skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The creepiest bit is the GSK story: Where even if I've been careful to not use any genetic testing services, not granted anyone permission to access or use my medical data, etc., I'm still screwed because less privacy-oriented individuals in my family can effectively hand out "close enough" data for my genetic information.

Though honestly, DNA is probably the least worst data law enforcement could be using against me. It's reasonably accurate, and it requires they have actual physical evidence in a case they're investigating to compare against. While it's true I could've touched an object shortly before a killer did, it's very far from the dragnet approach of say... querying the identities of all cell phone users in a geographic area at a given time. If my identity pops up in a DNA search, it's reasonable that I will, at the very least, have useful data about the incident at hand.

I would like more protection though for search of these sorts of databases though. Searching a DNA database should require a warrant of some kind. For a judge to look at where the DNA was found and the circumstances of the case, and decide it's reasonable and warranted to conduct the search.
That's actually a pretty novel approach! Most often, I've seen people use external services for maillist management when they're trying to go fully static.

As long as your log parsing is up to snuff, I think it's a neat approach.
I'm curious - what does autotools / CMake actually give you? Personally, I find they generate awful Makefiles which are slow and aren't debuggable.
One could also argue that Leo Szilard did not grasp the political realities of his time.

Whatever the ethical considerations, negotiating with Japan was not an option after the massacres as reported by the US press.

Also a demonstration would have been more difficult to frame in terms of "it cost us $2B but we won the war without invading".
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Not in Silicon Valley where nearly every other car is an EV and riding bikes around here is close to suicide. On my commute from Mountain View to Cupertino, I see hundreds of Tesla’s and I am often the only electric scooter on the road.
We plan to they are on the list of things that will be looked at as part of project loom. It was originallly thought they would be closely related to continuations as they are both forms of non local return, but this hasn’t been the case so far.
Seems to be overwhelmed by traffic.
'It's an epidemic:' Inexpensive crystal meth eclipsing opioids on the Prairies
Maybe it is a cultural difference, because here in Germany we are highly protected by employment laws. My contract has 3 month notice time. So I never felt the need to save the contact details of recruiting agents. But then I am just at the start of my career...
I often hesitate to share anecdotes like the above because there's typically someone who will use it to impugn my faculties of observation and thought.

I'm not a rube, thanks.

Now, you may have heard of "evidence-based" medicine?

Or the joke, "If alternative medicine works it's just called medicine."?

The length difference I experienced was one aspect of a whole-body pervasive change that also affected and improved my mental and emotional functioning as well as relieving specific physical symptoms.

If the effect is real and lasting, which it was and is, then in what possible sense can the practitioner be called a "scammer"?

After all, I got the goods.

As I mentioned, this system grew from the mind of a guy who was a physicist and Judo black belt. Those are two categories of people who have nothing to prove, eh? Physicists and Judo black belts do not need "hocus pocus" to impress people, eh?

The method has a solid foundation and definite repeatable results. You'd be wise not to sniff at it.
Yeah, but those cities already exist, it’s not like American families can say “Honey, you know this is just an artifact of how our cities we’re designed, I’m selling the minivan!” Even if people would support a massive national infrastructure project to redesign cities and suburbs without the car in mind (and evidence is a majority won’t support that), it would still be the work of decades.

For now American families really do need cars. As for places like London, I have some experience here and the underground is a mess, busses and bus replacement services abound (and are terrible). https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-44953440 That’s no joke, I’ve been close to fainting myself and it wasn’t even a hot day. Our politicians don’t care about us, and we’re basically unable to get and use a car unless we’re minted and willing to sit in traffic. If you want to hold us up as a model, learn about the downsides you get trapped with when you give up personal mobility. A lot of us would kill for a car to be practical in and around London, and envy Americans giant cars and roads.
Also interesting because of Det.-Sgt. Robin Wintermute (for those of you who are fans of Neomancer)
I'll probably be downvoted to hell, but I have to say this. I'm Ukrainian, so I have bias against anything related to Russian government, especially services pretending to be improving my privacy. So, my question is, what is DuckDuckGo's relationship to Yandex, a company fully controlled by Russian government and having track record sharing personal information with Russian security services?
PHP makes it trivial to write bad code, and hard to write good code.
> Gab is benign, they started based on people getting kicked off Twitter

Read the official twitter profile (what they write and reteweet). And then tell me again that they're not explicitly reaching for the racist fringe.
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Not sure if anyone's done this but I specifically put a fake name and email when I submitted my DNA test samples to maintain my privacy as much as possible.

