skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't get why people are making this case. I don't think the idea of a C corp belongs in quite the same league as the idea that murder is wrong.

Reductionism can be useful for argument but can also go too far and lose the point.
I know, the requirements for a Mac just to publish your app ALSO for iOS is a bit exhausting. Cordova or Flutter are pretty cool environments to write once and deploy every... wait, need to fire up the mac...
> family plans?

In the MVP, no. But eventually, yes.

> shared albums, who will bear the cost of storage?

Users who own the photos within the album will.
China is attempting to eradicate all religions within their borders, but I don't see what that has to do with a nation defending itself after a military attack by another country.
I wouldn't rule out it being due to Covid-19

Covid-19 is causing a lot of sharks deaths in Australia

https://taronga.org.au/conservation-and-science/australian-s...
From @ImaCake's comment¹ above, I learned that:

> Cas9 cannot edit the DNA by itself, but you can add a second enzyme to it that is able to change a single base of DNA from one letter to another. In theory this means you could target a single nucleotide somewhere in the ~3 billion letters of the genome. ..A single letter flipped from A to G or C to T.

That seems like an answer to your question. The "resolution", or a single "unit", in a genome sequence is a nucleotide.

> But it will still have unintended edits!

As for the accuracy of CRISPR, two kinds of errors are mentioned. "Off-target" mutations that occur elsewhere in the sequence:

> It is pretty trivial to test for these in whole genome sequencing, and it turns out you will get plenty of them.

And mutations that occur in the same targeted location:

> ..[The] base editor will actually target a region of about 5-6 bases around the intended target and will happily flip those bases too.

¹ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24459427

---

On further reading, a single "unit" for double-stranded D/RNA is the base pair:

> bp = base pair(s) — one bp corresponds to approximately 3.4 Å (340 pm) of length along the strand, and to roughly 618 or 643 daltons for DNA and RNA respectively.

(A picometer, "pm", is 1×10^−12 m, or one trillionth of a meter.)

@ImaCake does mention that CRIPSR is able to "target a single nucleotide", a single base of DNA.

For single-stranded D/RNA, the nucleotide is the unit, abbreviated nt (or knt, Mnt, Gnt).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_pair#Length_measurements
Chernobyl, Fukushima, and a long list of smaller accidents: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_and_radiation_accide...
Cyclone, ATS, Checked C, Ada/SPARK.
When the Hinkley project in the UK was originally planned it probably looked like a much better calculation.

Renewables were still expensive then.

Oil prices were heading over $100/barrel - with no reason to believe they would drop.

There was a lot of hope around the new generation of automatically safe reactors.

Hinkley was supposed to be the first in a chain of new reactors, with later reactors having decreasing costs due to economies of scale and learning.

Time passed, delays accumulated, the situation changed, and I guess they just refused to adapt to the new circumstances, because they'd already spend so much money?
How do comedians fall in the ABC test? they can work multiple clubs, venues are not exclusively doing a single thing, and the venue doesn't control the jokes they tell.

Musicians are quite similar as far as I can tell.
You protect people by having an effective and sustainable social state, not by making the economy more inefficient and offloading your social policies to the hands of the companies that are least able to avoid them.

Is this really what you want? To have your economy become less able to sustain social welfare, and to have the least moral companies become a greater and greater part of the economy? Because with the policies you are advocating that is what you are selecting for.
Your phone's CPU was designed in the UK! (alas Arm are now owned by a Japanese company)
Ask HN: Should I quit the field of software development?
I have been in the field for a few years, mostly doing backend development.

I'll preface this by saying this field has never been my passion, just a profession I like.

I have been having an extremely difficult time with getting and clearing interviews. Screening rounds have become at least 2-3 hour long algorithm solving sessions which can range from dumb (requiring me to know some syntax that I am not allowed to look up) to extremely demanding.

System design rounds require me to solve problems that the top engineers in the world spend months on. One question I was asked was "How do you make sure that a celebrity's tweet reaches all of her followers in less than 3 seconds?". I had no idea, I have never handled that kinda scale. In fact most of my work experience is kinda vanilla and boring, so I generally have nothing much to draw on or much to talk about.

