skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also, it is seen as a test by itself: Are you capable to take your responsibility and do your work?

This is a quite valuable lesson by itself. Most people need a few months to learn it (partying is fun, but doesn't get you a degree), some don't and indeed drop out.
Ahh nice. I am right now working on that same thing, tracking plays and skips. I just want to simply analyse my own listening more deeply though.

My current implementation is a hack that just keeps polling Spotify with ‘shpotify’ to grab data. This article is more the implementation I actually wanted.
Unsurprising.
> 100% of them drink boiled tap water. But isn't this proving my point?

No, it's exactly disproving your point, or at least strong evidence against it. To be explicit: if 100% drink boiled tapwater then 100% feel pollution is present which strongly suggests pollution isn't localised.

As for introducting heavy metals, you're trying to fudge the issue: pollution may include, but is not limited to, heavy metals.

> I always come across as defending China or something

I take your point and will accept you're arguing in good faith, but a sloppy post like this simply undermines yourself.
I think that's a reason why DNS based ad-blocking is as effective a solution as any, though easily worked around against (I see that Amazon's android app is able to show ads despite DNS blacklist).
What Western company did they steal this tech from?
Depending on your age you might care about what it would be like in a few more decades (I honestly don't know, it's far inland but Florida is low-elevation & would certainly get very hot either way).
Syntaxless Vim
For those in Europe, I've had good success growing seeds ordered from the Kokopelli association, which has been doing this for 20 years.

The trick is to find varieties adapted to the local climate, for example ancient varieties from your region no longer commercialized.

http://kokopelli-semences.fr/
The video is very American centric - is this the case in other countries ie Australia?
Can't believe this makes it to HN, although I feel politics is off topic I can't help but to feed to this because it means so much to me.

Over a million people, or 1 out of 5-7 people walked out against this tighten grip. The whole Hong Kong island is dead lock now. China has been subtly (or so much with this attempt) trying to erode our freedom, rule of law and culture.

Shamefully I'm not physically in Hong Kong. Thank you for your effort, that's the least I could do.
We should remember that this was more than 100 years ago. 100 years is a long time. A lot of our collective subconscious is still acting like we’re stuck in 1982, but the XX century is long over.
These IP policies only work nationally, and internationally among friendly countries that respect IP treaties (Hint: China isn't one of them).

Next, these countries still get to export goods containing the stolen technology back to countries where the IP was stolen (perhaps via third-party distributors), since there is typically no provision barring that.
>Friendship as an adult has been about shared interests, not being assigned to the same class or living nearby,

Hits too close to home there.
Exactly, also a frequent API changes for no reason. Tensorflow is a good example of this. Looks like every month they schedule a meeting on what they gonna break next. They seem to enjoy thousands of github issues about cryptic messages on renamed nodes in the neural network models.
Cite sources and references for accusations. This isn't Facebook.
Try https://www.startpage.com/

Works as proxy for Google Search. No captchas, very customizable. Could never live with the Bing based crap results of DuckDuckGo.
Current recommended 'healthy' level is below 200, while it looks like the study found 200-240 is the best range. Is this accurate? Should people that have under 200 get it up to the 200-240 range? Or does it depend on family history of heart disease?

https://medlineplus.gov/cholesterollevelswhatyouneedtoknow.h...
XUL was replaced quite some time ago.
Literally everything you're talking about applies to selective breeding of crops as much as it does transgenic crops (what people typically mean by GMO). It applies even more so to irradiated seeds, which - strangely - no one seems to mind or want labels on.

Randomly changing millions of base pairs: good. Precisely cutting a gene from one crop and putting it in another: bad. Baffling.
I flicked between multiple browsers at work since the Chrome news dropped. Having used Chrome for many years.

Firefox always had and still has an issue which can cause up to 2x page load times when used on Mac with scaled mode. Fascinating bug report but ultimately impossible to cope with at work!

I’ve actually landed up using Safari (I rarely use dev tools) and pleasantly surprised by it.
20 years is amazingly short for ecosystems. Give it a century.

