skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the fears might be underblown, not overblown. Not enough people are paying attention to the Revolutionary Phenotype hypothesis and how it relates to gene editing. The moral fears are less scary than the existential ones.

There's a fascinating video that responds to the propaganda put out by the Chinese scientist who performed the gene editing on twins here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2ND3_clSPM

And you can read the first chapter of the book that will come out the next month describing the phenomenon here: http://book.jfg.world
I don’t disagree with you, but there have been way too many incidents where cops overreacted and shot an unarmed minority. They signed up to put themselves in danger, I didn’t sign up to be shot because the cop got nervous because of the complexion of my skin or because I “fit the description”.
If Google kills Dragonfly it will be because of financial reasons. But because of this, they'll be able to claim it was because they were responding to employees.

grumble, I think I'm getting jaded.
It's weird, as I'd absolutely love to live as a monk full time. The training, the studying, everything about it. Like, if I ever reach financial independence and don't get married/have kids...that's definitely what I'm going to be aiming for.
We use a hybrid. We process a lot of incoming data and dump most of it into dynamo (it's ephemeral so the TTL feature is nice) and if we get capacity errors (Dynamo takes a while to scale up sometimes) we just dump our objects in the DB. The end result is we keep a huge amount of writes off our DB for processing incoming largish objects. The amount of data it stores would cost an arm and a leg to put into redis.

Granted, I don't think I'd want to use Dynamo for anything other than temporary data. Lock-in makes me nervous, and the way it scales up/down really makes it difficult to use it for hourly workloads...by the time it scales up we're close to done needing more capacity, then it doesn't scale down for like 40m after. We set up caps and the DB overflow machanism keeps things from grinding to a halt.
> And then he gets off without charge, despite there being video evidence

I think you meant that he got off without conviction, not without charge. He was charged with manslaughter and a couple of felony gun charges, and was tried by a jury on those charges [1].

[1] http://live.mprnews.org/Event/The_trial_of_officer_Jeronimo_...
Google entering China is morally equivalent to South African apartheid? Okay, I think we have fundamentally different views on what kind of "stand" this warrants.

The clear implication is that these people will quit the company if Google goes forward with Dragonfly.
No need to be impolite. For one, no I haven't, since I'm not 40 years old. Second, they risk losing their core constituencies: the creative industry, and developers.
Go lang turorial.
It is very good to learn while running source codes.
Large Genetic Study Finds First Genes Connected with ADHD
> While threats from the Chinese government may be valid, it's more likely that they don't want to / cannot risk their H-1B status or green card priority date. So their immediate threat is more likely (indirectly) coming from USG.

That doesn't make a lot of sense. I don't see why the USG would want to sanction them, especially since this letter has nothing to do with the USG.

If they're discouraged from signing due to their US visa status, the mechanism that makes more sense is that they fear Google could fire them and it would take them longer than 60 days to line up another job that could sponsor them.
Other (less fair) ways of doing it include requiring a co-signer or allocating some assets as escrow. Although, like healthcare, the problem is probably the cost not the financing.
The article is pretty interesting and I didn't read the whole thing. The correlations are positive but not 1, sometimes less than 0.5. So it shows genes are positively correlated, but very different than saying it's an exclusive factor? So the problem with this is that even if something is correlated at 10% (for arguments sake), it can have predictive power. But that doesn't mean it can become the sole basis. Thats the cognitive jump most folks are incapable of and these discussions often lead to very wrong outcomes. Indeed this bias has led to many horrific examples of discrimination.

Also the heritability seems to be put at 0.5, not a sure thing? So it obviously can be heritable, but that doesn't rule out that it is only heritable and no other avenues for it exist?
If IQ varies inversely with overall mutational load, intelligence-enhancing edits to the genome exist on the same continuum as fixing things like Tay-Sachs and Huntington's disease. Therefore, yes, they may well be inevitable.

