skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article is misleading, making it seem as if methyl cation, the species observed, were an essential component of life. It's not.

> Astronomers wielding the James Webb Space Telescope have detected methyl cations – important precursor molecules needed to create proteins and DNA and therefore fundamental to carbon-based life forms.

No study to date spells out a plausible path to abiogenesis - the creation of life from non-living chemical precursors. Without such a path, claims that any particular molecule is a "precursor of carbon based life" are suspect at best.
Levels of safety for AI and other technologies
There is a far gap between the conservatives fixated on vaccines and the people pointing out that they have a physical handicap and otherwise want to live but are not being given disability benefits to pay for rent and food and feel forced into signing up to be euthanized.
It depends on the need for the blood, I guess. Getting a nanogram of PFAS is preferable to dying from blood loss. The nanogram of PFAS increases you chance of dying 5% sooner by 20%, whereas losing all your blood through a wound guarantees a 100% chance of dying in the next 20 minutes. (All made up numbers, but you can see the risk/reward balance.)
Well, the mars helicopter essentially uses a cell phone, so not really.

And it's not that low power.

But yeah, the mentality was: We know this works, it's too costly to guarantee a new one will work, and too risky to just try it. Same in the military. Imagine the military didn't have radiation, temperature, etc requirements
I can totally relate to this but in a different way. Music is very similar, especially nowadays when everyone has an opinion about what you should create, and it's easy to get lost in the sea of YouTube tutorials of people telling you which way is the right way, or even listening to what's accepted in the mainstream and attempting to contort your own work to fit within that structure.

After all, any form of expression can be seen as art, be it music production or games, and the constant battle we feel as artists can be overwhelming at times, especially when you want others to acknowledge and validate you.

Wouldn't it be cool if your son and his son could look back and say, "Look what my dad/grandfather created". For me, that thought is a-lot more full-filling than worrying about what the rest of the world thinks.
That's fair. So like any other testing, this is only useful for a small population, and you should consult your doctor first.
I think it’s kind of natural for artists to demand higher standards than is truly necessary, even for discerning audiences. Something that many people are unaware of is that even for classical music, it’s standard practice to do multiple takes on a given piece and the stitch together the best parts in editing. However, I think I speak for a lot of fans when I say live recordings are just as good if not better than these Frankenstein recordings, so why bother going to all that trouble?
I really like Rust and all its features, but I have a feeling that people really underestimate the importance of having a fast compiler. Being able to have a subpar compiler error sooner might still make you more productive than having good compiler errors but having to wait for the compiler all the time.
> Also, I would argue that Time Machine gets little to no love because it's nearly feature complete. It's dead simple to use, does what it says on the tin, and stays out of the way to the point I forget about it most of the time. Is there anything in particular that you feel that Time Machine is missing?

I almost completely agree with this, but do like the scheduling features of the free third-party "TimeMachineEditor" tool, which lets you control the backup intervals, windows, and set an exclusion window. Otherwise, TM has been pretty flawless for me.
What is the one line? (I shall benchmark!)
Latency is one of the things my iPhone owning friends complain the most about when they try another phone (usually a Samsung loaded to the brim with bloatware)
Exactly. If anyone is going to work _with_ the government, you should be aware of the Technology Readiness Level (TRL)[0]. It's like the cornerstone of how everything operates. It takes decades to get to level 9 sometimes, and when reliability is critical that's what they use. Not only is it "if it ain't broke, don't fix it", but "it ain't broke, and we understand every single component of this system and everything that can go wrong with it, don't 'fix' it."

It can also take a lot of time for something to get from TRL 6 to TRL 7, and from TRL 7 to TRL 8. Sometimes realistically impossible to get to TRL 9! The system could be more efficient for sure, and probably has broken down too much, but the idea itself is fine.

Fwiw, I've seen things that I 100% believe should be done today and that there's massive amounts of evidence for it, but aren't done because they aren't TRL 9. I don't want to start arguments, but there's a certain industry that gets hit with this all the time. Where they can do tons of complex and detailed models but aren't able to build the actual thing because it hasn't been physically demonstrated. Which leads to a weird self referential roadblock.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_readiness_level
So I suppose the real truth we've discovered in this thread is that sacnoradhq has never visited the city's public library ever....
As someone who recently moved back to Canada I echo this.

This is an existential issue.

I own two houses, both mortgages paid, make 150k as a family and would need to save for decades to put a down payment on a detached home in a far away suburb of Ottawa.

