skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a biological and topological difference between a multinucleate cell (coenocyte) and an organism made up of distinct cells.

> if you count this as a single cell, then presumably you'll count a muscle fibre, which is also many nuclei inside a single cell membrane, in which case there are larger single cells inside your own body:

Certainly. Human muscle fibres and nerve axons are single-celled, but they aren't organisms.
> Chris Hughes, a Facebook Founder, Is Working With the Government to Break It Up

I was really hoping "it" meant "the government".
GeoGig: A tool for geospatial data management
It couldn't possibly be because he changed his mind over the course of 15 years? I don't think we get to judge his motives based on one NYTimes article and a cynical worldview.
However, from the coverage by Think Progress:

"The heavily redacted, 67-page report found no evidence that Russia was able to alter vote counts in 2016, when Russia carried out what Mueller’s final report called a “sweeping and systematic” hacking and disinformation campaign."
Welp. Pack it in boys, it's all over.
> Promotions don’t unlock new responsibilities; the new responsibilities and increased scope come first and then we recognize it with a promotion.

Most companies follow this model now. You should already be performing at the level to deserve a promotion which sounds reasonable but not very much in practice. People will look for a job elsewhere if they get frustrated.
The worst part is I think both sides have at least some merit for their suspicion. Obviously the Republicans seem to be more openly punished and the balance tipped against them, but the Democrats also suffer occasionally, especially if they are not the right Democrat.

Google might be treading dangerously close to becoming persona non-grata for 50% of the population, regardless of who wins. There is also a cautionary tale there that perhaps the whole idea of "don't talk politics at work" was not some tool from The Man to keep workers subdued, but rather a hard-earned lesson to keep companies from imploding when employers think they've been hired to be activists.

Surprise, turns out not everything has to be political and your personal identity doesn't have to bleed over to your professional life.
Yeah, I mean I'm happy there may still be another player in the 5g space, but it's really really unlikely Apple will turn OEM and provide market competition the way Intel might have.
If you have a health plan that only goes up 10% a year, please let me know where to find it.
In that hypothetical, it would definitely be a breach of contract. If you paid for an ad during the Super Bowl expecting it to be run, and then it wasn't, that's a breach. Refunding your money may or may not make you whole. What if that was the only way to reach your target customers, and now you can't do it for another year?

There are contracts you can breach and just provide a refund, and no one is worse off. But that's not always the case, and any material failure to not perform under the contract is a breach.
Theres no money in climate change thats the government job.
It would be nice if we tried to shift our focus away from drugs. We generally over emphasize the importance of drugs and surgeries to so-called healthcare and downplay or outright pooh-pooh more basic things, like hygiene, exercise and good nutrition.
That's science. Hate this headline. Basically, every theory is "standing for now."

We get understanding, that leads to questions, which leads to greater understanding...

A predictive theory, finally found to not be predictive, is still valid for all it can predict. Our understanding improves in some way, or technology does, and we advance all of those things, being able to predict to greater detail and depth.
If you're asking what changed.

Then it's because railway passengers where given lobster.

As for if it really changed, I can't imagine it change so much into the steam style lobster of today (unless you're from Louisiana canjun/creole style).
But in the management paths there is a lot more getting locked at a position.
Last time I checked, Vox media isn't tied to, nor funded by the Russian government. Russia Today (RT) is.
One reason to prefer the physical-causes-consciousness route is that it gives a fairly clear way to try to answer the question: investigate the physical. We'll know if we have useful answers when we can manipulate it / create a consciousness.

We don't currently have a clear direction to go to get answers. That's normal, and it doesn't at all imply that there is no direction. And while we investigate the physical, we get more side benefits, like better and better medications / treatments / tools / etc.

If consciousness is "something else", how do we make progress towards understanding it? What can we do with that information?
Time to move to Nepal.
The Bering Strait has already completely melted and because of this native tribes can no longer cross as they had for generations
>“These glaciers aren’t getting lost that fast…they’ll be around for decades to come,” says Sutherland.
Apocalypse now coming in 6 instead of 12 years - what will we do now?!
This has been my problem with the Russia story. We never get enough detail to make our own judgement of the severity of this. The media and the Democrats lump everything together under the umbrella of “Russia hacked our election/democracy”. Aside from the nonsensical nature of that statement, it has been a catch-all term for everything from Facebook ads to hacking some state commission’s Wordpress site that contained no secure data.... to possibly real hacks of important systems which are still classified. I really don’t care about the former but the later would be a big deal.
In some other countries, foreign election monitors are routinely invited to monitor elections. They aren't all-seeing or all-knowing, but they can at least highlight irregularities in the voting process.
> To head off replies about fixed time garbage collection, sure it exists, but you cant guarantee it will reclaim enough space in a fixed timeslot (think of a massively pathological case where 99% of every flash chip is full, but super fragmented and data needs to be shuffled around perhaps hundreds or even thousands of times before enough space can be reclaimed)

That's why you have spare space. It's not overly hard to clamp write amplification to a number like 10x or 20x, even in the absolute worst case.

