skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the US 5G isn't really too useful for the users, as long as 4G is priced way too expensive. On my US SIM card I pay $10 per GB. On my Austrian SIM card I pay 26 Euros a month for a LTE flatrate (without any hidden caps and with unlimited tethering allowed). Wireless data is so cheap there that many people cancel their wired connection and only use LTE instead.

Why would I need 5G on a connection where I can't use more than a few GB because it gets too expensive otherwise?
The subtitle says "Seagate 60TB SDD".

Solid disk drive? Hmmm best of both worlds!
Looking at the US, our society is based on working from 18 till about 65-67. Your plan for "retirement" includes living from ~67-85 on a fixed income. That income is a combination of (ideally) retirement income, and social security, coupled with socialized care.

If you live from 120, that changes that "retirement" point.

Mortgages are 30-year fixed rate.
Social Security kicks in at 65.

You could make the case that you continue to work past 65, but in what field. How many 85 year olds are in fields they could stay relevant in?
What way did it make you change your mind? I'm interested in this book, but I don't want to read something if it's just going to reaffirm what I already believe.
How can you tell during an interview if they have the willingness to contribute?
Awesome, glad to hear that!
I believe the trick is that they harvest "95 percent of it from the light they absorb", emphasis added. It's sort of like saying an efficient solar system only loses 5% of the energy absorbed by the solar panels.

Photosynthesis may be quite efficient internally, but it's not very good at capturing all of the available power. It really is 3-6%, where even cheap solar panels can achieve 15-20% or higher these days.
Is anybody doing kernel bypass networking in go?
Cool! Thanks for the reply :) It's nice to see some collaboration as opposed to trying to decide between competing crates.
When you say starting out, do you mean a true beginner to machine learning, or someone new to these frameworks?
Well the main problem I had with One Drive, which is why I started using Google Drive and Dropbox exclusively was this issue: https://onedrive.uservoice.com/forums/262982-onedrive/sugges...

You share a folder, update a file and then the other person does not get the update to that file, so then they are sitting there on the phone with you saying "no I don't see the updated file" and you have to have them login to the web version and basically download the file to their one drive. That happened to me several times and I just gave up on One Drive. I don't know if they fixed that. Yes, it syncs things for YOUR folders but it will not sync things to shared folders.
You are correct, 500W for 1 hour (.5kWh) would completely counter the breathing of one crew member for that 1 hour.
Whatever life is worth living for, I don't think it requires eternity.
A Study of Key-Fingerprints: Hex vs. Base32 vs. Wordlists Vs
"We had a slight issue with a routine software upgrade" - love the wording on that. Sounds like something I would tell my boss after accidentally taking prod down.
Ok, so ... "afternoon, morning, day number (1..7), sun must come up, moon must come up ..."
[2012] Why is it faster to process a sorted array than an unsorted array?
Agreed, the cartels are just reacting to an increase in demand for heroin.
Gullah is a neat language. I came across a website that had a Gullah translation of the bible -- at first glance it looks unintelligible, but when you read it out loud it makes complete sense (as a native english speaker):

http://www.gullahbible.com/e-GullahNT/index.htm
... or perhaps the Laundry
There is another aspect for which the longetivity could be selected by the evolution, besides passing on the genes: it's passing on the knowledge.

As a social species, in the development of humans it's not only the biological structures that are important (the body itself), but the informational, social structures. A tribe which works well socially (helping each other, keeping together etc.) will survive much better and longer than a tribe of individualists, and yet even better than individuals living on their own.
A big part of actually keeping a tribe structure alive is the knowledge than elders constantly pass on to the new generation. And that does not stop after the genes are passed.

Additionally, there seems to be some (deeper, philosophical) knowledge that is very hard to acquire before a certain age. It just takes that long to collect enough experience to be able to connect certain high level concepts.
It's very likely that a tribe with longer-living monkeys (metaphorically) would have more of these wise elders that have acquired the knowledge and could pass it on better to the rest, than a tribe with monkeys that would die off fast after making babies.

But this still would only mean that the evolution would not kill you off directly after passing on the genes, but instead some time afterwards, after you've already learned all important things about life and were able to quickly teach them to the new generation. It would still kill you off either way.
> Personally, I am not really of the opinion that all software must inherently be free, but there is a significant problem. It seems pretty clear to me that some software must be free and I think we should have laws in place to ensure it. But where do we draw the line?

If we make everything free we can stop (re)drawing the lines all day. I agree that not absolutely everything must be free under all circumstances but if you think it trough there are not many reasons to suddenly stop somewhere.

> We've already come such a long way

I would say both yes and no. On one hand we have a lot of free software now, often really good and widely used, great. On the other hand computing devices get more and more locked down these days where you sometimes wish back something like Windows in the late 90s/early 2000s where you practically had more control over what the device did than whats often possible today.
> It seems like having the physical position of the switch map to the state of the signal is a good thing, and that is now lost for...what exactly?

