skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the crucial moral difference here is the old eugenics was preventing people from having kids because their genes were 'bad' in some way. These new things are superficially similar but don't rely on preventing people from having kids and their goals are focused on improving particular individuals instead of it being an outside attempt to improve society as a whole.
Ah, interesting. I stand corrected on that subpoint. Thank you.
> tallness as an attractive trait only works in comparison

In real life yes, because people see your height relative to others.

In online dating it's all in comparison to nice round numbers like 6'. 80% of men are under 6' in real life, because the literal average is below that. But online 6' becomes the magic marker and anyone shorter is judged "below average".
I have never used async/await and cant really understand it. Is it like coroutines in lua? It seems very similar. But I guess its not limited to one thread like lua? Whats makes it better then threaded IO? Losing the overhead of threads?

I like coroutines but thats mostly because they are not threads, they only switch execution on yield, and that makes them easy to reason about :)
People are getting random SMS messages and nobody knows why
The article I linked put it way better than I did, so I'll just quote that for clarification:

> One of the key problems is that polygenic scores are the sum of many individual small genes’ effects and form a normal distribution, which is tightly distributed around a mean; the further into the tail one goes, the larger a sample it requires to realize a gain—to put it another way, if you have 10 samples, it’s easy (a 1 in 10 probability) that your next random sample will be the largest sample yet, but if you have 100 samples, now the probability of an improvement is the much harder 1 in 100, and if you have 1000, it’s only 1 in 1000, and worse, if you luck out and there’s an improvement, the improvement is ever tinier.
I've lived in many states in my life and none of them has had that so this is news to me. Still should be some kind of national program I think.
In Nim:

https://howistart.org/posts/nim/1/
I believe our society would be healthier if there were only three or four orders of magnitude between the wealth of the richest and poorest households in our nation. Thus taxing billionaires is a Good Thing (TM) regardless of what the money is spent on. What gets done with the proceeds is just icing on the cake.

Money is power, and an over-concentration of power is antithetical to a democratic society. Bill Gates makes a show of his charitable spending, rehabilitating his reputation as a ruthless, unscrupulous empire-builder, meanwhile every year he gets richer.
The world needs less digital "social networking", not more of it.
I find it interesting that if you google for "Funkentstört n. DBP Vfg. 1046/84" (intereference suppressed according to some German Post standard), you will only get results from C64 related websites. Didn't other devices need that label, too?
CSS Variables in IE11 (Polyfill)
Robinhood is back in Washington’s crosshairs after leverage glitch
Query JSON Documents in the Terminal with GROQ
Air bubble barrier traps plastic waste in Amsterdam's canals
You can make any statistic look worse by arbitrarily restricting the population you apply it to.
Far from the spotlight, a Boeing partner feels the heat
"What kind of public university is only manageable via driving?"

If you wanted groceries there was a 1/week bus that did it, and if you wanted to be exposed to anywhere off campus you'd have to drive. There were often arts, research, etc. events that would require driving.

"I really have to wonder why these poor students went there"

Because they could afford it(the tuition was low comparatively) and it's relatively well known with a good reputation.

"That one thing alone probably would have made all the difference for your friends who dropped out due to finances."

It wouldn't have, sorry, we were a super afforable school at around ~15k/semester. At that point owning a car is chump change.
Background workers are geographically spread out across multiple AWS regions: https://tryhexadecimal.com/docs/workers#locations

It is highly unlikely that all of them will be knocked down at the same time.

If workers suspect that there is something wrong with your website, they will check it from all locations at once. Website is only marked as down if more than half of them can agree on that. That alone knocks down most of the false positives: https://tryhexadecimal.com/docs/uptime#sequence-and-frequenc...
Only lisp macros, no magic
Except there's never been any indication of widespread voter fraud. Like I said, ID laws a solution in search of a problem.
I recently realized that the movie title is made up of A, C, G, and T, which also represent the four nucleotide bases of a DNA strand. Clever.
Maybe the website tells more? https://www.prisma.io/

Basically we offer a code generator for typescript, migrations and a query engine to simplify data workflows. Go support is coming next.
Other people have mentioned the risk of class distinctions being codified at birth. I worry about that, but I think there is also a larger concern that we still don't really know what we are doing here yet, and we can be selecting out traits that are beneficial for Human flourishing (in the species sense) in our ignorance. There are plenty of examples of disease resistance that look maladaptive, sickle cell and malaria being the classic one. We have no idea what we're doing and we need to take this cautiously.
No he just harasses rape survivors and calls them liars.

