skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
23andme is pretty useless for getting great information from your DNA. I say this because you can get a much better report by exporting the raw data and then ordering a more detailed report from promethase.
Résumé History: A Sudden Rise to Modern Irrelevance
As a Canadian, you should be proud that for almost 60 years you had a junction that was much worse, and possibly unique: the infamous Armdale Rotary, where traffic on the rotary and traffic joining the rotary alternated in priority.

* https://web.archive.org/web/20190816111546/https://en.wikipe...
> What breach of privacy is Google guilty of

Some people would consider tracking users across the entire web and selling ads based on their behavior to be disrespectful of privacy. Google hasn't had any big fuck-ups like Facebook with CA, but ultimately they both are advertising companies that owe their success to selling personalized ads.
And you could mention that you're pretty agile, so if they don't like your terms, you might move fast, break things, and make a disruptive exit that leads to an acquisition they won't like.
Demonstrating ASAT against a GEO target would cause a major political incident. The LEO ASAT tests carried out to date caused enough outcry as is. Hitting a GEO target is not difficult. Ignoring dedicated ASAT missiles, any modern IRBM or LRBM can be tasked to intercept a GEO target.

Global navigation constellations are certainly going to be one of the first targets in any major hot conflict between world powers.

Realistically, a solar storm is a more likely and less predictable threat. The end result is the same, any critical functionality that relies on GPS will be denied for a prolonged period of time.
Capitalism isn't all about choice and competition.

Free Markets are.

Capitalism is about the means of production being held in private hands - but those private hands still do their best to own all of the means of production and to lock out potential competitors.

The two get conflated (free markets and capitalism) but they are different beasts. In fact, you can have a free market socialism (tried semi-successfully by Yugoslavia). But ensuring free markets via regulation is how to keep Capitalism from becoming a Gibson novel.
If you want to contact an acquaintance because you'll be in their city, what do you use to communicate with them? Keep in mind people often change their phone numbers or at least lose their contact lists.
For any business, the people responsible for a managing a project will also be the people that are both experienced and informed about various important factors that come from being at the level both related to the business and in terms of management skills.

If a new dev asking a questions is enough to derail a project there were bigger issues at play.
When somebody brings up DDG's bangs, someone else will often chime in "yeah, but you can make your own in browsers so who cares?" That was often my response.

But the fact that there are community-maintained bangs is really nice. Bangs for all kinds of websites I probably wouldn't have made, but there they are. And since I'm often jumping on new computers, I don't need to bring/import my preferences. Just change the browser's search to DDG, then all my known bangs (and unknown!) are there.
How to Read Self-Help
It has less syntax than any other language and it's very good for making a thin DSL layer above your hardware. Please share your experience on this :)
Not really on topic, but it's a meme on Justin.tv where I used to work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jocqSL3m-3U
> tracking, advertising, stalking, third-party influences
Because bureaucrats can only see "confirmed" numbers, despite the obvious signs that the numbers are wrong.
No I understand perfectly well.

What I find amazing is the dedication to extracting potentially a little more money from people who may buy one extra cola rather than allowing a refill when the production cost is next to 0, but leaves a more satisfied, and likely return, customer.

Practices like this are likely to turn people off. The fact that they think they can do something like this just displays how much of a monopoly/duopoly this company actually knows it enjoys. Where else will their customers turn? There's nowhere to turn. So gouge them.
Google ignoring what I had actually typed and instead showing results to a more popular query that was similar, but distinctly different, is what finally got me to switch over to DuckDuckGo. Now that I've gotten used to DDG I find Google unpleasant to use. The amount of ads and clutter on the page is distracting, and the organic results seemed ever more skewed towards ecommerce results.
It's more like. Hey you signed up for this little known and fancy "Moderator" position, no prior experience required, before you start, let us explain what it's actually about.
There's certainly a good reason not to do it. Even discounting the bizarre and arcane nature of medical billing in the United States, this level of care is surely costing someone a great deal of money. That doesn't mean it's not worth it, but to say there is "no good reason not to do it" is trivially untrue.
link to claim please
There are a lot of nooks and crannies in a hospital room. Requiring humans to move it around would mean they have to put it in a spot, leave the room, flash the lights, and then reposition and do it all over again, repeatedly.
Tougher Huawei Restrictions Stall After Defense Department Objects
I know this advertising campaign isn’t perfect, but I have to wonder if Google isn’t digging too deep. They’ve let advertising dominate their search pages so their page becomes less valuable to the user and advertisers get less value per dollar paid. Where the original concept was to put only a few relevant advertisements up which users would actually be interested in, now they pile on advertisements thick and deep and I rarely find them valuable. At some point this has to affect the ROI for advertisers.
>I wonder what a good approach would be for jobs which need to be done, but are harmful to the people doing them?

