skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Error rates are currently very high, and from a single run it doesn’t seem like you’d get a 1x coverage Genome, let alone 30x (which is what this service is claiming).
In terms of end result for the individual, what difference does it make if an internet mob blacklists you from employment for thoughtcrime or if a government bureaucracy does it?
Google, DeepMind and my confidential health records
You can try this logic game here:
https://www.philosophyexperiments.com/wason/Default.aspx
>Secret kill lists are for terrorits

Or so they say. In any case, it's a single country deciding, and that any some ad hoc committee, without a public due process, and targeting people residing on sovereign states.

And of course often killing 10-20 nearby people as well, up to 130 for a strike on a wedding:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-yemen-security/death-toll...
As far as I know, the answer is no. There was an article in "Die Datenschleuder" #98 [1] about it.

[1] https://ds.ccc.de/download.html (german)
How to Set Up Black Friday Sales on WooCommerce
>Credit ratings in the United States are not controlled by the government

So there's also no democratic control on them?
How a Tech Billionaire Created Two Fortunes and a Software Sweatshop
Yes, for one, one exists for decades, the other is just on paper atm...
I have an XPS 13 with Linux too. One thing I notice that's not mentioned very much about battery life is how hybrid sleep works.

On macOS closing the lid is suspends to sleep i.e. it keeps RAM powered only. On Fedora 29 (and every other Linux I've tried) it's the same.

The difference is that after some set amount of time macOS is smart enough to stop powering the RAM and suspend to SSD. That's not the case under Linux and instead the laptop just goes completely flat.

Anyone with any suggestions on that I'd love to hear it.

(I should add that I see the XPS 13 as a competitor to the old MacBook Air 11 but with a quad-core CPU and a bigger screen).
This has only just been implemented though, so we've yet to see the reaction of the populace.
Clothing is fashion which is culture. The design, marketing, promotion, and customer relations and support or repair work best with local players. If a shirt can be sold for $25 then a fast moving and tuned in group with good client lists and promotional channels can and will dominate sales. The margins will be greatly reduced but the products will be superior. Customers are driven to best product fit not highest corporate margins.
And there might have well reason to change the small things only, but nothing fundamentel. People hate change. If they start to turn the website upside down, their customers would start to whine, and cry, and complain. A lot of wasted time they could spend with buying stuff.

So, it ugly and bad as hell, but everybody is trained and accustomed to it. Why risking confusing customers without need?
OwnTracks is an app that does that, https://owntracks.org/ , but I still haven't set up my server to receive the data.

It uses MQTT, which is probably fault tolerant/store data locally if it can't connect to the server right now.
In case you haven't already heard of it, LyX [1] does exactly that and it's phenominal. As an added bonus, when you move your cursor out of the equation it goes from a graphical almost-right visualisation to a proper LaTeX-generated absolutely-right preview, and manages other related LaTeX things like heading levels with a live clickable outline.

The big disadvantage to LyX is that it's not LaTeX editor but a LaTeX generator. So if you want to write your next article or dissertation and can commit to it then it's great, but if you want to import work so far or collaborate with someone not using LyX then it doesn't really work (it has an import function but it's almost unusable).

[1] http://www.lyx.org/
Indeed, the paltry sums involved undermine the gesture pretty much completely. If Finland are really serious, why not stop all exports to SA?
Nikola Tesla: The Guy Who DIDN'T “Invent Radio”
The Problem with End-To-End Tests
Also the keyboard layout on your older 9360 is better than on my 9370. On the 9370 they've split the left and right arrow keys to do PgUp and PgDown.

