skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the first thing I noticed when I opened it up. Whoa, fuzzy text, no retina support? I'm guessing this isn't important to the Pharo developers, or at least, it isn't a top priority for one reason or another. I guess I'm a bit of a resolution snob. I find it off putting. But, hey. It's open source.
Like most new cancer therapies, this will surely get “expedited” status from the US FDA, which will enable as fast a development as imaginable, like FIM (first in man) within the year. If it delivers on its promise, it will receive initial approval for those with advanced metastases of the initially targeted forms of cancer within a year after that.

A major question is the cost of the therapy. If it equals CAR-T, which it closely resembles, it will NOT see rapid adoption until the price per treatment falls below CAR-T's current bill of $500,000 US.
To learn about the link with SSC, it does not at all surprise me that Riboonfarm shows the same aspect of someone talking about various topics (in particular sensitive and sociological ones) without showing any evidence of reading any established research on them.

It's perplexing how similar essays on natural world, not taking into account any research on physics in the last 100 years or more, would not be nearly as appreciated. If it's not acceptable in physics, why do we accept it when it comes to sociology or media studies?
You have no idea how much you nerd-sniped me with that question. (I spend far too much of my free time playing at historian, and am far too fond of Ken Burns to not give my thoughts, but take this as a caveat that I am no true expert.)

Unfortunately, I think, no one who would be able to be elected president nowadays. Consider some of the "Greatest" presidents of our history, Jefferson, Lincoln, FDR, all were very human/flawed individuals with powerful detractors, (Lincoln less in his personal life and more in the role he had to play, and I omit Washington because he's effectively immortalized beyond personhood as our 'Cincinnatus') and I have my doubts as to whether any could receive sufficient support in an era where any possible slight or discontinuity (or attachment to principle over pragmatism) is a critical weakness.

I realize I may have slightly dodged your real question, I'll admit I don't have a great answer to that even in the absence of the pathology I describe above. There's been no one in politics (perhaps due to the above) who even seems to have the cult-of-personality of e.g. Obama, let alone with the principles and power to carry out something positive with it. Not too many years ago I would have said McCain, but we all know how that went. (That said I've been _rather impressed_ with how Pelosi has wrangled the herd of cats that is the democratic party , but that's only one small piece of the picture and may show how far my bar has dropped.)

To be precise since I answered the second half of your question implicitly, I certainly think we've had great presidents, see my list above for an incomplete summary. There have certainly been individuals who managed immense feats of good in the presidency despite such adversity that we have not seen in our lifetimes. However, as I was lamenting to my wife the other day, I've seen far less of this as time has gone on, (in local government _as much as_ in federal govt.) and as I suggest above, I'm not sure how we come back from that without systemic change.
The A-word springs to mind. And yet the taboos are strong, not even a reference, either in the article or the HN comments.
You are right. Devi is an Salutation mostly used in North India to address women just like you would use Ms. or Mrs. to address a woman in English. For example Mrs Jane Smith addressed in Hindi would be "Jane Devi"
This is so simply not true, or highly subfield-dependent. Unless you are a superstar, there is no way you get a TT job without a postdoc in math.
The Affero license gives you precisely the rights to the code. No, it doesn't give you rights to the server the code runs on, but you can spin up your own server (often little more than a RaPi box, possibly more at scale), avoiding lock-in based on software alone.

But it obliges you to provide or make available those changes if the use will "propogate" the work.

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.en.html
It's not exactly true that research institutions don't have access to the same big datasets as companies. For example, I took a course that involved tracking soccer players using videos provided by a streaming company that specializes in amateur soccer. They promised to give us access to their internal API under an NDA, which they wouldn't have done for just anyone.

