skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, it's more like you sit on a bench or on the subway and shed a bunch of skin cells. Someone else comes along and particles of those cells cling to their coat or shoes. That person walks along and some of your cell fragments fall off of them in an alley. Later a serious crime happens in that alley and your DNA is recovered along with samples from a let's say 3 other people. The police run each sample through a commercial database and get hits from you and two of the other 3 people.

Let's assume the other two have solid allabies with recites and witnesses. You were at home alone during the crime and have no solid alibi. What do you as an innocent person do in that situation? You have to hire a lawyer, and possibly face a trial where you could serve time in prison for a crime you did not commit. If you are convicted, you go to jail, the case is closed, and the real criminal goes free to perhaps continue committing crimes. Your life is ruined, and anyone who knows and believes you will lose all faith in the system. The tax payers money is wasted jailing you, the victim receives no real justice, and all of society loses.

Courts just aren't prepared for this. Judges and the general public all believe that DNA evidence is basically magic. This is a real problem.
I assume you’re engaging in hyperbole, but just in case you aren’t - machine guns have been strictly regulated in the US for nearly a century.
I remember people suggesting this as a poor man's "copyright" on an email list back in the day.

Others quickly pointed out that you can mail yourself an unsealed envelope and put something in it after it arrives.
Here is an example google search where it comes up on the first page of results for me

https://www.google.com/search?q=posthtml+amp
Which SDKs do you use that are C++?

I use Keil, IAR, Renesas's compiler, XM8/16/32 from Microchip, and GCC.

Which do you use?

One of the main features of C++, its object-oriented stuff, is built on top of constructors and destructors -- aka dynamic memory allocation. This sort of thing is not desirable on deeply embedded systems due to resource constraints and the very real spectre of heap fragmentation -- embedded stuff tends to rely on static memory allocation done at compile time or system startup.

C++ isn't quite as portable as C -- Not just the compilers which never quite supported the same combinations of features -- even if you just stuck with the ISO-ratified features -- but the language runtime, standard [template] library, and headers are far larger with various implementations including plenty of mis-features and quirks. All of this meant that it was quite common for C++ code to not even compile with a different toolchain -- especially when templates were used -- and even if it did compile, it might not actually function correctly.

If you restricted yourself to avoid the problematic areas of C++ (eg not using templates or dynamic allocations) you'll end up with a language that is basically C. So why not just use C? :)
Just fyi in Switzerland I see the two main supermarkets (Migros & Coop) selling it only in plastic bottles.
Thanks for reminding me that I exceptionally turned off my office PC today, leaving inaccessible the latest version of a paper I need to submit this weekend
Today, it wasn't worth the savings.
San Pellegrino is an italian brand, and it's quite common in Europe, not just in the south. Most of the time, you'll find soft drinks from that brand rather than water, though.

Edit: Was an italian brand until Nestlé bought it, it seems.
Wouldn’t a pitch black room achieve the same effect with much less cost/effort? As far as I know the idea of these compounds is to absorb light, but if you get rid of light to begin with then you don’t need them?
I've never seen that definition of copypasta before. I've only seen it used to describe a type of meme, where you repost text across the internet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copypasta
And if they do see the warning? Where will they go to get more information? Will they use their computer? It’s becoming more common for people’s only “computer” being their mobile phone. What do they do when they do get the warning? Do they go to their local non existence “Android store”? Do they ask the clueless CSR from their carrier? Or do they just keep clicking continue like most people do on their computer?

How many people in other context like cars ignore warning lights?
It's an appeal to "intelligence of operator" to coverup for poor design.
People said the same thing when photo-editing software was new. How is this any different?
Good point! I think that's true of a lot of older "optimization" techniques--if they're that good, a compiler does them for you.

I'm curious whether any compilers have specific rules to "re-optimize" obsolete practice. Like, assuming a platform does have a cheaper way to do /=2, do any compilers recognize that a >>1 in a given context is meant to be a div 2 and replace the code?
Serious questions...

