skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’d wager there was more going on than just this. He was under performing, or failing in some other way and this was just the excuse to get rid of him.
Yes, growing conditions are certainly most important. Old growth had particular growing conditions - a very high and dense canopy for once.

Species is also more important FWIW! If you're making a window you should get a rot resistant species, not old growth stuff.

The point in OP is that if you find old growth stuff, hey, try to keep it because it's probably really good wood.
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I beleive this is referring to a single base pair changing in the DNA.
SNP (Single Nucleuotide polymorphism)

https://medlineplus.gov/genetics/understanding/genomicresear...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-nucleotide_polymorphism

I think the author took the frequency of changes in SNPs and the human population and figured if the change is "compatable with life" it exists in the human population which is a staggering 8 billion.

There are studies called GWAS (Genome Wide Annotation Studies) where they look at a the genetic sequences of a large group of people and try to figure out if a particular SNP causes a particular issue.

https://medlineplus.gov/genetics/understanding/genomicresear...

This GWAS study for example looked at 5 million genomes to find snps associated with height. "Their analysis revealed 12,111 common single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), or places in the genome where a single letter varies, that were associated with height. "

https://www.broadinstitute.org/news/largest-genome-wide-asso...
There is no "throughput vs latency" here, there is no "start-up time" for decoding an image that's already in RAM. If a decoder decodes at 100MiB/s, and a picture is 10MiB, it's decoded in 0.1 seconds. If the decoder decodes at 1 MiB/s, the same picture is decoded in 10 seconds.
How are you going to outlaw rich people lobbying for special exceptions in these simple rules for their specific circumstances? That's rhetorical of course, you can't and even if you managed to reset everything, the exceptions would be lobbied for and won, and the tax code would slowly become more complex over time until it looks like it does today.
4 facets of API monitoring you should implement
Hard to say. I think there will always be new companies that need good programmers but there was such a glut hired during there pandemic there might be more cuts needed.
I kind of agree with this argument, too.

The process of signing a commit is used in a kind of wrong manner, I suppose, because of your mentioned points.

The "view of the file tree as you saw it" basically implies that signed commits aren't worth anything if the code is refactored or changed later, which inevitably it will.

Using tags as a reference point, however, is the idea of snapshotting a mutually agreed state between multiple parties working on the project.

I think you could take this a little further, and use it to implement a Q&A workflow, where e.g. a code review team and a testing team should sign a specific snapshot as "working as we saw it", and that could integrate very well if you e.g. have a semantic version epoche of your project.
Could put it in an image; if you click the image you get a little notification 'copied to clipboard'
An A is replaced by a T, or by a G, or by a C, or vice versa.

The more expansive side of the coin are indels or CNVs (copy number variations), where pieces of genome are replaced by other pieces (ATGCT by ATGCTCTA for example) or just deleted, or where specific pieces are copied a few times. These are far harder to measure using current sequencing technologies; most people still use the ubiquitous Illumina machines which can go up to 300bp, and we know many of those more complex mutations are longer than that.
That's because opiates actually work. Have you had surgery and requested the non opiate pain killer, or are you just repeating things you heard somewhere because you think you need to have an opinion?
BitNet b1.58: The future of chatbots could be 1 bit
Plenty of articles of programmers talking about accounting to form one side of that opinion, where are the articles from accountants talking about programming to inform the other side?
Isn’t this simple? The question is whether opening up an ecosystem can involve a fee. Is that specified anywhere in the EU regulations?
A fresh computer won't matter. You still have the license on Steam. It would only be a problem if trying to play on an unsupported platform, as is the case with Linux.
So to be clear, this is a recruiting agency?
Not quite what you're looking for, but worth pointing out that Grant Sanderson of 3Blue1Brown has published the "framework" he uses for his math videos on GitHub.

https://github.com/3b1b/manim
The point he was making was not about the tech or tools to sign commits.

It was about the laziness of humans not actually reading the code thoroughly when they sign it, and therefore negating the point of ledging/signing the state of the project.
We have found galaxies with differing amounts of dark matter (as measurer by rotational speed) and have confirmed these measurements with gravitational lensing being more or less effective.
THe ultimate RAD was Delphi.
An engine and transmission for a consumer vehicle cost around $3k.

If a 50kWh battery costs $3k plus a few hundred for an electric motor, then EV's have reached parity in cost.
Checklist security in a nutshell.

