skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think advancements in DNA sequencing (ie nano pore) are going to change the landscape. Once it costs $50 to do a proper sequencing (not the messy bullshit 23andMe does), along with the analytical tools needed to isolate problematic sequences, patients and caregivers are going to be clamoring for targeted treatments. Big pharma will see the money and deliver.
Wait, why is wealth inequality inevitable in any advanced, meritocratic society? Why is "wealth" even inevitable in any advanced, meritocratic society? The idea that accumulation is natural is bonkers. We have things called land titles that allow individuals to "own" large tracts of the earth that they have never seen, will never touch, and yet can collect vast sums of money for. This is not "inevitable", it is the result of specific political and social constructions that we abide by. These constructions can be changed to prevent the possibility of accumulation without destroying your precious "meritocracy".

I also object to your notions of "gifted, talented young people". People are not collections of talents waiting to be mined; they are the product of specific cultural and social histories. I went to the best schools in the world because my parents had a specific class history, were funneled into a particular segment of American society, and made basic choices committing me to an educational course in line with the expectations and norms of their class. You might call that "talent" - but I didn't learn number theory at 14 merely because I was talented, I learned it because (1) someone else had already invented number theory and (2) I had access to people who had learned the same because of my social history.
If Google has my data, does that mean I should also give it to Comcast?

This kind of argument comes up a lot, and I really don't understand it, at all. Privacy is a process, it's something you improve over time. The alternative is completely circular.

I shouldn't care about switching to Firefox, because my ISP is already getting all this data anyway, and I shouldn't care about using a VPN because Google is getting all of this data anyway...

If you want to go from no privacy to decent privacy, it is inevitable that there is going to be a period where you are only plugging some of the holes.
This doesn’t actually analyze HIBP in any way. In this case, HIBP is just an inspiration for this article.

This algorithm just checks a password you enter against the Levenshtein distance of words in the password database, and if you are close enough, it tells you that there is a match.

That’s two totally different things.

And the HIBP database is huge compared to anything the author might have dealt with here.

Moreover, algorithmic complexity of calculating Levenshtein distances on huge databases has not been considered.
I think you’re both onto something. There’s even a likely network effect where those men who sleep around are even more attractive to potential mates. Not as a rule, of course, but as a contributing factor.

It’s a very destabilizing trend. Not only are these same men being economically disadvantaged, but they’re being socially isolated. Perfect way to increase violent tendencies, drug addition, and so on.
> If you are using your device on a public network, VPNs can help you protect your data. I have a ProtonVPN subscription myself, just for those instances where I am sitting in an airport waiting for my plane

Seems like a contradictory message. He just got through telling us how most of the web is now end-to-end encrypted with HTTPS. So why does he need a VPN at the airport? Is he checking his email? I can't imagine that he's using an email service that doesn't use HTTPS. Is he logging into his bank account? I doubt any bank nowadays still uses plain old unencrypted HTTP. Is he watching cat videos on YouTube? Well, even that's encrypted.

Remember, his argument is that VPNs don't provide privacy--so that's not the reason. And this is the section where he's talking about public networks, not about other rationales for VPNs like geolocking or ISP blocking. It weakens the argument of his essay to say that he needs a VPN at the airport or cafe.
The notion that low-carb diets are superior has deeply unsettling political implications, for exactly the same reason that low-meat diets don't: what are the staple crops of humanity?

The top ten in order are: corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, sassava, soybeans, sweat potatoes, yams, sorghum, and plantains. These are all carbs! If we accept that low carb diets are better for people, then we must either accept that we are going to feed humanity sub-optimally, or that humanity is well past the healthy carrying capacity of the planet. There is simply no way in hell we can get 7.5 billion people eating keto, or anything close to it.

Vegan activists are proposing a dietary future that is very much in line with the current global agro-industrial status quo. However low-carb proponents are proposing a diet that, if universalized, would necessarily put them in the camp of people like Pentti Linkola.
I think MGTOW are different from herbivore men. I'm not expert on either group buy my understanding is Herbivore men are men that don't or never have sought out relationships with women, while MGTOW is more comprised of men that have had bad relationships with women and decide not to pursue further relationships (especially divorced men).
Gimp 2.10.10 released
If you host a hateful or illegal website and someone complains to your ISP they’ll cut you off immediately.

