skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but focus on DNA superiority combined within equal races mixed in

“Superiority” is always subjective; the fact that the phenotype you are maximizing doesn't happen to be the same ideal sought by white supremacists doesn't really make a difference to the ethics of such a eugenics program (the steps you are taking to advance it might be a legitimate differentiator, but the purpose would not.)
I think you are disappointed in the practice of treating symptoms when no cure is available, rather than disliking pills as a delivery mechanism for medicine, which is how your first comment reads.

It's entirely possible that some diseases will be cured by pills, as they are just a delivery mechanism for medicine (and I would like to reiterate they are pretty great at that).

To your main point about treating symptoms vs. creating cures, yes its pretty unfortunate. But most likely, we will be finding cures for diseases one at a time, and there will always be conditions where we can only treat the symptoms.
> I don't care if it can update the DOM 20% faster if React or Angular already does it within 16ms […]

… on your beefy 1st world country developer machine. But some of us are building websites and apps which are used by people in 3rd world countries, where CPUs are not as fast, RAM is not as plentiful, bandwidth costs more and latency is much higher.

It all comes down to what is the target user group. If I'm building an intranet app, where I know people will be using their local 10G LAN to load the page, and run it on their powerful office machines, then not even a 10MB bundle size would keep me up at night. But then there are projects for NGOs which need to be accessible in 3rd world countries and so my priorities shift.
Well, yeah, but the pure density isn't there.

All of LA was built assuming car ownership. So there are large 4-lane streets everywhere breaking up the usable land. Not to mention huge freeways cutting a net through the whole area. Plus, much of the zoning has segmented regions. You have a whole area just for housing, and another just for commercial property, and another just to industry. So by necessity you need to travel moderately long distances to reach your needed destinations.

I imagine most European cities that weren't built for cars means they originally were built with much narrower and sparse streets, more mixed-use regions, and thus walking or biking a short distance covers the majority of your needs. The rest can be handled by public transportation. In LA, that isn't feasible because so much extra road space means everything is much more spread out.

NYC and other major cities (Chicago) have higher density by building upwards as well as building their public transport from the beginning.
<in my mind>There's still humans in postal sorting centers?</>

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjdpz05u2DY

omg...
Not bad I guess, though I failed to find a decent review telling even what CPU and wattage the thing has, let alone how to run it with Linux. Haven't considered a Mac Mini for the job since mine is so dog-slow I'd rather run CI on my notebook.
I agree that GDPR has strengthened incumbents. I also agree that Facebook and Google are dangerous. But I think that appropriately siloed ad-tech can be valuable. The problem is that ad-tech refers to all technology aimed at advertising. These range form useful to creepy. I am omitting the outright fraud from this.

For example, things like television attribution providers which listen on your smartphone to try to watermark advertisements and see whether you bought something that was advertised on the RV or radio are pretty creepy. And I have heard too many anecdotes of Facebook ads showing up after conversations not to suspect Facebook is doing the same with conversations (though I can't prove it and can't be sure). The level of intrusiveness there is very high and the creepiness factor is similarly troubling.

But now let's look at something very different. Suppose you look at providers that simply do analytics on something like purchases and only share the data with the client. To my mind there isn't so much wrong with this. And you could have third party referees that can then referee disputes on whether a given click lead to a purchase or not, allowing better payment models. Those are not so problematic.

Everything I have seen in the advertising industry (print and online, etc) is that it is rife with all kinds of problems. And yet the industry exists because advertising is an important part of reaching an audience business-wise and so people put up with all the crap. So I am not sure that ad-tech needs to die. We need a better ad-tech industry. One without the creepy parts.

To this end, I think we need more things like GDPR, not less.
how does this differ from owncloud/nextcloud?
If you haven't looked at it, another big player in campus scheduling/optimization is EMS. They operate from the event/room reservation side of things, with academic optimization as an add-on.
Now that I think about it a bit more, I do recall Dublin being an alleged hotspot, but to me it's the same way I've heard Jacksonboro, SC is a hotspot. Transit it a half-dozen or so times per year but never manage to see or otherwise run into actual trouble. Everyone I know will tell you it's a hotspot, but never has actual accounts of it.

Metter was and remains the family pitstop, and has never been trouble and I can't recall seeing any in the 10+ years that I can remember driving. Of course that's really only in the I-16 interchange area as opposed to transiting the town itself, perhaps further into the depths of Metter awaits a townie with a quota.

I wonder if police hotspots are a sort-of hipster problem, by the time you hear of them they've since moved on to greener pastures.
Fluoride gives some people issues. Meat gives other people issues. Vegetables others. Latex others. Peanuts others. Coffee others.. Don't mock people because you don't have that issue. Fluoride processing involves the liver...
> I'm not familiar with Dart but I believe the same applies to all the C-derived syntax languages

Yes, you're correct. It's not a unique property of Dart, but it's an example of a case where the whitespace in your source code is important, even if you just use it as an input to the automated formatter.

