skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To me fear of death is a sign of not really having been born yet. If you can't make 50 years worthwhile, you can't make 50000 years worthwhile, and if you can't cope with being limited to 80 years or so, you will not be able to cope with the heat death of the universe. It also stands to reason that if you feel it's impossible to give up 100 years of grown personality and memories, it will be even harder and more painful to give up orders of magnitude more of that. It seems like power in that those who want it the most deserve it the least because they are the worst at using it.

On a very basic level, if I feel myself to be entitled to live forever, then I couldn't rightfully deny that to anyone else. So at some point this would mean less new births. If it didn't, it would mean an even more crass explosion of the human footprint, an even more extreme choking out of other lifeforms -- and it could very well mean both. But that would suck, since being healthy and alive isn't just great because I can see 5000 million particles rendered in 3 lines of CSS, or watch the clouds go by, it's also because of the flora and fauna, and because of other people. Beings that surprise me, that come into the world and "become". Knowing there will be future question marks born is something way more sublime for me than "attack ships on fire" or having this one video that got 7234 million views.

Life isn't just me, it's also a river in which I am a drop. If I want to not be a drop, so I can keep seeing the river, well... if everybody does that, there is no more river, and if I want to reserve immortality for just myself, I am an asshole. I don't mean to brag, but I figured that out as a kid, and no immortality advocate I read or heard or saw so far managed to put a meaningful dent in it.

Yes, I am for medicine, I think it's great when people can live longer and stay healthy longer (even though we then ignore their wisdom when it's inconvenient, e.g. [0]), but no, I cannot draw you an exact line, except that I know "immortality" as extreme and as espoused by technophiles or emperors or preachers does not interest me, at all. If anything I'm curious about the biographies of the people looking for it; they point at some clouds that may or may not have a moon behind it, but I can't help but look from the finger to their arm to their shoulders to their head. I feel that's where the majority if not all of the action is.

Last, but not least: even if you managed to completely overcome all aging and disease, assuming no asteroids and other surprises: the only way to ensure you will live "forever" is to severely restrict the agency of anyone else but you. Other humans acting would be a potential threat, in infinite time it would become an infinite threat, while at the same time you have an infinite lifetime to lose. Nothing might be too crazy and machavellian, and like junkies people might just keep going down the spiral long after they lost all joy in it.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17721280 <-- 99 years...
Maybe difference in prices of long term and short term leasing is profitable enough for this model?
> An important part in reviewability is simplicity: If you come up with an algorithm that provides all those properties but requires a PhD in mathematics to be properly understood, guess where Average Joe tells you to stick it.

That's the reason for the highest German court to declare voting machines unusable here.
To be fair it is easier to deal with undetonated explosives when the area isn't on fire. Granted removing all ordinance from an area is an expensive and painstaking process to do safely - hence why they prefer to just slap on an 'off limits' cordon and sign around the old areas instead of remediating and reusing it.
It isn't utterly sensible. Quite a lot of it was repealed in 1959. Including the parts about playing football. So legislators came to disagree with a fair amount of it over the years since.

> […] or shall play at Football or any other Game on any Part of the said Highways, to the Annoyance of any Passenger or Passengers […]
We know carbon emissions are bad, but we don't know that any particular alternative is the one we should use instead.

Subsidizing various things instead of taxing fossil fuels is a classic example of looking for your keys under the streetlight. A simple, obvious solution that you know is wrong is not a good one.
Measuring multiple return values in Go and C++
This reminded me of the technique of combating a forest fire with another from the opposite direction. Read about it as a kid in Physics for Entertainment by Yakov Perlelman.
The breakpoints have more to do with other parts of building codes. Wood framing is only strong enough to support three floors (unless you use cross laminated timber, which is a relatively new construction technology). Furthermore there are increasing requirements for fire suppression and accessibility as you add height. The breakpoints are basically either 2-floor duplex through quadplex that don't need elevators, or putting three floors of wood-framed apartments over a concrete or steel podium that contains commercial space and parking. Podium construction basically explains why so many 4 and 5 floor buildings get put up - it's significantly cheaper than the more expensive material required to make stuff strong enough for taller buildings.
>a problem for developers who simply want to write code without having to reason

Still not seeing the problem.