I suppose they could track me based on my mailing address, which I didn't spoof, but it's better than nothing.
People get so worked up over this stuff, for no good reason. DNA evidence has solved so many crimes and done so much good. I think every single US citizen should have their DNA on file. Period.
I see a lot of evidence that "thinking right" is astoundingly hard.

But I don't see very many statements from real humans of any field, background, or level of intelligence/education that acknowledge the enormity of the challenge.

I'm not sure it's "possible", but I think we're profoundly suffering for the lack of an open-ended, recursive knowledge-production process more efficient than what we've left up to the emergent behavior of a chaotic system.
Fuck Gab.
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> At Dynamicland computing is social like cooking is social. It’s also physical like cooking is physical. You’re not seated in front of a single-person screen, but walking around an open space, using a range of tools.

Ya lost me. I hate cooking specifically because of the physicality, of the different tools, etc. If I liked cooking and all that shit, I'd be a chef.
Who do you think would track you and for what purpose?
It's the combination that really scares me.

Your cell phone located you in the area at about the right time, and your "close enough" dna was the only dna found on the murder weapon. Slam dunk case.

Don't even really need people to put this evidence together: AI can do it! What can possibly go wrong?
Offer a paid option such that consumers who want to pay for privacy / less ads / no ads can

The problem is that the customers with disposable income to pay to see no ads are exactly the people that admen want to reach. So it's unlikely that any ad-supported company will offer this. It would be as good as admitting to their real customers that their inventory (i.e. us) was of "low quality".
Whether or not companies are paying Quora, it's common for startup founders to answer questions there.

Sometimes the posts are blatant ads that don't really answer the question, or they add nothing that was not already answered. But sometimes they do answer the question and provide value, while also subtly pointing to a product. I think the latter is acceptable, and I do it occasionally myself. (Example: https://www.quora.com/What-kinds-of-lights-are-best-to-comba...)

Consider this: founders have the strongest conviction for solving a given problem. They often created a product because they saw a gap in the market, and they tend to be domain experts. So, they are highly qualified to answer questions within their area of expertise.

If a post provides value and just so happens to offer a relevant solution with financial strings attached, I have absolutely no problem with it. I might even end up purchasing it, because by searching or asking questions on Quora, I am looking for a solution myself.
The DS "GPU" is indeed very bizarre and shares more in common with the GBA 2D rasterizer than a modern 3D GPU architecture. That it's a scanline renderer that can handle quads directly should be a pretty big tell :)

I implemented a cheap subset of it used in Super Mario 64 DS for my online model viewer ( https://noclip.website/#sm64ds/44;-517.89,899.85,1300.08,0.3... ), but implementing all of the quirks and the weird featuresets might be nearly impossible to do in a modern graphics API. 2D rasterizers don't have to be slow (as SwiftShader and ryg show), and you can get the bizarre conditions exactly correct. I'm not sure what a GPU-based implementation would even add.

EDIT: The math to be able to handle the bilinear quad interpolation on a GPU was worked out by reedbeta last year: http://reedbeta.com/blog/quadrilateral-interpolation-part-2/ . That's a big roadblock gone, but there's still a lot of other questionable things.
It's an oddity. How did it get published? How does the author manage to maintain a professional career?

NB the person writing the blog had bought a copy, so it's effectively a warning—and a negative review. Nothing inexplicable about that.
I guess there is an upside to everything. I would definitely use bing if I wanted to compile a list of scammers or something along these lines
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In a lot of countries in Europe, it is difficult to fire somebody. The service issue is cultural, in two ways in fact:

- in Europe a waiter constantly asking how it's going, is the food good, etc.. is considered intrusive, not "good service".

- waiters not putting huge effort in cheaper restaurants is because, hey why would they when they're not making much more than minimal wage, and because every restaurant in that price range is doing the same.

So, if people cared, and a few restaurants started to offer "better service", people would vote with their feet, and all restaurants would adapt.

> if the only reason it's better is because of the tips then how do we get good service without them?

You tell us! Are you a a software developer?

Are you paid by the FP? Are you paid by the rate of bug/FP? Is the amount you are paid per metrics unilaterally decided by your employer with no way for you to negotiate?

If not, do you produce quality code? How does your employer get you to do a good job without paying you a random amount that they decide, after the fact, with no room for negociation?
I know Notes is considered great software, and Ozzie is given a lot of credit as a result, but I’ll never understand. I had the displeasure of working for a bank back in 2007 (that deservedly ceased to exist after the financial crisis), and we used Notes, which sticks in my craw to this day as some of the worst software that I’ve ever used (and I regularly had to use Crystal Reports at this job).

