skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They want to find who committed <some crime they just made up that isn't actually bad>, so they identify DNA and compare it against the known database.

This is pretty standard "how will we respond if there is a future authoritian regime"? (not saying the fear is unjustified - just saying the fear is pretty standard)

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Edit:

People are really misunderstanding my comment. Let me try again.

To be clear, this is hypothetical:

The government makes it illegal to support anyone of opposing political party. Which includes, not buying from their store. They go to the restaurant of the opposing party and run a DNA test on all of the silverware. They arrest anyone whose DNA matches the DNA on the silverware - because those people "supported" the opposing party.
Allow me to point out that Ireland isn’t in the UK. Irish people get pissed off when someone assumes their country is still part of the UK, for obvious reasons.
It absolutely is true, at least for WSL and Windows Terminal. I installed both without having the store. Their github pages either tell you how or tell you where you can find a standalone installer. It's not hard at all. Google is your friend.
> At its worst, 10 feet of raw human waste blanketed portions of the harbor bottom, and certain reaches held little or no oxygen to sustain the life of its fishery.

There is anaerobic life but much less of it there aerobic life. So it seems fair to argue that it wasn’t teeming at all.
Meh, even without the mobile platform, which they didn’t have in 2005, there were no good alternatives to Google search then and switching the default to something else would have hurt Safari more than Google. My money is on the bidding war.
What is sort of interesting is this thread (sort of) suggests they might have been looking at the Mozilla renderer at the same time as the Webkit one. I wonder if the licensing (MPL?) would have allowed that fork to happen. That everyone ended up going with Webkit is a bit sad imo.
> There is a competing “source” from another news organization that is claiming they caught this guy when his phone pinged a “smart device” (Alexa or similar) and its MAC address was logged.

Link? I haven’t seen this story yet, but I am seeing the genealogy story reported in several places.
I feel like this is very close to saying.. "well, it was a felony, but they were very incompetent at committing it." Which, for people operating at their level of the industry, is damning either way.
Profiting from the Folly of Others (2020)
I am always wondering how these recruiter knows that "He is absolutely one of the best in the world at Browser technology" and how to be in this level in any area of expertise.
Foxconn's Covid-hit China plant close to resuming full production
Parts of 99 were closed (with at least one fatality) and I-5 threatend by the flooding this weekend; the next storm is bigger and will hit ground that is already saturated. The flood watch issued in the Valley for the upcoming storm is not just for rivers and small roads with stream crossings as you describe.

> Forecast there is only 1.5".

The Centrall Valley forecast for the storm is 2-3”, actually, per NWS Sacramento.
I am not sure if this applies, but is the concept similar to blockchain... All the data is with everyone and still within your machine as well. Meanwhile, if the machine is disconnected then reconnect and update with other users.
They were always identifiable. If anyone ever even slightly cares about your DNA, you have no way of stopping them from getting it - you literally leave it everywhere you go.
Holy moly, 4M for a bunch of videos. Talk about passive income.
If you take a sample at a crime scene and its a match to your suspect, then there's no question what it is. If you sequence non human DNA you won't get a match. If you sequence the forensic lab technician's DNA by accident when taking the fingerprint sample you still won't get a match to the suspect.
It gets `&mut *&mut` (where * doesn't mean a pointer, just deref)

Not sure if that's good that this feature is automatic.
Maybe it wouldn't be too bad to call functions like that for consistency:

go_break_stuff(&mut *my_stuff_ref);

if you want to keep using the reference after the call.
That's because the person you're replying to hasn't acknowledged the power imbalance between employer and employee. Likely because they're lucky enough to have had it always work out in their favour so far:

> I have proposed take it or leave it remuneration increases (as well as other changes to working conditions, such as location) to employers on many occasions, and they’ve nearly always been accepted.

I don't think they realize that somebody on a minimum wage job in the US doesn't have the same ability to bargain that they do on their tech salary.

Or, perhaps worse, they do realise that, and believe it's just.
Don't underestimate Jobs's willingness to be a petty asshole. At that time, Yahoo was still in play and Apple could even have been willing to back MSN.

History might have played out very differently if most search traffic from the Apple platform was going through MSN instead of Google.
It’s not the mobile OS so much as the fact that I want something I can troubleshoot easily and isn’t hidden behind several layers of UX. KeePass satisfies that. I just shared my mom’s database file with me on Drive so I can also access it in case of issues. If not, I’d need a service that can support like family sharing and shit and they may ask for extra money. This is easier and more secure since my mom has no idea how to share things from Drive so she won’t even do it by mistake.

