skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a very strange comment. Zymergen is a synthetic biology company selling bioengineered products and not a bioCAD company selling bioinformatics services.

These are completely different business models. This would be like looking at the Surfside condominium collapse in Miami and declaring autoCAD a “fantasy”. It makes no sense.

Now on to why Zermgen actually failed. The company has only one product out on the market called Hyaline. It is a synthetic bio based polymer film that is transparent but durable and bendable, meant to be used in products such as wearable sensors or foldable touch screen smartphones.

The company failed due to manufacturing limitations and not because using software to design synthetic bio is a “fantasy”. It’s hard for sure but people are working on it and making fantastic progress. For example see JBrowse: https://jbrowse.org/jb2/gallery

I’m going to quote the entire relevant section from the Forbes article regarding Zymergen’s collapse:

>We do not have our own commercial scale manufacturing capability,” the amended prospectus from March read, regarding Hyaline. “Currently we manufacture Hyaline and our other electronic films primarily in Japan but have established a (Contract Manufacturing Organizations) site for Hyaline in the United States. However, our U.S. CMO has informed us that we only have committed supply through the end of 2021. If we do not find and qualify an alternate source of manufacturing, are unable to increase capacity at our existing manufacturer in Japan, or do not invest in our U.S. CMO to support and increase production, acquire our U.S. CMO or otherwise manufacture Hyaline and our other films products on our own, we may not have the manufacturing capacity required to meet our commercial needs after the end of this year.”

https://www.forbes.com/sites/angelauyeung/2021/08/03/as-biol...
They don't care because they have no taste, it's sad that the dominant personal computing platform is utterly tasteless (from a design and technical perspective).
> "[...] we have decided to take additional time over the coming months to collect input and make improvements before releasing these critically important child safety features."

Seeing how this situation was handled by Apple so far, my cynical take on this is that they want to wait for the storm to pass/get smaller and then will continue deployment of this tech but with better PR strategy. I hope to be wrong but the latest moves by Apple completely evaporated the remaining trust I had for them.
Or put "127.0.0.1 nytimes.com" in /etc/hosts and never look back.
Fantastic read thank you very much!

It's really hard to find in depth articles like this nowadays.
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I think it is too risky at the moment, but in the future anything could happen. RISC-V still has a lot of undefined portions, and because of the way the architectural design is run in the open, it has a committee that is supposed to meet to evaluate proposals about fundamental parts of the architecture, things like memory management, what kind of arithmetic units and floating point units, what kind of instructions are in the instruction sets etc. If you look at the spec there are a lot of basic instructions that are "stubs" - basically they have the instruction names, but no implementation yet - and this is for quite basic parts of the instruction set. Individual RISC-V vendors/manufacturers are "designing their own" and trying to flesh it out, but in many cases they are not standard and may very well be proprietary.

I see this job posting as Apple recognizing that it is early in the game and that they'd really like to "set the direction" of RISC-V in a way that helps them (which only makes sense)

RISC-V is a long game - probably will yield rewards in about 10 years.

But no. You would not want a PC built on RISC-V now (and the question now is "which" RISC-V, the one with memory management or the one without?) - even for embedded boards, for example Beagle Board recently cancelled their BeagleV board https://beaglev.org/blog/2021-07-30-the-future-of-beaglev-co...

not saying that Beagle is leaving Risc-v but most likely they want to use a different instruction set flavour of Risc-v and the current landscape is just too unstable (ie different hardware manufacturers have "different" Risc-v's and software won't run on one kind vs another kind)
> (In fact, that's what array[i] means – the language defines it to be a synonym for *(array+i).)

To really drive home the primitiveness of C arrays, should probably also mention that, because addition is commutative, you could also write

i[array]

and somewhat surprisingly, it will compile, and work, and it means "*(i + array)" which is equivalent to "*(array + i)"

But nobody really does that, because that would be kind of insane.
Branch Davidians weren't that different from the Taliban, were they? Not exactly a shining example of guns preserving democracy...
At best that would allow you to tell if a picture was raw footage. Which is pointless because people edit things all the time.
The new 'pixel remaster' games Square is putting out have been great so far. Standardizing on a 16-bit sprite style, new music arrangements, and widescreen support. Only issue is the English font choice, but if you're on PC that's easy enough to fix.
Instead they have a bunch of small teams dedicated to their own little siloed feature set and then they cobble it all together, that’s my two second analysis of the inconsistencies seen here.
ImmageComments is a Visual Studio plugin that does this and it’s very good.

