skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some "life extension" site forum had a group buy for the stuff apparently. People posted some of their results:

http://www.longecity.org/forum/topic/68589-isrib-group-buy-n...

One quote:
So far I'm very much surprised about the effect on the overall cognition. My personal experiences are, that ISRIB definitely has it's effects on memory consolidation, but in my experience it doesn't only influence the long term memory formation (as JPC suggested), but the short term memory as well. It mens practicaly, that while reading a text, it is way much easier to remember the words, expression, and contexts as well (after 1-2 days). For instance currently I'm studying medicine basics again (I will enter a residency program soon), the subjects floaded with unique expressions related to molecular biology, basics of anatomy etc.. meaning, they are not very easy to link while memorizing even for a medical professional (they are meant to be boring..), and so far, after two days (meaning the text I read on friday) I can still remember a lot sharper on the names of for example cellular proteins, special basic physiological mechanisms than before, it is very obvious to me. I have to add, that I would value my memory above the average (as far as I can asses), but lately I somehow got slower by memorisation (I think it is an aging effect, and that was one of the reasons, why I started to search for some chemical hacking of my brain..).
"In principle we are going towards some sort of consolidation aka biodiversity annihilation worldwide, so that there will be 5-7 corporations / governments deciding for we all."

I see very limited evidence of this.

"It is not good if they only act for their own shareholders or bureaucrats (who are they? what they want from us if not enslavement and control?)"

Most shareholders are you and your neighbours. I.e. mutual and pension funds. As an example, nearly all Canadians are all shareholders in various global companies via the CPP, one of the world's largest investors. My mother was an Ontario school teacher and is thus a shareholder in many companies, administered by one of the world's largest institutional investors (OTPP).

Most people who own equity don't want enslavement or control, they just want a return on the money they put in over their lives. Some senior management OTOH do want control/power, and enrich themselves in the process, and top management pay/power remains an open problem.

"You don't need fascism or communism in the given forms, it is the principle from which they arise that is emerging from these global consolidations again."

Again, I don't see this, sorry. The world is not consolidating, it is breaking apart, from my view. And Monopolies are always temporary at best (a few decades).
Yeah, if you have robot factories and practical batteries, the only thing holding back abundant energy becomes the political will to make abundant energy available.
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I think you did. Basically, no jobs are immune to the next wave of automation. I think entertainers and sex workers will still make money, but I'm not sure what else will.
A Swiss speaking up here. Switzerland economy is competitive because economy is very tough here due to the high Swiss Franc. Even local businesses compete with abroad. In Basel for example there's a tramway which crosses the border to Germany. Just behind the border there's a row of malls. It's crazy.

In other words, companies need to be exceedingly efficient, i. e. competitive, to survive.

This has been this way as long as I remember, that means for at least thirty years. And the hostile environment has only exacerbated massively in the last five years.
While differentiating between "good" and "bad" images may seem like an idea that has potential to work, I think it may be pointless to device obvious ways to use placebo effects on the brain. I think training yourself to think critically reduces the chance of your brain falling for poorly-designed tricks.

The biggest takeaway from the article for me was simply the fact that anxiety drastically changes your reality. That is both motivation to find ways to curtail the anxiety even if it hasn't scientifically proven to be "curable" and reason to believe that the anxious brain is not "defective" but has simply been made to focus on the wrong set of thoughts. Here are some ways I dealt with it:

1. I changed my area of research (I am a grad student).
2. I got out of a bad relationship.

I said the above to point out the fact that the anxiety may have such blatantly obvious causes for some people. It really helps to sit down and identify each scenario that makes you anxious and try to understand what you can change about your life (no matter how overwhelmingly drastic the change is) to react more calmly in each of these situations.
For example, I had terrible (and still have but more mildly)
anxiety in moving vehicles and my heart races and ugly panic grips me, when the vehicle accelerates. I never stopped to think what was causing it because my hypersensitive brain refused to think
deeply during travel time and even after because simulating
travel was enough to trigger it.

I made myself believe that making said dramatic changes in my life would reduce the impact of the motion-stimulated anxiety. I figured that when panic struck me on the bus, I would tell myself that if I could transform my life or at least try my hardest to, I could get over this meaningless panic.

That's how I manage each situation that causes anxiety: by rationalizing as best as I can, by identifying the root causes of my panic and by attacking those root causes with logic. I think this requires strength and unfortunately, I could find no easier way to make myself feel better. For example, talking to a therapist or transferring the anxiety to/hoping for support from people I loved turned out to be much less effective.

