skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t think this is an area in which pure first principles reasoning leads to good outcomes.

People are resistant to any sort of genetic restrictions on procreation for a couple reasons. First, the historical precedent of eugenics is so monstrously abusive that any step in that direction is viewed as dangerous. Second, how would you enforce a ban on procreation of people with genetic defects? Put the parents in jail? Forcefully abort the fetus? What if they don’t know about their genetic condition?

With genetic engineering, it’s a bit more clear. It’s much easier to just not start doing germline editing than to roll back the (unknown) consequences. The harm in not doing that is of course that some people get sick and die, but we can mitigate that with normal medicine. Also the particularities of the case matter here. The scientist chose a questionably effective approach to preventing HIV, a disease that has good treatments. Also he did a shit job informing the parents about the risks. Just bad choices all around.

Doing secret, shady genetic engineering on children is not the same thing as letting people with genetic conditions have children.
Looks like it's the more expensive (and more capable) MeteoBridge from the same company: https://www.meteobridge.com/wiki/index.php/Home not Meteostick.
I mean, arguably Ethiopia comes to mind with the expansion into ethnic Somali territories in the 19th century, but does invading adjacent countries and ethnic groups count as imperialism?
Simultaneously asking people back to the office while making working in the office a worse experience.
No it was a more traditional sleeper car ala From Russia With Love. Private cabins of 2-4 bunks per.
Having a 64 bit system at that time could have also really helped with implementing super fast virtual machines. You have so much space to store information in pointers.

Azul later realized some of these things on Java. Building a virtual machine and even language to take advantage of that from the ground up would have been cool.
I see no such option, and I'm going to start a fake dispute to see if one appears. I doubt eBay web app is exporting chat sessions in jpeg format.
Fake Windows can be made with OpenCV face tracking and webcam as well!
If you like to use make as a task runner, may I recommend you take a look at my entry into the ecosystem:

* https://github.com/TekWizely/run

Feels like make (by design) but purpose-built for managing small tasks.
I see and hear this a lot (and the data clearly backs up your numbers) but what I can't figure out is - billions of dollars in transactions per day for what realized real-world value, exactly? A billion dollars in fees for what utility?

With > 5 billion internet users as a TAM overall adoption for crypto other than trading on exchanges (which is almost completely off chain and essentially has nothing to do with blockchain, really) is miniscule. Every block explorer, DappRadar, MetaMask stats, etc - literally any data shows completely insignificant user adoption (active addresses, number of transactions, etc) when compared to the billions of users that could become blockchain users by installing a piece of software in a few clicks.

I know it sounds like I dismiss it completely but I've been active in this space for the better part of a decade and I still can't figure out where the use case is -or- better yet, the killer app that would lead to user adoption resembling anything even close to the web in the 90s. It's been 8-15 years (depending on your starting line). Where is it? Where are the millions (really should be billions by now) of Joe Everyone daily active users?

Absent anything approaching a semblance of widespread adoption (from the data I referenced) the cynic in me says most of the "value" you reference is overwhelmingly from wash trading and a lot of other unproductive activity with no value or utility other than whatever angle those actors have.
> The honest answer is "so I get money and am not homeless and starving"

For a lot, if not most, programmers, there are other ways of making a living. If you are of the mindset that there aren't, I may have some roles for you, but they would not be growth roles and some may feel exploitative, but they are not because there are no shortage of engineers who are happy with such roles.

You picked SW development over other viable options for a reason.

> and my background is "I do computer things so I'm not homeless and starving".

The ask is what, not why. My background is that I am an engineering guy (non-CS), who pivoted at some point to SW. Your background may be different. If you've got 10 years at various companies, you do have a background other than "I do computer things".

But to get to your sentiment: Yes, we all know we're all trying to make a living. The cover letter is an opportunity to speak to why this job and not any other job. If you don't have a reason, that's fine. Over 90% of the times I do not either. But that means I and you are as guilty of contributing to the "problem" of this submission as employers are. More importantly, if I know the employer is going to be fussy about this, I will save us both time by not applying.

As an employer, if I get enough who do have a convincing reason, they get to the top of the pile. If I don't get enough cover letters to find a candidate, I'll loosen my requirements.

It is a bit like a dating profile, but so is the resume, so you can't avoid it. And speaking of dating, what would you think of a partner who says "I just want someone to have sex with, who'll pay for my expenses and let me not work (so should earn good money), and will take care of the children while also taking me to expensive restaurants. I really don't care about his personality."

> but then what signal do you get from it? That I care enough to dissemble effectively to you? That you think I'm as interested in your company as you're going to tell me all about how you'll treat me like family?

I think you're reading way too much into this. If you wrote a nice little script to solve an annoying problem at work that everyone was neglecting, it could be quite appropriate to put that in the cover letter. In 2011/2012 I independently learned pandas and spread organically to my team members such that the majority stopped writing annoying JMP scripts, that could go in the cover letter if I'm applying to a company that does numerical work. There just isn't room in the resume to highlight these kinds of things.

