skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They probably shot the plant's genome with gold buckshot laced with new genes. The plants survived that, they grow in the fields and then migrate like everything else. They are viable. The genes may be able to be pollinated to other plants. Maybe incorporated, but if they can't outgrow weeds better than the non gmo, then it all is on equal footing. The qualities we want in a mono crop may not cross to the wilds.
Spoiler alert: compared to the other seasons, these ones are pretty crap and unengaging.
can't be further from the truth. Bitcoin,Ethereum supporters want decentralisation while FB coin is totally centralised
That's a feature of Find My, and has been for years on iOS. They're bringing it to macOS this year for devices with a T2 chip (the newer MacBooks, basically).
It is worth noting that the ROC’s claims in Mongolia don’t reflect any ambition either from the Taiwanese or the Chinese to seize Mongolia; the ROC simply claims them because it used to a long time ago and for diplomatic reasons is not altering those claims.
"Hey X, mind if I push this quick hotfix to live?"
It’s gonna be different when people leave chrome. The public followed the tech crowd into using chrome in 2008 and the public will similarly follow us out from using chrome in 2018 (yes I haven’t used it in a year and couldn’t be happier)
They don't use gradient decent though. The learning mechanism used by biological neural networks has almost nothing in common with the one used by most artificial neural networks.
This was the general consensous on r/sysadmin when the post made it over there.

If you can destroy a buisness on your first day, or even severly hobble it, you have larger issues than a green dev.
impossible for stable coins. I am awed by the level of ignorance here
Do you think that if you were given a sample of text genereated by one of the two systems you would be able to tell which system generated it?

Looking at two texts side-by-side while knowing which is which may well create an illusion of striking differences, which however are not really there. This is why concrete metrics are necessary- because human judgement is biased and inconsistent.

But, like you say- there are no good metrics. In fact, the only thing we have to go by when discussing Open AI's model in the first place is opinions and convictions. Not least the opinion of OpenAi that their model generates text of unprecedented coherence, which itself is not based on anything else than eyballing.
No, you can just obfuscate it and make it painful to extract to potential reverse engineers.
Yeah, from the creators comment on hackaday:

"But The higher the $$$, the harder it is for people to build one. That’s another allure why I like $150. It’s attainable, and many people already have some parts."

It's this kind of pragmatism that's going to make these affordable tools proliferate and constantly pour cold water over the tech companies Privacy-In-Can™ products and services.
I’ve seen many younger folks who couldn’t code their way out of a paper bag. Both anecdotes useless.
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I remember when I worked in a trade company, one of most unusual things to sell was a maskset from a company that went bust.

Apparently a very common practice in China, companies were selling masksets of their discontinued ICs to companies lower on the ladder for them to manufacture relabelled/repackaged chips.
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Firefox is probably still a legacy mix of XUL, cpp and migrating to rust. I'm pretty sure chrome is easier to adapt.
Once you’re old, you typically don’t get to the negotiating salary stage.
So, let's hunt them to make sure they get back into a more pressing category? Seems like a bad idea.
Sorry if my post comes across as cynical. I didn't mean it that way.
Unfortunately, my friends in the class have annoyingly moralistic views on academic honesty, and the professor made it quite clear what the consequences of doing this would be :(
Honestly I believe people, in general, just don't care about what the read online.

The reality is that either you believe at everything you read online or you understand that the world is so complex that it is too difficult to explain it in few capitols.

The reasonable middle ground of in deep reportages is disappearing because too complex anyway to be discussed with the "general public".

I wonder if it is possible to make people want to subscribe to in-deep articles with advertis, something in the line of: "The informed executive reads Blendle" (or something along the line) so that people who don't read Blendle are automatically considered morons or uniformed.

Is more a marketing stunt but it may be interested.
This is similar to Windows licensing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_10_editions#Comparison...), where "Windows 10 Home" allows you to use 128 GB of RAM, while the various "Pro" versions allows up to 2 TB, and "Enterprise" up to 6 TB.

The limits used to be lower - I seem to remember laughing out loud at a Stack Overflow podcast, where they talked about having to purchase a new Windows license to be able to expand the RAM of a server.
Money can easily move. Money chooses to be there due to wanting to be there, good weather, terrain, politics, etc. There is some due to historical effects, but more people than not consider CA coast weather to be pretty ideal, hence the higher cost of living.
If you are on a legacy project, it's hard to know what to prioritise in terms of improving code. However, getting requests to take somewhere within an order of magnitude of how long people think it should take is usually my guide. I never tell people I'm going to refactor something. I just do it. Then after the fact I say, "Remember when this used to take a week? Now it takes an hour". Once you do that a couple of times, management gets the point (usually). The only problem I've come across is when you get on a team where they actively discourage code churn. On a legacy project, that's death, so it's best to find another job in that case.

