skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dr. Yan Wong, an evolutionary geneticist at the Big Data Institute, and one of the principal authors, explained: “We have basically built a huge family tree, a genealogy for all of humanity that models as exactly as we can the history that generated all the genetic variation we find in humans today. This genealogy allows us to see how every person’s genetic sequence relates to every other, along all the points of the genome.”

Since individual genomic regions are only inherited from one parent, either the mother or the father, the ancestry of each point on the genome can be thought of as a tree. The set of trees, known as a “tree sequence” or “ancestral recombination graph,” links genetic regions back through time to ancestors where the genetic variation first appeared.

Lead author Dr. Anthony Wilder Wohns, who undertook the research as part of his PhD at the Big Data Institute and is now a postdoctoral researcher at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, said: “Essentially, we are reconstructing the genomes of our ancestors and using them to form a vast network of relationships. We can then estimate when and where these ancestors lived. The power of our approach is that it makes very few assumptions about the underlying data and can also include both modern and ancient DNA samples.”

The study integrated data on modern and ancient human genomes from eight different databases and included a total of 3,609 individual genome sequences from 215 populations. The ancient genomes included samples found across the world with ages ranging from 1,000s to over 100,000 years. The algorithms predicted where common ancestors must be present in the evolutionary trees to explain the patterns of genetic variation. The resulting network contained almost 27 million ancestors.

After adding location data on these sample genomes, the authors used the network to estimate where the predicted common ancestors had lived. The results successfully recaptured key events in human evolutionary history, including the migration out of Africa.
> Which is easily seen to be equivalent to perfect scaling.

Why? If the whole can be less than the sum of the parts, it can also be greater than the sum of the parts. Maybe two threads can do double the work in 150% of the time. But that would make for a funny definition of "perfect".
Also Paddle states that it needs KYB, what are the requirements for it?
Do I need to register all my business even before I find product-market-fit or before making a single dollar?
A few Lithuanian names there. They’ve apparently tried geothermal in Klaipeda but faced salt water which was hard to handle.

Generally Eastern European cities with centralised heating are very suited for geothermal. Except they’ll loose all that sweet sweet kickback from Russian oil dealer.
You cut out the combustion stack and boiler here so it has to be much cheaper than fossil fuel turbine?
Remember, win95 GUI allow us to place the taskbar wherever we want without causing issues.

Gnome 2 did, too, except it was almost unusable in that mode because they used to have a repeated "1px by I don't remember how much" for a taskbar background. Even Windows 11 only lets people have the thing on the bottom
If you drill a hole deep enough, you'll be unable to prevent the hole from collapsing in on itself. I wonder how deep that would be.
> right around the corner if energy use keeps going up exponentially and we keep reducing earth's albedo.

That's a big if. In fact things like deforestation increase albedo. And when we get closer to that point, we can start requiring actively increasing albedo of all human structures.

Projecting out our current habits along a trend line all the way to our doom is utterly naive... It's a bit like a lumberjack hundreds of years ago complaining that if we keep building log cabins, we'll run out of lumber. What actually happens is, when resources start to become constraints, THEN we suddenly start finding ways to conserve them, NOT before. And before it happens, it's not obvious to those looking ahead just how it can and will be dealt with.

> We should be finding ways for people in the west to live more like developing nations and still thrive, not trying to turn developing nations into the west.

"Developing nations" are among the worst polluters. That's probably not what you mean. Poor, underdeveloped nations have relatively small global environmental impacts, but very intense local impacts... Local deforestation and other resource exhaustion, for example. That's not a good model to copy, either.

There are possible technological solutions to deal with our impact, and on the time-scales we're talking about, possibilities like colonization of other worlds, and gradually towing the Earth out to a wider (and cooler) orbit.
The problem is that those people don't grasp how ridiculously awful it looks. Do you pay money for decent clothes and a decent haircut? Then spend the money on either a greenscreen, or anything else to put behind you to cover whatever you want to cover without making you look like a special effect done by a third grader.
Rainbow is a signature scheme.

Generally it seems the encryption side of post quantum is a bit easier than the signature side. All signature schemes proposed have significant downsides.

(though this result raises very serious questions about the whole process - if it's possible that a promising candidate which probably would've been standardized very soon can be broken so severely it questions whether we know enough about these technologies to standardize them yet)
Bit late to the action, but do I understand correctly that this trains a harmonic synthesizer? That would explain why the reverb in "How does the amount of training data affect synthesis fidelity?" sounds a bit off, as it would get synthesized on unrelated input.

But what I wanted to ask: is the final model actually understandable or visualizable, e.g. as an envelope per harmonic that depends on F0, loudness and F0 confidence?

