skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And also GPL 2.

> The project is provided as an open-source dual BSD and GPLv2 licensed C library.

I don't understand how this works. "You either contribute back your changes or not". Wouldn't the BSD license be enough for that?
Not OP, but maybe credibility through established published history and network effects? Facebook sucks and yet...
The short term impact of letting the automakers fail would have been rough but in the long term we would have ended up with a more competitive economy.
> You have to realize publishers are in the reputation business.

That's right, and that's also why the prestigious researchers and universities, those with an already established reputation, have a responsibility: collectively leave the editorial boards of for-profit publishers, set up alternative venues with the help of university libraries. Share the archival, indexing and discovery effort among universities via peer-to-peer digital library federation.

All the tools are there. The same way that places like Stanford, Berkeley and MIT made MOOCs a thing, they can revolutionize scientific publishing.

There's already such venues such as JAIR for AI research (and that was set up looong ago without all the tech we have today), so it's certainly possible. It just needs to become the norm rather than the exception.
Reminds me of the time I claimed the Google SF office on Google maps.
Original article: https://www.coindesk.com/free-software-messiah-richard-stall....
Why Smart Professionals Track Their Shared Documents
How would author anticipate the freshness of that diagram? Not possible I say
Is this in the context of the DC law repos chronicled here?

If we are DC local how can we get involved?
I agree with much of what you're saying.

It feels like part of the problem is one of wording. 'Modern farming' sounds very positive -- who doesn't like modern things? I suggest that 'industrial farming' would be a better description, and invoke a more realistic mental image of what it involves.

Holmgren & Mollison formulated a more recent answer to the problems of sustainable food production than Haber & Bosch. So perhaps a system that doesn't rapidly render the land unproductive, and does not requiring an energy input roughly the same as the (food) energy output, could be considered more 'modern'.
Anonymous doesn’t have to mean secret, although it isn’t always trivial to achieve.
Just like McDonalds with its seating that is just the right amount of uncomfortable to get the customer out of there ASAP after eating, but not quite that uncomfortable that they wouldn't go there at all.

I feel this goes on a lot in retail as well, eg music in clothing stores. Also Ikea with its mazes and the milk always being at the furthest end of the supermarket.

As someone who is quite sensitive to such uncomfortable situations, I'm at the end of the bell curve that finds the whole experience so unpleasant that I just avoid stores mostly.
> Google Maps can't even do offline navigation and rerouting

Yes it can, you have to download the area in advance but I use it offline all the time as I have no mobile data plan on my phone.
No single entity needs to take the burden of developing the whole regional infrastructure themselves, they just need to do their own thing, for their own market, and accept Bitcoins for their own wallet.

There are exchanges in almost every country in Southeast Asia already, albeit each are fighting local battles with local regulators. They barely even know each other, but each victory strengthens the ecosystem as a whole.

I believe Square's cash app is the best approximate for this phenomenon. There are Square clones in almost every country, the moment they follow its lead in accepting Bitcoins is when the interoperability of Bitcoin will be more appreciated.
Looks cool! The problem of enumerating the best routes between two given airports is indeed an interesting problem. My favorite discussion of the problem is from Carl de Marcken: http://www.ai.mit.edu/courses/6.034f/psets/ps1/airtravel.pdf

I've been involved in solving a similar problem, on the award flight search side. There are about 12,000 direct commercial routes offering award redemption, and the airline websites have different limitations: some only let you search one-way or only round-trip, or only one cabin at a time, or only give hints about available quantities. So you have to formulate the minimal set of queries that will give you complete information. And then given an origin and destination, figure out the valid routings, like you've discovered.

