skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My fridge is modern but pretty simple. It’s really just a freezer with a vent that regulates fridge temps. It’s got some othe functions like defrost and seal warming but it’s a remarkably crude device
You can't live without a heart, but most people don't get cancer, is it ethical for me to donate to the American cancer society but not the American heart association because Cancer is built on the heart?

No it's my donation I'll donate where I want. If I find joy in donating to a small oss dev instead of a strategic donation to a well organized large one then that's what I do.
> your company already allows a third-party to access your email and chat history

I'd suggest, when trying to win over a technical community, you don't speak to us like we're completely ignorant. Those "third-parties" are the service providers themselves.

I'm going to trust Google and Slack a tiny bit more than LoopHQ's two employees (https://www.linkedin.com/company/loopscore/). And as neither of you have any technical experience whatsoever, this tells me you hired an outside team to build your products, which makes me question the on-going product quality, support, and security even more.
Yes, emscripten/llvm builds C code into webassembly. I'd say a significant portion of webassembly is C/C++ sourced.
YouTube freezes so damn much. Very annoying. But probably good since I watch too much damn YouTube haha.
Am Romanian who also caught the last years of the Ceausescu regime, can confirm that I also learned English mostly by watching undubbed Cartoon Network shows in the early ‘90s, my favorite was Top Cat (at least that’s how I think it was called). I also learned Italian by watching Berlusconi’s channels (“Non e la Rai” and “Mai dire goal” were among my favorite TV shows), and my gf learned a pretty good Spanish by watching telenovelas while she was a teenager. Living in a “small” culture kind of forces you to have to learn new languages, otherwise you risk remaining stuck (both economically and “culturally”, so to speak).

I’m still a little upset with myself that I wasn’t motivated enough to also learn Russian when I was a kid (I had already learned how to read its alphabet) and maybe also German. Now that I’m approaching my 40s this is definitely on my to do list, I want to have the chance to read the works of people like Heine or Pushkin in their original language.
Tax breaks can (to use US examples, not sure how many have Canadian analogies: the mortgage interest deduction, California's property tax assesemt increase limitations, the capital gains tax exclusion on home sales) serve as incentives to take on debt for real estate purchases.
Always Squash and Rebase Your Git Commits
> My only regret is getting the short bed

This is exactly opposite for me - I want a pickup that is "short bed, standard cab" - I want a small pickup - like the original Ranger/Mazda B3000.

Sadly, due to CAFE rules I can't get that any more.

Now - what I (and many others) lusted after was something Jeep showed off as a concept vehicle: It was a short-bed version of their new Gladiator pickup.

Probably the only way that I might - might - give up my TJ. Damn, that thing looked so sweet. But again, they probably couldn't build it because of CAFE rules. So if you want the Gladiator, you have to get the 4-door. I don't like 4-door vehicles, I have no need for one. I want a 2-door pickup, standard cab, short bed - nothing less.

Either that, or give me one of these - another vehicle I can't own:

http://oxgvt.com/
It looks like it executes directly out of flash. The instruction bus isn't hooked up to the main AHB matrix, but the instead goes straight into the flash controller. It doesn't look like it even can execute out of SRAM for the same reason. It also looks like you can't DMA from flash to SRAM or peripherals, which isn't the biggest deal, but could have made for some neat efficiencies.
Somewhat related (topically, not necessarily causally), I've seen a number of tweets about journalists being hassled entering the US. So far none have actually been barred as far as I'm aware, but it seems the "fake news media" rhetoric from the top has been seared into (some of) the rank-and-file.

One example: https://mobile.twitter.com/jamescdyer/status/116464700893166...
YouTube is faster on Firefox on my laptop for some reason. I get zero dropped frames on Firefox too, compared to Chrome/Chromium.

Still waiting on Firefox to support hardware-accelerated decoding of videos though.
I use the add-on "Disable Ctrl-Q and Cmd-Q" because of this. To actually quit with the add-on enabled, you must click the Quit Firefox menu item.
We've been positioning around the deploy a bit recently cause people got really excited by it, but that's not really what Dark is about.

Dark is about removing all accidental complexity from coding, starting with backends. That's pretty vague, but that's honestly how it started: this shit is too hard, what can we do to remove all this shitty stuff that we do.

Setting up infra is one of the three areas that we think is really shit, and that's a large part of Dark. You don't have to deal with infra at all (including DBs, queues, etc); it's all built-in.

Speed of deployment doesn't bother some people, esp those with smaller projects; on big teams it's a massive problem. People got excited about deployless in dark because it seemed like it had a credible vision for how it could be reduced.

We been talking about why we built cause we haven't finished building it yet. We're announcing our move to "private beta" (from "private alpha") on Sep 16th, so that's the kind of stage we're at. We'll be showing how Dark works then.
If it doesn't exist, doesn't that suggest it's solved?

