skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I travel a fair bit and stay at the hotels here and there. I keep wondering, how long before hotels start sampling your personal belongings (toothbrush, comb etc) for gen data. Maybe that already happening? From there, how long before full lists of these data {genetic sample; full name and other credentials} are on sale on some special market?

Call me paranoid... is that sort of activity even regulated? Isn't this like a public image for photography?
it might not even be a crime

The relevant question becomes, "is a crime that is not prosecuted materially different from a non-crime?"
$25 for what would amount to a 30 page book? I sincerely hope nobody is gullible enough to pay that much for information that can be found quite easily for free.
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Every story I hear about Musk just makes me think: avoid him at all costs. Work for him? Be miserable, underpaid, likely get fired and never share in the success. Invest in him? Your money becomes his, whether it's questionable mergers subsidizing his other ventures, SEC violations sending the stock crazy, or just continual unrealistic timelines on deliverables. Buy his products? They probably have significant short-comings compared to the competitors and you'll be giving up every iota of control - after you've shelled out thousands of dollars it's still up to Tesla to decide whether you get the car's basic safety updates. Even just happen to work on a project that Musk has decided he wants to work on and you're liable to get publicly smeared as a pedofile.

I think it's possible Elon Musk pushes forward technology in some material ways (I think there are also good arguments he doesn't). But fuck me, he seems to do it at the cost of literally everyone around him.
Just like Google Plus.

“Plus.”

Ugh.

It’s a huckster hook word, engorged with talking points so that PowerPoint decks can prompt for easy segues during sales pitches.
>Doug: (mansplaining)...

and that's where the value of the blog post ends
Interesting fact, when they forked the CLR, they actually started with the Silverlight code base. See https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/dotnet/NET-Foundations-2015-... (somewhere near the beginning)

I guess it makes sense. Before .NET Core, Silverlight was the most x-plat version of the Microsoft .NET Runtime(s) (excluding Xamarin/Mono), so it would've been a good starting point.
Why would I use it over next.js? Next.js now offers a static mode that exports for static hosting.
Watching videos, reading the (indicated portions of) the text, doing practice problems, eventually exams - relying on the resources provided in the OCW site.

To be transparent - I just started the calculus class. I finished the UT Austin Linear Algebra class two weeks ago, and am 7 lectures + readings + 2 problem sets in on the MIT Linear Algebra class and 3 lectures in on the Calculus class.
I don't know what they use to build Sketch. Probably Cocoa. If they use Electron, Sketch can be used even in Linux. But then you would have some people complain about the performance. You can not make everyone happy! :)

But I think they can have the cake and eat it too if they use Qt. But the price of Qt library is quite steep (USD 5500 per year). I know, I know, you can use it freely if you use dynamic linking. But still....
This should be your first calculus book if you are learning from scratch. Much better than those 1000+ page behemoths colleges use.
Indeed, this is half the point of the BMJ Christmas Issue, which happens every year.
I think code should be treated as a craft. If you enjoy it, you'll do it anyway, even if you stop doing it for a job.

If you're trying to pick a career path, you need to ask yourself why you work at all. Are you trying to be someone well known? Is it all about the money? Do you crave organizational power?

Figure out what you enjoy about work, and you might get a better idea about where to go next.
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>I'm curious - I've never seen tech books that short that people actually buy.

Not sure about 20 pages or so, but there's a whole variety of short tech books. O'Reilly had their "pocket reference" series, some of which are less than 100 pages.
Clinical medicine, especially, is often paralyzed by "We don't have an RCT about this particular circumstance therefore we know nothing."

This article is making a comment about that.
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> I also love that people are doing write ups about the source of .NET Core and it's internals.

Me too!

BTW, if you want more on the same topic check out http://mattwarren.org/2018/07/12/Presentations-and-Talks-cov... and http://mattwarren.org/2018/01/22/Resources-for-Learning-abou...
it was a joke
They were submitting to the BMJ Christmas Issue, which is an excellent read every year. Usually a bit of satire and humor mixed in with interesting methods.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but how is this different than a pyramid scheme?
> Also Matt Warren's blog is super cool.

Thanks! I'm glad you like it
Do people really use .NET core, and if so, why?

We’ve been a C# house for several years, decades really, and I’ve always preferred it to JAVA so I’m actually excited for Core.

