skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Speaking of S curves, progress in these areas is pretty slow (simulating existing biological structures), I think it's likely they are on the bottom of the S curve. The exponential growth phase is coming up and a lot will happen really fast.

Curious if a deep learning application that builds neural networks from gene sequences is a possibility one day. All the information is there, but it may not be possible to learn what it builds without actually "running" it.
> In Denmark, due to the GDPR, almost non of the digital letters we receive from the government can be sent by email (since they would contain personally identifiable information such as Social Security Numbers), so instead we just get a notification by email that tells us to log into a special 'secure' hosted mailbox.

I doubt GDPR has anything to do with this. We don't have GDPR in my country and they use offerings from Symantec Encryption Server.
HK situation is on my mind as well, I just didn't want to mention it yet again.

At least whatever intelligence may explode in future (if it does), it will be hopefully pure logic with no strings attached as we, humans have - emotions, tribalism, sex, psychology, physical bodies to take care of, aging, racism, ridiculously low output bandwidth, so many things that AGI wouldn't have to deal with. I hope that it can optimize on a global domain and not get stuck in some local optima.
Houston Rockets fan arrested in China after threatening to burn national flag
Clearly filtering for security and workplace appropriateness is equivalent to filtering an entire country's discourse and media. /s
I'm confused :- ) Who are you writing to? Me or @janober? Did you mean that n8n could switch to AGPL?

All versions of AGPL allow both non-commercial and commercial usage. (And one needs to share-alike one's modifications.)

In any case I like the idea to be free for charities and public research :- ) You work with something like that? Is AGPL ok with you, or you're worried it might require you to open-source parts of your platform?
Is Tailored Audiences not a third party?
Apple seems to be forgetting their own credo against nag-based security:

https://i.imgur.com/qbUy5aH.png (from an ancient WWDC slide mocking the Windows approach.)

They may have overdone it in a few cases, and not done anything where it's really needed (like a unified list of all third-party startup items, such as Google’s sneaky Keystone malware, or seeing all outgoing data and connection attempts like Little Snitch shows), but as other commenters have mentioned, it lets me catch various apps overreaching into my computer for things they just don't need to function, and I definitely appreciate that.

Another thing I wish they would do is provide an infallible way to verify system password request dialogs. Not long ago DropBox used to show you a fake dialog that then stole your administrator password. There should be a list inside System Preferences where you can go and see all the authentic password request dialogs that are currently being shown.

In short, they should move away from nagging to better monitoring and reporting.
Please hit us.

Please.
You can sue anyone for anything.
There’s something missing here.
The insiders club created by the closed beta.
Only famous personalities were allowed access.

Enormous hype leading up to the launch was wasted by gating the majority of players into watching streams.

This led to the creation and widespread awareness of a meta game before non-casual players could even touch the game.
Arguably, one of the most fun times to play a game is during launch, before spikes know what to netdeck and most are clowning around.
Because endlessly optimizing profit will result in the destruction of the environment and the loss of most jobs.
That article states why PFS for email isn't really all that useful:

> As far as I know, Brown et al.'s proposal is not often used. One reason for this is that forward secrecy is not always desired. For instance, if you encrypt a backup using GnuPG, then your intent is to be able to decrypt it in the future. If you use forward secrecy, then, by definition, that is not possible; you've thrown away the old decryption key.

They are two different tools for two different jobs.
Windows 10 preview brings Android phone calls to your PC
I think your comment is spot on. Have Google et al really missed that, or have they just concluded that individual tracking is better? It seems a pity as focusing on the content being served for ad cues is so obviously how it used to work.
I think the TPP would have hurt China quite badly. I'm still happy it failed, though: the copyright provisions were awful, and some of the rest of it looked far too much like a slide toward corporatism for my taste.
> In fiction, internal narration—the telling

Internal narration, done well, is showing—demonstration of the character and their relationship to
and the effects they experience from the context and events—not telling. External narration is telling.
One of the big problems I find with people supporting the Chinese position on something is that - are they really supporting it, or is this propaganda? Given the level of control on the media and internet there, it is impossible to know.
Ask HN: I am handcuffed to a unicorn. How do I get out?
I work at a well-known "unicorn" in the Bay Area, and have vested ISOs at a strike price that is in-the-money (vis-a-vis both the 409A valuation and the secondary market for shares).

I've vested enough options to net a low six-figure profit after a sale. I am looking to liquidate all of my current ISOs so I can diversify my net worth and make a down payment on some property, but I'm not necessarily looking to leave the company in the immediate future.

I am now learning that the "golden handcuffs" really exist! There are the gotchas I can with my current plan:

1. The cost to exercise my ISOs is prohibitively expensive: it would require a capital outlay between $100-200k. I have enough to exercise without financing, but this would require me to put up of my (non-retirement) liquid assets.

