skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And do you believe that the persons who in various cultures would be called “black” but are actually genetically 95+% “white” would be more likely to suffer from that?

Individuals and populations are different.

> Such risk factors do not of course care about arbitrary cultural racial classifications which are often noted to be asymmetrically contagious in various cultures.

Risk factors may not care but individuals in at-risk populations are likely care that knowledge of different risks to them, based on their race or not, is available.

> If that be their intent, they firstly communicate it poorly and should have simply said so, and secondly it's useless.

That's your contention, I'm yet to see a cogent argument or any evidence for this.

> Again, in various countries with a majority nonwhite population, a person who might genetically be 5% white, and 95% local population could conceivably be termed “white”: — is it their intention and your contention that the results of this research may then be applied to such a person that is effectively genetically close to local population?

Reading this, it is my belief that you have missed the point of the authors intent, the reasons for using race as a category in medicine, and all of the arguments put forth to you.
Exactly. It's a difference without a distinction.

And rather sad that free software - which in theory ought to be a perfect place for exploring assistive options - seems to lag far behind the closed shops.
A reduction of symptoms but not a statistical reduction in viral load? That's an odd combination of outcomes.
- MIT 18.06 - https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-06-linear-algebra... - The lectures and the textbook for the course are a default recommendation.

- Linear Algebra Done Right - This is a textbook, there are also youtube videos from the author - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGAnmvB9m7zOBVCZBUUmS...

- Khan Academy - https://www.khanacademy.org/math/linear-algebra - Also a good place to start, very accessible, missing some of the more advanced material.

- 3blue1brown - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZHQObOWTQDPD3MizzM2x... - These videos are good but they're more of a nice overview than a way to learn.
To people who complain about deplatforming Parler, how would you feel about de-platforming a forum to recruit members for ISIS, or the Taliban?

To me, Parler has equivalencies

- AWS linked to calls for violence that were made on Parler

- The platform was actively suppressing non-conservative viewpoints

I would recommend looking at r/ParlerWatch on Reddit
I love how they look, everything about them from the doors to the instrument panel to the steel body.

I honestly don’t like back to the future much, not more than any other movie, and it’s popularity from that has dissuaded me from buying one (not to mention the soaring prices due to the film.) Nor do I particularly care about the founder or his choices.

For some, the design simply has a great appeal. An EV refresh would be a dream and I would absolutely buy a somewhat overpriced Tesla produced Delorean.
Hmm my company's anti-corruption training material states very explicitly that the only gifts allowed are very minor ones (probably things like company-branded T-shirts or something) and dinners need to be on a modest budget, definitely no paid vacations and the like. Of course, this is just training material which I'm sure they make mandatory primarily to avoid liability, and I'm pretty far removed from the actual sales people in the company. It's entirely possible the training is more what you'd call "guidelines" than actual rules, to paraphrase Hector Barbossa from Pirates of the Caribbean.
Lots of general aviation cockpits are moving to touch screens too. For example Garmin just got the G3X Touch approved for certified aircraft: https://buy.garmin.com/en-US/US/p/682215/pn/G3X-TCERT-13

The G3000 integrated flight deck is pretty much the default in new business jets too.

In my opinion the touch screens are a lot easier to use than the old G1000 screens except for when you are getting tossed around in turbulence. Fortunately, there are still physical buttons for all of the "safety critical" or "time critical" inputs such as configuring the autopilot, changing radio frequencies, or adjusting the barometric pressure for the altimeter.

Source: I am a private pilot and have used the G1000, G300, and G3X touch.
UK considering COVID19 test data would be shared with Police
Vermont supports abolishing the Electoral College.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Intersta...
> It might be cheaper to just pay the tax than actually make the required changes to your process.

