skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While the power of PCR isn't in question, I think you're overstating the case at bit. It didn't "nuke" whole areas of Biology, but it did add clarity and it did answer questions which previously were hard or impossible to answer using other techniques.

I think you're being somewhat unfair about taxonomy. Before whole-organism sequencing, classifying based upon detailed physical characteristics was the only option available, and for the most part that classification did match the genetic data. Sequencing did correct some mistakes, of course, but I think it does a disservice to all the people who did highly-detailed and rigorous work in that field to claim it was "nuked" when that simply is not the case. PCR-based sequencing did not invalidate most of our existing knowledge, but it did make it a quantitative science rather than qualitative.

Consider also that PCR also brought with it a number of problems of its own. Classification based upon sequencing of individual genes also led to mistakes because it didn't account for xenologues or independent evolution of the same mutation. These were later corrected with the advent of whole-genome sequencing and comparison of multiple genes. It also led to a lot of research published demonstrating that the presence of certain genes or expression products correlated with certain outcomes. And a huge amount of that was completely false, because they failed to investigate the downstream effect of these differences. In too many cases, there wasn't any functional effect, or the wrong conclusion was drawn because of experimental error and bad statistics. The bar for publishing in a good journal is now much higher, but it's still all to easy to misinterpret genetic data.
Probably money, but that doesn't exclude the obvious racism it created. In Denmark, we had Africans in cages displayed in the Tivoli amusement park in central Copenhagen, so people could look at the spectacle that was the black person (https://nyheder.tv2.dk/samfund/2017-03-31-de-sendte-bud-efte..., in Danish).

While this was not the intent of our colonization and slavery-business, it inevitably caused it, imo. Or, the racism caused the success of colonialism, because it justified it.
Feedly + Reeder
Good article and generally agree with the sentiment. Google isn't doing this out of the goodness of its heart. As well as PR generally though, it's as much about owning the consumer. Google and Facebook are increasingly the portals through which the majority of people consume content online. Each wants to protect and grow that - it's central to their business model (and a well-understood strategy generally). The biggest threat to either is disintermediation. That would mean both less eyeballs and reduced ability to profile --> less effective hyper targeting --> reduced attractiveness to advertisers. In that context, $1bn is loose change for keeping the content providers as commodity suppliers behind the Google brand.
> making a video showing how to make pull requests

Except when it's a video clearly titled "win free shit" by abusing a system and the means to do it involve a pull request.

If I make a video on how-to insurance fraud by setting a car on fire, would you defend me by saying it's just a video about combustion?
Agreed, but you cannot avoid it : the culture of the hegemon always set the norm inside its sphere of influence. There are major symbolic/social incentives for the local comprador elites to adopt American talking points.
That's certainly a lot of capital double-yous "white" in that generally unsubstantiated comment, friend.
For some people the housing costs are even more significant. My target house is 6+ acres within 15 minutes of work. I currently have that in our two income family, and it would make moving very hard. Not only are nominal costs significantly higher in these desirable locations, but the quality is also significantly different.
I care about open source, but I also think these litigations might be harmful, I mean if the software is the product companies cannot publish the source. What probably works (and the GPL is good for) is dual licensing, one free GPL version and one paid version. If you do not want to do this, then maybe some clearly permissive license like MIT or putting it into public domain might be a good alternative.
So how high would this be?
That's why it should be forbidden by default. But if you use 1 way flow (events -> store -> ui) then MobX is great.
Something else, presumably, although their justifications usually involved racism of a far more explicit and direct variety than is commonly found today in the US. It's not very difficult to find quotes by rather recent leaders such as Churchill that would be unthinkable by a British (or American) politician today.
I agree, but I think adopting the American viewpoint is neither here nor there in terms of dealing with local issues.

The reason these issues are different in different places is history. "Racism" in the states, as a political issue and concept, is firmly rooted in their history. Slavery, civil war, post war confederate politics, etc. Poland, and europe generally, has different historical anchors.

Poland is a prime example, in fact. Consider what Poland was before 1938 and what it is now, demographically, ethnically, culturally, etc. Those things inform the present.

In some sense, interest in US politics may be useful (even if it is often irrational). It's easier to see these things about other countries... like a fable or morality tale. By eventual analogy, it may come around.
I read RSS in Emacs using mu4e. I used to use Gnus, but it's (a) really slow and (b) causes Emacs to freeze (since it's written in Emacs Lisp, which isn't concurrent); in contrast mu4e delegates work to a separate process, and is generally faster (e.g. using an indexed Xapian DB).

