skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "We share 50% of the same DNA as a banana"

This is a widely repeated "internet fact" but it's not true. For one thing, a banana has only about 520 million base pairs of DNA, while the Human genome has 3.1 billion.

In reality, depending on the search method used, at most about 24% of human genes have orthologous genes in the banana genome:

https://lab.dessimoz.org/blog/2020/12/08/human-banana-orthol...
It’s too bad, a massive fleet built to spec, with central fueling and maintenance locations is a perfect use case for electric now even though we are potentially a long way from charging stations as convenient as gas stations.
Other then I use C++ instead of Go they have just described my exact approach to software development. I do not develop for FAANG and for what I do for my clients it is hard to find the task that modern monsters of computer can not solve by way of vertical scaling.

I did some map reduce type projects but those were very special cases.
I didn't say I use them as a daily driver. I expect to be able to use all the base features.
Exactly what I was looking for, thank you so much!
This would split the market for ML as well.
How does it recognize corruption? Certainly some could be processed with incomplete or incorrect results. It's really hard (probably impossible) to show that there will not be negative effects from that.
So you want a career in building computer games?
I believe it may have more to do with the stigma of drinking your Bier from a can, as opposed to a glass.
Same happened to me, except 3 days ago. I did a search in comments to find this. Because I was so sure, this is not a coincidence.

It happened to me several times now. I suspect there is a "zeitgeist" sort of thing to the Youtube's recommendation engine. I mean it recommends same individual videos, to a given demographic of people in same span of time.

PS : I live in Sweden, I suspected it was just that.
I don't think the argument was that you should hand over the source code. It's just that you shouldn't be able to legally go after others distributing the old version.

There is an issue with the period right after your WidgetReader 2.0 is released. Most will be perfectly happy with version 1 (many may even prefer it) and you'll have a hard time selling the new version, given that you're competing with your own old and now free version.

Perhaps it should be more like: 10 years after the end of life date. It's tricky, I want software companies to be able to make money on sell their software, and not having to rely on subscriptions, but I also feel that we should be able to legally copy 25 year old video games and software for DOS 6.22.
I want one of these cars, I live in an apartment in a city with street parking. There is no way I can install solar panels, and there is no space for it anywhere.
It's not flawless. But the point is not that it is flawless or that it should be (because, I don't think such a complex process can ever be). The point is that it gives you the best possible result as of now. Meaning, you have the highest chance for survival/avoiding a permanent health damage (which COVID can cause too) is taking an EMA/FDA approved vaccine.

> but many people who are wary are often put in a corner of conspiracy theorists and I don't think this is fair.

I think think this happens for at least two reasons. First, they are often simply conspiracy theorists who just try to phrase their thoughts in a way that doesn't seem like conspiracy theory at first. I've talked to a lot of people (mostly online) and I can tell you that it happens a lot. And the same people will start the same conversations again and again along the same patterns, pretending they are not conspiracy theorists or anti-vaxxers for that matter but go down the same path and show themselves if you engage in a discussion.

Second, because of the above phenomenon, some people will just jump to the conclusion that anyone who raises concerns are indeed conspiracy theorists. (Again, because a lot of them will pretend that they are indeed sane people having sane questions.) It's not ideal, but not surprising either.
> The question is about the validity of data and questioning is just fine.

Are you going to question every "data leak" and smear campaign that comes from questionable sources (I think this leak was first published on Rutor - not the first time Russia does something like that)?

> it doesn't mean someone else can't

True, that's what the article addresses. And as you see it's making technical questions not implying they're hiding something.
Honestly SBI architecture feels so much better than HDFC though.. Even though SBI is state run and HDFC is public
>, he continued running the company with new part-time employees,

I think he continued with part-time contractors instead of employees if I read his blog post correctly: https://sahillavingia.com/work

> Instead, I found an Indian firm called BigBinary and hired a few engineers as contractors.

>These contractors saved the company. They fixed bugs and maintained the site while I answered support tickets, designed features, and wrote about new initatives.

[I'll delete this post if it's inaccurate]
The perspective of the OP seems to stem from not having had to deal with the
problems docker is trying to address. Most importantly it ignores the problems
that arise on any dev team that is made up by more than one person.

One can do all the things that docker does without docker, but the knowledge
needed to bring the basic features that docker does is far greater than
learning how to use docker. In fact, if you know how to build something
remotely close to docker, you'd be crazy not to use docker instead. At the very
least, docker brings along industry standard conventions, and builds a common
ground for everyone to work on without having to be onboarded on your home
brewed packaging, distribution, storage, runtime and networking solution,
regardless how simple it is.

