skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In all likelihood, 100 years from now mere knowledge of the entire genetic code will suffice to recreate the animal from scratch. You won't even have to store specimens.

Perhaps much sooner than that, at least with worms. This is a simple organism, it does not need 9 months in a womb like we do.
Where are the post-Reddit people sharing wisdom?
I don’t think that necessarily makes it legal - they might be liable for "contributory copyright infringement”, which occurs if you deliberately and knowingly link to copyrighted materials and encourage/enable others to infringe.

See http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/04-480.ZO.html

(Eg torrent sites are also illegal in many countries despite merely linking to copyrighted materials)
The person was clearly responding to "as a teacher" and "students". We don't hold eighth graders to the same standards as founders.
Helium has practical uses - a cheaper alternative to cellular data for stuff like Lime scooters.
That intresting, I believe this too - but only if the deadlines are for others (because I hate them personally). This is this as a classic conflict between whats good for all and whats good for you.
I don't get where the problem is.

CORS is well defined here: it ALLOWS a browser to make certain types of requests to endpoints outside the domain the browsed website comes from:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/CORS

Because the browser follows the same origin policy for a number of API (like FETCH):

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Same-o...

Also if you are a developer, please check:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/CSP

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/X-...

To add an extra layer of protection against cross site scripting. I think one of the recent data leak could have been avoided if the website implemented that very basic header all modern browsers support.
In ten years we'll be generating new SpongeBob cartoons from the terminal.

We can already replicate his voice:

https://fakeyou.com/tts/TM:jn4amf60mk58

TTS has lots of room for improvement, but the technology is already widely accessible and easy to deploy. We'll soon have voice conversion with dynamic control of tempo, pitch, timbre, etc.

We have GANs that can generate stills. (this{person,cat,waifu,furry,etc.}doesnotexist.com)

It won't be long before we can generate animated sequences, maintain temporal coherence, and correct for pose and posture.

Animation is going to be wild.

Anybody else working in this space? (Anybody want to be working in this space? Message me!)
Depending on whom you hire repairs can be more than that. Still, paying someone to repair is more money supporting a local family and less waste.
A 'balance sheet' is useless in determining the value of an early stage company.

Let's be a bit cynical: the 'balance sheet' for a company at 0.2 on the scale of 0->1->N is basically the 'download and stickiness numbers'. YC strongly encourages users to 'share the numbers'.

The problem with this, is basically it's not really super early stage investing.

The implication is, you need to have a company showing material traction with a product, before taking on significant funds. Which is fine, but let's just be real about what that means.

It's a myth that 'rounds have been getting bigger' in a way ... really we've just been renaming rounds.

If you need to 'post good numbers' to get into a Seed, well, then it's not really 'Traditional Seed', it's something later.
There's one aspect of these deprecations of functionality in widely-used tools and agents that is often overlooked.

The very premise of the deprecation and removal is that any code-base that uses that functionality is being constantly maintained and can be updated. That is a major misunderstanding that in the 'web' development world has become the norm due to 'DevOps', Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing.

There are many codebases out there that achieved their objectives, are finished, and are effectively unmaintained since they work as designed. When the functionality they use is removed they fail and the end-user loses out.

This is always going to be a major problem for historians, historical web-site and code archives that have active code (not just passive HTML/CSS). The problem we have is that with deprecations and removals of functionality that was previously recommended and/or 'best practice' our ability to maintain digital history is being chipped away.

Historically, we've already lost the ability to easily use Adobe Flash (good from a security perspective but not so much from a historical perspective) and Java applets (still many 'enterprise' devices rely on them) and all those web-sites that relied on Internet Explorer specific features.

For each codebase we now have to figure out which specific tooling and versions are required and try to re-acquire them. Not excessively difficult for open-source tooling but challenging for closed-source and proprietary tooling. Another related issue building up is the switch to 64-bit and the subsequent bit-rot of 32-bit support.

It feels like the horizon to failure of a completed "web" codebase is less than 10 years.
I think that’s what something like hyperscript (or alpine or vanilla js) would be recommend for
How many 120 year olds do you think the average person would be exposed to several thousand years ago? Especially in an age where birth certificates did not exist.

I have never seen a supercentenarian myself, and I have been in a lot of nursing homes. I only know they exist because of the internet to be honest.
https://wordlegame.org/
Mediasoup is great! Thanks to him, i made MiroTalk[1] SFU version :)

[1] https://github.com/miroslavpejic85/mirotalksfu

I always recommend it.
You obviously had a business plan even if it was 'Build product that does A and sell it to B via C channels'.
Social engineering scam that nearly cost me all of my ETH
It’s not really a confession because it takes very little effort or knowledge to read either, and he is obviously a smart and hard working person. Any MBA student can read these; obviously Sam could too.