But we rarely use it. Not because it’s not great, rather because we’re more productive with flask or Django. For Core to really make sense for us, it’d would have to stop being so damn low level, but I guess that maybe it can’t without sacrificing too much efficiency. More importantly it needs better libraries for things that aren’t “built-in”.

I can certainly see why .NET developers welcome it, because they finally have good cross platform ability. At least until they need to do authentication on a non-standard SAML token, that though easily supported by ADFS but is a bitch in any .NET setup.

I know we aren’t most use cases, being the public sector and running a gazillion different tech stacks at once, but .NET has never played well once you stepped outside it’s comfortzone and it’s always been so low level that writing library extensions were a bitch. And that may have worked out, so far, but I just don’t see why people stick with it when there are more productive alternatives.

I say productive, because I don’t think .NET core is lacking technically, but delivering solutions on time and with minimum maintenance requirements afterward is just easier in python or JAVA and I’d imagine others as well.

But maybe I’m missing something?
Oh my sweet summer child...

Biomedicine has gone whole hog into torturing acronyms to make useful sounding cohort names.
Wasn't there OmniGraffle on the Mac even before Sketch? Seemed to me in the beginning that Sketch was an exact clone of OmniGraffle with a little nicer interface. Sketch evolved a lot from that point on.

Edit: OmniGraffle 1.0 launched 2001 [1], Sketch started 2008

[1] https://www.macworld.com/article/1002530/omnigraffe.html
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No they don't. Source: growing up in said country during that era. There weren't that many horses then, even in the countryside.

And they did have tractors. Plowing with a horse was a curiosity even in the eighties.
A lot of Windows users probably know about OneDrive (https://onedrive.live.com/) since this is a similar service, I totally understand the naming choice here.
With 12,000 kb/s the user will hardly notice the difference. You could add the CSS needed for the first render on the document, and it would save you a round-trip, and with HTTP2 you can send the CSS file together with the document. CSS files can however be cached so the few kb shaved off will only be saved on the first page load. If it's a common file, hosted on a CDN it might already be cached. If you are however worried about bandwidth usage the lowest hanging fruit are the binary files such as video,images, and fonts, then JavaScript trackers and frameworks, then the CSS and further trimming the content by getting rid of unnecessary markup.
For calculus I-III, look at Professor Leonard on youtube. He is the best. His channel can be found at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoHhuummRZaIVX7bD4t2czg
I won't bore you with the details, but I'm an IT power user.

I just like a simple life.

So setting the refresh rate should be easy. Trivial. One command you find at the first few Google results .

So if you want to set the refresh rate(and resolution , of course) , you now how know some commands, write a script , and know directory locations , and remember all that crap for future changes.

And if add a second user, suddenly, some more complexity.
It's not actually an argument against "duh" RCTs.

It's an argument against clinical medicine being fixated on RCTs as the one-and-only form of evidence that can be taken seriously, even when - as you note - the Bayesian prior for such a situation is extremely high.

This happens more often in the field than many people might think.
Wow, the section “the psychology of modern leftism” is pretty much point for point criticism of the modern left by the modern right.

Were those critiques in the air at the time or was he just a nascent conservative?
> Most of Chrome is open source. This would surely run in Chromium.

That's neither here nor there. For the purposes of this discussion, Chrome and Chromium are the same browser, and the design and development of the Chromium platform is very much dominated by Google, sufficient to call them the owners of the platform.
Nice to see this continues to get exposure. It remains awesome and every time I return to it Matt's added some new nifty feature. More please Matt!
What a group of friends has been doing is, they ordered +10 kits over a year shipped to the very same person, then they each of them spit and register the kit with a disposable email address. The info about the receiver is watered down (if he did one himself, which he didn't) and the rest remain reasonably anonymous as long as they keep using Tor/VPNs.

Moreover, these tests are forbidden in France, so these shipments are being sent to Monaco/Italy (1 hour drive from here), adding extra levels of law/tracking indirection.
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I don't know if it solves your specific scenario, but I do know that there's been some work done in this area.

See https://github.com/dotnet/source-build#net-core-build-script... and https://github.com/dotnet/arcade#arcade
here in UK, you get a few options: you can leave it with a neighbour, or specify a place to leave it, or try again at another time, and probably a few more I forget.

