skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Sounds like good motivation to do shit work just to get it done on time.

You say this like it's obviously a bad idea. Why?

The more work you do, the better it will be, even if you're not trying for any particular quality level. Most people have much more of a problem with the amount of the work they do than with the quality.

I read of an experiment conducted on a college pottery class. Half of the class was told they would be graded on the quality of the pots they produced. The other half was told their grade would be determined by gathering all the pots they turned in, smashing them, and weighing the pile of shards. The heavier the pile, the better the grade.

The grade-by-weight group turned in higher-quality pots.
The statement implies not to trust any computer, even those you can throw out a window (sorry, Woz).
A free fall safe guard is often mandated by law / regulation. A "shoot up slam into ceiling safe guard" is not.

That makes it simply a cost thing. Since most people don't know about this risk and there aren't many accidents there is simply too little incentive.
Indeed, reminds me of my favourite quote from the book: “When I look up, I see people cashing in. I don't see heaven or saints or angels. I see people cashing in on every decent impulse and every human tragedy.”
Thank you for this, one of the greatest comments I've read on HN. I have tears in my eyes. (Australia here)
Which one was the Finnish company doing sequencing?
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> If a person is a marketer they are devoting their lives to manipulating the minds of others and that's just terrible.

That's ridiculous. Marketing has much broader meaning than you might think and it might be valuable activity giving information and sensible desire to the potential customers.

Also you are manipulating the minds of others by posting a comment here.

The claim marketing "manipulating the minds of others" is just flat out pointless.
Where do you see this? I signed up for Nebula, but the 30X coverage is just greyed out.
There are also certain roads/paths that are bike only, through convention (bike lanes) or physical width restrictions.
Yes. It's currently being used by Tokamak Energy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gel3jV0Oifs
To be fair, Google regularly tries to grab GPS data using its 1e100.net domain (see above # for additional proofs). The only way I've found to block this kind of intrusion is NetGuard in "lockdown" mode.
I always used a series of arguments on the "I've got nothing to hide" mentality. I've always responded, with:

"Yes you do. Do you have curtains on your windows? Do you wear clothes? If you don't care about privacy, open your curtains and walk down the street naked."

But the fact is that apathy is so high, that people don't give a damn when they're installing some app -- we're too focused on getting what we want (at that moment in time), and really not caring about sending up personal details to the cloud.

When I try to talk about apps (eg Messenger, WhatsApp) that requires access to the contact list -- everyone I've spoken to really don't care. They don't care that my details are sent to some company (FB) because they want to use WhatsApp.

When I try to talk about state level surveillance, I try to liken it to some sleazy guy taking photos up a woman's dress. It's wrong, no matter how you go about it. Just because I'm "in public" in no way suggests that I should be subjected to a "fully exposed" surveillance system. The same goes for the internet.
Of course, this last part is non-legal rhetoric of mine, but I genuinely feel that if I think that I should have an expectation to privacy, regardless of my location, then the civil and polite thing to do is to respect that. State level surveillance all too easily disregards civility and politeness in the pursuit of their goals.
How is WSL working out so far?

I had a Sufrace Pro 4 for about a year, until I ditched it for a Dell XPS 13 running Linux (the Surface wouldn't run Linux properly). It happened when the x-org server suddenly stopped supporting retina/high DPI, and I couldn't figure it out after a couple of hours of fiddling. Definitely not something I want in my life.

The reason I needed an x-org server is that I use IntelliJ for my editing, and it doesn't support running stuff in WSL. So I had to run IntelliJ under WSL too, meaning I had to run an x-org server on the win10 side. It did work quite well really, except from the high DPI issue. And bad file system performance..

Currently experimenting working directly on win10 for a side project, that works quit well, actually. The tech stack is Rust and ClojureScript, both seems to work fine on windows so far at least.
But this is the point, apple was able to say no. In China you can play around but can't say no for too long.

I don't know much about China but the level of control the government has there is incomparable to any western country
"Criminalizing PR" is obviously criminalizing speech. It means you cannot post a comment on HN/reddit as a cloudflare CTO, cannot link to your commercial website on about section, etc.

And if only PR firms are regulated/criminalized, FB or whatever can still operate their own PR team. Then what is the point of the law?
Count me in the exact same situation. I left my last job because my mother in law's house was destroyed by Hurricane Harvey. I wanted to help fix her home, then move back to Chicago, and realign my career where I wanted it to go.

It has been a total disaster, exact same thing you quoted and your statement as well. Will I ever dare try to help someone else to that extent again? Or make an effort to better my career? No. Lesson learned, we're lucky to have jobs at all. I've done what both of you guys did, but for 6 months now. I feel at the limit of my sanity from all the interviews. I have so much to offer, a very solid background, solid references, I'm very well spoken and convincing- but I'm just not good enough or they're trolling the market as you so very well said. I have 10 years of experience, 8 in devops and 2 in webdev. I've started telling employers- tell me your stack and I'll be up to speed before my first day. I'm willing to work for peanuts.

