skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are plenty of systems that benefit some areas of society and not others. It sounds from your comment that you're all for an even distribution of rewards across society. Is that a fair characterization? Why is this case particularly egregious to you compared to other inequalities?
New Zealand is small enough that a localized drought can have significant impact. Most of the people do indeed live in the North Island but most of the power is generated in the South Island, particularly around the Mackenzie Basin/Otago area (dry highlands).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_power_stations_in_New_... - sort the hydroelectric by capacity - most of the major dams are in this area.
While I appreciate the trend towards open-access and wider dissemination, I don't think that the slowness of dissemination is one of the bigger problems in medicine.

Given that the subject deals with trying to "fix" complex, organic systems, it's worth taking time to get things right before designing interventions. It is important to realize that a flood of rapid communication often makes it harder to settle on the underlying truth (as clearly evidenced by the recent atmosphere) by rendering the search process unstable.

As some other articles (on the HN front page) have recently argued, the rush to faster publication is one of the biggest causes of research debt. And I think that is a much more important problem to solve. So, by all means let's have open-access and also more distilled dissemination. But optimizing for speed (eg: race to publish) often gets in the way of correctness.
Let me direct you to glow in the dark huntington's monkeys.
> Do you have a source for this or are you speculating?

Yeah I have a source - Maryland. The bluest state, posterboy of the Democratic platform. We have the strictest gun laws in the country, and the Democrats are never happy. 3 years ago we had significant new restrictions introduced to restrict gun ownership, way more restrictive than any other state. It's all but impossible for normal civilians to get CCP and Maryland does not respect CCPs of any other state.
> Everyone knows its problems, and everyone knows about Rust.

I guess they've at least heard of it, yeah, but how many of them have actually tried Rust (or any other language with a modern type system)?

> It's just that some people don't need such extreme Real Time that they can't afford GC at the expense of the borrow-checker and lifetimes.

They should probably be using Java, C#, Scala, ML, F#, Haskell, etc. then.
> Use the right tools for the job

i wonder if this expression constitutes a thought-terminating cliché.
Unchecked GW may possibly very well kill millions of people, and destroy quality of life for millions more, but it won't be the end of civilization.
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https://news.virginia.edu/content/uva-discovers-another-immu...
We'll find out in the next 12-24 months. UNITY is starting trials this year, and Oisin won't be too far behind.

If they don't work in humans it will be a great surprise given the science to date - an unlikely outcome. The open question is the degree to which specific diseases are rolled back and life extended, given that this is only one of a number of mechanisms causing aging.
Whiteboard interviews DO work - if done right. Don't ask computer science questions. Instead give the interviewee real world problems to solve. And find out how he/she attacks the problem. What he/she would look at to solve the problem. What tools he/she would use and why. The key thing is to learn how the interviewee thinks through a problem. And how well the interviewee explains his/her thinking. I have interviewed and hired people for 10+ years and can testify that this approach work.
This looks like an AOT compiler to me, not a JIT compiler.
But those "paper hacks" take man-power, physical resources, time, and a lot of people.

To do any of those across a state you are looking at at LEAST a few hundred people. Nation wide? Thousands. In a perfect world.

With electronic voting, all it takes is one person at some point in the chain, or at best a handful of people.
Most nasty stuff is present in vanishingly small quantities compared to all the other crap in biomaterial, which is why most contaminant testing involves an extraction step, or even extraction+fractionation, before spectrometry.

Somewhat relatedly, inorganic ions don't have nir activity, only their complexes with organic counterions have nir activity. And there are like a gazillion different things that complex with lead/mercury/etc. in unpurified biomaterial, so direct nir measurements of a sample are not a productive approach.

That being said, it would certainly be a big moneymaker if placebo contaminant detectors became a thing with Chinese consumers like surgical masks for smog
QT has direct bindings to the host platforms C code. How you express layout of a view is very, very different than how you directly use OS APIs.
>I was hired as a contractor at a Fortune 500 company

you can work at a fortune 500 company and still get paid in peanuts
They had me at "Hacker" "News". Thank you so much for sharing this! (Hell, I mostly quite like HN and I'm sure I'm often part of the problem, and this is still wonderful.)
I've been pretty happy with Qt Creator. It's faster than CLion anyway.
> It's logically impossible for me to prove that these apps wouldn't exist without inefficient abstraction layers.

