skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How has the science evolved on GMOs? I think it's pretty horrific to engineer a crop to make the farmer subservient to some sort of vendor lock-in to a giant agribusiness, but what about modifying a plant to be more drought or pest resistant?
I am not sure that is always true, there are plenty of problems that are easy to state, but finding the "pattern" can be out of reach. Eg Collatz conjecture? However there are obviously a subset of problems I guess that can be solved once you realise what they are asking.
That's not how I remember it from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slide_Rule:_Autobiography_of_a... though yes we have much better weather forecasting now.
i would prefer you start a revolution in the US and the UK. the world will be infinitely grateful to all of you when endless wars, aggressions, support for dictatorships and colour revolutions come to an end.
Too bad it's not at $XDG_CACHE_HOME/yarn. NPM recently shot that down.
The whole thing is an aftermath of political crysis started after completely falsified election. They are working to strike terror(also they're definitely having fun doing so) into residents of a certain neighbourhood that's especially active protesting against Lukashenka's regime by detaining and repressing whoever expresses any opinion against such practices.
You might also want to check out https://NeuralBlender.com
Some months ago I ran into the same problem in slightly different clothing

// 1st-way
vec![0; len];

// 2nd-way
std::iter::repeat(0).take(len).collect::<Vec<_>>();

As told about in the blog post the first one will be able to be optimized via specializations to a single calloc call. The other here cannot use the same specialization as it does not seem to be able to specialize on the type of iterator yet. This means it will be a malloc followed by a memset when compiled.

godbolt: https://godbolt.org/z/8bM7zz4E7

the specific specialization: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/master/library/alloc/...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacking_(sailing)
I wonder what criteria you apply to determine the trustworthiness of a project. For me, signing a CLA or otherwise not using inbound=outbound licensing is a major one, as well as any project backed by a company with VC funding. Any project backed by a single organisation instead of a group of people from lots of different organisations is a red flag, with some exceptions for long-term known-trustworthy non-profits.

None of that helps with a situation like Audacity/MuseCore though, if developers are willing to sell out their project copyrights, that isn't something that you can really protect against, except maybe discussing people's opinions on that openly.

The other issue with withholding changes from upstream is the potentially infinite cost of updating your changes as the project evolves, things like git-imerge, mergify or git-mergify-rebase can reduce that burden by letting you do incremental rebases/merges though. Normally I don't contribute to projects with a CLA assigning extra rights to corporations over the license, but I've been considering signing one just to drop the maintenance burden.

https://github.com/mhagger/git-imerge
https://github.com/brooksdavis/mergify
https://github.com/CTSRD-CHERI/git-mergify-rebase
I don’t know where have you got your information, but it works literally as you said. If you don’t use iCloud Photos sync, then in-device scanning is not applied. Is it app or not, does not really matter because you have to trust its existency or option selection anyway.

https://www.apple.com/child-safety/pdf/Expanded_Protections_...
The device (as per ToS- which no one reads) is NEVER yours. You "rent" it. Not "own " it.
I am wondering how long the hoopla around Apple's backdoor will last. Ordinary users don't understand and won't care.
From the missing discussion- companies have the capability to plant evidence where it was non-existent.
Great! Then we could have three package managers.
I like your point about moving upwind, but think it rather relies on conservation of momentum as that insists the wheels must result in thrust in the opposite direction to the props thrust in order to change the momentum of the earth as much as the momentum of the atmosphere is changed. They must each be reduced, in order to transduce energy. If you have stored energy you can propel mass from rest, but forces can only be applied equal and opposite.

It is extremely enigmatic and curious that the engine can work to synergistically blow air into the atmosphere in one direction and resist the inertia of the earth in the other direction with the same force, without expending any energy reserves in the engine. Ive not seen a model or comment or article which fully illuminates the situation, although it is well demonstrated. Perhaps there is not language or a familiar concept which yet suffices. A sane and experienced physicist lost 10k bet on its plausibility.
>Although NAFTA was heralded by the U.S. government for reducing barriers to trade, as The Counter previously reported, the pact devastated rural economies in Mexico, flooding the market with cheap, government-subsidized U.S. corn and gutting domestic corn prices by nearly 70 percent. This shift led an estimated 2 million farmworkers to abandon the countryside to seek work in big cities or across the border in the United States.

>On December 31, 2020, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador signed a decree that could enable Mexican farmers to reclaim their livelihoods within their home country. The order calls for the phase-out by 2024 of two pillars of American agribusiness: glyphosate and genetically engineered (GE) corn

The problem that US corn grown using high yielding strains is too cheap, so the solution is to ban growing high yielding strains domestically? I'm not sure how that's going to work.

The actual text of the decree is here: https://www.dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=5609365&fecha...

