skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The work seemed to pointedly avoid micromanaging, by instead finding out how to open up the correct pathways between cells in a region and instruct them to become something else. No need to say "OK, these cells need to become a retina, these need to become a cornea" or to figure out how to change the body plan of the creature at the DNA level—just place a "become an eye" marker in the right spot, and boom, the cells self-organize to become an eye, and may even manage to connect themselves to the CNS such that it becomes a functioning eye!

The key insight seems to be that you can hack the (as the research put it, by analogy) software of a set of cells and let the hardware (DNA, cell mechanisms) worry about exactly how to do what you told them to do, so rather than, say, figuring out how to read DNA and tell what kind of organism will come out of it such that we can start adding or removing bits here and there (very, very hard), you can instead screw around with inter-cell signaling to hijack functionality that the cells already have, but just aren't using, to get them to do new things.

I thought there were several "holy shit" moments in the video. The cancer thing—yikes. Reconnect genetically-broken, actively dangerous cells to the inter-cell communication network and they stop acting crazy, while still having messed-up DNA? That's a surprising result, and a powerful demonstration of what the technique can accomplish (may not be therapeutically useful for a bunch of reasons I can think up, but it still seems like a notable, surprising result)

Another was the sticky "memory" of a modified organism, that is, the worm that'd had its tail cut off then been instructed to make a second head there instead, and then had that cut off and... grew a head again, without further prompting, demonstrating that body layout and gene expression is some combination of DNA and a kind of cell-memory or cell-state across the whole organism, not something driven entirely deterministically by DNA alone.

The part about tricking worms into growing heads for 100-150 million-year separated evolutionary relatives, complete with the correct-for-the-other-species brain, was nuts. The "instructions" are still there, just dormant, and if you confuse the cell-memory (if you will) of what it's supposed to be it'll sometimes decide to be the wrong species. WTF.
28yo earns $378,000 a year on Fiverr–and just bought a car for $50k in cash
If company has no operation in Europe it is not realistic for to enforce GDPR against. This are true for many company and it not is a surprise that some do not care on any GDPR restrict.
Yup, easy returns are a big benefit, and keep me from completely abandoning Amazon, for now.

However, for some categories, such as batteries or electronics, even after examining all the negative reviews and rates, I've found it impossible to get non-counterfeit products. I'm happy to go to a regional specialist in such items or even to a big-box store just to get greater confidence in a genuine item.

(&yes, don't even think about getting 18650s on Amazon. I saw someone selling boxes with a Tesla logo & brand - obvious BS. I reported it and at least did see them disappear in a week, but another popped up.)
I think this idea has been implemented in Offset https://www.offsetcredit.org

HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23438241
Alternative take: Ads give unethical actors a systemic advantage, where they are willing to slap ads on to their products that can't justify charging otherwise.

Expect more competition and higher standards as this artificial funding model is removed.
I've also seen cases where items have been poorly reviewed but only because according to reviews section the people who bought the item were all incapable of using it correctly.

I saw an amazon review of someone complaining that a drill bit they bought got bent drilling through a brick. The picture they provided showed quite clearly that they had severely damaged and bent a brad-point drill bit (which is meant to be used for wood). The bending can also be explained by the fact that these drill bits are usually nowhere near as hard or brittle, presumably because if you ever try to use a drill bit intended for drilling through metal to drill wood you will quickly find how easy it is to snap it when it's in a thick bit of wood, and people don't usually drill deep holes in metal without a drill press to keep the drill going straight.

Oh, and the worst part of the amazon experience has to be the number of "Answers" to "Questions" where the answer is just: "Sorry, I don't know the answer."
I expected the number to be something astonishingly high based on FB's PR blitz over the past nine months. With their limitless resources, I'm sure they focus grouped and user tested this scenario to death before concluding that apocalypse was nigh. Rock on, Apple.
I do agree with you that it's part of Apple new positioning, that they are a privacy first company, yet I think you missed my point: I'm talking about consent.

