skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yet even MAX didn't have triple redundancy of all sensors, and I don't think it is customary to have triple redundancy for all sensors in pretty much any plane.

Some things are more or less important, and even insignificant for safe landing. Triple redundant sensors won't save you from programming errors, birds or cables in rotors, batteries bursting into flames which is still more likely to cause a crash than your only camera or microphone failing - probably even a GPS failure, as long as you have a working IMU.
DNA Printers, or a technique known as "solid phase synthesis" is a different technology that was used by the HGP, but not developed or advanced by them.
"Prototypes have a bad habit of becoming the product".
If you want to play around with dithering on macOS or iOS, vImage in the Accelerate framework provides most of the algorithms discussed in the article (including Atkinson!), with performance more than adequate for most applications (and with convenient vImage utilities to fit them into a CV pixel buffer pipeline for video work). vImage also supports dithering to other bit depths, though one-bit output is what you want for that vintage look.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/accelerate/1533024...
Don't remind me... The german COVID vaccinations sign-up page being down every time someone even looks at it the wrong way has been a constant news topic over the last few days.

Also goes for stuff like election software, getting the basics of the basics wrong - not even checking user privilege on admin pages.

Government form pages often just fill out PDFs for you that you have to print, finalize and send off yourself.
I truly am not trying to be insensitive, but didn't these restrictions only just barely begin back in March? It's difficult for me to see the causation.
Are these the evil conspiracy theories we were told about?
What journalism might you be referring to?
I live in Oahu and believe me there's still plenty of beach.

Even if their main figure is true (20% loss of beach area in 100 years), that doesn't seem so bad. I would be surprised if the figure hadn't changed because the tide and ocean has busy hands.

Honestly I have a lot of faith that the Army Corps of Engineers could step in and figure things out if it was a big problem.

Disclosure: I have no scientific expertise here and I'm just a huge Obama fanboy and feel if the family wants a seawall we should let the family have a seawall. C'mon he took a job where 10% of previous occupants were assassinated—they earned this one.
> The vast majority of social networks, forums, comment sections, and other public spaces online are a cancer that are destroying our society.

I don't think most of the participants in all those public spaces would agree with you. This forum we are having this conversation in right now is such a public space. Do you think it should just disappear?
> What really puzzles me about Apple fans and it's userbase is that they do not care. They simply do not care at all what's being done to them.

From what I see in discussions: they do care. But it seems they have simply accepted Apple as a benevolent dictator.
very few clinically compelling reasons to sequence a whole human genome.

Isn't that a bit of a self-reinforcing problem, where the reasons to do something can't be developed until the thing has been done enough to find more reasons?
Oh I think you are misconstruing my statement. It is an incredible feat what’s been done on these vaccines. I assume you got youre intel from the bio eats world podcast. I’m pointing out that jumping the testing that slows the vaccine to market is a bad move.
Ask HN: As a hiring manager, how do you prepare for and host great interviews?
As a hiring manager myself, with his own opinions and processes around preparing to interview candidates, I want to hear from others how you also prepare for and execute effective interviews. Where do you source your questions? What do you take note of during interviews? What works great/what sucks about holding interviews? Tools and techniques you prefer?

Thanks!
> I'm a pessimist so I'd probably get very sad at some real data telling me how many hours I have wasted making someone else money.

Wouldn't that be useful? Considering your own example: might that not send you one a path to change the fraction of time you do something you don't like.

And what's wrong with "making someone else money" if it also provides you something you want (presumably in this case, also money)? If you were earning money "making someone else a meal" would that be equally bad?
Nice way of phrasing it. Guess inventing cars gave the tools to the terrorists to kill people by driving into them.
> Food prices definitely haven't doubled in the last 10 years.

Not all foods. Again, food has a number of factors that's countering the inflationary forces.

> The price of assets can vary quite wildly based on the interest rates

That's irrelevant to the spike in value that has occurred while the rate has sat at 0. The inflation of the prices of stocks and property assets are evident and the realization of no other way to invest wealth - bond returns are less than 1% now, which is why they are basically useless.
TL;DR: Thousands of brilliant minds have tried to fix email for decades, and realized it can't be done!

Ahem, I'm trying to bury email, not save it -- not unlike Slack :-)
I have two responses to this.

