skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I kinda doubt rich people are randomly buying mint alpha Black Lotus cards with no knowledge of the game?

They absolutely are.

https://www.cnbc.com/2016/07/07/accused-pharmaceutical-fraud...
It's 13% higher in England, which yes, I would characterize as vast.
This is the risk with at-will employment in CA. The employer could very well decide after two days of you working there that they wanted to let you go -- there's no part of the contract keeping either side from ending things early.

I don't think it's unethical to leave after a short amount of time given the employer has no equivalent expectation.
> The fundamental driver of this pandemic is the ill-health of the population - driven by sugar (obesity), coal and oil (air pollution), as well as Vitamin (D) deficiencies - but these factors receive no attention

I was saying this at the start of the pandemic. The UK is approaching US -levels of obesity, but now we have "fat shaming" whereby any mention of overweight people being unhealthy is socially unacceptable; and showing skinny people in adverts on the London Undergound causes "offence". I wonder if this particular world-view will reverse in the coming years?
The GP post highlights a "blocker" on where to go with the Human Genome Project ... integrating existing traditional data and "personalized medicine" i.e your genome at the scale of global statistical significance v.s entrenched interests
and a history of bad behaviour by a few bad apples.

fantastic rewards, fantastic risks,
inevitable whether you work on it or not.
There are a handful of sequencing-based genetic tests that have achieved fairly wide penetration; NIPT and cancer panels are probably the best examples.

However, if the question is why whole-genome sequencing has not gained wider clinical usage, I think the answer is less about reimbursement, and more the fact that there are just very few clinically compelling reasons to sequence a whole human genome.

Then there is the fact that although we have ostensibly achieved the fabled "$1000 whole genome" that was touted as the tipping point for clinical acceptance, that was really more of a publicity stunt by Illumina. In reality a clinical-grade WGS still costs a multiple of $1000 (see, e.g., https://bmchealthservres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/...). The Moore's Law-like cost reductions of genome sequencing are a bit of a myth at the present time; in practice Illumina has a monopoly on the technology used for clinical WGS, and therefore they have a great deal of influence over the effective cost of sequencing.
Also, drop an image here:

http://gazs.github.io/canvas-atkinson-dither/
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> Leave the names of officials. Redact names your don't know

That's not as easy as it sounds. Many of the names you'd want to leave up would be of smaller generals whom you may not be familiar with. The actual shooters should perhaps also not be redacted. At least not fully.

> Newspapers seem to have managed to do this just fine for ages.

They do this by being cozy with the Pentagon and asking them exactly for what WikiLeaks has asked them for. The difference is the Pentagon's not going to ignore an email from the NYT. It did ignore WikiLeaks.
Regarding products, I'd divide biotech into three very broad categories, medical, industrial, and food. Medical biotech is generally the most well-established, from Genentech (now Roche) on down to the companies being created today. Most of that work are novel and very promising therapies for a range of diseases, and diagnostics/prognostics to detect and track disease states. Both are generally at the level that's popularly known as "personalized medicine" (specific to your genome, epigenetics, and in some cases microbiome). Some of the diagnostics in development and hitting the market now would be considered sorcery just five years ago.

Industrial biotech is harnessing biological and biochemical processes for industry and production. That's much smaller but growing fast; people outside the industry would be shocked to discover what chemicals and other products can and will be produced simply by fermenting various microbes. Zymergen is one company doing this, and among the biggest but by no means the only one.

Recently there's been a surge in biotech-based food production. Most people don't realize that the Impossible Burger (and other products from Impossible) taste so "meaty" because it contains transgenic yeast that secretes cow heme. There are companies that are creating cow dairy products from transgenic yeast - you can actually buy their ice cream today - and companies like Memphis Meats are working on cell-cultured meat, made entirely from animal-free processes , minus the initial cell biopsy. Same with Finless Foods. All of the above are within a couple miles of each other, and these are only a few examples.
I submitted this a couple of weeks ago but it didn’t get any discussion - a list of questions for the government based on empirical data:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zkE00ANmITzyXaSM-S_44ZWEJTx...
Yeah, in the US things are considered vandalism that would be considered a much more significant attack elsewhere. Somebody shot up a bunch of telco boxes and took out a whole neighbourhood’s internet connection. The response from the isp was basically “happens all the time, new kit’s coming”
Accurate, with an asterisk (i.e. technically true, but intentionally misleading), which results in headlines like "No, the new Arm MacBook Air is not faster than 98% of PC laptops" when they are "audited".
There’s debate on how much masks reduce spread, and obviously a lot of variation in effectiveness given wildly different materials and design for masks that are not designed to be protective. But I’ve never heard of any serious scientific debate about their helping to some reasonable degree. With possibly high benefits and very low cost(in dollars and in freedom as compared to other measures) wearing masks while indoors in public seem like a no brainer.

