skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well said. Unfortunately I can't help but feel the Snowden revelations have had such a profound chilling effect on free speech and the press, that we are now afraid to go on record - even with pseudonyms - to denigrate the NSA, CIA and other government agencies. The thought that any idea, written or perhaps even not, is cataloged for eternity and scrutinized under unknown pretenses certainly gives me pause before I write or reply online now. Truly, I am afraid saying the "wrong" thing today may in a few short years turn out quite badly.
As someone who writes a lot of software for "old-school pharma", I'll point out a few things.

1) "Old-school pharma" includes AI - we were developing AI-based software products for drug discovery back in the 1990s - so what makes this anything new?

2) Clustering chemical compounds dates from the 1980s. Interactive 2D/3D clustering are of course newer, but still ... what makes this new?

3) "tons of molecular data" in this case is appears to be https://www.drugbank.ca/ . That is, "the license of our data-provider" links to that page. Quoting from that page:

> The latest release of DrugBank (version 5.1.3, released 2019-04-02) contains 13,339 drug entries including 2,594 approved small molecule drugs, 1,289 approved biotech (protein/peptide) drugs, 130 nutraceuticals and over 6,304 experimental drugs.

That's tiny. ChEMBL contains 1.8 million entries, most pharmas have much more than that.

So, what justifies the use of "tons of molecular data"?

4) "If a drug candidate is in the neighborhood of another molecule, there is an extremely high chance that they are related!"

How was that quantified? It's trivial to have a high true positive rate. For example, graph edit measures like in SmallWorld can make that guarantee.

But as the cluster boundary decreases, it's less and less true.
Ask HN: Should HN have a separate low-content section?
Perhaps having a sharp distinction between the main page of HN, and the low content section, would help to maintain a high standard for posting on the main page.
Marginalisation is the big problem. An other community comes in mind that is currently only allowed to congregate in small designated reservation where the general public is warned of their presence. The size of that demographic is estimated to be bigger than the LGBT community and yet holds no political influence and I doubt there has been a single US presidential candidate in history that given them positive focus on the political agenda. Most seems happy to regard them as a few weirdos that can be kept out of sight and mind from the rest of society. LGBT activism and in particular the pride parade are good examples of how to break out of such public perception.
Doctors and reverends are called with honorifics all the time.
Sounds reasonable, but doesn't work out.

All the other people in the office see that employee as "lazy Bob". The guy who isn't around every 2nd Friday. They guy who works slower than everyone else. They guy who always seems to be randomly missing from important meetings, and then doesn't know what's going on.

A 90% time employee is worth far less than 90% to the company.

Source:. Worked at a company where employees could either take a few days off after a bout of overtime, or get paid extra. Those who took days off were seen as lazy, not committed, and wouldn't get promotions or roles of responsibility.
That's not totally true. If you provide access to your web site to people then in many places in the world you can't limit that access in a way that discriminates against protected classes.

In the US for example you can't set up your web site in a way that accessing it discriminates against people with disabilities.
Everyone is so amazed that he opened the safe “on the first try” but the article also says, “Like the Mills family, other museum visitors played around with trying to open it, with no success.“ Moreover the museum had had the safe since the mid 90s, at least 20 years... sounds like lots of tries by tourists... is it really so surprising that someone eventually opened it? Probably people don’t sit there all day, they try once or twice then let the next person have a go... so maybe 50% chance that the person that opened it would get it on their “first try”. (If not the article would have said “almost immediately” which would be nearly as newsworthy.) Sounds like the multiple comparisons fallacy.

More-moreover, not unlikely there are multiple safes in public places like this in the world (I have seen at least one before in an antique shop that people would try like this) but this is the one that got opened and therefore written up in the news... sounds like survivorship bias.
Have you tried Waze? It's way better compared to other map apps in this regard.
Apple employees can’t stop walking into the glass doors at Apple Park campus
Really? Because your government treats an attack on digital infrastructure as an act of war.

