skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I was overqualified for most minimum wage jobs.

The author lost me here. I have taken jobs way below my expectations to make ends meet. I got startlingly close to not making rent, but I took a job that barely got me by and rode it out until I was able to move to a company that understood the value of my experience.
Researchers discover seven new Meltdown and Spectre attacks
They are very similar. They are both applicative-order, meaning that the arguments to a procedure are evaluated before the procedure is applied.

The evaluation of a lambda results in a function value, which captures the enclosing scope, but the procedure is not yet applied to anything.

But the main difference that I've seen anecdotally is that imperative programmers as a whole tend to get confused by nested expressions, or lets just say they prefer sequential statements over nested expressions. My assumption is that they don't fully understand the order of evaluation in their language of choice.
I live in the southeast. There are pockets here that would be very tough to take. It would be a Vietnam situation. So, yes. The 2nd amendment still has deterrent power.
> I switched off products that use palm oil a while back

Do you have any reliable resources on how to do this? I would like to, but I'm always dubious of the resources I find, since they seem to be biased. Not that I don't trust their information, but I just have a hard time verifying it.
As my Cuban grandfather once told me, turning in his rifle became his most regrettable action after the revolution... :/
Homelessness != Substance Use Disorder

Moreover, why does treatment have to come at the expense of self-determination? The reality is that people want to receive treatment--if they don't, it is because they encounter a barrier to treatment.

Barriers to treatment include: lack of treatment facilities (hospitals do not count), poor quality of existing treatment facilities, unwillingness of treatment facilities to take anything but an abstinence-only approach, lack of other treatment options, such as medically assisted treatment.

So I would say yes to all your points, except number 2. If people don't want to recieve treatment, then we should assume that the treatment isn't good enough and needs to be improved. But indefinitely detaining someone in a place that they don't want to be is frankly a human rights abuse, and contradicts your first point.
Article needs a little adjustment. Not everyone's TV will get a DHCP address of 192.168.0.123. If that is a default static IP used by the TV, then it may not even be reachable unless the person is using that range. It is the most common, but not guaranteed.
FWIW, people who have a problem with street people are largely not concerned with people living in unconventional shelters (such as tents and cardboard boxes). They're concerned with what street people do. Drug use, syringes left on the ground, shit and piss everywhere, piles of trash, theft, vandalism, etc.
Happy to be wrong on this and good to know it did exist before x86. Thanks for the replies.
It's the craziest cookbook I've ever seen! There's a recipe for fermented (for 75 days) grasshoppers. As a serving suggestion it suggests mixing it with butter, cooking pancakes in the butter, and serving with 'a good caviar'.

We already brew cider and make kefir and various lacto-ferments in our house, but building a fermentation chamber and fermenting proteins for months in order to make something that keeps in the fridge for a week? I love the idea, but the reward/effort ratio is rather poor
> Another reason for their lack of specificity could be the absence of South Asian data in their datasets.

In 2016, there was a 100:1 ratio for Europeans vs East Asians in their datasets. I don't know how it was for South Asians, and I imagine it's probably somewhat better now, but I think this is likely a big factor.
The only thing worse than a Frequently Asked Questions that doesn't actually include any questions that are frequently asked is one that includes unhelpful answers to questions that are.
They have a data format which essentially acts like a zip file. So they can swap in and out data on the fly I believe.
I did it, and found it really interesting. It adds a couple layers of info on top of the basic results. Here is an example of the output.

PPAR gamma	rs1801282(C;G)	abnormal fat metabolism	Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma (PPAR-γ or PPARG) is a master regulator of fatty acid storage and glucose metabolism. The genes activated by PPARG stimulate lipid uptake and adipogenesis by fat cells. It increases both lipid metabolism and adipogenesis in fat tissue. It increases insulin sensitivity in muscle tissue and increases gluconeogenesis in the liver. PPARG is mostly found in adipose tissue, colon and immune cells called macrophages.

