skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wait a second, I though these companies didn't sequence DNA. I thought most of them just ran your DNA against known patterns to see if they patch to give you a probably/percentage of ancestry, with all the original samples being destroyed:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3EEmVfbKNs

Does ancestry actually sample and save entire DNA sequences (I guess they have to in order to do family tree matching)?

Crazy.
I’d also add that companies like TripleByte or leetcode, contrary to the OP, are hugely adding to the problem and essentially exist to reinforce the already horrible candidate evaluation practices of the industry.
I spent a stupid number of hours fighting disinformation on FB during the 2016 election -- responding to batshit crazy links from FB friends who were getting fed their batshit crazy from what we now know were 100% trolling-for-bucks fake news sites, or straight-up foreign disinformation efforts.

I don't have a catchy derogative name for a future where truth is determined by the number of upvotes, but it's clearly not less dangerous than an "Orwellian" future where truth is established by elites.

Also -- Snopes is hardly Big Brother.
> Quite a few people would say that yes, "Coca-Cola poisons mankind"

If you can use it to clean the contacts and corrosion buildup on car battery terminals... My dad used to do that.
Snopes manually reported the article to FB as fake news that shouldn’t be allowed to spread. FB trusted Snopes. That’s the opposite of what you imply, but it’s clearly the case if you read the original article at the top of the page.
It wasn't that long ago that sequencing a single genome was several billion dollars. I bet it won't be that many more years until we will have home sequencing machines. Probably we'll chuckle at how we ever thought it was so complicated.
previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19037625
I don't see how it's a call to humanity. "Think if it was your kid vs two strangers" isn't calling on humanity. It's calling on familial tribalism and selfishness if anything.

And obviously, in the real world, a ML-given estimate with a 1% variance is probably entirely useless. In these sorts of hypotheticals,I'm not sure why that really matters. You can play with the numbers as you want, or even move the whole question out far enough into the future that the margin of error can be considered very low. The question remains the same.
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But Apple is a luxury and lifestyle brand. And as good as their hardware is, it's not particularly hard to replicate, especially if they were operating on the same profit margins as everybody else. Apple has to zealously maintain their brand, which means limiting both supply and product lineup. Otherwise they may as well change their name to Sony.

Amazon has an enormous lead in scale. More importantly, the only way to defend that lead is to consume as much market demand as they can, which puts downward pressure on their prices.

Too much market share would be the death of Apple. Too little market share would be the death of Amazon.
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I'm a little afraid that putting PWAs in an app store
may actually reduce the flexibility they offer by
restricting what PWAs can and can't do

Not sure what you're saying here. Are you afraid that app store policies (privacy requirements etc) will be stricter than what you can do with browser APIs, or that the app store will ban API abuses that're currently necessary for acceptable performance/usability?
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> 80% of the time, for all online services, users get the choice to opt-out from the tracking

That's purely theoretical. My browser is sending to not track headers, I've uBlock turned on, I nearly always reject tracking, yet I periodically delete thousands of cookies.

(In case there are bored Safari extension developers who read this and feel the same: an extension that allows to whitelist cookies and rejects everything else would be nice.)
Had a similar experience a few years ago. I cleared cookies and visited YouTube a couple days later. It showed me an advert for an oven starring Florence Henderson (Brady Bunch mom), who died not long afterwards. Google has all this data on me, but you take away their cookies once in a while, and they think you are a housewife.
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Given the effort that's clearly gone into this article, it would seem appropriate to mention/link to the underlying product near the top of the article. Good job, marketing in a way that didn't annoy.
Completely random thought: make an offer to all of them with the biggest part of their compensation being variable, tied to sales as commissions.

Whoever accepts it, believes a lot on what they do and how much they can sell.
Those are not the only ads that exist, nor do you need to click on them to be influenced. Everyone who thinks this way is usually incredibly susceptible to advertising, you just don't see it.
Homosexuality was once a crime in the US. So was crossdressing. So was sodomy. At one time a woman could be jailed if it was found she cast a ballot illegally. Consuming cannibals use to be totally legal, then it wasn't and now it sorta is, but only on a State-by-state basis and only because Federal courts haven't made concrete rulings. In the UK and France, it's illegal to draw underage Simpsons characters in sexual activity, but in the US and Japan it's legal (or at least a gray area). The law changes, and prohibition shows that those changes are not always for the better.
"However I've probably bought more stuff as a direct result of ad exposure on Instagram (3 things in three years) than in the entirety of the 25 years I've been on the internet."

Could you specifically describe the ads and the products involved ? I am very curious and would love to have a sense of what they succeeded with (for you).

I have been of the mind that targeted ads are terrible and that ad firms and ad-tech firms and (that entire ecosystem) are fleecing the ad buyers who will eventually wake up to that fact...

It's 2019 and if I search for "volkswagen emissions scandal" I will get banner ads for new volkswagen cars. For a week.

