skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> How do the "Precursors" get around evolution?

Easily. Make the genetic machinery responsible for the trigger hideously complex, redundant and, if possible, self-repairing (perhaps via a gene drive), and have loads of other genes rely on specific bits of it, so that a single alteration in that machinery will make life suck for the mutant without much preventing the trigger.

Evolution can't make big changes, because there is no guiding intelligence behind it, only statistics; that's why our retinas are still backwards, and why a giraffe's laryngeal nerves take five metres to connect points ~30cm apart. Even though life without this massive lump of “junk DNA” that everything seems to rely on would work better, evolve faster, thrive more, waste fewer resources, reproduce more efficiently… it'll take a lot of mutations for it to unravel, none of which are selected for. Parts of it might get corrupted by sheer fluke, if the corruption also disables each anti-corruption mechanism and happens to coincide with a beneficial mutation, but that's what the redundancy's for.

You'll never keep the phenotype the same, but you can keep a certain mostly-useless genetic mechanism intact, à la Robin Hood and Friar Tuck: http://catb.org/jargon/html/meaning-of-hack.html
Land? Enormous amounts of land are used to raise animals or food for animals, many of which could be replaced with slightly improved Impossible Burgers. Artificial meat is already pretty much acceptable and its primary constraint is the cheapness of real meat. Land is unlikely to ever be a constraint given demographic trends. If there's ever any pressure on food prices due to lack of land, meat prices will go up and a bunch of farms will switch to crops to use as input to artificial meat processes so they can produce more of it. That's a very deep pool to draw from.

As for not having any scientific process to fall back on, that's far from true in most of the world, even the developed world. Sadly the EU has been blocking the use of GM crops for years, supposedly on 'safety' grounds but in reality as a form of trade barrier designed to protect local farmers from having to become more efficient (mostly French farmers). So the EU isn't even using genetic engineering to increase yields, a by now very mature technology! Large parts of Europe don't even use advanced technology because the CAP subsidy scheme pays them to not grow food!

When you look around the world there's plenty of low hanging techno-fruit almost everywhere, except maybe the USA where new tech is embraced and farming is quite efficient already. But even then, there's plenty of tech on the horizon should we want it. Genetic engineering is still at the start of what it can do - it's capable of so much more than just pesticide resistance.
I'll admit, I didn't read all four articles. I got about half way through the first one and was just wondering "I still have no idea what this is all about." Fortunately, the Wikipedia article on the author has a brief summary.

In particular, I thought this quote from the Wikipedia article really summarizes the differences between older and younger generations: "there is a profound difference between using a racial epithet in the course of a discussion about that racial epithet's use, and using a racial epithet to diminish or to wound someone."

For "socially conscious" people in my generation (Gen X), I think nearly all of us would find calling someone a racial epithet abhorrent. At the same time, while I understand culture has shifted and I wouldn't do it now, I still find it quite bizarre that the mere utterance of the epithet, even in a sentence like "You should never call someone a <racial epithet> because that is extremely offensive" is considered itself racist by younger people.

I recall hearing about a young popular YouTuber about a year or so ago who was accused of being racist simply for singing along to the lyrics of a popular rap song. Even more strange to me was that his defense (which was true if one looked up his Instagram video) was that he did NOT utter said epithet, in that he was singing along with the lyrics but when it got to that word he just skipped it and didn't say it.

I understand culture changes, but it still bothers me that we've gotten to the point where we completely disregard intent and focus instead just on the syntax of what was said. To be clear, I'm not sure if that's indeed what occurred in Mr. McNeil's case, but I certainly have seen it in other examples.
Wikipedia article goes into more detail:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds_(1938_...
Same for the mi pad plus 4 to root it. You have to have it tied to an account for a month.
You advertise the price in the fiat currency you want.

Bitcoin is only used in transit.
Chinese browser collects your data? Spyware.

American company collects your data? $1,400,000,000,000 valuation.

This reminds me of how we call Russian billionaires "oligarchs" but we just call American billionaires...billionaires.
Are you suggesting that blacklists are a new phenomenon?

"cancel culture" has always existed. The only thing that is changing is that who is "cancelled" is no longer chosen by TV producers and news editors (ie, white men), but democratically by self-directed popular discourse.