On the other hand, they never actually gave our API keys the necessary privileges, so in the end I just reverse-engineered the URL scheme of their streams and scraped them. Many datasets used in academia are just collections of publicly available data (e.g. Wikipedia, images found by googling), optionally annotated for cheap using Amazon Mechanical Turk. Experimenting with that kind of data is also open to independent researchers. You don't need to work at a data-hoarding company if you can get what you need by scraping their website.
Yeah, to me it's noticeably different. But, like I said elsewhere, I think I might be a resolution snob.
I’m really glad we decided to have kids when we did and didn’t wait longer. I was completely unaware of miscarriage rates when we started. Even for healthy age groups it’s more than 10%.

It’s much higher than I would have thought, and rises quickly after 32, just when many people are hitting their professional stride, which is extremely unfortunate.
I hit the paywall but this sure looks like native advertising..
There was a conspiracy to hide waterboarding and CIA torture chambers in the government and it took more than a decade to come out by which time a lot of the original actors were free and clear. It's sad really. I highly recommend the docudrama "The Report" if you have time to watch a movie.
Primordial 'Asgard' Lifeform Has Been Successfully Grown in the Lab
Yeh that is a good point. It would likely be a composite of training data rather than the suspect.
Nudge.ai Is Closing
"The depleted uranium mixture created by the chemists was used to convert ethylene, a material used to make plastic, into ethane.

Ethane can then be transformed into ethanol, an alcohol which can be used to power cars."

The primary source of ethylene is petroleum.
People like you who did not created ties to a group like that are quite better and less scary then people who have strong loyal unquestioning ties to groups - whether nationalist, traditionalist or radical Christians (some of Catholics in my country lately tie themselves to extremists).

Membership and trust in these apparently feels great. That feeling is dangerous. That trust is not build on truths being told, it is build on unquestioned authority and aggression.

Reflection from a country where such groups are on the rise and not a side players anymore.
The long term emotional impact of abortion seems like it depends a lot more on the person and context than miscarriage, which is universally awful.
My wife and I struggle with infertility, I have family members with a history of miscarriage, and my wife leads a women’s infertility support group.

American culture does not know what to do about natal issues. (Arguably, no culture ever has) We need to recognize that reproductive health goes far beyond binary abortion debates, and can affect women permanently, to say nothing of the rest of the family. I can say, knowing people that suffer from PTSD for natal issues and long term war trauma, the degrees of suffering may be different, but the unhealthy coping mechanisms can do equal amount of damage.

If you or your family is dealing with miscarriage or infertility, there is help and support out there specifically for you. I would be happy to help point anyone toward the resources that I know of, and more than happy to talk to any husbands who want help knowing how to support their wives.
Reduced religiousity, and reduced family formation. Church membership was stable from 1938-1998. But from when Google was founded to today, it dropped from 70% to 50%. https://images.app.goo.gl/4b5wG27yprR4bfZg6

Median age at marriage has increased from 23 to 29 for men in my parents’ lifetime: https://images.app.goo.gl/A3SinK2HNqjM9s139

Also, it’s probably not accurate to say that America is one of the last western countries to accept LGBT people. Same sex marriage was legalized nationally around the same time in the US as in Germany and the UK. A number of western countries still don’t allow it, including Italy, Greece, Switzerland, Czech Republic, and Poland.
All of the employee's I have met who negotiate high salaries do so the same way: They interview regularly (3-4 times a year). They learn what's out there and what they can get. If you start to get offers it becomes natural and easy to both negotiate or leave if you aren't being paid the market rate. I recently started doing this and it was easier than I thought. You don't have to bring all the formalities -- you can simply start emailing people and simply say "Hey, I'm a developer, I'm trying to get a better idea of what's out there. Would you be interested in meeting for coffee so I could learn about your company?" (or something similar).
Isn't the point that you can modify and deploy a copy on your own infrastructure?
What is Nudge? A planner app that runs over SMS https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/10/the-nudge-is-a-planner-app...
People can be identified by the way they dance
Delayed choice quantum eraser: On testing the simulation theory
Your expertise is acknowledged. We are in agreement
Astronomers just got a deep peek at a black hole
2,153 People Own More Money Than 4.6B People Combined
/s/by the way they dance/by the way they move
Almost no one is using Rust in embedded. C++ has a much higher uptake among that crowd.
> does SQLite checksum blocks (pages) of data?