The google translated version says nothing about banning genetically engineered corn, just banning glyphosate? The second order effect is that nobody buys RR corn seed, since you wouldn't bother spending more for it if you can't then use glyphosate to knock down weeds. But that's only for corn grown in-country. All the media coverage seems to think it's banning corn imports, which I believe would require repealing NAFTA.
Thanks for your detailed reply!

My point remains the same: Need more feedback on "governors/power wielding side"
Are you suggesting that the Collatz conjecture is a valid interview question?
We had to learn to collaborate before “language”.

Perhaps thinking language is a key aspect of consciousness is wrong.

Chomsky has said human languages themselves are just random sounds we’ve been polishing the meaning of.

So yeah I have no doubt a machine can sort them correctly if we tell it to. They mean what we want and see in them.

That’s hardly proving anything about consciousness. Just that a computer can sort and count syntax, and guess at meaning by frequency of relative placement.

It’s acting on English data sets. Not human biology.
You have to be in person for that attack, which is a much higher cost than taking over someone's account remotely from a different country. It's also a much higher risk of getting caught and going to jail.
This article is very USA centric — it centers around it being banned for lift in the states — but that wouldn’t stop just about everywhere else on the planet from building hydrogen air ships, if they are viable.
The biggest question that I did not see addressed in the article was if the collection was digitized.

One of the best ways you can ensure the collection gets preserved, but still allow it to be accessed freely is to digitize it.
I think they should digitise it all, and let archive.org handle the storage and bandwidth. Then the public will still have access, and they don't have to worry about damage and loss.
They should try MongoDB, it's web-scale.
Imagine: Trash airships that can deposit loads at flying solar furnace platforms (equipped with co2 capture technology) to burn everything. Use various stages of processing to chemically or physically extract commercially valuable material, like phosphorous, then turn the rest into slag - not perfect, but one helluva lot better than burying and wasting the raw trash. Use the captured co2 and solar power alongside the artificial leaf tech to produce synthgas and other fuel.

Solar and wind platforms could anchored to cables on the ground, with municipal battery storage on the ground, then use airships to swap charged battery packs from centralized power stations.

A cellular/modular approach to ship design could prevent hindenburg disasters. Individual carbon fiber balloons could be made to link together, and they'd be during enough that even if you detonate a cell, its neighbors remain intact. Cells as small as a cubic meter would still provide lift while limiting the explosive potential - make the cells "smart" and you could design resilient airships that failed gracefully, even under fire, for military and security sensitive applications.

Platforms could be made huge, big enough to build houses, factories, hospitals, or resorts.

Airships don't have to be blimps. It's more practical than seasteading and probably multiple orders of magnitude cheaper in combined maintenance and development.
Really hope US and EU start arresting family members ASAP of everyone from this leak. This is a treasure for all sort of sanctions.

Edit: just noticed their logo is Lithuanian has coat of arms (vytis). Kinda weird to disclose your ethnicity, but Lithuania is doing a lot to support Belarus, especially amid Belarus weaponising migrants. Hope details of that going to be public soon.
Not just taboo, but laws against discrimination.
Design an experiment for "multiply"

Divide is firmly embedded: social constructs in animals routinely sub-divide the food in some manner. And, we know social smart animals understand "fair" so equal sub-parts should be easy.

But multiply, with some specificity.. I think thats harder.

And then power ratio. I am sure Birds "get" it innately because flight has non-linear qualities (application of gravity) but in a non-flight context.. I can't think of a nonlinear thing to apply this to to test for cognition.
It's so strange to me that the brain could be so damaged as to lead to facial paralysis and deafness, as well as seizures, but still function well-enough for the person to complete their doctorate.

Did he just get unlucky, and receive a precise zap to the "right side of the face" zone? Or did the brain have to adapt under stress, and decided that this functionality was the sacrifice that had to be made?
What an interesting anecdote.

What Jobs did was incredible and I absolutely believe he was a visionary. But I hadn’t really considered the trade-off. That he would almost require tunnel vision to do what he did. A kind of product design near(far?)-sightedness.

In hindsight this is obvious and probably true of most of us but your anecdote is a great example.
2.5.2 Apps should be self-contained in their bundles, and may not read or write data outside the designated container area, nor may they download, install, or execute code which introduces or changes features or functionality of the app, including other apps. Educational apps designed to teach, develop, or allow students to test executable code may, in limited circumstances, download code provided that such code is not used for other purposes. Such apps must make the source code provided by the app completely viewable and editable by the user.

https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#sof...
Also, in future implementations it would be possible for security conscious publishers to attach cryptographic attestations produced by trusted third party hardware manufacturers to their signature demonstrating the private key was generated on the hardware device and therefore could not be under the control of the service operators. Security conscious clients could start to require this for dependencies they pull in.
The difference is that copilot is memorizing and reciting code verbatim without mentioning the source.

