skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All planets with a diverse chemical makeup will stumble across accidental formation of a replicator molecule. It's 100% certain. That's all that's required for "life".

People have theorized even a 50 base pair segment of RNA might be capable of building exact copies of itself, either by snapping in half and auto-forming the same other half, or by other means. Since there's two sexes, it was perhaps a "halving" at that level, that early on, which led ultimately to TWO sexes, but that's a side point.

We can even predict the probability of any 50 base pair ordering. It's 1/(4^50). That's 30 zeroes in the denominator. Now consider that a single glass of water has 10^23 molecules. That's 7 orders of magnitude difference. So the amount of water you need to cross that magnitude threshold is 7. Turns out that's exactly the size of an Olympic swimming pool. 10 million cups of water.

So statistically, a planet with an ocean volume only as large as a swimming pool has the "Statistical Power" (power of large numbers) to find ANY 50 base pair combination (give or take an order of magnitude or two) Once it finds a replicator, life has started, and so has evolution. And that's guaranteed within the first minute or so, at reasonable temperatures. Now multiply that time by the average age of a planet, and you begin to realize, statistically life is guaranteed, in any chemically diverse scenario with reasonable temperatures.
In the US everywhere has it, but it’s behind the counter and you have to show ID so they can track how much buy. It’s ridiculous, but it’s not hard to get, and has never stopped an illegal drug chemist from making crystal meth, but regular folks pay the price in inconvenience
Are web not taking about being able to curate/moderate/filter your own feeds?

Because one of Bluesky's goals is to have 3rd party filtering and moderation.
Show HN: Perfect Gifts
Hey everyone,

I used to go out looking for gift ideas for my parents, girlfriend, and some family members. But during busy seasons, I’d often check online for ideas and still struggle to find the right gifts, which meant going out to buy them anyway. So, I built a simple gift ideas generator that also suggests where to buy them.

You just input details about the person you want to gift— the more detailed, the better— and you’ll get a list of 20 gift ideas with links to where you can buy them on Google.

It’s a simple tool, but I’d appreciate any feedback!
Perhaps we should make a language with a hard cap on the number of “features” in the language syntax + standard library. For everything you propose to add, you would then also need to propose something to remove.
I thought so too, and as much as I appreciate Gruber (and I very much do) I think he is off base on this complaint.
Can you explain what people are using this prompt for? I literally have no idea from the readme.
> I don't see why that couldnt result in a reboot somehow

Because Find My is a reverse-engineered protocol that can be abused to broadcast false information to nearby devices? Trusting Find My to know when it's time for a reboot sounds like an amazing Flipper Zero feature but a not-so-great experience for iPhone owners.
In an ideal world, what would you have them learn?
Elon Musk joined Trump-Zelensky call amid concerns for future of Ukraine war
You need to be a hop on the route the data takes yes, but access to the source or destination machine is not a necessity.
> OTC medicines here are really limited

But you can get scopolamine there OTC. In chewables for kids, even! We can only get it as a patch, and only by prescription.

Makes me want to find an importer I feel like I can trust, because I don't get over there often enough to bring it back myself.
Long standing relationship? Trump didn’t even know his name and referred to him as Tim Apple.
I don't remember Glider crashing at all but running anything really big and complicated like Netscape it was only a matter of time.
Whew, that's a relief! If I understand correctly, then I think you'll have a better experience if you practice doing something like this when writing tests:

foo, fooErr := doit()
require.NotNil(foo)
require.NoError(fooErr)
_, _ = foo, fooErr // alternative if you don't want the asserts for some reason, remember to come back later and delete though

// ...repl churn code...

Using the stretchr/testify/require package. This code defines both variables, gives the error a unique name in the scope, and then references the names in two asserts. You won't have to deal with unreferenced name errors in the "repl churn", so you can comment/uncomment code as you go.
Pretty sure those are speculated to be chicken on the grill, and that same video has been used as a claim in multiple cities.

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-polit...