Would the core just float off into space? Couldn't it make its way back to Earth? Or compromise potential life on Mars?
the timeline doesn't seem to work.

Who were the kids with the difficult childhood? At 59 now his parents would be in their 70s-80s (if still alive today), so 2019-80y=born 1939 (five years old when the war ended).

They could have experienced basic Nazi education but not much more than that. Sure the Nazi beliefs didn't disappear with the end of the third Reich but difficult to really call them that if they were just your average 1960s racists.
I'm skeptical of any human exploration plans NASA has beyond 2-4 years or so. Anything more and the next President winds up nixing it to put their own stamp on things.

My money's on a commercial program like they one they've been doing for ISS resupply.
The cautionary tale of Japan's “sex recession”
Or perhaps if they were exposed to heat, oxidation, or physical stress even (dropped, squeezed, overly pressurized)
The problem is that if your sibling or cousin submits DNA to GEDmatch, they've in effect submitted the entire extended family's DNA. You cannot go take down the DNA your cousin submitted to GEDmatch, even though it affects your privacy. You cannot even take down the DNA your identical twin submitted to GEDmatch, even though it really is the _same_ as yours. The laws simply have not yet caught up to the new tech.
This is exactly what I need! I've been using Kayak and Kiwi to compare prices and routes, but it always takes a while to load.

Last month I got bumped from a flight SYD->AUH that was full of Hajj pilgrims, and now I have a 600 USD coupon for Etihad. I'm trying to fly to Auckland before the 19th of November, but I'm totally flexible about dates and transfer points on the way, as long as I can use that coupon.

I'll be making good use of FlightConnections to see where I can transit and how to get to Auckland via somewhere interesting!
https://transparencyreport.google.com/political-ads/region/U...
I was wondering the same thing. I saw an article yesterday about scientists just discovering that tea bags release billions of micro and nano particles.
Linus Torvalds on the Amiga hardware scene in 2019
In the military a “tour of duty” is a deployment overseas to a combat zone. Using it for civilian employment in an office at home is pretty weird.
Republicans wouldn't elect the Trump that Democrat media outlets show, they would elect the Trump that Republican media outlets show. Listen to a Republican describe Trump and you'll hear about someone a sane person could plausibly vote for. Would a Republican vote for a womanizing Russia-serving friend of Epstien? No way! A charismatic business-oriented people's man? You bet!
ZFS on BSD has that track record. ZFS on Linux already has had a couple incidents in a relatively short track record.

The incident where updating your Ubuntu kernel resulted in data loss probably could not have occurred under the BSD model due to close coupling between the kernel and the filesystem.
Whenever I read people's thoughts on this I think of the saying/rap lyrics:

"Money, power, respect. It's the key to life."

Which has also been described as the three main rewards that people value (sometimes in combination).

(I often equate respect with fame in the examples below)

e.g.

College Professor:

- low money

- medium power

- high respect

HFT Trader:

- high money

- low power

- low respect/fame

Mid level government bureaucrat that manages the budget of an important project:

- low money

- high power

- low respect

Not everyone is driven by money (or at least, by money alone).
Cigarettes are bad but they kill you slowly and predictably. Vaping is better, but absent quality control it might kill you in unexpected and unpredictable ways (because right now we much less about what vape manufacturers are doing than we do about cigarette manufacturing or the effects of raw tobacco or cannabis).

Looking at it as a one-dimensional continuum of worse-better can be quite misleading if the problem is better represented by 2 or 3 coefficients.
Not directly, but anyone with a Hackintosh (modified PC running Mac OS) must have it disabled, and a fair number of pro users disable it for various purposes.
> Your argument of self-regulation and lack of government intervention is pretty well undermined by the current situation of hundreds sick and a dozen deaths in a period of months.

No, this is a black market that exists because of the government prohibiting the legal market.

