skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe they had to change their practices after GDPR. I met him before that was passed.
If you paste the link into archive.is, it’ll often be already archived or it will save a fresh copy.

I would encourage people — if they can afford it — to pay for a few media sites online.
I work for a Fortune 100 company and we still don't have a build pipeline :-(
It's actually not a terrible idea and it's been considered in depth before: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-based_solar_power.

Like so many things it's got a few unsolved technical difficulties thought that make it not-quite feasible.
Good documentary on this comes from 'Peoples Republic of Desire'.
Live-streaming is considerably more mainstream, advanced, and in many cases an actual industry in itself now, outside of the west:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWdg8d18Tfs
Any payment system have issues. I've experienced good stories with Paypal, when they refunded me my money without much questions. Much better than my bank.
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I lived for a while in Milwaukee, WI which sports a James Lovell Street. I was curious and I looked up Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong. Armstrong has streets named after him in California and Nevada, I didn't see one for Aldrin.
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> According to Science magazine, "some Republican lawmakers came to view [the OTA] as duplicative, wasteful, and biased against their party."

Presented without comment.
Nice report, thanks!

Did you develop any options about what made the difference in site speed between the platforms? Page size, better asset packing, cdn choices, or something else?
Pixar seems to love the new Mac Pro and metal: This new machine clearly shows Apple is delivering on the needs of professionals at high-end production facilities like Pixar.” https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/06/pro-app-developers-re...
You may be interested in Project HARP which investigated such a concept in the 1960s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_HARP
OpenGL isn't used for high quality ray tracing like you'd need for a 3D modeling tool like Blender unless you want to get hacky. The proper way to do it is with something like OpenCL or Cuda. Vulkan and Metal support compute shaders too.

Apple abandoning OpenGL sucks a lot, but them not supporting Vulkan is much worse.
To add to this, a good friend of mine had her sister adopt her as guardian when applying for aid. A messy parental divorce made financial paperwork nearly impossible to file, not to mention that even if it was filed her father wouldn't contribute anything.

That scenario, an estranged parent who refuses to pay any of their "contribution", is unfortunately really common.
The problem is that superdeterminism contains a principle of explosion:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_explosion

If superdeterminism explains quantum mechanics, why not cosmic inflation? Why not matter asymmetry? Why not abiogenesis? Why not Brexit? Superdeterminism, by construction, can explain everything — and all there’s left to do is pray to God.
Everyone is presenting false versions of themselves, especially the people who present themselves as a true version of themselves.

I'm admittedly quite sadenned by the continued commodification of female appearances in this manner. I am curious if male vlogging has similar tricks to get more $$$.
The memory limit of a CPU is based on the address lines. The 8088 and 8086 have 20 address lines permitting 1 MB of RAM. Of course more can be banked utilizing an MMU. So the 640K limit was not imposed by the CPU. The system designers needed some memory for ROMs, video memory and other I/O. They decided 384K was needed for those things, leaving 640K for user RAM.
Noob question: There's a way to write a OpenGL drive that uses Metal underneath?
> Many satellites are visible to the naked eye; some even brighter than the stars.

And if you want to see an absolute cornucopia of satellites, grab a pair of binoculars, and look straight up, an hour or two after sunset.

You'll see faint little lights, crossing your field of vision, to and fro, on a very regular basis.
I find blender to be one of the tools that is built to be fast, rather than friendly. It defaults to a minimal state and assumes you know how you want to set it up. Two things that will help you a lot is firstly, to go into preferences and enable pretty much every plugin that doesn't have an exclamation mark next to it and secondly, print out all the keyboard shortcuts and tape them to the sides of your screen.
It's not quite _discovering_ a target from NGS, but lots of existing cancer drugs are targeted based on genotyping tumours. Breast cancer is the classic one, where, say, if you can quickly determine if your sample is Her2+ your treatment plan drastically changes. Now, getting enough cancer cells in your tumour sample to reliably genotype at that stage is a separate hard problem.
If you are interested in open-source licenced Cubesat hardware, software and low earth orbit communications feel free to check out Libre Space Foundation

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Feel also free to check our repositories at Gitlab.
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It's not 40x more, it's barely 40% more. [1]

> Average annual solar radiation arriving at the top of the Earth's atmosphere is roughly 1361 W/m^2. The Sun's rays are attenuated as they pass through the atmosphere, leaving maximum normal surface irradiance at approximately 1000 W /m^2 at sea level on a clear day.

There are practical challenges, but otherwise, yes, it should work.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_irradiance#Irradiance_on...
Apparently Reuters did not view it as their job to persuade you with overwhelming evidence that the group is important. It is their job to convey to you who thinks the group is important and who doesn't.

