skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The wyatt ones look extremely biological to me. Communication and Grouping is slime mold aggregation seen through a phase or differential interference contrast microscope. Branching Paths is some sort of slime mold or fungus colony growth. Fluid Mosaic is epithelial morphogenesis.
This is astonishing, to say the least.

I'm an excellent swimmer and very athletic. Have been all my life. The idea that an device designed to improve neurological functioning would remove an ability to coordinate one's limbs is stunning.

I'm curious if this would affect other types of coordinated activities. The article doesn't mention running or walking, but what about ice-skating, soccer, or basketball.

EDIT: Article does mention

> How the devices could interfere with swimming is not known. Dr. Baumann and his colleagues suggested that in some patients the signals may somehow affect a brain region that is crucial for coordinating limb movement. He said other complicated, learned skills might also be affected: Some patients said they could no longer ski after receiving stimulators, and one said he could not play golf anymore.
Absolutely. I think Boeing has proven with these statements that they no longer care about safety or engineering standards. They should have continued to run tests to prove that they meet 150%, make a video of it and continue to run, in order to regain the trust of the public. But they seem unwilling to get back the trust.

Also, I think this also shows that the interaction that Boeing have with the FAA and vice-versa, has been heavily corrupted by something (money?) and FAA is no longer trying to keep Boeing in check. They are trying to make sure that Boeing passes whatever certification even if they might miss some details.
At some level, you stick your head in a machine and it goes bzzzzzzt for 15 minutes. So you might ultimately get down to the cost of 15 minutes of machine time in an office, which is probably under $200.
Inventing an Operation to Solve x^x = y (2000)
Same reason AMD does: driver included hacks, either stability or performance.
We don’t have anything free in the United States. There are many things different. For example, we take in more refugees and give sanctuary to immigrants who jumped the border. We also pay for eye exams. That’s just one example about how countries are different.

I tire of country comparisons with Scandinavia or australia or India or China or Japan..or Mars.

We are who we are..we can only work within the parameters we have and strive to be the best within it.

I don’t even know who your incumbents are ..what qualifies you to speak of Sanders or Trump or Warren or our politicians. You are not here.

Instead of demanding free everything, it would make more sense to incentivize health.

ETA: I have often wondered why people want ‘free’ stuff? What is it that they offer for ‘free’ just like they receive for ‘free’?

Do they work without pay? Create things for free? Code for free? Every free act of labour or service is charity or volunteerism.

Even at subsidized level, this is true. An economy doesn’t work that way. A society doesn’t work that way. It would cause greater imbalances. Imbalances are entirely different and more difficult to remedy than inequalities.

If anything ‘free’ will come disguised as a perk. From corporations than governments. Example: buy our video game and get free eye exams for three years.

Amazon Prime does that. Become a prime member and get prime videos free or amazon music for free. And you have an opp to buy more when you are in..shipping isn’t free, but it’s kinda free, no?...one still pays for amazon prime.

I would rather have a for profit corporation make a deal with me for services(goods are over consumed with our increasing global population leading to resource crunch and unsustainability) and get freebies than feed Big Gov to become a giant nanny state. That would be the beginning of the end, IMO.
That doesn't really count for anything in our election system.
Sure.

But the UK actually lost the war. To the US.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21658967 responds to that.
I use a librem 13v3 as my main computer.

I like it because the hardware is all well-supported under linux. I run a fairly stripped-down Debian. I am no linux wizard, and I was able to make everything I needed functional. Bluetooth required a non-free firmware package.

Additionally, I got to support a company working toward more-open, more-free hardware. I would love for movement in that direction to be more common, so I put my money where my mouth is. If you don't care about that, you could get a laptop of equivalent performance, or better, for less money.

I don't know much about hardware performance or what the latest-and-greatest is. I don't play games or do anything that performance intensive locally. It is more than performant enough for my needs. The battery life seems good, but I've never timed it. I have an M.2 SSD in it.