And the black market does a shit job of correcting these problems because it lacks the transparency of the legal market. For instance, it's extremely difficult to determine the reputation of sellers who have to hide their identity.

Let's also keep in mind government intervention can be actively dangerous if they think they're protecting people from themselves. Back during prohibition, for instance, they poisoned 10,000 people[1] to try and scare them into not drinking.

> Sure, the market may correct, but the damage done before that isn't fixed.

No one can see into the future. We didn't know the war on drugs would cause all the problems it did. We saw a serious problem getting worse and identified the behavior that seemed to be causing problems and then made those actions illegal.

And we already have the government involved in markets when it decides civil cases. The best case for regulation is when you have people suing each other for damages and the government, which has to rule on these cases anyway, passes a law that simply enforces the outcome of many similar judgements.

[1]: https://vinepair.com/articles/government-prohibition-poison-...
This trail reminds me of the "are we the baddies" comedy routine.
Regular smokers incur negative health consequences very quickly. Their fitness goes down, coughing, loss of sense of smell/taste, etc.
It's pretty straightforward to put it in a safe, permanent orbit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graveyard_orbit
Yeah, that is a puzzler. According to Adam Grant, those who are intelligent negotiators don't necessarily get better short-term results for themselves, but their business partners do better, maybe because smart negotiators value the win-win for the long-term relationship.

How this other guy was so bad that it made him look smart? Wow, head scratcher. Maybe he thought "Now HERE is a good negotiator, after all my BS he raises the price". Haha.
Wake-On-Lan was good for exactly this kind of use case, but it never quite picked up.

Also newer PCs generally use less than that, probably closer to 50W idle?
The article said that the retraction was covered by 4 outlets.
Apparently the guy who set it up is from Turkey but lives in Germany
I guess the main difference would be your ability to see your own body, and the light source.

Darkness is probably more disorienting, but also more familiar.
Illegal in Europe. You need to agreement for this kind of tracking.
I do wonder if "sent to retraining" selects for a bad audience?

Anyone competent enough to retrain and retool could've done so, obviating their need for your training.
Mind sharing what guide(s) you used? ZoL has always seemed like a moving target for me. The nice thing about Nix is it helps to manage problems like those.
My apologies I'm using an app that is not intuitive to comment and read.
Show HN: A TypeScript client for reading Debian repositories
Aren't the causes we fight for correlated?

In a world where the ideal man doesn't have to conform to the traditional stereotypes or masculinity (tall and strong), short people would have far fewer reasons to worry about their height, don't you think?

And the mere fact that women don't have to conform to similar expectations should tell one that the cause of short people is very much tied to breaking up sex stereotypes and roles that we have today.

Would you disagree?
This is probably the closest GitHub server to your location, the site does seem to resolve to the same IP as GitHub for me here.
I was curious as to how it all works, from the FAQ:

>The Spinner* sends you an innocent looking link. This link is sent to the target via text message. When the target presses the link, a cookie connected to the link attaches itself to the target’s phone. From that point on, the target will be strategically bombarded with articles and media tailored to him or her.

So it's using a tracking cookie and the victim needs to click a link before anything happens. More from the FAQ:

>Thanks to an online advertising technique called "retargeting", the service makes sure that only the target sees the content chosen for her or him.

I assume Google Ad's remarketing (or SaaS, "stalking as a service") is what was meant: https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/2453998?hl=en&r...

So as far as I can tell, the whole thing is just using marketing features built into Google Ads.
>If there's any indication a perp might fly then you should keep them inside, passport or no.

I'll stick with the case law. The Court looked at the risk of flight here with all the evidence (which is more than you or I can say) and determined he is not a significant flight risk, I'll side over your gut feeling since he fraudulently took money, he can get a fake passport (1 has nothing to do with the other).

It can easily be argued any criminal defendant "might fly", so essentially under your proposed standard no defendant would be entitled to bond (you wouldn't be the first to argue such a thing). Innocent until proven guilty and all that jazz. And yes even with a confession you are still innocent until adjudicated/convicted, its not like police don't have a history of obtaining false confessions or making confessions up out of whole cloth (I know, that's not applicable here).

