skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It may be useful if they published biological sequence information, where available.
But I am serious and I consider affirmative action on children child abuse.
James Hansen coauthored a paper in 2013 calculating that the warming you get from burning every bit of fossil fuels is not 3 degrees, but more like 12. At those temperatures any human that doesn’t move to the polar regions will die of heatstroke, not to mention any economic effects.
Honestly, it might be cheaper and easier to just issue tickets to everyone. I’m mostly kidding, but the number of people I see daily driving distracted because of their phones is enormous.
Tracking the Trajectory of Open Source Technologies
> Apple will join the fray once the financial guys can prove that they'll make more money selling

Could it be (I'm not an apple fanboi though I like my 2015 MBP) that Apple's financial predictions suggested that a lone company not selling customer data might be able to flip that to their advantage in the marketing or minds of its users? Apple privacy is a recurrent même so it seems they succeeded intentionally or otherwise
I don't think there's a real difference

https://engineering.khanacademy.org/posts/original-serverles...
> There are many many conditions where even with a proper diagnosis there is little help.

Yeah, my dad has very bad diabetic neuropathy and there isn't really anything they can do about that condition from what I understand. I'm sure there are plenty of other conditions like Fibromyalgia and more.
> The amount of debt doesn't go up if the value of the dollar goes down.

The interest rate goes up almost instantly when the government prints money. That's not exactly equivalent to increasing the debt value, but it's more than enough to make the "just inflate it away" strategy fail 100% of the times some country tries it.
This kind of thinking is creating a dangerous bubble at this time
Additionally, if the immune system would just check that the cell is human, then humans would be vulnerable to contagious cancer, such as the facial tumor disease suffered by Tasmanian Devils

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil_facial_tumour_disease
I don't think the decisions are easy. Especially under competitive pressure.

> one thing i just went through: should i pick up the contract from a slightly less "good" org, or let 2 1099ers go, whose families will go without income for some period of time?

Depends on the "slightly". If slightly enough, can you reject the contract and help these 1099ers find another contract, by e.g. referring them? I don't know the details of your situation and I'm not going to judge you either way.

I've been on the receiving end of a similar situation in that my boss once told me that there are troubles and he's looking for projects, and one potential contract that would be a good fit for my skills involved work on gambling machines. I refused on ethical grounds, and he later told me he was very happy that I did, because it didn't sit well with him either. Unfortunately, this ended up folding the company. Fortunately, he helped me move to another job and he got a job in a large shop himself, and from what I can tell, this ended up beneficial to everyone involved.

Besides these borderline situations, there's plenty in business world that's happening on the "bad" side. Like, does the grocery store next to my parents' house have to wash spoiling meat with a dish cleaner and sell it as fresh? Does the boss of a certain large secondhand book store in Poland have to mentally abuse his workers, exploiting the fact that he employs people from small towns who may have trouble finding a new job? Does he have to bribe local government inspector so that this doesn't get out[0]? Do restaurants have to offer "grilled" meat which really is microwaved meat with grill marks added with a sandwitch grill?

These are examples of clearly bad behavior. Whenever I befriend people working in any industry, I get to hear new stories like these. Companies doing that may get away with it on an open market, but these things do breed contempt. And come economic turmoil, people with pitchforks won't be checking if you were the (perceivably) rare entrepreneur that was good and honest.

As for what's the good choice in general, I think this is always incremental and case-by-case, but a guiding principle I could offer would be the Golden Rule - "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you". Always strive to turn everything into win-win. Don't exploit people.

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[0] - Allegation I have on good authority, but the party telling me this doesn't want to pursue it or have anything to do with their former boss. Fortunately, the guy got a kick in the butt from the building safety inspectors, who were unwilling to ignore the fact that the walls in the workplace were cracking. I heard the working conditions improved a little bit after that.
I tried to cheat this exact same way with a test on the the Newton–Raphson method. My program even showed intermediate values so I could show my work.

