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This really doesn't look like a real biology paper, and the content is essentially pseudoscience. I don't know enough physics to reliably distinguish gibberish from real physics, but I know biology and that part certainly doesn't make any sense.

One very telling aspect is the lack of a proper experimental section, and the extremely bad figures. In a real paper you wouldn't find figures without axis labels. You can hardly see anything in the figures in this paper.

Not repeating the experiment several times on different cell culture batches is also not a good sign. As is the lack of control experiments.

The whole thing doesn't make any sense, it's an extremely far-fetched hypothesis anyway. And the paper takes enormous leaps based on extremely flimsy data.
> Nobody is being forced into anything. They're choosing this because it's the best opportunity.

That is such a lazy take. Of course people are forced to take whatever job is available: humans need food, shelter and healthcare. If society doesn't collectively agree about a minimum standard of what a job entails, you inevitably ends up with the "bottom of the barrel" living in inhumane conditions. As a society, it is our duty to lift up the standards, not lower them and trample on the already destitute.
“I found learning a new language was easy”
Proceeds to explain why a language that was designed to be easy to learn, is easy to learn.
Come on guys, I know HN hates women and anyone who reminds them that women exist and do things, but I thought y'all at least hated bland content marketing almost as much?
It always devolves into rants with tenuous connections to the current president. They can't help themselves.
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It's been an awesome month for TS/GraphQL (stable) releases
The axiom is that the Bible is true. The conclusion is that evolution is false. The arguments are about how to reconcile the "fact" that evolution is false with the existence of data that appear at first glance to support its truth.

Now, I am not going to defend Kent Hovind's intellectual honesty. I think he does have a not-so-hidden ulterior motive (tax evasion). But you cannot legitimately accuse him -- or any YEC that I've encountered -- of trying to paper over the fact that he assumes the truth of the Bible.
It seems my short statement has been taken by some to be flippant rather than serious, it's not.

In history there have been thousands of religions with various beliefs, many of which ascribed purpose to the actions of believers which was considered significant how specifically does the purpose given to those who follow Christianity provide "a logically defensible line of reasoning that leads you to Christianity and thence to the inerrancy of the Bible" over any one of those other religions?

And if every religion gains equal weight then why not follow all of them equally using that same rationale?

I mean I don't particularly care what people believe, but that's a pretty strong statement.
I wonder if medical tourism provides a capitalist solution to the healthcare problem in the US. Could it be cheaper for a health insurance company to pay for flights to and from other countries along with procedures in those countries? There are a lot of non-emergency medical issues which can be serviced this way. In the long run, such insurance would drive down the price of traditional health insurance as well as the price of the procedures themselves locally.
north of Rome wasn't Europe as today, it was just a bunch of tribes

This is a mischaracterization in the same class as what's described in the article. Early Rome was just as tribal as the rest of Europe, and Greece has been tribal for almost its entire (ancient) existence. The major difference is that the tribes of Northern Europe seem to have been much less well documented, but they didn't live in isolation. There's ample evidence of trade routes spanning from the Iberian peninsula to the Carpathians, and across the British isles, the Nordic and Baltic states.

The "bunch of tribes" encountered by the Romans was actually a vast Celtic empire, which was itself preceded by other societies such as the Bell Beaker or Corded Ware cultures. But they've largely disappeared from the record because of the written legacy from the Greek and Roman empires.
Thanks, figures. I have little doubt Putin ordered it (tacitly or explicitly). There just seem to be so many (attempted or successful) murders that I imagine there must have been one or two times where he's been like "fuck, I didn't even do this one but I still have to go on a PR denial tour over it". I'm pretty sure he did do the overwhelming majority, though.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24169916
My emails are not getting flagged as spam. They are being blocked because they are being sent from a shared IP that has been blacklisted because other Sendgrid users used the same IP to send mail. I have a 99% reputation on Sendgrid.
Nice job doing the last mile and making it a usable service.

Just guessing: SMMRY or Quillbot with a little enhancement to preserve the salutation?
the links open in the same page because navigating away from kinopio.club doesn't result in any data loss.

Because there are usability issues with new tab/window spawning for less pro computer users, the w3c recommendation is that you should only use target=_blank links when moving to a new page would destroy your page state (e.g. if you were filling out a form).

(Just in case you haven't tried it yet, middle mouse clicks will open the url in a new window/tab)
This is how hazardous waste is handled in the US. The producer is ultimate responsible, and accountable, for the waste.
Your "see it has been researched" rebuttal is dodging the actual point which is that it has been systematically under-researched and under-appreciated, not that it hasn't been researched at all. Similarly no one is saying all Europeans are racists and you trotting that out is just a straw man. Your proposal that European/American civilization having a major problem now and historically of exploiting and marginalizing the brown world in every single way is "of course wrong" is completely insane and, honestly, an example of exactly the systematic racism you are denying.
Fun fact: the average pay per mile is less than the US Government's Standard driving deduction.
This is why I think it was a mistake for the ACA to limit catastrophic care to people under 30 (unless you get a hardship waiver [0]). That policy makes the cheapest non-job insurance that a lot of people can get cost >$500/month, whereas a catastrophic plan costs a lot less (about $120/month when I had such a plan in 2016).