People who didn't own a house a few years ago bought too much house for fear of being priced out of the market and now their mortgages are coming up for renewal...can't pay it so the banks are doing 50-90 year mortgages!!
I didn't intend for it to be read as either good or bad. Actually I think it's a good thing. Government employees should not see themselves as independent of politicians.
Often there is a choice between not showing a thing happen on screen because it wouldn't be practical/economical, or using VFX. Now suppose for instance you're making a disaster movie about a tsunami hitting NYC; your options are doing it with scale models (which will look fake or limit you to very quick shots of the disaster), doing it with computers, or not making the movie at all. That sort of effect for that sort of movie isn't really negotiable.

But when the effect isn't critical to the movie and not having the effect was a perfectly valid choice? Like for instance, a character throws a cigar and the director thinks it would be cool to have the camera follow and spin around the cigar as it's flying through the air. Maybe you could do that for real with a sophisticated robot arm holding the camera, but that's expensive. In a previous era, the director would forget about that idea, it wouldn't get into the movie and nobody would care that it wasn't in the movie. But now that computer imagery is cheap and abundant, a director can have that gratuitous effect. And if it doesn't look like crap when the movie is released, it will almost certainly look like crap a few years later. The movie would have been better off without the effect in the first place. But because VFX is so cheap, it is now used for nonsense like this all the time and it makes movies worse on the whole.

One of the first movies I noticed this in was Fight Club. At the start of the movie when the MC is in the office, there's a long scene of the camera flying in between garbage in a garbage can. It's all CGI; there would have been no way to get a real camera flying around in between empty cans and donuts wrappers. It's an impossible shot to do for real, but they could do it with CGI. It also looks like crap, completely fake. I saw this movie in theaters and it looked fake then, and even worse now. In an era before CGI, the director could have settled on having a macro camera pan across a pile of trash without flying and twisting around inside of the trash. A real camera filming real trash. It would not have been as dynamic, but it would look real and continue to look real forever.

Basically, the cheapness of VFX seems to blind many directors to cases in which less-is-more. Now we have more-is-more movies packed to the brim with every gratuitous effect anybody can think of and it all ages like milk.
that was covered by the second portion of my comment. There are a few that are legit we don't know what that was. If we had better details/pictures/video of them we might be able to say better.

In my opinion the likelyhood that they're aliens seems low though.
I might or might not have stories about fix numerical types underflowing.

Not that fix nums are wrong, but they are far from safe.
The idea would be to build the equivalents of JS and WA in PHP for client-side
I am not a lawyer and this isn't legal advice.

This isn't gonna end well, in the short-term. However, you can prepare yourself for the longer term. Many companies, especially startups, just don't care.

Document, or send a recap email, acknowledging that you talked with your boss about the parental leave. Anything not in writing, didn't really happen - an email that they don't respond to or agree with is still good. Point out your concerns, based on this performance feedback and state that you believe it's related to bringing up parental leave - "I believe I am being retaliated against for expressing my intent to go on paterbity leave". Then, loop in HR. Then, continue to raise the concerns as they arise. The more appropriate people that get these emails, the less likely the company can claim ignorance. A pattern of behavior and negligent / discriminatory practices is what you are trying to establish. If one manager is bad that's unfortunate, if all of HR / legal / founders / CEO all know this is going on and do nothing or are complicit, that's way worse.

All the while, consult a plaintiff side employment attorney and start looking for another job. Now that I think about it, you might want to talk to an attorney first - there could be FMLA issues or CRA issues in play.

Best case, everything is documented (keep copies of your emails / slack / etc, for your records) and the company changes their ways. Worst case, you get fired and your attorney takes it from there.

Good luck and I'm sorry this is happening to you.
This made me audibly giggle. What's old is new again baby!
> Entity Framework (which is kind of just an ORM++)

Entity Framework is the best ORM I have ever used. There's no competition in my opinion.

I used to use Dapper a lot, but EF has easily replaced all of those needs for me.
Absolutely the case. For example, the military requires all commercial satellite imagery to be scaled to 25 cm resolution (up until 2014 it was limited to 50 cm). The true resolution is classified.
Don't believe the hype -- I think workchat probably beats slack for speed in the web client, but the desktop/android clients which I use regularly are truly sluggish and constantly refusing to load new messages if I'm not constantly using them, forcing me to restart them in order to do so.
E2EE with a back door is not E2EE.
The article does not in fact contain any examples of her brilliant writing, so that we could see for ourselves. But it does contain eight Amazon affiliate links, in case we wanted to pay to read what she wrote in the 1600s.
Fun fact: in the early days of silicon wafer manufacturing (60s or 70s IIRC) they would randomly have yields crater for a few days each month.

Eventually they discovered yields were tanking when their female employee was on her period.

