skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I only know of 2 that deserve the term bioinformatics, which is really abused when data wrangling should be used in place.

Those are Durbin et al 1998 and Pevzner et al 2000.

Durbin et al is a classic on HMMs, but some sections feel incomplete.
Indeed, surveys in totalitarian societies aren't worth anything. Imagine you have never seen anything resembling free press/idea exchange in your whole life, since childhood until now. Moreover, for some reason you are required at regular times of the year to publicly profess your political support without actually understanding what is it all about, as there is no opposing force to profess your ideas against (OK, maybe "America" in TV news). The clever/sociopathic ones just find ways to game the system until they get their "heads chopped off" by aligning to some fraction that loses some internal fight; whether you are a little person or a major figure, you have to follow the same algorithm.
Here it is: https://m.signalvnoise.com/why-we-never-sold-basecamp-by-the...
Not thinking things though.

As an example, recently, I’ve been thinking of building a list of ski resorts near where I live, so that I may then compile it into a kind of weather, snow forecasting site.

The first step was ‘compile and create a list of resorts’. Which was easy to do, but doesn’t lend nicely to the second step, rather, what second step?

I had a huge urge to just code something, anything. I didn’t spend enough time thinking about how it might develop.
>As a Facebook user, anything that damages the social media marketing industry has my full support. Thanks Facebook!

Oh the irony...
Not too far of a leap from there to "Impossible chicken".

The real crime is that we are gonna have to think of a different name for non-euclidean chicken products.
Yes! Unit test code!

I avoid humor in main code, but in unit test code when you have to come up with dummy bits of test data or variable names, I love getting funky there :)
I’ve always despised spreadsheets... the confusion between input data, methods of calculation, and output is absolutely foul.

I hung on to Lotus Improv as long as I could, and then opted for Quantrix Modeller, and now do most of my stuff in a combination of locally hosted SQL and Mathematica.

What kind of broken paradigm allows for an errant keystroke to break the flow of a calculation? Or allowing data to go stale, only to break the calculation when you refresh and get back more rows than you previously had?
A scrolling visualization to show the sheer number of things reminds me of this youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0J6BQDKiYyM
> anything along these lines that's done for personal/internal use seems likely fair game

How about students photocopying books?

Universities seem pretty convinced that's not permitted.
Congestion Pricing, Removing Parking: what's the future of cities and traffic?
>> "As an aside, without copyright, we could have both Disney and Sony Spiderman movies. The consumer wins, and there's more than enough money to go around for competing studios."

Wouldn't that be trademark, not copyright?
> Obama famously used technology in his campaign, why people are surprised that the other side is using it is beyond me.

I suspect a lot of the difference in judgement is less about the tools and more about the messaging that it allowed: What CA did, quite effectively under the brand SCL Election, was dog-whistling and demotivation campaign, like “Do So” in Trinidad presented in the Big Hack.

If you can tell which one of your voters are racist, you can be a lot more blunt about what you mean by “revisit immigration policies”. People suspect that targetting allowed Trump to talk as if no one else was in the room — although, it’s not like he was very respectful in public.

One the other hand, people are likely to assume that Obama’s analytics, even if they were more detailed, where about pointing potential voters are the relevant part of his program: you are a teacher? Let’s put the promises about increasing the budget for education in bold. Veteran? Talk about red-tape at the VA. Everybody can see those, but people might not care as much. This is still targeting, probably more effective than cloak-and-dagger messaging, but it doesn’t come off as problematic.

Of course, a lot of the tools are similar: scraping Facebook Graph should be frowned upon in both cases, it wasn’t in 2008, 2012; it was in 2016, although it’s hard to see if that’s more awareness, and from whom, or partisanship.

I do think that the distinction is key, and why Facebook’s main visible effort was to make all political ads publicly visible: it avoided to let the argument about secret offensive ads fester. That might have some unintended consequences, though.
It's not premature. It sets expectations. If you can't set expectations for the buyer, they just won't buy.
All meat is plant based :)

I only can interpret that label because I'm now cynically familiar with the deceptive advertising practices currently used. But, to someone not used to how advertisers try to make one thing seem to be another, saying 'beyond meat' is 'plant based' does not communicate this thing is just a bunch of vegetables.
It makes much more sense to regulate food if you think about it. Taking drugs is more or less a choice. Eating is indispensable. We're wired to favor fat, sweet and salty food. The damage is done by merely following our evolutionary programming. But I don't think this will ever happen in the US, mainly because of the lack of socialized health care.
What animal do you suppose "fat, tissue, spicule, etc" comes from? They could still be driving a huge amount of chickens purchased merely from that
I've tried Beyond Meat sausages a couple of weeks ago. They suck compared to the real thing and cost twice as much. I don't know what all the hoopla is about. They're edible, but that's about the highest compliment I can offer at this time. Back to the drawing board, BM.
The first one, less so. Explaining what you are doing to someone (as long as they get the basics) can be a great way to cement your understanding of what you are currently doing.
> There are many properties of a blockchain that are an anti-feature of voting.

