skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well name 1 other country that cab increase money supply the way FED does yet maintains the status of world's reserve currency? Luxembourg nobody cares on a global scale. Switzerland has extremely competent military and they are def. not in a position to manipulate the currency the way FED does and remain a viable financial center.
GR only works at large scales. It is still unclear how gravity at quantum scales should be modeled.
My barber has a location next to several ATMs. I cannot see imagine a situation where he would start accepting cards. I never see anyone come in for a haircut, ask if they take cards, and then walk out and not come back because they don’t.
None of that sounds like it fits a reasonable definition of “it’s a scam,” so much as it just doesn’t fit with your various ideological stances.
+1

Personally I use pass: https://www.passwordstore.org/
I was a bit sick a few weeks ago and spent some time throwing up in the bathroom (the flu is not fun). My 10-year-old 14-pound jack russell terrier mix stood in the door of the bathroom not facing/watching me but staring outwards. I obviously can't be sure of this, but, I choose to believe that she realized I was not feeling well and was in a vulnerable position and was protecting me. Going to miss that girl someday.
Asking this question on HN is probably not the most effective way to understand what "millennials" value, but I'll offer my anecdote.

My #1 priority is to have $10k in emergency savings. I guess that's my version of short-term savings.

Once I've hit $10k in liquid savings, I try to max out 401k and Roth IRA contributions. I am working towards having enough for a good down payment on a house by the time I am 30-32 (~10 years from now).
How to Improve Your Leadership Style
I think they are doing this with temporary loans. Our Maritime Museum in Sydney had a very good exhibition about the destruction of Pompeii. All the stuff there was on loan from some a couple maritime museums in Italy.

Though I would leave Britain off your list.
Any advice for dealing with Apple and app copyright infringement?
I created an Android app that was released on Google Play back in 2016 and it has garnered over a million installs. I recently found that a developer from Vietnam decompiled the app, changed the name, color scheme and made a few other cosmetic layout changes then released it on the iOS App Store.

After filing a claim with Apple the offending developer maintains they have never heard of my app and that there are several differences between the two apps. I have included documents and videos comparing the two apps. I also included a screenshot of their initial app description which was a word for word copy of our description trying to prove they are just lying about having never heard of my app.

It’s been about a month now and the offending developer still maintains they didn’t copy my code and hasn’t heard of my app. Apple has now responded 2-3 times telling the developer that the issue still isn’t resolved and that they should contact me to resolve the issue. The developer continues to release cosmetic updates every few days trying to make it visually look different, but the actual functionality is still identical and is still 95% using my code.

Does anybody have any experience dealing with Apple and these kinds of copyright infringement claims? What should I expect? Will they eventually help arbitrate or do I have to try something else?
No cash, no sale.

Privacy is a big deal to me. Plus downtime. Cash always works.

Handling it is sometimes a PITA, but I must say we have a long way to go before electronic systems work well universally.

Ordinary people are confused by them, and there are many janky, ultra cheapo type readers out there.

For me personally, I leave my mobile unconnected to any payment system. I don't need or want that.

I will and do use cards, but it is not very often.
$1000 for the Minion and 2 flow cells. $900 per flow cell after that[0]. For 30x coverage (standard) takes about 15 flow cells[1]. So looking at $12700 to DIY.

[0] https://store.nanoporetech.com/flowcells.html

[1] https://nanoporetech.com/about-us/news/human-genome-minion
I'd like to understand what reasoning one goes through to embark on such an illiberal path.

(Note: not arguing that they can't legally do it, obviously a private business is free to promote or hinder various messages on its own platform. I'm wondering about internal justifications, and logical consequences. Ethics and morals, in other words.)
While the end-of-life, security issues angle is a perfectly valid one I’m surprised this isn’t about accessibility.
I would imagine government websites should provide information in an accessible way which Flash definitely isn’t.
The recent HN post about the UK government moving from PDF to HTML[0] springs to mind as an example of a move in the right direction but given that it took a lawsuit to make laws publicly and freely accessible I think that isn’t a goal in US government somehow.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17541045
Odd, I'd have expected the term to be "metaphysicist."
To Ease Pain of Trump’s Trade War: $12B in Aid for Farmers
The bridge costs money, yes. This is also stated in their FAQ. If you don't like it, you're free not to use their services.

Show me the international contract of email providers that says all email providers need to give you free IMAP/SMTP access or IMAP/SMTP access at all. Even google doesn't give you IMAP/SMTP out of the box, you have to dig through the settings to enable that. I don't need this other than occasional backup via their bridge. I don't want a desktop mail client, I#ve been running Rainloop for about a year until I switch to PM and it still annoyed me to no end because frankly IMAP sucks. It sucks majorly.
I believe many of these companies have tried that, and have moved away from it - because it didn't work out, and they found having American developers was better. Hence the insourcing trend lately.
Not to mention the fact that collecting on an assassination "bet" is likely a prosecutable offense in most places.
It's not meant to disparage his talent. All of the stories of Woz before and after his crash seem to make it obvious that he didn't have the desire to be great businessman, he just wanted to be a geek. I doubt that he ever had to skill to be a great businessman.

