skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What was announced 20 years ago was an incomplete assembly that met certain metrics that made sense at the time.
https://www.nature.com/articles/35057062 is the paper. It describes the assembly as a "partial draft".

The section "Background to the Human Genome Project" gives some color on why they did what they did (TL;DR there was an ostensibly competitive race between the public project and a private one).

I ended up providing some useful resources for helping uncover just how bad genomic assemblies were (at the comptuational level): most genomic assemblies using whole genome shotgun sequencing used a number of heuristics which were believed to be correct, but I suspected that the heuristics failed to deal with repetitive regions and short sequences well. So I built a computing system with >1M xeon cores (Google Exacycle) and we provided the system to Gene Myers (who did the original WGS assembly for Celera). he used the system to do an all-vs-all comparison of sequence pairs, which found numerous bugs and problems with the heuristics that were being used. It was a huge amount of compute but the result was that myers was able to use PacBio data to assembly a significantly better genome, faster, on a laptop: (https://www.yuzuki.org/favorite-talk-agbt-2014-gene-myers-ma...)
UFO VPN that claimed 'no logging' policy leaks user logs of 20M users
Quite true - my language was not precise
Interesting. In China, TikTok(Douyin) is actually more popular in big cities, and Kuaishou is more popular in smaller towns.
I shared this article with my company. It was amazing how fast our leadership (particularly those involved in interviewing) came back with critiques about sample size or if they properly accounted for student performance in the study. Perhaps fair critiques, but it's not like this effect is unknown by software engineers (unless your head is really stuck in the head). Ego defense at its finest.
Oh please, of the hundreds of thousands of police officers who've done far more for the good of their society than you have, you're saying 100% of them deserve to be doxxed. That would be like saying "because x% of software engineers are pedophiles with child porn that they share around with others on their secret servers, all 100% of them are disgusting and deserve the mercy of the mob because they can't seem to fix the problem."
A lot of people carry a fixed mindset, where we focus on what others think of us. The first girl had this image she had crafted for herself, and when reality split from that she came up with rationalizations that disconnected her from others and herself (and likely prevented her from getting treatment sooner, and may create resistance to “non-pill” treatments). I think it’s really normal to have this mindset because we live in relation with others, and we fear rejection. Others may reject us if we DONT maintain this image.

But the truth is we don’t have control over others so it’s a fool’s game to maintain an image. things can happen to “pop” it, and then you are crushed. Like the Michelin chef who committed suicide when he was in debt, felt washed up as culinary trends changed, and recently had a slight downgrade in his reviews (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Loiseau)

A better way I am learning (and far yet from fully realizing) is to anchor your self identify to things you can control. So rather than thinking of yourself as confident, normal woman, you might think of yourself as a woman who feels deeply and takes action. In this case, feeling depressed is not a threat to that identity - it becomes a challenge to rise up and meet, and focuses on what YOU can do, not what others think.

This all comes from the book “mindset” if you want more info.
His Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Hegdahl
Even better, the phone can just sleep and modem will wake it up when (SMS) messages/or calls are received. No need for polling.

You can also set up RTC to wake up the phone periodically and perform whatever polling you need and put it back to sleep afterwards, all automatically.
Which part? This is a report identifying breaches from a specific group (APT29) and the relevant signatures to detect them. They are releasing this to warn private companies of breaches.

I don't see how it's a "joke" to release a report that could benefit the security posture of an organization. Isn't that what our governments' cyber security groups should be doing?
History trivia: Cloudflare stole this from SGI, who patented the idea.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavarand
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Yes, I've certainly considered it.. but I still have some time there. My oldest is only 16, and her decisions now are certainly not indelible.
I'm guessing use of 2FA internally could have prevented this intrusion but that's a hassle so...
This does seem like a problem, but at the same time, this would appear to be the expected result from a well-written recommendation engine. That is, if a user watches a bunch of videos about a specific topic, it makes sense that it would recommend more of that same topic, since that is clearly what that user is interested in.

That said, I see how this is a problem, but what is the solution? Do away with recommendations altogether?
Under UBI, how many people would willingly give up their jobs just to live on a subsistence level income, and for no other reason (e.g. study or childcare)?

Under means-tested benefits, how many people without work are discouraged from taking low-paid or part-time work because their social security payments are clawed back, resulting in no financial gain for them?
I wrote an extension which does that; it keeps you on the Latest Tweets timeline and moves retweets to their own fake timeline, so by default you only see original tweets and quote tweets from people you follow:

https://github.com/insin/tweak-new-twitter#tweak-new-twitter

I've been using Twitter this way for years and consequently find the unmodified version completely unusable, so it was either learn how to do it on New Twitter or quit using it at all.
Woah, that’s one serious home laboratory.
this is extremely exciting, a truly wonderful release.

well done rust team
I am surprised when people use pickle NOT as a last resort.

