skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The ability to match dna to individuals is sadly pretty easy and even the idea that you can "de-identify" dna is the elephant in the room for things like HIPPA since dna is the most identifiable thing a person has.

Looking at things like this - https://phys.org/news/2013-03-easy-identity-cell.html

https://33bits.wordpress.com/about/

etc

Having DNA and just looking at the traits that person has will reduce the population down to a pretty manageable number. Any other bits - location, gender, etc will be enough to make an educated guess to an almost certain one. This will not become more difficult to do in the future.
At home, it's usually not an issue. But working in airports or coffee shops I'm often amazed at the disregard others have for high-end equipment. I always try to position myself in a low-traffic zone, but sometimes that isn't always possible so MagSafe is a godsend.
Why would it not be possible? Considering how quickly the price has been falling [0], I would assume the price to be fairly close to $200-$300 by this point. Some are even targeting $100 soon [1]. It's also worth noting that this is an extreme sale, so they may be running at a loss or no profit, mostly for brand building. I definitely hadn't heard of them before today.

[0] https://www.genome.gov/27541954/dna-sequencing-costs-data/

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/10/illumina-wants-to-sequence...
I'm calling bullshit on all these claims of "massive productivity boosts" when switching to Vue. What on earth were you doing in React that was so unproductive? Maybe if you're bogging yourself down with a bunch of absolute garbage like immutable and redux-saga, but you can hardly blame React then.
> Takeaway - evacuate early, nobody ever died from evacuating needlessly.

That's simply not true. The evacuations of Fukushima Daiichi have come under substantial criticism [1] for causing unnecessary harm, including deaths. Not everyone is a young and healthy mobile person able to evacuate and return home unaffected, especially if you consider the living conditions they must endure during the evacuation - not everyone can afford a hotel.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_nuclear_disa...
Chrome is probably the biggest culprit. It is awfuly inefficient on macOS
Dr. Tyson might want it.
Compared to services like 23andMe, how much more informational or actionable would a whole genome sequence be in comparison?
What if the money was donated regardless. But if you fail it goes to an organization you don’t like.

For instance say I don’t like Donald trump. If I fail my money goes to trumps reelection fund. But if it succeeds it goes to a charity that buys malaria nets for poor communities around the planet.
That would mean knowing the intricacies of Huawei source code, which would imply that they are a shill
If you prefer Webtask, check out this boilerplate I published last week. https://github.com/semireg/webtask-webpack
AWS’s user interface is inconsistent, and as someone who uses most of the different services in a given week - the DevOps, NetOps, and developer portions - I just don’t use the website that often during a given day, I’m almost exclusively either using one of the SDKs or the CLI.

Out of all the things I care about, the user interface is not one.
Thats why we have Java / Rust / Python / CSharp.
> parents are already accountable to the daycare to pick up their kids

In the absence of consequences, they are obligated but not accountable to the daycare.

> and the payment enabled them more flexibility and actually reduce the accountability.

No, it replaced ethical obligation (which, insofar as it is accountability, is accountability to self) to defined-consequence accountability to the daycare, which in practice negates ethical obligation in favor of transactional accountability.

How that works out in price depends on the weight of the ethical rule involved for the individual vs the weight of the assigned consequence; it is counterproductive where you replace a strong ethical obligation with a weak consequence.

People often overlook that other people have ethics; that's actually useful self-protection in many situations, but it backfires when you undermine common ethics in an effort to create incentives and manage to replace it with weaker incentives than the target audience had from ethics in the status quo ante.
" Given a free market (remember that?)"

Huawei is a state-backed organization working from a closed, controlled economy where not even information, let alone products, services and capital flow freely.

So if the cost of having to inspect every single piece of Huawei gear, plus check and load the software still keeps them 'competitive' then it might be worth it to outsiders, but probably not.

Given that it's commodity gear, perhaps someone will come along, say from Taiwan ... and produce the same thing at competitive costs, wherein security is not a factor and then, yes, that entity would be poised to dominate on price.
Well, I cheat here, I admit: I use a lap desk when I'm in the living room (which I am now). When I'm out, I'm usually at a coffee shop and not worrying about whether it can be on my lap.

The Studio Neat "Canopy" for the Magic Keyboard provides a support that works with an iPad in my lap, although I don't love it.
There's so much money in web apps now that your average team is flooded with mediocre devs. These joints need "bondage and discipline" languages and frameworks to be productive. It's better business value to have your 50 work-a-day devs productive than your 2 rockstars.
To beat the game, you have to wait 24 hours or change the domain.
Yes, that makes sense. The fine changes the consequence to something that can be rationally weighed. Too low and people willingly pay it, so it needs to be higher. Automatic fine increases allow the fine to be customized to each parent so all of them eventually stop being late.

