skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> pretty convincing conceptual pathway

These phrases come up very often when discussing Origin of Life, but it's basically handwaving. It's like saying "we built a plane, which gives us a convincing conceptual pathway on how to get to the moon." The differences in complexities are sooo vast, there is really no comparison.

I can state it more clearly - We couldn't create a functioning cell from scratch (atoms) if we wanted to. I'm not talking about injecting/replacing DNA in an existing cell as Craig Venter et al do (which is impressive. You'll see many articles talk about "we built the first cell" or even add the words "from scratch" but this is what they did.)

I mean build all the functioning pieces - all the molecular machines (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular_machine) and other components. I don't even think we yet understand all the pieces.

You can read some of my questions about abiogenesis at https://biology.stackexchange.com/users/13238/yehosef - some of the questions and answers may highlight the complexity.
True, but at the very least the parser should stop on "]". RFC 3986 doesn't allow square brackets in URIs.
> Oh, please tell me how that kind of activity is nonexistant in non-crypto companies.

It's not that unethical and illegal activities don't happen at non-cryptocurrency companies, but you don't have to be paying a lot of attention to see that it's happening at a very different scale among cryptocurrency companies.
> Getting double the vacation time (6 weeks instead of 3) when I moved from the US to Germany was very nice, but going back I'll have 5 weeks, which isn't too bad.

I keep hearing this. Yes, you will get 5 weeks. But what about your wife, your uncle, your friends? In Germany they're all guaranteed to have the same number of days off, access to healthcare, etc. When you have kids you have a bunch of weeks/months off before the child is born and more after.

In the US, as long as you're young, healthy, rich and selfish, life is grand :D
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I'm 100% in favor of consumers not being misled. Truth in labels.

But veggie burgers have been around for 20 years and nobody has been "fooled" into thinking they are beef. The word burger doesn't mean "cow".

The purpose of these laws is transparent, and it's not "consumer protection".
So everybody's bitching about the license aside... :)
This sure looks like a really nicely designed git client, congrats to the team on the release!
Bird watching is pretty popular too.
Depends highly on the employee's value to the company.

Also, if the employee has very marketable skills, they may be happy to leave a job whose hourly rate has suddenly dropped.
Sarah Gailey wrote a Hugo nominated short story (camouflaged as a scholarly publication) about this scenario: https://firesidefiction.com/stet
Every crypto company is trying to find the right balance is between innovation and (perceived) compliance, so it's less that there's "conflicting" visions as to where to draw the line, per se, and more that Coinbase hired way too many extreme type A C-level executive types in a short period of time in 2018. When you add a bunch of new leaders all at once you're going to get conflict.
Pretty much guaranteed. Even startups pay more than that and GAFAM pays 150,000 to new grads and 300,000-350,000 to senior engineers [0].

[0]: https://www.levels.fyi/
Finally, somebody said it. The English also very good, nay, excellent.
Also, eudaimonia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eudaimonia)
Feature complete is a BS term for self driving. Being able to, for example, make a turn on red light, while cool, is far far away from being able to make a red turn reliably in all situations.

It’s like someone claiming they are feature complete to be a composer, because they finished learning music notes.
Exactly. Your employer is not going to enforce boundaries to ensure healthy work/life balance for you, you must do it yourself (until labor regulations catch up; see France [1] and NYC [2] labor law regarding checking email outside of work hours for examples).

[1] https://newatlas.com/right-to-disconnect-after-hours-work-em...

[2] https://legistar.council.nyc.gov/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=3...
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My company pays for my service but not my phone, so I'm in a gray area here.
NKS has a lot of very interesting bits of information, ideas and experiments. Some of it is truly novel. At least, I think some are truly novel, because there are also quite a few ideas that aren't novel, but he doesn't mention that fact or cite anyone. And he kind of speaks down about biology and other sciences, about things they are supposedly not researching, except they do.

It would have been a much nicer book if he had connected his ideas in universality, fundamental computing, math, physics and biology, to the rest of those fields. He mentions many of these connections/theories, but does not cite them or even attribute them to their respective fields of science.

Otherwise if you can read past all that, it's super interesting. It just leaves me with the inclination that, if I want to find out more about these new subjects, I'd be best of starting out looking for information not by Wolfram, if only just to get a good view/idea of the field right now, since Wolfram isn't citing anyone, but others probably are.
Great, me too. But I also fully support the idea that people should be allowed to do whatever the fuck they want with their work product. (within the limits of the law, of course)

Charity is nice, but I’m not going to insist that you donate your whole paycheck!
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The original press release (from the FTC) and a lot of discussion about it is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20515235
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>Pedestrians are important, and are still safer than being around human driven cars.

Stop making up statistics.
> Trains don't drive on roads? And keep in mind that all of these self driving cars will only be in those specific pristine conditions.