The literally millions of applications not written on top of the specific crapware you list are an existence proof. This was the case even with assembly/Pascal/BASIC applications on microcomputers in the 1980s. Your whole argument is that somehow the web stack is easier to write applications on top of because <insert nonsense adjectives like "diverse" and "rich">. To go back to the Pascal example, a lot of people who program in Delphi strongly disagree even today, and Delphi has been around since 1995. What makes you think that the web stack has a higher speed of development than other software tools? Why do you think that high-speed development depends on inefficient abstractions? That is all total nonsense. There are a lot of problems with the web stack. You need to stop making up bullshit rationalizations and learn about other approaches to software development.
So you're serving an EV vs. DV/OV some random % of the time for same site and measuring conversions? Mind sharing the data?
This was true maybe 10 years ago. Not so much anymore.
It's still surprising to me how well they've been holding up in their Glassdoor reviews:

https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Theranos-Reviews-E248889.h...

The PR department must work overtime to scrub any negative reviews.
I have saved ~2 million in the bank

If that's in U.S. dollars, you can do whatever you want, within very broad limits.

For perspective, you can overspend by $50,000 a year for 40 years and still have all the compounded interest left.

Your angst seems unwarranted.
No, it will still happen. The learned features will just be "overfit" to that small dataset.
"3% idle sounds egregious but higher battery usage isn't a problem for most"

Oh God this is why we can't have nice things. How the heck is someone actually justifying this stupid shit here?
Cloudflare's Response to the Senate Vote on FCC Privacy Rules
I'm sure I've used such systems in the past...I think even Flash used to have a similar feature. Anyway I love it too because it feels way faster than drag&drop.
"It's not really a neural network" is an understatement. Perceptrons are about as related to neural nets as linear regression is (note that you can "train" linear regression with stochastic gradient descent).
Ability to make drag/drop ASCII charts and diagrams.
It's not that CRA doesn't cabbies to be contractors, its that they require all taxi drivers to register for and collect GST/HST- taxi industry does not qualify for the sub-$30K exemption.
The reason for this was that otherwise, there were fears from full-time drivers that part-time drivers, making under $30K/year, would be favoured by customers over full-time drivers.

http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/tx/bsnss/tpcs/gst-tps/txlmsn/menu-e...
Why not have everyone in the chain sign? The point is you'd have to have a secure chain from the voter all the way to registration. I don't see how the number of people in the validation chain would change.

The only real problem is a technological problem, like a bug or improper use of encryption. Especially if you're only trying to validate the results, and not trying to have secrecy. Each person signs / records the hash of the votes they're validating is. Combine those hashes together and sign that to validate at higher levels, or use something more fancy. It would be obvious if something got changed due to malice or fraud.

What would this one person do exactly to sabotage the system?
Have you ever been to Bangkok? I can just pay $1, hop on the back of a moto idling outside the skytrain station, and off we go lanesplitting through traffic straight to my office 2km away.

It's amazing and would be so illegal on so many levels in Canada (where I spend $1000/mo on transportation).
More likely our models will turn out to be slightly wrong and it won't be as apocalyptic as we thought and we'll adjust according to our observed reality.
Haha... I understand that feeling... which is why I wrote one in Go.

https://github.com/davinche/gmux
Net::err_cert_authority_invalid
I apologize for not watching the video, but what sort of effects will these increased levels have on humans, plants, and other life on the planet? It doesn't sound like it would be beneficial.
How to Force ‘OK Google’ Hotword Detection to Work When the Screen Is Off
About $200 for a hamamatsu breakout: https://groupgets.com/manufacturers/hamamatsu-photonics/prod...

They've just finished a round, but they're reasonably regular.
There is another alternative that looks like more of a solid tool.
www.nanolambda.net

anyhow spectral sensing could be one of the main stream for IoT sensing
There is another one that looks like more of a solid tool.
www.nanolambda.net

anyhow spectral sensing could be one of the main stream for IoT sensing
https://pavelfatin.com/images/typing/editor-latency-windows-...
That varies on the OS/driver/hardware, but IMO, the new AMD graphics drivers being in the kernel tree are the way to go, or something similar like a partnership between MS/AMD/Nvidia.

As a consumer it's incredibly frustrating to have a buggy driver and not know who is responsible. Is it MS? Windows comes with a lot of drivers so blaming MS seems fair. Is it the hardware manufacturer? Sometimes you can get the latest drivers but the OEM hardware isn't quite standard so you're screwed. Is the OEM to blame? Usually, because they have their own driver update system, but then the question is why can't they use the native windows update system?

The current situation on windows seems to be that no one is responsible.
Anyone compare Nim to Crystal? Both are AOT languages with syntax inspired by dynamic languages (Python & Ruby). Nim transpiles to C and Crystal uses LLVM. I've been playing with Nim, but I have a feeling Crystal will catch on quicker.
That is right. The law in Canada explicitly excludes taxis from the $30k exemption, and taxis must collect gst/hst on all rides, regardless of how much the taxi's sales were in a year. Uber was exploiting this rule by saying their services weren't 'taxis', and each driver was independent, and therefor that rule didn't apply to them. It's a sneaky way to charge most people 5-15% less than their taxi competition.
We've been asked about it by "enterprise"-y clients.

