skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually chemical engineer is a good foundation. You should probably be able to read this paper: https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJM199603143341103?url_ver...

The goal in this case was to improve soybean amino acid content (soybean is a major world crop, with Brazil being one of the top suppliers). Pioneer- one of the major seed companies- created a transgenic (moving a whole gene from one organism to another) soybean with a gene from Brazil nuts. That gene turned out to be the one that produces the protein in Brazil nuts which causes an allergic reaction and the soybeans actually seem to cause a reaction in people who consume them (I'm glossing over a bunch of technical details in the paper).

It's not hard to image, with an existence proof like this, that there are many ways that GM crops could increase the risk to consumers.

Any biologist I've trained with who understands transgenics and immune response would immediately note that this was a fairly obvious potential risk/outcome provided the source gene's properties had been identified first.
Internal billing + discretionary "keep the lights on" budgeting?

It has its flaws, but it's not the worst approach.
> This story was produced in partnership with ProPublica

Interesting. I've read Vanity Fair investigative reporting for years and never seen them partner like that.

Here's the ProPublica version, not paywalled: https://www.propublica.org/article/senate-report-covid-19-or...

Here's the Senate report:
An Analysis of the Origins of
the COVID-19 Pandemic
https://www.help.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/report_an_analysis...
I think people need to realize that not all batteries are chemical. There are many ways to store/recover electric energy: a motor/generator with weights, a pump/turbine with water, motor/generator with a spinning kinetic mass in a vacuum, etc.
> Mission accomplished.

Wait, have you actually managed to convince yourself that your comment was responsible for that? Despite the fact that your comment was quickly downvoted down the parent’s comments?

Edit: seems pretty doubtful that your comment had a negative impact on the parent given that your own comment was overall downvoted. Personally, I skimmed the parent comment, then read yours, rolled my eyes to the back of my skull, then upvoted the parent.
I’m comically out of shape at this time (I’m also not a big guy) and output over 100w watts for an entire hour; 80 seems remarkably low.

Then again, I’m pushing far faster than 15km/h.

This is per my trainer, which is supposedly quite accurate.
the only games I noticed it to the point it was actively bothering me and distracting me from the game were:

- Unity games

- NWN2 which I mentioned

- CrossCode which is an HTML5 game (while being an absolutely great game, performance wise this one was by far the worst I ever experienced, it's laggy on a fucking GTX1070 / 8750H / 32GB RAM system for a 2D pixel-art rpg and made me quit the game in rage more than once)
Every company I've worked at has had compliance trainings, and free dinner is always listed as a form of bribery that needs to be run past the compliance team.
Tweets by e.g. Kim Kardashian extolling the virtues of particular beauty products are certainly advertisements, but they function differently and they aren't received as such by many of her followers. AFAICT Kardashian isn't really paying twitter for these tweets? That seems like an ongoing error on twitter's behalf.

Granted, insta posts are probably more valuable for Kardashian, but there are lots of other parties who would also pay twitter for the privilege of tweeting.
I would be surprised if what you’re saying is the case. For one, I would expect solar and wind to take off on their own and people falling over each other to replace fossil fuels with them. Especially if what you say has been the case for 10 years. Otherwise, the argument for why that hasn’t happened would have to be some kind of conspiracy theory I would think (like the oil companies have colluded to rig the market).

One thing I do know is that I worked at First Solar from 2008 to 2016 and a couple of things things happened while I was there that don’t fit what you’re saying. First, when the cost of fossil fuels went up, we made bank because that got us closer to “grid parity”. I don’t remember anyone saying that we were in a commanding lead well over grid parity. Just that we were close enough for people to start buying. A year later when the fossil fuel prices would drop, we were back on the ropes. Second, we had a project in west Texas in the mid teens that everyone talked about as being the first, fully financially sustainable implementation of solar. The reason was because it was located in an area of highly dispersed population and very high temp extremes. So the economies of scale that made conventional plants so valuable were not there.

Anyway, I’m not armed with enough details to make a good argument, but I am suspicious of your claim.
I am referring explicitly to using Mastodon instances and not about other platforms or software. I run Mastodon and other instances and know what is collected and what trackers are enabled from server which is very little. Yes some information can be gathered at different points in the network using traffic and packet analysis, netflows, and such. Outside the server, it would be difficult to determine a user's ID on an instance without some client side back doors that capture logon credentials. If you want to enlighten me otherwise with details, I am interested to learn.
I think software distribution is a lighthouse problem. Software distribution has close to zero marginal cost. Any cost imposed on zero marginal cost good will reduce the benefit provided by the good. If a developer wants to make software for better cause, open source is the way to go. But I have no solution to how to support the effort of developer. This is the challenge faced with journalism: free but rubbish articles yet with ads or paywalling everything. Both are not ideal IMO

https://courses.cit.cornell.edu/econ335/out/lighthouse.pdf
Any good books to read detailing sciences and implementation of forensics?
> A very significant reason the world transitioned from British Empire to American Totally Not An Empire All These Military Bases Are Normal is because they are the most successful decentralised parliamentary systems.

