skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The theory of evolution requires large and fundamental changes in organisms over time due to natural selection over diverse populations with characteristics being passed on by reproduction. Such that very different organisms can have common reproductive ancestors.

It does not in fact require a specific number of clearly delineated categories of organisms where all individual organisms are in one and only one category.

That part is a human invention to try to make sense of the world, rather than part of the mechanics of the world itself. The categorization is probably a necessary invention to try to make sense of the world in a scientific systematic way, and is also inevitably a broken inconsistent subjective biased over-simplified map of the territory.
That isn’t enough to enable this business model.
https://chatsecure.org/

> ChatSecure is a free and open source messaging app that features OMEMO encryption and OTR encryption over XMPP. You can connect to your existing Google accounts or create new accounts on public XMPP servers (including via Tor), or even connect to your own server for extra security.

> Unlike other apps that keep you stuck in their walled garden, ChatSecure is fully interoperable with other clients that support OMEMO or OTR and XMPP, such as Conversations (Android), CoyIM (Desktop), and more.
Agreed. The idea of "medicare for all" was a half step that was attempted because it was deemed to be more politically saleable than "socialist" health care to very partisan voters.

Expanding the present medicare system without massive changes not only be likely to decrease the quality of care but would be horrifically inefficient.

The US needs a rework of its health care system from the Federal level down, probably using something like the South Korean system as a model (which notably is NOT socialized medicine).
If I may take advantage of the presence of knowledgable people in this thread…

The JWST is located at the L2 point. Does that mean L2 is now “taken”, or could it make sense to host multiple telescopes and spacecraft at or near that point?
If you look at recent layoff numbers, their coastal brethren will be joining them soon. It's America! One man copes with food, another with money, another with sex. You are all degenerate!
Aren't the M processors in iPads binned down versions from MacBooks where a GPU core didn't make it or something? Seems smart as far as utilizing their TSMC contracts goes. I upgraded my A15x to M2 just to future proof the thing for the next 7 years
Haha, I think my radar for tongue in cheek vs genuinely absurd beliefs has been completely busted by my own lifetime with internet social media! Even on HN.
Forget everything else, we need to build THIS :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQFqDKRAROI

A telescope array that can use our sun's gravitational lens would enable us to resolve the surfaces of extrasolar planets. We could resolve surface features as small as 10 km across at a distance of 100 light years.

JPL is actively investigating this. It's incredibly promising.
It's even beyond the UI and how the components work with each other (the example of the transmission dying killing everything). Some of the vehicles will shut down entirely, some will cut out into limp mode, etc.
> Meanwhile Ecobee has been producing beautiful hardware and software that has not only caught up but surpassed the 5+ year headstart that Google/Nest squandered.

Ecobee released their first smart thermostat 3 years prior to the first Nest Thermostat. (Not that that's a fault, I've been a happy ecobee user for years.)
Parents can be histrionic. Thats good, your kids are important. Doesn't mean the administration cant decide phones are almost entirely a net negative.
Excellent is a perfectly usable translation, if you extend it to the Bill&Ted interpretation: "be excellent to each other". It's just that excellent tends to be used in a much narrower way in present-day English.
Sure. But how many of those creative professionals are there v. teenagers who want to mess around with these tools--especially when it's priced at only $5/mo? Seems like Apple is continuing to make tools for creative professionals while also making them accessible to a wider audience of amateurs to broaden the revenue base.
but isn't that like...everything the only way a hard drive has information is because though language and other technical specs we assign meaning to the things on the hard drive?
As usual the abstract of the source paper is clearer, easier to read, and more detailed

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37004841/
I like PowerShell conceptually - basically, manipulating structured objects instead of unstructured text - but the commands themselves always feel overly verbose/awkward. Maybe it's just me.
Haha yes please! I thought you were talking about literal taxonomic trees.
> my supposed giving is really just selfishness with a question mark at the end (“Enough of me talking about stuff I like. Time for you to talk about stuff I like!”).
> this isn't the case for any person or corporation and it never will be. You always rely on someone or something else.

Come on now... You know what I'm talking about.

We arent talking about making a car from raw materials, we are talking about in-house vs outsource.
Yes, but every time I’ve shown someone their location map they have not remembered turning it on.

I think this is in part to google prompting you pretty much every time you use maps or other web tools to turn on location history for improved functionality. I think lots of people don’t understand that and just turn it on to remove the prompt.

Kind of frustrating as this could be done in a privacy preserving manner by keeping all location data local on device and overlaying it on the map locally. Functionality wise, google doesn’t need these data.
Okay so if I am understanding you correctly, your theory is this:

“Diseases from animals have evolutionary pressure to hurt humans because hurting humans is better for the survival of its preferred host.”

That does make sense to me, but I think it doesn’t track with how slow evolution works.

