skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is absolutely 'growth' without consuming resources. Economic growth also includes improvements in efficiency, which typically reduce the amount of physical resources used.
Also, look at the transition in our lives from physical media to digital media. Digital channels have brought massive growth while reducing the need for paper, CDs, DVDs, etc.
This article was ridiculous. Comparing humans to heroin might be forgiven if the analogy provided any insight at all, but it didn't.
Nanopore sequencing is definitely "already here" in the sense that they're selling a lot of flow cells and people are doing useful research with ONT instruments but it's also a niche technology compared with Illumina.
It will probably be a no for me as well. I read “on the shoulders of giants”[1] a few years ago and despite it being for a less super educated audience I was head scratching a few times.

I just finished “astrophysics for people in a hurry“[2]. It was an awesome quick read.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Shoulders-Giants-Nicolaus-Copernicus/...

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Astrophysics-People-Hurry-deGrasse-Ty...
A workplace that promotes characterizing people as losers sounds like an awful, awful place to work.
Makes sense. To me it just seems they act as if inflation was low but in reality they are creating huge asset inflation with the low interest policy.
"the tribe can fully sustain itself"

That's called a subsistence economy. It has downsides, such as very high rates of violence and other preventable deaths (like death during childbirth).

One could imagine trying to solve these problems, but all the solutions sound more like dystopia rather than utopia.

In any case, there is a fair amount of unsettled land. You can probably buy some or even squat, and try to make your own tribe.
TLDR: "A-players hire A-players; B-players hire C-players"

Beyond that, the article doesn't offer much and doesn't even explore the possibility to deal with the "lazy problem employee" in any other (humane) way than to get rid of them.
Not stupid at all.

If you're interested in that, I'd look up "Whole Genome Duplications". For instance, corn underwent a WGD about 7 million years ago (IIRC, the number might be off), and we can identify an 'a' and 'b' genome. After these events, most of the duplicated genes will be lost, either through purging selection or drift. However, some will stick around and take on new subset functions (see nkrumm reply).

If you really want to get into the weeds on this, there are many metrics that could, in theory, affect the 'evolvability' of a genome. Higher transposon (or any sort of repetitive element) content can lead to large-scale shuffling of genome structure, such as inversions, duplications, etc. The ecological success of the grass family, for instance, may have it's roots in genome structure.

Now, there's not a whole lot we can say about this because it's not something we have a really good grasp of. It's mostly some hypotheses that are quite difficult to test, but this is some of the most interesting genomic research going on, in my opinion.

All of this is quite difficult to understand, however, as it really depends on epigenetic mechanisms like chromatin state, dicers, RISC, and all that. Figure that out, and you'll realize there's no 'junk' DNA, just various non-coding sequence that's part of this larger-scale genome evolution.
Ah I stand corrected, thanks. So I guess it's performing the last valid action.
"According to Peter Grey, Second Life developer Linden Lab’s senior director of global communications, Second Life’s monthly active user count today totals “between 800,000 and 900,000.”"

I find this pretty surprising. I wonder who they are. I never got the appeal of Second Life but if this is accurate then it clearly appeals to a group of people.
They've been doing serious journalism for a few years now. They use their clickbait nonsense to fund it. Here's a short article I wrote about it earlier this year: https://medium.com/@wwmeredith/10-reasons-not-to-write-off-b...

I don't write regularly, but I've had this conversation with so many of my friends and colleagues that I decided to put it down somewhere.

The basic gist is that the old newspapers funded deep investigative journalism with want ads, funny papers, sports pages, and the weather. They can't do that anymore, but Buzzfeed is finding a way. It's fascinating.
is this really the bottleneck for writing good code though? How quickly you can type?
One man's freedom is another man's slavery. If having private property and, by extension, state borders is an infringement on freedom then I think we have larger ideals to collide than this small one we started with.
Mutation rates are high enough that we should expect at least a few every division. There are supposedly n~6e9 base pairs[1] and mutation rate is said to be p~1e-8 per bp per division[2].

