skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, like... I'm pretty ignorant on biology, genetics, gene editing, and such. But... could one alter their genetics for, say, poor eyesight and eventually have better eyes? I mean, I imagine that there is a shelf life for cells already in the body and they don't just go away right away. But they are also constantly being replaced, right? So... can I just... rewrite my genome to replace my eye cells with "better" eye cells?

And--hypothetically speaking, for sure, certainly, I assure you--who might be capable of such a thing, and what might they like as remuneration?
A whole lot of option combinations to ffmpeg straight up don't work and will produce broken files. Streamcopy is a lot more likely to find those.
> In reality, a crypto wallet is better compared to a bank account, though. Most people don't carry their life savings (or comparable amounts) in cash.

I would think it was the exact opposite.

A 'regular' bank account has reversibility, and so if there are some shenanigans you can (potentially) get your money back. With a cryptocurrency 'bank account' (wallet), if anything bad happens you're SOL.
Can you get employed by an American company, without an American working visa, as long as you're remote?
For Wayland the cage compositor does the same thing.
Yeah the pay isn't great for what that is, but there's tons of benefits and you're keeping the American shitshow going STRONG.

There's off ramps from that career with bigger money if you want that, there is such a thing.

It's just a cool thing to do. Like flying a spaceship.
I’m currently using the first edition to teach my young brother about computers.

We would read the book create a “clean room” implementation of a computer with Minecraft redstone.

It’s great fun! He was overjoyed when we got our first 1-bit memory cell.
Mostly just getting unrecognizable blobs
I use an aggressively minnimal set of (valid) HTML because I prefer to write in HTML rather than Markdown-flavour-x.

Omitting the closing tags where possible is less about saving keystrokes than minnimising interruptions to my writing flow.

But I wouldn't advocate it for published documents, just my local scribblings.
I think the biggest problem with SPAs is trying to put them in a web browser. So many compromises we make just to use a technology that wasn't designed with the idea that you'd build an interactive app on top of it.

I don't know the solution, but I wish I could get a normal web, and then have a dedicated generic app sandbox that I can point at a particular app on the 'net.
Seems very much alive, despite the dated feel of the reference => https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_J._Bernstein
The counterfactual "what if James II hadn't survived" was to me the singularly least interesting part of this story yet was big in responses. An unopened wine bottle, and glasses in their case were much more interesting: what script on the lenses? What grape stock dna in the wine?
Facebook might fail faster than Nokia or Kodak, mostly because of hubris.
same thing when the Xbox 2 was going to go up against Playstation 3, they went with "Xbox 360", and then after that, god knows why, "Xbox One"
I dunno man, exim has had some pretty nasty CVEs in recent years.

https://www.opencve.io/cve?vendor=exim
> No central bank digital currency is planning to use a blockchain.

f a l s e

What is this then? [0][1] Where we have those same blockchain technologies from the likes of Stellar, XPRL, Algorand, etc that are compliant with the ISO 20020 standard?

As I said before on what is really going on, both the crypto maximalists and the crypto skeptics are going to be very disappointed in achieving their unobtainable and extreme goals.

[0] https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ukraine-electronic-...

[1] https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210922005878/en/Roy...
Could this be because every privacy relevant permission, except internet access, now requires a manual approval dialog? Why list every permission when it's only used for specific feature X which is requested upon usage?
Which is exactly what concerns me as people start throwing high level languages with loads of questionable libraries into critical microcontroller circuits.

I’ve recently dealt with power-on reset, oscillator start up, and UART timing issues which required digging into 600 page data sheets to resolve the issues. No way in hell I’d ever deploy a product with circuit Python, Wiring, Arduino, etc.
All of my points have already been stated.

The author’s heuristic is too simple.

Simply rolling your own is not smart because there is a lot of detail (planning, implementation, testing, bug reporting, updating to work with different browsers/OSes/locales) that someone specialized in creating. If you are sure you don’t need to benefit from that specialization effort, it might be worth it to roll your own.