Similarly, life extension treatments may double as the cheapest way to prevent chronic health problems such as cancer and heart disease.
Theresa May has actually found the straight line through this brexit chaos. She knows in her head that the UK Parliament will vote it down and that provides her with the platform to say she got the best deal possible but it was rejected by the UK Parliament. She can then resign with her head held high.

I think this is her exist strategy from the PM role in the UK.
Maybe, but it could also reduce fossil fuels used to operate less efficient cooling systems in traditional data centers. I’d love to see a breakdown on the impact of each approach.
I think they might have meant for all four years of state school on campus, which rings true with me. I went to a state school and lived on campus for four years and it cost me roughly 80k.
This. Set quantifiable goals and when reached move on until you can't live without more changes.
New at Amazon: Its Own Chips for Cloud Computing
> I keep 20 terminals open usually.

I prefer tmux windows; I have 1-3 terminal emulators and 10-30ish windows/tabs (not counting splits/panes), all on 1 tmux session via `tmux new-session -t $SESSION`. Acceptably navigatable via prefix-[1-9] and prefix-w (which gives a list to jump to).
As long as none of the data goes to amazon, sure sell their software. Otherwise WTF no....
I am in Shimane prefecture above Hiroshima.
Because it is near, I often go to Hiroshima.
I have been to Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park.
You should play Firewatch.
> How do you get and pay for the infrastructure of this direct democracy without resources paid for by dues?

The technology needed to let people submit proposals and let other people vote on them is on the level what individuals do over a weekend as adjunct to a side project.

> How do you get the minority in any vote to go along with the result when there isn't any common binding agreement such as a contract that enforces majority rule?

Why do you need to force them to? By definition the majority will already agree, and then many in the minority would participate out of solidarity because that's the whole point of joining a union to begin with. You don't need 100.0%, a large majority is quite sufficient in general. And anything that actually required 100.0% is already lost, because then they could pay off the cheapest defector or contract it out.
Seems like a config option would be easy enough.
> here are what scientists think

from the article:

> For some scientists, the study created a moment of reckoning. “Scientists thought this data was too boring,” Dunn says. “But these people found it beautiful, and they loved it. They were the ones paying attention to Earth for all the rest of us.” [..] Amateurs have long provided much of the patchy knowledge we have about nature. Those bee and butterfly studies? Most depend on mass mobilizations of volunteers willing to walk transects and count insects, every two weeks or every year, year after year. [..] The Krefeld society is volunteer-run, and many members have other jobs in unrelated fields

They don't have anything pre-packaged, it's not so easy, your criticism of the article may be valid but overall your demands are unreasonable.

They are raising an alarm for people to do something. If people don't want to hear what the alarm is about because they want the thing that they need to help with to be already done for them we are in trouble. Don't just say what you want to read, ask yourself what you could write, maybe. Make the executive summary you want to see in the world, right?

As for the possible consequences and remedies:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/nov/03/stop-bio...

> The world must thrash out a new deal for nature in the next two years or humanity could be the first species to document our own extinction, warns the United Nation’s biodiversity chief.

> Ahead of a key international conference to discuss the collapse of ecosystems, Cristiana Pașca Palmer said people in all countries need to put pressure on their governments to draw up ambitious global targets by 2020 to protect the insects, birds, plants and mammals that are vital for global food production, clean water and carbon sequestration.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07183-6

> Numerous studies are revealing that Earth’s remaining wilderness areas are increasingly important buffers against the effects of climate change and other human impacts. But, so far, the contribution of intact ecosystems has not been an explicit target in any international policy framework, such as the United Nations’ Strategic Plan for Biodiversity or the Paris climate agreement.

> This must change if we are to prevent Earth’s intact ecosystems from disappearing completely.

Another commenter posted this:

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/extinction-countdown/am...

> A new study finds that frogs, toads, salamanders and other amphibians in the U.S. are dying off so quickly that they could disappear from half of their habitats in the next 20 years. For some of the more endangered species, they could lose half of their habitats in as little as six years.

