skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Not in terms of DNA, no. We leave traces of our DNA wherever we go, and if someone takes the time to read it, they'll learn what they learn.

Which also means you don't have a way of preventing all your movements from being followed, much of your health information being public knowledge, etc.

> What is the alternative? Outlaw DNA sequencing? Only allow it if you know the owner? Even if it's on my property?

The alternative is to establish rules and restrictions for circumstances for when DNA sequencing can be done... In fact, we already have some rules about that.

You might think legal restrictions are ridiculous or impractical, but are they any more ridiculous or impractical than say copyright protections in an era when the copying & distribution of data is so frictionless and legitimately necessary?

> Then how would you know every other place the person went that day?

So many different ways... Tracking their DNA trail. Having a drone follow them as they move. Hacking their phone over bluetooth (hey, it's just emitting low power radio signals, are you going to ban that? ;-). Touching them with some radioactive tracer and then following its trail. Tracking radio transmissions from their phone. Planting a GPS tracker on them. Running a retargeting ad campaign and collecting the logs. Track their mass & its movements by analyzing how it alters the flow of neutrinos. :-)
Avoid confusing constructions (Jane Doe fathered a child) by rewriting (e.g., Jane Doe became a parent). Direct quotations may need to be handled as exceptions (in some cases adjusting the portion used may reduce apparent contradictions, and "[sic]" may be used where necessary). MOS:MULTIPLENAMES calls for mentioning the former name of a transgender person if they were notable under that name.

This is needlessly complicated. Editing all previous quotes and trying to rewrite past events is confusing.
amazing to see the military still uses fortran to power their fleet
Not generally, but note that the Mars Climate Orbiter[0] was lost due to an SAE-Metric conversion failure:

[0] https://spacemath.gsfc.nasa.gov/weekly/6Page53.pdf
Or maybe windows at some point?
They’re aware they’re getting the opinion of the Chinese State, just like Fox News viewers are aware they’re betting the opinion of those who run the Republican Party (and, by proxy, the state)
Cool. I wonder when they will shut it down.

I largely ignore Google products announcements these days. Why bother getting excited about things that won't last?
How does pricing work here? Say I have a pivot table on underlying 10TB data. I share the sheet with 10 people, each one refreshes it 100 times a day. Do I pay for each data refresh, ie 10TB * 10 * 100= 10000TB/day, that would be $50000/day if I read the pricing table right. Can someone more familiar with bigquery verify that?
For a bit of context:
Matrix.org infrastructure has been hacked a second time in 24h, after restoring everything they went down again, story developing here: https://twitter.com/matrixdotorg/status/1116304867683905537
Both of you make good points, I just want to point out that since the mission has been observing mostly during a period of intense dust storm activity. If a dust scrubbing effect is real, the orbiter may still have a chance at detection.
I can imagine a bad OTA update could someday result in some vehicles going rogue.
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Manning was convicted of a real crime, a felony. It doesn't matter how much you wish Manning were convicted of anything else. Manning could only be sentenced for the crimes convicted.
Did you read the pizzagate emails? I won't speculate on their meaning but they are weird as hell and I would like a plausible explanation as to what they were talking about.
Wrong title. Heidi is Swiss only.
"Dirndl" is Bavarian, Austrian, Swiss folklore clothing for girls to show off their cleavage.

Proper germans wouldn't touch it with a tenfoot pole. It's only a sellout for tourism.
> From a game theoretic POV, Uber and Lyft have signaled that they're ready to fight for survival in markets they are established in.

And fight they have, because they don't have a moat. A moat is a competitive advantage that is _cost_effective_ to defend. Uber/Lyft don't have that.
I was gonna reply but lol at "As men are getting less and less sex they are now realising this more and more." what the fuck does this have to do with black holes lol u need help bro
Looks like Android has about 45% of the market in the United States. I actually thought it was higher.

http://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/united-stat...

I think the incompatibility is a bigger deal than you think it is. There is a need for a proper messaging app.
Something similar(?) would be to use a Go map to keep track of which items have already been seen. It would only need one pass through the array, with some map hashing overhead.
Russia is blazing the way in demonstrating specifically how purportedly anti-extremist censorship laws can be applied in practice, though. To give one example, it has a law against "actions that are directed at fomenting hatred or enmity against, or humiliating the dignity of, a person or a group of people, on the basis of sex, race, ethnicity, language, origin, religion, or membership in some social group". Civil infraction the first time around, and you can go to prison for several years for a repeat offence.

Doesn't sound so bad, does it? Well, turns out that police can be a social group. So can government employees. And members of parliament. Of course, back when they passed that law, some civil libertarians did point out the vagueness. But it went exactly as it usually does in any Western country - the politicians were pinky swearing that this is all about Nazis and radical Islamists and other nasty people like that who deserve it, and obviously it wouldn't be used for anything inappropriate; but, you see, if it's too narrow, then the bad guys can find ways around it, so it has to allow for some flexibility.

