skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I of course wouldn't want to store my data in there today, I wouldn't even trust that I get it back reliably because DNA reading comes with a relatively big error rate for storage purposes (of course error correction can mitigate that). But it would be cool if the technology progresses. All technology, including disks, magnetic tapes, and new alternatives. Whether DNA is viable in the end or not, I don't know. I do know that tech always has been progressing and new alternatives are sometimes found, and that I do see a use for more storage.

But an argument whether DNA is a viable option in the future or not would have to say technically what the issue of DNA is with future tech.

Whether it's more expensive today, or that there's no need for more data today, are not really arguments against it.

I do not intend to be arguing for snake oil or anything here though. If "DNA storage" is in a similar category of "perpetual motion machines" and "cars that run on tap water" then count me out.

I don't even know how our comments ended up being like arguing against each other. The only thing really I didn't agree with in the original comment was "Because, storage isn't something we lack", because I do find it lacking, both at home and in the cloud.
> Make them type IRREVERSIBLY DELETE MY ACCOUNT!, in all caps, with punctuation.

This is what GitHub does. But incidents like this still happen: https://httpie.io/blog/stardust

> Due to an unfortunate sequence of events, I accidentally made the project’s repository private for a moment. And GitHub cascade-deleted our community that took 10 years to build.

> There’s a confirmation box. It’s designed to stop users in a situation like mine from doing something stupid. It tells you that “You will permanently lose all stars and watchers of this repository.”

If it happens to experienced developers, imagine the laymen. Humans are just fallible, I guess.
I believe the changes go back to an execute order from October 2022. https://www.linklaters.com/en/insights/blogs/digilinks/2022/... has a summary.

One key issue was that European citizens should have a way to make complaints (it wasn't clear which US agency was responsible and if they'd act), another that intelligence agencies don't get a blank check looking at all data.
noyb is ready to challenge this https://noyb.eu/en/european-commission-gives-eu-us-data-tran...
Next round for Max Schrems. Is there even anyone who would bet against him, after winning all of the last rounds?
It depends how you read that sentence.

Race doesn't matter if "low-income neighborhoods with higher proportions of Black and Latino residents" is simply stating that all low income neighborhoods have higher proportions of Black and Latino residents. Although it's kind of relevant if all downstream bias in arrests etc, say, goes away when you control for income.

But I read it as "of all low income neighborhoods, ones with higher proportions of Black and Latino residents had more police vehicle images". In which case, the question is:

Why would similar-income neighborhoods (which you theorize should have similar crime levels regardless of race) be policed differently based on the race of the population?
Not quite - that was because it was labeled a warranty brochure.
There are also weird warranty vs contract issues there.

The court, on the contract issue, found that people would not expect to find an arbitration restriction in the warranty brochure, and without something else pointing them at it, it wasn't good enough.

"Here, Samsung entitled the brochure “Product Safety & Warranty Information.” The title would not put a reasonable person on notice that the brochure contained “a freestanding obligation outside the scope of the warranty.” "

The court would have been satisfied if they had put a big ole sticker on the phone screen that said "the warranty brochure contains important arbitration restrictions, you should read it".

No active acceptance necessary ;)

The court was also clear that in-box unilateral contracts are okay under california law.

In this case, you are right the question will be whether someone would be expected to notice it exists.

Unlike a random warranty brochure containing arbitration provisions, EULA.txt and friends are common in software, so a court is likely to find the terms would be there.
Of course, if they lose they'll clickwrap it and win.

Don't get me wrong, i think in-box contracts are nonsense, but my personal view is not the law, or even close to it.
Are Twitter and Reddit actually good at monetizing? Both have utility, but I don't think of either as particularly successful on the financial aspect of their businesses.
Interesting. If i understand correctly, this means US processors and controllers must be certified annually by the FTC and/or DoT.

The certification is based on Principles outlined in the document and are very GDPR-ey
Yes. Actually a lot of companies still run on it. Booking.com, Fastly, ByteMark, OpenCage, I even know of a few startups that run on Perl.
I prefer working on monoliths as opposed to microservices. Microservices (2-pizza team model microservices, or microservices uses for this one little thing) are a reaction to be development practices. Many companies have a monolith which requires a dedicated team doing builds and deploys because its built on decades of bad practice and bolted on scripts deploying to bespoke servers; the company then build a new cicd pipeline and makes microservices that use the pipeline to deploy into a cloud with a vm, then they are shocked at how much better the experience is. But the improvement is from better infra and cicd, not moving monolith to microservices.