No. Postgres has an off-by-default option for this. The journal does, though.

> Of course the filesystem usually does

Nope. Data checksumming is usually only employed by CoW file systems, because it requires data journaling for a regular file system, which generally isn't used or not supported at all.
You should read "The Dictator's Handbook". Dictators may be driven to externally irrational behavior by what appear internally to be an entirely rational chain of decisions. And I mean rational in the Homo economus sense of the word.

https://www.amazon.com/Dictators-Handbook-Behavior-Almost-Po...
The Wuhan coronavirus showcases viruses’ most cunning genetic weapon
If we're talking about social ties, you should probably be looking at the number of people who attend church weekly. I don't think there's a big social ties difference between going to church twice a year and not going at all, and it looks like your link only goes back to the '90s for 'goes to religious observance nearly every week' and 'has been in the last seven days'

For that matter, I know a handful of people (my grandparents age) who aren't really religious but that go to church most weeks 'cause it's a nice social thing.
Files on Web Servers Part I: History Files
The short answer is yes, they can make a meaningful difference to risk, but as ever with cancer, the long answer is that there are a lot of risk factors and they aren't the same from one type of cancer to another. I'm not a medical expert, just someone who's supported cancer research for a long time and has a lay person's understanding of the issues, so I'll leave it to more knowledgeable people to comment any further.
These types of techniques are already big in certain fields. E.g., in fluid dynamics and heat transfer, "dimensional analysis" is frequently used to simplify and generalize models. Sometimes models can be nearly fully specified up to a constant of proportionality based solely on dimensional considerations. Beyond what is typically seen as "data" the information here is a list of variables involved in the problem and the dimensions of the variables.

As far as I can tell "dimensions" in this sense are a purely human construct. For two variables to have different dimensions, it means that they can not be meaningfully added, e.g., apples and oranges.
Startup School 2020 resources in audio
Depends, on how you drive.
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I'm not going to be able to wade through this entire article. If this is at all an accurate characterization of Twitter, that might explain why I have so few followers.

I don't engage in this stuff on Twitter. I've overall had fairly positive experiences on Twitter. I continue to try to figure out how to connect positively on Twitter and on the internet generally.

I don't agree that the only antidote is to go seek out walled gardens and the like. The real solution is to be the change you want to see.

Don't go looking for beefs.

Try to bring solutions, not complaints.

Try to have some empathy for people and assume "They must be having a bad day" or "Wow, they must have a lot of baggage on this topic" and politely decline to get into some shitshow with them.

Remember that having empathy for others (instead of just assuming everyone is simply intentionally being an asshole) doesn't mean being a doormat. Respect yourself. Don't kiss their ass to mollify them or something. Instead, just shut up and quit putting out the fire with gasoline.
As an indication of the effect that the original 1999 paper has had on security research, and its legacy, let me also mention the paper "Why Johnny Still Can’t Encrypt" [1] from 2006, and the paper "Why Johnny Still, Still Can't Encrypt" [2] from 2015.

Perhaps in a few more years Johnny will finally be able to encrypt using email software that supports the emerging Autocrypt standard. [3]

[1] http://cups.cs.cmu.edu/soups/2006/posters/sheng-poster_abstr...

