skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why isn't the following chain plausible?

Chemical compound soup, natural reactions -> natural reaction produces the first reaction which is self replicating (I'd assume RNA here) -> self replication reaction dominates natural reactions (to what order, who knows) -> self replicating reaction mutates into a form that better harnesses energy from environment (your metabolism) -> metabolic empowered reaction dominates -> etc

From a primatives perspective, it seems reasonable that the first "evolutionary" advances would have all been incredibly preferential. In the sense that they had no competition with similar capabilities.

Imagine the first organism able to metabolise something (sunlight?) for its own purposes. Against "organisms" that were still waiting for chance to bash them against the right compound.
When the Whole Foods opened near me, for the first year, about half the time that I would shop there I had an item where the price they charged at the checkout was higher than the price on the shelf. No "free item if overcharged" deal like you see at many shops either. It was a bit of a pain to have to watch out for over charging, but it the problem went away eventually.
Yeah, one of the Twitter replies seems to indicate this is a widespread issue.

EDIT: apparently it was a bad nameserver update: https://twitter.com/unpkg/status/852658357034827776
Interestingly enough, I worked as an embedded dev for 3 years already and I used a scope and a Logic analyzer maybe 1 week during this time. I do admit that my job is kind of shitty and I'm working on messy in-house frameworks. I bet Saleae + oscope are indispensable when doing board bringup or things like that tough.

For my home-lab I went the el cheapo way and bought my own hackable Rigol (brought it to 100 Mhz) and, to my great shame, I bought a Saleae clone. I promise, Sealae guys, I'll buy an original on my next raise, I promise!
> Maltese is another language that has a surprising amount of Arabic influence. The way they say their numbers is almost exactly the same as Arabic.

Maltese is a lot like English in that it has so many substrata that you have to look at it very closely to see where it came from.

Maltese is actually a direct descendant of Arabic, but it has been so heavily influenced by multiple Indo-European languages that 2/3 of its vocabulary has been replaced by words from Italian, Sicilian, English, and possibly others.

Compare this with how English is a West Germanic language but it has multiple substrata from Old Norse, French, and Latin influences.
> Nintendo's hardware had never failed to be slightly disappointing to anybody expecting something anywhere near the cutting edge.

I'd argue the N64 was cutting edge when it was released.
Not a bot. Not remotely a bot.

Multi-tasking humans who are pretty damn good and making your travel feel important to them to get right.
Imported sparkling glacial water only, sorry.
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> The database would be a custom program that would:

Creating a "custom database program" is not a small task.

We like to use boring technologies that we know work well. We were already using Cassandra, had some experience with Redis, and had a lot of confidence in our CDN.
"Did there have to be any eating?"

Define "eating".

"and self-replicates simply when it encounters the molecules needed to do so."

It self-replicates, destroying those molecules. One could call that "eating", and probably should, as, if one calls this self-replication, there's an underlying assumption that there is life.
I have been digging around in this space searching for a good solution where I might have connectivity, but I also might not. So I need to be able to update off a USB as well. Mender seems to have a story for this. Resin.io told me to have people hook a hotspot up. Our units can be in the middle of factories in the middle of nowhere. Its not always possible to be connected.

Tried resin.io and while it had good ideas, it was difficult to integrate. It is also completely dependent on their hosted management system. Which can be good, but is another hurdle to get past. Mostly because we would have started at greater than 25 devices and would have rapidly hit 200. So its hard to get our owner behind that up front.

Mender has been much easier to get going. Its dependencies are far less and without the docker containers easier to get going initially. Docker I think will have its day, but host<->container configuration for peripherals is kind of clunky.

Also Mender can be self hosted so that makes it far less friction for me to get going with.
And their whois registration was updated today...
Boyd Eaton and his students did some of this work. Its touched on in The Paleolithic Prescription (popular book) with more details in papers before and since (search on book's authors' names for research papers. Sorry I don't have better for you now.) As I recall they identified three sleep patterns from anthropological studies of populations not influenced by modern technologies (eg. electric lighting) and from historical documents (ex. Victorian era doctors' notes mentioning what were considered normal sleep patterns at the time.)
1) Early to sleep + early to rise
2) Late to sleep + late to rise
3) Late to sleep + late to rise (with waking in the middle of the night)

A modern cartoon characterization of type three is Dagwood Bumstead from the comic strip Blondie. He would get up naturally for midnight snacks and over-sleep for work or snooze during work. Type three Victorians were noted by their physicials as naturally rising for midnight prayers or sex with spouses.

As to genetic selection, the postulated survival advantage relates to the military three watches of the night. With group members naturally awake throughout the night predators were better protected against, surprise attacks less likely, etc.. Hence, a mixed group consisting of all three types would have a survival advantage.
You don't need to know Qt to comment out printf
Yes they didn't even oversell they wanted 4 employees to fly at the last minute and wanted to remove paying customers to make room for them.