Also, I'm not talking about FAANGs here. I never even applied to them. I apply to basic CRUD development roles, half of them entry level, and even there, the grilling has become intense, if I even get an interview.

I haven't even applied to jobs for weeks now, because in interviews I feel like I'm getting humiliated and I want to apologize and end them half-way.

I'm sorry if this is incoherent.

I'm sure the problem is me, since other people are doing fine. I need to draw a line and figure out some good indicators of when I should quit this industry, and anyone here who could give a few pointers on that, I would be thankful. I don't want to throw more time and resources into an industry where baseline expectations are something I can't/won't reach.
Openness Movement (open source) Curriculum
> Are you afraid to use your main account?

Obviously. That's been an explicit goal of some fringe political groups for a while.
NOTE: This is not my article. This is just a reformat and mirror of a paper by John Willinsky because the original link renders slow.
>E.g. your amount of thrash you can dispose per month is highly regulated, via communal key-card opened dumpsters. Once you’ve reached your threshold, the dumpsters stay closed.

Do you have any source for that? I find it fascinating, but was not able to find any link about this, only that the student dorm does not have "bio"-dumpsters for compostable garbage.
Cool, which search engine are you using?
It's not a bug, it's a feature. As mentioned in the video Tesla got a bunch of charging curves which might be interesting to them. In case they want to open up their network it was a successful friendly user test. All cars charged and unplugged at first attempt. Oh and did I mention the free publicity?
Green Electricity Might Not Be as Green as You Think
Considering they only got it right 60% of the time, that still means there’s a large proportion that are unintuitive, so I don’t think it makes sense to trumpet this as if it’s super clear cut which are obvious and which aren’t.
I guess at the end of the day they are Germans lol
Maybe im missing it, but the argument seems to be morality is objective because everyone thinks it is. How is that not begging the question?

Then there are a bunch of pithy lines, which the author seems to treat as obvious in context revelations, but to me seem to utterly lack evidence/argument.

> "No matter how the universe had turned out, two plus two would equal four and it would have been wrong to torture people for fun."

Umm why? That seems non obvious to me.

>"Pleasure is good and suffering is bad because Reality is essentially directed toward the former and away from the latter"

Is it though? And that's ignoring the whole question of wtf does it even mean for reality to be directed in some direction.

> "My proposal is that the inherently directed nature of Reality entails that it’s objectively good for Reality when it manifests as pleasure and objectively bad for Reality when it manifests as pain."

Umm ok.

>"It is broadly agreed that (all things being equal) pleasure is good and pain is bad..."

Isn't the definition of pleasure, being good. Seems kind of circular - everyone agrees feeling good is good and feeling bad is bad.

>"The reality of objective value is a non-negotiable data-point and we are entitled to make whatever postulations are required to account for it."

'kay then.
Main focus is on IT, and sure maybe the US dropped the ball somewhere there, but the US is far beyond the leading biotech innovator in the world. This is harder to oust because of the regulatory standard (maybe a little eroded now, but not much) to sell products in the US market.
The UK has already left the EU (it's in the transition phase now) and Ireland and Malta both have English as an official language.
It’s not actually that hard and can be done on any modern computer w/ a lot of RAM easily (albeit takes longer than the near instant application on a camera phone photo).

The images also aren’t that large, just high res for a single focal plane image. I have personally taken WAY higher resolution photos than 3.2 gigapixel before using post-process stitching of hundreds (or thousands in one case) of photos. My highest resolution one I’ve taken was from the roof of a building in San Francisco. It was just over 2,000 twenty five megapixel images using a 400mm lens and produced a combined image over 10x higher resolution (Around 42 billion pixels) than this does.

