skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I've mentioned elsewhere in the thread that golden rice has yield problems, as do many GMO foods.

So do many non-GMO engineered crops where the trait that is the focus of optimization isn't yield, since a “yield problem” is deteemined by comparison to mainstream crops which are engineered for yield traits.

> That's partly because this kind of genetic modification isn't actually all that controlled

That's even more true of selective breeding, whether by traditional or more rapid modern means, so that's not a problem with GMOs compared to any real alternative, it's a problem of all existing methods compared to a hypothetical state where we have both perfect modelling to predict phenotypical effects of genetic changes and perfect ability to make arbitrary, error-free edits to genetic code. And even then we are stuck with the fact that some traits at inherently in conflict.
Dart is an incredible achievement in terms of type systems tech. Gilad is a major inspiration for me. Great guy.

Idk whose "side" I'm on here, but I didn't want to lose an opportunity to blurt out my love.

It's a shame dart is being managed by google. I wish they had been more hands off with the dart team, as they are deviating from server-side go so people can write mobile apps in dart. Even though they'll look almost exactly like C# apps but with better types...

Anyways yeah. Dart. Cool types. Good vm. Gilad is a cool guy.
It's not the shelter, it's Slate, and I'm starting to suspect there's an agenda behind it.
In practice this is not true at all. For example, I’ve been turned down for senior-level roles in the past, roles requiring deep experience and rigour, after doing weeks of difficult interviews and having a great rapport with the hiring manager and getting lots of positive feedback. The reason for not choosing me was, “we are looking for someone with less experience.”

It’s just a crap shoot in any given company. Behind the scenes you don’t know what the power stuggle is and how it shapes which people have the power to hire who they want vs. which people are commanded to minimize the budget at all costs. Other companies want senior level experience at junior level prices and are willing to leave headcount unfilled for years rather than pay conpetitively.

And the broader point is that jobs like what I described (where you gain meaningful experience from your actual work projects, rather than needing to pass some outrageous barrier of expertise to get hired only to do menial work that causes your skills to atrophy) doesn’t exist. It’s not a question of out-competing other candidates.
In the case of the opioid crisis, corporate issues are very much a part of it.

[1] https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1710756

[2] https://www.addictions.com/opiate/the-role-of-pharmaceutical...
Let's put it this way:

There is pretty compelling evidence that leaded gasoline reduces knocking in car engines, and that asbestos reduces fire deaths in buildings.

No one's debating the direct goal of fluoride- it's the externalities that make the matter controversial.
What I would really like is for JS to have a good macro system so I don't have to subscribe to the two caste hierarchy of language creator and language user.

Sweet.js [1] did it for me initially as cspjs[2] had async, await and more years before ... but I never found the time to ramp up to the updated version sadly so I can't comment on its state now.

[1] https://www.sweetjs.org/

[2] https://gitHub.com/srikumarks/cspjs
Interesting read. But I'm wondering: how do you _create_ a zip bomb? Do you first need to create a petabyte file? Or can you compute it or something?
I don't think I can make up my mind over small example. I don't think it is bad it is using patterns from React or Mobx as they are well known and it can help us think about development.

Syntax is not such that I am immediately sold, but also not put off. What I didn't see is some performance promise like Elm, or simplicity, where it make sense to use this over anything else.

I think it is good that a lot of people are thinking about languages and how to improve development, not everything has to be ground breaking. I will keep an eye for future work and how it develops.
I really enjoy the four orbs. You can listen to their podcast here:

http://fourorbs.org/episodes

I am not affiliated with them in any way.
mobx-state-tree is really neat and feels like the next step beyond redux. Not having to create explicit event names and 'action dispatchers' is a real boon to DRY. The only issue I've had is more to do with typescript and using mobx-state-tree plus react router... the type definitions and type error messages can get rather confusing to debug.
I like the european ancillary services model. In Switzerland for example (It's the one I know quite well), it's the TSO role to keep the grid stable; in this case Swissgrid.

Swissgrid then passes on the costs of this stabilization to the consumers.

This stabilization is made by 3 main services: primary, secondary, and tertiary control (the level indicates the response time: instantaneous, 10s, 15 min). Anyone can be a ancillary services operator if they are big enough (5MW of control), and if they respect certain rules (must be audited, etc.).

Then, when there is a need of control, a bid is created and the cheapest operators win the bid, effectively earning money (as a rule of thumb, you can earn ~20kCHF/year if you offer 1 MW of tertiary control power). It's much more for secondary.

This model effectively makes the industries want to stabilize the grid either by consuming more, or consuming less when there is a need of grid stabilization. I would really want to see how much tesla will earn with their site in belgium, because their marginal cost of control must be quite small.

