skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stupid question from a noob: does gene location on a chromosome matter? If I swap gene A from chromosome 1 with gene B from chromosome 2, will this in general keep the cell viable and working the same way?
Video game addiction is a mental health disorder
I recently took a look at which of the large US airports had the greatest delays/early departures

Haha nice. It could be interesting to have the same map for # of flights and some others, and from there, determine a map which indicate when the airport process may be in fault, not the conditions in which it operates. It seems each airport has it's own pattern, so maybe it's possible to remove the conditions from of the maps and what's left should be the process. I guess.
> That is a good point, yes. Arguably it should have been left in as a void element with no behavior to avoid parsing issues of the sort you describe...

That's what we did, actually :). Parsing behavior was unchanged. Ctrl+F "keygen" in https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/parsing.html.
> I can't reliably best Amazon prices by going to eBay, I have to go somewhere like Walmart.
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A lot of eBay sellers actually source from Walmart. I have. I works pretty great... sometimes. Just gotta be quick about getting their clearance items or pricing mistakes.
> Some really big groups formed

IE Reddit? Or do you mean something else?
Actually no, this changed as a result of a lawsuit at MicroSoft where contractors were hired directly as contractors with no firewall firm. They worked at MS for decades with zero benefits and then sued to get them.

This forced firms to then hire third party vendors who in turn 1099ed the "workers" to work at company X, including google.
Good, fresh bread can be produced cheaply. When I lived in Spain I could buy a large, fresh, delicious baguette on almost any street corner for about $0.55.

The problem is that after about 24 hours it gets hard and after 48 it's basically inedible. So your diet needs to include a lot of bread or else you end up wasting a fair portion of every purchase.
Is the concern here that if Google chooses to move on from Go that much or all of the leadership might too?
Google can't relicense Go. It would need approval of all copyrightholders, a list of hundreds of people and companies, of which Google is just one.
The maintainers there blogged at-length about the inferiority of non-Googlers and the tedium of dealing with the unwashed masses -- typical NIH syndrome -- this is the same philosophy that the Go team is influenced by, perhaps with only a less hostile tone.

NIH syndrome was widely cited as one of the major flaws of the Smalltalk community back in the day. In any human endeavor, one has to fight the tendency of a group turning something which isn't a club, into a club.

That said, golang isn't a field. It isn't a genre. It's a computer language, a collection of libraries, and a number of online communities. In large part, it's a collection of tools with support around it, people interested in using it, and a company behind it. There are lots of things like this. Leica cameras. Rigol oscilloscopes. Chevy LS3 crate engines. Harley Davidson Motorcycles. These things live and die by continuing to garner the goodwill of the market and staying honest with themselves.

On the flip side, many of those things also live or die through good design, and good design also needs gatekeepers and visionaries. It's a balancing act. Golang in particular needs to watch its step. Since it has a syntax on the minimalist side with few surprises and easy access to its AST, it's going to be one of the easier languages to port off of.
This seems like a rather lower quality piece than I'd expect from the Guardian. Lots of scare words but practically every claim is couched with "might, could, potentially" etc.
Considering how hard editors work to keep Wikipedia clean, this is beyond insulting. Who at North Face seriously thought this would pan out without attention? And to brag about it too...
indeed but there are so many more clear examples :)

rsc@'s clear disdain that anyone outside of google would run go is crystal clear in many of his various writings on issues like clock skew, packaging, etc

It's lucky bradfitz is, apparently, able to remember that a world outside of google exists.
Where would you draw the line? How would producers expect for consumers to find their product?

Would consumers be allowed to recommend products to each other?

What about design and product packaging? Isn't that essentially a form of advertising?
This is the hope I have for the reactor I designed.

Cursory exploration of the idea has shown promise, but it needs some real brainpower and equipment for an in-depth scientific analysis and prototype.

I have a strong belief that it will work, but that's irrelevant. Eventually it will succeed or not based on reality.
I've been selling on eBay recently and it's been surprisingly easy. Not making a killing by any means since it's just a side hustle but that extra 5k in the last 90 days is pretty nice for very little work.