So like any other job, only people who are suitable for the job should apply for the job.

Not every one is harmed by gore video, thats why you select these kind of people to do the job.
Though optical parts are still 'big' and nobody seems to know how to make small IC's - 20 years ago I worked in networking and they were trying to make optical switches with mirrors!

At the long haul level, they use a transport layer tech called SONET. Rather than demuxing the optical signal into bits, then back into optical and out another pipe, they wanted to switch using fancy mirrors. Frankly, I'm not sure of the advantage. Maybe some performance? Security? I'm doubtful though.
> The emperor has no clothes... there is a skill in speaking in an optimistic way using a series of intentionally vague words which smart people feel bad about not understanding so they just pretend they do and think positively about a product because for the life of them they could not articulate why the pitch/business/product didn't have any value. There's nothing to argue against because "I don't know what you're talking about" is an apparent argument against yourself.

Sounds like WeWork. If you've ever seen that Neumann/Kutcher interview, that's exactly how it went.
I find myself increasingly wishing they'd have some sort of subscription or something. Even if it did nothing to start, I'd like to be a customer, instead of an eyeball. Otherwise as nice as it is now, it's still inevitably headed down the same trajectory as Google, just not as far along yet.
That's definitely what it is. We are looking at it from the perspective of developers but I don't think that's the target
That's what you get for trying to export your nonsensical values to the USA.
I think the typical action movie has a list of more than 5 directors that could make it "good enough".

Your bar of "works as a bad production" is way to high.

I don't know if you follow sports, but one stat that is commonly used involves comparing a player to a hypothetical "replacement player" -- basically the level of player that any team can guarantee they can get without having to pay lots of money. Note that a replacement player is not a bad player; they are good enough to get paid to play at the highest level! Plus there are regularly players getting paid to play at the highest level that play worse than the hypothetical replacement player (these players are probably not going to be playing much longer).

So "execution dependent" is a film that would work with a "replacement level" director managing a professional, experienced film crew. Not a "bad" director.
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Wind and Solar need battery backup. There is no grid-scale battery technology today, nor is one forthcoming in any sort of reasonable term (on the order of the next one or two decades). Care to rethink your standard on what is proven and unproven?
For messaging, I highly encourage people to use matrix.org.

For tech savvy people it's really easy to self-host https://github.com/spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy and the good part is that you can set up bridges to telegram, whatsapp, facebook, irc, discord, slack... So you can use those apps privately while waiting for people to switch to better alternatives (which may never happens sadly).

Bonus: the desktop app is a rather lightweight web app usable in browser, so goodbye RAM eating monsters like slack and discord.
>what matters is just spending time daily with them, which is completely reasonable.

I read the comment as traits of the kid ultimately win out over trying to micromanage the details of the kind of stimulation. I think this is right.
I don't have Facebook account and I'm happy with it. Now I"m using only Whatsapp because of all our family in there. I will get rid of whatsapp in few months.

And I'm okay with duckduckgo.
I'm still not convinced they aren't just building a simple morgue... or perhaps even just a large covered grave.

...all we see so far is a TON of excavators digging a hole.
There's no Android app? The killer feature of gmaps is the search/discover/navigate flow.
Also If you have hard time figuring out which mastodon instance to join, I am working on a mastodon aggregator, to help you browse through the content without registering.

https://mastodonia.club
> ... with some maintaining it is dangerous and expensive

Expensive, probably. Dangerous? Not according to the data. Lowest deaths per terawatt-hour of any energy source including solar. Yes, even if you count Chernobyl, Fukushima (where 6 folks died) and Three Mile Island (nobody died) [1]

[1] https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2011/03/deaths-per-twh-by-ener...
food-grade oils should be* used

And yes, I agree it's something that's a concern with everything and I hate that I can't ignore it and it's always at the back of my mind. I used to work in FDA related manufacturing and I know how things operate.
The keyword here is spoof. There's no doubt that you can jam the ground receiver (both radar and ADS-B). The key question is whether you can spoof radar returns as easily as ADS-B transmissions.
You don't always declare bankruptcy. Medical debt can't be deducted from your wages and is usually negotiable with zero interest payments and for massive reductions in amounts. And after enough time, most hospitals will just write it off. And in exchange you can walk into any hospital in the country and they have to provide you emergency services.
Register your own domain name and use superhuman or any email client. This is the best way.
I've already moved on. Same expected junk at the top nowadays.
The referendum was advisory/non-binding.

https://fullfact.org/europe/was-eu-referendum-advisory/
If using Rust for RISC-V interests you, there is also this tutorial series for writing an OS [1], which was discussed on here a while back [2].

