skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There will be challenges and struggles and costs to be paid to significantly reduce death, but my personal philosophy is that involuntary death is bad and should be fought, and that the costs of increased crowding are worth paying to cut down on the deaths of billions.

The general principle, to me, is that whatever the "ideal" rate of death is, for any given set of values and preferences, it would be an astonishing coincidence if it coincidentally happened to be exactly the current rate today.

If we woke up tomorrow to a world where humans didn't suffer degenerative aging and the vast majority of fatal illness (cancer) were treatable, would you start by advocating for mass executions, or would you advocate for increased birth control, renewable energy, reduced resource consumption rates, finding ways to make productive use of otherwise-uninhabited areas of earth, space travel, etc. before you started advocating for murdering billions of humans?
Leaving is the only option.
B2 is interesting, and the price for object storage is pretty competitive. I wrote my stuff against S3's API, particularly for DO Spaces, but DO's fairly epic pants-crapping this week has me nervous.

My use case is download-heavy, though, and a little bit bursty (but with a long tail, a CDN doesn't really address my needs); what sort of bandwidth speeds can I expect from downloading B2 when a decent number of clients, let's say 100-500, are hitting a single object concurrently?
Show HN: List of social crypto data (Reddit, Twitter, Telegram, GitHub) combined
I really don't like how people on HN and otherwise have taken to calling Mark Zuckerberg "Zuck". At this point I feel like its some kind of playground insult people are using because it rhyme's with the word "fuck". Am I misinterpreting it?
Unless they are officially speaking on behalf of the fund... yep.

It doesn’t appear that this guy was speaking on behalf of the pension fund, just personally, so really he isn’t an investor.
Jewish people have a right to their ‘own land,’ says Saudi crown prince
CI/CD spring-boot applications on Kubernetes
Sanjay makes fewer public appearances.
I took that to mean that it is not hot-rolled steel, cold-rolled steel, cast iron, or any other traditional method of converting a lump of iron ore into a usable piece of steel.

It's 1000 km of welding wire welded together. It counts as a new "type" of steel depending on how flexible you are with what counts as different "types".
Ubuntu 18.04 Will No Longer Do Automatic Suspend by Default Unless on Battery
Yes, i guessed the same, but after i posted the original answer.
It was proposed a few years ago, but it went nowhere. It was proposed by Herb, which was honestly kinda surprising to me since MS breaks its C++ ABI all the time...
s2n: Amazon pet TLS implementation (https://github.com/awslabs/s2n). Whose code is actually sane.
Which is exactly what it was. Especially when you read the full chain and other emails.
The F-22 and the F-35 Are Struggling to Talk to Each Other
Clearly not grammar.
New York City has more Skyscrapers than these Countries
I suspect that the time and cost involved in non-trivial structures will limit any real experimentation with non-traditional designs. It might be trivial to throw away a kilogram of plastic on a failed prototype, but the same doesn't extrapolate up to experiments with bridges.
You can label receptors with aptamers and other technology, and then sequence the aptamer labels (or whatever). Many in situ sequencing techniques can be applied here. Note, however, that this requires more steps than simply scanning with electron microscope multi-array.
Zipline launches the world’s fastest commercial delivery drone
A quick check of Amazon suggests that this work is fairly comprehensive and so should prove fascinating to its intended demographic. The topic appears to be endlessly interesting. Sadly, it does not appear to include information about the impact of farting on Global Warming.
try http://reference.dashif.org/dash.js/v2.6.5/samples/dash-if-r... on canary
It is, in fact, fairly simple to track every change in a traditional db, who did it, and what the prior and subsequent state were. You can rollback such transactions without rewriting the whole db (as you'd have to do with a blockchain).
How to Draw an Owl with React: A Migration Story
The richest American family hired terrorists to shoot sleeping families
I'm a C++ programmer working in games and I run out of 64GB of ram in my workstation daily. I can't wait until we finally get all upgraded to 128 or 256GB of ram as standard.
The article is light on technical details but they apparently converted a normal industrial welding robot into a giant FDM machine that deposits 1-3 KG per hour per nozzle. Really interesting. From the photos it looks like the layers don't even have to be parallel to each other.
Is this after controlling for cheese and brat intake?
Bloomfield's a decade old, Gulftown only moderately less. I'm pretty sure I'd put them in the legacy category today (and I have a 975 around here, so I'm a little bummed, but I get it).
Yes, I'd be more concerned if they were suppressing studies that have to do with actual health effects.
There is no IPO price. This is not an IPO.
Not only are there numerous labels with "must have" back catalogs, they now all know exactly how much money Spotify has.
We'll, I would have loved to stay in the beautiful green and generally family friendly city I lived in, but once you're at a point where one has to spend around 2/3 of the income on rent to have sufficient room for kids there's simply no other choice than moving to a village.
Nearly everyone of my friends with kids did exactly the same.
Out of context yes, you’d be making a reasonable point, but we have context for the names.

