skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> GMO is specifically about laboratory manipulation of genes, including cross-species gene insertion,

It's actually about a specific narrow range of techniques, not laboratory manipulation generally.

> cross-species gene insertion, which is not possible via selective breeding.

Cross-species genetic transfer occurs in the wild and, as such, is one of the forms of genetic drift on which the selection in selective breeding acts, so this claim is false.

It is not one of the mechanisms that is accelerated by modern methods of accelerated genetic change that are frequently paired with selective breeding as a similarly-rapid, far less controlled, and more label-friendly alternative to “GMOs”.
>> My point is humans are already behaving extremely poorly as drivers

I haven't been in an accident in over 15 years
The Negative Effect of Social Media on Self-Esteem
I'm happy Google is dropping this. I don't want them developing more censorship tech that they can then roll out to the US, or other markets. It should be hard to censor things on the internet, and the less effort that is put into censorship tech, the better off humanity is.
This happens _all the time_. Bitstream, one of the very first digital foundries, got their start by digitizing famous print typefaces without permission (not that they needed it).

Funny thing is, legendary type designer Hermann Zapf actually worked with URW to create knockoffs of fonts he'd originally designed for Linotype years before. Some of them even got open-sourced, which is why there's a free version of Palatino in the Ghostscript fonts (URW Palladio L).
I love LitRPGs. It's like candy in book form. Almost no substance and my brain just turns off.
Did you consider the ability for one to offset their carbon footprint on their own? I know there is probably less money involved, but it would be cool if I could determine my footprint and then be given tasks to try to offset it on my own.

EDIT: cool project btw :)
That is not a sound security policy. Reducing the attack range of my password from 1:72^8 (or greater with non alpha, more than 8 chars) to 1:500 is only a matter of time before I’m pwned. Should anyone ever want to pwn me (which I hope they don’t).
One thing that might be nice to do is to include an entirely WGS84 transformed version of the data for people looking to perform worldwide geospatial analysis. if the datum/projections are available for the regional datasets it’s a relatively trivial program to write as part of the ETL processing needed to make data available (PROJ implementations such as proj4j have everything you need to do this if the input metadata is available). Might need a decent amount of compute to perform all that transformation on a regular basis, but if it’s something like a weekly dump it doesn’t seem unrealistic at all. I think an optimized Spark job using proj4j on worldwide OSM data could probably perform this task in a few hours.
In 2017, Lina M. Khan published an article in the Yale Law Review entitled “Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox” (January 2017, Volume 126, Number 3, pp. 710-805) where she points out that the US.'s current antitrust law is inadequate to address Amazon's threat to competition. Definitely a good read for anyone who feels that online platform pose unique challenges for antitrust ethics.
It’s easy. It’s just a tool. If you need it now, go get it. If you don’t need it now, don’t get it. Don’t overthink it.
What a cool project!
It makes sense. Kids not too long ago wanted to be tv stars because that was all they watched. I think tv has been on its way out for years and youtube has mostly filled the void. Now they just watch youtube. 'Celebrities' to them are primarily youtube celebs.
The word is pejorative because it’s a bloody move.

But I think when people compare colonialism to nazis, they should really separate the economic/political/military move of taking over another country, and what happened from there in some countries which was religious/moral/ethical deeds (I mean by that the slavery, objectification of humans, genocides, cleansing, intentional famines, drug trades etc.)

I personally care about that distinction because the later part didn’t stop when colonialism was over, and it didn’t happen that wildly either in a lot of colonies through history.

What was done by Belgians in Congo was not “colonialism”, I see it as something way more ethically evil and proper to the Belgian culture of the time.

To get back to the balloons, the concept that was described was giant companies using their resources to capture whole captive markets in developping countries and grab mindshares+ad revenue on relatively untouched population.

I could totally see the parallel with european companies getting a foot in Asia and extensively use their resources and technology advantage to take over whole markets and become large enough to get the governments under their feet.
Good, I hope pipenv is also included.

Would prevent comments such as
"I like the current implementation", "thanks for the feedback, but my ego says no" and "I have no idea" in some of the most important projects of the Python Community.

Or passive-aggressive closure of issues that are clearly affecting people and are issues.

https://github.com/pypa/pipenv/issues/966#issuecomment-34620...

Don't get me wrong, I appreciate requests especially, but a maintainer should be humble also and respect other people independent of how rockstar he is or feels.

I am very happy to see Organisations/people such as pocoo - Armin Ronacher and Sentry - David Cramer etc. are already stepping up to make sure these libs land in the right place and continue to be useful to the community.

Complementary article: https://vorpus.org/blog/why-im-not-collaborating-with-kennet...
I'm from the UK but listened to this episode, one of the shocking aspects to it was they set noindex directives on the FreeFile site - although looks like they've removed them since

https://www.propublica.org/article/turbotax-deliberately-hid...
Where did I deny Chinese censorship was used to suppress discussion? I specifically said I don't endorse how far the Chinese system went. The point was censorship for prevent violence has it's place, and the west now recognizes that.

