skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article is not as focused on infant mortality as the post title suggests.

Am wondering about the statement regarding cancer being rare. Is that only because people didn't live long enough?

I went to a Wal-Mart this past weekend, I know full well what is wrong with contemporary health--excess eating!
3 is rather arbitrary, we use Pi as the coefficient instead.
I appreciate that this hill is one that HN is unwilling to climb, but: it's not an extremity, it's those behaviours which cause harm to others and in many cases men themselves (such as the set of behaviours whose consequences can lead to higher suicide rates among men).

Specifically in the context of coal mining, while I appreciate that communities get built around it that doesn't mean it should be extended beyond wider economic and environmental sense. Coal mining is both dangerous and literally toxic for those involved, but somehow people not involved in it invoke its macho status.
Congrats, you are the official king of cluelessness!

Seriously, actually educate yourself about those concepts. Your totally naive binary understanding of what makes a monopoly a monopoly is embarrassing at best.
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what did they eat?
Just wanted to give a different perspective. Been using typescript for more than 2 years now, on 2 projects of medium sizes (30 to 100Kloc). Those are projects that provide my income, them breaking means no income anymore for me and my associates.

Although Typescript started a bit as you say, complex tooling, had to write external type declaration to have the typing for external libraries (but they are optional, not having them only means not having typing on externals, which is fine in many cases, so not in the way at all), but overall, typing provided so many benefits it was already worth it to me: litterally saved me hundreds of bugs found at compile-time, and keeps the maintenance of the code base cheap and easy.
But typescript evolved a lot, now the typing declaration are based on npm, the compiler got faster by an order of magnitude, it provides services to the IDE, and so on.

I just wouldn't start a new project with a reasonable expected lifespan without typescript.
I don't know why, but this information has come up a lot in conversation the past week for me. My family, which mostly live unhealthy sedentary lives, discussed dying at 60. I was trying to make the point to them, if we gathered the statistic for people who live over 40, you would find that the average lifespan is much close to 80-90. The reason being is infant mortality and youthfulness. When you are young, you take many more risks (ie. driving fast in your car, drinking and drugging, etc.). There is a certain threshold age where you are just competing with Cancer and getting old, but the rate of death is much lower.

Now I should just do some real research to back up that for them with statistics.
For a dataset this size, though, you'd probably realistically be using ORC/Parquet rather than CSV with Athena, which would cut query times and cost dramatically. Note that the table shows that Athena is scanning all the data each time; that would not be the case if ORC or Parquet was used.
It's right there in the first paragraph:

> high intake of fruits, whole grains, oily fish and vegetables
I say go ahead. If you want to improve an existing product nothing is stopping you. Go for it!

https://github.com/remkop/picocli/wiki/FAQ#aren-t-you-just-r...
Tontine? Not a new concept.
I love CS and I see myself using it for another 5 years.
The aversion developers have had to CS never were legit reasons. If you put all your time in ES6 and CS, I think you'll be more productive in CS.

The only issue I foresee is tools being built around the use of ES6 that compel you to abandon it.

I've learned that less is better. I don't use JQuery, I don't use Lodash. I don't use React, I don't use ImmutableJs, I don't use Webpack or CommonJS. All of these tools are more a burden that a blessing and you just end up stacking on 100 dependieces asking "Is this really better?"

I learned this lesson with Cucumber/RSpec/Caybara and etc.. I started asking why I had to use these over plain old TDD and so I used TDD for a month and I found out everything was totally fine.

I don't even really use Arel in ActiveRecord. I just write raw SQL that serves JSON directly back. I made it easier for me to organize SQL in partials just like views and to injects variables and conditions into my SQL.

I went to great lengths to evaluate all these tools because as a work-form home contractor I can afford the time, and the "what if" really bothers me.

I still working in Rails with Sprockets and CS and I write all my SQL by hand.

Less is Better.

All these kids want to do a bunch of busy work and for no good reason. It makes the feel productive.

I have tried dropping CS but the difference in productive was too great to drop. Its not that I'm married to CS its that it does what it says. It makes your JS concise so you can be more productive.

I felt AngularJS dying and so I spent 3 months researching React and building client apps in React. I just didn't get all the work extra work and settled on Mithril.

The hardest thing was giving up writing HTML-like templates like I did in AngularJS but I remember that was my first aversion to AngularJS where I swallowed the medicine. I had to swallow more medicine to unlearn that. Mithril paird with CoffeScript makes writing markup in CS a joy. If I had to do that in regular JS I could see why people would be compelled to use ugly JSX.
I think the creator may be better off conducting a through philosophical investigation in efforts of pinning down the concept. You would be much better off giving full citations to Foucault and Deleuze, and full analysis into the Snowden incident and the fallout rather than a sort of half nod to, what I think, are the foundation beams of this concept.

