skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We've never created a dinosaur in the lab like they did in Jurassic Park, does that mean no dinosaurs were ever spontaneously born?

You're right, biology is a complex field that, mechanistically, we don't understand all of the intricacies of from first (physical) principles. But invoking the simulation hypothesis as a reasonable substitute for what you, personally, believe is the unlikelihood of abiogenesis is functionally equivalent to suggesting Satan planted dinosaur bones underground to misguide our faith. I don't understand how you think, "could this be evidence of a simulation" is any less hand-wavy than, "RNA has catalytic properties that suggest lifeforms may have begun as RNA-based. In fact, there are viruses that self-replicate by hijacking cellular machinery that are entirely RNA. It's not unreasonable to believe that, given long enough timeframes, similar constructs may have spontaneously self-replicated, even if inefficiently."

The difference between biology and computation is that the mechanics of large-scale molecular systems are, in most cases, too chaotic with too large of a surface area of potential interactions to explain every step as a direct, in vitro replicable chemical reaction - we must approximate where possible. We have to rely on the properties of large stochastic systems, nearly unfathomable timeframes, and extremely rare events to explain most of the world we see around us today.

Yes, every element of the biological world is entirely unlikely. That's kind of the whole reason the field is so beautiful. It only works because there's just so dang much organic material, a constant and consistent heat lamp, and it's all been shaking around violently in a water bath for 3.8 billion years.
This isn't a ban on end-to-end crypto. A company would still be able to use end-to-end crypto, as long as they control one end, which is already the case in ecommerce.
I thought the range upgrade was the Model 3 motor, not the Model 3 battery tech.

Tesla is sitting on two upgrades for the Model S battery wise: 2170 cells, and improved chemistry.

The Model S would have a 600+ mile pack with those two techs combined, which is probably where the Roadster 620 mile range came from.

Not sure if this includes the improvements from the maxwell technologies acquisition, or the Model 3 motor efficiency gain.
Slack has work hours. After that nothing notifies me. FWIW I use Slack to keep in touch with other groups of people too. It’s actually quite good.
Cool Strawman Bro!

McDonalds is allowed to call their extremely processed foods "burgers". The contents of their "burger" and the contents of 80/20 beef-only patties marketed as "burger patties" at the store are not the same.

The point is, "burger" doesn't mean what you're trying to imply it means. It's a loose term for a type of sandwich at best. Saying patties intended to be used for "burgers" can't be marketed as "burgers" is equivalent to saying that "sandwiches" made with <ingredient of your choice> aren't really "sandwiches" because they don't contain the contents that the Earle of Sandwich included in his concoction hundreds of years ago.
Employers will always try to reduce their wage bill by getting rid of unnecessary workers. It's not something they do in response to minimum wage hikes, because if they could reduce headcount and maintain the same level of service, 99% of the time they already have.

This is why it's inelastic. Employers naturally optimize their headcount no matter what the size of the overall wage bill is.
Nbexec: Ae tool for executing Jupyter notebooks from the command line
Anything sketchy? I dont have Google Device Management installed.
In my opinion the real power of slack is the historical search. I can't tell you how many times in my career i've asked a coworker to foward me some email that has critical information in it. On slack, that information is available to me, even if I joined months after that information was distributed. It reduces the amount of information that is imprisioned.
I didn't ask about advanced cruise control. Autopilot still requires your attention and your hands on the wheel. "Self driving", to really add value, means I need to be able to do something else (read a book, watch a movie) safely.
Does Fork support integrations with self-hosted systems like Github or Gitlab?
But the Mueller report didn't find conclude that Trump colluded with the Russians. And their reasoning? Because they aren't allowed to indict a sitting president.

If that's not the most bass-ackwards thing and proof of corruption I've ever heard of.

"We held a giant investigation, but didn't conclude the party in question was guilty because we literally aren't allowed to"
They can issue as many decrees as they like but they can't solve the problem with decrees any more than they can decree that water is dry. All they can decree is that it is illegal to use effective encryption, which would be, um, unfortunate.
Is it really inevitable that these things will one day be banned? If anything the USA is moving more and more toward liberalizing gambling. Casinos and card rooms are no longer limited to just Atlantic City and Vegas, online poker is slowly marching toward legalization state-by-state. Sports betting is opening up. If anything, I see video games and casino gambling industries slowly merging over the next ten years or so, borrowing profitable ideas from each other and overlapping their audiences.
What a thoughtful response. I'd love to know which readings you'd suggest reading and in what order.
Your hostile attitude to the people putting the work in is disrespectful and inappropriate. It's like the people who make entitled demands of open source software authors.

Academics don't get rewarded for confusing each other, they have to create research that their peers appreciate, understand, and value.
One of those simple yet brilliant things I wonder why it hadn't been invented yet.
Sequoia seeks edge in VC race for India and SE Asia
> The Netflix UX and video quality are leagues ahead of Amazon Prime Video.

