skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember finding a first edition of this in my university library during undergrad after reading the likes of Watson/Crick describe it as fundamental in their path. What bowled me over was that each paragraph in that edition - and so very likely the ones they read as well - was marked with a section symbol (§), itself closely resembling a double helix. At the time it felt profound that their conclusion was likely implied by the circumstances of their beginning.
What if someone wanted to operate drones containing scientific instruments over industrial sites?

I'm not an expert, but if an company wants to use drones to monitor its industrial site, that's fine. It's private property. Just like construction companies use drones to monitor construction.

But you don't have the right to fly your drone over someone else's property, even if it's for something as seemingly good as monitoring chemical emissions. What happens when there's a malfunction and your machine plummets into a stack, or hits a person?

Again, I'm not an expert on this. I suspect nobody really is since it's all a new realm, and what few laws there are haven't been tested very much.
Does it? The same airfoil needs the same speed to provide a given amount of lift, regardless of whether it’s a wing or a propellor.
Separate tabs don't work?

If not, then switch to Firefox, and use Container Tabs. :-)

Then again, considering Slack's memory usage, that might not be such a great idea...
4 billion addresses being usable is a pretty recent development. The original design was classful addressing, with US universities, US military departments, and US corporations getting chunks of 1/256ths of the available space. So yes.
A sustainable weekly oncall rota can work with about 6-7 people, as you noted. To answer your question you collapse roles when appropriate. If you really only have 10 people then maybe it’s simply “primary” and “secondary/escalation” covering all the roles as needed. Get a little larger, to say 3 small teams and you might have the developrs in primary & secondary with all of the technical people managers/team leads/senior ICs in a dedicated “escalation management” rota that handles the “commander”, “scribe”, and “liason” roles. Dedicated support for those specialized roles only really makes sense when you get big enough that coordination becomes its own problem.
It's great but you always have to turn off the lights to watch.
The only times I've had to use flash in the past two years have been for school. Most textbook publishers still have almost all of their online content only available in flash. The worst I've seen was a site with a login screen written in flash, I don't even want to know how that happened or how easy it would be to exploit.
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." - Aristotle
I don't think it's a prequel - he just wrote it before TBP. There is one character in common with The Dark Forest, but only to the extent that this character is regarded as a great physicist in both books and makes some discoveries.
Funny, I feel the same way about TS :)
To be fair tho, you’re right. Flex was a very Java centric endeavor, from its compiler to the first big frameworks (Caignorm?) all the way to its target audience, which were enterprise companies that wanted to do their “thing” on the web. There was a massive developer migration from the Java/enterprise world to the AS3 ecosystem that had a visible impact.
Also to be fair, if you look at Angular now with TS it feels even more Java’ish than ever.
TS is great, is specially good for people coming from different languages in that it gives them a more familiar environment but the downside is that they have to make a lower effort to break away from old patterns and truly understand the new platform they’re working on.
That must get really hot, I wonder how well it cools?
Its such a minor and rare sound though. A car driving past you is so much louder and more annoying as well as being more common. In fact I can think of countless common and accepted sounds that we find acceptable.
> But believing that would make me feel uncomfortable and threatened, like maybe I don't understand the world as perfectly as I thought I did. Can't we find someone with high credentials to tell us that it's all bunk so that we don't have to actually read his ideas?

Do you really believe that no people exist who have read his ideas, thought deeply about it, and still rejected it?

I remember clearly thinking through his point about the American Revolution, thinking through things his way, realizing there were things I didn't know and that he knew, and considering the situation. I still came to the conclusion that he was wrong.
> write-once backup for all my work.

I'd expect USB drives to be more durable. Would be nice to know.
I think this is why so many people have a negative view of remote work. They worked at companies that hired remote workers but the majority of people were in-office. That rarely works out well. You need commitment from the top all the way down and throughout the organization.

I’ve worked at 100% remote companies most of my career and they are excellent. Every person is invested in making communication work.

My last gig was where we were a remote team but most employees were in-office. It was impossible to get even the slightest bit of adjustment on how work gets done (write stuff down, don’t have private meetings without us, etc). Eventually it created hostility and not much of anything got done.
I'm not sure anyones written it up yet. You can see it for yourself if you run adb logcat on a sleeping phone. Try running it on different networks and see the keep alive period. (you'll have to turn off all push notification sources, because a push message counts as a keep alive too).
I think a bigger concern is that the police will use drones to conduct ubiquitous surveillance.
How is it a "serverless framework"? I understand that phrase to mean things like Amazon Lambda where a large company executes small processes for you and you don't have to manage servers. Isn't Urbit the opposite, that you have to manage a (quite involved) server, and that's a good thing?
Mypy is already quite powerful and understands a lot of the language. With latest versions of the language, what is handled by "transpiling" to JS, can be done "natively", ie. there is no need for an intermediate step to strip out the additional syntax for declaring types as it's now built in.

