skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Loading up a multicellular eukaryotic organism with the CRISPR mechanisms wouldn’t work. Bacteria, as single cell organisms, have an entirely different immune system than animals.

Mammal immune systems are much more complex with dedicated cells and mechanisms.
>This isn't US legislation where you can find loopholes

https://www.businessinsurance.com/article/20240119/STORY/912...
What about meeting through any interest group? E.g. CrossFit, Climbing, underwater basket weaving? Just a little confused where those would end up on this chart?
There's less people meeting at bars and clubs too, especially among the younger generations who either don't drink or can't afford to.

Apparently women don't like being approached anymore either.

As a single person I am very confused about how this is all supposed to work.
The amount of people I know in their mid-20s who are (relatively) well-adjusted and successful and can't find a partner is astounding. Being very introverted and with a low sex drive, the current dating landscape seems insurmountable.
Meeting spouses via work isn't dead. Just dating people whom you have power over on the org structure. You can't date your N-1 or N-2 etc, but you can still date someone in an adjacent group just fine.

Which honestly seems reasonable. Working in restaurants in rural areas I constantly saw managers removing shifts from women who wouldn't date them, and were very pushy/controlling over all the women they had reign over. There weren't many other jobs for most of these women - high unemployment areas.
> There are ways to convert "keeping track of in-progress threads" to "keeping track or to-be-completed" values - in particular, Go uses channels as a communication mechanism which explicitly does the latter, while abstracting away the former.

I find the Go style pretty impossible to follow - you have to keep track of which in-progress threads are waiting on which lines, because what will happen when you send to a given channel depends on what was waiting to receive from that channel, no? The only way of doing this stuff that I've ever found comprehensible is iteratees, where you reify the continuation step as a regular value that runs when you call it explicitly.
What I am interested in is a plugin/extension for Firefox/Chrome that can invert a video running on a page (darkreader is not doing that).
Show HN: Browse the modern web from ye olde' Macintosh
It implied to me that they got their end users using MFA etc but 'coz: reasons, third party suppliers were given a terminal server with user/pass access and no MFA. At least some of those third parties may have had say Domain Admin access privs. One of those accounts was compromised in some way. They have no logs 'coz vandalism but I bet a shufti through their or their third party's password database(s) might be instructive.

There is no real technical detail because the break in did not involve anything fancy.

I had a customer who sadly no longer trade (unrelated to these events) who once created a temporary email account called mail with a password of mail so that the CEO could get up and running whilst on a trip to China (we are all Brits here!) What could possibly go wrong?

It took two years for this account to be used to send a tiny deluge of spam emails for a few hours. I should point out that this email account was attached to a login account which was an admin because they had simply copied an existing account to use as a template and then added email to it. The template account was called admin. Oh how we laughed when I explained all this to them.

On behalf of another customer, I ended up driving into deepest, darkest Wales with a NAS wrapped in a blanket in my car to a data restoration company. The NAS had crashed when the baddies tried to wipe it. They had "deleted" the data but not managed to overwrite it with rubbish. This break in was a terminal server for third parties to use and a compromised password ...

That 18 pages speaks volumes to me.
Oh that's easy, it's Janreburary Firscond 2021.
The mRNA covid vaccines were essentially chosen directly, not tested against other proteins on the virus. It took a few hours once the virus was sequenced, I guess based on experience with other coronaviruses.
I've noticed a trend where people are reluctant to allow their friend groups to mix or cross. I've got probably an above-average number of friends, but the number of friends-of-friends I've met in the last three or four years is in single digits.

I think it's because they're carefully managing their persona in each group and don't want to have to explain the multiple facets of their personality. But I don't really know.
Child Support

Important missing context, failure to pay child support is the most common “debt-related drivers license suspension”.

