skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What do you think Facebook + DNA is going to do to harm you?

If you're actually looking for a pie in the sky answer, what happens when one if these entities gets popped and someone (state actor?) takes regional data to produce a very effective targeted bioweapon?

But the real answer is: you tell us when you find out the hard way. In the meantime, my personal info, of any kind, will continue to be protected, to the very best of my ability.
"Not your parent, but I come from a pretty rural area, which is what a lot of people would call the "real world." The people who live there certainly would."

I have to say, I absolutely abhor when anyone tries to say that one part of the country is more "real world" than any other part.
One day? You mean, like, today?
What if we change or broaden the transport mechanism? I'm willing to bet that you wouldn't have such conflicted feelings about https or flash drives which are also used to distribute this content.
Public-facing email/web/etc server (that replaced my colo box), everything else is behind a NAT "router" that also uses one of the static IPs. I do some minor web hosting for friends, etc.

I started out with their 27/7 plan, then for years had 50 down/10 up, but I recently talked with their retention department and managed to upgrade to 150/20 with my same five statics, for $140-150ish/month. No bandwidth caps (it's not even metered) or anything.
In the US, it's not actually illegal to ask you about your nation of origin, but it would be illegal to use the answer to discriminate against you. If a lawsuit were ever filed against that company for discrimination, asking that question might be used as evidence of their intent to discriminate. (They are allowed to ask whether you are legally allowed to work in the US.)

Asking about age is similarly problematic. If the applicant has 20 years of experience, they may be approaching 40, and it's illegal in the US to discriminate against job applicants over 40 years of age.

Any company with a sane HR department would immediately freak out and fire their recruiter for asking these kinds of questions, which expose the company to legal liability.
Would you be so kind as to add them. Thanks. It's a community effort
Do you have good mechanical drawings of the housing and switches?
And, since those rebalances reflect only relative changes in supply, the turnover should be a small fraction of AUM.
Great! Thanks. You can start off by adding any coins you will like to see
Also, where is the Flutter + GCE engine example? That's what interests me.
Accredited investors only. Sigh.
> I've even put my hand up in the middle of a store, like I was in school, waiting for assistance because ther were so few employees around, or because after asking me if I needed help as I walked in the door, they lost interest in me, and decided to have a chat with their colleagues.

I probably wouldn't have helped you either, that seems like incredibly strange behavior.
That's questionable:

https://theintercept.com/document/2015/10/14/operation-hayma...

At the very least, they are not yet good at hitting only the intended target.
I've got their "Business Wireless Gateway", a Cisco bit that really shouldn't have the Cisco name on it.. I turned off its built-in WiFi and use a Ubiquiti UAP-AC-PRO. The BWG just functions as a modem and somewhere to plug the WAN interface of my USG "router" into.
My bad, remembered it wrong. I mixed it up with the Nexus One I had before that, but that was a high-end phone.
IBM sure must've been spread thin during WW2. [0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_during_World_War_II
People Don't Know Themselves Very Well
Of special concern would be entities like FB and LinkedIn having thins kind of data _and_ availing it to private health insurance as well as potential future private sector employers.
50-100% more, depending on speed and features.
However, Business Class typically has no metering/caps, better support, and a faster SLA for getting things fixed (depending on your area and the type of outage).
We already have so much data in the healthcare system that people are unable to use or hamstrung by regulation to use (and to be fair it is probably very difficult to make sense of..). One doctor has no idea what another doctor wrote in my chart. Hospitals don't share data most data with others or with scientists for research.

When medical research even begins to use the massive amount of data they already have on patients from billions of routine visits, tests and hospitalizations productively, we can think about giving them more. We are so laughably far from that point that adding more data to the mountain doesn't make sense.
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>I still believe that there are enough hackers who would be willing to work for a much worse salary if they could obey hacker ethics and morality. Of course this implies working at a place that is much cheaper than Bay Area. But even under this premise: Where is the money supposed to come from to pay an even much lower salary reliably?

I think this is essentially the role Mozilla fills in the SF/SV ecosystem at least. Everyone knows Mozilla engineers are equally or greater respected than anyone from Facebook or Google. The problem is there's only room for one Mozilla. There simply isn't enough donations to support more.
You are probably very right - I was describing myself.
Is it unreasonable to want the best for your child?

Being deliberate in what you read to them and when doesn't preclude also giving them love, food, shelter, space and everything else you listed. If there's a significant difference to be realized by adopting these reading habits (I'm not saying there is) one could argue you're ethically obligated to do so. In the same way that not supplying your child with a balanced diet could be considered negligent.
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Your response seems to just take the word “bad” out of the English language altogether. Your point seems to be “badness is subjective and therefore invalid.”

Would an amended statement make more sense?

