skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If a DNA sample is taken from an assault victim, how is the DNA from the victim (technically) distinguished from that of perpetrator? Why isn't the readout an average of perpetrator and victim? Of course the perpetrator's readout should be saved but not the victim's.

At least where I am from (iirc) there is no sequencing involved. Instead the DNA is cut with restriction enzymes. Basically restriction enzyme + a persons DNA gives a unique fragment pattern.
No, but we will likely see fewer people coming forward about being raped if they are know that their rape kit can and will be used against them in the future. The SFPD's mistake here is allowing the db of victim DNA from rape kits to ever interface with the general DNA database they use.
COVID has killed 919,336 Americans, excess deaths over previous years indicate that is under reported by almost 50%.
Neither the Declaration of Independence nor the Constitution provide any provision for the existence of corporations, which are entities that reduce individuals' liabilities for their actions while running a business.

In exchange for the privilege of limiting your liability for your actions, you agree to follow a set of rules when forming and running a corporation. When acting on the behalf of a corporation, you are never engaging in "liberty" because any and everything a corporation can do is a privilege granted by the government.
How SoftBank’s costly bet on the ‘internet of things’ backfired at Arm
BitBucket eventually came to support Mercurial (in addition to Git and maybe others) but it was quite a long time after GitHub had been on the scene.
N95 masks work. Well designed, well fitted, correctly worn, hygienically cleaned cloth masks probably work okay, though good evidence of this is still limited and based largely upon assumptions. From my own observations, the overwhelming majority of people are wearing a mask of poor quality and/or in a manner which the scientific consensus couldn't possibly agree was effective. And I doubt most people are washing them with soap and water every single day.

If we're not going to mandate an effective mask, I honestly don't see what the point of the mandate is. It makes as much sense to me as seatbelt mandates accepting a knitted scarf as an acceptable seatbelt.

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"Cloth face masks show minimum efficacy in source control than the medical grade mask. The efficacy of cloth face masks filtration varies and depends on the type of material used, number of layers, and degree of moisture in mask and fitting of mask on face."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7497125/

"The use of cloth masks during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic is under debate."

"Until a cloth mask design is proven to be equally effective as a medical or N95 mask, wearing cloth masks should not be mandated for healthcare workers."

"In 2015, we conducted a randomized controlled trial to compare the efficacy of cloth masks with that of medical masks and controls (standard practice) among healthcare workers in Vietnam. Rates of infection were consistently higher among those in the cloth mask group than in the medical mask and control groups."

https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/10/20-0948_article

"Your cloth face mask isn't protecting you against the coronavirus variant omicron, health officials say. As common as cloth face masks have become, health experts say, they do little to prevent tiny virus particles from getting into your nose or mouth and aren't effective against the new variant."

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2022/01/05/cloth-...

"They found that the effectiveness of the masks varied widely: a three-layer knitted cotton mask blocked an average of 26.5 percent of particles in the chamber, while a washed, two-layer woven nylon mask with a filter insert and metal nose bridge blocked 79 percent of particles on average. Other masks scored somewhere in between."

https://www.epa.gov/sciencematters/epa-researchers-test-effe...
Driving trucks is more difficult. For instance trucks are mostly (all?) unsynchronized manual transmissions. They take skill and experience to operate.

It's also more difficult safely braking/turning/accelerating a very heavy load like a loaded trailer as opposed to a passenger vehicle.

Some local trucking businesses in my area are training people to drive since there's a shortage of drivers. It takes a while to get someone to the point where they can get their commercial driver's license.
To my knowledge nobody has explained how heating in an accretion disc turns into a collimated polar jet thousands of light years long.

"It must be magnets" does not qualify as such an explanation.
No of course not, but a victim you should be able to get justice even if you are also a criminal
OK sure - I didn't do nothing. But let's be honest - what I did was nowhere near as difficult as actually developing software.
As well as several hours of video lectures that go along with it:

https://youtu.be/atYp386EGo8
was it only the 10% fringe farmers protesting? or the 90% majority of farmers?
I don’t think that’s a logical reading.

The point is that being raped shouldn’t have made her more likely to be caught.

I think this is a fair stance to take, as DNA from rape kits being used for future tracking of the raped is going to disincentivise the use of rape kits.

I want to live in a world with less sexual violence, and if rape victims can submit DNA evidence without having to worry about state tracking (and those kits actually be analysed) then I think we can get a step closer to that world.
Non action is an action by itself, of support for the cause.
This is similar to why police should not use DNA collected for medical research. Resolving the police case might help a victim, but the harm to the original purpose of collecting DNA has a potential risk of doing untold harm if people stop providing DNA in fear that the database might be misused.

