skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The announcement of something that (potentially) arbitrarily extends human life is, quite literally, an announcement of "universal dramatic increase in chances of developing cancer found!"

If we could all manage to avoid "normal natural causes" death for everyone under 1000 years old, we'd still all die of cancer well in advance of that age.
Full disk encryption is still be broken, given a decade or 3. You might care about that risk or not, but the fact is still there.

The point still is that if the attacker has unencumbered access to your device then indeed _further_ use of the device is unrecommended to say the least. It doesn't matter if you had or did not have full disk encryption. It does not matter if you had or did not have Thunderbolt.

An extremely low tech solution would be to place a smallish and tactically hidden camera on the chassis, you don't even need the screwdriver for that. And it just happens all the time on ATMs and I'd bet that like on ATMs it would fool a shitton of people.

And this story is precisely about the type of attack that "requires further user input" -- what would be the point of requiring Thunderbolt at all in the first place if you already have the system in pieces?
you're almost certainly not in a vacation hotspot. in FL, many of the coastal counties have banned short term airbnb style renting indefinitely. miami dade and broward counties in FL are still uber locked down and won't even be considered for partial reopening until May 18.
Dell XPS 15 can ship with Linux.
Cycles does the same work regardless of whether it's running on the CPU or GPU. You can even run mixed where both the CPU and GPU do rendering. The amount of noise has nothing to do with it running on the GPU or not, that's simply how path-tracing works...
Impulse responses can only represent linear time-invariant systems. Like delays, reverbs, equalization curves.

Distortion is non-linear, it is something like a max(-1, min(1, input)) function (a waveshaper, like you said), and it produces harmonics when applied to audio signals.

However guitar pedals also have some additional circuitry to "sweeten" the distortion, removing the extra harmonics added by the clipping diodes. Tubescreamers are notable for cutting bass and enhancing mids. An IR is able to capture this. This is important for guitar pedals, and the reason multiple of them exist.

If you capture the impulse response of an overdrive pedal you'll be capturing only the frequency response of a distorted impulse. If you process clean guitar trough this you'll simulate the frequency response but not the distortion itself, so it will just be a clean guitar with a tinny, shrill, sound, not an overdriven guitar sound.

One way around it (other than the idea in this article!) is doing multiple passes of Impulse Response capture with different amplitudes, this will capture this distortion non-linearity. This is supposedly how a Kemper Profiler works.
Dakota also owns many beautiful bowls and whisks handmade from sustainable materials, featured in 20 photos before the recipe hidden behind another link

I hate blogger recipes, luckily there are enough cooking sites that are well curated.
I simply just write them down as a form of blogging content. I personally think if you are on a personal journey to learn, everything you learn coupled with your own perspective could potentially be the eureka moment for another. Keep a journal!

Here's my 'journal' to share my learning as a Software Engineer as well. Hope you enjoy it!

https://blog.phuaxueyong.com/post/2020-02-29-articles-in-sec...
Occupy Mars
This actually already exists as a library. This type of syntax is called Hyperscript[1], and it's existed (at least) since 2012.

[1]: https://github.com/hyperhype/hyperscript
(Although this library does not look maintained anymore)
Vampires have been doing this for millennia right?

Seriously though, does putting Tom Hanks’ blood plasma into a young coronavirus nurse age them a little bit? Does the effect work in reverse?

(Just to explain the above Tom Hanks had Covid and gave plasma in a convalescent serum).
Anyone could fall for these 5 Social Engineering Examples
Yup, current situation sucks massively. Doesn't change the fact that a disproportionate fear of death is exceedingly unhealthy and robs folks of some of the joy of being alive.
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I hope you are not just trolling. I am not sure if I enjoy more the news that there are effective treatments against aging or the rage you are going to induce with this post.
I like your app very much. My app : www.kiara-app.com (translation chatbot)
I have a Pinebook Pro. It is an interesting machine if you want an ARM notebook to play with, and certainly impressive for the price. The keyboard and trackpad fall short of what you'd want to use as a primary computer though. The trackpad is somewhat understandable since that is a common issue from a firmware and software perspective, but most other notebooks have decent keyboards.

