skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article is hyperbolic in the extreme. Reporter got ahold of a poorly phrased email from a manufacturing manager who lost their shit (which happens every time their production floors even so much as pass gas) over something they didn't understand., then blew it even further out of proportion by speculating on everything under the sun. I mean, come on, "and now I'm hearing xxxx may be down too! everybody panic!" ?

In reality, it was a minor blip.
You're right. There's a great big button you can click to change your location. I guess I've just never clicked it so I forgot about it.
This. Something so fundamental that has been part of our civilization since forever is suddenly out of fashion because of a name.

If you'd try eating real pure non-gmo'd banana you'd break your teeth because of all the seeds, but that thing hasn't existed for millenia. Apples would be disgusting too by today's standards.
What are your guesses?
You crossed into incivility in this subthread and provoked a pointless spatty flamewar. Please don't do that again. There's no reason not to be respectful, regardless of how much you know about statistics.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This raises a question for which I have never found a satisfactory answer, perhaps some of the people chiming in here can help.

It seems likely (intuitively, which is why this is a question) that a naturally-occurring mutation which is artificially selected-for by a grower actually is very different from a transgenic insertion. The former arises within the complex regulatory/inhibitory genetic environment of the natural plant, so it sort of feels less risky, less likely to be disruptive or to renovate the biochemistry. Transgenically-inserted genes are mitochondrial, activated by default, and not part of a regulatory chain, and may produce arbitrary metabolites -- this is where they get their power. An ecosystem analogy comes to mind, natural mutations are like species evolving in an ecosystem, and transgenic insertions are like invasive species, potentially throwing the ecosystem seriously out of whack.

Is this just a sort of romantic fallacy, supported by a bad analogy?

I think it's tangential to the safety question -- actually-existing commercial GMO crops have been tested and demonstrated to be safe, that seems to be clear. But I think the space for unsafe combinations is much larger than it is for natural mutations, and the analogy to selective breeding understates the danger (and the power)?
That's a great argument for the 1st and 13th amendments. Perhaps those should actually be written in to the new document itself. We could even go further and adopt the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

That doesn't change the fact that the American three branch bicameral system has not aged well and is profoundly undemocratic by design.
You make a lot of assumptions that end up not playing out so well. For example when I was at university we didn't have a single core language we used for everything; classes bounced around between C#, Java, C++, Python, Ada, HTML, Javascript and so forth. There are graduates that have wide experience but not depth.

Which speaking as an aside; I was denied an internship back in college because I didn't have three years of professional experience in Java. Needless to say I found it absurd at the time.

You also assume that the best people are coding earlier or have the ability to code earlier. Some of the best developers I've worked with didn't start coding until later in their life.
It looks like a lot of commenters here are talking about the public opinion of GMOs and whether or not it's justified. As a graduate student, I'd like to comment on the author of this article instead of GMOs, since I find his story more profoundly disquieting.

The author is leaving his primary research specialization after spending literally years studying it. It's not uncommon for people to change their research focus, but he is moving to a different subfield and specialization altogether. More importantly, his decision is precipitated by unceasing vitriol for something he was passionate enough about to spend the best years of his life working on.

I'm not sure what else to say. I can't imagine what it's like to give something like that up just to avoid having research decisions litigated by other people. It must have been so exhausting and disheartening for him.
> the KISS principle

Known in science as Occaam's razor.

> maybe we just didn't understand gravity very well

We definitely don't understand it when it comes to quantum scales. And maybe we don't understand it properly at macro scales.

But know that the universe is in no way obligated to be simple to the layman.

E.g. Speed of light seems to be constant, so we're going to make up all this bizarre stuff about time dilation and space faring twins.
We're actually hiring for no-experience positions too! (TBH, some of my best hires were no-experience, high-potential fresh grads who've turned into powerhouses.) I don't suppose you want to be a Marketing Assistant? ;)

To your specific Q, yes, it does vary dramatically by location and specialty. In fact, we did an analysis about exactly that a few months ago! Even for white-collar positions, it ranges from ~14 weeks (software engineers) to ~90 days (HR specialists) to >>90 days (mechanical engineers):

https://talent.works/blog/2017/09/22/how-long-does-it-take-t...

When you dig in, even specialties that take the same time have very different reasons. For instance, mechanical engineers see a pretty high interview callback rate to job applications, it's just that there aren't _enough_ mechanical engineer job openings out there! OTOH, there are tons of HR specialist job openings but you need to apply to a million jobs to even get one reply.
Clarification: Times New Roman was designed for the London Times newspaper in 1929.

