes. But when you're in a machine as complex as a cell and trying to figure out how to stop some process, if you can find a correlation, it's at least worth a try to treat that as causation. It's much better than picking a random answer.

Where we go wrong is when the game of telephone gets played and the correlation gets locked in as the official causation answer. But technically, "I see a correlation between A and B, therefore I hypothesize that the cause of the correlation is that A causes B" is at least a good first hypothesis. (The moreso when "B causes A" is not plausible for some reason.)
Pretty sure they meant "all these debates." Doubt they think USA has the only debates in the world.

As in, "you're having all these debates about how to defend your front door but you don't even have a lock on your back door."
Just one example of how abortion affects everybody: Sex selective abortions leave millions without somebody to marry and live with.
> We also know that nicotine itself isn’t particularly harmful.

Source?
We'll see timed lockboxes for holding laptops and mobile phones from Friday nights to Sunday afternoons so that couples are forced to spend time with each other.
Gardening is great, but you can't get your full diet from a suburban sized lot. No matter what, big staple food farms will be needed.
It seems to me that they would now do studies to find out what increases or decreases nucleotide production in cells. If, for example, you found out that capsaicin in chilli peppers increased nucleotide production, then that could be
useful.
just drop files with guids into stage dirs and send all staged files over to another stage dir on the other side. When successfullly archive on both ends of the transfer.
Multiphase quasar-driven outflows in PG 1114+445
Wouldn’t the ideal solution (if you really need rust performance) then be to write platform-Native applications (ie swift/obj-c for Mac) with bridges to performance critical parts in rust?

I’m probably very naive here- since I am not a rust or swift developer!!
Medical Device Company Flow Raises $1.5m to Transform Treatment of Depression
hakuna = there is no (Kiswahili)

what a great name!
Well, until it has been confirmed by a study, it's not science, obvious or not. A few years ago there was a major study that proved a relationship between multiple concussions and long term brain damage. Anyone could have made the conclusion that repeated blows to the head is bad but it doesn't become science until we apply rigor to test it. That's a good thing. At all points in history we believed foolish things that we thought were obvious.
This will be for the 1% not the people. Should it become more widely used: With our overcrowded planet, people successfully refusing to die will open new can of worms.
>I don't know what pioneer is

The first thing I thought of was the electronics manufacturer.
I HATE using chemicals around my home. Sometimes it makes sense, but I avoid it anytime I can. Some chemicals can linger for a very long time e.g. insecticides. I've found that using a steamer is an excellent way to kill / clean / sanitize just about anything.

I haven't had to deal with bed bugs specifically, but I've read that using a steamer or clothing iron (best with steam) will effectively kill them. You can steam most carpets, floors, beds, etc.

I live in a very humid area and bugs are a huge issue during the summer. I've sprayed the inner frame of one problematic window with insecticide (deltamethrin - lasts months), steam just about everything in my home every week or two, and regularly run all blankets and upholstery through my dryer's "sanitize" cycle (steam + 165F air). There's an occasional spider, but rarely see anything else... no mites, nothing.

Of course there are plenty of things I don't see, but I do my best to keep it all at bay.
The biosynthetic origin of psychoactive kavalactones in kava
To phrase this more succinctly, you're saying that society should never intercede on behalf of the victims of moral injustice as long as the perpetrators are sufficiently numerous.

I'm sure you would disagree, of course, because you probably only see this principle applying to certain moral issues--namely, the ones you've already carved out as exceptions because you don't perceive them as injustices.
Practical Algorithms and Data Structures
Same reason why a lot of people don't use things like material design. People want their designs to look good and stand out from the crowd - not have the same cookie cutter site as everything else.
[U flag/I repost]Flight attendants, airport staff join Hong Kong airport protest
Not to mention, as a private company, Google could do whatever it wanted anyway, there is no first amendment protection.

This lawsuit is probably going to get dismissed, so I have to treat it as a stunt to get some cheap headlines.
I think you'll find lots of mums are pro-IVF.
It shouldn't be adjusted that tight though, that concern would also apply to a child wearing a maladjusted baseball cap as well.

So I would suspect it's a minor concern, I would worry more about mental/cognitive effects more.
The problem is we don't know if it is harmless. We don't know what the short and long term effects of this is going to be. We don't know if these teens are going to be more likely to smoke cigarettes later in life. And when you are dealing with an industry that has a long history of lying about the health effects of its products I think it is correct to be concerned. We shouldn't assume that Juul is safe.
> Being able to grab a chunk of inline assembly from a C project is very useful.