That's literally the point I'm trying to make. Trains only riding on set rails is synonymous with an autonomous vehicles ability to drive on a set level of pristine road. Semantics are important here - these companies keep saying "we've got AD coming!" and then keeping throwing an asterix next to it ("note - in select markets only"). Can you see why people roll their eyes?
Facebook's whole business model is to not give a damn about privacy.

Thus, all the money they make. All of it. The FTC now takes a small portion.

See Facebook care. (not)
There's a vegan restaurant in town that has "pulled pork sandwich" listed on it's menu. That's misleading when there is no pork in it.

No one needs to be tricked to eat these delicious plant-based proteins.
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Seems like this is a win for consumers too if they adhere to the conditions, no?

If they agree to not do bad things, then do the bad things, seems then we have a bad actor.

I doubt that any individual or lawsuit could affect this kind of change.
> "If [plant-based makers] can't say that it's a black bean burger by using 'burger,' how are they to describe to the consumer what the product is?"

The same way meats intended for burgers are described -- patties.

That's right, you can buy "Beef Patties" right now.
Ask HN: What types of quantitative models are used in tech?
By "models", I'm referring to any tool that "estimates" something using a quantitative method? Curious to know what types of quantitative models people have encountered in tech industry?
>And also safer outside of one then outside one driven by a human.

Stop making up statistics
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The first thing I did was to start scrolling to see where he would either inject himself into the story, or go off touting his own achievements. I was then going to come here to post a snarky comment here about it.

But as I scrolled, I did see quite a bit of really interesting content in the article, and thought such a comment may turn people away from the article, which would be a shame, so I decided not to.

(Well, until I saw your comment).
Same. Pcmasterrace here. Gaming has never been cheaper or better.

I think I spent 200$ in 3 years of modern Gaming.

Consoles and AAA Games are all advertising/marketing.
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That milk issue is ridiculous. Nut milk has been referred to as such since the middle ages or earlier.
Good, we need more folks like these in every other city these obnoxious things had been unleashed upon.
Every sane self-driving company is looking to launch as a taxi service for this reason. That way they don't have to operate where they don't do well, and then they can steadily expand their region.

Also, I believe that weather is a simpler problem than unpredictable behaviour from other cars, pedestrians, cyclists, delivery vehicles, emergency vehicles, construction, et cetera which occurs everywhere. Of course, it could turn out that both are insurmountable.
It bother's me there are worse enemies.

I'm still happy to see our lesser enemies be curtailed.

Just as it bother's me that there are kids starving in africa... but I still donate to my local food bank. A worse evil doesn't mean we can't improve on other evils.
Sadly f=f is not widely supported (Thunderbird is a notable client using it).
To be clear, these laws are saying you can't use the word "burger" with anything other than the flesh of animals.

Not meat - burger.

Nobody is being fooled by the "veggie burger" containing animals. Nobody. It's a non-issue.
I've been wishing for years that this would become available on Kindle. My commute wouldn't allow me to easily lug around such a tome, so I have yet to read it despite its obvious quality. I don't understand why a book publisher would hold out on an ebook version yet have an audiobook available...
Here are the features:

- Light (bundlesize)

- Supports browser and Node (SSR compatible)

- Supports cache (via third party library, or your own code)

I wrote this because I wanted a light client that supports cache and that can work on nextjs.

This client is customisable since you can give your cache implementation and your fetch implementation (the browser's fetch is the default implementation)

:)
Someone I work with found this:

The interesting part is in the write up from The Verge (https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/24/20707013/ftc-facebook-set...):

> "The settlement’s $5 billion penalty makes for a good headline," FTC commissioner Rohit Chopra wrote in his dissent. "But the terms and conditions, including blanket immunity for Facebook executives and no real restraints on Facebook’s business model, do not fix the core problems that led to these violations."

$5 billion of cost with shareholders' money. Not bad.
It's a very competitive labor market.
For employers.

If you are highly skilled, you are highly in demand. Therefore, demand good treatment.

Tech industry compensation has never been higher: http://levels.fyi/comp.html

Google pays for on-call hours. You are credited with 33.3% time for each hour on call if you have a 30 minute response requirement, and 66.6% time for each hour on call if you have a 5 minute response requirement. These can be taken as extra holiday, or cashed out. [0]

[0] Among other public sources: https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/41v0ol/i...
Note the irony in a HN commentor complaining about US states regulating things the way Europe regulates things[0].

It's ironic turtles all the way down. ;)

Honestly I don't see this regulation as a bad thing. Having to use some different text on your label costs approximately nothing since you have to have a label of some sort so it's not really burdensome. Stores sell margarine beside the butter. I don't see why they wouldn't sell the beef approximation beside the beef. I'm not the target customer though. I won't be buying this stuff until it's so cheap that they start cutting 80/20 beef with it.