There are probably issues with how much people obsess over them though. I feel like people get a false sense of protection. People tend to stand right next to you in line when masks are required rather than keeping some distance!
Ask HN: Is it a CV red flag to teach fulltime and dev parttime simultaneously?
I'm an untenured assistant professor without PhD. I realized academia is not for me. So I plan to freelance as software developer or try to launch a startup parttime while still teaching fulltime for a year. I will inform the university of the parttime work. Is it a red flag for future employers?

Example:

asst. prof. | university
january - december 2021

dev | pre-startup
february - december 2021

Thank you.
One unfortunate consequence in A is that it may cause the unscrupulous to delay work in order to work overtime at a higher rate. This was sometimes an issue with (non-software) maintenance
Tutorial for Unity ML Agents: http://ml.blogs.losttech.software/Reinforcement-Learning-Wit...
Accusing me of mental illness is against HN rules, not to mention it makes you look like an asshole. Just because an argument has been "addressed" doesn't make it wrong.

Your dismissal shows your religion devotion to your viewpoint. Maybe I'm religiously devoted to mine too at this point. If anything, it shows neither of us can be objective. You just wanted to get the last word in. It furthers my belief you're an asshole.
I am an expert, I guess.

Delusions of pregnancy are a classic example of this, and are fascinating to observe, and also deeply saddening for several reasons.

There are many delusions, although they usually have certain themes (e.g., of reference, jealousy, persecution). Delusional disorder ala the DSM is defined by delusions per se but not hallucinations (not saying this is a "real category" as opposed to a coincidence of phenomena or lack thereof, but it is the diagnosis). So individuals who meet criteria for this seem very normal -- they're lucid, coherent, and so forth -- until you get them on a certain topic.

With delusions of pregnancy it is that they are pregnant. They have tests that are negative from multiple places (over the counter, in the clinic etc.) and often a few friends, family, and partners have counseled them about it to no avail. The general explanation is that they're all in on a conspiracy to thwart the pregnancy, because they're jealous, or don't trust their ability to be a parent, or whatever the case may be.

I've seen cases where the delusional pregnancy goes on for years. This is biologically implausible. Some individuals just sort of avoid this topic; others will assert that there have been multiple pregnancies, usually aborted by those who are trying to sabotage the pregnancy (e.g., secret medicines to induce abortion, etc.).

All mental illness is sad at some level (well, nearly all), but the delusions of pregnancy are as well. It's clear someone desperately wants to be a mother, and genuinely believes people are aborting their pregnancy, or attempting to, or otherwise is unable to have the child.

I'm sure I could think of many other delusional examples involving significant formative events but outside of broad themes they're often idiosyncratic.
1 intervention every 350 miles looks good, but “Full Self-Driving” is a much higher bar to clear.

For the average driver doing 13,500 miles a year, this could (not every intervention would lead to an accident, but I guess most would) get them into an accident 35 times a year. And that’s driving on fairly good roads.
Is this only for US residents? Or is it really anywhere like it says?
Psychiatry exercises what we'd call strategic incompetence: it doesn't really want to know, for the knowledge would be a liability.

The bridge to the scientific foundation of psychiatry is hypnotic induction. Find out what it really is and the rest of the puzzle will be easy to assemble. That induction is related to magnetic induction and is similar to how a solenoid induces current in another solenoid.

But as we know, studying that effect is a big no no, and the treat of being called a heretic (or crackpot) is how scientists are kept away from psychiatry.
> while transferring BTC in one wallet to another wallet is not (since you keep the same property).

It is not since it is a different private key...
You sort of had me until the last claim (no more than two countries), I know for a fact their models are more advanced than that. Any actual economist care to chime in and explain comparative advantage?
Note for those surprised by the price tag and talking about whales: this is not like your typical in-game purchase like a special sword, unique mount, or even skins in CS:GO. These tokens implement core gameplay functionality that other players will have to pay to use -- think dungeons in Legend of Zelda, but if another player could own a dungeon and you had to pay them to go inside. So really, these people are buying a stake in the game with the expectation of profiting if the game is a success.

