skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Microbial life fossils

But since the RNA world is still poorly understood, and the nature of the lifeforms is highly speculative, there are many possible explanations for this consistent with an Earth origin. For instance it could be that RNA life didn't form microbial mats, or was geographically much more limited(perhaps only existing in deep sea vents, much more dependant on chemistry from the environment) until colonising the rest of the ocean later, leading to a much stronger signal in the fossil record. The RNA world might have been much shorter lived too for reason I'll get back to.

>popping into existence and only complexifying after hundreds of My

One very plausible explanation for this apparent lag is that the evolution of eukaryotes was a very unlikely event like endosymbiosis. Couple with the fact that RNA based life would be much more genetically unstable, allowing to evolve faster, and might have been much more fragile, representing a stronger selective pressure. Whereas DNA based prokaryotes are extremely versatile, which is clear from the fact that they've colonised the entire planet and lived through more drastic changes in climate than any other life form on earth.

There's also no reason that I know of to think Mars was a more(or less) likely location for abiogenesis to have occured than Earth was. More and more evidence is suggesting that the building blocks for RNA are quite abundant even sans planets, and that abiogenesis itself might actually be very likely, but later complexification might not be.

I think both hypotheses have a lot of merit. Although I will say if we find life on Mars and it turns out we are Martians I will be disappointed, because it would mean we still only have one sample of life.

There's also a possibility that there was life on mars seeded from Earth, some of which came back to us fossilised, though I'm still undecided on whether ALH-84001 contains any fossils or not. There doesn't seem to be much consensus there.
Free speech my ass - more like neo nazies and trolls posting whatever conspiracy shit they can find.

I deleted this app.
One amusing edit: http://wikiwho.ailef.tech/diff/7d674d710c8d1328f0f74f6b351ff...

IPs from the European Parliament editing out connections to Cambridge Analytica from Alex Phillips' (member of the European Parliament) page: http://wikiwho.ailef.tech/diff/584f4588ec12334300a448f39ae4c...
>Irrelevant, we have Zuckerberg himself admitting to being “primed” by FBI for the hunter Biden story.

Please stop spreading misinformation. FBI issued a broad warning, there was nothing about Hunter Biden in it: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/fbi-responds-...

Zuckerberg didn't actually say that FBI ordered him to do anything. Facebook silenced the story on their own. He mentioned FBI to confuse people and make himself look good. I guess he succeeded.

>We have members of the Biden campaign linking tweets and high level Twitter officers replying “handled” (read in your favorite Italian accent).

Twitter censoring the Hunter Biden story (the NYPost article) was unacceptable. But I really don't see anything wrong with reporting tweets containing revenge pornography, which 1) violates Twitter ToS 2) is illegal in California.
It's optional for ISPs to implement, and it only filters CSAM.
I think you should add a web browser and then it can work like a VPN too.
So true. I had the pleasure of working with Eli many years ago and learned so much from him. A true professional.
Up, behind a VPN.
Same. Currently learning Rust because that's the one part that seems to consistently fit well into all these WASM plans.

Presumably once I've made progress on rust the rest will have settled down into something more cohesive
> So what? He doesn’t call everyone racist who criticizes the actions of the NZ government. It seems to only be CCP shills that struggle with this concept.

You’ve subtly insinuated that anyone pointing out some criticism of China must be calling everyone racist.

Has it occurred to you that some are indeed racist? In fact it is not OP pointing out the poster is racist, but they explained why such random allegations can be construed as racist. It is in fact his detractors who are attacking his motivation at a personal level (calling him a CCP shill) and trying to discredit his valid viewpoint without offering any reasoning.

There’s no evidence—nor is it even a good hypothesis—that somehow Tiktok is actively trying to subvert American society by feeding it garbage content. Such a conclusion is only reachable if you have an inherent bias that the motives in China towards the West are always evil. As others pointed out America produces and consumes garbage content well before TikTok… as well as companies like Meta literally copying tiktok features in shoveling garbage content… so twisting this narrative to antagonize and reframe China as the bad actor—at least in this specific case—is one rooted in inherent bias and laziness. Have you considered that the difference is simply because the Chinese government, with their well known heavy handed authoritarianism, simply not allowing TikTok to do that within China? Is western society so flawless that it is unwilling to accept its own failures that it must accuse others of active subterfuge instead?

