skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh, well the 'current' argument is that it's unlikely for a bunch of reasons.

- cambrian explosion of life is seen as unlikely given that changing random genes or dna mutations has such a low success rate in generating new life, that an explosion of life happening all at once seems out of step with the math.

- we don't know how to create life at all. adding up bits and pieces of molecules into cells and onwards can be screwed up at any point in the process and has to start over from square one to succeed. people in the lab can't even get it right and they can write down their progress and adapt unlike nature.

- self-organizing molecules and natural forces guided towards life haven't been seen yet to exist in nature, it has no expressed intent or will to self-organize into life. randomness and infinite time just isn't enough

I don't see the evidence that local minima and maxima changes in body shape, size, ect, act to completely change the species of an animal.

There's a long debate running from the 1980s on this stuff, it's just getting views on youtube more recently and becoming properly structured and scientific arguments instead of just conjecture. The stephen meyer 'intelligent design', david berlinski 'doubting darwin', ect arguments. The hoover institute did a piece a few years ago on youtube.

James Tour has a great series on origin of life that shows in the hard tasks of applying biology we are way off knowing how any of this works. https://youtu.be/zU7Lww-sBPg

The counter arguments to stephen meyer's idea a 'heirarchy of information guides dna changes' seem to be good conjectures and nobody really has the next step in the narrative tied down yet. Some say the cell is the powerhouse of life and sidestep the necessity of explaining dna changes. Some stick to the evolved life like Lee Cronin on the Unbelievable podcast.

Just curious if anyone has a stab in the dark for the next step in the narrative. A heirarchy seems like a red herring to me, cause it just leads back to an energy based universe that produces information, but I'm not qualified enough to have a say.
I hear this argument quite a lot. But using TAI is no different from using UTC in terms of complexity because both requires the complex problem of data distribution (either of leap seconds or of UTC-TAI differences). If you ever have to use UTC somewhere you can't escape from that problem; using TAI is only moving the goalpost.
Dolly Parton is fascinating. Recent years I have stopped writing open source software, like mye command line filewatcher, and taken up song writing. It is a hard challenge to find an audience, atune to their taste, and produce some original songs. While I like to sit by the piano or play the guitar, my main instrument is the iPad. After the kids have gone to sleep, I play garageband with headphones.
AudioKit is churning out high-quality, open-source apps, despite that.
Pretty sure there are lots of things that you use everyday that actually require precision time, such as GPS.
my observations which I think broadly agrees.

-Math/CS: inherently better at abstracting & are "proof" centric.

-Life Sciences: inherently better at observing then reasoning and are "argument" centric.

Coming from the CS side this is not a marriage made in heaven as opinions don't matter by design.
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> Thankfully since 2013, Linux kernel has supported TAI.

Only with the correct ntpd configuration [1]. For that reason it is impossible to rely on that API in end-user libraries.

[1] https://superuser.com/questions/1156693/is-there-a-way-of-ge...
All MacBooks throttle performance when heat gets too high. It prevents unnecessary damage to the chip and battery.

We can all hear the fans spin up and usually we know why. We also know the machine is going to slow down.

The difference on iPhone is there was no precedent and user expectation for this behavior. Apple did not offer a setting for this, though I imagine if they did almost everyone would have turned it on.

Should Apple have explained this up front? Yes. Should they have replaced people’s batteries? Yes.

Was this a 100 million dollar set of mistakes? Probably not.
Probably much more in the loss of good will.

I agree w the poster elsewhere this is a marketing and customer support problem.

Sometimes apple makes mistakes and lose in court to great humiliation, like when they tried to force Apple Store employees not get paid to follow their security requirements.

I think it’s good to keep the company on its toes, but this particular case seems pretty mild to me.
Are you referring to this - https://store.hbr.org/product/mastering-business-fundamental...?
If Jimmy is such an expert on incentives, why are all the long term editors leaving?
Size comparison:

https://twitter.com/GregDavill/status/1300562224474279936?s=...
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Kudos on optimization.
I'm a diehard proponent of leap hours [1]. We already have a regular (or, rather irregular) adjustment in the civil time, namely time zones and "daylight saving" times. While I passionately hate DST, if we have to have DST anyway it's much better to make UTC adjustments use the same increment as well.