As far as information control in terms of individual freedom, folks in PRC can just grab and VPN and shitpost or find competing narratives abroad. Access is possible and not even inconvenient. People in the west believes the effects of censorship is so overwhelming that it cannot possibly be circumvented to reach the "truth" that only they can attain. But most PRC folks are complacent with being ignorant. Similar to the plurality of low information readers in the west, who has access to diverse sources but somehow converges to western propaganda talking points comparable to the effects of censorship. Someone posted a western brand awareness and usage article yesterday, where 17% of Chinese internet users regularly use facebook and are aware of western perspectives. Do you think 17% of the west would go out of their way to learn the Chinese perspectives? Potential to be informed =/= informed citizenry.
An airforce pilot must have some pull at the bar though...
Use a phone where you can install an open OS that you control. It's ridiculous, if the phone is actively preventing you from setting up networking the way you need it.

You can also use some simple ssh forwarding from the phone (like SOCKS5) even if VPN is not available. ISP won't be able to differentiate that from other traffic.
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> I'm sorry to say that the dependency problem is really the fault of those applications, and we are really doing our best to support them while not consuming excessive disk space or too high of a maintenance burden.

It took years to make the package manager. You honestly believe it was worth it for this?

> Well, there are chroots and su, but that is probably not what you had in mind.

su definitely isn't. But depending on support for bind mounting, in particular read-only bind mounting, chroots might be.

> we are tolerating [...] ported applications to close the gaps.

Which is fair. Though personally I'd have just put them in a compatibility environment, like WINE but translating from Linux to Haiku. A lot of things wouldn't need to port then, and those that did require some changes would still probably be easier than a straight-up port. Of course, I'd have built on top of the Linux kernel anyway and got that compat for free by just creating a new namespace.

> Because then every Qt application would be 75-100MB larger, rather than having one 50-70MB Qt package and shipping each Qt app on its own? And on a system where a lot of apps are ported Qt ones, this will potentially be a 10x increase in space usage, as most Qt app packages are < 10MB (and the complete image of the base system is itself only 415MB or so, remember, and 60MB of that is the Noto fonts.) Not to mention that when there is a Qt update you then have hundreds of packages to rebuild instead of just one...

Then why not just include QT in the base system? You seem resigned to relying on QT applications, may as well make it official. How is spending years to develop a package manager better?

> They push "install" and the dependencies are installed, and that's that.

Unless, and I realize there are a whole lot of people out there simply unable to grasp the concept of this, they don't have an internet connection.
Accidentally exposing a folder of copyrighted font files over FTP would probably technically violate the license, even if it was by accident. You're serving the files outside of the licensed use (serving and rendering a webpage).

Same as if you accidentally exposed to the internet your home server of legally-created DVD backups. You'd still be violating the license under which you bought the DVDs.
ASCII Roulette: ASCII Art Chat Roulette in Go and WebRTC
You'd be surprised. Companies exist to scan the web looking for copyrighted works on behalf of companies and send out demand letters for payment.
> What do you think is being measured?

In a leetcode style interview? I think they are attempting to measure aptitude at solving algorithmic-style problems on a white board. I think they are indirectly measuring ability to perform under pressure, ability to vocalize while thinking, ability to function in unnatural environments, and either time since graduation from a CS major, or time spent practicing / gaming the system on leetcode (the premium feature even lets you see which questions your employer will likely ask).

I think they should be measuring things like: ability to select good frameworks for a solution, ability to reason about how such frameworks are implemented at an algorithmic level, when and where to add an index or avoid a shuffle, how to debug, ability to write readable code, ability to coach more JR devs, ability to learn from more SR devs, etc.

> Can you describe a utility function they are applying to that measurement?

I'm not sure I can. I see this as a very multi-dimensional problem, so I think the utility of given skills would have to be considered in regards to the existing skills within the team.

Honestly, I feel like "software engineer" has been split in two: R&D is done within the FAANGs (and maybe a few universities) and the results are open-sourced. Outside the FAANGs, something more like "software development" happens: FAANG libraries are glued together. _Very_ occasionally, you get a smaller company that has a legitimate business reason to write their own library or database or whatever, and an engineer is lucky enough to convince them of that.

I'm also not trying to be snarky - I've been stuck on the latter side for most of my career, because I prefer to work in smaller companies, and as such have not had as much opportunity to practice "interesting code" as I would have liked. Perhaps this is due to my market (Denver), but I've also worked with companies in the bay, and I've seen a tremendous amount of over-engineering when off the shelf parts would have worked.

