skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good question, the research we are doing on increasing the durability of wood is separate from the research on photosynthesis. The durability of wood largely has to do with the ratio of lignin to cellulose. Historically organizations focused on increasing growth rate for bioenergy have worked on changing that ration to create fast growing but less dense wood. That's different from what we are doing at Living Carbon. We don't expect to see increases in wood durability from photosynthesis-enhancement alone.

Biochemically our photosynthesis-enhancement strategy is a metabolic bypass pathway that reduces the energy that goes towards photorespiration allowing for more energy to go toward growth. When talking to investors I sometimes say it's like putting the plant into ketosis :) albeit that is not the perfect analog.

When it comes to improving the durability of wood, one of our approaches focuses on improving the ability of trees to accumulate and store metals in their lignin. Metals act as natural fungicides and slow the decomposition of trees. Other ideas include some of the world the Salk Institute has done on increasing Suberin production. Here's a paper that demonstrates how a doubling in nickel concentration in norwegian spruce led to slower decomposition: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S09291...

The crazy thing here is that there is SO MUCH precedent from accumulation of metals by trees in nature. In certain parts of New Caledonia a tree called pycnandra acuminata thrives in ultramorph aka Nickel rich soil. It has up to 24% nickel sap concentration and can be tapped for nickel citrate actually.

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-45398434
I haven't seen candy crush on any enterprise installation to date. Maybe you are mistaken?
Only if your version of Make is compiled with it. "GNU make may be built with support for GNU Guile..." https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Guile-Int...

I really wish it was more common because having it would be great.
The research suggests the EM fields and underlying neural networks work together,
i.e fields might provide a top-down energy-based attention mechanism while the network structures implement bottom-up agglomerations of information.
Blocking EM fields wouldn't destroy memory but might pause or disturb the learned activation flows of neurons.

"""
The researchers hypothesize that the field even appears to be a means the brain can employ to sculpt information flow to ensure the desired result. By imposing that a particular field emerge, it directs the activity of the participating neurons.

Indeed, that’s one of the next questions the scientists are investigating: Could electric fields be a means of controlling neurons?

“We are now using this work to ask whether information flows from the macroscale level of the electric field down to the microscale level of individual neurons,” Pinotsis says. “To make the analogy with the orchestra, we are now using this work to ask whether a conductor’s style changes the way an individual member of an orchestra plays her instrument.”
"""
> How successful is this "negotiation" typically? I've not heard great things about taking counteroffers.

Are these "not great things" first-hand accounts?

I've done it and it was great. I've had colleagues who've done it with success. And I've hand manager who recommend it when I wasn't happy with my increase.

I feel like this kind of attitude is really damaging to peoples' careers and holds back wages. I have a friend who adores their job but refuses to accept a counter offer because they are afraid of being fired.
I mean, you can do an OS yourself, or you can learn how to use an existing OS, I use Gentoo GNU/Linux and do things manually, never got the boot driver wiped as I do the partitioning myself, and also do the partitioning when I use some more userfriendly distros (on my work laptop because compiling on laptops is not nice so I won't use gentoo there). But yeah I mean you complain a lot, but for OSX and Windows you have no chance of resolving your issues, on linux you just need to be capable and willing to understand and read some documentation and you're good to go, but it seems that in your situation you're the main problem, because unwilling to be restricted by proprietary systems but also unwilling to learn, so it seems like we need to make an OS built on your preference while you just "want to get work done", why should we do that? Be restricted or learn to learn
A lot of times partially good ideas get overblown and create "fad shrapnel" where they explode on the scene and get overused and overhyped by the naïve, Resume Oriented Programmers[1], or book/article pushers.

One of the most frustrating things about Design Patterns is that it's never been clear when to use them and when not to. Making a good choice often requires intimately knowing the domain, and guessing the future well. Most us are lousy at predicting the future. If we were any good at it, we'd be golfing with Warren Buffett instead of figuring out why our Java won't compile on a Monday.

Their Visitor Pattern scenario is crying out for a database, by the way. Don't reinvent a database in app code: you get spaghetti objects.

Apply YAGNI and KISS, and only add design patterns if there is a clear and present need.

[1] Buzzword collectors looking for their next gig and (mis) using your business as their personal college or R&D lab.
Of course, but different people have wildly different ideas on how to initiate and conduct cooperative communication. Just consider how some people have a hard time to say no, while other people have a hard time to express what that they want something, etc. (Cultural differences and stereotypes are alive and well.)

Fundamentally there's a basic need to protect one's own resources needed for a healthy psyche. And unfortunately this is very much "left as an exercise to the reader" in many (almost all?) cultures around the world. And the unsurprising result is that many people are taken advantage of by those who exploit the lack of the aforementioned psychological skills.
Til, dji sells a device that allows governments or whom ever to locate the pilot of a drone.

