skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FTA: "It’s a lesson we’re destined to keep learning: Once you share something online, you can’t really ever unshare it."

Your genetic info is sort of like a trade secret in the USA, but without criminal sanctions when it's wrongfully appropriated.
Buffer can still post to Facebook pages and groups. But it’s starting to feel more expensive for what it offers as the APIs and analytics available keep shrinking.
Ask HN: Are we witnessing the rise of the dark mode?
Increasing number of apps/websites and even OS (macOS and Windows 10) are introducing dark interfaces. Is this just a fad or an natural change due to the increased screen time the humanity is facing?
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We also wouldn't have overpopulation of the scale that we do now. I agree though that the Haber process is one of the most impactful inventions ever
Flutter is exciting
Please don't take HN threads further into generic ideological arguments. By the time the discussion gets this generic, there's nothing left but flamewar. And it's always the same.

Also, re "you are saying", there's an HN guideline that asks you not to argue this way: "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize." That's because arguing this way consistently leads to more boring comments, and it's easy enough not to do if you remember the rule.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
What institution are you at? We've got plenty of weirdos here where I work. I'm one such person.
Try using Luke Smiths tool 'lb'
It doesn’t matter whose “fault” it is — the issue is the practical effect that will result. This is exactly his point with the SMTP and GitHub analogy from the “moving ecosystems” post. Why do you think the split would be “temporary”?

As long as “email” is a thing, as in “just send me an email”, and it’s a federated set of randomly updated servers, “email” will never have end-to-end encryption, because the first version of SMTP didn’t have it, and the user will still expect to send messages to a server running that version.

Similarly, if “Signal” is going to be a thing, as in “contact me on Signal”, the entire network effectively has to operate at the level of the least up-to-date server — otherwise it’s not one network, and the product is therefore unreliable. But there’s no way to enforce that all the federated servers update themselves in any amount of time.
This was already happening in 1994. I brought this issue up to my squadron commander regarding DNA samples the military was attempting to gather from everyone. He said, "What, are you afraid we are going to clone you?" To which I said, "No sir, you should be afraid if you cloned me." and we both had a chuckle because we both know I was right.

I explained that insurance companies had already been denying claims for people laid up in the hospital based on "pre existing risk" that they might be at risk for getting cancer or becoming an alcoholic.

He had me submit a FOIA request which bought me some time. It went all the way to Al Gore. I received boxes of paperwork that essentially amounted to "The Chief Medical Officer can decide what to do with DNA information and how it is managed." That bought me enough time to hit my four years and get out without having to challenge them in court. I never gave them any samples and I do not regret my actions.
Also: not allowing the expected `catch e::ErrorType` syntax leaves it open for a better design without breaking existing code which means it can be done in the 1.x timeframe instead of needing to wait until 2.0. This is why that syntax hasn't yet been added with the expected meaning.

Related: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/7026
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I don't know exactly what you referring to as nuance. Care to explain ?
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According to this website, the baseline for depression in America is 6.7%.

http://www.mentalhealthamerica.net/conditions/depression

1/3 is not normal at all.
Precisely, it's a ways of enforcing a standard via a framework. Far easier than setting a standard and trying to make everyone follow it.
Current populations are orders of magnitude higher than they were when the techniques you mentioned were used. This has nothing to do with western bias.
That's not what's happening right now, though. What's happening right now is that people are turning to less credible news sources and are growing increasingly misinformed. It means a guy like Alex Jones can't be run out of town even if what he's saying is complete nonsense, because he can always turn to the internet.

Plus, trolls funded by very well endowed state actors can now pretend to be among those "independent journalists" and completely muddy the waters.

Humanity doesn't always evolve for the better. The developed world lives in an unprecedented era of peace and prosperity, but don't make the mistake of believing that progress is the norm or that we've reached the end of history. It's possible to throw it all away with stupidity, propaganda, greed and infighting, and I have no doubt humanity is fully capable of reverting to that. In fact, given a long enough timeframe it's probably inevitable.
As an outsider, I'd like to see somewhere near the home page a few short snippets of code to get a feel for Julia and hopefully show the kind of uses for which it is a natural choice.

Nim's home page¹ shows a piece of sample code right at the top. Perl6's page² has a few tabs quickly showing some patterns it's good at. Golang³ has a dynamic interpreter prepopulated with a Hello World.

Julia's home page shows a nice feature list and links to docs to deep dive but it doesn't do a good job of selling it.

¹ https://nim-lang.org

² https://perl6.org

³ https://golang.org
> Your personal profile on Facebook is supposed to be a place to post your holiday photos, pictures of your kids, updates about events in your life etc, not mindless automated stuff like this.

