skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hang out with the local DIY Bio group a bit (even though I know bugger all about this subject, really, and do not consider myself a "biohcker"), and somehow the subject of "targeted assassinations" came up. After part of that conversation, I walked away with the understanding that my interlocutor (who was an actual expert in some aspect of this overall field) was saying that - in principle - you could engineer a mosquito to both A. carry a deadly disease (Ebola, Zika, Malaria, ??) AND B. only be likely to bite somebody with a specific genetic profile.

As I recall, the individual I was talking to said that the didn't think it was possible to carry out that exact scenario today, but that it was close enough to reality to not be science-fiction, and would definitely be possible eventually.
Currently I am using a cheapo Office Max chair I bought a few years ago (~$100)

I am looking at replacing it with an Autonomous.ai ErgoChair2 [1] within the next few weeks.

I work from home so buying a $1k+ chair isn't really feasible. For context, I am in my late 20's without major back problems so "cheaping out" is still a reasonable thing to do.

[1]: https://www.autonomous.ai/office-chairs/ergonomic-chair
> But either way, this failure isn't going to be easy for him. He's going to feel several emotions and not all of them will be pleasant.

Honest question: do you think it will be harder for him than for the rest of us that have to deal with failure and yet have to chase jobs and deal with the pressures that come from not being wealthy?

Given the level of sociopathy likely required to get where he is at, I sincerely doubt it. I cant assume he feels as I would in thus situation because I literally couldn't GET into his situation.
Can you explain why? I am not German but I have fairly significant amount of infrastructure colo'd in Germany - DTAG/T-Mobile/T-Online/whatever is obnoxiously bad.

They refuse to peer with neighbouring networks, they hold back deployment of local connectivity (DSL is still the best you can do in 2019?), they demand the doubly charge in the way of Netflix v Comcast.

Sending data to/from with any customers on their network (which, of course, considering how big they are...) costs so much more per megabit due to this bullshit.
399 euro at DanteLabs: https://www.dantelabs.com/products/whole-genome-sequencing?v...
> For instance, if you’re a journalist and you want to promote your work, there is simply no viable alternative to Twitter at the moment. No other microblogging platform

Microblogging platforms aren't the only venue for journalists to promote their work.

But, even if that wasn't the case, that's not an argument that private censorship is bad but that private monopolies are bad, and that censorship by monopolies on essential communications mechanisms (public or private) is bad.
That is cool no doubt, but to be clear I was referring to rendering markdown in the editor itself, as you're typing. (Not in a separate pane or browser, which almost every Markdown editor does.) For example, if you type asterisk-foo-asterisk-space you should (in the editor) see an italicized foo followed by a space, and if you move your cursor to the “foo” you should be able to see the asterisks and edit the syntax again.
Must've been pretty hard to type `npx create-react-app my-app`
Back in the DOS days Microsoft shiped with a decent editor and a programming environment, alas from DOS 5 onwards.
s/publises/publishes

(Bat signal @dang or anyone else)

Edit: thanks!
>Why wouldn't it just attract users organically the way other content does?

[[citation needed]] Would you like to present proof that t_d did not grow organically in 2015/2016?

So far you're heavy on claims and light on proof.
Notepad.exe is a decent editor. It's minimalistic, no bs, fast and built-in. What else do you need?
Once Microsoft agreed to the graphics api change, it was open season to redesign the window manager api because backward compat was moot at that point. The OS/2 window manager api was designed by the same team who designed the win16 window manager apis. There were improvements and a bunch of api change but at the 10K foot level the model was the same - input loop, window messages, and window procs.
But like other things, such as social media, big data, and blockchain, it makes it harder to establish secure fake identities. Inhibiting the creation of fake identities inhibits both criminal activity and covert operations of law enforcement and national security.
Yes, I'd agree that, today, typically nobody is checking to make sure that an Ethereum transaction is legal.

