skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's pretty much correct. Single-atom imaging is possible using aberration-corrected scanning TEM, but the beam doses used will typically obliterate anything organic through radiolysis or ionization damage (although there are emerging ways around that using some interesting compressive sensing techniques).

Most "atomic resolution" EM images you see are actually images of columns of atoms, since the imaging mode is transmission, so necessarily the image is summed through the plane of the sample (so atomic resolution is only in the perpendicular plane).

The techniques used in this paper get around the dose issue by taking many images of very many presumably identical proteins (called dose fractionation) at very low dose. Computer algorithms are then used to stitch together a 3D model based on the low-dose individual images. Making it really cold also helps things from breaking down under the beam.
>The most likely outcome will be that particle physicists will swap their current theories for new theories according to which the supposed particles are heavier than expected.

i.e. exactly what happened for the top quark, without proof of which we wouldn't have a working standard model. Why wasn't that the example?
You're right that if Texas goes blue, I think its safe to say that Biden won the election.

But I also think that Texas going for Biden is very small: Trump is still leading by 2% or so by official polls. Its important to push Texas a little bit since there's a chance for victory.

In the most likely event: Texas goes red (as it has gone for the past several decades), and we're left wondering about Florida, Ohio, and Pennsylvania as usual.

If Florida has an insurmountable lead on election night (like 5% or something), then Biden probably wins. But if its a 2% differential (too close to call by the media, and a serious counting effort starts to take place), like is currently projected in the polls, then Florida could very well drag out this election for a week or longer. Just like back in 2000.
What does "mustache twirling" refer to here? Is it a good thing?
Protecting against the tyranny of the majority is just a politer term for enabling the tyranny of the minority.

The systemic disenfranchisement of the majority of the American population--through the electoral college, senate, and supreme court--is precisely why so much of American politics is broken.

Forcing the the majority to live under the rules set by a minority that has a completely different way of life does not lead to good outcomes.
Works for me. You first need to click the "try it yourself on this page" and then move the mouse around and try hovering over various parts of the page. The black overlay box follows your mouse cursor and while it is initially empty, once you start moving the pointer, the rules start appearing in it.
> The technocrats will stop at nothing, including engineered food shortages, to push their Great Reset into global communism and transhumanism.

Yeah.
Collecting a check?

What's the incentive to do anything at that level? He's going to walk away after 5-10 years with OOM a billion dollars regardless of how anything he does or doesn't do pans out for Google. Why not just play the quiet card and pin anything that happens to the fiefdom lords who now have free reign and no oversight?

If good things happen, he gets credit for delegating well. If bad things happen, it's their fault. But if he loudly tries something different and it fails, the failure is more likely to get pinned on him. And again, he's already going to walk away with a billion regardless, so "financial upside" as a motivator for success is largely an illusion.

He's a "just gotta keep my nose clean and get out with a middling reputation and a shitload of money" CEO.
The specific kind of pancreatic cancer that Jobs had was not very aggressive, unlike the majority of pancreatic cancers.
>the average person just sees them that you list as rich dorks.

gp has only listed tech entrepreneurs. Shocking as it may seem to us, the tech industry doesn't have a stellar reputation in some parts of the US/world. However we also have e.g. Donald Trump who ran on his identity as a "businessman" (however farcical), Elon Musk, or Oprah ( http://blackeconomics.co.uk/wp/oprahs-empire/ ), all appealing to different sorts of people, but their business acumen is not unnoticed nor unmentioned in each case.
"Moreover, the Roman elephants were smaller African elephants, effectively useless against the large Asian elephants the Seleucids used"

I thought African elephants were larger than Asian elephants?
Are you the person who created bongo cat
Ad-blocker extension caught stealing user data and-accessing accounts
This is a myth. Stop perpetuating it.

https://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/academics/clarke_business_...
Because it's an explicit site rule not to do it?
538's model has the (probably reasonable) belief that polling errors don't happen in a vacuum; if there's a polling error in one direction in a state, then other similar states probably have similar errors. Trump winning Florida would imply at least a 3.5 point error based on current polls, so not insubstantial.
lol, while I was playing with the piano notes, I accidentally hit my laptop's "play" button. Meanwhile, my wife had queued up "spooky background music" in spotify. I was legitimately giving the site props for asking me to play along to a slowed-down electronica version of the Jaws theme.
I interpreted this to mean that someone toiling through the ranks of an organization "keeping the lights on" is more likely to be successful that someone who specifically tries to get a leadership role in an organization.

Or, someone who enters politics by joining local committees, volunteering to help other candidates, and maybe running for an "insignificant" office will have more success than someone who enters politics by running for mayor, governor, or president as their first endeavor.

