skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My background is dual CS and MB. In particular, I got an undergraduate degree in Molecular Biology at UCSC and did my undergraduate thesis with David Haussler (CS professor who helped "save the human genome") on probabilistic graphical models of E.Coli genes. At that time I didn't really know much CS (just hacking), so I went into grad school (BIophysics PhD) but focused on computational chemistry, so got lots of fortran distributed computing programming experience. Based on that I was able to do a couple postdocs in bioinformatics, increasing my understanding of protein function and evolution, and then became a full-time scientist, however after several years of not being able to find funding, went to work at Google for a decade where I taught myself all the CS I didn't previously know and applied it to scientific computing. Now I work for a company that does machine learning for drug discovery.

What I've learned over the years is that genetics is a field where people who excel in abstract thinking about blobby, messy, wet objects succeed and understand the paradigms. While CS people find molecular biology, with its concerete focus on molecular entities (agents) interacting is very easy to understand. After many years of trying to understand genetics I finally realized that many of the paradigms in genetics are just useful but wrong models that don't correspond to reality.
We might lose electronics and such, but we won't forget that a wood stove is more efficient than an open fireplace. We won't forget that it's a good idea to dig your outhouse far away from your source of drinking water.
500 years would put us back to 1500ish, I can’t see that, steam technology and electric motors/turbines are simply doable (and where done) with not much technology to boot strap from, hand tools made machines which made specialised machines which repeated for generations but the first step comes back to steam and electrification.

It’s not like every book in every library would or could disappear.
Why not? It's totally standard for class action suits
If you have rural hukou you are entitled to a piece of land for building a home and a piece of land for farming. But it is possible that you could have sold off these rights. In cities there is 低保 https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E4%BD%8E%E4%BF%9D If you are really resourceful you may be able to survive on it. But if you are really resourceful you are unlikely to need it in the first place.
Oh yeah, for sure. If you can prove that all of your income was earned by a shell company in Ireland, you should definitely do that. :)
Has anyone seen predictions that would provide a good estimate of when everyone would die? My sense is if we can surface this data to poor people quickly they might have time to save money and move to Northen Canada where most are saying the weather would be perfect as the climate heat average index increases. The more we share this on FB the faster we can save everyone. I think we can all agree rich people can stay in their original location bc they will have money to pay for AC. Just my 2 cents here.
Do you live on the same planet as me? The world is an incredible place and gets better every day!

I look at my children and their experiences growing up and it’s far better than mine ever were. If I had the choice I’d be born today.
The criteria "product's long term financial success" doesn't have a lot of meaning. Does it mean my bonus is withheld until 5 years? What if something else goes wrong in such long time frame (like economy tanks) which wasn't my fault? What if someone unrelated contributes to 5-year success and I get to share the glory?

The point is that measuring performance off of single metric is incredibly tricky. In the field of reinforcement learning this is known as reward function engineering and its one of the hardest thing to get right for even well specified problems. Employee actions would need to have short term as well as long term focus (exploitation vs exploration). Most actions have consequences that won't reveal itself completely until sometime in future. The current "state of the art" technique is to use stock vest schedule with hope that employee would care to grow his/her future stock vest.
Not sure, but that scenario does sound like a interesting plot for a book or movie.
Touchbar Volume controls on fullscreen video work for me - can I ask which video application are you using?
IBM OS gets loaded into memory which the hardware marked as "read-only". However, a bad bit in the memory caused a change which caused the hardware to mark the page as "dirty" so it got paged out with the failed bit copied into the disk image... The OS took "core dumps", leaving a pile of paper with a binary printout of all 16Mbytes of memory at my door, because core dumps automatically printed. Paper piles every day. It was a long week.

PL/I had a language feature to copy-by-name from one record to another record. However, it didn't work as advertised and the only way to find it was from core dumps. A grant-funded project was failing.

The IBM 370 wouldn't boot up for 3 days. It turned out that the 3270 display controllers on channel 0 were causing a fault at power-up (found only after we flew in one of the designers). It turned out that the hardware maintenance guys were swapping boards between the dozens of controllers but the controllers were at different levels of "yellow wire patches" so they were not compatible. So 72 programmers (who shared the machine) did nothing for 3 days.

Back in the 1970s I hooked a Unimate robot to a PDP 11/03 which caused the PDP to freeze. Turns out there was a "ground loop" (electrical fault) that caused the PDP backplane to carry 440V rather than 5V. It takes a long time to decide to check voltage levels on a backplane.

Our Robot control board required a "useless read" to initialize the board. The data was garbage so the result was ignored. All following reads were valid. But it didn't work. The hardware guy swore we were not doing the initialize read. I showed him the code. We finally put a scope on the wires to settle it. The software was NOT doing the initial read, despite what the code said. Turns out the new Bliss optimizing compiler decided it could remove the read because the result was never used.

