skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ML is fairly common in genomics, but for identifying predictive variables for cancer status, it's difficult. The training set is a matrix where rows are people (where some have cancer and some don't) and columns are genomic features (mutation, methylation, etc). You can easily have hundreds of thousands of features but getting even a thousand cancer patients enrolled in a study and sequenced is expensive and slow.

So, even though there are many "AI in biotech" companies out there, for predicting cancer status, most eventually end up hand crafting a small number of features based on extensive knowledge of cancer biology. The ML model tends to be simple and far less important than the features.
yes cold calling about investments would sound to me like boiler room scams - id be reporting that the Authorities.
It seems the "restorations" are all around, e.g. published on Blu Ray in 2015:

https://www.amazon.fr/LUMIERE-%C3%89dition-Prestige-blu-ray/...
Agreed - especially in VR 360 stuff.

There's some astonishing VR footage to be found on youtube -- the VR180 stereoscopic stuff you can watch with a headset is on a whole other level when it comes to experiencing filmed medium.

But, for me at least, as a Quest owner (so maybe the mobile hardware can't process any higher-bitrate stuff, I don't know), the juddery, blocky, muddy, motion-smeared 24fps quality of even the highest bitrate videos youtube will serve in that format detracts a lot to the experience and reminds you that you're not a drone sweeping across the Saharan desert, you're some sweaty nerd sat with a fancy hat on.
Free Illustrations and Downloadable SVG
European parliament says it will not use facial recognition tech
This is completely correct behaviour if you ask me. So you met me at someone's house, so what, it gives you the right to contact me?

You could always ask your friend to relay a message right?
Note that eLife will also be publishing peer review reports, even independent of "accepting" or "rejecting" a paper (and might even abandon that concept altogether): https://twitter.com/mbeisen/status/1155286615721254912

(Tweets by eLife's Editor-in-Chief.)
More competition from Amazon whose ad revenue went up 40% last year
I mean yeah, but they should be much more pressing.

And I doubt they have enough bandwidth to monitor the thousands of publicly traded companies, so would make much more sense to just legislate a standard way of a shareholder mechanism for explicit control of the non-GAAP metrics.
You keep going. It's no coincidence that Ancestry's in SLC; saving your ancestors through baptism by proxy is a bit of a big deal for the Mormons/LDS. It's nice that they can make a buck off of the basic curiosity of outsiders, but the real money happens when you can make it off of people's deeply held religious beliefs. (And it is possible to believe that you're genuinely helping people with one side of your brain while taking advantage of them with the other.)
I would be curious to see how much memory would be saved if those tiles would use 1bit black and white.

I just tried saving one of those shade-of-grey "Toner" tile to "4 grey" in xnview, which I guess is a 2bit PNG, meaning it would use 4 shades of grey, so black, white, #555 and #AAA.

The tile went from 32kb to 6kb, so a 80% size reduction.

I'm really curious if this would allow one to store a country region with tiles on a smartphone. OSMand lets you download vector maps to browser them offline, but rendering can be a little slow on some phones.

EDIT: OSM tiles use a 256 colors palette, most tiles less than 10kb. I guess there are tools out there to generate a 8, 16 or 32 colors palette. XNView seems to use libimagequant to generate a palette.
The FT article has

>Piecing together the events in Wuhan shows that for at least three weeks before the banquet, city authorities had been informed about the virus spreading in their midst but issued orders to suppress the news. (https://www.ft.com/content/fa83463a-4737-11ea-aeb3-955839e06... linked above)
Ark Compiler Zone Briefly Appears on Huawei App Gallery
On Facebook a single moderately offensive post can lead to burning bridges and angry wives. Social attacks can destroy a person life as much as a bank theft can.
> To eliminate that problem, I put my phone far away from my bed at night.

My wife and I recently started leaving our phones in another room overnight. It's a big improvement -- previously it was easy to mindlessly scroll through nonsense before sleep and again in the morning when waking up. Now we read and talk more. It's still easy to grab the phone and go back to bed in the morning but overall it has been a very positive change.
> I see curiosity and imagination as two sides of the same personality trait expressed in different ways.

That's because the world of today is both complex and complicated. Imagination is needed to decipher things and curiosity to get you the urge to find out more. I would argue that it's two different traits both selected by evolution. Let's imagine a tribe on savannah where some are smart enough to imagine lions hiding behind a hill and not sufficiently curious to find out by just going there, it's great to imagine throwing rocks to scare potential predators away. So you need both, they're complementary and might not even have to be expressed in the same individual but beneficial if they do.
Why not take the course, submit high quality assignments, and when bad marks come back, appeal to a higher faculty member?