2. The bylaws require the board of directors to approve of any stock transfer. I have not yet approached management, our legal department, or the board about a sale. I am not aware of anybody who has arranged a sale (outside of infrequent, company-sanctioned liquidity events). I don't know what criteria the board uses to approve a transfer, or how a sale would affect my relationship with leadership and affect my career at the company.

3. Because the company is private, there are a few legal barriers to overcome before a buyer can be identified and a sale can be arranged. For example, it's illegal to broadly advertise an offer to sell these shares, becuase I can only sell to "accredited investors". I'll most likely need to work with a private broker (SharesPost, Forge, EquityZen) and an attorney in the end, but I'd like to minimize transaction costs wherever possible.

Has anyone on HN successfully exercised options and arranged a secondary sale for your startup shares? How did you broach the topic with leadership and your company's legal team and/or board? Are there any major gotchas I am overlooking? Is this all worth it or am I stuck working here until an IPO?
Racism is wrong when it creates or reproduces structures of domination based on essentialist categories of race. You can discriminate based on skin color and have it not be racism, if what you're doing isn't generating a power structure to build up one group to dominate another. Having a discussion where only black people can talk, and only white people can listen, isn't racism: it's one-way communication (or rather, one-sided communication). I'd argue that in certain cases, we need that.
This news is about a month old now.

This is a better write-up ...

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-08-30/great-barrier-reef-re...

The actual report is here

http://www.gbrmpa.gov.au/our-work/outlook-report-2019
https://www.google.com/search?q=what+does+<<+mean
Thanks a lot. That is great to hear!

If you are unsure about if you can use it, simply explain what you want to do in an email to "license@n8n.io".

The goal with the license was not keeping people from using it. The main goal was to start it in a way to make the project long term sustainable which I thought would be in the interest of all people using it.

Also does not mean that people can never use it in a way which the license prohibits by default. It simply means that away has to be found which is beneficial to all sides. So just like anywhere in life.
You've described google or probably more askjeeves's eternal promise never realized.
Can you point to any extinction level events from a "superbug" for a species that was not already teetering on extinction? Seems like something that only comes around once every few hundred million years.
I would also suggest cancelling your account, even if you intend on reopening it later. These kind of events are short lived; you need a seemingly strong drive of people who want to cancel their accounts, even it is only for short while. Maximum impact is what the CEO and management can see now and en masse.
If every humans wants to protect earth and "Selfishness of individuals triumph over long term global cause" - how come selfishness doesn't fix this problem? Seems like a contradiction to me
Then they're not socialist states. In fact the USSR was a counter-socialist state, they had to overcome the real revolution and re-instate managerial control from the workers, at great difficulty.
Presently, I'd consider The Verge to be mainstream, but Nilay was on point with his skepticism: https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/23/18637213/5g-race-us-leade...

I think one could produce articles supporting either view quite easily, which them becomes a task of separating the agendas of its authors.
> because no email client (even with GPG plugins) posts a big red warning label saying "stop! this is plaintext"

I've used a plugin that did exactly that: warned when the encrypted e-mail is replied to or forwarded as plain text.

If such a plugin is not commonly used with e-mail clients that can't be a proof that e-mail encryption is inherently bad, just that that feature should exist.

Mozilla implementers, I hope you're inspired.
Babel.js 7.4 comes with upgrades: TypeScript 3.4, core-JS 3 and more
PG&E confirms power will shut off to 800k customers statewide
It really does. I had a network connected Xerox printer that would hang until rebooted, only by port scanning it with nmap.
> keep in mind that $25/hour is almost double the median wage of the USA. The software world is a bubble right now.

That's not the correct comparison. The median full-time wage in the US is closer to $50,000 (~$47k-$54k depending on what adjustments you're using). The median software developer salary is around $107,000 +/-.

The median wage overall includes part-time labor for example and people working very few hours. That considerably lowers the number versus what developers would expect to see, given the extremely low unemployment rate for tech workers (they overwhelmingly tend to work full-time jobs).
They'll know you're using a VPN. You'll still be suspicious.
I fully agree with your first statement - not so much with the second one: data hacking can be fun!

But yeah there are no quick scripts in corporate software, even though Blizzard claims to use agile development I doubt the effectiveness of it. I remember some small vital features/fixes in world of warcraft would be delayed to next expension because "they already had a road map in place" - agile my ass lol.
It is important and complex and hard work, I never questend that. I questioned the ,,just a quick script'' part actually.

But I doubt that it can be as interesting as working on the game engine where you get visual feedback.

If you look at the software market, there are lots of stories about game programmers being underpayed compared to other programmers even when they have better knowledge about the inner workings of the computer hardware. There is a valid reason for it.
Maybe we should be angry?