I also agree that MNT looks philosophically interesting, but it also looks highly opinionated to the point that it is a challenging sell even for the niche audiences of people who want an open source laptop and/or an ARM laptop.
This is more or less what DLSS is
I hear you. "Brand" itself is a horrible term and the awful connotations of course go way beyond advertising.

But if whatever this term should be were a horse, it left the barn ridden by "personal brand" a long time ago.

I don't discount the success of terminological improvement movements- for pronouns, most notably- but a compelling story about disadvantage -> solution -> improvement to create an alternative remains to be told, at least from my perspective.

"Persona" is not the solution. It's creepy, imprecise, and unownable. It needs to be able to become a term of art.

"Profile" also unusable, is taken for dating.

"Avatar" I think is successful, but incomplete.

Part of the problem is that the "branding" platforms are themselves universally awful, both in being hard to use, and in failing to elevate their users. It is never more clear that one is working for the machine than when one is configuring one's "profile" in LinkedIn.

It definitely seems like there is room to create a successful professional platform, with a named product- like "Highlights"- and that term could take over for "personal brand."

If you have thoughts about it, please do it! We need it!
It's insane is what it is.

If you want to reopen the economy - and we all do - masks are part of what makes that happen, and makes it "stick", without a second wave causing further stay at home orders as infections spike.
mashed potatoes

Steam some potatoes. (Don't boil them. No one wants watery mash.)

Add far more butter than anyone would think is reasonable. (Like, 1/2lb of butter to 1lb of potatoes. Maybe more.)

Add salt and pepper. (No, more than that. You've under-seasoned them.)

Mash them until they're the consistency you want. (For really smooth mash use an electric hand mixer instead of a masher.)

To make them better still, put lots of wholegrain mustard or garlic in with the butter.
I don't see how you can you say too many people "signed up" for the system we have. 99% are simply born into it with little to no understanding or bargaining power whatsoever.

To the extent that consumers do have a choice, that is somewhat true, but the examples of Facebook and Amazon are as much incredible luck of being in the right place and the right time, exponential explosion of brand new modes of communication and commerce, and all kinds of unintended consequences. Again, to say the middle class "signed up" for this is hardly the case.

At the very least there are issues of power and information imbalances. Take the example of someone comparing the price of something at Amazon and the same thing at a local bookstore and deciding that it's worth the $0.50 savings to go with Amazon. It is easy -- and incorrect -- to say, "well, they signed up for the massive corporate supply chain consolidation and the dissolution of many local economies' autonomy that transactions like this will precipitate when performed at a large scale."

The average consumer simply doesn't have the access to data that corporate boards and politicians do, nor do they have the historical and statistical training to make an educated analysis of their implications.

Finally, even though there are people and organizations who urge alternative consumer patterns, the reach and the volume of their message pales in comparison to the marketing, PR and advertising armies employed by large corporations and their political allies.
"Round trip," or guitar to processing to speakers needs to be sub 10ms to be transparent to the musician. Source: spent years playing guitar through my guitar -> DAC -> PC -> DAC -> speaker signal chain
> This is not fair to people that have spent their lifetimes building businesses and are watching them go bust

This will primarily be true of businesses with strong brick and mortar services (but especially those renting brick and mortar); the result will be that, in the future,

1. Owners will divest earnings as much possible rather than investing in growth in order to jump into bankruptcy protection more rapidly next time

