skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Then ask them to delete it all. You, like most people, probably won't ask - because it's extremely convenient to have Google store all of this data. But if you think the upside isn't worth the risk, just ask and they will destroy it all for you. You don't even have to claim you live in the EU or California or somewhere else with at data protection law.

https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/7660719
Michael Levin's work seems incredibly important and one of the most likely truly breakthrough discoveries I've heard of in a long while. I'm not so sure about RNA memory storage but the point about unicellular life possessing some form of information processing ability is certainly something more people should be thinking about. The fact that such complex behaviour is possible on that minuscule of a scale means there is really something special about the computational properties of organic chemistry. I can't help but feel a lot of the hardware that makes up macro scale life is really just used for dealing with the inefficiencies of getting so many individual cells to cooperate and interface with their environment in a coordinated manner. Single celled organisms have a shorter round trip time for their decision - action - sensation loop but are generally unable to make major modifications to their surroundings by acting or moving. Nonetheless, I think they're a lot smarter than we give them credit for.
Firefox is completely an independent entity from Google and the reality is that they needed to accept the manifest v3 because their survival entirely depends on Google's money. Why do you think the situation would be different from this if Chrome get broken up from Google?
You make such great points! How can any be argued? Also. Insurrection and coup are not the same thing. It was an insurrection.

Yea those big tech doing such far left progressive ideals like paying no taxes, dodging all sorts of moral issues, working with another to not poach and lower income. I can’t tell if AOC and Bernie dont run big tech.
You would see mydomain.com/adnetwork then.
It's the 1980s, a Russian and an American are talking. The American says:

"In my country, we can have freedom of speech. I can stand outside the White House and shout that the president is an idiot, and nobody can stop me".

"So what," replies the Russian, "In Russia I can also shout that the president of America is an idiot and nobody will stop me".
There are other problems in healthcare that are more tractable. I built some software a few years back that identified HIV+ patients at risk of developing certain complications, and alerted their clinic/case workers. We were able to show after a year that they were seeing real improvements across their patient population.
This is probably the most meaningful thing I’ve ever done.
You pretty much can, and they'll drop what data they have stored as well, if you ask.

https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/7660719
Oh, okay, but then why this:

> I repeat something about bacterial colonies from my card but she isn’t buying it. I manage to get out that I understand this isn’t a spit-in-the-tube-and-done thing and that’s all I’ve got. She keeps pushing

I mean you told her pretty clearly that you didn't think it was like 23andMe.

Why would she keep pushing?
> Theoretically, if I could fix your brain without you even being aware of it so that you don't die from brain cancer, I would.

Am I not even aware of it because I'm unconscious and incapacitated, and you're asking the consent of someone else who is empowered (say by my medical power of attorney) to give consent on my behalf?

Or am I not even aware of it because you have a stealthy way of doing it that I can't perceive even though I'm conscious?

I suspect it's the latter, but I'd like you to confirm.

> If I had to physically do it via surgery like our best attempts in science can do today, I would operate if you came to the hospital for the procedure.

Is this because you think it's important that I consent to the procedure, or just because our limited technology of today won't let you do it in a way I can't perceive at all?

Again, I suspect it's the latter, but I'd like you to confirm.

> When it comes to altering your brain so that you like vanilla instead of chocolate, I would not do that. Some things require consent absolutely. Some things do not, like resuscitating a person if you are an EMT and sworn to do no harm.

Oh, so you do think consent is important in some cases? Then where do you draw the line? I get the EMT resuscitating a person, that's an easy case--but it's an easy case because there is a default presumption that if the person were able to consent to being resuscitated, they would. But you are also saying (I think--see above) that you would cure my brain cancer without my consent if you could. Where's the line between that and you not being willing to alter my brain so I like vanilla instead of chocolate?

> do you ask the murder to consent to going to jail or do you put the murderer in jail against their will?

The murderer has already harmed others. That's where I am drawing the line about when consent is no longer required to imprison them.
Scoop: HubSpot Is Acquiring the Hustle
Plenty of sites stay up that are not liked by powers to be. White supremacist forums. Or Pirate Bay
HTML5 Canvas is probably the easiest to get going with some Javascript.

Python has PyGame, or you could just plot to PNGs.

Java awt has a canvas.

C/C++ has SDL/SFML or also plotting to PNGs (or if you want to go wild, embedded GPUs are an option).

