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I like it!

It would be nice to have (you knew this was coming, yes?) an API, whereby one could programmatically request, say,

https://endoflife.date/api/os/ubuntu/16.04

(Haven't thought through the semantics.)

Digression alert. I've been thinking of a multi-OS package analysis database that I wish existed. The idea being, a database of information on packages to answer questions like:

- Which packages of what OSes include the file path /usr/share/whatever/some/file.name?

- Which packages of what OSes include the file with this hash, and where does it install?

- On what date was this revision of that file included in this package?

And so on. This idea doesn't quite fit in to that model, but it is along the lines I'm thinking - that conveniently organized metadata across distros could be very useful in a number of ways. In particular, I've had each of those questions above; they can be surprisingly time consuming to answer. More generally, there's interesting research to do there with security implications, and I suspect there's interesting stuff to do with it that I haven't thought of yet.
Perhaps there would be a massive public health benefit! I could legitimately see that. We just need to properly weigh all of the negative outcomes alongside the positive ones when discussing a change, otherwise it's an exercise in mental masturbation.

And on your first point, I don't think most ad driven services refuse to offer paid plans because they are afraid to show their products without ads. Most would diversify their revenue stream if given a reasonable opportunity.
Another likely reason is increase in maternal obesity. See:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/maternal-obesity-...
> It's simple minded to think there are not victims and oppressors in the real world.

I'm sure it is. Good thing nobody here is claiming that (I'm certainly not).

My comment was about the fact that your upthread comment is a complaint about someone discussing any other facet of the issue than focusing on the power dynamic between the employer and the employed. Not everyone is afflicted with this obsession to the point that they're unable to see anything in the world but through this single lens.
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I think the second point of the cable helps explain this:

> 60 PERCENT ILLITERATE AND ARE CALLED PRIMITIVES... THEY WERE KEPT WITHOUT NEWS FOR TEN DAYS AND TOLD THEY WERE TO TAKE PART IN AN EXERCISE. A TV FILM WOULD BE MADE OF THE EXERCISE WHICH PLEASED THEM.
Great points here. It's very tricky to get accurate information from potential customers. The fact that there is demand for what you want to build is a necessary, but not sufficient quality -- you must dig deeper to make sure the pain is bad enough for someone to adopt your product / switch from whatever they are doing now. I have to remind myself of this constantly :).
> The fuck is the point. This shit depresses my partner every time we travel. It feels like we're cattle. It's dehumanizing...

It sounds like you understand the point of this program juuuust fine.

The effective rate of capture of dangerous weapons is pitiful (less than 10% according to both their own internal audits, and external tests performed by citizens).

At best, it was a jobs program for many lacking education, and was also good reason to sell those backscatter machines that someone in Congress' cousin or business associate's company was selling at the time.
From my initial glance at the post and paper, they seem to be claiming that the factors they do look at account for almost all the variation. If this is a correct attribution, then there can't be big role for any other factors, known or unknown.

Now, it's easy to fool oneself in this sort of modelling exercise - by fitting lots of parameters to the data, one can seem to account for lots of variation, without actually capturing the true relationship. I haven't looked at the paper in detail yet, so I can't say whether or not they avoided this pitfall.
With the drastically increased prevalence (which improved or over diagnosis cannot account for) we must look for environmental triggers or factors. Gene changes simply do not happen this quickly. To be clear, I am not dismissing looking for genes, but there are many diseases which are environmental in cause but can be exasperated by a wide variety of genes, i.e. for which we would not attribute the cause to genes/a single sequence alone.
Was this the polite way of saying "older, smart people"?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4927579/ (Autism As a Disorder of High Intelligence [2016])

> The hypothesis that autism risk in offspring is positively associated with high parental intelligence, and high socioeconomic status, traces to Kanner (1943, p. 248), who stated, referring to autistic children, that “they all come of highly intelligent families,” at high levels of educational, socioeconomic and occupational achievement (Kanner and Lesser, 1958; Rimland, 1964). King (1975) reviewed a set of demographic studies motivated by these findings, and reported strong support for the pattern of high socioeconomic status linked with autism, including support from studies (e.g., Lotter, 1966, 1967) that checked all young children (of 8–10 years) in a given geographic area for infantile autism, and thus should be largely independent of confounding ascertainment or help-seeking biases, variation in access to relevant health care, or variation in parental awareness.

Note that these observations are 60+ years old. Read the entire "Socioeconomic status" section of the paper I cite. They argue the same and state genetic testing should be done to back it up. These seems an ideal study for 23andme (yes, yes, I know how a vocal minority feels about this org).
I would agree that hardware would be beneficial.
You picked a good example with Ford that illustrates the parent's point, probably in a way not intended by the parent post. Soon Ford will no longer be an automobile manufacturer - they will only be building trucks and SUVs (aka fake trucks) with the lone exception of the Mustang.

