skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What if this is just an artifact of the DNA sequence assembly. They soil they collect probably contains DNA from many organisms. The sequence assembly algorithms are likely looking for patterns in noise [1].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophenia
If you are doing truly creative and innovative work, the office or equivalent is the only way. You can't "invent" anything new remotely. You need the "speed of flow" combined with the interaction of testing new ideas.

If you are doing something invented 30 years ago or longer, and implementing by rote, then that can be done distributed with no problem. Follow a standard waterfall-able process is easily done remotely as not.
The famous picture of a dying forest to drive that narrative down everybody's throat was a picture of ... a forest dying of something else.
Mobility doesn’t work like that anymore. Moving states in 1929 meant, for the most part, a completely fresh start - your landlord wasn’t going to chase you for the rest of the rent on your lease, you didn’t have a car payment or health insurance to worry about (using social security nets like medical or housing assistance is even harder when you haven’t yet established residency in a new state), and if you had any debts or even reputation issues they were very unlikely to “follow” you. Now we have credit reporting, background checks, and a system that, by design, makes it all but impossible to “start over” when you have no other options.
I mean, obviously nuclear war was averted because we ended the cold war (we changed our behavior). I suppose I could be misinformed but I believe the hole in the ozone layer was fixed by banning CFCs (we changed our behavior)? I know less about acid rain. We are continuing to destroy forests.
"It wouldn't be outrageous to assume that Google will automatically switch from driving to walking mode at the best location to exit your vehicle."

On the other hand, it also wouldn't be outrageous to assume that if an app is giving you "walking directions" that the route would be walkable for an average user rather than "highly dangerous, even for experienced climbers".
(I suppose spotlighting works only in the darkness?)
I thought so as well, but then I started offering jobs to people I knew hated their jobs and also worked unpaid overtime constantly, with the smallest salaries. But for some reason, when offered a 6x salary freelancing, for less hours, with guidance, and the road paved as much as possible, everyone refuses.

Turns out there are people who take shitty jobs on purpose, out of a sense of... I don't know, fear, embarrassment, impostor syndrome, or a combination of them.

*This is not in the US.
The only thing a WW2 era tank could do to an M1 would be a mobility kill. Treads, optics or engine. Eventually the M1 would run out of 120mm rounds, then there becomes a more realistic chance of disabling it.
I'd need to hear it A-B because I couldn't detect a significant advantage from the videos of playing. Admittedly my ears aren't what they used to be.
It's not nearly that one-sided.

Wetness can definitely screw up a paper map, and if it's currently snowing or raining I'd much rather be using a phone than actual paper. You can forget to download a map, and you can forget to bring a map, so that's about equal. For paper the battery doesn't run down but also it doesn't work at night. Spreading paper out is great sometimes, yes. I have no idea what you mean when you say the physicality "matches".
It's a self-feeding cycle.

First you need work two 10 hour shifts a day, 7 days a week to survive. Then you can't even study, because you can't afford it.

This is why proper unemployment and free schools (evil SOCIALISM) comes in to play. People don't need to work themselves to death just to survive, there are safety nets you can fall back on. (Yes there are holes in said nets, but it's better than the gaping black hole the US has).
> raise wages by four percent over the next two years

Matching inflation is not much of a raise.
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SearchShare: PoC for sharing verified search engine results between users
None of those recipes look very good... is it because our culinary styles and culture have evolved over time (intermingling from different cultures) or because old English recipes were just... not good?
American soldiers griping about the French wouldn't have wanted to read Our Friends the French. And French people tired of American soldiers griping wouldn't have wanted to read 112 Gripes About the French.
It's not just the dotted line that is being criticized. The driving directions end at the physically closest car park, but not the most appropriate for most people.
1800s age-of-sail/frontier living (but with more bicycles)

About 2/3 of the world population has to go for that.

We're in good shape on energy and in good shape on food. Both can come from a wide variety of sources and locations. The long term sustainability problems are further out, running out of copper, cobalt, etc. Recycling will get some of it, but not all of it, back.
Yeah. Most places in the US the barrier to building is zoning but I'm still optimistic stuff like this will find some solid niches.

If I owned a place with a huge backyard I'd def consider - would be good living spot for relative or something.
PS you are already paying them with your data. Baubles for gold as it were...
Piped: A privacy-friendly YouTube front end which is efficient by design
Makes sense I guess, integrating robot hardware requires an entirely different set of skills to ML research and has a much slower dev cycle.

I think OpenAI has progressively narrowed down its core competency - for a company like 3M it would be something like "applying coatings to substrates", and for OpenAI it's more like "applying transformers to different domains".