The auto fill part is relatively straightforward to us but it takes a while to get used to for the previous generation. In fact, despite showing her how to create new entries, she spent the last 2 years still writing it down in her Google Keep notes app. Had to spend a non trivial amount of time transferring them over this holiday.
I've been out of the game for a little bit, but bulk rates for black market weed was about $1000/lb a few years after legalization in CO.
I cant be arsed, here is a link to the text in an article, go for it https://gizmodo.com/exclusive-heres-the-full-10-page-anti-di...
Have you seen FluidFramework? It's open source (MIT): https://github.com/microsoft/FluidFramework

I think the first product they're building on it is Loop: https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-introduces-loop-a-ne...
In Japan same-bank transactions routinely have ATM fees outside of banking hours, though this is finally starting to change. Banks will also routinely charge you for same-bank bank transfers, often at a discount to interbank account transfers, including when they’re made at the same bank’s ATMs during banking hours. (For added fun, sometimes the price is different if it is same-bank same-branch versus same-bank different-branch, largely to lessen impact of fees on interfamily transfers and entrepreneurs moving money into and out of closely held companies.)

In the U.S. withdrawing at another bank will frequently incur a few twice, once from your institution and once from the disbursing one, unless you are on a product which specifically makes a selling point out of reimbursing you for ATM fees.

This is not simply a matter of “greed”; it is also a policy choice made by society as to who pays for bank services and where. Different equilibria prevail in different places, partly anchored on historical practice and partly in response to the usual factors which shape public policy.
I agree bit at the same time I would imagine authoritarian regimes wouldn’t care about the specifics of DNA when they can just use their absolute authority to imprison people.
Looks really cool! Do you use the CallStacking to Debug CallStacking?
But aren't we still pretending that crypto is a currency? So this means anytime I actually want to spend some of my own money, I need to go to the bank deposit box and also find at least one friend to help me out?

If we are all just taking these coins out of circulation to make them as hard as possible for anyone to access, including ourselves -- then what was the point of the entire thing again?
SDI can give you excellent quality video over long cable runs, and it's dead simple to cut and terminate your own cable from a spool.

Did that more than once at DevOpsDays conferences here in Austin.

Very sturdy cable, too -- very resistant to damage.

And if you need to convert to/from something else (like HDMI), then BlackMagic has some awesome converter boxes.
Right now building an open source writing application (basically a Notion clone) that lets you save offline and seamlessly publish your notes/writing as websites. It's not ready yet but hoping to have minimal MVP ready within a few weeks: https://yume.fyi
I am not sure what state you live in but $60 for an 1/8 is way above what one could expect to pay for "top shelf" bud here in Washington. But then again we currently have a "weed surplus" and it seems every store has a 30% sale off twice per week.
The GSK case (California’s worst serial killer) was also solved through GEDMatch, and only public queries ie you can remove your profile from it if you care. To the extent that helps anything.
None of this is to absolve them of responsibility. I mean it rather as a cautionary for anyone in this kind of decision-making: don't lose sight of the people in the story while you're strategizing on long-term business plans and business partnerships.
Even if you leave DNA everywhere you go, but if law enforcement doesn't have your DNA on file, there's nothing to match it to.
Samsung takes on Apple and LG with its own 5K display
You won't be collecting a single skin cell though, you will be collecting millions in that speck and there's plenty of redundancy there. Plus you don't need to cover the entire genome, just some variant sites that can give you enough statistical power to be confident in the identity of the sample.
We did that, not our first rodeo. It was a new system being used in Shanghai, good luck finding credible realtime information about China. The host should have let us know. The tip is obvious to anyone who travels overseas.
Carson pass (88) is plowed and stays open all winter. It's the road to Kirkwood and connects to South Lake Tahoe via 89. Agree all the other smaller Sierra passes are closed after first significant snowfall.

Storm tourism —- another name for skiing!
What is stopping super duper browser guy from launching his own browser with his own company, reaping all the rewards himself? I really don’t understand your attitude at all.
did anyone outside of cryptobros buy these things in reality?
if you start typing with the start menu open it searches automatically so you can just hit Win.
Devils slide is bypassed by a tunnel. I remember before the tunnel was built riding in a car with my brother in law and he just floored it through that super narrow section practically hanging off the cliff over the water. I asked him what he was thinking and he said he didn't even notice.

Guy is a bit nuts, haha.
Wow, crazy. Thanks for the detail!
Worse consequences that excess adipose tissue?
No probs :)
> Don't end the world then. Hypothetical Mars colony is doomed anyway without support from Earth.

Becoming a multi-world species means insuring yourself against asteroids and other planet killers out of our control (super volcanoes, etc.)

Food can be grown purely on Mars. Unless you don't believe in vertical farming? We have the sun and water on Mars...

> Nobody is dismissing SpaceX with a Youtube video. The Starship and Mars mission are being thoroughly dissected which is relevant to the topic.

