skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In this case, the x-ray data is already the constructive interference of the Fourier transform of the object shot by the X-ray beam. The raw diffraction data is actually just the intensities of the Fourier transform of whatever is providing the constructive interference (i.e. diffracting).

What they actually had to calculate were the phases of the data, which is arguably much more challenging. Once those phases are calculated, you can do a reverse Fourier transform (also significant, also called a Fourier synthesis in that paper and elsewhere) and get your real-space map. This is an iterative process, so you don't usually just do it once, although I'm not sure what Kendrew, Perutz and Rossman did in the early days.

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

Structural biology and cutting edge computing are inextricably linked, and probably always will be, which is actually how I fell into the field. My (not yet then) P.I. was trying to get Nvidia 3d vision working on Linux for refining the atomic structure into an X-ray map and had exhausted all the IT knowledge on campus before I stumbled in.
alright, lets pick apart the analogy. In a gold rush, sell shovels. The meaning of this is that there is business to be had selling shovels to the miners. Being a miner is a lottery ticket. Maybe the claim you made has gold, maybe it doesn't. It's unreliable. You might not make it big. But all of the miners need shovels and Levis, so during the gold rush, it's basically guaranteed that you'll be able to sell shovels, because every miner needs one.

So that is to say, to be a smart business, the company's product should be a tool that the miners need, instead of the tool, because it's seen as more of a sure thing. but this is the real world and there's no such thing as a sure thing. Hearst, Studebaker, Stanford were miners that struck gold. Where the analogy falls apart is that the gold is a bit harder to mine so there are a vast array of shovels with different attachments and gizmos, so you could build a shovel that only catches dirt and lets all the gold run out. To abuse the analogy. Not all shovels are equal, and so eg is AMD a good buy right now.

In this gold rush, Nvidia is the shovel, Supermicro is the handle, Micron is the stick, and TSMC is the atoms those things are made up of. Except for some reason, MU and TSM haven't popped the same way NVDA and SMCI have.
Dragon Ball transcends cultures, languages, and generations like few creative works I can think of do.

In that story he managed to capture the simple, profound truths of the human experience. Courage, friendship, resilience, the pursuit of one's dreams. A sense of a deeper purpose and meaning to life. A world full of new things to discover.

I am very sad to hear of his passing, but take solice in knowing that his works will outlive him.
I have to say I'm not entirely following your argument here. I mean I completely agree with what you're saying, but I think this supports my view? I'm unfamiliar with Maori history, but following with what you're saying it sounds as though their decision to not proactively advance until introduced to technology many eras ahead of their own, was indeed just that - a decision. And I think that's, more or less, the gist of the argument that I'm making.

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On the invention aspect, it seems that metal working is a pretty logical and natural path for an experimental mind. Like when you were a child and first got to play with firecrackers, didn't you do all the typical things? Place one in a bottle and see what happens. Place one under a bucket and see what happens. Bury one and see what happens. And so on. Similarly when playing with fire.

And when people early people were experimenting with fire they no doubt realized that fire has an ability to do very different things, at different heats, to different substances. Heat wood and make charcoal, heat food and its flavor and texture changes, heat dried grass or straw and it's effectively disintegrated. Heat metals and...? All you need to imagine is that perhaps you might need a hotter fire, which is far from difficult when many metals start to change color and consistency even at relatively low heats. And the knowledge that fires fed 'air' grow hotter is something that is also trivial to discover. Things like billows and ever more sophisticated setups follow relatively naturally.
Grats author here: Strawberry was definitely (and continues to be) a big inspiration for Grats, I’m pleased to hear that you see the resemblance!
*World peace depends on it.
This + ohmytmux is my go to
The buried detail that Evil Mad Scientist was acquired by Bantam Tools deserves an article on its own IMO. I find it sad that such a nifty small (and seemingly very personal) business would get gobbled up (though I would be happy if they proved me wrong about the typical fate of acquired companies!).
There's probably some deep science AI-type stuff.

