skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> GDPR, here we come!

I wish I had that card to play! For that specific provider in the example, their ToS explicitly says that, other than your login credentials, they're allowed to do and distribute any and everything they want with any data they collect from the usage of their service[1]. I'd be really curious to see exactly what usage is hiding behind that clause.

> This would be a wonderful way to financially DDoS some organization you just don't like very much.

Right?! It was mind boggling to learn how easily abused of a system it is. Their ToS even states that it's your problem, not theirs, and any call whatsoever to the "CSS key" (the nonexistent font file on their server that redirects to the real file on your server) is and will be charged as a view. You don't even need to hit the site it's embedded in - just hook up to TOR tunnel and throw a curl command to the "CSS Key" URL into an endless loop. And for optional flourish, add fake user-agent, origin, and referrer headers to the curl command. Let it run for a couple hours every week. Since you didn't hit their site, their site analytics never triggered, and they won't know what hit 'em until months later when it reaches a level that warrants finance asking why you blew so far past your budget.

[1] https://www.typography.com/home/cloud-terms.php
Oh I guess I didn't make that explicit.

1. Before the current solar boom, virtually the only alternative was carbon. Referring to the last 5 decadesbn

2. Even now, my impression was generally that when nuke plants close, carbon is used as the replacement, due to its ability as a baseload supply.

For instance, in Germany new coal plants are set to open as part of the 2005 nuclear phase out: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2016/03/21/the-littl...

Likewise, Japan has boosted coal output in the wake of Fukushima, reversing an earlier trend: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/05/bucking-global-trend...

I had thought this was common knowledge. If not, I can see why my comment was downvoted and needed to be expanded on.

(On other words, at present and in recent decades I think there was a bifurcation between carbon and nuclear)
I think society (in general, not just Korean) is fundamentally broken when people are actually considering something like this.

The Korean Government reduced working hours from 68 to 52, it's still 48 too many (see the four hour working week)

Life is for LIVING. Too many people forget that.
It would be helpful if you could expand on what you're trying to accomplish with this.

Especially, I get that it's alpha and the use cases are limited, but what would be the first practical uses of 1.0?

How does it compare to other software? How would it compare to something like HyperCard[1]? What about Jupyter[2] more recently? If Office has VBA, what do you want to do that it can't?

[1]: http://hypercard.org/
[2]: https://jupyter.org/
Goenka’s 10-day vipassana retreats are not only free, but (at least when I took it) they would not even accept donations from those who hadn’t yet experienced the course: https://www.dhamma.org/
Aminal: Golang terminal emulator from scratch
I agree.. that multi sentence run-on with commas attached to it almost makes no sense.
Having some words written somewhere is hardly regulating anything. Regulation requires control.
>Before long genetic engineering will be commonplace but almost exclusively among the rich.

I think we’ve already fell into this type of scenario and I think this is partially why some are so against it. They’re looking at this as an luxury to families but if done right, gene engineering could and should be used solely to protect against inheritable and community spread diseases. This type of engineering can be a massive breakthrough for developing countries and similar areas.

But looking at this from a realistic standpoint: genetic engineering will be a taboo extreme that only a few will ever be successful with—until it is internationally recognized as beneficial and properly regulated.
> CRISPR in individual humans sounds potentially great

Nuclease based editing with CRISPR is only going to be able to disable things in somatic tissues. You need to include exogenous DNA template in order to evoke precise allele changes, and that's really only possible in vitro.
Who could have seen this coming? Heh
Is the data time tagged?
> they're compensated fine already.

I disagree, given the massive cash reserves the tech companies have.

Yes, having a higher salary would be ridiculous in a lot of these cases, but we should moderate that through legislation that benefits the most people - not by a public company further lining the coffers of its owners.

Apple and Google particularly have a lot of cash just lying around, and that cash is the result of the employee's efforts, and they deserve it. I think if we think their salaries are too high in that case, we need to talk about better taxation systems.
Think of it kind of like sanctions. Sanctions usually hurt the people of the countries they target in the short term, but they also embarrass the government (if only slightly) and increase dissatisfaction with the government among the population.

Another way to look at it is legitimization - Google doing the Chinese government's bidding through censorship could be construed as tacit approval. Indeed, the Chinese government may advertise it as such.
I've found that the Pimsleur method is very good (at least at the beginning/intermediate levels), but is mostly auditory. I think this leveraged the creator's research on timed reinforcement learning. I imagine something like this paired with Duolingo to provide visuals would be pretty effective.
But macOS is exactly that already?
Haha, she has a full size fridge and countertops. That's extravagant by comparison. Think more like this: https://i.imgur.com/Z55vD5E.jpg
It's not just about pleasing the audience. Showing respect and appreciation for the game itself is important to chess players, and to competitive sports overall.