Personally, I find that difficult to touch type with. I'd rather have that as fn keys as it is on a mac.
I concur. It's very weird. You could go to some kind of blockchain related event every week.
Since they're not controlled by the government then they are controlled by the market, as in, private companies. Not sure that's better, you could argue with a government controlled one you still have "some" rights and due process, with a private one there's not much you can do if they decide to give you a bad rating. I rather have none, to be honest.
Wow, that's still over priced. I'm in Canada, check out https://www.monstercpap.ca/ -- remember that 1USD = 1.32CAD
"Fake News" i.e. anything that mentions Tibet, Tiannamen Square, selling Falung Gong organs for transplantation etc.
But is there _evidence_ ? The sort of evidence that could form the basis of a GDPR complaint?
I think you might be comfortable with it. But, any one that isn't would smile and take your offer then leave as soon as some one comes along that doesn't call them a toy.
In this case, it's more like "the devil you know" vs "the devil which impacts you less".
> Like you alluded to, it’s mostly about finding, gathering, and organizing the political will to fund such projects. There are, I imagine, plenty of projects archived in some filing cabinets in the basement of some federal building somewhere that had its day in the legislature and didn’t make the cut. My favorite example of this being the 2012 plan for the Northeast Corridor:

To be fair, Hurricane Sandy and the associated disruption of the Gateway Project would have probably done that ambitious plan in on its own.

> Instead, Amtrak’s gonna straighten out a few kinks in the current track so the Acela service can get up to and maintain higher speeds south of New York and in eastern Connecticut. Not sure how they’re gonna add more capacity, if at all.

"Instead"? If I am reading that long-term plan correctly, this was the actual first phase of the project. The increased capacity comes from making the Acela trains longer and more frequent (per the proposal).
Most developed countries have populations that continue to skew older: https://www.census.gov/library/visualizations/2018/comm/cent...
I only use my laptop when I am traveling. At home, I have no need for it. I am not traveling with speakers. I doubt I am alone.
A train+bus is a much higher threshold for many people.

Will you go to a lawyer that requires a bus+train? A restaurant? A party u r not too sure about ?

Trains are relatively dependable. The last mile is a big problem.

(To be clear : i am pro public transport. I have a bike and ebike which i love, and car i hate.)
From a blog post by the tool's author:

> One of such defenses I uncovered during testing is using javascript to check if window.location contains the legitimate domain. These detections may be easy or hard to spot and much harder to remove, if additional code obfuscation is involved.
Pay them enough to stay?
You make it sound like something Chinese government purposefully did, when in fact, those people were simply never registered by their parents -- to avoid the fee for having a child above quota.

>The group was never officially registered on the country’s household registration record system, known as hukou, which is closely linked to a person’s legal identity. That means they didn’t officially exist—until recently. On Friday (March 24), China’s Ministry of Public Security, the government department in charge of hukou registrations, announced that they had helped register the 14 million.

https://qz.com/941240/china-keeps-finding-millions-of-people...
Sure, that’s a great idea. But your transport security is going to show vulnerability sooner or later (see: regular issues in TLS), and it’s worth having a slightly less compromised network fabric.

I agree with your general sentiment though.
He means Saudi Arabia; how we suck up to them because of their oil regardless of how much they do detrimental to us.
I just came back from an island, we barely used computers. Never been so happy. People use whatsapp a lot, but it's just a modern reincarnation of phones. Send a little text, a little voice message, a little video. Nothing more. There it seems it's just right fulfilling the need to chat. The rest was a fantasy.
It always was either a clitoris or a nipple.
soon China will go straight to Larry Niven's The Jigsaw Man [1] where sentences for crimes include forced donation of all organs. this includes traffic offenses and the like.

On a different tact, the US is just as guilty of this with the over the top of punishment of those convicted of sex crimes where you can be publicly embarrassed by law enforcement after you served your time. Where you can be told where you can live and not live or even go. Considering the power it gives over one group of people it is not hard to see how it will expand to other crimes

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jigsaw_Man
Yes, and I understand why - I love living there; but there's also (luckily not many) people who think the streets are filled with beating, raping illegal immigrants who were invited by politicians to live off welfare paid by the hard working citizen.

If we don't have first hand experiences, we rely on second hand information to get a picture of a situation. And depending on where we get the information from (i.e. which media we consume), it may deviate from reality, or suggest a situation that doesn't reflect reality because it focuses on few, individual aspects or events.