Or, I would, if ublock origin was disabled ...
If your sister is 20 years old, I'm not sure if it's necessary to get parental consent for a medical treatment. (Probably she can't buy alcohol (legally).) They need her consent anyway.

Also, this is a very common vaccine, and (at least here in Argentina) pregnant women get it regularly in the third month of pregnancy.
That may be true, but GNU Make wasn't built in a weekend.

Just like a crappy Lisp interpreter can be built in a weekend, but an ANSI Common Lisp or Racket won't be built in a weekend.
What did you expect when you cleared cookies? How do you think they know who you are otherwise?
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Or isn't currently happening in other countries. The people here who think nothing is wrong would probably be arrested for something if they lived in another country. I can't travel to many countries because I would be at risk of being arrested for being gay.

Just imagine if we had the technology to identify that through DNA samples.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19057742
I'm not arguing this is the best solution for everyone. I'm just saying it's better for me, from both the reliability and cost standpoint. Frankly I couldn't care less what everybody else is using.

I have just checked the pricing of what my approximate (GPUs are different in my case) setup would cost to run on GCP, and it totals up to $40K a month. Not a typo, I did not add any extra zeros there. That's not including storage or networking costs, and _including_ the sustained use discount. That's nuts.
I prefer day-mode when in bright light. Otherwise the black background ends up reflecting the bright light. I often prefer night-mode when it is not bright out, and at nighttime.
To me, nowadays, the hardest part of learning a new technology or language is not the “thing” itself but the environment around it.

Make content about environments.

Example: I want to start doing Ruby. There are probably 49 ways to setup a decent working environment and hundreds of people putting a lot of tools together to get it started. They all conflict with each other and almost none are clear. Any material that can explain environments in a way that make sense and help you get started as efficient and completely as possible is gold.

This is true for all platforms today.
Cruising would really be cheaper than just parking? Maybe in NYC, SF, and places like that. For the other 99% of the world, I have a hard time believing it.
> freelance journalism with the blockchain!

There's nothing new under the sun. Well back to the drawing board...
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Weirdly comforting.
You can find used 40gig switches that break out to 10gig ports at less than $4 per port. That's pretty cheap.

Even the older Arista and whitebox QCT stuff is less than $200-250 per switch. For a lab, I'd rather use something that once lived in a datacenter than something consumer-facing like Ubiquiti.
I have a little more faith in the average person than this. Your comment has an air of intellectual elitism which I don't think is justified.
I don't have a list of resources, but here is a not-so-comprehensive list of things I find important:

1) Understand how requestAnimationFrame() works
2) Understand how setTimeout() works
3) Know how to minimise the number of DIVs you have in the DOM at any one time
4) Understand the touchstart, touchmove and touchend events properly.
5) Understand the browser viewport model and the vw, vh CSS units. These units can even be used to scale text, which, if done well can allow for truly responsive text scaling.
6) Understand the various layout engines. Grid is good for static layouts, Flex is great when you want to animate things.
7) Understand the different element positioning modes. I'm amazed how little most web devs understand absolute and relative positioning. Understanding this is super useful.
8) Understand promises properly. Understand async/await and try/catch. Understand Promise.all() and Promise.race().
9) Understand what 'this' means and how func.call() works in Javascript
10) Understand indexedDB and localStorage
11) Be aware that any Javascript on a page executes in a single thread
12) Understand which JS likely to trigger a "recalc" and "repaint" in a browser
13) Become a master of your browser's dev tools and be comfortable debugging asynchronous code.

The MDN pages for a lot of the above are pretty good - all the best :)
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> They seem to publish a lot more material that validates left-leaning opinions than right-leaning ones

Do you still see an imbalance if you take out one or both of the following:

1. Fact checking of President Trump, and

2. Fact checking of politicians' claims on matters of science?

President Trump makes a lot more statements than any other politician, especially on Twitter, making a lot of very specific and objectively reviewable claims that often have no support even from conservative sources. He is the President, and so a fact checking site can't really ignore him.

He's basically a huge outlier, and this alone is probably going to push any fair and balanced fact checking site into appearing left leaning.

For example, he Tweeted "We are not even into February and the cost of illegal immigration so far this year is $18,959,495,168. Cost Friday was $603,331,392. There are at least 25,772,342 illegal aliens, not the 11,000,000 that have been reported for years, in our Country. So ridiculous! DHS". Nobody can figure out where he got those numbers, his staff says they don't know, and they are about twice as high as even conservative anti-immigrant groups claim. And he does this kind of Tweet a lot.

As far as science goes, both liberal and conservative politicians do have problems with putting ideology ahead of facts, but not with the same sciences.

For example, I think liberals are more likely than conservatives to think there is a connection between autism and vaccines, and so take a political position on vaccination that is at odds with science. Conservatives are more likely to think climate change is not happening, or if it is that human activity does not affect it, and so take a political position on that at odds with science.

But vaccination is simply not something that comes up as often as climate in the news, meaning that there is simply less opportunity for politicians to says something stupid about vaccines than there is for them to say something stupid about climate.