This discussion occur repeatedly here in Sweden when ever there is a major unsolved murder that gather large media attention, as then there is a lot of pressure to resolve the crime and the data is there in the computer. They will go onto news media and say, whats the harm if they just take a small peek?
As has now been called out by the person I replied to, when I typed my reply, they said seizing funds “at all” was dystopian. They’ve now amended the comment to specify without the involvement of the judiciary.
Those are all valid points, but Mozilla's own telemetry shows their userbase shrinking.

https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/user-activity
I was about to comment that in the next few years we would start seeing people who are willing to let the government biometrically finger fuck them because its pointless to fight back, but here you are proving that the battle was already lost and people are willing to roll over and take it already.
Trudeau vows to freeze anti-mandate protesters' bank accounts
https://www.vice.com/en/article/k7wpax/freedom-convoy-givese...

> the majority of donors come from the U.S. (56%) and Canada (29%)
Can We Get Smarter About Disinformation?
This is so nice - it solves the biggest problem of Java desktop deployment in a very elegant way! I have wasted so much time figuring out native app packaging and code signing (not to mention figuring it out on different platforms). I was able to get this to work in about 30 minutes.

You are a hero - I hope this project really takes off! I dare say this is even better than Java Web Start (before it became hopelessly broken).
Front also rolled out support for "accounts" last year which sounds exactly like what you are trying to do. It aggregates a set of contacts under an account and lets you use accounts through the whole application.

You can see all of the communication from a company across all channels (support, sales, success), get automatically notified if someone else in the organization replied recently, do routing/classification based on account data (account size, account owners), and filter analytics by account.

Worth a look if you're considering going off Helpscout.
> the point of every law in a democratic society is for the benefit of everybody

provably false.

So are you saying that my parents and grandparents, who went on strike and participated in worker unions, were wrong, and that they should have accepted labour laws as they were back then, since those laws were conceived in a democratic society hence they were fair by definition?

> When you increase community immunity

we already have that, in many advanced economies, including Australia where I live, we are now at 80-90% vaccination rates, which is what the WHO identified as a goal; we will never reach 100% even if we were living in a techno-dictatorship, because some people can't be vaccinated for medical reasons. As a vaccinated person, you have to be aware that when you go to a public place not everyone around you is vaccinated, this can't be changed regardless of what happens to the truckers.

> barbecuing on days with poor air circulation,

preventing someone from having a barbie on a certain day vs. firing someone from their job - not exactly two comparable situations
> This definitely looks like an authoritarian response to a loss of mandate.

He has a minority government. A weak one at that. If he really lost his mandate there would be a snap election already.
How can you write an article on rounded corners without mentioning Steve Jobs and Bill Atkinson?

https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Round_Rects_Are_...
The possible 4th amendment/Victim's Bill of Rights violations here are not the same as the lack privacy with private companies/DNA collection from items you discard.
H2/Fuel Cell Car
Well yes. Vaccines are most effective on a population level.
Okay, what would be the good response in your opinion in an ideal world for the scenario when a substantial number of people really, really (to the extent of putting lots of effort and risk) want something that even more people don't want? I mean, accepting their request is obviously not an option, that would be an even worse steamrolling over even more people.

As far as I understand your position, expecting the protesters to back down without satisfying their requests is also not okay - so what would be okay?
Ok, gotcha.

Guess we were all a little asymmetrical with our "reply" button pushes.
Mercurial is much more straightforward to work with for most common workflows (but can still be extended for other, less common, workflows). I found that I can use mercurial effectively just by reading the built-in help. With git ... not so much.

Not that the documentation on git is bad necessarily, there's just so much of it. A simple demonstration of this might be something like:

% git help commit | wc -l
622
% hg help commit | wc -l
59
% hg help commit -v | wc -l
98

And some of the CLI syntax is rather arcane, too.

It's been years since I last used mercurial, so I'd have to go back to find more specific examples, but I struggled a lot more getting started with git than with mercurial.
Looks good. I'd like fonts meant for technical use to include the following 3 unicode symbols:

21A7-depth

2334-counterbore

2335-countersink.

These are standard for hole annotations on CAD drawings.
Gotcha, thanks for the info!
I worked with a totally blind developer at a top tier tech company. He used a braille terminal. It was really interesting to watch him work.

There’s no denying blind persons face unique challenges, but I’ve been seriously impressed with the fortitude and adaptability I’ve seen them display.

As an aside I wish more developers would think about accessibility. It helps everyone. I highly recommend participating in dining in the dark or a similar program to learn real sympathy for the challenges blind persons face and to see how capable they are of overcoming them.
Slashdot led the fray with its border-radius top-green-bar design.
DNA is a genie that's flown far and free from their bottle. Even if you are not in the system directly (from, say, 23&me, rape kits, arrests, etc), someone within 2-3 degrees of separation on your family tree is. It's enough for you to be identified in most cases.

