skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To my (very) untrained mind, it does sound like a scifi thriller plot: that is, extremely implausible.

First, the logistics of doing gene modifications for 1000 babies and then leaving them on 1000 doorsteps across the a country like the US without getting caught or anyone catching on seems....challenging.

Second, each baby won't have two children, at least not in any developed country. The birth rate per woman in the US is at like 1.8 and likely to fall further by the time these babies are able to procreate. This is well below the replacement rate, so even if you select the first generation to only be girls, the second generation would only be ~half girls and it'll shrink from there. So if the birth rate falls to 1.5 and remains constant, the second generation would be 1500, but only 750 girls. The next generation would be 1125, but only 562 girls, etc.

Third, even if the birth rate was higher, this would still take forever to have any noticeable effect. Like centuries.

Fourth, how do you ensure that these mutations don't migrate into your country? Especially over that kind of time span.

Fifth, would these mutations even be stable or predictable over time? No idea, not my field, but I'd be curious. Also, it seems like there's a very good chance they'd be detected with future technology and genetic screening.

Finally, this kind of centuries-long quest would compete with a lot of more time-tested ways to destabilize a country. Why not just go to war, use biological weapons, propaganda, economics warfare, cyber warfare, etc, etc? So much easier and you get your results in a decade instead of 300 years.
No one forces you to run windows on this machine.
Cool comment at the end:

I helped take that Proton photo, or one EXACTLY like it, on KH8 mission 4351 (launched 1981-02-28). I was a NCOIC, Satellite Operations, working on the GAMBIT program in SAFSP/OD-4 at Sunnyvale at the time. In those days, NPIC would send us a selection of some of the very best photos taken on each mission after the film was returned and processed. One of the "beauty shots" we received after that mission was identical to this one--a Proton booster, sans payload, being transported by rail at TT. In fact, I think it most likely that the photo I saw is the very same one pictured here. I remember being very excited to see it, as I had never seen the first stage of a Proton vehicle before. And, outside of the intelligence community, no one in the West would see a complete Proton until December 1984, when the Soviet Vega probes were launched.
Amazon targets airports for checkout-free store expansion
Cofounder at CoinGecko here, congrats on the launch!
There are lots of interesting nuggets that you share on the FAQ page which some I do share similar thoughts on.

PS: We also provide free public API for many different data points at https://www.coingecko.com/api
So, do I read this right? Moving to a low-carb diet helps the body recover from a diet, in the sense that TDEE recovers (returns to a closer to pre-diet level) better using a low carb diet when compared to a high-carb diet?
Australia Passes Controversial Encryption Bill Despite Opposition
I don't think that law is common, though; even the European Central Bank was quite critical when it was presented by the Portuguese assembly.
But isn't the biggest customers of these chips are server owners? It's not like these companies/people will program the CPU itself and software support for Intel and AMD is exactly the same (is there anything that gcc can compile on Intel but not on AMD? Maybe one can argue the other way around due to recent security bugs, Spectre et al). So I can't see how this can be a factor.
There are loads of content management systems that follow the same model.

My favourite is Umbraco, which to date is still my favourite editing experience. If you can stomach .NET, it's probably the best choice for an open-source CMS available right now.
I think they are in fact planning to continue with their own station after the non-Russian components of the ISS are deorbited: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_Piloted_Assembly_and_E...
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I'm going to throw up.
The whole reason Microsoft gave up on their own engine is because no one was using it, not even inside the company. Why would Edge suddenly become popular just because of a rendering engine change?
"... this kind of thing is more plausible than reality."

what does that mean?
Stephen Collins satirised this kind of 'science reporting' pretty well - https://www.wired.com/images_blogs/beyond_the_beyond/2009/07...

On a long enough timeline, all popular science magazines eventually decay into motheaten old copies of BBC Focus.
I seriously dislike the fact that an exteremely wide-spread open source project - wordpress.org - is driven by a for-profit company, wordpress.com.

Every major open source project from the Linux kernel to a popular web framework has corporate sponsors that profit from the work done on it. Profit is a powerful motivator.
> What you are suggesting is a browser that just won't let you browse the web

That won't let you browse all of the web, all of the time.

That's a common argument, but Firefox has been there before. When IE ruled the web, droves of people used Firefox and switched temporarily to IE if a site wouldn't work. They partly did so because it had been explained to them how important the Open Web was.
It's like these companies live in a totally separate universe where none of the normal software engineering principles apply any more. The micro services cargo cult permeates everything.
I like to learn new languages and frameworks as much as the next person, but after a long time I have realized how counterproductive it may turn out.

Has anyone used it? Could that person give a brief tl;dr on the comparison with Django and Flask?