I won’t argue with you about this anymore at a fundamental level because the issue at hand is that you are among many blindly discrediting and disregarding opposition. So I’ll ask you this for your own contemplation: is it even possible to say something or make an argument that just coincidentally isn’t anti CCP that doesn’t get us labeled as a CCP shill? If you’re going to answer avoid personal attacks and avoid “CCP shill” because that is not using any “facts” and is just a blind attempt to discredit the arguments being made. No one called anyone a racist. Some arguments and ideas were labeled sinophobic but no one made the accusation that a person must be sinophobic and therefore their ideas must be as well. But you are doing exactly that, but instead calling us CCP shills…
Define spare money. Since housing isn’t optional, and the cost of being homeless is extremely high, people will cease practically all other consumption in order to pay rent
Yes because it's clearly a campaign to make shit up since the Republicans didn't want to lose. Have you not heard Steve Bannon talk about it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7Js2Qk7hpg
Funny you’re getting downvoted, yet this was the entire reason for the metoo movement.
OTOH he did perform a public service. It transformed the domestic debate. A jury trial would be suitable.
How Web3 Games Work (and Sadly Don't)
what you’re probably looking for is becoming an AI app developer, leveraging inference to create new types of products. No need to become an expert in ML and training, to start with. That’s similar to what some people did about 12-15 yrs ago pivoting from web development to smartphone apps development.
Just because politicians asked them too and they decided it was in their best interest to comply doesn't make it much if any less their site.

Untill actual laws are passed they can choose to comply or not as they see fit.
On the first glance Chat GPT seems to be extremely amazing. And it is. But this is one of the issues machine learning models still have, they can’t distinguish well between truth and fiction. And they also have a hard time deciding, when they are allowed to come up with new things (like „write a story“) and when they absolutely can’t.

Another problem is, that they are mostly training from texts from the internet. And a lot of texts contain wrong information. They are not „smart“ enough to do fact checking on that.
In case anyone else got interested about how wealthy NZ is:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_wea... says it's the 28th most wealthiest country. Interestingly it has a high wealth to gdp ratio, so a choice of total "wealth" as the criteria makes it seem higher than looking at total GDP rank where NZ is 51st.
> Modern C++ code, for example, will always have exactly zero use-after-free bugs.

Not so. C++ is not a safe language, and never will be. Even if you avoid raw pointers you aren't safe from use-after-free bugs as the standard library makes them possible even then, with std::string_view (and perhaps other functionality). [0][1][2]

There is no safe subset of C++. People have tried, e.g. the MISRA folks, but they're unable to find a subset of C++ which is both safe and usable. The only way to guarantee the absence of undefined behaviour in a C++ codebase (or a C codebase) is to use formal analysis tools, which are a tremendous burden.

If it were possible to get decent safety guarantees out of C++, Mozilla wouldn't have bothered inventing a whole new language in the hope of improving Firefox.

I do agree though that modern C++ code is likely to have fewer memory-safety issues than 'C-style' C++ code.

> OpenSSL is old C code, so of even less relevance here.

It isn't irrelevant, our conversation wasn't specifically about the C++ language. I was responding to your suggestion that using well-known libraries written in unsafe languages, is a reliable way to avoid memory-safety issues. We know this isn't the case.

> An optimization opportunity that would be missed by a compiler can be explicitly spelled out for it by a library author.

Sure, but this whole thread is discussing that bounds checks are in practice generally inexpensive on modern hardware, except in cases like SIMD optimisations being precluded by the need for checks. I suspect this extends to other runtime safety checks too, but I don't have hard numbers to hand.

> An optimization opportunity that would be missed by a compiler can be explicitly spelled out for it by a library author.

Sure, that's an advantage of low-level languages. It doesn't negate the importance of memory-safety though.

Runtime checks are unlikely ever to have zero performance cost, sure, but the cost can be close to zero, and the fallout of removing checks from buggy code can be considerable.

> Whether the library author is obliged by the compiler to write "unsafe" next to it has exactly zero effect on the correctness of the code written in that place: you can easily write incorrect code there.

If it were a simple boolean matter of correct vs incorrect, then sure, but it often isn't. In practice, it can mean the difference between an exception being thrown, and undefined behaviour running riot, possibly leading to serious security issues.

> If you don't, it was not because the compiler provided any help.

Runtime checks are very helpful during development.

[0] https://alexgaynor.net/2019/apr/21/modern-c++-wont-save-us/

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26932505

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19723066
AMD Radeon with Linux 6.1 and Mesa 23.0-Dev vs. Nvidia R525 Gaming Performance
This is about a ban on sharing illegally obtained (hacked) information, not sharing personal details.
Yep, same for me. Unreal how every product somehow now has a 4.5+ rating.

Amazon is just filled with scams and fakes now.
Too much of a fuss here. Life goes on.
> Running an out-of-date browser is a security concern, is it not?