Search was so bad that meetings with my manager frequently started with him turning his monitor so we could both see it, sorting his sent mail by recipient, and saying “now what day do you think I sent you that email” after which I would watch him scroll endlessly thinking “I’ll never get this part of my life back.”
Can't reproduce: https://onlinegdb.com/HyighU72Q
You didn't think I meant running JavaScript in the browser, did you??!

Of course JavaScript has an external library for sane subprocess calls, and is perfectly fine and commonly used for writing process management and system administration scripts. Please google "node.js" and "npm".

[Edited for tone -- thanks mkesper.]
The argument is completely fair and correct. Every media company supported by ads is an ad company. They market the readers, listeners, or watchers to advertisers.

The only thing the content needs to do is attract enough people to convince someone it's worth the money to put a message in front of the gathered audience. The content doesn't have to be the "best" it just has to be the attractive enough to draw an audience. A train wreck we'll draw an audience without being good at all.
Lots of good advices on correct exercises, but I want to mention that, correct relaxation is equally important.
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Democrats have been complaining about this for decades, but what did they do when they got majorities in 2008? Absolutely nothing.

Like a lot of other things, I feel like Democrats like to keep these issues around as a rallying cause, instead of fixing them.

Edit: I'll just address some of the comments here. This is not "partisan sniping", and I write this as a former Obama volunteer and a lifelong Democrat.

Second: the federal government can do something. Here's an idea: give a $100M grant to 5 major universities to develop an open-source (hardware and software) alternative to the current system, and make a FIPS standard out of it. Then, certify vendors who implement that standard. The states can then buy systems from those vendors.
The slavery quotes at the beginning of each chapter certainly make this strange enough that I’m glad to have heard of it
> In both of these scenarios, until truly driverless cars are validated and approved by regulators, drivers are responsible for and must remain in control of their car at all times.

This makes it sound like it's just a problem with evil legislators not making it legal for Tesla drivers to drive without paying attention.

Is this the case?
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Wasp-inspired robots lift 40 times their own weight and works together
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If YouTube can offer a no ads model then it can't be impossible. Mind you, Google is likely doing other trickery. But certainly there's got to be alternatives to ad blockers, etc.
Why even answer? I always say : no answer on the internet is a no.
Title seems to imply there's only one theory of computation.
The core underlying issue is fee-for-service [1] which inherently incentivize overutilization of services.

We have been and should continue pushing for better alternatives. ACOs [2] and integrated managed care [3] are promising possibilities and there are assuredly others.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fee-for-service

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accountable_care_organization

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaiser_Permanente
Isn't election systems the best candidate for open sourcing? So that anyone with technical knowledge can independently verify the security and correctness.

I wish every piece of civilian software funded by gov is open sourced. And why shouldn't they be?
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How about something more like CompuGlobalHyperMegaNet?
To be fair, "Google" is pretty silly sounding too, in a vacuum. . .But yes, DDG isn't a great name, and it put me off using it in college.
While I use DDG as my default search engine I also never got the name.. I think the logo is fine but the name is beyond me.
Because people can be remarkably ignorant about color-blindness.

Including those claiming to speak for those with color-deficient vision. I’m “color-blind” in the colloquial sense, and I’ve done wiring for years without problem. The reason is, and I don’t know if this is by design, that there is rarely a single distinction between wires. IOW, not just blue but blue with a white stripe. There will not be a purple-with-white-stripe (easy to confuse with blue). There might be purple-with-black-stripe. There might be red-with-white-stripe, which most people with color-deficient vision can distinguish from blue.

The only time in recent memory that I’ve had to have the wife help was when a store-front shop sent me a harness with solid blue and solid violet, and the violet wasn’t “violet” enough to tell from blue.

And house wiring? If you can’t tell white from black from bare copper, you’ve got bigger issues.
> But the ads that go to the top should be the most valuable, not necessarily go to the buyer with the deepest pockets.

That's the point of a search engine. If you show those as ads, you'd just be duplicating the top search results every time.
"Offer a paid option such that consumers who want to pay for privacy / less ads / no ads can."

I've pushed for this for a long time. Google and Facebook could do this. An annual fee tied to whatever minimum amount they make per user in ads makes all their services private for that user. They can even run the same stacks on different machines stored in different DB's for further isolation. Won't cost them much of anything extra given their existing datacenters and management software. Drop in the bucket. Might also have benefit of a sure thing vs advertisers whims.