People who follow and participate in competitions passionately don't usually just try to maximize their chances to win, they also want to deliver the best effort they can.

Magnus Carlsen specifically was always respected for his fighting spirit. In his championship game against Anand a few years ago he played out a practically drawn endgame to a win through sheer tenacity, and he once managed to win a game in St Louis where a draw that was offered to him would have won him the tournament on the spot, but he declined and played it out.

This fighting aspect has always made him an especially great player (not just for the game and the audience, but it has also put him above the competition).
It has not been renewed.

It wasn't pre-budgeted more than one fiscal year in advance in any Obama budget, either. That's never been normal practice.
全ての歯を一度にきれいに磨ける「AI搭載マウスピース型電動歯ブラシ」がクラウドファンディングを開始→即刻製品化決定
Once I get my student loans paid off I'd really like to fuck off and work for the park service.

I wonder how difficult it is to get a job with the ISB...
Have you considered meal prep? The majority of cooking work is duplicated across meals so if you can batch it up on the weekend it saves a lot of time during the week.
In my mind, "normal" digital advertising only barely escapes the definition of fraud.
I'll bite.

I'm a woman in software. I'm fairly junior, I have only been doing this for a few years now.

I have used Rust a few and did not participate in the survey, but I did participate in the Python user survey, because at least 50% of my time is working with Python.

My workplace is mostly men- in fact I am the only woman in our USA office. And I agree that I would prefer to work somewhere with more women, or more representation of women.

Representation isn't exactly linear either. If women in dev jobs at a company write blog posts for the company, for instance, that gives me a higher opinion of the company.

Finally, the majority of women who are in the community are likely a silent majority. I hardly ever make pull requests for packages I patch because of bad experiences I've had, I don't comment on message boards, and on HN I don't use my real name either.

I'd blame that, for me personally, on bad or frustrating experiences. And it's fine if the community acts that way, and it's fine if myself and other women choose to stay quiet.
Believe me when I say that I have no love of my lawn but regardless of legality or fairness:

The OP agreed to the laws of the municipality when he moved into the home. If the house he purchased was part of a covenant or an HOA, then the sell was not allowed to sell to him unless he agreed to the terms of said covenant or HOA.

If the OP objected to or did not educate himself to any of those laws or rules prior to agreeing to them, that's his fault.
What are your feelings the currently-top ranked comment suggesting that the Media Lab is damaging their engineering credentials by embracing social activism? If you are saying that as an engineering-focussed female undergrad this improves your image of the Media Lab, I'd be interested to hear more.
In theory you are correct, but in my practical experience, I've found that the ratio does in fact convey quality quite strongly.

The original motivation behind this project was this: I wrote a script to take a screenshot of my desktop every 10 seconds and upload them to S3. I used boto to do the uploading (https://github.com/boto/boto). Boto leaked memory and eventually the background script would cause my laptop to crash. When I figured out the problem I noticed boto has a large number of open issues (http://repoq.com/boto/boto). This indicates that the project is not well maintained.

Obviously this is not a perfect heuristic. But it's a lot better than one might think.
I never referred to functionality; I was pointing out the image that Apple wants to convey in its advertising.
And getting into fights? Constantly sussing out everyone else's intentions? Not being able to trust anyone?
Human beings become like nature, get ready for potential failures similar to hereditary defects affecting millions of people. Biology is a kluge, and humans trying to mess with biology is a much bigger kluge as we are like hackers messing with a very complicated machine by screwing with a few of its transistors to affect how the code that runs on it functions. We don't know wtf we are doing.
Outrage over anything fades fast these days. Who's up at arms over the Equifax breach anymore?
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what are you referring to?
> don't belong in a corporate environment

why not? not all companies should be money over everything. And google is still doing fine and turning on huge profits based on the work of these "liberal babies".
Since you're so certain all of these philosophical issues are silly, could you explain why we care to propagate our species (and not some other species) to begin with?
You're romanticizing it. Even if you get great cellmates and the guards don't hate you there's intense boredom. You're much better off going on a camping trip or retreat to southeast Asia.
It really depends on the exact location of the cops.
As a younger person I personally witnessed local police use those vehicles in ways that were very much overkill.
I've also personally winessed those same police officers lie " on the stand" in court to " make" thier case and the judge always buys it.
Doesn't take a genius to understand that there is a huge problem with law enforcement in the US.
Isn't this a thread about Google?
By "advertising" I was referring to broadcast or print advertising, not special-interest outreach. None of those has been part of their broadcast TV campaigns.
I paid too. $1 is nothing for an ad free service. I knew friends who paid too.
It’s inspiring to think that somewhere there may already be living human clones created by someone paid a lot of money by a wealthy individual who won’t take no for an answer.
Because there is an immense amount of technical and marketing support from Console makers, who provide the core hardware to the masses below-cost (or with very low margins).