It doesn’t really matter if the parents see the fine as “a fine” or an unaffordable, automatically billed service if it’s priced right.
It's an arbitrary choice in the sense that plenty of people enjoy and rely on headphone jacks and that the benefits of switching aren't exactly major.

That's still not what arbitrary means.
I don't think it's defending chinese companies as much as it is highlighting that companies on both sides are susceptible to more or less the same type of government control.

I personally think it's something worth mentioning when it's the most common reason cited for avoiding a chinese company.
>But don't forget all smartphones are pwned.

This is the safest assumption
Orbit-Db for IPFS

Its just Node.js

You won't be bottlenecked by the language if you are using P2P services. If you want threads, spin up another compute instance, and your provider will do that for you.
I vouched for (undeaded) your comment, since I think the flagging/downvoting runs contrary to the principles of discourse we're (at least implicitly) celebrating here, smelling of tribalism/favoritism. Just because you view someone favorably, and someone else claims something negative about that person, doesn't mean you just get to flagbomb them into oblivion.

The right response here is simply to ask for further substantiation, as danso did. It's not clear to me that the mods are directly responsible for what you've experienced. If you haven't, I would contact them for clarification.
I'd be curious about that. :) I use Blink shell for ssh/mosh and can run, well, anything that I can run on a Linux server that way, so it's not impossible that if I really get an urge to code I'll set something up that way. So far what I've done is use Working Copy, which is a slightly arcane but powerful git client for iOS that registers itself as a "file provider," meaning any other editor that knows about file providers can open up repositories as if they were file systems.
> as it is highlighting that companies on both sides are susceptible to more or less the same type of government control.

Except they aren't. Just the fact that you mention "both" sides shows your ignorance. The alternative to Huawei, as I have mentioned, is not an American corporation it is a European one (Ericsson or Nokia). This isn't a case of the American government forcing allies to abandon Huawei so an American corporation can profit.
It’s quite possible but nobody knows what the harappan people spoke. I am not an expert in this area but I am not sure there are Semitic fossils in the modern non-PIE-derived languages of the subcontinent.

But I am not an expert so this is simply my surmise. There’s plenty of tantalizing evidence against my guess!
yeah man. I am a parent right now and I can't even think of leaving my kids to work in another country full time w/o my family.
> People can at least take it to streets and demand facts, which is not possible when we are talking about China.

I agree the US is better about permitting public protest. But if the directors of these US agencies can lie to Congress[0] without consequence then does it really matter?

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2014/01/27...
And that means everything. 0.4X coverage for whole genome is essentially worthless.
I was working on an archiving tool a little while back, though I haven't touched it recently.

It would recursively convert a page into a single URI. Chrome seems to have a limit for URLs, but Firefox doesn't, so far as I can tell.

Copy the contents of [0] into your URL bar, and you'll see not just the page, but the Python script is embedded in it too. (It's a bit long to dump onto a forum page).

[0] https://shakna.keybase.pub/offlineweb
DAT and IPFS
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In geosciences, still many. Some leading ones: carbon sequestration, mineral resources (mining and associated environmental and political risks), origin of moon, earthquake prediction, age and Earth conditions of origin of life, magnetic reversals, mechanisms and speed of recovery from mass extinctions.

In all of these, earth scientist are likely to work across diverse size (diatom to outcrop to mountain range to solar system) and time (the lifetime of an organism, a species, an ecosystem, a biome) scales gathering data to create models. What do past carbon isotope ratios tell us, what's the size of the atmosphere. X-ray crystallography, surface area of a large copper deposit.

Geologists' datasets may be small for creating complex models, and they often are looking at unique processes, so they frequently write their own programs.
I build custom desktops on which I install linux. My router runs linux. I have a thinkpad on which I've installed... you guessed it linux.

I'd love to give something like the librem phone a whirl but I really can't upgrade from my nexus 5 just now.

I am just calling out Apple for boiling a bunch of frogs slowly.
None of my translator friends has had anything good to say about those tools, though admittedly I know a small skewed sample of more technically-inclined types.
You can still search Chrome though

https://cs.chromium.org/
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I think part of the is ambiguity over what the "cloud" is; is hosted exchange/active directory cloud computing? Is hosted Oracle DBs cloud computing? I think analysts are estimating that 18% of commercial cloud revenue is Azure, which, you're right would put it ahead of Google, but what exactly is getting sold under the Azure umbrella? I'm pretty sure their Active Directory stuff gets sold as part of Azure.