Note that the SD standard here requires a minimum number of writes per second inside a 256MB area, and even 1% spare space on a 32GB card would give you a >256MB buffer.
Yeah the comments are a little cheeky :). Pretty much everything was build in house with the exception of ReactJS and Redux. I mainly reused a lot of components from our front-end on https://merklex.io/trade.
Careful now, on HN we're not supposed to recognize the First Amendment. Free speech is not meant for us subjects.
Only 60 harvests left (2014)
Which is still way too early.

Everything we thought was just around the corner is not: flying cars, self-driving cars, AGI, cold fusion, the singularity...

Hype cycles are a thing. I for one don't think we'll see any of these in our lifetime.
If you're running a bunch of scripts in sequence, you should have a single interpreter state you use for running all of them. I would do that even if startup were effectively free.

And yeah, I have only a crappy laptop and your benchmark takes more like 50ms/spawn for me. Which I still think is reasonable because there's no reason to make a new interpreter state for ever script.
Twitter users with blue check marks. The way the commenter used it probably is meant to imply "the corporate media journalists"
It would be interesting to see how well Apple can design a cellular modem. Many believe Apple will design amazing modem, pointing to the incredibly good A-series ARM SOC and other chips as supporting evidence. However, IMO modem design is a completely different animal. In addition to the RF/mixed signal, there’s also the need to interoperate with wireless service providers in tens (to hundred something) wireless providers. The operating environments and edge cases are much more varied and numerous than the ARM SOC, which Apple controls all surrounding interfaces.

It’s a good long term strategic move, since it will keep a second source for modem alive. Just by volume, Apple certainly moves sufficient phones to fund design of 1 to 2 modems. Apple does have the advantage that its own modem can be tailored to its own requirement, whereas Qualcomm modem need to satisfy requirements from different customers (similar to how everyone only uses 20% of Excel, but that 20% is different for everyone, thus creating bloat). This should allow Apple modem to be simpler, more focuses, and more streamlined compared to Qualcomm modem, which should help with power efficiency and reduce implementation complexity.
I’m pretty sure I have seen a cosmic ray flash a couple of times over the past 20 years, lying in bed with eyes closed. It’s a sudden, bright flash caused by a cosmic ray hitting the optic nerve. I read that Astronauts get them frequently, causing sleep difficulties.
...Yeah, your joke isn't really successful... I didn't realize it is a joke either.
There are many ways that a majority can fail to get what they want even in a democracy. For instance, we have recently seen notable examples such as Donald Trump being elected President of the US, and the so far ineffectual efforts in the UK to exit the EU.
>As you become more senior you'll realise

Once again, you are being rude and don't patronize me. And don't assume you have some higher level of understanding.

One thing I know, even at my current level of seniority, is that policies like these enable the upper levels to command astronomical pay and conditions while the workers are forced to "negotiate" for small increases.

I know that it will probably be this way regardless because obviously the higher ups are the ones who make the pay decisions.

>you'll either have to accept a cap on your pay for fairness or move to another company that doesn't publicise what everyone earns

I would happily accept a cap on my pay for fairness, and I strongly suspect that at most companies that would improve pays across the board, barring a few upper level people. The alternative is accepting a cap on my pay because of unfairness!

Regardless, I think it's ridiculous for the company to think it is empowered to prevent discussion between colleagues.
Also if political winds blow against the FAANGs and pushes for breakups of some sort gain ground, that could take the form of something like compulsory licensing of closely held IP by Apple. Pure speculation of course, but the prospect of competition due to his acquisition is non-zero, compared to the zero of Intel dissolution.
As someone who works in computational neuroscience, frankly I don't see how Markram is any different from a charlatan.

Pretty much every researcher wants money to fund ambitious projects, but you can't just go around making all kinds of nonsense claims without being able to back them up. The HBP has produced some good research, but for the amount of funding they've received I would have expected much, much more.

Ultimately I think the fault lies within the funding structure. So much of scientific funding incentivizes bold and brash statements and plans, but very little consideration is given towards having the technical ability to execute those plans.