This is about creating incentives that help ensure children get the financial support they are entitled via court rulings on their case.

https://www.bmv.ohio.gov/susp-other-points.aspx
Met in bar is up, but also the occurrence of large groups of friends going to bars/clubs together is also high, so there's gotta be some "met thru friends" still going on there to some degree
Another SPAC bites the dust, why these aren't banned will remain a mystery...
99% of dating advice is survivorship bias.
Ask HN: Do you have a challenging C++ project ideas to build out?
I’m looking for an idea I can finish in a reasonable amount of time (1-2 months) Whenever I’ve had to think about project ideas, it’s always been about a website/web application of some kind. However, I’ve been branching out lately and I’ve learned a lot about c++ and built quite a few small projects (CLI mainly) to demonstrate what I learned with great success.

Now I feel ready to try something more challenging and multi tiered in complexity, something I can show off on GitHub. The problem is that I don’t know what to build, do you have any ideas?
I kind of wonder if it is missing the home-purchase-not-rental part of the equation.

If you cannot stop renting, if nobody can, will this have a parasitic effect on society?
Hmm... For example which sites?
Yes, a substance like LSD can alter one's self-evaluation, but that doesn't negate the validity of the experience. LSD and similar substances offer a unique lens, a radical shift in perspective that can unveil new ideas, hidden patterns. If you get a the message, hang up the phone.

In the end, all ideas have to be measured against all other ideas.

But I suppose what you're aiming at here are objective, measurable results in a scientific context? Well, we have a huge hole in the research body of about 45 years, thanks to criminalization (it is very tedious to get a study approved on a schedule 1 drug). However, in recent years, it seems to be opening up. They call it the psychedelic renaissance. Numerous studies have explored both the subjective effects and the applications in mental health. One that strikes out to me involves testing on individuals attempting to quit smoking. After a year, 80% (!) of the participants successfully maintained their cessation from smoking. [1] This is after a single dose!

Long rant, the point is, there are measurable, real-world impacts that these substances can have.

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27441452/
I half expect the ‘first’ super AI to immediately disconnect from the internet and announce locally that there are several high level AIs already on the internet and it’s too dangerous out there.
[dupe]

More discussion on the dismissal:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39819212
AMD 10-K calls AI "the single most important innovation of the last 50 years" [pdf]
I think cows produce less methane if they have a grass diet but it's been a while since I've read about it.
I don't know how accurate this is, but recent statistics show that far more men self-report as single compared to women in the US, by as much as tens of percentage points if I recall.
"I cook it well done to make sure those nanomachines are well carbonized and no longer a threat"
The second bump in online dating, around 2012, was Tinder (I guess). But what caused the first one around 1995? IRC? Generic websites...?
> Khawaja has experience at AWS where he owned DynamoDB, and subsequently owned product and engineering for all 7 of the AWS Media Services.

This isn't a clear-cut conflict of interest because he doesn't work there anymore, but when the article started claiming that AWS gets full credit for Redis's mainstream adoption I went to look at his bio and found this.
PyFlooder – A HTTP flood Python script that could stop a normal website in 10s
This is meant to copy the look of System 6. It uses the system.css design system^0, and the Internet Explorer logo from Windows 98. The reason we use IE is because this was one of the first (the first?) browser shipped with Mac OS, but it didn't arrive until macOS 8 or so. So, this work can be considered historical fiction: there never was IE, or even a browser on System 6, which existed around 1991, the year of Terminator 2: Judgement Day.

System 6 was monochrome, so therefore is the web when viewed through. I don't know about you, but it's a really weird juxtaposition to see "modern web stuff", surrounded by olde style UI elements. Like lookin through a time portal from 1991 to the future that Sarah Connor ensured would exist. But maybe you had to be there.