Then again, anxiety is very common so panicking at the panic is the first such scenario that must be rationalized away. We do a lot of hard things in everyday life for the purposes of leading a fuller life. Until such a time as a reliable map of the brain is drawn and effective, scientific, non-intrusive ways to change our perception
emerge (which may not happen in our lifetimes), establishing a camaraderie with the stubborn brain, through patient rationalization, may be all we have.

This is just my opinion and I really hope it helps someone like me.
Not necessarily 1 Person per Robot. Lets say 1 Robot replaced 5 people. 1 of those handle the Robot directly, the other 4 are now pulled in things like maintenance, cleanup, admin etc that comes with running Robots. Just like for every computer programmer, we have QA, Testers, Sys Admins etc.
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...and no money to afford all the consumables or pay their mortgages.

I agree with you, but we need to make a plan for all those that will put out of their existing jobs and make it possible for them to transition to jobs that can't be replaced by technology.

Technology is what drives us forward. It's necessary and is the only way we can legitimately effect our advance as a species - aside from other more controversial topics. But we cannot be blind to those it will leave behind if we allow it. They cannot be lost in the shuffle or we all lose.
Right, I don't really disagree with you, I think. It's just that I associate "pattern" with things that are "done by convention". By contrast the state monad is encoded in the language in Haskell rather than just "done by convention".

On the other hand, I would say that your state monad in Python is a pattern, because there's no way of expressing the structure of the state monad in Python.
It looks like you hit reply on my comment by mistake instead of on the parent comment (which was the one that said "But they aren't: they have no power", and I quoted that to add some counterarguments). :)
Providing customer support isn't a business decision for them, in the sense that the won't put billions of dollars and decade(s) of thousands of engineers' time to win this zero sum game.
One person claimed to have had it synthesized and taken it awhile back (linked from the article) http://www.longecity.org/forum/topic/68589-isrib-group-buy-n...
Many shops/stores in Poland still use applications written for DOS for item management and stuff. Sometimes they get an upgrade, meaning they get a Windows install with the application running in DOSBox.
Interesting that they aren't using commodity hardware. Is that a myth then? The farms of cheap linux boxes?
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Um, ACTUALLY the Industrial Revolution is what gave birth to... Giving birth to a lot, to work in a factory.
Anxiety and Working Memory: Trading One for the Other
There is always a trade-off. Passive solar heating is a vastly better investment in terms of environmental impact. Even home solar panels is a better investment than this in terms of environmental impact.

I remember running the numbers and while I was walking to work and basically never driving keeping an ancient sub 25MPG in the city car was both much cheaper and actually better for the environment than buying a Prius. Note this was at ~1-3k miles driven per year.

So, my guess is it might have some small impact at the margins. But, mostly in convincing people to do something they where thinking of doing anyway.
This is very much the perspective I have taken over the years. When I'm hiring a senior developer, I'm looking for someone who will step in and own the project they're given. If I had to pick a single expression, especially one recognizable to this crowd, I would say it is someone who can execute. I also tend to view senior developers almost as internal consultants (good ones) because they should be willing and able to step away from they keyboard and talk to a stakeholder to discern what the business really needs without needing someone else to act as an intermediary.

Where I do disagree just a little bit with mrmekon, is that I tend to look for people who have experience with the necessary stack. I would be hesitant to hire a senior developer for a C#/MVC position if they have (broadly) never used C# or never done web development, for example. Modern stacks have a lot of moving parts, and I would prefer senior developers to understand how to troubleshoot, tune, upgrade, test, and deploy on the needed stack. These are things that a very strong developer could remediate within a few projects, though, which is why I only slightly disagree with mrmekon.
I think the idea is that the format lends itself towards being human readable.

If the names/values are chosen well their purpose will be self evident.
There's been huge gains in automation in various industries, yet the work force is only slowly decreasing in industry as a whole - and you can see that healthcare, business services, leisure employ more and more people:

http://www.bls.gov/emp/ep_table_201.htm
So for autonomous trucks how will human truckers keep their jobs? For the auto manufacture industry, how many less humans does Tesla employ to produce a vehicle vs in 1996? For the service industry...how many jobs are being replaced as McDonalds rolls out kiosks?

You are uninformed if you believe these jobs are staying. There is no way, mark my words, that our economy doesn't experience a net negative in jobs during this next revolution.

It's not all bad though, it could push us towards UBI, maybe a supply based economy. Otherwise we're basically saying jesus take the wheel.

A guy can dream.
Yeah, but by then Elon Musk will have made humans an interplanetary species and we'll be ready for the first wave of interplanetary immigration :)

Mars, the land of opportunities for the next industrial revolution?
Why wouldn't the poor end up in a slum, even if it's 50% of the population?