Vaccination rates are usually only going to become prominent enough to prompt politicians to make stupid statements when we have something like a measles outbreak which is still fairly rare. With climate, all it takes is some cold weather to get a few politicians to stupidly say that this proves that the climate is not warming, and this happens several times a year.

(Also, the vaccination situation is muddled by the people who are against vaccination requirements for religion reasons or personal liberty reasons rather than misunderstanding autism, and these people tend to be more on the right than the left).
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> the ineptitude of ML algorithms.

Computer vision can show greater-than-estimated-human-performance, while still failing hilariously unhuman once in a while. People remember the 1 in a 1000 wonky recommendation that made them do a double-take. Recommendation engines work best for the mean and stereotypical person. That way, you can use information of similar profitable people to effectively recommend.

Facebook, for instance, got mined for "suckers". If you are scummy, you want a list of gullible people who click the most stupidest, poorly designed, and shady ads. Ad tech knows where they are and delivers them on a silver platter. Going back 2 decades to serving ads without ML would kill a business. You don't think they thoroughly test a new recommendation engine and see relevant stats go up before they deploy it? You don't think they can serve you more relevant ads when they know you are a 17 year old male vs. a 42 year old woman? Both the data gathering and the algorithms have improved year over year. To say ad tech personalization is terrible, is akin to complaining we don't have AGI.
Google podcasts seems to have everything
Any one of those could be wrong but all of them together are almost impossible to fake. The source of the video is also important. What incentive does a petrol station have to fake a car theft? If you can prove that the station owner is somehow involved then that changes things.
Really, that is probably true. If we can give photons enough energy we can use them to discover all kinds of interesting science.
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This site on ethics routinely deconstructs the problems at Snopes: https://ethicsalarms.com/?s=snopes
What about competitors ? If this is important enough for a patent filing, there may be competitors to your ex-firm interested in your skills and expertise. Have you considered that angle ?
So why do you think Apple can't explain its permissions in a way majority of its users can understand (yes, including the clear cautionary messages that you wrote). Guess what, Android does that! When you install any third party keyboard on Android, it clearly tells you in plain text it can read everything you type, including credit card numbers etc. We just need the information about what can be the worst possibilities for each permission an app asks for. Apple doesn't want to do that. It wants control over everything.
I would expect that to be called tech lead. Though probably closer to 80/20 (or lower) than 90/10 by the time you include all the extra work and meetings he or she has to go to by dint of being in that role (vs say the next most senior engineer).
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You can uninstall multiple things at once on Linux, at least with Debian package manager (although I don't know if it can actually execute in parallel, but you can select everything to uninstall and then it will uninstall them in a batch operation).
One of Google Play’s most popular games is an ad fraud platform
I don’t think anyone is really claiming that people make all their purchases impulsively; most people probably make most of their purchases in an educated way - unless you are very wealthy, you basically have no other choice. That said, everyone will act impulsively some fraction of the time, and some more than others. I’m not particularly susceptible to most targeted advertising, but there are a few memorable times where I’ve bought things (I.e. Brooklinen sheets and an Aer backpack) because of targeted ads on FB. It’s reasonable to think that other people who do less research generally would be much more susceptible to targeting. If you’re able to influence only 2% of all consumer purchases with targeting, that’s still an obscene amount of money.
Easy: the end of the 2-year $160M Obama anti-propaganda act, which is, as usual with government, the opposite of its name.

Paid about 1K “jounalists” $80K each for 2 years.
Why is this being down voted? Do people think that unbiased news is a bad thing or something? That these news outlets should have progressive convictions in everything they make?

Sure they can exist, but they shouldn't occupy the entire mainstream landscape unless the entire population is on board with those convictions.
I've used Pandora for nearly a decade. For half of that time, I've also kept a subscription to an on-demand music streaming service. But I always kept using Pandora for the auto-stations.
I don't have a ad blocker. If the ad companies have a profile on me then their ad targetting is not very effective. I have similar ad as described by op. Those ML training are not that good. I actually want better recommendations.
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We do not do this at 23andMe: https://www.23andme.com/transparency-report/
Not everything about Brave New World was bad. The modern polyamorous movement would love the "Everyone belongs to everyone" concept as a way to deal with loneliness. [some spoilers ahead] Sure creativity is reduced, but they've also reduced war and conflict. People who learn to think for themselves aren't executed, they're sent to an island with other thinkers (although the general population is led to believe this island is terrible and a punishment). The classic way of life is preserved .. although at the expense of those people who are sorta in their own little zoo.

Brave New World is more a mixed bag than an absolute hell.
Huh. Why are people downvoting me? I don't think my opinion is particularly controversial, and I'm genuinely curious which part people disagree with...
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Please don't post ideological material to HN. The resulting discussions are pure battle, with no intellectual curiosity.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I run a podcast hosting company, if I had a nickel for every customer that couldn't find _their own show_ on Spotify, I could lower my prices. Discoverability on Spotify is not optimal.