skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Within a single species you can often see differentiation in terms of preferred ecological niches. Yeast for bread is not usually the same strain as yeast for brewing beer, even though they are the same species. They compared ~150 different strains of S. cerevisiae and clustered them by the presence of SNPs to determine "categories", and found some that strongly clustered in modern beer brewing, some that clustered together with wine and additional beer strains, sections for Asia- or West Africa-derived strains, and a "mixed" section with bread yeast, some wines, and some other spirits.

The ancient yeast clustered squarely within one of the two beer-brewing groups, suggesting it may be a precursor to these modern beer species.

So it's not just the presence of the these DNAs they are looking at; they are using functional genomics to determine the biological role these specific species may have had.
> "Phase transition" sounds too clinical.

I never liked the term either, but physicists use it because that is exactly what happened. I'm not going to argue with physicists.

What does "vacuum collapse" mean? No matter how I try to interpret it, I cannot come up with anything that resembles the cosmic inflation.
In sales there is a term "know when to stop selling", this story is kind of a variant of that. If you have acceptable terms worked out, stop "selling", stop trying to show or add more value to the deal.

Close the deal you have, and then work on any new or additional things.
In the states, the lawyers tend to win. So whomever does the design, whomever writes the code and whomever has the deepest pockets better worry when that 18-wheeler barrels over grandma. And this work damn well better be done more to space shuttle standards than those of every web and software package I’ve used…

Edit: or just lay roads rather than tracks and call them trains. Keep the humans away like they do now.
> But why are new cases so low

As common sense would dictate, it’s because enough people have either gotten delta or gotten the vaccine. Florida had the highest per capita death rate during Delta. Hard to see how their approach was a success.
Deleting an S3 Bucket Costs Money
> Fast compile times: a full compiler rebuild takes ~12s (Rust: 15min, gcc: 30min+, clang: 1hr+, Go: 90s) [2].

Whoa, this really surprised me!
Globalfoundries S-1 IPO
Reflect (YC S20) is hiring a software engineer to modernize web testing
Since they released products with M1
It really depends on the type of sails you buy.

The cheapest ones last the longest but offer the worst performance.
It is confusing to you, and more. It's not confusing to me, and more.

I find that interesting.
I agree that they felt great to type on but at least for me typing speed was much slower. Going back to my 2010 (I think) MBP now, typing still feels great but it also feels like typing in molasses.
Your memory is correct. This was the default setup for WSI’s TV weather system. Early systems used Indy/Indigo^2 boxes instead of the O2.

In later revisions, they had terrain mapping but it required 8 gigabytes of ram for the texture mapper, at a cost of $60,000.

That was all ripped out and replaced with Dell hardware running Red Hat in 2005. The trusty O2 ran crawls and alerts, spooled WSI’s AWIPS data feed into iNews (how TV news produces the show) for another decade. It could still be there, running.
"Does nobody remember MapQuest?"

Technical and business limitations drove the design of MapQuest. That client computers had little computing power, bandwidth (on both sides of the pipe) was limited and expensive, and processing power on the server for a very low value user (per interaction) had to be meted. No one who used MapQuest didn't wish they could just smoothly scroll the map, but we were fine given many of us were on a terrible connection, ran on systems with limited graphics power (where even smoothly blitting a high resolution raster graphic was taxing), etc.

Every improvement (more computing power, memory, storage, bandwidth, or even business model, etc) in the industry invariably leads to many people all independently seeing the same obvious next step, many groups building the same eventual thing, and then the losers (from a market perspective) claiming that their ideas were stolen. It is the story of this industry.
I think the article is a bit deceptive, and quite unfair and one-sided in general. (Though it is correct in pointing out that Zuckerberg uses his metrics strategically.)

For example, here's a quote used in the article: "We may action as little as 3-5% of hate … on Facebook." The more complete version of the quote (from [1]) is this:

> "we estimate that we may action as little as 3-5% of hate and about 6-tenths of 1% of V & I [violence and incitement] on Facebook despite being the best in the world at it."

So Wired has removed the slightly positive part for expedience and narrative cohesion.

[1]: https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2021/10/03/facebook_...
The proof is in the link!

> Fast compile times: a full compiler rebuild takes ~12s (Rust: 15min, gcc: 30min+, clang: 1hr+, Go: 90s) [2].

The compiler is really big and self-hosted too.

