skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The way I look at it is simple.

The amount of money the content provider wants to make is price you pay + amount ads pay.

If you don’t like the content, don’t view it.

I removed AdBlock a few months ago because I’ve been talking the talk for a long time but I wanted to walk to the walk...

I take 5 seconds before watching a YouTube video, maybe 10 seconds for something unskippable, then watch 30 minutes to an hour of videos. Compare that to 30 minute tv slots with 22 minutes of content.

And it’s not been a big deal. At least to me.

What do a I care that Google is tracking my preferences? What would I have to pay for a product with the kind of investment Google Search, GMail and Youtube have alone? I’m not willing to pay that.

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But that’s me. If you have a problem with it, don’t visit the sites.

If you visit and disable Js and hide half the elements, you’re still consuming media from a content provider you don’t support.

You still incrementing the number of page views. You’re still clicking on that link and showing search engines that they’re relevant.

You’re supporting the content provider yet you apparently are not ok with how they fund their content?
That's what I thought. Just like making sure the phone doesn't connect to the internet so it can't be remotely wiped. I don't own an iPhone so I might be wrong but can't the cop just tape over the camera/sensor?
Just curious: what's the purpose of your post ?
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Started a new job and I've been working non-stop without any significant breaks for around 18 months as a full time developer. In this time, I've observed both my short and medium term memory progressively deteriorate. My ability to reason and focus on the issues at hand on day-to-day matters is also worryingly reduced. Like many of you I'm from an "Ivy league" background so generally expect to be on top mental form. Background: 30 yo single healthy male, regular gym goer, no drugs or alcohol on a regular basis. Is anyone in a similar position and have they taken any steps to address it?
Yes. Until Huawei started to lockdown the bootloader in recent phones!
If you want to buy my house, sure. You're free to look at anything you want once you own it. It's yours.

What's not okay is for me to build a house and add recording devices all around and then sell it to you without informing you. Using your house example, that's the most direct comparison and would 100% be illegal.

There's obviously a trade off most users are willing to make between privacy and functionality, but I do believe the exchange should be 100% in the open and a conscious decision made by the user.
It takes a lot to make me furious, but I'm furious.

These morons built an Air Force base with billions of hardware in hurricane territory, and were caught flat-footed by a hurricane because apparently there were no adequate plans for what to do when a hurricane approached?

Jesus christ. Those planes are irreplaceable. F-22 production has ceased, so it's not like they can order up some more. And considering the problems with the F-35s, those F-22s are some of the only capable 5th-gen fighters we're likely to have for a longggggggg time.

(I understand that most of the places were apparently evacuated, but it's tough to swallow any significant loss of those very expensive pieces of hardware due to inadequate planning)
Passed out at the office from pushing too hard... took a weekend off. I could never find that kind of drive to pursue a commercial endeavour.

Cure cancer? Maybe. Build a cute app? No thanks
so you prefer the type of employee who is willingly exploited and doesn't show the same level of loyalty as they can reasonably expect the company to show them?
Sounds like SIGKILL :')
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You need to encode for an ambiguous base call (N). So it’s really 3 bits, but you can play with the format to encode it slightly more efficiently.
"We fly our rockets from the military firing practice area ES D 139 in the Baltic Sea, 20 km east of of the Danish island of Bornholm. It spans 70×35 km, and are opened to us by the Royal Danish Navy for the launch time window. The Danish and Swedish authorities are very helpful, and close the airspace above for airtraffic in the hours of the actual launch."

https://copenhagensuborbitals.com/about-us/
Uh, "joint table" was the term used, not "table join". Pretty sure "joint table" in this context is referring to something like the intermediary table in a many-many relationship, which I can see being quite intuitive to create without knowing this weird term that I've never heard of before, either.
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He's not asking for freedom to look inside other people's phones, he's asking for the freedom to look inside his own phone.
At a minimum there were two additional symbols:

"N" for uNknown, where the raw sensor information - which should be a series of nice Gaussians[1 top] - was too ambiguous/low-quality for a useful basecall, but the presence of something can be inferred from the timing information[1 bottom, with "N"s in some bases]

An additional unused bit pattern was reserved for future emergency additions. It used the longest bit pattern so future additions wouldn't be balanced properly, but I wanted something simple, guaranteed binary-compatibility, that could handle a sudden change in requirements.

In some situations, a variation was used that included a few symbols for partial basecalls like "unknown purine" (A or G) and "unknown pyrimidine" (C or T).

[1] http://image.slidesharecdn.com/binoinfo-8-141021112354-conve...
A deterrent is "used" just by being deployed. The point of deterrence is to demonstrate that you have the capability, not necessarily putting it to use in combat.

