skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you consider that current areas of research is both broader in overall and narrower/deeper for a given publication, it follows naturally that the language of the text targets a smaller audience. Is it conceivable that we can maintain general comprehensibility and continue to expand and refine knowledge?

I could see that it's possible to write in a style with more analogies or illustrative language but I can't tell from the article if this factors into the observed trend.
It works. You can get rid of many annoying pop-ups and overlays that way. It even works on dumber paywalls.
While these conversations are undeniably hilarious to listen to, it's a little concerning to me that by the end of the conversation the only explanation you could really come to here is that he has dementia. If this countermeasure becomes widespread, I'd be concerned about unintended consequences for actual humans with age-related cognitive decline.

For example, imagine an older person who easily loses track of the conversation picking up the phone to talk to a telemarketer. The telemarketer mistakes this person for a bot, and yells at them in frustration.

This might be mitigated by adding some actual AI, so that the bot can convincingly imitate a person without mental health problems.
And there you run into the problem: "building more" and "making the city less appealing" are one and the same to a huge proportion of people.

"Why should I pay higher rents or deal with worse traffic/more crowded infrastructure just because you think my neighborhood is suddenly cool or because you're looking to stash a bunch of money in my country?"
Sounds like an inside job.
What makes you think it's creepy? My sister said something similar but I don't really see it myself. Are you worried it's going to be some sort of uncanny valley kind of thing?
The effort required to get someone new spun up on your project isn't trivial (unless what you're doing is trivial...). There is a lot to understand, both "hard" knowledge about the tech stack, product, specific features you're working on, customer use cases etc as well as the "soft" stuff, like communication style, the specific rhythm of the team and more often than not, reading a bit of politics. Never mind that this is stressful for the applicant (and would require them to quit their previous job for a perfectly insecure alternative), it takes a substantial effort on part of the existing team to do this.

A commonly mentioned number for application success rates are on the order of 1:100. Even if this process is 10x better, a team will have to welcome a new "apprentice" every month (and fire most of them again) to get a single new hire a year.

This is not obviously an improvement for either employer or employee.
Is CRISPR suitable for doing more than single location fixes? I feel that breeding would work better for traits such as intelligence or longevity that seem to be controlled by many genes, each of which has only a tiny influence.
PCIe 3 x16 devices have a 16GB/s theoretical max, so 1000GB/s is still out of reach for single machine I/O (though it's not as though search needs anywhere near these bandwidths anyway).
The magic is the automatic saving of subexpressions on a stack. Once you got the hang of it, you would never want to go back to an infix calculator.

Of course, you're comparing the HP41C to bad infix calculators, early ones that didn't support algebraic order of operations or explicit parentheses.

It's worth remembering that postfix calculators exist not because they were ever the right thing to do, but because they were easier to implement with limited computing power. Forcing the user to keep track of the stack context was a clever hack on HP's part, but is no longer necessary or justifiable. And that's why you don't see many new postfix calculators these days.
They haven't been able to compete since the A6... it's hard for them though because Apple makes the chip very large while Samsung and Qualcomm don't wish to take that risk
I'm worried about how much the camera is watching and analyzing my facial expressions.
> If you have an implicit interface then you are implicitly doing OOP.

Are you saying that having a set of functions is an implicit interface and therefore every program ever written that contains a set of functions is implicitly doing OOP?
Also, once enough people figure it out, one (or some) of them can make better explanations.
The 48 was quite a bit bigger than the 42s, which I think is the main downside. A bit of googling suggests the 48 contains similar features to the 42s, and probably more. It can also show the full 4 level stack - the 42s showed 2.

However, you're looking for the best all-round scientific calculator (form factor restricted!) the 42s probably wins. The voyager series (including the 15 and 16) were well-made and in landscape format, which is nice for using on-the-go with both thumbs. They are more simplistic though - you see one line of the stack, and there aren't menus - hence several variations to cater for different markets.

The HP41 was an impressive programmable calculator for its time, and seems to be more expandable than the 42s. However, the 42s is programmable, has a few more features and a more modern display.

Not sure about the WP34, though if you look at the cost of a second hand 42s, you'll see that many people rate it much higher than more modern HP calculators. I think what puts me off more recent calculators and even some other HPs, is the ambivalence about RPN. I really like RPN, and don't like when the UI is compromised to please both.

[1] http://www.hpmuseum.org/cgi-sys/cgiwrap/hpmuseum/archv005.cg...
Could be that the genes have a deleterious effect in youth, not just old age.
Is this different from using an
emoji to approximate an emotion?

Yes, very. Say I crack a joke :) You see the smiley, and it's the same (alright, roughly the same ;o) ) as the smiley someone else would use to express the same approximate emotion.