I don't know much of anything about blockchains and voting. What properties do you consider antifeatures?
You can completely avoid this by using a package manager - Homebrew on macOS, apt on Debian/Ubuntu, yum on Redhat/CentOS. I don't use Windows but I am sure there should be something similar. You also don't need to use Oracle's distro any more. AdoptOpenJDK is a great alternative.
I've not tried any yet, but I have a couple of friends who have been reviewing various meat-alternatives here in Helsinki, and reviews seem largely positive.
Basically it's inertia. How would people handle using all the existing 120V devices with 240V outlets?

Most Americans don't know this, but there already are exiting NEMA 240V outlets in use in the US. There's, of course, the commonly-known "dryer outlet" and "stove outlet" (which are each unique to that application), but there's also some standardized ones for lower currents than those. Sometimes you'll see them in (older) houses that have very large window-unit air conditioners, because 120V isn't sufficient to run an A/C over a certain BTU rating. IIRC, these outlets look similar to regular 120V outlets except one of the prongs is sideways.

You're absolutely right that most electronics these days can run dual-voltage; they do this because it's very easy to do with modern switching power supplies, and lets you engineer and sell one product worldwide instead of making different versions for different markets, and all you have to do is include a different power cord. However, changing the infrastructure is a totally different proposition. Lots of things don't work on 240V: think about toasters, refrigerators, lights, etc. I even have a German-made electric toothbrush which only runs on 120V (presumably, it uses a simple transformer in the charger base, which is inductively coupled to the toothbrush; the charger base is only rated for 120V, since transformers have to be tapped for the appropriate voltage).

Basically, it would be cool if the entire country switched over to 240V outlets everywhere, as it would give us superior toasters, vacuum cleaners, etc., but there'd be huge confusion for a long time, probably some fires, and the benefit generally isn't worth the cost.
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> Plant-based meat, on the other hand, can be both cheaper

Definitely not the case at the moment. Last week I went to Del Taco and tried their Beyond Taco. It was $2.49 each compared to the meat one which was $1.49. If I recall correctly, you can switch to an Incredible burger patty at Red Robin for $3 extra.
Exactly; let's say you have a social media record or even a browsing history that indicates labor activism (or drug use, or health issues, or any other kind of activism). That data is saved somewhere, associated with you directly or just assembled into a behavioral profile for ad targeting purposes -- at least for now and as far as we can tell. And like racial bias, this data can be dumped into a neural net with a score at the end to launder what exactly is going on.
We don't necessarily disagree, but what bothers me is when people blame Google for this, as opposed to focusing on the draconian laws that have forced their hand.
Congratulations! We rebuilt our diagnostics and firmware updating tools multiple times over the years for Lockitron, it was a massive pain each time.

How do you handle log caching and retrieval for offline devices (i.e Bluetooth)?
It's not "all of a sudden" though, is it? You would have to explicitly set new tabs to show about:blank for that to happen.
All that being said, my daily driver is a Mac and I don't think about this stuff either, until it affects a server.
The poster's activities ("studying logic programming", "NLP experiments", "work on Haskell") are the equivalent of painting or composing poetry: a creative activity done for enjoyment. A better analogy for you (not that studying perspective and color theory couldn't be enjoyable in itself even if you don't paint... though of course it's a very different sort of activity from painting) may be "If you paint all day for your own pleasure but never exhibit or sell a picture then what's the point?" (not sure whether you would say that)
For now. But as more people start selecting the plant based substitute, the cost will come down because of volume.
Basically, Java is suffering from the Windows XP problem right now. Nobody supported anything above Java 8, so everyone's still trying to use it, and Oracle's done with giving it out for free.
This looka great and like it solves a big real problem people have. Congrats on doing this!

How do you deal with security? IoT devices are infamous and having one with a debugger open to the world terrifies me.
That was a misleading marketing push. Here is their exact wording:

> Our tender, juicy Chicken McNuggets are made with 100% white meat chicken and no artificial colors, flavors or preservatives.

Made WITH not made OF. Meaning all the meat within a McDonalds nugget is 100% white chicken meat, not that ALL of a McDonald's nugget is 100% chicken. It is designed to be misread/misunderstood.

McNuggets still don't contain 100% chicken or even close, and the fact that 100% of the meat they do contain is "white meat chicken" isn't a significant change.

