skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the US at least, Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) are mandated by law[0] to have 'varying backgrounds'. The Part is pretty specific in terms of what it's asking for. To me it sounds very reasonable, if in legalese. I am not aware of what particular regulations the challenge trial was under, though. So IRB regulations may be mute in this case

"46.107 IRB membership

(a) Each IRB shall have at least five members, with varying backgrounds to promote complete and adequate review of research activities commonly conducted by the institution. The IRB shall be sufficiently qualified through the experience and expertise of its members, and the diversity of the members, including consideration of race, gender, and cultural backgrounds and sensitivity to such issues as community attitudes, to promote respect for its advice and counsel in safeguarding the rights and welfare of human subjects. In addition to possessing the professional competence necessary to review specific research activities, the IRB shall be able to ascertain the acceptability of proposed research in terms of institutional commitments and regulations, applicable law, and standards of professional conduct and practice. The IRB shall therefore include persons knowledgeable in these areas. If an IRB regularly reviews research that involves a vulnerable category of subjects, such as children, prisoners, pregnant women, or handicapped or mentally disabled persons, consideration shall be given to the inclusion of one or more individuals who are knowledgeable about and experienced in working with these subjects.

(b) Every nondiscriminatory effort will be made to ensure that no IRB consists entirely of men or entirely of women, including the institution’s consideration of qualified persons of both sexes, so long as no selection is made to the IRB on the basis of gender. No IRB may consist entirely of members of one profession.

(c) Each IRB shall include at least one member whose primary concerns are in scientific areas and at least one member whose primary concerns are in nonscientific areas.

(d) Each IRB shall include at least one member who is not otherwise affiliated with the institution and who is not part of the immediate family of a person who is affiliated with the institution.

(e) No IRB may have a member participate in the IRB’s initial or continuing review of any project in which the member has a conflicting interest, except to provide information requested by the IRB.

(f) An IRB may, in its discretion, invite individuals with competence in special areas to assist in the review of issues which require expertise beyond or in addition to that available on the IRB. These individuals may not vote with the IRB."

[0] https://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/regulations-and-policy/regulations/...
E Ink is part of a consortium that owns all the patents around the technology used in their ePaper displays. The general consensus is that they are difficult to deal with and require numerous NDAs and licensing agreements to gain access to their technology.

Nick Sheridon, inventor of the first ePaper display, suggested the watershed moment for ePaper would be in 2012 where it would gain mass adoption. It's been almost a decade and that watershed has yet to occur.

Many believe that the difficulty in dealing with them and their licensing requirements are stifling the widespread adoption of the technology.
Except for the 1992 presidential election, in which 18.9% of the votes went to 3rd party candidate Ross Perot. He didn't win any Electoral votes, but he did throw the election to Bill Clinton by denying George H.W. Bush an electoral vote majority in certain key states.
> TenCent can absolutely dictate a policy

40% ownership does not dictate anything. They can make a stern request and threaten with some leverage. Ultimately it still won't be TenCent's decision.
How many people are buying a Tesla in cash though?
I think there's another implication at work. If the platform enables recordings, and stores those recording in its cloud 'puters, one could demand it be accountable for things that are being said on it.

It's as if the police learns a group of terrorists used a local coffee shop to meet and go through some details of their operation, and then proceeds to arrest the coffee shop owner not on the grounds that he knows the suspects (for the sake of the story, he doesn't), but on the grounds that an incriminating conversation happened within his walls and he had the chutzpah to not have the place bugged, in case someone is going to need those conversations and so that the owner can be held responsible for the conversations people have in his shop.

In fact I won't be surprised if at least one of replies to this comment expresses a genuine lack of understanding what's wrong with this story. Just sad.
Even a challenge trial would need to be run properly and include enough people to generate useful data. But let's play the opposite. Let's be unscientific and assume an untested vaccine on a novel platform would reduce transmission risk (Edit: if we assume this, why not just assume the candidate vaccine works and just skip the challenge trials too?). Further assume that recruiting enough volunteers for meaningful results would be easy in spring 2020, before the age cohort differences in severity were as established.

Given those assumptions, there still needs to be a smaller safety trial before a large challenge trial. BioNTech started those in April, that ended in May. Deployment in the summer is already aggressive, assuming no challenge trials and we had just deployed vaccines shown to be safe in very small trials.

But suppose a challenge trial was run rapidly over the next three months (to determine which of the BioNTech candidates was best). Assume this all goes optimally. This plan still assumes the existence of scale manufacturing facilities that likely did not exist last summer. Let's wish that away too, so we have scaled manufacturing capacities to June 2021 levels by May 2020. While we have our magic wand out, let's wave away the fact that the vaccine initially took over 100 days to manufacture, so that in our world we can decide what to produce today and have it ready tomorrow instead of next quarter. So we've got positive challenge trial results in July 2020 with faster-than-2021 production capacity to go to scale.

