skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Should someone be excused from dubious behaviors because he did one thing in his youth? The DNA model would have been elucidated by someone eventually. I also doubt it helped 'millions' of Africans.
We have similar things in Australia. Hell our consumer protection laws are why people can get refunds on Steam
So why do they all insist on SMS-only for 2FA?
Spot also supports hibernate on some instance types: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/11/amazon-ec...

Hibernate is just like good old hibernate from windows XP days. You save the RAM to disk. And resume your processes on next boot and they won't even notice they were stopped! (Except for the time has changed...)

It might be really helpful for low priority batch processing.

Disclaimer: I've never tested this.
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A Tour of ZIO: a Scala library for async, concurrent, and distributed apps
Because using a flawed test to make racist generalisations about Africans, who are the most genetically diverse racial group is not a good idea?
The 19% figure refers to just almonds?
My guess is somebody at Microsoft responded to a customer need or claimed customer need to support specifiedCurve arguing that it was OK so long as said curve was a standard curve. I just don't see why you wouldn't stop at "PKIX forbids this, let's just not implement it" otherwise.

There probably aren't any such certificates out in the Web PKI because Mozilla's rules prohibit them (and almost as important Firefox won't validate them). But Microsoft trusts a whole bunch of dubious kinda sorta wanna be Certificate Authorities, maybe one of those issued crap with specifiedCurve for a standard curve ? Or maybe a corporate internal CA?

That's a test somebody can do: If you use a Microsoft internal CA can you easily mint these stupid specifiedCurve certificates with it? Or does it make you pick a named curve and emit the OID properly? How about other popular private CA solutions? EJBCA maybe?
Geocentrism wasn't really a scientific theory, because we didn't really have scientific theories yet. This was just a thing people believed.

Fats vs sugars I don't know what you're referring to, but it hasn't really ever been a scientific theory.

The germs article about a discovery in the 1800's. And if that is a allegory about climate change, the doctor's who denied germ theory are the climate deniers.

> Plus if denialism is wrong, then there should be nothing to worry about anyway. Assuming scientists are scientific, they will consider it, consider other evidence, and come to the correct conclusion.

Scientists have already considered it and come to the correct conclusion. And if climate change denialism is wrong (which pretty much every scientist who has studied the subject believes) and we choose not to act that could cause billions to trillions of dollars in harm and many lost lives.

Also climate change science is pretty simple. If you take a green house and fill it with carbon dioxide it will get hotter. Do the same thing to a planet and it will get hotter. Not to mention the global temperature record has told a very consistent sorry over the last decades of warming.
I suggest going back to school on your basic terms. Skin color taxonomies such as "white" and "black" are weak proxies for genetic diversity. Races are not taught this way anymore. This article in Scientific American puts it well in summarizing that "the mainstream belief among scientists is that race is a social construct without biological meaning."^1 "Ashkenazi Jews ... have higher IQ scores than whites" is a nonsensical statement from that perspective. You are mixing categories of ancestry and skin color. The authors of Bell Curve made the same basic mistake and were rightly skewered for it.

1. https://www-scientificamerican-com/article/race-is-a-social-...
If I could get a few million dollars _mostly_ at the expense of big businesses/insurers, I would to... Hell, having even 25k in disposable income makes starting a new business a reality... Which is inconceivable when you can pocket less than $1000/paycheck. And competition is what makes other's lives better under a capitalistic economic system (not saying that's the best, but it's what is most of us have)
This has almost never happened to me when flying maybe 20 flights with Southwest together with someone, but it has happened with traditional airlines like American or Delta when they have full flights.

With SW if you buy the tickets together, and check in first possible moment (24h before), you get assigned the same boarding position, usually a early B number. Then you board together and likely half of the plane is likely still empty when you board.

People also sometimes say they are reserving the seat for someone. Have never bought priority boarding.
There's a subtle difference between AGPL and the Commons Clause licenses.

AGPL requires network-accessible code to be disclosed & licensed under an AGPL-compatible license.

The Commons Clause license outright prohibits SaaS-style offerings of the licensed code.

A lot of startups licensing their code under AGPL might still have AWS et al. eat their lunch, becuase all Amazon needs to do to remain compliant is to publish any modifications made to the AGPL-ed code.
I have it similarly, except that I have Google work and Google private separated.

Unfortunately at work we are using a lot of OAuth, so I am supposed to use AWS and others with Google authentication. Which means that I cannot isolate them anymore. At the moment I still use my old AWS IAM account, but the plan is to remove the credentials. On other services I have never had any separate credentials :(
What are "mature students"?
Nah sorry for calling you out like that, it's slightly off topic but a fine rant. For what it's worth, I agree with many of your points, but hope we can do better as the profession continues to mature.
Also, drag the big white bar on the right left and right and up and down.
wow! recursive auto-shill! YC paid good money to make HN valuable so now let's strip-mine!
Surely Socrates would appreciate his critics being passed down in writings
Monkey patching is a key feature of the python mock library. Get used to it if you’re getting into python development because you’re going to come across it.
"I can access more material than I could read in a lifetime, from an iPad. It’s pretty crazy when you think about it, and I’m thankful for it."

