skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gene editing is the surest path to dystopia that I can currently imagine. And I don’t see any way to avoid the inevitable arms race. If North Korea is engineering super intelligent kids it is almost certain that South Korea and/or China will do the same. Then it will just cascade from there.

Engineered vs not engineered could easily become the new class system where the rich-ish are able to produce “better” children and exponentially widen the gap.

Could also lose all semblance of uniqueness. Want your child to be a redhead with a 170 IQ? Okay, pay enough and it’s yours.

So I think the real question is not how far SHOULD we go, but instead how far WILL we go. And how quickly will we go there.
Government does use and create a great deal of open source software.

Github has this list of government and community organisations that use Github :

https://government.github.com/community/

The organisation that I work for has over 200 Github repositories.

The Australian government alone from that Github list is literally supporting thousands of open source repositories. It looks like many other governments around the world are doing the same.

It would be worth going out and working out how many open source repositories governments are supporting.
How does this apply to militaries and intelligence agencies? I can understand wanting a lot of government software to be FOSS, but maybe the software on spy satellites shouldn't be available to everyone.
Assuming no abiotic pathway is found, what type of mission will confirm Venusian life? I imagine that everyone will agree it's way too dangerous to bring a sample back to Earth for analysis, so I expect we'll need to send microscopes to Venus. We'll also need to send something down into the appropriate cloud layer to collect a sample. Keeping anything aloft in the atmosphere will be expensive, so I assume that they'll separate those two elements of the mission, Apollo-style. So I expect that they'll send an orbiter containing the microscopes, and then a glider that collects the sample and then fires an engine to get out of the atmosphere and rendezvous with the orbiter (a helicopter would also be possible, but I expect it will be easier to get a plane back out of the atmosphere than to launch some kind of ascent vehicle from a helicopter). If they can design the sample capture mission to preserve the atmospheric pressure, temperature, etc. they might be able to get it up for analysis with the organisms still alive.
We’ve essentially built the entire modern world in a bit over a century. The only way we’ll run out of metals to recycle is if we shoot it all out into space. Otherwise it’ll still be here in one form or another. I am concerned about the long term sustainability of our current phase of civilisation. I think our current way of life is largely doomed, but we will develop new ways of life.

Tens of millions of years is a long time. Who knows?
> The distance to the closest galaxy, Andromeda, is 2.537 million light years

There are many (smaller) galaxies much closer than Andromeda: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nearest_galaxies

There's no reason life would only emerge in large galaxies.
It occurred after Eric Schmidt took over operational control of Google. He focused in on a rational business model (swiped from GoTo.com [1]), it's specifically why the venture capitalists installed him. Schmidt had both an engineering background and management experience. The story I recall from back then was about John Doerr telling Schmidt to not fuck it up (recounted in a nicer way by Schmidt, below [2]); the advertising runway was pretty simple for Google, given the product they were building under the hood.

Schmidt joined Google in March 2001. For all of 1999 Google only had $220,000 in revenue (founded Sept 1998). Their early, primitive experiments in advertising worked well enough, they brought in $19m in revenue for 2000 (which would increase 300% in 2001, and then 400% in 2002).

[1] 2013: https://slate.com/business/2013/10/googles-big-break-how-bil...

[2] 2005: https://www.gq.com/story/google-larry-sergey

> Schmidt met all of Larry and Sergey's stringent criteria. He had a credible name, a Ph.D. (from Berkeley), and he promised not to push the boys aside or dismantle the quirky culture they'd engendered. "The board members told me, basically, 'Don't screw this thing up!' " Schmidt says. "They said, 'It needs some infrastructure, some growing, but the gem here is very real.'"
How I signed up Dean Graziosi and Lewis Howes as my clients
>Nvidia is a direct (although not very big) competitor to Qualcomm, MediaTek, Samsung, HiSilicon etc.

NVIDIA isn't a direct competitor to any of those, they had a single product Tegra that can even be considered a competition.
While Google Fi is understandable for your situation, for the majority of Americans who don't need international roaming, Google Fi is not the most cost-effective solution.

Mint Mobile offers unlimited plans with 35GB of unthrottled 5G and 4G data for $30/month, 12GB for $25/month, 8GB for $20/month, and 3GB for $15/month. All of these options are significantly cheaper than the same amount of data on Google Fi.

The relevant part is that Mint works just as well on phones not optimized for Google Fi as it does on phones optimized for Google Fi, eliminating vendor lock-in. Mint works on the Librem 5 and the Pinephone (and also on iPhones). Future FOSS phone hardware that uses GSM-based cell networks will be Mint-compatible.

https://www.mintmobile.com

The catch is that the rate is for annual billing, although Mint offers a 3-month trial at the annual rate.
Better solution for quick group chat than Firebase real time db?
I built out a simple group chat (rooms with members) using firebase real time database.

