skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an eZ80: a 24 bit processor backwards compatible with the Z80, which can address 16 megabytes of external memory. It's called "8 bit" due to the data bus width, but the programming model is 24 bits. It has 24 bit registers and can load, store and operate on 24 bit quantities. It runs at 50 Mhz and is pipelined, so that in Z80 mode, it runs 3X faster than the original Z80 at the same clock rate.

I think that a decent Lisp implementation is possible on this machine, with useful embedded applications.
Recent but great talk posted here, What Bodies Think About: Bioelectric Computation Outside the Nervous System [1] by Prof. Michael Levin. He talks about how long term low energy electrical networks between all cells in living organisms shape how the organism grows. I think what he talks about will be the future of medicine as it allows for an amazing degree of high level control over how animals grow.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjD1aLm4Thg
It is more like a low-level, holographic language. We have to figure a higher level one, which defines all the properties and create a compiler into DNA sequences. Most likely it will change quite a bit in the resulting sequence.
Please don't rewrite titles, especially to make them more baity. This is in the site guidelines: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."

Titles are by far the strongest influence on discussion, so this rule is much more important than it seems.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

(Submitted title was "Python 3 Is Now 10 Years Old Was It Worth It?".)
UK: Special forces storm ship hijacked by illegal alien invaders off Kent
Selective breeding is the poor man’s genetic engineering.
That is logic, even if we cannot fully comprehend the system yet.
Without having the (IMO) chief reference link in the article - http://www.criticalthink.info/Phil1301/Wave3lec.htm - I think it's easy to misread this one.

What's going on is not just in-groups operating towards local betterment. It's a disintegration of national consensus from the decline of mass (industrial) media. Democracy can't work without at least a rough consensus on what the truth is. The filter bubbles we increasingly inhabit lack conflict resolution and the bubbles drift further apart. We end up with factionalism, leading to balkanization, and unless we find a way to resolve the underlying tension, we're on the way to violence, IMO.
This paper is talking about horizontal gene transfer between bacteria of the gut and bacteria we consume.
What's the agenda behind the spate of gene editing alarmism lately?

The article cites the July Nature Biotechnology article about unintended consequences of CRISPR-Cas9 but subsequent work has eliminated many such consequences using slightly different techniques. No word of that fact in this article.

If consequences of genetic engineering are poorly understood, then this isn't reason to worry about reckless research. It's reason to rapidly accelerate the research, and remove as many barriers as possible, so that we can reach understanding and controllability quickly, while obviously taking precautions before products of such engineering are widely available.

The fact is that the majority of this work is happening in China, where no one cares what the moral mavens of the WSJ and the NYT think. I don't understand why such sources continually call for barriers to be put in the way of genetic engineering research.
It would certainly be interesting to have supported the White army (including landing troops) and then fund the reds. I don’t believe this happened but that whole time period is incredibly complex and every time I think I understand part of it, it turns out I don’t.
Call it that if you want to, but I’d be rather unhappy if that was how machine code worked.
Here's a huge thread on Reddit trying to figure out which mystery industry is the largest buyer of glitter: https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/a8hrk0...

No conclusive results yet, but I believe Reddit will deliver.
Nope. And I’m not joking here, this is:

1. Give free tools to people
2. Drive adoptions of tools
3. ??? (Data-driven pivot)
4. Profit
“Pub talk” is a thing, and “can’t discern from overengineered pub talk” makes sense.

“Can’t discern from overengineered public talk” is plausible, but it would be very unusual to phrase it that way.

It’s not really clear that he meant "public."
From the talk he appears everything but anti-EU. If you carefully listen to him, what he aims at is a federal-EU. He also justify the collapse of high-balance-deficit countries with the fact everyone is in the Eurozone. Therefore fuelling the borrow of capital that won’t be repaid, until bankruptcy.
This is because America is the wealthiest and fastest-growing economic nation in the history of the world. It has the right combination of laws, institutions, freedoms, infrastructure, and people, to create a new life.

There's a reason it's by far the top destination for immigrants around the world.
64.5 is 99.2% of 65. If a watch screen advertised itself as 4", but was actually 3.968", I'm sure that would also be considered rounding.
i tried for 3 years to create an emr. we had some success (its being used in the real world) but not enough to be sustainable against the monoliths like epic

my 0.02 on why they arw so bad:

1. the number one goal of emr software is not quality of care. its not user experience. its suppprt and integration for billing. ie, they are accounting systems

2. this partly follows from the fact that emrs are not purchased and implemented by the same people who actually use them. a government mandate and high level health execs make the decision and their priority is the bottom line, in terms of $$$.