Or maybe useful for security exploits.
What happened to REST design principles?

A GET isn’t supposed to modify server state. That is reserved for POST, PUT, PATCH…
> There will be demand for gpt's trained on an actual engineering material and it could actually be a huge gamechanger for that market.

I imagine there will also be a lot of kinda-fraudulent supply from people who think: "I'll just take a cheap/commodity (badly) trained LLM, find just the right set of whack-a-mole prompts to make it appear to be making good output, and until customers catch-on the difference is pure profit."

Or perhaps they're open about it, and many customers just decide bad results cheap is better than premium data, which is... not a heartening thought.
> Animations are not just a fancy visual thing, they help the user understand what’s going on. Instead of teleporting the toggle indicator to its new position, let’s move it smoothly

Unfortunately it is, just a fancy thing that too often makes it worse or just focuses on the wrong thing.

Like in this case, what exactly is "going on" that requires this visual delay? It looks worse vs the original instant response, why does the user need to care about intermediate movement of this binary toggle?

Then this is the fanciness that detracts from solving the major flaw of these sliders: you can't easily tell whether it's off or on
It's also true that the questions are overwhelmingly written by people from "elite" universities, where certain subjects and approaches are emphasized. So if you aren't from one of those you're less likely to nail it. Elite universities also have connections I'm sure, and generally prepare students for interviews much better than average ones.
> so, is there a clear line between: steal trade secret, and applied learned experience in new company the way everyone does?

There may be some grey, but copying information in writing is pretty clearly over the line.
From Aug 2020
There’s a startup behind this effort. How do they plan to make money?
Buckminster Fuller's Geodesic Dome
Not all affordances are cash.
Not that you are wrong, but Moscow was irrelevant at the time of the Mongol invasion.
68 is definitely too young. Especially in Japan where advanced age is more common.
Shouldn’t this be the link instead of X? https://en.dragon-ball-official.com/news/01_2499.html
That's how I learnt programming (self study) as a high schooler more than 2 decades ago: by studying books (affordable fast internet connection wasn't a thing at that time).

Start from chapter 1, study the concepts and play with the code examples a few times till you understand. Usually there are exercises at the end of each chapter. Try to work on those.
When is the Large Google Machine going to learn to be social and offer me a decline all non collaborative cookies button?
Source code repo is like a very extremely detailed doc. You might not be able to actually easily run it due to all of the dependencies etc, but with couple of weeks of reading, you should be able to tease back out the high level design.
> The opsec of the people who eventually get indicted is always terrible

By definition....

Yes
As always: https://youtu.be/IeTybKL1pM4
Thank you for Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball Z, Dragon Ball Super, and Dr Slump.

As a young child, your work made me laugh, gave me guidance on hard work and determination, and was just so damn charming.

It was always a mix of silly vs serious, slice of life vs a potentially hopeless battle. But it was always filled with hope.

May you rest in heaven, together with Hiromi Tsuru (the voice actress for Bulma). If I could wish you back, I would.
> And same-name conflicts can be handled case by case.

...unless they're Chinese.
While in small doses it's a bit nice to affirm to the user they didn't blink while the state changed, it adds significant complexity. Nearly every one of the animations in that website flicker and the map rendering actually has a bug where it doesn't stop jittering back and forth very visibly indefinitely. Definitely makes me not want to implement stuff like this.
The resource I come back to often for animation curves:

https://easings.net/
A true legend in the field and someone who brought joy to millions.

If this post somehow manages to get 9000 upvotes, some of us will smile quite a bit.
But why? We all know 0.1+0.2 won’t give 0.3 with floats but at least we should expect deterministic result for same numbers and same operations and same order, no?
Thanks for this. You remind me a lot of me when I was your age. Frustrated and without much power to do something about it. And with gradually forming ideas of what good leadership looks like .. we’re fans of the same people it appears.

In terms of high turnover, I’m not an engineer and have not managed an Eng team.

