skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't claim to understand how all this stuff works, besides the part about modelling it as a probability (a Bernoulli process), but I wonder to what extent it is possible to slow the damage. For instance, if you're bleeding, you may be able to slow it - but if you don't stop it completely, eventually you will bleed to death.

I also wonder whether someone living for a very long time wouldn't eventually suffer irreparable damage because of the radiation from the environment accumulating in the tissues. Nobody's claiming that we can survive, say, being thrown into a volcano (an active one, I mean), just by being more healthy and young. There are clearly environmental hazards that the body cannot withstand, senescence or no senescence. It is very likely that such environmental hazards hitherto unforseen will begin to reveal themselves once our lives are extended enough and that we will eventually find out that there is a hard upper limit for the amount of time that these frail bodies can keep serving for.

I clarify that this is not something to celebrate, or even accept. Let us not go gentle in to that good night, by all means. On the other hand I think it is ridiculous to believe that in a universe where galaxies die, human beings can keep going like the Duracell bunny for as long as we like, thanks to Nick Bostrom's Amazing Rejuvenating Pills™.
Actually, you'd be surprised. There are not many good EHRs out there. It's all about the features and the ability to make the system work with your workflows and use cases.

Of course, your points are valid though! That is the state of the "behind the scenes" side of things :).

EDIT: Just saw your edit and your correct assessment of the need for a great UI (we have gaps, but a good team working on it).
Right. When the company dies or goes down for some while, you may be able to identify the minus-ten-times employee who allowed that to happen. But he's likely long gone by then.
>to last minute catastrophic product failures

You have to have a product that works. People are trusting part of their business to your software. Depending on your software, they also have to spend a lot of time and money with integrations, training and all that. It's a large commitment that isn't easy to reverse.

If your software was working perfectly and provided obvious, quantifiable value, do you think you would have reeled in those clients? If so, slow down the features and concentrate on stabilizing the software. To do this effectively you need to have both an eagle-eye QA person/team and an existing beta client. The more beta clients the better, because people will use (and break) your stuff in ways no one in your company imagined. While you are doing this, make sure the people who are demoing it know a happy path and are disciplined enough to stick to that and can explain away the problems. For them to be able to do that, you have to have a committed relationship with them, especially before demos. You also need to be in constant communication with your clients and make sure they know you are turning things around. You need to show them proof with quick releases on the most painful items and constant improvement. Proper triage is big in the beginning and majority of this phase.

You also might want to ask your investors who are bullish on the product if any of their other investment companies or connections have any need for your software. They usually have connections that you and I probably wouldn't.

That's the best advice I can give given my experience. There is a lot more in the details but that's the top points. I've been the head technical person in 2 turnarounds now, but they had existing (but angry and fleeing) clients. We had the software stabilized within a year, but it's a grueling process. Expect nights and weekends for the first 3-6 months, depending on where you are, then things will go more smoothly.
On the other hand, regulation of alcohol has not gone well historically, with people arguably worse off with very stringent controls. Artificial scarcity has resulted in predictable increases in black markets and crime, reduction in safety, and boosts to the prison industrial complex.

We seem to have reached a middle ground, here in most parts of the US. Alcohol is taxed and regulated, the products are relatively safe (no worries about methanol poisoning), and the black market is quite small.
You can't just look at property taxes. You need to consider the trifecta of Property, Sales, and Income taxes to get at the ground truth.
No, this misleading stat refers to sulfur and soot emissions, not CO2. It's true that ships at sea burn a cheap sulfurous fuel, "bunker fuel", because there's nobody to inhale it out there. But it's misleading because people think this stat refers to CO2, which it doesn't. Ground transport produces far more CO2 than ships, which by weight are the most efficient way of moving anything.
There is Babylon 5 episode about the conflict between Drazi of "green" and "purple" characteristic (2x03, coincidently? one of the more important episodes for the overall story arc). Last week I was reminded of this while thinking about Ingress and it's green vs. blue "conflict" (which is wonderfully designed such that taking the in-game fights into meatspace will gain you nothing in comparison to settling them in-game).
If you add together many numbers, do it in ascending order, numbers with smallest absolute values first.

Comparing floats is tricky. Use either epsilon, epsilon with relative error or ULP's (all are tricky)
In the small suburban town I grew up in they had bus, train, and bike lanes. No different than a large city really.
In my view, there is a grain of truth to the "signaling" hypothesis, but it also sounds like:

1. A legitimate grievance from people who didn't get an education and are having it arbitrarily held against them.

2. Sour grapes from people who got nothing from their time spent in school.

Higher education is whatever you make of it. You're legally an adult, and can make your own choices. No two people will experience it in the same way. My kid will start college next year. I've given her a couple of analogies (roll your eyes after each one):

1. It's like going to California during the gold rush, and being handed a shovel and a bag. You get to keep the contents of the bag in four years.