[1] http://www.leapsecond.com/LEAPHOUR/
I just watched this video and wanted to return to say thanks for the great suggestion. What an unexpectedly delightful lecture
I too did exactly same, as linjed here in this thread itself:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25113154
If anyone finds this overview article brief and wants to dig deeper, remember to click into the links to two journal articles. [1] [2]

[1]: https://www.jstor.org/stable/43707865

[2]: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2410522

Separately, the article reminds me of another fascinating evolutionary tale from phylum Arthropoda. [3]

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinisation
As long as everyone agrees on the time GPS will work. It's a question of how much deviance from solar time we are willing to tolerate vs how much effort we want to tolerate.
Pretty sure the Spanner case isn't using either one. Google's systems futz with the speed of time near the leap second to distribute it across a wide span about midnight, UTC.

https://developers.google.com/time/smear
> It means I have one place to manage subscriptions, one place with my credit card details, one place to manage family payments

You are right. Choices and options just are messy. We should just have one company that does everything. Lets just merge everything together.

> all of it is from a company that can be trusted to do things in a secure and private way.

Are you for real? Apple is one of the greediest immoral and anti-competitive companies in the world. Not just in terms of tax avoidance via offshore shenanigans or slave labor in china, but their overall ethos of closed platform. But trust Saint Apple if you must.

> Do you really want the likes of PayPal or Epic to dominate mobile App Store payments?

What's wrong with nobody dominating anything and having competition?
If you are on an iphone 12 the difference between native apps (liquid smooth so far in my experience - basically perfect) and flutter apps is striking!

Get ready for JANK on iOS. Or maybe just me. Flutter looks cool, but they really should make iOS a first class target platform at some point.
Measuring things is kind of problematic.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measurement_problem
While I'm not privy to the specific contracts in question, who holds the copyright probably isn't relevant to the dispute, at least not in the most obvious way -- namely, it doesn't matter that the copyright was never held by Foster. The relevant questions are, I suspect, (a) whether or not the contract included royalties to be paid to Foster, and (b) whether the obligation to pay said royalties survives transfer of ownership of the copyright.

A lot of "work for hire" contracts don't pay royalties, just a flat fee, but I don't think we'd be talking about this at all if this were the case here -- Foster was evidently being paid royalties until Disney took over Lucasfilm. So the dispute is over the second question. Disney is implicitly arguing that they get out of paying royalties to every single author who created works for companies that Disney subsequently bought, regardless of whether those contracts specified royalties that the predecessor corporations would have otherwise been paying.
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Note that France – one of governments with commercial interests in the Airbus/Eurofighter consortium – doesn't have clean hands when it comes to spying on behalf of its domestic firms: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/france-spied-on-com...

While perversion of national-security spying for generic & narrow commercial gain is concerning, arms deals are a hybrid case. To the extent a case involves government-on-government spying, it's hard for me to get angry. I tend to see it as a rare horizontal form of transparency/accountability among entities that often have too few checks on their corruption & skulduggery.

Even between friendly governments, maybe friends that spy on each other achieve an even greater mutual trust - an assurance there's nothing being planned internally that conflicts with the claims made via official channels.

"If you've got nothing to hide, you've got nothing to fear" is a shitty principle when hypocritically deployed by the powerful against private people.

But doesn't it kind of make sense when applied to governments? What right-to-privacy, exactly, does a government have against its citizens or allies?
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I imagine that 100x Alan Dean Foster’s back royalties wouldn’t even be noticeable on Disney’s balance sheet.

The only reason I can really think of them doing this is that they don’t actually believe they owe him the money.

It’s reasonably clear that he never held the copyright to the works and it’s not public what his actual contract was.
It is possible to do legitimately but it is also frequently done as a profitable game for the investor, who pays for the company with a loan that they pay back out of the company once they own it, sells off assets to his friends or a shell company and then declares the company bankrupt before selling it too.

It is a well known phenomenon - the book Glass House covers the destruction of Anchor Glass this way in surprising detail.

More background: https://prospect.org/economy/last-legislation-stop-private-e...
Science, and biology in particular, was one of the few subjects I actually did enjoy growing up. I could occasionally be found reading some random books related to the subject.

Of course, one of the things that ultimately lead to me doing software, was that it was something I could do "real" work in my own home without a ton of extremely expensive equipment not available to the general public, and immerse myself in it, which is more than I can say for most of the things that have captured my interest.
Google's brand has become synonymous with privacy violation.

Their services are designed to suck everything knowable about you like an information vampire.
$2000 per month I think!
Before reading the article I started writing a comment about how during a 1st year genetics class at university I was amazed at the software and hardware (for lack of better terms) involved in DNA replication are mind blowing. Now I see the author makes the comparison to a Lisp program.

Also wanted to mention the differentiation of cells in an embryo (how the f*ck can that even work ... not in a lab, but our own bodies?!) - it's explained really well in "The Gene" (hormonal gradients in the embryonic fluid). Author also mentions this.