2. Accountants will recommend accounting for 4 weeks of paid leave classified as sick leave that will be used up during a quarantine.
I think you just described my last 18 months. As soon as December of 2018 hit my motivation died in IT. Having left tech taking a few months off, I feel great. Other projects around the house are fun ; things I used to hate doing are now enjoyable. As soon as the projects run out though, wondering what to do next to get back into it - job wise.
What's his name?
No, no problem here. I need some backstory, heavy on cutesy metadiscourse, before I'm in the proper mood to learn about Tbsp's and oven temperature.
Combine that with the thickness. This thing is chonky...4cm / 1.575in thick. I get that compromises are needed in favor of openness, but this is a lot of concessions.
That is correct for Cycles, but the kind of raytracing that is possible with hardware-acceleration inside a GPU is severely restricted in comparison to a general-purpose CPU raytracer like Blender's Cycles.

I believe Eevee, the Blender GPU ray-tracer, does also currently not support having reflection rays collide with surface generated by normal/displacement operations, but instead they will approximate flight path by using the unmodified geometry.
Purely advisory on TfL (the tube), the conditions of carriage have not been changed.
> Most of the explosion in aging research (and virtually all the venture capital startups) are looking to treat aging at the cellular level.... The truth, as Katcher understands it, is that, to a large extent, aging is coordinated system-wide via signal molecules in the blood.

So the SV execs with their fit young blood-bois were right all along?
Absolutely. RDC needs minimal resources so it can run on ancient and low powered devices.

You can get a $20 dock to add usb and hdmi ports so my current setup is 2 rdc sessions going (one of the go screen and one on the external 1080p monitor) and a full sized keyboard keyboard and mouse.
Maybe they just wanted to say "isn't"
Not really, the CEO just says crazy things to drum up some publicity. He also claimed he would charge fat people more, and that Ryanair was so frugal that they didn't let employees charge their phone at work to save electricity.
Same in south OC, too. Prices have plateaued but they've not really gone down. I am seeing an increase in supply over the last week, however, so it may be starting soon.
I mean, "won't die of old age quite as soon" doesn't equate to "immortal", yea?

To be fair though, my comment was way too broad. I should have clarified that I mean a constant, overbearing dread of the prospect of death is super unhealthy. Make life suck, and effectively shortens it in the experience of the scared one. (source: did that for a long time, got healthy, stopped being scared. Sample size of 1. :-D )
Google "vampire facial" and I can tell you from personal experience the results are impressive beyond anything else I've paid for my wife (laser facials, botox, fillers, lip injections, etc...).

I don't understand what the "rage" would come from, or why it's "pot". This is available today, and many people pay for it. The results speak for themselves. People who pay for this stuff don't make a habit of talking about it. I'm going to guess by your comment that you're not as beauty focused as some other people. For beauty focused individuals this is serious business. Ever wonder why your favorite actress over 50 "hasn't aged" past 35? It's not just plastic surgery or makeup. This is how many people make a living in industries where looking old is not rewarded.
Cut Through Recordings: https://cutthroughrecordings.com/home
Deobfuscating an American Express scam email
The detected cases are increasing due to an increase in testing.

Nate Silver has a great post the other day where he broke down the fact that the ratio of new cases per test administered has gone down.

I'm not saying we should all just act as normal, but I am saying that the media is creating a more pessimistic picture than is warranted by talking about positive cases without the context of an increase in tests administered.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/coronavirus-case-counts...
I've never had a chance to use it in production but, ClojureScript with Reagent[1] and it's Hiccup-like[2] markup is bliss in this domain.

[1] http://reagent-project.github.io/
[2] https://github.com/weavejester/hiccup
Are you aware of anyone using it for C++? I couldn't find any mention of C++ in the documentation nor via Googling (sure it will be possible but it seems to involve significant setup)
For someone who really likes sweet chocolate etc, an Oreo is too vulgar even too me. I feel sick to my stomach. Powdery sugar with something brown in it.
It's an ad from a conference about Kubernetes.
4 hours fast is enough, and eat properly. Trimming in the gut for that goes very fast. I find that skipping breakfast is a nice way as well, and durable over time. You need to get friendly with the sensation of hunger.
How often do you use the word inchoate when speaking?

