skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with that as well. It was the combination of me not being the type do do all of that plus being bored enough to go to the library.

I know a lot of my peers in college just couldn't hack it because they were engrossed in gaming. I might not have ended up jacking cars but I doubt I would have made it through my first 2 years of engineering if I hadn't become more interested in it than online gaming.

There is a lot of factors and every case is unique but I can't believe that never feeling that kind of boredom is healthy, if not only to find out who you really are. Maybe it would be wise to have a month of "decompression" in the wilderness or otherwise disconnected the first year before college if you are already on track to at least go to one.
Clinically, we have the option to sequence the BRCA 1/2 genes. It's not uncommon for this to be done if certain clinical criteria are met (such as close family history of brca or being of Ashkenazi Jewish descent.) [1].

Note: Paywall warning. But the uptodate article says the following.

"Direct-to-consumer BRCA testing — In March 2018, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorized the direct-to-consumer (DTC) company, 23andMe, to include BRCA testing as part of its Personal Genome Service Genetic Health Risk report [60]. It is important to note that the testing includes only the three BRCA Ashkenazi Jewish founder mutations and does not entail analysis of other potential variants in these genes. Pre- and post-test genetic counseling is not required for individuals interested in such DTC testing.

Any individual who receives a positive result from DTC testing should have it confirmed in a clinical lab. Although the likelihood of a false-positive result is very low, it is critical for the result to be confirmed and an individual, signed report should be provided to the patient.

An important concern related to BRCA DTC testing is that women at average risk for breast cancer may be falsely reassured about what the genetic testing results mean for their breast cancer risk and the continued need for routine, age-appropriate mammography screening. On the other hand, for women with a personal or family history of breast cancer who are candidates for genetic testing, testing only for the founder BRCA variants is incomplete, regardless of ancestry. Such women need complete BRCA gene analysis and are likely good candidates for multigene panel testing."

[1]. https://www.uptodate.com/contents/genetic-counseling-and-tes...
The concept of "national interests" has been in use for about five hundred years now. What issue do you have with it?
This is a very valuable article. I have the following problem with it:

I think this age has its own tragedy: On the one end one is expected to process information that comes in in at a frantic pace; on the other hand one is required to do so with the depth and thoroughness that comes from a much slower age, when the skills were acquired while processing two dimensional texts/books.

These are two modes stand in contradiction to each other.

Now this contradiction hits hardest on kids and parents: you have to prepare and train your kids for both of these modes so that they stay competitive (that is able to fulfill the requirements and challenges they will later face at work).

Lots of problems...
People using gasoline for e.g. yard equipment aren't using the roads, but they're effectively paying road tax to trim their hedge

It's legal to use untaxed (undyed) fuel for off-road uses, but the quantities are so low that it's not worth the distribution system for it. So usually it's only used by large consumers (i.e. farmers and other consumers with large off-road fuel usage)

Someone who owns a Tesla also isn't paying their road tax.

That will change next year when California will start charging a $100 EV fee for car registrations. It's still less than the $176 a 10,000 mile/year 30mpg driver will pay in gas tax, but it's not "nothing". Though since EV's are typically more expensive than the equivalent conventional car, they'll pay a higher VLF fee. So for example, $10,000 in extra value means $65/year more VLF tax so that EV will be paying around $165/year.

I'd rather see a milage + weight based tax.
I'll believe you, but a google search for that phrase brings up nothing.
that basically says Vector Clock, which is a good solution for where it's usually applied, but I think this is different. Having everything bottlenecks through your vector clock isn't going to be feasible.
When I was shit at programming I started a lot more ambitious projects and I ended up finishing none of them. Now I know what to expect and I end up with something finished and useful most of the time. I suppose sometimes beginners attempt things that experts think are too hard but it ends up that you can make a workable solution even if it is structured horrible.
I have a potentially interesting task for you to perform. If I am wrong and belief is not required for human communities, then it is sufficient to build a general community that does not require belief. To show that this is generally applicable, and not just applicable if you cherry pick the individuals, the members of the community should be as picked as randomly as you can manage. Convince such a population and you will convince me as well!
Filipino here, I didn't feel insulted. Its probably true. For a lot of people, the Internet = Facebook. Add to that the fact that Facebook is free due to telco subsidies and a culture that loves social interactions.
Right, I just wonder to what extent someone like https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Lemaître or even Einstein felt the need to distinguish science vs religion as they pondered scientific concepts. I think the debate or dichotomy makes far more sense as reason vs xyz rather than science vs religion.
Why should I should I try to minimize the suffering of another person if it has no impact on myself and there is no chance of a reward?
I would hope we could discuss the general idea without promoting or slamming any individual groups.
>It's using you as human labor to label data. That's why you have to solve multiple.