[1] http://osblog.stephenmarz.com/index.html

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21135992
Both? An open drain to prevent accumulation from the open source.

Transistor A whispered to Transistor B, while pointing at Transistor C: "I may be biased, but he looks a bit saturated to me."
Building Probabilistic Marketing Forecasts
How long would that take to deorbit? Don't want junk slowly drifting through every other orbital path on the way down, either.
Does the actual soundwave itself have an effect on these parts? They mentioned something about a thin layer of lubricant. Wouldn't soundwaves also mess with this layer as well?
EA's Tetris games will no longer be playable on iPhones and iPads
The word project has a specific well known meaning in business. It is a work effort with at least these criteria:

* A start date

* An end date. Every project has a termination date, otherwise it is described as something else.

* A stakeholder.

* Business Requirements Document (BRD).
Social media is about the social aspects, the media aspects, or a little of both.

HN and news aggregators covers the media aspect just fine.

Social is a lot harder - you want to know what your old classmates are up to and what interests them.
Are they implying that a storage drive with bits organized to store specific data(say an mp4 file, or the meaning of life) will way more than a drive with randomly arranged bits? If not then aren't they just measuring whatever mechanism is used to physically represent the bits, and not the information itself?

And if so that does seem quite unbelievable. Wouldn't that mean that if you had 2 tiny harddrives that both stored the number 3.14, one harddrive happened to store that number after randomly assigning the bits and one harddrive purposely had 3 digits of PI saved on, the one that was purposely storing the number would weigh more?
>I'm not totally convinced of this, but I have this feeling that the problem of our cultural reward function is that today, it's mostly defined as "do whatever you like, be whoever you want to be". Maximum freedom, but minimum direction.

This is right on the money as far as I'm concerned, see the throngs of men flocking to people like Jordan Peterson.
It happens sometimes [1]

It actually happened near me once when a local crazy guy got mad that planes were flying near his house (he bought a house right across the street from the municipal airport) so he found an airband radio and started yelling at them every time they came too close for his liking.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvA_-linhg8
Easy fix: replace the the existing GC line with

-XX:+UnlockExperimentalVMOptions
-XX:+UseZGC

and enjoy no more visible lag spikes.
Screen time is inherently lazy. Young children do not have complex learning/entertainment requirements where a book or pens and paper wouldn’t suffice.

Make your own entertainment/learning tools, it’s part of the fun.

So even though you may think the educational aspect as well as bring present is good enough, you’re still training your kids to go straight to screens instead of putting in effort or just being bored.

Finding things to do, being creative is a part of being a kid, and at that age, IMO, you’re doing a huge disservice to them.
Chevy Volt has one of the best batteries among all EVs with excellent thermal control system. In Ukraine it is common these day to buy damaged EVs from US and restore them to brand-new state, including Tesla, Nissan Leaf and Chevy Volt. One of the shops has a Youtube channel and they made an episode comparing batteries from different cars. Chevy Volt's battery cell survived already about 3000 cycles without noticible loss of charge, the test is being running for years already, charging-discharging it every 30 minutes.
With a preliminary R0 of 3.8, and two dozen suspected cases under quarantine - we might not need to imagine for much longer.
That's a nice idea if it works, bit hacky but still. I never used WA Web, will have a look.
Depends on how long you're willing to wait. In rough rounded numbers:

Earth's velocity around the sun is 30km/s.

To directly slow down enough to hit the sun, you need to remove 20km/s.

To leave the solar system you need an extra 10km/s.

But if you almost leave the solar system, and wait for the very peak of your orbit, then you'll be going so slowly that you can turn it into a pure dive into the center of the sun with almost zero thrust. So this plan needs slightly less thrust than escaping entirely. It will just take decades to centuries.
The main problem with installing solar in the Sahara and transporting it to Europe is the political instability of the region. Laying cables across a sea or ocean is already routinely done.
I don't use any of them, but I've been trying to keep in touch with an old friend of mine who's serving with the Canadian Armed Forces in Ukraine and we often miss each other's emails.

He's had to adopt a local SIM card over there for security purposes (Russia's listening) and uses WhatsApp regularly. He asked me to pick it up, and instead I referred him to Signal.

This was [part of] his recent response:

I downloaded signal but they want to confirm my number but my sim card doesnt work over here and my european card is data only.

So that is one blocker for sure but otherwise I always push people to Signal as a reasonable alternative.
"I’m not building a video platform. It’s already there. I’m just, totally hypocritically, fixing the company that operates it."

Are you saying there is no more work left to do?

What about improving algorithms that can moderate those PTSD causing media themselves so it would not be a problem in the first place.