This page kind of assumes the audience is already willing to admit social cooling as a legitimate phenomena, and if not, will be convinced to do so after a few short bullets and very little in the way of actual analysis (ironically, this sort of approach leverages one of the modern patterns the piece could tackle--short bursts of information, instant delivery, decreased skepticism and amounts of reflective thought).

Also, I'd highly recommend avoiding the global warming comparison. It does a disservice to your cause. It basically comes off, at least to me, as saying "our problem isn't a substantial thing in its own right so lets compare it to this other big problem people already care about and hope the very loose and forced analogy strings them along"

All this being stated, ya'll should check out Horkheimer's essay "The Concept of Man." He wrote it in ~1952(might've been 53 or 57, I'm forgetting the exact date)--and it's crazy how prophetic that essay turned out to be. It shows how all our innovation really just led to an amplification of social structures and patterns that were already emerging during the dawn of automation and mechanization. I think it's relevant to your project.
So we need to do two things?:

1. Move a lot more (twice as much). What would this entail in today's society? Fitness?

2. Eat twice as much as we do now and focus on fish, fruits and vegetables?
It works because Bitcoin is only the ledger - the accounting part. All the contractual aspects of the business activity are external to the blockchain, and are handled in the traditional way - through civil law and procedures.
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Yeah, I can see that. There are a few things that make it nice, like the `@` sign in place of `this, and implicit returns (which remove a bunch of boilerplate and brackets).
The two recruiters I know basically did it has a mid life career switch.
The implementation language does not matter to me - I'm not working on the code base, and have no interest in doing so. I don't care that there is lisp there, as long as I don't have to write it.
PHPUnit is greedy with RAM.

I believe the default PHP memory limit is often only 128Mb, have you tried increasing this, or setting it to -1 to remove the limit?

In php.ini, you need to change:
memory_limit = 128M ;
In one model of human behavior we all just become better people because we self-censor. I think that may be true for the first generation of people experiencing these effects in a society. Later generations will have more of a problem.

The problem comes when they repress negative emotions and other status detractors because the cost of even being aware of them is too high. Then you have people who, in psychological terms, are prisoners of their shadow selves. They become anxious and depressed because they fear confronting it.
I have found that if I ask some people for a quick estimate and multiply by 5, the estimate will be pretty close.
I really feel that engineers need to wake up to this kind of thing.

I'm not saying we should stop (although that's what might happen), just that we pause and consider what this is doing to the world. It is the undercurrent for so many profound changes going on right now.

Are we really comfortable as individuals building systems which predict someones mental (ill) health, personality traits or ethnicity just so we can sell them things, or worse, not sell them things?
I disagree. Once a certain skill level is achieved, money can be taken off the table. When you have a six figure salary, more money is not as significant as it once was. After this threshold is crossed, you gain the luxury of mostly choosing where to work.

I definitely notice a huge difference in desire to get up in the morning depending on the importance of what I'm working on. If it's menial or ultimately unimportant work, I can feel burned out working 30-40 hour weeks. If it's world changing stuff that's never been done before and will save thousands or millions of lives, I feel engaged working 60-80 hours a week.

When an employer is trying to recruit me, they don't need to offer more money than everyone else. They need to sell me on the importance of what I will be working on. For example, autonomous vehicles present continuous research and engineering challenges for which you often must provide the first solution anyone has ever devised. This addresses the problem of menial work. Accelerating the overall global development, production, and adoption of autonomous vehicles by a single day could save over a thousand lives. This addresses the problem of importance of work.

At the end of the day, money is secondary. I need enough that I don't need to worry about struggling financially; but, the primary reason I will accept an offer has nothing to do with money. We spend a large portion of our lives working. So, we better enjoy whatever it is that we do.
Funny thing about that: In my dad's pension plan he got an increase because so few of his fellow pensioners live to collect much of it. They typically retire and live for about two years and that's it. So the pension fund was adjusted to reflect that reality.
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>So far, no they aren't. Not even close. Not that there isn't any violence from the left, but not nearly as much.

This is based on information that is highly controlled by the companies which we were just discussing, right?
You're jumping to conclusions you have no basis for.
A Python 3 string is not an array of "bytes + encoding". A Python 3 string is a sequence of Unicode code points, and you neither know nor are supposed to care what the underlying bytes in memory are. All operations on strings in Python 3 are in terms of code points: iterating yields the characters corresponding to the code points, indexing yields the character corresponding to the code point at the index, and length reports the number of code points.

