skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We should encourage people with rare generic deceases to use fertility treatments that filters out particularly bad genes; or adopt children instead.

Where does it end? My Aunt had cancer. My father high blood pressure. I think one uncle on my estranged mothers family was quite mad.

Am I allowed to procreate? Who draws the line on what is an acceptable level of hereditary risk factors?
No doubt this publication will result in a crackdown. Good job EIA. Background on EIA @ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_Investigation_Ag...
To demonstrate what Shortcuts will be able to do, here's someone writing a C parser in Workflow (a predecessor to Shortcuts):

https://twitter.com/uroboro845/status/985169126871224321

(One of the replies is by Ari Weinstein, who is currently on the Siri Shortcuts team)
I'll need to think about this a lot more, but I agree Western spying is currently by far the lesser of the two evils.
Forcing people to do things because they were diagnosed will only make people avoid being diagnosed.
I think it's cute that you believe that the NSA's purpose is to protect American culture and values.
Too bad we will probably never know what it really was...

Just like with the celestial phenomena in Nuremberg 1561, and Basel 1566:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1561_celestial_phenomenon_ov...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1566_celestial_phenomenon_ov...
Exciting idea!
I think it's all of them. Their abilities are just far more rigid than what we are accustomed to. That mixed with the fact that Siri is a black box that requires query to gain a piece of knowledge. This is not how we are used to doing it. A lot of the information we bake-in to the ToM we have for someone or something is based on observing how they behave and interact with others, or simply by themselves. I see my nephew about twice a year, and even with his rapidly changing capacity I can usually pin down what things he is/isnt capable of in a matter of days. Siri on the other hand is in my pocket almost every minute of every day, and i feel like i know nothing about her.

Long story short, I think direct vocal query to gain one piece of rote information is a terribly inefficiant way to develop a ToM of someone/something. If Apple wants to bring siri to the next level they need to figure out a way for us to learn about her abilities passively. The catch however is that I dont want siri bugging me all the time, but maybe sparsely she could give me a popup that says "hey I can do that for you". Particularly if she has 'seen' me do it 100 times and think she could save me a few minutes of effort. That imo would be more game-changing than adding additional siri-api for developers, which will add a bunch more eastereggs that i will never discover.
I would like to see a few more details about how this actually worked.
A lot of people seem to mention Assistant Routines, but the major problem here is that it’s not available in a lot of countries outside the US (even not the UK..), meaning it’s not actually an alternative for the majority of the world.

The funny bit is though, that your Google Home will still recommend that you set up routines for things, except you just...can’t.

Since I don’t have it available myself, I cannot comment much on it, but while searching for why it wasn’t appearing in the Home app, I certainly didn’t get the impression that people are impressed by it :(
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To you what would make Gender Dysphoria a candidate for Euthanasia? The illness you listed is the same to some with Gender Dysphoria. I’ve known people with my illness who have committed suicide and they all communicated it’s like living in hell and feeling robbed of life. I think it comes down to your own perception being discriminatory based on your own personal opinion with disregarding pain not experienced of a certain life with an illness that people can’t imagine because it’s psychological.
Easy to pick on an open source project, suggest changes, but not actually make them on your OWN fork? Clickbait, gross.

Similar to linting, where often I need variation in rules, sometimes there's red herrings even in static code analysis.

Game software in general can be fly-by-the-wind because it's real-world software

... of course this is all me reacting and trying to argue with the clickbait :/
Can I post it in a weak project?
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According to the article, violent criminals, such as a "fugitive murder suspect", have been apprehended using facial recognition technology. It is not clearly dystopian to me to have a society where criminals are always caught -- it depends on whether the definition of "criminal" is good or if it just means someone who criticizes the government.
Firefox and the 4yr battle to have Google to treat it as a first-class citizen
This Medieval Death Bot Shares the Odd Ways People Used to Die
>If your domestic consumption base is large enough, you can ignore the issues that arise from being dependent on trade.

Some of those issues -- don't you still depend on trade for stuff you don't have? And I don't mean Armanis or exotic foreign fruit, but stuff like raw materials for your industries and such?
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Funny, in 2018 a lot of people are asking for 16-bit floats.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-precision_floating-point_...
Thank you. I'm emigrating from the UK soon and this is one of the many reasons why.
Literate Emacs config
Which is one of the reasons why CLOS is better than any of the bolted on object systems of scheme (coops, goops etc).

