skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does anyone know how close are we at the moment from being able to say "we're getting X smell, so here are the genes producing X producers"? I know we can (most of the time) say, here are the sites producing a specific protein. But are we able to find sites for second and higher order results yet?
>> Considering my mental state I am afraid that the PhD will break me mentally.

It's huge risk. Almost nothing beats a good mental health, in my eyes.

Why do you feel the Phd is worth this risk ?
Very well deserved. Blender 2.8 really is a wondrous multi-platform free-as-in-free thing.
I'm sure there are plenty of people who can work remotely who would love to live in a place like this, if it were either turnkey or at least if there were some collective action organization. Makes even more sense in Portugal, though -- you could live in a place for 182 days/yr, after putting 350k euros investment into it, with a grant of portugese citizenship. I'm sure there are similar villages/properties in rural areas too.
But these investors are men, and they're doing it again!

This is pure rage-bait, and it's why I roll my eyes when tier I media like the NYT act shocked and surprised that fewer and fewer people trust them. I hate clickbait and fake news as much as everybody else, but the mainstream media has made its own bed, here.
>Of course your code is going to compile faster if you don’t support any platforms or optimizations.

And that's fine too. I don't want support for some BS platform slow down the platform 90% of people and servers use.

Perhaps add ARM to x86, but that's it.
I don’t know how you can be turned off by animal slaughter and ok with whaling.
Vice UK journalists in bid to unionise amid industry-wide job cuts
Technology has advanced. You can do reasonable off-grid utilities (solar/battery/water/waste/internet) for 25-100 people at grid-level prices.
What's Best? Forms vs. Chat Services
How does everyone here use forms and chat services in their products? Do you prefer one over another?
How so? Can you expand on that?
Sony also deploys FreeBSD in one of their major consumer product: a PlayStation 4, which runs Orbis OS, a fork of FreeBSD 9[1]

[1]: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTM5NDI
Screencasts on testing with Go, 40% off this week
Nice achievement, maybe it will encourage more (short) movies like these to be created:

https://www.blender.org/about/projects/
Like all projects that say "we will release soon".

Your point being? Even if he's misleading people, people can always JUDGE by themselves and not give him money.

(As if he gets anything -- even established projects with tons of supporters and huge communities hardly make $1000/month on donations).
The anti crunch hours license
The concern is that the US government will ask/force US companies to hand over data or give access even it's stored outside the US. E.g. see the "CLOUD act".
Not if "moderate" means that every user comment has to pass in front of a lawyer, or at least some paid moderator, before it's approved and posted.

Obviously this is all speculation and depends on the wording of the law.
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No access to grid power is a pretty rare circumstance in most of the west, but even so, "off grid" (as long as you're not also "off road") is not so difficult or expensive to solve these days, on the scale of construction/real-estate costs.

"Mod cons" aren't generally the problem. What's missing is people who want to be there.
That was the case, I think, with old NiCd batteries, but with lithium ion batteries, you maximize battery longevity by keeping it mostly charged, I read recently.
It may be tricky to do remote work from one of these places. In Spain, rural areas may not have broadband at all. You may have phone line, but the quality is so bad that not even ASDL is usable.
>What is the draw of wireless charging? What is it that I'm missing? Did anyone ask for this?

Apple is trying to release a series of devices that don't need wires. Apple Watch, Airpods, removing the 3.5mm headphone jack. They're trying to make a sheet of glass a few millimeters thick that does computations, like you'd see in Star Trek. There's no big mystery to it.

Nobody asked Apple to remove 3.5inch floppies or optical drives; people freaked the fuck out for months when they did. Now, nobody cares or needs those things. This is how Apple operates. People (myself included) seem to forget that they do this all the time on their path to making great products.
AFAIK it means that if the average person had 10% probably to die because of cancer, by drinking the probability will be 10.1 (1 percent more).
66M-year-old deathbed linked to dinosaur-killing meteor
Massively disingenuous statement. The minke whales found closest to Japanese waters are least concern.[1] Japan also does controversially take some whales outside of its waters, though, and that's definitely a problem.