But, more specifically, I interpret "looking like they're working on something silly or insignificant" to basically mean finding tasks that are critical for the survival of the organization; but might not come with the prestige of a leadership title.
This.

Channels are pretty much news feeds of note.

And they scale from a community, through to global classes of people.
> It turns out that if a party gets at least 5% of the popular vote, they are eligible to receive millions of dollars from the government to assist their campaign during the next election.

And yet, in 200+ years of elections, how many times has this happened? In my ~50 year lifetime there have only been 3 viable third party candidates for President. Of those, John Anderson got 6%, Ross Perot got ~19%, and Ralph Nader got 2.4%. If you're under 40, you've probably never heard of John Anderson. He was a Republican who turned independent to run against Reagan in 1980, so no party affiliation. Perot didn't have a party and dropped out of the race early, only to enter it again a few weeks before the election. Nader ran as a Green candidate. So at least on the Presidential stage, those rules don't seem like they help any party in reality. In very rare cases they help a particular candidate with 1 election, but even at Perot's almost 20%, there was no chance he could win.

It probably makes much more sense to vote 3rd party locally until such a time as your favored party becomes big enough to actually matter in Federal elections. But for races like President, we're stuck with our crappy system until we can get the political will to change to not be first past the post. I really wish we could do that.
> and there won't be until we change how we count votes, and your choice of protest is effectively taking what power you do have and throwing it away.

You think too highly of your 'pragmatism' (my word).

Last I checked, we have 20 different choices of fast food burger joints, in nearly every major city. 30+ different choices for cereal. Why not in politics?

Why not allow a society of 330,052,960 have more than two choices for someone whom isn't just the leader of our top-ranked nation but also the leader of the free-world.

I find it bizarre that people just accept this narrative that we must 'choose the lesser of two evils'. Last I checked, if I had a choice between rat poison or nuclear radiation poisoning, I wouldn't pick one of them.

This is called a false dichotomy. Your idea to 'change within' is bizarre.

What if we told consumers of McDonalds to 'get a high level status in McD and get that ice cream machine working 24/7'? That's impractical. That's why I quoted pragmatism because it's a false pragmatism.

Free agents need to make their choices. Fail at it then try again. But guess what, the politicians will be forced to changed too, when they realize they actually have to have a more substantive approach that meets the needs of it's constituents.

Competition is good. Duopolies aren't. Not in politics. Not in the market.
The phone carriers doomed Windows Phone. AT&T and Verizon both agreed they didn't want to sell three OSes, they barely wanted to sell two. You could have the best phone OS there is, but if no one is selling it it doesn't matter.
It's amazing what you can do with some persistence and threats of legal action - especially when you mention using a lawyer and recouping costs.
But this visualization has nothing to do with projections or modeling. It's straight numbers, plotting out various pathways for either side to win.
Theory fitting also happened with epicycles. We got nothing from that. Everything looked progressively more correct until all of it was suddenly incorrect.
Do you have a specific link? Their Wikipedia page is pretty short and I don't see anything notable in there.
That's unusual. You have better specs than I do, and I certainly don't experience any latency on Windows 10 at all -- definitely not any in the seconds range. Anecdotally at my workplace, I haven't heard any complaints either. There might be something that is idiosyncratic to your setup.
An Introduction to Neural Networks (2019)
Lots of negativity around the polymorphic JSON types. I don't think this will be a problem at all in practice. It's fairly simple to limit the conditional that checks the type to exactly one place via a parsing step. This is basic OO - using factories to abstract conditionals. It will also mostly be handled by client libraries.
Tried to push Metro on servers too. I remember the brief time where Server didn't have a start button but you could go to the bottom left most pixel to get the start menu to show. What were they thinking? Metro is fine now but that first iteration was a disaster
Trump or Biden? Citizens of Hong Kong Are Divided
Trump or Biden? Citizens of Hong Kong are divided
There is already an issue[1] on GitHub regarding this...

[1] https://github.com/Externalizable/bongo.cat/issues/144
I wonder about the fuel efficiency of such a thing. Jets get to altitude as fast as they can, using a small fraction of their fuel just to take off and land. Thinner air at altitude.

This thing is always 'taking off' at sea level, in the thickest air possible. Fuel efficiency has to be miserable.
> The electoral college is designed (from the start) to prevent the larger, more populous states from dominating the country.

You're probably thinking of the senate. While very small states do have an advantage in the electoral college, it's not very big at all. The electoral college is largely an artifact of a time when the electors were directed by state governments, not state populations.

The brokenness of the electoral college is more about the winner-takes-all allocation of electors that is (usually) practiced. This makes the votes of people who live in divided states far more relevant than those of people who live in states where most people vote the same way.
So organizations shouldn’t be able to remove people’s access to credit or accounts for any reason? If you take that away, you completely remove the ability to police money laundering and other kinds of financial crime (crypto is already a favorite technology of money launderers).

