skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The history of science, and especially biology, suggests that there is a lot of stuff which isn't understood very well. Seeing no importance in an aspect of the natural world can be as much a comment on experimental design and human knowledge ("knowing what to look for") as on the phenomenon ostensibly being studied. Typically "being able to observe an effect" is contingent on some other dependent scientific "knowledge".
> Capital and profits drives innovation

Not always, even when it does, it's only up to a point.
There’s a difference between a campaign with bad quality scores or bad conversion rates with a campaign that basically fails to attract any humans at all while still spending a great deal of money.

The former requires a huge amount of knowledge and talent which is highly valuable. The latter should be able to be taken for granted, but in actuality is the most important thing to guard against.
Yeah, I think that's totally reasonable and I should have addressed that in my reply too. There's definitely a big difference between PM released by factories and that of individuals cooking/heating/etc with coal.

> A makeshift stove can burn coal and cook a meal. You’ll never match that with any non-emitting technology because it will always require some investment where literally none is available.

True, I just hope that cheaper, clean power (whatever that means) allows more people to make the healthy choice.

To be clear, the other points I agreed with in large part.
One more broken part is

CMD [ "python", "./yourscript.py" ]

This breaks if you want to debug yourscript.py on startup. Better use a sh to wrap it.
DNS over https is becoming more common now firefox is using it.
I understand that the US/NOAA only grants satellite licenses if you agree to allow the US to preempt your use of the Satellite.
Make sure .com owner doesn't hold related name copyrights and trademarks.

Then - the typical concern is that your potential customers will start typing "YourBrand".com instead of "YourBrand".blah and .com owner might as well decide to redirect traffic to competitor or do other unhelpful activities.
Several of your claims are inaccurate, which I'll attempt to correct.

tl;dr - its way more complicated

LDL particles are not (at least directly) a part of the immune system. They are lipoproteins, generated primarily in the liver, that are implicated in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis (buildup of plaques in the blood vessels).

The immune system, however, plays an important role in atherosclerosis, as it is thought that inflammation in the vasculature contributes to atherosclerosis.

Statins (contrary to your assertion) have in fact been conclusively shown to improve mortality from cardiovascular events. You can find many studies in the last 20 years that have demonstrated this with high statistical significance (do a pubmed search or look for articles in the New England Journal of Medicine).

Perhaps most interestingly, the latest research suggests that statins may improve cardiovascular outcomes not solely from LDL reduction (which has been the classically accepted hypothesis, as statins target the enzyme in the liver that regulates LDL reuptake), but also through anti-inflammatory mechanisms. This idea has been further strengthened by research suggesting that LDL reduction alone (as with a newer agent of drugs called anti PCSK9) may not provide as strong of a mortality benefit, weakening what is known as the "LDL hypothesis". In addition, another recent trial (called CANTOS) found that an anti-inflammatory agent targeting IL-1, an inflammatory cytokine, improved cardiovascular outcomes (such as heart attacks), further strengthening the notion that the immune system plays a key role in cardiovascular disease.
Scroll down the page I linked to the graph "Exponential Growth of Solar PV". A straight line on a log graph is exponential by definition.
Autism is also hereditary, right? Maybe it has a high enough probability of being passed on through the genes that it is causing the rate to increase over time. It may just be a fluke and we'll see it decrease again over time.
Direct tornado damage is covered by private insurance. Damage from flooding (which will often accompany a large storm) is not.

https://www.allstate.com/tr/home-insurance/insurance-for-tor...

Subsidized insurance can maybe still make sense, if it is taking on the role of a deep pocketed reinsurer. Still, it should at least be structured to discourage people from living in the most flood prone areas, and carefully monitored to make sure it is administered as intended (inaccurate maps lead to incorrect rates).
Google’s Schmidt and Microsoft’s Nadella to Attend Secret Bilderberg Meeting
I was thinking more about floods and hurricanes.
You’re right. Mine was not a blanket statement but sounded like one.

