skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm curious to know how they determined "twice the biological age".

Were they comparing artery calcification levels or something? Rate of nutrient absorption? DNA damage? Mitochondria malfunction? Cell junk? What?
I managed multiple mesos+marathon clusters on production a little over 1.5 years, and when I switched over to the K8s the only thing that felt like an improvement was the kubectl cli.

I really liked/missed the beauty of simplicity in marathon that everything was a task, the load balancer, autoscaler, app servers everything. I think it failed because provisioning was not easy, lack of first-class integrations with cloud vendors and horrible horrible documentation.

Kind of sad to see it lost the hype battle, and since then even Mesosphere had to come up with a K8s offering.
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I loved the BeOS icons. Spent a lot of time forcing Windows NT 4 to look like it.
Are Mint Boxes still available? I just checked at https://linuxmint.com/store_mintbox.php , and they appear to be out of stock, but maybe that's a temporary thing.

That being said, yeah, all family members in the Momputer class of usership have been upgraded to ChromeOS devices. They, to a one, love them, too.
>Why don't you hire one of these for the job instead of recipe/containering yourself into 'doesn't work, I dunno' posts.

Because every.single.one of these "integrated environments" I've ever come across was an objective mess, poorly documented and littered with tech-debt.

It was clear the "20-year SA" had forced 20-year old administration abstractions and ideas on top of modern infrastructure and application concerns. It was cheaper/better/easier to throw it out and rebuild on something like k8s than to make any attempting at "scaling" the existing solution.

You're simply trading the "in-fashion" disease for the "I'm a 20-year Linuxbeard I know best and no one tells me different" disease.
This is about just a few publications from just three authors. The irony ist that it should be easy to get at least some of the books get blocked in the US as well. Not for copyright reasons, but because of the content. I think it's getting harder and harder for organizations like Project Gutenberg to do this kind of work - it's just too easy to get into trouble.
> So emissions will actually rise, until Magic Future Tech (TM) arrives to save our bacon? Great plan. Just great.

That's exactly how we arrived with solar and wind so cheap between the 70s and now. Batteries will get cheaper, as demand for them for EVs brings more manufacturing capacity online.

https://electrek.co/2018/08/02/tesla-gigafactory-1-battery-p...

> “At the end of July, Gigafactory 1 battery production reached an annualized run rate of roughly 20 GWh, making it the highest-volume battery plant in the world by a significant margin. Consequently, Tesla currently produces more batteries in terms of kWh than all other carmakers combined.”

> Panasonic recently commented that ‘production at Tesla is gaining momentum’ and they plan to add 3 battery cell production lines. It should result in an annual production rate of 35 GWh.

> At 35 GWh, they would be producing at the originally announced production rate, but Tesla has since increased the planned total capacity to 105 GWh of battery cells and 150 GWh of total battery pack output.
> How does it compare with YourPriorities[0]?

Your Priorities was one of our main inspirations at the beginning, as an open source software that also had a strong relationship with the municipal level, on their case Reykjavík (Iceland). The main differences are that on YourPriorities a user only discusses Proposals and has one way of supporting them, and on Decidim you have other kind of supports (for instance limiting how many votes an user can made) and other features besides Proposals (like Meetings, Results, Initiatives, Consultations, etc).

(Disclaimer: I know Robert personally since 2012 and he even came to our first anual meeting on Barcelona at 2016.)

> What are its strengths and weaknesses?

Strengths:

* Modular architecture: more than 15 community modules.

* Easy to upgrade (as a ruby gem)

* Multiple features: we try to allow any kind of participatory space (processes, assemblies, initiatives/petitions, consultations)

* Online / offline integration: through meetings with photos, documents, minutes and moderators with special permissions to create user accounts

* Multiple verification / authorization ways (SMS, sending a code through other ways, through municipal census on the case of cities, etc)

Weaknesses:

* At the moment could be difficult to install (it's a Ruby on Rails gem and generator so you
need some Rails knowledge)

* Multiple bugs (working on them)

* UX and accessibility could improve

* No mobile app (yet)
Much of the appeal of early microcomputers was actually their similarity to the more powerful machines that were being used for "real work". This was true even in the 8-bit era with CP/M, a command-line system that was used almost exclusively for work purposes. That CP/M interface took quite a few elements from the microcomputer and mainframe terminals of its day, and the trend continued with MS-DOS and early Windows. Pure "home computers" did exist during the same time period, but they still looked a lot more professional than the toys we get today, and you could even use them for some light office work.
One would assume that a complete email framework would support imap as well.