So every time I don't understand why people behave the way they do, I have to question my understanding of the situation before I can question the people's behavior.
So, basically Facebook still has a lifetime at least an eon long in tech years? The World Wide Web is not even 40 years old yet.
https://www.amazon.com/Proof-Collusion-Trump-Betrayed-Americ...

No affiliation.
Popular Source Code Hosting Services
I think the biggest benefit of Flutter, speaking as a developer, is that the design choices have been abstracted away. It feels like SquareSpace or Lego for mobile app design. I compose the component hierarchy and then the app looks, for the most part, like I want it. In contrast to React Native, where there are a lot more fiddly bits and CSS that I'm not interested in.

On the other hand, stepping outside the bounds of the framework becomes much more difficult, so it's a double edged sword. But I'm a simple type, I like Bootstrap just fine - Flutter does things well enough for the most part.
Valenzuela? Really?
I don't think GP was suggesting that Yahoo built Flickr. They said it was Yahoo's most popular property. Which, outside of Mail, is probably a completely true statement.

And they absolutely let it stagnate. The apps that were available for phones (once there were apps) were often pretty terrible, from my recollection.
So you're trying to tell me the people who own the most expensive smartphones have the smallest income? Nice try Huawei.
Jane Jacobs talks about how cities generally fall into one of two different kinds of equilibria: a public transit equilibrium, and a car equilibrium. In each one, the preferred kind of mobility further shapes land use to make that kind of mobility even more preferable.

Most of North America is so stuck in the car equilibrium that it seems hopeless. There's not even a handful of cities that would be nice to get around or live in without a car. This seems like it would take decades to correct, even if most North Americans actually wanted to. As an semi-extremist urbanite I'm incredibly pessimistic about this.

I'm somewhat hopeful about new mobility methods like bikeshare or even rideshare, but none of them seem to be actively driving land use changes.
Tactile feedback? What for? You have visual and audio feedback. After all, you are trying to set volume or brightness to a specific level...
The VA is not fit for purpose. I don't blame you for thinking that govt. run services suck but frankly how the US treats its veterans (not just medical health but also pensions, etc) is shocking.
>forcing people to not behave like a jerk

It doesn't force people to not behave like a jerk, it could just as easily lead to a nation of jerks. It forces people to strictly act within a tiny zone at the center of the Overton window[0]. At scale, it means that natural ideological progress will significantly slow down.

Any ideas or actions outside the norm will be culled. It's a move to homogenise the masses and allow the party to more easily set the general direction of 'desired' behaviours. This is pretty clearly the goal first and foremost. Stopping people from being jerks is just the marketing label.

The set of measures used to determine social credit will change over the next two decades and will become an ever tighter definition of what the party wants its citizens to be. The current criteria are just the entrée that was determined to be palatable to the masses.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window
The U.S. economy is about 75-80 times bigger than Finland (due to sheer size of country). A few tens of millions (35 M$) is for Finland about as significant as 2,7 billion $ would be for U.S. Not insignificant.
I think this is a valid observation, and I hadn't made the link yet. Legalism has been used since the very first Chinese emperors to keep the population in check. It's a tool of oppression and arguably no place has a richer history of tools of oppression than China.

Xi must be thinking "hey, it worked for millennia, why stop now?"
If Flutter was js + jsx I'd jump right in.
I'd like to hear him explain how does Saudi Arabia plant politicians and judges in the US...
Fun fact: Boss as a service = BaaS, which is the same as the Afrikaans translation of Boss :)
Which companies of Facebook's size and dominance have gone out because people simply stopped using them? The demises of Sears and Toys R Us were huge news, despite the obvious fact that they had long been beaten by competitors.
How to Attract Investors to Finance Your Business
That's not the case, aside from that, having ones papers taken was and is an almost mundane punishment used againts very ordinary people. There are way, way more such non-enpersonned people than just second children, children of single women, or children from marriages of other "non-persons."