So why do you war so much yourself?
If you haven't seen it already, this would be a good start:

"How To Design A Good API and Why it Matters" by Joshua Bloch

Video:
https://dev.tube/video/aAb7hSCtvGw

PDF:
https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...

It is presented with Java as example but the principles are general.
Why? Based on what military / social doctrine must aggressive attacking of Yandex "MUST" be done? What's there to gain and what's there to lose?

Can you explain the reasoning beyond "yes"?
"Nondeterministic" in automata is a very specialized word that doesn't refer to anything like a random process in a stochastic universe.

It's a representation for state machines in which state transitions are apparently ambiguous: a given state in the NFA can, for exactly the same input, go into multiple other states. This is a very convenient representation for pattern matching.

The way the ambiguity resolves itself is not through randomness, but by the understanding that the machine is in all of the possible states at the same time. Then, in a concrete implementation in a programming language, we represent that situation by using a set of states as the run-time state.

E.g. when the input symbol b is received, some NFA machine goes from state { 0, 3, 5 } to { 1, 3, 7, 8 }; i.e. it is in NFA states 0, 3 and 5, which transition to 1, 3, 7, 8 when b is seen.

NFA graphs can be executed directly by an NFA simulator which calculates these transitions on the fly.

We can also statically figure out all the state sets there can be and their transitions.Then we re-label these sets as the simple states of a deterministic automaton. E.g. { 0, 3, 5 } is dubbed S0, { 1, 3, 7, 8} is dubbed S1. There is a transition from S0 to S1 on b. We can work through all the possible transitions, ferret out all the subsets and their transitions to build a simple machine. That is the "subset construction".
Some things such as google docs text documents do not count towards your quota - so people converted data to base64 and uploaded that as docs to get free storage - bit of a dick move if you ask me, as it forces google to take steps like this one and kill the goodness for the rest of us
and the story was broken in the Financial Times,
a British newspaper.

He is quoting and criticizing the Apple website.
I REALLY don't see Apple as leading the charge on USB-C. I see them as a laggard given their refusal to put a USB-C port where it's most useful - on their phones. They also weren't the first to put the ports on their laptops.

Just because they ship a laptop with 4 USB-C TB ports and nothing else doesn't mean they're driving USB-C adoption nearly as much as say Samsung or Huawei. If anything because they literally don't use the same port across different types of devices unlike other phone/laptop sellers... They're discouraging USB-C adoption and making dongles more appealing since you will still need dongles if you're using all Apple even if you have USB-C native stuff.

Apple aren't pushing people towards expensive new standards they're just making consumer unfriendly decisions. Making it so you can't use USB-A does not mean you're making it easy to adopt USB-C... They make adopting USB-C unnessecarily painful.
> If they would introduce a paid service that lets me have the exact same site, but without ads, I would sign up in a second.

And then do that and then suddenly users think it's not worth the money for reason X and they tank. It has happened many times before and few companies can pull that off when their products were established as free.
> That's pretty disrespectful and ignorant to other cultures and customs.

Not all customs deserve respect. I guess I don't have to produce a list of all the things that were once "customs", and that now horrify us. "Sir" is a honorific that implies class distinction, to indicate that someone is socially above you, by virtue of birth or by the decision of a monarch.

I know that the British crown now give knighthoods to honor notable artists, scientists, politicians, etc. It also still uses it in the traditional sense. In the UK, you can have a seat at the House of Lords (the upper house of parliament) because of your social status, either by birth or by position in the clergy. I certainly do not respect any of that.
90% of it is just shitposting

the rest is filled with people accelerating the mentally unstable

try treating internet users like human beings first, maybe?
John Gruber might be the most shameless Apple lackey / lapdog out there, there's no surprise in him being bitter at Ive for leaving.
It's never exactly 50 Hz, as the frequency is affected by load and generators can't compensate this perfectly. So record it in many locations, then correlate the signal extracted from audio/video against the database.