No reason Shitbook shouldn’t be held to the same standard.
Good luck with the medical software industry - I was told things like “HIPAA audits never ask about hashing passwords so why should we care”
I'm actually working on a web-based Model 50 right now. Bitsavers has most of the necessary documentation, but if anyone has the ALDs (automated logic diagrams) let me know.
People didn't mind the authoritarianism so much when the government took a pragmatic approach to governance and people's lives were improving. But now they've gone back to putting ideology at the forefront, like Mao did. People in Western countries can help by pressuring large corporations and governments not to pander to China.
“extramarital” sex usually means sex by a married person with someone other than their spouse; I think “nonmarital” is a better term for what you are discussing.
The cases are almost always settled for reasons I outlined in response to another thread. (mostly related to peering and PR damage, that can kill an ISP)

The app is a tiny blip on the radar waiting for careless. (Read the darn contact, especially if you get a discount.)
Are you suggesting with the auto-trim disabled, the two pilots working together, with those handles extended on the trim wheel, were not strong enough to crank the trim wheel?
They monetize people’s attention. Well guess what, that’s not free and not without repercussions.
This is flat out not true. FB doesn't employ 10s of thousands of human moderators.

According to a 3-month old article, $FB supposedly employs 7,500 moderators [0], though it's unclear what constitutes "employment" in this case. Probably a salary of less than $5k/yr. Are there really thouhsands of content moderators pulling up to FBHQ in Menlo Park 5 days a week? I don't think so, no.

[0] https://www.inc.com/christine-lagorio/facebook-content-moder...
OK, definitely can't take you seriously now.

I am claiming your statement "and they feel perfectly comfortable" is unknown. Further that it is highly unlikely.

Many is not most - it probably is most of my friends and relatives, but they are representative of nothing at all. Yet there is now a certain discomfort in almost all discussions of Facebook - no matter where that takes place - that simply was not there 5 or so years ago.
Phones Are Turning into Plant Doctors for Thousands of Farmers in India
Here's another way to think about this: Your velocity is time dependent quantity. When you are moving faster time for you is simultaneously slowing down. When you almost approach speed of light relative to anything, time for you slows down to almost zero relative to that thing. So everything runs in super slow motion. Another particle coming at you at the speed of light towards you will appear almost still. So you total relative velocity wrt to other particle is still just speed of light. The key is again, its because time has slowed down for you.
Adding in shoreline topography.

It's amazing how different ports are. Some are essentially flood plains. Others (e.g. the Chesapeake Bay) have surprisingly steep elevation meeting the water.

Savannah - Charleston - Norfolk are a good east coast trio to illustrate the differences.

https://coast.noaa.gov/slr/#/layer/slr/6/-9028683.402612444/...
Yeah, except the zip file was... the input.

You pulled the code from google drive, modified it, pushed it to PROD, checked it and moved it back to google drive... and asked the other developers to update.
Fun fact, one of these were actually Linus's inspiration for the Linux penguin mascot: https://web.archive.org/web/20060507115127/http://www.linux....
Perhaps not (I’m not certain about the issue), but they can be forced to hand over their private keys to let the NSA [ed: or other agency] do the logging for them – as happened with Lavabit.
Ask HN: Is there a way to let apple censor its podcasts(for good)?
Recently I discovered a podcast named "996 podcast by GGV Capital". Basically it's a venture capitalist talking repeatedly how China is a great wild playground for fellow venture capitalist where no laws, regulations, or whatsoever can stop exploitation, fraud, and things like preying on poor peoples financial illiteracy and so on.
Especially it champions unashamedly the 996 working schedule. The podcast paints it in a rosy way with euphemism of passion, drive, ambition and alike, while in fact it, as is revealed by chinese developers recently,is a result of the whole sect ganging up against developers and is as exploitative as being akin to slavery. The podcast is utterly disgusting and unhonest and unethical.
I wonder if there is a mechanism that such podcasts are not allowed to be published.
I wonder if they’ll ban the Old Testament. There’s still some fairly hateful passages in there.
> Automatic censorship of live feeds, how do you do that?

Make it live but with a time delay (say 1 hour). Allow .1% of all users to see it immediately. Add a Flag This Content button. Depending on how many people flag it, triage as safe to show/don't show/ask a human to decide.

I'm sure this could be refined. Maybe an hour is too much or too little. Maybe .1% is to many or too few. Also, over time you should be able to recognize groups of users that are better at recognizing different problems based on the fact that they agree with the human review done by fb or whoever.
Not before widespread birth control there isn’t. We can see quite clearly the first hints of the demographic transition in France. It starts off with delaying marriage but fertility within marriage basically being an increasing function of time. People had sex and this made babies. But then people stop having so many children. The pull out method was invented or spread society wide for the first time. Our knowledge of biology is not innate. The Romans got the fertile and infertile phases of the menstrual cycle exactly wrong. There are Amazonian peoples who believe in partible paternity so if a women has sex while pregnant a child can have more than one father. Whores in medieval England thought fast sex was non-procreative.

