skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a MUCH better explanation: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25459141

Killing off the misbehaving cells is an obvious solution but this must also shorten the organisms lifespan via organ failure.

You only get so many divisions from the zygote before a cell line must be killed off, put into senescence, or it starts malfunctioning due to accumulated mutations (~60). A good solution produces as many differentiated functional cells as possible while minimizing divisions from the zygote.

Really, this article shows a fundamental misunderstanding of how our bodies work.
The edge cases in this example are trivial to generate: length 1, or empty string. ("Ends with the letters MR" isn't on this list, and is awfully specific.) If you do nothing but have a text field that can contain anything at all the user chooses to type, that will work!

Add in "user X's name changes to Y on date Z" (hard to put in a list of edge case names) and you've covered 98% of these issues.
At some point, artificially extended life spans may become feasible and common.

It seems to me if/when that happens, a life sentence should be considered cruel and unusual.
JavaScript Frameworks for Front-End Development in 2020
I wonder how stock PHP is stacking up to Hack both from the dimensions of efficiency, safety, and productivity these days.
Given that Warren has spent much of her recent campaign hedging away from Medicare for All, defending the existence of billionaires, and coordinating with the Clintons, I think actually the billionaires would be just fine with her.
Do you remember the title of the book?
So it probably means that a "dynamically" typed system is used. Is there a database where if you INSERT the string 'TRUE' you get an actual boolean stored? IIRC MySQL used to not actually coerce types into the type the column is declared as.
All I could think when reading that headline was "Which one?". Frankly this incident (a physical theft of mining hardware) isn't even that interesting in a "bitcoin" sense. Presumably the hardware was attractive because it's easily liquidatable (being used by inherently gray market folks already) and not because of any value from their bitcoin role per se.
"Campaign donations are a great investment. Stocks might only earn you 10%, but controlling the government can multiply your investment unimaginably"

This should be on the front page here.
> I don't buy the bullshit that there's some sort of good math vs. bad math in physics

Good, because no one is saying that the math is intrinsically either good or bad. Hossenfelder says that math (in physics) works best when it focuses on things that are at least aspirationally testable. Your examples agree with her.

> I'm saying that we have no reason to expect that we are somehow doing science any more wrongly than we used to do science

Hossenfelder gives a reason: there needs to be a certain balance between experimentation and theory because that's what works, experimentation has changed, therefore theory needs to change but it hasn't. If you want to argue with the actual argument she's making -- rather than an argument you've made up and put in her mouth -- you need to challenge her premise or her conclusion, yet you're doing neither.

> It wants to discard all of what has worked

Quite the contrary: She argues that theoretical physics today is what's discarding all that has worked. She wants to continue all that has worked and discard a new approach that hasn't. Again, you're not disagreeing with anyone as you don't seem to engage with the actual argument.

> and offers no compelling replacement bedrock.

She does offer a "replacement": maintain the balance that has worked. You may not find it specific enough, but that doesn't mean that there isn't a problem, and that doing something that hasn't worked is the best we can do just because we don't know how to do what worked before.

Again, I find hard to keep this up because you seem to be responding to an argument that no one has made, and completely ignore the actual argument made. You keep saying what she says is silly, yet don't raise a single argument against her actual point. In fact, you call what she says "bullshit" and then vehemently agree with her. To actually make a couterargument you need to either say that experimentation hasn't changed, that theory has maintained its balance with experimentation or that the balance isn't important. Anything other than those three positions is irrelevant here, and certainly isn't in disagreement with Hossenfelder. I'm not a physicist, but I know a thing or two about logic, and I am honsetly interested in seeing one of these points made, but you're just lashing out without arguing anything. Which of those three possible counterarguments are you trying to express?
Coolest Cleats
My comment was mostly tongue-in-cheek but there's some truth to it. Since the receiver creates a navigable data structure with 64-bit pointers, every two bytes sent ("[]") becomes 20+ bytes in RAM (low estimate!). An order of magnitude magnification helps.
In patent law, novelty only means new (never done before). Patent novelty has nothing to do with the cleverness, inventiveness, or importance of an invention.

