skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am 100% pro bio hacking, I would go as far as to say that I think the bio hacking community might be the only place I can see solutions to our largest problems coming from. I mean the bio hacking community too, not acedemia. Not that acedamia isn’t crucial to that process.

Anyway, Maybe a few years ago the barrier to entry was too high for most people but that is so not the case anymore. Even just this year a friend sent me a link to a $2000 gizmo that was about the size of a pack of gum that could do desktop sequencing. Generating your own custom DNA in your bedroom is considerably harder (but not impossible) but it is not at all difficult to order a custom sequence from a half dozen different retailers. The file you send them is just a big chunk of a few letters. It’s assembly code with no comments (yes I know folks do put in comments in text sometimes and sometimes biologically but just like always comments lie more than not), they functionally cannot be checking for what it could do if what you’re working on is even remotely novel. For the price of a playstation you can have it delivered to your door next day air.

There are very real risks here for our entire planet. Possibly one of our largest risks. To hide behind “it’s too difficult for a malicious actor” is not helpful. I think genetic literacy is maybe the only thing we all can do as we might be entering very weird territory as a closed system that has a bent towards global narcissism and self harm.

Something that gives me some comfort is that to be good at it you really have to do a gross and difficult deep dive into how all life works and I think there are very few people that could do that and still feel like it’s ok to do harm at even a small scale. The things we are going to see in the next few years will be pretty fucking weird. I guess when you get down to this level, the only thing to have is something like faith. Eeeek.
Intel and AMD should simplify their CPU design, removing old x86-baggage they carry for compatibility. This will allow to reduce power consumption and be more competitive against ARM-processors.
It works fine when you're logged in on the app.
> very telling

This is the sort of internet cheap shot that passionate partisans come up with. If you multiply all the moderation actions you agree with by 0% and all the ones you disagree with by 100%, yes, you're going to end up with quite a picture of bias. But it's a picture you've generated yourself by weighting the variables that way.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

For example, I specifically turned off the flags on this submission. That's a moderation action you presumably support, since you submitted it. But you overlook that, while a title edit is "very telling". Meanwhile there's someone on the opposite side of the question who's weighting the same two actions in the opposite way and coming up with the opposite conclusion, which they no doubt also consider "very telling".

More here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27646015.
as an aside, why do all the jewish religion topics always get posted on the sabbath when most readers of HN who live the life related aren't around to reply?
Ah, yes, the golden era of the '90s and '00s, when Linux was easy to deploy and PC manufacturers supported you running Linux.

We made it work and we'll make it work again.
Wow... this comment section is proving the point of the article. This was posted last night as well and got flagged right away.

The discussion is important as it is about Tech platforms deciding to side with Israel and silencing Palestinians in social media and they have no recourse. We have had plenty of discussions here about social media censorship (especially during covid and trump era). This is a valid discussion as well as it is about human rights.
If we can talk and about Indian and Nigerian, or Chinese censorship against the Uyghurs and the Tiananmen square masacre, then we can talk about Israeli censorship war against the Palestinians as well.

Also Computer Ethics is part of the Computer Science curriculum in most colleges, and part of technology. We are not going to solve this conflict here, but we should know where censorship in tech is being used to suppress the voice of a whole population. I was born in a former communist country (1980, Albania), and censorship and media control was used to suppress the voice of the people in order to prop up a brutal regime.

"In addition to using social media to incriminate Palestinians, Israel has also used it to muzzle us. In 2016, Israel’s then-Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked boasted that, in the previous four-month period, Facebook had complied with 95% of Israel’s requests to remove Palestinian content on the vague basis of “incitement.” A year later, Israel tried to push the “Facebook Bill” through the Knesset, legislation which would force Facebook to remove any content designated as “incitement.” "
Maybe I just have the same distorted perspective... but isn't Palestine still denying Israels right to exist?

There seems to be a major campaign right now by Palestinians and their supporters (and other people who don't like Jews which strongly correlates with Israelis) to portray them only as innocent victims, but that seems disingenuous if, assuming it's correct, wiping out Israel is still policy.

Edit: Oh the irony, I've been both downvoted and flagged. Something something blackout. Hypocrites.
There are only 4 (2**2) such pure functions. For type (Bool -> IO Bool), there are infinite (∞**2) such pure functions.
This pattern comes up a lot in comments on this type of post. Author makes a dumb but easy-to-follow example to make a point, and then someone points out how the example is dumb. Try to avoid getting hung up on examples -- in this case nobody reading this post should come away thinking they now know more about cosine similarity than a library author. I dare say the author's main points were:

- it's not that much code

- it's not terrifyingly hard to understand

- you might open up performance benefits in your specific circumstance just by knowing how it's calculated after writing the code to do it yourself
In statically typed languages you declare x an unsigned 8-bit integer. Everybody may write to x and still; you'd never anxiously expect x to be anything but an unsigned 8-bit integer.

