skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gain of function research still uses genetically tagged samples. They insert minor inactive sequences who's purpose is solely for identifying when there's been a lab leak. These samples are not Engineered, but still identifiable using DNA/RNA sequencing.
Leaders "deceiving their citizens" was never a problem until facebook came along! How unconscionable that they didnt anticipate and fix this problem!

People who want Facebook, or "someone" to be the arbiter of the One True Truth are doomed to fail, because nothing is true.
There are also two bugs related to people, and they're hard to fix:

- short term costs are more noticeable than long term costs: saving money VS saving the planet

- tragedies of the common are hard to fix: we all need to save the planet, but others are not minding it, so I might as well ignore it and at least save some money too
> They are basically a legacy mode now.

Console makers want it to be legacy because they can charge a higher price for a game when there is only one store in town compared to multiple stores when it comes to discs.
They were talking about consumption taxes, SUVs being an oblique reference to fuel consumption, and I’m pointing out that these sometimes are a burden on the rural poor who are least positioned to pay.
Sorry if I was unclear myself. While the boundaries on free speech are important, they don't seem so vague to me. At least in the case of violence it's been tested in the courts.

And what appear to be intentionally vague statements or encoded messages could be attempts to exploit uncertainty. With the goal being to incite violence without directly saying "if I lose storm the capital by force".
With Apple, at least you can opt out of all location info going to Apple
I built loads of sites. Both small and very large. Primarily with Drupal 7 and Drupal 8.
Recently i'm in the process of building:
- https://hundeavl.dk
- https://brudensynger.dk
- https://indspilning.dk
- https://firmaetsynger.dk
- https://konfirmandensynger.dk

with ReactJS and a headless CMS with Postgres. I can recommend that stack. Love the NodeJS and JS way more than PHP stuff. For the frontend i've built a custom PostCSS framework thats not bloated.

Good luck!
Tesla is increasingly losing their headstart in terms of EV innovations and technology. It's time for this stupid Elon Musk personality cult to wind down with it.

Big players in the car industry will slowly push Tesla out of the market in the next 10 years, as Tesla cannot compete with the logistics, expertise and reach of Toyota, Volkswagen or Fiat-Chrysler to name a few.

Volkswagen is churning out very decent full class EV cars across all sectors at a much faster rate than Tesla, thanks to the MEB [1]. Do they still lack range compared to a Model whatever? Yes. Has Tesla built amazing cars for starting off from almost scratch? Yes.

But an Audi e-Tron SUV feels 10x as awesome as a Model X, sorry. Hype or not it's not even close. I wouldn't even hesitate between a Model S and a Porsche Taycan either, even if things like charging infrastructure and range are considered.

Going from 0 to 60 in 2.7s is what Tesla claims on the Model S P1000D. You can do that maybe one time and then the time starts stretching. The Porsche Taycan Turbo S consistently delivers this performance 10x in a row without going weak. [2, German]

Right now Teslas have some edge here, others some edge there but Tesla won't survive the next 5 years of EV evolution with respect to the car industry heavy weights.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Group_MEB_platform

[2] https://www.auto-motor-und-sport.de/test/porsche-taycan-turb...
You forgot

4. Heavy metals

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26769446
Love Proxmox!
This used to be my take, but I'm not sure any more. Now, I don't think Python is ideal, and I am looking for something that maybe fits better than it in that gray zone of programming language vs "quick" script, but I can't see your point about debugging and bugs: bash is notoriously annoying to write bug free, and I can't see what's the issue with the Python debugger.