For numeric data, H5 is nice. For configs, JSON is pretty much a standard. For Python code... well, nothing beats Python code.
The literal purpose of UBI is to ensure that taxpayers do owe each citizen a fixed amount set at an average living.

Not average. It's Basic. It's just enough to get by. That's the incentive to work: most people want to do more than just get by. Anyone who doesn't want that would be a drag on any system, so that's a separate problem to deal with. But there are a lot of people who can't get ahead with the current system who would do better in a UBI system, and we'd all be better off if we could get those people productive and happy.
It's easy enough to make your own magnesium water, using magnesium hydroxide (as the laxative Milk of Magnesia) and carbonated water: http://www.afibbers.org/Wallerwater.pdf

Milk of Magnesia is in every grocery store. I buy from Fry's (Kroeger), because their version doesn't have any additives.
"Russian hackers target...", isn't such news somewhat related to HACKERnews?
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No, was watching the tweet stream for this address. It was sent out on hundrends or thousands of accounts. Dozens of high profile accounts sounds correct.
Regarding language changes, I think this has improved quite a bit. I forget if stability was introduced in 4.x or 5.x, but code written today should be fine even when run through a new major version of the compiler. You can simply ignore new language features you aren't ready for until your codebase is due for a refactor.

Regarding ARC, you don't have to use reference types in Swift, and the community seems to agree that structs are more suitable than classes for most use cases (a SwiftUI app is made of structs that conform to certain protocols, and those structs can be initialized, copied, and "modified" with little overhead).

The cool thing about Swift is that structs can still have methods, computed properties, and custom initializers. So if you're coming from Python or Ruby or Java, or think OOP can help you organize your code, you don't have to throw away everything you've learned in order to be productive and write elegant code (and Swift brings a few new OOP tricks of its own).
If x% of software engineers are child porn peddlers, are the rest complicit because they can't stop them from storing it, sharing it, selling it, etc?
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Just because mail in ballots haven't been attacked doesn't mean they can't or won't.

I'm all for more mail in ballots, just saying.
> We should be moving on from this. … I'm absolutely disgusted by the modern tendency to reduce everything to race. The color of someone's skin is not important … "White" is not a cultural concept.

You can't discuss racism without discussing race and skin color. I'm trying to think of why you wouldn't think talking about race would be helpful, and this is what I came up with: race isn't a problem in modern America; discussing race causes racism; or examining race & racism creates racial differences.

> but the opposite of hard work, individualism, and the scientific method are in fact bad things.

These are good traits, but their "opposites" aren't inherently bad.

- Hard work is the key to success; "work smarter not harder"

- The individual is the primary unit; cooperation and mutual assistance.

- Scientific Method: "Quantitative Emphasis"; qualitative readings of personal narratives such as interviews.

> accidentally claims that white traits are mostly superior

This is addressed in the webpage, and is the entire point of the graphic. "Racism is perpetuated by deeming whiteness as superior and other racial and ethnic groups as inferior. … [The superior traits] describes the experience and attitudes of those who are members of the dominant, privileged, or powerful identity groups."

The infographic is asking you to examine why you think these traits are superior. That doesn't mean they're inferior, but they aren't the best in every situation either.
That's only the case if most people are happy sitting back and living off UBI. That's not a given.

I've known people who inherited reasonable sums of money - enough to live a frugal life for a decade or so. None of them have quit their jobs and lived frugally for a decade.

What that money has allowed is security. It's allowed them to take career risks, or go back to university and retrain.

That's obviously anecdotal - my network skews educated and career driven to start with. It would be interesting to know how many people would just sit back and do nothing. It would also be interesting to know how inflationary the effect of everyone having that UBI would be - so much of the value of money comes from its relative scarcity, so maybe we'd find that if everyone has a basic income then the threshold for security just goes up.

I'm not sure how we'd establish that without trying it though.
> As well, a person is free not to agree to the terms, and just do their time.

In a case like this, there's no "time" to do. It's not as if this girl narrowly avoided incarceration on the condition that she agree to probation. Probation was the "time." Her offenses didn't qualify for a term of incarceration.
> How many people have died because of that lax safety attitude?

That is complicated to assess, how do you account for the indirect and long-term fatalities or illnesses?
E.g. here in Germany's south east (bavaria), every hunted boar is still tested whether it contains safe levels of radioactivity. Chernobyl was 34 years ago, but it still is a problem for food safety several thousands of kilometers away from the place of the accident.
This is not just censorship, it's blacklisting.