3. its not an encouraging field to get into. there is lot of regulation and standards to deal with and not much money to go around to pay for it
To other people not getting what free solo is, it means climbing a cliff without ropes.
There are two classes of drones. The ones which need C&C link from their pilot and the ones which fly autonomously. With the ones requiring C&C link the best bet of the authorities is to triangulate the transmitter and/or disrupt the link.

The ones which fly autonomously are more complicated. And the thread you were responding to was talking about this case. There are no commercially available drones which can fly autonomously by on-board visual navigation. The ones you linked can send a camera image back to the operator, but can't fly themselves based on that image.
> a quicker to market half assed product

That's not the alternative at all. If companies have insufficient incentive to do certain kinds of R&D, they just won't do it. Entire categories of products wouldn't exist. Do you think any part of the computer you typed that on would be as nice - or exist at all - if the people who invented better screens and batteries and storage media hadn't expected to gain first/most from the basic physics and chemistry and process engineering involved? No, there would have been zero product iteration cycles without the basic innovations on which those depend.
Really enjoying jupytext. I do a bunch of my training from Jupyter and it has made my workflow better.
Your comment reminds me of this comic [0].

http://dresdencodak.com/2009/09/22/caveman-science-fiction/
Alexa is optional and Facebook has their own voice recognition for Portal features, You can use the wake word “Hey Portal” for a limited set of portal commands mostly around calling and messaging, or “Alexa” for all the Alexa capabilities. When using Alexa functionality Facebook isn’t suppose to “listen” at all. (Though not sure if these queries still flow through their servers or not?)

https://portal.facebook.com/help/2149102838698668/
DJI drones are very geofenced. To the point where if you try to fly them inside an enclosure near an airport at an officially-sanctioned event like EAA Airventure, you won't be able to.

But many others are not. Drones without GPS for example cannot be geofenced.
Like I said elsewhere: these kinds of schemes don't really "work". The best that happens is you get away with it for a while until you accidentally do it to someone with resources.

Are you carefully vetting every single entity whose content you show this pop-up on (regardless of what description you choose to use to spin what it is) to make sure none of them have trademarks that could be enforced against you? Because if any of them do, game over. You can hem and haw and deflect and pretend to be helping creators as much as you like, but you don't have the legal right to appropriate someone else's mark to raise money.

And if you are vetting to make sure you don't pop up on anyone who has a trademark, what if that comes out in discovery when someone goes after you, and suddenly you get to answer questions about whether Brave knew that what they were doing might not be legal (as evidenced by the care they took around trademarks), did it anyway, and now it's really over.

And like I said elsewhere: when the shit hits the fan, what's your personal plan for Brave deciding that all your "helpful" comments here weren't authorized and were in fact misrepresenting them, which led to the terrible misunderstandings that provoked the legal action?

I'm trying my best to help you see the ways this can go badly. I'm also very sincere in my advice of "lawyer up". I'm not your attorney and this isn't legal advice, but I think you should have both an attorney and legal advice.

The folks who've run this scheme in the past were mostly small-time, and the worst that happened was they were forced to stop or retool because they weren't worth the effort of going after properly. Brave has attracted enough attention and money to be a lucrative target for someone to eventually turn into a smoking hole in the ground. Please, for your sake, fix this or get out of it ASAP.
Sure, but the context was whether StarControl was already an instance of a game where other content creation had to compete for resources with spoken dialogue. It wasn't.
Maybe you've heard of Quebec?
I honestly couldn't speak to differences between the two services. I used Slack for one semi-professional community in particular a few years ago, but have since used exclusively Discord, due to its ubiquity. I do recall that I immediately preferred Discord's UX, but I can't remember anything that impressed me in particular.

As for anecdata, I have yet to stumble upon any active community still using Slack in the last couple years, but I am aware of several Slack groups that cater to industry-specific demographics, though since they require membership in their particular industries I cannot speak to how active they are or whether they've since changed platforms.
Isn't London City the only airport actually in London? See e.g. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/news/heathrow-and-gatwick...

Heathrow and Gatwick are about the same distance from London City Airport.
Thanks for the info. That was a good read. It was maybe a little more than I suspected, but I still think a lot of different countries had people from the US spying on them. I guess the communists in the US were true believers, instead of just economic agents. A lot of people were discovered by https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Bentley it looks like.
I must say, that "a" looks good given the number of control points.
Why don't you share some with the employees?
The Bretton Woods system was a predecessor of the Eurozone (Fixed exchange rate currency). Saying, that in order to have a healthy common monetary union you need to have a federal union first. Otherwise things crashes, as happened to bretton woods and as it’s happening on the eurozone
Either we are talking past each other or you are confused. A solution to the decision version of the TSP can certainly be verified in polynomial time.
The overall generalization lately appears to be that complex traits are encoded in all genes, such that each gene makes a linear contribution to the trait (the "omnigenic" model).

https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(17)30629-3
https://www.quantamagazine.org/omnigenic-model-suggests-that...

