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Culture in Matthew Arnold's definition is the pursuit of human perfection.

Different cultures have different norms of human perfection, and pursue different things; this fits Spengler's (the real one's) idea that a culture has a core proposition. Within a civilization, high culture is a culture's full expression of itself; it seeks out and engages with the contradictory or self-defeating parts of its values, and tries to advance the culture's understanding of what perfection is and how it can be attained. (What the postmodernists call deconstruction, and Gardiner called "high parody," is a fundamental part of this process.) Low culture is mindless entertainment; it doesn't try to shape its consumers in any positive way, and certainly doesn't advance the society's understanding of its ideals. Middlebrow/bourgeois culture tries to be high culture and fails -- but typically fails intentionally. (To be at the forefront of understanding is prestigious but uncomfortable, and the middle class wants prestige but not discomfort.) Mass culture is typically low, since low culture sells, but can rise to middle or high. Low culture, and occasionally middlebrow or mass culture, can produce things that high culture finds interesting and takes up -- and high culture can similarly cross-fertilize downwards. See Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe for some very interesting discussion of this, which was more common then than it is today.

"Culture" historically means "high culture": the thrust towards self-improvement, plus the continued refinement of what exactly you're trying to self-improve towards. This sounds uniquely Western (especially modern Western -- "Faustian" in Spengler's terminology), but you see the same process in other parts of the world, especially in East Asia.

The catch is that you can't engage in high culture without access to high culture -- so perhaps it's unreasonable of me to condemn poor rural areas for not participating in it. Or perhaps not? It's not just mass culture that the Internet makes available.

Regardless, it's high culture -- or at least middlebrow culture, which is regrettably easy to mistake for it -- that reverend_gonzo was lamenting lack of access to.
I'm not aware of any system where one can create that caret without a text edit control to hold it. That means that, if the standard text edit control isn't suited for what you want to do, you can't have the caret.

Certainly, on the original Mac OS (a system on which I worked on OS patches for detecting the location of the caret) the method that application used for drawing the caret varied widely. I've seen it implemented by drawing a line, by drawing a rectangle, either in one go or in two parts (that happened in applications that supported a split caret, even if the caret wasn't split), with various transfer modes. Slanted carets typically were application-specific, too.
I have the same experience on my pretty slow laptop. Granted, my projects aren't big, but I would take vs code over sublime any day. Interestingly, atom feels much slower compared to both.
Don't think of Node as a web server, that's what I'm guessing your understanding of it is. Think of it as a copy of JS that is available on your machine.

NPM is a package manager for you guessed it, Node. You use it to install dependencies, whatever those might be for your situation.

I will ignore Bower.

Grunt is a task runner, say you have a task like minifying javascript files. Grunt runs this task for you. Or CSS preprocessing, any task, it'll run it. There are other things in this space too. Grunt, gulp, webpack, browserify, etc.

The pieces aren't that hard to understand, you just have to read what they do.

Sure you can stick a JS file in an HTML file and you're good, but when you start building more complex apps where you need common code in parts, specific code in others, this becomes ridiculous to do by hand, that's why we have build tools.
There's another reason too: defense against cognitive dissonance. If it's one's "own team" that did something bad, and that person is unwilling to give up allegiance to their team, they will often act out in other ways to resolve the conflict. Especially since the partisan aspect of the issue is not headlined, the defenses will be similarly under the surface.
A groundbreaking study on the dangers of 'microplastics' may be unraveling
Thanks for your analysis! The market is huge.
There's a lot to be achieved on the SMB market before hitting a wall luckily.
Many of the current methods of killing senescent cells hinge on apoptosis in some way.

UNITY Biotechnology: using repurposed chemotherapeutic drugs like navitoclax to selectively drive senescent cells into apoptosis by suppressing on the mechanisms that prevents that fate. They also have antibodies and immunotherapies in their backlog of patents, but if they haven't got it to work by now, not likely to be a direction they take in favor of the drugs.

Oisin Biotechnologies: programmed gene therapy that assesses p16 levels in the cell and then induces caspase expression and apoptosis if it looks senescent.

SIWA Therapeutics: monoclonal antibodies.

Everon Biosciences: small molecule drugs and related immunotherapies.

There is a lot of money sloshing into the field of senescent cell clearance at the moment, and given that the target market is ultimately every adult human for a treatment undertaken every few years, I think there is plenty of room for more players.
Seconding Qt, there's a bunch of bindings for non-C++ languages as well. It hits the uncanny valley sometimes but overall it's much better than the alternatives (like WxWidgets).
Haven't dealt with Google much but Azure and AWS have good and bad points with identity.

Azure is much easier to define RBAC access for individual resources in the portal, but doesn't give a unified view of what a user has access to (that I've found).