Main article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_network_frequency_a...
In the Deep South, it's not that unusual to say Mr./Ms. (First name) as a show of respect.

When I worked at Aflac, the sole remaining (living) founder, Paul Amos, was routinely internally referred to as Mr. Paul.
I don't think it's necessarily peers, it might be any humans that we interact with as a part of our work - our bosses, our clients, etc.
Imposing a problem is one way of teaching a solution - it may not be the best way, or a way that you like, but it is a way.
I have been looking at some of the past plastic devices and actually really love the design and feel. Wonder if they should try that again.
Why does it have to be done this way? Can you provide more sources that show that aggresively attacking a nation's company this way is actually outweighing the downsides?

Note that I'm not questioning the existence of intelligence services, I'm asking you to provide basis that directly attacking companies like that is worth it. Also where's the line that makes this "dirty" business worth it?
It’s sensible that he would cover topics on which he has professional insight, and this is what Bloomberg pays him to write about. Do you think he is more repetitive than other financial columnists?
Even DOS doesn't work for most modern hardware. Can't have direct blueray drive access if there is no way to initialize the SATA controller...
There's def cool stuff to learn from at each step, including the masks vs the RTL. That was the value add of Intrinsity for instance.
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-38566114
Unfortunately we'll have to see it to truly believe it. I don't doubt Valve would do that, but it's easy to say that now.

Luckily, we still have torrents to help backup old games.
The D810 came out in 2014, Nikon have since favoured XQD over CF. The D5 was available with both, but the D500 and D850 both take an SD and XQD card - and their new mirrorless line is XQD only.

Of course, the next CF standard, CFexpress, is XQD-shaped and devices will be backward compatible.
Aluminum is a fantastic conductor of heat. Most heatsinks are made of aluminum. Do you mean that its texture doesn't provide adequate surface area to conduct heat to the air? Or that the thickness of the enclosure itself is inadequate to be a proper heatsink regardless of the material used?
Apple’s problem is that they are looking at their customer base for directions, while ironically every business course uses Apple’s iPhone as THE example for addressing pains from a first principle, evidence based, customer discovery approach. Which is sad because at some point Apple was very inspiring.
Yes I've recently learned that! Imagine that my previous name was SKAG.io I was hoping that the rebranding would be a good move!
Years ago I sort of arbitrarily decided I'm willing to give 2 heroic week(end)s per year. Once I started putting up boundaries and enforcing them, I was suddenly seen as much more valuable. Promotions, more money. Human psychology is really weird.
Darwin is just one piece of the puzzle. macOS is much more than it's kernel.
Seems the exact same reasoning to me. Especially since we're talking about US, which just revoked visas to international court prosecutor, which dared to suggest an investigation, which would look into any possible war crimes that US soldiers may have commited in Afghanistan ( https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47822839 ).

A country which so aggresively attacks a person that merely suggests to look into possible breakage of a law cannot have clean hands or be trustworthy.
The 30% figures others have mentioned seem high to me (as in, impossibly so).

I left the US in 2005. My gay friends and many in the gay community in S.F. estimated amongst themselves at the time that about 10% of people were gay or lesbian, while the general public estimates were more like 4%. They estimated higher because they knew people who were not out of the closet. But even the gay community didn't think it so high as 30%.

I gather that there is some kind of virtue signal "brownie points" thing going on in the US now (from what I read, I'm not there and perhaps I've been mislead, If I'm wrong I'm wrong, no offense intended) which makes people behave in ways designed to signal virtue to each other for social brownie points, and perhaps this is what is contributing to these high estimations. This new social norm disproportionally affects younger people and women.
A bookmarklet is only invoked when you click it. Not on every fricking website you visit.

And it would just have to be a single line that you can read so you can trust it. Something like:

javascript:location.href='https://discuss.com/'+location.href

That would redirect you to discuss.com where you can discuss your current url without discuss.com having any access to your data.

