skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A better argument against this line of development is that it is demonstrably expensive and low-yield.

There are far better R&D approaches to maintaining health over the course of aging, but they get a tiny fraction of the effort lavished on exercise and calorie restriction mimetics, despite the continued absence of concrete therapeutic outcomes resulting from all of that investment.

The reason for this is probably that exercise and calorie restriction mimetic research dovetails well with the real underlying scientific goal of mapping metabolism, where as better approaches tend to bypass this need for mapping, focusing instead on well-known forms of damage that cause age-related decline.
Not sure. This is somewhat the motivation for "dark pools" in the regular equities markets.
Funny you brought that up. I think it was Jeff Atwood who joked about how the domain name read like Expert-Sex-change

StackOverflow was such a welcome relief to this site and Atwood also wrote about expertsexchange in a blog post.

> I never appreciated how easy Experts-Exchange makes it for us. They are almost universally loathed. We don't just have a rival, we have a larger than life moustache-twirling, cape-wearing villain to contrast ourselves with.

Source: [ 2009 ] https://blog.codinghorror.com/whos-your-arch-enemy/
That kind of stock picking is dangerous.

First, it's easy to look around your little bubble and see that people are lining up at your local Chipotle or that people use Google for solving tech support problems, and conclude that Chipotle and Google are taking off. They may be not be doing as well in other locales/sectors.

And second, how do you know that these signs of promise aren't already priced in? If you can see signs that Chipotle is doing well, so can everyone else. And they have deeper pockets and better information-gathering capabilities than you do. Nowadays satellite imaging and computer vision are used to count the number of cars in parking lots of retailers to predict earnings!

Lastly, there are innumerable complicating factors that the average retail investor has no idea how to account for. Maybe the stock price is low because their EBITDA is barely staying ahead of debt service payments. Did you read the SEC filings? Maybe they're having difficulties scaling their supply chain because they lost a big contract with a major supplier. Do you know enough about the domain to account for how much that should affect the stock price? Who knows, maybe there's even a seasonality factor to the number of people who go to eat spicy food, and your guesstimates will fall apart in 6 months.

I wouldn't even bother with this kind of investing. It's just gambling. If you seem to be winning over time it's either because you're lucky or because the markets are going up in general. So just invest in index funds- you'll have lower volatility and you won't be betting against people who have nothing to do but sit around all day thinking about how to beat you.
Those would be the few on the right-most side of the distribution who flipped heads 10 times in a row. As soon as they inevitably flip tails, we'll post facto find others who have gotten consistent returns and declare them to be the ones with the secret sauce.
3) There other benefits to exercise, including stretching and loosening joints and ligaments, building coordination and body awareness, mental benefits, etc. Sweating has benefits as well. I'd find it really hard to imagine that some pill that mucks with metabolism or muscle growth or some other single dimension would cover even a small portion of the benefits of exercise.
> by the same workers who built them

who were, by and large, slaves ...

> Essentially, humans have always been garbage.

I don't really consider them too garbage-y for trying to give even a little F.U. to their masters.
> Yet, I have no idea what that root cause could be. Any ideas?

I don't know, and haven't read anything remotely convincing yet. Accounts based on individual psychology (cognitive biases etc) don't do the job, as this form of irrationalism is peculiarly concentrated in parts of the Anglosphere (notably the US, Australia, and the UK). An explanation can only emerge from the domain of history and/or culture: what has made these regions so distinctly dysfunctional?
>It wasn't some trick pulled on them by corporations or Russians manipulating social media. I realize that may be hard to understand, but it is the truth!

Don't we objectively know this is false? You can dispute the size of the effect, but both Russians and corporations absolutely ran large targeted misinformation and propaganda campaigns for the 2016 election, taking advantage of what you could call the user-hostile web. The intelligence communities, congress, and big tech companies all agree on this now... Your distortion may be a bit more qualified than Donald Trump's daily fabrications, but it still intends to deceive on what is an objective fact all the same.
I agree. videos of product features are much easier to make than written documentation about those features.
The thing about ads is that you don’t need to click on them to work. You can’t click on billboards or newspaper ads either. Keep the product in mind is already most of what you want to achieve.
Not an use-case I have currently for myself, but I thought that wikis and other services that host content written by third-parties would be better if they checked broken-links and notified visitors and content creators.