I like the way you can just insert the template right in the function as opposed to having to make an HTML file with the basic set up.
Don't ascribe me your ideas please. Did I say anywhere that his critique of regime wasn't true?
For absolute beginners, I'd even prefer something like this:

1. Hit install on Python and accept the defaults.

2. Install a simple text editor with syntax highlighting.

3. Open a file right on your desktop and type two commands in it and press F5 or something to run it.

Anaconda and Jupyter are great tools, but even they add complexity you don't need when teaching absolute beginners how accessible this can be.

Here's Python. It's installed. Tell the computer what you want to do inside a file. You understand text files and how to store them where you want, use your own conventions for that. Shove it in documents or whatever. We'll learn about project management and version control later, when you're writing programs more than 20 lines long.
Helen Schulman's Many Worlds
Having a hard time thinking of stuff that needs to stay in the car. A child car seat is certainly a big one, but that could be equipped in a shared car. What other stuff do these people need?
Xiaomi to Produce the First Smartphone with 48MP Camera
I agree on part of that -- VSCode has a pretty good Node debugger, and you can run it with a listen hook (and therefore set it to run via a npm/yarn package.json script). Similarly, I feel like it's OK for an editor to run a script from the app in an integrated terminal, as long as that script is still accessible from a standard CLI.

Git is complex enough that I don't trust more complex operations (basically anything beyond push, pull, add, and checkout) to be handled by a GUI, but a GUI can make for a great code review tool.
I know this is probably an unpopular opinion, but CRISPR babies were going to happen eventually. Just like the atomic bomb. Not a matter of if, but when.

If we don't villainize the creators of the atomic bomb (Fermi, Oppenheimer) I see no reason why we should villainize this man.
As an American living in the midwest, that map (while _excellent_) simply makes me sad. 60% of our energy comes from gas and coal. 30% comes from nuclear (I'm rounding in both cases). The remaining 10% comes from renewables (mostly hydro). It shows how much further we have to go in getting renewables to generate an actually significant amount of our energy.
The Mindscape podcast touches on a lot of these issues. More recently [0] they had David Chalmers who was quoted in the OP.

[0] https://overcast.fm/+Nvq_vr69w
ThinkPad touchscreens are semi-matte.
The braces make that more difficult, awx and sed can work with YAML more easily, but awk works best on column oriented data, and YAML and JSON are more row oriented.
The hypothesis is worthy of pursuit, in my opinion. The article is not well written, however. If you say matter can't have consciousness then how does your brain have one? Your brain in made of matter.

There are definitively varying degrees of consciousness and self-awareness. I don't think that someone who is an 1. atheist 2. knows that consciousness is made by the brain neurons or some processes; has the same self-awareness as someone who is 1. religious and 2. thinks he has a soul.

Look at living creature. Look at a cell. It is a living thing but it is made by much fewer atoms and molecules than the human body. It is interesting to watch what we consider "dead matter" being alive. They are both matter and atoms at the end of day.

Is a cell trying to survive its environment inside the human body conscious? Is a human trying to survive its environment inside the country/system conscious? Is a country trying to survive its environment inside planet earth conscious?
This is an anti-semitic rewriting of history.

The first Politburo was:

Lenin (his mother's father was jewish. Judaism is transmitted maternally, so neither of Lenin's parents were jewish, and neither was he)

Trotsky: jewish

Stalin: Not jewish. Launched Anti-semitic campaign around '50

Lev Kamelev: Jewish father, orthodox mother -> not jewish (see above)

Nikolay Krestinsky Not jewish

So that's 1/5, or 20%, and you're an anti-semitic troll with no interest in the facts.

You are also ignoring the part where the only Jew in the Politbro was executed rather early, while a member with absolutely no connection to Judaism, namely Stalin, appears to have had a rather, let’s say, “outsized” influence on the later failings of the system you want to nstrumentalize in your anti-Semitic insinuations.

Not to mention that this summation of individual sins and good deeds in an effort to paint their associated groups is the very definition of prejudice. In fact, I now realize I should probably never have bought into that premise?

(also: If you start arguing Lenin's judaism based on his heredity, I will invariably have to violate Godwin's law)
> I think if the Russians had put a man on Mars in the 70s and America hadn't, we would have a different definition of Winning.

Putting a man on Mars would have required a monumental investment, which the USSR couldn't remotely afford.

And if they somehow had found a way to do that, they would have had to quit the arms race, which could very well have been considered a "win" for the US.
> They go slow but steady and focus on interesting stuff.

A trait shared with their social credit apparatus.
Josh Hawley’s war against Big Tech could bring down small startups
Clearly I have failed the communicate what I mean...

There are two different cultures both using the same tools. One believes it controls the tools and gets to set rules for how they are used. The other does not.