Wasn't Rust's current inline assembly syntax subtly different from the gcc-compatible one you'd find in most C projects? IIRC, it uses the syntax from the LLVM IR to specify inputs and outputs, instead of the syntax from GCC inline assembly.
Amazon as Experiment
Common Lisp (Lisp Machines), D, Nim, OCaml (MirageOS Unikernel, Docker macOS TCP/IP stack), Haskell (House OS and Galois bare metal deployments).
Not OP, but: https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2019-negative-yield-debt/
I am not an american and know none of the players. However I do use google ads. What I see, is that in two independent google accounts, running campaigns on the same search terms and keyword triggers, there are times I can show my two accounts "compete" for the same mindshare.

In any normal endeavour this is just how it works, but in politics, the consequences of a differential treatment of two candidates in the same space is not good for democracy.

I don't know who I support, but a framework which accepts money for placement and then determines an asymmetric bias in placement irrespective of bid price, and then perturbs visibility of political ads, is going to be mis-understood and mis-represented as systemic bias by somebody. Its human nature to assume its human centric behaviour, not a heuristic breakdown. Hanlon's razor isn't always well applied.
I think most of us recognize a moral difference between murdering animals and murdering people. Especially those of us who eat meat.
I'd like a Comic Sans without the intentional imperfections. Comic Sans puts a bit of wobble in the letters, as if being written by a careless person.

Alternately, with almost the same result, I'd like an Ariel with rounded tips.

What I'm wanting is nice geometrically clean letters done with a circle-tip pen.
Like iPhone manufacturing, the West will buy the finished product before it allows the experimentation under its roof.
Hiring better people doesn't mean much if you can't get them to stick around for more than a year.
Wow, I had no idea those even existed! Thanks for clarifying.
You're missing one of the other huge factors in why mice and rats are used for experiments: lifetime. These animals (esp. mice) have very, very short lifetimes by human standards, so you don't have to wait around for decades to see how something affects the animal over its whole lifespan. This is especially useful for aging research: it doesn't take very long for mice to become "elderly", so you can test out anti-aging experiments on them. Doing this on humans, even if it were totally legal, would be very slow because it'll take you 70+ years to grow a human in a lab to old age. Mice can only live a few years at most.
Elsewhere in this thread, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20536162
There is no requirement to provide fingerprints for a US passport.

The only way I could see a US passport containing fingerprint data is if you were naturalized, but even then, it would require USCIS/USCBP to actually share that data with the State Department.
1783 was also not 1,000 years ago.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-nicotine-all-b...
Microsoft Word 5.1 on the Macintosh was published in 1992 and was generally seen as the best word processor ever invented. It's UI was perfect. It won a lot of praise in the press, all of it deserved. Sadly, after version 5.1, Microsoft began to focus on the integration of the Office Suite, which meant re-doing all the apps so that they'd be open to programming. And more features got added, and the UI became cluttered. For those of us who sometimes use Word, but don't need the rest of Office, Word 5.1 remains the high point.

Also, as others often said, 5.0 seemed like a broken release, and the ".1" was a much bigger upgrade than is normally implied by a non-major-version number. So it is version 5.1, and not version 5.0, that is remembered fondly.
Did my dog Melkor make you?
This, but honestly I think to avoid any chance of something like prions we should just avoid genetically altered pigs for edible consumption altogether and stick to naturally bred pigs.
Those are some of the outputs possible, TUI is cross-platform, so is GTK and HTML. I don't know why they put them under "supported backends" it would be clearer if he just put "supported output interfaces". If you dig into his "/examples" directory it's all Rust code.
> If nicotine addiction is relatively harmless without conventional cigarettes, who cares?

Because we aren't doing anybody any favors when we permit the industry to give teenagers a chemical addiction to their commercial product, even if their product were harmful in no ways other than financial.

(Yes, I also object in strong terms to other addictive substances in consumer products, don't even bother replying with whataboutism.)
China’s credit system stops the sale of over 26M plane and train tickets
The author is all-in on this. His schtick is to look down on everyone who isn't him.
Apple could release the Apple Card during the first half of August
In Europe, with the GDPR, you can just ask the company what they have on you.
Does sound more like suicide...
> I've read that senesence has an important function

Unless you're a water bear your DNA accrues continuous and irreversible damage throughout life. End of the road is either cancer or senesence as an attempt to arrest cancer.
Turbo C was a compiler done in 1990 for MS-DOS, naturally it was just an example.

Your remarks are a mute point in modern Windows compilers with Assembly intrinsics, the evolution of those inline assembly instructions.
Eratosthenes estimated the Earth's circumference in 240 B.C
That's why I got the lock though, just lock the phone away! Also have a feature phone to cover myself if needed.