skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a follow-up for those that have said genetic studies have been fruitful, here's excerpts from the most recent genetic study [1]. This study looked at a link in the μ-opioid receptor gene, which was the only gene that barely reached genome-wide significance in their meta-analysis of 8529 individuals with opioid use disorder (OUD). In contrast, smoking, alcohol use, and education status showed clear effects on OUD.

"Understanding the genetic architecture of OUD might provide clinically useful clues about its biology. However, to our knowledge, only a few risk variants have been identified by GWAS so far, and none has had clear external replication. Several factors contribute to this situation: (1) OUD is a complex psychiatric disease with relatively low heritability, and there is no single variant with a large effect size that can be detected in small cohorts"

[1] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/article-abst...
There's a slight difference in wording that can change the mental image of the title: the report is titled "A physics-based method that can predict imminent large solar flares"[0]. So this is a method designed to predict imminent large solar flares that has been validated on eleven years' worth of data.

I'm not a native English speaker so my perception is likely very biased, but the "can" implies less click-bait-y stuff than the current title.

I can't judge the method or the validity of the research, but it sounds like a potentially useful tool to develop, even for humans specifically, given the potentially devastating impact of solar flares hitting our planet.

[0] https://science.sciencemag.org/content/369/6503/587
The big "dream" of web-based technologies was to allow designers the freedom to do whatever they want. But doing this has a lot of costs, which we are all paying today. In the early days of GUIs, a group would design the OS, and everyone would just use that design through the UI guidelines. It was, in my opinion, the apex of GUI programming, because you could create full featured apps without the need of an experienced designer, at least for the first few iterations. Now, I cannot even create a simple web app that doesn't look crap, and any kind of web product requires a designer to at least make it minimally usable. And the whole architecture became so complex because of the additional layers, that it looks more like a Baroque church than a modern building.
Meanwhile, the post is still at the top of HN and he keeps receiving clicks. Can the mods change the link to the original one?
Want to Jailbreak your iPhone with unc0ver? You're probably going to go to unc0ver.dev and download unc0ver.ipa for sideloading. However, if you're on Windows 10, you may find that the the ipa file suddenly disappears from your PC as soon as it has finished downloading.

Surprise! Windows Defender detected the Jailbreak and helpfully removed the file to keep you safe! This is not a false positive, Windows Defender literally lists "Jailbreak" as the reason the file is dangerous. Never mind that it's a user-initiated jailbreak for an entirely different, non-Microsoft Operating System!

Repeat the same process on macOS—y'know, the OS from a company that actually has an interest in stopping this stuff. Does unc0ver.ipa get deleted by XProtect? Nope! Apple understands that these systems should only ever be used for actual viruses. To do anything else is a severe betrayal of user trust.

IMO, Windows Defender has jumped the shark, and sadly, I've now resorted to disabling it on all personal Windows machines.
Yes, that’s precisely the use case. The compiler synthesizes two functions, one for each case, then optimizes them separately.
Depends on the upside and downside of delay, but yes, definitely expect a false trigger on a 30 hour clock. Heck you can easily just pass out and not be online for 30 hours. Trip and fall and get a traumatic brain injury and your doctor may medically induce a coma while you're being treated.
I wish I knew the answer to this. When everything is totally screwed up and on fire and I need to get something done by 5:00 today that would normally take a week and a half, by God, it becomes apparent every millimeter of fat that can be trimmed and I can usually scrape together what's needed by then. Then the deadline is over and I get a similar project the next day and it's back to taking 5 days to finish.

There are real quality differences between the two scenarios, but they aren't nearly as bad as what you'd think they are. The reality is that I can just work a lot more efficiently when stressed. If I could do that all the time I'd be able to work 3 hours a day and remain as productive.
Plenty of Mac users with a logitech as well ;-) works just fine.
A Japanese face mask translates into eight languages
This assumes that the thing that should be held constant is complexity, and that the loadtimes will therefore decrease. On the contrary, loadtime itself is the thing being held (more or less) constant, and the complexity is the (increasing) variable.

Progress is not being able to do faster the same things we used to do, but to be able to do more in the same amount of time.

These seem to be equivalent, but they're not, because the first is merely additive, but the second is multiplicative.
I had to think for a couple seconds to figure out what you were referring to, but now I understand how you were confused! Maybe the title should be updated to include the date.
The “exit plan” could be as simple as “do nothing and abandon it”. You don’t “have to” do anything and are under no obligation to do anything, however decency says that in some circumstances you probably should.

When you have people using your stuff, you have to decide whether you care about them or not. It’s ok not to care, you don’t owe anybody anything, but if you lead them on or give them the impression that you do, then they are invested in something because of it and it would be pretty shitty to just disappear. You still can, if you like, but you should at least do it consciously.