2. It's a tiny elite college hidden inside a giant Big Ten party school. There is intense social pressure for you to join the party school. You decide.
Not sure if this fits your context, but could you get the conference to use your app for check in or something? Then they start out with it.

Edit: or find something else that benefits the visitors?
I run a dual-boot Debian + Windows 7 laptop, but my default position is to assume the Windows partition is exploitable, so for secure activities I boot Debian.

That boots using an unencrypted /boot partition, but everything else running on luks (one big partition, LVM'd down). I have a VeraCrypt partition which is for files that I want to work on from both operating systems. Works really well, crypted disks doesn't materially impact performance, and gives peace of mind.

The most likely scenario for theft is someone after the hardware, and they'll not spend much effort trying to break into the file system.

I'd be wary if the machine was stolen and then returned, but restoring mbr & /boot partition should be sufficient in that instance.

I've travelled to regions that I considered dubious, if not especially technically sophisticated. I haven't done this, however research suggested the best way of confirming your laptop hasn't been opened is to use a sparkling nail varnish. Dab a small amount on some or all of the case screws, take a close-up photo, store that photo somewhere safe. After the event, take photos of the screws again, and compare. The random patterns are effectively impossible to replicate.

Combined with disabling USB booting, and BIOS admin password, and keeping the OS in sleep -- it should be possible to prove your laptop hasn't been hacked via physical intrusion.
> The claim makes a ‘category error’, supposing that science and religion are trying to answer the same questions.

This is the case now, precisely because any testable claim made by religion that conflicts with the evidence is eventually discarded. No amount of faith will let a demonstrably false claim stand indefinitely.
This exact issue turns out to be critical in the Hessenberg QR algorithm, which is at the heart of MATLAB's eig.
According to the EPA, 27% of total greenhouse gas emissions come from transportation, with only 2% of transportation emissions coming from boats. https://www.epa.gov/greenvehicles/fast-facts-transportation-...

However, I also recall reading that boats produce a ton of emissions (I'm pretty sure it was a popular reddit post about how the huge oil tankers and shipping containers account for almost all ship-related emissions). One explanation: the maritime emissions may be underestimated due to the practice of ships using flags of convince. This website, and wikipedia and a few other sources, claim that the global contribution of maritime transportation to GHG/CO2 emissions is around 2% http://www.airclim.org/acidnews/new-figures-global-ship-emis...

2% of the total is still nothing to sneeze at, though. Since tankers and container ships are so big, it's likely that individual ships are some of the largest individual contributors to emissions. Maybe we should allow/subsidize these ships to use nuclear energy
We haven't reached the point of waking anyone up. Presumably, if this progresses, they could perhaps get better/more life-like/normal brainwave patterns, and THEN you have to work out I/O, like communication. So, I don't see that as far-fetched at all in the intermediate stages of developing it in a practical direction.

As for the CIA, MKULTRA? Bay of Pigs? Drug trafficking? You seem to imply a simple ethical boundary would stop them. I don't see much historical basis for believing that.
It's not really "better" or "worse".

NBD is an extremely simple protocol. Read range, write range, delete range, sync -- that's it. If you want to implement an NBD server from scratch, you can totally do so in an afternoon. I have done this and use it in production: https://github.com/sandstorm-io/blackrock/blob/master/src/bl...

iSCSI is comparatively far more complex. It's a TCP-based adaption of the SCSI protocol, which has existed for decades as a way to talk to hard drives. As I understand it, you can pass arbitrary SCSI commands over iSCSI; see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCSI_command iSCSI is enterprise-y and has a bigger ecosystem. You can netboot a diskless machine into Windows over iSCSI (I do this: http://kentonsprojects.blogspot.com/2011/12/lan-party-house-...).

Personally I like NBD a lot better because the simplicity means you can build new, cool things with it. But there are others who would say that NBD is a toy compared to iSCSI.
It's an open question whether that's more readable than the already legal

results = [b for b in (f(a) for a in input_data) if b]
Tens of millions of laptops have been exposed to at least as much evil maid opportunity as the author's. That's either a much stronger natural experiment than his artificial one, or the biggest sleeper attack in history. Like, the Israelis still had to blow up the centrifuge eventually...
Interesting. Is this open source or a service?
This is a starting point regarding alcoholism and impaired judgment:

https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/alcohol-health/overview-alcohol-co...