If you haven't watched the video Veritasium did about the Golden State Killer, I highly recommend it. It details quite nicely how if anybody has your DNA sample, the police have access to it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KT18KJouHWg

Bonus points for noticing how many of these company reps who tout "nothing to hide" like protecting their own privacy.
many users turn off that telemetry, including me.
Smallpox is like - at minimum - 30x more deadly - probably up to 70x more deadly - kills fully half of infected children under age 1 - and renders blind around 1% of those infected.

It's ridiculous to even compare the two.
>If the defendant is ordered to pay damages and refuses, then the government does step in eventually, doesn't it? A continued refusal to comply eventually leads to arrest.

1. debtor's prison isn't a thing anymore

2. look up "judgement-proof"
Penkesu – DIY Ultracompact Computer
And the truckers and everyone else on their side feels that leaving the emergency powers in the hands of the government is unreasonable. Thus why the two respective sides are at an impasse.
In The Narrative.
This is image based, not text based. It’s very useful for a number of applications!

I think your usecase is extremely promising assuming it results in better quality output than just running a modern object detector. Another usecase I don’t have bandwidth for, but would likely be very marketable, is similar to what you’re saying but to allow the use of traditional algos like sift or surf across modalities.
Do you live in Ottawa?
Just to clarify, you get this account-level view from the perspective of the vendor, correct?

(i.e. if I'm an end user and I use Front to get support from my vendor - will my colleagues be able to get involved in sorting through my issue?)
That works for most programs, sure.
I assume that police departments will retain DNA from every sample they can get their hands on, just like fingerprints. You're in a DB at that point, and it's useful data (demonstrably). I'd be surprised if many police departments have a privacy policy, much less comply with it, regarding your rights after a DNA sample is taken, relative the auspices under which they collected it. Assume the worst if you're at all worried about your DNA being on file somewhere.
Most Covid certificates can be printed or accessed via a web browser - just screenshot/save that and you're good to go. I did this in the UK though I believe I've only ever had to use it once.
> "distort" the local labor markets makes 0 sense.

I dont want to seem to defend Facebook or the company mentioned in the article. However there are unintended consequences when the labor market is abruptly distorted by foreign companies.

When the first outsourced English speaking call centers opened in my city, they paid more than the average for English speakers. The foreign call centers paid about 50% more than the average salary for English speakers.

So many English teachers left their jobs and joined the call centers, including some of my teachers in high school. So we were left some months without much to do at school or with definitely underqualified temporary teachers who spoke English worse than we did. I think about 40% of our school-year was affected for this.

The next school year, the school had to increase tuition, and hired new teachers with higher salaries.

On one hand teachers salaries increased, but also school became more expensive for my parents to pay while my faimily's income remained the same.
Funny you said that, because it just so happens that in last two election "2/3 were against Justin Trudeau" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Canadian_federal_election
This has happened; this legislation has never been invoked before. It's very difficult to invoke. Virtually any other law must be used first.

https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/e-4.5/page-1.html

>AND WHEREAS the Governor in Council, in taking such special temporary measures, would be subject to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the Canadian Bill of Rights and must have regard to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, particularly with respect to those fundamental rights that are not to be limited or abridged even in a national emergency;

The right to peacefully protest still stands even with the invocation of this act. The Ottawa police have been incapable of ending this protest because it has been peaceful. Nobody has even raided/trespassed in the capital buildings like the January 6th 'insurrection' in the usa. If the protesters were anything but peaceful, the Ottawa police would easily be able to arrest them. Logically concluding that this protest has been peaceful. You can confirm this to be true simply by watching the myriad of livestreams online.

>3 For the purposes of this Act, a national emergency is an urgent and critical situation of a temporary nature that

>(a) seriously endangers the lives, health or safety of Canadians and is of such proportions or nature as to exceed the capacity or authority of a province to deal with it, or

>(b) seriously threatens the ability of the Government of Canada to preserve the sovereignty, security and territorial integrity of Canada

>and that cannot be effectively dealt with under any other law of Canada.

There are an awful lot of 'any other law of Canada' that could be used before this act. Some peaceful protests are not going to justify using this act. In fact not even possible to use this act against peaceful protesters. Trudeau is moving against a foe that isn't described by this protest.

The accusation or allegation by Trudeau is that the USA has a military occupation over Canada. The funding is being organized in the USA.

This to me doesn't ring true. If the USA wanted Canada, a squadron of F22 could annihilate our armed forces in a day. B2 bombers could lay waste to everything else. Canada could do nothing, none of our allies would come to save us. Our allies could never protect us against the USA. Nuclear bombs wouldn't be needed. Plus, we have an extensive and fantastic alliance with the USA. Why would Biden who is worried about Russia, Ukraine, Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan invade Canada? It makes no sense.

