skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given the gaps in our knowledge of early life, a definite statement in either direction is unlikely to be in the offing. However, terrestrial life is decidedly unlikely. Life is decidedly unlikely, and no one has so far suggested an even remotely plausible mechanism for abiogenesis on Earth. This means if you are betting, an extraterrestrial origin is the safe bet; if the odds of abiogenesis are so slim, while life once formed is tenacious and hardy enough to travel through space, it is more likely life traveled here.
Is AES-256 Quantum Resistant?
Russian Nuclear Sub Prevented ‘Planetary Catastrophe,’ Officer Says
Yeah, but we ignore those people when taking about real world. There's a difference between "believed in a catastrophic movie" and predictions based on real information.
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Because there’s only one American culture and everyone in it is the same. Nice hypocrisy.
You can Chromecast to those things, so I assume that works now.
If you've seen devs take months of working with git daily to start to understand some of the more advanced concepts, then maybe the problem is the current teaching method. They might learn the more advanced concepts a lot faster if they learn the concepts first.
In my experience the big names tend to give a warning but i agree that its best to plan for instant death in that case as well.
0.0.0.0 is a valid address. You also have a route for 0.0.0.0/0, usually called "default" :)

Just not valid for a host, as it is a network address where "network" is specified as the whole internet. It's how you create services listening to connections from any address - technically you can setup a listening socket waiting for connections only from specific network, but I haven't tested it.

It's also why minimal compliant IPv4 network has 4 IP addresses: the network address, host 1, host 2, broadcast.
There's an unratified RFC for allowing only host 1 and host 2, but I believe it works only on some combinations of gear/software.

Then of course you get systems accepting broken setups, like 192.168.0.0 host address with /24 or /16 netmask.

However, 192.168.1.0/23 is a valid address a host can have.
That sounds slightly different than what I mean.

You appear to be saying: "It is possible something DNA-like could be constructed from different materials in different codes and it would still be viable".

I was saying: "It is possible hydrogen, carbon, oxygen, etc. will form into DNA as long as suitable conditions exist and this is common enough occurrence that multiple sources of DNA independently developed across the galaxy/universe". I only say this to assert that the appearance of DNA from a source other than Earth should not necessarily imply a common ancestor.
Too late. I abandoned both of their devices for Roku and haven't looked back.
No one because it's not a lump sum. It's a projected cost over 50 years.
I mean, we do physically drop in banned media.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/gizmodo.com/how-one-group-is-in...

Information spreads. Some people defect.

Whether this effort helps is hard to measure. That it's succeeding shows many people are interested and change is possible/desired.
Pinboard is such an inspiration to my (one-person) entrepreneur journey!
My point was about the usefulness of generational constructs as cultural boundaries, not "damn kids got no culture!". And according to sibling, I have "denouncements" to rebut. What a thread.
It’s very literally the second bullet point on my enumeration list for web apps, right behind looking at the DNS records for the domain.
Tolerance needs to go both ways. When the other side's core belief do not allow for "live and let live", there's no space for tolerating them.
Not sure if this is what you're referring to, but we have created DNA with additional "letters" which don't appear in nature.

https://www.livescience.com/64829-hachimoji-dna.html
No need to root, with android in developer mode, run this to forward localhost:3000 to the same port on the phone.

> adb reverse tcp:3000 tcp:3000
A while back it was in the news that school issued laptops had their webcams remotely activated by administration during non school hours. So yeah there's been at least one case.
He’s speaking more of the human condition aspect of things. On a long enough timeline the survival rate for everyone drops to zero. Be prepared.
For me, the USB cable that came with the 5V/2A charger that came with my phone did the trick. A fairly common source of high current capable USB cables.
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If I were to propose to my team that we install a temporary measure in the form of an additional service that needs availability they would smack me down, because that's a pretty stupid temporary measure.
I have two RPi4B 4GB models. They work perfectly with the very cheap PSU/charger ($8) from the Raspberry Pi Foundation. $8 is less than a cost of a USB-C cable.