Only if you assume new bugs are better than old.
> getting anything practical out of it

You need to start low, e.g. my friend is non-IT but I have shown him SD so now he tries out AI-art t-shirts business.
But I agree, AI is completely still dumb, especially at scale - just asking my Android Auto Google if there is paid parking zone at the destination it navigates to, "Sorry I don't understand". We are still far from ELI5 usability.
Does anybody remember the circa-1999 desktop.com? Same idea, but implemented in what was then called DHTML. It was very limited but I felt offered a sneak peak of the virtualized and web-based future that we now live in.
The artistic output of things like DALL-E is also "incorrect" in varied and obvious ways, though. A lot of people with an artistic bent can't stand to inspect DALL-E output due to the clearly visible incoherency and inconsistency.
I believe that ARM has a patent on a workaround. Apple M1 has 192KB L1I.
What will be interesting is despite all the noise, no path forward as:

1. Section 230 becoming overruled and obsolete as both GOP and DEMs want to eliminate it and yet despite debates over years no plans for a smooth transition.

Picture it say section 230 is outlawed in 2024. That would mean despite the noise here on this forum about non-factual things one would even have to do content moderation on the HN News forum.

Or in short words we get more of the same under section 230 going away despite the noisy claim that we get less as then it would be legal open season for every forum and social platform.

Also interesting about sex trafficking, i.e. the last paragraph about not being liable for state laws on sex trafficking, oh nice.

References
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/230

https://www.govinfo.gov/link/uscode/47/230
Lots of countries have regulations on broadcasting. Percent of locally produced content, what age people can see what etc.
There's a much, much simpler reason. The object of the scam is to persuade you to send money to the only country they can collect it, which is Nigeria.

Most of the people who haven't heard of Nigerian prince scams have spam filters which have. I suspect their spam-filter evasion rates are so low they really, really wouldn't want to filter those people out if they knew what they were doing

(I suspect the reverse is actually true: a lot of the people running the scams have heard legends about how much their fellow countrymen made from using certain email templates, but have no idea how much of a running joke they are in Western discourse and how consistently they're filtered out)
I think the begging bowls are becoming contageous. Wikipaedia has been doing it since forever. The Grauniad for quite while too. And, this morning, when I launched Thundebird, it spawned a page in my web brwoser with a begging bowl held out for Thunderbird too[0].

[0] https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/102.0/eoy/
I'm not sure it's the case with the type of scam that the article is talking about. Phishing credentials and getting people on the phone to buy gift cards and transfer money require a vastly different approach I suppose.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18bovtIlrpI

Skip through the hot parts of the video per the graph and just see how the scam actually works, and I think that for all the social engineering steps required and the sheer amount of time spent on the phone, most people would just give up even if they maybe fell for the initial well designed email.

I don't really want to speculate on the spelling/email of scam emails as I think short of some reporter just finding a spam-house and asking, it will all be senseless speculation. The article theory has plausible theories, but might very well be specious. I don't buy that it's due to poor English skills, as spellchecks are plentiful and I have no doubt that the spam-houses could easily pirate older copies of Word and get a decent looking email.

Similarly, if it was effective, I have to imagine that this is the format they'd pick.

The simplest explanations of the poorly formatted/written emails and chats for me are:

1. The targets that have the highest chance of success don't care about the emails

2. The formatting of the initial emails doesn't impact the scam in a significant way

From a more personal perspective and the people I know who continued with the scam past its initial stages, they didn't pay attention to the formatting, just the general idea behind the message was more their concern. The IRS scams, giftcard scams, etc, put some sort of pressure on the people in a way that they truly stopped thinking about the content and were more worried about the idea behind the message: they would get in trouble if they didn't comply, and the financial concerns were the driving force.
It's a good abstraction, because most of the time you care about perceived brightness. With gamma encoding, 255 looks twice as bright as 127. You are going to need to deal with that perceptual power law at some point no matter what representation you use, so you may as well pick the efficient one. It's probably not a good tradeoff to make everyone deal with a color scale that doesn't look right, and is inefficient, just to make intensity operations linear so that unwary programmers don't trip.
get a lot of users by building good product, instead of restrictions
I think it will be a long time before it really understands what it is saying. I just got it to say that pineapples are not a food source and therefore inappropriate to sell to restaurants.
For some cheap fun, "In the style of an Alex Jones rant" is pretty good.

