skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Backcrossing/“breeding” is relatively uncontroversial and not considered GMO — though it may be controversial whether the eventual derived breed is a true American Chestnut.

There is a GMO effort which adds a gene to the American Chestnut so that it produces an enzyme called oxalate oxidase; the gene comes from wheat plants. The enzyme breaks down the oxalate acid produced by the blight fungus. The first GMO tree was planted in 2006 and has held up, as have others in the test plot. IIRC, USDA permission is being sought so it can be planted freely. Assuming it wins approval, I’m really hoping I can get some seedlings in a few years to plant in my forest.

https://www.esf.edu/chestnut/genes.htm
Iridium pagers supposedly worked indoors (close to a window), due to the very low modulation rate used. They were only one-way, though.
Examples could be GPU chiplets using processes optimized for throughput (density * peak perf product) vs CPU chiplets optimized for peak perf
Ask HN: Apple M1 MacBook Pro 16GB vs. Intel i7 12th generation 32GB laptop
Hi all
Been stuck in this dilemma for a long time and wanted to get out there and make a decision on which way to go, once and for all

I was a long-time Linux desktop user and now at the stage of moving to a different platform) I've been an Apple hater for their predatory tactics and overpriced macs (compared to Windows laptops in general) and also because an unbearable extent of vendor-locking [like compatibility only with Apple products most of the time, and having to use weird adapters to connect peripherals]. Adding to that, I have also never liked the general UX of Mac OsX. In fact, I believe some Linux distros have a better UX and customizability in general. I have to admit though, that I got somewhat used to Macs quite a bit from using them at work for a long time I've taken a look at Windows 10 recently after a long long time and it seems like I can live with it after taking WSL for a spin. It's the WSL/Virtualization improvements that they made that impressed me. I work a lot with Docker and also do Mobile development (React Native)

I'm torn between these two choices. The Macbook Pro seems 400$ more expensive with only 16GB of Ram, however I'm considering it for the excellent hardware, battery life, display and quietness. I am also somewhat betting on Asahi to be ready and it will be a dream come true to me. The Windows laptop is i7 12700H, checks all boxes, is a touchscreen with great display, and has 32GB RAM and a great battery life of 8 hours. I'm concerned about the RAM on the Macbook and 32GB is not something I want to afford at the moment. And I also see that Docker compatibility is a problem on M1 and it eats up the RAM pretty quickly. Windows on the other hand has a plenty 32GB and it should breeze through Docker because of WSL.

I wanted to get your opinions so as to weigh the tradeoffs better, and see which one would be a better choice for the next 4 years or so.

Sorry for the long post but will really really appreciate the help!

Thank you
That would suggest the problem is with MMT, not economics.
Electric power grids originated in the UK, as did generators.

Drilling and refining of oil in Silesia (now variously parts of Poland, Germany, and Czechia). The drilling techniques used by Col. Drake in 1869 were based on thousands-of-years-old salt-mining and drilling techniques first developed in China.[1]

The first functional automobiles were produced in Germany, not the United States.[2]

Railroads were invented in the UK and France, though the first US rail boom was occurring at roughly the same time as France's development.[3]

Electric lighting (arc light, incandescent light) was invented in the UK.[4]

After the Wrights, much early aeronautical development occurred in France. In part due to Wilbur Wright's demonstrations and promotions there.

Russia developed, amongst other things: the electric telegraph, punch cards, the first caterpillar tracks, an electric filament lamp pre-dating Edison's, electrified rail, videotape, radio, the solar cell, electric transformers, television (as well as the kinescope, used for tape-delayed broadcasts), petroleum cracking, synthetic rubber, the grain harvester, nuclear power generation, kidney transplants, heart-lung transplant, artificial steroids, and, within your field of aerospace, the helicopter, airliners, emergency parachute, artificial satellites, ICBMs, ABMs, and manned space flight.[5][6]

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Notes:

1. See Manfreid Weisenbacher's Sources of Power for a history of Silesian oil pioneering.

3. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_automobile#Inte...>

4. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incandescent_light_bulb>

5. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Russian_innovation> Quite interesting actually.