[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.08555

[3] https://autocrypt.org/
Emacs Tools for Screenplays (2014)
Convenience is security.
Musculoskeletal disorders are complicated and not completely understood. I’m not sure the evidence base for alternative layouts and geometries is compelling enough to suggest that using a conventional laptop keyboard amounts to “destroying your wrists”.
Can you point out where Google and Microsoft are moving to Rust because I've seen none of that.
I'm not sure this is solid advice. As a programmer it would mean I'd have to build my own compiler and editor, but the low-hanging fruit has already been taken in this area, so perhaps it's better to scratch someone else's itch in some niche area that nobody has explored yet.
I don’t think anyone exits the field entirely because of just the wage gap, it’s everything that’s around it as well. The total impact can be a lot more than you’ve likely ever had the experience to know and turns a field that can honestly be fun and challenging in a good way into a lonely place devoid of as many interesting problems because you constantly have to fight the mundane ones. And then your pay is worse than others (sometimes by a lot more than 30k/yr) to deal with it?

I can see why some people just decide to be done. I came close a few years ago.
>(1) is precisely my concern. Death is the last great leveller. What happens when the rich become exempt? I think then they become gods ... on no basis then other than their ability to hoard coins.

What exactly is the problem here? If you don't want them becoming gods, then it's very simple: pass some laws forcing wealth redistribution. Rich people aren't gods, and don't have super-powers. They are as easily stopped or killed as any other human. And they're just as subject to laws as the rest of us, in a country that has rule-of-law. So it's very simple: pass a law. If your country refuses to do that and lets the rich become god-like, that's because the people in your country want it that way.

>What happens when one segment gets immortality and a far larger population gets nothing?

What happens when one segment of the population gets advanced computing equipment, like smartphones, and a far larger population gets nothing? How are things working out right now, where only a very, very small portion of our population has smartphones and personal computers, while most of our population has landlines at best, or has to write letters and mail them, and has to do all their work with pencil and paper? Oh wait, it isn't like that at all: even poor people have smartphones and computers.

Why do you think that immortality will be some highly limited thing?
Not mine. Just a neat tool that I ran across and thought I'd share.
Eternal War in XNU Kernel Objects
It's my understanding that dirty datasets that "demand scripting skills to sort out" is pretty common and most data scientists spend 80% of their time "sorting this out".
Python's wrapper is one of the worst. It attempts to parse the SQL you are trying to execute and automatically send BEGIN or COMMIT to the database. Setting the "isolation_level" property (badly named) to None makes things better.
Swift and Kotlin and TypeScript and Rust
Ask HN: How much does it cost to run HN?
Would be interested in seeing a cost breakdown of running this site.
I switched to Bitwarden after certain grievances with LastPass which I don't even recall what they were now.
I used to own one of these. It was utterly unusable.

Looked cool, though.
I am 100% aware of what you're talking about and the differences between what you're talking about and react.

You are largely correct on the GC and non-GC distinction. However, even accounting for this a cheat must still occur somewhere else in the pipeline.

That immutable data structure you're talking about must be fed to IO which updates the screen. This is equivalent to updating the virtual DOM. This is where the one to one correspondence forms with FRP. The "cheat" so to speak... whether a framework or an outside runtime implements it no computer system can truly implement FP and they all must cheat.

You could argue that we're not talking about things at that level of abstraction but I would argue that for gaming and systems level programming, this level of abstraction is critical to the topic at hand.
I've reread Kuhn's piece several times. It's that unfortunate mix of tantalising and unclear.

My understanding is that it's not the dual-licensing per se that's toxic, but the goal of copyleft-noncompliance legal actions. Rather than, as the FSF and SFC seek: "Our primary goal in GPL enforcement is to bring about GPL compliance." (https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/principles.htm...) The businesses of which Kuhn is critical seek instead "to 'convert' those FOSS users into paying customers for proprietary licensing for the same codebase."

Arguably, the failure here might be of the GPL failing to specify what is an acceptable remedy, though if that were defanged to only be "release affected code as <copyleft license>", it might afford too great a latitude to other forms of black-hat actors.