The trackpad and keyboard are both relatively nice. The trackpad is a clicky pad, like the one on a macbook. I have it configured to use the "clickfinger" click method of libinput and two-finger-scrolling. The keyboard is backlit and has decent travel (not nearly as good as the old thinkpad keyboards, though).

There are hardware kill switches. One for wifi and bluetooth, and one for the camera and microphone. I generally just leave the camera/microphone off, and the wifi/bluetooth on. The switches protrude a bit so it is possible to accidentally move them.

The screen is a matte 1920x1080 IPS panel. I hate glossy screens because I like to use my laptop outside, so this is perfect for me.

It has a decent complement of ports. No ethernet port, though.
I mean, I like Purism, but that risks still exists with this phone. With any phone. The promise not to snoop is central to their business model and I have no reason to believe they would snoop, but certainly the capability is there.
Ask HN: What's Next After the Agile Manifesto?
Comparison of state-of-the-art music source separation models on Californication
Not my ISP. I’m mostly on VPN anyway :)
John Carmack on how to break into video games (& AI)
1. A feature length documentary. We raised about $4500 (goal was $12k). We used indiegogo so we were able to keep the partial funding. We got a lot of great content but we never finished partially because we were simply too underfunded and the project was too ambitious. We will be releasing a short series soon instead.

2. It’s a weird phenomenon that’s mostly related to hype. People are excited at launch/those are the low hanging fruit. Immediate friends/family. You end up wringing out that source pretty quickly. At the end people who dragged their feet or just wanted to see how it would do finally commit - plus you’ll just naturally be pushing it much harder at the end and probably giving away fun bonus stuff to people.

3. The video just needs to show you a lot. Be prepared, be confident, and just be as affable as possible. Have a friend or colleague coach you off camera if you can. Just really fine tune that image you know? Attach your name, your experience, everything about you to this. Be honest and clear - “I want to make money” can be said in many ways without being deceptive or obnoxious. You can say, “this product is something I stand by and I want to dedicate my full time and attention to it. When funded, I can dedicate the time, energy, and resources this project requires to make it amazing.” Stuff like that.

And no problem! Hope this is helpful.
We trained a NN to learn UI elements like buttons, inputs, navbar, etc. With that information we can grab the Sketch elements and build the correct UI in the correct coordinates.
> and that runs into the problem of having many people in a small isolated space for such a long period of time. I think the largest crews we've had up there were around 10 people.

Challenges of low gravity aside, this doesn't seem that different to a modern submarine. We have nuclear submarines with crews of ~150 that stay submerged for months at a time - the navy has to have some idea how to address the cultural problems inherent in packing 150 people into a tin can...
I like how there is a Shadertoy app for mobile which nicely shows off the insane power of modern smart phones.
Israel's Drone Industry Becomes Global Force
Try sharex
Furthermore, what guarantees that another similar test would fail in the exact same spot that they want to reinforce?
The level of concern in this post about something that would be a minor nuisance to almost everyone else, is remarkable.

It reminds me of a classmate in my political science class (now more than a decade ago) who emailed everyone a passionate blog post about how the Captain America cartoon show turned a generation of Americans against economic progress.
Ethos/PIR Funded and Led a Scorched Earth Campaign Against Communities at ICANN
Ok so they can arbitrarily set a unique price for a specific domain?
Yeah I’m sure stuff like this can work without code rewrite but my guess is that it’s far from plug and play. I couldn’t use that to run my model on an AMD card tommorrow without some effort.
What happened after explosion at a Russian disease research lab called VECTOR?
The situation is a bit more nuanced than you suggest. MRI gives you 3D information and better tissue contrast, but much worse resolution. This makes things difficult with micro-calcifications, but really helps with some lesions in dense breasts.

The best specific information comes with a contrast agent, but that's not appropriate for screening for the iatrogenic reasons you mention, but is suited to diagnostic followup.