Mypy and TC and Flow and many other similar projects seem to stem from the academic work on gradual typing from nearly 20 years ago. What we're seeing now is "practical application" of that research, and while different projects have different budgets, it won't be surprising if they all converge in terms of features at some point. I'm not an expert, by any means, but we've already seen this happening many times with languages and software platforms. At least this time the point of convergence is based on comp-sci research and not on the marketing one.
Sure. But I’d love to see a startup do something akin to ipo-as-service to distrupt the fat margins and conflicts of interest the on the side of the investment bankers
Sure; you just need a mapping of math symbols to memorable objects/colors/verbs/whatever. Mnemonics are just symbol mapping.
If it’s like Matomo’s opt-out system, that cookie is required – it’s the very thing that turns on the opt-out.

When you opt-out of Matomo, the message warns that “if you clear your cookies, delete the opt-out cookie, or if you change computers or Web browsers, you will need to perform the opt-out procedure again”.

Matomo also honours the browser’s DNT setting, which is a) nice and b) rare.

https://matomo.org/docs/privacy/#step-4-respect-donottrack-p...
At a way to fully illustrate the OP's point.
"Won't You Be My Neighbor" is an outstanding documentary with a beautiful message. Especially in turbulent political times.
Your phone could easily wait until it's on wifi to upload 24hrs worthy of ambient voice data (which is only trigged by voice activation, so not a full 24hrs)...

The feds have been using cellphones as full-bore wiretaps since the early 2000s when they used it on mobster's
"dumbphones". I'm sure they've figured out clever exfiltration techniques on smartphones by now.

Especially considering how willing the ISPs/telecom companies are to bend over backwards to hide surveillance. Even 3g/4g wiretapping is probably feasible.
> My take on this is that people need to realize that they are not an exception to this. _Everyone_ has an ideology that overrides logic for many topics.

Is that what the paper actually says? Based on my personal experience I would think there's a lot of variance but I would be interested to see actual data.
Having to sort files among multiple volumes is also complexity and can lead to mistakes.
The tiny size of an Alpine + Go container is still nice compared to a typical Node or Python container, though.
Just build the same cluster with threadripeers add 1 or 2 extra nodes and you should be even without getting involved in auction and stuff
I think it's often even simpler, where ideology just provides false premises. So people are acting in a mostly rational manner but starting from bad information.

(I get that acting on false information is not rational, I'm arguing that it is frequently the core of the irrationallity)
It definitely encourages asynchronous communication if the time difference is large.

It really depends on the project in my experience. Sometimes, or at least initially, you need a lot of back and forth contact and without that it really slows the project down.
> Do you really believe that no people exist who have read his ideas, thought deeply about it, and still rejected it?

Yes, in that his writings are excessively verbose and a chore to slog through, artificially limiting the number of takers; not unlike Urbit.
Not to detract at all from your point, but Mongo (10gen) was very, very well-funded out of the gate, and the original idea was a platform-as-a-service built on open source apps before they pivoted to the open source database idea.
Excellent America painting, really captures the passivity of the country and the spirit of this thread.

https://odomojuli.store/products/america
Unless it’s something that doesn’t work, then you create a money making course about it.
“Na, Na, Na, Na, Na – BATMAN” Read All about the TV Classic
Also worth mentioning is Toshi: https://github.com/toshi-search/Toshi

Toshi is to ElasticSearch as Tantivy is to Lucene if that makes sense.

Obviously as they are new they are not at feature parity, but Tantivy does win at some benchmarks: https://tantivy-search.github.io/bench/
Sold some shares.
This would be a pretty significant liability for builders in countries that have automatic consumer protections (eg: Consumer Guarantees Act in NZ). The builders would have to eat the costs of faulty units.
A car driving past me doesn't sound like someone trying to destroy a power tool. [1]

Unless it's driven by one of those jerks who mod their exhaust, that is.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5DYre_EZKU - I've heard more annoying sounds, but this is probably in my top ten, or fifteen.
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Wings don't rotate and thus don't efficiently produce sound waves.
This was a very polite version of what an FAA employee told me.
> Life is everything.

No it isn't, a rock is not alive.

> Just because we can't consciously communicate with something it doesn't mean it's not alive.

Strawman, no one thinks life requires communication.

> Why wouldn't Earth be alive?

Because it's not, it's a big rock, it has life on the surface, but is not itself alive.

> We love separating things by arbitrarily naming and defining them, but the universe is completely connected, we can't exist outside of it or disconnected from it.

More strawmen.

> If anything, the only life that exists is the entire universe and we are just tiny tiny pieces of it with a very limited view and awareness of the whole.

The universe is not alive.

