skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you point to the text that addresses this? The closest thing I see in the article is this paragraph:

Children's DNA inherited from their parents contains roughly 25 to 75 new mutations, which allows scientists to compare the parents and offspring, and then to classify the kind of mutation that occurred. When looking at mutations in thousands of children, IU researchers noticed a pattern: The kinds of mutations that children get depend on the ages of the mother and the father.

Later: Hahn, Wang and their co-authors built a model that uses de novo mutations—a genetic alteration that is present for the first time in one family member as a result of a variant or mutation in a germ cell of one of the parents or that arises in the fertilized egg during early embryogenesis—to separately estimate the male and female generation times[...]

So, it is saying it can measure results for male and female parents separately. But can their analysis of the "kinds" of mutations tell the difference between e.g. "30yo mother, 45yo father" or "20yo mother, 30yo father, plus lots of environmental factors that increase mutations"? The article doesn't make that clear to me.

The article links to the study (at "10.0.4.102" instead of a domain name?), but the link doesn't load... Ok, there is a working link at the bottom: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abm7047

I skimmed the study around all the matches for the strings "mutat" and "environ", and this was the best I found: Estimates of the error in our model fit do not show increasing error with either genetic or geographic distance from Iceland (figs. S6 and S7), the origin of the pedigreed mutation data used to train our model. Such a trend may have been expected if differences in mutational spectra were driven by genetic or environmental differences among populations.

The last sentence is actually ambiguous, but I think it's saying "If environmental factors tended to mess with mutational spectra, then we might expect to see X, which we did not see." It's still not clear to me how possible it is for there to be environmental factors that generate the same mutational patterns as higher age. And the only other "environ" match is in a sentence about what affects the age at which people have children.
Ice Cubes, an open source SwiftUI Mastodon client
Here are some comments from the perspective of computing science (i.e. not from the perspective of software development).

There is a conceptual thing called a "finite state machine", which has no memory except a set of finite states. It can, of course, "recognize" the elements of any finite set, but the question is, what infinite sets can it recognize? There is another conceptual thing called a "Turing machine". It has all the same capabilities that an FSM has, plus the ability to read from, and write to, an infinite long tape with a finite set of symbols writable to that tape. Again, the question, what infinite sets can this conceptual machine recognize? Another machine, a push down automaton, has memory capability greater than the FSM, but lesser than the TM. Again the same question.

So, yes, in this context, a TM can do anything an FSM can do, but the converse is very much not true.

That said, real life computers do not have infinite tape; they are actually very very powerful FSMs. So when we talk about the applicability of these ideas to the practical day-to-day writing of software, there are several layers of metaphor involved in why we care at all.
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GPT-3 is learning from ridiculously dense data through.

Also, about volume of data processed by the brain: https://gwern.net/Differences
That's glorious the NES one too
I agree. I think it is necessary to accept (as in 5 steps of acceptance) that is not possible to process all the shiny things. Keeping bookmarks and not closing tabs thus indicates an early phase off the acceptance process, probably denial.
> You’re ascribing a negative motive by establishing one could exist. Surely there are petty tyrants on Reddit. But the much simpler, most generous, and most likely explanation is they enjoy a hobby and enjoy fostering a healthy community around their hobby, and that this itself is a hobby of theirs

That seems to be near exclusive to smaller communities. I definitely seen it, I also seen ones that mostly self-moderated with mod hammer only being used in more excessive cases (basically members telling other members "dude, that's not okay because of x, we dont do that here" and mods only needing to intervene in more severe cases.

But near-every bigger one seems to devolve into a clique that pushes their personal playground in direction they want, despise what their users think, but the social forum is big enough and not bad enough yet for most people to leave because of that.

> Because your creative expression may very well be disruptive to everyone else’s, and while you’re free to be creative in your expressions in general, others are free to exclude you from their community. The moderator gets the unpleasant job of being the executor of that will.

Well, if you get good moderators, sure, that works. But for already mentioned reasons it often gets to be executor of only their own clique's will, despise what the actual users of the forum think

> So, I guess I take it back. It’s more like producing a video game or editing science fiction. It’s work we do to be sure everyone can enjoy a hobby we love.

Nope, it's creating zero value of its own. Janitor or garbage man would be better comparison, unnoticeable when doing the job well, but the place would quickly fill with garbage if not
I feel like reading HN daily has given me more opportunities than anything I've ever done for my career (and my general general love for tech). I recurrently apply things to my job that I've picked up reading the amazing articles people post here.

>There’s a never ending number of things I bookmark.