That's actually not cool: recruiting your time under false pretenses to create value for themselves.
"An app designed for readers." Ironic.
In the US, you require a white male to take offense on your behalf these days. Hope you understand...
Fun fact: Long before the egg days there was a picture of a “sexy potato” making rounds on Facebook. It had over 1 million followers and copycats spawned new pages with a quarter million followers.
I find the information empowering and it doesn't cause undue fear in me. To the contrary, these articles help form a collective vocabulary to understand the world around us, especially the less overt parts. It is so much deeper than "corporations have access to my phone" - it tears at the very fabric fabric of our society and human experience more generally.

Here is a quote from the article itself which I think is meaningful to your comment: "There’s nothing inevitable about technology or capitalism. The idea that digital surveillance is inevitable – that’s just invalid, and we can’t let them get away with it."
Good one. Buzzword bingo is a real thing that afflicts our industry.
Even worse, most neutrino detectors rely on being under thick masses of rock to filter out things like cosmic rays, which would otherwise completely flood the detectors.
> in downtown Amsterdam in the middle of the day is causing a lot more externalities than someone doing the same thing in the middle of the night in the middle of nowhere.

how to track that in a privacy friendly way?
Checkout IDrive for multi-device (including smartphones) backups - www.idrive.com

I use ArqBackup, which is great for multi-target backups, but I don't think it supports smartphones yet.
https://vimeo.com/301508642 : A documentary on Pistachio Wars ... this story is well known and everyone from politicians in Sacramento and DC to Big Ag is complicit.

All the nuts exported during our ‘drought’ was really California Water that was being exported and that tax payers fund through bond measures every election.
It's saying that the bias against religion in the sciencey tribe presents a barrier to actually studying religions as sources of psychological knowledge that are better than random speculation (presumably on the grounds that there was some competition between religions, so that religions that were based on bad ideas about psychology died out and the ones that remain are based on better-than-random ideas about psychology)

Sciencey people think religions are wrong, so they are prone to acting like all ideas to come out of religion are bunk. They shouldn't, so the hostility of sciencey people toward religion hurts science.
apropos of nothing, I had not heard of photomath until your comment. I’m 40 and it’s like…magic. I understand how it all works, I even write image processing models...but it’s like having a magic wand that turns your A-Level questions into answers. Astounding. I can see why it’s a problem…
Datomic is, at its core, an event sourced datastore, and it works really well. I don’t think event sourcing is something that should be solved in application space — you wouldn’t write a database from scratch for your products yet implementing an in-house event sourcing system is for some reason more acceptable.

All of these stories of failure are stories of teams bandaiding event sourcing on top of other databases not optimized for the usecase.
India opens its first center for human spaceflight
Elastic Cloud service is down
Does this apply to the discrete Knapsack problem too?
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Don't we use water/xenon for it's combination of density and transparency? I wonder if there are other things we could use to shrink detectors at the expense of missing many wavelengths produced by collisions?
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God Mode Unlocked – Hardware Backdoors in Via C3 CPUs (2018) [video]
I've seen some pretty impressive footage of Cruise AI's navigation through the crowded, narrow streets of San Francisco. I think autonomous tech will first be geo-fenced to specific, well-tested routes. That's the move that makes the most sense to me. Would still be incredibly useful if say, all interstate driving is automated.
I recognize my inner life and consciousness, of course, but how and why would that preclude believing that they're manifestations of something that is only quantitatively different from my laptop? Quantity does matter.
It's just as easy to imagine yourself living as a blade of grass as it is living as another human?

The line between humans and other species doesn't seem that arbitrary.
...y'know, that phrasing reminded me of something from various fantasy books: To know someone's true name is to have power over them.