You seem to forget that "slums" were not always slums. They used to be reasonably nice places to live. (Some of them in the US used to be really nice, posh places to live.) All it takes to turn a nice neighborhood into a slum is a lack of income to keep the houses maintained properly. Human habitats fall apart pretty quickly when they're abandoned or neglected.
Uh-huh and who's gonna pay for that. :)
Safe nucelear energy is here, and has been for years. The number of people who have died from exposure to coal dust is far higher than those who have been harmed by nuclear anything.
I could give you my take but I think CGP Grey really explains it best: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU
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Is the anxiety imposed upon actors and musicians by their chosen profession different in effect or feeling than the anxieties imposed by other professions?

My son feels anxiety about trying new things. Does that differ from the anxiety I feel about what happens to my family if my job goes away, or that an actor feels about performing poorly? Do the effects on related things differ?

Anxiety is a form of fear, and that's pretty much universal.

Many people look up to celebrities to some degree or another - often in the context of "if my life weny a little differently, maybe that could have been me", and can find comfort in realizing that they have the same feelings in spite of how successful they are - more comfort than knowing that their neighbor feels the same anxiousness about the same things they do.

This is also why celebrity gossip is a thing - it shows that these people are human too, with the same weaknesses as the rest of us.
Since you present this number, then I assume you have read how this have been calculated, and can give some credible answer to e.g. why the low 10% in America are considered better off than the bottom British, Germans, Australians and Swiss.

Having been in several of these countries and knowing people who have lived there it simply does not strike me as believable. Maybe it is true, but I'd like to hear some articulated reason for it.

Here are my counter points. We know that for all these other countries supposedly worse off than America health care access for the bottom is considerably better. Access to education is better. Crime levels are lower. So within what area is it that American's gain the upper hand?

I've seen studies like this before giving poor Americans an upper hand and all to often it is due only focusing on material aspects. E.g. the poor in the US usually have bigger houses, more microwaves, bigger cars etc than the poor elsewhere. This is often given as evidence that they are better of while ignoring the fact that poor Americans have significantly worse access to health care and education than other people. Also Europeans e.g. spend a lot more on travel than on just accumulating stuff at home. So quality of life is difficult to asses exclusively by just adding up stuff.
A standardised "carbon rating," analogous to the single-number MPG metric, would be helpful.
A blog post on 2ndQuadrant shows a bit more how parallelism in PostgreSQL scales across cores: http://blog.2ndquadrant.com/parallel-aggregate/
Can you elaborate on how the x86_64 world has gotten more locked down?
Yep, so we will likely be breaking our own maps on slow connections... (remember it is not really slow sites that we measure)... but the broader point is, if that script blocked rendering, which it would, then a user on a slow connection would likely not even see the content of the page, let alone the map. So the broader question is, for someone who wouldn't get the content normally is it better to break a smaller section of the site vs not see the site at all? If the user is on a fast connection then everything would still work.

Although a quick search in that code, I can't see getScript actually being called.
>I'm not an economist but every other time similar things have happened in industry the economy has balanced out.

"The economy" did not "balance out". "The economy" is not an active agent. The economy was politically managed -- for instance, via the Fed's original mandate to encourage full employment. What prevents similar management taking place today is ideological opposition to it.
It seems unlikely considering their acquisition and later shutdown of Parse.
Using it everyday on the main laptop. Debian is fully supported, including as a template-VM.
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If the problem is instability in black communities I don't understand why your solution is to crack down very hard on unrest. While it might be an okay short term solution I feel like this escalates the situation while not solving the underlying problem.
https://fee.org/articles/the-curse-of-machinery/
What's missing from the article is an analysis of the break-even point. How long do you have to own your hybrid before the high initial cost pays off? There's also the problem that there are not "climate-friendly" equivalents for many vehicles. The article mentions the Chevy Suburban; there's no electric option that big. Obviously big SUVs are going to be more expensive to operate than sedans, which makes me wonder if they are even comparing apples to apples here.
It's different this time around. Video that can explain this far better than I ever could: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU
In Early Access this is completely free. Pricing will be announced later.
> It fits really nicely with a data > functions mindset.

That will probably confuse my procedural mind, much like declarative "stuff" often does! :-)
Nothing was posted about specific skills, just "ten years in software dev." This could be building WordPress sites or it could be architecting the backend of Netflix. OP's value will be determined by the demand for his services in relation to how many people have experience providing those services, what their current pay is, and whether they're open to a new job.
A lot of hosted products that require extreme backward compatibility like Adobe Analytics still do it.
Note that this is uber pool and is limited to a section of Manhattan (below 125th street). It's $100 for two weeks or $200 for a month.