If, on the other hand, my smile looks like 8-D but someone else's looks like :=) and that other guy's looks like %} - the consistency vanishes. And that's before you start factoring in people with, say, Bell's Palsy.
Ah, good point, but that article also mentions (towards the end) that they are likely to just ignore the treaty, as Uruguay has (and some US states). They can also demonstrate that they are legalizing as a more efficient way to control/limit drug use.
Why do you keep saying "recent administrations"?
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The distribution of IQ scores by gender is also a big one. To deny differences is race you would have to basically throw out the theory of evolution, I've seen many already calling to ban studies on differences in intelligence. China will take over the world if that happens because they will create superhumans with it.

If you want something really uncomfortable you should look into genetic heterozygosity and differentiation in humans.

https://lesacreduprintemps19.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/woo...
A start: http://hyperpolyglot.org/
Why is this downvoted? Berlin is full of slackers, civil servants and other parasites who are supported by the working population.
I would hope 10 based on what they did with macOS, but you're right we're probably going to end up having that fight again.

I think this sort of makes sense for this year but I would assume that they'll end up re-naming things after this. You're right that having the bottom phone call 10 would certainly make things confusing.

With the iPads recently, and Macs since Jobs returned they've been using the same names without numbers. It wouldn't surprise me too much if we went to iPhone, iPhone+, and something else. To specify we just refer to them by the year they were released.
Most websites aren't being fined billions by your government!
T. gondii and he said the research on that is bunk. Shrug...

https://insta724.com/ideas/ycombinator
try www.noisli.com, it is free and offers different noises. The loops of the individual sound files are very long so that you won't notice when they repeat.
"Devastating" is an awfully strong word for what's happened. Really curious people know a few features a little earlier than they would have otherwise. It's hard to prove that this will even have any negative effects; it generates buzz and excitement around a launch.

For a personal anecdote, I honestly didn't know there was a new iPhone coming out soon. Now I do, and I'm curious. Plus, my sister-in-law mentioned this morning that she wants a new phone, this might help her decide. I don't understand why this is such a terrible thing.
Thanks, from the description in looks like what I need.

The configuration "Vagrantfile" seems a bit complex, but I will give it a shot and hope it ends up saving me time.
NLP is rightly ignored.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuro-linguistic_programming...

Edit: Fortunately I'm left feeling foolish, rather than horrified.
Looks neat, but it's prohibitively expensive to use for a personal website which doesn't generate revenue. I use CloudFlare (at $5/mo), but close to $17/mo for this service dwarfs my hosting + CDN fees together. I'd love to see a free or low-cost service that just checks SSL cert expiration and sends me an email 30 days before it expires. Would be great for making sure my personal website isn't broken without breaking the bank.
This a really interesting idea. The problem of stabbing/puncturing can be solved by moving the liquid lower in the ground and having a floating more robust layer above. I imagine it would be particularly useful in places like outside hospitals where ambulances would prefer a smooth ride if possible.
However, I'm sure we used to make a liquid with similar properties when we were children out of cornflower (?) and water.
I'd argue that this is even worse than the misplaced prototype. This leak confirms much of the speculation around the design of the new phone but also gives away new information about the software it will use (animojis, faceID) plus the new Apple Watch with LTE.
According to this article, it's not yet ready for the mass market: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/05/gene-editor-crispr-wo...

I'm not a biologist, but reading this sounds more like a few years till mass market, not the ominous "30 years" you hear when people really have no clue how long it's going to take :-)
I can't imagine that you'd be forced to use it. Disable it. (I would.) Cover up your camera.
Increased expense and fragility to reduce the impact of going over speed bumps that (if properly designed) already have less impact when drivers are at out below the desired speed? Seems to me that there are likely more durable me cost effective ways to spend that money, such as making sure that bumps actually are properly sized /shaped for their target speeds.

This seems like an interesting concept that's worth the effort and expense only for very niche applications.
Here's another disadvantage of whiteboard coding: it's inaccessible to blind people, and impractical (even more than usual) for people with only a little vision (like me). Such candidates will need to do the coding on a computer, so one might as well make that the default, as the OP recommends, and eliminate one variable and a possible source of bias. Of course, once a blind or low-vision programmer stays at a given company long enough, they'll probably be on the other side of the interview at some point. So for consistency among a team of interviewers, I imagine it would be best if all of them have their candidates do coding problems on a computer, not just one of them.