To make it more convenient, the bookmarklet could also add the discussion to the current page via an iframe which also has no access to any outside data.
Isn't this project the same project that did the highly edited ACORN video recording gotchas to generate outrage on the right?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_c...
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In one word, cost! But you get what you pay for and it shows in the quality of the work. The engineers are just fresh out of college and are given titles like junior dev or senior dev rather quickly to retain them. This combined with fake resumes compound the problem where a solution to any problem is simply reboot the computer. CDAC/NIC are even worse -- just go see the state of some state-run sites, they've got people that are stuck in the past, can't be fired and won't change things because hey, why change things when you will get paid nonetheless!
On the one hand, I agree. On the other hand, the investment in the physical design itself is quite significant at the high end, and you can't see that from the HDL source. Frankly, if you're going to steal, you'd want to steal both.
Google offered unlimited storage of private documents and people used it. I see nothing wrong with that. If this became an issue then goggle should have set limits or made it count to your google account storage. There is no point offering "Unlimited storage" and then stop people from using it.
If you think Flat design can't be fun, then I encourage you to look at the entire iPad gesture system [1]. I feel like Iron Man when using it.

Also, the Apple Books app [2] isn't purely flat, but it shows that flat Design can have just as much character.

[1] Multitasking, Drag and Drop, Text Selection, Control Center, Cut Copy Paste Undo.
[2] https://www.apple.com/apple-books/
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I wonder how this relates to federated learning? [0]

[0]: https://federated.withgoogle.com/
This is a very weird way of viewing the issue. The space is physically there, but because the size of the phone is ok anyway experience-wise it seems to be an extra feature?
To anyone working at a company doing this sort of stuff: The standard you walk past, is the standard you accept.
I am a Non-sikh Indian and totally loved this idea of same last names. In our society people judge you based on your last name (caste) and I never liked it. My son's last name is Singh.
> They made a big, high-tech factory with a large degree of automation. That's a great way to build a high volume product. It's a terrible way to build a $3000 niche computer.

The hidden cost of high wages: automation induced product inflexibility.

It's not even limited to low-volume products: if you had 100x the demand and the production capacity to match, you'd still want to run your expensive automation pipeline mostly unchanged for almost as many years as with a low-volume product. Only some of the up-front cost of automation is fixed per product change, another part is fixed per throughput * product change and this part will hit you at 100/day as hard as at 10000/day.
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I agree, without holding their people as slave workers they will not be able to compensate the lack of efficiency in resource allocation in the long run. People are accepting this right now because there is so much progress but if that progress stalls for a couple of years, because of some economic cycle e.g. they might lose their patience. This will be answered with more force/control of the government which in turn kills even more of the efficiency.

In my view this is the most probable scenario but there are also some advantages they have. One I find particularly valuable is that most of its government is constituted of engineers (70% if I remember correctly) vs. in the US most are some sort of Lawyers (?).

It is really interesting how this will play out in the mid/long term. I am kind of bullish on the western countries though they are all (especially here in europe) shooting their own feet by killing their most valuable asset: their free markets.
The right answer isn't what it is looking for. Its more looking for the way you try and work out the answer.
Nothing to miss by avoiding a visit, trust me.

That website reeks of low quality outrage content, it even has the typical Youtubey thumbnails.
The case is certainly influencing the thermals, but mostly it’s just that Apple aren’t putting enough heat pipes on the CPU inside the case.
My point was more that I disagree that burnout is caused in part by the fact that you perceive other people caring less about work than you do.