On a side note, it seems like many trending topics on HN are heavily bashing
new technologies (see k8s, rust, clouds, etc...) that are already widely
adopted. Most communicate a resignation from learning something too complex.
Docker is not complex, k8s is not complex, rust is not complex; the problems
they are addressing are. Most teams developing things that run on the web will
have to deal with these problems hopefully before they don't make it. The rest
are wizards like the stackoverflow team.
> Using a SEAL or the Indie.VC V3 terms seems more inline with how they want to run the company because it includes an instrument for investors to get an ROI with a payback clause if you choose never to sell.

My thoughts as well, though apparently it was unnecessary as they filled the round in 24 hours despite the relatively unfavorable terms for investors.

> I’d imagine there will be almost no pressure to sell because to my knowledge, no past employees or current contractors have equity, nor do they have outside institutional investors that want a return for LPs

They did wipe out early employee equity, but this funding round does have $1mm of institutional VC investment leading it. That’s a curiously small number given the high valuation (effectively 1%) so I wonder if the VCs were more interested in leading the first big public startup investing round than the company itself. This raise is all over headlines today.
And Russia would just ban GitHub, no?
Google faces lawsuit over tracking complaints in Chrome ‘Incognito’ mode
> Also, even if we disregard the expedited process, the release (the rate of production and administering it) is faster than you'd expect normally, which in itself imposes a greater financial/business risk by exposing more people quicker to the same amount of risk.

All this seems to dance around the fact that it's the first vaccine of its kind. It induces side effects that are not normal. And the process has been greatly expedited far beyond the usual liberal sentiment that the FDA is indispensable and we should be taking extraordinary amounts of time to approve medicines, etc.

Perhaps there is an asymmetric aggregated risk "exposure" for pharmaceuticals. But I still don't see a huge upside to someone like me who's relatively young, fit and who's had tons of relatives, friends, etc. who've gotten the virus and not only survived but really didn't notice any lasting effects.
Chicago has used a kind of beet brine for deicing. It's beet juice mixed with salt. It means you can use less salt, the sugar makes it more effective in colder temps, and helps it stick to the road so there's less waste. Also makes the road look red.
The other big use and market nVidia wants to have is ML installations for data centers though. Those also want perfect math and are pretty big business for nVidia. Also no one is running an 8k monitor off a 3060 or particularly well off of a single card usually. Also I dread trying to track down a rendering bug and finding out it's an intentional defect in cards, effects are getting pretty intricate and with raytracing small errors will accumulate over the multiple bounces.
What Is Going on with the AstraZeneca/Oxford Vaccine?
> largely idempotent

Got to say, that "largely" scares me when discussing deployments.
Before covid, I carried my laptop to where I was working, and I did that on a daily basis for years. No matter how gentle you are, they take a beating because the rest of the world definitely isn't nearly as careful.

As an aside: the Dell Latitude 610 I carted around for several years was a goddamn beast. It weighed a shit ton, but it took some drops and hits that I was positive wrecked the thing. What killed it eventually was the hinges on the screen breaking and shearing the video connector.
What's the standard use-case for D 'in the wild'? It looks interesting and is one of the few languages I've heard of but haven't used -- might try it out on my next project :)
The only problem with Walden is that said cabin was far from detached from civilization
Assuming you're in the US due to the relative popularity of HOAs there, this has thankfully been blocked in some (particularly sunny) states. At least California, Texas, Florida, and a few others have solar access laws that prohibit HOA restrictions on solar panel installations. It's worth making sure your state doesn't have a similar policy.
Assistant principal charged in computer hack to steal homecoming queen vote
If you’re asking yourself “why does an insulator speed conduction?” Then it’s worth reading the “function” section of the Wikipedia article on myelin, for an introduction on the role of these short, interrupted sections of insulator and why it makes conduction faster. Nerves don’t conduct electric signals like wires so (much slower, for one thing) making it hard for us to keep up with the processing of computers.
> Nuclear is a) way too expensive

If markets valued the low-CO2 nature of nuclear, they’d be doing better

https://whatisnuclear.com/economics.html

> c) the Swiss population voted against new nuclear plants in 2017, so this topic is moot anyway.

This topic is not moot. This is the only realistic way to save humanity from the climate catastrophe, even if there are many fear mongers.
That is one option, another is baseload geothermal power from Iceland routed to the UK or Ireland[1] and perhaps onwards to mainland Europe (this option was explored in the past but seems to have fizzled out).

Yet more options are the Danish artificial island for distributing wind power and the UK huge offshore wind projects. All these are possible with today's tech and could dramatically reduce the need for batteries while still getting to net zero.

The Sahara idea is a non-starter due to geopolitical risks, no way the EU would agree to having critical infrastructure coming from North Africa.