Anyway, I'm impressed.
Putin :-(
What do you think of the shiny, glassy look of Vista and/or early MacOS 10? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Vista and https://www.techradar.com/reviews/phones/mobile-phones/iphon...

Looked "space age", and less like the drab office building which Win 9x/MacOS 9 looked like. Is there any nostalgia for that?
How is that different from nuclear?
Just to add to the comment: https://theglobalherald.com/news/putin-speech-to-oligarchs-r...
Oh I'm not very pleased with the AWS icons much either but they have one property of the real materials: depth.

The most frustrating thing about "material" icons is its name; real materials have depth and colors... and so should functional icons; material icons are monocolor and flat.
electrical charges could create something like that.
Do you have a citation for the „scientifically proven“?
Maybe not what you are looking for, but this website more than raised
an eyebrow for me:

https://killedbygoogle.com (Google Graveyard - Killed by Google)

It's a quite big list of services axed by Google. Some might argue
that it's "their right" to close their own services. I disagree,
because it's not so simple. This site is litany of digital harms
inflicted by a company that uses the internet as its own private
testing laboratory in which we are all guinea-pigs. Their cavalier
attitude to unilaterally shuttering services, often with scant
warning, has caused real economic damage to millions. You might argue
that, on the contrary Google have provided valuable free services,
missing the point that the harms outweigh the benefits because
continuity and trust are more valuable than mere availability.
It is 2022, and Windows 95 still have better font rendering.
That is the story of every comment board on the internet, that's why most online newspapers remove comments. Comments turn negative on both sides of the argument very quickly

People will feel much more compelled to comment a negative experiences, because if the experience is positive that is just what was expected by default from the "brochure"

Example: if I go travel a week to an 5* hotel and all goes well, I won't even think of it, but if something is not pleasant, I'll sure go online google map reviews, yelp, trip advisor, and tell others that product/service is a scam

Although I do ask myself every time I go to find a movie or TV series to watch, why most choices main theme is based on negative things like: Murder, drugs, crime, sex abuse, detectives, horror, shooting...
Maybe society has a stronger negative feedback loop
Are these runtime tests or only for CI/CD?

How do you test what wasn't changed, how does that work. Do you select before and after and compare certain rows or tables and if so random ones or which ones? A small example would be awesome.
Some reporting on the same review document: https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/sweden-report-coronavirus-1.63...
Since you (OP) mention knowing "two states" which («sometimes») present themselves kind of "randomly",

have you tried logging when you are fit and less fit («effortless and [...] slog»), and attempt logging potential external factors - sleep (time, quality, duration etc.), nutrition (dishes, hydration, sugar etc.), internal states (emotional, mental concern, generic feedback etc.), etc. - and see what seem to be more and less correlated?

You may realize what is facilitating you and what is hindering you - that you may work better after a good night sleep, or by having disposed of some class of preoccupations etc.

You should probably just keep yourself in an optimal working state, as the general rule. (And work in a fitting environment.)
Can you list the liberal democracies that aren't doing so well?
If the DJ is removed the music quality would be the same.
Is there a chance that the hole creates a mini volcano that cannot be stopped?
> Because most people only choose to start a family once they already have the financial stability to support one.

This has been true for something like the last hundred years out of all of human history. It's not something you'd want to try to architect a society around.

Also, it's not really about having the financial stability. People are terrible at estimating that; they are putting off starting a family until many, many years after they can afford to do it. There's a mass delusion of inability to afford a family -- but there isn't much inability.
Anonymous declares cyberwar against Russia
MUMPS is a really fascinating system to study. It has some good ideas (integrating data storage and the application implicitly with operating system management, sort of a protofilesystem) and some really bad ones (every datatype is basically just a string >_>). It's very clearly a first generation system but the fact that it has stuck around in its applications a bit longer than it should've is, at the very least, a point of interest.

FWIW, healthcare does integrate new tech relatively rapidly if it provides a sea-change in patient care and, primarily and somewhat less fortunately, profitability.
I have done intermittent fasting, but I lose too much weight while doing so. I really liked the benefits. Especially fasted cardio feels so good.

I'm already fairly slim (1.90m and <80kg) and become a complete stick man after doing this. Anybody know how to do this and how to stay in shape at the same time.
One thing I like of iostreams is that the standard syntax supports passing the file object in depth. If you have a custom type and want to print it, you just implement operator<<(), get a reference to the std::ostream and do what you want with it. Using printf you either have to first write to a temporary string and then print it (which requires more memory and more time to go through it, if the representation of the object is big) or break the flow anyway with something like:

printf("The object is ");
print_object(object, stdout);
printf("\n");

Does fmt support printing a custom type without breaking the format string and without using a temporary string?
The "Pomodoro Technique" perhaps? Don't know if it’s scientifically proven to be effective...