Assuming each mutation is independent, etc, etc we get a back of the napkin via the binomial distribution with mean = n*p ~ 60 mutations per division.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_genome

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutation_rate
Thanks for questions and feedback! Free trial 14 days and then $19/mo (this info is in the header, but I agree not perfectly visible).
Our goal is to offer a super simple storefront for selling tickets for a small event or having few products or just one product.
At Middle we connect everything at sign up level, so after you sign up, you are all ready to sell without needing to look for additional info.
Since Cambridge can't figure out file distribution, I've created a torrent for this:

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:e440904440e9b45def54d83037b522edaace226b&dn=PR-PHD-05437%5FCUDL2017-reduced.pdf&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fpublic.popcorn-tracker.org%3A6969%2Fannounce

Please be nice and continue seeding.
Indeed, and the shock value is necessary given the low quality anti West garbage emanating from the Russia * * camp.

My assertion is that HN has been overtaken by intelligent / unethical / ostensibly respectful trolls. I know a thing or two about this; such behavior used to occur only on Reddit. Why does Snowden exist as a public figure? I have evidence. No I’m not sharing it now.

Topic remains valid. Humanity can’t even agree on what kinds of privacy and for whom are best for society. Conversation hasn’t even occurred yet.

Witness how my comment was cleaned up to be respectful, leaving only the relevant parts, only to end up downvoted into the ether. It would be nice if a moderator could unflag my original comment since it’s relevant, as another commenter pointed out.
"He added: 'Anyone, anywhere in the world should have free, unhindered access to not just my research, but to the research of every great and enquiring mind across the spectrum of human understanding'."

I wonder when academics and public pressure will create a real change in how academic papers are distributed.

edit: I mean, isn't this comment the easiest achievable Utopia (oxymoron, I know) ever?
Imagine an economy in perfect stasis, no growth, no shrinkage, just the same stuff year after year. Now introduce some efficiency improvement, like shaving some weight from a car design, or a computer chip that performs the same computation for less power, or an agricultural technique which requires less land for the same yield. Voilà, growth without consuming additional physical resources.

Of course, this is not our main source of growth at the moment. But surely it could be?
I think I clicked through to the comments because I was wondering exactly this. Thanks for the rec.
This is feminism. This belongs somewhere else, not here.
Pravega – Stream as a New Distributed Storage Primitive
Ah, the quixotic quest to square the circle, or in this case, design a language in which you can describe everything and yet everything is succinct.
100% correct. Even with fully patched software/OS/hardware/drivers/firmware we are regularly 'surprised' by a number of 0-day vulns that has been around for 1-2-5-10 years and 'suddenly' we discover it/them.

Putting my tinfoil hat on, I'd say that they got a new-improved way to get in, and they patch the old one because now the 'others' got whiff of this (e.g. shadowbrokers) and are about to start abusing it themselves :)
The "loser" in this post is somewhat of a straw man. How can one tell the difference between an incompetent/ineffective employee and one that might be undergoing home life stresses (my family had 2 deaths and another near-death this year, and it was not excellent for my productivity), or perhaps they are not completely motivated for their job. In the case of the latter, couldn't one argue that it's actually the manager's responsibility?

Real world examples with anecdotes or statistics - rather than a somewhat clumsy metaphor for heroin addiction- would have made the argument more convincing.
Based on this it's nationwide: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CSUSHPINSA
Looks cool although the first paper I tried it on other than the examples didn't work :( Looking forward to seeing this improve!
We can't, but this is just playing with the definition of conscious. To be more precise, the only thing we can be sure of is the phenomenon of consciousness. The true cause of it will always be a mystery.
Going to be fun getting around those 120 story towers given the rest of San Francisco’s infrastructure including mass transit. There’s always the cable car I guess. But it shouldn’t take more than a few decades to expand that further as well.
I really do wish sometimes that there were a downvote button for articles. This one is not so egregiously offensive that it deserves a "flag", but the quality is poor and brings nothing new to the table. And the metaphor sucks.
SRC Labs was started by Seymour Cray just before he died and they have started transferring patents to a Native American tribe to avoid review by the patent office's review board.