Worth noting on a big enough screening population, biopsy complications include death by infection, etc. You also have to consider the opportunity cost of the machinery and tech time, etc. So while sometimes approaches are dismissed for this (e.g. contrast agents for screening) it is not done without though.

As an overall health system, too, you really have to evaluate the systemic costs and opportunity costs, particularly with a screening program. Two big variables here are the infrastructure & workflow costs for introducing MRI mammo into a screening program (those machine and tech hours come from some other worthy use) and radiologist attention. Breast screening already struggles with allowing enough time for careful review of 2D data sets, adding more information of a 3D set (potentially additionally!) means you may have to trade off increased cost/time (or reduced coverage) against FN count.

So that's the tip of that particular iceberg. It's not easy, and a lot of smart people have been thinking about this since the 90s.
I think I recognize this text from when I read it early on; I would assume that this was written before the relevant Gnome programs (Calculator, Xournal, GEdit, etc.) had been ported to run sensibly on the Librem 5. They should probably update it.
In some cases, the logical choice and the actual choice may coincide. But people still aren’t, and never will be, logical.
"Wi-Fi WEP and TKIP"

Now those in less fortunate circumstances that have to connect to whatever public WiFi is available will simply be screwed if they dare get a modern Windows machine.

The products Microsoft donates to classrooms in impoverished countries will be nice paperweights.
> > In the west, there are many true things that one cannot say

> sigh such as?

Be aware that you are, in effect, asking for people to actually step in the bear trap in order to prove to you that it’s dangerous.

Even pg’s essay What You Can’t Say (well known around here) didn’t mention any specific things, for obvious reasons.
Isn’t Apple more of a product design company than hardware company?

But yes, they do seem to straddle the divide somewhat, and they have wavered to one side or the other in the past. But is does seem that even Apple can’t go against the stream; they either seem to do bad hardware and good software or vice versa at any given time.
We don’t need tiny houses in seattle, we need functioning 24 hour shelters so people can get cleaned up and get work or help, and we so we can scale the services. Groups of 30 isn’t gonna cut it.
The 100% already factors in a large safety margin.
Were newspapers who cover it shut down? Journalists murdered? What happened?
For me it was a Blue Gene/L.
You can get every of those devices with Linux support with a bit of research before buying. It's not the fault of Linux if the manufacturer of your hardware doesn't care about the platform.
Why do you need to swear in the commit history? And if you do, why not write something more clever. Also, saying, “fuck” and referencing sex are not the same thing, ask any harassment attorney. The law isn’t some mystery, these Code of Conduct rules weren’t written in a vacuum. Why is everyone such a baby about maintaining a basic sense of decency on a public, sometimes cross-cultural, project? Seriously, harden the f up and sacrifice something fairly trivial for the good of the group.
> Any language or system that requires highly disciplined and unintuitive patterns to make work is a flawed system.

Things can seem unintuitive is when one's mental model of something is different than what's actually happening. In that case one can choose to believe that one's mental model is perfect, or one can consider the possibility that one's mental model is incomplete and/or incorrect.

But that's learning, no? Everyone's mental map of almost everything is incomplete and/or incorrect. Consider that CSS is generally (the occasional implementation bug notwithstanding) doing what you tell it to do, and that if it's not doing what you'd expect, that there's probably an opportunity learn why your mental model doesn't match the reality of the abstraction.

> This is not unique to the front end. SQL is much the same way. Often in SQL there are Optimizations with no rhyme or reason.

There's always rhyme or reason (or bugs, sometimes). I have the pleasure of working with some of the foremost SQL experts in the world. When SQL that I've written doesn't work how I'd expect or as performantly as I'd expect, I inevitably discover that the problem is that my mental model is wrong and/or incomplete and eventually walk away with enhanced understanding.
The Mojave desert wilderness areas are not overrun with domestic cats.