Can you imagine going to home depot and someone pulling drills out of your hands and giving them to employees?
With 100K users and a minimum cooldown time of 5 minutes, there's 100K tiles per 5 minutes would be an upper limit. Only bots would hit that 5 minute cooldown every single time, and bots make up a very small minority of the users. They even point out later in the article that they only peaked at 200 updates per second.

> For example, designing with an average of a million requests per day in mind would probably fail, since you get most of that traffic during daytime and far more less at the nightly hours.

That depends. If you're talking about a public website, then yes. But this is just a single API endpoint with a very fixed time-based rate limit.
We've been using Cassandra for 7 years since 0.7.
One thing I learned working with many developers over the years it's that this is fairly dependent on the individual.

Some absolutely thrives in an environment without process, I've seen some who simply crushes it without processes and procedures. Beneficial for early stages of company who wants to get a product out asap.

And there are those who thrives with processes, useful and even critical for later stage of the company. I think it's important to have a good balance of these types of developers to maximize each of their strength and weaknesses.
All the counterfeit talk, what is out there that is less counterfeit and as convenient? Lets hear some fine alternatives
> It's hard to say which species was first to become intelligent, but I'm pretty sure humans weren't the first.

And yet, somehow Humans are in a completely different category than all other life. It's not just a matter a degree ("more" intelligent), it's a completely different category.

So that means your definition of intelligent is flawed because it is unable to capture that distinction. Perhaps you need a new word.
> Just today, I helped a coworker debugging a segmentation fault that occurred in a library where the debugging info was stripped out by looking at the assembly code.

Being able to debug applications which don't have debuginfo (particularly optimized builds) is highly valuable though.
Yeah, I meant that we kill rodents and pests easily. But are sentimentally attached to dogs and try to rationalize it. I am not attached to a dog, and if I wanted to eat it, I should be allowed to.
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Amazon Makes Mic and Voice Tech from Echo Available to Third-Party Device Makers
unpkg might be compromised.

https://zerobin.net/?d6853b8632a0d24f#+gTRc+UkRWUB60td2TpuYZ...
Yes, I experienced the same thing.
The UI is excellent, you can pause, go back and the cues are great to capture attention
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> Based on the developments in exo-planet research along with discoveries like this over the past couple of years, I would conjecture that life is ridiculously common.

In that case you must not ignore the corollary: If there is no life on those moons, then it must follow that life is ridiculously rare.

And in that case, then it's pretty likely we are indeed alone in the universe.
There is a great HP-41C for iOS: i41Cx. I believe it's the most expensive app I have, and it's worth every penny. I still have my HP-41, but I never drag it out because of this.
The promise of self-driving cars starts with better 'eye-sight'
Silly Vice: it's "Perec", not "Pereca".
You can definitely see the quality in apps increasing through your videos. The more recent apps you preview are a lot more intense than the ones in the beginning! Cool Channel!
The thing I hate about the AUR is that you (usually) have to compile everything on your machine. Sometimes I hit a package that takes an hour to build and then dies because I'm missing a dependency that isn't installed by the script. And then that dependency has missing dependencies.
That's typically the purpose of AGPL plus a dual license offering for cash. This will probably require copyright assignments to make it work tho
Technically, there are only 8 planets now :)
As a front end dev, I once told my colleague Stripe's landing pages are absolutely delightful to look at, but I personally will not develop something similar if I had to.
Rather than rejecting e it should delete your account if you happen to enter one. And announce the fact in impact font on your followers' timelines.
Does anyone use Urbit for embedded devices and can it do transactional updates and rollbacks?
> All giving more value to brand Nintendo as time goes on.

Does it? Personally I find it extremely off-putting - pieces of content are getting locked behind expensive figures that I have no interest in owning, and that frequently aren't even purchasable from Nintendo anymore. Making your content difficult and expensive to acquire puts me off the brand as a whole.

Take Toon Link in the UK for instance. I can pay £16.78[1] to import it from the US, from a seller who has no reviews, or pay a ridiculous mark-up (£39.99 upwards[2]) and still end up having to use a third-party seller. Neither of those is a particularly attractive option.

[1] https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/offer-listing/B00Q6A57C4/ref=dp_...
[2] https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/offer-listing/B01M031XEJ/ref=dp_...
Any chance of getting this in kindle/e-reader compatible format? The website is beautiful, but reading long-form content is so much nicer on e-ink.
> what does the Civil Rights Act have to do with anything?

You do understand where modern precedent for the DOJ to step in for state and local elections comes from, right?

1950s weren't that long ago and the Republican party as a whole is not all that different when it comes to treatment of minorities. Sure, the rest of the country is here in the 21st century in regards to voter rights -- I can't say the same for Republicans, who again, are attempting to restrict voting rights of D leaning demographics.