I think the only beef people have with eBay is how dumb their support people can be sometimes when you run into a problem.
If you're using Postgres, you can use recursive queries using common table expressions.
Disqus implemented this sort of thing 10 years ago: https://pastebin.com/Fe2twMRr (I can't find the original talk for some reason)

Here's the meat of the solution:

CREATE TABLE comments (
id SERIAL PRIMARY KEY,
message VARCHAR,
author VARCHAR,
parent_id INTEGER REFERENCES comments(id)
);
INSERT INTO comments (message, author, parent_id)
VALUES ('This thread is really cool!', 'David', NULL),
('Ya David, we love it!', 'Jason', 1), ('I agree David!', 'Daniel', 1),
('gift Jason', 'Anton', 2),
('Very interesting post!', 'thedz', NULL),
('You sir, are wrong', 'Chris', 5),
('Agreed', 'G', 5), ('Fo sho, Yall', 'Mac', 5);

What we’ve done now, is setup a basic comment model. We’ve included the message, the author, and the parent comment (which is optional). Now let’s learn how to use a recursive query to easily re-order this date, showing us a fully threaded view, sorted in ascending order by id.

WITH RECURSIVE cte (id, message, author, path, parent_id, depth) AS (
SELECT id,
message,
author,
array[id] AS path,
parent_id,
1 AS depth
FROM comments
WHERE parent_id IS NULL

UNION ALL

SELECT comments.id,
comments.message,
comments.author,
cte.path || comments.id,
comments.parent_id,
cte.depth + 1 AS depth
FROM comments
JOIN cte ON comments.parent_id = cte.id
)
SELECT id, message, author, path, depth FROM cte
ORDER BY path;
Update from YouTube:

"We're aware that users of a preview version of Chromium-based Edge are being redirected to the old version of YouTube. We’re working to address this issue. We're committed to supporting YouTube on Edge and apologize for any inconvenience this may be causing"

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/google-says-the...
Re: You don't want to have your webserver simply wait around and do nothing while each request [of another server] finishes; it'll spend 90% of its time doing nothing, which means you need 10x as much hardware to service the same number of users.

No, it's processing other users' requests. We are talking about high-traffic sites, right?

Let me see if I can present a scenario to explain:

R-I-A-I-B-I-C-I-H // typical processing steps

R = request received (get or post)
H = HTML/HTTP output (response)
A,B,C = requests for services from/to other servers
I = Internal processing (regular app logic)

Even if there is a lot of waiting for A, B, and C, there's still more than plenty of "I" for the web server(s) to work on, because each user request will be at a different stage typically.

If say B is slow, it's going to be the bottleneck regardless of whether async/await is used or not. They'll all be waiting on B (at least those requests requiring the same resources).

Now maybe you are implying one rewrite the application so that R-I-A-I-B-I-C-I-H's steps don't have to be done in the order shown. But that's NOT what async/await does (at least not how it's typically presented/promoted).
I don't really blame an author for publishing in an environment they don't control.

But the reason this comes up so often is because online news sites are not being included in the conversation. We're seeing a lot of articles being written about Facebook and Google, and very few articles written about general tracking techniques that exist outside of those companies that are universal to most news organizations.

And that is something a reporter can choose to talk about or inform themselves about if they want to.

To draw attention to an organization that's at least trying to do better, the NYT's recent privacy project has released at least one article (out of many, but baby steps) talking about its own data collection policies[0]. Also highly to the NYT's credit, they have an article up recommending UBlock Origin as a way to reclaim some privacy control[1]. That's a bold move that takes some character, because adblocking actually affects the NYT -- whether or not you leave Facebook doesn't. The NYT hasn't gotten rid of its trackers, but it's not ignoring the fact that they exist.