You may have an abnormal fat metabolism. When people with the genotype (C,G) or (G,G) have a low polyunsaturated and monounsaturated fat intake and a high saturated fat intake then their obesity and type 2 diabetes risks are dramatically increased. But when there is a higher mono- and poly-unsaturated intake and a lower saturated fat intake their obesity and type 2 diabetes risk is normal. Polyunsaturated fatty acids activate the PPAR-gamma gene.

Monounsaturated fat is found in foods such as avocado, olive oil, and nuts. Polyunsaturated fats are found in foods like fatty fish such as salmon, herring and polyunsaturated fat is also found in nuts. Saturated fat is found in fatty beef, pork, butter, cheese, and other dairy products.

Individuals with the genotypes (C,G) or (G,G) may want to make sure their dietary fat is higher in mono- and poly-unsaturated fat and lower in saturated fat.

Pterostilbene is a plant compound present in blueberries, cranberries, and almonds have been shown to activate PPAR-gamma (and PPAR-alpha) and lower triglycerides, and blood glucose levels.

SNPs Involved
rs1801282(C;G)
Monopoly for Millennials
Rappid 2.4 HTML 5 diagramming framework released
And you can blame someone else for BTC volatility (darn speculators), but when youa re in control of your own currency, and it is volatile, blaming others becomes much harder, though not impossible (darn capitalists/opec/USA).
I had an exec level interviewer ask me about migrating from sql server to pg and deep down I knew it would be a nightmare but also knew that I would have to say its ok in order to continue on with the interview process, I paused and said that it was possible but would likely require a lot of work....luckily didn't get that job
> would love someone to prove me wrong though

The burden of proof lies on the person making claims. I'm not asserting that your claims are wrong, but if you want people to take your statements seriously you need to provide proof.

In order to practice what I teach, here's an article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burden_of_proof_(philosophy).

EDIT: Fixed paragraph formatting
Yes it is, and I did this test again on its own after seeing the hematologist. But 23andme offers much more, and when I saw that they offered 50% off on DNA day I impulsively bought it.
So, in all likelihood, it was a management person who knows through experience that not all mechanics are as good as you are, and knows they're just going to get screwed on complaints and installation problems if you expect EVERY repair shop in the states to be able to perform the cheaper, but more complicated, repair.

Or, perhaps the recall was issued because the drivetrain was affected in ways you don't understand.

> now my labor is 4-6 hours with an alignment, balance and a test drive

You get paid to do recall work, what the fuck are you even complaining about?
One thing was in there that was unexpected: I’m 3% Ashkenazi Jewish. I’ve never heard that from any relatives, and some have done extensive genealogy.

Additionally, something was missing that I expected to see: Native American ancestry. My family on my dad’s side had always talked about our Native American ancestry - only a few generations back from my grandmother - but the DNA showed absolutely none. I’ve since learned that this is actually quite common - many people believe they have it but few actually do.

I’ve read that in certain parts of the country it was standard practice to claim Native American ancestry to explain non-white features. At that time it was perfectly fine to be part Native American, but being part African would have been cause to lose your land, right to vote, etc. Interestingly, while I have a small amount of African ancestry, it’s not on that side of the family, so I’m at a loss to explain why so many of my relatives thought they were descended from a Native American.
If we can count on one thing that never dies, it is companies like IBM embracing buzzwords like AI and Blockchain and leeching millions from brain dead Non-IT companies that drink their consultancy koolaid.

It's kind of predictable to hear a Buzzword and add five years to the time it became a buzzword and you can search IBM + buzzword to see that they are the top results.
> You violate the terms of their service when you use a fake name.

Is that really so horrible? There's no compelling reason they should even be asking for a name, other than to provide cross-references to law-enforcement.
Or there’s an incentive for the unethical farmer to wreck twice as much to make up for the 50% decline in revenue.
I actually do play a lot of Minecraft, but my play style is probably unusual.