If you want to complain something about the product, I think unfinished software would deserve more attention. The current desktop performance doesn't reflect the capabilities of the system. I guess it'll significantly improve once OpenGL ES 3.2 (and hopefully Vulkan!) drivers will be complete.

Other minor issue I had was RPi4B not recognizing the HDMI display. I had to manually force it and this caused loss of HDMI audio. Using the official Raspberry Pi branded micro-HDMI cable.

I hope Raspbian will eventually have a 64-bit version. Out-of-order cores can benefit from more registers in 64-bit mode. More registers allows the compiler to reduce true and false dependencies, leading to faster code execution.

CPU wise it's nice, quad Cortex A72 is a huge boost compared to A53. Hardware accelerated omxplayer can play 4K HEVC content nicely. USB 3 ports have up to 4 Gbit/s bandwidth, and it's not shared with the now truly full speed gigabit ethernet.

I'm very happy with the product. RPi4B is a very capable system for its price. And it'll just get better over time.
Yes. No UI overhaul. No "improvements".

It. Just. Works.
Not a biologist, but my impression is that the concepts involved in DNA/RNA, and especially the machinery around it, are so complicated and have so many degrees of freedom, that snowflakes, which are rather simple crystallizations of only water, may not be an apt comparison.

Maybe it's closer to, say, someone having just learned the basics of analogue electronic circuits (but nothing beyond that), going into a basement, and coming out with a fully formed IBM-compatible PC with USB ports.

Again, not my field, and I'm happy to be taught otherwise on that one.
>Even though we have only one datapoint

I think we can wrangle a few more datapoints if we are creative with perspective, for example, we have extremely good evidence to suggest that the planet Mars is currently inhabited by alien robots.
> From my understanding, Apple has done sort of what you're asking for, they've hooked up the physical wiring of the camera LED to the camera itself, so it is physically impossible to power the camera without the LED being turned on

Correct. And that was my reason for NOT covering the camera. Because I would be able to see if it was on due to some malware. However, I did not expect a vulnerability like Zoom's, where a simple website would be able to trigger a webcam. Combined with external monitors, the LED would be potentially missed for a good amount of time. So I've reversed my position since then.
You are clearly right, and I assumed wrongly.
That's an awesome product but being Mac only is a no go for me. Electron / Web app is such a common product model, no idea why they didn't embrace that.
“Big Pharma” specifically refers to a tiny number of huge companies that spend vast sums of money on marketing and buying tiny drug companies and almost nothing on groundbreaking research.

That’s not to say they do nothing of value. A giant companies they are naturally risk averse and aim to maximize shareholder value. Which means their focus is simply on low hanging fruit with still pays dividends.

Developing Cialis and Levitra for example after Viagra was relatively low risk and simply good business. Similarly we have a silly number of drugs that are almost but not quite Morphine. Having options has real value and expanding the range of treatments for common issues improves people’s lives.
My work machine is a 2018 13" Pro. Its not that I don't like it - it simply isn't a joy to use like my 12".
Thanks for the spadework!
Even after the YouTube app left the Fire TV ecosystem, YouTube with almost the exact same functionality was still accessible by going to https://youtube.com from the Firefox app.

YouTube never truly left Fire TV. It just required one extra step to access it.
It's compatible:

https://www.macrumors.com/2019/06/03/macos-catalina-compatib...
Would be better if it also supported a new warning / permission to request insecure camera access.
Such a cheap and ghetto design....typical Linux nerd stuff
Do you really think the people working at Facebook in a management capacity are mature, rational adults? Lol.
Maybe we could test this someday with petri dishes in orbit. Outfit satellites with catch basins that funnel into various potentially habitable pods and see what grows. Park them in a lagrange point for better isolation.