Legislation can (and should be IMO) written to provide users of big software systems more rights, but completely removing authority creates conditions for limitless money laundering, no? How does a government govern a blockchain?
Environment should obviously be protected.

But anyone who says he can predict the evolution of a complex system as large as the Earth is an idiot.

No study can do this, not possible. Studies fail when trying to predict such a thing that evolves year after year after year with an insane amount of non-predictable variables. You get one wrong and your prediction will completely diverge after 5 days.

After 1 month you will be predicting apocalypse while the people in Greece are sunbathing.

After a year your model will take on the atmosphere of Jupiter while in reality I'll be drinking beer and playing video games at that time.

People truly fail to comprehend that there are things which you simple cannot "perform a study on".
A lot of people simply can't handle the cognitive dissonance that pangs the mind when they are lower status than they were before. Cognitive dissonance creates undue mental stress until resolved. If one can't resolve it by deflating their ego, then the dissonance between reality and one's self perception won't allow them to stay in a position of low status for very long. Thus they get stuck in relative peaks, unable to descend from their high position, to start fresh from a point that allows them to climb the right peak.
>it’s important to note that everyone is chasing status

While I do think that is the general rule since humans are social animals, I'm curious as to why you don't think there are exceptions. By definition, to chase status means to pursue things that society values. It seems to me there are certain people who do not chase such things because they have value systems that don't align with the society they are a part of. Perhaps I can agree if we lax the assumption on what defines a society. If your family or a church is sufficient as a "society" I could agree, but I was using a larger definition to include people one wouldn't know on a personal level.

>status has more degrees of freedom than the number of people.

I don't know if I'd go this far. Status is by definition relative social standing and thus defined by the society at large. It can be relative between cultures (some societies may give teachers more status than lawyers and vice versa) but it can't really be relative within a culture and still meet that definition of aggregate consensus. Naturally, within cultures some dimensions will be more valued than others as the ones that give prestige.
They cornered the market and there are plenty of situations where a taxi is more or less necessary.
Cypress leaves, for anyone wondering.
Sure. We sometimes turn off flags when the article contains substantive information and there are decent odds that HN can have a substantive conversation about it. I don't think the odds are that good with this one.
>Except they picked an option that is a party they like. They have multiple other options.

What's the point in picking your favorite party if the outcome would be worse? If I think that being an astronaut will bring me the most happiness in life, I went down that career path, and end up failing (because the odds of actually being an astronaut is slim), then arguably that would be a waste of time (ignoring any additional happiness you get along the way). I'd be much better off with a career path that provides less happiness, but is more achievable.

>As has been pointed out by plenty of people: If you subscribe to the "vote was wasted" mentality, at least be consistent. Your vote is wasted any time you don't live in a swing state. I've lived in extreme blue and extreme red states, and who I voted for really had no consequence at all.

I never made the claim that voting for third party in a swing state is bad. But yes, if the state is sufficiently "safe", the disadvantage of voting third party is marginal.
It follows that the path has to be either risky, or difficult to comprehend.

Risky and difficult to comprehend are two forms of "barriers to entry". Another is who you know. One of the most obvious that you left out is: cost.

People buying their way into Harvard et al will obtain high status. People becoming a doctor will obtain high status. It's just that those things cost a 200k+. The price alone closes off that route to most people.

Risky and difficult are the routes to high status that less fortunate people MUST take, because the barriers for less risky routes are impossible to overcome by most people.

The important part you're highlighting is true: status requires barriers to limit the number of people that can acquire that status... it's just more broad than you've acknowledged.
I was just coming here to comment on this. The blog is "Unmitigated Pedantry" after all so I think this kind of detail would be appreciated
Not everyone is forcing themselves to use Firefox for ideological reasons that make the relationship abusive. I just use it because I think it's a better browser. The idea that its only worth is political or idelogical is strange to me.
Yeah I work in the Midwest and have been learning .NET for a project I was recently onboarded on. C#/.NET has a stronghold in most enterprise companies out here.
Looks like it's just distance from the center, probably for the sake of visualizing 3D space in a press release.
I'm very curious to see what side-effects (if any) vaping causes. Gotta wait a couple decades first though. I imagine there has to be some long-term study going on now for it.
A11y Coffee – Web Accessibility Information
I absolutely love this book and made a set a videos about it awhile back

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNP_FnCHKYw&list=PLqceOGKmip...
>> Wikipedia estimates 90mm global users of Ethereum

This is a gross oversimplification. How many of those 90M users would consider Ethereum to their primary medium of economic activity? What percentage of their economic activity is in ETH - 100%, 1%, 0.01%?
Speculation is very important value-added activity in any system. In my opinion anybody who couples speculation with scams and value-destroying activities together loses credibility.
Part of the digital currency deal is, that kind of privacy. Legislation may have to adapt? 'Money laundering' is avoiding taxes or hiding income. So change the rules about taxing money. Maybe a 'transfer tax' or some such, to take a (very small) cut on every transaction.
Deployments and monitoring are probably another draw. Same tools server and edge side.