I'd be surprised if I saw anyone's parcel just sitting on their front doorstep
The word wasn't used in the pejorative sense in the article.
an excuse used by those who have made sexist comments since time immemorial.
yes, but the problem is that there is no credit event happens, it just the way they structured the contract, b/c otherwise their simulation shown the price stability will not work.
There is no credit event, because they can always print new basiscoins, they just just arbitrary choose not to (probably overfitted for 5 years expiration).

Even if basis "bonds" were credit default swaps, and then listed on crypto "exchanges", they're still falling under the regulation of CFTC. Those exchanges need to be licensed as Swap Execution Facilities (SEFs). And if basis doing on the protocol level like MakerDAO - they need to get SEF license by themselves.
I hope you are just trolling. Homogeneous coordinates are for projection, not for selecting translation.
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I am no Facebook fan but I have to agree.

Can anyone clarify if there still exists a way for 3rd parties to get data out of Facebook for users that haven't clicked on the 3rd party ad?
His videos look great. How do you get in practice problems following his class?
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This makes sense thanks, so offering a wider array of services is potentially a better strategy, given my background and experience. I imagine being able to build the API/backend layer, web and mobile client is desirable to some and you're right in that it would give one longer running contracts with a lot more work. So to reiterate your points, study more mobile, leverage existing skillset and throw in some AI/ML. I guess this is the broad vs narrow topic. How important is it to have finished apps in the respective app stores? I have years worth of web work to display, most of it still in production but nothing concrete for mobile.
But as long as they are in the source code and not in the actual documentation...? jk, this could come out as a harsh environment for newcomers, and as long as it is easy to remove the swear words, I think is a good thing somebody is paying attention to such details.
My view on the topic:

I have used Linux Desktops for about ~15years and involved in the Development community it astonished me how frequent the APIs break specially at Desktop Application/libraries level. I remember several libraries, like GTK+ deprecating often APIs even during stable releases. The consequence of this is that the main application developer spends a big part of its time constantly updating its application instead of developing new features and make it feature rich.

The same can be said in order parts of the Desktop like the transition from X11 to Wayland/Weston and all the Desktop Environments that some years ago fragmented and decreased their quality. Unity, KDE and GNOME all failed in producing a Desktop that really appealed to all users.

Finally for me another failure is the package management. For the App developer he needs to get his app packages for all major distributions and imagine the effort of the App developer and App maintainer to support different libc and userspace tool versions.

All in all the Application developer has such a huge burden that he is most of the time updating his app to new apis/tools than actually developing new features.
are you being serious? you see pictures of a country that's been under communist rule since the 40s and you see no connection? it's just an underdeveloped country to you?
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Firstly training. Went on a lot of that. Secondly there are plenty of self-test resources out there.

https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/resources-and-support/d...
installing .net core on linux is easier than on windows (they create native linux packages, so apt install ... or yum install is enough or docker, whatever they provides so much these days), and macos provides a pkg file, which is just click trough.
He got re-elected on a bigger margin, if just a few thousand people had said "this war is wrong and we shouldn't massacre Iraqis" he would have been voted out.

If they had issues bigger than killing hundreds of thousands of people then...

And I'm saying this as an Australian, we weren't much better.
Thanks for the detailed answer, regarding the downturn in interested I guess I figured as much. It seems that it's focus has shifted to extending and supporting established products rather than being a flagship platform in itself. On the other hand the web market is absolutely saturated right now, my gut feeling was that while mobile has slowed down, it's not going away completely and there might be a viable niche there to work on while everyone's attention is so focused on web.
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Stunning work. Please don't waste yourself in Finance - I bet your phone has already rung.
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At the time, Microsoft made more on application software for every Mac sold than for every PC sold. Microsoft and Apple were competitors on operating systems, but not on applications, and Apple's Macs were a significant (though smaller) part of the market. The relationship between Apple and Microsoft was never as simple as just direct competitors.
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I highly highly recommend seeing the film Cold War, which is set in 1950’s-60’s Europe. The cinematography is near-perfect and the set design really takes you back to communist-era Poland and Paris.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8ImvkXgGVWw
>Third-degree relatives (such as half-aunt, half-nephew, first cousin) on average share 12.5% genes, and sexual relations between them are viewed differently in various cultures, from being discouraged to being socially acceptable.