I'm curious about why whiteboard coding is still a thing in the first place. Is it a matter of convenience or cost? If so, surely that equation has changed now that we have ubiquitous, cheap, portable computers. Or do some interviewers really think that it's good to deny a candidate access to a real computer while solving a coding problem during the interview?
Working on getting early buyers
Hey guys we are about to launch our app and are trying to get our first couple users + buyers. I was wondering if you guys can comment the most effective way.
I was actually thinking it's a brilliant application but no where near durable enough to be practical.
It doesn't matter, ad blocking is here to stay and expand, and it's a ticking clock on this nonsense. How many HN users ever see an ad at this point?
I wouldn't say it assumes pixel skill; just a general knowledge of forms and animation, and how they apply in a pixel universe
Top down control is kind-of hard. Given increased availability of genetic data, democratised action is easier to envision. You start off with compatibility tests against genetic disorders [1]. Then those that lead to potentially the better offsprings [2]. That opens the door for egg/sperm selection [3]. Then third-party gene introductions [4]. All the way to complete designer babies. These action may even completely cut out evolution from the equation, but evolution can be sneaky.

At every step of the way it becomes slightly more acceptable to push the boundaries just so slightly.

[1] Been the case for many decades now in the case of sickle-cell anaemia, this affects partner selection. In the last decade selection against mutations in BRCA1 and BRCA2 i.e the "breast cancer genes", has lead to searches for egg donors. Also, some people with history of severe depression that runs in the family are self selecting against child bearing (this selection is more common among females).

[2] This could even be pseudo-science at the beginning.

[3] Sperm and egg banks already allow for a crude version of this.

[4] Either natural or synthetic.
Are you sure they're removing TouchID? I think FaceID is just another option for logging in.
True, but it isn't very practical and doesn't actually answer the question. It does work, however.
Eh? Android, led by Samsung, is way way ahead of Apple. Most non technical people don't even know what a CPU is and aren't about to spend $1000 on a new phone.

That's not to say this chip doesn't sound impressive. But it's not going to change market shares.
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China already paid people with high intelligence to ship them DNA for research in 2013, they are already doing embryo gene manipulation. They are years ahead of us due to not caring about ethics. Political correctness will be the death of the west.

https://www.nature.com/news/chinese-project-probes-the-genet...
That last one may have a great deal to do with it.

As people live longer and safer lives, they can afford to have children later. And child mortality has been seriously reduced, so the children they have are comparable to thise among people from previous centuries who had many children younger.

Having children takes a toll on an organism, and having many children takes a larger toll, presumably. I wouldn't be surprised if there is a correlation between lifespan and number of children, among women.

So - people live longer and have children later. The children grow up richer and bigger and in turn have children later, as well.

I bet there is a correlation between age of having children and lifespan.
That is one of the hypotheses advanced in the article.
I usually skip spoilers. Even though I'm not as fan as in the "jobs/one more thing" era, I still like the surprise.
Sure, it wouldn't stop me from buying a phone with this feature, but I still find it vaguely creepy.
Yes, I find complex equations to be far easier to calculate in RPN. Even if you get stuck you have a useful intermediate. On algebraic I find I'm having to back pedal to sort out parentheses for lower order operators.
Genetic arms race, or intentionally crippling your population to make them easier to control? I wonder which the various governments will go for?

Are gene-modded babies going to have genetic compulsions that make them predisposed to propaganda and suggestion? Biological kill-switches?

There's a lot of good and a lot of bad that is going to come out of these technologies.
> I completely understand the need for these technical interviews and weed out obvious bad programmers and get experts on board but sometimes from a business point of view it just doesn't make sense.

The thing is that the main goal of the technical interview is not to hire all good candidates. The main goal is to avoid hiring bad candidates. A large high paying company like Facebook has plenty of candidates to choose from, and the main priority is avoiding expensive bad hires. The cost of failing to hire a good engineer is small - they can just take the next guy. The cost of hiring a bad engineer is large.

With this in mind, the process makes a lot of business sense. Someone who is capable of learning what's needed to do well on a technical interview has demonstrated a fairly high level of competence, and is (relatively) unlikely to be a really bad hire.

This filter does limit your applicant pool a little, but if you're Facebook, the largest chunk of your applicant pool are recent comp. sci. graduates. If they can't solve an algorithms problem reasonably gracefully then that's a bit of a red flag. For non-recent-comp-sci-graduates, a competent candidate really should be able to prepare pretty well in a month or two of spare time.

Facebook might miss out on hires like you who would likely be quite good at the job but aren't willing to put in the effort to prep for the interview, but that's a trade off they'll make happily if they minimize bad hires.

Smaller companies with lower pay and access to fewer qualified candidates would probably be ill advised to copy the Facebooks and Googles of the world though. I'll grant that.
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> But if that were the case, there would be plenty of such mutations still kicking around in the genome, the authors argue. That such a large study found only two strongly suggests that evolution is “weeding” them out, says Mostafavi, and that others have probably already been purged from the population by natural selection.

