skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suppose that mentioning Lady Gaga and Ariana Grande is just a ploy to enlist trad-con support for the bill. The real reason is that government power very much depends on controlling the official narrative while making sure that alternative ones do not gain much traction. This was so much easier to do when information was primarily distributed through centralized media, such as newspapers, radio, and television. Governments simply had much more power back then. The internet has eroded it. So, either they give up some of that excess power, or else they somehow manage to centralize the internet. The societal control that we inherited from the past is no longer compatible with decentralized distribution of information on the internet. The very fact that we are interactively discussing this topic today, instead of merely swallowing what is supposedly best for us, demonstrates the point actually quite nicely.
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questions:

1) how would you get CRISPR into the brain?

2) how would you guarantee that nearly 100% of the target cells get it. The disease is a dominant condition, and by virtue of its putative mechanism a minority of untreated cells could still trigger the problem (though presumably onset might be delayed)

3) I would worry that if you do the CRISPR cut in the wrong place, or at the wrong time, you could instead make the tandem repeats even longer which would make the progression of the disease faster.

4) Outright deletion of the gene is -- who knows. AFAIK all humans have some, low number of tandem repeats and the disease emerges when you have a lot of tandem repeats. IIRC the mouse tandem repeat KO gene model has no side effects but stuff like alzheimer's AB being protective of certain viral brain infections is coming out, so maybe there's some function there? And lab mice aren't really exposed to too many pathogens.
Just a minor note: Our terrible public transit is due to our society revolving around the motto "a chicken in every pot and a car in every garage." In my city, you can find overpasses that were purposely designed to not let buses fit through to further emphasize how "terrible" public transit is, and how we all need our own car. Those with money & power then moved into the Suburbs, and thereby even more legislation was made to ease suburbian transit.
Adobe used to lay people off pretty much every winter to make their Q4 numbers look better, then hire many of the same folks back a few months later. It sucked. From what I've heard they don't do this is as much now that their business is subscription-driven.
Where can one read more about which competitors expressen interest and why it fell through?
Except that the $5 fancy latte also works up to at least 5 minutes to get.

Not that I think it has anything to do with the point of the article.
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And again I ask, when someone else produces some technically great achievement and people pile on about the design looking bad, why is that treated any differently? Why isn't that raining on the parade?

In a parallel universe, someone might have said "You're right, it isn't accessible. That wasn't my goal, and if this ever does take off then I might have to investigate other options."

But that isn't what happened, it's a bit of a double standard, and that double standard has real consequences for some of us. The bulk of the pile-on doesn't seem to be coming from my friend, but rather from a bunch of folks criticizing him for daring to politely suggest that there's another perspective worth considering.

If your response is "because more people care about the visual design of a technically sound concept than whether it is accessible because looks matter," then I'd agree with that, and we can just leave it there without casually dismissing an entire group of real people who matter. But again, that isn't what happened here.

I wish I could post web apps I've made here without contending with the half dozen "your design sucks" comments I'd likely get. But if I got them then I'd expect them, and that frustrates me to no end.

FWIW, I'm not actually all that upset. I'm kind of used to this, actually. And I know you're just trying to explain why things are what they are, which is exactly what I'm doing. :)
LeMaitre wasn't imposing his superstitions on science. He's not insisting that Genesis is somehow a simplified account of the Big Bang. That kind of "scientific creationism" is mostly for American Evangelicals trying to justify their biblical absolutism.

LeMaitre is a Catholic priest, and despite their anti-science reputation from the late Medieval era, the Catholic Church is quote pro-science. They've accepted both evolution and the Big Bang for a very long time. They treat Genesis as a myth, a spiritually informative story that is not literally true.

They do believe in genuine miracles, but they downplay them substantially (though they're still quite popular with many individual Catholics). But the official teaching is that human beings evolved in a universe that began 14 billion years ago. There were many miracles in it, including the ensoulment of human beings which makes them categorically different from nonhuman animals, but that soul is metaphysical and immune to experiment -- and therefore doesn't conflict with science.

Catholic faith isn't faith in the world, but faith in the soul of humanity and the promise of an afterlife. That faith is unscientific while being compatible with science.

There are many reasons to criticize the Catholic church, but it's not guilty of imposing superstition on science. (Even the Medieval crimes against science are more complicated than the common story is told.) Christianity as a whole seems very anti-science from an American perspective, and that taints our perception of religion as a whole since it's our dominant religious force, but it's not absolutely impossible for somebody to be religiously faithful and a genuinely skeptical scientist.