AWS IAM provides a much more consistent experience across services - I have a key pair or role and that key pair/role works across all the AWS services according to the policies defined. Compare to Azure Storage Account access for example.

AWS IAM can get frustrating when you take into consideration interaction between things like user policy, bucket policy and VPC endpoint policy when trying to access S3 from an EC2 instance in a VPC.

AWS IAM policies can make it difficult to express some use cases, mostly relying on tags and the console doesn't support tags on resource creation for many services. I've also run into bugs in cloudformation where it ignores or doesn't support putting tags on redshift clusters, meaning the only way I could give someone access to create a redshift cluster with tags was either through the CLI or APIs directly.

AWS IAM Roles and Instance Profiles are amazing for granting access to EC2 instances, and they added similar functionality for containers in ECS recently also.

Overall I like the AWS approach better because I find it much easier to implement as code and also probably because I've been using it for much longer.
I've seen what looked like one cruising around Oakland. I was very tempted to flip them the bird because I'm just a bad person and kind of disgusted by certain aspects of uber, but I just stood there and gawked. There were lots of sensors/cameras on the car and I didn't want them to use facial recognition to greyball me in the future.

edit: can you imagine down the line, the wealth of data self driving cars will collect? They could be subsidized/integrated with palantir, so a city or some company will own a suite of cars and sell that data to 3rd parties. Police departments will pay big money to get city data out of self driving busses/etc so they can have better surveillance.
Yes, sorry, I mean to make it human-readable, I always copy BF to https://copy.sh/brainfuck/ so I can check whether the output is correct. '12345' is a lot easier to read than +++++++- ++++++-+ ++++++-- +++++-++ +++++-+- or whatever.

I agree that the language itself is very likeable for the reasons you stated, but I'm partial to things that I can easily check. It's called Brainfuck for a reason. ;)
Er, the context of this subthread is about people who already do experiment on themselves. People in the "nootropics community." There are a lot of them.

You could try teaching these individuals experimental protocols if you like, but if you enforce them, that means you're the experimenter. You're not allowed to be the experimenter. You just have to hope they're doing something useful. Probably you'd point a lot of automated instrumentation at each room, rather than having any human observers giving anyone (costly) individual attention, because most of the experiments would be too mired in sources of error to tell you much.

But keep in mind that the point wouldn't be to capture subtle things like drug efficacy. The point would be to find out about side-effects that might otherwise not be found, by having people around when they suffer adverse reactions to the drug to help the person not-die, and then being able to pull reports directly from the people who helped the person not-die, to find out (in clear medical terms) what the adverse reaction was.
Putin critic who denounced annexation of Crimea shot dead
Uber controls the cost of goods/service.
We need light on the oceans for phytoplankton that release oxygen.
For what it's worth, your "longer video" is just two copies of the shorter video spliced together. Did you mean to provide another link there?
I agree that the article itself seems great, but I like to follow along and the output adds an extra step. I shouldn't complain, really.
https://ctxt.io/2/AAAAAHJkFA
It's fairly regular in my field (game dev) to put some debugging/instrumentation code in and only enable it for one frame after a key is pressed.
You ask way too many pertinent questions to be the sort of person who does what I am thinking of.
> Am I honestly to believe the tech industry can shoot a rocket into space and do any number of miraculous things, but can't create a solvent cab hailing service that pays workers living wages and basic benefits?

Yes. The rocket thing is the current apogee of a (remarkably phallic) ego war between billionaires. Most automation that would truly benefit society is boring, low-margin work. There's no massive ROI in scrubbing out a toilet or mopping a floor, so we continue to pay humans survival wages to do that kind of miserable work. For these Industry Titans, a $2.5 million hypercar just doesn't do it anymore. Robert Mercer's 200-foot, 4-story yacht with an elevator is okay, but Elon Musk's rocket shooting other people off to die on Mars (or likely partway) is a real dominance display.
Or you could try navitoclax, dasatinib, fisetin, piperlongumine, or any of the others tested so far in animal models and human cancer trials with well-understood pharmacology and that are easily purchased.

The trick here is that the current state of assays for senescent cell presence in samples is pretty terrible if you're outside a lab, and there is little point in doing this without measuring the outcome.
I also came to the comments for examples because I didn't realize there was anything below the fold, FWIW
Senate votes to allow ISPs to collect personal data without permission
Kickstarter: Deep Learning A-Z: Online Course in Artificial Intelligence
Anyone take this or signed-up for it? Comments?

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kirilleremenko/deep-learning-a-ztm-online-course/comments
Sure, I'd support "self-experimentation sites" where experimental subjects bring their own drugs and get better supervision/instrumentation. Just like self-injection sites let people who already have heroin inject it there but don't provide it on-site.