So I'm legitimately curious:

1. Am I interpreting your questions correctly in that you think the ds & algo whiteboard interview selects well for desired attributes?

2. Do you solve those kinds of problems on a day to day basis?

3. If so, do you work at a FAANG?

I don't mean to pry, so feel free to disregard any of those questions if your are uncomfortable answering them on a public forum, or message me privately. Thanks!
There are enough fonts. It wouldn't be a great loss for humanity if you weren't able to use one you didn't pay for.
I'm not making a value statement. I am just wondering if you consider intentional irradiation of seeds as selective breeding, GMO or something else.
Ahhh, a Turing car; if you can make a Turing car, you generalize it to make a AGI. I like it!
A sort of obituary for Mark Fisher. It was a bit winding, but I liked that it introduced me to a writer I had never been aware of. I'm going to check him out.
kennethreitz has not been responsible? `requests` is my favorite http library in all languages so far.
Kubernetes for Everyone
Ridgecrest Aftershocks Move Toward Dangerous Faults
Perfect unless the guard didn't know which way was south and went to the wrong place. Then maybe the HN elites would be saying, "why not use the location of something unambiguous instead of 'south', like the sacristy building" ;-)
Surely these are problems with a lack of market.

If your building something without the revenue support it then you would normally go out of business
Why was the name of this post adjusted to remove mention of Kenneth? I think that the fact that this is Kenneth Reitz is a major element of this story.
Many Vintage X.org Modules Could Use Some Help If Wanting New Releases
That's precisely how, throughout the history of mankind, one tribe of people have forced their viewpoint onto others - because they thought it was right.

The false equivocation of protecting minority groups and human rights with "Should we notify of censorship in the results or the bottom of the screen?" is telling in this regard.
Escalante's Dream: On the Trail of the Spanish Discovery of the Southwest
There's a cost for deploying firetrucks, both in dollars and opportunity cost -- when you send 5 trucks to Notre Dame twice a week just in case the alarm is real this time, those trucks and firefighters aren't available to respond to a real fire
If they were “literally charging for nothing” then there would be nothing to discuss and no one would pay for it.

Just because they are both packets over the network, they are different use cases and present a feature which can be charged for.

If you don’t like it, switch to a different provider. If there isn’t one that meets this need, maybe there’s a market opening. If the market is anti-competitive and exploiting that and colluding to shut down this feature, complain to the FCC. If the FCC dismisses your valid complaint for political reasons, vote out the party which put them there. If you don’t have the votes to get the people in power to care about this issue and regulate against the monopoly which is colluding to overcharge for it, then deploy a few thousand bots to sow dissent on Twitter and... no wait, don’t do that last one.
Templating Dockerfiles with Fish-Pepper
It is shocking to me how, we (people) CONSISTENTLY fail to understand where the bar is for accepting autonomous vehicles.

They do NOT need to be perfect. They need to be BETTER than humans. That means less accidents, and by extension, less deaths and injuries as a result of automobile errors.
GMO isn't really an alternative to selective breeding,strictly speaking. GMO refers to a set of methods of inducing individual genetic change, selective breeding is a process to affect the population distribution of genetically-controlled traits independent of the mechanism by which individual genetic change occurs.
what does drive a car exactly like a human mean?
i am going to assert that you don't need AGI for self-driving cars. in your example: that's not how driving works. the driver - even a human one - is not expected to answer random questions as they are driving.
Thanks. I would imagine rent costs a lot more in Anaheim and taxes are much higher in CA than FL. Would still like to know what calculator is used.

$11/hour seems super low in california. The minimum wage is now $12, but was $11 last year [0].

[0] https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/faq_minimumwage.htm
Intel Quietly Launches Flagship Cascade Lake-SP CPU
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Ask HN: How to handle a boss/owner who has ADD task focus?
I work for a small startup where my boss and the owner are the same person. The issue is that whenever they think of a task or see a problem, that becomes #1 priority (despite the level of impact/severity, or if I am working on something else that was assigned).

This is very wearing, as I have to switch focus often to something that doesn't matter that much, and often my boss forgets about afterwards. Any discussion about prioritization he takes as challenging his authority, and becomes upset and dismissive. It feels like I have no input, and am just a machine to do tasks.

Is there a better way I should be dealing with this situation? Has anyone else been in the same situation and learned how to handle it better?
As a once-infrared-astronomer, I can certainly confirm your statement: Thermography is certainly not a straightforward "point-and-click" process.

Six years of grad school...
Oh that's a great point. You can absolutely use our carbon calculator and then find another project to support. We want to make a really good carbon calculator that's useful to everyone, not just Wren subscribers. Let us know if you have ideas or feedback there.
Neuralink has a CEO, board, other employees. It functions with or without him.
It's part of the default desktop UI in Raspbian.
Show me an attorney willing to pursue accidental violators for damages, especially when the asset in question is intended to be publicly served in the course of its use.

