skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe there's a transitive relationship between the environment before and during transcription and the resulting RNA that in turn can affect its environment. It would be difficult to identify in vivo because the environment is already synchronized with the changes that may have been introduced from the RNA, but in vitro maybe the effects of the altered RNA would become apparent in an unmodified environment. Vice versa, if you could measure enough samples of RNA from the same organism and source DNA I wonder if there'd be a quantifiable difference when the environment was subject to the same sort of changes that occur when memories are formed and an unmodified environment.

Really cool research!
I think it is important to curate it, but I applaud the idea. I would say; only allow people with over a certain karma score on HN (>1000)? That way you benefit from the quite strict moderation here.

But indeed I remember the days on vBulletin forums; all my remarks against ‘you cannot make friends over 30’ that I uttered here come from there: most my current friends and one of my best friends I met on forums. It just worked well.
Yet another good example of the saying "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law

I'm also reminded of a similar Chinese saying: 上有政策下有对策。 Loosely translated as "the higher-ups have policies, the lower-downs have antipolicies." The other analogy is squeezing a bag of water: if you push one place, another place pops out to compensate, and if you squeeze everywhere and too hard, it pops.
> Why don’t we just start a forum for the HN crowd?

So HN doesn't count?
Thanks!

As usual - the actual problem isn't reflected in "assume a perfectly spherical cow of uniform density" physics, or in the "Hey, I know a tiny bit about a related problem to this, I'll just extrapolate from there, WCPGW?" analysis.

I reach towards both those oversimplifications way to often.

Glad to see the guestimates/calculations I did bares at least an order-of-magnitude level of correctness. I _mostly_ do these quick calculations so I can rule out thinking harder about things that are 3 or 4 orders of magnitude away from possible.

"Yeah boss, we can do that, it'll take <scrible scrible, estimate, google, calculate, double check> something like $800k of Amazon resource per month, maybe only half a mil if we commit to 12 months up front. How much did you say we could sell this for? To how many customers?"
We ate them. Now we are the megafauna. Will we eat ourselves?
Dates That Don't Exist
> I suspect you've done a bit of steelmanning here.

Not deliberately, perhaps reflexively. It just seemed the most straightforward (and interesting) interpretation of the comment in question. I hadn't seen the other comments.

> I wonder, if one were to query the DB, what would show up in the "birthdate table" column?

As I understand it, what would show up in the "birthdate table" column is a table. You would have to do a select on that table to get actual data out, and in that select you'd get either zero or one row returned.
IRC is still alive and well, and honestly since so many have forgotten about it has become a much more tight knit community, depending on which ones you frequent... people should really try it out.

Don't forget your cloaks!

The real time nature, and the kind of people that hang out there, make it very worth it. I frequently get direct access to a dev on irc... you don't get that on twitter or a bug report.
It’s human not humane. We are cattle not puppies.
I wouldn't say XMPP did not change for 20 years, have you seen https://conversations.im/ ? Except voice / video (that I personally use rarely either way) I don't see any important modern feature missing.
Couple told 40-year-old pond near Butte Falls is illegal
Hookups and stargazing apps are not the sum total of human existence. It makes me deeply sad that anyone could even fathom having nothing to live for after such a shallow facsimile of experiencing life. There are so many amazing experiences in the world that even someone with no commitments and scads of money could barely scratch the surface of they lived a hundred years.
Haha. Mostly it is dozens, probably hundreds of little things over time when turning to the shell proved highly productive and effective. The shell is surprisingly really, really good at processing text (using the good 'ol unix tools), and it's amazing how often "text processing" type problems come up. Whether you are doing find/replace on source code, looking for where certain strings are used/defined, or curling some page and extracting data out of it, the shell can often provide very quickly and effectively. The bonus feature is that people are often very impressed when you whip out the shell skills and nail something they thought would be difficult.

I also started capturing most tasks as bash functions or aliases in my `~/.bashrc` file. This doubles as both a handy reference for me to look at later to remember how to do something, and automating simple things.
I'd like for millennials to comment on this.
Nice comment. I’m thinking that some technologies, if handled carelessly —— and we have been nothing if not careless —— merely recapitulate existing power structures.
Nurse dragged out of hospital, arrested for doing her job
John Carmack is a very specific kind of person. You should be asking if he'd spend that money today.
It seems to me (from a brief scan of the spec) that they actually are using 802.15.4 to establish the mesh at low-rate speeds, then switching to a different high-rate standard once the handshaking is complete.

Given the rate limitations of Thread (I'm assuming they're similar to the limitations of the underlying 802.15.4 standard), then it really isn't solving the same problem as this new specification, but are actually complementary.

