skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd get an expert witness in there to testify basically that.

I also don't think you should code anything mission critical like this in Matlab. It's a decent language for prototyping, not for production.
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Others are pointing out that non-genetic biological factors (e.g. prenatal hormones) can still mean that a person's sexuality could still be determined (or significantly predisposed) at birth.

And others are pointing out that gay people shouldn't need to argue that they were born gay, with the implication that if a choice were possible there would be a right or a wrong choice justifying marginalization or shaming or discrimination.

But I think it's worth flipping around: What is the source of some people's persistent desire to legislate, regulate, punish, mock or vilify other people's loving relationships? Whenever I encounter this behavior in others, I hope that it's just a phase that they'll grow out of. I worry that they'll pass these traits on to kids by modeling their behavior in public. I'm guessing the cause is cultural. I wonder if it can be fixed.
Of course this is the case, but rather than lying, I think it is only a consequence of selection bias. You don't see the experts rejected by the prosecution (or defence) for opinions that aren't helpful, because of course they won't be invited to testify.
Yes. Worldwide shipping
> Code review is not the way to validate statistical inferences.

But it is a way to invalidate the inference, which is what the defense is interested in.
This is maybe true in Silicon Valley. Not in the real world.

Also, nobody needs a Google account.
This is academic/ theoretical. Having control over your email and preventing total loss of email like Terraria's author is not "difficult". Own your email domain, but pay a hosting provider for emails. Then, if that hosting provider doesn't want to host you anymore, you can switch to another provider instantly or host your own mail server (bad idea). You can argue the domain registrar can take it away from you, but that doesn't happen unless you do something illegal with that domain or don't pay the annual fee. The case with Google is neither of these serious issues.
> Is there any trait that is strongly linked to a single gene?

Sure.

Sickle-cell anaemia is one classic case, one (recessive) gene.

Huntington's disease is another, it's about a specific repeat number.

But, as you say, most complex traits (such as height) aren't like that, and involve hundreds or thousands of different genes. IIRC eye color is actually fairly simple, not one gene but much of the control in just a handful? Maybe hair color too? (But not super-sure.)
I've always thought hormones had something to do with sexuality, because as Wikipedia says "sex hormones control the ability to engage in on the motivation to engage in sexual behaviors." What I'm thinking here is that motivation. Some people are motivated to engage with one gender or sexuality, and it becomes hard wired through that developmental process.
The Android port appears to be published by 505 Games and Codeglue, and more recently Pipeworks, according to Wikipedia.

It's likely that the primary devs have little to no control of that port, including the ability (and possibly ip rights) to take it down.
The breadth of the industry makes it completely impossible to keep up with everything. I started typing out a list, but the list would be impossibly long.
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I mostly agree with you, but I think you might be overestimating the benefit of simply having humans on the other end. There is a lot more to building "reasonable" processes than just adding humans to the mix, those people have to be given some power to make exceptions but not too much or it defeats the point of the original rules, and you will still have honest mistakes and a few bad actors on the dispute resolution teams. Doing that at scale is always going to be hard.
I’m an Indian staying in US, but probably not for long. Given how many of us are there, I don’t think Google India would have the capacity or care to hear our pleas. The only way to force them to build something useful is through government interference but I hardly feel that Indian government would do so.
That’s a very clickbaity title. I was reading the article and sharpening my pitchfork up until the middle when I had to stop and put it down (the metaphorical pitchfork)
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From a European perspective, EU regulation 2019/1150 covers protections for business users of online intermediation platforms [1].

Article 4 sets out a range of protections for business users, including a requirement to provide "a reference to the specific facts or circumstances, including contents of third party notifications, that led to the decision of the provider of online intermediation services, as well as a reference to the applicable grounds for that decision"

This would seem to point towards a gradual start of the change in this way, although it will be interesting to see if anyone from Europe is ever able to use this against Google and others successfully. On the whole, the legislation seems to be sufficient, and it will come down to the usual issues of national regulators and their willingness to aid in enforcement action.

[1] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CEL...
Sorry for the confusion. I guess the simple question is do I either a) Set as task to Done as soon as the code is merged or b) Only set it to done after it is deployed to production.

If b) how can I map CI/CD tooling back to tasks so that they can track and update these tasks.

PBI = Product Backlog Item as distinct from a Bug. 1 PBI = 1 or more tasks.
And yet somehow whenever you take a closer look at mislabeled product prices, the average is always in favor of the store. And that's far from the only industry.

