skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This Wolbachia bacteria is really something else. It seems to have a massive set of effects on a variety of organisms, directly impacting the way they reproduce, or even the way which sex they develop into. Remarkable.

As some sort of bonus it also prevents the host from developing other viral diseases in the case of mosquitos, I guess because it's a parasite, so it's advantageous for it to do so? Wild little thing. Does a lot.

>"Computational models predict that introducing Wolbachia strains into natural populations will reduce pathogen transmission and reduce overall disease burden.[64] An example includes a life-shortening Wolbachia that can be used to control dengue virus and malaria by eliminating the older insects that contain more parasites. Promoting the survival and reproduction of younger insects lessens selection pressure for evolution of resistance.[65][66]"

>"In addition, some Wolbachia strains are able to directly reduce viral replication inside the insect. For dengue they include wAllbB and wMelPop with Aedes aegypti, wMel with Aedes albopictus.[67] and Aedes aegypti.[68]"

[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolbachia]
If I remember the stories correctly, Robin hood lived in the forest with his merry men. Not in a palace in the bahamas :)
trusting is indeed probably always more efficient than not-trusting -- however, the crux of the matter is what your options are when trusting is not possible. you can always choose to trust in the presence of a trustless mechanism, but it does not work the other way around.
“We have spent the money of some very rich people and created a popular product. These laws that we ignored go against our interests and should not apply to us. Did we mention, we represent some very rich people. “
There is so much fun programming lore in this video. Informative and entertaining. For example:

- Task manager started as a weekend side project

- Author had an assertion message with his home phone number that made it into an NT beta release
As a general rule, I do listen to experts in fields in which I myself am not an expert. This rule is extremely useful, for example I am in good health thanks to listening to doctors; I also save so much time by trusting the civil engineers who built the bridges or tunnels I pass, instead of doing my own calculations, or trusting the aviation engineers who designed the planes I sometimes fly.

I think I would be unable to function in the modern society if I wouldn't trust experts (in their fields).
It's interesting that maximum/minimum for disjunction/conjunction doesn't apply for probabilities, except when the probabilities "overlap as much as possible" (when at least one implies the other).

And when the probabilities overlap as little as possible, then the formulas are:

P(a or b) = min(1, P(A)+P(B))

P(a and b) = max(0, P(a)+P(b)-1)

I guess there is some lesson about logic and truth here, but I can't quite see it...
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Ask HN: Why there's still no consensus on time restricted feeding / fasting?
A beautiful read, thank you for sharing. May you and your partner be well.
That's close to the time frame when I realized solar was going to win just based on pure business accounting.

Thing to consider the ultimate price of a manufactured good tends to track production volume, device complexity, and energy required to produce including raw material.

Solar panels require complex machines to produce but are themselves simple, the volume is high at scale, and energy requirements are low. That points to something where the price is close to the energy and material costs.
It's not "character assassination" to criticize someone.
Also notable is that such a deprecation notice is not fatal: usually one maintainer or group of maintainers have decided - but that's based on their own view of needs vs headache.

A user can easily (often) continue maintaining a local copy - just for their local habit. First just with the current version of the software. And nothing prevents them from taking over as public maintainer for Gentoo. Either as a mainstream package or in one of the many unofficial repositories. This is all helpful as package system features.
Those ready meals are full of salts to preserve them. And not very nutritional.
> So he's almost assuredly taking from the middle-class-at-best to give to his own personal pet projects.

He's still (for the largest part) taking investment money from the top 1% or at least top 10% of the world and is (in his opinion) putting it to work saving actual lives. I don't think it's that hard to see how he could justify his actions to himself.

> and when things are settled, it's almost assuredly the whales that will get paid out first.

This is pure speculation on my part, but I'm pretty sure that "how is the remaining money re-distributed once my company implodes" didn't make it into his calculations. Also, where the remaining funds go is pretty irrelevant to the calculation anyway, as it's not going to be funneled towards EA causes.
When Oppenheimer witnessed the first explosion of a nuclear weapon, he quelled his ethical reservations over the destructive power of his creation with a verse from the Bhagavad Gita [1] often mistranslated as the deity stating "I am death, destroyer of worlds", but more accurately - "I am time, and I will destroy these people with or without your involvement".

Had the scientists of the Manhattan project (Oppenheimer, Fermi, Szilard, etc) subscribed to the EA philosophy, they would have been unlikely to work on nuclear weapons development, and millions more would have likely perished in a land invasion of Japan. However, millions of Southeast Asians and South Americans did perish in the subsequent "proxy wars" of the Cold War era, so you can make a convincing historical "what if" either way.

Effective altruism is not a very useful philosophy if you don't actually know what is best for humanity. Oppenheimer's philosophy (the Gita philosophy) was to simply do his job without being attached to the outcome.

