skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
PRP was a pretty extreme example, but I used it to prove a point that no matter how crazy it seems to do PRP in an underground or gray-market venue, 1. A lot of people are already doing it, and 2. absent blood contamination risk, the risk, benefit, and cost trade-off is still massively better than the surgery it may prevent. It’s not even close. Even if it’s not proven to be effective by statistical scrutiny, neither are the vast majority of orthopedic surgeries. Seriously, look it up, and be mindful that it is the surgeon himself that determines success in most studies.
I don't object to the single mother part. I object to the adoption part of already created embryos. I don't think it's a bad idea to prevent the systematic creation of children alienates from one of their parents
I can think of a Billion reasons for him to rationalize this !!!
Cloudflare Considered Harmful
There were Visual Basic boot-camps during the dot-com boom.
The most shocking thing about this post, to me, is that they've only made $5M revenue in 6 years. After expenses, that's got to be a really small profit.
Right but that's kind of the essence of machine translation. You won't always have high quality parallel training data for all languages so you have to find a way to thrive with low quality data.

Google has clearly made it their mission to solve that problem, and I'd say they've been rather successful.
I’m a full-stack hardware integrator. My consulting is mostly iOS + Bluetooth sensors, some node for edge IOT computing.

My side hustle is Electron/React + USB label printers: https://label.live.

If there’s someone out there that wants to work on a modern label printer app - send me an email at help @ label.live.

Or .. If someone had an idea for an electron app that interfaces with challenging hardware - I just might have an existing solution to leverage.

I’ve also had to solve per-machine Electron app licensing and built a nice solution using React, GraphQL and JWT.
Wow. With attitudes like this:

"The discussion about the method for disabling updates has been had over and over already, there is nothing left to say about it, and the change will not be reverted. You've been given workarounds for your problem. Please do not reopen this bug or file any others asking the same thing."

... who needs Microsoft?
if 3 hours is too much I'll crack the naval command captcha for 1 hour of work.
> Cars are the slowest, lowest-bandwidth forms of urban transportation.

This is the kind of thing I read a lot in micromobility advocacy articles, but it seems like it can't be true. How can a bike, scooter, or moped be either faster or higher-bandwidth than a car?

Also, serious question: if electric SDCs became widespread, would it still make sense to advocate things like bikes?

You can't transport a family of three or a baby as safely in a vehicle smaller than a car (as they lack things like walls and air bags), and the many obese, elderly, and disabled people in the US can't use micromobility easily.
What went wrong technically to cause the bridge collapse is only the second half of the story.

The first half of the story is that the stakeholders wanted an over-the-top bridge design, complete with fake cable stays, and out of hubris decided they would use an all-concrete single-truss Accelerated Bridge Construction (ABC) design because all-concrete would look better and the university's (FIU's) engineering department sort of specialized in promoting ABC.

What could have been a much cheaper nice looking normally-designed bridge (which would be open today) ballooned (or you could say, was hijacked) into a $10mm+ bridge disaster that would be comedy if people hadn't been hurt and killed. A majority of it was even paid for by federal grants.[1]

This is why we can't have nice things. They were so focused on building a nice looking bridge — and meeting deadlines — that they didn't/couldn't allocate sufficient resources to verify the design, verify it was built and moved into place correctly.

[1] see page 9 of https://www.transportation.gov/sites/dot.gov/files/docs/brie...
But only files offer fully automated backups which do not need any sort of support from application at all.
A New Aristocracy: Yale Law School Commencement Address (2015) [pdf]
OpenAI’s GPT-2 Is Now Available – It Is Wise as a Scholar
> The most pressing problem for humanity is global climate disruption.

I don't believe most would agree here. There are a lot of problems humanity faces, and humanity is a lot of different people. Those still living in extreme poverty today probably don't care about our worries of climate disruption.

> Arguably, working on anything that doesn't help there is not just wasted effort, but actively harmful.

Why is this?

> Direct hydrogen-fueled aircraft are feasible, and more efficient than with kerosine, but the design cycle is too long.

This is really interesting but doesn't strike me as true based on my background. Do you have anything I could read regarding? I would be very interested

> Without massive progress in the next decade, civilization will probably collapse by 2035.

This I really don't agree with or understand.

I'm very worried about emissions, but I don't see why civilization would collapse any time soon, if at all. 2035 is very soon.
We are leaving the Apple App Store and all its problems
I'm guessing you're right. The Mac G5s are legendary, of course, for heat. I've worked with VMEBus G5 machines (PowerPC 970FX chips) and they were furnaces that needed force air cooling no matter how we played with frequency. I can't imagine putting one in a ThinkPad case.
His cars already cost $50-100k or more, how does a $7.5k LIDAR sensor “double” the cost of the car?
I know I'm going fully into the realm of conspiracy theories here, but history has shown secret court orders are a thing. VPN's are the perfect honeypot for law enforcement agencies, they wouldn't want to lose this every time they bust someone. So put on a nice show that they can't get the logs, then secretly order them to log.
I'm doing some work for a startup that wants to automate greenhouse climate control.

