jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
People who fork out money for genetic tests like these aren't windows users. I'm a linux user. I also have undergraduate and graduate degrees in biology, and my SO who also got the test done (and with whom I'm planning to have kids with) makes phylogenies for a living. We're perfectly capable of interpreting this information.

Doctors are a fine filter for stupid people, but it they can be infuriating for people like us. My mother is a biochemical engineer, and when she was pregnant with me she was so frustrated by the doctor's dissembling over her amnio, she grabbed the test results out of his hands and read them for herself.

I'm regularly frustrated with the lack of doctors' honesty. I don't need one to decide what I do and do not need to know about myself. I think we not only do we need more direct-to-consumer medical testing, I think we should have better access to our own medical information.
The future will be here when we can easily grow new organs, and easily target and switch off cancer cells in case those organs become cancerous.

Most of the stuff listed on the 23andme site is just looking at slight correlations and assuming causation. (Though there are some major correlations that strongly suggest causation.)
This is neither here nor there, but I'm wondering if anyone else has an opinion on this: Does anyone find the physics in Angry Birds INCREDIBLY frustrating? There seems to be very little rhyme or reason to the way momentum is transferred. And the material modeling just makes me want to bite my tongue off.
Ah, and I see the actual project lives at http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/ .
VW diesels are very expensive to fix when things go wrong, in my personal experience.
I imagine it would work like all the airlines that went bankrupt after 9/11. Painful short term, but probably not so painful long term. There's also some benefit to going bankrupt. All of your contracts, including employment contracts, can be renegotiated with all the benefit of hindsight. And for many of those contracts, AirBnB would have the upper hand.
> The author is certainly bullish on Rust in general and in low-level development and so am I.

While I share your sentiment, I've recently talked to about 5 people who write software for low-level, security relevant things in airplanes. Imho the best application for Rust one could think of. None of them had even heard of Rust. But this is highly anecdotal of course.
" I've also found that programs seem more likely to work on their first run, but haven't made any effort to quantify that." Had the same experience with Modula-2, once I got all the compile errors cleared.

I think there is a real need for the current generation of business programmers to start focusing more on safety and rigor as they transition into IoT. For instance, I don't see most programmers I've worked with capable or will to use enough rigor to make autonomous cars safe. All these programmers have generally been slinging java for years, without even much effort to exposed themselves to other languages unless there is a business requirement to do so.

So the concern I have with Rust (as a newbie) is it isn't consumable enough to have it's value adopted by most business programmers out there, and I've wondered if Ada would serve that role better because it seems generally easier to grok percentage wise.
Isn't lopinavir-ritonavir already verified it doesn't help?
Probably not a lot. Most of these are out of patent.
extensively discussed yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22657384
The one you were linking to was probably flagged for the flamebaiting title

Which is great, because misleading titles is one of the bigger problems here on HN, made worse by 90% of people not reading anything but the title and the comments
At what age can a child begin to learn to program?
A few years ago they even castrated lion in army flag. Army was needed and at some level even offensive.
If you want to upgrade from DIY, Ipevo sells a line of document cameras that start at $99. Some are not as expensive as dedicated, stand alone classroom document cameras because they require a computer to operate.

https://www.ipevo.com/products
Haha, that's great! We have that situation in our main product line where I work.

At the center of the system is 30 year old Z8000 assembly code that gets run through a translator during the build process to produce C code which gets compiled and linked into the (PowerPC) executable.

There aren't that many folks left that know Z8K assembly, so not many people can begin to wade into that code and fix long-standing bugs. Everyone else builds wrappers so they don't have to actually get too close to the translated assembly code. But since they don't quite understand the code they're avoiding, these wrappers tend to be fragile and prone to odd corner-case bugs themselves.
And this is the crux of the matter. Technology today allows intrusions into our privacy that do not harm our ability to speak publicly.

In the 1700s, the only way for the government to read your papers was to take them away from you--harming your use of them.

Today they can extract the entire contents without disturbing your use at all. Reading and restriction have been separated.

It's a new situation and there will be big fights as the law catches up. This is not historically unprecedented though; technology has frequently caused disruptions in the law. That's how copyright came about, for instance--the printing press meant that original content was no longer protected by the need to hire 100 monks to make a copy.
I was specificially asking to work on the exchange trading backend, as that's what I was interested in. It was at a time when Coinbase was using javascript for the trading engine if I recall correctly (I think they moved to C++ since then, but not sure).

When I applied to a quantitative hedge fund, I was being asked questions about synchronizing data structures between threads without using mutexes (again not something you often do in a high level language). I was accepted there, although I couldn't go to work there because of health reasons.

At the end I went back to Google where I had to launch a new machine learning model without introducing even 0.1ms latency in the ads backend. Good luck doing that in a high level language.
Uh, well...