If you have people the impression that you would support something then you need to be clear with them that this isn’t actually the case, otherwise you’re a bit of a dick for leading them on. It’s perfectly ok to just throw something out to the world without supporting it in any way and it’s also ok to step back from something you did once support, but you should at least communicate this so people don’t get the wrong impression.
worth reminding everyone that mushroom clouds occur with large conventional explosions, not only nuclear explosions:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mushroom_cloud
I also have a 2016 12" Macbook and love it. It's my full time personal machine, having replaced an older iPad and MBP. I love the form factor and weight, but I like it more than an iPad due to having an actual keyboard and ability to run real software.

As you say it's getting a bit long in the tooth and I've been lamenting that there's really no replacement for it. I've been holding out hope that apple silicon will change that.
Most interesting that, now, the only Mac you can buy with a (SSD-cached) hard disk is the 21" iMac.

I guess the next update will get rid of any vestigial spinning metal storage.
For me, upgrading Django for a series-A sized startup (e.g. 25KLOC) takes maybe 2 - 4 hours on average, assuming there is good integration test coverage. What parts of the upgrade process are you finding take a long time?

I feel like the last Django release that was at all complicated to upgrade to was maybe 1.9, in terms of getting the test cases to run properly in parallel if they hadn't been properly isolated. And even that was more of a Python3-like situation, where it really only exposed things that people had done incorrectly previously.
“SSDs across the line with quadruple the storage”

1/4 TB of storage in the $1800 model, 1/2 TB in the $2300 one. Ugh. (So before the lower-end one had 64GB? [Edit: Nope, 1 TB Fusion Drive, thanks smnrchrds!] That would be FULL just from installing the one game the press release mentions.)

What kind of magic fairy dust SSDs are they using that you can't have a sensible amount of storage space at those prices? Looking at the upgrade options (which aren't even available for the lower-end model), they charge $300 per TB.
> "Just leave your phone at home?" basically did not compute.

I wouldn't leave my phone at home either; a smartphone is the single most useful thing to have on your person when facing unexpected problems of almost any kind. And no idea about those particular protests, but protesters over here have started heavily coordinating and sharing information via phones, so you might have an actual information deficit without one.

That said, switching off cellular (or the device itself), disabling biometric auth, that might be a good idea.
Why is this advertisement written as if it's a news article?

Starting it with `Cupertino, California -` as if it's breaking news and then launching into a complete sales pitch is just so slimy.
Depends on your network and your landline but I guess a fairly isshy network compared with a fairly common POT landline you would definitely see a difference. Packet switching (Vs circuit switching) alone should in principal introduce a latency - then there’s a lot more interconnects - and on top of that whatever hocus pocus they use to optimise their (digital) bandwidth usage. Of course modern land lines probably are more like mobile now but not unreasonable to expect circuit switches analogue POT are still widely used.
www.microsoft.com is also used for updates. By doing this block a lot of viruses prevent defender and windows from patching.
Googling “usb-c to usb-c multiport hub” gives me plenty of hits, for example https://www.sitecom.com/en/usb-c-hub-4-port/cn-386/p/1881: “Turn your USB-C port into 3 ultrafast USB-C ports and 1 USB-C Power Delivery Port”
Oh, man that's bad. The worst I've come across in the wild was some bank or financial institution (don't remember which one) which did some "sensible" validation at creation time. I.e., your first phone number had to look like a phone number, your mother's birth date had to be a real date, etc. That was pretty bad but you could still choose the phone number one and get a reasonably decent password. This is way worse.
If one isn't willing to spend some time on learning a language, one simply shouldn't write a scathing blogpost about it.
Apple Removes Nearly 30k Apps from China App Store
Interpol report shows alarming rate of cyberattacks during Covid-19
Don't you have to use Pascal for that, though?

I'm sure the tooling is better by now, but I remember being pretty happy not to need to touch Pascal anymore by the late '90s. The APIs that expected Pascal conventions were often pretty miserable to use.
> Does anyone actually use Zig in production?

Likely not, or at least they shouldn't, as it still has yet to have a 1.0 release and is undergoing constant changes in syntax and API.

However, that doesn't mean one can't take the time to learn it right now. Zig shows a lot of promise for being a real contender in this space once it does have a stable release.
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The Dreamup: A codeless alternative to the Web [pdf]
If they really were languages, then you would have a better point.
The reason websites have gotten worse is because they don't make performance a priority. That's all it is. Most sites optimize for ad revenue and developer time (which lowers costs) instead.
It is the nature of progress: progress is doing more with less. That’s increased productivity.

Of course software now uses more computing resources, so that’s not doing more with less. But the computer is cheap. What’s expensive is the humans who program the computer. Their time is expensive, and getting experienced, expert humans is even more expensive.