You could also do all of this in BASIC if you write the canvas commands. All of this is doable on a Commodore in software albeit slowly.
I don't think it would be unfair for any Country to allow immediate international experts to come in, see for themselves, and/or help aid the host country if need be to get to the bottom of it, even if it happened in the U.S. I agree that is probably naive to think but being arrogant with something like this just seems so dangerous. Even if it happened accidentally because of poor protocols, at least then it is known and can be addressed. I can see if this happened as like USAMRID the chances of them allowing just anyone in is likely somewhere around 0%, and I doubt they'd be super forthcoming publicly either. That said, my hope is they would react better to containing it immediately versus denying it and spending their time trying to quiet physicians and jail people who spoke out about it.
What about taking results from one leak's reversed passwords and applying it to all future hash leaks?

It's the same logic as applying well known target data like birthdays, anniversaries, etc.
Comment on the issue: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/43651#issuecomment-75886...

From the proposal:

> However, it‘s tedious to have to write interface{} every time you write a generic function that doesn’t impose constraints on its type parameters. So in this design we suggest a type constraint any that is equivalent to interface{}.

Further unification possible: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/33232

However I do agree this is making it somewhat confusing what is in a static and what is in a runtime position.
Even my extremely liberal anti-bias training tells me diverse points of view are healthy. What ever happened to sticks and stones bla bla?

The power of twitter is unprecedented. Laws are out of date and it seems folks are hiding behind this fact to justify their own biased beliefs.

Silencing opinion creates extremists.
I'm baffled by their choice of WordPress. No wonder they need so many servers.

I don't understand why they should have expected everyone to deplatform them. Facebook hosts the same content in far greater quantity and has clearly demonstrated that they can't moderate effectively, but there's no bulls-eye on them over that. What's different about Parler besides the ownership?
What I've learned over the past few days is that there is an overwhelming consensus among tech, SV, VCs, founders that really really despise the SEC / see it as complete ineffective.

Curious - how do people on HN feel about the SEC? I find HN more diverse of opinions outside the realm of the tech bubble so I'm interested to see if there are any contrarian voices here.
Shouldn't the HN title be the same as the article's title "Why I Still Use RSS"?
No, I just think "always build for bare metal" is bad advice.
>whether its effective is another debate

Why?
FYI, and this may come as a surprise, Trump is not the entire republican party.
This is correct. Homebrew will gracefully fall back to a source build on your local machine if it can't (for whatever reason) access the bottle host.
I feel like there would be less of a shitstorm if they hadn't offered the $200 at all, but instead just asked the developers to return them as per the agreement.
How much do you think their aws bill was per month for hundreds of servers? Their traffic bill alone was probably worth it already. Don’t contract this work to ibm or deloitte or something and you’ll be fine
You can, but you obviously lose features [like most Google Assistant functionality if you turn off 'web and search activity' 1] or anti-features [can't view youtube or search ads if you install an ad blocker] by doing so.

1: https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/54068
Man, I think both sides are ridiculous. I don't like myself when I get drawn into these kinds of discussions. It's obviously not going to be productive.

> "Guess I'll have to explain [because you're too dumb to get it]."

> "Are you ready [for the truth bomb I'm about to drop on your small mind]?"

Your comments just make me want to write something equally childish like: "Yeah, but who built the cages?"

These back and forth comments just have a way of sucking people in. It's just silly. You're not ready to have a good faith debate. Read back your comment. Was it ever going to convince me of anything? What was the point? I'm stepping away from this conversation.
Oh hey I didn't mean to say you don't belong in this, or any other discussion.

I just meant that the initial statement about your current benifits compared to someone in the union wasn't fair.

Sorry if I made it seem your opinion wasn't welcome, that wasnt my intent.
Many US Government Agencies Were Hacked via Another Vulnerability in SolarWinds
The markup lost significant credibility for me when they described the New York Times as a ‘politically neutral’ source.

It’s sad, because I really thing we need more of this kind of analytical / experimental journalism.

https://www.journalism.org/2014/10/21/political-polarization...

https://www.allsides.com/news-source/new-york-times

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/11/inside-the-new-york-...
They applauded her after she apologized for promoting QAnon.

It’s incredible how rather than indulge in a microsecond of self reflection, people like you just latch onto the most extreme caricature of your opponents that your media vendors can muster, ignoring the substantive reality.
Funny, I started my obsession about two months ago. I've basically always had Sunday at the Village Vanguard somewhere in my rotation for the last 10 years, but I've only started branching out with other Evans albums recently, beginning with Undercurrents. So I'm following replies here with some anticipation.
Transform text into video using AI
San Francisco sues its own school district to reopen classes
I think that implementing good ndim=2 support would already be a huge leap forward, it doesn't have to be something super generic. E.g., given that most of the classic machine learning is essentially using 2-dimensional data (samples x features) as inputs, this is a very common use case.