6000 sounds like a lot to me. I have five acres near joshua tree, and while there is wild life the only stuff that seems to be abundant are some rodents, rabbits, and reptiles. It's a fragile ecosystem. There used to be tortoises supposedly, but the roads wiped them out.
Why Learn JavaScript in 2020?
RenTec

(Yes, I know they do much more than ML, but still)
I remember floppy drive drivers and 386 processor support going away recently.

https://itsfoss.com/end-of-floppy-disk-in-linux/
It really sounds like a hardware problem. Linux excels on older hardware.
Corporate sites like this are interesting. I don't know these guys, but a lot of companies like this have a sales force that does all the heavy lifting, the website does nothing more than act like an old school brochure.

There's a lot of jargon, and stock photography, but they are doing some important things...

- focusing on social proof. they are highlighting being featured in credible 3rd party reports. they are highlighting how many fortune 500 co's they work with. and they have video case studies with credible clients.

If I were a startup trying to beat a site like this, I would focus on the appearance of more human connection to the community. I would create my site with the goal of having zero stock photos, but 10x more photos / videos of real people in the business.

I'd probably use interviews about security issues to justify those images/videos. And you could probably create enough photos/videos from a few days at a single security expo somewhere, maybe without even having to pay for a booth. Just take someone with a camera and interview as many people as possible about their hopes/fears in this space.

You end up with the ability to show and name a bunch of industry people, on your site, and talk to them about security, without them being clients. But you're still creating the perception of a deep connection and trust, in the community/industry. And of course, your get some contact with potential clients in the process.

I'm not sure the site has enough general appeal, or lessons for me to break it down any deeper.
MyPansa
The truth is that even the reinforcement they are going to do is more for PR than for actual safety. This test was intended to push the plane to its limit. Not close to, but actually up to the limit, so it was actually expected to fail somewhere around this point. What they call 100% for this test is actually 150% of what the plane is expected to experience in a worst-case real-world situation. The difference between failing at 99% and failing at 101% (which is what happened the last time they ran this test) is negligible from a practical point of view. You'll almost certainly get more variance than that in practice just from manufacturing non-uniformities, random environmental factors, age, etc.

Boeing has committed a lot of sins recently, but this isn't one of them.
No, that is not ok. You cannot take a name from a thousand year philosophy and change it's meaning to suot your needs but keep the name for marketing purposes. Just call it a different name then and don't mention the other thing
“Out poked two antennae”–crafting an insect-based dinner party
Possible Reasons to Late Your Period
The party line of the French Communist Party in the 1940s was Stalinist. It wasn't until the Soviet crushing of the Hungarian uprising in the following decade that French Communism saw a schism between pro-Soviet and anti-Soviet sides.
The point was about Churchill's popularity in Britain (real vs myth), not the British electoral system.
The point that the FAA made is that it doesn't matter. A plane should not be experiencing these conditions ever outside of a test environment. The concern over 99.5% is splitting hairs, since at this point the plane is probably in the middle of a tornado or something

Additionally, this test was done while the plane was over-pressurized, which is not required, which adds a lot of stress to the airframe, and added to the "blow up" factor.
Anyone have a pointer to a write-up with who did this, identifying the software being compared?
Actively show off/try to impress everyone I meet
OK. Let’s assume the technology works out, and that this is realistic:

> the Mars city will need teams of specialists

> On Mars, SpaceX hopes to get by with “only” a million people and a lot of manufacturing automation

> What is the per capita area requirement on Mars? In a future post I’ll estimate this more rigorously but I believe it’s on the order of 10,000 sqft

How do you bootstrap to get there?

> If a Mars base is doubling its population every launch window, then the 5000->10000 person increment

So, let’s say you are such a specialist. What would entice you to sign up for one of the first flights?

Given the disadvantages (a return flight will be years out, if ever in your lifetime, and those in the first 10 or so flights will have to trust that 200-ish further flights will follow) I doubt ‘fame’ and ‘adventure’ will cut it (possibly for some people, but try finding 25,000 or so for those first flights, with the restriction on getting a good mix of expertises and a good psychological mix)

I can think of:

- coercion by your government

- Earth being wasted enough to make Mars look enticing.