It’s informal yes, but this isn’t a place for formal writing.

So it’s mostly just you.
The rules at the top ask you to post once per company. You posted five. Please don't do that!
With a decade of low interest rates, people have been investing in the stock market hoping for a better return on their capital.

At some point all bubbles burst.
In addition, I like the finality of a cash transaction. For anything other than cash, I have to keep records in case something goes wrong. Example: A hotel might double-bill my credit card, and this has actually happened twice to me. If you pay cash, it's impossible to be double billed at some future point. Perhaps you still want a receipt, but you never need to check it against statements.

The finality of cash avoids having to keep, organize, and verify a lot of paper records if you don't really need the receipts.
As a public service notice, all of your comments for the last week or so are marked as dead. Some people like me view with show-dead on, and see them, but most people don't. I've vouched for a few of them as I come across them, but you might consider discussing the matter with hn@ycombinator.com. For what it's worth, my personal opinion is that some of your comments like this one are great, but it would be nice if you could be less confrontational in some of your others.
Crazy, isn't it? Nobody can believe it. It's of Irish origin, was spelled "Codd" until the 1900's...
Report of Active Shooter at YouTube HQ
Not true. Asus and some other brands have Workstation class motherboards without the LEDs.

https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/Workstation-Products/
For a fascinating and realistic exploration of what that might look like, I recommend Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy. In the series, a longevity treatment is developed that significantly extends lives. Beyond the strain on resources, there are the issues of older generations delaying progress by not relinquishing power (much like the current octogenarian U.S. congress) and other issues.
Yes there was a couple on Coursera but they scrapped it for God knows what reason. https://www.coursera.org/instructor/~1196954
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Ask HN: What are some good FPS games that can run on a MBP?
I used to play Warsaw and Quake Live a lot, but I recently went back to play Quake Live and saw that it unfortunately no longer runs in the browser, and only supports Windows. And Warsaw's user base seems to have dwindled down--which really sucks. I couldn't find a game.

I tried to run Fortnite recently, but it doesn't seem to be able to hit 60 FPS even on low settings. (I have a 2016 MacBook Pro.)

Any good FPS games that run 60 FPS on a MBP?
Your comment reminds me of a character in a show called "The Good Place". The character is basically an AI construct in a human shape. There's a whole line of jokes about people forgetting that "she" isn't human, or even alive.

Anyhow, at some point in the plot, someone is going to push a button to destroy her. She reminds them that she will attempt to persuade them not to "kill" her, as part of a self-preservation protocol. Whenever someone approaches the button, she starts sobbing, pleading for her (non-existent) family, and so on.

HAL was manipulative. If the scene was carefully written to show that the crying was a form of emotional manipulation, I could see that working. Of course, the version used in the movie highlights HAL's inhuman qualities nicely. It's a tough call which would be more interesting.
You use the gray rock method on them. Essentially you do not emotionally engage with them, be as boring as possible so they move on to other targets for narcissistic supply.

I was tangled up with a narc for over 18 years and didn't know what I was dealing with. It's one of the most soul-crushing things if you don't know what's going on. When figured out what I was dealing with, it was like waking up out of a coma.
The existence of a secret court doesn't put your mind at ease?
We've already asked you to stop using HN for ideological battle. It's not what this site is for! Would you please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and use HN as intended from now on?
I switched my diet to Soylent for a period of time, but then switched to my own creation because it tasted better and felt more "natural" (heavy in oats, mainly).

I was on this for about 19 meals a week for roughly 8 months (my memory is fuzzy, it was a few years ago).

Overall I disliked Soylent, but liked my own blend. I enjoyed how I felt sated, but never overly full. While my meals lasted, my hunger came back strong when it was meal time.

I started it, and stopped it, mostly due to laziness. I dislike eating, so it was a natural concept for me to latch onto. However it was a lot of upkeep since I made my own, and pretty bland, flavor wise.

Eventually I made my way to low carb, which has been amazing. Over the years (mostly from childhood) I developed what I believe to be mild blood sugar level issues. Fats over carbs have been amazing for me. I feel sated far longer, I never feel weak like I did on carbs, etcetc.