That kind of behavior really hurts the Cray name in my eyes. Microsoft should find a better partner.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-allergan-patents/tech-ent...
Lol what a dork. Flippant comment aside, I can see this guy sitting in the shower trying to divine a relevant metaphor for such a dumb opinion - and coming up with the least relevant but most offensive option. That combined with the confidence to sit down and write that out takes talent.
I have thought about this before from a security point of view but the hassle of setting up and running my multiple databases wasn’t worth it.

I assume you have a database that is shared, would that not become the bottleneck in latency?
Right, and maybe the best way to describe it is if your business borrows at 5%, it has to earn more than 5% on that borrowed money. It has little to do with growth, and everything to do with profit margin.

For example, lets say you want to start a business is investing in bonds. You work for wall street and are great at picking high yield bonds that aren't as risky as they look. You average a 7% return over time, which includes losses on your mistakes. But you have no money to invest to start the business, so you approach a bank and show them your long term results. The bank sees you as a good risk and offers to loan you $10M at 5% a year, so you can gross $700k a year, pay the bank $500k, and net $200k.

But if the bank ever raises your rate to 7%, you are then out of business.
> Sure, but in that case you're not gaining anything from using ANSI C, and might as well stick with whatever the code is written in, or just keep the binaries and run them on an emulator.

Not being able to compile and run your code, with few or no minor changes, is an edge case. I frequently run unchanged or minimally changed code from before ANSI C. Sure, if you are definitely going to need a simulator to understand the code, you might as well just use all the original infrastructure; but if you'd like to run it in the interim, C is nice, and sticking to a restricted subset means you'll have fewer things to change if you want to adapt it to a new system.
Yes, I relocated to the Ann Arbor area. There is actually a fair amount of tech here both in Ann Arbor, in Detroit, and in Novi and similar surrounding suburbs of Detroit.

I work remote for a SF Bay Area startup though so I haven't explored local employment options too much. There is a big consulting company however the area they cover is large so you could end up on a project that has you doing a 1.5 hour commute (one way) for 6-18 months.

The research triangle area is attractive to me too. I just haven't had the time to make a trip there to get a feel for it. The housing is slightly more affordable than Ann Arbor although it's pretty close (light years better than Bay Area of course).
French Canada as well, and probably other members of the francophonie.
I would love to know of an encrypted cloud based document editor. Something like googledocs but with privacy. Does anyone know of something like this?
The whole point is that computers can't use injuries as a data point. This strategy won't work in any sport that can have the injury factor calculated by a computer.
Because 1 defines the lowest value you want to see. 20 bit is the minimum number of bits you need (in linear light) if you don't want noise in the darkest parts of your image
"willing to force Google to give up data"
first they issued a gag order, and then they came for the gold

"use operational vulnerabilities" am I the only one who strongly believes that Micro$oft is in bed with every 3-leter-agency in haning out backdoors/vulns for the last 20 years?
Are you implying that communism is the way forward? I think a lot of murdered people would like to have a word with you, but that wasn't real communism right?

If not, please explain your "way forward" that solves the problems that capitalism doesn't while still retaining the same incentives that appeal to basic human psychology. I'm sincerely interested.
Thanks!

