skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Skylab did some experiments.

The Response of Single Human Cells to Zero Gravity https://lsda.jsc.nasa.gov/Experiment/exper/424

>RESULTS:

>Ten cultures were fixed during the first 12 days of flight. Growth curves, DNA microspectrophometery, phase microscopy, and ultrastructural studies of the fixed cells revealed no effects of a zero-gravity environment on the ten cultures. Two cultures were photographed by means of phase time-lapse cinematography during the first 27 days of the flight. Analysis of the films revealed no differences in mitotic index, cell cycle, and migration between the flight and control cells. No differences between the flight and control cell cultures were observed in the karotype and chromosome banding. Minor unexplained differences have been found in the biochemical constituents of the used flight and control media.
I'm starting to look into the MycroftAI. It sounds like with this release I could use Mycroft+DeepSpeech on a new RaspberryPi for a completely offline smart speaker, do I understand that right?
In my experience from being on a jury in England I would say absolutely don't say anything to the police unless directed by your solicitor. The amount of adverse inference a jury will take from silence is limited if you later give a good explanation in court. A jury has to be sure to convict you, it's not the case that if you don't say anything they can convict you on the absence of evidence. If you do say something to the police it will be printed out and given to the jury and they will compare it to what you said in court. So although there is theoretically no "pleading the 5th" in UK, in practice the advice doesn't change.
Great link, thanks. I think you and a16z must be exactly right about it.
Out of curiosity, and in the context of Latex, does anyone know of a good self-hosted collaborative web-based editor with preview? Or even something decentralized that works over WebRTC?
Dropping air pollution so significantly seems like something to celebrate- yet the first mention is when, presumably forest fires, have caused regression.

People are surviving longer and it’s not news worthy?
> While on text based languages, lack of modularity is kind of hidden and only jumps at you when you try to actually change anything, on visual languages it jumps right at you when you open a project.

I've worked on some projects using Node RED (https://nodered.org/) and have found this to be very true. It's painfully obvious that you're in for a fun ride when the code is literally spaghetti.
Because those hundreds of years don't transpire in a glimpse. At some point in the middle there will be deprecated formats and new ones, and transcoders you can batch run. Sure it relies on intervention, but the upside is any/everyone else can copy the one persons work.

Yes we should learn from history, but we should also not assume that everything that happened before will happen the same way again, given how much of our world has changed.
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Your comment doesn't match what the paper actually says[1].

Your claim that "The old studies didn't predict how much CO2 the world would emit" is directly contradicted on the first page. The paper begins by pointing out that "model projections rely on...accurate assumptions around future emissions of CO2". In fact, one of the criteria the authors used for choosing a model to include was that it came with a time-series prediction of "future projected atmospheric CO2 concentrations".

With that restriction, the authors found 11 papers containing a total of 14 models. Unless the authors of this paper left out other predictions from the original papers, the only papers included in the study that "predicted how much the planet would warm, for various amounts of CO2 emissions" were Hansen's, and the other 9 papers included in this study only made one prediction for both emissions and temperature.

This paper also points out that Hansen's 1988 "most plausible" model, which you described as "the one model that was presented to Congress", was not accurate under the usual definition of accurate: "H88's “most plausible” scenario B overestimated warming experienced subsequent to publication by around 54%."

Then how does this paper lead to the headline that "Even 50-year-old climate models correctly predicted global warming"?

What the authors of this paper have done is to compare errors in the models' predictions of CO2 emissions to errors in the models' predictions of temperature. In other words, the models were wrong about both, but in the same direction. They overestimated both future emissions and future temperature.

Even so, the claim that the models were accurate is a linguistic trick. The table on line 326 shows what the authors are calling skill score: "A skill score of one represents perfect agreement between a model projection and observations."

Not a single model has a "skill score" of one, or for which one is within the uncertainty. In fact, all of the models are wrong in the same direction, even after this paper has attempted to correct for their incorrect assumptions about future CO2 emissions.

The linguistic trick is that this error is not, according to the authors, "statistically significant". But that's a tremendous abuse of the phrase. The authors are effectively saying: "The null hypothesis is that the models are right, and we've failed to disprove it." They've assumed the conclusion.

I suspect that this paper is being promoted for political, not scientific, correctness.

1: A PDF of this paper can be found at https://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/docs/tbp/inp_Hausfather_ha08910q....
> I'm confident I didn't word my original comment well, because people are obviously reading it to say "memory safety doesn't matter". It does. It's an absolute requirement for secure software development done at any reasonable scale. But it does not produce "secure software".

