skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And somehow, we did that without GMO.

No, we didn't. We did it with GMOs. You might argue we could have done it without GMOs, but that's a hypothetical not what actually happened.

Also, even with GMOs, we haven't done it sustainably—one thing new GMOs are looked to as a solution for is maintaining output with the worse conditions resulting from existing large-scale agricultural practiced without further worsening them as current practices would.
Also remember Thiel's Dark Enlightenment[1] ideals and positions which are, arguably, alt-right. He seems like a member of the coterie that Trump would take orders from.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Enlightenment

See also: "The Diversity Myth: Multiculturalism and the Politics of Intolerance at Stanford", by Thiel, et al
But in the decision of not having them, it's rather common.
That's not proof. Alright, here's my understanding of the situation but you can stay as paranoid as you wish about things:

Google is among the companies which doesn't do much business in China while many others tech or otherwise (including Trump's) do. China is a big and lucrative market but puts many restrictions on foreign businesses. Google was exploring providing web search and perhaps AdWords to increase its revenue stream as its hard stance against China a decade ago only resulted in domestic Chinese search engines. Working in Chinese market means abiding by their censorship rules. Some idealistic employees who didn't approve of it leaked the effort and it turned into a news cycle. Google eventually decided it's not worth it

Separately, another group of activist/idealistic employees felt Google shouldn't be in the war business (unlike IBM which used to sell to Germany half a century ago) and didn't want such research and development work to be used in applications such as drone strikes. So they also teamed up and through various means pushed the upper level management to forgo the military contracts.

I'm not approving or disapproving of these decisions but that's how things are. There's no convoluted and dramatic conspiracy
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> So you're suggesting that everybody should read the miles long terms for each website they subscribe to

Absolutely. You should never agree to something you haven't read.
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And how does being better at reading
steer people away from STEM?

By steering them towards non-STEM.
The YouTube bubble has to pop at some point, right?

I came into a whole channel full of YouTube 'stars' showing off their million dollar homes in California with their sports cars etc, 9/10 of these guys I had never heard of - then again I'm not a teen.
Kids in the 80s wanted to be rock stars, it’s just the trend
Human interaction isn't math. The law isn't even math. Neither ever will be.
> Curious, are there full-time (or at least Primary) Go developers that are upset by the lack of Try?

I am a full-time Go developer. Error handling in Go is miserable. `try` would have made it slightly less miserable.
This is a great description of a commonly-used technique for splitting the screen in NES games that scroll smoothly. It may or may not have been intended, but this is a common technique for games that have a "status bar". Super Mario Bros 3 is another obvious example, but even Super Mario Bros uses it long before then for its top status bar. I first read about it in the excellent "I Am Error" book by Nathan Altice, but googling around for "nes sprite zero split" turns up plenty of other articles, too.
Does anyone know the exact requirements set by China on google for them to enter the Chinese market? I suppose adherence to Chinese law but what exactly? Support of law enforcement, censorship of specific sites, personal data stored in China etc...
Who said China would allow Google to go back in the first place?
The Open Syllabus co-assignment galaxy
The Role:

The Healthcare IT Systems Administrator will be based out of Spectrafem’s office and provide direct services to the company and shared services to their medical practice clients.

This is a junior to mid-level role that is responsible for all IT hardware and software systems in the company, ranging from standard office applications such as Google Suite to cloud storage to specialty applications such as Electronic Medical Record (EMR) systems, CRM systems; telephony, internet, and related software/hardware; and front-line software and hardware including desktops, laptops, and printers.
In addition, the successful candidate will create and improve standard operating procedures (SOPs) based on guidance from the leadership team.

This person will develop best-practices around implementing new technologies. The Healthcare IT Systems Administrator will be experienced in IT + network administration in a WAN environment and other network models. If you’ve worked in tech consulting to develop healthcare IT, then we’d love to hear from you.

The Healthcare IT Systems Administrator must have solid experience in clinical systems and support and EMR management.

Must-haves:

4-5 years’ experience in healthcare technology system integration, administration & maintenance.
Specific experience in post-merger/similar integration of EMRs on either the buy-side (preferred) or sell-side.
Selection of EMR systems when making a platform decision.
Interest and experience in advising company-wide technology and making platform decisions.
Experience administering telephone systems (VOIP or POTS).
Familiarity and fondness for front-line (user) troubleshooting & support.
Project management experience in software deployments or transitions, or physical expansions.
Hands-on, can-do attitude.
Master’s degree or bachelor’s degree and equivalent experience.

Nice-to-haves:

5-8 years in the IT field.
1-2 years Salesforce & CRM administration.
Experience migrating or integrating VOIP/POTS systems.

