skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> there's no obvious analogy with (...) a set of temperature measurements the person made or anything like that.

But there is! Due to advances in technology, I can actually sequence my own DNA just as I can measure a few temperatures. The only difference is the price of the equipment. I understand there are other implications, some of them unfavorable, so maybe there are pragmatic reasons for making this publication illegal. But pragmatism is not the only source of law, there are also principles! It seems to me that, as a matter of principle, I have the right to measure my bodily functions and publish the results of said measurements. If other people are damaged by that information, this makes me an asshole, but it shouldn't make me a felon nor a misdemeanant.
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Have you ever gotten a six figure check when you move out? Happens to buyers all the time.
Clojure: Reaching Beyond Traditional Boundaries (GOTO 2018)
I was surprised to find out that VS code auto updates extensions by default. I suppose that beats never updating but I'd much prefer the tighter control as documented in the post.
Against Big Tech Viewpoint Discrimination
That is a heroically long article of which all I don't really have time to read, unfortunately. But it seems to me that these companies have an ethical responsibility to ensure that this important art is not lost forever, even if they technically own it and could ensure it never sees the light of day. What a loss.
A reminder that AMP results don’t show up on Google Search if you use the mobile version of Firefox ;)
Talk is from GOTO 2018, got uploaded last month
It's not hard to think of a couple of research questions that involve them performing tricks. You might as well invite people to watch the research as it happens.

(I'm not suggesting that they should do this, just that they will. "Research" can be an easily abused loophole. Just look at Japan and their whale "research".)
I hope you weren't on the sidewalk at this speed
If the company renting out the couch didn't come out on top, they'd just put their money in index funds instead of buying inventory...
A lot of posters here are saying that the software is available on Windows so it is an alternative. But, the automation story is much better on the Mac. There are a lot of professionals who will demand a Mac. Companies are not going to skimp on hardware to save a couple of grand. They will grit their teethe and by an iMac Pro or a Mac Pro.

The submission is about “Apple listening” while that’s one guy’s opinion, Apple told the press that they have an entire internal team of real professional media creators they worked with while designing the Mac Pro. Does anyone really think that Apple spent the last two years designing the Mac Pro without getting feedback of potential customers and didn’t design it to get the market they wanted? The same could be said about the iMac Pro.

Sure it’s nice to have other developers, but between web developers who prefer the Mac and could care less about a modular Mac and iOS developers who must buy a Mac, if Apple loses the other few - so be it in Apples eyes. The entire desktop market is a small niche (as opposed to laptops). If Apple developer the perfect mid range expandable Mac it wouldn’t make a meaningful difference to their revenue or ecosystem.
Here in the US steam boilers routinely last that long as long as your water quality isn't too terrible and you do some teeny tiny bit of maintenance. The natural gas ones tend to last longer than the oil ones but both often have a many decade service life. The radiators and pipes themselves last upwards of a century.

Wood stoves last basically indefinitely (i.e they are only taken out of service when the building owner decides they're sick of using wood) but you're probably gonna have to do something to make the seams seal better every several decades.

Fireplaces last as long as the masonry they're made from (~250yr and counting) as long as you don't let them fall apart and leak CO everywhere. I know some people who live in a house built in the 1700s and while they have forced hot air for "base load" they use the fireplaces to make the downstairs rooms extra warm almost daily in the winter. That said, this is only one step above your "open fire".
... in theory
Only if in possession of the email address or domain name.
Where an email address or domain name has been taken over by someone else, then sending the results to the email address instead of currently showing it on the webpage doesnt solve the problem. This data set is ripe for blackmailers, intelligence services and any company looking for intelligence on rival businesses.
Wow! That's something I do not normally even check. Then again, I don't leave my bike out of sight but the fact that someone would even think of doing something like that is pretty close to an attempt at murder.
> There were multiple fair metrics given for it being the best.

The unfair part is that they included one bike-like service, but didn't compare it to other bike-like services.
An Astronomer Is Building Inflatable Space Telescopes That Will Dwarf James Webb
How does new instructions, register renaming, etc work with different compilers? Say I'm using Visual Studio to compile C++, will it take advantage of the new processor features by default? What about if the binary runs on a different CPU, will the compiler include feature checks and multiple code versions?
shuouldn't it be the other way around?
An hypercard system implemented as an Emacs mode.
Many of the comments here seem to assume that the use of DNA tests without the accused's consent is a bad thing. I fail to see why. We use facial features and eyewitness-testimony to ID criminal dependents all the time. No one argues that consent/warrant is needed in order to ID someone using their facial features. More generally speaking, I fail to see the harm that can arise from using DNA to identify suspects, whereas the benefits are so much more compelling.
I'm hesitant to concur with you on the home inspection. The home inspector I've used several times has discovered termites, and other massive problems that would have cost me upwards of $40,000 on one specific house I was interested in buying. I paid a few hundred bucks to save myself from that headache.... The realtor on the other hand did almost zero
How to Ask Questions the Smart Way (2001-2014)
This biz unit kept spamming me. I had to complain multiple times to Amazon about their dumb emails. Sorry but good riddance.
If it takes no time or effort why not just do it at home? The results will be better.