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/15/rape-victim-files-new-lawsui...
I like the enthusiasm. It's always a good idea to try and help solve the ever-present problem of "I don't have enough friends, I need more inter-personal connection."

Fundamentally, I believe we _can't_ solve this problem through technology. I think it can be used to initiate the friendship, but never sustain it. I feel the problem is you can't be vulnerable on a screen, it just never replicates the face-to-face interaction with someone else.

I've been there for many years looking for that online substitute, it just doesn't ever fully work. However - I wish you luck on your network.
I love talking about this film because you can argue its theme really either way. There's the standard "you can't gene edit heart" or whatever: hard work means more than what you're told you can be at birth.

However -

The story of the film tells us time and time again that Vincent -isn't- able to compete and measure up to the standards needed for space travel. He fails his cardio tests, he can't see well enough to cross the street. But his vanity and pride causes him to cheat the system to make it seem like he passes all the tests. He has the heart of a fighter figuratively but not literally and I always imagined after the end of the movie that his actual faults would come to light and it would cost someone their lives in space.

What if he lost a contact lens in space? They don't have more. What if there was an emergency and they needed someone with an expected amount of endurance to help save everyone? Gattaca for me always told a different, darker story. I think the story they wanted was a caste story - if he was just as able and strong but beat out the genetically superior people on their terms then that would have been the story they were trying to tell. In the end, they told the story of a clever cheater who put his own wants above those in a delicate mission and it's left to a guess if that cost lives or no.

During a talk with another person on this, he supposed that this is why Jerome incinerates himself at the end. He needed a lowly sort as such as Vincent to fulfill his own dream, and in the end just could not reconcile how he may have just destroyed and polluted the whole of his pure society for his own selfish reasons.
I thought this would be about cloud providers who use Dark Patterns...
I had a coworker with aspergers, and he was absolutely fine at code reviews, because he was never even tempted to play the status games that everyone else constantly had to check themselves for. You could really trust his reviews to be about the code and not the person, and he never fell into the trap of trying to prove how smart he was.

I don't know if this is typical, but it shattered some of my preconceptions.
> Just like your definition of value implies financial value

When the discussion is about economics, that's what matters. There is no intrinsic value to labor.

> Marx' definition of labor he implies labor of enterprise

The economic value of labor has no necessary relationship at all to the effort or time supplied by the laborer. If Bob works inefficiently, his labor is worth less than Bill who works efficiently, even if they both work exactly the same length and effort.
Purple Doesn't Exist
That's just it; you can never placate people who want to expropriate everything (or close to everything) from others. It's just never enough.

Attempts to tax people at 70% in France (even if it was marginal tax) went south very quickly. Incentive matters a lot because good work is really really hard.

Funny enough Gates seemed alluded to this on some interview I watched a while back.
> Google was his number one choice, but he had to decide whether it was safe to reject the other offers he had. He started to press me more, “Jose, I need certainty. I need to know that I’m going to get this offer.” So I said, “Look, I’m sure you’re going to get the offer. My recommendation is that you wait.”

The candidate learned a very valuable lesson: Never believe any assurances that the recruiter gives you about how likely you are to get the job.

The candidate likely lost hundreds of thousands of dollars due to their believing the recruiter (going from being hired by large Silicon Valley companies, to finding a startup at the last minute).
> A free market should regulate itself.

... but it won't. Never has, never will. 'Regulation' serves a larger context, and the market does not value externalities.
You can always use abstract data types to indicate in the type system that you know something that can't directly be expressed. The point is not that "parsing" and "validating" are distinct concepts, but that they're two different points of view on the same problem.
> Er... sorry, this may have been a bit of an inappropriate comment, shifting the focus away from the Rust celebration.

I think if it's interesting and spurs useful conversation, it's appropriate, tangent or not. I for one an thankful for your suggested links, they look interesting.
I won’t reply until you answer my question. You’re intentionally trying not to understand it appears. If switching to a different currency model leads to negative social consequences then we should have that conversation. That’s where the freedom to and from intersect. If you can’t see that there’s no point in talking.
There are other ways to ensure safety during an emergency. Not having flammable fuel on board can help a lot (and requires a non-flammable electrolyte to be developed for lithium batteries, which is already a thing for solid state batteries). Additionally, not all civil aircraft even have go-around capability. Sailplanes don't, for instance, and their safety is approximately the same as other general aviation aircraft.

We'll have to get rid of the fiction that we're going to be able to just plop in electric motors and batteries in existing civil transport vehicles without any change in architecture or operations.
What’s the link between those two?