I too am thankful for it. Although, I see this as a blessing and a curse.

It's now so hard to stay focused on anything specific, so time consuming to wade through all the useful and non-useful information, so full of distractions and misinformation. If you know where to look it's wonderful, but I feel the same a way about good books, magazine or blog.

When I was a kid, I remember my grandmother had The Encyclopaedia Britannica. It was wonderfully simple and enjoyable to read through. Every page felt interesting and exciting.

I don't really get this feeling from anything online.

The Internet is wonderful, I wish people respected it more.
It works out very well for them.
Consulting, or find someone who needs consistent work done in small amounts. We hire interns and people who want to work after their main jobs to work on our smaller products. This helps keep costs in check, and still provide value to clients.
A true scientist, a true intellectual, must follow the evidence wherever it takes them, and not the other way around.

It causes me great concern, and my teeth grind, when I hear phrases such as "settled science" of which there is not such thing at all and never was. It is foolish, anti-intellectual drivel, then? Humanity can do better, but we must put these children to bed first. Otherwise our extinction will be sad conclusion.
I have a USB power meter and learned that most of my microUSB cables can't handle 2A charging either.
Or, it might be evidence of systematic racism. Would it surprise you that the genetic bouquet associated with people of color would also correlate with a long history of racism, which includes poverty and denial of education?
I was writing my dissertation on Internet privacy right as 9/11 took place. Talk about a subject suddenly becoming taboo! It basically ruined my academic career because I went through with it despite the warnings from my adviser to tone it down. Everyone was scared of their own shadow back then and couldn't back the statism more if they had to! PATRIOT Act, Know Your Customer, I lost everything. Man that was a hard thing to go through. Screw those damn fools who did this to us and keep doing it even now with their mass surveillance.
Note https://www.nitrd.gov/pubs/nsa/sta.pdf promising ~100Ghz cryogenic processors by 2010 with sufficient (but seemingly not ridiculous) government investment.
Yeah, these micro pcs are really nice, thinking of getting one like that myself. But rpi4 costs an order of magnitude less ($35), it's in a different price class I'd say.
Autonomous killing could be something that needs to be added to international laws of war. The USA already follows restrictions that could give it an advantage in war, but it doesn't because of international agreements. For example, our military has to wear uniforms during war, and we have to follow proportional force that restricts what weapons can be used in response to an attack. Countries largely follow the rules because nobody wants a free-for-all war with no rules.
This looks good. I like the query language.

Whats the status of the C++ client?

https://github.com/vesoft-inc/nebula/blob/master/src/client/...

I see it has connect/execute/disconnect. This seems like the minimum required. What can't I do with that basis?
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I believe something like this happens in pharmaceuticals where creating or recertifying manufacturing capability is incredibly expensive.

If a drug price drops below the point where there is insufficient margin to create or sustain manufacturing capability, it stops getting made. This is one source of drug shortages and, to my understanding, why the world health org created a list if essential medicines. This would be a list that countries could use to develop availability controls.
Usually students who already have a degree and/or life experience. Generally older than the demographic for "college age student"
Damnit. I misread the headline. Article is about orgaNIsms.

It was, otherwise, seriously confusing.
Apple’s “monopsony” power, and the woman who named it
A machine can now keep livers alive outside the body for a week
I like the approach of Chinese banks here - almost everything can be done from the mobile application, way more than in US or EU banks apps (apart a few exceptions). There is another problem though - they are riddled with advertisement on every screen. I wish more innovation in that sphere. It applies to both personal and corporate experience.
"Out of OECD/Western countries, the USA has the highest BMI and obesity rates."

I think this may be misleading.

If you look at obesity rates, the US is an outlier, and around 38% compared to the UK at around 28% (from 2015, I think).

But if you look at overweight rates, the US is pretty close to average.[1] Germany, Canada, the Netherlands all seem to have a slightly higher frequency of overweight people.

I don't know why this is, but it seems like if the difference is in the number of more extreme individuals, then the cultural explanations don't make obvious sense.

[1]Page 30 of http://www.oecd.org/sdd/37964873.pdf
Please review your basic understanding of race as per my comments above. If you still think there are five races or whatever, you are living way in the past century.
It really pisses me off when devs start ripping out asserts and tests that fail "But have been doing so for a while, so clearly they aren't needed."

