skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> After controlling for confounding factors such as demographics and poor health, the researchers made a startling find: People who worked at least a year past retirement age had an 11 percent lower risk of dying during the study period.

No source? That's a shame because such an extraordinary claim requires scrutiny (to see if the study was properly designed to be able to reach such conclusions).
Molecular Sets (MOSES): A Benchmarking Platform for Molecular Generation Models
You deleted all of your comments because some threads were merged to reduce clutter...?
Is Uber the Next Pan Am?
Yeah, that is what I meant, the Intel compiler does not check if the compiler supports a feature or not, instead checks the CPU ID and apply optimizations for the specific compiler, but offcourse the AMD CPUs get no optimizations,

I was hoping someone would have an alternative reasons why those web-pages are images and no text or confirm my suspicion that is SEO related .
Breaking a rule can involve many things at once: bravery in adhering to your moral code, cowardice in avoiding alternative paths, disrespect for your commitments to a society or team, empathy for people your society or team is harming. Leakers must weigh these things against each other and so must anyone looking at them - even if they weigh those things differently.

Believing either (a) that people should hold the law abover their own values, or (b) that people should only be judged on adherence to their own code, are not ways out of the conundrum - they're just a particular set of values.
Battlezone. This was a great game on Windows 9x, but never got updated to work on the NT based Windows. Of course, a Linux port would be even better.
It's certainly multifaceted. I could write a pretty substantial article on this topic.

My comment was mostly alluding to the unsupported imagery of a fire and brimstone pit of eternal torment for all non-believers. There's also excessive pessimism about the implications of Christian values not being mandated by legislature (ex: abortion).

For your concerns, I would attribute those to the collapse and corruption of internal governance systems. Without much exposition, churches do a pretty terrible job of ensuring their leaders are moral and capable of conveying responsible interpretations of doctrine. Again this is more or less due to fatalism. EG: "Humans are inherently sinful, therefore there's nothing we can do about awful leaders"

If anyone is actually interested in a related article, send me an email. I'll assume that, if a few people spend the effort to send me an email, it will be worth the effort to synthesize a responsible article.
...surveillance of
social media
and LinkedIn.

Yeah, well, there’s your problem.

Only the dumbest of the dumb operate a social media persona. Specifically because only the dumbest of the dumb give up control of their details, and dump them out in the open to get crawled and surveilled.

It’s the low hanging fruit that will get popped for a LinkedIn (or other social) avatar.

Word of mouth is the only professional channel that matters. It’s the only trustworthy channel that can be relied on in a professional context.
Not quite - especially in the commodities world - prices fluctuate and often ships can be at sea for months as the goods they carry are traded back and forth by companies based on energy contracts - in the end - something may have been produced in company X for 5€ and shipped when the price was 10€ - but by the time it arrives at its final destination its worth 50€ because the market has moved / the contract it was sold of was pegged at a higher rate
Thanks for the recommendations.

One liners are fun, and life-saving. I am curious about this aspect compared to Perl 5. With Perl 6's new syntax and language features, can we still easily [ab]use one liners for fun and profit?
hopefully the prison reform bill helps

Although an interesting though I've had is that in the future people might get sent to jail on purpose for a non-violent offense because they'll essentially educate you while providing free room and board. There was a 60 minutes episode on an inmate who essentially was able to educate himself enough about the law to help appeal other convicts sentences and he became a lawyer when he got out.

I know if I was homeless I would consider it
i deleted my comments because i was addressing points in a story that this thread no longer links to
Even the C standard still pays lip service to the notion of C as high level assembler. The notion that C should be an abstract high level language insulated from the machine is foreign both to the language design and usage. C is not designed to be memory safe, for example. The intent of implementation dependent and undefined in the C specification was to make explicit that the compiler was not entrusted with safeguarding the programmer against non-portable use. The bizarre theory that this can be interpreted as a license to sabotage the programmer in the case of non-portable use makes C unusable for its intended purposes - even if it make it possible to wring performance from terribly written benchmarks.
Perhaps I wasn't clear enough. What I meant was that Myst was the first adventure game that was neither inventory based nor dialogue based. The Loom and The 7th Guest did have no inventories, and technically they weren't dialogue based either (there weren't any dialogue trees that decided how the stories progressed), but they relied quite heavily on dialogues/monologues to advance the stories. In contrast, inventory and dialogues/monologues were almost non-existent in Myst, and the player wasn't told a background story at the outset. This was very unusual in that era.

