skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the USA the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 explicitly prohibits discrimination on the basis of genetic information with respect to health insurance and employment. No one in politically powerful positions has seriously advocated for repealing the law. The insurance companies don't even dislike it because it creates a level playing field; since the market is competitive, even if they were allowed to price health insurance based on genetic risk factors it wouldn't necessarily allow them to earn higher profits.

https://www.eeoc.gov/laws/statutes/gina.cfm
I took it as the cost of just purchasing Yubikeys for everyone was less than the payroll and associated costs of developing the Authenticator app.

But I could either interpretation (or both) being correct.
1.1.1.1 for Your Organization
Man I wish this existed 8 months ago when I built our own version internally! We have a mix of Stripe and App Store customers so we'll definitely be switching (to remove our mental load) if you guys ever support that!

Best of luck.
Ooops, I tried so much to avoid using word "hard" for multiple meanings, and I failed.

What I wanted to say is that economics is a "soft science", in the same sense physics is "hard science". Also, that economics is a difficult science dealing with complex phenomena, in the same sense that physics is an easy science dealing with simple phenomena.
I am glad Steam works in Linux and something that useful was not blocked by the likes of you.

I think that having an open-source OS and whatever-source applications is having the best of both worlds.

Let me repeat that: the base system should be open, including all drivers, to level the playing field, but we also should be able to choose any solution in an open market, again, to get the best technology possible for us.

In other words, if I want to use some proprietary software, like I use Sublime Text, it does not affect you, and I don't think you can decide or limit in any way the software I can use.
I expect the paperwork you sign explicitly gives them unlimited rights to your data.
Some of these aspects are rapidly changing. Since a new player, Jio, entered the telco market a couple of years ago prices on prepaid subscriptions have dropped significantly. All the telcos have be forced to offer cheap monthly packages which easily contain over a gigabyte of data per day plus virtually unlimited calls and texts. This for a mere 2-4$ per month which many people actually can afford. With the unlimited calls to all operators there's no need for dual SIM cards any more. Telcos also offer their own video and music streaming services (such as Jio Music) which are included in the monthly plans, reducing the need to pirate music as storing them locally. With extensive 4G coverage and over a gigabyte of data, per day, there's little need to download everything.
I'm located in Montreal. Could that explain the difference?
Using SSM to Detect Memory Access Errors at Hardware Speeds on SPARC (2016)
> If we don't get people living and populating on other planets, the human species is doomed.

does it have to be a planet? what's wrong with space stations?
I understand it seems weird with hardware, but I think it's similar to how we charge for software.

Try this thought experiment:

1. Based on market analysis, Intel decides it could sell a part with hyperthreading for $1K, and one without for $500.

2. Engineers start building both chips.

3. Because the chips themselves cost little to make ($45 and $50 for non-HT vs HT let's say?), and it costs $10M of engineering time to design each chip, engineers realize it would actually be far more efficient to design one chip with hyperthreading, and disable it for the lower-end SKU.

I'm curious which part you object to in this sequence. The sale price of chips is mostly amortizing very high R&D costs, not unit distribution costs. There are a variety of different types of customers to serve with different price points, while designing different chips is expensive, so it ends up being logical to make one chip with different features enabled.

Software and web services are the ultimate expression of this kind of economics. It costs almost 0 to serve an additional customer, but a lot of R&D and operations to build it.

Would you call a web service "intentionally damaged" when they don't give you all features for the same price (or for free?)
Am I understanding this right? It didn't actually slow it down... it just didn't speed it up for those browsers when it added features to make it faster for Chrome?
Aside from us killing ourselves in myriad spectacular ways, the most looming threats are cosmic. The sun is on a timeline and asteroids hit planets with some measure of regularity. Any cosmic extinction-level event will render the bottom of the ocean just as inhospitable as the south of France or the Midwest US.

An ELE on Earth in the short term future wipes out the human race, full stop. The only thing that can continue our species is having that species on more than one rock in space.
This sounds like a great idea, but could it truly get implemented with all of the stifling HIPAA laws? Just being on the cloud seemed to be a red flag and no one has or probably ever will build a system that can't be hacked. But, if I was an old fart living somewhere like a nursing home, it would be a good idea to have my medical history ready so that when I crap my pants no one gives me the wrong drugs.
Similarly negative.
USB-C is not backward compatible to USB-A. There's no way to plug a USB-C key into a computer with only USB-A ports. If you need to work with both ports, USB-A is the only game in town. The C to A adapters are not compliant with USB-C spec (see Benson Leung) and are dangerous to use with your USB-C devices.
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What kind of compatibility are you thinking of? Running 32 bit code in 64 bit mode?
I think the case of HT is more pure "segmentation", and a little different. I bet most of the parts that ship with HT disabled have all threads working.

