skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually wouldn't discount that. As someone fairly familiar with the storyline behind the initial DARPA-funded work, I would never have been tempted to single out Cerf as the singular Internet inventor. Not to minimize his work but there were clearly other important figures, including earlier ones. Yet, as you suggest "Vint Cerf invented the internet" seems to have become a popular factoid.
> All the things you mentioned can also be handled by the private sector. Not a good idea, however.

Private sector military defense or police force has a lot of issues. It's a non starter.

> Also very typical American, not considering healthcare an essential service, lol.

Just because I didn't list something doesn't mean I don't consider it a service that should be provided as a public service. I picked the simplest examples to make a point. If I were king for a day my list would include a basic form of universal healthcare services (think Medicaid, not Medicare) and public education as well.
That's a huge simplification not pertaining to the fundamental nature of the brain. Maybe it is in the nature of our consciousness (which in itself is probably only an abstract concept) to perceive the processes it emerges from as a sequence of single trains of thought rather than a chaotic, continuous consolidation of processes both internal to the brain/body and outside of it.

You could look at society as a whole and see the zeitgeist as a singular "train of thought", but you'd probably still recognize humans as individual agents. I think we have a bias towards thinking of ourselves as the ultimate individuals, neither recognizing the processes within us (like those of our cells) or the processes beyond us (like those of a group of people, animals, plants etc.) as having a similar nature. This is probably a genetically advantageous trait.
In fact, there is! Erlang is extremely parallel. Processes are lightweight, share nothing, and run on as many CPUs you have.
I don't think you can classify all dyings into one category for the purposes of evolution dying due to making a mistake is useful so a new version is released afterwards but just dying for no cause or due to poor design is actually something evolution should want to prevent with more time to live you have an increases odds of producing as many offsprings as possible.
It seems like every thread here, not matter what the topic, brings out the Rust astroturfers.
Airbnb’s Push into ‘Experiences’ Has Been a Slog
Great comment. I would add that part of the tradeoff is that in exchange for the exclusive right to sell a certain product there is the expectation that the product will enter the public domain after a period of time.

But the copyright law in the US grants that protection for 70 years. 70 years seems like plenty of time for an art piece, a book or a piece of music to be useful to its creators and still remains useful for the public after that time. I don't think the same time frames are relevant for online multiplayer: imagine sitting down 50 years from now and trying to reverse-engineer a WOW server.

What if copyright only applied to the supported life of a game? For instance, copyright can apply to a game for up to 70 years, or whenever one of the game's core components ceases being supported plus 5 years, whichever is sooner.
Design's Lost Generation
Most of the time I do. I only use Waze when on long-haul freeways, concerned about police & other traffic issues. I usually use Apple Maps as general runabout guidance, Google Maps when really concerned about best/scenic routes, Google Earth when interested in topography.
Dropbox is an online company. They were never going to pay taxes in more than one European country. Unless we want to start charging taxes on IP packet ingress, that is.
Thanks, I always love reading stuff like this, and like it when I find new ones to read :)
It's not a technical problem at all, and it's not the developers being bad.

If the top 1000ish sites can make millions a year from tacking on Outbrain, Taboola, etc. and the analytics to support those revenue streams, why do they care if the page speed is 3 seconds vs 500ms?
With enough study, we could conceivably engineer better cells. If we can then implant those cells into our tissues, then we could slowly replace all the 'faulty' cells in our body with the immortal version 2.
“You can always count on the Americans to do the right thing after they have tried everything else.” -Churchill
Hah, that reminds me of the scene in The Wire when a mayoral candidate asks a popular former mayor why he didn't run again. The guy replies that all he did was eat bowls of shit that various constituents brought him every day. One day, it was the police union, then it was the teachers, then it was the ministers, and on and on. By the time his term was up, he realized he didn't mind just being a downtown corporate lawyer with a nice salary.

Some jobs are truly thankless jobs.
This force could come from environmentally caused deaths alone, though.
The problems just haven't reached critical mass yet, and it's still cheaper to ignore/bandaid than overhauling the system.
If all of a hydra's cells are replaced every four weeks, I would say that the hydra has a life span of about four weeks. Ship of Theseus and all that.

But even if you don't subscribe to that particular view of what constitutes a consistent identity, the issue is still fundamentally thermodynamic. It is not a task of just maintaining a particular dynamic system indefinitely, but maintaining one with memory. If the hydra is storing absolutely no information about its past states, then it isn't evolving, and it is completely at the mercy of its environment. This makes it more akin to fire or a piece of iron rusting than life: just a consumptive chemical process. This harmonizes exactly with your last paragraph, things need to store some amount of memory of past failure if they are to adapt. This storing process is exactly aging, but how it manifests in different organisms can obviously be very different. Landauer's principle, then, tells us that since information is thermodynamic, so too must be aging. However, I don't really think the author of the original article was arguing at that deep of a level. In humans, many of the processes that we consider to be the detrimental effects of aging do occur because the components that make us do have memory effects. One particular example would be the cross-linking of elastin, causing degradation of vascular system efficiency.

