skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree. I support women and equality as a left-leaning progressive, but as a techy and someone who wants to see light-speed travel and our first encounter with alien life-- the only way for that to happen is life extension, heck even as an avatar in a computer would be better than nothing.

This article drew me in because I'm obsessed with anti-aging tech, but to take something that isn't all evil, and twist it is horrible. I think the biggest issue is income inequality personally, --when the rich DO figure out immortality, it may only be accessible to the billionaire class at which point -- they're essentially giving everyone else a death sentence.
I'm kindof surprised that you don't get a discount for buying a flamethrower and a fire extinguisher in the same transaction.
This will certainly liven up parties and gang fracases
There's a difference between thinking you deserve not to die and merely not thinking you deserve to die.
The foliage is a nice reminder of what offices are: zoos for humans.
Can I give you a tidbit of feedback?

If the instance is ephemeral, I need to manage everything in HOME and that's fine. For Python, that basically means using Virtualenv. That works fine at the moment for python 2.7, but 3.x on Debian requires the package python3-venv, which is not installed by default - and sure enough, it's missing in Cloud Shell.

It's a bit annoying having to apt-get install python3-venv every time. Any chance it could be preinstalled? It's such an essential tool for modern python development...
Biodomes that aren’t called biodomes because of Pauly Shore.
That's bullshit. Human beings are not ready for ANYTHING, has never been, will never be.

Humans are inherently flawed animals and there will never reach a point where we can confidently say we've figured out enough that we are ready for anything.
Thank you for the explanation. I'm still having a hard time understanding the timing.

How did that modernist concept of moral universalism create or contribute to a society like the US in the late 1700s?

I thought you were talking about Christian Universalism because "Christian Universalism originated in the late 18th century with the Universalist Church of America" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Universalism ) and Christian Universalists consider Benjamin Rush, one of the signers of the Declaration, as one of their founders (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Rush ).
It sounds like maybe you need an employee not a cofounder.
> When you mix ethanol with water it gets heated up

I don't exactly know how to read this paper into real power-per-volume or temperature differential. Does a crude mixture produce an unsafe or inconvenient amount of heat? Does a mixture of chilled ethanol and water (not really part of this experiment) heat enough for the ethanol (or the water!) to evaporate?

> It is quite hard to achieve precise mixture ratio by hand.

Is there a place where measuring cups or at least five normal cups of similar volume to eachother are not commonly found in households?
I honestly can't see the comparison the author is drawing to trypophobia. Seriously, am I missing something? Or does this writer just not really understand trypophobia?
You're right... and docker works:

$ docker pull hello-world
$ docker run hello-world

Hello from Docker!
This message shows that your installation appears to be working correctly.
....

Not surprising since two of the outgoing ports allowed are 2375 and 2376 -- the docker non-ssl and ssl ports.
An awfully sesquipedalian way of saying what could be said much more succinctly. Social media is an echo chamber that surrounds us with information that confirms our biases.
This is quite related to the problem of sorting a million 32 bit integers using only 2M of RAM (and no disk). It can be done.
Interesting form of rhetoric.

1. Invent a blanket term for your opponent.
2. Ascribe extremism to their views (“they say free market, but they mean pro-business”) - tarring everyone with the same brush.
3. Arrogate moderate positions to yourself (“some free markets are OK”), thereby marginalising your opponent.
4. Argue that anyone who disagrees with your position is an <insert-invented-term->; cementing the dichotomy and the marginalisation of your opponent.
SPF, DKIM and DMARC?

I jumped down the rabbit hole and set up my own mail server about a year ago. With postfix configured to look at the above I get zero spam. Looking at logs, I do get lots of connection attempts from random IPs in China and such, but my postfix unilaterally rejects anyone that doesn't have good DNS settings.
As a first approximation, it would be beneficial to convince people of the concept‘s existence, and to get them to start questioning the implications of the work they do.

