skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was over a year ago, I posted it at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16021738

His reasons for doing it seem a bit confused. But one interesting point he makes it that it's not particularly expensive or difficult to brew up some CRISPR. If this guy can do it in his garage, imagine what's going on in secret labs elsewhere.
This makes me very scared.

If the quality of initiatives is as bad as the compat for migration, we're pretty much fucked.
I'd wager that more people would end up relieving conditions with gene editing than doing wackier shit as mentioned before. If you genetically cure a bunch of diseases and unhealthy susceptibilities across the population, the marginal cost of the handful of people who make themselves ten feet tall will be trivial.
A nice middle ground is living in commute distance to work. There are lots of way more affordable options in the SFBA -- Morgan Hill/Gilroy south, Petaluma/Santa Rosa north, Pleasant Hill/Antioch/Pittsburgh east. Get a cheap used EV and take the HOV lane, or ride bart/caltrain.
Without meaning to be too cruel, you don’t sound like a very nice person.

You should care about diversity, because it’s an inherent good. If you have no diversity, you are missing part of the picture. Your family values, for instance, might be different from others.

And let’s be clear, describing transgender people as “despising what they once were” is not a very acceptable view.
Something Is Broken in Our Science Fiction. Why Can’t We Move Past Cyberpunk?
My wife manages a retail store and they use this tech to track sales conversions by the hour. Gross sales / Number of people walking in the store broken out by hour. Each conversion rate for each hour is tied back to the manager on duty for that hour so they can see how effectively the store is managed. They also take weather into account since that has a strong effect on foot traffic for an outdoor mall.
Also in Cal they can't use radar unless they've recently done one of those surveys and set the radar speed threshold based on the criteria I mentioned. And they have to post a sign warning you of radar use. Of course there's no rule saying they have to remove those signs once the survey has expired (3 years I think...) so those radar in use warnings are all over the place and you can't tell which are actually true :-(

Also in California "speed traps" are illegal: this is when a highway runs through a town or district and the district puts up a sudden "25 MPH" sign so they can catch out of towners and charge them money.
Mine as well.
Guetlzi comparison is mostly against JPEGs you can find in the wild (ie. from a digital camera).

In my experience, Guetzli is a lot slowly than mozjpeg, but tops up at much higher space savings when the conditions are right.
how far are you guys from adding react native?
So do I, but I'm accepting it on the belief that the benefit to liberty is greater than the cost to society and potentially themselves. I don't think amateur injections would provide any meaningful data due to the sample size of 1 plus most likely lower standards of protocol and rigour. But you need a damn good reason to curtail individual liberty.
I don't disagree on your 2nd and 3rd points, but the first point could use a [citation needed]. I live in SV, so I certainly understand there are areas with "artificial restrictions", but I'm not sure it's a major factor, let alone the primary factor. (I mean, yes, if we stacked the entire Peninsula with wall-to-wall tiny houses, the problem would be "solved", but that doesn't prove that this would happen on its own even without restrictive zoning).

Income inequality and the falling prices, in real terms, of virtually everything the upper-middle-class-and-above need to live their lives, means there is more spare money to allocate towards housing, bidding housing costs up.

In a world where food and clothing is cheaper than ever to "most of us", why not pay those rising costs, thus bidding prices ever higher?
> And how many people do that?

I regularly fix my commits, (just like I edit most comments on hn within a few minutes after sending them). And sometimes I take back commits even from the server (working in small teams).

Locally, I regularly switch to older commits and branches to try things out. In svn all this requires a network connection and it is quite costly. Which means you do a hell of a lot less of it. And I would assume it shows in software quality.

Man, how I used to freak out regularly waiting for a stupid svn diff or svn log to finish. These operations are the bread and butter of version control, and they are instantaneous in git.

Or, aren't you regularly blocked from doing quick fixes using svn for problems that you saw, but couldn't fix them because you had a different pending commit? I have that often when working with svn (admittedly I don't know svn very well, but I'm sure it is a real blocker in many situations). Situations like these are easy in git.

And how idiotic, after all, is it that we have to setup a SERVER to keep a simple log of changes to a few files? I have so many small ephemeral projects that I simply put in my laptop's home directory. There is no point in maintaining server repositories for those. Git is simply a tool that lets you do that. It lets you do bookkeeping of your data. It's a tool. While svn feels like an inflexible process. (yes, svn has the file:// protocol, but you still have to setup a separate repository, right?)

In a sense, git is the sqlite of version control. You are really missing out.

> It is, but every job these days forces you to use git.

Here in Germany, svn seems to be the norm still in the engineering domain. But I figure the situation is quite different for web shops.

> And most places I've worked at, git is used as a glorified SVN where people just have a 2-step commit to a remote server.