The professor still got me, I wound up memorizing it because the effort it to write and debug the program.
What's wrong with nicotine? Or is it just the addiction?
In case you didn't realize, this is a new post published today. Theres actually news here otherwise Apple wouldn't have published a press release.
By the numbers, bathtubs consistently kill more americans than terrorists have in the last several decades.

It's not about the numbers, it's all about not being an absolute disgrace while handling the topic.
Is your API so large and/or unstable that optimizing for time needed to add an endpoint is your lowest hanging fruit?
I think lifeisstillgood was asking for the eHarmony study.
I actually believe he read them all personally.
It's just that he didn't make the judgement call to decide which one to release.

It was Chelsea Manning who a did dump without reading them first.
> Ignoring pain is akin to ignoring the "check engine light".

I had surgery to remove a cyst that resulted in some scar tissue developing that presses on a nerve when stretched or compressed. Pretty acute pain when that happens - and pretty constant low level pain otherwise. No real "cure" as the odds are very high that the scar tissue will just re-form when excised.

In my case it's more like the "check engine light" was rewired to also light up when you press the clutch pedal. Sometimes all you can do is put some electrical tape over the light.
Yeah not good, how can men bring themselves to such violence against women. I am sitting here as I write this looking at my wife and cant for the life of me fathom doing such a ghastly act to her or even a woman that I don't know, no matter what I believed (real or imaginary) their transgressions where against me. I don't know the back story but if he was capable of doing this, she probably left him for good reason as I cant imagine this was the first incident. A person has the right to leave if they feel you are no longer the right person for them, sometimes it happens in pretty shitty ways, but it does not justify physical harm to that person.

I am just left speechless, there really should be a death penalty for intentionally maiming a person to the point that they will live the rest of their life in suffering and sorrow. No one deserves the fate this woman has been left with. I am sorry she will have to endure another transplant.
The short answer is yes.

How you approach this is very dependent on where you're coming from (i.e. existing solution) but with WPF and Winforms now part of Core 3.0 you can then build a native, single exe by specifying the target architecture (ex: win x64) and then bundling the framework with your app. They do some trimming as well (i.e. tree shaking) to get the exe size down but have admitted it's still in early stages and sometimes drops required framework components. You can fix this by adding an explicit reference to the assembly in your project source though...

There are a million ways to get onto different platforms though, ranging from the above, to xamarin to electron (via blazor), to net-new apps, etc.
Which incident? The Bloomberg incident?
Yep, intel raised their prices, oh and don't forget the T2 spy chip that's probably also made in the USA.
Would be nice to get a source for this interesting claim.

But I'm far more interested by real world user facing performance metrics such as:
FPS, vsync consistency, input latency and comparing cpu and gpu usage (thus allowing to infer battery usage).
That or tobacco still has a huge lobby there. Their entire history is to lie cheat and steal to do anything to keep their customers smoking.
It's ridiculous that people who ought to know better are so fixated on the simulation hypothesis. It's a cool idea, but it holds no more water than "What if God created the universe just for us?" There's no reason to even bring it up in any halfway-serious conversation.
Keep in mind that America bans college students from drinking until they are 21. Because that helps the children.
open/GitHub/self-hostable?
This is likely tied into something I call "the tyranny of the China price". Basically, years of offshore production have set customer expectations and market-competitive pricing at a certain level. If you want to on-shore production, you have to achieve that same price point (or close to it) to sell your product. Of course, on-shore labor costs are probably going to be higher, as are rent, materials, environmental compliance, and probably a few supply chain contributions. So to meet the price point, you either have to automate everything (reduce labor cost) or cut corners on something else. In a lot of cases, that "something else" is some combination of materials quality and quality assurance.