Comp sci is fairly objective - it would be very hard for him to give you a failing mark for exceptionally high quality work in a way he wouldn't be reprimanded for.
> While Nature has its pick of comparatively incontrovertible research

Nature doesn't actually attempt to select for incontrovertible research, but rather the most groundbreaking/noteworthy research. Which is also why their retraction rate (and those of other "top" journals) is higher than average.

(Disclosure: I'm part of an initiative that explicitly distinguishes between exciting and robust research for this reason.)
Physical stuff != code...

It isn't about having functionality served half-baked but about having minimalistic functionality (only serve what brings the most value for the users to their table) and go from there.

It is irrational to think that you know exactly what people want/is going to provide them with enough value to keep coming back to your service/product...

So why not start small by building the basics, releasing them, getting feedback and use that to move your product in sync with what the users want/need.

I loved the sega games as much as the next person, and I truly admire how they got so much shipped with such limitations.

But this indicates one big problem of makers nowadays: building functionality has become easier and easier with all the frameworks/tools/no-coding/... stuff that it has become too easy to ship too much (or lose yourself in keeping working on adding just a little feature here and there), thus straying away from shipping and getting that golden feedback from actual (paying) users.

I'll be checking out the video later, thanks for sharing and your feedback!
For a gym machine:

"Adjust pad rolls height at the same level of upper side of the things; place feet on foot plate and strech the heels fully towards the floor"
Politics have been part of the peer review process for a very, very long time. It's not all about the money, either:

> Fourier was interested in heat propagation, and presented a paper in 1807 to the Institut de France on the use of sinusoids to represent temperature distributions. The paper contained the controversial claim that any continuous periodic signal could be represented as the sum of properly chosen sinusoidal waves. Among the reviewers were two of history's most famous mathematicians, Joseph Louis Lagrange (1736-1813), and Pierre Simon de Laplace (1749-1827).

> While Laplace and the other reviewers voted to publish the paper, Lagrange adamantly protested. For nearly 50 years, Lagrange had insisted that such an approach could not be used to represent signals with corners, i.e., discontinuous slopes, such as in square waves. The Institut de France bowed to the prestige of Lagrange, and rejected Fourier's work. It was only after Lagrange died that the paper was finally published, some 15 years later.

https://www.dspguide.com/ch8/1.htm
So now it's not only the FBI cultivating terrorists, it's cops cultivating unlicensed professionals. Neat. Can we do this Software as Service style?
Reading the translation, this sounds like what police would say in a parody, yet this is real. Thank you for sharing it and I hope your family and we all make it through this in good health.
Parkinson's law says: "work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_law

Completing tickets, issues or burning story points means next to nothing if the work you do is detached from reality. And that reality consists of an irrational humans with complex, contradicting demands and needs and an unpredictable future.

Moreover, if you work as an employee, you will spend 40-50 hours a week at the office regardless of how fast or slow you're grinding through the workload. Why? Because that's how salaried work is legally organized.

Then there's limited agency. The article assumes that programmers are free to arrange their schedule. But that's only true if you're an independent contractor who's not deeply embedded in a team. Most programmers - and workers in general - are subjugated to the authority of managers and specific workplace culture.

Trying to rally workers around the battle cry "let's improve productivity" without questioning to what end, well, that's just a bad take on Taylorism.
Malware transmits data via LCD – changing red by 3%
This is a very unhelpful take. Some of us want to be more productive. Many of us want to be more productive so we can do more and still have more leisure time.

"Code should not be about productivity. Life should not be about productivity." does not help anyone. It's just empty platitudes. And even if it was true that people only seek productivity so they can devote themselves more to their job (it's not), why are you judging them and telling them your way is better?

Looking at your reply bellow you do seem capable of understanding the general question - you were coaxed into giving some productivity tips so why this empty response here?
The deep problems of “informed consent” are apparent in medical studies/treatment. Few patients are equipped to be informed because they don’t have a med school degree.

Since users ”can’t be informed” about tracking, it doesn’t make sense to discuss whether they “should be informed”.
> Eliminating Distractions

One challenge is that there are some things which should distract us:

1. Pull Requests which we should review to unblock our teammates.

2. Production errors which should be investigated.

3. Slack messages from those 1-3 people we are immediately working with and which they'd want to interrupt us with.

4. Fire alarms which are not weekly tests.

5. Messages from spouse which they intend to inturrupt us with.

For me, one big win has come when I was able to put a Zeroable Inbox of PRs-to-review on my menubar. Instead of searching through github, I could just glance.
I use arq for automatic daily backups to s3 as well as Time Machine once a month to an external HD for an extra layer of redundancy. But more importantly than that, I have a checklist for testing that my backups actually work and that I won't somehow end up locked out of a server etc.
Choqok 1.7.0
Sure. But where do the blobs "come from" when they "come back". Since it's fully P2P, someone has to keep them around.

As for text not taking up a ton of space. Sure. Except it's text with it's metadata, and possibly text generated by a few hundred people.