I'm not sure if I agree with Kuhn's assessments or remedies. I think the discussion's worth having, and appreciate your input.
The generic term in sweetbread, though it covers a variety of organs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweetbread
guava + black salt is an incredible combo. Sadly, it's very hard to get good guava here in bay area. If anyone knows a good place, I am all ears. I love the the green raw guava more than the white-ish ripe ones.
Kotlin Algorithm Challenge No. 3
Throw in Nadia Eghbal's Tyranny of Ideas (https://nadiaeghbal.com/ideas) and you'll realize it's not humans beefing, but ideas. Posting is praxis, and the internet is a series of tube battlegrounds for the best ideas.

I'm a multitour veteran of the scarred hellscape where modern and historic ideas struggle - 4chan, TEDx conferences, irc, VC conference rooms, local candidate door-knocking campaigns, reddit, and of course twitter. The brawling is better there than in academic journals and library shelves. Today I proudly do my duty fighting off the bad ideas with the Good Ones.

Jokes aside, this is a horribly lame and out of touch take, saying that people's righteous anger is in fact not because of their legit complaints about society, but because
they just want to argue. It's a both sides false equivalence, equal to PG implying he's better off being an "accidental centrist", whatever the hell that means.
Show HN: Webservers as one-liner runnable code
The other gamble being that many airlines oversell flights and may “upgrade” you to a direct flight to your paid destination.
In the US where I live, a good public library has a few shelf units of book from companies such as Nolo Press which explains much of the law as it pertains to patents, rental properties, loans, e.g.

For me a few hours spent there helps me understand the situation, take some actions (e.g. file a patent application myself) and also to appreciate what the lawyer does that I can't do.

In specialized areas of law in different lands it get harder. Some very good lawyers specialize in routine work such as probate, wills, and creating corporations -- they are qualified to help you but they would spend many hours educating themselves to know the right answer.

I think the EU there much be a law school near you, and around law schools you find people being educated in the latest law -- EU has its own data protection regime and lawyers will be quite concerned how it interacts with CCPA.
As has been said. Evenly distribute tax to the people, basic income style. They will be better off, problem solved.
It absolutely is a significant part of the economy. Prisoners make military equipment, home appliances, office furniture, work in call centres, and fight fires, among many other things.

As for "nothing like slavery": People are literally chased out of their houses if they stop doing their job and miss rent payments.

If I stop working and can't afford groceries, but still try to retrieve them from the supermarket, I'll literally be thrown in a cage.
I thought this was a submarine article from Gitprime for a second as they use the exact same measures.

I find the metrics useful for managing my devs, but only as a secondary set of measures. If a team is hitting their goals for the project, I never need to look at these measures. If the team isn't hitting their goals I need to dive in deeper and these stats help me determine if the problem is the engineers just aren't working, or if its an issue outside of their control.

Its also been a good piece of ammo to help train non technical upper management into accepting work from home more. I can show them directly how much the engineers are working and they lose that fear that people are just shirking their duties when they work from home
World Employment and Social Outlook – Trends 2020 [pdf]
I have no specific experience with compilers (I missed the chance to take the class in college due to scheduling conflicts).

My current day job, at a research nonprofit, is working on a system whose behavior is driven by an external DSL. I get to work on the parser/compiler type thing that generates executable units and the interpreter that actually runs them. This is certainly not the “big leagues” as far as compilers are concerned, we’re not executing anything directly on anyone’s CPU, but I do find it tremendously enjoyable.
2.5 I want tech to be either mature enough or beneficial enough that I'm willing to deal with all the bugs AND specifically the very real possibility that the application may need to be rewritten to replace a bad tech bet. A good example was that around 2011 MongoDB was really taking off. HN routinely had articles about migrating to Mongo and how it was the new hotness. It turns out that MongoDB had a number of problems including dropping data regularly :/

Those of us that had to deal with debugging issues like that and potentially porting away from Mongo, are a bit gun-shy about adopting new databases, especially without the ability to call someone up and chat about what issues they encountered after running the tech on an application supporting a million users.