> how about not adding another operator, but automatically choosing based on whether the type on the left is nullable?

We could do that, but that just kicks the problem down the road. It means the type of the surrounding expression would itself become nullable (because a null-safe subscript operator can always evaluate to null). So the user still has to handle it at some point. It's better to make them handle it at the first place that null can appear so that they know where it's sneaking into their code.
Ahh, whoops. I misread your comment. I thought you were saying the opposite
This article is severely deficient and written to draw clicks.

It doesn't go far enough (or at all, really) to explain that the credit card issuer doesn't see the data. They see a transaction amount. There's no banana.

The current top comment about Google linking online to B&M purchases isn't a leak of privacy: it's strictly private both to Google and the merchant. You are being tracked, but not in a privacy-revealing way, just in an uber-annoying I'm-still-being-targetted so-it's-creepy-and-annoying way.

That retail merchants are tracking you is a huge, huge problem. The CC facilitates this by linking all your purchases into a single history, but it isn't the CC per se that is the problem. eg the store's own rewards card specifically does this. They don't even care if you give your actual PII up to signup for the rewards card, all they care about is that they can [even anonymously] identify the purchase stream tied to an individual.

They should go to length to better distinguish this problem because then they can get to the fact that every Apple Pay transaction is tokenized and not linkable to prior or future Apple Pay transactions.
Our sales are very outbound: personalized cold emails & cold calls have been very effective for us. We also attend lots of tradeshows and have found some success with webinars and digital ads.

To your point about moving to a better system - it's been an age old critique that universities are a slow moving bureaucracy.

We'd argue that the slow pace is a more or less an allergic reaction to the poor solutions that universities have been force-fed over the past 20+ years: including but not limited to incessant acquisitions, companies going under and products that don't work or integrate well.

Given that university administrators often work within a school for 20+ years, you end up with a lot of people who are just flat out skeptical of new products.

The good thing is that going from 0 to 1 product within a university is exponentially more difficult than 1 to 2 or 1 to an entire back-office solution. Now that we've got a couple of strong references and high NPS scores, we think that up-selling and cross-selling is going to help us break down these traditional barriers. Rather than rip and replace, why not go down the line with us and rebuild?
you guys all think you're special and the rules don't apply to you... just wait and see what the rest of the world has to say about that...
The argument is not trickle down economics although, it's wealthy demand traps. Ex:

"If rich people can't buy ferraris, and there is a limit to 100 BMWs and 100 civics, then rich people will boost the price of all the BMWs and Civics and all you can buy is really old broken down chevrolets, if you can buy one at all."

"But I bought my civic when it was an affordable price, and I have a special old person subsidized gas price, why do we need build more civics, ferraris and BMWs for all of these new immigrants?! Why can't they just stay in their own country?"
Nope, NP Complete, check out the max flow / min cut problem
It's happening because many Americans don't see the value in subsidizing electronics hobbyists.

It won't hurt robotics or drones companies, that's pure fearmongering. No business is having circuit boards shipped via ePacket.
Thanks! Indeed there are a few 'rainbow' variants out there (in d3, matplotlib, matlab), and some of them are very pleasant (though I think lower contrast). I personally find it confusing to have 'pink' in a rainbow map. It's not in a real rainbow, and the way I recall the color order is by visualizing that so it trips me up :)

I like Spectral a lot as well. I think if you're not after mega contrast it's probably the best bread-and-butter map out there for this kind of work.
> When you "talk to yourself" you already know what you are going to say, you might as well just stop as soon as you notice doing that.

Why? I'm good company.
I don't see any evidence that lifting IP protections will result in a decrease in quantity or quality of creative works as a whole.

Well, there are millions of people working in creative industries today whose income ultimately derives from selling that creative work under the current IP regime. If removing IP protections is not to result in reduced output, some alternative model must either continue to provide the same incentive for the same people to do that work or provide a sufficient incentive so that others produce at least the equivalent output.

I would argue that many alternative models have been tried in recent years, and that in most cases there is no inherent reason that they could not succeed immediately if they created a more effective incentive than the existing IP regime just because we have that regime operating in parallel. And yet so far, I see little evidence that any known alternative has actually done that. There are some isolated success stories, and even those typically don't raise anything like as much funding as the the top tier of works funded through more traditional models.

Let's make it clear what you're advocating for: continued state action that benefits a minority of the population at the expense of consumers by providing the members of that minority with an artificially enforced monopoly on information.