Also, it took us 40 years to realize we may be responsible for global warning, and some still doubt it, or have an agenda to spread doubt.

So you have to take in consideration that if we ever discover we messed up, inertia is going to be the doom of us.

Besides, scifi movies have proven to be not so bad at predicting how much we suck.

All in all, there is little downside to act safe, and it's very risky to not act as such. There is no emergency to get GMO everywhere, just an economic push. No, even this bs about solving world hunger, which is not a technical problem.

So let's be good citizens and don't assume things will go our way just because we want to.

GMO can arrive at a slower pace. And the very fact people are making it take the fast lane, screaming it's ok with no evidence, is a very good sign we don't have things under control: money does.

So when a big corporation tells you they can contain GMO, and you get prove they couldn't, you don't defend them. It's not rational, nor good for democracy.
Every time they say "Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac" they've got some weird double-speak thing going on. Happens at 2:36 and 3:41 if you want to have a listen. Very odd and sounds exactly the same both times. Is this to prevent voice-to-text from working?

Links to video at those times:

[1] https://youtu.be/z3vdcrI7xak?t=156

[2] https://youtu.be/z3vdcrI7xak?t=221
I never understood the appeal of Chrome over Firefox in the beginning.
It’s because the world has always been coming to an end. If you’re 50 years old today, you grew up hearing that nuclear war or acid rain or the population bomb would be the end of the world and the sky was falling. Eventually you stop listening to kids crying wolf.
No classical functions as they exist now without added strengthening will be able to secure secrets against QC for long. OTOH, classical computing is reaching the limits of Moore's law, so barring process and fab cost reductions, CC ASIC costs will approach stability. If one wants to secure secrets without traditional digital logic (CC), it would get pricey, awkward and/or slow. I think we'll have to gradually keep looking more closely at cost to crack functions (i.e., GPU, ASIC, classical and q computation) much closer, in the spirit of scrypt and argon2. Zillions of rounds (is adding orders of magnitude in existing implementations) of AES or SHA3 maybe the tradeoff needed to thwart QC collisions / breakage with reasonable attacker costs & timeframe goals.
What really got me was the full picture of "tank man":
http://www.unz.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/TianAnmen-4.jp...

I had always understood (and I don't believe that I've misread media reporting on this) that it was a man trying to stop the advancing tanks that were heading in to massacre the protesters.

Turns out that it was the day after the clashes and they were heading out of the square. It's weird. On the one hand, the picture does inform correctly that a) tanks where there, b) a guy tried to stop them, but on the other hand it's very misleading when used in "man tries to stop tanks heading for Tiananmen Square to squash protests" context.
In fact it looks like below 200 mortality increased? And it was worse to have low cholesterol than high in most cases... very odd.
> you might as well just upload JPGs of your web pages

That was not so uncommon in 1999 :-(

Seriously, it's 2019 and some developers still don't get the value of semantic markup while this has been beaten to death for at least 20 years. this profession is cluttered with too many tourists. I even talk with devs bragging about the lack of care for markup.
Nothing wrong with a healthy touch of cynicism. Oftentimes in these discussions, it goes way beyond that. The battery “scandal” is a case in point.
Average salaries and individual salaries are not the same thing.
But is there any indication, that genetically modified plants do pose a danger to health, or the environment?

I mean with cigarettes it should have been obvious, you inhale, you cough. Maybe not good.

But with plants? In the food chain they just get digested. And in the wild they are either strong enough to be a new breed, or, more likely they fail and die out.
If it's not too much, could you share what's currently working for you?
Cloud computing in hardware is oxymoron.
This is very cool, but I wish marketing material told people that skin oils on their lends cause soft photos. Most people don't know to wipe the lens before taking a selfie, and the resulting photos look terrible.
AMD Ryzen 5 3600 IPC 25% Higher than R5 2600, 40% R5 1600
One is using a self-safe system that has been tuned for balance for 1000000 of years and have a proven track record and no agenda. The second one is made by a few smart people for only 20 years for money.