I'm a sucker for mindlessly checking feeds, so I only poll feeds every few hours to avoid a drip-drip of new posts throughout the day. I do this with a cron job (now a systemd service). This job also converts RSS and ATOM to maildir, since that's all mu4e supports.

It turns out there are loads of programs for polling+downloading+caching+converting news feeds, but I couldn't find any that just convert; so I made my own by stripping down one of those existing projects ( http://chriswarbo.net/git/feed2maildir ).
Here in Australia, our media seems to wholesale import US content.

My best guess is that the media owners are a) American (and want to push "the American way"), and b) it's somehow cheaper.
Ah that’s why my 10 year old dormant repository got multiple PRs yesterday
How to generate QR Code using PHP
> So it didn't actually work...it just postponed things for a while.

Lockdowns are not a permanent solution, duh. Yeah, of course they postpone things for a while, if the virus is still spreading and the population is just as susceptible. I thought that part was clear to people from the outset, but apparently not. Lockdowns buy time, slow or hopefully even stop the spread, identify and isolate cases in order to focus efforts, and then quarantine those people so it does not get out of hand. If you don't isolate the virus during the lockdown then it was pointless as it will just escape again. Unfortunately the logistics of doing that are pretty involved and it takes a serious effort and little to no defection from people escaping quarantines. It helps a lot when political leaders understand and explain the basic strategy instead of being more concerned about their political fortunes and the fragility of the economy and calling it a hoax. Mixed messages confuse people. The US government completely fumbled that one.

You want to protect people's jobs? Then do it. Provide unemployment benefits, provide wage subsidies, provide support to businesses so they don't go under. Impose a rent moratorium so people aren't evicted. Banks will not go under because of a rent moratorium. The financial system doesn't crash because of a rent moratorium. The financial system will crash if millions default, though. But instead America's political leaders chose poorly and did none of those things, or did them poorly. They bailed out absolutely the wrong people. Instead everyone's been in a rush to open everything back up, because fuck it, or something.

And the defections, the arguing, the denial. Unfortunately along with "you can't lock us in here forever"--a semi-reasonable argument which I will generously spot you--there are lots of irresponsible people out there who can't even do the bare minimum to slow or stop the spread, or who just plain don't care, who rationalize away hundreds of thousands of people dying, because fuck it, or something. So we are in a situation where these people spread the virus everywhere. And every step of the way there were so many voices of dissent like this that sound subtly different on the surface but all pretty much amount to "fuck it, that sounds hard". And yeah, now it is exponentially harder to fix this problem. And yes it's still a global pandemic killing thousands and millions of people, despite how tired we are all of the whole mess, despite how our news cycle ADD attention span. And it will absolutely keep getting worse.

> You're not going to eliminate this one by locking people in their homes for a few months.

Like I said, that alone wouldn't have been sufficient. But anyway, not now. It's far too late for America. It would have worked in February to get this under control, get effective testing and tracing programs in place, and keep numbers from spiking. But now the massive number of tests being done just finds this blasted thing is everywhere; a total failure of containment.
What does google get for providing this service for free?
I've just started learning WebGL+Three.js. Does anyone know how similar this pipeline is to how it is done in a browser? (and how much of this is still true 9 years later?...)
I don’t think trying to argue against racism while lumping an entire country of tens of millions of people together is productive.
Without Google those sites would lose the majority of their visitors, so what is the point you're trying to get across?
No one is saying all these countries are without their own problems. What's being said is that their problems are different then the ones in the US. And these problems need to be discussed and addressed in a narrative and setting that suites the country and cultural they are applicable to. Not by applying some US template.

Also...Poland has draconian drug laws, draconian drug laws in the US led to institutionalised racism hence the situation in the US is similar to Poland...c'mon...seriously?
Well, you have conveniently omitted the next couple words from that sentence - "it's not systematic racism [like in the US]", which is what my argument was built upon, and the reason for the entire comment. Media treat is as if American problems not only exist in Poland, but also as if they have the same root causes as in the US.

Poland does of course have systematic racism problems - for instance against the Roma people, of whom there is a non-insignificant number and who are discriminated against literally everywhere. Same with immigrants, regardless of their skin colour - Ukrainians who come to work in Poland are treated very poorly and portrayed negatively just for who they are. That is systematic racism.

BUT - it's not systematic racism like in the US where (as far as I can understand) the racism is rooted in history of slave ownership, general belief that black people are inferior and deep history of segregation normalizing the process. None of those apply in Poland, yet some people behave as if they do - and that is what I object to.
But why is it so common in the BLM movement to rally behind violent criminals on the receiving end of justifiable responses?

