skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A older female friend of mine says she's seen this happen all the time: give up on 'trying', and the pregnancy will appear.

People say this about lots of things (stop looking for a perfect job, and it will appear, stop trying so hard to find the perfect mate, and they'll appear, etc), but that doesn't make it a valid strategy, even if it does happen sometimes.

Stop trying is why the Coronavirus pandemic got so bad in the US, and why a climate catastrophe is all but certain in the next couple of decades. Why so many people in the US get so fat and unhealthy (speaking as a fat and unhealthy American myself).

For every person who stopped trying and had what they wanted happen to them anyway, there's plenty of people where that hasn't been true.
OK, that makes perfect sense, thanks. But then, a second question: from looking at the sheet, how do you know when the second note in each measure should start? It needs to start in the second semiquaver, but where is that information encoded and how do you know you don't need to wait for the white to finish?
Slightly similar, akon brought solar panels in a few african countries, and let the local people setup and install the mini grids (most probably under supervision from other people I didn't read about that). so now people got jobs, skills and light.
I used Bitcoin to buy milk, therefore it is a cow.
It's not just that. From the article:

> This opens the door to situations where if an attacker manages to compromise an operator’s edge network equipment, they could abuse 5G protocol functions to launch denial of service attacks against other network slices or extract information from adjacent 5G network slices, including customer data such as location tracking information.
I'm not sure we read the same article. The linked article said two things:

> 'The system then uses "automated verbal alerts" to tell drivers if a violation has been detected.'

'Automated verbal alert' is the exact opposite of a real-live person.

The article further says:

> 'Amazon told Insider in February driver footage was not automatically available to Amazon and that the "live feed" was triggered only after the detection of a safety or policy violation.'

So where are you getting 'berated by a real-live person?'
Well, no -- you can also run the Linux version of Steam and games with a native Linux version with no need to use wine. The performance should be better than using wine, too.
The distro takes care of it and you just yum / apt-get / whatever the lib and then compile the code you typed in. Template libs will slow down your compile times but there is still a lib boost.so etc sitting around.
Semiconductors lead times in March 2021
"anti-wokers" making a fuss over potato toys and Dr. Seuss books has me convinced they're a larger issue
> If there was any way to stream porn using less electricity, we would consume less electricity for that

In a perfect world, yes. We would use less electricity if we realize we could. Unfortunately it doesn't work like that in the real world. In reality it has to make economic sense, as capitalism is "the way of life" in the western world (and many other places), otherwise it won't be thought of. We're slowly changing this.

Bitcoin is capitalism modernized, fully on the internet and on our computers. Since computers and the internet tends to multiply everything, we now have capitalism as a protocol, intensified like never before. Since being environment friendly is not a benefit for the participant in the network, it won't be a consideration.

A big fault in the protocol, and hard to see how it can be solved in Proof of Work. Luckily there are some people working on alternatives but we have yet to see if they actually work in practice on the same scale as Bitcoin.
Is this narrative false?
That's a bummer about Firefox. I've started using Edge and it feels so much faster that I'm starting to wonder if it isn't time to re-evaluate my browser again.
Reminds me of Oswald Teichmuller, complex analyst and dedicated Nazi. The ability in mathematics to absolutely prove results correct makes using the research of evil people trivial. I doubt Shinichi Mochizuki gave Teichmuller's membership in the Nazi party a single thought when he published Inter-universal Teichmuller theory, and certainly no one has called for Mochizuki's cancellation or the dismantlement of his research group.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter-universal_Teichm%C3%BC...
Sure, but maybe this is still progress. I would much rather be “publicly traded” than “privately held”.

Also, missing from this argument is the inevitability that every communist government just outright enslaves its people.
The accepted draft of the research paper is in https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1029/202...

Look at figure 10, graph O, P, Q in the last but one row. They are fitting the same data near 34 amu. The 3 vertical bars that show the error intervals are huge.

(The SAD values are in page 8, item 3.)

* In the graph O they fit the data using the expected curve of H2S+ and get a SAD value of 4.7

* In the graph P they fit the data using the expected curve of H3P+ and get a SAD value of 4.7 (again)

* In the graph Q they fit the data using the expected curve of of mix of H2S+ and H3P+ and get a SAD value of 4.0.

It's expected that with a mix you get a lower SAD, but it's clear that the error bars are so huge and the 3 fits so similar, that it's not possible to distinguish which one is the correct one. It looks like another case of overfitting.
Couldn't possibly be on purpose, right?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/feb/11/crypto-ag-ci...
Maybe this?

history | awk '{h[$2]++} ; END {for (i in h) print h[i], i}' | sort -n | tail -10
They're sort of represented as voices. The top voice has a rest for half a beat, the bottom voice starts immediately and the middle voice starts after a quarter of a beat.
Well, certainly the first to be widely implemented. After the original Fortran for the 704, there were compilers for a bunch of other machines, not always using the "Fortran" name. And, per this article, the first to have a meaningful optimizer. (Terms such as "basic block" first occured in 1957 technical papers on its internals.)