When you said:

>While I’m sure Apple collects ample (pseudo anonymous) data from their respective stores about patterns, they actually don’t gather that much data about you.

I don't doubt it, what I meant is that even for that there's no explicit consent in the way they are doing with the Apps on appstore (they probably mix it when you're setting up your account). Because you might have apps that collected even less data then Apple, and they are still subject the user consent message.

I can see from the downvotes that this is not a popular opinion, which is odd - I'm just saying that everyone should play by the same rules, else there's an asymmetry that will favor the ones who can circumvent this limitation, which in this case, it's Apple.

It's just not coherent, since it's not about collecting a lot, or very little data, it's about users giving explicit consent to share data.
There are actually a lot of people doing this. It's the next "buy a carwash" or "buy a laundromat".
Consumer friendly, yes. That’s funny.

Could you please? I barely read the article. My opinion is based on a strong dislike for this kind of remote kill switch. I made my argument several times but you simply ignore it, and go on to repeat why you think it’s fine and everybody would be fine with it if only this evil article hadn’t been published!

There is zero service being provided. It increases the cost and complexity of the device for the lender’s own and sole benefit. Who the fuck wants to pause their airbag subscription? I really can’t understand how you can see this as customer friendly, unless you work for them.

And that’s ok. You can take it or leave it, but don’t try to disqualify me because “I’ve been manipulated”. That’s incredibly dishonest and of course will be taken personally. I suggest you learn to disagree without resorting to personal attacks.
You are a money losing customer, as you’ll return stuff you don’t like. They would rather have you cost BestBuy money.

There’s weird psychological aspects with this. People want to buy 5 star product.
I mean, doesn't that alone kinda point us in one direction?
In other words, for 2FA to work properly, you have to do all the stuff you were neglecting before 2FA?

Otherwise, you'll have a bigger problem than ever before.

And this is called "progress"?
I've never understood all the love and excitement and attention that GNOME has gotten ever since Canonical got behind it and dropped Unity. All the cheerleading over what seem like really basic fixes that haven't been a problem on other DEs, like "now the single-threaded shell crashes to login less often! Horray!"

That's only intensified with 3.40 (Now hailed as "40" like a pop star using only their first name.) Apparently the top hot new feature is "horizontal workspaces"...mind-blowing.
It sure would be awful if Facebook became a paid app :)
Snek! https://soundshader.github.io/hss/gallery/bird/3.png
I wish blender's UI toolkit was separated into own library. It's pretty much the best UI I've used, and I like blender for other reasons too (it doesn't open multiple windows, popups or nags, everything's contained in it).

Immediate mode UI framework that actually supports accessibility stuff would be neat too.
Looks like BetterTouchTool would solve it: https://community.folivora.ai/t/mouse-invert-scroll/1847

It is an amazing tool in general. Together with Alfred these are the two main apps that I use all the time.
Worse yet, a recent NYT headline described the lab escape hypothesis as "debunked", which is even more egregious and incorrect than "baseless".

>Ex-C.D.C. Director Favors Debunked Virus Origin Theory

Basically trying to portray the ex-CDC director - a virologist - as an unhinged nutjob for saying such a thing.

After a ton of backlash, they relented and changed it from "debunked" to "unproven" and added an editor's note of "The theory is unproven, not debunked", which took a bit of the wind out of their original angle.

>What irony that in a piece pushing support for a “reality czar” (presumably to censor certain stories?) is the position of the NYT so divorced from reality itself.

Yeah, what could possibly go wrong with a Ministry of Truth?
Apple explicitly says that apps can't require app tracking in order to use their app, they're removed from the app store if they do.

Keep in mind "app tracking" here means reading your device ID, called the 'Identity For Advertisers' (IDFA for short). They do this so that they can cross reference that IDFA with data that other apps have collected on that same IDFA, allowing them to connect the dots that it's the same user.