JASON has a wikipedia page, google exists, etc. etc.
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Superdeterminism is a self-defeating philosophy. In essence, it cedes everything to random chance, and makes all scientific inquiry meaningless. There is no longer any "why" or "how." There is merely, "That's just the way it is." Any apparent order or structure which might be observed is exactly that: merely apparent. Therefore any attempt to understand the universe is vain.

It is little better than the presumption that planets move because a prime mover moves them. It is, in essence, to give as the final answer: "Planets move as they do because they cannot do anything else."
The student is intentionally misleading the colleges about their financial status and the financial support they receive. They're literally declaring themselves financially independent while not being financial independent. That's outright fraud:

> In law, fraud is intentional deception to secure unfair or unlawful gain

This isn't clever maneuvering. It is unlawful deception.
>I don't understand what is so appealing about not having a build pipeline for JavaScript

We don't have one at my work (Fortune 100 company), but it has nothing to do with whether it is appealing or not. It has to do with the projects we are working on started years before there was any such thing as a build pipeline in the web world and it's not pragmatic to add one in at this point. Maybe some decade we will get the budget to start over from scratch (haha!) and get modern things like a build pipeline.
Reminds me of the time a "cute anime girl" streamer had a glitch that exposed him as a fairly typical otaku hikikomori using motion capture software to puppet the character (and presumably some sort of voice synthesizer to provide the dialogue).
My experience has been that it's extremely common for the average developer to fix the symptom instead of the root cause.
Shouldn't browsers enable anti-fingerprinting (fingerprint spoofing) when you go incognito?
are there any browsers that obscure these properties to sites?
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Don't worry, I'm not a very smart programmer. I wanted to be a scientist.
Eevee is the real-time viewport renderer and uses OpenGL. Blender's path tracer is implemented with Cuda and OpenCL. Also OpenGL supports compute shaders FYI.
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Anyone who listens to their quarter earnings calls knows that macOS is pretty far down the priority list.

#1 is billed services (iCloud, Apple Music, etc)

#2 is iOS devices (mostly iPhone)

a very distant #3 is laptops and desktops

macOS is nowhere on the list because it doesn't make them any money.
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Garagin was a cosmonaut rather than a scientist. He had a standard military education and took correspondence engineering courses.
There are plenty of skilled trade jobs that pay as well or better than a number of undergraduate degrees. Electrician, aviation techs, construction managers, plumbers, radiology tech, LPN, and dental hygienists are all jobs that pay as well or better than some of the lower paying bachelor's degree careers. So that would be your history, english, biology, psychology degrees, etc. Here's a chart of salaries by 4 year degree:

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/visualizing-salaries-colleg...

Obviously once you get into engineering degrees, computer science, finance, law degrees, and the like, no trade school or community college degree can compare. But the ultimate point is that a 4 year degree is not the only path to a decent income. Especially when you factor in student loan debt.
My beef is with the established protocol (Google or not) and that is that you disclose enough details to potentially repro even if the vendor patches correctly and promptly.

Why the hell suddenly put everyone's devices at immediate risk until they get a chance to update? That's "responsible"?
I'll agree with you when they release Xcode for ARM. Until then, MacOS isn't going anywhere.
Only if you use synchronization "manually" (and... you probably are doing that if you are writing atomics), do you have to think about memory fences.

I was thinking about adding atomic pointer references to a partially persistent (1) AABB tree, then allowing multiple actors in multiple threads each implementing a gameloop to query the AABB tree. Do I need to think about memory fences in that application?

I've also been thinking about implementing the above system without atomic pointers. Instead, the system would have an update phase where all writes to the AABB tree happen at once, then all of the actors are allowed to run concurrently for one game loop tick.

In both cases, I'm thinking of placing the AABB tree into shared memory, but my brief experience with using shared memory makes me wary of performance problems.

(1) Persistent in this sense, of course: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistent_data_structure
Hang on, are they actually giving up custody?

What happens if the child is hit by a car, is unconscious, and needs medical attention?
"we" did nothing?

I'm annoyed at the use of first person plural pronouns in such articles. It's particularly obnoxious in a story about identity theft which, as other posters on this thread have pointed out, is a linguistic con-job banks pull on customers.
Do you have a link? I'm amazed by the fake video generation we have now, I wonder when we'll start seeing it used for spam and (mal)advertising.
The biggest issue I've seen with these is that at some point they do break and then you need a knowledgeable person to fix it. The pipeline is basically a black box unless you possess the knowledge of how all the parts work and interact with each other.
My condensed argument is that Slavery per se does not make countries rich. Rather I am only arguing that slavery, in many countries including the USA, Brazil, and others world-wide, did not contribute to the long term economic success of the nation nearly as much as many claim it does (or solely claim it does in the USA).