The other really interesting challenge with many of the airline websites are the extreme measures they go to, to block you from crawling their data. My favorite is British Airways, which runs 800 different tests to fingerprint your browser, from generating audio files to drawing to an off-screen canvas, all inside a custom VM with encrypted byte code. (Similar to how I've seen Google obfuscate the ReCaptcha code base.) Surprising to hear that Ryanair makes it so easy to access prices in comparison!
Cortical control of a tablet computer by people with paralysis
> What Google needs to do is lock information for verified businesses or businesses they’re directly scraping from the Corp location pages.

Here are a few problems with that:

1) Businesses also have incentives to spam by adding lots of vaguely-related words to names, categories and description.

2) Businesses forget that they claimed the listing, and so stale info remains locked for too long.
Organic food can still use pesticides. It's a curated whitelist to be sure, including things such as soap and alcohol. But it is not pesticide free.
This used to be a tool to do it, but it hasn't been kept up to date with changes to image creation and storage.
https://imagelayers.io
Like the mobile app itself, Google Maps offline maps are also vector based.
I always find [lrzip](https://github.com/ckolivas/lrzip) is under appreciated when it comes to compression discussions; it doesn't suit all circumstances, but it works really well in the ones it does (we're using it with the nocompress flag and then using zstd, hence why it comes to mind :-) )

Edit: it's not well suited to real-time...
Not sure about that, it does seem quite effective, though.

Having the compiler emiting it wouldn't be an option, as hardware enabled solutions seem to be the only ones accepted by C devs, as shown by SPARC and now ARM.
the first edit is HIV resistance, not a bad way to start the black mirror episode that is the rest of our lives from now on.
Yup, that's correct.
Side-loading apps used to require switching the phone to a developer mode which disabled certain security restrictions in Android. They made it so any user could do it, including users without the technical chops to understand the ramifications.

Likewise, rather than having Apple review entitlements and for entitlements to privacy-impacting features like location or the camera be approved by the user at runtime, Google put a screen that asked users without the proper technical knowledge to make an evaluation a decision - either allow things that sound scary, or abort running the app.

The App Store review process is an abstraction that allows normal users to decide they trust the system to limit abuse so that they don't have to learn how to evaluate entitlement policies. Putting roadblocks to side loading apps (as you seem to know, still possible on iOS, but harder) means you don't have third parties convincing users to agree to security changes they don't understand.

This is not an open vs closed argument, since it is theoretically possible to build an open system with such features exposed opt-out with sufficient gymnastics. But that is a lot harder, and there is no financial motivation by Apple (or Google, or Microsoft, or any of the console vendors) for doing so.
I hope he's successful.

Even though I will probably never buy an Apple because they are user-hostile, I don't mind paying for privacy on my devices.
in vitro sex selection (mostly for male children) has been going on for a long time, seems the next logical step:

https://www.google.com/search?&q=in+vitro+sex+selection+chin...
https://apnews.com/4997bb7aa36c45449b488e19ac83e86d

Has more info
Probably a small price to pay for scammers, and I wonder/doubt if anyone actually confirms the details - yes, it might be possible after the fact, but by that point the damage is done.
They're recognized under NHTSA's MFSAB classification, which IDOT allowed (Illinois Public Act 96-410, Illinois Public Act 97-378) for non-mandatory school-related activities that do not include transportation between home/bus stops/school, provided the aforementioned six-monthly safety checks are up to date.

Illinois Public Act 97-896 and Public Act 99-888 extended this to include mandatory school activities but only when driven by a driver with a school bus driving permit.

Here's the most important bill: http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/publicacts/fulltext.asp?Name...
A similar approach is taken in this Obligatory mention: https://compilers.iecc.com/crenshaw/
The edited gene is for CCR5, which currently doesn’t have known function, but is the entry point for HIV. So editing for prophylaxis. This was probably done because if there aren’t a ton of loss of function beneficial traits, and probably with the main desire to be first. Except, if the reports are true, this is not just an experiment but a person (or people). I guess the main desire is to normalize editing. Brave new world I guess, whether we like it or not.
I understand Ontario has very high electrical rates and labor rates. There is also the issue of the Federal Governments new Cap and Trade policy although I don't know if GM received a waiver. Did these things maybe cause GM to close the plant?
Riemann Hypothesis Solved?
Control flow can also be manipulated via memory corruption, making the existing code take other decisions, due to non valid semantic states.
I had similar thoughts. Before I started learning how to program Rust.