Like you, I apply Occam's Razor, and tend to dismiss "faith" in that sense as an unneeded hypothesis. Catholicism is all about a "salvation" you and I feel no need of. Especially since, as I said, the Catholic Church has been guilty of so many recent crimes, and does not seem like a force for moral good. But I do think it's important to understand that there are people whose faith doesn't have to conflict with either science or ethics, and LeMaitre is one example.
I think this is similar to grocery store brands. Do you think that grocery stores should not be allowed to charge name brands for shelf space because they are competing against store owned private label brands?
I've gotten a new appreciation for OOP (and TDD) after reading "Growing Object-Oriented Programs Guided By Tests."

It's made me start thinking of programs more as multicellular organisms, or communities, where each part is responsible for a particular task. I think this is the core genius of OOP. It's not about classes or (Java) interfaces, it's about programs being communities of cohesive individuals with well-defined communication protocols.

edit to add: I think another key difference is in increasing the level of abstraction that you think about your program. You want to build a layer where you just say what should happen (the "declarative layer"), and keep that separate from the idea of how it should happen (the "implementation layer").
Hello HN,

I'm the creator DittoBomb.com, Brandon. This project was built on Django and utilizes twitter api, lob, and stripe. This is my first production project in Python, and your feedback is very much appreciated.
The inspiration for this project is simple: Make digital discourse real via physical publication and comment on it.

Thank you,
Brandon
I think his gist is that, of course a developer should expect to be paid more than that because they're special. But photographers just click pictures so they should be grateful to make anything at all.
Lol, sounds like a waste of good stew, but clearly it had the desired effect if you are still telling stories about it years later. Kind of insensitive to victim blame no matter your feelings.
I agree entirely. I've changed my routine to avoid coffee shops in the morning, and make coffee at home with nice beans. I've come to enjoy the quiet process each morning, reading news while waiting for the water to boil, and it has definitely been saving me a significant amount of money each month.
The stock market was posting all time highs all the way up until a month before the 1929 crash that started the great depression.
I think their point is that all of that hard data may be a result of self-fulfilling prophecies of other companies cutting back their business because there's a general sense that a recession might be coming.
BTW you downvoters who think the Federal Reserve is the govt should read a bit

https://www.federalreserve.gov/aboutthefed/section9.htm
Yes. And you will see even more who have stopped at that age because they couldn’t do it anymore.
Here is a good overview: https://techaeris.com/2018/04/06/spotifiy-explicit-content-f...
Your point is well received, and one would expect society to function that way, but it does not. People won't knock any house of cards to the ground unless they are starving. It's impossible to achieve anything of significance as individuals. And no organization fighting against the status quo could acquire enough resources to make a dent.

Corporations and government have hands in each others' pockets. They are protected by court systems designed in their favor, weapons which could wipe out populations in an instant, and complete control of the technology we all use to communicate.
Is it? I guess anyone that read the RFC or saw one implementation can easily reproduce it from the top of their head. Of course some details can be fuzzy and it's not that easy under stress but base64 is definitely not rocket science.
This could leave you flat-footed when the economy picks back up or you realize it was a 'blip', so it's not an easy/clear decision to make because you see one or two numbers going down.
Pilots followed recommendations before crash, Ethiopia says
You got out before you found your limit. You think you could have sustained it, but you really don't know because you left. But leaving also means something.

And succeeding in the face of adversity is something to be proud of. There are many things I wouldn't change in my life even though they were difficult or caused me to struggle.

That's not the point.

If I could have learned all I learned, got to where I am, etc _without_ having to struggle, that would have been preferable. The struggle itself imparts no value.

I mean, would you rather have not had to crunch to get the demo out on time? Would you rather have hit all of your targets on time without working ridiculous hours?
Ask HN: What do you track?
I recently rediscovered the quantified self movement [1] and I was wondering what other people here keep track of.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantified_self
The problem is that things like the USA's recent Equality Act go as far as to define sex in terms of gender identity. Trans activists are encouraging the equation of gender and sex. They want to say that people can identify as male or female because "male bodies" and "female bodies" are just a matter of perspective.
If we're going to err, we should err on the side of taking the guy at his word. He wants to raise taxes on himself to provide for better distribution of income and educational opportunity. Where's the problem with that?
> Practically speaking, purchasing coffee at all is a luxury line item. There's no actual need for it for anything other than the caffeine hit and flavor.