What I've built feels brittle because I have 3 client side implementations (web, ios, android) for chat and have to make sure I don't mess up my data structure. I do like the rules and how easy they are to configure.

I've been looking at twilio, and it seems pretty easy to set up chat. What are some good solutions for chat which have SDKs for web, android, and ios? Prefer sticking to something that works out of the box on these platforms (like firebase), and also maybe you have used before.

Thanks!
That's still a confirmation of the Great Filter; just that life on Earth has already passed through it.
About a century ago on the south coast of New South Wales, A patriarch Orca named Old Tom teamed his pod up with human whalers to decimate the local baleen whale population.

He co-operated with 3 generations of a human whaling family before he died a natural death.

His skeleton remains on display in the local museum to this day.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Tom_(killer_whale)

edit: longer story about him;

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/running-ponies/the-lege...
> The original commenter and I seem to get it.

Plenty of times, multiple people have had agreement on a belief that is ultimately incorrect. Before you crow, see how the air travel landscape looks in five years. I predict, assuming the pandemic is resolved, it will have fully recovered and passed the 2019 peak.
Where I live, companies often provide a loan for a train season ticket (about £6k/year), but you're still expected to pay for it yourself in the end.

Separately, the tax office does not allow employees or contractors to treat commutes as a tax-deductible expense. The cost of going to a non-habitual workplace is expensable, but not a regular commute.
Jugaad is just hindi for hack.
जुगाड़ is just "kludge" / "hack" / "cobbled-together solution" / "half-baked method" in general, not "lifehack" specifically.

The submission makes it out to be some amazing cultural thing, but I've more commonly heard it used with a negative connotation.
GWASes have shown that many strongly heritable things that we care about (height, heart attack risk, IQ) are hugely polygenetic, the result of the interaction of thousands of genes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genome-wide_association_study#...

CRISPR is too unreliable and has too many off target effects to move the needle on height. By the time you've made a hundred CRISPR edits to a single genome, you've shot the other chromosomes full of holes. It's only useful for taking out one or two genes, for someone who knows they carry a fatal genetic disease, but still wants to have kids. True designer babies will be done with genome synthesis.
If indeed abiotic processes couldn't have generated the phosphine and life does exist on Venus, some questions I'm pondering:

1) How can we determine whether Venusian and Terran life share a common ancestor? A seemingly clear signal would be a different genetic basis for Venusian life than DNA, but would the converse be true, or just a sign of convergent evolution?

2) How hard would it be to send a probe there that could perform a preliminary analysis of the life form? How hard would it be to bring a sample back to Earth?

3) This would be an indicator of life existing in the habitable zone of Venus' atmosphere. How should that change our estimate of the likelihood of other forms to exist on the surface of Venus? Earth extremophiles can exist at >100C, but the surface of Venus is >450C. On the other hand, there'd be a continuum which would allow evolutionary processes to work their magic. Acidity is also an issue, but the life forms in the habitable zone already be living at levels impossible for any known Earth species.
This is a basic toolkit in like 3000 loc https://github.com/yushroom/Fishgui. It uses nanovg.
That sounds like an insane amount of work to me to end up with something objectively worse from a usability standpoint. But to each their own.
If it's within the same cloud, though, why wouldn't there by an internal shortcut so it doesn't have to go fully "out" then "back in"?

Heck, why does it have to physically move at all? Why doesn't this effectively come down to a rename within AWS' system, like when you "move" a file within the same hard drive?
In real life on the iPhone we have had apps secretly uploading your address book, copying your clipboard and listening for tones embedded in television ads. And "The Fappening" where many people's private photos were leaked.
I’m surprised none of the engineers either knew about, or thought to ask AWS support, S3 Batch Operations or S3 Replication.

Both of which could’ve completed this process in a relatively short amount of time in a completely hands-off way.

When I Google for “move large S3 bucket” the first result I get is an AWS article which goes through all the best options: https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/s3-la...
> I really like the effort going into this, despite a positive result being impossible to our knowledge.