The second one has to prove to be safe. It's funny that all of HN hold boing so responsible for demonstrating things are safe when it affect only a few hundred people. But we have to be taking the word of people playing with new high tech toys for their own benefit that have the potential to affect the entire humanity because... ?
> Because they have the potential to have a cascading effect on human healt and the entire ecosystem.

Why should the risk be any higher in GMOs than it is in any new species, of which there are thousands discovered every year?
So if we could stop that degradation, or change the profile of it, then the calculations would yield better investment returns?
i keep seeing this repeated constantly, almost exclusively by americans.

i assume these are the last years of US hegemony.
Flagged your comment for this. You should at least glance over my comment history on distributed computing before attacking me on things you don't understand.
Wow, a political test for employment. I appreciate your honesty, at least.
Sooo am I the only one who thinks if you spend millions on creating a special breed you should be able to control who gets to use it? Otherwise where's the incentive for me to spend the money?
Her in Norway most people work 37.5 hours (40 hours present with an unpaid half hour lunch break). And if you are salaried then you can pretty much come and go as you please. I read somewhere (VG perhaps) that about 100k people work a four day week (same total time) here (out of a total 5.5 million population). It's especially attractive for people who have a long or stressful commute.
yes, however, ROI is more greatly affected by lowering the total bill of materials cost for a large PV install, and in particular the $ per W cost (at STC, standard test conditions) rating for each panel. Going from $0.72/watt to $0.46/watt in single pallet quantities of 20 panels was a huge difference.
They don't block you.

They offer to download Media Creation Tool, which itself either downloads the ISO, burns DVD or makes an USB with installer for you.

There is one subtle difference between the ISO you can download and what the tool downloads: the ISO contains install.wim file, which is larger than 4 GB (i.e. it won't fit on FAT32 usb, if you are going to make it yourself; it is fine with UDF, when burning), while the MCT image contains install.esd, which uses different compression and fits into FAT32.

TLDR: if you want USB stick with installer, use the Media Creation Tool. You won't be able to make it easily from the ISO (aside from wim-splitting, esd-recompressing, or using NTFS if your UEFI supports it).
Go’s Error Handling Sucks – A Quantitative Analysis
Why do those principles which make natural evolution safe not also apply to GMOs?
"Good artists copy great artists steal" [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW0DUg63lqU
Dishonest may be a bit harsh, misinformed is fairer. The OP is completely disingenuous. They know what that line implies, they are choosing to convey it as sinister.
How do you figure it's self-safe? That implies that selectively bred crops can't be harmful, but that's nonsensical. Many selectively bred crops carry higher than natural carcinogen quantities, for instance (potatoes). And that's ignoring plants that are straight-up deadly.

And which category does seed irradiation fall into? If exposing seeds to high radiation in order to randomly mutate them is an acceptable "non-GMO" mechanism, clearly something is wrong.
I ear a lot of talk about airplane pollution, is it actually a significant contribution?
Mobile chrome did not support ad blocking extensions last time I checked
Ask HN: How much of the product should be build out before testing demand?
There's a video of it here: https://twitter.com/Xiaomi/status/1135447561202937857
There is a catalog of varieties allowed for sale, all others are banned.

It takes a lot of money and lobbying to have a variety on the allowed list.

So farmers are forced to use certain varieties if they want to sell them, not because those varieties are inherently superior.

In fact some ancient varieties are better adapted to the local climate than modern one size fits all varieties, but because farmers are not allowed to sell them have almost disappeared (noncommercial growers and associations have kept some going).
I find it strange that research of this scale is looking exclusively at a compound metric. TC is HDL (apo A-I), LDL, VLDL, IDL (apo B) and few more things. Its different proportions of these things that define how healthy your cardiovascular system is, not the total sum. To complicate even more - those things are usually measured as concentrations (mass/volume) while much more important metric is particle count, but that’s not easy/cheap to measure.

