skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
... that the functionality people here seem to expect is not set up by default. Some of the people commenting don't seem to know what needs to be set up, thus the explanation for their benefit, and also an explanation of what exactly is not set up.
Dr. Johnston said the real problem is that people don’t want to accept findings that contradict long-held views. “People have very strong opinions,” he said. “Scientists should have intellectual curiosity and be open to challenges to their data. Science is about debate, not about digging your heels in.”

There's a vast difference between not having intellectual curiosity and not wanting to deal with cranks. Dr. Johnston is not challenging any data. He's simply treated the data to a different type of analysis previously deemed inappropriate for dietary studies and lo and behold, has achieved a different result. Unless Dr. Johnston can show this analysis better describes observed effects, which he has not even attempted to do, then there's no reason to give any of this research a second look.
In addition to the mentioned June Lake loop, basically all of the valleys west of highway 395 in Mono County have many kinds of foliage, including Lee Vining Creek (the deep valley east of Tioga pass), Mammoth Lakes, Hilton Creek, and many others.
When the mountain is both tall & too steep, it quickly crumbles. This sets something of an upper limit on how tall the mountain can be.

Indeed, many of the world's tallest mountains are more massive than they are steep.

For extra credit, here's another competing theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glacial_buzzsaw

In short, glaciation & associated erosion grows significantly more aggressive with altitude, creating a sort of asymptotic limit to the height of a mountain.
> Fun fact: the originator of this software also wrote ping. He was slightly miffed that ping got more attention.

ping got more attention because the original brl cad was only available from a .mil domain and you need to ask for a key to decrypt it. When it was finaly opened it was no more interesting .
"...why the Himba have only five basic color terms but many words for the various hide patterns of their livestock"

Good article, but isn't the answer to this question obvious? We have words for things we need to talk about. If you don't have a lot of cases where two objects are the same category, except for color (because you have a lot of dyes and pigments available), then you don't need a word for those colors.

We don't, in English, usually have a great vocabulary for smells. We have to say "it smells like...", as if we said that red things "had a color like apple", and yellow things "had a color like banana", instead of having the words "red" and "yellow".

But, I could imagine you might need to have a word for the various hide patterns of your livestock. "I'll give you that pattern-A cow for your packet of salt. No, I won't part with the pattern-B cow, it's my favorite." I would have to say "the one with the pattern with big splotches" or "the one that looks kind of streaky", because I don't often need words for those patterns. But I need words for colors all the time. "The light is about to turn red."

Still interesting article, though.
My old unis main library was a model. Massive grand reading room that was dead silent (with felted chairs to keep them silent) and a statue of an angel without a head to motivate you. Open collaborative areas. Computer labs in separate wings.

It also had a dozen floors of stacks in a tower with little tables and cubicles shoved in on the edges and near the elevator because as you said, the shelving muffles noises.
In 2015 I was working at a place (40k-employee multinational) that still used Notes and windows xp.
"Read one's opponents" isn't about reading a person's soul sitting across from you. That whole aspect of poker of picking up tells plays a much smaller role than simply understanding what hands your opponent is likely to have in each possible specific situation or knowing your opponents playing tendencies, such as how frequently do they raise, call, fold, and in what cases would they do those actions. Tells can still be important but most experienced players will have learned to control their emotions to the point where it's far more reliable to rely on your understanding of the game than to rely on some psychological meaning behind someone splitting an Oreo cookie before making a decision.

As far as computing "large factorials and binomial coefficients in their heads", I don't know what makes you think that that's what poker math entails. It's nearly all just basic statistics.
Seems like near zero.

RAM is specced based on worse case, generally - and it's not like this is going to save that much anyway since it's not user-space memory.
Population growth is a good thing, it will force us to build cities on mars, irrigate sahara, build floating cities on the ocean. And will help to make "produce once, use infinitely" things: art, software, science cheaper. It wouldn't be a side effect of basic income but the main purpose.
Ford's approach to employee activism: Listening
Indeed, I still have pseudo-fond memories of cutting my programming teeth on .NET Compact Framework and using the User Interface guidelines to design my UIs.
Like the other pros and cons, it's a matter of degree and trade off.

We have buses as well (I still use them locally for trips too). I don't have a wheel chair, but I do have a stroller and no car, so I'm using then both heavily. In my old city I often put my bike on the front of the buses and relied on the express bus with commuter dedicated lanes that came every 5 minutes for a commute which worked very well in a town of 400,000 of mostly car drivers. But does it scale?

You can get several prams practically straight onto and off of a flat bottom tram without almost any stopping or logistical penalty.

On buses, not only is it comparatively awkward to get on and off, you have to nod, thank, praise every other passenger for getting out of the way, and you spend most of your time praying you'll be the only one using that particular aspect of the bus, because otherwise it becomes a lot more complicated.