The case in the article was an electrician who lost his job, not a celebrity.
In a complex application I'd rather send a very short lived and tightly scoped token to a service written by another team or another company that I know less about.

If the service handling your access token has some security issues (old version of x y z, etc) there is limited damage if nefarious actors acquire that token. They could not keep your session alive, spread horizontally, etc. Also, you can make access tokens very short lived to minimize the window of opportunity, should someone acquire one.

Then I can concentrate on my "session service" (the thing issuing tokens) to be very secure, and tune the characteristics of either token as needed.
I'm very sorry to hear about your ordeal, it sounds absolutely horrible. However, it's surprising to me that a commercial outlet in the US is basically responsible for keeping the bandits away. In my country I really doubt such thing claim have any chance in country, as public security is seen as a role of the police. I'm not 100% sure on the law, but I believe that, here in Poland, the security guards are there to protect the company's property and have no legal obligation to protect anyone else.
So what. This isn't a Facebook problem. It's an education and gullibility problem. There should be a class in the every high schools history department the explains propaganda and gossip.
You can mute the verified accounts you don't like.
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I like that model your company is using. Though there is a major drawback: your sapping the momentum of your candidates in their job search. If they sign on for the 2 month trial and it doesn't work out, contacts in their job search will have moved on, and they'll effectively have to start over from the beginning. Ultimately, a contract-to-hire strategy overwhelmingly favors the employer's interest.
I haven't become acclimated to it yet, but I've only used it for a few months now. Maybe it'll lose its effectiveness for me after awhile? I have read that it generally doesn't build up tolerance though. I take it 2:1 l-theanine:caffeine.
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The comment wasn’t really an attack on the languages being unportable itself but more that their toolchains are complicated and not very flexible, requiring a decent amount of additional work for new architectures, whereas a lot of the “./configure && make” style projects already work.

Apple’s proprietary extensions don’t really affect porting efforts except in one specific case when writing high-performance JITs for language runtimes. (And there is a fairly simple patch to disable this entirely.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_North_Carolina%27s_9th_co...
I'm glad it helped, and I think offering up stories from all angles is really beneficial, especially when it comes to mental health. The reality is, there is no one size fits all solution, so the more people talk the better off everyone is.

I took one of the offshoots of Prozac for three months and it took my suicidal thoughts to a whole new level. For me it's all about therapy. A lot of what I'm facing is less about hormones and more about emotional trauma, so these pills are trying to fix the wrong thing. It's like fixing your breaks when the engine doesn't start. Sure, they are both parts of a car, but they couldn't be doing more different jobs.

My experience with therapy has been really eye opening. I think everyone can benefit from some form of therapy. I think the world would be a much better place if people were able to feel their emotions, explore them with curiosity, and learn from them.

Lastly, take care of yourself, friends. If you're not feeling well, please talk to a professional. They can help you.
Yeah, that's just wrong. It was mid-day PDT, right around Twitter's core hours, and many of the targets are also west coasters.
I'm Dutch and ashamed we are in these lists. Regular folks in The Netherlands don't really benefit too. Can't find it now, but I read a study some time ago that without our current tax paradise regulations we'd be better off. I suspect these things are mostly kept in place by enterprises and people in higher positions who successfully lobby the politicians.
It seems that the existing HIPAA laws are being circumvented due to COVID-19. I wonder will these laws even be applicable in the future now there has been exception to them.
Ask HN: Minimal-bandwidth conferencing for remote education on poor countries
In Brazil (and probably elsewhere) we are facing serious issues with remote education. Many students rely on 3G/4G connections with data limits and teachers are having a hard time delivering content.

For video lessons, I have been using ffmpeg to segment and compress lessons with -stillimage and the lowest bitrates possible to distribute via WhatsApp, as some ISPs don't charge for data on this popular platform.

However, me and my peers have not been able to find a solution for minimal-bandwidth conferencing, sharing only audio and still image content (slide lessons) and running on cheap Android phones and tablets. Do you know such tool/plataform, have any suggestions for alternatives or open source projects that could be easily adapted for this purpose, or can actually build a minimal solution that is suitable for this? If so, you could be really help people in poor countries.

It saddens me so much that people are being left out, poverty is on the rise and education is just being neglected. Hope I can get some good use of the intelligence pool here!
On this topic, I just finished reading “Lost Connections[0]” and would highly recommend it. Best book I’ve read on the causes of depression and how the “chemical imbalance” narrative was created by drug companies whose drugs are proven to have only a small, transitory impact. It describes how to resolve the “lost connections” that lead to depression.