6. <https://www.rbth.com/articles/2012/03/16/12_top_russian_inve...>
> Look, you’re not wrong about anything

Nor you! I was just returning to thank you for posting your original idea to listen to this--I was only clarifying my thoughts before--Leary was human like any of us and I think a progressive, truth-seeking one. It is good to make up our own minds about history with direct sources like this. So, thanks for that and these new comments, which do make sense too.
If you aren't recognized for major critical thinking, I'd say you're an entertainer who should be writing sitcoms, not books.
The article didn't present any evidence for the direction of of causality, not any evidence to contradict the obvious hypothesis is that people who are declining health think of themselves as old.
My recent experience with OpenCASCADE is that since the new FUSE algorithm was introduced for Boolean operations with fuzzy values [0] the library itself is definitely up to par for professional use. (Although it’s unfortunate that many API entry points do not advertise their newer versions, and many developers end up using slower, legacy algorithms). Recent development trajectory on OpenCASCADE has been quite impressive.

What’s missing is a compelling user application now, and this is tarnished by the kernels existing reputation. Case in point, shapr (an iOS CAD modelling app) switched away from OpenCASCADE in 2017, before development trajectory really took off [1]

Also, when searching OpenCASCADE in Google, you get hacker news comments like this [2]

[0]https://dev.opencascade.org/content/fuzzy-boolean-operations
[1] https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/shapr3d-3-0-is-here-and-it-s...
[2]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11536518
There are Iridium-based two-way messengers on the market without an externally visible antenna.

The difference in data rate and SNR required for voice and text messaging is enormous – if you can afford for your message to take a couple of seconds to go out, you can be fine without an antenna.
I'm just saying that we don't have to jump to psychosomatic to explain why a placebo may show identical results to a treatment. There are plenty of ways that can happen.
It's just corpspeak.
Krita is nothing like GIMP
Neither Marxism nor the origin of money are of any interest to most economists. I don't understand the point you're trying to make.
I appreciate your comments. Maybe time for me to update my docker chops and see what this brings brings to the table, if anything.
I highly recommend the book “Cod” by Mark Kurlansky. It’s a very easy read. “Salt” by the same author is also fantastic.
nah, the whole ";)" "/s" "/j" nonsense can go yeet itself off a cliff. i absolutely hate that stuff.
You’ve gone from lamenting the difficulty of publishing to advocating that we shouldn’t publish most books.

You’re on a wild roller coaster of opinions there!
I assume next in this article series, NPR will pick some element of European culture that is not treated with sufficient reverence or authenticity by others, and expound how terribly this makes Europeans suffer.
I don't remember ever having experienced this problem with Safari. Could you point me to a few of these pages?
I wish this were true! But keeping your software current in 2022 is an continuous project. UIs improve, platforms shift, features expand, vulns appear, needs change, server bills need to be paid.
just needs a little butter and salt
Open Cascade is not an (open source) alternative to AutoCAD. Also there is none. (people talk about OpenSCAD and FreeCAD but neither of them are comparable to AutoCAD).
Party all the time party all the time patt
Before that you need land on which to build your plant
We had one in the town I grew up in... I just checked google maps and sadly it has passed.
The article is very difficult to understand.

I think this other version is much better https://phys.org/news/2022-08-sustainable-chromosome-mice.ht...

They just fussed two chromosomes of a mice into a longer one. The title in the scmp "fully reprogrammed genes" is just wrong.

This kind of fusion happens naturally, but usually the offspring is not fertile or has a lot of problems during the development and dies. Every few millions years one of this fusions creates a viable animal and with some good luck the offspring grows. The offspring can not reproduce with the rest of the population that has not fussed genes, so they create a new specie. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusion_gene

> I really am not sure how to feel about this.