For most Westerners, the immediate reaction to this is, "it can never happen here" - not the laws, since many countries have similar, but the part where they get misused. We'd never tolerate it, the argument goes. But we are tolerating it. France also has exemplary hate speech laws - and under them, wearing a t-shirt that advocates a boycott of Israel is a hate crime, a felony even, and people are actually getting arrested, charged and convicted under it. The law in question is 15 years old now, and it's far from the only one like that in Europe - just the most abused one so far.

https://theintercept.com/2017/08/29/in-europe-hate-speech-la...
So the IRS accept bitcoin or is there a conversion behind the scenes? If the latter, how do you ensure you've actually covered the balance exactly?
They say 5x. Is 5x unrealistic?
"I believe private businesses should have the power to determine their own hiring practices"

In that case I want to have the power to determine my own job acceptance practices. I want my hiring manager to take a drug test too. After all, I don't wanna end up working for a drug edict.

The asymmetry of employer/employee relationship is just astonishing.
I’ve had trouble getting more than 10k rows in google sheets. It will be interesting to see how well this works.
The problem is that you’re disqualifying people from jobs for the equivalent of being drunk up to 3 months ago, which is ridiculous. The other drugs that are tested had to have been consumed within the week, because their half-lives are much shorter.
Yeah, parts of Scala have always struck me as the most beautiful language ever, but if you dig a bit deeper, it turns into one of the most horrifying languages ever. I think the future of the JVM looks more like Kotlin than like Scale or Groovy.
They don't have to be outcompeted by another similar entity, though. Their pie could get eaten by lots of small local operators, or by someone like Google with a fleet of self-driving cars.
This is the kind of important explorative research that probably hasn't been done extensively or truthfully before, and yet shows deep insight into how the human mind works.

It's worth noting that this only contains subreddits with explicit NSWF images. There are also who knows how many subreddits that are sexual in nature, but text-only!
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Isn’t a loop k from 1 to n, with an inner loop k to n, actually order n! (The article says O n^2) ?
> If it's that simple, could you consider replacing the first 1k words with this instead?

No. I am not going to change anything because strangers online cannot read. If you have a better approach submit a pull request.
For those not lucky enough to explore this in person, Destin Sandlin from Smarter Every Day made a video [1] (from the test launch last year) that gives you a somewhat acoustical representation and a lot of good explanations.

I haven't seen a Falcon Heavy launch, but I've been lucky enough to see a 'normal' Falcon9 launch. There's 2 things that I know I didn't expect: The sound is just beyond anything. And I think the video above brings that across at least to some extend. The other part that surprised me when seeing a launch with my own eyes: The exhaust is bright. It gets lost quite a bit through cameras, so I was surprised how bright those flames are - even 30-45 seconds in, when the rocket is dozens of miles away.

[1] https://youtu.be/ImoQqNyRL8Y
> The beta of connected sheets should go live within the next few months.

In case anyone’s looking for it, there’s the buried lede. Whenever Google announces something like this, don’t hold your breath. Remember that robo-calling assistant they demoed awhile back? I remember that should’ve gone live within a few months, too.
Setting Up a Pi Hole Made My Home Network Faster
Any time it is at a pleasurable level, there is some amount of damage occurring. This isn't news.

Sometimes being human is such a bummer! I'd rather be deaf and have had happy ears when I was young than grow old and never "used" them, though. YMMV, a lot.
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Where do you draw the limit of what people should know to be happy ?
Let's be real, it was time for this decades ago. But I doubt anything will change - even now.
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Yeah I'm reading all these comments and I hope these people are NOT the sames ones asking why more girls/women don't get into tech, because I've been a programmer for > 8 years and shit like this is off putting to me, a grown ass woman.
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Adding up 1+2+...+n equals to n(n-1)/2, which when converted to an order becomes O(n^2).
any examples, not sure what "virtualize the application" means. Is that like citrix for executable/non html apps
It also shipped as default browser in Sailfish OS.
Having high expectations by stakeholders on some ‘AI’ magic when a heuristic will get us 80% there in 10% of the time
Maybe you can expand a bit on how the receiving MTA can have certificates (both for the HTTPS part and the SMTP-TLS part) that are signed by a CA trusted by the sender?

Currently we have only one system for doing that (at scale) and that is the current global PKI system. The situation would have been much worse 10 years ago because many organizations were not using HTTPS at the time, partly because obtaining certificates was expensive and a lot of work.

DNSSEC has a single root which is recognized by everybody doing DNSSEC.

