skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having an abortion after a prenatal diagnosis isn't the same as eugenics. Obviously, eugenicist or ableist beliefs could motivate an abortion after a prenatal diagnosis, but choosing to have an abortion is primarily a decision about you and your family.

I'm not sure what you're referring to with the transgender reference—any medical interventions trans people have are initiated by the trans person, making it completely unlike eugenics.

Edit: I should probably add that eugenics was widely popular less than a century ago in the U.S. and hasn't gone away completely. I think these examples are poor, however.
Then the fake tech support call center scammers just add having the user enter that command to their script. This is why 1TR became a thing, I imagine.
again ... I'm not trying to get rid of emotions.
That's not what I'm proposing.
I just think the idea/concept of feeling the same as somebody else is strange and has its own dangers.

Understand the others feelings, try to understand their point of view (also emotionally) that's great.

Having exactly the same feelings probably not.
"Empathy :: the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings" from meridian webster.

Example: you meet a person who has a panic attack ... how is going to experience the feelings vicariously helping you?
AR VR MR

see also: https://gist.github.com/klaaspieter/12cd68f54bb71a3940eae5cd...
I use CRISPR regularly to edit stem cells. While there is a lot of hype around it, this blog post is unfairly harsh.

In particular:

>In 2006, RNAi gene silencing was given the Nobel Prize. MIT called it the breakthrough of the decade. I remember everyone being so excited about it! It was the hot topic at conferences and even my graduate school interviews. While RNAi was and always has been a great benefit to researchers its actual application has been extremely limited. It’s taken 13 years from the RNAi Nobel Prize to bring something to the clinic and even then the two drugs have been a bit underwhelming. According to Google Scholar, papers even mentioning RNAi have been on the decline for the past 6 years. The drug approved in the past few years haven't even slowed the decline.

The reason RNAi has fallen out of favor, at least for research purposes, is that CRISPR knockouts are much better.
Yes, but costs a premium currently. Intel Optane product line (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_XPoint tech) benchmarks: https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/Z8YFAHnD7uYd8jPSx5scJN-970...
Cycling power does same
4, 6, and 7, and one more on the way. This year's crazy; I can't judge, as we're getting by one day at a time.
I came close in 2017 but didn't. I checked myself into a behavioral unit instead. Now my life is 10,000 times better.
If people are a danger to themselves or others, the cops should be there, period. Sorry if that hurts their feelings but once a situation triggers calling for assistance it’s not just about them anymore.
For sure, this is a big reason. I'll be 21 when this is over, this year of youth is never coming back.
And what of HDDs that do compute tasks in addition to IO as an underestimated thing?
Meanwhile most apple dev (like myself dabbling it in) have a hard time keeping up with the changes of swift, macos, xcode, security requirements moving sands, developer fee, nanny state declarations of eternal faith and jumping into a dark tunnel full of venomous spikes. And for $0 for 98% of us. Because we still believe in some dead guy's ideology.

/s
> Why are Google and Facebook so attractive to prospective engineers while Stripe and Nvidia are never brought up?

This is certainly not true. Students are in high pursuit of a startup like Stripe(+ those on the breakoutlist) and Nvidia is viewed very positively. Visit /r/csmajors for a datapoint.
I don't know how anyone navigates 2020 without a substantial spiritual relief valve.
I always wished Scihub had a browse feature

It relies on knowing what paywall I want to circumvent with some paper's ID

When really I just want to browse

I'm not in academia and I feel like everyone salivating over Scihub don't realize this use case, because they already know what publications they don't have access to

Since its almost 10 years after Scihub launched, is there a chrome extension or other wrapper for to make browsing easy on it, or some app that indexes newly released papers from a variety of journals and auto generates the scihub link equivalent?
I have no idea how they ever expected this to work. Seems it would be trivial to proxy a c&c through apps with access. All you need is a signal, any signal, to the outside world. If air gaps can be beat, this concept was doomed from the start, unless I'm missing something.
You're welcome.