What he is saying is that he doesn’t read them (i.e. chooses not to), and the implication is that he does not need to.
You can try and appeal, but my guess is that Reddit is cleaning up their site to get in Wall Streets' good graces for an upcoming IPO, and probably doing an incompetent job.

I got my random 10 year old personal account banned from Reddit recently because I was told my username "contains a slur" even though the term in question is an exact match for an existing subreddit and appears all over Reddit.
How old are you?

How are you gauging “aging has paused or is going backwards slowly”?
Checked C isn’t C. I’ve yet to see a convincing reason to use it instead of, say, Go. Or Rust, if you want real safety.
As is tradition, the comments' section on that website is better than the article itself.

Personally, my take on the birthrate is that it's a multi-factor, cultural problem. It is not unique to the United States (and Canada). In fact, Canada has an even lower birthrate!

At the root, though? Its that our society does not value kids as much as it used to and that a dying a community life means it is much harder to raise kids. This would be my #1 guess.
Spoken like someone who has never played games against cheaters or tried to build anti cheat software.

1. is absolutely not rare at all, particularly in F2P games and even in paid games. I've seen periods where CSGO and PUBG games were filled with blatant cheaters. They were usually detected and banned within a few games, but the community still had a problem because there were enough of them that there would be a few cheaters in every match ruining the whole thing. The metric that matters for a player is cheaters/game not games/cheater. Given enough cheaters, they can dominate a large fraction of games even if they are banned quickly.

2. is also frustrating to play against. There are cheats that show players where everyone is on the map in COD Warzone or PUBG. It's subtle to detect, but in practice is a huge huge competitive advantage and gives you 0 chance of surviving an encounter with them. And just like the previous case, they may rise through the ranks eventually but ruin 100s of 100s of games in that time. With a large enough fraction of these cheaters, you will encounter a few every game you play.

Not to mention other perverse incentives - the "smurfing" impulse many cheaters have, where they will abandon the account as soon as it gets to a high enough rank go be even remotely competitive. They just create a new account at level 1 and start all over again. So the steady state you imagine never happens, and that cheater goes right back into the pool of low rank games.

Banning an account wrongly is also very costly. A good player wrongly banned will hate your game forever. But a cheater often will have no qualms spending money to buy a new account even if banned. So the detection systems have to have both very low false positives and high recall on true positivies and very quick detection of true positives.

Another thing HN frequently overlooks is "but I could bypass this by just writing a fake mouse driver/run on Android blah blah". Cheaters are generally people looking for a quick hit. They are not the type of people who will spend days or have the knowledge to setup whatever complicated _technically_ possible but difficult workaround. Making it difficult to install, buy or use cheats easily is an effective deterrent.

It's really a very difficult problem.
If you're poor and gambling, then you're making a stupid financial decision. So the odds of you being financially stupid seem likely to be high.
A $12M theft from an eye doctor raises question: Is cryptocurrency legal tender?
I think of Matrix with it's many bridges as relatively portable. This might be chat-specific as I don't think of chat as requiring long term storage of messages. For example, slack search is basically a joke.
I support revolving door regulations, but I agree with you that a big cause of the problem is the extent and complexity of government regulation.

At the same time, certain areas of regulation seem inevitably complex. Environmental regulations come to mind. There is an endless variety of environmental hazards and regulations must balance costs and benefits in light of the best available scientific evidence.

It's hard to imagine how this can be anything but the province of elite experts. Politicians or the private sector handling it seems like a guaranteed nightmare (and was historically, that's why we have these agencies).
>Everything is filtered through social media. We are on social media right now.

What's an example of the anti-social media that fits the mould you seek? BBSes? email groups ?

I agree about mindless repetition of terms like misinformation and censorship. These terms are used to attack political opposition rather than advance any progress.
> You can use a web browser with all your extensions

Since WebXR is not supported yet, this breaks the value proposition for me currently, as all VR content delivered via browser will not yet work. As I said, once this issue is solved (I think they are working on it), I'd reconsider.
It is because of viewpoints like yours that I celebrate the U.S. legal system, and that I despise the enforcement apparatus for it's discrimination against highly intelligent people. It is not difficult to become the butt end of the prosecutor's ire; and when faced with the resources of the State, how amazing that one can not only actually hold the State accountable to follow it's own process for depriving one of one's own life and liberty; and that one can actually fight tyranny at the same time by forcing the Government to tip their hands, and reveal their methods through sufficient attention to detail and the right questions.