That would take us back to a clear choice for consumers of being the customer or the product. We could vote with our wallet. I'm sure most would vote to be the product but the number of paying customers (esp businesses) should be significant.
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Yes. But verifying the source code doesn't guarantee anything, as you don't know what is actually running on the machine.
They're going to end up getting a lot of snail mail that they can't ignore.
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They're legally required to be dead weight, but practically, you can bypass all those cutoffs. Yes, it's breaking the law, but we live at a time where every human action is regulated, so I don't particularly care about breaking this law, the consequences are low and odds of being discovered are also low.
I've gone for runs in -30 weather, its not that bad if you cover up your skin.

40-60F is short sleeve/shorts weather around here for me. Around freezing is when it starts getting fun to run.

Yes I'm an abberation but I didn't start out this way.
It’s not about the snow, it’s about cold wind blowing your nose away
Are. . .you aware of some relationship between the two? I don't think I've ever heard of them being linked.
The scary thing about DNA and all of its future use is that all of your "privacy" measures are completely irrelevant, as the DNA of whoever is genetically related to you and known will easily lead back to you. And the probability of someone in your extended family being registered in a genetic database will closely approach one within the next decade.
Biased towards Google ? I stated my opinion: I _trust_ Google. I do _not_ trust a company that chooses to increase their revenue by numerous smearing campaigns.

As for putting down a 'competitor' [sic]: Google owns 'duck.com' via its On2 acquisition. What do they show if you visit the page ? "If you meant to visit the search engine DuckDuckGo, click here."

"The OP" works at Google precisely because they think Google is a force of good in the world, a company I'm proud to work for, not the other way around.
Another pointer to a paper that seems related: https://www.usenix.org/conference/nsdi18/presentation/beckma...

This is a very hot topic recently. It seems to me that several communities (databases, CDNs, storage, CPU architecture, theory) do a lot of redundant work and don't communicate a lot with each other..
I heard a similar quote recently, I don't know the source:

"I meditate one hour every day, except when I'm busy; then I meditate two hours."
Murder on the Prairies: Fire, lies and a missing deer head – The Globe and Mail
I did too, during Marketing 101 in college. And this illustrates the need to update the term.
It also assumes that everyone with disposable income will pay for subscription. That's not really true.
How can this be? Do you have regular stand-up meetings?
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I suggest checking out the "Features" page:

https://boristhebrave.github.io/DeBroglie/articles/features....
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You assume they actually interact with the locals to make the world a more connected place. That doesn't happen by tourists just showing up and doing touristy things. In fact, the reverse can happen as locals get priced out because of tourists and they start to actively blame the tourists for the issue. Then, those who stay blame them for their behavior, which certainly doesn't lend itself to a residential neighborhood, which just makes those people dislike tourists as well. Definitely the opposite of being 'more connected'.

> The multiple guests travelling to this place is more important than one neighbor's bad experience.

You're assuming that only one neighbor has a bad experience. What if it's all of them, except the short-term residents? I also disagree that the experience of the guests is more important.
I expect Rust's resident GC expert enlighten people working on ZGC why their approach is wrong in trading throughput for low latency. And that they need to learn from hotspot GC.
You do realize that 99% of people feel cold in 40F. Think about the majority of population. Most of them don’t run and just want to do their business by using scooter
Headspace has the option for longer sessions.

I think it depends on your individual needs if two 10 minute sessions or one 20 minute session is better. Some people gain concentration after 10 minutes, some people get impatient. Longer sessions might give you more concentration, but more frequent meditation might give you more mindfulness in your daily life.

In my mind the biggest disadvantage of headspace is that there is no community around it. It helps a lot to meet in person and practice together.
But, as mentioned, you can actually do something about bad neighbors, such as reporting them to the landlords. You can't do that with short-term guests, as they're gone in a week, tops. There's literally no repercussions for those people, unlike with long-term neighbors.
Even at the height of the court trial, even Google itself continued to use and fork OpenJDK (they rely on it heavily) and talk about it at Oracle[1]. OpenJDK is governed by its open-source license, which is GPLv2 (with the classpath extensions) -- just like Linux.[2]

[1]: https://video.oracle.com/detail/videos/featured-videos/video...

[2]: http://openjdk.java.net/legal/
No. Being smug doesn't make someone right. Especially when the smug person is advocating a special case. Special cases are inherently wrong, even when they "save" a process.
It looks like Disney's original version of Donald Duck. Knowing how Disney influenced copyright law doesn't help in liking the character.
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If it sounds ridiculous to you, it's because it is. The fact that you find it absurd only really underlines the point being made there, and that point is that "doing things while black" is a lifetime of uncomfortable, unnecessary, and subtly discriminatory experiences that you learn to expect and prepare for.

I assume if you're on HN that you have at least one well-paid black coworker in tech. Ask them how often they get uncomfortable, questioning looks while walking around their own neighborhood and you'll see exactly how hyperbolic that statement is.
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