Fun fact, 3.2Gp can still be stored as a single jpeg. The JPEG file format tops out at 4Gp (64k x 64k). PNG can’t go that high generally because it tops out at a 2GB file size (limited by bytes rather than pixels). For the previously mentioned 40Gp image, the file format I had to use was PSB. It’s been almost a decade since I took that pano, but if memory serves the file was around 150GB.
"more important" than they are for short stints of the lockdown intervention.

I'm not dismissing first order effects. They are important. However higher order effects are where feedback cycles usually reside (ex: whats happening with climate change). So ignoring them is not a good idea even if during the initial phases it might seem like obsessing over details. In poorer countries, we can't ignore the risk of people dying due to hunger triggered by lockdown for covid19, for ex.

Public policy is hard and chock full of higher order effects. Common mental habits of super focused problem solvers don't help and can be downright bad to address such problems (ref: Dietrich Dorner's revealing book "The logic of failure").

Around my locality (Chennai, India) it is a very compelling argument that lack of awareness of local geography can be behind the dire water supply situation. For example, all localities with the name "pakkam" were originally in the vicinity of large water bodies .. nearly none of which are around today. Many localities were named after the dominant vegetation in the area, which you won't see any signs of today.

Yeah the commute is probably not going to help much because the commuters will likely be on their phones or cursing the increased traffic due to the need to be in offices. Feedback loops start that way.
By home-not-a-house, do you mean an apartment? Duplex? Tent?
Thank you for the new knowledge that "eso" is pronounced similar to "iso" in some dialects of English, I didn't know that.

However, the word "isoteric" is more correctly spelled (in non-phonetic spelling) as esoteric. The prefix "eso-" means "inside" in Greek, as in "esothermic", or "esophagus". The prefix "iso-" means "equal", as in "isomorphism", "isosceles", "isometric", etc.
> As an individual welfare recipient, my "ownership and control" of the welfare system is effectively zero.

No, it isn't. Every citizen has the same share of ownership and control as every other. One person, one vote and all that.
Takes up a serious privacy issue which isn't getting surfaced for google photos given its free. There has to be something shady happening behind the scene with google photos data given its offering such expensive cloud storage unlimited free.

1. Any reason for the storage pricing to be significantly more expensive than other cloud storage providers like drive, onedrive?
2. How do you plan to support sharing if the data is encrypted using the user password generated key ?
Nikola Denies 'Fraud' Allegations, Threatens Legal Action Against Short-Sellers
it does range requests to these bundles, attempts to extract the partials while keeping the http connection alive using up GB of memory in the process, and then totally fails pretty regularly when it need to go back to the network. It makes no attempt at recovering those chunks, re-establishing connections, or using any intelligence at all.

It also overwhelms http header size norms on the regular and runs up memory when attempting to use those bundles.

Chunks/bundles are, in fact, strictly worse unless you get your initial clones with a good piece of software like curl.
> There is no power differential. You are free to work or leave.

There's no power differential, you can choose to live or die. See, easy.
Consider the difference in value between a fish and the knowledge of fishing. Now consider the value of a set of fishing gear to the invention of fishing.
My dad used to have a house there - other than the Basque food I can’t imagine why I’d go back
Things escalated pretty quickly between first flowers and fist primates
They work fast, eh? (Speed... run.. er, never mind. ;D)
Well to start with, I would put more onus on the interviewer to extract information rather than on the candidate who is already likely to be stressed.

Not every personality difference can be reduced to anxiety. That is precisely the kind of closed world-view I was talking about that can form within homogeneous groups.
When innovation in the world of bits is no longer sufficient and mass innovation in the physical world is required, what is the western world going to do? Knowledge is not something permanent and mass production was centralized in China decades ago. Nobody around you remembers how to build real things, unlike your competition in China. They call the shots now...