I get no spam calls on my UK number, which is in English.
We didn't have one until I bought an Atari 5200 and my grandpa took pity on us and gave us an old black and white tv (14 or 15 years old). I read so many books as a kid and ideas had hours and hours spent on them.
4 university degrees is probably cheaper than 1 private school degree from the US
I agree with your comment, in its entirety.
You can identify devices with vulnerable libraries and do targeted attacks.
>just don't do deadline driven projects and pretty much everything else falls into place

I've been doing PM work since 2002. I don't think you can work without deadlines -- plural -- in any kind of project for an established business these days. If you think you can, chances are the project is not that relevant/strategic/critical to the business after all. "It can wait".
Depends on one's definition of "capitalism" when applied to software I think.

Whereas I would not "own" the software, I would own the hours I'm willing to write software. As things are I can't freely sell those hours because of a monopoly on many programs, that is, no user can hire me to improve their proprietary software. I can only sell my hours to users of Free Software.

Now we have software "ownership" against the workings of a free market. Both of these are generally considered "capitalist", so it depends on your definition which is "more capitalist", but I hope it's clear that neither of them is strictly capitalist where the other is not.
I'm not a scientist but have friends who do research in this field and I've worked at startups in this field.

Delivery is a major obstacle. DNA, RNA and proteins don't typically get into cells on their own. Typically you use vectors, often viruses or lipid nanoparticles, to get DNA into cells, but these vectors have their own challenges. One of which is that they aren't typically very specific to particular cell types. It can also be tough to get vectors to the right tissue. So most early gene therapy efforts focus on blood disease, liver disease and eye disease because it is easier to deliver to those areas. CNS has also become a popular target because a particular viral vector, AAV9, tends to get into neurons pretty well

But viral vectors are commonly "immunogenic", ie the immune system learns to reject them as foreign after one dose. These are viruses after all, and the body is designed to reject them. Some people have pre-existing antibodies to many popular vectors. And often you can only dose a viral vector once, so if you don't dose it right, or if the effect isn't permanent, you don't get another shot

I can't speak to some of the other more technical problems, but one limitation is that you are limited as to how large your DNA payload can be. But it seems this paper is a big step towards removing that barrier. Which I believe is why this paper is such a big deal (others more knowledgable should correct me)

Also CRISPR works best to cut DNA as of now (which renders a gene non-functional), but it is a bit harder to insert DNA reliably from what I understand. Again, a scientist in this field would much better understand the state of the art than I do, but this is my understanding

Another major unknown is the degree to which gene editing tech causes off-target edits. If your DNA editing tool accidentally snips a gene that protects you from getting cancer, it can lead to cancer. I'm not close enough to the science to know what current thinking is on this risk or how to best mitigate it, but it is very real. More primitive gene therapies did in fact cause cancer in patients (often children)

In many ways sci-fi level genetic engineering is possible. We just don't do it because we don't know the risks, and the risks are huge. We can already genetically modify human embryos, and our toolkit for doing so grows every day. Editing human embryos is a very scary proposition.

EDIT: I will also add that if you are interested in learning about this field, try reading / struggling through a couple scientific papers, really trying to understand every detail. Ideally with the help of a scientist friend. It is time consuming and daunting to get through all of the jargon, but the papers lay out the design, engineering and testing process in some detail. Often they provide the derivation of the mathematical models used and the specific DNA sequences used. You can begin to appreciate how amazing this work is when you get into these details
More people to manage, more local governments with more layers of hierarchies and more bureaucracy overall and I've never heard of bureaucracies scaling well
They've been going into debt in order to buy housing, not on other forms of consumer spending or 'living beyond their means'.

Who sells them housing? Other Canadians.

Why do they go into so much debt? Because the nature of housing is that rising prices will squeeze out every last cent of saved money from the pockets of people trying to buy their first house.

It boggles my mind that the average house in Vancouver or Toronto costs ~20 years of average wages (Assuming you don't eat, sleep under a bridge, and don't pay any taxes.)

20 years worth of labour sure as hell did not go into building it. It's all land speculation.
Canada and Australia are the only two countries with the population of over 20 million that are ranked higher than the USA in the OECD Better Life Index[1]. Therefore, it's safe to assume that the size of the country makes a huge difference in such rankings.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OECD_Better_Life_Index
How one teenager took out a secure Pentagon file sharing site
I bought their software but I didn't log in their app. Without and ID or Direct access configured, they can't sync with their remote services.

I'm backing up the file using an encrypted git repository to a local NAS.
On a population scale, anti-vax movement is self-regulating. People are anti-vax now because they have the privilege to be. When disease becomes a real threat to the survival of you and your family, watch how quickly this movement dies.