It's like a twisted version of Clarke's Third Law.
This is happening too often.
Calico brings on Amgen’s translational R&D head to lead early drug development
You need to know beforehand how exactly you’re going to pull out the data, how it’s going to be indexed, updated, etc. You can get nice benefits out of it especially if you’re doing transaction states, but your query times are going to suffer unless you’re caching the end-state. This can make “simple” things take a lot of effort. It’s a really significant departure in terms of effort to deal with your data.
is it Laos?
Generalizing, this equates to “projects fail as result of poor/dishonest communication”, which is definitely accurate.
Why Is Marketplace in HRTech on the Rise?
Marijuana.

For an example, look at the Canadian town of Smiths Falls. The Hershey's chocolate factory closed in 2008. It was a painful loss for the town, a major industry just gone.

Now "Tweed" a Marijuana growing company had taken over the space. They've been hiring at a tremendous rate, and even are planning an expansion to the factory, with even more jobs to come. Seriously, even the battered housing market is picking up again.

It's not an opportunity that will last forever, but the companies that capitalize on it have to opportunity to make a mint and a whole pile of happy workers in the process.
High level issue
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Given how corruption is being used and how low pay the top guy is, i think the AI need HI very much.

Put it the other way everyone must be corrupted somehow otherwise how can a us$100k top communist sent her daughter to harvard to study psychology. And the other guy who died of corruption charge run a fast railway wort trillion dollars for petty salary.

They have to reform the compensation package ... communist have a hard time here. Hence has to lie ... and if a system can spot liar ...

Muslum jailing issue
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I heard this black ... but both should not be done and given there is not even fake news independence and judicial system, stange to compare
Ask HN: Looking for SaaS reseller agreement template or advice
We are a SaaS company introducing our product to Mexico. We are going to be using a reseller and we're looking for a contract template.

We would love any advice from American startups who've introduced their products to Mexico.

Some of the things we would like the agreement to cover:

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- Sales targets
- Resale restrictions
+1 for mosh - life changing on spotty connections. I can tether in the back of a car in rural side streets and still keep a ssh session going strong with no disconnects on mosh. The mosh client is also available for chrome / chrome OS, which as saved me a few times.
I agree with the 2.99 billion trips, assuming some definitions for trip. My parent comment mentioned 1.5b people, which I do not agree with.
I’ve now converted a good chunk of a large stack over to them and the best way to describe them is this: they are as big an improvement to React as React was to its predecessors.

This example is meant to be a pathological case. The fact that you can build complex interface logic and bundle it into a function that can then be extended and composed is a huge leap forward.

I do think Hooks will take time for some of the best ones to become standard. While I see some early “lodash for hooks” like libararies appearing, I could also see a really nice PWA that let you search gists for popular hooks or similar.

Hooks are a very nice solution to a very hard problem. But unless you’ve done large scale frontend work and especially more complex interactive components it may be hard to see. Although just getting rid of all the decorators/HOCs is already a big win.
Why does this political subject get posted every week on HN, why does it always result in ideological discussions sprinkled with personal anecdotes and why is everyone asking for the defeatist solution of taxation (to reduce the appeal of individual transport) instead of at least treating the underlying technical problems (logistics, pollution) as an engineering challenge? It‘s disheartening...
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> Rather increased housing leads to billionaires, Russian oligarchs and others buying up expensive real estate and not actually living there.

Do you have any kind of reference for this? It is a contrarian opinion compared to Case Schiller and other well-known housing research organizations.
Woah that bot seems to be single-handedly responsible for pushing the number of Cebuano and Swedish Wikipedia articles past the, usual, second placed German Wikipedia?

At least I remember the German wiki being firmly placed in second place a while ago, the numbers for active users of these wikis [0] also reinforces that notion.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias#Detailed_li...
I rank Bill Burr as a top comic right now - his off the cuff wit is just fantastic. He did election coverage with a bunch of other seasoned comics and had them all in fits for the entire ordeal. His podcast is the same: him just being hilarious about everything. And his interviews are awkward and brilliant at the same time.