Now, perception-wise, we are asking young healthy people to take a vaccine designed on a novel platform that was rushed through a novel ethics-skirting approval process, for a virus that likely won't seriously harm them if they get it. I'm not sure that would be as effective as people seem to think it is.
Reminds me of Meteor 2.0 except built upon Next.js

Interesting to see where it go, +1 for a batteries included RoR like framework for JS/TS.
I must have confused the wiki page for "is able to run on the device".

Nevertheless there are kernels and X.org patches available that supposedly work.
did you look at the link OP shared?
Send me an email.Cannot say for sure in the USA but there is alot of remote work happening where I am at. If you match our values and have the right mindset there is a good chance we will take you. Timothy.eichler@thoughtworks.com
> Autonomous vehicles promise to change this, revolutionizing our cities by making transport safer, cheaper, and easier to access. But deploying autonomous driving technology to get there – perhaps one of the greatest engineering problems of our time – isn’t possible without developing a deep understanding of the nature of the challenges it must master.

Uh this problem has been solved for over one hundred years, its called public transit. This is just the most expensive, most complicated solution for a problem that has already been solved in many places many times. Its like using globally distributed micro services to serve your blog which could just be hosted on medium.

Yes, driverless cars will be useful for things at some point, but we don't need them in a dense city! I want fewer cars, not driverless ones
Was a little disappointed to see the root finding section didn't include Brent's Method: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brent%27s_method

I think it's one of the more interesting algorithms in general.
Worth watching the Vice report about bushmeat eating in Libraria from 2014

https://youtu.be/XasTcDsDfMg
The hardest part is realizing there's an opportunity cost to every decision you make, and it can be anything from another fubar direction or something more meaningful. I've come to think that attempting to find deep meaning in work is a gamble that some get lucky in.

Whether or not it's meaningful, solve some problems and enjoy it. Joy is not the same as meaning and it's less of a gamble to land on it
In person retail attribution and re-marketing! the next billion dollar ad tech startup. lol.

Though maybe if Google does it themselves they could actually make it work.
> But that theory is still problematic, since you can't measure inflation against just one asset.

How about another two? Like equities and real estate. Still not inflation?

CPI is a scam - it now includes 80,000+ items muting the shit out of the dramatic price changes in the stuff you actually want and need.
Generates a 3d rotating view of github activity. Note that it does not work for organizations, just individuals.

So rather than color coded in shades of green this is a rotating 3d thing set to terrible 80s synth.

Overall, worth a visit if you have a semi-active public git profile.

The first 30 seconds are the best when the music is suggesting a blade runner kind of vibe. Once it shifts to the 80s I recommend turning off the sound :-P

If you just want a demo, here is one for the most prolific user from China.

https://skyline.github.com/felixonmars/2020
That was a nice demo, indeed. If you liked that one, you might want to take a look at gtoolkit.com, too.
I also think it's a privilege to be born healthy, to have access to clean water, et c, and I don't think that makes me "asking to be taken advantage of".

I don't for a second think that Google is doing anything out of the goodness of their hearts, just that most people's jobs have no perks and few or no benefits whatsoever.

Anyone working anywhere that pays them a six figure salary and provides food and healthcare is pretty fortunate, all things considered here on Earth. It's nothing to do with Google.
But browsing the web for it is just not the same.

You need a fast internet connection. And a fast computer. Even your older iPhone probably can’t handle the online catalog anymore. After a few pages, you just give up.

But with a paper catalog, you can put it down. Circle it. Fold it. Rip pages out. Write on it. Then discard it. You can rifle through the pages, and dream of how you want your home to be laid out.
> It is well known that major military powers have the ability to cut essentially every ocean-floor optical fiber bundle handling the backbone of the internet at a moment’s notice.

I'm not doubting your statement, but I would love to hear where you got that point from, since it seems really interesting.
Nope, SWITCH was engaged after the country decision was made. The country selection process took the better part of five years. SWITCH was engaged in July of 2019. SWITCH has contributed labor, but has put up no money. Quad9 is, as always, a starving non-profit, because when money comes in, it gets spent to provide service, but it's more comfortable now than at any point in the past.

So essentially every single assertion in your post is false, no? Did I miss something?
The Great War of 189-
There isn't a single term used for a political group that you can break down into sub-components and root words to understand what it means. The best you can get will be the origins of the term, but that might no longer be related to how it's used today.
News Corp and Google Agree to Global Partnership on News
Two years absolute minimum.
People drive the speed that feels comfortable.