If anything, the reason why burnout seems to be more frequent is because too many people care too much about their work, which creates pressure on others to join in on appearing like they care and emotionally invest in their work, which goes back to my theory that people ultimately burnout because they’ve been pressured to put their whole selves into their work when for many their work is actually devoid of much meaning.
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I prefer the notch and no chin. These design decisions are difficult but ultimately the iPhone X was an impressive phone . The S10 is a nice phone too, to me both look good in the photo. Jony Ive has contributed great work to the design of mobile / personal computing products. Today I smile walking into a tech store and ooogling at the surface book, XPS and Lenovo. Peer pressure has improved the design across the board. I’m a 20+ year apple customer and recently my 2 year old mbp went in for some restoration work. First time i’ve had to use Applecare. For a company like Apple outsourcing design seems similar and counter intuitive however from an objective perspective I question design choices. My 2012 MBP has a tidier appearance to my 2017 MBP which requires many dongles and adapters. To me that is a bad design. So it might be that Jony is more responsible for design problems and this is it for Apple.
I made a little twitter thread here (shameless ploy for followers) (I work for AWS): https://twitter.com/jrhunt/status/1144402767890436096

* Works on amzn linux 2 - installed by default on newer versions

* otherwise: $ sudo yum install ec2-instance-connect

* The SSH public keys are only available for one-time use for 60 seconds in the instance metadata.

* you can send up your own SSH keys `aws ec2-instance-connect send-ssh-public-key`

* cloudtrail logs connections for auditing

* doesn't support tag based auth but it's on the roadmap

* plans to enable it in popular linux distros in addition to amzn linux 2

Install local client:

$ aws s3 cp s3://ec2-instance-connect/cli/ec2instanceconnectcli-latest.tar.gz .

$ pip install ec2instanceconnectcli-latest.tar.gz

$ mssh instanceid
Makes sense to write it in Julia. Pretty much the only non commercial language that deals natively with mathematical objects in a way that makes sense to non CS people doing statistics. Plus, it is fast out of the box.

Like, when I first saw how you work with matrices in Python, I had a stroke.

I dont really get why we use Python for everything. The matlab style syntaxt is infinitly better for ML, stats and math.
Site seems to be an ad farm.

Actual Project Veritas site.[1]

[1] https://www.projectveritas.com
I can imagine an autonomous Google car suffering to drive through a remote dry stream that comes back after half a year full of scratches from believed to be extinct dinosaurs.
Could anti-competitive suit be raised towards google regarding their reCaptcha? They aiming to have (if not already) a crawler blocking tool that obviously doesn't block their own crawler.

Doesn't that sound a bit dystopian?
Is this a surprise to anyone in this community?
> To be clear, I'm talking about the plastic on the inside

Ok: your original comment mentions 'lid' and 'metal case' without anything about the keyboard rest (which is carbon fibre). I am not saying I am the clearest communicator, but you didn't answer me very well IMHO.
I tried switching a couple of times but every time I face the same issue - the "touch" response is just _bad_ and I can't seem to be able to fix it. For example the "[-]" link on hackernews is almost impossible to click. I have to brute-force it by clicking multiple times, same applies for other websites where it doesn't seem to pickup the closest link I click.

On the other hand, the "Firefox Focus" app and Chrome do not seem to have this issue. Is there any way to fix this, because it's literally the only thing that stopping me.
Another way to look at risk versus reward in binary classification
Agreed.
While I agree with OP's criticism of journalists, even as a developer with an interest in low-level programming I'm not nearly knowledgeable enough in what is ultimately an extremely niche field. I understand what all of the components are when reading about them, but know nothing about the manufacturing process, and even less about the politics that goes on.
If you know something, enlighten the right people. It might be asking too much to expect people to figure this out on their own.
Please don't pick the most irritating point in an article to comment on just because it's so irritating. This is the most minor thing that he had to say.
Ah OK. You also had the misfortune of accidentally expressing something I've seen people here express sincerely before, which is why I didn't assume the more charitable, less-consistent with your comment's meaning.

I don't have any disagreement with the claim that some demand is advertising-generated (in fact, it's a non-trivial part of advertising's purpose). Thanks for clarifying!