What people are noticing and complaining about is that this type of self-awareness is abnormal, even though most tech writers could be pursing some of these topics or writing about them if they chose to. If you're a reporter and you want to talk about privacy, I think it's a question of basic due diligence to try and get a handle on the entire scope of the problem and to write articles that reflect that entire scope. Of course you can't control what your employer does -- but you shouldn't ignore it.

To me it's not a question of hypocrisy, it's a question of accurately informing people that the problem is a lot bigger than what we're currently talking about, and that addressing privacy problems is going to take more work than just splitting up Facebook -- it's going to require restructuring the entire ad industry, and possibly rethinking how we pay for web content in general. That's a really important conversation we should be having right now, and for the most part, we're not having it.

[0]: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/10/opinion/sulzberger-new-yo...

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/06/opinion/7-simple-ways-to-...
That'd probably run afoul of NLEA rules on health claims. You can't imply that your product is somehow healthier than others without actual proof.
What reason?
> the tedium of dealing with the unwashed masses -- typical NIH syndrome

If you've managed a large OSS project with a wide userbase before, you know how annoying it can be to deal with large numbers of repetitive requests from folks who don't have the full context of what's going on in the project. It's time consuming at best, and at worse some small minority of those folks take up a toxic attitude that sucks the happiness out of your work. There's no need to accuse maintainers of arrogance or NIH syndrome. This stuff is hard, and we all try to do the best we can.
Well, "Scanning localhost ... localhost complete." which they report means it found the sever, but did not allow access (CORS restricted). This is normal, as the default behavior unless modified by a CORS header is that cross-origin resource sharing is disallowed, and that includes same host but separate port. I believe edit is correct, in that this demonstration is for finding poorly configured local services that have a CORS header that is too open (perhaps because there are multiple services meant to interact with each other).
And that may well be your competitor, whose goal is no more high minded than yours: promoting their own products.

And if it's me, I will probably be paid to tell you why you might want to buy each product listed.

Obviously, the 7" model is portable, no frills, fits standard pockets and you will appreciate it if you need a space saving model or are buying on a budget.

The 9" has all the bells and whistles, is a premium product and well worth the money, if you can afford it.
I pay $1,050 for myself, my wife, and my son. It is crazy, that is with a $6k+ deductible per person... It is terrible insurance and just for catastrophic.

I hope we do Medicare for all. This system is so broken, it is time to learn from Europe, Japan, etc. I don't get why we don't steal great ideas because we are doing terrible.
The Eclipse That Made Einstein Famous
Thanks. I've heard of srs before but failed to notice their ENB project.

> srsENB has been tested and validated with the following handsets:

LG Nexus 5 and 4

Motorola Moto G4 plus and G5

Huawei P9/P9lite, P10/P10lite, P20/P20lite

Huawei dongles: E3276 and E398

That's a very limited set of handsets. I wonder what's stopping them from adding support for more devices: Is it lack of contributors (no traction, lack of interest), or the cost of development (insanely difficult to reverse engineer, potential IP infringement etc), or limited and buggy functionality (doesn't work with certain carriers etc)?
> Mises in Human Action (p. 19) writes "Human action is necessarily always rational. The term 'rational action' is therefore pleonastic and must be rejected as such. When applied to the ultimate ends of action, the terms rational and irrational are inappropriate and meaningless. The ultimate end of action is always the satisfaction of some desires of the acting man."

https://mises.org/library/what-do-austrians-mean-rational

> The rational being practicing rational-expectations theory only makes behavioral economists laugh. And the neoclassical construct of equilibrium prices requires assumptions that only tenured professors who don't get out much could believe, like perfect competition, perfect information, and perfect rationality.

https://mises.org/library/rationality-and-market-economy
it's weird because LTS is in the "notes" section, but not mentioned elsewhere on the page.
Everything escalates, including the NSA's capabilities...
It's simple minded to think there are not victims and oppressors in the real world.

