skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wasn't the amyloid-plaque etiology debunked recently?
Adams' thoughts on computers and technology are gold. He was also the first person in the UK to buy an Apple Mac, Stephen Fry being a close second.

"I didn't really didn't foresee the Internet. But then, neither did the computer industry. Not that that tells us very much of course – the computer industry didn't even foresee that the century was going to end."

"First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII — and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With the World Wide Web, we've realised it's a brochure."

"A computer terminal is not some clunky old television with a typewriter in front of it. It is an interface where the mind and body can connect with the universe and move bits of it about."

"I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:
1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things."

"I am rarely happier than when spending entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that it would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand."
>TEMT looks like it can break up the toxic amyloid-beta and tau proteins that have been extensively linked with Alzheimer's – the waves are apparently able to destabilise the weak hydrogen bonds that hold them together.

Is that actually a thing - that you can break up proteins by putting a fairly weak electromagnetic field on them? It sounds like the sort of thing you could test in the kitchen with a coil, oscillator and some half cooked eggs.
I did not have to go back to the 90s to find just this example; I picked it because it was a critique by a sitting U.S. president, something that is quite rare and notable in any era.

Critiques of rap music have been a not uncommon phenomenon in the years since:

John McWhorter in 2003: https://www.city-journal.org/html/how-hip-hop-holds-blacks-b...

USA Today; "It's 2014, so why are Eminem's violent lyrics still OK?" https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/music/2014/11/25/eminem-...

Trump attacking Jay-Z on the campaign trail in 2016: https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/29/politics/trump-jay-z-hillary-...

Eminem being called out in 2018 for using homophobic slurs: https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/pride/8473186/eminem...

Wynton Marsalis in 2018: https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-conservative-war-on-hip-ho...

It's ironic (or actually, fitting) that you claim "I had to go back to the 90s" to find an example, because your perception of rap music seems to be stuck in the 90s, back when it faced peak critique and backlash. That we see less such critique today does not indicate that rap music has gotten a pass, but rather, that rap music has softened since what you perceived it to be in the 90s.

The most recent Billboard listing is paywalled, so I'll link to the 2018 year-end here: https://www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/hot-rap-songs:

https://www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/2018/hot-rap-songs

The top 5 songs are:

1. "God's Plan" by Drake

2. "I Like It" by Cardi B and others

3. "In My Feelings" by Drake

4. "Psycho" by Post Malone

5. "Nice For What" by Drake

I don't know all of the top rap songs in 2018, but I'm pretty comfortable asserting that the majority (nevermind "almost all") do not deal with "rape, killing, and selling drugs".

I linked above to this Eminem story, but it's worth re-mentioning here: Eminem's peak work had extremely controversial lyrics; today, he's ripped for being lukewarm and for using the f-----t word, which was definitely not as verboten as back in the 90s and early 2000s: https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/pride/8473186/eminem...
This reminds me of the light project at the CN Tower. The tower has lights running up the sides, and a guy with a laptop programs colour sequences on it. Because of the motion, it becomes obvious these can include animations, so occasionally he actually generated photo-realisitic "slices". Someone came along and did something very similar to your project in order to expose the images in their entirety, which comes across almost identical to what you've done (minus that organic ribbon appeal you went for). In his case, the standard "moving colours" come out looking like simple flags, and of course the images look like whatever they are.

I think this artist was inspired by the workings of a photocopier, which the second person who wrote the software to decode and expose it clearly picked up on.

I'll update this later if I get to my desktop and can post a link to that project.
That is excellent, thanks!
> The difference is that I-descriptors were always calculated on the fly and they could do a LOT more than PostgreSQL's generated columns.

So, just like columns in a view.

> These were commonly used to accomplish things that SQL would use a JOIN to do, mainly because the query language didn't have joins.

Yeah, in SQL you could do that with a correlated subquery in a column definition in a view, instead of a join, but it's generally not optimal (I've seen people do it, though not recently.) There's other uses for correlated subqueries besides being the inefficient way to do joins, and they, plus normal functions, let you calculate just about anything you might want in a columns in a view.

> The results of the I-descriptor don't have to be stable - they can be calculated based on the current date/time, random numbers, data in other files, etc. This leads to some interesting possibilities that I don't think PostgreSQL's implementation can touch.

The calculated columns one that supports only immutable functions because the values are materialized which doesn't make sense otherwise can't, but then on-the-fly calculation makes reads expensive. If you need that, though, Postgres supports it in views since (approximately) forever, which are the classic SQL approach to the problem.
What I see in Germany is that some of the startups are basically contracted by larger companies, tasked to develop complex solutions for a fraction of the price that an established company would require for the same task.