At this point, I realize that I've picked my passion, but chose my career very poorly. My last company told me that the rule that HR had set for hiring was senior devs from the US, entry to mid level exclusively from from India. Going back in time, I'd have nothing to do with software. I would've picked a licensed profession, bonus points for one that offers a union. I'd probably become an electrician or do HVAC and start my own company.

I guess that's what opioids are for, to end ourselves. We are apparently not wanted nor needed in this industry, possibly the economy as a whole. I'm going to keep applying and interviewing, but I've now accepted that I'm going to slip out of the middle class. No way around it. Without my wife's public teacher's health insurance, I'd be in big trouble.

This economy and job market that everyone is talking about is a lie. If you're investment class, sure, things are great. There's an abundance of guys like us walking around. All the news articles saying how great it is had me completely fooled, I thought it was time to make my move. I'm not complaining about any of this, I'm tough as nails and forge on in every situation I've been in life. I can handle it, but I do think there's a good chance nothing comes up here I'm going to be delivering pizzas pretty soon. I do feel sorry for all the other folks who aren't as polished, have my resume, no criminal record, good credit, and without knowing someone at a company, outside of some very good luck, I don't think most of them have a chance in hell.
I tried about 10 different ones.

The final conclusion is that we should be as preventive as possible within the first steps.

This is where uBlock Origin comes in.

If the download bypasses the above extension, then use a combo of MBAM( malware) or RogueKiller( malware)+ZoneAlarm(anti virus and firewall)+ Cleaner( junk can be taken advantage by malware).
The great thing about automation is that it allows us to make so much more with each unit of labour, so we can afford so much stuff.
The downside of automation is that we have to keep on buying more stuff so that everyone has a job, and to keep the wheels turning.

Automation of all those jobs in the 18th century did lead to everyone getting better off and that was good because most people didn't have enough. Today (in the west at least) most people have enough. There's a limit to how much stuff you can buy, money is increasingly directed into property etc. And the jobs are becoming increasing less useful (service jobs growth, marketing job growth v traditional blue collar, white collar job stagnation / shrinkage).

To continue your thought experiment. What is everything were automated? No one would have a job to buy anything. I guess that's where the basic income crowd is coming from. Its unclear how you get from here to there though.
I'm more of a Formula 1 fan but even I've heard of Jeff Gordon. Not everyone know him though as this test drive shows.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nu9yiGUeqE
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Banco? By the same designer and mentioned in the article.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banco_(typeface)
Clearly, it didn't take 84 floors for the safety mechanisms to kick in. If it had, the passengers would have been in free fall for 84 floors, and suffered the same physical consequences as you would if you jumped off the 84th floor of a building.

Falling 84 floors isn't less dangerous if you end 10 stories above the ground than it is if you end on the ground.
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I think my biggest thought would be, assuming you had your genome sequenced, what could you do with it? I can think of a lot of theoretical things, but I think every inspection of that genome for something would cost money (possibly/probably more than the cost of sequencing). I may be wrong about that, though.
Ok I got your point,but I think that “maintaining control” with the ownership of a domain is the same way I maintain control of my website when I purchase the domain but I host in a service provider dc, right? Anyway I’ve heard really good things with Fastmail...might give it a try.
I agree. However, I don't think you should first at how moral or amoral they seem, but rather try to evaluate how credible their offer is. If their secure products make money, hopefully this kind of product offer will prevail, or at least survive within the beast.

Though, morality is part of corporate culture, and I think different cultures can have different levels of toxicity. Cough Oracle cough. If the corporation is too affected, it may be foolish to even waste time evaluating their, on paper, decent and secure offer. If you have reason to believe they will find a way to throw you under the bus anyway later on.
Entertainment sites like blogs or image boards, todo apps, note taking apps, recipe websites etc.

Basically PWAs allow you to build features that were only possible in native apps before.
Very good then, if we do this as Europe I say we do the same for any American company. There is _video_ proof of the NSA doing exactly the same thing they now accuse the Chinese of.
Interestingly they say Q20 >90%, Q30 >80%, on 100bp reads.

That’s much higher than I’ve seen reported for prior Complete/BGI datasets. Recently lower error rates have been reported, but I’m surprised to see them this low.

If this is true, it’s comparable to the error rates on Illuminas older instruments (the GA1s and 2s at least, if not Hiseqs).

Q20 is one error in 100. Q30, one error in 1000. I think Illumina average error rate (Novaseq) is >Q30 now.