I think writing is hard for those who's effect can be summed up as individual contributor. The moment you have to work in teams with a head count greater than 1m writing and effective communication become important. It's just people don't really lean into it like programming. They payoff has a slower feedback mechanism.
AirBnb landlords are going to first all flood back into the long-term rental market (yearly renewals). Many came from there but didn't do the math on maintenance so migrated to airbnb for "gold". Rents in long-term will drop due to unemployment / increasing supply, then many will become forced sellers. As these hit prices will drop and everyone else will be caught in this wave.
Would you or someone else mind expanding on this thought a little? Why does 99.9% specificity mean that 10% will be false positives?

{added: great answers below} well worth understanding this point. In short specificity measures the % of the population tested which had false positives, but doesn't give you the ratio of false positives to positives or the probability that a positive test means you actually have the anti-bodies.
I sort of glossed over the differences between macros and dependent types in another answer in this thread, but I'll expand on it here. Typically the term macros is used to imply one of two things (that may be used in the same instance of a macro):

1 - 'compile-time' code execution of some arbitrary code with the result of that execution then being available at run time

2 - a specific type of function which takes the AST of some language and then uses some procedural methodology to mutate/alter that AST transforming it into some other AST

I would say, that while dependent types can be a useful basis for covering several of the typical use cases of macros, they do not without some additional structure, provide a firm proof/type theory for the whole scope of macros.

I would suggest that the most sound attempts at describing the computational phenomena encapsulated by the most common usage of the term 'macro' would be found in the following:
a) implementation of Temporal Logic (per Frank Pfenning's interpretation) for description of compile-time code execution and
b) implementation of Modal Logic, describing multi-staged compilation, as in Davies and Pfenning

So, I would not say that dependent types can eliminate macros, but they do cover a chunk of the areas that are often implemented by macros, including generics and other type based compile time code patterns.
Is the author claiming that example is any different than JSX?

https://reactjs.org/docs/react-api.html#createelement

In any case I find JSX quite productive only without React or a VDOM.

https://github.com/ScottORLY/jsx-pragma
It ran in the paper 8 days after 9/11... seems pretty reasonable to me. In much the same vein as the rush by many to baking now.
Cool, now the next interesting step would be to categorize recipes, maybe some kind of clustering algorithm, to see how similar they are and whether they have a common ancestor.

When I look at a recipe and notice some unusual proportions I usually check against Joy of Cooking or some other standard book. I've noticed that often everything old is new again.
90 is not that old these days. Both of my parents have reached their 90s without doing anything like this. Let’s take a look at that guy in 20 years and see how he is doing.
Agreed. I think. It is interesting how much difference in meaning the space in "a part of" vs "apart of" makes.
Thanks for the feedback! It's possible to run Spark on Kubernetes using just OS tools - in fact our platform builds upon and contributes to many of these tools. But it's not easy enough, in our humble opinion, you need to build a decent level of expertise on Spark and k8s just to get started, and even more to keep it operational/stable/cost-efficient/secure in the long term.

Regarding costs. By autoscaling the cluster size and minimising our service footprint, the fixed cost for using our platform is around $100/month, which is negligible compared to the cost of most big data projects. We have some ideas on how to drive this fixed cost to zero, and offer a free hosted version of our platform too. It's in the roadmap!
Still speaks to the expected experience to me.
Just buy USB Web-camera with mic

That way you get as good (or bad) of setup as you can afford rather adding the price to every laptop
Ah ESLint, the most necessary bane of my existence. Good work to the team for the update.
> There's still no evidence that wearing masks reduces infection risk to the wearer. There is evidence that wearing masks reduces infection risk to those around the infectious wearer of the mask. It is, incidentally, the exact reasons surgeons wear masks.