I'm no scientist, but I wouldn't be completely shocked by a connection between that and insect decline.
Unfortunately, the US is more gun happy than most countries. There is a statistically irrational fear of getting shot and most people who are killed are killed by someone they know, not a random stranger.

That means cops have to be more vigilant about guns.
> A good tensor implementation accounts for strides that are SIMD compatible (eg; each dimension is a multiple of the SIMD register width).

Never implemented any tensors, but in my experience, sometimes you better do what GPUs do with some texture formats: switch from linear layout into dense blocks layout. E.g. for dense float32 matrix and SSE code, a good choice is a 2D array of 4x4 blocks: exactly 1 cache line, and only consumes 4 out of 16 registers while being processed i.e. you can do a lot within a block while not hitting any RAM latency.
I'm the CEO of Descartes Labs. It's indeed true that we've built a data refinery that ingests lots and lots of satellite data. The data refinery can be seen as a two-sided marketplace. On one side, we form partnerships with satellite and other geospatial data companies (in addition to open source data from NASA, ESA,and others) and pull in all of that data. On the other side, scientists can run computations over huge amounts of data from multiple datasets. For now, most of our business has been done on the scientist side. In principle, we could provide our infrastructure to satellite companies so they don't have to build out the software on their own. Most hardware companies suck at being software companies.

Amazon's offering is geared more towards ground stations, but they might move up the stack and start providing data refinery-type services on top of the ground station work.

Oh, our entire stack is built on Google Cloud Platform.
Looks very cool. What’s the timeline for it being released for Windows?
FoundationDB https://www.foundationdb.org/ not only supports transactions, they are mandatory. They also go one step further and support atomic operations, which are especially killer.
> the novelty of the project, not that it was written in a specific language?

That is the novelty:) Don't worry; we'll tire of Go in 1-50 years;)
There were ~940 people killed by police last year in the US. ~46 Police were killed (by an attacker) in the line of duty. I wonder how these numbers compare to those countries you mention. If you are constantly facing a more violent threat then it only makes sense you would be responding more violently. I don't know the break down of how many of these incidents involved arbitrary emptying of clips but I would guess the number is very small.
Generalization: Outrage follows exponentially damped cycles unless a significant observable direct immediate loss is incurred.

First outrage has huge spike, second exponentially lower and so on. Example net neutrality.

I feel this is population's way of minimizing energy spent but with very small horizon optimization.
> Retina display support

I want to know what is difficult to support this.
AWS builds stuff customers want. It’s never random.
Who looks after your kids in the morning while you are awake and the kids are awake?

Seems you must have an amenable partner?
Part of me feels the same, but (in NHL overtimes at least) I've also heard that injuries become progressively more common per time played as games stretch into longer and longer overtimes. That seems worth avoiding.
An unexpected and unexpectedly gratifying compliment. Thank you!

I managed the digital analytics for that particular client, and an overly aggressive WAF[1] was in place to block scraping attempts because they'd been burned by font fees in the past. The WAF's browser challenge was poorly designed and as a side effect it destroyed all referral (and therefore channel attribution) data.

I had to work my way through a lot of layers within a Fortune 500 company, from my marketing client to their global infrastructure team, to get buy in to test out (and eventually switch) to Cloudflare as a much more robust solution to their font concerns[2]. Which also just so happened to correct the referral/channel attribution issue I was seeing[3]. Along the way I picked up a pretty comprehensive understanding of licensed fonts, as I had to use completely different approaches for each department and set of red tape I needed to cut through. Marketing, media buying, procurement, IT all have different ways you have to frame the risks and opportunities, even if they're all the same thing said different ways.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_application_firewall

[2] The font issue was irrelevant to me. But my referral data was irrelevant to IT, and they put the WAF causing my problems in place due to the font issue. So I able to get procurement and IT's blessing by enticing them with the additional cost savings and protection from the Cloudflare-based solution.