For a lot of people who drive Lyft, catastrophic care could be a good fit, e.g. people in between jobs who expect to have a company plan at their next full-time position. This wouldn't entirely close the gap towards providing gig workers with benefits, but it would have helped.

There's also people for whom Lyft is a second job -- I'm thinking of a ride with a Chicago public school teacher who drove on weekends and breaks -- and I don't think it makes sense to force Lyft to provide them with insurance.

[0] https://www.healthcare.gov/health-coverage-exemptions/2019-e....
Totally disagree; this is a courageous action to show that they really mean what they've been saying all along.

The California government is the party that's been acting like a brat here. The rideshare drivers of California overwhelmingly didn't want this approach to receiving benefits. Lawmakers got jealous that economic activity was happening in a new way that they couldn't tax and control the way they were used to, and instead of solving problems creatively, attempted to slam a non-nail with a hammer. They were warned in no uncertain terms that it'd hurt.
Glad to see Lyft taking this stance, hopefully Uber follows up. California shouldn't be outlawing independent contractors.
+1 I'd also pay for something like this...
The torrent system's nice if it works, but the main draw is having a nice interface and being able to host your own stuff.
The dual slit experiment. Run the experiment with no one watching it, it produces result A. Run it again and watch it, it produces result B. Watching the experiment changes the result. WTF????
exactly, it is suited for enterprises, where you have to stick with the official builds for compliance.
This is already similar to Apple’s approach, as you can notice tabs refreshing and losing data when you come back to it.
Of course not. The prices someone sets are not related to the wages they're paid. You're paying a price; you're not paying a wage. The contractors are paid a wage by the business owner; if he pays them less than minimum wage it's illegal; if he pays them more, but does not recoup that cost on the job because he underbid it, that's a business loss.
Within the city, it's not like people who already own cars instead use rideshare apps; it's that for anyone in the city who might have used public transportation, a portion have opted for the rideshare apps. And that leads to the effects parent et al are talking about: increased congestion and all its side effects.

Bike use and bike sharing, while decreasing public transit use, have similar positive benefits to public transit use such as reduced congestion, reduced pollution, etc.
Taking similar gig in other industries, such as gardening, constructions, telemarketing and support, pet care, beauty industry, etc.

The gig economy did not start with Uber or AirBnB.
Not just healthcare- but other beenfits like sick leave, etc. and collecting taxes like unemployment insurance. When you do this -you better not leave any loopholes because companies have proven they will use it. IF Uber was successful, other companies would start fractional hiring of employees. I only need Finance people 2 days/week- they can come in anytime they like, work as long as they want and can work at other companies too. We'll save on taxes and benefits and they will enjoy their freedom. Too bad the Govt will lose taxes and the workers their benefits.
As a Russian, I have definitely felt a change in attitude towards Russia fairly recently (since Crimea probably). Overall feelings switched more towards fear, distrust and annoyance that Russia is punching above its weight (wanting to be a Great Power while having a relatively puny economy). Recent case in point that comes to mind: one of the characters in the show Devs is Russian. Spoiler alert, he is definitely not a good guy.

A surprising consequence of this trend is that while annoying, it had definitely led me to appreciate my home country more (even if I don't support the current government). Probably a predictable manifestation of in-group/out-group dynamics.
4 out of the top 5 are extremely liberal. In the top ten, let's calculate by population.

Blue: 66.8M (5.7 + 7.6 + 39.5 + 4.2 + 6.8 + 3)

Red: 12.3M (3.2 + 1.8 + 7.3)

Swing (aka Florida): 21.5M

This can be a bit confusing so let's skip straight to the point. If you take the house of representatives and add up GDP by district, democrats account for $10.2T and republicans account for $6.2T (1). The differences don't stop there. Republican districts have slower economic growth, less skilled labor, less educated workers, and a host of other bad indicators.

(1) https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/15/charts-democrats-represent-m...
this second example seems like a better analogy for the situation
The real problem is that the current status is so bad, that those who are relatively better off (probably still bad) are scared of change because they've seen what "worse" looks like and a better system seems mostly aspirational.

There is a reason why ACA messaging from Democrats always included the fact that you could keep your existing insurance if you wanted.
dont make any effort to make a basic website pvt.pyle
if they can't afford to pay benefits and a decent wage to their drivers then they're just an unsustainable business! glad they "disrupted" transit and made it harder to build good public transit by giving tax-shy politicians an excuse.