On the other side of the ledger, there is a lot of uncertainty in choosing the right library, predicting when upstream changes might cause you heartburn (eg. short notice broken API) downstream. Also, predicting what hidden features the libraries have that you don’t want or need (log4j’s formatting RCE, Java Spring-Web deserialization) or how mature the library’s development/testing/maintenance is.

Making these data points more standard and transparent (is this part of “software supply chain bill of materials” proposals?) might help better inform these decisions.
Related:

The DJB legacy - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12600792 - Sept 2016 (9 comments)
Sometimes you have to do things old school. Post them the $1.16 via registered post to (Accounts Payable, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. (650) 253-0000). Do not include a return address (so no return to sender) just an the invoice number. Cash is still legal tender.
Those are terrific numbers for emulation.

Anyway I can say that my colleagues M1 using rosetta is faster or equal to my MBP i9 2020.
BCRA mutations: "It’s estimated that 55 – 65% of women with the BRCA1 mutation will develop breast cancer before age 70" [0]
ApoE4: "individuals with two versions of the ApoE 4 gene have a 50% chance of developing Alzheimer’s" [1]
HTT: The Huntingtons gene. If you have the wrong version of this gene, you will get Huntington' disease.

All that to say that, in these cases, sure _most_ people have positive traits from these genes, not all do and we could theoretically use CRISPR to change people with the negative versions of these genes to the positive versions of these genes.

[0]: https://www.nationalbreastcancer.org/what-is-brca
[1]:https://www.alzheimersorganization.org/alzheimers-gene-apoe4
She would most definitely not make for a good pm, I'll tell you that much. Her org was a carnival of poor management and lackadaisical attention to detail. She never struck me as someone that sweats the details.
I just want my computer to go into a special "nonspeculative" mode when I open by bank's website.
How would you handle docker images in a team where some use M1 and others use intel?
I have to disagree. SRE=SE=SA. What they exactly do depends on the job. Some can write application code, some cannot. But they are all the same thing. I've worked at SRE jobs where there was no application code writing, and I've worked at SE jobs where there was application code writing.
Review of two books:

_The Problem of "Hamlet"_ by John Mackinnon Robertson [0]

and

_Hamlet An Historical and Comparative Study_ by Elmer Edgar Stoll [1]

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[0] https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Problem_of_Hamlet/H...

[1] https://www.google.com/books/edition/Hamlet/GjVaAAAAMAAJ
Thank you for this! I've noticed a blending of the two in my own life. It's led to a lot of work related frustration.
Mixed metaphors. Snakes don't use knives.
> Why would an email client need OAUTH2?

Office365 mandates it. So if your work e-mail uses that, and you want to use neo/mutt, it's a requirement.

Given some of the answer I got, seems that it is doable:

* https://www.vanormondt.net/~peter/blog/2021-03-16-mutt-offic...

* http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual/#oauth
Go does not have threads but something like "tasks". The fact that no thread handle is exposed allows for transparently moving these tasks across threads if the scheduler decides so.

"go makes concurrency a first-class concept"
I think it usually refers to goroutines being built in the language.

"Go is abnormally dangerous when it comes to concurrency IMO". Personnally, it has not been my experience with Go concurrency. However I have hit some issues when trying to ocrhestrate tasks via channels and ended up resorting to atomics to do the job.
Practice with a tutor is still practice. I'm not sure what you're trying to say - tests where the score can be affected at all with means purchasable by money are less valid than lottery?

It's telling that they're asking for quotas, instead of, as you pointed out, an earlier bus to catch college prep classes.
This is super cool! Thanks OP for posting this for non-techies.
We have thousands of human genomes sequenced now.
Yeah, but even these dictator types need to keep people distracted, to prevent discontent, unrest and dangerous ideas of revolution from brewing in the population. Dictators sometimes do get removed.
The problem here is when you have more than 2, and especially as it combinatorially expands as you get more and more locks. Now I need Lock A, Lock C, and Lock F, but then this other critical section needs Lock A, Lock D, and Lock F, and if you are encapsulating then you start needing a whole lot of different functions for all the different combinations, and have to make sure that all are consistent.