Pointers aren’t magic and aren’t hard.
> Life is so very short, don't waste it.

I'm really not sure how this helps or what is the point here. Should people take no risks?
Guido Van Rossum on Python (Oral History Part 2)
K-anonymity, the parent of all privacy definitions
Related to IBM PC keyboards

Unicomp modern versions of the IBM Model M keyboard built iwth the same tooling that made the originals. When living in a flat share I had access to a IBM Model M keyboard the one made for the PS/2 computer. This is one of the best keyboards I have ever used they are built like tanks.

Unicomp keyboards
https://www.pckeyboard.com/
It conjures images of classical ‘edge compute’ use cases like the self driving cars in the article. Those use cases tend to be exceptionally specialized (or just silly).

Yes. You do not do hard real time over the public Internet.

(I've actually had the experience of driving a full-sized vehicle over WiFi. When we built our DARPA Grand Challenge vehicle in 2004, we had the test capability of driving it remotely over WiFi, from a control station with a game steering wheel and pedals. Worked fine technically, difficult to drive. 100ms of no signal and the stall timer slammed on the brakes. Self-driving in the "cloud" is not where you want to go.)
they could have used that ~4 years ago with seconds.
> I think asking consumers to evaluate risk of installing third party apps and manage permissions is insane.

Is it? What do you think billions of people using Windows have done for decades?
You can rephrase that to "hey, I just spent my 20s learning". It might sound cynical, but it's really not - each failure is a lesson.
There's still a few places like that, they're just a bit drowned out by the rest
Valid points, i meet customers with vague definitions of edges and help them understand that in the age of hyper convergence, it is the least of your worries. Better focus on the stack that is going to run on the system.
A friend is writing a good series of blogposts about formal privacy definitions. The first one was about k-anonymity: https://desfontain.es/privacy/k-anonymity.html

Follow-ups:

- k-map: https://desfontain.es/privacy/k-map.html

- l-diversity: https://desfontain.es/privacy/l-diversity.html

- δ-presence: https://desfontain.es/privacy/delta-presence.html

- differential privacy: https://desfontain.es/privacy/differential-privacy-awesomene...
Thanks for the link. Definitely will be reading the book. I am going to university this fall. Of all the courses I will be taking this year. Proofs seem the most hardest. Is there any tips to tackle this?
the probability that we know the true probababillity is what's concerned here.
It’s not even price difference — before WeWork, the stodgy Regus was the only place to get Class A space on a short term basis.
They all market their "networking" opportunities and "hip" work spaces. Do serious workers eveb want that?

We have a good idea what a "serious" WeWork looks like already: Regus. WeWork occupies what seems to be a bit of a weird niche: they are almost as casual as taking your laptop to Starbucks and they seem to go out of their way to provide distractions from work too, whereas the Regus experience is just like having a more-expensive version of a real office. It's a private area, you have the key, dedicated network connectivity, support from "the building" when you need it. I see companies use Regus to bootstrap themselves into a new city while they hunt for real space for example, and Regus seems happy with that as a use case, whereas WeWork would like you to stay there.