Unless you are a biologist working in animal evolution, or a genetist, or someone with a similar profession, this results looks pretty safe to ignore.
CRP and ferritin, not the other two i think
It’s a few years IIRC, something like 3-5 years
> … I go through five or ten books a day. And which parts of them I’ve read you can debate – maybe it washes out to be two or three books a day. Some good nights you can get through five whole books…

Smells like BS.
We now have the whole Project Oberon OS running on an Artix-7 100T FPGA without any external RAM. It just uses the 512KB of Block RAM (BRAM) on the chip itself:

https://www.astrobe.com/RISC5/Workstation.htm
Plivo is another alternative.
To an extent, yes. But as someone who likes to draw and not edit pictures, they fill a similar niche.

I mean I heard people use Blender as a Gimp replacement. Because it can edit huge number of files in a batch.
does anyone know if there are any american chestnuts with natural immunity (via mutations?) with 4 billion trees it would seem that there would be some. There are HIV immune individuals after all.
Funnily enough, Linux may be one of the few projects in the "alternatives" column that _is_ viable :)
> It taught me a serious lesson about the law: They exist only for power and profit.

I understand your frustration, but the law does not exist ONLY (or at all, if I'm being honest) for power and profit. The law exists to provide each person with a baseline to guide their interactions, whether it be between them and other individuals, or between them and their government.

Now, obviously you have abuses and especially when some in the government/beaurocracy find out they can get funds by abusing their authority (e.g. civil asset forfeiture), but that's not why the law exists, and it doesn't happen everywhere. That's just a symptom of a lack of oversight by we, the people (chiefly).
On Christianity – Nassim Taleb
Yes. The Bible does include a creation of the world story which if taken literally would lead to an interpretation of God as the creator in sense (2).

But the point is that there is this other sense, (1) above, in which God is the creator. This is the dominant sense and is present throughout the Bible as well as the classical tradition that unifies the teachings of the bible with basic philosophy. 'For in him we live and move and have our being.'
I get Costco via Ubereats, I always order something and underestimate the amount. It took me months to finish one order of Chicken breasts for like 30-40$, each "breast" took days to consume. It really is amazing and the quality like you said has never been bad.

Also, you can order random thinks like TVs or a tent via Ubereats. Fellow humans, I think we are at the peak of Capitalism.
Two thoughts when reading the Acornfile:

1. Ugh, yet another DSL. Why not just use Lua?

2. The config file still looks complicated. What makes this better than writing your own Helm chart or Docker Compose?
Check MicroAcquire
Thanks a lot, I really appreciate your explanation.
Which says as much about the surprisingly lasting utility and consistency of UNIX as it does this book.
Chicago (or more accurately, Lake Michegan) is a pretty massive transportation disruptor generally.

Highway trucking as I-90, I-94, and I-80 converge is hellacious.
I develop `tone`[1] and `tonehub`[2] (command line app and web api) completely on a 2015 MacBook Pro using Rider and I love it so far. I may not be the most experienced .NET developer, but this might be good as another perspective... It's easy and very intuitive. Deployment is also very simple (manually as well as via github actions)

[1]: https://github.com/sandreas/tone

[2]: https://github.com/sandreas/tonehub
>hypnosis porn pushing self feminization.

what's hypnosis porn?
It doesn't really seem like a big deal to me. The emissions due to that rocketry is nothing in the grand scale of things. Think of all the emissions that are spent globally on maintaining terrestrial telcom infrastructure.

5000 tons of Aluminum? so what? Aluminum is non-toxic as far as I know. Besides, won't these satellites will be completely disintegrated by the time they reach the ground? It's not like they're going to to be crashing into houses and stuff.

As for the brightness of the satellites, who cares? Can't you just write a computer program to track the satellites and exclude them from the picture? I can't imagine it's like they're shooting a long exposure on an analog camera.

This is like a NIMBY sort of complaint, where you have the opportunity to complain about it because you're aware of the few explicit downsides. Meanwhile all the massive implicit costs of accepting the alternative (terrestrial infrastructure) are swept under the rug. Out of sight- out of mind!
Iridium uses the L-band; Globalstar uses the S- and the L-band.

5G phones support frequencies in these bands, and well above and below either.
Some people are just really gifted readers. Whether through some combination of learning to read early or just being able to skip the ‘sub-vocalization’ part of reading, many are able to get through hundreds of books a year. It’s a kind of super-power if you think about it.