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34921573
Hold up. Is the specter of existential angst, rising to outright horror if left unchecked, not just, like, a normal part of life that rises to conscious thought as soon as you’re not distracted, for the entire non-religious population?
That's how you get to be a Twitter celebrity: be either divisive or entertainingly obnoxious. Be a clown or lead a lynch mob.

It also overlaps to some extent with how you get to be a real celebrity, but social media makes the effect more extreme.
I work on mainly company internal projects, so not exactly equivalent. I had two projects shortly after transitioning from tech support to test where the pictures of the UI was the specification. After having a terrible experience on both of them, there was another project where the "owner" wanted to give us drawings of how the screens should look. We let them make the drawings, but we did not track them as requirements or specifications. It went all right, not great.

I've worked on other projects where we had an actual UX designer, and those went much better. UX is not taken very seriously by many people in tech, but it's our equivalent of industrial design.
wonderfull idea
I don't think it's good to consciously define yourself like that. We should see ourselves as we are. And realize that things aren't black or white rather than see which stereotype fits best. You may take action most of the time, and struggle to take action regarding something. You may feel deeply generally but sometimes go numb.
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Short:

The old way straight up setting up a new server could eat hours of time, let alone the network, etc ... now I can copy and paste.... and I know there are no variations, someone didn't miss a setting, and so forth.

That's a crazy big cost saving.

Longer:

Physical hardware is hard.

I worked with data center networking for a long time and the efforts to generic-ify everything enough to be predictable was endless.

Eventually you have so much identical redundancy and when VMs came around you just wondered ... "wait this has to be able to go farther" and here we are.
Just activated your sleeper account, huh? How many of these do you have?
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Our government has failed in their response at local, state, and federal levels. The other thing we're going to be seeing soon is that these Unemployment programs have failed to do what they're ordained to do.

This is an anecdote, but my brother was furloughed and has been waiting on any money (including the first stimulus) for literally months
Coal wasn't chosen after nuclear was abandoned. Coal was used for centuries before. And the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere is not only from the last 30-40 years. It started to rise significantly with the spreading of the industrial revolution.
I’m becoming weary of all these Facebook scare tactics. This types of misinformation has been on Fox and the rest of cable networks. Not to mention radio talk shows of the past 20-30 years.

IMHO, additionally this kind of data investigation needs someone with a good data science background. Otherwise all we're doing is using very limited observable dataset to make bold statements, which ironically what is happening with scaring public about voting by mail.

The author of this article is some former pentagon and possibly a military spook and not a data scientist https://projects.propublica.org/trump-town/staffers/ryan-mcc...
FYI, the project they mention, "TheirTube", can be found here: https://www.their.tube/about
Anyone able to find the paper/preprint?
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You don’t propose a solution but you seem to imply, given the context of what I said, that you want to prevent people from being able to say things, and maybe given the context of this case prevent people sending letters asking for honorary titles to be withdrawn from members of their society as in this case. Is that right?
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People keep saying this while ignoring the local huge boring IT companies and local subsidiaries of US IT companies.

Does it really matter where the nameplate that indicates where the HQ is? Or does it matter where the profits are taken for tax purposes (Apple appears to be an Irish company, by that measure)? Or where the CEO and board members are domiciled? Where the actual staff sit when they work?
It's almost as if the media was taking advantage of our psychological shortcomings and invading our personal lives for profit, at the expense of our well-being, eh?

The Internet used to be a refuge from the corporate public sphere; now it's its home.
You make a lot of great points.

If I could add anything to the SSRI topic it would be that mental health treatment is incomplete without a form a therapy. If a person's treatment plan includes SSRIs, that's great, but it should always include therapy.
I can see GPT-3 being used in a tool/add-on ala Intellisense or Tabnine, but as something to create "a way for anyone to ship a functional web app just by describing what it should do in natural language" (quoted from his website) I'm positive that we have to wait for at least a GPT version that doesn't get confused after ~200-300 words.

I guess you could create some kind of UI prototyping app, but better options for that already exist, which don't require you to write everything out.
In this more than most things, perception is reality. If people used to be less hesitant to accept the label of "chemically imbalanced" than "distressed," and now preferences are reversed then we should go back precisely to enable better treatment.
I don't understand why this approach is valuable. If you can label your examples using traditional software, why would you build a model? Why not just use the label function in whatever context you intended the model to exist?
Before this incident, protections against that were probably "a good idea at some point, but not near the top of the backlog right now"
Body worn cameras are listed as spying devices? Does that make sense?