I do use rails generators; if possible I’d never want to touch webpack config.

However I would not use css grid generators because I’d prefer the understanding and precision of hand coding css grid specifically.
I may be younger than you, but our battery NOAA weather radio in the 90s was effective, with the only issue being that we learned to ignore it if we thought it would be buzzing for a severe storm warning instead of a tornado warning.
(Realizing I miswrote that yesterday — obviously the point of Slipknot was that you would dial up to your shell account, because you didn’t have telnet access on your machine.)
I downvoted because your comment mentioned voting which is against the guidelines. Now this comment will also be downvoted because it too mentioned voting.
> But junk is perjorative word which suggests that it is entirely disposable even desirable to remove

That's subjective.

> It may turn out to be a sort of filler

Yes, that's understood and recognized in every analysis.

> the name for it is very presumptive.

Naming is hard. The lowest common denominator (least amount of thought/simplest concept) will almost always persist. It's not like someone is wringing their hands in the background imagining they have fooled the scientific community.
That's nice, but the article is about 12 kids. Regardless, I'm done taking part in a bad faith argument.
You should come to southern California.
Loads of poor ppl living on the beach.
Generation after generation.
I'm not judging because that's my roots.
Even in exclusive neighborhoods the poor, even dirt poor, outnumber the top of the food chain by dozens to one.
Living close to the beach without an insurance company backing you is a normal thing here
The science doesn't support a sugar tax harming vulnerable people - really quite the opposite. Getting rid of FEMA without a lot of care is an entirely different proposition.
I believe in human-induced climate change.

I am also incredibly tired of people banging the climate change drum every time there is a weather anomaly (or even a marginally notable event). In a dynamical system "anomalies" are normal.

There is a difference between a philosophy of reason and discovery driving your view of the world and interjecting your chosen "science issues" at every opportunity with zeal.

In more general terms I am sick of the top ten political issues being the only thing of substance anybody seems to care about because I believe the people in power want those discussions to happen as they benefit from the discord and distraction.
this assumes your build agent is running the same environment as the docker image. What happens when you’re running ubuntu and pull in packages that won’t work in alpine? (Or worse, if it’s windows/OSX and Linux)
I'd believe 90% of current capacity, but it won't get to that portion of total capacity. Solar isn't perfect for every situation. Even so, when energy is cheaper with fewer negative externalities, we'll use more of it.
Why would people buy anything if they are content?

Combine this with the need for constant growth encoded in management incentives and the push to remove content from everyone is pretty powerful.
> Tuesday was the 12th consecutive day with at least eight tornado reports, breaking the record

Is there a list of tornado records? How many consecutive days with four tornados? 16 tornados? Longest stretch of at least one tornado but less than 8?
> If someone were able to think rationally and into the future to figure out, "4 years from now if I choose this [politician, car, job]" I'll be as bad or worse off, then those things would die out for want of funding...

Literally no one can do that for everything. The world is too complicated and, depending on the area, there are either too many or too few choices available.
I'm not saying we shouldn't fix our response to disasters: I'm tired of subsidizing luxury houses on the Outer Banks, for example. My point was only that getting rid of FEMA outright will harm people living in floodplains etc., who generally are poorer than average.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehran_Karimi_Nasseri Sir Alfred is still alive, and left the airport in 2006. His life doesn’t seem much better now, despite having been paid a quarter million dollars for his life story.
Which would prevent any chance of restoring them or any space travel at all for many generations until we work out how to clear out billions of bits of rubbish flying around faster than bullets.
> Because they allegedly have strong ties to the Chinese government

Do you know which telco companies have more connections to the Chinese government? Every other Chinese company. Even Foxconn which manufactures your iDevice has Communist representatives in their management.
I think you misunderstand what default means in this context.

The admin console setting for "people in my org" is on by default. Individual emails aren't confidential by default.

