skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Generally correct -- life expectency at birth was pretty poor, but at 5, 10, 20, ... looked increasingly more comparable to modern expectancies, at least relatively. There are numerous credible records of ancients from Greece & Rome living to their 60s or 70s, at least. In more primitive cultures, not so much. And women still faced immense risks through pregnancy & childbirth.

This makes me think that much of longevity is based both on establishing a good start (nutrition, health, and conditions during gestation, infancy, and childhood), and then generally on avoiding accidents, risks, and mishaps (exposure to disease, violence, injury) afterwards. Modern epidemiological and public health records somewhat bear this out, as a New York City Department of Public Health graph, "The Conquest of Pestilence", showing decreased mortality 1800 - 2000 (or 2015, in some versions) makes clear:

https://thesocietypages.org/graphicsociology/2010/06/22/conq...

What's most interesting is how little impact "modern medicine" -- all increases since 1920 -- has provided. Though yes, by 1920 we did have germ theory of disease, and a basic understanding of nutrition.

And yes, the chart shows overall mortality, not life expectancy (through these are related). I'd like to see the latter for the same period.

I have run across several plots of life expectancy for the latter half of the 20th century. These show that most increase has not come from increasing top-end expectancy (though this has increased somewhat -- say, for white women), but by raising the life expectancy of disadvantaged populations -- the shifts for black and other nonwhite men and women have been far greater than for white men and women, in the US, for example, since 1960 and 1970. Again arguing that addressing the basics of healthcare access, hygiene, and risk avoidance offers the greatest benefits.

The mid-1850s peak suggests that modern cities, prior to notions of public health (the date of the NYC dept's formation is indicated, about 1860) were significantly worse than a more rural setting, from a health perspective. Ancient histories tend to support this notion, and there are books such as Kyle Harper's The Fate of Rome which explore the co-evolution of the Roman Empire and the diseases and plauges which, er, diseased and plagued it, with the formation of cities, trade routes, and exchange and incubation of disease vectors and agents via these.

Another thought is that the lifting of infancy / early childhood mortality represents a tremendous reduction in selective pressure on human populations, implications of which have not yet become clear. Though the possiblity that this is not entirely positive to humans occurs.

The other thought that's occurred is that this decrease in mortality indicates a
So why did Sweden stop reporting numbers on minority crime? And why have they taken down their "most wanted" list from the internet?

There was an SVT (Swedish public broacasting) report on rape convictions in 2018 by national background, you'll find. The BBC has good coverage of it in English.

As far as the Norway question, you do realize that minorities are a very small part of Norwegian population, and it would be sort of bizarre (and racist!) to imagine them driving overall crime?
You're right, I've conflated the issues.
The right's skepticism is a response to academia becoming two things: 1. monolithically leftist and 2. activist in nature.

Nobody is arguing with basic research. But when a peer reviewed gender studies journal publishes a rewriting of Mein Kampf, I think it's fair to suspect that a lot of non-science masquerading as real science is indeed pouring out of Universities.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affilia#Grievance_Studies_affa...
Also from the blues! But [usually] in the pocket instead of syncopated.

But definitely. Especially modern pop country (gag) as even all the themes are the same! Red truck, light beer, America. Am I missing anything?

Anyway yeah—all the way back to Hank Williams you could form the basis of a case that any song that progresses Gmaj - Amaj - Dmaj on an acoustic guitar with a mournful vocal tone and downtrodden lyric content is a "rip off".
I think you're right (at least for me).

I wonder if Amazon is preemptively competing with AliExpress, Alibaba, etc. Once people realize you can get stuff _even_cheaper_ from the Chinese version of Amazon it's going to be really tempting to go there instead. Pretty much the only advantage Amazon has is that they're state-side and can compete on ridiculous speed (which is gonna be really tough for people on other continents to do)
>Reminds me of how apple pursued thin devices until they broke a fundamental part of the experience (MacBook keyboard). Sometimes you're done.

For me it was when they had to solder in the ram. As soon as you can't fix or change your own device, it's a device i don't want to own.
>>Should coders learn law? I'm of the opinion that engineers most certainly should.

Canadian engineers have to take a short closed book 3-hr Professional Practice Examination (PPE) covering "ethics, professional practice, engineering law and professional liability" as part of the licensing process.[1]

The reference is from Professional Engineers of Ontario as Canada's engineers are regulated at the provincial level, but thankfully is also generally similar across the provinces. I'd imagine the American version (PE)[2] is somewhat similar.

While engineering law (typically torte) is a very small slice of The Law (TM), at least it's a start in the right direction.

Note that this would only apply to a subset of coders who actively seek out a professional "Engineer" title designation. Most computer engineering or electrical engineering graduates (probably the most likely population) don't need to, and don't actually end up, becoming professionally designated.[3]

[1] http://www.peo.on.ca/index.php/ci_id/2060/index.php?ci_id=20...