Also if we're in that gray zone of bash vs Python, you can pretty much stick to the stdlib.
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I remember reading the story below where a man in England buys a flight from Newcastle to Spain to London because it was cheaper than the train.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/metro.co.uk/2017/06/27/man-flie...
Yes. A commentary on Shakespeare that just happens to hash to Bill Gates' personal details is so monumentally unlikely to occur by accident that its existence constitutes proof of intent beyond all reasonable doubt. Disingenuously asserting that "it's education!" is a bit like the mafia boss asserting that no, the front business really is a laundromat.

https://qntm.org/number
Just looking at PS scripts makes my RSI flare up.
The comment says no such thing.
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Gagarin died during a test flight, this is not some sort of pre-Twitter trolling. Perhaps it was not your intention to suggest it, but it was my first thought. Maybe the social media broke me.
> What's the gist of all this?

The point, per the article, is a protest against the censorship of information. People may not think twice about making a computer program illegal. However, banning a number would get more attention. The point is exactly as you have noted-- it's the same thing.
Speaking out loud. We failed as human beings to support each other. We have an idea what is good what is bad, but we are not fixing issues.

* We know child abuse is bad, but we can't stop child slavery and theft in India, because we like cheap products coming from there and local governments like getting bribes for being silent

* We know genocide is bad, but we can't stop China what it is doing to Uyghurs, because we like cheap products coming from China.

* We know people should have equal rights, but we can't do anything when it comes Palestinian people, you can boycott any product from any country, but not from Israel (legally)

* We know man and woman should have equal opportunities and rights, we are hiring more woman because we need to fill diversity forms, in the meantime others are seeking job for months.

* We know racism is bad. But we are discussing if Git repo's should be named master or main.

And we are trying to fix environmental issues for years already. This is unfortunate, but Nature kind of healed some parts of it already, in just one year (because of quarantine measures and less transportation)
On most KaiOS (mainly from Nokia) the procedure to enable the dev menu+rooting is a piece of cake. Too bad the whole platform suffers from the idiocy of the devs behind Kaiostech: no updates to the existing buggy apps...
Or consider it a viable solution to the itch OP was trying to scratch with their own development.

It's easy to brush aside a monumental amount of effort and thought that gets poured into projects like these, marking them internally as fruitless, when

1) we're not the ones that spent the long nights and weekends obsessing over the nuances of the specific problem OP was trying to solve.

2) any of us on HN are usually here shit posting because we're avoiding putting in the same effort for our own projects.
> launching process to achieve simple math expression is just ridiculous

That's why you don't do that. $(( math goes here ))
If governments had the guts to implement these policies (e.g.) 10 years ago with phased introduction, then we would already have replacement fuel sources and not have to limit anything.

I'd personally be happy if we did that even now, but the longer we put it off, the larger the cost to be paid.

Your last point describes a corrupt government which can happen either way, and is not particularly relevant to environmental policy.
How to nail your Single-Table data modelling in DynamoDB
@light bulb cartel:

see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoebus_cartel
That's covered by this essay: https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23
Austin native, here.

Things I hate about Austin:

1. PACs keep shouting down mass transit every time there's a ballot measure

1a. takes forever to get across town at 8 and 5

1b. I hate driving. I have worked in Chicago, and I'd like my commute time back for reading email, etc.

2. Housing and schooling are wholly inequitable

3. Broadband access is wholly inequitable
"It should also be painfully obvious at this point that a more passive approach does very little."

That's not really true. We have seen reductions in many types of pollution in the last few decades. Not all of it is forced on people through laws. Much it of comes about as improvements in technology that provide efficiency and cost savings. You can see this is the use LEDs, better fuel milage (before the mandates), adoption of solar panel roofs (in areas that don't mandate it), siphonmatic toilets vs wash-down toilets, etc.

"There's nothing totalitarian about holding people responsible for the long term damage they do to the environment."

I generally agree. The issue us whether an international organization can hold other countries accountable. This could be a major sovereignty issue, especially when the law does not explicitly define what is legitimate consumption or use and what is ecocide. For example, does lithium mining constitute ecocide? It causes environmental damage, but is then used in some industries that might reduce impact in other areas (electric vehicles).
Miner competes not only for block subsidy, but for tx fees as well. Those can be expected to dominate within 4 or 5 halvings, putting a lower bound on the energy consumption of bitcoin.
Where is the totalitarianism in the article? I get the feeling you think that totalitarianism is when the government does something you don't like, when actually it's when a dictator removes all power from the people. Until the Queen of England black bags you for driving your Hummer, we're a ways off.