I use my iPad + Pencil to create sketches or I do it on paper and take a snapshot with my phone.
I'm still pissed they haven't fixed Windows Explorer's "Open with..." popup since they Metro-ified it. It used to be you could type-to-select from the list of apps...now I have to use the mouse to scroll down.
Tbh some of these even look better in context. I’m not sure why it even matters that every text box is pixel perfect identical rather than suitable for the environment.
Assuming that this is what it learned from its human counterparts, i'm surprised it 's so low.
I have never met these kinds of people and it boggles my mind that they exist. Actually reading error messages is the most basic thing I'd expect from a developer considering that you're going to encounter them regularly during the development process.
I personally would have wrote the first one as a first pass, mostly so I could probably at some point put break points on what is going on. Then probably called it 'done'. I had actually forgot you could even do this thing in python. The highest complement I get from other programmers is 'your code is easy to read'.

Everyone has their own 'style' they like. It is usually not that big of a deal. It becomes a big deal if you get someone on the team who becomes obsessed with it, or someone who is always sloppy. Compact styles tend to be harder to decipher than simple ones. As when you are reading them they usually are not the same style context as all the other code around it. So it causes your brain to have to stop and figure it out. With python sometimes those compact styles actually run faster, so they can be handy to know about (test it though).

In java there is this thing where many will do things like blah = x().y().z(); Yet at any point in that chain something could crash out and return a null. It is compact for sure. But really is a pain to debug, but easy to read. Yet a lot of what is going on is burred in the 'middle' what if something in the middle is returning the wrong thing and the next thing in the chain happens to have the right method?

Compact styles can be easy to read sometimes if you know what that style is. You can also very easily introduce very subtle bugs. You can also convey the wrong meaning to the next poor soul that has to look at your code 3 years from now, 2 years after you left the company.

I use this style as sparingly as possible and fall towards verbose and spaced out code. I try to make it easy to read and broken down as best as possible. 6 months from now my tired brain will thank me.

For something like this example if I ended up with an if tree like that I would look at the underlying data structures. There is a data problem here and there probably would be a better way to do it.
I hope this is a case of Apple delaying it long enough to silently cancel the feature or completely change it to not be on-device scanning rather than Apple delaying it long enough to be well out of the news cycle and silently enable it at a later date. Both features mentioned have potential for abuse and create an adversarial relationship with ones own device so I'm not sure what they do to implement them without these remaining concerns.

A delay in either case is welcome.
Viruses tend not to work like that because to effectively spread via respiratory droplets and aerosols they require a high viral load in the respiratory system. This generally causes symptoms.

I’m sure it’s not completely impossible, but neither is a massive radiation burst from a nearby supernova.
DOS was boss for consistency.
This is already done by quite a few places. Take a look at PhotoDNA. I believe at least OneDrive and Gmail have been confirmed to do this same scanning.

For reference, from 2014: https://techcrunch.com/2014/08/06/why-the-gmail-scan-that-le...
Maybe. Jobs also introduced some rather outrageous UI (IMHO) when he returned to Apple.
I would argue that rather than trying to find a balance, we just need to make sure all these measures are temporary.

In normal times an unwavering commitment to freedom in its citizens is a great strength for a country. In normal times, the people who stand up for freedom provide herd immunity against authoritarians.

Let's not adjust the default settings because of a couple of years of abnormal, just because some of those folks wouldn't adjust their ideas to a new situation.
Ironically Linux's relative consistency is in part due to the long standing complaint about how inconsistent it was, which motivated developers to create ways to have unified theming across toolkits.

Meanwhile, the rest of the world went full derp and decided that UI consistency is for boring people who like to actually get things done with a computer.
Ah yes, $0.5 per SMS, what a bargain!
I've read enough of ashley's stories to know at this point she's not operating in good faith or within normal american standards of behavior. Currently the press is more than willng to go along with stories like hers because it helps their anti big tech narrative.
Breathalyzers tests are a thing you know.

And I don't know if companies do it but I know that monitoring Gamma GT levels of suspected alcoholics is a thing. It is a problem for those who have naturally elevated levels btw.

What is unfortunate is that we don't have a good test for cannabis-related impairment. It is quite reliable for alcohol BAC is easy to test and correlates with impairment, but for cannabis, you don't really know if a person is completely stoned or if he has sobered up.

But yeah, cannabis use is less tolerated than alcohol use, cultural reasons I guess. Plus, it is really difficult to control alcohol since pretty much anyone can turn staple food into alcohol at home.
Based on that description, I do not understand how Rentech clearly did not qualify as a beneficial owner:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beneficial_owner

Or was the dispute about whether or not the tax treatments apply to beneficial owners at all?
What should you look for when hiring an animal transport company?
Web pages shouldn't have typography, and typography shouldn't have 100 characters per line.
Age discrimination goes both ways, it’s not just 40+ workers that experience it
RNA breakthrough creates crops that can grow 50 percent more potatoes, rice
> you'd be incentivized to hear the best quality idea

It's not humanly possible to do this, which is why it's such a false narrative. No one ever really knows what the "best quality idea" is, and expecting regular people to have mystical powers isn't helpful.
What are they odds they wouldn't quietly slip these changes with a minor update under a non-descript "Security improvements" after everyone calms down and buys a new shiny iPhone 13?
I’m not going to expose myself to a 1% chance of dying for your profits. None of us owe you a profit.
> The opposite is true. RISC-V has a compressed-instructions extension that makes its code density competitive with x86, ARM64 has nothing like that.