E.g., as of right now, having to concatenate hundreds of columns manually just in order to pass them to some ml library in a contiguous format is always a pain and often doubles the max ram requirement.
From some of the reports it sounds like they'd outsourced tons of their infrastructure and account creation steps to SaaS groups so coming back means doing some major rewrites probably. Also having been on AWs they're probably scrambling to rewrite to remove all the AWS service hooks and setup new stacks.
You're ignoring the living, moving context that is the adtech industry. It's one with a much higher ratio of middlemen:customers than needed, representatives of whom appear in this article.
The solution is as simple as: Go into your privacy settings, and turn off ad personalization. Takes like three clicks.

https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated?hl=en

I have it off for both my personal and Google corporate accounts. (Disclaimer: I work at Google.)

If you don't want to be signed in at all, you can install a Chrome extension.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/iba-opt-out-by-goo...
I thought the US govt banned any work with Oracle. Is Oracle not suing over that?
But if that socket uses 3x less power for the same light output, and the automatic update reduces the power usage of the entire world overnight, wouldn't it be a net positive? Although, I suppose it could still be viewed as an anti-competitive action.
That's just nuts and it doesn't need to be that way.

Your politics is not your identity. Other people's politics are not their identity. It's just differences in policy opinions which can and do change through life or as circumstances change.

If a person is intrinsically welded to political affinity as _the_ defining characteristic of themselves or others it's a huge problem. A huge imbalance. A horrible and shallow misunderstanding of the nature of the human experience.

Most people want the same things out life and for society, they just have different ideas on the best policies to achieve this. Very few people are intrinsically and irredeemably evil. Many more are simply confused or misguided. Sometimes it's us that's misguided. Its useful to keep somewhat of an open mind and understand people view the world in different ways.

Your friends are people and your friends not Democrats and Republicans.
I am not sad :-). But it is interesting in this day and age to just flat out terminate the CEO. It seems like most have a contract and firing them creates a exposure to risk. (hence all the negotiated exits). That makes me curious to know if he was working without a contract or they had a really solid 'for cause' case against him.
As someone who does deeply believe in and care about free speech (from all parties), I could not be in deeper agreement with you. (for non-native English speakers: I fully agree).

Parler should not have been de-platformed. That was a clearly partisan act, and the truth would have come out shortly about the company's total lack of care for its users. Say what you will about Gab, but they never pulled any of those stunts. Looking forward to whatever the new solution is.
The scale of thinking here is amazingly constricted.

Imagine if we had approached this like we did WWII.

We would have nationalized the effort to produce vaccines, building entire production chains and staffing them with anyone in need of work.

We would have built infrastructure to produce n95 masks and shipped them to every address.

What would this mean? We would have saved hundreds of thousands of lives, employed millions of people, strengthened our economy, and would now be wrapping up vaccinating everyone.

Our response to the crisis should be noted as a failure of monumental proportions. The lack of leadership at all levels of government continues to be astounding.
My favorite approach is a list of programs that you implement in every language. Hello world, guess a number, calculate primes, read CSV and do statistics on it, draw a turtle, whatever. Go by example and https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Rosetta_Code are great.
Media in general is mis/information. Telegram etc are just a more decentralized version.
Amazon shortchanged drivers $61.7M in tips
lasagnaphil's comment provides some insight that proper planning would have involved not using WordPress and thus needing a fraction of the servers.
On a side note, Clickhouse had some Arrow support

https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/12284
I think I agree with you. I wholly support clamping down on adtech btw. I just don't support the "this article doesn't talk about the tech merit" angle of critique, as if that's so obviously a starting (or priority) point of departure.
Most of time when you get "hacked" nobody broke into twitter and gained access to your account instead SOMETHING got hacked often a trivial low value target of little worth and then either that hacker or someone looking for password leaks sees that someone with the email bob@gmail.com had a password of hunter2 and immediately tries that email and password combination on everything of value.

The security fail in that situation is that the person used the same password on mypointlesswebsite.com as they did on twitter.

Alternatively individual devices may be compromised in all sorts of ways at which point their credentials are stolen and sold like cheap goods at a flea market.

All of this is vastly easier than breaking into twitter.

You believe that the number of twitter accounts being taken over indicates bad security practices at twitter but in fact a ton of email accounts are taken over you just aren't aware because hacked email accounts communicate person to person whereas twitter accounts especially of important and popular people are one to many.

Can we identify when a twitter handle has been taken over? Maybe so but honestly some responsibility has to fall on users.
> Parler should not have been de-platformed

You obviously did not see the material that the company allowed to be posted on their services in contravention to their hosting provider's terms of services.

Always abide by your host's AUP. Otherwise, you can get yeeted.
I've experienced this first hand.
It should be 10^8 :)
Not any more, considering that their app was banned from iOS and Google Play.
TileDB[1] supports both sparse and dense multidimensional arrays. We support returning data in arrow arrays or an arrow table as one of many ways we interoperate with computational tools. You can also access the data directly via numpy array, pandas, R data.frames and a number of integrations with MariaDB, Presto, Spark, GDAL, PDAL and more.