As it is, too many in the tech community are willing to defend anything with arguments such as „if I don’t, someone else will“ or „technology is ethically neutral, it is the use...“.
My belief is that they are still profiling their spammers, and are not acknowledging anything specific as a sort of 'poker face.'

>people are trying to give these companies the benefit of the doubt.

I think that's a good thing; we're all too susceptible to cynicism. Being charitable is perfectly fair (and ideal) when dealing with people who haven't demonstrated a propensity to deceive (or operating with malicious intent).
"Even if nobody knows everything, not everyone is equally ignorant;"

I certainly agree. One would hope, I sure do for one, that the cloud of subjective realities trends towards the objective as time approaches infinity, assuming such objective reality exists. The cloud may even ultimately converge on the objective reality when all the knowledge is eventually acquired and made universally known. Then human race can be said to have achieved enlightenment. It is certainly a race against time due to cosmic forces beyond our control. One of the issues this article raises is that humanity is now actively and successfully devising machines that serve no other purpose but to disperse the said cloud of subjective realities away from the objective one. By doing so it is willfully directing resources (time) towards postponing or preventing enlightenment.
You could say it's quite boring.
This is so great <*3
Thether Inc. is a company running a cryptocurrency scam.

They have create a cryptocurrency (also called Tether) that they claim is pegged to the US dollar. They have since emitted more than 2 billion of these tethers, and they claim that they are holding an equivalent amount of US dollars in their bank accounts.

Tether Inc. have never released a public audit proving that they have these billions of dollars that they claim to have. And today the company that they said was auditing them has apparently cut ties with them, which is yet another sign that tethers are a scam that is about to blow up.

The reason why this is important is the magnitude of the fraud here. Is is suspected that the billions of dollars of fake money that Tether has printed have been used to push up Bitcoin and cryptocurrency prices to their current high levels. There are many cryptocurrency exchanges accept tethers as if they were worth 1 USD and the latest price increase in bitcoin price that started last April coincides with when Tether inc became more active.
Micro Soldering Microscopes
(It is up to 2.2 Billion now!)
Laughed out loud. We used "indexes" and "indices" all over a code base, methods/classes and doc. It was a real mess to true up to one.
> Buy an overpriced Boring Company fire extinguisher! You can definitely buy one for less elsewhere, but this one comes with a cool sticker and the button is conveniently riiight above.

They lampshaded that
My worry is if it is discovered it might be kept secret and only available to the uber-rich.
While I agree this is horrible, mandatory ethics would have zero effect because:

1. Some people will need jobs.
2. Ethics are subjective.
3. Some people won't care.

The correct solution would be in trying to vote in less authoritarian politicians. Americans haven't done a very good job of that over the last century.
Tackling Human Biases in Science (2015)
The state-run lottery is so because the profits go back to the system, which means that as a method of social ruin it at least subsidizing the rest of the social services.

About the second point, in the dot-com boom, billions of dollars in value were destroyed by people doing the same kind of speculation as they're doing now with crypto. At least a lot of that money paid for labor and assets. What do ICOs actually leave behind?

And what actual, useful innovation of blockchain technology has any uses whatsoever? Man, it's been over 8 years since we have cryptocurrencies as none of the tech's transcended that niche.
We can work on more than one problem at once, and the people working on this problem might not be the best for the other problems.

You wouldn't ask your electrician to put his tools down until the mechanic was finished working on your car.

The rest of your statement is absurd.
I've been using org-mode and exporting it to HTML. Then making an @media(print) style sheet and exporting the HTML/printCSS to PDF through princeXML.

It's been amazing. Latex equations are exported as pngs (for PDF export because I don't think prince does Mathjax, but org mode can export to mathjax). I have my bibliography with bibtex2html. And templating my pdfs becomes so much easier than with latex. It's just HTML CSS !! My figures are numbered and captioned and referenced throughout the text, same for tables. And my table of content is generated. And code is highlighted. And I have access to ditaa for ascii flow charts and a bunch of other stuff (for making uml in ascii with png export for the PDF for example). It also handles excel like tables with formulae (possible to have lisp formulae !! So cool !!) in text mode !!. And of course, you can plot your table through gnuplot inside your org file. You tell it which columns and rows, the type of graph etc :)

It's also easy to include other org files, or to go down to raw HTML for the export (rather than org mode->HTML) if need be (for a picture than spans over 2 pages for instance).