My paper tape failed to load from the TTY just before we were going to demo for our major customer. Turns out the memory address control chip died. Fortunately Radio Shack had the chip and a de-soldering gun so we replaced the chip and it worked.

There were SO many more... Except for the last one, they cost me several days of "being in the hot seat".

A subtle bug can ruin your whole day.
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Crypto currencies have properties of a lot of different types of assets. The crypto tax scenario should reflect that it is different than any existing single class of asset and should be treated as uniquely as it is.
All those certainties need to be loosened up.

New ideas are needed.

Clearly government has failed to solve this. And when there's a problem that needs solving, and the current 'solution' ain't working, well you'd be crazy to stick with that being 'the solution' wouldn't you?
>The reviewer is supposed to determine what goes in or not

This is not a given, and in fact, I would not recommend it.

For small code reviews with only one reviewer, the reviewer gives feedback and they have a conversation about it, but with only one reviewer the developer should have the final say. The problem with giving the final say to a single reviewer is you'll get plenty of pointless code changes to suit the reviewer's individual preferences. Don't waste time on what is a perfectly reasonable difference in opinion.

If you have more than one reviewer, but still a small code review, the final say should be with the reviewer(s) - if their is consensus (you could also go with voting, with its pros and cons). Having multiple reviewers prevents the likelihood of individual preferences dominating.

If it's a significant code review, the final say should be with an experienced moderator.
Telegram voicemail hack used against Brazil's president, ministers
I’m not going to nit pick on what “proven” means, and studies on this kind of thing certainly can be run, they just haven’t yet. That’s why caution is being applied.
Can we get MagSafe back too? The thinness thing went way too far.
Under what scenario would the temperature of the artic shift by more than 30C over the whole year...

That’s silly.
I haven't seen the letters. Isn't that considered a federal crime since it's fraud via the US Postal Service?
Low unemployment doesn't imply strength if it's due to a decline in labor force participation, which has barely budged from historic lows set in 2015 (1). Rising asset prices aren't worth much to those who own little.

1 - https://www.bls.gov/charts/employment-situation/civilian-lab...
I’ve found using Firefox with multi-process disabled reduces memory use to about 300 MB. Mozilla announced they will move the option to disable multi-process from config to somewhere else though.
> The whole problem is not that it was never melting in the past, it's that the melting is accelerating

Yes, I'm perfectly aware of that. My point is that we are way past the point of threats.
Build enough renewables to replace all fossil fuels and then some, use any extra energy to suck carbon out of the atmosphere and bury it. Plant trees and turn them into charcoal. If you're very fancy you can do some more risky geoengineering.
Please just say penis instead. We're not Bowdlers here.
Also keep in mind that housing prices in those areas are not forced up by oversupply of capital. Those areas have the highest demand for housing in the world, and draconian zoning laws that ensure supply will never be able to keep up. The Fed would have to be insane to set interest rates tailored to SF housing prices.
I think they probably are, but they could also be right (maybe without realizing the nuances).

It may be true that slowing down loss of nucleotide synthesis, while not fixing the root cause, may still slow down the aging process. Just like giving Parkinson's patients L-DOPA doesn't resolve the root cause of the disease; it's treating the effect and not the cause. But there isn't really anything better out there (AFAIK), and it slows down the brain degeneration process by replenishing one of the important things that gets destroyed in the degeneration, just as fixing nucleotide production may slow down cell degeneration. It's a very imperfect solution, but it still provides some relief for many people. We've got to work with what we've got.
fucking terrifying. I had open heart surgery 3 weeks ago with one of the surgeons named in the article (bavaria).

My pacing wires were removed by the ICU resident (a physician), not a nurse. It's not a complicated thing, they just grab and pull. Maybe his wires were implanted incorrectly so they damaged something when getting removed?

They also made it really clear that if you start bleeding during a cath procedure then they crack your chest open immediately. Not sure what they thought could happen in the cath lab if he was already bleeding internally.

it's such a shame, they fucked up badly but i couldn't even imagine being part of the OR team that lost Neil Armstrong.
> Yeah...hmm, not seeing a reason to panic about food supply.

Food supply go up for now. Will they still go up after Peak Oil? Peak Energy?
I've always wondered how this system would work out in countries that don't have a recent history of petty corruption.
A comment a month ago related that investors push back, hard, against anything resembling this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20305868
A controlled study on the effects of VR on children would involve running experiments on lots of children. Try getting that by your clinical ethics board....
Americans are way more defensive in preserving their perception of China whereas Chinese are removed from the political machinations and marginally curious about US culture at best

In other parts of “the west” nobody is deathly afraid of being disappeared by the Chinese government and just raves about how energetic Shanghai is

I think Americans are the outliers here, over emphasizing the darkest parts of China and should consider re-evaluating.
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The problem is the shutter value, which is another artistic choice that differentiates "film" from video and will contribute to the choppiness.