I really want to prefer CL, but I always end up trying to write scheme which kind of works, but quickly becomes weird.
The HTML version of Gmail works just fine without javascript. Which is funny because that's a webapp and the simple page websites that don't work could simply be a Word document usually.

https://support.google.com/mail/answer/15049
Ever heard of those pesky Daimler and Benz guys? Or that Otto dude? They weren't American :))))
Are Macs good for gaming? Testing every modern Mac available using real games
What modern tech product can you buy that isn't a potato which hasn't, at some stage in manufacture, been through China?
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Since there is a considerable risk of panic here, do you think that the rescuers will either pre-sedate the boys, or have sedatives on them to administer if they panic?

Is there any sedative available which calms you down without also reducing your cognitive/motor capabilities?
Why do you suppose they'd be less frustrated with OSMAnd?
The thing is "the West" doesn't control individual companies and AMD did it for "a much needed $293 million cash infusion."

Whether this is a good thing in general is debatable. As someone without ownership in AMD/INTC or the Chinese companies it doesn't matter much to me where my gadgets are made and I'm glad the Chinese are prosperous - I was there in the 80s and it was pretty grim then. On the other hand it boosts the military strength of what is something of a pushy big brother style dictatorship.
Nitrogen goes boom, like the most basic bomb is fuel/oil+fertilizer this should be pretty common knowledge especially considering how common were fertilizer bombs in the US.
I've read in some articles that there are no military divers specialized in cave diving. Experienced private cave divers are of more help here.
Xiaomi Mi A2: Les caractéristiques et sa date de sortie
The last time i tried Amaze i found the large logo in the sidebar irksome (especially as there was no way to hide the sidebar on a tablet), and it seemed to have trouble generating thumbnails when opening at a directory stuffed with photos or videos (it would generate a few, then stop, then pick up again once you scrolled, skipping 2-3 near where it last stopped etc).
Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but what's outdated there?

The correct solution remains `b ? "true" : "false"`, no?

If the XML spec requires exactly those strings, why do anything cute with `ToString`?
Im sorry, it wasn't meant as such.
Between 1937 and 1945 Japan invaded china massacring hundreds of thousands of civilians and joined a monster in his murderous crusade to take over the world in the hopes that some of the spoils would stick to their hands.

In the course of the war 50-80 million died. Their people consistently showed a lack of humanity and even basic decency. War crimes were common. They ate our gis.

In Unit 731 their biological warfare research unit they performed experiments as horrifying as Mengle on innocent chinese civilians and prisoners of war.

https://unit731.org/

These people were infected with biological agents and many were dissected screaming while they were alive.

The Japanese must ultimately be accountable for their leaders actions as we are. It would be morally wrong to kill unnecessarily but if blood had to be shed to stop the spread of evil I think it was just that it was the blood of the guilty.

I find it interesting that nationalists from your nation have convinced you Japan was winning they weren't they were being driven back and the war was coming to their shores.

They were by dint of inferior production capabilities and resources doomed to lose the war by the time the bombs were dropped although it is certain they would have fought furiously civilian and military alike.

The big question in fact is was dropping the bomb necessary or would it have been feasible to secure japans surrender without spending more blood from both sides than would be lost in the bombing.
The Linux support patch indicates it is equivalent to AMD's family 0x17 (Zen).
There is no stretch whatsoever. It is difficult to assess when and how much art contributes because it is an indirect motivation. If an opinion is censored, the ability to spread it via tags (or pieces) tells the viewer: do not despair, you are not alone in your viewpoint.
There are people who do cargo-cult programming.

They looks like doing something. They use the famous tool and write seemingly similar code we write. But it's not correct. It's not just correct, It's also wrong in all aspects. They don't understand anything. They just imitate the activities and believe it just work somehow.

When facing it, the only answer we can give them are:

> “Why are you doing this at all?”

or

> “Yuck, you’re doing it all wrong, but I won’t tell you why”

Because, these people don't want to learn in the hard way or listen to the advice anyway.

So the last advice,

> “can you produce a complete working minimal example, deploy it somewhere, set up an issue system, accept code reviews, feed my dog, and then maybe I’ll help”.

is actually a kind advice, because these cargo-cult programmers blindly believe that, they are doing it right, it should just work, and the reason it's not working right now is a very tiny trivial issue caused by one wrong setting or something.

Since they don't listen the honest advice(you're doing it wrong in everything) and believe it will work, let them fail and let them know they are doing it wrong is the most kind advice.
> If someone stays at FanDuel making $160k/yr + $0 in common stock options versus $350k/yr at Google, that's a shame.

