skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately I don't have many long-read resources to share, but here's a short video about the process for the MinION nanopore sequencer for long reads:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wq35ZXyayuU

At about 1:30 there's a cartoon of the data signals that get processed into sequencing data.

It's been a while since I looked at long read data, but last time I did, the individual base calls in FASTQ files (A, C, G, T) have a fairly high error rate, and there are systematic biases in the errors, which makes it harder to correct them. Most of the processing of these data is trying to correct these errors, either by looking at a known reference sequence or by sequencing many times.
Also, most those large stores just outside of town have vast parking lots, enough so that I bet that a lot of people would decide that it's not worth $0.25 to take the cart all the way back to the building.

In denser cities where it's just not practical to put your supermarkets impractically far away from literally anyone who might sometimes want to buy some food, what you typically see is some sort of system where the wheels automatically lock up if you try to take the cart outside the parking lot. Which, compared to the Aldi system, always seemed to me like a $10 solution to a $0.10 problem.
By "combat", you mean help?
Figma definitely stands as an example of what you can do with web technologies. Their webassembly and canvas codebase seems to work out really well for user experience. In comparison I tried Sketch the other day (native) and it was reeeeeeally slow.
It doesn't matter what sort of business you are in, you need to have some ad-hoc communication that isn't part of a "permanent record", or else you incur communication friction everywhere.

Having it broken down by system is a pretty practical approach.
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Dumb question.. why do people use dat instead of torrents?

Other dumb question. Are there dat builds for Android? The client is Node I believe.
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I always find that I spend more money in Aldi than in the regular supermarket if I stick to discounted items and home brands which I got not problem to do, I actually prefer it. But I do buy in Aldi from time to time just for the variety because they got their own products which you can't get in regular supermarkets.
I'm one of the authors. Pijul is indeed heavily inspired by Darcs, but we solved that problem completely.

All our algorithms are in time at most log of the size of history, which is a double-exponential improvement over Darcs' worst case complexity.
I saw an article that about 2% of Patreon patronees make above federal minimum wage which is still way below a living wage. There are a tiny handful who make a lot, but for the most part this isn't a model that is working for people who want this to be their main source of income.
Why do I get the feeling some big pharma company paid NPR to write this?

Generic drugs are used in Europe all the time and they seem to do fine.
When I went in Poland, I wasn't a fan. But I recently visited a Houston store and it's terrific! They're really onto something.
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Do you mean debit cards too?

They do take those, and gosh, I feel bad for people who need to put food on credit.
Can we get the title changed to something less clickbaity?
The occlusion would need scans form the phone which I can think of one company that can do it fast, then you need to figure out where in the world the user is if you want to occlude using buildings, etc. I know of one company doing that. Neither are working with Microsoft as far as I know.

(I work for the latter company and we do VPS: the thing you'd need to build the game I assume people will glean from the video but they are totally not releasing.)
The software community used to be associated with freedom, liberty and not being jerks, more connected to the human experience and with empathy. Now they build surveillance systems, are increasingly authoritarian in their outlook and are snarky about others suffering. There may be a serious problem of homelessness but it seems this absence of empathy is a much more serious problem for any society leaving it unequal to any social challenge.

This is a good time to remember that Steve Bannon was funded by Bob Mercer specifically to use Breitbart to target young tech employees (mostly white men), to radicalize them into authoritarian conservatism. (Prager U, IJR, Fox, Epoch Times, Daily Caller etc all do this along with Breitbart now.)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/talkingtech/2017/07/18/s...

Bannon saw the software community as a group of people who could be harnessed for partisan ends, and persuaded Mercer that he could get them to side with rightwing billionaires and drop any empathy. And he did a pretty good job of it. Mercer's investment was worth it.
There's another HN thread posted earlier with a couple of comments. Rather than post a link to it I'd like to fix this problem once and for all - Why can't HN detect duplicate news links at post time and just automatically up-vote the first one?
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On that note, they finally moved their cheese away from that model- their new cheese packaging isn't as great for what we use it for, but it does make getting slices out easier, and it's almost always there, which I care about more.
I means, it's the educational experience of top colleges, such as Carnegie Mellon, that I attended.

This includes the engineering, math, CS, and social sciences class that I took.
Thats not what he means.
Maybe not intentionally, but it was a pretty good pun.
CrayLink was awesome. I worked for a web hoster in the late 90s that was big on SGI and we'd abuse temporary CrayLinks between two Origin 200s to upgrade storage or spin off sites to a new server with minimal service impact.
Good snapshot!

SF, in the post IPO-3.0 glow is sure a short place. It's in transition.

The big battles to IPO and get paid for all that delayed gratification, are over.

These unicorns are made real in all their off-white reality, trailing glitter scintillae as they trot in fresh mud. Of course, not all the IPOs are mainfest, but all can see them coming.