In 2003 the Dixie Chicks said at a show in london, "We don't want this war, we're ashamed the President of the United States is from Texas". Immediately their recording contracts were cancelled, venues would no longer book their shows, radio stations would no longer play them, MTV stopped showing their music videos, they lost all of their sponsorships, and their colleagues in the genre ostracized them and started including segments in their shows about how the Dixie Chicks are terrorists.

If that's not cancel culture, what is? Why is it okay and normal for white male venue owners, disc jockeys, and record label CEOs to destroy somebody's career for a single sentence of political speech, but "political correctness run amok" when marginalized people on twitter decide that they aren't going to buy tickets to a show with a comedian who's known for assaulting female stagehands?
Anyone else seeing a lot of these stories in the past few weeks? The article is good, and the danger is real, but I'm suspicious about why these stories are coming out all of a sudden, considering the level of danger has not changed. There's no new reason to be concerned.
> how to proceed before the team starts on building this tool.

So far, neither you nor your company have built anything.

Relative to the Market opportunity. This platform could be a nice new line-of-business for your firm with the potential for a carve out down the road. Build your business case and pitch the CEO on the Big Idea.

Incidentally, worth checking if that $50K seed money comes with any restrictions. Obvious, conflict of interest if future potential customers are his direct competitors.
It would be nice if it was possible to turn autosuggestions off, I agree.
They said individual stocks do while I like your answer it might go against what they wanted. I think non funds would be a more interesting answer.
They respect their customer by selling hardware 50% off compared to Samsung and 80% off compared to apple. Having this with custom rom is a bargain imho.
> Do you understand by this logic, basically any profession can fit "xxx make America what it is". At least "programmers make America what it is" is certainly true.

The error you're making is treating all kinds of "important" as equivalent. Your 3) should be something more like "democracy is an important part of American identity." Programming may be important to America today, but it's not really part of its identity.
I mean that the power that is still online doesn’t suddenly cost 500x more to produce. The plants are paid extra for.. not being prepared? This is why regulations exist.
This is a strawman argument, because this is in no way representative of the many people who live in poverty, but I’ll address it because it doesn’t change my final opinion:

Yes, because obviously what someone who won (and lost) millions of dollars needs is not money, but help and support.

Not to mention, by the construction of your own strawman, if they’ve won such a jackpot they’ve probably also then paid millions in taxes.
The only way we'll ever be able to combat cancel culture is through online anonymity. I fear that we're drifting in the other direction, though - specifically to make cancellation easier.
Interesting, I'll have to look into that some more. It looks like a good solution.
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DPAs including the German on are quite “business” friendly unless it will be challenged in court.

You can’t force someone to provide their business at a loss.

As long as you don’t penalize or segregate users based on their decision alone it does not run afoul of GDPR, neither does blocking someone completely you just need to have a valid business reason for doing that and it has to be tied to the nature of the service including how it’s funded.
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>> But what else?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Traffic_in_Arms_...

IV: Launch Vehicles, Guided Missiles, Ballistic Missiles, Rockets, Torpedoes, Bombs and Mines

V: Explosives and Energetic Materials, Propellants, Incendiary Agents and Their Constituents

XII: Fire Control, Range Finder, Optical and Guidance and Control Equipment

XV: Spacecraft Systems and Associated Equipment

https://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/text-idx?SID=86008bdffd1fb2e79c...

(1) Rockets, SLVs, and missiles capable of delivering at least a 500-kg payload to a range of at least 300 km (MT);

(2) Rockets, SLVs, and missiles capable of delivering less than a 500-kg payload to a range of at least 300 km (MT);

[...]

(12) Thrusters (e.g., spacecraft or rocket engines) using bi-propellants or mono-propellant that provide greater than 150 lbf (i.e., 667.23 N) vacuum thrust (MT for rocket motors or engines having a total impulse capacity equal to or greater than 8.41 × 10^5 newton seconds);

(13) Control moment gyroscope (CMG) specially designed for spacecraft;

And lots more stuff.
(not the OP) two big UX gripes I have with iMessage:

1) For some reason, photos take forever to be received (and sometimes are not received at all) when I send them to certain people. Best I can tell is they're using older devices and/or are in poor reception.

This + I can't send a photo with a message attached means that I'll send the photo, then a message with context, but the person never receives the photo so it's confusing.