Could you run three times as many buses to accommodate? Sure, but then you end up running into increasing start-stop-merging problems and the bus bunching problem presents itself earlier along the supply curve than with the tram.
Height has nothing to do with intelligence, which is what the discussion thread is about.
If you’re looking for a good fiction read relating to this, I just finished “Origin” by Dan Brown, would recommend.
Books are easier in some ways doesn't need power and you can have several open on a desk at the same time

RE Latin / Classics when I was doing classical studies in 6th form in the UK I wanted to do some additional reading.

A well known eccentric classical scholar (G M Lee) used to have his personal desk set up with all the books he needed.

I had to get my Mum who worked at the library to ask the county librarian to ask him if some one else could borrow some of the books.
It's a massive risk - it's the only external source of information he has at the table, without it, cyber security failures mean nothing
I've actually long eliminated salt (iodine) from my diet, because of various reports that it wasn't beneficial, but am now coming back on that. Thanks for telling me that. From what I read glycine is in nuts and meat, I'll have to read more on its properties.
Mixing the metaphor broke it. Starting again: I have a right to travel. Some travel involves vehicles, which are currently licensed. This is analogous to requiring permits and searches for specific kinds of speech.
Probably not correct since the earth is pear shaped not spherical, and the size of mountains are quite small relative to the earth's curvature. However from the article erosion of mountains seems to be impacted by water, limiting height, so on a smaller similar planet by material and water composition it would stand to reason that force of water given the same mass would be less so perhaps mountains would erode more slowly relative to continental drift and therefore be higher.
Wins for Health, the Economy and Security
Personal computers are probably the only reference point in favor of “install anything you want”. Walkmans, TVs, game consoles, MP3 players, household appliances, automobiles, flip phones etc all come without the ability to run custom software. I think the only reason PCs didn’t start with an App Store model is that they predate the internet, so there was no way for them to really control distribution.

Frankly I think there’s a reason why no more open model is succeeding — the demand is not there and the app stores provide the utility most people want. I used to jailbreak my iPhone but there’s really no need anymore.
Yeah, and to think the power a delegate in China's legislature have, you're asked to be a delegate and you show up to a meeting ONCE every 5 year, and rubber stamp 90% of proposals while rejecting 10% of absolutely batshit crazy stuff that some other delegate happened to suggest. Incidentally, everything submitted by the CCP magically falls under that 90% camp, with 2 known exception in the 70 years history of China. Yeah, that's a whole lot of power right there, you got me mate.
In general I have found Netflix's in house shows to have a higher production value and better writing then Amazon's in house shows. Amazon has a few gems, but Netflix has been more consistent. For many people with Prime accounts though, the streaming service is a bonus on top of additional services they are using their account for, such as twitch prime. I think that Apples new streaming service in the long run will be the competitor to Netflix, but only if they are able to create a library of content that is compelling.
That's simply not right. The FPGA in your NIC is much more powerful for packet processing than any CPU or GPU. Yes, the CPU is better at being a CPU- but that's just a matter of using the right tool for the job.
Well, that's exactly what proves the point that you could evolve three legged animals from bilaterally symmetric ones.
Now that is a clever way of doing it!
Sociologists caution colleges not to over-rely on student evaluations
Here's GMP's current tuning (for Skylake CPUs, from https://gmplib.org/devel/thres/)

Basecase: up to 520 digits (27 limbs x 19.26 digits per 64-bit limb = 520)

Karatsuba: 520 - 1425 digits

Toom3: 1425 - 4045 digits

Toom4: 4045 - 6068 digits

Toom6: 6068 - 8053 digits

Toom8: 8053 - 120835 digits

FFT: 120835+ digits
First mover advantage probably. If abiogenesis is common but not too common, whatever starts reproducing first might have a few billion years to spread everywhere and take over all possible niches.
Just because a test doesn't catch all attacks doesn't mean that performing the test is security theatre.

It's a bit like saying that ASLR and stack canaries are security theatre because they can be defeated by information leaks.
Apparently before the FOSS wave they had money.
>Trading is cheap now... because it's all been computerised.

This is true but the (fairly recent) move to essentially free trading for retail investors exists because firms will pay money to brokerages like Robinhood just to get the opportunity to trade with a pool of traders that are unsophisticated.
Ask HN: Why are recruiters not interested in contractors?
I have 10 years of development experience and have been doing contracting remotely for like 5 years now. I get most of my work through an agency at a rate of $100 / hour.

Nearly every day some recruiter emails me about a job opportunity. I am not really interested in switching since my arrangement is flexible and comfortable, but just for kicks, I always reply that I am available as a remote contractor at a rate of $130 an hour.

No recruiter has ever wanted to move forward or hear more. Why not? Is it the remote thing, or the contractor thing, the way I am responding, or what?