However, the companies I most admire tend to have a single digit % turnover annually.

Toyota is my favourite example but there are others - I don’t like Costco for other reasons, but they do seem to be another with a great culture.
If comments are code, they should all be removed, because they do nothing, and dead code that does nothing should be removed.
Okay? Even taken at face value, that still doesn't seem relevant; no amount of X code rot, vulnerabilities, or lack of new features will make Wayland stop being buggy or give it the features it didn't pick up in the first 13 years of its existence. I'm not arguing how bad Xorg is internally, I'm telling you that to users Wayland is still worse. Well, for a noticeable fraction of users; the users who aren't affected by the bugs or missing features seem happy.
Reminds me of Go Set a Watchman.
I got an alert about this in KATWARN yesterday. It was kinda funny and curious for a second that this wasn't about yet another WW2 bomb, but instead an alert about... objects from space? Hah.

I'm too far north to see much I think, but my parents live pretty close to the ground path. Maybe they can take some cool pictures.
It's less of a "question" and more of a "WHY THE FUCK is this even a thing???" and why aren't people giving FB/Apple hell for this??

There was a popular post just a few hours ago about Filezilla (whatever that is) containing adware in the default download.

This is a FAR more grave violation of privacy than anything so far — Tracking people ACROSS reinstalls AND MULTIPLE PHONES!
Discussion from 3 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39597030
I'm glad we agree that there should be better education. It's up to the platform what it pushes, and while the banal evil implementation of the algorithm is optimized to sell more so we consume more, there's a very real effect on the zeitgeist that TikTok has above that. It's very much able to shape the nation's culture and politics, and that just should not be in the hands of a foreign power. We're already in World War III, and the big weapon in this war is information and ideas. China would love to divide the US and cause a civil war, and control of TikTok's algorithm is a weapon in such a war.
I miss old school checkboxes for UI toggles. They're crisp and clear and don't entice bored people to animate them.
It seems that you agree that Western values are important, so you couldn't attack that part of the argument, and instead had to twist my speech into something that I never said, so that you could then attack what I never said. You have no credibility.
I always thought there was quite a contrast between UCB giving away BSD versus UCSD making its p-System a commercial product. In the short term, it was probably good for UCSD, but in the long term, the p-System is all but forgotten while BSD trucks along.
I think that’s a little harsh. Chess programming and ML both require fairly sophisticated understanding. And a lot of approaches which seem reasonable beforehand just don’t work when you try them.

It also seems like the author isn’t familiar with a lot of the work which has been done previously which probably would’ve given them a head start on this. Leela, Maia, and Alpha Zero would be good reference material.
Grats and Relay (I work on both) can be combined to get this developer flow, and it’s pretty incredible. Would love to see it working with Strawberry as well.

https://x.com/captbaritone/status/1748020699263045659?s=46

Example project with this setup working can be found here: https://github.com/captbaritone/grats-relay-example
Hmm isn’t this the old unix idea of “layers” where each layer is built so that its as close to non-leaky as possible, thus allowing you to never need to investigate the layers below the one you are working with.

I think I learned this in school in like year 2000.

And I’ve strived to do that in software ever since - whatever I build - build the abstraction that makes solving the problem easy and then solve the problem with it.

That way when the inevitable change request comes, you don’t need to dive down the layers, just utilize the current tools.

And people gush when that happens throwing terms like 10x developers, ninjas etc. Its just consistently investing time to build those layers and then utilize them.
From README to documentation site in 10 minutes
omg, AND you let me hide "Mixes"
i wish i could do these things to the android client as well!
Yeah I mostly did 3-6mth contracts from ~96-2005 then a contract offered me a very generous FTE role to stay.

I loved contract work and probably could’ve done it forever but marriage/kids changed what I look for in a job.
It works if you have very wide platforms. The general issue is that London doesn’t build large platforms suitable for cross platform interchange.