"Almighty Chinese gods, can you please design, prototype and mass produce this device for me. I would like to use it as a platform and run my crappy code on it so I can compete with your own people".
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Job Title: Laravel Developer

Company : Tartl.net (Early stage startup)

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Email : hello (at) tartl.net

Looking for help with Laravel Redis Queues, CRUD APIs and the like (Also looking for a fulltime react dev). Only hiring in India at the moment.
China’s protectionism is fairly blatant, but Japan also engages in some aggressive protectionism as well.
That is totally true and I was just pointing out, that bashing the other system is not OK, just because you want to minimize your overhead. Windows might be the inferior platform or not for a specific purpose. But talking bad about the neighbor, because you dislike his house color is not something I want to have in our dev community (/personal opinion).
Or, doesn’t.
FWIW, I could write the same comment as the GP. My dad even shared an office building with the person who’s the topic of this thread, for a time.

Quibbling over the definition of “innovation” aside, this country was built by immigrants because America itself is a country of composed predominantly of immigrants.

As for 1971, my explanation is that this was the point of no return for the various great society programs that we benefit from today (Medicare medicaid and social security). It was a point at which keeping a full-time w-2 employee on payroll leaped involuntarily. It made American labor safer and also more expensive, and encouraged capitalists to seek out cheaper labor in the “developing world”. It also created a lot of bureaucracy around managing the new tax dollars.

I don’t think it has anything significant to do with immigration. Although the “problem” presented by those charts is so vague that people can see in them whatever they like, I suppose.
try posting some "conservative" opinions on HN sometime and watch the downvotes fly..
Regarding Iraq, the US did remove a dictator who tossed people into industrial shredders, but didn’t account for Islam being incompatible with a functioning Democracy.
>You protect people by having an effective and sustainable social state

We're talking about the United States here.
> Some people have long commutes and wfh is great

This is exactly my situation, it takes me two hours of commute per day to get in the office, and the housing is prohibitively expensive the closer you get to it.

My quality of life is significantly improved by WFH, which leaves me with more quality time with my kids and to cook.
Please try to make HN a corner of the web where participating benefits everyone. Perhaps a breakdown or rationale as to why a camera sensor of this resolution will never be that small?
Do you think? I'd say that axioms were just taken; there's no commitment to their truth (since there is no need for it, and mathematics likes economy).
That's a good observation, and hold true in Canada to an extent too. In the US, union participation is 10% [1] while in Canada it's about 30% [2]. In the EU it's just short of 60% [3]. Amazing how each doubling or tripling of labor union participation rates creates monumental changes in the way employees are treated: minimum 35 days of PTO in Europe, guaranteed child care, mat/pat leave. It's almost like collective bargaining works.

US PTO: 0 days (!!), CA PTO: 16-30 days, EU PTO: Up to 36 days.

It was only 50 years ago that the Republicans were the party of labor unions [4]. How times changed.

[1] https://www.bls.gov/news.release/union2.nr0.htm

[2] https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=141001...

[3] https://tradingeconomics.com/european-union/labor-force-part...

[4] https://theintercept.imgix.net/wp-uploads/sites/1/2016/07/la...
Launch HN: Getkiki (SUS20) – Marketplace for sustainable activewear
Hello HN,

I’m Sidharth Das. My co-founder Stefania Daranco and I are launching
(https://www.getkiki.com) – A marketplace that helps women buy sustainable activewear.

Stefania and I met 3 years ago in Glasgow and we have been married for 2 years. Since then we’ve been looking for ways to work together. I quit my banking job early this year and teamed up with Stefania to build a food pre-order. However, 3 months into building the product and onboarding 12 restaurants, everything collapsed due to COVID-19.

Living a minimalist life opened up our world to sustainability. However, every time I opened our wardrobe, I was overwhelmed with numerous fast fashion choices. After digging in, we found out a lot of local brands sell sustainably made clothes without exploiting animals, humans, and natural resources. However, they lack technology, time, and money to piece together a system to reach out more conscious buyers.

On the buyer side, a survey by KPMG in 2019 revealed that 33% of people in London and 22% people in NYC find it difficult to buy sustainable clothing. It requires significant amount of time and effort to find sustainable fashion apparel.