Maybe my use-case is limiting my ability to think about someone paying for it.
I have a feeling such a pill would go the way of testosterone which, even though it could be safely administered to people who don't necessarily have "Low T" to positive ends, is still only a treatment for those who desperately need it. People on the low end of whatever arbitrary, non-standard serum testosterone scale often don't get treatment because they are technically "normal", which completely disregards the benefit someone can see from being brought to the high-end of the scale. Likewise, an exercise pill might only be given to those who are morbidly obese rather than mostly sedentary office workers who would rather get more work done than dedicate another hour every day towards mindless exercise.
Fascinating -- as much as I enjoy to be active and stretch out, I imagine the benefits of sustained exertion could be entirely replaced by an artificial mechanism. This would be a nice time saver, and if it provides the same good feelings that you get after a good workout, then health in an active person could even be improved by preventing the need for heavy exertion and focusing on stretching and movement. This could reduce joint stresses and put more hours in the day. Very excited to see the effects of this drugs in humans.
Yeah, that's what I was thinking
Pandora made $80M in app store revenue in Q3, booting Netflix from the top spot
Have you looked at Ian Piumarta's work with COLAs? Curiously it's a mix of a Smalltalkish higher level object language with a lower-level lisp like language. I never quite understood how they worked together, but maybe you can understand the papers over at vpri.org better than I.
Trump Announces Broadcom's Return to US
Jonathan Blow (cult/indie game developer/studio owner) has a lot of ideas about evolving C++ (or rather, building a new language to replace it) specifically in a game industry context. This perspective is interesting because its kind of running at a different angle away from the "memory-safe, better guarantees" project that Rust is workin on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TH9VCN6UkyQ

Just as the scripting languages took a big bite out of C/C++ usage starting in the 90s, I think we're seeing another couple use-case for C/C++ pull off:

1) stuff that is performance sensitive but security sensitive as well (Rust)
2) stuff that is soooo performance sensitive that Rust and C++ are actually too bloated, but which isn't really security sensitive so the guarantees that Rust/Modern C++ offer aren't worth it (Jai, Blow's language).

Category 1 is clearly real, but Category 2 might be too small to sustain itself (though Blow makes an economic argument that it would be worth it).

Are we just going to keep peeling back C/C++ users from the pack with more specifically-useful languages until there are none left except for those maintaining legacy code? Or are there use-cases where C++ will continue to make sense?

I guess a lot of this depends on whether or not we can meaningfully "modernize" C++ through the standards process without simply bolting on a lot more features that add to the bloat. I wouldn't wager much that this trick can be pulled off.
Its a shame you can't pay a "core 80%" set of taxes, then choose what other things your "extra 20%" would go towards. NASA, climate stuff, recycling, bee stuff, extra education... etc
It's pretty common to see psychopaths gang up on people threatening their ways, such as pure altruists. Heck, the whole mankind history is about it. Don't be surprised if that was the reason he was targeted.
> 5, 10, 15 years, you save all the carbon of producing the car (which is where the majority of the carbon cost comes from).

False [0].

[0] https://group.renault.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/fluence...

Page 91, Figure 49: "Comparing carbon footprint of EV and ICE vehicles".

Up to 85% of the carbon footprint of a car comes from driving it. Heck, even a typical hybrid during its lifetime saves roughly 150% worth of its weight in CO2 emissions. Taxis easily double that figure.
A partial leaderboard would've likely been no better (and possibly worse) than no leaderboard.
Do you have any numbers or references on that claim?
It (supraphysiological doses of testosterone, meaning more than any human produces naturally) causes cancer, hair loss, interferes with endogenous hormonal function, and entails many other deleterious side effects that exercise does not. It will increase aerobic capacity by increasing red blood cell count but too much added viscosity of the blood also poses a health risk. So this is rather different from "exercise in a pill".
It seems more of a reward for non smokers. Unless it means the smokers will have to pick up the slack from those having holidays.
Within the Eurozone bank transfers are generally free of fees, but banks still like to rip people off on exchange rates between different currencies and the EU doesn't seem interested in doing anything about that.
Wasn't our understanding of how the pyramids were built, particularly the great pyramid, still very much up for debate until modern times? Let alone 1893? Plenty of older theories have been debunked.

It's an interesting subject no doubt but a more modern source would likely be a better use of time.
this is very intriguing. Right now we use Confluence for something in this direction. I'd much rather us have a private stack overflow page for a subset of what we do on Confluence.
One party for the corporations, the other for multi-nationals.
I applied and received a warm response with a coding challenge, however I never heard back from them after I replied with my solution. I tried to follow up multiple times. No feedback, even a simple "sorry/no" is poor experience.

Edit: This was a few months ago.
You're conflating notice and severance. It might be desirable to give enough notice so people can do more work, but it might not. I actually think it's more dignified to let people off the hook immediately. When you lay them off/fire them, you've typically failed in some way as a company, and expecting people to fulfill some responsibility knowing their time's up is pretty harsh.

In "sane countries" you can have people stop working immediately as long as you pay them. That's really all the notice period is for, it has nothing to do with continued responsibilities.