In summary, it's not that producing on-shore inherently reduces quality or that there's no domestic expertise left, it's that to maintain the same end product quality you often have to significantly increase your price point, and mass-market customers usually don't like that.
California No. 1 in U.S. in poverty and No. 1 in declines in poverty
ICE will likely contract at great expense with individual ex-Chef engineers.
A family member is starting the search for a new vehicle and is expressing interest in pick ups. It was surprising at first to me since he hasn't owned a truck in 20+ years, but then I was over while he had his country music on (he started listening to it almost exclusively the last few years) and I noticed how much they talk about trucks and it kind of clicked for me.
what if my answer is yes? this line of questioning where somehow "obama did it too" is supposed to be the ultimate own for anyone left of Reagan confuses me.

do i get extra argument points for not liking ICE no matter who's sitting in the white house?
>> Policies such as family separation and detention did not yet exist.

Family separation has exited way before 2014 and in most criminal cases they do not let the child with a criminal who committed a crime. If police catches you with DUI while you have your children in the car they will separate you. It also existed under Obama. Not sure where anybody with internet connection and the ability to read and understand English gets this idea that it is a new thing.
Ask HN: Running a Web Engineering Meetup since 6 years, whats next?
Hey all, I am running a Web Engineering Meetup [1] for more than six years. Every month, we have an event with mostly two talks each 30 minutes and ~40 up to 60 participants. A friend and I started this meetup to learn from others, and we still do. But for some reason, I lose motivation to run it. It is not a challenge/exiting anymore. Organizing the meetup feels like work, wherein the beginning it was "just dropping a few emails".

I don't feel that I have a Return on Investment of running those. I am not talking about money. We run it 100% non-profit. I have a huge network based on the meetup, but I don't use it. I am not looking for a new job or anything related.
The challenge is missing. The excitement is gone.

Therefore i am asking myself, whats next? What can we do with this crowd (without losing the trust)? We are organizing a small community conference [2], and it was sold out in 10 days. Handing this meetup to someone is tricky. I didn't find someone who cares so much about this, and I don't want to see this thing to die.

Any idea what's next? Any tips from your side? Any thoughts or feedback? Feel free to ask questions for more context.

[1] https://www.meetup.com/Web-Engineering-Duesseldorf/
[2] https://localhost.engineering/
Just curious: do you think it's also a ridiculous term to use to describe Japanese-American internment camps?
This coverage is incredibly disingenuous. It's been known for a long time that base stacking is the dominant force in keeping a double helix together.

Literally the first sentence of the abstract is "Hydrophobic base stacking is a major contributor to DNA double-helix stability."
>Screw the poors and their non-integrated GPS.

"The poors" can still use their non-integrated GPS, just in a safe (set your destination before you drive, pull over to adjust) manner. That's what everyone should be doing anyway.
Artist Makes “Porcelain” Weapons to Explore What It Means to Be a Woman
>an aspiring class

That's you and me. It doesn't necessarily mean aspiring to own one day. It just means that we're capable of accumulating wealth while renting.
I'm not sure we can say it's damn near harmless at this point. It hasn't been around long enough to measure the really long-term health impacts, especially considering there are chemicals present in vaping that aren't in traditional cigarettes. They've only seen wide use for a little more than 10 years. Do we really know what propylene glycol will do to lungs or bodies over decades? There are also some harmful chemicals that are actually higher in e-cigs [0]

In short, while available research points towards these things being safer, we really don't know what that margin is. Even if it's, say, 10 times safer, if vaping explodes to more than 10x the current smoking population then net harm could still be increased. Or not! But that's my point: we really don't know.

Personally, I don't think they should be outlawed. I think fruit flavors should be banned just like they are in cigarettes, and I think anti-smoking education campaigns need to ramp up their message to include vaping as a "no, just don't ever even start" part of the effort, and e-cigs should be required to only be marketed as aids for quitting smoking.

[0]https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/141/4/e201735...
.NET Core 3.0 will be available with RHEL 8 in the Red Hat Application Streams, after several years of collaboration with Red Hat.