Complex tools are the product of many thousands of individual decisions taken by humans, humans aware of who's the paying client.
From someone who's spent nearly 20 years trying to stay near the bottom of the org chart, welcome!
Crazy to see this on HN. I was affected by this malware earlier this month and have both reported the app via the app store phone UI and submitted a full report w/ screenshots via the play stores web interface. Absolutely insane that I can still download this app from the play store and the devs account hasn't been nuked.
I wish you would add support for Azure sooner and also VMWare VMC cloud. I literally have to deliver cost estimate comparison of deploying our micro services to AKS vs VMC cluster. I have a tedious excel spreadsheet open that I am currently plugging in numbers to come up with estimates and comparison.

edit : just adding that this is the suckiest part of my job and I fully expect to be grilled by management for every little cell in the spreadsheet
Maybe your neighbour has a nicer car than you which makes you feel insecure so you decide to beat yourself up and go to the police saying your neighbour did it.

Considering that possibility, I don't want to put your neighbour in prison.
"No great idea was ever conceived sitting down" - Nietzsche... probably
You have too much free time - not good for our company sorry.
Yep, and we run in the XKCD "we now have 13 standards" problem, and if any "one true hope" company wins, it's a closed ecosystem.
Yes there exists jewelry that can be bought mainly as a store of value, but your argument was the much stronger statement:

>Another thing to consider is that people buy gold jewellery as a store of value. You don't spend $30k on a watch if you don't think it will keep its value.

This isn't true because the vast majority of retail jewelry, which is the majority of jewelry sold is a terrible store of value.

The average person that spends say $10k on a diamond ring isn't going to be able to get that value back again. Even beyond the issue with how much it's marked up, there's the problem that jewelry stores tend to sell on consignment, so they have little incentive to buy and resell used jewelry.

And if you look specifically at gold watches, a small fraction of the price is actually the price of gold itself.

According to this link https://www.montredo.com/how-much-gold-is-in-a-solid-gold-ro... a 30k Euro gold Rolex only contains about 4k Euros worth.

This link says something similar https://millenarywatches.com/how-much-gold-in-rolex/

A $30k gold Rolex contains about $5k worth of gold, yet it costs $22k more than the non gold version.
Individual programs are text, but useful software systems are models.
There you have it. Right decision & direction here. We'll see how this goes for the Rust programming language.
I found My old gmail account placed under a flagged status one day. It would not allow me to purchase anything on the play store. Turns out, it was because I used an old Google service called Google Checkout(?) or something more than a decade ago to purchase a few hundred dollars worth of clothes overseas. The clothes were purchased from an H&M equivalent, legally operating stores of course, and no payments were deferred or anything - they just simply said something about my account being associated with possible fraud and disabled all Google Wallet features suddenly many years after, citing my purchase history. Wanting to purchase a $2 game on my phone, I inquired about removing the restrictions placed on my account, but the response I received were quite haphazard and they finally stated that they would not accept anything short of physical copies of my IDs before removing any restrictions. No, fuck off.

I guess it's easier to throw out blocks and bans, placing the burden of proof on their customers rather than to have people looking into why completely innocent accounts were getting flagged in the first place. I've made my peace with it and I'm happy not spending a cent on your damn play store for the rest of my life.
What do you mean? From a consumer perspective dealing with sheets, one requires dimensions for a project, not weight. Whether measured by weight or by dimensions, the glass was cheaper.
Lindy.
It's called "going with the times" or "following trends". The logos are still sufficiently distinct, but the old ones all looked outdated.

My favorite example for logo updates are car makers because they're all so conservative with them. In the last 20 years they all had 3D-shaded logos because that was hip and cool (I guess), but nowadays it looks outdated and cheap (like the old tech logos), which are usually not associations you want for your products.
ABO blood group gene

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABO_%28gene%29
If you are a very wealthy or influential individual, you are essentially trapped into certain sets of behavior.

You can still relate to other people, but the fact that you could solve most of their problems on an individual basis with an instant donation that would take you all of thirty seconds creates a gulf that can't be reached over.

You can do a variety of activities, but these probably feel much less interesting than doing things that have an influence over a very large number of people. If you are, say, a CEO of a successful company that CEO role will be the only source of a certain type of feeling that can't be achieved elsewhere.