I just read them. I take my time to go through them :-). Every day for the past, I don't know, five years or so, my first hour in the morning is dedicated to reading about things I like on HN. That certainly kept the flame and the passion for tech going, otherwise it would become just a job (and if you're like me, you know how much that sucks).
Does it have to be open source? If not, the Pixel phones do an incredible job of real-time transcribing.
ah yes, based on the value, not the types. Makes sense, thanks!
I calculated and changing plane at the pole enough to cause a 200 km shift at the equator would be about 250 m/s delta vee. So not actually impossible.
Perhaps when the standard of software development shifts towards using AI for everything?
Yes. Wrote about my experience here: https://www.ericsilberstein.com/coder-experience-writing-a-n...
And are much, much better than the alternative, from personal experience. (I got hit hard before the vaccines were available.)
The second statement gives me the impression they're analysing and debugging... encrypted data? I can't really make sense of it
No one seems to have mentioned the affects of war and dangerous jobs on these stats.

After the first world war, for example, a large number of young men were gone. You can see the memorials with names on in any town or city in Europe.

The women of that generation would have competed with older women for older men as potential partners if they wanted children.
First let me say congratulations on the side project that makes $$. You are doing something that some people, me :-( , can't seem to figure out (or have too much paralysis by analysis, me again)

So my question is genuine and not meant to take away from what you have created or accomplished:

How are products like this still making money when there are tons of alternatives and some of them free?
> SMS is still better than no 2FA

Not if it can be social engineered into a 1FA password reset. Better not to give companies your phone number at all.
Well, you can compile Rust to WASM. But yes, point taken, out of the box, Scala and F# have a safer execution mode.
And don't forget the obligatory rules that are so vague nobody can actually adhere to them and still have conversation yet got invoked only when mod wants to have excuse to ban something
I work for a Japanese bank in NYC. Up until COVID, when we had documents that had to be signed by the Tokyo team, we'd overnight it to them via DHL.
Marketers these days would spin that as a "wireless monitor"
Man a PS2 one of these would leave me feeling feelings.
You are raising a valid point, which does affect people who do work on encryption, security and protocols in general. You have to figure out if you think it's worth it or not.

In the distant past, I was working on technology that aimed to avoid any sort of government control or inspection, and we frequently had in mind that what we were building could be used for bad just as much as it could be used for good. Ultimately, we decided it was worth it, after weighing the good against the bad.
Ask HN: What do you do to start and develop friendships?
I've been reading Never Eat Alone by Keith Ferrazzi, which is about the importance of networking and developing lasting relationships, and Keith does talk about preparation (get to know a person before you meet them), about being genuine, about having something to offer, about the importance of being liked, but I think I'm missing something a bit more fundamental. While I cherish relationships I do build, developing a genuine human bond is somewhat of a mystery to me: it happens sometimes, but infrequently, and doesn't seem to be under my control at all.
Ask HN: If you run a job board how do you promote and monetize it?
The job boards industry is having a hard time with a lot of companies that stopped hiring.

Even RemoteOK that is making 20% of what it used to do at it's peak.

So I wonder what are you doing in order to increase your revenue
"The Bible" is a Christian invention. What existed was the Torah and other Hebrew texts, whose incorporation into Christian canon is based on retroactive continuity, and has never been recognized as valid within Judaism.
I wonder how healthy this "magnetic fluorinated polymer sorbent" is to drink
I don't think the water went out to the sea but don't think that matters really -- ie doesn't necessarily address your question

I think all they are saying is what almost seems too obvious to be said

These areas allow for much faster water filtration down into the ground / aquifers

Unlike most of the land, which is clay and basically impenetrable

With the implications that, if water is going to be captured and possibly pumped or sent down into the ground somehow, then these areas do it 72 times better than other areas, so any collected water should be sent or pumped to these high filtration areas so the water is able to recharge the groundwater / aquifers most effectively

I guess nonfiltrated water would evaporate or go into the sewer system or ???

I guess it is not as easy as putting a big drain in the middle of a rainwater catch?

I saw a archeologist type on YouTube talking about the terrain of the badlands and the alluvial?? fans cool stuff I'll see if he has a video explainer
Do you know of any specific writeups? I couldn't find any obvious results, but I'm curious where the difficulties lay. Tbh, I'd be happy with just "windows with this parent process go here" list - I wonder how far off that is.
I feel like you and I are actually arguing the same thing. A lot of people in crypto are obviously crypto-rich and have been converting to cash over the years to buy those fancy cars and penthouses.