There is nothing wrong with "multiple pieces of code" "directly affecting global state" if your business rules are encoded in such a way.
I think your application is awesome. Also, that some people here in comments are offensive and don't understand really what being an introvert is about.

Your application can help not only introverts, but also people who are isolated, depressed, who struggle to regain social connections after last months.

Thank you for that. You put a lot of effort in the app and it works great. It is one of the best ideas and implementations I have seen in five years.

Congrats again! It is far beyond my imagination how positive impact your project can have for millions of people!
Lack of validation?

I.e if no criteria, it could be sending a DELETE message with no where clause in SQL land.
Easy: no form input no condition on the delete

aaand it’s gone
"well then stop clicking on them!"
Just "upgraded" to a i7-6700 last year since I buy my computers used because I am cheap.
I've thought that creating a 100-150 watt power over Ethernet standard for home wiring would be a win. Advantage faster install, cheaper cabling, and better safety. Better safety because you can limit the default power to under 15W. Faster install because you use crimp connectors.
Lots of countries have similar sorts of histories I think; while I'm sure what you say is part of the equation, I think it doesn't fully explain why Americans are much more likely to support Israel than people in other countries (for instance, Australia.) I think another piece of this puzzle is the popularity of Evangelical Christianity in America, particularly Christian Zionism and the belief that the state of Israel is a necessary precondition for the return of their Messiah. That's the sort of rhetoric I was raised with anyway.
More likely git would support a common AST format/protocol and language tooling would be responsible for providing that.
Why can't we talk about ethics? There are a lot of things in this world that are legal, yet I choose not to do them because they are not ethical in my opinion.

We are allowed to talk about ethics separate from the law.
That thing is a pile of absolute dog shit. New up and coming UK political party are using it - I volunteered to help with setting up / maintaining their tech stack, realized within 5 minutes all their eggs were in that godforsaken basket and changed my mind.
As an American who moved here from a Muslim country let me assure you Muslims are socialized to feel the same way about Jews.

Took me a long time to see it. In high school I obviously supported Palestine and thought Israel was a settler colony (all of it, not just Gaza). Then I realized: wait why do I even care? I’m from 3,000 miles away in Bangladesh. In Bangladesh, people don’t even care about Bangladeshis being held in near-slavery conditions in Qatar. (More Bangladeshi workers have died in the Middle East since 2010 than Palestinians killed in the conflict with Israel since 1947.) They don’t care about the Rohingya. They don’t care what Saudi is doing in Yemen. They’re very friendly with China and don’t care about Uighurs. But everyone has an opinion on how Israel is oppressing Palestine.
Do you have data for that? Having visited a number of countries in Europe, Japan and the US I've found roughly the same number of retail stores (at least in terms of area). The US tends to have fewer but larger stores in my experience. For example, Google indicates that Germany alone has almost as many grocery stores as the US despite being a fraction of the population.
Why do we need decentralisation in a chat app?
Play these sounds to bring the comfort, and discomfort, of working from home
A2SDi-8C-HLN4F are Mini-ITX so they fit in these: https://streacom.com/products/db1-fanless-mini-itx-case/

But you need to buy this GPU adapter: https://streacom.com/products/db4-gpu-cooling-kit/ (for the small CPU)

And buy M3 female-female spacers that are 50mm long and some M3 thread that you cut at the appropriate length.

So it's a bit fiddly until they release proper small CPU adapters for these.

Also to remove the heatsink that comes on the motherboard you need to run the board without fan until it heats enough to soften the heatpaste. Be careful to not rip the board when removing it, wooden icecream stick to bend might come useful.
I dont think a Pi-hole would work for this, because google serves the ads from the same location as the content (the same reason pi-hole can't block youtube ads)
Why would the US government not deny poisoning someone?
> the best strategy to making North Korea a better place would be to make the lives of North Koreans as miserable as possible, destabilising the country?

I see here hidden false assumption that helping North Korea is making lives of North Koreans less miserable.

The main cause of all problems for North Koreans is this totalitarian regime and those who support it. They suffer from that! Not from your actions. So destabilising the country is attacking the core of their problem and thus helping North Korea people. Supporting the regime is prolonging their sufferings. This regime should fall inevitably and there is no other way to help people of North Korea people so the only question is when and how.
Technically, it is (in some circumstances): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_independence_movement#F...
I haven't used WPF in 10 years or so. Come to think of it, I haven't done any desktop stuff with .NET Core at all - wow, 180MB is pretty damn big!

