skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
DNA allows both very dense storage of data, and it doesn't deteriorate as quickly as other digital methods. Really looking forward for it to become mainstream and available.

The only disadvantage probably is that going forward, your genes will probably become more or less public. Every thing you touch also gets a copy of your genes, and if soon sequencing becomes really cheap and accessible to everyone, everyone could sequence the DNA of someone they are interested in and find out lots of very private info about them. Right now it's all locked up in labs and you can enforce consent policies, but the technology might be spread so far that this won't be possible.
Interesting observation. Can you elaborate on the “could neve do this because of incentives” caveat?
My 2013 Google Glass (consumer — not enterprise — version) still works perfectly: doesn't this mean Glass & Glass OS haven't been killed?
Right time to learn Node.js :)
I know this article is trying to be tongue in cheek but I definitely think it's worth highlighting this issue.
The first thing I learned about consulting is that my job is no longer about technology. It's about sales, project management, and communication. Finding a niche (I found mine by accident) led to a lot of great opportunities.

Consulting is no longer about trading hours for money, it's about building your reputation and positioning yourself as a valuable asset.
Why do you think the intention to rehabilitate in the US isn’t sincere?

Frontline did a report on people on parole. It’s a punishing system, even when you’re out of the systems you’re usually one drink away from being thrown back in

It’s a very good example of something where all the individual players are trying, but so much of how the system works makes results be harsh and cruel
If "commodity hosts" doesn't include "ancient PHP shared hosting in Russia and India" then you are free from PHP itself and can build your platform on anything else.
But the whole point is, this generalist thing is utter nonsense.

You're entire write-up just described the role of a generalist as described in the article. I think you're assuming a generalist means something that it doesn't because it's pretty clear in the article that the author is describing what you describe.

Why do this?
> The Bible records Joseph as being put in prison in Egypt c.1500 BCE.

Newer evidence strongly suggests the exodus took place during Egypt’s Middle Kingdom (c. 1450), dating Joseph’s deportation and rise to power at roughly 1900 BCE.
That's not the only difference shown in the video. IN the official keynote when Jensen was talking about it he specifically said the "RTX Off" was using the software rasterizer. So it's not comparing Vulkin RTX on with Vulkin RTX off but Vulkin RTX On with Software rendering on.
Yeah - /any/ "star" role has always been a risk that it is foolish to go for without a back up plan! That is simply the case of all winner takes most jobs. If you want to complain about low level viability being ruined you need to go back to before recording where getting rich was even rarer.

Not to mention the downright dishonest exclusion of song downloads while lamenting decline of CD sales.
Much of the niceness in japan is superficial. I don’t know one person who doesn’t gossip about each other behind their backs. I attribute this to boredom, loneliness and overall lack of fulfillment.
When I was in the military this is how our barracks were. They closed the on base kitchen and gave us a food stipend instead. Our rooms were the size of a large bedroom, shared with 2 people and we had a mini fridge and a microwave in the room.

Still managed to get pretty big working out and eating a diet that consisted of meats you could microwave (a lot of precooked sausage and can chili haha), we definitely didn't make SF money so there wasn't a lot of eating out.
Copyright violation for reproducing their logo without permission. One could probably make a case that it's fair use most of the time, but why go to the trouble when you can instead get them to pay you to have that logo on the screen?
Why do people continue to rely on insulin? Isn't diabetes reversible? Look up Dr. Jason Fung.
What Makes a Life Significant (1900)
I can't begin to imagine the pain both she and her husband are feeling right now. That we have institutions that so callously detain clearly innocent and productive members of our community is truly appalling.

Pieces like this make me so ashamed of my country.
Ibuprofen and acetaminophen are not the same kind of compound. Acetaminophen is an analgesic (painkiller). Ibuprofen is not; it's an anti-inflammatory. It has more uses than just pain relief, and has different effects on the body.
Regardless of what you believe about immigration, it really seems like people should be concerned about America being completely willing to embrace cruelty.

* She is someone who was trying to follow a legal path to citizenship.

* She was trying to work a job.

* She tried to follow the law and got legal advice, albeit from a terrible source (her employer.)

I don't mean any of this to sway how anyone feels about whether she should be ultimately allowed in the country, but it definitely feels like an argument in favor of some benefit of the doubt for her.

I moved to Europe because I was distressed about the direction America was going. I would really love for America to be a place that cares and loves people in their communities. I miss it. I miss being near my family. But when I read articles like this I really wonder how I could be a part of this world.

Edit: I vouched for this post. It seems things that are political of any sort frequently get flagged on HN, but this is an important story to tell. One woman trapped at immigration is a tragedy, one hundred thousand is a statistic.
How the American fervor for deregulation contributed to the 737 Max crashes
Navigating Compliance When Extracting Web Scraped Alternative Financial Data
Even if the subject matter doesn't tickle you, I would recommend any intellectual curious person should read through three or four of them just to get a sense of the style in use.