Not despite, but rather, because of. The fact that it's impossible but we still keeping seeing a small positive signal is what is driving the effort. Nobody likes an unsolved paradox!
I don't think they risked anything significant to build gmail. Nor was there any significant risk of gmail not succeeding due to hard technical problems. Compared to X projects like autonomous cars or power kites the original gmail was nothing crazy at all. Was it good software? Yes. Crazy? Hell no.
How many shortcuts are there realistically? 50?
A Case Study on the 2018 Allentown (Pa) City Government Breach
One argument would be that working for a business and not finding another job is inherently vote for the leadership.
It claims to provide thrust without propellant, which is a violation of the conservation of momentum. Since momentum and energy are conserved in much the same way this is already bad enough, however in special relativity the 4-momentum mixes momentum and energy (or rest-mass) and I believe that a well chosen Lorentz boost could turn a violation of the conservation of momentum into a violation of the conservation of energy.
TL;DR - The delete is the hard part. You can use S3 batch operations with an inventory list to do the copy very quickly. Alternatively, you can setup replication and "touch" each file using a self-copy CLI command, once the replication policy is in place. For the deletion, you're sort of stuck with lifecycle policies, which would take a day or so to clear out the old bucket, but could be supplemented with manual interaction, I'd imagine. There probably needs to be a better mechanic for completely wiping buckets. Last I checked there was not.
This doesn’t refute his point, Java the language is separate from the JVM. And those big companies will follow the decreasing Java usage trend due to developer supply and demand. Anecdotally, it seems pretty obvious some of those companies are already doing this by writing new stuff in other, better languages when possible! To me that’s a good indicator a language is slowly dying, maybe you use a different definition.
Steve Jobs in 1994: The Rolling Stone Interview
Like this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwbNRNCxhFg
I'm not exactly sure how you think these examples justify the author's claim, can you elaborate?

Cause it seems like what you're doing is the equivalent of pointing to an example of someone killing another person and then saying "gotcha! see how the existence of police and murder laws don't completely prevent murder?"

The underlying question is does the walled garden approach improve the security and privacy of the overall ecosystem compared to the non-walled alternative, not whether it leads to 100% perfect security and privacy (which is an unobtainable ideal).
It wasn't mentioned but that doesn't mean that I don't care about it.
> I even read the comments there sometimes (!)

Some of those youtube comments are pure gold IMO. I guess youtube has its fair share of toxic comments as well (as most social media), but it's somewhat strange that youtube got famous for its horrid comment sections.
I'm the submitter. The whole second half of the article details the ways in which this orca population is stressed. It describes how their population has rapidly declined, they have much less food and there is evidence of them suffering injury from fishing nets and lines and possibly attacks from fishermen. Not to mention the noise and pollution generated by the heavy traffic in that stretch of water. Stressed then is an objective description and not 'a condescending one'.

Anyway, the title has been changed now. I don't mind but I don't think adding stressed was unfair, given the details of stress described in the article I have outlined above.
The sexism in this article is inexcusable, as is the homophobia.
Ask HN: How often do you change the price of your iOS app?
I have an iOS app [1] that I sell for under $5, and which has various IAPs (there's also a fully unlocked version for $30).

I have made it free at times, but that hasn't seemed to pay off in terms of the additional IAPs. I don't usually do 99¢, on the theory that anyone willing to pay $1 will be willing to pay $2. Sometimes it is as much as $4.99.

I'm curious to know how often others change the price of their apps, why they change the price (seasonality, experimentation, to get flagged by "sale" aggregator websites that notice price drops), and how it has worked out for them.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/beeline-reader/id938026867
Your post is very biased and imo misleading.

Nikola is worth close to $13B right now. It’s a bit above $12B. Why mention August 2020? You mention the recent stock drop cause of fraud allegations, but leave out that it is still at that market cap because it rose 49% earlier in the week when GM invested $2B for an 11% stake and is partnering with them still.

Your Uber valuation numbers are misleading as well. Uber was worth below $45B for a short 4 weeks in mid March to mid April when much of the stock market was down. Otherwise in the past 1.5 years it has actually been between $45B and $80B.

None of this changes anything. I don’t see why the numbers and data need to be presented slanted.
I think your calculations must be out.

The work achieved (lifting some tons of rocket) is orders of magnitude less work than the power extracted from falling water (hydro, thousands of tons per second).

And the heat output of burning hydrocarbons and nuclear reactions worldwide were concentrated into a few rocket nozzles, that would be rather mind boggling!
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There's another possibility but only because you mentioned SQL specifically. People often use SQL as shorthand for "understand how to manipulate data," and if a new hire doesn't have this skill it can really set a data team back, so interviewers are touchy about SQL. It would be helpful if they clarified if it was the SQL syntax skills or the data manipulation skills they had a problem with. But generally I agree with you that companies should prioritize problem solving skills over technical minutiae.
Another datapoint for developer and also reading all the cereal boxes.

Or even just signs when driving down the highway. I can't help but read everything.
> maybe the software on spy satellites shouldn't be available to everyone.

I would agree if I felt it made security stronger. I don't feel that way, given I know now that satellite is likely running windows.

OSS serving as a basis, not the end-implementation of a system is how it would work in practice. Just like it does now with contracted vendors.
I'm not sure about anything. I'm quoting the code directly. Ask the lawmakers if they're sure.
> Don't they have residency requirements?