"Secure software" as an absolute, objective construct doesn't exist, so that's not really an interesting argument.

What's interesting is if it produces software which is more secure, and I think it's a reasonable argument that eliminating memory safety issues does just that.
Exactly my thought, one of my favorite movies combining my love for spirituality, wonder, science and technology.

R: Comrade Arroway...
...we have been expecting your call. One moment, please.

E: Mr. Hadden?

S: Doctor!

S: How kind of you to call.

E: Mr. Hadden, where are you?

S: The Russian government was kind enough to give me accommodations on Mir.

E: You're living on a space station?

S: It's quite simple, really.
The low oxygen, zero gravity environment...
...is the only thing keeping the cancer from eating me alive.
Actually, I quite like it up here.
My little room has one hell of a view.
I want to show you something.
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> [...] they would have incentive to not let you go

This is where separation of powers is important. A judiciary shouldn't care that the executive branch is on the hook for compensation.
Link seems dead? I think it should be this one:

https://phys.org/news/2019-12-links-carbon-graphite-seafloor...

(No letter "a" in 2019 :) )
The hyphen is not at the end of the line. Shaftſ-

bury is just Shaftſbury with a hyphenated line break.
Yes, you are correct tensorflow lite can be done on the raspberry pi. https://www.tensorflow.org/lite/guide/build_rpi
We charge a 5% platform fee. So if you earn $50 on Buy Me A Coffee, we'll take $2.5 as our cut.
"And humans enjoy feeling busy and productive."

I have never enjoyed feeling busy.
Keep in mind that in the us the median income per capita is less than 32k. It's hard to save 20k a years on that kind of revenues.
That's when hyphenating a word, not between different words linked by hyphens.
https://screenrant.com/worst-video-game-box-art-mistakes-obv...
having done business with all Spanish/Italian/French businesses, I can guarantee you that nothing comes close to Italians as far as poor english
Seriously though, are there LEGAL CONSULTANTS who will SHOP a LAWYER / LAW FIRM for you and SEE if they'll take your CASE?

These are very very important decisions for most people who are not in the know. Anything beyond traffic violations and petty charges, most people dont know how to go about finding capable legal talent & associated services.

Sites like AVVO notwithstanding, theres no reliable, thorough-going & robust way to shop for a lawyer / law firm.
>It's a shame that it is practically impossible to culture healthy cells the way they probably cultured these cancer cells so there is not really a control experiment.

Why not? What is special about the way they culture those cells compared to a non-cancerous cell culture? (genuinely asking)
Yes, but if we will run every application under different user (which is a sane idea, Android does it and I use it for several apps) then we come back to the problem of not allowing program X to reconfigure a printer. So I think that we still need a confirmation dialog, but without a password.
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The last few years I think it gets overshadowed by dropping life expectancy, and when life expectancy increases it probably gets bundled with dozens of other causes when it's reported on.
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The repeated functionality that belongs in a boilerplate is literally all that CRA does. That's what makes a boilerplate a boilerplate.
It went very smoothly on Firefox.. Maybe this is a thing with iOS/Safari?
It's a slippery slope. Making a system insecure for one makes it insecure for all. A 'secure' data storage system with a backdoor is not a 'secure' system at all.

And criminals can build their own encrypted apps. They don't need to use PSN to communicate. And if you look at some of the more oppressive regimes in the world, a lot of things that you and I would consider freedom of speech, they would consider a crime and lock you up for it.

"It is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer"
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Good question, that's outside of my area of expertise, but my assumption would be that the justice system would at least allow you to communicate with your - prospective - lawyers. If not then it's a lost battle before it has begun.
> I don't believe that the purpose of mid-20th-century laws was to promote equality.

They were rather explicitly a response to the conditions of the lower classes in a capitalist (in the relatively pure sense that was dominant before the rise of the modern mixed economy through the policies under discussion) economy.
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This reminds me the comments in the different app or video game stores (like steam). Spanish people ALWAYS complain about apps or games not being translated to Spanish and vote them very low because of it. I can't understand how people haven't realized yet how important is to know English nowadays.
No, you won't get away with making a dangerous drone or bicycle, motorbike or scooter.

Cars are obviously somewhat more dangerous due to mass and size but a small vehicle at a high speed... is almost as dangerous if not more so. Check motorbike statistics.

See, cars are only a seductive topic because they're so common, and thus any risk reduction there should have high impact.

Should any other mode of transportation be nearly as ubiquitous and fast, we'd be taking about them.

For example, fast electric scooters are starting to get there.
I remember a famous case in France where a guy spent 15 years before being released. He would have been sentenced to death a few years before, when death penalty was still in place.