But if panspermia is true such critters in the cosmic wind would be cousins of life on earth, and it would be difficult (impossible?) to distinguish an alien microbe from domestic contamination. If it's false we see nothing, and wonder if it's because space is sterile or we're just not yet offering it the right primeval soup.
Minor fun fact: Fred Hoyle, possibly the most public proponent of Panspermia in the last few decades, also coined the phrase "Big Bang theory" to dismiss an alternative to his preferred Steady State theory of the universe.

Sometime champion of arch positions, he was once quoted as saying "it is better to be interesting and wrong than boring and right".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Hoyle
The YouTuber Suspicious0bservers somewhat predicted the Quakes via Space Weather: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISfueR4vAhQ. His channel and research are interesting.
But that’s a solved problem. It’s a toolbar. It’s way more flexible, and you don’t need to look away from the screen, and your hands stay in their normal typing/tracking position.

The touchbar is basically a toolbar that Apple has moved to the least accessible part of the entire laptop.
South Korean TV newsreader resigns in spycam scandal
Thanks :) Sounds ideal for my purposes, I don't need more than three foot.
certainly the banks fail to do their due diligence on a lot of these loans, but in some cases they are actually required by the government to issue them, even if it goes against their better judgment.
I think this a very good point. This is giving them knowledge of how to start, and hopefully the resources to continue to improve. Most computer science curriculums don't teach you how to become a software engineer. They teach you theory, probably with some practical by ways of labs and projects. Hell, when I got my degress in computer and electrical engineering, I don't think version control was ever mentioned, let alone continuous integration. I learned about this on the job as an intern, well, about VCS. CI wasn't popular back when I interned.

The amount of practical learning accelerated my first few years as a full-time developer. Went from barely using nix to spending nearly all my time there except for time spent in Outlook. Went from a cursory knowledge of C++ to having a beyond intermediate knowledge. Learned Python (back at version 2.2!).

I think a big point of a course like this is not to give you a full knowledge of the domain, but rather how to learn* about the domain. Software is constantly changing; to be effective, you have to be able to keep up. Which means a lot of reading. When I first started, Google wasn't a thing. Meant a lot of dead tree edition books (ebooks weren't a thing yet). I got my starting points when I was in high school from early forums and mailing lists circa 1995. Took a long time to research things at 56kbps. Also took an effort to convince my parents to buy me programming books at $40 a pop even in the 90s, but when they saw me reading them cover to cover instead of watching TV (easy to get motivated - we only had 2 TV channels) and spending hours slaving away on the computer on programming instead of playing Civ 1, they were more willing to buy the books.
The writer would of had an easier time if he read the Ubuntu docs. 16.04 works flawlessly on the 6th gen X1 Carbon. I've been using it for work for the past 4 months without issue. https://certification.ubuntu.com/hardware/201712-26045/
Congrats on inventing Docker, what flavour of cookie do you want?
Premature ignition is not a problem for some boosted design, though, AIUI.

I imagine a big problem with trying to build a bomb is that the neutron emission will make assembling and transporting the bomb extremely difficult.
A significant number of the academics I know and work with have a MacBook of some description. They’re incredibly popular in Universities. I can run PowerPoint for teaching as well as all the *nix stuff I need for research.
Apple's trackpads are in a class of their own and their large size is a feature given how good they are.

I also liked the trackpoint when I had a thinkpad, but I think Apple's trackpads are better. The trackpoint is nice, but can hurt your knuckle after a while (and I'd argue it's not quite as fast).
Woz didn’t create “Apple Basic”. He created the first version of BASIC on the Apple // - Integer Basic. But Microsoft wrote the next version AppleSoft Basic.
Methane is not nearly as good a signal to look for life as larger organic molecules are. Methane can easily be created by abiotic processes and remain stable when not directly exposed to radiation or oxidizers indefinitely: this happens on earth, and we do have oxidizers everywhere. Larger organic molecules are less likely to have abiotic origins by any known process and are almost always much less stable.