This app tracking transparency feature makes it so that they can't access your IDFA, and can only show you ads based on info you provide within their own app, not from the other apps you use. It keeps your data silo-ed to each app.
> That an identical child, who happens to be born poor or who happens to be born with a darker skin color, will have fewer opportunities and worse life outcomes.

Yes, your appearance does have an impact on life outcomes, that much is true. But standardized tests are not to blame. In fact, standardized tests are the solution, because the test doesn't know what you look like.

> 1% of the incoming class is from the top 1% of earners.

If the 1% of earners are in the 1% because of being smart and because of being hard working, and the children inherit these traits, why punish the children for that?
Rather than asking people which view they prefer and why, it might be better to build a better understanding of:

1. When do they look at their overall roadmap view?

2. Why?

3. What actions do they often take as a result (e.g. print it out for upper mgmt, drag around the timing, ...)?

4. Why do they need to do those things?

5. ...

I could be off base but, based on your questions, I'd suggest you dial up the time you spend interviewing your customers about their problems.

The book 'The Mom Test' is a great guide for how to put this advice into practice.
are you trying urxvt? it have a daemon mode so each new terminal create only window but not whole new instance.
The users are the employees using Google ad sense. The customers are the corporation's selling junk.

The rest of it is a marketing expense.
Same. I'm slowly switching from GNOME to Sway, but I'm not going 100% until Chromium's Wayland support is better, since I spend 98% of my time in Chromium or VS Code. The good news is they are actively working on it since ChromeOS will (does?) use Wayland so they can split the Chromium browser from the Chromium that runs the OS shell.
> I don't like crypto because there's essentially zero accountability for issuers and that kind of environment is optimal for scammers.

Please expand on this as I'm almost certain this doesn't apply to BTC, ETH, and other reputable chains.
Seems like you could build a workstation that runs these quesries faster and cheaper than AWS ever could on a RAIDed set of NVME drives.

https://tanelpoder.com/posts/11m-iops-with-10-ssds-on-amd-th...
Don’t forget the super obvious:

“Update: support contacted me…”

They just straight up PayPal you money to change your negative review. Trick is once they pay change your review back and say they paid you but Amazon will likely remove the review at that point.

One way to fix is to only allow verified purchases.

Amazon also needs to remove the ability for sellers to request reviews be removed.

Amazon also needs to be less strict on negative reviews. Right now it doesn’t seem there’s any moderation on five star but if you put 1 star they really don’t approve them much. Most of mine have been declined.

They need to stop sellers from taking over older product pages or switching what product a page is sold on. There’s this common scam where they will sell a legit gizmo and get high reviews them swap it for the junk scam item. No idea why they let this happen as it seems so obvious but who knows.

Also need to really ramp up moderation of third party sellers. Start being picky about what they allow to be sold. Anything sold in the sad card category needs to be manually verified.
Trust is how you know. I trust Target, Best Buy, whomever, to sell me an actual Dyson battery. I’ve never had any problems with any company not taking an online return (except once with Amazon charging me for a replacement for a ~$10 item they said was delivered but wasn’t). Amazon doesn’t really stand out in that regard these days.

That Vietnamese company with the 3x capacity:price ratio is probably selling junk. There are just so many more junk sellers (at least by name—maybe a handful operating all those names). So it boils down to taking a gamble when the odds are against you, getting lucky, and building a relationship or going to a retailer you trust already.
yes! i'm in the same writing group with David. thank you for sharing my post! honestly was a little worried about the reaction to this post since it does come off a little cranky.
Nobody can be blamed for wanting free content, who doesn't? The fact most sites are free of charge does not mean the advertising industry should be allowed to surveil everyone and monetize their private information. If sites can't aford to offer content for free, they should charge money for it.
Back in January, it wasn’t. Some Chinese friends of mine became very convinced it was a lab leak back in Jan 2020 based on rumors on WeChat. The censors cleaned that up, but I’m pretty confident that privately a lot of people in China believe the lab leak theory.
> "Taking matters into your own hands” is, itself, typically crime, often violent crime

I personally started with making sure my youngsters respect teachers.
It's much more than $1200. It's $300 state and $300 federal, weekly, so $2400 a month.