And while this may be splitting hairs, I think it matters what they're actually selling. If they're moving on-prem customers to SaaS, that doesn't seem like a particularly useful comparison, since we already know MS sells a tonne of proprietary software to enterprise.
Is there anything more to it than carving a piece of silica and ligating the adapters to the surface? I mean, I know the process is a bit more involved than that but the patents make it seem relatively straightforward.
Sure, the FISC isn't amazing from a rule-of-law and transparency point of view. But it's still a court made up of judges whose day jobs are serving in the regular courts, and if you compare the amount of public literature, legal analysis and news reporting on the operation of FISA and the US natsec apparatus in general to China...
I don't think it's legal in most places for me to rent your mom.
If you search for

UX DX

you will find lots of hits about.
There seem to be several individuals making the claim that you can boot linux if you disable secure boot I have heard zero people claim that linux can access the internal device.

As far as I can see all primary sources are saying the same things. Then people who don't have the hardware are misreading said reports and spreading misinformation.

I don't have the hardware either so I can give you no direct report myself. I just bothered to read what people are saying instead of skimming and guessing.
Working with Microservices and Kubernetes
Can't speak to AWS, but I know that the e-commerce side of Amazon.com is A/B tested to within an inch of its life. They test absolutely everything, including colors, size, layout, spacing, etc to check for the best conversion rate. They have a huge team of developers and designers working just on this site optimization and they're constantly running experiments.

It may not be good UX as measured by some aesthetic standard or set of best practices, but the site is accomplishing its goal for Amazon and arguably the consumers who use it.
Then that company has an incredibly broken interview process and is going to miss out on quality talent. And if that is a filtering tactic it's probably a shitty company to work for.
To quote @kibblesmith: "Amazon is a $250 billion dollar company that reacts to you buying a vacuum by going THIS GUY LOVES BUYING VACUUMS HERE ARE SOME MORE VACUUMS"
Even with the 6 you lost one-handed use, the ability to set the phone on edge on a flat surface, and pocketability.
I haven't seen much about the 'hacks' taking place. Are investigators seeing actual backdoors? Or just poor code being exploited in the wild? If it's the latter then the US could be accused of the same with Cisco in the early 2000's as exposed by FX.
My favorite is the fake menu on the homepage: the Prime “menu”, ie word with arrow, always shows an ad, no matter if you’re a member or not.
The genes don’t even have to be the same when you have two samples from a person: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090715131449.h...
You think the types of governmental control are the same between US and China? It seems clear that at least a few US corporations successfully resist meddling attempts.
Ask HN: Why no HN merchandise?
I for one would love to wear an HN t-shirt. Can somebody make this happen?
Does that mean there's no difference between a thinking mass of neurons asking you to remove the brain tumor, vs. the tumor that only expresses "grow"? If you would help that person remove the tumor, you're exposing a qualitative difference between the thinky bits and the not-thinky bits. If you wouldn't, then you're absolutely ridiculous.
Pointless article
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Unfortunately they can't publish the GP's (convincing) comment in the New York times.
Ritalin helps, still have a problem after resolving anxiety, big problems, you do the math. I'm not an expert but it sounds like it might be relevant.
It is a "preview" and currently does not contain any information about service workers. I did not realize that until I created an account, invested some time clicking through a bunch (too many) dialogue boxes, and was presented with a message that part 2 would be emailed to me. I do not currently feel enticed, I feel a bit annoyed. Nice flash animation but the title promises to teach something and that is misleading and should be changed.
A good job as a software engineer that pays me generously enough to meet all my basic needs and enough leftover to feel a level of security and help out my family when they need it. Far too many people in the world have to live without financial security and I'm thankful that I have it.
Despite what the shortened URL may look like this covers the US minor that Trump assasinated too.

https://theintercept.com/2017/01/30/obama-killed-a-16-year-o...

These were not just collateral damage. It took 2 strikes to get the older brother. It's unclear how many were done to get the sister. At least publically all that is known about the father in terms of wrong-doing was making videos about how US foreign policy was damaging on youtube. They say he's a 'bad guy' but there's never been any evidence given. He was taken out long before they went back in to get the kids.
We are a tiny shop and I use ansible whenever possible. Even managing two or three ec2 instances with the UI is a nightmare. IMO that's a feature - you should start with a cms when small. Not bolt it on when it is too late. I'm looking into terraform though. Ansible's aws support is fairly limited.
I bought a MacBook Pro 13" earlier this year as a replacement for my 2014 MacBook Pro 15". I kinda wanted to smaller version for travel.

But about a month ago, the screen broke down. Had to get repairs. And the service center told me I'd have to wait 2 weeks to get it fixed. That would mean I wouldn't be able to work for 2 weeks which would cost me money. So I bought a 27" iMac and worked on that ever since.

My MacBook Pro is repaired, but I will probably sell it soon. The screen breaking down so soon got me worried, since in the past I had an iMac with a faulty motherboard and it died on my 3 times - not willing to take the risk of the screen dying multiple times.

I also really don't like the keyboard. I am quite concerned the keys might get stuck at some point. And even though before I didn't mind the Touch Bar that much, I really prefer just normal function keys that I can feel.