Intercourse: noun: communication or dealings between individuals or groups.

I mean how you choose to communicate or deal with people is clearly different than me. :-)
Whatsapp group messages are also not encrypted. I mean, it is, but with the server keys.
This seems to be a separate incident to the "800 people killed in massacre at Ethiopia’s Ark of the Covenant"

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/ethiopia-ark...

Which I've only seen predominately mentioned on 4chan.
> you're right but how would you define violent and hateful content?

For one subset of violence, gore pictures, you could identify body parts (already solved) then look for what appears to be wounds using color changes and edges.

That's of course one small part of the concept of violence - you're totally correct in stating this is difficult.

Also hateful is more objective/political so I don't think we have much chance there.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9063177
Yep - keep going right and work out how you can navigate the water obstacle. You need to meet the young lady with pink hair.
If you regularly visit Chinese sites that use HTTPS.
What about athletes and clubs? Lots of sports; running, olympic lifting, archery, fencing etc have used video analysis for a long time. Serious, but not professional athletes who don't have constant access to a coach would probably find this useful as a feedback tool after a session with their coach.
CAPTCHA solving farms are cheap relative to these "assets", they're not even remotely a barrier anymore
> but even BCH wouldn't scale for mainstream payment

Yes it will: https://bitcoincashresearch.org/t/testnet4-and-scalenet/148
It is biased towards promotional material. We need more substantial proof
Michael Tsai's micro blog (https://mjtsai.com/blog/).

I have been keeping of tech and software development news, by visiting it weekly.
I wish this resource existed (or that I knew it existed if it did) years ago.

I always seem to learn about the things that would have made my life easier after I've already done things the hard way.
crypto.com.

I buy whatever I want from my crypto income stream. Feels a lot like real money to me lol, I've not worked for fiat in years. You'd think I would have run out of food by now?
the guy who came up with concept of off-grid earth-ship offers classes in the USA(Colorado).

Earth-ship is built using recycling, ie a concrete thermal mass and recycled tires, bottles, etc.
I think the developer did a great job with this project. It's really interesting looking at how the developer tries to reduce complexity out of git. However, I don't know how useful this is. It's another layer of abstraction which adds complexity. You now have to learn git _AND_ bit--and I'm not sure git is complex enough to me that it justifies this. The escape hatch out of bit is that it's "fully compatible with git allowing you to fallback to git if need be."

git alias is a form of abstraction and I use that to simplify my git workflow. I may even have a few scripts that do more complicated stuff. But it's limited. The feature list of bit is pretty significant. That's a lot of cognitive load and I'm wondering if / when did bit start to take on more complexity than it took away.
Chef Luster wrote a beautiful answer on Quora related to this – Why doesn’t honey spoil[1]

[1] http://www.quora.com/Why-doesnt-honey-spoil
What is the next step in cases like these? Let's say social media activity led someone to making an unwise trade. Suspending trading doesn't fix the problem for that person, now they're just stuck in a bad position. Does the SEC ever "fix it" for that person, or is it all damage control now to reduce the extent of the problem, and those that are already in are kind of screwed?
It's probably less "cabin fever" and more "my job is now illegal and I won't be allowed to live inside a few months from now."
I wholeheartedly agree and find it relevant to mention PG's article on the subject: http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html
What’s the difference in your mind between those? Both in general and legally?
I’ve been to places where there is literally one bar for 60 miles. They still within their rights to throw you out.
I'm fairly certain the President of the United States has a few more avenues available to reach his citizens than Twitter.

It's unfortunate that it may require more effort than just his thumbs, but I'm certain the title he holds at times calls for a bit more.
The removal of calls for post-curfew peaceful protests in DC seems like a move that will galvanize the right against FB, given that they didn’t do this six months ago when Democrats were protesting. They weren’t rushing the Capitol back then, but this removal notice isn’t limited to that.

Perhaps FB is not afraid of being defanged (pun intended) by Republicans, since they won’t control the House, Senate, or White House.
German hospitals are also overwhelmed in some places during flu season. And the German system is not "stable", either, it has its own problems.
Signal's not like... "tech for tech people." It's very much usable for nontechnical family members, etc.
Propublica keep a record of tweets trump has deleted. I assume these are the ones?

https://projects.propublica.org/politwoops/user/realDonaldTr...
I think I found it, I replied to the parent comment with the info.
I lived in the mountains of California once. We have similar things like that happen too. The thing is, you can plan for snow, and you can plan for the power being out. It happened to me a few times.

In the coastal mountains, you can even plan for flooding events near rivers, as long as you aren't in a floodplain or literally next to the river.

