skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's a talk by one of the world’s top synthetic organic chemists offering a blunt assessment of the current state of origin of life research: https://youtu.be/zU7Lww-sBPg?t=15
There's a strong political bias here, but the data is compelling: https://realclimatescience.com/ he compares a lot of raw data to "adjusted" data. He claims that the reported temperatures are fraudulent: https://realclimatescience.com/understanding-noaa-us-tempera... I'm not an expert, but what I see there is pretty compelling, I've never really found a good refutation anywhere.
Facebook is apparently researching brain-machine interfaces
I assume OP is talking about cases where there isn't a jury as well.
It is sponsored by organizations that have utility for blockchains and believe it can have utility for others
Yup (I think I'm loosely counting that as exfiltration, because you can monetize an all-sites extension real effectively if you exfiltrate the browser cookies from online banking websites.... keyloggers only get you so far if they have 2FA, but a logged-in browser session is valuable.)
Canada made it illegal to take part in a public protest while concealing your face under the Harper government...
Watching that video makes me wonder why so many Cepheids spawned in the sun's wake ~120 million years ago.
I’m so confused by DoorDash’s sudden rise. I think I may have used it once. What is separating DoorDash from UberEats, Postmates, Grubhub etc?
Oh, like the Leonardo et al? I guess that makes sense, I forgot about those, thanks.
The cherry on top of the cherry is that he was apparently kind of a badass, too, escaping from captivity twice before this battle and then, when the castle was already surrounded by SS troops and under attack:

> ... Lee [US captain, in charge by this point] accepted tennis star Borotra's offer to vault the castle wall and run the gauntlet of SS strongpoints and ambushes to deliver [a message re: their situation, requesting reinforcements]. He succeeded, requested a uniform, then joined the force as it made haste to reach the prison before its defenders fired their last rounds of ammunition.
Amusingly, the USB interface MCU on the new Arduino Nano (SAMD11 Cortex-M0+) is more powerful than the AVR that runs the sketch (ATmega4809). Less flash and SRAM though, which seems to be the primary cost driver these days.

[1] https://store.arduino.cc/usa/nano-every
What if Google/Mozilla just awarded a monthly prize to developers based on the popularity of an extension?

Browser providers pay for ecosystem improvements -- a better product.
If it's open source then anyone can fork, right? So sell the extension, fork it, publish a new non-shitty version, and let users know via some non-official means. The only losers are the ignorant people who don't switch and the people you sold it to.
Actually that would help for me. One of the early walls in the evolutionary curve would appear to be DNA replication. The level of complexity in the associated protein/enzyme machinery is one of those 'weird things' to me that I don't really understand. Will take a look, thank you.

Edit: Some context, a 'realistic' animation of the DNA replication process: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6f3ZbKaL7A
Other queries involving joins, aggregates, unrolls, and pivots on schemaless, nested, multi-path documents performed way better than the example cherry-picked from the main blog post-- Queries completing between 5ms to 25ms, albeit on toy dataset.

https://partiql.org/tutorial.html
Regicides on the Run
If there’s a reward for computing a VDF faster than everyone else, why won’t the amount of wasted resources, in the the form of e.g. human capital dedicated to computing faster VDFs, not be equivalent to the economic waste if the verification scheme used is proof of work? The article claims that proof of work is costing Ethereum hundreds of millions of dollars per year, but this VDF competition is also wasting millions of dollars in human capital to compute a fast VDF before there’s even a running blockchain using it (ie before there’s even a real non-synthetic incentive to break the system). Given that we need millions of dollars of waste just to launch the system safely, why wouldn’t we expect the wasted human capital dedicated to computing faster vdfs to increase to hundreds of millions once an actual attackable system is out in the wild, same as proof of work.

Moreover, it seems very unclear that wasting human capital is less economically bad than wasting the same “valu” in raw energy, particularly if a lot of that energy is from renewable sources anyway.
FAA tests spur a fundamental software redesign of Boeing 737 MAX flight controls
So far, the trend seems to be for Apple to support devices for 5 years after release [0]. Most apps will support at least 1 previous version of iOS, so your total lifespan is around 6 years total. Given that, you end up with:

XR: $750 / 6 years = $125/year

8: $599 / 5 years = $120/year

7: $449 / 4 years = $112/year

So assuming you plan to keep the device for its entire lifespan, I'm not sure it actually matters very much what you buy.

[0] http://infographic.statista.com/normal/chartoftheday_5824_io...
I don't know why you keep bringing up the obligation to buy soda thing. I never said you were. You aren't obligated to buy coffee either. What's the point of this argument?