If you design a road like a highway: wide lanes, straight, flat, open, smooth, no traffic coming against you, you'll drive highway speeds.

If you have narrow lanes, narrow areas, trees, rough surfaces, twists, tight portions, raised areas, etc. you'll drive more carefully.

Putting up a sign with a number is just "We tried nothing and we're all out of ideas".
The C people don’t go into every discussion about Rust and make it about C.
Not really, but I was young and stupid. Whether it ends up being worth it depends on how it works out for you. I ended up with significant and permanent spine injuries and I'm lucky as hell I landed in a knowledge industry where I can work from bed, otherwise I might not be able to work at all. It'd be nice to not spend the last 50 years of my life with a partially non-functional body, though.
This isn't the case in 2021. Driving empty streets is pretty easy, and the crazy corner cases that urban density requires is the whole pt of testing in San Francisco.

I think it's more likely that waymo's commercial product in sf will prioritize neighborhoods like the sunset (poor transit connectivity, easy driving).
> It can also just be a lifestyle choice. We wouldn't call this asexuality probably,

The word there is “celibacy”. It’s not like straight people make a “lifestyle choice” to not get aroused when they see an attractive member of the opposite sex.

> but nevertheless if someone chooses not to have sex it's kind of a spit in the face to say that everything from work to relaxation is undertaken because of some sex->power pipeline.

Not from what I’ve heard from people who make that choice. That group mostly consisting of Catholic priests.
Nice read. While the entitlement and firing philosophy definitely are hot-button topics, what struck me was the implication that things like data/tech regulation are “noise”.

I disagree. Having well thought out, auditable processes around how you handle data and user privacy is also part of focusing on the user and also part of delivering a good product. Sure you might want to focus on shipping “value” with bells, whistles, and features, but the old-school mentality that one can ignore these other aspects of technology and move quickly and cavalierly is arguably exactly why the push for regulation is so hard right now—the pendulum is swinging the other way precisely because this myopic view of things is so dangerous.
The Internet gave us a new language. Did it take one away?
Here’s an interactive version of a similar map, plus some crossfilter selections, built with Dash and Dask and Datashader: https://dash-gallery.plotly.host/dash-world-cell-towers/
> This is just the most expensive, most complicated solution for a problem that has already been solved in many places many times.

Can you estimate how 'expensive' and 'complicated' it would be to retrofit San Francisco with a public transit system?

I would guess tens of billions of dollars and tens of decades, and that's if it would ever get approved in the first place.

London has spent $20 billion and twenty years adding one new rail line. In a city starting out as already famously enthusiastic about public transit.

What should we do in the half-century before this possible transit system turns up in San Francisco?

Don't let perfect be the enemy of better.
> Most people will use them as services.

So we're just shifting the parking problem to a rush hour availability problem? Parking isn't merely an unnatural or unfortunate phenomenon.

> or to a distant location and wait for recall.

Which is essentially identical to public transportation.
Found the fool.

Yes, you don't reason that everything will happen like it did in the past, but you take it into account aas a shared input space. Those that neither understand or learn from their history are doomed to repeat it, we're all the same in the space of our species' character flaws.
Is it not desirable that ethicists are representative in their actions?

If ethicists were more ethical than other humans, people here would be complaining that they are holier-than-thou and that they didn't represent the population's ethical wishes.
Certainly. My question was aimed at the current state of regulation: should casinos be further restricted? (people are still getting addicted, as far as I know).
> Google doesn't have the option to say no

What does that mean? Surely Google could remove their entire presence from Australia if they felt like it.
I wonder how much this is impacted by people avoiding the T like the plague?
Biden Dementia So Bad Kamala Harris Taking Foreign State Calls
Even worse Apple doesn't seem to apply the same rules to themselves. Will News, App Store have the same semi-optin warning screen before use? They both have app install advertising somewhat similar to FB.
Trains don't have a steering wheel :)
We give you malware blocking if you want malware blocking, and we give you malware if you want malware. It's completely up to each user which way they want it. Somewhat over 99% of users prefer the malware blocking; a few want the malware. How would you prefer it to be?
You applied global optimization, which I wish we could do more often.

Part of the type system should encode how long the fn call is allowed to take.
Scott Siskind isn't being honest about his history with the far-right
The phrase is also used in science — “soft science” as a category differentiates psychology and anthropology from chemistry and physics.
A sub that describes itself as 4chan finding a Bloomberg terminal probably isn't that close to HN. /r/stocks or /r/investing would be better.
There may be another equilibrium where they make more in total, but no guarantee that it will be reached if they lower their fee.