Standard for film is a 180degree shutter (half open half closed when capturing). Originally, you had to physically advance the film to the next frame while the shutter was closed. Video would be effectively always open giving you a longer blur. If you shoot at a 60fps instead of 24fps you're going to have 2.5x less blur (and also 2.5x less light). So downsampling wouldn't look right at 24 or 30fps.
I was in the area the week that the road opened up and went for a sunrise. I was the second person there at 4am, but by 5-6am there were around 30 people there!

I can't even imagine what Maroon Bells is like during high season.
> Lower rates means lower unemployment, which should eventually lead to higher wages

> And, it is important to notice, in today's world, even an unemployment rate of 3.6% has not been low enough to cause the kinds of wage gains that were normal for most of the 20th Century.

You're talking about the Phillips curve (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillips_curve). I wonder if it's not dead. We've got the lowest unemployment rate in decades but no very little increase in AHE (average hourly earnings). It seems like while a lot of people are competing for jobs, companies still aren't willing to pay more.

It's really flummoxed some economists, for example https://www.npr.org/2018/10/29/661879814/is-it-time-for-the-...

Just search for "is the Phillips curve dead" just to find bunch of them. It is a head scratcher for me, but of course, I'm not sure who's right (and I don't think anyone does)

I think part of it is that there are large swaths of the labor force that are basically replaceable (retail, food service are examples), so there's no real need to pay someone more. Just get someone new.
> All that capital from institutional investors, sovereign wealth funds, and the like has enabled start-ups to remain private for far longer than they previously did, raising bigger and bigger rounds.

This misses the forest for the trees. These investors have so much money because the global economy has exploded over the past 20 years. Saudi Arabia has money to spend because it's selling oil like crazy--oil revenues began to explode after 2000. See https://tradingeconomics.com/saudi-arabia/government-revenue... I didn't even know about Saudi Arabia's increased revenue, but I knew I could find data like that as it's a consequence of the monumental revolution in global wealth. It's not just China. The economies of Africa and Latin America have exploded over the past twenty years. Similarly, since 2000 most Asian economies began following the trajectory of the so-called Asian Tigers before them.

I've posted it elsewhere, but some reports from a few years ago projected over $300 trillion (trillion!) in global assets floating around, exclusive of real estate and capital equipment valuations (though some of that wealth shows up as securities). That dwarfs interventions like QE that everybody loves to bring up, which even if you account for the inflationary effect still only amounts to a small fraction of global assets.

If you don't appreciate the fundamentals for this explosion in cash then you'll be waiting forever for the other shoe to drop. Keep in mind that the global economy has been depressed since 2008-2010. Indeed, that's one reason there's so much cash parked in the U.S. But when the global economy picks up there'll be even more cash, so even if countries begin reallocating cash elsewhere, that doesn't necessarily mean a substantial drop in absolute terms in the U.S.

The U.S. has a significantly diminished position in global trade, relatively speaking. We may be the biggest trading partner for most countries, but most countries are also trading globally, so being the "biggest" partner for each country doesn't mean we dominate the global economy in the way we once did. Similarly, the complex global supply chain means the emphasis on bilateral accounting fails to appreciate how the underlying flows work and thus how the fundamental global economic engine operates.

The only "bubble" is in the U.S., and while we may see a correction any day now, it's not going to be cataclysmic. Not unless we make it so.
I slogged onward to the second paragraph, where we have this:

>When we decide to interact with a company, we believe it won’t deceive us or abuse its relationship with us.

How anyone who's looked at the headlines generated by the grifting of telcos and banks over the last ten years could write this, and then get it a first-tier B-school to publish it, should give us pause for thought.

The revelation comes a bit further on:

>Currently, Sucher and Gupta are cowriting a book on trust, Trusted: How Companies Build It, Lose It, and Regain It.

The selling of trust repair services is the very special own business of the authors.
Please don't post flamebait to HN. We ban accounts that do that. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and posting in the spirit of the site from now on, we'd appreciate it.
Steve Jobs once said that when he was young, he was convinced that most TV was a conspiracy to make people stupid; but when he got older, he realized the truth was much worse: TV is just giving people what they want.

China today is in many ways very much like the U.S. in the middle of the 20th Century. New technologies and markets are creating rapid, wide-spread growth in living standards. At the same time, government and media encourage a culture of national pride bordering on paranoia, combined with intense pressure to conform. The U.S. grew out of it and I hope China does too.
I think there is a problem with knowledge being very dencly concentrated and supply chains being so long.

