skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The federal Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act does prohibit insurers from asking for or using your genetic information to make decisions about whether to sell you health insurance or how much to charge you. But those privacy protections don't apply to long-term-care policies, life insurance or disability insurance.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/08/07/6360262...
It's used to download things faster, not necessarily all the time.
I disagree I think personal abuse is always wrong.

You can deal with even the most extreme situations and even the worst people while still being respectful.
I'm currently using a Sony Xperia X running Sailfish OS but I'd like to switch to a Pinephone running Postmarket OS.
Except some fields of biology what fields are creationists actually not welcome in in practice? I mean some religions cuts you out of cow meat and pig farms. Creationists surely are far less limited in practice.
something being a primal evolutionary imperative doesn't make it any more meaningful. In fact it's kind of a stupid thing to care about because reproduction in that sense is truly mindless and circular.

Raising a kid is a meaningful experience, but the kids haircolor doesn't matter much.
The point is, it's not just your data. It's shared with other people who may not want it being publicised to all and sundry.
The company might still win in that exchange, since they get the labor they paid for anyway. Whether you are happy or not is only important insomuch as it alters your productivity. Don't fall into the trap of thinking a company of FAANG size cares all that much about individual employees.
Same here. These days Amazon has been demoted as my store for everyday items I don't really care about. I enjoy the free next day delivery and the fact that I don't need to register at another shop, but for items I care about (in my case it's often bike gear, audio equipment, clothing, hardware) I will always prefer the countless shops specialized in that particular product category.

In Germany they're mostly just as quick to deliver and sane return policies are required by federal/european law. And most importantly their inventory is way better - organized, curated, categorized and genuine.
When did Costco have lines outside? I’ve been to several Costco’s during the pandemic and never waited at a single one. The worst that happened was toilet paper being out.
Bonds are sold at auction. https://www.treasurydirect.gov/instit/auctfund/work/work.htm

If investors don't like the price, they are free not to buy them. A notable feature of the Greek crisis was that investors did in fact refuse to buy Greek government bonds, or only offered substantial discounts ("yields").

It is perfectly possible to have a $1 bond which pays $0.95 in 30 years sell for $1, $0.95, or even $0.90.
One of my pet peeves is Fibre To The Cabinet being marketed as Fibre.

Yes there's a fibre optic cable in there somewhere, and it terminates a bit closer to my home than old fashioned DSL, but it's still fundementally DSL. It's just a slightly shorter length of copper wire.
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To Be Optimistic, Do
> Nice job changing the goal posts.

Hardly. You contend that these actors are wearing uniforms. I argue that camouflage is generic and doesn’t serve the purpose of a uniform as it doesn’t indicate under what authority they serve.

> Are you sure? I have heard there actually are badges on the uniforms. I have only seen pictures and videos on my phone so I could not tell personally if that is the case.

It is being widely reported as such, yes. Additionally, new federal legislation has been put forward just in the last week to require federal officers to wear identification in the future.

> Anybody can buy a fake police uniform and badge as well. Amazon has multiple for cheap.
I doubt I would know a real police uniform from a fake one.

This is precisely my point.
If you're hiring smart people and they get into your company and find no way of succeeding, that's because your company sucks, not your hiring. This person isn't complaining that the job is to make people click on facebook ads, they're complaining because the company is so badly organised that 90% of the time is wasted not even on doing the job.
Weird - not just the lack of a numpad, but also the lack of dedicated graphics wouldn't make me think of Blender as a prime use-case for this.
Maybe - the UK seems to be going to give residency to millions of Hong King residents. Even if a small percentage of them take that offer up, that could be a decent population drop.

https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/uk-chinas-sec...
What terrible advice in this thread - bitcoin, single stock/industry portfolios, gold, overseas real estate, option trading etc are all highly risky investments.

I suggest to read "The Elements of Investing". It's a quick read and will help you have a broader (and more sane) perspective.

But in general, ensure sufficient diversification and time horizon, then add more over time. If you're all in one stock - diversify asap.
You don't need no Service Mesh
Apparently Nubank has offices in Berlin, wonder if at some point there could be jobs there for working on open source Clojure things.
Belgium: 40€ / month ( Scarlet: cheapest for internet ( unlimited) + digital tv)

Most expensive ~100€/month ( Telenet: internet + TV )
I work in R&D for a marquee brand corporation in Europe. Senior Dev, salary is €60k minimum salary in my country is €20k.
Aren't the NINJA loans an example of why we need more bank regulations and tighter loan cheks instead of making banks hand out even more loans?
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Thanks but it doesn't, I want a watch to keep track of my swimming training, I'm afraid using USB connectors would make the watch less waterproof.
So we have a disagreement about the fundamental facts, and your solution is to stop the conversation.