We don't have a counterfactual Twin Earth where those countries did not have slaves, but we know for sure slavery is not necessary for a country to be successful. And if we look at countries that had way more slaves, the advantage of simply having slave labor seems hugely insufficient for a country to be successful.

It is possible that the USA had slaves and was able to economically leverage them far greater than all the other countries that had slaves, but this seems unlikely, and such a scenario would also be the biggest gain for a counterfactual scenario that the USA would have been successful without them, too.
I might have read Hume the wrong way, but for me he was one of the few philosophers who basically said “there’s no way for us to know for sure” which can be approximated to “we don’t know”.

My favorite philosopher however remains Heraclitus, had we chosen to go his way we might have had less stupid questions, like “is the cat in the box dead or alive?” and instead we might have straight up came up with the answer “the cat is dead, alive and all the states between dead and alive, and we’re fine with that”. Unfortunately Aristotle was not fine with accepting the many “states” of the world “happening” all at the same time and went for the binary True-False way, bad-mouthing Heraclitus in the process. We certainly did manage to build a more efficient society by following Aristotle’s way but I think we have reached a local maximum, or it certainly looks that way. Maybe reverting to the pre-Socratics will help us go over this local maximum.
Thanks! That makes it easy to understand.
They're not a single point of failure, they're one of a myriad of important analysis of weak points and areas to improve. Note that in the article the scientists are not defining the illness, merely were able to identify the source of the sound.

I'm mostly skeptical at the skepticism. Why wouldn't one want to retain world class researching talent to be queried at a moment's notice regarding anything that could possibly threaten the country?
I went to a crappy high school all four years, I don't remember any particular assistance I got for the pleasure.
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My daughter decided to defer going to ‘real’ college for a year to figure out what she wanted to do: why spend all the money when you haven’t figured out things anyway?

She enrolled at a highly rated local community college and signed up for some difficult classes and she was very much not impressed: the pace of instruction was very slow, the students unmotivated (not doing homework, not participating during class), and the overall level of instruction often easier than what she had in high school.

It’s an excellent way to get some garden variety general courses off you plate at low cost and low effort, but, in her case, it was not a substitution of the real thing.
This is only true if we assume that spammers are not already saturating the resources of their victims. And even then, it's better than penalizing blind or deaf people.
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>Each age-checking company has a variety of different ways people can prove they're old enough to view porn. These include using SMS, credit card data, passport information, or driving licence details. There are other options that include face scanning and the blockchain.

This is so going to result on a ton of teens with credit cards. Just look at what is already happening with mobile games. Sounds like a boom for the porn industry. Sure enough, MindGeek is already on it:

>The most well-known of these is AgeID, designed by MindGeek
I really wish the "Yay, linux on the desktop" crowd would rally around ChromeOS. ChromeOS is literally what the "linux on the desktop" crowd has been wanted for decades now.
a while ago, before the North American Solar Eclipse, I needed to do some simulation work on my code that processed eclipse images so I made a toy solar system from spheres and used it to render views of the eclipse from locations on earth. Lots of fun. Huge learning curve, but still lots of fun. The only issue I had was I had to scale everything down 1/10th due to float precision issues.
>Common != universal. It's known up until someone doesn't know it.

Someone might also not know what a timestamp is, or a UNIX timestamp at least, so there's that.

>We have pretty powerful autocompletes, let use them instead, or just lose 3 seconds writing the 10 letters, it won't be so bad.

The problem with the above idea is that it implies "spelling it out fully == better". Which is not necessarily the case, long variable names can make code hard to follow and verbose. Ask the Java community...
Basked on the slack comments and her behavior described in other stories ... it seems like she was struggling with life and ultimately chose some self destructive behavior.

The lack of security seems like she all but wanted to get caught, or actually did.
Pixar have historically been linked with Apple, though. I wonder if they're currently using the current 'trashcan' Mac Pro, which I imagine would be quite limiting.
This has worked pretty well for getting me past the paywall: https://www.nytimes.com/subscription
If your tasks are interruptible and can occasionally fail, this possible, however you have to be very careful with the capital outlays - being stuck with old, unsupported hardware is not good, nor is the human effort required to maintain such a system very cheap. You would be effectively running a data centre that has a particularly good tolerance for occasional downtime, but it still would be a data centre to operate nevertheless.
People are complaining about quality security research...on hacker news!!
When I read these comments I also feel like people must believe P0 is some kind of new thing that Google came up with. In fact, vulnerability research labs have been A Thing in the security field since the mid-1990s (I worked at what I believe to be the first commercial vulnerability lab, at Secure Networks, from '96-'98, along with much smarter people like Tim Newsham and Ivan Arce). And they've always been taking this kind of (dumb) flak regardless of which company they're attached to.