If you took someone who worked in a steel mill I bet they would have no idea how to produce steel from first principles. They know what their job entails, they know which bits of equipment need serviced an maintained but they don't know how to get from rocks to bar stock.

Similarly if you had a perfectly working steel mill and you cut the supply of coke or iron ore few would know how to get it up and running again. If you cut the supply of the alloying elements you might get a passable mild steel but not one to the exact specifications you require.

I think it's probably surprising how few vital links you have to cut before life as we know it breaks down.
Do you mean that it's rated highest, or that you've measured the consumption as the highest? Perhaps it has a high rating for initial inrush currents.
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They're only called "Communist". They don't even define themselves as having reached Communism. Their economy is based on the exchange of commodities and the use of money as a key mediating commodity; the main difference is state ownership of most of the means of production, and state planning (which to be honest is not entirely unlike planning in large corporations, but with different considerations).
> If my interests align with theirs, then I also trust them to act in my interests.

Your interest would have to be making them money, so you would have to be a shareholder. Otherwise there is a 0% chance your interests will align with their interests.
Because people from Iceland wanted to entice people to join them on a voyage there, and thought calling it Greenland would help them with that.
Disclaimer: I'm the founder of one of the winning projects you posted on your screenshot.

We've played every tournament since the second tournament, so I'm in a good position to speak: There have been times in previous tournaments when we were placing top 10 and after a round of peer voting (that means, no experts voting) we went down to top 40.

Also, there were times when we got more expert votes than this time and didn't win. This time we got fewer expert votes but placed first.

Maybe it's just one example and it's not statistically significant; but I just wanna say that crowdsourced voting can make the scoreboard volatile, without any form of manipulation.
Both will be cool, but anyway, to use Braava for mopping you should manually install and fill mopping module. You cannot leave it for a week of fully autonomous work. I have a Roborock S50 and it has a similar mopping cartridge, so actually it can do both, but mopping is semi-manual
While it's true that there's an abundance of water, the issue is that there's limited drinking water.

You can't survive on drinking ocean water. There's currently no energy-efficient process to remove salt and other impurities from unpotable water. That's a real issue.

Increased rainfall could be good, but could cause flooding and doesn't do much benefit when it's acidic.
Can't somebody just invent a pluggable PC architecture, ala Kubernetes?

So you would connect several PCs, notebooks to a switch, or by wifi, then you run a desktop, gnome or something, but there's a layer, heck it can be even a wrapper before running the binary.

The layer or the wrapper would just check how's going your load, memory and would the app from whatever machine has enough free resources available, the it would show you a window with you app running there (in a PC/notebook different from you "main" one), as fast as the network connection you're using to cluster up your assembled PCs / notebooks.

I think Xwindow and some go code could do the trick? There's some experience sharing clipboards/mouse/keyboard input (synergy).

What would be really necessary is a scheduler ala kubernetes (but a somewhat clever bash script could the job as well), to be able to orderly tap the free resources in several connected PCs/notebooks.

No need to rewrite thousands of apps, or design a new desktop environment completely from scratch, and you could actually would be able to run Chrome in its own hardware, just to use a hundred of tabs if you feel like to do it
Hey dang: why editorialize the actual article title?

It was up verbatim and got edited to appear less catastrophic.
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I'm sure not, but could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments here?
Children generally only take up the space for a few seconds, so being patient with them is easy. Someone who is taking their time setting up a tripod is blocking the space for significantly longer. If you want to close off a space for a while so that you can carefully compose the perfect shot, either do it somewhere remote or consult with the owners to arrange an appropriate time.
I'm having a hard time finding out why they actually arrested him - for a long time it seemed that they were kangaroo-accusing him of somehow being responsible for wannacry because he registered the domain it pointed to. This article is saying it's because of malware he created in 2014?
I enjoyed having my perspective on China as a country expanded; I don't hear many positive things about it, and the environmental focus is genuinely refreshing, in stark contrast to my own country's idiocy in that department.

With that said, nothing outweighs their government's human rights violations. Nothing. I know the U.S. has some of its own, but not to an extremity nor scale nor public acceptance that comes anywhere close to that in China.
> Housing nationwide isn't actually that expensive:

Now I'm interested in seeing the current metric of home prices divided by median income. Hmm... once source is this.

https://www.longtermtrends.net/home-price-median-annual-inco...

Would be also interesting to see this as a heat map.

> Remember: the Fed governs the entire US economy, not just San Francisco and Seattle like HN would prefer.

Reports from the field, meaning friends with family in the rest of the country makes it sound like the Fed is doing even worse in those places.