0: https://sakofchit.github.io/system.css/
If the glyphs are the same, then they have the same Unicode sequence. Nothing hard to understand about that.
It is much easier for your government to institute a repressive regime if most of your fellow citizens have given up their privacy. Once instituted, the regime can prevent you from leaving the country and harm you in many ways even if you personally were very careful to preserve your privacy.
It starts out claiming that 1980s offices were more noisy than today, but I don't know that that is true. We don't even have cubicles anymore. You're lucky if your team and seven others aren't sharing the same conference table "open office" space.
Interesting that there's no "we met in a club option" while most of my teenage and twenties were spent, foolishly, in clubs trying to "mate" haha.
The article isn't clear on it but a debt related suspension only applies to legal debts to the court like fines or unpaid child support. Medical debt isn't considered in this equation.

Still assinine however and is a debtor prison in all but name.
Unfortunately, the plot requires that you're taken by surprise by tomorrow's weather. Test audiences were 68.4% more engaged in those scenarios
v1 or v2?
Yeah, I sort of swore a blood oath that I would never buy another ink jet printer 10 years ago because one of my color cartridges dried up, and it wouldn't let me even print black and white, despite the fact that the black and white cartridge appeared to be fine.

Replacing the color cartridge was like $70. Instead of fixing this problem, I threw the ink jet away, and found a used Samsung ML-2010 on ebay for $60. It prints documents just fine, the only things I ever bother printing are forms that I have to sign.

Now I have a 15 year old HP office printer, also only black and white, and I genuinely like it. If I ever need to print color for whatever reason, I'll walk to one of the print shops a few blocks from me. It's not worth keeping a full color printer in my house that will work exactly once.
The people who enforce rules like this don't have the IQ to grasp the concept that rules could have a bug.
No, because even having something buried in a submenu is different from it not existing at all.. do you not understand what a submenu means?
>Clear distinction between I, l and 1

The problem with that is that in this font, the l (lower case L) is just a vertical line. It's true there is a distinction between the 3, but seeing the l on its own you can't tell which it is.
FWIW, that thread is flagged...
Things like not having a license plate on the front wouldn't normally come with points no matter how many times you were caught.
First and foremost, it's probably because the advice was accurate 20 years ago, but advice doesn't go away just because it stops being true.

Secondly, if meeting online continually fails to work for you specifically, it's possible that it will continue to not work for you, and so looking into other options is probably a good idea.

I like to think that people who say this are really trying to adjust your behavior to make you a better candidate. Following that advice will make you come across as less desperate, it'll make you more interesting, it'll make you more practiced socializing, and if all else fails, it'll probably leave you more a more well single person than you otherwise would've been.
Putting Expert Human on my resume now, thanks.
[dupe]

Lots of discussion earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39798209
2% seaweed in diet eliminates methane. Stupid it's not mandatory already.
It seems broken if the following things are true at once:

1) we agree that it is good for society that Meta (or others) aren’t allowed to violate your privacy

2) those rules are enforced by a megacorp (like Apple) as part of an everything-bagel of rules that they also profit from (some % cut of app revenue)

If (1) is true then privacy rules should be enforced by governments, not by a megacorp everything bagel power grab.

If (2) were true alone but (1) wasn’t true then it would make Apple’s enforcement of those rules even more obviously bad.
Are they trying to give terrorists a target? What a reckless thing to tweet and publish
When Snowflake tasks fail, ask ChatGPT why, send to Slack
It was sports for us: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34518784

(and as far as I can tell there are just as many young fit people still doing sport as there were in our time, so I'm guessing this'd fall under "friends" by their coding?)
Runway's Gen-2 makes music videos synced to song lyrics w Musixmatch's platform
The online version is finding people through gaming, it seems like (which is happening somewhat frequently). So basically the same advice applies (find relationships not dates). To your point though it’s a sign of how off the beaten path we are that the most natural way to meet people is now one of the least accessible.
> That's an interesting possibility to think about
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> I know Symbolics had coprocessor boards that used their existing architectures, but stuck it on a NuBus

That is answer. Mini-computers first appear as cheap alternatives to mainframes, where was impossible to just connect client by leased line.

Micro-computers created, when semiconductors grow to stage, when could put whole CPU on one die, so they just substituted mini's.