And despite the low wages both Uber and Lyft continue to operate at a loss! The business model just doesn't work and no amount of softbank cash can change that.
I don't know if this is your problem, but I'm a habitual rereader. I'll go over the same passage repeatedly to double check if I understand it. It doesn't actually help, I usually end up tired and the passage starts to, if anything, lose meaning due to semantic satiation. What I've learned to do is just let go, keep reading and eventually I'll figure out what that passage meant. Kind of like how when you watch a movie in theaters, you may not catch every line of dialogue, but you'll still understand the movie.
If it’s so profitable, they should be able to pass on those profits to the drivers. If they were already doing that, we wouldn’t be where we are.
The physics & biology behind eyesight.

Our eyes collect light that is "left over"(not reflected) from other surfaces.

Can't explain why but I had always had a sense that objects somehow emanated their own "image". Learning that colors manifest themselves because every other wavelength was absorbed was fascinating.
>>I live in Austin and sometimes I think if I really need a major procedure it would be just simpler to drive to Mexico

it is amazing what a Free market would bring right? Instead in the US we have this flawed belief that more government is what we need to solve healthcare never understanding that Government is the source of the problem
Just checked the code examples in a current Standard ML compiler, and they work without modification and behave as described. That's why you should choose Standard ML for your next project.

Great example though. When looking at Idris I had the impression there was a logical end point of having the type system so descriptive that, given the type of a function, there was only one possible implementation.
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Isn't this all public data that can be scrapped of Instagram etc? Someone just collected it and left it open.
Ask HN: Dark vs. Inception?
Dark TV series plot is much more complex than Inception movie. I firmly believe that Stories like Dark can not be made in Movies.

So which one would you recommend to people who loves Thrill and suspense?
If it provides an RTSP stream, you should be able to just log into it via a browser, either using the ip directly or putting rtsp:// in front. I'm using Amcrest cameras at home, seems like a lot of models work similarly.
The judge’s order literally came last week.

It is not that lyft is striking, their product and process is not ready yet to do full time employees yet.

The folks I spoke to were all doing hectic work trying to build it out , my understanding is they originally planned to do this by November.

Even if the tech is ready , converting 1000’s to folks full time is ton of government paperwork that is going to take time .

They first have to figure out who wants to be full time and who they want to be retain full time .

It is not like they were given a reasonable 6-12 months to comply and they screwed up . Uber is also in the same boat.
I have a strong suspicion that the Works Progress Administration may come about if Biden wins the election. There's a lot of bridges going into disrepair, new transit projects we _should_ pursue- not to say that everyone employed by this program is necessarily qualified to build a bridge, but if the opportunity is there I wouldn't be shocked if it drew unemployed folks.

But again, "if".
The gist of that is in the article. They never need and rarely do object to "fundamental concepts". Rather, they object to what they perceive to be your belief in them. That way, they never have to address anything directly.
Taxis are either independent contractors driving their own or company cars and getting most or part of the fare, or employees paid by the hour who are pushed to get a particular revenue per hour. Yes, the contractors will now have to be employees in California, so that model is gone there.

The former tends to adapt okay to predictable demand, the latter tends to not at all.

Before Lyft and Uber, my usual wait time for a Taxis in the Seattle area was on the order of 45 minutes to an hour. Since the rideshare companies became common, the wait time for taxis has gone down, but its still longer than the wait for Lyft.
That there is such a thing as deterministic chaos (aka the butterfly effect), ie. infinitesimal perturbations can quickly produce macroscopic changes, and all the philosophical implications that result from it.

That despite the apparent complexity of the weather many atmospheric phenomena can be explained from first principles with pen and paper calculations.

That the existence of elementary particles can be derived from simple symmetry considerations (That one blows my mind every time.)

That when we look out into the universe we see elements roughly in the same proportions as they appear on earth. (We are all made out of star dust!)
How much thin film PV is that? There's no wind and the solar constant is a lot higher in space even further from the sun.

Also remember that space is not dark. Unless you are behind something you are always in daylight if you are near a star.
Personal all-time favorite, read it twice: Accelerando by Charles Stross

Set in three parts, exploring a future where people can upload themselves to computers, create digital copies, recombine, run minds faster than real-time, re-enter the non-digital world, travel to alien destinations, etc.

Free from the author: https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/acceler...

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17863.Accelerando
Anyone know of an easy way to short that junk?
In Portland, Radio Cab has an Android/iOS app. I switched to them once they modernized. In this case, Lyft/Uber caused taxis to improve infrastructure. That's a win.
Admittedly, I'm a layperson that skimmed the majority of this article.

