skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It seems pretty rational and interesting to me that a persistent bias in the gender or research bias continues and amplifies a persistent bias in whom drugs are best serving.

Rat studies aside, the reason there is more drug testing data on men is in large part because of the government testing drugs on gays, pacifists, soldiers, prisoners, etc. without their knowledge of consent.
Thank you, I was going to upvote you and leave it at that. But I can't help but say that listening to hand-wringing busy bodies like the individual above was why I was in a prescription, broken minded hell for 7 years straight before the moment of pure eureka that the entheogenic experience can bring.

They certainly do not help folks like the original poster already prone to anxiety and in need of warm comfort rather than cold cynicism.

I will never understand why people fear that which they do not understand. The more I learn the nature of fear - lies that we tell ourselves and each other - the more I have a distaste for them.
I'm torn between whether this is 'good' because people are learning about seignorage and taxation through fresh eyes because everything is called something different, or if it's bad because it's an insane cult
And, similarly, you can code perfectly functional code that properly handles all the minutiae but is totally inconsistent with the general structure or style of the project and that is bad. The high-level considerations are still important there.
Amethyst: Data-driven game engine written in Rust
Some parts of x86 were licensed, and AMD needed to pay Intel to use them. Then when AMD built on x86 and made x86-64, Intel had to pay AMD to use that, so they just made an agreement to license both to each other forever. [0]

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64#Licensing
> but 4% of the moon is actually quite a lot.

Yes, and it is spread out over a huge amount of space. The asteroid belt occupies 1AU of space that starts 2.2 AU out and and ends 3.2 AU out.

Sure, roughly half of the belt's mass is contained in just four asteroids - Ceres, Vesta, Pallas, and Hygiea.

Ceres alone is the 33rd largest known object in our solar system and simply mining it might be realistic but its orbit is 2.5-3 AU out but from what we've observed it is estimated to be 20% carbon by mass in its near surface, that is a LOT of material that you have to remove just to get at other stuff. With a (believed) rocky core, you have 70-190km of ice that likely varies considerably in composition and concentration.

Even if you can get out there, even if you can mine it at -36F in direct sunlight, you're going to have a world of trouble doing it and may not even find a worthwhile concentration of materials you actually want, you may be processing ice and dust attempting to skim the rare earths and precious metals out of the dust.
James Altucher's "Choose Yourself" mentions 10 a day, but I don't think it was original.
Perhaps, but on the other hand, would anyone actually have confidence in him then sticking to what he says. Is there any actual point in negotiating with him?
I am all of those as well, but learned coping mechanisms. Like proofreading like crazy and reading aloud.

Still can't spell tho, and homonyms will be the death of me.
Can you give any examples for the techniques used?
The Food Giants Are Coming for Beyond Meat
> Most users are somewhat ok with selling their data in exchange for free services.

I think you're incorrect. I think most users recognize that they usually don't have a choice: they don't have money to provide for services that they need, so they are _forced_ to use services that are cheaper or free. And I think most users feel helpless to do anything about it because most politicians actively ignore them (because they're poor) or work against them (because not-poor businesses pay politicians), and also because most businesses providing free service do not provide any useful mechanism for human interaction. Ever have trouble with a free service? Your only recourse is to go on social media and complain and hope to catch enough public attention such that someone who works at the company will reply. And even then you're not guaranteed a resolution to your issue.
Runs on OpenJDK as well...
Programmers: Stop Undervaluing Your Time
Consensual sex with a minor isn't by definition. I mean, even the _charges_ say 'sexual assault', so this is not something the GP is inventing out of thin air.
Cooking is also art but recipes are not copyrightable.

Not all creative expression is copyrightable just because it's creative expression. You could argue that basically everything is creative expression at some level.
No, that's right. It doesn't pop up next to input fields like it does on Chrome; I have to click the menu icon, or right-click > 1Password, or use a keyboard shortcut. I haven't found it a nuisance however.

The one thing about 1Password X is it doesn't integrate with the installed 1Password app on your system, which means no TouchID, for one.
No, I stopped reading Wired about a decade ago.
I came back from burnout (by learning to lean on my team)
Almost half of US families can't afford basics like rent and food
Ways to travel at nearly the speed of light
It seems like the other top post for today ("Show HN: Switch from Medium to your own blog in a few minutes" [1] [2]) comes at a perfect time now.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20060549

[2] https://github.com/mathieudutour/medium-to-own-blog
Why does the AC need to be cranked up so high anyway? At my work, it gets so cold that my hands freeze up and I can no longer type comfortably.
This is literally how I get “impossible” changes to happen virtually anywhere. There’s so much psychology that goes into the impact of the written word.