“The nazis were bad to the degree that badness is a thing.”

Although it seems a bit silly to phrase things that way.

To the degree that silliness is a thing of course.
Personally, my concern is who or what is defining 'innocent'.
I don't know if it's generally that useful (in my experience). There are usually too many things one doesn't know: Many parts don't have models, or the right kind of models, and it can take more time and effort than it's worth to set up the simulation.

Simulation is usually more useful when you have very specific questions about small parts of your circuit. Questions like will the oscillator start up under the full temperature range, or what's the phase margin of my analog front end.

Big exception to this is FPGAs and other programmable logic where a major portion of one's time is spent specifying, simulating, and verifying a design in software. This can also include software/hardware co-simulation. But the toolchain for doing this is usually furnished by the silicon vendor.

Another place simulation pops up more often is in power supply design and RF parts. TI, LT and other vendors have specialty software and wizards to simulate common designs. This is basically an extension of reference designs and demo boards.
Peter Nicholls (1939-2018), Editor of the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
"-because of it's out of control housing regulation"
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I really like this idea. I have struggled with back and neck issues for a long time. I think I shall have to try this. Btw, that thinkpad looks exactly like my p51s.
> Amazon has a serious problem with counterfeit goods ans fake reviews.

I flat out won't buy from Amazon unless I'm already in the market to get something that I know is cheap and may or may not work- which turns out is not very often. Because of this I very much doubt the reality of the retail apocalypse in the long term.
Based on my own experience, it doesn't feel like java at all. It is very easy to learn for those who know java, or javascript, or C# etc - that's true. But the "look and feel" is different. And it's not only the language - libraries (e.g. collections) are very well designed. Just try it out- you will like it. As for flutter - there are novel, original ideas in there. It's not a copy of something else.
I work at Bitwise Investments (venture backed by Avichal Garg - a YC partner), and some people know us as "the first cryptocurrency index". We think Coinbase releasing an index is great for the space - diversification is super important for a crypto portfolio and it is good to see other people working on the problem. We offer a different basket (Coinbase only offers the coins available on Coinbase), have different business model incentives, and different focuses.

If investing in a diversifed portfolio seems intriguing to you, and Coinbase's offering doesn't fit your needs, you should check us out: bitwiseinvestments.com

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Learning Memory Access Patterns
Flutter doesn't do what I feel React Native does best, rendering down to native components for Android and iOS (also web/tvOS). Flutter seems to render to custom view components so for better or worse your apps will probably look the same on all platforms. It's interesting to see what projects Google is using Flutter though, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Fuchsia
Crypto Sanctum attendees unknowingly ate cannabis infused catering
How Clojure is breaking my brain – Loops (2012)
Abstract ->

The explosion in workload complexity and the recent slow-down in Moore's law scaling call for new approaches towards efficient computing. Researchers are now beginning to use recent advances in machine learning in software optimizations, augmenting or replacing traditional heuristics and data structures. However, the space of machine learning for computer hardware architecture is only lightly explored. In this paper, we demonstrate the potential of deep learning to address the von Neumann bottleneck of memory performance. We focus on the critical problem of learning memory access patterns, with the goal of constructing accurate and efficient memory prefetchers. We relate contemporary prefetching strategies to n-gram models in natural language processing, and show how recurrent neural networks can serve as a drop-in replacement. On a suite of challenging benchmark datasets, we find that neural networks consistently demonstrate superior performance in terms of precision and recall. This work represents the first step towards practical neural-network based prefetching, and opens a wide range of exciting directions for machine learning in computer architecture research.
It's fairly obvious that if not for US military activity in the region, US backing of Lon Nol, and the massive covert US bombing campaign in Cambodia, that Cambodia would have never been destabilized to the point that a fanatical regime like the Khmer Rouge could have come to power. A lot of Cambodian people would make that connection too, just so you know.
I mostly don't disagree, but that's beside the point. The point is that flamebait and flamewars destroy HN. HN is for intellectual curiosity, not "you are a moron" and "literally fuck you". It's not like this is hard to understand.

If the food we're ingesting is poisoned, it doesn't matter whether it's also nutrient-rich.
Article title is "At This Crypto Event, The Attendees Really Were High", but that's not terribly useful, so I went with a modified version of the Wired tweet that's more descriptive. Updates welcome.
Edit: don't do this on coinbase, buy on GDAX instead (same login as coinbase)
> Everyone has stood by while this has happened, more so than Tech in many cases, for example, with respect to immigration

First, I don't think that's the case, because it's impossible to open any media website, tv channel, or newspaper without being inundated with a very uniform opinion with regards to what Trump is doing. The folks who do not like what is being done are doing anything but idly standing by. Whether their protestations will or should be heard is a different question.