It's like waiting outside the classroom for your friends after your last final of the year, in that early evening light of May, but before they are out of theirs'. The party is coming, but you are very tired from cramming, and your friends are still crunching away. So you sit, watch others plop out of the test, have a cigarette to pass time, enjoy the sun-warm concrete seep into your feet and thighs, and take a nip out of the flask.

That's the feeling I get out of SF now, out of this article. The exhausted biding of time.
Technically, one could spend his life learning and perfecting JS or Python skills, without ever learning how other people format code. If you don't have a reference, you cannot align.

Also, imagine blind people coding. I imagine they have a completely different stance on how code should be formatted.
"scanned items get placed directly into it."

More like thrown into it - or if you're lucky, dropped into it, at my local Aldi. You learn not to put canned goods ahead of bread on the belt so that cans don't land on your bread.
Do American Aldi grocery cashiers sit?

That's what I noticed the most in German grocery stores. American cashiers stand, German cashiers sit.
The US has that stuff in bad neighborhoods. The wheel clamp is probably pretty standard in the urban areas and/or poor areas. Out in the well-off places where there aren't wandering street people, wheel clamps would be pointless. The expense, including repairs and downtime, is not justified.
I've wondered why they don't improve the aesthetics a little bit, it can't make that much of a difference to the bottom line.

I think it's just part of the philosophy: you come because it's cheap and the quality is good for the price point, you buy, you leave.

You don't get a experience, you get a utilitarian transaction. And that is reflected by the interior.
> If the creator of the automobile had listened to people they probably would’ve thought it was a dead end because unlike horses cars can’t reproduce.

Actually, a true story: Ford said that if he were to listen to what people want better than a horse, he would have built a carriage with hitch for 6 horses :)
It’s important to mention that spinal bifida can denote more than a single birth defect. I have spinal bifida occulta and have never had any medical issues. I didn’t even know I had it until a doctor pointed it out in x-ray for an unrelated injury. My mother’s first child had spinal bifida myelomeningocele and did in fact die at a very young age due to complications stemming from her condition.
There were experiments done in the U.S. in the late 60s and early 70s that showed a moderate (17% for women, 7% for men) reduction in work areas:

http://www.bostonfed.org/economic/conf/conf30/conf30a.pdf

It should also be noted that the same studies showed general increases in health (particularly mental health) and in education, so this is not an unambiguous loss. My point is that usually when you fix one metric, you introduce losses in other metrics. There's no free lunch (and if there were, people wouldn't work as hard to feed themselves).
Uh, no. You need infrastructure to handle each anyway, dividing it in separate realms makes sense.
Absent selective pressure for wider-hipped women.
agreed. It's not even the headline of the piece.
I never, ever carry change.
Yes, and about the topics I mentioned.
Wasn't BuzzFeed News actually legit only like 8 months ago? What's going on?
sorry for being offtopic: i see you list people you follow in your profile. Are you using a 3rd party service to follow them, or using the hn api yourself ?
Not talking about destruction. Only redistribution.
It's a huge concern for someone who's been a temporary worker for 17 years. My performance is usually in the top 3-5% but if I get laid off, I've to find a job in less than 60 days or go back to my home country which means I can never make any long-term decisions. Should I buy a house? Hmm maybe not since I might have to sell it when market conditions are not right. How should I invest my money? Keep everything in cash or invest in the stock market. I'm sure this is true for every single employee on a H1-B working for FAANG companies and patiently waiting for 10+ years. Now, the new immigration plan is going to not take those waiting in line into consideration and is instead going to make everyone wait in line again.
Sorry to hear that, but you're right.

Add the two together, and boom. Worst case scenario.
They are different problems with different solutions.

The victims of the "bad" homeless are the rest of society. The victims are the people who are assaulted, they're the people whose property is damaged, they're the people who commute by car instead of by bus/train because public transportation isn't safe, they're the people whose communities are destroyed. The solution to this problem is to wall these people off from the rest of society.

The victims of the "good" homeless are the homeless people themselves. The solution to this problem is homeless shelters, universal healthcare, affordable housing, and a stronger social safety net.

The fact that we don't acknowledge how radically different these problems are means that we solve neither of them. Nobody wants to welcome the "bad" homeless back into our communities or give them free handouts, and nobody wants to criminalize health conditions that make it difficult to work, or temporary setbacks that could be overcome if they had a safe place to sleep.