As I said the higher profile you are/the case is, the more difficult it is to abscond anyway. If he gets a fake passport (which is unsupported by any facts) and is caught, his bond is revoked. Also he likely has a GPS tracker as a condition of bond, so if he violates his travel restrictions/curfew restrictions, his bond is revoked. Not to mention, the people involved in fake passports are not generally going to supply a guy in the middle of a high profile criminal case involving the FBI, who is out on bond with a GPS tracker. Then even if he gets a fake passport, good luck buying a plane ticket or going to an airport.
What it looks like to me is Firebase put more emphasis on the technical test. If you keep your exact numbers, except change the test pass rate to 25%, then you come out with 62-63 offers, which, by the argument you reference, would mean Firebase was 56% more selective.

That makes sense to me, because a smaller company needs to filter out as many people who couldn't possibly get hired at earlier stages, since the later stages are even more time intensive than code reviewing the technical test.
Feds crack Medicare gene test fraud that peddled cheek swabs
Or a different kind of art
Yes. The mighty have certainly fallen since 2015.
Well it is the product page for a new phone...
Earlier discussion about the $35M fraud from a couple weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20941039
But it's the "wrong" solution for python. Python is heavily focused around the idea of duck-typing, and forcing things like this completely blocks duck-typing. What if I want to pass down a complex object that can be used as a string? Python functions should let me pass any string-like thing I want, which is why named arguments are the preferred way to deal with this. You can even force named arguments using kwargs, I believe this is what the boto interface to AWS does.
Why should that data be impossible to get? They seemed aware of the exceptional nature of what they were observing, I would be surprised if the data wasn’t archived somewhere.
Lots of lower-income people don't have a bank account into which direct might be deposited. They can still pay Wal-Mart a nominal fee to cash the check. No employer is willing to pay cash because IRS are such hardasses: they claim that cash payments can't be audited. Also, a cashed check is proof that an employee actually got paid, which is important for certain types of employees.
Depending on your credit card flow look into flat-rate fee credit card processing.
Poland Spring is a Nestle brand only sold in the USA. Nestle-branded bottled water was tested.
In fairness, we've added a whole lot of automation since 1970, and most people think that increased automation has been a key factor in why aviation is so much safer overall. (Along with crew resource management).

Automation definitely has directly killed people, though, too.
There's no need to know the actual balance, just a boolean value that is returned true if the account balance is above the amount requested, and false if it isn't. It's true that it could be abused by "bruteforce", but this could be throttled or put in a cooldown if too many requests are made to avoid such a scenario.
In the right environment - the absence of anything. Like a piece was cutout of your vision. Which, to be honest, this resembles as well.
I think I know who built this
My landlord four years ago set things up so that the cheapest and lowest-latency way to pay rent was to walk to his bank and deposit a check into his account. Kind of weird. Sometimes I have weird professional things I pay for that need checks (tax attorney, and some real estate stuff). Fortunately, my credit union will print 3 checks if I walk by and ask nicely. And they have Saturday hours.
> Why not offer a price with “no hidden extras”?

In addition to the problem the article highlights, there is also the mess that is human psychology.

JC Penney tried replacing random discounts with everyday low prices [1]. It backfired. Their shoppers wanted to play the irrational game. (My assumption is rational shoppers shopped elsewhere, but that's neither here nor there.)

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/panosmourdoukoutas/2013/09/27/a...
It sounds like an industry argument that would be introduced by insurers to benefit insurers, since it would obviously benefit them.

I see no benefit to the patient to limiting medical error liability, but I'd be interested to hear the arguments in favor.
Is there a list? I know that in the US all tap water is (or should be) safe to drink. But anytime I travel, even to developed countries, I only use bottled water since I consider the water to be suspect unless I know differently.
Except the fire fighting risk is low.