It most certainly takes time and effort to have kitchen infrastructure, inventory, cook to order, and delivery.
Upvoting because legit question offers an opportunity to inform.

Most whales have a natural range of thousands of miles over the course of a year. Keeping them in tanks, no matter how generous to our eyes, is the equivalent of keeping a human in a bathroom for their entire life—-with exactly as little stimulation or variety as that implies.

Another response observes that whales in captivity always develop at least some neurotic behaviours, and this is generally regarded as directly caused by the incredibly limited environment in which they spend their lives. At one time, the argument was made that having them perform for crowds was necessary to keep them from going crazy.
You mentioned PHP or Python, or Ruby devs.
How was your experience on-boarding programmers with no Scala experience?
Sharing PDF on Android in React Native
DNA has almost no probative value in those cases, since they almost never involve a sample which can be genotyped that has a high probability of being linked to a particular crime.
It's ironic to me that AMP is a problem we all brought upon ourselves, really. It's almost (jokingly) a Prisoner's dilemma [1]. Had no one ever opted into it, it probably would have just been swept under the rug by Google, and a win-win for us all. But since a competitor of yours (probably) opted into it to get ahead of you, you now have to opt into it also, to compete and get the same SEO "power juice" it gave them. The fact that everyone now adds the code to their site to make it work with AMP is the problem. Google gave us the rope. And then all the SEO managers/marketers/specialists hung us with it. Ha

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner%27s_dilemma
The insurance is not even fixed cost (atleast I pay per mile bracket).

A have one minor vehicle tax that is fixed
Java vs. Clojure – Source of Clojure's Conciseness- Part 1
I hope that other companies will still be able to query to the database for free. 1Password does it now and I like it.
Let's Talk Testing: 4 quick lessons on the philosophy of testing
CPP would not be enough, you would need full C99-to-C89 compiler with parsing to AST.
CS departments should still teach C because being able to do memory management well also makes appreciating garbage collected languages.
Does HIBP sell the raw data?
Thanks for the kind words bjz, it means a lot coming from yourself!

I know you're busy with language design these days (and I would never stop you, I think what you are doing is some of the most important work there is right now!), but if you ever get the itch for some creative coding it'd be an honour to see you give nannou a shot and get your thoughts on what's missing, could be improved, etc :)
Chromium on mobile has always had issues with AMP for me, I've just come to acept it
I think it's wrong for a monopoly to take control of what another entitys site looks like. It's a we can take care of EVERYBODY feature: we were fine without it and will be fine when it doesn't exist anymore
Regardless who comes out ahead on the benchmarks, competition is always a good thing!
Nice design, but

> ..hits 50+ positive reviews, I will launch on Android

I as a non-iOS user don't have a way to signal to you that I'd like you to ship on Android, despite liking your app.
Every large collection of art and irreplaceable originals is like that. That's one reason why projects such as archive.org and archive team are so important.
Why should a community of highly skilled engineers provide free debugging labor to a giant corporation to fix a bug in a product that only exists because Malte Ubl wanted to get promoted?
Do you have some examples of good ones? I tend to agree with the parent but would like to see examples of the contrary.
The iMac 5K? Even with the i9 it doesn't throttle.
> car ownership
While ownership isn't that important per se, access to a car is vital for many people living where there are no public transport options available. Unless you intend to start relocating people forcibly, we need to maintain some kind of transport ability on the country side.

Doesn't have to be run on fossil fuels, though.
It's probably also futile to keep homoglyph tables without the context of the font being used, as т and т are the same letter, just with different styles (and in some fonts resemble T and m respectively in Latin). Unicode mentions homoglyphs briefly in UTR #36, but overall I feel that it's not really their job to solve that issue, as visually similar characters already exist in ASCII and other limited character sets and every context where those things are a problem probably needs to be evaluated differently with different mitigations.
I fail to see the connection between whales and dolphins kept in captivity in China vs a law being passed in Canada
Saving work is for the weak.
> If they have to redo all their forms anyway, I’d figure they’d at least consider using an Office suite that doesn’t support active content.

Which office suite doesn't these days? MS Office obviously does, Open Office/Libre Office does, Google Sheets does (although Google docs doesn't). There probably isn't even close to as many attacks for these macros as MS office macros, but they can exist.

What they need to do is invest in learning how to set up off site backups and basic security principles.
How do you do that?