According to Yale, Lyme disease has likely been around in North America since 60,000 years ago: https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/ancient-history-of-ly...

Natives were not very destructive to forests and I don’t think very destructive to mice.

Mass deforestation to the level of evolutionary pressure would have come when Europeans first settled. Meaning Lyme disease would have had to specialize after that, which I would assume is unlikely.

Maybe the diseases do specialize to harm humans, but it feels like the period where diseases can effectively stop humans and humans were doing mass deforestation is too short. Lyme disease is problematic, but it hasn’t stopped anyone from chopping down trees.

You could argue it has the opposite effect. We drain swamps because of malaria, destroying its habitat.
> In the jetbrains you only get a perpetual license for the current version. You lose the year of updates.

False unless they changed it recently. It explicitly read last version on the subscription. I actually bought one a few years back and I got fallback to the last version of the subscription timeframe.

Regarding the “why”, it’s simply the option that properly aligns interests. A long enough subscription (ie an year), should cover initial expenses and development during the period, if the company wants to keep a customer paying, it needs to keep making the software better.

It’s putting customer first, which is something companies tend to forget which tend to lead to a downfall if they have not secured a strong prison/moat for their rent seeking behaviors.

Companies with proper alignment on incentives tend to make/maintain/develop better products over a larger timeframe. But ofc that was meaningless when money was “cheap” (negative interest rates), so VCs could just dump a huge amount of money on creating some competitor out of nowhere, put it out for free, operate under losses, and once they have “captured” a big enough userbase and fcked the rest of the competition, and have decent lock in, start the shitification of service for revenue, to make up for all the “investment”, leaving customers with no proper alternative.

A perpetual fallback license is showing customer that you care. And it’s also putting a gun on yourself to keep improving the product instead of stagnating for “captured” revenue.
Also, happy customers tend to give free publicity, look here at hackernews how their tools are mostly praised.

Edit: it seems that indeed they changed the version to the initial plus bugfixes, or 12months old if using consecutive monthly billing
Appears to be an attempt to rebrand a cheap phone and sell it for $200? Looks to be a YINGTAI T22 available for $50 on AliExpress. Glorified drop shipping store.
Sure hope iCloud is “massively profitable”, they’ve been spamming me non-stop with their messages both on my phone and on my laptop ever since my cloud hardware disk space there (which I had never asked for in the first place) got “full” or such some time ago.

Otherwise great hardware products, both the Apple phone and the Apple laptop.
The OSS projects are also confident that they are getting a better deal, though, since they continue to host on Github.

Sometimes both sides win.
Do xcode next. I don't care how.
Jonathan Haidt has an interesting response to this (and related) criticisms: https://jonathanhaidt.substack.com/p/why-some-researchers-th...
I suspect that the underlying point here is that when EEGs first came around in the 1920s, they were also extremely expensive and not available for common use. But since then, the technologies involved have become so much more accessible and affordable that an electronics hobbyist can build one for themself, maybe even using parts they already have kicking around.

MRIs may very well follow a similar trajectory over time.

Personally, I don't think this will happen in the very near future -- but history shows us time and time again that it's good to start thinking about these things well before they become practical.
Monitoring changes in Wikipedia pageviews could help save wildlife
because occulted technology is sucking the life-force out of you and selling back to you some part of it as electricity. the trick is the fractional way they do this, only taking a 'negligible' fraction of each of the millions of humans...

but it adds up, and what is worse, is that it's greedy... so the fraction keeps going up and up and up, sucking more and more down faster and faster

but most will surely prefer the academic explanation, a lot less magic in that one than in this comment
There are cheaper and even free audio editors and video editors already on iPad.

FCP isn't for teenagers.
First UK baby with DNA from three people born after new IVF procedure
Semi off topic but if I want to develop audio plugins for live performance iOS/osx what is a really good resource, in your estimation?

When I look for books on Core Audio there’s approximately one on Amazon and it isn’t very recent.

I don’t really want to live on another layer, like developing in Max or Juce or AudioKit or whatever is out there.

I’d rather code directly against Apple’s APIs. Or I think that’s what I want. Maybe I’m misguided.