> A goal of the technique is to reduce the effect of internal and external interruptions on focus and flow.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique
I would argue that he is bragging, and that the amount of code optimization is minimal. Large companies love to brag about how many servers they have, and optimizing compilation is just a buzz word. Go ahead, buy another servers. $100k is nothing. Its less than 1 engineer year vs 24,000 engineer years.

The Distribution collectors, they brag about speed, and optimization is very important to them. They want to be able to test changes very quickly.
You would like to find a community where cynicism is banned? I think your perspective is flawed. In tech, being correct or incorrect matters much more than optimism or cynicism. The best optimism is the kind that can withstand critical thinking.

When someone says "that's not possible" it's a challenge for you to prove otherwise not a discouragement to give up. Adversarial thinking is a fundamental component of critical thinking.

It's not others' sentiment that is toxic, it is your lack of perspective and willingness to subject your views and convictions to negative, critical and adversarial opposition and come out unscathed because not only is you optimism that strong, it is correct (hopefully).

It's like those people on sharktank that get wound up over Kevin O'Leary. I mean, he does lack tact and manners but that aside they should have anticipated his cynical and critical response and prepared a counter argument every single time. At worst their idea sounds better to other sharks and the tv audience, at best you can convince him by showing he can be wrong and you do know more than him and your confidence is not founded in wishful thinking but in facts, reason and reality.

In the end my friend, you can only have one priority and your success should be that priority. Thinking wishful thinking and unfounded and unquestioned optimism will get you there is a fool's errand in my opinion.
Nvidia Hit by Major Cyberattack
Not so long ago you were claiming that the US hadn't attacked anyone in your lifetime. Confronted to the evidence that it was a false statement you start making a difference between the "good wars" and "bad wars". In one case the situation is "complex", in the other it can be summarized in one sentence. Don't you see the double standard here? How about "Russia takes action to protect its people against Western imperialism and fight nazism"? Of course that would be an equally oversimplified summary of the situation.
Likely not, Ukraine is a democracy (unlike Russia, which is Putin's autocracy). Even if such an event happens, next in the line will take the lead, and even more anger will emerge among people. Ukrainians are defending not Zelensky, but their country. In Ukraine the "contry (or rather state)" is not by definition equal to President, like it is in Russia.
I wasn't even counting the combustion part, just the heat to steam to electricity part (common to coal and nuclear plants).

I had assumed they would need to transfer the heat rather than pipe geothermal steam directly into the turbine, but either way, solar and wind is very cheap and hard to compete with. Even magical free energy connected to a steam turbine struggles when you do the sums, which is the baseline before you start including cost and risk from super deep drilling.
>Scrooge isn't an archetype for cruelty though, he is miserliness.

He absolutely is an archetype of cruelty. Not in the sadistic sense, but in the sense that he was completely unsympathetic to the plight of those around him and allowed them to suffer needlessly (until the three visits).

>Dickens didn't exactly take a statistical sample of the people in London to come up with the story

He didn't need to. A statistical sample of the city of London "measured him", in a way, when they all read the book and it resonated with their experience.

>Nobody should be using 1850s popular literature as a serious contribution.

Nobody is suggesting we base economic policy on a fictional story from 150 years ago. I am, and I suspect parent is as well, reminding you that your argument sounds cruel and miserly. This is a valid and useful heuristic, especially considering that your argument is:

- Deliberately misleading (or at best, ignorant) with the "2%" statistic

- Completely ignorant of the human experience (You actually argued that people leaving behind their friends, family and community to "move to a low cost of living area in this era of fantastic communication and easy travel" was somehow progress, as well as suggesting that workers shouldn't be paid enough to support a family because not everyone has a family - the logical outcome being that people cannot afford to start a family and their lineage simply dies.)

- Lacking in substance in general (you don't provide a single reason or shred of evidence as to how or why your ideal world would actually have a more prosperous, or stable, or healthy, or "better" society in any way - just that it would align better with the way you think the world should be.)

>We've got more than 150 years of policy experiments and records of outcomes when it comes to labour policy since then.

And yet the experts still fuck it up on a daily basis. Look at the response of the IMF to the Asian Crisis of 1997, or compare Europe's response to the GFC to Australia's. Lee Kuan Yew has openly stated in interviews before that part of the reason he was so successful was that he ignored international economic experts when they were trying to push numerically-backed bullshit ideology onto Singapore.

>Someone who has read up on that should be leading the debate, not the Ghost of Christmas Past.

In all seriousness, the fact that a book from 150 years ago is still seen as relevant today suggests that maybe we shouldn't just throw out its messages as worthless. Its ideas have survived almost two centuries of harsh memetic competition.

How long have the current economic ideas been around for?
I was watching some court proceedings and one of the parties had the background blur on and every so often when the person half turned their head to review a document nearly half of their face disappeared under the blur. It was very distracting.