Yeah I simply meant instead of linking the video, to expand on what you think the strongest points were.

> I don't think they should die. But maybe it's just me.

People climb Mt. Everest just for fun knowing it is a risk to their life. Others put their lives on the line everyday to make the world run, from cleaning skyscraper windows to windmill maintenance.

It's up to that individual, not you.
26 programming languages in 25 days, Part 2: Reflections on language design
Rather than think of REDACTED as "labor" it might be more helpful to think of him as a star NBA player. The term "labor" applies more to the players in the D-league.

If you're Steve Ballmer and you want Giannis Antetokounmpo on your team, you can't just call him and offer more money. They have regulations around that.

So it shouldn't be surprising that Jobs & Brin have conversations about REDACTED. If it was an engineer with one year experience working under REDACTED, it wouldn't escalate to that level, at least until Google hired five of them.
> This datasets usage and creation violates Swiss law

And drinking alcohol violates Saudi Arabian law.

Unless the institutions involved are subject to Swiss jurisdiction (which doesn't appear to be the case), this doesn't mean much. If anything, the blame lies with the Swiss government, which allowed a foreign company (Flickr) to operate in Switzerland without adequate guarantees that this company would protect Swiss users' data from unlawful applications.

But like most other governments, they were happy to let US tech giants bait their own citizens into giving them boatloads of personal data, which ended up outside of the regulatory control of said governments. Any complaints now are just posturing. The time to act was 15 years ago.
I don't see any ads. also there is reader mode in all browsers that I know of?
Why not both? A healthy lifestyle combined with pills that work.
It's not just drains in those underpasses. Some have active pumps that need to be working.
>I don’t understand Jobs’ logic here. Is he just a bully? If Google makes such a great offer that his employee will leave him, shouldn’t he try to make a better offer, or meet with the employee instead of calling Sergey?

That could wind up in a bidding war that could end up affecting many employees and salaries going up a lot. That's a lot of lost money for Apple, which makes Steve Jobs mad. Additionally, some employees would still be lost in the war, slowing down Apple development.

>Say he did get the offer canceled. How would this employee feel about working for a CEO that does this?

I think it's implied that the employee wouldn't find out. I think Steve Jobs would be more angry if Google revoked the offer and blamed it on Steve Jobs than if Google went forward with the offer.
I can't disagree with you there, although to be clear, I don't necessarily agree either, I just don't think we have enough evidence to make a conclusion.

I think some immediate policies that the US could introduce is universal healthcare by expanding medicaid, and work toward the elimination of student loan debt (leading to greater social mobility).
I have experience working on some JSON RPC Load Balancer, and I can tell that it's one of the worst choices for an API:

- Method Name is a part of the body itself. So you have to parse it to make a decision on how to dispatch it. That's an extra cost.

- Error Code is a part of the response. So you have to parse it each time to figure out if it's a success. Also, some clients just give an HTTP Error Code instead. So you have to handle both.

- It can also be batched. Which introduces a lot of unspecified use cases.

- Like how are you supposed to dispatch those batched? Should they go to the same upstream? Or can it be parallelized? Should the order be preserved?

- With batches, the slowest request always blocks the in-flight response. You have to wait for all calls to be finished before producing a final response. That's a huge performance bottleneck. Also, what you do if some of them never finished?

- A lot of uncertainties about the ID. Especially because it can be a different type (int or string), which sometimes introduces two different handlers in the code. And there are no guarantees IDs are not repeating in the same batch. To make it worse, some clients rely only on the request/response order ignoring the IDs.

- Another problem is that it has no idea of Metadata, which is important for many real systems. For example, to do an Auth. Or do Caching and other optimizations.

So as an outcome, everyone just makes two layers. On the HTTP level, you have auth, routing, error handling, multiplexing, etc. And then you realize that JSON RPC only introduces extra complexity.
They are in the same class as semaglutide.

We know being obese has long term delayed consequences.

And they've been giving this drug to diabetics for a while and they seem to be fine and healthy.
> cost of preventing temperatures rising... With a smaller population of 8.7bn, the cost would drop to $471. The second option is cheaper.

Interesting, analyzing hypotheticals that are based on loads of half-baked presumptions. It'd be even cheaper with a smaller population of 0.7bn. (Were the huge gains to be made by switching to renewables factored in here?) Maybe mixing those who will never-be-born into this drunken calculus is an attempt to suggest that some humanity is involved?
people very often forget this. Even if we assume an unsubstantiated risk from the drugs, you absolutely have to factor in the reduced risk from the weight loss. These drugs aren't just providing aesthetic improvement in body composition.
Explorer ...
Would he reward a favorite who was just about to jump ship before he got the offer rescinded?
Please tell me more about the public criminal convictions of Steve Jobs.
Why not just start a company competing with Apple, Microsoft and Google, you're saying?
I think its more about workshops
There is some evidence that soleus push ups can induce significant insulin responses, without the need for drugs.