And I also didn't say that Myst was the first CD-ROM game. What I said was that Myst was the first game that was distributed entirely with CD-ROM. (Actually The 7th Guest was the first, but it and Myst were released in the same year. ) The Manhole, according to Wikipedia, was released on floppies first.
>just that I would rather them hand the torch to a country that's more honest to their own people and operates more openly.

So, China then? At least with party rule, what you get is what you see.
A lot of his points are echoes of what the economist Mark Blyth uses to point out the lack of narratives in politics of today. While it is true that people do respond to narratives, it's questionable how far that goes. Both brexiters and Trump offered narratives (of some vision of britain and an american economic rennaissance) , and it did work. Yet the majorities were feeble, not overwhelming (especially considering the lack of narrative on the other sides). Even trump could not motivate the US today to go on another space race like in the 60s. It is thus possible that democracies have transformed away from the collectivist spirit irrevocably. Indivudualism has been on the rise since forever, and (apart from an alien invasion) there doesnt seem to be any major forces countering it. Today's collectivist politics are either identitarian (the easy solution / instead of endless politics, vote by color) or mildly globalist, like climate change politics. While both have fierce supporters and detractors, the main mass of voters says "meh" to both.

Then again, even the mega monolith called China will not be able to control its well-trained citizenry when the hypergrowth stops. Despite remarkable progress and optimism, the chinese don't seem to be going for "space races", instead those megaprojects appear to be more driven by personal ambition of their leader. Maybe bowling alone is the future of politics, more personalized, individualized and decentralized societies. The republics of large narratives may already belong to history and maybe we should stop expecting the "return of religions".
Latest TeX (not LaTeX) update was in January 2014, and the change was in a quite obscure tiny corner case of an advanced feature. https://tug.org/TUGboat/tb35-1/tb109knut.pdf

> The new version of TEX diﬀers from the old only with respect to the “null control sequence” \csname\endcsname, which has been a legal construct since version 0.8 (November 1982) although almost nobody uses it.

Why must all software be constantly updated and bloated with new buggy features including the capacity to send emails?

Also, what about books series like Harry Potter?
> Every 60-year should be taking senolytics today, right now, for example. Their good-for-a-60-year-old metrics would be greatly improved by doing so.

Are you joking? Senolytics have not been proven to work in humans yet. Only in mice. And there's a large, very large literature of drugs that don't work at all the same way in mice and humans.

It reminds me of the DHEA that was touted as a miracle drug for seniors back in the 90s, and the completely failed to meet any expectation.
From the article, this is so incisive:

The problem I have with a lot of investigative journalism, is that they always say: “There should be more investigative journalism” and I think, “When you tell me that a lot of rich people aren't paying tax, I’m shocked but I’m not surprised because I know that. I don’t want to read another article that tells me that”. What I want is an article that tells me why, when I’m told that, nothing happens and nothing changes. And no one has ever explained that to me.
I hosted a domain on Linode years ago, this sure brings back memories of that time.
Snooze is a bit easier; boomerang is a service that offers that for at least outlook as well.
He has been in office almost 2 years, and in headline news every, single, day.
also not having kids is good because if you have them now they will die in horrible ways in about 30 years from Global Warming!
It has, but I still can't help feeling like we can do better.

I was looking at concept drawings from Walt Disney's original conception of EPCOT, back when it was supposed to be a living community and not just a theme park. What struck me is, that sort of environment doesn't just seem to offer a more pleasant and human way of life; it's also probably way more efficient, both economically and environmentally, than typical communities in the USA.

So, yeah, development was fast, but it followed a greedy search and got trapped in a local optimum.
Seen from Europe, Bernie Sanders is just a mainstream centre-left politician, he wasn't proposing anything particularly controversial.
> The ones I frequent are insulated from the wider internet.

I'm starting to feel like that is what allows them to survive as communities. It's a weird balance: too little visibility and your forum dies from attrition; too much and the conversation devolves into, well, Reddit. (This is true even within Reddit: the smaller and more obscure the sub the less likely it is to be a garbagefire.)
Are Aliens Real?Yes Yes Yes
"As a manager, you should never share such things with someone who reports to you."

Sharing a human moment (being upset that a superior is sick) w/ a subordinate is off-limits?
Mods will sometimes change a link or combine comment threads with just one link. Especially if one if the articles is using the other as its source. Also, to prevent multipule threads about the same story.
I agree that they can be good. It’s just that whatever someone will surface in 2020 was probably sitting there in 2012. Why didn’t we look at it in 2012? Surely there is a listing of obscure topics. But somehow it becomes a must read in the HN context. (I do it too)
I'm not sure your definition of 'it' (that is, a default) matches how 'it' is actually used. 'It' is a locally scoped name binding to a previously mentioned symbol. In English, the referent of 'it' is sometimes ambiguous, requiring contextual intelligence that computers lack, so programming languages with 'it' need to be more precise.