Give it a try, you might like it ;) In the end it's just an org mode export to HTML to PDF with the print CSS media query. But it works remarkably well and you have all the org mode features.
Regarding whether it is a container or VM I'd guess the former.

But not Docker. More likely Google's own container tech which I'm pretty sure way predated Docker.
Do people pay to come watch you work?
Maybe It’s Time to Regulate Gadgets and Apps Like Cigarettes
That is one big-ass makefile though. I realize it has some extra niceties but I have to ask, did you ever try

make main

without any makefile at all?

If you haven't done so, delete the makefile now (you have it in version control anyway) and give it a try.
I disagree. The cobra effect occurred because the English provided a market for cobras where there was no market before. There's already a large market for followers and twitter adding itself to that market in such a limited way does not add significant new demand.
>1. Some people will need jobs.

People are probably less likely to stand up when economic inequality widens and they have a cozy software engineer position.
"But I guarantee you there's zero programmers waiting around, saying to themselves, 'If only I had a visionary come along to give me an idea'"

My co-founder and I are both technical. For the first year of our company - as we built and sold things - we were constantly thinking "damn, life would sure be a lot easier if we had a killer idea. We would pay millions for an idea that we could execute on."

It's super important. Everyone has ideas, but most ideas are frankly not that great. Our ideas certainly weren't.

Then we found a better idea, got some traction, etc. Life's good. But if great ideas truly were a dime a dozen, we would've had much more fun in 2016 :)

Furthermore, if you take on a co-founder, here's what you get: one founder can focus on building the product, while the other founder focuses on figuring out what variation of the product is most needed by the outside world. It is very difficult for one person to do both. These require two fairly different skillsets, and both benefit from having technical experience - the former for obvious reasons; the latter because it's much easier to know what's buildable if you've built stuff before.
It would be nice to see voters react to these sorts of technologies (whether they're provided by private companies or not) the way people reacted to the idea of being filmed via Google Glass when they went to a bar on a Friday night.
You should be mirroring repositories locally and pushing out new copies after they've been thoroughly tested if this is a concern to you. This is where tools like Katello/Red Hat Sattelite shine, you take snapshots of your upstream repositories and promote them through your various lifecycle environments to test the packages before they even hit your production systems.
To answer the obvious next question:

Four 5-bit values in order have 20 bits of entropy, so cannot be stored in 16 bits.

Four 5-bit values without order have 20 - log2(4!) =~ 20 - 4.59 = 15.41 bits of entropy (corresponding to log(2^20/4!) possible configurations), and thus can fit in 16 bits of data if you're clever about it.
The Borel-Kolmogorov paradox
This website:
http://www.famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/jorge_luis_borges/p...
claims it is the poem "Instants" by Borges.
There are places in San Jose, CA that do that, but their business is reworking under-development circuit boards and devices that have design flaws. The price is pretty good for that purpose (time is money), but way too expensive for repairing a laptop board.
Seen them at three airports so far. All were splashing water as observed from others using them. I had been warned by a friend beforehand and avoided the fan function.
Reagan and Thatcher were conservatives. Why is everyone trying to rebrand their ideology as something called "neoliberalism"? They were the arch enemies of what most people seem to call liberal, even in economic terms (social safety net, consumer and environmental protection, universal access to healthcare and education, etc). What is insufficient about the term "conservative"? What about their ideology close enough to liberal ideology to conflate the terms?
I know old people who are ready to die and in that sense feel that they've earned it, insofar as they've put in a good life, have struggled through old age, and would like to get to the end of it all. Not suicidal, but ready to move on to whatever is next.