1. > These are the few people in the world that would get hundreds of job offers in seconds.

AWU is wall-to-wall, so not only are the cushy FTEs represented, but also all the less cushy contract workers, part-timers, etc (of which Google employs many!)

2. > Yet instead of moving out if they don't agree with Google's projects, they would influence the projects and maybe affect the future of the company

Isn't that their right? Shouldn't the people doing the work of the company get a say in that company's future? The "if you don't like it leave" attitude is so strange to me. What if they like their co-workers and parts of Google, and want to use their (supposedly) meritocratically-won power to exercise control over the things that are close to them? That hardly seems like privilege to me.
Wow, thank you for such a thorough and informative comment.
I had to tickle one of the fans to get it started otherwise the bloody thing would shut down about 40 mins after IPL started. One summer we put bags of solid CO2 in it to keep under the temp threshold.

I still giggle hysterically when someone deploys the "enterprise" keyword at me.
I think that unless they prove they can nail this every time, it'll be tricky to use a suicide burn for landing manned craft. Passengers may also object to the name of the maneuver.

I guess a manned starship is many landings after the first unmanned landing, at least in Earth.
Maximum security prison + solitary confinement is way too harsh for this issue IMHO.
What’s the point of doing due diligence, exactly? To prevent a situation that will go unpunished once the agents claim qualified immunity and the agency will just ignore? If there is no feedback mechanism to discourage an action, it will happen if it’s the easiest course of action.

For reference, the CIA penetrated senate computers to delete evidence of their own actions and spy on senators under John Brennan without consequence while the NSA engineered a mass domestic surveillance program and its director perjured himself in televised sworn testimony, executive branch LEO & intelligence doesn’t respect any of the supposed separations between the branches, because there is no consequence.
If curious see also

2016 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11060257

2013 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6194759

2011 (a bit) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2424610

2010 (a bit) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1087130
The point was made and you chose to derail as if it didn't exist, in bad faith to act smug. Good luck with that.
Focal point (game theory)
These should not be PDF files. It's 2021 - people read stuff on their phones. PDFs are rubbish on phones.

If you're going to distribute reports like this as PDFs you should have a well designed, responsive HTML version of the content as well.

I'm surprised by this because I usually see GitHub as a superb example of a web native company. This isn't web native at all.
It had the effect of driving up wages for veteran players. Collective bargaining in Major League Baseball produced service time provisions that artificially limit the salaries of young players while driving up the pay of established veterans.

Seniority provisions are a common feature of union contracts and they’re a direct wealth transfer from younger, generally poorer workers to older, more established employees.
Half of that mumsnet list is "I don't like that humans like sex".
Better Treemap visualization? e.g. https://www.d3-graph-gallery.com/treemap

These are a feature in Tableau, https://help.tableau.com/current/pro/desktop/en-us/buildexam... and PowerBI https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/visuals/power-bi-v...
Mine was 22-24 minutes each way on the subway — just enough time to read a few HN posts on the phone, listen to a quick podcast episode, or blast through an offline Spotify playlist.
I think the best part of my commute was that it provided a 'clean break' between working at the office and my home life.
I remember using these 20 years ago to make RNA (they can make RNA as well as DNA, if you add the right reagents, which IIRC were obscenely expensive). They'd run with various pumps and relays clicking. I got 40 OD of a single RNA duplex, and proceeded to... wash it down the drain, since I was an idiot in the lab.
Are all the staff asking me for advice dumb too?

I think I have acted very reasonably throughout, travelling when it was best, staying at home when it is best, that was not enough for your co-judge on this thread, who seems to think that I shouldn't go into work unless it is a matter of life and death, which is clearly not what the rules say.
Contact tracing isn't antithetical to personal privacy. I suppose you can say it compromises absolute personal privacy, but so does someone seeing you in a store, so it's not very interesting.

Singapore has certainly decided to show how bad it can be, but the root of that is an authoritarian mandate, not the contact tracing itself.
Propaganda isn't about lying at all. Wiktionary etymology:

From New Latin propāganda, short for Congregātiō dē Propagandā Fide, "congregation for propagating the faith", a committee of cardinals established in 1622 by Gregory XV to supervise foreign missions, and properly the ablative feminine gerundive of Latin propāgō (“propagate”) (see English propagation). Modern political sense dates from World War I, not originally pejorative.