[0] per TFA, Europe has very similar laws about food labeling.

Edit: You people have no sense of humor.
Ask HN: Quitting Job to Launch a Startup
I am learning Python. I want to quit my current job and start a business. I have a few ideas.

I am looking for your advice on how not to fail, learn and launch a profitable startup.

What are your advice, and good sources of learning?

In short, how to start a successful startup?
Having worked at a German company (in Germany) that creates tooling for that kind of software development.

They had a huge smalltalk program that created embedded C code (AUTOSAR/MISRA if I remember correctly). Tests only ran manually and the coverage wasn't particularly high.
I don't recall any automations that would have stopped you from saving new code that breaks tests to the smalltalk image.

Even though it 'worked', I wouldn't say this whole system excelled at what it did. Lots of manual QA.

So technically it worked, but it certainly was in poor shape from an automation perspective. It was my job as the mostly unsupervised intern to fix that. Granted, that was 10 years ago, but talking to some of my friends around Stuttgart, things move at a glacial pace :)
But you're equivocating here. They're allowed to not give a damn about privacy in the broad sense you're using; the FTC fined them only for the small subset they weren't allowed to do.

If you think the government ought to just ban Facebook, sure, whatever, but that's not the FTC's job.
>And also safer outside of one then outside one driven by a human.

This is only a baseless opinion.
> mandating secrecy

That's unnecessary. If you've a gram of experience you should realise it's generally in your own best interests not to tell your colleagues what you're on.

> justify possible exploitation.

If you don't like the pay, get another job. I don't see where the exploitation comes from. Unless you're suggesting people who don't like the pay can't get a job, can't negotiate and should for some reason therefore be excused of the need to do either with strict pay grades? I can't see how that would work across the whole market, and unless there is pay fixing then market forces will prevent it working.
They did this to me. And I never went back to consoles or AAA producers.
Heads up, if your company is paying for your service, they can see who you're calling and texting.

I'm not saying that's unreasonable, but I've heard of employees getting caught leaking by communicating through cell plans paid for by the employer.
https://joelx.com/facebook-fined-while-murderers-go-free/151...
Sometimes I wonder how such emotionally immature people become so successful. I know it’s common, but if I knew someone who started throwing a fit over something incredibly minor and predictable (an employee took a vacation) I’d think they were unfit for any leadership role.
No it does not (source: iOS device user and Exchange admin).

Adding an Exchange account to an iOS device optionally allows the Exchange client to enforce password and screen lock requirements, encryption, and allow for remote device wiping.

It does not have any access to device location, data, photos, contacts, or anything else you can think of outside of device passcode, encryption, and remote wiping.

An MDM profile is a completely separate thing from Exchange. Also, unless the iOS device is supervised (which has to be done at time of setup and would require wiping the device if you want to supervise one that's already setup) you're extremely limited in what you can do and see.
I worked for a University that paid cell phone plan steepens back in 2012. In Illinois, it now required by law for employers to pay cell expensive if they're required for work.
But language tradition is important here.

People have been calling it a "veggie burger" for decades now.

Saying it can't be a burger is ridiculous -- it's a kind of burger.

But, I fully support packaging requiring word(s) beforehand in an equal-sized font -- "burger" reserved for beef, while "black bean burger" and "veggie burger" and "quinoa burger" are all fine.

What's bizarre is that beef burger makers see this as a threat worth addressing... like, nobody's accidentally buying veggie burgers.
> I think in a side-by-side test of the bare burger

Our supplier of impossible meat gave us bratwursten last time to try and yeah, I would say you will have a very hard time doing blind test between those and the real thing. They are not only simply very good: they are absolutely convincing next to the real thing.

Again, for me they do not need to be but I think our meat consumption is unsustainable and far worse (for me), animal torture, so if this can help others eat /less/ meat, it is good.

Disclaimer; I know most people just do not have the financial room to do this; it is all very expensive (at least here). Nice vegetarian cooking (I do not know if this goes for vegan as well or not) can be done very cheap if you have some time to shop and prepare.

But all these ‘plant based meats’, at least here in the EU, are very expensive. 12 hamburgers from the freezer which are meat (well, some kind of very cheap waste meat) at E4,- vs 10 impossible meat v2 burgers at E33,- it will make no sense for most. But I guess this will change with volume; I hope so anyway.
I challenge him to describe what an encryption backdoor actually is. Its like putting a hidden switch behind a brick in a wall. The brick looks the same, but if you take the time to knock on every brick, you'll eventually find the button. Every moderately powerful nations will have someone out there knocking on the bricks.
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Per day?!?!?

Mother of god. I get that per month in Mexico.
No they are _not_. Salary is for 40 hours a week, +/- 5 hours depending on temporary circumstances.