London also uses this crowding excuse to deliberately not build transfers, like the new Northern Line extension with the Victoria Line.
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If you want something destroyed, you should destroy it yourself while you're still alive.
> Keychain storage doesn’t let FB track you

Are you serious? They literally know my previous accounts even after I DELETE the app, WIPE the iPhone, and login to the same iCloud account on ANOTHER iPhone.

They do this by storing some data. They can store data about anything else. How can be sure if we can't even LOOK at that data?

I only caught this because of the visible symptoms they CHOSE to show us: The list of previous logins.
What do you mean, the warhead (the reentry body) or the last stage? Because the warhead is passive.
What are you wondering about? I'm a structural biologist and just got home for the day from running some electron diffraction samples. I could probably provide pretty pictures and accompanying explanations of anything up to the free-electron laser portion.
Subdural hematoma. So, falling. Hmm, a common cause in aged people. I wonder how many more life years we could add by helping deal with falling.

Like many others, DBZ was the first anime I watched. What an experience trying to get the pirated copies and watch them on RealPlayer. And we'd share fan AMVs like they were secret religious texts at school.
You also get judged a lot more for your looks in nontechnical roles. For example, if you're doing sales, simply being attractive could be a huge advantage. It makes sense but it also sucks if you aren't in that category.
> It looks worse vs the original instant response

I think that’s an unpopular opinion. The instant response looks janky, exponential smoothing looks well polished as long as it’s not too slow.
Grats author here. I agree, decorators would be preferable. However, decorators are a runtime construct and as such cannot be applied to type constructs. This means you can’t, for example, annotate an interface definition, or add a description to an argument (since arguments are declared using an object type literal).

You can read more about how I ended up settling on docblocks here: https://grats.capt.dev/docs/faq/why-use-comments
(Lighthearted) It's quite funny actually, I'm not white but I thought the Gemini situation was kinda fucked up. We're like opposites!
PID Controllers for animations
It is a great book though. For technical stuff you have to look for papers unfortunately.
Rip, is there a media franchise more globally popular among gen y bros? I feel like I've seen db memes from everywhere.
To reach the sun, you need to shed a lot of kinetic energy - and given that you’re in a vacuum on most of the way there, the only way to do that is through a lot of deceleration, which is really the same thing as retrograde acceleration, and maybe some gravitational slingshots, but these aren’t free either (you need delta-v to execute them) and therefore have limited gains.

(Technically it’s cheaper by a factor of three to go to escape velocity out of the solar system and then plunge back into the sun, but at that point, why go through the trouble and come back if your concern is trash disposal?)
As a point of comparison, the total amount of nickel in the Earth's oceans is approximately 1 billion tons.
Looks great! Would you have plans to release a jetbrains plugin in future?
Where is upstreams CVSS score ?
Apple: “While you are in the EU, you get reduced protections and greater risks due to DMA. Once you are out of the EU, you get the best protections that the Apple App Store offers. No malware. No scamware. No adware. No silly apps with enormously unbelievable weekly subscriptions. No apps that are an exact copy of another. You benefit from our investments and efforts in our legendary and famous app review process. Don’t ask us. Just ask our developers about how great our App Store is.” /s

Seriously though, can Apple claim or pretend that it’s protecting EU residents and that once someone is out, they’re not residents anymore? The 30-day period for something as critical as apps in today’s world is too short though.
>Do we get to look at your personal journals, browser history and hidden photo gallery once you kick the bucket?

Of course not, yet no one will donate to my non profit “refill all of the excavated Pompeii cavities” project. There is a sort of arbitrary and hypocritical “dead” vs “even more dead” position that people take with their misgiven concepts of “history”
"Aiming in a direction that intersects with the sun" requires a huge momentum change when an object already has a large orbital velocity around the sun.
Programming is dead, prompt AI
C64 OS has a mission: To let you do things with your Commodore 64
I'm not sure what would make some money "real", is that the same concept as hard money?