The software automatically manages lighting, climate, irrigation based on long term growth strategies, real time sensor data and energy prices.

This saves time spent manually managing greenhouse climate, and money due to improved crop and energy management.

We're hiring! Looking for a data scientist with a mind for optimization problems. The Netherlands, Delft region.
A third of WeWork is getting let go regardless, and SoftBank has already lost that $15B.
Reminded me of Gary McKinon... i was amazed at how easily the UK gave lip service to the US regarding its own citizens.
'idlewords on Twitter: WeWork is a classic failure mode of central planning
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21330609 links an article about things she did there.
> M mode isn't a hypervisor mode.

I'm well aware. I should have used a semicolon. I take issue with both m mode and hypervisor mode.
thats not true, its well documented how various bittorrent clients can work through tor. the main drawback is that its slower than a direct connection, but that does not mean it doesn't work...
Folks have many good ideas here, but most of them require high upfront capital... Not something a regular person can afford. The good thing about software or internet in general is that the barrier of entry is lower.
Even 'in the country' there is a considerable amount of light pollution-- and per the subject of this article, there is likely to be more there in the future! :)

City vs country is seeing no stars at all or only a couple vs hundreds, but to see thousands you have to be a long way from any kind of development.
> Those still living in extreme poverty today probably don't care about our worries of climate disruption.

Tell that to 100Million people in poverty in Bangladesh that will become climate refugees if the sea level rises in any meaningful way.

In the west, sea-side living is a privilege for the richest. And sea level rise is mostly ignorable with the virtue of new seawalls.

In the developing world, the most poverty-stricken are the closest to the water, and nobody will be funding solutions for them.
It's developer friendly and easy to use. It has an IDE for creating automations. I know a lot of devs might think they don't really care about an IDE, but when you're automating interfaces it makes it _way_ easier. It also is not limited to web browsers.

Check out this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3B4Y_aUBWTM

It's a very simple automation. It just gets text from a browser and inserts it into notepad. But it's a 3 minute video that does something. Check out Selenium tutorials and compare how much you would learn from a 3 minute video. You don't have to dive into the HTML, you just click on what you want to click/type into/scrape and it knows what you want.

But it still has all the power a developer would want. You can create custom activities using C# and VB. The product itself is not open source, but it is very extensible and flexible. The workflows it generates are text files, which work well in source control. It has source control integration built in, which a custom diff tool. It enables code sharing and encourages code reuse.

The only downside I would point out is that it only runs on Windows for now, which might be a problem for linux only shops.
What part of that post is anti-Trump?
Nature Abhors Unused RAM
WeWork confirms an up to $8B lifeline from SoftBank Group
Currently, Google has a 35 story building under construction downtown, Apple is expanding its Austin presence both with devs and manufacturing (new Mac Pro to be built here), Amazon and Facebook also expanding hiring here. A look at LinkedIn job openings shows VMWare, Walmart, Microsoft, Dell, Visa, Cloudflare, Mozilla, Auth0, Blizzard, and AMD all hiring here.

I think Austin still lacks HQ anchors of bigger tech companies save for Dell. But the developer presence is absolutely growing.
I'm thinking that Linux is primarily a server OS and MacOS is primarily a workstation. And yes people do use Linux on the desktop and visa versa.
Profiling Facial Recognition Suppliers
We don't know that all violations are coming to the surface, but we can be pretty sure that if there are VPN honeypots then they are either obviously sketchy services or part of an expensive, sophisticated, secret and therefore targeted attack. Based on their website and other public information (like their WireGuard advocacy), I think Mullvad is more trustworthy than the average ISP, which in turn is probably more trustworthy than the average fly-by-night VPN operation.
Use to have this view,now conceded that a vpn provider with good reputation and accountability is best. Your local ISP sell whatever data or inject whatever content thet desire,and your rights mean little if your contract stipulates they can sell this access to a 3rd party and this 3rd party can then resell analyzed or raw data to anyone including your own government. If you perform methodical risk analysis,you will find having the ability to damage reputation of your first-hop provider is an ideal leverage. Never negotiate from a position of weakness (e.g.: ISP or Tor exit nodes)
Definitely. To be clear: my previous lines of reasoning here were assuming a political bias from Google and noting that even if it exists, the populace has alternatives. I'm personally of the school of thought "Google seems to have liberal bias in the US because relative to US politics, reality has a liberal bias," and not of the conspiracy-to-delude-the-public school of thought. ;)
My ISP assigns me the same IP address for months at a time before changing it seemingly at random. Without knowing how long you’ve had that IP address and how long the linked site keeps data for, it’s not really meaningful information.
Ask HN: Cloud Certifications
anyone know valuable cloud certifications to acquire, for a jr - mid level developer. to complement skills and become recession proof. & also providing a lot of remote opportunities. like maybe automation related stuff for networking etc ?
Perhaps so. But,

