skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right. But the clones were made from stumps, not from seed-bearing trees.

And even if you used seeds from “old trees”, there would be no guarantee that the entire genome in the seed originated from “old trees”, or that the relevant genes responsible for “getting old” are expressed to the same extend as in the old tree stumps.

I'm all for genetic diversity, but I think the researchers have a point when they use living cells from provably very, very old trees to establish new trees. Even if you took seeds that were known to have a genome originating from one or two “old trees” there would be significant genetic variation in the seeds, and it would take centuries before we know if a plant from a given seed has what it takes to become as old as its parent(s).
To put it simply, I hand drew the whole thing and then scanned it all in! Took about 2-3 years of (learning) programming, illustration and general R&D.
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Dinner roll bombs, razor-blade hats and cryptography
Was it? How do you know that?

As far as I am aware the only public information on Midori comes from Joe Duffy's blog which didn't discuss why it got cancelled.

Beyond the general issue of the well known managed vs unmanaged wars within MS, it would appear to be the case that Midori sucked up massive investment within MS and had little to show for it in the end - a nearly 10 year effort to build a fully managed OS, but one that focussed entirely on trying to be competitive performance-wise with Windows, rather than providing entirely new functionality and new ideas. So they spent years doing things like hand-optimising libraries to get rid of vtables and ended up with something that wasn't really .NET (it eschewed threading and .NET compatibility), and wasn't Windows, and whose primary strength was "it's written in a managed language" which isn't very interesting to actual users.
The problem is that journalists do not understand the basic concepts of economics. The news is non-rival non-excludable public good like air or sunshine. By its nature news itself can not have a price.

A journalist does not add any value when writes about some other people doing something and this is being public knowledge. Previously this type of information technically differentiated paper they sold. So, people paid for the differentiated paper. Not for the news per se. Internet provided free distribution and there is no more paper to sell. Hence, nothing to pay for.

Exactly the same happened to the music industry when it was selling plastic--CDs--differentiated by music bits on it. When distribution digital become free and people stopped buying CDs the industry collapsed and only Spotify revived it with an innovative business model. And now people pay for easy access, for service, not for the music.

So, for the press, it is only specialized information and analysis are worth paying for. It's unique POV or data that adds value should really have a price. Just news is a loss leader to attract an audience in this equation. Exactly the same like Stratechery, for example, publishes free weekly posts and podcast to get the audience to pay for daily analysis.

When the press, in general, understand basic economic forces, it will be able to be sustainable. Readers do not need a gazillion of bloggers calling themselves journalists that write basically exactly the same news about an event or device that require effectively zero experience except typing. The price for this is exactly zero. This is a marketing expense to attract users for the real thing.

But there are not so many outlets that produce that real thing. Most produce instant junk news that has zero value and think that this should make a living.
very rough calculations:

https://i.imgur.com/SqdzxzF.png

interestingly, while it takes something like 9800m/s delta V to get from earth sea level, at the equator, to LEO, it's more like 3800m/s delta-V required from surface to achieve low orbit of mars.

I think most mars return missions presume the ability to produce fuel locally through something like the sabatier process, and not haul it from earth -> LEO -> mars transfer orbit -> mars surface.
Clickable and non 404: https://agner.org/optimize/
I can navigate quite well, but I need to go to where I must make a choice of path. I have a hard time visualizing the map, or the overview, so to speak. I find that I organize my code much the same way. I build patterns that I recognize and can choose the right way (to modify or use) when I get there. I guess it must be the same for everyone, but at different levels of scale.
Getting stuff into schools and getting them to use it is difficult. There was a push some years ago for Lego Mindstorms kit in schools. That stuff was very cool but mostly went unused - nobody knew how to use it, let alone create lessons around it.

The RPF's work is better in that it's both cheaper and a more joined up plan with both kit and teacher resources. A big part of their work is running courses for teachers but training people takes time. That goal is expectedly still ongoing. The code club stuff they do seems pretty successful too. I have no doubt they will continue what they are doing and I think it's the correct strategy.