The sweet spot is IMO: Monolith until the monolith becomes truly unwieldy, then break off core pieces of functionality into other services. So 1 monolith -> 4 "microservices". The 100s of microservices is a mistake.
That really depends on your k8s environment. If you're running on bare metal and use host bind mounts for storage, you won't have a problem. But as soon as you introduce shared storage it gets messy...
For me, using it as it is described in the examples also does not work, instead I have to hit space after the modifier, then the address bar will go into the correct mode and the UI shows this as well.

It also works with pasting to the address bar, but the space between modifier and term seems to be required.
> given that the USA decided that having 4, 9 or 11 timezones — depending on how you count — was completely manageble on their end

Europe has four time zones, same as the Lower 48, if you ignore overseas territories, overseas collectivities, and whatever other remains of the various European empires. Besides, the alternative is to pull a Mainland China, which spread one time zone across enough land to need four or five of them.
If you can take out a $100k loan and 4 years off work to get a degree then you should be able to do the same to apprentice somewhere. I get what you are saying, though.
You're Paying too much for (Cloudwatch) Logs
I wish the tags would automatically populate when you used one of the shortcuts just as they do when you click on the UI.
Well that's all nice, but that would also need to be compute-efficient for it to be worthwhile and near-real-time dedupe of memory pages would be a REALLY tough challenge.
Black workers comprise 90 percent of recent unemployment spike, data show
I agree with the pun potential, but surely on DOS the smallest binaries would be COM executables? So perhaps for exe we should restrict ourselves to modern Windows?
This is a feature in Chrome as well!

https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95426
Yes. https://apnews.com/article/athletic-journalists-layoffs-new-...
I think the right fix for subscriptions is probably to require an affirmative renewal rather than a passive renewal. Since customers are too lazy to affirmatively cancel subscriptions they aren't using, a passive renewal means they keep spending money on it.

If you require affirmative renewal then there is no need to offer a "cancel my subscription" option at all because the way to cancel a subscription would be to just not renew it after it expires.

I think passive renewal is reasonable for utility services because obviously you want to continue your electric service and the cost of a momentary lapse in service would be potentially catastrophic. But your subscription to a music streaming app can lapse without anything bad happening and be renewed whenever you decide to use the app again. And that means that people who stopped using it but forgot to cancel aren't being billed for it.
Giant Python Capable of Eating Alligators Killed with Her 60 Eggs
In this context, High Performance Computing (HPC) refers to a computing paradigm where high-performance computers work on a distributed problem (e.g., supercomputers), not the actual performance of this code generator. All it means here is that it generates parallel, distributed code intended for use by HPC platforms.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-performance_computing
I can't work out my core with my body weight?
Rewatching Person of Interest now. Amazing how relevant it is; aged incredibly well.
I don't know about should, but they are taking it into account and I'm just saying why they are. Whether maximizing career success is the right choice is certainly up for debate.
I've tried to use virtio-pmem + DAX for the page cache to not be duplicated between the guest and the host. In practice the RAM overhead of virtio-pmem is unacceptable and it doesn't support discard operations at all. So yes a better solution would be needed.
Good data model means less code
Eventually one of these agreements will stick, and the US and EU will keep pumping them out until that happens.

There is too much trade at risk otherwise. There are enough macro headwinds for the global economy without adding self-inflicted injuries.
Man what a confusing title. It's not a single strand of DNA that gets the image information. You get a pool of DNA, which collectively hold the images information.

This is done in a pretty obvious way, each "pixel" is a well in a 96-well e.g. plate and you expose the bacteria in these wells to different light and then the DNA transformation is triggered by the light, then you harvest the DNA from the bacteria and get your image pool library.
It can be pretty stifling on giant teams to make any actual change.

Sure it sounds romantic to sit down with a cup of coffee and write some amazing code that makes things better. The reality is writing documents, hunting down code owners and stakeholders, organizing meetings and running into tons of adversity just so you can attempt something very risky as it is impossible to have full context on everything.
It’s obvious the resignation led to reassignment of the project, not the other way around.
We could maybe make the conversation about the social penetration of ideas coming out of various disciplines and how invalid research can harm policy or medical practice, but that'd be a completely different discussion than "psychology is utter garbage as a field."
No mention of Cloud Hypervisor [1]…perhaps they don’t know about it? It’s based in part on Firecracker and supports free page reporting, virtio-blk-pci, PCI passthrough, and (I believe) discard in virtio-blk.

[1]: https://www.cloudhypervisor.org/
Because no one writes software that can lead to death.
But Java is nominally typed so I’d argue it’s not really the same
Quite small??? They're huge!
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Read between the lines: it means EU got the access gateways to this data, probably for free (until they discover they actually don't have access to all of it).

For instance the DNA database of the EU ppl stored in the US (you know the "where are your ancestry from" DNA stuff from the US, which were actually used by the "services", caught right handed).