For a project of this size and scope, I would have wanted to see significant investments in computational infrastructure and software/hardware development very early on. At least the investment would have yielded something to build upon. Imagine if the Apollo mission tried to go to the moon with parts built from a Yugo. It wouldn't matter how many smart mathematicians you hire, or how skilled your navigators are, you just aren't going to get to the moon. Unfortunately computational infrastructure just isn't sexy enough to invest in, and I would say as a whole (there are some exceptions), neuroscience leadership just does not have the technical expertise to handle these kinds of projects yet.
I guess. You could just pay them more though.
It's unfortunate some people think having their article read is a priority. Perhaps we need a browser plugin where people can rank the accuracy of titles from various outlets so the user can decide if an article is likely to waste their time.
Good call! I agree, I think that would be better. Unfortunately the WordPress theme I'm using wouldn't let me do that by default. I'll have to do some research to see if there is a good plugin for that :)
The $125 and $250 come from a maximum fund of $31M each, so there is almost no chance anyone will get $125 or $250.
It would be a lie if I said I was surprised, currently I hear news from everywhere that climate change is moving faster forward than expected. The time window we have left to rescue what is left is shrinking. This worries me a lot.
Does this mean it's at least possible that space and time aren't linked in the way we think?

Technically, we (loaded term) don't really think of anything as per se. General Relativity and the standard model - or Quantum Field Theory more specifically - are just that: Models. They are very good models, but not complete ones (Or unified, assuming they will be at some point)
It also doesn't help that they don't have definitions of what top ICs do. Managers are in charge of a definite budget and a definite number of employees.

What does the IC have responsibility and authority over? Do they absolutely get to make certain technical choices? How? Which ones? What happens when the right technical decision has impact on how budget and employees are allocated?
Other Bets operating loss: ($989) [million]

Almost a Billion dollars per quarter!? Put them out of shareholders' misery, already!
On a more positive note, Glacier National Park removed its "gone by 2020" sign, and it looks like in fact the glaciers will still be there next year.

https://dailycaller.com/2019/06/07/national-park-glacier-war...
You can easily get linking errors when using bindgen to link to C libraries (usually in the form of -sys crates). In fact, I once spent a fair bit of time trying to figure out how to link to FFmpeg (libav*) on Windows, without success.
My understanding is that Americans born in America were recognized not to be British citizens, but those born in Britain who later emigrated were considered British citizens.

That said, over a third of sailors on American ships were British citizens who were pursuing higher pay and better conditions.

And then per https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2012/summer/1... there is the case of Charles Davis, an Englishman impressed into the US navy. We have no records of how common that was.
I use ad blockers so I don't how this theory would explain people with ad blockers that are political.

Neural network is bias because of the data. It's always the data. gfycat has an article about this. They have a huge user base that's into kpop and their training dataset didn't have much Asian people in it so it kept on identifying kpop star as women.
2 um accuracy; tools so fine that tool change air flow will break them; amazing. I could use this for machining mmWave components.
By the by, why does your python example import a bunch of things, but the php code imports nothing? That would negate the entire purpose of the experiment, no...
All Managers are very sensitive to cost. Show him/her how much extra work it takes and what you won't be able to accomplish by not having the proper access. Non-tech managers are also very reliant on the experts they hire. They hate to disagree with them since they don't understand the impact of the technical decision they have to make. That's why they hire them in the first place. So you'll also have to work with the security team on how to minimize the impact to the network.

Security guys are quick to say no. I once had a network security guy tell me that he could not open a web based app to the internet because people in the internet would be able to use it. I don't think he saw the stupidity of his argument. He just saw that there would be another security hole on the network. After working with him for a bit we figured out how to open it to a point where he was comfortable.
Not exactly arduino, but you may be interested with nodemcu: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NodeMCU
iOS has < 50% market share in the US, and I think that's still where they have their highest market share. There should be no risk of other hardware platforms left as second class citizens under that status quo.
FWIW when I became a manager, my lead (who reports to Jack) told me that I needed to be a role model for my team and that I would need to take more vacation.
Your question was "how is Python slow?" where you were apparently arguing over the slowness of standalone Python.

For an embedded application, of course you'd try to keep the interpreter state if it's possible. Sometimes you can't because of global state changes; sometimes you can. And sometimes, even with a single interpreter, the rest of the C++ program is fast enough that the embedded Python initialization time would dominate its running time, rendering the standalone vs. embedded distinction moot.

In any case... all you're doing is amortizing slow startup cost over the lifetime of the program. The startup is still slow. You were wondering "how" the startup is slow, so I wrote you benchmarks and ran them to illustrate. If what you really wanted to argue was that startup time is irrelevant, maybe you should say that instead of asking "how is startup slow" and making me spend my time writing a benchmark for something you don't care about.
I know these stories are intended to panic us into action, but when I read that people were wrong by a factor of 100 it just makes me think they don't know what they are talking about.
> The teaching can be done abstractly on a board and paper, or with interactive games. The practice can be done with microprocessors on educational board with plenty of easily accessible I/O.

