skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Source: Infectious disease epidemiologist who has been interested in phage research for two decades ;)

But you will find on that same Wikipedia page an entry for d'Herelle, and if you follow that...as you note yourself, you get an animal trial in 1919 as well as a human trial. D'Herelle then heads to Indochina to work on Cholera, and he's awarded an honorary doctorate two years after the USSR is founded - along with one of the field's most prestigious medals.

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Is that a tight timeline? Yes. But the idea that "The West" ignored phages because it was some sort of Soviet pseudoscience is contrary to the historical record.

The west abandoned phage therapy because unfiltered endotoxins made phage therapy dangerous, and until the modern era, antibiotics are pretty superior in nearly every respect.
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Working in the Bay Area, I'm sure I've had more colleagues who would implement this than would not. That's even though I've specifically chosen to work at companies that emphasize the importance of social good in their business.

Most people come to work for a paycheck, and the perceived cost to them of shaking up that paycheck (even just to get a new job) is very high.
To get people to respect the passing lane, I propose:

Left-most lane on controlled access highways should be rear car, by default, has the right-of-way.
He used a virus if I remember correctly.
It is worth noting the design and density of information presented in this website - we've forgotten how to present lots of data to users because the modern trend is to pad everything with whitespace. Dense design, no frills, just a table - this is what the web needs more of.
Or better, but still not perfect advice: Do no install any closed-source app on your telephone/computer of any brand.
Father in law is a doctor -- a family doctor in a small town, and the only one in private practice (not in a hospital) within 100 miles. Much of the population in that area are his patients, so he gets to see everything, from mundane stuff to exotic illnesses and injuries, and is well-positioned to discern long term trends.

In recent years, he's suddenly treating hypertension, high cholesterol, and type 2 diabetes in his pediatric patients. With few exceptions, these kids are morbidly obese. He says these things were unheard of fifteen years ago.

Let that sink in. High blood pressure, cholesterol, T2 diabetes in teens, pre-teens, and in some cases even younger. This. is. fucked. up.
>So I guess the 'equivalent' means that summed up over the entire year, they export at least the same amount of energy that they import.

This bit is important, because it's possible to be "100% renewable", yet at the same time spew massive amounts of carbon.

https://energy.stanford.edu/news/100-renewables-doesn-t-equa...
Not especially - although I also feel that they were unfairly villainized because the cars were still WAY cleaner than stuff built the year before the new emissions laws. I'd also note that subsequently just about every other mfger was caught doing variations of the same thing.

Vehicle testing (emissions, especially, but MPG also) are highly synthetic measurements that aren't very representative of real world conditions.

But to come back to the point at hand - a ban on "facial recognition" is so vague that it doesn't actually accomplish anything - the companies will still do it, they'll just call it something else. "Biometrics", "Posture analysis", "Location monitoring".

Historically, government gets tech wrong, and getting it wrong fast just makes the situation worse.
What is it that programmers do? They automate complex tasks that take humans considerable effort.

If a university can accomplish this task with their funding and no urgent incentive, what is the nation state actor doing with their enormous budget?
Of all the risible things one could say about gender and science, chief among them would surely be that testosterone leads to better scientific discoveries. Also you ignore the fact that the status quo which Galileo and Heaviside had to contend with was established and maintained by men.
It may just be that once this exists then you end up in the "software engineer who uses hn " bucket and will just see adds for ssds and processors and coding conferences... A segment that is really hard to identify may turn into a group that is generally easy to identify...
That really depends on the food, the grocery store, the geographic location, the season, etc.
I believe this is the essay you mention:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/fnkbdwckdfHS2H22Q/steelmanni...

It had this context appropriate quote:

"One performs the rain sacrifice and it rains. Why? I say: there is no special reason why. It is the same as when one does not perform the rain sacrifice and it rains anyway. When the sun and moon suffer eclipse, one tries to save them. When Heaven sends drought, one performs the rain sacrifice. One performs divination and only then decides on important affairs. But this is not to be regarded as bringing one what one seeks, but rather is done to give things proper form. Thus, the gentleman regards this as proper form, but the common people regard it as connecting with spirits."
Nope, we need to leave the fossil fuels in the ground or Earth won't be suitable for human habitation.
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For some reason, one of my fondest childhood memories was using the ship debit card my parents gave me to buy many of those circle personal pan pizzas on the top deck of a carnival cruise. Cruise pizza is no joke!
Really great of Scotland. Clearly the adults in the room. Unfortunately, the room is filled with 99.9% children and likely the only way to go at this point is to start seriously looking at carbon capture and storage. Sad, but time to face facts. The children are children and no amount of complaining has or will change that fact.