I've got multi threaded C++ in production right now, and it is because the code is small and avoids multiple locks that I have any faith in it. As a code base expands, in kloc and in time, this gets harder and harder to reason about.
I can't read the article, but I assume this event[0] is fairly front and center. Interesting that she's out just 6 weeks after this story broke.

It's also some lovely irony that Mrs. Lean-In herself abused her position in facebook in order to attempt to intimidate a reporter from exposing the fact that her boyfriend's ex-girlfriend had to get a restraining order against him.

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/21/activision-blizzard-bobby-...
No they are the same thing. Reliability Engineering was always part of a sysadmin's job, but how much depended on the job.
I do a lot of devops work and never had any issue. If I have doubts I just use a VM on datacenter or an EC2 through ssh. I guess maybe some people don't have access to these resources.
Yeah, as someone with a math degree, I already know what the right half-plane refers to, I already know what zeroes and poles are (in a complex analysis way, not a control theory way), and I am just befuddled. The article doesn't really seem to have much concrete content at all, and could be cut down by a lot. Which is an achievement considering how short it already is.

Just cutting out this junk:

> Again roughly speaking, zeros describe mathematically how a system reacts to some input in the short term, while poles describe how a system reacts in the long term.

and similar waffle would be good. It's so vague as to be counter-productive.

The conclusions in the article aren't easily drawn from the vague tools we're given, in my opinion. Maybe I'm just not the target audience, but I don't really understand who that is.
A Trail Tale
What’s your evidence that people are lying? Plenty of actual studies show productivity improving with WFH.
I highly encourage people to buy knockoff arduinos from aliexpress: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/2251832778273419.html
Isn’t the issue with these that ultimately it relies on someone to make good tools around, and whoever ends up owning those tools ends up owning and re-centralizing all of these decentralized entities? (e.g. Coinbase owning everyone’s wallets)

One example they posted was that Bob is a music lover. So he keeps his music on his web node. I don’t know how Bob is going to do that if it’s not painlessly easy. And it needs to be in some sort of schema-defined format, and to be honored by all decentralized apps. So Bob is going to put it in something called “MusicBase”, which now centralizes and owns all of the data + controls the schema.

A second aspect is that nothing seems to really stop the web from being decentralized. e.g. Scraping, APIs, and integrations. It’s just that orgs have learned that lock-in is advantageous and therefore found their way down that path.

Am I wrong about this?
Just curious, what kind of supercomputer do you have?

I am in an older Thinkpad on Fedora Gnome and I get the kill or keep waiting message when going through my inbox. Even k9 mail on my Poco X3 pro doesn't freeze as much.
I mean... that sounds worse. That sounds worse than what we have already. What we have is shit, and that sounds worse.
Prehistoric stone tools indicate ancient humans shared knowledge
Better link: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/agen...

>Agents that run macOS images are provisioned on Mac pros with a 3 core CPU, 14 GB of RAM, and 14 GB of SSD disk space. These agents always run in the US irrespective of the location of your Azure DevOps organization.
and bi-directional data flow was done in the form on long polling. this sounds very much like a get off my lawn argument rather than anything rooted in reality of the now.
It would probably start as the right hand AI of a dictator. Dictators have a principal agent problem. For a dictator, the risk on an ai double crossing them maybe lower than a human double crossing then. or a dictator may think of that ai as his hand picked successor and personally hand it the keys to the kingdom. but I don’t really see a problem with ai carrying the torch. What’s the difference, universe evolves without free will.
Linux kernel, apache, nginx, redis... better get off the internet.
thats a classic matter in materials science and engineering !
no edit button?

feel free to edit/nuke it, nbd.
A legacy can be a work in progress.
The author is building an argument that central bank efforts to combat inflation will (unintentionally and unavoidably) drive inflation UP before they can bring inflation back down, essentially because the cost of housing represents such a large share of assets that mortgage rate increases will have a massive inflationary effect.