Silly me, I... heh, the first time I ever saw TnR was in relation to MS Word. And so I read this sentence thinking first about screen resolution, then "but why would you print ads in your documents"...
I wrote a very small resolve hook for node that does this. It makes the directory of the initial module / for all imports. Node has made resolver hooks like that dead simple.
This is such an awesome comment. I just wanted to say, thank you for posting this.
"I can tell you right now that there is nowhere near even 50% of them who have the ability to scale their companies."

You assume that they all want to scale. There is a place for us boring people. We are the ones who do something well and are reliable. We don't blow the profits on fancy cars and houses. We have shit loads of cash in the bank at all times relative to t/o. In 18 years of trading there was one month that me and my partners didn't pay ourselves - to cover employee salaries without creating an overdraft.

Bugger scaling - I'm happy to sleep at night. Some of our customers are amongst those that you will almost certainly have heard of, regardless of which country you live in.
Disabling third-party cookies breaks a lot of the web for a lot of people. Expert users are equipped to deal with the fallout of that choice. Less expert users are not. This extension offers less-expert users a way to protect their surfing from Facebook without having to learn about cookies at all.
Layers and accountants have specific post-graduate examinations. Doctors and dentists have an extended education combined with on-the-job training.

In the UK engineers can apply for chartered status, which assesses professional experience.

The reason software developers have none of these things is because the entry qualification for some jobs is "I know some javascript", while for others it's a post-graduate understanding of statistical distributions and vector calculus.

There's no professional accreditation system, no reliable way to assess professional competence, and a lot of the tools (and ideas, and systems) are hacked together with no formal rigour by people who like solving puzzles more than they like making things that work reliably.
> Ah the good ol' days, when contacts were only saved locally.

Ah, that explains why when I recently logged into ICQ for the first time in 15+ years, I apparently had no contacts. I thought they must have just wiped some old protocol at some point.
What is the logical distinction between purchase and payment? How does one know the differences when the transactions are anonymous?
>not allowing new users to auth their app

Where does it say this? Is that in separate reporting? That would be huge.
How much does the average driver have to understand about automotive and mechanical engineering before they can form a reasonable criticism about defective/fatal design?
This is basically what a heavily curated set of reddit subscriptions are. I know others do the same with Twitter except I find that doesn't work for me because you're following people rather than on-topic communities and nobody sticks to the topics you're following them for in the first place. Personally, I kept getting stuck with a feed full of useless virtue signaling with some of what I wanted to see peppered in every now and then.

Personally I think that's why a site like reddit has more staying power than a site like Twitter. Twitter has too much of your identity invested in it while reddit has a place for nearly everyone.
I can see where you are coming from, I just think obvious profitability is a poor heuristic for trust, not only due to altruism, but also because some people like showing off, some people are pure hobbyists, some people are trying to make art and many people are just downright weird, though not necessarily in a way that is going to really do much damage.

It isn't always as simple as looking for an obvious motive, though I would agree to always keep an eye out for where the money comes from and if there is a game and if you are a mark. However that should apply whether or not something looks profitable on the surface, otherwise you drop all cynicism the moment someone tells you the right story.
I think the assessment of the risks needs to be looked at again. It may have made sense at one time to be conservative with system updates and do a lot of testing before rolling them out. In earlier days, OS updates were typically not security patches but new versions or major service packs. Behavior and APIs changed. But these days, what's worse: Dealing with some production issues due to an OS security update (really rather unlikely, and the patch infrastructure supports rolling back), or having your entire company taken offline by malware like WannaCry?
Never say I never gave you anything, HN:
https://gist.github.com/ImJasonH/78c22b36944b8ec189456e67e63...
I don't think time efficiency is the primary concern for the big encoders like Netflix and YouTube. They're more interested in lowering the bitrate while maintaining image quality and are willing to throw compute resources at slower encoders which achieve that. Netflix, for example, does multiple encodes per scene in multiple formats to get the best possible quality for each format for each scene.

VP9 outperforms H.264 (libvpx versus x264) for Netflix's use case. Here are some articles from the Netflix TechBlog on their experiences with VP9 and their encoding approach in general:

https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/optimized-shot-based-enc...

https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/more-efficient-mobile-en...

https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/netflix-downloads-on-and...
Why do you think that is damning?
What steps would you suggest taking to fix these historical problems?
With latency
re: "the file is 5.5GB BIG, which is roughly 3 MILLION Word documents"

If this includes all your email (including attachments), this shouldn't be surprising. After all, a big selling point for switching to Gmail was that you can keep all your old email forever.
No surprise there, given that if it’s going to trap Facebook requests, it has to see Facebook requests. It’s presumably a WebExtension so you should be able to open it up and read the JavaScript. Containers have been built-in to Firefox for a while now, so it’s nice to see this use pop up!
In 2008, I looked at renting on Treasure Island, back when it was just starting to be developed from a derelict military base into a neighborhood. The townhomes being rented were the old military housing, in rows along the streets. One section, identical to others nearby being lived in, was fenced off with portable fences and a radiation hazard sign every 100 yards or so. The information was available at the time, but you had to go looking for it. Now that it is transferred to the city of SF and redevelopment is proceeding, I see a bunch of articles about it again.