The number of transistors involved in HT are quite small. There are probably very few cores where one thread works and the other doesn't, compared to the number of CPUs that work or don't work because their cache or something more fundamental is screwed up by a defect.

I wouldn't be surprised if they don't even test for one thread working and the other not, and the "defeaturing" is a separate step after yield binning.
You could say pretty much the same thing about other cities, other states, other countries, other continents. Why did mankind leave Africa if they just repeated the same mistakes in Europe and Asia? Why did they leave Europe to go to the US if they just did the same thing over there? Why would someone leave New England and go west across America if they're just bringing the same thing?

All of that ignores, of course, that the culture of mankind evolved dramatically between and during those big migrations, and then again ignoring that Africa, Asia, Europe, and America all have wildly, wildly different belief systems, cultures, politics, and people.

Who is saying that we'd take our same problems to Mars? The kind of people who were willing to move from Europe to America were not the same kind of people who wanted support the system in Europe at the time, and the kind of people who want to move to Mars aren't going to be the same people who want to continue the same system we have on Earth.

"Fix our problems here"... but what if "here" is the problem? If the Pilgrims had stayed in England and the Netherlands, they wouldn't have been able to fix what they considered to be "the problem" no matter how hard they tried. It was only by starting a new life that they could solve their problems.
So you pay at the least around $300 a month to commute via GO train and then you need a car which is at the least another $500 when you factor in gas + insurance + lease. That's another $800 to your monthly expense and add commuting time to that.
The feeling of being relevant and contributing is a very powerful force. Its why people will take enhancers that help them win and place high in local 5K run races. Like it even matters, but to them it is everything. Worth cheating to get it they think. Something that has always helped me is knowing that cheaters can't lead, they can only follow. He'll need to steal credit from someone else to keep this "look" going.

So, for now ... I say to keep the peace - take it on the chin. Good learning experience for you. You did not properly credit yourself and made the way for this to happen. Note that you must be balanced in life too and not toot your horn too loudly. Have balance, allow others to succeed and get credit too. Maybe you saw the sample code on stack-overflow and refactored it. We all learn from others anyway.

The real problem here is the pat on the back from the boss, not the code itself which you saw as trivial anyway. Be aware of how this company operates. However, don't stop contributing! That will cause you to die inside. Your contributions are great and will help you to grow. So, no matter who gets the credit, keep doing it so that you'll be better off when you leave this place.
This is important (though I'm oddly yet to run into this issue with pip; I've only had conflicts with npm and composer before). Freezing dependency sources in Docker images and using (pip install --require-hashes -r requirements.txt) for development seems to cover everything.
If it was legally owned by the tribe it would still run into issues with violating local state laws for any loans issues outside of tribal territories.
This point you're making is pretty pedantic considering the OP clearly recognizes that funding for universal healthcare comes from somewhere, they say as much themselves.
> Not sure if this is just a cheaply made Feitian Key though rebranded for Google Cloud, or if it is a new product in itself.

The article implies otherwise:

"""
“It’s built with a secure element including firmware we built ourselves,” Google’s Rob Sadowski said. “It provides a ton of security with very little interaction and effort on the part of the user.”
"""
What a wonderful site.
A day in your life in the year 2000
Moon Could Have Been Habitable Once, Scientists Speculate
Are cats more risk averse than dogs? Or other animals? Is that why they lie indoors all day?

Is going to business school an indication of risk averseness?

None of this seems rooted in science. "A and B have correlation, and A is anecdotally known for a characteristic B is attributed to, but no definites folks, so make your own mind"
This is the cosmic equivalent of "laboratories of democracy"[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laboratories_of_democracy
Is this a genuinely bad decision? The spec makes a good job arguing why it's not.
Another worry is that there are already lots of companies willing to sell predictive indices for consumers. I could easily imagine "data laundering" where the genetic information is condensed, along with other social and demographic information, into risk indices which are not obviously labeled as containing genetic data. If an insurance company uses a vended solution like this, it would be harder to trace, and may introduce legal complications.
What about for Safari, anyone?
what a fascinating article! the bits about Unicode needing to be updated and also how their legacy systems were never updated for Heisei blew my mind. Great write up!
Thank you for this explanation, it gives me a better idea about Emacs' design.
From the fine article: "YouTube's Polymer redesign relies on the deprecated Shadow DOM v0 API only implemented in Chrome. You can restore YouTube's faster pre-Polymer design with this Firefox extension..."
You don't need rejection sampling, but you do need a loop. It is easier to see that a finite number of samples is not sufficient:

If you have only a probability distribution defined by a product space where all distinguishable events have probability p^i, for some finite i, then any subset of the distinguishable events accumulate to a probability r * p^i for some integral r. If your goal is a probability that is not an integral multiple of p^i, you are out of luck with a finite number of samples.
The new version uses new features which only Chrome has implemented. For IE it still serves the old version, but for FF and Edge, it serves the new version together with a compatibility layer that makes it slower. So they could have just served the old version, but they decided to serve a new, slow version instead.
The Book Is a Time Machine
It’s hard to critique a design that’s mostly hypothetical

I've seen one noted critic use the term "hardware fanfiction", which is completely awesome.
Google now has its own hardware security keys
Good point, I really should have said all the sh-isms.

Also, I think you're a dammed sinner for having a 1 indexed array but otherwise it's very neat :)
Even if you manage to create a self-sustaining space station, that's going to cap the number of viable residents pretty low unless it's truly massive. And I don't even want to think about the psychological toll of being one of the last few dozen humans orbiting a dead Earth.
1. The web client export been live since May IIRC, the support page just hasn't been updated yet. The main issue with that is that very few people want to export their encrypted blobs, they naturally want the plaintext. So we need a decryption layer on the client, hence the client-side tools.

2. I don't see the issue with the API. Yes, we developed a separate API, because IMAP is several decades old, ridiculously inefficient, and wasn't designed with encryption in mind. The paid restriction may be lifted once we complete certain infrastructure, one major reason it's there that we were concerned about bandwidth.

3. I agree, and we're pushing as hard as we can for this. The latest mobile releases were the first ones on our latest API, so that will help. That said, the web client IS open source and anyone can use that locally and see exactly how the client-server interaction is handled in our API.

Yes, it's monitored. I was notified of this problem today and will look into it.
I guess you could save up a few bits over repeated calls, but it can't help you always execute the first call with a single round of generation.
Thanks! Agreed on the cost/benefit.

Was mostly a fun project to prove out & build a new idea. No plan ahead for this, but always new projects in the pipeline!
This seems like a poor choice of technology rather than an outright nefarious decision. Polymer [0] uses the shadow dom api [1] extensively, but shadow dom v1 still isn't fully implemented across all vendors and shadow dom v0 is deprecated and slated for removal in April 2019 [2].

This feels more or less like some premature dogfooding of Polymer. It probably would've been advisable to serve the old version until modern non-Chrome browsers caught up, but Shadow DOM v1 will be implemented eventually so my guess is they made the decision to transition those users now.

[0] https://www.polymer-project.org/

[1] https://www.polymer-project.org/3.0/docs/devguide/shadow-dom

[2] https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/4507242028072960
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17611256
I believe there are services that will do whole genome seq for you for under $10k(and I assume won’t keep your data). You could then use Promethease for analysis.

I’m unaware of any way you could do self-DNA testing at home unless you wanted to spend $100k+ on equipment, reagents, etc. The Nanopore might be relevant but I haven’t looked into it much.
The Coinbase team has manually disabled my account without explanation -- I'm skeptical that removing / re-adding my bank account would re-enable my trading and transferring between coinbase / coinbase pro. I'm also not sure that I'd even be able to complete those actions given that things are disabled for me right now.
I started using pipenv and it seems everything just works fine, except that I can't really install wxPython with pipenv, but I can live with that.
Off the top of my head:

1. A lot of people come to a doctor with a specific prescription medication in mind based on ads alone and many doctors happily oblige and possibly even receive kickbacks from pharma.

How often is medication prescribed for a problem that could have been left alone? I suspect A LOT, based on how over-prescribed addictive and dangerous opiate painkillers are in USA.

We'll now be corralling those people not just on conditions they have, but also ones there is some research suggesting they are a higher risk to get. Maybe they'll even start taking something preemptively, because they have a 200% higher than average chance of developing a condition that affects 1 in 1M...

2. Once your genetic traits data gets to the adtech it's a matter of time before you'll see online gambling ads targeted based on research like this https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3638385/ and similar things

3. Negative targeting could also become a thing:

- how about you don't show health insurance ads based on genetic markers that can result in high coverage costs? or limiting your recruitment ads to potential employees that aren't likely to have or develop diabetes?

- just checking for lactose tolerance gene would exclude most of worlds non-white population - would that be OK? that same check could be used for medication ad targeting - wouldn't even have to extended dataset

I'm fairly sure I could get you a hundred examples how it could go terribly wrong if I had a couple hours.
HN has a pretty strong history of people posting their/other's projects, commercial or otherwise and getting feedback. So in a way, every Show HN is an advertisement. I don't believe this should be discouraged. I personally find the Show HN posts far more interesting and closer to HN roots than the typical tech/political news that dominates the front page these days.
The only thing I have against RISC-V is that I do not have a real RISC-V server up and running.