My personal experience with the book, and mindfulness in general, is that it has significantly transformed my life for the better. I say that despite the fact that my practice of mindfulness has been pretty poor, but I keep working on it.

I don't subscribe to what I would call woo woo thinking or philosophy, so I was pretty skeptical at first. However, the fact that this book was written by a medical doctor helped me overcome my skepticism. My initial attempts at mindfulness meditation, however unskilled it was, sealed the deal.

It has been incredibly helpful (beyond what I originally thought was possible) to use the techniques of mindfulness to be able to notice the thoughts and emotions I was experiencing, without judgement, and then gently, and purposely direct my attention towards something more positive or peaceful. I use the techniques, even if just a little bit, every day. It's helped my emotional self-regulation, my relationships, and my ability to focus on work. It's helped me cope with pain, and maintain resilience even when I was feeling particularly low.

There are lots of wonderful books on this subject. Another great one is "Happiness" by Matthieu Ricard (another scientist). Sam Harris talks about mindfulness extensively, so you might check his work, and his app (although the app is a paid service).
Well, let's see.

My wife left me shortly before the pandemic started. I tried leaning on alleged friends for emotional support and they bailed on me. I don't have any family here in the US.

The pandemic hit and I had to stop practicing my sport.

My work output has been 10-20% of what it used to be even though I don't have kids to deal with, or any of the things that are driving folks crazy. It takes me around 2h to make myself get out of bed every day.

Fortunately, therapy has been helping little by little.
Spending 4 years without all the American political circus, hell yea..
Try to find any CPU from 1995 that is still available. Most are no longer on the market and so they had to rewrite the ui again for no good reason.
Yeah, most of them used to have a metal beater in the too that rotated the beams. But people like to see their food go around.
To some degree yes, but the market that you are talking about is going to be dominated by repeat diners. It isn't people going out to show off for example - it is people who want want food.

The competition mentality in hospitality businesses is cut-throat and deeply ingrained. If they saw a profit margin, they would attempt to push the delivery service out of the market. If I'm a regular at Toby's Popular Take Away, it seems unlikely that Toby would sit quietly while Uber made money. He would try to muscle in on the distribution too.

It is unlikely that the market share they are fighting for is defensible. A lot of people aren't fighting for it at the moment because there is no profit to be found. The app part might get commoditised or done in a community manner or by some random dude as a side project, it wouldn't be too hard to get local businesses on side with an idea like that. It doesn't need to be a big company.
There is a big difference in definition depending on what part of the term "epigenetics" you emphasize.

Emphasizing "epi" means you are looking at architecture/mechanistic of chromatin and how they affect function. Emphasizing "genetic" means you care about whether the mechanism of interest is actually inherited.

There are some mechanisms that could perhaps be inherited through maternal contribution of enzymes involved in creating the marks. But trying to imagine how somatic epigenetic markers can be transferred to germ cells and then somehow transmitted to offspring past the epigenetic erasure that happens during fertilization is tough. It is definitely an area of research that I think is actually more interesting than studying the mechanisms themselves.
> Say you use your ovens in the morning to bake bread, and at night to cook meat.

There's nothing inherent to the delivery app business that makes this possible. This has always been possible, but it doesn't really happen on any significant scale.
Don't forget MeinSpace
Panera Bread offers sandwiches and soups and deli-like food via pizza-like delivery with pizza-like employment (their drivers are real employees, with tips+mileage, health benefits, 401k, PTO, etc)

https://careers.panerabread.com/global/en/c/restaurant-deliv...

(I get that technically Panera just started offering pizza now, but like 90% of their menu is not pizza and hasn't been for most of the year.)
+1 = U.S.