I wonder how/if that's works for home made drones flying autonomously a set of way point.
https://lmgtfy.app/?q=yearly+car+deaths+california

When driving your own car is outlawed in a couple of decades, I'm going to be pissed, but then I'm going to remember talking to psychopaths like you and just grudgingly accept it
Antarctic sea ice hits lowest minimum on record
Given that the problem moved from Bellevue to Seattle, that sounds less like "about everyone else" and more like "more about me". Just punish people enough until they move and become a problem elsewhere isn't making life better for anyone but the residents of whatever county they came from and only as long as they don't come back.
> quad-die Mac Pros

I said quad-Jade Mac anythings aren't coming because that die is only designed to go in pairs (that's the M1 Max die). Everyone keeps rambling on about that idea because that Bloomberg reporter said it was coming and got it wrong. It won't happen.

Apple certainly can and probably will do quad dies at some point, it'll just be with a new die. The IRQ controller in Jade is only synthesized for two dies, but the architecture scales up to 8 with existing drivers (in our Linux driver too). I fully expect them to be planning a crazier design to use for Mac Pros.
Just wanted to share nps as a nice way to manage scripts for your package.json

https://www.npmjs.com/package/nps

You can create a dedicated JS file (with comments and more!) that will house your scripts, which you can run by using "nps" instead of "npm" as a command.
I think possibly commercial “infusion clinics” and medical trials use different doses.
Ask HN: My Google account was hacked, Google says they can't help
My Google account was hacked, I was messaged by someone on Facebook and they demanded I give them money or they would post my private photos. They started posting my pictures and even sent them to my family and friends, dad included! They then changed all my passwords, restore email, phone number ect to their own email and number, so I can't do anything. They wiped my phone and my son's tablet completely, all my banking is gone, everything is gone. I'm now stuck in a foreign country away from my baby with no way to get money or access my email for my travel documents. I'm really scared and don't know what to do. Google says they can't do anything to help me! They can't kick him off or disable my account, I just have to be harassed and blackmailed, and goodness knows what else. I'm a single mum and I'm in a different country to my baby, please can someone help me? I just want to get back.

Does anyone know how I can recover and secure my Google account? I've tried everything that I can find/Google have told me to do.
Our media has to appeal to emotions with zero substance because no one will read anything of substance.

IMO the way for Putin to get what he wants is exactly what this stupid article is advocating for. He is either in for a long drawn out insurgency that can't really be won or an escalation to the doorstep of WW3 that he will enter negotiations with all the leverage.

We are basically anti-Machiavellians. Instead of the end justifying the means we believe that as long as we have good intentions we don't care about the outcome.
> Empress trees grow very fast but there is not much of a market for their wood because it is very light.

"Market" for wood is measured in decades, not months. The trees we are harvesting today are the result of a "market" selection made by our fathers and grand-fathers (typically, oak in western Europe).

Saying that Empress trees is out of fashion today because their wood is too light, might be true, but it's not the answer you should be giving. So, either you have the ability to see 40 years into the future, or you simply don't know and don't assume it won't be likeable for the next generation.
> “Telnetlib is personally useful to me, since telnet is one of the easiest ways to interact with a qemu VM's console.”

The kind of person behind a decision like this has never heard of QEMU and won’t care even if you tell them. “Why don’t you use Docker or k8s?”
Within the same foundry, they are comparable. It's just a decrementing version number, though.
DataSkop: Simulating the Dynamics of Recommender Systems
at that point, just give them the A ;)
A couple of days ago there was a job search for US PsyOps posted here on HN. What makes you think it is a specifically Russian strategy?

It also could be a general feature of war or people quarrelling that both parties have different versions of events. They could even both be right in a sense, even if from afar their positions seem to contradict each other.

Kurosawa's movie Rashomon comes to mind.
Simplicity wins in many cases and it is with K-Means clustering. There are so many clustering algorithms, far superior to K-Means, but its simplicity and easy-to-apply approach to most of the datasets available allow pretty much anyone with programming skills to understand and implement quickly to get results and gives you that feeling of "oh, hey, that's my first data science thingy". Simplicity is very powerful.
> how will we continue to assess expertise moving forward?

This reminds me of something that I read once - allegedly Aristotle was actually against books; he believed that having ready access to books made it easy to 'fake' the type of education that requires mentorship.

I think Aristotle's perspective doesn't really make sense today because (for better or worse) we emphasize the economic utility of education - is the person actually able to do the job that they claim to be able to? We don't consider the internal changes to the person caused by their education (alas...).