Prepaid/pay-as-you-go SIMs shouldn't.
Windows 10? I don't even want that on my computer, let alone my phone. Of course a mainstream Linux OS (with real desktop+mobile convergence) would be quite nice, and both Purism and the pmOS community are working towards making that possible.
This is the precise reason I hate web apps with a passion. I want every app on my machine to behave predictably and have a uniform look and feel, not for every UI designer to be able to produce their own unique snowflake without regard for consistency.
If you read the thread, they mention that they had a requirement to empty the original bucket within the maintenance window, as well.
> Not everyone employed had these benefits to start with.

The key points I'm talking about are "some form of office" and I believe most people who can WFH had that. Even people who don't work in offices usually have a workplace, i.e. the utilities issue applies to them as well.

Less privileged workers will be hit harder by this, because a couple hundred bucks for all the bullet points I listed each month is not a huge deal to a tech worker, but potentially a massive deal for someone who makes less.

The additional perks are a tiny part of it, and subsidized (not free) cafeterias aren't uncommon even outside of tech in Germany. This will affect all office workers, not just tech.
There was a top post on HN just the other day about "security by obscurity", and how the concept is often misunderstood.

You are invoking the age-old closed vs open source argument - essentially, security by obscurity, but I'm not convinced it's a boon in this case. I believe govs using OSS is a net positive for humankind: there are many more minds and eyeballs on the code, and many more beneficiaries of the code.
Smartphones have become ridiculously large in the past years, but I think you are a bit too pessimistic if you assume that they fill fit two feet sensors that soon.
Which "he", and "went" where? You mean why Kyle crossed a state line, why he went to the riot, or...?

Kyle crossed a state line to go to work. He had a job as a lifeguard at the YMCA. After work, he stopped to help a group of people cleaning graffiti off of the local high school. (there are photos) He then, with his local friends, responded to a business owner who wanted help guarding property. Those friends supplied the rifle.

Kyle brought a medical kit and helped bandage a rioter who got an injured foot.

At a gas station, rioters set a fire in a wheeled dumpster. It seems they intended to push it toward the police. Kyle is seen in video running with a fire extinguisher. Somebody then used the fire extinguisher to put out the fire, enraging the rioters.

So I think it is obvious that Kyle was trying to save people and property. You might find that unbelievable, but some people feel a duty to do that kind of thing. It's notable that he only shot people who were actively attacking him. Former attackers and armed potential attackers were not shot at. It's a surprising amount of restraint.
Very nice, but out of 5 I tried 4 were dead sites, and 1 asked for a login straight away.

Maybe ping the sites and only return active ones?
Not all VCs are made equal and not all startups can take advantage of fundraising. Network is just as important and it could mean the difference between a 50 million dollars company (bootstrapped) versus a 500 million dollars company (multiple rounds of fundraising with brand name VCs). All these are contingent on the fact that your product has the ability to scale. If it is a rather niche area, then no amount of funding will make a difference.
Fair enough, but the claim is that "security and privacy aren't really protected", which I strongly disagree with and don't believe the author has presented anything justify such a strong claim.
yep. the whole "chalta hein" attitude needs to die.
> That’s the cynical perspective.

Google under Eric Schmidt literally colluded with other large SV companies to depress wages. There was a court case, it was a big deal, ~$400M was paid out over it.

""I believe we have a policy of no recruiting from Apple and this is a direct inbound request. Can you get this stopped and let me know why this is happening? I will need to send a response back to Apple quickly so please let me know as soon as you can. Thanks Eric". Schmidt's email led to a recruiter for Google being "terminated within the hour" for not having adhered to the illegal scheme."

It's not cynical, it's true.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Schmidt#Role_in_illegal_n...
I wish I had understood this earlier. My past company made a push to hire from top companies like Uber for some key positions. Some of them were great people who were relieved to be out of the FAANG rat race. Others were single-mindedly focused on rewriting everything they touched with cleverly-branded project names, regardless of whether or not it made business sense.

Early I on, I made a harmless comment in Slack about how one person’s pet project wasn’t a good fit for our needs so our team would be using the older, more proven solution. Later that evening the person pulled me aside, almost in tears, begging me to never say anything critical about his project in a Slack channel again. He explained that at his previous role, success or failure depends entirely on the perception of one’s personal projects and that seemingly innocent comments could tank someone’s promotion chances for years.

I felt bad for him because he had clearly come out of a toxic situation. However, one of his teammates later warned me that he was keeping a journal of potentially incriminating things that I had said in Slack and a detailed log of every issue that he could find with our team’s project in case he “had to use it against me later”.

I could never tell if this was a unique experience or the norm at some companies like Uber.
Most seed givers such as YC won’t let you. If your goal is seed -> bootstrap, you will be auto rejected.

VCs want you to hit it big or burn out within 5-10 years. Remember they are using investors money, and investors want their money back.

If your plan is to bootstrap (which I think is wise and the path I took with my current startup) , look into angels and Friends and family
Rounds. Most family rounds are totally OK with a longer horizon. That said, not all people have the friends and family to do such a raise, in which case what do you do?