Other country codes (saying nothing of services available)

https://countrycode.org/
Fundamentally, I believe that everyone has the right to not be subjected to death threats and systemic harassment from hate and conspiracy groups

I've thought about this problem and there may be solutions (and even profitable business) based on existing harassment laws, but AFAIK no one has tried it. Imagine scaling the Hulk Hogan lawsuit using "copyright troll" style tactics. This could create a "scared straight" deterrent effect on harmful social media.
It's called plausible deniability and it's how frog is being boiled slowly.
I hope this proof-of-concept is the last straw that gets Apple to walk this design decision back. Because if it doesn’t, I'm not looking forward to whatever it is that does.
> I'm assuming that the waiter salary/tip will cover delivery costs...

Unlikely. At least, not a non-exploitative delivery cost. Beyond the employee cost and mileage, there’s the fact that (in the US) delivery drivers are also tipped. They’re also probably more expensive for a company to insure.
Yup, every cs majors I know think super highly of Stripe. I don't know what students the author is talking to.

Khan Academy is sought after in the cs student community as well. although won't be first choice for many.
A caveat to blocking ocsp.apple.com is that I discovered Apple is running more than one service on that domain.

http://ocsp.apple.com/ocsp-devid01 is Developer ID, but http://ocsp.apple.com/ocsp03-apevsrsa2g101 is something else, which if blocked can prevent the Mac App Store from loading.
They do censor left leaning people because of their opinions.

"Free speech for me, but not for thee"
RenenTech?
I don’t think that we can produce a Homelander. We could have people that start producing designer babies. With enough time and low regard for collateral damage, we could have people designed to be highly intelligent. We could have children edited to be male or female. We could have children edited to not manifest African phenotypes regardless of parentage. The sky is the limit.
This is wrong. The party of Lincoln and emancipation is the Republican party. The party of segregation and Jim Crow is that of the Democrats.
Ghost kitchens are a real thing, but it’s still an open question how much value there is in building a brand relationship woth a customer from a dine-in experience. Cutting out the front-of-house, the ambiance, and the wait staff kinda also cuts out a lot of the personality and connection. Scrolling through a bunch of generic “chicken fettucini alfredo” options on an infinite grid is kinda soulless, and doesn’t give me a sense of what I’m getting for the extra money between the $14 and the $26 versions.
No, you're right, but I suppose in the grand scheme of things, I was alluding to the fact that in this case (and in many other cases) we do have incomplete and imperfect prior knowledge, but prior knowledge nonetheless, which would allow us to make causal inference. With some uncertainty of course.

I would argue that making these causal inferences without formal proof is actually somewhat essential and desirable, so long as assumptions and uncertainty are recognized, and that they lead to further probing (informed by such inference).

Many people seem to think science is about "finding the truth" (ie.: obtaining "first-order" information about the world), and that's certainly one way to see it... But I think it's more interesting to think of science as being all about finding, quantifying and describing uncertainty.

This might seem pedantic, but you don't need to abandon all uncertainty in order to make causal inference. I think we're saying mostly the same things, in different ways and with different implicit assumptions about what it means to do science. It's obvious from your answer that you also understand all of this very well.

PS.: I have an MSc in biochem: not claiming to be a great scientist, but I do have formal training so I'm at least familiar with the matter :)
> Without having to worry about a store front, you could consolidate kitchen equipment between businesses.

This is happening right now: see 'ghost kitchens' on delivery apps, with three or four different 'restaurants' that are actually operating out of the same location.
> laugh test.

This seems a little rudely dismissive. GP's skepticism sounds totally reasonable and healthy to me.
I’m not a conservative but I support free speech. I installed it but the recommended people were Fox News pundits and politicians I didn’t care about. I like the idea of enabling users to hide speech they don’t like rather than a Speech Czar that determines what we are allowed to hear. But it will take some time for something like this to get a critical mass of users to make it work.
> The iOS/App Store monopoly arguments are one thing, but 10% is a monopoly now?

It goes the other direction. If you want to develop for iOS you have to get a Mac even if you don't want one.