> We will also expect our experts to have the deep understanding that comes from experience in a domain.

I think Chalmer's concept of the extended mind is an interesting framing here - basically it's the notion that your mind doesn't end right at your skull. For the sake of argument, let's assume in the future that we'll have BCI that's good enough to let you text with you mind (something like what Neuralink is going for). If you've got an expert system in your head/pocket that's really good at dealing with some domain and you're really good at _phrasing problems in terms that the expert system can understand_ then you + expert system might have a super-human ability to solve problems in that domain.

If I was hiring for that domain, I wouldn't particularly mind how much of your expertise is in biological tissue.
> ... a fullscale Russian invasion to decapitate their government.

> ... encircle China and force them into peaceful deescalation.

While you have used the word "peaceful" I suspect a Chinese planner, if by some strange path they read your comment, would start preparing for wild escalations. Because it looks like the strategy is to wait for a moment of weakness then invade.

That doesn't sound like a path to peace.
Ask HN: Is anyone using lock-based version control?
Hi all,

I am just curious if anyone is using any lock-based approaches to version control for collaborative production of software or other digital assets. It seems like the merge model, exemplified by Git, is ubiquitous to the point that nobody is experimenting with any other workflows.

I think lock-based version control would would very well with trunk-based development. Separate devs branch from mainline, files get locked for everyone else as they are edited, and so it is necessary to work in very tight iterations and merge back to mainline very frequently.

Is anyone working with a lock-based approach to version control, either for personal projects, or in an organisational setting?

Thanks :)
We would not use any trees with metal for pellets. Because the landowners we work with grow the trees for over 25 years the type of wood produced is better for saw timber or timber that is used in building materials. it wouldn't be pellet grade wood.
They weren‘t caught while cheating though. So maybe hard to justify if they decided to go against expulsion with their lawyers.
Better than @when...
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/grammar/british-grammar/...
An invasion of Russia would risk the destruction of the entire globe by nuclear weaponry. Ousting Putin and destabilizing Russia would increase the risk of nuclear weaponry making its way to more violent regimes. I do not think either of those is particularly wise.
https://rbranson.medium.com/rds-pricing-has-more-than-double... is a good example of using the generation abstraction to improve margins. Obviously, this source is not a price increase. It’s just increase in premium over EC2.

https://redmonk.com/rstephens/2021/12/17/iaas-pricing-2021/ Is also great and shows a flatness in price
This was my first thought, but I'm skeptical this ends up being as bad a problem as you imply. You don't just pass an exam and then immediately get sent to an operating theater and given a scalpel. You do a medical internship and residency, and are supervised by experienced doctors. (Yes, I know, this is the US system, but I'd hope the systems in other countries would be similar, or at least provide similar protections.) I would expect a cheater like this might not perform well enough to ever make it into an operating room. And even if they did, it would only be in an assistant role, where they would likely show their incompetence pretty quickly.

Sure, the system overall isn't perfect, but detecting incompetence on the job (before being allowed to do any damage) is IMO the most likely scenario for cheating medical students who don't get caught at school.

Even if we consider other disciplines... say, civil engineering. You don't get your degree and then immediately get the job of Principal Engineer on a bridge-building project. You're supervised by engineers with more experience, and your work is checked and signed off on if it's correct. If your work consistently fails those checks, you'll get fired.
Apple bends its own rules by using push notifications to promote Apple Music: https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/18/18229492/apple-music-push...

Apple sends push notification advertising Emmy nominations: https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/07/15/apple-sends-unsol...

Apple caught spamming iPhone 12 owners with free Apple Arcade offers: https://www.idownloadblog.com/2020/10/28/apple-arcade-free-o...

Apple is advertising its monthly iPhone installment plan in the Wallet app: https://www.idownloadblog.com/2019/12/16/iphone-financing-wa...
It wasn't a strong enough argument to overcome the final decision that cgi and cgitb are modules which never would be accepted in python today. There were three years to discuss this issue and make a case--was that process not enough?
Anything is better than meow meow, but it was still fun in 2009.
Have a look at the adobe acrobat interface, I can't believe how complicated it is, and often comes up with prompts, side menus, adverts for other versions, and a tiny space to actually view your file.
You probably live in the US/Canada? It is bad, VERY bad on some of their phones in India.
Says it’s real-time
Some vets use Ketamine as part of a multi stage protocol for euthanising animals, other vets just use a single drug protocol but I havent established what that drug is, but it just seems all a bit refined butchery to me!

Ketamine is supposed to be a disassociate drug, which I'm guessing is perhaps like an out of body experience or something. But I cant see how that can help with depression when people dont understand depression can actually be lots of things, but it has one overriding common element which is people remembering.