At least that's my experience so far.
It isn't just about scratching an itch. It results in fewer bugs, faster development, more features etc. which are useful to end users.
Ask HN: Is SQL a primary tool of choice for doing ETL pipelines in 2019?
Is SQL considered a primary tool of choice for ETL pipelines in 2019? Benefits/drawbacks?
I am surprised that reddit is on #13.

It's alexa rank in US social media websites is #2 behind Facebook. Apart form their redesign shenanigans, people actually like the product they offer (in contrast to facebook) and they are still growing.

I wish Reddit stays in the kind of "grey" area where it never gets as "official" as twitter, despite the popularity. If anything, that might be entirely its appeal.

That predicament will eternally present a glass ceiling for reddit's revenue, but as a consumer I'd rather see that than it going the full facebook -> hyper growth above anything else approach.
My guess is he means punished in the marketplace, ie, not buying proprietary software - not punish as in throw them in jail for buying/selling proprietary software.

It's a perfect example of where our society seems to be heading. Taking words and sentences out of their context and publishing the fragments over and over leads to incomplete understanding and misinterpretation.

To me, this is similar to the recent cases where some public figure said the N word 10 years ago, and so their present company fired them. Remember the phrase from childhood "Stick and stone may break my bones but words can never harm me." That's the principle of free speech. We sure don't have that anymore.

If you are a media person and use the N word in your position, and it's against your employer's policy to do that, fine - you're fired. But if you personally are a racist or hate gays or whatever, that should be your choice, and if you say the N word to your neighbor and they record it, your employer should not be able to fire you.

We have become way too sensitive IMO, and the fact that news is on 24/7 (they have to fill that time with something!) and is more about evoking feelings, spouting opinions and prophecies, and sensationalism than it is about facts, is a big part of the problem.
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Think Mad Max on mobility scooters.
I've stock piled food. The Irish border is already an issue, I was there recently when two bombs were found.
I doubt it will be pretty.
I see now. That's really clever. The fact that there's a double free AND that the WhatsApp gallery parses a GIF twice for some reason is a great catch.
I would be very interested to see what a vote for 'English independence' would return. It'd be fascinating considering the benefit we gain from it, but I wouldn't be surprised to see a large majority vote to go it alone.
> 40k years is between 1000 and 2000 generations. Why would it be unreasonable to think there could be significant genetic drift over that many iterations?

Sure, it looks like there "could be". So what is interesting is the evidence I presented that there hasn't been.

For why, maybe

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dsfyu404ed

explains. Or, with plants and domestic animals, we managed the evolution with directions in mind, but for humans Darwin had less intense objectives.
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I think the argument is that the government bailout was much simpler than having each bank go through a bankruptcy negotiations with their various creditors.

Many of the debtees probably came out behind what they could have negotiated, but there was a net gain by avoiding all of that work to negotiate.
Finished the demo and enjoyed the experience. Fun! Thank you!

Some ideas that would have made it even more fun for me, though which might change the game too much from your original vision:

Ghost arrow: show what shot I played last time, so I can tweak my strategy.

Reset: some sort of gesture to quickly go back to the start, so I can tweak based on the ghost arrow.

Escape velocity: a fun part of orbital mechanics, and a way to penalize me for just using a “hit as hard as I can” strategy where the only changes I make are shot direction.

Hard mode was the most fun because getting a cool hole-in-one felt really fun. I almost missed that hard mode was even an option — the help screen says “hard mode” so I assumed that was the mode I was in, but it turns out it was the button to play in hard mode, which turned out to be a lot more fun because of the reset mechanic.
I want it to be a video game console :) I think our students would have a lot of fun with that.
I had a professor years ago that emigrated from Bulgaria. He said he could've lived like a king there with relatives in the corrupt train sector/mafia, but came to the US to teach as an adjunct instead. That about sums it up.

Corruption is mentioned in the comments here but I'm disappointed it wasn't mentioned in the article.
768. Measure and mark cutting lines on materials, using a ruler, pencil, chalk, and marking gauge.
Silverlight was a client side plugin, like Flash, which needed to be installed separately from the browser.
I admire people like you who are able to dig their feet into the ground and defend the sensible position.

We need more people like you in management: namely to be willing to take bullets but not budge when they know they would otherwise damage their staff.