All this article is talking about is a government making laws to (hopefully) make everything better long-term. That's the entire point of governments.
Not defending killings on either side. That said, one side is already using all kinds of nasty tactics, including killings.

Environmental destruction is a problem that needs massive, urgent action. We have seen over and over that nicely asking corporations to behave doesn't work. I don't know what the solution is, but I wouldn't be surprised if fed up people take up violence. It will probably just worsen the situation.
It certainly also played a psychological role when stuff was constantly cleaned and disinfected. Just think yourself back 10 months when everything about Covid was uncertain. You wouldn't want to be that 1 store/shop/restaurant that doesn't clean as much as the others.
Substack is that new economic model for a limited number of investigative journalists who have strong name recognition like Glenn Greenwald and Matt Taibbi. But it probably won't scale to the levels were need.
The big deal here is that EPIC has been classically closed off to outside software. The fact that they partnered with Microsoft to create an integration is astounding.
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>Why 1991? Even though USSR collapsed, whatever was sealed, is still sealed to this day.

Some documents are sealed but many were declassified since then.
see here: https://esolangs.org/wiki/Cryptoleq
The cartels were for incandescent light bulbs [1], rather than other kinds of lighting. It's harder for cartels to exist now, given that we can buy alternatives from other countries on Ebay and AliExpress.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5v8D-alAKE
Do you have a source for the claim about other fuel sources?

Some replacements are physically constrained (like lithium for batteries). There has been a lot of money already spent to find replacements like super capacitors, and for much longer than 10 years.
Like with almost everything, I’m sure there are problems with these proposals, but I also feel like this approach is necessary. I’ve often found myself thinking why, exactly, the worst climate offenders imagine near-future generations will be forgiving of what they have done.
It feels like it's about direct / indirect issues. If to buy a gas powered car I had to go out and shoot somebody, I doubt we'd have nearly as many cars around.

Air pollution kills 7 million people a year[0]. That's not including other forms of pollution.

I also feel nobody is arguing to cancel everything immediately. They're arguing to stop building new coal power plants when there are alternatives. They're arguing for increased taxes on companies that produce pollution so that they have motivation to reduce their external effects. Etc.

[0] https://www.who.int/phe/eNews_63.pdf
> I could see why an evil wizard would want to create a 'natural' castle around his fortress with mountains.

Yes, but Mordor was created before Sauron achieved his power. Perhaps it was long-range contingency planning by Melkor (Sauron's original boss).
People believe (although there is no proof) that any finite sequence of bits appears somewhere in pi, making pi an illegal number :)

https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/216343/does-pi-cont...
I share your consern and I dare not express it where it can be traced back to me.
> Following this, Carmody discovered an 1811-digit prime—this one being non-compressed, directly executable machine language in the ELF format for Linux i386, implementing the same DeCSS functionality.

I found that to be an interesting rabbit hole: https://primes.utm.edu/glossary/page.php?sort=ExecutablePrim...
I installed it briefly (it's on f-droid, big plus!) , but it doesn't seem to have any way built in to easily find anyone to actually talk to?
How legal is it to hold a trial without the accused present?
I began to write an acerbic comment at "everything is a spring". I then thought about it, and realised you're so right. Linear algebra is crazy. Thank you for the insight. (It struck me that all of quantum mechanics I've ever studied in university was about learning to solve more sophisticated harmonic osciollators.)
Make something fast, cheap, stable; choose 2.
The author has an excellent reply to a question on twitter

>> What are the gas prices like for copying a pointer?