It is quite depressing to see so many people take low information media, make very consequential inferences from it, and then share those inferences as fact. Humility is indeed a lost virtue.
Love it! Beautiful to avoid the redundancy of a special encoding when the same effect can be reached through other means. Simplifies the decoder.
>no driver I know wants to hit someone and injure them

Spend any time at all on social media and you'll see how untrue this can be. If you think people are lying about their daydreams of assaulting cyclists, just go on YouTube for days of content of drivers swerving at cycliste, throwing things at them, dumping pollutants into their lungs, intimidating them, assaulting them, and more.
HN crowd, with our stock portfolio, is not like most Americans whose only savings are in bank accounts.
I was hardly bragging, my degree is not something Im particularly proud of.

It is a piece of paper, however, that credentials me as being part of the technocratic system.
If LLMs work the way I understand them to, they are trained on large corpora which contain a statistical preponderance of statements which are consistent with the current scientific mainstream, so it may not be completely crazy to try doing this; you'd get the scientific mainstream explanation, and possibly a few alternative hypotheses if they had enough literature support.
Sounds like a one man project?
Average life expectancy.

Once past your childhood, you had a good chance of making it to 60 at least.
Wouldn't want your root kit to introduce an unwanted security vulnerability.
It's based on the fact that one explanation of why there's not even millions more species of all life, is because the more successful ones simply cannibalized the less successful ones. This would've started even before complex life, almost at the chemical level.

I say cannibalized, because avoiding eating your own species is a higher brain function that would've came far later, so it came down to eat or be eaten. Still is frankly.
So can you actually write the argument here?

That supposedly proves it’s impossible for A to have affected B… even with 6 degrees of seperation…
It's actually quite easy: first, you imagine n-dimensional space, and _then_ you set n = 4.
Neural Optical Flow for PIV in Fluids
You don't need to make every street a bike street. It's enough if there is a way of getting safely close to your destination. Both for cars and bikes. The car drivers can drive on the next street unless this is their destination location. Works just fine in other big cities so it's just a question of getting used to a slightly different road to work/home.
Could someone explain to me — it's not actually crashing on its first instruction, I take it?

Why does it appear to be crashing on the first instruction?

Did the malware mess with the main thread's code, so that the first instruction of the main thread was the invalid write instruction?

But then the malware thread must have run first somehow, no? (since that thread is in the same process)

I think I followed the article generally, but I don't understand what actual sequence of events might have taken place that resulted in this report of "crashed on first instruction."
Interestingly, WebGPU doesn't seem to be supported on Safari on iPhone, even though iPhones have a pretty good GPU, all things considered: https://imgur.com/a/h0EYr6Y
I remember that app! I think the version I had was named “Sexplosion” to encourage people to click on it.
Some things I was shocked to learn when I first learned these a couple decades ago (from a Guyanese girl I was seeing in the U.S.):

- Guayana and nearby places were British colonies.

- there's a vast Indian (i.e. descended from India) population in Guyana and nearby places brought over by the British as "indentured workers" (for some reason, Indians were never officially called "slaves" by the British) in sugarcane plantations. (Interesting to me because I'm from India).

- Guyana speaks English.

- Yes, there are countries in "Latin" America that speak English. There are also countries that mainly speak French.

- Guyanese are often considered "Hispanic" in the U.S. though they are "Anglo". In fact Guyanese and Belizeans are able to pick and choose what to indicate on forms regarding their ethnicity, as it suits them.

- My favorite Salsa dance teacher in the U.S. has the last name "Persaud" and looks "Latino". Took me about 15 years to realize he was of Indian stock (though might be mixed with Latino).

- if Guyana had lower crime, and a well-organized economy, I'd move there in a heartbeat. They speak English, have good weather, and have massive oil deposits.
Interesting argument, but nobody believes that a diverse chemical makeup is sufficient to guarantee life.

You can wave big numbers around but none of that makes a convincing argument; it's not hard to construct any number of scenarios where self replicators are started but don't lead to true life.