Anyway, that's my story.
Dungeons and Dragons, not chess and Go: why AI needs roleplay
Upvoting because I think that it's a good idea, but I don't know any of the details.
I love the ability to search departures from my home city. When I change it from "1 Passenger" to "2 Passengers", it would be helpful if the price reflected the total cost of 2 passengers.
Definitely did not come as wrong way, but instead of saying he/she/they, what would be better? Should i have said your name instead?
Apple Music and Google Play Music are each approximately half the size of Spotify (by subscriber). Assuming that the revenues for each service are similar (on a subscriber basis) and overhead would be similar if they were spun out, then you are just valuing them based on the number of current subscribers. Given the low friction in switching services, subscribers are around the same value for each service. My guess based on this back of the napkin math then, is that $15B for would be the comp for each of Apple Music and Google Play Music, though you would need to consider any debt held by the companies (standing for Spotify, or as part of the spin-out by the other two).

That's just how I think the comp would work, I don't think any of those companies are worth those values, including Spotify.
The messages are encrypted with your device keys, so you need to be on one of your attached devices. That'll be either a desktop, or mobile device attached to your keybase account.
The problem too is that too many people believe our laws are just and moral. The US economy has become a slave to our ability to invent laws and automated ways to monitor and enforce them. And in a world where you already know 2% of the population is breaking a would be law, from a certain perspective the act of lawmaking is actually profit generation. It's the perfect crime.
To me the beauty of Gradle is the complexity is hidden behind plugins so that the majority of builds are simple. I’d say a basic java build in gradle is simpler than the equivalent maven xml. The power is there for when you need it, but the basic plugins are easily configured for the basic stuff.
Narcissist use this all the time too.
Developing Heuristics for Evaluating Jeopardy Answers
I use Spotify more than Netflix at this point.
Weird. "You don't need a flight to the place you already live" makes sense, but why would you need a hotel?
This is my project, would love feedback, not just on the idea itself - but also how I go about explaining it on the site.
Feature request/idle question: is it in principle possible to build something like this:

I want to see a stack-ranked-by-price list of all international flights on arbitrary dates from my home airport(s), possibly with some filtering such as "exclude Asia" or "Europe only" etc.

This would be cool because it would let me decide "I want to go somewhere on day X, but I don't care where. Let's pick the cheapest place." I can see this leading to adventures.
This a million times this. At the same time, if we compare this to the past when shops would offer any thing with a pulse to build a website - maybe that is a teaser to the future ubiquitousness of Blockchain technology.
Thank you, it should be up and running again
This is amazing - I can't wait to see it work on a larger scale, for overseas travel!

One suggestion - could you add some way to filter results? By state, by city, etc - searching from my hometown i see like a dozen results for the same city with different lodgings. Would be great to say "No, I'd rather not go to Tennessee", or "I want to go to casinos, show me the ones with that tag".
Who had Intel in the 'discrimination lawsuit' pool? Congratulations
Do you believe that this is really an "antivirus"? Is it open source? Please remember the case with Kaspersky software that moved files from NSA contractor's PC to Russia. Now let's think what is the probability of Chrome moving your files to NSA?
http://www.swedishwire.com/jobs/680-record-labels-part-owner...

This should be considered when making points about what the Record Industry will allow spotify to get away with. They own a lot of the shares at play here.
I recall there was a proposal to use "chaffing" as an alternative to encryption; partly motivated by cryptographic signatures not being export controlled.

The basic idea is to split a message into very small pieces, say individual bytes or even bits. And the sign each bit, and iirc add a sequence number. Then you end up with a triple: sequence number, data, signature. Then you generate random triplets - and distribute the lot: the recipient orders by sequence number and keeps the bits with valid signatures.

I'm not sure about how ordering was achieved, but it was a clever idea.

Ah, here's Wired's coverage of the Ronald Rivest's idea in 98:

https://www.wired.com/1998/03/a-work-around-for-crypto-expor...

http://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/pubs.html#Riv98a
exactly. no other SV co is as scientific minded as Alphabet. People focus on the fact that they make money from ads, but nobody looks at what they have done with that money. No other company has done so much for education in my opinion indirectly.( Youtube, Google Earth , Google itself). Google Classroom is also there but I am talking about education in general. As a student, if I had to wish which company survived among the top 5 if 4 had to die tomorrow, then most people in their right mind would vote for Alphabet. even haters.
> given the current push to restrict rights to save children

What do you mean by that?
Why?

Sure, the skies are more and more crowded, meaning more and more people will be affected by a once-in-20 year failure, but why would it happen more and more common?
Fight me.

I mean, happy to answer any questions.

By the way: if you're interested in this, you might also be interested in the set of 9 (count them: 9) new cryptopals challenges we sold off to raise money for rural congressional races on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&q=set%208%20from%3Atqbf&...

This is Cryptopals Set 8, before this weekend available only on request and after swearing a solemn oath not to share.
But how would you come to know such a service exists without Advertising?

If you need a product you will go and look for it. Advertising by definition is to trick you into buying things you don’t need.
> How does a cashless lemonade stand work?