But, it's important to understand that Ethereum is not a replacement for or opponent of KYC, AML, or checking if transactions are legal. Ethereum is a starting point, a base layer. It is necessary to rebuild all kinds of monetary controls into Ethereum's app layer. I support this development. Within 5-10 years all of the traditional controls will become available on various parts of Ethereum -- KYC, ability for government to freeze accounts, etc.
A friend had to sign this, background is they want to show all employees on the about-us page on the website. I think you can push back and limit the use, e.g. to the website.
Practically it's easy too. Here's a piece of pseudocode I just wrote:

chunkOffset = byteIndex/3*4
base64decode(base64data[chunkOffset:chunkOffset+4])[byteIndex%3]

This gets you the byte located at an arbitrary index of the original buffer while operating on the base64 data.
Many systems don't actually delete data; they set a "deleted" flag that often causes the system to behave as if it did from the customer's point of view, but the data stays in the database for perpetuity.

That means in all likelihood it is still there, and may actually still be being served to other users.
Sky is blue. I guess when you get to be my age you have seen this headline about a hundred times.
I get sub-2 to 3 Mbps speeds on a postpaid business-type T-Mobile plan due to congestion/oversubscription. This is not in a rural wasteland, but in a major tech urban city.

Verizon and AT&T do just as badly, but not nearly as much (~8Mbps). Again, congestion, not because there are no towers nearby. I am on business postpaid higher tier plans, and should have tower priority according to them.

Sprint coverage disappears completely a few minutes after exiting major cities.

AT&T has a disgusting transparent proxy that breaks SSL half the time (if you try to negotiate purely-modern ciphers, your SSL connects typically fail) and modifies random files/headers in transit if plaintext. They do not/will not remove it. Plaintext HTTP exits through one IP (shared by an insane amount of people, seemingly), and all other traffic that it can't tamper with or doesn't know how to tamper with exits via another IP. This breaks some things.

Incidentally, I am typing this on a hotspot, and as my bus enters downtown CBD loading web pages (including HN, the lightest page of them all) ha started to take 10-30 seconds.
The updates are a bit ridiculous. I did a clean install, and like I used to do before, I installed all updates right away so I can take my mind off it for a while. But no, Windows 10 kept finding restart-worthy updates for a week. Seems to have stopped now. Is that normal?

Telemetry can be blocked through a firewall.
Take a look at their most recent 10-Q[1] where you'll notice their claim of profitability relies on the completely made up (and non-GAAP) metric of "Rides Adjusted EBITDA".

From page 36 of the filing ("Segment adjusted EBITDA" collectively references their adjusted EBITDA metrics for rides, eats, and freight):

> Segment adjusted EBITDA is defined as revenue less the following expenses: cost of revenue, operations and support, sales and marketing, and general and administrative and research and development expenses associated with the Company’s segments. Segment adjusted EBITDA also excludes any non-cash items or items that management does not believe are reflective of the Company’s ongoing core operations (as shown in the table below).

The referenced table includes $1.8 billion in Corporate Governance. That one line item completely wipes out their "Rides Adjusted EBITDA" profitability.

They're only profitable as long as they don't have any expenses. And that isn't really how "profit" works.

[1] http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1543151/0001543151190...
CRDT: Conflict-free replicated data type
Those odd-looking security barriers
>I wish the people making the rankings would just outright admit they're making a subjective list

I would hope a K-11 education even in the US would prepare you to realize that a ranking of schools must be subjective.
So I tried Godot recently for 3D, and it seems pretty interesting. Followed some tutorials, made some basic FPS controls and movement. Checked out some other demos, etc.