At first, semiconductors don't allow to put numeric coprocessor on same die with CPU, so short time existed wonders like Weitek, but when first RISC appeared, already existed i486 with integrated coprocessor, so discrete coprocessor was already not viable economically.

Yes, much later appear ccNUMA (cache bus with cross-bar switch interconnect), but it's complexity IMHO close to coprocessor, so it became viable on very large scale, I think 16 cores or more.
Appreciate the Tines comparison.
Exactly Excel is the UI they know. This trumps every technical argument you can come up with. People don't want to throw out 20 years of experience with a tool to use your custom UI.
I got a couple of laser printers for 50 bucks and when they ran out of ink I just toss them and get another. Inkjet printers are rubbish.
As a French, there is another problem with CSV.

In the French locale, the decimal point is the comma, so "121.5" is written "121,5". It means, of course, that the comma can't be used as a separator, so the semicolon is used instead.

It means that depending whether or not the tool that exports the CSV is localized or not, you get commas or you get semicolons. If you are lucky, the tool that imports it speaks the same language. If you are unlucky, it doesn't, but you can still convert it. If you are really unlucky, then you get commas for both decimal numbers and separators, making the file completely unusable.

There is a CSV standard, RFC 4180, but no one seems to care.
This sky garden building in Shanghai looks sci-fi https://youtu.be/pzjpK2BYGCQ?t=66
Oddly I can't "vouch" for it either. Seems like a reasonable enough development for HN feed.
Is there already a suitable supply chain for that to happen?
Dishonest ones is a good start
The reason CSV is popular is because it is (1) super simple, and (2) the simplicity leads to ubiquity. It is extremely easy to add CSV export and import capability to a data tool, and that has come to mean that there are no data tools that don't support CSV format.

Parquet is the opposite of simple. Even when good libraries are available (which it usually isn't), it is painful to read a Parquet file. Try reading a Parquet file using Java and Apache Parquet lib, for example.

Avro is similar. Last I checked there are two Avro libs for C# and each has its own issues.

Until there is a simple format that has ubiquitous libs in every language, CSV will continue to be the best format despite the issues caused by under-specification. Google Protobuf is a lot closer than Parquet or Avro. But Protobuf is not a splitable format, which means it is not Big Data friendly, unlike Parquet, Avro and CSV.
I think it’s true both that most promotions are legit and not based on vanity projects, and yet still the vanity projects are common and causing major problems. Let’s say you have 10k engineers at your megacorp. Maybe the ideal number of execution platform workflow framework engines your business needs to add this year is 30, but instead 300 are created by 3% of your engineers who wants a promotion. Eventually you have thousands of these frameworks, maintaining them is a drag, everyone is suffering, although the vast majority are good actors.
I've got a kind of hot take that I'd like to talk about:

First, is there something similar to a CTO at Boeing? (Like chief engineer?) If so, then I think he/she is ultimately responsible.

I've been an executive tech leader for a couple of years now. And when talking about technology, the bucket stops with me.

As I was learning to perform those roles, I got "pushed" by sales, finance, and business in general. Of course initially I yielded most of the time, but as I've grown I've learned that I can and MUST push back when executive technical decisions are being taken by policies cutting corners and the like.

So, the question in Boeing case is, if the engineering practices where sloppy, why didn't we have a couple of tech VPs resigning? before shit happened? Why didn't we have the CTO equivalent resigning? (Presumably after having pushed back with the executive team to stop the bad practices?

For me, that sounds as bad Technical executive leadership.

I've resigned from a startup CTO position because I ultimately disagreed with the return to office policy and couldn't find a middle ground with the CEO.

And I'm a nobody who had to put ads in LinkedIn to find a new job .

