skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The irony is too strong:

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The goals are to improve agricultural productivity, produce hardier beasts and reduce practices that are costly or considered inhumane.
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I can’t help but think about Oryx and Crake.

I’m more interested in applying these principles and efforts and resources to plants and non-animal sources. I feel that further modifying animal agriculture is orthogonal to direction we can move civilization and is not necessary if we can essentially apply the same techniques for increasing commodity yields to non-animal ag.

(I would love counter arguments and opinions to this. Perhaps I am not seeing the whole picture or far enough.)
Not necessarily the best, but definitely one that should be watched "Escaping the Global Banking Cartel" by Andreas M. Antonopoulos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgI0liAee4s
What if the consequences are some kind of natural DRM?

Like if you can't cut out that gene to remove X without also altering Y and you can't live with the possibility of altering Y in a negative way then you cannot remove X.
> please don't post bilious denunciations to HN

It's not personal and I'm not sure why you would attribute malice

> If you keep that up, we're going to have to ban you

If you keep this up I'm going to have to delete my account
You do realize that there is this crazy new thing now: copying files to a different drive
DNA is almost exactly machine code. It's directly executed by ribosomes and other cellular machines. Of course there are no guard rails.
No it isn't. You simply shutdown all discussion about it.

https://www.smh.com.au/world/chinese-leaders-family-worth-a-...

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/18/world/asia/chinas-preside...

And do you remember that discussion about Wen Jiabao's mom controlling a good chunk of China's jewelry industry that got the new york times banned:

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/26/business/global/family-of...

I think Chinese officials are genuinely surprised in how poor western politicians are and how many of them even lack xiaosans.
they organized rallies supporting both sides, a very well known fact
Given that the human microbiome [0] takes up genetic material from the food we consume, I'd be concerned about eating this stuff.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5711824/
> And we don’t control crimes like murder by allowing people to break the laws and then testing them in court.

I usually err on the side of constructive conversation, but I have to say that is a ridiculous straw-man - and you know it.
> IANAL but GDPR refers to personal data collected from users.

No, it addresses the collection and processing of personal data no matter where it is collected from.

> The only "Youtuber data" being "used" here is publicly gettable data from the Youtuber's channel.

Which is personal data that YouTube has collected or created associated with services they are providing to the user. They are responsible for their collection and use of it, but that doesn't authorize third-party collection and use of it under the GDPR. Particularly, the GDPR definition of personal data subject to the rules it imposes does not exclude information which is “publicly gettable” from some other party than the subject.
> Countries are about political borders, not economical. Would you put California, Wall Street, Shenzhen and a few more at the same level as countries?

It's about both, and when it comes to the world stage? Yes. Californias GDP is greater than every country in Europe except Germany - just barely. Heck, CA's GDP on the world stage is 5th according to wikipedia.

If you want to talk about land mass, there are also only a few countries in Europe that are larger than CA.

Wall Street, and by extension NYC is one of the most important cities in the world. It is absolutely on the same level as a country.
"Fairness Doctrine" is part of the problem; it obliges media to bring in someone from the "absurd lies" side and treat them in the same way as the "less wrong" side.
>Israeli-developed Drone Dome

>TLDR; There are no sure fire way to track down offender

$200 https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/kerberossdr-4x-coherent-r...
Knowledge of counties are somewhat of a function of the state. In some states, counties (or their equivalents like Parishes in Louisiana) are fairly powerful. In others, they're almost meaningless. I live in Massachusetts and I could name maybe 3 or 4 counties--and that's because I've lived in two of them.
"No single point just does a single thing."

Exactly this! And this is why GM foods are more dangerous than you might expect. Even if gene x does only x in organism A, there is no guarantee that gene x does only one thing or the same thing in organism B.
Really great talk! I think my favorite was his continuous emphasis on not being so vendor-favored. It's increasingly important to be reminded of this these days.
This is next level hacking.

To do CAD program for synthetic biology Chemistry professor writes his own implementation of Common Lisp.
I would have known those were regions of China (and cuisines). I would not have known with any certainty that they were actual provinces.
On the other hand, the cost of a couple of drones, and only two people in prison, does seem like a rather low cost for the sheer amount of chaos they caused.

100,000+ people kept from traveling, an entire airport basically shut down, military response, the whole lot, by just two people with a drone. That's rather impressive.
not just inside string literals

This is the most unusual part and just leaves me asking why!?!? Was it an error of omission, or a deliberate design decision, to essentially preprocess the whole file blindly with Unicode escape parsing instead of putting it only inside the string literal (and character constant) parser like just about every other language that has a similar escape system? The fact that \n behaves differently (and in the sane manner that those are accustomed to from C/C++) is the most bizarre part --- Unicode escaped could've been handled by the same parser, but they didn't.