I expect the SEC will be all over this once they catch up. It took them long enough to take action against XRP though which is pretty open-and-shut, so this might take a while.
Hey, comments like this and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25634382 break the site guidelines and are the sort of thing we end up banning accounts for. Would you mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart? The idea is thoughtful, curious conversation, which is not exactly internet default as you know.
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No, it's pretty much literally like "I had a desire to marry my mother for a brief weird period when I was a little girl, until I learned that I couldn't do that". It's not about "power in society" at all, it's about the genesis of gendered notions in the child which leads to shifting identifications and relationships with parents. As a result it is a feminist concern, but of an entirely different order.

And this is all in Freud himself! He was woke to gender!
Have a look at commercial-grade tv lines from your preferred manufacturer. Often lacking the smart features but otherwise match or exceed consumer specs. There is a price premium, and you may have to go through more niche retailers that typically supply businesses.
Every commit should be a perfect, atomic unit of change
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If the hospital can't handle this virus then the health care system must be really bad in the first place.

Any health system has finite resources available: facilities, equipment, trained staff, the money to pay for all of it, etc.

If the NHS had already been set up to handle this once-in-a-century black swan event better, it would have been less effective at handling other conditions that have affected patients in the more than a century since the last outbreak of similar severity.

I haven't been impressed by how our national government has handled this situation, but if you stop and think about what's happened in the past year or so, it's actually pretty amazing how quickly and effectively our NHS staff, scientific community and others playing supporting roles in our society have adapted. They are fixing and improving our healthcare system, and they're doing it right before our eyes in real time.
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For sure get what you mean. I actually wanted to give equal weight to things like projects and side projects for this very reason (instead of purely work experience and education). I'm hoping this can be seen a little bit less like a formal CV, and sort of a easy to share link you can throw in your bio or even use as a personal website.
Covid-19 is setting back the lives and careers of young scientists
Fair point. I explained why financial investors are not interested in those technologies.

The advantage of financial returns is that they are measurable and currency broadly accepted.

People have subjective opinions on what constitutes non-financial returns and you can't buy a house with happiness.

If the proposal is that more people should invest time in non-monetary pursuits, then what alternative incentive motivate them. Presumably people working in ad-tech could leave retrain for another career if they wanted.
That's not exactly what "home ownership rate" means. Home ownership rate is the proportion of occupied homes which are owned by their occupants. If your town has one hundred occupied homes, then 67 of those occupied homes would be owned (or being paid for on mortgagee) by the people living inside.

Adult children living at home, adults living in homes with roommates, people underwater on their mortgage, etc would all count towards a higher home ownership rate.
I did something like this (unintentionally) in college by working until I passed out on the floor, then working more the moment I wake up (generally to hit a morning deadline)

It's not great* for problem solving, but it is a wonderful recipe for depression.

* Actually, I frequently solved problems that I was stuck on immediately after waking up. However, I am convinced I would have solved these problems had I not been so sleep deprived in the first place.
> how exactly are you supposed to hold officials accountable if you don't have any names to go on?

Manning could have told Assange which names were the names of US government officials. (In fact, I'd be surprised if Manning didn't actually do just that; on your own theory of who should be held accountable it would be irresponsible not to.)
Gov.uk site broke Google realtime analytics during lockdown announcement
I wasn't trying to be pedant, I just don't think what Assange did is investigative journalism, which was an important part of the comment I was replying to.
How the Covid-19 vaccine is distributed determines how the pandemic will end
"as far as we know now" -- with a quite US-centric idea of "as far as we know now".
An interesting exercise might be working out a texture budget for this asset.

https://youtu.be/PBhCE97ZN98

This was created with the requirement that the director be able to use it at will. Closeups. Set replacements, destruction, the works.

You don’t have a shot breakdown or camera list.

You’ve got 6 months of pre production to support 1000 shots. Once in production you will be the only texture artist supporting 30 TDS.

How do you spend your 6 months to make sure production runs smoothly?

I’m kinda interested in your experience of this stuff as the numbers you’re quoting for 2k work are, in my experience, waaaaaay off and are closer to how a high end games asset would currently be textured.