All your arguments ( standardisation, maintainability, extenseability, readability) are true, but they are not necessarily always brought to you by (ab-)using OOP.

I experienced that OOP can be at times something that can make people see everything as a nail, because all they have got is a hammer. In the end a lot of the real work a piece of code is the transformation of data. OOP often distracts inexperienced programmers from this, which leads to unnecessary complexity in bussiness logic and interfacing alike.

Thinking in the line of data transformation is useful because you will focus on two things: how to do this transformation fast/simple/extensible and what the most useful abstraction over said transformation is.

You can (and given some complexity, must) achieve all of the mentioned attributes without using classes at all. And sometimes taking classes away can make things so much better.
would this be useful for visualization of hierarchical data? or does it have to be network data structure?
This is quite interesting. There is a certain very small percentage of the world's population that is immune to the HIV virus. These people's T-cells have the CD4 receptor, but not the CCR5 receptor. The HIV virus needs both these receptors to successfully affect the host's cells. The absence of the CCR5 receptor still allows the person's T cells to function normally, so if this works, it can pave the way to creating offspring who are immune to HIV
If you are in the US you can submit reports to the FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3).

https://www.ic3.gov/default.aspx
I guess time will tell if it leads to any adverse effects. I'm not a biologist which is probably why I'm more wary of this, but if there is some unforeseen circumstances then we'll find out I suppose.
Productive Windows keyboard shortcuts
Many people live alot more comfortably within a van than they do in their stationary home. They can go to the beaches during the summer weekends and go out to colorado during the ski season and bring their home with them. This is one of the many couples that are doing it these days:https://faroutride.com

If you get 90% of your home comfort in a finished conversion van and you save 50% if your wealth, it's a no brainer.

You'll also be avoiding the inevitable housing crash.

Why on god's green earth would an employer care about where you live?
The bailout cost tax payers $16 billion which has not been repaid. Nothing says gift louder than that.

In the meantime, they have been offshoring production of parts and vehicles like no one's business. I looked at a new full size truck, and it had 45% domestic content. Most of it is built in China and Mexico. The Ford that I purchased has 75% domestic content.
> It's "unconscionable ... an experiment on human beings that is not morally or ethically defensible," said Dr. Kiran Musunuru, a University of Pennsylvania gene editing expert and editor of a genetics journal.

This is 100% correct.

(COI: Kiran was my postdoc while I was a student in the lab a decade ago.)
Neither was turning a security update service into a marketing channel. But Microsoft did it anyway.
This is something that any number of scientists elsewhere in the world could have done but did not do because the technology is not tested and understood at a level that would make this safe. No competent ethics board would have signed off on this. This is troubling, not impressive.
WeChat and Alipay are here already, but the market is already fragmented when they arrive.

They also pose the risk of vendor-lock, which is worrisome to local businesses and regulators due to their links to China. It's one thing to have a locally-approved payments monopoly, it's another thing if that monopoly is foreign-owned.

If Southeast Asia wants to produce a region-wide equivalent to WeChat / Alipay, then an open, neutral & interoperable platform is the best way to do it, politically speaking.
the edit was also confirmed and voluntarily implanted in-vitro in willing participants.