A patent must also be non-obvious, which is where many of the other inventive characteristics fall.
"speedy deletion" is a kind of article deletion, where the wikipedia admin can skip the discussion/consensus stage. The speediness refers to the time between when the deletion nomination is submitted and the article is deleted. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Criteria_for_speedy_...)
Though mounted separately and not on the wings:

"The modern aileron was invented and patented by the British scientist Matthew Piers Watt Boulton in 1868, based on his 1864 paper On Aërial Locomotion."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aileron
Seems like the only way to get them to fix this is to make a fuss about how it's racist. You shouldn't have to, but that's what I would do. That'll get them to pay attention.
The Maybe command sounds similair.

https://github.com/p-e-w/maybe
I am very afraid of this. In a sense, we may be the country that is least able to fight back. Imagine the the U.S. military-industrial complex operating at full-strength with its sights set on the resistance, with the support of our world-class surveillance apparatus. What hope do we have against any of it? Without some hivemind-like ability to coordinate ourselves, we are probably pretty doomed. And surely if not, China and Russia will be waiting to take further advantage of a weakened U.S.A. in the event of any inroads made towards dethroning the existing regime. I fear they would be fairly successful.

Someone please convince me otherwise?
The person called them trying to sell something (a "cold call"), but then left a bad review claiming to be a customer.
I once had a landlord in Detroit who stopped paying his HOA dues In a large complex. I had a court order to pay my rent to the HOA and he was not happy about that. He threatened to evict me (not legal), but then his ex girlfriend got involved. His ex girlfriend was a well known real estate agent with a popular house flipping tv show on national television. She threatened to blacklist me with every major landlord in the city and then only got more aggressive. I looked up the realtors code of conduct, wrote a 10 page complaint to the licensing board with cited evidence, and emailed them a draft with the note “all I want to do is continue to pay my rent and legally occupy this unit. I don’t want to fight, but if we can’t resolve this I will submit it tomorrow.” His girlfriend went away and suddenly I had no problems (and apparently he paid his over due HOA dues). I never mailed the complaint, but I did move out within a few months.
I don't need statistics to tell me this is wrong. I can just look at the lives of my family members, my friends, my neighbors, etc. This is an instance where common sense and real life experience trumps statistics. We all know the saying about statistics.
I guess you are exagerating quite a bit.

Creating a Debian package is actually pretty straight forward:

1. download upstream tarball.

2. execute dh_make -f <path-to-tarball>

3. debuild -us -uc -b

That is it! There is no secret.

dh_make does the heavy lift of generating everything you need.

Your only job is to declare the dependencies (build and runtime ones) inside the "control" file, maybe change the "rules" file (it is a Makefile).

There are also several helpers that goes even further and automate 99% of the process.
Turns out breathing in large quantities of oil droplets is really bad for your lungs...

Now perhaps they can stop the hysteria and put in some effective regulatory control instead.
Ted Cruz took pot shots at Beto’s nickname because it won points with his bloc of Hispanic voters: https://www.thedailybeast.com/meet-the-hispanic-voters-who-m...

It’s a way for Cruz to signal membership as part of the large minority of Hispanic Americans who are religious, anti-socialist, and have conservative views on abortion, crime, drugs, etc.

It’s a shrewd way to stake out and define a distinct identity for minorities who lean conservative. Look at Sajid Javid in the U.K. (where the Tories are in the verge of pulling in the majority of the Indian vote): https://www.politico.eu/article/conservatives-lure-south-asi...

> “Most ethnic minorities believe in the Conservative values of family, self-reliance and aspiration.”
He cold called op. So probably wanted to sell them a service/product. By the caller turned around to leave a fake review as though he was a customer of OP.

At least that's how I interpreted it.
Look up two-digit date fields, packed-decimal, zoned-decimal, bitfields, and other encoded-field datatypes. All were explicitly created to save on data storage, when the main transmission medium was punch cards.