What's clear is that you just don't know what you're saying, you're just pontificating woo woo.

Life self replicates, metabolizes something for energy, and grows through cellular division. None of the things you just called alive do that, so they're not alive; you don't get to change the meaning of the word life to suit your narrative.
mSATA SSD's are so rare these days
You can read a political author for what seems to be his overt case or for what are his underlying ideas.

There's an impressive (and really novel at the time) case in favor of capitalism hiding in plain sight in the first book of Marx's Communist manifesto. Those who deprive themselves of Marxist theory for the moral catastrophe of communism miss out on seeing from the shoulders of tall people. The case for Carlyle is structurally the same.
Not even implied warranty? Surely intel can't sell broken chips?
Well, several decimal orders of magnitude better than a fingerprint, to be accurate.
What in particular do you find really cool? I think the binary translator is really cool, I want to find more details about it.
Well, okay, but do you really believe that someone who writes so terribly is also writing with "erudition, scholarship and analytical ability"?

(I'm with you, to be clear; I didn't make it much farther than that because I figured that anyone who leads with such a poor argument, that can be debunked by thinking about it instead of getting drawn into the artificial mystique of how cool it is to read forbidden thoughts, can't possibly have very many more interesting thoughts deeper in.)
It's widely considered to be lyrically facile, musically boring and one of the prime examples of John Lennon's late-career hippy excesses
This thesis ( https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/6367... ) on page 111 has some of the details.

The bonds had already been defaulted on, so they were valueless apart from their ability to be converted into lottery tickets. They went around and bought up most of the defaulted bonds cheaply, which they were able to do because most of the bondholders apparently didn't trust the municipal government or their lottery and were not keen to throw further good money after bad, even though the math indicated it was a winning investment.

Then they just entered the lottery as many times as they could each drawing. The total payout was the total of the purchased tickets plus the 500,000 livres overlay provided by the Government, so their expected value was strongly positive each drawing.

So I don't think there was really a flaw in the lottery at all. The Government expected to lose 500,000 livres each drawing, the only people leaving value on the floor here were the bondholders who sold their defaulted bonds to Voltaire, La Condamine and their mates rather than enter the lotteries themselves.
Real Life Hitman Experience – Behind the Scenes (2016) [video]
Somewhat off topic but your hyperlogs logo is non-retina, it looks slightly pixelated on my phone. Just a heads up.
Meh. I'm holding out for the i9-9999.999Xtreme
Sometimes I wonder if the general decrease in trust in society affects psychology research:

http://www.niemanlab.org/2019/01/a-gloomy-vision-for-fake-ne...

The Milgram experiment is the most prominent example which might not be possible today because it depends on participants' willingness to obey scientists. The Milgram effect is still real, but it has become harder to measure.

So in this case, when participants are asked to reason based on premises they don't agree with, they might, as you've suggested, refuse. They might interpret the researchers' intent as nefarious, e.g. "if I agree this syllogism is valid the researcher will report that I support the conclusion". This line of thinking is of course absurd, but it comes close to what I've observed that some people believe about scientists.
The probem with npm isn't that open source doesn't help, its that the eyes get spread out thin when you have thousands of modules - so nobody is looking at the changes that happen in their lots of small dependencies.

Which is not to say that thats not a valid approach - but for it to work we need better tools to handle lots of git repos at once (for example, the ability to get notified about any new code on github that affects your project would be pretty cool, especially if its coming from people or organisations you haven't explicitly marked as trusted yet)

I would like to see someone try and sneak rogue commits into Linux. It would be quite the feat.
> _Everyone_ has an ideology that overrides logic for many topics.

Yes. However, my ideology is that logic, evidence, and reason, and reality are far more important than ideology.

All I care about is evidence and if I hold a position that is faulty I abandon it the moment there is evidence that I'm incorrect.
> training people to have always-on surveillance in their homes without a second thought

Even worse: when always-on surveillance devices become popular enough that a judge could rule that the technology (in the abstract, not a specific product) is "in general public use"[2] - crossing the bright-line rule created in Kyllo v United States[1] - the police no longe4r need a warrant to use the technology see the "details of a private home that would previously have been unknowable without physical intrusion"[3].

I'm not talking about the police being involved with Amazon or using the Echo. When a technology is "in general public use", the police can use their own always-on microphone to transmit previously-private speech to a 3rd party on the internet. Normalizing surveillance devices not harms the person using the device, it also reduces *everyone's 4th Amendment protection.

[1] https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-supreme-court/533/27.html

[2] Used throughout the ruling[1], but especially section II of Justice Stevens' dissent.

[3] The ruling[1], 2nd paragraph
Oh sure, but the glider is moving through the air at a stately pace (generally between 50-95mph), shedding vortices without anything coming behind them to crash into them. A prop operates at much higher speeds, typically between 450-720mph!
Widely considered by who? I've never heard of this consensus before
I see at work at work. There is someone who is bound by ideology and tries to manage by that (managerial) ideology.