It's ethically black as far as I am concerned but it has already happened so we must see where this takes us. IVF born edited zygotes might have serious complications but ideally its a healthy human being. (for everyone's sake)
In this case it seems more like a Bay Area thing where the politicians and bleeding hearts want to be soft on crime but then it quickly becomes a downward spiral... For example, cops don’t do anything about most property crimes and theft and treat it as an insurance problem, they’ll tell you to report it to 311. Then they stop caring about trespassing and loitering and litering. Then they let junkies on BART and other criminals who don’t pay because “they don’t have anywhere else to go, have a heart.” So they’re constantly enabling this criminal behavior by preventing any real consequences. Because the voters don’t demand change, the District Attorneys and Judges largely do nothing about it either. I’m a social democrat but San Francisco is a cesspit. Being liberal/progressive shouldn’t mean letting junkies take over you city, defrcate in the street, and destroy the public life for everyone else. We’ve got to start creating some boundaries for this behavior and that starts with actual consequences for crimes. I think BART might have to be fined for them to take it seriously.
Gender selection, will have adverse effect without a doubt, nature has a healthy balance between the number of men and women in the world, and certain culture preferring boys / girls will lead to us having too much of one and not enough of the other. There is already evidence of this in China and India.
Full Screen Color Tester
Asp.Net core seems to fit your requirements

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/?view=aspnetcor...
It’s no surprise this comes from China, the same country that grinds dead babies into pills.
There have been a good deal of medical and technological breakthroughs over the last couple decades. Reusable rockets, VR, machine learning, etc. This is the first article I have read that has made me realize that the future is right here, right now and there is a very high probability that things are now going to change rapidly.

One thing to consider is that via crispr and stem cell treatments, genetic changes can be affected in adults as well, you just need to wait for the kinks to be worked out now and apply large sums of money. Our definition of 'haves and have nots' is potentially going to change in ways we have never imagined.
> You have to realize publishers are in the reputation business.

Everyone realizes this. The problem is that you're abusing your position in this reputation system for profit. Do you think $40 is a fair price to read a paper from 1987? https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/109434208700100...
I think the grandparent was being a bit tongue-in-cheek.
a giant leap

i had thought this wouldnt happen for another few decades

this is bad news for tibetans since their high altitude gene is known even the andes high alt adaptations are being discovered which is really one of the closest things to a genetic super ability you can get

so it will only be a few decades more until this last barrier to han colonization of tibet falls

deep sea diving is another such genetic ability recently investigated
Bitcoin doesn't echo real world evolution e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bretton_Woods_system
It’s so funny when you think about it. People are scouring the globe looking for places to put their money. They’ll hire armies of people to look for places to put their money. If I remember right Felix Dennis talked about this a lot in his book.
Your blog post appears to be conflating Google Maps with MyMaps. MyMaps lets people create & publish their own maps with random POIs: for example, here's a map of nice wineries around Melbourne.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1mtgpe7JU9OtHUUdvG_A6Uq0eTp...

However, these do not show up in the "main" Google Maps, and adding spam to them isn't any more effective than adding spam to a random website.

Disclaimer: I used to work at Google Maps.
I always reach that website when I randomly hit my keyboard in the browser's address bar to see if my internet connection is working.

Seems to be a great domain.

(Colemak user here)
There are many people that are CCR5 null (largely in Africa due to positive selection for HIV resistance), so it's unlikely to have much effect, but still...

edit: I'll also amend the statement, as the gene is implicated in responses to other viruses: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CCR5#Potential_costs
Perhaps this is true. I do not know. But human enhancement through genetic engineering is coming. Changes in traits, such as IQ, by 5+ standard deviations looks possible. We would be fools to outlaw it here, for we would become as children compared to future citizens of nations that do not share our taboos.
Software/system mentioned by RMS: GNU Taler - https://taler.net/en/
Discussion about GNU Taler: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15274110
I think the question is not so much the effect of a lack of CCR5 but rather the accuracy of the genetic procedure and whether or not anything else was unintentionally affected. If it was accurate and only desired change was implemented, we have opened pandora's box.
People aren't nation-states who take game theory to its logical conclusion.
Most people have facebook and instagramm on their phone which could be already seen as "chatting apps". I don't use them for chatting.