However, there were earlier languages which were at least high-level enough to support algebraic notation. Perhaps the first the compiler written by Laning and Zierler for the Whirlwind at MIT: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laning_and_Zierler_system (which was thought for a while to have been an inspiration for Fortran -- but the head of the Fortran project, John Backus, later found notes from before Laning and Zierler published).
What is your metric? Tell me about it.
I remember the first mobile Core 2 Quads, two dies on a package, was a "we're living in the future" moment haha
New AI-powered Mobile Game played via Motion Tracking makes exercising fun
This game tracks your body movements without the need of controllers, suits, or consoles. All you need is your smartphone with a functioning Camera. Mind blown yet?

Artificial Intelligence is the brains behind a to be launched within a week invite only App — FitNach.
Fit what? FitNach. That’s right. A game that helps you burn calories while you’re still stuck at home. (Probably getting stuck in rabbit holes).

A mobile game that helps you burn calories? FitNach — A dream to transform not the mobile games industry but the very idea of Cardio itself.

So, how exactly do you play?
Good question! There’s 2 sections in the game:
FitNach Dance: Dance to some of the Top Hits in music or to your favourite Music Videos on YouTube by following simple to follow on-screen steps. Move your extremities at the right place at the right time as the Music Video plays.
FitNach Run: Play as FitNinja who has to avoid a dragon chasing him, airplane flybys, as well as lava, all behest to you moving in real life behind the screen. Jumping, squatting, turning, running in place, moves FitNin in the game, (warning: you’d be secretly wishing FitNin had more problems to face once you’ve burnt more calories than you’d thought).

FitNach is a try at making exercise more fun and this concept has been seen before in the famous arcade dance platform game as well — Dance Dance Revolution

FitNach shows the final score, the estimated amount of calories burnt, as well as similar exercises that would’ve burnt the same amount of calories in that time after you’ve played based on your weight, gender, and age.

The App tracks your body, shoulders, nose, ears, knees, ankles, elbows, you name it!
FitNach uses the phone’s camera along with AI to track your body movements accurately at a high frame rate.
FitNach is made with Flutter, Unity, and TensorFlow based Models, amongst a gazillion of other little things :)

Link for the whole article: https://fitnach.page.link/medium
U realise ohm is used for maesuring ressitance in electiricty dont u?
I can't argue that most people want this sort of feature. Even if it's uploading a live camera feed directly to your insurance company, most people would clamor for it if it reduced their monthly bill.

But the thing I wonder is, in 50, or 70 years from now, when someone's car is deactivated because they said the wrong thing online, or or an API was deactivated somewhere, I wonder who future generations will hold responsible. Because it seems like the smart people in the room are completely aware of the systems of oppression they are creating, but are doing nothing to stop it.
Investors always pour into spaces and make a ton of bad bets. How many photo sharing apps got funded? Social networks? Podcast things?

Most investments are bad and most investors aren't very good. The crypto stuff is just the latest investment trend, but not really different than what came before it.
The comparison with learning English is spot on. The way you learn your native language is by simply growing up in a context where you are forced to try to use the sounds of the language to make yourself understood. You start with the intuition; writing, spelling, and word classes come much, much later, when you’re really an expert on the language already.

For some reason when people learn a foreign language they tend to start with the written language, and actually holding a conversation or understanding a native speaker is often a less prominent part of learning. This, to me, is a lot like thinking that learning music starts with reading a score and studying up on music theory, when you actually already have an intuitive understanding of music because you’ve listened to it all your life, and should probably focus on building similar intuition for expressing yourself with an instrument.
Oh, it seems like it's only for their card-trading game? So they're essentially saving themselves money on gas fees? I'm more interested in the fees affecting individual artists.

> We’re sprinting towards March 2021. Immutable X alpha release is still expected in March 2021 for Gods Unchained, and coming to other partner games and marketplaces soon after.
Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. This especially applies to congressional testimony.

No one WANTS to be subpoenaed by Congress. There is no upside. If you want to talk to congress honestly, Mark Z could do that anyway, at any time.

There is only downside in testifying before congress.
We have decades of steampunk literature to learn from :D
> ...it does not store energy.

Yes it does. It stores what is called "monetary energy", and monetary energy belongs in the same class as kinetic, elastic, and chemical energies.