So who's left buying today? Retail frenzy brought the fresh dollars but it's dried up. Those crypto-millionaires don't need to convert their cash back to crypto. They own enough crypto already, and (as you describe) they went through an effort to build cash positions, so why revert that... So where does the $10 billion in cash come from?
> The 0.001% chance that the suspect will break under torture is still better than nothing.

And also a chance a suspect will lie to you and send you on a wild goose chase.
This might help you out, a fantastic video about AI safety. Sorry for the necro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEUO6pjwFOo
GTA V Online exploit allows hackers to delete other players' profile data
I live in a scandinavian country and PFOS was first found in extremely alarming amounts at various locations where cows have been raised, to such an extent that the local population is effectively poisoned and need life long screening if they have eaten any of the meat.

This has started year long tests and PFAS (+pfos, pfoa) has sadly been found in large amounts in most sectors. Even in just the tap water. The latest finding - today actually - is in organic eggs because of fish bonemeal in their diets, but this is just because these items were tested, apparently it's everywhere. Rain samples collected recently showed amounts exceeding the EU safe thresholds.

Point is, it's really, really bad and who knows what effects it will have. Counter point is that we've been swimming in a sea of inorganic chemicals for a long time and have just begun to test for them lately.

Effects on fertility, cancer, alzheimers, and the ecosystem in general is the joker.
Well, one big aspect is gaming, and in particular consoles at that time only had few cores. That changed few years later with ps4/xb1, but of course it took bit longer for gamedevs to catch up.

It didn't help that it was also time when Intel was at top of their game, still pushing significant single-thread perf improvements. Sandy Bridge, which was Bulldozers main competitor, was exceptionally successful launch on its own right
Scores of Stanford students used ChatGPT on final exams, survey suggests
yeah, I've always wondered how hard it would be to use OCR to read text from photos and why no one had done it before. Now Apple has gone ahead and implemented it.
Now I try to let it go

That's really the essence of what there is to it, in my opinion and experience at least. But: I only could start doing that when I was in my thirties. Before that my brain just wasn't up for it. Whereas when I now think about many of the things I did back then, especially the clinging to objects/bookmarks, I can fully see how useless and even ridiculous they were. Life is really better when you can just stop caring. Though it is also pretty hard to do. I know still sometimes feel pain about things I intentionally got rid of even though I know if I'd have them I would not actually use them. Goes to show the kind of tricks a brain can play.
However, more often than not the person having to repay that debt is not going to be the one that created it.

The fairness of this dynamic has at least to be taken into consideration.
Onboarding wasn't as bad as your recent experience when SSB first started. You just jumped on the same wifi router as your peer and the feeds sank, or got a pub invite and the feeds of the pub's friends were sent to you.

It could work that way again, you just have to emulate the original experience and get rid of all the weird broken stuff that's been added to make it hard to sync posts.
I don't know what you are going through, but you might find it helpful to find some professional help to talk about what you are going through. Some people do find life helpless, but it's not something that is guaranteed or required in order to be a human. Some people do enjoy life, and with some help, you hopefully could to. I wish you all the best.
React, Java, AWS. Took us about 6 weeks to build the initial MVP, each feature we add took a similar amount of time to implement, we typically iterate over things three times. We build something, make it better, then make it perfect. So far so good.
Startup Equity Capital – A Balancing Act
> maybe someone else here has a better idea why it is a good idea to require password and two step authentication every twenty four hours?

Not saying it's directly the answer here, but some distributed systems lack proper session blocking or revocation, as a session is a signed JWT or similar standalone token.

If the security decision makers favour a 24 hour guaranteed lockout, rather than risking someone whose access has been suspended having an old session still live, this could make sense from being able to know and show access is always "gone" in 24 hours of blocking their ability to get a new token.
This is totally gorgeous and pointless at the same time.
> Try to focus on the kinds of customers you won't ask for down-payments and up-fronts --- the kinds of customers who will routinely delay a full quarter or two on payables, and you'll put up with it, because they're paying for several people's salaries,

Must be nice to have so much money in the bank that not only can you pay 6 months of several people's salaries, but you can also tolerate the risk of the client not repaying you that amount.
How to Raise a Seed Round?
While the article may or may not have been FUD, Apple has in past transferred highly personal data to third parties. Including recording made by an apple watch while having sex.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeanbaptiste/2019/07/30/confirm...