2) There is no clear way to dismiss messages from the list of conversations without deleting them. It makes it hard to find conversations later when I have to scroll through a bunch of stuff I don't care about, but may want to search later.
Toggle the “Candlestick chart” on your diagram.

Though it could and did change percentage points a day, financial industry was still comfortable how to do business with ongoing volatility.

Those same mechanisms are useful here, meaning volatility isn’t the thing that precludes what Citi is discussing.
> Time and again, challenges to monetary order aren't permitted but puritanical word-propriety is encouraged. It's an energy outlet.

I agree very much with this statement, but somehow have reached the opposite conclusion about whether "cancel culture" is a big problem that we need to spend a lot of time addressing. To me, that seems to be playing into the same issue you identified.
Tesla’s market share in Europe keeps crumbling, as China reclaims top spot
>>" Now, you get yelled at on Twitter and some companies won't work with you."

And is that good?
Oh, I like this implementation a lot! I'll paste it into github issue so I don't forget
I think the bigger issue is with programs (e.g. nvm) that are either implemented as collections of shell scripts, or function by dynamically generating shell commands.
If you're not willing to stand by your opinion and face the consequences of sharing it, how important is your opinion really?

Intellectual progress demands that ideas distasteful to the status quo must be openly discussable, but some stakes are necessary to keep those who have carefully thought out their positions and thus hold them with conviction from being drowned out by those who merely parrot ridiculous talking points they never took the time to digest themselves.

If you are ashamed to be associated with an idea, that is not an idea you should be advocating - if it has any merit, others will advocate it better than you, if not then what purpose does your advocacy serve?

There is nothing wrong with picking which hills are worth dying on, and it's okay to acknowledge that some of your opinions are kinda dumb. The fact is most of us are experts on only a narrow range of human knowledge, and our opinions on the rest are coming from a place of ignorance. If you don't have something valuable to add to a conversation, it is not only reasonable but preferable to remain silent and listen to what others have to say.
What part of I've hired both kinds of people didnt you get? That's considered actual experience.

Edit: Not preconceived either. This developed after almost 7 years of hiring people directly for me. People I had to then work with everyday. I dont have a hiring manager.
kinda, but kinda not. $1000 is still a lot more than $400. I consider $600 to be a meaningful amount of money. it's definitely not a good move to spend that much on a phone if $600 matters to you. in any case, this conversation is drifting off the rails (or was derailed from the start). the iphone SE exists and sells for $400. with apple's track record for updates, that might be the best value on the entire market right now. I wouldn't consider it irresponsible for anyone to purchase that phone. I'm also not sure I believe that large amounts of poor people are buying brand new $1000 iphones anyway. most poor people I know are using whatever cheap phone happens to be supported by a local MVNO.
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>Couldn't they, you know, respect their customer instead?

I think the phone vendors that do that are in the vast minority.
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You're probably right about the money saving value proposition... the flexibility to customize the service in-house may outweigh cost savings.

I'm not really sure how convincing them I will grow this to something big is relevant. It's a very niche service that isn't something my employer would be interested in making money off of. They do not intend to sell the tool they are thinking about building in house. I am financially independent and would like to bootstrap this business, so I have no interest in bringing in VCs. Even if I did, it's such a niche problem that no VC would be interested, unless I sold the problem as a gateway into a much bigger and more profitable domain. I don't really have any interest in this though.
We all seem to think/assume that newspapers in general used to be honest and fair in the past.

I think I got that idea from Movies/TV as a kid in the 80s/90s. It was a very common and prominent theme. The hero(ine) was very often a print journalist. Think e.g. Teri Hatcher's Lois Lane in the 90s.
> “Recently,” I told Carolyn, “I’ve been feeling a little like a Confederate Statue. I think people are getting a little sick of me and are waiting for me to make a mistake so they can pull me down and trample me.”

I can't be the only person who thinks that this is an odd and inappropriate comparison to make, can I? But it doesn't surprise me that someone who thinks that this is a reasonable analogy in a public setting would be interpreted as making racist remarks.
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I love fish, and have been using it as my shell for over 10 years, it's pretty much the first thing I install on a new system.

I usually heavily tweak the settings of the applications I use, make my own custom themes etc, but the defaults of fish are so good that I hardly changed anything.

I only installed 3 plugins (z,fzf,and virtualfish) and that's it, it's super productive.