- lots of unmanned flights, to ensure that the first flights going there have an escape vehicle, if needed.
It’s correct enough to say that DNS is an application of consensus, but rather than considering that a distinction vs property, one might consider asking themselves in what sense property itself isn’t consensus.
C# and Linux Building and Deploying with Docker [video]
For bloomberg.com it works to turn off JS (bottom right corner of uBlock Origin).
Ask HN: What ten high technologies are you most thankful for?
I’d say in no particular order: the personal computer, the internet, google search, github, the world wide web, spotify, machine learning, web browsers, typescript, and react.
Jordan Peterson suuuuucks.
Excellent!

I am looking forward to this too.
Your scenarios are not mutually exclusive. To maximize their expected value, you say that they could:

1. Earn less than IS would

2. Charge more than IS would

It's actually:

1. They could earn less than IS would, because they're generous, incompetent, or some other reason

2. They could earn more than IS would, because they increase the prices, run PIR more efficiently than IS would, increase the number of registrations more than IS would, or some other reason

In scenario two, which is the most interesting, they could jack up prices, but they could also run the business better, such as running the business more efficiently or driving more business through advertising. I agree with you that the former is likelier, but not necessarily the only reason why the deal would have a positive expected value for Ethos. It could be that the deal is a win-win one, where IS gets more money than they'd be able to make out of PIR, and yet, Ethos comes ahead too by running it better than IS could.
i might break down the other 2 sites a little more on here, later today.
Back in March, the FAA was still insisting the 737 MAX was airworthy, even after it had been grounded by other countries. It seems like at the very least, the FAA is worried about the business interests of manufacturers.
Does not seem to work on my Firefox mobile. High fps but static images.
Arguably crypto was more about FOMO. End result doesn't look much different of course.
That wasn't the case when I last looked it.

IIRC ROCm (in the form of HIP) defines a new C/C++ API that maps to either AMD intrincis or CUDA depending on a compile time flag.

It required converting your CUDA source code to ROCm code, though there was a code translation tool to help you with that.

To be honest: I don't really understand what ROCm stands for. AMD has been redefining their GP compute platforms so many times that it's easy to lose track.

https://rocm-documentation.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Programm...
Maybe one day. But we work with what we have now..I would rather people walk around and drive with proper vision aids. At the sweet spot of affordability.
Have the man studied engineering? I don't feel so. Too much drama for a trivial issue.

Point one, if a dome is in tension, you have not put enough weight.

Point two, tents are more manufacturable and robust for as long as cost is concerned.

Point three, massive human space colonisation will only happen long, long after we will get manufacturing automation, automated resource extraction, automated farming, and power production to "sci-fi" levels and above.

We are not even 1% done on that, and that's the biggest point. Without getting to at least 1% on that scale, the talk about even ~100 people research outposts in space are pointless.

Adding to that, once humanity will reach that level, the entire idea of going to space for something we don't get on earth will look silly.

Once we get robots to the point where one can get a skyscraper constructed with a single mouse click, it will likely wouldn't matter much more if that skyscraper will also have to be airtight and have life support installed.
Why wouldn’t Wikipedia hedge against this outcome by extending their domain for 10 years tomorrow, and paying $100 to do that?
Why ignore Optimus for no sane reason except for the very reason that it is convenient for your argument? That's the real elephant in the room and it affects nearly every single laptop with an NVIDIA GPU in it!

Btw, have you tried using Wayland?

"""
Only the first two [standard graphics APIs] are implemented by the Nvidia proprietary driver. In order to support Nvidia, Wayland compositors need to add code resembling this:

if (nvidia proprietary driver) {
/* several thousand lines of code /
} else {
/ several thousand lines of code */
}
"""

From: https://drewdevault.com/2019/02/10/Wayland-misconceptions-de...