Here's 'it' in lisp: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaphoric_macro
But protesting against your employer is very rarely for personal gain. You are at minimum putting your job at risk. Of course there's personal sacrifice involved: you'll more than likely be fired if you are discovered.
My view on it it's Google has a vastly more open culture than any other place I've worked and some leaks contribute to making the culture more open but on the other hand there are people leaking pretty much everything and it's hard to have candid internal discussions when literally everything is being leaked. It's not like they all dislike leaks because management told them to, it actually has practical affect on internal discourse that are bad for the culture
Yeah, believe it or not, sometimes politicians need to do the opposite of what the electorate wants. When the electorate votes to kill Socrates, you really want to have someone around who will let him live.

Where I live in NJ there are plenty of examples to point to. Raising our gas tax is widely unpopular, and as a result our roads are full of potholes -- so much so that we pay more repairing our cars than we would pay in higher taxes for road maintenance.
The second one is just as selfish. You believe your feelings are more important than the security of your organization
There's no such thing as guaranteed profit in a free market system, yet free markets seem to provide ample incentive for players to participate.

Obviously, there's no guarantee that a former inmate won't commit another crime even if the rehabilitative measures he experienced while doing time were exemplary. However, there's also no guarantee that in the university example a graduate will find a well-paid job. Still, there are universities that have successfully implemented this business model.

There's a whole industry that's predicated on this kind of uncertainties: The insurance industry. While there's no guaranteed outcome risks and probabilities can be calculated and factored into the price of a service.

The question perhaps is: What value do we as a society allocate to a former convict likely not committing crimes in the future anymore but contributing to society instead?

Considering the alternative, i.e. a former convict not only being a liability to society but also being highly likely to commit crimes in the future, I'd that service should come with quite a high price tag.
Developing a Software Intervention to Save Lives at Birth
This is a great thread!

Am currently porting some old school gamedev techniques used in classic Sega games such as Hang-On, Turbo Outrun and Space Harrier to modern WebGL. Specifically, super scaler "billboarding" of 2D sprites and pseudo-3D terrain projections. It will be interesting to see if accurate physical simulations are possible ;)

Internet Archive's Arcade is preserving a museum's worth of retro games via Emularity and Emscripten

https://archive.org/search.php?query=emulator%3A%2A+collecti...
The passivity sense is in that it doesn't do anything /to be stopped/. The installation of the credit card skimmer is what is illegal along with the theft involved.

It is like declaring your city nuclear weapons free when the only players are either above the law by jurisdiction or within detonation range already. Just having the law on the books makes the city look stupid.

Facial recognition is a process that works on images - that makes it more passive than even a sensor since there are definite precedents for 'not here' with sensor recordings.
I sold hosting to symphony in their earliest days. Before they disclosed who they were they said "money is no object" which is a common thing heard when quoting hosting. When I learned they were backed by GS I laughed...money literally was no object.
I still can't take Perl 6 seriously with that butterfly logo. Website looks like it's from 2003 as well.
They don't have remote control supply lines either, and those we can certainly make, which you seem to agree with ... so I must say I don't know.

I have consulted for the military, and frankly I was amazed that there seems to be no correlation between intelligence and rank. Especially some lieutenants were incredibly smart but several colonels ... I wouldn't trust them with tying their own shoelaces. This resulted in extremely smart and well organized groups trying to work with complete morons.

And I must say, that results in a pretty stupid whole. The damage the idiot groups inflict is not compensated by the better parts of the organization. Not in logistics. Not in radar operation (where I consulted). Not in organizing the cafeteria. It seems to me that it is utterly impossible to get fired for incompetence in the military. So they keep working with total idiots, even promote them.

What I'm saying is that it's the military. They have awe-inspiring gear. They have some very smart people (they pay consultants in some areas very well, so the truly do have incredible people that are such a pleasure and inspiration to work with). They also have some incredible idiots at every point on the rank ladder. And occasionally they decide on policies so incredibly stupid they are equally awe-inspiring, because the idiots do much more damage than smart ones can fix.

I don't believe it is reasonably possible to predict what the military will do. Especially when it comes to policy.
Global, U.S. Growth in Smartphone Growth Starts to Decline
I’ve had the opposite experience with numba in production. It works almost flawlessly, very easy to reason about the generated code and inspect annotations, easy to debug.
Ask HN: What saas you wish existed but doesn't?
What saas you wish existed but doesn't?
The crux of the article seems to be google's hypocrisy by backing out of a business deal with the Us Defense Dpt. citing ethical concerns while doing business with China.