Might want to reconsider how you describe your project.
Yea it's basically applied game theory because you are never sure if another player wants to cooperate and if they truly mean to cooperate or are just waiting to backstab you once your guard is lowered so you end up competing against others for your own interests even though cooperation is the best outcome.
>GIMP for Image Editing
L.O.L.
FWIW I find that Mastodon doesn't have the same effect as commercial social media because it's not designed to suck you in and keep you engaged so you can be monetized. There's little drama that I've observed on Mastodon compared to Twitter. People mostly just post things they're interested in and have discussions about them. Since Mastodon is decentralized, you can find a community that fits your interests best. And since Mastodon is a federation of small communities with common interests the interactions tend to be more meaningful. Mastodon also allows turning off boosts and retoots, so you only see notifications when somebody messages you or replies to your toot. I find this alone makes it much easier to step away from it.
Note for example some politicians are going as far as creepily threatening to publicly shame non-voters: https://freebeacon.com/politics/wallace-campaign-uses-orwell...
This is all well and good but the headline is a bit awkward when you consider the author’s recent personal life:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/reliable-source/wp/2017/...
2019-NFL-20-JAN-2019
https://opensymbol.zendesk.com/hc/it/community/posts/360039372711-LIVE-FREE-NFL-NEW-ENGLAND-PATRIOTS-VS-KANSAS-CITY-CHIEFS-L-I-V-E-S-T-R-E-A-M-PATRIOTS-VS-CHIEFS-LIVE-FREE-NFC-CHAMPIONSHIP-2019-NFL-20-JAN-2019

https://opensymbol.zendesk.com/hc/it/community/posts/360039669772-NFL-FREE-NFL-NEW-ENGLAND-PATRIOTS-VS-KANSAS-CITY-CHIEFS-L-I-V-E-S-T-R-E-A-M-PATRIOTS-VS-CHIEFS-LIVE-FREE-NFC-CHAMPIONSHIP-2019-NFL-20-JAN-2019

https://opensymbol.zendesk.com/hc/it/community/posts/360039669792--WATCH-FREE-NFL-NEW-ENGLAND-PATRIOTS-VS-KANSAS-CITY-CHIEFS-L-I-V-E-S-T-R-E-A-M-PATRIOTS-VS-CHIEFS-LIVE-FREE-NFC-CHAMPIONSHIP-2019-NFL-20-JAN-2019

https://opensymbol.zendesk.com/hc/it/community/posts/360039372771-WATCH-LIVE-NFL-NEW-ENGLAND-PATRIOTS-VS-KANSAS-CITY-CHIEFS-L-I-V-E-S-T-R-E-A-M-PATRIOTS-VS-CHIEFS-LIVE-FREE-NFC-CHAMPIONSHIP-2019-NFL-20-JAN-2019

https://opensymbol.zendesk.com/hc/it/community/posts/360039372691--WATCH-FREE-NFL-NEW-ENGLAND-PATRIOTS-VS-KANSAS-CITY-CHIEFS-L-I-V-E-S-T-R-E-A-M-PATRIOTS-VS-CHIEFS-LIVE-FREE-NFC-CHAMPIONSHIP-2019-NFL-20-JAN-2019
The unstable point is at the top of the crest. You would need a vacuum chamber with dampened vibrations to have any chance of it standing there, as any small deviation from a perfectly balanced position would make it fall.
The k8s hype feels like the Hadoop hype from a few years ago. Both solve problems that most don't have and there is a lot of complexity - some due to the nature of the problem, some because everything is new and moving.

Of course it's 2019 and you have to migrate Hadoop to run on k8s now :)

My impression is that if you are a small shop and have the money, use k8s on google and be happy, but don't attempt to set it up for yourself.