Ref: https://www.nbcnews.com/business/autos/ford-stop-making-all-...
I'm surprised to see this big of a reaction. I created something with nearly identical features (only missing the ability to specify gaps) right when grid was released. There was some interest, but not a ton.
Is there some sort of style guide that asks not to refer to it as "PreCheck", in absence of a stupid emoji?
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Who funds that “potential?” Markets have a purpose. Increasing one’s wallet drives innovation. Patriotism and superpower competition led to the space race, however the same people that claim to hate profits also condemn patriotism/nationalism that has led to innovations like manned space flight. The Soviets didn’t care about space because they saw a benefit to humankind, it was to beat the US in propaganda. Tesla couldn’t build cars without investment. Bell Labs wasn’t a benevolent non-profit. Henry Ford didn’t make an assembly line ought of altruism. Capital and profits drives innovation, like it or not. Even universities reward innovation with the “profit” of tenure or increased project funding. So yes, we need smart people “slaving away writing algorithms.” Some of those algorithms help with the efficient allocation of capital — capital necessary to build stuff you care about.
Yet another batteries included downside...a blackbox http implementation that is hard to debug.
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TSA has increased subway etc presence as well.
After all the drama surrounding the bureaucratic paralysis and legal encumberment of Java, I wouldn't touch another corporate language with a ten foot pole. Let Go Die.
I think we're in agreement.

Its ok to point out that the Chinese Government is authoritarian and does many things that Civilized people find reprehensible.

Its ok to point out that the US Government is democratic, but with many authoritarian tendencies, which have targeted minorities, Women etc. for a very long time which Civilized people find reprehensible.

Its not OK to use one incident of authoritarianism as a cudgel against another country like your own country hasn't done similar things. That is a recipe for jingoism, nationalism and other -isms.
Don't be arrogant. A lot of "smart" people would go along as well.
Not in terms of primary sequence, but imprinting has an impact on expression and is parentally determined.
Really great to hear these phone alerts are working as intended and saving lives. When I grew up in Tornado Alley you pretty much listened for the wind and hoped the sirens didn't get knocked over.
Ren Zhengfei retired from the PLA before he founded Huawei. I don't see people accusing companies founded by US veterans of being "literally the US government". Yes the PRC is a single-party authoritarian state, but it has a whole set of laws defining private companies vs state-owned enterprises.

The only concern about Huawei is that it cannot disobey Chinese government orders issued against Huawei's will. (Sounds familiar? All those companies that dropped Huawei due to an US government order? How so many were being apologists for Google because "Google didn't have a choice"?) Saying Huawei is "literally the Chinese government" without providing proof and asking us to simply follow the rhetoric by suspending all disbelief is a very lazy and dishonest tactic.
> It is possible that the connection runs the other way: Men who are likely to father a child with autism may have children relatively late in life. These men may have autism traits that delay their ability to find a partner.

ahaha, all of us here just got implicated in one stroke

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/the-l...
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And this piece served as his source research for the fiberoptic cable network portion of the plotline in Stephenson’s novel, Cryptonomicon.
Especially when there's a downvote button about a pixel away!

I think every time I get more downvotes I end up burning them accidentally on comments I intended to up vote :(
Odd, NEO is a NFC key, and I've seen this exact setup working multiple times.
Give this man an up vote! Shit, I accidentally clicked down vote.
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I would like to join the chat, if there is still room!
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Looks great! Trying it out when I get home. Saw this and had to comment https://github.com/enyojs/mochi. I miss webos.
FEMA insurance could be to pay for relocation only.
In the US it would give at least the city/metro area.
> However, selling via FBA can also give you a boost in sales with customers more inclined to buy when it will fit in their Prime subscription, and that increase in sales may outpace the increased cost.

FBA is not a prerequisite for Prime eligibility. We sell on Amazon via Seller-Fulfilled Prime. They have pretty strict time tables for fulfillment to maintain eligibility, and you have to print your shipment labels through Seller Central, though you can link your own UPS account so not to pay extra fees.
My concern is that even if the boardroom in Huawei and every single employee all the way down operated in good faith, there is nothing from stopping the Chinese government from taking control of the technology if they wanted to. This is a government that is currently operating concentration camps.
> It makes a lot more sense to compare high-tech nuclear energy with high-tech renewables (with storage).

If you really want to compare that, rooftop solar actually has a significant risk of worker death. I am willing to bet that, per TWh, there would be significantly more deaths with solar than nuclear.
I am curious why you even care about this conversation if you don't use Go.