Perhaps GP meant that existing high-rate mesh implementations are vendor-specific?
That's why I have private Tweets now and still use a pseudonym.
How Fortnite Captured Teens’ Hearts and Minds
I mean the 3 datacenters in Singapore
In addition to bash itself being widespread, most of the common "bashisms" are also supported by zsh and most variants of ksh (and many systems actually use some variant of ksh disguised as /bin/sh). This is unsurprising given that bash itself was originally meant to be a clone of ksh. The places where they differ tend to cluster around uncommon/newer features (like coprocesses), certain syntactic quirks (but if you're aware of them they're usually easy to work around), and interactive features (which are mostly irrelevant for scripts). If you're writing simple scripts (or you're writing complex ones in a careful way), you can reasonably "target" bash and expect them to work on other common shells.

If you're going to be distributing shell scripts, it's probably a good idea to test them on a handful of common shells anyway. If portability between shells isn't something you're worried about, it's exactly as reasonable to ask users to install bash as it is to ask them to install mksh or zsh (or even python or lua or whatever) anyway. If you're most comfortable with bash, just use bash!

But for the love of god and all that is holy, please don't write csh scripts ;)
The nodes on our existing social graphs are too large. I'll define a node in this case as a user's potential social graph over time. A naive social network that mitigates this is nextdoor. I say naive because the concept of a "neighborhood" on nextdoor results in a lot of bigotry and noisy neighbor effects. Kind of literally in this case.

But the idea of breaking down large nodes in favor of smaller nodes tied to the community in which a user resides is a decent idea. I speculate we'd see greater efficiency in self-regulation, too. It's not a silver bullet, of course. At least globalization tends to decrease cultural ignorance.

I'd wager global social networks are here to stay, but I think a powerful network could arise that focuses on more refined slices of the social graph.
Poll: More than half of Republicans would support postponing 2020 election
Hey, I thought Google invented flat! /s

Seriously though, Windows phones sucked for many reasons (including lack of exposed features in the OS, especially in first versions, and of course lack of apps in general), but UX wasn't one of them. I guess they failed in releasing too much of an MVP, and then not following through properly. I continue to claim that Microsoft had a great UX vision for mobile, and that they're the only one with an OS that can turn tablets from consumption devices into productive tools.
One of my colleagues used to be required to clock out for a toilet break, and I recall that there was a minimum time he would be docked pay for, even if his break was less than that. He worked for a supermarket.

My partner used to work for a business that had a swipe-in resolution of 15 minutes, so if you were just 30 seconds late, you would be docked 15 minutes of pay. You had to work the unpaid 14.5 minutes or you got your butt kicked out the door. That was a factory job.
Musk Says He’s ‘Flattening’ Tesla Structure with Defections Mounting
No. not compared to where we were.

Usenet was like every HN, phpBB, digg, slashdot, and reddit in one. I await those days again.
US Lawmakers Want Travelers to Tell Border Control About Bitcoin Assets
Haxe abstract types are distinct from abstract classes, but I need to learn more about dependent types.
Judge sentences Amish farmer to 6 years for selling herbal salve
Matrix[1] has an encryption scheme based on the Signal double-ratchet (which was based on the OTR scheme) called Olm, and is completely federated with an open standard. So you can run your modified version, and be the only person who keep a history of your conversations (only the homeservers that participate in a conversation store the chat history).

Matrix also has features like bridges to other chat systems, as well as a plethora of clients thanks to being an open standard (the most popular is Riot).

[1]: https://matrix.org/
I remember following that amazing accident. But as I recall, the turbine jumped up out of its vault, and that's what started the whole failure.

IIRC, the speed of a water-powered generator is regulated by the load on it. Take that load away, it spins faster and faster (think that's what happened to the other generators). So that one guy had to climb up to the top of the dam to close the gate.
Show HN: Reading the News with Google Cloud Platform
There's an excellent YouTube channel called The Bible Project that breaks down each book in the Bible, explores recurring themes, and explains the original meaning of certain translated words. Their Ecclesiastes videos is one of my favorites: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeUiuSK81-0

Here's another from them that answers "what exactly _is_ the Bible?" for anyone curious https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_CGP-12AE0
Lawsuit says Ohio jail officer pepper-sprayed man in restraints
I used that phrase because of a recent policy change by China where they will no longer be the place where the West "recycles" its plastic garbage. The plastic that people in the West clean diligently and sort into the recycle bin, in a kind of ritual of forgiveness for consumption, must now find another final resting place. I just did not believe other countries feel the need for the ritual of recycling yet. If they just get plastic into a landfill after use, that is all that is really necessary for the environment.

It would be almost impossible to calculate, but I would guess 98% of plastic reuse is an environmental net negative. Reduce and reuse. Then bury it. Maybe burning it for electricity generation would help if it would offset coal burning power plants.
i was taking walks just to listen to it! enjoy!
Exactly this. They just got old.

