skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The DNA is changing real-time

We already knew this. DNA is a highly dynamic molecule, and it’s changing constantly, as it’s involved in biochemical processes in the cell. i-motifs aren’t special or new in this sense.
Cinnamon has matured quit a lot in the last years. You should give it another go.

I agree that Xfce is excellent. It's my go-to choice for any older/underpowered machines.
I'm really glad they caught the guy.

I am concerned about the way it happened.

They didn't match evidence to a person directly. They matched evidence to a DNA database to find the person. That sounds like the same thing, but it's not.

There was no warrant. The DNA database company did not know they were participating in a law enforcement case. There could be other people (unlikely but possible) that matched but weren't on file anywhere. People will start viewing such evidence as "Science!" instead of evidence like all the rest.

Finally, if this okay, we have an economics question. It cost the cops 40 or 50 bucks to catch a serial killer. Well-spent money in my book. But what if they could catch people for 10 bucks? Or a dollar? What if they could automatically collect samples and run them without any manual effort?

If this happens -- and I see no reason that it won't -- it won't be just serial killers. It'll be parking violations, trespassers, urban graffiti artists -- anybody that can leave DNA. And who's got the money to fight something like this over a traffic ticket if they get it wrong? People will just pay up or go to prison.

It's continuing the destruction of our human-powered, adversarial, community-approved justice system, replacing it with automation and faux certainty. Catching evil killers is awesome, but the rest of it doesn't seem like such a good future for my kids or grand-kids.
I would doubt this because from 1998 to 2008 Korea has had liberal presidents who had a policy of engagement towards North Korea and we didn't get peace in that time.

While getting rid of Park Geun-Hye certainly made this easier - I think this has more to do with Kim Jong Un and also the warm reception N. Korea got at the recent winter Olympics in South Korea.

That said I would be cautious how far this would go. I suspect a lot of N. Koreas militaristic acts and statements over the years is not because of any actual desire but war, but just posturing to help in negotiations over tariffs and aid.

I am also going to take the unpopular opinion and say that Trump does deserve some credit. Under many past Presidents, the N. Korean government knew America would never use military force and acted accordingly. Under Trump, they have good reason to be concerned about the possibility of military force and are taking a more cautious and reconciliatory approach. I think the North Koreans are well aware that militaristic posturing won't get them very far with Trump the way it did with past presidents.
SK has ongoing scandals, every admin. Their foreign minister, I imagine, knows SK politics, they are crediting the American administration for having this happen.
In case you are interested I actually used my own general purpose parsing library in TypeScript: https://github.com/cdiggins/myna-parser
Interestingly enough, in the US, for the specific case of nuclear weapons design information, you don't even have to download it for it to be illegal. This class of information ("Restricted Data" as defined by the Atomic Energy Act) is "born secret" - even if you write it yourself, you're not allowed to have it.

(It should be pointed out that it's not been shown that this would actually be upheld by the courts).
Why the world needs to regulate autonomous weapons
It's nice that you can afford to be picky, but Okcupid talked about this as well, iirc _any_ woman short of actual physical deformity will get plenty of suitors. Compare this to about 50% of men who will not get any at all. In pre-historic times, only 40% of males procreated (again, iirc)

So the flip side seems quite small.
Is it still worth it to do a PhD? Just wondering...
The animated chart is interesting. If you compare the migration of Europe vs Africa, Europe was much more linear, whereas Africa seems to go through a period of low mortality / high fertility. There are other factors such as war, migrations, diseases, etc, but everything else being equal that should mechanically result in the population exploding in the next 30 years, which is consistent with UN forecasts (population to roughly double over the next 30 years).
Creating a Human-friendly Workplace
There is a man living in China who makes YouTube videos from a Western perspective the channel name is ADVChina. In one video he visited India and said the big difference between India and China the obvious being India's ethnic diversity and religions. In China Communism pretty much wiped out religion and the people are more homogeneous than India.

And as mentioned in a comment above the first-world sections are mainly the large cities, the countryside is still essentially third-world conditions.