So we now have websites that have rich features bolted together using frameworks. Same for desktop software, embedded systems, and whatever else. They’re optimized for developer time and features, not for load time because that’s not expensive, at least not in comparison.

As a user the only solution I see to this is to use old fashioned dumb products rather than cheaply developed “smart” ones. For instance I’m not going near a smart light switch, or a smart lawn sprinkler controller. Old dumb ones are cheap and easy and fast and predictable.
The original silk road was a "dark web" by the standards of maritime nations, being an overland set of trade routes far from any coast.

Oddly, WP[1] on the decline of the overland routes doesn't mention the invention of the carrack[2] and related navigational techniques as having allowed a blue-water seaborne alternative trade, which has pretty much been the dominant pattern ever since.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk_Road#Decline_and_disinteg...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrack
Better camera, that's the only thing I see useful to an average user.
Progression tables are just age discrimination though usually.

I've seen it a few times, people with 30+ years of experience being paid massively more than newcomers, and just waiting for retirement.
There's absolutely no point to do more than the bare minimum not to be fired in this situation (and if it's a government job, then it's pretty much impossible depending on the place), and it absolutely shows.
Everything Go is missing is what makes C++ complicated.
The target demo of those buying licenses wouldn’t be building workstations, they are buying prebuilt whatever and upgrading the entitlements from there.

MS very explicitly doesn’t target these releases to consumers, it’s entirely possible to do it by adding the 4 x useless products to get over the 5 x volume requirement. It’s sad, but not shocking they didn’t cover the edge case of a custom builder. If you were a firm building machines, you’d again get a special setup and do provisioning and key burning into bios etc.
I can't believe it took so long for Apple to add SSDs to the basic configuration. I had the misfortune of coming into a company who purchased 2017 21" iMacs and they were almost worthless with how slow the fusion drive is.
I wish everyone viewed the process like this. I was job hunting a few years ago and increased my hits by roughly 50% by doing one thing: adding more color to the stupid resume.
Oh, things can always be worse. But it's probably not a great idea to wait until they can't get any worse, before you speak up.
This is such a monumental subject lol. I keep returning to this trying to come up with some kind of adequate response but it's like I'm standing at the base of a mountain and I can't find much to grab hold of that doesn't just crumble away after I apply a little pressure.

I definitely follow you up to your last paragraph and it all rings true to me, however I don't quite understand, "It is my opinion that the answer is of the form 'consciousness solves problem X efficiently along dimensions Y and Z' where X is some fundamental component of intelligence, and Y and Z are environmental constraints." Maybe the rest of what I have to say is just because I don't understand the fundamental component or constrains very well.

To me mathematics is the limit of description. I can assign a word to some observable thing and distinguish it from all other observable things. I can draw a picture of it to distinguish it even more precisely. I can use various mathematical techniques to describe it even better, perhaps even to arbitrary degrees of precision. But I fail to see how any mathematical technique can capture --the feeling of-- happiness, pain, etc.. These embodiments can not be fully realized by description alone. They can be pointed to, hinted at, and I think great artists can stir echos of them in other people, but actually experiencing them is beyond the capacity of description. That's why I wonder if experience/consciousness is something fundamental. A subsequent worldview would have as its central concern 'beings' instead of 'objects'; it would not exclude any current or future science, it would just shift it's focus away from abstractions and toward experiential beings -- with conscious beings, which we are, perhaps a special case of a much larger set. The gains would not be material, but perhaps there would be some improvements in the ways we interact with ourselves, each other, and our surroundings.
It may work fine, but its slightly absurd to need a better webcam for a recently made 2k USD laptop
> I'd definitely want to revoke it, but if there's a set of valid releases, it seems like you'd want to do a partial revocation, e.g. "valid until YYMMDD." Or have a blacklist / whitelist and mark known good releases.

Yes, this is definitely possible, and why Developer ID signing has a secure timestamp, as specified by the --timestamp flag to the /usr/bin/codesign tool.

When Panic's code signing cert was stolen, they revoked it after a certain date, but old versions of their apps continued to be valid and pass Gatekeeper.
That sounds plausible - it won’t be fireworks alone, black powder won’t make that kind of bang. Ammonium nitrate would fit the bill, too, which is the sort of thing you often have in warehouses or bulk carriers in quantities that would make an explosion of that order.