There is certainly an argument to be made that producing this sort of document ought to be a (not "the", but "a") end-goal of more philosophical conversations. Probably created by multiple authors, though. I think there's a case to be made that while a one-sided screed will always have its place, there isn't enough work put into this sort of back & forth right in one place structure.
Okay. I thought that was the case, and frankly, it's the only mechanism that even comes close to making MMT make some sort of sense, since that could act as a monetary black hole... I think.
Announcing fromfrom – a library to transform sequences of data in JavaScript
Recently I released similar library (https://github.com/sultan99/react-on-lambda).

We solve same problem but we went with different approaches I made a wrapper and you babel-plugin.

Does your plugin transpile code to React.createElement or it still wraps to some other function?

I found code snippet in your documentation:
_c(
_s('div', [
[{some: 'prop'}],
[_s('span', _x, [['neat']]), _s('span', _x, [['syntax']])],
]),
)

Looks like you wrap code with some other functions?
To earn money, somebody has to have created value (people are paid for creating value). Spending money is consuming value. Imagine there is $100 worth of total value in existence. Somebody creates $5 of value, they're paid $5, and total value existing is now $105. They could immediately consume or invest this $5 of value, leaving society with $100 of value, and if they invested some productively then they'd have increased the rate at which society's able to generate value in future. Or, they could do nothing with that $5, leaving society with $105 of value. How does society access this extra $5 of value? The person who choose to hoard the $5 effectively removes that money from circulation, which decreases the supply of money and hence increases its value. This means the purchasing power of other currency holders is increased. Those who then decide to spend money can consume or invest the $5 of value that was left unused.
Quite a bit! Look at all the places Linux ended up. Servers, phones, embedded systems, etc. The freedom to modify and tinker encourages innovation. The cost encourages cheap experimentation.
Pretty much any tall structure kills birds. Even a skyscraper can wipe out an entire swarm of birds.

https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/13/15635240/texas-songbirds-...
Also lacking (from skimming the article) is functions being first-class when functional programming.
On unmolested Android an app running in the background causes the o/s to display an un-closable icon in the notification bar, according to google so as to help users avoid getting into these background battery-draining situations. This doesn't absolve the app writer from deploying what's essentially badly-behaving fraudware.
That's literally what he said, yes.

He did imply it would likely not be possible. He said that if it could be captured, it would be an absolutely mind-boggling ROI in terms of energy in vs energy out.
To each their own is a reasonable philosophy when you apply it to individuals. It's not quite so reasonable when you apply it to countries, as countries are anything but a 100% homogeneous set of individuals.

Perhaps some people in Korea don't think marijuana is evil. Maybe some people in Korea don't like being effectively forced to drink themselves senseless every day.

Heck, maybe some Saudi Arabian gays would prefer not to be executed - but to each [country] their own I guess, hmm?
> The reason the UK is not the tech giant the U.S. is, is that they don't take developers seriously

What if we swap the chicken with the egg in that argument:

Maybe UK engineers aren't paid as much as US engineers because UK companies aren't nearly as profitable as US ones?

Another way to phrase that is that UK engineers, in the UK, don't produce as much value as UK engineers do in the US, which is why it makes sense for them to move.
Yes, you would think it would be that simple, but it’s definitely not.

Advertisers will give you double click (by google), atlas (Facebook), mediamind, etc tags m, to deliver as the ad. They will load in god knows what JS into their little space and (I cannot stress this enough), advertisers love their gimmicky little iteractable/expandable, engagement-filled ads.

To boot, they’re all laden with code to detect what publishers/sites/apps you’re displaying on, how much of the ad is viewable on screen and for how long, every scrap of code they can possibly fit in there to identify the user down to the finest grain they can manage.

You would think that things needn’t be this complex, but ad-tech companies have done a wonderful job of convincing advertisers that “targeted advertising is definitely better, and you definitely invest the extra cost in it, and definitely do all these other things because if you don’t then you’re totally falling behind your competitors, who are totally scraping every bit of data from their users, so you’d be a loser not to do the exact same thing and ~give all that dats to us.~ Sorry, make “valuable use” of all that data”.
It is complete nonsense and indicates to me the OP doesn't really understand the field as well as they think. As someone who has gone through all the exams, the upper-level exams test aspects of the industry in incredible depth and is more about regulatory requirements than any specific model. OP may have a decent understanding of reserve models, cat models, or financial forecasting, but those are not a core part of upper level exams (although you would certainly be expected to know it).

I spent hundreds of hours memorizing flashcards on US healthcare regulations as well as some things about the Canadian healthcare system. By far the worst years of my life.
So you do not want to store value for things like retirement or risky times?