To get onto Consoles in the first place, your product needs to be high enough quality, whereas iOS accepts basically any ol' junk.

The economics are so poor on iOS that it is basically impossible to survive (in games for example) without relying on exploitative free-to-play mechanics. This isn't helped by the fact that iOS lacks a comprehensive and easy to use refund feature that encourages people to try apps for a short time, like Steam offers.

If Apple reduced their commission to 10%, I think this would be of long-term benefit, since it would give them a a direct point of advantage over Android, and we could expect more premium apps and games to be released that actually take advantage of iOS hardware.

Speaking of Steam and Valve, they are the biggest monopolists - selling games for a 30% commission on an open platform - PC! At least Apple still make some great hardware.
Would you please add a link to your narrative description of a citation?
Almost satirical sounding.
Any college town is as close to utopian as you might hope to accomplish organically/unintentionally.
> To declutter your mind you have to remove yourself from all of your physical clutter

Maybe you should try getting rid of your physical clutter first. It might improve your overall happiness instead of a day without it.
Microsoft briefly overtakes Apple to become the world’s most valuable company
That's fair: we have managed a pretty remarkable act of scaffolding up from an impressive evolved set of cognitive abilities. My sloppy throwaway line didn't capture my thought, which should have encompassed far more than 'cognitive', and made clearer that it's specifically large group decision-making I don't believe us to be capable of. We only survived the 20th century by the skin of our teeth (it was dumb luck), few ecosystems (which constitute our home) will survive the 21st, and I doubt global civilisation can survive for long as their collapse proceeds apace.
Is any of this being livestreamed anywhere? Specifically tomorrow's matches? 7am just seems so worth it after reading the exciting tie-breaks today.
Basically, to build a city you have to be able to answer the question "why would anyone move there?", and the only correct answer is "because there are jobs people want there".

And since we're talking utopian cities, there's two follow up questions. "What will your revision process look like when you realize your initial design was fundamentally flawed and it's time to throw one away?" and "How will you maintain control when people are tired of you playing Sim City with their lives and there's more of them than you?"
Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act
> When officers are inside them, they feel simultaneously invulnerable and threatened -- all this armor means that someone must want to kill them.

And cars have airbags and seatbelts because other drivers actively want to crash onto your car?
This is the first bipartisan carbon pricing bill to be introduced in 10 years.
Perhaps a bargaining chip in a larger negotiation? Retaliation for previous attacks?
YouTube to Pull Back on Scripted in 2020 Amid Ad-Supported Push
You can already do that AFAIK. I don't think you need anything special if you just want to use t-mo all the time.
snake case...

I did it for years in Perl then moved to camel with Java. Now, I sort of like not having to type underscores.
Given that there are 33 of them in the country, I would imagine quite difficult. I also wouldn't assume that working for the park service generally is an especially easy job. I've know people who were semi-retired who worked in parks on a part-time basis but I assume you have a lot more flexibility under those circumstances but don't get paid much, if anything.

I'm sure it's a job that many would prefer compared to sitting in an office all day but that doesn't mean it's easy.
The Vipassana silent courses put on by dhamma.org are entirely free, run by volunteers. The popular locations are fully booked months in advance, but if you have a very flexible schedule you can get on the waitlist and be accepted right before the course, that is how I did my first one.

I've done two 10-day courses from them. After my first one I described it to people as like being in prison, never having gone to prison, but with less freedom than prison. But I still went back for a second time :)
Which philosophical issues are you talking about?
It's interesting seeing the difference between American police and Australian police and how they deal with violent situations.

A couple of weeks ago, we had a terror incident in Melbourne, where a man set his car on fire and started trying to stab people (killing one). The police arrived on scene within seconds, and attempted to stop the attacker using non lethal methods, it was only when it was clear that he wasn't going to be stopped that one of the officers drew their firearm and shot the attacker (apparently only once too, unlike in the USA where they empty their magazine). You can view footage of the incident here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnk4su6HSHk

The officer only used lethal force when it was clear that there was no other option. I don't want to speculate, but I feel like if this was the USA, both officers would've immediately unloaded their magazines into the attacker, possibly hitting bystanders (it's happened plenty of times before).

Compare that to the USA, where an unarmed Australian woman who rang the police to report a possible assault was shot by the police from inside their car: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Justine_Damond
Inspiring? In what way?

I fail to see how one could view the exercise of power to achieve an end that many consider both illegal and immoral as inspiring. Am I missing the point here?
No, this was routine setup and testing. You had to actually record something, and play it back, to make sure that gear was working properly.