For such a system to work, there must be great robustness in the way that traits are encoded. The omnigenic model implies graceful degradation, as also observed in neural networks. Only vanishingly rarely is a single neuron/gene critical.
This is definitely the most hilarious one, James is a genius.
I imagine it's because this is a web jupyter book or something. It's definitely extremely slow loading the page on mobile even after downloading the assets, so it's probably super unoptimized.
Share Buybacks and the Contradictions of “Shareholder Capitalism”
Good points, thanks!

1. This is true, I do feel that such consumption is guided by and influenced by culture more so than just taste buds.

2. I feel there could be a bias towards whichever research leads to the best economic results, and with the current economic system we live in, I feel the most wealth generating outcome will overshadow.

3. I agree, science is non-linear and we can do much more of it these days, the benefits of many parallel efforts will compound.
We (South Africa) are not (yet) bankrupt.

Bell Pottinger cannot be blamed for our problems. The problem is pure and simple that the state is spending too much money on civil servants and inefficient state owned companies.
That assumes it's running factory standard software.
Intentionally confusing genetic modification with cross breeding is one of monsanto’s favorite talking points.

Genetic engineering is more like changing the byte code in your OS hoping to change its functionality. Without having the source code.
Peer to Peer Routing [implementations]
A thing I learned about Python recursion
Manifest contains answer to this question in the section dedicated to hateoas
Half a Century Lasting Japanese Experiment Creates Stunning ‘Crop Circles’
Show HN: Cygnal: drop-in native run-time for Cygwin programs
You have to note that the UK army bought the system without the laser destroying capability, so it is only radio jamming.
I wouldn’t compare it to machine code alone and for it to be considered following under rules that can be broken down fundamentally to appeasing what we define as logic. I think of recursive functions calling other recursive functions with returning variables that effect the whole mess of a system when I read the perverse alterations to the animals in the article.
The military grade tech police used to defeat Gatwick drone culprits
DNA is less formally complex than natural language. Natural language is somewhere between context-sensitive and context-free. Valid DNA sequences are fully characterized by {Start codon + {Amino Acid}* + Stop codon}*, a regular language.
Why do you think cross breeding is safer then GM? Nature doesn't "know better", crossbreeding is just easier, and we only keep the results that work. Known-viable mammal hybrids tend to have poor health, with some obvious exceptions like mules.

What you're seeing as "nature knowing what's best" is really just life being able to function with all kinds of random genes all over the place, because the core biochemical pathways are close enough.
So in the world you're describing, pretty much all languages are "good," and none are "perfect." Not very interesting so far. What are the adjectives that fall in the middle, the ones that some languages deserve and others don't?
Kay begins at 4:00.
Leonardo DiCaprio raises $100M to fight climate change
This analogy is getting tortured beyond the point of usefulness, because the the other side of this analogy is that cross breeding is mixing files from two different repos together and hoping they still work.
I don't understand. Some rabbits were born with longer than usual tongues as a result of an experiment. So kill them and iterate... What's the problem?
> Cross-breeding allows nature to combine things that fit together in all of the right place

I feel like this is putting too much faith in "natural" methodologies.

Eg, who's to say a cross breeding solution is less dangerous than a GM solution?

If the concern is that it may take 50 years to know the GM is bad, why are we assuming the non-GM is good now? You could say that people have been cross breading for many many generations, but i'm unsure why we'd know that one cross breed being safe means all crossbreeds are safe. I'm not inherently defending GM. I'm attacking the notion that man made tricks like cross breeding are inherently safe.
You Can't Fire Bruce
Two words: typing, mypy [1]

The editor support that I get from typing/mypy is fantastic! It feels like writing in a statically typed language. To me this is by far the most important feature of Python3. It's a godsend for larger/complicated code bases.

[1]: https://github.com/python/mypy
Tangentially related:

The side of doctor's isn't always as positive, as this (rap) video alludes to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xB_tSFJsjsw

I work on medical software as well that is technically a competitor to Epic (though they only run in 3-4 hospitals in my country, whereas we hold +50%).

Medical software has some ways to go - not just for Epic, we share a lot of the same issues. Doctors want to focus on health care and not on the arcane sides of the software they are 'forced' to deal with.