I started playing on the internet in 91, I used IRC mainly, it was exciting and fun talking with people around the world, not many people were on the internet..... to me it went down hill from there, it started being more of a tool with the various phases of new amusing things :)

other people started at various points and they would go through a similar thing, it's a great toy that slowly becomes a tool but you can still use it as a toy, but often less inclined to do so, mainly because the toy changes shape all the time and the way you originally played with it morphs into something else.
I was raped by Louisville police officers
Dealers of Lighting is great, and is good as an audiobook as well.
> all the personalized interesting content

Can you name a few topics? As a new user I can find any useful content.
Debit cards are nearly instant and quite cheap. There's no cryptocurrency on the planet that comes close. And good-old-fashioned cash scales practically infinitely.
>> you're searching for people with passion so you can get them to work unpaid overtime for you

I think companies are also expecting that 'people with passion' will be less impacted by the unavoidable organizational BS and garbage that pops up on occasion.

In my experience, the people with the greatest passion also turn out to be the biggest assholes and unnecessarily alienate their coworkers. Going with the carpentry example, imagine building a house with someone that insisted _everything_ be _perfectly_level_ and went around checking everyone's work every hour and reviewing their work.

Culture fit could more effectively be restated as emotional/social intelligence which a small subset of software engineers severely lack. Hiring an excellent engineer that doesn't enable other team members is a net loss for the organization.
I personally don't have a TV antenna plugged in[0]. I do however have my TV connected to my WiFi directly and an Android TV device (with Chromecast) plugged in.

I'm not the only person like this I imagine.

[0] This is mostly due to the inconvenience of a TV antenna, maybe partially related to where we position TV antennas in older homes and apartments before the TV became so big.
Maybe the traditional networks would make a decent comeback if they started producing view-worthy shows again. There was so much content actually worth watching and getting excited for one or two decades ago, now at most I’m looking forward to the next episode of Bob’s Burgers as far as domestic network shows are concerned. Anything else worth watching to me comes from Netflix or Amazon, or premium networks that are already preparing for the death of cable like HBO.

There just isn’t a modern day equivalent to ER, and THAT is why TV is dying (along with absurd price hikes).
I had a sort of similar idea a long time ago. I even came across a few that do something similar to what you are describing.
San Francisco to ban sales of vaping flavored liquid
In 5 years someone will write an article that "explains" how the three vertical dots/bars icons really symbolize a hamburger. This article will get popular. In 10 years, this will be a common misconception taught in professional books.
>Re: the semantic difference, my point is that whatever the semantics of this multiply are, it's not really "part of the language" in any deep sense -- it is just another function. Given that, the semantics of multiply is entirely irrelevant to questions about the semantics of the language.

Well but that's only half true. That's like saying that the semantics of `int` aren't relevant to JS because its just an object and you can implement it however you want. Except that strong vs. weak typing is quite literally a question of "what are the semantics of int in JS". You can't discuss weak vs. strong types without discussing the language's actual semantics, and not the semantics of some DSL you can defined on top of the language. They're all Turing complete.

>When you talk about "Strong types," what actually constitutes a type in this terminology?

The types that can be strong or not are exactly the same types that can be static or not. They're just two independent dimensions upon which a language can vary its semantics.

>I absolutely am not. The "static" in static typing very much means "before the entire program is run" not just a vague "early."

Fine, stop confusing "strong vs. weak typing" with "runtime type checking". Strong vs. weak typing is about coercion. Runtime type checking is about type checking.

I really think that thinking in terms of interfaces is the easiest way to conceptualize this. Object in js implements a whole host of interfaces that everything then inherits from. The same is untrue in python. This leads to implicit coercion according to those (wrongly implemented interfaces).

Much like you can consider dynamic typing to simply by static typing where every object is of type Any, you can consider weak typing in the limit to be strong typing where every object implements every interface (not, claims to, but actually does, for some value of actually). So these arguments about "well the implementations don't matter" don't hold water. The implementations (specifically of Object) are the difference.
Not everyone has rents that can rise.
He didn’t give police his iPhone pass code, so he got 180 days in jail
I do agree that it's a stretch to claim that it's ISA independent without much proof to show it. However, I have reviewed many architectures while designing it and made sure (up to my skill of course) that the design would fit as many architectures as possible. You may check the code base yourself, I'd be happy to be corrected and/or enlightened, after all, that's the beauty of open-source projects
You badge in to give the illusion of security and so they can track that you are in the building, in part for their own liability in case of an emergency ("Yes we accounted for Jim's whereabouts during the fire, he entered the building at 9:05."). You don't need to badge out because the magnetic strip likely automatically tells them when you left the building by virtue of walking through the door.
Sen. Ericksen to propose bill making ‘illegal protests’ a felony
This is pretty much how I felt as a long-time TF2 player super excited for Overwatch to come out, and then very sad once I realized what kind of game it was. You grab your friends and play Overwatch, while you play TF2 and meet your friends.