It is just this time, with the social credit, the state has finally got balls to go after high class bourgeois from megacities, and lower end elites.
Facebook can still grow its revenue even if the number of users is constant if: (a) Users become richer over time; (b) Users spend more time online; (c) Facebook can improve the algorithm that matches ads to users
> It could be argued that the primary purpose of a government is to make things better for people

As I understand it, this notion only really came into vogue during the European Enlightenment of the 17th and 18th centuries. For much of human history, government served as a way for monarchs, emperors, and the ruling elite to maintain -- and expand -- their hold on power, regardless of what was best for the governed. Indeed, we still see remnants of this in pretty much every government on the planet -- some just are less subtle than others. Arguably, we've spent the last 3 centuries trying to subvert this process and bend it toward, as you put it, making things "better" for all.
Those lists are way to generic when thinking about where to live as in the end it's about your individual priorities. Germany has good things, but living here is definitely not for everyone.
BAE Systems is a big one. £1b is almost certainly less than the cost of the wars we have gotten ourselves into due to the trouble that people having access to these weapons has caused.

e.g. the Iraq and Afghanistan wars have cost the UK ~£20b (quickly googled). And a lot of the problems in the region seem to come from the Saudi regime which is pushing an extreme version of Islam. Selling weapons to Saudi Arabia is madness.
Checkin with reviewers in mind: how to speed up code reviews
Saudi Arabia is a terrorist sponsoring state that keeps women subservient. Why would we sell weaponry to such as despotic country. Sheer lunacy.
On the bright side everyone is OK and soon will be significantly richer.
They might be all old in US and Europe. But in India and other third world countries Facebook seems to be doing OK with young people.
Sounds pretty crazy to me.

Most people asking for your SSN or drivers license will already know your name and approximate location, therefore they'll have enough information to just look up your SSN and DL via various services like accurint.

You're trying to hide public information.
It will all work out of the box. :)
You guys just don’t know CCP. All they want is to controll everyone, eliminate dissenters and make everyone scared. It has nothing to do with social credit.
—— from a chinese citizen
Most freight elevators are like that, though. So while that's a slightly horrifying diagram, a lot of people will have experiences what it's like being in on.
Not weird at all, I'd wager close to every five year old or more car would be illegal so sell new...
"Cold head" means the cold end of a cryocooler. "Conduction cooled with cold heads" means that the superconductor is in direct thermal contact with the cold end, rather than through some more complicated arrangement.
This is usually where someone confirms your original point by saying Mastodon.
Apple will never backtrack on the touchbar. Here is how they can save face
> 1. I can go into a grocery store and buy whatever I want without once thinking about the price of something or the total bill. It's an incredible privilege - one that I hadn't really thought about much until recently - but now I can't stop thinking how thankful I am for it.

I was thinking about this earlier in the week. I can remember when I couldn't do this. I'd have to keep a running total of what I put in the basket/cart. I was living pay check to pay check. I had debt. Now, with my mortgage as my only debt, things are so much better.

I wish I knew, years ago, what I know now. I'm thankful I've finally figured (some of) it out.
But I'm not "defending" anyone. I am pointing out that it's a bit rich for the US to be the ones ringing the alarm bell.
You don’t need a huge public transit system to make the jump. You need high density + mixed use over a relatively small area with good public transit in that area. Which lets two car families drop to one car family’s. This reduces the need for public parking pushing up density and property values. It also makes links to that core of good public transit more valuable.

The main problem in the US is you don’t get both high density and mixed use.