The idea is to increase the tax rate so there is enough incentive for the total aggregate of pollution across all the producers to be reduced to an acceptable level.
This is true, although the built Docker image itself (rather than Dockerfile) wouldn’t have these problems. I think in situations where reproducibility is paramount, it would make sense to offer a tarball of the image (`docker save`) along with the Dockerfile itself.
I think it’s significant in this case that most of the development of ES and the underlying engine is done by Elastic. This re-licensing is only of interest because it means most ongoing work on the project will now happen under the new license. If that was not the case nobody would care, the contributors could fork back to Apache 2.0 and continue. After all, the ElasticSearch license used up until 7.1 also allows me to fork the project under a new restrictive license, but nobody is likely to care if I did.
Absolutely read that same book. One of the most useful I've read.
What open source license would prevent someone from capitalizing on your project?
Apple may build a Car. But should it?
so why didn't they switch to that.
Keep everything in Lastpass notes or the notes of whatever password manager you use.

Then put the password to that somewhere safe for people to have.
Perhaps one should also consider changing the way we look at art. Is it a good thing that it is privatised? The legacy and heritage of past generations should by rights belong to all.
Royalties is probably the wrong word. What i mean is that i can buy an album for $5 on bandcamp and the artist will get more money than if i stream the album 1000 times on spotify. Album sales (especially in no-tour lockdown times) are an important part of funding musicians. Streams dont cover bills. Neither does merch.
Hey Matt!

I've interacted with you on twitter before, but I wanted to thank you again for your work, it has impacted me greatly.

One of the first mathematics papers I ever read was your paper on Gödel hashes. Coming from a patchwork self-taught software background it opened my eyes to just how much more there was to CS than "writing code". So, so much more. I still have a copy in my desk! I had dropped out of the U of U's CS program, and this was the first thing that really made me question my decision.

I've also admired your work in with Bertrand and I'm hopeful at the legacy it will leave, and at the future of precision medicine.

Thanks!

Caleb
The rationale of the government is that they want to reduce casual house gatherings. Walking out in a winter night in the Netherlands is hardly a leisure activity. If you're walking outside at night, chances are you are going to, or returning from a social gathering.

So while unpleasant, the amount of security theater isn't particularly high.
As an intern 25+ years ago I had an assignment to draw up mocks for a new UH-1N interface based on pilot feedback. There were a lot of rules (I think all under the umbrella of "MIL-SPEC"), but I think the one that sunk in the most was that the design had to work in monochrome. Depending on shades and colors breaks the design for the color-blind but also ruins interactions in bad lighting conditions, wearing helmets, etc.

It was a bigger, bolder look than was common on desktop computers, and I've always personally loved the style. There was a brief rise of similar rules in the civilian world as things moved mobile and we had to work on small screens with big fingers, but the direction now is to try to remove anything that might hint of interaction from the screen entirely. (Not a fan of this myself!)

I've been in civilian work pretty much ever since so I have no idea how things have changed since then. Edit: on second glance I think a lot of the same principles are still in effect. While colorful I'm not sure that anything depends on reading the color, and seen from the pilot's chair it probably isn't all that crowded.
I think you may already realise the royalties answer, but want to poke HN readers. That's fine, by me, but I think you also are aware that the majority of software developers here don't like digital locks on creative work so write digital keys to circumvent them. They do not believe in outright copyright, they do not believe in royalties. They are against corporate media streaming platforms, that pay a pittance to artists and labels, big and small.

That's basically music.

Questions of copying, design, originality, costing and ownership become more detailed, complicated, and fractious, the nearer you move the conversation toward to code.
Didn't Apple argue in Apple v Samsung that Apple invested millions in focus groups?
>Intel® SSD DC P4610

Interesting they decide to put in PCIE 3.0 NVMe SSD instead of PCI-E 4?

Imagine having 24x Intel Optane [1]. PCI-E 5 is actually just around the corner. I would imagine next time Let's Encrypt could upgrade again and continue to use a Single DB Machine to Serve.

[1] https://www.servethehome.com/new-intel-optane-p5800x-100-dwp...
>You also don't need "approved parts" (what does that even mean?)