Veritas Genetics were also offering a 200USD genome a while back. I think that was Illumina sequencing, but it was a very limited time offer.
People wonder why I loathe insurance companies. It's really upsetting how our modern world has gotten, thanks to legalized protection rackets.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_N900
Ah, you're comparing it to the old hardware keys. I see your point.
Well yes, the cheapest version of the furniture at ikea isn't exactly what I'd call sturdy, but try buying some of the more expensive stuff. It's still stupid cheap compared to other furniture stores and no worse quality.
Looks like it might require an extra graphics card, or something like that? I haven't looked into it in detail, but it doesn't look like this thing works on a MacBook.
Who needs two drivers when the trucks are self driving and can operate safely 24 hours per day?
TLDR;

While working for Qualcomm, Definers pushed the idea that Apple’s chief executive, Timothy D. Cook, was a viable presidential candidate in 2020.

Definers employees distributed anti-Apple research to reporters and would not say who was paying for it. Definers distributed a 13-page memo titled “Apple Bowing to Chinese Cyber Regulators” that detailed how Apple’s activity in China contradicted its public stance on privacy elsewhere. It also planted dozens of negative articles about Apple on conservative news sites.

Google has more recently been targeted with negative stories tipped to reporters by a group called the Campaign for Accountability. The group was quietly funded by the database maker Oracle.

Juul, which has been accused of marketing its e-cigarettes to children, is working with Definers to improve its public image.

The E.P.A. ended its contract with Definers last year after it was revealed that a Definers lawyer was investigating agency employees critical of the Trump administration.

A proposal sent to a potential Definers client last year, under a section labeled “Digital Platform Echo Chamber.”: “Definers manages NTK Network, a news aggregation platform that targets Washington D.C. influencers. Through NTK we can directly re-publish favorable news from other outlets, and work with like-minded individuals to help create an echo chamber effect,”

“The iPhone 8 Might Be Slower Than the Competition. Here’s Why” read a headline on an April 2017 story. NTK’s answer? The iPhones don’t use Qualcomm chips.

Definers’s focus on Mr. Cook extended to a campaign it ran to promote the Apple chief as a 2020 presidential candidate. A slick website titled “Draft Tim Cook 2020” had digital links to Definers employees.

This is one of the best piece I have read on how these next gen PR firms are molding public opinions in their favor with such an ease using new tools. The media is becoming echo chamber for content that is simply press releases in disguise. This is taking pg’s famous Submarine essay to quite another level.
Good analogy!

btw. I asked the question a year ago whether this whole "boss as a service" was viable and I think it is one of those things that you can't really imagine until you tried it out. I am glad there is now the opportunity to do so ;)

s. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13498466
It's the same one as implemented in MS Word (and PowerPoint, OneNote), this standard was written by an engineer who is on the Math in Office team and maintains a blog [1]. It's the best WYSIWYG equation editor I've used so far. LaTeX has its place, but it's hard to convince non-coders to use it and I'm glad it has the editor. I stumbled into this specification trying to format a constrained optimization problem and found the equation array format to be fairly straightforward similar to the bmatrix environment in LaTeX and thought it was neat that Unicode could represent so much math.

[1] https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/murrays/
Do euro vendors provide hardware for the whole chain?

I mean, from dslams, to routers, olts, cpe etc

If wanted to set up an ISP could I without buying non-eu vendors?
I don't want to fight with anyone either.

"when you say that we should rightly devalue women's work in comparison to medicine"

I said the opposite of this, with emphasis. It was my whole point. It's such a struggle to communicate through these repeated hostile misinterpretations. Please, please, read what I'm actually saying. There is nuance. This isn't a flame war. You're jumping to the conclusion that I think your personal daily struggles for years are worthless. This is not what I an saying at all.

It seems you are equating price with moral worthiness. It costs more to train a doctor than a homemaker. This is simple fact measurable in dollars. I don't think that this devalues women's work any more than it devalues a soldier's work because they are not paid well. But I guess you do see price as equivalent to moral value. That is a gap in worldview I can't cross; the counterexamples are so numerous I can't make sense of any statement based on such a premise.
> But population doesn't (in my opinion) determine importance. For example, the capital is a very important city even if not the most populous.

It goes the other way. Importance determines population. If the capital is not populous, that reflects the fact that the capital isn't especially important.