Of course, if you have nothing like that to show for yourself after N years in the industry, that's OK, but it makes you the same as every other applicant who doesn't.
> Open office workspaces are almost always crowded into a building that was made for cubicles or a warehouse or whatever.

Yeah! See, at least with cubes you know exactly where your "space" ends. Not so with many open plan offices, they can always try to cram more.
LLM chatbot personas can be embodied
It's not just the lack of active maintainers. MINIX 3 is a technological dead-end on multiple fronts and the various grants and funding sources have dried up.

The micro-kernel is mostly unchanged from its previous incarnations. It can be described as an hollowed-out Unix-like kernel design from the 80's, to the point where a fair number of its syscalls are direct equivalent to Unix ones. Basic features taken for granted nowadays, like 64-bit support, SMP or kernel threads are missing. Its code is especially old and difficult to work with.

The driver layer works best with a computer from 20 years ago. There's no support for USB (on x86), NVMe, display controllers, UEFI and so on. I don't think that booting on modern hardware would be even possible at this point without some major overhaul.

The service layer is similarly outdated. The most modern filesystem supported is ext2 and it wasn't very stable from what I remember. The native MINIX 3 file-system implementation is solid, but its design is very similar to the System V file system from the early 80's. The most advanced isolation mechanism available is chroot and there's no support for running multiple, isolated userspace instances, which is a shame for a micro-kernel, service-based operating system.

Replacing the outdated MINIX userland with a source port of NetBSD's userland a decade ago was a colossal mistake in hindsight. The NetBSD source tree required a lot of modifications to make this work and back-porting newer versions of NetBSD's source tree is extremely difficult. Instead, a NetBSD syscall translation layer to achieve binary compatibility would've probably been a far more maintainable solution. Additionally, pkgsrc support wouldn't be a problem either.

Finally, I'm pretty sure no one used it as a daily driver back in the 2010's. While it was reasonably functional through SSH inside a VM, trying to use it on real hardware was an exercise in frustration because of all the sharp edges.

Don't get me wrong, MINIX 3 has extremely cool features like the ability to transparently updating system services on-the-fly or extreme resiliency against device driver crashes. The presentation talks done by Andrew Tanenbaum [1] are in my opinion still extremely good to this day and a fair number of the research papers on the MINIX 3 are worth the read. I'm not trying to discourage anyone from trying it out or stepping up as a maintainer, but there's a reason why it became unmaintained.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MG29rUtvNXg (there are multiple versions of it done over the years)

Source: I'm a former contributor.
djngo.com is the culmination of years of effort, creating a single file python executable that runs on all platforms. This project is based on APE (https://justine.lol/ape.html) and in the past few days, our Python APE port (called python.com) became good enough to run Django. So we put Django inside the executable too, and called it djngo.com. The djngo.com executable will just work on the following platforms:

- Apple x86_64 and ARM64

- Linux running x86_64 or ARM64 (Raspberry Pi)

- Windows running x86_64 and possibly ARM64 too

- FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD running x86_64

It does not require that Python be installed beforehand. It's a native Python executable. It does not require Rosetta or Qemu be installed either, in order to run ARM64 platforms. It does not require Cygwin or MSYS2 runtimes in order to run on WIN32. It only depends on KERNEL32. It has an embedded JIT VM called Blink (https://github.com/jart/blink) which it pulls out on non-x86 platforms to emulate itself. All its dependencies are bundled inside using a zip polyglot, including the Python standard library:

unzip -vl djngo.com
...
5588 Defl:N 1707 70% 02-23-2023 16:06 26fb04f6 .python/django/shortcuts.py
0 Stored 0 0% 02-23-2023 16:05 00000000 .python/ctypes/
34 Stored 34 0% 02-23-2023 16:05 1b5bb9b2 .python/ctypes/__init__.py
-------- ------- --- -------
35075517 11728493 67% 7171 files

You can put your app's assets inside the djngo.com file too, using the standard zip tool. You can then rename the file, and insert a `.args` file that supplies default args for launching your white-labeled app.

This means that if you're a Django app developer, you can now easily share your apps with others wanting to run it locally. It's almost as easy for anyone on any platform to use, as if you productionized it onto a website. Rather than a hyperlink away, it's a single file download and CLI invocation away. You won't need to explain things like, "here's how you install Python on Windows" or "here's how you install Docker and setup a Linux distro, in order to run my app." Your users will be in full control of the app, granting maximum privacy and control over data, and zero operations toil for you!
I don't think being an ML chip means the defects are necessarily less fatal. These often interfere with the actual functioning of the chip, cause shorts, etc -- it's not just a matter of the TTL being very slightly messed up somewhere.