I support the educational board use, but you're describing a different kind of class that will enable students to contextualize the history of computing, describe the fundamental paradigms of computing at an abstract level, and maybe prototype some cool demos on a breadboard, but they'd balk like cavemen at modern computers. The idea of actively shielding students from the realities of modern hardware and OSes is ludicrous to me. Should driver's ed classes limit themselves to chalkboard theory and "libre" vehicles hand-built by the students themselves?
So basically Apple gets Qualcomm to agree to a settlement for all their lawsuits, then Apple buys Intel's modem business once there's no legal ramifications.

I'd be willing to bet Apple dumps Qualcomm at soon as the multi-year deal is up in favor of their in-house chips.

Well played.
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> Yes, but now look at their growth as well and you'll understand Amazon's valuation is not wholly out of line.

Then please lay out your understanding of what justifies AMZN's price in your eyes as you've yet to quote a single figure.

The only reason why WMT's P/E is so high (and their Market Cap doubled in since 2016) is because of their success in their e-commerce business which saw 37% growth YoY.

You've been saying AMZN is a retail business whose financials can't be compared to Tech stocks which is clearly untrue, AMZN's retail business is less than 1/2 the size of Walmart yet they're worth 3x more who would've been worth even more if they didn't give out dividends which AMZN can't dream of doing at their current valuation.
Google Cloud is generating $8B a year and plans to triple sales force
I'm in the same boat, I assume like me you were thinking of larvae and maggots as being synonymous, but it looks like with fish the larval stage is more tadpole like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ichthyoplankton
Yeah, here's a one-line udev rule to log USB removal and insertion into the journal.

> $ echo 'SUBSYSTEMS=="block", RUN+="/usr/bin/logger --tag=block-device-history -- %E{ACTION} | %E{DEVNAME} | %E{ID_MODEL_ID} | $attr{serial}"' | sudo tee /etc/udev/rules.d/10-block-device-history.rules

Activate the new rule by reloading and retrigging:

> $ udevadm control --reload-rules && sudo udevadm trigger

Then in another terminal run:

> $ sudo journalctl -f

...Insert a USB drive and see information about it printed.

journalctl supports querying with time intervals (eg, journalctl --since "2018-01-10" --until "2019-08-01 23:59").
Obviously not literally what happened, but selling a dollar for 90 cents would help boost the sales figures but hurt the bottom line. Sales alone doesn't tell the whole story.
"They’ve really discovered that the melt that’s happening is fairly dramatically different from some of the assumptions we’ve had"

Wait, you mean you actually have to validate assumptions against actual measurement to make accurate conclusions? Who knew?
In addition to this, I wonder if the farmers could set up props to discourage photography and sabotage the shots. Ugly banners, balloons, drones with ribbons, blaring offensive music, signs with semi-offensive verbiage. Or boxes of rotten fish to stink up the side of the road.
There is no evidence that any votes were changed in actual voting machines. The committee found no evidence that voter data in the Illinois voter database was deleted or changed.

The report do not say that Russia intervened in regard to voting machines or the Illinois voter database. The report simply state that Russia were in a position to do so.

A few years ago there were a bunch of leaks from inside NSA by Snowden. One of of the leaks documented how NSA had hacked into core telecom routers of a country in the middle of a civil war. NSA was very much in the position to intervene for either side.

The US would be in quite many wars if everything NSA did should be seen as acts of war and treated as such. They even hacked the UN.
>even if it is putting words in your mouth.

Well, at least you admit you're not arguing in good faith. That's not what I'm saying at all. Apparently the involvement of children precludes you from considering this discussion rationally.
> Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) also asked for consent to pass legislation that would require candidates, campaign officials and their family members to notify the FBI of assistance offers from foreign governments.

> McConnell also objected to that bill.

Make up your own mind.
Here's to hoping this succeeds and Apple spins off the company to meet the demand of other manufacturers, similar to how it was involved with founding ARM Holdings.
One day, Prop 13 will not be third rail of politics mostly because home ownership has plummeted among young people, and the older generation is dying off. Younger people are more likely to be renters and get 0 benefit from Prop 13.
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Contrapuntal Consciousness
Apple begins limiting Apple Music free trial period to one month
Wikipedia tells me Hughes hasn't been involved with Facebook for 12 years, since he left in 2007. A lot can change in that period. It's hard to imagine Hughes providing a "smoking gun".

Note: As I understand it, anti-trust litigation isn't based on stuff a company did long ago to get into a commanding position, it is based a company having and abusing a commanding position. What does someone who left long ago know about this?
Ok, we've swapped it out for the subtitle.
I have had a bunch of synths before, including an Volca. And what TE does is that they have lowered the barrier to entry in making interesting music. They are really fun to jam on. You can just pick up a Pocket Operator and iterate on a song withought much difficulty. They also have depth if you want to tweak or play around with it.