Salary is not 40 hours working + 128 hours on call per week.
What if reddit did this? Or Amazon? Or literally any popular web site. Is this reason to break up all of them?
Shockingly, comments are disabled on the AP video of him saying this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-QQwv1U2aY
I learned my lesson when in the early days of MDM, an employer I quit decided to erase my personal device that had work email on it. Live and learn :S
I work in the agtech space and the way we look at indoor farms are that for now they are only a solution for expensive speciality crops (leafy vegetables). There's a lot of value in improving the production of leafy greens near urban centers (where tech workers will pay $15 for a salad), and that's why all the VC money is pouring in.

But, indoor farming is not well suited for calorie-rich foods (think grains, corn, potatoes, etc). Many of those crops are not suited for hydroponics. They need soil and lots of sunlight. Corn roots grow down to almost 7 feet in the soil. Attempting to grow these crops out of soil and sunlight is incredibly inefficient and expensive.

In order for indoor farms to feed the majority of the world, we believe there needs to be more than one breakthrough than just the indoor farm system itself, including a breakthrough in the production of energy (enough to replace all the solar energy provided by the nuclear reactor in the sky that we use in agriculture today), a breakthrough in the production or collection of water that irrigates the millions of acres of land by rain clouds, and the biological breakthrough of high calorie foods that are adapted to grow hydroponically.

We also believe that the same money spent developing indoor farm systems is better spent developing better adapted crops and researching more efficient and sustainable agriculture practices.
Its the systemic paradox of teachers being unable to learn anything new [it violates their contract /s] and, as a result, killing educational innovation at every opportunity.
iPads were never cost-effective for schoolwork - Chromebooks are because even the poorest families can afford or be offered one for home use.

The public education system is beyond broken.
https://www.startupschool.org/ is a good place to start.
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You'd think, but most have lacklustre electric engines and shitty EV range.
> The FBI ended up in possession of the shooter's iPhone during the investigation but was unable to unlock the device, as the attacker had been killed and therefore could not be compelled to share his PIN.

Is it not the case that he couldn't be legally compelled to share his PIN even if he were alive?
Why does this feel like a 2019 version of an Ancient Aliens episode?
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Sneaky medium, I used to have a paid account and the page looked like I couldn't read the article until i resumed the paid membership. Signed out and clicked on the link again and was able to read the article. Account deleted!
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Maybe they should practice what was the equal time rule / coverage.
How many companies provide a company phone and allow the employee to use it for personal stuff? I thought that was the norm. I would question any company that expected me to provide my own phone to perform their tasks. Of course if they paid me enough, this would be negotiable.

Regardless, if I installed their remote monitoring S/W on my phone or used their phone, I would abandon any expectation of privacy on that device.
Slight generalization of the first two: many emacs keybindings work in bash.
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I'd leave. Unless you're a contractor who gets paid a lot and equipment costs are expected in that contract (similar to plumbers, carpenters, etc.) there is no reason for a full-time/salaried employ to purchase their own IT equipment. That's just insane.
Even in India, Rs is used to denote rupees most often. If the rupee symbol weren't on the notes themselves, I wouldn't recognise it.
It can be annoying sometimes, but honestly it can also be pretty cathartic to leave your work phone behind when you go for a bike ride, or out to dinner with friends etc.
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I've met some.

I used to date a vegan. They were great. I ate lots of vegan food. Some of it was good, some of it wasn't. I still end up eating vegan meals often, but not intentionally. They suffered no hypocrisies and we often discussed the nature of their beliefs without incident.

There are several flavors of vegan hypocrisy, and they all stem from a lack of philosophical consideration:

* "I won't eat anything with a face."

* "cow farts"

* "Everybody can afford to be vegan."

* Using "The Jungle" as a proxy for modern slaughterhouse conditions. (Heck, thinking about it, even "Fast Food Nation" is starting to become a little dated.)

* Vegans with cats or dogs as pets. Dogs do poorly on vegan diets, while cats must eat meat; there's often a lurking contradiction about animal rights somewhere in there.

* Vegans who crush house spiders.

* Introducing vegans to Jainism is always hilarious; they almost never have heard of Jains and are surprised to learn about people that are even more religious about animals and morality!

That all said, it's been nearly a decade since I've run into anybody like this, and perhaps it is a juvenile form of veganism that only manifests at universities and bars.
True dat. And Solitaire, I guess :)
5G won't fix anything. The location precision is worse than what you can usually get with the latest GNSS receivers. And what happens when the 5G tower is down because a construction crew accidentally cut the backhaul fiber?
GOT EM!!!
The moon is the analogous cpu clock cycle for many biological processes.
I find it funny that people would rather believe in the matrix/simulation rather than God
It should be based on no. of user impacted and avg. impact to each user. Revenue/Margin are should not be primary driver. We don't convict murderer/thief depending on their net worth (if any it is tilted on wrong side).