skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm surprised the health insurance industry isn't implicated here. Genome comparisons are a goldmine for creating risk models for individuals... I would even speculate that the whole thing was driven by insurance industry rather than pharma industry. "We're doing this for medicine!" looks like PR lipstick.
A lot of people have weird budgets. So they will think nothing of $1000/month for a car payment, but complain about gas prices that work out to $100/month. They rarely consider that they could get better mileage luxury car for similar monthly payments but using a lot less gas.

Which is to say I do know people who complain about gas prices on their luxury cars.
Plug it into any AC outlet. I gain around 50 miles overnight, which is plenty for my commute/errands.
Ok, this feels like different advice, to me. It isn't to not use these, it is not to be the one implementing them? That is a lot easier to understand. I've been using AWS Cognito to get basic stuff up and running and it hasn't been too bad, I don't think. Have to convince people to not punch holes in things, but so far I have not been too turned off from things.
Yeah I see what you're saying, it would suck if they forced you to change over abruptly. And if you have a bigger engine as you say the pollution is probably less of an issue. In any case the pollution picture is getting massively better as EVs roll out and I'm guessing the transition period will be long (as long as the lifetime of your current bike, maybe).

Then one would hope we will have swappable battery pack options for motorcycles in the future as well, which could make refueling more widespread. Easier to do for motorcycles than cars. And with a smaller battery by necessity, swapping makes more sense. Anyway I'm just rambling on here, who knows what will happen.

As far as you getting to enjoy the mountains, I had (maybe mistakenly) been thinking you were talking about a dirt bike, versus a road bike. I don't think of the sound of road bikes as annoying to anyone, especially a quiet one. Not quite as Edward Abbey would say, "if there's a road there, the place is already ruined" but definitely you get more leeway to make noise on a road.
These things don't have to be one or the other. There are places where it's very important that we transition towards less car-focused infrastructure and there are others where we will invest more in that infrastructure. Contrary to many contrarian beliefs, European style mass transit doesn't include the complete removal of cars.
I tried the linear search by station name in my first naive approach. Using a hashmap was at least 2-3x as fast with the ~415 distinct keys in the 1BRC dataset.
That's a bummer. Now I need to find a new place to host my hundreds of project design decks! It was a great platform, I wonder what is going on behind the scenes.
> Any idiot would suffer the same fate if they gave those answers. No one really cares about her intrinsically.

In the same vein, one would expect an idiot to misattribute the criticism of their aptitude and view it as a personal attack. Only an idiot would say the things Gay said in congress; only an idiot would interpret a critical take on her leadership abilities as racism or sexism.
Will US companies hire fewer engineers due to Section 174?
this is one of those "nobody wants a smartphone, the sound quality is shit" kind of articles
> Should they have required 2FA for everything?

If an average online gaming service or social network can manage sending 2FA codes over email or SMS when their users are logging in from a new device, the holder of a large chunk of the world's genetic data can as well.
Probably cross referenced their compromised customer account emails with a pastebin of email:pass pairs leaked from another hack.
It would be cool, if climate change were a convenient truth, rather than slightly inconvenient.
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What you're mentioning here is basically about other advantages that accrue to capital vs labor, not copyright. Hence the fact strikes happen across the boundaries of where copyright matters -- auto manufacturing work doesn't have anything to do with copyright (acting doesn't really yet either), yet there are strikes for comp and other job benefits.

In situations where scraps go to artists, it's because they don't have the capital to invest creating/distributing their work, so as part of their contract or employment agreement, they sell the copyright to the work. This isn't copyright's fault: this situation would exist without any copyright at all (though it would likely be worse). And it is not universal. There are people who do create the work on their own time/dime, and copyright gives them immense leverage when it comes time to distribute & sell the work.

Patronage is another leg on the stool that can support a creator's career, but it's no replacement for copyright -- it leaves the creator with all the same problems and none of the benefits. You either end up with similar problems with relationship with capital (a few wealthy patrons who want to invest in you) or you end up having to build your wide audience and hope that as you do some of those convert even though there's no obligation and the culture increasingly normalizes the perception that free access to the fruits of other people's creative labor is how things should be.

And in a career as tenuous as creative work, knocking out the copyright leg from the stool is going to make the balancing act harder.
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I disagree that this is entitlement.

Some areas are built around automobiles. I'd rather not be financially burdened with buying/maintaining vehicles for myself, for my wife, and for my son. Unfortunately, most areas of the USA that are affordable are also built around the expectation that people have automobiles. While mass transit exists, it also isn't reliable in many of those selfsame areas. There's no sense of entitlement involved, this is more "what it takes to make it" in some areas.