So unless people get something like dementia where recent memories seem to fade first and the earliest memories come back, I fail to see how K can help treat depression.

As for suicide ideation, well look around at what constitutes 1st world medical care! If you dont buy into the smiley faces because you might have grown up around medical professionals and heard the back office chats you might think twice about the authenticity of so called medical professionals! Not only that, its just a job for most, leave it at the door when your shift finishes, which is easier said than done especially if a dying patient seemed nice and innocent compared to an unpleasant angry dying patient.

I really dont know why we dont have legal euthanasia because being experimented on in the name of science is not something I'd let others do to me if I can help it, I am aware that some argue it would be a direction towards eugenics, but that goes on already in stealth with some medical procedures.
It's explicitly a system providing information about DJI drones (and drones of other manufacturers that opt-in to providing compatible data, can't find anything if any actually do).
Didn't they say 10 was the last version, too?
Sorry but that is extremist nonsense. Are you even aware that the war has already been going on since 2014, with 40000 casualties (afaik)?
As far as I see that restaurant just does in fact use Resy and it looks to me like Google just shows the same results the Resy site does. What they do do is just not show you times that are outside a window around the selected time (and they preselect one) so maybe that's the issue?

I'm not really seeing the fraud or moral issue here. Of course the reservation system isn't the same as the ordering one and just the nature of the market makes the reservation services less problematic than the food-ordering ones.
Sure, but as a scientist conducting an experiment I will be able to determine who is dosed with psilocybin and who is doses with methylphenidate >90% of the time, thus removing the observer mask. I think the average patient would be able to tell if they were dosed with psilocybin or methylphenidate, even if they were drug naive, thus removing the patient mask.

I'm not saying it's impossible to conduct good experiments on these substances. I'm saying that they require special considerations of internal validity and it's incorrect to call this study (iv ketamine vs iv saline water) double blind.
We already have the language to describe someone who claims an expertise in a knowledge area without the study necessary to be an actual expert: dilettante.

And that's all that we'll actually be without memorization. There is a huge gap between someone with knowledge and expertise ingrained in their head, with a solid knowledge of the gaps in their knowledge, or understanding the layout of a knowledge realm that can only come from dedicated study of a subject, vs a dabbler or whatever level of expertise another individual might have with less stringent studies.

This same problem exists in our education system and cramming. You can cram subjects and pass tests, but research had shown that the knowledge gain from this process to be extremely limited.

Without a well ingrained knowledge of a subject, it is difficult to use that knowledge in creative thought, connecting with other realms of knowledge.

If all of these human mental processes are replaced with computation, and people no longer put in the effort to learn challenging things, then I predict large amounts of mental decline. We may already be seeing this process. Perhaps I should say... "As we offload more mental processing to computers...", Because it's definitely a process that many people are going through.

That isn't too say that computerized information is all bad. My wife would probably leave me if I didn't have a calendar app.
It's right across from the Pentagon.
I can understand one motivation to cheat: exam grading is very unfair at the individual level because your performance has a high variation depending on factors outside of your control. Those factors are random from the perspective of a test taker: the exact questions, whether you had a flu, family circumstances, and hundreds of other factors that are independent of your ability. Apart from the fact that exams strongly measure the skill of passing exams, yet often poorly measure actual ability for the subject.

The unfairness depends on how steep the cutoff is: does 89.9% mean you miss out on an important life goal, whereas 90.1% means you win?

I did a quick google to find facts on expected individual exam mark volatility, but couldn’t find anything - what keywords do I need?

One pattern to the results I did read is that individual volatility is not even acknowledged - the unwritten assumption is that exams are completely fair and volatility has other dominant causes.

Edit: I am an engineer type with some spectrum attributes and I loath cheats, but over time I have seen how important some “dark” skills are such as: deception, judging when to ignore rules, and meta-games. In some roles or countries, perhaps cheating is a good quality? There is a reason the best card games are about deception. Cheaters are also risk takers, and taking appropriate risks is associated with entrepreneurship. Risks with extreme downsides are interesting.
Make is a file-based dependency tree that only defaults to a specific shell. If you really want to go crazy, you could actually change it to anything that can be invoked with "<executable> <file>", such as python, and use that language instead.

As a really crude example:

SHELL := python
.ONESHELL:

out.csv:
import csv
with open("$@", "w") as f:
writer = csv.writer(f)
writer.writerow(["header1", "header2"])

and so:

$ make
import csv
with open("out.csv", "w") as f:
writer = csv.writer(f)
writer.writerow(["header1", "header2"])
$ cat out.csv
header1,header2

I get that this doesn't exactly solve your "cross-platform work" gripe, but my point is that a lot of what people perceive as make providing isn't actually make in the first place.