Earlier Arm versions had compressed instructions (Thumb) but ARM64 dispensed with it for (likely) performance reasons.

> earlier-mentioned improvements due to it being a clean, from-scratch redesign

RISC-V appeared in 2010 and ARM64 which was a complete redesign was announced in 2011

> 20% improvement in performance per watt

Citation?

Reality is that there isn't a RISC-V core you can buy today with the performance of the leading Arm designed cores. Apple could probably architect one but no evidence that RISC-V would give better performance for application cores.
all those control panel applets, have they finally been upgraded

I hope not --- frankly speaking, this new stuff is horrible.

Compare how long the original Control Panel takes to open with the new "Settings App". Then compare their visual complexity. The latter takes multiple seconds to open, even has a loading screen, and yet all the controls in it are incredibly bland and featureless and conceptually simpler to render than in the old one. This is none other than a huge regression.
Not necessarily! Pretty sure you don’t have to be accredited for this: https://www.acretrader.com/ (edit: yikes nvm that’s false for now, but they say they plan to open the platform to non-accredited investors)

And similary, you can provide capital to small farmers: https://gosteward.com/
you can see them all a little easier at
https://hfg-gmuend.github.io/openmoji/
Must have taken an act of congress. Imagine that. Powerful people dont want their photos analyzed. Hmmm
There's no need to quantify harm for something to be illegal, especially if it's something as difficult to control and evaluate as personal data.

I have a suspicion you're talking from a USA standpoint, where antitrust is enforced based on provable harm. This is not necessarily the set of values that the EU population wants to live by.

The Dieselgate was already deemed illegal, making your remark a case of whataboutism.
>Things are better now than 40 years ago and yet are worse than 7 years ago.

Cars are safer and last longer (and cost 2x as much). Some forms of medical care are better (surgery). TVs have more resolution and increasing sources of media leads to more mouth agape consumption at home.

Other than that, I can't see any advantage to now over then.
"Based on feedback from customers, advocacy groups, researchers and others, we have decided to take additional time over the coming months to collect input and make improvements before releasing these critically important child safety features."

So they're just gonna do some token improvements and then roll it out again but quietly.
So Reddit's a publisher (because most of the subreddits have various on-topic rules for posting) and my newspaper's a platform (because their rules for posting comments are what's prohibited).

One of the problems with trying to use an actor's own policy to distinguish between platforms and publishers is that the goal of creating such a distinction in the first place is to restrict the ability of the actor to undertake certain policies.
Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach. Those who can't teach, write blog posts.
Causal Inference in Natural Language Processing
What you don't know about working at AWS
Thinking Denmark's success is mostly about vaccinations and masks ignores some other characteristics of Denmark and other "successful countries." These countries are largely healthier, more homogeneous societies with significantly lower rates of obesity, avoidable cancer, coronary artery disease, type 2 diabetes, etc - all which are significant risk factors for covid death and hospitalization. I do think lessoning exposure risk through masks and other measures are wise and useful - which some societies are better at doing.

I also think its premature to think Denmark is out of the woods, considering that covid is following seasonal patterns and high vaccination rates don't seem to be avoid high infection rates. I hope you are right, but I am skeptical. There is a strong possibility you will return to these restrictions by the end of the year when the winter starts. We will see.
Me too, the irony that those that used to bash Swing/Java rather use web sites packaged alongside the browser.

At least this way it makes sense, as a pure Web application.
> I feel like Copilot is the wrong direction to optimize development. This is mostly going to help people with already poor understanding of what they are doing create even more crap.

Sometimes you don't need an expert to produce highly secure, highly optimized code.

Have you seen the crap that people buy at Walmart? The furniture is not heirloom furniture, the food is not a 3-star artisanal experience. Have you bought tools at Harbor Freight? They're not the lifetime companion of a tradesman, kept in wood boxes and wrapped in cosmoline after each use. But an awful lot of work gets done with them, common homeowner wisdom is if you need a tool, buy it at Harbor Freight, if you use it enough to wear it out spend 10x to buy a really good one, but most tools you'll only use once or twice.