I almost never explore caverns. I strongly prefer to dig my own systematic mines to get underground resources, even though it's more work.

On the surface, I never explore without a map. I take copious notes of the coordinates of my home and interesting features.

I tend to spend most of my time building and acquiring, and very little time exploring (even though I love the procedural generator Minecraft uses).
Ask HN: Where do you go after finishing an online course?
Over years I have studied several subjects in depth by taking online courses, I'm curious to know what do others do or recommend after finishing a course?

For example a course on machine learning, or rather a harder subject let's say Algebraic topology: where do you usually go to clarify topics within the subject that you're in doubt with?
For activity 3/4, you might want to use a language with a REPL to make it interactive and allow kids to see the code you're typing run in real time.

This is a really cool idea, though! I wish somebody had come in to my elementary school with this kind of activity!
Not sure if this is why, but I know some folks who are concerned about getting such tests done at the doctor's office due to both cost, and the fact that it will go into their medical records (and thus possibly impact insurance).
Not having 8GB and a powerful enough CPU?
> without needing to replicate the entire SFTP environment in order to determine if there were regressions

Jep. And then it doesn't actually work. Because it tries to read every file at the same time. Because the strings it passes in to resolve the server don't work. Because it never schedules the thread reading from the socket. Because it uses a 100 byte buffer (plenty for tests, after all). Because ...

And even then, what you're describing is not a unit test. A unit tests tests a single unit of code. Just 1 function, nothing more, and mocks out everything else.

So you can never test a refactor of code with a unit test. Because a refactor changes how different pieces of code work together, and unit tests by definition explicitly DON'T test that (all interactions should be mocked out). So a unit test would be useless.
Regardless, it says "gather[ed] data on 1.6 million patients without informing them."
I have a 1tb main drive (SSD hybrid, IIRC) with all my games installed and a 2tb external drive with things that don't need to be fast, like video and audio. They're both full. I got down to 8gb on my main drive the other day and had to uninstall a bunch of crap.

I've had this drive a few years now. If I did it today, I'd definitely buy a larger one.
Safe Autonomy: Uber ATG Safety Report
How do you explain China's population of 1.3 billion?
Thanks for the links I didn't know about these services.

They use TG-130 or TG-140 which are lower temperature (130C/140C) FR4 board ratings. The surface may melt when de-soldering at high temperature. I usually prefer TG-170/TG-180 boards as I find them to be more reliable during rework.

But can't argue with those prices. :)
They also need cbtc, that is, self driving trains. This will allow higher frequencies (more capacity) and moving to single person operation (reducing operating costs, if the union would allow it)
IIRC soybean products (like tofu) are said to contain small amounts compounds with estrogen-like properties. Hence males consuming significant quantities of these products may be affected by higher than normal level of circulating estrogens.

I don't know how much tofu ingestion is required to produce a noticeable effect (such as gynecomastia), but I assume it would have to be a major dietary component. In Asian countries, soybean consumption is much higher than typical in the US, so perhaps more likely to be an issue there. Might be worth a literature search on the subject, but I haven't done that, so I don't know if it's been verified.
Blockchain + AI + Bio Tech. Store young models DNA on blockchain. Then unleash an army of decentralized AI bots to discover eternal youth.

You can raise like 100 million by setting up a Wordpress site with the above idea.
Unfortunately I agree.

but the on my mind - is the trend toward authoritarianism due to those in power seeking lordship, or select vocal groups among the serfs seeking to be lorded?
And that's great. But there will be edge cases when it won't behave like stock Linux. If you do give Crostini a try would love to hear your views :) cheers
They may pick the right niche, but at the end of the day it's about the execution not the idea.
Yes. My exposure to the term is from slashdot and IRC in the late 1990s.

Can't believe I got downvoted for having more time on the internet than some others here, learning during that time, then making a statement based on what I learned.
They patch some bugs[0], but they don't patch the shallow characters and mediocre writing.