The US has a presidential system, not a parliamentary system. The US implemented parliamentary systems in Germany and Japan, likely at least in part to preempt further imperialism from these countries. Of course the parliamentary system has advantages other then that.
If you can run mitmproxy on another device, then our new WireGuard mode does exactly fix that problem. At least as long as WireGuard is able to capture all traffic. :)

Transparent same-device interception is something where we still need to do some work on. I've started some work for Windows (https://github.com/mitmproxy/mitmproxy/pull/5543), but the top priority is HTTP/3 first. :)
It's weird that the dudes who go all in on preaching the self-help/motivation circuit do drift into misogyny eventually. I think it's a marketing thing: It's self-help but for MEN because self-help is really feminized for whatever reason and tapping into dating resentment is such an easy way to get/retain an audience.
If one wanted a fast GC, they could begin with code generation or implementing a VM to work with something like ORCA. It has more powerful sharing and exclusivity semantics than Rust. Pony being the example language implementation. In benchmarks, it stomps Azul C4 and BEAM/HiPE.
I think TLS 1.3 has some "features" that essentially take a giant dump on trying to make them work in a resource constrained, no dynamic allocation environment. That might have blunted the enthusiasm to work more on it.
A large chunk of this websites user-base is working for ad companies like Google or Facebook. Another large chunk earns money from putting those ads on their apps.
> I have observed the EU machinations in detail while my country decided whether to stay or leave the bloc.

meaning?

In what way what you observed is relevant to the discussion?

How can we be sure that you understood what you observed?

because you say so?

> And I watched the Copyright Directive vote in the EP - basically the Commission just repeatedly rammed the bad legislation through Parliament until they got the “yes”

Boris Johnson, is that you?

MEPs are elected by the people of EU (up until not long ago also by the Country that left, and they associated by political family, not by Country of provenance)

So now you don't like that either?

How did the commission obtained this "yes" if the elected representatives where not in favour of it?

please explain.

You are not making any sense.

> When massive (historically large) public petitions emerged against

please, provide evidence of these large massive (meaning hundreds of thousands of petitioners at least, there are 450 million people in EU) petitions (plural) against it.

> the EU literally just changed its article number (to “rebrand” and dissociate the same legislation from the backlash)

Are you saying that MEPs are all stupid and can't recognize the same article by just swapping its number?

An who rebranded it?

The EU at large?

the 28 countries? (I mean 29, UK was still in, but I guess they are not responsible of what EU has done while they were a member, am I right?)

the Parliament?

the commission?

who exactly?

An why?

Whose interests this gray entity was serving exactly?
Pro tip: It's best not to lose your upgrades

I just give up the game as soon as I die once
At least of some of that "making money" stuff is just the sort of publicity you should be doing to help your project even if making money isn't the goal.

I honestly think it's more common for projects to under-do that than to over-do it.
Build flutter desktop. Free step by step video on my YouTube channel
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Oh wait, you don't mean Shift-Ctrl-G, you mean "return the state of my browser window to the state before I initially hit Ctrl-F."

Emacs also does this. If you hit ctrl-s (even repeating the search a couple times), a ctrl-g will take you back to where you were before you did the search.

Let us know if you add this as a suggested improvement for firefox or chrome, I'd be happy to upvote it.
There are massive python and bash codebases used at all of the major cloud service providers. And none of the cloud service providers are using custom-compiled PGO-optimized OSes specifically optimized for the exact architecture and instruction set and resource set that they will be deployed on, despite >1% performance advantages for doing so. Because sometimes the complexity of doing things the fastest way possible is not worth the performance improvement.

The boeing example is illuminating. One could conceive of infinite possibilities where it would be better to spend the extra million dollars than to get something that saved a pound but didn't meet other project requirements. What good would it be to buy a $1M cheaper 747 if the landing gear broke on each landing? Everything is a tradeoff, even things that are extremely important like weight on airplanes or runtime performance in computers.
Is there a difference? I am also guilty of this and suspect most of us are

Tinfoil on: maybe that's why they were pushing this CSI bullcrap for as long as they did.
Some version of the game was on Android—dunno about now. This was at the time when PS4 was vaguely new-ish.
He was an engineer at Apple for many years I think. So that means he has some buffer to take on Serenity for last 2 years. I wish him good success and hope to see him having to not worry about money. Subscribe and support him!
Women's rights, LGBT rights, freedom of speech, freedom of religion - comparing freedoms in UK and KSA and stating that they are comparable in any way is ridiculous.
By mandating visibility.