Second, what Trump is doing - or at least, what it can be proven that he is doing - is so far entirely within the scope of the powers of the office and is within law. What sort of things can be done about the actions of the President as long as he's acting within the law?

Let's not forget that roughly half the country wanted this - what of them? It's easy to act as though the opposing side's argument has no merit, but what if you actually consider their idealized motivation, from at least a sympathetic-for-argument's-sake mindset? These are not fools and monsters, and they do have their reasons for feeling and thinking the way they do. Discounting that from the outset leads only to enmity.

> Lots of people crying about AI Skynets and full spectrum surveillance, and none about basic inequality. Why? Because a tech geek can imagine a way to filter cookies, or implement Asimov laws, but they can't imagine how to convince millions of people to stop voting for candidates who promise not to raise their taxes and stop giving money to "freeloaders"

What if the geeks themselves see inequality as a natural outcome of any possible system that enables people to advance themselves? What if there do exist freeloaders, in an innumerable multitude of forms? What if someone doesn't believe that a government that we can all agree is incapable of handling infrastructure maintenance or any meaningful reorganization of itself shouldn't be trusted to take even more money and "redistribute" it to whomever it deems most worthy at any given moment?

I don't think that folks with these ideas necessarily want the worst for anyone. I think they just have very different ideas about what is needed and what is feasible in terms of improving quality of life for everyone.

If you want to play at whataboutism, you must know that it can be fired back just as easily. It's not entirely useless or without merit as a discussion method but it doesn't really lead us to answers.
Looks like the default Lost Kingdom BF interpreter uses 8-bit cells, whereas the bf2wasm compiler uses 32-bit cells. This matters in Brainfuck; choosing the "wrong" one of the idioms [-] and [+] for zeroing a cell gets worse as cells get bigger. Maybe if you tweaked the bf2wasm compiler to use 8-bit cells?
Notes on Being Very Tall
>the decision making of an organisation is simply the decision making of it's personnel.

This is also true for animals, including humans. Most of our decisions are made by micro-organisms in our gut, by our microbiome. There are other decision-making centers as well. The self is not even aware in most cases that he/she is just applying a decision that was made for him internally.
23andMe reported this gene in 2013. Then the FDA forbade the reporting. Now they're allowed to report it.

What changed?
My guess is that many of those hackers willing to take much lower salary for ethics and morality are either already rich or do not have the burden of supporting a family yet. It's already hard for someone to take low salary job when plenty of much better paying jobs are available, it'd be way more harder for someone to do that consistently throughout their life.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16529744
MULE, Archon, Miner 2049er, Boulderdash, and one of the Ultimas [Ultima IV I think] were my favorite computer games in my childhood.

There was a semi-realistic semi-3D RPG-style game that I really wanted to get into but never could. This thread caused me to research it, only to find out that it was Alternate Reality that another sub-thread is extolling. I think I was too young and impatient perhaps, but I got so frustrated at dying and having my bank investments go bust so often.
I love it! I've been working on a brainfuck to asm.js compiler myself and it's a great learning experience, even if asm.js will be going away in favor of wasm (though I believe Chrome compiles asm.js into wasm).

I'm excited to hear about how you intend to solve input instructions. I've been struggling with that myself since I want to make it asynchronous, which might require some nasty tricks.
We had a zx. Mini membrane keyboard without a space bar (space key to the lower right). The Apple //e keyboard was a relief (as was not having to use tapes)

We were living large with the 16kb memory expansion though.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timex_Sinclair_1000
Secrets Looking 10 Years Younger Naturally
The Bitwise HOLD10 (run by Bitwise, where I work) rebalances every month.
Fire, Swords, and Magic
Moreover, the Lost Kingdom interpreter will expand the memory arbitrarily as it encounters > instructions, whereas the bf2wasm interpreter has a fixed limit of 16384 4-byte cells according to its documentation.
The regulations that prevent new building are the work of incumbent residents -- people who have been here for many decades, support the arts and fly under the radar when it comes to assigning responsibility for this situation.
I spent years working for a company which performed genetic testing for a variety of conditions, germline and somatic (IE, cancer).

Internally, the results we accumulated were only used for providing diagnoses, estimating population frequencies, and writing papers.

Other companies, however, like Guardant Health and Foundation One, initially provided inexpensive or free tests in order to build enormous patient data stores and were then bought by large pharmaceutical companies primarily for this data.

In the end, the patients were the product, and the cheap/discounted tests were overhead cost in taking advantage of these people. I do not know where these companies are now, but my distaste for the industry was a large part of why I've chosen a different field of research.
In a very literal sense, "markets" are just a venue to buy, sell, and exchange goods. They are economic, not idealistic. They aren't concerned with equality, unless it's the equality of the exchange of goods and service. According to every principle of "markets" that I am aware of, none of it includes the principle that it should decrease poverty world-wide. So this was what, a happy accident?

