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jhull··on AI companies cause most of traffic on forums
> And the best thing of all: they crawl the stupidest pages possible. Recently, both ChatGPT and Amazon were - at the same time - crawling the entire edit history of the wiki. And I mean that - they indexed every single diff on every page for every change ever made.

Is it stupid? It makes sense to scrape all these pages and learn the edits and corrections that people make.

jhull··on Beyond Cyberpunk: A Do-It-Yourself Guide to the Future (1991)
Requirements:

  Mac Plus or higher
  5.5MB of hard disk space
  1.5MB of RAM
  HyperCard 2.0
jhull··on On-Device, Real-Time Hand Tracking with MediaPipe
Thinking of all the baseball applications here: catcher signals, third base coach, head coach etc.
jhull··on How MeUndies built a $32M company
Likely they have some anorexia/thinspo guidelines that this ad didn't adhere to. Search google for "thigh gap thinspo"
jhull··on Farmers in Niger are nurturing gao trees to drive environmental change in Africa
Here is an article on a block of East African countries trying to prevent this [0] and the backlash [1]

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/12/world/africa/east-africa-... [1] https://money.cnn.com/2018/07/31/news/economy/rwanda-us-trad...

jhull··on How the Reformulation of OxyContin Ignited the Heroin Epidemic [pdf]
I wonder why the out of pocket price of Oxycontin spikes so dramatically each January (see figure 4)
jhull··on Launch HN: Promise (YC W18) – Cost-effective, more humane alternative to jail
What is a dating websites incentive to couple people up? They have seemingly reverse incentives too. The better a dating website is the less potential users it might eventually have.
jhull··on Launch HN: Promise (YC W18) – Cost-effective, more humane alternative to jail
the article talks about treatment with Vivitrol which is similar to suboxone, except it can't be abused (and therefore has no street value) and is a monthly injection instead of a daily.

Naloxone/Narcan is for immediate treatment of an overdose

jhull··on History of Vending and Coffee Service (2016)
they should add "1997: When this website template was created"
jhull··on Lyme Is 'All in Your Head' – A Wake-Up Call to Mental Health Professionals
a friend of mine spiraled into years of undiagnosed anxiety, depression and fatigue and was told by many doctors it was all in her head. a few years later she was diagnosed with lyme disease, got treatment and now has a new lease on life.
jhull··on Summary of the Amazon S3 Service Disruption
the post mortem says an authorized team member
jhull··on [dead]
Apparently this bill has been introduced every time a new Congress has come in for the last 20 years.

See http://www.snopes.com/us-pulling-out-of-un/

jhull··on 'Suspicious package' at Texas A&M was an admission letter with lights attached
Well...the application certainly worked in garnering the attention the applicant had hoped for.
jhull··on The Fining of Black America
Can you share this data?
jhull··on How Habitat for Humanity Went to Brooklyn and Poor Families Lost Their Homes
more like: dr; that is not at all what the article is about.
jhull··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2016)
SolveBio | New York City | Full-time (ONSITE)

SolveBio provides a data platform and data science services that can deployed in genomics companies - large pharmaceuticals, R&D labs, molecular diagnostic companies, and health startups. The platform and APIs process and deliver a wide variety of complex biomedical datasets collected from public, private, and commercial sources creating a solid foundation of information necessary to develop more accurate genetic tests for diagnostics and discovery.

We're looking for engineers to further develop our genomic data platform, which includes APIs that feed up-to-date information to customized interfaces, internal data pipeline tools, and secure multi-datacenter deployments. Genetic testing is entirely dependent on reference data and as the industry continues to grow at a rapid pace, SolveBio aims to be a leader in this very exciting space.

Tech stack: JS/AngularJS, Python/Django, ElasticSearch, PostgreSQL, Docker, AWS, Consul, Terraform.

SolveBio has great backers including Andreessen Horowitz, Max Levchin/HVF, Healthy Ventures, Great Oaks, Red Swan, and others.

Postings: https://www.solvebio.com/jobs

Interested? Email us at: jobs@solvebio.com

jhull··on Show HN: PyGeno, a Python Package for Precision Medicine
contribute a pull request?
jhull··on Chart Shows Who Marries CEOs, Doctors, Chefs and Janitors
interesting that the Clergy marries mostly within their own occupation
jhull··on The Sports Bubble Is About to Pop
I also cut cable 8 years ago and haven't turned back.

It was hard at first for sports because I had to watch random internet streams that were often bad quality, getting shutdown or full of browser ads (just use adblocker.)

In the last few years it has gotten a lot better. Almost every network has an AppleTV/Amazon Fire/Hulu app or online streaming service with cable quality streaming. Most of them require you to have cable subscription, but thats easily circumvented by using a friend's TV login.

jhull··on Leaving the Mac App Store
HN thread here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10560634
jhull··on Big data in genomics: The $1k genome has arrived
For more genomic data check out www.solvebio.com

You'll need to register for a (free) API key to access public data, although we're removing that requirement in the next few days (I work here.)

jhull··on Infrastructure Pioneer Predicts Datacenter Days Are Numbered
Source: http://www.cio.com/article/2391563/outsourcing/gm-bets-on-in...
jhull··on Twitter Has a Handbook for Politicians
"Twitter Has A 136-Page Handbook For Politicians."

Seems like a lost branding opportunity that they didn't add 4 more pages.

jhull··on A curated list of data science blogs
What's a good RSS reader tool these days?
jhull··on DefCon Hackers Tell How They Cracked Brink's Safe in 60 Seconds
'...[they] literally "smashed" on the keyboard to see what would happen when arbitrary keys were pressed together. Using that smashing technique, the researchers were able to figure out how to escape the kiosk mode.'

They also just invented the newest SaaS model: "Smashing as a Service"

jhull··on Retina Macbook 2015 Teardown
For New Yorkers reading this: interesting to hear about the New York Digital Right to Repair bill. Didn't realize that the support provided to non manufacturers was being stifled.

Read more here: http://newyork.digitalrighttorepair.org/

jhull··on Finance world in the dark as Bloomberg terminals go offline
Is there an alternative to Bloomberg? I haven't ever heard of traders using anything else.
jhull··on The Deadly Global War for Sand
Images of the same thing in Sierra Leone, destroying the potential tourism industry http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-20897658
jhull··on Poor Kids of Silicon Valley
I don't agree with it, but the Bloomberg administration in NYC tried a program where they bought one-way plane tickets for homeless families[1] to leave the overcrowded shelter system. Critics were against it because it wasn't addressing any of the root causes of the problem, rather just moving/hiding it in a similar way to the bulldozing of "the Jungle"

I am struggling to find the name of the program in the article in order to see if it has "worked" in any way to reduce homelessness. Not sure if it is even still around.

EDIT: It's called Project Reconnect[2] and it is still around even though De Blasio apparently was against it[3]

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/29/nyregion/29oneway.html [2] http://www1.nyc.gov/nyc-resources/service/3601/project-recon... [3] http://nypost.com/2014/09/06/de-blasio-has-sent-1412-homeles...

jhull··on Hello, World
Good for you man. I took a year to do the same thing and travel.

The first step for me was creating a blog and writing a similar post, reflecting on what I had been doing and what was about to change. I also wrote down a lot of things I wanted to do in that next year. While I only did a handful of them, its great to look back now a few years later and see where my mindset was.

It is also great to reflect on the things that I did do on that year off that were so amazing, the things which I didn't write down, because they weren't even things I could imagine. That's the best part, realizing you've broadened your horizons.

:a toast: Wishing you do many unimaginable things.

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