PS: His harping on Vienna Fairfax completely misses the point, it’s the last stop on the orange line, the parking allows a vast area to commute via the subway including many people just visiting DC. The Pentagon City and Crystal City stops for example directly connect to shopping next to huge residential sections and have minimal parking.
There are some editor plugins that do something like this. I know for Vim there is tex-conceal (https://github.com/KeitaNakamura/tex-conceal.vim), which collapses a lot of LaTeX symbols to their Unicode equivalent on lines other than your current line. It's a nice middle-ground, though far from perfect.
Still need a refrigerant in your cryocooler to have a cold head. See my comment above - at those temps, probably liquid hydrogen.
The brits probably need the hard currency given what brexit is doing to your economy. Blame the vote leavers as I’m sure if they were to remain then the brits would have an arms embargo to Saudi by now.
Ask HN: Value of certificates from Harvard extension
Talking about the whole certificate, usually 3 or 4 courses on a subject.

Thinking about doing one in finance, what value do they hold in the industry?

I'm a software guy, but I want to do something else, or maybe mix both, and I love finance (investment risk, what have you).

At $10k for the whole course, would you say they're a good investment?
> orderliness, collective well-being, and personal sacrifice

I don't know, most Chinese people I've met are at least as selfish as the average Westerner, often more (and let's not even begin about the stereotypical "I don't care about anything" 60 year old Chinese tourist). I'm no expert, but while surely many Chinese rulers have emphasized these values, I'm not convinced that the population ever cared much about them.

They're a splendid list of values to drum up, though, if you're the one whose boot indefinitely stamps on your subordinates' collective faces.
Writing Music with On-Demand Musicians
That episode is called "Nosedive" (season 3, episode 1).
People loose their shit when they don't get a pattern. Even more so when there is no pattern at all. I love it.
Now that you’re aware of it, have you talked to her about that? That’s a very common form of “emotional labor” that women find themselves responsible for, and it can be exhausting.

Relevant comic: https://english.emmaclit.com/2017/05/20/you-shouldve-asked/
I'm not an advocate of the death penalty, but there's quite of bit of due process between an American citizen and the death penalty. Killing in the absence of due process, as with drone strikes on rogue US citizens, is significantly worse and is extremely problematic for the long-term.
Well, that does fit into what I meant -- Outside North America, it seems to be generally (more) taken for granted that public transit and density/mixed-use feed into each other (such that either can be a prerequsite for the other), whereas in North America, because we're in such a car equilibrium, public transit mostly just spends most of its time apologizing for the poor land use.

Although it is probably worth noting that e.g. Los Angeles has some places (kind of) like what you're talking about [1], but it's basically a drop in the bucket.

[1] https://pedestrianobservations.com/2018/11/11/meme-weeding-l...
US tourist killed by remote North Sentinel Island indigenous tribe
> The credit system is a pain, but it is also very simple to have good credit.

If you’re rich.
> Why do we keep selling weapons to such a repressive regime?

Realpolitik.

The US (and UK, I guess) are closely allied to the Saudis in order to counteract Iranian influence in the region. The theory is that the world will be in better shape if the Saudis have a military capable of deterring Iran.

It's a theory -- I don't know if it's correct, but it seems at least plausible.
Staking your claim on what teenagers today do today doesn't make much sense to me because teenagers get older.

Facebook just has to be the social network people end up on.

I'd at least look at college-aged people, not the weird, limited social life of high schoolers.
I'll take all brainstation articles with a grain of salt. They are a bootcamp school and thus they will want to promote Toronto's tech scene to attract people who are not in tech to take their courses in order to switch their careers.
I recommend watching the Adam Curtis documentary Bitter Lake (can be found on YouTube). It explains how the currrent Anglo American relationship with the kingdom of saud started almost immediately post ww2, why it won’t be going away any time soon, and all the blowback it has caused.
They do, however most of my recent Airbnbs rentals have started requesting (via attached info email and/or the info-book on premises) to wash the dishes, change/take off the bedding sheets and in a couple cases, to wipe specific areas down. It feels like renters are continually pushing the boundaries of what they can ask of guests/tenants.
China rejects claim it bugged headquarters it built for African Union
What do you think of Vancouver, with respect to SF and NYC? When living in the latter, Vancouver felt like the only other city I’d be happy to move to, probably because of its density.