Sure, but that doesn't mean you want it always entered on Facebook. When I post an Instagram photo, I'd like it to show up on Facebook as well (ironically, and totally as expected, this one will apparently still work). When I write a review on Goodreads, I'd like it to be reposted on Facebook automatically, without me having to copy-paste it. Etc.

This move is just further walling up Facebook's ecosystem.
If Apple hadn't come out with the iPhone there were a dozen other companies that were working on similar products and today we would have something else iPhone-ish. Without Steve Jobs the inventors of the iPhone, such as Tony Fadell, would have probably done similar work for some other CEO.
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You can use whatever start index you like: https://docs.julialang.org/en/stable/devdocs/offset-arrays/#...

For a pre-baked solution: https://github.com/JuliaArrays/OffsetArrays.jl
Dairy farming can be terrible for nitrogen runoff too. It’s a massive problem in NZ and between farming and urbanisation we have badly damaged a large portion of our waterways.
https://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/__data/assets/pdf_file/00...
It's interesting how contamination OCD seems to be one of the most relatable forms of OCD to those who aren't sufferers. I'm glad articles like this are being written (there are a few other good ones out there), but it's unfortunate that this subset of the disorder is the only one that gets attention.

There are hundreds of variations of OCD -- basically, a variation for each thing you might have a fear over -- as fear and anxiety are at the root of the behavior associated with OCD. If you can fear it, you can probably create an obsession over it.

Much like the author, I also suffered a "nervous breakdown" in my 20s (and I'm still in my 20s, so this wasn't that long ago...) and tried to get myself hospitalized for the sake of my immediate family, as taking care of somebody in that state is emotionally exhausting. Fortunately, I had terrible insurance at the time that didn't allow for "non-critical" inpatient hospitalization, so I ended up going back home. This ended up being the right decision, because as mentioned in the article, exposure therapy is the best way to treat OCD. Avoidance behaviors actually _reinforce_ the damn thing, only making you worse.

I've thought about writing in more depth about my particular form of OCD, which is a difficult one to treat as my compulsions are entirely mental (compulsions are just reassurance seeking behavior, and you'd be surprised at the mental gymnastics one can try to jump through to reassure themselves about a situation). I consider myself very fortunate for having lived in a city with one of the best OCD clinics in the country, as I went through a few months of clinicians and psychiatrists not really understanding what was happening to me, before ending up at the right place.

Writing about OCD is incredibly exhausting, because as many other people have related in this thread, even reading about OCD tends to be triggering to sufferers. Writing about it is basically saying, "hey, I don't mind exposing myself to old and new anxieties over and over and over, with the potential to make my next few weeks miserable", so the people that do it are admirable. Probably healthier for it, too, given it's basically therapy.

I can't imagine what it's like to write a novel, like John Green did with Turtles All The Way Down, while also being a sufferer. I'm sure medication must help. ;)
You can load the ROMs from IPFS... Is it piracy if you don't host them yourself?
That's why it's called Python 3 and not Python 2.x

Think about it like totally new language
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Because of the way that STEM is taught, free thinking is often discouraged, and the 'freaks' leave academia as soon as possible or become conformist. This is not a new thing, Einstein was mocked for his free thinking ideas.
I found it engaging at first, but I had to skip through all the ADHD rambling about chocolate fountains and oil wells and diabetes and OH LOOK HOW DISTRACTIBLE I AM. And then it got more reasonable again.
OpenAPS doesn't mean you never have to intervene, nor does it claim to. It does mean that the interventions needed are less frequent and more predictable. Ie, in the case of exercise--if it's only a small drop, shutting off basal is enough to counteract it, so it'll do that, and you don't have to do anything. If it's a larger drop, you need to eat carbs to counter it--and it'll send you a notification telling you how many carbs you need to eat, and this notification will typically come quite a bit earlier than the low-glucose alarm the CGMS will eventually send.
This isn't a college paper. I do not need to cite everything that I state. You can find these on search engines and youtube easily enough.
Step-by-step code execution on the Toshiba FlashAir SD card
Your claim contradicts both the article you linked to and the privacy policies of companies such as 23&Me and AncestryDNA per TFA.
You know every business model on Earth, or what?
Disney copied the concept and characters; the work was otherwise new. New footage, new acting, new sets, new ...

I find that decidedly different than a mix of grunts, breaths and comments over a video of someone playing through the entire experience.

You can make whatever _new_ works you like, with reasonable limits to protect the consent and safety of others. Go forth and be creative, _it's never been easier to do so_.
Am important note that no one has raised yet: this is NOT a discovery, this has been a very long running project, run between scientists and native peoples. The headline steamrolls the fact that this is absolutely not an accident, but the payoff on over a decade of research and hard work.