Well, either that or find ways to enjoy a much warmer earth.
Indeed. While Flemming himself was concerned about resistance, penicillin is:

1) Much broader spectrum than phage preparations
2) Easier to manufacture in large quantities
3) Safer, because you don't need to filter the prep to remove endotoxins

It's basically a silver bullet - if you don't look too far in the future. It was incredibly disruptive.
This totally negates @bradfitz leaving Google/Go!
IIRC correctly, MoPub is a white-labeled version of Apache Druid.
It's actually the opposite. External hard drives are frequently made from over production of enterprise grade hard disks. [1]

Manufacturers would rather over produce high quality drives than risk not being able to fulfill orders. Eventually the surplus gets put in an external housing and rebranded for consumer use.

1. https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/7fx0i0/wd_easy...
It would be fantastic if policymakers could enforce traffic transparency for mobile apps. I would love to just take my phone and see what is being transmitted, but of course Android doesn't trust user-added Certificate Authoritites for app traffic.

Being able to see one's own traffic doesn't magically fix things, but giving average folks the ability to just inspect their traffic and write blog posts about it would at least improve the current situation, without requiring major technical changes.
Second the comments about not quitting your job -- so long as your job does not overwork you. My added advice would be to have goals and find something to look forward to that you can hope to see through. Work on yourself as well, do things unrelated to work or tech outside of work.
That's also nibbling around the periphery. The most pressing goal is NET negative total GHGs. This means BOTH sequestration and emissions cuts including going to clean energy, industrial processes and other large sectors like concrete and agriculture. We can't get there by #TeamTrees half-measures or ostensible tokenism like optional consumer-based recycling every now and then, or by allowing corrupt oligarchy/plutocracy to keep resisting taking action.

To these ends, BioCCS is going to have to happen whether we like it or not because pumping and cracking CO2 from air is just too expensive. Ferrous ocean seeding and mega seaweed blooms (like the area from Mexico to Africa now) is going to have to happen if we want to get this under control. Harvest that and either sink it to the bottom of deep trenches or burn it in a sealed chamber and pump the gasses/ash deep underground. Concurrently and in parallel, we can and should switch to scalable renewables / non-FF like fission, solar and wind if/when/until fusion becomes a reality. All-in-all, rapid negative GHGs must be the goal because the ESAS/methane gun hypothesis maybe a Sword of Damocles over our heads that could really put us in a bad spot if it fell. We must get the Arctic sea ice in summer restored or the heating of Arctic Ocean will introduce so much additional energy into a viscous feedback loop that will disrupt weather and climate for the foreseeable future.

Here are some other sucky truths that are necessary:

- FF-based jumbo jets, trains and large cruise/cargo ships will need to find alternative means of locomotion.

- Animal protein production should be curtailed almost entirely.

- Concrete (actually the clinker in Portland cement) and other industrial processes that pollute the air with enormous quantities of CO2, methane and/or other GHGs must capture their emissions and have them sequestered properly.
What did happen because of the USSR is the institute in Georgia not abandoning phage research because they continued to have much more limited access to penicillin thanks to the Cold War.
I asked RX14 why they called out their lack of problems as remarkable ("survive the most fucked up situations"). It sounds strange, as I mentioned.

I don't need to ask people who've had problems because I've had them myself, in unremarkable circumstances, a while back. I'm sure I could find reports on the mailing list as well, in which others have already asked for details.
My 'best' related Best Buy story (well, Future Shop a decade ago, but it is/was the same company) while working in the ConnectPro department (name for Geek Squad at Future Shop, all the same tools and procedures):

A person who had purchased a laptop a few hours prior came back into the store furious because the device shut off and wouldn't turn back on. I pressed the power button and it flashed indicating the battery was dead. I connected the laptop to power and told her it needed to be charged. She then threw a retail tantrum because the salesman had apparently told her it was wireless.
I'm like you a self taught for the most part and I find algos boring to learn alone as well. They aren exactly head turners, but still in a group would be nice.

Also I was thinking the same thing about the UI. I hope there is an answer somewhere. It's very Balsamiq looking and I love that!
Does this only apply to the Android version? Wouldn't the iOS version need permission to collect things like bluetooth info?
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> JIRA is great but only in an enterprise where there's a team to manage it

If you have a team to manage it then you may as well use that team to write your own, then you truly get the flexibility with none of the performance downside and having to program in crappy languages with crappy tools. Plus it can grow and evolve with your organization, for a start up a couple of cgi scripts on a rasberry pi are enough, for a large enterprise those cgi scripts are probably still 10 times faster than JIRA.

JIRA has become the SAP of bug of issue trackers and no one can use it well out of the box.
>>I don't understand how someone gets asked to build this "feature" and they don't just quit on the spot...

