skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd be very skeptical that there is an actual biological mechanism that detects deuterium intentionally, there simply isn't really any need to this given that D2O is very rare. I'm not saying they don't exist, but there is no compelling argument why they would evolve. I'm not saying this can't exist, but I'd need some pretty convincing evidence that there's an actual biological reason for such a mechanism.

But of course detection would be possible, it has been known for many decades that different isotopes change reaction kinetics (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_isotope_effect). That is a measurable chemical effect, so of course a protein could make use of it. This is something I was taught in university, so this is not any kind of obscure knowledge, but mainstream chemistry.
Precisely! While their business itself may need to be broken up, a community governed OSS project isn't bad for OSS when the alternative is a proprietary license that gives a single corp the ability to not contribute back or be exposed to virality.

All this being said, progressive corporate taxes seem more enticing year after year.
> I agree, but I think MSFT (and friends) are in this predicament no matter what. What's the alternative?

Well, they can just stop growing, and continue doing what works. If that thing stops working (or they have a good belief that it will stop working before too long), they have two options: 1) do nothing, and gradually wind the company down and return capital to shareholders so they can reinvest it elsewhere, or 2) pivot, and accept that the things they are pivoting to will be a rounding error in their finances for years while they grow.

Obviously this is disastrous in our current economic system; a company that tried this would watch its stock price fall into the toilet before too long. But absent that, why not?

Consolidation is what will bring us to a corporate-run dystopia. I would much rather the world be filled mostly with small and medium sized businesses, with every market open to a lot of competition and even cooperation (on standards, not on prices). But I know, that's just a pipe dream, and humans generally suck at cooperation when money is involved.
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Is "hide in the sun" an idiom I'm unfamiliar with? Genuinely curious about what this means
Being the criminal complaint, all this stuff was written by the FBI. We'll see how it actually goes at trial. The grandparent isn't just making stuff up; the feds have done this before, continually https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/peteraldhous/fbi-entrap...
I've had allergy immunotherapy shots going on 30 years now. I'd say there has been an improvement, but... is the technology going to get significantly better anytime soon? I'm skeptical - but happy to be convinced otherwise.
No, it reads as:

> Sometimes I lost my temper because I didn't have the social skills to avoid it. Some people could cope with this; others were hurt. I apologize to each of them.

This:
> Some people could cope with this;

means:
"some people could take my shit and were not hurt"

This:
> others were hurt. I apologize to each of them.

means:
"others could not take my shit and were actually hurt. I apologize to each of them."

You won't let the poor bastard find peace, right?
I work on FPGAs professionally and it is hard for me to come up with many commercial applications for them outside of what they're currently used for.
yes, exactly.

He was arguing that he was wrongfully accused of rape, because according to the testimony the sex never happened and nobody has been able to prove otherwise (an eyewitness swears that Minsky refused her).

He then added that even if the sex happened, and he had no doubt that it could be possible, the victim was sent to him to act as willing, so that would make it statutory rape, due to the age of the girl (unknown to Minsky at the time).

He was contesting the legal semantics, not the fact per se.

More importantly, he was talking about it on the mailing list of MIT in response to this

“deceased AI ‘pioneer’ Marvin Minsky (who is accused of assaulting
one of Epstein’s victims)”

In his own words Stallam said

The injustice is in the word “assaulting”. The term “sexual assault”
is so vague and slippery that it facilitates accusation inflation:
taking claims that someone did X and leading people to think of it as
Y, which is much worse than X.

[...]

Whatever conduct you want to criticize, you should describe it with a
specific term that avoids moral vagueness about the nature of the
criticism.

Hardly a defense, he was calling for better and more precise terms to describe what happened.

Something I would expect from someone of his age talking with young students, fueled by passion and rage

I’m writing this because I’m too angry to work. says Selam G. on her blog post.

Angry people that let their anger win never made the World a better place IMO.

Whatever is the truth, I think it takes courage to defend someone you know "only distantly" when you think he's been wrongfully accused (in your opinion) and to do it publicly even though that could cost you your career and you have nothing to gain.

Anyway Minsky's long been dead.
Take a look at what you'd have today if you bought AMZN the day after it started trading (it doubled on the first day).

Didn't buy it because you couldn't afford to buy enough to make a difference? You lost big time!

Unhappy about Bezos' compensation? He was there on Day 1. He bet the farm on AMZN. You didn't.
To my eyes and ears, the name makes me think of cough medicine. So it's not a name I would choose for an infrastructure services brand either.
> Bad habit to have anyway IMO, because there are few tools that support that workflow.