That kind of position at Google is one of the hardest to get in the industry. While I wouldn't label this attitude as "toxic", the idea that people from any random startup can just go get a $350k job at Google if it fails is detrimental to this industry. I doubt most of those working for FanDuel (or anywhere else, really) could clear that bar. Not to mention, Google has a limited capacity to absorb people, so the more who apply the higher the bar gets.
Ask HN: AI to replicate gameplay
Watching https://youtu.be/vOfINKMPSCc I was wondering if there exist any attempts I'm not aware of to train AI to replicate a (video)recorded game by feeding the AIs output into an emulator - featuring the (inverse) difference between emulator output and video as fitness function...
No need for down votes. Yeah it’s interesting how psychology plays a role in us interacting with a voice assistant too. I don’t think Siri will ever be able to judge you on something.
Ancient Dog DNA Reveals Close Relationship with Contagious Cancer
I just noticed they deleted old accounts, one of the worst mistakes long-running sites can make.
Well, a so called former Thai Navy SEAL died during this rescue operation, so I guess they are.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/06/former-thai-na...
Why it matters if we become innumerate
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I'd happily burn a bridge with someone in HR that expected me to jump through hoops and draw pictures. Those people need to hear the truth, they are bad at their jobs.
AWS integration and everything that goes with it (scaling), Twitch.tv integration etc.

https://aws.amazon.com/lumberyard/details/
I would have guessed that such thing could have been caused by overconsumption of Ephedra
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephedra
>It definitely seems to be in a better spot than Windows' support for multiple appearances currently, if it has any.

It has had pretty much what Apple are implementing since Windows 10. Dark mode and a custom highlight colour that gets applied across the OS.

Of course like on MacOS developers have to be using the latest UI framework to take advantage of this which unfortunately on Windows developers are a fair bit slower on the uptake than on MacOS.

Then again, I don't expect to see much uptake on the Mac side either considering I can't remember the last time I installed a new app and it was a native AppKit(?) UI and not just an Electron app.
>But the lie was overcome by the efforts of countless dietary researchers employed at major institutions, so it was not at all a conspiracy of all the scientists.

It's never "a conspiracy of all the scientists". It doesn't take one either. You just need to spread enough of your own brand of "scientific results" to be able to sell to the public. It doesn't even have to be the most prestigious research -- you can pay to have the press releases appear in all kinds of magazines as "fact".

That's what the food industry has been done for ages with tons of research on the benefits of this or that ingredient, or promoting this or that kind of diet (depending on the manufacturer). It helps that those doing it are not just some regular food company making $100 million per year (and which doesn't have much clout), but huge conglomerates like Coca Cola, Nestle and co, that control a large part of the processed food market.

>That is quite the contrary of what the people who have declared war on science are claiming.

When people revolt against something, it's important to distinguish some general sentiment and its context, from what some of them might be literally saying.

A large mass movement can never articulate itself well -- they move in platitudes, often opt for the easiest slogans, and often have more people attached who are not the most representative, just the most vocal (and extreme).

Rosa Parks, for example, might have gone as "I should be able to sit in front of the bus", but the gesture actually meant "I want to be treated as equal, period".
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REALLY disappointed to read this about The Wirecutter.
Detailed BBC article about that accident and recovery, the same accident on which "Diving into the Unknown" is based: https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-36097300

Also recently on HN, "British divers at heart of Thai cave rescue among best in world": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17448311 (the British divers in the Thai cave rescue also attempted a recovery in the accident for Diving into the Unknown, and stopped because it was too difficult.)
The Long-Run Effects of Teacher Collective Bargaining
This is a fun exercise. Back in 1963, Fred Mosteller and David L. Wallace wrote a piece in the Journal of the American Statistical Association titled "Inference in an Authorship Problem: A comparative study of discrimination methods applied to the authorship of the disputed Federalist papers" [0]. It describes another technique for analyzing the authorship using a Bayesian model of word distributions.

One interesting thing about this is the claim that there is a ground truth for all but 12 of the papers, meaning that supervised learning could also be used.

For discussion, I often think that unsupervised methods are preferred to supervised methods, given a reasonably low error rate by the unsupervised method, as it will be able to generalize more readily.

[0] https://www.jstor.org/stable/2283270
The paper can be downloaded from https://www.aeaweb.org/conference/2018/preliminary/paper/ShD... . From the abstract:

"We find robust evidence that exposure to teacher collective bargaining laws worsens the future labor market outcomes of men: in the first 10 years after passage of a duty-to-bargain law, male earnings decline by $2,134 (or 3.93%) per year and hours worked decrease by 0.42 hours per week. The earnings estimates for men indicate that teacher collective bargaining reduces earnings by $213.8 billion in the US annually."
South Korea: The country that can’t slow down
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Code is not Enough
Advice I could have used last year. Thanks, it’s helpful now anyway if I ever get the chance again.
This actually makes sense. I’ve always found it much easier to read code in an editor directly and jump around to understand it. I see the appeal of literate programming. But it promises to be a debugging nightmare.
CFC-11 is an... odd choice of blowing agent. It's a liquid at room temperature and boils slightly above, compared with the majority of others I know of which are gases. But apparently it is used, here's an interesting read:

http://www.polymerjournals.com/pdfdownload/850527.pdf
Thanks. I wasn't thinking about it that way. Good point.