Digital control, I'd guess. It's like those IoT light switches that are just push buttons sending a signal to the control server, because making them reflect the actual state of the light would require putting a motor inside the switch.

Now what you win by making turn signal controllable by a computer? I don't know. Maybe it's needed for the autopilot/driver assist tech everyone is putting in their cars now?
> If you have been given opioids for pain, did they work?

They make a huge difference to my current near-constant headaches (cause unknown). Non-opioids (high dose ibuprofen, naproxen, amitriptyline etc.) make little to no difference, but fairly weak opioids (codeine, tramadol) make a noticeable difference. I generally react well to them - low doses have a pronounced analgesic effect without side-effects (euphoria [obviously it is noticed at higher doses, but I don't need that for adequate pain relief] etc.), and they don't cause dependence (stopped the tramadol cold turkey after ~1 years use, and was completely fine other than the headaches returning).

As with pretty much any drug, the individual effects are fairly variable. I tried zopiclone for insomnia, and it produced unpleasant side-effects (rooms looked to be filled with yellow light, even during the night, and memory issues - being in one room then suddenly finding yourself in another with no memory of the intervening minutes is extremely unnerving).
A question about the klipse plugin: Does code inside it have access to DOM elements just as javascript running on the console would? Would be a fantastic addition that could really make developing an interactive coding exercise for kids learning about the web a breeze!
A wholly underappreciated book.
> It's also the most toxic shark meat out there.

Is that innate or related to the longevity? Other species could just die for they get to that level of toxicity.
Also consider that more often than not, making something useful is not a business goal.
Whatever piece of media this is a description of, I'll buy 20.
As to the web, I would hesitate to call it a paradigm shift in technology. For me, a paradigm shift requires going from an existing dominant paradigm (that is, overarching conceptual framework) to a new dominant paradigm. E.g., the Copernican Revolution.

The web was a paradigm shift for, say, newspaper publishers. It totally upturned their world. But from a technology perspective, it was pretty straightforward. It created new possibilities, but I'd call it a new frontier. The day before, we were writing daemons to output text over a network socket; we did the same thing the day after. Likewise, we were showing people text and images and getting them to enter data in forms. Indeed, I think the rapid spread of the web was only possible because it wasn't a paradigm shift.

I'd say a better example of a tech paradigm shift would be from mainframes to personal computers. Or from physical servers to whatever thing comes after virtual servers. Or from isolated computers to networked computers.

As to Crick and Watson, they did discover something, but I don't think some people on the Internet saying it's a paradigm shift means that it meets Kuhn's criteria for a paradigm shift.

I agree that the scientific method is important and valuable, but disagree that the social enterprise of science is therefore essentially different. Humans have always been social primates with modest empirical tendencies. The (social) mechanisms of science turn the knobs a bit away from "social primate" and toward "empirical", but it's a difference of degree, not of kind. It is still a social enterprise. We're still status-oriented primates.

As an example, look at the story of Barry Marshall. Sure, he eventually got the Nobel. But he endured enormous resistance because his opinions did not accord with those of the people with power in his field. There is no way to estimate the number of people who we've never heard of because they were not as stubborn as Marshall, but I'm sure it's not zero.

Finally, I disagree on your interpretation of Feynman's story. Humans are, like all their cousin species, intensely status-focused. They published wrong numbers because they didn't want to be wrong in public. "Wrong" here being defined not by actual factual correctness, but by social conformance. They were looking under a streetlight, but they all picked the same streetlight through a social process, not one imposed by the scientific method.

We totally agree on the scientific ideal. But I think it's vital to acknowledge the divergence between the ideal and actual practice, and to study the causes of that divergence.
Tandem was one of the exceptions. They at least keep updating NonStop. It's still the best in fault-tolerant systems that I'm aware of. Need to do a new survey in that stuff sometime to see if academics or startups have exceeded it yet.

Thanks for links. Didn't have them.

EDIT: Thanks twice given one of those links may have answered a question kragen had in another thread about why no heap allowed in passive, process pairs. I'm thinking they're stateless whereas the active ones are stateful. Heaps need stateful.
I don't find it that hard to believe. I think of doctors as highly trained mechanics. We've already figured out how to keep old cars going forever. Humans are several orders of magnitude more complex but the basic idea is the same: fix the problems that kill you, one at a time.
You are dead on regarding local politics and voting. I have minimal time to research them because I work, etc. I wish there were a good site that let you answer surveys on policy issues and compare local politicians side by side to see who you are best aligned with similar to some of the sites that have done this for the Presidential elections.