Thank you for perfectly illustrating the problem I'm talking about.
I don't think that calling mask skeptics morons or any other forms of ungentleness are likely to help. I can't think of any instances where large minorities have been convinced of their wrongs by mean talk from the majority.

What would actually help is a commencement of sensible policy at the top. Another thing that would help is an enforcement scheme with teeth. It is incorrect to pass laws about important topics then decline to enforce them rigorously. But I think insults are not on the list of helpful things.
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i mean, it's definitely not "ethnically" wrong LOL. (ps: in case people missed it, it's ethically, not ethnically)
Labour ==> Labor
I worked at a large tech company, not a FAANG though, and experienced much of the same as you. It took forever to get things done, and a large part of that was due to the dev environment. There were numerous internal tools that were not well documented. Etc.

I moved to working at start ups where the code is open source. Start ups move faster, and it's easier to use open source tools than internal/proprietary tools. At the large tech company, we couldn't use anything past C++03 (this was in 2016), due to technical constraints. At my start up, we use the newest C++ as soon as it comes out.

For what it's worth, the start up I work at now is fairly large and has a lot of code running in production. So I get the reward of pushing to prod, but the dev speed of a smaller company. Sure I take a pay hit, but I still make more than enough money, and I get to work on cool stuff.
I feel the same way. I don't see the point in wasting 40hrs of my life every week doing something I hate, I'd rather go all-in on something that interests me and have something to show for the hours I put in.
In this case he was already warned for calling people morons, then he called people moronic fools. Surprised pikachu face?
If you want an automatically generated report you can just run ZAP, Burp or Checkmarx against your system yourself :/
This doesn't make any sense - a naive reading of the financial crisis should have pushed UP rates. As it did for Greece for a while.

Negative rates are quite clearly an advantage. If I could borrow a trillion CHF at the Swiss -0.75% rate I would, and then enjoy the free money.
I find singing to be boring. You are either born with the talent or not. It’s nearly impossible to practice your ass off to go from tone deaf to the voice of an angel. On the other hand, you could pick up a guitar be tone deaf, practice your ass off, and eventually be a virtuoso. That’s much more impressive than being born with an ability to sing.
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If you say and do things you are proud to say and do, then it is easy to brush off criticism. If a community goes into a purity spiral and deems something I'm proud of to be wrong, they're doing me a favor expelling me as I want no part in it. Again, consider the flat earthers - their criticism means nothing to me because I am proud of supporting science, and I will continue to support science regardless of any consequences.

Criticism only stings when it is valid. If you say or do things you're not proud of, and someone calls you out on it, you can't simply ignore it, you have to address it, and that may be uncomfortable if not downright painful. However it is not the fault of the party laying valid criticism that you feel uncomfortable. You did something you are not proud of, and this is merely the consequence of it.

If you have a problem with my position, I strongly encourage you to tell my that it's hurt you, tell me why, and suggest how I should behave differently. This goes for both the person I'm replying to and anyone else who might read this. Assuming you're a reasonable person, I do not wish to make you feel uncomfortable, and if I have I would like to change my ways so I won't do it in the future. If you simply assume I'm an asshole and say nothing, then I will have no opportunity to rectify the situation, and I will go on just being, at least in your eyes, an asshole. Now if your objections are dumb, I may very well ignore them and continue being what you view as an asshole, but in that case I will be doing so with pride, and you too can continue to hold your position with pride.

A system where everyone expresses their minds and we all bear the consequences of our actions is much better than one where we bite our tongues and hope that everyone else does as well.
It’s been years, so I know I’ll get the details wrong, but I vaguely remember a dating website that had an entry survey to help match people to whoever had the best compatibility score. But, for whatever reason, they got far more women applicants than men, and started turning particular women away. And some other dating site tried to advertise to those women (not good enough for ___? Try us instead!).
Same here, I haven’t used Instacart in months and my account was locked on July 12th from bad login attempts.
Museums do tend to have many volunteers, but I'm not sure how this is a silver lining. For one, larger museums employ a fair number of people, from educators to scientists to tradespeople to curators. In fact, many of them are already out of a job. Even museums with large endowments quickly started to lay off workers [0]. I would also argue that to volunteer in a museum is a rich cultural experience -- often a chance for people to engage with a discipline they are passionate about. They may not have been paid, but they are surely missing this connection with the people, places, and objects they love.

[0]: https://hyperallergic.com/551571/moma-educator-contracts/
or maybe programmers are overpaid...
You can, but you ain't gotta. Not everyone deserves our respect, especially not those calling for ethnic cleansing.
Last I heard Germany was squarely situated in Europe.
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let's have a test here then. Posit: The US Constitution outlines a pretty good system of representative government. We should try reimplementing system again in the USA.