If you only have a few dedicated boxes somewhere just use Docker Swarm and something like Portainer.
I hadn't heard that about antibiotics. Got a link?
Sherlock/Elementary I think? Personally I find Elementary way to gimmicky/tacky but happy to disagree.
David Reich's Response to Jan. 17 Article in The New York Times
There are plenty of options and ideas out there to work on your spare time to improve the world and its society. It's just a matter of thinking which areas you feel you could have had something better and you didn't. In my case, me and 2 friends realised that when we were younger and students, we had a lot of questions and ideas but we didn't have a place where we could discuss or people with experience to get advise from (we are from latinoamerica). Today, as we are the people with experience, we created a mentorship platform for latin-americans, where people like we were before, can join and ask for advise and learn from more experienced people.
This is our way to try to improve the world.
site: https://oraculi.io
How do I know if a book is for an undergraduate or graduate level?
How do I know if a book is for an undergraduate or graduate level?
Wasps (and to a lesser extent flies) also remember how they came into a room, and can get back out quickly: imitate a bat with a hand (flickering fingers back and forth) and they usually zoom right back outside the way they came in. In evolutionary terms, they've entered a cave, and caves have bats: so they have an exit strategy ready to hand.
Same in aviation, the ICAO phonetic alphabet is meant to reduce uncertainty over historically poor radio communications. Plus readback to air traffic control and so on is relatively standardized to allow for a few chances to realize you got the wrong thing down.
> Do most non-theists believe in a meta-ethical realism?

Not sure. My personal experience with moral philosophers has been that most are (1) non-religious, and (2) committed to some form of moral realism. Personally, I'm not religious and think the morality exists as a necessary consequence of some vaguely Kantian sense of autonomy[1].

> That there are possible worlds in which free people choose only to do good, but those worlds aren't actualizable

I don't understand the distinction between "possible" and "actualizable" here -- in what sense is a state of affairs "possible" but not such that it could ever be actualized? Perhaps even more perniciously: how does the existence of a "transworld depravity" (which, presumably, is not itself god) not itself threaten omnipotence?

[1]: https://yossarian.net/about/labels
Python Code Quality: Tools and Best Practices – Real Python
Except a boost in ridership is absolutely not what you’d want in an overpopulated city like Paris. Subway is so bad i’ve already witnessed people waiting for trains from outside the station itself.

in the peak hours you often have to skip two or three trains because they’re packed.
Why do JRE8 64bit don't work for 64bit (JRE 32bit work) and does not have JRE11?
Why do JRE8 64bit don't work for 64bit (JRE 32bit work) and does not have JRE11?
Good question! :)

My thoughts and experiences:

Because once you are up to speed the business and devs work more in concert, which lets things flow fast, especially if changes are small and many, rather than fewer and larger.

As devs grow secure in the infrastructure (”it kinda just works” from their end) as well as the ability to roll back within seconds, deploying things to production becomes no big deal.

The ”separation of concerns” and containerization enable some of this, but only part is tech — I find a great deal is rooted in the culture and people of the same mindset working together.
I came up with a new phishing avoidance scheme based on this, point at the url bar before typing your password.
they should just focus on "cracking the coding interview", it's all that's needed to get a job in CS
Thinkpads are not really problem. Yes, Lenovo occasionally does something with ACPI in their brand new models, that breaks Linux, but overall they are fine. Of course, it is possible to configure them in such a way, that will be problematic; for example, if you put Nvidia GPU in your config.

It's Ideapads that have often the problems.
When You Know That Google Just Doesn’t Care Anymore
Oh. Right. We have no disagreement. Thanks for taking the time to explain.
I think it was because I just created the account and put too many links on my first post. It seems the comments are coming back from the death.
Have you tried logging a ticket? If you’re a Heroku enterprise customer you probably have a CSA assigned to your account
> A brown plastic model of a human attracted ten times as many horseflies as a dark model painted with white stripes. The researchers also found that a beige-coloured plastic figure used as a control model attracted twice as many bloodsuckers as the striped model.