It basically means advertising or public relations, pejoratively.
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'Reasonable'.

That's the legal test - full stop. It's what we've used in the UK for a thousand years. It's because you can't cover all eventualities with a code system.

The law communicates an intent. Work against that intent. Don't quibble the letter for the sake of it.

If you aren't familiar with reasonableness then I guess you've beamed down from Mars in which case good luck to you!
Nice! Do you know if historic data is available somewhere too? Or is it always just the last 6-weeks?
>The houses are doomed. Anything built right next to the ocean is temporary, and if you were dumb enough to put millions into a fancy house there, that should be taken as an expensive lesson

Everything is doomed in the long run. Most of those houses look like they could withstand the <=1 meter sea level rise expected by 2100. That is generations of owners enjoying them and making profits. I imagine at some point the home value will start to decrease, but that could be gradual and a long way off.

The "expensive lesson" for the next several "dumb" owners could be that they owned a beautiful house and sold it for millions more than they bought it.
Cyberfungi
A TL; DR for Tether
This is just another thing they managed to cause a moral panic about. They did not reveal a "very bad law", they made it harder for people to get safely manufactured opioid products. Pushing more people to unsafe/sub-par street products in the name of their safety. It's disgusting.
And Musk was found not guilty. And you can't 'just say' that another person is a pedophile, that's a serious accusation
Yeah, agreed, definitely not back patting... it's just a soooooo much lesser of two evils situation.
To use the article's terminology, Apple is the lord of the manor which makes owners of Apple hardware, serfs.
In brief searching I could not find a case where this was true. I don't think bookstores have a duty to read and fact check every book they sell in order to insure that no third party is damaged. It appears to me that they have a duty to the whomever they bought the books with to adhere to whatever contract they signed and a duty to the buyer to provide what the buyer paid for in terms of it actually being Stephen King's IT and not for example the result of their cat walking over their keyboard printed on 597 pages.

It doesn't appear that they even have a duty to the buyer for it to be a good and useful work.

The duty you want to imagine is real would seem to be impossible to reasonably provide because the cost of paying out every time they were wrong would mean books would all cost $500 and in turn the book stores would all shut down. The only viable way to sell books would be to run a website overseas in a less insane jurisdiction selling epubs.

If you wanted to take it to the next level and enforce liability for anything that goes over the wire you could just give up 99.9% of content in the universe?
Starship and SH are (AFAIK) meant to be able to hover (more thrust/more throttle-able than F9) so the suicide burn shouldn’t be an issue
what's the point of slack?, when you have irc
Agreed - and FWIW even with what Trump has tried to do to give himself dictatorial powers (and the enablement of the Republicans to that end), our democracy has still held up pretty well.
If they can ghost you this effectively, you were never a business partner.

If they were an actual business partner, you could rely on the terms of the contract the two of you arrived at to define your partnership to give you recourse, assuming your lawyers were competent.
Blacklisting addresses based on where they received money from doesn't make any sense. Blacklisted wallets can just send microcents (dust) to whitelisted wallets, which would now have to be blacklisted as well.

You can make it illegal to use Bitcoin, but it was designed to make it practically impossible to enforce such a ban.
Every Book Tanner Greer Read in 2020
There are always the unenlightened. One day they shall see the light (or a bloody great steak and ale pie) and they shall wipe their mouths in righteousness.
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That's now how they roll in that business. CPM for instance = cost per thousand.
(Lousy) conspiracy theory: the judge is on the US payroll to keep him in Britain. It’s cheaper and easier for the British to house and guard him than it is for the US to deal with him (and go through the spectacle of his ostensible execution). Better to jail him away in Britain while muttering something about humanitarianism.
Mandated identification is an even more terrifying idea. I already stop signing up for a site when the ask for a phone number. Last thing I want is to make easier for companies to track me.

Not only that I think anonymity is important. Without you could also just as easily be threatened or harassed by people online. It cut both ways.
Facebook Is Building an Operating System for Future Devices (2019)
Why do you want to be a Python developer and not A developer ? Serious question. Is it because you like data science and Python is big in data science ? Or are you open to be a general Web Developer who builds web applications ? Then, you don't need to stick with Python only but I am just trying to understand your thought process.
How lol? You hold the US to the highest possible standard, without looking at every single other nation in the history of the world.