Disclaimer: I am a member of the TileDB team.

[1] https://tiledb.com/
Using the right tool / pattern for the job, vs rather than hacking at it. Generally simplicity and lack of code I think show a veteran at work.
Maybe this is just my cynicism shining through, but I'm not sure I trust Google, or really most modern companies, to create something that wouldn't mainly be for their own benefit.
That's not how research projects work..
You do get better search results with location tracking though...
At the same time let's not forget it's Google we're talking about. They are even parsing your emails to extract all the data from your transactions. They already have all your personal information, they just need to keep track of you when you're using other websites.
I don’t want the web advertising industry to go away. It’s benign. If you don’t want advertisers to track you you have the option to default browse without cookies. Even better, default browse without cookies and JavaScript. Yes, I do this.

If you understand how cookies work then this is a perfectly viable option for you. If you don’t, you likely don’t care about advertisers tracking you.
They are from other machines like Atari and Amiga so they were in formats like LBM/IFF.
Your comment sparked a thought about a possible collection of RNA memory functions:

If RNA is the memory mechanism, and it floats around for a while, then it gets cleaned up over time, this collection might allow long term memory recall and replay.

Function 1:
Surface protein encodes the pattern of incoming synapse firings on RNA, then releases it. This pattern would have a start and end block indicating it is "new".

Function 2:
Relatively rare protein finds RNA marked "new" and replaces start and end blocks with "old" markers.

Function 3:
Common protein grabs one strand marked new, and one strand marked old and compares part of the tail of "new" to the head of "old" by sliding them past each other.

If a match is found, the older strand is marked "match" at the start.

Function 4:
Match strands are used to trigger the next several firings of the neuron, then marked "hold"

Function 5:
"Old" strands are gradually recycled.

Function 6:
"Hold" strands are copied into new "old" strands for comparison to "new" strands by function 3

Function 7:
Something to do with continual refinement of "hold" strands with incoming "new" strands.

...

Anyway, this whole little system just popped into my head based on the small amount I know about crispr and cellular machinery (which honestly isn't much), and I wanted to share.
I came here, apparently, to agree with you strongly.

The ceiling in my house is, upstairs, roughly one meter above my head. Downstairs, I've got maybe two?

That is "wasted space". It takes more energy to heat, and uses more building materials. Efficiency dictates that I do not need that extra airspace above my noggin, and thus it should not exist.

But it feels better.

When I lived in Berlin, the doors and ceilings felt as if they were built for a race of giants -- much taller, and much wider, then they needed to be.

And it was wonderful. It took some getting used to, but I could feel the difference.

Japan is full of inefficiency. There are people, human beings in pressed shirts and white gloves, that manually clear trains for departure on crowded platforms. Even when things aren't crowded, there is almost always a person on every train platform in Tokyo.

And that feels better, too.

Yes, the automated systems -- which exist! -- probably do more for safety. But I really like knowing that I can scream out for help, and another human being has a job description that involves "hear me" and "send aid." Because I'm an engineer, and I know full well how often we miss edge cases.

And, yes, this is less efficient. And my ticket might be a little cheaper if we had robots doing all the work. But those people do an important job. I am glad they are there, doing that job. I really don't want to those jobs "efficiented" away by a bunch of management experts who are chauffeured about in cars with tinted windows, and never ride the trains anyway.

Games are inefficient. But they make us happy.

Love is inefficient. One could make he argument that it would be better for society if computers assigned relationships based genetic/personality/economic/whatever criteria. But I don't think any of us want that, either. Gattica was a dystopia.

I'm not sure how, but we need to capture the idea that human happiness requires that every system have, built-in, a certain amount of inefficiency.
And, worth noting, the set of adtech industry persons includes all employees and contractors of Google. Google simple wouldn't exist if it weren't for adtech, and all cheques written by Google are dependent on adtech.

It's the largest, most invasive and pervasive privacy intrusion in history, and its beneficiaries includes many HN regulars.
It looks to me like people who were not professional investors or immature executive leadership caught the tail of the tiger when they launched a passion project or activist platform and it took off. (To be clear, I wish it'd worked out, but they definitely need to step back and rebuild it properly, repay technical debt, and beg users for forgiveness.)
> I have often wondered recently why this isn't done more?

Because you have to pay N casts, shoot N × as much film, do N times as much editing, and use the sets of N times as long. The only thing this saves on is constructing the sets.

> hell you could record camera positions and the camera could move exactly the same in different versions.

Which probably is of less value that you think unless you do the same thing with the cast, who usually aren't as mechanically programmable.