Bitcoin isn't real money and no one actually tries to use it as money today. At best its a security, though realistically its more of a gambling chip than anything else.

Bitcoin fundamentally won't work as money, even if it can be a store of value. Second tier networks like lightning are required, but those only work by abandoning core pieces of the bitcoin protocol and avoiding actually using bitcoin at all.
Valve originally started in 1996 by licensing the Quake engine for Half-Life.
Could Apple Leave Europe?
Dragon Ball Creator Akira Toriyama Dies at 68
We build software acceleration for LLM, effectively running smaller llama2 models at the same performance on several L4's as on 1xA100.
That would be great if feasible, but I think most transfer stations have lines crossing each other at near 90° for obvious reasons, which would make this impossible.
Broncolor is “buy once, cry once, then cry again when you need an attachment, and also cry when you need to replace a bulb.”
> Martin Luther and Martin Luther King changed the world for the better with "'just' speech

That’s your opinion. Hitler and Pol Pot had tons of speech against them which ended them. Point being the truth wins in the end. You can’t regulate it because no one knows jack.
Cool idea, but if you are going to use lights to cast shadows to (in some way) replicate a sundial, then use a 24-hour face ffs. The 12-hour analogue clockface is a dumb abstraction to get stuck on if you are going to the trouble of re-imagining how to build a clock.

Also, sundials don't suck.
Would that be different? Is there any benefit to burning up the batteries in a HTV vs letting them drop?
Oh, it’s Arsetechnica, the ones that care about my privacy. Thank you but no thank you.
I was gonna say, they were always on alert. It's in the book. The inertial platforms at least were always spinning because it took a long time (minutes) to spin them up, or down.
MH370: The families haunted by one of aviation's greatest mysteries
Open source voting machines could boost trust in US elections
On the other hand, the buttons on my microwave don't move around six times a year. It doesn't interrupt my cooking to show me ads, either...
The first 5 Linux commands every new user should learn
Exactly. There's nothing here that "they" don't know already.
It’s remarkable they’re the same company that gave the world Sourcesafe…
I don't think diplomacy and ambassadors are there to handle ambiguity in communication.

There are there to handle conflicting interests and goals.

To that end, ambiguity in communication is something they use on purpose, not something they're there to solve.
Crash and burn. How fitting for a SPAC company.
This example shown human is not a ingredient involved in invention of math concept.

https://earthsky.org/earth/fish-can-do-math-cichlids-stingra...
This is bullshit. There is actually no "validated measure of biological age". We have no reliable biomarkers which can be used to measure changes in a person's expected lifespan based on an intervention. All the claims are highly suspect.

https://peterattiamd.com/richardmiller2/

There may be some health benefits to such a diet but they should focus on metrics with proven clinical relevance.
Dragonball was my first experience watching an anime dubbed in a language other than English. Surprisingly not in Japanese. It aired on local TV Telemundo 22 (I think? in Spanish) for Southern California. Before that my only exposure in the 90's to Japanese animation was Pokemon.

Good times were had.
Attribution is incredibly hard but would be amazing to see. My tax dollars 15 years ago paid for a child's education, and that child is now a productive member of society. A magic system that showed my tax dollars flowing through to that child having a stable job and a home instead of being out on the streets and committing violence, being a drug addict, would be eye opening.

The idea of Government+ rankles me. We have lost sight of the founding preamble, that all men are created equal, under God. It has evolved to include people of all color, and other genders, and religion is not as much of a focus, but those parts are okay. What i have a problem with is the idea that rich people are better than poor people. In charging money for things, the poor get excluded, and Government+ will leave them behind. Charge money for things because that's how the system works, but also recognize that having carpool lanes instead be express lanes where they just charge money to use them is classist.
thanks for sharing. this must've taken a lot of experimenting.
The Deep and Enduring History of Universal Basic Income
In the early days of the internet up to the early years of the web.
> After experiencing very mild visual snow for a few months, that's frightening enough for me.

It went away? That's pretty uncommon from what I can tell.