At workplaces across the country right this minute there are human beings doing rote transcription from one application to another, copy-pasting if they're lucky. That's a waste of effort and intellectual potential, and a hodgepodge of Excel equations or a crappy bit of Copilot glue code could be just the ticket. Yes, if those become the business' secret sauce and sold to customers on the Internet, they ought to put some effort into doing it properly, but there's a ton of work that could be accomplished with low-quality code.
As many people have pointed out indirectly, this is almost certainly caused by the training set. Without a bias or ranking for quality, it will just churn out the “best fit” or most popular snippets…
Isn't that the entire job of the police? Are they unable to do their job suddenly?
Critically important? Really?

A system that is trivial to circumvent and which only catches people sharing pics that have already been added to a database is not going to move the needle on actual physical abuse of children.
Reminded me of this scene from Death of Stalin

https://youtu.be/AB0yZBVoSN4
I've heard references to savings on the per-unit fee as a reason some manufacturers might want to go with an architectural license, so maybe not?
after reading about high terminal in the NY Times a long time ago I started using it myself, specifically when I was not sure of something, as a way to indicate lack of confidence.
After a while I noticed people never picked up on it so I stopped.
Do you know these crypto blogging websites?
You also have taste and fashion. Chelsea flower show each year for example is not so different to london fashion week. Highlighting the latest trends in plant species and how to assemble them in your garden to make it look just like that of your favourite celebrity.

The lawn is the black dress of garden fasion; reliable and timeless.
Regardless, any amount of variability restricts parallelism. You can’t split the instruction stream ahead of time into equal portions to hand to many separate decoding units.
Bad actors will just skip any of these technologies anyways: recording with old camera gear, sending hard disks by mail, meeting IRL to exchange USB sticks, etc

Security theatre.

Back in 2013 Snowden thankfully gave us good insight into why these efforts are made.
While I agree this is great, it is not really related to and no excuse for the inconsistent mess that Windows' UI has been ever since the Windows 8 Metro disaster. Win32 UI (think Windows 2000) was perfectly line.
> Remember - long term, literally everyone is going to get covid. That is the only possible future.

Very much not true.

Literally many people will die if they get COVID (f.e. the extremely young, or the many people that are immuno-compromised) so there's lots of other people that are keen to get populations as widely vaccinated as possible, to reduce the effective R0 as much as possible, to make sure they don't die.
Same here, they have good IDEs and I think it's worth the price if you're working on it for such a long time each day.
I agree that it's "incredible"
Slide: Single Image 3D Photography with Soft Layering and Depth-Aware Inpainting
>Everything but housing and education you mean.

Do you think it's due to changes in technology? political beliefs? or overpopulation?
how do I start? do I need enterprise account? went to the page above and found nowhere I can try out.
Proxy vs. Reverse Proxy – using a real life example
You can get access to all Jetbrains tools for $650/yr for the first year, with the price reducing in subsequent years.

Considering nearly every S/W dev globally can make that in a couple of days, I'm not sure how much of a flex it is considering it would be your primary work tool.

And I say this as someone whose never used a Jetbrains tool and use Vim for nearly everything (except when I'm on Windows where I use a mix of Notepad++ and VSCode).
What is perturbation, or reactive balance, training?
Reddit – Buy, Hold or Sell? What rating will you provide it?
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Did you get that request on paper? Share it with wider groups, it should be interesting if people learn DEI groups are asking americans with regional accents to change them.
Basically, PTP assumes that network delays are deterministic. If that's true, it is very precise. If not, PTP is the wrong tool.
NTP assumes that network delays are stochastic, and uses sophisticated algorithms to account for this.
PTP has much simpler algorithms, which can be implemented in electronics, where internal timings can be characterized. NTP is more complex, and tends to run on a general purpose computer. This adds internal OS timings to the uncertainty.
No pregnant man emoji, 0/10 literally unusable

On a more serious note, what are the author's plans to extend it? I saw that it's a project, so will it keep growing or is it pretty much done?
Creating a “Hype Group” for Capterra/G2 Reviews
Is anyone else working on growing their Capterra or G2 profiles?

I'm compiling a one-time Hype Group email list of startups. Happy to include your startup on the list if you’re up for a review trade!

All reviews will be optional and ethical, the email will just include direct links and you can choose which you want to review.
I don't mean it as a negative!

Except perhaps I could have understand what they did faster if they described it as arithmetic encoding.
Unison (1998) – a file-synchronization tool for Unix and Windows
Hit "." on any github repo.
Part of me wonders if the calculus includes either (a) the open letter signed by (effectively) ~10k verified developers [1], (b) the complaint letters from groups like the EFF [2, 3], or (c) expert and qualified input from their (presumably huge) marketing department...

[1] https://appleprivacyletter.com/

[2] https://act.eff.org/action/tell-apple-don-t-scan-our-phones

[3] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/08/apples-plan-think-diff...
Abba has always been the guilty pleasure that I'd never admit to my musician friends. Have to confess that I like their new song “I Still Have Faith In You”.