And yes, I'll be dropping "junk DNA" from my vocabulary immediately. I knew some non-coding regions had been found to have uses, but this thread taught me just how extensively relevant it is!
Unfortunately it's failing on first things I tried with a not-so-helpful error message:

https://www.arxiv-vanity.com/papers/1608.04012/

https://www.arxiv-vanity.com/papers/0903.3065/

Also a lot of MathJax failures (maybe Latex variables names?)
https://www.arxiv-vanity.com/papers/1709.09439/
Is it implemented in itself? :-)
Singapore to Stop Adding Cars in February 2018
Too bad there's still no way to measure how anti-matter couples to gravitons. I know it sounds a little specious, but if anti-matter also had anti-matter it might help explain the asymmetry.
> Penrose sums up this connection beautifully in his opus "The Road to Reality": “The laws of physics produce complex systems, and these complex systems lead to consciousness, which then produces mathematics, which can then encode in a succinct and inspiring way the very underlying laws of physics that gave rise to it.”

This circular thinking breaks down at "mathematics can encode in a succinct and inspiring way the laws of physics". The laws of physics are partitioned into at least three different sub-theories, none of which have been successfully encoded with another sub-theory using mathematics, i.e. General Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, and the laws arising from the directedness of Time. (That last one could include the Theory of Consciousness if entropy causes brain memories, and memories cause consciousness.)

Perhaps because physics produces consciousness, and consciousness produces mathematics, mathematics can never describe a united theory of physics.
I've commented several times -- it shouldn't be too hard to find -- and I'm trying not to waste any more time on this.

The better question is: why has the Linux Foundation been silent about it?

If this were true -- "a decade of wasted cores", with losses of "13-24% for typical Linux workloads" (for a decade, as the title suggests) -- then companies like Netflix would have lost many millions due to our choice of Linux, and due to the Linux scheduling maintainers and community failing to identify such egregious problems. The industry as a whole -- including every device and server that runs Linux -- would have lost many BILLIONS. It would be one of the most costly failures in technology EVER.

And the Linux Foundation is silent about this? Seriously?
Ha, exactly why I stopped using a db after v1, it's been flat cached json files since then
APFS file clones: Fraternal Twins
So TLDR "X can easily become Y, you just have to fulfil 2 impossible conditions A and B"
> How many clients do you have outside of the various intermediaries?

Most of our engagements were between 6-12 months long, so we don't have tons of past clients to begin with. Of those we worked with, most can't afford us anymore. That's why we switched to exclusive platforms in the first place.

> I also am not sure of the ethical/legal implications of asking your current clients through various platforms to act as references and/or refer work directly to their colleagues without the intermediary involved, even if they can not themselves cut out the middleman.

It's against the contract and kind of douchey. Moreover, I've only worked with one client on the intermediary platform, it was almost a year long contract.

I honestly think that cold, hard selling is the best option right now. Once we get the next client, we can look into the future and start increasing our presence and nurturing our network.

The success of these exclusive platforms proves that there are thousands of companies and entrepreneurs that are willing to pay high rates for high-skilled remote professionals.

I'm relatively certain that we can sell ourselves, but our biggest challenge right now is indentifying companies that are willing to buy.
10^15?
Moes owns its building. Black Oak Books didn’t.

If Prop 13 wreaks havoc on housing, it’s much worse on commercial RE where it literally it spawns a class of rent seekers.
I maintain the Fingerprint stack on Google Nexus/Pixel devices.

> your fingerprints don't leave the device and are implemented by a piece of hardware in such a way that even Apple doesn't have access to them.

This is true for Google, too.

> Compare that to the Android implementations which have fingerprints in the filesystem.

They're not stored in plaintext. They're encrypted with keys that remain in hardware. You can never read the keys, only encrypt files with them, from applications running in a separate physical address space, accessible only through the hypervisor.

This may not be as elegant as doing matching on the sensor, but keep in mind we have to play within the constraints of 2 difference vendors (SoC, Fingerprint Sensor).

Implying that Android is somehow less secure in the case of fingerprint is disingenuous.
uh, yet again one of those blog posts that offer simple solutions for simple problems. As if life was so simple.