Completion from history, persistently setting enviroment variables, defining functions, the syntax, everything is much more ergonomic and sane than in bash.

I'm sure you can tweak zsh or even bash to achieve something similar, but why bother?

Also, i don't mind the incompatibility with bash: the fish language is much more sane, and you can easily use bash if needed.
> I've learnt that no matter if I'm right or wrong, I should just apologize. It's faster and less painful.

I'm genuinely curious if this is a good strategy, relationship-wise. I would expect that insincere / dishonest communication would put a limit on intimacy, but maybe that's preferable to frequent arguments?
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I've often given nested bullet point lists as an example of trees when I was tutoring freshmen-level CS. This is fun
Medium is awful. Pages on average load in <0.5 seconds, including JS. Medium takes 12 seconds on average. Bandwidth is not the bottleneck, I have 1Gps service.
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It has, the only obscuring factor is China's one-child-policy and Europe's and North America's decline. The rest is still very much in exponential growth. Only the last 20 years at best saw some possible downward trend, but there have been similar variations before. So that's like reading the climate from small changes in weather, a fool's errand. Until there is a firm trend for a shrinking or stagnating population, all the small variations just lead to wishful thinking like yours. You cannot just ignore math and biology, populations will grow exponentially until they hit a limit.
No they don't. They get canceled by neo-liberals.
Yeah there's a lot of stuff in those four pieces, this is from the third one

"I described covering it and said there was one awkward moment — I asked a “dance captain” if I could interview one of her girls. She said they were mostly too shy, but there was a bold one she would introduce me too. I started the interview, and immediately 20 topless girls cluster around wanting to talk too. My photographer sees me in the middle of this throng — I’m in deep Zululand, miles from a paved road, but I’m wearing a coat and tie like a good Timesman — and he starts to shoot a picture. The picture catches me yelling: “Don’t take a picture! My wife will kill me!”
Apparently, some students took offense at that."

mind you he was talking to an audience of almost exclusively teenage girls here when telling that story. I don't think he ever used the n-word maliciously but from the sound of the entire thing he might also not fully be aware of how he comes across when he talks.
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Show me a metric which makes Rust a relevant language.

> Anecdotal for sure, I'll agree, but your observation is no less anecdotal than mine.

I haven't seen Rust in any "top X language" news. Prove me wrong.
There are literally talks on YouTube about using dependent types in Rust. In fact that is how I stumbled over the topic in the first place. So yes, it does. Just not in a convenient way, as I already mentioned.
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It seemed like “we have progressed, therefore it’s okay to backslide and no one should criticize cancellation”. After all, no one here is arguing that the 1500s, 1600s, etc were the golden ages of speech.
I don't think Sanders people would consider themselves "liberal". I know I don't.
People are upset that the definition of racist has been repurposed to apply to racially neutral positions and even anti-racism positions. If one advocates in favor of enforcing existing immigration laws, that's a quick way to get labeled a racist Nazi even though it's actually a very moderate stance. If one supports treating everyone equally regardless of race, then that explicitly anti-racism position is characterized as racist and attacked with baseless accusations of "bad faith".
You’re blurring away the gap between behavior and ideas. Sexual misconduct and “anti trans” views are as incommensurable as musical scales and baseball bats.
> My guess is that they don't make standards up on the fly, and no unique standards are applied to Timnit and not to literally everyone else.

It is not disputed by Google that special standards (an additional, non-standard review process) were applied to this paper. There is some lack of clarity about how often that additional review process is applied (https://artificialintelligence-news.com/2020/12/24/google-te..., https://www.reuters.com/article/us-alphabet-google-research-...). But broadly it seems to not have much to do with the technical merit of the papers, despite what Google originally claimed, and instead be a legal/PR process.
Generally, high fertility is associated with a lower standard of living. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_and_fertility)

If people are functionally poorer than GDP per capita would have you believe, we would expect abnormally high fertility rates, not low.
I don't know. I agree that it's not a customer friendly policy. But if your already stuck with a Xiaomi phone you have to either return it or bite the bullet, not much else you can do.
There is a natural tendency to compare and contrast. And especially in cases where people are speculating about political motives, you're going to see that.

> Or Google being spyware somehow makes Xiaomi spyware less shitty?

Absolutely not, but both of them doing it defangs certain types of criticism.