Runaway inflation can make even intra-year saving impossible.

If this is a feature of MMT, it seems they'd be willing to give up on a lot of civilization since be began farming.
I was just in a class on managing children's tantrums, and the advice is very, very similar. The mistake we make is assuming adults are fundamentally different feom children.
Androgen insensitivity syndrome says something else. Here you have a XY male with female genitalia and secondary traits like say strength of that of a female.

Then we have the world of chimerism, ie a person with two set of chromosomes. Genitals of both sexes may be formed.

Then we have mixed gonadal dysgenesis, also known as X0/XY mosaicism.

dragonwriter mentioned XX male syndrome.

Those are just a few big ones. We then have some lovely research into gender identification through sex differences like the size of organs, brain tissue and so on. Works great, except when you do it with transsexuals. For that group the measurements predict the gender they say they are and not their chromosomes. Those studies are used as evidence that transgender is biological, not psychological.

The human body is a complex analog system, and in complex analog systems there aren't much binary 1 or 0. It is more like a scale which leans towards either one direction depending on the sum of a lot of factors. What we call male is just the state when the sum of those factors point in one direction, female in an other. Occasionally you get scales that balance between the two that you can't actually say where it leans.
You're missing the point. Prison, in the U.S., is a place to keep people that a certain segment of society doesn't like and would prefer to keep oppressed.
Adtech companies know exactly who is responsible. Every ad on any serious network is approved before going live. Every single auction is logged, that's just basic tracking and necessary for billing anyway.

The problem is that there are no serious consequences in this industry. Ad fraud isn't a technical problem, it's a business problem, one that most companies are not incentivized to solve or prevent.
Have the Universal Basic Income People Turned to the Dark Side?
I suspect we'd notice if North Korea started drilling wells in California. It's not exactly a suitcase nuke level of concealability.
Yikes. HPE owns it all now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Graphics_International
Apple makes billions of dollars selling services
> OK, that's basically a static method in C#. Is that wrong?

It it can be true of a static method, but a static method can also make an HTTP request, read the current time, etc, so that the answer doesn't just depend on the arguments.
CSS's not a programming language
I'm going to take a contrarian view. My answer is, "it depends."

You have a GED as an option. It is considered a high school equivalency. It's a single test that covers a battery of subjects. Pass it, and you're effectively done with high school.

I didn't finish high school in a traditional fashion. I ended up going into foster care as a teenager and bouncing from home to home before I aged out of the system. I had to go to work early.

Here's the kicker: since I went to college later and had some college experience, the GED is forgotten. No employer in my 20+ year career has ever asked about it. I eventually ended up getting a 4-year degree, and even though it took a long time for me to get to that point, it didn't hamper my career in the least.

I just finished a 4 year project freelancing as an automation coder for a telecom company. I did VERY well over those 4 years, in terms of income. Now I am an employee of that telecom.

"Success" for you will depend on how you define your goals. Your path there will very likely not be linear. Grit is required along the way, no matter what decisions you make.

I would recommend you take a long-term view, and not only think about the moment. That may very well mean taking the developer job. But if you do that, and curtail your formal education for now, remember you'll want to address that later. In my case, the experience FAR outweighed the formal education.

Feel free to email me, I'm happy to talk with you more about this.
I use Google Sheets as well to track stuff like finances, calories, workout stats. And I too have wondered about a nicer way of inputting data.

Have you looked into Google Forms? I really wish it supported custom types like list of items from named ranges. A custom UI app (in Haskell/reflex!) is what I may end up writing too.
> that's basically a static method in C#

No, `Console.WriteLine` definitely has side-effects

> functional programming should never handle state

No, quoting the same quote as you did: "avoid these side effects wherever possible", emphasis on "wherever possible". Of course, a program which never has any side effects or state would be useless, as it would not accomplish anything.
Would it be worth it for something like this to be used in places that often have catastrophic earthquakes, to instead release scheduled mini-quakes every so often to relieve the pressure?
Its too bad there isnt someone like Lenovo that buys up all the giants scraps and squeezes some milk out of them.
In many cases, the idea of rehabilitating people either before or after prison is nearly impossible. There are almost half a million people in the American prison system for drug offenses. If someone is released from prison for cannabis possession, they can likely drive a few hours to a place where it's perfectly legal (at the state level), and even encouraged by the culture. How could you possibly rehabilitate someone from something with those kinds of mixed messages?
This same thing exists in the US, too. Except even more nefarious, because it can affect your health insurance premiums.
If this is a conversation being held in good faith, and you impute to your nominal opponent a position that you believe is better than what it turns out they actually meant, then they have an opportunity to respond in ways other than simply taking (21st century) offense at your mischaracterization. They can correct you in a followup. Or they can discover that they appreciate your own iron-cladding of their argument for them and adopt it for themselves. At the very least, unless they're on a hair-trigger for being offended, at which point basically by definition they're not arguing in good faith anyhow, they're not terribly likely to be upset that you have granted them a stronger position than you believe they successfully argued for; from a human perspective it's still a demonstration of positive intent, even if the direct manifestation was misguided.