Again that's not meant to be an insult either. I personally have no desire to start a business or even be in management. Software development provides me with the comfortable balance of not disliking what I do, it's not stressful and it pays me well enough to be more than just comfortable.
A little more information:

http://www.marcsandersfoundation.org/about/the-founder/
Correct. POSIX time is defined as number of seconds per (non-leapsecond) day times number of complete day since the epoch, plus the number of seconds in the current day.

POSIX timestamps get weird around leap seconds. Time stamps get repeated, subtraction returns incorrect results, and so on.
She is criticizing a subset of the theoretical physics community, not the experiments.
Google Play music has very listenable curation now. So worth it.
I don't know how you come to this conclusion. I assume you mean the American Heart Association, whose grants are pretty incredibly competitive. Lots of good science doesn't get funded.
>Then your book is flawed and doesn't align with the actual definitions of "scam" and "email provider". Especially for the former, there's a much higher bar, and your arguments are far from meeting it.

Let's define the requirements for the former, then. If someone claims to offer a service they don't, is that a scam? I think so. Now if we can justify the, by your own admission, weaker requirements for calling Protonmail "not an email provider", we've established they're a scam.

An "email provider" that doesn't provide IMAP and SMTP isn't an email provider any more than Facebook's proprietary "free internet but only on Facebook" is "internet service".
I agree 23 and me database is valuable but more for the second reason

I think the 23 and me data is not sequencing data but genotype data. So it only looks at a certain type of mutation in a limited set of ~500k known mutations. I may be wrong so please correct me if so. So you won't find as many rare mutations in this data, or non-SNP mutations. Also I don't think they have robust clinical data for all subjects, it's just self reported. Again I may be wrong, I haven't done a 23 and me

This is a big deal for drug development. Each drug basically targets one protein. So you need a genetic marker that has a large effect size and is well correlated with a clinical phenotype. Not having clinical data is a big issue here. Also, 23 and mes database is not designed to find large effect size mutations -- their advantage is scale, and I think they only measure known mutations, so they are good at picking up common mutations with small effect sizes in common disease. The depression study they did is a good example of this application

But that type of study is low value for drug dev. You want large effect sizes. So if you have a big dataset, you want to find rare mutations with large effect sizes that are linked to extreme phenotypes, not common mutations with low effect size linked to common phenotypes. Basically finding more PCSK9 type mutations. Having only genotype data rather than sequencing data really hurts here

That's why I much prefer something like the Regeneron Genetic Center to 23 and me. They get robust clinical data, do while exome sequencing, and collect data from targeted populations where signalnis easier to discover.

In fact GSK was part of the RGC consortium but dropped out, dunno why. This may be their "rebound" from that

Again my assumptions about 23andme may be off bc I haven't used their product
Try random play. It'll spin up a thematic playlist.
Number three I disagree with. Bisection depends on build (and test) always working on trunk.
Ask HN: Has anyone experienced workplace training that made a difference?
My friend in infosec was asked to review a app that is suppose to train people to identifying and eliminating bias in the workplace. It made me wonder if things like sexual harassment training, sensitivity training, inclusion training, and diversity training actually makes a difference in the workplace.
since you're a microbiologist : is the threat to health you describe that bad ? I mean, when I read you, it's Michael Crichton level dystopia stuff.
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True. Especially if you are an owner and cashier at the said business.

But no so if the cashier is your employee. Keeping track of all small deals and ensuring most of them reaches your bank account and not your employee pocket might appear even bigger problem.
I know some small dining places where profits 3x skyrocketed since they introduced cards payments (in such places most of the profit comes from small things with crazy margins, such as tea or coffee)
I second the C++ Primer suggestion. It was the book that made the pieces fit in my head.
It can’t though. Whenever the image is loaded, by default or otherwise, the image itself can act as a read receipt. That’s how most email services track opens. If the server downloads the image for you, then the server has to store the image to prevent you from accessing it directly from the host. That creates cache time discussions, storage quote discussions, etc.

Even if the image itself is proxied through a CDN, the time the image is accessed is still exposed.
This article does a pretty poor job of describing what rent-seeking is, and why it is bad, which is a shame.

I strongly encourage HNers who haven't already done so to read up on rent-seeking (aka rent-extraction).
Trial of Viagra on pregnant women stopped after 11 babies die
I voted for Trump in 2016 specifically because of this issue, and am glad to see he is following through on yet another one of his promises.