And let's be honest, SAFe is not for "I can attract talented people who can self-manage" companies. It's for "75% of my developers are scraping the bottom of the barrel, but I take what I can get because my company isn't sexy."
> Perf teams on operating systems do things for systemwide performance with small percentage wins all the time.

And they evidently spend very little time on the things that would actually improve the lives of their users in macroscopic ways. The fact that our dominant model of an operating system is essentially c + shell is a tragedy. The operating system does almost nothing for us to help write fast, correct programs in a reasonable amount of time. It is of course for this reason that unix itself has barely improved in a material way in 30 years except in these kinds of microbenchmarks. Third party tooling and languages have of course improved, but largely to cover the gaps that the operating system has largely failed to address in a meaningful way.
Do I think I contributed to it? Yes.
You can predict some things, sure—but there's a massive leap from that to planning "the entire next 3 months"!

If you can get a bunch of people into a room and plan out what everyone on a software team is doing for the next three months, there's a pretty clear cap on how creative or adaptable the work can be. What is everyone doing for the rest of the quarter? "Executing"? Just filling in the "obvious" implementation details to program exactly what they're told?
Yeah they're not de jure donations, but de facto.
Scrum is not an acronym.
I’m having an allergic reaction after looking at that chart. Where did I put that epipen?
Freetone – Pantone-ish colour palette for Adobe products
Women aren't obligated to have sex with anyone in particular, and it's extremely worrying how prevalent this opposition to romantic freedom has become in online discourse.

It's worthwhile to explore from where these social pressures arrive. Parents, teachers, peers, religious authorities, bosses, and advertising come to mind. I wonder where you'd rank the influence of all these? For reference, don't hesitate to look into bell hooks "The Will to Change;"[0] as feminist texts go, it's extremely sympathetic to men. I think you'll find a lot to agree with, right off the bat.

0. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17601.The_Will_to_Change
> Free speech absolutism, eh? It only sounds good until the reality hits.

Musk already said that it couldn't be free for all. Of course, it should be removed if it is against the laws. But moderation should be minimum or less than what it is today.

But you don't seem to care; you parrot misconception which is akin to fake news, which I thought we didn't like.
Lobbying is NOT fine. It is bribery and is illegal almost anywhere else.
Design Tips for Developers (2020)
Promotions and the Peter Principle (2018)
> Bisociation works by attempting to form a connection between a target concept and a random stimulus concept.

> * Pick a target concept.

> * Randomly pick a stimulus concept.

> * Attempt to form an association or connection between the concepts.
> * It conflates what SAFE says it does (continuous deployment; empower developers; responsive teams) with what it PRESCRIBES (coordinated release trains; process over people; commitment to long term deliverables up front),

As is common with political initiatives. First the values are listed, then the motivation for those values are presented in a way that nobody can disagree with. Then the slight of hand: the proposed solution is assumed to be the only possible fulfillment of the values. All discussion about the mechanisms by which the solution fulfills the promises of the values is cast as disagreement about the values. "How could you disagree with coordinating your work" instead of "how do you think our activities don't lead to coordination between teams".

It's unfortunately a very effective strategy.
This is the thing that confused me. What exactly is the audience for this? It seems like more of an intricate art project than a useful piece of software.
It follows the outline of taylorism, just one level up from the team: measure, control and manage.
> low code quality and technical debt is one consequence of the Agile movement.

Low code quality and technical debt were always there. The people in the early Agile movement, XP in particular, which most functional 'Scrum' teams are doing approximately 60% of, had a bag full of tricks that they used to speak to and encourage enlightened self-interest from management, and to pull a fast one if that didn't work. I can and have sympathized with this sentiment.

The problem is that when you build a system partially on trickery, your coworkers don't necessarily get the memo, and defectors engage in their own trickery to undermine what you're trying to do. A common blog post thesis at the beginning of the Trough of Disillusionment for XP was that people were attracted to the fact that XP let you omit certain steps from the development process, but at the cost of adding other steps that were much less onerous but still not particularly pleasant, and then people were cherry-picking and not doing any of the onerous bits. The analogy of eating your dessert but not your vegetables came up many, many times.

I think the next phase of improvement will have to be more transparent and more empirical about what it does. At present too many items in the Agile Toolbox are bound up in virtue and ethics and neither of those speak to the pragmatists (which is how we ended up with something called Pragmatic Programming, which, like all such titles, is more aspirational than descriptive).

We need to do more 5 Why's analysis on some of these Best Practices, rules of thumb, and aphorisms, because it's clear we're missing a few things. For instance, here's a proposition that I think makes an excellent mental exercise.

Merging code is one of the most difficult problems we have not (cannot?) solve, and lacking a solution we should avoid merge conflicts as often as possible by organizing our code to avoid them.