Does it have a checkmark? Yes? Must be secure then.
Runtime access, yes. But I’m assuming this is to also prevent cookie/storage sharing between PWA:s too, which third party browser vendors (well, Google) have incentive to allow and Apple wants to prevent.
The change with the biggest impact on the industry is the interest free money faucet being turned off.
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> My take: There's no such thing as Truth. Everything is empty, and so is Truth.

By definition that is not true. Without any truths, everything is false, and communication is not possible. There are two questions at hand, is there an objective reality, if so.. is it accessible to our senses and can it be articulated with language? I feel neither of these is at stake with the advent of AGI. Having a machine that can think like a human means nothing to the question of objective reality or whether or not language is able to capture it.

> God is all-powerful, so God could make it that all religions on Earth are true simultaneously. If God were not all-powerful then God could not make it so. Where is then Truth?

I see this kind of objection to God a lot, and while this isn't necessarily a religious discussion, the problem here is that because God is an agent, asking God to do something contradictory doesn't prove or disprove anything. If God is all-powerful and all-knowing, he doesn't have to prove anything to anyone, and therefore there is no proof or disproof in the hypothetical. In other words, if God is all-powerful, not only could he make all religions true, he can also choose not to.

I think AGI is going to question our humanity, and it is understandable people are also questioning truth, however it is a separate question, and one that I bet even AGI will be grappling with.
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Fortnite isn’t available on the iOS store, so at least Epic is putting their money where their mouth is.
>Luckily for us, Apple is a slow learner.

Why is that lucky for us? We want them to comply to the DMA. The fines are a drop in the bucket.
They are all educational games of middling quality released in the first half of the 90s. Released for DOS, Mac and Windows.

Some of the most known:

* Mario Teaches Typing

* Super Mario Bros. Print World

* Mario is Missing! (also released on SNES)

* Mario's Time Machine (also released on SNES)

* Mario's Early Years! Fun with Letters

There are also (bad) Donkey Kong ports for home computers of the 80s such as Atari 800XL, IBM DOS, VIC-20, Commodore 64.

Full list and more details here: https://www.mariowiki.com/List_of_games#PC
Similarly in Norway.
Haha. This. Except it wasn't stolen they flat out gave it away and sold out America to China. That's why they put so much effort into trying to spin Microsoft as some forward fighter in infosec these days even though anyone with a half of a brain knows that Microsoft is the greatest liability in security/democracy and engaged in espionage against the US. They should stick to what they do best, steal other people's ideas/concepts/some current trend in tech, try and rebrand it as a Microsoft thing and weaponize litigation to capitalize on it.
I used to do this CD swap as a kid - you wouldn't touch the CD - you would put your finger on the mount that you clip the CD onto, and then when it had stopped, pop the CD off.
At those power levels, a 'fuse' can still pass a hell of a lot of energy before it burns itself out.
This. I want a M series but instead I bought a used 2019 intel on ebay.

You can get a 2019 16" for around $440 right now and the screen and speakers are amazing :) Been gaming on it too.

Buying this far down the chain keeps the dollars out of apples pockets.
No, “mutation” doesn’t necessarily mean “bad”. It just means “different than where it was copied from”. Ie the RNA made a copying mistake at some point. If the copy error happens in the creation of egg or sperm cells, then that “mutation” is passed on to the child conceived by those particular cells.

Most of these errors don’t cause any problems so they are just “noise” in the gene pool. The ones that will straight up kill you don’t exist because those children are never born.

Then there are others that are mixed bags and cause stuff like sickle cell disease which causes lots of problems but is prominent in some populations because it also confers resistance to malaria. And then there’s ones that do things that probably don’t matter much, like changing your eye color or making you slightly taller or more likely to hate cilantro or be lactose tolerant or whatever.
> The majority of the world doesn't speak English

And yet here we are.

To paraphrase David Mitchell (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om7O0MFkmpw), the problem is not so much the prevelance of American English, which in a lot of situations makes sense. eg. "sidewalk" makes a lot of sense, perhaps more, than "pavement" for the place that a pedestrian walks at the side of a road. "Parking lot" for a lot of land that is reserved for parking etc. The issue is that "could care less" means the opposite of what people intend them to mean, and they're just expecting the people listening to interpret what they mean.
I never have been pressured by my boss to do unpaid overtime.
Autocorrected SaaS?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.13867
OwnTracks allows you to keep track of your own location
A 900% markup on their $2 bag seems unfair.