Now your standard is to prove intent? Sorry, I am not a mind reader. As stated previous, the courts have ruled (recently in VA for example) that Republican legislators have used their positions in government to systematically disenfranchise minority voters. Whether they meant to? I couldn't tell you, but it is a legal fact determined by our court systems.

Again, this is a legal fact (pending appeal) as things exist, today, in this year of a Republican legislative body disenfranchising black voters. Argue intent all you like, I prefer stick with the facts.

> Diaz's order came in response to allegations that the General Assembly violated the Voting Rights Act by packing too many African-Americans in the 3rd District represented by Rep. Robert C. "Bobby" Scott, D-Newport News.

http://www.dailypress.com/news/politics/dp-nws-redistricting...

I'm done here. All I am doing is repeating myself. All you are doing is ignoring evidence and presenting an impossible standard as your defense.

And since I am feeling particularly generous today, I will assume you are arguing in good faith and really are not aware that no evidence of widespread voter fraud of any kind exists from the last election.

> There have been just four documented cases of voter fraud in the 2016 election

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/12/01/0-...
I think that refusing to leave someone else's private property makes the use of force inevitable. I would expect him to be treated essentially the same if he refused after being asked to leave a bar, a movie theater, someone's home, etc.

I'm not aware of any situation where you can legally be involuntarily strip-searched without being arrested. Maybe by customs but I'm not sure.

Personally, if the flight crew instructed me to strip naked or leave the plane, I would just leave. I can't foresee any situation where I would physically fight the staff for my seat, or recommend anyone else to do so.
It's not a universally great way to crop images while preserving the most context. In my early attempts relying on face detection heavily led to some very poor crops.

You should use them as centers of gravity, measure normalized size, compare against other features, etc.
If you buy the standard edition of a CAD tool, say Solidworks, and the premium edition is unlocked via a USB dongle do you have a right to apply a crack to unlock the premium edition just because the code is present in the standard edition installation?
This format sounds like HBR for software professionals. Sounds great to me.
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Hi form Argentina!

[The country is Colombia, not Columbia]

I made a fast search in Google and I got:

https://dante021blog.wordpress.com/2017/03/24/kick-ass-app/ [This is a nice blog post about your app. I have no idea if this is a popular page or not. I guess no.]

https://www.itzlambo.com/2016/05/top-10-sitios-web-mas-asomb... [This is a listicle that include your app. I have no idea if this is a popular page or not. I guess no.]

https://boards.las.leagueoflegends.com/es/c/off-topic-y-tema... [This is a post in a forum about your app. It has only 5 upvotes, so it's definitively not popular.]

I hope you can read some of this and get some ideas to improve your search.

Can you see if the visitors use iOS or Android?

Most people here use Android or Windows, and very few buy apps.
Exactly. The real problem is many C developers are unaware of these tools. Rather than just saying use programming language x, we should be helping people use C with the right tools.
I think the fundamental problem is that a strand of PNA floating in water is just a strand of PNA floating in water. It isn't an organism, because organisms do things, things that require inputs of energy. I don't see how this lonely strand of PNA ever figures out how to spontaneously give itself a metabolism. Without having a metabolism to begin with, that PNA strand will never do anything.
There are some especially qualified answers on Quora. But to have your question answered by Alan Kay on the topic on Xerox PARC is truly special.
Go compiler up to 40% faster
For those interested, more answers from alan kay available here: https://www.quora.com/profile/Alan-Kay-11
One of the constraints of GNU Social is that you shouldn't have two identical usernames on two separate instances. I did that and I don't know how to fix it.

rocky1138@kwat.chat

rocky1138@gnusocial.no

Does Mastadon suffer the same problem?
Hhhmmm. According to DNS, I'm talking straight at a Cloudflare IP and getting a redirect to adware when trying to load Vue.

Evidence here: https://pastebin.com/wVCABkaA
The linked site has been hacked and replaced with a JavaScript payload that tries to attack the user's browser. The Show HN sounds interesting but this is not the link you were looking for
Not so sure:

When buying something(say a white good) - how do i know how long it would last and whether it's worth the price ?

And that's information companies hold, but don't share. And it's intentional.

And if Americans could have found product with double the life and only 30% increase in costs - it's a great deal. And it's definitely techically possible, for many products.
I got lucky and was able to get a pre-order of the initial batch. However, I didn't get a second controller which now seems very foolish. Looking around it seems that $30 is as cheap as I can expect to find one.
> Reeve replied to my email in less than an hour, with nearly 300 words and no appearance of the banned character. I attempted to write this article without using the letter "e" and gave up after five minutes of weak effort.