Considering how complex this system is, measuring TC is like measuring average body temperature in the hospital.

It’s cool that they found a U-shape but this approach just makes patients(and doctors) hack the TC number without understanding how that affects lipoprotein composition and, subsequently, patient’s health.
There is some info here on some other countries:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortgage_loan
Mobile Firefox does. How is this not better known?
I'm at the event right now, was waiting for 4 hours in Victoria park before finally started moving. People are very peaceful and non aggressive, and I'm not sure this strategy will work.

Extradition to China is basically extradition to North Korea, a lawless country with no police, no courts and no justice.

Eventually this will extend to crimes like using a VPN and operating a group chat, not to mention the threat to businesses, journalists and lawyers.

I imagine if my startup refuses to provide data to mainland China, I could be held without court at an undisclosed location for as long as needed.
So how is this "contra-evidence"?
Data Science. Correlation
Can you find a winning strategy for this iterated prisoner's dilemma?
I'm from Belgium and heard the news. It's an accident, yes.

But it's not endolged by anyone here. That's a pretty big difference.
For example 2, we hold the human accountable and we have a system of social and administrative controls that attempt to mitigate these risks. For example, if you are a pilot and you show up drunk the flight crew will report you... because they don't want to be killed in the crash you may precipitate.

For 1 - well, actually CPU's are not as well understood as they might be. There are verified CPU's and stacks, but the pace of Moore's law and the cost of verification has meant that the performance gaps between them and the commodity chips has been huge. In 20/30 years time I expect that that gap will be small and we will see investment in fully verified stacks for many applications.

If the argument about accidental death reduction were true then wouldn't we have abandoned the use of personal cars and instead be insisting on public transit only? I believe that deaths per mile travelled on rail is far lower than for automobiles (in the US - which appears to have the worst record for rail one death per 3.4 billion passenger-km, for roads one death per 222 million passenger-km, that's an order of magnitude.)

[https://pedestrianobservations.com/2011/06/02/comparative-ra...]
That was the original intention for the iPhone, 12 years ago. Developers wailed.
Think it happened when they did the editing and merged voice with background music/sound.
0. Forget prepper YAGNI nonsense, get into stealth, defensible greenhouse farming outside of population centers with abundant and reliable access to freshwater.

1. Don't depend on electricity or civilization.

2. Get really good at the tools and techniques of tracking, hunting and war.

3. a) Have lots of kids and b) have enough trustworthy confederates who can keep their mouths shut.
Good point, I was mainly thinking about grain crops. Wasn't fully aware that the term crops also includes all the other growable fruit.
What about unique circumstances? Say a child or an animal ran out in the road and you changed lanes to avoid them but didn't have time to signal. Or any one of a hundred of these unique but not uncommon situations.

Would there be a mechanism in place to remove your fines and points? Would that system be automated? Would it be susceptible to lying? How long would it take to get the record corrected? Would the effort cost more than the fine?

Just from a technical/automated point of view, removing the moral and societal aspects, the real world is currently just way to complex and ambiguous to automate things like this.
I read it as: 200 is the lowest point of the U curve they found. Below 200 mortality decreases as TC increases, and above 200 mortality increases as TC increases, meaning anything close to TC seems to be the value with the lowest mortality rate.

> U-curve associations were found. In the TC ranges of 50–199 and 200–449 mg/dL, each 39 mg/dL (1 mmol/L) increase in TC was associated with 23% lower (95% CI:23%,24%) and 7% higher (6%,7%) mortality, respectively. In the age groups of 18–34, 35–44, 45–54, 55–64, 65–74, and 75–99 years, each 1 mmol/L higher TC increased mortality by 14%, 13%, 8%, 7%, 6%, and 3%, respectively (P < 0.001 for each age group), for TC ≥ 200 mg/dL, while the corresponding TC changes decreased mortality by 13%, 27%, 34%, 31%, 20%, and 13%, respectively, in the range < 200 mg/dL (P < 0.001 for each age group).
It's too early to tell. But when we build a nuclear reactor, we don't just make safety systems for likely events. We make them also for very, very unlikely ones. Because the potential risk is huge.