Driving 1000s of kilometers for a holiday also isn't necessarily the thing. When my brother was having some emotional issues that became an emergency it was a good thing to be able to drop everything, get in my car, and drive out to see him. When my sister was in the ER about 1200 kilometers away, same thing. People argue for flight in those cases, but that would have taken longer and been more expensive.

As for kids, while things may be difficult in the future, I have faith that humankind will face and overcome the challenges thrown at the species. Humans have done so in the past, and I trust that they will do so in the future. Further, humans are not responsible for situations/actions that they had no hand in, had no say in, and have no control over. If people really want to start pointing blame for the way things are, they will inevitably be pointing fingers at some dead person or dead group of people. We can deal with things now, but unless someone can get the US congress to stop giving oil companies corporate welfare (voting hasn't helped despite Americans voting for candidates who had this as a campaign promise), I do not see anything changing.
Got exposed to a lot of chemical gas in a home that had a gas leak. Developed all the above symptoms and more.

Later diagnosed with an autoimmune disorder. Sjogrens.
Best I can figure, I had Sjogrens before, but it was so mild. I didn’t really notice or care. After the exposure, all the symptoms were amped up 50 fold. Also had Factor V Leiden. Which went from not an issue to multiple clots every single week.

After about four years, the symptoms dad calmed down to certain degree. Getting Covid was a full relapse for about six months.

Of course my wife got the vaccine and her arm swelled up and years later still hasn’t gone back down.
Why would health insurance be implicated here? They're not allowed to use this sort of data due to GINA law.
The analysis of maintenance budgets is depressingly accurate. Especially as tech companies get older (and they age surprisingly fast), it's quite startling to see how most of them become organizationally indifferent to various small to medium glitches in established products.

I can see why a lot of people working in tech will focus weekend/break energy on side projects (woodworking; solo sports; playing in a band) where exquisite craft is everything.
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Google, Yahoo announce new email authentication requirements for 2024
It's all a balancing act between not wanting to unduly impact legitimate customers, while blocking as much fraud as possible.

Blocking the credential stuffing attacks? They probably did have mitigation efforts, but you can only be so aggressive before the false positives start blocking significant numbers of legitimate customers, who have no recourse except to wait out a temporary ban. And some credential stuffing attacks are extremely sophisticated, such that even best in class security companies can't always effectively block them.

Mandatory MFA? Great on paper, except that 10% of people hate the extra steps (probably with great overlap between the people reusing passwords) and will complain and/or disable it if given the chance. Another 20% have invalid or out of date contact details (an old employer's email address, a landline phone number that can't receive SMS, etc.), and they'll be locked out of their accounts.

Yeah, there are ways to mitigate these downsides. And I'm not arguing that 23andme found the appropriate balance between "customer satisfaction" and "customer security." But I can see how a mostly reasonable organization could end up in this position. And it's mainly the risk of terrible press and upset customers that allows other companies to justify more security-oriented policies, so let them have it.
> current techniques for imaging cells are limited to just a handful of different molecule types within a cell at one time

Problem statement.

> However, MIT researchers have developed an alternative method that allows them to observe up to seven different molecules at a time

That seems… vaguely similar to the problem condition.

> a typical light microscope can only distinguish two or three of these colors

If you are advancing the state of the art, shouldn’t this read “the highest-performing existing techniques”? What are they leaving out?

> In 2020, Boyden’s lab developed a way to simultaneously image up to five different molecules within a cell, by targeting glowing reporters to distinct locations inside the cell.

So it’s from five spread around to seven presumably less spread around, but there must be some resolution issue with overlapping blinking proteins.

From what I can tell as an outsider it appears to be an active area of research with a number of proposed solutions for increasing the number of molecules or proteins that can be analyzed at once.

This one uses strobing proteins which require post-processing by linear de-mixing and seem like they have twice the noise/error/accuracy issue: wavelength, as with any color-based solution, and switching frequency, which is the novel bit. Superficially it is unclear to me whether it is better than a number of other recent similar papers describing increases in number of molecules monitored at once.
As a person with a garage, this happens. It's my fault because I didn't plug in but that doesn't mean it doesn't happen.
Note how it's much shorter for Vulkan:

* https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/blob/main/src/uti...

* https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/blob/main/src/uti...
I'm happy that this found a dangerous mutation in your family and saved lives but what's at stake is unfortunately much larger and not worth the risk for most people IMO. You are risking the publication of the genetic makeup and vulnerabilities not just of yourself but thousands of people living today and will live for the next several generations, and to some extent in perpetuity. I don't want to condemn my family to that risk yet! I'm sincerely hoping a security first service that actually earns it's trust shows up soon!
> Smalltalk stands head and shoulders above most other languages for clarity, conciseness, and human-friendliness.