Business idea! Sign up for unlimited uber rides and resell them for cash. Just stand on a corner where people are waiting for cabs, charge them $5 in cash to go where they want, and then call an uber pool for them.
LXC is great, I agree. Some of Docker's big win is from its composability of images. If appc/rkt can do this (do they already?), I think they will capture a lot of Docker's momentum.
Rewriting it from scratch (OCID) has less of a stigma, although it's clearly more work and less likely to be fully compatible.
Except it's not a 'random subset', it's the subset of homeless people. If you take the subset of poor people or the subset of sick people I would expect a different distribution than that of the whole population.
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>> At the center of the application, semantics are encoded using the language of the domain model.

> Say pg/psql.

Minor nitpick: "pg/psql" is not the language of the domain model. The language of the domain model is stuff like "A car is considered 'All-Wheel Drive' if the drivetrain delivers power to any/all of the axles, not just a single axle."

pg/psql requires translating that domain-model language into something (roughly) like

set @awdCars := (select * from cars where drivetrainAxles >= allAxles)
For me (bought a new "normal" car recently) the main reason against an electric/plug-in hybrid vehicle was that I did not have an easy solution to charge it (apartment with parking nearby but no charging infrastructure). The second reason was upfront cost. The third reason was unknown maintenance costs when the battery gives up (I usually keep a car for more than a few years).
Warnings are on all browser versions.. Location was a silly one though, you had to invoke the API to see the error, if you never actaully had devtools open when you called the API then you wouldn't know there was an issue.

There has been a warning about sync 3rd party scripts injected with document.write for quite a while now..
CGPGrey's "Humans Need Not Apply" video addresses precisely that question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU

EDIT: Bah. Too late.
Need several banks to manage several tokenized assets?

https://www.ethereum.org/token
> For example, when Cars were invented, I am sure a lot of buggy drivers lost their jobs.

Following your reasoning, the difference with those buggy drivers is the level of education you need to cover the new jobs. The education funnel left a lot of people behind.
>If things like Robots take over blue collar jobs, I bet we will need the same humans to operate those Robots at some capacity.

Yes, but we'll need a lot less of them...otherwise, what's the point in having automation?
If you put all the taxi and truck drivers and burger-flippers out of work, what exactly do you propose they do for work in the new automated future? Any job they can do, a robot can do better.

If you're answer is "fix robots", that's fantasy. If these people had the capacity for highly technical jobs, they wouldn't be working as burger-flippers. And for the few exceptions who might have the capacity for it, they're not doing it because they don't have money to go to school instead of work, and that's not going to change either if society has the mindset of refusing to adopt UBI.
6 hours ago there was a [post to the original story] (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12603909). That HN article was LATER marked dupe by THIS gizmodo repost.

This is essentially the opposite of what I'd expect to happen.
Yeah, at that point I wouldn't be comfortable touching it.
Disk drive? How is the PSU still working? Some C64 PSUs has pretty low lifespans.
This seems to be a good road to go down, but low hanging fruit skews this a bit. For example at my first IT job they used a system that text messaged customers to remind them of appointments. It cost $250 a month per office (12 offices), I took initiative (I was the only IT person in the company, I had very little management) and replaced it with an alternative I wrote in Python that used Twillo and brought that cost to below $5 a month per office. The savings were slightly greater than my salary (I also provided general IT services that were then basically free for them), but I wouldn't call myself a senior developer or a developer at all really as I've only held IT services jobs.
The page comes up blank for me, likely due to my content blockers. Alternate link:
https://www.timeout.com/newyork/blog/you-can-buy-unlimited-u...
I don't get the reference

nuclear energy appears to be the safest energy option, and has been for many years now
I wish they would have shown comparisons to other states that didn't legalize as opposed to trying to draw conclusions based on the same states prior performance. In some of these cases where legalization didn't cause significant increases, how does this compare nationally?
My sister does job-sharing. She works Mon-Wed, and her job partner works Wed-Fri (one day overlap for meetings and handover). This lets her spend more time with her family, something that's important to her. She gets healthcare coverage through her husband's job.

It works well, but you'd have to commit to a less-expensive lifestyle because you're not working 40+ hours a week. It has benefits to the company as well, as they get two people for the cost of a little more than one (and don't have to pay expensive benefits to either of them).
In the longer term perhaps? You could say psychotherapy reduces stress and anxiety but not necessarily during...