It's on the checklist of things companies ask about when assessing third-party services.
However Toyota stores it. Probably something resembling lab cylinders.
I've been told that FOB is offensive and is rarely used in a positive, or even neutral, manner. I mean it hasn't become taboo like nigger has but I've been told its not a polite thing to call someone.

But my larger point is African American "works". Its not offensive, speaks to a unique identity the same way Italian/Jewish/German American does, and for the most post is accepted by the black American community.

Also the genetic pool won't equalize anytime soon. Admixture leading to a near homogenous population of humans outside of small sparsely populated areas is millenia away.
Also, ~$150 for a nanolambda nsp32 spectrum sensor

https://www.nanolambda.net
I remember meeting the founder in the demo pit of TechCrunch 50 back in 2008. Remarkable perseverance. Happy to see it work for people who stick it out.
Ask HN: Travelers who get mugged or otherwise lose all papers / cash / phone
I was in an airport the other day and there was this lady crying there. Apparently she couldn't find her passport. It was totally gone. And so now she was totally screwed (international flight).

Travelers who get mugged or otherwise lose their papers / cash / phone, etc... how do they make their way back home?

More importantly, who wants to work on a solution for this? Add a reply below.

The idea is to first digitize all a person's papers. Next, have an international toll-free number they can call when they're in an emergency. And we then help them out (we wire them cash, copies of their docs, etc.)
I've heard of it, but haven't looked into it in detail as Esperanto seemed good enough and is the most popular of the aux languages. I've played with Lojban, but honestly think it is just too hard for a human to be good with. It and its successor have been around in some part for decades, and yet nobody can really speak it fluently (I've heard less than 10 people). I really like the idea...just not sure about the implementation.
WikiLeaks releases new CIA documents describing Mac exploits
You’re comparing different stats. The article should have been clearer, but here’s what they’re saying:

In 2010, AL parts plants had 50% higher rate of illness and injury than the national rate. That gap has narrowed since.

The incidence of traumatic injuries (a different category) in AL is still 9% higher than Michigan’s.

Also:

> In 2015 the chances of losing a finger or limb in an Alabama parts factory was double the amputation risk nationally for the industry, 65 percent higher than in Michigan and 33 percent above the rate in Ohio.

(Emphasis mine).

This article could do a much better job laying out the numbers, that’s for damn sure.
Definitely a lack of demand. I buy this (online or in my local Target when I make it there):

Aveeno Skin Relief Body Wash, 18 Oz https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0009EILAS/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_QZg1...
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Scheduling on SMP Hardware (2007)
Protecting web users’ privacy
That does nothing for traffic analysis. Your ISP has the destinations for everywhere you go online, that information over time is itself valuable.
Faster serial port communication from .NET to Arduino
And if you hop on the new things too quickly rather than staying gelatinous, you may just end up with a text cursor consuming 13% CPU.
That's nonsense, he was elected President because enough of the right people voted for him. He could very easily have done things to piss them off and then would not have been elected President. Just because his election didn't fit in with your mental model of how politics works, doesn't mean that it didn't fit in to any model. It did, it just wasn't yours.
I think the problem if we are in you scenario is that 200 people own parts of the oil tanker and the beach is owned by 200 people and not everyone wants to pay for the costs of cleaning up the contamination, and that we have to get permission from the owners of each separate plot of beach and mone from each of the 200 people to pay for the cleanup to make the analogy of people roughly equivalent to countries and our current predicament - one or two powerful, rich people could pay for the whole thing but if they decide they don't believe in cleaning up and letting things be they could mess up things for all 200 by themselves.
the world only needs 15 immortals. they should be chosen at random
How do you encrypt using a hash function?...
If you want to learn security, learn it from the best exploiters. The point in the end of all of this is to improve security. All these leaks hopefully break people out of fool's paradise that the government doesn't know what it's doing and that they are all secure and everything is all good. That's the real wakeup call. In time the security agencies will become even more sophisticated. They have billions of dollars to do that. The fact that other countries aren't being targeted just means that we have more open systems. Those other regimes are much more totalitarians and their citizens are much less open minded, and freedom oriented to leak that information.
I honestly question the necessity of this. This is a government organization, why are the standard rules insufficient?

> national origin

The President has repeatedly tried to ban people from a certain set of countries.