H1B sounds good in theory, and I'll admit is a valid system for a small percentage of talented employees and companies working on hard problems.

OTOH, big business and the body shops have ruined it for the rest of us. If there is indeed a talent shortage, the most short-sighted thing you could do as a nation is to import foreigners, depress wages, and make the industry as unattractive as possible for current students.

BTW, I've worked in India and seen how the game is played both here and there, so I'm not just the typical xenophobe who's crying about Der took er jerbs (as if that wasn't a valid thing to be angry about).

But I know that people from any other country would NOT tolerate training foreign workers from lower-COL nations as replacements for their own job, and Americans now need to push back, too. Enough is enough.
I'm not seeing how any of the emergency-manager bit is relevant to what I said. It's indisputably undemocratic. Some of them surely did some good things, but that's true about dictators as well.
It's fundamental research. What security issues are you talking about?
>Technical ability alone does not qualify one for an H1b visa. You need to be above and beyond what is able to be sourced in America. Specifically, the skills need to be so advanced that you cannot find any American workers to fill the job.

Can you source that?
Seconding this, since Flash is incompatible with most screen reading software used by the visually impaired, I think the legal requirements should be obvious.
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Chick-fil-A takes on Blue Apron with meal kit test
It's a modified Atom core, and is closer to the Xeon cores. It was the first to have the AVX-512 instruction set, followed by the Xeon.
oh man the formatting on this. i want to read! but the two columns are overlapping.

I increased .w0 width from 800px to 1000px,
And .x5 and .x6 padding-left from 400px to 460px.

Reading ok so far.

Ugggghh.
You get a device (like those in the pictures), which you then connect to your computer, and insert your debit card. When you do an online operation (e.g. bank transfer), the bank site requires the transaction to be digitally signed by your card (and which requires your PIN).
It's like asking why people still produce music when there are world class records out there.

Or why people still write books.

Teaching is a performance art as well.

That aside, as a graduate student I didn't have that much freedom (or didn't understand how much freedom I actually had) in making changes - and also, it was my first time as an instructor of record, so I was trying different approaches. If I teach again (currently I'm in the industry), I'll know how to direct my efforts better.
> why would ANYONE in their right mind give their DNA to a company in Silicon Valley that is explicitely using Google as a model for Data privacy ? (The founder of 23AndMe is the ex-wife of Google founder).

I don't think a former personal relationship indicates the respective companies operate the same way.

> Even worse, people are actually PAYING quite a lot to get the privilege of having that company playing with your most private data.

Paying for something is a good thing. Historically in the Valley, companies for whose services you do not pay money tend to abuse your data as they use it as a source to earn money. I think in general, companies take more care of your data if the contract is explicit: I pay you money for this service, and expect corresponding controls over my privacy. Now, I'm not saying it's the case at all companies, just that I think the trend you mention is reversed.

> This field needs to be heavily regulated.

I agree. We absolutely should have better laws, and people should be able to delete their data without question (and not have remnants stored). In the EU, that wouldn't fly.

Disclaimer: I worked at 23andMe.
I use Fidelity (in the US) because they have a TOTP implementation. Its unfortunately Symantec VIP and not Google Authenticator standard so I need yet another app, but it gives me some extra security and I am happy with it. PayPal can also use the same authenticator, in lieu of the known broken SMS.
I'm with you on this one. I know it probably wont outperform the market but i would like to own a piece just for my own enjoyment.

On the other side I've been in and out of Telsa multiple times in the last 2 years. I get swept up in the hype, make or lose money then come to my rational senses.
Angular 6 ngrx from 0 to expert
a) that's just for inference, you don't train with that.

b) a fully float-trained model "quantized" to int16 typically loses overall precision, but often works well enough. It's also usually faster (if implemented properly).

c) there's a version where you go all the way down to int1 (bits) and binary ops instead of addmuls on floats and ints. It can solve some problems. And properly compiled, it's wicked fast.
I agree searching up would be helpful, though, honestly, build tools and other engineers assume you're doing build actions in the project root, and as some of them fail mysteriously if you're not, I often write scripts to fail fast if they're run elsewhere.

Regarding "init", are you complaining that many commands will create a new virtualenv when really only one ought to? Automagically creating the virtualenv definitely seemed cool and modern to me... for about 3 minutes.
'The discourse is unhinged': how the media gets AI alarmingly wrong
https://www.forbes.com/sites/ewanspence/2016/02/03/android-p...
This would be blatantly illegal (especially with GDPR) and if exposed, would be the end of their company. (As security is their main focus)

I'm not using protonmail myself, but I'm sure they're not playing around with your data.
You shouldnt be downvoted for asking an honest question. I'd answer this by rephrasing it as "What's so bad about online advertising? All they're doing is showing me targeted products that are likely to interest me." Well now think of spyware, intrusive ads with sound, popups, etc.