Sibling comments mention trigraphs. Those are different, starting with ?? instead of \, so their "applicable to the whole file" behaviour is more reasonable. But \-escapes are, outside of preprocessor line continuations (where it's literally \ followed by a newline), customarily only interpreted inside character and string constants.
https://iphone.appleinsider.com/articles/18/12/21/youtuber-a...
Google for "glitter package video fake".
I haven't seen the talk, but just from the title, a "taking control" talk related to AWS is kind of ironic.

I'll have to watch it though.
Fair points, but a quicker to market half assed product also means it'll likely be cheaper and more widely available which translates to more product iteration cycles because more data, more users, more tests and more competition.
> "I was presented with information that caused me to doubt the veracity of 2 of the 5 reactions in the video [...] It appears (and I've since confirmed) in these two cases, the 'thieves' were actually acquaintances of the person helping me."

https://twitter.com/MarkRober/status/1075767629703372800
Write methods in Python, call them from notebook. This works well in collaboration and team members can just fork notebook or the merges are kind of trivial.

This makes the notebook just a convenient way to visualize or share with non team members.
> There's always the argument about "Playing God"

I come from a religious background and this is an argument that has ceased to have meaning to me. We can't possibly play God. We can't create something from nothing. All we can do is fiddle around with this existence we're in. Part of that happens to be genetics.

What drove me to change my mind was the question "if you have the ability to treat a genetic disease, and you don't exercise that ability, are you complicit in the person's condition?"
It's time to flare
How would we act if you're unarmed and I had a gun pointed at you?

We are all marketers, trying to achieve our goals - no matter how trivial. Hence, we negotiate, flatter, smile even when we don't want to, try to know what makes the other person tick. Problem is this method's slow, expensive and inefficient (like American democracy).

BUT, when a person can compel action, things change. The brain takes the easy, direct but less creative approach. Authorities become uncaring because they don't need to. Problem is this method is efficient and cheap like Chinese dictatorship.

I guess this topic becomes easier to reason out if it becomes a dictatorship vs democracy, free market vs monopolies, and inbreeding vs diversity of ideas debate.
You erred in "opt-out" versus "opt-in". Literally your founder advocated this spammy method.
The FBI isn't what is bringing Trump down, the FBI has always seemed to be mostly conservative to moderate Republican leaning law and order types.

It's the rule of law and the ability to have an independent investigation of the president. I never thought that the political parties on both sides would be so swayed by the president that they wouldn't be able to adequately control or counter illegal or crazy actions. I've at least lost that naivety. Maybe Trump is our Nero, but it was such a thin slice of crazy that got him elected.

Some people voted for him because they liked the traditional ideas of the republican party, of his rhetoric about 'others' keeping us down, racism, people cheating the us. But I think there was also a sizable group of people that saw their future in trouble, the local town's factory shrinking or closing, young people moving away from their farm country, their local town with shuttered shops - those people wanted someone to give them hope. HRC wasn't doing a good job of engaging with them, even though I think she did have programs and intentions to help people. Bernie Sanders did have more outreach. I don't think most people wanted us to burn like Nero, they just wanted a change that might help them.
Very relevant: (Bono: America is an idea)

http://www.aei.org/publication/bono-america-is-an-idea-thats...
Yes. Submitters: please follow the site guidelines and "use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize." (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)

(Submitted title was "Amazon Echo stores your voice recordings – sent other user’s records via GDPR".)
Actually, Patton proposed marching the US Army to Moscow in the immediate aftermath of the Nazi surrender but was pushed out of active leadership, in part for suggesting that. For some reason, Americans (then and now) are a little defensive about Stalin's legacy of mass murder on a scale greater even than Hitler. It's inexplicable.
To the simulation, probably yes.
Yeah, that's not typical and the reason is pretty much practical. If you center at or near the Greenwich Meridien, the edges of your map are more or less right between Alaska and Russia and go down the middle of the Pacific Ocean where there's very little land. Of course, one 2D map projection can't cover the whole earth effectively but centering a typical projection on 0/0 gives you something that works for most of the areas people are looking for on a world map.
Are you thinking of the one that turned out to be some idiots running minecraft server renting business?

https://www.wired.com/story/mirai-botnet-minecraft-scam-brou...
https://eternagame.org/

This is RNA Design for humans as a game! Also: A trained human outperforms current AI approaches for RNA Design.
And if we're going there, it's more likely they'll know more European nations than U.S. states. I think there's probably few European nations that people wouldn't recognize by name (e.g. Andorra, Azerbaijan, Slovenia).
Right, but that last bit is why the copyleft position doesn't make sense. You're comparing unfree software to free software when an equally (and perhaps in our reality more likely) outcome is comparing unfree to none at all.

You cannot make the argument that if GPL, software would be freer, because in practice the result might we'll be if GPL, less software period.

That's not a win for anyone.