In contrast, the collection of TLS CAs is only losely defined. For example, there is a java application that I use. The java libraries do not recognize the CA used by the Dutch government. So after each update of the libraries, things start failing again. We can expect the same for MTA-STS unless everybody sticks to the CAs that are trusted by common browsers.

Bottom-up security doesn't work on a global scale. It somewhat works for ssh, because that is mostly local. It completely fails to work at scale for pgp.
Pi holes were already discussed extensively and at length a few months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18075159

https://www.troyhunt.com/mmm-pi-hole/
Who is willing to fund research into or consider implementing at a city scale technologies that required infrastructure investment when there's all these players acting like they'll have a perfect solution in a year or two?

Yes. Volvo demoed a system where they fired strongly magnetized nails into pavement to create markers they could detect through snow. Good idea, but doesn't seem to have been pursued. Volvo pointed out that it would be useful for snowplow guidance as well as self-driving vehicles. It wasn't intended to be the only reference, just a hint for use in bad weather.
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The moon must be anti-semitic, then ;)
Too slow, too much hashing, too many copies.
> that effect is, they trained different versions of the model with different sets of complete images

What does training mean?

I thought that the training means to adjust Neural Network until it learns to convert our input into expected output of "complete image".

But if thaining means to teach the model to produce expected "complete image", then how is it possible that "the output of the model was approximately the same" [for different training "complete image"s]?
I wonder how much will this impact in conversion to trials
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it's pretty funny as blackberries used to be the phone of choice for intelligence services. but now their business has failed he's against people who are exploiting data. I know he's talking about a different type of data but it's still funny.

as an aside I'm wondering when the the last nail in the coffin is going to laid for one of these big tech services. and how are these huge tech companies going to respond to this increasing government interference.

I'm sort of waiting for one of the big five to go full early-airbnb or Uber and just start circumventing. a part of me would find this big tech versus big government civil war out in the open pretty funny.

plus big tech being distracted and hammered by government would provide more opportunities for startups.
This is your problem when you cannot use it responsibly. (E.g. dosage, some people are sensitive.)

The employer can always just fire you for being unable to perform job duties regardless of cannabis laws, if it is a repeat incident. They cannot just use cannabis use alone or drug test results to make an argument.

Interestingly enough, mildly drunk or hangover professional drivers routinely cause accidents which even sometimes kill people.
So how exactly would you have the people informing themselves? We just sit and wait for the benevolent government to tell us what it deems is good for us to know?

We don't need to make a whole new set of legal principles where people automatically get off for claiming journalism. In this case the people (here and around the world) were able to learn a lot of valuable information. Assanges actions are justified.
That could be interpreted as sarcasm. It's not.
This is another good point. There's a hardware store near to where I live where it's literally illegal (if you observe the signs) to enter or exit the parking lot of said store. Everyone just understands that someone forgot to remove a road sign saying "buses only, cars forbidden" for the lane where you enter this parking lot. But how would a computer understand this?
Couldn’t you just blow in?
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Flummoxed is pretty fair in this case. The expectation is that any methane released into the Martian atmosphere should persist on long timescales. Either there is a unknown process which scrubs it quickly or previous measurements were in error.
There he was just doing oppo research for Trump, corrdinated via Roger Stone. We don’t know whether he also conspired with that crime, as he is alleged to have done here, but we do know that if it was about public information we would have seen the RNC and Conway’s emails too. Since it was a crime and a possibly-unrelated disclosure both of which were acts of propaganda and information warfare and he has said it was motivated by his personal desire to change the outcome of the election, it is by definition neither motivated by not in service to educating the public.
I'm trying to understand the various ways lines can be drawn.

One line is passive versus active gathering of classified information. It's clear that the article doesn't think the line should be drawn here.

But where then? The article says: "If he explicitly agreed to act as a Russian agent, he should lose his First Amendment protection," but I don't understand what line is being drawn.
This always happens during low unemployment.
I believe the issue is overblown and we're underestimating how well platforms are succeeding in curating their content.

The controversy evolves around opinionated content where group A sees a problem with group B having a certain opinion heard.

We need to think about extreme cases. Take for example a political party for pedophiles. You can rest assured any free market player will be laser focused as soon as such content shows up on their platform. Reputations are at stake. Many will execute their freedom to have such content removed. They don't need to provide a reason.

Now with a regulatory system it becomes a different story. There is no way to define a set of rules that prevents people from advocating pedophilia without sacrificing freedom of speech.
Agreed, the sort interface in go is one of the worst parts, and doesn't translate to any other language I'm familiar with. The article was mildly entertaining but by the end left much to be desired.

Shoulda just gone with python, rust, c, crystal lang.. anything else for sorting!
They posted sources there: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19642485

They also linked to Data.Discrimination, which assets to provide O(n) `nub` (aka deduplicate): http://hackage.haskell.org/package/discrimination-0.3/docs/D...
That's not really asymmetrical, in the same way that e.g. wage information is. You can refuse to take their test (and not be hired) the same way they can refuse to take your test (and you refuse to work for them).