A friend and I managed to exchange ~24k messages on Slack over the last 3 years (~4k each / year); using it like some kind of "private twitter" where we would just post anything that might be of interest to the other.

What would it be like if I follow 300 or 1000 people doing the same, over Secure Scuttlebutt?

- At 1 byte per character (from what I've gathered, Unicode characters actually take up 1 to 4 bytes)
- 140 characters / message (because Twitter proved it's usually enough)
- messages' metadata (50 bytes?)
- 4.000 messages / user / year
- following 300 people

We'd get... 228MB / year?

That's actually way less than I expected!
So you’re going to go to the police now with the information you have on your friends’/coworkers’ drug habits, right? After all, laws should be enforced, and everyone should proactively give any support they might be able to give to the police.
"Reddit/HN" for best local food based on dishes. Just a side project. https://TasteJury.com
Yeah, no idea. I need to ask her why she keeps paying but I know that you get new daily DNA matches, that I guess you can keep adding to the tree.
Roger Penrose, in Shadows of the Mind, reckoned Bose-Einstein condensates in the microtubules of neurons might be the engine of consciousness.

Apart from the weird quantum stuff, another interesting part of that perspective is that neurons are made up of countless microtubules and it might be the microtubules that are the basic computation unit of the brain. So then you can think of each neuron as a processor in its own right, and the computational complexity of the brain might be an order of magnitude higher than commonly supposed.
Sure, but OP argued they didn't care. I don't think its a question of conscious awareness, but rather opportunity cost.

The lessened quality is not something (most) people will cancel their subscription for, nor would they go out and buy the dvd just to get the better quality.
Scott Alexander for general insights and deep-dives https://slatestarcodex.com/

@patio11 for the software business
That's pretty much how event sourcing deals with deletion.

I wasn't even worrying about the legality of it. Simply that you end up lugging those messages around on your devices.

And better be careful about what you post, because there's no taking it back.
I imagine you could use recfmt templates [0] which generate valid Markdown, and use (pp [1] and) pandoc [2] to (pre)process into the desired final format.

[0] https://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/manual/Templates.html#...

[1] https://github.com/CDSoft/pp

[2] https://pandoc.org/
And maybe refrain from arresting doctors reporting the problem?
This ... it's like:

features != quality,
look & feel != quality

Good working software, which works and provides value for its users is what it's about. Evaluating if it provides value for others is done best by letting them use it.
Hm, interesting. Thanks for idea.
I think I will spin some script and imagemagick on tiles I just downloaded.
Hey everyone,

I'm working on Baitblock. Baitblock is a FREE (for early adopters) Chrome extension like Adblock but for distractions (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/baitblock-save-tim...). Baitblock block's distractions on the Internet while you're studying or working. There may be some minor bugs, but I'll fix them in future.

Some of the features include:

- Blocking websites that you add to the block list.

- Intelligent Blocker - blocks websites in the blocklist from appearing in Google Search Results, Facebook Feed, Twitter Feed, Reddit comments etc. So if a comment or result contains a link that should be block, Baitblock analyzes the structure of the page and then bocks the part and it'll be as if it was never there in the first place. (work in progress)

️- Tracking Resistance - most other tracking protectors only block 3rd party trackers. Baitblock uses machine learning to analyse the page to determine if you're logged in or not into a website. And then delete's cookies and other tracking mechanisms on every page load on that particular website if you're not logged in.

- Hide's recommendations on YouTube while you're working or studying.

- Block cookie notices on websites.

- You can add a 30-100 word TL;DR (Too Long; Didn't Read) for any webpage on the Internet. After this, other Baitblock users will be able to see that summary when they hover over that link on any website, and you would've saved humanity many hours by saving them a click. Yes, people can upvote and downvote the summaries (in future).

Baitblock website: https://baitblock.app The Extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/baitblock-save-tim...
Food+Discovery+with+Uber+Eats:+Using+Graph+Learning+to+Power+Recommendations
It is far from nitpicking to point out the gross inaccuracy of conflating one particular software with an entire operating system. systemd-networkd is not Debian.
Widevine is supported on Android, and is utilized by the MediaDrm APIs.[1][2]

Netflix uses Google’s SafetyNet API to make sure the device is “certified”. When this API check returns false, some features (like downloading media for offline viewing) will be disabled for the device. In some cases, the app won’t even show up in Google Play. Devices with a custom ROM are likely to fail the test, but luckily the check can be circumvented with the hide feature of Magisk[3]. Netflix works fine on my LineageOS-powered device when using Magisk.

But even if your device passes the SafetyNet checks, you might not be able to play HD videos. This depends on the Widevine security level, which can be L1, L2 or L3; only devices with L1 are allowed to play HD videos. You can check your device’s Widevine security level with DRM Info[4], for example. Netflix also lists specific device models and chipsets for which they support HD streaming.[5]

[1] https://source.android.com/devices/drm

[2] https://developer.android.com/reference/android/media/MediaD...