The problem is, on the path to this equilibrium, people die unnecessarily.
The actual blog post: https://matloff.wordpress.com/2018/06/20/neural-networks-are...
Military now controls Myanmar’s scientifically important amber mines
They already have your username. You logged into the app. What other level of fingerprinting to do they need?
Looking at a map someone else linked to, the pole has shifted drastically in the last 50 years. Could that be an indication that it is in the process of shifting? It's been moving North in a straight line for the past 100 years, and now it's actually heading South towards Siberia.

https://maps.ngdc.noaa.gov/viewers/historical_declination/
If you look at the dependencies and actual JS code there is, it looks like a glorified configuration file.
I still need to either use chrome on android or explicitly navigate to the mobile page to get the title text on xkcd.com ... android firefox cuts the title text off with no apparent way to read the full one :/
Polynomial End-Behaviors and the Algebra of Infinities Explained
Anecdotally with Firefox on macOS, Gmail is by far the worst offender. Switching inboxes/labels takes several seconds in FF and is near instant in Chrome. Scrolling performance in FF is also much worse.
You overlooked solution a solution

3. Reduce the amount of work to be done. (Probably by more than half.)

Since when was taking what amounts to a six hour exam every single day acceptable?
Are end users aware of that though?
You shouldn't accept slight variations IMO. One of the primary motivations for TeX (also the largest chapter in The TeXbook) is "Fine Points of Mathematics Typing". If someone types something that results in slightly different output, that is a good teaching opportunity (maybe highlight the visual diff in red or something) rather than simply accepting it.
> They can just flatly refuse to provide any info and AFAIK there's still no law that would stop them.

So, taking your second clip as an example, Congress wrote a requirement to disclose that information into Dodd-Frank about a year after that clip was posted. It's actually a perfect example of Congress regulating the Fed, which you falsely allege is impossible.

https://www.frbdiscountwindow.org/Pages/General-Information/...

> In accordance with the provisions of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Pub. L. No. 111-203), the Federal Reserve has changed its practices with respect to disclosure of discount window lending information. Effective for discount window loans (primary, secondary, and seasonal credit) extended on or after July 21, 2010, the Federal Reserve will publicly disclose the following information, generally about two years after a discount window loan is extended to a depository institution.

> The name and identifying details of the depository institution;

> The amount borrowed by the depository institution;

> The interest rate paid by the depository institution; and

> Information identifying the types and amounts of collateral pledged in connection with any discount window loan. This disclosure requirement does not apply to collateral pledged by depository institutions that do not borrow.
Consuming whole loaf every day is not that strange if you have children.
cool. it's good to see a little insight into how something like this works. but you kinda avoided the question by answering "refer to our privacy policy". we should be talking about how something like this works so it doesn't look shady when (not if) people find out after signing up. Of course you will be "reading" the emails and slack messages. How else would this know about the follow-up questions? I think it would be important to state that humans will not be reading those emails but algorithms will be scanning them to know how to help the PM. Not just read a lawyer speak privacy policy.
Happy to discuss that, I have a lot of related experience that might help you. Where can I reach you by email?
> hope I've made my point.

You did, thank you. Just saw this reply and since I cannot appropriately edit mine, I wanted to at least acknowledge that part. While I don't agree with your original post I certainly view it differently now.
The usual starting book is 'Practical Common Lisp' by Peter Seibel. Some advanced stuff then in 'Common Lisp Recipes' by Edi Weitz. Some older advanced stuff with examples: Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming, Cases Studies in Common Lisp (PAIP) by Peter Norvig.
I didn't try GoodBudget, but I'm more of a Mac/ipad user for that sort of things.
If your account is related in any way to a banned account, your account would be terminated immediately and there is no way to salvage anything in your account. People lose their entire life's worth of data overnight and there is no way to dispute it. I hope to interview these people and write a blog post

Also note, the ban and suspension of your account including everything related to you is for your entire life!
Hate to break it to you but the world is already covered in 10 lane highways.
You can also search for *.etl files to find what is traced. There are Autologger and GlobalLogger for live kernel tracing. Some of the tracing entries are present by default, but others are added by Intel's drivers! I could not control my anger when I discovered it. And it's not the .sys files, but the .inf files that add entries to Autologger. Now if I need to install Intel's drivers I first clean the .inf files. It ruins driver's signature of course, but at least I will not have any tracing sessions constantly written to disk.
I didn't write anything about humility. That you refer to the 'advertising industry' instead of the 'technology industry' proves my point, no?

technology of the 50s and 60s: transistor, television, satellites, computers, hard drives, solar cells, optical fiber, integrated circuits, arpanet, ...

not technology of the 50s and 60s: "Light up for a Lucky! The best cigarette you've ever smoked!"
it doesn't help when you're testing via automated software - test runners will open up chromes, then often fail and leave them open, and the 'warn before quitting' is always defaulted to on.
I think it's pragmatism. There working two libraries that are already C. Also, a mentioned in another thread, type data couple bloat things a little, I think the specific statement is hyperbolic tough.