Relationships between cousins isn't always considered to be incest. It's more recent in the last 50-60 years, especially in USA, that cousin marriage is frowned upon based on misunderstanding the risk.
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So, Robinhood is following the steps of E*Trade?!
Don't think this is grounded in reality, but if I imagine the perspective of a cat, there are a lot of other concepts that we could be taking for granted. Kind of related to object permanence, we have a strong grasp that what we see a copy of in the mirror is the same object. But for a cat, this probably doesn't hold true. I can imagine a cat modeling a mirror as a window, beyond which for some reason there lives another copy of you, and another cat (her copy) as well. But since she's checked that she can't go over there, it's not important to her, and no glaring contradictions to this view would arise to require adjusting this model. The overarching principle could simply be that a cat doesn't really concern itself with something not immediately actionable.
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i grew up in Poland too, east, and south-east looked like like this, or worse. where did you grow up? not everybody had a tractor, still had plenty of horses around, doesn't mean everybody used them, that'd be ridiculous
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Thus comment and the parent are spot-on. The main protection against the adversarial use of genetic databin the US, GINA, is currently facing several challenges, mostly through the backdoor of opt-in employee wellness plans.

Additionally, while the SNP- format generic data provided by 23andMe is of marginal medical use to the average consumer, it is very valuable to insurance companies and others constructing population-level actuarial models, where a very tiny increased probability of developing a condition is enough to justify increased rates.

And finally, as these relative-discovery stories suggest, there really is no such thing as anonymized genetic data above a panel of a few SNPs. This data is part of the inherence class of factors in multifactor authentication, and can even be derived from pooled anonymized data by a motivated party.
See also a command line tool[1] for this, written in Rust.

[1] https://github.com/ethanhs/cce
Such systems have many problems, one of them being that they're fully automated, and mistakes WILL be made. One day you wake up with a ruined social score because someone who looked a bit like you was witnessed by a camera selling drugs or something. Have fun trying to correct that before someone decides to look up your score.
Not to mention all the potential for abuse.
I've never used flask and I haven't used Django for a long time, but I'm not sure what you mean by C# being too "low level". What higher level features is it missing that Java or python provide?

I find I'm most productive in C#, but probably mostly because it's what I use every day and I like the tooling.
Let me un-editorialise the title a bit:

"How Sketch Took on Adobe by Making a Faster, Leaner, Cheaper Image Editor, which is kind-of-useful for a very specific field -as long as it works properly- and leaving Adobe pretty much to be the standard for everything else (but catching up, see XD)"
i know a few companies using .net core for example checkout.com
could you elaborate a bit more on what stops you from using .net core? I have been writing web apps since version 1.0 and had no issues.
But have the really took over? I see designers who have shifted to Sketch pretty happy compared to using Photoshop or Illustrator to design something.
It seems to me that the photos are selected towards the more exotic to a Western photographer or viewer. You could also have shots of urban life barely distinguishable from that of 80s' NY―but that wouldn't be as interesting to viewers, would it?

It's hard and possibly erroneous to judge from this temporal distance, but the more I look through cultural artifacts (and what memories I have), the more I feel that the spirit of the time was similar in many aspects across the US, Europe and the USSR (and maybe SE Asia too). Probably because the economy became progressively more global, and because there was a steady trickle of Western culture into even the USSR proper, since the 60s.
I searched for that option recently and couldn't find it. Could you give the exact path through the menus?
For the surveillance conscious I can also recommend using Fathom (https://usefathom.com). I’ve been using it for a few weeks now and have only good things to say.
They don't use Electron. Their website states that they don't plan to release Windows or Linux versions because of the large amount of native MacOS API's they use making it very time consuming and costly to make a cross-platform version of the app.
> then the functions should be the same?

If we conceptually think that advancing from one neural net layer to the next one is the same as taking a time step with an ODE solver, then a bit more precise notation would be

h1 = f(t=1,x) + x
h2 = f(t=2,h1) + h1
h3 = f(t=3,h2) + h2
h4 = f(t=4,h3) + h3
y = f(t=5,h4) + h4

Now you can say that the function f is always the same, but it still can give very different values for Δh when evaluated at different time points.
The answer is 'no' and 'nobody' to all those questions. It seems hopeless (or at least out of touch for me to change much of that, since I hope to keep on the technical side of things).
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