Volunteering and bringing your own drugs with you is a much stronger signal of intent and capability than just volunteering. You don't need a large cohort to find exceptional effects, negative or positive, so the bias toward stronger filtering seems fine to me. If you're looking for subtler effects, self-selection won't work anyway; you'd need double blinded clinical trials like usual.
> The user starts out by simplifying the problem a bit by identifying the category of the item to be examined—it’s not “What fruit is this,” but, “This is an apple, is it any good?” Consumer Physics’ cloud-based software then taps into its knowledge base, for an apple, it defines “good” as “sweet” (hence the Brix measurement), and considers an apple’s typical range of sweetness based on thousands of scans. A graphic on the phone then places the apple on a quality range.

The important data and algorithms are held in their servers, not in the phone app. This gives them a lot of control and responsibility over the models, leading me to believe that they wouldn't store data on illegal drugs.

I also feel it's kind of scummy to keep this on the server. There is no reason that this functionality couldn't be offline and on the phone, except to let them charge you monthly for the hardware you're effectively leasing from them, rather than letting you use the device you own.

Also, I expect if this does take off that someone will replace their app's phone home behavior and sever-side components with an equivalent on localhost. Slightly later will be the cloned scanners that plug into the app. They should focus on providing higher-quality and higher-accuracy scanners than competition can achieve, rather than trying to lock out competitors.
You don't really even need to go as far as reverse engineering the protocol to game the system. You can just run as many copies of the browser as you like, each in its own VM, and have scripted mouse/keyboard actions pretending to read content.

Reverse engineering the protocol would probably allow a very resource efficient exploit, but it's far from the only point where the protocol can be corrupted by a user with fraudulent intent.
Interesting. I suppose that could have some effect, but I was not even born until housing discrimination was over with and when I moved into my small town it was largely farmland and not much of a suburb until a decade later.

Further, if housing discrimination was still going on in the 90's and 00's, I have no idea where these people were being "pushed out" to. The closest towns/cities with significant racial minority populations were at least 250 miles away...the city I grew up outside of was 90% white (currently 82% white) and there were/are plenty of undesirable locations there. It's middle America, there are just a ton of white people (sorry?).
Interesting angle!
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Sorry, I misread that s/he was talking about the bill rather than the administrative rule change that happened first.
I think my problem with Dennett boils down to the fact that he's a wet blanket =) His attitude would be fine if it really did seem like there was nothing more to be learned about consciousness.

To me his perspective seems a lot like our primitive ancestors looking at the stars and calling them holes poked in the sky--case closed. But you don't have to believe in a soul or anything like that to suspect that there's something significant about self-awareness that we haven't figured out yet. I feel like Dennett is the odd man out here. I suppose we'll have to wait and see if anyone can prove him wrong.
>Yes it does. Have you looked at how the BLS calculates the market-basket they use for CPI calculations? It's determined by actual spending by actual people on actual goods.

The CPI calculation does take into account "new expenses", but in a backwards way from what I asked for above and for the reverse purpose (to hide the negative changes).

Instead of just adding something like a cell contract into the "new necessities" in the basket, they substitute lesser goods instead of comparing like for like across periods, as if it's reflecting a difference in what people want to buy (aka the "burger vs steak" substitution) instead of what they can afford to buy. They have even long substituted home owning costs for rent. So, yeah, "it's not inflation", it's just a declining standard of living instead of a fixed (or progressing) one.
"...pour encourager les autres"
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It's a little different in Australia. The GST registration threshold is $75,000, but there is a specific carve out for taxis that forces registration/collection of GST for taxis regardless of turnover. The ATO (and now the Federal Court) aren't challenging the contractor/employee position of Uber - rather just that the individual drivers should be collecting and remitting GST on their fares.
I was just supporting your point. More than half of the population did indeed vote for Obama (in fact he won in a landslide ). And it was under him that Libya was obliterated (which is what the comment was talking about). Sorry if I wasn't clear.
Yeah, I guess my point was if you have bipartisanship it gives power to all factions. I thought it was a nice counterpoint to the system I shared with power swinging back and forth. No deep thought went into this.
It depends on the requirements. If you need a very complicated form with lots of dynamic parts, it will be quicker and a better user experience to do all the dynamic stuff on the front end, then pass the data to the back-end for simple processing. There is no universal solution.
It's interesting that you call Uber 'surging' but cabbies doing the same 'scamming'. I understand what you're saying but they are quite comparable..
Google is trying to bring good jobs to people in the US who need good jobs by helping to develop their talent and match it to a role within the company. i don't think that's a bad thing. i think Google will be happy to see how well this approach works.
Even if we get a 5° - 10° Celsius increase, wouldn't there be plenty of opportunity for millions of humans to survive closer to the poles?

Not that it would be easy or desirable. Some of the worst scenarios might result in 99% (or higher) of humans dying - obviously an unspeakably immense tragedy. Yet that would still leave tens of millions of people to carry on.