> Copying an nft_ptr is illegal.
Moving an nft_ptr takes 87,169 gas:
https://goerli.etherscan.io/tx/0xcbe06fdd54bd9d221993c875022...
at mainnet gas prices of ~100 Gwei, equal to 0.0087169 ETH, or $18.69 USD.
(This was intentionally written to waste resources for no benefit, just like cryptocurrencies themselves)

> The C++ "as-if" rule means the compiler is allowed to optimize away the move, but it still needs to charge the $18.
oh god, I'll never forget /usr/bin/[. I wasted too many God damn hours trying to understand why nothing was working... To this day I still curse whoever decided to call it that way.
Because "illegal information" is an entirely artificial concept that doesn't hold if you think too much about it. You can't exactly "own" information, neither can you "destroy" it.
I can't source a hypothetical, no.

Do you think that invalidates my point?

[Edited in response to your edit: fuel and battery technology has improved significantly over the last decade, with little or no political pressure, and shows signs that it will continue to improve. I expect that it would have improved more quickly with political pressure, yes.]
This news is a tribute to Yuri and everyone involved. You may create your own topic on what Rogozin did or did not. I am pretty sure people will upvote.
Now that tactical shooters have gone from a hardcore gamer niche to arguably the primary way many teenagers hang out with peers, good spatial sound is a huge opportunity. If someone could make $200 headphones where you could easily perceive if someone was above you or below you in Fortnite or Warzone, you would have a billion dollar company. As it is, most of us need visual indicators to tell where a nearby gunshot on the same level as us came from.
Pattern matching is great, but probably not if everything is pattern matching. Also I'm okay with XML as long as it doesn't power an urge to make everything XML and everything connected via the semantic web (lol). XSLT is a remnant of that urge and should have been a non-XML-based language. (The same criticism applies to, e.g. RDF vs. Notation3.)
Komarov died in 1967, 6 years later, during first test flight of the Soyuz capsule, and cosmonauts considered the test plan rushed. Yuri Gagarin publicly spoke against mismanagement by program director.
Fine, those can be handled the same way - transparently.

Report them to both the IRS and to public stock markets.

Yes, it will reduce your publicly reported earnings, as it should. Smart investors & analysts will quickly learn to account for that. In fact they already do with constructs that are bogus from an actg point of view, like EBITDA, but useful from an investing POV.

Indeed, it will be very useful for investors to see that Company X and Company Y both report $100 of earnings, but Co_Y is reporting that number after taking $50 in loss carry-forwards.

Again, paying on the greater of SEC-reported earnings or tax-filing earnings hurts only companies that are trying to scam the system and their investors. It helps everyone else, including you and me.

You want the capital market benefits of reporting big profits? Fine, pay the commensurate taxes. Letting them have it both ways is literally telling the thieves to have a nice day as they walk out the front door with the contents of your family safe in their bags and your electronics on their carts.
Fair point. If you prohibit everyone, including walled gardens, from targeting based on user behavior or user data, that seems like a plausible solution.

It's a purely regulatory solution, though, not technical as the top level comment suggested :)
How can I pair socks from a pile efficiently?
So at any given moment, we're only allowed to criticize one thing - the worst thing in the entire world? After all, anything else is, you know, not that bad.
This is a common simplification in compilers. Even C, until 1999, forced you to declare your variables at the top of the function before any code.

Its not a limitation of the parser, but simply that having variable declarations anywhere makes the compiler more complex. Its harder to calculate stack space / stack pointers when the variables are declared all over the place.
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"on par with" : at the same level or standard as (someone or something else)

Given the definition of that phrase, your admonishment seems misguided at best.

I think asking if an alternative implied by the previous comment makes sense. But criticizing their reading comprehension by gaslighting them is wrong.
They said the opposite.
Probably it generates higher CTR :)
That doesn't prevent you from running cable along the walls and under/over doors.
Clojure also has some third party libraries like Specter [1] that make nested traversal and mutation very succinct and performant.

The author of Specter goes so far as to label traversal/update of deep immutable structures as "Clojure's Missing Piece".