This is absolutely false. Powershell and the Windows console prompt do not support this workflow. Every other shell/terminal emulator combination I can think of supports it fine.

Perhaps you can elaborate on why you consider it to be a "bad" habit?
I don’t really enjoy those things in the age of COVID.
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I think from ground water trace elements like lead are more likely. In my experience when I've been in places where groundwater was the household source via electronic pump, it's always been a case where you weren't supposed to drink it. And either had a reverse osmosis machine near by to use to fill bottles, or you just relied on store bought bottled water for drinking and cooking.

It would be interesting if in your cases it was high deuterium water though. It's not something I ever considered really.

Of course when straight groundwater is your best or only option, that's a hell of a lot better than having no source of plausibly safe water available. I've drank lake water where we would just disinfect it with a few drops of bleach for a couple of weeks when on trips. But was always told that this is a short term solution for convenience.
They are starting to do some of that in Austin. The lower levels are supposed to be businesses, but the rent on them is way too high and the businesses go under regularly. Something still not worked out about that.
While readable and aesthetically pleasing, I find myself wondering about the performance implications of switch(true) versus a multi-branched if-else. Does V8 (and PHP) treat each construct differently when it comes to optimizations? We're not in C-land here, so jump tables are presumably not in play.
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Double bad with the choice in clip art.
sadjester by any chance?
You say that car thing like it's bad. Instant enforcement of debt is good for both the lender and borrower. It stops people getting trapped deeper and deeper in debt. A lot like pre-pay phone/power/etc. Your life isn't ruined because you stopped paying, just inconvenienced for a few days.
It's perhaps badly named, but it's also the only way it could work in practice. A general facility for expanding any logged object to arbitrary depths would be prohibitively expensive to implement with static snapshots.

I've posted about it in more detail here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26785429.
Forking OSS isn't bad faith. If you want to make people pay you, make your software proprietary. In that case, however, you wouldn't get the free ride into the market that being OSS gives you.
GSW is known as golden-state warriors (basketball), but my mom worked in the ICU and would remind her of Gunshot wound.
Tailwind and Tailwind UI are really great. Tailwind UI as a series of blueprints is exactly what I'm looking for and I love how often they're updating and adding new blueprints to their list of components.

This part from the blog post kind of confused me a bit, though.

"The promise of Tailwind UI is that it's just a code snippet"

Am I the only one who never looks at the code snippets/tab for Tailwind UI, and instead jumps straight into inspect element? As blueprints the components are great, but I almost always want to make some small tweaks or changes to fit my application. Are there other people out there actually copying/pasting the snippets as they are?
Yes, it hurts shareholders. That's what I wrote in my first comment. You agree with me then?
> First of all, through some mistranslation or misapprehension of its Mexican namesake, the French tacos is always plural, even when there’s only one, pronounced with a voiced “S.”

reminds me of indian patties, a popular snack of meat or vegetables in a puff pastry shell, which through a similar loss-in-translation often get called "pattice" in the singular, "pattices" plural.
I agree. Forgiveness does not mean that he should retain his role. However I think his comments have been distorted and I'm not sure this is any worse than him eating the skin off his foot.
Are you saying this discussion calls for some nuance?
I haven't followed this in much detail yet, but https://thefactual.com/how-it-works mentions ranking reporters for their expertise in particular subjects.

Saw site mentioned in an HN comment a few weeks ago. So far appears to be an "objective" aggregator.
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Agreed. I think bash is a dependency. Even more, it's a dependency I'd want to avoid at all cost.
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You're not wrong, but the main obstacle is legal (lawsuits), so it's either build nothing, or build at the edge of town. But there is some high-density stuff in the center of town in the last 10 years or so.
If anyone contacts you now and offers to loan you an excavator, be suspicious.
Free software: It’s time to define “user”
why do you hate elon musk?
If you know where the fiber comes in, longer lasting damage.
This stuff seems so obviously correct that it shocks me that all farmers aren't already doing it. It makes me wonder if there is some catch that the proponents of regenerative ag, etc. avoid talking about.
I think you missed the point as an opportunity to pitch your project.
The resources are bounded. The value you can create from those resources is not bounded.