The whole thing started when someone compared soda to coffee and said coffee had sugar too, and I responded that you don't have to put sugar in it, or as much, since you're the one controlling the sugar addition. We're not talking about safe doses of sugar here, or the WHO, or whether you're obligated to drink anything besides water. We're just comparing the sugar in soda and coffee, that's all, and the simple and completely undebateable fact is that you can put a little bit of sugar in coffee, whereas there is absolutely no way for you to control the amount of sugar or other sweetener in your soda. (I guess you could try adding sugar to non-sugar soda, but you can't take out the artificial sweetener (or stevia, which just tastes bitter), and good luck getting sugar to actually go into solution while the soda is still cold.)

Finally, I don't drink soda at all, or coffee either, I'm just pointing out that the drinker is the one in control of the sweetener with most coffee, and this is simply not the case with soda.
I'd be happy to showcase our recent progress. But let's connect offline, so as not to hijack the conversation. Feel free to drop me a line at ryan@conexus.ai.
The next Hitler will be horiffyingly more efficient when they can track everyone by their phone location and know a history of everyone they interacted with as well as facial recognition on every street.
Because these are all pictures of juveniles. Not even children who were convicted of a crime, those who were arrested. Children should be able to make mistakes and to learn and recover, without a bad decision following them for the rest of their lives. That's not only good for the child, it's good for society. It's why juvenile records are usually sealed and/or expunged and why data like this should never ever be public, even if "privacy is dead."
> Good thing there's no authority telling us why we exist and we're each free to decide for ourselves.

You aren't. Everything you do, even doing nothing, has consequences that are beyond your control. Even worse, your actions have consequences not just for you but for others, even people who don't yet exist. We only exist today because generation after generation of the people that came before us have worked together to survive. You absolutely can choose to be a selfish idiot, but selfish idiots go extinct very quickly because they greedily consume the resources they depend on. There are also people who recognize the threat selfish idiots pose to themselves and others and may intervene to stop them from mucking things up not just for themselves but for others. Remember, you yourself took the effort and resources of the human race to get you where you are. Your life is on loan to you from the universe.

Just like the cells in your body, humans work together to make things more capable than themselves individually. Just like the cells in your body, humans are constantly replaced by a new generation that takes our place. If you want to live life as a cancer cell on the human race, you can expect it will react the same way we react to cancer in our own bodies.

This article is about this very problem. Advertisers are abusing the fact that our brains have not adapted to their schemes to trick people into spending their effort supporting not just the advertisers but the enterprises that advertise through them. They climb over the backs of their fellow man to selfishly guarantee their own survival, paying no mind to the consequences their actions bear for others and for the generations that follow us.

> What would we have accomplished if we survive until eternity without being happy?

Doing what we are here to do. Life exists because the universe had latent potential that unthinking matter could not release. The whole universe is working to exhaust its potential. Intelligent life is just another step in that process.

You also don't seem to get what happiness is. Happiness is not a state of ecstatic joy, it's a state of contentment, free of threats and concerns, when you can be at peace. Like all emotion and sensation, we have them because they were useful to our survival. Mental reward mechanisms don't exist because you can't be conscious without them, they exist because without them survival is more difficult. Happiness is always a temporary, illusory, and fleeting feeling. There will always be more mountains to climb, happiness just rewards us for getting to the next peak.

You can choose to live a willfully ignorant life and pretend to be confused just to feel better, or you can see what the world is telling you and listen to it.
Are they legally allowed to do this without the parents' permission?
You can play with a larger range here: https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/world-of-change/DecadalTem...
Well, it does not create CO2, for starters. Also several million is less than several hundred million. By 100x
Your argument implies that 'it's the gay person's fault for getting caught,' so that tracking organisations have less responsibility for their actions.

Instead of Saudi Arabia, how about the United States 100 years ago? It is not as though there are no more harmless activities for people to participate in that they will suffer for.

A comparatively trivial but important example: how about tracking your employees movements to punish them for talking to other companies? Is that a 'you should know your risks' situation too?
Yep, where I am $15 meal on UberEats costs about $22.50 delivered as of right now.
My experience is that it's somewhat regional, but it doesn't feel sudden at all to me. I've used DoorDash for years, and it's because in my area they have much more selection of restaurants, and often faster delivery (which I assume means more drivers). Uber Eats doesn't even deliver to my house even though Uber covers my area.
Not used to be. In many places today you will literally be murdered by the mob for being suspected to be a witch.
The webmaster of everynoise.com, Glenn McDonald, works at Spotify as "Data Alchemist". Good article on his work here [0]. Excerpt:

"Subgenres are McDonald's business. By going over listener data and identifying patterns, McDonald and his co-workers can identify clusters of artists who might coalesce into a genre—something he’s been doing since his earliest days at the music-intelligence company The Echo Nest, which Spotify bought in 2014. Today, his work with Spotify's data helps listeners discover artists that may have been hiding in plain sight. McDonald’s “data alchemy” helps populate the Fans Also Like sections of Spotify's artist pages, as well as Daily Mix; it also provides a real-time chronicle of how music is developing and splintering into different styles."