The rationalisation is not conjecture. It's fact. Bits and baud were expensive.

And that's before getting to bitshifted storage of software and similar tricks.

SABRE dates from the 1950s. Which was a long time ago in Internet Years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabre_(computer_system)

The computer it was based, the IBM 7090, on had memory storage of 32,768 words of 36 bits, about 64 KB using today's 16-bit byte. It operated at 100 kflops/s. A modern AMD-64 CPU tends around 4-64 flops per cycle, or in the neighbourhood of 4-250 gigaflops/s, up to about 2 billion times faster.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_7090

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLOPS
He shouldn't have to. He is a human being. Computers were made to serve us, not the other way around.
I think you’re wrong actually. My hypothesis is that a sizable Georgian tax and a public dividend of the revenue has the potential to provide both freedom, growth and increased equality.
Astounding depth. Reminds me of tuning interleaves with SpinRite, some time before the old disk he's using was made.
It’s impressive how you’ve taken issue with my simple statement about “don’t add more complexity to taxes; simplify taxes.”

You’re basically arguing that I shouldn’t make this statement unless I have specific details about how to simplify taxes? I can’t make a general directional statement if I haven’t taken the time to learn about all the nuances? Do you always learn about all the nuances and define all the terms before starting a discussion?
Linkedin is extremely upset at this post.
I misread what you wrote there.

Anyway, in steady state the consumption from the oceans can be only equal to the inflow from rivers. If that's (as I've seen estimated) 25,000 tons/year, that's enough to power the world if breeders are used, but not enough if today's thermal burner reactors are used.
>After spending years and millions of words and hours of video on this, we’ve had almost zero success. Why? Because you can’t reason people out of positions they didn’t reason themselves into. No one responds well to having their identity attacked. No argument made in bad faith—that the person on the other side is a moron or a dupe or a racist or a snowflake—is ever going to be received in good faith.

Unfortunately it seems that even compassionate arguments made in good faith are ineffective for most people. As the author states: "you can’t reason people out of positions they didn’t reason themselves into", and most people don't reason themselves into the positions they believe.
What about ‘i’?

I’m not suggesting this gets done - the persons name is their name.

A system I use has a 42 character limit for the last name, at that was passed last week with a 47 character last name.
> In Iceland, it is not a crime to stage a prison break: The law recognizes that inmates, like all human beings, are naturally entitled to freedom, and thus cannot be punished for seeking it.

Funny :)
The correctional facility's role is to incarcerate him, restrict his freedoms. I don't think it's unreasonable to think that there's a line that needs to be drawn there, from my perspective as an emergency medical provider.

There's still some role of autonomy here. Even as a prisoner he is allowed to determine what he may read, may do (within restriction), when he goes to the bathroom. Saying "No, you have no right to determine what medical treatment you do or do not receive", to me, undermines a civilized society, even for the incarcerated.

"Sorry you were diagnosed with amazingly painful metastasizing bone cancer. If you should go into cardiac arrest, be advised, though, we will not let you pass - we are going to work to keep you alive. This may result in brain damage to you. But so be it. It may result in long, expensive and painful procedures for the rest of your life. But so be it".

Note that this is different to, say, hunger strikes and force feeding, but instead about medical conditions.

Should they keep him on life support for fifty plus years, in theory, just so he can "serve out his life sentence" to the satisfaction of the state, for example?

From a medical provider's perspective, and similarly, someone with custody over another, ignoring and actively violating their medical treatment wishes (in my state, the POLST form - Physician's Orders for Life Sustaining Treatments, which has replaced and expanded upon DNRs) is just as much assault and battery as anything else, and may also be considered negligent and malpractice.
Well, have clear rules, clear penalties and due process, saying crap about any skin color is hate speech. You have no shortage of that in the US right now.

