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Supervolcano Campi Flegrei Stirs Under Naples Italy
A long-quiet yet huge supervolcano that lies under 500,000 people in Italy may be waking up and approaching a "critical state," scientists report this week in the journal Nature Communications.Based on...
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Generating Videos with Scene Dynamics
Generating Videos with Scene Dynamics - MITCarl VondrickMITHamed PirsiavashUniversity of Maryland Baltimore CountyAntonio TorralbaMITNIPS 2016Abstract We capitalize on large amounts of unlabeled video...
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Gitea – A community-managed fork of Gogs
Cross-platformGitea runs anywhere Go can compile for: Windows, macOS, Linux, ARM, etc. Choose the one you love! LightweightGitea has low minimal requirements and can run on an inexpensive Raspberry...
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Unexpected Risks Found in Editing Genes to Prevent Inherited Disorders
The genes in mitochondria, which are the powerhouses in human cells, can cause fatal inherited disease. But replacing the bad genes may cause other health problems. Getty Images/Science Photo...
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Echo: Print the first positional argument (written in ASM)
README.mdecho prints the first positional argument to stdout.Usageecho fooBuildThe following steps work on Linux machines.Compile:nasm -f elf32 echo.asmLink:ld -m elf_i386 -s -o echo echo.o
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TiDB – A Distributed SQL Database
README.mdWhat is TiDB?TiDB (The pronunciation is: /'taɪdiːbi:/ tai-D-B, etymology: titanium) is a distributed SQL database. Inspired by the design of Google F1, TiDB supports the best features of both...
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Five Year Mission
"Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no...
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IR is better than assembly (2013)
24 July 2013Inthe LLVM the compilation takes three stages (image fromthe AOSA book):SchemaThe stages are:The frontend, parsing original language and spiting out LLVM Intermediate Representation (IR)...
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Ask HN: Why are flash memory prices going down so much faster than RAM?
The obvious answer: flash can hold multiple bits per cell and ram can't.MLC is half as expensive as SLC. TLC is 33% less expensive than MLC. QLC is 25% less expensive than TLC and 75% cheaper than SLC....
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How I Write Tests
The longer I spend as a software engineer, the more obsessive I get about testing. I fully subscribe to the definition of legacy code as “code without an automated test suite.” I’m convinced that the...
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Recreating 3D renderings in real life
Experiment2016'Still File' is a series of 4 photographs recreating computer renderings as physical scenes. The photos' artifacts, surroundings, camera settings and lighting has been shaped intending to...
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The moving sofa problem
Dan RomikJune 2016 "Odd," agreed Reg. "I’ve certainly never come across any irreversible mathematics involving sofas. Could be a new field. Have you spoken to any spatial geometricians?"...
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Tesla Rolling Out Autopilot Software Updates to 1,000 Cars
by December 31, 2016, 5:04 PM ESTTesla Motors Inc. began rolling out software updates to customers with newer cars, bringing them to parity with owners who have what’s known as “Autopilot 1” and...
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What Could Have Entered the Public Domain on January 1, 2017
Under the law that existed until 1978 . . . Works from 1960 The books To Kill a Mockingbird and Rabbit, Run, the films The Magnificent Seven and The Time Machine, and more. . .Current US law...
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Lenovo ThinkPad T460 – A Good Linux Laptop for Development
After several years with my Dell Latitude E6400 I was searching for a new, more powerful Linux machine for mostly coding tasks. And although the Dell XPS line sounded interesting due to the “native”...
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Why do investment bankers feel their jobs are safe from automation?
Error 429 (Too Many Requests) - QuoraThis page may be out of date. Save your draft before refreshing this page.Submit any pending changes before refreshing this page.429.Too Many Requests.Too many...
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Show HN: Mastodon, a federated microblogging network
mastodon.social - MastodonMastodon is a free, open-source social network server. A decentralized alternative to commercial platforms, it avoids the risks of a single company monopolizing your...
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Machine Learning and Likelihood Free Inference in Particle Physics
NIPS 2016 Keynote<div>Abstract: Particle physics aims to answer profound questions about the fundamental building blocks of the Universe through enormous data sets collected at experiments like...
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Finland launches basic income experiment with cheques for those in pilot project
Finland has become the first country in Europe to pay its unemployed citizens a basic monthly income, amounting to 560 euros ($587 US), in a unique social experiment which is hoped to cut government...
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