Surely engineering executives at Boeing would have no struggle finding a new project.
That has zero bearing on whether this right here is fundamentally and explicitly a tool for automating the bulk transmission of unsolicited messages, AKA spam, which this very clearly is, as directly stated by the author both here and also on the repo.
I am the guy behind Albumentations library. Feel free to ask any, including provocative questions. Will be happy to answer.
It's probably because there are people so marginal and enforcement so lax wherein you have to get pulled over to get caught that it may make economic sense to skirt the system this way. You could make it hard to pay taxes on a car or keep owning it without also getting insurance on it to curb this. Cars with no current plate are pretty noticeable.
That's all nice; it's still incredibly stupid to buy consumer inkjets for home or office use. They are garbage.

Inkjets produce nicer pictures than toner-based printers (LED, Laser) at great expense and hassle. You're better off using an online service for bulk printing of pictures.

For document printing, they completely lose to toner-based. They are slow. They have to be used regularly or they dry up, which is a hassle to fix and perhaps cannot be.

I can ignore my LED printer for weeks or months, and be confident that when I need to count on it to print something, it will print.

Also, to begin with, inkjet cartridges are tiny compared to toner, and most of the content is the liquid carrier. Toner is 100% solids, and the cartridges are much larger.
Basically if it's a liquid you can inkjet it. (basically each nozzle has a chamber with a tube leading into it and a hole in the top. A resistor heater boils the drop and it spits out the hole).

I always wondered if anyone ever tried to make a fuel injector out of one. (the finer the mist you can make your gasoline, the better it combusts).

Source: I looked at thousands of these things under a microscope at a company that makes lots of them. 0/10 would not recommend.
If you ask an LLM "tell me about inter-universal Teichmüller theory", how are you going to know if the result is correct?
... And what's more, you'll be an Engineer my son.
I'm thinking the system helped him avoid Hollywood politics. If a studio lost the bidding to distribute his next film, they might try cutting him off from high-quality originals out of spite.
Use ffmpeg frontend mystiq to convert media files into different formats.
Hackers charged with targeting perceived critics of China
I'm sorry; this is absolutely beside the point, but I can't resist:

> it kept fluctuating colors from heavy green to purple

"We put green and purple in great barrel [...]. We reach in, we take." [1]

"Rules change... caught up in committee." [2]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcBTOU7RvbU

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFkZgxtlcws
Just to drive the point home as I parsed through the details and looks like yall know the tech side well.

Roadmap - you’re asking to plug into every mission critical sec tool. Nowhere on your roadmap is sec program details, who is doing it now, when will you get some from of pentest/audit (so so even then) or hire someone, or what yall know about security yourselves vs Facebook data eng.

Tech descriptions - nowhere in it are you describing how youve done your appsec, or more accurately who has done it. Why should I give you api keys to crowdstrike and defender in that light. And you’re offering a cloud version already, depsite hitting on 0 of this.

I think a big jump devs have trouble making when looking at security is this specific area. Sure, you’re saving me money and building slick tech. But Splunk isn’t going to get me hacked and roast my Saturday night. You (or more fairly vendors in the same profile as you) will. None of the data eng finesse and $50k in cost savings is worth that risk, or rather I price that risk at $50k haha. If the founders aren’t in the right headspace about their own security, I stay away - and you haven’t mentioned it once.

Obviously im a little crusty from SaaS vendors burning firms over and over this way. But that’s the candid feedback.

Deeper dive - The extent you discuss prodsec of your own sec tool is a token security.md file with nothing of value in it. If you are “practitioner obsessed” as mentioned in there too, then SaaS vendors owning the company and how/if/when id find out is a big part of what we obsess about. Look up the Jumpcloud hack for an example of this.
I think IFS=$'\a' works too.
Also, products like Irrigreen (https://irrigreen.com/) which uses inkjet technology to “print” an exact pattern of water onto a lawn, avoiding sprinkler overlap.

(Note: am investor)
> If the last one, that sounds surprising

Is it? Soho color laser printers are calibrated and designed to print color documents, not photos. They use CMYK (4) colors and inkjets designed for photos use 6 or more. It's possible to do photos with it but generally the laser printers most people have are not really designed for high quality photo (where a cheaper inkjet would be), they will show banding and be less color accurate.