[2] https://www.nspe.org/resources/licensure/how-get-licensed

[3] Anecdata
> How is admittedly imprisoning someone for "coercive" reasons not cruel?
/I'll table the unusual bit.

Why would I assume you meant the colloquial "cruel" and not the legal "cruel" here? Perhaps you should edit to clarify if your intent was the former as opposed to the latter.
Have you tried, for example, the ebay/UPS integration? It's a disaster. It's expected by their customer support that while the UPS site shows the ebay credentials that they won't work for at least an hour.

Have you interacted with UPS's technical support on anything? They're a disaster, and aside from the example I mentioned have in the past waved off other bugs as being expected.

Have you tried shipping in general using UPS's website? You need to understand a lot about their system to really use it (for a simple example, the difference between "UPS account" and "having a working login under which you've provided your EIN").
I think pushing science as an ally of the left (or a proponent of the politics of the left) risks further alienating right wing voters. There is already a correlation between education and party support. The "coastal liberal elite" pejorative is, in part, a rallying cry against people who make them feel stupid. No one likes to feel stupid.

It's similar to accusing people of racism. Very very very few people who are called racists would agree with that, and the ones who would you're not going to win over anyway. People shut down when accused and get defensive. If the goal is to make progress (in the traditional sense of "liberalism", to reduce human suffering through gradual reform) rather that "to be right", then calling someone stupid or racist or saying that all of human knowledge contradicts their claims isn't really a good way to get there.

Scientists getting into politics opens them up to the attack that they are pushing an agenda out of political rather than professional beliefs or truth-seeking behaviour. See Trump's attacks on Mueller's team because many voted for democrats. His attacks are probably in bad faith but the point stands: give people something to attack other than a belief they're wrong about and they'll happily switch to that.
There are restrictions on how that amendment may be used, and ignoring a subpoena to testify against _someone else_ is not a valid use.

Besides, she hasn't pled the fifth (because she can't as it makes no sense.)
Atchafalaya (1987)
I like step 4: "Test your ideas: this is where most brainstorming sessions fail to take the one extra but necessary step. Instead of selecting your ideas on the spot, you need to test them in the real world. Select the few most promising candidates, and see how your audience reacts. For a book, write a blog post. For an app, build a landing page or a quick MVP."

I had many brainstorms resulting in a long list of unproven / untested ideas.
True. However, I feel that UPS has the customer obsession factor that other 100 year old companies don’t.

See, for instance, the parent headline. UPS is fanatical about delivering packages and is therefore willing to work with a doomsday competitor in huge volume. This in contrast to Fedex who will not.
What does science say about how much of the budget should be devoted to Social Security?

Does Science favor a progressive income tax or a VAT as a way of raising revenue?
Sex and violence grab more attention than the cleverest intellectual remark and they usually take less space to be encoded. The design of our internet plattforms is such that these attention grabbers are extremely pushed while valuable statements are drowned.

We on HN should know more than anybody that certain design decisions will nudge communications in certain directions (compare facebook to twitter to hacker news).

They have different goals one could argue and that their design reflects these goals and one wouldn’t be wrong. Only: the goals on the bigger plattforms are more shaped by advertisement and data collection needs than by the valid interests of the users. Similar to the difference between slotmachines and a board game — both let people play, but the former doesn’t has the best for its player in mind.

So when you say this is about the nature about our fellow humans, I’d argue that it is about the nature of the digital Zoos we developed for them.
I didn't downvote you. In the past I have referred to the same table that you link. But it doesn't substantiate your point about crime rates in the 1950s because the data set starts at 1960. You may be correct, but your link doesn't show it. I would be interested in US violent crime rates in the decades before 1960 if you can find a similar table covering that time range.
I believe you're incorrect, C++ is a good language for building UIs, as proven by the plethora of UI libraries and frameworks built in C++ for pretty much all platforms. This is visible when comparing PyQt and C++: yes, PyQt is easier to get into, has nicer syntax, but C++ offers more power. Even hot-loading UIs, a typical scripting language advantage is supported.

Declarative UI languages do have some advantages compared to regular programming languages, but that's unrelated to the claim you made.

Bindings are not C++'s problem, they're the problem of the other languages which try to use UI frameworks written in C++, like Rust, which still doesn't have any decent UI library.
I am European with not so much knowledge about the US justice system, but between this, Julian Assange's recent events [1] and this guy's book [2], it's hard to believe it is an independent and a fair system.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Assange#Extradition_hea...
[2] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-47765974
I would go as far as saying it's almost guaranteed not to be the case. In what situation would two different users, neither of which being IT staff, both have administrative access to a work pc?

