skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, DNA traces are being left everywhere humans go. It will eventually be trivial to sample and sequence DNA. At that point, anyone could pick up your DNA traces in public and sequence them. I think we'll need to come to terms with the fact that DNA privacy will be non-existent in only a few decades.
Interesting. Rippling is the only company I’ve ever interviewed at that, with full knowledge that they were doing so, offered me a job working more hours for significantly less pay than I was currently making. When challenged, they calmly assured me that it was a good deal, asked me to value the equity at something quite above this new valuation, and urged me to take the offer. Bold, but not the way I would choose to try and grow a company.
Tonymacx86's useful information is smothered in a quagmire of utterly useless garbage, outdated, invalid information, and in general a user interface from 2001 where somewhere 65 pages of a single forum thread is the information you seek.

As a learning resource, it is a complete waste of time for trying to build a hackintosh.
"it simply means people on the right of the political spectrum who reject the establishment"

This is not correct. The term refers to the traits described in the paper: White Identarianism and anti-progressivism.
At one time I might have defended the practice, since some things are important enough that they should require supermajorities. But there's already a high bar to clear, in that legislation has to pass the House and the Senate and the President. That alone guarantees gridlock more often than not.

So I won't be sad to see it go. It's already gone in the one case I felt it was appropriate, for lifetime nominations to the Supreme Court, an enormous amount of power that doesn't require the input of the House.
Why do you think its in the margin of error? I never mentioned the error bars on the statistic - We did an extensive AB test and it was a 3% stat-sig improvement
I'm glad it wasn't worse. It seems like employers ghosting candidates has become a norm to the extent that I know if I apply for 5 or 10 jobs, I'll be ghosted at least a couple of times. It's stupidly unprofessional -- IMO, if a human looks at your application, you should get a personalized email saying whether or not they intend to move forward; and, if no human looks at the application, the candidate should get at least an automated email explaining why, or a timeframe in which a human should be able to get around to looking at it.

This ain't rocket science. Sure, individual humans who are part of the process can make mistakes sometimes, but when it's coming from a group that says "we can't hire enough people! skills shortage!", I have very little sympathy.
I thought the same thing, these businesses clearly are out of cash and credit and need to break leases to save SOME stores compared to losing all.

The idea of harsh leases in large retail stores kinda always made me laugh: For a JCP or the like, the setup costs, warehousing, and hiring work is so great that the only case where they would close a store is to stop cash from hemorrhaging beyond control. On a large scale this forces the only move for survival to be bankruptcy after falling way too far. If you're PREIT or such one can't help but realize that the overall outcome is that you'll push a tenant of a vast majority of your stores into really bad financial states that then leads to a much harder bankruptcy and possibly dissolving of the company, ripping stores out of ALL of your malls instead of 30%.

And thats why PREIT has so many malls with empty giant rooms and defaulted loans.
> to produce a Supreme Court willing to rule that growing corn to feed to your own hogs is interstate commerce

That gloss on Wickard v. Filburn was a self-fulfilling prophecy. Filburn both sold his wheat crop and used it to feed his livestock which he also sold on the market.

I never understood why legal scholars, especially conservative legal scholars, so adamantly adhered to the notion that Wickard would clearly apply to purely private use. I tend to think it's out of spite--so upset about a decision that they promoted an unreasonable interpretation as a way to vindicate their ire.

It wasn't until Gonzales v. Raich (2005) that the court clearly stated Commerce Clause powers could extend to purely personal harvest and use, where neither the product (wheat, marijuana) nor derivatives (hogs, THC brownies) would be sold[1]. And ironically (or not so ironically), it was Scalia that cast the deciding vote.[2] And why did he do it? Basically because of reliance interests--Scalia worried the legal basis for the War on Drugs would come crashing down, and that would be too disruptive. But that's tautological--it only makes sense if you ignore the facts in Wickard and the commercial nature of the drug trade. Self... fulfilling... prophecy.... :(

[1] The counter-argument is that the Wickard opinion talks about the excess wheat consumed on the farm displacing demand for purchasing wheat. But he was already a commercial farmer--it was a matter of regulating commercial demand and commercial supply. And wheat is perfectly fungible, afterall, so of what matter is it that some small portion of the wheat might have gone directly to his table? The quotas were well in excess of what would be needed for purely personal consumption, direct and indirect. The notion of displaced demand can be easily cabined to the context of a commercial enterprise, and it strains credulity to believe the Wickard justices thought otherwise. Filburn wasn't a subsistence farmer, and wheat was a direct input to his commercial livestock. So analogizing that situation to homegrown marijuana displacing demand for, e.g, commercial medications is ridiculous (or, at the very least, an analogy one could just as easily reject as accept, again circling back to this notion that the parade of horribles from Wickard was wholly self-inflicted).