Of course I dislike codes of conduct in general. Unnecessary SJW style political correctness. Which really is just censorship and a refusal to accept anything contrary because those people are wrong. They are wrong and they must be silenced. If you disagree then you're just another shitlord I guess. Like that shitlord Eich who got tossed out of Mozilla. That horrible person who got fired for making a joke about dongles. That disgusting tenured professor of psychology who has been pretty viciously attacked for his stance on gender neutral pronouns, even though he has made his arguments based around freedom of speech.

Yeah, I'm tired of this stuff. Why can it not simply be summed up as "Treat people with respect". Just act like a professional, and treat the people you interact with as fellow professionals.
Well. In layman terms, 1) Gas's thermal energy is:
E=kT, k -some constant, T is a temperature in Kelvins
2) that thermal energy is roughly a kinetic energy at molecular level, i assume :), hence it is something like
E = (mv^2)/2, m - molecule mass, v - its speed
3) so we have kT = (mv^2)/2 ==>
==> v = sqrt(2kT/m)
this way it maybe more intuitive
This is essentially what HTTP Public Key Pinning (HPKP) does [0]. HPKP is a header your web server responds with that tells the client's browser, "Only trust my domain if the certificate presented is in a chain that goes up through one of these CA public keys". This is so an attacker can't go buy a certificate from a less-diligent CA and use that to MITM HTTPS traffic between clients and your domain.

You pick two or more CAs you trust, and brick yourself into a corner saying "these are the only CAs you should ever trust w.r.t. this domain".

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Public_Key_Pinning
Companies that collect GST also get back from the government any GST they spend. So effectively they don't have to pay for GST/HST on fuel, maintenance, even a new car. Companies that don't collect GST/HST (people with sales under $30k, exempt service providers like doctors, etc...) cannot claim any input tax credit and have to pay it just like regular individuals.
Rust Belt checking in here, too. If you're letting the future of your community ride on hopes of traditional manufacturing jobs coming back, you're never going to get out of the hole you're in. Getting rid of free trade isn't going to stop China from roflstomping our manufacturing economy, and whatever they don't crush, robots will. The future doesn't lie that way, and hoping a pathological liar was lying to everyone but you is a recipe for disaster.
Arguably I did get "screwed over" by Affirmative Action in terms of what college I got into (still salty about it). But this program with Howard University is really different than traditional, admissions-based Affirmative Action. It's increasing the supply, not lowering it or putting a quota on it. I'm not saying I didn't earn my spot at my school, but I definitely got lucky with that internship, which I don't feel like I earned. I was making a simple point about the side effects we get as "hard workers" that have much deeper benefits than we tend to think. And I'm not sure those side effects are always deserved.
Are you sure the new FCC chair would have been able to remove those rules without the support of the rest of the commission?
Not shanzhaied, but another alternative spectrum sensor for VIS/NIR(390nm - 1000nm) is nanolambda NSP32. www.nanolambda.net
He's right, though. There are two really questionable assumptions on the author's part - first, that women as a whole are more productive. Second, that they would still be more productive if they were equal to men under the law.
What happens if not everyone responds to the emails?
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> that we deliberately changed the kernel to refuse to load

I've heard this myth before too. Here's someone else's succinct answer to it:

It's a common misunderstanding to think that the Linux-libre project forbids loading non-free modules/drivers by user's request after the kernel was installed. In fact, it's a bug that is very hard to fix due to the way that the Linux kernel itself is made, as Alexandre Oliva, member of Linux-libre project, states at http://www.fsfla.org/ikiwiki/blogs/lxo/2013-11-08-linux-libr... (when answering the question "Is there anything that the project wants to do that it can't do now? In general, what are the future plans for the project?").
from what i understand, just burning it would improve the situation too. bearing in mind that i don't know much about chemistry and this is entirely from google: when burned, 1 CH4 turns into 1 CO2 and 2 H2O, so you essentially trade CH4 for CO2.

that ignores the whole CH4 being a short term problem thing though...
Extinction for the most part
There is an overwhelming chance that a drug based on this will never see the light of day, and not just because medical professionals by and large hate the very idea of life extension, although they do. It's an unspecified peptide that purportedly triggers apoptosis in senescent cells to make room for new ones. There are places in the body where you absolutely do not want this, most importantly: nerve cells. If you trigger apoptosis in senescent nerve cells, they're just gone (with very few exceptions). You might have a shiny coat, but you'll be vegetative.

Also, this effect has not even been reproduced, and they seem to be playing their cards very close to the chest, which is almost always a massive warning sign. Even the researchers themselves don't seem overly sure they're seeing a statistically significant effect, citing it works on some mice and not on others.

Odds are, there is very little to see here.
What exactly should be illegal? Campaigning? Having an opinion based on how much you are paid to hold it?