[3] https://github.com/topjohnwu/Magisk

[4] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.androidfun...

[5] https://help.netflix.com/en/node/23939
Start by publishing the name of the editor alongside each paper. Some editors barely look at papers or even the reviews. They basically just look at whether the reviewers ticked the 'accept' or 'reject' box, and base the decision on that (after possibly getting another review to break a tie). This can go undetected for quite a while, unless the journal has a chief editor who keeps on top of things.
Nice one! As a ROS user I'm looking forward to learn more about RDBOX as it's the first time I've came across it.

I'll also feature it in Weekly Robotics (https://weeklyrobotics.com/)!
Godot tutorials, a basic roguelike in C/Lua.

Bought an Oculus Go to play around with Godot's VR capabilities

Also breaking Anarki.
Little Snitch is made by Objective Development Software GmbH [1] and not objective-see [2].

[1] https://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html
[2] https://objective-see.com/products/kextviewr.html
Would you use this tool for keep team members in sync in work
I don’t have to google to know how to install video card drivers
Don't these services adapt the quality based on the quality of your network connection? In which case, it might be the same thing.
I loved this. When I was doing "Live Action Roleplaying" and organizing events I loved to create locks and puzzles for the players.

This would have been such a great thing to solve for players while being in a dungeon.
Pretty simple: 6 minutes is the minimum default for time tracking in my realm, per contract. Clients don't want multiple entries for 30 seconds or 2 minutes here and there - instead, we report in 10th's of an hour.

I quite often fix bugs in 2 or 3 minutes, or even less - on separate tasks/projects.

However the minimum time allotment for these things (billing) is 6 minutes. All time tracking (per contract) is rounded up to the next 6-minute (1/10th of an hour) interval.
Sadly not. Many professional DAWs rely on custom kexts and are therefore advising their customers against upgrading.
DoD Jenkins server in a Monero mining bot net
I Created a Video per Day for the Entire Month of January
I seriously doubt a quarantine on that scale would be effective and accepted by citizens in cases like this. If they did it may be the last time they had these privileges.

They can lock down some roads or a building and maybe the air space, but anything on a larger scale is unrealistic. If someone did this in a western democracy, you can be sure those responsible would be on their last term after the initial hysteria waned.
not overly, i'm fairly sure it provides a virtual filesystem
> These cheap Chinese cameras

People want dirt cheap stuff that has a Bible's worth of advertised features. Amazon's Ring (which is an order of magnitude more expensive than the regular cheap Chinese crap) is a dumpster fire of security and privacy to rival any Chinese brand, yet it consistently gets 4/5 stars in any review, none of which even bothers to mention the litany of findings or the fact that for the price they are unacceptable. But they are acceptable because it's not Chinese.

It's the "Made in" label that counts. People will accept more garbage for a higher price if it has a local label, and will criticize foreign things more for the exact same issues. And that's valid basically almost everywhere in the world.
When I read who's statements like: do not close boarders to china because it will hurt business, I do start to wonder.
You'll never learn it all—none of us do. But there are employers out there who are willing to give you a chance to learn on the job, so long as you've nailed the core ideas. I consult in web development, mainly using Ruby and JS, but some clients are happy to hire me in PHP despite my having no experience here. Their assumption—and I think it's a reasonable one—is that my 10yr's experience with web patterns will largely carry over.
Many military subs are actually faster submerged than surfaced.

The wave drag (or wave resistance, to disambiguate from the shock wave drag of supersonic aerodynamics) referenced in sibling comment is the energy contained in the waves created by a surface vessel. The details that you'd have to understand to optimize a hill shape are quite complicated, but for a simple surface vs sub comparison it's enough to know that surface waves exist and that they contain energy that is projected away. A sufficiently submerged vessel does not create those.
We'll hold on now. If we assume that mutations tend to cluster around cells exposed to particular carcinogens, and assume there is some number N>≈5 mutations required, in theory we could look for cases where many cells present with x% of the necessary mutations. And it becomes much easier to detect because you presumably have many cells which mutate stochastically together.
They don't match, because I have been pointed out in this thread that I need to either install a special kernel version, go hunt for a customized Ubuntu version or compile a customized kernel.

The macOS kernel doesn't require any of this, it just works.

No audio professional using Apple hardware needs to learn these workarounds to actually do their work.
Magneto: Covert Channel Between Air-Gapped Systems and Nearby Smartphones
I'm in the UK and mostly work with UK domains, so I became a Nominet registrar a couple of years ago, so now I manage my own domains and DNS servers.
I'm working on my kanban-style email client, Kanmail (https://github.com/Fizzadar/Kanmail).
Regular people also don't install on OS distribution either, they buy a laptop/desktop system.