It seems like most of their high-impact stuff is basically a big transformer: GPT-x, copilot, image gpt, DALL-E, CLIP, jukebox, musenet

their RL and gan/diffusion stuff bucks the trend, but I'm sure we'll see transformers show up in those domains as well.
Why isn’t all software created for the government required to be open-source? Would that really drive the costs up, if the providers don’t have the choice?
They want something stable. Freelancing is not.
If your FOSS-developed app wants to open a network socket to an IP address that isn't on the government whitelist, then the OS will perform an OSCP check to ensure the (hash of the) binary has been recorded, along with the identity of its developer, in a corporate or government-run database.
The Salton sea is just the latest iteration of the cycle of freshwater lakes[1] that form, then dry up in that location in the Colorado River delta. The fact that a canal cut formed the latest one does not distinguish it much from the several version over the last few thousand years of natural formations.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Cahuilla
The U.S. Overdose Wave
> Basically the opposite of systemd, which is a giant code ball of code with components tightly coupled.

> [..]

> The use or non-use of of either of these program will also not effect device discovery / hot-plugging, mounting of file systems, system run levels, network time, system logging, etc.

This comes up again and again in the systemd discussion, but it's at best a mischaracterization. Yes, there's some code sharing between different components, but it's not a monolith. On my Debian system it ships 50+ different binaries split across 8 different packages. You can use the network management without using the NTP service, the journal without using the device manager, the tmpfiles manager without using the user manager, etc.

Most, if not all, of these components only depend on the service manager (i.e. PID 1). That's more or less unavoidable for an event-driven system, there'll always be a dependency on the event bus. The components itself can be freely swapped out for different, even incompatible, implementations. If you don't even want to run the service manager, all external interfaces are stable, pretty well-documented and relatively straightforward, so it's even possible to write a completely independent implementation without breaking external dependencies.

By the way, if we're talking about loose coupling and POSIX, this OpenBSD implementation isn't it either. resolvd has an hardcoded reference to the unwind socket, and they use a special BSD-only socket type to communicate between the different processes.
I feel like there is something interesting in here but the finance jargon and writing style is obscuring it for me.
That's about the aesthetics for the art/visions. Not a goal how the world has to look.
beautifully said

even better than
an authentic knowledge
is an authentic experience
Its possible to not retrieve ads, at least for some videos. I never see ads on the ones I watch. I do not use an ad blocker, I just exercise control over HTTP and DNS. Could you provide an example of a video where you believe its impossible not to retrieve ads.
I could first relate to this when I was working in a kitchen and how awful people can be when they fully assert up front that because of your job, you can be treated however they feel entitled to treat you.
Also reminds me of the Stanford prison experiment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27867635
How to Create an Aliexpress Dropshipping Store Using Shopify and Oberlo
With revenues b/w 100-900k I m wondering why you want a job at this point in your life? Are profit margins really low? Are you selling the business? If I m looking at you as a potential hire, I would first ask those questions
Descent would be so crazy as a VR game... I remember being getting lost pretty much all the time...
In California they are already illegal except at an executive level. As is working on your own as long as your use your own time, materials and resources, while working for a company.

I think these are some of the few things the California does right; they definitely hit it out of the ball park. This dates back to the 1960s though, so there's no attribution to the current residents or government - I'd guess they'd love to get rid of it these days.
Putting the set of all algorithms in an order is quite easy. Like the comment above suggests. Just put them in alphabetical / lexicographical order.

Then you don't need to "randomly pick" an algorithm. You just start with the first algorithm in the sequence, and keep going.
Fedora 34 Workstation (GNOME) with only gnome-software and packagekit removed idles at 650MB.

This is because the Fedora repositories are very large due to all their extra metadata and the inefficiencies of the yum packagekit backend. GNOME Software also always keeps its UI loaded even when not open.

You might also want to free up some space afterwards: sudo rm -rfv /var/cache/packagekit

PackageKit is nice because it allows (not so great [1]) offline updates. GNOME Software is nice because it allows your typical user to update and install software.

[1] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-software/-/issues/181
> They implored me to trust that they had "never sued anyone" and "have no intentions to", and I think they honestly believe that. But then why have the non-compete at all?

Great answer BTW!
Show HN: Browse the internal structure of a PDF file
they fixed this!!! This was true last year when it first came out. Im not sure since when but as of this week, I was able to play 120hz VR mode on my RTX 3090. the VR mode in this game is so immersive! it makes up for the lack of gameplay mechanics, it kind becomes just a beautiful arcade space shooter, which is ok.
It is strange to me that the RISC-V leapfrogged past the Pi port (per https://www.haiku-os.org/guides/building/port_status the ARM, including the Pi, exists but isn't very useful yet); I wonder why it made progress so fast even with poor hardware availability.
Right. Like the Chobani commercial.[1]