Also you're comparing a gram of water to a bunch of bases; H2O is not DNA.
Was there until

> ... you schedule meetings with...

I get what the author is saying, but I think they chose a way that's likely to be misunderstood.

A good >senior engineer:

- Understands the problem space
- Understands what the team has done
- Understands the value goal
- Has researched alternate approaches
- Finds and introduces the right people
- Guides the conversation productively
- Ensures everyone understands post-meeting

"The meeting" is a necessary but in no way solely sufficient component of that process. The staff engineer is providing value through all the other pieces.

tl;dr - Don't just schedule meetings: engineer productive exchanges.
I would say that this informal tradition has an implicit "emeritus" attached to it. That is, you're recognizing them as retired presidents who have passed on the torch. Donald Trump has done neither, and he is being recognized in these contexted not as president emeritus, but as soon-to-be-president. So naturally people would find this way of referring to him somewhat odd.
Ask HN: What Statistical Models or Classifiers Are Used to Call Election Races?
TV & Online News likes to call election races when "60% of precincts are reporting". What specific probabilistic /statistical models and/or classifiers are used to determine this prediction? And what parameters vary among publishers such that Fox, NYT, Newspapers and Online Publications vary so much in calling races?
There's a lot of hearsay in that articles, and a lot of sentiment rooted in the particulars of that time.

Sure, it was a complex thing in the late 60s/early 70s. Sure, Wirth came up with something simpler. But I'm missing a deeper analysis, especially with a more modern view point where basically any language is at least as complex as Algol 68[0].

> Arguably Wirth’s Algol-W was a better successor to Algol-60

I might not even disagree, but what were the arguments, and how are they holding up?

> and arguably did not have the same connections to industry as the likes of Fortran and Cobol

Sure. But neither did Algol-W or Pascal. And pretty much anything else in the 20th century.

[0]: http://cowlark.com/2009-11-15-go/
Courts don’t like it when you waste their time suing over theoretical harms
Nah, in the UK it's now fairly uncommon to still have a hot water tank. Most houses have mixer taps, and new fittings for bathrooms or kitchens will have mixer taps unless the home owner is masochist.

The separate taps thing is more because it costs to replace a sink. So even if you put a new boiler in an old houses lots of people aren't going to replace the fittings in the kitchens and bathrooms at the same time.
Already covered some basic points: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42089428

TikTok should be addressed as a tool that’s used to sow discord in the West, as it’s in control of China and by extent Russia as its economic (and military) ally. Bluntly speaking this seems to be isolated, intentionally provocative incidents that are being drummed up far beyond a reasonable amount. It’s internet being internet, for the most part. So naturally, Wired and the rest will jump on it for clicks as a pop culture thing.
uhh where did you get " Mitochondria are the software that epigenetically switch nuclear DNA genes on and off."
I never understood articles trying to put objective criteria on a system that’s as much a function of supply and demand as any inherent ability. Most companies have set percentages for titles and promotions, regardless of actual abilities.
> GDP growth rate (2022) – 63.4% (not a typo)

Wow
Only certain documents are accepted: photo documents issued by a US state and certain federal documents. There are some exceptions in the initial act text, but in practice, nobody is going to accept your nursery school record.

There are certainly 10s of millions of people who don't have direct access to this drug.
Algol 68 was to Algol as C++ is to C: trying to do too much resulting in over-complexity.

The two page spread showing a graph of the implicit type conversions was a masterpiece.
Bruce Sterling’s “Heavy Weather” describes (offhandedly) a post-agricultural ecosystem where only herbicide/cold/heat-resistant weeds remain. People then breed genetically-engineered livestock that can convert the weeds into more useful substances.
I dislike CLAP. It is functional but huge. ARGP is a much better option that mirrors the unix header well enough. It's also very light.
IFF Google Chrome history censored on Chrome Version 130.0.6723.117
Looks like Google Chrome decided to censor the history of your own local browser, to reproduce go to chrome://history and then scroll down to 14+ days from today and search for that, it will not show. This isn't a case for IFF Internet Freedom Foundation, right?
My point is only on lowering the friction to do an activity. The more friction there is to something, the more likely it will get dropped. Such that I'm not aiming to get people to think just one walk will do them for the day. Rather, I'm aiming to get people to realize you don't have to "exercise." I don't know why that framing is problematic for folks. But I would wager money that it is.
PSA: Kroger and Kroger-owned supermarkets require ID to purchase any "cold medication" including those only containing phenylephrine. It's a stupid policy.