Google, Microsoft, Twitter, Netflix, etc., are enormously valued and none of it is based on bounded resources.
Why is it a problem then? Your personal intuitions about how much any human should earn in a given year sounds less like a convincing argument to me and more like envy.
Ok but he was wealthy when Bezos was a child. The point is, for all intents and purposes, Bezos grew up wealthy and had the support of a wealthy family when he went out on his own. He famously got a "small" $250,000 investment from his parents to start Amazon.
That's what being a Warriors fan was like until 2013
""Get the fuck outta here. We're closed because it's 3pm and humans don't eat between 2pm and 6. Bye, good afternoon, see you later.""

So true! As a tourist in France, it was a great time to practise some intermittent fasting skills.
SpaceX, etc. That's what you do with billions to spend.
Diamond Batteries!
https://ndb.technology/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6ME88nMnYE
They spent like $1000 to obtain water made from O18, which did not have a sweet taste like D2O did.

I wonder if D2O(18) would have any flavor difference...
I think his point is that africa did and does continue to have a very robust domestic slave market.
Rust is a low level language
Day Traders Know a Bubble When They See One, and They Want In
I think there's a fair amount of information accessible through the website that would also be annoying to access over the phone. For one, I don't have any idea what my prescription numbers are. I would suspect that's true of the majority of people. You also have no way of knowing how many refills you have left, which could be annoying if you have several medications. My pharmacy also has a lot of options for mail delivery that are annoying to deal with by phone.

The plaintiff also mentioned privacy as one of the aspects he loses on when he goes in person. The phone solves that, but only if you're in a private place. I can order a refill from the app on my phone or their website basically anywhere, and no one around me knows.
I would try that. For science, of course.
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kind, they dont lose that it just locked away. But yes it must be more than the value to be backed else it could become partially backed if the crypto price goes down to fast. It can be more of less than 150% backed is up to whoever writes the code. But 150% seems reasonable for a volatile assets.

You may think no one would do that but its actually a way to bet a price gains of your crypt.
By locking away 150% you get 100% in stable coins to invest/spend without losing the volatility (possible gains) of your crypto.
So if the price of you crypto goes up you get the whole profit on the locked 150% collateral even if you spend the stabel coin.
ofc you need to buy back the stable coins to unlock you crypto but the buy back should always cost the same because its a stable coin.

Example with numbers:

You lock away 150 USD in ETH
You get 100 USD in stable coin to spend
Price of ETH goes up 100% (doubles)
You can now buy 100 USD stabel coins and unlock 300 USD worth of ETH

This is interesting because you have 100 USD that you can use while you wait for the price to go up.
You could buy ETH with it which also doubles in price so you have 200 USD worth of ETH
You sell 100 USD worth of it to buy back the 100 USD stable coins

You now turned 150 USD worth of ETH into 400 USD worth of ETH even trough the price of ETH only doubled.

Ofc if the price drops your stable coin will be undercollateralized and someone else can "buy them" and re-collateralize which would make you lose the difference.
In other words if you bet on rising prices and it goes down you have to top up to keep the 150% collateral if you cant top up someone else will and you get liquidated.

In the end is a zero sum game. Some lose others win but its a net gain because stable coins can can exist that are backed by crypto.
I wouldn't give the organisation too much credit. It might be that they are modernising and friendlier now, but from memory, they were very much forced into the start of the process of opening up in the early 2000s. Before, it pretty much had a monopoly on the data which had been collected at the taxpayers expense, and was effectively run as a private company which, among other things, sold products using this data to taxpayers at a profit.
Maybe a dual-company like Mozilla would at least make it more clear that the big guy that are just taking advantage of the free lunch is doing more harm than good?

Elastic should have a for-profit and a non-profit company taking donations that would actually control the open source code and hiring the core part of team working on it.

I mean, we know how badly Amazon is behaving here, but at least they should have a option where they could realistically invest.

Asking for a company to invest in a competitor that can grow and eat their lunch with the money being invested by them is not realistic. Even because the company investing the money would want to know if that money is actually being invested back in the open source software and not used by a competing company.

If, giving this choice, they didn't invest back in the foundation, it would be much more clear that they are doing it in bad faith.
They could throw a ton of money into mining, raise the difficulty to some absurd number, then cut it. Rinse and repeat.
What is "isolation"? Is that a typo of "insulation"?
Mincing words is claiming that iOS does not support PWAs. That's false. iOS support for PWAs is worse than Android, that's true. Whether that's because of AppStore or not, one can only speculate, but it might be true. Still there are plenty of useful APIs supported on Safari, there is dedicated support for PWAs, there's dedicated support for creating home screen icons. That's enough for many web apps.
> increasingly

Source? Even anecdata?