[1] https://youtu.be/MS-sJQkr0H4
You are asked to explore and make modifications to software.
Someone wants it quick.
Fortune is on your side - atleast you know people(akin to explorers) who navigated before survived (which means the system did not cause blackouts).
All you have to do is be hyperlocal and slap on the bandaid, chewing-gum and ducktape, whatever is handy.
System is a product of its masters - your bosses. Sleep well!
And its $200/mo for the privilege of feeding them the data they want.
> I often wonder if a gut biome transplant from her would give me that

Our urine is charged with more or less of our gut biome, and enzymes, not only toxins. so maybe.. drinking it (some people do, at least it's not dangerous)

You could consider switching diet to reshape your gut biome. Some people advise no-sugar diet, but in my case, I switched to a monkey diet, a lot of fruits, and lost a bit of weight (I used to be more 65-70kg for 1m83, now at 58kg) and gained energy, vitality, immunity (never ill), overall health, I can eat only fruits during some days or weeks. When there are less fruits I'd eat rice, lentils, honey, more rarely fish. So maybe try to switch your diet, find the one that works the best for you
There are a lot of problems that could have been avoided in the past 20 years if everyone deploying to Iraq, Afghanistan or a similar location was forced to sit through, and pass, a one week length cultural/sociological/religious/history class.

I have found that the gaps in knowledge between your typical USAID worker in Afghanistan and some military members (even those who should know better, at E5 and E6 ranks and similar) can be quite vast.
Maybe they think the offer is too good to be true. In some countries it is default to assume everyone is out to scam you until proven otherwise.
I understand, but it sounds like we are digging ourselves into the same hole as USSR workers who were not incentivized to deliver working products, when we do that. It’s a civilizational peril. How do we solve cooperation at large scale? Is the only way to watch large companies accumulate bored employees and constantly recreate “the small guy”, the startup, which will finally make things right, until they become too big to be incentivized?
Related HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27816108
This is essentially the idea of VoltDB [1]:
All tables are partitioned and each partition is assigned to a single thread. As long as each query only touches a single partition, you get linear horizontal scalability and serializable isolation. The drawback is that if a query touches multiple partitions, only that one query can be executed on the entire cluster, so this architecture only works for very specific OLTP workloads.

[1] https://www.voltdb.com/
Reddit's https://www.reddit.com/r/solarpunk/ is a good place start if you want an optimistic view of the future that embraces technology rather than blames it for all of society's ills.

And my favorite poem of all time is https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/09/weeke...

There is a strong solarpunk vs cyberpunk split in art and sci-fi which provides some beautiful contrasts: https://mobile.twitter.com/ScootFoundation/status/1330271990...
https://outline.com/WrPPDK

but a new layout doesn't make this much easier to read. the writing style mirrors the site layout - it's more for the author's amusement than the benefit of the reader.
www.SMSAPI.com is good and cheap and reliable for this
Definitely. The ability to create derivative works is one of the exclusive rights of a rightsholder as laid out by Title 17 from the US Code.
Or it’s a 3rd party targeting the US?

The common party being the US doesn’t mean it was caused by the US.
What If the State Department of Transportation Tore Down Texas Highways
systemd fundamentally made a branding mistake, not a technical one. Putting all of these components under one 'systemd' umbrella name meant that people simplistically think of them as one thing and then start making the 'Unix philosophy' argument.
New museum technology collects data on viewing habits
Without quantifying the specific amounts of consumption attributable to these deaths, it's pretty meaningless as a statistic.

As presented it literally makes claim sound like a wide-eyes, self-righteous temperance fanatic claiming liquor will "send you to hell!"

Not much on science and more on religious fervor! We went down the road once before and it made things worse.
Red is kind of an exiting language. I'm really fond of it's whole "one language fits all" idea.
I hope more visible updates come soon and I'm really looking forward to the day it becomes self hosted.
What I also don’t get: why the hell would do I care which NTP implementation is used in most cases. What I do care about is that it’s running and working. systemd has a good init system and a decent set of other services. Could things be improved? Sure. But honestly as long as when I boot my Debian-derived distro it works as expected why am I going yo go digging into how it works? What can I possibly gain by switching which DHCP client or which NTP daemon I’m using?
> Anyone knows why people decide to do this kind of time consuming work? Is the world getting hard enough that there is no alternative?

A lot of people who work paycheck-to-paycheck in "flyover state" parts of the USA do not have sufficient savings to relocate to a place where they could work a normal 40-hour week schedule and support themselves on a reasonable income. That, combined with family ties and obligations force them to remain in their local community.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/americans-struggle-to-save...
That game is amazing otherwise too. But yes the darkness was absurd.
Yes, although workarounds exist, but not in a way that would make this sort of employment possible.
The problem is that Google nominally operates at two levels of abstraction — one is showing you the map, of that's all they did there would have been no issue — that's parity with a paper map & up to the user to navigate.