But business can't offer $2500 and rake in the applications. When you're getting $2400 a month for sitting around watching movies all day, it is going to take a lot to move the needle and make you want to go back to work.
"holy crap"

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q="holy+crap"
These days a lot (most ?) of rendering toolkits are GPU accelerated, including things like your browser - you'd likely hit those issues with other apps as well then.

You could hit drivers bugs for sure, but that means in your particular config GL will be worse so you need to test, doubt this translates to a general scenario.

I think a lot of people assume because your default GL setup is to use immediate mode to re-render everything at refresh rate that's the only way to do rendering and that's why GL apps get the reputation for being power hungry.
Flax has alpha linolenic acid, which in some people (I am one of them) can't efficiently be converted into omega-3
I've seen "obviate" or "obviated" used in these situations.
You mean like Facebook? What a tragedy.
Keep pumping that well if you want but it is going to dry up.
Interesting train of thought.

Perhaps it's good to know that the x axis (from left to right) is temporal. So for someone/something to translate this to an image with some special sense would also necessitate some memory part.

With a big fantasy you could continue your hypothesis by comparing it to describing an object you see with words by telling the height of the outline from left to right.
> Plus equations that are designed to impress rather than enlighten.

Interesting, I don't think I've seen any discussion before about clear, unpretentious presentation of math. I'll have to consciously evaluate this better as I read papers.

Personally I think mathematical clarity is tougher to evaluate because I would not be confident enough to always know if it's the author or just me.
Previous HN discussion[1] suggests that the paper is dubious and/or stretching to reach a conclusion.

> The first author has had questionable publications in the past: "Quantum Physics of God: How Consciousness Became the Universe and Created Itself" (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/344906681_Quantum_P...) and "Quantum Entanglement with the Future: Lincoln Dreams of His Assassination" (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/344907026_Quantum_E...).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27065361
I've seen a lot of people confused by this, so I figured I'd clear it up:

"App tracking" here means reading your device ID, called the 'Identity For Advertisers' (IDFA for short). They do this so that they can cross reference that IDFA with data that other apps have collected on that same IDFA, allowing them to connect the dots that it's the same user.

This app tracking transparency feature makes it so that they can't access your IDFA, and can only show you ads based on info you provide within their own app, not from the other apps you use. It keeps your data silo-ed to each app.

This is where the whole "I looked up nike shoes on Amazon and now I'm getting nike shoe ads on Facebook" comes from. Without the IDFA, Facebook has no way of knowing what you looked up on Amazon, only what you look up on Facebook.
try:
https://teddit.net/

You can even subscribe to subs without having to create an account.
There were longbeards early on who warned us that Reddit would centralize discourse, providing a target for pr spooks, and then destroy free expression on the internet, and they were right.
Perhaps it was not clear enough, but I'm not associated with the project. The "agenda of optimism" is completely my interpretation as well.

As to the other concerns, this is not a traditional survey whose results are to be used seriously. The questions are meant to educate that many of us live with outdated notions of the state of the world. If you watch the talks, they show how even "experts" at the universities and world organizations such as the World Health Summit [0] fail to be better at the questions than a group of chimpanzees answering randomly.

I should have been more careful with my enthusiasm here. So the faults are all mine. I encourage everyone to explore the link and the talks and form their own opinion.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kD1gxFvjJ6o
Be careful not to cut your own nose off to spite someone else’s face.

Bad for Google and bad for everyone is still bad.
Turning Kubernetes Events into Spans
Language changes with use. What has frustrated me since high school is when people get so pedantic over the natural progression of language.