PS: sorry for the english
The day I added an ad blocker (Adblock Plus, Ghostery and uBlock origin) was the day my CPU fans stopped spinning almost constantly, my battery life improved, web pages loaded faster and were more responsive.

My experience of the web is about a thousand times better than it used to be.

I will remove all these when the ad companies and websites start to behave themselves, which will be never.
False. GDPR is broad. Anyone running a non-trivial website needs to invest a non-trivial amount of time and energy into ensuring compliance.
Charity is a free market component. A person willingly chooses to donate time/money/effort to a specific group they like directly. If the government were to do it it would be person -> taxes -> different levels of government -> gov program. As you can imagine resources are burned up through the levels and because every party is so far removed from each other they don’t act with proper ownership. Nor do they care.
For all that cannot access both versions, keep in mind that the EU one is a vastly simpler UI, it almost looks like just a blog archive, while the US one is a more feature full typical newspaper homepage.
Not saying that either one is better, just that it's not an apple to apple comparison.
This is an inevitable consequence of globalization and conglomeration (especially of agriculture).
The categories are subjective but at the same time driven by a plethora of factors. The fact that TypeScript is developed by a large company means that it can overcome many barriers. Another factor is that the same company develops a new IDE (editor) in tandem; this means one of the most important parts of a language (tooling) is covered. A third factor of TypeScript is the many language features it offers. Fourth, the development pace is very high compared to most other projects. The "innovation factor" of TypeScript is combined quite high, as the "compile-to-readable-js", language features and tooling support combination is not achieved by many competitors.

Flow is a nice comparison as it is also backed by a large company. They don't offer a developed IDE in tandem, development pace is a lot lower and language features are not that many compared to TypeScript. The "innovation factor" is a lot lower - of the level I think it's not worth pouring resources into it.
i have often thought at what point do you start rendering web pages remotely and simply send back the (ie 'png') image to the client. A single png image of a entire web page is definitely under 5.2MB.

Personally, I can't wait for a shift in business practices. Ads have ruined my confidence in privacy. Most sites share your data with over a dozen different ad tracking vendors. I've seen twice that for a specific class of site, ie thechive.com.
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There was still a pretty easy line between "I take credit cards" and "I don't take credit cards". The rules for PCI drastically vary between company size too, in that compliance for small companies is pretty easy, and your responsibilities increase as you go. To this day, there are companies that don't take credit cards too (though usually its not to avoid PCI, heh).

But yes, once there's an industry of GDPR auditors, precedents in lawsuits, and the threshold for "Do not market explicitly to europeans" is obvious and well understood, this will be much easier.

And still, until the end of time, there will be companies that aren't GDPR compliant and don't work with EU customers. Maybe with the goal of doing so once they have more time and resources.
When I was a kid we had the whole set. I assume that it was something tied together with Britannica -- we had an early 60's set. I tried to read them but the font faces were so small that they were terrible reading copies. If memory serves, I remember really, really trying to read Moby Dick and Darwin (are they both on the list?) but the tiny type and terrible formatting defeated me.

More than 45 years later, I've read maybe 70% of the books in the list (maybe more), but all in different, more readable editions. Today almost everything I read is in epub, and pdf for technical and scientific papers.
People don't want this is in the US. At least I don't. I would be strongly opposed to it as GDPR violates the rights of a person to pay for a product through personalized, targeted advertising.
> or you don't provide it at all

This is the option they should take.
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Not eating for 16h-18h is not intermittent fasting for me, but how I've lived huge parts of my life. Lunch at noon or soon after, dinner before 8, nothing else. Didn't notice anything remotely pointing towards losing weight to a reasonable weight.
"They should do more" is absolutely an inappropriate response to philanthropy.
That is the idea. Increase the risk and arbitrary non viability of loopholes. No one will touch it so the only way to move forwards is minimal risk.
Would be really cool to have a list of before and after (size drop), due to GDPR in popular websites.
> not an apple to apple comparison.

Hm, what if you’re a reader looking for journalistic text articles, is the same content available on both?
The "visual noise" makes it clearer the me that it surrounds a block of text, so I don't buy this.

Double quotes are also the convention in english to delineate a literal, so I would argue it's more obvious.

I'll grant you keyboard presses though. There's an obvious advantage to single quotes here, but consider why this is the case. To make the use of "apostrophe" more efficient since it appears far more often than a double quote in english. I suppose it's pragmatic to leverage this advantage in code where string quoting is extremely common...

Perhaps double quoting is a bias I've developed writing code, but I suspect it's actually a bias I carried over from reading and writing english and what simply seemed more obvious.

Language design than supports both makes me crazy. Pick one and enforce it!
> Someone who wishes to abuse your API by sending large numbers of requests would then need to spend large amounts of time computing the work tokens.

Someone who wishes just to abuse your API with no intention to actually log in will just flood you with reams of requests to obtain new work tokens without executing any of them.