I didn’t realize until reading the footnotes, but this is largely because in Canada you cannot get a fixed rate mortgage, only a 5 year ARM. So nearly everyone who has a mortgage will be forced to refinance at higher rates over the next five years, and those higher rates will greatly increase their cost of housing.
This is GTK. Which (still) can be themed, though that is harder today, than in the times of GTK2. But maybe these https://www.claws-mail.org/themes.php suffice? Those change just some icons. I used it in the past, and had no problems with it(after theming). It was much more light than thunderbird, at the times, so it could run in the background without dragging other(desktop) stuff down.
The tiling window manager I finally settled on is simply dwm.

I'm not totally sure if it's the best window manager of its sort. I find it more ergonomic than StumpWM, and I haven't felt the need to reach for the other tiling window managers out there.

A couple brilliant strokes in dwm are the alt-tab mechanism for swapping between workspaces rather than windows, and the idea that workspaces are actually just groups of windows which can be arbitrarily composed: more than one workspace can be selected at a time. In fact, alt-tabbing doesn't even swap individual workspace selections, but instead toggles back to the last such arbitrary group of selected workspaces. It's quite flexible and is under 2000 SLOC of C.
Do you have a better way of distinguishing between (1) somebody sharing a product because they genuinely think it is good (2) somebody sharing a product because they have a profit motive, despite the product being sh*t.

Proper disclosure is a means to expose bias and external motive. It's not perfect but it's arguably the best method we have right now. There's a reason it's written into law [1]

[1]: https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/resources/disclosures-...
He's still quite active in the academic cryptography sphere. Much of his time recently has clearly been taken up by the NIST post-quantum cryptography contest, but he's also active on LKML.
>>A central bank and blockchain technology are antithetical concepts,

I feel I need to screenshot this. It demonstrates more succinctly than I could write an essay on, how much we are muddying up technology, and purpose / politics / ideals when we start discussing this area (Crypto currency etc)

How is a human institution in your mind "antithetical" to a technology? Is a government "antithetical" to 3rd normal form or airline antithetical to a b-tree?
You are inserting a large number of undisclosed assumptions to even begin to make such a statement (whether aware of it or not).

>>if a central bank is ever offering you something blockchain it's probably a scam by means of sham decentralization.

I don't disagree with this... I just think it neatly extends fully to "if anybody is ever offering you something block chain" :-)
Thankfully Rome 2.0 didn't make the same mistake. https://rome.tools/
> The highly centralized structure which transpired to make Bitcoin popular

What centralized structure?
Here's a good explanation of some of the issues w/ common programming patterns at the time colliding with the 360 design. This was a huge problem with the initial ports of older game engines to the 360 that required a lot of rewrites to achieve ok performance.

https://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3687/sponsored_featur...
They don't have a responsibility to the employees, but from what I understand having all your staff walk out is generally seen as bad for business.
> Nintendo has blocked the emergence of competing cloud gaming services on its eShop. Like web apps, cloud gaming services are a developing innovation, providing access to high-quality games that can be streamed rather than individually downloaded.

> Games are a key source of revenue for Nintendo and cloud gaming could pose a real threat to Nintendo's strong position in game distribution.

> By preventing this sector from growing, Nintendo risks causing Switch users to miss out on the full benefits of cloud gaming.

TFTFY
Request a dose increase and maintain taking your current dose.
It's going to take awhile for people to feel confident investing in downtown Portland again. Things were getting regularly destroyed in 2020. Apple is just beginning to install a permanent plexiglass barrier around the Pioneer Square store after relying on temporary metal fencing for 2 years.
is it possible to use these to access work email, which requires MFA to access?
It has been reviewed by the author’s peers — it was accepted to ISCA ‘22.
>Canada has a (written) Constitution.

It is functionally useless in a way that the US one isn't.

>Canada has a Senate that can reject and initiate legislation.