Plus recently it seems China has become very increasingly anti-Western, this man has lived there 12 years and has said recently a strong anti-Western vibe has begun to be noticeable.
My current emulator is quite a lot slower than other 8088 emulators, but still quicker than real-time - it gets about 12.9MHz on a 2.67GHz Core i7 920. There are probably quite a few more things that could be done to optimize it.

My "cooperative threading" consists of just having a "wait(n)" function which is called from the CPU Execution Unit emulator to emulate everything else for n cycles (i.e. the CPU Bus Interface Unit, the bus itself and everything else connected to it including the DMA controller and interrupt controller). That wait() function is the major bottleneck according to profiling, so if I modify it to do as little as possible (most of the time do very little other than increment a counter and compare to the top item in a priority queue) that would probably help a lot.

Thanks!
Good advice, thanks! I thought the link was enough, but I think showing the syntax right away will be very important.
I remember that one, it's 3GHz for perfect emulation of a SNES which had a <25 MHz CPU. https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2011/08/accuracy-takes-power-...
> If they had a particular suspect in mind and asked whether that suspect's DNA matched or not

They do. The suspect is a "John Doe." But the suspect's DNA is the physical sample they have in the rape kit. IANAL, but it sounds like it should pass the criteria for targeted search.
> My point is, these are technical achievements that provide seamless and intuitive user experiences, they aren't betrayal of trust.

You having put a lot of effort in this thread into weaving trust into your description of Dropbox operations, I'm surprised that you wouldn't trust an end user when they tell you that this in fact is a betrayal of their trust in Dropbox.
True, but I can see why they went for the 100% solution this time, which they couldn't finish for 18.04.
Looks more like a PHP JSON File writer and reader (with some extra stuff like nested properties) then a NoSQL Database.
To be useful, they'd of course need a solution for verifying authenticity of the input data. Otherwise, it's just noise and we already have historical examples of that design failing (such as "informants" handing over people to the US as terror suspects).
I don't disagree with your list but living in a fairly small town of 70,000 it seems odd to see so many people out.

You can add tourists to the list too.
Sorry it wasn't discoverable. The mesh, vector, and array library are built up from first principles. Take a look at: https://github.com/cdiggins/heron-language/tree/master/input
Oops. My only excuse, weak as it is. Is that I typed that on my phone. Fixing it now thanks.
> pinnacle of nature's great evolutionary process

> bunch of bastards to most life on Earth

seem almost synonymous, unfortunately.
Freepokiesland
Sexual Assault Aboard Aircraft, Mid-Flight
Which domain?
I don't mean to be rude, but I think you are missing the point. Please read my comment again.
down-voters can't handle the truth LOL

But don't worry. If you hate Trump, he'll be gone in 7 years.
> Every time I've needed to deviate from the Django Way of doing things, it's felt like I'm swimming upstream against a rapids.

I agree -- if you use Django, you have to do it the Django way. Flask is more flexible.
> And how'd that work out for the last however many presidents?

I was referring to raising children.
> an online trace

Maybe in the future leaked DNA sequence databases will be available, downloadable, and searchable by criminals without a third party. If so, this would actually be less likely to create evidence than following them.
In my opinion, I don't think it's the number itself that's illegal, but the metadata that you attach to it.

"11234349387298245791029384857" may or may not be an illegal number. Nobody cares and mathematicians can use it to their heart's content. That is, until I attach the metadata to it: "This number is the AES key embedded in every YthnVideo Disc Player". Now it's illegal. Number = legal. Number + metadata = illegal.

At least, that's how it should be.
At work, the workflow is largely this: developers hand-create resources in the DEV environment, get things working, work out kinks, then the DevOps team comes in and translates everything into their Terraform automation setup, and then deploys to other environments use Terraform.