However it's surprising that no serious 3D game has ever been made with it, except a few demos. Why is this the case? I already noticed some sound issues in heavily scripted demos, is this engine very limited for 3D?
The thing to remember is, this all happened in the open. The people paying him all this money knew exactly what they were doing, know exactly what he was doing and even encouraged him in doing it. I for one will not be shedding any tears for Softbank's losses. Neumann may be a bit of a jerk, if the stories about him are true, but good luck to the guy. It’s not as though he hurt anybody.
As a Hacker News reader, I'm more interested in individual articles than links to magazine size content. Maybe submitting individual articles could provide finer grained feedback from the potential audience. Individual articles seem more viral than newsletters, too.
Reminded me of the futurama episode of Benders fake funeral.
Pilots have loads of checklists, many of them committed to memory. If there's a problem, there's a checklist for it and following the checklist should lead you to a solution or at least tell you what is wrong. The downside is that checklists can't account for every possible thing going wrong. A little piece of wire jamming a hydraulic system is going to be a hard fix. Even if you have the tools and access to the component, do you have time while the plane is nose down?

Planes have to be predictable, they can have massive failure states but the solution must be repeatable. Unknown failures, regardless of the severity, are a major problem and should always be tracked and investigated. A small unknown failure could be a symptom or precursor to a much larger problem.

Everyone hates paperwork but it's what saves lives.
I think Lyft and Uber hurt public transit. There has gotta be a better way to make American cities more livable and accessible without adding additional car traffic.

Buses, denser house, better urban planning, metro rail and subway additions are the way we need to go like Asia and Europe. Uber and Lyft are not doing well in Europe and Asia because leaders realize they make traffic worse and are trying to focus on zoning and transit instead.
Cambridge cultivates successful projects and people
>It is currently estimated that around 4 per cent of the population are unaware the man they call their father is not their true biological relative.

That is for the UK. It may vary a lot by ethnoreligious and socioeconomic groups in different countries.
I think you're missing the point, here. The 757 was a 727 replacement because the 737 was never meant to be flying the routes and carrying the pax that it is today. The 737 MAX 10 has become, pax wise, a direct competitor of the 757-200. Airlines are demanding a 757 that doesn't require a new type rating, which is how you get this frankensteins monster of an airplane.
There likely isn't any need to add a statement about copyright.
It’s missing the fungibility where it is produced by multiple suppliers and can be treated equivalently by the end buyer. Large grade A eggs are a commodity as it doesn’t matter which farm produced them. A specific set of processors from Intel are not a commodity since there are no fungible equivalents. Widely available would probably be a better description in this case.
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Funny, that jibes with my perception of Taleb as well. He seems a bit smug, and I'm not sure if I'd like him or not if we met in person, but his books still seem valuable and worth reading. I would say that I'm better off for having read both The Black Swan and Fooled by Randomness. Still waiting to get around to reading Anti-Fragile, but it's definitely on the list.
heh, to say that I originally wrote if(foo) and then replaced it by //... because that was not the point.
Also, dereferencing an unset optional is also UB, so it would segfault all the same given the same preconditions.
SQL Server on RDS includes the SQL Server license and is very cost effective for what you get. (Backups, point in time restore, etc). They also offer EC2 with SQL Server but I’d rather pay the slight premium for the additional management.
Price targets from almost every analyst after Q3 earnings is $>40. If you believe that, you'd be making a mistake selling.
not to mention the amount of political influence billions can buy.

billionaires are incompatible with democracy
So positive gross margin vs. negative net margin.
You seem to be describing WordPad, tbf.

Notepad looks exactly the same as the one in Windows XP :D
Imagine what little events are happening right now that we will look back at in 100 years and feel the same way about them. :)
The search space has many, many dimensions--CPU, MMU, OS implementation details, how well the compiler translated source to machine code for that particular CPU, how well did the benchmark implementation cater to the target architecture, etc, etc.

Immense opportunities to fool others, and even yourself.
The thing I find most interesting about this project is that it shows how a well co-ordinated open source effort can solve the problem of trying to keep integrations against hundreds of different APIs working.

I would have thought that running a project integrating against this many different APIs would be a completely insane idea - but it works great when 300+ people help you out! https://github.com/badges/shields/graphs/contributors
If it’s worth one third of its current market cap it’s worth $15B. For a company that’s ten years old that’s incredible.
> People with bias or prejudice often have difficulty seeing data that contradicts their desired view point.