The one classic comedic tool I think he lacks is jokes that reference themselves within bits (Eddie Murphy was great at this).
The economics of moving water aside, this argument assumes industry doesn't need cities.
As a manager over a new project with a ridiculous release date, I'm subject to the same political bullshit as everyone else. At this point, I'm of the opinion that anything with a realistic ship date simply won't get funded. So all I do these days is commit to things that I am certain aren't achievable in the time frame on the table, just so that we can get the project off the ground in the first place. From that point, I immediately start to play the game of politics and showmanship to put together a narrative with the usual culprits for why a project is late. Shifting requirements, other teams that didn't deliver what we depended on, etc.

Then I make more promises and estimates, playing the emotional card of "sunk cost" to convince upper management to continue funding the team rather than torpedo the project. Then we ship, and I quickly get everyone on my team promoted "because we shipped" before it becomes clear to upper management that we shipped something essentially worthless to the company. Because we're in a huge profitable company, everyone can jump ship to the next shiny thing, and whoever is left holding the potato on its way to deprecation just gets re-org'd when it gets canned.

I know it's a bullshit game. But I play it well, and all the software developers on my team get paid and promoted because I am so good at it.
So what you're saying is we need to capture an icy asteroid and stick a probe in it?
The problem is that religions have a reputation of tricking people into believing in stories, with a motive that might or might not be a good one.

Meditation, yoga are examples of the good one's. Sacrificing babies, worshipping cows are the bad one's.

Religions don't provide us with the tools to actually determine whether something is real or just a story.

The scientific method is to my knowledge the only feasible way to figure out the ground truth.

Religions do promote exploration of ideas, but they are mostly a waste of time and energy that might be better spent elsewhere.
poor might mean lower middle-class. no welfare income.
> Our “impedance mismatch” is not between Databases and Objects. It is between the React programming model and the imperative setInterval API.

I haven't used it much, but React gives me the feeling that it's trying to come up with hacks to shoehorn imperative UI (which seemingly can't go away) into the "the state is the UI" model. Anything with timers, or animations, or other things that reach across multiple renders seems to be poke through the nice React model because it by definition requires dropping the abstraction of the UI being defined by the state because the change is more "incremental" than transitioning to a new value.

(As an aside, I love the dark mode support on your website!)
We would also like to add protections such as:

-Final say of our company in negotiations
-Control over pricing negotiations
Wow, I really don't know what to think of this article. I have to give Dan credit that every time I thought the code started looking really crazy, he'd say something like: "Admittedly, [this] code can be disorienting. It’s mind-bending to mix opposite paradigms." And I think it's a good sign he recognizes the fair objections people will bring up.

In addition to the paradigm-mixing the article illustrates, I wonder if the actual hook APIs make things more confusing than necessary at some points. For example, in the `useEffect` hook API:

* the first argument is a function that on every render

* the return value of the first argument is a "cleanup" function which runs when the component is unmounted or before the effect is run again

* the third argument is an array of parameters which controls when the effect is run. If passed an empty array, the effect is only run at mount and cleaned up at unmount.

All the above means that the API is very implicit and doesn't self-document its intent all that well. An example, from the article:

useEffect(() => {
function tick() {
savedCallback.current();
}

let id = setInterval(tick, 1000);
return () => clearInterval(id);
}, []);

I'm sure with more use these hook patterns will become more familiar. But it's clearly a lot harder to learn and understand than the original simplicity that helped propel React to popularity.

Dan's arguments that hooks provide for easier abstraction and more composability is interesting to me though - if hooks are going to be "worth it" in the long run, I suspect this is why.
FreeBSD doesn't even have a DE, I have no clue what you are talking about here.
This could be measured to some extent without leaving the earth, since the distance to the sun varies by about 3% between perihelion and aphelion.
dang, the headline is "The city with no homeless on its streets", which is clickbaity and vague, but the current link title is hard to understand. Could we maybe compromise with "Homelessness has almost been eradicated in Helsinki?"
I like "security fatalism" for the underlying behavior.
Brilliant, didn't even realize it was a separate package. Thanks!
Hope you guys enjoy, trying to make more content for the new year!
The theme of price points was a recurring one, although it's not clear if $1500 was really an good faith projection, or just an attempt to position internally versus the bigger Lisa project?
You could just go to that site and experience the "infinite scrolling" to figure out that this is "information" meant for fools.
These days, AI means an inefficient chatbot standing in for the function of a simple webform. It's not even about working or not working.