Natural selection ... is our DNA some kind of cosmic RAM memory that stores all this information over millions of years?

The other day I went to get my hearing checked and the doc explained to me how sound is captured by the ear drum and transferred to the brain through a few bones and along hairs & nerves. It's basic high school stuff but if you take a step back and think about how this mechanism makes us perceive the beauty of our favorite sounds (music, hearing our children laugh), how complex it must actually be and that this ... "evolved", out of a cosmic chemical soup, it's just incomprehensible.

Biology, genes, brains are nothing short of amazing. I'm not a religious person but if something points to the existence of a god then you'll find it in biology.
GPS does not use leap seconds. See e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Positioning_System#Leap...
Besides the sibling comment that some things rely on the days being synced to rotation, doing it once a century would pretty much guarantee that only the most obsessively robust systems would take it into consideration when being built.

We'd be giving ourselves a Y2k-equivalent to deal with every century. Maybe that's not the biggest deal in the world, but I still remember the last viscerally and we're already a fifth of the way to the next one (not to mention the timestamp bug one coming up in a decade).

I disagree with the other comment's suggestion that leap hours can be taken into consideration like DST. I see no reason why DST code (which is generally implemented as an extra timezone) could straightforwardly be adapted to handle a single permanent shift of time.
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I love the concept, it's like switch on/off buttons for your PC. I've read that there will be color themes, I hope for a dark theme though I like the blue plastic.

I can easily imagine how this will be a time saver for me by not having to stand by my PC, but for some programs to start I need to set command line parameters. Is it possible ? And what does the desktop app look like ? And what about macros? A lot of questions :-)
Like this? https://gitlab.com/davch/static-redirect
Wow, that's really neat! The suggested routes of a particular length is an awesome feature I've never seen anywhere before.

I also like the street name initials concept -- if you're familiar with the cycling routes in an area, you're likely to recognize them.
Fuck you.. literally fuck you..

We have entered into illegal wars for you guys, followed you in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libiya, danish soldiers have died, and gotten ptsd in the wars you started, handed over Pows in good faith, that then were tortured. And this is how you feel?.. that naturally the US should be spying on us.. fuck you!
That was only one consideration, taken out of context you're correct: It does not fit. If this latest gambit doesn't work, it looks like their next step will be to file a lawsuit. But that doesn't have to be the immediate step. Once taken, any somewhat more amicable solution is taken off the table.

They've pursued these possibilities:

1) Hey, maybe you've overlooked this, but you haven't been sending me royalty reconciliation statements & payments. (This actually happens without malice: I worked at a scientific publishing company, and when a reprint of an old book happens, or the rights to another book are purchased, the royalty obligations are not always 100% clear, or the 3rd listed author on something is overlooked, or the author is dead and an estate has to be tracked down, or any number of other issue)

Next they went to:

2) Okay, we'd like to sit down with our lawyers to figure out the specific contractual issues here and work something out.

Now they're at:

3) It seems like you aren't dealing with us in good faith. We represent a large group of creative writers you may need to work with in the future, those creators have a vast number of fans that are your customers. Maybe that public reminder will help your willingness to address this issue.

All of the above are options that can play out fairly quickly. A lawsuit is not fast. And as I said, once you go down the lawsuit route, the above options are off the table.
Can anyone recommend a good way to digest a public filing? Like understand in a nut shell way, instead of reading through the whole thing.
I am well aware none of it will actually happen but nonetheless it would get more people to buy into what seems to be an excellent hardware platform.

Apple had a record Mac quarter (July-September), generating a little over $9 billion in revenue; Mac sales were up 37% from the year before.

A lot of this was due to people buying Macs to WFH during the pandemic. But it also shows they don't have to change what they've been doing to keep sales going.

I suspect when Docker gets running on M1 Macs, a lot of the need to boot into Linux will dissipate. Same thing when Linux running in a VM on Apple Silicon Macs is much faster than any comparable PC hardware you can buy.

Remember, they demoed Debian running in a VM on a prototype M1 Mac nearly 6 months ago, so we know it's coming.

And while I get it—I used to help support a lab of triple-boot Macs (MacOS/Linux/Windows)—being able to boot 3rd party operating systems on manufacturers machines is going to become less common.

With the goal is to diminish the attack surface for the bad guys, my hope is Apple's hypervisor technology will enable access to enough things to create a fast, workable VM solution for 3rd-party operating systems on M1 Macs without sacrificing security.
FCC Votes to Open 5.9GHz for WiFi [pdf]
This isn't just biology, it's school. The only time you're taught processes and methods, it's when they're busywork, and you're wasting a year memorising how to do something nobody does any more because we have computers and calculators. What you're being taught is to squash your individuality, demand and follow orders, and to seek your worth only in the approval of your betters.