Go taste a whole-chicken nugget (like Chick-Fil-A's) next to a McDonalds nugget. Heck go look inside them, at the filler. It is night and day.
Alas it's not really like that. The NYC rental market is incredibly tight. Most places already want a deposit plus first and last months' rent, which really just means double the deposit. Even if you have the cash for yet another deposit on top of that, they often won't entertain the idea. It's easier if you can deal directly with a landlord; agencies will generally have nothing to do with you. That and proof of a job/income should be way more than enough proof, but it's still not.

I'm a capitalist and a bit of a left-leaning libertarian, so I'm not saying landlords shouldn't have the right to act like this, or that I think the government needs to step in and regulate it. If I owned a property, I wouldn't want the government telling me whom I can rent to (more than they already do). Just providing examples of the creeping social credit system we have. I don't think it's about financial security once you're already asking for three months' rent just to move in; the financial part is pretty well covered by then.
I worked at a software company doing photo albums for telecoms. Work had a chinese company as a client, they stole our software and never paid. Lucky it was one of our first clients, so early version of the software. Work landed all the major telecoms over the years (and some overseas).
This was almost 15+ years ago too.
What does that even mean? Is it meat made from animals that eat plants? Is it plants that grow muscles?

The one thing this does not communicate is that the contents are not meat.
>American 240V outlets are two-phase (two hot plus neutral).

No, that's single-phase. The "phase" is measured across the hot wires; the wire itself isn't the phase. There's no such thing as "two-phase".
Interesting idea. It makes you wonder how to best spend your time: writing better software (ie less bugs), or invest time in fuzzification (ie less exploits).
Is their collective indifference indicative of actual indifference to meat or that they don't deem this a battle worth fighting?
AMD is using MDOEFSI, according to page 15 of: https://www.hotchips.org/wp-content/uploads/hc_archives/hc29...

However, I can't find any information on what MDOEFSI is. I'm assuming:

* Modified
* Dirty
* Owned
* Exclusive
* Forwarding
* Shared
* Invalid

Any information I look up comes up to an NDA-firewall pretty quickly (be it in performance counters, or hardware level documentation). It seems like AMD is highly protective of their coherency algorithm.

> That'd let you have multiple copies in different slices as long as you weren't mutating them.

Seems like the D(irty) state allows multiple copies to be mutated actually. But its still a "multiple copies" methodology. As any particular core comes up to the 8MB (Zen) or 16 MB (Zen2) limit, that's all they get. No way to have a singular dataset with 32MB of cache on Zen or Zen2.
The term "barely meat" as used in the parent was definitely talking about the ground beef you get at fast food restaraunts. Which has been shown in lots of cases to contain additives, notably taco bell etc. You brought up chicken because it's harder to call it barely meat, but fast food chicken is still shittier.
I have come to the conclusion that digital/algorithmic recommendations will always be marketing influenced and lack the context to make an absolute guaranteed recommend. Random-physical and friendly suggestions are more accurate and reveal much more as they come from sources rather than a machine "guessing" what will work. Algorithms are also subject to poisoning. Friendly suggestions are subject to poisoning but the risk is of course much less.

TLDR; I enjoy the work required for discovery. For example, I'd rather cancel Netflix streaming and returning to Netflix physical for missed releases, hidden nuggets/gems, hard to find, and better consumption management.
You usually get ice, though not the same amounts as in the US. Free refills are also not available in every restaurant.
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Since the RFC came 42 years after the magazine article, and 27 years after I sold my first computer program (with data in hex), I'll just consider myself old fashioned.
Tried this on our project, GitHub.com/hail-is/hail.

Sphinx is a persistent thorn in our side, but we've made it work. A couple things I had to do to get this working:

- something thinks a filename with dots (e.g. example.8bits.bgen) means there is a python module that needs to be imported (e.g. example), and fails when that does not exist; we have files like this in a data directory

- I could not quickly figure out how to ignore files, so I had to delete a Sphinx conf.py file.

- Sphinx resolves the _templates folder relative to where it is called, not relative to the doc string's source file, so I had to add several symlinks (rather than manually edit every doc string).

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OK docs are generating. Quite slow, maybe a couple minutes. Looks like one core is at 100% during this process. We've got ~400 files. Maybe its parsing some data files? The whole directory is 318 MB.

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Now I'm looking at the docs.

First thing I notice is that Python type hint forward references break everything. Consider:

class GroupedMatrixTable(
parent: 'MatrixTable',
...

The generated doc page is missing the class name and the entire class definition is inlined as a preformatted block (with highlighting :shrug:).

All my python function def's seem to be missing the function name?

No arg functions look really weird

def (
)

So all our docs are in ReST (thanks Sphinx :|). This means they're not valid Markdown. It seems that invalid markdown in a class doc string can break the formatting of all the methods (presenting them again as one reformatted block).

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On the bright side, the mobile version looks great and the search works better than my experience with Sphinx.