1. https://www.holy-bhagavad-gita.org/chapter/11/verse/32
Utilitarianism, the principle of maximizing good for the greatest number of people, is fairly common in informing social norms and policy-making.

It's a guideline, but not an absolute rule. We can acknowledge its value as a general approach yet also recognize situations where a strictly utilitarian choice would be abhorrent.

Life is not so black-and-white.
I disagree with this because I was vocally against SBF in the EA forums prior to him being arrested, as were many others.
I don't play videogames, but I am familiar with famous titles like this one.

I would have loved to see something really bold, such as Cities set in Venice, and the task is to revamp the city. More interesting, instead of cars, cars, cars...
Dunno about them, but you don't have to look far in America.

Story from Georgia: I was a contractor working in a creepy old rural courthouse overnight. In the early hours of the morning, I kept seeing shadows in my periphery and thought I was hallucinating. Turned out to be a baby bat trapped in the room.

I spent the next few hours chasing it around trying to trap it with a wastebin. Eventually succeeded, called my boss and they called Animal Control. They were too busy to come out but said they'd "send someone." I stuck around and worked a double so nobody accidentally released it again; the day staff were all older ladies and it would have been pandemonium.

6 hours later, two facility maintenance workers from the city show up. I show them where it is, they say thanks and get in position around it. They proceeded to kick the can over and stomp it to death.

(That being my experience with "Animal Control" to date, I later caught a lost dog in rural California. This time, I just called the police, but they referred me to the Humane Society. Here we go again...except they showed up within an hour and collected him without incident.)
I don't agree. I lived in Thailand where it's common to just buy a plastic bag of food from a street vendor. Most houses apparently don't even have full kitchens.
Why do you think the former precludes the latter?

This seems to be like if someone comes to a doctor with an arrow stuck through him, someone saying "don't give him any pain killers, that's bad. Just take the arrow out so the problem is solved."

You should obviously remove the arrow to correct the root cause, but you don't need to deny the patient pain killers in order to do so. Judging him morally or legally for wanting them doesn't make sense to me, short of claiming that an unprovable all powerful being who talks to man only through extremely unreliable and non reproducable channels has revealed to us that it's actually a sin.
It seems some people have misconception that excessive oil and overcooking are causes for sticking, while opposite of that is how to completely eliminate sticking. When they can't accept the latter, they might resort to Teflon and steel wool sponges.
No, people like him don't want certain queries to be available to anyone else.
Using Bitcoin is not equivalent to circumventing banking regulations. Banking regulations concern money transmitters and banks. Since Bitcoin involves neither, those regulations do not apply, at least not for regular payments between individuals or businesses. It is therefore perfectly lawful for unbanked people to use Bitcoin, at least in most countries.
Interesting how that was exactly my thought process. I asked the original question, read that response, and then moved almost immediately to ask "own what?". I really wanted to know, as those details are important.

Decided against it, read your response, and saw "begs the question". Yes, it does.

I hope that "NFT"s are not something used as an example in an answer.
Windows is disappointing. It is not possible to remove telemetry from Windows.

ReactOS does not have any telemetry. ReactOS is original Open Source code, developed outside of Redmond.

It is not disappointing when bug in ReactOS is fixed. It is a reason to celebrate and be happy.
Banking is optional; the problem is that many businesses insist on bank cards to transact. It’s important that businesses be compelled to accept cash for all transactions.

It’s particularly bad in some cities. Rather than enforcing access to the special hell that is US retail banking, just prohibit businesses from ripping out their existing cash infrastructure.

Even with a bank account, your ability to transact is subject to surveillance and seizure/freezing without evidence or probable cause. Cash has none of these problems.
> I don't care if it's not very customisable. I just need something to test product ideas quickly.

Take a look at the bootstrap examples: https://getbootstrap.com/docs/5.3/examples/

Find one that is roughly what you want or close to it and customize it until it fits.
And your comment is just a remix of words from things you've read. The question is whether the result is a derivative work, which... I can't completely rule it out, but it's not obvious that that's all LLMs do. It pretty quickly gets to a question of exactly how the tech works and then gets philosophical (what is creativity?).
I know for a fact he did give away money. I did some data analysis voluntary work for a charity aggregator he used and saw records, he absolutely donated sizeable amounts to charity (as he said he did).
Bitcoin isn't money, and adoption by merchants has never been lower. I was talking about the original vision.
>There is no centralization/dictatorial dynamic for this in the US, at all.

You are incredibly incorrect on that assertion. There is, in fact, a centralization/dictatorial dynamic at play, and it's called the Bank Secrecy Act.