It seems like a lot of contracting happens in the industry, and overall contracting seems like a great way to bring someone on risk free, before trying to convert them to a full time employee (although I never go for this). What is it about offering back a remote contract that makes the recruiters run for the hills?
Total US equity market cap is around 30 trillion. Total money in ETFs is 4.5 trillion. So at the very least machines are investing over 10% of capital. Probably more like 20-30%

Of course this only US and only equities, but it's still well above 1%.
That may be, but for glasses at least a key measurement is pupillary distance, and it is like pulling teeth to get them to give you this. At my most recent encounter with an optometrist - where I had already selected and was in the process of purchasing from them glasses that cost me hundreds of dollars after my insurance discount - I had to ask them no less then four times to write down my PD so I could buy a few pairs of beaters online. They kept "forgetting."
And WEST PAPUA!!! Frustrating to see the Indonesian genocide of the West Papuan people is ignored.

There is far far worse going on in West Papua then is going on in Iran or Qatar, but Buzzfeed chooses to write about them instead.

The FB press release clearly mentions Indonesia and West Papua but it's ignored yet again by the western press.

https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2019/10/removing-coordinated-in...
Normally would be, but couldn't book the monday for my usual recovery day. Hard to do 12 straight days of programming.
> But when you need statistical methods to calculate deaths, that's just not as meaningful as counting body bags on-site.

Agreed, but it's necessary if the government lies to you -- which of course was a frequent problem with the soviets.

More recently, the Puerto Rico death toll for Hurricane Maria was just 64, and remained that way for a year. The only way it was eventually changed was proving (through statistical analysis) that the death toll was in fact higher.
In linguistics, archaeology, and history across a broad span of Europe and Asia, the vast majority of publications (even must-cite references) are not digitized.

Digitization done well costs money and man-hours, and most humanities departments are not exactly flush with cash and manpower.
Probably because "product life-cycle" is MBA 101.

Not sure if this is the original from HBR but it is from 1965: https://hbr.org/1965/11/exploit-the-product-life-cycle

From "Maturity Stage":

> The market maturity stage typically calls for a new kind of emphasis on competing more effectively. The originator is increasingly forced to appeal to the consumer on the basis of price, marginal product differences, or both.
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Funny... my wife avoids status-chasing like the plague, yet giggled like a 12YO when she found her grandmother's ancient iron frying pan. She swears it is the best tool for the job, despite the fact that we have 3 others. Well-seasoned, indeed.
Given these benefits, why aren’t such auctions more common in artisan manufacturing niches?

I had never heard of Vickrey auction. Knowing how to make some high quality artisan product in no way guarantees one also business savvy. In fact, it probably reduces the odds you know such.

The first two sound like “people are dumb amateurs who don’t like money”

Being a "dumb" amateur is sufficient. No need to act like lack of savvy means you don't like money.
That's against TOS and it's something that Apple is trying to fix. This is not a solution. It's a hack.
Just throwing my $0.02 into the ring - Vue struck me as incredibly easy to use. That was after learning AngularJS and some basic React stuff, and none of it felt natural or made sense.

Something about Vue is just.. simple. I picked up on it lightning quick and it reignited a fire I'd lost for development. I even did a bunch of side projects because of _just how quickly_ you can crank out code.

React I was writing all sorts of bogus looking JSX and it made me want to throw myself off a cliff, AngularJS was so.. verbose.. (granted it's very outdated by today's standards and of course modern Angular), but Vue actually made me spend my free time writing code again.

It really is excellent - download vue-cli and give it a shot. The HelloWorld app it'll generate is crazy simple, you literally need to mess with like 2 files right off the bat, and both are super self-explanatory.

And single-file components are crazy convenient and powerful.
Last year the administrators decided we needed a new wireless projector interface across campus rather than the standard hdmi/dvi+box of dongles present in every room.

No one is able to connect to it on the first try. Some laptops work via airplay, others not at all. I haven't seen a windows user successfully connect to the display (it involves connecting to a room specific wifi network, connecting to an IP address, and typing in a constantly changing password).

Some laptops work in the morning when the prof tests the room and not in the afternoon when the prof holds the class. The previous connected users screen will remain frozen on the display and sometimes, when you connect your laptop, it will move into a split screen configuration with the frozen display of the last user taking up half the screen real estate.

And best of all is that IT got rid of all the wired connections because some salesman told them that this was better than what has been working perfectly for the last 15 years. It is now October and the situation is not any better than during syllabus week and IT has absolutely no idea what to do.
Police brutality, lack of adequate accountability, is an evolving process that is trickling through society - through different states at different speeds: it's one of the values of giving relative sovereignty to each state so society can compare and contrast the different societal "experiments" based on their policies - allowing people to freedom to move between states and therefore the leadership they're under at the state level-context.
Well, if I were a starfish, I would take issue with that dismissive phrase. They are members of a large, and, I assume, proud phylum.