We started with the whiteboard idea on June with Y Combinator’s Startup School. So far, we’ve partnered with 7 brands and included 110 product listings. Even including commission, we are 15% cheaper than Shopify. Our vendors initially joined for the free tool and they stayed with us for the network effect. Our aim is to make vendor experience frictionless than competing CMS tools.

If you have experience or if you have close friends, relatives, or colleagues who are into sustainable clothing, please reach out! We're keen to get the community's input. You can get in touch via the comments below or at info@getkiki.com.

Thanks so much, and we can’t wait to hear your thoughts!
Smaller Internet Providers in Canada Just Got a Big Win in Court
That still one less bottle in the environment, baby steps I suppose.
Success Is Relative (Updated)
Show HN: Explore breathtaking places from home with 360° Audio Tours
Surprise Me is a mobile app to get self-guided audio tours and attraction tickets. We launched on international market in 2019 and were happy to serve 5K customers. Our mission is to make you feel you have a knowledgeable friend in every city you go.

Coronavirus hit hard all travel and hospitality industry including us. But we are not giving up on our mission.

Now we offer two products to help you travel even if borders are still closed:

— Online 360° Audio Tours: Google StreetView's walkthroughs accompanied by an expert audio guide
— Video Recorded Tours: recorded city discoveries and cooking classes
That's not monopolistic abuse; what you described is just investment in a new sector with profits from an existing one. Companies, investors and funds do it all the time.

Abuse would be when a company leverages a monopoly to enter or influence another market, such as bundling Internet Explorer with Windows.
Heh, pretty clever humour if intentional :-)
As long as I used FF I always used Firebug. Thanks Joe Hewitt.
> There has to be something shady happening behind the scene

Haha, I believe so too.

> more expensive

Not owning data centers definitely is one reason. But I believe that I'm cheaper when compared to other alternatives[1] that are attempting to solve the same problem.

> sharing

When you attempt to share a file, the file-password is encrypted with a freshly generated key, sent to the server, and this key is then shared via public key cryptography (or within a URL fragment in case of a public-share).

[1]: https://crypt.ee
Rube Goldbergs are vital for middlemen to profit by rent seeking. It's the american way, especially for health care.
Not much changed in 150 years:

Post-2000 SV VC: So what kind of work do you do?

Me: Software Engineer.

Post-2000 SV VC: Oh, sorry to hear that. Software is a dying industry. You need to learn a new career.
That's just ignorance of how science works. There are no experiments in astronomy either ... or are there?

Natural experiments. Just as much as they happen in economics and sociology. And even though stars and black holes might be simpler than humans, it doesn't mean the soft sciences are not science.

That said exactly because of the additional complexity the bar should be higher for what's acceptable as research, viable methods and appreciable results.
It's a more comfortable read on HackMD, which adds a sticky TOC: https://hackmd.io/Z6w4WVQdSeuByYdoTi1X2Q?view
In places like New York, the taxi medallion is only required for picking up people on the street. If the customer calls them up it is a different story, anyone can operate that way (so I don't see why a taxi driver can't do it too on their own time). This is why Uber can exist, regardless whether their drivers are employees or independent.
The Race to the Pole
Consider that even murder isn't universally considered bad. Examples include wars, self defense, proponents of the death penalty, the sentinelese, etc. Debates can get particularly heated when one gets into things like abortion and ethical dilemmas.

As for the dichotomy of logical verification given our meat-based fallible physical medium, I'm reminded of Godel's incompleteness theory, i.e. that it is possible for a set of axioms to be internally consistent (e.g. basic algebra), yet we can construct a meta set of axioms to demonstrate that it is impossible to mathematically prove every truth therein.
Hi.
I did something similar back in 2016 - scripting/abusing the youtube api to skip inside the video.

https://tldws-16b54.web.app/#/discover
A little side project that went nowhere.

Website's up, but I'm not sure api calls work anymore.

Anyway, I'm all for TLDWing videos. You are welcome to message me if you think I can contribute eyalfein@gmail.com
Right now you can idealize what you anticipate the social interactions in a work setting will be because you haven't yet experienced it (for any extended period of time at least.)