I'm certain you are right: within their technocratic circles, they probably make far less wholesome and family-friendly pronouncements about life. But it's not fundamentally contradictory, just like a person can be crippled by an addiction that turns them into a monster on a regular basis while remaining normal, wise and approachable the remainder of the time.
Disruption-Free Load Balancing of a Multi-Billion User Website
It's a bit disappointing that, with all the freedom additive manufacturing offers, it still looks like a house built with conventional tools and materials.
As I said in another comment:

It's impossible for 2 new unverified users to sign up to TW and send money instantly within 1 hour, cash in hand. Lengthy verification steps, etc. So TW wouldn't have worked in our urgent situation.
That’s actually a pretty good argument for banning such code from the criminal justice system. The idea that unreadable code is deciding who gets locked up is really worrying.
There are numerous resume consultants who specialize in getting past HR screens and keyword filters.
>Second, even if it did take a full 8 years, is that a good reason to deny the defendant due process?

"It's just gonna take so long, plus the code is a bit messy. We're gonna be doing all that work just because the rest of someone's life teeters on the results of the inquiry? Maan, that's a bummer."
That may be, but my understanding of the comment you are replying to is that it is non-advertising techniques which are distasteful.

> manufacturing “3rd-party grass roots” support

...is effectively trying to achieve advertising goals outside advertising channels using deception - astroturfing, etc.
When Stadia was announced I wanted to buy one. I pre ordered it in the Google Store. A couple of weeks later I received an email that they were not able to process my credit card. That never happened anywhere else. They also said that pre ordering would not be possible anymore and therefore I would not be able to purchase the limited pre ordering offer. They would be sorry, but stated that I could buy Stadia as soon as it gets released.

This is why I have no Stadia.
point taken, didn't mean to sound condescending. Sorry
I think the target audience most easily identifies a person with such a lesson as a philosopher.

Other options include guru, yogi, etc. But then the target auidence puts story in the woo-woo category and doesn’t take to the point.
It's a bit strange to think a nebulous "consumer bill of rights" is going to protect you when the actual Bill of Rights is routinely violated. We have utility designations for instances where it makes sense, and even then you see customer abuses. Forcing companies to focus on competition and survival is the best way to make sure they treat their customers well. Abuses pop up when customers don't have the choice to take their business elsewhere.

> Breaking up Google won't do anything about the "next Google".

The same regulator that has the power to break them up also has the power to prevent the next Google. Good pricing regulations have the power to prevent the next Google. These are solved problems, we just don't enforce the laws on the books or modernize them appropriately.

> It's a bit strange to think that antitrust is a long-term solution when the successful antitrust case against Microsoft didn't prevent Google, Facebook, and Apple from arising.

That's probably because it wasn't successful in the classical sense. Geroge Bush won the 2000 election and settled the case before it went to judgment. If it had, and Microsoft had been forced to break up, we may not be in the current situation.
Related: Seems like every other day "$PRODUCT is down" is #1 on HN. Why? This can't possibly satisfy anyones intellectual curiosity.
'waste' electricity;

Right.

Not a single bitcoin miner in europe would use waste electricity;

China banned bitcoin mining due to grid issues;

So tell me again who has enough money to waste energy?

Bitcoin is balanced by the energy market otherwise it will deflate. IF its becoming worthless to do that job, bitcoin can't work, therefore it will always be cost effective somehow.

This still doesn't mean, that there is no better alternative.
'Euphoria' brings up a little known series from 2012, rather than the popular HBO series of the same name.
Well, their website claims "90% lower emissions than a vessel with a diesel engine" so evidently they use some form of engine, or they'd be claiming 100% lower! i would guess it's like most sailing boats, and it has a small(-ish) engine and prop for use when docking/maneuvering up close/no wind, and also a genset for onboard electrical power.
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You don't hire right out of university, but middle-to-senior people who have established themselves in academia.
Hehe, this is fun. Icebreakers, when done regularly, helps build trust and creates a work environment where people feel they can share. This usually happens in person, hanging out or perhaps over lunch. With knowledge work going virtual, it's hard to have these serendipitous moments. Icebreakers maybe feels cheesy, but you have to force these moments, or they just don't happen.
I find Sam Altman's essays completely devoid of any insight. He's trying really hard to be like PG, while he simply doesn't have the street-cred required. Case in point, when they did a series of Y Combinator interviews a few years back Sam apparently thought to himself that it would be appropriate for him to be interviewed third following Elon and PG - in what world does that make sense?
You also cannot join non-GSuite meetings, or at least for the educational version of GSuite.
I 100% disagree. I hate service trials based on days. I can’t be bothered to properly evaluate DataDog in 30 days. I have a job to do. I set up the trial span a little time trying to learn the product. Get pulled of it. Come back to find it locked out. Trials should be measured in hours used, not days activated.
If you're working on a serious project, hosting it mainly on GitHub via Git and don't already have a backup solution in place, I'm afraid you're late. But better late than never! Make sure you can always deploy when less reliable services are down, and GitHub has always been one of those. Git makes it incredibly easy as well, as long as you have your CI/CD externalized already.
Whoever downvoted me has obviously never tried to use TW.
The companies I worked at had sourcers and resume screeners who did exactly that. Mostly but not all contractors. Not necessarily well-paid, but humans nonetheless.
...this is silly.