How many of your software practices end up serving this concern? A lot of mine do, especially if I dig. For example, grouping similar functions together, avoiding God Objects, and alphabetizing entries in unordered sets decrease the likelihood of conflicts when two people work on unrelated features. Even global shared state is really a problem of merging data from two sources at runtime. Pure functions and borrow semantics both establish a clear order of operations where you can avoid or quickly identify conflicts.

But almost always I hear these techniques described as "the right thing to do" by proponents and "aesthetics" by deniers, and so the fight continues on with no resolution in sight.
Are you looking for mitmproxy-on-linux maintainers, or Linux kernel maintainers? You have found the former I suppose, but I'm the wrong person to ask for the latter. :)
It's absolute BS. If a citizen were to come into a court and were to express the quantity of state and federal laws, those which compete with each other, and beg the court forgiveness based on, "There's so many laws I can't possibly be made to keep track of them not to mention the laws that are no longer actively exercised in courts" they'd laugh at you.

A corporation like Google does it and the court agrees. Corporations are not people in the worst way possible.
no, there might even be detriment Because of the way FreeBSD modifes openssh. OpenBSD might be an improvement to Ubuntu security wise.
Crushes like this are especially hearbreaking because they are the result of people at the back of the crowd not knowing those at the front are being asphyxiated. We should teach more about this phenomenon in schools and have a universally understood protocol so crowds can alert themselves to a crush. We could have a code-word or gesture that can be spread quickly person to person and is understood to mean "everyone turn around, people are being killed." Combined with better overall awareness of situations that lead to crushes, it should be within our capabilities to collectively prevent these tragedies.
PFAS left dangerous blood compounds in nearly all US study participants
And the Saudis are ..."Saudis ‘second largest investors’ in Twitter after Musk takeover" - https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/10/28/saudis-kingdom-hol...
Dunno, I still think it can be characterized as the low-end of average, even if it's closer to 2-3 years of experience. Maybe not in Stockholm, but there are a places that still offer like 30k for entry level hires.
You are not depressed, You are distracted
Repost from 2020, previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22126731

Thought it was very useful article so worth a repost. The author is a cofounder of Supabase (YC S20)
Zorin OS 16.2 Released
That was my first thought, but California is already in the comment, making self-censoring pointless. So I parsed the sentence as a sarcastic "is this a (racial slur) company (churning out low-quality code)?". I wasn't 100% sure though!
> So you're saying... when people make a housing purchase decision... they should ignore the value of their savings?

No, I wrote they should ignore non cash or near cash holdings for the purposes of determining how much of a mortgage they can afford.

> Because you know when people take money to put a down payment on a mortgage? That comes from savings. And savings should be invested in a diverse set of holdings... that includes stocks.

Savings that are needed in the short term should not be invested in stocks, or other non liquid and/or volatile assets.

> But something might happen where you have to dip into them tomorrow.

This should only be in the utmost emergency scenarios. Ideally, one has sufficient cash or cash equivalent securities for at least a couple years of expenses. Or at least that is my philosophy.
Time to remind folk that if you don't need containers (well, it works with containers too, but it's not the point), you can set up https://github.com/piku on a VPS as well.
I was able to solo-developer build a reasonably complex CI/CD system for a company that relied heavily on bcachefs in a tiering system: RAM --> SSD --> HDD, to run hundreds of builds per day across dozens of SKUs measuring in the tens to hundreds of gigabytes per build directory. Later was able to port bcache (not the fs) to a vmx driver for VMWare esxi because of that understanding I had gained earlier in the project, again, RAM to SSD to HDD. Which then lead to making a down'n'dirty FusionDrive script (it's on github) for macOS that can tier RAM and SSD for doing fast CI/CD agent builds on macOS.
There was a USGS project floated around 2012 to use 1k-100k smartphones and their accelerometers to identifying precursor events and gather higher-resolution when analyzed together, but individually less accurate by "station", seismic data.
Who said anything about "mindless"? Just because work wasn't planned in detail in advance does not make it mindless—the people actually doing the work make creative, nuanced decisions as they're working. Not pushing a top-down, up-front plan gives people more room for careful nuanced thought.

That isn't "throwing things to the wall" or "mindlessly running around", that's trusting a team of professionals to make effective creative decisions.
It’s well known at this point that Agile and any other “methodology” is a scam. The only thing that matters is raw IQ everything else is just kabuki paper shuffling.
This report[0] says that battery energy densities have almost tripled since 2010.

[0]: https://cleantechnica.com/2020/02/19/bloombergnef-lithium-io...
Those of you using Serenity OS: this is an amazing value, and an incredible talent you have there. Consider contributing, even if only once. The market price for talent like that, if realistically priced, would be about 5 times what he’s earning.
Washing my butt instead of wiping it
170x55x50mm is a honking huge wall wart. Bigger than most laptop power supplies, which makes sense given that its transforming five times as much power as a typical laptop power supply.
Rset(1): configure systems using any scripting language