The purpose the distinction serves is to have the correct conversation about these problems. It's to help the "good" homeless who just need a little help, and to limit the catastrophic damage the "bad" homeless are doing to our society.
They are remodeling some stores - the one near me actually feels nicer than most traditional grocery stores in the area. Funny how things change.
A fair amount of my friends are on a way to become IPO-millionaires this year. All of them live in SF, obviously. I'm curious to see how this flood of new-made riches will affect the city and its socio-economic and political issues.
I'd agree with this. But in that case it isn't free information. I mostly take people issue with people who say that all information should be free, yet still expect there to be a viable way to make the economic incentives right. Crowd sourcing doesn't really work for that.
Ultimately, if we do transparent per process memory encryption, then we can let the CPU do all the speculation it wants, but the result will be gibberish. And it's a lot easier to do a simple key switch than doing a full TLB flush. Of course, it probably doesn't do much against/for the timing attacks (side channels).
I’ve been hiding my time with Gmail. Planning my exit.

Fastmail is a leading contender, but thanks for posting Migadu. It does sound interesting.

They offer a lot for a low price, but I wonder how?

I’m intrigued!
No, that's not it. Those things are common everywhere. Thinkling meant that there are two conveyor belts past the cashier, and the tiller arm switches between them. See your sibling comment for a WinCo photo.
He is working on that at the moment. I wish he did some crowdfunding.
Sucks that a multi-billion dollar franchise looks like it is walking all over you, are they contributing anything back?
>Are we a nation of laws, or is it just ideology all the way down? Do we expect law enforcement to follow the law, or can they break the law with impunity?

In this context there's a conflict between state and federal law, so any law enforcement would be simultaneously following and breaking the law. Personally I'm more for state sovereignty than federal control (for issues on both side of the spectrum, none of that hypocritical bullshit here), but proponents of a more centralized form of government would argue differently.
Even more crazy is that the reason these jobs persist is so that hospitals can maximize the profit and the likelihood of being covered by insurance.
> I'd vote NO to "Should we learn Martian Numerals", because I do not know what martian numerals are

Voting no because you don't understand something is expressing hate for things that you don't understand. The unbigoted answer would be "I don't know/No opinion".
Aldi staff are pretty high-performing at what they're paid to do. So much so that successfully shopping at Aldi may be even more skilled a profession than working there.

It's part of the charm. :)
And social rules have involved to minimise delays:

0. You place the groceries on the band "in the right order", ie heavy/solid goods first, light/fragile things last (so everything can just be shoved into the cart)

1. When your turn is coming up, you wait until the previous customer has removed their cart, and quickly put yours in place.

2. Next you help the cashier shoving the groceries into your cart, maybe arranging them a bit.

3. As the end of your purchases approaches, you prepare to pay (while the cashier is still scanning your last items), pull cash/card from the wallet, hand it over, and boom, take your cart away while the cashier starts scanning the next customer's items. (This works even faster if you are not alone.)

4. GOTO 1.

I miss Aldi.
> Do we expect law enforcement to follow the law, or can they break the law with impunity?

I think DoofusOfDeath was criticizing that law itself - that it shouldn't exist, not that it shouldn't be followed.

But it's a very odd argument, calling for strict adherence to the law as a means of allowing illegal immigrants to stay. Isn't law enforcement willfully turning a blind eye to the breaking of immigration law just as injurious to the 'nation of laws'?
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Just as an aside, the scrolling thing at the top of the page is stupid and unnecessary. As I irritatedly scrolled past the first few bits, I accidentally overscrolled and had to go back, then wound up back at the static image again. Ugh.
They also read emails to catch spam and phishing attempts.
I think the greatest danger to a UBI program is something like easy student loans made tuition more expensive. It will just make the basics more expensive and you are back to square one.

You would need to break the regulatory capture that artificially make housing & healthcare expensive before you can implement a UBI program successfully.
That shouldn’t be considered homeless then. I thought homeless meant you have no permanent place to live. Not by choice, but you just don’t.
People say all of the same things about alcoholics and drug addicts. It's defect with the person, they're irresponsible, they lack self-respect and discipline, they're just bad parents — I've heard literally all of these about substance abusers.

So for me, this comment doesn't seem to highlight differences as much as similarities.
The actual article of the headline gives no clues as to what the article is about. The HN title is based on the article's byline. It might be clickbait-y, but at least it's derived from the article.
It could have been automated and only got a hit when a bug was introduced.
It doesn't get dumped, some customers just buy their second preference.
It's based on the article's by-line.
IT doesn't buy happiness in Seattle either. Prevents abject sadness at best.
Pun? I missed it - ELI5 please!
I don't think "people are to blame for the problems in their life" explains significant changes in the rates of those problems occurring. It doesn't make sense that people as a group would become less moral/resolute/intelligent without any cause.
"brutally efficient" - I'm surprised cnn.com is still permitted on Hacker News, with manipulative headlines like that.
I’ve never encountered an example of a real “bullshit job” (but have encountered a lot of ignorance about what different jobs entail.) Dealing with medical billing codes is not just a table lookup. It’s actually quite fuzzy and some judgment is required because the codes don’t match 1:1. (Not does the procedure the doctor actually did match perfectly to any code.) (And you can be criminally prosecuted for not doing it correctly if you’re talking about Medicare or Medicaid.)