The broken feature is the exact feature that lets you not use it....
Space? Scooters are smaller, which means they can be more plentiful, which as a transit solution means more reliable.
No one walked up to a Muslim that was otherwise non-combative with them, and did a 9/11 in front of them to start a fight.
You think SEO specialists give a shit about AMP? They just care about how high your page ranks in Google--if anything, they'd love it if the web was more Google-centric.
I like the idea behind this article, but "Responsive Tables #2: Flexbox" really is a pretty good example of what _not_ to do.

Just hiding the table header definitely does not work - this is how I first "read" the data:

- Slice of Pizza = 450

- 95% = $5.00

- Common = 8/10

And this clearly doesn't make any sense at all.

PS: I would love to see Markdown formatting make it to HN comments one day...
UK network operators demand clarity on where the Government stands on Huawei
Hmm, that's a great point! Maybe I should change to upvotes on ProductHunt? Thanks for the feedback!
If it breaks things. For example, I had a common issue where reddit links in search didn't have comments and I had to click through to get to them

If the amp page displays what you expect, it works well. It it makes you click through, it doesn't.

Of course, users may or may not realize amp/google are the reason a site is broke.

Dunno how many people have issues like this though. Reddit was the main one for me, plus a few random sites having issues.
Not true. Sites can’t safely preload and pre render non-amp pages, so non-amp pages will never be as fast as amp pages.
> it's best to keep your text in UTF-8 and convert it to and from UTF-16 when interacting with win32 APIs

It’s extra source code to write and then support, extra machine code to execute, and likely extra memory to malloc/free. Too slow, in my book automatically means “not best”.

> Java, dotNet and JavaScript are the worst of all worlds because you're both stuck with wide characters (in their native string types) and have the intricacies of UTF-16 to consider.

Just a normal UTF-16, like in WinAPI and many other popular languages, frameworks and libraries. E.g. QT is used a lot in the wild.

> the advice might have been better phrased as

It says exactly the opposite, “Use the encoding preferred by your library and convert to/from UTF-8 at the edges of the program.”
Doesn't that take the problem back to the spot where we have the header repeated for each cell? In a data attribute instead of a span, which may be cleaner, but still:

https://codepen.io/andrelaszlo/pen/xoxmdg

Is there a way to only define the header label once and refer to them depending on the cell using only CSS?
Agreed. Further to your point, AMP was only ever needed because we made our pages so artificiality heavy in the first place
Unfortunately there is no real alternatives, its like operating systems, one or two system have so much momentum that using anything else becomes extremely difficult even when they are inferior in certain domains. see http://www.fixup.fi/misc/usenix-login-2015/login_oct15_02_ka...
Yeah hope you plan to hold for 100 years.
That's the case in France where DNA samples are taken on any person arrested, whether they committed a crime or not, including demonstrators (or bystanders) in a political march.

The national DNA database now includes over 5 percent of the population and it is a great tool for the police since the authors of serious crimes typically have almost always committed petty crimes before. It also means that you can solve small crimes like burglaries with DNA.

It is a bit worrying from a privacy protection point of view though. And I barely see this database ever questioned by the French press.
That's not how corporate engineering works

I'd wager that corporate engineering standards are supposed to be a lot more stringent when you're not manufacturing widgets, but objects like buildings, bridges, or commercial airliners.

That they didn't go into introspection mode, being the only entity who could (and should) have known what the potential issue was after the LionAir crash, and didn't move hell and high water to get to the ground of it (and they very obvisously didn't) is pretty much inexcusable.

That they're still smearing the pilots, puts them, in my book, into the scum of the earth category.

There should be a special place in hell for Boeing's senior management.

edit: clarification
It's a Hacker news thing, anything political let's see what China is doing or blame China for something else.
> People on the late side of sunset across U.S. time zones were 11 percent more likely, on average, to be overweight and 21 percent more likely to be obese. Diabetes was more prevalent, and the risk of heart attack increased by 19 percent. Breast cancer rates were slightly elevated, too — about 5 percent higher than average.

And yet many people advocate the adoption of permanent DST, which would make that even worse for everyone...
I keep hearing about this, but every time without any reference. Where and how can one visit such forums?
Nasdaq Will Create a Cryptocurrency Data Service for Institutional Investors
That very much depends on what you're doing. Constantly reencoding between UTF-16 and UTF-8 would be pointless. Not to mention that "UTF-16" on Windows usually means UCS-2, so you risk losing information if you reencode.

But if your application's strings are mostly independent of the WinAPI then sure, use UTF-8 and only convert when absolutely necessary.
Similar losses, though less dramatic and less all at once, have plagued the software industry too and in particular video games. An enormous amount of source code and assets for stuff made in the 80s and 90s in particular has been lost for good, which makes it far more difficult to preserve and update them. If there is some tiny silver lining possible out of these modern Library of Alexandria permanent destruction of cultural heritage events, it's that they might ultimately help push back against the IP maximalists and towards better using digital advances for promoting science and the arts too. Beyond reductions in term back towards something more sane (though attribution should perhaps be split off), it would also be good to see a requirement that all sources to produce a work must be submitted, encrypted, to the Library of Congress (or similar) in order to qualify for copyright protection. Then they could be preserved and released once the work enters public domain (or if otherwise lost the copyright holder could request a copy for a fee).