But assuming you're in a more or less steady state, that effect has already happened, so it's perfectly valid to just assume that importance and population are tightly correlated. The directionality doesn't really matter to the result.
The author of this paper, Murray Sargent, has a blog at https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/murrays/
Wait, are they saying 33 Kelvin is high temperature when it comes to super conductors?
The rest of the page until that point had been making me smile more and more. That line took me over the edge to full-fledged laughter for ten or more seconds, and a few hours later it’s still making me chuckle.
Am I? I think my original point still stands, which was nothing more than "there is an incentive for parents to sell their daughters" because they literally make money in doing so. In my second comment I provided an example of why this could be in conflict with the bride's interests.
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From the Wikipedia article on the 1991 Oakland Hills fire:

"Additionally, many narrow, winding roads in the area were crowded with parked cars, including many in front of fire hydrants; this prevented fire trucks and ambulances from getting to certain areas and connecting fire hoses."
That's what everyone wonders?
Traditionally (or at least when I was at University ~20 years ago) anything above 30 Kelvin is considered a high temperature super conductor.
It's also very possible they were falling slowly because the brakes kicked in. As far as I know having the lift slowly hit the buffer at the bottom shouldn't be a problem other than having to reset the buffer.
> I think they don't shadow ban people anymore since sometime after pg left.

That's false. They also take away your individual ability to post a thread or upvote. They do this silently.
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That's interesting; I was not aware of the exact circumstances around why this driver didn't exist. Do you know where I could look to find more detail on the state of development for this?
I get that's closer, but it's still not that useful, because it doesn't actually capture how people use the software and whether that's changing.

People communicate with me via FB messenger, and I respond to them. Otherwise I don't use the app. Am I an active user?

Once a day I open it, realise it's shit and vacuous, and importantly my SIL (the only person I still use it to keep up with) hasn't made any useful updates, so I close it 20 seconds later (this one is me, fwiw). Am I an an active user?

I don't post anything, I just scroll through the same 200 friends I'd had for 10 years, with no movement or differing usage. Am I an active user?

I don't use facebook as a social tool, I have no friends etc, but facebook groups are used in my area to buy and sell things. The second people move to another site I'd happily move. Am I an active user?
Being compared to the tobacco giants is one of the business world’s more toxic insults, but it is not the only unflattering analogy circulating. A lower blow is the suggestion that Facebook may become like Yahoo, the once high-flying internet firm that plunged.

The article is by The Economists, but I tend think the societal costs outweigh the financial to shareholders and employees.
There may be nice things to say about Veritas, but they charge an extra $99 for VCF files, and the actual raw data (FASTQ/BAM) is not available at any price (to you; Veritas has it). This is after you've paid $1,000 for sequencing.
Illumina’s margins on consumables are very high:

http://41j.com/blog/2018/11/illumina-consumables-are-90-prof...

Their overall gross margin is >60%. I suspect that instrument margins are actually also quite high, but they factor in R&D spending on instrument costs.

However, Dante labs appear to be using BGI, not Illumina for sequencing.
Do you actually have any firsthand experience with Chinese internet culture? There's plenty of discontent and protestation about government policy, it's everywhere.
In their website's footer, there is a link to Manasvini Krishna's Twitter handle - https://twitter.com/Manasvinik who is a woman.
> An alternative would be to keep accumulating data and only process it when there is no split link tag at the end, but this way we can return more data to the browser sooner.

> One thing I was initially worried about was having to modify the “content-length” response header from the original response since we are modifying the content. Luckily, the worker takes care of that automatically and it isn’t something you have to implement.

If the worker is able to do this for you it’s clearly waiting for all of the incoming data to be processed before it begins sending to the browser, so dealing with the incoming data as chunks is actually needlessly complex.
Totalitarianism is well-defined and there is no problem discerning it from a working democracy. I deliberately used the term to make it clear that it's completely irrelevant to the discussion which brand of totalitarianism is involved - it ranges from communism to the Nazi movement of the 3rd Reich.

To reply to the unjustified sentiments in the rest of your post and the ad hominem attack: I didn't justify anything, I tried to lay out the reasons that are given as the motivation of limitations of freedom of speech in existing EU countries.

These reasons are part of a much larger puzzle, and there are many more considerations to take into account - especially legal an procedural ones, but also democratic division of power issues - before a meaningful discussion of a particular measure of limiting freedom of speech could even begin.

Your reply is the typical example of the frequent use of false dichotomies in public discussions of such matters. It's resting on the obviously false dichotomy that either there is no free speech at all or absolute, totally unrestricted freedom of speech otherwise. Implicitly, it is probably also on the fallacious slippery slope argument that if you limit freedom of speech in some specific, highly controlled way (e.g. under direct judicial oversight with high hurdles), then the restrictions will still invariably worsen over time. That's highly doubtful, too, and at least you'd expect an argument for it.

Returning to the particular case: Yes, I do believe that Europe does this with good intentions. It's absolutely stupid to think anyone in the EU Parliament or in the EU commissions has bad intentions in general. There is no reason to attribute bad intentions to everyone who disagrees with you. As they say, the road to hell is paved with good intentions. No, I don't think this particular proposition is good in any way whatsoever, pretty much for the in my opinion correct reasons laid out in the mozilla blog.
Western arrogance and hypocrisy in all its glory.
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