There are plenty of other SBCs out there now (in response to RPi) which can embrace the consumer market as you desire. It sounds like you are looking for something that meets everyone's requirements; a product that makes no compromises in features or cost. I wish you luck.
Good point. They previously removed this language from the website, glad they put it back. So yeah, buy an Android One at launch is good advice for the 3 years of security support.

It's still a short window IMHO, and it's bad for the planet to throw working devices after 3 years.
Sounds like gamejournopros from the other side. I wonder how different players will react.
Technology OTT/ Media Streaming in France
Hi, I am interested in OTT/ Media Streaming in France, what is the technology that companies use there to provide their users with the content?

What do they use as a CDN?
What third-party technologies do they use?
Do they have multicast?
Do they use their own servers?
Are they hosting their content or using a public cloud or streaming provider?
What interfaces do they offer and what devices do they connect to?

Any kind of information that you could provide me with would be helpful. Articles, vlogs, blogs, PDF documents, etc.
I am only interested in French OTT/CDN systems.
Thank you.
I'm juggling several books currently:

1. Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach 6th Edition.
2. TCP/IP Illustrated, Vol. 1 2nd Edition.
3. Interconnections: Bridges, Routers, Switches, and Internetworking Protocols 2nd Edition.
4. Engineering a Compiler 2nd Edition.
5. Flex & Bison.
6. Sed & Awk.
7. K & R.
8. The Unix Programming Environment.
9. Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment.
10. Linux Kernel Development.
11. The Go Programming Language.
12. Introduction to Operating Systems Abstractions.

I recently discovered how much easier it is to use markdown for basic note taking, I have been just using html, which is part of the reason I took a break from reading, ha.
What on Mars are you talking about?
That kind of amoral capitulation only works until you want to make a product or service available in both countries.

Then once China convinced the West that Taiwan isn’t a thing, next is Tibet, then Nepal, then the Philippines, and so it goes.
> You don't help bad people do bad things. Period. End of discussion.

How many ties will those companies have to cut then in the US?

Reacting to complex situations with simple solutions will result in unexpected and unintended consequences.
adding to that: A CS degree in Germany takes regularly three years not four. So you save one year. The time you save mostly comes from a faster ramp up in the beginning and less electives in the end compared to the US. Our Master degree programs take usually 2 years and are mostly electives and research.

It's also very easy to work 20hours/week as a "working student", especially at TU Munich, because there is basically no mandatory attendance. More than 20 hours a week is not allowed due to student visa regulations, unless you get a work visa (more difficult without a degree and you need a job offer).

> Is there a shortcut to get an accredited Master's degree without getting a Bachelor's degree?

Some universities in Germany actually allow that with enough work experience and maybe a few courses as additional workload. I don't know more than that it's theoretically possible though.
Show HN: A linter for MySQL
Do the trains actually have comfort or reliability problems, or do people just assume they must? The seats look incredibly thin, but are actually much more comfortable than the ones they replaced IME. Early days saw a lot of train cancellations but that was due to not having enough trained drivers rather than any technical issues.
I'm ambivalent about overselling, but I think your argument is flawed. Consumers can only "vote" for what's on offer, and you cannot individually escape a prisoner's dilemma/race to the bottom scenario without making yourself worse off.
Ya I'd definitely go. I have military experience, flight experience, and I am educated, but definitely not in the top percentages that astronauts are in. Even if there was a 90% chance of death the first few years, I'd 100% go. I'd get on a rocket to Mars now, knowing there's not support structure at the destination, and I'm sure I'd cry and be freaked out, but I would definitely get on that rocket. I hope one day I can.
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Please explain how it looks shady, because I don't understand it.

If I start a blog - completely independent of PyPy - which promotes PyPy and describes the development efforts, and I want to encourage people to support the PyPy project, then I might link to the PyPy donation page, yes?