True, but that's a very deep rabbit hole. We could sit here all day debating what's luxury and what's not.

My counterargument would be that if with automation the way it is, if a regular person can't afford a self-made cup of coffee (or an equivalently cheap luxury) for the flavor alone, then what's the point? Should we all be eating vegan bean paste and popping B12 supplements and caffeine pills instead of consuming nutrients through regular food?

Is that the endgame for peak civilization?
I think what you are saying is true for the US, but if you travel, don't make the mistake of thinking our laws follow you everywhere. Whenever I am in different nations, especially the nations I know have strict laws, such as Cuba, I always leave the idea of the Constitution at the customs desk. You're under their laws. What is legal or illegal, is whatever they say is legal or illegal.

So don't travel the world thinking that what you just stated is true. Potential pathways to violence may, indeed, be illegal in the nation to which you are traveling. And punishments can be harsh. They can, will, and have sentenced people to death for being caught with drugs for instance. No murder. No guns. No violence. No nothing. Just caught with drugs -> death.

I always strongly urge people, especially young people, to be aware of the legal environment in any nation to which they are traveling.
Not me. Like I said, the only thing that appears on my home page that isn't related to videos I've liked/channels I've subscribed to is the occasional "Topic" section relating to music, which is easy to dismiss.

Of course, you need to clear your search and watch history too, otherwise all those clickbait videos you clicked on before will still be driving your suggestions.
This afternoon, driving home from work, linking my car and phone.

Earlier I had headphones linked to my phone via Bluetooth.
There's a great book on pretty much this topic in political philosophy, called Justice as Fairness by John Rawls. [0]

In the vein of this conversation, he does not argue against inequality, and breaks out of the capitalism/communist spectrum. Instead he proposed the strictures under which inequality should be allowed to persist in what he calls the Difference Principle:

Social and economic inequalities should be arranged so that they are both (a) to the greatest benefit of the least advantaged persons, and (b) attached to offices and positions open to all under conditions of equality of opportunity.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justice_as_Fairness:_A_Restate...
Dear interested lawyers, keep half the money you recover.

Problem solved.
How the South won the civil war
You could have read the source to the processor of one of the many open source SQL databases though (off the top of my head: MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Derby, H2, HSQLDB). Many of them have very clean code, SQLite would be my choice if you know C otherwise one of the java databases (though I've never actually read their source)
Gender is often performative in nature...We've pushed back on categorizing people by race and it's been beneficial.

Life is often performative in nature. We need to think about this when it comes to culture and society. If we want ourselves and our community to become wealthy, then we need to model our behavior to people who are well off. Likewise, we need to avoid acting like people who are failing.

In this, human beings inevitably reinterpret and change things. In part, it's a matter of figuring out the essentials. (The opposite of cargo cult behavior.)
Mentioned in my comment here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19532185
I don't really understand why unions are the answer to what should be basic and universal ethical labor standards.

Because, what, if you aren't in a union or unionized job you don't deserve to get treated decently? Because industries where unions and workers have less leverage should be able to treat workers worse? Or is the union thing just a reaction to lack of faith in other institutions?

I don't hate unions, but I don't get them either. And I often suspect that structurally they're much more incentivized to containerize reforms rather than universalize them.
>Additionally, Spotify eats the 30% Apple tax, and I would imagine the costs for music licensing rights are fairly inelastic.

They don't because they disabled it years ago. Also it's not really Apple's problem that Spotify paying for distribution makes their business worse off. They should just eat the cost just like they do when all those wireless carriers that bundle Spotify take their cut.
None of those things get you even close to $50/day. The "meal box kit"s are hundreds of dollars a month, yeah, but they also come with hundreds of dollars worth of food. Blue Apron comes out to about $10 per meal and they're considered the expensive choice.

TV packages get you up to $60 per month, or $2 per day. Wow, so wasteful, almost the price of a one-way commute and all you get in return is broad and unlimited 24/7 entertainment.

So we're up to $20 per day: $8 for food delivered to your house (which shouldn't even count because you need to eat anyway), $10 for two nice coffees, and $2 for television. Tell me about all the other outrageous luxury spending that gets us up to $50 per day.

$50/day is $1500/month. nobody spends that much on little luxuries. 46% of Americans can't afford to spend that much on rent.
Simple. The fundamentals. If the guaranteed return is less than or equal to the earnings per share, then the game can continue indefinitely.