> [The article] explicitly provides the views from Peter Piot who admits he wrote out the African researcher and by the way, admits to racism.

Uhhhh.... lol.

A strict reading of the article would reveal that Piot never admits to racism (on his part) and admits to no attempt to "write out Muyembe".

Piot accuses others of being racist (those same others he admitted to harboring resentment for) but without evidence his claims are as valid as Muyembe.

I mean really... how are you going to accuse TWO PEOPLE of racism when you lack the ability to read four sentences.
I see. Rubber Hose decryption on a family member type stuff. That's terrifying.
All I can tell you is that my municipal utility (electric & freshwater/stormwater/wastewater) has been running for decades, and has very competitive costs & high customer satisfaction. Oh, and all our power lines are buried.
<= and => seem to produce two completely different types of ligatures, unfortunately. No cool ligatures for << and >>.

Edit, I see there is a proper greater than or equal to ligature, but it defaults to an arrow when => is typed. Not sure how to key the other.
Okay, I am not sure about others. But I was working on this as a fun project. And I wanted to share my work. Hope you find it useful and please let me know your suggestions and any additional improvements I can make.
NTSB already notes long-standing issues with all aircraft, all you need to do is read. Airbus for example has a flaw in the A300-600 line where the tailfin can get ripped off due to bad rudder manufacture, that's been around and still exists since the turn of the millennia. My pal consistently bitches about having to do constant preventative work on that section of that line of planes (he's an Airbus engineer.)
> We knew that their future was purely dependent on a self-driving car fleet

This is by far Uber's best trick. Convincing people that there is an end game they can win.

I see no way that self-driving saves them. Either they'll have to buy/lease/maintain a massive fleet of cars or they'll have to rent self-driving cars from the owners. Either way, in the near future, how much cheaper can it be than paying humans peanuts?
Money Buys Freedom, but Freedom Doesn’t Guarantee Happiness
Well, clearly they are asking for your consent...

You haven't said what role this relates to. If you'll be attending conferences or somehow end up on company material then this agreement seems normal.
And in return we would have harder to remember IP addresses. Nothing a user would drool about.
But all of that was temporary. The jobs go away when Uber falls apart and the cheap point to point transport paid for by VCs is also gone. However the taxi companies that existed are now gone as they could not compete with Uber and the ones that could compete are working for less than before.
RDP essentially takes video of your machine and transfers it over the internet. Same with keyboard and mouse interactions. Which has 3 main flaws:

1) If your internet connection isn't great, the responsiveness is terrible.

2) If you're using a slow machine as a guest, it can choke on the video feed

3) If you're using a metered bandwidth connection (sometimes I have to tether off my phone, which gets 5gb of data a month) you can quickly chew through your data. One time I capped out my data for the month just trying to do this for a couple hours.

On the other hand, VSCode is electron based, which means the entire UI can just be loaded into the browser. Then the only interactions passed across the net is low bandwidth text. Much more responsive because the keyboard/mouse responses are local, much less bandwidth intensive.

I already enjoy this using VSCode with SSH Remote to remote environments, and I had given up on my chromebook since other cloud IDEs have left me wanting. VS Online might bring my chromebook back into rotation again.
If you can't spell the title of your post right I'm not going to bother reading it.
Hey, a free pass to go become a serial killer!
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It is. Legally, the two are entirely equivalent.

The reason some US states choose to specify who should yield instead of who gets to go first is because framing things in those terms hopefully alters the ways that drivers think about things in a way that will improve safety overall.

TBH, I suspect that it's an empty gesture that is being used as an alternative to implementing more rigorous driver education and licensure requirements; the US tends to view driving as more of a right than a privilege.
Perhaps this has been fixed; running macOS 10.15.1, I didn’t have to do anything special to run it—just double clicked.
Sources are useful.