Juxtapose, the censorship board for TV in my country, which decided that calling Yugo surplus "genocide canteens" is bad, but reprehensible filth like Fear Factor and Big Brother is OK for prime time. Clearly, opinions do differ and are allowed to differ. - I call into question: Is the case of bioethics vs. business similar?
The Germans had foresaw a strategic need to lob things at a large island with very good air defense systems.

The Americans foresaw a strategic need to carry out amphibious invasions of tropical islands that were great distances apart.

The Germans invested in the technology to lob ballistic missiles.

The Americans invested in the technology to build aircraft carriers and better aircraft.

Considering the state of technology in the 1930s and 1940s they both made the correct decisions for their strategics position.
How to get 10% more leads?
When it comes to servers its even more true as you're buying the platform as well as the CPU, the CPU is important to be sure but the platform features are even more so for running the hardware at scale.

A simple example, for a long time you couldn't PXE boot a server from a 10Gb NIC while using AMD chipsets. So every AMD system needed a 1Gb NIC cabled and maintained just to build the server vs a single 10Gb NIC on an Intel platform. That scales out for hundreds of servers now you need a 1Gb fabric and the associated switches etc just to allow you to build your systems.
Waymo's self-driving trucks get hired to cart limestone around a Norwegian mine
The interpreted language is just the setup phase for a pipeline of compiled-in data transformations.
> You may as well also include the effective interest rate on every VC investment that returns 50x or 100x their investment and say "Woah what a high interest rate. Should have used a credit card." Yeah,

This. The author seems to completely miscomprehend/discount the risk involved for both parties in his calculations.

It's important to remember that the payback is based on profit, not revenue. The author does note this, but a lot of his reasoning around the founders' hypothetical motivations only make sense if you assume the reverse is true.

For example:

> While much shorter than a mortgage, eight years can feel like a long time to owe money, especially in startup land, where 1 year can feel like a decade.

This misses the point because you don't really owe money like a mortgage. With a mortgage if you don't pay it off today, lose your job and can't make future repayments, you could lose your house.

With this SEAL, if you don't pay back the investors today and suddenly can't afford to pay anything next month, there are no negative consequences. You won't be fired, lose your house/additional equity or end up paying back more (eg due to interest).
You should really pay your taxes it not a scam. There really is this thing called the IRS. I was surprised to when I found out about it.
Are you going to provide any sources to back up these claims?
His useful hypersonic flight may be?

With air being so dense and power-dissipating, it might be more economical to do a sub-orbital jump than to push through the atmosphere at 7M. For short-range military applications, iirc, hypersonic rockets exist.
What Emerging Tech Means for the Medical Workforce Infographic
Yeah, I certainly don’t think this is the solution to the situation for artists these days. Just something to scratch a personal itch more than anything but I think it is interesting to think about ways it could expand into other ways of supporting artists (for example, live shows as you mention - I know Spotify does show these itself, but I like the idea of looking at your favourite artists from the last few months all in one place).

But yeah, for those of us who live in areas where artists regularly play, there’s no substitute for going out and having a dance :)
You could be right. I was under the impression that all mainstream parts even the threadripper ones were artificially handicapped.
Asyncio is good but it will not give you true parallelism: asyncio still uses the GIL, on a single thread
Wow, I didn’t know musicbrainz had that kind of info. Will look into that for sure, thanks for the pointer!
Curious why everyone is at the same time so excited about Waymo (me too!), but ignoring others which also deliver working tech. Nobody cared about same news, but with Volvo in title: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18542136
Some points:

* Of course an increase in supply is going to drive the cost of labor (aka salary) down. That's economics 101. But I think it will help the economy overall because of how tight the tech labor market is.

* I am a fan of anything that makes hiring more efficient in any way. In the past year I have been on both sides of the table and it stinks from both perspectives.

* The proof is in the pudding. Yes, ML can identify candidates, but do they get hired? Do they succeed? You have to feed that back into your model to get good results. Otherwise the system is just a more sophisticated keyword matcher. And I didn't see any mention of that loop being closed (at least for the startups mentioned).

* I am not sure I buy the inferences mentioned (if 90% of a company's developers use Java you can assume 100% of them do).
Just to be clear, is your main point about grammar? I'm genuinely unsure.
If you wonder about Franco's bad rep, why don't you actually check it out, instead of challenging people to prove the evil of fascist to you from first principle, and claiming their virtue if they don't.

What is your professed naïveté supposed to accomplish, except to serve as propaganda for a universally abhorred fascist while simultaneously retaining your option to claim ignorance when challenged?
So, you’re saying the world’s second largest economy, soon to be the first, can’t catch up in 10-20 years?

The US only spends $20 billion a year on NASA.
Amazon Holiday Ad Becomes Eerily Dystopian When Music Is Replaced
I know a lot of people dislike PHP and WordPress, but I haven't found _anything_ that comes close to it in terms of sheer extensibility and plugin ecosystem. There's a plugin for pretty much anything you might want to do with a platform. I even moved my personal Jekyll-powered blog to WordPress a few years ago.