Tech company severance packages are usually pretty ok, I would bet stack overflow is giving packages that would be just fine in other countries.
Drug giants threaten UK health service with legal action over cheaper drug
I honestly don't get it. Some tech-savvy people I know are hyped up about Alexa and technologies like it, speaking to them about it it's like we live in a world where the Snowden leaks never happened. Either that or the interest from exploring new technology is hiding the downsides.
1.) People who exercise because they want to look good or like it are no more virtuous. That is pretty much an equivalent of saying that if you spend hours choosing just the right dress and makeup, you are more virtuous.

I exercise because I enjoy it and partly to look better. I really don't think it makes me more virtuous then, say, fat people who don't exercises, but are overall nicer or more helping to people around then I am. Or simply people who read more book then I am or people who teach kids in their free time or whatever.
I'm not sure where you got the idea that Wikipedia doesn't bring in much. Their annual plan from last year [1] says that they expected to raise over $60M during the year. Unless anything's changed recently, they also try to keep over a year's worth of operating expenses in reserve, which means they're likely also sitting on almost $100M.

The complaints I see are usually related more to thinking that they really shouldn't need to spend so much (the FY17-18 plan for expenses is $76.8M [2]), and that their fundraising drives always make it seem like they're on the brink of death when they actually have a huge amount of money in the bank.

[1]: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual_...

[2]: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia...
All the deposit systems I've used recently still require you to enter the deposit amount so if you're entering 1000000 for a check that 'clearly' says 100 you lose all plausible deniability because you're actively lying to the bank at that point.
Let's say that the law requires a 90 day notice. Maybe you can fire them today--as long as you pay them for 90 days while they sit at home. The spirit of the law is that you have sometime to look for another job so it's all covered.

My point is that we don't know the details, a tweet is way too short.
Asking a skeptic how to change their mind,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gDErDwXqhc

Asking a believer? "The science is settled!"

http://thecommonroomblog.com/2010/02/who-said-the-science-is...

I think that's the main problem.
"But they're elementary bugs you could have just fixed for yourself"

I'm not selfish enough to want something to work for me and only me, thank you. That's why I submitted a bug report.

And that ends up just providing another reason why Linux is a crap OS - everything is done entirely backwards as if everyone on the team learned their entire education the same way RPN is written.
This looks like it fits the general description: https://cdli.ucla.edu/

It looks like they've got images of tablets from about 30 institutions, organized by time period. I've found a few with transliterations, but information seems fragmentary. There are also a fair number of entries without images.
>It is true that, given only the rules and conventions of a language, no singular meaning can be read from an utterance. It is, thus, tempting to say that no utterance has any singular meaning. I contend that the human condition lends sufficient context to read a singular (or close enough) meaning from a well-formed utterance.

That though is not all that post-modernism says, but rather a a reduced straw-man version.

Even if they alluded (or openly) stated that, they did it for particular, quite rational, reasons, with they explained with much more nuance and drew rather rich conclusions from.

In the end, like with the dadaists/surrealists, people might have laughed at them, but half of what we consume culturally today, from ads and graphic design to mainstream tv and comics, owes them huge debts.

Speaking of the original post-modernists of course. Not that the American academics that followed french post-modernism much understood this nuance.
As in, creating software to produce a database which you call hmm maybe a "Softcoin" and you would limit the supply by typing an arbitrary number in the source code, say 21,000,000?

After you run the software to generate the coins, you can sell them to other people and tell them the coins are rare. Maybe you can leave a few coins to be generated by other people too, that way they you can let them feel like they're part of it.
For values of "another machine" possibly equal to "a system in the campus computer lab at school".
You mostly have that actually: Get stuff out the washer within 20min of it being done and hang it to dry.

Alternatively I have a few shirts made by high threat count Egyptian cotton and those are wrinkle free if you just put them in the bathroom while taking a shower and the let 'em dry. Pretty price, but honestly worth my time.
Why Go is skyrocketing in popularity
I'm sure you're correct, all stock picking is dangerous though. I'd assert that my style is the least dangerous.

> look around your little bubble

I didn't (and don't) have a bubble. In fact, I frankly despise the Bay Area and SV because it constantly tries to put you in a liberal / wealthy bubble.

>If you can see signs that Chipotle is doing well, so can everyone else.

Apparently not, though. They doubled on IPO but most people were still VERY skeptical of them. I could see that they had 100% solved the problem of "fast casual" service.

>Nowadays satellite imaging and computer vision are used to count the number of cars in parking lots of retailers to predict earnings!