Personally, when working in DEV, I do most of my work through the AWS Console, combined with some use of the AWS Java API. I rarely if ever use the AWS command line tools.
If you think that flirting can be mistaken as sexual harassment then that tells me you have no idea how to flirt.
I meant async logic. So that means things like worker threads and messaging. It's more of a limitation of Python as a language than anything else. As bad as NodeJS is, the fact that it's underpinned by an event loop makes it more powerful with async stuff. Golang is better, though a little funkier.
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Africa is developing infrastructure and cities, but it takes time. These we should do X before we do Y arguments really are tiresome. It is possible for the human race as a whole to both walk and chew gum at the same time.
> Explicit is better than implicit!

Only if you want DRY to mean "Do repeat yourself".
If all functions took (rax, rbx, rcx, ...) and you had loop statement that defrements rcx and jumps unless zero, then how would you write fib-function’s body?
Here's the published article: https://theblog.okcupid.com/your-looks-and-your-inbox-8715c0...

Basically, men rate women more along a bell curve, but mostly message the upper end of attractiveness, whereas women rate most men as ugly and then reply anyway.
If you go into your account, you can hit a button that says "remind me before renewing" and it will email you.
Original paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41557-018-0046-3

Full text PDF: https://paperpile.com/app/p/ce9c364d-416a-0ede-9233-adf31910...
But it wasn’t the suspect’s DNA it was his relative’s. Deleting your own information would not be a sufficient privacy measure in this case. It’s increasingly statistically likely that someone you’re a relative of will be in a DNA database, it’s simply not tractable to ask all of them to remove their DNA. And what about when some of these people die, can I take down my late grandma’s DNA.
The foreign minister is likely smart enough to fluff up the leader of their most critical ally, regardless of how much they feel he contributed internally, and especially when you know that specific foreign leader responds really well to praise.

Every country has their scandals, but let's not pretend this one didn't change the political landscape a bit when the leadership swung from one party to another.
I cannot be more happy.
Why is that small private companies are always paying big company cheats ?

Amazon, facebook and Google should be fined also
Hi, could you share a bit more the numbers on how you ended up with so little? In particular, what percentage did you initially have? What percentage did you have in the end? What was the liquidation factor? Was the business in general successful or did it have to accept compromises like raising with unfavorable conditions to survive?

I am at the 5th year in a growing startup where I was employee < 10 with initially 1.5% which became ~0.8% after 3 rounds of funding (~60M$) all at liquidation preference 1. The startup is now 150 employees and valued ~200M. Equity has been painfully exercised so I can both leave if needed, as well as her long term capital gain one day (or should I say capital loss?)

Thanks
I had meant to say "many" people---as in many people in my experience.

To me, it's not very surprising as in many countries your picture is customarily included in your curriculum vitae, and as Github is seen as a professional site akin to LinkedIn, people simply put up their pictures there as well.

This is anecdotal, but it's very rare for me to interact with someone on Github and have no idea as to their real name, gender, and face.

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I'll also add, there does seem to be cultural divide between us---as noted that you believe that people have to "feel a need" to add any information (photo/real name) that would show their gender when it isn't "necessary".

Whereas I feel that "real life" identification is the default, and pseudo-anonymity is a considered choice.
Are people willing to pay them commensurate to the extra work they will have to put in to do this?
Whereas eye-witness testimony is incredibly unreliable, but laypersons typically believe it to be accurate, the opposite is true with DNA forensic evidence. The public generally believes it to be infallible, when in reality it's not always that clear cut.

It should be regarded as another tool in the toolbox, not the be-all and end-all of criminal forensic investigation.
> seem almost synonymous, unfortunately.

This is what I disagree with. Evolution is not a process that is maximizing anything. What survives just survives. We got stuck in a feedback loop that optimized brain size for evolutionary fitness, but we're stuck in a tiny fractal corner of a corner of a corner of the entire space of biological life. E.g. Tardigrades (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tardigrade) are extremely successful at survival in a huge variety of conditions, and very stable over millions of years without a lot of genetic drift. Similar for cockroaches. We don't consider these "pinnacles" of evolution just because of our arbitrary value system. Yet cockroaches (and all insects, really) serve extremely important jobs in ecosystems which would collapse without them.