Back when copyright was purely a product of the written word the ultimate master information was also by definition included in every copy. It would spread as part of sales, and upon leaving the period of monopoly could then directly be utilized and fully contribute to further advanced culture. But over time we've lost that without the laws adapting in turn, which has resulted in real permanent losses.

Also, kudos to the Times for going back and investigating this and helping bring it more to light, including explicitly calling out their own lacking coverage at the time. That it was covered up so much by an organization that has helped directly lobby for more protection is salt in the wound.

>A skeptic might argue that this is as it should be. In the 140-odd years since Thomas Edison invented the phonograph, countless recordings have been made under the auspices of record companies. To conserve anything close to all those recordings has proved impossible; it may not even be desirable. The caretaking of canonical material, the Bings and Billies and Nirvanas, must naturally take priority. To ask that the same level of attention be lavished on all music, including stuff that holds interest only for obscurantists, is to demand a preservation standard that prevails in no other area of culture. If the sole vestiges of thousands of old recordings are a few stray 45s lining the shelves of collectors — perhaps that’s not a cultural tragedy, perhaps that’s a commercial-art ecosystem functioning properly.

This sounds like an argument for all of that having been moved into the PD then long since and then letting culture at large take a shot at it all.
This is similar to a realization I had the other day: for many people collecting things is less about the objects and more about the memories and nostalgia and associated with those objects.

I have been having a lot of "identity" problems lately, and it occurred to me that very little of what I own has any substantial story about it nor does it say much about who I am as a person.

The objects we collect exist as affirmations of the identity we've chosen for ourselves.
2019 CIGI-Ipsos Global Survey on Internet Security and Trust Published
Ask HN: Anyone rewriting Java code due to new license costs?
With Oracle’s new terms for commercial Java license, are commercial software being rewritten to another language? Time to bring back C :-)
How to Install InfluxDB on Windows in 2019
The Swedish-Russian Dyatlov Expedition 2019
Interestingly enough, I recently received a bulk email from GEDMatch.com about exactly this subject.

They changed their TOS so that now users need to explicitly opt in to sharing their data with law enforcement. That's good for user privacy, but it does make me wonder what they were doing before this change.
> healthcare

Forget about Haven already?
But there are some cases where there is only DNA. There is a double murder going to trial soon where DNA found via GEDmatch is the only evidence.

My fear is that planting DNA isn't something individuals are likely to do (thought it's not impossible), but something the state or large organizations are likely to have the resources to do properly. Corrupt LEOs. Corrupt politicians. It seems a lot easier than many alternative corrupt practices.
>The good news is that it wouldn't even suck.

It would for me. I work in international freight, I'd be unemployed. It looks like my employer may have used 1.2 billion gallons of jet fuel alone last year, if these figures are accurate https://www.statista.com/statistics/878539/fedex-express-tot... -- at 9.57kg of carbon per gallon that is 11,640,000 metric tons of carbon (again if the numbers are accurate) just from our planes last year :(

We'd also be forced back to a (largely) pre 1950s-1960sish era level of tech as devices started to die off simply because we currently don't have the means of mining and moving goods globally on renewable energy at anywhere near current levels. I'm mostly fine with this though, if I woke up tomorrow and magic had made the computers/the internet/smartphones/e-readers disappear I'd have a really rough few days then I'd be like "oh well, let's go outside or down to the library, let me show these kids how a card catalog works".
As anyone who has put together a chroot knows, it isn't as simple as just preventing a process from accessing the filesystem. Most programs need to access a filesystem, just so they can load libc and the various other libraries it might need.
A better alternative is having the data, data model and business logic tightly bound in one place.
Not separated in multiple "tiers"

When one of these things change it changes the rest.
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My single port Intel X520 achieves line rate through x4 chipset lanes just fine.

GPUs generally don't come close to saturating x8 3.0 lanes, unless you have a very specific workload (like the new 3dmark bandwidth benchmark AMD used to demo PCIe 4.0).

Games don't do nearly enough asset streaming to use a lot of bandwidth, since the amount of assets used at the same time is limited by VRAM size, and most stuff is kept around for quite some time. Offline 3D renderers like Blender Cycles IIRC just upload the whole scene at once and then path tracing happens in VRAM without much I/O. For buttcoin mining, people literally use boards with tons of x1 slots + risers. No idea how neural nets behave, but would make sense that they also just keep updating the weights in VRAM.
I guess the flip side is not owing a six figure mortgage.