Source please, especially on video quality.
It should be cheaper to produce plants than to raise a cow.

So it won't be long before plant-based protein is cheaper than beef. It's not "undercutting" so much as the fact it's cheaper to produce.
As flawed as appeals to nature already are, these aren't even particularly good ones. Your incisors are laughably small and dull compared to those of a literal mouse and you have fewer of them than a cow does. Fruit bats and gorillas both have forward-facing eyes and neither would know what to do if you handed them a ribeye.
> Same thing with newsgroups (usenet).

good lord, how old are you?
You know that this is explicitly and intentionally an editorial piece, right? I'm not sure what you're criticizing other than something completely fundamental about how all journalism works.
Could there be even better and widespread reform? Objectively, yes.

Is this a step in the right direction? IMO, yes.

To be clear, I dislike the FTC. But I believe power is corrupting in itself, so ipso facto the powerful will be corrupt or at least soon corrupted. That's why I want to see checks and balances. The guards of the guards... all lined up in a circle ideally. We aren't there, agreed. But I'll take any step toward that as a win.
Olah isn't even at Google anymore.
Neuroimaging U.S. Personnel:Possible exposure to directional phenomena in Havana
Might be regional differences in Google results. Quick googling from North America yields the following results about 21.co's initial bitcoin chip design & mining operations[1], and then the pivot to Earn.com "social network tokens"[2][3]; also in Balaji Srinivasan's own words[4].

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2015/05/18/what-is-21-co-really-doing...

[2] https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/20/21-co-announces-a-token-sy...

[3] https://www.coindesk.com/meet-earn-com-21-rebrands-social-ne...

[4] https://medium.com/@balajis/the-turnaround-2d145589d814
There are just different use cases for plaintext and HTML email. I can't implement plaintext only email in some environments because it just won't work with who I'm communicating with.
The public opinion is clear - security should not be compromised, just because some want to have backdoors and can't get over the fact that it's a very bad idea.

> We think our tech sector has the ingenuity to develop effective ways to provide secure encryption while also providing secure legal access.

Yeah, may be he can also claim, tech sector can achive perpetuum mobile. This just keeps coming back all over again. He should get over the fact that it's impossible, and move on to dealing with it. Next time he should consult actual security expects before producing the above nonsense.
> The existence of encryption means "converting the Internet and communications into a law-free zone" that criminals will happily take advantage of to do more crimes, Barr added, likening it to a neighborhood that local cops have abandoned.

This is such an asinine comparison. It's not like the cops have access to every locked door of every house in their jurisdiction. You don't need to build a special "cop door" into your house so they can come in whenever they want to, and you don't need to make an extra copy to give to the precinct. Why should my "internet house" be any different?
Speaking of China, maybe Huawei could get out of the doghouse by giving DoJ some backdoor?
> 19 people, total

Still it was much smaller. Witcher 3 dev team is about 250.
Child porn is a string of ones and zeros. So are death threats and nuclear weapon schematics.
Except that if you read the text he's quoting, it doesn't say what he claims it does. The settlement only covers claims that Facebook's actions prior to June 12, 2019 violated the previous 2011 settlement, as well as certain kinds of claims already known to the FTC at the time of the settlement. If they find out that Facebook has been doing other shady things that violate consumer protections the FTC can still take further action against them over it.
From the "another" archives, I remember this one, that looks abandoned:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15622894

https://neugram.io/

https://github.com/neugram/ng
Are you including the extensive notes in the book when you claim that he doesn't mention any connections nor cite any existing research? I think he wrote the main book much like a textbook, i.e. a straightforward presentation of the ideas, and not like a typical academic publication. IIRC, the extensive notes do mention many connections and include a lot of citations.

The entire book is available online for free. Here's the first section of the notes:

- [Note (a) for An Outline of Basic Ideas: A New Kind of Science | Online by Stephen Wolfram [Page 859]](https://www.wolframscience.com/nks/notes-1-1--mathematics-in...)

... but, after looking at some more sections of the notes, I think now I remembered very much incorrectly – there are in fact very few citations or specific references. There are, in my opinion, very many connections noted tho.

Also from the notes:

- [Clarity and modesty – Note (e) for General Notes: A New Kind of Science | Online by Stephen Wolfram [Page 849]](https://www.wolframscience.com/nks/notes-0-1--clarity-and-mo...)

- [Citations and references – Note (d) for General Notes: A New Kind of Science | Online by Stephen Wolfram [Page 850]](https://www.wolframscience.com/nks/notes-0-1--citations-and-...)
Are Retailers Leaving Amazon Cloud?
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It's completely ridiculous that the FTC is in a position where it has to impose restrictions like this in an ad-hoc case-by-case basis. In this case specifically to Facebook. Maybe I'm being naive, but if these activities are violations, there should be no need for facebook to agree to abide by them. They would have to anyway. Alternatively if these are specific restrictions on facebook, doesn't it imply it's ok for other services to do them?