There was a discussion recently on the EU supergrid[2]. If politicians were serious about solving the climate crisis we'd already be building out all this infrastructure instead of everyone wringing their hands about the cost. And meanwhile the likes of Nordstream2 is powering ahead.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26389042

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26386529
Buffet Lines Are Terrible
A while after college, my wife moved to San Francisco from upstate New York. The first mechanic she took her car to asked whether she took the car to the beach a lot. He was not used to cars driven on salted roads.
Instagram cracks down on adults messaging teens
A couple of 64gb ram sticks and you can fit your data in ram.
Exactly my situation, I rent an apartment in the city with street parking, for me this would be the perfect solution, why not, I don't need any more range, the flexibility is much more important.
(Sway dev mentioned in the article here.)

To be clear, this loop doesn't exist in Sway proper: it lives in json-c, a third-party library used by a lot more than just Sway. A lockup bug was reported to a lot of projects using json-c at the same time.

This really wasn't a Sway/Wayland thing, we just happened to be the first to diagnose and contribute a fix upstream.
I think there are two things that cause this.

One is that there’s a minimum performance that people will tolerate. Beyond that you get quickly diminishing user satisfaction returns when trying to optimize. The difference between 30 seconds and 10 seconds in app startup time isn’t going to make anyone choose or not choose Photoshop. People who use PS a lot probably keep it open all day and everyone else doesn’t care enough about the 20 seconds.

The second problem is that complexity scales super-linearly with respect to feature grown because each feature interacts with every other feature. This means that the difficulty of optimizing startup times gets harder as the application grows in complexity. No single engineer or team of engineers could fix the problem at this point, it would have to be a mandate from up high, which would be a silly mandate since the returns would likely be very small.
It was my understanding that you need very cheap electricity for cryptomining to be worth it, am I mistaken? If not I suspect that most people don't really have a good incentive to mine coins, unless the use it to heat up their flat or something (and assuming that they don't have more efficient heating available).
> Available resources (internet, libraries, universities)

(mentors, support from authority, sufficient time/financing to be able to use the available resources)

If a professor believes consciously or subconsciously, by looking at you, that you're less likely to succeed, that's a significant barrier that may well be immediately fatal to your interest in a subject.

The frequency with which this kind of thing is said out loud is astonishing. E.g.:
https://abc11.com/education/nc-state-professor-suspended-for...

If you've never personally witnessed quiet sexism (against women) and quiet racism (against non-white and in particular black people) in computer science, then I question where you have been.
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You have trillions of mitochondria. Do you think there is no error correction present?

(The actual estimate is 10 million billion...)

Edit following my other edit: each cell has something like 10 million ribosomes.
You're describing something purposely made non-functional, while I am building against software widely distributed and still occasionally encountered in the real world, hardly arbitrary.
This is a very stupid proposition made by looking at energy-capacity figures without taking real-world application hurdles into account.

Aluminum fuel cells have a slow energy discharge rate, largely due to the Oxigen-Reduction Rate (ORR) limit, even when the air Cathode is doped in exotic catalysts such as Platinum.

Furthermore, fuel-cell Electrodes, be it an Aluminum-air or Hydrogen-air fuel-cell, suffer from "CO2 Poisoning", which makes their efficiency drop in open air.

Not commercialy viable.
You're not making any relevant arguments, just stating your personal position and with a condescending tone at that.

> (A) Put my life potentially at risk and go into the burning building to drag that one person out and save their life. If I die while trying to save that person, then that means my charitable giving stops.

> Or I can (B) definitely not risk my life to save that person, therefore guaranteeing - at least for now - that I can continue to make charitable donations into the future, possibly saving a much larger number of lives.

> If you take a detached/theoretical view of this situation, then (B) seems like the better choice in the long run. I will benefit more people.

> But it also means I make the choice to stand there and watch that real person die when I could have done something about it.

> And I wouldn't be able to do that.

I would do A every day of the week and sleep like a baby every following night, knowing that I'll be safe and sound tomorrow to support my loved ones. You're welcome to do B if you want to, but you yourself acknowledged that it's not the choice that benefits more people in the long run, i.e. the more emotional rather than logically optimal choice. Hence why I said you're not making relevant arguments, just stating that you would do things differently and that you do so out of emotion rather than a logical reason. If you have a logical reason why giving money today is better than letting it compound and then giving more tomorrow, then I'd be interested in hearing it. But if I'm the kind of person to go with A 10/10 times, I think you can imagine I'm not very interested in emotional appeals.
This is probably going to come off harsh, but I think it needs to be said.

"Do they all pay well, have high prestige and amazing benefits?"

Any job, even the entry level positions at some unknown company, will give you more of these things than you have right now.