[1] https://github.com/redplanetlabs/specter
To say they are "responsible" for something can be read as "allowed to take credit for". Being the first to popularize something is a business achievement, which is quite meaningless compared to the technical achievement of being the first to build something.
contracts are subject to law but minimal regulation. Bank loans are regulated - B2B load arrangements minimally so. My point was that Jane and BigCo have aligned incentives - as long as they aren't actually breaking a law then the contract will hold.

Variable Interest Entities and similar loan arrangements are legal. Hedge funds regularly "lend" assets through hypothecation etc.
What if I told you, you can't dumb toxic sewage on my backyard anymore because it's causing serious health problems?

What if I said the same thing about all toxic sewage dumping on peoples back yards?

Because I feel that the toxic sewage dumping on peoples backyards is a problem, can I force you to abandon all toxic sewage dumping despite the massive financial costs and the limits on things and experiences you can enjoy in the future?

The rest is non-sequitur.
Yes, I do. Throwing more money at a problem won't necessarily speed up the time to delivery. This is very similar to the idea that throwing more devs at a project will help it deliver more quickly.
musl automatically uses a bump allocator if free is not referenced in the program.
Thanks for both your replies!

Looking forward to the first, and I'll look into the second. One of my goals would be so easily offload to a more powerful computer, even if it doesn't run guix.

Edit: content-addressed guix stores delivery over a content-addressed network sounds interesting, it would be even better with rolling hashes (I think ostree/casync uses those).

I dream of a yunohost-like operating system based on Guix :)
Well yes. There was also some fairly extreme post-creation remodelling, e.g. the flooding of Beleriand and then the Drowning of Númenor.
> The cartel ceased operations in 1939 owing to the outbreak of World War II.
This is an outrageous attack on national sovereignity.
Exactly. Primality is nothing more than a misleading intuition pump to make you think in terms of "innocent bit of number theory", instead of "encoded data file". Even the term "illegal number" is designed to make you think this way; somehow, "legally protected secret" doesn't sound quite so absurd.
I think millennials will be the last major theater goers. We grew up through a time when the social pressure to ignore your phone was stronger than phone addiction, so theaters still serve as a place where we go and have an uninterrupted group experience. But phone usage during movies hurts that, and unless future generations can kick the addiction, then theaters will start to feel pointless as everyone is on their phone.
The problem is not determining that something is a crime, but who is determining this. If this is a determination made by the US, we can be 100% sure that it will be used as another weapon in their war against foreign non-aligned economies, i.e., another tool for imperialism.
One of the engineers on the failed (and later covered up) soviet moon program supposedly said that if not for soviet focus on automation, they would have been first on the moon - and that in comparison, Americans "eyeballed it".

Not entirely true on american side, but there was a definite trend on US side to depend more on human in the loop.
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Thus far almost none of the models have accurately predicted the climate change or the outcomes there of. There’s a great clip of John Kerry in 2009 saying in 5 years there will be no year-round ice in the ice caps. Or earlier when al gore claimed everyone on the coast would be under water (he still has several beach front properties btw).

Lets assume they were arguing from a position of good faith (imo unlikely). Then it’s too late to impact the outcome, we should instead invest in mitigation tactics. None of those include going to war or launching air strikes on farmers clear cutting their land. It wouldn’t reduce or improve carbon emissions in any way.

Climate change should increase crop yields by most models. Depopulation and migration is more likely to happen when you stop a 3rd world countries ability to produce food or generate electricity (from coal or oil).

These policies are going to explicitly cause what their intended to stop.

Further, we’re exiting an ice age, by default the earth is 2-4 degrees celsius warmer. The original argument is still potentially valid that off gases can create a poor environment. It is however unclear how and what would cause this and how to mitigate. Just reacting by handing over all production capacity to China and india (which have exceptions to much of the Paris climate accords) is not going to help - it’ll just move the pollution there (and wealth to those who invested there).
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