That's not my country and not much of my business but if half of your country is fine using its free speech defending KKK apologists and the other half only meets that with apathy, don't be surprised if some Black Panthers come back to life and use their own free speech fighting back.

And maybe I am less shocked by this affair because in many European cities, wearing a MAGA hat would be seen pretty close as wearing nazi insignia. Under it, lies either someone very racist or someone very confused. And either way probably someone that is not going to have a constructive participation.

So yeah, probably lack of clear rules, lack of due process, I hope that's the takeaway they'll get from it.

Arbitrary enforcement of vague rules is authoritarianism, but you can have clear rules and due process to limit hate speech. It has been done successfully in several places.
Reminds me of this:

https://xkcd.com/327/
For example: names in languages that have no written form.
In Quebec, composite first names (prénoms composés) like Marc-Antoine are pretty common, so there was nothing weird about my parents giving me such a name. And frankly, most webforms I had to fill out while living there accepted my name just fine.

However, now that I've moved to the United States, it's been a bit of an annoyance.
Amazing how much this applies inside of standard corporate situations that are technically within the letter of the law. The savvier managers and executives, if they want to act in such a manner, tend to do it outside the watchful gaze of anyone else and browbeat peers and subordinates into silence.
Having a propane powered generator seems like the cheapest easy-button. You are already producing tons of co2 with unregulated burning of wood, it would actully benefit your environmental profile. While propane cannot be gathered in the woods, neither can dishwashers, water heaters, batterys or controllers.

I'm honestly suprised when I hear an off-gridder is even considering a dishwasher, which is replaced easily by another 10 minutes at the sink, uses no wattage, less water. Seems it would be a smaller sacrifice in the big picture than the other issues.

Also consider passive heat options. Painting one side of your home a dark color is shockingly effective, even moreso passive heat exchangers.

Find old car batteries, and learn to recondition them. They are a bit bulky, but can provide cheap amperage if you understand the concepts involved. Most just need a bit more water and acid, and a desulfation to hold a majority of their original capacity.
> Renders from center of screen, in clockwise spiral outward, if any pixels remain after 15ms I want to drop them (should only be peripheral, I'm OK with that in exchange for constant performance time).

GPUs get their performance from parallelism, and it has been a core defining feature that GPUs render pixels in 2x2 pixel squares calls "quads". This is a requirement for the traditional GPU graphics programming model. The GPU programming model does not mandate any sort of pixel ordering, and doing that will kill performance.

> Can add secondary orthogonal clipping triangles to each triangle, such that the clipping edge could be defined by a curve.

GPUs deal with triangles. Period. You cannot get arbitrary curved geometry. You could do this at the pixel shader, discarding pixels that don't meet the curve profile, but that's hard to make 3D, and you'll be relying on post-style AA (like FXAA), or analytic AA and blending. Maybe that's fine for you. But flatly declaring "I need to be able to do curved geometry" is refusing the last 25+ years of GPU development.

> Once it has associated these slow compute intensive simulations with the model, ideally we can swap in high-resolution smoke/fluid graphics in-game by only using a few low resolution particle "marker" calculations that then trigger substitutions for the model.

Realistic smoke/fluid graphics can exist (see NVIDIA's Flow), but you don't tend to see them in games because games prefer techniques that mesh with the lighting, art style, and interact with the environment (smoke that respects the ceiling, fluid that collides with the floor). For some meager effects it's possible to do collision with the depth buffer. The simulation part is honestly the easy part.
Congress should pass the Little Bobby Tables Act, that outlaws SQL injection bugs, legalizes the use of full Unicode in all names, and requires all software to be updated to fully support its requirements.