Historically if you weren’t celibate there was going to be a baby.
There's a couple of bad faith arguments in this article that I didn't care for:

- Regarding user identification, rolling my IP address is trivial with a VPN. Less so on my static IP.

- The Facebook example without cookie deletion is a low-effort Straw Man

- I reject the leap that "we have figured out that they [VPNs] do not add much to your online privacy". In the very narrow terms defined, yes of course, but either the author has willfully missed out why people use them, or doesn't understand why.

I did enjoy this note though: "Somehow, VPNs have turned them not failing to do their job into something they can market as a special feature."; I think there's some truth to that.

I tunnel my traffic over a VPN to avoid my ISP building a profile on me. I change my IP every-so-often to mess with trackers at large. I accept that browser fingerprinting is probably thwarting my overall effort somewhat, but I'm reducing the vectors that I can. I firmly believe that VPN companies are capitalising on fear but I respect the hustle. I don't think any of those points are particularly niche (niche subject notwithstanding!) so I find it interesting to see this take on it. Perhaps this isn't an article representative of the position of the wider HN crowd?
See also:

The Floppotron: Music played on old floppy drives, hard drives, and scanners. https://youtu.be/oGfkPCZYfFw

Animusic: CG animations of fantastic machines playing music. The animation is parameterized to the MIDI input. Attempts to build real-world working models of these machines or machines like them have been made, with varying levels of success: https://youtu.be/hyCIpKAIFyo

Compressorhead: An all-robot heavy metal band. Famous for Stickboy, the band's four-armed, headbanging drummer, or at least Stickboy is what I remember most about the band. https://youtu.be/j4UZh2FjEQw
FWIW, Unity and Monogame are two popular game engines which deploy C# code to Mac and Linux using Mono. If a modern game runs on Mac/Linux, there's a high chance it's using C#/Mono. So to me, "niche" doesn't seem like an accurate description.
They do the same thing. They worked all night to prevent the video from propagating. What they are calling for here is preventing it from being published. So this would require your ISP to prevent the content before people complain.
"Since mainframe computers are almost always running at 100% utilization..."

That's essentially impossible, as either CPU or I/O will bottleneck first and be the limiting factor.

As an operator, I used to make note of how different jobs used resources so I could keep overall utilization as high as possible, blending I/O bound jobs with CPU heavy jobs. (This was graveyard shift, where real-time users were few)

There was a great Boole and Babbage product called Resolve that allowed the operator (or a TSO user) to dynamically change job priorities as desired.
I've never thought of it this way.

My biggest problem with older games is how clunky the controls can be. This is not the case with all games, but it is a very common one. Specially when video games started to move from 2D to 3D.

For example, the first Mario Kart for SNES is still an amazing game. Nintendo got everything right, specially the kart handling. I still play it from time to time and it is great fun. In contrast the first Wipeout game for PSX has terrible handling compared to the newer ones which are amazing in this respect (Wipeout HD, Fury, 2048).
It does prevent unlawful access and unlimited data collection by corporate entities. (Including fruit of poisonous tree doctrine.)

What the ISP doesn't collect or process, cannot be had as historical data for court cases for example. Albeit the GDPR exemption is pretty open for "required to provide service" data processing.

Wiretapping is a separate matter.

Most importantly, any third party data processing and sale has to be clearly outlined including purpose.
But it prevents adtech to collect info.
> I can walk into a store right now and get a prepaid visa using cash

WalMart, Target, and many other large retailers retain photographic records of all purchasers. Many cases have been broken by police claiming to have found a match at a WalMart for the purchase of items committed in some crime.

So cash purchases of cards is not always a completely anonymous choice.
capitalism probably was not the cause of the depression, its also worth noting that arguably none of those "from rich to poor" things worked, and arguably it was the end of WW2 that ended it.

i myself am in a rare camp that believe the great depression was caused by a decline in population blip created from ww1/spanish flu. the pattern seems rather consistent, you first have a boom (roaring 20s) followed by a difficult / if not impossible to end depression - like Japan as well. but I'm in a rare camp, so don't take my opinion for a grain of salt.
If only the Firefox devtools were as good as Chrome’s.

I’ve switched to Firefox but somethings are blockers for me. Webpack hot reloading doesn’t work :(

Other than that, it’s a very solid browser. The only way someone’s gonna win against chrome is by keeping the user first.