I agree this is not what the author intends by the term, but your comment "no one feels they deserve to die" is too absolutist, at least in my experience.
I was thinking something like this. I moved from Indiana to Trondheim, Norway 4.5 years back (Oslo is a 45ish minute flight south). Sometimes I'd just love to have a nice, "long" michigan winter day.
Has someone tried to go through the checkout process? What happens at the end?
... my local independent iPhone repair store appears to provide all of those services for a pretty low price.
Programming languages taxonomically fall into a few families which are similar in many respects. Between families there are also significant similarities. Almost no programming language is strikingly distinct and without a cohort of two. Future languages will, I believe, look a lot like current languages.

Future programming languages may appear very from different contemporary languages for much the same reason movies made in the 1940's and 1950's look their age. Movies depend upon conventions, styles, and assumptions to provide clues to plot, characters, situational understanding, and context. Today's programming languages have one set of assumptions; future programming languages have a different set of assumptions. Not everything about a computation is expressed in the programming language.
Maybe this is the "make a favorable impression with rich people at LA parties" PR tactic.
Correct me if I'm wrong - but no kind of Linux container technology could fake dmesg/uptime. Doesn't this need at least some form of virtualization like Xen, QEMU/KVM or whatever dark magic?
Huh? Who's doing the gawking? This analogy between a zoo and an office doesn't make straight-forward sense.

Anyway, foliage is nice, and appreciated by people on a deep innate level. Would you rather not have foliage in your office? I don't like a sterile workplace myself.
Apparently preorders are going through: https://twitter.com/alharding/status/957415346771652608
Or was it Jamie who sank the ship?
nag-free link for the lazy: https://archive.fo/ftB17
I consider universalism to be an enlightenment principle. The principle of: “if it’s true here than it’s true everywhere” is actually a relatively new concept in human thought. It contributes to thinking that ideology can unite us (i.e. universal principles like freedom, etc).
You might want to check out LyX. It is a GUI editor that generates beautiful TeX documents but it is designed to be an user-friendly document processor instead of just a TeX GUI.

http://www.lyx.org/
I concur. It's easy to verify using the pdf of the standard normal distribution.
Not so boring after all!
I hadn't heard about them, and it read like a sci-fi thought experiment describing the kind of mega-corporate excess that might come along in the future.

I guess that future is now.
Improved dental care or malaria treatment would have few if any downsides.

Immortality limited to the powerful few could have huge downsides, at least now we can count on them dying eventually.

Maintenance of consolidated power through the generations is not an easy problem to solve and we shouldn't be making it any easier until our society is more equitable.
MIT Tech Review continues reporting on Arxiv'd findings in social science before vetting through peer review...

This is a study about invalidating science but it too may be invalid.
More substantive article linked deeper in Twitter chain:

https://www.coindesk.com/tether-confirms-relationship-audito...
Documenting this long-developing invention requires mention of Paul Otlet's 'Mundaneum' (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mundaneum), to which he devoted decades beginning in 1910.

"Otlet regarded the project as the centrepiece of a new 'world city'—a centrepiece which eventually became an archive with more than 12 million index cards and documents."

H.G. Wells talked of a 'World Brain' in 1936. Little doubt that Bush was aware of these ideas ... not to denigrate his contribution.

Another read: 'Secret History of Hypertext' (https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/05/in-se...)
Most likely because of this
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> any modifications that you made to it outside your $HOME are lost.

[0] https://cloud.google.com/shell/docs/limitations#custom_insta...
Hmm, it's interesting to me that order would be expected. I nearly always think of storage and ordering as entirely separate problems.
I think it was the 99% Invisible podcast that did an interesting report about whole networks of people who were paid in Mexico to spread election messages; and these networks are often reused by gangs or other organizations to promote stuff or harass opponents. So in this case, they're not bots. They're actual humans, because it's cheaper to do that than pay people to write scripts.
I just use Atom with the markdown-preview-plus package for live preview.
What utter garbage, twisting the desire for longer lives into some sort of sexist oppression? Sure these billionaires can afford to fund this research, but if longer and healthier lives was possible, would you really want to die?
Take it for what it's worth but I know the teachers who taught me most had great reviews on ratemyteacher.
I doubt there are many who are specialized they can only work on life extension research and not other areas of science or medicine.