My guess is their main goal was to use this in go, where they already have experienced go and C developers and adding a third language would muddy things.
I'm attempting to turn Indie Hackers[0] into a social network that motivates you and makes you more productive, or at least more effective. It's centered around developers helping each other monetize their side projects and start businesses, through a combination of asking/answering questions and sharing personal stories about what's worked.

It's quite interesting making tweaks to a social website, as there are usually all sorts of unpredictable second-order effects. I have a bit more respect for why websites like Twitter don't change much.

On Indie Hackers in particular, one thing I've noticed is that people tend to be kind without much moderation. My leading hypothesis at this point is that almost everyone has skin in the game. You're less likely to bash someone else's project if you know you'll be posting about your project soon, so norms have developed around being constructive and encouraging.

By contrast, HN has a norm around finding fault with whoever you're responding to, which is great for informative debate and conversation -- I learn a lot here from reading so many different opinions on each issue.

[0] https://www.indiehackers.com
In my analysis, one of the best ways to reduce waste and over-consumption is to stop subsidies for agriculture, water, oil etc, and let prices reflect the real cost.

This wouldn't help as much as you think. Even without subsidies, those things would still be very cheap, and the subsidies are ultimately paid by all of us anyway in taxes.
Doesn't account for immigration. The US has lots of poor immigrants, which drives the median down.
The term "epidemic" can be used for numerous conditions, some directly related to biologically infectious conditions, some not. You can find mentions of epidemics of cancer or heart disease, not generally of infectious origin, or of violence or (as in this case), mental health.

The study of epidemiology hides its core principles well (most texts discuss statstical methods, rather than theoretical underpinnings), but they are: susceptible populations, adverse conditions, and vectors of transmission.

You can apply fundamental epidemiological methods to any phenomenon matching this general description. Generally, a vector involves some transmission factor which promotes an adverse outcome, and some transmission carrier, which communicates that outcome between affected instances.

To take a highly non-medical example: Iomega's Jaz drives, a removable, Winchester-style disk storage, in which platters and heads were separated, had a phenomenal capacity to create propogating media and drive failures: misaligned drives would damage heads, misaligned heads would damage drives. The condition could spread through an entire population of disks shared on a single drive, or drives in which disks were shared among systems. It was a phenomenally bad design. Disk/head misallignment was both the infectious agent and vector.

In public health, contaminants (radioactive materials, lead, asbestos, PM2.5, endocrine disruptors) can transmit adverse health outcomes among populations. Host-to-host transmission isn't generally prevalent (though some secondary contact may occur), but source-to-host most definitely is. Prions transmit MCD and YCS without a direct biological agent.

In the case of management and workplace factors, business organisation, management practices (or fads), and tools are transmission factors, and the educational, marketing, cultural, and ideological systems which promote those factors are the carriers.

TL;DR: Agile is a disease.
Makes perfect sense, thanks for explaining it for me.
Most of western propaganda is aimed at preventing class consciousness and solidarity from forming between workers.
> Our work so far has primarily been on general feedforward NNs. Our investigations have not yet involved much on specialized networks such as convolutionalNNs (CNNs) for image classification, recurrent NNs (RNNs) for text processing,and so on. Though we intend to adapt our ideas to these frameworks,we viewthem as separate, orthogonal issues.

This is a interesting insight. Future work is needed though. The vast majority of impressive results using NNs have been achieved by specialized networks, with special mention for resnets in vision [and Go] and transformers for NLP.
Didn't know this existed. Even with planes that were built for dirt runways (c-130, c-17) there can still be issues.

I worked briefly as a mechanic for Boeing on C-17's. One incident (I did not witness but was told) was a C-17 somewhere in the middle east landed on a clear patch of dirt/sand, except right when they touched down they noticed a small concrete barrier in the middle of the field...

The nose gear went right into it. It was narrow enough to miss the rear tires. But the impact of the nose gear ripped it complete off the plane and left a gaping hole where once the fuselage touched, blasted a ton of sand straight into the interior of the plane. I think a specialty crew eventually made it out there and rigged a nose gear together good enough for a take off and landing where it then flew back to a Boeing facility near Lackland Air Force Base (I believe).
Funding open source != paying thirty people a few hundred grand and the thousands they depend on nothing. It is an obvious resource allocation problem.

Why should the resources not come from the companies extracting the most cash value from open source?
Important point:

> Our work so far has primarily been on general feedforward NNs. Our investigations have not yet involved much on specialized networks such as convolutional NNs (CNNs) for image classification, recurrent NNs (RNNs) for text processing, and so on. Though we intend to adapt our ideas to these frameworks, we view them as separate, orthogonal issues.
Can this remove extra chromosomes and be used to reverse or mitigate Down Syndrome?