[3] I was only able to get to procurement and IT in the first place by having the backing of marketing and media buying, who cared not at all about fonts but greatly about website performance, conversion attribution, and being able to analyze visitors by traffic source.
Air quality improves every year, and cities try to plant as much as trees as possible. What I like - they even plant ivy or similar things to climb highway pylons. It looks very beautiful during the summer.
They also leave out the number of incidents and the breakdown of those. I am sure there are 10s of thousands of times the police do not overreact compared to times they do.
I'd like to see a reduction in all sources, impractical as that may seem right now. Palm oil extraction, along with soy crops, has led to massive deforestation in many regions which contribute directly to threatening biodiversity and climate change[0].

It seems unrealistic right now to stop using any source of fuel but I don't really see nature waiting for us to figure it all out. So yes.. reducing fuel use in general is good, palm oil based products are easy to avoid and don't need to be so massively subsidized.

[0] https://www.transportenvironment.org/what-we-do/biofuels/why...
Didn't notice SFTP costs. Guess I'm sticking with LightSail.
You could go to a Buddhist temple but then you have to wake up at 5am and do a routine.
When rich Asian parents realize that they can make their children light skinned it will really take off.

Skin whitening is big business in Asia.
Sure

In early April, unconfirmed rumors swirled around €400
million said to have been seized by Polish authorities
that were alleged to be tied to Bitfinex. As reported on
CoinTelegraph, the funds, claimed to be held in Bank
Spoldzielczy, were said to link Bitfinex to suspicious
activities in Colombia.

https://modernconsensus.com/cryptocurrencies/bitcoin/bitfine...

https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitfinex-in-poland-were-there...

Sure sounds like Bitfinex is having a reoccurring theme of having their bank accounts shut down, and then finding banks in weird locations only to get them shut down within a month or two.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tether-found-bank-might-baham...

“This banking information is commercially sensitive and
confidential. You should be very careful with this
information. You are asked to keep this information to
yourself and to not share it except with your financial
institution. Divulging this information could damage not
just yourself and Bitfinex, but the entire digital token
ecosystem. Accordingly, you are cautioned that there may
be serious negative effects associated with this
information becoming public.”

Seems legit

https://medium.com/@bitfinexed/bitfinex-and-tether-is-unaudi...

Tether auditor distances itself after publishing "not an audit" and then "Friedman Quietly Removes Bitfinex Mentions"

A brief announcement posted on Friedman’s own site, dated
May 8th 2017 and titled “Friedman Selected as Crypto-Savvy
Auditor by Bitfinex” now links to a 404 page. For the
record, here’s an archived version.

https://web.archive.org/web/20171129082053/http://www.friedm...
> They can afford to pay more

Which is why they already do pay more than other industries.

The best argument you have against that is the anti-poaching shenanigans they've engaged in -- but that's already illegal, so the answer there is a courtroom rather than a union.
Who doesn’t love to be manipulated constantly?
Charges laid as a result of the FBI’s biggest-ever ad-fraud investigation
ETA on tmux -CC support?
Do you mind summarizing the hypothesis for the person who doesn't have time at the moment to read that (me).
SpaceX Will Launch 64 Satellites Tomorrow
Since China is known for its countless human rights violations, Are these Google employees also going to...

1. Give up their Chinese-Manufactured iPhones/Android Phones? Tablets? Laptops and workstations??

2. Give up watching movies/shows on their Chinese-manufactured TVs??

3. Stop wearing Chinese-made iwatches/fitbits/etc.??

4. Boycott silicon valley startups that have accepted chinese investments?

5. Boycott every product by US/Foreign company (Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Samsung, GE, Disney, Chevron, Exxon, Shell, etc.) doing business in China?
I wish I could take credit for this, but as Chris Rock said....

I know it's hard being a cop … But some jobs can't have bad apples. Some jobs, everybody gotta be good. Like, pilots. American Airlines can't be like, 'You know, most of our pilots like to land, we just got a few bad apples that like to crash into mountains.'
Those are interesting examples.