Do you have any suggestions?
Did you have a challenge getting them to initiate that? I'd imagine once you're shown to be severely deficient it's easier, but there's a chicken & egg.
“That's Weird” – WhatsApp Accessing Users' Microphone in Background
Seems to be conversations going back 6+ months on Reddit and elsewhere around WhatsApp accessing the microphone every 3-4 minutes in the background on Android. Not clear whether WhatsApp is actually recording and exfiltrating recorded data.

https://www.reddit.com/r/S22Ultra/comments/yyswgc/whatsapp_u...

https://www.reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/comments/12d4a7w/whatsa...

https://www.reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/comments/12d4a7w/whatsa...

https://www.reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/comments/132obwb/whatsa...
What's the downside, kids miss out, might be excluded by their peers maybe even bullied? Would the parent/child relationship suffer? But would the compound effect be better or worse than exposing a young child to social media? I have no idea but my gut feeling is that people would be better off overall without social media. Just a gut feeling though and we shouldn't make policies based on gut feelings obviously.
The point was not that Westerners care about overseas conflict as much as other countries, but that indifference to conflict was somehow part of "Wokeness"
There's already multiple telescopes there, including the Gaia telescope. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_objects_at_Lagrange_po...
Yes, texting. They text amongst their friends who are in different classes.
Your logic is flawed, just who is compensating them?
What is "winning" here? How do you "win" art? Human writers don't exist anymore? Seems like a really odd way of viewing writing.
Water extraction from icy lunar simulants using low power microwave heating
I don't. I have tried to find web pages that summarize it, and they do a disservice.

I tried writing my own blog post, and I don't think I got any positive feedback.

There might be a bit of nuance that a summary doesnt catch.

Anyway, I'd pay 100k to read Power of Habit, you basically can do whatever you want when you learn how the brain works.
The $5 per month pricing is for skeptics to try the product without committing to a $299 purchase.

And yes, it does bring in some revenue from non-professionals, but they have other alternatives on iPad. Including iMovie from Apple which is free, and others like CapCut, LumaFusion, etc.
UFO Test: Multiple Framerates
I recall those days too, they sadly seem like from another, very different universe compared to 2023. Everybody was optimistic, internet had endless possibilities simply not available before. Of course all highly functioning sociopaths that now form the thick layer of founders/owners of richest companies saw another potential there, and there was nobody to stop them. Thus here we are.

> creating user-tracking systems that rival the East German secret police for the purpose of ad sales

East german police were amateurs compared to what few big companies can (and do) offer to CIA or NSA within few clicks. What we have now is definitely beyond their wildest dreams. I recall not so long ago 1984 was mentioned to scare people. Not so much anymore
I get convergent evolution, but among large (let's say 10g+) organisms, I'm not aware of convergent evolution resulting in compatible species (with fertile offsping) that would not otherwise have been compatible?

I'm super rusty on this topic, but if there is theory that large organism actual DNA-level speciation (resulting in individuals who cannot reproduce together) has eventuated to convergence back to a new species (who can reproduce together with fertile offspring), I'd love a source. I definitely could have very rusty knowledge on this but it seems intuitive to me?
TL;DR Vitamin D *deficiency* is cancer risk and relatively common. High doses don't work.

>When all 14 studies were pooled, no statistically significant results emerged. However, when the studies were divided according to whether vitamin D3 was taken daily in a low dose* or in higher doses administered at longer intervals*, a large difference was seen. In the four studies with the infrequent hogher doses, there was no effect on cancer mortality. In contrast, in the summary of the ten studies with daily dosing, the researchers determined a statistically significant twelve percent reduction in cancer mortality.

>"We observed this twelve percent reduction in cancer mortality after untargeted vitamin D3 administration to individuals with and without vitamin D deficiency. We can therefore assume that the effect is significantly higher for those people who are actually vitamin D deficient,"
I don't think this requires belief in a "better" deal, only a good one (or an acceptable one, given the friction and network effects involved in switching).
It's not just "weird" -- it's completely nonsensical. It's like saying "the color of a stop sign is triangle"
good job, and kodus to you guys.
BUT, it's sad to see that java (as a language not VM) still exists.
It's such a bad language compared to many other existing options
If everyone gives money, and some get that money back and then some, those not getting the money defaco paid for it. Same outcome as a fine.
Chuckled @ the radar chart diligently quantifying "ineffability"
When I said "auto-fill", I was referring to auto-fill with a browser extension where the website is checked. Yes, the FIDO method is even nicer from a technical perspective, but from a security perspective they are similar.

But of course, you can be phished into copying your password into a phishing site. So there are benefits, but it's not a huge difference in this one specific context (no physical token, using a password manager with a browser-extension-based auto-fill).
Companies hide negative news with unrelated press releases alongside SEC filings
Now I wonder how common cases are where the threat is made in such an abstract way that it wouldn't qualify for a court. Because from the victims perspective, just acting on a highly abstract threat is difficult. You'd expect some bartering and a deal, no? The victim will need some kind of trust that their action will cause inaction on the perpetrators part.
If you just want to sketch ideas, garage band could be enough. I mean both a Mac and iPad are quite portable, but i do see if you just want to professionally develop music on the cheap, iPad it is, you will have a hard time with the screen size however if you want to anything with many instruments and tracks
You’re probably going to be pushed into it over time. Whether it’s because they will make it incompatible with newer plugins, or because they will make newer hardware incompatible with older Logic.