[2] And because of his Gonzales decision, for the Obamacare personal mandate Scalia was forced to retreat to a tenuous distinction between mandates and prohibitions, a distinction that would have been entirely unnecessary if he wasn't committed to the Wickard mythos[3]. If he had sided with the other conservatives in Gonzales, it would have been clear that the Commerce Clause couldn't support an individual mandate any more than a private use prohibition. (That would still leave open taxing powers as a basis, however, just as Roberts concluded.)

[3] Apropos HN, s/mythos/cargo cult/
This will come back to haunt them. Good luck.
I wonder if those German workplace freedoms stem from a different legal system of culpability.

In some US states, for example, an employee who commits a crime using his employer’s computer has opened up his employer to civil liability. If the employer can show that the employee actively sidestepped the employer’s controls, the employer can make a good case against liability.

I wonder if anything like that can happen in Germany. If not, then employee privacy on employer-owned devices makes sense.
I find that once I start time traveling (say 12 moves in) you should be aiming to win or lose before you get back there.

I.e. you only have the tempo disadvantage once the present has caught up to where you traveled from
Why did you use neural networks? There are faster techniques in analytical geometry that can extract surface contours from color gradients from images, and they do this faster and directly.
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> Will you please walk me through a scenario that starts with DNA testing and ends with the murder of millions of people?

Imagine a genetic marker predisposes someone towards crime X. Now imagine that in the hands of law enforcement.

If X happens one of the first things they'll do is round up everyone with genes for X and try to place them at the scene of the crime.

The problem with that is that it means nothing. Just because a person is more likely to do X does not mean they've done X.

How do we know that will happen? Because it already happens with DNA evidence today. It weighs far more heavily in cases than it should. It may prove that you were there, but it doesn't show what you did. And that's a problem. Juries aren't generally good at realizing what DNA does and does not show.

You might think "Well, the defense should do a better job at debunking the DNA evidence". Yeah, they should. However, it's a long uphill battle to educate someone. Most people still think lie detectors and handwriting analysis actually work. Hell, many people believe that "essential oils" have mystical healing properties. You want to walk those people through the long process of "correlation is not causation"? Good luck. All the prosecutor has to do is get a DNA analysis finished which proves the presence and a cop to say "Oh, he was really evasive when I arrested him".

The state of our justice system is perfectly summed up by this tweet.

"I actually wore a bandana covering my face, nose down, to go to the bank today. Whole time I'm thinking, 'I've convicted people on less evidence than this ...'", Andy McCarthy [0]

It takes staggering little evidence to convict someone of a crime and the general public sees DNA evidence (due to shows like CSI) as absolute proof of guilt.

This may not be "murder of millions" but it certainly wouldn't be a place I'd want to live. I'd rather not be arrested by a lazy cop because I happened to go to the bank the same day it was robbed.

[0] https://twitter.com/andrewcmccarthy/status/12581541951040184...
Yup. I very much want the Mormons to posthumously baptize me!

I mean, it will probably do absolutely nothing. But, if it does have an effect, I will be eternally (literally) grateful for their help in the afterlife.
It’s going to have severe consequences somewhere down the line as I don’t believe anything nearing the magnitude and density of the coming bankruptcies has ever occurred. That being said I agree it’s meant to be this way, and I will always prioritize RESPONSIBLE business trying to restructure and preserve jobs over landholders who basically do very little work while extractIng as much rent out of their tennants as they possibly can without them leaving.
They've now added the black bar and substantive comments about her work are finally at the top of the discussion (instead of my relatively vacuous remark). I'm happy to see her getting a proper send off appropriate to her level of contributions to the field.

I think this isn't really the time or place to get into gender issues and the field of Computer Science, especially not for me. I see things very different from most other people here and that makes communication challenging.

In this case, that would amount to a terrible derail from the focus on honoring the work and life of Frances Allen.
Aside: I am upvoting this before I even read it. gwern.net in the URL is all I need to know that it's a quality submission.
Yep, NYC lease ended last month and I have not renewed.

Currently with parents in the suburbs. Given how long I estimate it'll take for cities to be appealing again (think: dining, bars, clubs, museums, concerts, and shows) I want to spend the next year optimizing for access to nature, more space, and gardening; preferably with a small group of friends.