For large nim projects check out: https://github.com/mratsim/Arraymancer or https://github.com/treeform/pixie (personal faves).
On average liveaboards are sailing around 10% of the time. Most of the time if bad weather is approaching they will just stay in a safe location.
art+com Terravison had support for arbitrary CAD models,
SRI Terravision was a pure terrain plus imagery viewer[1] as far I can tell.

configurations of roads, rivers or frontiers, satellite images, actual temperatures, historical views, CAD-models, actual camera shots, are called up, stored or generated in a spatially distributed fashion. [2] were all not in SRI but in Keyhole EarthViewer/ Google Earth and not covered by prior art.

That should be distinct enough in usual patent cases where any minute modification of a car engine is patentable.

Is that mentioned lecture video of Stephen Lau, which I'm sad to learn, was one of the early COVID-19 victim[3], somewhere publicly available?

[1] https://www.sri.com/wp-content/uploads/pdf/778.pdf

[2] https://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?patentnumber=RE44...

[3] https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/pelham-al/stephen...

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Some Excursion: even 10 years later, the most relevant IP to current mesh based / photogrammetric modeled virtual globes in my opinion:

The Rapid 3D Mapping pipeline developed by the swedish miltary devision of Saab, spun off as C3, that got acquired by Apple in October 2011.

The completeness and vastness of surface features was quite the step up from the draped texture on 2.5D terrain plus some random models.

For those who don't remember. The Google Earth/Apple Maps of today is quite a different beast to anything before April 2011, first available in Nokia ovi Maps 3d

https://freegeographytools.com/2011/nokia-ovi-maps-in-3d

https://www.slashgear.com/apple-acquires-c3-technologies-for...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid_3D_Mapping
Do you choose your block size when you use dd? For me, on multiple OSes and oldish hardware,
$ dd if=/path/to/iso of=/path/to/disk bs=1M
seems noticably faster than etcher. I suspect thats not even the optimal choice

Edit:noticed this is sort of a repeat answer, leaving it so the people saying its slow can copy/paste and try it out.
different take: there wont be anything left from 1980 to 2000 era either as it will be burnt to ashes by the subsequent generations who could not accept what was said before they were born.
Lol, is OOP bashing reaching new heights, or in this context “altitudes”? This is most likely a services architecture implemented with state-of-the-art procedural code …

> "The various elements of the IT system architecture do not 'talk' directly to each other but operate through a variety of interfaces," found the AAIB, adding this "makes errors and inaccuracies more likely."
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Environmentalists: Peter Thiel’s luxury NZ lodge will ‘destroy’ lake landscape
Isn't that 'credit system' just one step in transitioning to a monetary system?

It's unlikely that people were battering one day and then suddenly had this great idea of transitioning to a system of using money. Battering > battering with some credit > formalised money system seems like a logical series of steps to me. And of course there would be many more small steps between those. I would expect the number of transactions using credit to track the growth of society and the corresponding range of goods and service available.
Houses Built into the Earth May Save Us from the Heat
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Is this the same guy who recently posted about trying to bluff Steve Jobs, getting called out on it and losing a deal? I wonder how many more stories like these he has lol

Edit: found the link for those interested https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28826437
Unfortunately, it's not possible to do everything with every programming language. If thinking of rewrite of some software, it depends does all dependencies, database drivers, authentication, etc exist for some other programming language.
Sadly, i don't have a solution. I'm just saying if things are going to change eventually it probably won't happen quietly.
Passwords and exponential growth // Why nobody will crack my password [video]
Macron wants to announce new nuclear EPR reactors before Christmas -Le Figaro
The horse left the barn before you were born.

All of this information is in multiple single databases maintained by insurance companies in the US. And that data is in turn linked to all sorts of behavioral and affinity data. GEICO knows more about you than DMV.
This is the origin of the Guinness book of records: Guinness sent it to pubs as a fun advertising gimmick.

In the days of poor information diffusion I guess content marketing was even more important than today: the Michelin Guide was similar: the tyre company wanted to encourage people to drive more, and figured the guide book would not only help with that but people would have the name Michelin in front of them. Hence the star ranking (go if you’re in town; if you’re in the area, worth diverting your trip a bit; worth making a special trip).