Or perhaps the reduction of poverty is simply a side-effect of increases in efficiency. Increases which themselves sometimes hinge on things like ruining the overall health of soil so that we can produce more crops in less time, producing potentially harmful runoff that affects other people, animals and plants.

And an increase in equality - was that purely economic? Or perhaps, with the reduction in material needs, and the increase of civil rights, there's less need for dogmatic religious control and tribalism, leading to more egalitarian beliefs, as people are no longer as tightly wound to the organizations that led them before.

You can certainly say that markets influenced these things. But that doesn't mean that these things can't simply go back to the way they were - the markets don't prevent backsliding into less equal treatment of marginalized groups. Just look at the rising wave of nationalism and populism across the otherwise stalwart symbols of freedom and democracy! Markets are doing pretty damn well, but we're electing leaders (or allowing leaders to tighten their iron fist) who sound like despots with their insular fear-driven way of life under threat.
After the Olympics, Some Athletes Will Just Give Up
It's a great way to frame people.
The Slippery Search for Creativity
Wayyyy ahead of you :) But thank you :)
The Woman Who Shaped the Study of Fossil Brains
In theory React Native delegates things to the native platform widgets but in fact a ton of RN components don't really do this. They use the platform's native UIView/View class but not the higher level controls in a lot of cases. Navigation in particular is kind of a mess in RN and diverges from the built-in mechanisms on Android and iOS significantly.
I don't want to say a lot about it because the idea is way, way ahead of its time. I will however point you to a book called "The Diamond Age". :)
A Quick (Battle) Field Guide to the New Culture Wars
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Have you ever been denied health insurance?

I have.

I was 26 or thereabouts (it's been a while), in good health, but had one "touch base" appointment in my prior 2 year medical history (what the prospective insurer wanted, at that time). The appointment had no ongoing medical/treatment implications; it was simply a follow-up with a prior provider. Fortunately, a friend of a friend ran my application "unofficially" by the insurer's underwriters; if it had been a formal application, the result would have ended up in a cross-insurer database of decisions made whether to insure. Yes, there actually is -- was, certainly, at that time -- one, and if you landed in it with a "deny", getting anyone else to insure you became an order of magnitude more difficult. So I was told by this industry professional -- again, as a favor to my professional contact and friend.

More recently, I've had a minor condition that an eminent surgeon refused to operate on. Cost/benefit didn't merit it; his recommendation was simply to monitor.

When I changed from employer provided insurance to individually insured, I was denied. There was nothing I could do, and the condition did not hinder me in any way. Nonetheless.

Again, through the fortune of having a (different) professional contact and friend in the industry, with an allied company, I was able -- via a flaw in their processing of the application -- to get a re-evaluation. And a policy written, albeit with a rider excluding that condition.

But their initial reaction, before I "pulled strings"? They didn't offer me a policy with an exclusion rider. Nope, just "deny".

SO, many people who are paranoid about this kind of thing and "their health data getting around", are for damned good reason.

I agree, the knowledge and health benefits of sharing this data could be enormous. Think of what it could do for epidemiology. Best practices. Etc. Etc.

But, you want me to share it? You want me to sign on to a public program of same. You're going to have to guarantee that the data won't be used against participants.

As in, you do so use it, and you personally go to jail with a felony conviction and a multi-year sentence. And your company gets severely penalized and, if the behavior is widespread and with significant negative outcomes for those discriminated against, its own "death penalty".

You want the data? Demonstrate your good will. In ironclad terms.
Heroku for AWS Lambda
"Upon his return to Germany and having been appointed as Director of the Deutsche Seewarte, Neumayer conceived and implemented the drift bottle experiment that would last from 1864 to 1933, and include thousands of bottles. Of all these jettisoned bottles only an estimated 8-10% (662 message slips) found their way back to Hamburg"

10% is not bad really.

Also, it gives you a rough estimate of the chance of your 'rescue' message ever reaching anyone.
Look Who's Championing the Degree
I consider that a pro. Instead of buying new sets, the toys get down-cycled to younger children or gifted to some other kids. It's better than toys which because they don't last, they get bought at a higher velocity, thus producing waste.

Of interest, Lego will begin MFG 1-2% of their toys [apropos mostly "vegetation"] from plant-based plastics[1]. Possibly resulting in higher prices for sugar--which may also be a good thing.

[1]https://www.cips.org/supply-management/news/2018/march/lego-...
Can anyone recommend something similar but with more code comments?
Sorry about that. I didn't think I was crossing the line. Will be more careful in the future.
The Bitwise HOLD10 (where I work) handles a lot of the hard work around rebalancing and taxes.