I think OP has a point that perhaps could have been expressed more gracefully.
A grid generator I created back when grid first came out has support for areas. Not spans, but that's because this only focuses on the container and not the children.

https://jhpratt.github.io/grid
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The problem is showing a direct correlation between disasters and climate change.
I'm in the boat with ppl who think this stuff may be caused by human activity but I think that the science is not exactly clear on this.
There is so much info and dis- info it's hard to find enough clear data to take a side.
I bought Global Entry two years ago. $100 for 5 years. The cost compared to tickets is pretty much a rounding error, and the experience at US airports is like night and day compared to having to go through regular security.

Yes, it's a fucking protection racket, yes, it's a shakedown, but it's so worth it. If you fly more than once a year just go apply for it like yesterday.
> Go's stakeholders do not appear to value standardization of the language

This seems rather misinformed. Go has a spec https://golang.org/ref/spec and at least 2 alternative compilers in the form of gccgo and GopherJS.

I'd love to hear where do you base the notion that Go's stakeholders do not appear to value standardization of the language.
Tap Water is not drinkable in beijing. I used to live there.
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Was this reply intended to go here? I made no predictions. I complained about the word "unprecedented". Are you holding IEA to the same standard you're attempting to apply here? ISTM you've steelmanned their deception to the point that it no longer resembles TFA. They didn't include any of this sophistry.

Have all the factories that got us to this level of (obviously) installed capacity burned down recently? Have the investors who invested in them and the engineers who built them all died?

OK, I'll make a prediction. Solar capacity will rise to 100% of today's total capacity, and it still won't displace lots of other energy sources. Why? Because when power is cheaper and has fewer negative externalities, we'll use more of it.
> it's hard to find enough clear data to take a side.

It's really not.
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I was thinking more about it, feeling a bit bad about my somewhat glib comment, and I came back to add, I think as long as you can come up with equally impressive sounding statistics pushing the other side of the narrative, it’s no use.

But to your point, annual statistics showing multiple sigma deviation for several years out of a 10 year period, that to me would tells us something has changed.

Then it occurred to me, I don’t know anything about number of tornadoes per year, how much variance is in the data, and what’s the trend like, but a quick Google search brought me here;

https://www.ustornadoes.com/2012/04/10/violent-f4ef-4-and-f5...

And it sure looks like the “Violent US Tornadoes by Year” has massive variance and little to no discernible trend line.

What I learned is that almost all violent tornadoes happen in April and May and some years have huge clusters and some years have very few.

This kind of phenomenon requires a very long historical series coupled with a long stretch of deviation from the norm to be able to say anything meaningful about recent data, other than you are most likely seeing new random output from the same underlying/unchanged function.

It short, I hate news stories about the weather. They need to make something inherent about the world seem new.

EDIT: Here’s another good one from the same site;

“I decided to take a look at the number of tornadoes that have been reported in the Plains between May 16-31 over the past 25 years, from 1993 to 2017. ... The most was 204 in 2004, while the least was just nine in both 2006 and 2009.”

In that ~two week period (which coincides with the current burst of activity) we saw some years 9, one year 204, in the last 25 years.

What’s so discernible about this year in that context?

[1] - https://www.ustornadoes.com/2019/05/14/how-peak-tornado-seas...
Why is this a big deal? Squamous reptiles do sex determination differently than crocodiles or avians.

I think that the notation is "XX" for a female snake or lizard, "X0" for a male. Male squamous reptiles have one less chromosome.

There are a number of species of unisexual lizards that live in North America: https://www.jstor.org/stable/24979584?seq=1#page_scan_tab_co... This is news only to people who haven't looked at the issue at all.
This is gonna be a black egg on Tim Cook's face given how often they keep touting privacy of the iOS system.
> Stop rewarding it and they'll stop.

Stop categorizing it as a tax-deductible business "expense".

It's not a requirement for doing business, and it should not be treated as such.
Agreed. Let the actuaries at the insurance companies figure it out. Some companies will figure it out, some won't, and the best will flourish and the worst will die and free up resources for better stewards.
On the other hand there's certainly attempts at manipulating content on sites like reddit too for advertising purposes. Though I don't know if there are good statistics on how prevalent it is
I've heard the ending

(lots of static, Russian accent) How is my velocity

Tower: about 27 Machs
I vouched for this dead comment. I know a few self-employed consultants or business owners who use this kind of mutual expense sharing for their insurance. (I learned about the concept from my auto insurance agent several years ago.) It seems like something entrepreneurs actually use and may be more viable than high deductible insurance for people who would actually use their insurance (but more expensive than Medicaid.)
"backed by billions of dollars in funding" is the key to direct "much human effort" to pretty much any cause.