This seems to confirm that light clothes are better than dark ones at protecting against bites. 5x more effective. The stripes add another 2x but wearing mostly black clothes in hot areas has some disadvantages. Maybe I'll stick with my beige cloths.
You and me both (however I still have a FB account for some reason). I keep on hearing about Mastadon but haven't dabbled.

I have access to quite a lot of hardware and internets ... right ... deploy VM and let's have a play.

https://github.com/tootsuite/documentation#running-mastodon
You can verify yourself by adding a tag on your website:

<a rel="me" href="https://mastodon.social/@yourid"></a>

Then you can link to the site in your profile, and that verifyies your identity.

There's no support for having a single Mastodon account that can move between different instances at the moment though.
I can understand that this makes new nuclear development in the US a non-starter. Why is the outlook for nuclear just as abysmal in the UK and China though if their regulators are not as disincentivized to permit innovation?
> A simple stainless steel skillet with some oil in it will perform just as well.

I've got a stainless skillet. Every single time I fry eggs like that, without > 1T of fat per egg, it burns to the bottom. So you must have a better technique. I'm willing to switch to a more forgiving option rather than keep scraping off my mistakes. Every time.
> Whereas in a language like Elixer/Erlang or Go, we write code at a high level and the compiler chops it up into threads and spreads it across as many processors as are available dynamically.

I haven't used Elixir/Erlang (though I've read a fair amount about them), but it seems like the BEAM languages would be an ideal model for serverless because processes don't (have to) know which thread, core, or machine they're running on.

When people deploy Elixir/Erlang in production, do they use a single distributed instance or do they run separate instances in their own containers/VMs like you might with something like Node?
I'm tired of pessimism. I want more optimistic things to read and watch.
Download Zenkit for Ubuntu as a SNAP APP
Docker swarm is really nice. I wish it had more traction. I fear it's going to be dropped and leave me holding a bag full of bugs.
Yes, I think the ChromeBook idea is probably the best "computer as managed appliance" for our older relatives these days, BUT I really would prefer to get the OS from a company that didn't have so much interest in surveilling and managing society.
>>"The problem with an Everything Store is that there’s no way to organize everything effectively. The result is basically a giant digital flea market."

I'd describe it instead as their search and filtering stinks, and it is not just Amazon.

The first issue is that Amazon and almost everyone else seem to think that either we want, or it is in their best interest, to include in search results anything vaguely resembling the search terms. Perhaps sometimes this is nice, but the one thing that would help is:
PROVIDE A STRICT BUTTON
This would allow users to specify that the search items MUST include the specified terms. If it returns an empty set, fine, remove the STRICT criteria, or enter new terms. Simple.

The author also touched on the issue that you can't find anything by a particular attribute (his example was a frame/matte of a particular size). This cannot be emphasized enough -- they really need a system in each class of products to extract and provide search/sort/filter on these particular characteristics. Ideally an AI-ish solution would identify attributes and list them. They could also simply require vendors to put up particular attributes, and accurately.

It'd be REALLY nice if they had a usable API so we could setup our own search & select UI, but...
This is a no shit Sherlock story.
> The CO2 emissions from constructing a several hundred mile long concrete or steel border would be enormous. (Steel is also a major emissions source.)

This might still be worth if it prevents illegal migration of 1 million people per year from countries with much lower CO2 emissions per capita (e.g. Venezuela 6t/year) to the USA (16.5 tons/year).

http://greennews.ie/carbon-footprint-of-trumps-proposed-us-m... estimates the carbon footprint of the „Wall“ as 48m tons - once. With my simplistic numbers above it saves up to 10.5m additional tons per year (i.e. N times that amount in N years). So its carbon footprint is amortized in less than 3 years.

That said, I have no political opinion about the „Wall“ (being in Europe), I just like analyzing both sides‘ arguments.
Unlike The MTA the Paris metro shuts down at 1AM. So no one is camping out on the platform, for long.