There are genetic components to many people’s drinking disorders, but of course everyone is different and the causes of addiction are complex. Anecdotally though, some people are effectively alcoholics from their first drink. I’ve heard the same thing about meth addiction.

I’m not in favor of outright prohibition of any substance. I’m definitely not in favor of the extreme penalties the US imposes for casual drug use. But I think the general rallying cry of “legalize it” is irresponsible.
PQQ Suplements, How They Helped Me Through Benzo Withdrawal
My biggest concern is that there's an Enterprise Edition of GraalVM. I'm a little suspicious that the Community Edition will end up crippled and EE will cost more money than I'll ever want to spend.
"They [alcohol and nicotine] are regulated to an extent. You will get fined for selling to minors, for example."

Legalization does not mean lack of any regulation. Alcohol and nicotine, which are legal, are regulated, as you point out. So are prescription (and even non-prescription) drugs. I am not opposed to forbidding sale of legal drugs to minors, though it's not perfectly clear cut (the age limit is particularly tricky to set, and often minors manage to get their hands on alcohol, nicotine, and other drugs anyway).

"Do you have withdrawal symptoms if you stop [skydiving]?"

Actually, I have read of people who did feel like their depression was alleviated through participation in extreme sports like skydiving,[1] and who feel depressed if they don't go again for extended periods of time. So I think a psychological addiction (much like addiction to food where similar effects are seen) can apply.

"Does it make you unable to function and think clearly for a while? Is your judgement affected enough that you'd harm yourself or someone else to participate in the sport again?"

Depression can affect your thought process, and can lead to harm of self or others, so yes, I think those are real risks of quitting for some people who get relief from depression through participation in extreme sports (or other perfectly legal activities which either help them to cope or alleviate their depression).

[1] - "Skydiving Cured My Depression" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16837748
The best long-term carbon sequestration medium we have is wood.

It is the slow and unsexy algorithm of:

Plant trees, and then build things with them. Be careful not to burn them. Repeat
How would you make it work in practice? Would every country sign a global accord to tax oil wells, coal mines, etc?

Or would you have an import tax on such materials? How exactly would you adjust taxes at the border?

I also think this is the best solution, but I'm not exactly sure how you'd implement it without loopholes.
I have a fixed IP, always the same. Only me and my wife uses it ever. None of us reads this page normally.
Caveat: Try to time it carefully if the code is being actively developed, to reduce risk of merge conflicts and annoyances to the rest of the team. It just leads to a lot of "stop doing that!" and further resistance to that kind of refactoring.
The best defense is being someone too uninteresting to bother. Once you're interesting so some resourceful adversary, it's very hard to avoid devices being hacked, and virtually impossible to determine if they've been hacked.
>> "It was their time." "They lived a good life." "Death gives meaning to life."

Of these, the first two sound like empty platitudes said to avoid an awkward conversation witht the relatives of a deceased person. The last one, I don't know what it means. It sounds like a contradiction to me and I really wonder what you mean by "a huge number", for this experssion in particular. Personally, I would only use the words "huge number" to describe the behaviour of a group of people if I was talking about, say, a crowd in a stadium, which is many more people than I'm ever likely to have a conversation about death with. So, forgive me if I keep my doubts about your assessment of the general public's attitudes about mortality, only from your experience of such conversations.

Literature is another issue altogether. I agree that there is plenty of literature of the kind you describe and I'm sure someone must already have conducted a study, even. On the other hand, for every "Who wants to live forever" kind of story, there is a Dylan Thomas, or at the very least a Love Story (the 1970 film- if you google it, beware of the SPOILERS) that laments the death of a loved one as the greatest tragedy that can befall a human being. And let's not even start on religion and its promises of life eternal and raising of the dead.

But, since I'm chomping at the bit for a chance to quote this in its entirety:

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rage at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

- Dylan Thomas, Do not go Gentle into that Good Night.

Indeed, I, for one, intend to kick and scream, and bite and scratch, and drag my heels all the way to the grave.
Yes that's true, but while you're both getting tax benefits before you sell it and you're making money on the appreciating. So you get to "depreciate" an appreciating asset. Even after taxes, it's a win. Besides, the tenants are actually paying down the debt. Your only investment is whatever relatively small down payment you've made. Hopefully tenant rents are enough to pay for upkeep.

You don't pay cash for the real estate - you take advantage of leverage and at the most pay 20% out of pocket.

While you own the building, the income you make isn't taxed because you can claim depreciation against your income. If you take into account the time value of money, if you take the tax free money and invest that in another long term asset and sell it, then you pay the much lower capital gains tax.
Computers that support “secure boot” or “verified boot,” such as Chromebooks and Windows laptops with BitLocker, aren’t vulnerable to this. The BIOS can detect if the unencrypted part of your disk has been tampered with, and if it has, it will refuse to boot. MacBooks and laptops that run Linux could potentially be attacked in this way.