My favorite thing about WordPress is that it's a known quantity. There's an easy to follow tutorial teaching you pretty much anything you might want to do with the software. PHP isn't the prettiest language, and WordPress itself feels a bit creaky at times. But it's a practical tool. It does the job, and does it very well.

Since I'm a JavaScript developer, I was optimistic about Ghost becoming a viable alternative to WordPress. Sadly, Ghost's plugin API still doesn't seem to be complete. Without that, it can't replace WordPress for anything besides basic blogging. That seems to be the niche the Ghost developers are interested in, though, so I don't think it's coming anytime soon.

I'm really excited to see this release. Gutenberg is certainly a step in the right direction for the editor, and I'm planning to upgrade all my websites over the next few weeks!
Seriously though, the Go core team has been saying from the start that even they were surprised how big of a positive impact gofmt had. It reduces bikeshedding and makes it easier for people to read each other's code because you learn to read the same basic structure fluently and quickly.

It's a basic IxD lesson about software tooling that I think more languages should pick up on.

Personally, I think I miss gofmt-on-save more than any other feature when I write other languages (gofmt is a lot more robust than autoformatters in most other languages). Being able to type carelessly and quickly and know the output will be corrected as soon as I hit CTRL+S lets me focus on putting my thoughts on the screen. And it even works as a soft-compiler: if the autoformatter breaks it means I have a bug somewhere.
2 Deadly Shootings Send a Chill Through Black Gun Owners
Under three pounds? Not bad! Does the ram go up or is it fixed at 16GB?
Are there factual errors in it? I haven't seen any actual valid criticism of the factual content of the book, just "its antisemitic ban it don't let anyone read it!".
There is no way a space race like the one during the Cold War can appear again. Nonetheless the term space race is often used by the media just because it sounds more dramatic.
Looking at the examples, it seems like one big difference is included schema validation, using type annotations. It also doesn't use the global request object or decorators for routing.
Very light, good keyboard, to be used daily for SSH.

The size is not really a factor, even if larger keyboard are usually more comfortable.

The best keyboard I ever found was on a small Thinkpad many years ago.
Tumblr’s porn ban is an ‘erasure’ of the LGBT community
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They just need to work in pairs; they'll demand your card/phone and PIN, then hold you while they buy something with it. It's well known that criminals use unofficial currencies when they can't use cash.
I've stuck with it and preached it and told people why Google is just going to repeat IE's history with Chrome, and my tech friends still mostly use Chrome.

There is something about A) what everyone else is doing, and B) inertia, that is just too difficult to overcome without some sudden significant change.
Well, now you can take your money out as cash under extreme necessity. In a fully cashless society your entire life savings are just a few bits on a hard disk...
You can land on the moon with 60s technology, what basis is there for not being able to reach that?
Linux is a kernel though, not an operating system. I don’t care at all for the GNU/Linux debate but it is of course important not to take the start of one part as the start of the whole thing.
That's what browser manufacturers want to do, but that only works in the consumer space or small office space. A company isn't going to happy about a browser that by default will self-configure the intranet to be inaccessible. Especially given the way that updates tend to reset settings when the developers think that their preferred configuration is the only right configuration. And sure, they can probably deploy fixed settings that cover their needs, but what happens when you suddenly need multiple profiles with different configurations to handle the different DNS needs at different sites? "It's always DNS," is even a common saying for sysadmins. Now it's going to get more complicated because web browsers will ignore DHCP? Wow, great.

Simply put, I still don't buy the idea that the browser needs a DNS client. The OS network stack can, and should, be the provider of that service.

This is just, "We know what's best for everybody. It's easier to ignore router vendors, DNS server vendors, ISPs, IEEE standards, and so on if we just do it ourselves in spite of the problems it's sure to cause. That other way is hard, anyways. Damn the consequences, we're going to do it anyways!"
>When a public figure you used to support disappoints you in some substantial way, it's best to change your views

Why? Just because an author disappoints you, doesn't mean you need to try to undo your enjoyment of a book they wrote.
I had to fend off calls like this a lot when living with my mom. I estimate most calls made are scams. It is sad the government doesn't care about quality in communications.
EPYC supports up to 8 memory channels where as Threadripper only 4.
Yes, we have representatives to and its a nice theory. But at least in the Swiss experience the population often makes pretty tough choices.

We voted on 6 weeks mandatory vacation and the people voted against it.

The parliament wanted to join the EU in the 1990, the people rejected it.

Also, often you end up putting your faith into parties rather then people and the people are compromised by party policy anyway. That you are voting for free thinking individual is mostly a fantasy.