Regardless, it's not nearly as bad as eating the verifiably endangered yet popular bluefin tuna[2] or any variety of sturgeon or its caviar, of which pretty much all are on the verge of extinction.

[1] https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/2474/50348265

[2] https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/21860/9331546
To be clear there's no new kanji being created here, just a new unicode character with two existing kanji compacted into one glyph. So most typical use cases won't be affected either way, since era names are normally just written with two regular characters rather than with the compacted one.
An "interesting" fact of Spain is that all unwritten inheritance goes to the state, and this includes foreigners. Therefore, makes sense to lay down 200 bucks or so in lawyer fee and write the inheritance asap.
the perfect car tbh, some ota updates even reset your distance traveled! great for resale!
wouldn't a simple compass have sufficed if they weren't off route?
Rural areas of Spain usually have decent 4G service.

Good luck getting hired for remote work in Spain, though.

Edit for the guys below: obviously I meant working for a Spanish company.
Expert disclosed two ZeroDay flaws in Microsoft browsers
Here's a thought experiment: do you think describing the world using words is just describing it? Or, when you put your thoughts into words, does your brain then search for examples to confirm what you've just created?
Rolodex? What's next, a Filofax?
In some areas of Spain, the state gets to keep a high percent of the inheritance, they go up to 50% or maybe more in some places.
First epilepsy (dogs), now Parkinson's. Leads me (retired neurosurgical anesthesiologist) to wonder if ALL pathology has an olfactory component that, with sufficient sensitivity of instrumentation, can be detected. Perhaps we won't require a "Star Trek"-type imaging device: just stand still and let the mass spectrometer do its thing.
Maybe if journalism actually went back to journalism they’d have a job?
Undiscovered yeast species could change our world
I think parent comment was referring to foreigners buying a place and working remotely.
It would be matter of not working for a Spanish company. It makes taxes a bit more complicated though.

(Ironically, I did some remote work for a Spanish company when I was living in the UK)
No healthcare, no chemists, no good Internet access, have to literally travel to buy clothes or go to the supermarket, and especially no jobs. Even in big towns jobs are scarce. Hence the asphyxiating housing bubble in big cities. It just makes no sense to live in any of those ghost villages. Unless you're some wealthy screwhead who can't stand the smallest amount of street noise.
>>While it’s worth taking this seriously if true, 5-10 cigarettes a week is relatively little. A pack is 20 cigarettes and a heavy smoker might smoke a pack a day (sometimes more).

What if these 5-10 cigs a week are enough to screw a lot of things up? So after the first x cigs the damage doesn't increase according to amount smoked?
Why do you say that? Remote is remote, is I'm hiring remote, why would I care if the person is in Spain, Portugal or anywhere else? I'm sure you have context behind your comment and it would be great if you shared it.
See, for example, Maple syrup urine disease: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maple_syrup_urine_disease
> We also delete the credit card and email from Stripe (our payment provider).

The email isn't actually deleted - Stripe's logs will permanently hold that data. If you don't want to retain the email address, you'll need to send receipts etc yourself.
The diseases are already there, but can't be detected by standard tests and/or have no visible symptoms yet.
A dead one; it likely didn't contribute to the future.
At some point she sings "loose" instead of "nice" in the compressed version, and a bit later it also sounds like "lulk" instead of "milk". So it's a bit lossy even with respect to the lyrics!
we're living longer. Something will eventually get us.

Jeff died 92 years old. What did he die from?
In reality it's old age, but might been an infection or heart problems.
Can you even factory reset a Tesla? I don't know, I don't own one. Just curious.