Germany is really crazy about TUV approving everything down to plastic grill. MCM covered it during their visit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yO1S-zICX4
Job stress and financial difficulties don't turn a person into a murderer. Most murderers are psychopathic/sociopathic and predisposed to more serious crimes. That said...

There is a recent shift of police and social resources away from "crime as usual" toward the handling of social unrest and crowds/mobs. Most departments try to anticipate such shifts, which strongly affect the size and allocation of manpower within the police department. A small police department can find itself unable to investigate serious crimes in times of social unrest. Anyone who is intelligent and who wants to commit a premeditated crime knows this and could be expected to take advantage of it.
Your source for "debunking" has a clear conflict of interest, no?
Confluent absolutely wants a cut for hosted Kafka usage, though, and has made similar changes to Elastic.

https://www.confluent.io/confluent-community-license-faq/

> Under the Confluent Community License, you can access the source code and modify or redistribute it; there is only one thing you cannot do, and that is use it to make a competing SaaS offering.
re: SWAT: His point was a) that he is privileged and b) that was what the NYT was thinking about why it's ok for them to dox him, not what he thinks...
And what do you call this: https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=25823541&goto=threads%...
Maybe?

Brian Behlendorf didn't write Apache (or more accurately, patch NCSA httpd) out of "generosity", he was doing what was known back then as "scratching his own itch". Sure, he generously gave it away as well, but that was after he'd done the work to benefit _himself_.

Same with Larry Wall and Perl. He wrote the language he wanted, and shared it afterwards. He didn't write it out of generosity (and to be fair, he is 100% the sort of person who might have).

I think the dual license strategy Larry chose for Perl really shines light on his motivations, "use GPL if you want to, use the enormously more permissive Artistic License if you want to". He just wanted anybody who might find his software useful for any reason at all (including becoming insanely rich, if they could work out how to do so) to be able to use Perl.
breaks the initial promise of not to do this:

> it adds: “Contrary to previous assurances given to the public, this will mean sharing health data (ie an indication of who has tested positive for Covid-19) with the police if someone is reported to have breached their legal duty, but this is considered a necessary and proportionate measure – and data-sharing agreements will provide that the information is not used for any other purposes.”
That's fine if you're single but incredibly selfish if you're not.
Don't know about the Teslas but the Porsche Taycan does exactly that but for energy saving.
No colo company wants them as a customer and it would take months to order and install ~200 servers.
Self-Driving Cars Being Blocked by Human Drivers Using Road Bouldering Tactics
> The fact that amazon is in a better position to make money off of open source software is part of the calculation that startups should be making if they are writing open source software

So what you're saying is people shouldn't work on open source projects. That's essentially what your statement boils down to.
You can’t have a business only based on open source software. As a company you need to provide bit more than what is there in open source world. Just technical support won’t cut it. What elastic provides can be very well mimicked by other players if they want to and have money for it. I believe Elastic
Realized their business model is not working and so they changed their license. But AWS has money and man power to fork it.
A nice article, but one nitpick. The authors repeatedly describe Apple's approach as "non-standard" when what they mean is "not what Linux does". That's pretty grating. It's also worth mentioning that in several cases (such as Mach-O), Apple's approach predates the very existence of Linux.
Try ML-driven RCA using a cloud-native microservices demo app
I wonder how much progress would be made on the millennium prize problems if the prize was increased by 1 or 2 orders of magnitude
I would agree that such a situation would be a problem, but I don't agree that it applies. Trump violated Twitter's TOS plenty before he was president, and Twitter didn't ban him then, so I don't think they were doing this in fear of retribution.
I sincerely wonder if your comments here are all inflammatory and accelerationist because you are attempting to satirize the weak arguments of so-called anti-facists.
Yes, we should change the system. It was a compromise that is now well outdated.
Why must everything be mercantilised? Why must everything fit the logic of The Market? Increase supply, lower prices, etc.