I actually used to jokingly call the iPhone “the destroyer of bar bets” but after a year or so on the market those discussions had pretty much died off, so maybe it wasn’t a joke.
He pointed out his own mistakes or shortcomings a bit. Like his addition of a cosmological constant which I think he said was regrettable - he probably hoped for a more elegant solution he couldn’t grasp. And I think he wanted quantum mechanics to work differently than it did / didn’t believe the theories would hold.
Pretty nice life with high infant mortality and 30 years life expectancy with back breaking work and the risk of starvation ever present. Lets not romanticize our ancesters.
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Thanks for the links, I’ll check those out.
> ReJSON and RediSearch are open source

They're not. I just checked.
Yeah - this could work for more people if they had a small app that opened "Spork urls" spork://whattzzuu5drxwdwi6xbijjf7yt56l5adzht7j7kjvfped7amova
Definitely not an expert, but I like learning so anyone with a more nuanced/detailed take please correct/elaborate…

If this could be considered “feminist” or not, depends a lot on which “wave” of feminism is setting the conversational agenda. Feminist philosophy has at points in the past been more about “males are bad” than it is today.
Yeah people seem to be completely oblivious about the fact that the past was way more violent than the present.
Feels weird? May I ask what peripherals you have on your computer?
Possibly there needs to be something classified as a sweetener, yes, but the definition of "sugar-free" is apparently also anything with 0.1g or less sugar per 100g, so may it be that there is still a bit of sugar in the sugar-free brands you mentioned?

I'm no expert on this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennis_racket_theorem

Just turn it 180 every few days this way, so the torque from external influences is cancelled out.
That was my plan, but restic doesn't do compression so that would increase costs and backup time.

Some use-cases, like photo libraries, won't benefit much from compression, so I may use restic directly for those.
I think what they are referring to is "angular momentum dumps". The reaction wheels have a fixed maximum amount of angular momentum. This is a function of the speed of the wheels themselves since the mass/moment of inertia is fixed.

Over time external forces continue to add momentum to the system (from drag/solar radiation pressure). In order to maintain a desired pointing direction this means the wheels must increase in velocity to "absorb" this momentum.

Eventually you need to "dump" the momentum using another external force, such as thrusters, or in this case the same solar radiation pressure.

Goal is to orient spacecraft such that external forces can be used to spin down the various reaction wheels, thereby "dumping" momentum out of the wheels.

This is pretty common on all spacecraft, but gets complicated/innovative when you have to do it in an emergency or if you don't have a full set of reaction wheels.
Added 'set -o vi' in my .bashrc.

That's it. When you do this, you now need to use vim commands to move around the shell.

It's a great way to force learning/reinforce your muscle memory of vim commands.
Ah that’s encouraging.
Or people could just... read the thread. I don't get why thread reader still exists.
I'm surprised that no-one has mentioned tarsnap[0].

It can apparently run via WSL. The main selling point is that it's made by colin percival[1], so if you really care about the security of your backups, you can't get any better.

Additionally, it's fairly reasonably priced. When s3 dropped their prices so that tarsnap became cheaper to run, he passed that on directly to customers[2]

[0] https://www.tarsnap.com/faq.html

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Percival

[2] http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2014-04-02-tarsnap-price-cut...
> pre-agriculture hunter-gatherer societies don't seem to have had any kind of wars at all for all we've been able to find out

Its not because it did not leave any trace that it did not exist
Most EU cards also integrate fiscal id numbers and national healthcare id numbers in the chip but arguably do exclude registered address, so only a city/province of residence is available.
Automation is a long way off.

It would have to very efficient to compete with a pool of driver-owners who would be motivated/desperate to undercut the automated fleet owners. Those will have to own the vehicles, be responsible for maintenance, and of course, shoulder responsibility for insurance/safety.

Besides, what are you going to do when your expensive rig and its cargo drives to the shoulder in the middle of the desert with a software issue? Someone will have to get there and drive it home manually.

Edit for a classic look at long-haul transport of hazmats, I can recommend this piece by John McPhee from 2003: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2003/02/17/a-fleet-of-one
I agree that ultimately, people should be allowed to self experiment. But looking at his situation from a pragmatic perspective in the 70's and 80's, would it not have been wiser to be just a bit more careful with his advocacy? Publishing a book that details how to craft hundreds of untested psychedelic drugs is not quite what I would call subtle.
Makes you wonder if behind the scenes, someone at Microsoft checked with someone at Yahoo and heard the story, and then Microsoft did the deal.
Not sure about the rest but Spanish ID card includes full address.
Germany supposedly does not have a central registry, I've been informed.
If you're saying the world is overpopulated by X then you're saying X amount of people who exist shouldn't exist.

The observation is that a given population and affluence level cannot sustainably exist. Not as a matter of morality or prescription, but as a simple matter of fact. The concept of overshoot, well established in ecology, is one that specifically notes that populations can for a finite period of time, exceed long-term carrying capacity, but will in time collapse. Overshoot itself --- population in excess of sustainable capacity --- occurs because of lag effects. Consequences of actions follow those actions, but not necessarily immediately.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overshoot_(population)

Population dynamics, like diseases, don't distinguish on ethnicity, religioun, ancestry, or ideology. It is true that the poor tend to bear the brunt more heavily. I ascribe no moral justification to this, though theological and ideological doctrines of the past and present very frequently do, to their discredit.