It's called the corporate ladder because you don't start at the top - you must work your way up from the bottom.
New generation here, where can I go to find people who still value the old hacker ethos? I'm not even that young (28), but never encountered these groups when I was younger and my preferences and values surrounding technology have always put me slightly out of step with my peer group
> Amazon managers openly warned recruits that if they liked things comfortable, this would be a difficult, perhaps impossible, job. For customer service representatives, it was difficult to keep up, according to media accounts and labor organizers. Overtime was mandatory. Supervisors sent emails with subject headings like “YOU CAN SLEEP WHEN YOU’RE DEAD.”

Umm, yikes.
Ah - fireattack's question was regarding Pi-Hole.
FWIW I’d argue Italian is even easier than Spanish as it has fewer conjugation rules to learn and the grammar is in many cases closer to English :)

Both are pretty easy, though, and Spanish opens up a lot more of the world. But Italian is just so darn fun :)
Moderation in Infrastructure
I’ve been hearing this - “moving towards stakes soon” - for at least a year now.
My other comment addresses your questions. Did you find it?

To summarize, if I can accomodate that one user, whatever their reasons or situation, which I do not pretend to know, instead of turning them away, then I will invest my time and effort in that.

And where Netscape 2.0 can go, so can probably another browser and configuration I,m not even aware of or anticipating.
I'd argue they're already as unbannable as alcohol (from the perspective of if alcohol were banned)

Canada legalized marijuana & not much changed

See also https://reason.com/2008/01/12/but-whatever-you-do-dont-legal
Completely different motivations, and I suspect Kotlin is a reason that Clojure and Scala seem to be losing much of their initial steam. Clojure offers Lisp on the JVM, but what most people really wanted was a fixed Java. That's exactly what Kotlin delivers. Clojure has decent Java interop, but there's a serious impedance mismatch working with native Clojure and Java libs. Kotlin otoh dogmatically sticks to Java's model of programming, just a cleaned up version.
Th Norwegian Post Office uses electric vehicles. I saw one in the street in Drammen this morning. See https://elbil.no/posten-elbil/
suddenly HN is keen on defending big pharma. if this happened in the US I can't even imagine the outcry. also, it seems this thread is overrun by brexiteers looking for a win.

the EU signed a contract in good faith but AZ decided it's a big boy and will not honor it, based on some contract technicalities. risky bet.

US from the start blocked vaccine exports, putting "americans first". EU mistakenly allowed exports but because of AZ we can't have nice things happening. so now their exports are blocked and other countries will suffer: https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-health-coronavirus-eu-vac....
Regarding your last sentence... That is opinion not fact, there are a lot of laws protecting shareholders.

But I generally agree with the rest of your comment, an investment of approximately $20000 in a single stock 5 years ago is not a modest investment for the average individual.
My friend just told me about a potential gene therapy. I'm blanking on the name, but there is a gene which inhibits myelin regeneration, and a gene which inhibits that gene. By using an adeno-associated virus which has an affinity for CNS tissue, you can induce the latter, resulting in an increase in re-myelination.

My friend's partner has suspected MS. They are also experimenting with helminth therapy. They have taken 5 Necator Americanus eggs and anecdotally, their symptoms have not been progressing as fast.

A quick search shows a whole mess of various genes and proteins associated with myelin but I'm not sure what the front runners are.

Edit: it's LINGO1

> Lingo-1 antagonists are able to promote re-myelination in CNS by means of stimulating OPCs differentiation which was before blocked by this protein. This has been seen in several experiments that resulted in significant increases of oligodendrocytes differentiation by targeting Lingo-1 with its antagonists, such as the antibody Anti-LINGO-1 (BIIB033)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LINGO1
US Air Force says it will test bizarre 'hypersonic' weapon this month
Neither 3000Km or 5000 you have 1-2 countries if you choose route over Morocco and Spain so between 1000km and 2000km and Strait of Gibraltar has max depth: 900 m and width of just ~15 km.
> rushed trials, rushed production

Fast doesn't mean rushed. The trials were fast because it was easy to gather huge numbers of participants, and the phases were carried out in parallel rather than sequentially (normally, to save money/resources, phase II would only start after a successful phase I).

> and pressured approvals

Immense pressure to make sure it's safe, too. Like this precautionary pause for what seems like a lower blood-clot rate than would be expected just by chance in that size of population.
Would you mind sharing the compiler versions and flags used? I tried to look at it in godbolt, but gcc 10.2 -O and clang 11.0 -O look pretty much the same.
On the other hand, I know pretty little about C and its compilers ;)
They will react that way when they stop being newbies.
"... putting food on the table for their families"

I think this is the most important comment in this thread and that most of us are so far removed from this concern that we forget it.