"Echinodermata [is the] second-largest grouping of deuterostomes (a superphylum), after the chordates...Echinoderms are also the largest phylum that has no freshwater or terrestrial (land-based) representatives."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echinoderm
Unused RAM usually is utilized for filesystem caches. So more cache, less disk usage, less power usage. Though difference must be truly negligible. Those trends of computing ecology terrifying me. People are talking about truly insignificant things. Yes, at large scale even 0.001% of energy saving seems like a significant number. But large scale is planetary scale and now on that scale it's again rounding error.
Soccer needs video reviews for dives, however.

I like that the MLS (USA association football league) fines players after the fact by reviewing later. The viewers get the suspense now, but later the players can be suspended for a game or fined for taking a fake dive.
Traveling by train with not tiny kids is pleasant.
Does it look agressive? I guess it's a matter of interpretation. It's substantiated by a mod in a sibling comment, see for yourself.
I think governments actually want Libra, what we're seeing is the role of Facebook in all of this being forcefully reshaped to better serve the needs of governments. Facebook will be compelled to give up some of the control and access over this new identity system in exchange for being allowed to operate it.
I agree! We've already been down this road so many times.

There's a regulation that Movie Studios cannot own Movie Theaters. You can go see movies from every studio at any theater near you, which makes them compete on the quality of the experience and price instead of just movie selection.

Online streaming needs that same regulation. Disney should not be allowed to operate a streaming service. Netflix/Hulu/Amazon Prime Video would all need to be broken up into the studio and the streaming platform. They should have to distribute their content to streaming services who then can compete on cost and UX. Then the studios would WANT to maximize the number of platforms their content appears on.

This would be a huge win for everyone involved except Disney/Netflix/Amazon. Consumers would get true competition between platforms on price and experience. The content producers would get a lot more reach for their content. And Disney doesn't get to yank all their movies off Netflix to seek rent on their own platform.
Thank you for the further explanation. However, I think that it could also be referred to as a "wildly exaggerated upper bound." Although I understand what you're saying, it's a terrible upper bound to use for risk assessments, or anything that you need to make sound engineering decisions based on. The true number of deaths from Chernobyl, outside of the actual plant fatalities, is likely closer to 0 than to 4,000.
By that metric, it's impossible to say that anything has ever happened.

I would stake my life and the future of our civilization on the judgement that a coin flipped heads 1,000 times is not a fair coin (or the flipper is not an honest one). It's not random happenstance if that occurs.

Yes, you can calculate the odds of it happening by chance, and arrive at an answer that's not exactly 0. But you can do that for anything else you'd call "definitive". Which means we've created a requirement for that term that's impossible to fulfill.

For example, the poker player in this article. What if we found text messages on his phone that said. "OK, going to the casino for another round of poker cheating!" Would that be definitive? There is a minuscule chance that someone at Verizon conspired to plant those text messages in their records, and use a 0-day exploit to make them appear on the phone. I'd wager the odds of that frame up are much better than flipping heads on a fair coin 1,000 times in a row.

They could find electronics embedded in his hat (with radio and bone-conducting speaker). But there's a small chance that the Under Armor factory mistakenly sent him that hat instead of the normal one he ordered. (The cheater hat being intended for a blackjack player in Missouri instead!)

When we're talking about a small number (0.000...) with a googol^3 zeros after the decimal point, we're talking about 0 itself. At least when trying to determine if evidence is "definitive" or not.
Texas hold'em is straightforward to calculate odds for. There are 52 cards in the deck. Two are in your hand, and after the flop three are on the table, leaving 47 unknowns. That means if you have N outs (cards that will improve your hand), the chance of hitting one on the turn is N/47, which is about 2N per cent. Likewise the chance of hitting by the river is about 4N%.

The hard part is calculating the implied odds: there you need to play out scenarios of what your opponent might hold, and what cards would cause them to bet or call with a losing hand.

Tells are overrated in poker. It's all about implied odds and grinding it out.
There is a good incentive for them to do it, just like any other business decision they make. There should also be a large monetary incentive for someone to create a more open platform if people really cared about it as much HN does. The problem is most people could care less. I will never hear my mom say she wishes she could download apps that aren’t on the App Store.
Most memory usage is not in the kernel. It's not a big effect overall.
Yeah I guess that's fair. It's a fairly shallow attempt to evoke a response.

At the same time, I still enjoy it because it did create a lot of responses.

I find discussions these days end up being an echo chamber of the same opinion. Something different and something to argue against is more interest than everyone just confirming each other.
Kind of seems like most games have this theme, really. A lot of games are about starting with nothing and then building up to something crazy. Everything from Civilization to Final Fantasy to Katamari Damacy to Tetris does this.

But hey, a constraint is a constraint. I'm sure some really clever games will appear from this.