Yet, because I'm not affiliated with the project, I can't put the blog under pypy.org.

Would my blog also be shady? If so, doesn't that mean that no one should promote donating to a project unless that promotion is done under the project's domain?

You write "Not many read the blog post, then go to Google, search for pypy and then click the link and then donate."

That would be true even if the blog post were hosted under pypy.org. That is, why would anyone donate after reading one blog post?

I would think that more people would donate after they download PyPy, try it out, and see that it's worthwhile enough to fund.

In that case, they've already found out how to get PyPy, so there's no need to "Google, search for pypy" because they've already done that.

Nor is PyPy unusual in this respect. It's hard to find projects which have both a blog and a donate page. Of the 50 so projects I looked at, the following are "shady" according to your definition:

- the PSF blog (hosted on blogspot) links to the python.org page for donations, eg, https://pyfound.blogspot.com/search?q=donate .

- The Thunderbird blog has a posting like https://blog.mozilla.org/thunderbird/2018/08/whats-new-in-th... linking to https://donate.mozilla.org/thunderbird/ while the main Thunderbird page is at https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/

while:

- Orange, with a blog at https://blog.biolab.si/ is a sibling subdomain to the main project site at https://orange.biolab.si/ , making it ... semi-shady? I mean, how are we to know that "biolab.si" is not some sort of large ISP where any of their customers can make a subdomain?

I did find a two places where the "donate" and "blog" pages were hosted on the same domain: http://rssbandit.org/ (which links to a SourceForce page which redirects to PayPal) and http://sagerss.com/ .

To summarize, I don't see why it's shady, your view seems to mean that no one should promote donating to a project except for the project itself, static site generation tools don't seem to be a good fit for blog support, and it doesn't seem like the effort to change to a single domain would have a worthwhile effect on improving the donation rate.
The repository is here: https://github.com/postlight/mercury-parser

If you want to try it out while the API is still accessible, visit https://mercurizer.herokuapp.com/
Detecting exploits of CVE-2019-5736: runc container breakout with Falco
Visa is not reliable? They successfully processed 99.9995% (5 nines) of the last 319 billion transactions. [1] Marketing suggests they're working to get that to 100%. It's also totally verifiable, as it needs to be audited by the various regulators and industry bodies. It's absolutely both of those.

To my knowledge, bitcoin just achieved 4 nines of uptime since the genesis block -- impressive in its own right to be sure.

Bitcoin may not be so verifiable itself, right, after all, the longest chain wins and over 50% of hash power is located in the PRC. I'd say a strongly worded memo from Beijing that a new longest chain needs to appear is a bigger weak point than the worlds largest payment network with 5 nines of reliability over the last few decades suddenly decides to stop working, or that they'd stop scribbling down transaction data and avoid getting audited/fined/shuttered.

That aside Bitcoin's real issue was never on-chain, but off-chain. Tether and Bitfinex aside, to get a real, truthful, accurate accounting of transactions within the bitcoin ecosystem the weak links by a country mile are the tumblers, the exchanges and so on. Their reporting data is, shall we say, far from tip top. Just ask QuadrigaCX.

Old boys network or not, the up and comer needs to be better, not "just different" or "measurably worse."

[1] https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/uptime/visa-s-uk-network...
Do you really want legislators defining what is and what is not a ‘security’ issue?
To be fair, that's only a very small part of his rebuttal, dealing specifically with the period prior to 1970, as well as the fact that GDP estimates for this period "take little if any account of the goods and resources that people may have acquired from their land, from trees, from forests, from rivers and the sea, and in the form of gifts from relatives."

From 1981 onward, I would summarize his argument as being that:

- While some measures have improved, the picture is no where near as good as it is represented.

- Using $1.90 as the baseline to beat is too low for what we would consider as being out of poverty.

- Most economic successes have not been due to neoliberal markets but rather state-led industrial policy, protectionism and regulation.

- Most quality of life improvements have not been due to neoliberal globalization but simple public interventions including free healthcare and education.