Very cool. What if I want to read through printout of your smalltalk program?
I don't think this is a smoking gun. Assuming competence, they could have obtained a password dump from another site that stored cleartext passwords, then compared their own database rows with hash(salt(leaked_password)).
> They'd have to use a packet filter to do that

Indeed they would.

> My resolver respects DNS signing…

I’m not honestly certain how big of a hurdle this is. I would figure that if a site is to be blocked, then the ISP substitutes their own “authoritative” response, which would include cryptographic signing details (even pretending their public key is the official one.)

> My (niche) ISP is rather benevolent …

I think most are. In my market, even the big guys haven’t done this, though I have heard about it happening in larger markets when big ISPs are up to no good (like inserting ads or whatever.)
Sometimes ssh -C helps on slow connections. Also mosh is great for those cases, but optional and has different setup requirements (see below). As others have said start a -daemon on remote and use emacsclient -nw when you connect. Spend some time finding a local terminal client that works well and invest in tuning its quirks to make it support all of the Emacs keys and full 32bit colors. I had good luck with iTerm2 from a Mac and with kitten or basic xterm on Linux, but any solution required at least a handful of nontrivial modifications for full support of the terminal powers. Once you have the local machine become a thin client a lot of development is easy and much faster than any other mode of operation; plus if you change the local machine nothing changes except a one time setup of a terminal.
> If you live somewhere where electric costs are very low then a 0 to full charge your EV costs about $10. (Someone please correct me if i'm off on this one)

Our utility offers very cheap prices at night, so our Tesla 3 costs $2.25 to fully charge vs. $55-70 for our Forester.

Also, maintenance is cheaper on EVs.
Glad to hear you find it useful! Please let me know if you have any feedback :)
Maybe it would be, if the Tesla nav system didn't do most of that work for me.
> The idea that putting the businesses in a blind trust would completely avoid any sort of knowledge is just ridiculous.

That is what a blind trust is, by definition. If the person has any knowledge then it is not in a blind trust. The key to a blind trust is that the trust can sell assets at any time without the beneficiary's knowledge, so that the beneficiary doesn't know what assets they have and could benefit from.

With Trump there is the unusual problem of him having recognizable businesses. The only practical way to solve that problem would have been for a blind trust to sell off properties like that and invest the proceeds, holding/investing those for the benefit of the trustee. This is why ideas Trump floated before being elected, like turning over the business to his sons, were described as "not a blind trust". (And also why "Jimmy Carter had to sell his peanut farm" became a meme.)
Have you also recently noticed that Mastodon sites are not being archived properly by https://web.archive.org/ ?

It doesn't display any content when viewing the archive. I wonder why that is.
> I'm not sure which side I'm on in your comment

I was referring more to the large vehicle arms race.

> Right now I'm focusing on the first 2 R's of the 3 R's
> I'm reducing my footprint by reusing an existing car and fixing it with used parts when I can.

I'd agree that's probably the most environmentally conscious approach. I'm somewhat similar, holding on to an old car, but more almost out of spite than any sort of rational consideration haha.
In the mid-90s at work, I was known as that guy who used a left-handed mouse at all times (I am right-handed.)

I would swap L/R button functions on the Sun4 3-button optical mouse and set it to the left of the keyboard. This is a comfortable and natural position, especially considering the placement of the numpad.

Very soon, the word was out in the office, and NOBODY attempted to borrow my workstation!
Not yet, this is the end-goal of this repo, to be able to do this kind of perf evaluation.
That's mostly explained in Zack Weinberg's Fediverse post/answer: https://hackers.town/@zwol/111684752785283333

The one open thing is why BSD picked 'l' for lstat() to mean symbolic links (unless someone has asked one of the BSD people that). Possibly it's just because 'sstat()' would look weird.

(I'm the author of the linked-to entry.)
Have you thought about implementing timelines, I've been messing around generating text with AI, then using AI create an extract that is time stamped, to give some temporal consistency, for creative use it doesn't have to be perfect, for human like, quite the opposite, so I've tried adding a random 'forgetting and mis-remembering' aspect to what is stored. Nothing concrete to show, but maybe your platform might be a good place to run experiments like that :)
Could you be more precise as to what doesn't work?
Can you give more specific examples of what you mean by "packages that don't use Poetry" (AFAIK one can install any Python package with Poetry)?

Like, I know developing a package with Poetry can be painful.

And I also use pipx for use cases like running CLIs installed globally.

Or maybe you mean contributing to a third-party open-source project that doesn't use Poetry and the maintainers don't want to migrate to it for some reason.