Super sad to see Apple privacy double speak when Safari isn’t even walking the talk.
> "I despise the notion of a "balanced diet", it's generic nonsense that gives no specific guidance towards what one should eat. How do you balance a diet? Nobody ever says."

To expand on this, what the hell is "balanced diet" anyway? In what sort of environment is fruit year-round "balanced"? In anything other than a tropical environment, fruit being part of a "balanced diet" is an ecological impossibility barring the modern global agro-industrial complex that ships you fruit from the other side of the planet no matter the season.

The idea of food even having seasons seems alien to most of us these days! At most whether a fruit is "in season" is a matter of how cheap it is, or whether the texture is precisely right. A food that is out of season might have a slightly undesirable texture and cost more, because it's been sitting in a warehouses and cargo vessels for too long.

The "balanced diet" as we know it today is a cultural artifact, not some biological truth.
Edit: Google Translate does a fairly good job: https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&...

> Chinese readers will enjoy the comments in the Issues section - there's some interesting debate and also shows evidence of the cat and mouse game that people are playing with authorities.

Hi! Could you, or anyone else, translate any one of the issues to give an example? This seems super interesting and I would really want to see it :)
Over-engineering drives up LoC counts, so there's (perhaps implict) incentive to engage in it -- either you or your colleagues perceive greater productivity.

Re OOP, it provides a method to model what you term a "domain".
Why is this promotion about a book published in
1994 interesting and worthy of my attention? Not news, more like nonsense.
Generally speaking, academic performance is inversely correlated with sex. In top universities the majority of students are virgins coming into university and a substantial percent (usually in the 25-50% range) are at graduation. Probably due to more time dedicated to study and career growth than relationships. Anecdotally, I've found that in tech and STEM more broadly rates of sex are lower - probably due to the overall gender imbalance means that the majority of people don't have potential partners in their primary social circles.

https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/09/harvard...

https://thetech.com/2009/10/30/survey-v129-n49

Perhaps conforming to stereotype, apparently at MIT 42% of students overall are virgins while at fraternities this rate was 20%.
I actually think that’s perfectly realistic, and in fact how forums have worked for ages. There are also automated measures such as user trust levels where an account has to earn trust before they can do certain things like post links, embed pictures, etc. Being on the platform isn’t a right either and it would be perfectly fair for them to rate-limit the amount of public posts someone can make to an amount that’s manageable by their current moderation capacity.

Forums have managed to keep undesirable content at bay with often no budget at all, so anyone claiming Facebook can’t do the same is false. They don’t want to do it, because abusive content still brings them clicks and ad impressions (remember that for every nasty piece of content that turns into a PR disaster there are thousands that go unnoticed but still generate money for them).
Did the author ever claim that the other use cases were prominent uses? He spends the entire blog talking about encryption and anonymity which would be related to hiding piracy.

Personally, the only reason I use VPNs is for region-locked content. How are you sure this isn't a bigger use case than you think?
Ask HN: Paternity Leave for Founders?
I'm the founder of a startup, and my wife is about to have a child. I'm wondering about things like:

1: Should I use an out-of-office message? If so, should it be specific or vague? Should it have an "if urgent, re-send with 'urgent' in the subject"? Or should it simply indicate that I'm not checking email regularly?

2: How regularly should I check email?

3: How can I split up my time to properly support my wife, our baby, and our older child (who is 5)? Should I only work when everyone is asleep? Should I have periods where I do no work for several days, and spend any free time cooking, cleaning, etc.?

4: How long do people typically take for maternity or paternity leave when they are founders? Do they phase out or phase in at the beginning and end?

5: How should I handle customer service? I would feel weird if I emailed a company and got an OOO from the founder. Also, much of the CS email we receive is from non-customers, which seems somewhat less urgent. What are good strategies for triage?

In case it's relevant, my startup [1] has a B2C business, with subscribers who pay $2-5/month. We also have a B2B licensing business, which is much pricier but has practically no support issues. We rarely have bug fixes for either business, and I spend most of my time doing B2C growth strategy and B2B business development.

Also relevant: My wife has a generous leave and will not have to work much for the baby's first year.

1: http://www.beelinereader.com
Exactly. Generally speaking, the onus is on the userbase to react to perceived (or real) immorality by refraining from using Facebook.

However, it remains the office of government to introduce enforceable regulation in this (or any) space to protect their constituents, and hold those in violation accountable. I don't suspect it's an easy task, as the problems are broad and can be a grey area. I.e, some of the problems with Facebook stem from mischievous users -- exactly how accountable the platform is for their behavior isn't universally agreed upon.

I think if rules of engagement happen, people will have less problems with just letting the market decide.