This seems like a lot of speculative leaps to me.

1. assuming that they should necessarily find many of these correlations, absent evolutionary elimination (maybe the effects of individual groups of genes just aren't that strong?)

2. assuming that the lack of them indicates that they existed before and were eliminated (maybe they never existed at all?)

3. more generally, assuming that evolutionary selection is a determining factor in the data they're studying at all (I don't often see noticeable changes in a few generation in highly-contrived genetic algorithms I play with, let alone real-world data which has way, way more noise)
> It's bound to make the wrong face at least sometimes.

I'm guessing you can cancel and try again before sending it in that case.
there is i tell you ;) at least 20 years less off your life.
Yup - among us maths geeks at school in the 80s the HPs - especially the 41 - were the Rolls Royce of calculators, beautiful machines that few could afford, although even the high end programmable Casio that I settled for was pretty pricey.
oh no, I was far removed from this kind of things, I'm a java/python coder let's say. But I recently dug into low level electronics so I hope I can put my hands on one.
Luckily, without constraints on supply and demand, those things will quickly balance each other out.

And if your rent went up, supply didn't. Supply, not gentrification, is the problem in the SF/NY/Londons of the world.
Negative affects? No, not really. But Apple managed to have a TON of secrecy this year where no one was really sure what was going on. We didn't even have much in the way of hardware leaks this year.

Then they had the HomePod leak, now this. A lot of the surprises that we're going to be in their presentation are now known by the enthusiast set.

It's really a stolen thunder/pride thing.

I'm a little surprised you didn't know a new iPhone was coming as they announce them the same time every year.
I've occasionally suggested* a dirty bomb as the only way to make London livable again. Just enough radiation to scare away the rich, not enough to actually harm anyone ;)

And in Berlin, I've sometimes seen graffiti along the lines of "cleaner walls == higher rents". So making the city less appealing is already part of the anti-gentrification arsenal.

* for the record, I'm not actually planning to nuke London.
Yeah, I read an article that another user posted. I think I prefer the term 'undisclosed.' At least in my head, secret means someone is in trouble for leaking it. There was a paper trail, for example.

I guess the use is valid, but I'm not sure it's objective. I don't prefer Trump, but I do try to remain objective. Try being the operative word.
> If it wasn't for the HomePod firmware leak a month ago this would've been even more devastating

The latest "leak" conveniently happens days away from their new release and gets everyone talking about it. Wow, so harmful!
All the rumors point to that. It’s pretty confirmed at this point.
so i have been sort of monitoring this equifax thing. yesterday or the day before i was thinking "let's see what the aftermath brings to light"...

let's reflect for a moment: biggest leak of personal data of us citizens - right after the opm debacle. the same company funds strategies detriment to its customers.

i bet everybody feels like it can't get any worse.

i'm not very old, limited experience but i will predict, brace yourselves, this will go on and on. _nothing_ will change because people don't fucking care and the minority who does care does not have the electorial power it needs to change this system.

i'm waiting for the same thing to happen in germany. it's even worse here because virtually only one company has the monopoly over private credit ratings. everybody is annoyed and _nobody_ cares. we have major elections this month and all those sheep will vote safe.

this is going to be fun. good luck over there, friends.
My apologies for editing my reply to add a third paragraph while you were replying to it, but I think that explains the relevance of the age dependence to this study: the decrease in the prevalence with age suggests that they actually do exacerbate the diseases they are associated with, and so the association is not merely a correlation.

Note that they are not suggesting these genes have been the subject of selection; it is the hypothesized number of such late-acting genes that were not found that are assumed to have been selected against.
This is an interesting candidate-first approach, but I have some concerns:

This requires that candidates are experienced at the language or framework you use. Are you not prepared to take someone with different experience? What about graduates? What if their ability with one framework does not transfer to another that you end up assigning them to?

Not all bugfixes are equal. If you haven't solved it yourself before, how do you know how hard it will be? If you give candidates questions that vary in difficulty, how do you compensate for that?

Is the ability to dive into a codebase and fix (presumably) trivial bugs really what you should be optimizing for? Is it actually better than abstract algorithmic questions for determining if the candidate [can] reason about arbitrary problems and constraints?

How would you overcome your unconscious biases when answering the question Is the candidate someone we would enjoy working with?
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Yeah. If they can't tell me about what they've built before, and aren't a less-than-one-year-away-from-school new grad, I'm going to be wondering how they deal with real problems regardless of whatever they can do algorithm-wise.

If someone can talk about what approach they took, what other approaches they considered, what made it hard, what made it easy, how often the requirements changed, etc, then I'd rather ask them questions about that then spend the whole time in code. Just do some small spot checks to make sure they aren't taking credit for the work of others.