Moreover, this behavior is objectionable regardless of market share, because a platform excluding alternative stores segregates that platform into a different market. If you're a developer whose customers use a Mac, and Apple starts operating the Mac App Store the same as the iOS one, it doesn't matter that they have 10% market share because that 10% of the PC market is 100% of your app customers and the relevant market isn't PCs, it's app distribution to a given customer base.
Such an ominous word. Actually been there many times.
I agree that we need more women in power; I don't really agree that that's the reason why. If women are generally more disinclined to pursue power I suspect it's cultural, and liable to change.
I can't say I'm "unhappy" but i do feel like te redesign is a bit of a stack of dark patterns meant to turn IG into something other than what it was intended for...a marketing automation/CRM platform.
I assume you are dining out alone? Or are you just ignoring your dining companion(s)? I agree dining out alone takes some getting used to, I would normally pony up to the bar and chat with the bartender or other patrons when dining alone.
Probably:

Wait for the check.

Get the check, attach a credit card to it.

Wait for the wait staff to return and get it.

Wait for the wait staff to run the card.

Wait for the wait staff to return with your card.

Do some math for a tip, sign the receipt.

It’s also mildly concerning to leave your bare credit card (with pretty much everything they need to commit fraud with it) with a complete stranger.
I was suicidally depressed in 2017. A combination of medication, CBT, talk therapy and the love and care of other helping professionals got me better. I've never felt better. It gets better. My email is in my user info.
If I had to guess, I'd say they were talking about (in most US restaurants)

- Ask for check -> waiter brings check -> put card in fold, wait ?? minutes for waiter to return to grab card -> wait ?? minutes for waiter to run card and return it -> sign receipt and leave.

On a busy night, this ritual could last 15-20 minutes.

To be fair, in some countries in Europe (and a small number of restaurants I've been to in the US), it's more like:

- ask for check -> waiter brings hand terminal to table -> swipe card, then leave
What do you think about a place like Databricks then?
Yea, that book is great. Another book, which includes those ideas and many others, is "The Resilience Factor" by Karen Reivich and Andrew Shatte.
I'm not. I think I was mildly depressed up until the start of this fall (I'm a college student). I go to U of I and we've got a pretty good covid testing setup which basically means we can hang out with small groups of friends like pre-covid times. I think the catalyst for coming out of depression might have been acid, but most likely it was being able to meet with friends again. I saw this effect in my friends too, and they noticed it as well. I'm not saying acid is some miracle cure or something but I have a strong suspicion that it contributed in some small way.
Notes on Time Management from a Dying Professor
Just take a look at the 10 top-performing link posts on Facebook each day. It's almost universally right to far-right leaning content. Whoever is perpetrating this anti-conservative bias must be spectacularly bad at their job. On the other hand, conservative victimhood appears to be a winning message in this political cycle.

[1] https://twitter.com/facebookstop10?lang=en
America is a weird place. They bring the bill. You put your credit card in the bill. A waiter comes and takes it then brings it back and after all that you have to enter the tip amount.

In Australia they bring the Eftpos machine to your table and I'm pretty sure it's illegal for them to touch your card.
Look at these graphs: https://www.anandtech.com/show/16226/apple-silicon-m1-a14-de...

The 5 Watt iPhone CPU almost beats the 45 Watt AMD CPU. And the M1 will then simply obliterate the x86 incumbents.

Why? The real reason is that Apple had/has the real advantage. It's size, resources, money, strategy, know-how.

It's bigger than Intel. It has a better corporate culture than Intel, it has a vertically integrated market completely safe from any outside disruption for years, and will be for years. It had the opportunity to do this switch, so it had the motivation to develop this capability.

Apple was able to hire the best semi designers plus benefit from the ARM platform.

AMD is still too small and relatively spread thin - trying to cover multiple segments of the general market - compared to Apple, which basically has this one chip in two versions (mobile and ultra mobile).
I didn't follow up on the Reuters news piece from January titled "Exclusive: Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained - sources". Has it been confirmed? If yes, then your assertion is most probably correct.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-fbi-icloud-exclusiv...
Do you not have contactless, or chip-and-pin?