Soleus is the muscle below the calf and normally used when walking running and jumping

> All of the 600 muscles combined normally contribute only about 15% of the whole-body oxidative metabolism in the three hours after ingesting carbohydrate. Despite the fact that the soleus is only 1% the body weight, it is capable of raising its metabolic rate during SPU contractions to easily double, even sometimes triple, the whole-body carbohydrate oxidation.

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/965506
I wish that was towards the top of the article. It makes the whole "mystical paper" terminology make more sense. Cash becomes a burden to anyone moving lots of volume of money. That's what the article means by "useful money" not being paper money.
>”So a compromise would be to continue with the offer we have made (to [REDACTED]) but not to make offers to any of the others unless they get permission from Apple.”*

This is just so absolutely shitty behavior. It’s bamazing they were willing to talk about it so openly in email format. You get to be so great at your job only to risk being blackballed by hush hush non compete handshake agreements? Unions don’t go nearly far enough to balance out this power asymmetry. I don’t know what would. Honestly I don’t know what could without knock on effects with their own awful potentials to hamper competition and innovation. Hugely punitive repercussions when this sort of things comes to light might be a step in the right direction though.
"Cultists" is the name-calling.
A few hundred million dollars and an unrelated side business that continually spits out cash.
This is a classic interview question for SWE's and so the city should be well prepared.
> It can write logic with JS

You mean Javascript? If we are looking to make progress, then we shouldn't use those outdated (despite widely distributed) languages.
PackCC a PEG parser generator for C (Single source file)
Drugs like Adderall don't mimic the hormones talked about in the article, right?

I took Adderall XR once a day in college which completely suppressed my appetite and, combined with being a poor student that couldn't always afford lunch, I would frequently only eat one meal a day (either breakfast or dinner.) Since I graduated college many years ago, I also stopped taking Adderall but my sense of hunger has never returned. I always figured my body just got used to having my appetite suppressed and now I can go multiple days without eating and not feel any physical sensation or side-effect (including fatigue/irritation from lack of food or things like headaches.) Just the other day I went 40 hours without eating while traveling for the holidays and didn't even realize it until I went to a social dinner.

I've never thought too much of this. It seems like in pop culture/science nowadays "fasting" is generally seen/understood to be beneficial. I certainly don't mind because its helped me stay at a healthy weight, but in reading about this new class of drugs for weight loss recently I am curious as to what exactly is going on in my body and whether there's a similar mechanism at play.

Is there anyone who fasts regularly who's also experienced this loss of hunger sensation?
Did you notice the part where Sergey Brin was intimated by Steve Jobs in the email threatening him with war if he starts a browser? Probably that part.
I've been lucky enough, and greatly benefitted from, having wonderful whos in my life. Always from face to face, personal interaction, though. Maybe someday we will figure out how to better sort the wheat from the chaff of online discourse. It's an exceedingly difficult problem.
Canada is developing a high-speed train that’s faster than an airplane
Even the crappiest cars have 4 wheel stop. Most cars' 60-0 is faster than their 0-60.
Are there any independent browser companies? What's the business model? Nobody will pay for a browser. If you work in this area, you need a well funded patron that sees a browser as strategic.

A browser is strategic, hence Steve Jobs getting pissed.

Starting your own company also requires specialist and generalist skills that a browser engineer doesn't have, and exposes him to risk that won't be worth it to a rock star developer.
The hard part is finding someone to pay $500/pound for tomatoes.
Unfortunately it's really expensive to research and produce drugs and somebody's gotta pay for it. The rest of world isn't willing to so it looks like rich people's insurance is the one that will foot the bill which means lower income people have to wait.

It sucks and it's a inefficient way to fund research but it's better than the alternative where no one funds this research and we (both rich and poor) never get the drug.
I think Spintronics resistors will resist motion with a force proportional to rotational speed, which I think follows from the resistance coming from oil in the bearings. So the torque will be the same for both resistors (since the battery applies constant torque), but the speed at which the resistors apply this torque will be different by a factor of two.
Happy to, but I'd need links - I skimmed through the thread but didn't catch any!
Curious, looking back did you see how your thinking change given you haven't written in a while and re-read your posts? Also is it available online?
Seven iOS Features Launching or Expanding in 2023
> You will have removed the incentive for those that want to provide better service however.

The incentive to provide better service for individual employees should be provided by their employer.

The incentive for the employer to provide better service to customers is competition with other service providers the client might choose.

Which is how it works in all the jobs that aren’t within the weird and arbitrary bounds of tipping culture.