Compensation & other perks:

Competitive salary.
Commuting allowance.
Vacation and personal time off; paid birthday off.
Healthcare, vision, dental plans; supplemental life and disability.
Monthly staff-wide lunches.
Professional development opportunities.
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While I guess you could say it was a project killed by google (supposedly - we'll see how long that lasts), killedbygoogle.com is mostly meant to shame google, and I don't really want to shame them for cancelling this project.
I would say that people that use any critical infrastructure not designed with security in mind is putting themselves and others at risk if they convey sensitive information. This is why plain text protocols should be considered insecure.

It would be great if we could replace the whole Internet with modern technology rather than relying on ancient systems like BGP and email.
I'm hoping you have the minority opinion here!

"Youtuber" doesn't mean being your own boss at all. It means being a pretense for advertising, and having your sole source of income depends on the whims of a gigantic monopoly.
Google only knows how long people stay on the page using Google Analytics and many sites (mine, for instance) don't use it.

I think they also know if there are any ads hosted by google, or if the user is using chrome.

Depending on how moral they are, they could figure it out if the user is on android at all, or if the site has recaptcha, or if they're using google DNS, or if they have a partnership with the ISP, or if the site is loading fonts or javascript libraries from google servers, and probably some others that I can't think of off the top of my head.
Exactly. The maximum safe speed in a neighborhood is 20mph, and the maximum safe speed passing a stopped car on the freeway is a lot less than 60mph.
Probably because China has sufficiently copied/stolen it to not need Google any longer. It would be trivial to put government agents inside the local team and copy whatever they wanted, or coerce the local team to contribute everything they learned to the government.
Well, it'll work once we figure out how to convert an atom or molecule into a photon and back.
yes but maybe for ten years. The inventor didn't own a mac, probably had Windows XP with an old or bad touchpad and decided that his JS will help fix smooth scrolling that is missing on many browsers. Since then browsers have caught up, but idiotic wordpress templates are still including scrolljackers because, the WP template designers, are long out of the WP business and no new templates are available...
this implies that if a medical device (or pharma) passes through the regulatory process it will never malfunction which is absolutely not true.
We aren't living within our means in energy terms - dependence on fossil fuel is a major problem. But as the economy converts to a renewable energy basis (and it inevitably will - it's already started and is accelerating), "living within our means" will become much less of a problem.
Yeah. This seems rather like carriers selling location data, or the NSA and domestic surveillance.

Both have stopped happening so many times that the only thing I'm sure about is that they will stop again sometime soon.
Why are there so many JavaScript frameworks?
It’s like each region of the world has a preference on JavaScript frameworks. Do we really such have different requirements that there need to be so many!?
This story originally broken by a Planet Money podcast.
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Then it must have been the police that broke into the Dior and luxury stores on the Champs Elysees and looted them...or that set fire to buildings. Or it was police that spray painted "the gilet jaunes will win" on the Arc de Triumph.

This behavior forced the city to endure blockades every Saturday and holiday for months. Small businesses near the riot areas were closed and had their windows shattered or spray painted by protestors. Ordinary citizens and their kids couldn't do errands and in some cases leave their apartments for on one out of two days off a week for months on end.

The protests were violent. Who started it you can debate, but against tons of news articles, photos and videos of people fighting hand to hand, getting gassed or throwing cobblestones, lighting buildings on fire...you don't really have much of a factual foundation to say Paris didn't suffer months of violent protests before the ND fire.
The issue is not the money, it's the 'stuff'. If they built decent residential areas where families could live, family homes would be more affordable. If they built more daycare facilities, daycare would be more affordable. Etc. etc.

In London in particular, it is hard, if not impossible, to find a consistently decent area that would appear safe to bring up kids in within cycling commute of the City. There does not seem to be any objective reason for that, so it seems to be a policy decision.
> is now concentrated in that beam, with huge parts of it absorbed by the skin? How is this not a health concern?

Have you ever been outside? Felt the warmth of the sun on your skin? That warmth is (up to) 1000W/m^2 of ionizing high frequency EM waves being absorbed by your skin.

So in light of that, if you want to be consistent, you should start worrying about non-penetrating EM waves from 5G when you feel them heat your skin up.

Of course, skin-penetrating waves are another story entirely, but the point of the article is that they seemingly don't.
Is that actually feasible?

Not the canal, but the modification of the climate.
Only thing I know was Google tried to bring Play Store to Chinese market, sometimes last year, but for some reason that doesn't come to fruit.