Source: The Big Scoree
Thank you. For me, I like making engines. It’s my time off, I can do what I want. I know someone else will make something leagues better with premade engines. But it’s not a race. And I make many of my own art assets too. They’re terrible. I make these things for myself and to share with a few people dear to me. Maybe they makes me no more grown up than a kid hoping their drawing gets on the family fridge, but I want to create these things, not just produce.
Generative Agents and Artificial Societies
I rarely see IIT characterized as complete junk. Personally, I don't see much value in it as I don't think it answers, or even grapples with, the hard problem of consciousness. Tell me how integrated information gives rise to subjective experience and maybe I'll start buying what they're selling.
The president would have the clearance, but the issue is knowing who to even ask who would have knowledge. Top Secret SCI is compartmentalized, so only the people who need to know get read in.

One great example of this is during the Bin Laden raid planning, after all plans were exhausted on how they could put boots on the ground, only then did a high ranking officer let the president and the rest of the team in the room know about the stealth helicopters that even the SEALs had never seen before.
Many of the tools shared in this thread simplify working with CSV files, but only some allow running proper SQL queries.

SQLite, DuckDB and Clickhouse-local have been mentioned, but another very simple one, a single dependency-free binary, is https://github.com/multiprocessio/dsq

Not affiliated, just a happy user
>I'm not sure anyone watched the three or so TV series about John Carmack and John Romero

Which series were these? I'd love to watch them but can't find any information. From googling they shot a pilot for a Masters of Doom series in 2019 but it seems to have never been released.
Running (diskless) production workloads on Fly.io since 2021 (300+ req/sec across 30+ regions). Sure you ran into problems almost every month back then, but not anymore. Not in my experience.
He's not the only one... https://www.tedcruzforhumanpresident.com/
Show HN: Cubisum – A Number Puzzle Game
Hi HN,

I'd like to share a logic number puzzle game that I've been working on. Cubisum ("Cubism" + "sum") draws inspiration from Sudoku and Minesweeper, while also creating compositions reminiscent of Piet Mondrian's cubist work. The rules are simple, but I found it a surprising challenge (It was much harder to estimate the difficulty before I saw an actual game board). I hope you enjoy it -- any feedback would be much appreciated!
CSAM does carry emotional weight.
Your entire argument is that since privacy measures are already loose then its okay to make them looser for "the children".
I'd love to learn more about what your needs are in terms of Cohort analysis and what brings you back to SQL.

We have a retention report which works for both users and companies and allows you to quickly spin up retention cohorts
love the 5 pin connectors as well. Its like the 80s are still here.
Right exactly I'm not trying to be an efficient gamedev pumping out money making products.

I have my boring software career to make me money. I am seeking higher satisfaction at this point in my life.
The tight grain pattern that comes from slow growth in an old growth forest is something impossible to replicate in a post clear cut environment.

I am not positive, but increasing temps and lighter winters, more CO2 in the atmosphere, probably also increase the growth per season even in a forest that hasn’t been logged, if there are any.
> Harry Potter had phenomenally good source material such that they would have had to try really hard to mess it up.

I wish that were true, but there's too many terrible movies with outstanding source material.
My 5 year old laptop supports Windows 11 which means that it will likely get updates for another 5-6 years from today. That's a total of at least 10-11 years of support.

This tends to vary by generation (my laptop is just new enough for official Windows 11 support) but I think in any case is quite impressive. And of course after 2028 or whatever I can throw Linux on it and use it for another few years.
To reporters, funding is 3rd-party validation that a business is actually worth writing about.

Just like press coverage is 3rd-party validation to potential customers that a company is actually worth considering.
what does k-sortable mean?
If you got TLS 1.3 to work in Win 3.11, you deserve an award from Microsoft.
News Nation follow up on Rubio interview with Ross Coulthart. Discussion of implications.

https://youtu.be/4uY62OmDfLg
I don't get this. How does one believe Android is compromised and yet, the hardware is not.

I'm not aware of Google intentionally placing backdoors in Android. However, I am very much aware of hardware makers compromising shipping products, be it the ASIC itself or FW being loaded by ODMs/system integrators.
Nice!

How can you interface with Quest diagnostics like this?

When you say that you are working to expand this to other locations what does this mean? Are you negotiating with other Quest labs?

The test is not approved by the FDA so why can they provide it?

Are you affiliated with the test provider or Quest in any way?
While I agree, it all depends on the methods of communication. In a more or less standard scenario, with a daily sync with video and then async like Slack, it doesn't matter that much who's in the office. I tend to message my colleagues on Slack even if they are sitting next to me, for the same reason that public channels are recommended over private ones - nobody is excluded and it's easy to find information that would otherwise be lost.
What kind of support do you expect? I'm pretty sure that absolute majority of software does not care about any particular bits in UUID, so you can use it today. If some software cared about any particular bits, just imitate UUIDv4, I mean those bits could be randomly generated as well. If you need generation procedure, write it yourself, it's easy.
I grew up in an area of the Twin Cities metro area of Minnesota that has very high PFAS contamination from decades of 3M's dumping of chemicals. Would love to get one of these tests once available in Minnesota!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3M_Contamination_of_Minnesota_...
No, I live in Vancouver.