See a more verbose plan here:

https://jborichevskiy.com/posts/friends-in-nature/
I have a heavy exposure in REITs (my only non-index fund investment). I treat these as passive investments so I had to look to see what I was actually invested in. I have no commercial exposure, but even what I have has been hit hard by COVID. AVB (residential), PEAK (life science/medical office/senior housing) and PSA (Public Storage) are all down roughly 25% YTD. I have to imagine that REITS in retail/office space are going to be doing even worse as these three are sectors that are less likely to see long-lasting contractions.
technically this will allow "working people" to continue having their jobs, otherwise the retailers will have to fire anyone and go out of business.
Though this is why we shouldn't be snarky when replying to others. Aside from just being nice, we might be the one in error and not know it.
This is a tale as old as time, seeing something that can, in morally-perfect hands, be used for good and saying "why not!?" while ignoring the human capacity (inevitability?) to use it ignorantly or outright maliciously and cause harm that outweighs the potential good.
It will, it just hasn't caught up yet.
The videos are very impressive. I wish you let us move the 3D scene with the mouse in the browser to get a better idea of the result.
> The format dd.mm.yyyy using dots is the traditional German date format.

> Since 1996-05-01, the international format yyyy-mm-dd has become the official standard date format

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_format_by_country
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Pep Guardiola confirms Eric Garcia's refusal of a contract extension
Yes it now has a built in blur background feature. (Pretty aggressive level of blurring in my experience.)
Maintaining a Geolocation Specific Game Leaderboard with Phaser and MongoDB
What domain-specific experience do you and your future co-founder have? The two of you might have all sorts of knowledge about all sorts of unsolved problems within the subject areas that one or both of you have worked in or have pursued a hobby in. Before looking for ideas to pursue, the two of you should take an inventory of your areas of expertise beyond just programming.
He has discussed his wife as well as being a male in graduate school in the past.
This is exactly how I feel. I have the 3a XL and it's a fabulous phone. the a+XL combo is a category killer if they could get their supply chain together.
Sorry, but if you ignore existing facts and reality around the western world just too parrot some libertarian free market bullshit you're clearly far too deep into dogma.
Document streaming is on the roadmap, and jkeiser is actively working on a SAX-style interface. Once these are done you'll be able to control memory usage.
Wow, that's awesome!

It's pretty cool being able to compare equivalent programs in different languages.
> from Steven King's small town horror, to the Truman Show, or PK Dick

And then there is The Addams Family. The 2019 film addresses their conflict with American suburbia quite well. In the end, the neighborhood accepts them. Sometimes art does not imitate life.
That person needs to learn not to speak without a lawyer:

“The purpose of this tweet was to find out the officer’s information, to hold him accountable.”

That can be construed as vigilantism.
Agree. I worked on MIMD systems in the 1980s that seemed cutting edge at the time. Then in 2001 I toured the Concrete, ND phased array radar facility where I saw a 16-cpu machine built by Western Electric in 1969 that had essentially the same architecture.
Personally, my fear is wasting away due to some form of degenerative brain disease. I think I could put up with all sorts of other disabilities due to age, but at the moment that I realize some pathogen is attacking the core of my being and I'm going to slowly lose who I am, I don't want to be forced to continue. I especially don't want the rest of my friends and family to watch me waste away in front of them while I forget who they are, lose control of my bodily functions... what a horrible way to go. I'd much rather bow out peacefully, while I can still do so with dignity. When my time is up it's no tragedy for me to move on, it's simply the next generation's turn.

It's a touchy subject for sure, but this is where I draw my personal line in the sand. Many others have a different set of opinions, and I'm not convinced there's one right answer. Just food for thought.
Commercial and military aviation lol. Trust me it's by design. And you don't want to get into this market.
I guess I meant how it compares to the commercial photogrammetry software out there.
This is what I'm planning on doing. Have you had any issues? The thing I'm most concerned about is hooking my apple id up to it for icloud.

Any recommendations?
Someone mentioned PREIT (NYSE: PEI) in another comment so I checked to see how they're doing. Down 80% YTD. I'm glad not to be invested in malls and shopping centers.
It's not dogma it's just logic. Finite resource, no market, means rationing. Why is that dogmatic? This has nothing to do with libertarian ideals, it's just a logical almost tautological statement.

Not every person under a universal healthcare system gets the treatment they want when they want it. Are you disputing that?
Heh, I'm in a similar boat here. I've been using Android since the original Motorola Droid, the first "Apple competitor" according to their marketing.

The short support cycle, quality issues, and dropping the unlimited Google Photos backups have me seriously considering an iPhone. While I really love Google Fi, the service hasn't kept up with the competition in terms of data pricing and coverage.
A lot of firms still pay by the hour for such work, so there's little incentive for people to be more efficient at this.