And also a parallel, TF2 obviously still exists, but all of the servers I used to play on are gone now.

Haven’t found anything else quite yet. FFXIV actually was super enjoyable from a community perspective, but I’m not super into MMOs.
There is also a lot of activism masquerading as science in the field of epigenetics, enough so that the journal Cell issued a warning about it: https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(14)00286-4
> I don't think relationships like that are really formed anymore.

nah they are. you have to get into really specialized discussion groups.
This is so dumb. Let’s punish companies for hiring high wage workers in our city. That will bode well. There are other ways to encourage and foster affordable housing than taxing your chief revenue garners.
Man carrying a sword, dressed as Joker arrested
I wish I had thought to cash out my hats before Overwatch came out :(
120F is the temperature at the tap. Your hot water tank should be hotter, and you should have a tempering/mixing valve at the tap.

And not at the dishwasher or washing machine.

> Far more people get scalded by tap/shower water that is too hot than contract legionnaires by several orders of magnitude.

First of all virtually no one actually sets their tank at 120F.

Second:

"It is estimated that Legionnaires' disease is the cause of between two and nine percent of pneumonia cases that are acquired outside of hospital." [1]

"There are an estimated 8,000 to 18,000 cases a year in the United States that require hospitalization for legionnaires" [1]

"11,028 scald burns in children younger than 3 years old annually." [2]

"8,620 visits per year among Adults Aged ≥65 Years" [3]

I don't have numbers for the full population, but your "several orders of magnitude" is clearly quite off. At best it's a single order of magnitude - and that's only because almost no one actually sets the temperature so low.

If they did the number would swing.

And don't forget the pneumonia rates. This is not some rare unheard of disease.

[1] doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(15)60078-2.

[2] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/276065254_Scald_bur...

[3] https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5836a1.htm
DA's office issued 'fake subpoenas' to pressure witnesses: report
I used to have a plethora of offline materials on my pc to delve into, if the internet was down or someone had to use the phone line; nowadays internet’s been shoved down our throats in many aspects that once there’s a network outage, the offline laptop seems useless, unfortunately for the wrong reasons...

PS: I think we’re all trying to relive bulletin boards days here in the comment section of HN.
It is also missing GNU Hurd.
The Student’s Dilemma: Conformity or Education
> if it pays more than I currently make consultin

FYI, you can always make more as a consultant if you don't count cost of medical care, taxes, etc.
Brian Krebs has written a number of pieces on travel fraud.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/11/thieves-cash-out-rewards...

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2012/01/flying-the-fraudster-ski...

>“The story is simple,” Jeferi explained in a discussion thread that spans five pages and includes questions from dozens of skeptical and interested members. “The thing is, you are thinking as a criminal. Think about yourself as a victim of an online scam. You saw an advertisement of a “Travel Agency” in the Internet, and it seemed interesting. So you contacted them through a forum and finally arranged a deal. The travel agency told you that the tickets were last-hour tickets and that they were affiliate with the airlines, so they could offer these kinds of prices, and you thought they were legit. OMG! I never thought it was going to be a scam! Bastards!”
I was trying to solve two problems.

The first problem is for people not on the spectrum to recognize that I wasn't trying to speak to the OP as if they were a simpleton. Because for a person not on the spectrum the implied requirement is obvious.

The second problem is a message to people like myself on the spectrum, "This is a new social rule to add to your matrix for interpreting behavior."

Eliminating the first paragraph entirely would have decreased the likelihood of creating the new rule in spectrum people while simultaneously seeming like I was being snarky to non-spectrum people. It's entirely probable that I failed in both my goals in spite of this.
I mean, I connect with the majority of my friends via Discord. I don't think I'd trade those experiences for anything.

I suppose that's not the same as Facebook.
Inhumane
Forums are still a thing. Maybe not as much as they used to be, but the communities are out there. I've met several people from IGN's forum. And I've heard of many meetups in subreddits.

I agree with you though. The Internet is not "special" like it used to be when it was new. Now it's just another normal everyday thing, like the radio and TV... And full of ads.
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> felt a greater sense of community 10 years ago when I mostly used IRC and PHP BBs.

that sense of community is present in smaller subreddits with subscribers in the low thousands
> How does water heater temperature below 140F increase the risk of getting legionnaires disease?

At 140F or above it's killed. Around 100F it thrives. It's one of the rare bacteria that do well in hot water, and is naturally found in our water supply (as opposed to exotic locales).
And what then? We can't have them rewriting, or even reinterpreting it, that would be a huge increase to their power. We can't have them just saying it's fine because if it were different it would be fine. It does matter how it was enacted and under whose authority. If we let that slide even a little bit, we'll immediately have power struggles between competing authorities. I doubt the people who wrote the law that is now being shot down would want the court operating differently, though they might not like the decision.