But that minority of the population is the only group contributing any value here. What you're advocating for is everyone being able to benefit from the work of others without any obligation to give anything back. That might cut it when we're living in a fully automated utopian paradise where money is obsolete and no-one has to work for a living, but until then, the people contributing that value also have bills to pay and families to feed.
One is dependent on the other, no?

If I don't have electricity I don't have ANY storage. Mine or Google's.

But I can still have mine without Google. It doesn't work the other way around. And Google's got a much larger target on their back than I do.
Unfortunately, in the world we live in, externalized costs are considered independently from financial costs.

Now, it's just a matter of time before fossil fuels are no longer an issue - we are rapidly moving to renewable energy. And that will have a significant impact on farming practice, by altering the cost of tillage and transportation. And as these costs accumulate to the point where they enter the financial equation, farming technology will adjust accordingly. That's what the market does.

So what is "sustainability" here? Are we worried that the agricultural system will break so rapidly that it causes massive famines?
I used the word "scientists" and that's probably my fault. I don't think it substantially changes the argument that Jusrassic Park is "fear mongering", though, especially in the context of the original article.

The the corporation and its scientists are tied together in that they try to predict the future, which as Crichton kindly explains, is completely impossible. The corporation believes that investing money will lead to profits later, and the scientists it employs believe that their safety measures and female-only population will prevent things from going wrong.

The "good" scientists only react to events in the past and the present; observing the dinosaurs as they are, taking action against immediate threats, and reconstructing the series of events that led to the catastrophe. The chaos mathematician may as well be a self-insert in the context of this article; he spends half his time explaining to people that nothing can ever be predicted, with mathematical "proof".
haha nice use of ironical
Exactly right.

If I had a time machine, (1) is what I'd fix. The conditional operator syntax has always been pretty hokey and if you just make `if` an expression (along with most other statement forms), you have no need for it.
If he builds you a shed for money he's in the shed-building business. I'm not sure why you're so intent on arguing semantics here.

IBM will build you a system to analyze some data. So will Palantir. Two different firms that offer a similar service. That's the only point I was trying to make.
The UN can "force" rules upon us if we sign an agreement allowing them to do so. If we sign a treaty agreeing to abide by the rules set by a UN agency, then they can impose such rules, and under the US Constitution, such rules have the force of law within the US.

The rules might not be fair. Our recourse is to try to change the rules, and failing that, threaten to withdraw from the agreement. That's what we're doing.
So the new slogan can be "Actually it was not free and never was"
It has always struck me as mad that I can order an individual widget from China for less than it would cost for the postage of that widget in my own country.
These new "libraries" should be called something else. I do like your "community center" terminology.
It actually sounds pretty tasty: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymeal

> They suggest a person should consume, every day: 150 mL of red wine (about one glass), 100 g of dark chocolate, 400 g of fruits and vegetables, 2.7 g of garlic, 68 g of almonds, as well as 118 g of fish per day four times each week.
> The prosecution is being handled by the Office of the U.S. Attorney, Northern District of California’s new Corporate Fraud Strike Force

I'm curious if this explains the delayed timing... New agency team gets started and looks around for the biggest fish to fry. Everyone already dislikes Uber and AI is big right now so it's win-win. Smart move by the prosecutors if so.

(Or it could just be a long process due to the other civil trial happening first or just the FBI criminal investigation taking long, and the new group simply took up the prosecution, I'm just speculating)
What happens if a conductor (regular wire, not a superconductor), is wrapped in a magnet that "matches" the magnetic field produced by the wire?
XFCE is like the Goldilocks DE for me. Not too New Age (Gnome 3) not too much (KDE) and not too little (tiling WM). It’s not the prettiest thing but if something bothers me I know I can tweak it and be happy.

Thanks team for keeping some of us sane!!
Casio’s Eccentric Product Culture, Built on Embracing Failure (2003)
I agree with most of this, but remote drivers are completely unfeasible with current or planned network infrastructure. You could drive with acceptable levels of sensor bandwidth and latency right next to an unobstructed low-utilization 5G tower, and that's about it. That's unlikely to correspond with the locations one would need remote drivers.
Managing app settings in software licensing
>or perhaps jail

No. There should never be jail for debt. We have a lot of history seeing what debtors prison looks like and it's ugly, and also stupid because it's the government paying out a lot of money... to collect a bit of money? Usually paying out far more then the fine is anyway. Plus opportunity cost. Plus any value lost to society from whatever that person might have done outside of prison. Plus any extra cost that comes from them getting turned far worse while in prison. If someone has zero money, and will never in the future have any money, then sure blood can't be squeezed from stone and it's still better to write it off (or change the statute to require different recompense like service if it's deemed that important) than jail them. If they do have any money/property, or ever will collect any money/property down the road, that can be taken in due course.
I am not making a direct comparison. I am using NYC as a case for how population density affects traffic. That does not have much to do with a place being "third world". He/She could as well make points about better infrastructure instead of disparaging places as "third world" countries. The notion of bucketing countries is derogatory, and does not add to the argument.