Don’t spread my secret. :(
I believe y4mi was referring to screen reading software, not a physical device. Like VoiceOver on macOS.
He interfered by telling a truth that politicians would rather have remained unknown. He embarrassed the Clinton campaign
Arguably, APIs have been found copyrightable, and the solution is simple: Include a license with your API. In a lot of cases in the modern era, APIs have terms anyways, because they're tied to web services. So adding a clause about being able to implement them is trivial, for any intended use of an API.

The main difference is that developers will have more tools to fight unintended or unwanted uses of their API, such as clones, emulators, scraper tools, etc. There's concerns to be had, sure, but it's not the end of the world by any means, and a lot of those will fall under fair use in a way that Android does not.
Thanks for finding the new numbers.
IIRC, the "rule" was 4 years. And that's about what homes in the USA cost today (median home cost is apx 4.5x median household income).
Conveniently the de facto immigration policy in the US for professions like physicists, lawyers, politicians, board members is such that the control is tighter for illegal immigration than Walmart clerks.
Like many of us, he had children and couldn't keep up with the workload, so he took a step back. Fortunately there is a very active community working on PureScript!
Yes you would think ieee would know there are uncountably many numbers between 0 and 5.
Glitch: World's first AI fashion brand
My hope is that a high tracking rejection rate will cause these companies running data vacuums on the side to reconsider the RoI of investing in data vacuums - it could result in a sort of herd immunity to advertising, if 95% of people opt-out the other 5% may be effectively opted out since advertising to just 5% of consumers becomes unprofitable.
Studies with decreasing levels of hand-holding would be interesting. With respect to their hypothesis, the amount of instruction/coaching may have overridden any differences in genetic propensities they were looking to examine.
Oh, did not know that. Will look into it, ty.
If you're already dead inside, might as well take care of the formalities.
Pretty much. I'm not saying that Oracle is the right party here but it was a sleazy move by Google. The fact that many of us benefited from Google's actions as users shouldn't prevent us from seeing this.

Imagine if Google pulled the same stunt targeting your startup - i.e. verbatim copying your software's method signatures - would you be ok with it?
His show on RT was actually really good. It's worth your while to give the interviews he conducted a look. People often attack him for his show being aired on RT, but I get the impression most of them haven't watched it.

In his interview with Nasrallah, he presses Nasrallah about Hezbollah's support for the Syrian government. It's clear that Assange is critical of Hezbollah's involvement in Syria, which undermines the idea that Assange is a Russian puppet. He also asks Nasrallah about whether God is a tyrant, which elicits an interesting response.
I'm curious, do you know how water and air conditions affect carbon capture rates (and would you be willing to explain it to me)?
Please don't break the site guidelines like this, regardless of how you feel about a divisive topic. Note that they include: "Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: it looks like you've posted quite a few unsubstantive comments to HN in general, like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19991361. Please stop doing that. We're trying for something a bit better than internet default here.

Edit: I suppose I should also mention that there are no pinned comments in this thread, and the current top comment is one you would probably agree with. Top comments come and go. As for "get intervened", I don't think any moderators saw it before you posted this.
Why not just prevent them from collecting it in the first place?
>* If I provide an outline of a political argument to a opinion columnist for them to write up in detail, I should own copyright on the argument and prevent anyone else from making it

What is code if not an outline for someone else to write up in detail? Your java code is compiled to byte code and then further onto machine code. Why should we draw the line at the code level of abstraction but not take the step to the API level of abstraction?
This was the original title linking from the front page of CBC
Show HN: UCG: Configuration as a Compile Target
Microsoft emits free remote-desktop security patches for WinXP to Server 2008
> A simpler and more elegant solution wouldn't screw over small businesses and individuals as much.

[Citation Needed]. Every business pay a flat fee of $10M is a simple and elegant solution.
Quantum cryptography goes faster and further on commercial fibre links
We found no usages of it in the wild. If there is real-world need for them, we'll consider adding them back.
Mobile phone companies used to license Java from Oracle. Instead, they all now use Android instead, a ripped off implementation of Java. Oracle claims they had intentions of moving further into the smartphone space (most mobile Java implementations a decade ago were on dumbphones, AFAIK), but Android shot their plans and the value of their purchase of Java to heck.

In short, Oracle has claimed they bought Java from Sun to make a mobile OS that would've been licensed to manufacturers, and by stealing the Java API from them, devalued that purchase by launching Android for free.
> Honest question and I don't have super strong opinions on the subject, but is product placement really that big of a negative?

If a product placement can't be justified on plot or characterization grounds, then I find it an obnoxious distraction and a sign of spinelessness on the part of the director and editors.