Say you were getting a million dollars a year totally passively and I offered you an option where your income would temporarily drop to 1% of that but had an 80% chance of recovering to 1.2 million per year after a couple years and a 20% chance of recovering to only 100k/yr. Would you take it?

And what if the whole income stream had fair odds of drying up after a couple more years regardless?

Sometimes issues like this are solved by finding a risk seeking buyer to take most of the upside in exchange for giving the owner a more secure position. But when the maximum payoff of the high-risk-route isn't high enough it won't attract risk seekers.
The question isn't if driving the car requires you to know how to write poetry. It's if complexity of how our brain works, that enables you to be able to write poetry is also requirement to drive a car in real world, unpredictable environments.
Not by chance, no, had to wait for a new block to open, and apply at the beginning of allocation of the new block.
As someone who has sat on the interviewer side for some entry-level positions, I would recommend you do not present a bootcamp project as an example of your work unless you have greatly extended it. I have sat on many interviews where I had the exact same project shown to me. It began to have a negative signal unless the interviewee had pushed beyond the requirements.

I would recommend that you develop some project on your own which you can speak to and talk about struggles with. Depending on the position and the company, demonstrating and talking about personal experiences on a project can go a long way towards showing your passion and determination. This isn't the way in to every company, but it is a way to ensure you have something to talk about that will help you stand out during an interview.
You have a point when looking at Zimbabwe or something. However people move from Canada to USA too - or from Northern Ireland to Ireland.
Is pure romantic love devoid of transactions? Many couples involve two people giving commitment and expecting commitment back. Sure, not all couples are so monogamous, but many if not most are. People have expectations of what to receive from a relationship and when they don't, they consider ending the relationship. Point out a one sided romantic relationship people will tell you to find someone better for you. Sure, it is never put in the language of 'do x, get y'.

Many social groups who help each other with resources without keeping tabs still can recognize when someone is leaching off the group, especially when they recognize the person has the ability to contribute to the group but chooses not to. People who support someone without expecting them to be paid back often have an expectation of the relationship being two sided with sentiments such as "I know if the roles were reversed, you would do the same for me." In cases where the roles do reverse but they don't do the same, you see people quite broken. It wasn't ever a strict tally, but it does hurt the person that their relationship wasn't as too sided as they expected.

We even describe people as being enablers when they give to someone without receiving back what we think is due (with that last part being defined in highly situations terms).
I cried after watching Soul. It made me go through my own life when I was a "lost soul" and I somehow recovered. I loved the person who was carrying the sign board and kept a photo of him for me to recollect.

That's the impact that I recognize with Pixar, a movie a like Soul and an Auteur like Pete Doctor.
Supposedly (if you buy into Epics recent lawsuit against Google) because Google have abused their power to prevent it...
Totally agree you can get pigeonholed, but my read of the OP is that they want a job that can support their family first, and that development was one of the things they were considering, not that development was a goal in and of itself. My thought is that QA is a solid career, and that once they are established, and get a support structure for their family, if they want to become a dev they can work towards that from a position of strength, rather than a position of near-crisis.
Since so many of them showed up in the Richmond I learned that my dashcam can see their 1550nm lasers, so they look like strobing party cars: https://youtu.be/56G34udNTfQ (one at the beginning and a second at 3:10 that you can also see reflecting off storefronts and parked cars)

At least I assume it's 1550nm based on https://patents.google.com/patent/US20160291134A1/en
Inline images. Faster loading, and will still work when I look at the email years later when all the img links have rotted.
No. History is the whole point of git. It would be antithetical to make this the default.

I'm more on board with the recursive options, though.
well no, because let's say there is no DRM, and the store does go under, and then your computer explodes and you don't have the terrabyte of games you own backed up somewhere, your SOL at that point?

Like while i trust sony to a degree i don't trust nintendo so all my switch games are hardcopy. I trust steam more then i trust EA/epic and thats on top of the not wanting to deal with multiple stores/ect.
It’s not really obvious that any competitors are actually being excluded.

For the most part they aren’t trying.

Building a new mobile platform is expensive - probably billions of dollars of investment - and takes years.

There are actually quite a few companies who could do so if they wanted - e.g. Facebook, and yes, Epic.

But there is no reason to suppose they would be successful in any less time than it took Apple or Google.
I think the issue is engagement driven algorithms in itself, which then cause Facebook to act as a moral censor.
It'd be cool to see this, and the fix, modeled in TLA+
> Forth compilers can be bootstrapped from not-very-much assembler

Do you have any resources handy on how one could do that from scratch?
> Hint: increased demand for the USD is why the Fed is increasing the supply -- to keep the price stable.

Oh yeah, good luck taking vacations in Europe this year.
Yes, but $1000 in tax deductions can be worth more than $100 in income.