I think I agree with you, but the conversation about the personal protective value of masks has become so confused that it's very difficult to discuss. You've got people counting N95 respirators as "masks," it's almost always unclear what statistic a commentator is focusing on, and then there's anger (justified or unjustified) about the evolution of the CDC recommendations for the general public.

Could you clarify your position a bit?
Self-discipline. Impulses and social pressure are more like brightly lit billboards than ditches. You don’t have to fall for them.
I am convinced that the talk about charging for using the toilet is just a diversion. You have passengers complaining about charging extra for everything but they end with “Well, at least I don’t have to pay for going to the toilet.” I think it is just clever marketing.
What would be a terse way to (not ironically) express the notion that some thing X has gotten worse over time, and that we want to return it to a state where it is objectively the same or better than it was before?
> I have a theory that a grave mistake was made in 1995 - the decision not to have a neat, succinct and declarative way of representing html elements in javascript.

It may be interesting to recall that initially the only way to output HTML was by `document.write()` using strings (which was pretty declarative).

The genuine way of generating HTML in JS were various methods of `String.prototype` for generating HTML formatted output, as `anchor()`, `big()`, `blink()`, `bold()`, `fixed()` (providing "<TT>…</TT>"), `italics()`, `link()`, `small()`, `strike()`, `sub()`, `sup()`. However, there was no provision to set an ID or any other attributes or className, since these things (and CSS) hadn't been introduced yet, with the notable exception of the "name" attribute for anchor tags, the value of which was to be supplied as an argument to the `string.anchor()` method. This was pretty much sufficient to generate any of the HTML required then.

The first occasion for a more complex approach was the introduction of the `Link` and `Image` objects, which allowed for the first time not only a representation of a DOM object, but also means to manipulate their attributes on the fly (e.g., changing image sources), but this came only with Netscape Navigator 3.0 / JavaScript1.1.

Also, keep in mind that the JS object notation (object and array literals) was only introduced in the ECMA standard, which came another browser iteration later. Initially, in JavaScript1.0 (AKA LiveScript), there hadn't been even Array or Object constructors in the core language (these came, again, with JavaScript1.1), but only functions. (Meaning, you had to construct your own arrays from generic functions). Hence, something like a declarative HTML-in-JS syntax would have been totally out of place.
> ... the burden of explaining and testing the code, and why the code is needed, should be on who put it out first.

Yes. But what happens when that code is there, live, working, and the originator is no longer available, and you need to enhance it. You come across a complex section and you can't really see why it's written like that. It feels like you're suggesting that one should just replace it with the simpler version you think will do the job just as well, and see what breaks.

Due to my usual context, that approach fills me with horror. I've seen it go wrong too many times ever to be comfortable with it. Admittedly, if you're producing simple web sites then usually it won't be a problem, but when there are potentially millions of dollars of revenue at risk when a condition happens that you didn't anticipate and which was part of the reason the original code was so hairy, you become a little more wary of the "move fast and break things, then fix them" approach.

> If we are not brave and decisive when we decide to cut code, the complexity of the codebase will just explode in no time.

And if you are brave and decisive and cut code, and it turns out that the complexity was there for a reason you didn't understand, then that can be a company-terminating move.

Again, our contexts are different, and yes, I do understand the need for controlling complexity in code, and simplifying where possible.

Properly understanding and analysing the risks is something I rarely see.

I suspect we'd actually agree in a given context, I'm just horrified to watch people unthinkingly advocating the approach in places where it doesn't apply. I'm not claiming you're one of them, quite possibly you'd do the risk analysis and understand the context, but I've seen it too often to take for granted that otherwise clever people won't do it.

"We'll just re-write it, it won't take long, how hard could it be?"
Yep, and another is that version control support of databases is still a bit limited. (There are some solutions, at least redgate is doing something for SQL server on this.) I have a workflow where I recreate all views and procedures in the beginning of the query batch from text files and that gives some ways to version control my views, but as you say, it is clumsy.