That being said, I believe that weed usage not being comparable to alcohol usage outside of the workplace doesn't make sense. I think it only makes sense to test for harder drugs e.g. opiates and amphetamines.
you give aid to political allies that share a common view of what democracy is about, and face high military threats.

Budget for this lunar mission is probably extremely small compared to military spendings.
It's converted by Coinbase. Whatever the charge is, they sell that amount worth of your holdings plus fees.
This is terrible. This is the exact reason why I would want to buy a Tesla. Just for the AutoPilot to drive the car in bumper-to-bumper freeway traffic. If it does not work reliably in this situation, then the AutoPilot is essentially worthless to me.

On my regular commute, the freeway interchanges that I must take, are too frequent, that I don't think the AutoPilot is worth the trouble to switch on. Especially when the freeway is empty, since I would have to take control of the car every few minutes.

The only scenario where I think AutoPilot is worth the effort to switch on, is if I must drive long distances on the same freeway, where you don't have to switch freeways. Like the drive from LA to SF. Or LA to Vegas. Or even just staying on the same freeway for 20 to 30 minutes.

I hope they can fix this deficiency. This AutoPilot technology is definitely beta, if they can't perfect simple stop-and-go freeway traffic.
Bitcoin at this point is purely speculative and this is almost like hooking up a debit card to my Robinhood account and selling stock to pay for it every time I buy something.

Seems to completely work around the reasons why Bitcoin etc. were interesting in the first place as a technology.
It doesn't mean much for a particular kanji/reading to not appear in your IME - there are just too many combinations, and sometimes a given reading will only be common in certain areas or even families. Plus people sometimes just make up new ones :)

With that said, here's a site showing the "akiko" reading:
https://name.sijisuru.com/Pname/pdetail?pname=%E6%B7%B3%E5%A...

(Searching by reading, the same site lists 291 different ways to write "akiko". Yipes.)
There was an attempt in the 60s

Late 70s, I think (Carter administration). I remember those. As a kid I wondered, "will they put in kilometer-marker signs like the mile-marker signs on state roads?" (the small white ones near road level).
(FYI I'm not directing this anger at you dude, it's generalized) what the fuck don't people understand about a woman wanting a woman role model? I got the same questions asked to me in the Marissa Mayer thread a day or two ago.

Like yeah I got some male role models too, but fuck I want some representation! Someone who I can relate to! Someone who I know went through what I did!
Yup, the legislature is lagging, but this is typical for when there's paradigm shifts.
> getting the black hole picture out of the trained model regardless of how it was trained

Did they try to feed random noise into their trained image builder?

I suspect that the output of that trained image builder is always the same "black hole", even with random noise as an input.
An outer loop [1, n] and inner loop [k, n] is cheaper than an outer loop [1, n] and inner loop [1, n], and this second pair of loops runs in O(n^2) time.
That's a very different thing. Adapting to antibiotics is not comparable to adapting to something wildly different and new
> That's what the author called "alt" and I don't understand why the author objects to it. The memory needed is usually proportional to the number of distinct elements in the original array.

Possibly the high constant cost, making them less than optimal for short sequences?
Police detectors to warn mobile phone-using drivers
Not available in the US?
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I might pay for it if you'll provide competitively priced developer and end-user support.
The article suggests that the detectors will detect 2G, 3G and 4G usage, but will recognise if a bluetooth hands-free kit is in use. This sounds like complete snake oil to me, please could someone explain if this is possible?
Do most people realize that these launches are primarily done to create Mars colonies?

Sure, in the same way that I'm building the next Facebook because I've registered the domain name I'm going to use.
Sadly this sort of thing wouldn't work where I am, it's almost entirely a list of veiled threats and those are not generally abided culturally. The hacker community is if anything even worse at it.

If it does work I imagine this is one way to solve the problem.
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It will probably be faster than the code in the article.
I think the point of the study is to see the effects of space when compared to a normal life on Earth, not compared to a life on Earth in similar conditions.
I have worked on classified systems. We would have rules drawn up for what was classified and what was not. If you can draw up clear rules with no edge cases, no missed possibly-leaky information, where decisions are unambiguous and 20 people would always make exactly the same decision for every piece of information, you should go file a patent for that method because it is a truly novel invention. And we were only covering a single tiny domain of data, not trying to build a rules set for all possible data that could ever exist.
"Cannabis not only doesn't impair you as much as alcohol (e.g. balance and coordination), it's also much safer."

Safer, sure. But man, I can tell you many instances where I definitely took a good 40-IQ hit after smoking. Definitely impaired!