I played Fallout 4 and Witcher 3 side by side. By the end of Fallout 4, I realized that I had been mostly playing the same game for 10 years (all of Todd Howard's games since TES4[1]). I almost stopped playing near the end. Witcher 3 is one of the best games I've ever played. Todd Howard has lots of work to do if I'm going to get another one of his games.

I'm watching Cyberpunk 2077 intently.

[0] They leave the "entertaining" ones in. It's usually up to modders to fix what they can. https://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/112719-Bethesda-S...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_Howard#Works
People are often turned away for being overqualified at such jobs.
As a software developer who relies heavily on git, I sure hope 'blockchain' isn't dying!
for food, read the ingredients, if it says palm oil or vegetable oil don't buy it
I imagine a major justification, especially for Amazon, is to stop paying Oracle $$$.

I'm not sure if you consider that a technical, or a business justification, but I don't really see a distinction here.

Some more strictly technical justifications would be:

* Aurora has the potential to be a better architecture in the long run because it has something closer to an active/active redundancy, rather than Oracle's primary/secondary architecture, where fail-overs are manual and/or prone to failure.
* Aurora can also scale out to larger database sizes than Oracle.
I'm still curious then as to why this specific unit doesn't meet California air purifier standards, which is why Amazon won't sell it to me.
Agree, according to Oracle's new release cadence every major version is "production ready", just that every sixth release is considered for LTS.
https://www.slideshare.net/GreenPalmOil/top-10-palm-oil-cons...

Ok I was wrong, India is 15%, and EU consumes a surprisingly high percentage at 12%. But still, subtracting the EU and US, 85% of the oil is consumed by developing countries that are too poor to worry about the environmental impacts.
I both lived and work near there and this is the exact opposite of my impression. King from bathurst to spadina is always jumping. The biggest annoyance for me is all the damn plants the restaurants and bars have been allowed to put on the street for some reason, makes biking there a headache.
Your comment made me go back to articles on data sharing 23andme does with companies. At first I read your statement about cilantro but it seems these are just the type of questions companies are paying big money for.

>For now, though, 23andMe’s biobank is the world’s largest repository of DNA samples that also contains extensive health information, willingly provided by customers who answer survey questions like “Do you like cilantro?” and “Have you ever had cancer?” 23andMe says its customers supply it with as many as two million new facts each week.

There’s only one problem—depending on your own ethics—and that is your data is helping pharmaceutical companies develop new drugs.

The continuation from the above quote:

>These surveys are proving valuable to drug investigators. This year the company found genetic variations strongly linked to whether customers consider themselves early risers, offering a clue about how to develop drugs that modulate alertness. [1]

[1] https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601506/23andme-sells-data...
Your reply is sort of the standard response to criticism for any platform, appearing to defend reddit, facebook, etc.

It doesn't address the essence of the criticism though, that there is a way that is easiest to use a platform, and that way is followed by the majority of people.

If someone says caltrops are dangerous, and you reply with the idea that they can be used to clean gunk from under fingernails, you have not added anything to the conversation.
If you’re a big publisher, what’s the cost for something like this?
so people will pick it up for a couple of days, and then forget about it for weeks on end?
And I care about violating their ToS why?

This is a service I'm going to use once - once I have the data from them, I no longer care about doing business with them.

What's the incentive for me to care about respecting their ToS?
> Knowing that I'm resistant to noroviruses also makes me more comfortable about traveling.

This seems like one of the major downsides of these services. I think you would've been better off in life if you, say, did the traveling you wanted to do instead of let some genetic markers drive your apprehensions.
I hope they're working on a new director component for their content creators because Cyberpunk 2077 level of story scripting + animation + staging + etc seems to be generating results that Bethesda games are _well_ off.

People point at the right speech moments, look disappointed appropriately, a timer then fires for a story option that's only open for five seconds. It looks so much more _alive_ than a Bethesda game.