Humanism is blind and immoral, IMO.
Show HN: Pytorch implementation of seq2seq model with attention and pointer
This addresses a very particular type of entrepreneur, one that I built a lot of my early contracting business on. Someone who calls themselves the "idea person" but rarely gets their hands dirty. I have met many of them via elance, at useless networking events, or via referrals. I have never seen any succeed or change their mindset.

The 4-hour mindset becomes more useful when it's time to scale. The problem is an unwillingness to do "unscalable things" at early stages, which just comes down to being too lazy to be an entrepreneur.

Surprised there aren't more comments since I found this article very interesting.
Abba announce first new music since 1982
> Pretty much anyone building mid-to-high-end laptops must be livid.

Well those which put a premium on sleep/suspend autonomy, which for DDR4 is the big edge of LP. IIRC the "active" energy consumption of DDR4 was lowered to LP-level already.
When Patients Are Dying, Some Cancer Doctors Turn to Immunotherapy
Even assuming there was no intention (of which I'm skeptical), that doesn't mean users weren't misled anyway.
For those who are not francophones, there is also an English translation.
OpenEmulator, a little-known emulator for the Apple II, has an absolutely fantastic NTSC emulation, done with GPU shaders. I'm in the process of porting it to WebGL, so that (a) I and others can actually understand it, and (b) so that others can use it.
That foreign leaders have figured out praising Trump for things is a useful tactic isn't shocking.

edit: Downvote all you like. If you don't think foreign leaders interacting with the US have a "praise Trump for something" note on their briefings these days, I dunno what to tell you. Especially when you're as closely allied with the US as SK is. Playing to his ego is going to be a common tactic for anyone who wants something from the US.
U.S. Private-Sector Wages Lodge Biggest Gain Since 2008
Trump confronted Kim, which was different, whether you think that was rational or not really depends on whether you think that was dangerous or stupid or a reasonable response to someone threatening the US.
with most animals, it is the male that pursues and the female that chooses. i honestly cannot think of an exception to this pattern.
When I was writing a cycle-accurate 6502 emulation, I ported the transistor-level 6502 emulation to Go (which is what I wrote my emulator in), and then ran that and my emulation over the same test suites, checking that every load and store matched up exactly. Very useful.
> Most of the time that link has the answer I need, but every single time the conversation has violated some inane rule and has been shut down. Every single time. The rules are wrong, it is that simple.

Not 100% for me, but easily 30%. And you can almost taste the authoritarian arrogance dripping from the moderators words. I was disappointed this incredibly negative aspect of the site wasn't even mentioned in the post.
For an individual, the set of data those websites have on who matches you is around "Your total living relatives out to 6th cousin or so" * a ratio of people willing to use the site's services. That turns out to be a lot of people. And when you correlate that with data on where people live and where they lived at the time of a string of crimes, it turns out to be a lot of data.
Previous one didn't work, because I mixed up a0 and a1 pointers when subtracting.

But that gave me a new idea: copy pointer to d0 and complement the difference instead of addq, saving a1 register (+stack operations) and a move-instruction:

strlen: move.l %a0,-(%sp)
movl %a0, %d0 ;# d0 = a0;
slenloop: tst.b (%a0)+ ;# test *a0, post incr
bneb slenloop ;# loop if non-zero
sub.l %a0, %d0 ;# d0 = d0 - a0;
not.l %d0 ;# d0 = ~d0;
move.l (%sp)+,%a0
rts ;# d0 is the return value

Equivalent C-code (http://cpp.sh/2oecd):

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdint.h>

size_t strlen68k(char* a0) {
int zero_flag;
uintptr_t d0 = (uintptr_t) a0;
do {
// tstb (%a0)+
if (*a0 == 0)
zero_flag = 1;
else
zero_flag = 0;
a0++; // (%a0)+ (post increment)
} while(!zero_flag); // bneb slenloop
d0 = d0 - (uintptr_t) a0; // sub.l %a0, %d0
d0 = ~d0; // not.l %d0
return d0;
}

void strlen_test(char* str) {
printf("str \"%s\" length is %lu\n", str, strlen68k(str));
}

int main(void) {
strlen_test("");
strlen_test("a");
strlen_test("abcd");
return 0;
}

Again, untested, but I think it probably works. I guess this is also faster for all string lengths >0 as well.