The alternative is that Trudeau has deployed this against his political opponents who are peacefully protesting.

What do you think?
No one is forcibly jabbing anyone in Canada. There is no violence being done.
> I wouldn't call debts of 30 trillion 'economically strong'.

> Anybody can live well if they are happy using their credit card and never expecting to pay it back.

You realise that countries do not retire, yes? And they have a goal of ensuring that their inflation is set between specific, low-but-positive bounds? This is what countries do and have done for centuries - they pay off the interest until the principle is eaten away by inflation. When you are functionally immortal this is an effective strategy.

We live in a period of historically low bond yields and interest rates. If a country has to effectively pay near zero interest, it is in their interests to loan as much as possible. So long as the debt load year-on-year is insignificant compared to the GDP, it is money for jam. The bond terms do not change just because domestic interest rates increase.

This is why you rarely hear non-partisan economists complain about debt load in the US. It's not a huge problem, especially compared with the degradation of secular institutions.
Can you be my tech lead, please
Depends on who you ask. There are people who would strongly vouch for either sides...

That said, it was predominantly farmers from 1 state. may be 3-4 states max. India has like 28 states.
No it isn't.

And this is entire event has been orchestrated by "people with power" with a political agenda which is hostile to most of the population.

It has almost exactly zero organic content. No amount of rhetoric and gaslighting is going to change that.
It's more complicated, but I think everything is at least a substantial layer on top of an internal offering. E.g. GCE runs VMs in Borg using the same physical infrastructure used for other services, but GCE has its own API and virtualized networking on top that hides Borg and was not (at the time) used for any internal services.
> Additionally, Doug Ford and the Ontario government have been completely absent, skipping 3 straight conferences on how to deal with the protests[6] in Ottawa.

Hmm, seeing how things are evolving it was the politically astute thing to do. It's win win, cynical but insures a greated measure of electoral survival.

They'll maybe lose the city center voters who couldn't sleep, but that's more or less that. However this concludes, most of it'll land on Trudeau's lap, no so much theirs.
I don't quite understand this. I've used proportional fonts in PyCharm and other editors for many years, and vertical navigation and block selection work fine.
The idea is that parties have to appeal to a various groups in society in order to win elections, preventing them from taking any position that is too obnoxious to any one group. Thus, centrism.

Systems with ranked choice or similar measures to encourage smaller parties end up with a similar situation, but with less stability. Since those parties appeal to narrower bands of society, they are unable to form a government. Eventually they are forced into coalition, which brings them to the same place as the major parties in FPTP: compromise. Yet, since coalitions are inherently more fragile than parties, you get less stability, and less institutional pressure on individuals in government and cabinet to represent wider interests.
What about young children? You have a handwavy method to get a toddler to wear silicone earplugs for 8 hours a night?

Judging by your post history, you seem to be more interested in stirring up shit than actually contributing to the discussion. This bizarre defence of noisemaking jackasses fits with that.
Forgive me for being an ignorant foreigner...

I see clips of train robberies in LA like this https://edition.cnn.com/videos/business/2022/01/14/train-the...

And then I have to ask myself how is that possible in modern society? Train robberies seem shocking enough that they HAVE to be indicative of a broader crime wave. Is there something about the US context that I am missing?
Or perhaps it’s because on the one hand we have a cause which seeks to protect marginalized groups, and on the other hand we have a cause which opposes the protection of marginalized groups.
Elixir is pretty good too. Elixir, Phoenix and Ecto have the best docs I have ever seen.
It matters enormously how ionized the gas cloud is. If it is neutral, the ion jet blasts right through, hardly noticing it: it is all, after all, "vacuum". Fully ionized, every particle in the jet interacts with every particle in the cloud.

Most such clouds are partially ionized, often to different degrees in different parts. Even a 0.01% ionized cloud behaves differently to a gas.

The proper name for such a cloud is "plasma". Many astronomers are allergic to this word, probably because the maths for plasma fluid dynamics is all just way too hard, and they steer clear, preferring literally any alternative (heating! gravitation! shocks!) over engaging.

Ordinary fluid dynamics is tricky enough to be often intractable. Plasma fluid dynamics is freaky because usually the positive ions are at least 1836 times as massive as the negative ions. Dust can be ionized, too, either direction. Then the ratio might be 6, 7, 10 orders of magnitude.

Vacuum is usually treated, in astrophysics, as infinitely conductive, and the charge carriers as massless, making static electric fields impossible, and freezing magnetic fields in place. But moving ion clouds (including jets) carry magnetic fields, and thus generate varying local electric fields. And, of course, the carriers are not really massless at all.
Now is the time to get this on front page and stand up to these invasions.

But lets talk about Elon's changing the world or why we Apple is the best company ever.