Only government [regulations] can change that - but above resources are certainly partially directed to make sure this won't happen.
You're denying people have free will.

Yes, I am.

You are using a dream of free will as an excuse to put down people and be rude and judgemental, and to put yourself above others.
This. I am surprised to see hacker news jump on this as proof that advertising causes reduced happiness when this article can only conclude that they are correlated. The common statistical maxim is that correlation does not imply causation. A far more likely scenario, in my opinion, is that greater development is associated with both increased advertising and a reduction in happiness. And yes, the summary does state that they were able to show that it is uncorrelated with GDP but what's telling is that the prominent bar graph is "uncorrected". So, after correcting, the advertising effect may be so minor that they chose not to graph it at all.

I do my best to limit advertising in my own life because I myself believe that I am a happier person without it. This study, however, is misleading and doesn't give us evidence of much of anything.
You don't know that a purchase decision wasn't subtly influenced by seeing a Youtube ad though. Many ads aren't designed to get you to buy a product right now, they are designed to make you feel a certain way about the product or even just make you aware, so that when you are in the market, you are directed toward that product.
I should have checked carefully, sorry!
Anyone who writes a ten page essentialist rant about how women are inherently bad at tech is throwing a tantrum.
How do you avoid them?
I can absolutely appreciate that we are a series of mutations.

To say that there is no benefit or detriment to having an arched nose or not also seems naive. It’s likely that the shape of your nose can affect how much air passes to your lungs, how likely it is to be sun burnt or not, and many other things. Just because the values or benefits might be minuscule compared to other things doesn’t mean they do not exist. Tiny optimizations are common in all systems and they should not be overlooked.

To say that massive portions of our DNA “have no benefit” without having proof of such, seems naive to me. It’s ok for others to disagree; clearly the majority of the scientific community does. It’s just unfortunate that we have been ignoring the possibility that this large portion of our DNA could have effects on our system. In the article above, it’s not benefits that matter but risks. We shouldn’t only care about parts of our body that may bring benefit but also those which may harm us.

As far as baldness goes, this is a trait that could be seen as a benefit. Some females may desire a mate with high levels of DHT and baldness is a good indicator that a being has high levels. There are many visual traits (see birds) that allow the narrowing of selection for potential mates.
Money is your score at the game of life.

Maybe the answer is to stop treating life as a game..
Haha, this may be the first time in history that nuclear enthusiasts have pretended to give a damn about ratepayers. I'd bet that most of their "$1.6 trillion" figure comes from decommissioning dangerous nuclear plants. We've already spent that money, assholes...
I cannot figure out what exactly is happening from the site. I see a table showing "Gull 3" (presumably using the LC0 enginer) with five wins and few other engines with 1-2 losses.

I can't see draws on the table. A lot of engines show no wins or losses.

All this matters somewhat considering that there was talk in AlphaZero match about whether the win percentage was realistic and whether the Stockfish was given it's full opening book. The thing is by the time you're 3000+ elo points, chess tends to be pretty drawish. One program might better than another but it can take while to get anything a draw.
I’m wondering if a writer could get away with pointing this irony in their article. Could be a powerful gesture acknowledging the status quo and their own position.
Maybe. The !00g lambdas can be trivially encrypted end to end.
There is in fact something of a philosophy at Google that it's both your problem and your fault if a dependency upgrades in a way that breaks your project without breaking any of your tests.
this tool feels very clunky and non obvious, can't imagine using it for anything useful
It has to do with the trophic level.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trophic_level

Plants are almost always level 1. Bison would be just a bit over 2. (a bit over because they may consume bugs, bones, etc.) Humans would usually be higher than that. The traditional Eskimo diet is nearly trophic level 5.

Due to loss of energy going from one level to the next, the biomass of creatures with high trophic level is limited:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological_pyramid
Smithsonian says "Not surprisingly—because the crust is thinner—some deep holes have been bored through the ocean floor. The specialized Japanese drillship Chikyu claims the record for the deepest offshore hole drilled for scientific purposes—about 10,000 feet (almost 2 miles) below the sea floor, according to James F. Allan, program director for the Ocean Drilling Program at the National Science Foundation.

The oil and gas industry also claims some deep holes, on land and offshore. BP’s Deepwater Horizon holds the offshore record. The drilling rig—lost in an explosion in 2010— managed to get some 30,000 feet below the sea, or about 5 miles."

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/ask-s...
Same here. We learned to read the clouds because you were lucky to be in range of a siren (especially since storms and tractors are noisy).
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I can't believe somebody downvoted this. Some people must really hate anything that challenges their life choices.
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