You implied that Aristotle discussing the good life was akin to Dennett discussing the weather, and that such a discourse is not considered "real philosophy" anymore.

I'm saying that absurd, and simply shows you don't know enough about philosophy.

Here's a quick search of philosophy journals and books that reference "Aristotle" and the "good life." Are you suggesting that these aren't modern philosophy? [1]

And how about the rest of them? Do articles on the Stoics not count as philosophy either?

(I realize that after a couple undergraduate courses in philosophy everyone covers Dennett, and maybe Wittgenstein and Hume and a few others, and comes away thinking that any discussion of "practical" philosophy isn't "true" philosophy, but that isn't the case at all. I don't know whether this applies to you or not.)

1. https://link.springer.com/search?query=aristotle+good+life&f... . Feel free to filter further by journal articles if you think books don't count as modern philosophy.
This sounds correct but I cannot find articles that talk about how these are automated in real life to avoid someone having to manually watch for the various deployment stages and update tasks or PBIs manually.

It seems like something that everyone would try and automate in a devops organisation so I am not sure how to search for e.g. "Tracking and automating task updates in Devops".

Maybe it is simply a question of basic webhooks but most tools seem to track commits rather than tasks so it might be quite messy trying to reverse engineer the task numbers for each commit so that the CI/CD tool can update the task.
The Gulf Stream [1] is very real and very consistent. I think we forget the important role this system played in the rise of the United Kingdom and the United States as global powers.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_Stream
Mexican drug cartels are using TikTok to entice young people into org crime
The main source for value is that every USD is guaranteed to be able to settle 1USD worth of debt, and a lot of debt is denominated in USD. This pretty much guarantees a stream of people needing USD over any future time horizon (further factors like certain types of debt discharge reducing M1 and Fed intervention in the lending market) including internationally, with or without US federal taxes on top of that. Its status as an asset ultimately depends on it being someone else's repayment obligation.

BTC doesn't have that (there's some BTC-denominated debt, but it's relatively thin and/or unenforceable) and so future demand is based on fickle wants rather than established needs. I'd be more inclined to trust the long term value of cryptocurrency if it was issued as repayable debt, but I'm not sure how you begin to achieve that in a decentralised, anonymous and enforceable way.
Let's look at the Euro as a better¹ example, and let's take 2002 as the start date².

One year into its existence, a Pan-European Clearinghouse provided clearing services for participating countries.

Six years into its existence, in 2008, credit transfers and direct debit are operational across the SEPA area, meaning roughly that international payments are on par with domestic payments (i.e. no fees, 1-2 days wait time).

Eight years into its existence, SEPA transfers have become the dominant form of electronic payments in the Eurozone.

Since 2017 (fifteen years in), anyone with a SEPA bank account can send money to anyone else in the Area instantly³, and free of charge.

Throughout this time:
* The Euro didn't suffer hyperdeflation.
* There are ways to recover payments that were sent to mistyped IBANs and/or were sent fraudulently.
* Users who forgot their e-banking password can get a new one from their bank and not lose all of their assets.

In 2019, SEPA processed about 22 billion credit transfers⁴. That's about 700 transactions per second, or about a hundred times more than the Bitcoin network is able to handle. SEPA also handled about the same number of direct debits, something that BTC doesn't offer. Best of all: SEPA did all that, without using approximately Chile's annual energy use.

Bitcoin is amazing Sci-Fi, brought to life. It's a testament to Satoshi's genius, to a cyberpunk-y spirit, and to applying game theory in a system that actually kinda works. But given its immense costs for miners, users, and society overall, it's something that falls squarely on the dystopian side of sci-fi.

¹: Mainly because the Euro is a multinational project and not a national currency. And also a little bit because the US banking system is a bit of a mess. But mainly for the "international" aspect.

²: Technically, it was created in 1992 and could be used, in electronic form, from 2001 onward. Still, banknotes and coins were introduced in 2002, so that feels like a good starting point.

³: "10 seconds, or up to 20 seconds in some circumstances"

⁴: https://www.europeanpaymentscouncil.eu/what-we-do/be-involve...