If so, does it clear out data on car only or does it clear me out of Tesla's cloud as well?
Can someone knowledgeable explain to me: How offline can you run a Tesla? Is there an off button? Can you disconnect the networking entirely? Can you download updates externally, review them, and somehow manually feed them to the car? Does the owner have access - read and write - to logs and video and whatever else gets stored onboard?

For that matter, what is the situation with other newer cars, electrical or of the exploding chemicals persuasion?
It does. It's not that cancer or cancerous substances are "new", we've just eliminated / managed the causes of death which used to kill us.
I think the comment was referring to work remotely for a Spanish company. In Spain, remote work culture is almost nonexistent.
Summary: You an mix the coordinates obtained from celestial navigation (stars) with signals of opportunity (Electromagnetic sources like FM) to find the position without GPS.

Problems: Anytime a military advertisement happens (LN-120G Stellar-Inertial-GPS from Northup G.) - if you don't see the total price of the unit, know that it was a waste of money and resources.
JavaScript Coercions Grid
Lol. Who really believe these tracking companies, they are fake like Google
I understand why people don't like captchas - specifically recaptcha - but I believe it's a 'necessary' evil. Many small startups and hobby sites don't have the resources to roll their own bot prevention/detection or subscribe to paid captcha solutions. Without recaptcha, these sites likely wouldn't exist or would be few and far between.

> Your service could still be at risk, even with a CAPTCHA in place. Advances in computer imaging and the use of CAPTCHA farms means some bots will still be able to access your service.

I don't think anyone will tell you that captchas are a 100% effective method at preventing automated/falsified actions. The main reason they are so widely used and generally the 'one stop shop' for bot prevention is that it increases the cost of attacking your service. Without them, an attacker could set up a simple loop that gets a site's csrf token and attempts a username/password combination. With them, an attacker does have to have a bot with "advances in computer imaging" or will have to rent a click farm. ReCaptcha is fairly good at preventing these two anyways since they will often blacklist a client[0] while still collecting the known good captcha answers for their car NN.

> Alternatives to CAPTCHAs

Transaction monitoring can be effective, but costly. Honeypots are only effective against non-targeted attacks, as an attacker can just submit one form themselves and see the browser's network request and know what to send to look like a regular browser. Rate limits are also pretty easy to bypass, new IPs are easy to obtain since every VPS provider I know hands them out like candy (the only cost to this is not getting kicked off the provider).

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16164549

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For the UK government, I do expect them to employ better mechanisms than captchas to protect their services. But without them, there would be even less small communities than there are now. They may be up at the mercy of Google, but nothing is done without the permission of the biggest companies.
Seems like it.

They do have small snippet at the bottom that says "Originally published at https://likegeeks.com" but that hardly seems acceptable.
Yes, they do. The only time it works is when you have a clear view, which is not always.
Lyft drivers question company's future as a public company
Zebpay Is the First Cryptocurrency Exchange to Add Support for the LN
Men do not make better engineers or show more interest in engineering when biases in education and culture are controlled for.
Asturias in Spain has quite a lot of villages with 100/100 mb fiber due to a private public partnership. Our house in the little hamlet proaza has had that for ten years already.
Inverting compass readings into position is highly problematic because of interference, and noise.
It's surprising how many companies get helping money from bigger mainstream companies to push certain agenda
Leveraging A Poor Memory In Engineering
So, what should we be teaching? Many pedagogical experts argue that schools should switch to teaching “the four Cs” — critical thinking, communication, collaboration, and creativity. More broadly, they believe, schools should downplay technical skills and emphasize general-purpose life skills. Most important of all will be the ability to deal with change, learn new things, and preserve your mental balance in unfamiliar situations.
Within the next 150 years, we’ll probably turn most diseases into something treatable as we slowly acquire knowledge.

Of course, imagine if we started rapidly acquiring knowledge, I’d be saying within 75 years.