How about... no. Review the code and determine our undefined behavior is understood well enough that we can accept the bad inputs. Those asserts & tests were created for a reason, and need to be maintained. Not just removed because no one can spot the subtle failure modes.
Thanks for sharing! I'll be sure to check that book.

Even if CMake is basically a defacto standard, I have a CMake trauma... Do you have experience with things like Scons/Ninja?

For the sanitizers, I had a look at the one from google: https://github.com/google/sanitizers
Did you work with any of those, or was it something else?

I definitely have my eyes on CLion, I'll have to convince my University to get a licence as they are already bulk paying for MS Visual Studio (but that one does not work on linux...)
This falls under what I call "just" philosophies. They are quick summations ("A is just B") that can radically misrepresent the facts on the ground, and easily leave their adherents desperate for tools to solve a problem that they previously defined away with a hand wave.

In reality, it is the case that people often care deeply. Many of those hired by or paying for a business are in fact excited to be able to help write its story. Many aren't though, sure. Maybe they're just in it for superficial competitions or comparisons. But you'll never know who's who if you don't start an active dialogue and analysis process.

What's super helpful as an outcome of work in this area is to understand who cares about what, which incidentally helps you create a model for getting them to care more about what you care about.

If nobody really cares, we're all screwed. But that particular thought model only works on that darwinian level, the one that sadly operates as the kind of unspoken shadow of many who work in tech today. We get together and bash ideas together and somehow when our feelings come to a head we reach for a "just" philosophy.

People do care though, and that means we each need to find a way to work in that caring world and explore it just as well as the uncaring one.

Consider each one of these as important truths: 1) Nobody cares, 2) Some people care, and 3) All people care.
Took me getting a doctorate in an unrelated field before I realized I was in the wrong place and changed careers.

I don't have the debt (just the opportunity cost of wasting a decade doing something I didn't really want to do), and this program wouldn't have saved me, but I understand your regret.
'Culture War' Comes to HN?
I read that VW will start EV production in Tennessee in 2022. Seems like a long way off.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22043108
Do you want to be logged in while using Google search? I don't. So I have 2 Google containers (work + private) where I am logged in for Gmail, Drive etc. But search, maps, etc. I do in a 3rd container. Yeah, you cannot blindly follow all links, but that doesn't bother me too much.
You're welcome. Yeah, things got ugly.
Wow, that's misleading. They found specific 10 SNPs (single nucleotide polymorphisms) which they identified as relevant to intelligence and for these 10, a 7-10% effect. This type of research is very useful for trying to identify specific genes responsible for X but not for the effect of all genes on X.

The generally accepted range for genetic influences is much higher -- say 50% to 2/3 although we know little as to which genes do what when it comes to something like intelligence.
This was a spectacular read. Thank you for sharing!! :)
We need to use SAP Concur at work for travel booking. It is possibly the worst software I have used.
I've got BIG plans for my Equifax payout. I'm making a list of all the things you can still buy for $0.27 these days.
"East Africans are crushingly dominant in marathon running." To be more precise, East Africans from East Africa. The effect of biology dissipates in East African communities living abroad.
I’m mostly fine using native GUI apps. Not like I use much except a browser, messengers, and Office.

VcXsrv was largely painless, as far as I remember.
What factors do you consider in choosing a country for international vacation?
I am wondering if this is a common question and creating a website that suggests places/countries based on some factors would be of value to the users? If yes, what factors would you like to see in there? If no, what alternatives would you like to see that be of value to you?
> Consider performing the algorithm of Alpha Go Zero through a million people equipped with pen and paper. One can hardly argue against this being possible in principle, but what is playing the game?

I prefer a simpler analogy: what step in a sorting algorithm actually does the sorting? The question is actually nonsense, because every step is necessary, and removing any single step will break the sorting property for some inputs.

When you have all the relevant information, it's clear that the original question itself is ill-posed. We lack some of that information when it comes to.consciousness, hence why the Chinese Room is convincing to some.
Looks like another ASN1 parser vulnerability.

https://media.defense.gov/2020/Jan/14/2002234275/-1/-1/0/CSA...

Nope, even worse. They apparently didn't check the base point:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22047573
Its impossible to prove absent a snowden-class leak. The premise is they have secret knowledge. Maths is inductive reasoning, they might have a non-inductive insight into a thing which exposes a magic key to them, but they have to do a risk analysis the bad guys (tm) can do the same AHA moment and secure the same advantage.

In this space, I feel about the only public evidence would be when the NSA feel the protocol cannot be trusted for government use, where the primary risk is other-state actors.

I also feel the blurring of the role for the agencies here does nobody any favours. NOBUS confers a specific advantage which massively undermines your own position in the longer term for tactical advantage now. I would probably be told by wiser heads tactics trumps strategy, but when you face 20-50 year relationships and you burned your partners 15 years ago, that tactical win can be a bit of a problem.