Back to your first point, any right can be phrased positively or negatively. My rights to life and liberty prevent you from exercising your right to punch me in the face. Quite simply, any argument that reduces to "the freedom to take away others freedom is bad" can be ignored, because that applies to all freedoms. You must justify why the freedom you want to protect is more valuable than the freedom being reduced.

Specifically in this case, you are wanting to reduce my freedom to sell/provide proprietary software. By your thesis, this is apparently in and of itself a bad thing and so the GPL and other loscenses that restrict my freedoms should be abolished!

Now clearly you don't believe that, but you can't justify that by saying it reduces freedom, literally any restriction at any point in the chain reduces freedom. So why is end user freedom more valuable than library author freedom? Why is it okay for you to restrict my freedoms but not for me to restrict the freedoms of my users?

To get back to the copying analogy, you're saying that copying doesn't take anything away from anyone, but by forking and ignoring your liscence, what else am I doing but copying? If copying doesn't harm anyone, why should it matter?
I can reach Gatwick in 30 mins from West London using an Oyster. That's faster than my commute into the City. So it's London, for all intents and purposes.
> The offices are shared by up to 3 people in offices designed to have 1 or 2.

Yes and no. The campus is rapidly expanding to accommodate new hires.

> The vast majority of hires are new grads and turnover is very high.

Turnover is only high in implementation, other positions have veterans of 15 and 20 years.

> ... it seems like a large facade.

The look of the place does not translate well to the intensity and energy that many people bring to their work. There isn't time for most people to 'have fun'. They're working.

Source: a family member works at Epic.
Right - I don't want 1Password to handle syncing and I don't want Dropbox handling / offering decryption of the encrypted store.

I trust the local 1Password apps enough to supply them my master password to unlock vaults locally.

I trust Dropbox enough to not sync the encrypted store somewhere I don't want it ending up.

It's a separation of concerns argument. I likely won't hold up to any targeted attack on my personal property given how careless I am with local devices but I should be somewhat protected against a your typical dragnet / mass attack against either service remotely.
Healthcare tech is notoriously bad, but over the past 5 ish years there has been a wave of healthcare tech companies who focus on making their products consumer-friendly (ZocDoc, DrChrono, Oscar, PillPack, Capsule etc). NYC in particular has a large healthcare tech industry.

So why are EMRs so bad in the US?
1) Most EMRs are on-premise software with that being the preference due to regulatory/compliance/security risk. Because the EMR companies don't have the ability to deploy changes or updates on their schedule, the rate of change is much slower and updates made for one client aren't made for all clients.
1a)Many of these EMRs are heavily customized per client (think Epic in particular). These customizations aren't often being brought back into the core product but are one-offs. Think of it like starting from scratch with each client.
1b) Unlike the Googles/Facebooks of the world which are built on web software, there's no easy way to deploy. This means that where tech first companies are probably deploying multiple times an hour, Epic/Cerner installs are probably being updated once a month or less. Some hospital systems are running on software that's 10+ years old.
2) Large initial barrier to entry. The sales cycle for most healthcare software is close to a year minimum. For EHRs, which affect how the entire hospital runs, it's almost certainly a multi-year effort. Most EHRs are signing 5 year contracts, so providers can only switch every 5 years. And for the large providers it can take 5+ years to implement a switchover from one EHR to another [1]. This means that any new entrant needs a lot of startup cash and the ability to sell to provider systems.
3) You're building regulated software, which means that most of your third-party components have to be secure and HIPAA-compliant. Also your developers probably don't have access to production data or error reporting, so fixing issues can take a long time.
4) You're building enterprise systems. Whatever you build has to support EVERY department in a provider from the ER, to the pharmacy, to billing. What makes sense for one department won't make sense to another so you end up with products built by committee.

PS You may be interested in looking into some of the modern EMRs that have come out. They seem to focus on either small practices or specialties. DrChrono is one, Flatiron Health is another.

[1]: https://www.epic.cumc.columbia.edu/timeline/implementation-p...
> Epic is a steaming pile of shit.

I'd love to hear more about this.
Not just in Europe, the Volkswagen group had the most sales globally in 2017.
Especially since the first sentence alone is enough to tell it was probably written by someone well known.
The author of the article mis-represents a goal or rationale behind reducing the block reward:

> This new update reduces the mining reward from 3 ETH to 2 ETH which will reduce the yearly inflation of the coin. The goal of this is ultimately to drive the price higher, as we know that when there is less of something it becomes worth more.

This is a common point of view, but not universal and the effect on price has not been brought up in deliberations amongst the core devs AFAICT.