Are you seriously trying to assert that ending someone's life is a justifiable response to them shoplifting or trespassing? No doubt these are crimes, and the people doing them should not have been doing them, but the suggestion that the inevitable outcome is someone dying is completely ridiculous.

People commit these crimes all over the world every day, but they never don't end up getting killed. That only seems to happen in the US.
I used to think Britain and the USA had a dominant but equal share in exporting culture since the 50s. We had the Beatles, they had Elvis. We had Jaguars, they had Mustangs. (this is deliberately simplified example)

However the internet has made everything smaller and the dominant force in tech is in the USA. Sure there are spikes in influence of Asian and other cultures (Gangam K-pop etc.) but most of it gets churned out from celebs, artists, influencers, bloggers, writers and thinkers in the liberal east and west coasts.

Do we all want to hear what these people have to say, no, but when everyone else is wanting to follow them then it becomes easier to be influenced directly or indirectly.

The last cultural influence that stood in opposition to "Western culture", was communism, but that died on 1990 with the first McDonald's in Moscow.
Sure the idea of communism isn't dead; you might see a few random people still promote it online or outside a shopping centre with a shabby looking stall, but these people are seen as weird or uncool (communism isn't cool btw).

So back to the topic, do we just want to be cool, is BLM cool, will it be forgotten, after the main proponents find another flag to wave?

Are we all just inadvertently programmed to consume and conform due to our DNA and society by those at the top, or do we risk being an outcast by going against them?

What happens when China takes the reigns as a new culture to oppose and compete with this idea of "Americanized Western Culture"?

Will we eventually have a Blade Runner like culture with a Chinese European blend in the future?

Will we all homogenise in the end? Will I see someone in the Amazonas eating KFC and wearing Adidas just like the person in the township in Johannesburg?

I don't know the answer.
I always wonder, when purple express these sorts of views, how they propose to get rid of the ethnic minorities that already exist in various countries. Do you have some sort of nonviolent way that might be done?
Not used Svelte but knowing how it works I guess MobX is simpler to debug. It has synchronous updates, so debugging is easy by just followig stacktrace. Not sure if Svelte is easily debuggable in contrast as it's compiled.
Perhaps it's time to take a couple of minutes to watch the sources and destinations in Slate's The Atlantic Slave Trade in Two Minutes animation.

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/the_history_of_american_s...
These are really really important points and the fact that Facebook is launching products without solid and convincing answers to these issues is a big worry.

This is a fascinating product and potentially of great value but the size and visibility of Facebook means that the potential for unintended consequences is BIG.
> But why is it so common in the BLM movement to rally behind violent criminals on the receiving end of justifiable responses?

Unless there is a uniform penalty for these behaviours of death without trial, these are not in fact 'justifiable responses'.
No, the author didn't really understand how hash tables* work and what the big-O notation really means.

If you do a worst-case analysis, hash tables just degenerate to a single linked list (everything gets hashed to the same bucket), and you don't gain anything by using them. That's where you have 0(n) performance.

But hash tables are probabilistic data structures, so we don't actually look at worst-case performance, but at the average case. It's important that for this analysis we need to make some assumptions about the hash function itself (e.g. what its collision probability is). Out of that, we can compute that hash table operations are on average constant.

* There are actually multiple ways to deal with collisions in hash table, let's focus on open hashing/seperate chaining for now.
A mostly good article.

> There has, for example, been a lot of concern about the underrepresentation of black Britons in professions like the arts and publishing. But why would you choose to go into theater or journalism—rather than law, medicine or finance—if you are a talented child of ambitious but not well off immigrants?

A really weird point. There's plenty of concern about under-representation of black people in law, and medicine, and finance.

In law there is a lot of effort spent getting more black lawyers and judges into the system, and we've recently seen the experience of Alexandra Wilson who was mistaken for a defendant at least 3 times in one day in her place of work. https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/investigation-launched-aft...

In healthcare we have NHSWRES (NHS Workforce Race Equality Standard) who are trying to increase representation in NHS exec and non-exec teams.

> In a country in which black people make up only three percent of the population, for example, six percent of junior doctors are black.

They got this information from here: https://www.ethnicity-facts-figures.service.gov.uk/workforce...

If we're looking at racism we don't want to compare junior doctors with journalists. We want to compare junior doctors to consultants and senior leaders. We also want to compare the different levels of junior doctors to each other to see if the ratio of black:white doctors changes.

https://www.ethnicity-facts-figures.service.gov.uk/workforce...