As a particular problematic scenario, consider a school: Steam cannot be used in educational settings because of this issue.
This does not add up. If American political right is so accepting of science, how does the denial of climate change by their elected leaders not push the right to vote them out?

I'm quite sure 40% of the US population that voted for the GOP does not fit the description you have provided.
You also dispute vaccines based on your comment history which would indicate an unwillingness to engage in rational conversation or to accept scientific facts.
I think that's a very questionable interpretation of the word militia. By definition a militia is separate from a country's military.
> Nobody is arguing with basic research

See: basic research on climate change. Republicans don't so much argue with it as dismiss it outright.
Scientists observe, try to disprove their theories, and come to conclusions about theories they could not discredit.

Politicians start with their conclusions, find alternative theories and then seek to discredit them.

We need to vote for politicians that think more like scientists and less like politicians.
I'm not the OP, but personally, I see civility as a function of the rule of law.

Rule of law is a spectrum, on one end is a place like say, Norway - where everyone is treated with a minimum of respect, criminal justice is mostly reformative, where only a very, very small number of individuals at the top of the social hierarchy will be treated different, mostly, people are treated the same by the law.

On the other end of the spectrum is a place like Somalia, the state has no respect for the individual, criminal justice is punitive and everyone is treated differently based on their social ranking.

In general, the poorer and more dictatorial a country, the more we expect it to be on the low side of this spectrum, and the richer and democratic, the better it should be.

The US is somewhere in the middle of these two, but for many of us, we would expect it to be higher up given the wealth of the country and the democratic nature of our government. I personally hail from a very poor country where our justice system is actually similar in rule of law to the one I feel Americans have.

In terms of this trial, personally I feel locking manning up is punitive and not intended to be cohersive. It's intended to make an example. In fact, I'm not sure why she is being tried at all, I though we had double jeopardy laws, she already went to trial and was imprisoned by the wikileaks debacle. It seems the government is grasping at straws to imprison legal citizens for doing acts that should be rewarded (whistle-blowing). Using the law on an ad-hock basis is exactly the type of behavior that I was mentioning, putting us further toward the Somalia side of the spectrum where rule of law is secondary to rule of power.
The election is "over" by the time the polls in Ontario are tallied, so it is unlikely that the prairie "rural votes" are a significant issue.
I think one would benefit from coding regardless what one perceive "coding" is. On one end of the spectrum, it can be treated as a vehicle for abstract thinking. On the other end as getting things done quickly.

Well.. just like math
Gender studies is not science so I’m not sure how that fits into the discourse.

Not to mention that it’s not even that good an example to prove anything about academia - it’s a minuscule subfield with little funding in comparison to any other academic discipline. None of the major public universities I attended even had a gender studies department - at best it was a specialty within sociology/anthropology with a dozen grad students or so. The only thing in which gender studies has a disproportionate representation is as the favorite example in the rhetoric of anti-academics.

Please show how physics/biology/math/geology/climate science/etc is “monothically leftist and activist in nature”.
This is good to know. We use mac and PC, plus a bunch of different mobile devices. Will do some debugging and UX testing! Thanks
QML is amazing and I hope your hopes are dashed.
Amazon Logistics is still a better option than OnTrac.
If you work for 36 minutes and bill for an hour, you can bill five hours for every three hours of work. You just have to switch clients every 36 minutes.
For a first experiment I think you have a winner. It does a great job analogizing routine contract drafting to scripting. I'd give that article to a coder that's not sure about facing seemingly unfamiliar concepts in a different setting, for reassurance. Keep up the great work. I will look for your other submissions as you post them here.
I think the "cruel and unusual" clause requires both to provide any protection.

It's self-evident that most of the actions of the criminal justice system are cruel. I think anyone would agree. However, that phrase in our constitution explicitly leaves the door open for our criminal justice system to perform cruel behaviors, as long as they are in line with the standards of the day (or, if you're an originalist, of the standards of 1791).

So, my response would be that you've tabled the only portion of the debate that is relevant. I'll freely concede that the criminal justice system is cruel, but I wouldn't then argue that the system falls afoul of the 8th amendment.
That's ... an idea I'd never considered. How would such a State make practical decisions? For example, rules for food safety? Could it still regulate the money supply without economics?
How do you envision that playing out? If the court has no power to compel testimony they have very little power in general.
everyone I've talked about it with now refuses to pick up any call from a number they don't recognize

I wish this was the case where I work. My boss answers every single call that comes in to her cell phone. Sometimes 15 a day. Then everyone in the office has to listen as she tries to interrupt the sales pitch and tell them "take me off your mailing (!) list."

And she's a millennial. I thought millennials didn't use voice.
I think there is a very rationale case to be made that imprisonment for the sake of punishment is unproductive and immoral - but I can't see any way that it falls under unconstitutional.
the 8th amendment is about "cruel and unusual punishment". As long as the punishment is usual, it can be cruel.
Some scientists are already doing exactly that, closing the gap between research-driven science focused on understanding, and the role of scientists integrating it in society via politics.