If you want bytes + encoding in Python 3, you want the 'bytes' type, not the 'str' type.
Which is exactly what the article says. You should read it, it's pretty good.
the "users" of fuchsia most likely will not be developers only, if GPL is just a symbol, a golden star to show you are a good kid then it does not look so foundamental to me.

as other have said the driver API should actually make that easier (in intents).
By having a means of producing batteries you'll be able to rely on renewables won't you? I thought that was the whole idea?
... What was the point of this reply? It doesn't change or refute anything I said before. All this has been discussed millions of times, why would I engage in a discussion that has been happening for sixty years?

You can read on advantages of dynamic languages everywhere, I was just pointing out that your point of view, and the point of view disagreeing with you, isn't anything close to new, making the attempt to start a flamewar in your first post, and trying to continue it here, all the more pointless.

BTW: Good coders are factor because no amount of "you have to write 'string' or 'int' before the name of the variable" is going to save a bad coder from producing bad code.
Men lived three years longer back then, according to TFA.
"Is that only because people didn't live long enough?"

According to the article, their life expectancy after the age of 5 was comparable to ours.

"excess eating"

According to the article, their calorific intake was approximately twice ours because they expended so much more calories working & keeping warm. 3000 calories for a "sedentary" man, over 5000 for a labourer.
Is it possible that the high infant mortality weeded out more children from less healthy socioeconomic and genetic backgrounds than today? So on average you'd get healthier adults which would live longer? Also, I don't like their comparison of the life expectancy of a Victorian 65-year old with a modern 5-year old. Of course the former would be relatively high.
It is not even close. Nor is any other financial interchange system, but they have external checks, balances, and a formalized way to correct errors.
I suspect a diet of no cars would be very unpallatable these days.
Not accepted yet, CFP decisions are at the end of the week.

If it is not accepted, i will do it at the London Elixir meetup.
> There are already plenty of decent Unix-style and other kernels out there, mostly relegated to academia and research.

The Hurd is the only multi-server microkernel system with a POSIX persona, though. The Hurd is a very flexible system, it just needs all those Linux developers to make progress more quickly.
An annuity is not a tontine. It is a guaranteed payout for a certain period of time. I'm not a fan, but I suppose they can make sense to some people? Like reverse mortgages, they may help someone keep a certain standard of living at the cost of leaving anything to their heirs.
GNOME supports different dpi per screen just fine under Wayland and 3.24 or newer. The dpi support isn't done yet, they're further improving it so hopefully 3.26 and 3.28 will work better (fractional scaling).
Why do English characters require fewer bytes to represent than other alphabets?
You seem to be implying that "low-dose legal hemp" is a thing that exists....what do you mean?
It's a pretty big country ;)

LA gets 284 sunny days a year (which is a lot!). By comparison, Sydney gets 236,but Perth gets 265.

Here is a site listing Australian cities: https://www.currentresults.com/Weather/Australia/Cities/suns...

Plenty of places hotter than LA if it is the heat you are interested in. Adelaide had a heatwave a few years ago where it didn't drop below 35C for 10 nights straight, and had days over 46C.
Are there apprenticeship (or bootcamp-style) programs for hardware? I'm imagining a "maker" focused program where instead of learning to make web apps, one learns 3D design, 3D printing, milling and laser cutting, electronic circuit design, and microcontroller programming.
Earlier related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14583017
> moderate coffee drinking (1–2 cups per day) doesn't seem to be harmful

Probably depends on the strength of the coffee, mine were more along the lines of Turkish than Folgers instant. Definitely could feel heart constriction at times.

re: before drugs and alcohol, sure, the ancient ones reference is more metaphorical than any historical timeline.
Absolutely! Efficiency and cost will change drastically by using a columnar format!
We already have the groundwork. Obscene images are illegal, and morally I've yet to see a justification for why (justification for some cases, but most cases I've yet to see a good justification that is consistently applied in other area). Government should just declare any extremist material as obscene and ban it under the existing framework.
This doesn't seem like a fair comparison because you are comparing the lifespans of a population that includes people who needed modern medical attention to survive to age 5 to another population that contained none of those people.
Perhaps we have become too inactive. Perhaps only the fittest, healthiest individuals made it into adulthood and therefore the population enjoyed long, healthy lifespans. Perhaps our genomes have degraded without strong negative selective pressure against human ailments.

But I doubt a new diet fad will be the elixir for longevity.
Remember when CoffeeScript was "modern JS"?

The whole JS stack switches every 2 years or so?

I mean, it actually switches faster than that and that's what everyone jokes about (JavaScript fatigue and what not). But a full turnover of the stack is about 2 years?
They didn't say they would remove the videos, instead they will display an "interstitial warning and they will not be monetised, recommended or eligible for comments or user endorsements." Which is not even on the level of a shadow ban, as practiced e.g. on HN.
Just looked at your profile seeking contact details.