LVMH is their biggest company. Got to hit 'em where it hurts.
Human genetic code has limited number of letters. If all people had the same set of letters all people would be identical.

Numerically there's enough people so that each differs from that hypothetical singular human by at least one letter.

Of course there are a lot of caveats to this.
Plug and slightly related. I once created a bash pipeline debugger that preserves the intermediate outputs. Has a few limitations but maybe generally useful: https://github.com/ketancmaheshwari/pd
Well that doesn't seem reasonable or a valid excuse for firing someone (or at least in places with a minimum of employee protection). What problem does it cause if you customise your shell prompt?
> mtls without service meshes

You can, but it's absolutely a pain in the neck. Services need to load the certs from the filesystem on boot-up and trust the certs provided by other services. To manage trust, you need a certificate authority. Now you need to load the certificate authority's cert, and you need to manage rotation of certs. You need to help developers set up laptop-local certificate authorities and get them to issue certs so that you have Dev/Prod parity. You need to ensure that developers are enforcing modern ciphersuites, not doing bullshit "insecure-skip-verify" kind of toggles that make their jobs easier (because remember, their job isn't security, it's shipping features), not accepting self-signed certs or other certs not signed by the certificate authority. You need to make sure all this stuff is put in the testing suite to make sure it keeps getting maintained, and you need the files for these tests marked in CODEOWNERS to be under InfoSec control to ensure nobody rips them out just because they're inconvenient. And you need to copy this for every single service you run in production and every single development team.

You know what else you can do? Write your own web server (/sarcasm). I mean, who needs nginx? Probably writing your own will have lower overhead and less total complexity, not running a bunch of features that you don't use. And probably it will not be anywhere close to as good as a battle-hardened web server used by millions of engineers that gets regular support.

Personally I think it's debatable whether services really need mTLS within a private network. It's mostly a question of what scale you're running at; probably there's higher benefit-to-effort-ratio InfoSec projects to tackle. But if you do decide you need it, unless you can prove that the overhead is unworkable for your requirements, really you need to bite the bullet and put in a service mesh.
12% for platform and processing is way better than Apple's 30% software tax.
Excellent points!

How I like to think about the post truth thing: The time period in which we had reliable evidence that was impossible (or at least very difficult) to tamper with was quite short. Can't have been more than 200 years. Societies managed before, so I think we'll manage again.
I think there's zero humans that have single point mutation that's immediately lethal.

But it should hold true for nonharmful potentially beneficial single point mutations.

So I guess X-Men is not entirely accurate unless they are fueled by more complex mutations.
The benefits of JPEG kind of go away if you start adopting more recent changes to the format, no? JPEG is nice because everything has supported it for 20+ years. JPEG-with-arithmetic-coding is essentially a new, incompatible format, why not use JXL or AVIF instead?
I reckon this might push app developers to use LLMs locally in the client.

So that even a maliciously behaving LLM can’t cause much damage.
I don't agree. Reading Gnome designers' blogs makes it pretty clear that they strongly believe in these decisions as the best UX. Looking around Gnome reddit there's also plenty of people who like this minimalism and think it's actually superior [2].

That's not to say that the designers are not supportive of the existence of extensions. They clearly do, that's why they make a nice Extensions app in the first place. But they never say "yeah, we made it as barebones as possible to make it easy for extensions". They explain why it's better for users not to have a minimize button on windows [1], or why they've removed the systray to avoid confusion and so on [0].

[0] https://blogs.gnome.org/aday/2017/08/31/status-icons-and-gno...

[1] https://afaikblog.wordpress.com/2011/03/01/where-did-the-but...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxquestions/comments/11bhxa7/com...
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It’s an intentionally misleading tweet.

To simplify, It’s saying, if the genome were a string of some length, for any possible byte b and byte position i, there exists a person whose genome has b at position i. Unlike normal character strings, there are only 20 or so valid characters (proteins) encoded by 3 “bytes” (nucleotides) each. So you’re looking at O(10 billion) values of (i, b) that would still keep the string well-formed in its 3-bytes-per-character encoding.