> a higher percentage of junior doctors were from the Black, Chinese, Mixed and Other groups than senior doctors

We can see that 6.2% of junior doctors are black, but only 3.5% of consultants are black. Where did all those juniors go?
AWS SNS doesn't support FIFO queues, but SQS does.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/latest/SQS...
Another vote for inoreader.

Used TheOldReader.com when Google killed Reader, then switched to inoreader. Haven't looked back (even though I'm using the free version still).

edit: Adding that I find the android app to be of excellent quality.
Joe Rogan is the force that keeps the interview digestible instead of getting too narrow for most people.

People don't listen to Rogan interviews so that they can expect to understand the whitepaper the scientist published afterwards, they listen for the accessible conversation as if they were just overhearing two strangers meet on the bus seats in front of them. He's a comedian.
The new movement to put forward federated small size communities for link aggregation and discussions has maybe a solution for your problem. The project I'm working on currently has these exact things as goals: https://github.com/mariusor/go-littr#about

Basically it wants to be a service that is easy to deploy, not resource hungry and with minimal overhead over the base federated protocol (ActivityPub in this case) that allows it to sustain a small/medium community that shares similar interests, but also have access to the wider federated community (composed of various instances of Mastodon, Pleroma, Pixelfed, etc.).
Same here in Norway. Certain conservatives are attacking liberals for SJW-esque viewpoints that barely exist here, and certain liberals are attacking conservatives for systemic racism that also barely exists (that's not to say racism doesn't).

It's sad, because it pollutes important discussion on adjacent topics.
> While racism is a problem in Poland, it's not a systematic racism like in the US

Are you sure about that? I haven't spent much time in Poland, but I've spent quite a bit of time in the baltic states and systemic racism absolutely is a problem there. It's just (mostly) against Jews and Roma rather than black people. I fully expect this is the case in Poland too.

EDIT: yes,as I thought.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism_in_Poland

In a way, it's even worse: because America sets the tone of discourse and frames racism as white vs black, Polish and other Eastern European cultures feel justified in claiming they don't have any systemic racism, when in fact it's there, just not against black people.

I recognize this in my own country (Ireland) where people will so proudly declare we are not racist because we treat black and Indian immigrants well by comparison to the US. However, Irish culture has deep systemic racism rowards the Traveller minority. Getting most Irish people to admit this is basically impossible though, and I expect it's the same for racism towards Jews and Roma in Poland.
To add some numbers to this debate - the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) published a survey (Nov 2018) that examined the experiences of almost 6,000 people of African descent in 12 EU Member States.

The report includes survey results from Austria, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, Portugal, Sweden and the UK. It paints a varied picture across the countries surveyed.

Summary of weighted results across all surveyed countries (taken from the report): https://imgur.com/a/gcHR5dk

Full report: Being Black in the EU:

https://fra.europa.eu/en/publication/2018/being-black-eu

News report from the BBC:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-46369046
I wonder what "loose syntax" is supposed to mean here. No semicolons at the ends of lines? OK. Optional commas between function arguments? Hum. But at the same time this seems to require colons after... what exactly? Variable read accesses in argument lists? Unintuitive and not exactly "loose".
You can't just build something and hope it catches on, if you want to build a product/company.

A successful company requires execution on sales, marketing, market research, messaging, positioning and product, among others.

You're taking a standard "engineer" approach to the problem, which is to build stuff, but you need to focus on other things as well. They're just as interesting as engineering if you give it a chance.
It’s not weird at all. Your engagement with your employer is about how they value your labor output and how you value your time. That’s it. Unless a job has a clear business reason for being tied to a geographic location or externality, there is zero legitimate basis for an employer to factor your location in. If they are saying the market rate suddenly changed and they can hire a cheaper person from somewhere else, then thank them for the opportunity, wish them luck and hand in your resignation letter. You’ve already been delivering value in a way that makes them happy to pay your total comp. Merely switching geography has changed no part of that (unless they are saying they want to replace you, in which case, good luck to them).
The definition of systemic racism, as a theory, is that a country (specifically the US) was founded as a racist country (black people were the property of white people). This is not so in Poland, therefore it can't be considered systemic racism.
As a people pleaser I find this very challenging. But also very true I've seen the damage this has done to my own career.
You're missing thee point of why at least half of the operating systems (if you can call them that) in your list exist. FreeRTOS and Azure RTOS (formerly ThreadX) are hard realtime microcontroller operating systems that are designed to squeeze into as little as 32kB Flash and a few kB RAM. Their capabilities are a far cry from what Linux offers. They complement each other instead of competing.