How fantastic that a legal system acknowledges that a State with an agenda will wring all sorts of construed meaning out of silence; and pre-emptively writes out large swathes of that type of testimony (even if I disagree with some courts interpretation of testimony). Restricting the State to having to make a case on material facts.

Many warts that our legal system may have, most of the more pressing ones are problems of will to prosecute or investigate tough cases and lackluster investigatory technique when done.

The "seems pretty sus" barrier has no place in a justice system. Material facts. The world around a genuine wrong-doer will tell more than enough to convict them without playing games with "well they made the investigator's life more difficult by not opening the door and answering questions" and a follow up game of who is better at formulating the more intellectually palatable leading questions. Not one person should have to lift a finger to help contribute to building the walls in which the State seeks to contain them, and every innocent suspect deserves the finest council to help them navigate the vagaries of the legal system, and even the guilty deserve to have the case depriving them of life and liberty be conducted to the squeakiest degree humanly possible, with the aid of a robust defense.

To do anything less is an affront on human decency, and the integrity of the judicial apparatus.
Do you use windows or an android bloated with awful apps?(or your kids/partner?)
My best guess would be hackers using your IP as proxy, and getting blacklisted

I was suspended from reddit too, but my other accounts were never suspended, and to be fair I say a lot of stupid things on all my accounts
> Although short-haul private flights on a small, four-person jet can start at $6,000 to $7,000 one way, a transatlantic flight on a larger, 12-person aircraft can go for as much as $120,000 one way.
I almost wants it to be true, but then I remember who is paying for server perfomance and who is paying for js working its magic in browser. I firmly believe that in world of SAAS You are leaving a lot of money on the table if You are not using users spare processing power.
Do you think psychological bagged is not real and not ultimately rooted in some physical mechanism (s)?
Time to go back to the lab and develop new materials and processes. Capital will one day notice that the social media adtech space is way overfunded for the little benefit it gives and will move on to more interesting things. It is taking longer than I expected though.
Actually small business advisors insist that founders do need a detailed business plan. But it's both necessary for founders, people giving advise and everyone involved that it depends on the kind of business. I used to think business plans are old school and overly formal. But it's good to know the correct reason.
The article states that the technology being referred to is 1Gbps, plus power, over a distance of up to 40m.

(Although it is an 18 month old article, so things may have changed since).
Note that technology advancement always needs a large sum of capital so whoever has it controls technology. I in my life never had the illusion of the other way around.
That isn't an accurate summary, because he's refuting a number of the points. fake "we" to summarize, I'm not affiliated:

* yes it's harder to build

* harder to evolve, which is why we invested in a spec process to get it right, and you can see we push out features at a comparable pace

* does tend toward centralization, so we're working on p2p/nomadic identity

* the freedom to switch apps involves paying the costs of your history and your network, so that's a very weak freedom

And then the point about freedom is really only being balanced against the security/privacy risks of fragmented implementation.

His point would really be that you're not getting a "free" "free / open source messaging application" in a meaningful sense.

(oh, while I'll cede to you the UX has historically been crap, it's really not at "PGP key exchange parties" levels these days; my server has some non-tech friends and it's fine)
Ask HN: Why can't profs get grants for engineering (rather than research)?
So no then?

Over a decade later and I still cannot use any of them at the restaurant or without waiting in the queue for the transaction to settle and paying more for the fees than the goods itself.
The current batch of commercial supersonic aircraft companies will fail (commercial hypersonic aircraft even less credible).

There is a big bubble in commercial launch.

"Urban Air Mobility" is another bubble.

The problems we have in developing and acquiring military technology have nothing to do with "innovation" or a lack thereof.
For what it’s worth - I love that you have this perspective. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with just saving the money.
first, breathe

In the midst of this emerging, high-energy system-of-systems, please notice that there are other systems-of-systems also, quite vigorous. Like two painted dots on the surface of an expanding balloon, those dots are expanding away from each other, but also from all other possible dots, at once. Systems-of-systems are growing (or dying) right now, at the same time as the energetic emergence that you rightly call attention to here.

Your own stable intelligence and committed efforts, are required to steer away from these self-referential and empowered systems. Overall, I tend to agree, but differently in degree and specificity. best from California
> However now if I make a plain html website nobody will see it because google will not rank it above all the SEO blog spam and portal results (e.g. Reddit, Quora)

I don't mean to be obtuse, I hate Googlebook more than most, but... have you tried? Where I lived before I had a fixed public IPv4, and I put a box up with Caddy on it serving markdown to the world and people actually did find it and sent me e-mails about it. All I did was post links to small forums. Granted, it wasn't exactly mainstream content. But it worked.
Good question. I only noticed that if I go to the bookmark list, and tap/hold on one of them, it brings up a small dialog where I can enter more text in its name. I don't know of a way to make it obvious while reading that there is a bookmark at that point, but I'm no expert, and haven't really explored the other e-book readers.