Right now the gig economy is very fashionable and WeWork is riding that trend but this is too tied up with both fashion and politics to make the future of it very clear. Are people really going to want to spend their entire careers in a giant Starbucks, what happens if the tax code changes to make freelancing unattractive (e.g. IR35 in the UK)? What if WeWork becomes the corporate behemoth and people do go back to actually hip independent coffee shops, or coop work spaces? What if some technological development starts to favour large companies again? Armies of freelancers are fine if you are building websites but could you make a biotech or a space firm or green energy firm or whatever out of freelancers in cow-orking spaces? I dunno.
If I’m hiring someone remotely for ~100K I don’t care one bit if they need another $10K for a space.
WeWork wouldn't be profitable on a private cabin model, as lovely as that sounds. Pitching the open floorplan as a "networking" perk is just a necessary evil, or good marketing, depending on how you look at it.
Geologist here: I've studied in 1997-2003, than I've had a PhD in stratigraphy in 2007. I researched on a similar subject trying to identify what caused "dinosaurs" appearence (spoiler: another extinction event). At that time the two hypotheses, at least in Europe, were still presented as equally valid.

How these two phenomena can be equally the cause of the mass extinction at the end of Cretaceous?

Two reasons, at least. The first is the uncertainty about how rapid was the decline of Life. Any geologic date has an error, so it is extremely hard to assess the velocity of geological events. Around the K/T boundary most rock samples cannot be dated with a precision greater than a million year, that means that 2 separate events have the same probability to be coeval or separated by hundreds of thousands years with 95% confidence. In these case the uncertainty cannot allow us to distinguish an abrupt event from a slow one. More precisely, some rocks can actually be dated with an error of ~10000 years, like the iridium anomaly, or like the Deccan's lava but forams does not live inside lava. So you have to correlate events, to find proxy signals like changes in water geochemistry and so on. This increases uncertainties when dealing with fossils, and may be an easy way to denigrate palaeontological studies, but there are still evidences of a progressive decline.

The second reason is that the decline in marine ecosystems was sharp after the iridium anomaly, but we cannot explain why that precise impact killed big reptiles on sea and land whereas hundreds of other asteroids that hit the Earth during mesozoic had not. It was surely not the asteroid impact alone. There are evidences that all the mass extinction events are not instantaneous, but they are all related to a sequence of (misfortunated) events in rapid sequence. The emplacement of igneous provinces has proven to be a common menace for life on Earth. Asteroids too.

What we actually "read" in the rocks is that Deccan's traps paved the way, the Yucatan impact provided a massive stroke, and the closeness of these two events finished the survivors. In my opinion the "war" between scientists was more an US phenomenon related to their need to get access to NSF funds. The cool one got all.
>> I work remotely for a startup and can get reimbursed for coworking space if we want it, but I’ve never been tempted. Why work in a noisy, distraction filled shared space when I can be far more productive working at home alone, with zero commute?

These perks are meant for people with families.
For China, the difference between 2000 and 2018 is huge. In everything.
If there’s a day I know I will die, you can be sure that other people’s money and stress will be pretty low on my priority list.
As someone from the UK living in CA I am a little astounded how often people here seem to have to go to the DMV. There's simply no physical UK equivalent, it's all done through the mail or online. (There are driving test centres, but that's all they do.)
Am I missing something with the UK definitions or are streets and pavement (sidewalk in US parlance) a complete apples and oranges comparison? Bicycling on the street is perfectly valid and sensible - especially since those are usually lower speed and congested areas in the first place. Replacing cars with bicycles eases congestion in dense cities. Replacing cars with bicycles on a highway would cause problems.

Similarly sidewalks are narrow and meant for pedestrian capable ranges of motion and speeds. I lean towards 'legalize electric scooters on the streets keep them the off the pavement unless the operator is disabled'.
Plenty of electric unicycles here in Norway and I would say that they are the only vehicles that should be allowed on the pavement/sidewalk/fortau. The mostly go only about as fast as a moderately fit jogger.
δ-presence, for when being in the dataset is sensitive
We already reached full circle when went from mainframe to cloud.
> users will ignore cryptic error messages, particularly if they occur often

It's not just cryptic error messages. Pretty much anything that requires the attention of people will end up being ignored eventually. For example:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4894506/

I've also read about an anesthesiologist who turned off the alarms because they annoyed him. One day he failed to secure the endotracheal tube during a surgery, it came off and nobody noticed. The result was cardiac arrest, brain damage, multiple organ failure, sepsis and death.