Just took a look at my current project, which has several components: an ASP.NET web UI is 80MB, an ASP.NET API is 65MB, and backend services range from 40-55MB (these are all pretty complex, production-grade components).
> Mobile homes offer better protection against deterioration of a real estate or job market, and also better opportunities for moving to a growing market. Mobility is in the name.

Mobility is in the name, but not in reality. Once you install a mobile home, it's expensive and unlikely to move it and install it somewhere else. It's better to call these buy their new name, manufactured homes, which eliminates the misconception from having mobile in the name.

Now, that doesn't mean they couldn't be the future of housing, but it doesn't seem to be what developers are building or what people are buying when they've got choices. I think the cost difference vs a wood framed house built on site doesn't make up for the lack of flexibility.
This video is a great explainer on heat pumps [1]. The TL;DR is that they are essentially nothing more than air conditioners that run in the opposite direction. Plus, a heat pump and an air conditioner can be combined into a single system.

1: https://youtu.be/7J52mDjZzto
Source? Do you have a relevant example?
> A few years ago, criticism of Israel's policies started being called anti-antisemitism

It is often the case. Take a peek anywhere neo-nazis gather. As far as I can tell, they've realized that while they're getting nowhere attacking Jews, they are able to effectively attack the Jewish state.

It works, I think, because it's a David and Goliath type story and everyone tends to root for the underdog (even when it's trying its best to murder random civilians).
Wonderful words of encouragement! Thank you! I realize some people might see this differently, but, at the end of the day, I did what works best for me and felt others could benefit as well.
EasyBusy Task and Project Organizer
Yes, it's the same example, but the answer appears to be subtly different. Acquire and release are only "one-way barriers". Consider the link in the sibling comment by spacechild1.
He raises fair points on this highly controversial subject. If we're to give this matter a fair hearing, we need to put all the relevant facts on the table. Maybe there was a nicer way for him to put these facts, but that doesn't invalidate them.
“Safety” is USDC (by Coinbase) or DAI, not BTC/ETH
> per the Microsoft guidelines that require that x86 machines allow their secure boot to be disabled.

Yeah but then you can't boot into Windows? Who is actually going to go into the firmware settings to switch settings on and off for every single boot to the other OS?
shhhh stop crying
Is this a one-time treatment? Does it remove all of the offending genetic material, and then when those cells divide they are cured? Or does it require ongoing treatment?
> in this case nobody reading this post should come away thinking they now know more about cosine similarity than a library author

However, if this post leaves you open to the option that you might know more about $THING than a library author... that is probably a very healthy possibility to consider.

(Consider. Some are that grad student who got assigned to write the library because they were too useless to do anything else. Others are David M Gay.)
> While there’s no question Carmack was an exceptional talent, let’s not forget the original Doom shipped with serious network killing bugs in 93

You're confusing "this is necessary" with "there are no (horrible) problems with this".

Doom needed low-level access because it was (at the time) simply impossible to make the game run at a reasonable speed without low-level access. Separately, Doom had bugs, because all software is terrible.

GTA does not need low-level access, because everything is has a legitimate reason to do runs at reasonable speeds on modern hardware (or if it doesn't, low-level access won't speed it up noticeably). Separately, GTA has bugs, because all software is terrible.
Nobody’s done it yet, probably due to lack of perceived demand.

Don’t get me wrong. It’s not so easy that a few college kids could just whip one out. A company like Intel or AMD could definitely do it.
It's a dangerous game they're playing. They don't create original content, so if someone clones or creates a site with the old user-friendly interface then the switch might flip on them as abruptly as it did for digg.
There are a ton of apartments/condos in the the US. They're just expensive in the most in-demand areas.
While I widely agree, if we're fair there's a difference between a Journalist covering leaked stuff and literally releasing the full unredacted documents to the public.

Otherwise I agree. His treatment comes down to nothing other than the fact the USA govt want to make it very, very clear that they are willing to totally destroy anyone's lives who dare publish the horrific things they're doing.
I think it’s pretty ridiculous to think something more complex than doom isn’t needed in a game simulating a vast number of systems like GTA, yes. Bugs and issues increase with complexity, surprise!

Doom is gloriously simple by today’s standards - it doesn’t even support “room over room”. That isn’t a criticism of today being over-complex either - the state of the art in gameplay systems has just moved on massively as compute power has increased. We take “room over room” for-granted in 2021 which we couldn’t in the 90s.