(I also work at Google, and technically on Gmail, although not on the product).
Why Carbon Credits for Forest Preservation May Be Worse Than Nothing
Flipboard Hacked, Hackers Accessed Users Database
Evolution is not a process of finding a global optimum, just a local one. And traits which have no impact on the chance for a species to reproduce just get carried along for the ride.

An obvious example of this is the Laryngeal nerve. Fish evolved with this nerve being a simple straight line between the brain and larynx. However, in animals which evolved from fish and have necks, we see that the nerve is "trapped" under the aortic arch in the thorax. So this nerve ends up looping through your neck to reach your thorax. Giraffes have this nerve going all the way down their neck and back up again. But this inefficiency has no impact on the survival chances of a species (if your neck is severed you're dead regardless of whether you have an additional nerve running through it) so it's stuck around.

So, there definitely are traits which objectively have no benefit or detriment and have just stuck around. You could argue even some late-life conditions which are detrimental also "stuck around for the ride" because people late in life don't reproduce and thus there is no evolutionary mechanism to affect such traits.
Memorial+Day+Savings+Continue+Cocoon+by+Sealy+Coupon
Silicon Valley happened.
I have read that Said considered himself a humanist at heart, and was only using Foucault as a way of defending the humanity of Middle Easterners, not as his ultimate philosophical base.
Actually, when it comes to the link between natural disasters and climate change I think the science is still significantly less settled. There are certainly suggestions and indications that a warming world will increase the likelihood or intensity of certain weather-related disasters, but I think for many of them there's still a fair amount of uncertainty. For instance, my understanding is that hurricanes may be made more likely/more intense due to increased available thermal energy but that this may be counterbalanced by other factors such as changes in wind shear, and that historical trends aren't yet enough to indicate much one way or another.

Flooding may be one exception to this, though, since I think there's strong evidence that one result of warming will be an increase general weather variability and strong precipitation events.

I think there's still a lot of active research going on here, though, so if someone has more up-to-date information I'm happy to be corrected!
Hard to imagine if Jared Kushner or Mike Pompeo wanted to help that they could do much if their boss is busy contradicting them or generally pushing division...
I once took a filmmaking class from Robert Mehnert who directed a documentary about the SR-71 at a time when its production was at risk of being discontinued. At first only a few hundred people in Congress saw it, but based on the size of the order for new planes, he called the highest-grossing opening weekend of all time. (I haven't been able to find the film online anywhere.)
If that argument could convince investors, it would have already.
Why/what do you think this breaks / what does wrapping it in a shell do for you?

E.g., for me, the following Dockerfile:

FROM python:3

RUN pip3 install ipdb

COPY test.py /test.py
CMD ["python", "test.py"]

where test.py is:

import ipdb; ipdb.set_trace()
print('Hello, World.')

run as `docker run -ti --rm $IMAGE_ID` works as expected:

» docker run -ti --rm 52e98c118dc3
> /test.py(2)<module>()
1 import ipdb; ipdb.set_trace()
----> 2 print('Hello, World.')

ipdb> p globals()
{'__name__': '__main__', '__doc__': None, '__package__': None, '__loader__': <_frozen_importlib_external.SourceFileLoader object at 0x7f809a8c8278>, '__spec__': None, '__annotations__': {}, '__builtins__': <module 'builtins' (built-in)>, '__file__': 'test.py', '__cached__': None, 'ipdb': <module 'ipdb' from '/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/ipdb/__init__.py'>}
ipdb> ^D

Exiting Debugger.

»
A. Nobody wants that. The reality is you're going to be using dozens of other libraries and will welcome wiggle room on how many versions your output includes. You want the list to be consistent and versioned, but you don't need the exact same one as Google.