Your link reminds me of Cronenberg's Videodrome :)
Closing issues without addressing them does indeed present a problem for this approach. The guy behind lodash is especially aggressive about this which is why lodash is the #1 repo on all of GitHub according to this metric (http://repoq.com/lodash/lodash/).

But I find that people closing issues without addressing them is actually a very rare thing. Far more common is for a project to be abandoned by the maintainer. And this heuristic is quite good at raising a red flag in that situation.

Taking a deep dive into a library is of course the most reliable option. But in my experience, really getting an understanding of a large project is a multi-day or even multi-week affair, and this thing serves as an excellent first pass filter.
This is the beginning of the final chapter in the story about the last kind of private data becoming owned by advertising companies. The final stroke of pen writing away our privacy to another institution in the name of a better future.
I personally recommend using a SQL database until you're absolutely positively sure you don't need one, for many reasons.

But, as far as the "you end up overprovisioning" because of hotspots thing, DynamoDB does offer autoscaling these days, which should alleviate a lot of provisioning-related headaches and save you money compared to the provisioning you would have done with DynamoDB, from what I understand.
Using your malware botnet to click on fake ads and generate 27mln in actual ad rev is pretty damn crafty.

Only part I'm unclear on is whether they were actually operating the network/marketplace, or just falsifying the publisher and user parts of it. Sounds like the latter, in which case, I wonder which ad networks got gamed.
What is the risk, that their status would be changed in response to their involvement? If so, would there be an officially articulated basis?
> The counter argument would be police departments rarely buy this equipment - it's given to them as part of a program between the Pentagon and law enforcement. They get the vehicles (and lots of other military grade equipment) for a huge discount or free.

> There is also the fact that even if a civilian could technically buy one, it's not really feasible to actually do so.

Keep in mind that these vehicles were originally bought by the Pentagon using civilians' money (tax money). So far for feasibility.
I wonder if the weird storefronts like Stevens Books, Leez Dept. Store are to sell returned merchandise (that was drop-shipped)
I don't have a lot of first hand experience, but fights don't happen as much as TV would have you believe.
> If children like the twins who have been reportedly modified are born and live healthy, normal lives, then scientific worries about off-target effects will begin to recede.

Unless the change is one that produces greater fitness in individuals but lowers fitness for the species as a whole. e.g. the environment changes (it happens) and all the folks that would've been naturally adapted (via this diversity) to the new environment were edited out.

Humans are great at thinking about individual risks, but not so great at thinking about systemic or ecological risks (climate change, economics)
My understanding is that though there is reason to think it wouldn't be any more difficult in principle than cloning horses there would inevitably be a great deal of failure on the way to perfecting the techniques. For example cloning Dolly required 434 failed attempts. Three of those made it to term but died very soon after birth. Those are pretty poor odds to put a child through.

I think while you describe the basic technique in practice it's more difficult to do and especially to apply to a new species than you describe. Here's a paper on the first cloning of a monkey https://www.academia.edu/36564149/. Just scroll down to see the full paper. It's not all that short or simple
It is probably true for the proverbial early birds who went to China, but these days grants won't be that easy unless you are established or well-connected. There are also a lot of complaints about "politicized tenure track system".
> Tech workers don't need a union to negotiate compensation, they're compensated fine already.

Software one of the highest margins of any industry. They can afford to pay more, especially since they are constantly whining about "shortages" of tech workers.

http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/New_Home_Page/datafile/...
Ok, take it easy there, Bear Grylls. :)
So how did the fraud work? I seriously tried to read the whole thing. I had to click through to the indictment[1] to read that they improperly used funds from lenders that were supposedly for Newsweek's servers. But how exactly did the weird Amazon listings and bookstores play into it? I wish this was written more concisely instead of stretched out like a television series.

[1] https://www.manhattanda.org/da-vance-announces-indictment-of...
8 think that's why the X-salary rule is usually considered an upper bound?
> Monasteries are a Western tradition

Where on Earth are you getting that idea? Are you forgetting about India?
"Once we do this, we're no longer human." Perhaps for some people, this takes the form of "this is playing God".

EDIT: What hysteria were you talking about?
Likewise "yes this investment should beat the market."

My guess is that, given the ability for quacks and hucksters to outnumber legitimate practitioners, the results of gene editing will suffer a signal-to-noise problem for years if not decades to come. Even if some particular treatment is proven, it will be set aside if someone else offers a better but unproven treatment.
Easiness isn't really why I am interested.
Playing dungeons and dragons all day to pass the time?
Also look into Christian monasteries near you. I'm not Christian but spent a silent weekend at a Cistercian monastery and it was amazing. They suggest a donation but there's no charge. Only have to schedule a month or two in advance.
> Surely it can't be that bad If Martha Stewart can do it

Just because she did it doesn't mean it was pleasant.
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