On the other hand, our campus is definitely more 'boring' than the one from Epic it seems :)
I thought the answer was right in the article: Automotive paint. They've got a lot of surface area to cover, and car companies want their vehicles to shine.
Well if you ignore the commission of crimes by government officials charged with that power, it might mostly work. If only because those bad actors will just work for the government.
You are being amazingly toxic without contributing meaningfully to this conversation, ryanmercer.
How to Be a Programmer: A Short, Comprehensive, and Personal Summary (2002) [pdf]
Traffic steering using GeoDNS and IPv6
Cool, didn't realize these were so cut and dry. Have you considered an Ethics As A Services (EASS) startup?
I mean the founder created JavaScript. Can't expect a lot of good design from him, can we?
> why the EMRs are all terrible.

Because the primary contribution to a patient's health is factors beyond the healthcare provider's control, like the patient's wealth, education and genes, followed by a mix of real and placebo effects in evidence-based medicine.

Generously, if IT is number three, it's just not going to work as much per dollar as say, transferring money directly to the patient (in the form of free healthcare) or R&D funding (in institutions like the NIH).
Was the backwards integration stable? It would be surprising from a mathematical perspective of ODEs.
There’s definitely a consent factor to exercising your free speech rights. For example, you cannot loiter on my sidewalk at 2 AM expressing your free speech rights with a megaphone, since that would constitute harassment or breach of the peace, unless the neighborhood consented to hearing it.

Assault is a crime of violence; I think you’re looking for Battery as the comparison. Lack of consent is indeed one of the elements of Battery.
I believe they're almost certainly referring to Clojure macros
It reads like one of these Nick Land / Yarvin neocreactionary blog posts so my money is on one of them.
You mean like when Mike Turner the CEO of Britain's largest defense company was arrested upon landing in America for arms sales to Saudi-Arabia?

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/...
Glibc: realloc() ncopies 32-bit integer overflow
He was caught using two fake reactions, and he owned up to those. But we can’t say if the others are real or not with any certainty. Personally, I thought the parking garage reaction looked like bad acting as soon as I saw it, so I’m still skeptical.

He also initially claimed the package was placed in Illinois, but he edited the video after people called him out on it.

And he presents the device as something he engineered himself, only briefly mentioning that someone helped him. Another video shows that the other guy, Sean Hodgins, actually built it (find the link in jtokoph's comment below).

So who really knows? It wouldn’t be the first time something on the Internet was staged.
This. I think this makes the most sense. Your earliest hires took a risk as well by turning down big $$$ from Google, etc. to partake in sharing your vision and gave you this opportunity to cash out by building your company to this point.

I'm not sure what the situation looks like, but I've seen startups where the founder(s) have 50-90% of the company and then the first engineer who built the entire tech stack from the ground up has an illiquid ~1-2%. That is pure exploitation.
The ‘Future Book’ is here, but it’s not what we expected
Suggestion: let them sell X% of their vested shares as well.
Ive heard of a company that did this with X=10. You could buy it from them too if investors do not see the value in cashing them out.
A really great idea: put DOIs in your function documentation.

Writing things like:

Implements equation 3.2 of Foo et. al. (2005), doi:10.2.3/baz

has saved me no end of pain in the past.
It's more like editing the raw binary of an executable. It's only more precise if you understand the binary representation and the impact of changes. Otherwise it's incredibly imprecise, as you are just randomly flipping switches.

In the case of genetics, we have a some understanding, but it is fairly limited. There is real potential for unexpected harm, given how much we don't know and the complexity of the code. Of course, we can do some amazing things with the parts we do understand.

Selecting breeding is like using a high level GUI that is decently functional. Like most GUIs, it significantly restricts how you can modify the underlying data. The plus side is that it is harder to put the data in a bad or dangerous state using only the controls offered by the GUI.
Why not take the small windfall and offer to buy a portion of your employees' shares or give them a bonus?
If my memory of this talk is correct, he demonstrated how easy it was to un-geofence a drone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CzURm7OpAA
We were told the evolution do the thing this way exactly, but one error at a time.
This is classic "PR saving face". Referring to yourself as a "nerd" and trying to push a narrative that this entire firm is not actively malicious but rather just playfully incompetent is the epitome of running a front for a scam.
Catchy soundbites != good journalism.
Makes sense and could be it, but somewhere in that reddit thread there's a car paint guy who claims they use pure aluminium particles and not just aluminium painter polymer.
I'm a bit more miffed that he didn't make it very clear he didn't create the device. I enjoyed watching the video of the guy who did, but I only got to watch that video because somebody in the last HN thread recommended it.