Deterrence is a peacetime activity intended to preserve and extend peacetime as long as possible. One could argue that the fact that no two major powers have engaged in direct combat since ww2 is an existence proof of the power of deterrence.
The military doesn't deny climate change, and recognizes the security implications. Not everybody outside of HN is an idiot, try and leave your bubble once in a while.

https://dod.defense.gov/News/Article/Article/612710/
It might be, it might not be. 3 months down the line it could be like nothing has happened.

We've had sharp drops like this in the last couple of years, then 3 months later recovered.

Investors are getting jittery about interest rates, trade wars etc. It only takes a couple to start pulling out, for the rest to follow suit.
Usually, people who trade smarter than those who vote. So stock market is constant voting machine for expected future earnings, it's fair to say that indexes provide pretty accurate overview of economy.

With that in mind, if you look at SPY (US) and compare it with EWI (Italy) and EWP (Spain), you will see that Italy and Spain are not going anywhere since 2008 and US at that time made huge progress.

https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/fund/spy

https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/fund/ewi

https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/fund/ewp

Now, take a look at GDP of US:

https://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&...

And compare it with sad picture of Italy and Spain and Greece:

https://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&...

US has populists but their debt denominated in their own currency and on top of that US economy is very diverse and strong. US is much more business friendly than Italy, Spain and Greece. And their debt denominated in currency they can't print.

If you are anti-business and pro-welfare, then your business won't flourish and at the same time you will accumulate huge debt.
The source used in the music video: https://archive.org/details/sims_panspermia_1990
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I'm not only thinking about political bubbles here, but linguistic or cultural ones. For example, when I joined a server here, it was federated only with a few other small Japanese servers, resulting in a fairly miserable experience. Another set had multiple languages but was just devoted to art. It's incredibly difficult (or was a year ago) to find servers that are general purpose and federated with both Japanese and English servers.

It's actually kind of interesting that me mentioning bubbles resulted in an immediately political assumption; I guess it shows how out of touch I am with mainstream Twitter.
As a US-er I would cherish that boredom. Our politics are insane.
On a related note, I saw a video at the Pensacola Naval Air Museum of the USS Forrestal fire. Not a maintenance error, but an electrical anomaly caused a Zuni rocket on a McDonnell Douglas F-4B Phantom to fire, striking an external fuel tank of a A-4 Skyhawk. The flammable jet fuel spilled across the flight deck, ignited, and triggered a chain-reaction of explosions that killed 134 sailors and injured 161. Future Senator John McCain was on deck and barely escaped the flames.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967_USS_Forrestal_fire
Well, I got a good job by self teaching and having GitHub side projects, and the worst CV in history. So our anecdotes can cancel out here and we can throw this post and my comment in the bin.
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Any resources for learning rdb concepts? I'm not particularly skilled in the theory yet I'm sure I've (poorly?) reinvented many common patterns...
Quillette consistently publishes truthy and dishonest articles pushing a counter-progressive narrative; bullshit in its most exquisite, hand crafted, artisanal form: just the right mix of data and distortion to make it a pain in the ass to refute unless you roll up your sleeves and look at the data yourself.
Baryonic matter doesn’t have to be free neutrons, cold baryonic matter can be stable we have found it already just as we have found brown dwarfs there just isn’t enough of it to make up for the missing mass hence it’s not a likely candidate at this point.

PS Protons are also baryons and are stable.
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The B-2 has been used to great effect in its intended role for years. Similarly the F-22 is operational today. They’re both combat proven.

Geopolitical rivals have similar tech to the F-22 entering service.

You may disagree with the wars being fought but this tech does what it says on the tin.
An unexpected downside of oAuth rears its ugly head.
You can always ask Support and they'll happily migrate your data to a new account.
It's such hard work to develop with developers who don't appreciate why normalising A relational database is important

Worse is trying to improve a project where the diaster has already happened
While it isn't really straightforward, Spotify support will transfer all your songs, playlists, followers and if I recall correctly also your followed artists to a new account. Another possibility is for them to delete your old Facebook-linked account so you can create it again after which they'll also transfer all your old data.
It isn't an ideal solution but at least you won't have to worry about losing your collection.
I created my Facebook account with my parent's email address back in the day (when I turned 13). Today it has been completely unlinked, but Spotify is still connected with that old email account. There's no way to actually change that.
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It is widely rejected by many, and widely shared by many.
This is an open scientific debate. Both sides have strong arguments.
I don't know - I switched from Apache to NGINX because I preferred it's config formatting over writing XML when I stopped using things like CPanel. Many of the NGINX servers under my current role run the NGINX Lua module performing logic on over 1B requests per day. I do try to reduce dependency on modules, but that's not because it makes it too Apache-like, it's for simplicity's sake. If you don't want NGINX to have these features, don't compile it in, then boom. no longer bogged down.
Because the decay process will likely emit particles we can detect. Also if they are short lived we now need a mechanism which constantly generates which ever matter it is which is going to be complex since we don’t really have mechanisms that create matter (at least in any substantial amounts) in the universe other than the Big Bang.
Sure, can you hit me up at matt at domain?
> Understanding whether antimatter obeys the same laws of gravity as matter is an important step toward confirming whether decades of theory surrounding antimatter stand true.