If companies like Apple or Microsoft are alarmed by the optics of Project Zero, they are free to stand up their own vulnerability research labs; they have the resources and they would immediately find takers in the research community.

End-users, meanwhile, should have nothing but gratitude for P0, since that project essentially represents Google donating fairly expensive and scarce specialized resources to public interest work. Vulnerabilities that P0 finds are vulnerabilities that aren't being sold through brokers to the global intelligence community. Message board talk about the "black market" alternative to bug bounties is almost always overblown, but P0 traffics in exactly the small subset of vulnerabilities that do have substantial, liquid markets.
Yes but its tricky. http://alnaspaceprogram.org/gun.html
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Yeah giving Facebook even more access to my brain sounds like a fun proposition.
I was beaming from that story about the vocoder, that was a fast descent.

I frequently use ping to look like I know what I am doing when trying to fix connectivity problems.
> repo A branch B can only be built with repo C branch F, but all the other repos should be master

This alone is pretty much what makes me prefer monorepos. If you don't have a stable interface for all of your in-house dependencies (and nobody does early on in a project), you're doomed to spend a ton of time matching branches like this. Not to mention, a naive build process of "grab the latest everything and build it" will break in that period of time when you've merged the feature branch in one repository but not the other.
That's the interesting thing - we know so much but so little changes (fast enough). We call ourselves civilized and think about colonizing other planets but still haven't solved the problem of poverty.

Everyone who isn't ignoring this based on a decision to do so knows about the practices under which people have to suffer every day to sustain our nice lifestyle here I think.

The problem is the way the whole industry works because new products need to be sold continuously for a company to survive.

We all know climate change is here but it will take us decades to react globally.

Of course they turn their heads - it's much easier that way to enjoy all the money they got for acting like this.
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There are thousands of these tutorials that walk you through using a CLI to get a boilerplate and following the “Getting Started” section of a library’s docs. They explain nothing and are written to “get your name out there” or to subtly advertise a paid service.
> misleading the colleges about their financial status and the financial support they receive.

I think colleges don't care if students actually receive support from parents, they only check parents income/assets, and if parents refuse to provide support then student is in trouble. So giving up custody is a legal way to express this situation in legal terms.
They've probably done something useful in the past, but muh seekrits!

One thing is certain though; virtually every new president since George H.W. Bush, they've rolled out this very same article. "You're ruining my MITRE sinecure," basically. Obviously, it's not happened yet, and the actual substance of the events described is probably well short of the apocalypse which I must have read at least a dozen times in the last 25 years.

It's a tribute to the Jason dudes they have decent PR. They may even have done something useful once upon a time. The crap they do now is... doubtful. Mostly because almost all academics outside of something like chemistry seem to be engaged in doubtful work.
Too many companies dont want to patch and won't do so unless forced.
I've been wanting the option of a VR desktop for a while now. Last I looked, it wasn't ready for prime time, and that's still my impression now. I find a small 16:9 screen pretty unacceptable for coding, and the market currently offers very limited options for anything taller in a laptop.

I'm eager to see where this goes, and may need to start shopping for a head-mounted display.
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> I guess the issue is that very little discovered internally will ever be publicly disclosed. It feels like a tactic to make themselves look more secure than others when that is not likely the case.

Agreed, and I don't think for a second Google as a whole is any different in this regard.

But who cares? Security issues are being found, Security issues are being publicized, Security issues are being fixed.

Project Zero, as a small part of Google, is finding bugs in everyones software - including Google's - and holding them to the same standards, standards which are widely regarded as being acceptable standards for disclosure.

The rest of Google, should they discover an issue without Project Zero's help, presumably behave just as most of other companies do - so hate them all equally, that's fine - and I agree, but Project Zero is different to Google as a whole, and just is not something to hate IMO.
>One suggested that relationships with invisible beings fulfill a child’s need for friendship and are more common among firstborn or only children.

We have 7 kids and none of them has ever had an imaginary friend. I assume it is because they have always had at least 1 other person around that they could talk to and play with that there was no need to fill that void with someone imaginary.
e-hentai is EOL if you weren't aware.