The waiter or waitress turns up with the bill, I glance at it, I tap my card, or if it's a larger sum insert it and type in my PIN.

Worst case scenario it's 30s.

I'm pretty sure that your agreement with your card company includes that you must not let anyone else touch the card, let alone take it away.
Cut my teeth on this device. I remember the excitement at getting the first 4164 samples: Single 5V rail: luxury. Had to invent bank switching to use more than 8 of them:) Good times.
How long until America starts putting limits on free speech?

IANAL, but we already have laws against libel, slander, and defamation.

Section 230 / communications decency could be modified. New laws could be created to prevent amplified spread of factually incorrect information. Freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom to broadcast that speech.

I'm not advocating for this, but I see it as a possibility.
Capability Based Operating Systems, such as Genode will allow the deployment of systems that stop many classes of attack by simply not trusting applications, with a default deny instead of allow for access to resources.

Reconfigurable Computing, such as FPGAs and more homogeneous computing fabrics offer a way around the Von Neuman bottleneck.

Reactive programming, like Verilog, offers a way to utilize FPGAs and multiprocessing in systems that take full advantage of thee available hardware, and route around Amdahl's law.
I'm not depressed but I feel like every year has been getting progressively worse over the past decade. I'm working hard and taking significant risks. I achieved all my technical goals this year; some which seemed almost impossible, but financially-speaking, I keep getting poorer. The smarter I get, the harder I work, the poorer I get.

I'm at a point where I've identified all the things that are holding me back. I know exactly what's going on in the economy and society and so I can make sense of my own situation - But I can't think of a way to pull myself out of it without engaging in behavior that I consider unethical.

I feel like everyone in society is becoming progressively more selfish over time. It's become impossible to make new friends because relationships have become incredibly shallow, financialized and transactional. I don't even see the point of making friends anymore because it just feels like everyone is acting. People just don't meet my minimum standards to qualify for friendship these days.
I think if 2020 should have taught us anything, it's that people have a very loose relationship with proper science. I think you may be over-estimating people's abilities and attitudes... Consider yourself lucky to have such a great entourage! ;)
In India, there are quite a few vertically integrated "cloud kitchen" food delivery startups. I wonder if that's a more sustainable model for food delivery. Most of them (box8.in is a great example) have what appears to be a pretty broad menu, but once you order you can tell they're reusing the same pre-prepared ingredients for most things. It's basically the same as pizza delivery, but for other kinds of food.
From the perspective of the interview, such numbers can come across as an actually big deal or as near-cringeworthy "followed resume advice". There's a very thin line in between and I feel many interviewers will fall on different sides - particularly depending on whether they are in a technical or in a business role.

In my eyes, mentioning such numbers usually comes of as resume cliché. By all means, demonstrate your understanding of the business context or highlight an important problem you solved. But I agree with the quoted part regarding numbers without context being pointless - if they're modest then you didn't do yourself a favor, and if they're impressive then I am skeptical about taking them at face value.
Wouldn't it be hilarious to mitm these requests at open hotspot and basically cripple everyone's macs while connected.
Well ok but by that theory Dec Alpha or HP PA should have dominated?
> A business making revenue of $20k a month must be a very small idea, for example a service that pings some servers and alerts customers of downtime or maybe some kind of file storage.

I don't think this paints a correct picture. For example, there are many developers out there who'd love to work on FOSS 24/7 while having some income from a simple side-project like you mention. But many of these developers still struggle, which says that it just isn't that simple.
> You should read it "do you trust Apple is acting in your best interests OVER any random app you might install or website you visit?".

But it isn't that. That would be the argument for choosing to install apps through Apple's store, not for Apple preventing you from choosing to install apps through a competing store.

Because then it's not Apple vs. literally every random shady garbage app, it's Apple vs. some specific alternative store that you might very well trust more than Apple to be acting in your interest, e.g. F-Droid.