Grocery bagging, likewise, is hardly a bullshit job. I shop at whole foods precisely so I don’t have to bag my own groceries. (And a good bagger can do it far better than I can.)
So, to sum up these complaints- retail companies have a lot of data at their hands- they just need to look at it and do something with it.
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James Burke, better known for his Connections series, also produced on called "The Day the Universe Changed". In it he explores how the changing understanding, and sometimes simply views of the world, humans' place in it, and what is right and wrong, change the Universe (or at least our perception of it) itself.

One segment from the final episode featured on HN a few weeks ago. It references the burning of witches, in Scotland, from earlier in the same episode. Burke's point was that a set of beliefs which had once carried legal force no longer does. That route can run in reverse, and it's quite possible for beliefs, or actions, previously legally sanctioned (or at least not criminalised) to become otherwise. Prohibitions against ex post facto laws limit this in many jurisdictions, but changes in social mores are less forgiving. I've lived long enough to see some remarkable changes along several such lines, and have witnessed social and political upheavals elsewhere that are even more pronounced.

There's the question of whether or not it's the fact of a durable record, or the abuse of power through that record, that is the real root of the problem. As Aesop noted, any excuse will do for a tyrant. But the persistent record does seem to pose certain problems. Particularly against a shifting set of judgements.
No HATEOAS? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HATEOAS

I don't think full-on HATEOAS is practical, and blog (https://jeffknupp.com/blog/2014/06/03/why-i-hate-hateoas/) says it well: "When designing a hypermedia API [per HATEOAS standards], you're really designing for a client that does not, and will never, exist." There are some good ideas there though.
Indeed, I feel the Bay Area has made me more hard-hearted and conservative when it comes to the homeless over years. I'm happy to donate to local charities that try to give them the help they need, but it's best for me to keep my distance from street folks day-to-day, as they produce in me a deep instinctive threat response with their smell and unpredictable behavior.
Well done. Hope to skip the waitlist soon :)
> On a related note: Lidl tried and failed to get a foothold here in Norway with similar tactics. It didn't work. Perhaps because our mainstream store chains are already so similar to Lidl, except our domestic chains offer actual name brand products and the Lidl stores didn't, and I think that's why they failed.

I don't think that sounds like the most likely reason. I have seen Lidl's arrival to Finland. And at least with respect to prices Norway and Finland are very similar, namely exorbitantly expensive if you compare to central Europe.

Also in Finland price competition did not use to be very fierce. They are only few players and it was an unwritten agreement that business is more comfortable to do without any price wars, consumers pay...

So when Lidl came there was massive pressure on suppliers not to sell to Lidl. If you sell to Lidl (with initially some 20-30 stores) you will not sell to us any longer (with many hundreds of stores). For several years Lidl had to ship nearly every product from central Europe. Which was not only expensive, but also were the products partly exotic to the consumers. For me as German living in Finland Lidl was better than the finest specialty shop, lots of products you could not buy anywhere else and very cheap. After a couple of years the supplier boycott started to fade away, consumer acceptance grew and my specialty shop was no longer :(

Could it have been a similar story in Norway?

Finland was also hit hard by a recession from 2008 - 2017. I understand Norway was doing much better these years and salaries are high. So the demand for low price options might have not been so wide-spread, making their market entry even more difficult.

(Edit: added a "without" to fix logic error)
Some people who need this extra level of accountability share their screen. That's not desirable or possible for some of course.
Publix gives the job to the bagger/loader, who is usually a friendly person. This person bags your groceries, then offers to take them to your car and help you load them into your car. If you accept the help, then as they return back to the store they bring in the carts.
Probably an unpopular opinion, but IMO Panera is ridiculously overhyped

I paid something like $12 for a salad and a piece of bread. The salad didn't look all the fresh and the bread was stale. I had to tell them my bread was stale and ask them for another piece of bread. They handed me another piece of bread without even apologizing.
I have 2 different HP MF 1212nf (multi-function laserjet) that have run rock solid for 8+ years. The HP laptops designed for business use (e.g. HP Elite X2, my current HP Elitebook 360) have been great as well, slim, and user upgradable (drive, battery). Even a consumer laptop (Compaq) has been solid-ish apart from a prematurely failing cooling fan, which I admit was a pain to replace.
You should be telling that to the homeless :/
I think the election of Donald Trump was the triggering event for the backlash. There are a significant number of people that feel it was one of the principal reasons why he was elected. I know several people that quit in direct response to that.

I find it odd that it is simultaneously a dying platform and an all-consuming monstrosity that must be destroyed.

Anyone who reads these types of threads and didn’t know what Facebook was would probably be startled to find it’s mostly just pictures of your aunt’s cats, etc.
Jesus, nobody cares about that. Useless comment