Less apps are required, in lieu of web apps on their websites.
If they're giving you free coffee, and you sell the coffee you got for free... where's the harm? Starbucks is giving it away. Why would anyone buy your coffee rather than get it for free from the source?

Now, assuming Starbucks charged you for the coffee, and you then re-sold it, this should also be fine. Starbucks is charging you presumably a rate with which they can recoup their costs. But if they are selling it below cost, they are clearly putting themselves at risk. A lot of businesses take this kind of risk as a strategic part of their business, like with making the coffee free. But you have to do it in a way that a competitor can't turn around to their advantage, or you're screwing yourself.

Enter the concept of "not for resale". If a seller enters into a contract with a buyer, that contract can stipulate that the buyer can't resell the goods. Starbucks could theoretically require you to sign a contract saying you will not resell their coffee. That's pretty standard with licenses, even software licenses.

ES must have known that their license did not forbid reselling. Yet they based their business model on this resellable coffee that they were giving away in order to make money on cookies.

Is it Amazon's fault that ES chose a business model where they were selling coffee at a loss? Does Amazon have an ethical responsibility to keep ES's business afloat? Should we find any business unethical that tries to undercut the customer base of a rival, or take advantage of a rival's shaky business model?

I think you have to come up with a whole framework for ethical competition, because one rule at a time isn't gonna capture it. (But I also think Capitalism is inherently unethical)
In the same place as it would require elastic’s changes to Lucerne to be made open source also?
BCI - Brain Computer Interface. Sure it has received a lot of attention thanks to the work of Elon and neurallink, I still think that it hasn't received enough interest especially for how it'll affect all different parts of ours lives.
How did you observe the number of flags?

dang seemed to endorse flagging repetition and flame war. I don't know what to tell you if you interpret that as just too much attention.
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I’m not sure I get the difference between looking at the source vs inspecting it? In any case, they’re not expecting you to outright copy them (though you can if you want), they’re saying that the code snippet has everything you need just by copying it.
Jesus, dude, OSS is not some kind of holy grail that renders it immune from all criticism, much less valid criticism.

1. I agree about the "you're free not to use it" line, but I frequently find that documentation can seem comprehensive when you're evaluating something, but as soon as you get deeper into the weeds, that's when the shortcomings reveal themselves. And telling someone to "help them" when they themselves are looking for documentation to get help? That's just laughable. I sure as heck wouldn't want someone who can't get my product to work to be submitting documentation PRs.

2. This is just snide. Refusing to help someone because they're expressing frustration is simply spiteful. You have no more information than the rest of us about what was actually asked, so implying that the author "had it coming" seems uncalled for.

3. Then you're not very familiar with the OSS economy, are you? There are frequently paid support plans available for major OSS projects.
Only psychologically. The mining capacity is driven by the price not the other way around. The rest of the miners not hit would be ecstatic because now they get less competition. The difficulty would self-adjust eventually or new mining would get brought up.

The mined supply is very small compared to the circulating one. Besides, if you were to slow minting, it should drive the price up, not down. :)
The article's real headline is "Windows 10: Microsoft to fix Chrome and YouTube’s critical audio issues" - the post should be changed to reflect this.
If a company required that of me, I would demand that they also provide me with a work phone. Then they can do whatever they want with it. Of course it would also be powered down outside of work hours, every time.

There is an interesting conflict in the text. She says they often verbalized their high degree of satisfaction with her work, but then they say refusing the app isn't the only reason she was fired.

With one side not being legally able to detail those other reasons, and the subject of the story not alluding to what those other reasons may have been, we have no way to know how accurate this story actually is.

Input from the lawyer about when an employer can and can't impose this kind of app on an employees is interesting either way.
Librem runs Progressive Web Apps.
> I['d] like your definition [f]or responsible

A distribution that removes Python 2.7 once upstream security support has been cut. Since Python is frequently used on network-facing services, it is unconscionable to allow its use past January 2020. Heck, one might even have setuid programs in Python and you don't really want to risk an unfixed local privilege escalation either.

> AWS Linux 2

A butchered version of CentOS

> and macOS

Not a distribution, and Apple doesn't exactly have a good track record with keeping things up to date or secure.

> Or more likely, the world isn't as clear cut as you might think

Given that the vast majority of the Python ecosystem is no longer compatible with 2.7, there isn't even a technical reason for kicking around 2.7 anymore.

Python 2.7 is trivial to build and run if you really, really want or need it, but since all the major upstream distributions have removed it, it sends a clear signal that you must take the risks into serious consideration before doing it.
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