And how does taking money from the billionaire help the people that can’t meet physical needs?
it's called a "road-related area": http://www5.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/consol_reg/rr2014104...
Missing semicolon:

(foo bar))
^

Loads now:

(foo bar);)
Coordinated brain activation supports spatial learning and decision-making
Co-regulation map of human proteome enables identification of protein functions
> Taxing the 1% more heavily isn't really the same thing as eliminating the 1% though is it?

Bernie Sanders has stated he wants to tax billionaires into non-billionaire status. So yes, it's about eliminating the 1%.
I'm using my 2017 Macbook Pro and I hardly use the early 2019. I never liked the touchbar.
The app itself recommends only showing the officer your screen, and not handing your phone over. As for Android, you can also pin the app before handing it over, if you so wish to. Pinning is a feature whereby the foreground app is the only app that can be interacted with until the next time you unlock the phone. All notifications are also hidden.
I don't think it bothered the Romans at all to be seen as a territorial expansionist empire.
Unfortunately, anyone who knows what the acronym GNSS stands for probably also already knows Galileo is such a system. So changing the title to 'Galileo GNSS outage' probably wouldn't clarify matters :(
The lack of granularity in America is honestly extremely annoying to me, different states or cities generally have wildly different "white" culture, traditions, commonality, and attitudes. It is often more hidden or subtle and less overt or surface level like it is in Europe.

Equally annoying is when people attempt to define 'African-American' as though it was one homogeneous entity of experience. The experiences and struggles of a young black man in NYC is vastly different from the struggles of a young black man in rural Alabama.
Hands-On Lessons Exploring the Vulnerabilities from the Capital One Breach
That's the way it should be. A good candidate can learn X and Y, but it's hard to unlearn being a dick.
That's really great, thanks.
Something is broken with the web when every company across every industry feels the need to produce its own design system.
https://github.com/jeff-davis/postgres-extension.rs

See my example where a pure-rust postgres extension can start a background worker, listen on a port, and handle concurrent network requests, multiplexing them over a single backend calling a non-thread-safe internal postgres API.

That's possible because rust has no runtime to get in the way, it can use C structs natively and seamlessly, tokio offers the CurrentThread runtime (which doesn't spawn new threads), and a bunch of other details that need to be done right.

Try doing that in a pure-Go postgres extension.
Code review comments at google attach to a region rather than a specific line.
This is a discussion forum. How is the government going to solve wealth disparity with more money?
Wow: "An average developer will need to do 12 phone screens (the first stage of the interview process) to get one job offer"

That means a lot of companies are leaving a whole lot of talent on the table.
Tower Research Pays $64.7M in Record Spoofing Penalty
langsec is directly cited in the article :)
Yes, I believe that's correct.
"Is that the movie about exfoliation?" -- anonymous student I once had
I think it's reasonable to create a separate room for the mona lisa and establish a digital queue system where people sign up for a specific period of time to visit the Mona Lisa. That would solve all of the author's issues and still give you all the benefits your niece gained.

Similar issues exist for major paintings across the world. Not a big problem to spend too much collective brain power on though.
Huh, this would be pretty cool.

BrowserFS seems to even have Dropbox etc. backends, and GUN already has a NodeJS `fs` adapter, so could theoretical could seamlessly swap BrowserFS in for fs and get GUN backed up to Dropbox!!!
That sounds nice but is it really meaningful to cut such a small amount of waste?

Consider all the other various cards which also might be digitized. Gov ID doesn't seem like the place to start, seems like maybe the one that should always have a physical form even if everything else has become digital.
Let's not turn this phone robbery into a stolen identity thing.
Our family uses shared albums in Google Photos
Here is a blog post applying a similar idea to matrix math:

https://www.sebastiansylvan.com/post/matrix_naming_conventio...
This type of headline isn't healthy, 'tossed my Fitbit in the trash' is almost implying it's a solution to Google now having your Fitbit data; in reality, the article goes into the correct way to perform this: deleting your fitbit account.
I don't think anyone reads the articles. I certainly don't, I'm just here for the comments.
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Ways Product and DevRel teams can work together
You have a valid point. However practically speaking smart pointers in C++ eliminate most of headaches. At least for me personally so I do not really consider it a big nuisance. But yes I agree that for many people choosing Rust could be preferred way.
My earliest programming experience taught me to use Systems Hungarian with scope. So, something like lcName for local character name.
… additionally, you have the burden of proving to the user that you’re worthy of trust before asking for something like this. Otherwise, this could come across as malicious.

I mean, my first thought when I read the headline was "Directly through the browser? Is that even safe?" … so I would expect the website to tread lightly, anticipating that there are a lot of security concerns when it comes to piping personal video around the world and addressing a lot of that up front.
Is this so heavily upvoted because it's written by women or because it's by google?