Needless to say, I didn't rent there. I ended up on the Peninsula, but a few weeks after moving in, I noticed there was an old gas station along El Camino Real that was fenced and had venting pipes and equipment--leaking gas tanks are no picnic either.

https://www.google.com/search?q=treasure+island+radiation
What's the explanation if you can be as technical as you want?
Sorry couldn't you elaborate on why you can believe it easily? I feel like people in tech are paid very well so this is a surprise to me. If anything I feel overpaid despite being paid much less than most of my peers
I know it has been ongoing for awhile, but.. just in case.. cloning the repositories anyway, powerful application like this shouldn't be available only on github.
Another interesting factoid I gathered from this is the "avoid ageism" tip about removing dates from graduation + only list last 10 years of job experience. I've always suspected it, but this supports it as a reality. Sad reality that we throw away experience...
Where can I find out more?
There's another article from a few months later about Facebook "opening up" their platform with apps. They were taking over fast at that point.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2007/may/31/newmedia....
Probably because they perceive that as being relevant.

Plus, if their push is to tie the font back to IBM strongly, allowing anyone to freely use the font is good press, so why not?
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Deleting Facebook? 31 percent of tech workers surveyed say they will
No they don’t build in house. Like I said it’s as much of a job creation program as it is a space one.
This! I used FB for about a month and it reminded me of going to a Frat party in college where it was loud and very hard to communicate directly with people.

Chat apps are more like a visit at the coffee shop.
Facebook plans clearer privacy controls
I'm saying that with a straight face because I'm not feeling any 'fear' from whatever the media wrote. If you feel fear that's your problem, not mine. Russiagate is a pretty apt description, and any comparison with PEARL HARBOR would seem to be historically pretty inaccurate, even if it is all true, which remains to be seen. But there is more than just a little bit of smoke, let's hope there is no fire because if there is a fire and hard proof is obtained it will have vast consequences. Better hope it all isn't true that would be the best outcome.
This. How can people say something so wrong headed like "Passion is a relative term." No you're just manipulative.
One thing I can say for certain: I could have never come up with this model. I'm merely a student of it and so far, it was not contradicted like most other models I encountered so far. Models that are not falsifiable, like string theory go directly to the trash bin for me.

Secondly, I know for absolute certainty that most models we believe in, are wrong if you take the combined perceptive into account. There are nutjobs out there how actually believe there is a difference between physics, chemistry and astrophysics. Every model that has paradoxes must have errors.

So, please, falsify it for me, I take logical or mathematical arguments as well as publicly accepted measurements interpreted under this model. Everything else is just bullshit. Just because many people believe something does not make it right, in fact history has shown the opposite (if it concerns natural sciences).

https://www.amazon.com/Basic-Structures-Matter-Supergravitat...

This is the only more or less complete description of the model, if you think it's to expensive, and still want to falsify it (please do), I can give you a pdf. Take into account that you will need a year or so to really grasp it, it's a thick book with quite dense content.
What would the difference be between time slowing down and the universe expanding?
I think it always helps to care about the quality of your craft. "Passion" seems to be the prevalent HR-speak for that concept.
Yeah, but they’re not looking at ads or providing useful data for brokers.
> Those both being 100% natural

The endotoxin used in Bt corn is also 100% natural [1].

I'm not arguing for (or against) Bt corn. I'm trying to show that the language we used to describe GMOs is misleading. Something we think of as natural isn't inherently healthy or unhealthy compared with something we think of as artificial. The same applies to GMO.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_endotoxin
Crazy uniformed but fun theory !:
Quantum theory suggests that universes split when a decision is taken. This is my crude understanding of parallel universe theory.
So, while universe splits, it creates a superimposing copy of itself where decision is different. Like a git repository, where only changes are saved, instead of copying everything.
Gravity however continues to interact with this changes and so we observe the dark matter.
If their is any weight to this theory,:
1. We can say where changes occurred
2. We can predict dark matter
3. We might be able to jump to parallel universe as we know where they are! Only if we can solve how gravity exactly works!
The biggest part of the community is cryptocurrency users so I know some of the sales are related to cryptocurrency swag and electronics. There are quite a few artists on there as well. I know one of the biggest sellers on the 1.0 version was a Dutch man who sold homemade waffles.
Well, aircraft avionics do not run Windows. Thankfully. Though some of the diagnostic and maintenance equipment almost certainly does. So there's probably a path for malware, though likely not mainstream Windows ransomware.
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Way to go, dude. It looks like BSM-SG is a thing (Basic Structures of Matter - Supergravitation Unified Theory), although you never bothered to clarify the acronym.