Article provided no proof it actually releases HCN.
Gene-Test Fraud Billed $2.1B to U.S. Medicare Program
Not true anymore.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/16/science/hair-dna-murder.h...
It presumably has military applications, such as coating stealthy satellites.
I’ve never had, nor will I have, SIP enabled on any of my dev macs. There are too many things I just can’t do out of the box.

First terminal command I run on a clean install.
MIT is a government contractor with a university on the side, in reality
> > > I give it 1.5 years for ember to pretty much dominate SPA development

> > That appears unlikely: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=....

> I dont care about fashion too much

Do you see the problem here?
Clothes actually dry pretty well inside in winter because your air is dry, so the water gets pulled out quicker. Just need a bit of airflow.
The vast majority of paychecks are electronic transfers. these weren't physical checks that were stolen, it was a diversion of digital transfers.
A cashier's check was required as my first payment for an apartment, every payment after can be done through online. I still don't understand what the purpose of the initial payment was.
Critics of Peer Review Ask How ‘Race Science’ Still Manages to Slip Through
> I've never thought of it as a pejorative, and I don't know anyone who has.

Listen here, nerd! It's a pejorative if you use it as one.
Put salt in your water?
The fact that ember doesn't integrate natively with typescript means that probably won't happen...
In the factory, Apple can just create new hardware without this flaw.
I'm in the US and haven't been paid (payroll) by check in at least a decade.

Also MyPayrollHR did have direct deposit:

> This communique came after employees at companies that depend on MyPayrollHR to receive direct deposits of their bi-weekly payroll payments discovered their bank accounts were instead debited for the amounts they would normally expect to accrue in a given pay period.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/09/ny-payroll-company-vanis...
This is called the "Swiss cheese model of accident causation" and it is commonly used to discuss airplane accidents. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_cheese_model
Perhaps some form of bizarre ID verification, or the simplicity of handing that cheque back to you at the end (assuming it’s a security deposit?)
90% of IBM Cloud Now Running on Kubernetes
Technically yes. There are 3 types of phenomena that cause transistors to degrade or fail. All 3 are caused by electrons flowing through the gates. See https://semiengineering.com/transistor-aging-intensifies-10n...

Practically speaking, however, I doubt it makes much of a difference for most desktop systems.
At 25 the only check I receive is worth £24.82 from the second settlement (money held "in case") of a will. I tried getting them to just BACS it like the first settlement... but they won't BACS less than £25

They also refuse cash and donation as a settlement, so in the spirit of the deceased I don't cash it, and a new one arrives every six months.

I guess I'll find know the Solicitor has retired when the cheque stops coming...
Please consider this news in relation to this post yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21086866 . What's to stop people from dumpster-diving to gather both personally-identifiable information and DNA to build out an unofficial, off-the-books DNA database?
Just a question of cost/benefit I think.

In long-established and stable industries like these, regulation can benefit the consumer and we can trust it will still mostly make sense five years from now.

But when industries are evolving quickly, nobody knows which regulations will actually create benefit or harm to consumers (law of unintended consequences) and by the time they're written they might already be out of date.
IBM actually offered $7b, but was outbid by Oracle back then.
Take all of that effort you're pouring into politics, and spend it all on yourself. Enjoy.
SNES Cartridges and Enhancement Chips
Totally! I do that for small sites quite often, e.g.:

- https://lazy.invoice.workers.dev

- https://web.scraper.workers.dev

Both are powered in part by a worker which generates CSS on the fly for whatever components you need, e.g:

https://ui.adam.workers.dev/?components=button,input
Sure, I'm not trying to beat you over the head here, just saying that the odds of buying poison weed are astronomically low.
If this https://orbmedia.org/stories/plus-plastic/ is the website that posted the results (weird site - what's with all those huge/fancy animations?): I keep seeing small plastic bottles (in the animations) => does San Pellegrino sell it (as well) in small glass bottles? (or are the small ones only plastic/PET)?
On Sharding