Perhaps if people were a bit more professional and stopped commenting on other people's personal space that's taking up a fraction of the screen real estate we wouldn't need features like these.

My boss can't help himself making smart ass comments about my background, at one point I managed to get a plain white wall and even that scored a comment.
But the private sector generally doesn't stockpile, because the cost of maintaining a stockpile exceeds any immediate economic benefit of doing so. It is economically inefficient almost all of the time. Very occasionally it becomes useful, but current accounting practice, corporation law and shareholder demands do not have mechanisms for incentivising it.

One of the key roles of government is to provide services that are economically inefficient but are a public good.
As someone stuck in the lower class almost unable to work and any work I do is very distressing because I'm someone who is chronically disabled with chronic debilitating pain and an array of other problems that are no fault of my own: Ain't this some bullshit. It sure is easy for the rich to say "just be happy", "just follow your goals" etc. It's so easy for people with opportunities to say that, is it any wonder the richest people I know are also the happiest.. I wouldn't be surprised if the people in this study are in higher positions than the rest and have less stress and demands put on them in their daily lives.
Not sure if it’s wise to give civilians weapons without giving them uniforms.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eiwzx9hxUe0

Thought this was interesting enough to share
Title should say (2016).
I like the continuum idea.

Given that we cannot not kill something to live yet, the current local minimum would be to live by eating some kind of cultured microorganism?

Something like cultured algae or a genetically engineered organisms that expressed suitable proteins.

Fruit might be an acceptable minimal choice given that it’s “voluntarily given” to some point of views.

Strangely the thought of engineering an animal to make a meat fruit seems repugnant - imagine an animal modified to grow flesh that could be removed with little pain and no injury.

Vat grown meat is an interesting thought - if we can pull it off.

Ultimately only something like molecular nanotechnology could free us from killing to live.

Alternatively modified human beings.
Pure thermal caused by non fossil fuel human energy use? I've never heard that as a thing. But ghg climate change causing ice and snow melt, thereby reducing albedo and causing thermal effects, yes scary.
You're missing the point, this debate isn't about FAANG profits, it's about protecting democracy.

Maybe the root issue was letting 4 private companies control the entire public debate with dangerous moderation practices.
I can't find a source now, but I recall reading something like:

The first measurement of the speed of light was too low. Subsequent experimenters assumed that when their measurement differed from the previous measurement by too much, then their experiment was wrong. So they fiddled with it until it wasn't too far off the previous value, and then published.

EDIT: it was about the charge on an electron, not the speed of light, my mistake: https://scipython.com/blog/measurements-of-the-electron-char...
2022 Military Strength Ranking
Something something plausible deniability - that's a tad close to 410 Gone, and noone really wants to go there...
I was being realistic - it'll be a puppet - call it as you wish, president or subordinate of Putin. Unless Ukraine could hold the fort against this invasion, and preserve their independence from Moscow, anything else will be a servant of the higher power, by any [other] name.
There was a post here like yesterday with a link that although rumors said the plane was destroyed the CEO of the company that's owns the plane said it was in one piece but the Russians have taken it.

Also isn't the company that owns the plane now part Chinese owned? Why was the plane not flown out weeks ago?
Magic Survived the Pandemic
Next in the line is the Prime Minister, then Head of the Parlament, and so on.
> They are an internet company. This is how internet companies work, generate such high profits, and command such high valuations.

When something goes wrong, Apple, Amazon and Netflix (as examples) all manage to provide free, robust customer service.

Google can afford to support it's customers. They choose not to.
Lets hope it wont be like that in Berlin in couple of months down the line.
No. I love my 2022 Gnome look and looking at old Windows UI makes me nauseous.
I'm over 40 so yes, I did use Windows extensively and hate everything about its UI maybe with the exception of Windows XP.

I never had any issues recognising what is a button and what isn't with Gnome. Never understood HN's fetish for these old UIs.
4xx codes indicate a permanent error condition. 409 conflict sounds like very pessimistic scenario.
Cool! Can you explain some more how you ended up sharing this? Did you find it yourself or maybe was there a related article?
I'm from Kazakhstan and it loads for me as well.
One assumes well blowouts will be a serious problem, as with any energy extraction.
Sure it is, what I said is that most other hot brewing methods are more critical to differences in coffee amount than cold brew methods, not that all of them are totally critical.
You mean, the jewish president is a real Nazi ? Am I missing something ?
$2M in Ads?
Yes, fmt does support printing a custom type, see:

https://fmt.dev/latest/api.html#formatting-user-defined-type...

It may look like a lot to implement, but it worked flawlessly for me several years ago for a simple case, just by copying and pasting the example code there.