I really enjoy working on legacy code. Usually everybody else leaves me alone because nobody wants to touch that code. I get a tonne of freedom. As long as I don't break things (requires a fair amount of experience) I can quietly improve things under the hood -- targeting areas where we get a lot of requests. Legacy code is also great because usually nobody wants new features just for the hell of it. You almost always get real requests from real users that have real pain points. The biggest downside (as you imply) is that it's hard to shine because the best you can do is make things acceptable. It's difficult to hype the legacy project so you don't get a lot of recognition for your work.
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Things like this are more a reflect of a general spirit, and fought as a symbol.
Having a project transfered to you that is "nearly finished"
I love how people are trying to justify the West's practices in asinine ways. The west needs to be criticized, ostracised and banned in the strongest way possible.

West lost its credibility long time ago. They have mismanaged their brand to reap short term benefits. Blah blah blah....
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"the products excluded from the definition of fishery products"

i.e. excluding any snails other than sea snails.
NSA seems to be pretty happy with regulated networks.
And having a full day class on Saturday when a weekday was lost due to bad weather or strikes.
Yes, free supercharging for one. But as Tesla matures and starts entering markets with lower profit margins, things need to be more cost efficient.

I don't think of Tesla being hard on cash, just that they are pouring every $ they have into expansion. They could just slow down and being profitable would be much easier.

Personally I'd slow growth and take out less loans, but they would slow down the transformation of the automobile industry from ICE to electric. It does seem to be working, with the competition continuing to claims "You can't make a competitive electric car", then "you can't make a competitive luxury sedan", then "you can't make a small sedan at a lower price point". Now pretty much the entire industry is chasing Tesla. Sure now there's some competition from Chevy (the bolt), Jaguar (the i-pace), Audi (e-tron), Mercedes, Porsche, and many others. None particularly competitive... yet.

Even if Tesla implodes tomorrow, they have pushed the market to an amazing degree. Personally I'm most impressed with the model 3 performance. Small, fun, fast, tons of storage room, very efficient, and often wins against a BMW M3, not just at 0-60 (a strong point of electric cars), but also on the track.

Electric cars get rid of pretty much all the compromises of a sports sedan. No loss of storage space with the transmission hump that divides the car in two. No increased friction and substantial weight increase for AWD. No huge hood to contain a large engine. No terrible gas mpg. Low center of gravity means no punishing suspension to try to keep the car from rolling in the corners. No loud noises from performance oriented tires, engines, and exhausts. Basically you can get a practical every day driver that matches the best BMW on the track.
I've been following them for as long as they've existed. Their business model with per article payments never made sense to me. And those 100K articles that they sold is a clear indication that this is not working. That's not users but articles sold for something like 25 cents. 25K in revenue in other words. That's nothing and they
ve been citing the same number for years.

60K subscriptions is not nothing but of course not a lot of revenue either; though 600K/month does sound it should be able to sustain a small company and if you can grow that it can actually turn into substantial revenue. Of course, like with Spotify, a lot would flow directly to the publishers.

Blendle has always danced around the one thing they can't deliver which is a subscription service that offers access to all/most relevant news articles currently locked behind paywalls of the few surviving news papers that struggle to make money this way (most of them are failing or just getting by).

The likes of the New York times seem to be doing ok-ish because they are big enough to still be able to produce quality news and have a large number of subscribers. Most of the rest has given up on the notion entirely by either focusing on dwindling paper sales, or ad driven news on web sites, or like the Guardian calling for donations. It's a race to the bottom.

So, I hope they succeed but I'm pessimistic about their chances. This doesn't sound like a winning formula.
I think the confusion is not where the figure 1/5 comes from, but rather why that is the change in profit. It looks like you meant revenue.
One of the biggest challenges we face is the ingrained apathy toward this issue by older generations. How can they care as much as younger generations when it will be unlikely to affect them much in their lifetime?

As much as people may claim to have empathy for others, it's undeniable that their own personal viewpoint and stake has massive influence on mindsets.

Just imagine for a moment how children or teenagers feel about news like this while they see the 'elders' in charge of the world do so little and act with almost no sense of emergency

I'm quite young, in my early 20s, but I still struggle to comprehend how someone age 10 or even 15 must feel.
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Are you sure about that? The impression I got from their summary is that the bluetooth locations are passive.

An aside: what would happen if you wipe macOS and install another base operating system.
No idea. I personally have little tolerance for the amount of resources that Chrome uses, so I stay far away from its derivatives, which I have found to not be meaningful improvements.
Jesus H. Christ. This is flat out jingoism, racism, xenophobia.

> any Chinese company

What?! Any and every? Are you crazy?