I have no idea where to start even researching this stuff in an efficient manner.
Hah. Probably just attitude. Some people exude the desire to remain detached from work. At least in my experience :p
Kyle, you may want to edit the standalone license answer, because to me it currently implies that "automatic syncing" is being arbitrarily restricted/removed from the standalone version which already supports automatic syncing via iCloud or Dropbox.

This appears to not be the case and I think it would help people relax to have it worded more clearly.
Absolutely. And building a micro-project with an industry focus takes very little time.
That is a really interesting visualisation, but I believe it supports my argument. Now, 30% of the UK population reach 90, but there has been no meaningful progress in post-90 life expectancy in the last 100 years.

It is commonly claimed that close to 50% of heath services resources are dedicated to caring for you in the last year of your life. As an anecdote, my friends who work for the NHS have noted that they now see 60 year olds as 'young' in the wards. A back of the envelope estimate would be that 1/6 of NHS resources are dedicated to caring for 90+. How much is enough?
ha ha true. I mean, seriously, why ever go to Minnesota? its not like there are any technology companies here, and its certainly not the top spot in the nation for medical related companies, start up or otherwise.

oh, wait.

Medtronic.

Boston Scientific.

st. Jude medical.

United Health Group

Cray Supercomputers.

3M

Best Buy

Target

Cargill

Seagate

oh, and our average rent in Minneapolis is only ~800/bedroom. And we're consistently rated the #1 city to live in.

certainly no good reason to come here.
If I'm not mistaken, this isn't the full Y combinator yet. It's a partial step towards deriving the full Y combinator.

(f => (x => x(x))(y => f(x => y(y)(x))))
(func => n => (n === 0) ? 1 : (n * func(n - 1)))
(19)

Notice that the ugly func(func)(n-1) recursive call with the proper Y combinator simply became func(n-1).

The full Y combinator is also vastly more mystical and less obvious than the partial step :)
How would you confirm his authenticity? I mean, if I was a machine created from a human who would stand to inherit all of that human's wealth, power, and status, I'd say whatever the hell I thought he wanted to hear to make him walk into a blender.
The command line tool I was not aware if. Now I have a little afternoon reading to do!
You are assuming a static system in which wealth transfer is a zero-sum game. Unfortunately that isn't the world we live in. It is entirely possible that administrative systems to transfer wealth could utterly destroy the economy (for example, Venezuela).

In particular I'm at a loss to understand the arguments for UBI that assume the system could/should provide a sufficient income for everyone to 'live' independent of any other source of income. How exactly would that work? Wouldn't the people actually working be just a bit unhappy being taxed to support people who didn't work at all? Wouldn't people on the margins simply stop working? Wouldn't this system drift into a completely unsustainable configuration?
Hats off to Quanta Magazine for their consistently excellent science reporting. They manage to convey why this is interesting without sensationalizing "zomg new force".
No, but they are still designed to work well with std::futures and that's going to be the standard blessed way to do async IO.
>Sociologists have long tried and failed to draw a line between science and pseudoscience. In physics, though, that ‘demarcation problem’ is a non-problem, solved by the pragmatic observation that we can reliably tell an outsider when we see one.

Sorry, but this is an admission of pseudoscience. All apparently in the name of committing an ad hominem.

It is commendable that the author is helping others to get answers to their questions, but this article indicates that there are substantial issues to be dealt with.
Longevity research is interesting because you could theoretically get to a point where one year of research extends people's lives more than one year. Then the people who avoided car accidents and the flu could live indefinitely, which is much more of a transformation than people living to 120.

Will we live to see this happen? The optimistic view is that longevity research is very under explored right now, and there may be some significant low-hanging fruit. Also, if AI or nanotechnology live up to their hype quickly enough, they could significantly accelerate research.

More pessimistically, I see at least three major obstacles:

(a) Medical research sucks as it is, and longevity research is inherently time-consuming. There are ways to ease this, like testing treatments on mice first, but I don’t see an easy way around the need to apply the test to humans and wait many years to see the results.

(b) The human body is hard to understand and manipulate - we haven’t cured cancer yet, despite all our effort.

(c) Until people’s attitudes about death change (or those people die and are replaced by people with different attitudes), longevity research will continue to attract much less attention than it deserves. Most people have psychologically committed themselves to doing nothing about death. They accept it will happen to them with 100% certainty, but they deny it will happen to them anytime soon, so they ignore it.
TortoiseGit, for example. Makes Git usable for a visual person. Nothing even remotely as good exists on linux, sadly.

All the file handling is done by Total Commander. MC is kinda close on linux, but lacks a lot of features.

But yeah, i guess it's all irrelevant in the context of this question when it's read carefully...
How is death the "only thing" that has truly plagued mankind?

What about the need to eat? Relieve ourselves? The need for love and social connection?