> If I'm driving down the road, I don't see a bunch of de-badged cars, I see Chevy logos and Ford logos and VW logos.

Do it really matter what kind of car James Bond drives? Not really. All that matters is that it's something only rich pigs can afford and was customized by Q with all kinds of non-standard and outrageously illegal features, like artfully concealed machine guns.

> Basically: aren't we all exposed to a metric assload of product placement all day anyway?

If I want reality, I know where to find it. If I go to the movies, it's to get a reprieve from reality. I'm paying good money for the convenience of a ready-made waking dream, and the presence of gratuitous product placement cheapens the fantasy.

If product placement doesn't bother you, that's fine. It annoys the fuck out of me, so I prefer to read novels or play video games when I want to relax.

(Besides, the prevalence of CG makes most mass-market movies nothing but defective video games anyway. Who needs MCU when you can watch a let's play of Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Libertines?)
This is a project I used to both scratch an itch and learn Rust with. It's similar to JSonnet, and Dhall in some ways because I didn't know about those when I started. I'm interested in what HN thinks of it.

You can read more about the motivations and how to use it here: https://ucg.marzhillstudios.com
When talking about a few kilobytes, it’s less the download time than the parse time that’s the main performance concern.
We are on the quest to achieve mice immortality!
No, but knowingly releasing documents that were partially or entirely forged by the Russian intelligence agencies does make one a Russian puppet.

Which is exactly what Wikileaks did, openly, at Assange's direction...despite the misgivings of the rest of the staff that the releases were timed for political effect on the US campaign on not out of some desire for the truth.
Alright but your ad hominem is not enough to support your claim.
This reminds me of throwback jquery libs.
I found my real name and (former) carrier on Truecaller. Shit.

Had to make a fake Microsoft account via Sneakemail to even search it, though.

I tried to unlist my number but it said "Deactivation required", ie bait for me to create a real account?
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I agree with other commenters that Apollo is too big and too opaque to easily understand. The docs don’t have enough examples and are out of date in some places (see link-state). I’ve had a lot of confusion while trying to implement Apollo in my current react project.

I’ve also seen some erratic behavior from Apollo. While testing I found that Apollo deduplicates queries too aggressively. I made some mutations with slightly different inputs (think naming a new item “a” and another one “b”) and several of them would not get sent. In my example it would have resulted in two new items on the server but instead only one was created, because the second mutation wasn’t sent.

I also found that using the `called` flag in a mutation function child was basically useless because sometimes it would be false even if the mutation went through. I switched to using the onCompleted prop in the component and that’s worked.

Another thing I ran in to is that Apollo sometimes can’t update the store because I sent a query without an ID field. It throws an error. If an ID is required for all queries the docs should say so.

Also I don’t think the docs say that you should return any fields you update in a mutation, to make sure the store is current. I think I found that out on stack overflow.
> Which isn't necessarily bad

One positive is that it changes the criteria of success in the market from "who can provide quality internet at a low price, and mine and sell the most data" to simply "who can provide quality internet at the lowest price".

When new companies enter the internet market (if such a thing still happens?) they will be asking "how can we provide good internet?" instead of "how can we mine more data from our users?"
some of don't really care who reads it, just that it is available. This gaming of everything is not necessarily a good thing. Is your article about programming or something, or is it about attention whoring?
Your counter examples are about the mitigation of unexpected and unwanted effects. These were implemented after the fact.

There are situations that have no possibility of redress.

Your paragraph about ecological impact can serve as an example of the lurking danger. I wasn't even concerned about ecological impact. My concern was about artificially creating a resistant species. That's one of the pitfalls here. We're talking about the same thing, but because it's new we're not addressing the same issue.

We got away with DDT because:

- We could stop using it.

- There were alternatives that reshuffled the genepool of a now largely resistant population the other way, after the fact.

These two are not a given when deploying engineered organisms. Even though both are means to fight malaria, they are not the same and need different considerations of which some are new and not valid for any older approaches.

> The people working on this understand what will happen if their solution isn't good enough.

So do most programmers...
In many of these cases it seems like having kids may have been an ill-advised life choice.

Having kids is always a choice not a right.
Java to Rust source code converter
I don’t think it’s appropriate to use HN to repeatedly defend your employer without disclosing that affiliation. If you’re going to do it, at least try to argue your point of view with some substance.
"Note: GeekWire’s Todd Bishop prepared this memo in the traditional style of an Amazon ‘six
pager’ — fictional press release, narrative, FAQ and appendix — for Amazon Consumer CEO Jeff
Wilke and the audience at the GeekWire Summit, where Wilke will speak Oct. 10, 2017."

Article:
https://www.geekwire.com/2017/prepared-6-page-memo-geekwire-...