You could imagine chips that are engineered for redundancy / defect resistance, but that would make them a lot less performant so it's highly questionable whether that can be justified by any cost savings on litho.
How did the older games actually accomplish this? I would guess that if you just throw people into a match at random, on average half are going to be better then you, and half worse. So random matches will end up a 50% win-loss anyway unless you're especially good or bad at the game (compared to the rest of the population). So if most of the game's playerbase is kids who can afford to play 12 hours a day, normal people like us would likely get worse then a 50% loss rate with the random system!
The difference is US being an ally, close in culture and other aspects that don't apply to China. If this is sinophobia why are we fine with Taiwan?
The ethical concerns were not just the parental waiver; but rather a number of issues. Such as implicit coercion (i.e. forcing subjects to pay exorbitant fines for backing out of the research; seeking out patients who may have no other options for IVF than this trial), inadequate communication of the risks that Gene Editing may have, and improper communication of the actual predicted effect of the trial (i.e. "your baby will be immune to HIV", rather than having a potential increased resistance to HIV).

As for the ethics of gene editing itself, the risks of gene editing are poorly understood. Not in that we are ignorant of the risks, but rather that science does not have an understanding of what techniques of gene editing are effective. What therapies are effective. What therapies have side-effects, the intensity and fatalities of these side-effects.

It would be one thing if the dimensions to these risks could be ballparked (e.g. with how HRT for gender affirmation, the risks of therapy vs abstinence are decently understood and communicated to a patient before starting due to the current understanding of the human endocrine system, and the track record of patients in the past). But since the current answers to these questions range from theoretical to mostly unknown, it is difficult to properly convey the risk. And caveat emptor is an irresponsible perspective to have of the risk, as one can not truly consent to a complete unknown; especially on the fetus and future person who has not yet been conceived.

That said, I am in the opinion that in the case a person who understands the risk of no therapy is severe (i.e. a patient with a severely debilitating or fatal disorder or disease) or has a proper understanding of the lack of knowledge and risk of therapy (e.g. a geneticist who reads journals about these particular issues) then one can adequately consent. But the parents in this experiment were neither.
> The UK is in a downward spiral. For the past decades, the bottom 90% of people have become poorer. It’s so bad now that 45% of adults say they are struggling to keep up with at least one bill or credit commitment [1]. Almost a majority of households are constantly on the brink of financial collapse.

This could describe many developed countries right now, especially the US.

> The country desperately needs new ideas and a complete purge of these clowns from government.

Problem is the slugs keep voting for salt.
First of all, Apple charges developers a yearly subscription for the privilege of publishing apps on the App Store. Secondly, with every year comes new APIs and deprecations. So developers need to constantly put in work so the app works when you upgrade your OS.

People complain about subscriptions forgetting that 20 years ago you didn’t update your OS yearly. It’s time for people to realise the landscape has changed. If you want someone to blame, blame Apple / Google for deprecating APIs and forcing developers to adjust their targets yearly to avoid reduced distribution.
That rant is merely your opinion and somewhat optimistic. Reality is that you get an extra CPU running completely on its own without code available nor clear path to disable such "feature".

If it can serve data from your computer, it _will_ serve data from your computer.

Not everyone across the globe is confortable with lack of privacy on their own devices.
This pretty much highlights what I'm saying. Regardless of how strong or weak this research is, it won't be scrutinized by viewers here, because it confirms what they want to believe.
> to the intended recipient who can decode the steganography

Not just decode, but also decrypt.

You'd probably want to encrypt not just for the secrecy, but so that the noise introduced by the steganography doesn't seem so suspicious.
Corporate accounts never engage with a dispute issue in public. I don't think that means anything.
Police officers take an oath to uphold the constitution. Maybe they should be versed on the basics, such as freedom of assembly, before they go around enforcing unconstitutional laws?

That's the thing, for civilians ignorance of the law is no excuse. But for police ignorance of the law is not only expected, but it also protects them from civil litigation.
This is awesome. I hope people realize this came out of public funding and not made by a corp. Although eventually some corp will make a minor tweak to this and copyright the hell out of it. Really excited to see this in a car soon!
Multicast, uh, finds a way.
> It's pretty easy (in China) to monitor a handful of test subjects with heritable mutations and make sure they don't reproduce.

Feels like we've proved the importance of ethicists in genetic medicine in two replies here.
Some things Emacs for Android needs:

1. Access to SAF content providers. This is the intended way to mount cloud storages in Android and it even supports offline access, so it would finally give us a decent and trivial way to sync org files without fiddling with rclone/foldersync/etc...

2. Server mode: making Emacs run in the background seamlessly would make it a really handy swiss knife. Also, this should be necessary in order to use stuff like org-protocol

3. Interaction with other apps: make it callable from Tasker or stuff like that. I'd like to use the "share with" menu to capture quick notes and bookmarks
Make is not actually that great of a task runner, but the syntax is easy and its ubiquitous.