[0] https://artists.spotify.com/blog/trap-queen-and-the-data-sci...
> if it's not embarrassingly parallelizable, first, tell me why

It's a cryptographic assumption that repeated squaring in an RSA group is "inherently sequential". This assumption was first made in 1996 by Rivest, Shamir and Wagner for timelock puzzles. See https://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/pubs/RSW96.pdf

> what's all this business about optimizing the algorithm

To link sequential computation with physical time we need the general public to evaluate the VDF at roughly the same speed as an attacker. By "roughly the same speed" we mean that the attacker (even with a huge budget) cannot build hardware that runs, say, 10x or 100x faster than a publicly available ASIC.
uber is global. bet there is a direct correlation with uber setting up shop and countries suddenly getting low unemployment.
Oh! Yikes. We'll investigate it right now.
Thanks
it its always good too learn more
> Scrolling is smooth only when connected to power (probably related to CPU throttling - but it's 2019 and it shouldn't matter).

This likely isn't CPU throttling at all. iTerm by default uses the faster Metal renderer when your MBP is plugged in, and a different renderer when not. You can adjust this so that it always uses Metal by following the instructions on this page: https://gitlab.com/gnachman/iterm2/wikis/Metal-Renderer

If you live full time inside iTerm, I would highly recommend reading over the documentation and becoming fully familiar with the different aspects of it and what you can tweak. Despite it being something that merely "displays a matrix of a few thousand characters", it is still a very complex piece of software and knowing at least a basic level of its configuration will likely be worth it.
It is a video post, the short text underneath is just meant as commentary to the video. Your comment about the domain is so far from being accurate that it makes me question if you’re trolling or actually believe what you say.
Extrapolation is when you have one wife on your wedding day and decide you will have thirty wives next month: https://xkcd.com/605/

What we have with climate is more like your neighbor appearing with two wives two months ago, with thirty wives one month ago, and today he has sixty wives and maybe a few husbands. Still waiting to verify if something is not right?
Oops, how could I misread 6 sheets per year as 6 sheets per day! o_0 Thanks for pointing out my error, this makes much more sense now.
When Grubhub acquired Eat24 from Yelp and removed the group order feature in favor of signing up for a "corporate" account, it sent much of my business to DoorDash.
Yup, I concur.

You probably don't want to buy Genelec "just because musician X swears by them or Steve Jobs had a pair at his desk". See this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20587970

The cheap Polks I have in my living room make a whole lot more sense for that use case than any smaller Genelecs I could've gotten at trice the price. One of the few residential use cases where Genelecs make sense is as actual 'computer speakers' where you get to enjoy the intensity of that near-field sweet spot.

Even the G Ones plus the F One sub are terrific for this, but at a price where you could get a pretty nice basic home theater.

The pair of Genelec 8330A we use at the cottage are just big enough to be enjoyable for our sessions of couchlock debauchery, where we also turn up the volume, and take breaks in order to do so. And the room is super good sounding, too.

My musician friends are usually horrified when I say we listen to Genelecs (or any near field monitors) for fun. This kind of speaker are precision tools, made to be used in specific settings, to painstakingly obsess over adjustments in audio mixes.

Near field monitors are unforgiving and harsh sounding if set up wrong. And they will absolutely not flatter your source material. You usually need a companion subwoofer if you get near field monitors of any size, because they're deliberately made to give a flat frequency response, not to sound beefy, or give a room-filling sound at lower volumes.
What would the tech solution look like?

A lot of the "solutions" today are nothing more than generic nags when you shut off the car based on nothing more than any weight on the rear seats, which people quickly learn to filter out (since an empty car seat triggers them every time).

Motion sensors and infrared based sensors aren't reliable for babies in particular (due to lack of motion during sleep, or hats/thicker cloths/blankers).

The only tech solutions that may work today are:

- Cameras above the seats and image recognition, but this is expensive to get right. It could be used for other things which is a perk (like security, or "child mirror" usage).

- Integration into the car seats themselves (e.g. when the harness is clipped, it completes a circuit). But how does the car seat communicate with the vehicle itself?