I would genuinely be interested in case law's stance on this. Also interested in what happens to the value of non-public domain fonts if you require the digital asset to be handled as a secret (and all of the hassle that goes along with that).
No mentions of PWM to regulate the fan speed according to the temp?
Censored Chinese search project is “terminated,” Google rep testifies
Needs a (2018) at least (article date) in the headline. Although it reports an issue introduced to Linux in (2013) which was "discovered" in (2017).
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Seems defunct
The future can't come fast enough. Resource extraction being off-world would be a huge boon environmentally and I can't think of a better use of resources to help preserve our species.
Why can't requests be adopted by python?
Feature Flag Removal Day: An effective way to manage feature flags responsibly
Computer integration in poker works because we simultaneously upgraded the infrastructure to support computer players while upgrading the computer players.

I don't think we will ever change road infrastructure in the same manner on any appreciable scale. (Hell, there's a pothole in front of my street that's been there for 5 years).
Next up on my wishlist: GitLab battling the scalability of their license renewal process for academic users.
I guess this is good thing, but I can't help but think that there would have been better way to do this; the process seems pretty rapid haphazard first-come first-serve situation. Most importantly, PSF indicated interest for these in under 2 hours (which is pretty quick response) but there are already some repos that are being transferred to other people. Surely he could have waited at least one day for responses before actually starting to move things?
This is a good guide. One thing I'd add:

While you're monitoring for traffic/errors/latency throw in minimum success rate. Make a good estimate of how many successful operations monitored systems will do per minute on the slowest hour of the year and put in an alert if the throughput drops below that. You'd be surprised how many 0 errors/0 successes faults happen in a complex system, and a minimum throughput alarm will catch them.
It does come down to living in a bubble, but the bubble is absolutely huge; as the other replier said, it stretches from coast to coast. We're also heavily propagandized everywhere we turn -- whenever I turn on big media news sources, it blows my mind how this stuff is presented as "news," yet there you go. We're also under-educated, which makes appeals to things like "make it a fair tax" feasible, where we'll go along with whoever says that (where fair almost always means regressive).
To an extent.

A monitoring system that is unreliable risks losing trust. Monitoring systems that aren't trusted tend to be ripped out or ignored.

If it is down too often, people will constantly question whether its silence is an indicator of health.

If it triggers too many false alarms, people will constantly question whether an alarm indicates a real problem. If it gets bad enough, they might start ignoring them.
Take a look into pipenv issues and how he handles legitimate broken features such as --keep-outdated and you will know[1].

Requests I agree has been very stable.

Also as an extra reading regarding async support for requests take a look at this article by a Python core Developer(Nathaniel J. Smith):

"Why I'm not collaborating with Kenneth Reitz"
https://vorpus.org/blog/why-im-not-collaborating-with-kennet...

[1] https://github.com/pypa/pipenv/issues/1554
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I wasn't asking if the (unmentioned) rule existed, I'm asking how do you propose to enforce it?
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You possibly can use command-line redirection but whether OBNC can read directly from console output, I am not sure.
Did you do all these things by yourself?

Really great content, but was really taken back by “I” used everywhere. Maybe it’s a new thing that I am not hip on that I ought to try - “I built and ran transaction processing software for Bloomberg! This is what I learned!”

But perhaps you really did all that by yourself, in that case sorry that i doubted you, looks like it’s a lot.
Congrats on the launch guys! I am always excited to see green startups coming out of YC.

I'm not sure if you guys are looking for other projects to support, but one interesting project is Project Vesta[0]. Seems like there is some potential for a successful partnership.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20403570
Kind of like how they pushed Apple to move their iCloud data onto local Chinese datacenters:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-apple-icloud-insigh...

Or how they then nationalized the company that has access to all the iCloud encryption keys for accessing Apple user messages, pictures, videos, files, etc. at rest:

https://mashable.com/article/china-government-apple-icloud-d...
God, that's exactly my speed. Did you end up getting the job? I have terrible interview anxiety and that would be ideal for me.
He has shown patterns of bad behaviors. One recent example of the top of my head :

- https://vorpus.org/blog/why-im-not-collaborating-with-kennet...

- and HN's thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19826680

Request has not been maintained by Reitz for some time now (meaning he hasn't contributed).
Intel Labs Builds a Neuromorphic System with 64 to 768 Loihi Chips
Terrible site UI. It hijacks the back/forward buttons to navigate through other content you haven't visited on that site.
Project Vesta is super exciting! We've seen them on HN a couple times, they're still pretty early but it'd be cool to figure out how we could work together.

Thanks for mentioning them again
I often enjoy the cynicism of HN as a counterpoint to the typical breathless media coverage of new technology. However that now famous comment on dropbox is a good demonstration that cynicism isn't a short cut to truth.