But most of all, you're being kept out of the house so that both your parents can go back to jobs they don't like.
I am in awe of your ability to come up with ideas like that. And very quickly too.

I'd love to work on a side hustle like that but my ideas percolate over a long time.
Looks like i wasn't very clear.

The difference according to the book is that if you want to convice an audience of something, e.g, result of a study, americans are more interested in the results and how to apply it. Germans want to understand how you got to the results, what the process was behind it so they can understand that your results are correct.
As someone who worked at Hortonworks back in the day, this is why I clicked through to find out what is OpenEMR, haha
Great. Our last shred of privacy sold to Google for the convenience of digital payments. People, wake up!
Plot twist: Huawei hardware is more secure than American hardware.

We all know that Cisco equipment has already been compromised by the NSA. And that all the major American tech companies are in collusion with the federal government.

What we don’t know yet, is how secure Chinese built hardware and software is.
Almost similar strategy here, static file generator for redirect https://gitlab.com/davch/static-redirect
Are there any non-Apple OSs that run on iPhones?
I suspect that there is a transition, that happens after high school for some people, where the world goes from a bewildering set of disjointed arbitrary facts that need to be memorized, into comprehensible system that can be understood and behavior predicted (with sufficient effort).

I also suspect that part of this is that software engineers, realizing that they can now purchase things like lab equipment and bacteria cultures, are now free to fund their own learning in their own idiosyncratic way (much like they learned to program), and not worry about burning money on something that doesn't pan out.

Between this, a new confidence that the world is understandable and... debuggable, and the fact they can finance their own experiments, gives a shift in perspective that wasn't available when they were in high school.
Where on the spectrum of skilled would you consider working at a grocery store?
However please note that they publish the whole development toolsuite needed for free without obligation. This was not the standard behavior of commercials OS in the 1990's. (not sure who pulled this first)

So the 100$ annual fee is more like a contribution to be recognized as a professional developer with extended support and services. Heck if you work in a team you don't even need one account per developer.

This somehow guarantees that each account is linked to an identifiable real world entity and that bad actors won't massively create fake account for free to muddy the water around illicit activities.

So by imposing a relatively modest fee they improve both traceability and avoid spamming behavior. This sound like a sensible design.

PS: I'm amazed by how on the same thread people can complain that the 1 million $ threshold for rebate is cruelly low AND that a 100$ entry fee is an unbearable tax. Internet trolling at it's finest!
https://gitlab.com/davch/static-redirect My take :)
The first data sheet I pulled up has an option for 47mF at 4.5V in 20x15x2.3mm of supercap. So it would fit if you really wanted.
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I entered this discussion merely to point out what I saw as a problem with an example that you chose to make your point with. If you think that leads to a pedantic debate, then maybe it wasn't a good example to begin with. So long as you continue to insist, as you do in your last sentence above, that this is an appropriate analogy for the point you are trying to make, I will regard it as a weakness in your position.

To put that aside and address your larger point, then if we had just one candidate that provides "an explanation for BHIP that does not introduce any new assumptions or very small assumptions to existing theory", then it would indeed be a plausible candidate explanation. That is not, however, the situation we are faced with: Hossenfelder's argument is that there are many equally plausible (and equally speculative) ways in which the paradox could be resolved (though none that "[do] not introduce any new assumptions or very small assumptions to existing theory"), with no prospect of us getting the data to choose between them (note that Hossenfelder is highly skeptical of choosing between theories on the basis of 'beauty', 'elegance' or other subjective distinctions[1]. As I explained above, Occam's razor is not in this category.)

As far as I know, this argument might fail if some data from a seemingly unrelated field supports just one of the candidate resolutions of the paradox. This might be the point you are trying to make, but if so, your "gravity might fail" analogy isn't helping, as we are not currently faced with multiple, equally-plausible theories of gravity, one of which will be preferred if gravity stops working in 1000 years (speculating that it might do so is neither an observation nor a theory of gravity, it's just speculation.)

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Math-Beauty-Physics-Astray/dp/04...
Same here, really love it and I'm relieved to use it when I get back from working on a React project.

One of the reasons it's not mentioned is because of the bad fame. Especially here on HN it's almost exclusively being hated on.

I learned to ignore the hate and continue working with it. Version 11 is awesome, and we had a great update party with the Angular Team on the official discord (https://discord.gg/angular)