My bet is that if you disagree with either statement, saying so wont worry you. If you agree, where would you feel comfortable saying so? Here? Church group? Drinking party / orgy / porch chat?
To all JavaScript users, what is an event loop?
What other interesting aspects of JavaScript do you know? We've got to understand our tools better (:
Neither of those are particularly compelling IMO.

The first is a digital information gatherer that is explicitly not playing the role of a therapist (likely for the reasons I mentioned above around risk/cost of failure, difficulty in evaluating what constitutes 'good advice', and probably legal barriers). There is a world of difference between a chatbot that does information retrieval and an autonomous agent that provides therapy.

The second is also vastly different from the "summarize legislation and detect 'nefarious' clauses" scenario in the article. They are identifying errors in standard NDAs, which is a (comparatively) well-defined, straightforward supervised learning task where the data has a pretty consistent shape unlike congressional legislation and what 'nefarious' means. (I have to make some assumptions here since as far as I can tell there isn't a technical paper on the work).

These sound similar to the tasks in the article, but once you get into the details of implementing and deploying them, I don't think they're very similar. You would still need to solve the problems that have plagued self-driving cars for years: high cost of failure, unpredictable failure modes, a long-tail distribution of data that prevents realistic-to-collect data sets from generalizing well enough, almost no progress in AI for autonomous agents (RL is promising, but it hasn't really made it out of the lab yet AFAICT).
Having your gps time-out on you might be lethal. Imagine an hypothetical auto update bricking all gps devices in the group on a mountain top or the sea and relying on a compass and map if you were smart enought to bring it.

Not having a gps makes many endouvers just that much more risky.

Edit: made it clear it is a hypothetical scenario
There's a difference between dominating a market by market share and dominating by profit margin. Apple certainly doesn't sell the majority of phones, but they do make more money than anyone else on phones by a lot. Similarly, Tesla looks to me like the only company positioned well to ever make large margins selling significant numbers of cars. If you buy that analogy, and realize that the automobile market is about 4x the smartphone market, Tesla could be worth 4x Apple, discounted by however likely you think that future is.
I wonder what the root cause is? They've just tweeted that the outage is also affecting call centres and their ability to receive email. [0]

I'm glad their stuff is designed with zero connectivity in mind. Just slightly irked that my history isn't cached on my phone.

[0] - https://twitter.com/GarminUK/status/1286279863217926144
They aren't owed anything either. If bad decision makers are rewarded then the situation will only get worse and people who don't know what they are doing will accumulate more market power.

There needs to be some sort of program to keep people fed and in decent accommodation; but there is too much to be lost rewarding people for standing by idly while bad decisions get made with their money. It is not going to work out well in the long term bailing out specifically the people who are screwing up.
These words of CS Lewis seem appropriate in our time of COVID as well. Here’s what he said in 1948 about the mental shift required by living with the threat of the atomic bomb:

> “How are we to live in an atomic age?” I am tempted to reply: “Why, as you would have lived in the sixteenth century when the plague visited London almost every year, or as you would have lived in a Viking age when raiders from Scandinavia might land and cut your throat any night; or indeed, as you are already living in an age of cancer, an age of syphilis, an age of paralysis, an age of air raids, an age of railway accidents, an age of motor accidents.”
I do full disk image backups of my half full 1TB OS drive to a HDD every day, and upload archive to remote storage every few nights, so about 1-2 TB a week of uploads.
Then i have my other HDDs backed up once a week, so about 10-20gb of changes a month.

Now i started doing photography as a hobby, and boy, are those raw files large. 24mb each. Last weekend i was on a short trip with friends, 75 GB of raw photos and videos. Gotta back those up, the faster the better.
Interestingly I was actually looking to see if they had Till in the list :)
short term: low IQ high ambition college students clone your organs in a disgusting vat that never gets washed, repurposed from a salmon hatchery. They benefit nobody and mostly get poked with sticks and dissected.

long term: your clone gets to live on after the 99% are eliminated by the elites.
To get their market cap you need to factor in solar, batteries, and self driving cars. Just FYI I think you are missing these.
A year ago in southern Switzerland I was paying $40 for 10 GB symmetrical fiber. There was a $30 option through another carrier, but you get what you pay for right?
Well, that’s only true if you plan to sell the code. Much code exists not for its own sake, but to support the business. Maybe you need to build an in house inventory system for some kind of complex product you’re building. You were never gonna sell that software, but you still won’t open source it because that would help your competitors...
having filtered the following results on google (google search filter), I'm finding the content to be bearable again:

experts-exchange.com

medium.com

steemit.com

quora.com
And https://16colo.rs/
Do you not agree that value creation is correlated with salary?
Let's rewrite everything in Julia.
Yes, recommendation is preferable than mandatory enforcement.
They are idiots. Why tip toe around and try to spare someone’s feelings who express statements that are provably false and should be known by someone who has enough of an education to read?