That's my experience as well. When it's about communicating changes most setups will be centralized just like a regular svn setup. It's a fine approach for small teams. But with git you still have the huge advantage of being independent of the server. And you can easily fix problems that are already committed to the server.
In fact, even "Hispanic" and "white" are not considered to be mutually exclusive! These ethnic classifications are just weird.
Anyone have a GDPR-friendly link? Wayback[0] won't save the site[1], for some reason. =[

[0] - https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://time.com/5505441/mark-z...

[1] - https://web.archive.org/web/20190117191830/http://time.com/5...
The story is itself a summation of evidence - quotations from interviews, links to other news articles, detailed facts found in research, photographs, etc.

It's reasonable and healthy to question the summation or the evidence, of course, but if you are going to suggest a fabrication -- which is quite a serious charge -- it seems to me you should have some specific facts of your own in support of that. Or at least some specific impressions (e.g. "this particular quote rings false because...").

(To reply to your first question, it seemed you were suggesting fabrication given the context in which you said that journalists frequently make things up, as a reply to a comment defending the newsworthiness of the story topic rather than commenting on its accuracy. Maybe you intended to reply to the parent comment?)
Most of the Ashkenazi Jews are certainly white, as in they have white skin. I’d say that even the Sephardic Jews would be considered white based on their skin color alone. But categorizing people by skin color is one of the stupidest things ever, though, as I for myself am white (as in I have white skin) while my brother is more brownish, the reason for that being that our father is white-skinned while our mother is more dark-skinned.
f you're using MySQL/MariaDB: MySQL Workbench

https://www.mysql.com/products/workbench/
If this was reddit, I'd give you gold. Well said.
And in the other thread, it was mentioned how the name overlap with other existing services was large.
Thanks so much! Love and support from the maker community is what keeps me going.

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And for glitches/bugs, please let us know through Intercom and a team member will be with you immediately!
Japan, however, at that point was a liberal democracy with rights and stuff. Can't say that about the PRC.
As anyone can attest who has seen a $300 M building burn to the ground, very simple permanent changes can be extremely expensive to reverse.
Couple of points in response: Why would it disappear tomorrow -- it wont. Ill always run a full node. Many like me. This makes it valuable.

Censorship resistance is not a marketing spin. Its absolutely true about bitcoin! There is no central controller, no government, how can anyone stop a valid private key holder from submitting a valid signature? Sure, we could block 8333/tcp on the great firewall, but thats why we have Satellites now!! As long as you have a communication channel that can reach the Bitcoin p2p network, it cannot die.

The 'censorship resistance is marketing' attitude is spoken like a true first worlder. There are many places on this Earth where censorship resistant money is critical. There are many groups that cannot interact with the global banking system due to sanctions. Look around outside the US!

and we havent even spoken about how destructive the centralization of banking has become: https://blog.bitmex.com/thetimes/ This blog post explains very clearly how the monetary base of our economy is inflated every day due to lack of diversity in banking.
Too late, I already did ;)
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I remember a few years back where a few biologists released a paper on how to weaponize influenza from CRISPR (IIRC). Before it got produced (or after?) the DoD stepped in and had them redact and classify their paper to have it (re-)published.

Does anyone else remember this? Maybe link to the paper, as well?
Hi, my name is Cathal and I am the author of this post. Sentence embedding is still a relatively new technology and I wanted to explore it a bit to try and understand how it could be used in a typical business scenario. I still think there is alot more to discover about sentence embeddings and other ways they can be used. So I am happy to answer any questions about the post or sentence embeddings in general.
Heinlein is obviously wrong about this, and for all his progressive and libertarian sentiments he seems to have had intensely narrow views on a few topics like drugs.

The one thing I'd say in defense of this quote is that it's from 1967. LSD had only been in major counter-culture circulation for a few years and a lot of the public advocates were people like Huxley and Leary who had produced documentary work on acid, but not major art. To a surprising degree, Heinlein was simply unlucky: acid-derived art got going right as he dismissed it.

Pet Sounds and Revolver were 1966, admittedly, but I'm not sure how well-known their association with LSD was at the time. The really famous and overt psychedelic music like Hendrix, Jefferson Airplane, The Grateful Dead, and the Woodstock scene in general mostly hit its stride in 1968-1970.

Over in non-academic writing, The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test was 1968, the same year the Whole Earth Catalog got started. Fear and Loathing was 1971. P.K. Dick wrote about LSD in Palmer Eldritch in 1965, but didn't actually try it until much later. Zelazny's work has psychedelic overtones and one in-story LSD scene, but he was just getting started in '67. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is pretty much the only major piece of acid-derived fiction I can think of by 1967.