Shame on you, U.C.Davis. Your own article literally explains this, why the disingenuous headline?
Seems like a shit test. I've been in companies where the women were better at it than the men and perfectly able to stand their ground.

> Those who consider themselves “a bullshit free zone,” eg: masculine men will “ball bust” (read: shit test your ass a new one) quite relentlessly to determine “just how much of a man you are.” If you are an effeminate or timid man, you will feel bullied rather than challenged and this tells the group everything they need to know about you.

https://illimitablemen.com/2014/12/14/the-shit-test-encyclop...
OTOH news has been replaced by social media, which is cheaper. I do not see this demise as a bad thing. Diversity is a goal better achieved by individuals, not by a big number of large newspapers.

Also newspapers have been for a long time a business not particularly profitable on its sales, but on how its used to leverage other businesses. Failing Newspapers always find investors even if the biz is bad.
There's a simple anonymity hack, unless of course your relatives "out" you. I bought my 23andme kit from Amazon, then registered on 23andme website with a fake name. I have my results, but as far as 23andme are concerned I'm John Smith.
If you're concerned about security you don't use a smart phone and don't use your phone as a computing device. I know it's a lot to ask of people and so most will simply ignore the massive, unfixable (at least yet), security and privacy issues (ie, 5 years of your location 24 hours a day tracked, stored, and sold to whoever wants to pay).

But really, smart phones are bad. Even dumb cell phones are bad. And if you care about security you'll use a real computer without a closed, bug-ridden (an maybe even backdoor-ridden) baseband modem that can read/write to your entire user OS RAM.

All this bikeshedding about the minor security issues on top is a waste of time. That Signal requires a phone number to use is all you need to know. It's not secure.
TBH until yesterday when I saw the article I did not even notice the lightning bolt, my brain was automatically filtering it, and now that I know it similarly to you I probably will start skipping those links (similarly what I do with responses tagged as "Ad"). The reason for it is the same why I use uMatrix, I don't want to provide Google with more information about me.

So unless Google actually adjusts the ranking it is useless to get AMP. I wish though that many web sites would chill down with including so much of JS on their pages.
Yes. The world’s largest population is relying on an unsustainable economic model, under a political system that is not beholden to or representative of its people, propped up by western nations that aren’t going to need it anymore in a post-robotics and post-automation world.

That really should worry people more than it seems to.
Allowing anyone to use any software to access their banking data would allow them unprecedented abilities to automate, and attack.

I'm sorry if you don't feel that's adequate. Perhaps you should have a conversation with one of the many people that object to OpenBanking because it's far too permissive and they don't want the possibility of any third party getting their banking data, ever, oversight or not.
> I still have one terrible one but it doesn't let me talk about it or bad things will happen.

Fuck; you're being held hostage by a compulsion? That's tragic.
Given so many webpages have dynamic elements, piece of HTML/DOM that only pop up in edge cases (alerts like cookie notices, loading animations, confirmation dialogs) I would be very wary that a tool would be able to identify all the things that are really in use. To use effectively, I think you would need a test script that stepped through all the edge cases, and then you're depending on your test coverage being 100% (of at least triggering the possible DOM structures and style class configurations).
Islam has this same problem, I've seen countless articles over the years about some person or group issuing ridiculous fatwas that are taken seriously.
Changed from https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/business/2018/08/06/h....
Try to look at it from a user perspective, though. It's not a question of whose fault it is when something doesn't work, it simply doesn't work.

Signal is successful in large part because it provides complex functionality (secure messaging) in a package that "just works". Federation complicates that significantly.
You’re not counting the true cost here. It’s impossible to count.

The true cost would have to entail proportions of the human, social, monetary, and environmental investments in self-driving technology. Manufacturing labor abuse in China and other low-wage hardware sources, the labor issues at Tesla, the abuse scandals, including side effects and aftermath at Uber, techsploitation at large, raising rents in tech hub cities like Bay Area, SF, NYC, associated family separations, including homelessness and related social program ceilings, taxes not paid by these giant corporations fueling the “innovation”, privacy invasions by Google, of which the extents will never be known.

It’s amazing how limited tech workers tend to be when it comes to performing systemic analysis at the societal level.

At the end of the day, millions of people would have more security and stability and happiness in their lives without this pace of technological discovery. At the end of the day, there are some things that should take a higher priority. I’ll assert mutual dignity is one of them.
We've yet to see any useful and no-nonsense functionality from that sound boxes I suppose. All the functions available today, like "weather" or "play a song" are definitely done faster by the phone - and by hands, with no voice command at all.
> You see the same phenomenon in German, a language that's retained multiple forms of the second person. In German translations of the Bible, and in German prayers, God is addressed as "Du" (the familiar singular "you").