> Huawei needs to be criticized, banned, ostracized and condemned in the strongest way possible.

So basically the Salem Witch trials are alive and well again. Glad to know that's where we're at culturally.

On what grounds? I have yet to be shown any tangible proof of their nefarious ways. When I Google proof evidence huawei industrial espionage all I get are articles asking where the proof is at. I'm sure there's a low-level of industrial espionage going on all over the place all the time. What I want is proof that this company is a particularly egregious offender. Basically, all I'm asking for is evidence to support the hysteria.
Sure.

That doesn't invalidate my point though.

Let's not trust that things will go according to plan, or that the people making the plan have the proper agenda.
My university didn't officially track attendance, but lecturers did track it nonetheless. Poor attendance was used as a metric when deciding whether somebody deserves a late submission, resubmission, or aegrotat.
I had the same argument with a friend a few days ago, only it was centered around the brutal and senseless (IMHO) slaughter of pilot whales in Faroe Islands. There is a simple answer why it is much worse from an ethical standpoint to murder an intelligent sea mammal versus killing a cow and it is based on how that organism came to be in the first place. Cow was there as a result of intentional breeding. It was created in the first place by humans/industry to be eaten (we can argue on how brutal that is in itself but let's not be sidetracked by it for now). Sea mammals were there independently of human actions - and if anything we destroy and downgrade their environment and standard of living implicitly with a myriad of ways. So - there you go. It is much more wrong to kill whales than killing cows. And it is extra wrong to do it while nobody really needs to for survival.
In Europe, automated traffic enforcement isn't hidden, it's actually clearly announced by signs. It effectively tells the driver: "if you break the law here, you will certainly be caught by a machine and fined". The goal is to get people to follow the law, not to write more tickets.
> The admin of this app either is not competent enough to know what that email means, or is willfully ignoring it.

Or it's being filtered into their junk folder.

I'm not making excuses for them, btw (there's just so much else wrong here): just pointing out that this happens quite often with even legitimate automated messages.
I agree with you. Of course, an iPhone can surf the web, make calls, take pictures, run the calculator, etc. However, lack of means to install apps without the App Store (besides sideloading), can render any phone pretty much useless.

Android has problems of its own though. Yes, you could install apps easily without access to the Play Store. But most Android apps rely upon Google's Play Services one way or another, so those apps wouldn't work properly, if at all.
I scoured for old photos of it, didn't find many:

1915 http://suitelife.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/736px-Sagrad...

1915 https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5c/La_Sagra...
But it does. Complexity, misdirection, and deniability are the basis for getting away with anything. You keep yourself from being "beyond reasonable doubt" by adding doubt in as many ways in as many places as possible.

It is a problem.
My worst nightmare as a coder was when I discovered my wife had been cheating on me for months,
Mid-level Japanese car engines can go waaay longer than 100k before an engine block rebuild. I had a Mazda 3 over 200k with no major service (A/C died...I left it dead)
I hope this and many other factors contribute for major PWA adoption.
The numbers show the company advancing privacy for consumers is reaping 90%+ of the profits in the business. While it’s not conclusive proof, I would say that the company might know something about what their customers want.
Well, to be fair, statically guaranteed memory safety is a completely separate category from potential memory safety of well-written code. That said, the meaningless calls for Rust at each possible opportunity are a bit unnecessary.
Well, to be more specific, the farmers make more money on the right genetic material.

Hybrids outperform single lines (breeds, etc) on most metrics of interest. And they are homogeneous in growth, size and body composition (animals). Which matters for industrial processing and marketing. And for the price consumers have to pay.

The current agricultural mass production would just not be possible without such hybrid breeding programs. So the OSSI will need to offer seeds from similar breeding programs. There are always lines/breeds which are not hybrid-bred, but the market for that produce is limited.

Higher performance also means less animals tortured, less land and water used to feed the same number of Humans. From a global perspective plant and animal breeding has to become more professional, not less.

As far as I have understood it, the OSSI wants to professionalize the breeding efforts of (non-breeding-company) farmers and small scale breeding companies. Much like many open source projects got professionalized through forming organizations and legal entities.
There's still plenty of opportunity to do things at scale and change or replace major systems entirely.
Many seedless plants can still reproduce by other methods. So having a seedless variety of strawberry for instance would be quite nice.
I've never gotten the impression that a majority of Japanese support whaling. I don't think I've ever met someone who was in favour of it; mostly Japanese seem ambiguous about it, and some against.

Environmentalism is fairly strong in Japan though. Is there so little political opposition to whaling?
Perhaps I’m showing my ignorance, but isn’t elliptic curve cryptography different?
Short summary:

1. At setup, Find My generates private key shared to all your Apple devices.

2. The private key generates a perpetual sequence of public keys. These change (iterates to the next) "frequently".

3. The rotating public key is shared accross all (including other people's) Apple devices via Bluetooth and can even do this when it's off.