Most importantly, it’s not saying anything about having some bytes b1 and b2 at the ith and jth positions or any generalization thereof.
This type of prima donna attitude ultimately negatively impacts customer experience. If your code is really that amazing and such gospel can only come from your hands, consider hiring a real software engineer to do the grunt work of making it work robustly, securely and in a performant manner on the substrate to which it is deployed.
Been running immich for a while but haven't dropped my Google photos just to make sure I can manage immich and not lose everything. Updated from 1.8.something to 1.9something which includes a big db rework and lost all my user accounts. I imagine the photos are still in there somewhere but i haven't dug in yet so they're effectively gone. Lost a lot of trust for me with that even though it was probably my fault.
Another qualifier: "viable". Every viable single-point mutation. This may seem obvious and covered by the "could exist", but it does mean that for any given base pair you won't necessarily find somebody in the population with a mutation there as the claim would seem to suggest.
For those of us who don't already know her, can you explain who Dr Becky is and why we should trust her perspective? I can't watch it just yet, but judging from the thumbnail this feels like just another educational YouTube video, and while I watch more than my fair share of that genre I don't tend to implicitly trust it on complicated scientific topics.
OpenAI says in memo that Musk's claims 'stem from Elon's regrets'
That's an excellent idea. It neatly distinguishes a script that completes successfully from a script that exits prematurely.
If you tell me what makes R hard to integrate into data pipelines I will do my best to fix it :)
Man that makes my day! I was prepared to not update to 17.4 and leave the Apple ecosystem in the longterm because of this, already checking out linux phones…same situation when they threatened to scan my photos. In both cases they reversed.
> Large values are repeatedly prefix coded

You mean exponential golomb style, where numbers like 0b110100101 would be encoded as 00000000110100110 (essentially using 2 bits per bit)?
The lolcat meme started with caturdays on 4chan...
Your work here is so beautiful, but perhaps one lesson is that growth and learning result where symmetries are broken. :-D
You might get better results if you connected the things you say to the things you secretly mean. People are only going to respond to the things you say.
Cowsay was one of the first "hacky show your friends" command.

I still use it when I want to impress someone.

I've been using this a lot. Check this out:

$ fortune | figlet | cowsay -n -f tux

or

$ fortune | cowsay -n -f dragon

even this!

$ fortune | cowsay -n -f dragon | cowsay -n | cowsay -n -tux
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… Wait, how is it not about security? Unfortunately, people are using these things in exploitable circumstances, so it would seem to be very much about security.
I have to wonder about that. There has been data for years now, confirmed via Covid that work from home not only works but saves companies millions in rent/bills/equipment and that doesn’t even include things like cheaper insurance rates due to having less people on the premises. And yet companies are chomping at the bit to get people to return to the office.

There seems to be a fine balance CEOs and board members want to hit between saving money and ensuring they have their boots as firmly placed on their lessers as possible.
Again, my understanding is that the 10x study was done on reviewed devs writing necessary and best-practice code in a cooperative setting with the same tooling, so this is still irrelevant to discussing the topic. Of course no one who wants to encourage velocity thinks you shouldn't invest in tooling that will automate long tasks for you. We should learn and cheat. My irritation is with suggestions that there's nothing serious to learn, not that I think there's nothing to cheat on, which is an unconnected topic anyway.
That type of "churn and burn" doesn't work long-term. Acquiring new customers has a cost, and that cost will increase the more customers you've burned. The more customers you burn, the more likely it is that potential customers will have heard something negative about your service.
If you can understand Hindi, here's the labor recruiter's YouTube video advertising working in Russia - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BRX7LQio2Sg

The guy promises that they wouldn't be sent to the frontlines in the video, and was clearly lying.

He also recruits in Nepal and Pakistan, and the Nepali recruits mentioned probably came from his labor recruitment agency as well.

It's clearly breaking multiple India and UAE labor laws, and don't be surprised if his agency gets shut down.

Working as a mercenary is a felony in India.

Also, this is clearly irrelevant for HN.
Something I also learned not long ago: human eyes can see the polarization of visible light https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haidinger%27s_brush
Unfortunately there are 56 other data science with R books, so what is the differentiating factor here?
The benefit is that no matter what you do you (and your little girl) can always claim its just a fake.

But also consider how much changed in the last 18 years. Then think about how much may change before your baby girl is all grown up. You will have plenty of new and different things to worry about.
How the Brexit dream of Singapore-on-Thames was lost
also the Russians got into their senior executives email accounts via some test account by brute forcing passwords

https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/26/24051708/microsoft-hack-r...
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And give an even worse google the bottom line?