That should make you want to invest in the #1 company that manufactures satellite components.
For overseas ATM withdrawals:

Monzo (After 18th December): £200/month, 3% thereafter (https://monzo.com/blog/2017/10/17/atm-limits-announcement/)

Revolut: £200/month (£400 with Premium), 2% thereafter

Starling: No charge

Not sure about any of the other challenger banks, I've only used Monzo on a regular basis.
To be clear, no one argued that "posts from Iowa" == "inclusive"; you're arguing against a straw man. But more importantly, it seems your beef with HN is based on the assumption that everyone from a town of 40k or more has the same experiences. This is such a distorted idea of "diversity" when you consider that it includes people from major metropolitan areas, silicon valley, red states, blue states, and all over Europe (and yes, all of those groups are well-represented on HN). The fact that you're here from a town of 6K and I'm here from a town of 2K is testament to the OP's point, and it contradicts yours.
This reads like a case study in one of Nassim Taleb's books.

> stress, competition, and choice involved in trading financial instruments naturally give rise to illusions of control

> I’d never really experienced the extreme tail of a probability distribution firsthand. And that experience disabused me of more than one illusion.

> But what’s the alternative to estimating probabilities?

The implied inevitability of another crisis over the new-ish stress tests is very saddening. I wonder what can be done.

> The danger is that the financial system and its regulators are moving to a narrow risk-model gene pool that is highly vulnerable to the next financial virus,” he wrote. “By discouraging innovation in risk models, we risk sowing the seeds of our next systemic crisis.
I think the proper test is how stable the learning system is in the face of adversarial examples. I have no indications either way that we could, using current ideas, create a system that learns and is autonomous like a human brain while regulating itself from going too far off the rails. An optical illusion won't lead to you thinking you're the king of France, nor do there seem to be basilisks that will actually crash a brain.

It remains to be seen if the same holds for artificial learning systems. Of course! The gap between current learning systems and even the brain of a rodent is vast and we have yet no idea how to get there.
I have been using DDG for several years now, and it works just fine. You of course are free to like Google better - to each for their tastes, but please do not claim there's no choice. There is choice, and you just happen to like Google better - fine, so live with Google then :)
There are lots of benefits, and it's very unlikely a pill, or even a cocktail of pills, could emulate all those benefits.

That said, if you found a safe pill that would merely give the cardiovascular benefits of exercise, or help elderly patients maintain muscle mass, or move obese people to just being overweight, it would be worth tens or hundreds of billions of dollars.
Node Best Practices
No, a software regression is when you fix a specific problem and re-introduce it later on in a code revision. That's literally the definition of a regression bug. That definition has been around since the 70s and I don't think any of you have the designated rights or privileges to change or modify or append that definition.
Docassemble
I don't think I've used any IDE (other than Smalltalk) that was vaguely in the class of using Forth for interactivity and building of programs from the bottom up.

Whats up with mocking everyone you reply to on this thread?
It's a bit boring movement.. work, work, no fun
Ah, fair point. Maybe I should have said "don't click on ads intentionally"
This only applies to permanent workers though. Contractors or temporary staff may be employed on much shorter terms.
Mining cryptocurrencies while the current tab is in the foreground. (supposing a suitable GPU/ASIC-proof cryptocurrency is available)
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Ah fair enough, I misunderstood. I agree doing things for the sole reason of being virtuous doesn't make sense.

Although I do think the origin of "virtue" is because some things had good general effects, but nobody was able to explain why or how. Of course the concept has been abused since then.
Justin Trudeau and Eric Schmidt Discusses Artificial Intelligence in Canada
a broad unwillingness to have a real discussion for fear of being shamed

Oh for heaven's sake. There are a lot of websites, books, and spokespeople who are claiming to 'debunk' climate science, and this debate has been going on for decades now. Are you seriously arguing that your friends have the right answer but they're sitting on it because they're worried some leftie know-nothings will say mean things to them?
> It's fairly easy to see when a company is eating everyone else's lunch.

If it's so easy, then everyone would be buying the stock and it would be pushed up. Then you're risking buying an overpriced stock that's not going to be able to deliver on the expectations required for it to pay off.

Amazon is clearly eating everyone else's lunch in its domains but then it's trading at over 275 times earnings. It's not remotely obvious that you should buy Amazon stock at that price.
Don't you need access to the classifier internals to train the adversarial network ? Nobody is going to publish the network weights for a check reading machine...
As Ex-Gamedev I don't buy that #2 is too bloated for C++, you just have to be smart about what features you pick.

Really though for what he wants to do you want a flexible framework(scripting language) backed by a fast engine(native). Jai sounds pretty interesting but I don't know if Blow has the interest in building an ecosystem around it or just using it for his own projects.

FWIW my ideal use case is Lua + Rust. I've done it on a few projects so far and really love the combo of flex + stability.
This looks almost exactly like the functionality provided by https://page.rest/