(Disclaimer: Not my book, but a friend's) You can learn more on the topic in "Impact Science: The science of getting to radical social and environmental breakthroughs" which comes with a wonderful list of real-world stories.

https://www.amazon.com/Impact-Science-environmental-breakthr...
Knowing that profile, and nothing else, you look like a rather critical part of the enterprise, and have demonstrated your value at a founder level. Yet you have also dramatically reduced your leverage. I'd value you 10-20% (subject to a vesting schedule). But with your reduced leverage at this point, it may go well under 10%. I certainly would strongly avoid settling for the normalish 1-2% for the first half-dozen employees, since you've already contributed substantially. If you accept such a low amount, be sure that you get a very good current pay package and treat the stock as a lottery ticket.
I’m hard pressed to find examples of any country allowing witnesses to refuse to testify, the right to silence in common law applies to the accused.

UK, Canada, and even Sweden all have compelled testimony.
Happy ZoL user on my home NAS for over 6 years now. 60TB+, not a single byte lost. Very, very happy to see the continued support.
Alright, you've convinced me there is legitimate concern here after all.
It's probably because it's the hardest to implement. It requires to step out of the room and actually talk to users.
After 5 years and $3M, here's everything we've learned building Ghost (2018)
I decided to delve into their public policy (https://www.gop.com/platform/americas-natural-resources/), and I found this:

> Climate change is far from this nation’s most pressing national security issue.

That is an admission by the Republican Party, in its public policy, that climate change is not a myth. It just means they've decided not to care about it in regards to national security.

I also found this:

> Information concerning a changing climate, especially projections into the long-range future, must be based on dispassionate analysis of hard data.

Again, that is an admission that the climate is changing and that scientific research and data can give us information about it.

So as said elsewhere in this thread, we're back to politics determining decisions about what to do about climate change; the Republican Party's official platform doesn't seem to deny that the climate is changing.
POSIX does have something sort of like this in madvise(), but I couldn't find a specific option for the semantics you described.
Internet-wise, we blocked pop-ups and installed adblockers when we lost trust in the platform

And then pop-ups were replaced by divs, and adblockers got blocked by paywalls.

I don't think either problem has been solved yet.
There is not a "welfare problem" when a solitary species is keeping isolated, well feed, protected from predators and left alone in clean water. In the wild the same animal would look actively for tiny crevices and small spaces under the rocks to hide all day.

Their place can be adjusted to its size. Tiny animals can be very comfortable sitting in tiny cages with all their sides protected.
Back in the real world of today, where one infected person can infect thousands more, if prefer my child not die of polio if it can be avoided.
How is “compelling inaction” anything but a synonym for “prison”?

I’m no expert here and have not thought about this extensively, so I have no strong opinion here. That said, at first glance:

* It seems reasonable that courts need some power to compel people to cooperate with investigations — otherwise they’d be unable to act on certain kinds of crimes, conspiracies, etc.

* What alternate justice system would you suggest specifically, which is presumably more fair and effective that this one?
The article does not provide citation for Sardinian literally rates either (they make a claim only for some of the Japanese numbers).

For Sardinia they only claim poverty (with a qualitative, non quantitative claim) and life expectancy which, if I'm reading the ISTAT tables correctly, they got spectacularly wrong.

Also there are no blue zones within Sardinia. The demographic data is the for the all the provinces of the island.
If you have some 100hrs of paperwork to do, you can get 25 associates/paralegals/whatever to work for four hours each and have it done by end of day. That's still 100 billable hours.
>You probably have one open in another tab right now.
Damn you, google.
>How you ask your questions makes a BIG difference to how helpful the responses are likely to be. Good tech support people ask good questions. It's a skill that can and must be practiced.

You're asking for people who are both good with computers, and good at talking to people who are clueless with computers, and very patient and empathetic on top of that. And finally, you want to pay them peanuts for this job.

Exactly how many people do you think you're going to find who are actually good at this, and want the job?
Pugwash wasn't just a bunch of lofty idealists, they participated in direct negotiations that kicked off the peace process in Vietnam: http://pugwashhistory.blogspot.com/2009/07/mcnamara-and-pugw...

Despite the headline, the article seems to be arguing that scientists reclaim their seat at the table, and get their hands dirty. A tall order in this era.
Ask HN: Anybody running serious Rust web application in production?
And by serious, I mean with lots of users, lets say min 100K active and more complex then to do list, lets say e-invoicing service.

The performance of such potential app is what interests me the most, given that Rust is as fast as C/C++ and it doesn't have garbage collector.
Apparently taking a stand is more important to her than her short term freedom.