Obviously, Heinlein was wrong. But I'd be interested whether he ever followed up on this; the acid-droppers started outdistancing the squares almost immediately after he said it.
There's a large difference between not liking someone, saying how much you don't like someone in a public space and actively spreading rumors or saying how much you'd like someone fired.

In that sense, the middle school analogy is apt considering how people can behave.
> I don't know how well that runs on androids and iphones.

Not well.
> Nobody deserves anything.

I'm pretty sure doctors don't have to go get their high school bio textbooks and review cell structures to get hired at a new hospital.

It is absolutely insulting to someone who can prove a substantial history of productive software to ask them to spend hours doing trivial brain teasers for them. If you have open source projects under your ownership or substantial contributorship that the company you are applying for is using and they still treat you like a wet graduate coming off a brief affair with Java Swing you should feel insulted.
One of the things that I wish we could meet in the middle on is getting the option to use your favorite text editor or IDE during these interviews.
Read my response to this article here: https://medium.com/@robertcorey1/hey-moron-you-better-start-...
I don't know anything about gene editing, but is there any chance that doing this could cut loose viruses buried in the human genome?
Your examples lean towards the "managed by a trained physician", which would make sense. Treat depression, reverse neurodegenerative disorders, sure, a Dr can oversee that and treat that.

I was referring specifically to the DIY crowd, which this articles discusses. Things a Dr would say "no, I'm not going to help you with that". Or as the quote discusses, things a drunk person would say "I think this is a good idea".
Your tasks and projects are now high level politics and people management. Give up thinking of technology, at all, you now have to maximise the value of Your department to the business and the perception of your VP counterparts. I found similar issues rising thru management and (I’m mid-career) have changed roles to focus on what I enjoy rather than politics.
Are you willing to pay medical costs of people who currently might overdose on prescription drugs. When people modify their bodies in spite of the law, would you pay to incarcerate them and/or treat them when they lie to medical professionals to avoid criminal penalties?
So React Native is definitely already on the roadmap, we have a very early prototype and I'm actively working on making it production-ready. It's one of our most requested features from our community page (https://www.shots.ai/community) and we're working as hard as we can to get it out as soon as possible.

We're also thinking of running an early beta. If you'd like, you can DM one of us through Intercom or anywhere with your email and we'll add you to our beta list so you'll be the first to get access to our newest features!
Usually my suspicion is that the code is just a cloned repo or similar.

I have however dug into github code that seemed legit, with the candidate claiming to be one of the primary developers of a popular Xbox360 emulator. I surprised him by quickly finding obscure bugs, including a couple buffer overflows and a way to cause a math exception in the host process.

It does feel kind of unfair to those whose code is locked away under NDA.
I'm 27,

I bought my house when I was 22. I received no down payment assistance from my parents, in fact my parents were actively stealing money from me. I also had a boatload of student debt, still do.

Now what I did do, was take advantage of government programs that were and still are in place to qualify for an FHA backed mortgage loan.

My mortgage is $640/mo roughly while my peers see their rent increase massively year over year..
Both Churchill and Hitler were painters. I wonder if that common ground ever was a factor in diplomatic efforts between the two of them during their era.
A minority exits college ready to run a significant startup, but the majority exits college ready to struggle finding a mediocre job. In other words, the automators and the automated away.
"All non-trivial abstractions, to some degree, are leaky."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaky_abstraction#The_Law_of_L...
I wish they got domain like ddg.io|ai|... [that appear to be available too]. It would be so much easier to quickly type that in when DDG doesn't happen to be a default search engine somewhere. Instead of typoing it in a hurry to demo it to someone.
Bed or mattress? I’ve been happy with IKEA mattresses, but I’ve found the random importers’ softwood beds advertised in the classified ads to be better than Ikea’s particle board. And a lot easier to assemble.
A Billion Dollar Ego
And they are not going away.

Last year I witnessed the sad story of a general manager, that promised to migrate away from an as400 in six months.

This guy (and several others) doesnt fully understand that a system, that is software and hardware and infrastucture, has its life determined by the returns it gives to its mother organization. If the system works, the organization wont pay or dare to replace it. Core systems are the hardest, and thats where all those mainframes and c and fortram and nowadays java legacy sys are still alive and kicking.

Pd: I love those systems btw, if you have one that needs love and care, I'd like to hear about it :D.
People counters for retail stores or airports are commonplace, true. Recently, humanitarian aid organisations began to show interest in using them, as well. They could use them for instance to manage refugee camps better or to understand migration routes.

So we built a tool for the NGOs in this sector, with a very similar technology used by OP as basis:

https://www.aileenproject.org/

One key difference is that each Aileen box is a client, which will upload its findings to a server, so that NGO management staff can review it.