I use

1. WeChat

2. WhatsApp

3. Threema

4. Frozenchat, a Jabber client with OTR support

Don't have signal yet.

Ah, and I can "chat" via Text message too :-)
Yep, the government did take a loss on GM. Sometimes investments don't pan out. Investments still aren't gifts.

If it was a gift, who was it a gift to? It wasn't a gift to GM shareholders who received none of it. If the bad-guy in this situation is greedy shareholders looking to layoff workers, they didn't get the government's money.

One can certainly argue against the investment. However, it's hard to say it's a gift. Who was the recipient of that gift? If anything, it would have to be the workers who didn't face mass-unemployment in the wake of a crumbling auto industry.

If the government hadn't bought GM's assets, workers would have been out of jobs very quickly. During the economic crisis, no one had the available capital to take on that risk. The government's investment meant that most of those workers saw stability (or as close to that as could be had).

If you're on the workers' side, the government bailout is the side you need to be on. Shareholders lost everything while workers (for the most part) kept their jobs and benefits. Yes, there have been layoffs and contract re-negotiations, but that's nothing compared to the chaos of tens of thousands of people suddenly jobless concentrated in areas that don't have a lot of other employers (and during an economic crisis).

That doesn't mean that everything is perfect. However, the bailout benefitted workers, not shareholders who lost everything.
calling an opinion "100% correct" seems 100% indefensible
> Perhaps this is true. I do not know. But human enhancement through genetic engineering is coming. Changes in traits, such as IQ, by 5+ standard deviations looks possible. We would be fools to outlaw it here, for we would become as children compared to future citizens of Asian nations.

What is the relevance of "Asian nations?" to this conversation?

Also, we're talking about a specific experiment that was allegedly conducted in human beings with (good but error-prone) genome editing mechanisms, outside of the purview of peer review or, from what I can tell, an IRB.
Since Elon Musk is Canadian, maybe Tesla will buy the operations and start building Teslas in Oshawa?
Good, imo.
kevinpet says>"...nothing I've read has proposed any mechanism whereby it could evolve..."[italics mine]

If a biochemical mechanism exists then it is possible for it to be conscripted in evolution. Its not as if something called "evolution" sits around waiting for permission (and from whom and when?). Instead, a gene is modified randomly and blam a new mechanism occurs (or doesn't, mostly) which either enhances replication and persists in the genome or doesn't. In the long run you'd expect all chemical pathways possible to be eventually probed many, many times by evolution.
Vue Form Components
Small, minimalistic design project on Vue for quick creation of forms with validation

https://github.com/antonreshetov/vue-form-components
They are arguing that the janky, hamstrung progressive web app infrastructure for iOS is a replacement for a native app.

Sadly, due to Apple forcing everything to use Safari's browser engine, PWAs are redheaded stepchildren on iOS: https://mobile.twitter.com/jbogard/status/104788904642763161...
Since this implies that you find this action more than 0% defensible, I'm curious to hear your defense of it.
Tested my POCO F1 here. No issues found. :)
have you seen Lightning network? it is a second layer on top of Bitcoin that allows near instantaneous transactions for basically zero fee. people are using it today to buy stuff although it is still in beta testing.
"an experiment on human beings [is] not morally or ethically defensible" is not an opinion but an assertion of how genetic editing fits into our current moral and ethical frameworks.
When I first read this comment I thought it was hyperbole (I've heard about the vaccine and melamine scares -- which harmed and killed many thousands of children -- but not about dead babies being put into pills). But no, it's real fucking thing[1,2,3,4]. What the actual fuck. How is a Hacker News comment the first time I've heard of this?

[1]: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/05/ho...
[2]: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-17980177
[3]: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-05-08/south-korea-cracks-do...
[4]: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/southkorea/9...
I mean I worked with people at Kmart who had fairly quick intellects and encyclopedic knowledge of some random thing like radios, definitions of words, and every pop hit of the last several decades