If a human does that we call it plagiarism.
That "27" in front of Venus has to be a typo, right?
Non-GMO still uses herbicides. Glyphosate is comparatively very safe [0]

[0] https://www.epa.gov/ingredients-used-pesticide-products/glyp...
Could someone with a nuclear physics background weigh in: so there is a certain level of energy in the particle beam, that as I understand refers to the mass or equivalently energy of the particles. How does this translate to total energy deposed inside tissue? There is firstly the question of rate (power), like how many XX MeV particles per unit time are in the beam? And then second, how likely are these to interact with human tissue? Is it all of them that are absorbed, is it almost none?

If someone had a microwave beam of a certain wattage aimed at their head, it is possible to calculate the total absorbed energy and estimated the heating. Is heating the main mechanism for damage with a particle beam too, or is it the ionizing effects? If it's the latter, is it more a radiation exposure problem? If so, how would be frame this in term of Siverets (sp?) or whatever the relevant unit is, and compare it to background and to other medical procedures that use radiation?
Amazon still has not made a metaverse storefront. The metaverse will be UUUGE.
https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/PT.6.3.2019031...
australia has become a police state, i knew this was gonna happen after they introduced gun laws, this is scary no matter what you believe, i am sorry, i try to be a positive person but where is the line? who is serving who? what is a democracy and when is a country not a democracy anymore? and lastly, are australians okay with this type of overreach? i don’t know maybe the media outlets are covering this wrong.
But to tack you need a centerboard or keel in the water to push against. I can't think of a way to do this in space.
I've read they adapt okay to tropical climates!

I live in PR and I know quite a couple husky owners, the key according to them is to just try to keep them hydrated, cool and off hot pavement.
It's Mercury.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SumDHcnCRuU
I don't really feel like this is an issue of "zero cost abstractions". The baseline expectation should be that it will do something reasonable, which in this case is probably `if Copy do bit-setting with memset/bzero if possible, otherwise clone() loop` which is what it appears to do according to a reddit comment linked to elsewhere.

I'm not really sure it follows, though, that you should ever expect more than that. It's nice if you can get it but the presence of a very specific optimization shouldn't be taken as the new "zero cost" baseline, and I don't think it should be taken as given that a newtype will inherit all possible optimizations of its enclosed type.
Oh for sure, what I am saying is that they do not discuss election per se.
Anyone have a good summarization of the piece? I am not looking to get 28 pages deep into the argument
Uhhh... They only used 10 people?
It's also a significant step in a direction to where every dependency that these software publishers is also signed, increasing the overall confidence that there's no malicious code in the software they publish.
I think this is the crux of the issue. People like Chomsky argue the same way, that is, sure a statistical model can mimic a phenomenon to an increasingly likely degree, but the question he concerns himself with is "how and why it [language] works that way", not that I can somehow approach it. His example scenario of a filming bees and statistically re-engineer their dance is poignant: sure you get impressive results, but you will never understand why they dance!

Once this is clear, the discussion becomes healthier: linguists continue to try and understand fundamentals; ML NLP continues to try to get impressive, possibly lucrative results. Logical research can borrow from ML results, or re-use them, and so forth, but I agree with Chomsky that it can't be a shot in the dark always, because once you deploy it and pass it some tough decisions to make, well, what then?

I was pleased to see at least one idea, the recursive structures found in his theories, which is increasingly being accepted by people like Hinton, so that's great.
yea don’t go down this path.
So, a good thing?

Oh, how nice it would be not to have Amazon around.

As for the rest, physical retail stores would do just fine (not to mention all the jobs). Somehow we managed fine in 1995 without any online retailers.
Reddit keeps pushing me to use the app. Why?
To be fair this isn't isolated to reddit. I confess my technical acumen leans on the SA side of the house. I am curious: can they soak up more user data versus a browser? I am referring to "industry accepted practices" for reputable sites/apps, not malicious ones. I just always seem to be getting pushed towards an app, often with missing functionality, and i just want to understand why.
I think it's more accurate to say that there's an optimization that applies only to a very specific situation that's millions of times faster than without the optimization.

It's a bit strange to say that before the u8 specialization this was not a problem and it's suddenly a problem now.
On the side facing the earth probably never as it will become trivial to threaten earth with a giant laser on the moon. Same objection with kinetic launchers (aka flinger, mass drivers) on the moon. On the side facing away, maybe but you lose half the utility.
> You're opposing the science itself and who people do science IRL. That's weird.

No, I'm not opposing the science itself. I'm opposing confusing consensus with science. Science is the process of verifying truth through experimentation. If you skip the experimentation, and just say "trust us, we're Authorities, we all agree and we are sure beyond a doubt", that's not science, it's an ideological appeal to authority. Science is an important process, it's how humanity left the Dark Ages and entered the Enlightenment. Insisting that people cannot question the Official Consensus is backwards progress.