B. If you really want to know what Angular is being tested with, see https://github.com/angular/angular/blob/master/yarn.lock
It would give the location of the VPN server you're connected through.
Wait, does Global Entry give priority with domestic flights? I’ve only seen signs for global entry at immigration. Not at security.
What do you believe that people without 'merit' deserve?
The point is to prioritize assistance for people who otherwise would not be able to take care of themselves as much as less vulnerable people.

Prioritizing care for the elderly doesn't necessarily make them less vulnerable than otherwise capable people, after all: they have more risk factors that can't be fully minimized. There's not some kind of straightforward calculation like you imply that you can make here.
For good reason. Curing Hep C was a breakthrough medical innovation, which ultimately will save the healthcare system tens of billions of dollars (preventing end stage liver disease, liver transplants, etc)
I believe the author is referring to this post,
https://web.archive.org/web/20181209143223/https://plus.goog...

Guava was always made available as Google's Java core utilities. I think it was always a misunderstanding to expect external contributions, like Apache Commons, as that was not its original intent. Rather it was to reduce internal duplication and ad hoc code with a shared standard. It then became useful for open-sourced Google projects (like API clients) and recruiting (new hires would be familiar with Google's libraries). Many suggestions are best spun off into new libraries, rather than donated to Google to maintain.

Java's many flaws have been papered over by a large ecosystem of libraries. As a non-gopher, I'm not sure if that same spirit exists. Perhaps that is due to the dependency debates, whereas Maven Central was quickly adopted when managing jars (via Ant) became too burdensome. Perhaps modules will help, as the language doesn't have to be batteries included.
All of Moxie's stories are great and I highly recommended them: https://moxie.org/stories.html

The train stories in particular made me recall reading Days of War, Nights of Love in a really good way.
I guess what I'd like to know is (and I'm specifically asking you because you seem to be knowledgeable):

1. It sounds like de-novo mutations are the best theory for 70%+ of autism cases per this paper, right?

2. Does anybody track the "base rate" of de-novo mutations / generation in humans? If so, how many generations back do we have data for, and how many regions?

3. Aren't we seeing an increase in autism is developed nations even within poor uneducated families with young parents?
They represent culture and relational attitudes of the general population in the airport areas.
Is there any good "quantum computing for dummies" type material out there?

I read these articles, and sometimes the comments are so all over the place that I'm not sure if we're talking about a thing that could ever work, or something more akin to snake oil?
I don't understand how this protects GMail emails, or how it provides any sort of confidentiality.
Is it me, or that `addTo` api feels very strange. Creating new objects with no assignments, with the side effects of adding it to an illustration.
Who still buys Wite Out and why?
Yep. Still less of a blank check than Android though; it doesn't even distinguish background location from foreground location, last I checked.
Personally I think it's both naive and arrogant to assume that because something is called "junk DNA", that means that the scientific community as a whole have decided to never consider whether it has any impact. There are all sorts of weird terms-of-art in science and I find it quite frustrating that armchair-scientists think they know better purely based on the words that happen to be used.
I'm afraid this seems all wrong to me.

First of all: If that's your idea of "strong evidence" then there are a bunch of other things that seem preposterous to me but have "strong evidence" for them. For instance: Mathematicians have found it very useful to build mathematics on top of set theory; that is, to think of numbers (and everything else) in terms of structures of things belonging to other things. This is "strong evidence" that the notion of belonging-to is fundamental, and therefore that capitalism is the One True Economic System. (This absolutely honestly seems to me no more far-fetched than your argument here.)

Second: so far as I can see, even if we take the argument of the OP seriously, there is absolutely no reason to say that the things in these "dynamic and independent structures" are being and nothing. As I said above, they could just as well be any two things. Horizontal and vertical. Penn and Teller. Red and blue. But taking them to be "being and nothing" is the only thing that really connects this to Hegel at all.