It’s not like a difference of opinion between supply side and demand side economics.
Microsoft has SDEs as well
>> Contextual extension by abstract inference is the basic (and hardest to achieve) building block of AGI, and we have achieved it.

What is "contextual extension by abstract inference" and why do you say it's "the basic building block of AGI"? Can you point to an authoritative source for the two parts of the statement (i.e. a source that defines "contextual extension by abstract inference" and a source that asserts this is "the basic building block of AGI")?
Honest question: do you believe everyone deserves respect no matter what they do?

I am all for keeping things civil as much as possible and keeping conversations polite. But to me respect is earned, not a given.
Meh. When a person identifies with a stupid idea (i.e. "I'm a flat earther"), then the person is stupid along with the idea, and it's okay to say so (IMHO). It's good for evolution to give such "corrections".
They're not just a car company, that is a poor comparison. They sell batteries which is much higher margin, and they take advantage of green EV policies which no other car company is well positioned to do. These two advantages alone set them far above other car companies.
We may already have herd immunity – an interview with Professor Sunetra Gupta
Show HN: Create dynamic mixes for Apple Music that auto-update with new content
Hey HN, I'm Tanmay, the developer of an Apple Music iOS app called Soor (https://soor.app). I'm excited to launch v2.0 today with a couple of major features.

Magic Mix

- Create highly dynamic mixes based on filters and sources.

- A magic mix can be a combination of multiple sources and filters.

- Apple Music sources means the magic mix contents will change as Apple updates their curation. This is what makes this feature unique, there's no other app out there that does auto updation of both local and Apple Music based sources.

- Integrated with Siri so you can just run any mix via a voice shortcut.

Release Alerts

- Add your favourite artists and the app will automatically notify you of their new releases.

- You can also manually add a release reminder for any upcoming album.

- Artists and release reminders are synced via iCloud.
(Not the OP, but running a fairly similar setup, albeit for EKS nodes rather than ECS nodes :) )

Fargate Spot is about a third of the price of Fargate (at least in eu-west-1 now according to: https://aws.amazon.com/fargate/pricing/ ); so the savings are roughly identical.

Re risk of running out, our current strategy is to use different-but-closely-similar instance groups; so for example we have an autoscaling group running a mix of:

- m5.large
- m5dn.large
- m5n.large
- m5ad.large
- m5d.large

Which are the same price on Spot instances, but I'd wager it'd be pretty rare to have all these families reclaimed at once.

(We also use some on-demand only ASGs with lower priority in the cluster-autoscaler to ensure that if it _does_ happen, then we'll have a fallback)
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Almost surely: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theorem
Interesting quote:

What’s disappointed me about the way this [pandemic] has been approached is it has been approached along a single axis, which, if you like, is a scientific one. Even within that context, you could argue that it’s too one-dimensional, so we’re not thinking about what’s happening with other infectious diseases or how many people are going to die of cancer.
That’s the axis of disease, but then there’s the socioeconomic axis, which has been ignored. But there’s a third, aesthetic axis, which is about how we want to live our lives. We are closing ourselves off not just to the disease, but to other aspects of being human.
This is very true. Great leaders are Stevie Wonder - they are super good because that's what they want. They want to see the good in humans.
Very well written article!

If someone is interested in learning all the AWS concepts, here's an awesome e-book which is written by the legend Daniel Vassallo himself.

https://gumroad.com/a/238777459/MsVlG
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> Violence has always been a part of "play"

I've had a lot of time to observe my 7-yo with her friends playing in our shared lawn (I can see them from my home office) and I find it fascinating that the most "violent" weapon-like toys they have are water guns and there is no sign of good x bad roles in their games or even the notion that the main goal is to shoot at each other.

My own childhood was much more violent, with cap guns and always present roles of deadly antagonism.

We may be succeeding at producing better humans.
No, their edge is their factories (manufacturing innovation). This is the real product. The cars don't really matter. Seriously.
I'm researching graphs used to communicate I/O error. I'm using histograms and scatterplots.

I suspect there was no small amount of work to develop the top-down, ontological framework for this catalog.

I wish there was a search feature for use cases to access the catalog from the bottom up. I would like the chance to discover additional visualizations using terms specific to my use case.
Hi. I'm the author of SEQer step sequencer.

SEQer is MIDI step sequencer that can connect with any MIDI compatible software and hardware. Expected users are techno/electronic music producers.

Not as feature-rich as major DAWs like Logic, Protools, Ableton — only 16 steps for each 4 tracks. But I’m sure this app is fun to interact with.

This is paid software, but offers 14-days demo period. So please just download and play with it!
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The fact that the kid will have another kid and bring you grandchildren is though.
You're pretty much talking about most AI there.