Is it a good thing that so much art is in the hands of private individuals? Shouldn't the legacy and heritage of past generations by rights belong to everybody?
When a mentally-unstable person uses the courts improperly, the court can label them "vexatious litigant" [0]. Then they must receive permission from a judge to file any new lawsuits. Courts don't do such things quickly.

It's not the job of courts to force people into the care of the a mental institution. The government must petition the court for permission to do that and show that the person is a danger to themselves or others [1]. Sometimes a court will recommend mental hospital rather than prison for a convicted criminal. This Craig Wright person doesn't seem to be using violence on himself or others and hasn't been accused of a crime. Therefore the system will not force him into a mental institution.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vexatious_litigation

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanterman–Petris–Short_Act
Linux is not project developed as a product mostly by a single company. Substituting Linux into this situation doesn’t really provide any insight.
"still requires a special WinRT call in order to enable them"

Which WinRT call would that be?

Hi, owner of the Windows Console here.

Enabling VT control sequences is a matter of setting the ENABLE_VIRTUAL_TERMINAL_PROCESSING mode on the output handle, and it's available through the same interface as every console mode flag that came before it. SetConsoleMode has a long history--dating back to the nineties--that this just builds on.

It's behind a flag so that applications developed before ca. 2015 that like to emit control characters to the screen don't melt away into gibberish.
Like the opposite of Rover and Wag, a gig economy for dogs instead of people, where they deliver you a dog to walk during coronavirus curfews:

Deliverpoo, aka Poober Walkies: 24/7 doorstep delivery dog rental, guaranteed well fed and ready to go.

Need to go out for brisk jog through the city at night to meet up with a drug dealer or pimp? Rent a fully loaded Doberman or German Shepherd to accompany and defend you.

Feel more like a slow romantic moonlit walk along the beach? Rent an adorable economy wiener dog.
Weasley move
> The first version of the Affero General Public License (AGPLv1), was published by Affero, Inc. in March 2002

Stallman strikes again!
And what the manual unlock codes?
Ask HN: How did you advertise your AppSumo campaign?
We just debuted on AppSumo(https://appsumo.com/marketplace-formcake/), but found out to our surprise we need to get a certain number of reviews / metrics before we'll be promoted more.

Any other bootstrappers have advice on how they kickstarted their AppSumo campaign?
Something tells me that online grocery shopping may evolve into this format- for the reasons pointed out, it doesn’t make a ton of sense long term for these two formats to be bundled once there’s enough demand for both (which at this point, it seems like there is). These seems to be what Amazon Fresh is doing.
What are better alternative licenses that also wouldn't deter contributors?
I think this is actually best for users and the community. Sucks for elastic, but glad to see the project continuing as open source.

Also good to see Amazon sponsoring lots of OSS development. Wish they could have done it in collab with ElasticCo, but I think that’s on them as there’s no way they can allow peers to contribute and stay in business.
I know of two off the top of my head, probate and people fighting over your stuff
I must disagree here. Someone essentially saying "I have professional authority; you're wrong" is to me worth even less than a bare declaration of "you're wrong"--it is nothing more than an appeal to authority if there is no reasons given for the opinion.

Or, put more simply, to me, reasoning from a non-expert trumps non-reasoning from an expert.
Well if Latency were an issue or something they like to lower they should have chosen Optane.
Adobe's Flash kill switch shuts down Chinese railway
I think similar concept was described by Steve Jobs here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4VBqTViEx4
Is 5GHz matter for IoT use case?
Apple First VR Headset to Be Niche Precursor to Eventual AR Glasses
You might be interested in using Guix [1] for reproducible research, as is reported earlier (for genomics analysis) [2] and still actively developed [3].

As a bonus, Guix and Nix [4] allow for modular and composable pipelines, where you can swap different components (such as to upgrade Python from 3.8 to 3.9, or to enable certain optimizations for some Python libraries, or to run on MacOS and Linux while keeping the whole stack more or less the same), which would be more difficult to do reproducibly with other tools such as Docker (composing Guix or Nix functions are easier than composing DOCKERFILE or Docker Compose).