So you're back to regular rate limiting, etc.
Those are facts mixed with opinions. Amazon could be doing nothing for charity, or Bezos could be donating all his belongings and income and living on the shelter himself. Every position on that spectrum is the prerogative of Bezos himself and/or the board. Anything they choose to do is OK.
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And that just emphasises how much you'd rather not worry about user data or telling users about it. You have money to make off of it?
> It is on both the citizens of a place to vote for politicians who will make laws that makes it easier for restaurants to donate. A corporate giant like Amazon should take donations serioualy and carefully.

Non sequitur. Nobody is discussing legal risks. Just PR ones. If I own a restaurant, and donating produces negative press, problems I would not have had to deal with had I defaulted to not donating, I'm going to be incentivized against donating. This piece isn't designed to help, and it doesn't help.
>Ghostery

You surely aren't using it anymore, are you? They are now owned by an ad company.
who NEED ???? Are you kidding ??? Even without TARGETED ads, the world is still running, you know?? And if a startup business model is to make money by selling its user datas without telling them and without their consent.. well... let it die!!! And the world will be a better place...
> I attribute it to European jealously over american tech success. Hi tech success that flies in the face of their supposed social, cultural and moral superiority.

The EU isn't the US. This kind of misplaced pride is not a part of the culture in most of Europe.
Does the site degrade gracefully? What's the easiest way to train non technical users how to step through and configure each site they use?

While the technical people have ability to implement solutions. I suspect many are short on time. I think a VPN despite it's cost is a better solution for many (provide websites don't restore the js/bloated functionality)
If there was enough supplies for all 6 shelters and they were all delivered in one place, it is kind of strange since this was done by a delivery company. Plus, some supplies might have an expiration date?
The two caste hierarchy is my biggest issue with Golang. Macro capability exists in Golang, but only for the upper caste of language creators. It makes me feel like the language creators of Golang purposefully decide that users of the language aren’t smart.
Infinity war had an hour long intermission before anything started for me :(
>I would be strongly opposed to it as GDPR violates the rights of a person to pay for a product through personalized, targeted advertising.

How so? GDPR doesn't make personalized, targeted advertising illegal, rather it gives you (the targeted individual) the right to know how your data is being collected and sed, and to opt out of that collection if you want.

If you want to continue paying for content with your identity, fair enough, but not everyone does.
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Back in 2000 people used to do this sometimes (but with jpegs). Exports from MS Publisher seemed to the worst culprit. They used image maps for navigation (https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_map.asp).

edit Clearly this is a terrible idea, just to clear up any misattribution of intent.
Do you enjoy clicking links? Selecting text? Any interaction at all?
I block all js and it works just fine.
> Non sequitur. Nobody is discussing legal risks. Simply PR ones.

What? This is a legal concern! You brought it up and it is a major legal concern across nearly all of America!

> This piece isn't designed to help, and it doesn't help.

You are wrong. More people are aware of problems they weren't aware of before. That is usefuuand that is helpful.
That blog post is really, really worth reading.

"The Copenhagen Interpretation of Ethics says that when you observe or interact with a problem in any way, you can be blamed for it. At the very least, you are to blame for not doing more. Even if you don’t make the problem worse, even if you make it slightly better, the ethical burden of the problem falls on you as soon as you observe it. ... I don’t subscribe to this school of thought, but it seems pretty popular."
I'm not a regular USA today reader, but from a brief look it seems like in the EU version only the most recent ~30 articles are "reachable" by clicks from the home page.

p.s. the EU version is on it's own subdomain, maybe you can reach it from the US too: https://eu.usatoday.com/
>Seriously, if it takes longer to "buy a torch" in a game than in real life, you're doing it wrong.

The only "wrong way" to play a game is when people aren't having fun. If people in a D&D game are super into the mechanics and roleplay of torch-buying, as a DM I'm going to run them a torch-buying game. Hell, I'd build an entire campaign around the growth and tribulations of a torch buying player empire.
So after the 2013 bubble shouldn't you be buying like crazy? I maintain my claim :-)

Seriously though. Would you share your calculations?
Is the visitor's IP address still recorded in a web server access log? If so, does that need consent? I'm genuinely asking. I'm not a GDPR expert.
Lately, I've found using a VPS and setting up my own VPN is a bit cheaper (and safer? assuming you don't want anonymity).

Vultr has a $2.50 a month box with a few European locations. You only get 500gb of transfer per month on that size, but you can test the waters and size as per your needs. They even have an install script for OpenVPN if you don't want to go through that headache.

The only real downside is they limit you to 2 boxes at that size per account. Clearly just a loss leader for them (but it got me using their service).
> some supplies might have an expiration date?