Really?

(Search terms used: "secure boot linux" and "secure boot macbook")

https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/take-control-your-pc-ue...

https://www.macworld.com/article/3246208/macs/how-apples-sta...
Are those "blue light wakeup devices" a risk for this?
Study shows Americans betrayed their own US Government
Try it yourself - both can be evaluated for free.
Haven't they always been gunning for PBS?
Quite the opposite, actually. The world team played better than anybody from that team participating individually could have.
Really awesome that you shared the source code, I'm having a hard time trying to figure out how to get it all working, though.

Any chance you'll be including setup instructions?
Effective regulation on alcohol has an upper limit due to how easy it is to make. Cannabis has this too, but you still need either a place with visible sunlight (which can probably be easily seen) or an indoor place using a lot of electricity/producing a lot of heat, plus the seeds. You only need sugar and yeast to make alcohol, and you can do it in a well hidden place without using a lot of energy
We've got some non trivial percentage of America hooked on legal opioids as an experiment. That's going well. Seems smart to get another good pct hooked on h. And before you say the price will drop... My understanding is weed is more expensive per intoxicating amount than alcohol in seattle. So let's get everyone hooked and in debt, seems like a different route to the same place. They won't be in jail but they'll be struggling financially just the same.

But they'll at least get treatment. Which we can also charge for.

Apparently I've angered the libertarians who can't concieve of Any bad consequences to anything. Look I Live in Seattle and don't see any bad side to the mj legalization currently. I also think we should have heroin treatment in many areas. And opioid. Doesn't mean I think you should be able to buy h when you hit 18. I know plenty of people who use alcohol and mj responsibly. Many who don't. I have anecdotal data on opiods and lots only know one person who used h personally and that didn't go well. More for meth, most had some pretty severe problems before or because of it.

But apparently I can't disagree with you, only the pure ideals are acceptable.
Yeah, but mirror neurons could be what cause people to think they can read minds. Imagine watching someone over a period of time, and you subconsciously pick up on subtle cues and microexpressions that give you a more detailed picture of that person's mental state than you would otherwise be able to guess. To someone unfamiliar with the role of mirror neurons -- even to yourself -- this would be almost indistinguishable from mind reading (or at least Counselor Troi style "empathy"). It reportedly happens a lot in the scam psychic trade, wherein a charlatan comes to believe that, like Oda Mae Brown from Ghost, they've actually developed the powers they have heretofore only pretended to have. Such charlatans are called "shuteyes" in the business.
I always found the US system for college admissions unnecessarily onerous on both the student and the colleges. The Australian system is comparatively simple - your results (generally from your final two years) are collated by the state, some adjustments are made to the score based on criteria supplied by the university (eg. unis might decide to target students with lower socio-economic scores, or from regional areas), and then a ranking is produced. At the same time, students have supplied an ordered list of their uni/course preferences. The two lists are compared, and students are offered the highest course they qualify for. If you don't get your first preference, you can reject the offer and hope that someone else has done the same for a higher preference.

For courses with an interview component or other requirements, those are handled in parallel. Generally Undergraduate-entry Medicine is the primary course with that sort of thing - the extra testing is carried out near the start of the year and interviews once the school year ends.

I wouldn't necessarily say that it's the optimal solution, and nor is it particularly fun, but it works, and it means you're focused on school rather than writing 10-million essays describing why you want to go to your safety college.
I tend to specify a fair amount of tin foil when buying a hat and I also suspect you are correct with this assertion:

Tens of millions of laptops have been exposed to at least as much evil maid opportunity as the author's

However, do you have a decent citation for that assertion?
If she can run away from a rapist/mugger she can run away from a cop
You bring up "public transport" as one of the emissions sources beyond people's control, without bringing up the biggest source which is under our control: cars. US per capita CO2 emissions are 20 tons/year, of which a typical passenger car is 5 tons/year. If you're worried about the carbon footprint of your stuff...it is possible to buy less stuff.
True.

But after doing a standard LUKS install, you can move /boot to an SD card. You can also backup the LUKS header to the SD card, and wipe it from the system.

Now the machine cannot be booted without the SD card. After restoring the LUKS header. And even if an adversary creates a new /boot on the machine, you can check for that, and nuke it before booting from the SD card.

If you're detained, you can just chew up the SD card and swallow it. Maybe a little hard on the teeth, but hey.

But of course, that SD card must never leave your body. Except that you probably want to hide copies somewhere. In case you lose it, or whatever.