I created a tool that allows you to define tasks in the easy make-style, but is purpose-build to be a task runner:

* https://github.com/TekWizely/run
That screenshot looks like a mobile UI though.
Preparing for spikes in traffic as millions of our customers get paid early
> thermal runaway etc

From the article: "The main new component in this lithium-air battery is a solid electrolyte instead of the usual liquid variety. Batteries with solid electrolytes are not subject to the safety issue with the liquid electrolytes used in lithium-ion and other battery types, which can overheat and catch fire."
There's a lot of scary numbers, but here's a graph of the US budget deficit as a percentage of GDP[1] according to the CBO. Yes, the US has a deficit most years, and yes both the financial crisis and COVID lead to very large dficits. But between 1992 and 2000 a deficit of 4.5% became a surplus of 2.3%. So it's well within the possible to decrease the deficit by 7% of GDP over a relatively short period of time. If we started that process today we'd be back to the long term average deficit within 8 years - and we're starting from a crazy base because of all the hangovers of COVID.

So whilst it's obviously a policy choice whether that happens, it's definitely well within the possible.

[1]: https://www.cbo.gov/publication/58268
I'm not sure what happened, but I make sure to not use VPN because a lot of e-commerce website will ban you if your IP is coming from VPN. Or it could simply be that the IP address happens to be on a blacklist, probably because someone was using that IP address for doing something fishy (which sucks even more since we most likely share IP address which is rotated by ISP). Or it could be geographical issue... I remember I couldn't even load Homedepot.com from oversea, as homedepot web server was blocking the entire country for hacking.
Google definitely doesn't have a spare toilet for you. I remember a group of coworkers threatening to file a complaint with OSHA because the number of toilets was so limited. (I just used the bathrooms that were part of the building but not managed by Google. They were not "nice" so nobody was ever in there, but it was better than waiting in line to use the facilities.)
https://archive.is/RHCHi
Toilet stalls can be booked for no more than 15 minutes at a time.
Rich people (and not only them) already do much more than this. We all select the best mates we can get our hands on.

The gain from this kind of gene editing is likely much smaller than simply having a bunch of kids with a very genetically fit individual, and that is exactly what rich people do.

I also recall reading that some countries had strategies to foster interaction between very genetically fit individuals, beyond what would naturally happen by the general tendency of people to be attracted to others like them.
Only in Faketoshi's perverted dreams...
Interviews on Building a Writing Culture
Ah, but perhaps oil is a necessary component to manufacture many different things, so those other products will be forced to increase in lroce as well despite reduced demand.
Receiving SMS via the Internet is possible by enabling WiFi Calling. It is a game changer for locations with good wired Internet but poor cell coverage.

Of course it doesn't change the fact that using SMS for security should be illegal.
I had something similar with a TSA event in the late 90s. My buddy and I took second place in the nationals for Computer Construction. We asked "why didn't we get first place?" and the response was "because your inventory had serial numbers listed. No one does that."... which was jaw dropping, because both of us had receipts from recent purchases at computer shops were every serial was tracked. Near the end of the event we found out that the judge of the computer construction contest was a teacher at the same school as the winner. Our teacher did nothing to contest it as we had a flight to catch. -sigh-
Like people who don't understand that creating new genetic diseases might be worse than the ones that we already have? That they might cause even more complex issues that we can't foresee?
You say it with spite as if a 1000 year reich is more desirable?
Since you're going to be a condescending pendant...everything after the colon is why it doesn't make sense for him, not why it doesn't make sense for anyone, and it's very clear that's the point he's making. It's a common fallacy around here: "I think this, therefore it's applicable to everyone".
Maybe you'd get used to it?
There are bugs which have not been fixed, maybe they are - who knows. For example on ARM processor it dies in multiprocessing.

Next: CCL comes originally from the Mac platform (the original Coral Lisp started on the early Mac, Apple even owned Macintosh Common Lisp for a few years, that code was used to create OpenMCL, aka Clozure CL) and there is still no Apple Silicon port and there is no real progress to get there.
You've been able to attach keyboards and pointing devices - mice, trackpads, those presenter pointer things with joysticks on ´m - to Android for a very long time. Attach a pointing device and you get a pointer on your screen which can be used together with the touch screen. Attach a keyboard and the virtual keyboard won't pop up since the thing expects you (rightly IMnsHO) to use the newly attached keyboard. With pointer device, keyboard and Termux Android devices become somewhat useable general computing devices.
Been a Spotify subscriber for over a decade now, I hope they realize their whole podcast push was unnecessary and pivot to what they were good at, making listening to music enjoyable. Stuff like this is encouraging. I still miss the upvote and downvote mechanism but I hope they allow for more customization like they used to.