Then you could give your kids cool names with colorful emojis, and even invisible &ZWNBSP; zero-width no-break space word joiners and &SHY; soft hyphens!
I had that penny dropping epiphany years ago, and it's great to see it repeated here: patents are for the investor class who are accustomed to dealing with pieces of paper that represent value: stocks, bonds, mortgages, warrants, copyright, trademarks. Patents are really an attempt to fit what we do into their world of value-paper. The fact that there's a significant impedance mismatch underlies all the problems with patents.
One solution to the "hello name" would be to ask for it separately. Every time you're tempted to parse or rearrange a name, just don't, and ask the user instead, and make a new column or field to put it in. Now that's a paradigm that might stand a chance of winning database. Although ironically your correct rendering of everyone's name will doubtless create mismatches with all the officially sanctioned incorrect renderings by other inferior mortals out there.
The opening preamble of this article is clearly a shill for the BBCs adaptation of His Dark Materials.

That said, the reason we don't have a return to airships, is that they cannot carry the sheer numbers that planes can, need a much larger 'docking' area compared to planes, and take 100 times as long to get anywhere compare to modern air travel.
>But the industry’s chief pioneer is hardly a household name.

Actually the name (in slightly different form) is probably reasonably familiar to many people even if they don't know it was a person given that Birds Eye is a big international brand of frozen food, vegetables in particular.
Oh my god names are so, so, difficult to deal with. I'm doing something where I get information / stats about players from different sites, and it's like all of them have different names. For example:

Joseph Smith // nice and generic
Joseph Smith Jr. // gotta make sure we tell people he's the son of another Joseph Smith
Joseph Smith Jr // psh, we don't use periods!
Jose Smith // if from a different country, some sites keep their native name
José Smith // yup, sometimes accents are kept
Joe Smith // nicknames, all about those.
Joey Smith // kid nickname, sure
Jos� Smith // literally even had to deal with a site that had unknown unicode letters
Juan Jose Smith // sometimes, people go by their middle names, but some sites like to use their full name instead
Juan Smith // remember how some people go by their middle names? Maybe a site only gives you their first and last

How, how in the world is someone supposed to go through and match all those names with each other in a somewhat quick manner? I can't imagine it's fully solved because there'll always be other cases.

I've tried a couple ways, like removing periods and accents, removing "Jr", "Sr", "III", removing all vowels even. And then went further and tried some of the string matching libraries that return a number with how close words are to each other. That would help cases where Joe, Joey, Joseph would come back quite close, but then I'd run into the issue of a "Darren Smith" and "Darek Smith" would come back so similar the computer thought they were the same person.

In cases like names, that Patrick writes about here, yeah, they're almost impossible to get right and it ends up being mostly by hand, which is fine since I can get it correct, but eats up so much time.
I must admit I have not seen one.
Sounds like a perfect thing to crowdsource
Whose networks will it work on inside USA ?

Is it GSM or CDMA ?

To what size add on memory card is allowed ?
Do human vegans get less cancer? (Honest question.)
It is used in the article.
I did not say anything like that. I said the judge is trying to effectively inject the judge’s notion of common sense in an extralegal way.

The impression of whether the judge’s common sense is valid or invalid has utterly nothing to do with this issue at all. The issue is that off the cuff common sense reasoning is not rigorous legal reasoning, it can have all kinds of unintended consequences.
By "all" I mean it is the norm. You could perhaps find one who didn't in Cardiff.
Using Rust in Windows [pdf]
Ask HN: Machine learning use cases in retail
What are some of the use cases of machine learning you have come across/ worked on in the retail industry
I imagine it's really trivial to download the Android APK, decompile it into it's source code, modify the code, and then push the modified app back on to the phone. You can be anyone you want to be. This idea does fall apart after the officer looks up the license number on his device. Do you think this would work at taverns?
Associated blog post -> https://msrc-blog.microsoft.com/2019/11/07/using-rust-in-win...

This Saturday 9th of November, there will be a keynote from Microsoft engineers Ryan Levick and Sebastian Fernandez at RustFest Barcelona. They will be talking about why Microsoft is exploring Rust adoption, some of the challenges we’ve faced in this process, and the future of Rust adoption in Microsoft. If you want to talk with some of the people working on how Microsoft is evolving its code practices for better security, be sure to attend the keynote and talk to Ryan and Sebastian afterwards!