We have posts like this one several times a week in our subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/vancouver/comments/1498ksd/does_any...

People in that thread are saying their retirement plan is MAiD (the new Canadian assisted suicide program). People talk about being depressed, sobbing regularly over how unaffordable things have gotten.

There are more posts like this in every major BC city subreddit as well as /r/britishcolumbia and /r/canada
I wish Android Firefox was as well behaved, beyond a certain amount of tabs new ones don't really load until I shut some, it's been like that for years, on different phoned and different android versions.
The amount I can keep open seems to increase as phones get better.
Morbid curiosity. Like rubberneckers driving by a crash scene.
Would you consider adding a "let me know when this is available in my area" notification signup (assuming you anticipate some delay between areas of availability)?
When I was a kid I saw a movie or TV show about a guy who had won one of these in a contest, but then threw a party and never completed the build out of the house... so the kit was left in parts all over the plot of land he won.

I've never been able to find this movie.
> I get pretty dismissive when I hear someone is designing a custom engine for their game.

Teardown [1] was developed by one guy, custom engine, and sold over a million copies. The technology is so unique that it wouldn't be possible to implement in an existing engine, at least not without significant rewrites.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teardown_(video_game)
It’s not entirely impossible; mathematicians did it for thousands of years (just read Newton’s Principia). It does use very specific language to do so, and some of the language might not exist for some advanced mathematical concepts, but I think that this whole article could be written that way.
You're not wrong about that. The history of their interference with domestic corporations is why I add that in, though. They do have an interest in weakening all cryptography, but the ones they're best-suited to compromise are the ones relying on domestic trust.
Supreme Court makes it harder to prosecute online stalkers
I heard it's one movie, once in the jungle and once in the ocean.
It's not a function of density, there are plenty of incredibly dense cities in Europe and Asia that don't have anything like the price inflation of Canada. Canada has a) not been building nearly enough housing (same story as the US, UK, Australia, NZ, etc) to keep up with demand and b) their version of fannie mae/freddie mac is fully part of the government instead of a private/public thing. In 2008 the Canadian government just allowed people to borrow more to keep home prices intact instead of the US where there was a big drop as the bottom of the market fell out.

And the Canadian government since has continued letting people leverage themselves harder and harder so the market doesn't dip. That is how modest homes are selling for over a million CAD. The US is in the same trajectory but with higher salaries and the dip in 2008 we are just 5-10 years behind Canada on this.

See also the UK now allowing for mortgages to be passed on to the children of the home buyer, so that the term length can exceed a human lifetime, so as to not explode the monthly payment.
I'd like to point out a couple of things.

One is that, while this is written like a straight news article (until the last paragraph), this is in The Hill's Opinion section. In the past, I have seen this publication allow people of questionable credibility to post in their Opinion section. I have no idea who this writer is, but they are not a news reporter (or they weren't acting as one when they wrote this piece).

The second is that the bill appears to be about Congress' authority to control funding and perform oversight. They are withdrawing funds from secret UFO projects and asking those involved to come forward, either with the greatest discovery in human history or (more likely) with a story about money being misappropriated and that misappropriation being hidden from the US Senate.
Cholera flourishes today because of dense, stable housing with poor sanitation, which were lesser problems for hunter-gatherers. (Not to say that cholera wasn't still a killer...)

Properly cooking and cleaning food (and avoiding having to eat raw food) are really important factors, though.
Then shouldn't countries with the least regulations have the highest QoL?

Then why does it seem to be the exact opposite?
1. No there's no room. Many of the existing urban centres are pretty much "built out" and no more McMansions for everyone. Maybe we could build an apartment for everyone, and a townhouse for many. This is the core reason why prices have spiked up so much.

2. There's actually not a lot of lumber. Mills are closing and lumber towns are dying.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/canadian-cen...
https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2023/01/18/Running-Empty-BC-Fore...

3. People and the courts have come to realize that the "massive amounts of government land" are not actually the government's to give away. In many cases these lands are unceded by indigenous First Nations who are wrestling back control of their title and natural resources. All of this means that future use of the land is more complex than it may seem.
What is racist about it?
Wow, I love this. I'm currently building an open source editor that has a lot of overlap with BlockSuite[1]. In Chisel, blocks are also the fundamental building block (pun intended). There are flavored blocks, and it also has a local-first approach, using service workers to make things fast. Chisel has a different focus since it's meant for writing fiction, but plenty of things seem the same.

My code is pretty slapdash, as I have been playing with what I actually want from this editor. BlockSuite's implementation looks much more polished. I've been meaning to refactor, and this might be the time to start!

[1] https://chiseleditor.com