That said, the browser's impact on UX is essential. A lot more people use browsers than compilers. You'd think the UX would matter by now.
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Thanks a lot for newpipe, I loathe the YouTube app and its ads + tracking, so glad to have an alternative now!

Seconding adaway.
>yes, but that is most definitely NOT the point of the anti-science propaganda (moon landing is a hoax, chemtrails, flat earth, etc.++).

It's not its literal expression -- but it could very well be the point.

Those people don't opt for "moon landing is a hoax, chemtrails, flat earth" because of the inherent value in those propositions.

There's a sentimental reason behind that attachment, and it has more to do with a distrust in science and "all institutions" that stems from the damage they've seen them do, and the lies those can say that affect their daily life.

A subsequent attachment to e.g. "moon hoax" is an extreme way to express that. Like a kid who rebels against their parents and becomes e.g. a neo-nazi, or takes heroin, but their real problem is that their dad beats mom, or mom is a control freak, or whatever.

In other words, these people opt for things like the "moon hoax conspiracy" in the same way that a society under some big fear opts for movies that represent this fear metaphorically (e.g. the Godzilla movies in post-Hiroshima Japan, or the zombie movies in the US https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/10/31/13440402/... ).

But one has to see beyond the surface to actually understand these people (and of course some are just nuts).
Thanks for clearing that up. I should have said "relatively low tech." Also, as you noted, Ma Bell was The Phone Company. I'm not so sure Google is that silo'ed.
I'm sure that with a convoluted enough sequence of runaway fission it could be done, like if the newly formed clump ends up with reactors venting superheated gas along conveniently located fissures that provides the necessary torque.

Surely this doesn't make the theory significantly less plausible than the premise of a natural reactor being somehow inert enough to become a bomb before it burns itself apart?
True. All just belief.

Some believe in the West.

Some believe in China.

Some believe in neither.

Some believe in both.

Etc etc etc.

You'll be arguing back and forth forever if you're just arguing belief systems. It's not like math. You can't really ever "prove" one system is "right".
John Waller wrote a book about this 9 years ago which I thought was amazing:

https://iconbooks.com/ib-title/a-time-to-dance-a-time-to-die...

I don't know if anything new has come to light though.

A particular touching thing was that they made red shoes for the dancers, a known expensive colour, to show how much they valued them, but it didn't stop the dancing.

The film the Red Shoes was based on HC Anderson's story, which as far as I can tell has no connection with this dancing epidemic, just that his Dad was a shoe maker and had some spare red material...
Previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17484999

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11695498

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11692632
I understand why you feel bad about them, and certainly I would feel the same in the same situation, but it's hard not to admit that revealing bugs to the public is very often the only way to make coders pay attention. So even if their intention is only to squeeze money out of targeted companies, at the end of the day they force devs to eliminate bugs this way, or another. Which is good for users, I suppose.
>I am rather puzzled that you seem to be unaware of the various motivations involved.

I'm rather puzzled that you seem to stop at surface level motivations.
Thanks for me teaching me “navel gazing”, had to look that up :)

About your suggestion: I’d associate the Asian theatre with that...
Yeah, me too. Thought they were a legit site, and always checked them for 3-4 things I've bought they cover. Now I see them as any other site, to be read with a grain of salt.
Did Knuth use the feature?
> if you know that you need an SPA

The problem is that every site out there thinks they need one while in fact only 1% truly needs one.
highly technical rules

Like the number of voters?

I can't help feeling these complaints wouldn't have been made if the result was different.

I don't like Trump but it seems he did win.
That largely depends on the tasks. Putting down 2km of electrical cable each day is pretty boring, as much of new construction is, but troubleshooting why the ventilation stopped working at a restaurant and fixing it is pretty awesome.
I don't think it is really any different than debugging anything else. Literate programming, as i understand it, is basically done with a preprocessor (or two) that takes your "literare program" and spits out a human readable document and a machine readable source code. You debug the latter which is still the code you typed with the document bits stripped out, so it should map 1:1 to your literate program code.
To run an Alexa skill on iPhone you need to install the Alexa app and the Amazon app and use your Amazon app to handle the voice part. Then open the Alexa app to view the card. I hope I'm understanding the hype of the article correctly in that I can build a native app and use Siri to interact with it.
There is no east, there is no west. There are now only transnational corporate interests which view nation states as geographic monopolies to be both exploited and transcended.
Unfortunately not, but thanks for the tidbit on Noise (the crypto protocol).

We're open to integrating with best practices in a manner that makes the library more secure, and everyone happy.