One of the key differences between bitcoin and other monetary assets is that bitcoin is absolutely scarce (the first absolutely scare monetary asset in human history), so its energy cannot leak via inflation.
The fun part was when their form of Christianity involved persecuting others but the government said no.
I'm curious why the parent comment was downvoted.
It would be like learning Romeo and Juliet by ear. You could in theory do it, but it's far easier if you know how to read. And far easier to refresh your memory down the road if you need to perform it again.
Crypto currencies offer non-repudiation and that is it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-repudiation
Epstein didn’t do any research to cite, he just had a close relationship with the administration he used to get an office and try to rehabilitate his image.
It seems impossible to predict. The reason the price would not go to zero would be that, at the new lower price point, newly viable applications are found. What will these applications be? We can only guess.
I think it's a good barometer for the relationship between money and ethics/law: if you have enough of the former, many people will ignore the latter when dealing with you.

In my opinion, this is one reason why massive wealth inequality is bad. It creates a caste of people who are often are immune to the legal system unless they do something sufficiently horrific.
> This statement has no basis. We've had multiple awful nuclear accidents and the world keeps turning.

You hadn't forgotten I was writing about severe accidents within half a sentence, hadn't you?

> We are headed towards a much worse scenario of climate change if we don't effectively decarbonize.

I'm quite aware of that. And if I considered stopgap nuclear realistically possible, maybe I'd support it.

> That's a thing anti-nuclear institutions have been saying for sure but it doesn't hold even a little water. France, for example, decarbonized almost all of its electricity with nuclear in 15 years.

Building nuclear is not even the hard part. Deciding to do so is. Changing public opinion to favour nuclear won't happen in time so there's no point. The decision to decarbonize using renewables has been made, there's actually no need to even discuss it further.

> When you take a look at achieved decarbonization rates per capita, nuclear is at the top.

The available technology and political climate has changed since then.
I just want to point out that Tim Hudak being “very nervous” doesn’t mean it’s happening, or that the impact is large. He does however suggest we can’t properly measure it; to me that means we’re equally in the dark about whether the impact is small or large.

I highlighted this in another comment: foreign ownership is banned in New Zealand but they are going through the same speculative asset bubble.

Interest rates are at record lows. Stocks and other assets are at record highs. People are buying and selling NFTs for millions of dollars. Canada and other governments have erected policies that solely benefit homeowners (e.g. no capital gains on appreciation of your principal residence). Why isn’t occam’s razor sufficient here?

I’m not saying money laundering or foreign ownership aren’t happening. I am saying that at best, it is one of a number of factors.
It discredits the author.

Unfortunately we have no system to track and weigh articles based on a notion of author credibility. ...which is really too bad.

I would love a HN community credibility score of authors weight-adjusting the ranking of articles posted here.
Those aren't vaguely bad as compared to the shit that has been yelled at me out of car windows by people who will never have to answer for it.

The first one is just the "model minority" trope, the second one is a reference to the actual physical characteristic that Americans use to define "Asian" (since we tend to leave South Asians out, and everybody in the West tends to leave Central Asians out), and the third is a case of over-specification that maybe indicates hidden racist attitudes, but could also be a way to distinguish between a number of TAs whose names you don't know.

I don't care about Teen Vogue, and I don't care which elites get jobs in the culture industry dictating the range of acceptable opinion, but tweets like these are minor racial crimes as compared to the systemic actions of people who would never talk like this.
Could anyone explain how exactly they know an asteroid is made out of certain material?

What data are they observing from a telescope that tells them it’s iron and nickel, vs some other metal, vs rock? Especially with such precision around the composition
I'm not understanding how this doesn't work out for you.

You got in at low interest rates. Why would you have to refinance? Why is not being able to refinance an issue?
Any reason not to just use

Options MultiViews

instead?
Help me out on this one as maybe I don't understand the details:

So Epstein was a horrible dude. Did this professor know about that stuff when he gave him these privileges?

> he had extensive, previously unreported contact with Epstein.

>giving the disgraced wealthy financier an office on campus which he visited more than 40 times between 2010 and 2018.

>Epstein’s efforts to use ties to the prestigious university Harvard as a tool to rehabilitate his image

None of that sounds particularly strange. Was this all after the Epstein stuff came out?

Did professor guy know what Epstein was up to?

It doesn't strike me as that odd that a big donor gets recognition / some privileges.
> But I just don't see the cause for outrage over this - as long as the system really is focused on the safety of drivers and other road users.

> The reference to AI in the article makes it sound dystopian, but isn't this potentially better, if it just means that computation is used to detect any issues rather than having humans watching their fellow workers?

> [..] what incentive does Amazon have for it to be anything other than this

What Amazon (and others doing similar stuff) does is create something of a Panopticon [0] to enforce proper behavior:

> Although it is physically impossible for the single guard to observe all the inmates' cells at once, the fact that the inmates cannot know when they are being watched means that they are motivated to act as though they are being watched at all times. Thus, the inmates are effectively compelled to regulate their own behaviour.