Please, never change.
Thank you, I was hoping it would appeal to the DG crowd. I couldn't go as full minimalism as DG since I felt that some explanation / tutorial was necessary (the game being a little less obvious). I also wanted to play more on a "Le Petit Prince" theme!
When people claim the NHS is going to be privatised I think it is either deliberate scaremongering or they just don't realise how politically impossible it is. What probability would you assign this happening in the next 10 years conditioned on Brexit happening? I would assign less than 5% chance that this would happen.
I think part of it is that us Brits have a hard time getting our head round the idea of a president, or elected head of state, on the basis that over here the role of head of state gets all the pomp and ceremony but behind all that is really a nothing job of only ceremonial importance. The actual work is done by a lowly commoner MP that makes all the real decisions.
thanks for catching
Aren't there some laws prohibiting this kind of behavior? I mean, willingly and purposely dumping tons of plastic waste in the ocean should be a crime everywhere no? Can't do that with oil, why is it permitted with plastic?

Well, at least it's another group added to my list of people we could do without.
Problems: double free might still happen, except now some innocent memory block can be corrupted as well, which just happened to have the magic value in that address.

All memory allocations are now misaligned, decreasing performance. On some platforms misaligned access causes a bus error exception.

The marker would generally need to be at least 8 bytes. This would alleviate the problems, but also cause pretty significant overhead.
> Imagine how loaded desktop UIs would be without right click context menus. This is what 3D Touch could’ve solved for touch UIs.

This is still solved, and in a much better way, with the new iOS 13 context menus, which are standardized across every application and are on every iOS/iPadOS device, and have easy APIs for developers to create complex nested menus. I'm not happy about the delay introduced on the new phones, but I think it's an overreaction to suggest that the delay negates the entire concept.
That was such a great episode. But one thing I hate about the philosophy, on the surface of it, is the cynical belief that you have to be simple or stupid to be happy. This is so patently un-true. In the immediate moment, maybe you can be happier but it becomes a short path to ruin for most people.

Although I do love the idea of how Zima constructed his own version of heaven and relegated himself to it. I just hate how he had to become unconscious to do so.
>Its really easy not to do it 100% of the time.

That's the same tired argument of C advocates regarding memory safety faults in C: "just program carefully, just don't double free / don't go over buffers, etc". As if those doing those things are consciously doing them, and can just decide not to.

And even less so is that case that someone teaching about gun safety, consciously shot himself with a loaded gun. The reality is that people with the best intentions and training can mess it, and that even more so for people don't have the best intention and training. Also people are faulty, memory is faulty, and just "you're doing it right, just do it wrong" is a naive non-solution.

>The No True Scotsman fallacy doesn't apply. Its a form of unfair gatekeeping. That's not the case here. These people were ignoring everything about gun safety so its perfectly fair to say they don't fall into the category of people that are responsible.

If these people (gun owning NRA employee, gun safety demonstrator, and tons of similar examples) can those things happen to them (and ignore safety), anybody can do it.

Even more so when gun safety isn't the issue. Even the most fanatic and OCD-level gun safety follower could just get their gun, when in some anger episode, and kill their spouses. So there's that too.

And it happens by the tons -- unless you're in the mafia or street gang, it's more likely to get it by a gun owning family/friend than by e.g. burglars.

>You should be able to recognize by the actions that led to the shootings that these people are not experts.

That's not even wrong.
This was a major decision to backtrack on this implementation. It will take a generational change before people are willing to try again. We may not see it implemented on an iOS device for 20 years now.
I think the three strikes law he signed helped to offset the long-term effect of those job losses on the unemployment rate as well.
I have an iPhone 11 Pro, the only part I don’t like on it is the lack of 3D touch. The replacement tap and hold gesture is slow comparatively.
Something interesting to note is that these emigrants are all young people.

Which means, these motherlands are left with only old people. It's a gigantic demographic disaster.
CUDA is result of being the first mover in an emerging field over a decade ago. It’s a lock in scheme the way Excel is a lock in scheme for Microsoft: a product that provides value which is used to generate revenue.

Using Vulkan(?) or OpenCL for deep learning is fine if your goal is helping get out the word that it’s at least possible to do so.

It’s not a great idea if you simply want to get your work done with a minimal amount of issues and with up to date support of all the prominent packages.

Both are valid objectives.

HIP won’t help you one bit if you use one of the many CUDA libraries.
DNA Nanomachines Are Opening Medicine to the World of Physics
That's gross salary, right? It would be the top of the range in Hungary (gross also).
Microsoft Announces ARM-Powered Surface Pro X
That's what appealed to me. Cross-platform desktop client? Electron/TypeScript. Front-end of a website? TypeScript. Back-end service? Node/TypeScript.
Aren't Californians moving to Idaho and Oregon
I wasn't making a value statement that any given ideology is good or bad. I was simply providing definitions.
> Imagine how loaded desktop UIs would be without right click context menus.