[1]: https://ambrevar.xyz/guix-advance/

[2]: https://academic.oup.com/gigascience/article/7/12/giy123/511...

[3]: https://hpc.guix.info/blog/2020/11/hpc-reproducible-research...

[4]: https://builtwithnix.org/
> Does censorship, even if justified, fuel anger and distrust

Anger and distrust are sparked, stoked and fueled far more by personalities in media and politics who actively promote them than by de-platforming.

> Is it possible to bring fringe groups back into the fold of peaceful civil discourse

People organizing and advocating violence are not fringe groups. The paradox of tolerance applies here: You can't extend tolerance to those who advocate for intolerance without destroying tolerance in the process.
Disclosure: I work at Amazon on cloud infrastructure, but not directly on the codebase being discussed here.

Someone pointed out elsewhere:

*Correction after looking a bit closer, I think Amazon has submitted at least 600 PRs, they only listed 9 in the blog post. That's better but it still doesn't change the fact their business model doesn't allow the companies they're building on the backs of to have a sustainable revenue stream.
It's not uncommon for those types of problems to be contract law violations. "Reliance" is a thing, random url: https://dictionary.law.com/Default.aspx?selected=1778
And yet...that is what the NHTSA are doing here, and that's what Congress explicitly directed them to do. They decided to "exempt from section 30112(a) of this [safety regulation] not more than 500 replica motor vehicles per year that are manufactured or imported by a low volume manufacturer" [0] so long as the manufacturer registers correctly for the program, affixes the correct stickers, etc.

Some classic "silhouettes" will just be incompatible with modern safety regulations: perhaps there's no room for a side airbag, or the shape of the grille is more lethal to pedestrians than modern cars are allowed.

[0] https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/2675...
> is a cinema ever non profit?

Yes? I regularly attend showings at a non-profit cine-club.
>Are you intending to insinuate that much of the most objectionable content on Parler has been posted by users who are trying to get Parler in trouble with the end goal of reducing the amount of content of that nature that is online?

Correct The Record used this exact technique to get posts, pages, and groups banned across Facebook and Reddit during the 2016 election: https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-clinton-digital-troll...

The campaign has been given credit by Sanders loyalists, however, for all manner of things that it has had nothing to do with, including posting pornography on pro-Sanders Facebook pages which resulted in them being temporarily taken down. (The pages went down as a result of a Facebook software glitch).

This "glitch" dismissal given in the article is open to scrutiny when WikiLeaks showed us DKIM-verified messages indicating collaboration between Hillary campaign manager John Podesta and Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg: http://www.departmentofmemes.com/news/wikileaks-proves-zucke...
NYTimes: https://www.nytimes.com/tips#securedrop
> b) that was what the NYT was thinking about why it's ok for them to dox him

It's not really doxing if you posted your own personal info publicly. At least once, in 2017 when he was less careful, Alexander publicly outed himself under his real name as the author of his blog. IIRC, it's a pretty core journalistic principle that subjects don't get to make decisions about how their story is presented.
Somehow the salaries for PhDs in electrical engineering capable of making chips from scratch became normalized with software developers churning out CRUD apps.
Gaze in wonder at this 10-gigapixel scan of Girl with a Pearl Earring
IMO the likeliest explanation is the lethality of novichok is way overblown or generally misunderstood. Skripals' poisoning had a very similar progression (the two targets survived after a coma [0], another inadvertently exposed person survived, one has died). Most anecdotes about Novichok's incredible lethality are stories out of Russia where use of Novichok was merely alleged. It's weird they'd botch 2 high profile assassination attempts like this if upping the dose a bit guarantees death.

[0] I'm not too familiar with the exact mechanism that induces the coma. But common sense would tell me extended comas after which the patient makes a full recovery are an unusual phenomenon medically. Navalny's doctors seemed pretty unsure about his prospects too. Yet both Skripals and Navalny not only escaped death but had full recoveries from extended comas.