And just to make my point further, OP's other comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20810496 makes it pretty clear they have every intention to stereotype countries as "third world"
The other issue is that sometimes the new, more-expensive, under-patent medications are less effective than something that already exists. But they don't say that in the ad. Or to doctors when they're wining and dining them.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/10/22/did-uber-steal...

The company was less than a decade old, but it had almost seventeen thousand employees, including a thick layer of middle managers. Levandowski recently told me, “One of the reasons they wanted us was because Larry Page knew we were scrappy—we would cut through red tape.” Page, Google’s co-founder and chief executive, often complained that the company had become bloated, and had lost the hacker mentality that had fuelled its initial success. By the time Levandowski arrived, Google’s apparatchiks were in ascent.

“Hiring could take months,” Levandowski told me. “There was a program called WorkforceLogic, and just getting people into the system was super-complicated. And so, one day, I put ads on Craigslist looking for drivers, and basically hired anyone who seemed competent, and then paid them out of my own pocket. It became known as AnthonyforceLogic.” Around this time, Levandowski went to an auto dealership and bought more than a hundred cars. One of his managers from that period told me, “When we got his expense report, it was equal to something like all the travel expenses of every other Google employee in his division combined. The accountants were, like, ‘What the hell?’ But Larry said, ‘Pay it,’ and so we did. Larry wanted people who could ignore obstacles and could show everyone that you could do something that seemed impossible if you looked for work-arounds.”
The majority of indie game developers will likely never be profitable if they account for their time. Yes, it's a small company, but merely still being there makes him one of the most successful indie developers around.

You'll note part of his reason for wanting to stay small is that he's an introvert who likes to work by himself - not everyone wants to build a sprawling empire. So sure, if you want to gamble big at a shot at massive success you probably shouldn't listen to him. If you want to be able to be independent and work for yourself, he has worthwhile lessons about focusing on what pays your bills and where your skills are that are worthwhile not just for people who wants to do games.
In praise of property-based testing
Actually I had already planned habitats for Masons and Cutters :D

Those non-colony bees seem super friendly to the "bird home" style donations, so I was mostly referring to if colonies could be helped in a similar manner. Specifically I am in the Pacific Northwest (US), if that helps at all.

But yea, I planned on heavily supporting cutters and masons. They also pollinate extremely well.
Someone Just Blew a Hole in the Volcker Rule
Yeah they are one of these players that has been working on scheduling since the 90's. We've taken a few schools off of their tool mainly because it's not the most intuitive, it does not really provide course demand projections and we have a department scheduling piece that EMS is lacking. Have you used EMS before or how are you aware of it?
Don't give drug companies any new ideas...
Or he never liked when rules got in the way of him selling his startup to Uber for $680 million.
Are they reporting things that are factually incorrect?
It's "Component Object Model" for anyone out there that almost gave up after googling "COM".
Express packages typically cost $2+ per KG for average consumers within China, if you volume is massive, you can negotiate the price to $0.5 to 1.
This will change somewhat... Shenzen exports a lot to the US, but that's going to get more expensive soon.
Yeah definitely - we're always interested in seeing if there could be a mutual fit, want to shoot me an email at jwenig@coursedog.com ?
You will also have to require Turbolinks in your JavaScript manifest (application.js). See "Installation using Ruby on Rails" in the docs.
What sort of high-frequency public transport are you suggesting?

The only thing that can work with the current system is more bus lines. But those are woefully inefficient for longer distances.

Ideally you could have some sort of rail system (either above or underground). But both would be prohibitively expensive and require bulldozing quite a bit of property.

Also, good luck bulldozing the rich folks' regions. Recently there was a proposal to add a freeway in Pasadena to greatly reduce congestion on the freeways. All the lawyers who lived there lined up and said they'd sue, in a queue, holding up the city by at least a decade in legal proceedings.
Or wireguard with your own DNS (unbound) blackhole-ing ad networks: https://www.ckn.io/blog/2017/11/14/wireguard-vpn-typical-set...

Or IPv6. Personally, I like running a Mikrotik Hex Lite as my home router with Ubiquiti wireless APs behind it. I've definitely learned a lot about networking trying to get everything set up nice and secure. That'd make a good blog post, actually...

EDIT: Zerotier is a great service. I kind of dream of some collaboration between Zerotier and Wireguard. Zerotier is Software Defined Networking, I guess(?), and it'd be cool to have wireguard be part of that stack. Though maybe that's not necessary. I haven't dug into Zerotier recently enough to know if thats redundant or at all useful.