The operative word being "can"; but in practice the overwhelming majority of legislation makes it through with no change. It's functionally a ceremonial role.
Nuclear shield is a pretty nonsensical media term. There is no shielding from nuclear weapons, there is only nuclear deterrence. And I don't think pro-Russian leaderships in those countries would dumbly remove nuclear deterrent to Russia. It would stay, maybe shift around a little.
A Billion-Dollar Crypto Gaming Startup Promised Riches and Delivered Disaster
Djbsort: A new library for sorting arrays of integers or floating-point numbers
Attack helicopter intercept?
Fayetteville AR is 99.9% Walmart hiring
I don’t understand what you’re saying. What does the line actually imply? And what do people think it implies?

(Part of my confusion is that I don’t think the stats imply anything at all.)
No, you can't accidentally modify shared state in Rust. Unique ownership requires making sharing explicit, and protections against data races force shared mutable data to explicitly use synchronization primitives like mutexes or atomics. This applies to everything, including closures and async code.

It's not entirely foolproof. You can still have higher-level logic bugs, race conditions when accessing external resources (files, network, database), and deadlocks. However, these tend to be easier to track down and reproduce than heisenbugs caused by data races from unsynchronized memory access.
I like ublock origin's UI. Its one of the best extension UI's Ive used. Simple and clear. It's bare bones for power users and I guess that makes it inaccessible, calling it garbage seems like overkill.
The same is true of ffmepg. The api documentation even links to the source of the bins so you can read the example code. To pick on ffplay, I think it most clearly illustrates this - with the bare minimum rendering context to get video on the screen but clean code continously updated to reflect the api's best practices, and an invaluable resource when I was writing an embedded player for a game.

https://ffmpeg.org/doxygen/trunk/ffplay_8c_source.html
Yup! Agree 100%
https://web.archive.org/web/20220610131709/https://www.econo...
How many horsepower?
explain to me how this compiles

.class1 {
.class2 {
&:hover {
font-family: value;
}

body.some-thing & {
color: woooooo;
}
}
}
We basically have zero ability to do formal verification against information leakage through cache timing attacks and the like.
Britain plans to investigate Apple, Google's mobile browser dominance
Rare Original Apple-1 Computer from 1976
While the above approach works.. I'd argue that it leads to a highly conservative attitude amongst senior management. At some point, everyone wants to be well known enough to be respected - but not so well known as to be tied to any initiative.

Smart managers seem to understand this dynamic and simply "hide" extra head count to allow for the "high risk" projects without external scrutiny.
To me the most likely scenario is global thermonuclear war. Surviving that and then getting back to normal means finding the stuff/people not broken, fixing the broken things, and not really starting completely over. Granted, after seeing how many people freaked the eff out over the pandemic which is absolutely trivial in comparison to nuclear war I wonder about the mental stability of anyone. Would there be anyone that could be relied on?
Not a conspiracy theory.

DDT was disposed of by dropping 27,000 barrels of the substance in the Pacific off the coast of Catalina Islands.

Is your complaint that actual harm to a human has not been proven by this incident? I’m kinda curious (not really) where you stand on mRNA based COVID-19 vaccines given your phrasing of your dismissal of harm.
Yes. This plus the home mortgage interest tax deduction amount to absolutely massive market distortions from policy encouraging home ownership in the US.

You can argue +'s and -'s, but you can't argue it's free market rates.
That is not all. It repeats the falsehood: The stability of glass is one of its most attractive characteristics, for example in the storage of nuclear waste.

Vitrified nuclear waste, immersed, would become porous and friable long before its radioactivity decayed significantly.

It also claims that we don't have proof glass doesn't flow in historical time-frames, where in fact we have glass goblets from thousands of years ago.

It further attributes tapering in glass in windows as indicating poor quality, where in fact that was just a feature of how flat glass was made. Window makers oriented glass thicker edge down because that was the sturdier way to make things.

Until quite recently, flat glass was made by blowing a big bottle, and centering it on a turntable while still soft. Spinning, the mouth widened until the whole thing flopped out flat, with a characteristic "whomp!", the bottle mouth becoming the rim.