The Economist recently covered the same experiment at CERN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18110857
One of the strengths of the type of interview questions you're scoffing at vs. Side projects is that the interviewer can be sure YOU actually did the work. A lot of side projects may show passion, but the interviewer isn't going to sit and figure out how much was a cry ally your work vs. Library and tutorial copypasta or consultants you may have paid. There's too much else to get done at a busy company.
That's not how it works. You're creating your own definition of what a market is or should be or how it works.
In this specific case it’s like I install recording devices... that locally search for faces to turn the lights on to each occupants preferred brightness.

It looks like it’s a convenience app for transportation.

I’m an Android developer and nothing mentioned is suspicious or obfuscated.

In fact, the fact he can get that list of functions he posted means they used less obfuscation than normal (they didn’t do the equivalent of minifying with Proguard, which most devs would say all production apps should)

The use of multiple services makes perfect sense, one app manages background communication instead of dozens of service apps making network calls when they feel like it (bad for battery life since the radio is always in a high power state).

I think this is a bit of an overreaction in this case.
I would like to know why some people stopped using Facebook claiming that the main reason is "the recent databreach". If you don't want to use Facebook for how they handle your data in the first place, it seems perfectly fine to me. But, the data breach exploiting 3 vulnerabilities seems to be bad luck, I don't really think they're not committed to security in that sense. I'd like to know opinions from others.
All MPEG standards have patents and this one is not an exception. If companies are interested they can license its use (assuming fair terms). This is far better than having proprietary formats which are locked or formats made by a single company which you don't know the patent situation clearly. Also, companies involved invested in the development of this standard and expect some return.

What I don't like in this post, is the call for non-adoption when the author has a competing format (CRAM) for which the patent situation and the performance is not clear. It seems a biased opinion.
It's hard with huffman given you need to deal with N. Realistically you'll end up with 3 bases at 2 bits, 1 and 3 and the other 3 being a prefix for everything else (N, ambiguity codes, etc), so somewhere averaging close to 2.3 bits is the norm.

If N is rare though, you're better off just doing blocks of 2-bit encoding and dropping to something more complex for the rare cases. Or of course just using an arithmetic / range / ANS coder.
Disagree. Being utterly cynical, climate change represents a huge economic opportunity. We've already seen the beginning of this as solar and wind displaces older energy sources, creating new economic opportunities. Likewise for electric cars, etc etc

Things will still be bleak for various species and the poor...but I expect climate change will make many immensely wealthy
You may want to go there though - I have no desire to at the moment, but I wouldn't want to predict 10 years out.

You are also reliant on Huawei not selling the data to a US actor, or your government compromising it.
We're hiring strong devs interested in crypto, and strongly prefer working code over other hiring indicators. Details in my comment history- reach out if you think you'd be a fit.
Dup: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18207194
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That's right - the Huffman tree was built based on the base frequency of use, which actually varies depending on what type of organism you're sequencing[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GC-content#Among-genome_variat...
I already unlinked my Spotfiy account from Facebook with this way: https://robblewis.me/convert-spotify-facebook-to-email-login...

No account migration of contacting support is needed. Just use your registered email account to reset (or in this case actually set) your account password and afterwards you can log in via your email+pw. Then in the Spotify preferences the button to disconnect Facebook becomes available.
In 1999 Italy was 7th, in 2017 it was 9th (world bank placing)

India and Brazil overtook it thanks to massive growth. That's not a problem for Italy directly. The US has changed from 29% of the world economy to 24% over the same period.

Relative numbers are slightly more concerning though.

Since 1999, Italy's gone from 3.8% of the economy to 2.3%, a much larger drop than the U.S.

In 1999 Italy's GDP was 56% that of Germany. In 2017 it was 52%.
France moves 81% to 75%
US moved from 13% to 10%

Italy was 96% larger than Spain in 1999, now it's only 48%. It was 81% larger than Canada, now it's only 17%.
If your local government attempts to use data against you, at least there's a legal framework to work within and fellow citizens who might be willing to take up your cause. There's not a lot of recourse against a foreign government using data to blackmail/access your company data/intimidate/disparage you.