Buy your cold medication at Walgreens. Good luck finding a non-Kroger grocer.
life is roff out there.
Ah, another one of those infamous 2018 blog posts on "why I quit Google".

And those blog posts absolutely always start by telling you that the engineers at Google are the smartest in the world. Oh boy are those people indoctrinated.
Would it come as a surprise if I told you that the US has every opportunity to stop Cellebrite et. al but chooses not to?
And Russia's demographic crisis is going to get a lot worse, cementing its irrelevency as a world power: https://www.economist.com/europe/2023/03/04/russias-populati...
> Just write CloudFormation directly. Once you get the hang of the declarative style and become aware of the small gotchas, it's pretty comfy.

Exactly this. And don't make huge templates, split stuff logically to several stacks and pass vars via export/importvalue.
Among many others.
Even safer if they sold it at Walmart.
His website has many really cool projects he did for game jams. Really fun/creative ideas. Several became full games.
The results of this study look interesting.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6413565/
How does the micro VM's guest API talk to the host process? Does the communication between the two have to go through the hypervisor?
> Guyana speaks English.

The article says “My major historical sources include a 1992 US Military-commissioned study of Guyana and Belize. No, I have no idea why they lumped those two countries together”

This seems to be the connection: only mainland countries south of USA primarily English speaking. (Of course both related to British colonialism)
I think many of the posters defending nepotism are missing a very important issue. Which is that it is bad for diversity and may be a factor limiting the participation of some ethnic groups in academia
Big Tech is the mainstream media, the old media is being kicked like an old dog
> The main inspiration for this game is Infiniminer

https://www.zachtronics.com/infiniminer/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__Nq2vNcpIo
They found tons of oil
It’s a title, nothing more. It means nothing, because there is no legal certification process for any of this. There is no guild of software engineers that puts requirements on what a staff engineer would need to be certified. There is no license you operate under that says you’re a staff engineer.

It’s just a title, if your work wants to call you a staff engineer, cool. But you should probably care more about pay and less about titles.
Zelensky must be going crazy. Imagine being on a call with Trump and man child Musk.
Microstepping mostly is just to reduce noise and vibrations.

The motors tend to fall to the nearest full step when loaded hard. Most people I have discussed this with believe there is little resolution gain (if any) past 4x microstepping but it certainly is a lot quieter to use x256.
Best argument I've heard for Gaia theory, intentionally or not.
Key fact (left out of the article): most of the mitochondria's essential proteins, including those for ATP/energy synthesis, are produced by the host cell from the host cell's DNA. So yes, mitochondria have some DNA and do replicate, but no, their cell is not just an "environment" for them.

Also interesting: mitochondria can join (often to rescue one failing due to transcription errors) and be transported to other cells across bridges (to supercharge the recipient, as they want to do now for immune cell therapy).
PS5 Pro signposts a disc-less future that few want
> African American accent

Dialect*
Interesting that you say that. My current backburner project is a display (TFT or PC) for Mitutoyo Digimatic. I can read the bright VFD display, but it struck me that others might find it difficult to read from across a workbench.
What could g wrong?
Yeah, but the whole machine needing to be rebooted?
All of them together are a fraction of YouTube audience. Big tech is the mainstream media
Guess what people take for allergies - drugs that actually prevent reactions. Allergic reactions that effect the nose are almost always going to result in discharge, aka. a runny nose. It's the body's natural way of removing the allergen. Pseudoephedrine doesn't help with this at all.