>Describe squirrels hiding nuts in the style of an Alex Jones rant

Squirrels are trying to take over the world! They're hiding their nuts all around the globe, and it's all part of a devious plan to gain control! The squirrels' master plan is to dominate the planet by stockpiling their mighty supply of nuts, so if you spot a squirrel frantically trying to hoard his stash – you'd better watch out, because the squirrels are coming for all of us! Wake up, America!
Well, this is exactly what you have to expect, because the brain does the same if there is information missing. The brain just makes up missing references to fill in the gaps from what ever information is available or accessible. Dangerous half-knowledge works the same way, where connections between concepts are made up that appear to make sense at first, but then collapse upon scrutiny. So, no surprise here, tbh.
I have seen some tiny movements on that direction- influencers always highlighting when a product they endorse was made in the US as something positive and the reverse “I could not find anything US made so I had to cave in and get a Chinese mower”. The America First collective unfortunately has a lot of folks that see themselves as fundamentally rich, (or temporarily poor). They self identify more with Jeff Bezos than with their fellow (poor) countrymen. His success is “theirs” on their mind.
Is it blocked in EU?
And they still raise seller fees every year.
I had this happen on Reddit personally. Shared my Covid experience. Got accused of spreading misinformation.

Makes me wonder, if conspiracy theorists might have a point.
Let’s ask Chat GPT what he/she thinks about that: Do you think an AI could write slides for management consultants in the future? Explain it in a way an arrogant consultant would phrase it.

Yes, I think it's possible for an AI to write slides for management consultants in the future. In fact, I would argue that an AI could potentially do a better job at creating slides for consultants than a human. With access to vast amounts of data and the ability to analyze it quickly and accurately, an AI could help consultants create more compelling and effective presentations. Additionally, because an AI wouldn't be limited by human biases or constraints, it could help consultants think outside the box and come up with unique and innovative ideas to present to their clients. Overall, an AI-powered tool for creating consulting slides could be a valuable asset to any management consultant.
Good to see a capitalist standing up for regulation of marketplaces for once..
Appeasing Putin is what got us into this shit. And appeasing Putin will just give us more shit in the future.

This isn't about NATO too, gas was found in Crimea that could replace Russian gas.

Time to kick him out of Ukraine, the hard way.
he can just take screenshot of black part of screen, crop just the black part and use it as wallpaper since it will be stretched/repeated, so even if it's just few pixels it's enough for whole screen
For some definition of fairness, yes. I don't fully disagree since wealth makes it trivially easy to be lawful, nothing you do is because of needs, it's purely based on wants/desires. It does come with some problems, and I doubt it'll work long-term, but it would be interesting to watch.
Starlink is growing a lot of headroom. "delivers processed data directly" is so skynet A.I. Looks like Amazon's Kuiper [1] constellation has a longer catchup to do.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuiper_Systems
Both can be true.

Educated, British retiree is one class of audience, who may need a different nuanced tactic (tech/ amazon/ gmail security like email with a professional English call center that can engage them).

The world is a big place. There are also other classes of audiences (where the engagement effort is much lower) and this purposeful spelling mistake does look like a good way to weed out some of them.
You are not forced to pay income taxes anymore than you are forced to use toll roads to go to the grocery store or pay sales taxes when you get there.

A taxpayer can choose not to engage in activities which incur taxes, so long as he is willing to forgo his corresponding reliance on the structures of social trust and physical infrastructure.

A slave will be beaten if he does not work.

The hyperbolic analogy you are looking for is not slavery but a mafia protection racket.
Philip you’ve already showed your hand and revealed your biases by assuming things about my background… sorry but wholly unrelated as I am a US citizen and I can in fact freely criticize the CCP and I often do. But here in this thread we were talking about something specific. Since it’s not even possible to say something that doesn’t criticize the CCP that doesn’t get you labeled as “a supporter of the regime” there’s no point arguing with you. As you pointed out, you can disagree with your own government (assuming the CCP were my own government) but it doesn’t mean your government only does bad things. Rather than worrying about if I can criticize my own government, or anything about me or what I look like I am doing, why not focus on my arguments like a civilized democratic freedom of speech supporting society? Free discourse only works if you listen.
I still have a dream of a DIY thin client setup for remote development. I've spent a couple of weekends here and there over the past years trying out different servers and clients, but always struggled with anything non-VNC. Either on the server (linux) or client (macOS) side.

What is the state of the art for remote desktoping from linux to macos/windows, over "almost lan" conditions (symmetric 1 Gbit ethernet, < 10 ms rtt)? Enterprise VDI solutions I've used at work has worked better than anything I've managed to put together, especially if you consider stuff like streaming audio from the host...
This is about locus of control: if twitter wants to do something about users hopping to and using a competitive platform, can they change some settings in twitter? Yes they can. Can they stop users activity on Mastodon or force them back? No, they can not. So they're doing what they can, rather than passively allowing it to continue.
Tuned towards dumb content or just content people want to watch like on every other platform? Are we getting made at TikTok for giving what their users want?