Monitoring hardware is very sensitive so it will fire off alarms if anything changes, no matter how small. The more sensitive a test is, the more false positives you get. This is extremely demanding of a health care professional's attention, which in practice is multiplexed between countless patients.

Up to 99% of these alarms and messages will do nothing but get in the way of people. These represent false positives, disconnected cables, and other minor failures that don't represent a real danger and can be easily fixed. People will get used to the alarms, and will learn to ignore them.
Do you use a honeypot at your company?
We are considering using a passive honeypot at our company's gateway. Since honeypot popularity is on the decline, I'm curious if there's other good ways to gain intelligence on attacks against you.
I really really want to experiment with that. Can I hook a gas generator to my bike? During the ride or only before?
Eh? That page says nothing about 1/0 being 0, or anything like that. That function takes the harmonic mean of the non-zero samples, and then adjusts the result by multiplying it by the fraction of the samples that are non-zero. It purposefully avoids dividing by 0. And the result of that function for a==0 and b!=0 is b/2, not b or 2b. So not only is what you claim to be obvious not obvious, it's flat-out wrong.
Actually, you don't have to be a citizen to commit treason. There is a notion of 'temporary allegiance' which allows non citizens to be prosecuted for treason.
However, Fedora Workstation is strongly considering moving to XFS, as are several of the other editions.
But isn't it still very valuable to be able to see for instance: 400% week over week increase of dns requests to hot-new-ios-app.com. Doesn't matter what users, the aggregate trend is important. Similar to how FB uses their proxy app data to buy rising apps.

I haven't read the use policy maybe there is another line item saying they don't use this aggregate data?
> What's cheaper - a Burger-Flip'O-Tron for a million dollars + an expensive maintenance contract, or a $500/month migrant worker who you can replace for any reason whatsoever and find another one happy to take their job?

What is cheaper, hiring a plumber to fix your shower for $200 or getting your slave you pay with rations fix it?

Maybe we should just bring slavery back, so much cheaper.
I don't think speech is mathematical, rather the opposite if anything. In a equivalent b modulo c the c is the modality, the property or condition we are interested in. The use in English is different to math's, because Natural languages are like mathematics modulo the rigidness. A category theorist would say isomorphic upto.

Here're two quotes taken from wiktionary

> Thus, the underlying structure which I would assign to Navajo will be identical, modulo word order, to the one that we found to be projected in all of the languages studied in chapter 3. 1990, Margaret Speas, Phrase Structure in Natural Language, p. 281

> Moreover, in the role of consumer, each individual (modulo his location) faces the same array of goods and services on sale to anyone who can pay the purchase price[.] 2002, Richard Arneson, "Egalitarianism", in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Mathematically, these expressions could be modeled in a vector space where "word order" or "location" are dimensions that are ignored. It's somewhat like saying: left and up are the same modulo rotation; [1 1 0] and [1 1 4] are the same modulo [x y lim(z->0)], if that makes any sense.
https://www.breakingusa.us/?p=46
A Broward County police union is hitting back hard against the continued disrespect coming from the Miami Dolphins. The Broward County Police Benevolent Association of Broward County, Florida has recently chosen to cancel participation in a discount ticket program with the NFL franchise after some players recently renewed protests by continuing to refuse to stand for the national anthem at a preseason game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
PyPy: Let's Remove the Global Interpreter Lock (2017)
An interesting reversal of the networking philosophy described in “the Rise of the Stupid Network” http://isen.com/stupid.html
Even if they are wrong they should not be censored.

I don't agree that keeping conspiracy theorists off a platform is censorship. It's more akin to removing spam.