The GDPR has it's flaws, but at last Europe has bitten the bullet and faced up to their responsibility to protect consumers and reign in privacy abuses. It's about time US lawmakers got their act together.
Please stop reposting the same false information.
You have to be able to name things... what names would you use?
You say that's not the system you want but that's based on a pretty big "if": you need "someone else" to validate something, and those people can't talk to you directly and ask you if it's valid or not. That's not in practice how we see this being used.

If you do need third parties to validate, a much simpler API is to just ask the thing that holds the HMAC credential over TLS, and have it return true/false. That makes it harder to demonstrate non-repudiation, but I'm not convinced that's a property you generally care about. Even in OIDC (which mandates a JWT, but for reasons that defy understanding doesn't mandate cryptographic domain separation between (IdP, RP) pairs), leading OIDC providers have long recommended you just talk to them over TLS to get userinfo. (GSuite has recently muddled this in their docs, which irks me.)

(Disclaimer: I'm the author.)
The median software developer - out of nearly 1.3 million developers - in the US makes ~$107,000 per year for 2019. A senior developer should be up near $150,000 even outside the primary major tech cities. The top 10% tier of developers starts over $160,000.
I absolutely support the label being clear. There should be no pictures of chickens on the label and no need to try to trick people into thinking there is chicken in there.

But to say the word "nugget" is restricted to only chicken products is just anti-competitive.
I would add:

- Good integrated test system (and test culture in the community)

- Super good package/environment manager

- Great integrated documentation system

- Good version control practices in the community

- Awesome community
It's an even less insignificant part of "3%" given that real GDP growth during that period was less than 3%, in part due to declining birthrates and a population growth rate below historical norms.

But it's also kind of cherry picking numbers because that bracket starts just after the housing crisis and is measuring the recovery. The 2000-2010 bracket was 0.71%, compared to historical numbers around 2% (but also historical real GDP growth of more like 4%).

You also have to discount some amount of real GDP growth for the general category of "banks doing bank stuff" which increases GDP a lot on paper even though it's somewhere between net neutral and actually destructive of underlying value, e.g. credit availability and low interest rates causing higher housing prices and higher total interest paid which both get booked as GDP "growth" even though they don't imply any actual productivity increase and negatively impact quality of life for working people.

The result is that population growth is the majority -- but by no means the entirety -- of "real" real GDP growth. (There is also an interesting effect where population growth has non-linear effects, because more people results in both more minds working on productivity improvements and more people who can benefit from each of those improvements, resulting in a quadratic productivity increase with population.)

But it's concerning that real GDP growth per capita has declined from its historical norms since 2000, even though we now have even more "banks doing bank stuff" than we used to. And it's probably not a coincidence that this has coincided with increasing amounts of regulatory capture and business consolidation.
I can't believe anyone can handle having push notifications on email. I only read my email when I go to check it. For both work and personal.

I have hundreds of rules for email filtering. With most mailing lists never hitting my inbox. But it's still way too much for individual email push notifications.
Desires themselves are imbued with negative affect. As Naval Ravikant tweeted, "Desire is a contract that you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want." More fundamentally, I think the very mechanism of how desires work is through negative hedonic tone. Contemplating and actually fulfilling the desire is associated with positive hedonic tone. The gradient between the negative hedonic tone of the desire and the positive hedonic tone of its fulfillment is how motivation emerges.

Long-term meditation is often associated with a lessening of the influence of desire, and greater happiness.
let's drive in Hanoi !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpsybD1MsNQ
You did give them explicit permission by participating in the modern financial system.

That's why I keep saying all the hypothetical privacy concerns with Facebook's Libra already are reality with the current financial system. Equifax also didn't get fined because of what they were doing, but because they were negligent in handling the data.

Having said that, given the importance of consumer debt in the US economy, credit bureaus are indispensable. They aren't going away any time soon.
Same, i heard it was so we could just run down prey we had injured.
The simulator is not less complex, the difference is that the simulator is not subjected to the same limitations/rules/laws of our universe.

You either choose the universe itself to be infinite (always have and always will exist) which contradicts all our observations about it, or you assume a higher entity (outside the universe) that is infinite (always have and always will exist).

The third option (nothing infinite) means we wouldn't exist at all, because if there's no "start" then you go into an infinite loop trying to find a start and nothing happens. But since we are actually here, then third option is out, and only the second option (higher entity) makes logical sense.
If you use your home computer to RDP into your work computer, what would be the correct answer to the question? The "work" occurs on the company-owned computer, but you are typing on the keyboard of your personally-owned computer.
The really dumb thing is paying for overtime works great. Some younger employees want to do it for the extra cash or vacation for a longer holiday. I know there were times I wanted to work on a holiday day/bank holiday to save up time in lieu.