if (not_visible) {
suspend_wait_and_stop_consuming_resources
}

I can imagine that it gets massively more complicated. However, as, say, an executive, this probably indicates that you can lean on your sw dev staff to approach the asymptotic ideal that looks so simple if you really care about the goal.
Those numbers are from 2010. Austin has grown a tremendous amount since 2010.
JWT is fine when implemented properly for the types of use cases it was intended for. Which in 2019 is the vast majority of libraries available.
Right there with you - it seems like capital could flow the 300 miles south without much problem, but for whatever reason it just doesn't (I suspect it's at least partially related to the types of startups and founders in LA). Irvine is ok if you're a family-oriented corporate person, but for young tech talent it's the most soul-sucking Stepford Wives place this side of Plano, TX.

In my case, I ended up just not working in LA itself for half the time I've lived here. I've spent at least as much time working in the Bay Area, Austin, Seattle, Irvine, and now Portland as I have working in LA because the companies and compensation are just so much better elsewhere.
It's funny how all of your specific examples are already solved, many years ago.

- "fsck" is not longer required with journalling filesystems.

- For faster boot, there is "ureadahead" which requests the block from the disk in the right order -- so time to start up the system with 1GB of memory used is roughly the same as read that 1GB from the disk drive.

- For "200 fonts", there is "fc-cache" tool which keeps the font cache -- and you only run it when a new font is installed.
How do we know the stated reason is the real reason?

The one thing I don't see being raised anywhere is that it's incredibly common in civil society for folks who are "shrill" (supportive of equality for all races, gender identities, etc) tend to be pushed out for "lack of cultural fit".
A Study Found That Blind Auditions Reduced Sexism in the Orchestra. Or Did It?
I’m not talking about nano-fabs. From a pharma perspective, I’m talking about moleculars that are produced in GMP facilities and sold like any other USP, not for human use. This is admittedly dangerous because the formulations could have contaminants. However, even in FDA-approved pharma, you get things like NDMA being used as a solvent and ending up as millimolar fractions, and the drugs don’t even get pulled for months after discovery by some random independent lab. There are thousands of moleculars that pharma will never push through the FDA because it’s a natural human protein fragment and therefore impossible to patent and profit from.
But it's not very hard to find out the issue is dns
In all seriousness though, I remember watching that video soon after the event. I have to give him credit, he came pretty close to the right conclusions just from a few photographs
If you want to have any hope of anonymity when accessing the internet, use Tor. Don't use a single-hop proxy. Even if you assume that the VPN provider is trustworthy and won't roll over when they're handed an NSL (a questionable assumption), intelligence agencies can just as easily break into all the servers (owned by a single party) and log the traffic themselves. Personally, I would be surprised if they haven't already done this for some providers -- why wouldn't they?
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Looks I was partially right: https://tidbits.com/2019/10/21/six-reasons-why-ios-13-and-ca...
This is super neat! Desmos is one of my favorite tools. For anyone interested in efficient rational number representation, I highly recommend the entertaining article on "floating bar" for ray-tracing algorithms by Inigo Quilez

https://iquilezles.org/www/articles/floatingbar/floatingbar....
Note to readers: NEC is National Electric Code, which is the regulation of all electrical installations in the USA.

The NEC here is not Numerical Electromagnetics Code, an electromagnetic simulation program, commonly used for antennas, which often have a ground connection as well. And it's obviously not the NEC Corporation, the Japanese electric company, whose semiconductor department is now a separate company known as Renesas.

When I first saw the title, it took me a few seconds in my mind to solve the hash conflict here. I wonder how many people on HN know all of these entities simultaneously.
Voting should be abolished; it's a relic of slow communications and travel times, and the voting mechanism has been gamed to hell and back by political rent-seekers.

We could either move to a participative legislative model like Wikipedia for legal code, or just get rid of legislative terms and require all legislators to attend district assemblies once per month or quarter where agendas can be discussed and legislators confirmed or replaced.
I live in Christchurch, NZ. After a massive earthquake in 2011, I had high hopes that we might redesign the city for the next 100 years instead of the previous 50 (i.e. for people, not cars).

Instead the city council built a few bike lanes and even then people lost their goddamn minds.

"You're taking away parking space!"
"All these bike lanes are slowing traffic"
"No one wants to bike into the city"

Meanwhile, cyclists are steadily increasing in numbers and the centre of town is actually seeing some signs of life for the first time in decades.