But was Salt Lake City designed as an urban opportunity, or was it really a group of people who simply wanted to make their version of society?

With the Mormons it would rather seem they were 'a people' of some sort, and they 'made do' with their environment, as opposed to a specific objective of building society around tech.

And are either Constantinople or St. Petersbourg planned? Or rather were there just significant government / centrally-planned bits of civic infrastructure after the fact?

I don't think anyone would reject the notion of 'tech' in a city, for example 'a subway' or 'universal wifi' - or maybe specific lanes/tunnels for little robots to deliver all of our stuff (!) ...

... but rather the notion of a city started from scratch with utility, specifically fancy utility in mind.

Maybe we could look at places, figure out what they need, and do that well, using technology. In some places it might mean a little bit of upheaval that's fine, if the benefits are at least tangible, unlike the whole Google Toronto thing which seems like civic vaporware to me.
Your belief needs evidence. Or a more precise definition of "learning" and "education." My experience, both East and West, is that the typical person is just too busy trying to survive to care much about learning or education (in almost any sense).
How many of those incidents could have been resolved by the offender just complying or not fleeing? Here is a link to show the breakdown of all police shootings. You can filter by race, if they had a weapon, mental illness, fleeing. In all of 2017 22 individuals were killed that were reported to be unarmed and not fleeing. https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/police-shoo...
There's a better solution, to your problem: pass an "index object" as the argument to operator[].

So `T& operator[](index_t)`, where `index_t` could just be a tuple.

a[{1, 2}] = 12;

This has virtually the same syntax, will be compiled in the same way by any modern compiler, and lets you create special index types that have invariants (suppose you want i0 < i1).
Your blog posts are interesting, thank you for that. I have questions though: Since you are using both Terraform and Packer from HashiCorp, do you happen to use Nomad too? If you do, what is your experience with it? Can you compare Nomad vs. Kubernetes?
I would recommend checking https://thelayoff.com.

Even if your company isn’t undergoing layoffs it’s still a fascinating source of corporate news.

Also if GM is going to outsource their IT, at this stage in American History, such a stab in the back can never be forgiven and they should proceed cautiously.

NOTE: I don’t work for GM, just your standard big-tech tech company
Rent vs. Own comes down to controlling your own harvest: renting means you may miss out, sometimes by weeks, of optimal harvest. You may have had to book a harvest weeks or months in advance. You may have to fork over cash months in advance. You may have to pay even if a field's yield is ruined due to summer floods.

If you own, you can select even segments of fields to harvest at more optimal times (a down grade, or wetter, portion of a field may harvest differently than an uphill, drier portion).

It sucks either way.
How limiting do scientists in China find the Great Firewall?
lol this is such dumb advice and a sure way of getting fired.
Gene modifications slips in to rest of the population, other changes don't. You can think of every human being as virus out to infect others with its genes ;).

Given how so many parents are desperate about their kids to succeed in the super-competitive world, this is bound to become a trend - especially in middle class population who have money for the procedure but aren't rich. In China, Japan, there is cutthroat fight for getting in best schools, be the most attractive etc. These parents are also very easy to be mislead with incorrect/incomplete information.
I wouldn't sign it, but if the severance was greater than or equal to 9X my last annual salary then I would consider it.
I am by no means an expert (or even a frequent user) of go. However, the most unfortunate foot cannon I have encountered is this:

package main

type HowOdd interface {
Poke() string
}

type AConcreteThing struct {
}

func (t *AConcreteThing) Poke() string { return "hehe" }

func DoAConcreteThing() *AConcreteThing {
return nil
}

func DoAThing() HowOdd {
return DoAConcreteThing()
}

func main() {
lolWhat := DoAThing()

if lolWhat != nil {
panic("How could this happen?")
}
}

I understand that the interface at the bottom is a non-null interface containing a null value, but...damn, that sucks.