Urban legends say\ they can "find" somebody who got one of his/her relative do such DNA sampling.
there is absolutely no way you optimize switching plates and spend only 30 minutes in the gym if this is for real and you're not a troll.
author here. wrote this article to highlight the ridiculously wide spectrum of log costs. depending on your implementation, you can be either absurdly expensive or astoundingly cheap. cloudwatch logs is unfortunately on the wrong end of that spectrum. happy to answer any followups
I subscribed for a good while to both Wall Street Journal and New York Times, because it was very entertaining to watch how clearly biased they both were, and how conniving the presentation of seeming propaganda benefiting the two main parties was.

Several months ago it got boring, and i cancelled both. I made accounts on APnews and Reuters, and it seems that the signal to noise ratio skyrocketed.
The two sentence summary isn't even correct. "In the study, physicians found more inaccuracies and irrelevant information in answers provided by Google’s Med-PaLM and Med-PalM 2 than those of other doctors."
> Firefox seems to be longer.

Absolutely. At the current computer I'm at, I last visited https://github.com/austinhuang0131/instagrabber in May 2020, and typing either "insta" or "austin" in the addressbar still shows that URL as a suggested address.
Of course there is. Just because it doesn't appear on common clocks doesn't mean it isn't a valid time. To quote page 15 of ISO 8601:2004 (the newest version available on libgen):

> hour is represented by two digits from [00] to [24]. The representation of the hour by [24] is only allowed to indicate the end of a calendar day

And Page 17:

> NOTE 1 Midnight will normally be represented as [00:00] or [24:00].

> NOTE 2 The end of one calendar day [24:00] coincides with [00:00] at the start of the next calendar day, e.g. [24:00] on 12 April 1985 is the same as [00:00] on 13 April 1985. If there is no association with a date or a time interval both a) and b) represent the same local time in the 24-hour timekeeping system.

> NOTE 3 The choice of representation a) or b) will depend upon any association with a date, or a time interval. Representations where [hh] has the value [24] are only preferred to represent the end of a time interval in accordance with
4.4 or recurring time interval in accordance with 4.5
People trying Threads isn't the same things are people leaving Twitter.
> No, stealing is immoral.

a) So is stockpiling resources that other people need. b) Who's going to stop me?

> the market is free to determine that

So we don't drag this out any further, I'm going to explain the place I'm trying to get to, as best I can: markets aren't physical laws of the universe, they're human constructs that are defined, regulated and policed by governments (I'm using a very wide definition of government here, think "governance").

If you think the market is the fairest way to allocate resources, you have to accept that people who "cheat" the market (inside traders, muggers, etc) are subject to state-sanctioned violence. That's the violence that a "free" market, and your vision of meritocracy, requires.
The difference is that law is a human construct
> In reality, Wayland works great for most Linux desktop users (on the mainstream distros) and no-one is funding X because no-one wants to.

Actually, because it's ready and it works. And yes, most distributions use Xorg by default and all attempts to switch to Wayland fail, ex. Ubuntu. (maybe GNOME is an exception, but it's probably the only DE where Wayland somehow works).
Not in every case.

https://www.livescience.com/59329-drug-alcohol-addiction-wea...

> By age 22, lifetime rates of addiction to drugs or alcohol were 11 to 16 percent among women from affluent families, which is similar to the national norms; the rates were 19 to 27 percent among men from affluent families, twice the national norms, according to the study.

> But a more troubling trend emerged by age 26: Lifetime rates of addiction to drugs or alcohol were 19 to 24 percent among women from wealthier upbringings and 23 to 40 percent among men from those families. These rates were three times higher than the national average for women, and two times higher in men.

This does't match up with drug arrest rates.
So you don't have to go without pay during the break period. I know a lot of teachers do this for the 3 month summer vacation.
The problem here is actually ELF... not the language.
Half the programs you use? Are you OK with all of these programs having access to each other? Would using XWayland not solve the issue? The main issue I have with X programs in Wayland is that I use 4k and the scaling is off. But its still usable.
Don't think the market can support multiple newspapers behind paywalls, the leaders will take control with better coverage + features and the differentiator will be the editorial slant.
Without evaluating the cost of buying and lock in, always going for external software is as wrong as always re-doing it in house.
In the beginning of the 1920s, the leading American oil and automobile industry add lead to gasoline to get a more efficient fuel. At that time, lead was already a known poison, harmful to the nervous system - especially to children. Quickly, lead outcompetes other harmless additives, and the profit of the oil industry is huge in the decades to come. But hundred thousands tons of lead are spread around the world and cause injuries on millions of people - among others in lost IQ. Lead from gasoline has, literally, made a lot of us a bit more dim.
We have :30 and :45 time zones though, no :15 time zone. So that doesn't quite apply.
Oh, compute and storage are cheap alright, until they are not.