I mean, they might have to use hamburger-menus or menubars (which are functionally equivalent), just like desktop UIs did back when Apple mice only came with a single button! (and this is coming back in style, now that touchpads come with only a single physical "click" action, and no separate buttons) Why can't touch UIs do the same? It works just fine on a detachable tablet PC when running GTK+3 apps, I could easily imagine doing quite involved work there.
I remember playing a game like this when I was a kid (25ish years ago) at school, except it wasn't golf, but rather a two player game where you shot gravity-assisted missiles at each other (think Worms-in-space). I remember it being on an Acorn Archimedes, but it may have been a PC.
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Also valid, but in this case you'll still need to check their ships before they leave. Though I guess the cost of the nets could help pay for these checks.

I imagine in both cases the ships would just have a boat meet them out at sea with additional nets so they either don't need to pay the fine for nets lost or don't need to buy expensive certified nets.
Has anybody used this in anger? It looks cool, but there is that obvious worry about investing the time to learn it, only to have it abandoned by MS.
Or it could be, as people have said many times before and the actual subject of this article confirms, that people were sick of Intel using its near Monopoly in the past to price gouge its customers and slow walk tech improvements.
Verge3D 2.15 for 3ds Max is out with gamepad support, improved camera and glTF
Adams was extreme procrastinator.

He could not self-manage his work once he had wealth and had no need to write for living. Once his editor rented cheap hotel room, removed all distractions and hovered over him until the book was done. Adams worked with Salmon of Doubt 10 years and didn't even manage the first draft.
Intermodal containerization is one of the most underrated and underappreciated technologies of our civilization. I'm not saying it's unappreciated, but people don't realize the extent that it's changed the world.

But it didn't happen in a vacuum. Cheap shipping certainly wouldn't be possible without containerization and improvements in logistics, but the new system only made sense when scaled up to giant ships (fuel and crew size efficiency), which in turn only became feasable when ships could quickly/easily onload and offload at multiple ports in multiple countries, without quarantine/ security/ customs delays at each port.

You could say it's a chicken & egg situation, but the scale of the containerization age only began to make sense in the context of relaxed regulation and efficient import/export policy.

Also, it wasn't a case of non-existant regulation racing to catch up with a booming new technology (ala the internet or Uber/Lyft). International trade regulation has been around since before, well, nations were even a thing. It's the original bureaucracy. The regulation had to be addressed first, or at least simultaneously. Which to me is as impressive, if not moreso- cutting through a worldwide rats nest of bureaucratic red tape in so little time. (Regardless of if you agree with the resulting policy.)
I don't really have to quote the dictionary definition in full to be correct about misogyny being the wrong charge.
Yeah, I'm not advocating Libra, just blockchains and crypto in general.
I wish browsers supported these languages natively. It seems like when the html standard was designed they thought about it. I know the script tag has a language attribute.
Blind Spots in AI Just Might Help Protect Your Privacy
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Thanks for the detailed feedback - some really good points.

Ghost arrow is something I thought of, but I was concerned it would make the game too easy.

Reset: you can long press without dragging to reset. There's a tutorial-prompt for it, but it only comes up when you appear to be stuck in a gravity well (which can happen).

Escape velocity: I did have this initially, but playtesters found it very frustrating and preferred to see a crazy figure-of-16 through lots of planets. I understand your point of view though.

That's very good feedback on hard mode - I wonder what I can change to make that more obviously a button. I personally prefer hard mode too.
Yes, their gamble of buying extremely risky assets paid off. Similar to how you can "bet all on red" and manage to win.

But that doesn't make it a good long-term plan. The incentives for banks are still unchanged: "heads I win, tails I get bailed-out". And of course even if they run the economy into the ground they still get their bonuses.
It's kind of a shame that 3D Touch was removed at pretty much the same time as iOS 13 made it much more useful.
I have been to santorini this summer. It's an area which is not comparable to the rest of greece. A raxi to dea sunset during the afternoon can easily be 30 eur and we are talking about a distance of 7 km.

Maybe off-season it's affordable. But combined with Mykonos it's an area where the term highway robbery comes ro mind.
I noticed it very much depends on which country you lived in. Here in Europe all-nighters are generally frowned upon although greedy leaders who try and guilt-trip their people into working themselves to death exist everywhere. But around here people are generally less receptive to such manipulation.