And last time I was there the controllers were scanning passes quite frequently.
Because MIDI has very low bandwidth. People in complex environments doing complex things saturate it already. The new version may somehow allow higher bandwidth but it wants backward compatibility as well. We'll see, I'm sure this version will be better and I hope it becomes more popular again.
Having 50 year old eyes is bad on your eyesight. :)
It gets worse when dependencies have changed and now you've installed a library that's incompatible with the dependencies of an app you need and everything grinds to a halt.
Ghent (Belgium) has also done this for several years already. Among others, my kids' school uses this for local activities such as going to one of the city parks (a weekly activity in certain years/classes); only the teacher and non-local kids don't ride for free, total cost for the school is much less.
There are a couple of papers here that provide more details.

http://ironkast.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/USC-Ferrock-F...

http://ironkast.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Ferrock-basic...
Interviews Experiences with Amazon, Cloudflare, Google, Facebook and Startups
https://pstree.cc/the-unusual-way-for-cracking-interviews/
Not 100% sure if this is what GP is referring to, but: https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/best-medicine (podcast episode)
I am certain there are a set of FAANG and political jokes lurking in this headline. I hope this meta comment will slake any desire to post them on HN.
> For the experiments, which were conducted in Hungary, the researchers painted three plastic models of humans: one dark, one dark with pale stripes and one beige.

Did they also test with actual humans? A living body might be more attractive to the insects, maybe reducing any advantage from the stripes.
A clap will often get them to go as well. Probably similar mechanics. Actually had a pet wasp who liked that though.
Thanks, the list of people with aptronym names was fun to read and the section about inaptronym names was even better. I read them aloud to one of my flat mates and we had a good laugh.
OS X wasn’t trying to emulate NeXTSTEP.

It borrowed some technologies and ideas from NeXT but the final product from a UI/UX perspective was more a continuation of what is now Classic Mac OS.
If you can afford to drop a pile of money for a Mac, why can't you buy a Linux compatible hardware stack?
It is a tangent for sure, but I would say a very different conversation as we are discussing wheter it is hype or not.

When countries like Sweden produce international successes it is because substance matters. That is the absolute essence of why that happens. When Markus Persson created Minecraft he did so after a career in the games industry, which goes back to even the demo scene of the 80s(?). He of course had a lot of personal qualities as well, but he didn't come out of nowhere. No one does. A very similar scenario is behind other successes like Spotify, Klarna or even Skype. You can look at e.g. Switzerland for a country that doesn't produce these type of success.

So whether they create something of substance is entire essential for whether they succeed or not to create something bigger. Maybe marketing is that substance, but I doubt it. Most likely they will go along for a few years, maybe sell for a low but respectable amount and that will be it.

And yes, this is all "in my opinion".
"a lot of techies live in areas with exorbitant cost of living,"

And what do you think is the primary driver of said cost of living?

I believe there is a ton of arbitrary complexity in the system, and though it's not specifically created, it definitely grows if it's not checked and entities with power have no reason to do that.

Google, Oracle, MS, Governments, Banks - have very little incentive to clear the weeds, usually just the opposite.

Wherever there is steady profit, there are layers of cruft.
Make sure the pan is pretty hot before you put the eggs in, if it's too cold they will probably stick even with lots of oil.

Also, don't be afraid to use however much fat you need, it's not like you're actually going to eat it all - there's probably only going to be about 1/2 teaspoon of it left on the egg after cooking regardless of how much you put in the pan and that's (probably?) pretty negligible health-wise.
That's exactly the sort of top level I want! I once suggested that GNOME games be broken down into categories but I quickly encountered a bunch of resistance. Granted, I probably wasn't addressing the right people anyway.
Or a VPN would have been easier to get around the blocking? :)
I remember playing Master of Orion 2 on my computer at the time (mid 90s) and thinking:

1. it's amazing this game actually runs at 640x480

2. there's no point in having resolutions any higher than that, as you can't see the individual pixels at that size anyway (I had a 14" CRT, viewable area probably around 13").

At least in the early to mid 90s you definitely still had "CRT fuzz" on computer monitors.
Buttons with no labels are certainly not a modern design trend. A lot of older (Windows, mostly) software had a complex interface consisting of a menubar, a toolbar (that sometimes had functionality not available elsewhere), and a space for "internal windows". The icons were usually 16x16 and it was really unclear what they were supposed to represent. At least mouseover text was reasonably common.
Doom mod uses neural network image upscaling to improve on a classic