- Progress is slowing relative to the resources available to tackle the problem.
I'm not sure there's so much overlap between those 2 groups.

I don't buy 5$ apps and I also don't buy 5$ coffees.

Also I notice that I hardly ever use the apps I test (why do I even have this smartphone?) so the coffee would absolutely bring much more joy than the app, in 90% of the time - and that's from someone who doesn't regularly consume coffee outside of home and office (i.e. relatively cheap)
Yes, I think that Pinker's attitude 'don't mess with liberal capitalism model, it's working miracles' kind of shuts off any possibility of real critics of real problems that we are facing today.
Nitpick:

> ...some of the world’s oldest and largest coast redwoods, some of which were 3,000 years old...
> a nonprofit working to reestablish ancient redwood forests to help combat climate change. Coastal redwoods, which can grow an average 10 feet per year, sequester 250 tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere over their lives, compared to 1 ton for an average tree.

Yes, but over <3000 years, so the comparison doesn't tell anything without knowing the lifespan of an "average tree".

Not that it matters though, the achievement is great, and I hope this helps us return many species that went extinct only because they had the misfortune to exist at the same time as humans.
Nice in theory, but China goes out of it's way to force it's viewpoint on others outside of China and Taiwan (eg political interference in Australia, propaganda distribution in Australia, the whole South China Sea debacle where China actively tries to prevent ships navigating international waters, debt-trap loans to various Pacific and other nations etc etc) . The relationship between Taiwan and China is just one aspect of this, and you better believe there will be some kind of military action taken to defend Taiwan if China decides to go that way, something even more destabilising to the region. So, just 'staying out of it' and silent is not really an optimal option, IMO.
> I think Apple should be forced to carry the app
> I get that Apple shouldn't be forced to carry those apps

This is a confusing stance.
I'd think the problem with bumping the version number if you're remaining compatible is that it signals to the end-user that you're not compatible. i.e. when I start using 2.x the constraints I'll put in my list of libraries is < 3.0 (because otherwise my project could randomly break upon 3.0's release, depending on whether it's compatible or not).
Yet another batch of Amazon affiliate links (tag=sdm50-20)
I'd be curious to hear your characterization of the reactions to MS buying GitHub.

My observation was a bunch of people in places like the HN comments being angry, but no meaningful mass protest, or exodus from GitHub to competitors, etc.
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For servers based in the USA or for crimes such as slavery facilitated by entities from the USA, yes USAmerican moral is the guidance.

It's difficult to keep up segregation in a world growing together. I mean segregation of morals, though quite ironically the ambiguity works swell.
It is indeed a somewhat ridiculous claim, but domestic constitutional restrictions aside, the enactment of the Anti-Secession Law in the PRC in 2005 has made it challenging for the ROC to claim that they are instead an independent country.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Secession_Law
Gorgeous, and works better on my Ipad than my Macbook. Does anyone have any idea why?
Securely running processes that require the entire syscall interface
Ask HN: Why are USB-C cables and adaptors so expensive?
UK prices on Amazon average around £15 for a USB-C to HDMI cable and £25+ for an HDMI and USB-A adaptor.

Given laptops and mobile devices are seemingly converging on USB-C, this feels like a vendor racket (think Phoebus cartel) to artificially increase the prices or is this a licensing tax for USB peripherals & connectors?

For context; I feel an appropriate price for a USB-C to HDMI cable would be ~£5 - £10 given consumer sentiment (me) and what I'd expect with economies of scale.
Ubiquiti makes a consumer version which I've been using in my house for about two years (AmpliFi). It's quite good and what I recommend to non-techie friends.
My kids love it!

"Waah stop the traain there is a station coming up!"
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I don’t know much about this subject so excuse a naive question: why Mars and why not the asteroid belts where I have read that there are raw materials and large amounts of ice? Is it because of negative health effects living in zero gravity and/or problems creating artificial gravity with rotation?
I read the Factfullness book, and I thought it's really poorly argued. I remember my BP was through the roof on the plane when I was reading that. HR is not believable imo. (I work in data, I'm a physicist.)
> so in just one more lifetime they'll be where the world leaders are today.