Plus liability has to be considered. If the vehicle manufacturers (or car seat manufacturers) do nothing at all they aren't liable. But ironically if they try to make this problem less prevalent but fall short, they can be suited for that failure (and or be forced to generate expensive recalls).

I apologise for bringing up politics: But this is an area where government could help. If car/carseat manufacturers had liability immunity and or a government body that spends money developing the tech' I could definitely see it take off.

I'd personally like to see a 3.5mm jack receptacle inside the latch-anchor opening. A carseat plugs in. It completes a simple electrical circuit. The car's infotainment unit now "knows" a child is onboard.

But that's just one idea. Maybe there's others. I think liability, cost, and practicality are real problems though. The technological solutions need some real thought. I just like the above because K.I.S.S.
Thread from 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15466860

2016, including a remarkable top comment that I'll ask Craig to add to the next highlights list: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12957768

2015 (small): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9867739

2009: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=611583
Lots of things might happen due to increased temperatures. The Earth dying is not one of them (hint: it has been much warmer in the geological past).
I’m not an expert but I know that DoorDash partners with large established chains, they power Chipotle and Wendy’s delivery services. GrubHub is getting in in this too: they power Taco Bell’s new delivery service. I bet these deals lead to a more simpatico relationship monetarily. I bet it also avoids stuff like what is said in this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20588348
Integrity of China’s Three Gorges Dam Called into Question
“ Ramani said the boy was suffering from a very rare condition called compound composite odontoma. She said what caused the condition is unclear, but it could be genetic or it could be due to environmental factors like radiation.”

Radiation?
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There are many arduino boards, some more powerfull than other, many based on ARM MCUs (for example, arduino due)
Afair some even run openwrt
But it’s several million just to get it started. If the reward for pulling off an attack is the same as in proof of work systems, why wouldn’t the waste wind up equaling the reward (ie hundreds of millions in waste if it’s used to secure something like Ethereum or Bitcoin)?
The Arduino Due has a big Cortex M3 chip on it, costs ten bucks more than an Uno, and came out 7 years ago. Doesn't have enough RAM to run the demo in the OP though.
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Blue isn't only for N=2; it starts showing up again at N=104.

It appears that circles are colored blue if their number of contacts (with either other circles or the outside) is equal to 1 or 2. They're magenta if their number of contacts is zero.

I'm not sure what the distinction between orange and yellow is-- it doesn't seem to be strictly number of contacts, because I can see cases where both orange and yellow have four contacts.
I dunno, sounds like a lot of words to describe a rebranding of classical economics.

Before economics became all dynamic stochastic general equilibrium matters and strategic games of imperfect information, it was about 'how does the machine work.'

Not sure why we need a New Field to study that.
I think that's a pretty reasonable shorthand for saying that two separate archeological sites overlapped in time, place, and culture, and which makes comparisons/differences between them more immediately interesting.
"Arduino" is the company - it doesn't refer to an ATMega328p. It's just a thin wrapper around the Processing IDE, and it supports lots of different boards and chipsets.

So I agree, the title is sort of odd, but you absolutely can use Arduino for ML. Personally I think it is clunky and difficult to use compared to modern offerings like PlatformIO or MicroPython, but it's familiar to a lot of people and there is value in that.
During the recent (ongoing?) European heat wave I read that AC is uncommon in Europe. I wonder if it will become more common now that heat waves are becoming more common?
Yes, I’m saying exactly this, that your average tradesperson doesn’t understand macroeconomic policy, why monetary velocity is crucial for the health of an economic system, etc. Outliers certainly exist, but we’re talking average.
Presumably we're not talking about Shoney's country, if we're talking about food delivery service models.

Incidentally, that was my first estimate for how far in the country I was when I travelled a lot for work: "How many reviews does {insert fast food restaurant} have on Yelp?"

Turns out, people only leave lots of Yelp reviews for Taco Bells when that's the only thing around.
I regularly see satellites passing overhead in inland Australia
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It is not that simple. Bell inequalities show that there cannot exist a local evaluation rule that could explain experiments with entangled particles where two people pick filters independently.

Superdeterminism is saying that strictly speaking we do not have a proof that two people (whose past light cones intersect) can pick the filters independently, so Bell inequalities still would allow local rules, that in addition to describing particles, somehow also restrict the choices that experimentators can make.

So superdeterminism is not a scientific theory, but a hypothesis that there exists a scientific theory that would fit in the small crack left open by Bell inequalities.

No one knows how to construct such a theory, and most people think it cannot be constructed.