Another project to keep an eye on is AWS's Greengrass which has a bunch of capability overlap, but a bunch of new ideas for edge and fog IoT also. I had a mixed experience with it but at least some ideas bear borrowing.
It would be possible to load a WASM module with a text-to-SPIRV compiler, but that would most likely be a few megabytes.

My understanding is that this was discussed, and the answer is: glslang is much smaller than this. (Glslang now has a bunch of #ifndef WEB to facilitate precisely this.)
Technically? It’s easy when you have more space, larger batteries and higher thermal limits to have more features. But the original iPad had technically inferior processor (256MB RAM vs 512MB than the iPhone that came out 3 months later).

The Watch being smaller, it’s technically much more impressive that it has an always on display, cellular, WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS, heart rate sensors, altimeter, gyroscope, 32GB Storage, and it still gets 12-16 hours of battery life.

While the Apple’s A series is already 2 or 3 years ahead of everything else in the mobile market, nothing is even coming that close to the S series chip.
if you do something in a naive way, PHP performance can tank pretty severe - but that's more down to the developer implementation rather than a shortcoming of the language itself
> What is broken is not the number of electoral votes per state but the winner takes all allocation system of the EC.

No, what is broken is indirect election with voting power distributed by state (no matter how you allocate the electoral votes based on the popular vote in the state, whether its winner-take-all, by-congressional-district with winner-take-the-extra-two, or proportional allocation), since the basic model, irrespective of allocation, creates a intense systemic incentive for voter disenfranchisement within states, since by disenfranchising people in your state that aren't likely to vote like you, you not only nullify their vote (but reduce your states overall vote) as you would with direct election, but seize their voting power for yourself (well, at least, redistribute it among those you do not disenfranchise within your state.)

This is, of course, the intended effect of the EC and 3/5 compromise, with the original focal disenfranchisement being chattel slavery. But it works even more powerfully without chattel slavery, because then you don't have the voting power from the disenfranchised population deweighted the way the 3/5 compromise did.
To what extent is the CL condition system inherently tied to Lisp(s)? Is there anything about it that makes it a natural fit for Lisp but not for other languages?

Macros, for example, are a natural fit for Lisp because of the parentheses. It would be difficult to add Lisp-style macros to a language like Python because Python doesn't have Lisp parentheses. In contrast, there's nothing about multiple namespaces that is particularly tied to Lisp. Common Lisp and Emacs Lisp have multiple namespaces, but Scheme doesn't. Python doesn't have them, but it just as easily could.

So is the condition system more like macros or more like multiple namespaces?
Ballsiest move from a CEO I've seen so far. I'm curious as to what this will do to their PnL.
> Heck, they could have ate the weeds growing in someone's garden

It's hard to do when you are several hundred miles from nearest garden and all you have is some dry biscuits. And this is after several months without a freezer, so all your vegetables with vit c are already consumed or decayed. People on land had access to vegetables and didn't suffer from scurvy that much.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24859673
There were two kinds of African Elephants; one from North Africa were domesticated and became extinct due to overexploitation. North African elephants were very small and lightly built compared to Asian varieties.

The White African Elephants of the Savanah, to which we all are familiar were never domesticated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_African_elephant
It's a reference to caricature of evil villains twirling their mustache as they gratuitously enjoy the extreme suffering they inflict upon others with no rationale other than enjoying being evil.
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/wellness-and-preventi...
You jumped from ship to ship while you could have just been a Windows developer the whole time. Not that you wouldn't have had a bunch of ships to jump between in Windows-land.
> It wasn't a coincidence that on the day Ballmer stepped down and Satya became CEO (2014), Microsoft also announced Office for iOS, Cloud first strategy, and a whole slew of cloud/Azure product announcements.

They might have been developed while he was at the helm, but how do you know he wasn't the one blocking their release?
You are right. Thanks
Do you have a reference for a good analysis of that hypothesis? On the surface it would seem like a plausible explanation for the 2016 election results, but I don't know how we could prove or disprove it.
Again, you're clearly baiting. I said I don't care about police dying, not people. The police can quit whenever they want.

You keep twisting what people say only to respond with gotchas and try to wear down your opponents.