Now it doesn't read like it, which most acts of american legislature don't, but on further observation of what it actually does, the intent becomes clear. There is one financial system in the U.S., you will play by it's rules or be excluded, it won't tell you why, it will not be a dumb pipe either. It is directly coupled to law enforcement, and the Federal Government, and yes, there is a Master list that if you get on it, will lock you out of withdrawing from (but not depositing into!) every U.S. bank.

Part of why I no longer do finance work. Once you see how the sausage is made, there is no shower hot enough to slough off the slimey feeling.
You know things are rough when…

The game ran so poorly
that Windows Game Bar
refused to acknowledge
there even was a framerate.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadratic_reciprocity
Or rely on an email proxy whenever possible.

If I get spam, I know it where it originated and I can just blackhole that address.
As soon as I read UEFI in the news letter I knew this forum post would end up in the comments :). The newsletter is about UEFI class 3, I.e. no CSM, where that is not. There are some later posts in that thread about using UefiSeven which is a project which hacks minimal int10h support but at that point you might as well just have modified freeloader for proper support instead.
You can in any systems programming language.

Go is mostly a toy language for cloud people.
Alan Wake 2 looks a lot better, though. From the article:

> As a comparison similar hardware in Alan Wake 2 — which was released the same week as C:S2 and is considered by some to be the best looking game of this console generation — reaches comparable average framerates with all settings cranked including path tracing, either at 1440p without any upscaling magic or at 4K with some help from DLSS. I think that’s a good illustration of how bizarrely demanding C:S2 is.

I love CS:2, but it does run noticeably worse than every other game I have (using GFN's RTX 4080, which normally never lags) with outright stutters lasting a few seconds at a time, interrupting whatever I was doing. And it does that without looking really any better than its predecessor. And even if you turn down all the settings, it still lags quite a lot.

I think most people playing city builders don't necessarily demand super-next-gen graphics, but performance that can keep up with the growth of their cities.

I still gave CS:2 a positive/thumbs-up review, but I can understand why so many people are frustrated with it. Launching with such a limited number of building options and no editor or mod support was also kinda a let-down. Still, I'm excited about the foundation they've made in 2, and think that it'll be awesome in a few years' time.
One of the problems with effective altruism (and consequentialism more generally) is that it's quite hard to look at SBF and say definitively that his actions had net negative consequences.

Maybe his donations saved lives. Maybe anthropic (which he famously funded) will save the world. Maybe by discrediting EA, SBF saved the world from EA fanatics. You could ennumerate hypotheticals like this forever, positive and negative. It's for this reason that we have to rely on intuitive moral feelings or there's no way to confidently say that anything is good or bad.

That said, I view EA as a call to think more carefully and analytically about our actions and how they affect the world. There's certainly nothing wrong with that as long as it's not taken to bizarre extremes.
The article is way too rosy. Sure it didn't cost much but it also uses a shit rail technology IMO that is very noisy. Go ask the residents that live near it if they find that nice. They had so many complaints recently that they had to do urgent work to mitigate.

The problem we have in general is that the REM should have been expanded way beyond the Montreal suburbs. All the planning for public transit is controlled by local agencies and no larger integration vision. I have a family member that now has a longer commute because the bus go to the REM instead of straight to downtown Montreal.

It's also super useless if you live a bit further out than the immediate Montreal suburb like I do since you already have to take your car to the highway so it is faster to continue driving on the island vs getting out, finding a parking, waiting for the train, etc.

Personnaly I am very critical of how we handle public transit here vs what I saw can be done in Europe.
If Starship can't dock to ISS then use a small capsule as a tender. The capsule wouldn't need long term life support or large engines or a heat shield, it could be relatively simple and cheap.

Or better, why even go to ISS, one Starship has more habitable volume than the whole thing...
The author lost me at the title, tbh.
How do you know Paypal usually keeps the money, is there a public accounting of this situation? Would be interesting to analyze - please share any info you have on the data.
My rule of thumb is that I don't listen to anyone who can't write exploits for modern software stacks (OS kernels, browsers.) And even then, you can still ignore 50% of those people too, as they are cranks. In contrast, most of the people here in every one of these threads couldn't overflow an integer if you let them write the for loop.

> I wouldn't be surprised to read comments that TPM is used by Bill Gates to give you Covid.

One time on here, someone linked an academic paper describing an HTTP PCIe accelerator. One of the (eight) authors was from Tsinghua, and so naturally someone in the comments started freaking out about how this was a plan by the Chinese Deep State to fund this for mass surveillance. When I asked him how this would work and what threat he expected, he described an elaborate Tom Clancy plotline where these PCIe cards will actually be snooping every key exchange, keeping them in memory, and they would be secretly equipped and manufactured with short wave radio devices that would allow Chinese agents to "exfiltrate private keys" (whatever that means) by posing as janitors and technicians in the datacenter and beaming those radio messages to them.