Maybe Google thought the $$$ outweighed any moral concerns with China but not with the DoD.
I remember suggesting a sick domain to my friend for his new website just a year ago. he purchased it once and never really used it. so I recently I decided that I will buy it for myself. But now that domain name is premium domain and I have to pay 700+ USD extra to buy it. he used GoDaddy.
I've found that using pre-built decks of flashcards is not useful. I at least need the experience of building the deck in order to make it useful.
> but the energy industry over the last ~150 years has driven nearly unimaginable increases in human development, standard of living, poverty reduction, and technology.

Depends on what is understood by the standard of living. The situation where some people have to spend 6 hours a day trapped inside their vehicles just to get to work and back home, hardly can be seen as a high standard of living.

I tend to be quite sceptical about the claims that high energy consumption is imperative for higher standard of living.
> forget the tools I'm using if I don't use them on a daily basis

I've found Anki flashcards useful too.
Windows XP. I still miss XP.
People often mistakenly try to map space time onto an ether-like flat background, treating spacetime like a drawing where the paper is the background. It's not an uncommon kind of fumbling as someone tries to grasp these things.
I think our algorithm is a lot more complicated than greedy search, if you just step back and look at it through a longer timescale. We're not "trapped" in a local optimum, we've just reached one, and the algorithm is just now realizing it and starting to explore alternatives.
No and that's the difference Headway made. Wordpress 5 is concerned with the output of the 'content' part of the page. It lets you do what you could with a page builder, but more limited.

Headway is literally like creating the theme without coding anything. You build it out of blocks still but you literally just drew boxes onto the page where you wanted boxes to go (based on column system but CSS grid/Flexbox would be better now) and it would output the theme files for you.

And I'm not talking the page, I'm talking the entire theme. So headers, footers, custom pages, custom loops with custom queries, custom blocks mixed in with content blocks on the same page template to allow users to output content in the right places, same with custom fields etc.

It was incredibly powerful and let you effectively WYSIWYG the function of the site as well as then being able to switch over to the design module and WYSIWYG the design too. Plus managing custom CSS was easy.

Later versions let you draw/build and design in the same step like Elementor and Pagelines do, but those don't give you the same control over the functionality of the theme like Headway did.

As I mentioned, you can get most of the same functions Headway provided through something like Elementor Pro and combining it with something like the Toolset plugins. But those rely on integrating and there are issues (dynamically showing content generated by shortcodes currently broken for instance) which make the whole process much more of a chore.

Headway really was great.
I’m not sure about such a quantifiable metric, but anecdotally, it’s quite obvious that those who still maintain some work after “retirement” live a longer and healthier life.

Source: my retired grandfather who took up farming and lived another 30 years, my grandfather-in-law who retired after teaching and took to looking after cattle well into his 80’s. Maintaining the forced social interaction and mold exercise always help out in the long run.
What Language Am I Speaking?
More likely that there’s just A LOT of room at Planck scales, once you override the strong and weak nuclear forces, and the classic understanding of subatomic equilibrium that permits electrons to grant atomic nuclei their usual elbow room.

Consider our traditional model for the atom, according to quantum electro/chromo-dynamics.

Now take all that extra space provided, and fill it to the brim with squished, crushed star detritus.

It’s on the order of pinheads to football stadiums. What if you filled up a cubic football field with pinheads snipped off the top of a pin?

Now, not just the field, but the whole stadium, including the cheap seats. Fill all the seats with pure atomic nuclei the size of a head of a pin, and nothing else.

Take a single helium atom, and use that normal volume as a pre-defined knapsack to stuff more matter into.

Now take the mass of as many helium atoms as you can get your hands on, and fill up the volume of that first helium atom with the mass of its peers, until every last planck length is retaining its full quantity of potential mass.

Furthermore, I’m thinking it’s likely that black holes are so extreme that you get a runaway crush that overrides the normal volume of all the usual protons, electrons and neutrons, to get degenerate quark soup.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degenerate_matter
When the Laser heats the filament, it's 1.75mm in diameter, so to get it down to the 0.4mm diameter for extrusion a nozzle is still required which also needs some heat so the plastic doesn't resolidify.
> I've yet to see a single individual lead a life like the one you and everyone screaming about global warming is calling for. Not Al Gore, not the science guy, not the astrophysicist, no one.

Well that's because all you need to do is shift money and "offset credits" around to solve the problem, not actually cut emissions!