In my country even beggars accept cashless payments.
> Eurocontrol announced the system restart later in the day, after what it called extensive testing.

So they turned it off and on again.
>Estimating the number of pink cows in the world is a very simple problem.

If by 'estimating' you mean a scientific study that tries to answer the question, then it isn't simple at all. First we need a rigorous definition of pink cows. If I dye my cow pink, does that count? What if other people don't agree with my definition? A pig whose skin is pink is considered pink, so should I only rely on hair color? And what counts as pink? Are we only going with stereotypical hot pink? There is a red cow, but it is a really brownish red. Would a brownish pink be enough to qualify as a pink cow?

So once we solved all those problems, we need to come up with a methodology, and it likely won't be the same everywhere. We could make the problem a lot simpler by reducing our search space to say, only cows on ranches in the state of Montana. But to do a global sampling isn't easy.

>associated fights between different interest groups which might prefer one or another definition

To my knowledge (and with no peer reviewed research to back up my view), there is no groups who have a political stake in what counts as a pink cow. So for that reason it is simpler because there aren't political complications.

But you seem to be confusing something. You appear to be talking about studying wage gap. I was talking about studying studies of wage gaps.

So for my plan, it would work like this:

Taking all the studies of wage gap in the last n years, pick x at random. For each of these, determine if each one does or does not account for some factor that impacts pay regardless of gender (say height of employee). You can then compute what percentage of studies took this factor into account.

Then you repeat this with a few other factors, each time repicking the studies investigated. From those percentages, you can determine how often your selection of factors are taken into account, and from that you might be able to make the argument that the data is biased enough to not be usable.
it's less in beta than it was 4 months ago. we're at the stage of putting telemetry in the app to get it to phone home ever time encryption fails so we can see just how broken it is in the wild, as it seems pretty good for us. Cross-signing keys is next up and we're working on it over the next few weeks.
http://www.swedishwire.com/jobs/680-record-labels-part-owner...
Park.io: Making $125,000/Month Selling Hacker TLDs
Everything sounds good except team outings. Most people just want to make their family their family. I asked for a raise at one job and the response was "don't we all have a good time here?". Hilarious stuff. We had a ping pong table too, but only "project management" has time to use those.
Replace the surface with a 2015 (wife's primary) and 2009 MBP (my non-work backup), and I'm the same as you.

The 2015 MBP is almost perfect, and the 2017 would be extra perfect if they hadn't changed the keyboard (it's like they didn't test it on people who type for a living...)

I love my 2017 iPad Pro, and I hope to someday use it for local dev. I've tried using it for dev work w/ an external keyboard, but you really need a table, whereas a laptop can be used in your lap... The lack of mouse integration is a bit annoying too, but most apps have good keyboard shortcuts. Of course, you end up SSH'ing and then it's just easier to switch to my 2009 MBP. It doesn't have the latest OS, only has 8GB of memory, but still chugs along nicely and is more dev friendly than a tablet.
https://status.im is great, it uses ethereum whisper protocol
https://wiki.status.im/Whisper_Messaging
Agreed on both counts. Although your second point just seems to feed into the idea of not just rolling in "journalists" into the ignore category, but news outlets if they are actively involved in this BS.

For the actual quote, it comes from here: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018/03/28/liz-peek-census-20...

"Liberals are outraged over the Trump administration’s decision to include a citizenship question on the 2020 census."

That's the first line from the article, which clearly pits liberals as being the problem here while implying that conservatives automatically disagree (or in this case, "you are on the right side if you agree with me."). It's basic manipulation. People that behave this way are not worth the energy. They just get in the way most of the time.
It's funny that you described it as less scalable, but proceeded to detail many great ways for the company to scale. Great ideas all around.
No I'm not missing the point. I am solely criticizing the absolute lack of accuracy in the headline, as it is misleading beyond the normal level of how headlines are usually misleading.

I have not made any comment about opinions about cash, whether I know someone who is has concerns about the lack of cash, or about my own standpoint.

In general terms, I feel like you about the topic:
"Personally I share the opinion on an ideological level but practically I'm just too lazy to make a real change in my life."

That, however, can hardly be called "turning against cashlessness" :)
I don't think Toronto stands a chance. Americans would not move to Toronto because 1) Wages are much lower in Toronto and I don't see Amazon paying twice the prevailing wage.
2) Americans would have to pay taxes in both Canada and America.
Afaik Westmere was the first to support PCID in the first place.
I think this means we've only seen the beginning of the full effects of Spectre. I'm expecting consequences for years to come.
Is now the right time to buy Manhattan residential real estate?
Might as well burn more points here - these are all niche cases that should be offloaded onto external machines.

I should have rephrased my original question - is any significant share of the market running into issues? Because everyone acts like this 16GB limit is something a huge chunk of people currently need.