I think a more apt analogy would be asking a Rolls Royce mechanic to stop and come work on fixing the public's broken down busses.
> much like Gmail has mostly solved spam.

Gmail has not solved spam. Gmail and Microsoft dump so much legitimate e-mail that it's basically made e-mail totally unusable:

http://penguindreams.org/blog/how-google-and-microsoft-made-...
They had to slow down the robots so they didn’t outpace the database. Slapping an SSD in a database increases write speed by 4X. They probably could have increased battery production by 15% for a total of $99. Slow database meant slow robot meant slow battery pack production meant slow car production.
Replacing a working thing might be bad, but when your expert says your thing can be drastically improved with a trivial upgrade, you should do it. Especially if it’s in the critical path of production. You can’t know everything, but you can employ experts. But they can’t help you if they’re not empowered.
So what does a flamethrower have to do with boring tunnels...?
Only if all your ints are unique I guess?
> Programming languages taxonomically fall into a few families which are similar in many ways.

Truish, but...

> Future languages will, I guess, look a lot like current languages but with a few extra features.

The number of useful-to-distinguish language families isn't constant; the fact that languages are usually found in families doesn't mean that new language families aren't created over time.
California.
The fun (and money) is all for the PR people who made this up.
This argument could just as well be made against life saving medicines like antibiotics. Death is a part of life. Let's not fight it.
Wow, even has dotnet. Including C#, F# and Visual Basic.

$ find /opt/dotnet/ -name \*.sh
/opt/dotnet/sdk/2.0.0/Roslyn/RunCsc.sh
/opt/dotnet/sdk/2.0.0/Roslyn/RunVbc.sh
/opt/dotnet/sdk/2.0.0/FSharp/RunFsc.sh
....
> The correct solution would be in trying to vote in less authoritarian politicians.

That requires a system where people actually have a meaningful vote... e.g. it's impossible in China, and for what its worth Chinese ethics are way, way different than typical Western-sourced ethics.

In the US, the ability of people to have a meaningful vote has been largely dismantled by a number of bad factors:

1) gerrymandering leading to situations where a Democrat won't run in a Republican stronghold (or, less often, the other way around)

2) the Electoral College leading to a situation where despite losing the popular vote, the respective candidate does win the presidency (as happened with Trump and I believe also with George W)

3) states with "fixed" political leanings get largely ignored and campaigning largely takes place in contested/swing states.

4) voter disenfranchisement: in Germany, voting is generally on Sundays as most people do not have to work on weekends, thus improving turnout compared to the US where voting is on a Tuesday for whatever reason; also in the US there are all sorts of measures to make it harder for poor or minority people to vote, including weird arbitrary ID requirements.
I think the main problem with Glassdoor's rating system is, it can attract high number of negative reviews when a company is going through rough patches, such as mergers and acquisitions, lay offs and integrations. Then it's going to be a steep uphill battle to climb out of that hole and improve the average scores. If I were job hunting, I'd only look at reviews written in the past 18 months because things can and do improve quickly.
+1, not having the user selector on this is a pain, more than once ive spun up some resources on a personnal account accidentally
Heh. Blind leading the blind if true. That's funny...now I hope the rumors were real.
> but they're only fun if you're flying close to things

I only rock climb but wouldn't it still be fun to be in the air for a longer time even if you are not close to objects? I think the wingsuit craze of flying near objects has more to do with being bored of the normal parachute experience.
In action:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BeeUSFwgLrM/

https://www.instagram.com/p/BeeYW0NA1HU/