There's hints of it back in Witcher III if you know where to look but I'm super excite for 2077.
No doubt it's worth a few billion already. Thing is companies run by developers tend to have a lot more integrity than the markets of silicon valley. If everyone folds there won't be open software.
Technically, Rankine and Fahrenheit are not imperial units.
The author may just have meant that he was rejected from such jobs due to being honest about his education when asked, which is a fairly common practice.
No need to go to the bottom of the article, it's in the second sentence.

>Streams...hit headlines for gathering data on 1.6 million patients without informing them.
Yeah, that's a tough problem on two counts. First, it's hard to find SP programmers for any one dialect, let alone two (e.g. PL/SQL and pgSQL). This is why architects who decide to go the SP route must realize that doing so means committing totally to that particular database platform - so you better really like the product, the vendor, and it's support.
Considering that personal injury law firms geotarget their AdWords to people who have been in a hospital emergency room, I'd say it's not that hard to stitch the pieces together to remove that anonymity.
Data Stuff: Universal Truths
If you're only writing tests at the unit level, you might as well not bother. And it's always good to run all tests after any change, it's entirely too easy for the developer to have an incomplete understanding of the implications of a change. Or for another developer to misuse other functionality, deliberately or otherwise.
So go through a temp agency. They don't care how over-qualified you are. You're just another body on their call list. If they don't like you they won't call you with any work.

Edit: I worked for temp agencies for through college. At the time I probably would have been more useful to them automating some parts of their workflow. They stored everything in spreadsheets but manually copy pasting everything around for their workflow. I kept my mouth shut and did the work they asked me to do.
Don't be so self deprecating. Almost everyone has down periods. Stay in the game and pull through. Contributing to an open source project should help your resume in between jobs.
Very sadly this ad has just been banned in the UK. The UK regulator's statement [0] said that the criteria for banning it was that it was "An advertisement which is inserted by or on behalf of a body whose objects are wholly or mainly of a political nature." Greenpeace are the body in question who created the video and have apparently been screening it on their website. Iceland (the retail organisation not the country) would have been showing it on their behalf as their Christmas ad, where I think it could have been very effective in nudging public opinion.

[0] https://www.clearcast.co.uk/press/iceland-advert/
Bwahahahahaha... air
Question for the author or anyone else with similar background: I've previously done a lot of work with homeless and poverty-stricken people, and one of my biggest remaining difficulties is people who won't accept help, or are offended when people only do little things to help. Part of that certainly could come from any drug or mental issue that contributed to their homelessness in the first place, but I'm sure it's also unavoidable when you're an outcast from much of society for so long even without those problems. So my question is this:

What can people who work at food pantries, distribution centers or just strangers do to come off as less condescending and have their help be more readily accepted?
Google announced in the talk that Docker is now working and said to reference this Reddit thread for details...

Docker now working
https://www.reddit.com/r/Crostini/comments/9jabhq/docker_now...
If I had to survive on minimum wage, I would do things differently: No airline tickets, no long distance bus tickets and no sightseeing. Cooking ramen noodles instead of eating the dollar burgers at that I bought at McDonalds.

I would also work much more than 40 hours a week.

I would share a flat in a poor neighbourhood with someone.

I'm not saying everyone has the discipline to pull it off. I'm just saying I can see how some immigrants can live off minimum wage and still send money home every year.
Yep that's the approach I took when I started my job search a year ago. Took notes on every potential employer, managed my interview schedule very carefully, made sure always to have my phone with me. It worked very well and within 6 months I got like 20-30 really good paying jobs at reputable and respectable companies, and several of them were remote (or mostly remote) positions. So it's doable if you make a point of it.
I can't speak to most of the things you list, but there is at least some evidence for genetic influence on cilantro preference (via olfactory receptors).

https://www.nature.com/news/soapy-taste-of-coriander-linked-...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3589946/
The Coming Singularity (1993)