That's a big deal! Nice.
I'm all for holding companies accountable, but I don't understand why Juul seems to get all the blame here, in a way that many other companies don't. Why isn't underage drinking Budweiser's fault? Why are mango flavored Juul pods problematic but mango flavored White Claws aren't? Not saying I think Juul is blameless here.
how else would one implement microservices then?

Do you run away from microservices too?
Show HN: Svelte-FusionCharts, JavaScript Charting in Svelte
I wonder if this changes anything with respect to how we manipulate DNA or the conditions by which DNA is, can be preserved.
I really love ideas like this (and this one is so nicely done!). Reminds me of when "wiki wikis" first started, and many were publicly editable (ah, simpler times!). I'd love to see a real-time chart of the number of active pages... watch how it ebbs and flows over time.

Also, I started to make a "choose your own adventure" game, but I realized that would be the end of my day's productivity!
Seeking asylum is not a crime.
USA sucks dicks
reminds me of https://itty.bitty.site/
I still have and use my TI-84+ that I purchased when I started college. As a professional I use it here and there but rarely for anything that actually needs more than a basic scientific calculator. During college (civil engineering) I used many of the more powerful functions like matrix math stuff. In high school, I don't think I used a graphing calculator once. Just doesn't seem necessary to teach geometry and algebra 2 in my mind.
I believe they mean riding a motorcycle in the gap between two lanes of traffic, thus "filtering" through the static traffic to the front.
Sometimes you can just ask someone what their motivations are and they simply tell you:

Summary of the 2018 National Defense Strategy of the USA https://dod.defense.gov/Portals/1/Documents/pubs/2018-Nation... (11 pages, easy read)

First page: "Failure to meet our defense objectives will result in decreasing U.S. global influence, eroding cohesion among allies and partners, and reduced access to markets that will contribute to a decline in our prosperity and standard of living"

I'll leave it to the reader to decide if this supports the above argument, it's just USA propaganda but I found it certainly interesting to read with a cynical eye.
He probably wanted to link the Readline library into his GPL2 program, which according to the owner of the library (the FSF) is not permitted and might have led to his employer's getting sued by the FSF for copyright infringement or at least to his employer's lawyers getting scared, then badmouthing him to management.
Study finds evidence of a negativity bias in reactions to news
Is this the best that Occam's Razor can do here?
I also have problems with VS resource usage. It appears to depend on what file type the focussed tab has open. It's still 32-bit, which can't help.

Never had perf issues with VSC, which is surprising considering it's web tech. It's a different class of app to VS but much nicer to use, and of course it's cross platform.
Skype has been replaced by an electron app
https://electronjs.org/apps/skype
C# 8 needs .net core 3.0 for some features to work at all like default interface method implementations, and for some to work meaningfully like nullable reference types.
The Casio fx-115ES PLUS is one of the best (non graphing) and is only $16.
> provides a SQL interface to a Kafka backend.

Not sure if thats an accurate description of ksql.
"There is no economic or historical basis for this. When resources become more scare people begin looking into alternatives or alternate extraction methods."

It seems obvious they're talking about food.

I am not sure you're closely looked at hydraulic fracturing. One doesn't simply talk about petroleum production, they talk about the IRR of energy projects. That is a fair proxy for whether it takes more energy to get a hydrocarbon out of the ground than it contains. Yes, they are making more, but early entrants into fracking (Whiting, EQT, Pioneer, et al) have all done very poorly and destroyed a lot of equity value. I think a really good case can be made that fracking is intrinsically a financial phenomenon. Huge upfront capex with assumptions of years of production. The track record of that longer tail production is doing poorly (edit: even with different spacing and refracking) in most geologies. Plus, poor infra outside of the permian means more capex.

Lumber has issues too, which will very much be made worse by even a 2 deg C shift.

There is a reason that the US and most countries have huge farming subsidies. A country that cannot feed itself is collapses in very short order. You see this all over the middle east and northern Africa where almost every riot in the "Arab Spring" was about agricultural and food concerns. As you can see in adjacent countries, people migrate from conflict zones and put further stress on neighbors.