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

There was another case, more recently:

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

I suspect it happens in all countries (some more than others, probably). No human institution is perfect.
I've never dabbled with MATLAB or Simulink before (and I don't think I have the background to do so, at least for Simulink!) but I did just skim some of the tutorial videos.

What stood out to me was the instant feedback that's provided when the pipeline was modified; you can immediately see the ramifications of your actions.
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Every month some new batch of students use CRA for their final project. Every other month month I deal with some idiotic mess CRA has made that a 3-line patch to a config file would fix, but I can't fix that without ejecting, which all the advice tells them not to do. Often it's proxy problems, sometimes it's something else, I can't really keep track.

I hate CRA, and I wish it would go die in a hole.

Though... in this comment thread I learned of the existence of something called "craco", so maybe that'll solve my problems the next time some damn students use stupid CRA when they could just copy and paste the frickin' working webpack config we gave them in the previous assignment.
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I think you've been adequately answered more than once in this thread, if you insist that that is not the case then I would assume that you have your mind made up and further discourse is not productive. That's not me trying to be rude, just an observation.
That applies to warranties, production defects or (as the GP says) things breaking due to normal use. It doesn't apply to things breaking because the publisher put a kill switch in the device.
> "We want to see if it is actually microgravity that’s having an affect on the cell, or could it be other things in space — like solar radiation?" he said. But such an endeavor is no easy task, Chou points out.

Why would he say that after the on-planet microgravity experiment? There was no solar radiation in his actual experiment where the cells died so why would he entertain that? Someone else should entertain that totally different experiment while he tries to gain support for expanding his experiment.
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Congrats to the team on the new release! Following their progress since a while. It's an important project, and I'm very happy about the size reductions while they still delivered a WER improvement over the last release. Amazing!
try wrapping your head around the idea of a 43% unemployment rate. That’s the unemployment rate among formerly incarcerated Black women: https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/outofwork.html

Instead Prisons:
https://www.prisonpolicy.org/scans/instead_of_prisons/chapte...

> There ought to be no jails; and if it were not for the fact that the people on the outside are so grasping and heartless in their dealings with the people on the inside, there would be no such institutions as jails .... The only way in the world to abolish crime and criminals is to abolish the big ones and the little ones together. Make fair conditions of life. Give men a chance to live .... Nobody would steal if he could get something of his own some easier way. Nobody will commit burglary when he has a house full. The only way to cure these conditions is by equality. There should be no jails. They do not accomplish what they pretend to accomplish. If you would wipe them out there would be no more criminals than now. They terrorize nobody. They are a blot upon any civilization, and a jail is an evidence of the lack of charity of the people on the outside who make the jails and fill them with the victims of their greed.

—Clarence Darrow, An Address to the Prisoners in the Cook County Jail, Chicago, Illinois-1902
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No I did not mention I was caught in any significant way. I never had a worry in the world about getting caught. Outside of receiving a no consequence piece of paper in the mail that means nothing.
> Everybody is little endian today.

ACKCHYUALLY, PowerPC (POWER9 included) supports both big and little endian. Software wise, last I checked the Linux kernel, Debian (PPC port), Gentoo, FreeBSD, and several other major projects supported both. I believe KVM also supports flipping VM endianness versus the hypervisor.

Acknowledged, of course, that the spirit of what you said is indeed correct - the majority of systems in active use are little endian.
Depends if you consider the US to be a first world country or not:

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

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

When you read about the history of the prison / legal system in the US it makes sense though.
'Native American' or 'Indian'?
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Wow, a hundred million times minimum wage in the US should be something like, I don't know, a trillion dollars per year? That's amazing! I can surely understand why people are so upset about income equality now.
> It achieves a 7.5% word error rate on the LibriSpeech test clean benchmark

Anyone have a comparison for how good/bad that is compared to other solutions, and what it means for practical usage, if that can be guessed at from a single number?
Interesting. Is it possible to integrate this as a git difftool instead? Sometimes you want to include the cell output in the repository.
Excel is too easy to abuse. Spaghetti formulas is just as bad as spaghetti code, especially if your business happens to run on Excel.

Spreadsheets would be much more maintainable if people separated data from the view.
I don't really understand your point of view. Especially the list monad is literally a list. The shape of bind for the list monad is [a] -> (a -> [b]) -> [b]. If that's not a container, I don't know what is. The fact that it can be used to solve problems where the list represents a non-deterministic result is really secondary. I mean, I suppose you can think of it as being different, but it seems a lot more complicated in my mind.