Now that the basis is there (and being piloted), we hope to make it into a product tailored to the humanitarian aid sector. One key aspect is taking privacy seriously, others will drill down into the features that refugee camp managers tell us they'd need (for instance alerts if populations seem to be on a rapid move).
Buildings do burn to the ground periodically, but the costs of fire men and fire property insurance aren't particularly outlandish.
You could improve usability by employing ‘submit’ elements instead of all radiobuttons, and offloading the ‘new tab’ functionality to a hotkey: that way, you'd tab-and-enter to fire one of the non-default searches, or Ctrl-enter for a new tab (or Cmd-enter on Mac; though I'm not sure why you'd want to open a new tab from the start page). The hotkey here would have to be implemented with JS.

But, in case you're using Firefox, you have an even better option of putting those search options into search keywords such that “ddgv something” would get you to the video search straight from the address bar.

In Chrome, IIRC you can do a similar thing by assigning a keyword which would work with “keyword”-tab-searchphrase, but a) I don't remember how it's done, and b) Chrome's address bar doesn't seem to rank searches as domain visits, so a partial keyword entry tends to be replaced with another domain, which is annoying.
All good reasons for not getting stuck in front of a whiteboard redoing the unprotected unoptimized core of just the basic algo.

Wouldn't it be nice to be able to use references / existing implementations while at the board being watched and timed.
Get ScyllaCloud barrier to entry a bit lower. $200/mo is too much for tinkering. Even better if there is an autoscaling option available.
Studies never showed negative effects from TV.
I get that there is no expectation of privacy in public, but there is a huge difference in someone maybe snapping a picture of me in the background of their Snapchat story, and the city recording my license plate on every block. One may place me at a single place and time, and will likely never see the outside of that person's photo app, the other can effectively track me wherever I go. Legal precedent really has nothing to do with how we feel about an issue.
Hmm... "The Valley of Fear" Sherlock Holmes Novel by Sir Conan Arthur Doyle comes to mind ...
My 5yrs old does exactly the same. We restricted video games to only Saturdays so now he watches random people play video games on youtube all week. We're going to ban Youtube as well at least during the weekdays.
> A lot of people in engineering went down that path because they were inspired by someone when they were younger.

Who? I started programming because computers are fun. If you really care about getting more women and minorities involved in tech volunteer at a local high school -- there are dozens of programs which seek to get young people exposed to programming. Anything else is just blowing smoke.
Non-paywall link: http://archive.is/RPAmu
I like to limit screen time no matter what the activity is simply because it means they are sitting still, with almost no muscle movement, which is not healthy. Whether you are productive on your screens or not is interesting, but not relevant to my motivation when telling my kids to get up, go outside, and move their bodies.

The exception is active games - various dancing games on the playstation are exactly how we compromise on such things.
TLDR; Screen time has very small negative impact on well being and does not warrant policy change. The survey was done from 3 datasets with ~355K data points.

Quote:
The association between digital technology use and adolescent well-being is negative but small, explaining at most 0.4% of the variation in well-being. These effects are too small to warrant policy change.
Congrats to the Scylla team! These features and performance improvements are pretty huge for people working with Apache C* that want to evaluate Scylla. Compatible storage formats will certainly make evaluations much easier. Also, hope the Scylla experience with MVs is better...

As far as compatibility w/ Apache Cassandra 3.x+, is there anything outstanding?
No it's not the sole point. Just a practical one that most consumers exercise when making a consumer decision on what to buy and the cost/benefit analysis of its practicality. It seems a lot of people don't actually do that when making one of the biggest decisions of their lives, and this part has nothing to do with the actual teachings in college. That should be determined before you even apply. A lot of people do in fact choose to go into fields where the pay is not that great. That's perfectly fine if someone is willing to accept that, but if it doesn't pay enough to meet your obligations and have enough left over for you to be comfortable and have the lifestyle you're striving for, then that's also a decision that should be accepted. It was a choice.

If you buy a truck that gets 13mpg, and you get mad at how expensive gas is costing you every time it increases and how fast your vehicle goes through it, should we get mad at the truck manufacturer or the company that gave you the loan for your decision, that could have been fairly accurately determined beforehand with a bit of research and critical thinking (gas prices will rise in the future)?

I pushed my daughters very hard to research what they wanted to do with their lives, and made them think hard about the upcoming automation revolution. A great number of modern day jobs are going to just go away and won't be directly replaceable. People should be aware of that and go into fields that aren't as easily automated if they want to do well in the future. We all know self driving cars/trucks are coming, and fairly soon. Would you encourage someone to go into the trucking industry today if they are young and figuring out what they want to do with the rest of their lives?