Those who are actually concerned with the plight of disposable labour will have little issue with the press having the same concerns.
I suspect you should view Andrew Yang's interview on Joe Rogan's podcast. There is a job apocalypse coming and millions of people will be thrown out of work by tech firms relentless pursuit of machine learning and automation via robotics.
It's not "good" bread though.
You keep on missing the point.

Today's Stockfish running on a low end computer would still beat Stockfish from many years ago running on a much more powerful one, because it's evaluation function is significantly better.

Chess is not strictly about computing power, and neural-network evaluation functions are vastly better.
"Caramel" in this case likely refers to caramel color. While it is still made from sugar, I doubt there's a significant enough amount to consider it "added sugar". If you look at the other colors of Listerine, there is no caramel listed.
If I send a message over a VPN or something similar, does that apply?
Are they trying to achieve any goals by reaching that depth other than "because the tech could be useful to have"? Out of curiousity.
I'd love to see an efficient market too, but banning advertising won't accomplish that, it'll just shift the burden of discovery elsewhere, like review aggregators, and information there is already questionably reliable.

In practice, I think the problem that creates advertising is that humans have limited bandwidth for ingesting information in general, so we have tons of tools to compile more information into less information, such as news, books, statistics, reviews, etc. (For example, how many people really entirely understand their health insurance plans? It's not for lack of trying.) Advertising is sort of an arbitrage of that communication bandwidth based on the fact that some actors (companies) really want you to see their information more badly than others.

That problem doesn't go away just because you ban advertising, it just moves the arbitrage opportunity elsewhere.
> they aren't feeding millions of people

Collectively they are :-)

> who stayed up all night

Technically they wake up at 2-4am
I dont even click groups.google.com links anymore because I know I'll be prompted to login to view the contents of the page. It irks me to no end that the contents will be indexed for search and then hidden behind a login.
There is a browser add on that lets you collapse right up to the top most parent comment which I miss when I'm on mobile and want to hide the whole thread and see what the next top level comment is.
I actually think a large number of societal issues today are stemming from people's inability to think rationally for themselves.

I'm sure this has nothing to do with being bombarded with advertising from cradle to grave.
and it doesn't have to be but i do agree. jingles were a form of advertising and were kind of fun and had the phycological effect of getting stuck in your head. there were/are also quite entertaining commercials but still give visibility to their products tv and streaming. perhaps its the medium. of course we still have the equivalents to a infomercial on the internet though.
Yeah, and I could do big things with extensions to this where we can use deep probabilistic programs to represent the event queries.
Introduction to GridDB: a highly scalable in memory, NoSQL time series database
> a form of pollution

I'm reading Edward Bernays' 1928 book Propaganda [0]. Bernays was an advertising and public-relations guy who wanted to rehabilitate the term "propaganda" and rid it of its negative connotations.

Ultimately, advertising, public relations and propaganda are about agitating and motivating people to do things that they wouldn't ordinarily do, and Bernays believes it's all for the benefit of the public.

Crucially, Bernays argues that it's not so much about the ad you see, it's about the social cues that have been engineered into your family, education, employment and political system that predispose how you consume.

Turning off the TV and Instagram are good starts, but I wonder what media you and your children consume that is immune to the methods of Bernays and those who followed him.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_(book)
> You keep on missing the point.

I think you misunderstand. I absolutely understand your point. I'm explicitly rejecting your point. There's a crucial difference.

The evidence laid out in this test does not necessarily lead to the conclusion you have here. There are a number of confounding factors, that if I had more time... I'd like to investigate.

True, your point is ONE possible story for what is going on here. But alas, my instincts suggest something else is going on. I think CNNs have simply been extremely well optimized for the GPU platform, and that indeed, they are one of the few algorithms that run extremely well on a GPU.

I'm curious how a well-put together "classical" chess AI would work if it were ported to a GPU. I understand that no such chess AI has ever been written, but that doesn't change my curiosity.

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EDIT:

> Chess is not strictly about computing power, and neural-network evaluation functions are vastly better.