I think some "containers" a definitely hard to envision. A partially applied function is also a monad (i.e. it's trivial to write a meaningful bind for it). It may be hard to think of a partially applied function as "containing" the applied parameters, but I still think that's easier than any other way of envisioning it. But maybe it's a matter of horses for courses.
Tangential (but implicitly privacy-related): How does Keybase earn its money? Their site doesn't make this clear to me.
The documentary linked in the article is really good. I managed to grab a datarover in early 2000s from ebay and had a ton of fun with it but the newton was still my daily driver back then.
Did you also support boycotting all US companies funding US government (by paying taxes) who was literally bombing civilian populations (and providing rockets to Saudi Arabia for more bombing of civilian populations) during the previous administration, or are you just a hypocrite rationalizing your hate for Trump? At least Trump hasn't started any new wars (yet). Best president of the past 30 years IMO (so far).
Nice to see SSL enforced ircd. Coming out of Dalnet, Ircnet and Efnet the only short-coming i really found in IRC was the fact that most networks until very late promoted clear-text transfers. I might even pass by your network this evening to revive that feeling /me once had :)
The thing is, no human is level 5 certified.
The premise here is that there is market for folks who want to _preferentially_ be in private DC, rather hyperscalers.

> True rack-scale design, bringing cloud hyperscale innovations around density, efficiency, cost, reliability, manageability, and security to everyone running on-premises compute infrastructure.

Surely, this influences manageability (and $$).
Does it influence the on-demand provisioning benefit of hyperscalers (achieved at scale) though?

_One_ of the reason me and my team chose hyperscaler is that I get my compute today, now. Rather having to wait weeks/months for my in-house IT to get for me.
My number seems wrong too. I'm in Edinburgh, and it says 86. PurpleAir shows my closest sensor as about 30 miles away, with a value of 10, and the next closest one 130 miles away with a value of 2.
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Nature shows us how to process information at ever increasing noise and scale - https://www.edge.org/response-detail/10464
Not sure about Germany, but here's a thread about the French court decision: https://www.neogaf.com/threads/steam-forced-to-authorize-the...
It smells! Gets into clothes etc. so they smell to. Smells like something is on fire nearby even though the fire might be 50km or 100km away. Been a while since I’ve seen the sun shining properly. Welcome to 21st century, this shit just getting started.
There's the game we play which is often very stupid about triaging the imaginary values between things, then there is the value of an hour of human effort. On the whole these two things have very little to do with each other, but the second is the only one which has any merit. The game needs to exist, but the extent to which people prioritize it over the human side is troublesome. Money makes people do stupid things, think about the world in ridiculous ways. To be specific, money makes people abstract away from any reasonable morals and in this case devalue people based on the random circumstance life put them in the game.
I would guess its nonsense clickbait hype personally.
> PS. If you're guilty, I got nothing for you, no idea how to help you.

The same advice pertains.
These are beautiful and very on-trend rn. Anyone have links to good webfont versions?
I mean, you could let the remaining coal miners dig it up but don't allow it to be burned. At the same time work hard to establish new ways of earning money in the communities.
> the program is not aware of where you clicked. Fixing this would also require patching the world.

No, that exists for a long time and is widely implemented among terminal software. Demo: https://github.com/tinmarino/mouse_xterm
I don't understand how that's a problem with a parser. A parser is a tool for turning a flat buffer into structured data. The heartbleed problem described there is that a person wrote code that read outside of the buffer it was meant to read. Why aren't they independent problems?

Also, how can you design an efficient data format that accepts data of a length determined by the user (hopefully cooperatively with the server), that is immune to buffer overflow reads.

Once you say "I want between four and one thousand bytes", haven't you just stuffed yourself?
Yeah, interesting to learn that a monad is a value in a box, almost as if it were an object
>> "But what I really wanted to know was: is there something these cancers have in common? That's why I put them in the microgravity device."
What is this microgravity device? A quick web search was inconclusive.

They didn't specify what kind of microgravity device was used, but IMO none of the techniques we have are a "real" micro gravity.

According to this: http://www.grimm-space-research.com/RPM/RPM.html There are three types of micro gravity devices.I think their types 2 and 3 are very similar:
- simulating micro gravity by counteracting gravitational forces (think frog magnetic levitation)
- simulating micro gravity by averaging gravitational forces by rotation.

In both cases the culture experiences simulation of micro gravity, but to test this in practice the cells have to be sent to space with control.
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In Northern Ireland, guilt can be inferred from your silence - https://cain.ulster.ac.uk/othelem/organ/ai/1993-02-01_ai.pdf
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