Edit- Ah yeah, "adjusted" stats are BS.
Is your full story written up somewhere?
That is a little disingenuous. The whole point of Intel’s compiler is to support Intel chips well. Results on other chips are what they are. No effort to make other chips perform eiher better or worse is expended. Keeping up
with Intel chips is more than a full time job without other distractions.

The question to ask is whether or not they used the best complier/swithes available for the other chips.
> There has been some marketing to present generics as cheap knockoffs of bad quality

The last I've seen drug-related marketing, the message was the exact opposite, with the message being pushed by the Social Security system, since they're the one that would pick up part of the bill if people take the prescribed drug and not the generic.
The fastest animal on earth is the fastest not because it has huge muscles, but because it falls. Is it fair compare top speed of falcon to cheetah? Yeah but... x y z.

Every benchmark can be set up in a way that will give edge to one part or another. Especially if there is a vested interest.
I actually tend to agree that it s a bad solution (its discussed in a subthread here) but i like to entertain all options. The real cause is the lack of competition for the few major platforms. I wish G+ had taken off.
Agreed, I came to post the same thing.

The lockup period is a known event (nothing to be suprised about). The market already adjusted the stock price to reflect the anticipated insider cash out after the lock up.

Any rise or fall in the price at the specific time the lockup ends is because the reality is different than what the market anticpated.
> Were you able to push back against it?

Not really. I tried once and got walked out of the building after sitting through an endless bunch of meetings where different rungs of the hierarchy making the "...but everyone does it" argument.

A better approach, I found latter in life is to be buddies with the right people. They want to stick your info all over, go talk to your Marketing/HR/PR buddy.
True, you make some good points here and thanks a lot!
Elon Musk will reveal Tesla’s ‘Cybertruck’ all-electric pickup on Nov. 21
IANAL.

I think that kind of thing is just like "we can post photos of the company picnic on our public-facing website to show what a great place this is to work, without getting sued by someone who is in the picture". It's probably in some best-practices guide that they're following.

For me, it's something I might find vaguely annoying, but something I wouldn't worry about. It's not like someone is going to choose my face for a national advertising campaign.
You also had a bunch of execs/founders in SV particularly trying to outcompete each other in their claims about how soon autonomous vehicles were going to arrive. This combined with tech that got to the point where it at least demoed well and a lot of people who really wanted to believe they'd never have to drive a car fell for it hook, line, and sinker.

There will certainly be regulatory and liability issues to work through but if the tech were really ready for prime time I actually don't believe those those are showstoppers.
No I haven't due to time constraints. I was just disappointed and uninstalled to free up space. I will be getting some time off soon so I will reinstall and log the issues.
I work a lot with object detection at my current role.
Would be cool to add Detectron 2, seems that this library that has some of the state of the art(SOTA) models in object detection. https://github.com/facebookresearch/detectron2

Also the TF Object Detection API has a suite of pretrained SOTA object detection models https://github.com/tensorflow/models/tree/master/research/ob...

What makes object detection really valuable is being able to finetune a model to detect objects that are relevant to your problem. However collecting, labeling, takes a lot of time since the best way is to manually label. But 30-50 hrs of manual labeling can get you some great results when you are leveraging pretrained models. Building a tool to manage data labeling and training for finetuning object detection models would be very valuable.
> There has gotta be a better way to make American cities more livable and accessible without adding additional car traffic.

This problem and its solutions are not new. The solutions weren't implemented because there wasn't enough desire to implement them, and I doubt that has changed today.

American culture pushes the idea of personal vehicle ownership equaling success, and if you have a car you're going to drive it instead of taking the subway.
FWIW, I'm not sure national merit made any difference to the amount of mail. I made it, my sister didn't (late 00's) and the amount of college advertising spam we got was indistinguishable.
Take a look for yourself.
I don't think privacy works when I don't trust Apple period. They have done shady anti consumer things like decreasing battery life. This feels like lip service till I see implementation details(and even then I want to see the code).