This idea might not work on PDP-11 anymore, depending on how binary arithmetic is implemented.
This process of removing shrapnel and munitions from farmland is called the “iron harvest”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_harvest
Being a reasonable person, I don't see any reason I would care if someone has nude photos of myself, even if I was a child at the time the photos was taken. The photos are not harming me, nor will they be harmful to me in any sense other than random chance. I know there is a photo of me pissing into the sea when I was young, it doesn't bother me a bit.
I have one of his Blueprint for Armageddon episodes a try and couldn't get through it. Seemed very long winded and too much literary flourish.

Maybe I picked a wrong episode or need to give it another try.
>Usually this get's "fixed" by limiting the amount of messages men can send. But that doesn't really work.

Tinder has a bit of a mechanism for this: you can only right-swipe on 100 people per day (as an unpaid user). That helps limit the "shotgun" approach to an extent, though it's probably not enough.

I tried the shotgun approach for a very short time once on Tinder. I stopped soon after because I got so many matches from women that I just wasn't interested in or attracted to, and I felt really bad about popping up as a match for them, and then disappearing suddenly, which I've seen women complain about. (Plus I ran into that 100-person limit.)
So I only right-swipe for women I have some interest in now.
Your not taking about an inflation index thec, but a cost of living index. And they are not the same thing. There are many reasons the cost of living can change without a change in the currency, such as a change in the preference of goods or technological advancement in a particular field or price controls or regulation.

If you are going say "but the CPI does measure things that way" you are right. It has been well observed that the CPI had been looking more and more like a cost of living index for years (eg, the hedonics changes). This is why the GDP deflator is used more often to gauge inflation now, except it only come out quarterly with the GDP figures.
Strange, still works for me! Here's the actual ruling: http://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf?text=&doc...
It was memory, not CPU:

https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=comp.lang.ad...

"He went on to point out that they had calculated the
amount of memory the application would leak in the total possible flight time
for the missile and then doubled that number. [...] Since the missile
will explode when it hits it's target or at the end of it's flight, the
ultimate in garbage collection is performed without programmer intervention."
If only there were similarly breathless articles about the effective use of prophylactics. Otherwise, they're just going from the frying pan into the Malthusian fire.
This, so much. Jay Hanlon is the single worst thing that has happened to Stack Overflow, hands down. His relentless focus on inclusion is all form and no function: making things seem nicer, without addressing the actual painpoints experienced by all users, new or veteran. Those painpoints engender frustration and lead to the hostility that comes from both sides. For all his insistence on the primacy of people's feedback, he completely ignores and dismisses the concerns of existing, engaged users.

Whatever gains have come from the the means he has chosen come at the very real cost of the expertise that makes the site useful.

Eight, even six, years ago, when you clicked that link from Google to Stack, you got your answer, first time. Now you're lucky if you can find it among the broken code masquerading as a task-oriented question and copy-pasted answers that reply.
> And who's got the money to fight something like this over a traffic ticket if they get it wrong? People will just pay up or go to prison.

I don't know for you but I known many people who just fought their ticket just because they knew the cops wouldn't show up in court. Some of them did do the infraction too... You just multiplied the number of offense in an incredible way and believe they will have more time to fight them in court? Don't think so...

Also, if you leave enough DNA while doing any of theses activities, well you are doing something pretty wrong...
Because they all know the same thing: flattery works wonders on Trump.
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An end to the looming spectre of war seems like a gigantic benefit to the citizenry.
I'm sorry but this headline doesn't reflect the content of the article. (The linked article has the same headline.) The article is more about enabling VS Code extentions by workspace in order to keep VS Code fast. The current headline strikes me as clickbait.
You made me curious - I work at a company that does that.

As it turns out it appears to intercept everything except connections to major high street banks.