FWIW, I’m in your boat too. Logic is a PERFECT DAW for me the way it is. I would be so sad to have to switch to Reaper or something, and have to go hunt for plugins..

Logic is the only thing tying me to the Mac, so I guess that’s a plus.
Wonder how Logic Pro ipad compares to FLStudio mobile?
I haven’t experienced this for new (and even old) luxury high rises in Seattle. The reason street parking is a shitshow is because private developers charge huge amounts of money for their parking garage. New high rises have huge amounts of below ground parking. 7 floors in one brand new building which comes to mind!! Like $50/night for public parking too — people are obviously going to try to find the free street parking instead.

The areas of Seattle where it’s difficult to park (like Capitol Hill and First Hill) also have a lot of older buildings. But brand new high rise and mid rise buildings typically have plenty of room for resident parking — it just costs like $200-$400/mo depending where you are. And often not available to guests.

Amazon buildings have lots of parking too, and it’s available for public use at times as well.
That's the way with all conspiracy theories but it's usually longer than an hour for the about-face to happen.
For anyone interested in how the iPad is actually used by professionals to make/produce music you can watch this video by youtuber Henny Tha Bizness.

He has a great video on how he got started [0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-z_1bRbC_lU
Yeah, I mean its one thing to take a seat in a rocketship and go along for the ride, but its quite another from a challenge and career perspective to turn the rocket thats falling to earth around and pointing it in the right direction.

Generally at this stage in my career, I would probably enjoy the latter more. I was a smallish part of two turnarounds like this, and its just a real joy watching people get unshackled. Just stripping away busy work like requiring accounts to get approvals by 3 people (and why not just give everyone in the tech org a gitlab/pagerduty/whatever account and write a script that if they don't use it for a month, its automatically deactivated). Just asking why repeatedly until you finally get to the "scary" person no one wanted to confront who can't give you a good answer so you just say ok, lets just get rid of this... Removing the busy work, getting rid of bureaucracy, which I hear exists in enormous amounts at GM and other automakers... yeah taking that and just turning everything on its head can be wonderfully rewarding.

I would take a job like that again in a heartbeat. And tbh, he is a big enough deal at this point its not like its going to be career ending if he fails. And if he does fail, its likely just going to be from not being given enough authority to make the changes he wants. One kind of argument that may be very difficult to swallow for his upper management- allowing fully remote workers/teams. I am sure there are a lot of people that will want to work on something like this, but not a lot of them are going to want to move to Detroit to do so. So then you pivot to "well are you open to opening an office in the Bay area" and they reply "well that sounds expensive!" and you say... well we can also do it cheap and hire remotely, maybe even save on salaries... and then you get the "but what about [how do we know if they are working|Corporate Culture|That sounds scary" and on and on it goes until someone blinks. Anyway, getting into the weeds, but this is just a small facet of what goes into a role like this, before even getting into anything technical.
Agree with what? Population is in fact dropping, the data is there for all to see.
It's succint.
It's Time for Laws Limiting the Power of Public Health Institutions
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Devs on the Typescript team have commented that ideally they would rather JSON.parse() returns unknown, but it wasn't around when lib.d.ts was first made, and it would be too big of a breaking change to do so now.
What is so offensive in my comment? Split payments and subscriptions will continue to become more common, just wait and see.
Besides unneccessary expenses? I don't think so. 2000 IE should be fine, and thats with a safety margin of 2.
I mean i never would have signed up to develop an R-package on my own. But I was at the right place at the right time to work on a project with funding that is interesting and it just happens to be in R. It's nice to learn a new tool (no matter what it is), but I would not have chosen R if it was my choice.

Moreover, I think sometimes people get their PhD and think they deserve to use the tools they put in their toolbox, on the problems they focused on, and don't see that all they really did was get a ticket to the game. Most scientists have a phd. Most scientists don't work on the thing their PhD is about ten years later. The sooner you open up to that the sooner you will get out of the postdoc chase and get a job that is a lot more rewarding (both intellectually and financially). All this means that there may be problems you are going to learn about and focus on that you never thought you would at some point, and being open to that and seeing it as an opportunity will carry you further then not.
The problem isn't "can GM make software" (though that is of course _a_ problem). It's "can GM continue to produce updates to a car's entertainment system for years after it was released, including matching new features from Android Auto or CarPlay". I'm not even sure it's a "will", I think it's legitimately a "can they" - the benefit of Android Auto and Car Play is that if a new feature requires improved hardware someone just needs a new phone. If GM needs new hardware for a feature they need at minimum a mechanic visit.
My point was not that most Americans care about these issues, but that not caring about them was singularly unique to a woke agenda. Obama is not as left as some media outlets make him out to be, and neither is the old guard of the DNC