Similar motivations here.

Freedom... I think it is possible to create a company around a common set of values?
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"Our recent research indicates that the mid-Victorians’ good health was entirely due to their superior diet. This period was, nutritionally speaking, an island in time; one that was created and subsequently squandered by economic and political forces. This begs a series of questions. How did this brief nutritional ‘golden age’ come about? How was it lost? And could we recreate it?"

Very interesting. My take on the rest of it shows that they ate more vegetables relative to calorific intake, and less sugar. I'm not convinced on the drinking or tobacco comments - I think these are things that are not as prevalent in my generation as much as the authors may have thought it is.
In Unix, rights - even POSIX "cpabilities" - belong to the process. In Magenta, the rights are attached to the handle.
Assuming this is all accurate, imagine if the Mid-Victorians had access to the vaccines, antibiotics, surgeons, and dentists that we do.
Hmmm...

There's one side of this which is straightforward. Companies and governments are compiling data for their own purposes, which range from modeling user behaviour to profiling you so that they can sell you stuff or arrest you for dissidence.

The lines we previously defended for privacy, freedoms of conscience, affiliation and speech have been disturbed, to say the least. This has generaly been done under the surface, without involving users. It is increasingly felt on the surface, via the ads you see on FB or the recomendations youtube feeds you.

The other side of this is what I think of as a "post-history" problem.
We're now transitioning into a period where reality is simply recorded. Your comment on Chelsea Manning's release is now a matter of public record. Your next Tinder date might see it and so might the HR manager reviewing your application for senior talent accumulator in 2032.

There are all sorts of implications to that, but mostly people just feel weird about it for now. Anxious and uncertain.

So... FB (HN, whatever) is a space for casual discussion. Casual generally meant private in the past. Now, some of the most casual discussions mean an extreme opposite of private. This inevitably comes with stress.

Calling it a hilling (or cooling) effect is evoking a political dimension, one that speaks to the first part of the issue. The second issue, that's more of a social issue. It's political too, but I don't think that's where the centre of mass is.
A tontine isn't really a modern thing--they were all outlawed. The only ones I am familiar with are from pop culture and literature. I think they are old world in origin and usually exist within a family or a small group like a fraternity or club of some kind and usually involve some item that can not be split up, such as a fine art or perhaps purloined treasure. The idea is that the last survivor gets the item. That's it. It's not insurance, it's more of a blood oath.
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This actually can go back to the middle ages. Obviously, middle ages longevity is by no means comparable to the 1800s, let alone now, but the people who made it past say, 30-40 did live until their 70s, even 80s. People didn't drop dead at 35.
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I'm still not sure if it is worth it as a stand alone venture. :ha, ha: I have gotten consulting clients through my self published efforts, which pays off in dividends.

Generally I make around $50 a month. I'm not laughing all the way to the bank; but it isn't nothing.

I assume most self published [technical] authors are in the same boat financially. There are a few 'lottery winners' out there, such as ngBook, but most probably trickle along.

I'd have to look up dates and run financial reports to figure out how long and how much. I don't spend too much time running the numbers for that aspect of my business.

I published "Life After Flex" which was explicitly targeted to Flex Developers who want to learn "HTML5" applications, primarily focused on AngularJS. That used the "Authority" model; so high price with lots of extras.

I retooled that into the "LearnWith" series which builds the same app in different technologies. It is intended to be "no frills" approach and I sell the books for $6.99 through Gumroad and Amazon.

I'm copy editing the Angular 4 version of it now; and with any luck I'll be working on a React [or maybe Vue?] version before end of year.
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I'd encourage anyone interested in the subject to read this paper doesn't cover tontine's directly...

https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jep.25.4.143
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> No, it doesn't really matter for dynamically typed languages (just use Object for generic types).

At which point any call to the underlying environment fails with a type error. Sorry your List<Object> is not and will never be a List<int>, trying to pass it as one wont do. Either you provide a way to construct a generic type with the right type parameters in the dynamic language or you accept that you can only inter-op with a limited subset of the underlying environment.

Of course that also gets ugly. You now have to deal with the fact that you not only have a List but several incompatible List<T> floating around, adding the contents of two lists suddenly includes the question what sort of list to return, List<Int>,List<Double>,List<Number> or an error? In a type erased context the answer is always the same, you return a List<Object>.
Here at Big Co. we are very Agile. We always write up everything vaguely ahead of time and require estimates from developers which of course become hard deadlines. We are so Agile we always allow product people to request arbitrary major changes which are also estimated, but independently since clearly no changes affect any other, and they can all be done in parallel so the original deadline does not need to be changed. You see, the estimates are the key to successful projects. When the estimates turn out to be wrong we blame the programmers. It's a good system.