I just thought of a way that would test this assertion. Instead of porting Stockfish to a GPU, port LeelaZero to a CPU. Run the Neural Net on the same set of hardware, and see who wins.

That way, Stockfish keeps its (cannot be scaled) centralized hash table / lazy SMP algorithm, while LeelaZero runs at the same compute-power that Stockfish has.
Yes I was talking about the long term storage fees which they used to charge if inventory was rolled over after 30 days. The items we used to sell needed to be purchased in high quantities to get a decent price so we would ship items to FBA on a monthly basis trying to estimate demand. Eventually, Amazon itself started selling the same item and it just wasn't worth it especially with higher fees for FBA.
I would drink with you
Perhaps this piece (set in Vancouver) is a response to the agency formed in 2009 in response to the IEA's assertions, known as IRENA. https://irena.org/

Here is IRENA's front page article on Vancouver: https://irena.org/newsroom/articles/2019/May/2050--Vancouver...

Vancouver currently uses fossils for 69% of its energy. It's aiming for 100% renewables by 2050.

Since 1986, Vancouver has continued to build its all-electric skytrain system to 50 miles. Automated, it's Canada's longest mass transit system.
We need less people thinking like military people in the world. Too many toy soldier fantasies result in leaders like George Bush jr fulfilling their fathers dreams.
> Suing craigslist (and losing) for breach of fiduciary duty because it wouldn't exploit its users enough.

The lawsuit had nothing to do with "exploiting users". It was about Newmark and Buckmaster's attempt to dilute eBay's shares. A lawsuit eBay won.
> But OP referred to the “toxic” nature of the fish. What’s “toxic” besides the PCBs?

If you had watched the documentary you commented on, you would know. Insecticides, dioxins, various neurotoxins, heavy metals, and various toxic waste chemicals from oil production and industry.

> Farmed salmon is lower in mercury, or example.

If you had watched the documentary you commented on, you would know that this is not necessarily true, and not at all true for the regions that the video covered.
Because those lawsuits were determined by a jury of non scientists.
Auction Sees Malware Infested Computer Sell for $1.3M
”it can't move its rook off the h file without losing the pawn”

Nitpick: I agree there’s nothing for white in that position, rook a6, b6 or c6 seem possible moves in the end position (if black takes the pawn, the rook gives chess on row 5 and takes black’s rook in the next move). From there, it could move the rook to row 5 to defend the pawn. If so, the rook can get away from the h file.

Also, if black’s king were to walk towards the black pawn, the rook has to move from the h file to give chess.

In general, LC0 seems to be way more optimistic in its scoring function than Stockfish. As an extreme, look at game 70. Stockfish sees it as a 100.0% draw after move 49, but play goes on until move 202 (!), with LC0 at some stage thinking it has a 25% chance at winning (around move 106)
W3C Hands over HTML and DOM Standards to Whatwg
>Where would you draw the line?

At paying platforms to advertise your product.

>How would producers expect for consumers to find their product?

How about typing "insert product here" into a search engine?

>Would consumers be allowed to recommend products to each other?

Yes, as long as there is nothing of value changing hands.

>What about design and product packaging?

Fine, as long it ends at the store shelf/online product-listing.

Take my suggestions with a grain of salt, because they come from a person who ranks advertising as one of the top three problems facing humanity.
Perhaps, until a shooter shows up at the youtube office and starts firing and then kills herself in front of you. That did happen and can happen at any firm, tech or otherwise.
Most likely yes. There's something called chromatin that winds up DNA. Also transcription factors and other factors play a role.
Yes it does matter, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromosomal_translocation

Certain chromosomal translocations cause diseases.
Coincidentally I just started watching Chernobyl series on HBO https://www.hbo.com/chernobyl
Amen - I came here to say exactly this; thank you for pointing it out.
"Closed" like all their investor funds which were replaced by the cheaper admiral funds. You wouldn't say vtsmx is closed, it's just replaced by vtsax. Same deal here.

It's not actually closed. Just buy the admiral version instead, same thing but cheaper.