Separately, if you can manage a software release with 1000 human developers, multiple release platforms and millions of users over 5 years (like GTA 5) and not ship random little performance bugs, you need to tell the rest of the world the secret of how you did it.
I really don't care about Microsoft's internal organization or what team has how many resources right now.
And similarly peace isn't possible while the wall is there. Although the reason it was built was because there wasn't peace. And so on about a thousand years back.
The brain is particularly hard due to blood/brain barrier, crispr is too big a molecule to go through. So might need injections into cerebral spinal fluid for that
Have you consider consulting? Take a look at the suggestions of patio11 https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/consultin... HN discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4805091 (1034 points | Nov 19, 2012| 263 comments) and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15994410 (780 points | Dec 23, 2017 | 481 comments)

[Disclaimer: No. I don't work in consulting.]
What's the EOL for Windows 10? Apparently it's 13 Dec 2022 or 09 May 2023 (education/enterprise) for the currently released versions -- I guess that's it? https://endoflife.date/windows
This was long ago and the details are hazy.

Back in 2003 or so, I was in tech support for a company that used desktop computers running java applets to connect to a mainframe via Telnet (IBM Host-on-Demand IIRC). Most of the core business processes were handled by mainframe apps, which the company largely developed. I used to hang out in the data center with the mainframe guys who coded in COBOL all day.

On a Friday afternoon, I was working on testing deployment of an update to the java terminal client applet. Everything seemed to work fine in testing, and it was a minor update, so (idiot me) I went ahead and pushed it to the server.

Shortly after I pushed it out, the mainframe guys' phones started ringing with complaints that the mainframe was down. Then my phone started ringing. Then all of the phones started ringing.

Turns out, something I did in the update (I honestly can't remember the specifics now) reset every local users' mainframe connection information for the applet. Across the whole company. So as soon as they exited the applet, they couldn't get back in.

That was a fun weekend.
I thought I was overthinking it when I saw all this happening. I SO miss the reddit of 8 yrs ago.
This light sometimes blinks green. Sometimes it blinks orange. What does it mean? Who knows.
That largely depends on the builders, and in particular the project managers.
People seem to believe that if you bury your head in the sand, nobody can see you. Just because you don't talk about something openly it does not imply that the discussion doesn't happen at all. It happens in closed circles which just fuels the hatred towards the censorship and those who enforce it. You can't forbid people to think and have opinions. What is the point of flagging this entry? You either introduce a policy that forbids posting political issues on HN entirely or you don't, selection makes you a hypocrite.
> You have to go beyond the first section.

Please don't imply people didn't read the article. It's boring, unnecessarily rude, against the guidelines [1], and at least in this case I did read the entire article and agree with that comment.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> (b) there is no low hanging fruit.

There is no low hanging fruit when you divide up the pricing the way he did, but transportation is part of nearly every category that he divided it up into. From the data he shows we don't have any reason to think that transportation is not a single substantial fraction of the house cost, when you some up all the different transportation costs between the different sections he uses.

To make an analogy to programming, transportation is like an allocator, and his data shows that execution time is spent evenly between 20 different functions. But all of those functions allocate, it's perfectly plausible the program is spending 50% of it's time in it's allocator and that speeding up that allocator by 50% would reduce the overall execution time by 25%.
I have that CPU and I have secure boot. Pretty sure that's a motherboard feature
This is what war has done in almost every conflict. The enemy is a monster so attacking the monster justifies far too much.
Is it not?

For a few decades the Swiss required building concrete nuclear fallout bunkers for every resident. This was relaxed only recently, but presumably it was doable for five decades. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-swiss-bunker/swiss-relax-...
The power users were always desktop users anyway. I've only used reddit a couple times from mobile.
IIRC, most configuration of electron microscopes tend to lyse cells because of the environmental conditions of hard vacuum and high charge.

Then some instruments came along that took advantage of lysing cells for analysis: flow cytometry.

If you can look at cells without going full-power Death Star on them, that sounds damn useful.

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I anticipate Applied Science will build one in his garage over the weekend and apologize for not making it 2 orders-of-magnitude more sensitive than UQ's. :bow before the might of this over-achiever who ships, a hacker as salty as my HP 48G/X:
Not if you're writing parallel to the spine.
awesome -been wanting to do this for a while, and had an idea to build something like this to automatically record in-person chess tournaments for spectators.
I mean the whole idea that "I don't know every variable, but I'm going to jump to a singular conclusion while pointing out that a hypothesis I disagree with is nonsense" seems like a bad take to me but I'm a fan of science.
> So you have to go read a news site if it is OK to update your packages?

Not "if it's ok to update", but "whether there's manual intervention required". See https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/General_recommendations#Pac.... Not reading that before upgrade seems to be the main reason for post-upgrade failures.

> But you litereally started by saying that upgrading any given Friday

The point was that you should rather upgrade "every Friday" than "any given Friday".
This comment section really proves what is being silenced. Just look for the voices that are not being represented here.