6-Pager Example:
https://cdn.geekwire.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Jeff-Wil...

Guidelines:
https://blog.usejournal.com/writing-docs-at-amazon-e02580861...

Previous HN Discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19115686
These feel like very slight variations on a theme and pretty narrow in scope.

Granted I'm sure that is needed to keep it from turning into a combo of incompatible designs.
Did you really just pretend you think it's not?

Given the ample data demonstrating the link between genes and IQ and health (both of which affect 'success', however defined), I'd like to see you back up your implied claim.
> A camera company cannot study another camera company's mount to make an incompatible mount that uses similar circuitry and protocols to help lens companies support it faster.

Sure it can, unless it's patented, but patents aren't claimed here.
I've found just declining these no-info meetings to be an effective way to combat the time loss. It's most constructive to send an email alongside saying something like "please share an agenda or materials for this", but that can vary based on context too. And you can even decline after that happens: "Thanks for the details. I'm sorry, but I cannot take the time away from X right now to attend this. Next week may be possible."

If somebody really needs my time, they can tell me why -- or go through my manager which they should be doing anyways.
There is obviously a balance. If you get a lot of joy from gaming and still lead a productive life you should keep gaming. The "work all day everyday do nothing else!" mindset is destroying our society and causing depression/addiction. Too much of anything (yes even work) is simply not good for you. Balance is so important and yet it is almost like everyone has abandoned it for a radical mindset. It is like you cannot find reason anymore in the wild. Every one is "its all this" "NO! ITS ALL THAT" Things are complex and there are not universal generalities. Such things sound nice but they are fiction in a world of complex adaptive systems... Sorry for tangent this has bothered me for a while.
Copyright is automatic, so if APIs are copyrightable, the answer is necessarily "yes".
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I switched from computational simulation stuff to software engineering (big company, but not FAANG), since I found that the coding was much more rewarding than running the code. I think academia is a great career, but that it is better suited to other people.

I like my 9-to-5(ish) job coding up software that people actually use. I also like that when I go home, I don't have the emotional baggage of worrying about work.
It really isn't a lie. The state of Texas considers a 30 year old man fucking around with a "girl younger than 17 years" to be sexual assault. He has been charged with 4 counts of sexual assault.
>No way. Depending on the town, you'll either piss someone off, or a busybody will rat you out to the codes compliance people. Once that happens, they'll investigate and you're done.

For most of HN that is true because most of HN lives in wealthy cities or suburbs that have enough tax income that they can have a big enough government to the point where spending man hours chasing down that kind of stuff is important. Poor cities don't have the resources to go investigate busybody crap.
I worked at Amazon, which has a ton of data about your shopping habits that allow them to make targeted decisions on a customer's behalf. You know what? The vast majority of that data (at the time) came from observing customer behavior on properties owned by Amazon.

In my mind, that's perfectly reasonable - what I do within the boundaries of their business is our shared interaction and we both have the opportunity to make decisions based on those interactions. The major exception for Amazon is affiliate links, which, for the business i was in, weren't used as data sources.

Apple is not significantly different. Between Apple and me, who else knows our business and what does Apple know about me outside of my interactions with them (maybe more now with Apple Pay).

For the most part, Netflix is the same. Sure they know what I watch, but why does that matter if they're only using it to improve their own business and make programming choices?

Google and Facebook, on the other hand, blanket the internet with tracking beacons, read my email, keep shadow profiles (I don't have a facebook account, never have had one, but I'm sure they know more about me than I'd like), eavesdrop on conversations (I suppose Amazon is in that business now, too), track locations, steal contact data, trick people training their ML algos, etc. As is said, "If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.", FB and Google have far more than that and a single bad actor with access to that data could make life extremely difficult for just about anyone in the world.
Once you get a taste for higher kinded types (aka: type constructors), there is no going back! PureScript is fantastic language with an active an open community. Best place to start (IMHO) is https://github.com/lumihq/purescript-react-basic You can pretty quickly get a react app up and running
You can reimplement a compatible API in a different language that would share no code. This would be a clone, not a copy, as no work from the original author was used. The real issue here is if an API is just an interface, or could be considered code itself.

(IMHO, it's an interface, like a power socket or a light switch. You make it fit, and then it works.)
I think people are only claiming they potentially do. It is unlikely the DOJ would seek the death penalty for the particular violations, especially since he would not be extradited if they did. What happens after he sets foot on US soil though is unclear (as in, I don't know what the law says about adding charges after the extradition).
Thank you for the correction, you are right. I wonder what is special about abortion where this purposed effect can be observed and not simply with contraception.
Secure metropolitan quantum networks move a step closer