Conservative to the bone I guess.
> kids who grew up in wealth and surrounded by healthy parents seem oblivious or to not care whatsoever about such judgements from others

I can assure you it is the healthy parents and not the wealth that create children confident enough to ignore the judgments of others. The wealthy are far more susceptible to social judgments when they lack confidence themselves.
Inclusion in wayland-protocols means that it had enough support without opposition. It doesn't mean that all the members are interested in implementing the feature. According to the members list, Weston and Mir are still important enough to have a vote: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/b...

>application have to explicitly ask for compositor to decorate the window.

My reading of the protocol is that even when the application asks for that, the compositor can still reject it, and the application must always provide a fallback to CSD.
People fuck up accidentally and then intentionally cover it up all the time.
Vancouver Is the Anti-Asian Hate Crime Capital of North America
It took longer, but Reddit looks dead set on being the next digg. If they disabled the ability to use old.Reddit it would have already happened. But pushing more for gamification of tokens and premium experiences sounds like it will digg it reliably.
I was a doc reviewer in a commercial organisation, checking both technical reports and commercial writing (bids and contracts).

I recommended to authors that they should use active voice because it usually made it easier to explicitly identify the intended actors and avoid ambiguity about who should do what. E.g. a bid author should prefer "$COMPANY will do X" rather than "X will be done" because it avoids confusion over whether X is a $COMPANY or $CUSTOMER responsibility. Obviously authors could still write "X will be done by $COMPANY" but I found that they would often forget to identify the actor if they chose passive voice.
That’s delightfully brutal and… soviet in design philosophy.
Hi Marcin, many thanks for your kind reply! I have sent you an email.
I’m not dumping on Ilhan Omar. I’m dumping on the mostly white people in the media who have made her, in my dad’s words, “the face of American Muslims.” She has views that are far outside the mainstream for American Muslims, particularly with respect to social issues and activism. She’s welcome to have whatever politics she wants—it’s America! But it’s wrong for the media to amplify her as if she is representative of Muslims in America as a whole.

This is a problem with progressives, which have disproportionate power in the media, and academia. As a group (for example Elizabeth Warren supporters) they’re as disproportionately white as the Republican Party. But they trade on the moral authority of purporting to speak for people of color. To that end, they amplify voices like Omar and Tlaib, whose politics are indistinguishable from those of secular white progressives, and not representative of Muslims. There are probably more Muslims who voted for Trump (about 1/3) then ones who are as extreme in their politics as Omar and Tlaib. This pisses odd people like my parents, who are typical Muslim voters (moderate socially conservative Democrats).

It’s particularly problematic when, as the OP points out, whites people are judged differently for amplifying the voices of someone like Omar or Tlaib versus the voice of one of the many Muslims who voted for Trump. It suppresses conservatism within the community—progressive Muslims can count on getting tenure, getting in CNN, because white people are allowed to agree with and amplify them. But when conservative Muslims speak, white people are afraid to agree, and progressive whites often feel comfortable attacking them as tokens. This happens to other people of color as well—in the dozens of Asians you saw on CNN talking about the Atlanta shootings, how many were Trump voters (like 1/3 of Asians?)
Pollen is just a very extensible and composable slate for you to compose content. Under the hood, Pollen may be equivalent to the Scribble language without the fixed export structures and styles.

That the outputs look very good may be correlated with the author and other prominent users caring for typography and web delivery.

As-is, my impression is that generation of multiple pages seems slower than scribble/manual, but the community has been exploring use of databases to speed up caches. In this respect, I've been eyeing the work of this member in particular: https://github.com/otherjoel

All this speaks very good of the seemingly limitless flexibility of the Racket ecosystem.
In fairness no one can do a greater disservice to journalistic integrity than all the activists in the msm calling themselves journalists.
Same thing happened wrt my deceased grandfather. Except instead of posting comments, he voted by mail in ballot in the 2020 presidential election.