Here are some PDF documents that I was able to google:

http://www.helical-structures.org/Reports/Sarg_BSM-SG.pdf

http://www.sustz.com/journal/VolumeIII/Number3/Papers/Stoyan...

It’s not so much, that you come across as “omg so crazy” as much as you’re manner of delivering an explanation sounds like the quackery dreamt up by some fourteen-year-old kid writing a comic book.

The filaments are *only* located around the super
massive black hole in *every* well formed galaxy
(not globular clusters). They are the *hardest* and
*densest hard matter* in the universe. Everything we
know is *super soft* compared to *this stuff*. Our
hole[sic] star system is maybe a cubic centimeter of
this stuff.

If you take all the fragments of the fillaments and put
them together they build *a perfect hollow sphere* that
fits *perfectly* around the black hole. Another really
wired[sic] property: if you take a cube of it and cut
it in half, the mass of both parts will be more
then[sic] the mass of the original cube.

The way you phrase your awareness of concepts is cartoonish and laughable. You use grossly exaggerated adjectives the way some people stick out their butt to accentuate a fart.

Then you say this:

Sounds paradoxical at first, but once you understand
how Newtonian mass is derived and that it is basically
an surface property it makes sense.

That is like something I might read as a headline on the click-baitiest click bait headline in some ad-tech chum bucket.

Scientists figure out this one WEIRD trick!

Physicists HATE him!

Experts are baffled at how this could be true BUT IT WORKS!

Partly, your going for entertainment value, but then with a lack of decorum, you come off as a buffoon. It has nothing to do with how satisfactory you find the scientific principles to be, and everything to do with the effort you put into convincing others of facts, while projecting an air of credibility.

Is a little pretentiousness required, to lend appeal to your pitch? Maybe, but you’ll have to bite the bullet on that one.

Would you buy a used car from this man?
I've worked at a large company similar to Boeing. Our IT providers are the same (CSC). Backups are regimented and any virus activity is dealt via, as the tweet puts it, remediation. If a computer is detected as having a virus/suspicious activity, etc, it is carted off immediately and wiped (they possibly do forensics, dunno). The system is reimaged, backups are checked and restored.
Yes, this is probably the biggest issue, and mainstream media don't help by mostly publishing 'bad GMO' stories where no one hears of the hundreds of success stories (in fact you could apply that to most of the sciences)
What made Whatsapp popular is that it worked just like SMS. Users are identified by phone numbers, so you can use your existing contact list.

However unlike SMS it didn't cost eye-watering amounts of money to use. Whatsapp never became popular in the USA because most people on pay-monthly contracts received large SMS allowances.

In the rest of the world, networks felt threatened by SMS -- if texts were too cheap then people would stop making phone calls! So it was universally crippled with ridiculous limits and fees. Even in 2018 it costs me a lot of money to send an SMS, and I don't know anybody under the age of 35 who uses it.
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A blacksmith knows good and well that his newly forged hammer, meant for building and construction, is also used for destruction and despair.
Hmmm. I casted a local file today. Is this feature already live?
Really liked the work you put in!

And I love that everybody is so supportive of it, cheers to all you guys!
Still Processing - Those who enjoy watching movies and talking about tech and thinking one step further about cultural impact/ implications of how movies/ tech are portrayed.
I would happily buy such a device with cold hard cash, phone or tablet (or both!). I wonder how much more likely this would make devices easier to install alternate OS' on top of?
I'm wondering what the social network equivelant is to OpenBazaar? Is there one that's as easy to setup and use?
You're imagining reasonable behavior, but that's demonstrably not what's going on. We've all seen job ads that request more years of experience in a technology than the technology has existed.

These are just number made up on the spot by people who can't be bothered to think about it.
I agree that much of what he's showing does not need to be kept by Facebook or Google or whoever else and I've argued for strongly incentivizing companies to keep as little data as possible elsewhere. I just feel like he's presenting his material in a highly sensationalized manner with the express goal of stoking as much fear and outrage as possible among a less technically-inclined audience.

I suspect that restricting facial recognition in Facebook photos to friends of the photographer increases accuracy by a lot.
Yes. Market correction isn’t applicable in most US markets, which have either a broadband monopoly or duopoly for broadband service.