Fire and water shortage, that's practically impossible to plan for. The former will wipe you out. The latter requires coordination at a state level – don't get started on water politics.
I’ve seen three year olds do pretty well at Mario Kart, sometimes even reaching first place where you’re not just wildly colliding with things. Perhaps real driving just isn’t interesting to them ;)
I've never heard any person I know utter anything about fearing climate change. I call BS on "climate fears mount". If that were true we'd see very public figures who own ocean front properties sell them, and we'd see ocean front property prices plummet. Until that happens, I won't believe that "climate fears mount".
> "Respect isn't earned in polite society at some base level."

Polite society requires politeness. Manners. Decorum. Civility. Not respect. These are different words for different concepts and should not be conflated.

Respect is earned based on your knowledge of that person. Why would you respect random people when you know nothing about them? What if they were murderers? Would you respect them less? If so, why? Because its new knowledge about them that caused a new score, therefore zero knowledge = zero respect until you learn enough to make an assessment. I can also be polite with a murderer but not respect them; see the difference?

> "I say "Good Morning" to the people I meet ... because they're people ... That's the right thing to do."

What's right about it? What if they didn't want to talk to you? A lack of engagement is not wrong.

> "name ... and the pronouns they prefer"

Preferences do not overrule rights and freedoms. The point is why should someone accept an identity without question - and both you and the other user made the same argument that it's "the right thing to do".

But that means not accepting identity without question is wrong, which therefore removes the rights and agency of one group (to question) the preferences of another. Your rights are my responsibility; your right to question my identity is my responsibility to accept that my identity is open to questioning.

That's why those arguments are meaningless. They may sound good but they fail to hold any logical consistency. Expectations of civility are more than enough for society to function, however as soon as you mandate civility at the cost of freedom them you will end up with neither.
I am pretty sure there are now sport card collectibles that are connected to online and offline games, e.g. Panini has produced collectible sport stickers (mainly European football) for decades, but now also produces trading card games using the same sport cards, the "adrenalyn" TCG. The EA FIFA imprint should have something too.
The author claims that Van Eyck notices details we'd otherwise miss out and uses the Arnolfini portrait as supporting evidence. However it's possible that artifacts such as the beads appear not because he saw the world differently, but due to his artistic choice of tools. He may have used an optical projection device, a "perspective machine" -- Which means that his process may not have allowed for skipping the inclusion of the beads.

See:

- https://theconversation.com/the-mysterious-optical-device-ja...

- https://hal.univ-lorraine.fr/hal-03287031/file/VanEyckPerspe...

- https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-31903-2_...
Re: [1] I was wondering what a phone targeting left-leaning people would look like, but I think that's pretty much just Twitter, Tumblr etc? You seem to disagree on this point, so I'd be curious to hear more.
Anyone have stories about the logistics of the previous 60K layoffs? How does a company and the survivors deal with that many departures at once - were they distributed evenly across divisions or were entire divisions eliminated?
Have you never made a child giggle by blowing soap bubbles? Are bubbles taboo and forbidden?
I'm no Feynman, but the "what if all three bulbs had been continuously lit for 12 hours previously, and were _all_ hot" objection always occurred to me after hearing the solution to this so-called brain teaser.

In my opinion, this looks like the sort of question originally posed by some pointy-haired type who had been reading too much 90s "Lateral Thinking" style pop lit.
If you ask "Why 2006?" then you missed the point.

Mon Jan 2 15:04:05 -0700 MST 2006
0 1 2 3 4 5 6

How to represent a day? "2". Want a leading zero? "02".
Thanks. It took a little while to find, but if anyone is interested in comparing Mono to the CLR for themselves (and likely do some work to adapt the system to Windows), here's where to start: http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/play.php#languagex
Sounds like an opportunity for a startup that's willing to do a bunch of web scraping: offer a grand unified update notification service for a wide variety of sites. It would involve a lot of non-sexy work, but that's not exactly a bad thing.
My ipad 2 is running ios 8.1 well and i'm posting with it right now.
I feel vindicated in knowing that I either own or have already wishlisted a lot of these. (:
The problem with Microsoft's implementation is that it allowed any Javascript to be executed -- so CSS became a vector for XSS attacks (one of the early MySpace worms was based on this feature). This implementation only allows very basic math, and is so is inherently a lot safer.
Then this probably wouldn’t have happened. I don’t think Reader is so important to Apple that they would have implemented it no matter what.
Well, as far as I understand, the point of the product is not to change your sleep schedule completely, it's to optimize it to wake you up at the optimal time in the REM cycle, making sure that you wake up refreshed and full of energy. So you set the alarm for 6:30 AM, and it wakes you up somewhere between 6:15 and 6:45.
Completely agree. There's a whole science to the study of networks, looking at things like Centrality, local topological features, and even ranking schemes like PageRank.