There is this 'SiFive unleashed'[1] but there could be something more real than that. I am ready to put down a lot of money on getting myself some real hardware. I am totally fed up with x86, its management engine and insanely bloated ISA. It is time for open hardware to take over my server closet.. and desktop.. and laptops.. and so on.

Now, not later!!!

[1]: https://www.crowdsupply.com/sifive/hifive-unleashed
No, because your charity would consist of giving money to other charities. That's easy to do directly.

Everyone else is talking about charities that actually do things, not just give money to other people to do things.
Okay but can we get a $12 billion farmer-style bailout?
All these benefits are indirectly the result of NASA funding for space exploration:

https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/techtransfer
For me at least, I like driving so I would probably spend 2 hours driving anyway. I listen to music or podcasts and destress before I get home. I really don't mind it.
Do you literally spend that much time in VR that you can't put it down to take a call or send a message?

Or do you need to be in contact that much that you can't be without them for the whatever time you spend in VR?

I don't have an issue with simply "I'd like to mirror the screen to my Vive". The rest reads like a rationalization so I won't say "whoop de shit".

It's a shame that the makers of the Vive don't include something like that.
Except if you have a usb-c laptop and that’s the only place you’re going to plug it in, then you probably want to be dongle-less.
Parasite found in cat feces may give people the courage to become entrepreneurs
Sounds cool. I would deploy it for our iOS app, but our subscriptions are finally working really well and there is too much risk that we’d break it. Maybe we’ll try it for our Android version when that gets built in a few months.
I want to see an internet without Google. I'm probably in a large minority though. But they are so awful.
I think it’s a bit different when the “other people” are subsidized by taxpayer money. I think the parent commenter would be certainly fine with other people doing the same, provided they’re not massaging government officials with luxuries.
Technology is actually one of the few things that definitely does trickle down.

Refrigeration, washing machines, cellular technology, farming tech, medicine & vaccines, all of these have had extreme impact on those at the bottom.

I'd recommend reading Enlightenment Now, an excellent book that really nails the positive effects that general scientific 'progress' has had on society as a whole.
"97% of respondents said they practice agile in their organization"

Yeah, they all SAY they practice agile, but a lot of them practice waterfall with agile naming conventions.
This is the one thing about the article that is a little off or misleading from my experience (which appropriately is in health care).

When you have this rent-seeking, it not only encourages unproductive business, but shuts down good ideas that would have worked if they were implementable.

The article seems to approach the problem as if there's these entrepreneurs sitting around trying to decide what to do, and then put their energy into unproductive but incentivized rent-seeking. I'm sure that happens, but just as often in my experience there are people who are in the right position to pursue good ideas, but are shut down, turned away, or whatever, because of the rent-seeking arrangements and regulation.

I also think this rent-seeking subtly influences perceptions of the public at large in such a way that ideas get scoffed at or go under the radar. It alters peoples' whole perspective on things, such that they never question the basic assumption of why the rent-seeking arrangement needs to be to begin with. This, in turn, can have consequences for how certain problems and solutions are approached.
Occupational licensing might be necessary for certain jobs but is ill-suited for other jobs.

Specially jobs like hairdressers requiring onerous regulations and training is just ridiculous.
Yes, I do.

Turing completeness means that instruction sets simply do not matter. In fact, you cannot buy a "native" x86 processor today. Every modern x86 processor actually has hardware to run some highly optimized microcode instruction set, plus an x86 emulator in software that runs on top.

ARM is the current viable alternative to x86. You could put an ARM chip in a desktop and it would be cheaper and faster than RISC-V for the foreseeable future. RISC-V is even more experimental than that and it has nothing to offer even in theory. The only standard for an ISA is performance. Any other features can and should be built on top.

I set the bozo bit on anyone crowing about RISC-V. Don't get me started on the Mill, it's just a shitty GPU.
Exactly. This jumped out immediately to me.
Anyone from Chrome/FF/Safari teams willing to implement this functionality into the default dev tools? It's super handy.
Serious:

Can I get an interest check on nootropics that come with toxoplasomis already included?
Protonmail's method of encryption allows them to encrypt the entire message, including headers/metadata. It also encrypts the messages received that weren't encrypted when they weren't first sent.

Your suggested method basically is no different from any other provider. You rely on the sender encrypting the message and header information is entirely unencrypted on the disk.
How can triangles shape our understanding of binary trees?