skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really agree with you. Specifically, "20. Genes can be hacked." reads ridiculously to me.

>Scientists have discovered how to store data and even animated GIFs in DNA, and even believe malware could be placed in DNA to compromise the security of computers holding databases. Still trust them?

This is nonsense of the highest order. People can print the binary of malware on a reams of laser printed paper. Do I still trust paper? The generalisation of the arguments made in this article is egregiously fallacious.

The notion of gifting socks just seems to bring in Christmas-like warmth and appeal to the readers past experiences (who hasn't been gifted cloths...). All in all, you are right, the sock gifting doesn't fit, even if it is an admittedly better idea.
The thing that stands out for me about this period is the lack of a "descent from antiquity". [1]

There is no well-established genealogical descent in Western Europe from antiquity to the modern era. Familial lines of descent can be traced to the very late Roman period, and from the early medieval period to the modern era. But there is a chasm that can't be crossed because the societal norms that allowed families to be traced broke down for some time and only reformed later.

To me this is a concrete symptom of a fairly severe disruption. How it's labeled is an interesting discussion, but clearly something happened.

[1] See deeper discussion here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descent_from_antiquity
Sadly, completely expected. Nextdoor should be called 'busybody'. IMHO the negatives outweigh the positives.

The real problem is that Nextdoor has no incentive to fix it, in fact they have a disincentive. Their business model seeks posts that spread like wildfire, pitchfork-ism and the like.
>You open up the code, find all of the secrets (e.g. using high-entropy substring search), replace them with access to a global variable, and set it from a file set by a configuration from a command line.

Huh? Amazingly you make it sound so easy when it's anything but. Where is this file? How is it deployed? How is it rotated? If I have 10,000 VMs, how do I deliver that file to those machines? If my VMs aren't persistent, how do I ensure new VMs are deployed with this file?

Or were you thinking that they would just ssh into production and scp the file into there? To me you glossed over so many details that you hardly solved the problem at all. Replacing the secrets in source code is the _easy_ part. Deploying secrets is the hard part.

There are tools out there to make this easy, but (1) they almost always make things harder for developers and (2) they almost always require a large infrastructure change. Sure, if your deployment is small enough where you could just SSH into a single prod server and scp a file - then you are likely miles ahead - in terms of both security and culture, but changing the culture is harder than it looks.

I don't want to sound like I am making excuses for them - but I only want to show how shortcuts when you are small can snowball into a culture where you have a gaping wound that may be difficult to fix.
Actually, our model 3 has an amazingly low dashboard, it's one of my favorite things about it. Side windows on modern cars, not so much. Crash standards have made our cars cocoons you can't see out of.

But owning the 3 has definitely made me think a lot of the skateboard model:

* Flat floor, no transmission/exhaust tunnel.

* User interface (screen) is indepenent from body control modules and drivetrain. You can reboot the tablet while you're driving. Your turn signals stop making noise, but still flash! You can walk up to the car and it unlocks even if the tablet isn't working.

IT's interesting ,you can really feel how discrete certain components are, how they can be rearranged and put into a different model. I'm sure there are more dependencies than I realize, though.
Would you say your advice equally applies to using Postgres with a JSONB column, which might make normalizing the data later on a bit easier (assuming it'd be kept in Postgres)? Or is there something specific to MongoDB that would make it a better choice?
Amazon Tests Program to Combat Patent Infringement
I mean, he's been in front of congress for hours and hours, how much more public speaking experience does one need - its what he and Sheryl choose to say or not say and do that gets them in trouble.
It's a real term of art. Some of the distinction is geographic. Taking about "late antiquity" usually means discussing what was happening in central Italy and the Eastern empire, where most people imagine the "dark ages" in western and northern Europe.
If you want to see C at it's lowest level and understand where it shines, I'd recommend the embedded and bare-metal realms. This Raspberry Pi tutorial set, for instance:

https://github.com/bztsrc/raspi3-tutorial

It's also fairly popular for emulators, since it's types are orthogonal and it's low level design is well suited to designing a pseudo-machine. It's definitely being displaced in that realm by C++/Rust/Nim/etc though.
For an opposite perspective, Bryan Ward-Perkins' "The Fall Of Rome: And the End of Civilization" is a readable-by-the-layperson argument that the end of Roman authority in Western Europe resulted in significant falls in trade, health, literacy, cultural achievement, and more: https://www.amazon.com/Fall-Rome-End-Civilization/dp/0192807...
DIY is probably the biggest alternative. I think Databricks saw so many customers solving the same problem and decided to make a service of it. Great idea and a bit surprising that it hasn't continued as an Enterprise feature that they only offer customers.
Seriously at this rate I know I'm going back to pirating.I'm currently looking at 4 subscriptions just to keep everyone happy (Disney, NetFlix, CBS, and NBC). Each with its own login username/password and setup everywhere.
Pretty sure you can't do this since the GPU's memory is per-process isolated as well.
No, the term is by Petrarca from early Renaissance.
Don't they have massive pork reserves?
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/introducing-net-for-ap...
‘Just’ fidelity to a written policy about how they handle data from microphones in your house.
Actually most automakers do show off prototypes but they usually classify them as one of the following:

Concept: Might as well be cardboard cutouts. A physical representation of pie-in-the-sky design with little basis in reality. An example would be the VW ID Buggy.