When your life and your childrens' live are on the line, you will respect no human or moral laws to get food. That is what terrifies everyone that sees the climate crisis accelerating and is familiar with the next steps of how it's likely to unfold.
Just a warning that there might be some NSFW content on the websites. The very first site I opened (the one about a collaboration on shirts or similar) has a half naked woman in the first picture.
It's not just Apple, and it's not just Austin. Tech is moving to Texas en masse. There's several reasons why, and this is just the beginning...

~> Amazon just announced it's now adding 1400 tech jobs in Austin (600 more in addition to the 800 it announced already).

~> Ericsson is adding 400 tech jobs and is opening its first 5G factor in Dallas.

~> Google is building a 375-acre data center campus in Midlothian, Texas ("one of the largest such projects in the country").

[1] "Amazon expanding Austin presence with 600 new tech jobs" https://www.statesman.com/news/20190919/amazon-expanding-aus...

[2] "Ericsson picks North Texas for its first 5G smart factory in the U.S." https://www.dallasnews.com/business/2019/09/19/ericsson-pick...

[3] "Google's massive $600M data center takes shape in Ellis County as tech giant ups Texas presence" https://www.dallasnews.com/business/real-estate/2019/06/14/g...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4363846/

"Nicotine poses several health hazards. There is an increased risk of cardiovascular, respiratory, gastrointestinal disorders. There is decreased immune response and it also poses ill impacts on the reproductive health. It affects the cell proliferation, oxidative stress, apoptosis, DNA mutation by various mechanisms which leads to cancer. It also affects the tumor proliferation and metastasis and causes resistance to chemo and radio therapeutic agents. "
Keep Python gRPC Client Connection Truly Alive
Control was more with knives than with money back then. Empires worked with many different coins , different metals etc. The taxman was happy to take whatever was deemed worthy in the area. Those people weren’t free, they were just subjects of another ruler
Tall buildings out of timber? Seattle encourages them
HP-41C (non graphing) was used on the space shuttle. I thought it was inline as a failsafe in case of the loss of one or part of the main computers but I can't find that from a quick search. here((1) is a quick article on the HP-41C used at NASA

(1) https://www.hpmuseum.net/pdf/KeyNotes_1981_Jan_Vol5No1_17pag...
It appears he's already dead.

https://www.ibtimes.com/who-carmen-tarleton-lye-attack-victi...
Problem with AI in medicine, and in radiology in particular, is an inability to discover things it's not trained on.

The issue with AI systems that I've seen and evaluated, (and I've seen just about all of the best ones), is that they are good at finding what a radiologist would find, with the added benefit of finding a few that a radiologist would miss.

Here's the problem, AI finds a few that "A" radiologist would miss, but multiple radiologists would not miss. What I mean by that is that the nature of the misses are somewhere between 'facepalm' and 'other radiologists give rad that missed pathology a slap upside head'. Essentially, the pathology that the AI found but the rad missed is obvious, and the rad says, "Oh yeah! I should have caught that." The sort of misses that might be caused by fatigue, or flipping through too many studies too quickly.

What you really want is AI that can synthesize a set of studies and catch things that 99.999% of radiologists on the planet would never catch. Essentially, things not reflected in the datasets, and things that have not been discovered. You need that because most delivery facilities already outsource image reading to a centralized radiology reading facility that may be miles away. So, financially, they are already saving the money of not paying radiologists. So any centralized radiology reading facility powered by AI, would need to be better than any centralized radiology reading facility powered by humans.

Despite claims made everywhere from papers at RSNA to marketing materials from Silicon Valley, every AI I've seen has failed this test. In both accuracy, as well as the more esoteric metric of finding things that it's not trained on.

[Just as a matter of full disclosure, I have a research background in medical imaging, and have actually had a startup exit in the field.]