Edit: I say foreign "government" instead of Huawei because of my interpretation of China's policies. If a company there has my information, it seems reasonable to me to assume their government does.
Exactly. Based on what already exists, my best guess is that it will actually be good after another 2 - 3 iterations of Moore's Law and another 10 years of software and hardware architecture improvements.
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I think I see what you mean now.

If you roll 20 dice and select the highest, the next time you throw that very same die it’ll probably have a lower value, simply as a consequence of outcome-dependent selection + a fixed probability. It’s not that the probability has changed, just that you didn’t choose the first outcome according to the true generating distribution.

Comparing this highest value with the highest value across all coins when you toss them all again a second time is a different matter. It’s no more likely to be lower than higher.

It's best to avoid using the term “luck” altogether in discussions of probability, since it’s easy to misinterpret.
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It really stinks that there are barely any new phones available for purchase with unlocked boot loaders... you have to rely on hacks to replace the software that rapes your privacy.
There is something off with the math equations here - [0]. Does Github render math equations? Or is there any reason they are written like that, maybe to export that to HTML/PDF with proper math rendering?

[0] - https://github.com/open-source-for-science/TensorFlow-Course...
Disclaimer - I am the author of the blog.

There are no "comparisons with" CRAM in the MPEG-G preprint, only comparison between CRAM and DeeZ, taken from the DeeZ paper. Those comparisons are fair and correct, but obviously were done at the time that paper was written - some 4 years ago. Since then CRAM has moved on (as has deez), but modern CRAM generally beats modern DeeZ if we restrict ourselves to the formats that permit random access (DeeZ has a higher compression non-random access mode).

So far there have been no direct data on how well MPEG-G does bar an old slide from a year ago; ISMB talk I think.

https://mpeg.chiariglione.org/sites/default/files/events/Mat...

From that we can glean some compression ratios at least. I attempted to compress the same data set with CRAM, but that data set, while public, is in FASTQ format instead of BAM. I asked for author of the talk how he had produced the BAM, but got no response. I tried my best stab at creating something similar, but it's not a satisfactory comparison yet.
Also regulation I’m not entirely sure how many countries would let you build what amounts to at least an intermediate range ballistic missile in the back yard.

I’m actually wondering how did they get by with the multiple missile technology non proliferation treaties out there.
How about "Anecdotes from adult women who were recently diagnosed with Autism"?
Wouldn't it be fantastic if it traveled that fast though! The benefit to computing would be enormous.
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Since the removal of the gold standard we seem to be in a wave amplification patter - higher highs and lower lows. Our most recent bubble has been described as a "bubble in everything"...so one could expect the bust to also impact every financial asset class.

In this case, there are no hedges and people are motivated to be even more risk prone (since they are assured of being wiped out in any asset class in the next bust).

This I find particularly scary...the fatalistic present embrace of high risk given the inability to find a future safehaven (i.e. enjoy today since you're surely fked tomorrow)

The preppers might be on to something...
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This doesn't seem to support actually exporting C-compatible functions.
> when the author has a competing format (CRAM)

It's more that CRAM is an incumbent format, developed by (different members of) the same genomics community that made the preceding BAM format in the same space. Both BAM and CRAM have been in common use in the field for 5+ years.

As the newcomer, the onus is on the MPEG-G proponents to compare its performance to the formats already in common use.
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If you're having trouble with the interview, you should invest some of your time in preparing for interviews. And yes, that might mean practicing algorithmic puzzles and brushing up on vocabulary that might have not mattered when you were building your side projects.

An interview isn't about what you know or can do, it's about getting the interviewer excited about you. Knowing how to do stuff helps that, but only if you can communicate it.

Side projects projects round out a resume and can get you in the door. They are not dead-weight.
more jobs than I can count

That won't hold up in tax court.

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OP: You are completely correct. Years ago I put together a website portfolio (pre-Github or anything similar) and was astonished to learn that approximately 0.00 percent of employers bothered to look at it. At the job I eventually landed I asked during the interview if they had looked at it. Nope. Absolutely baffling to me, but I suppose the problem is that side-projects are invariably outside the hiring process.

Everyone went to school, everyone has a work history, everyone has a behavioral profile, everyone can attempt algo questions, but only 1 percent of applicants have side projects. So how can that be judged consistently across candidates?
There’s an interesting paper mentioned: The DNA of Bacteria of the World Ocean and the Earth in Cosmic Dust at the International Space Station
https://www.hindawi.com/journals/tswj/2018/7360147/
Says it works for Mac too. I may give it a shot.
Consider the possibility that the same personality traits leading you to write this post and irrationally conclude your side projects harmed your chances of being hired come through in the interview process.

For all you know the side projects were the only reason they interviewed you at all, or caused significant debate among the interviewers who thought you were obviously qualified because of the projects but didn't like your attitude or communication skills.

Correlation != causation.