Shall we go down the list of horrible and unethical things engineers have built over millennia, so we settle this once in for all? If you quit, someone else will do it
I wonder, and I am not trying to be a smart-ass here, if this is the first case of a growth hack (some sort of push notification/alert) that actually lead to someone's death.
Don't R, Matlab & Julia make heavy use of array-like data structures?
Scaling to meet the workload using machines may be as simple as paying the AWS bill. Scaling up people, even at profitable well-functioning companies, is hardly a solved problem.
A principle like “one tax refund should be claimed one time” is not clear at all. There are hundreds of different rules for getting refunds on your taxes and many of them can be used multiple times.
Handy patterns, which could probably fairly easily be implemented as a high-level linter.
The thing is in parts of New York City 5 min gaps aren't possible in the rail lines even at peak. The reason is traffic in a manner of speaking.

The New York City subway uses extensive interlining which means that two or more services share track for part of their route (typically the part in Manhattan). If trains on the shared track are every 3 min, by conservation of mass, trains on the split part need to be every 6 min.

NYC also is still upgrading it's signaling system so for now train are a 5 min interval even in the best parts and 10 min intervals everywhere else. There is physically no easy fix.
its worth noting this, as well as shellhub, cannot get around Bluecoats javascipt clickthrough transparent proxy, which imo would be a serious win.
WOW. I almost sent him a DM... it won't accomplish anything.
Flemming's work was in 1928, over a decade after folks were using phage therapy, and the mass production of penicillin was in the mid-40's.

Note that we were using phage therapy before we knew what phages were, because as it turns out, that's not really necessary. Except that if you don't know what they are, you also don't know that your preparation is full of endotoxins from ruptured bacteria, which are a threat to your patient. Which is one of the reasons it wasn't terribly popular.
Took me a while to dig up an online source of his 1921 monograph on the subject. For the curious:

https://archive.org/details/lebactriophages00hrgoog/page/n9/...

(PDF etc. downloads are at the bottom right)
Addictions are more severe, the earlier they happen.
All the big German automakers are, as is Bosch.
Yep, and its also not a reasonable thing to say "If you go outside you accept total surveillance." Since going outside is a requirement for life.

I find it acceptable that if I go outside I might get caught on some store security camera and that video sits on a hard drive for a week and then gets written over but I do not find it acceptable that the store camera recognizes my face and stores my presence in an easily searchable internet connected database.
Yes! Not only that, but with all of the end-user programming research. I did some studies on LabVIEW programmers before and I noticed a lot of the same phenomenon with data scientists. They have a lot of domain knowledge, some programming experience, but usually do not use software engineering best practices or tools (e.g., unit testing, code reviews, automated refactoring). All of this is very understandable but reveals a lot of potential for tools to better support them.

See Yestercode [1] and CodeDeviant [2], two tools that I specifically designed for LabVIEW programmers to refactor and test their code without expecting them to behave like traditional software engineers.

[1] http://web.eecs.utk.edu/~azh/pubs/Henley2016VLHCC_Yestercode...

[2] http://web.eecs.utk.edu/~azh/pubs/Henley2018VLHCC_CodeDevian...
Interesting study! I'm curious what shadowing 15 R data scientists would look like, since it seems to resolve some of the pain points around caching results, debugging, and scaling.

This is a very minor question (and I am not concerned about risk to participants)--when you say they signed consent "in accordance with our institutional ethics board", are you talking about Microsoft, one of the two universities, or all?
> you need to either use molex to sata power to bypass the 2.2v issue or tape the pin

You mean the 3.3v issue. In most cases, you can also just clip the 3.3v wire that goes to the sata power connectors from your power supply. It's orange, you won't be missing out by not having it anymore, and it's easy to clip with wire cutters. You should put a dab of electrical tape on the cut ends, but a clean cut isn't likely to short on anything. Consider it updating your power supply to the latest SATA spec.

Some people do have sata enclosures that provide 3.3v, and they may need tape on their drives, or something more drastic.
Toggle???

Toggle a whole environment and intrepeter's behavior? Do you know how much architecture that would involve? That's like trying to tell IDLE to be able to both delete or keep your variables on exit, or the JVM to have a toggle switch for memory and garbage management.

Why doesn't the developer make themselves useful and simply write a save function that freezes their buffer variable values to a text, json or SQLite file that they can read from or stream rather than trying to set back a whole community years of progress in an effort to accommodate perhaps entitled or lazy devs.

Can you even imagine the architectural costs of trying to accommodate streaming data and timestamped data as opposed to you just writing your own stuff to file?
What you rarely hear about is the gross amount of waste.

People are especially wasteful when the food is 'free' and plentiful. If you watch waiters that are removing plates during a typical cruise ship meal many/most contain uneaten portions.

Which is why some all-you-can-eat restaurants have started charging for uneaten food that's ordered but left on the plate i.e. sushi places especially.
Which is not the point of the question. They're asking why no one else has stepped up to fill that void.
Notebooks are sort of like democracy, its the worst form of government except all the others.