But aging truly is an inevitable consequence of thermodynamics, it's just that since everything is a consequence of thermodynamics, it's not a particularly illuminating argument.
If you're in business, you need a process so that you are not likely to forget dates. Tax filing deadlines, other regulatory reporting, etc. Certificate expiration can just be part of that.

It's not really that hard. I manage a dozen+ certs manually, I get reminder emails 30 days before they expire, and it takes literally a few minutes to submit a new CSR. I could autmate it even more than I do, but https://xkcd.com/1205/
Also the Architect in Matrix
It looks like Ninja Gaiden was recently spotted in Montreal:

https://www.reddit.com/r/montreal/comments/7yauuc/to_the_gam...

From the sound of it, the gamer was young. Even newer generations seem to enjoy it.
I wonder how much of these circumstances stem from the fact that people do not want to have children as much as they used to, concentrating on their own needs? Perhaps it would be in the best interest of colleges to somehow show people that it is possible to have children and an interesting career?
The 45 minutes is apparently a myth. You can view an interesting video on ultra-quiet anechoic chambers in this veritasium video [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXVGIb3bzHI
And also its derivatives, like Elixir.
I don’t think so
Indeed. It looks like pretty cut-and-dry failure of KYC compliance. When acting as a marketplace, Amazon is a money transmitter and needs to follow KYC procedure for all sellers receiving funds. It seems like their KYC is very loose, to say the least.
I'm a solo developer and I currently have 110 projects on my development workstation. These are a combination of my own projects and freelance client's projects over the last 20 years.

Not all of them are still live on the internet but my general strategy to keep everything in order is to have an encrypted blob of text associated to each project using a CLI based password manager that I use. I've written about this tool on my blog at https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/managing-your-passwords-on-th....

It contains things like which domain registrar I used, where the hosting is, passwords for everything, random notes that are important, context about the client, etc..

Keeping the stacks separate in development is easy with Docker, and for my non-legacy clients I tend to just spin up a DO droplet and use Ansible to manage it (or use DO's 1 click installer for things like WP sites).

It wouldn't be a problem at all to hand over any of these projects to someone else but in the 20 years of doing this, I was never put in a position where a client told me to hand the reigns over to someone else.

I still have some really old clients from the mid 2000s that have 10,000+ line apps written in PHP with no frameworks. Having to patch that app haunts my dreams. Luckily I haven't had to touch it since 2007 and it miraculously still runs well.
Jonathan Haidt's work on "Moral Foundations" could be worth investigating. They determined 5 major cross-cultural "moral foundations," to which each person assigns various degrees of importance: Care, Fairness, Loyalty, Authority, and Purity, suggesting these stem from a biological/neurological source. From Wikipedia:

> Haidt and Craig Joseph surveyed works on the roots of morality... From their review, they suggested that all individuals possess four "intuitive ethics", stemming from the process of human evolution as responses to adaptive challenges. They labelled these four ethics as suffering, hierarchy, reciprocity, and purity. According to Haidt and Joseph, each of the ethics formed a module, whose development was shaped by culture. They wrote that each module could "provide little more than flashes of affect when certain patterns are encountered in the social world", while a cultural learning process shaped each individual's response to these flashes. Morality diverges because different cultures utilize the four "building blocks" provided by the modules differently.

Perhaps these four "building blocks" -- suffering, hierarchy, reciprocity, and purity -- are sufficient for an objective basis upon which an intersubjective understanding of morality can be determined.

Then again, even the notion of objectivity is questionable and culturally-dependent...
>Don't be ashamed to ask people to add you to their whatsapp group

That is rude and looks desperate. If a group actually likes you, then they would invite you first. As a general rule, never invite yourself to anything social. You can invite others to your place or to have dinner, but not to something else somebody already planned
nutrition facts is a vegan propaganda site disguised as a science based, political independent site.

https://www.thatnerdysciencegirl.com/2015/11/13/the-case-aga...

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/death-as-a-foodborne-illnes...

https://www.reddit.com/r/nutrition/comments/6b1ik6/seriously...

https://www.reddit.com/r/vegan/comments/3uiriu/how_biased_is...
Don't forget: [1,2,100,200].sort() // JS
I had somehow completely forgotten (or suppressed) this behaviour in Javascript....
There is also something to say for the continuous, reliable stream of spending that is permitted by taxes. The world can't run on risky outliers alone.