At many jobs I had to deal with the all-hands-on-deck, code red emergency "our AWS bill got too damn high, what can we cut" situation. I can guarantee you a ton of companies are going through this exercise right now.

Some software engineers purposefully develop using fewer resources to force themselves to reason about efficiency.

Abundance leads to complacency and laziness, and those resources are no longer cheap if you are abusing them.
That's just not how I perceive imagery shot in a flat field vs shallow depth. I've spent quite a bit of time in a VR headset with live action content. It always just feels off, even the content we acquired in 3D. The 3D helps, but it's still just off. At the time I stopped working in that field, people were just starting to talk about foveal type views. However, I think they were mainly worried about what part of the screen to render in full detail to lower the rendering requirements. It sounds like with Apple's eye tracking cameras, they might actually be closer to telling at what depth you are attempting to focus.
Here's the decision, would love if anyone reading it could share some highlights:

https://commission.europa.eu/document/fa09cbad-dd7d-4684-ae6...
Saving a German Library as an interface between research and infrastructure
Just use AGPL; it doesn't actually restrict anything legally, but none of the big cloud providers will touch it.
They were looking good for monetizing, until the users, the ones who make the platforms valuable, screwed it up for them.
Thanks!

I'm definitely going to have a look at some of the resources from your blog post.

With regards to the standard documentation: I notice that I'm able to read the sentences, but I'm finding it a bit difficult to really turn it into a working project I actually understand.

(For instance: the docs give an example of how bind to a socket address, but I'm not sure how to morph this into a simple echo server, for example, which writes back whatever I sent to it. Feels a bit like I might be missing some general information about TCP and how to test it, how it relates to HTTP, etc.)
Musk has become a cautionary tale for millions of nerds about what end-stage internet poisoning looks like.

He's one of the richest men in the world. He could have literally anything he wants. He had the respect and adoration of a massive amount of the public, getting loving name-drops and cameos in Iron Man and Star Trek.

Instead of indulging in a spectacularly hedonistic life, or pushing hard on his massively successful world-changing businesses, or spending time with his flotilla of offspring, he spends his time acting like an edgy transphobic 14-year-old on twitter.

What a waste.

The internet is bad for you.
Ask HN: How did you earn your first $100 and first $1k online?
I made:

First $100 = Freelancing on oDesk.

First $1,000 = Freelancing as a Web Developer for a client from referral.

How did you earn your first $100 & first $1,000 online?
Oh for sure, but I think the GP's "you can't really be a good manager in a bad org" is generally true on the long term. Either the org crushes you into being a bad manager, or you're pushed out. The odds are that a single, or even a few, good managers aren't enough to turn the ship of a bad org for the better.
It kind of just works. It’s actually broken under Debian 13 for some reason; memory usage infinitely balloons if the feature is enabled.
> I don’t think it’s hyperbole to call that situation an economic disaster. The US and EU have too much commercial intermingling to have the EU actually cut off data movement to US data centers.

It hasn't been an economic disaster so far, why would it be now?

And it is not that they will seal off datacenters. It just makes US companies liable for handling EU-user data in EU-jurisdiction. If they are caught red-handed exporting data to US, fines will be on the way.

The only beneficiaries from this are FANG (lower costs) and 3-letter US agencies (they info they need at the reach of their hand).
FYI, you're shadowbanned. Mail the admins.
Building Applications That Reason with Generative AI: Some Early Learnings
From the article:

> Corrado said that while he wouldn’t want it to be a part of his own family’s “healthcare journey,” he believes Med-PaLM 2 “takes the places in healthcare where AI can be beneficial and expands them by 10-fold.”

Hah?
Ish? If we are talking about "hammer training," then I can see the argument. Teach me about the different hammers and why I would pay attention to the weight and such.

But all too often, the training picks something like "build a clubhouse." And in that, I would expect legit solutions based on specifications of a clubhouse that you are wanting to build.

Language advocates fall hard on this. They will "build a TODO application" to show off part of the language. But end up with an application that can't do what folks would want a TODO application to actually do. It is very frustrating.
I've definitely never seen that before. I was actually a little startled on mouseover and for a moment wondered if it was my browser (did I install some weird plugin?)
> My experience in CS is that the replicability of experimental results is embarrassingly bad

I think that's true for low-tier/low-impact CS papers, but the difference is that literally nobody cares about those papers. The high-tier stuff is easily verifiable (like Tensorflow or whatever) and nobody is writing articles about 5% improvements against a benchmark in some obscure niche scheduling and planning domain.

Outside academic CS people are more scientific about experimental results because it has concrete implications on revenue or spend... but they aren't getting the results from conference papers.