It's not a static situation, and most of the outcomes are still better than if you drill down on some particular issue they have and play the "gotcha" game. (At least, better if your goal is authentic intellectual conversation.)
The difference is that most of us don't own million-dollar fabrication labs. At best, we would be tinkering with FPGAs with custom cores, but FPGAs are an order-of-magnitude slower than traditional CPU ASICs.

So we the typical user can't make use of open source designs.

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An open source "conglomerate" of companies may work. But I haven't fully thought about the economics of it.
Honestly, I'm just put off by the word generalist. It makes it sound like just because someone can call a few APIs and create a deep learning model, that, as long as they have a clean data set, all of a sudden the world now revolves around them. Frankly, a lot of it is because of the hype, all of a sudden data scientists are these magical leprechauns that by virtue of their fancy algorithms can make money appear out of thin air.

It really isn't like that, you really have to be able to go deep, as you said. Yes, there is a part of it where you have to be flexible (I wouldn't call it general, because I think it sweeps too much under the rug), so as to go so deep into a topic, you pass this kind of "expert-level turing test" where, were you and a domain expert put in the same room, a reasonable person wouldn't be able to tell you apart, where the weaker version is "another expert wouldn't be able to tell you apart" or something like that..
The problem is that in practice you are modifying these somewhat frequently and if you aren't careful one of those modification will result in a production outage.
Tough. You can check copy writing, teaching English online or something from UpWork/OtherFreelanceWebsites
Honestly, I would suggest working and saving up (I did it twice like that) so you can enjoy your travels more. I met also people that do little local jobs here and there to sustain their travels. Some countries might not care but some are pretty strict on this being a NO-NO.
Looks cool, good name as well, I can see myself trying to remember it next time I'm on holiday and the connection between the functionality and the name is tight. How are you monetizing, and what is your vision for the project?
"I am increasingly surprised that this system is still supported"

It is NOT supported, at least not by the citizens of the United States.

It is supported by the corporations, lobbyists, and outright purchased politicians of the United States.

The simple answer to most of these questions about "why doesn't the United States..." is because we no longer have a functioning democracy.

See Citizens United, electoral college, gerrymandering, 2 Senators for states with populations smaller than an average city, social media engineering by foreign actors, Mitch McConnell blatantly ignoring the Constitution with no repercussions...
Obituary: Atta Elayyan was killed on March 15th
Maybe if we actually took care of people ant taught them how to make a living on their own, they wouldn't have to rely on gangs for protection.
Although it’s controversial, I don’t think there have been tsunamis of ridicule from every direction hitting people saying fracking increases the odds of an earthquake, which is what this is about.
Assuming the term minority is being used (as it normally is) as meaning a group of society considered oppressed by some, one should remember that men are by far and large the most incarcerated group.
Where did you move? I am approaching this point as well. Plus, the prospect of the astronomical college prices in the US for my 3 kids starting in 8 years is not enticing either.
GOTF Go Programming for .Net Devs – Working with Multiple Source Files
This is what ICE does. They have no interest in the spirit of the law. They're nothing but a ring of thugs, given license by the government to harass people and ruin lives as much as they want, so long as they can construe it under the letter of our immigration law. Even when they step outside of the law and are later forced through a lawsuit to let someone go, there are never any consequences. They actively deceive people about their rights and then arrest them. There have been stories of them literally detaining American citizens because they spoke Spanish.
As someone who is currently planning a trip to NYC and has been comparing CityPass to its competitors (and versus just buying individual tickets)... Thank you! I will be using this site this weekend to help me make my decisions.
Is Haskell the only FP language where chaining instructions one after the other in not available by default ?
THIS... elebenty billion %. The breaking changes of PHP upgrades make the hosting life a nightmare. It's so easy in the vacuum of a single developer with a single application to think everyone should keep up to date, but the reality is most of the PHP sites on the internet are owned by non-technical people.
You can still have side effects in a static method.

A more functional style, say like that of the one in F#, strongly encourages you to avoid many occasions where side effects may otherwise appear. Look at this fiddle for instance:

https://dotnetfiddle.net/68jAIw
The government is ultimately at the mercy of its people. If they can't access the things they want, then that will add to their issues with the government.
Arguably there is only one customer - the government. So maybe it is impossible in this case to create a free market.
What you don’t know about your health data will make you sick