Of course anyone's welcome to see parallels to anything anywhere. If the Riemann zeta function makes you think of Hegel, fair enough. It might make someone else think of Beethoven, or civil engineering. The only thing I take any exception to here is the idea that this somehow indicates that there's something specially insightful in Hegel rather than that human brains are good at spotting patterns, including patterns that aren't really there.
From the article: " With Orientalism, Said wanted to open a discussion about the way the Arab-Islamic world had been imagined by the West—not to prevent a clear-eyed reckoning with the region’s problems, of which he was all too painfully aware."

Well that's the basic problem right there. Did Said assume there was no need to do a serious study of the Middle East's problems and what causes them, because he assumed that if the West would just leave the Middle East alone, it would all on its own solve its problems? Certainly that is what a lot of his followers seem to think, that the world was an egalitarian paradise until evil White people can along and started oppressing everybody.
this is unfair because it, for a moment, got me excited that there was an end of life date for windows in general ;)
Who needs enemies with allies like these?
This seems like a delightfully naive article. Isn't the obvious answer... that the "millenials" are sniffing it to get high?
Pop this on product hunt, you'll get your first few thousand users in no time.

> Zdog is directly inspired by Dogz, a virtual pet game by P.F. Magic released in 1995. It used flat 2D circle sprites to render the Dogz’ models, but in a 3D scene. See Dogz playthrough video here. Dogz were fully animated in real time, running, flopping, scratching (on Windows 3.1!). It was remarkable.

The new repeating the old. Love when someone looks historically, finds a great idea and re-implements it for a new usecase!
It can if you install the appropriate signal handlers, which, if you don't fork, is quite easy. While for a real-world app you're probably right, the article's example is not fleshed out sufficiently to tell one way or another.
Global Entry gives you TSA Pre for free. If you don’t fly international at all then paying $25 less just for TSA might be a good option.
+1 for better trains and mass transit.

Air travel is a different story, I think we should think twice about expanding: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_transp...

We probably wouldn't even need half of the short to mid range flights if we had a decent rail system. Amtrak is a joke though - at least in the North East Corridor
Right, in this context, for example, it could mean people who are not able to stockpile several days of food and water, versus people whose biggest concern is the Whole Foods spoiling in the fridge if power is out for too long.
Non-biologist here. It would seem to reason that since non-coding DNA has a role in RNA manufacturing, it would be susceptible to resonance from specific energy signals that would invoke its expression, effectively appending new information to RNA. Once propagated that information made be difficult to subdue.

Maybe an analogy is an unexpected object being written to a pubsub topic. Each consumer may have different side-effects based on that object depending on how well they validate the message. Some will properly ignore it or throw an error, but others may yield a proper side effect where one should be, or even a malformed side effect. In any case, once it’s in the log it’s really hard to get rid of, short of replaying the topic to a new stream that filters out that data.

This is truly clueless conjecture. This noncoding DNA stuff is fascinating; a rare bit of unexplored territory in science that seems to be coming into focus. I think as scientific methods mature around system dynamics and emergence these types of complex behaviors are finally going to be better understood.
Sure, I even made this point when I pointed out that the appendix has gotten carried along for the ride in another comment.

Do you really believe that 75-98.8% of our DNA serves no purpose and is being carried along for the ride? That doesn't seem like a small inefficiency.
I think the point rmrfrmrf is making is that Guava is a typical example of Google's attitudes towards the two-way relationship of open source. Google developers (and many other big software companies) are more than happy to open their code and promote it as something that the community should adopt, but seem rigidly dismissive of any code contributions to the project from outside. That may not be the case for every Google project but it does feel like it's a common one to me.

What Google projects would make good counterpoints by demonstrate a welcoming attitude to external contributions?
Feels light and fast. Thank you for creating and sharing. I’m wondering what are some useful applications?
What are you saying here? Why would additional supplies of energy cause the price to rise?
I fear they may know it and because you are tied so tightly to them they know they can behave that way and potentially use their leverage for other things.

I've known companies who explicitly look for situations where they are the biggest customer in order to operate how they wish and extract concessions. I'd be concerned about more than just behavior.