Are you claiming that YouTube does not have a need for engineers at all because the product is already available for public?
If they can manipulate multiple objects at a time, this could really speed up PCB pick-and-place operations.
WhatsApp was monetized before it was bought, although I can't remember exactly how.
No. It was shown that human to human transmission happened in December.

The issue is that the Chinese gov't threatened prison to anyone who reported it.
Free market socialism? How would information about value be propagated? That's usually done via prices and money.
> Full disclosure: I like Yang.

Like, 'like like'? Or just 'like'?
I'd say you were a lucky one. Persuading my contacts to move and explaining my rationale has been a long, arduous and still not quite complete process. People seem to struggle with envisaging how a lack of privacy will harm them personally.
Space is really, really big. When you hear that the Sun has an Asteroid belt, you imagine that it is like Empire Strikes Back. In actuality, the belt works out to 1 extra atom per m^3 of space, because, well, see above about how big space is. That is basically what we're talking about with satellites here- all of our space junk in graveyard orbits is less dense than that, last I checked (which was 4-5 years ago).

Low Earth Orbit is a bigger concern; but much of the concern in that region is spent rocket stages which have enough propellant inside them that they eventually explode and then for several months-years we have lots of debris (and then threat of a Kessler Cascade). The international community has responded to this threat by adding regulations on the proper disposal of spent rocket stages. (Occasionally, similar to this satellite, there are failed stages which do explode, but it should not happen often or on a normal path.)
One approach that helped me convert some of my non-tech friends to Signal Messenger is by calmly focusing on the long term aspect -- "Think about it, you'd be using these tools for the next 40+ years. A small inconvenience for a few months will give more power to you in the long term." And then I stop. I let them take time to decide; don't insist.
There's some performance improvements on the 2020 roadmap[1], but they are not in this EAP's release notes [2].

1: https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2019/12/intellij-platform-ro...
2: https://confluence.jetbrains.com/display/IDEADEV/IntelliJ+ID...
And most major airports have systems like RFEye or AIRPORT-SHIELD. You would be _immediately_ pinpointed with a remarkable level of accuracy from 3-6 sensors.

Especially near major metro areas, unintentional interference is a daily issue. These systems immediately triangulate sources of interference in a wide band. Or you have simpler systems like UMS100 that just do alerting and you send out an engineer with a wand to walk around for a bit to triangulate it.
There's informed and then there's informed. A few words in a disclaimer presented to you at the last moment is not anything like having full knowledge of the consequences. Long ago I did sysadmin work for an early anything-goes community site, bianca.com, which at the time involved a bunch of anti-abuse work. 20+ years later, there's still shit I can't unsee. Right now I can close my eyes and see my CRT, the room behind it, and the horrible things abusers were posting to make other people feel awful.

And what I had to deal with was a small fraction of the horror now flowing through the ugly parts of social media sites. I don't think written words alone can convey what people doing that work have to deal with, or the possible long-term impacts. At a minimum, for "fully informed" I'd suggest a one-hour documentary that mixes the kind of things they see with interviews from people who ended up with long-term trauma from the work.

And the alternative is what we've done with all sorts of other dangerous work: making it reasonably safe. Off the top of my head, I'd want to see: 1) tools that minimize exposure to harmful imagery (e.g., ML-driven auto-summarization and by-default pixelization), 2) weekly paid sessions with a therapist, 3) a limited amount of time per week dealing with the especially bad stuff, 4) significant, mandatory paid vacation, and 5) mandatory paid sabbaticals for anybody verging on burnout.

Occupationally, mental health isn't fundamentally different than physical health. Nobody reasonable today would deal with radiation or chemical exposure by just having people check the "I might get cancer and that's cool" box when they apply for a job, because we took the problem seriously. We need to do the same with toxic digital media.
For email clients, Thunderbird on desktop, FairEmail on Android. All open-source. It should be pretty straightforward for them to deduce what your Gmail SMTP settings are, and you'll be able to add your emails from other providers as well.

If you mean actual email providers, that'll be a bit harder to find. Most of the good ones don't have a free tier. FastMail is solid. ProtonMail has a free tier, but you have to pay to access the IMAP/SMTP bridge (which lets you use it with Thunderbird/FairEmail).
I'm attempting to start a forum for my friend group using good ole phpbb. Its been an interesting challenge trying to get adoption, but as more of us are dropping facebook, we need a place to coordinate events.

It's been a fun experiment so far.
I tried, I really did. Got my close group of ~8 friends on the public Matrix server. People would miss messages because they only use Matrix for that one thing, and would forget to login/check/etc. That and a few choice little bugs pushed them back to FB messenger. That said, I'm hopeful for the future of the protocol.