You need to pick the best tool for the job, and often times in machine learning that tool is a notebook.
If you purposely ignore the power of new tech. Might as well say nothing changed with the invention of earth moving machinery because you could have done the same thing with a shovel.
Long press is fine, it's the autoselection of words that messes me up (on Android).

I click the url bar in Chrome, then the whole url shows up selected. Then I long-press to copy the url, but no! It auto-selects only a single word in the url and brings up the option to copy just that single word. Stupid.

Yes I know that I can click on the lock icon and then on the url, and that's what I usually end up doing, but that is also stupid.

Edit: sometimes it seems to bring the original url down in a dropdown with share/copy/edit buttons, but that doesn't seem to happen all the time. I haven't worked out why the dropdown often doesn't activate.
No, that is not the case.
I agree with you. But as an engineer, it's easier for me to envision technical solutions than political ones. Both are probably essential.
I couldn't agree more - and it impact how we hire. I refuse to give someone a "take home test"; quite frankly it reaks of a lack of respect for the candidate. Interviewing is two-sided, the organization has to check out the candidate and the candidate has to check out the organization.

Our last hires were brought in for a two-part interview, on the same day. The first was an interview to ensure the personality fit was there, to ensure that the differences we all bring to the table could be a strength.

The candidates were then given a running API server, a postman collection, swagger docs, and an empty directory. We asked them to solve a specific problem - one that we already showed the candidate is solved in production, one we make clear cannot be solved in the two hours they're given. Then, the candidate is encouraged to work on the problem, and ask questions.

Multiple team members check in on the candidate throughout the period, in order to offer support, suggestions, pick things apart, and be a sounding board. Then, when things are done we sit down as a minimum of three people (candidate + 2 staff) to discuss the output and outcome.

This isn't the most fair, and can definitely be stressful. At the same time, I feel like it's pretty equitable.
Oh, they have me hook, line, and sinker haha. Them along with /r/homelab and /r/unraid
Trying to buy any specifically-indicated item, outside possibly books, is a clusterfudge.

Amazon's particularly bad, though few retailers are much better.

An advantage of going directly to a manufacturer or B&M retailer's page is actually the reduced set of possible products. You still get irrelevant results, but vastly fewer.

Less is more.
The SNP were saying that Scotland could go independent on their Oil price not long ago. The SNP will say anything essentially to virtue signal against Westminster.

This appears to be another case of that, Holyrood making a lot of noise when they run at a deficit while pretending they want to leave the UK.
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https://www.strongtowns.org/mission

This is a pretty good wrap up of what the Strong Towns thing is about.
Yes, but those arrays are based on the concept of the mathematical vector.

Whereas C and descendents see arrays as chunks of memory.

In C arrays it makes sense to think of the index as an offset (0 elements away from the start, etc.).

In math its more consistent with classic matrix notation.
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The problem with talking about previous projects is that it can be hard to tell whether the candidate was an important contributor to the project or just a subpar developer making the changes (s)he's told to do by more knowledgeable teammates. A candidate which is charismatic and good at talking can be quite convincing.

Provided code samples is good, but only if the candidate has written all the code themselves and isn't just passing off other's code on a project as their own.

When I was conducting interviews I was frequently surprised by just how bad some candidates with fancy titles and a decade of experience were at actually coding. And I mean things like a understanding a simple recursive function, integer division, inheritance and other core concepts. I would never hire someone without at least a brief code comprehension check nowadays.
If you're interested, Flemming's Nobel Prize speech transcript is here: https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2018/06/fleming-lecture.p...

It's an excellent read.
I live in the bay area, until a few months ago, paid 2,500 for an 800 sq ft apartment in sunnyvale.
Facial recognition tech could save so much time and money though. Imagine how many man hours would be saved if teachers no longer had to take attendance? Shoplifting would hit all time lows since you wouldn't be able to get away with it short of wearing a mask into the store.
Most companies want their employees to provide them with value and are willing to make reasonable accommodations toward that end.

If you have an hostile manager or HR department then yes it's time to move on.
Way to miss the point.

The invention of the bulldozer didn't change property rights.
Given Amazon's system for packing items, I would not buy hard drives from them. I don't want my hard drive's retail box bouncing around all over inside the outer amazon box for however long it takes to get to me. That's a recipe for issues down the road (or immediately).

That said, this looks like a useful tool. I can accept prices from Amazon and shop around for someone who knows how to pack.
I'm sorry they wasted your time and money. I think if someone disappeared for a month that would break the expectation of payment, but a small contract would settle that.
Software engineers made the first high level programming language called Fortran, which starts indexing at 1 by default.
I have no idea what you're going on about. Who has prejudices? Me? The grandparent poster? What specifically are you in disagreement with?

Regardless, I think you might be reading way too much into things.
Conspiracy theories from Alex Jones?