0x7265657665 did dispatch back as to my communication in duration not in surplus of an hour with almost 300 words and without a taboo glyph in sight. Although I did try to author this column without using said taboo glyph "0x65", against apathy and sloth I could not triumph and did submit for my stab at it, as short in duration as to boil liquid in a pot, was a dud.
Then they aren't comparing Nintendo consoles to any other console of the same generation.
The local coop has become the new Whole Foods in my town, as it provides quality produce (for when I'm in the mood) and niche items that Whole Foods was famous for popularizing at acceptable prices. It's also helpful to support a local member-managed organization, even if I am not a member. Between normal grocery stores, a small local store such as a coop, and stores with unique store brand items such as Trader Joe's my needs are generally covered.
I've been travelling for a while in areas with slow internet and the best site for me has to be HN. No BS, it just loads and gets out of my way so I can access the content.

I'm in China atm, which is probably an area that Stripe would want to target with both atlas and connect (there's a ton of marketplace/ecommerce sellers based here, and a lot of tech innovation), and both those sites take a stupid amount of time to load.

That animation also destroys my mediocre laptop.

The pages look nice and are rich in content, but those animations and all the superfluous fonts and stuff cause them to be almost unusable if you're not on reasonably new hardware with a reasonably fast internet connection.
Ask HN: 6 Months Later – Do you miss Apple's headphone jack?
I'm curious what the real world fall out is now that consumers have experience life with the option to exclude a headphone jack. I know many people who will 'never upgrade' and others who don't care at all. What have you seen and heard, and what are your personal opinions and experiences now that we have had time to digest?
How do you know it's a completely different category? We used to think all animals are incapable of intelligence and everything they do is "instinct". Now we know they can think, organize, have complex social structures, even imagine and form plans. Many show evidence of being self aware.

So we're not special enough anymore and we have to come up with a new word? I don't buy it.

It's likely that humans' extraordinary achievements stem from our immense ability to communicate and cooperate. A single human on its own isn't all that smart really.

Many intelligent animals suffer from limited knowledge transfer between generations and low cooperation between individuals. So each is only as smart as itself. Or maybe as itself and a couple of friends.

Whereas every human is able to tap into the intelligence of very many other humans. That's really one of our biggest superpowers.
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Most satellite orbits should decay and burn up in the atmosphere long before a few million years has passed. Most of the near-earth orbits become unstable within decades, and the ones that don't are subject to gravitational perturbations from the moon and other planets.

The stuff on the moon will remain there for a very very long time, but until another civilization acquires the technological capability to explore a good amount of the moon's surface, it's doubtful they would stumble across the exact same spot as the Apollo landings.
>Ammiibo hacking is buying the basic version of a software program, and then bypassing the security code that protects the pro features.

It seems very similar to cracks that spoofs USB dongles to unlock pro versions of software. I guess you could argue the unlocked accessories are purely cosmetic but I don't think you can really get around the fact that the accessories are pirated.
This video is great preview from 8 months ago.. Instagram MURDERS Snapchat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DcOQvynoWw
Objects are runtime entities. They are created and manipulated when the program is running.
Or maybe... students would just stay up even later.

I know my own sleep basically drifts later and later until I run into hard deadlines. I'd be surprised if most people don't work that way, in a vacuum.
Curious if anyone's ever observed something similar to this? It'd be super easy to detect if you're looking for it, but most miners aren't thinking "Hmm, I wonder if a previous intelligent species existed on earth millions of years before us."
Thanks. The doctors tell me that as long as I eat right, take my meds, and get enough exercise, I should be fine. Of course, doing those things isn't always easy, but I do my best.

Good to hear. Yes, sometimes life throws us things we don't expect but all we can do is just our very best.

How large of companies are you calling into? I think, in general, the larger the company the more they want a complete solution prepared ahead of time. It may also matter what department you call into. If you haven't already, maybe try mixing it up... if you're trying to enter through IT, try a LOB unit. Or vice versa.

They vary from large to medium sized within the industry but I guess they are still fairly large and resourceful from an outsider's perspective. Yes, I've been trying to avoid IT and focus more on business benefits rather than a technology implementation.

Also, have you read Crossing The Chasm? If not, you might find it worthwhile.
More food for thought, if you're not already familiar with the material:

Thanks for the recommendations on the reads. I did read Mark Suster's post and am considering maybe shifting focus on deers.
Yeah, that was more the issue. Implementing them with just one technology would have been fine had more thought gone into that decision.
Full time? I haven't heard that anywhere.
I've managed to find one case, the net-snmp package uses MSG_PEEK in the SMUX subagent system, heaven knows why. But since the smux socket is practically always bound to localhost, that is not a problem.

As far as I can tell, a packet from a non-localhost source may be received, but (obviously) the udp_recvmsg does not get called since the system call is not triggered.

Unfortunately, there is a large amount of devices such as home routers, televisions, phones, etc, that are completely impossible to update. So, being aware of cases of software that actually use MSG_PEEK might be useful.