Honestly, it’s somewhat amazing that this kind of thing doesn’t happen far more often than the ~1 incident per year, globally.
True, and the decoders in receivers already have this capability, since they keep decoding even if the forward-error-correction can't save the stream any more, resulting in similar artifacts. I'm not sure why it's not done on a channel change, perhaps it's the manufacturers not wanting their TVs to routinely show glitched footage, or perhaps advertisers don't want it because it would be against Corporate Design rules to glitch-effect the logos they use on the daily.
This is a typical press release. It's been a standard format for decades.
‘Babe’ Revolutionized the Talking Animal Movie 25 Years Ago
what about the opposite? given a large block of previously unseen text: check if the text contains a word in a given list of bad words. I'm thinking ... profanity filtering, for example. So user inputs a page or two of text, we check it for profanity.
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Exactly this. I see the whole django async stuff being far more relevant for applications with lots of traffic or high request rates where you are already running on beefy infrastructure with a ton of workers and any small improvement in performance translates into huge real world cost savings. Your standard blog, no so much.
I had never even heard of LiveShare until today.
Either a safe deposit box or a fireproof box. The former is a bit safer. The latter has more space than most safety deposit boxes and makes it easy to add/replace documents. Arguably at least documents that aren't especially sensitive but are important (e.g. insurance information) can be in the cloud somewhere and you can give a lawyer (and/or people you trust) the password.
I've been noticing this "meme" recently on HN: that since company X (any one of the FAANGs) is American, it is not subject to European law. If it operated in Europe, it absolutely is. Believe it or not, the EU is also a sovereign territory with its own laws.

Can you imagine arguing that American law does not apply to some company operating in the US, because said company was founded in some other country?
Does it not depend on the way of reproduction, is it only asexual? Do you believe you can make a gai that is smarter than you? If so can't the AGI make another AGI in the same way as you made it that is smarter than itself?
It's obvious that TV makers have decided that seeing artifacts is not preferable. I wish that was toggleable.
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What's the point of maxing out CPU/GPU on a form factor that can't manage thermals?
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There is also the matter of modern screens needing 5-30 seconds to "boot" when old TVs and monitors turned on in less than a second.
This is a great intro to full-text search.

These techniques were the basis of some of the early web search engines (pre Google).

More of this stuff is explored in Witten Moffat and Bell's book "Managing Gigabytes" which dates from the era of those early search engines and when "Gigabytes" was something unimaginably large that certainly wouldn't fit in RAM and perhaps not even on a single disk.
Thanks for the feedback! I will take a crack at these UI improvements after I get out of work.
Last time I tried deploying Django (with Channels) on ASGI around 2017 or 2018, it was a total clusterfuck and fell over with about 20 websocket connections, and we had to scramble to revert that deployment. That’s not ASGI’s fault though, as there are several reasonably performant frameworks using it.
this isn’t that surprising when you see they mean “throughput” and not “latency” when they talk about speed.

webpages aren’t super large files so it would depend more on the latency of the request not Mbps
> But for a $600-$700 machine with an ARM CPU? that's insanely competitive, and is in-line with the "basic" macbook branding.

I'm skeptical Apple's introduction of their high performance CPUs exclusively on a low end device. A super light/ high performance 12ish inch machine seems right up their ally, but they don't want the new CPU associated with being a low-end "Intel Pentium Gold" type device.

There might be a lower end ultra-thin laptop released, but they are going to go big and push out a high performance CPU right out the gate. They didn't launch their 64 bit A series CPU on a secondary device, they won't launch this on a secondary device either.
The CalDigit TS3 Plus Dock has two USB-C ports and one Thunderbolt 3 port, not counting the port for the computer itself. [0]

(To be clear, USB-C and Thunderbolt 3 ports have the same form factor and Thunderbolt 3 is downwards compatible with USB-C.)

[0] https://www.caldigit.com/ts3-plus/
Found photos of Bytedance's open office:

empty: https://officesnapshots.com/2016/07/13/bytedance-offices-bei...

full of staff: https://www.caixinglobal.com/2020-04-22/bytedance-drops-payw...

with a faux ceiling: https://www.livemint.com/companies/start-ups/tiktok-parent-e...
Interesting company, do you happen to know of any others in that area as well (for comparisons sake).

I've been thinking it would be neat to have something like a very long term will execution/time capsule, for example to release biographies or other such information a long time in the future (say the 100+ year range).

Something like that would require a lot of things to go right, one of which is the a good expectation that the company would be around by then, for example the old banks such as Lloyds (I doubt they offer this kind of service to individuals if at all however).

Curious to know if you had any thoughts for how a service similar to that would work (or if they exist already), if its even feasible.
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I had a very similar moment when I was thinking about why the determinants of all (non-identity) projections are 0 and the fact that the determinant is the product of the eigenvalues.
No they cannot unless they want to contaminate their development, as far as I recall the licenses aren't compatible.

It is true for any commercial application with source code available since there are computers.

If the user freedoms were of any value as you mention, WebKit and Bink would use copyleft licenses.
Eh, Rosetta.