Functional: Usually a Frankenstein vehicle cobbled together from catalog parts with intended purpose of vetting a design or idea. An example would be the EV and Hybrid variants of the Porsche 718 Boxster.

Manufacturing: Very close to the final production model but still with a few kinks. Examples would be the Honda e Prototype, or the Ford Mustang Shelby S560

Rivian doesn't give any clear indication of what they're showing off but want you to believe it's the later when it could be the former.
Laundering on a blockchain should be fairly simple (Monero or ZCash can be used to filter the money).
Self-driving is the future. Mankind will one day realize 1.25 million deaths a year from crashes is unacceptable. Tesla is on the forefront of that, it would be dumb not to be sinking money into it. If they don't now, they'll lose their lead, lose marketshare, and lose their training data.
Chrome OS runs systemd-journald on top of Upstart. Not that such a setup is supported or encouraged.

One of my main gripes about resolved is the D-Bus interface. Lennart needs to remove his lips from that protocol's ass.
The Delta here isn’t so related to CDC. This is a replacement for the ad how methods people use now to keep multiple readers and writers of datasets in parquet format in agreement when using Spark’s dataframe API.
> So... you're not actually concerned about "privacy" as such, just with Amazon's fidelity to their written policy?

Your response sounds crazy to me.

I absolutely care significantly about my ability to make informed decisions about my privacy. Such informed decisions are based upon having transparent and honest communication about the trade-offs.

It's like saying we shouldn't have a concept of informed consent when making a medical decision because I probably would consent anyway.

I should have the right to make an informed choice. I can do that if they are honest about their written policy. If they are lying about their written policy, then I no such choice is possible.

So, ultimately, yes, I'm absolutely concerned with Amazon's fidelity to their written policy. That's a huge issue!
The Craft of the Adventure (1995) [pdf]
The Roman Empire's collapse was more drawn out than that.

The Empire split into Eastern and Western empires under Constantine. The Eastern half got renamed to the Byzantine Empire and it lasted until the successful Ottoman conquest in 1453.

This is not to be confused with the Holy Roman Empire which was not holy, nor Roman, nor a true empire. But which survived until Napoleon conquered it in 1806.
What's German for Funny? (2012)
http://i.imgur.com/J1svNp7.jpg
Excerpt: "layer is a program for doing neural network inference the Unix way. Many modern neural network operations can be represented as sequential, unidirectional streams of data processed by pipelines of filters. The computations at each layer in these neural networks are equivalent to an invocation of the layer program, and multiple invocations can be chained together to represent the entirety of such networks."

Another poster commented that performance might not be that great, but I don't care about performance, I care about the essence of the idea, and the essence of this idea is brilliant, absolutely brilliant!

Now, that being said, there is one minor question I have, and that is, how would backpropagation apply to this apparently one-way model?

But, that also being said... I'm sure there's a way to do it... maybe there should be a higher-level command which can run each layer in turn, and then backpropagate to the previous layer, if/when there is a need to do so...

But, all in all, a brilliant, brilliant idea!!!
So in summary, people who amazon trusts to have access to sensitive private information have access to sensitive private information?

i'm not sure why location is the scary part here, i'm more concerned that real people and not just algorithms have access to my audio recordings or transcripts from alexa.
If it runs a really old version of iOS that may be possible, but even then, it is unlikely. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204306:

”If you enter the wrong passcode on an iOS device too many times, you'll be locked out and a message will say that your device is disabled. At this point, the data on your device has been erased.

[…]

If you never backed up your device before you forgot your passcode, you won't be able to save your device's data.”
Trying to build a GitHub like identicon generator
> Otherwise the occupant of the address could just purchase a car, but have nowhere to park it. Then they park on the street. Or take a previous occupants spot. Pretty soon you have cars taking up spaces that were not previously assigned to them causing a cascade of parking wars.

I'm not sure where you've lived but I've never seen this happen? I live in the US. I've seen multiple ways to prevent this.

People who don't have a parking spot shouldn't have access to the parking lot.

Even if you do have access you have to register your car, and any cars that were not registered will get a warning then either a ticket or towed.

Another solution is to just have assigned parking.