I don’t think I’ve gotten faster at reading as I’ve aged, but I’ve certainly gotten better at skimming through texts. If you’re relatively familiar with a subject you’ll know which sections of text you can skim over and which sections are worthy of careful reading
All we need is "copy without running JavaScript". Just look at what is actually rendered, and copy that. And it should be the default.
I’m confused. One does not exclude the other.
>>This has been tried many times and is basically illegal now so

Except for when its fucking CCTV surveillance bullshit.

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This is the thing with me and surveillance.

--- >>NOTE: *I've built shit that both surveilled AND KILLS PEOPLE. Not Happy about it.*

--

I am tired of not having recourse AGAINST the surveillance planet.

One way streets (of authoritarianism) Are unsustainable and the people I detest the most in the tech world are the bitches that build shit without qualms.

For example PALANTIR. FUCK THAT COMPANY *AND* their primary investors.

The idea of Palantir (The hint is in the name) is fine.. but the implementation of how evil an "engineer" can be without knowing it is pretty scary.

My Grandfather helped build the fuel for Manhattan project. Brilliant Man. fucking horrendous output. (HANFORD) (nuke designer for GE)

My other Grandfather was a weapons loader for the Enola Gay.

Do you know how much familial guilt we carry?
Ahh, oops! Next question!
Try this 25 kw gasifier to create electricity from biomass. It’s about the size of a pallet and can fit in your garage.

https://www.allpowerlabs.com/
How much did you pay for your suit?
Went fashion shopping today and tried a few jackets. Prices varied from $200 to $1000+. Yet the difference in quality isn't always that much. How much did you pay for your suit, assuming you own one?
What printers do you use to print the keycaps? I tried this before but it takes a lot of work to sand the surface in order to remove the layer lines.
NYC Taxi medallions used to cost about $1M before ridesharing companies arrived.

People would take out loans to afford them, or rent them from the real "franchise owner".

Not everybody aspires to a unicorn exit. Predictable returns are worth a lot too, even small ones. The drivers who took out loans for their medallions really got screwed when Uber came in, but if the demand for electricity drops catastrophically, we'll probably have bigger problems than a bit of debt.
Dude I have just the recipe for you. Come on down to Chile and ask for puré de castañas. The really oppressed Chilean women make it the best, it's highly unique, I actually thought I could eat a chestnut because I used to eat this dish, kept biting into absolute bitterness. But bitter isn't bad, now that I'm addicted to something bitter (an undisclosed stimulant) I prefer bitterness to sweetness, but not everyone can be an addict, the addiction doesn't always take. Too bitter. Just like the American Chestnut didn't always take. Too bitter.

Love the bitterness. And in the dish there's a trace bitterness natural to the chestnut left in the puré, which involves sweetening chestnuts and also some I think crema Chantillí or leche condensada not sure which.

.

Let me add that in my unique Chileanized upbringing, as an American, a Chilean woman, in this unique case not oppressed, explained to me why I couldn't eat a cactus fruit, what's it called, tuna (no relation to fish in absolutely any way). So typically, she explained, gringos bite it wrong. They think you gotta bite it till your jaw closes, your teeth meet up again after that long goodbye when you put the fruit in your mouth. No, you gotta close your teeth less, not chew, no no, and she explained it to me in plain Spanish in a way I, a Chileanized American, a gringo, a gringuito (and in fact there was a movie about a Chileanized American called El Gringuito in the late 90's in Chile, huge hit), how to eat the native fruit. But I was a kid. This partial chewing made it good to eat, I can vouch. They would never tell you to only chew partially of politeness. But I can. I'm passing that on, to eat tuna fruit, work on your bite, don't bite all the way, like almost. Because it has a lot of seeds, very hard seeds, you see, so biting it all the way hurts, so you hate it.