First time you hear about this? Well, random strangers always rushing in to defend Apple and question the reporters integrity and motives are why we are where we are today...
DHH and his seven shipping principles
In a sense, true. Diagrams can be part of an operating procedure however - why not even write operating procedures for architects? Checklists to ensure they've consulted with developers, product owners and site reliability engineers. Checks to ensure the diagrams are up-to-date and actually useful.
Thanks! Sure, my mail is in my profile.
Bookmarks are for being able to quickly retrieve something that you have already read and mostly absorbed for future reference. They aren't a to do list. Even if they were, a to do list is not a universal constant. Highly engaged people will likely have things on their lists that last their while lives - your "todays" to do list is something structured by priority. Continue at will.
Reese Witherspoon: the richest female Hollywood star
I’d love to know more about what went into finding and acquiring this tool. Looks pretty cool.
Hi, it's me, your dream psychologist.

Linux represents business, homogeneity, AWS, Google, webscale. The H*R games represent the fun and wonder of the Internet in the early 2000s.

We, as a civilization, are installing Linux and wiping our H*R installation. You're conflicted about this. It feels like there should be a place for the H*R install too, but where will the money come from?
> Previously, browser crashes saved my sanity— killing dozens of open tabs with fascinating articles.

Laughed so hard reading that. I should one day write the browser self destruct count down extension. Crashes as a service You can delay the shut down by describing what you think you are doing. This makes for a wonderful journal worth of stupid most embarrassing shit mixed with lies. Remember to use a strong password.
Don't assume that the regular web is safer than porn or torrent sites.
I must be in the extreme minority upon reading comments on email spam, as I almost never receive a spam message in my main gmail inbox that is truly spam and not something I'm getting an email for because I lazily opted-in to a mailing list or was put on one due to association with a product. Actual, oldschool spam (Nigerian princes, claim your prize etc) literally never gets to my inbox. Maybe I'm just not a popular person. Or maybe I've kept my email private enough that it doesn't get scraped for such things? I don't understand the discrepancy between my experience and so many others here.
Is fixing your HN habit really going to improve your life, or will you find a similar escape from reality to latch onto instead?

I think you'll get much more out of addressing the core problem -- I don't know what that is for you, but with therapy you may find out. See a good psychologist who is experienced with ADHD.
The years pass anyway, so why not get the process started like right now?
The organizations researching it /funding it tend to be oil/gas. They are usually more focused on staying relevant and greenwashing themselves. With hydrogen they are interested because they see potential to extend the life of their natural gas assets - and not necessarily in a "green" way.

In regard to your point that we ought not to be cynical - it is true that these organizations can do great research. For instance, they knew all about global warming in the 70s.
Gen Zers and millennials split over the appeal of remote work
I wish there was GTK1/2 styles.
One impossible task at a time :)
> "corporations are people" argument that convinces corporate lawyers and judges but literally no one else.

Ok, I just have to link this here; https://youtu.be/dKFunwOzEos?t=711
> Too balance this perspective, let's remember that not all public workers are bad people.

"This perspective" said nothing about "public" workers being bad and only referred to the implications of the incentives they have at scale.
That sound well and nice but there are usually laws to prevent you doing that.
The Link Between a Horse's Arse and the Space Shuttle
I really cannot even find an actively developed SSB browser? (do I need a browser? I don’t know)

I don’t think this is for me.

I guess I’ll go back to trying to decipher Urbit. I kid, I kid. (I still have GNUnet to decipher.)
Seasonal Energy Efficiency Ratio
Well before Bulldozer had taped out, AMD briefed us on the high level processor plans (our software was included in BAPCo Sysmark and we'd been a very early adopter of AMD64, so we had lots of these meetings). I told them that it was a total mismatch for our workloads (audio and video production tools) and would prove to be a bad fit. They protested at first, as our inputs and outputs were fixed point formats and the doubled-up integer/logic units would allow us to thread more. That's when I spelled it out:

1. Our business logic and UI each basically operated in single threads.

2. Our intermediate audio and video processing buffers were floating point or moving in that direction in the future.

3. Wherever possible in filtering and effects, we avoided branching, relying on zero-folding in vector instructions.

I went on to explain where they'd be in trouble for game engines, document processing, and other key use-cases.

Their hardware architects slowly sank in demeanor over the course of that all-day meeting. I later heard from contacts at AMD that it was an "oh shit" moment for them. That said, having been at Sony at the time, we'd gone down the long dark road of the Cell...

Sometimes people try bold and interesting things that don't work. Bulldozer was definitely one of those, and it should have been killed (or at least diverted), like Larrabee. Nonetheless, AMD survived, and their current architectures owe some of their thinking to the hard-learned lessons of Bulldozer.