> In 1965 the conservative historian Shirley Robin [..] argued that Bentham's pet gadget, the panopticon prison, was a device of such monstrous efficiency that it left no room for humanity.

> Recent Libertarian thinkers began to regard Bentham's entire philosophy as having paved the way for totalitarian states.

In this regard, as with the Panopticon, it doesn't even matter if the camera's work or there's AI involved.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon
One common similarity in these cases is that always relatively powerless people are exposed and "face consequences" (don't we all love that phrase by now).

Clinton and Gates also had "connections" to Epstein.

The really interesting part is a) who Epstein worked for and b) the powerful people he collected information about.

I find it hard to believe that visits to this island were just favors to his friends. More likely he took videos and collected compromising information, Hoover style.
Although of course not necessary but as a personal advice, I would pick up site reading early on. It teaches you a lot about music and it's a formal way of persisting your musical thoughts.

Also, finding a good teacher and taking regular lessons helps. I would be suspicious of a teacher who wouldn't recommend learning to read the score.

Progress in the beginning might be slower, but long term trajectory and possibilities are greater when a student knows how to read/write also.

But of course everyone is free to use an instrument and music how they get most joy out of and can express themselves the way they want.
Telos isn't strictly linked to religion. Emergent properties can be seen as a form of telos. Even atheists talk about evolution teleologically - "evolution fits species to their environment".

Personally I liken the typical materialist denial of telos to only trusting quantitative data, which is something they also do. You don't even get half the picture because the two halves form a greater whole.

To be honest, it was a catastrophe when the dualism of the Abrahamic religions was split down the middle and the spiritual half was abandoned. Its no surprise that modernism is so unfulfilling when the default philosophies that are compatible with pure materialism are hedonism and nihilism.
If you're using filezilla on windows only (not cross platform) then winscp is a great replacement. No worries about ads or repackaging.
And yet Harvard still proudly associates with Alan Dershowitz who was deeply involved with Epstein, has been accused of raping minors with Epstein, and got Epstein off when he was caught the first time.

https://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/directory/10210/Dershowitz/

Harvard's connection to Epstein go a lot deeper than just Nowak.
Clusters and Failure Domains
I took both the intro and advanced version of this course in my undergrad. Academically interesting stuff, but the inability to translate from proved system to implemented and proved system was always frustrating.

It was definitey a clear delineation between _computer science_ and _engineering science_ during my undergraduate courses.
> There is such a thing as government-mandated conditions in most places even in the US (

Government-mandated conditions are on paper only, are often abused and the boundaries are always stretched out to the breaking point.

> at a certain point people are better off doing nothing than being so badly abused, and there is always a better option below a certain level of mistreatment.

You're underestimating the amount of rampant poverty and unemployment without benefits in the US.
You're un
There is significant regulatory liability for social media companies at the moment, so there is significant risk.

...not criminal risk to Mark Z himself.
Ok, but what about literally every other scale? Because those are the ones that matter re: morality and how we show up in the world.

Saying "both sides can't answer this one question" as though that implies that both sides are equally invested in magical thinking is a bit unfair.
GIMP has options to preserve or strip exif data in the Export tool. Can't speak with confidence about the other stuff that I don't use, but I expect that social media probably preserves it at least internally -- that should be really easy to test if you've got an account on the sites you're concerned about
"Always has been."
I'm not sure open sourcing entirely solves the problem, that doesn't show how the company has the software configured. I'd suggest that you need rigorous and continuous independent auditing with results published. But where do you get that these days?
I gotta disagree there. The original Twitter was all about sharing random shit. People take it too seriously sometimes now that it’s big business.
A Mysterious Ship Helps North Korea Evade Oil Sanctions
Yes, it was after Epstein was originally arrested for having sex with a minor. Epstein's actions were no secret. Those that worked and associated with him knew what he was up to. This is a good article that lays out how this was common knoweledge:

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/peteraldhous/jeffrey-ep...
Very nicely done, Ochem.

65 pages of straightforward translation.
>I find it hard to believe that visits to this island were just favors to his friends. More likely he took videos and collected compromising information, Hoover style.

Why would favors to friends be 'hard to believe'? Favors among friends seems like a pretty predictable human trait.

You're headed down the tinfoil road here I think.
San Diego Comic-Con sets sights on Thanksgiving weekend, sparking backlash
Perhaps there’s more value in bringing it home to an Earth orbit rather than landing it. Then using it for space based manufacturing. The cost savings of not having to lift that much metal from the gravity well may be the asteroid’s real value.
We live over a much larger ball full of Fe and Ni.

In fact, the actual value of a hard to get Fe reserve is 0. The ground is full of it, and it's much easier to get here. We would have to compare the costs of mining an asteroid with deep mining on Earth to discover if the Ni has any value, it's very likely 0 too, but I don't think anybody knows for sure.
Why are the parents assumed to be corrupt?