These all seem Professional Workplace 101 stuff. Blog bait really.
Sherman Antitrust Act
Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle [0] is an excellent book on this topic, and I'm surprised it wasn't mentioned.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004QZ9P6K/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?...
Imagine the chaos if she did take over and made a decision on Brexit one way or the other, though. Better to let the politicians take the heat.
It's simple. Fund healthcare, education, earned income tax credits, student loan forgiveness, early childhood education, green energy, carbon sequestration. Fund the IRS so the tax code is enforced for the wealthy as vigorously as it is enforced for the poor. It's not hard to find huge societal wins that can be had with increased spending.
Are you like talking about failing to put a semicolon after an empty loop in C? Do you have an example of some C code in which the code compiled but is semantically incorrect that doesn’t involve empty loops?
The loophole is that the largest taxes paid in the US are paid on income rather than wealth, which allows the most richest citizens to evade taxes by having a relatively small income while having an amount of wealth that is so large that it's hard for most people to wrap their brains around.

The US used to have an income tax that was over 90% for the highest income bracket. Bringing it back would be a step in the right direction, but not enough, as non-income-based wealth would be untouched. If it was up to me, I'd tax wealth over $1 million at 90%. It's laughable that these billionaires are complaining at being taxed a mere 6% on wealth over $1 billion.
True, money is a form of power. But now you're giving more monetary power to politicians who already have political power. Isn't that concentrating it further into fewer hands?
Bob Iger Takes the Gloves Off for Disney’s Streaming Debut
So I guess Dr. Charles E. Till is not an expert or at least not publicly recognized?

And while "the waste problem" is arguably unsolved thanks to government incompetence, currently the waste is being managed by the utilities. So far, no cost has been externalized.

"Oh yeah, maybe now, but future generations!" Maybe future generations will elect a government that gets out of the way of engineers trying to solve the problem.
Can't explain how happy I was to see that I could order rooster and rice down the peninsula. I've been really missing it since I stopped working in the city. Seems like a great avenue for restaurants to expand through when they may not have enough confidence in customer base to expand with a real storefront.
Reminds me of the Apple II watch: https://www.instructables.com/id/Apple-II-Watch/
>There's also a fighting culture in North American professional hockey which would be destroyed by mandatory full face protection.

Having grown up playing hockey in a pretty rough league that's not true. You just hook your hand under the back of the helmet and pull, it'll pop right off.
Speed comes with the cost of creating enormous mountains of technical debt because you always cut corners to be fast.

You may be flexible/cheap/creative at the start, but sooner than later this bites you: you cannot be fast or flexible because you’ve cut too many corners. Because you never anticipated certain use cases. Because you never had the time to fix that one/ten/a thousand bugs and workarounds. Because you never built the tools for internal users. Because...

One of the reasons FAANG and others like Spotify require tens of thousands of engineers is not necessarily the complexity of the products. It’s the emergent complexity of the systems that were developed fast and cheap, and now need to be maintained and forced into new shapes and use cases.
damaging the goal to which they claim to aspire. ... The way to fight for climate change is to recruit an ever larger plurality of humans to voting with their dollars and their voices for products and technologies and investments that make the Earth better.

I disagree that total number of humans has anything to do with making the right decisions. The key to favorable plurality has always seemed to be education. I also think that the optimal path forward is easier to ascertain / implement when there are less variables in play. It's possible that by sheer luck a person is born with never before seen capabilities - leading to the extreme betterment of society, but if that were a stated goal then it'd be better to protect our ability to iterate into the distant future than to iterate so fast now that we potentially jeopardize our near future.
Couldn't agree more. The first interview is usually with a non-technical person (like HR), so at the first round candidates are often rejected for things that have no real bearing on job performance.
He sold $1.6B in Uber stock to Softbank (which had Saudi funding) at the peak of the Uber valuation - so came out way ahead of even employees in terms of cashing out.

He's getting $400M direct from Saudi's.

Saudi's are still supported heavily by the US government - new arm sales going for their war on Yemen etc.

The people who have had their lives ruined are folks reporting on Saudi's (killed and chopped up) and folks who are taking positions that don't align with Saudi's (ie, twitter posters where Twitter made it very easy for employees to sell that data to Saudi's).

At some point politically someone is going to connect some dots around the saudi's. The US went after Saddam (had a multi-ethnic country) and dumped on the Kurds (also better about protecting minority rights) in favor of islamic militants in Syria.

The value in being ethical is currently at risk. Voters are the ones who need to learn some lessons.