4. The shared scheme pings to Apple's central system and uploads A. hashes of the public keys in the area and B. the location.

5. When you try to find a device you send your hashed public key to Apples server and they return the last picked up location (encrypted). (You thus need at least 2 Apple devices, one to find the other. Also, they don't say how the previously iterated public keys are remembered.)
I think this whole argument will be largely solved when meat substitute (tasty protein) is synthesized from non-animal products. I heard of a company that did that quite successfully but I don't know if they will be able to scale all that well. Anyhow - it seems that this is an issue that will be resolved by engineering a solution out of it.

Not sure that's the proper way though. I think that such big scale moral issues are something of a species test (our species). Engineering our way out of the moral argument feels like cheating and actually might backpedal our collective ability to create consensus and solve problems as a society.
Unfortunately, Embedded Gecko is not supported anymore... https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Gecko/Embed...

However, the new Servo engine will be embeddable.
LOL, this is nothing new.
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Using an example of current generation silicon cells, it certainly makes sense not to buy a lot of old technology polycrystalline 72 cell panels with a 300W rating, if you can buy mono si 72 cell 365-370W rated panels instead. There is only so much space on a house roof for a dozen or two dozen, 2.0 x 1.0 meter size panels.

But beyond "top grade 156mm mono cells", such as you can get in a new 360W stc rated panel, there is significantly diminished returns in dollars per watt. Yes you can get sunpower 23% efficient panels but they will literally cost twice as much.
I had to code-review a Django app using Firebase as a DB and swore never again. He did features and promised to do validation and security later by going to their editor and writing Javascript files. Django lets him write valid forms and correct SQL queries in almost same lines of code. Pagination was a pain in current version and present only in a version forever in beta. All the hard work coaching him on exceptions went out of the window.

An Android dev finally enlightened me where Firebase shines: offline sync of mobile to a server by eliminating lots of explicit CRUD calls and error handling.
This one[1] and the likes will prevent vast majority of ads, regardless of which browser you have chosen to use this morning.

[1] https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StevenBlack/hosts/master/h...
For dramatic effect...during the experiment I actually did make a windows text-to-voice recording saying something along the lines of "you are listening to <my street name> pirate radio" between the stoner metal songs I had lined up (I was listening to lots of QOTSA at the time to be honest).
Companies are owned, operated and regulated by Human beings.

I'm not saying "companies" have never done wrong, but I think your attitude is way over the top. And there is no way an agricultural company will benefit by tanking production.

What the OSSI wants to do is to put more power into the hands of farmers, and thus avoid the farmers being squeezed by a near-monopoly of certain breeding companies. It's really about prizes and margins, not about total agricultural output.

Come to think of it, I guess the whole world has to be starving before there is a large-scale food shortage in the US of A.
I on the other hand, don't think China has the extrajudicial reach of the U.S. (yet?) & as an EU citizen I don't trust either the U.S., nor China, but I think my own government would not bow down to Chinese pressure, (i.e. to hand over info about me etc.), as they regularly do to American one, certainly not as easily.

I don't think Kim Dotcom would have a military style raid on his house in NZ done on behalf of the Chinese government.
In mosquitoes this works via genes on the sex-chromosomes, so the female ones are unaffected, while the male ones become sterile.

I don't know enough about plant seeds to transfer that, but I guess it's the same principle.
Inside the protest.

I think that is really a new break as anyone can be pull back to china. Including any foreigner. China has no rule of law. No human rights or at lest right in court.

Back to the protest.
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The first text I wrote (myself), it detected as being written by a machine.
Good quality silicon cell pv panels are typically warranted to produce 83% of their original output after 25 years. Degradation is calculated into long term financial figures for really big photovoltaic systems.

You'll see the warranty examples if you look at the PDF datasheets from the top ten manufacturers of 60 and 72 cell panels. Similar for CdTE and other more exotic thin films.
> I'm curious how the program managed to include various headers,

Isn't it kind of obvious that this is a story, with some creative freedoms taken? The theme is an old one in hacker lore ("it was the compiler all along!"). While you are completely right this detail isn't important to the story.
The most compelling reason I've heard against releasing code is to encourage independent implementations. While others may find bugs in released code, they may also just use it as is extending it to test new ideas.

This could propagate any bugs in the code to multiple works. A similar problem occurs with blog code snippets that are written with shortcuts. Despite warnings that these snippets need to be expanded for production settings they are often copy pasted as is into hundreds of code bases, propagating incomplete or buggy code.

Still, you could solve for this in other ways. E.g. maybe reproduction focused journals can require reimplementation.
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