It seems to me that it would be extremely difficult to extinguish human life entirely, given our cleverness, adaptability, and very strong survival drive.

I haven't seen much talk about projections that would make the entire planet completely uninhabitable for humans. That would require an increase significantly higher than 10° Celsius, I'm guessing?

Of course, this would likely delay our transformation into a space-faring civilization by a few thousand years, as well as significantly damage social progress.
My contribution would be to point out the Rule of Least Power to people again.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_least_power

A lot of the times when technology is being created in a space where existing technologies already solve the problem, and even moresoe when these frameworks are an "extension" of such platforms, the NIH syndrome comes as a cause of being unfamiliar with how the original technology solves the problem. Rather than RTFM and internalizing that way of thinking, the libraries are rebuilt. Even worse, some get adopted by new developers that don't know better as being standard.

jQuery, motherfucker, I'm looking at you. HTML5 and CSS can go further than many expect, including myself.
Well, all cells convert oxygen and sugar into energy, including old cells and cancer cells.

Like you said, cellular senescence is a trade-off -- the body doesn't want these damaged cells to keep dividing per se, yet they are still useful for continuing to covert sugar and oxygen into energy to use as needed.

We do have a mechanism for getting rid of damaged cells in general: autophagy. However, autophagy seems to be mostly triggered when there is an energy deficit, for instance during fasting or during intense exercise.

This is probably why fasting and exercise are proven over and over to be beneficial to health, they essentially trigger a "cleaning cycle" of cellular autophagy within the body. I'm not sure autophagy typically includes senescent cells, my understanding is that it's primarily targeted towards cells that have damaged mitochondria.
Any indication on how much it could affects ones lifespan?
Acquia CEO outs community member and asks them to leave
Ask HN: How do you know when you're ready to move into a senior role?
Lots of people wonder that, from science fiction authors to sociologists to random yahoos on HN.

We've got some historical modelling available - as life expectancy has increased family sizes have dropped accordingly. Maybe we'll have entire villages with a couple communally raised children every decade.
Exactly what I meant. Bars and museums require wealth
When you can snatch the pebble from my hand, grasshopper
when you're also mentoring
You're right, of course. The Democrats seem more for protection in the private realm. Hopefully the motivation isn't simply to preserve the deep state's monopoly, under a national security pretext, on the power to violate the privacy of enemies of their agenda (like Trump).
Here you go:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_sunshade

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10209794

Edit to answer your question: No, it wouldn't be passively stable. But it could be actively stable with solar-powered motors to move mirrors, so it wouldn't need fuel.
Great. I unfortunately can't use Stripe, but looking for solutions that will reduce fraud.

If this does become available, will certainly be looking at it.
The Asian:Black ratio at Stuyvesant is 2743:21. Say you bring in all the black kids from the lower-tier Bronx High School of Science (72), Staten Island Technical (13), Brooklyn Technical (390), Queens High School for the Sciences (25), High School for Mathematics, Science, and Engineering at City College (41). Now you've got 562 black kids at Stuyvesant. Still too low. Bring in the rest of the non-science-oriented specialized schools (High School of American Studies at Lehman College (14), Brooklyn Latin School (105)). Now you're at 681. Still too low. (Note that Laguardia's admissions are by audition, not examination, so I omitted that. Still 2:1 Asian:Black.)

Now you're pulling kids out of regular high schools. Are they going to be able to keep up with the other Stuyvesant kids? Should we slow down others' education so lower performing students can keep up? How does this help these lower performing students? Note that these are individual people we are talking about who are getting thrown into classes that are difficult for them.

You could create programs designed to help underprivileged students that are close to the cutoff, to help them get admitted. NYC created that, but, you know, it helps asian kids too.

Another problem with doing corrections for population ratio is that NYC attracts top professionals, highly intelligent people that are having children. Even if you believe all races are geneticulturally identically distributed globally, or in the country, you can see that the high income professionals are mostly non-black, and their kids are going to monopolize Stuyvesant seats. The high IQ black/Latino kids that aren't getting into Stuyvesant are the ones whose parents never moved to NYC in the first place.
http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/ios-support.html
True, however, the problem is preserving humans from near extinction, not preserving our knowledge and culture for the few who might survive if we ignore the problem.
Ok, let's say mid 90's then.
[Unrelated: Good to see you're still around; feel free to drop by EFnet again sometime.]
Guess it's time to start using my VPN machine more...
IMHO, even if we end up needing some mega-geoengineering project for our survival, it would still be cheaper if we first stop our CO2 emission and then plan for geoengineering, rather than building something scaled for our current CO2 emission trajectory.

Basically, if an oil tanker is leaking oil all over the beach, we should first plug the goddamn hole before talking about (expensive) solutions to clean up the contaminated beach. Doing it the other way just doesn't make sense.
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