These are universal as well, and there are many other things that we have always been faced with.
Paper here: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/353/6300/669

Just reading the journal article now, but if I've interpreted the Quanta article correctly, this is an important development.

The proton radius puzzle has resisted resolution for long enough to be regarded as a long-standing problem. Pohl's proton measurement is widely respected (indeed, there's a known calibration line between the expected and observed values, so it's hard for it to be incorrect), but nobody has a way to solve the problem.
Google needs an OS that works better for realtime applications like VR/AR and robotics. Note how they spelled out how it is designed for a non-trivial amount of RAM. This is in contrast to the tiny hardware that a realtime OS would typically run on.

Personally, I'm hoping that this is a cleaner foundation for Android that we can all use to build more advanced AR and robotics applications.
Wow, that thread is angrier than the Maps forum. Pretty impressive achievement on Google's part.
Merged at https://github.com/redfin/react-server/pull/527
Looks refreshing! http://d2ydh70d4b5xgv.cloudfront.net/images/2/c/vintage-mark...
Erdogan has been one of the biggest backer of anti-Assad forces in Syria, and it is unclear why that will change.

Erdogan and Assad are hardly buddies, even after the attempted coup.
Paid Search Effectiveness: A Large Scale Field Experiment [pdf]
>I get paid to think things and can reasonably expect to live essentially disease free until my 70's. Achieving 90 in relatively good health and vitality doesn't seem out of the question.

No, you'll probably start suffering from diseases of affluence well below that. Sooner or later, heart disease, lung disease, diabetes, cancer, and pals crop up among basically everyone who doesn't carefully optimize their lifestyle to maximize health.

In fact, the same principle applies to most of the rest of your lifestyle: it all seems very nice because you're discounting the incredibly careful and difficult-to-duplicate optimization of everything from personal habits to major life choices.

Your entire life (our entire lives, really: it's me too) is essentially golden handcuffs. This is a major step up from handcuffs made of rusty saw-blades that cut and give you tetanus whenever you move, but you're still actually handcuffed.
He's talking about the difference between swapping the stack pointer and executing a single "jump" instruction vs initiating a full function call (pushing argument(s), function prologue/epilogue)
Depending on the freezer, putting a hole somewhere and sealing it up really well is just as good as the walls and insulation that were in there before. I did this to a chest freezer that wasn't terribly expensive and I haven't ever noticed that the outside of the hole is any cooler than surrounding areas, nor did I notice that it had to work any harder to keep it cool.

That being said, I didn't exactly exhaustively detail the before and after performance of the freezer either. I used the smallest drill bit possible that would let me get a probe in there and everything else is external of the freezer down by the compressor motor where there is a lot of extra room- and input power to tap in to.
Indeed. They've done a great job on so many articles.

The technically-trained reporter with whom I chatted regarding an article on my field appeared to have dedicated at least a month to developing a strong understanding of the problems at hand. Most short-form science reporters seem to at most a couple of days on a story.
Even more, evolution is often 'ineffective' and also can't make big leaps without complete disasters. It is quick only when you die young, as you already mentioned. It could happen that aging became unneeded at some epochs/species, but there was no easy way and/or strong reason to "turn it off" again.

Our bodies are not well-designed, they are full of legacy. The whole idea of moving via contracting meat is... strange. For real, lower half of me exists only to move the upper half. That's crazy.
"We'll be back momentarily." Posted about 1 hour ago.

Seems serious.
No question about that whatsoever, IMO.
I suspect most of the founders are extremely focused on growing their business. Anything that can help with that (free advertising in this case) is something they'll do.

This is just a guess though - I'm not one of these founders.
Reddit is down, so expect a population boom in about 9 months
Put Fuchsia and Android green on a color wheel. I dare you.
Yev from Backblaze here -> We're working on it!
Aren't you doing the same mistake now?
"Egocentrism" which you see in the core of these attempts to prolong life - that's just a "new strategy". It has has obviously survived in humans through the billions of years of evolution (because we see it living in us now). Right now it has lead us to pursue this technology. We shall see how it goes. Maybe these efforts will prove futile, and other humans will evolve which will not have such egocentrism. Or maybe this new strategy will win and all of you (royally speaking) who think that it's bad will simply die off, because you couldn't keep up with the new evolutionary trends didn't believe that we should use tech to prolong life.

In either way, pursuing such goals is EXACTLY what it means to live. It's the process of the evolution itself. We are not alienated from it, on the contrary we are in the very heart of it and we get to experience it first-hand.

Alienation from life is more like non-accepting a certain aspect of it which is obviously happening. An aspect like people researching into biology to cheat death. So isn't that what your comment is?
> why not force the adblockers

How do you force a program to do anything? Or how does facebook force you to use an approved adblocker?

An exercise: I say you can't use the internet with extensions I disapprove of. Do you comply?