EDIT: formatting
Lack of visual clutter
It's not a written down list. The way it works is that when you are considered for a company, someone there might reach out to people they know at your former or current employer and get the inside info on you. Those people are usually higher up the hierarchy than you. So if they have some grudge they hold against you, then you won't get hired irrespective of how you did in the interview and you will never know the real reason.

This is the hidden power structure that crosses companies. And this power structure holds and maintains all sorts of biases: alumni, ethnicity, religion, gender, socioeconomic, etc... It works the other way too in terms of some people getting hired who otherwise wouldn't.

In fact, that person holds the relationship with the other person in higher regard than you and will in fact report to the other person that you have been interviewing at another company. Applies to recruiters, managers, HR, you name it.
Kentucky Fried Cauliflower
We have SDKs for iOS, Androids, and other gateway devices to push logs up to the cloud over bluetooth.
Neither of these sources cite any social science up to back their conclusions. I guess I'm interested in the fact that David Carr believed Obama's digital campaign was important, because I sort of generally liked David Carr. But this is color commentary, not analysis.
Uber and Lyft Take a Lot More from Drivers Than They Say
Impossible Burger isn't lab-grown meat
Intel is the last US company with a bleeding edge fab.

Should Intel really be considered a U.S. company these days?

I tend to consider companies like Intel (and IBM, and Apple, and Microsoft, etc.) international companies.
and libvirt
It also has no Windows installer - it's a bare zip archive. In order for all the existing software that expects Java installed to find it you need to set several environmental variables and registry keys. AdoptOpenJDK has an installer that can do all that for you, making it pretty much a drop-in replacement for the old JDK and JRE downloads. There's almost no way for anyone who wants to run older software that needs Java to discover AdoptOpenJDK though.
Sugar is like processed carbs with more badness.
Strangely enough A&W in Canada is now a completely different company than A&W in the US. Their logos are even slightly different.

EDIT: I mean the restaurant chain, I'm not sure of the root beer itself.
Less so. At least those names, though oxymorons, do contain the actual product being sold.
Ah thats how thrift books works. I was wondering how they could offer books so cheaply.
"Shittier" how? Chick-Fil-A's fast-food chicken is likely better than the median supermarket chicken (it's all supposedly antibiotic-free now). I'd like to see a better grounded argument, one that doesn't depend entirely on the premise that "fast food meat must be shitty because we disdain fast food".
Well presumably, they'd change the outlets to 240V-specific outlets. We already have NEMA outlets for 240V single-phase applications, even in residential buildings.

Of course, then you'll have the problem where someone moves into a new house and then they can't use any of their stuff because it doesn't fit into the outlet. Then they'll go to Home Depot and buy an adapter, which just converts the physical outlets (and has a big warning about not using for devices not rated for 240V), and use that with their heater or toaster or vacuum cleaner, and start a fire that burns down an entire apartment complex.
This is a legitimate question, does it not set the rates for any secondary offerings?
Literally no one? I'm fairly sure a majority of native English speakers has never even heard of Dvořák, never mind know how to spell his name correctly.
Javascript runs locally. Eg. a quick search turns up: https://github.com/cgvwzq/spectre
SSGs are great. In Python I like Nikola.

https://getnikola.com/
What's working in our favour, though, is that we (millennials) have nothing to lose!

No seriously, if the market crashes, what would we lose? We have no assets that would be devalued. We have shitty jobs so we don't really care if we lose those, we can pick them back up pretty easily. I don't need a car if I don't have a job, so you can take that too. I'm used to eating like a peasant from going through university, so no worries there either.

The only thing I would be upset about losing would be the internet, as that's where most of my "assets" lie (subscribers, digital assets like in-game currencies, items or characters, etc.)
The CIA's EarthViewer Was Basically the Original Google Earth (2015)
Unlocking the memory capacity is a flat fee regardless of how many cores, so I think a better comparison price for the overcosting is $20k locked / $28k unlocked.
That isn't true according to the NOAA article:

>this approach neglects the problem that the released radioactive fallout would fairly quickly move with the tradewinds to affect land areas and cause devastating environmental problems. Needless to say, this is not a good idea.
> The author is making the case for special treatment of structs for a special case.

The struct by-copy is mostly a good API thing in a lot of scenarios, particularly when the objects are <1 cache line.

Even more so, when you're only writing half the code and want to separate the actions within a function from any side-effects outside.

I would say that the performance difference for small structures is irrelevant to the extra hop, particularly if the copied location is the stack on the callee.
Currently, Memfault is one-way so it is not quite like having JTAG access to your device from the cloud.

But it still needs to be secure, and we typically encrypt all data going from the device to the cloud (some devices, sadly, do not have the ability to do the encryption).

Edit: removed double negative.
Spans with extent known to the compiler are not even two words long. Like unique_ptr with default deleter they are the size of a pointer.