US has the most credibility. Europe is great, but they live in a protective bubble offered by the US. Russia and/or China would steamroll them if able to. And those two countries are autocratic. We wouldn't even have a hackernews type thing there.
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Bioinformatics involves a lot of scripting and loosely coupled pipelines, and at the time of the HGP, there was no experience on how to do this. Here's the story of how Perl become so popular in bioinformatics, and arguably, "How it saved The Human Genome Project"!
https://www.foo.be/docs/tpj/issues/vol1_2/tpj0102-0001.html
One possibility might be to encourage hybrid virtual/physical in future, rather than the online experience being very much 2nd class to the actual physical event.
It's not that I'm a spy. It's that I want to protect myself digitally as much as possible, despite being forced to interface with the internet by large institutions.

We can go back and time and argue about the lack of security just four decades ago (George Hayduke[1] had a series of books on how to exfiltrate info in the 60's & 70's through social engineering). However, here we are: in a virtual world that is simultaneously more secure and less secure than ever. Compare: we have evolving security protocols that are being hardend every year by attacker's pushing on them, yet our entire lives are open like never before for the picking-off by one clever blackhat.

It is maddening, and I consider myself far more cognizant of the issues than a typical chain-letter sharing, 8-char all-text passwording, facebook user.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Screw-Unto-Others-Revenge-Occasions/d...
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sure, but the result for the telco is the same - a team has to go out, inspect damage, get parts and repair the damage.
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The HTML page is very well designed and full of content. It seems like the primary content is in the HTML.

The content in the PDFs I think was secondary.
See Scrollama.js: https://github.com/russellgoldenberg/scrollama
How do you prove to the next company that you won't leave? You really can't. You can easily prove you've been working on leetcode problems. If they don't want to hire people with short stays, you can't really fix that. If they don't want to hire people who haven't practiced leetcode, you can fix that. So to an employer, does it really matter if you are good at leetcode if they feel you won't stay around long? So the tenure takes precedence.

Some companies won't care, but finding those is just about as easy as finding a company that's a good fit before you've worked there.
US Federal Regulator Says Banks Can Conduct Payments Using Stablecoins
It’s quite colourful for something coming out of a Speccy ;-)
There's only one sustainable alternative: retreat, "managed" or unmanaged.

https://www.surfrider.org/search/results/710d4c63582a903c67a...

Scrape off the seaward row of houses, let the sand under them become the new beach. Neighbors across the street now get their turn at owning an oceanfront view. Repeat as required.

And then we can all look forward to walking on a sandy beach in our old age. Just a small matter of politics to make it so ...
If you are referring to the initial infections then you are just as misleading. Again, we don't need to speculate about how much the coronavirus was initially spread to different cities based on their tourist populations, we can just look at the facts of how much initial spread there was to each location/

On February 24th, there were 14 cases diagnosed in the United States, and 39 people who were infected and repatriated to the United States[1]. In comparison, at the same time there were 564 cases in South Korea[2].

The difference between 350k deaths (so far) and 200k deaths (total) is a lot, and is perfectly consistent with the paper's findings that if you perform some interventions but not all of them, hundreds of thousands of people will die unnecessarily.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6908e1.htm
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_South_Kor...
Now that's amazing. Not only because it was hardware based, but because you were solving a real problem, a limitation, instead of just aesthetic endeavor. It was an engineering solution. There is a lot of aesthetic beauty in mundane engineering, rarely seen by anyone. So kudos to designers to pick out something interesting and giving it the light :) It's all cool.
I did this for a few months until it really started hurting my back lol.
I really love the whole kerfuffle about the police because it's doing a great job putting on display that you have "law and order" type jackbooted authoritarians on both sides of the isle.
Telegram is closer to 500 million now.

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Amazon's Haven healthcare venture is reportedly disbanding
You realize that the democratic spy agencies have to deal with China, Russia, and terrorists? So you would want us to hold ourselves to the highest standards, while they could play every dirty trick in the book and eventually take us over.

Then we lose our democracy that you and I both cherish.

Also these things don't even impact 99.999% of people.