The side affects of prolonged pseudoephedrine use (usually defined as more than 7 days, btw) are far more serious than a stuffy nose.

You cannot even purchase enough pseudoephedrine to use every day over a full month. The government restricts maximum grammage per month - and no doctor is going to prescribe long-term use of pseudoephedrine to "help with allergies".

That is to say I don't believe your story at all. But I get it - googling these things before you posted would have "cost" you approximately $24 or something something something...
Such a great video. Changing from sphere to cone in proving Monge's theorem makes the proof so much better, and way easier to visualize. I guess the proof hasn't caught up in other places is because if the proof is in writing sphere could be visualized first or the sphere gives more aha feeling.
Thanks for the tip about OsmAnd! Google maps is one of the last Google services I use because for some reason Apple Maps doesn’t support directions/navigation in the country I live in even though it has full maps and even traffic. Just installed the iOS app and while it does look like the UI will take a little getting used to, this looks like a solid option!
the problem is, god forbid that worker is a protected class, or else you’re facing a 5-20 million dollar employment practices claim
Fixed it. Thank you for letting me know!
Article states +/- 0.6mm
Area productivity _given_ _the_ _same_ _amount_ _of_ _labor_? I don't think so.
This is the amount of processed data after decompression. The amount of compressed data is less. You can press whitespace during the query run to see the detailed metrics.

ReadBufferFromS3Bytes 8.95 GB

The amount of compressed data read from S3 is 8.95 GB. Note: it sounds quite large, interesting why compression is less than 2x on this dataset. Most likely, it uses just lz4.

I recommend trying it because it works everywhere. You can run ClickHouse on your laptop, on a VM, or even in Cloudshell in AWS.
And to know to a large extent that the future of your country is in their hands.
Sure we don't have proof that all life will form from essentially "binary" data, (although technically ours is made of 4 bases, not 2), but it's almost axiomatic that life will find the simplest possible way to store information before it finds the more complex ways. Ergo DNA is almost binary, but quarternary instead. It's nearly digital.

Insofar as your H20 vs DNA comparison, I merely used water as a way to show relative "scale". That is, HOW MUCH fluid volume (relative to the order of magnitude of size of atoms) would it take to contain the requisite number of RNA. Because when it comes to probabilities of finding astronomically unlikely combinations, astronomically large numbers is key. I think in a mole of random Rubicks cubes, hundreds will be "accidentally solved" (I forgot those numbers, so check my math, on that one)

The reason I threw in the "give or take 2 orders of magnitude" caveat was precisely because I knew someone like you would accuse me of relating H20 to RNA in a way in which I didn't. Other planets will have different atoms, not necessary water-based life, but planets even the size of a swimming pool have the "numbers game" power to create life.
What is preventing you from not using social media?
100% agree, but I think the author was try to keep their description concise. I have worked with people who will readily schedule a meeting when an issue arises, but won't do the actual work to run that meeting, and it just ends up being a huge quagmire. Effective meetings require work to run, and someone needs to do it.
How is cdk interactive? I use cdk and have it auto build and deploy.
The linked open access paper can be found here[1] and is fairly accessible.

In section 3 it contains a description of the VLBI technique used by the Event Horizon Telescope and the algorithms used to process the data. The methods rely on deconvolution[2] which behave nicely when dealing with pure signals, but can be tricky in practice on noisy data.

[1]: https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/534/4/3237/7660988

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deconvolution
The things we'd do back in the day to find a system we could play rogue on.
The time has come to bring the attention of EU regulators about this nonsense.
Yea, I think someone named it "Hot Sex". That wasn't me :).
That's what I expect, too. Say what you want about either man, they're both very cutthroat and self-interested. The minute either one stops being useful or pleasant enough to the other, they'll be done.
Thought-experiment: Someone modifies their gametes for gene-drive extinction. [0]

Failure to disclose it to every potential partner and descendant would be a very serious kind of fraud or potentially child-abuse.

[0] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/gene-drives-could...
That is what we were doing. We were complaining about the use of the word 'could'.