Your choice.
That does not make up for the lack of services in the area.
EV batteries cost $5000+ to replace and are expected to last 7-10 years, maybe more if you push it. And they are a huge pain to recharge in the middle of the day if you suddenly need to. How many years do you plan to keep your phone for? Who cares if the battery only has 70% of original capacity after 3 years and on some days you need to find 20minutess in the middle of the day to leave it plugged in to recharge?
Rust as a first language only works if you're willing to really put a lot of work in; there's no resources specifically for that. It can be done, but it's also harder than a language like Python or Ruby, which have those specific resources available.
Wow so 2 whole things are able to be identified by volatile chemicals and this leads to all?!

And I wonder how people like Holmes are able to survive for >10 years. We can deliver nicotine via patch, so obviously all drugs should be delivered that way. We can measure glucose from a drop of blood so obviously it follows that all blood tests run that way.

Where is the evidence that even a small fraction of the most common diseases have such a characteristic?
How so? The only thing that changed was like the article said. Back in the Yahoo/MSN messenger days, the only way that you could use the messenger was to be at your computer. With FB Messenger and WhatsApp, you are always available. You can turn notifications off, but that’s about it.
By reusability, I just mean most automation components that I see are single use and set up by integrators. I think they can continue to be simplified for factory engineers to reuse. Universal Robots is there, but most aren’t.

To me, saying robotization is complete is akin to saying computerization of business is complete because IBM has a mainframe.
Brexit vote expressed people disagreement with bureaucracy and corruption like this, not with being a part of Europe.
Polish leaders hint Poland will not fully apply EU copyright law
Yeah... at least in the EU, that doesn't sound compatible with GDPR.
you can't get a research job (your goal) without a phd. the fellowship pays well, most depressed students are depressed because they are poor and hence locked in the (toxic) uni environment. and lastly, semi joking, you're already depressed, so worst you will continue, but hopefully the change will help it.

good luck! and start eating better, as it helps more than meds for some.
that reminded me about this video! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8yEH8TZUsk
The big question is land ownership. Does the buyer get to own the land? Or is it more like a 100-year lease from the state?

$100k for large swathes of land anywhere in Europe sounds like a steal to me.
Climate Change and the Death of the Small Farm
He was just speculating. Also, dogs can smell cancer in humans.
(2018) - this does not provide a complete picture of the current state of the market.
I'd be curious about taxes and other costs involved in ownership.
Really interesting : I was aware of the 2018 announcement reported in the FT but I have never seen this 2014 article before.
Where did you travel to? Southeast Asia?
Cable or port? That's not a lot for a port.
Amazon just terminated my Associates account
+++

Was the same command to take an AT compatible modem from data mode to command mode and cause it to disconnect. Are you sure that’s not where it originated?
I wonder what kind of improvement you can get by using several of the devices at once? Could some sort of consensus monitoring at least tell you what kind of margin of error you are working with ? I guess for some applications being 100m out is fine (for example an Astute in open ocean), but getting it that wrong in, for example, the Med or the Sound of Skye is probably a problem.
Configuring KVM on Clear Linux (2017)
For anyone who finds this stuff fascinating,
There's a great book, "through the language glass" by Guy Deutscher. I really enjoyed it.
How is that?

If the battery is charging then logically there must be enough residual power to run the phone.
If there wasn’t then the battery would not charge at all unless you turned off the phone first, but it obviously does.

Also a phone on a charging mat cannot easily be used and the screen will be off most of the time lowering power requirements.
Have anything I can read instead of sitting through 12 minutes of a talking head?

If it is a true certified, the checklist (standarized by the manufacturer) will have to be signed off by a factory-certified technician, so there is a paper-trail.
Memoization in the D Programming Language
Ask HN: Machine learning contractors, how much do you charge hourly?
Also, how many years of experience do you have? What are your credentials? Where do you live?
What I hate is when a coworker starts a conversation with “hey” in our Slack group and waits for me to respond.

If they just tell me what they want, I can decide when to answer the question and whether it requires me to do research or go into a long explanation.
The article mentions a "highly accurate chronometer" in regards to the Blackbird. So I don't think they deduce time from the stars.