I don't see anything like that mentioned in the readme. Maybe it would help to document the intended use cases?
Consider the Parler case study. There the app was removed from the app stores but also Amazon stopped servicing the application. You could imagine a scenario where if the app stores had decided to not remove the app, then the underlying carriers could've been leveraged to disable the application.

To truly escape the walled gardens of the cell phone world, it would seem you need to control the entire stack from carrier up to device and application.
I never trust that someone has deleted data. There is NO way of knowing that they did. Did they delete from the active database? What about clones of the data to DEV? What about back ups? I seriously doubt any company restores a back up to purge data only to make a new back up of that. If they did, do they purge the original back up and only use the new?

I don't care if something like GDPR states they must. I do not trust corps to actually go through the hassle/expense of it.
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This post isn't the one I was remembering, but it describes the same concept: https://www.theladders.com/career-advice/skill-stacking-inst...
The market for heirloom quality products has always been tiny, and ever will be. But the availability of "good enough" products has never been better than it is today. You just have to put in more effort to find them since 95% of advice found online is shill.

The reason it's increasingly hard to find "good enough" in today's retail marketplace because 90% of us emphasize cost and convenience over fine design or workmanship. In past decades, if you wanted a solid product, you shopped at a bricks retailer you knew well (Sears, Macy's, Land's End) and you trusted their buyers to stock only good stuff. But today 90% of us shop online at retailers who stock mostly cheap disposable products because they're half the cost of "good enough" (and 1/10 the cost of heirloom), and because they can be delivered to to our door quickly and effortlessly. That's where double sigma (97%) of the supplier bell curve now. Unsurprisingly it takes a lot more effort for us to unearth the 3% that isn't ephemera, given we have to do the digging without retailers we trust.
In 1980s I used (pirated) Hisoft Pascal on a Zx Spectrum clone (48 KB of memory). It wasn’t as nice as Turbo Pascal but it was great for computations - by 8 bit standards it was very fast. I learned about Pascal from a computer magazine article that disparaged Basic and encouraged “structured” programming.
> Modules (precisely speaking about Linux) shall be open-source upon sale!

Linux's interpretation of the GPL allows closed source and proprietary modules (providing you conform to a somewhat limited set of interfaces).

There's a lot of closed source binary lumps out there for different hardware.
Yes, it seems that since the market for print ads collapsed, the San Jose Metro (a free alt-weekly) is mainly being propped up by job ads that appear to be fake, to satisfy H1B requirements (see? we advertised this position and got no US citizen takers). There are a lot of them.
I knew that someone did that (not the link you posted though) but I meant real world usable applications. Someone also managed to run Linux on a 8bit AVR microcontroller by writing a 32bit ARM emulator then adding an old SIMM memory module and a SD card for storage. Not real world usable as well, but that one brings the "because we can" concept to new levels:)

https://dmitry.gr/?r=05.Projects&proj=07.+Linux+on+8bit
>that someone works at Ford or whatever.

Quite often when you're getting a job at Ford or whatever, you're not actually getting a job at said company but a talent finder or hiring agency under a 90 day contract to hire. Quite often the parent company will have multiple hiring agencies looking for candidates for the same job.
Again, assuming life only exists on earth. You do not care about humanity, you are afraid of your own mortality so you create these science fictions.
Most people live in a family situation where they have more than one car. They could replace one ICE car with an EV and not have any problems, the ICE becomes the family vacation car.
What’s insane to me is that it feels like nobody has actually managed to make this easy for developers yet. If they have, I don’t know about them.

I would normally consider myself pretty competent, but I stood up my first fully featured website recently with logins and such, and it took me about 2 days of work to get AWS Cognito working (using their recommended USER_SRP_AUTH). That’s not including 3rd party login functionality from Google and friends.

Their documentation and UX is piss-poor unless you’re willing to onboard your entire project to Amplify and enter npm-hell, which I wasn’t. It’s almost like they don’t even want your business.

I looked into using Auth0 instead and it didn’t seem to be any easier. Better docs, seems like they’re actually written by someone who both understands the auth problem domain and how to explain it to those that don’t, but still complex.

Yet when I was finished finally getting everything to work, it seems like the kind of thing you could easily package into an off-the-shelf product. It’s just that existing products don’t do it. Like why the fuck is there a guide explaining how to write a lambda to convert access codes to refresh tokens and persist them via cookies? That should be part of the Cognito platform!

Honestly thinking of just starting my own auth SAAS with blackjack and hookers
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the time of cheap energy is about to begin! solar power is already cheaper than oil ever was, and prices continue to drop
Looks really good but has the same silicone push button keyboard as the others...
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Completely agree, and I am continuously frustrated that the US has such poor personal privacy standards and regulations, regardless of how effective any existing regulations are.