You also see it in the Latin Vulgate, where God is addressed as "tu" (singular), rather than "vos" (plural). My point is that the translation as "thou" was more-or-less a direct translation of the original text in almost all cases, preserving the distictions made in the Hebrew and Greek manuscripts. At the time those English translations were made, the choice was theologically neutral insofar as the original texts were theologically neutral.
Well, that's true of fossil fuel in general. There's a significant political and environmental cost, and those costs are both increasing. Oil fields belong to whomever owns the guns surrounding them, and the money goes to the kinds of social projects preferred by the kind of people who put guns around oil wells.
This won't help much. Evil Enemies of Freedom and US Way of Life will continue to hire low-paid workers in poor countries to post manually, with or without help of whatever Selenium/mbasic.facebook.com automation someone will promptly create.
So you can take that idea and compute a different result, does the speed of light imply a max separation (!!!). Assuming speed is linear with distance (just go with it so we can calculate it :-)), then that suggests a maximum size of the universe away from us!

It's not that much farther, 13.97 billion. (13.97 billion / 3.26 million * 70 = ~300km/sec).

But looking at the other posters comments, we could be moving away from someone at 2c, because if we were both moving at the speed of light in opposite directions the relative separation speed would be 2c, even though each is only moving at c in a different direction from an observer. Is that right? so maybe it's ~28 billion.
Not necessarily. You can have multiple insurances compete over the whole country.
That mirrors my experience with the matrix.org homeserver. It has not improved much over all the months.
> divides it among members by what you use most

The problem with this is that it assumes the value is proportionate to how much time you spend on something.

The value of good reporting is independent of the amount of time you spend reading the reporting.

That's why subscriptions make sense; you are supporting the company in a predictable fashion, which lets them have predictable amounts of resources, which ultimately supports the reporters doing the job.

I subscribe to the New York Times; and I'm happy to pay the same amount whether I read ten articles a month or one hundred. Why? Because I want to support the work they're doing. It's the same reason I subscribe to the Washington Post. It's also the same reason people should subscribe to their local newspapers. If nobody is reporting on local issues, then who is going to be keeping local government accountable?
> Because at the moment, stupid people can withdraw all their cash and throw it away, and nobody is there to prevent them from doing so.

This is not actually a real world problem though. If it were it would likely be addressed.

Why do so many people think only in theoretical extremes?
I’d be worried about the summer months too and not just the winters if this year is any guide.
> My hypothesis on manners is that the strictness of norms are proportional to hierarchicalness...

There is some truth to this, and the article touches on it in passing (of course, it's The Guardian, how could they miss the opportunity?)

But there's more to it than that. Certainly manners were circumscribed as a way of denoting hierarchy, and as a result those not on the top mocked the rules of their "betters", claiming that the rules existed only to exclude others.

However often the rules themselves had purpose, and in specific, hygienic ones. The use of cutlery, not sharing cutlery, separating food from the table with a plate etc were practices that reduced disease transmission. In this regard, democratization of manners would be better if some manners of the "uppers" were spread widely as opposed to being discarded. Of course other rules were designed to exclude others, and those ones should be (and many have been) chucked out. But it's worth being selective.
Google certainly doesn‘t need the Play services to do that. If you assume Google to be malicious in that way, no app on your Android phone can be secure.
Hoping that the degree will mask a lack of actual skills. I encounter this often, 'guy has phd but struggles with the decisions to make actual progress in practical terms'. Is it possible to attain a phd and rely mostly on rote memorization? Are all phd candidates required to make an original contribution to their respective field?
The Economist is good.
Norbert Wiener's book "Invention" is another on a similar topic. He argues that research should be driven more by the interests of individual researchers rather than managers and bureaucrats.
Important point from teh article that about half of the posts here seem to have missed - this is not about health insurance, but life insurance.

"while health insurers may not use or consider genetic test results when selling a policy, companies that sell life insurance, can."
That's really disappointing to hear. Dependency hell is what drove me away in 2016. I hope it clears up eventually.
Not giving all your metadata to Facebook (Messenger, WhatsApp) or Microsoft (Skype) for a start. The message may be e2e encrypted, but damn sure these companies are logging as much as possible about who's chatting with whom, when, & where each of them are, how much data is sent each time, etc.

Some people trust Moxie / OWS more than the others, and with good reason.
That doesn't change the heavy vs light oil problem, though (probably). Heavy oil is harder to pump, harder to handle, and more costly to refine.

The point of all this is that California's offshore fields aren't all that special, and they aren't "easy oil". If they were, any environmentalist resistance would have been defeated long ago.