That was his threat model for "thing you literally plug into your fucking server and put on a shared memory bus."

Now, how this is expected to work when most HTTP accelerators don't do key exchange (and never ever see long term keys), or how these keys would benefit them when presumably many encrypted comms do not go through cables controlled and spliced by the nefarious, evil-loving CCP -- well, that's left as an exercise for you!
I cannot possibly explain in a full how I deal with it, but I can give you advice.

Pick a few sources and stick with them. Pick carefully, they must be a professional media. They must separate opinions and facts. They must avoid emotional arguments and judgements. They must check facts and communicate the quality of their checks if they are not completely sure.

If you watch them over a prolonged period of time, you'll learn their biases. You'll learn their tricks and systematic failures. In some cases you can even learn biases of individual reporters. When you know biases you can correct them, either by thought alone or by a few google queries.
Lets try this:

I'd like you do give away 100% of your salary, ok?

Are you greedy if you say no?
What fucking moral boundaries am I overstepping if I donate via EA to get some mosquito nets put up in Africa??
> AlphaZero learned to play chess via self-play, not by reading books about chess.

> Why couldn't the same happen for art for example?

> For coding, won't a sufficiently advanced neural net be able to figure out how to use a programming language when given just the documentation?

some domains are too complex and large to be cracked that way.
Why did they make the game in Unity instead of UE5? I assume it's something around the likes of "Staff is more comfortable with Unity", right, so let's release a game that runs like absolute garb. because we want to use a specific engine.

Next time I wanna take out my graphics card from my PC I'm going to use scissors instead of screwdrivers because I'm more comfortable with them.

When did the gaming industry become a place where what people inside the company want matters more than the end user? People love to cry about developers not being responsible for the state the gaming industry is at right now, but I disagree, and this is an example. Had they simply responded with "We cannot do it with Unity" management would have had no choice but to switch to Unreal 5.
Of course. The idea that human parseable strings would forever be computer-proof is silly.

I'm always amazed at the number of people who think myemailname+filterkeyword@gmail.com is spam proof.
Vision Pro VR Headset Is Unlikely to Be the Growth Engine Apple Needs
trying to avoid Plaid.
Someone who used to be vocal on EA Forums & was around for a couple years. I got less involved for other reasons after the whole SBF stuff.
I spent 40 minutes trying to eke out more than a handful of fps on an empty map with the resolution set at 1080p with Proton Experimental. I gave up and got a refund, I'll try again if they fix the awful performance.

I got a tremendous amount of enjoyment out of the first instalment of the game, it's a big bummer that I can't give this one a go
And they all have nukes. All the more important that they do something now that doesn’t involve a war over resources.
I just finished, “How Big Things Get Done”, I think on a recommendation some time back from someone on HN.

He says that among the projects that tend to be on time and on budget, roads, solar and wind are three of them. While he doesn’t say it, I read this as “all large successful projects start as small successful projects”. Once you’ve built 10 miles of road the next 10miles is mostly more of the same, subsurface conditions notwithstanding. Once you’ve installed three wind turbines in a field installing the rest looks much the same (getting the first one in required solving a bunch of transportation problems of course). The teams just get a little faster with each one, because they are iterating on a pattern they already know.

You try to build a nuclear power plant and it might not show up until after the politicians who pushed for it to be built have retired. Which means it might not show up at all because all of the skin has left the game. But if I try to cap my career as governor with a new wind or solar farm? I may actually get to cut the ribbon.

It makes me feel a bit better about our prospects that solar and wind are easier logistical problems than repeating the old patterns.
Looking at Wikipedia, Jack isn't part of Ma's birth name, so I suppose his is a name like "Tom Cruise".

Same with Jackie Chan.
There's a game kind of like that, maybe, called Cities in Motion (also published by Paradox...) where you build mass transit for existing cities. Buses, subways, trams, etc. It's narrow focus is pretty fun, while there isn't a Venice city, it's about revamping existing cities kinda.
They did. But iMessage is end-to-end encrypted. As long as you avoid the iCloud caveat (iCloud backups are by default not E2E encrypted) you get an actual uncensored E2EE messaging app in China.
Alan Wake 2 performs well on PS5, and I haven’t encountered any “game breaking bugs” (about 3/4 of the way through). There’s no conspiracy, it’s a fantastic game.
I switched to stainless last year after getting fed up of going through so many teflon pans, and decided I wanted to stop ingesting teflon flakes (I know PFOA is not technically in the end result and it's supposed to be inert, but I'd rather not ingest it all the same).

Cooking on stainless is not as bad as I expected in terms of sticking, it does require better care over temperature control, but that also seems to have resulted in me cooking better. Also when stuff does get a little stuck or burnt, it comes off without deteriorating the pan unlike non-stick.