I don’t disagree with you that the numbers involved are crazy when taken in isolation but it is (or at least was 5 years ago) a very common workflow at ILM, Weta, Dneg, DD, R&H Framestore etc etc. The quoted high numbers are the very upper end but many thousands of assets on hundreds of productions have been textured at what I believe you would consider “insane” detail levels.
Vs. LinkedIn: I started using it in 2009, but it's become virtually unusable for me. The only reason I haven't deleted my account is it has up to date contact information for my 1,300 LinkedIn connections.
I would say that Trump's ability to convince people he is knocking down the elites, and instead using the office to benefit both his elite self and his elite inner circle is his greatest hustle, but actually, its quiet an ordinary move that elites have been pulling since the start of time.

I feel like to really knock down the elites, you need someone who is not elite. However, anyone who rises to this kind of status by definition becomes elite even if they weren't before, so it's kind of a self fulfilling failure. True revolution can probably only come from many non elite people seeking the same goal. This kind of revolution would most likely be squashed by someone elite.
Right... because Trump was the one billionaire who was actually not an elite, and not on the side of the elites, and really for real interested in destroying the elite power structure. The guy who wouldn't even pay his own employees or contractors was a hero of the common man. The guy just caught on tape trying to shake down Georgia's Secretary of State to "find" votes ... he's the only honest man in a den of vipers.

I assume you're trolling but the sad thing is, it's impossible to tell anymore.
I upvoted you because you’re right and I’m wrong, which is the most un-Reddit thing I’ll do all day.
SpaceX rockets are still made in the US. Go work for them.

Seriously, you do not want to be assembling iPhones. Build a robot to do that tedious work instead.
But without the need for cheap labour, it becomes much easier for governments to impose tariffs on imports (or provide subsidiaries, etc), to even the scales, no?
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I've wondered about this too. 5G is a marketing and umbrella term. Is it the new radio protocol, MIMO enhancements, new bands, or something else these people are actually afraid of?
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That 400 number seems off to me. Without more information on where you've pulled that number, what I can find is that there's ~74.7k deaths where COVID-19 was mentioned on the death cert in England and Whales since January last year. They didn't seem to really start counting that until March, until that point they were just classified as respiratory diseases.

Current statistics show that there's around 1'400 deaths of those under 50 with COVID-19 listed on their death registration, ( https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsde... ).

Where's your data from?

> Lockdown seems to drive deaths, at huge social and economic cost, rather than prevent them.

This could easily be a reversed causality, that deaths drive lockdowns... which, on the surface seems to make sense as high deaths seem to force politicians to lockdown (either for reality or perception).
Not only that, but I'm getting the feeling a developer's best option these days for maximizing pay increases is to spend their free time on Leetcode. Which in my opinion is a problem from an industry perspective.
> When we're talking about war criminals

We're not. We're talking about Assange. He can still be at fault and worthy of blame for some things he did, even if the US government is also worthy of blame for some things it did.
nope, there are LGPL & GPL software on the app store and have been for quite some time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_free_and_open-source_i...

The issue that prevented GPL back in 2010 was having to pay a fee to be able to upload new code to your own device, which has not been the case for 4/5 years now
Can you a name a single member of his cabinet that isn't in fact one of these "Elites"? It's full of Harvard MBAs, Wall Street bankers and Swamp Creatures. You are delusional.
I'm a generation behind on PC hardware, so I haven't had to deal with this yet, but surely in most cases there'd be a way to physically disable it? I'd expect there to be a jumper you could open or maybe even a trace which could be carefully cut if you don't mind a destructive option.

Anyway, certainly the whole thing has gotten bit out of control. An optional RGB header on a motherboard is one thing, but on the sound card? Total madness: https://youtu.be/0NMlWg-7Crg?t=29
Would you have a different expectation if the employment agreement specified severance compensation for the employee, or if the law required severance?
To be fair, there are other avenues to fix this. I came into a job that just settled a lawsuit over this for the very small number on non-union workers it applied to. From then on, that small group received increased overtime pay despite being non-union
Those aren't slippers. Those are birkenstocks!
how does 996 happen ? Is it a company wide mandate or asked by supervisors or self inflicted?
I can appreciate this — I stayed with my previous company for 5 years, which seems like an eternity to most folks I talk to, but I worked on 3 very different teams during that time period. It felt like joining a brand new company each time with new challenges and things to learn. I'd recommend exploring that route before leaving if it's open to you.
It’s not unethical though it may take some explaining later on.
No cursor on mobile, so it's not enough.