But at a higher level of abstraction, they provide directions: basically "outsourcing" interpretation of the map to them. Here there's definitely an onus on them to say "Sorry, no route found" and _tell_ the user they need to interpret the app themselves.

By suggesting a route, they're obviously suggesting it's a safe/viable route. If they can't guarantee that, they should err on the side of caution.
> (1) it assumes the absolute superiority of paper maps, without any qualification for what kind of map you're talking about

Well, yes, not any paper map. Also not any phone does maps right? Needs to have a screen. Not every computer has internet. And I suppose an Amiga might not even be able to render a map.

All of UK (literally all) is covered by OS maps, at topographic accuracy. A little flimsy piece of paper you can pick up at a hut is not that. US has USGS maps, or national geographic maps, apparently (haven’t hiked in the US). Most/all countries have an equivalent and that’s the go-to for any semi-serious hiking and above. This data is collected and maps maintained anyway, since military, police, and really lots of government agencies needs very, very accurate central authority on the lay of the land.

> (2) you rather judgmentally pin the blame on the ignorance of a "stupid" "generation of adults" and "teenagers".

Well there is no blame to apportion since there isn’t apparently a fault. But if someone is mislead by the google maps image, I’ll put it in the same category as driving to Gibraltar when you meant Gibraltar St.
You don't seem to know what a muscle is.
TikToker predicts NSW Covid-19 cases will remain over 100
The opposite is true. They pay the same taxes, use the same stores and go to the same bars and attend tbe same cultural events. A lot of rural home owners work in a nearby town as well.
HP-UX 11.11 on QEMU-system-hppa with retro-terminal [video]
Of extra note, X uses more memory then Wayland (as long as you have no X apps open), and classic is enabled through the use of shell plugins which also uses more memory compared to regular.
> Notice the browser eating CPU and memory. In Chrome, uBO eventually crashes and must be reloaded to work again.

Unless I'm missing something it sounds like a denial of service attack?
If you want to see amazing tile work, search youtube for "uzbekistan mosque". It's a whole unique central asian art form.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=uzbekistan+mosq...
Acid rain was the result of air pollution containing nitrogen and sulfur oxides, primarily from industrial sources, but also from vehicles. Strict emissions controls have largely solved this problem in developed countries.
Twitch has become 50% soft-core porn, I’m actually surprised what they’ve allowed it to become.
There's one question which must always be asked whenever a new remote code execution vulnerability like this one is found:

Is it wormable? That is, could a worm use it as a vector for spreading?

If I understood this article correctly, the answer in this case is probably YES. A worm could use this vulnerability to inject itself into a phone without any user intervention, and once there use the same vulnerability to attack other phones of the same model around it, recursively. Since the reach of a WiFi beacon is not short (it always uses the lowest speed, and IIRC can easily reach a hundred meters), on a dense metropolitan area with enough of the vulnerable device models, it could spread very quickly.

In other words, this vulnerability is of the "patch immediately, and if you can't, completely disconnect the device until it's patched" kind. I don't know much about iOS, but if this were Android, just disabling WiFi (without disabling a couple of hard-to-find settings related to location) wouldn't be enough; airplane mode might be enough, but for this class of device, would severely limit its main functionality.
it's squid fishing lights
Trails are usually dotted lines and contour lines are always solid lines, was this not the case here?
Aren't there quite some solutions today?

Fauna, Upstash, DynamoDB, CosmoDB, Firestore, Planetscale.
"Even if they do it terribly, I doubt they'll make anything worse."

You can always make things worse.

So I hope this will not be an excuse to be even more careless with the exploitation, even though more lithium is beneficial, too.
Descent launched in 1995 with support for stereo displays (or maybe it was added in a patch, I can't find the patch notes, anyway it was supported within the support window) I'm not sure if there's good support for the modern crop of stereo displays though; I think Overload does have VR support though.
Does the employee have to buy into that stake? Do they surrender it, or sell it, or keep it when they leave? Do they get more over time? Why should minimum wage field hands that will work for a month own part of my farm?

We have had negative cash flow for the last decade, should our employees have made under minimum wage due to capital calls that were made by the business?

How does a bank do proper due diligence on a loan for a business with 47,000 owners, but isn’t publicly traded? What about the administrative overhead around decision making needing a timely signature from every owner?

It’s really simple to say employees should have equity, but get into the details and the idea falls apart.
The only data about the Carrington event is very niche.

Telegraph lines make very good antenna for the EM that comes from either CME or EMP. A shorter "antenna" would not work remotely as well. This is why most of the horror stories you see in movies are simply wrong. No, your cell phone won't die. No, your car won't be zapped. Only things connected to really long (wavelength-long) antennas like the power grid. We don't have telegraph or even many wired telephone lines anymore. Fiber optic is "hardened" by definition.
If I got home asap I'd have at least 2 hours of gameplay before my parents returned and made me do homework lol.