But heaven forfend we actually do something radical and pedestrianise the city.
I was the initial backer for Ghost when it was first on kickstarter, i was very excited about the prospect. But after it release i felt quite cheated. The progress was insanely slow, there were a discussion about responsive images on their github which lasted probably months before anything was done about it. It was very limiting still months after its initial release. Naturally i lost interest.
Why would they dislike someone affiliated with Snowden if they published based on Wikileaks data?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_diplomatic_cable...

(CTRL-F "New York Times")
From what I gathered the work Quantum Leap did was useless. Its 1000 faster computing its own noise or something like that.
'Artificial leaf' successfully produces clean gas
Crushed em up for pigment too, Mummy Brown, until early 20th century when demand dropped off (and they started running out of mummies).
Your post brought back fond memories of combining autohotkey with premiere pro to automate boring tasks. Haha. I agree, you have a nice niche.
Fantastic post. I've long given up trying to explain this to morons paying for NordVPN and similar products.
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It's not a matter of 'viable'. It's a fund raising exercise.

You don't need a PPC box to try out "Windows, MacOS, Linux, and a handful of BSDs".

If you need to play with slower, poorer supported hardware architectures, there are vast numbers of options, many of which don't require placing speculative bets on marginally performing hardware.

I don't, per se, disagree with anything you said, but nothing you said needs a seriously sub-par laptop to achieve.
This is a pretty subjective take.
Stacking Polygons in a Circle
I tried reading chess strategy books but it was always the mobile puzzle apps that really trained me to be a better player.

Like programming books which demand you actually type out examples (which IMO is really useful) the same is true for almost all learning. Especially for something like math.

Khan Academy mixed short instructional videos with quick tests which I found quite useful. but nothing beats thinking it out from scratch and building your own stuff.
It's for security, not anonymity.

I use Tor if I want anonymity.
I see this trend strongest in Asia right now.
I suppose that mechanical compression faithfully evokes what condensed fonts actively try to mitigate: the squeezing and stretching itself, which lends it a sense of emotional stress and tension.

Also, with digital fonts as new as they were when NGE was released, it's likely that compression seems more like a novel way to establish identity, rather than the now ubiquitous ignorant rescaling of fonts.
A new vs. Code extension to commit by the semantic message conventions
Or maybe we could provide a better social safety net and more incentive/assistance for having children.
One of the problems is that a lot of people who are nominally "supportive of equality for all races, gender identities, etc" are actually openly hostile to cishet white men with money.

I think it's possible to separate those two things and I have this hypothesis that you will get further if you are careful to do so and are less likely to be called "shrill" and pushed out.
Or any lyrics: http://billion.dev.losttech.software:2095/

And the blog article: https://habr.com/post/453232/ (also there's no paywall here)
How to Repair and Defragment Linux System Partitions and Directories
That is terrific, I'm very much looking forward to your Blade Runner OST homage!

I didn't know about the behringer clone, that looks pretty awesome. I'm certainly no synth purist, just very happy to see that the CS-80 vibe is still alive and well.
Ask HN: Headcount Management Platform
I am a new product manager, one of the products I am working on is a headcount management tool. Anyone with experience in this area that can give me some ideas of key features/functionality that I don't want to miss?
I am building a very simple status page app, that actually works. Think like zoom of status page. A very simple easily integrated via apis. Offering On-prem/Saas version of the software which integrates with all most of the services.

I had to start working on it, cuz I wasnt happy with any of the solutions out there (statuspage / statusio / hund ... etc)

I have worked in sysadmin/devops roles in the past and have fairly extensive knowledge on how SRE/OPs culture work. I have built SRE teams in the previous jobs.

you being in bay area would be helpful, but not an absolute requirement.

if you're interested mail me tapblah at protonmail dot com
Ask HN: Financial Analytics Platform
I am a new product manager, one of the products I am working on is a financial analytics tool. Anyone with experience in this area that can give me some ideas of key features/functionality that I don't want to miss?
It's more speculative I think. The guy worked for Apple for 18 years, so he's not totally out on a limb though.
Some people are calling it web3.

https://web3.foundation/about/
Pretty much the same. We plateaued with new features some time ago. OSes 10 years ago were almost the same as now. We got more indexing / relying on content rather than paths. We moved more apps to the browser. But fundamentally, you can't do anything on W10 that wasn't possible on XP.

There implementation will change - more "as a service" on both OS and app level. Disk will be more of a cache layer. (Than it already is)
Samsung Galaxy Fold 2 may be released in April 2020
> repeatedly indicated that the cracks were of no safety concern

This reminds me of all the nuclear power plants that are operating beyond their design life and keep increasing their allowable crack tolerance.
You're right about those people, but I'm not talking about them. There are people living in extreme poverty today who won't even be alive anymore by the time sea level rise causes a problem.

Who are we to claim that climate change is the most pressing issue facing humanity, when much of humanity faces unrelated life threatening issues?