The general answer is that medicine is supposed to help you. But advertisers aren't paid to help you. Theyre paid to get you to buy things. And all the trickery and marketing tactics aren't conducive to getting you the correct treatment.
> My understanding is that H1B isn't designed to expand the hiring pool but to fill a gap where the local pool is effectively 0.

Maybe that was the intent, but is that true in practice? My experience has been that it expands the hiring pool because most places simply want to hire the best skill they can get for the money.

Honestly, the idea that you're going to restrict H1B visas to scenarios where they couldn't hire an American first is very naive and misguided.

If American workers want to ensure their wages aren't being driven down, they have to abandon these antiquated policies that only benefit employers who want to hire cheap foreign workers because the policy artificially puts them at a disadvantage in the job market.

It's ironic that Americans think putting foreign workers at a disadvantage in the job market gives them an advantage. The truth is it ends up hurting them more because it's these policies that are the tools use to exploit foreign workers' situation. Why would you hire an American if you have the tools to hire and retain a foreigner who wants it more? If they have to find another sponsor, they're less likely to job hop or ask for a raise.
The insurance carrier has a conflict of interest. Over in Europe they have public bodies issuing treatment guidelines, but that would be a political impossibility in the US.
750 Liters would be a very large beverage! A typical keg of beer is only around 59 liters.
> Oh actually it has 4 cores, guess that changed with the newer chips.

Yup. That changed with the 8000-series. The current i3 chips are more like the previous generation's i5.

It's pretty nice because it means i3's are suitable for gaming.
They're not wrong on the poor UX. I have the Feitan BLE key, along with about three Yubico U2F keys (I'm paranoid about losing them).

You'd think you could wirelessly use the Bluetooth key with a laptop, but you can't. You need to connect a MicroUSB cord to the bottom of the key, plug it into your computer, and use it like you would a USB key.

While I could pair the key with my iPad and my Pixel phone, I couldn't with my Mac. So keeping the BLE key on my keychain rather than a USB version is kind of pointless, because I would need a cord lying around.

I keep the BLE key in a desk drawer for the purpose of authing my mobile devices as it's pretty much the only way to auth on iOS, and once you've used the key with Google's Smart Lock iOS app to add your Google account you don't need the key again. I don't take it anywhere with me.
yeah, i was going to say the same: i never had that issue in ~7y of python work.

nowadays, requirements + docker solves 99% of everything i do.

maybe it's because i'm not using numpy and the likes?
Thanks for saying so. He certainly had talent, and some of his visions turned out to be true. But imagine what he could have done if he were just as visionary and had been a good manager!

And let's also take a moment to imagine all of the people he harmed with his abusive ways. E.g. how many marriages foundered because people worked insane hours? How many kid-parent relationships were harmed? How many people burned out and left the industry, or never did as much as they could?
Most places put it at around 20% I am def off on the 40% figure. (might be the % of exports?)
This is not an assassination market, it's a prediction market, but it can well work as an assassination market. If an universally reviled person has an 1:2 bet against him, this would not incentivize killers to take the huge risks of an assassination only to double their money.

Instead, they would be incentivized to kill other persons for whom players are betting they will live. On the other hand, players know that, so they will never bet against an assassination, except in the case they really do want to lose, thus transferring their loses as payment to the assassin.
PS - part of the opposition to the LHC also was religious. Remember people objecting to humanity deliberately searching for the “God Particle”, aka Higgs Boson, which the LHC was specifically designed to find? Probably not the best word choice on the part of the scientific community, unless they were deliberately trying to troll the 20-30% of the population that treats religion literally. There were similar undercurrents reaching all the way up to Congress during the SSC’s life.
If you check the official government reports, you'll see it's actually the other way around.

2016 H-1Bs [1] -
398718 submitted with 53456 denied = 13% denial rate

2017 H-1Bs [2] -
403675 submitted with 37993 denied = 9% denial rate

So it looks like the denial rate has actually decreased.

[1] https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/USCIS/Resources/Re...

[2] https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/files/nativedocume...
One of the biggest benefits of off-site backup is stability. That's why something like a bank's safe-deposit box or my parent's firesafe are my preferred locations. A backup in your pocket is great until you lose your keys, your pants get a hole in the pocket, you get pushed into a pond, etc.
Can't project global power without 600 billion and god knows how much black budget money.

If anything the need to project influence is rising again in a way we haven't seen since the height of the soviet union. despite the rhetoric being thrown at other NATO members right now i fully expect the budget to swell again towards 700-750 over the next two terms
Tell HN: Take my idea: crowdsourced election ad creation platform
Donators submit small amounts of cash to reward the creation of the most viral election ads, with the most successful getting larger portions of the cash pool.

The objective being to make free, viral ads.

Could it work?