The UK did this with Enigma: kept their insight secret and handed the captured units to the commonwealth governments. They did not help their own cause in the 1960s independence wars, trust was close to zero. I have no evidence the ability to decrypt their signals helped or hindered btw. Its conjecture on my part.
A hundred years ago a wonderful slender book was written, "How To Live On 24 Hours A Day" by Arnold Bennett. He suggests getting up early and doing your passion projects before work.

https://www.amazon.com/How-Live-24-Hours-Day/dp/1603863680
When I was 18 I had saved about $10k. I noticed on my statement it said I was being taxed. What? I went into the branch to ask about it and they couldn't tell me why tax was being taken out or when it would stop. I asked for a cashier's check for the full balance so I could close my account. The teller's jaw hit the desk. What did they expect?

A bank that can't explain their own statement to me is no bank of mine.
It will be imported to start. Local production later.
It's easy to not see the forest for the trees on this one. When someone gets locked out of public discourse at every door (sometimes literally, as was the case when he was unable to speak for the UBC Free Speech Club some time ago due to threats of violence), what is to be done?

Deplatforming is the visible evidence of what one might call the starts of _totalitarian neoliberalism_, since it's not actually reasonable to call this radical left or right wing behaviour. This is the elevation of corporations to be the arbiters of our rights because they've put themselves into niche or bottleneck positions where they can control the flow of information. I respect the service that a good mail provider does, but that doesn't mean they should be able to use their business as a gatekeeping mechanism to restrict public discourse - especially in the case where it's not going to anyone that doesn't want to see it.

If you find yourself on the side that's arguing in favour of deplatforming and of removing people's right to free expression, you're literally on-side with exactly the sort of evil that every fine 20th century work of speculative fiction decried. Being okay with this is far worse than anything Molyneux says, but then, it's not like you'll actually have listened to any of that.
Neat! Did not know that. Thanks :-)
The 100GB RAM cap seems rather limiting though.

The ideal case scenario imho (one step beyond this stop/start-at-will feature) would be "convertible" spot - being able to migrate to on-demand with zero downtime when ec2 needs that capacity back - that'd solve a lot of my problems.
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It sounds like the idea is to spend less money on research by seeking to make equivalents (but not generics? and not infringing patents) and then sell them for less. And, presumably, encourage pharmacies to fill with theirs instead of the original.

If the development costs really are lower, and the targeted drugs have enough of a market, it seems totally reasonable to reduce end user costs and still make a bunch of money.
>should they also receive payments from property owners when a rule change increases the value of a property?

Yes, this is called "value capture." Bargaining with developers to extract concessions like affordable units (BMR), community spaces (POPOs), neighborhood maintenance (CBDs), and donations to anti-development activist groups is the bread and butter of development politics.

Since developers are universally and vigorously despised, this is a great source of funding. If a project still pencils out, the community gets some extra services without having to raise taxes. And if the project doesn't pencil out anymore, the community is usually happy about that too.
I get that Commons Clause isn't "open source" but I really love the concept. If a company wishes to productize a creator's work it seems reasonable to pay the creator to alternatively license it (if the company doesn't want to put their secrets out to the public).

Meanwhile the creator gets to share their work freely with anyone who wishes to use it as a component of their own product/software in the spirit of open source.
Can you be a Data Scientist without coding?
Can't get enough of Lex interviews, absolutely brilliant!
Why So Blue?
> I (and many, many others) notice lag in games with v-sync turned on vs off, and we're talking about single digit milliseconds there.

Many gamers think they can feel differences in such small ranges of milliseconds... and maybe some can. I bet its not very many though.

I would love to see results of a blind test.
Unrelated: it took me until this very moment to realize that hipmunk is chipmunk without the C. Is this the origin of the name and I am literally the last to figure it out?
Thank you man! Who ever you are. Wish you all the best in life! Be sure you inspired at least one person!
I'd bet on #2 myself. The imagery likely reveals something about sensor systems that is still secret.
Heck yeah! I had a five digit slashdot account and ICQ accounts. Those were the days. :)
Yeah I was wrong about index ETFs in particular but my general point remains: most of their AUM are in passive funds (ETF or not).
According to their last annual report, only 27% of AUM are in active funds.
https://ir.blackrock.com/files/doc_financials/2018/ar/2018-A...

Regarding the small ETFs: yes that's kind of my point. Most of the volume is still in large, broad index-based funds, and BlackRock is looking for a good story to get people to invest more into the more 'niche' funds (which includes all the green/no-carbon funds).
The Real WTF is "to make pid collisions less likely", presumably to paper over a race condition triggered when a pid gets reallocated too quickly.