Parking on the street is fine if that's legal? I don't see the issue with that.

> perhaps a better solution is to make each residence come with a parking spot - that is essentially owned by the resident. Then if they do not need it they could rent it out until which time they do need it (if ever).

This creates incentives to get a car though. You have to do more work to not drive and it's possible you can't find a "tenant" for the parking spot.
TrueCrypt is long gone: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/05/true-goodbye-using-truec...
CDC you are looking at the change logs of a Relational Database typically.

With a (batch) Data Lake you accept as input different file types (JSON, CSV, AVRO) from various systems. Could be Hadoop systems, could be from a COBOL system on a mainframe.
Uhuh...

So what?

I mean, your basically posting a 'whatabboutism' mixed in with a strawman.

I never said there wasn't corruption in the private sector.

My comment was oriented toward my amazement at the leniency given to public sector employees which is NOT given to private sector employees. Specially I was addressing jniedrauer comment about 'how could the government employees involved not have their careers ended'. In the private sector, yes, careers end much easier than in the private. If you read this book, it would be 100% not surprising. It's the US government telling it's own people 'how bad' it can be when they misbehave.

Your post doesn't contradict this.

I never argued about government being bad or good. My argument was more toward being an informed citizen that presses for things that matter. I'm amazed at how many people will put out non sequiturs, strawmans and other sophist mechanisms as soon as something is said against people with boots.
I mean, some people I know achieve developer flexibility and performance by just writing their own implementation in FORTRAN. Unfortunately this is inadvisable for many people and seen as undesirable by even more people
That is appealing to the concept of "freedom" to advocate for a specific goal, not advocating for the wider concept in general. Paraphrasing, what you've basically said is "movement based on [its members being not subject to] violence, [its members not being subject to] discrimination, and [ability to have the state facilitate its members] to marry. I agree that any reasonable person should agree with the first two, and at least cede the third under the current system - but specific non-prohibited actions have little to do with freedom itself!

The point is that this movement has been based around advocating for specific proclivities to be overtly accepted into wider society, rather than a general concept of freedom for everyone to live and let live.

If the only reason one is at odds with society is because of their sexual orientation, the two have the same effect. And for sure, positive-identity collective action is needed to organize to push back against the wrongs of anti-identity oppression.

But over time, these groups calcify and become prescriptive. For anyone that is otherwise marginalized, the two framings are drastically different. Which is why this identity politics then splinters into a million different group narratives - because it's ultimately based on emphasizing people's differences and tweaking top-down models in service of new "majorities" (quorums within subcultures, really).

I don't expect to get this across well, precisely for the same reason we're in the political bind we're in - most people can't fathom simply not meddling with others because they are extroverts and don't understand not being meddled with! But dictating other's personal choices is what each of these political teams has ultimately become fashioned around - essentially just bikeshedding over base bodily functions. From my perspective, whether you're insisting that I think a certain way due to the age old space ghost or a reformist political movement, you're still trying to force me into adopting an overprescriptive model.

(Likewise marijuana is being generally deillegalized, but the state continues on restricting the general freedom to alter one's consciousness. Getting to choose between specific state sanctioned options is not freedom!)
It's no different. If I see a reply from those people I reply back when I enter gmail.
For us it's all about implementation simplicity. For a small peanuts site that's a little too complicated for Shopify but not nearly profitable enough to support paying for a lot of custom development, "legacy" Checkout slotted in perfectly. Not having a redirect-based workflow means we don't have to break apart our own checkout process; I can just have one simple HTML form with some magic JavaScript and then by the time my (one, single) checkout script gets the form, it's already done with the payment.

I didn't have to implement my own payment form (like Elements would require me to do) and I didn't have to split up my own flow over multiple pages (like new Checkout would require me to do). This is one of, if not THE, distinguishing feature for us vs. PayPal. If I were OK with a more complicated multi-page checkout process, I would have just used PayPal which customers prefer anyway.
Because a slight increase in convenience to be able to talk to your phone subvocally is trivial compared to granting capability for vocal communication to someone who is incapable of regular speech. One is a slight improvement in convenience for an otherwise able person. The other is life-changing.
Ask HN: How to Teach Coding?
I finally did it and I get my first Trainee.

I already teached coding to internships for a few weeks. But this time I have three years to share my knowledge and grow with him.

I already checked methods and stuff online like pair programming, visualization of data flows ect.

But what I would love to know is, what has worked for you guys on both sides. Sharing knowledge and get trained.

I want to be the best mentor I can be and I want to proof that this is a thing I can do good and continue doing it the next years of my career.

So, what helped you to train others or receiving knowledge?
I think this is the most likely - you "post" items on a bulletin board.

I remember both the blizzard of 1978 and bulletin boards :)
Now: was the sun shining? Of course not.