It's the same here. The potential risk is huge. We still have a hard time with things as simple as not killing each others, so thinking we are mastering introduction of these variables into such a complex systems is delusional at best, arrogant at worst.

Given that the people in charge of this are motivated by profit, and that we have history proving such entities will not do the right thing for humanity given the chance, let's not trust them.

Audit them to the ground. Force them to justify themself for 5 decades at every step. Make it transparent, systematic, and independant.

Working on GMO is ok. Trusting them to be safe because lobbists say so is not.
Something like that for the imaginary* subreddits would be fantastic.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ImaginaryNetwork/wiki/networksublis...
> Also, it took us 40 years to realize we may be responsible for global warning

There is a known mechanism for global warming: CO2. If you invoke the precautionary principle for everything without any requirement for scientifically feasible mechanism causing the imagined adverse effects, you can oppose everything. Why did we make use of the internet and wifi and cell phones right away, instead of slowly introducing them over a 100 year transition period? After all, there would have been little downside in acting safe and slow?
If the team is good it could pay off to continue working with them. Not that I would condone physical violence and I definitely suggest a less blunt approach, but here is how Charlie Watts solved the problem for him:

> On one occasion, according to Richards, Mick was in the mood to do some recording -- at five in the morning -- so he called Watts on the phone and said, "Where's my drummer?" Says Richards, these were the days when Mick's ego had gotten onto everyone's nerves, that it seemed all was about him.

> Watts got into his car and 20 minutes later arrived at the place. When Keith opened the door Watts walked right past him, went over to Mick, picked him up by the lapel and slugged him in the face. "Never call me your drummer again."
> we don't all go to church on Sundays anymore,

Church has nothing to do with it.

> we don't all need to be off the same day.

True enough except that you won't stop making a racket. I, and most other people I know, want a day when it is quiet, no rush and bustle, no noisy traffic, no noisy diy. Where I live it is normal to not mow the lawn or do any construction work outside the house on a Sunday and not do do any noisy work inside either if the neighbours could hear it.

Why on earth should an insurance office be open at the weekend? Come to think of it: why does such a thing even exist. I have not visited a bricks and mortar office to arrange insurance in the last forty years, I don't think they do exist here any more (Norway). Same for banks. And if I have a dental emergency then I go to the emergency dentist, otherwise I ask my usual dentist for an appointment during the week.
Don't know about Xuamaiu phones, but Pixel phones already warn you if the camera lens is dirty when you take a picture.
How would MMS help unless you read Blendle on a smartphone? Hardly anybody uses MMS in the Netherlands in any case (Blendle is Dutch).
Protanopia: An experiment into the possibilities of digital comics for tablets
Not a crypto expert, but wondering if we could make a classical encryption function where every bit of the output depends nontrivially on every bit of the input, so a long message would be harder to decrypt, even for a QC.

(First hashing the input counts as trivial because that would reduce the effective number of bits)
> he didn't do anything special to hack...

Someone who snatched a purse out the hand of someone else isn’t “doing anything special” either. The illegality doesn’t hinge on the difficulty of the action. Why is that so hard to grasp for technical crowds?

If you find a car with the keys in the ignition and the door unlocked, you won’t get away with driving it a block down the road by telling the judge: “Oh, but it was obviously insecure, and I was just testing to see if I could steal it”.
An Australian autistic developer found a top university's custom authentication database exposed to the internet in less than 10 minutes. Please, no more DIY crypto or running unaudited services willy-nilly. :prayer-emoji-here:
> But most car companies don't actually integrate a seat heater if you didn't order one.

Nope they do, and it is more common than you think. I become aware of this while on my friend Ford Fiesta as he enabled some features which were not available even in the most expensive model. It was a "wtf" moment. Until I realized that my car (mazda 3) does have features disabled by the seller. I just was too lazy to research unlocking them and doing it.