The problem is companies where default on-call becomes part of the culture. They also have little incentive to fix terrible ops. I hear AWS can be like this, depending on the service.
From http://paulgraham.com/ds.html —

"There are two reasons founders resist going out and recruiting users individually. One is a combination of shyness and laziness. They'd rather sit at home writing code than go out and talk to a bunch of strangers and probably be rejected by most of them. But for a startup to succeed, at least one founder (usually the CEO) will have to spend a lot of time on sales and marketing. [2]"

...

"[2] Thanks to Sam Altman for suggesting I make this explicit. And no, you can't avoid doing sales by hiring someone to do it for you. You have to do sales yourself initially. Later you can hire a real salesperson to replace you."
Scientists discover how to slow the process that creates drug-resistant cancer
Show HN: I made a site that lets you easily find live-coding streams
Very Efficient!There is more scope of improvement in search though..
Synaptic&brain-expressed gene sets:Shared genetic risk x 5 psychiatric disorders
Even in the US, it's common to have clauses about specific illegal activity, such as breaking embargoes or similar. For example, you might be banned from using the software in, or cooperating with someone located in, Iran. You could do both of those with a git client.

This is more generally phrased than the very lawyer-written EULAs you generally find, but it's not unreasonable or unprecedented.
haha sadly no, not yet. Yes for live video but not for reviewing recorded footage. That would require something closer to gigapixel video recording.
i would laugh if appleconnect/switchboard gets around that somehow.
They cannot compel you to divulge a password, but they can mandate a thumb unlock, just as while they cannot compel you to divulge a safe combination, they can mandate you give them a key.

Information versus material.
It takes a special kind of narcissism to say “I don’t use tables, therefore no one could possible have any use for them.”

Attached images are worse for readability. Instead of writing “blabla refer to attached image 3 blabla now look at image 4”, it’s far more convenient to just insert inline images at the locations where they are relevant.

Instead of using stupid hacky workarounds for italics and headers why not use ACTUAL italics and headers?

Your entire argument revolves around the fact that you have a narrow minded, arbritrary, and old fashioned view of what the platonic ideal of an email is supposed to be. You can keep being the old man who yells and clouds if you want, no one cares if you get personally offended by the concept of section headers in emails, we’re going to keep doing it.
Cool stuff, can't wait to give it a try.
but it's contradicted by the tremendous business success of using marketing emails

I know advertising is effective, it IS manipulating me. That's WHY I don't want it. "I don't want them" is not contradicted by the success of marketing, it's reinforced by the success of marketing.
You’ve just made the problem an externality. While you have the skill and desire to do that - and to be clear, as a mu user I do the same dance when I need - inbound messages are rarely the problem for me.

What is a problem is outbound messages. When I try to do (what I think is) the right thing and trim the message and reply inline or bottom post, confusion abounds. I’ve had messages missed because the recipients told me they thought I accidentally sent an empty reply and didn’t scroll past the “on July 24th, superkuh wrote:”

Whose fault is that? Is it the 20 people on the distribution list who learned email protocol from years of Outlook and not “the right places?” I don’t feel comfortable pushing that blame onto them.
You really overestimate the masses. :/
Very cool! I'm planning on streaming live-coding sessions; how do I get involved?
Combat in the Night [Night Vision] – No Music
And has an inverse effect on global warming.
Are you, with a straight face, saying that you'd rather receive a PHONE CALL than a notification from an app that you can set time-sensitive notification methods for (i.e. DND overnight, etc.)? I'm not fan of getting any kind of work message outside of working hours, but I'd FAR rather let my co-workers send me a slack message that I can ignore and/or deal with when I feel like it than call me on the phone. No one at my office except my direct manager and HR has my phone number (and in the 5+ years I've worked here), no one has called me on it.
Well, OCaml it the only mainstream language that works on the integration of the algebraic effects. But the work[1] is being done is very slow for a project of such importance (it is also a part of multicore). Nevertheless, OCaml loses some points to Rust, due to its lack of proper parallelism. So I hope Rust ecosystem would put more attention to the efforts[2][3][4] to bring algebraic effects to the language.

[1] https://github.com/ocaml-multicore/ocaml-multicore/projects/...

[2] https://github.com/pandaman64/effective-rust

[3] https://kcs1959.jp/archives/4387/general/algebraic-effects-f...

[4] https://qiita.com/__pandaman64__/items/9fd47af5a39f0d2a6bbb
Is this only true for using some company provided app or even a dedicated email app? What about just going to webmail on a browser on a phone? Does that have the same implication?
You can find just the refills online for less than $2 each. That's what I buy.