Under Xi, there is zero chance Google can have a public service offering in any way, considering its history.
How does this track the "open a ton of tabs in the background from search and then cull them" workflow? Can they know which ones I actually spend time on vs eyeball and quickly close?
Interestingly I’ve had the same observations that you’ve had about the work the Spark project has done to work around the JVM. And is also been idly wondering what a native-first distributes data processing framework would look like and how it will perform. I’ll be really interested in seeing where your project goes.
There are way too many people on Earth already. There were barely 3 billion people alive in 1960, now it's over 7.5 billion and going up.

The equivalent of the surface of Africa is already being used for crops and going up, most of it to feed livestock.

There are projections of fishless oceans in less than 30 years, and we got 12 years to stop global warming. What could go wrong?
That still doesn't mean that it's the only way and that the headline isn't hyberbolic.
>You probably eat genetically modified food on a daily basis. It's everywhere.

I assume that is only if you live in US? GMO Food are near non existent in EU.
I think in part it's because people just enjoy making them.
Handing over whatever special sauce Google uses for Dragon Fly to a Chinese owned company or “joint” venture.
Meh...they'll rename it "Happy Pancakes", do it again until they get caught and then fire some hapless nitwit middle manager that they wanted to get rid of anyway.

Yay, capitalism. Where no one's to blame and everything's always on fire.
I am looking at the version of this that has an interactive map of the US (https://labs.mapbox.com/labs/twitter-gnip/locals/) and zooming in to my current location of New Orleans: https://labs.mapbox.com/labs/twitter-gnip/locals/#13/29.9802...

And holy shit I really did do a favor for my friend when I went down to the French Quarter, met up with her, and took her to City Park instead of another day of scheduled tourist activities; there are no red dots up there.
"What exactly is the definition of GMO? "

Good question. I won't answer that.

"Did we do it without GMO food? "

If we only consider GMO as targeted modification of a DNA sequence using methods other than selective breeding, no we didn't. That technology has been around for maybe 30 years. The world's pop hasn't gone up 30% since.

"Isn't a lot of today's food the result of GMO?"

In the West, yes. But despite the promises of lower water usage, more nutritious crops, GMO foods seems to be mostly adding Round Up resistance to crops to enable more mechanized agricultural practices (not necessarily cheaper for the end user).

This is not necessarily robust and it promotes monoculture. Furthermore, financial considerations might make it more economical to farm something non-edible, or not farm at all [0].

[0] Yes, theoretically the price of food would increase to make it profitable again. However, the equilibrium would be at higher prices (pricing out the poorest) and lower Q.S. (i.e. it's good that the poor aren't eating, cause there ain't enough to go around). Besides, it takes time for the system to reach equilibrium, at which point there's a nice famine.
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I don't know you are being downvoted. There are already instructions in ARM chips to help with JS floating-point conversion [1]. Yes, while the "Java chips" never got into the mass market[2], JS and it's ecosystem is eatting the world in a way Java never did and the trajectory is only increaing.

P.S. I know WASM isn't JS, but I'd still consider it in the JS ecosystem.

[1]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50966676/why-do-arm-chip...

[2]: I did hear about some "Java Chips" for garbage collection back in the day.
The definition of GMO, for me at least, is laboratory manipulation of genes using tools like CRISPR. This allows cross-species genetic insertion. Selective breeding is not GMO, because it's not cross-species and happens through natural breeding, not laboratory genetic manipulation.
I researched Google's algorithm a while back and a a fairly strong ranking factor IS how long they spend on your page/site (whether you have GA or not) but that can backfire. (I know that Google's exact algorithm is unknown but it's based on experiments by SEO sites)

Here's how I understood it to work:

If a user finds you on a Google search and then clicks the link, Google times how long it takes for you to come back to the search results. So if you immediately backed out of the page they would take that as meaning the result was crap and they took that into account in their algorithm. The thinking being that it was an irrelevant result.

However, that counts against sites that provide the answer you want right at the top of the page so that when you open the page, the answer is staring you in the face... so obviously you are going to back out again as you have your answer.

This was from around two years ago when I was researching building an indexer and search engine for kicks so my memory of how it worked is fuzzy.

Also, it may have changed.
The last time we revolutionized agriculture to feed a growing population, we gave the scientist responsible a Nobel Prize: http://www.asianews.it/news-en/The-man-who-saved-India-from-....

The diminished, superstitious minds of today, however, condemn the new generation of scientists who are doing the exact same thing.
A lot of demonetized or otherwise smaller channels use Patreon or similar for revenue, so that doesn't have to be the case. Of course, they still give Youtube ad revenue.
To think that a bootstrapped company that is breakeven and has a lot of potential to grow is a very positive signal for investors...