This is where you are probably wrong and which so often is used in the narrative of "things are getting better". You make an implicit assumption that this development will go on. It probably won't. The reason is climate change.
This shows it's not an apocalypse story, but a story debating the details, with a positive upside that humanity has more capacity than in the past to relieve this poverty too.
What is your proposal for fixing that devices are not updated these days?
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That's not an amb function. That's a builtin type that's inherently amb-y.

You still get credit for solving the basic problem but let's not be misleading.

Also don't forget to call head.
China’s ‘easy’ money days over as venture capital plunges 67.5% in January
Cyanoacrylate rapidly hardens when it contacts moisture, so impurities are of little concern in my opinion, as they will be trapped in the polymerized glue (mixed with some clotted blood).

According to medical literature, people regularly ingest superglue without any issues (mostly children). They even put it in their eyes accidentally (it turns out that it's a bad idea to store your nail glue in the same drawer as your eyedrops, especially with impaired vision) without any damage aside from a few days of discomfort.
That is entirely fallacious reasoning. Your programs could be full of exploitable bugs (and they probably are) yet nobody knows or cares enough to exploit them. OpenSSL had trivial errors unchecked and presumably unexploited for years.
UK will deploy drone squadron after Brexit
But without government-sanctioned apps to track the victims and prevent their escape.
Hmmm, I think there is some subtlety here in terms of the way an empty list is used in Haskell. This paper by Wadler from the 80s (predating monads) discusses the functional lore of the combinator approach to parsing, and it significantly leverages the properties of [] to represent failure. It's a "semipredicate" type of situation, where the return value is either a list or failure; conveniently, the empty list isn't one of the possible success values. So if I understand the Haskell idiom correctly, it's a bit of a hack which is inherent in the heritage of the list monad. (NB there's nothing about raw lists per se that means they form a nondeterministic choice monad—that's a culturally contingent Haskell thing.)

https://rkrishnan.org/files/wadler-1985.pdf
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I was told (just yesterday and only partly in jest) that a data scientist is just a statistician with a Macbook
Eight critical bridges to cross before investing in an app
You're right, at least partially, they did so when in position of power.

But even then, their IBM deal was almost a scam (exagerating of course). They sold something they didn't even have at the time.. high risk gambling mentality. It's a bit similar to roughing competition up.
And non-Japanese. I went, it was magic :)
Can’t Be Evil vs. Don’t Be Evil
How similar are the requirements of ATM and voting systems?
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This isn't a case of keeping a list of abusive states, it's a case of hosting an app which is literally part of the mechanism by which an abusive state abuses people.
Full-ish, yes. But optimising for efficiency always comes at a cost to resilience, and bumping passengers at the last minute has real environmental and wellbeing costs, too.
> Getting BS in anything is a lot of work. Getting STEM degree is a fucking lot work. I had to work 60 – 80 hours a week as a CS senior.

it's a classical YMMV thing. It really depends on the person, the work attitude, personal interest in topics and speed you can pick stuff up. I managed to get my degree with good grades with an average of 10 hours/week and maybe 2-4 weeks of 60-80 hours workload each year.

I also worked part time alongside. I'm not the type to do regular 60-80 hours weeks, so full-time work would definitely not have been my thing, but 10-20 hours of work and 10-20 hours of studying with a few busy weeks of exam preparations or finishing project work, felt very good for me.
iPhone X.
Joe Duffy has made a few mentions to it in his keynotes and some tweets.

At Rustconf he clearly mentions that in spite of having the system running in front of them, WinDev wasn't willing to believe in them.

Which given how WinDev sabotaged Longhorn to reboot .NET ideas into COM and getting COM Runtime reborn as WinRT, I would believe him.