Apple has been neglecting OS X since Snow Leopard, thinking that iOS is the only thing worth investing in. Microsoft apparently agrees -- they chopped up the Windows team last year, pushing out the Windows chief and dumping the remaining re-orged husk under Azure. Just for security reasons alone, it should be terrifying that there isn't a standalone Windows group anymore.

Windows hasn't been usable since 7; the current version literally requires you to let it reboot itself on a 9-5 schedule. And now this with Apple, again.

Can we move on already? Most of us spend at least half of our waking hours interacting with a desktop operating system, most of us use either OS X or Windows, and yet both of these companies have made it clear that their desktop OSes are no longer a priority! Why are so many of us still putting up with this?

I know people like to knock Linux-on-the-desktop, but you know what? I can go buy a Thinkpad, spend 20 minutes putting Debian or Ubuntu on it, and it'll just work, and I'll get software updates forever. I used to care about flashy widgets back when Gnome was cloning old OS X features, but now I just use XFCE because it looks reasonable, it works, and it stays the fuck out of my way. And when there are bugs, people make a little noise, and then they get fixed. Remind me again what version of bash Apple ships? I don't have the time or the energy to work around that crap anymore.
What irks me is that it's an added cost for not much functionality for like 90% of people on top of an already expensive laptop with other compromises (namely base storage and memory). If it was just an option, you wouldn't hear all this bitching on the internet.
Science papers are getting harder to read (2017)
Given that we're pretty much holding all potential immigrants who cross our southern border in interment camps, I don't think we quite have the moral high ground here.
"At least Twitter is admitting that they've heard of the concept of privacy"
He wasn't saying they are just as bad as one another, he was saying the excuses are just as unbelievable.
That sounds like deeply awful UX.
I'm curious what you think about GDPR compliance when user data has made its way into a ML model via training. Do we have to retrain without?, etc
For balance, I would point out that there is an alternative point of view:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7j75L38PlI

I find it hard to know what to believe. 5 years ago it seemed clear everything was going to hell in a handbasket, now I'm more sceptical, a lot more sceptical, but ultimately unsure.

I'd feel a lot less sceptical if those disagreeing weren't immediately crushed and silenced. If they are so clearly wrong, surely it is easy to show that? Moral emergencies cause humans to behave very badly. Lynch mobs and all that, or Cursaders up to their knees in blood on behalf of their God.
Welcome to stage three of the eight stages of genocide! Your comment is reprehensible.

http://www.genocidewatch.org/genocide/8stagesofgenocide.html
Ostensibly it's combating terrorism, but basically American imperialism.
I'm an expert Googler, and this is the only article I can find from even a remotely reliable source: https://in.mashable.com/science/5847/potentially-hazardous-a...

And mashable has click bait from time to time.

Wikipedia just has a lot of technical information.

I'm also not sure it's a true planet killer, not saying it wouldn't do serious damage but I think it's not a total annihilator I think it's shy a km or two.

I think more mainstream sources would jump on this if it were really worth worrying about. Unless government is trying to avert panic but even then we have 6 months to prepare they had a week in Armageddon... Lol.

I do hope they don't just blow it up if that's the case I think moving it via thrusters off course would be more effective.
Why was there was a perceived need for this and why does it exist in the first place?

This can’t be the only way to have a subreddit without racist posts or “trolling”?
Medical research is an inductive endeavor; avoiding deductive fallacies won't help you much.

You have to distinguish between these two statements:

a) There is research that indicates that there is a benefit to fasting

b) The research indicates that there is a benefit to fasting

Statement a) is true; but b) is what you said.

Going from a) to b) is the hard part. It's not enough to know what some research says, you need to place it within the broader context of the field of knowledge before you can make declarative statements of benefit. And cancer is an incredibly complex and fast-moving field of knowledge.

The oncologists I spoke with were aware of research into voluntary fasting, but on balance recommended against it. One reason is that unlike with a healthy person, ending the fast may not be under the patient's control, depending on how they tolerate their chemotherapy. Chemotherapy ends up looking like intermittent fasting for a lot of patients anyway.

Chemotherapy is also cumulative, which means that decisions that appear beneficial in early rounds may end up limiting the total number of sequential rounds that a patient can tolerate.

If someone is not habitually fasting, adding it on top of chemotherapy adds a significant confounding factor to a process that is already hard to predict.

And aside from voluntary fasting, there is a lot of evidence that patients who can eat well and keep their weight up have better outcomes from chemotherapy than those who can't/won't eat and lose weight.