Rhubidium atomic clocks are quite compact and not all that expensive. Hobbyist electronics people buy retired ones from cell phone base stations for an accurate 10 MHz sync signal in their home labs.

https://www.eevblog.com/2012/01/14/eevblog-235-rubidium-freq...
They can both be right.

"Tracking" has never been very well defined. It just means something like, "collecting data we don't think you should collect."

If you want something more specific, lots of conflicting definitions do exist, but nothing that people can agree on.
You may need some references for that idea. I'm not saying it's wrong, just that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
> Yan says there may be some solution—a mix of remedies, new laws, purpose-built rental housing, tax adjustments and so on—that does not mean a collapse in Metro Vancouver’s real estate prices.

There never will be a solution because no one will vote for a government that will bring down the value of their home.
Can you share a link? Can’t find anything on YouTube.
Not at all. One does not need to go to a ghost village to to what OP says, and many towns in Europa have even fiber.
Most minke whales caught by Japanese whalers were in Antarctic waters when they were still in the IWC. [1] I don't see how it is disingenuous to link to the classification of the whale that makes up most of their catch.

[1] https://iwc.int/table_permit
This is needlessly antagonistic. Though all pathology may be a stretch, the evidence for these two was only recently convered and all new fields start somewhere. Indeed, this line of thought brought us Theranos, but also brought us so much else.
"We know Earth revolves around the Sun, so obviously all planets revolve around the sun? Ridiculous!"
Snap CEO’s sister starts a no-visuals porn site
Standard error decreases by the square root of the number of samples. So an order of magnitude improvement would need 100 sensors!
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Go to that github URL, click on the green "Clone or Download" button and download a zip file of the code. Unzip and search away.
> I stumbled over what to call it too.

People at the time just called it "ROM or "ROM routines". There's the BASIC interpreter, but there's also a lot of useful functions you can call from assembly (like the ROM tape loader for example).

> it just blows the call stack

It seems to me this is an unintended side effect. The game code is entered using USR, which is the BASIC expression to call into assembly code [1]. A normal "ret" opcode should just return to the prompt, but apparently the game messes up some internal BASIC interpreter state, which results in this error upon return.

[1] http://www.worldofspectrum.org/ZXBasicManual/zxmanchap26.htm...
Minard / Morse / Tufte and Authenticity on the Web (2018)
I’ll give examples for the US but you can translate as appropriate.

I’d say there’s no municipal police force in the country that has a sufficiently technically sophisticated regular law enforcement to try to attack a running machine. So if you are suspected of having information relevant to a murder or drug deal—the seize and examine one month later scenario is extremely likely.

A handful of states and maybe one or two municipalities may have a computer crimes division that would be sophisticated enough to know to worry about encrypted disks, but they’d have to hire expensive outside consultants to carry out the actual attack and would do so in exceptional circumstances rather than routinely.

Finally, if your threat model includes the national security apparatus then, yes, this is probably too much of a compromise.
Yeah but if you do the long version the status is SERVFAIL?

edit: It's a known issue: https://community.cloudflare.com/t/www-lancaster-ac-uk-not-r...
Because:

1)It would allow me to do research in a field that I find interesting.

2)It would allow me to build up my research skills, enabling me to later find a job that has this balance of research and coding which I mentioned in my post.
As a note, I applied this year at 4 positions which had this balance and all of them rejected me. After asking what my main disadvantage with the chosen candidate was all of them told me that he/she had a PhD in the field.

3)I would be able to see what I am capable of in solving interesting problems and expanding human knowledge.

4)I believe in general, that pushing your self to the limits (even if you fail) teaches you more compared to a comfortable situation. By that I do not obviously mean that one should put oneself in every situation that stresses him/her, but rather that one should attempt things even if they are difficult.
Taking a stand against a comment that nobody made!