FWIW, I think the data supports much of the consensus in this report. But the consensus is not science, and confusing the two is detrimental to public trust in science and to the process of science itself.

There's a reason so many people are anti-science, and it's not because science is a bad process. It's because there's a culture that labels conclusions as science and says that they can't be questioned.
I think this hints at the main issue people have when reading more terse code: you need to read it slower. If you try to read K at the same speed as C, it’s going to fly by. I can feel this in my own Python code when I write in a more or less compact style. But on the more dense code, if I slow down, I can understand it faster and more clearly than the verbose code.
"because people smeared me over bitcoin, its ok to lash out."

TL;DR Summary: he doesn't like the guy and suspects his motives to remain in an economy based on oppositional behaviour wrt to most western democracies.
Not when searching for a business partner.
Techno-Optimism Short Story Competition
It's not really a matter of code going faster or slower, though. The real difference in speed is infinity/undefined.

One version initializes the memory and the other one doesn't. There's a lot of subtle ways to cause that in different languages.
Ha. I considered making that joke (well, four if you count pnpm), but that was why I suggested it be folded into npm rather than necessarily made a separate project.

Either way, the trope doesn't really apply. Even if this were a new implementation, it wouldn't be a new standard. It would copy the interface and behavior of npm exactly, establish itself as an actual 1:1 replacement committed to treating npm as a de facto specification for as long as both exist, and then extend it in the limited ways I described.
Glyphosate and aspartame are probably two of the most vigorously studied compounds in the world.
It's loading for me now fwiw. But yeah - websites are better than direct video links, the change is still preferred IMO.
The brain is very plastic. Which is why often the first sign of a brain tumor (including in people working mentally intensive jobs like PhD student) is a seizure, or paralysis, or deafness. All signs that plasticity in some part of the brain has reached its limit.
>vendor lock-in

Note that the original Roundup Ready patents expired in 2014, so you can buy generic glyphosate tolerant GMO seeds https://nebraskapublicmedia.org/en/news/news-articles/generi...
Decompressing files from a single tar.gz into memory can very easily be faster than opening a very large number of small files.
Yes, you're right. See the dates of the recordings. It's November 2020. The election has long passed but the discontent is still rumbling to this day.
How often are the blimps fully deflated of their helium and then refilled, and is all that helium just basically let up into the atmosphere and wasted? Given some of our recent helium shortages, it seems really wasteful, even if it may be (currently) not costly.
It is a new page each update. Your cache is invalid.
Two things:

1. I thought you were referring to false positives as a result of my favoring funding of existing Child Services working from mandatory reporting from local relevant professions.

2. My commentary about taking children from parents having its own set of risks was more along the lines of trauma to the child, in that even in if the parent/ child relationship is abusive and harmful, it's such a strong bond that severing it, or restricting it can cause psychological issues.

Totally agree with your commentary above regarding any attempt to remove kids from non-abusive parents. Absolutely scorched earth nuclear war. Also, it would actively be a form of child abuse by introducing unnecessary trauma to the child(ren) and possibly instilling a lifelong suspicion (at best) of authority.

As a result of that train of thought, my answer is: no false positives would be acceptable.

Fundamentally, I'm against personal photos being scanned at all; false positives being one reason, and the broad misapplication of bans by 'big tech' in their implementations of automated systems detecting breaches of policy, and the overall "computer says no" brick wall offered as recourse, being another.
A financial model based on burning energy is ok, because for only 140m users its a fraction of the TW/h burden of the world.

But if you scale it up, to be financially relevant to the worlds transactional need, which is (ahem) more than 140m participants, and significantly more financial events than BTC currently encode.. There is a consequence: it won't be a rounding error any more.

What Appears missing is a nuance about cost:benefit.
Do Not Distrub
Nope; Venus has a very thick atmosphere and thus a rocket ride off the surface would require a prodigious amount of energy.
One issue with Corn in México is that we have hundreds of different varieties of corn (including those fancy coloured corn used for tortillas). Introducing High yield GMO corn without taking care if the local varieties could decimate the biodiversity of the region.
Just ignore the lymphoma
Looks cool but a year is a long time to wait.
The people who obstruct digitization - whether artsy purist types or bureaucrats - inspire a deep rage in me. These things were intended to be shared and enjoyed.
> It looks like Python/Ruby, runs really fast, and uses very little resources.

You should also check out Crystal, which had its 1.0 release earlier this year: https://crystal-lang.org/ (Although, no Windows support yet.)
The mantra you need to remember and repeat in your head: blockchain is never a solution to anything.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27553971
I intend to not get taken in by hyperbolic and paranoid handwringing.

Sharing hashes with third parties? Seriously?
Good catch, didn't notice that!