This is what I was told by people who spend their lives studying the treatment of cancer.
What's your take on Android widgets? I used to think they were all I ever wanted in a system only to use them less and less with every iteration of the OS, now fewer and fewer apps come with widgets, or even try to use them for something really useful. Has the user lost the appetite for at-glance desktop tools?
Hacking victim who paid Bitcoin ransom goes on to hack the hackers
For all you kids, do you know what happens in Hongkong? Don't just use "protest", check some video from the other side. Look for Molotov cocktails, punching innocent people, burning stores, ruining public services, threaten policeman's families, does any of these seem OK for you all?
If you don't see those stuff, the most easy one is searching for police shooting, how did that shoot happen? What happened right after the shoot? Yes, Molotov cocktail!
Those riots are ruining other peoples life.

free speech, but don't build it another people's feelings, think about the Clipper's, if NBA don't do it, someone will do it.
There's more on basketball than NBA.
> People have a right to boycott an organization when their money is used for something like this.

Of course they do, but there is no mention of a boycott in the article.
This is a gross misunderstanding of the concept, and it pisses me off.

Just because you have the right to free speech, doesn't give you the right to someone else's audience. It doesn't give you license to harrass. It doesn't give you license to trespass (including a properly licensed/permitted event on public property). It doesn't give you license to disruptively yell over whoever you might be protesting. It doesn't give you the right to be obnoxious for the same of getting attention, like blocking traffic.

Hijacking someone else's gathering is infringing on both their right to free speech and their right to peaceful assembly. Go have your own assembly somewhere else. There is no right to disrupt. If you can say the same message anywhere else in the country without restriction or repercussion, then you're freedom of speech hasn't been infringed.

That said, and even by that standard, the US is the most tolerant of free speech by far.
Oregon has a similar issue as well. You’ve got houses that are really old yet worth half a mil plus and they’re paying basically nothing. Except here the tax isn’t recalculated on sale so newer homes are not “worth” as much at resell time.
Here's an easy way to send a GDPR erasure request: https://opt-out.eu/?company=activision.com
You provided two links which both reference the same news source, which cites their source as

> One of the first netizens to share this news, David Ng, a student at the Education University of Hong Kong, told Taiwan News that this information came from a trusted source who works as a manager for Cathay Pacific Airways
Chinas economic future is not quite so bright, their moronic one child policy have prepared a time bomb for them which is going to reduce their working age population catastrophically, making catching up with US very hard.
As of Catalina, Apple has switched the default shell to zsh and nags you when you launch bash.

That said... I agree. Between this, the abysmal keyboard failure rate, and some of the user-hostile choices they've made, I've switched to a Razer laptop.

Windows 10 Pro lets you avoid most of the jank, by the way. But, I'm only on it as an eventual migration path to something running XFCE (my favorite wm due to its out of box usability).
Fact is black people can't have a fun public conversation about living as a black person in America without a bunch of racists showing up and ruining it. How would you propose that be fixed?
I think it's also important for Blizzard to be consistent with their bans. Eg, if a player makes a comment about how much he/she supports American trade policy I would expect them to give out the same level of punishment.
It’s a great video - thanks! I’m less worried about the safety, than the actual ability to just manage to build the damn things to spec and any kind of budget in the US regulatory environment.
Thanks for this point of view. Very insightful and made me understand Blizzard perspective better.
> "deliberately seek elegant abstractions"

This advice is too abstract, to be practically useful in real life. ? Is it a bit like saying: To be a good runner, do this: Run fast. — Needs to be broken down into smaller more actionable steps.

Still the other advice about talking with users, and looking around at other things out there, and spending time "thinking into the future" about how one's ideas will work out, and what to not include in the software — I like that advice :- )
Link to the actual paper

https://t.co/s0NZ1PcpQf

Is it normal for econ papers to use the first person? Super weird to read. His Latex formatting is a mess too. Check out page 37 for a scatter plot of rock solid correlation, lol. Not going to read the full 56 page mess because that's a job for an unpaid reviewer, not an unpaid commentator.

That being said, there's a shit ton of easy hidden variables here. Mountains of them. People are going to talk about spurious correlations, which is fine, but there' s a more subtle trick here, the hidden variable.

Sunscreen use is correlated with an increase in shark attacks and increase in hot dog sales. Are sharks attracted to sunscreen? Is there a secret ingredient in hot suncreen that makes people eat hot dogs? I can come up with pretty good explanations, that pass a qucik sniff test, all day long.

The answer is of course not. More people are simply at the beach. More people --> more collisions with sharks, more hot dogs shoved down gullets.

Not familiar enough with the culture of Pakistan to point out the specific variables, but that's the guess.
This is exactly why I'm done with consumer router devices. Open Source routers are mature and infinitely more secure.
https://teklager.se/en/open-source-routers/
That's so stupid. I've never met a real estate concern that had ANY employees. The fact that a building is owned by 1 guy who outsources everything does not make it a "small business".
I don't like that GDPR is being abused like this. It will only hurt GDPR and likely not hurt the intended target at all and if it works it will encourage more abuse which will lead to GDPR being softened.

My point is that we should use GDPR for what it was made for and use other means to put pressure on Blizzard.
The article isn't about singularity. It is about superhuman intelligence, which already has a proof by existence in human organizational structures.