Makes me think that if you are doing a MBA and you want to become an entrepreneur OF SUCCESS(not those that get dad/angel/whatever money and fail)...

You should be building a business, like... now. This second. Everything else is a waste of time.

Now, if you aren't and have no idea what to do, you are no different than me, then a MBA won't do anything for you. I believe people who are getting investment they are doing stuff, building teams and shit. For nothing of that, a MBA counts to be honest.

They want to invest in a business and they expect you to have one. If they wanted to employ somebody, they could hire some graduates
They don't worry about tiny edge cases.
Oh come on. This comment was great, to the point, and led me to learn something new. OP's just calling it a financial Wild West but with historical backing of when it's been done before.
I am really proud to see teacher at #2 it looks like in all 3 countries, a great profession we just need to comp more.
Given the rampant vandalism of Churches in France in recent years, including arson, it's quite reasonable to speculate that Notre Dame might have suffered the same fate.

https://www.newsweek.com/spate-attacks-catholic-churches-fra...

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/vandalism-at-hundreds-of-...
I think this brings up some important points.

I'm not "against GMO" because I think it makes frankentomatoes that will eat us, or because I think that gene modification is intrinsically unhealthful. I'm (sort of) against GMO because genetically modified organisms are controlled by profit-focused corporations who lock farmers into a financial system that disadvantages them and promotes heavy use of brand-name herbicides that are not good for the surrounding ecosystem. Especially in 2nd/3rd world countries where people rely more heavily on waterways for water and their backyards for food, as opposed to the US where we can pay to outsource these problems, local ability to maintain a healthy environment without paying a multinational on a yearly contract is essential.

People have been able to plant saved seeds for all of human history. Programs that prevent the ability to grow your own food for only the cost of labor put farmers and local areas at a significant disadvantage by eliminating the possibility of subsistence farming. I know that GMOs are designed to increase yields -- but that's focused on farming as commodity.

Neotokio's remark about the "clear profit margin" of GMOs is, I think, exactly on the money.
They can tell if you opened links in new tabs rather than by clicking on them sequentially, and can tell that you kept the search results live in its own tab for at least n seconds after opening tabs (x, y, z) in quick succession. Voodoo, err I mean ML, can deduce a lot from that.
There are a few games that do diagonal scrolling.

Paperboy comes to mind. It's smooth and looks good without any noticable glitching, and without using custom chips, too. Not sure how they did it.
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Which really goes to show that to be the best at anything, you've gotta work hard to be better than everyone else that's doing that. It's the same in the software industry. There's millions of us developers. We're all pretty much in the same boat, give or take. If you want to get to the upper echelons where you can write your own pay cheque, you've gotta have the tenacity to work hard and get there by providing more value than anyone else.

It's no different than actors. Those who routinely get the biggest box office draw and make the most money are those that appeal to the widest audience that will part with their money to watch them. Being appealing to the widest audience doesn't just come from rolling out of bed and switching on your webcam. You're going to have to work for it just like actors do... harder in fact, because you've got far more competition on YouTube than actors have at the box office.

If you want >10M subscribers, you've gotta provide more value than the average YouTuber.
The web assembly application could also be compiled to a native binary, right? (something like an AOT compiled electron app)
I can't believe no one's mentioned that Mr. Robot scene yet: http://youtube.com/watch?v=1ee-cHbCI0s
You don’t need greenhouses, deserts get extreme temperatures because of the minimal water. As Egypt demonstrates when you irrigate land the temperature swings stop being an issue.

Essentially as you irrigate near deserts you cause local climate change via huge amounts of water evaporation and thermal mass. The more land under irrigation the stronger the effect becomes.
Why are they so many distros of Linux?

It's a feature of open source. You don't like how something is done in framework X or you have an idea for building something useful/productive/cool, go ahead and do it. Separating JavaScript frameworks from Linux though is that everyone online uses a browser, and therefore, uses JavaScript. To say it's popular is an understatement; companies invest a lot in their JavaScript projects and ecosystems, and if you can create a differentiation or competitive advantage by creating/modifying/forking your own thing... then why not? The best ideas get combined in the end and fold back into the overall ecosystem so let a thousand frameworks bloom!
Yes, this was my understanding from a couple of years ago when I looked into it.

They know what time you clicked the link in the search results to go to page X. They also know when you hit the back button to come back to the search results.

My understanding was the faster you backed out meant the less-relevant the page was.

It was one of many factors in the ranking algorithm.
This post reminds me of a podcast episode
of "Reply all". In episode "#130 The Snapchat Thief", less ethical ways of obtaining certain usernames become clear.
Not to mention that population growth is generally higher in lower income and lower educated populations, even within a country.