Jones himself argued (in his divorce hearing) that he doesn't expect anyone to believe him. I think in that case it is hard to argue it is political speech.
> I'm not sure why you would want to give the children of those committing treason citizenship

There's a reason that the US Constitutionally prohibited corruption of blood from the establishment of the Constitution and the United Kingdom abolished it in the 19th Century.
> care about people?

No. But I think Saudi deeply cares about Islamic demography in every country including USA. Saudi invests billions of dollars in countries like India to make sure Muslims remain radical and under the control of sharia and women on street wear hijab. In my village for example an international NGO funded by Saudi pays INR 800 ($12) to women who wear hijaab.
I think there's some questions to be asked about this, but the main one is this claim:

> Abstraction is something you do to things so that you don't have to cognitively deal with them, they're predictable.

The word "predictable". What does it mean to be predictable? Are periodic trends with micro-variations considered to be predictable? In that sense, might it not be possible to Fourier-decompose some time-series into a sufficiently-"predictable" set of frequencies?

But actually, I'm not even sure if this qualification is needed. If an abstraction is basically just a way to treat a bunch of events as a single idea, then what if the abstraction isn't something telling you how you should act, but instead something telling you how you should react?

Another assumption, I think, is that the market is human, i.e. because there are affective dimensions and bounded rationalities in the economy that make it unpredictable. This is true right now, but is that inherent to the market? You can argue that even an automated agent has "humanity", in the sense that it is essentially imprinted with their creator, but how much longer will this hold? It's asymptotic, but won't there be a threshold at which the humanity of machines made by machines, with many steps removed, becomes negligible?

http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/05/30/ascended-economy/
WeWork is just a gamble on real estate. There are probably instruments with very similar upside and risk as WeWork.

VCs, probably not familiar with the world of real estate, aren't able to see this. They think they're investing in something new, but it's really the same old stuff in a new package that they're paying a premium for.
Very true, especially now when successful integration rates seems to be plummeting as we see 3rd generation immigrants reverting back to the anti-social behaviours that exist in the countries they come from.

Also when you consider migrants are much more likely to send money back home, you have to ask what about the costs of having workers who don't then spend that money in your own economy? How can you have these multiplication effects if the money being made isn't even re-injected?
While strictly better than a two story or a one story single family home I don't think that they'd be sufficient for solving the bay area housing issue.
I don't really look forward to the day when Martin Scorsese has to finance his movies through toy sales.
true for private IoT, but the industrial IoT is orders of magnitude bigger and comes with a host of use cases where machines operate at 100 to 1000 Hz cycles - and for stopping your 20.000 rpm milling machine or opening your pressure release valve 30 milliseconds makes a lot of difference.
Need to maintain the debt.

Countries like the US would face serious questions if they re-projected population growth into declines as that would mean there will be less workers around in the future to pay taxes to service the debt.
My first car was an early 90s Honda Civic, and all of the controls for the heat and a/c could have their settings detected through your fingertips. I think it's a significant step backwards that you have to look at everything to know what mode it's in in more modern cars. It's the sort of thing that makes me doubt progress in general, like when Apple decided that they were going to make window controls only distinguishable by color in OS X.
Why the hell would an investor care about some technical performance nuance that could easily be implemented via setting up some Cloudfront distributions?

Did she ask about your cache headers as well?
I usually reach for Python's NLTK, but if performance was an issue, and accuracy less important, I can see myself using this.
Making professional movies is a full time job.
The reality is that the UK (and the US and anywhere else with a long tradition of relatively continuous and stable government) has lots of laws that are currently enforced that are dozens to hundreds of years old. In common law countries, we have laws that we can trace back many hundreds of years.

If you think a law is outmoded or no longer reflects society's values, then you have recourse: get it repealed or amended. Or flaunt the law and take your chances. People do that all the time, with greater or lesser degrees of success.

Societies ruled by law should not ignore old laws just because we think the original authors could not have possibly basic good judgments like, say, pedestrians should be safe on pedestrian thoroughfares.