So my plan is, when I visit The Netherlands next week to visit some family and friends, will sell the MacBook on the Dutch equivalent of eBay and buy an iPad for travel. I live in Thailand on the country side and I believe in this area the MacBook Pro would be too expensive for most people, so it'd be a hard sell over here.

I have to admit, I feel Apple is going in the wrong direction with the MacBooks and especially with regards to the keyboard quality. Though I've read that the 3rd generation keyboards should be decent I am not willing to try them out (I believe my MacBook Pro still has a 2nd gen keyboard).
Ban Chinese companies cause of security risks, but import millions of Chinese into the west. lel
Live test - Google always listening to your microphone?
In reality I use it to do partial stashes more often than partial commits.

That said, you could extend your argument such that you should always commit every touched file but that would be awful.
> giving parent resources

While xfitm3 was being rude, do you honestly think the OP was unaware of suicide hotlines?
Why is it clear that the government cannot function if the census bureau doesn't collect PII?
Ιnternet: The 25 worst password you can use – FrontNet Blog
You can't fix this because of your government not only applying your own countrymen to spy on each other; it also applies foreign powers to do the same.

Example: Some weeks ago the United States decided to sell out the fingerprints of 210 Million American citizens with the Netherlands, a tiny nation with aprox 20mil inhabitants and a insanely bad track record when it comes to infosec.
This dot on the map is now enabled to unlock millions of phones, empty bank accounts, create compromat and so much more.. .

Edit: The only source I have is in dutch: https://www.trouw.nl/home/nederlandse-vingerafdrukken-worden...
How did you get that? Apple has never published per-model sales stats to my knowledge. Could you share the source?

2015 MBP was available until this July, non-touchbar 13" still is. The fact that the new Air got TouchID but not TouchBar could as well be a hint that it's non-touchbar models that were making most sales.
https://outline.com/2uT8zG
What's even worse than exposing the data is that they knew about it for a year and just left it exposed.
Hi there Ethereum has a suit of P2P platform like Swarm (https://medium.com/coinmonks/setting-up-a-multi-node-private...) , an alternative to IPFS & Wisper for messaging they call Web3

As a rust dev I would recommend Rust-Web3

https://github.com/tomusdrw/rust-web3
More of a side note, but I've noticed a very recent trend on a dating app of profiles including their Meyers-brigg info.

Meyers Briggs is complete trash, I could easily get any result I wanted to. And at the end of the day it doesn't give any useful insight.
it's disappointing that apparently if there is no connection it just throws the data away. I'd prefer if it saved it locally and uploaded when it can
But it’s apparently okay to talk Sh!t about your mom in CSGO?
I went back home 2 weeks ago. My home is not part of the first world bubble that some people live in.

Obviously this just anecdata but let me tell you that wireless headphones/earbuds have not even been a consideration for most people. Heck, even first world countries have lots of people still using wired earbuds for most use cases.

I heard lots of grumbling about the loss of headphone jacks. I never even once heard someone say "this is not waterproof? I won't buy it!"
Nobody should be in chronic pain. Please do not conflate instances of pain with chronic pain.
Having all my extremities working perfectly, no diseases or major health issues.

Being born in a country with decent standards of living (Chile). Yeah, it's not as good as the US or Switzerland, but it's much better than every other latinamerican country, and better than most of the world.

Having access to the Internet, you guys understand better than anyone else why it's such a privilege.

Speaking English. I learned as a teenager playing videogames (Morrowind <3) and browsing sites like reddit. Now I don't have to worry about it like everyone else around me, I already know it.

Curiosity. I always want to understand how things work, in fact, it's what gives meaning to my life: Understading and applying the knowledge to create cool things.
And Org mode.
> Maybe, but there's much more work that needs doing to secure PII than just not having plaintext passwords. So, they can seemingly avoid doing all that work too, and maintaining those systems (with staffing costs).

If the regulators catch someone breaking a rule like this, the consequence should obviously involve an audit that looks for other violations and requires them to fix those too.

But even if it didn't, your conclusion wouldn't follow, because they would still have no incentive to fix the other problems unless they expected to get caught for not fixing them. But if they did expect to get caught then the numerous predicted small fines would be a sufficient deterrent.

> It would certainly be nice to imagine all the 2 million UK corporations are addressing PII security rather than hiding and hoping not to get a fine

It's the hiding and hoping not to get a fine that's the reason large fines don't work. Higher penalties can't deter someone who doesn't expect to be caught.

What works is smaller penalties with vigorous enforcement.
It depends. If you have, as we do at my work, a pre-commit hook that runs acceptance tests on each commit, and if the changes you've made are to get it to work on your local, then leaving those changes in for the test run is really the only option.

Should I get those changes committed? I should. But that involves a lot more testing and thought, since it still has to work for other people with different local dev setups.
dear me, thank you for being me.