On earth you can test whether methane has organic or abiotic origins by testing its isotopes. We can do this because we understand decently well how the geologic past of earth unfolded. We could probably do a similar thing for mars

>The Earth is 4.5 billion years old. And the universe, at least based on estimates from the Big Bang, is something like fourteen billion years. So, if life evolved somewhere else, that buys you about ten billion years of time.

Obviously I'm no expert, but you have to keep in mind, it took a decent amount of time for non-violent stars to become the norm / stellar neighborhoods to calm down and for overall metallicity to become significant enough to allow for the formation of terrestrial planets.
For reference, 80% of antibiotics used in the US are used in agriculture [1]. Animals are fed antibiotics to prevent infection, but they’re also fed to animals as “growth promoters” [2].

60% of infectious diseases in humans originate in animals, and 75% of emerging infectious diseases in humans originate in animals [3].

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4638249/

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1804117/

[3] https://www.cdc.gov/onehealth/basics/zoonotic-diseases.html
I taught a 2-hour session to a group of middle schoolers and high schoolers back in December - obviously, not as big a deal as the author, but still something I'm proud of - and ran in to the same issues. These were all students who either had done some programming or were interested in it. I started with "ok, so, first, go to your command line..." and it went sideways from there.

One thing that the students taught me that helps overcome some of these things is a site called https://repl.it/ . I stopped my plan, started using it, and taught the rest of the class using repl instead in order to focus on the concept I was trying to teach. Obviously, as a professional software engineer you need to know about git, command line, etc., but those aren't what software engineering is. They rarely excite new comers to the field. Using repl.it helped to get to the core ideas faster for people who don't really know as much.
It's a curious fact that although of course humans are mortal, and in theory corporations aren't, in practice there are only a very tiny percentage of corporations that have outlasted a typical human lifespan. In fact the average lifespan of an SP&P 500 company is well under 20 years. Google it.
Unless it's an art piece.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Physical_Impossibility_of_...
G2A does have a bad reputation but if all you search for is 'cheap game' or see an ad in pcworld or a sponsored shoutout on a youtubers channel then you don't know this. (a search for 'g2a' is much more informative that a search for 'cheap game')

Stories like this hopefully inform more people of g2a's reputation.

The other issue is if 1 in 5 of the keys on g2a aren't real but the discount is 30% off it's still rational as a customer to buy from them if you buy in bulk. It off-loads most of the cost of fraudulently obtained keys onto the developer in support costs and charge backs for fraudulent key purchases. Highlighting that rational does not equate to moral or even ethical.

Also the problem doesn't need to be pervasive across games to be devastating for a developer. If only 1 in 100 developers have this issue with g2a that doesn't stop it from possibly being a business destroying issue for that developer while it's a minor issue for the others.
If I use Chrome and the sync of bookmarks for that, across devices, why would I use Pinboard?

All these comments have me wanting to try it, but I'm not sure what I get over what I have. Thanks.
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Similar to how USB was used to overcome the airgap by Stuxnet. Flow of visitors to HK and back to the mainland means information gets past the firewall. Those people can pass the files on via the same method.
Why would this be of little risk? The good thing about software is that it is automatable. That's also the bad thing.

Create a malware (which due to some big company fuckups can be even embedded in a webpage these days). Capture frames indiscriminately. Add some image recognition algorithms (from OCR to machine learning, depending on what you want to do) to flag interesting hits.

Voila. Massive dragnet. Applications can range from simple blackmail (a-la Black Mirror) to industrial espionage.
How long did it take you, a self-proclaimed layperson, to come up with the idea of quickly pulsing the camera? Now, how likely do you think it is that someone who's actively trying to prevent camera shenanigans would think of this idea as well, and mitigate by e.g. introduce delays or latch the light on for a couple of seconds?
At this point? It’s not feasible.
It should be pointed that an empty directory (even if owned by root) placed in your home directory can still be deleted by you, without requiring root. You need to place a file into the directory.