The f-droid.org app (and probably web site) refer to https://librera.mobi which might have more info in the FAQ, and there is apparently a link to the author's email (at least in f-droid) who might accept $ for support or added features for all I know (or similar for other app authors) :)

After this thread dies, you're welcome to contact me if there is something else I can attempt answering, via my profile url.
You need better filters, as there are plenty of technologies and social groups that are doing the exact opposite as what you are lamenting. If you put your time and effort into these groups then you will realize that there are whole other ways of living and producing that are convivial.

For example, there are decentralized social medias built on gossip protocols and mesh networks, and ipv6 that are creating participatory platforms and economies.

There are also a variety of alternative fuel, permaculture and solar punk groups creating living environments that are sustainable.

Join up with them. Our physical needs are minimal, our cultural needs are to help one another.
Full self driving cars will never work beyond highways. Eventually Tesla fans will get fed up and there will be a lawsuit.
Interesting to contrast this with PG's most recent essay "Putting Ideas into Words" where he argues that people who don't write don't have fully formed ideas. What else is a business plan besides a thoughtful writeup? I think it would give me a good idea into how a person thinks.

[1] http://paulgraham.com/words.html
On many Android devices, especially Pixels, devices being 'locked' is not the problem at all. It is that historically Android was built to fundamentally different from mainstream Linux, and it is hard to make mainstream Linux work with your phone's hardware [1]. And the phone hardware providers are notoriously terrible about supporting anything.

Since virtualization abstracts those historic incompatibilities and driver issues away, there's a lot more stability you can expect from there. That is in addition to some other legitimate changes Google is making to make Pixel phones somewhat closer to mainstream Linux.

[1]: PostmarketOS shows that it's very possible to do so on plenty of devices, but just not without a lot of tradeoffs: https://postmarketos.org
Not really domain specific, although I think more common in web application development: I disagree with the sentiment that technology is moving incredibly fast and that you have to be constantly on your feet to keep up.

Well it certainly moves fast, compared to other industries that have been around for 100s or 1000s of years. But I feel technology is moving fast mostly on the surface, whereas what is beneath has changed much much slower if at all during my career since 2005. If you have solid fundamentals, you can just ignore and let the surface waves pass by until you need something and only then pick it up.

There is no need to constantly keep up with the framework/library du jour, better invest your precious time to deepen knowledge somewhere.
I like to use the phrase "practice makes permanent" - not "practice make perfect", cause every instructor disagrees, and not "perfect practice makes perfect" because perfection is subjective and a fool's errand. In a nutshell, whatever you do in practice will be what you do in application.

This leads to then what I consider "foundational knowledge", or refining your understanding on Bloom's Remember, Understand, and Apply categories. I think we try too hard to push students toward the Analyze, Evaluate, and Create categories too quickly, which results in poorer performance, especially in the classroom context where the next course assumes "mastery" (another term I dislike, I prefer proficient). Once a student is proficient, then we can talk theory all day.

So, in my classrooms, I mirror the methodology I commonly see in martial arts - warm-up, demonstrate technique, drill the technique, and (depending on the art) spar, or apply the technique. If you are struggling at one of these steps, then we can identify the issues and provide intervention practice at the appropriate level. Traditional classrooms don't really allow for extended spaced repetition, but I do believe it helps form autonomy.

More specific to your question since most of the above is just my general opinions on learning:

- Notes are good and writing notes is better than copy-pasting them [1]

- Highlighting your notes for important details is a lower level practice that is also beneficial [2]

- If you are given a technique/algorithm, attempt to do it on additional practice problems. If you can, through spaced repetition. For example, if you were learning the A* Search algorithm, change the starting and goal nodes in your current examples or make a new one with randomized numbers.

- Chi's ICAP Framework has a few additional points as well on which lower level practices are better than others [3]. However, as I'm arguing in my dissertation, better overall may not be better for the individual. If a student is struggling in a Constructive activity, I'm arguing it may be better to 'downgrade' them to a lower-level activity to reinforce understanding (again, my thoughts toward foundational knowledge).

[1] https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/1240624.1240773

[2] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/036147...

[3] https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1044018.pdf
Why not include Google, Apple, TikTok and Twitter!?

Apple has funneled $275 Billion to China [1], 10x more than what Intel got to start the Ohio fab. Gutting out American rust belt is one of the key problems in US and no one seems to care. It has brewed a whole political movement and we will suffer for decades.

[1] https://www.theinformation.com/articles/facing-hostile-chine...
Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30144021