Respondind that a fact may be legitimately rejected simply because its implications are too painful to consider is wishful thinking, the informal fallacy of argumentum ad consequentiam appeal to consequences.

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

What you are saying is ... well, Col. Jessup had something to say on that:

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=5j2F4VcBmeo

Adding to that error, you then invent the utterly unsupported claim that those making the case for overpopulation mean for any reduction measures to only apply to others. This is in fact entirely a fiction of your own creation in this discussion. It does of course make answering the claim all the more difficult. I point out that as a fabulous claim there is no need to do so.

As I've noted before in this thread, you seem bent on repeatedly dragging this discussion into moral territory, in a manner which makes substantial and productive discussion difficult. It would benefit the discussion, and you might learn something, were you to not do so.
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How do you have integrity when you throw your own engineers under the bus?
I use Arq and backup to B2. I use it instead of backblaze directly for the encryption.
Channel 4 subtitles and other services not likely to return until mid-November
First M1 Max Geekbench Score
Is this something that you can do part-time? I could imagine making some extra money on the weekends or holidays. You can listen to lectures while driving or sit in the cab and read while resting. Question is whether it's feasible to get jobs that fit that schedule.
Energous Granted FCC Approval for Over-the-Air Wireless Charge
Archaeologists' insistence on defining anything they don't immediately understand as "for ritual purposes" - implying our ancestors were prone to superstition, instead of admitting the archaeologists' own ignorance.

Every time we say "civilisation started with X" and then discover a city from before that time.

We still don't understand how the Australian Aborigines got to Australia 50K years ago. You can't get to Australia without good boats. Yet there's a blank refusal to admit that this means that early humans had sophisticated boats.

It's really common to write off early humans as less sophisticated.
There's a (mostly) serverless file transfer tool whose name escapes me at the moment that uses this method to exchange the actual keys for the secure transfer...but it works there because the connection is only available for initiation, for that specific host and port, for a pretty limited period of time. The key is also one-use.

In this case the 'server' is up for an extended period of time, presumably, and the public key is both the address and authentication (unless you turn on requiring a specific key on the initiator, I think? I only glanced at the docs.)

With enough nodes you'd end up with multiple nodes having the same words (divide the possible keyspace by the possible combination of words and you'll get a very large number), and also you'd be at significant risk of people finding nodes just by banging away trying to connect to different 3-word addresses.

I agree that the tool seems to be intended for same-party use.
> Currently, truckers must be at least 21 to haul goods across state lines.

Why is that what determines the age limit? The USA has very consistent signs and roads between states.

It's 21 in the EU [1], but it doesn't matter if you're crossing a border or not.

[1] https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/vehicles/driving-licen...
True, though one may turn that around to say Cue's scope is too large while Jsonnet's is more "pure" while still enabling the larger scope.

Schema that describes data is itself just data and Jsonnet can describe both. While the various Jsonnet compilers do not "know" about any specific meta-schema in which to express schema nor of course any way to apply that schema to data for validation, one can create such systems with Jsonnet as the language and its compilers as a component.
The neutron would have to emit an electron (and an antineutrino). A neutron star does have electrons (and protons) in it, to the extent that the electrons have filled all energy levels into which a neutron decay electron could go. In other words, the decay is prevented by the presence of these electrons and the Pauli exclusion principle.
The only real fix is not to have central databases at all (Germany does that to a large extent), and keep only necessary things on electronic media (Lawyers and psychiatrists still do that today).

It can be done. Not everything must be electronic, and not everything must be centralized.
North Korea has fired at least one ballistic missile from country's east coast
How do we handle interdependent validation between different fields?

Let's say I got begin date and end date, and I'd like to ensure end date always comes after begin date.
It's not obvious. It's just smart. And decades of momentum based apis have caused you to think of something you'd probably never actually seen in a ui at the time as non-novel.

Inventions are often that way -- think of the mousetrap. People knew springs pinched the crap out of you when released. But nobody had made a device to kill mice, yet untilthat was invented.

I don't know what the cognitive bias for thinking that because you thought of an idea it must be obvious is, but it exists. I say that as a patent inventor.
I know nothing / very little about the process of broadcasting, and am very curious as to exactly what was on those hard disks that was "irretrievable". Is this just a case of really bad backup / DR processes?