It has lead this person to make decisions which do not fit the characteristics of their current company. They have taken the experience from other industries and from companies with other characteristics and have tried to apply them and shoehorn them. It has lead to some poor decisions, execution as well as inferior relationships with other key players in the company. Superficially something like Mr. Johnson when he went from Apple to JCPenney.
I saw an ebay link for 4 cameras pulled from a HiSeq 2000. I am interested in using the cameras to build a digital microscope, but I'm not sure how easy it would be to interface the cameras to a PC, or if they need optics to work. Any ideas? Here is the link: https://www.ebay.com/itm/4-Illumina-HiSeq-2000-Hamamatsu-S10...
I actually did something similar but less formal for an automated-composer experiment. I took several dozen tunes I liked, and extracted out the most common chord progressions found in them.

I normalized it such that "key" was irrelalent because transposed keys are generally considered the same such that I was more concerned about the relative relationship between chords per song.

After the analysis gave me my Markov-chain-like progression list, I randomly generated a some test tunes. While most of the results were agreeable, some I didn't like, and ended up trimming the offending chords out of my list.

I realized I probably would need to analyze 3 levels of progressions -- a moving window of A-to-B-to-C -- to get better results, or at least better tests. I never finished that step.

But I should point out that I was interested in generating progressions that sounded good to me. Ultimately I want to make tunes that I like even if I use a computer to help. That means I can use manual adjustments and/or backtracking the chain generation when needed. Therefore, going 3 levels was probably overkill. Leaving it at 2 gives me "happy accidents" anyhow.
Also, the application of "mitochondrial" to the common female ancestor is somewhat spurious. There is a common male ancestor as well. And if mitochondria did not exist, there would still be a common female ancestor.
The mitochondria connection is just that it's a tool that can be used to estimate the time and location of that ancestor. She would not have been the only human alive at that time and there was nothing special about her mitochondria.
Ask HN: Interest in biotech investing course?
For the last year I've been running a program connecting grad students and postdocs from bay area universities with biotech VCs to learn about the industry, find jobs and start companies. I also advise seed stage biotech startups.

What I've found through all this is that there are way more talented young biotech founders than there are investors who will fund them.

The top biotech VCs don't fund young founders -- much like tech VCs wouldn't fund young founder-CEOs until YC, a16z and Zuckerberg showed that young hackers could build huge companies.

Generalist tech VCs are starting to get into bio, but they shy away from therapeutics because they lack expertise and networks, even though therapeutics is by far the biggest sector of healthcare VC and where the returns are.

There is no real seed / angel ecosystem in biopharma, despite VCs investing $17B in the space in 2018.

So there are lots of interesting companies / founders that the funding market is not currently equipped to serve.

I'm considering doing a program on investing in biotech startups to address this. The format would be similar to the program I currently do on biotech entrepreneurship: weekly lectures / guest speakers (cell biology 101, a VC discussing how they do technical diligence, a successful entrepreneur discussing her story, etc). We'd also do bring in startups to pitch, then have a guided discussion of the company, perhaps moderated by a VC.

Ideally, at the end of the program, each investor would invest in a startup, as the best way to learn investing is by doing it under the guidance of experienced investors.

Would people be interested in something like this?
I enjoyed this article but I wish those GIFs were not there, constantly trying to grab my attention.
Twenty-five years ago. As much time separates now from “Kiss from a Rose” as separates “Kiss from a Rose” from the Beatles’ “Come Together.”
recommended for a related read : Robert Macfarlane, "The Old Ways" - a very lyrical book about tramping/hiking/roaming.

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/560/56083/the-old-ways/97801...

I also like the wistful poem "Roads" by Edward Thomas:

"On this earth 'tis sure

We men have not made

Anything that doth fade

So soon, so long endure:"

which contains the immortal line "Now All Roads Lead to France":

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57265/roads-56d23a98e...
As I said, I don't like PG&E. High rates, San Bruno, etc, etc. The problem is that a lot of the forests in California are just going to burn, whether it's tomorrow or in five years, because they are tinderboxes. Maybe any individual ones will be caused by poorly maintained electrical lines, or a careless campfire, or a cigarette or lightning, but given enough time, there will be a spark. In much of California, wildfire is part of the natural cycle. A lot of of California is dry, so downfall wood doesn't rot. The only way that energy gets released is for it to burn. Because we use forest management practices developed where downfall wood does rot, and because politicians don't like to tell people that their cozy cabin in the woods needs to burn down, we've backed ourselves into an ugly corner with way too much fuel on the forest floor. You can blame PG&E, but if it wasn't them with the ignition source it would have been someone else.