Or if you want something drastic, run

chflags simmutable ~/.zoomus

as root. This will make sure that not even root can delete it.
Your tea leaves are sound.

I think this is why those of us interested in this are very much hanging out for results from our explorations of Mars. It's pretty much our only opportunity to see if life emerged twice in the same planetary system under similar conditions.

What are the chances?

On the positive side Mars had pretty much all the ingredients for life (chemically) and had a long enough period for at least something intersting to develop. On the negative side, the environment was still different to ours (gravity, climate, whether, etc).

We still aren't clear on what conditions need to met for like to get going. This is why both positive or negative results on Mars are exciting.

My favourite theory is that life actually takes ages to get started so much so that it started on Mars and finished on Earth (from Mars being impacted and debris making it to Earth). Kind of like a passing of the torch.

Mars: "Crap. I'm dying. Hey Earth, can you take this thing I've been working on?"

Earth: "Yep. No worries. I got this. Will try to send some back in a few billions years. Take care."
I do too. I actually didn't even realize new accounts are on a yearly subscription model.
I read a description why aircraft like the Bonanza A36TC are more unforgiving. I think he said because because of higher power, higher speeds, and airfoils to match these aircraft can rapidly leave the stable flight envelop. It takes fast reflexes and knowing what you are doing to get them back. And because they are fast they'll fall out of the sky very quickly in a stall.

Fast reflexes comes from being young or being older and using reflexes you picked up when you were young. Knowing what you are doing comes from knuckling under to someone that does. It's why these aircraft regularly kill middle aged doctors. They have neither the reflexes or the tendency to obey.

There is a reason the air force trains 20 year old's to fly jet fighters.
> our laws essentially force driving on all of us—by subsidizing it, by punishing people who don’t do it, by building a physical landscape that requires it, and by insulating reckless drivers from the consequences of their actions

^ this is the key point of the article, of which all of the examples support.

Bummer.
Minimum flight time to get your cert is 40 hours. You train in a fixed gear plane, wheels don’t come up.

To fly this he would need a complex sign off to fly the retractable gear/variable pitch prop and high performance sign off for having over 200hp engine.

It’s a lot of airplane for that much experience but only takes 5 hours or so to get those sign offs from your instructor. Bonanzas have a reputation -now- that keep people away from them until they are very comfortable with flying a complex and fast airplane.
If you exclude the airport fees and whatnot, you can’t claim that flights are heavily subsidized. The airport fees pay for all the capital infrastructure airlines use. (Trains also use capital infrastructure paid for by governments.)
Yes. Weather variance is higher, but the fact is that record highs far outnumber record lows. If record lows were in greater supply it would help falsify the theory that the global average temperature is going up.
What is XLNet and how does it work?
The author (Chotiner) has indeed made a mis-statement about the state of knowledge on planetary CH4, but that doesn't pertain directly to most of the article's content, which is about DNA/RNA.

As you point out, the state of Mars CH4 is quite complex and extremely controversial, with 3 different measurements (Curiosity + 2 orbiters), low concentrations observed (~10 ppb) and multiple physical processes going on. Here's a pretty good recent summary:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2019-04-02/mars-express-...

The DNA-sensing instrument that's being prototyped is here: http://setg.mit.edu
Prime video never really left Chromecast. You could just "mirror screen" and have it work in a slightly janky way and waste lots of battery while at it...

EDIT: Android only - iOS users were SOL.
I bound it to esc to try to learn vim with a touch bar. Delete sounds like an really good use. Might try that.
With all respect, it's actually just your opinion then. Because the same reasons can be given for any nuclear nation, even more so about US. Just as I feel the US is more "rogue" these days (trump, warmongering, very questionable activity with certain groups, in certain regions etc) compared to Pakistan (very stable democracy right now) or India.