Actually, it's exactly the reliability of SS/medicare/etc that make people take it for granted and give it less attention than its dollar value would suggest. People can plan for it to be around in 20 years which can't be said for charity schemes.
... and in thirty years, that $100 wouldn't be able to buy a copy!
Yes, I agree that it's quite a balancing act. I find myself teetering between those two states, more often leaning on the pessimistic side of things which I may be incorrectly categorising as being realistic. I think I might just have to improve my communication with the team to show and explain both sides of my thinking, the good and the bad.

You're last sentence really resonates as I think uncertainty is sometimes the most difficult thing to manage. There's always the possibility that death or success is just around the corner but I guess that is just part of the lifestyle I chose.

Thank you very much for sharing your time and your story. You have given me a lot to ponder on :)
Can you imagine a doctor not telling you about a dark spot they found on an x-ray...Can you imagine an auto mechanic not telling you your brakes are shot because they didn’t want to deal with the problem...

The problem with these examples is that doctors and mechanics have a direct relationship with their customers while software developers do not. Not unless the developer is a freelancer.
You are incorrect. Induction machines are often used as generators. My employer uses them almost exclusively in the generator configuration. The Lorentz force is symmetric; in the generator mode of operation the magnetizing flux vector leads the torque-producing current vector instead of lags, but the physics still works the same.

The induction torque speed curve is also very performant even when compared to PM machines so I don’t understand your criticism. Source: motor control engineer.
We've had similar experiences in the swinging lifestyle (not to compare the two in any way, it just seemed like a good place to add our experience). We moved to a new area 2500 miles away, tried our best to make friends, had kids a few years later, tried again to make new friends with other parents (had a few successes), and then later on got into swinging.

WOW. You will never find a friendlier bunch of people who are always looking for new friends, even when there isn't attraction present (a common mistake in the vanilla world is that lifestylers have sex with anything that moves). It is the most welcoming community we've ever been a part of.
As someone who frequently posts about my personally-excellent experiences with Rust, what makes you suspect it's astroturf rather than just turf? You think Mozilla is paying people to post about Rust using puppet accounts? C'mon.
I allow 1st party scripts by default, so I didn't see that error in their page. I had to allow scripts from a 3rd party CDN to read the text.

I don't think I'm a kook, but anytime I have to go into uMatrix more than twice I reconsider reading the article at all. That doesn't apply to this particular article, but it happens more often than I am comfortable with.
Yes, this is common for Arab men -- when I was in Sudan men (even middle aged and older men) held hands walking down the street. To a westerner it just looks very odd, but it's normal for them.

However, I think your (gowld's) comment transfers a lot of cultural baggage and sexual-orientation lingo from western culture in a way that I think is quite rude. Those Sudanese guys weren't holding hands "peversely, because they're so homophobic", they're doing that because that's how they've grown up and it's a totally normal thing for male friends to do over there.
AT&T names first three cities to get its ultra-fast 5G network
Tackling Software with a High “Complexity to Visibility” Ratio
You can look up the version histories, but that's rather manual and labour-intensive. Unless someone feels like writing a script or two for that...
Well, too bad they didn't include HERE and especially TomTom... The selection they have is just a bunch of products whose purpose is to provide advertising and harvest data.
Related:

http://gioclairval.blogspot.it/2010/02/umberto-ecos-rules-fo...

The original Italian by Umberto Eco:

http://www.webnauta.it/wordpress/40-regole-per-scrivere-bene...

which was in itself inspired by William Safire:

http://www.listsofnote.com/2012/01/fumblerules-of-grammar.ht...

http://www.maximumawesome.com/reference/g-safire.htm
It still blows me away that people put their email address in forms, and that email marketing affects sales. I guess while they keep working, people will keep creating popups.
And this is the problem with putting online and adhering to C19th definitions of information optima. It's time for a new format and more adaptive information metaformat.
Tim Roughgarden is a fantastic teacher. I personally love his style and speed. He throws in some humor here and there and makes learning a lot of fun. His lectures on graphs are absolutely brilliant.

This same course is available on Coursera as well.
this is the second delay
Amazon AWS Servers Might Soon Be Held for Ransom, Similar to MongoDB
So, does this writer at vox have an agenda?
This is a nifty thing made possible by the MonadFail class, which defines how a monad treats or recovers from a failed pattern-match.

When a value is bound in do-notation, the pattern on the
left hand side of <- might not match. In this case, this
class provides a function to recover.

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-4.10.1.0/docs/Contr...
Now I am curious: do you really need to state a reason to pass a border? In Europe, when you don't need a visa, you simply cross the border, no questions asked.

And if somebody asked me anyway, I'd just say "I want to visit the town. I'm curious."
Did not expect to see my Tigers featured when I clicked on the link. Clemson has been exploding over the past 20 years. It’s a special place.