The rationale for lowering the block reward is described in EIP-1234 as:

> In order to maintain stability of the system, a block reward reduction that offsets the ice age delay would leave the system in the same general state as before. Reducing the reward also decreases the likelihood of a miner driven chain split as Ethereum approaches proof-of-stake.

https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/blob/master/EIPS/eip-1234.m...
Is you squint and tilt your head just enough, it's a communication protocol. Send a data request with the right header, data comes back.
I’d happily eat the frankenburgers. I don’t buy into the anti-GMO hype!
I've no intent on defending Goldman but taibbi is an idealogue not a journalist. He belongs in a commentary page not given credit as a journalist
Regarding at least the location names, the US is definitely a massive exporter of pop culture and our pop culture tends to mention place names frequently.
Either a hacked off the shelf drone or a custom built one
To control unruly population, bolsheviks used to use more efficient methods.

> The Bolshevik forces used chemical weapons "from end of June 1921 until apparently the fall of 1921", by direct order from the leadership of Red Army and from the Communist Party.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tambov_Rebellion
In an alternate universe where global communication had led to one single identity group, intellectuals would be decrying the death of the community and the alienation of individuals from their neighbors.
I think the conversion would have been faster, especially for people who don't care, if the main distributions collaborated and stopped providing Python 2.x; 99% of software writers would just check out how to write their code in Python 3, or move their code to that version. The other 1% would be people who "knew what they're doing" and custom install whatever version they needed.

Imagine if Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty) didn't bring Python 2. All devs of relevant stuff would have received a shower of upgrade requests. Maybe 2014 was too early to force this, but I'm sure in 2018 it could have been done with Ubuntu 18.04.

I know this looks like work for the sake of upgrading, without any real benefit for most projects. But I guess it's not wrong either; you just couldn't expect that Qt 3.3 (circa 2004) was distributed 10 years later in Ubuntu 14.04 (Qt is just a library, not a language, but it practically transforms the way you write C++ so it's a valid comparison IMO); however here we are in 2018, 10 years after the release of Python 3, and Python 2 is still the default interpreter in Ubuntu 18.04.
Show HN: Simple react webrender example
> Presumably the arithmetician will answer that its factorization is the empty set.

Arithmetician (Ph.D. in number theory) here. This answer is completely correct.

As another reason why the factorization of 1 should be the empty set: suppose you have two positive integers m and n. Write S(m) and S(n) for their sets of prime divisors, counted with multiplicity.

Then S(mn) is the union of S(m) and S(n). We need S(1) to be the empty set to make this rule consistent.

Analogous to how log(1) is equal to 0.
Oh. I'd played both (15 years apart) and didn't notice any differences... guess I just overlooked them! I stand corrected.
They Thought They Were Free
Sorry I dont share your idea of correctness between this control parameter and its formulaic effect. We might say the formula naturally wraps this angle, but the formula doesn't mind what space we prefer to map from.

> If you instead had a full-turn periodicity, you would have substantially different properties for the curve shape

We would have precisely the same effect on curve shape from a 360 degree control than with a wrapped 180 degree control, but have twice as much travel to adjust the outcome more finely.
Yep, that was me — thank you for the kind words!

Gary Bernhardt had a creative concept for selecting speakers. Half were invited, internet famous people like Tom 7 and Julia Evans. Half were people who'd never spoke at a conference before, like Nabil and I. For the call for proposals, we submitted 2 minute videos instead of abstracts. Gary invested a lot of time mentoring the new speakers, which I'm so grateful for!

In September, I did another, kind of similar talk at Strange Loop, called "Picasso, Geometry, Jupyter." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYJ77F_8kq0

The topic and ideas were good, probably better than my Deconstruct talk. But my execution and presentation were uneven and unpolished, so I'd like to try it again at another conference. I'm submitting to PyCon — we'll see!
I did not know you could put Unity in a Serverless function until I tried. AFAIK, this is a first, leveraging Chrome's software renderer to have unity fully working serverlessly. This will seriously save me money.
"Q: Why Do Keynote Speakers Keep Suggesting That Improving Security Is Possible?
A: Because Keynote Speakers Make Bad Life Decisions and Are Poor Role Models"

James Mickens

https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity18/presentat...
The Bleeding Edge: behind the terrifying new Netflix documentary
Alex Hannold's Ted Talk on how he free soloed El Cap.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iM6M_7wBMc

Another favorite one of mine was Jimmy Chin talking about how they shot Free Solo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oq_vvnxZ6I0
I think the lessons in negotiation to be learned would be better explained by showing how the many mistakes made by the Americans and the Brits in giving away too much to Stalin could possibly have been avoided, rather than showing how Stalin's treachery worked in the short term.
It just seemed so obviously foolish to buy these overpriced and shrinking giant properties that Verizon gets one after another, Yahoo was perfect for them. My outside view is the leaders of that company succeeded by just throwing money at the phone and networking infrastructure against their competitors, and they can't rescue dying media properties with money.
It wasn't faked. The incidents where the pickups happened at his place were real. However he paid people to place it on their doorstep and those people had an accomplice pick it up.