Of course twitter are going to generate scores for their users as they do recommendation; even if it wasn't explicit, it would have to be implicit in any recommender system.

TC would do well to have technical people look over their articles before publication.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centrality
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_network#Social_network_a...
You're missing it. It's a joke, or a koan, or both.
While I kinda agree with the spirit of your comment (we'll get there someday), there's a few problems with the specifics.

A pure (or high percentage) positron weapon would be very hard to handle. The repulsive forces would be enormous. As in we have a hard time containing the equivalent mass of electrons. And that's without worrying about annihilation.

And really, I think RK's response was spurred on more by rubypay's tone/phrasing. The original phrasing easily sounds like we're on the verge of practical anti-matter weapons. Which we're not.
So just say you use Skype with a big screen TV. I opened the link expecting to see how you replicated Cisco/Polycom telepresence using off the shelf products at a fraction of the cost (Which is possible btw)
Unless you have traction. You basically have to choose between downside risk (ruining your personal credit) and upside risk (being excessively diluted).
This is within the purview of union activity. The notion that their peers didn't agree is speculative. At the barest level, Google is an unusual company in an unusual technological, social, and political position, and their employees have the right to organize to shape that via union activity. It's part and parcel of labor organization. I mean, that doesn't mean you have to accept it, but to say that it isn't legitimate union activity is incorrect.
The article focuses on China, but people in America are buying some of this stuff, too. Some (mostly boutique) American guitar manufacturers offer mammoth ivory parts.

It's kind of depressing how many ethically challenging materials are used in musical instruments and how little buyers seem to care about it. Or rather, how little buyers seem to care about the ethical problems--exotic (and often endangered) materials are seen as highly desirable.
> The result has been a pause in income growth in the western world. We've benefited from cheap imported goods, but lost out in domestic growth.

Except that's not true. There's been growth; it's just all gone to the very wealthy in the West.
To make real progress with AI we need to start with generative systems, systems that start small and through developmental evolution, grow to solve bigger, more complex problems. Starting with a huge network where most of the interactions are completely spurious makes it impossible to scale that up.
First of all, your words are saying outsource, not mine. I'm saying hire for. I'm saying specialize for, divide labor into. If you hire talented folks and understand how to divide labor properly (which you'll need to ever execute properly), you can do this from the get-go. I did this at my last seed-stage startup and I would have done it the same way every time.

People like talking about how things like this are idealistic, but what's more idealistic? Saying that you should hire the minimum amount of people to do the entire workload without taxing the finite biological constraints of the human body, or that you can't afford to do that and that somehow you will be the special person who can transcend your biological constraints without catastrophic failures?

If you ask me, the latter is what sounds idealistic. That's my criticism of this post.
If you squint hard enough, the browser is just a different location for the same old crufty TTY subsystem that normally lives in-kernel.
Yup! I assume that at this point general counsel is involved in everything Google says publicly; it's then worth nitpicking at the exact details of what has or has not been admitted, because legal folk definitely have!
One of the things that originally caught my attention in a PG essay is a point he made about design patterns: if you're writing the same code over and over again, you're being a human compiler. I distinctly remember the shock of reading that; it was like someone poured a bucket of ice water over my head. It wasn't just that I recognized it as true. I recognized it as indicating the existence of an alternate programming universe that I knew nothing about.
> Shipit was built to be a Capistrano alternative for people who don't know ruby, or who experienced some issues with it. If you want to write tasks in JavaScript and enjoy the node ecosystem, Shipit is also for you.
Most of my Generation–X friends surprisingly stayed in their respective cities on having kids (almost all have had kids in their late 30s or early 40s). Combination of improved schools in NYC, improved living conditions, desire to not spend hours commuting, or to live in a walkable neighborhood. Even know a couple who moved to lower Manhattan from suburban Chicago (Naperville) entirely over walkability + livability vs. long commute times.

One issue I rarely see addressed in these articles is how difficult we've made it to get a driver's license in the US. I started driving when I was 14 (rural midwest roads) and got a license within a month of turning 16. In contrast my cousins (early millenials or very late GenX) couldn't even get permits until they were 15 1/2 and had to drive for nearly 2 years under adult supervision before they could get a license. That has to have some sort of negative impact on the interest or desire to drive.
This seems like a case of sloppy product management saved (or rather having its consequences delayed) by person-years of ingenious engineering.

Build times in tens of minutes seem terrible.
I feel the solution now for highly talented yet underpaid people is to go solo on places like Youtube. Countless people are willing to learn from some of the best.
> If Google Analytics actually ignored data from Chrome in Incognito mode, it raises some questions: How does it detect that, exactly?

The most honest implementation would be to set the DNT header in incognito mode (as Firefox apparently does) and to have Analytics honor it. Does not require anything shady/anticompetitive