The former president set a goal to become a top 20 public university. At the time, Clemson was around 70. I want to say it took close to 9 years but they finally did it.
That mission directed a whole host of changes around the school to improve.

Some things were university wide like the "communications across the curriculum" program, that eventually developed into the Pearce Center (http://pearce.caah.clemson.edu/programs/waccac/). That primarily came from businesses telling the school that they were getting graduates who were technically sound but had difficulty working with non-technical people.

They embraced the research focus of the university with the Creative Inquiry program (https://www.clemson.edu/centers-institutes/watt/creative-inq...). I can't remember the name of the program, but at one point part of the curriculum was to have cross-major teams assisting with different professor's research projects on campus. You might have an agriculture professor with a team consisting of students from psychology, computer engineering, accounting, architecture, etc.

They developed the Clemson ICAR facility (http://cuicar.com/) in Greenville to capitalize on the automotive presence there along with undergrad to doctoral programs on automotive engineering...where the students actually design and build a car (https://jalopnik.com/this-mini-concept-car-was-developed-by-...).

Also moved the entire MBA program to downtown Greenville to be more accessible to people working. Clemson is very rural, so that was a challenge.

Exciting times at the school. :-)

It even include going as far as an academic review committee for football recruits. It blew up around 2007 when the committee told the coaches they couldn’t recruit a top wide receiver who then turned around and went to UNC...years later we found out why.
wow, that video rocks! thx!
easy there, you might want to get your facts straight before you drop vitriol like that. LC actually came first, via Alonzo Church in Annals of Mathematics. Turing didn't publish his definition for another year and also, he did his PhD thesis under Church in LC notation.
>Nature has not been able to solve the problem of ageing

Nature does not have an ageing problem.

Aging and dying is a necessary condition for life to even exist.

It's only humans who have a problem with it.
Waze has more up-to-date maps than Google Maps in Chile, at least in my experience.
"I sent out an email to our first set of customers that had the low-quality cinder blocks, asking to replace them. I ended up having to completely revamp my process, and learn how cement creation really works."

That's how you do it, folks.

Awesome tips and sound business logic in the interview, that made my day already :-)
There is already a variable inspector for the regular notebook. Hopefully someone build one for lab as well.
It might be a little harder to explain why it was necessary that you play Starcraft until you get tendonitis; should we also deny treatment to that guy? Maybe we should deny treatment for venereal disease because nobody "needs" to have sex with multiple partners.

As an American person, I feel it is likely I have encountered at least as many fat people as you have, if not more, so appeals to your personal experience aren't that convincing.
Honestly, after visiting the bay area, this is among my top reasons for not wanting to move there. It is so beautiful, and yet.. for someone coming from a city lifestyle, it just doesn't seem.. livable. At all.

I got lost walking to my meeting from the train station in Mountain View, and people didn't even know how to give me walking directions to where I needed to go. It was crazy. It wasn't that far by a straight line on the map, so I figured whatever I'll skip the taxi, but I had no idea what I was getting into. I finally had to ask a bunch of cyclists and it turned out I had to walk about a kilometer along a raised highway to get to the bridge and then cross several insane intersections.

At lunch I was driven to a burger place a couple of km away.

Ok. I get it. You need a car to live there. That just doesn't sound nice to me, frankly, and I don't know if I could convert to that way of living.
That brings back some memory.
As a kid i had a bunch of these Anker stones:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchor_Stone_Blocks
Those where awesome.
Kind of like Legos but made of some stone like material
Somewhat of a different use case i suppose.
Doctors in China Lead Race to Treat Cancer by Editing Genes
I'm introverted. It's very seldom my intention to be rude. Some extroverts do perceive me as rude, and have told me so. I don't believe that's the common case, though.
Good News: A.I. Is Getting Cheaper. That’s Also Bad News
More importantly than mere power consumption, we don't have a way to remove the waste heat generated. Dennards law (like Moore's law but for power consumption per transistor) ended 10 years ago. Exactly the same time clock speeds stopped improving. There are actually a few computers out there that run around 10Ghz but they all have impractical cooling systems.

If there ever were a return to exponential scaling, we would very soon run into the Launder limit.
Seeing how people react to unmarked speed cameras(police on the side of the road): full brakes with zero concern what is behind them, I'd say not telling people where cameras are is far more dangerous.
[interview] Building a React Native CLI
While individual donors and foundations may play some role or another, nearly all risky outliers with new ideas are funded by taxes, not random individuals. The number of private research institutes is extremely limited (in particular in Europe, slightly less so in the US). Once ideas are less risky to pursue, industry is very happy to adapt and fund them, but the initial kickstart is nearly always paid for by public money.