That said, to me it looks like "offline" takes the magic out of RL.

When I think of RL, I think about the implications of it's use combined with do-calcus, as describe in the book of why (pearl).

The magic is the way an RL system mimics that of an organism where it grows and dies based on environmental stimuli. Adding an "evolution" algo continues improving the results.

It seems like "offline" RL is trying to use RL where it doesn't make sense, like medical decisions where no one in their right mind would want to be subject to a learning coefficient. RL is akin to the medical student, not a doctor.

To solve the "irresponsible use-cases" issue, like a medical student, the RL should be observing and learning while the current best-of-the-best (most recently trained) curve-fitting algorithm(ML) is used to make any inferences. The data from the RL system can be inputted into the next ML iteration, where the improvement would likely come from the RL system adjusting feature weights.

Additionally, I'd be most interested to see how these results stack up against highly-effective GANs, which to me reads simarly to "offline RL".
Home is home. But keep reading for more :)
Ah, thank you, I had missed it. It is quite unfortunate that they don't have an RSS feed on that website. I just tried setting up https://kill-the-newsletter.com/, we'll see how that goes...

Unfortunately, I cannot share the generated feed here, as it's too similar to the inbox address.
Hi jsuki - I work at Twingate and we take privacy really seriously, but compliance with GDPR doesn’t require companies to open source their products. We also actually don’t collect much personal data - mainly the names and emails of users (not even passwords since we rely on identity providers to authenticate users). Also, any data sent between client devices and private network resources secured with Twingate is encrypted end-to-end so there’s no way for us to inspect it.

You do ask a valid question about why you should trust us, though. As a security company, we can’t build a business if we don’t have the trust of our customers. Our product undergoes security reviews by an external party and we are in the process of getting a third party security audit done, so you won’t just have to take our word for it.
Following xxs example of looking at NaN behavior, with this code, a bound (say lower) of NaN means that bound is disabled. Which may or may not be what you want.
The dual slit experiment produces different results? I must be thinking of something else - I thought that electrons passing through a dual slit always produce an interference pattern.

Anyone got a link?
I think that may happen either way;

Even if Revlon goes under because the courts pull what I'd call a derp, it should create the illustrative case that creates a business niche for higher reliability/risk financial transactions.
As soon as you're 50+ folks, you're required to provide health insurance. The US system is broken enough that you will do it before then too.

All founders I've talked with about it find it crazy that they're determining the healthcare choices for their team, and it's much worse when they are supporting a diverse team.

"""Fred has 3 kids and cares about their dental, Tim mostly cares about mental health, Alice runs ultramarathons, and Bob just got married. The main things we have in common are we like building cryptocurrency tech and work in similar time zones."""
Maybe if public transit was better funded and managed, more people could get to their jobs without having to pay for a car or a rideshare, saving costs. And more people could have jobs working for the transit agency. And in aggregate you have more employed people with lower daily costs, leading, ultimately, to fewer people out there who need to steal laptops in order to get by.
For some versions of morality, this is true to first order, but it ignores the second order effects. Ultimately, all complex organization, from the level of the cell to the level of the world, can be seen as solutions to the prisoner's dilemma. Defection looks like different things at different levels.

At the level of the cell vs. the body, it's cancer.

At the level of the individual vs. the family, it's adultery or abuse.

At the level of groups of people vs. a city or state, it's organized crime.

At the level of nations vs. the world, it's aggressive war.

It is the most natural thing in the world (literally) for members of an organization/group to preferentially help other members of the group, because there is an expectation of reciprocation, or at least that there would be reciprocation if the shoe were on the other foot.

It can be seen as a measure of progress of a society how large these networks of reciprocation get. It is a great thing when one's circle of concern expands. One thousand years ago, no one was sending resources purely altruistically to people thousands of miles away. To expect the circle of concern to be completely flat though is not an evolutionary stable strategy. The stable strategy is to create more engagement, more interdependency, more common beliefs and habits, so that trust is created, and the concentric circles of concern are progressively flattened.
Note that with modern branch predictors such optimizations may not actually be beneficial–ARM got rid of condition codes on all its instructions in the 64-bit version. (Plus, I assume they ran out of space to encode them.)
The call center example is actually more relevant than you might imagine. The jobs often look very similar to remote tech support in practice. In fact, some companies running call centers have begun offering remote support to autonomous systems as an expansion of their market.

This type of labor falls pretty squarely in the "information work" category, and often (as in your Kiwi example) looks mostly like operators performing a high-level task like specifying waypoints on a map.
Drivers choose to make their living with Lyft and Uber. California is starting to feel the repercussions of their far left policies. It hurts consumers (fare prices rise), stifles innovation, pushes entrepreneurs out of the state, and the irony is it ended up hurting the drivers.