Index funds don't have gains because people keep believing the price will increase. They have them because the market as a whole gains in the long run. Index funds lose value during market downturns.

Anyhow, no index fund offers guaranteed returns. These days I only see that from crypto ponzis.
The permissions for the Chrome extension require data from all websites?
As you have decided to write a blog post about this, and post it to HN, can you tell us what your total compensation will be?
Everyone - I think proponents of futarchy consider rigging not existing, a/k/a part of the system design. Like Mises's argument for encouraging insider trading, whatever helps information spread is beneficial.
- AWS has an edge network. Microsoft and Google have huge edge networks, with PoPs all over the place. Akamai also has a huge edge network. You also have to guess at the size of each PoP, which is just as important as having a PoP in a location.

- CF still has a less sophisticated targeting system than these larger companies that have been doing this for a long time. Targeting is everything when it comes to CDNs.

- Streaming games is totally different than serving web pages. It requires specialized hardware and targeting. It's basically a whole different business.

CF has a great strategy, but it seems to be focusing more on using their agility to adopt WA and Rust early and turn them into advantages.
I disagree. My goal is to retire early so every time I actively choose not to buy that coffee and instead save is days off my retirement ETA. If you learn to act frugal during you income generating years you will more easily live with less when you are feeding off your savings.

Substitute the "latte" for any consumable which costs $3-10 a day. These costs really do add up.

I still hit up Starbucks or my local coffee shop about once a week for the experience, since I work from home it's nice to get out.

My coffee from how on my $99 Delongi espresso machine tastes as good as the machines at the shop.
That was also nearly 100 years ago, when the stock market was at its infancy. I question the relevancy of comparing to 1929
25 an hour might be a good rate for someone starting out. I do programming work that takes that long and charge less than that amount.
As a die hard linux geek, why does the PW manager have to handle cloud storage?

I use keepass + spideroak to sync.

Keeps things simpler, IMHO. Maybe slightly more effort to log into things but I value having control and simplicity in my workflow.
I made a site that attempts to be a quick, hierarchical overview of the software tool landscape and the bevy of alternatives: https://www.tooltldr.com
Not sure about VSCode, but I use CLion's remote-development workflow with a local docker container. Works well enough for my purposes.
In economics, there's the concept of a compensating differential[1]: when two jobs require the same skill and training, but one has an unpleasant aspect, so you have to pay people more to take that one.

The canonical example would be window washers on the ground level vs for a high-rise building. The latter -- even with appropriate safety measures -- is scarier, so they make more, as people willing to go up in those things are harder to find.

You can also have a negative compensating differential, where the job is so desirable that people take a lower wage to work in it, which is what's going on in the game industry; compared to developers and QA for other industries, they make less.

Another example might be astronauts, which make a lot less compared jobs requiring similar qualifications (i.e. extensive education, training, memorization, and fitness).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compensating_differential
Orthogonal to my other top-level comment (and this may not be my last; there's a lot of separate problems puzzled densely into this proposal):

A key thing this relies on is having the elected legislature having the (apparently, sole) function of establishing and maintaining a giant formula that maps every relevant measurable aspect of the material universe into a unidimensional utility score that will be used to judge the success of every policy, and it expects the citizenry to be better able to understand and oversee that than they are with legislators with concrete positions on concrete policies.

That's not really plausible.
Isn't this the same as just tweeting you've changed jobs, but adding a lot of color? Some people just like making their work public and documenting their life to look back on years later. I don't think we need to read that much into it.
I guess I wasn't clear. I am suggesting that people calm down and temper their anger against flat earthers. I don't believe that it should be illegal, nor to I believe it should make people angry. I think it's unhealthy to be angry about such things.

Do you remember that guy who made a hydrogen peroxide rocket, said that he was going to check if the earth was actually round? Got a lot of support from flat earthers? He also got a ton of vitriol from 'sensible' round earthers too. A LOT of vitriol. People hoping he would die. Why? Because an Evel Knievel wannabe would joke around with internet memes about the earth being flat to fund his stunt? That's cause to wish his death? It was deranged. After he pulled off his stunt, comment threads across the internet about it had people lamenting his survival. People earnestly wanted this man (whom they'd never met!) to die, simply because he said the earth was flat. Even if he were sincere in that belief, which is doubtful, that's not any reason to become angry with him.
spotify is charged 30%.

https://timetoplayfair.com/facts/