Plus for people in the first few years, there's pressure to meet a billable hour quota - work like this pads the numbers.
Not mentioned at all in the article, but what will be more interesting is when all of the landlords start appealing their property tax assessments. Obviously if the government has prevented the property from being used, it's not worth what is was previously assessed at. State and local governments are in for a world of hurt.
15% is not a terrible rate. If you look at companies like OnDeck[0] they start at 11% and don't lend to SaaS companies. There are also companies that already do this like "saas-capital"[1] which start at 12%. SVB won't lend until you're > $1M ARR. This just slightly above the market rate for a lower MRR SaaS company.

0 - https://www.ondeck.com/resources/top-10-faqs
1 - https://www.saas-capital.com/our-approach
There are. Gut flora, whatever proto-germ gave us mitochondria, etc.

Most won't be and new ones are unlikely to be very transmissible (because transmissibility would imply features that would immediately make it negative) not would it be very noticeable (hey doc, my joints feel better than they did yesterday).
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You're right that ketamine seems like a magic switch for at least some people, but please be careful if you have any history of psychosis.

I almost ended up as the murdered half of a murder-suicide due to that. Which is damnable because I've never seen any other treatment have the same effect as esketamine.

I really hope they find some way to solve that, maybe they also need to administer anti-psychotics in that case, I truly don't know. Because the treatment itself is just about as close to turning off depression as anything I've ever seen. Though I understand it may not be that way for everyone, for some, it really helps.

See also: https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/03/11/ketamine-now-by-prescr...
> Scientists can't reach a meaningful conclusion without proper use of tools.

I'm just trying to make the point that "proper" is subjective. Software developers evaluate the quality of code according to how well it adheres to well-established coding practices, but those practices were established to address long-term issues like maintainability and security, not whether the software produces the right answer.

You can get the right answer out of software even if the code is ugly and hacky, and for a lot of scientific research, the answer is all that matters.
Could be nascent markets with a few seed-funded startups trying to serve them. The goal is not to find totally uncompetitive markets but those that are more niche, with a lighter degree of competition, where marketing efforts can be more efficient. The last requirement is that there is an overlap with a larger, adjacent market along a few dimensions.
Clicking on individual VC firms doesn't show any results. Looks like a bug, as they show up in the 'all' filter.
Maybe I'm just not the target audience, but I'm still somewhat confused on what supabase actually is. All I could find was that it was firebase but open source, which tells me nothing as I'm not overly familiar with firebase (and firebase's description didn't help me understand which parts supabase tries to replicate). Literally the only way I could become familiar with firebase enough to understand how this is a good alternative is if I decide not to use supabase and go with firebase instead.
Intel's pain is AMD and Apple's gain.
Good. I like that.

Now if we can just seem to adjust whatever weird tax rules or situations allow real estate to sit largely empty and apparently not not put all that much pressure on prices... that would help too. I see a lot of commercial real estate sit empty for ages and I hear from the local businesses that the rates are still high and even going up.

A development not far from me has been at sub 50% capacity for YEARS and I've heard from locals that they're moving because they won't adjust the pricing or are demanding more...

Would be nice to see some variety beyond Chipotle or Noodles & Company or rando fitness center... or mostly nothing.

Seems like bad economic policy to have a system that has capacity, but leaves it unused save for only the highest of profit margin chains ... who probably don't pay the rate anyone else would.....
I'm a mediocre woodworker, but it seems to me cutting the dominoes on a table saw would be faster than laser cutting. Setup a sled with a stop of the proper width to create strips. The strips could be run through using the sled with the stop set to a potentially different dimension. One can then use either a drill press or a hand drill with a template to guide hole placement. A drill press would be preferred, since getting exact placement and alignment is essential to getting the rods to work.
It’s an idea that is studied in political economy. If the idea resonates with you there are a lot of discussions around it: https://www.theregreview.org/2016/07/07/lupo-a-resource-list...
There's a vast difference between a centralized, tagged database of DNA and the unanalyzed random DNA left by chance on coffee cups.
I was talking about Apache Spark via Databricks. ~220 of the people that were attached to Excel and PowerBI switched over for their calculations and data processing, 3 remained. One was let go, one didn't actually use Excel to write data, only to see it and search it, and the third wasn't able to learn the replacement so they got to keep Excel.

It's not a cruel trick and even if it was: web-based spreadsheets might not have the same functionality, but the people that were using the desktop-based spreadsheets weren't doing much more than basic computation on fields and search/replace. That works fine on the web.

It's not like we took away their toys and gave them dirt instead. We just made everyone take the startup course to get them acquainted and if that went well we would decide our next steps. It went well, and the next steps became removing Excel from the standard workflows.