Like bitterness. Great flavor, in fact.
I wonder about this whenever OpenAI is discussed. I don't see a significant upside, and I see a potentially society-ending downside.
> Hide it in some hidden flag

Google is deeply philosophically opposed to doing that. Power users are a distraction from the billions of normal users.
Why NASA is using Artemis I to return to the moon
The Curious Case of Charles Osborne, Who Hiccupped for 68 Years Straight
This is the Moller Skycar of the CPU world. Who cares about the ever changing details after 5+ years of empty hype that make Intel seem conservative? It’ll probably change again too but still the weekly press releases about their new strategic alliance with some falafel place or achievement of emulating their emulator’s Makefile will roll on.
It's bizarre to discriminate against people for not having broken the law, which is what this does.
Aside from GitHub doing something dumb here, Paste without formatting belongs as a browser or OS feature, not per-website code.
KeepassXC has OTP functionality but it's very clunky as the URI needs to be crafted. I usually copy the OTP string from another credential and edit the code and name.
I have major problems with using stories like these to promote the idea that the police did something wrong.

The police don't know who that man was, or why he was on property that didn't belong to him. They're not mind readers. If he had provided the identification (or at least his name/DOB) that they had asked for, then it probably would have become clear to them that he was telling the truth. But by REFUSING to give them any information that would prove his story true, he escalated a situation that could have been resolved without his arrest.

People seem to forget that we ask police TO INVESTIGATE. Not just walk up, accept whatever story they are given and then drive away.
Nice to see some data 2 years later to back this up https://ecc-comp.blogspot.com/2020/08/80-of-software-is-usel...
Go to J Crew, buy the Ludlow Suit, and spend another couple hundred on a good tailor. That’s all you need and it will last forever (depending on body changes)
So you're doubling down on a definition of the word that you invented?
> This is nonsense.

Why? There are laws about classified material, and they apply to former Presidents.

> Trump can pack and keep things...Trump can take what he wants

You're contradicting yourself. Either Trump violated laws or he didn't. Before you said he did. But here you're saying he didn't. Which is it? If he's in violation of the law now, then he was in violation of the law when he took the stuff in the first place, which means he can't "take what he wants".

What is supposed to happen is that anything the former President wants to take gets checked (not by the Secret Service, by the FBI or the White House staff's in-house security people who are responsible for classified material) to make sure it's not something that requires special handling, like, you know, classified material.

> There is simply no comparison to those 4 years to any other President of any party.

Your ignorance of history is appalling.
Well, in order to join a cooperative to work, you must pay a big chunk, but you may (should?) have a guaranteed job forever. At least with Eroski, or maybe Orbea.
Marketing does more than that and revenue growth is shared with sales and the rest of the organization
The present reality is that all publishers have been reduced to vanity press, and they don't realize it yet.

In theory, publishers provide a real service, because self-publishing well is expensive (four, five digits easily). In theory, they should be offering access to people who couldn't afford what it costs to self-publish to the expected standard. In practice? The only people who can get in are people who have the connections and financial resources not to need the help. Whoops.

What we're learning about publishing (which we already knew, those of us who've been studying it) is that no one is good at selling books. Most self-publishers aren't, most traditional publishers aren't, and most PR firms are only good at taking and spending your money. We just don't have a good understanding of why individuals buy books (it changes) and there's a lot of evidence, sadly, that book sales are only loosely correlated to the quality of the writing (in the long term, quality matters more, but a book that dies in the short term won't have a long term).
Yoink that back.
Better than Gmail which automatically parses text on paste, and, as the cherry on top, even when it recognizes that and alerts on a failed parse (making a red chip), refuses to let you edit the text to fix it.
What are you talking about? Honestly, I want to add more to my comment but I have no clue what the topic of the post is. In general, technology enables it does not lead, people do that.
I have considered it, but there is, after all, a reason I sold it: I do not need to have so many keyboards.
https://archive.ph/LGnFS
I'd love this book if it was rewritten for ANSI C and maybe modern tools such as the ones for NetBSD or OpenBSD at least. AWK and sh still work of course.
https://archive.ph/EaxQx
Another word processor of the era to check out is PC-Write which was one of the early shareware success stories.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC-Write

It can be downloaded at WinWorld.
https://winworldpc.com/product/pc-write/27
Krita is great but has a different use case than gimp.