Curiously, I saw no specific allegations of food getting spoiled.
It translates to 'worker', & the play came out shortly before the russian revolution, so it's clear that the subtext of the term in its original use is not merely a criticism of slavery but also a marxist criticism of the exploitation of the proletariat under industrial capitalism.

(Important to note that, just like in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep & Blade Runner, the 'robots' in R.U.R. are not mechanical devices but instead genetically engineered synthetic humans. That helps the metaphor a great deal: rather than being a pure 'other' whose behavior might be seen as a design error, it's simply a different breed or race of humans with different heredity that makes them convenient for othering, along with some argument about hereditary traits that supposedly make them more suited to hard labor.)
> It is cheaper to block the ads and tracking scripts.

The combined effort needed to produce and maintain huge lists of rules to hide ads everywhere is probably way above the one needed to setup a VPN.
So you're just against advertising.

That's fine but I don't think there is an alternative business model that doesn't rely on advertising to feed the current demand of entertainment. I hope I'm wrong and people like you who find advertising distasteful can have access to the wealths of society with some alternative form of funding
> You brought it up and it is a major legal concern across nearly all of America

What is the legal concern I brought up?
I’ve always loved David Mitchell’s take on Google’s motto:

“There’s something fishy about Google’s motto, “Don’t Be Evil.” I’m not saying it’s controversial but it makes you think, “Why bring that up? Why have you suddenly put the subject of being evil on the agenda?” It’s suspicious in the same way as Ukip constantly pointing out how racist they’re not”
> When Live was launched, journalists asked Zuckerberg about this exact topic and he would not believe the Live platform would be used in that way.

The other comments in this thread have discussed the "optimistic usage". Well, it's not really politically correct to say "yes, that's likely to happen, and we've implemented a bunch of fixes to deal with that", regardless of whether it had happened.

Deploying Hanlon's Razor, I'm thinking it was foreseen but not taken as seriously as it should have been.

The other possibility is that, it was foreseen, the reaction was expected, and the burning-towers-of-money-to-fix-all-the-things response is marketing at the end of the day to make the site seem responsibl{,y scalabl}e.
There is an example available on the page linked to there.
It's not necessarily any one aspect of the study, but all of the elements as a whole.

1. This is an observational study, not a double blind experiment. We know that these are basically garbage. In many cases it's unethical to do experiments, so observation is the best we have; that doesn't mean it's any good.

2. IQ pre puberty is highly volatile. The younger you test, the less your results correlate with eventual adult IQ.

It may be possible to add say 100x more participants to compensate for the 2nd point. You can't add more participants to fix the first point; blacklisting confounders just doesn't work except in exceptional cases (e.g. smoking and cancer).

The real way to do this study is

1. Double blind study instead of observation. This means along with everything they're already doing, they need to give the mothers a 16 year supply of water filters (presumably over time). Half of them would be inert.

2. Run the study until the kids are at least 16.

Yes, this is more expensive, but the knowledge per dollar gained would be infinitely higher.
In no way do the benefits outlined by OP even come close to outweighing the systemic risks posed by omnipresent surveillance coupled with precise targeting of individualized persuasive messaging with the intent of behavioral change.

The way targeted advertising is currently implemented is a mass violation of privacy and autonomy, a clear and present threat to democracy and liberty, and an indicator of the complete ethical collapse of the US tech sector.
> I have often thought at what point do you start rendering web pages remotely and simply send back the (ie 'png') image to the client.

Please never do that, unless you want your visitors to have the worst accessibility experience.
It’s Wierd that a lot of the complints are phrased “weren’t told”. It makes it sound suspeciusly like the shelter people didn’t even ask and are now complayning that Amazon did not work proactively to invalidate their wrongfull assumptions. Like “I can’t believe they didn’t tell us before we got there that there would be 40 crates today!? Yesterday was only 5!?”
If we where talking regular retail the first thing I would ask the person would be “Well did you ask them or just assume, if the latter then it’s your fault not theirs”.
The same goes for refrigerator space. If the shelter only has space for 30 crates, well then did they tell that to amazon? Or did they just tell them “we’ll take however much you’ve got!” Assuming that they would never get more than 30 crates? Then naturally amazon is expecting them to clear the 40 crates even if they means he shelter suddenly has to throw out 10, because that’s the deal they struck.

I mean a lot of their complaints really come off as them being horrible at logistics and communication and whining that Amazon isn’t fixing this for them, but they honestly can’t do that. Just like they can’t fire the bad employees or volunteers or purchase more refrigerators that they can’t even know they need.
I haven't signed up for an account or given them any data (and specifically made sure that I don't share usage or diagnostic data with them).

They are a German company very much covered by GDPR, so I think it's relatively safe to use the tool this way. I'd be happy to hear otherwise though.
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Because Microsoft were (are) evil, and they tried to market themselves as being different.

They are not.