In a workplace situation, you'll realize, that sometimes "looser" person is just a looser in the mind of that one manager, and the person that holds together the CI infrastructure of the team, putting in countless hours integrating changes from colleagues (because the rock stars cannot be bothered to do that). Or that grumpy looser is in fact the only one with the guts to speak up. Or, the tasks assigned to that person do not match their expertise.

I have often heard people recount stories about how a transfer from one manager to another manager in the company turned their situation upside down.
There are somatic mutations (vs. germ line, which would be inherited).

Somatic mutations are just errors in genome duplication in somatic cell lines - i.e. not germ line. These accumulate over time and, yes, can be oncogenic. Many others simply have no consequence at all.

For many organisms, the germ line is 'sequestered' fairly early in development, in part to limit the number of replications needed, and thus errors that accumulate.
I've seen losers in management too. Usually they're too wound up in spinning their own positives to upper management than actually managing people.
Funding Open Source: How Webpack Reached $400k+/year
Any topic of any political import at all tends to get mired in huge back-and-forths, you get editors who insist on editing Japanese translations when they themselves don't speak Japanese, and there are other similar infelicities.
Show HN: Created product in 2 hours and made $90 so far
I have a cold so I can't surf or go out today so decided to come with an idea, make it and ship something in 2 hours.

I am happy that after 1 hour of launching I already made $90.

The site is http://thebitcoinhat.com

I created it with carrd.co (no coding), shipping with printfull.com and live tweeted all the creation from idea to launch and is going viral (at least for me).

you can read here all the story since the idea to shipping it, to the screenshot of sales (and will live update more sales)
https://twitter.com/surfcoderepeat/status/922500909124505600

Don't expect you to buy, actually on the about I put how I create the hats and how much I earn...

I created this to get more comfortable with shipping silly/crazy ideas fast and be comfortable with embarrassing myself...the crazy thing of the internet is that I made some money too.
Relocated from Bay area to NYC 7 years back - Back then, options were limited primarily to the financial sector. Right now, options are getting better , but still much lesser than the bay area

- You can find dev centers for most of the big companies such as Google/FB/Twitter etc. but their sizes and requirements are much lesser than Bay area. They are mostly satellite offices, and operate as such.

- You can find quite a few startups, but again they are not as many as Bay area and not as established as well.

- Of course there is the financial sector, which has lots of jobs - but expect a big culture difference, its highly competitive and cutthroat.

Housing:
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I am not aware of how expensive Bay area housing is - but you can find pretty good houses an hour from NYC at < 500-600K, which is pretty good.
Same is true of rent - If you are willing to commute 45-75 minutes, you can find lots of good affordable options.
Public transport is better than Bay area, that makes commute easier.

Last but not the least, NYC has a unique global feel which is unparalleled :)
Nov 10  CHM: Live Xerox Alto demo with original PARC development team
Any info on graphql support? I know postman and others don’t, would be nice to have a single tool.
Sounds like it would have benefited the large state actors to have less secured messaging tools around...
Do you fly for business or otherwise fly a bunch? I 0-3 times a year, typically for vacation, and I am extremely price sensitive. I'd gladly spend 5 minutes on the airline's website to save $20.
You might be surprised about that.

To use a blunted instrument as a descriptor, you cause an accident and it results in complete stoppage of traffic.

However, much smaller things can actually impact the flow of traffic in a significant manner. Brake late and hard and you can watch the ripple effect for many cars behind you. It can actually cause a ripple that goes back for miles and has effects lasting for much longer than you might think - on the order of minutes to as long as a half hour in extreme situations.

All that from just braking late and hard under the right circumstances...

If you want to improve the flow of traffic, as a single individual, leave space between you and the car in front of you, allow people to merge, and strive to maintain a constant speed. You may actually reach your destination faster, though it isn't intuitive.

Edited to add: I modeled traffic. That is what my business did. I started with vehicular traffic and would later expand to model pedestrian traffic. Traffic is a fascinating subject that is chaotic in nature.