Interestingly, if we're talking about 535-536, it may well not have been! Or at least not very well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_weather_events_of_535%...
Nothing moves consumer preference like price.
I have done this before. Marked a release in the changelog set to two weeks in the future, then installed from master and made sure nothing broke during those two weeks.
> not that I know if half density is a feasible figure

1/15th - .08 kg/m^3 at 20km, 1.2 kg/m^3 at sea level. 20km is way the heck up there. And yes, it does make it difficult to build something buoyant enough, which is why the use case for this is something like a geostationary internet balloon rather than for transportation.

https://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/standard-atmosphere-d_604...
I’m sorry to hear that.
AI is really good at infering information. If gender is a real signal, it would be very difficult to filter the input such that it is not making a determination by what could be reffered to inferred gender.
Ah -- makes sense -- same idea though
s/Englightenment/Renaissance/g
So to sum up. Motto for successful management : Jobs - "Stay hungry" and Grove -"Stay paranoid".

Sounds like Andy Grove was a work horse.
Miss having the hatchback? Not really. I just think sedans are stupid, and less attractive than hatchbacks. But the 3 carries FAR more than the golf could ever hope to. The trunk is a bit difficult to close, which is an issue I have on lots of sedans (really stiff at the top, requires too much force to slam shut because it doesn't have the mass of a hatch).

I love driving the 3, and ours is an RWD LR with the 18" eco crap tires. I can't say I miss driving the R, but I miss the way it looks and having that unique car that I'm passionate about, and I really enjoyed having a manual transmission.

I have a manual sports car as well, but you know what, I always choose the 3 when I need to go run an errand, so maybe that's all you need to know. Just about the only time I've driven my sports car in the past year is 2 track days. Hardly any street miles.
Precisely, yes. I'm talking about a sample including all representative gas turbine failures, across all sensor vendors.
It's both heavier and lighter! There's a compressor that can bring air in from the outside and make it heavier than air, and then this air can be released making it lighter again. This is explained in the article. It really is something new.
>Given this, it's not for us to make assumptions about what exists inside others or pronouncements about what others should think or do.

This is basically just solipsism. The human condition is knowable, the concept of social science couldn't exist otherwise.

There are numerous academic, clinical, epidemiological, and business disciplines that depend on doing exactly this. My personal background is in social science that I briefly applied to doing market research. But History, Sociology, Anthropology, Political Science, and tons of other fields also depend on being able to draw conclusions from making generalizable assumptions.

The key problem here is hidden in this statement:
>including the propensity to judge other people negatively for not having undertaken the kind of work I've done, or assuming that the same subconscious attitudes that existed in me, equally exist in others.

You cannot make progress on addressing societal problems if the first reaction to even acknowledging the existence of the problem is to react negatively and to take the criticism as a personal attack. Frequently people act like being called racist is worse than actually perpetuating racism and that needs to change. There is no process to engage in that sort of growth in character without promoting some level of discomfort.
Brazos APU.
When I realised I have to use my top end 2018 MBP with external keyboard only, I decided to spec out a new PC.

After being Mac exclusive since early 2000s, and having spent an ungodly amount of money on their gear over the years.

They have a problem, and my patience is gone. No interest in a new Mac, and I can see myself leaving their ecosystem entirely now that the macOS cord is cut.
AWS has one in preview: https://aws.amazon.com/lake-formation/
I don't know, looking at this chart is seems extremely easy to meet those amino acids with plant foods.

https://vegfaqs.com/important-vegan-amino-acids/

Just looking at lysine:

> There’s no official RDA for lysine, but according to research, you typically want to aim for about 12 mg per kg of bodyweight.

> For example, a 170 lb person needs 924 mg per day, or more.

So a cup of soybeans providers 1.33 grams, oats, lentils and any bean at least a gram per serving.

Oatmeal for breakfast, nuts for a snack and a mix of vegetables with some beans or tofu for dinner and you exceed the RDA for every one of those amino acids you've listed. All healthy things you should be incorporating into your diet anyway (fiber rich). So while a single food may not meet the RDA alone, it seems very easy to meet with a combination of common foods in a plant based diet.

Not to mention nutrients that are supplemented in vegan diets often are also supplemented in omni diets (B12 in meat and Vitamin D in milk, for example, are only because of supplementation and fortification).

> It certainly doesn't taste as good, especially if you don't want to take tons of time cooking.
> It still takes "gourmet" vegetarian food to compare to regular meat.

I had plenty of terrible meat meals and many amazing vegan dishes. I would say the standard American diet lacks a lot of knowledge about tasty ways to cook plants, but they do exist and they aren't hard. Ethiopian and Indian cooking, for example, have a strong tradition of plant based dishes that are easy to make. Many other cuisines can easily be adapted.